The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-07

Jerusaiem-Caravan City.
4 Good Poem Coming.
Protecting High Prices.
About Disarmament.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE :
(Copyrtxht. iS2i.)

Lord Reading, a Jew, for some
time lord chancellor Of England,
is to be viceroy Of India. The
place is given to him because
there is discomfort and trouble in
India, and they want someone that
can manage.
In q corner Of Asia, off to the
West, on a trade route followed
by caravans, there was a little
city called Jerusalem and little
nation called Judea. Both were
considered 80 unimportant that
they are mentioned scarcely, II at
all, on the monuments OF great
Egypt next door.
One man from that little city
Of the caravan route, Disraeli,
first made himself prime minister
Of England and then made an
English woman, or rather a Ger
man-English woman, Queen Vic
toria, Empress Of India.
Now Reading, another man
from the little city of the cara
vans, will go to rule India. No
wonder the Jewish people consid-
er themselves quite solemnly "the
chosen people," They are chosen
quite often when anything import
ant is to be done.
Italy allows d'Annunzio to be
driven from Fiume, although 1t Is
thanks to d'Annunzios courage
and genius that Italy retains, par
TALLY, her place in the Adriatic.
The next blow is the robbery Of
d'Annunzio by his own legionnaires.
They steal some millions Of lire
and the poets private papers. No
wonder that the lighting poet is
disgusted with the human race.
In the secret retreat to which he
has gone, he ought to write a first
class poem.
Disappointment has a good ef-
feet on Italian poets. You know
that Dante wrote his great work
only after life had proved utterly
and bitterly disappointing. Bea-
trice married another, his native
city put price on his head, and
he even had to hold out his hand
to beg for bread. That made him,
with two exceptions, the worlds
greatest poet.
D'Annunzio may come back from
MS retirement with some first-class
copy. Robbed by his own men, he
can sympathiZe with the noble
hearted Persian monarch that
Nexander would have spared and
that his own treacherous creatures
murdered in their flight.
Put not you faith in princes
nor any child of man" Princes,
or ordinary common people. it is
about the same-9O per cent are
ungrateful and treacherous. That,
of course, Is no excuse for. not doing
your best to help the good 10 per
cent.
Low prices or high prices, the
country needs crops. To grow
them farmers must have potash
for fertilizers. Germany has, and
is anxious to sell, vast quantities
of potash. An American combine
is operating in Europe to buy pot
ash as cheaply as it can, and sell
it here for as high price as pos
sible.
Germans wanted to come here
and sell direct at low prices to
farmers and others. Passports
are refused, they are not allowed
to enter the United States. This
means more expensive fertilizer
for farmers, higher prices for
food, prosperity for the potash
combine.
1t is on a par with the high in
telligence that sends Russian gold
and Russian trade to England, re-
fusing to have either here. Fortu-
nately, some Of the nonsense will
end about March 4.
You realize that business over
the whole world really is slowing
down when you read of the Gu
nard and White Star lines with
drawing and laying up their big
gest passenger ships for lack of
passengers. A few weeks ago the
difficulty was to find room on
any ship.
Estimable Quakers of Penn
sylvania, real believers in peace,
urge Mr.. Harding to lead in
worldwide reduction Of arma-
ments. Mr.. Harding might remind
the Quakers that they have lived
peaceful, and secure in their
property, ready to turn the other
cheek, not because villainy re-
spects their feelings. but because
those that are not Quakers have
maintained adequate police forces
to protect Quakers and others.
II is well known that France
will not reduce her army. She
means to be ready at any moment
to fight Germany. We know by
experience what happens when
France fights Germany. We are
drawn in when submarines are
sent out. Where should we be
with no navy, or an inadequate
navy, if France and Germany
made up their minds to start fight
ine again?
Honorable Okuma, of Japan,