The Washington times., 1922-05-06

More Alliances.
Japan's Flooding.
WI Still Fighting.
Interesting Bones.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

(Copyri8ht. lSESD
Before the war. nations Of
Europe were busy making trca-
ties. They were combining with
each other. agreeing if thus and
30 happened they would do thus
and so. "If you are attacked
we shall defend you. If we are
attacked. you must defend us"
Each nation, thinking it had
made the best possible combina-
tion, was ready for war. And
accordingly war came.
Germany had alliances with
Turkey and Austria, and thought
she had one with Italy. Had
that Italian alliance stood. there
would have been a German VIC
tory.
So much for the past. The
present is like it. Nations once
more are busy making alliances.
Germany and Russia have
united; they couldn't do other
wise with all Europe against
them. That alliance is said to
have spread to Turkey. Bull
Karia. and farther east.
Italy has working agree
Gnent with Afghanistan, and an
alliance with the Turks. Eng
land has made her arrange
ments with Russia and prob
ably will soon have a carefully
drawn treaty with Germany.
France stands, so far as the
public knows, in proud isola-
tion, with nearly a million first
class fighting men armed and
ready.
Not much seems to have been
learned from war. To get
different kind Of civilization
you need a different kind Of
people-one war does not pro-
duce them.
The japanese keep plodding
along. and their rate of "plod-
ding" is rapid. They now stand
fifth. in trade. among nations
IF the world. Thirty years ago
Japan did a foreign trade Of
sixty-nine millions. In 1920 her
foreign trade was two thousand
one hundred and thirty mil
lions. Americas foreign trade
goes down, Japan's goes up.
And exchange rates are not to
blame. Japanese money is
good.
That interesting Chinese gen
eral. WI. who frightened his
enemies with firecrackers in
side Standard Oil cans. has %on
Smashing victories" and taken
Peking.
How much does the average
American know about the war
IN China. what 1t is about, how
1t should end?
Just so much the people in
China knew about our great
war. The earth is so big, the
people so widely separated by
oceans and habits that they
cannot understand or cooperate
with each other. All the more
reason for making your own
corner safe.
The marmoset at the tropics
understands the polar bear as
well as the average American
understands the coolie carry
tng bricks up hill on his back
In Hongkong and vice versa.
Call a thing Science" Nine
ty in a hundred are not inter
ested. Call a thing "strange
crime" and the same ninety are
deeply interested. On a lonely
mountain, wrapped in newspa-
per, some bones were found ac-
cidentally and thought to be
the bones of dog. A scientis.
reassembled them with such ac-
curacy as to lead to identified
tion Of the girl in whose body
those bones had once been the
framework.
All IF the 90 per cent ex-
claim. "How wonderfulv
II is a regular part Of the
work Of science. One single
bone buried in the ground mil
lions Of wears ago enables
scientist TO construct with ac-
curscy the entire animal to
which that hone belonged. A
piece of iawbone enables sci
ence to reconstruct the skull Of
a primitive man. But that does
not interest the ninety as much
as the bones wrapped in news
paper.
Richard Croker was buried
yesterday in mausoleum on
the grounds of his fine estate.
Glencairn Castle. There he will
rest on the Irish soil that pro-
duced another fighter when it
produced Richard Croker.
When Croker was a boy in
New York. fighting his way
upward with extraordinary cour-
age and his powerful fists. it
would have surprised him to
learn that he would go hack.
to be buried in his private mau-
soleum near his private Irish
castle.