The Washington times., 1921-05-27
Today
Yss, Money ls Power.
Why Play ooH7
To Women. Life 10 Earnsst.
Questions In Morals.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
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10y ARTHUR BRISBANG--I
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Samuel Untermyer. able lawyer.
deserves credit for recent public
service. He gives up In disgust
the prosecution Of criminals IN the
building trade. Their kind Of
stealing discourages building and
deprives the people Of houses.
But. for some reason, the judges
punish such wholesale, dangerous
crime with fines-never with i'm
prisonment. Mr.. Untermyer says
~the most dangerous criminals are
above and beyond the law"
1t Is fact that money is q great
protection in this country. Per-
haps when that is proved to the
people they will do something
about it. More probably not.
The English beat the Americans
playing golf, eliminated them all.
Do not weep. If Americans are
to be beaten at any game, let it be
golf. You feel about an Ameri-
can playing golf as DR.. Johnson
felt about a woman preaching. He
was not surprised that she did not
do it well; he wondered that she
did it at all. So with Americans
you wonder that they play golf
at all.
How n man, energetic and ner-
vous, can hit a little white ball
with a preposterously shaped club,
then walk hundred or two hun
dred yards to hit it again is
psychoiogically puzzling-especi-
ally as there is real work to be
done.
Four girls between thirteen and
fifteen tried to kill themselves
because school was too much for
them. Only one succeeded. That
should interest the schools. Edu-
cation should not be repulsive. or
school restraint painful. 1t is
especially cruel when children are
driven to suicide for fear Of failure
at examinations.
Women and girls kill themselves
much more lightly, on less provo
cation than men.
Two sisters in Chicago, past
forty, and discouraged, killed
themselves. saying. Life is too
hard"
A most intelligent, pleasing
young woman. professor at Smith
College, poisoned herself and died.
Concentrating on astronomy, she
reached the conclusion that the
stars are too big and human beings
too little. Her fayorite quotation
from Tennyson was:
L"What is it all but the trouble Of
\ ants
In the light Of a million. million
suns?"
Dora Boylan and Agnes Dough-
|erty, fifteen-year-old New York
school girls, tried to kill them
selves with gas, clasped in each
others arms. They had written
on the wall: 1--WE are going to
meet horrible death. Tell Scottie
and Chick that we love them
dearly"
Scottie and Chick. fifteen-year-
old American boys, will wonder
VAat it was all about and feel
Gnite important for a week. Women
take their troubles heavily, men
lightly.
At Anderson. Ind, Mr.. and Mrs.
Muncey and Mr.. and Mrs. Huff
man appeared before a judge.
They explained that they were all
good friends, only Mrs. Muncey
had decided that she wanted to
marry Mr.. Huffman, and Mrs.
Huffman wanted to marry Mr..
lMuncey. Would the judge please
Nix it?
The Judge couldn't. So the two
wives filed abandonment suits and
hope to fix it that way.
1t is deploraDle that human
beings should change their minds.
but which would be better for the
|community's morals: to force them
Ito live together, nominally, but
mot really, or allow them to sep
arate and remarry?
l. w. Wallace, secretary Of the
American Engineering Council,
tells Chicago that "every time
there is a change in women's
fashions it costs the country mil
lions of dollars"
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