The Washington times., 1922-04-07

Five Years Ago Yesterday.
Careful With Your Troops.
Size Is Nothing.
They Also Serve.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. is22.)

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Five years ago yesterday this
country entered the war with
Germany. Mothers were crying,
patriots were profiteering. bond
drives, Red Cross drives, ETC.,
were booming. Soldiers were
marching with everything on
earth promised to them. Now
it's all over until the next war,
and it seems a long time ago
especially to soldiers that got
nothing, not even the old job,
when they came home.
Eight thousand miners parad-
ed yesterday in Pennsylvania.
Mounted troopers charged the
men and injured thirty. Unless
that was absolutely necessary,
1t was extremely foolish. Cut
wages. if you must and can.
Starve the men back to work,
II you wish, for that is your
legal right, as things are run.
But be a little careful with your
charging troopers. One charge
too many might have bad re-
suits. One match is enough in
q powder factory.
In Lincoln Hospital, New York
city, yesterday. a boy baby was
born weighing two pounds and
one ounce. 1t is the record in
, smallness for New York hos
pitaLs. Strong, well built. the
tiny baby began to breathe and
cry at once. as babies should,
and will live to weigh perhaps
100 times his birth weight.
You remember that a grizzly
bear cub, weighing about half
a pound at birth, weighs 1000
times as much later, so it is
not so wonderful.
The real human creature born
In that little body is a soul,
weighing nothing at all, not
even the ten-thousandths part Of
q grain. Size does not count,
A lady thought she was mar
rying a musician. found she had
married a waiter. asked the
Judge for a divorce on the
ground that she had been tricked
into marrying an inferior. The
wise judge said. "No; stay mar
ried. Walters are as respectable
as any man."
They are, indeed, and if COM
petent they are artists. and
often philosophers. All missed a
good deal that did not know
Eugene, head waiter at old Del
monico's. corner of Fourteenth
street. New York; later boss
of the Grand Hotel at Monte
Carlo. Humanity had no Sc
crets from him. and James Cor
don Bennett asked his advice.
They also serre that only stand
and Wdit.
Gradually woman demands her
rights and gets them. She de-
mands in America exactly the
same status as men and will
get it. This does not mean, as
idiots assert, that she ought to
be a fireman or policeman. You
might rs we'll say that because
man is woman's equal he ought
to take his turn as wet nurse.
The Protestant Episcopal
Church plans to cut "obey' out
Of the marriage ceremony. on
the ground that the woman
need be no more obedient than
the man. Omitted also will be
the "with all my worldly goods
thee endow" part. Where that
Is left out a hymn will be sung.
The Buddhist nuns Of Japan,
who serve in the temples of
Gautama, also demand their
rights and say they want to live
as freely as the Buddhist monks
live. They want the right to
marry, now denied them, and
they don't want to shave their
heads, which is now compul-
sorry. Here we have ladies for
bidden by school superintend-
ents to bob their hair short;
across the Pacific those Bud
dhist ladies demand the right to
grow the hair long.
The main thing is that
women are awake and don't in
tend to go to sleep again.
It Is hard to cure Asiatics of
opium and Europeans of roy
atty. Napoleon lies under the
gilded dome Of the Inpalides.
Millions read reverently the
words attributed to him: w
want nv BODY to rest on the