The Washington times., 1921-10-21

striker Wait Awhile.
DEATHS Simple Style.
Expensive Dsbauoh.
All for the Cats.
ARTHUR BRISRI

Al Tor the Cats.
Ay ARTHUR BRIsBANK--l
tcssyr,sht issiJ
Ten thousand yard masters will
not strike and advise fellow work
srs TO call the strike off before
public opinion overwhelms you"
No doubt public opinion will play
IN important part In this strike.
Afssr . big war, heavy taxes. bond
drives, with i've millions idle and
svsrybody worried, the public Is
not patient shout another war
Industrial inside our bordsu-A
war that would threaten what 10
lsft Of prosperity and endanger the
Jobs Of more than half the men
sttIl 1T work.
The stock market does not be-
hsve that q serious strike Is COM
ing. Railroad shares were up yes
terday and others, including oil.
Why, nobody knows; but the stock
exchange seems usually wiss about
coming events. perhaps because 1t
looks at situations cold-bloodedly.
One thing is certain: there
should be reasonable time for dis
eussion and Government mediation
before, strikes are started and end
no one knows where.
In 1914 if the wars beginning
had been postponed for three
months 1t never would have hap
pened. What nation, beaten OF
conqueror, doesn't wish now the
postponement had occurred?
The other day . policeman
threw his wife into the river; he
is in Jail for life. Now another
young man Of police training
throws himself into the river be-
cause some young woman didn't
like him. We arc queer human be-
ings. killing others and ourselves
on impulse, not even one per cent
developed. The interesting thing
about Carl Bates, former police
man, who writes habitual notes to
his mother. is that he Is q man.
"Men have died and worms have
eaten them, but not for love-" says
Shakespeare, and generally that
IL true.
For one young man that kills
himself on account Of a girl, twen-
ty-fivs girls kill themselves on &C
count Of some young man-not
worth It.
Each feels that life is not worth
while II some particular little fish
Rets Off the hook. -,
Have you noticed how plain
u, simply, n,sn write IN facing
dsAthf Nothing could be sim
plar than ITO be or not to be,
{hat 10 the question:" except
Cari's farewell TO his mother:
"Well, Mamma, guess l can't
stand 1t any longer. For when
I came home Margaret had LETT.
Where she went / don't know,
but ! am done with this world.
Mamma, you will find me In the
river near the bridge. l will
n,>et Won in the other world"
:. Lloyd George, who knows how
20 get at things, Is asking Tor
sirSntic credits to help lack OF
employment, and says positively,
"No Briton shall starve." The
war Is to blame, says Lloyd
George; friendship between ma
tons. revival of power to buy
from each other will alone solve
the problem. He realizes that
IRE plan to kill off the defeated
viii not work profitably.
In five years this stupid earth
snent on war, killing and de-
sroyinR more than three hun
dred thousand millions Of dol
lars. II q man spent ten times
his yearly revenue III one ur uhA
en-. sn1urderous debauch, he would
have to save and suffer for some
time. That is what the world
must do. May it be warned
aSainst similar debauches In fu-
tnre.
The most interesting lady in
the days news - she's dead
now--is Miss Caroline Even.
She leaves her entire fortune of
$40, 600 to supply milk for the
cats Of the world. She could
not bear to think Of any kitten
drowned, or any cat hungry
kind-hearted lady.
BUT II every kitten lived and
without interference raised its
iittle family this world would
soon be a solid mass of cats and
kjttans; no room on 1t for kind
MiSs Ewen-they would eat her.
Once when rulers made a
treaty. each would sign his name
1. hiood To show he meant II.