The Washington times., 1922-10-14
Today

Labor, EnglIsh-A american.
We Make Laws Tor Others.
Emotion and intellect.
| LBs;s Dread Mystery.
I--By ARTHUR BRIsBANB
In England Austen Cham
Deriain, government leader,
eayg the one important thing ID
@ escape the labor menace"
That's different from this coun-
ny, where practical politicians
Tell you, "pay no attention to
the labor vote-it always di-
vides up In the old way on
election day"
When Chamberlain speaks Of
= labor menace he means that
the labor vote may take charge
Of the British Empire. The
thing Il not improbable, but it
viii b quite . while before
the labor vote takes charge Of
this Republic.
Europe ID excited about our
lxw that win not allow wine
On foreign ships coming to this
country. II is . new idea for
% to make laws saying what
trenchmen and Englishmen
may have and drink on their
We probably should be IN
eienant e France passed. .
law forbidding our ships TO
bring ice water and buckwheat
cakes into her ports. The
threat that America win Seixa
the French or Italian ships for
carrying wine and British ships
Tor carrying ale sounds childish.
However, II our ships carry
only water and others carry
wine, our ships won't carry any
passengers. We don't feel like
making that sacrifice to pro-
hibition. A difficult situation.
For one thing. many IN Eng
land will be grateful. When
we tell the English what they.
may have on their own ships,
that makes them indignant, It
makes prohibition more unpopu-
lar, and will mako the work Of
prohibiti0 "pussyfoots" from
this country harder than ever
when they reach England.
On the same day in Wash
ington, q great orator, Burke,
and q sound thinker, Bryce,
were honored with appropriate
monuments. Burke repre-
sents emotion. That Is what
made him hate the French
revolution, the best thing In all
modern history. Bryce repre-
sents intellect, sound judgment.
He has probably met Burke In
heaven by this time and has
made him understand that the
death of q weak king, q, foolish
queen, and a few mobiles
amounts to little, since, how
ever regrettable, they led TO
the establishment Of the mag
nificent French republic.
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Be it always remembered,
however, to quiet the tingling
nerves of high finance, that
they had no ballot box for the
little people in France. There
fore they had to have revo-
luton. Here we have the ballot
box, therefore there is no need
of revolution, and there never
will be any-unless high fl
nance makes an unusually ex-
aggerated fool of itself-4Sand
even then there won't beSany
revolution probably.
A Connecticut boy, only six
teen, kills himself. His last
note says that the mystery Of
life and the world was too
much for him. Also he hated
the thought that "the world
could get along just as well
without me-"
The young gentleman was
puzzled about such questions
ss sis there a God?" And "H
there Is a God, why does He
permit cruelty?"
Such questions have puzzled
older and better brains. dt
takes a sound mind to contep-
plate, without horror, infinite
time and space. Fortunately,
for the average, that sort Of
contemplation with real con-
centration is rare. ......
MANY religions, In addition to
the true religion, have oeen in
vented to save human beings
answering the question that
caused the New England boy to
end his life:
Physicians of the University
of Toronto have prepared q
serum that, apparently, will do
for diabetes what the antitoxin
has done for diphtheria. This
means the saving OF many