The Washington times., 1922-02-25
Today
First Hero, Then Nuisance.
Bob Il, Forget II.
Some Eat, Some Worship.
Smiling War Party.

Smiling War Party.
by ARTHUR BRIsBANl-l
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Frank A. Munsey. in deep
grief and big letters. pulls this
on the front page of his New
York Herald:
A hundred billions of dollars
before We are cut Of debt. and
now Congress proposes to mulct
us for five billions more for
the bonus.
The figures are correct
enough. but the wailing is not.
II Il was worth one hundred
billions, principal and interest,
to win the war, In 8 per cent
tot the amount too much for the
men that won IL? Five bill
Lions Is 8 per cent Of q hun
dred billions. Munsey would
give 5 per cent for any impor-
tant service. It's low interest.
He pays advertising agents Is
per cent. Prosperity calls the
soldier Q hero In time of trou-
BE and . damned nuisance aft
srward.
In Chicago, every day, $500
women, from girlhood to grand
motherhood. have their hair
bobbed. In factories. on Allan
tic City's board walk. in Holly
wood. Palm Beach. and Brook
Observation-Disclosures and more
hair Is bobbed. Some merchants,
elergymen, and others protest,
but not wisely. Long hair is
nuisance.
It was useful twelve thousand
years ago, In the Stone Age, to
cover the young baby's head
resting on the mothers shoul-
der. It Is useful here and there
. rs q handle for an angry hus-
band. Men believe they think
II beautiful, but Freud can
prove that's imagination.
II long hair goes 1t may take
foolish hats and dresses with
It. When men wore long hair
they dressed foolishly. Bobbed
hair viii save time. Every wom-
an could read Plato in the time
she wastes twisting around her
finger wisns of hair pulled
from her comb, and deposited
tn a paper cornucopia, to be
made later into a rat, "all my
own hair"
II every woman read Plato
she would know enough to have
her children after thirty and
select q father old enough to
have a brain full grown, not a
mere fox trot record. Time is
our only possession. Bobbed
hair saves 1t. Bob your hair
But then forget it, as men do.
Don't fuss over 1t.
Many a King, Emperor, Czar,
Sultan, Pharaoh, has found rul-.
ing made easy by religion.
Since men learned that crowds
could be frightened by threats,
or charmed with promises about
the hereafter, ruling has been
easier. 81 must have a spiritual
4endarmerie," said Napoleon.
England's Emperor King,
mild person, hangs on in India,
thanks to religion-to religious
hate In this case.
About 70,000000 Moham-
medans and 215,000,000 Hindus
divide India's man power. Mo-
hammedan's followers are fight
ers, thei efore stronger.
The Mohammedans eat meat
and devour, when they can get
her, the COW sacred to the
Hindus. With 100000 eat
ing the COW, and 215,000,000
worshiping that COW, King
George rules while his subjects
hate. It's all for the best, pos
sibly. Hindus that worship a
COW and Mohammedans that be-
lieve in Mohammedan' miracles
are hardly fit to rule them
selves.
Northcliffe speaks Of Japan's
ssmiling war party" excellent
description. Always smiling,
bowing, never sleeping, the
japanese will make US think
some day.
Northcliffe wonders what we
are going to do about "the three
thousand Philippine Islands, with
their eighty languages"
The Washington conference,
Just ended, did what 1t could to
hand those islands over to Japan
by guaranteeing not to strength
en- their Notifications.
At that conference, by the way,
you didn't hear anything about
England leaving unfortified Gil
brsltar, the great rock that gives
her control Of the Mediterranean,
enabling her, II she chooses, to
forbid France, Italy, Greece, Tur-
key, and all the Balkans to send
any ships out into the Atlantic.
Rep1llatinp poor old Uncle Sam