The Washington times., 1921-10-20
Today
Taking Things Seriously.
Women Know Husbands.
Exit One, Enter Another.
u Spirits Came.
Arthur BRISBANE.
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! Lloyd George tells the Commons
me labor situation In England is
worse than at any time since the
Nspolsonic wars; "l,760,000 per-
sons arc unemployed" We have
three times as many unemployed
mere and are not especially excited
about it-although we may be-
come excited later.
Lloyd George asks Parliament
TO give him q million and half to
send soldiers to settle in the Brit
ish colonies. where the government
mas already located sixty thousand.
They talss Unemployment seriously
over there. and actually do things.
Our speciality ID discussion. At
this particular moment we are sp-
psrently drifting into a railroad
strike, for which there is absolutely
no excuse.
Mrs. Constance Moffett wanted
Q divorce from William. Judge
Mandell told her she was the
grosn-eyed monsters victim and
Imagined things. Silly jealousy.
was the judges verdict. Go home
and patch It up" A Judge must
30 wise to know when jealousy is
foolish or sound. "The heart
knoweth his own bitterness" and
the wife knoweth her own hus-
band.
The Judge sympathized with hus-
band William, who packed up and
moved because his wife was so
Jealous. Far above human weak
nesses,. the judge doesn't know
that righteous indignation" is the
strong suit Of husbands, especially
when guilty.
The peace treaty with Ger
many Is signed. One war is Of
ficialiy over. The other war,
between railroad owners and
workmen threatening to fight
out their little quarrel on the
chest OF the public, is still men,
acing.
The President intends to pre-
vent It II there is in the Gov
ernment legal authority to do
20. One group of $4,000 men
on the Pennsylvania railroad,
the highly important trainmen,
refuse to Join the strike. This
indicates division among the
workers that may prevent effec-
tive action.
II that railroad war should go
through to q finish it might in
jure this country through stag
nation Of business, lack Of en-
ployment and stirring up Of
class hatred, more than the
country was-injared blythe late
war.
The National Spiritualist As
sociation is holding its annual
meeting in Detroit, and spirits
are rising to the occasion. A
respectable crowd of ghosts To-
Gated the meeting in the armory
and sent special messages to
Miss Susie c. Clark and others.
How much the dead might do
to enlighten the world!
If ten million dead from
the battlefields could rise and
walk through the streets of the
worlds cities, trailing their
bloody garments, with ten mil.
lion others killed by the "flu"
following and sneezing in the
rear, that would perhaps make
the world realize that war, in
ternational or industrial, does
not pay.
A public official, seeking evil
dence against Arbuckle in con-
nection with a deadly, drunken
orgy, encounters a sad personal
loss. Somebody stole his hand
bag containing important papers
and a bottle of Uhiskey. Long
ago shipwrecked sailors on the
French coast, seeing on the sky
line a gibbet and dangling skele-
ton, exclaimed feryently, THANK
God, we have reached civiliza-
Will the future American,
crawling up from the wreck and
welcomed by the local bootleg
ger, say, THANK God, / have
reached civilization"
What Is the character Of rail-
road workers whose wages are to
he cut? What kind of fight would
they probably put up IL all went
out? While the war was on Mr..
stone, chief of the locomotive en-
pinecrs, was asked to supply forty
Volunteer engineers to run war
tanks, "men almost willing to COM
NIT suicide"
Mr.. Stone Immediately furnished
the names of four hundred in his
union anxious to go. A pity that
such men be compelled to strike
against the people and the indus
tries of their own country in the
effort to retain part Of the wage
increase that the war gave them.
Straws blowing in the right
direction are welcome in these
days. In Detroit eleven out of four
teen industries are increasing the