The Washington times., 1922-10-06

Another King-More SOL
diers.
A Breathing Spell.
Mr.. Munsey Sees Red.
Woman-The Mender.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1s22.I

SioWIy Cnere, IN tnlS generation.
The new soldiers are wanted to
keep the Turks from taking
Thrace, when the allies say
walk in" But the allies and
Turkey combined will have their
way about it, and Thrace, where
the mother of Themistocles was
born, land whence the Celts
marched down to confer their
blue eyes upon the Greeks, will
be Turkish-until the next
shake up.
Business men are more cheer
full; they think a breathing spell
is coming. Bankers in New
York, nine thousand strong, are
deciding what is to be done
about money-which is the main
spring of civilized life just now.
"Stocks rise briskly," is the
Wall Street heading.
Perhaps more prosperity is
coming, although Frank Munsey
says he thinks it won't last.
We need a regular conservative
party. The old parties should
unite to fight dangerous radical
ism.
Munsey actually thinks our
Government is too radical.
Just now, in New York State,
the gentlemen Of safety vault
and ticker have arranged
politics in both parties on a
"heads I win. tails you lose"
plan. What could be more per-
feet than that. Frank Munsey?
Stocks go up and stocks 60
down, peace succeeds war. But
women are the same. Poor
Mrs. Mills, leader of the choir,
was found murdered beside the
body of the Reverend Mr..
Hall, her clergyman. Among
his letters is one from the
murdered Mrs. Mills saying,
"Oh, for the time when / can
do your mending"
Her days of mending, and
his, are over, and nobody
knows who killed them both.
Occasionally a mans foolish
ness causes him to be murder
ed, but men as a whole cannot
be too grateful for woman's
strange, persistent impulse to
do somebody's mending. They
have done it for a hundred
thousand years and are not
tired Of it yet.
Russia seeks some friendly
arrangement with France for
the benefit Of both. France
isn't friendly. She would like
to get from Russia the thou
sands of millions that French
peasants lent to the Russian
car.
The Bolsheviki say they will
recognize" that old debt, al
though they haven't money to
pay it.
Perhaps there will be a
reconciliation. France. thor
oughly tired of her deep war
friendship with England, is
looking around for some new
friends. And England is drift
ing back to the habit of sus-
pecting and disliking France.
Three French doctors, Mi
cole, Conner, and Conseil, of
the Pasteur Institute in Tunis,
believe that they have con-
uuered Asiatic cholera, the hor-
rible little comma-shaped
bacillus that has killed tens Of
millions. In their experiments,
they used their own bodies,
risking life, facing death every
day. That is courage worth
while.
While you praise those three
scientific white men, don't
forget the black man, an
African chief, anxious to save his
people from the horrible sleep
ing sickness. He went to ondon,
submitted himself to sleeping
sickness experiments, and died.
They have erected q monu-
ment to him and he deserves
It. Think of him sometimes
when you Judge the colored
race, not always of Mr.. Sikh,
the prizefighter.
In Haiti, where the people
are nearly all black, there are
now three births to one death.
Americans have taught them
sanitary methods, and have pre-
vented them numbering each
other in revolution. The popu-
lation is five times what it
was when Haiti revolted against
France. BY and by it will
overflow, then will come
another problem. If the white
mans science produces the
same comparative birth rate in
China, Africa, and other coun-
tries. what will be the answer
to the inevitable problem
Natives employed by our
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