The Washington times., 1922-06-02
Today
Derby Winner Girl.
When Persecution Helps.
Daughters Like Fathers.
Mr.. Bryan on Colleges.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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1t ran second.
The most interesting feature
of this derby is Gwendoline
Thomas, thirty years old. work.
ing as clerk for a small salary.
She Won more than $250,000 by
investing in a sweepstake gam
BILE. All England was interest
ed in gambling In innumerable
derby sweepstakes.
The result will be an expan-
sion Of the gambling fever. Out
of it will come the marriage Of
Miss Thomas and her quarter
of million to some young Eng
lishman who will suddenly de-
velop a great affection for her,
and live happily, at her expense,
ever afterward-unless he also
starts gambling, in which case
Gwendoline will be a clerk once
more.
Earth's religious powers-the
Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury,
low church and high church IN
England, and many others pro
test to Lenin against the jail
ing and threatened execution of
the Most Rev. DIR. Tikhon, who
was patriarch of all Russia until
Lenin removed him.
Russia wanted treasures cf
y = Russian church to feed the
arving. The reverend patri-
arch thought the church should
keep the treasure. Whether Di-
vine Providence will sympathize
with Lenin or the patriarch you
may decide for yourself.
It is certain that Lenin is
foolish in this case. His plan
Is to weaken religion. He
posts outside of churches the
fign, Religion is the opium of
the people" But he ought to
know that to persecute is to
strengthen the church.
Lenin, it is stated, intends
to replace Tikhon with a patri-
arch of his own picking, chosen
to destroy the church from
within.
That will not work. The
French kings tried establishing
and bossing their own popes at
Avignon, but it didn't last.
The Pope is still in Rome and
the French kings nowhere.
William Donovan, in Indiana,
killed his wife as she held her
two-year-old child on her lap:
The board of pardons planned
communication of the death SEN
tence. The murderer's daugh-
ter, Mabel, seventeen years old,
wrote protesting. She wanted
her father to be executed;
therefore the pardon board did
not commute. . :.
A strange decision, since it
causes the daughter to put her
own father to death by her IN
fluence, as he put her mother
to death with his pistol.
The daughters message to
the pardon board recalls Gal
toms theory that daughters get
their qualities from the father,
sons their qualities from the
mother.
Six millions are starving m
Russia, children are given away
70 anyone that will take them,
thousands of bodies withered
by hunger lie in the fields and
along the roads. That is the
story the missionaries tell.
China has an army, the big
pest in the world, with the ex-
eeption of Russia's army. More
than a million Chinese are in
the field, fighting each other.
What can you do to help that
situation? Until they stop
killing each other, how can out
siders help?
Mr.. Bryan attacks colleges
with a sweeping "cross of gold
attack. saying they teach ina
terialistic doctrines that destroy
faith"
plumbing, chemistry, physics,
reology-all materialistic, but
not necessarily destroying faith
unless 1t be such faith as is
possessed by a Congo savage,
easily convinced that he has
picked out the wrong pink-nosed
Idol.
Mr.. Bryan says, Civilization
has no foundation except in
morality" Morality Is the most
Important thing about civiliza-
tion. But civilization is found
ed on other things-on engineer
ing. clean streets. good sewers.
farming machinery. railroads.
To be happy. Mr.. Bryan
ought to visit Mohammedan
schools. where little boys sit
droning over and over dull,
stupid verses of the Koran,
while their teacher" perched
high, holds in his hand long
bamboo, to hit on the head any
boy that stops muttering the
nonsense.