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The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Head of the Family.

MO wonder the National Woman's party is
~ on the warpath in full regalia, for the full
political and civil rights of women. Many men
thought they already in possession OF these,
more But this a delusion. 1t was an
argument from their particulars to general
conclusion. What may be fact is not law, at least
not in Michigan.
That States Supreme Court has handed down
decision which makes Michigan gather
together and among themselves talk with great
confidence. They are like "Jiggs" who. clinging
to the chimney on the roof, proclaimed himself
master of his own house. That is what the Mich
igan court says Michigan husbands are. 1t finds
where, we are not told-that "the husband is
the head of the family and has the right at COM
mon law to regulate his household and to exercise
general control in family management" Possibly
the court had a mental reservation that right
was one thing and the exercise of right quite
another.
But why have such law, common or other
wise? 1t is which is more precious in its
breach than in observance What sane man
wants the bother of the general control in family
management, if he can unload this on his dear
wife? Why should the father. who, to his chill
dren, is so often but "the who sits with
mother on the front porch Sunday afternoons,
want or have the general or any other control
of those children?
The family household, with the care, training
and management of the children, is the natural
portion of responsibility of the wife and mother
The father who assumes indeed does not refuse
the obligation Of discipline, is apt to be unwei-
come to his own children, his homecoming to be
dreaded and his presence resented We are tor
m. eampaien of the woman's party, only they
do not 60 far enough. The law should give
woman not alone full and equal political and
civil rights, but should place upon married women
the distinct obligation of the general control oi
the household management
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Construction in Copmand.

The Herald sees IT, the one outstanding re-
~ suit OF the world has been to show that
the future of all countries and all peoples
must rest on economics, not as in the past, upon
militarism. Economics was slowly pushing its way
into human consciousness the fundamental of
world progress and union before the war came. But
the results have shown that is purely destruc-
tive that it rolls backward and that unless basis
of economic adjustment is found, the other way is
destruction, if not extinction.
In the past all history has been based mill
tary achievement The growth of nations has led
only through wars. through acquiring by force.
Political advancement has come through revolution.
All development has been seen through the medium
of war. The school books have treated mainly, al
most exclusively, of war, and children have been led
to think of progress being adjunct of military
strife of conquest. of the survival of the physically
fttest. Starting in geography, there has been this
same theory shown in fact as every country has
sought to fix its boundaries the basis of defen-
sive and offensive advantage, not productive de-
velopment.
From childhood up, all people have studied war,
thought war, glorified war. Tracing historical Sc
quence from Biblical times through the classics the
crusades. the age of chivalry, the dark ages, the
medieval period and the modern, down to 1914, it
has all been in the terms of whatever phase Of
civilization was considered. The subject least con-
sidered in the schools found in the elemen-
tary courses and little emphasized until very recent
years even in the colleges, was economics. Yet its
study or understanding should begin when geo.
graphy begins.
From that day it should be an integral part
of every study and it will be development from
the fact that all the world is thinking in terms
of economics the basis of both world advance
ment and world agreement. People are coming to
realize that through progress and peace can find
union; that it does not express war, but quite the
contrary; that it has been msused excuse for
war, misused because it was made to carry advant-
age, monopoly, political dominance. oppression and
all that is exclusively wrapped up in militarism.
If the Washington conference succeeds. it will
be through the governments represented taking this
new view Of their future and of international
relations.-It will represent the first effort of
tons to reach agreement on this basis OF mutual
fair play 1t will be the first effort to throw ruin
in the discard and put construction in command.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Canal Tolls Question.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
1t Is difficult for one who has
adopted The Herald as his political
bible. to the exclusion of former
favorites. to understand how a
journal which SO thoroughly ex-
posed the false pretensions of a
local street railway corporation
how such a leader of public opinion
can plead the cause of our trans
continental railways against the
Panama Canal, as you do in the
editorial headed Free Tolls"
In doing SO you also plead the
cause of our Canadian competitors
who. while refusing us the simplest
reciprocity, wish to use our canal
the building of which every British
interest, every transcontinental
railway hindered and opposed-to
use IL without the slightest invest
ment of even a British penny. to
the disadvantage of its builders.
You say, in comment on your
quotation from Secretary StinsOn's
report, that transcontinental rail-
road rates have increased more in
proportion than water rates. Ex-
actly so; they always do, say from
three to fve fold, which is again
multiplied by various middlemen
until those tolls. paid by our coast
wise vessels in complete contradic-
tion of our unbroken practice and
our treaties with the dear mother
country" for more than 100 years,
really cost the American consumer
ultimately from fiwe to fifteen times
their actual benefit to the U. S.
Treasury, in the name of which this
plea is made, by Legislators who
have just voted a black bonus
to Colombia, for the acknowledged
benefit of the oil trust, of s25,00O,-
900.
Your citation is unfortunate for
your argument. since 1t proves the
opposite, the American case, COM
pletely.
As to other nations, of which
your international leanings make
you so considerable, can't you trust
them to take care of their own in
terests? Can't you trust the Brit
ish diplomats, so far superior as
they are to ours, headed by Lloyd
George.
Are we to learn nothing from
Mr.. Wilson's experience and ex-
ample, when dealing with these
same experts, who justly, as the
premier OF Australia has said. re-
gard us as amateurs and tyros in
the gamer He used such argu-
mehts and methods as your edi-
torial recommends and could not
even bring home joint cable rights
on an Insignificant Pacific island.
/ hope America will not repeat
that stupidity of bargaining for
both sides while her history en-
dures.
And you mistake the feeling Of
American voters also.
The entire Roosevelt contingent
spews out the Colombian treaty
with nausea and will hold the ad-
ministration to strict account for
any further disregard of pledges.
Politicians. who think to make capi-
tai or votes by belittling Roose-
velt's memory must crank again.
A YOUNG OCTOGENARIAN.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Imperial Pie.

e PAIN and Morocco fine example of the
~ unwholesomeness Of imperial pie. In that
sshort period which closed the last century, the
nations of Christian Europe awoke to the fact
that the heather world was nearly divided up
among them, and there veritable scramble
for what was left. So intense was the rivalry
that it was necessary for to take piece
Of piece, and Spain got a piece of Morocco.
no use for it and was not capable of being of
value to it.
1t has been thorn in her flesh, a constant
drain upon her revenues and quite as much
drain on the lives of her people. 1t has been a
stupid day when Morocco did not start new
rebellion, and the present one will cost Spain
more, just in money, than she can gain in trade
or commerce in 100 years from this possession.
Nor is Spain alone. Germany's overseas pos
sessions were but burden and an increasing
source of expense. Italy, in Tripoli, and France,
in the split with Spain. both got what it would
have prohted them hundredfold to have left
alone or to an enemy. 1t, was about this time
the United States got the Philippines, and recently
Great Britain has been trying to get rid of part
of her territorial gains from the last war.
IL all the nations in all the world could agree
to the open-door policy everywhere; to apply the
Monroe doctrine everywhere it would be untold
blessing TO them all. Then equal opportunity
in trade and commerce with the right of invest
ment would be for them all. Helpful develop
ment providing facilities for native people to
benefit from their resources, would increase
almost infinitely productive and purchasing power
and needs which make up the sum and substance
of world trade.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Japan's Expansion.

uAPAN'S chief plea for world sympathy is that
j she must find room outside her own boundaries
for her excess of population. From this comes her
contention for equality of the races. With more
oeope than her own territory will support her sur
plus population must emigrate and in this, she de-
mands the privileges granted to others, OF
going where they will and sharing equally in the
worlds economic advantages. But the United
States bars her people, does Canada, and even
more rigorously Australia and South Africa. This,
too, hurts her pride, her national and race pride.
Is it true that Japan is SO overpopulated and,
more than other countries, must have an outlet for
her people? She has 200 to the square mile Bel
gum has 6so Holland 483, Great Britain 1913, Italy
,IS, Germany $40, Switzerland 234 and Austria
Hungary 2o7. 1t must be said in fairness, that all
of these other countries have more arabic land, a
more productive and fertile soil and more diyersi-
fled land production unless Switzerland be an ex-
cepton But the fact remains that she is not over
crowded
Moreover, Japan has never colonized her own
lands. Formosa is sparsely settled, is Sakhalin.
Her people do not go there and not induced to
do so. Manchuria on the mainland. is capable of
supporting much larger population than it has and
Japan has a large measure of control there. 1t
would provide ample room for her people, as would
Siberia Why should they insist that they must
cross the Pacific to find settlement and oppor-
tunity? Why must they have the right to share a
century of development in which they have had no
part?
1t was not room for her people that took her
into Shantung, which is more densely populated
than her own islands. 1t is not because her people
have nowhere else to 60, that she insists they must
come to the United States. Race equality is not
essential to the Japanese having aboundant elbow
room. But they have stomach for pioneering.
They are not developers. 1t is not new lands they
want. They never discovered, any place,sor any
thing. Their desire is to share the other mans
harvest; they want to build on the other mans
foundation They lack the initiative the individual
ism and self-reiiant daring of the pioneer. But
when harvest is assured. they quite. ready to
dare it
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Hope for the Righteous.
To the Editor. The Washington Herald:

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Permit me to elaborate a bit on
the thought of the new earth being
Inhabited by the redeemed, as ad-
vanced by Robert Bruce McCalley
In the open Court" of October 4. 1
agree with him that the day is COM
Ing when millions will be living on
the earth who will never die"
We are told in the Bible that the
Lord Himself shall descend from
heaven with shout, with the voice
of the archangel and with the trump
of God; and the dead in Christ shall
rise hrst: then we lthe righteous)
which are alive shah be caught up
together with them in the clouds.
TO meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall We ever be with the Lord" 1
believe all the righteous from Abel
down will be included in this COM
pany, hence many millions in num-
Der
I The Bible also says that this COM
pany will be with Christ in heaven
thousand yeats. judging the wick
"a. among othek things, and at the
close Of this miifsQnium. will return
70 the earth, and iAhabit 1t eternal
~ IN it, purified state. God will
dwell with them, the Bible states,
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08

same attitude. The Kiwanians have voted that
each employing member will find place for at
least more man. Every householder is urged
to make now such improvements and bctterments
their properties as are needed desired. while
the Advertising Club win promote retail buyers
week to put money in circulation and so increase
productive demand.
These are all good all essential parts of whole.
They will materially help in turning the minds
Of the people to this problem and its solution.
More effective will be the rushing of all possible
public work to the hands of the contractors. The
building, construction and repairs authorized
should be put under way at the earliest possible
day, without waiting teehnicalites. There is
work enough Of this nature to probably employ
most of those now idle during the winter, and
winter construction of buildings is entirely prac-
tcable in this latitude.
Another source of immediate employment would
be cleanup for the international conference next
month Many dingy buildings are having their
faces washed. Far more need it. As fact, prac-
tcally every government building needs thor
ough scrubbing. Many of them do not seem to
have experienced this since they were built. 1t
Congress would rush special appropriation for
this, it would help lot and set good example
for private citizens
Washington, Of all the cities in the United
States, must not have bread line, nor soup
house. We believe its citizens are determined
it shalI~ not Chicago has a. plan that IS worth
mention: Backed by business men, the Salvation
Army pays the unemployed $I.5o day to hunt
work. They are given cards with the names OF
places where they are to call. They report back
in the evening with signatures to show they have
made the applications. The pay is just enough
for food for their families, for room and meals
The moral is not far to seek.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
The Coming Victory of Pro.
hibitiOn.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
In view of the numerous attacks
made upon prohibition (many of
them, undoubtedly, by financially
interested person., it is desirable
that those in favor of this great
and beneficent measure should de-
clare themselves. Let us, therefore
state the case. briefly, and without
conscious cXaggeration.
The United States of America,
the worlds greatest republic, the
historic champion of freedom, the
richest. the most powerful, the
most progressive and practical ma
tion on earth. the decisive factox
in a world war. and recent chief
arbiter of a worlds destinies:
This vast country of 10000, ,00O
inhabitants, at the very summit OF
its prestige and influence, with
every eye in the world upon il, has
deliberately renounced a vice which
has injured. degraded and humili-
ated mankind through all the ages
Wonderful,
Providentiali
For. where America has led, the
world will. eventually. follow.
BERTRAND SHADwELL.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Defends Bible as Inspired.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
/ have written several articles which
you have published in Open Court.
giving as authority the Bible. have
unquestioned faith in its being an in
spired volume. There is no other work
that has in its own words that power
that Will transform a sinner into a
Christian. 1t gives the most logical
account Of the creation OF this world.
IL Is possible to twist any Scripture
until 1t seems to contradict some other
scripture, but IL let alone and prayer
fully studied, 1t will be found 10 be a
perfect harmony.
When / read the Bible I begin with
the beginning and read through IL 10
the last word Of the Revelation. MANY
people read a text here and there with
out studying what the text refers to
No one would read a letter by read.
ing the first page. then the postscript,
men the third page. then the second
yet this plan is followed by many
In Bible study. While il contains
sixty-six books, IL is one complete
story with one central figure. Jesus,
the Redeemer. one central thought. the
plan OF salvation for mankind. 1t is
Gods revelation of spiritual things 70
man. All other works are mans reach.
Ing out after God.
According to the Christian Scien.
lists theory. which was recently given
in open Court" the world war was
nothing, as matter is unreal. 1t was
sumciently real to those Of us who
went through it. When / read argu-
ments attempting to destroy the
Bible. I am reminded OF the express
sion Of the great Teacher Himself
when he said: Wisdom is justified of
her children" One man claiming 10
be a Scientist. wrote an article re-
Gently giving the creation of the
world: Might laid n great egg and
out Of this egg was Matched the ma
terial stun from which this world was
created" When ! see the monkeys
In their cages at the Zoo. they do not
seem TO have evolved mentally very
far. despite the 5000 years Of their
history.
Two scientists recently gave the age
OF the world in millions OF years. but
there were millions OF years OF dis
crepancy in their two accounts. One
figured it by the salt OF the sea. But
there are many accounts OF why the
sea is salt.
l prefer to accept: He spake and
II was. He commanded and il stood
fast" "In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth"
PEARL l.. TRUMAN.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Parade Will Warn
OF Hungry Flames

Charles Darr. chairman OF the COM
mittee on observance Of Fire Proven
tion Week. and L. V. Seib. fire mar
shall. will head the parade Of the
firemen's hand and two decorated
horse-drawn hose wagons. which will
invade every section of Washington
Monday to preach fire prevention. ac-
cording to plans announced by Fire
Chief Watson yesterday.
The parade will pass through the
shopping districts and government
departments about noon and will
reach the suburbs later In the day.
Watson said. 1t probably will be the
last parade in which fire horses win
appear. Four thousand signs. telling
of fire dangers. were received by the
fire department yesterday and will be
distributed in show windows and
throughout stores by police.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Washington Of the First.

wv ASHINGToN is one of the first cities to
w respond to the call of the Unemployment
Conference and organize to provide work for the
jobiess of this community. This is as it should
be in the Capital of the country. There is to be
an employment register to list those needing
work. 1t may be found that Associated Charities
and the Salvation Army now have records which
will greatly simplify this work.
The Chamber of Commerce has voted full CO.
operation. otsaF civic bodies known to have the
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
BOTANICAL SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS.

DR.. W. Z. Stafford. Of the Bureau
Of Plant Industry, was elected
president OF the Botanical Society
at its last meeting. and DR.. II. l.
Shantz. Of the same bureau. wa,
made vice president The following
officers were reelected: DR.. L L.
Harter. treasurer; r. C. Pierce, re-
cording secretary. and r. Kept
Beattie. corresponding secretary
DR.. Charles +. ChaSnbliss. retiring
president, was elected the vice pres-
ident of the Washington Academy
Botanical Society.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08

went with Mrs.
Gerard and Mr..
and Mrs. Elbert
H. Gary to attend
{ h e centennial
celebration of the
attainment OF in
d e p e n d ence by
Mexico.
"Obregon." Ger
ard said on his
return. "is an ex-
Iceedingly inter-
esting parsonage.
HE Is Nself-made.
Ia S he himself
Iputs 1t, he earn
ed his bread In
the sweat of his
brow during the
earlier years of
his life, and the
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Pilgrims Were Not Puritans.

10 the Eoitor. The Washingt ton Herald:
1 cannot understand why A. @.
NJ, who claims descent from the
the Pilgrims. confounds them with
the Puritans who came to the coun-
try in 1S2S-30 and settled in salem
and Boston. The Pilgrims were not
hypocritical or bigots: they were
not religious fanatics but were a
peaceful law-abiding sect as shown
by the compact drawn up and sign
ed by them in the cabin of the
Mayfiower before landing was
made. They established even then
liberty under law. The Puritans
had nothing to do with this COM
pact Cannot the difference in
these two sects be understood? The
Pilgrims, coming in 1920, establish
ed the Plymouth Colony; the Puri-
tans, coming In 162S-3o, established
the MASSACHUSETTS, Bay Colony.
All the quotations-no matter
how offensive-one may be able to
gather will not establish any SEM
biance between these two sets of
pioneers.
Histories all give the same in
struction. but the legendary lore
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Open C6urt Letters to The Heralh
NSYaEaflrS5RDaa&sp &sSaSSrEsI fE{A

given to one by grandparents and
parents who have been school chill
dren in that historical settlement
called Plymouth, and the now cele-
brated pageantry presented this
past summer. only clinch even more
the knowledge that the Pilgrim
colonists were the forerunners of
all that was to make a strong. Wig
orous enduring nation.
Not resorting to initials. ] am
proud to sign myself.
BERTHA MURDOCH ROBBINS.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
TIMELY VIEWS
NOT IN THE NEWS

In General Obregon, Mexico has a
President well qualified for many
reasons to succeed in restoring
tranquility and prosperity in the
country. That Is the opinion ex-
pressed by James w. Gerard, Ameri-
can Ambassador to Germany dur
ing the first three years of the
world war.
Gerard has just returned from a
visit to Mexico City. where he
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08

"and they shall be his people, and
God himself shall be with them, and
be their God. And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes. and
there shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying. neither shall
there be any more pain: for the
former things are passed away
Every soul should long for the
ushering in Of such a condition. All
who keep the commandments of
God and have the testimony of
Jesus" will share in the reward
that is yet to be given.
WALTER l.. BURGAN.
Washington u
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Founding of Mt. Pleasant

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
Mount Pleasant was commenced
in 1866 by the opening of Howard
street and the erection thereon of
five houses, r. p. Davis (who was
superintendent of schools at that
time) being the leader of the
movement. Each residence had a
full acre of ground, so situated as
to be divided when desirable, the
cost at the time being $3.50.
JAMES KEATING'
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08

head the newly-formed women In
industry service in the Department
of Labor. She made the service such
a success, according to government
ofncials, that the service begun
as a war measure, was continued
after the armistice.
Miss Van Kleeck is a native OF
New York. having been born In
IGlenham. Duchess County. that
State. She won her A. b. degree
at Smith College and then studied
at Columbia. lnishing her studies
there in 1917. Her efforts In in
vestigating the hours OF work Of
women and child labor conditions
lin New York in lse5ie7. won her
her first recognition In the indls-
trial neld
The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
Time Solves Mysteries.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald.
Like gorgeous pearls in ugly oys:
ter-shells,
Great truths are found in unex-
pected places;
And many mysteries of eternity
Are told by time as on and on II
races
EDWARD J. IRVINE.