The Washington times., 1922-02-18
Today
Dollar Mark, What a Pity.
Sixteen and 4S.
Psychology's Limit.
The Useful Bread Line.
ARTHUR BRIsBA,
(copyrisht. isas.)

"Bankers applaud attack on
soldiers bonus," is the headline
in q sympathetic newspaper. And
q neatly dressed banker from
Cleveland says:
"The bonus would put the
dollar mark on patriotism"
Would not that be a pity?
Some thought that patriotism had
got pretty we'll smudged up with
the "dollar a year" dollar mark
during tho war. And what about
branding on Congress the mark
of the big dollar that does not
want to be taxed?
A girl, sixteen, granddaughter
Of the worlds richest man, in
tends, 1t is said, to marry riding
teacher, three times her age. It
happens constantly that young
girls fall in love with men. old
enough to be their grandfathers.
Almost every woman can tell of
such an experience. One young
girl fell In love with Darwin, and
thought her life ended when he
died, although she had never seen
him. That Is part Of natures wis
dom. Usually the young lady
gets over it. Nothing happens,
and her adventure keeps her out
Of mischief for q while. Some
times marriage follows, in which
case the wife has her liberty and
. chance to try again while still
young.
The richest grandfather will
not worry, for the man is we'll
educated, much more of a man
than the average little cigarette
puffer. He is forty-eight, and
ehat was, according to Plato,
ABOUT as young as a man should
be to have children.
College professors interested
In psychology will support their
work by analyzing human be-
ings, selecting employees for
corporations and charging for
the work.
The thing will work. Science
can analyze average human be-
ings as we'll as chemistry can
analyze bootleg whiskey or
adulterated milk. The profes-
sors, however, will not analyze
genius, for it is too complex.
They would not have picked
Shakespeare, as he stood hold
ing horses for a penny, or New
tor the lazy boy that would
not study, or Mirabeau, in the
debtors prison.
In New Zealand, when farm
ers need hands, the government
shuts down public work-thus re-
leasing men for the farms. When
farm work is dull government
work starts up again. Senator
Kenyon, now lifted out of the
Senate, suggested similar sys-
tenn hare. His bill would have
made Government speed up pub
lie work in dull times to help the
idle. The bill is killed. If one
thing annoys our Government
more than another, it's a new
tangled scheme" to help idle
workmen. Many of our best
minds believe that a bread line
once in a while is not such
bad thing-it makes those that
have work glad to keep it.
The horse Of many toes may
lie at peace in his bed of clay.
Kentucky's legislature has de-
cided not to forbid teaching
Darwin's theory. That will
annoy w. J. Bryan, but it can't
be helped. Had Mr.. Bryan
lived in Galileo's day he'd have
been in favor of burning him
for saying the earth was round.
Does not the Bible say that
angels stood at "the four cor
ners of the earth?" No four
corners on a globe, Of course.
And does it not say the sun
stood still and prolonged the
day? What If the earth kept
on turning!
Lincoln said he was glad that
workmen had the right to strike,
''to better their condition"
New York's legislature is con-
sidering two bills to forbid
strikes and dozens of judges
issue injunctions to make strikes
useless. That would astonish
"Old Abe" probably.
Tho same New York State
shows an increase in its prison
population of 14,914 within a
year. A bill forbidding strikes
would quickly fill all prisons.
Forbid strikes, discussion, and
persuasion, and you get some
thing worse. The worlo learns
It, then forgets it.
Statistics make you realize
that women grow up more rap
idly than men. In 1920, 1900
boys married at the age Of
fifteen and 1884 girls married
at that age, eight times as
many. Wives at seventeen are
fourteen times as numerous as
husbands of that age. OF
bachelors past fifty there are
3S,l0S more than Of old maids
past fifty. Each marriage of a