The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-24
Today
Marble Hearted Y. N. C. A.
CanceIing Is "Welching."
Who "StifIes Production?"
Fetishes and Psychology.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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ing for the Pope, issues a decree
asking Catholic bishops TO watch
an organization which, while pro-
Tossing absolute freedom OF thought
IN religious matters. instills indif-
ferentism and apostasy to the
Catholic religion in the minds OF
its adherents." The decree states
bluntly that the organization in
question is the Young Mems
Christian Association.
Catholic authorities are best
judges of the Y. M. c. A, as it af-
fects them. What surprises the
ordinary citizen is that Y. M.
c. A. authorities have an un-
written law that only z per cent
Of Jews may be admitted.
Jews wrote all of the Old
Testament and most of the New
Testament, supplying the Chris
tians with their religion. The
mother of the founder of Chris
tianity was Jewess. So the Y.
M. C. A., with its per cent rule,
seems to lack gratitude. And lack
of gratitude, attribute of the
"Marble-hearted Fiend," is hard
to defend. To keep Jews out Of
the Y. M. C. A. is like keeping
Rockefellers out of Standard Oil.
They made it.
Cancellations" by which is
meant backing out of contracts
and breaking your word, have
"tied up three billions in prop
erty and greatly injured the
country" according to an official
statement.
The man who was begging for
goods or other business accommo-
dation and now backs out of his
agreements, canceling his orders,
belongs to the "welcher' class
and should be told so plainly.
Unless a man actually has no
money, and can PROVE it, he has
no right to cancel any order given
in good faith.
In an Australian town the
whole white population is engaged
in disarming Japanese. Australia
and New Zealand are more hostile
to Asiatics than any part of the
United States. This attack on the
Japanese by British subjects whose
government has an offensive and
defensive alliance with Japan will
cause some interesting thinking.
Yellow and white men will not mix.
Why not admit it? a.
Not even by q victorious war
could Asia force herself on white
territory, and there won't be any
victorious war. Asia against whites.
In the French chamber of depu-
ties Prince Murat, sprang at the
throat of the Socialist deputy,
Ruhl. Times have changed since
the day when a French aristocrat,
annoyed by the sarcastic wit of
Voltaire, ordered his lac.leys to
seize and beat Voltaire and then
had him committed to the Bastile.
Nov aristocrats must do their
own fighting.
Mr.. Gillett, Speaker OF the
House, tells the world that mod
ern labor unions are public
enemies "stifling production,
when the crying need of the whole
world is production"
Some unions have been foolish,
notably in New York, where they
combine with dishonest lawyers
and dishonest contractors to put
prices beyond reach. Some union
workers have hurt themselves and
the public by cutting down pro-
duction criminally. A man who
does not do an nest days work
is not an hone man. No union
rule can chang, that fact.
But the real Sitting of pro-
duction," of which Speaker Gil
lett complains, has been done by
the pTO11teeTJ, I1OSt lndJ nave
put up the price of all materials,
including money, each trying to
steal eighty cents out of every
dollar. If the country had no trou-
BILE more serious than its labor
unions it would be fortunate.
1t turns out that Mrs. Tartarcio,
of Elwood City, Pa, is accused Of
being a witch because she inter
fered with the business Of Mr..
Capanano, her neighbor, who made
a living selling lucky talisman
to keep off the evil eye, etc. When
she spoiled his business by tell
Ing the plain truth about it, the
man selling the talismans accused
her of witchcraft, and the neigh
bors wanted to have her burned.
This being 1920, she won't be
burned. But many were those
burned, In the past, most legally
and solemnly, for doing the very
thing that Mrs. Tartarcio has done,
namely. telling the truth about
somebody's profitable fetish.
There Is much power In under
standing mass psychology. The
Eu Klux paraded in South Jack