The Washington times., 1920-11-13
Today

WHAT u HdpPo'i'vs,
A Text for c.S.
Cautious Dartigusnave.
Those Pilgrim Fathers.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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A young man In the college OF
the city Of New York requests Q
definition Of 400 per cent Amsrl-
canism."
This might DO: .Obey and Up
hold the Government and the laws
Of the United States while dsing
yoar best to improve both. -
Wall Street, so powerful, and
Sts stock exchange relations
throughout the country, wonder
Whist u happening to them, 20
thar miserable customers, the
bulls, and their happy customers
First-class stocks dropping ten
and twelve points show that some
body is in trouble. -
To make It more nervous Gomez
q statement by Psish, British IL
nancial authority, that England
herself might 20 bankrupt.
That won't happen, but some
disturbing factor, SOMEWHERE,
is making intelligent men get rid
Of property for less than it is
worth.
One hundred million people liv-
ing in this country own all they
ever owned, and why they should
be frightened to death is hard to
understand.
Workmen will learn, what they
ought to have known long ago,
that every man gets for days
work, in the long run, what some
other worker produces in a day,
minus the profit Of tho directing
mind, and not any more. But that
has always been so, although
workmen occasionally forget it,
and think they can earn some
thing by wasting half Of each day.
American manufacturers find
1t hard to sell surplus products to
foreign countries because the dol
lar stands SO high in the worlds
exchange. Nations with second
class money go where second-class
money will buy goods. Changing
it into dollars is too much of
task. That is the really serious
feature in American industry, and,
rather amazing, our money is
TOO GOOD.
Thanks to the wise advice of
Bishop Cohalan of Cork, the re-
manning hunger strikers in prison
are calling off their strike, after
fasting ninety-four days. an unbe-
lievable test of mental and physi-
cal endurance. The condition of
the men yesterday was described
as "shockingly low" and it is
doubtful whether the majority
can now be brought back to life.
Ninety-four days without food
and without dying proves that
mind and will actually are more
powerful than the body--a good
text for Christian Scientists.
The Republican national cam
paign committee winds up one
million six hundred thousand dol
lars in debt; so in spite of Mr..
!Cox's sad prediction the Presi-
dency was not bought" 1t would
have taken much money to buy
such a landslide as recently hap
pened.
1t will be easy now, to find SIX
teen hundred patriots to contribute
q thousand dollars each to wipe
out the deficit. One hundred
times sixteen hundred would con-
tribute rather than see the elec-
tion undonc.
Mr.. Sudre Dartiguenave, presi-
dent of Haiti, who lives with a
United States marine on either
side of him, and in his cabinet, says
he is perfectly satisfied with condi-
tions in Haiti and Officially he
has not heard of any indiscrimi-
nate killings. He has however,
heard of "regrettable acts in eight
places that he named. You can
guess for yourself what the re-
grettable acts were. The Haitian
gentleman who sounds like one of
the Three Musketeers is cautious
about complaining.
The reverend Father Mcmahon
does not think much of the Pill
grim Fathers that came over on
the Mayflower. That hurts the
feelings of Mr.. Stewart, who feels
called on to defend the pilgrims
from the surprising charge Of
"laying the foundations for Boil
shevism in America"
As a matter Of fact, Father Nc
Mahon paid the highest compli-
ment when he said they encour-
aged the national tendency to
free thinking. Free thinking is
the one thing that free people
need. And slavish thinking is the
thing that keeps slavish people
in slavery. II the Pilgrims en-
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