The Washington times., 1921-04-04

Thanks Due the President.
From a Rich Lawyer.
More Bad Girls.
No Cosmic Sabbath.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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It is announced that Washing
ton will arrange to send one mil
lion bales of surplus American
cotton to Germany and Belgium.
to be paid for in American money
at fair price to the growers.
For this effort to solve the cot
ton problem, the South may thank
President Harding. When he was
at st. Augustine, before the in
auguration, he told this and other
reporters of his deep interest in
the great problem of the South.
And later, commenting on a pub
lcation in Mr.. Hamilton's Augusta
Chronicle, he wrote to this writer,
expressing his determination to do
everything possible to help the
South in the disaster caused by
the crash in cotton prices.
The only solution. of course, is
to help Americans sell to Central
Europe. which would gladly use,
and needs, all our excess for its
idle mills.
Telegran-( Chicago, April 81:
"Please contribute $3.50 to Marie
Curie Radium Fund, from me, in
memory Of Nancy Hanks. mother
of Abraham Lincoln.
LEVY MAYER"
That gift would please Nancy
Hanks and her mother Lucy, the
two women from whom Lincoln got
all his power. They would be glad
to know that men at last begin
to respect woman's mental power.
Somebody should equal Levy
Mayors contribution, in memory
of Sarah. Lincoln's stepmother,
who helped with his education
and tidied up his shiftless father.
If the Marie Curie Fund needs
more money, by the way. it need
not hesitate to ask Levy Mayer
for more. He is the richest law
yer in the world.
bad girls increasing here" says
the distressful headline. The
virtuous and the philanthropic are
aroused. They say "the incorrigi-
BILE girl is on the increase. 1t is
a crying shame that the cities do
not provide facilities to meet the
problem"
Detention houses are wanted, it
seems. The situation Is SO seri-
Gus that the good ladies' even orr
ganize a luncheon. "Among those
present: Mrs. Vanderbilt, jr., Mrs.
Vanderbilt Webb, ex-Ambassador
Gerard"
What more could you ask, and
still the bad girls won't turn
good. How would it be to investi-
gate the bad MEN for a change.
Ex-Ambassador Gerard surely
knows, Mrs. Vanderbilt, jr., and
Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb probably
know that one thoroughly, bad girl
represents the work OF half a
dozen thoroughly bad MEN. Why
are the men left out? War, profit
eering, change of location took
from them their self-control and
sense Of decency, and THEY are
responsible for the bad girls" that
grieve the luncheon party.
On the front page of big news
paper yesterday you might see two
pictures. You said: "Ha, the two
great scientists and Zionists. Elm
stein and Weizmann; I'll study
their faces" But not at all, the
two are Professors Wharton and
Beckwith. Beckwith killed Whar-
ton, then himself. Professors that
kill each other interest some of us
more than living scientists that
teach. Einstein and Weizmann are
on an inside page. That shows
where we stand, scientifically.
How old ideas stick. Neither
Einstein nor Weizmann, good
Jews, would leave their ship On
Saturday before sundCwn. Sab
bath ends with sundown, and yot
must do no work, such as carry
ing valises, and do no travelling
in yaxis or otherwise Oil the Sab
bath. Both Einstein and Weiz-
mann, trained scientists, know we'll
that humanity has long since lost
track of the calendar and has not
the faintest idea on what day falls
the Christian or Jewish Sabbath.
They also know that this earth,
ruled by the Lord, travels steadily