The Washington times., 1920-03-12

Touching S.oiIcitude.
Mosquito Law Suit.
Weigh Your Brain.
Different Diaries.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
tCopyrtxht, 1870,

Coal miners ask a wage in
crease Of 60 per cent. 1t is cut 10
70 per cent. For. you are told,
Landlords must buy coal. In
crease the price of coal and you
Increase rent. Think OF the poor
rent payers"
Very touching, BUT:
The coal miner gets about ninety
cents a ton. Sixty per cent in
crease would mean fifty-four cents
more. IL a landlord added only in
creased cost of labor to his tene-
ment house rent bill 1t would
amount to about ten cents month
Tor each tenant. The trouble Is
that when you raise the workman's
wages fifty-four cents the coal
dealer raises his price two dollars
and half, or more, and the land
lord raises his five dollars. II is
not what you pay workmen that
makes the difference.
A sailor, Hendricus de Raay,
wants five thousand dollars dam
ages from his employers because
he was badly bitten by mosquitoes
and the ship captain would give
him no healing ointment.
This is mentioned because NEW.
Dog bites, goring by bulls. but
never mosquito bites, have caused
law suits.
Should the sailor get his five
thousand dollars, the company
would think seriously about buy
Ing up mosquito wire.
And this leads to meditation on
sthe theory Of reincarnation.
Suppose Armour. Rockefeller,
George F. Baker, Thomas F. Ryan
and Dan Guggenheim should sud
oenly learn through miraculous
revelation that in their next earthly
incarnation they would appear as
little brown babies on the banks
OF the Nile-where babies are neg
iected and flies swarming on their
poor, diseased eyes often blind
them.
: Can't you imagine Armour, Gup-
genheim, ct al, crying with loud
voice, What am | to be an Egyp-
tlan baby exposed to Egyptian
Iiies! Well, before that happens,
1 will spend little of this money
wlping out flies in Egypt"
They would do it. Learned en-
gineers would be sent to clean up
the Egyptian filth piles in. which
flies breed, a good milk supply for
Egyptian babies would be organ
lied, with free trained nurse serv-
Ice on the banks of the old Nile,
fetc.
A successful law suit often i'm
proves living conditions. Belief in
reincarnation, with no guarantee
as to the next habitatfon, would do
more.
Only two more States needed to
put woman suffrage in the Consti-
tuition. That an amendment recog-
nzing the rights and intelligence
OF white women should come so
long after the amendment giving
the vote to black men is not the
surprising part. The surprise,
considering the men that inhabit
the earth, is that woman suffrage
comes this century instead of next.
Women may say with Goethe:
THE indescribable here is DONE"
And men that have faith in their
mothers and in the goodness of
women, will add the last line:
''Das eaoig' Weibbliche Sicht uns
hinan."
That line, best known, perhaps,
of any outside of Shakespeare,
means THE eternal feminine (or
WON anliness) leads US upward"
Am important mile. tone goes by
in the huran procession as men
recognize woman's right to share
in legislation that controls her,
her sons and daughters. Politi-
clans will now be compelled to ask
themselves: "What do the women
want? ?" Everyone but the fool
knows that women want what is
just, being infinitely less selfish
than men.
before tne lOleOO scale JOm-
pany's office, in Frank Munsey's
grand building in New York city,
is a shiny wei1hing machine with
this sign: "Your Weight Free"
Men and boys stand in line
women don't--to see how much
their bodies weigh.
Farther uptown is big public
library in which Free" you may
ascertain the weight of your mind,
and even add to it. But nobody
stands in line there. Various prob
lens will be settled when the in
habitants of this magnificent coun-
try take, on the average, as much
interest in their brains as in their
bodies.
At least twenty-five million
human beings are reading "The
Diary Of Ruth Randall" a lady
who killed herself and the man
with whom she was living. dsre-
carding that mans wife. The
diary, telling how the lady grad
ually worked herself up to the
mitch of murder and suicide Is