The Washington times., 1920-11-23
Today
War in Ireland. ..
More War for Poland.
The Widows Fortune.
International Police.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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British politics, said a few weeks
ago, as he was sailing for Europe:
Real war is coming In Ireland.
The government will do what II
can and then leave the north and
south of Ireland, the Protestants
and the Catholics, to fight it out
IN their own way. 1t will be a
savage war;"
The war predicted has begun,
extra troops are going to Ireland,
the killing has spread to hotels
and private houses. Below the
altar Of a small church in Gal
way, on an improvised bier, with
out a coffin, lies the body of q
priest, Father Griffin. Earth
from the bog in which. he was
buried, after being kidnapped and
murdered, still clings to the skirts
Of his coat.
England does not need her trou-
bles in Mesopotamia and else
where. She has in Ireland q big
enough problem for any empire.
Lithuania asks the League Of
Nations to make Poland peace
full. Fifteen Polish divisions are
attacking Lithuania now, accord
ing to the complaint.
It is not likely that relief for
Lithuania will come from the
League of Nations, but 1t may
come from another direction.
Lepin and Trotzky, having, set
tied Mr.. Wrangel, making them
selves rulers of all Russia, now
turn their attention to Poland, an
nouncing that the Poles can't keep
all the land they took under a re-
cent temporary agreement.
There will be more fighting
there, and it will be the turn of
Poland to apply to the League for
protection.
Europe and Asia are a long ways
from peace, and this country is
fortunate to have escaped the re-
sponsibility fate almost fastened
upon it.
General Pershing's pay is raised
TO $21 900, an increase of $500.
to last as long as he remains head
Of the armv.
General Pershing is now paid al
most as we'll as a first-class silk
buyer in a large department store.
The silk buyer is not paid too
much. Important public servants
are paid too little. The pay Of
elected officials is based on old
days, when Washington was the
richest man in America and the
average citizen wondered how a
Congressman could manage to
spend as much as five thousand
dollars a year.
The Government cannot compete
with the great ind,,strial concerns,
perhaps, but it can afford decent
nay, especially for judges. If we
paid the Federal judges what the
English pay their judges, Federal
salaries would be doubled and
more.
After a worthless life, in which
the solitary achievement" was
marrying a rich widow, man
died and left the widows fifty
millions to an obscure clerk not
related to the dead man.
A relation of the dead man al
leges or intimates most unpleas-
ant conditions. Then comes the
announce 1ert that, for about five
millions, the relative withdraws
his suit, leaving forty-five mil
lions to the unrelated clerk.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to
amend the inheritance tax so as
to put a tax of at least fifty per
cent on all money left to others
than near relations. A man who
doesn't care to leave his money to
his own kin might well be COM
PEELED to leave half of it to his
own country that gave him pro-
tection-especially when he makes
his fortune by marrying widow.
Belgium proposes what this
writer and a hundred others pro-
posed more than ten years ago
that Europe should organize a
world military force of interna-
tional police to stop fighting and
compel arbitration wherever fight
ing breaks out.
EUROPE should supply, man.
age, and pay for the international
police of EUROPE. And this
country should and WILL look
after the policing of this Conti-
nent under the limitations Of the
Monroe doctrine.
Europe and America should
have their separate international
police forces, just as Chicago and
New York have their separate
municipal forces.
There is a difference between
dates and mandates. Lord Beav-
erbrook's Daily Express, of Lon
don, shows John Bull and Uncle
Sam standing under the mandate
tree. John Bull has swallowed
his Mesopotamia mandate, and is
writhing in awful pain. The Ar
menian mandate intended for
Uncle Sam is hanging high, un-
touched. John Bull, with a stom-
achache, says, 81 ate a mandate"
Uncle Sam, whom the English