The Washington times., 1921-12-29

Would Censor Isaiah.
Alcohol and the Widowev.
Happy BonfIls- Tammen.
That Wretched Farm Bloc.
ARTHUR BRrsBANE-
(CopyriGht. 1Ssl.)

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Yer, as good Q friend ~ the
women and children Of a city
ever had, took q good brain to
the bench and continued using
# after he got there. In New
York yesterday he described the
prevailing idiotic mania for CEN
aSrship well.
Censorship will weaken moral
character, preventing its devel-
opmsnt, by taking from youth
the responsibility of choosing
the right path, and from parents
the directing Of children"
Judge Lindsay comes in con-
TACT with hundreds Of girls and
hears their sad stories. He
Knows that the real troubles Of
youth are not reached by super
ncial censorship.
The duty Of police and courts
TO punish indecency, flagrant i'm
morality, and incentives to either
Is plain. And it should remain
the duty Of police and courts.
Enlightening and amusing is
some work Of highly. intellectual
censors that read and change
moving pictures. For instance.
In Philadelphia, the censors saw
. picture, "All for q Woman"
Nealing with the French Revolu-
ton. Danton makes fool of
! himself and a subtitle reads,
HE Who Neglects His Duty to
the State to Revel With Wantons
ls an Enemy Of the People. {"
The order of the censor reads:
Eliminate the word 'wantons'
from the subtitle"
Isn't that deliciously "pure?"
How fortunate for Timothy.
Isaiah, and the plain-spoken
James, brother Of Jesus, that
they died before the censor ar
rived. Timothy wrote:
But younger widows refuse:
For when they have waxed wan.
ton against Christ they desire to
marry"
James wrote:
"Ye have lived in pleasure on
the earth and been wanton."
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Magnificent old Isaiah tells you
that the Lord Himself used the
word that pure Philadelphia GEN.
sors forbid. Read the sixteenth
verse. third chapter--and by the
way. read all Isaiah. if only to
improve your English. before the
censors get at It:
Moreover, the Lord said: Be-
cause the daughters OF Zion are
naughty, and walk with stretched
forth necks and wantOn eyes,
walking and mincing as they 20.
and making a tinkling with their
feet"
What would the pure censors do
to that beautiful verse?
The whole censorship nonsense
will prove whether or not Ameri-
cans are. mentally. vertebrates or
jellyfish.
In Paris they feed chickens. and
in Strassburg geese. by stuffing
food down their necks. Are we
to take our morality in that fash
ION?
Chicago always tells the news
dramatically. "Moonshine struck
fifty Christmas celebrators, ac-
cordinG to yesterdays diagnosis
in the county hospital" That
r record was never euualed before
prohibition. And in addition to
being drunk and poisoned the
fifty Chicago patients "are suf-
fering from cuts and other in
turies Of a serious character, sus-
tanned in frenzied fights"
A sad widower, congratulated
on his fine display Of grief. said:
"That's nothing; you ought to
have seen me at the grave"
King Alcohol can say of the
old days, "They were nothing;
you ought to see me under pro-
hibition."
H. H. Tammen, and his men
tai twin, Bonfils, run the Denver
Post, and make it pay. Mr..
Tammen and his wife have Just
given a hundred thousand dol
lars to build new wing for con-
tagious and orthopedic diseases
on the Children's Hospital.
That's a good way to invest
profits; you can't lose your
money.
Publishers will understand the
Tammen-Bonfils prosperity when
<they hear that for the last four
years Tammen and Bonfils have
had a paper contract at 2.75-
and they have an option on
five-year extension. Happy Tam
men-Bonfils.
Old-style Republicans are
much disturbed by the "farm
bloc" made up of Senators who
seem to think that farmers, fruit
growers, millions that develop the
earth's wealth, really amount to
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