The Washington times., 1921-01-13
Today
We Lose Prestige.
Women and Secrets.
How Much Is Too Much?
Good NeWs-TW0 Kinds.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANl
Copyright. IssID


sad-"America has lost prestige
In European eyes"
Yes. indeed, and when the sailor
from the ship begins to sober up
puts the remainder or his bank
roll" In his pocket. and starts TO
walk out OF the door, he loses
prestige" in the eyes OF the resort
owner. II this nation would start,
under proper leadership. another
magnificent squandering debauch,
open wide it's pocketbook, and say
TO Europe, Wont you please ac-
cept a few more billions" all our
prestige would come back.
A Supreme Court justice. finding
six women In his grand jury. warns
them solemnly that they must Keep
all transactions secret.
This may be a hardship upon
the women" the Judge remarked.
Not more than upon men. Every
reporter can tell the learned judge
how simple it is to get everything
that happened from Legislators
meeting in secret session. And
information from masculine grand
jurors is not unheard o.
The theory that women cannot
keep a secret is as old and foolish
as the theory that Basilisk could
kill with look of his eye, or that
rubbing it with garlic would in
crease the strength Of a magnet.
Women had to learn to keep
secrets to protect their children
and themselves from the brutality
Of primitive husbands. 1t would
surprise some gentlemen to know
that secrets are locked up perma-
nently in the lady babbling beside
them.
What is money? How much Is
too much? What would be REAL
"inflation?" You read that Eng
land is on a paper, not a gold,
basis because she has not enough
gold to take care Of the notes she
is printing. You are told that Ger
many is ruined and must stay
ruined because she has been print
ing billions OF paper marks.
Here are facts about the amount
Of money in the United States
actually in circulation. The in
crease during the last year WAS
1894 for each person. The total
amounts to exactly $59.l2 per
capita.
In other words, il all the money
in the United States were evenly
divided, every man, woman. and
child would have $59.12. You can
see that THAT is not imitation.
In slave days a sound black man
was worth at least one thousand
dollars. You could get that for
him in cash. The cash available
in the United States for every man,
woman, and child is about 8 per
cent Of the. cash value OF an av-
erage black slave.
II we had a circulation OF thou
sand dollars for every full-grown
man and woman. that really
wouldn't be imitation; it would be
like a mortgage Of a hundred doi-
lars on house worth five hundred
dollars. Initiating money means
trouble, for 1t unbalances condi-
tions and puts up prices. But 1t
doesn't necessarily mean hopeless
bankruptcy.
Sound bankers" would call you
a financial anarchist if you advised
printing more money in this coun-
try and using it to pay Government
debts instead of putting out Gov
ernment loans at 6 per cent. At
the same time, if the Government
did issue two or three more billions
of currency, those banks would
take it quickly enough, KNOW
ING THAT 1T is GOOD.
Two pieces of good news, one
about the American army in Ger
many, now doing nothing, spend
ing daily millions taken from peo-
Pile half starved; the other about
blackberries.
The American army in Germany
is to be reduced from $1,000 to
5000 now. Mr.. Harding will prob
ably reduce 1t from 5000 to moth
ing when he comes in.
The blackberry news tells OF a
variety four times as large as the
biggest cultivated American black
berry, discovered in Colombia by
an American scientist. If this
uper-blackberry bush thrives in
the United States. the discovery
will be as valuable to this coun-
try as were to Rome the fruit
trees, hitherto unknown, that
Lucullus brought from his wars
in Asia.
1t is curious that in some Euro
pean countries, including France,
blackberries are looked upon as
uneatable, and allowed to go to
waste. 1t was so, not many years
ago, with tomatoes in this coun-
try. They were called love
apples" Nobody ate them. They
we're said to be poisonous. Now
the juice OF stewed tomatoes is
given to infants to supply them
with "vitamines," 90 necessary TO
life.
Every day the same news, more
men out of work, more wage cuts.
Eour fhousand mon arc Iocked ont