The Washington times., 1931-08-12


dancer is kissing him. just the banker enters for
rendezvous. Whereupon the banker, having little
in her eyes takes him back By that time she knows
that he is thoroughly unprncipled crook has ruined
thousands of people; and her last word is that they
will return all the securities and the banker will give
himself up. Again virtue riumphs; but the morality
of the whole thing is sleazy.
What Morality Means
Morality in the movies means adultery committed by
The lone false step" of women who are not
at the moment married usually is condoned after
period of suffering. The errng one usually is the
heroine and the opposite party usually is the villain
with the preense that that standard is the highest and
purest and loftiest in the world And strikes me as
distasteful if it isn't immoral, for man to take the
high moral tone because he sees his light of love
kissing another man; it is actually dspeasng Tor ms
wife to receive him back because he has learned OF
his mistress indey. AS for the financial morality
of restoring stolen goods because have been shot
by rival gang of criminals, it leaves me quite
speechess.
The New Sight to See
With an hour between trains in Boston, few nights
ago. I took my fellow travellers to see such points of
interest at hand walking them along Beacon
Street unabe to purple wndowpanes because was
nigh and trying vany to persuade them to get out of
the cab later to the charm of Louisburg
Square, That done, put myself in the hands of the
taxi driver who amused and friendly and he showed
us the old burial grounds and Faneul Hall. 1t all
extremely historical and satisfactory-but not to the
driver.
'Ill show you the church where Paul Revere put up
his lantern" he said, land I'll show you his house, De-
votion to Paul Revere seemed entirely proper and we
agreed We sped to place and then to the other.
Then the driver turned to and, with genuine pride,
said, "Now I'll show you something You see that red
light at the end of the street? Well that's the very
spot where they got the last gangser day before yeser
day. Yes sir, right that very spot" expected him
to add peace has her victories less than war; And
wondered what taxi drivers do in cities which have
gangster kilings-f there any such cities.
Mr. Simonds Shocks
Mr.. Frank H. Simonds not only to have spilled
the beans, but to have trampled over them. At the
Institute of Politics in Williamstown the other day. he
/, arguing that disarmament may actually lead to
heavily armed countries and the lightly armed, giving
the latter fighting chance in 1t is an interest
ing point and Mr.. Smonds carried it further when he
said that the thing to reduce is not armament but
on; war by economic means, and the United States
has taken sides, throwing her weight in with Germany
and Great Britain.
What France Did
The real shock comes when find Mr.. Simonds
accusing France of deliberately wrecking German
finances He says that for the second time in French
history one hundred days critical and shows how
proposal of moratorium flank attack the
French. Many of us surprised and disappointed
because within week after the proposal had raised
SO many hopes, after it had been accepted in
principle the finances of Germany (and ultimately
of Brittany were apparently than before SmondS
says the French held off the full effect of the
torum until their financial offensive had succeeded
until Germany paralyZed
This is cheerful news Mr.. Simonds says, still speak
ing of disarmng, that mo one today is urging the
abolition of money because France used money power
to enforce her will" One reason may be that after
few such uses of money, money will not be worth
aboshing They tried that once in Germany.