The Washington times., 1922-11-03

Judge Cary's Medal.
One Civilized Woman.
No More Wife Burning.
Black Shirts Now, Once
Red.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. I9.?

quarter of a million men. In
spite of that, judge Gary has
devoted his time and energy re-
Gently to the safety first"
campaign. He deserves the Sea
man gold medal given to him
yesterday.
For 100000 years men have
concentrated on protecting pro-
perty. "Money first" has been
motto lately.
Now men of ability concen-
trate on general safety, not
merely on the possessions OF the
individual. That's good
change in a world that has
gradually made public libraries
and museums as numerous as
jails and poorhouses always
have been.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS, chair
man of the safety Institute OF
America" presented the gold
medal, as big as small pan
cake, and among the spectators
was an enterprising young inter-
national banker, James Speyer.
who has given $4,000 to the
institute, of which he is treas
urer.
Men of power now interest
themselves in the safety of the
crowd. One of these days their
motto will be, "no more poverty"
And if they really attack that.
studying distribution instead Of
accumulation, they will solve the
poverty problem.
MRS. BOEKE, wife of a
Hollander, once a missionary,
now a skilled mechanic, is the
daughter of Cadbury, the great
chocolate manufacturer, whose
treatment of his workmen was
admirable.
The daughter has inherited
the fathers conscience. She
returns every penny of her for
tune, all her shares in the COM
pany, to the workmen, appoint,
Ing eight workers to own and
manage what her father left
for the benefit of the workmen
in her fathers factory.
The employees say she has no
right to ruin herself and want
her to keep part of the money.
Her reply is that she has no
right to money which she never
earned.
THAT is puzzling. And it
would NOT be a good thing If
everybody did the same. The
world needs hard work. The
ablest men work, not for them
selves, but for their children.
You must let a hard worker
have his way or you won't get
the work. If he wants to spoil
his children, let him!
BUT the day is coming, of
course, when this young wom-
ans action will be looked upon
as most natural. What she
does now voluntarily will be
done at some future date by
compulsion of law.
Once individuals freed their
slaves occasionally. Then the
law freed them all. Some day
men will see nc great differ
ence between owning every
ounce of a slave, body and
soul, and merely owning three
quarters of what he produces.
That day is a long way off,
which is just as we'll for this
kind of a civilization.
JUANA SARRATEA, old and
tired of life, killed herself at
Bahai Blanca, in the Argentine:
She built a fire on the floor of
her kitchen, poured oil over the
wood, poured oil over herself,
lay down upon the funeral
pyre, struck match, and
burned herself to death.
YOU wonder how she could
make up her mind to choose
30 horrible a death.
Yet in India millions of
women have thus died, not only
consenting to, but demanding,
death upon the funeral pyre
beside the corpses of their hus-
bands.
At first, the husband ordered
b;s wife burned with him be-
cause he didn't want another
man to get her. Then it be-
came the fashion-proof Of
noble mind, to feel that surviv-
ing the burning of a husbands
corpse was a disgrace. Millions
of women were burned alive in
India, while their relatives
howled to drown the victims
cries and make the thing seem
respectable.
Give the English government
credit for stopping that brutal
ity. A seventy-year-old Hindoo
may still marry fifteen-year-
old wife, but he can't have her
burned alive with his own
corpse.
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