The Washington times., 1922-05-17

Aerial Bootiegging.
Mammalian Civilization.
Same Old Issue.
Lions Eat Donkeys.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrisht ls27.)


forced landing. The aerial boot
egger vanished in a waiting
automobile. The police an
nounced an aerial smuggling
route. The difficulty is that
such routes are unlimited in
their possibilities. You cannot
police the air or the ea tbs
surface everywhere. 1t makes
suppression of traffic in whis-
Key NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. it
rays so well. For every short
lying trip the flier could make
a thousand dollars. Who would
have predicted twenty years ago
absolute prohibition in this
country and flying machines de-
feating It?
The "mammalogists" met in
the great Museum of Natural
History yesterday. These scien-
lists care only for animals that
are mammals from man down
70 the spinning mouse smaller
than your finger. and up to the
elephant and whale. The man.
NAL nurses it's young, feeding
1t with milk manufactured in
the mothers body. Without
that nursing there could have
been no close companionship of
mother and child, no mother
love. or family. or civilization.
Helpless infancy dependent on
the mother was necessary to
develop moral nature. You can
not blame Mr.. Bryan for re-
fusing to believe that so i'm
portant a development was left
TO the accident of evolution.
There is difference be-
tween Democrats and Repub-
hcans. Republicans know what
the people want, although they
may not always do it. Demo
Gratis of the brand recently in
power neither know nor do
what the nation wants.
For instance, the Republicans
knew enough to win their last
big election on the anti-league
of nations fight.
Once elected they ignored
what they knew and mixed up
In the four-power treaty.
Now another election ap-
proaches. Mr.. Hughes refuses
the allies invitation to a con-
ference at The Hague. Good
old Hague. The allies thought
that magic word would surely
do the trick, but it didn't. The
Republicans want to make their
fight again this fall on a "No
foreign ENHANCEMENT issue"
And will point to their Genoa
and Hague refusals.
Lions, monkeys, leopards left
Africa on the ship Dromore
Castle and landed in America
yesterday. OF seven donkeys
put on board in Africa only
three came ashore. Four were
killed to feed the lions and
leopards on the way over. A
good reporter mourns mans in
gratitude, butchering faithful
meek friends to feed savage
monsters. But that has been
history from the beginning.
The faithful, hard-working, and
humble have been sacrificed to
the arrogant and savage. It's
as old as Cheops or Uncle Tom.
Stone, head of the locomo-
tive engineers, says prohibition
Is good, and even bad bootleg
whiskey is good, for, he says,
at kills off the parasites in the
leisure class" Unfortunately,
as a rule, the leisure class
parasites have old-fashioned
whiskey of pre-Volstead days
stored away, and do not drink
the wood alcohol, more deadly
kind. In the long run, how
ever, those that perish by boot
leg whiskey are easily spared.
Providence allows few whole
sale mistakes.
What would you say if you
had to write a paragraph with
a sound moral about the fol-
lowing incident? On the
Geneva, N. Y, golf course very
early yesterday morning a man
was practicing long low drives.
And a robin was catching early
worms. He rose with one
struggling worm, swift golf
ball hit and killed him. The
worm escaped. Evidently, If
everybody gets up early
worm, bird, and golfer-there
Is no especial advantage in it.
Mrs. Mary Pike died in New
Hampshire yesterday one hun
dred and six years old. Her life
began in 1916. What was the
most important event in that
stretch Of years? A majority
would answer probably "The
great war;" and the answer
would be wrong. The develop
ment of the railroad was in
finitely more important than
that war-also the develop
ment Of the flying machine,
telephone, wireless, and radio.
Those things will be important
when our "Great war" as we