The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-15

Man, the Great Fool.
Mary Garden "Soviet."
Wages IN India.
Pity the Chimpanzees.
By ARTHUR BRIsBAN
Copyright. isai.)

Slater, aged seventy, Shoots anu
mortally wounds q girl OF nfteen-
He gives jealousy as his excuse.
How intensely amusing 1t would
seem TO certain men II a woman OF
seventy shot q fifteen-year-oid
boy and said she was Jealous be-
cause the boy was noticing q lit
tie girl.
Men have always been greater
fools, and older fools. than women,
In every way. But men have
written history and told their side
OF everything. 1t is not 30 many
centuries since reverend bishops
were seriously discussing the
question, "Is woman a human be-
ing?"
The first touch of "Sovietism"
appears In the United States. Miss
Mary Garden, one of the workers.
Is to run the grand opera Of Chi
cago, from top to bottom. Ordi-
narily an opera worker comes
out, sings, goes back, changes her
dress, comes out and sings again.
A banker sitting In the box man
ages" the opera by paying It's
losses.
But now workers are to run the
song factory; at least one OF them
Is to run 1t, taking complete
charge Of opera house, chorus,
stays, box office. everything.
AS in the poem Ding, dong dell,
pussy is in the WE'LL" the question
is, who put her in?
Did she put herself in, or did
some admiring gentleman from
the North Shore say, "Mary, l
have confidence in you, you run
it." Is 1t a proof Of woman's
ability or one more display OF
mans feeble foolishness?"
You have read of starvation in
India. Starvation and disease are
the ghosts that follow war. How
would the American worker like
to live In India? Workers there
get four or five times as much as
before the war, and the "gigan-
tically high wages" now amount
to one rupee a day. A rupee Is
worth about q cents.
What do working young ladies
of America think of girls wages
in India? The biggest agent Of
the Standard Oil in India employs
girls at four annas a day. Four
annas are equal to six cents OF our
money.
Before the war four annas day
were the wages paid to a MAN.
People are starving in India be-
cause food has gone up more
rapidly than wages, and even on
diet of rice only they cannot buy
enough food. To make it worse,
radicals are burning the crops to
prevent wheat being sent to Eng
land.
If you read the treaty between
England and Japan you noticed
that Japan is bound especially to
protect England's rights and in
terests in Asia. 1t is not easy to
keep three hundred million people
peaceful seven thousand miles
from the ruling nation, when they
are hungry and crops are burning.
1t is to be remembered, however.
that India's conditions were worse
in old days than they ever have
been since the English came in.
There is at least administration OF
Justice, and life is safe, although
the body is hungry. You do not
have now, as used to happen,
Rajahs sacrificing living young
girls on taking over the jobs of
their fathers.
China has gathered closer figures
on Chinese population and sup
plies a picture Of crowding that
explains China's starvation prob
lem.
The population of the great en-
pire now. exclusive of Tibet, is
about four hundred and thirty
millions.
That is equal to the population Of
England, France, Germany, Italy,
the United States, and gigantic
Russia combined. Kiangsu is the
most crowded province, with eight
hundred and ninety-five human be-
ings per square mile, three persons
to two acres of ground. Do you
wonder they starve. when rain is
lacking and crops are bad?
The Berlin Geological Garden is
short OF meat-eating animals. for
meat Is lacking But that 200"
possesses the most extraordinary
family of chimpanzees in the
world. One male and five females.
Those monuments to arrested de-
yelopment sit shivering in the
straw with arms around each
other. Coal regulations make the
bitter climate of north Germany
worse than usual, and the CHM
panzees will probably die.
II seems cruel that guiltless. un-
happy primates should be whirled
along, victims of Hobenzollern
foolishness. And notice this: You
probably could get subscriptions
TO buy coal for the chimpanzee
family Of Berlin from individuals
"fed up" with drives" that would
- s,;ve a cent IN feed Austria's