The Washington times., 1922-01-24
Today
A Man to Envy.
Our Gold Too?
Ten Million Extras
A 6oul-Twin.
ARTHUR BRIsBANR
(copyrisht. 1sss.)

by ARTHUR BRIsBANR i
tcopyrisht. lsss.)
James Bryce Is dead. England
made him . yiscount. He made
himself . great and useful man.
You may envy his life and death.
He worked for the education Of
the human race and died in his
eighty-fourth year, working hard
to the last. He was q GOOD
man. Read his American Com
monwealth," best book ever writ
ten on our system Of government.
That statement need not Of
fend your patriotism. A French
man wrote the best book on
English literature. An English
man wrote the best book on
Rome. . Dane wrote the best
book on Shakespeare. We see
thipgs more clearly standing off
at Q distance.
We have lent ten billions to
Europe and are told it is the
height Of absurdity to think Of
getting 1t back.
We have made ourselves re-
sponsible for the Pacific Islands,
owned by England, Japan and
France - including those taken
from Germany. And we dis
cover, to the surprise Of Presi-
dent Harding, that the arrange
ment even makes US responsible
for the homeland Of Japan
Japan being an island.
Now comes the suggestion
that we should use the gold in
our treasury to make loans
abroad. Redistribution Of Amer
ican gold reserves to other coun-
tries is urged to restore balance"
What about Uncle Sans bal
ance? Who is going to restore
that after real diplomats from
Europe, and imitation Statesmen
In America, get through with it?
According to Babson, great ex-
pert, there are in the United
States ten million EXTRAS" luck
less individuals hired for less
than it costs to live decently, or
not employed at all. except in
time of unusual prosperity. or
war.
Mr.. Babson would "utilize" this
surplus population. II you do
that. he saya you will "have
ended economic unrest and gem
eral misfortune"
Misfortune. perhaps; unrest.
NO. Unrest doesn't come from
the miserable creature at the
bottom, luckless. incompetent. un-
fortunate, last to be hired. first
to be "fired." The unrest that
counts comes from men well able
to take care Of themselves. that
use surplus energy In the effort,
sometimes wise, sometimes un-
wise, to help the unfortunate by
radical action.
Mirabeau. Danton. Robespierrs
and Marat, who carried on the
French revolution. were by no
means "extras," but men we'll
able to take care of themselves.
Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Alembert,
who laid the foundations Of the
revolution and Of the present
French republic. were not Eek
tras."
Voltaire was rich all his life.
and left millions. Rousseau
cared nothing about money:
D'Alembert refused a hundred
thousand francs a year salary
when Catherine Of Russia wanted
him to educate her son.
To abolish "unrest" you must
convince those possessing power
and sympathy that the under dog
Is properly IreaUSu. OHth you
. do that they will worry you with
unrest and you can't pacify them
with a Job or a soup kitchen.
You can sympathize with the
young lady who married Charles
Garland of Boston. Mr.. Garland
would not take the sixteen hundred
thousand dollars lelft to him. and
the world praised him.
All of a sudden 1t was an
nounced that he would take the
money because he had a baby to
provide for. At the same time he
announced quite frankly that he
had taken on a "soul twin"
A "soul twin," IL seems, Is
another young lady, and his sug-
restion was that she should come
home and live with his wife and
baby, and all be happy. The wife
SAYS, "No," and leaves with the
baby. 81
Mr. Garland, II correctly re-
ported, says that leach new love
IL iust one new step on the way to
a spiritual Nirvana."
In the old days his "soul twin"