The Washington times., 1920-10-13
Today
Columbus Jewish Blood.
Cruelty to Children.
McSwiney's Miracle.
Why They Die.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrisht. isse).

WY ivy WV
by ARTHUR BRIsBANE-l
tcopyrisht. issel.
The United States. not entirely
free from antt-Jowtsh biSotry,
celebrated ysstsrdAy the birthday
of Christopher Columbus. On such
an occasion It il we'll 70 remind
twisted minds that Christopher
Columbus was the son OF q Jewoss,
and that Jewish money did moro
TO finance his trip to America than
the more OF less mythical Jewels
of Queen Isabella.
This information displeases GER
tain individuals. All the more rea-
son for giving II TO them.
A survival OF ancient cruelty 10
the system OF examinations and
the consequent humiliation In
flicted upon children In schools
Millions are sent homo with bad
marks which discourage them
and discourage their parents,
without reason. Yesterdays news
papers told of . little GIRL eleven
years old, bringing from public
school marks excellent" but not
perfect" Her father. August
KlidA, beat her most horribly with
q hammer, saying that she must
get 100 per cent perfect" IN
everything each day TO get through
school quickly and be allowed to
20 to work. when / showed him
my report" said the terror
stricken child. he began to beat
me-"
Is there not enough brutality In
ignorant parents without sending
home to them children with bad
marks" inviting cruelty that weaky
ems the power of the child's mind?
McSwiney is still alive in the
sixty-second day Of his fast. This
is held . miracle by his admirers
and it is a miracle, of resolution,
and of the will. McSwiney lives
on by strength of will, his life
feeds upon his body which is ac-
cumulated food, and will continue
to live until all the food in the
body is exhausted His life will
be ended finally by depletion OF
energy used up In mental activity,
to which the body, thinner and
weaker every day, will cease to
supply.
At this moment thousands Of
bears and other animals have be-
gun period of Information that
will last until spring comes. For
several months they will take
neither food nor water. The fe-
male bear will wake up in the
spring to find her tiny hairless
cub born beside her. Animals live
thus for months without food or
water because the brain stops
working and the lungs almost
cease breathing. Little fuel is
used. s----4.--- -
On one newspapsr page we read
many stories Of snieide.
David Cohen shoots his wife
and kills himself, Jealous OF Her
First Husband"
Mrs. Neider cut the throats Of
her two girls, gave poison to her
two boys and shot herself. This
because of insanity, probably.
A young girl is seen walking on
the seashore talking to a man. He
turns and walks away. She kills
herself with three bullets weeping
as she shoots. disappointment In
Love"
Great provocation, sometimes
almost no provocation, drives hu-
man beings out of the world An
ancient Greek philosopher. very
old, stumbled and fell as he left
his class. He killed himself, not
wanting to live longer. Uncle
Joe" Cannon, about as old as the
Greek philosopher, fell yesterday
and broke his wrist. Suicide never
occurred to him. He applied an
outside bandage, some inside COM
fort and went on with his work.
Which was the real philosopher?
Stranger than the great num-
ber of suicides is the fact that on
this earth about fifteen hundred
million human beings, many truly
miserable, live on, clinging to life
rs though it were a precious gift.
A famous French beauty is the
most interesting suicide of the day.
Robbed Of her jewelry worth five
hundred thousand francs q few
days ago she opened the veins In
her wrists and bled to death, leav-
ing this note: Life without my
jewels is worthless"
The most fantastic story con-
cerning Russia, most horrible,
comes from French prisoners, re-
leased after a term in Moscow.
They describe the prisoners select
ed for death by the lottery, q
practice once common. Cromwell
in Ireland "shot every tenth man."
The horrible feature Of the Rus
sian story, which needs a good
deal of confirmation, tells Of a fif-
teen-year-old young Lettish girl