The Washington times., 1921-10-12

The Hangman's Rope.
Henry Ford's Best Side.
Son Of Heaven. Detroit.
10 Your Heart Hungry?
ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright IsJ1.D

policeman, killed his wife. throw
Ing her into the water, and now
cSnfesses, saying; II don't know
A stout, indignant gentleman at
the Statler Hotel, addressing q
stranger, says. "He did 1t because
his wife had a $4,000 house and
he wanted to put another woman
In It. He wouldn't have done 1t II
he had known they would put the
rope around his neck. But they
have no capital punishment IN
Michigan. Give me capital punish
Many have the idea that, with
hanging, murder decreases. 1t
does not. 1t increases.
Torture Of witnesses, including
torture Of innocent people, accused
Of no crime, tortured to make them
cell and convict others, was stopped
after the French revolution.
Learned judges said: 1--WE cannot
administer justice unless we have
the right to torture witnesses.
But justice Is still administered.
Murder is not encouraged by
decency chat forbids capital pun
ishment, but by ferocity that IN
flicts savage punishment. When
they hanged men for stealing sheep
there was more sheep stealing than
now. Ravaillac was not diverted
from his murder Of Henry Nv by
his knowledge that he would be
hideously tortured and finally
killed by having molten lead poured
into his body.
Not hanging, electrocuting, tor
turing, burning or boiling will end
crime. But education will end It,
and the setting Of q good example
by government, which should rep
resent the fruits Of education.
Hoover is reported in favor
Of q heavy cut in The pay Of
railroad employees. It Is very
easy to suggest cutting other
mems pay to solve the difficult
ties Of your own class.
What the American plan
should be Is shown in the an
nouncement that Henry Ford
set q new record in wages for
.'lumberjacks," men getting tim
ber out Of his forest holdings.
The men will work through tho
winter for Henry Ford, getting
81 q day and their board. He
could hire them for half that.
Every dollar that Ford pays
out to lumberjacks or other
workers goes into circulation,
helps the country. Every dollar
that is cut off the wages of rail-
road men accumulates in Wall
Street, does not help anybody,
worries the wives of good work.
era, epts down the, comfort Md
well-being Of their children.
This is q small, much-chanYed
world since the Son of Heaven sat
in his Middle Kingdom" sup
posed to be the Middle Of tho
Earth, dimly knowing that bar
barians lived outside The Inter-
national Chinese American Con-
ference meets in Detroit, far from
the imperial temples and palaces,
and its object is to Influence
this Government and obtain
recognition for Sun Vat Sun as
President of the Republic of
South China. There is in De-
troit a Chinese parade with
placards, Americans love fair
play; give China a chance"
The bones Of the ancestors,
even the placidity of great Con-
fucius, would be shaken by
such modernism as this.
Elinor Glyn, interesting lady,
goes back to Europe from the
Hollywood Moving Picture Col
ony in California, leaving this
last word:
america is land Of hungry
hearts," She is sorry for Amer
ica.
Mrs. John A. Logan. widow Of
the general, went through the
English lake country coaching
with Elinor Glyn, then a pleasing,
red-haired young girl named
long ago. lnis WTIlcT
went on that party. Mrs. Lo-
gan, who writes sometimes.
ought to answer Mrs. Glyn's de-
scription of the hungry-hearted
United States.
Hungry hearts" here and
everywhere, but not always to
be pitied. A hungry heart at
least thinks, feels, lives. A
stuffed heart is dead. The
Bronte sisters lived, thought. and
wrote with very hungry hearts
In their desolate home. But from
those hungry hearts came some
of the best work that women
have ever done.
Are not women with hungry
hearts among those that sacri-
flee themselves in war. in char
itv. In teaching the poor2 The
world need not pity them.
It Is better to live and die
with hungry heart than to
miet its hunger with some ut
terly worthless masculine per
sonaIity. Better hunger than in
where the heart Is con-