The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-10

Irish Mary Bowles.
PIckp0ckets Lament.
by ARTHUR 3RISBANE-l
tcopyrisht 1911
At the League Of Nations con-
Terence George Harvey is to sit
where Woodrow Wilson sat. "The
whirligig of time brings in his re-
venges" with q vengeance.
He hath put doaom the mighty
FROM THEIR scats, and ccdlted
them Of ios0 degree" Harvey was
never Of low degree, but it's an
appropriate text.
4 A member Of the New York leg
1iature who opposed an appropri-
alton in honor Of the six hundredth
anniversary of Dante's death,
thinking that Dante was . base
oail player, takes his place nat
urally beside the alderman that
wanted to buy only two gondolas,
one male and one female, and "let
nature take her course"
The Hon. Tom Watson, of Geor-
gia, now Of the Senate, q re-
markable orator, said: whenever
you make a speech, remember that
1t Is impossible to exaggerate the
stupidity of the public" Every
once in while somebody proves it.
Mary Bowles Of Belfast, fifteen
years old, was caught wearing
1rmor and carrying a Lewis gun"
This young woman will go to an
English reformatory prison until
ahe Is nineteen years old. What is
the difference between the vision
OF Mary Bowles and that Of Joan
OF Arc, looking out over the fields
ut Domremy, six hundred years
ago, and dreaming that she would
drive the English out of her coun-
try. The difference is one of
JSUCCESS. The English got Mary
Bowles more quickly than they got
Joan of Arc and they did not have
to buy her.
In European cities, as you know,
they have well organized fraterni-
ties of beRgars, with their rules
and other. rights; also fraternities
beneath the police level Of various
criminals.
At Genoa the police chief gets
an indignant letter from "The
Tramway Pickpockets' Associa-
ton" saying that persons sup
posed to be honest lie about the
amount Of money stolen from
them. This makes hard feelin"s
among the pickpockets. accused BY
their associates of not dividing
fairly.
You think we have nothing to
compare with that in the United
States, but it isn't so different from
railroad gentlemen, protesting that
the public exapgerates the amount
taken from it through extortionate
freight and passenger rates and
incompetent management.
Business men want to know how
THOROUGHLY. BROADLY, AND
ECONOMICALLY they can tell
millions of people what they have
TO ssy and to SELL
Albert D. Lasker. head and
owner of the firm Of Lord q
Thomas, knows something about
publicity.
He said yesterday:
''The American Weekly, pub
lished as part Of all the Hearst
Sunday newspapers throughout the
country, is, in my opinion. the
strongest, most valuable advertis-
ing medium in the United States.
"And the rate charged, about
ten thousand dollars q page for
full page color advertising, is
without question a ridiculously
low rate"
The American Weekly sells at
ten cents a copy, more than three
million copies every Sunday.
At this time when business men
need to make every dollar do all
the work 1t can do that is impor-
tant information.
Those who complain OF taxes in
the United States should consider
the scheme to restore the finances
/. of Austria" The debt will be
guaranteed by customs house
monopolies and COMPULSORY
MORTGAGES ON ALL PUBLIC
AND PRIVATE REAL ESTATE.
That's REAL taxation.
The bill shutting out immigra-
ton will soon become law, prob
ably. That will shut on the
United States from its greatest
source OF growth and increasing
prosperity.
National wealth and average
prosperity have increased with
the population.
We need hundred million
more human beings here, to use
M what we produce.
Those who believe that immi
grafton cuts down. wages believe
what is not so.
Thirty-three years ago the first
electric street car was run. In
those days wages on street cars
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