The Washington times., 1921-02-08

~~~ oAASO0 OlRtOo llAOuCy 0CCI0S0Ay
: man that has proved he knows
how to take care OF money, bor-
row 1t at low interest. lend IL at
high interest, and keep 1t always
probably busy?
Mr.. Harding must be amused by
the amount Of kind advice he gets
from the World, the New York
Times, and other papers that did
their best (which wasn't much)
to prevent his election, Mr.. Hard
ing might well say to those earn
est advisers: $50 tell 1t to Mr..
Cox. He has time to listen"
They are killing babies in China
by the hundreds to save them from
the agony Of starvation. In Aus
tralia and New Zealand, the Ar
gentine and the, United States
there are great quantities of
wheat, meat, and other foods
stored up, with inadequate de-
| mand.
The Government of the United
States is advertising canned foods
at great bargains. And in China
they throw the babies (girl babies
first) into the water or smother
them with a hand over the mouth
and nose. The poor little yellow
babies, what sort of report do
they make about this earth when
they appear before the throne Of
judgment? -,
In the United States they are
trying to summon up courage to
kill hopeless maniacs that can
! never recover. To the State in
sane asylum, Hartford, Conn,
lawmakers were taken to see
poor creature, fifty years old, .
man Of great size and strength,
7 handcuffed, chained to an iron bed,
ID q padded cell, fAf removed from
other inmates. 4, 4 ~. !.
For ave years this, man hes
never been released from Ids
chains. even for moment, except
once in q month, when Ahree
strong guards hold him while an
other washes him. Such men. In
durable. should be put out of their
misery, the lawmakers think, but
the lawmakers hesitate.
The soul is a mysterious thing,
they say; how do we know that it
isn't improving itself considerably
as 1t thrashes around in a maniac's'
brain? Anyhow, you CANT take
the responsibility of sending that
soul on its long journey.
quickly enough. you viii notice,
when we, are quite SURE that the
soul has injured us. We. lynch II
sometimes, hang or shoot IT or
electrocute II for murder or
treason. But we can't quite make
up our minds to set 1t free when
its Body Is hopelessly diseased.
Careful investigation in Ne
braska shows that the wife of the
average farmer earns $4,000.
-Four thousand and four dollars
is a considerable sum. The farm
er's wife will be pleased, although
she doesn't get it, nor half, nor q
quarter OF it.
However, il she doesn't get the
money that she earns, the farmers
wife does not go insane as often as
she used to-. The telephone, which
makes it possible for her on
party wire to know what her
neighbor is saying and to call up
her married daughter, has saved
many q woman from insanity.
The rural free delivery that
brings the local paper and the well
come mail order catalogue, with
dress, "just like the one that Mrs.
Vanderbilt wears" and, above all,
the automobile, that gives wings
to the family, has greatly cut
down insanity among farmers
wives.
That is something while the
wives wait to get what they really
earn.
George Bernard Shaw surprised
people by saying that Ireland
would fight England with bombs,
! poison gaA, mines, and submarines.
Poison gas and submarines have
not yet been used. But automo-
bilcs carrying English soldiers
have been destroyed by mines hid
den in the road. One attack has
bsen made from the air by fly
ing machine. Ever since the in
vention of powder and bullets 1t
has become more and more diff
cult TO control human beings or to
use force successfullv.
IL is not necessary to 60 to Ire
land, unfortunately, in order to
and unpleasant lighting. There is
a very good imitation Of civil war
in West virgipie. Mr.. Lane re-
ports for Mr.. Lamont's. New York
Evening Post some very interest
ing conditions.
"All kinds OF weapons are used
on both sides" The owners Of
lconiinusd on Pass l. Column -