The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-30

Harding's Style.
Innocent Switzerland.
A Cold Death.
Not From the Same Cow
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. ls21.)

The Chronicle, dislike President
Harding's English" and criticize
his style. Mr.. Harding could
easily make the English praise his
style.
He says: 1--WE want the biggest
navy" II he would say, 1--WE may
safely rely upon England's fleet to
protect u.s." that "style" would
please the English.
He says: 1--WE lent ten thou
sand millions to our friends in Eu-
rope and expect them to pay it
back instead Of spending it on war
ships" If instead he would say,
II have no intention of collecting
our foreign debts" that style
would suit all Europe perfectly.
1t isn't the Presidents Yankee
English" or any defect in his liter
ary style that bothers England.
It's the fact that he means what
he says, and talks American"
We don't realize how innocent
they are in Europe. The whole Of
Switzerland is startled because
bandits held up a bank cashier in
broad daylight and stole the
money. It had not happened in 100
years. Here we should be startled
II we read that no bandit had held
up bank in twenty-four hours.
When Monsieur Grevy was Pres
1dent of France he said to this
writer at his little country home
near Dole: Il was going to Amer
lea when / was young lawyer.
But ! heard how the father of my
client went into a barber shop in
the United States. They cut his
throat, then dropped him into a
cellar. So | stayed in France and
now, you see, am President OF
the Republic.
They are very innocent in Eu-
rope, and, generally speaking,
very good when they keep out of
war. .
Odell, boy of twenty-five, and
his wife manacled man, fastened
him to tree and cruelty butchered
him. The state, Mortified. mana
cles Odell, straps him into a chair
and butchers HIM. Other mur-
derers in the deathhouse waiting
their turn said Odell died bravely
and courageously because he
waved his hand and said, $50 long,
fellows" lightly. He died coldly.
not bravely. just as he had muir
dered coldly.
The man that feels little emo
tion killing others feels little emo
ton, when others kill him. He kills
because there is something lack
ing. The peoples government
should know that and not follow
his murderous example.
A representative of the United
States in the occupied German ter
ritory said one good thing: "You
can't get .beefsteak and milk from
the same cow" II the Allies de-
eide to butcher Germany now they
must not hope to milk Germany
for the next forty-two years. They
can take their choice, but they
can't have both.
Wall Street bets more than nine
to five that Dempsey will beat Car
pentier. Dempsey is younger,
taller, heavier, stronger. Carpen-
tier, besides being light, spent sew
eral years in the trenches-a han
dicap.
But Carpenter is as quick as
lightning. The French retain
vitality into old age. They eat
no soggy pie and never touch ice
water. In Dempsey's neck the
pneumogastric nerve is as near
the surface as in Carpenters
neck. II Carpenter happens to
land on the important nerve that
runs back of the big blood vessel
up to Dempsey's front brain, that
front brain won't know anything
And nine to five will seem foolish.
Sweetly amusing is the fact that
many Americans hope for Demp-
sey's victory on patriotic
basis" What patriotism Is there
in hoping that gentleman partly
Irish, partly North American In
dian, will beat another gentleman,
q mixture of Gaul and Roman?
Some workmen with Eight
hours for work, eight hours for
sleep. eight hours for what we
will" do not spend the eight
hours for what we will" in think
ing. Consequently some oppose
Government ownership. Let them
think this over:
Postmaster Hays says that
while the pay Of Postoffice en-
ployes had not been raised as
much as some others it ,Oould not
be reduced. Under Government
ownership of railroads, you would
not find the management ever
lastingly trying to make both
ends meet by taking a few dollars
from workmen. Government own
ership would pay the people, and
pay the workers. And it's COM
ing, after a long period Of re-
action.
Workers ought to devote a cou-
pie OF those "eight hours for what
we will" to thinking. Rockefeller
did; that's why he has time for
golf.