The Washington times., 1920-10-11

+ AlngS SnOulQ keep away from
monkeys and American republics
from European squabbles.
Mr.. Hoover in his attack on
Woodrow Wilson talks plainly,
and La Fontaine's kind peasant
that warmed the snake in his
breast was no more startled At
the snake bite probably than Mr..
Wilson at Hoover's statement that
the Wilson rule has been flat
failure. In the wash, following q
war, strange things come out.
Abou-El- Hafid, once Sultan of
Morocco, sends here for sale the
largest diamond that ever crossed
the ocean. It Is light straw color,
weighs 1873 csrats, and soon will
help some middle-aged American
lady to repair what Alfalfa,
daughter of Jezebel, called "the
irreparable outrage OF the year"
Works of art, fat diamonds,
wooden Innings, or ancient castles
and churches keep drifting here,
and we ask, will any of this take
root? Shall we some day produce
some art, In addition to buying II
ready-made and very ancient"
Certainly we shall. Don't be dis
couraged because financial pirates,
collecting jackdaws, gather jum-
BILE Of stuff and vote themselves
refined.
The Venetians were all thieves
at first. They ran out on the
marshes to get away from the
gibbet. They built Venice and
ships, got rich, collected at first
then created. And in Voltaire's
day, ~ he said, the oldest noble
family in Europe was Venetian.
That shows that you can build
art and aristocracy on a muddy
foundation nothing but MID and
water under Venice. Wen be
artistic here some day, and have
our New York Medici encourag-
ing live artists, instead of mere
ly enriching shrewd dealers.
Michael Angelo, to get start,
initiated old Greek sculpture,
burned it, dug it up, and sold it to
a Cardinal.
What a brain England possess
es in Lloyd George! How many
Englishmen Of average intelli-
gence would you have to boil down
to get a mental extract as strong
as that Welshmsn? Refusing to
Ireland dominion home rule, the
same home rule as in Canada,
George puts his finger at once
on the danger spot-for England.
If Ireland were able to make her
laws she could conscript an army
of 1000 Irishmen-those are the
figures mentioned by Lloyd
George. England gets along with
an army OF 100000. Englishmen
do not like conscription and are
|. fed up" on army life. II Ireland
conscripted 100000 men. England
would have to do the same and
then fight the 100000 Irishmen.
ITO that suggestion Lloyd George
says, mo, thank you" Intelligent
man.
Harding says that while our
queer Government talks idealism,
England reaches out to control the
worlds oil supply and other busi-
ness. All the Oil of Mesopotamia
and Persia, and the other day
100000 more acres of Mexican oil
lands England has recently col
lected.
Our dressy Government, 80 far
from realities, reminds you Of the
bankrupt in the debtors prison,
figuring out his plan for paying
off the national debt.
With Harding elected the coun-
try will have an employe aware
of the fact that his first job is to
bring business to his own firm,
the u. S. A.
After fifty-eight days without
food Lord Mayor McSwiney is
still alive. But he and the other
starved men jailed in Ireland are,
in fact, dead, doomed beyond hope.
1t is as though they had died and
come back to testify for their
country. IL they were all set free
tomorrow all would die when they
ate food. The doctors say it is
now too late for them to eat and
live.
Germany is distressed and
shamed by an outbreak of immo-
rality, especially of wild naked
dances" in big cities. 1t is all
part of war, ending in disaster.
Morals become cheap, ambition
dies, when life is made to seem
cheap and hope departs. The Ger
man Generalization, limited TO a
few in cities and caused by the
country's hopeless outlook, recalls
the dance Of death" of the mid
die ages. You may see the death
dance painted on walls Of ceme-
terics in Italy and elsewhere,
GrinninR skeletons dance with