The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-04
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Continued from First PACED
to get that satisfactory expIana-
ton" from Mr.. Hoover.
MIR. DAUGHERTY, Attorney
W1 General, before starting
South with the President, moves
to dissolve the anthracite coal
trust. IL would be difficult to
tell how much discomfort has
been inflicted upon the people or
how many hundreds Of millions
have been stolen from them in
this one winter by the coal gem
tlemen, ably supported BY the
Government, that sent plenty Of
the best coal to Canada while
advising the Americans to burn
coal dust and slate.
The Coal trust probably
doesn't much care what the
Attorney General does In the
pretty springtime as long as
they have the Government back
of them In the winter, which is
their harvest season. Don't
waste any sympathy on the
situation. The coal people are.
organized; the people are not.
THERE is talk Of 4 new war
! in southeastern Europe
see details in the mornings
cable dispatches.
The seed has been planted for
3 hundred wars, and, barring
miracles, they will come.
The French seize Mannheim,
Karlsruhe and Darmstadt, three
great industrial centers. This
will tighten their grip on Ger
man customs and industry.
There is no intention of giving
up this territory.
La Fontaine put it tersely in
his fable about the wolf and the
lamb: @The argument of the
stronger IS always the better.
UlHE lineup in Europe now
appears to be, for the inn
mediate future, the Germanic-
Slavonic races against the
Latins, the latter, France and
Italy, divided by hatreds born
of the last war, while Anglo
Saxon England withdraws as far
as possible from the whole
mass.
THE race for European SUI
4 premacy is q race Of the
mothers. The countries that
have the most babies will win
in the long run. But for the
present the big army, flying
machines, poison gas and INT
will offset any birth rate.
How long the made-to-order
nations, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
ETC., can last, remains to be
seen.
A MOTHER great bootleg feet
"A is gathering off the coast
Of New Jersey, as the ice breaks
up. Eleven boats with the maxi
ings of million cases of de-
lirium tremens are gathered and
the romantic "rum pirates" are
taking the stuff ashore. The
Government says it is helpless.
What does the Government do
with its hydroplanes and other
flying craft. One hydroplane
for each bootleg boat, with good,
strong searchlights, and a few
filters to attend to the rum pirates
making for shore would dis
courage the trade. The fact is
that the Government does not
take it seriously. If these rum
boats were interfering with big
business, instead of merely
poisoning foolish customers of
bootleggers, don't you think
something would be done about
it?
OK army airplanes start a
- six-thousand-mile trip, San
Antonio, Porto Rico, Washing
ton, etc. And nobody is the
least excited about it. It is
taken for granted. The human
race is really flying too hard for
old people to believe.
MUSSOLINI says he believes
IVA in letting women vote. Wise
man, he represents conservatism,
and women are conservative.
Another Mussolini idea, very
ingenious, is to let Italian emf
grants vote in home elections,
although they are out of Italy.
Elections mean little to Musso-
lini, who achieves results by CIV
ing radicals their choices bull
let or a pint of castor oil. His
plan is to keep the emigrants
attached to Italy, knowing that
a man that leaves his country
is often more patriotic than the
man that stays at home.