The Washington times., 1920-02-03

war. After every great war some
body believes that religious differ
ences are ended. The conqueror
by force would make his the only
religion, or it was believed that
humanity would recognize the
criminal stupidity of persecution
In the name OF merciful God.
But humanity does not go up the
4, staircase OF progress as rspidly as
that.
There will be q religious perse-
cution on earth as long as any
group Of individuals believes that
the only true God is theirs, and
that it is their duty to make others
admit it.
Send your good wishes across
the ocean to the princess, new
wife of Prince Christopher of
Greece, formerly Mrs. Leeds,
widow Of an American tin plate
king.
Mr.. Leeds, watching servants
and visitors fattering his only
son, used to say: 81 would give
a million dollars to anyone that
would tell me how a rich man
can keep his son from becoming
q fool" Nobody won the money.
Perhaps in heaven Mr.. Leeds
is offering price for somebody
that can give the right kind of
advice to q rich mans widow.
The sad fact il that American
women, marrying lords, dukes or
evcn princes, rarely ma the hap
piness they think they have
bought. One American young
Awoman married to a prince drove
a chariot drawn by white horses
into a ballroom in Rome, with q
tame leopard and tiger fastened
with gold chains on either side
Of her chariot. That, you would
think, should hold the ambitious
young woman's affection for a
time. But that princess Of the
leopard and tiger is suing for di-
vorce at this moment.
Here comes cheerfulness. The
Harvard committee on economic
research says prices will go
down because "high interest
rates will curb extravaganza"
ANY kind of relief is well
coined, but this reminds you of
the bear in the fable. He hit
his master on the head with
big stone to drive away the fly,
missed the fly, but finished his
master.
The beneficial effects of high
interest rates as a remedy for
public extravaganza may be helped
by the Governments plan to cut
~from 1881 to 400 the national
banks favored with u. S. deposits.
Cutting out nine hundred banks
and adding to the strength of four
hundred should build up more
concentrated banking system ad-
mirably adapted to diminishing
extravaganza by increasing inter-
est rates.
Another Aesop fable is suggest
ed by the statement from England
that Great Britain does not want
any more loans in the United
States and would not take any
loan here even if she could get it.
The fable suggested is the one
about the fox and the grapes.
Mr.. Tom Williams, pencil ped
dler of Atlanta, is unlike the knife
grinder that had no story. Ped
dler Williams story deals with
hair tonic that he drank freely for
the alcohol. The hair tonic pro-
duced in him a state of exhilara-
ton, not to say ecstacy, that in
cluded the swallowing Of his false
teeth. The police have called in
NX-ray experts in an effort to To-
cate the teeth.
If intoxication and all such
things were not thing of the past,
now that the prohibition sun has
risen, what a valuable "living
warning" the X-ray of the pencil
pedler would be.
A few years ago amid public de-
rision, men were seeking conquest
of the air by the flying machine.
Now it is taken for granted by
everybody, especially those who
said it couldn't be done. At this
moment, amid ignorant derision,
men seek TO conquer the space that
separates us from the other
planets.
The French Academy of Science
has consented to act as judge in
awarding a prize Of one hundred
thousand francs to the first that
shall succeed in communicating, by
any sign, with one Of the heavenly
bodies, and getting a reply in an
swer. A little while ago Lord
Northcliffe was offering a reward