The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-16

Remember the Maine.
Automobile News.
Our Pretty Civilization.
Fools and FIattery.

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by ARTHUR BRISBANR-l
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Twenty-four years ago yes
teruay there was an explosion
IN the harbor of Havana. Do
you still Remember the Maine?"
We were all excited then. went
INTO war and out again swiftly
and rather economically. Quite
Q difference In the cost of that
war, which was our own war,
and the last war, forced on US.
To millions of men in this
country II comes as q shock to
hear that Remember the Maine"
was first shouted twenty-four
years ago. II seems like yes
terday. Flying time reminds us
that II we ever mean to do any
thing, we ought to hurry.
Next stop will be the ceme-
terry.
Every piece of good news for
q big institution Is good news
for all Of the United States.
The Dodge Automobile Company
will presently finish building its
Dodge car number 100000. This
shows that the United States
still offers opportunity. 1t is
only q few years since the
Dodge brothers opened a ma
chine shop in Detroit with
$1,000 in cash and a little ma
chinery. To jump from that to
manufacturing a thousand mil
lion dollars worth of automo-
biles in less than quarter Of
the length of an ordinary life
time is something worth talking
about.
The other piece of automobile
news is the presence of Henry
Ford, supposed to be on a shop
ping trip yesterday in Marys-
vile. Mich. where the Wills
st. Clair car is manufactured.
Detroit is a lucky city. Good
news, increased prosperity in
any part of the United States
must mean good news for De-
troit. For an automobile is the
important part of real life. AS
soon as prosperity develops
anywhere, demand for new cars
also comes.
Here is a pretty picture of
civilization after 1900 years of
Christianity. Chicago has in
Jail a young man named Har-
vey Church and means to hang
that young man tomorrow.
Church has been trying to
starve himself to death to cheat
the gallows.
Magnificent civilization" has
been feeding him by force that
he might live to be choked to
death. Nothing quite like it
since the boy slapped his little
sister for killing a blue-bottle
fly. He wanted to kill it him
self. Yesterday the man tot
choked bit the doctor that was
feeding him by force. The
miserable creature will prob
ably be carried to the gallows
and hanged, strapped in chair,
as he will be too weak to walk
or stand.
What would you think about
all that if the news came from
the savages of the Congo?
How have women influenced
men and made fools of them
worse fools than they were nat
urally! We are indeed "as
God made US and sometimes a
good deal worse" as Sancho
Panza put it.
Consider Mr.. Taylor, middle
aged, rather worn-out person,
showing young ladies how to
register" various emotions be-
fore the camera. You'd think
youth would class him as sec
ond-hand and pass him by.
But a charming, beautiful
young creature in her teens
writes to him in school girl
code and begins her letter,
"What shall l call you? You
wonderful man." The wonder
full man, poor goose, looks at
himself in the glass, doesn't see
the wrinkles or the crows feet
pointing toward the grave. The
next thing he knows he is shot
perhaps by another man as
foolish as himself. Men make
flatterers of women, then the
flattery makes fools Of the men.
Wall Street news-"The New
Haven issues were a feature,
expressing confidence in the
success of the railroads appli-
cation for a Government loan
to pay its European debts"
II the Republicans want to
make absolutely sure of a Dem
ocratic Congress next fall. let
them find thirty-one million dol
lars to pay the foreign debts Of
a mismanaged railroad, Just as
they discover that they haven't
any money for a soldiers bonus.
They'll hear from that next fall.
Lawyers in Kalamazoo are
asked by the Young Mems
Christian Association "to urge
the needs Of 'Y'. whenever they
are drawing wills for rich eli