The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-20
Today
A Wise Governor.
All Kinds OF Women.
First S1,000,000 Fee.
lenin lnsane2 As a Fox!
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

message 10 TIE tegtstdufe says.
II submit that Wisconsin cttt-
re'is, 0illiig TO Oork, should De
giOsn every opportunity TO toork.
i recommend that the industrial
commission, through the free EN-
ployment offices maintained by the
State, cooperate ioith the high
toay commission IN absorbing the
unemployed in road construction.
The governor todnts TO give scOrk
to the 10000 men out Of tOOrk
in Wisconsin,, and he Is planning
to do 10 IN such a t0oy as not to
interfere Nth the supply Of farm,
labor. Governors IN other States,
take notice.
All kinds of women are in the
world, now as in old days. Flor
ence E. Allen, lady Judge Of COM
mon pleas in Cleveland, yester-
day sentenced Robert Momera to
life imprisonment. Three women
were on the jury that convicted
Momera Of murder in the second
degree.
Before woman suffrage, men
said, women are too sentimental
not fit to be judges or jurors"
Women. in fact, are often severe
judges. White men captured by
Indians feared the old squaws
more than the young warriors.
The vestal virgins OF Rome
every year threw into the Tiber an
imitation man made of straw, as
sacrifice. They probably threw
in real men earlier.
1t was an African queen, Toni
ris, that chopped Or the head OF
Cyrus and dipped it in goatskin
filled with human blood. And it
was a lady that told her daughter
to insist upon having the head of
John the Baptist-nothing else
would do.
Women are gentler than men,
but not too gentle and not ultra
sentimental. They reflect the
average civilization.
Young lawyers and law students,
here is cheering news.
For the first time, lawyer has
just received fiat fee of one mil
lion. John B. Stanchfield. of 12O
Broadway, New York, is the law
YER The Marshall Field estate
paid the money. 1t was a straight
fee" for personal services with
out any COSTS" etc.
Some other charges were tackled
on, in the neighborhood of another
million, and other lawyers got
stray bits, of one hundred thou
sand dollars each. ~
John b. Stanchfield now stands
as Betelggsgs, the AlRhs star in
practice. Progress, since Rufus
Choate, greatest lawyer of his day,
apologissd for charging twenty
five hundred dollars in will
case. His excuse was that he had
studied the question involved for
thirty years.
Paris says Lenin is insane. In
the language Of that great car
toonist, TAD Lenin is about "as
crazy as a fox" judging by his
handling of the allies, the Wran-
gels, and others, trying to make
him pay the Cars debt. How
ever, the report of his insanity
may be based on fact. 1t is doubt
full whether any man in history
has thought SO intently, concen-
trated his mind with such inten-
sity on the theory Of government.
Such intense concentration has
often led to insanity.
Paris says Lenin is locked up in
one room Of his palace, where he
spends the time boasting. That
also sounds not impossible. for a
most frequent manifestation OF
insanity is complete change in
temperament. Modest women, be-
coming insane, use the worst Ian
guage. And modest men, insane,
think they are Napoleon.
A female bandit in Chicago
holds up men, robs them, with a
sharp knife pressed against their
ribs, kisses them before she leaves
them. Harpies and sirens did
worse than that.
An organization from Brooklyn
petitions Congress 10 pass law
compelling women that have no
children to work so many hours
q week In houses OF those that
have children.
Mrs. Adamsowski paid Mrs.
Yonka one thousand dollars. for
lifting a curse" Mrs. Yonka is
in Jail, although Mrs. Adamsowski
saws she feels better.
Bud Loomis, boy in his teens,
who had twenty-five pistols in his
room, admits that he and his young
friends worked six nights
week, and made it a rule never to
make less than seven robberies
night"
Such "ncws items" as those i'm
mediately above indicate the de-
gree of Civilization" in 1921.
The world will need the MILLION
MILLION years that scientists
say are ahead Of us to get rid Of
its many weaknesses.
Utah passes law forbidding
hiQh heels. First offense, fine Of