The Washington times., 1922-06-29
Today
Manlaos and Nations.
Rebuilding Not Begun.
Anti -Semitism Grows.
A Menace to Society.
y Menace to society.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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lI-By ARTHUR BRISBANE-l
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William Sheridan has been in
The New Jersey State Hospital
for the Insane forty years.
Joseph Clee had been there for
three years. Joseph Clee seized
William Sheridan, banged his
head violently against the wall
and killed him. Clee said Sher-
idan had been "bothering him
for five years." although Clee
had been in the Institution only
three years. It was Just "homi-
cidal MANIA" the officials said.
1t was not very different from
what nations were recently do
ing to the others. and not
much more insane.
And 1t was not very differ
ent from what nations will prob
ably be doing pretty soon. and
. good many years from now.
This ought to be the age of
pure constructive work. All
American energy, intelligence,
and skill should be devoted to
building up after the war. In
stead, government, industry, and
business are concentrated on
the problem of avoiding more
tearing down.
How to keep afloat, under our
flag, ships that cost Americans
three thousand million dollars
ts one problem.
How to deal with strikes in
coal mines. on railroads, all
threatening industry, is an
other. Evidently the war did
not touch US with enough vio-
lence to teach a real lesson.
Europe got a real lesson.
The next piece of news from
Europe may be the escape Of
the Kaiser from Holland into
Germany to head the reaction
ary movement. After that the
news may not be so pleasing
to the Kaiser. His cousin Of
Austria was not very fortunate.
The outbreak of anti-Semitism
all over the world, from brutal
inobs in the Ukraine to polite
and refined professors at Har-
ward, is emphasized by the
murder of Rathenau. His father
was q Jew, and Germany's anti
Semitic fury, centered on him,
was made all the more bitter by
his extraordinary ability and
unselfish devotion to the ma
tional welfare.
For the hundred-thousandth
time a judge infiicts the utmost
penalty, saying to the prisoner,
as though he had been the first
to think of it, "You are a men
ace 10 society." -
Many a man thus sentenced
might reply: Society has been
q menace and destruction to
me. 1t allowed me to land in
. filthy slum, to play in q dirty
gutter, to be poisoned by bad
food, starved b. high prices,
and to be born OF q man soaked
with whiskey. Why don't you
sentence society along with
met"
Mayor Hylan's political enc
mics and mockers are his best
friends, although they don't
know it. Just now the mayor
is planning to give the people
of his city cheap electric power.
Lake Erie is several hundred
feet above New York, twice as
high above New York city as
the highest part Of Niagara
Falls.
The mayor wonders why he
couldn't bring that body of wa
ter to New York city. or to
some nearer body of water, to
use it first for cheap power,
then for water.
He says he would like to give
every one of New York's six
million people cheap electricity
for cooking, heating. washing,
sweeping.
The corporation papers laugh
at him and call him a dreamer.
They also laughed at him be-
cause he stood on the dock,
weeping bitterly when his wife
sailed for Europe, the first time
IN their married lives that they
had been separated. The weep
ing wife begged him to take
good care Of "the baby" their
grandchild. This also seemed
funny to some Of the reporters.
Il won't seem at all funny to
women voters at future cleo
tions.
Mr.. Taft tells an audience in
England that people in the
West and in Cincinnati, Chicago,
and St. Louis consider Europe
something very far away. What
happens there doesn't interest
them very much unless the
price Of wheat is affected,
That may be, but all Ameri-
cans are interested in one thing
that Is happening just now in