The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-24


owes us, that is different. We can
wait. He is curious about that. So
are you.
Senator Johnson wants to know
why we spend million a month
keeping American soldiers in Ger
many. He wants to know whether
the disarmament conference will
discuss things publicly or decide
that the people are too ignorant to
discuss their business.
And Hiram Johnson would like
TO know what sort Of peace is being
framed with Germany, and why
the people, since it is their peace,
cannot be told about it.
What johnson wants to know,
YOU want to know. You would
know if there were more Senators
like Johnson.
Here's a wound the British
Lion feels keenly. In Thread
needle street. Italy discards the
pound sterling as basis for her
gold money and uses our dollar
in place. saying, "The dollar IL
real money" 1t is, indeed. with
thousands in gold behind it. But
Mr.. Bryan will remind you that
the piles of gold do not help six
million Americans out Of work.
What Is courageous deed'
1t depends on why you do it. A
nihilist in a Russian prison fear
ed he would betray his comrades
under torture and decided to die.
He climbed up, by the bars OF
his cell window and held his body
against a small oil lamp until
fatally burned. That was cour-
age.
Sylvester Crockett, giant negro
from Florida. was condemned to
five years in prison for attack
ing a policeman. He said it was
unjust, poured kerosene over his
clothing. took a lighted match
from a fellow convict, set fire to
himself in several places, and Is
dead.
\ Would you call that courage!
Hardly, because there was no ad-
m;rable motive back of it. Cour-
aoe is difficult to define.
Opportunity for inventors. DE.
v;se an extra brake to be used
on motors, light motors especi-
allv. in mountainous countries.
Owners of cars. constantly de-
scending steep hills, spend their
lives renewing brake bands. An
emergency brake. like the old
fashioned foot brake on a buck
hoard. would answer. There might
he an attachment outside the hub OF
the wheel with powerful brake
iron against iron. II you invent
The brake, or have it already
made, send word.
There must be oil in under
Ground in Australia, where, rank
Vegetation has grown for many
millions of years.
But it has not been discovered
IN paying quantities. II you
can 90 there and find it, the
government will pay you
S175,O0O reward-and you can
have the oil. That will inter-
est American prospectors.
Judge James E. Boyd, of the
United States court in North
Carolina, decides that the Fed
eral law protecting children
from exploiters of child labor
is unconstitutional. The nation
tried once before to frame a
law for the children, and the
same judge decided that it
would not do. The Supreme
Court upheld his decision.
It seems hard to protect chill
dren. or women, or to tax
wealth in way to suit the
Constitution. Luckily, that Con-
.t;tution can be changed.
Eventually law WILL pro-
tect children from exploitation
that destroys them. The learned,
conscientious judge says that
regulation of labor is a power
reserved by individual States
and the nation must not inter
fere. 1t has interfered-in
1861, for instance, on which oc-
casion the nation regulated
labor. And the people of the
country now are at least as
much opposed to white child
slavery as they were in 1861
to black adult slavery.
Once more they will find a
way to control labor within the
State, and in a peaceful way
this time. -