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rAGE Wi?Stt1ieMl WE s AUGUST 28, 1917 WASHINGTON OF tbtlitifiiotttttttes More Golden Eggs Logic, Not Violence National American Woman Suffrage Association makes a powerful appeal for woman suffrage that applies equally to male suffrage in the District of Columbia. EDGAR D. BHAW, Publisher. EDITOR!. Entered as seeonfl olass matUr t tho Poitoffle t "Washington. D. C. Published Err- JOvsnlnc (Includinr Sundar) By the Washington Times Comply, Munsey Building, Pennsylvania Ave. Hall Subscriptions: 1 Yts.r (Inc. Bo4ays). K.00. 8 Mentha, . 1 Month. COe. TUESDAY. AUOfST M. MIT Shall We Tame and Chain the Invisible Microbe As We Now Chain Niagara? When Solomon was gathering his materials to build the Temple, his large cedar trunks from Lebanon and his costly materials from everywhere, he used oxen, mules, camels. With all his wisdom, he little dreamed that the day would come when his descendants, instead of using mules and huge beasts of burden, would heat water and with steam develop a force sufficient to tear his Temple from its founda tion. Still less did he dream that steam would eventually be superseded, as clumsy and primitive, by the invisible force of electricity. When the thunder roared, the lightning flashed, and his conscience troubled him, Solomon, turning away from hiB thousand wives and his numerous other doubtful associates, ' put his head under the richly embroidered pillow, worked, perhaps, by Sheba's own fair hands it did not enter his mind that that lightning could be tamed and put to work. Man has been gradually controlling and employing the various animals on the earth's surface. He taught the ele phant to haul wood and water and to fight his battles. He trained the horse, the dog. He even taught falcons to bring Ww back birds from beyond the clouds, and otters to catch fish in the bottom of lakes and rivers. Gradually he has made himself independent of his ani mal partners. The rifle made the falcon useless; steam destroyed the importance of the horse and the ox. But apparently we have only begun using animal life. We must run the whole gamut of the marvels of creation be fore conquering conditions on this earth. We used to train the biggest dogs to kill wolves. The Government of the United States is now breeding darning-needles to kill mosquitoes. A certain kind of wasp, with a black and white striped body, spends his time killing house-flies, and this creature could be bred and used to destroy the disease spreading pests. Even the invisible insect life can be made most useful to man and to his health. The latest plan for disposing of city sewage involves the cultivation of microbes, to be employed as disinfectors. Several towns in Illinois and in Wisconsin have estab lished plants for the purification of sewage by means of microbe life. The collection of organisms invisible to the naked eye are to be kept in great antiseptic tanks, and em ployed in the purification of the city's refuse. Mosquitoes will ultimately be destroyed, undoubtedly, by breeding among them smaller creatures fatal to their -existence. Man, in his conquest and use of animal life, will run the gamut, from the biggest elephant, employed as a public ex ecutioner in India, to the invisible microbe, doing a work ten thousand times more important all over the globe. These infinitesimal microbes, bred and controlled by science, will do regularly and methodically the work which buzzards and vultures have done on land, which sharks and dogfish have done at sea, throughout endless centuries. To the marvelous workings of nature we cannot pos sibly give too much thought or too great admiration. Gar dens are filled with beautiful flowers, and fields are fertile today because hundreds of years ago sea birds were devour ing the carcasses of dead fish, acting as nature's scavengers, and building up the great guano fields of South America. There is a Peruvian millionaire in his big yacht, and there is a rose in full bloom the millionaire's money, the beauty of the rose, come from those birds that picked up the dead fish five hundred years ago. It's an interesting world. The Harm That Is Done By Our Friends. Thought lives through the ages, flies about over the earth, and goes on visiting fresh minds, after the mind that gave it birth has gone back to duBt and nothingness. An Italian wrote words to this effect: "Man is commanded to forgive his enemies. Nowhere is imposed on him the far more difficult task of forgiving his friends." Francis Bacon, the philosopher, read in England the words of the Italian and quoted them. Vincent W. Byars, a very able thinking man of St. Louis, read Bacon's quotation out there, and now coming to Wash ington, he says to this writer: "Why don't you make an editorial on tha't old Italian saying quoted by Bacon?" Italy England St. Louis Washington thus the idea has hopped about, until today you get it in this column. A million of you read it, or at least glance at it; and so, if the idea has any value, it will go hopping on all over the earth's surface long after the steel press that prints this paper shall have crumbled away. How little your enemies can hurt you! How little harm they do, even when they try! You are warned against them and on your guard. The world knows they are your enemies, and discredits what they say. It is quite easy to forgive our enemies, for they do us comparatively little harm. But to forgive our friends would be hard indeed if we could realize how much harm they do us. THE DRUNKARD'S FRIENDS. Who makes the drunkard? His enemies? No. The (Continued at Bottom of Last Column.) Old Uncle Sam is the. hen that lays the golden eggs that delight our good allies in Europe. This cartoon is suggested by the hen that laid the golden eggs stolen from giant Blunderbore by Jack the Giant Killer, in William Fox's play, "Jack and tho Beanstalk," now at the Belasco Theater. The hen that little Jack stole from the giant and took to his mother laid nice golden eggs. But that hen and its golden eggs were nothing compared with dear old golden egg Uncle Sam. Golden eggs that are worth a billion apiece, would have made even John Blunderbore open his eyes. How many of these eggs is the national hen to lay! What a pity she couldn't have laid such eggs for Govern ment ownership of railroads, construction of a canal from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and building of national fleets and other things. Mabel Dodge Talks of Women Who Seek Masters Maturity Needs No But Cave Man Age An Atavistic Infantile Idea Like Being Afraid of the Dark By Mabel Dodge. claip of the big, grown-up, master- tion on any one roan and take and ful man who will take care of leare one after another. This Is them and shield them, and above really constancy in a very high de- as their own THE woman who wants a master is the backward looking woman. She is the woman who won't grow up. She isn't free from fear, and she doesn't want to be free and self-reliant. She is like the man who isn't grown up yet. They are both afraid of the dark. They hide their faces in their parents' laps and cry that the dark frightens them. The only "dark" is there where they hide their faces! Some people say that wanting a master is a survival of the cave woman, who was seized and drag ged away by man to his cave. Let us see why. The cave people were the chil dren of the race when fear was natural. Everything was terrify ing to the infantile mind of hu manity until it learned to under stand life and master it To the cave woman the father was the supreme safeguard and authority. Master Needed Them. He ruled and protected all thoie about him. His word was law. When the cave woman was of proper age she was handed over by him to the mate who, in his turn, stood almost in the relation of father to her. So in primitive times man signi fied father to woman; father master owner. And in our day the woman who still asks for a master is a throw-back to the aires when the race was young and ruled by fear. She who wanti a master is asking for a father. This father idea is so deeply rooted that many women can't drag themselves out of their far back racial past. They seek to repeat in their own lives the babyhood of the race. Women go on longing to walk with little hand la tk jarototinj all nrovide for them. fathers did when they were chil dren. By this persistent looking back to childhood women keep them selves infantile and keep the race primitive. Origin of Security Idea. The everlasting need ofhuman ity is for security. The father gratifies this security-craving. He stands for security from hunger and darkness and danger. He stands between the child and its enemy life. The man, made after the father image, seems to promise this to the woman who looks for this. You will find that women never forget the early impression the father made upon them. Their ideal is molded by this first mas culine image. Their idea of man is the idea of the father, and they go through life trying to recover the childish past, so as to perpetuate their golden age. This explains the so called inconstancy of many women, who seem unable to fix their affec- Brt6. hut misnlaeed. The affection has been centered in the father and remains fixed there. It is he whom they love and whom they seek. If they find a man who embodies either some of the qualities of the real and be loved father they had when young, or, not having had a fortunate father experience, some of the qualities an ideal father should have, they are partially and tem porarily satisfied, but they do not grow and they do not remain for long. An Infantile Idea. The father idea drives them on until they shake themselves loose from this infantile attachment and the father image they remain essentially unsatisfied children groping in the dark for something that is not there. The young girl seeking her father is one of the tendencies of the saddest profession in the world. She looks for the "protec tor" the "provider" in fact, for the man with the father attributes. And the same primitive infantile Once Overs The Dough for Your Vacation. Cepfrlffbt. 1S1T, lnttrvattoul Iftwt Strrlrt. You are having a struggle to get together enough money to go on a vacation trip. In order to do so, you are planning to leave several bills unpaid. If you are a strictly honest man, the last few days before you go you will be thinking of what you wll! have to face on your return. You are trying to concoct some scheme by which you may defer pay ment on some bills for a longer time after you get back. Just for lack of system lr management of your finances, you are to be robbed of much pleasure at what should be a carefree play spell. You know about how much your vacation will cost. In other words, limit the cost and then reserve a certain amount eacn Keek toward your next Summer's vacation, and put It away religiously. Then keep your expenses within a certain sum, and keep these paid each week, whether or no. Just a little effective bookkeeping and strength of will to lire up to your good resolutions and your mind U free from worry hen it should be relaxed. Protection Impression Lingers. attitude toward sex actuates the rich old protector who seizes his young creature " and hides her away bringing her food and bright colored raiment! He is her securityl So long as he provides her with nutrition and toys as the father did she stays; when they stop coming she departs. Sometimes she seeks to keep the father-protector and have a play mate of her own age. And then the fierce father-Jealousy awakens the oldest jealousy in the world. In-Breeding Taboo. The father-affection carried out into literal action produced a dim inution in the population. In primitive times, when the race found this out and learned that in breeding led to extinction they set the "taboo" upon it. For all customs which lead to death we raise, from our own un consciousness, the "taboo" which wills our preservation. The will of the race is for increase and de velopment and forward-going life. In the spiritual world, as in the physical one, our racial will is for growth. Our own souls are dissatisfied when we try to turn back to child hood, for regression is unproduc tive and unereative. Eventually It leads to death. Remember Lot's wife! "Forward 1 Forward! Life lies just ahead of you if you will walk alone to it!" For the mature woman there is no father. There is no master. There is only herself, free and alone, in the brotherhood of man, bearing her security within her own soul. Childhood needs fatherhood but maturity needs no protection, for it knows no fear. When will women be ible to let fro the father's hand and learn to ook forward? Only then will their day break and their shadows flee away. By DAVID LAWRENCE. Why has the picketing by the militants been so objec tionable f Because it was unseemly to the eye? No; bnt be cause it was the voice of anger, not of reason. It was the language of force, not logics tho language of anarchy, not democracy. And when Justice Pugh, in sentencing the mili tants, directed their attention to the hundreds of thousands Sf men and women of the District of Columbia who did not ave a vote, but who, nevertheless, did not resort to vio lence, he emphasized the more powerful kind of appeal. For the citizens of Washington are not petulant, but patient' They are going to depend for the success of their effort to obtain suffrage on the power of logic and reason. And when the National American "Woman Suffrage Association, the larger and more respected body championing woman suf frage issues a pronouncement such as it did recently, argu ing with convincing emphasis the merits of their cause, it is to be hoped that the President and Congress will be impress ed by it Because logic, and not violence, is pleading. Says the head of the National American Woman Suffrage Associa tipn: "If the income tax exemption is lowered to $1,000 for unmarried persons, one may estimate that three to four million dollars of the war taxes will be contributed by the wage-earning women of the country women who have earned it under the hard conditions of economic inequality due to their political disfranchisement. Think of the thousands of women teachers, for instance, and clerical workers in Government and private employ, most of whom, although unmarried, have some of the obligations of married men, on the small salary of a little more than $1,000 a year. Unless those women live in the Western States, where women vote, they are unrepre- sented in the national law-making body. Yet a .part of their actual living is taken by act of that body. "Then there are the women of greater means. Mil lions of dollars more will be paid in direct taxes by these women, many of them stockholders in the corporations that are being taxed for war revenue. Of the stockhold ers of the Pennsylvania railroad, for example, 48 per cent are women. These women will pay the taxes will ingly, because it is the law, and this is a war emergency. Bnt 'most of them may not choose their representatives in Congress, as may the male stockholders of the same corporations. "Women a re giving to this war, moreover, not only their wages and their incomes. They are giving their services, their very life's blood and that 'for a Govern ment which has so far refused them political acknowl edgement We protest not at women's taxation for war revenue, but at the injustice of withholding from them any voice in the Government they are called on to sup port Congress must realize that we will demand, as the next war measure, justice to womanhood justice, political and economic, which will come only by writing into our national Constitution an amendment enfran chising all the women of the nation." Every word of the above applies with equal force to the situation in the District of Columbia with respect to male suffrage. Are the men and women of the city of Washington exempt from the payment of income taxes t Are they exempt from any of the obligations of citizenship! Of course not Then why canthey not enjoy some of its privileges J What earthly objection can there be, for instance, to permitting 350,000 people in the District of Columbia to vote for President and Vice President, entirely aside from the ques tion of electing municipal officers 1 Both the Democratic and Bepublican national conventions accept delegates from the District of Columbia enabling them to participate in nominating candidates for President of the United States. But on election day, the people here have no voice in passing upon those nominations. This seems to be an age of taxation. Should it not be the beginning for the District of Columbia of an age of representation t The Harm That Is Done By Our Friends (Continued From First Column.) drunkard is made by bis friends. When it is known that he is inclined to drink no enemy is so vicious as to lead him on. No enemy slaps Mm on the back and begs him to take "just another drink." No enemy laughs down his poor, feeble attempts at reform. No enemy tells him that it will not hurt him "just this time," and that he really must not refuse to be a good fellow "just for once." Tne drunkard is maae a drunkard, is pushed into the last depths of drunkenness, by his friends. And it is nis friends wno lack him and leave him and despise him when he has sunk into the mire. Did ever the drunkard's enemy hurt him as much as the friend has hurt him? AMBITION KILLED BY FRIENDS. A young man starts out to succeed in life. His enemy may lie about him, may call him worthless. He may think he is hurting.him. If there is anything in the young man, the enemy's lies and discouraging words only spur him on to greater effort. They do him good. It is the friend that ruins the young man by false, in judicious, unearned praise. As artist, poet, writer, clerk, or in any other effort, the young man begins his work. It is nis mends who tell him that he is a splendid suc cess, when he needs to be told that, at best, he has some slight chance of success, and that everything depends on desperate effort. Look at the young, conceited fool who, instead of strug gling on, rails at the world, feels that he is not appreciated. He is a failure a sad, foolish failure. He has been made a failure, not by the attacks of his enemies, but by the more dangerous praise of his friends The lonely and friendless often succeed amazingly. "Multum incola fuit anima mea" ("My spirit hath been much alone") said the great Bacon. His mind fed on loneli ness, on failure, and even on disgrace. How much success is due to freedom from that harm which friendship does? The reader can finish this editorial for himself with hundreds of other arguments. This is enough for a sample.