Evening star., 1923-05-01
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

The writer OF Capital Keynotes
stands corrected as to two misplaced
names in recent articles. Fortunately
there Is no danger of libel suits, be-
cause the cases are outlAwed by time
but they might furnish live subjects
for q psychological clinic.
Why is it that one who claims TO
be sane can say or write words which
he has no intention of using? Since it
is not ignorance. 1t must be subcon-
scious lapse. or mind-wandering.
For example, some days ago i con-
fused Abraham with Jacob. and SOL
emnly referred to Jacobs" taking his
son Isaac to be sacrificed-instead OF
letting his grandfather Abraham take
Isaac, the father of Jacob.
Youth was really not so precocious
in olden times, as I seem to have in
dicated when L made Jacob sacrifice
his father.
Later, I wrote "Afirabeau" when
meant Robespierre. who. cruel as he
was. still had a passion for flowers
even greater than the passion Of
Mirabeau. passion which did not al
all lessen Robespierre's lust for blood
1t is flattering to find such attentive
readers. so ready to correct slips OF
the typewriter. Never again" shall
be the motto; the typewriter shall be
more careful, or be repaired.
ners. We are all the products of our
environment. Warlike doves are
made, not Matched, and no matter how
peaceable their ancestors were, it is
impossible for the gentlest Of doves
to hover around our War Department
and remain pacifists.
All the soldiers, from the SHAY e.
tails to the major generals, who
chanced to be in the War Departmen
the State, War and Navy building
last Friday, were thrilled by a bloody
battle between harmless black crows
who wanted to nest at the base of the
American flag, and a regiment OF
fierce and well-trained doves. THE
fight was not sudden quarrel; il
was part Of a campaign which had
come down from last year, when the
crows sang. I'VE are tenting tonight
on the old camp ground" Last year
the doves were driven in rou., but
last Friday they came over the top
with a blood-curdling pigeon whcor
and bore down upon the surprised
crows in overwhelming force. They
routed them and secuted them anG
put them all to flight. This year the
doves will sing:
Over there. Over there.
We won't go home. It'll it's over, over there
Evidently the crows were outgener-
aled. .Rumor has il that the doves
k,o rI 1f hn har c
which had drilled squads right and
left" and they had been doing some
drilling themselves under the conf
mand of some shave-tail.
Wouldn't Noah have been fooled il
he had sent out one of these drilled
pigeons and waited in the ark for j,
to return with a sprig of spring foli-
age in its mouth? 1t never would
have returned without crows scalp
and that would have let Bedlam loose
in the ark.
Today is the day set by the I. W. w
organization for the start of the revolu-
ton which is to overturn the govern
ment and begin a. reign of anarchy
throughout the United States-perhaps
some will say, also throughout the world
In California the strikers, or revo-
lutionists, openly boast that the riv-
ers are to flow red with blood, and in
New Orleans the announcement is
made that there will be genera!
strike, demanding what the three
Army uniformed pickets before the
White House have been demanding
the release of the traitors serving
terms in the penitentiaries.
The probabilities are that before any
leader Of this foolish effort can raise
his voice he will find himself behind