The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-13
Today
Republics Are Difficult.
Prohibition? Foolish Cues
ton.
Ford's German Factory.
Five Years Married, 9 Sons.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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briand is out; France must find
Q new prime minister. It 10 an
ungrateful Job managing a re-
public after war. II you attempt
what the people want. YOU at
tempt the impossible; II YOU at.
tempt the impossible, You fail:
u you don't attempt the impos-
nble. they put You out. Never
theless. q republic Is better than
an empire. Ask Germany.
Newspaper editors. late in the
day. are asking: "How about
Drohibitionf Do the people really
Ike itf" Chicago's wise men in
the city council vote against pro-
hibition 81 to 4. To make it
worse. someone put whiskey in
the glass from which the prohi-
bition orator was drinking. and
he nearly choked.
But 1t is too late for all that
discussion. Whether the people
like It or not. prohibition is here.
In the Constitution. It was easy
enough to get in, with war and
many whiskey-drinking Congress-
men to help. It will not be easy
to get IL out. and 1t won't come
out for many q day-certainly not
for thirty years. Make a note
Of that. ">
I Congress may decide to beat
J the devil around the stump bv
declaring that certain mild drinks
are not Intoxicating. although
they are II you drink enough Of
, them. But prohibition. tempered
by bootlegging and wood alcohol,
you viii have until your hair is
gray or gone. ....
You hear that Germany is
ruined, completely gone indus
! trially, etc. ~ th
Henry Ford heard it, sent over
:. three men to Germany to pick
up q few first-class factories "for
!! next to nothing" That was said
! to be the price. The men have
/ left Germany and are on their
way homo. Ford got a cable
| from them day before yesterday,
Saying:
| "Not an idle factory in the
whole Of Germany. None worth
whila for sale. II you want 2
factory here, You must build Il"
Many. American workers would
be glad II you could say Of the
United States what Ford's men
cabled about Germany-'not q,
factory idle" .ss.ss.
Ford says Germany's money,
which they make out Of good
wood pulp, has something to do
with it. Anyhow, they are all
working. Here, where we have
most of the worlds gold, millions
: are idle. Germany reminds you
Of the lady who explained her
furs, Jewels, and limousine by
asking, "Ain't you heard? I've
been ruined"
This will interest ladies and
gentlemen that discuss birth
t, control. In London there is a
mother, wife of British noble
man, who has-this is fact, not
fancy-nine living sons, all un-
der four years of age. The lady
has been married five years and
in that time has had triplets, all
sons. three times, and they are
All alive and we'll. This lady
goes out for walk accompanied
by six nurses and the nine sons,
some of the sons, of course, in
baby carriages. And, what Is
more extraordinary, she says she
Ia much interested to see how
many more she can have.
Many q woman will shudder at
the thought of such family in
five years, and it is unusual. But
there was time when the average
woman died at about thirty-five or
thirty.six years of age, after hav-
ing twenty children. Famine,
plague, war got sixteen or seven
teen Of the twenty, three or four
lived, and then the earth gradual
" increased in population.
In London ladies are wearing
boots made Of soft leather, some
, thing like boots that Abraham Lin
coin used to wear up to his knees,
under his trousers, but much pref
tier. Not o bad idea, short skirts
and silk stockings in summer; in
winter short skirts, leather boots
for warmth. A year ago a Rus
.