The Washington times., 1921-11-29

b the Party Over?
Gutter Cat Mother.
vlpers You Must Hive.
Wholesome Bankruptcy
ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrtght, 1871

10y AhTHUk bklSbANEo
(copyrisht 1911
BRAND has gone home,
viviani sails on December ID.
Lloyd George has postponed his
coming, but has accommoda-
taons booked for every ship. Is
the party. overt
Certain Senators are taking
the suggested Association Of
Nations" idea seriously. They
must know that President
Harding will not directly or in
directly oppose the will Of the
people as expressed at the
election.
There II no harm in talking.
speech was given to men and
nations TO exchange ideas. There
can be no objection to converse
tion, provided no effort is made
10 bind the United States in
foreign agreements.
Frank Munsey, owner Of tho
New York Herald, gentle and
fierce by turns, wants to do
away with flying machines,
poison gas, submarines. He calls
them "vipers." When your enemy
- In the viper business you
\ ars foolish If you don't have
tame vipers on your side also.
Munsey thinks that as work
man demand greater safety in
: factories, so soldiers will de-
mand greater safety in war.
They may demand it, but they
won't get it. The only way to
. discourage vice is to make it
expensive to health and pocket.
The way to discourage war is to
make 1t frightful in its results.
The President is to consider
not his own gentle feeling, but
how best to protect the nation.
The only way is to have your
poison ready, then warn others
to keep away by shaking your
xattles. ..-.
It is sad, but it is so, and so Mum
sey must know it. Nobody had
poison gas when the war started,
, everybody had it when it ended.
The Same thing would happen
akain in some worse form. To be
ready is the only remedy for for
eign wickedness.
More interesting to Americans,
women especially, than any con-
ference talk, is Mrs. Cassidente, Of
Denver. She was accused of neg
lscting five children. The judge
suggested that the lady undergo a
surgical operation to prevent the
arrival Of any more children; |;
otherwise he threatened to take
the children away from her.
The Judge explains that the idea
was suggested by somebody else
IN the courtroom and taken up by
him merely as interesting.
That's q new thought, to remedy
|1(( lone defects by surgery.
That mother might well suggest
/ soms kind Of an operation on civil
ixat1cn, or on some of the men re-
sponsible for what is called civil
isation.
In old days, when newspaper
circulation was made rapidly, the
bright young city editor would
print in q row five children Of
some wealthy citizen dressed In
spotless white, trimmed with fur,
and, below, in another row, the
five Cassidente children, thin,
dirty, and neglected-with this
question, Whose fault is It, the
mothers fault or the fault Of the
bank account?"
A stupid saying is, "She might
st least keep her home and her
children Clean" Cats are natural
IL clean, but the gutter cat is
muddy, not that it Is innately q
dirty cat, but because fate has
made 1t . gutter cat. While
civilization makes gutter mothers
you will have gutter children.
J win Hays, Postmaster General,
says female postmasters may get
married to their hearts content;
they shall not lose their jobs.
Some fossil had worked out a
theory that when a woman mar
ried, Uncle Sam should discharge
her. Hays, an American citizen in
thought as well as by birth, says
an American woman has the same
rights As regards getting married
and holding q job as an American
man. That's one step forward.
Another, step would be to raise the
female postmaster's pay when she
does get married or, at least,
when the first child arrives.
That would add generosity to
Justice.
The blow has fallen. The Daily
Mail, Of London, stops printing
Wslls' articles, can't see anything
useful In them.
Northcliffe would see something
IN the articles. You can learn
more studying II. G. Wells at the