The Washington times., 1921-11-12
Today
TO BE FORGOTTEN. How
Soon?
Harding's Voice or None.
Columbus Jewish Blood.
How 10 Use a Tractor.
ARTHUR BRISBI
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The unknown dead soldier Is
buried with becoming solemnity
Let US hope the lesson he teaches
will not be forgotten as quickly
as We're his living comrades. To
them much was promised. and for
them nothing done.
The best Armistice Day speech.
seven words, came from Byng,
governor-general of Canada:
HONOR THE DEAD BY
HELPING THE LlVING"
Senator's might write that on
their cuffs the next time the sol
dier bonus comes up.
President Harding, denouncing
war, says "there must be a COM
manding voice." Quite true, and
unless 1t be his voice there will
be no voice.
What frightens nations in their
war preparations? Is it decency.
hatred, or bloodshed? No. but
fear of bankruptcy.
Who has the money? This
country. The others owe us ten
thousand millions. They want us
to wipe off the debt, not that
they ever expect to pay, probably.
but because with nothing owing"
it would sound more reasonable
to ask. "When can you make us
another loan?"
President Harding's must be
the commanding voice. 1t might
say: "I1l not wipe out your
debts, or scale them down. or in
any way help you to feel that
your decks are cleared for more
war spending.
"The way to discourage vice or
war is to make it expensive. Pay
the ten thousand millions you
owe me first of all. That will
help you to realize that war is
costly. And while you are pay
ing that money you will not be
so ardently inclined to spend for
more wars"
At the moment, unfortunately,
of all the powers gathered at
Washington only one, the United
States, has a definite program.
We want nothing from the
others; we only ask plaintively,
"For Heavens sake, won't you
cease starting new wars, COM
pelling US to spend billions get
ting ready for a fight that we do
not want?"
Every nation wants something
from us. What is wanted first of
all is a cancellation of ten thou
sand million dollars owed by
Europe to the United States.
The very nations, by the way,
that are pleading poverty as an
excuse for not paying US are
nations fighting and starving Rus
sia, because she cannot possibly
nav what she owes, and taking
the last dollar from Germany,
regardless of the fact that 1T
must mean German national
neutrality-suspicious. greater world
confusion.
1t was suggested here that
Henry Ford should be interested
in the fact that Christopher CO.
lumbus had Jewish blood in his
veins, and that his trip to Amer
lea was financed largely by Jews.
Some readers ask authority for
the statement. One, evidently a
Christian, writes: "When you say
that Christopher Columbus had
Jewish blood you insult my re-
ligion."
That complaint is interesting.
If the Creator of the world
thought a Jewish maiden good
enough to be the mother of His
own Son, He might well select a
Jewess to be mother of Christie
pher Columbus.
If interested, read a book pub
lished by Longmans, Green q Co.
called christopher Columbus and
the Participation of the Jews in
the Spanish and Portuguese Dis
coveries." The principal Jewish
contributor to Columbus expenses
(see page II of the book) was Luis
de Santangel. He was a Jew and
treasurer general of Aragon.
On page "a you read that he
told the queen it was not necessary
for her to pledge her jewels; he
would supply the money necessary
for the expedition. Authorities for
the statement were given. SAINT
angel had to advance money of his
own, for the treasury of Aragon
was empty because of war with
the Moors.
Counties in Kansas compete as
to which shall show the biggest
increase in tractors purchased dur
ing the year. Use of tractors, in
stead of horses, means economy,
efficiency, time saving for the
farmer, less need of hired labor.
You read in the excellently
edited Herald, of Armstrong, Mo-,
that A. L. Miller, of that place,
fights intelligently the high cost
Of freight;
"When he wants coal he bitches