The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
Today
Round One, for Lasker.
One Revolution lags.
College Bred; Small Family.
Civil War for ireland.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

predicted 1t. Lasker inherits fight
ing blood. His uncle was Emanuel
Lasker, who fought Bismarck in
the Reichstag. Lasker's father,
who came to this country long be-
fore the head of the Shipping trust
was born, fought his way to sue
cess in Texas-when it was not
easy.
When Lasker was in his teens
ne started for himself, as nobody
IN particular, in the office of Lord
d Thomas, in Chicago. One day
Lord said to Thomas. or vice versa,
well, / have fired that fresh
young jew in the outside office"
Don't do that" said the part
ner; young Lasker's a coming
man." And he was. Very little
later he owned 100 per cent Of Lord
& Thomas.
He keeps both goyim neatly
framed, in colors, enlarged from
photographs, in the outside office
where he was once fired. If you
want fight with Lasker, you can
get it.
In taking back its own ships the
Government is obliged to make
good 100000 worth of immigrant
tickets, paid for in advance, and
repay 100000 left on deposit.
You are told that Government
can't run ships, that it takes pri-
vate genius to do that. Selling
tickets In advance and disposing Of
the cash probably helps private
genius In it's financing
Before the Third World Con-
gress at Moscow, Bucharin, Rus
sian Soviet commissioner, reviewed
fussia's troubles in the frank Rus
STAR way. He had put hope in an
early German revolution on Rus
sian lines, but admitted that Ger
mans were slow with their Bolshe-
vlsm. Had the German revolu-
tion already taken place we should
nave imported proletarians from
that country and performed a sur
gical operation" said he.
The surgical operation would
have been performed on masses of
the little bourgeoisie," citizens
bnt on profit through trades, and
on peasants glad to obey the order
kill your landlords ard take the
land" - Bucharins words are
quoted-but unwilling to let Boil
shevism take, without pay, crops
from the land bestowed.
News from Germany today may
cheer the Bolsheviki with hope that
German Bolshevism is coming. Ex-
element following the murder of
Erzberger, hated because he signed
the Versailles treaty; the ircreas-
ing cost Of living and decreasing
value Of the mark are ominous
signs.
But the German people have had
four years Of education and think
ing, thanks to the kaiser, who
forced them irto the army, where
Social Democrats could reach and
teach them. Germany gets famine
news and shooting news from Rus
sia, and knows there is still truth
in Goethe's line ind dds gesetz
nur kdnn uns freihett gebey. Only
law can give us freedom"
Are college graduates, male
and female, drifting to race sui
eide? Maurice Rocker, of the
United States Health Service,
says yes, the progeny of 1000
students from such colleges as
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Smith
and Vassar will not exceed fifty
in 100 wears from now.
College presidents hardly know
what to say. One thinks the
average college bred family has
two children, or even more.
Two are not many. But two
of the right kind are better than
two of the wrong kind. And
eventually two must become the
limit when this earth is fully
populated.
Fortunately the future does
not depend on college graduates
offspring. What a mother and
father think and feel and are is
more important than what some
body has tried to teach them.
Nancy Hanks, Letitia Ramo-
limo, the peasant mother of Leon
ardo, and the timers daughter,
washing clothes in the brook,
later mother of William the Con-
queror, indicate that college edu-
cation is not indispensable to
progress.
You have read in this column
half a dozen times that the
alternative to a decent peace is
civil war in Ireland. Now Lloyd
George, in a speech at Barnsley,
says that failure to make peace
means civil war.
If peace is not arranged, the
English crown will not officially
do the fighting. With over
whelming force England could
devastate the smaller population
of Ireland. But that would be
putting King George in the
place of Gladstone's "unspeak-
able Turk" massacring Armen-
fans. It would not look well on
the stage of world politics. Civil
war. with local and racial and
religious hatred to make it Bit
ter. would do the work. Pitt,
financing anybody willing to
fight Napoleon, showed England
that it is possible to fight an