The Washington times., 1920-09-29
Pleasing England, Conscripting
Labor, Etc.
The London Daily Chronicle, other new

papers and Engishmen generally are Pralsing <eaoen'
Wilson This you need not be told means they think ne
has helped England They congratulate him upon opposing
American shipping kings" They say American shippins
kings wanted to drive British and other foreign ships out
Of American ports and substitute their own ships
Next to man who helps to build UP British shipping
there nothing Englishman admires more than man
who helps keep DOWN American shipping Therefore Pres
dent Wilson has deserved the praise Of the English and
he likes that kind of praise, then he has the kind OF
praise that he likes.
What this country thinks of an Administration that
concentrates its energies running erands for Europe
and that British praise the only praise worth having
will be shown at the coming election That VIII DO an
interesting election and when is the
will know more than it know to what the
people really think of it.
Germany, not allowed by the treaty of Ver.
saies to conscript for the army build up any
military service, plans universal work law lor
every Of military age physically IT.
This means that all men ABLE to work will be COM
PEELED to work. not parading around in uniforms, saut
ing officers uphoding half crazy Kaiser but doing
PRODUCTIVE work for Germany, and getting paid for
the work
Germany carries out this program and establishes
working army while other nations continue to spend their
manhood and money fighting army 1t Will not take
Germany long to come back to prosperity
If France had really wanted to keep the Germans help
lessy permanently down. the shortest way would have
been to permit in the Versailles Peace League the old
waste of men non productive military work.
Dishonesty, control of winning clubs by
gamblers declared by grand jury to exist in baseball
Nobody need be surprised for where there azness
rupton always in Sitting bench watching some
body else take exercise is naturally lazy occupation
When thirty thousand to see baseball game they
lose thirty thousand chances to do something worth while
such as digging ditch, saving wood, or otherwise
exercising their muscles They prefer to watch others do
what they do taking their exercise vcarousy
the Roman mobs that watched the gladator took their
fighting vcarousy lazy sport breeds dishonesty Base
ball. racing prizehghting all sports run merely to be
watched, demoralizing.
The suggestion that prisoners be paid fair,
wages for their work in prison shops instead of
cent and half day. the price paid in many prisons
seems almost human and surprising in prison management
The prisoners would have charged against them the cost
of their keep the balance to be placed to their credit and
paid to their families.
The real story of crme-a story Of defective brains
is the statement that only about two prisoners out
of five mentally physically equipped to do full day
work
French royali.ts, ladies and gentlemen, with
good magnaions say that they the ghost Of Marie
Antoinette floating around the Little Tanon, where the
lady used make butter and pretend that she was dairy
maid when she got tired of pretending that she
spectacle queen.
Royalsts say the coming of the Queens ghost means
that king is coming back to Versailles king will
turn Versailles when all the Frenchmen crazy
before.
One King named Louis Sixteenth, might have lived
longer Versailles if he had not been married to fool
The Journal of Heredity describes a "lawn''
covered with bamboo sixty feet high.
Each year the bamboo grows to this height growing
one foot day That kind Of crop ought to interest
makers of print paper The French already expert
menting with it. Hitherto the difficulty in using bamboo
for pulp has been the of cutting the knots joints