The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-22
THE NATIONAL DAILY
Witch Hunting Too Late
Mrs. Catsrio, poor old woman of sew
Some Other Things.


fve living alone in Pennsylvania threatened with burn
ing alive and goes the judge for protection The neigh
bors say she Is a witch.
This old may be grateful that she lives in the
United States in 1920 New England in the early days
when Increase Mather published his book Remarkable
Propdences providing Diabolc Possession in Wtchcraft
In those days. the four children of a poor family in
Boston began lsapng and barking like dogs and purring
like cats and complaining about being pricked pnched
and cut old Irish tried and executed for
witchcraft
Cotton Mather son of Increase Mather carried his
fathers supersttous brutaities the limit and wrote
his book Witchcraft and Possessions Then respect
able clergyman, Mr. Paris logged Indian woman until
she confessed to her relations with Satan Possessed
women made accusations right and Left and in courts
said that they devils telling the accused what say
1.-THE courtroom resounded with groans, shrieks prayers
and curses Judges jury and people aghast and
the accused were sometimes led believe in their
guilt"
The quotations are from the writings of Andrew D.
White president of Cornell They show that there has
been Improvement among human beings if we
do continue murder each other in and swnde each
other in business.
A learned Judge has decided that light
hazng should be expected therefore tolerated at mill
tary school Dr. Hoas in the school forced to
orderly for upper cassman and to take that upper
persons clothes the tailor for pressing and mendng
every Saturday.
The father withdrew his son. The court ordered him
TO pay for the full term Would that Judge like it if
higher judge judicial upper classman," compelled the
lower class judge to get down his knees and black the
upper judges boots each morning? The cases would be
parallel
No father and judge should approve endure in
republic system that makes the servant Of his
moral equal The judges decision is wrong, and
upper class Judge should reverse it.
We have enough snobbery and servty in this country
now without having paid judges officially endorse any
of it. Schools should develop democrats not servants
Germany can show economy, as proof of a
desire pay what she by pointing to poor Herr
Ebert president of the German Republic His salary in
Guiding allowances for keeping up his office is 100000
marks about fifteen hundred dollars of money at the
present rate of exchange That is considerable improve
ment what the Kaiser used to cost-including army
navy and the late No wonder Herr Ebert asks for
an increase
France and Germany both republics. France
got back the territory she lost in 1870 and And
the territory lost in 1870 land that Louis XIV took
Germany Germany at least has had all she wants
of war for while
1t might be possible the countries decide on
the that Germany is pay Franco decision still
hanging in the arand then agree to live side by side in
emulation, individuals live instead Of waiting for the
moment to start killing again.
Everybody knows that in this late Germany at
tackled France France the other hand in the course
of history, under Napoleon and various kings made
football of Germany.
This would be good time to substitute reason which
costs nothing for war, which is getting and
expensive. The gun that fires hundred half
inch bullets per minute plus poison gas and aplanes
could than Offset the marvellous fertility of
woman and the recuperative powers of the race.