The Washington times., 1922-02-27

1.-THE VAMPIRE by Sir Philip BurneJones
You a endowed by nature with strength,
beauty, charm. h
He might have become Keats and written "Endy- !
mion"
He might have become John Wesley and led great
religious reformation
He might have become Sir Philip Burne-Jones.
He is of those ever will be.
Only dead man that tomorrow they will prepare for
nameless grave On his breast red mark. Above him
a voluptuous woman slowly rising off his body.
In her half shut eyes strange light half triumph, half
contemplating VAMPIRE.
vampire is animal that lives by sucking the blood
Of it's victims Because of this picture have to
speak Of certain type of woman as vampire
Not that WOMAN is wholly to blame. Man, too.
Arthur Brisbane tersely expressed it:
Woman N T, Man D F. he put it chemical for
mula. One step more and you have an equation.
TN T plus d F equalsK. o.
Beneath BurneJones' great picture is Kipng poem,
giving his version of the tragedy which that woman
wrought in the life Of that man. Z"
The picture has its message for many a in his
personal life He write his But it is not
because of the personal appeal that reproduce picture
and poem They have wider interest. Read Kiplings
verses again.
1t is into just such ENHANCEMENT that statesmen
dealists at Washington have been attempting to in
volve
What did the European and Japanese representatives
give in the diplomatic exchange that crystazed into the
called Naval Disarmament, Pacific and Chinese
treatiesi
WE'LL they gave up building battleships that the whole
world knew they were too poor to construct anyway.
They gave up territorial concessions in China which
they knew they could not long hold against the rising
national consciousness of China Finally, their chief gift
was fine words, flattery, caresses.
Well that's what they gave What did we agree to
give them in returni We stopped the construction Of
real battleships.
Ours were about to leave the ways. England's Hood
type ships only on paper. We surrender naval
supremacy when we had it in grasp-the sure pro-
lection Of shores. We agreed to Engands rules
limiting the of submarines in time.
Rules which leading British naval authority says
nation will observe when its national existence is threat
ened
We, poor simple dealists would start in observ
ing the rules because gave our word.
Do you remember the definition of words" given by
Talleyrand, that model of all European diplomats
today:
"Words are made to CONCEAL thought" What else
did give up at Washington We agreed not to fortfy
our island possessions in the Pacific.
We agreed to guarantee the Pacific possessions Of all
other nations What have to do with the shifting play
of international rivalry whether on one ocean or the
otheri
The country gave Mr. Wilson an emphatic answer to
his proposition that should pledge ourselves to paric
ipate in quarrels the Atlantic.
Why this attempt to pledge to quarrels across the
Pacificf
What else did they get of in Washington Money!
No. They already had money Over eleven billion
dollars of it. All they wanted permission to keep it.
| A certain number of we'll Anglicized Americans say,
Eyes, let them keep it"
European diplomats pleased with the Wash
ington conference that they want another in Europe to
talk over Inter Allied Finance
| That means cancellation of debts.
We cancel theirs. Nothing they cancel for u.s.
Ever think how strange it is that the European dplo
mats insist that they gutted with the spoils Of
cannot even pay INTEREST the eleven billion
they owe usi
But they insist that poverty stricken, dsmembered
Germany can pay them INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL
on the thirtytwo billions they say she owes them. .
So she figures it belongs to her. She is nobodys fool
No wonder Lloyd George the British Premier, is enthu
sastic about the of the Washington conference
When Mr. Balfour the head of the British Mission at
that conference returned to London the other day. the