The Washington times., 1920-04-16

Eternal Fire, Etc., StiIl
Needed.
The Little White Tooth.
Sugar and Alcohol.
Says lenln, to the World.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. isSo.l

tSopyriShI inol
When your baby cries. chews his
hands. has swollen gums. you do
not wish you were dead. The little
white tooth is coming through.
Labor is the baby now, ignorant
old Mamma Capital worries. fear
ing Bolshevism, or some other ter
'rible disease. II Is only the fifty
cent dollar coming through.
Your dollars are worth fifty
cents, lucky for the poor. II a dol
lar will buy as much as fifty cents
worth. Where you paid man one
dollar you must now pay him two.
That Is the real cause of the trou-
BILE. The real standard OF value is
not the dollar, but the days work
OF the average man.
Formerly you could buy q sheep
Tor four shillings. Then q dollar was
worth twenty dollars Of today. The
dollar value is always changing, in
evitably. Science and machinery
constantly increase the amount OF
wealth that days labor can pro-
duce. Selfishness, In the form of
organized cunning and intelligence
strives to get all the increased
product of labor for itself, and IL
succeeds pretty well ordinarily. But
war shakes things up, every little
while, and the dollar Is readjusted.
In this latest shake-up. the dollar
has had one-half its value shaken
out. That's all.
: Is 1t ever pleasing to see costly
property wasted2 1t is. A train
'load, filled with waste metal, pull
ed out Of the great crucible steel
factory yesterday morning. Many
freight cars were loaded with
costly and now rusty shells, made
to carry explosives and kill human
beings. .
Those shells, wasted. will never
kill anybody. They were ON their
way to the scrap heap. evidently.
1t will be . blessed day for the
world when every shell, sword,
cannon. rifle and revolver shall
have gone to the scrap heap to
stay, with the "Iron Virgin" the
thumb screw and the rack.
We are not ready for that quite
yet. The world contains many
millions of human beings that can
De Kept from killing only by the
fear Of being killed, AZ It contains
millions that can be kept from sin
only by fear of being burned alive
hereafter. You must retain am
munition factories. and belief in
hell hre . while longer.
Prepare for sugar selling soon
at thirty-twp cents, latar at ffty
cents. You wiil s. tia Govern an
sment Is going - keep down prices"
!t-aay- -ss-gsing To- but II doesn't
keep them down 49, !.
This country used to consume
seventy-two pounds of sugar for
every man, woman and child.
Now it uses ninety-two pounds.
The difference which amounts TO a
great deal more than twenty
pounds per male adult, ID due to
scarcity Of alcohol. The little still,
planted by nature in your insides,
beyond the reach of law, changes
sugar into alcohol. Men eat
sugar to make up for alcoholic
drink.
Consumption in the United
States has increased by two thou
sand million pounds q year. We
need one quarter of all tho sugar
the world produces, and we have
less than one-sixteenth of the
worlds total population. We
want four times our natural share
Of the worlds sugar. To get it,
we shall pay for it, especially with
), profiteers helping.
You wonder where your money
goes. One cent of it goes to. Eu-
rope daily. Kahn, head of the
Military Committee, says it costs
one million and quarter a day to
keep our army across the water.
That is little more than 1856 a
year for every United States man,
woman and child. You may say,
"What do / care about 1856, it
will only buy a quarter of a pair
Oh SHOES anyhow! lIue, out
thank your stars the Peace League
did not go through. With that
league it might easily cost you 100
times 1896 to obey in Europe,
Asia, and Africa, the orders of
foreign nations.
Mrs. Reik, requesting a divorce,
alleges that the colonel, her hus-
band, much changed, takes a cold
view Of married life, since he went
to Europe. He "likes the ideas of
the French and the upper class
English"
The marital morality of "upper
class" Englshmen and other up
per classes, so called, may leave
something to be desired. But
French family life is a model for
all nations, not excepting this one.
No families are more closely
united than French families, no
husbands and wives more devoted,
inspired with respect for each
other, than French husbands and
wives.
The trouble is that some Ameri-