The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-28


young decided not merely to work
Tor money, but also to let money
work for me-" He did it, and is
very solvent.
In Auburn State prison lives a
fat girl baby named Gloria Odell.
She had little Christmas tree this
year, is well and happy, because
, she Is toith her mother. That
mother helped the father to mur-
der a man that had wronged the
mother in her girlhood. The father
WAS executed. The mother is in Jail
for twenty years.
Next Christmas the girl baby
will be out of prison. The law
does not allow q child more than
two years old to stay in prison,
and the little girls next Christmas
will be spent in public institu-
tion. She will not be as fat or as
happy next Christmas as she is
now. The Christmas after that
will be uncertain; the child may
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The prison baby is not wasting
her life. On Christmas Day all
the women convicts paraded past
her. Some cried; all wished her
Merry Christmas. She may
have done as much good on Christ
mas Day as any free man or
woman.
What do you think Of the law
that will put her in an institu-
tion, which is another prison, TAX
ing her from the mother that
would care for her better than
anyone else? ~,
To sentence q baby to separa-
tion from its mother is severe. 1t
could not stay in prison twenty
years, of course. Early death, or
colorless life in an institution, is
the truly "civilized" alternative.
Fred Stone. in his entertaining
"Tip-Top," is told that "Au Re
voir" means "good-by" in French.
"Well," says he, wood alcohol.
That means good-by in any Ian
guage."
That delights the audience, but
It is something more than. wit
ticism in our prohibition country.
Frank Tiffany bought half pint
of "whiskey" on Christmas Day
and divided the half pint with
his brother John. Yesterday both
were dead. 1t was "good-by" for
them.
Prohibitionists officially ask
newspapers and theaters to sup
press Jokes referring to prohi-
pition. Will the prohibition di-
rectors first make less of joke
Of prohibition?
One of the best prohibition
foxes is the use of the prohibition
club over timid Congressman,
compelling them to forbid doc
tors prescribing beer for their
patients, while allowing whiskey
AS much as the doctors choose.
Beer Is a food, whiskey is
poison. The kind Of prohibi-
tion that allows whiskey and for
bids beer will remain a joke.
"What is courage?" Is it as
courageous to ride in the charge
at Balaklava, with trumpets
blowing and thousands looking
on, as to jump into the sea
after friend, with no one look
ing on? .
Howard B. Cross, doctor of
the Rockefeller Institute, repre-
sents real courage and will live
as a hero, whatever may happen
to others.
He went to Mexico to study and
fight yellow fever at Tuxtepec,
where fever exists all the year
round. Yesterday he died of
yellow fever. When he went
to do the work, there were no
bands playing, no uniforms, no
medals or high reward. He
knew it was probable that he
would die. "Greater love hath
no man than this, that he lay
down his life for his friend"
So it is written, and dying to
help that vague thing, the
"human race" requires a very
Special klnu VI Couids
That fine fighting Italian,
General Diaz, is made "Duke Of
Victory" The name, taken from
town and commune near
Venice, where Diaz broke the
Austrian advance, is well chosen
by the Italian king.
Catherine of Russia chose less
happily when she wanted to
honor a little boy from whose
arm was taken the smallpox
virus with which the empress
was inoculated. She named him
"Duke of Small Pox," and until
recently, at least, the title still
existed-a name not easy to live
with. There is a great deal in