The Washington times., 1921-09-24

4 Buyers Week.
A Rockefeller Actress.
Men Hate Charity.
Hypodermic Needle.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.

and selling week organized in New
York city with Franklin Simon,
able business man, as president of
the enterprise.
Sometimes when a baby is born
with lungs closed, gasping for
breath, they throw water in its
face, or toss it in the air to set
things going. Americas business
baby needs such treatment, some
shock to stir and start it. Every
city should inaugurate a Buyers
Week." all merchants combining,
as they will do in New York, to
surprise buyers with the best pos
sible bargains, stimulating busi-
ness, clearing shelves, creating a
demand for workmen in factories.
The New York Times says Miss
Muriel Mccormick. grand-daugh-
ter Of John d. Rockefeller ana
daughter Of the head Of the Inter-
national Harvester Trust, is study
ing for the stage, and may start
as q professional actress in Mu-
mich.
II is interesting. Those that
have seen the young woman dash
ing from the front to the back at
the grand opera know that she has
ambition and energy. Such a
woman finds her opportunity
outside Of motherhood-in acting,
singing, public speaking, or as
. tronomy.
Astronomy is dull for many.
Public speaking demands that you
write your own part. Singing
calls for q voice. Acting demands
chiefly intelligence, vigor, good
looks, and strong emotion. 1t is
woman's natural career-next to
motherhood.
Tho fate Of the actress is better
than It used to be, in days when
Voltaire, to protect q friend of his,
fought the religious law that SEN
tenced dead actresses to be buried
at the crossroads, excluded from
every cemetery. Voltaire won his
fight; he usually did.
Anyhow It wouldn't worry the
child Of oil wells and harvesters.
Her family could afford to endow
a cemetery for her exclusive use
with q thousand acres Of land, and
an exact reproduction OF the
Coincide Frdncdise for mausoleum.
Galton proves that the genius
of great men Is inherited only
through the female line. What
could be more interesting than to
see the power Of Rockefeller, third
generation semale, tearing q pas
sion to tatters with inherited
energy that once built up Standard
Oil?
In the greatest city, richest in
America, thousands sleep in pub
lie parks, on grass or benches, with
newspapers under them to keep
out Lhe chill.
And in the city's free lodging
house four or five hundred beds
are empty every night.
Puzzling? Not at all. Worse
than cold, homelessness, or even
hunger, men hate CHARITY. You
couldn't have persuaded Nancy
Hanks to take her baby, Abraham
Lincoln. from the dirt floor Of her
shack without windows to the fin
est poorhouse ever built-not il it
had had floors well carpeted. Hu-
man beings like independence;
that's why we are in this country.
Il is the business of general in 1
telligence and prosperity, repre-
sented in Government, to provide
men with work and a chance to
sleep in their own beds.
The public lodging house Is
elean. The attendants are cold and
brusuue, as men always are that
deal habitually with the poor. And
4 swsetly idiotic rule compels the
unemployed lodger to stay and
work two hours to pay for his
lodging in the morning, the only
time when he might find job.
The real objection to lodging
houses and breadlines is hatred Of
CHARITY. A man must sink low
before he eats willingly from an
others hand.
An unfortunate young woman,
Virginia Rape, died in agony
after a disgraceful drinking bout
with men, of whom every one
be in jail. Newspapers will
print thousands Of columns, but
a is all told in few words by the
surgeon that performed the au-
topsy:
iThere was small puncture in
heleft arm made by a hypodefmic
,eedle."
Drugs destroy everything-first
health, then character, then reason,
hen life. They cannot, apparently,
,e suppressed. Therein lies one Of
he problems Of prohibition.
A church in Montreal requests
women to come TO church modestly
dressed, arms and neck covered,