The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-17

Caruso's Fine Life.
The Old Are Courageous.
No Brown-Faoed Rule.
The Scrub" Father.
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have a simple plan. They would
take five hundred million dollars
annually from the wages Of more
than a million men and use the
money for dividends, thus putting
the roads on a profitable basis.
How does that impress you!
Which is more important TO the
nation, dividends for a few stock
holders, or fair pay and decent
living for more than q million
men?
After years of stock watering,
railroad looting, rebsting, and
wasteful competitive building,
the roads announce that they
-fsce . crisis" and must raise
rates, cut wages, or 60 bankrupt"
There is a fourth possibility, Coz
sr~nsent ovnership, and it is the
only sane solution.
Bad news comes of Caruso as
this is written. But if he must
die. he will go with the satisfac-
tory knowledge that the entire
world has heard him sing, through
the talking machine, and will con-
tinue to hear him indefinitely. No
human being perhaps in all the
worlds history, excepting great
creative genius, has given to so
many people intense, inspiring,
spiritual pleasure. No one could
f, ask a better life than that.
Is Caruso's voice part Of his inn
mortal soul, developed in that soul
through the ages, or is it an &C
cidental physical development OF
vocal chords? In heaven will he
sing like everybody alse or SO
.llch better as to make the angels
stop, listen, and say, "Ssh, Hark!
that's Caruso."
As men get older their courage
increases. 1t may be because ma
ture, nearly done with them, al
lows the instinct of self-preserva-
tion to become weaker. Certain
it is that the old are braver than
the young, although not as strong.
DR.. Evan Kane, sixty years old,
removed his own appendix last
Tuesday, which means, Of course,
that he took no gas. He cut into
his own tissues, bending over to
the lower right hand side to watch
the knife. That takes firmness.
He is doing well.
If this country fights Japan,
says Lenin, Russia will be against
Japan. He tells the truth; every
Russian knows it, AS the early
settlers in the American colonies
felt toward the Indians and their
I war paint, 50 the Russian peasant
feels toward the brown races of
the Japanese. For more than
thousand years the people of Rus
sia have seen Tartars, Huns, all
the fierce murderers from the
East, with high cheek bones and
slanting eyes, come swooping
down upon them, wave after wave.
Genghis Khan, Attila, and
hundred lesser marauders swept
westward through Russia, killing
and stealing as they went, and
came back still killing and steal
ing.
The hundred and eighty million
Russians that hate Japan as the
leading brown-faced. nation are
the best guarantee against the
"Asiatic world empire that. ac-
cording to Lenin, the Japanese are
planning. This country would do
we'll to make peace with Russia,
then help her TO a permanent basis
of republican government, in
which the acquisition of wealth
would soothe violent radicalism.
Another wise step would be to
help China, nation of peaceful,
honest, and thoughtful men, and
thus establish balance of power in
Asia. Two or three American
billions and a score of American
organizers would soon enable
China's hundreds of millions to
regulate Asia for Asiatics without
any foolish world conquest dream.
The white men are going to rule
the earth. because they are a lit
tie nearer to civilization than the
other colors. Not brown men, or
yellow men, or black men, or the
hairy Anus that once owned
Japan, are destined to rule. Black,
white, yellow, and brown will dis
appear. and go through their later
ncarnations in white skins, and
hat ought to suit them, just as II
Iits the white rulers now to be
i'd Of the red hair, projecting jaws,
I'D great canine teeth that once
.lrked them all.
The Government is going into
the education Of farmers, after the
fashion of Ben Franklin in his Poor
Richard Almanac. A circular sent
out by the Department of Agri-
culture tells farmers to get rid of