The Washington times., 1920-09-30
The Hen Went Crazy.
Fifteen Million vIrglns2
Old Nature Beaten.
Seeing Pink Snakes.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
(To.x.t-tf IszOl

tnal nCIl t0uio
talk IL would be able TO tell Uncle
Sam how he would feel II he were
fool enough TO let himself be tied
up In the League of Nations after
its eggs began to hatch.
DIR. Schweischiner, learned and
occurote German statistician, says
fifteen million yonug women In
Europe must die old maids, never
have children, because young men
that might have married them
were killed off in the war;, A
majority of the young women Con
demned TO spinsterhood by stats
ties belong TO the hard-working
peasant class. They would have
had on the average probably five
useful children each. III DR..
Schweischiner is accurate and
fifteen million young women are
destined never to be mothers, the
world loses the services Of seven
ty-five million human beings and
all their descendants.
The French, so far as their army
OF young women are. concerned,
are making other plans. The
young men are dead, they say, but
that is no reason why the young
women should never be mothers.
The theory in France and some
other countries is that war, which
changes many things, temporarily,
changes the laws of morality. and
of ap nj N Hf-
teen million young women to die
without children is greater than
the moral crime involved in max
ing "other arrangements"
What is your idea Of this i'm
portant matter? Would you au-
thorize temporary polygamy as an
expedient, with national support
for the families of children lack
ing a separate father to take care
of them?
Or would you have strict en-
forcement of the moral code, re-
gardless of the war and the other
maids? Or would you "let ma
ture take her course" and let
things drift!
In other wars long ago the moral
code has more than once been
temporarily suspended to provide
citizens that nations needed. And
the church, broadly tolerant and
Intelligent, while not authorizing
any infringement OF morals. took
no active steps to punish or dis
courage .Uther nr1h9c%fents.
II is an importantf fqpsstion |;
Shall fifteen mtllion young women
live and die never knowing the
important duties and the great
pleasure of maternity that makes
life worth whileT
II is not a question to be dis
posed OF with moral platitude,
perhaps not even by quoting one
of the Ten Commandments. y
A French engineer has invent
ed a machine which appears to be
almost the last word in overcom-
ing gravitation, and travelling as
you please.
The machine goes on the land,
on the water, and under the water.
We are amazed at the genius of
man. But nature, that gave US
the earth, did something more
wonderful when it created the first
duck. For the duck goes on top
of the water, goes underneath the
water, waddles along on the land,
and flies in the air as well.
Nature, viewed specifically,
seems to eclipse man. But mans
record on the whole is creditable.
Nature created the lightning
and for a long time frightened
man with it. Then man harness
ed it, made it his messenger boy,
to run his errands through the air
without wires, under the ocean on
a cable, and he made it power
full slave to pull his trains, run his
machinery, light his cities.
Nature made man slow; the deer
and a hundred animals could out
run him. The birds can fly all
around him. But man made the
locomotive that can outrun the
deer and the airship that outflies
any bird. This is his earth, his
little rOunU, Raruen- BEFORE ne
leaves it, a few million years from
now, il will be entirety his prop
erty and much improved by him,
besides being thoroughly conquer
cd. And old Mature will say to
her child man: 81 have got to
hand it to you; you are a remark
able infant, and | am proud to
have created you"
Alcoholic gentlemen stop seeing
pink and green snakes when they
stop drinking whiskey. The
American public stops seeing
high prices pasted up everywhere
when il stops its debauch Of reck-
less spending.
Men that rarely wore a clean
shirt of any kind have felt that
they must wear silk shirts and
socks TO match. All kinds of fools
have imagined that increased in
come, salary, wages, or business
profit, based on war and over
charge, would last forever. They
snent accordingly. IL was their