The Washington times., 1920-09-02
Today
Poor Miss Marceau!
Good King George.
Wicked, Wicked Fund.
Easy, on Machine Guns.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Emily Marceau. OF the movies
summons and sues Smythe Add
son, director. Rising through
hole rimmed with fire." Miss Mar
ceau was held suspended in the air
by "a thin invisible wire circled
about the actress waist" Addi-
son. says she, went out to lunch
with the other gentlemen and left
her hanging In the air for two
hours and a half A long lunch,
strain on the patience. Sympa-
thize with Emily Marceau.
Sympathize also with Uncle Sam,
left hanging In the air. with thin
line OF red tape around his waist,
as he rose from a hole trimmed
with fire, called the World War.
Somebody went away for a
League of Nations lunch, and left
him hanging up there in the war
for a good deal more than two
hours and half. Emily Marceau
can sympathize with her Uncle
Sam, who hasn't been let down yet
He's still In the air, still in the war.
King George refuses to release
McSwiney on the ground that his
ministry would probably resign.
To a certain French King came
an intelligent nobleman, saying,
"The trouble with our country is
that a few of US own all the land,
the peasants own nothing. Let US
give the peasants chance to own
the land, and thus avoid trouble"
The King thought it was a pretty
good idea and said SO. The other
mobiles said, 1--WE want our land;
we know what to do with the peas
ants" They denounced the first
noble as a traitor to his class.
Later, the King, who's name was
Louis XVI, lost interest suddenly
in all mundane matters and the
mobiles lost their land. The French
peasants got it, and still have it.
Once in America, statesman in
the South suggested that it would
be good idea to end slavery and
let the North pay to the South the
full cash value of all the slaves.
He was denounced as an enemy
of the South, although he meant
well. His name was Calhoun.
Later all the slaves were set free;
the South, instsad Of being paid for
them, spent a hundred times their
value trying to keep them, and the
North spent two hundred times
their value trying to free them.
Nobody will interfere with the
health or happiness of gentle King
George, perhaps. But if he were
a King, and not fourth Or fifth gen.
Grafton in a line of vermiform ap-
pendices, he would know that some
things are more dangerous than
the resignation of minister. One
of the things more dangerous is
to watch a man starve to death in
a courageous protest against op-
preston.
Figures are interesting. When
you say fifteen million dollars
rapidly it seems a lot of money,
and is lot Of money.
Democrats say the Republicans,
wicked, wicked people. wanted to
raise a campaign fund of fifteen
millions. Too bad, very sad.
What have the Democrats in Of
ice to say to these figures?
Fifteen million dollars would be
fifteen cents for each inhabitant
Of the United States. Every time
you Democrats in office allowed
the sugar thieves to sell q pound
of sugar for twenty-five cents you
allowed them to steal fifteen cents
from the public. Every time an
American bought a pound of sugar
for twenty-five cents he was rob-
bed Of fifteen cents. Don't you
think it would pay him to contrib
ute fifteen cents ONCE to get rid
Of the kind of government that al
lows the vilest kind of profiteering
to survive the war and steal fifteen
cents for every pound of sugar?
When the Democrats get through
saying what my ,ninh ,.oo.L M.
Harding's campaign fund, inter-
csting and imaginary thinking,
perhaps they will tell exactly why
they have done nothing about their
friends, the prohteers, that began
by stealing a thousand million dol
lars through the aircraft board,
and have kept it up ever since in
every direction.
Troops fire on West Virginia
strikers, Machine guns are used