The Washington times., 1921-10-26


The question Is: How CAN ma
uonal life and work take on full
energy? An intelligent tyrant
might do it. considering only the
main end. disregarding individual
selfish interests. including "vested
interests" But a republic seems
net to know how.
Today's news, confirming the
arrest of Charles. formerly "of
Austria Hungary" and his wife
intimates that they will be held
prisoners of the allies.
That silly expedition did not
20 far, as anyone might have pre-
dicted.
There is talk of putting Charles
on some Elba. or Saint Helena
(which seems more trouble han
he is worth. Breaking the law.
he has caused the death of hun
dreds, and the quickest solution
OF his problem is to do to lin
what he, in his power, would have
done to an ordinary man.
Try him for murderously dis
turbing the peace of Europe. and
If found guilty shoot him. He is
reported to be weeping, kept by
his wife from suicide. The sooner
this medieval relic goes to Join
the other Hapsburgs the better.
Here is weird news, coming
just as we thought we were. all
set on the national water wagon.
You may have all the beer your
doctor says you ought to have,
and all the wine-twenty-f bot
ties Of beer. two quarts of wine
at a time.
. Or spirits you may have only
"a pint in ten days-which is about
a pint too much.
The prohibition question could
certainly be settled, largely, by
making light wine and beer
EASY. whiskey HARD to get.
The new rule would give to the
Government some of the hundreds
of millions a year that the boot
leggers have been taking. And it
might help to cut down crime.
The defect seems to be the doc
tor part of it. If one man can
have beer because he has a doctor
that says he needs it, why can't
another have it simply because he
wants it?
The little man that has no obliging
doctor probably NEEDS the beer
more than the gentleman in the
limousine.
Last night it looked like no
krailroad strike for the present.
or a very weak, partial. futile
one.
Attorney General Daugherty is
quoted to the effect that a gen.
eral railroad strike would be a
conspiracy against the public,
new proposition. II would certain
ly be a calamity for the public,
and one not deserved.
The public, which permits the
roads, gives the land, and pays
the profits, should know how to
force Justice on both sides, in
stead of lying down and saying,
"Please walk on me-"
II Mr.. Daugherty can arrange
that, he will strengthen the gem
eral belief that Mr.. Harding
picked out the best man for the
attorney general job.
President Harding has gone
speech-making in the South, first
trip south since his election.
They will be glad to see and
hear him. The difference be-
tween North and South now,
happily, is the difference be-
!. tween New York and Chicago
brothers competing and stimulat-
ing each other.
General Armando Diaz, hero
of Italy, who turned the tide at
the Piave, is in America. When
Won see him and read his his
fory you are not surprised to
learn that Italy is recovering
from the effects of war more
rapidly than other European
nations.
Italy learned how to fight and
recover long ago with Hannibal
overruning the land. She re-
covered from perfumed dandies
and barbarian kings sitting in
rough furs on the throne of the
Caesars.
Italy has endured the invasion
sof Visigoths, Ostrogoths, long
beards from primitive, mid-Eu-
ropean forests, fierce, slant-eyed
.ayares pouring in from Asia.