The Washington times., 1921-03-19

Optimistic Lady.
The Presidents Problem.
lethal Death-Mo Eugenics.
Unrest Germ-Far-Flung.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrtght 1871

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BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright ls3i.)
The young lady that killed Mr..
Hamon. political boss Of Okla
noma, was acquitted picturesque
~. The foreman Of the jury put
ms arm around her and whispered.
she smiled and kissed him on
the cheek" That pretty scene
would have interested, the mur-
dered man. The foreman of the
jury says: 81 told her to go and
sin no more" First-class advice.
1t can be taken more on regu-
lar income. SO the young lady that
killed Hamon will now start suit
for share of the Hamon mil
lions"
You must give that young lady
credit for optimism. To shoot
man. then be acquitted, and then
start to get the money away from
the gentleman's widow, is q COM
plete program. Germany never
had a more complete plan than
that.
President Harding, they say"
Is considering an embargo on i'm
ports. No doubt. The West is
pressing for an embargo on wool.
hides, meat, butter, and other farm
products. Millions of pounds of
wool are waiting to come here, at
any price. II this market for wool
Is smashed. farmers won't raise
sheep. Then down goes the sup
ply of meat and up goes the cost
Of living.
So, perhaps the President Is
thinking about shutting out prod
ucts from foreign countries. II he
does, what about money that for
eign countries owe US? They can
only pay by selling goods and Civ
ing back to us the money they get
for their goods. If we say 1--WE
refuse to take your goods" they,
reply, Then you know perfectly
well we can't pay you what we
owe you"
Is 1t better to demoralize farm
ing and industry in the United
States by allowing Europe, Asia,
and Africa to flood this market,
or better to say good-by to the
ten thousand million dollars that
the allies owe us? That is the
difficult question.
Michigan has defeated "eugen-
les" bill. If it had become law
young people intending marriage
would furnish doctors certificate
as to. mental and physical qualifi-
cations. Michigan will allow ma
turc and Darwin's natural selec-
ton" to run things in the future
as in the past.
On the other hand, the State of
Nevada has passed law along the
line of what is called Modern
Thought" Criminals in Nevada
will no longer be hanged by the
neck until dead. They are to be
killed by lethal gas, as animals
are mercifully killed in the pound.
Into lethal chamber, presum-
ably padded, perhaps with chair
into which the criminal will be
strapped, the convicted murderer
is led. The room is Theoretically
sealed and the gas turned on.
The idea is to kill the man
"mercifully."
However, imagination hurts
more than blows. No one need be
told how much thinking about that
1ethal chamber and waiting for
the gas will hurt the criminal
certainly more than the familiar
rope with its quick jerk.
An uprising in the Congo region
is the latest unrest" news. Fifty
trading posts are burned, and the
black gentlemen are on the war
path. You will probably be told
that Lenin and Trotzky started
this. AS II. G.. Wells says, when
a miner in England complains of
the price of shoes for his children,
the Bolsheviki are accused of
teaching him their doctrines.
The Congo uprising, like the
restlessness in India and elsewhere.
is part of general world condi-
tion. Mental germs OF discomfort
travel around the earth as rapidly
as the germs of Spanish in
huenza, and they may be more
dangerous.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Japan, describing rioting in
a crowd of ten thousand, the agi-
tation of Japanese peers, declar-
ing discipline in the empire to be
destroyed, shows how far the dis
content germ has travelled. You
find it under the hot sun of the
Congo, where the gentlemen GER
tainly will not be able to estab-
lish a government of their own, if
they get rid of what they have.
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