The Washington times., 1921-03-17

March ~ and Fighting.
Girls ARE All Right, But.
Forget Death, and Thrive.
Charity-You're Cold.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

Patrick was overthrowing Pagan
idois In Ireland and defying Irish
kings, some naked, except for .
bulls hide around the shoulders.
he eliminated the idols and the
snakes with them. He converted
and baptized the kings. several at
q time. II he could come back to
ireland today, his birthday, he
would be interested to find his
friends the Irish, whom he loved
truly, although he was not Irish,
defying an English king and fight
ing to overthrow the British gov
eminent as he overthrew the idols.
Mary Ross Potter, dean Of the
women professors at Northwestern
University, tells you not to worry
about young women Of today. She
says that in spite Of rouge, powder,
lipstick, and knees visible below
the skirt, the girl is "sweet, good,
and kind at heart" OF course
you can't destroy in one genera
ton what has been gradually per-
fected through five hundred thou
sand years.
But rouge, Gpstick, and the rest
ARE bad for THIS reason: they
take the place Of good compilations,
make 1t unnecessary for girls to
care for their natural complexions,
and. therefore, unnecessary to
think about their health.
That's bad for the next genera
tion. The baby won't get any
energy from the lipstick or the
rouge jar, and he would have got
much energy from red blood, of
which rouge takes the place.
Frank Marterilli, who lived in
Pennsylvania, was busy digging
his own grave. when he dropped
dead with the job half finished. It
is . mistake to think too much
about death, or when you will die,
or worry about it. Those that for
get death live longest. To believe
that dying is simply going to
sleep, to take a short rest, and
start working again somewhere in
. little while, is the best policy.
The mayor of Boston wanted to
Investigate the municipal lodging
house. He dressed in rags, slept
on a hard bed, free, was turned
out Of bed at o'clock and sent
to work at the woodpile. They
kept him there, saving, until 8,
then gave him breakfast-oatmeal,
bread, and acoifee-telling him he
had earned that by four hours
hard work.
At that rate citizen, tempo
rarily hard up, by just twelve
hours hard work, could earn three
insufficient meals. The mayor said
forty other n1An, sleeping and
saving wood beside him, were all
sobsf, no signs OF drsak. simply
poor and out of work.
You mustn't ask too much OF
human charity. but II man has
walked the streets all day looking
for work and lies down, tired and
discouraged, on a hard bed, would
it be too much to let him sleep a
little while after o'clock in the
morning? And wouldn't two hours
of wood-sawing be enough for
cup of coffee and some oatmeal
which cost about five cents. That
would be two and half cents per
hour for wood. sawjng-not ex-
cessive.
A farmer in Georgia discovered
that his taxable income was one
dollar. He owed the Government,
therefore, four cents. He paid the
Government one cent, notifying
the collector that he would pay In
four installments Of one cent each,
which Is his right.
Anybody who knows what the
farmers have gone through. with
high cost Of labor, seed, and fer
tilizer, and low prices for crops,
especially Southern cotton pro-
ducers, will know why that Georgia
farmer felt peevish about his 4
cent income tax.
The wonder is that he had such
a heavy income Tx. The average
farmer has a deficit and feels
quite Justly that the Government
owes him something. .
As important as anything you
will read in the news is the de-
scription Of small automobile six
feet long, exhibited at the radio
show in New York.
This automobile is run by s0ire-
less poUer. That is to say, the
wireless operator who never
touches the machine, starts it,
stops it, backs it, and steers it.
The next step will be to supply the
power, electric energy, without
wires. When that comes the flying
machine problem will be solved.
Machines will cross the continent,
picking up power from Niagara
and various other power stations
on the way.
Once it took what was called "a
cracked brain" to admit the possi-
bility of such a thing. Now it
takes q dull mind to deny it,
which Is progress.
President Harding, wisely, is
concentrating attention on build
ing up American trade outside the
United States. The first thing
.honld he tn initiate ENGLAND. al