The Washington times., 1922-02-09

1877 Years, No Life.
Japan In Brazil.
"A Few Arbuokles, Only.
Good Wages-oood Times.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
(copyrisht. iS3S.)

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tcopyright. 1854,
Ga-be-nah-gewn-wonce, Chip
pewa Indian, is dead, aged
137-he could remember the
war Of 1912, and was married
eight times. In the whole 1877
years he LIVED less than
Keats lived in that one night
when he read through Chap
mans Homer"
(. The Chippewa Indian. in his
1877 years, also knew LESS real
life than Napoleon knew in ten
; seconds, as he took the crown
in his own hands and put it on
his head.
It is how MUCH, not how
LONG, you live that counts.
Giant turtles on the Galapagos
Islands live a thousand years,
and never really live at all.
The Japanese have estab-
ished a gigantic colony in
Southern Brazil
Thousands of immigrants have
come in; a great, practically
impregnable Japanese seapost
and coaling station is planned.
The Brazilian government has
withdrawn subsidies hitherto
paid to Japanese immigrants
and wonders how 1t can check
the establishment of q Japanese
fortified seaport on South Amer
ican soil.
At the same time you read
that United States Notifications
st the Philippines and Guam
are stopped. Those fortifica-
tions would have given this
{ country control of the Japanese
situation, as it affects this con-
: tinent north and south. and that
control we abandon at the re.
quests of the Washington con-
ference sentimertalists.
This is Japan's day. We guar
antee her rights in the Pacific
and she establishes herself in
South America.
Home clergymen and mis-
sionaries gathered at Rockford,
H.. deplore world conditions.
A missionary described South
African jungle natives concoct-
ing a home-brew so horrible
that it makes them walk back
wards. They make alcohol of
everything"
What is the worst of it, any
vegetable substance can be
changed into poisonous alcohol
by anybody, and that makes
real prohibition difficult.
Bishop Nicholson wanted to
know whether the church would
make its young people into
r" Fatty Arbucldes and Peggy
yoyces or Sherwood Eddys and
Frances Willards. The world
will continue to produce a few
of the "Fatty" Arbuckles and
a few Of the Frances Willards,
and hundreds Of millions of
good, average human beings,
neither Arbuckles nor Willards,
but behaving themselves pretty
well, and carrying on the drudg.
cry Of civilization.
William W. Wood. heal Of
the American Woolen Company,
tells his thousands of employees
they need fear no cut in wages,
at least. for this season. The
class most interested in main
tanning wages is not the wage
earning class. but the employ
ing and capitalist class.
All that anybody can get is
what the average man has to
spend. Te know the difference
between labor at SIS a day and
labor at 10 cents a day, go to
China and try to make money
there.
Where the crowd has no
money there is no money to be
made. And the more the aver
age man has. the more the ex-
ceptional man can get. Let
able men remember that.
The soldiers bonus will go
through. unless some bad ex-
cuse is found at the last mo-
rnent. This worries many that
have money and dread taxation.
Yet the bonus will increase
prosperity. especially for those
that are we'll to do.
Millions paid out will be i'm
mediately put into circulation.
Soldiers that will get the bonus
need the money for immediate
expense. Ten days after the
money is distributed It will be
spent and begin doing its work
IN trade revival.
Russia, it is said, wanted to
cut the Russian army down 80
Per cent, hut Trotsky. who rules
the army. says. mo" You
|, are told the "Trotsky faction
laughs at the coming Genoa
conference and its suggestion.
Lenin Is supposed to be boss
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