The Washington times., 1922-02-07
Today
Another Pope.
Smile Week.
Worse Than War.
Who Shot-Man ol
Woman?
ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrisht. lssa.)

oeA 1e~Ss "Aeh - hiSh
forehead. a most serious express
sion. Upon him falls a bur-
den that the popes have car
ried for centuries-almost two
thousand years. Their influence
, reaches into every corner of the
earth, into ice houses In the
North, mud huts on the Equa-
tor. They must understand not
one nation. but the whole world.
And, above all, they must know
what NOT to do.
This is "smile week" Had
you heard of it? Smiling is
good, but, like frowning, can
be overdone. 1t is always
"smile week" in the idiot asy-
lum.
You can't smile much with
your teeth set tight together,
and except with the teeth set
tight there is no concentrated
thinking. Open your mouth and
you will observe that thought
stops. You might remember
that in "smile week"
When the snow melts on the
Russian steppes, hundreds of
thousands Of skeletons-horses,
cattle, men, women and chill
dren-will be seen. The peas
ants, wandering away from
starvation. have dropped by the
road in thousands. War is bad
enough. but it no longer kills
women and children. They are
left to carry on the race. Too
drastic government experiment,
as seen in Russia, produces the
war of hunger that spares no
one.
A moving picture man is
shot in California. Millions
that have seen pictures made
by him ask:
"Who shot him. man or wo-
man?
The dead man was shot in the
back. therefore a man probably
did the shooting. When women
get ready to shoot. all caution
leaves them. They would shoot
q man from in front as quickly
as from the rear, more quick
ly, in fact. for they would want
the gentleman to know that
they were shooting. Men shoot
from calculation, women from
impulse. This is why iuries
are wise in freeing women mur-
derers more often than men.
Mr.. w. l.. George, from Eng
land. wrapped in a blue dress
ing gown with red spots, tells
Chicago reporters that modern
women. Including some in Chi
cago," think that morality is
dowdy and want to be thought
"fast."
Mr.. George and other travel
ers, also local wise men. write
Of the women, knowing nothing
about them. They see some
poor wisp Of a thing in a hotel
lobby, wrapped in a fur coat,
using big. rowing eyes, and they
say. "that is the girl Of the
country" In reality it is the
girl of the hotel lobby. And
they don't know it.
The Washington conference
ends. The New York Times re-
marks that Japan got the most
out of it. Japan did get
good deal. She seems to have
learned from England how to
produce and train statesmen.
England did fairly well. and
did exactly what this and other
newspaper columns said she
would do. She organized a
three-cornered alliance-England,
the United States, and Japan,
with France a rather sulky out
side fourth.
Japan comes out ruler of
Asia and probably will use her
power to protect England's
gigantic Asiatic interests. The
United States appears as gen
eral underwater and easy
mark. China got nothing. She
Is used to that.
Ladies and gentlemen with
leisure discuss the question:
"Should Married Woman
Keep Her Maiden Name?"
They ought to ask the diff
fident bridegroom of Schwab's
after-dinner story.
Told to salute" his bride
after the ceremony, the young
man took her hand and said:
"I'm darned glad to meet YOU"
Marriage is meant to make
two people one, as nearly as
possible.
Each marriage, if successful,
is a link in the chain that helps
along civilization. It doesn't
matter much whether it is the
woman's or the mans name
oneness Is the point. Are the
daughters to have the mothers
names and the sons the fathers
names. That would cause much
foolishness. 1t is hard enough
to make marriage a success in
the old way, without, trying
complications.