The Washington times., 1920-04-09

Had Germany Won.
Peacel And There Is None.
Turks Still Busy.
The Original Purple.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. lsfeJ

SAenSh ueIeat OF 16IV. Th0
Germans, endesvoring to establish
Republic and maintain order,
send troops to stop rioting and
destruction. The French, doubt
, less convinced that they are right,
say, We won't allow you TO use
your own troops to maintain order
on your own soil"
The French send an army, seize
nve OF the biggest German cities.
IN one OF these, Frankfort, soldiers
sent by France are Senegalese,
piack men from Africa. Some
tning Is said that annoys the
Senegslese. They fire with ma
chine guns, killing women and
children. That has Just happened.
We have no right to judge the
French, or anybody else. Let them
attend TO their affairs while we
attend to ours.
reversed.
Suppose Germany had won the
war, and violence had broken out
In France. Suppose Germany had
sent troops, seizing French cities.
suppose a German regiment Of
black troops had shot French
women and children. What would
tho rest of the world now be say
ing about German .brutality?"
Strikes everywhere; in England:
I'm Italy, where Ma1atesta, we'll
named anarchist, leads; in the
United States where union work.
men have cut away from their
leaders and their unions.
Fighting Is going on In q hun
dred places on the earth in these
days OF peace and the League Of
Nations" Jerusalem 10 under
BritiSh martial law-Mohammc-
dams fighting the Jews, who are .
small minority Of the population.
And for finishing touch. Mr..
Trotzky says militarism and mill
earization are necessary and admir-
able. T ~
Russia ooMPE14s workman 10
enter the army, and, once IN, COM
pels them to work. That must Be
Q shock to, some proletarians. Il
shows that Lenin and Trotxky
have control.
Turks, not disturbed by defeat,
pursue their indoor sports. They
have burnt an American orphan
age. And in that distant region
gentleman from Yonkers Is seen
moving "two thousand Armenian
children under fire." The world
really wonders where all the Ar
menian children come from. When
you realize how long these Turk
ish nassacres have been going on,
YOU wonder how the Armenian
nation can stand it.
& 1t is q thoroughly mixed-up
world. Wise is he who attends to
his own business and happy he
who is allowed to do it.
A news heading reads: "A
Shell-fish on the Coast Of Costa
Rica Produces Natural Purple
Dye" That is hardly news. The
robes of the Byzantine emperors,
the original "born in the purple"
family, were stained with dye from
Tyre, made of a shell-fsh, Purpura
MureG.
The female of the cochineal in
sect produces the most beautiful
scarlet dye, formerly much in
vogue with undesirable females Of
another species.
The humble snail in his shell
pattern forms spiral that involves
highest mathematical accuracy.
The glowworm produces light
without heat; man can't do it. We
still have much to learn in the way
of science from insects, shellfish
and our other humble brethren.
There is among human beings no
surgeon as accurate as the mud
wasp.
General Wood says: "You will
find all kinds Of men trying to
gain votes by preaching false
doctrines, by promising something
they cannot deliver"
General Wood will agree, how
ever, that promises to deliver
made in public by men preaching
false doctrines" are not as danger
Gus as promises made in private
to gentlemen able to finance ma
tional campaigns. The man Of
the "false doctrines" cannot de-
liver what he promises. II isn't
so with the private promise made
in return for the assistance Of the
flowing barrel.
They have raised the price of
coal to the Government of the
United States SLAP ton over the
maximum Government price, which
was a profiteering price.
At this price they only offer the
poor old Government one-fifth of
what it needs.
Isn't it surprising that Govern
ment, able to send millions Of
men across the ocean, able to take
fifty billions in bonds and taxes
from the people, cannot get, at a
decent price, the coal it needs,
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