The Washington times., 1921-04-06

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comes back with the winding-up
days at Hog Island. Ten thousand
dollars disappeared. At first you
suspected that some "piker," some
retailer, had got onto Hog Island,
for, Of course, the original hogs,
now safe back in New York, did
not travel on the sleeper all night
to steal any little ten thousand dol
lars.
But the money turns up in the
wastebasket with other rubbish.
Only twenty-five cents missing.
Those were real Hog Island hogs
to the end, and ALL wholesalers.
A young woman named Odell is
in prison, with a baby recently
born. Her husband is in the death
house waiting to be executed.
Husband and wife together killed
another man accused Of treating
the wife unfairly.
A bill introduced in New York's
legislature would take the baby
away from the mother, and take
all babies from mothers in prison.
Very interesting law, especially
for the Odell baby and other pris-
on babies.
If they take the Odell baby
from the prison, where it ought
not to be, and put it in some typ
ical institution. it will breathe a
purer atmosphere for a while,
then probably die. Left in prison
with its mother. it probably would
live, for mothers have q wonder
full life influence on their babies.
When civilization starts making
laws, it often thinks more about
its own high morality than about
what is Eoing to happen to the
baby. 81
What happens in England in the
next few days will mean much to
all the world. The war that be-
gins between the Imperial Govern
ment and British workmen may be
worse than the war just ended.
The determination of British coal
miners to have the British govern
ment subsidize mining, paying out
of public funds enough to enable
improbable mines to pay the
highest wages, is an important
decision. It all straightens out in
time, however.
No matter what happens just
now, the old plan and the usual re-
suit will follow a great war.
The hard workers will be a lit
tie better off. And the cleverest
among them will get the cream
from the milk pan. You will solve
the worlds problem only by pro
ducing enough for everybody, not
by taking from those that seem to
have too much.
Men murder each other for
cupful Of muddy water in the mid
die of the desert They don't quar-
rel about water on the edge of
big lake.
All quarrels now are about
money. which is the water Of life,
wages for the masses, big profits
for the classes. Some worry be-
cause they haven't enough. Some
worry because they haven't too
much.
Some day nobody will be savage
enough to WANT too much and
everybody WILL have enough.
But the time hasn't come for
that. If they were safe from
want, 80 per cent of human be-
ings would do no work. They
need the lash for the sake of prog
ress, so they must fight each other,
divided into classes.
Lloyd George may truly say,
when he lays his head to rest in
Welsh soil, that fate put him in a
place of heavy burden and respon-
sibility. And this is his most diff
ficult moment. .
A lady has disappeared, myster-
ious, and there is a great agita-
ton, big headlines, the police much
interested, and also able lawyers.
Why all the interest? The lady
IL rich And when she disappear
ed she got out Of a limousine.
Automobiles and money arouse
great interest in those that disap-
pear, whether they vanish mys-
teriously or die and are solemnly
buried. We talk of Sheba's
queen and ignore other virtuous
visitors to Solomon because Sheba
came on camel back. the limousine
Of those days, and brought money.
Many of the millions Of the
women in this country could dis
appear, to their hearts content,
without arousing faintest interest.
The extraordinary thing is that 80
few disappear. To look down on
a great anthill and be told every
evening each ant is accounted for
would amaze you. Every city Of
human beings is such an anthill.
How they all run around, 20 and
come, and turn up safe, and be
counted in the evening is amaz-
ing. a,5