The Washington times., 1922-09-08

Time to Step Lively.
Mohammed Loose Again.
Peace and War Needed.
Lasker's Big Ship.
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tcopyrisht. 1924,

Aonsu, stupid conservatism TO
tt, pack the tide.
The people want men that
mean something and are some
thing. And unless gentlemen in
power realize it and move a lit
tie more rapidly, they will be
run over. ...,.. r.. .,
The Greek commander-in-chief
Is captured by Turks, whose
leader kindly orders his men
not to murder Christians as they
march triumphantly forward.
There is a suggestion Of trou-
bic IN Athens-perhaps the turn
ing out of the King. That
wouldn't be trouble; rather q
good idea. The Greek nation,
with three thousand years Of
experience back of it, ought to
know by now that the one thing
that it does not need is king.
The victorious rush of Kemal
Pasha's Turkish army reminds
you unpleasantly of old days
when Mohammed first wound up
the enthusiasm of his followers.
Sweeping westward, at one
time they threatened to preach
the Koran from every pulpit
in Christendom and send all
Europe on pilgrimage to Mecca.
That won't happ!i again.
And England means that it shall
not. She has sent Field Mar
shall Plumar to protect Con-
stantinople, which means the
Mediterranean, against this
Turkish overflow.
Latest news brings hope of
strike settlement, which would
mean getting back to business.
For everybody's sake it is to
be hoped that the settlement is
coming.
What this country needs,
from railroad owners to track
walkers, and from coal mine
owners living in Newport to
half-blind mine mules living un-
derground, is ACTIVE BUSI-
NESS. Some of these days we
have got to pay for that war
and it is time to prepare for
that settlement. It will come.
Lasker, chairman of the
Shipping Board, announces
plans for American ships of
10000 tons each.
II the President and his &C.
tive young assistant, Lasker,
through the fight they are
making for a subsidy, can en-
able the United States to be
Represented on the ocean and
STAY there, the country will
be much obliged to them. y.
With the news of the 10000,
ton American passenger ship
comes news of the greatest
fighting flying machine ever
built by this country.
The War Department has
been working on the machine,
q great bombing war plane, for
eighteen months. Such q ma
chine, well handled, might de-
stroy an enemy feet of battle
ships.
It is hard to discourage Rus
sia. She has seized a number
of British ships and hauled
down the British flag, playing
at the same time, God Save
the Queen"-unnecessary> sar-
casm. The Russian flag re-
places the British flag.
In the Black Sea Russia has
given Italy the exclusive right
, to coastwise shipping. Italians
evidently used their time wisely
ut Genoa.
At Chang Chun, Manchuria,
Japanese and Russian delegates
are arranging various matters
preliminary to replacing fight
ing with business.
This country, that foolishly
bought the cars bonds and
still has them, apparently doesn't
know, as far as Russia is con-
cerned, that the war is over.
In the Red Hook section Of
Brooklyn, a city that will soon
be bigger than all the rest Of
New York, eleven persons have
been killed by poisonous boot
leg whiskey since Labor Day.
That is murder on an active
scale.
The Government used to make
money by taxing whiskey that
was only a slow poison. Now
bootleggers, and officials that
tax them, take millions of profit
from swiftly deadly alcoholic
poison.
Killing with bootleg whiskey
would be discouraged If some
of the killers were sent to life
Imprisonment, as they should
be. Murder is murder.
What use is science7 You
still hear the question asked by
the ignorant. Minnie r. Dress
lar, at the Pittsburgh conven-
tion of chemists, shows that
few drops Of "methylen, blue"