The Washington times., 1921-01-14
Today
Hanging a ChiId's Brain.
Who Is karpott?
The King Is Elected.
Expensive Shirts.
BY ARTHUR BRIsBANl
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Coldly the news comes In over
wires, cables, through telephone
receivers, and by wireless. HOW
does 1t all impress the angel
Gabriel, as he writes 1t down, with
the name of the guilty and the
deserving? What q huge book
must lie before him on his desk!
Wade, proved by experts to have
the brain OF a child eleven years
old, is to be hanged for murder.
The Judge adds to the sentence:
MAY God have mercy on your
soul" The condemned man says.
THANK you" and smiles. In the
days of Ben Franklin. whose birth
day comes next Monday. they used
to hang children eleven years old.
We don't do that now, but We
hang men with the brains Of chill
dren.
The hanging news comes from
New England. From London, most
important of the days news, II
true. comes, by way Of Berlin, the
statement that, "Karpoff' Is dead.
Karpoff is the name under which
Lenin is known to some. OF his
friends. 1t is the name signed to
his writings in days when the csar
was hunting for him to send him
back to Siberia before Lenin had
sent the car to his long rest.
Yesterday you read that Lenin,
suddenly i'll, had sent for three
specialists from Berlin. That
sounded like poison. II he is dead
today, if "Karpoff' is Lenin, and
Lenin is dead, it is a great piece
of world news.
What would follow his death?
Probably a military dictatorship,
headed by Trotzky, who has proved
his fighting quality. Would Trot-
zky last long without Lenin, his
balance-wheel? Probably not.
Then would come chaos.
Next, perfectly seriously, the
London Times announces George
of England has just been elected
a member of the large Black Pig
Society" The king breeds fine
Berkshire swine, and recently sold
some to the King of Spain. Sim
Fein will say that the kings cleo
ton was appropriate, that the head
of the British empire should belong
20 that particular society.
Senator Mccormick and the
French nation are stirred be-
cause the Senator paid $8.82 each
for shirts bought on the Ra.e dc
la Pair. The Senator says France
exploits American travellers, and
the French newspapers sympa-
thize with him.
When he arrives in New York,
Mr.. Mccormick can get another
shock. In Fifth avenue, which IS
our Rue de la PGir, on the right
hand side, going north, a little
above Delmonico's, let the Sena-
tor drop in and order a dozen
shirts. and see what happens.
II he orders silk golf shirts, he
will pay $40 apiece. And il ne
saws, make me the cheapest
shirt YOU have in the house." his
hill will be SIG apiece, double
what he paid in Paris. When it
comes to charging for shirts, the
Rue de la Pdir has something to
learn from Fifth avenue.
p. s, In justice to a competi-
tor, it should be said that on the
opposite side of Fifth avenue,
little farther north, another shirt
man charges prices even higher.
David Lazarus, primary poll
tician and leader, thinks that hard
times will kill off socialism. Says
he: "If the unemployment keeps
up. we won't be bothered by the
Socialists so much in the future.
They won't be so high and mighty
when they're out of a job. It's
easy to be a Socialist when you
have a $50 or $40 week job, but
when you're out of work you turn
to the organization that can get
you something to do"
Mr.. Lazarus of Tammany Hall
is mistaken. 1t is poverty, not
wealth, that makes Socialists. The
original Lazarus was probably
more of Socialist while picking
the crumbs and eating them than
later, when he was provided for.
The ablest socialistic leader in
this country, with at least fifty
thousand individual followers. ad-
mitted that he would lose more
than forty-nine thousand five
hundred of them il each should in
herit fifty thousand dollars. The
best antidote for radicalism is
prosperity. Poverty causes anxi-
ety, anxiety causes thought. Look
out for thought-it is explosive.