The Washington times., 1921-09-02

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signs? He says (what you know
that the Versailles peace Is re-
sponsible for much Of the trou-
BILE. When you force seventy mil
lion skilled German workers TO
work on a Chinese labor basis
for just enough to keep alive
you invite trouble for the rest of
the world.
But ARE there real signs Of
prosperity? America looms
large as an actual potential fac
tor" etc. She does. but what
becomes Of feher potency IL she
hasn't any customers?
Wbef a farmer calls a veter.
ipGry to look at the COW. he
wants to know how sick the COW
is. It doesn't help the farmer
or the COW to say, "That's a fine
COW, of much potency" The
question is: How sick is she and
can you CURE her?
Our national COW is sick, and
our only veterinary. the national
Government, ought TO show more
signs of relieving 1t.
Solemn prediction. The idea
of knickerbockers for women will.
spread, especially for business
women.
It is a good idea, and men are
always ready for something new
that's TO their credit.
IL only somebody understood
knickerbocker salesmanship as
well as old Voltaire understood
selling silk stockings. When he
moved TO Ferney, on the Swiss
border, he had his own safety IN
mind. When they wanted to burn
him In France he would step. into
Switzerland. When deeply ear
nest Swiss Prdtestants began to
think he might make q good bon,
. fire, he could step. back 70 France.
He thought Of the poYr people
around him as wen as Of himself.
started various factories, includ-
ing q silk stocking factory. TO
give the peasants work. To
every old countess. marquise, and
duchess that he knew-and he
knew many, for his youth was
gay---he wrote along this line:
81 shall never be happy or think
my life well spent until I zee
pair of these beautiful stockings
on your ankle, which alone is
worthy to display them."
He usually got an order for
ten dozen. Statesmen for ladies'
knickerbockers, take notice. Write
to the dollar marquises Of New
port, the North Shore, Burlin-
game, the Back Bay, etc.
Mr.. Beck tells the Bar Associa-
tion that the world is lawless and
! quotes crime statistics to prove 1t.
He sees in the United States Con.
stitution the chief protection "for
the rights of the individual"
The Constitution can't prevent a
hold-up on, the highway or in the
price-fixing board of directors
meeting.
The Constitution in itself has
little power. It depends on silk
robed Justices that interpret it.
Once the Constitution said you
mustn't interfere with slavery. It
changed its mind. Later it said
you couldn't tax great incomes. 10
changed its mind. It says you
can't protect children from milk
that exploit their labor. 1t will
change It's mind on that.
Just now with conservative
majority, on the Supreme Bench,
we have a conservative Constitu-
tion. When the next big political
shake-up comes, in twelve or six
teen years, you will have q radical
Supreme Court and radical Com
stitution. Written words are moth
ing; living men decide. Ask the
ghost Of the Gar, Of Louis XVI,
or of Charles !.
Two such men as Brandeis and
Holmes on the Supreme Court
bench mean more to individual
freedom than anything In the Con-
stitution. For they can and do
write minority opinions that mod
crate the conservatism Of the ma.
jority.
The soldiers of New York, as Of
other States, were told, with flow
ing tears, bands playing flags
waving, wild emotion, that, FOR
EVER, nothing would be too good
for them.