Evening star., 1923-05-05
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

A concrete demonstration of the
value of preparedness" in preserv-
ing peace was given on May ], all
the beginning of an /. W. w. out
break which threatened to overturn
the government, upset society and
transfer control of property and in
dustry to those who had neither
property nor industry. But it did
not turn out that way.
There were few insignificant
strikes. but none that was at all
alarming. for the police and secret
service were on guard at all points
of danger. and the first indication of
disturbance was the signal for police
action. In just that way does the
nation guard against war, by its pre-
paredness to meet the crisis, and thus
bloodshed Is ayerted, or minimized.
Would the pacifists have felt more
! secure against revolutionary strikes
May 1. If we had had no police nor
secret service?
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Washington housekeepers are join
| ing the sugar boycott with enthu-
siasm. All they have left for sweet
ening is honey, molasses, brown
sugar, saccharine and smiles. 1t is a
blessing in disguise for many whose
| physical condition calls for the les
sening of sugar diet. They may learn
| to dispense with sugar in much of
their diet. where they had imagined
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| about 100 pounds of sugar per capita
per annum. which is the largest con-
sumption in the world.
The sugar boycott has the official
approval of President Harding, Sec
| retary Hoover, several governors, the
officers of the Federation of Woman's
| Clubs and other Women's organiza-
| tions. Surely Wall Street. or what
| ever other malign powers there be.
| life. will realize that, with buyers
| strike, their ''cake is dough-
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| While boycotting susAr, how much
! more important is it that Americans
! learn to boycott opium and it's re-
| lated dopes. 1t is humiliating to
learn that Americans consume more
dope in proportion to population than
! do the Chinese or any other national
ity in the world. Upon the authority
| of Dr. Wiifred NJ Barton, it is stated
that Americans use seventeen times
more narcotics than does China, and
| forty times more than any other ma
| tion.
| A conference is in progress at the
| Hotel Willard, with Representatives
from fourteen foreign countries, for
the purpose of discussing ways and
means of combating this terrible
| evil. which is growing in power most
| alarmingly.
The Department of the Interior an
nounced last week that the Indians
| OF America now own billion dollars
worth of real estate and $60,000,0o
/ cash. 1t is hard to explain the cash.
| but that may have come from the
| sales of that part of the continent
taken over by the white man. Didn't
| Seward give Russia some $7,000,000
4 just for Alaska? Isn't the rest of the
continent worth nine times as much
| as Alaska? Why should not Poor
Lo have his 100000, 900? Also who
| appraised at billion. the land he has
left? Wonder why the whites over
| looked all that, while trading"
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1 The first annual conference of the
Women's Universal Alliance. in ses-
sion in Washington this week, re-
solved that it was the highest duty
| OF womankind to increase the chill
dren of the hardy pioneer race of
America" since no country ever Of
| fered better conditions for the pro-
pagation of the human race than our
| fair land. American families now
4 average only two children. There
fore. the society resolved to encour-
! age child bearing and to decorate
/ mothers of four or more children,
] which children will be raised to
| obey the laws, respect the flag and
! defend the country against its enc
| mics"
! 1t is evident that these mothers are