The Washington times., 1921-08-23

The President Responsible.
The Worse Vice.
Warning to Women.
Let the indians Dance.
|, ARTHUR BRISBANE

the Army and Navy, will not
allow any seasoned army or
navy man to persuade him that
air fighting is not to rule the
world, or that the battleship
still leads.
When the locomotive came,
authorities" on stage coaches
said the stage coach would Al
ways be the backbone of trans
portation. They judged the loco
motive as intelligently as our
army and navy men Judge the
airplane.
President Harding will bear in
mind that great steel, shipping,
and armor plate companies de-
pend on battleship building.
They have millions to convince
experts" that the flier is no
real menace to. the battleship.
General Pershing, saying cssu-
uAlly that a flier, with one
bomb, can destroy any battle
ship now existing, tells the story
that the President wants.
He knows that Japan is the
biggest buyer of flying ships to-
day and the eager employer Of Eu-
ropean expert flicrs. And the
President knows that HE will
be held responsible, not the
naval gentlemen that like to
strut and be saluted on the bat
tleship quarterback.
Bertelli, Universal Service
correspondent, sends enlighten-
ing information from Deauville,
French resort for much
gambling, foolishness, and lit
tie bathing.
To get through the day proper
ly, women require ten costumes,
including one with breeches of
tweed cloth-mportant to poor,
bounded DR.. Mary Walker. She
needed q special act of Congress to
legalize her trousers. The other
nine costumes, which the more
foolish American women believe
they must wear, keep Paris dress
makers going. However, wOman's
foolishness is mans fault. With
no share in public affairs she had
to do something.
Next to dressing, the principal
occupation at Deauville is heavy
The gamblers all su-
perstitious-think it helps them
win IL they throw into the water
one fifth Of their gambling chips.
That goes back to spilling wine
On the ground in horror Of Bacchus.
Since gamblers throw away all
their time, most of their energy,
and their honor to boot, as rule,
they might as we'll make it COM
plete by throwing a little money
away.
Make your boys know that Of
all vices. gambling is worst. 1t
has the disadvantages of all other
vices, with the additional disad-
vantage of making men dishonest.
Next to the drug habit, gambling
is hardest to cure.
Another proof-though, none is
the wisdom Of Provi-
dence. French doctors prove by
statistics that alcohol and cigarette
smoking cause mustache and beard
to grow on a woman's face. Eleven
per cent of women in French hos
pitals have abnormally heavy mus
taches, 27 per cert of women in in
sane asylums have both beard and
-
You should know that women
have on the face as many hairs as
men, but usually the face hairs
are so fine as to be hardly visible.
Smoking to excess-and women
rarely smoke otherwise-makes
the face hairs thick.
This news will reform many
smoking ladies that would pay
little attention to moralizing. To
a mustache- he-woman would
do anything, and why is mys-
terry. For in Spain and other i'm
portant countries mustache not
too thick is supposed to increase
female beauty.
Some men in America must
think that a dangling, smelling
cigrette increases female lowell
ness, for they encourage their
wives to smoke.
No. woman likes cigarettes natu-
rally. Nature impels her to keep
her blood clear and thus give the
children at least half chance.
That is why men, through history,
have had practically a monopoly
of drunkenness, although woman's
harder life has given her ten times
as good an excuse ror drinking.
Jim Wright, Tom Arrow, Domi-
nick Longlow, Sioux Indians are
a committee to decide about giving
up the old Indian dances-thssun
dance. ghost dance, rain dance, etc.
The Indians have joined the Prot
estant Episcopal Church, some
have also bought top hats, and all