The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-17


With the ticker will have trouble
enough without panics cooked up
10 order.
In her latest interview, Mrs.
Etillman. who is doing for Wall
Street what Herodotus did for an
tiquity, petted q Jersey eok be-
longing to a lawyer, tied q ban
dana handkerchief around her
bobbed hair, and said:
"Some women's love is CONNER
.eialized and their affections influ-
enced by the size of an emerald.
Men of money are always flattered
and their vanity always responds
to flattery."
There the lady spoke wisely, but
she was mistaken when she said:
@Men's wives never flatter them"
Fiattery of husbands is to married
life what ballbearings are to auto
mobiles.
1t would amaze the world to
learn how many bald, pale-faced
nervous little American male
wrecks live happy because their
wives persuade them that each is
combination of Antinous, Adonis.
and Hercules.
2 Mrs. Stillman thus describes the
lady who lured her husband: "Oh,
you know, she is one of those wom-
en- who believe in hypnotism, naes-
merism, and ghosts and 1carries
rabbits foot for luck, and all
that"
All that is interesting, but.merc
interesting is the intensely int'-
mate knowledge that each lady in
A triangle seems to have OF the
other lady in the triangle. When
the lady OF the houseboat "Mod-
esty" brings her contribution 70
American history, you'll be sur
prised land SO will Mrs. Stillman)
at her Information.
The Northern Pacific railroad
didn't earn enough money, so it
"dips into surplus to pay diyi-
dend,p as the stock report has it.
When you "dip" into your capi-
tai 70 pay a dividend that hasn't
been earned, to stockholders that
do no work for the railroad, that
Is respectable "high finance" But
If you suggest dipping into capital
to pay workmen money that they
have earned, that is ''vile social
isn,' or at the very least, bad
business y'
The horse. is vanishing, out Of
date, doesn't pay. 1t is the day
of machines, slaves that work
without suffering, do not eat,
sleep, or need attention when idle.
In all London and the five coun-
ties adjoining these are fewer
than 100000 horses. In Mesopo-
tamia, far off, where civilization
started between the Tigris and the
tEuphrates, when the English were
living in. swamps, with their
stomachs painted blue, or not liv-
ing at all, the British Empire now
owns $4,000 heavy draft horses.
Those horses were taken there
to fight when nobody cared how
much money was spent. Now,
their usefulness past, they will be
Bput to death because it would not
pay to bring them back to England
and because natives would treat
them too cruelty, starving them in
!. the deserts IL they were left to the
natives. Thirty thousand fine
horses not worth shipping. Who
Z would have thought it twenty five
years ago?
Wise DR.. Hopkins, at the Uni
/, versity of Pennsylvania COM
: mencement. says: Education is
the only thing that will curb dis
content"
Men educated know that our
chief discomfort should be with
ourselves. They know that bloody
revolution is only a symptom, no
cure for anything. The "legisla-
i've nail, CouftrpoHi, anu pfisoH'
as DR.. Hopkins says, are power
less to cure evils. No laws would
make savages in the Congo any
thing but savages. But education,
psipht change them u, feto thou
sand years as Il has changed .peo-
pie here,
II men could be encouraged TO
read and think, education made in
teresting and REAL, what is COM
monty called discomfort" the ig-
norance that breaks out into vio-
lence. would cease TO worry civili-
cation.
The education, needless to saw.
should begin at the TOP, with prof
iteers. exploiters Of labor. the mo-
nopolists, great corporation heads
that stupidity do all they can 10
destroy a system so profitable TO
hem