The Washington times., 1921-04-16
WARREN G. HARDING.

a good example to others.
The Presidents check has been
forwarded to the Equitable Trust
Company, Wall Street, New York
city. A contribution to the Marie
Curie radium fund is q contribu-
tion to science.
y. And you honor all women in cor
tributing to fund that will enable
Marie Curie, a true scientist. to
continue her experiments with
radium.
The big telephone company.
known for short on the ticker"
as "Am. T. and t." has gone per-
manently on 9 per cent dividend
basis. The president Of the big
telephone company announces cas-
ually that the company could
easily have paid "nine per cent
at any time during the past ten
years." This surprises an innocent
kpublic, been taught that frequent
increases in telephone rates were
caused by the company's poverty.
"A man is found living in Jersey
City with two wives. The first,
mother of two children, was forced
to permit the presence Of the sec
ond. The alternative was losing
her husband and support for her
children.
This shocks the world. which
is encouraging. We are not far
from the time when every man
could have as many wives as he
could feed. Let US hope we are
still far from the day mentioned
in the Bible when "seven women
shall lay hold upon one man."
Horrified at the brutal charac-
ter of the man who brought new
wife to live with the old one, you
turn for relief to the resourceful-
ness of the young lady living at
Grand Island, Nebraska.
She, like yourself, had read the
sad story of Enoch Arden. She
felt sorry for poor Enoch, who
kSsayed around and said nothing,
She heard that her husband was
killed in France, and married
another gentleman. Then her sol!
dier husband came back. How did
She solve the problem?
She eloped with a third man,
and left the two Enochs to talk it
over and comfort each ether. As
Caruso says, LA Donna Mobile" :"
1t seems that Henry Ford was
not quite "busted" and ready to
have his bones picked by the money
lenders, after all. The other day
he paid off in New York city
twenty-four millions and half,
all that he owed, and some of IT
before it was due.
Encouraging news for those that
believe it pays to give value.
The British ''triple alliance"
made up Of three great groups OF
workers, is temporarily disrupted.
The great strike is to be at most
only miners strike. That would
be bad enough, but Lloyd Georges
extraordinary capacity for COM
| promising at the right moment
may prevent that.
Here in the United States the
railroad owners are planning to
save three hundrcl million dollars
a year by cutting wages, which
means taking three hundred mil
lions a year from pockets of work
men who really do something for
the railroads and handing the
money over to stockholders. pri-
vate individuals, who do nothing
for the railroad excep: draw divi-
dends, when there are dividends.
That couldn't be done to millions of
workmen in any other country
without some emp1atic protest. it
means that labor in this country
is not intelligently led.
A girl, sixteen, is sentenced to
70 back to Spain, whence she
came as q stowaway. She Is des-
perately anxious to stay in this
country and threatens to starve
herself to death IL forced to leave.
She paid a sailor $40 francs for
permission to hide on the ship.
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young woman possesses would
make an excellent wife for some
young American, able, but in need
of producing. She ought to stay
In this country and have a chance.
+, The first little rift comes in the
Republican lutte with the attack
by Senator johnson and the PRO
gressives" on the Colombia treaty.
How far will that "rift" spread?
The average American will, with
Senator Johnson, find II difficult to
understand why this country
should be called upon to pay mil
lions of dollars to Colombia for
the privilege of putting her on
the map" to use the United States
expression. or for the privilege of
spending hundreds of millions of
dollars to increase the prosperity
of Colombia. the value of every
foot OF land in Colombia, and to
drive yellow fever and other dis
eases away from Colombia.
II was bad enough to build the
Panama Canal and be told that