The Washington times., 1922-09-25
Today
Turkey Comes Back. '
The Angel Never Came.
FooI-Proof Flying.
The Trouble With Maria,

FooI-Proof Flying. |
The Trouble With Marriage.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
tcopyriShI issa,
OF nations conquered in. the
big war, Turkey comes back
first. '. ~ : &c..
Read the offer made to her
by the great allies and you
learn that fighting alone counts
In the family Of nations.
Turkey. fought and won.
England, France, and Italy beg
her to meet them in confer
ence, offer her, most humbly,
Thrace, as far as the river
Martha, and including Adri-
anople." Turkey is invited into
the League of Nations; she is
assured that the Dardanelles
will be kept open and neutral.
Anything in reason, II you
will please stop fighting" is the
word.
What a change from Armi-
stice Day, when Turkey was
the yellow dog kicked out of
Europe, II makes a difference
when you fight and win.
In Constantinople there is
fear of Turkish massacres.
The Turkish idea Of a celebra-
ton is a massacre. And the
Christians in Constantinople
lack the absolute faith that up
held them in times past.
When the Turks first en-
tered the city in triumph,
after eleven centuries of Roman
rule-about 469 years ago
the Christian women and chill
dren gathered in the square
before the Church of st. Sophia.
They had been assured that at
the right moment an angel
with a flaming sword would
appear and protect them.
The angel did not turn up,
but the Turk did, with his usual
massacre. He made a Moham-
medan mosque Of st. Sophia,
putting minarets for muezzins
at the corners, and covering
with plaster the beautiful mo-
sale designs forbidden by the
prophet.
Turkey has not replied to the
humble petition of the great
allies. But Russia has served
notice that the Dardanelles be-
long to the countries on the
Black Sea-to Russia chiefly.
The question of war or no
war depends on Russia and the
character of Kemal, Turkish
leader.
If this war comes, it will be
interesting chiefly as Russia's
war. That big country may
come back No. 2. That de-
pends partly on the ability of
Trotzky as q leader of armies.
;. The Wright Airpiane Com
pany says 1t has perfected a
machine that anybody can fly
after. four hours practice. That
is bound to come, for flying on
a road as broad as the sky
should be much easier than driv-
ing a motor in traffic.
If the fool-proof airplane has
come, it means a great deal to
human freedom, for the law Of
gravitation becomes a law with
out power over man when all
can fly.
The Protestant Episcopal
bishops. decide that there must
be no divorce, except for inf
deity. II they think that in
fidelity is the only thing that
makes marriage hard to stand,
they know little about marriage.
Boredom, with terrible dull hus-
bands, Is the general trouble.
The bishops desire to pre-
serve morality. What is the
moral effect of compelling to
stay married those that don't
want to be married, or forbid
ding men or women, separated,
to marry again?
Mrs. Peter Santes, in a hos
pital at Mason City, Iowa, gave
birth to an infant that said
"Mother" quite distinctly when
only five minutes old, and re-
peated the word several times
In the course Of the day.
So the nurses say, but they
are mistaken. To say moth
er" you must use your teeth
and tongue together. Try it.
Newborn babies have no teeth.
Babies say Mamma" all over
the world very early, as w. J.
Bryan may learn from Darwin,
because that is a sound uttered
naturally by an infant in
search of its lunch. Later the
child thinks the word means
mother, but it really means
'lunch."
Government experts say coal
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