The Washington times., 1921-04-09

Trouble in Europe.
England Is No Russia.
Where Are the Poets?
Whites and Other Color
By ARTHUR BRISBAN
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In England real war seems near.
Army and navy reserves are call
ed out.
"The situation" shows railroad
workers joining coal miners in
their strike, which would tie up the
nation, and coal miners allowing
mines to be flooded and destroyed.
British workmen, unlike the
French and Italians, are not in
clined to violence, and Lloyd
George has infinite resource and
subtlety. There may still be a set
tlement, as nearly fair as is pos
sible with a few private individ-
uals that do not work imagining
that they "own" the mines and that
workmen, who alone give value to
mines, are vastly inferior to them.
1t is to be hoped that settle
nient will be reached, for chaos in
English industry would injure the
whole world.
If workers push on, needless of
consequences, they will be the chief
sufferers, and will find that ex-
treme measures in England are
different from extreme measures
in Russia.
The Russian workman, when he
doesn't like conditions, has choice
of two hundred Thousand villages
to which he may retire. Every
body has an aunt, an uncle. father,
or brother somewhere in the coun-
try. In Russia cities are jokes,
the country is the real Russia In
England the country is largely
joke, and cities are the real Eng
land.
1t makes no difference to Russia
that the population Of Petrograd
has been cut in two. But cut in
two the population Of London,
Manchester, Liverpool, and a few
other English cities, and you will
have no England left.
New York will spend 500, 900 to
build house Of poets, as "tribute
to culture and the arts"
A pleasant idea. It will please
those that write pleasant verse.
But where are the "poets 2" In this
age men say what they have to say
in prose, and briefly. Who can
mention a line of poetry written
within twenty-five years that will
last one hundred years.?
Men writing history five hun
5dred years hence may point,to a
book called "The Backward
Peoples and Our Relation to
Them" just published in England
by Sir Harry Johnston. Fewer
than three hundred million white
people, in England, France. Bel
gium, Holland, America, Italy,
Spain, Portugal, and Greece. in
terfere with and manage almost a
thousand million black, brown, and
yellow people, such as Chinese.
Tibetans, Africans, Persians.
Arabs, Kurds, Turks, etc.
Sir Harry Johnston thinks it
all right for three hundred mil
lions to manage a thousand mil
lions of other colors. That is the
English view.
1t may prove to be all right; it
may not.
The most hopeful thing for
whites is quarreling and antago-
nism among other races. Reading
in last nights dispatches Of IAN
outbreak and many killings in In
dia," you learned that the Asiatics
were not breaking out against the
English that boss them, but sects
were fighting each other about
revenues from certain very rich
"holy shrines."
The Chinese hate the Japanese
as they hate nobody else.
But some fine day big man of
the type of Genghis Khan might,
with his chessboard and deep
thinking, and with flying machines
instead of little ponies, come out
of the east, organizing the thou
sand million brown, yellow and
blacks in a way to surprise three
hundred million whites.
j. A. Thompson, professor of
natural history at the Scotch Uni
versity of Aberdeen, says that by
ard bv perhaps n million wears