The Washington times., 1921-12-20

The Greater Crime.
canada's Good Credit.
Butterfly Dog.
Chinese Bones 90 Home.
! ARTHUR BRIsBANR

New York archdiocese. raised an
interesting point IN his vigorous
denunciation Of birth control ad-
vocates. His Christmas pastoral,
addressed to the faithful. says:
Children troop down from
Heaven because God Wills it." He
distinguishes between murder and
birth control thus:
To take life after its inception
u horrible crime. but to prevent
human life that the Creator is about
TO bring into being is satanic.
In the first instance the body is
killed, while the soul lives on.
An the latter. not only body.
but an immortal soul is denied
existence in time and in eternity"
This puts q new complexion on
the entire question. Beyond doubt,
70 destroy physicist life. in one
body. permitting the soul to en-
ter a better life. would be
crime less serious than saying to
that soul: "You shall never ex-
lst at all"
It is . complicated question.
made more complicated by the
TACT that outside Of Archbishop
Hayes church. among the pros
porous class, ut least, birth con-
crol to greater or less extent
is practically universal.
Canadian Pacific Railway has
/. sold $25, 10000 Of 4 per cent de-
bentures to the National City
Company, of New York"
How? What price? The Ma
donal City seems to have great
confidence in Canada. Nothing
American is able to sell bonds at
4 per cent.
"To yield 7.67 per cent" is our
style. Except for bomb proof. tax
proof bonds. Lucky Canada.
The latest fashion is the butter
Ny dog. brought to Paris from
Tibet. In that strange country
they have plain food. Horrible
tea, with many Jumps of rancid
butter. is the steady diet. But
they produce fancy dogs. The
butterfly dog weighs as much as
. small pullet. It's hair touches
the ground all around; head. feet,
eyes. tail are all invisible. Un-
less it barks you cannot identify
the front end. It's a ball of
useless hair. But what Tibetan
dog breeders have done. produc-
ing that worthless thing. many an
American millionaire is doing now,
producing what he calls "My
Son."
In tho -underground vaults of
the morgue IN New York city
are dozens Of packing cases. in
each case eight zinc boxes. in
each box carefully labeled. the
bones Of one Chinaman. In patches
Of five or six hundred the re-
mains are shipped once in seven
years for burial in Chinese soil.
Young Chinese smile at the Gus
tom. Older Chinese say there is
no rest except in the soil Of
China.
We think our little earth Is the
center Of creation. They once
burned you for denying 1t. The
Chinese think their land the CEN
ter Of the earth, the only land
for respectable burial.
And it's a good thing. What
you respect YOU care for. and de-
fend. To believe in your nation,
your State. your city. your fam
fly. your lot. or your farm is
necessary. when only concentra-
tion and earnestness count. World
citizenship will come later.
Get your mortgages paid, note
reduced, and life insured before
1925, according to the London
Journal Of Astrology. Nineteen
hundred and twenty-six will
make 1914 to 1918 seem like
halcyon days, say the astrologers.
There will be plaques, riots, rev.
olutions, famine, floods, ship
wrecks-all on a new scale.
And you haven't heard the half
Of It. Mars and Mercury will
be in conjunction in 1926. Six
years later will come the great
Armageddon, Mohammedanism
and Bolshevism com b in ing
against "the United Anglo-Saxon
world" nearly everybody will be
killed off; then will come univer-
sal peace-all too weak to fight
any longer.
Once the whole world, includ-
ing its rulers, would have listened
with credulity. Now the world
,smiles, a few ignorant believe.
Mars and Mercury will be in con-
junction, and Farmer Jones will
meet Farmer Smith, but that
won't make any difference to
the rest Of the world.
Prohibition leaders ask Secre-
tary Hughes to appeal to Eng
land and ask her to help US go
dry by stopping shipments of
whiskey from Great Britain to
the United States. It will be