The Washington times., 1921-01-12
Today
Not Too Much Thrift.
lenin P0ls0ned2
Temperamental Blondes.
More Wage Cutting.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. Is2lD

The governor of the State OF
New York has set aside the week
of January II as Thrift Week" In
memory of Benjamin Franklin,
born January II, two hundred and
fifteen years ago.
One of a poor family Of seven
teen children, Of whom he was
the fifteenth, Franklin naturally
had thrift impressed upon him.
The fact that he was fifteenth,
by the way, ought to interest advo,
Gates Of "birth control" 1t would
have been a sad thing for the
United States had Franklln's
mother decided to stop with her
fourteenth child. This nation
would have lost some excellent ad-
vice from Poor Richard and
first-class worker for freedom.
Much amplification Of Shake
speare's neither a borrower nor
a lender be" was Franklin's SOL
emn advice. Thrift weeks are
named after him, and he is praised.
But what would happen II each
man decided to be neither bor-
rover nor q lender" and il every
man decided to make saving his
chief business.
Stores would close, industries
would die out, and we should go
back to the day when each had
something hidden and nobody had
much.
Personal thrift is a very good
thing for the individual. Universal
thrift would be calamity.
The big thing about Franklin
was not his saving of a little
money or his wise advice about It,
but his brain, that, in the words
, of Mirabeau, "To the advantage
Of mankind, comprising in his
mind the Heavens and the Earth,
was able to restrain alike thunder
bolts and tyrants."
The man who will show this
Government and this nation how
to SPEND MONEY to solve the
problem of unemployment will do
a great deal more than any thrift
teacher.
The Jewish News Bureau, usually
we'll informed, says Lenin is seri-
ously i'll, and three German spe-
cialists have been summoned from
Berlin to look after him. They
tried shooting Lenin two or three
times without success. although
they hit him once. This attack
might mean poison. Many power
full men have died Of poison in
Russia.
If the three German specialists
cure Lenin, what will he do for
them, besides giving them some Of
. the confscatedl RomanQff gold?
4 When Empress Catherine was
vaccinated long ago. she showed
her gratitude by making the little
boy from whose arm her supply
of vaccine was taken Duke of
Smallpox" The title still existed
not long ago.
DR.. Augustine of Chicago, presi-
dent of the optometric association,
says that "temperamental blondes"
can be soothed by dark glasses.
Our climate excites them, says the
doctor, and makes them wild.
A more practical suggestion
would be give the temperamental
blonde, or brunette, some work
that would really interest her."
What men foolishly call "a tenn
peramental woman" is simply an
imitation of driving wheel whirl-
ing around without any belt fas-
tened to it and nothing to pull.
Men keep women idle, then blame
them for being wild. Keep good
horse idle and he'll kick down his
stall.
That Catherine Of Russia, as a
young German princess, was a
temperamental blonde. When she
was harnessed a Empress to the
Russian machine she was a won
derfully good worker, in spite of
her Poniatowski and other slips.
The boxing commission of Mas
sachusetts forbids wearing the
American flag as part of the cos
tune of prize fighters. That is a
step in the right direction. An
American flag stained with the
blood of a diseased, army-dodg-
ing prize fighter, is stained with
the wrong kind of blood. The
next step should be to stop prize
fighting.
1t might be worth while for
President Wilson to ask why his
subordinates have allowed a negro
prize fighter, Johnson, to be made
hero in a Federal prison, "enter-
tanning" the convicts with his box
ing exhibitions and sending them
from prison convinced that the
United States, itself, admired the
half civilized brute that can knock
another unconscious.
There is a movement in Ger
many "to destroy the republic and
restore the government by the
Hohenzollern party" Those that
know little think this "a very seri-
Gus menace for Germany" A
similar organization, seeking to
bring back some Of the assorted
French "divine rights" has been