The Washington times., 1922-03-13

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business had we to leave SOL
diers on German soil when the
war was over. using food need
ed By hungry women and chill
dren while here the Quakers
were collecting for the children I
We won't get what we ask
Tor; we won't get the eleven
thousand million dollars we lent
TO the Allies either. and that is
made plain. Europe's latest
suggestion says that five would
cancel Europe,s debts to rs,
Europe would deduct the amount
from what Germany owes France
and other countries. That's in
genious. The Allies would col-
1ect every gold mark that Ger
many could possibly be forced
70 pay, Then our debts would
be credited magnificently to the
amount that Germany couldn't
pay anyhow.
This Government, allowing the
United States to drift calmly
into q great coal strike, too
busy with Europe to pay atteu-
1ion to anything in America.
should read the news from South
Africa. where a gold mine strike
is under way. y
Mine owners are shot dead.
troops slain, bombs used against
strikers. The London Daily
Telegraph reports the situation
changed from q strike to Q re-
bellion against the government.
Washington should know that
there IL gunpowder lying around
in this country as well As in
South Africa.
The Amsxican Bar Associa-
6eq IMPORTS se1emaplx that ne
uat3onAJ Wo1ta1e 4e1Aohds =
sronsdy fog ths ri1eLB crime
wave.s So It does. me first
thing Is to find . remedy for
the existing school Of crime.
which Is the bootleRRing busi-
ness.
Hitherto criminals have, had
precarious lives and precarious
profits. The game was not
worth the candle. But bootleg
ging supplies a school and pre-
fession Of crime in which mil
lions can be made with little
risk, with public officials. as
the police commissioner of Chi
cago and others have testified.
as confederates and assistants
Of the criminals. rs
Not alone the bootleg school for
criminals is responsible for the
crime wave, Of course. The whole
world spent five years concen-
trating every energy on killing.
Twenty million young men in
this and other countries were
trained and taught to kill. 1t was
explained to them that nothing
could be nobler than killing in
the right cause. It was also ex-
,plained to them how easily the
thing could be. done. Crime has
become game. The numbering
highwayman is routine news:
Boys in the street play the
game Of "sticling-up," which
means highway robbery. And the
expression for criminal murder is
now, II bumped him off" which
shows admirably how little i'm
portance is attached to the
Pumping" War is crime and
promotes crime.
England's chief danger is not
the probable revolt in India, but
the possibility Of losing the serv-
icss Of Lloyd George. Sixteen
years in harness, carrying Eng
land all through the war, the big
rest active statesman that the
world has produced in many q
year at last shows signs of ia
tigue. They have no man to do
his work.
The Indian danger, now that
Gandhi has been arrested, seems
real-but how much Of q danger
It is only time will tell.
In the great mass Of Indian pop
ulation there is little fight. Only
one hundred thousand English
men live among India's three
hundred millions, and they are
able to arrest Gandhi, whom all
the Hindus adore, as easily as q
policeman would arrest child
at . Sunday school picnic. The
60,000,000 Mohammedans in In
dia would fight, hut they'd prob
ably fight the Hindus, whom they
despise and hate.
The wonderful thing is that
England has been able for q
hundred years to hold the three
hundred million inhabitants Of
India under her thumb. That
has rarely been done. Alexan-
der the Great didn't do it; per.
haps 1t didn't seem worth while
TO bother with the entire penin-
sula. One hundred years after
Alexander, Asoka. a great king,
ruled all India two hundred and
fifty years before Christ was
born. There was no more all
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