The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-13

eeace Expensive Also.
without Touching Ground"
Wasted Clam Crop.
Plentiful Whiskey.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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: BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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Peace also is expensive. When
officials get the habit Of doing
what Joseph p. Day calls "S. o.
+. M" which means Spending
other peoples money" it is hard
TO lose the habit.
With war ended, the army and
navy now cost this country nearly
three hundred thousand dollars an
hour. Multiply that by twenty
four and the result By three hun
dred and sixty-fve, and you will
, know what peace costs in q land
OF profiteer sharks and incompe-
tent officials.
This public spending interests
little people, for they must foot
the bill, since the Supreme Court
decides that corporations may
legally dodge income tax.
In Argentina Captain Parodi
has flown over the Andes Noun
tains and back, making the round
trip from the Argentine to Chile
without touching ground.
The last words are important.
The day is near when airships
will come from Europe or Asia to
this country, and go back again
without touching ground
They will be able to drop a load
of dynamite and return without
being caught. flying up so high
~ to be invisible, or arriving at
night:
This means that the important
thing in national safety hereafter
must be the flying fleet. What a
pity the patriots of this country
stole and wasted the six hundred
millions appropriated for flying:
They should have allowed half
the money to go for flying ma
chimes.
Millions of clans, each bigger
than your fist, are piled five feet
high along Long Island shore:
The "skimmers" are not the kind
you eat, and 1T will cost one mil
lion dollars to get rid of them"
If this were a saving instead OF
wasteful country, that clam crop
would be worth millions for fer
| tilizer, supplying lime and other
! food that land needs.
You should see French peasants
I on their side of the English Chan
mel hauling in carloads to their
farms the doghsh washed up bY
big storms. No waste there.
A problem more serious than
leaving a valuable clam crop to
breed disease Is the problem OF
the American labor crop.
American lawmakers were COM
bining with organized labor in a
stupid plan to keep out foreigners.
a The foreigners are saving US the
trouble.
Since Jsnuary. j, $1,000 have.
come in aid $1,000 have gone back
to Europe. The newcomers will
have to be taught our methods.
Those going away took with them
not less than sixty millions OF
American dollars. immigration
authorities say prohibition Is driv-
ing the foreign workers out. They
don't like plain water. On the
other hand, they don't like poison
Gus whiskey. 1t is the only thing
you can get in the United States
just now. Perhaps sane Com-
promise will be reached.
IL you doubt that whiskey is
plentiful in the United States, run
down to Miami, and find out what
becomes Of thirty thousand cases
of Scotch whiskey, shipped into
Nassau every little while and from
Nassau taken to Florida. The only
real prohibition problem at Miami
just now is: Shall l take Scotch
or Canadian Club?'
Religion, greatest human CON-
fort because it makes hard think
ing unnecessary. is like everything
else bad in excess. Yesterday
one policeman found a poor woman
walking barefooted in the street,
praying and saying. 81 have been
sent here by God to save human
ity.' She was sent to the hospital
and booked as "Unknown-Relig-
ious MANIA
A girl of seventeen was found
hanging dead. 1t was too late to
help her, the verdict there also
was Religious mania"
There was a time when mania
OF this kind would seize upon en-
tire populations. That fortunately
has died out, except where black
superstition and ignorance pre-
vail as occasionally in Russia.
Nothing like a little education to
remedy that evil.
The Union League Club, in q re-
port to President Wilson and the
wide, wide world, says that TO rec