The Washington times., 1920-06-07
THINGS IN GENERAL
Canadian Candy, Successful Worker.
Strange Brutality and Other Things

Canada reports exports of candy amounting
to $30097 97s in eleven months compared with
in the twelve months preceding Some one In Canada Is
thinking about sugar for Canadians than about self
determination for Mesopotama.
The Canadians bought than oneseventh of the
last total Cuban sugar CROP and will get more OF the next
crop We might send commission to learn how the Cana
dian government finds time to think about the natives
= President Wilson accuses the Republican
Congress doing nothing and that describes except that
the Republicans obliged the country by saving it from the
Peace League idiocy
1t was not Republican Congress, however that failed
to the Cuban sugar crop and 12CENT SUGAR for
the United States
Would it not be good idea for the President
of the United States this time and always before Presi
dental election say An Cabinet members running for
the Presidency openly secretly please resign and come
back after the nominations and the fund raising?'
The people ought to know which of their employees
working for the people and which for the Presidency
Morgan Watkins, working as mason ff-
teen professor of French at the University
of South Wales
Huxley helped British dock laborer to buy micro
scope and learn how it, That laborer became va
able scientific worker Many good brains under rough
caps Workers will Observe however, that the men men
toned and others that succeeded did not concentrate
the problem, How little work do for my pay and
still get it,
During the war you read about German
of the London Times who probably knows, has declared
these stories of the and other stories of cruced
alive by the Germans to be false.
There u.s. however in the brutal human mind and here
in America capacity for cruelty nconceivabe and unbe
hevabe An actor is sent to jail for cruelty beating and
manning his daughter year after year. woman, middle
aged, is found taking care of baby while its mother
worked This foster mother is accused of breaking both
and both thighs of the unhappy infant
Being no longer supplied with the favoite mental food
Hun brutality that pleased for some years, might
examine home made brand of brutality includ
ing burning alive and the legal whipping of convcts
prison to get from them the last fragment Of
power
More Russian victories reported, while the
nations in Europe ask themselves Shall we recognize
Russia If they wait too long, their question may
Twill Russia recognize us? The English that look ahead
first and most energetic in negotiating with Russia
liking Russias speedy travelling toward the capital of
Persia, now British.
The French naturally hold against Boshevism, for
every other French peasant business Russian
bonds that Boshevsm has repudaed Before the war be-
gan thousands of millions of those bonds had been bought
by France. Other billions have been bought since
Some of foolish nanciers tempted by respectable
financial graft bought few millions of the bonds
Even small purchase to make consider
able difference This Republic is still mourning for the Czar
The business men Of this country should
wake up and notice the interest and the character Of the
Belgian loan and other loans that being foated
They allow foreign countries to raise the interest rate in this
country to ten and half per cent for the first with
lottery feature added that might give the investor twenty
five per cent the first year Business will find it more
difficult to borrow for American purposes and Anlerc
Development within the limit set by the usury laws
Already those limits being cheerfuy disregarded
The Federal charges per which is wrong
There time when any kind Of interest looked
upon as shameful.
Thou shalt lend on usury thy brother says the
Bible And by 'usury was meant ANY rate of interest,