The Washington times., 1920-03-17

4 Small Bite OF Melon.
Twilight Revolution.
Strong Abroad, Weak al
Home.
'oman, Eternal Educator.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. iSSs.S

to the system, based on Supreme
Court decision, that would enable
men to dodge income tax when the
Income is big enough.
he proposes a straight tax Of
nftsen per cent on stock divi-
dends. That would at least bite
OF and hand to the people small
piece of the melon that the Su-
preme Court decision gave to the
uitra-prosperous.
The German revolutions seems
TO have proceeded almost as
quietly as a twilight sleep birth.
A few are killed here and there,
which doesn't mean anything. II
Germany should go suddenly from
autocracy to democracy, via mill
tary defeat, it would be almost a
miracle. There is a prospect that
the miracle will happen.
A new complication for absolute
prohibition. In many places
Buffalo, for instance-men break
the law by manufacturing wine,
beer or whiskey in their houses,
and juries decline to convict. What
can you do about that? Perhaps
a constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting the jury. system would
help.
Poland, Austria and Armenia
will get five million barrels of
flour from America on long term
credits (pay for it when you are
able). You can guess when that
will be. 1t is pleasure and duty
to help foreign nations strug-
Cling against misery. But how
does it happen that this Govern
ment, able to do so much for those
that live three or four thousand
miles away, can do so little for
those at home?
We are ready for any sacrifice
to keep q Turk from numbering an
Armenian or a Bolshevist from
dropping grand duke down the
we'll.
Couldn't something be done to
interfere with the United States
of America profteers, the rent
raiser, food price raiser, and 9TH
ers that steadily and placidly rob
everybody in the United States?
Gently and violently in all kinds
of ways, women have been terrify-
ing, improving, worrying men. A
great work of education is hidden
away in sensational newspaper
headings.
One Chicago lady, you know her
well, killed Captain Bleyer, be-
cause she thought he didn't like
her well enough or might not con-
tinue liking her forever. She
proved her sincerity by killing
herself. Today you read that
young lady shot herself because
a naval officer didn't like her at all.
Tomorrow, undoubtedly, you will
read of some other woman shooting
herself or the gentleman in the
case, or both, because he liked
some third person.
An ignorant visitor from another
planet would ask, What is the
matter with these earth women
everlastingly shooting somebody"
The explanation is simple. These
shootings are survivals of the day
long past when there was no such
thing as marriage. The man wan
dered off as he pleased, leaving the
woman to take care of herself and
all the children.
Women, unlike men, do not run
away from their children. And
the only way to keep the man from
running away was to hit him on
the head with a stone hammer or
chase him through the cave with
that expression which man at once
recognizes as danger signal.
Killings and suicides, suicides
and killings combined, now appar-
emily so aimless, represent vestigial
survival of woman's early educat-
ing processes. 1t is woman's fault
that such methods should have
been necessary. Primeval man
could not be trusted, and under
stood nothing but blow. Many
men are still primeval.
Mr.. Smith, of New York, pro-
poses to lend billion dollars to
Germany, using for the purpose
money taken from German citizens
in this country by the American
Government. The idea is not
primarily to help Germany, al
though that is desirable, since
nation dying or decaying would
affect its neighbors disastrously.
The main idea is to boom busi-
ness in the United States. Our ex-
ports have dropped 20. per cent
during the last three months. For
eign nations can't buy without
money, or with money like the
German mark that has practically
no value.
Germany needs a billion dollars
worth OF stuff that Americans are
anxious to sell, hence the bill to
lend Germany the money. The
English, intelligent business men,
were first to suggest this plan for
bringing industrial Germany back
to life. Nations, like shops, need
solvent customers.