The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-07

1t. IT.
This can be printed properly
by one who has not seen either Of
them since the time when the
ARMS CONFERENCE was first
mentioned.
While others were hurrying tb
the baseball game, Lasker, head
of the Shipping Board, was tell
ing truths that ought to interest
every adult in the United States.
Our safety in the next war,
our prosperity, under all cir
cumstances, demands national
shipping. Do you realize what
q helpless thing our navy would
be in war against Japan when
you remember this fact:
When Roosevelt sent the bat
tie fleet around the world he
could do Il only BY calling In
auxiliary shippins. under for.
eisn flags, controlled by foreign
nations. Without ships of other
nations, meaning England, of
course, Roosevelt couldn't have
sent American bsttieships one
thousand miles from port,
Lasker,e under the President,
is trying TO rsmedy that condi-
ton; and the whole country
should be with him.
He, says, knows, and can
prove, that in what is called an
American Shipping Company,
there is plotting against Ameri-
can shipping, actual work to
make England dominant.
You know what the English
would say and do If they discov-
cred that the most important man
in their commercial navy was the
lackey of the United States Gov
ernment. The situation exists
IN the United States. Our big
rest shipping enterprise and its
management are the tools and
the servants of England. That
ought to be changed.
The English boast, and make
good the boast, that American
ships, such as young Hartman
sent to Egypt, cannot carry to
the United States in an Ameri-
can ship even one pound Of
Egyptian cotton.
The President Of the United
States should confirm that, then
saw to England:
Egypt IL yours, you act within
your rights: America is ours,
and no English ship can carry one
pound of American cotton to Man
chester, while no American ship II
allowed to carry cotton from
Egypt to the United States.'
Animal life existed on this
planet for millions Of years before
Il could express thought at all.
By and by q few half-dumb crea-
lures, with barking sounds and
gestures, made each other under
stand. Then came real language;
one man could talk to another.
Now, listen to this: General
Squires, of our army, was sitting
in a bankers office in a German
city. A secretary entered, wrote
for 0 moment, handed the memo
randum to the German banker,
Syho handed it to Squires, say
ing: "The opening Of the New
y York Exchange. Would you care
20 see IL? We get 1t every day
At this time" It Is sent by wire
less to Berlin, and then by wire
less telephone to every bank In
Germany at the same instant.
As the first championship base
ball game was under way, crowds
nc the Electrical Show In another
part Of the city listened to q de-
tailed account by wireless tele-
phone. talked into the receiver at
the ball grounds as the game pro-
gressed. And battleships far out
ne sea '1istened in," heard a man
sitting a few feet from the catcher
tell Of the game as IL progressed.
II took millions Of years to de-
velop language from one man to
another, and IN half q generation
comes language spoken and heard
around the world. ...
Men move rapidly when science
helps them.
One thing Is more important
than the marvels Of science-the
greater marvel. woman's energy.
You welcome rs important to
this nation the news that Mrs.