The Washington times., 1921-04-01


Sarah Bernhardt is seventy-six'
years old. Her right leg was am
putated six years ago. Next week
she appears in London as "Daniel,"
. love-sick boy of twenty five, in a
1K3w play. She will 60 from Paris
to London by flying machine.
That is what you may call defy
ing time. danger, and the surgeon.
Foolish men that sometimes ask
whether women are as brave as
they will please consider the case
Of the great Jewish actress.
The University of Chicago, its
financial prosperity created by the
Rockefellers, will spend fifteen
millions for a new building, in
eluding one million and half for
NJ Rockefeller chapel. to be paid
Tor out of ten million dollar gift
" Mr.. Rockefeller, recently made.
In those buildings, with metal
] Protected with paint that won't
rust, foundations of almost perpet-
ual concrete, what will be taught!
What will be preached in that
Rockefeller chapel two hundred or
three hundred years hence? It
would surprise us all to come back
I and hear. How big win Chicago
! be, around that university, three
bu1AdrAA j years : hence1 BIGGER.
/ undoubtedly, than any other city
in the world. But ss the Tying
machine dseeleps, t1kinG l5tfn1a1
beines to their houses on the
mcuntain tops IN few minutes,
will there be any cities-anything
but great Office buildings and fac
tories Of steel and glass which the
flying men and women will visit
for few hours each day, as the
sea gulls visit their fishing
grounds and fly home to the cliffs?
Foolish Charles, Of Austria
Hungary. He has learned that
empires are like fortunes. A fool
may inherit, manage it, and lose
one. It takes more than fool to
get it back. ...
He was boarding comfortably in
Switzerland when they told him
'shis people were eagerly awaiting
his return to power" Starved,
bankrupt, looted, and mutilated,
"his people" were awaiting. him
about as eagerly as a boy awaits
his castor oil. So Charles went to
Budapest. - ,..
The farmers demanded a law to
keep out all Hapsburgs. The rul-
ing premier, Horthy. was cold
and would not be sent for. Charles
called on him, gave him the high
est military decoration, the cross
Of Maria Theresa
But that royal trick has lost its
power since Napoleon, inventing
the Legion Of Honor. could say:
~I1l pin that red ribbon on q rabid
Republican and make him q good
Imperialist." The only person ex-
cited about a red ribbon now is
some New York banker, who shiv-
ers with delight and thinks It
means something. .
One month from this day, May
1, will be labor day In Europe. The
returns will tell us how European
labor is feeling.
In England. labor, even now, is
not feeling peaceful. Coal miners
announce their greatest strike and
. new feature. They will take
out the pump man. allowing mines
TO be filled and ruined. II they
do not change their minds, many
mines will be forever useless,
never reopened, and many miners
will have to learn another trade.
Lloyd George faces a situation
IN which British labor may do to
England what Germans were un-
able to do.
Viviani, able Frencman. is in
America to learn what Harding
will do about things in general.
What he will be told was pub
lished in this column few days
before President Har riding was in
augurated.
The first thing is to SCRAP"
not the League Of Nations. but the
Versailles treaty, and make a new
treaty based on common sense and
the worlds needs, not merely on
intense hatred following a war.
The league Europe would scrap
willingly, for it means nothing
without Uncle Sans pocketbook
and men. But the treaty is diff
ferent: II means that the French
and English for fifty or a hundred
years can take every dollar a. fast
as the Germans earn Il