The Washington times., 1922-09-16

Their Screams of Terror. "
Poor Rich, Rich Poor.
Calling the Pigs.
lShe Trod the Wine Press.
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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f., The League Of Nations was
to make the world peaceful.
But the headlines read: "Wall
Of flame two miles long sweeps
over Smyrna. Quay covered
with corpses."
And "Girl pupils carried off
from American college"
And Turks threaten to bonn
bard city"
1t doesn't sound like peace
! on earth, good will toward men,
when you read: "Mobs of fugi-
tives huddled on the quays,
forced to choose death in ad-
vancing flames or in deep water.
Their screams of terror can be
heard for miles"
You will be told: eff Amer
lea had entered the League Of
Nations everyeting would be all
right" But that is worthy Of
Kipling.
England could not prevent
Greece from attacking Turkey.
1t couldn't prevent the Turks
from winning. England wants
Constantinople neutral. But
Kemal Pasha says he intends
, TO have Constantinople and a
good slice Of Europe, and if the
allies don't give it to him he
will 20 and take it.
Do We want to defend Con-
stantinople and fight Turkey?
We have guaranteed to keep
things balanced in the Pacific,
guaranteed to make permanent
the most recent acquisition Of
Pacific islands by main strength.
Is not that enough for US to
undertake for a while?,
Do we want League of Ma
tions. under Article X. telling
us how many men and dollars
we must send against Turkey?
Do you think young Americans
would submit to conscription for
. Turkish war?
. A poor drunkard, victim of
the worst whiskey, picked up
in the gutter by a policeman,
said: 81 am looking for a mil
lion dollars I lost" It was
hoped that the Eighteenth
Amendment would make ser.
mons on drink unnecessary, but
the hope is deferred. Here is
short sermon: Drink makes
a poor man rich in imagination,
q rich man poor in reality"
Today, farmers of Knox
county, Indiana, will have a
picnic and "hog-calling con-
test" Men in cities don't
know much about it, but call
ing cows, hogs, and other ami
. mails is a science by itself.
Knox county farmers are prac-
ticing. Some in a singing
voice call, "Pig, pig, pig-pig-
pig-pig." Others initiate the
noise that a pig makes when
eating.
Some can call a moose, some
charm snakes. But if Indiana
farmers want to see calling"
done with absolute perfection
they should visit some mining
shark or oil we'll swindler and
study his methods. He can
call in his lambs from 10000
miles away.
At the Muskogee (Okla-
homa) poor farm lived, until
recently, an old lady of eighty
one. She lives there no longer.
Under her bed they found an
apparatus for making wine.
She had taken grapes from the
county poor farm and was put
out into the cold world.
In vain she quoted First Tim
othy, fifth chapter, twenty
third verse: Drink no longer
water, but use a little wine for
thy stomach's sake and thine
often 1nnrmltleS.
The man in charge replied
tersely: "Look not thou upon
the wine when it is red.
"At the last it biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an
adder"
You hate law breaking and
despise bootlegging, but the old
lady of eighty-one "treading
the wine press alone" arouses
sympathy.
We all have sorrows and wor-
ries, but progress is every
where. The bishops took the
word "obey" out of the mar
rage service and now take "the
horror" out Of the burial serv-
ice, removing the. reference to
"worms."
But that, unfortunately, does
not bother the worms; they will
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