| Show Today Still Ih c Ju Justice tice b by Imitation husband ban 1 nn and 1 Wife nrc The 1110 Arabs Wont Won't nt Like It By Dr ARTHUR BRISBANE Copyright 1827 1927 By The star tar Company Rabbi Brown i says sas Bolshevism has hilI not succeeded In killing re- re religion re ligion as a 15 It planned Religion may be bo as So says i ys on conspicuous signs The Th Opium of the People but It if so the people le want their opium Some that have havo quit the wor- wor worship worship worship ship of the old orthodox Christian Images of saints and holy men have substituted a new nw wor wor- worshIp wor- wor worship worship ship which ho he calls Communistic Lenins Lenin's mausoleum Is wor wor- worshipped worshipped wor- wor worshipped shipped as ns the tombs of the saints are 1110 worshipped and his Images are arc rapidly becoming holy images I It Is not surprising that a a few years ears of should be bo un- un unable unable un unable able to wipe out the old beliefs Long years of universities public schools and public newspapers have been unable to end belief In Inthe inthe the tho 13 superstition a and ad d many well educated human beings would not walk under a ladder or sit 13 at table ta ble Old superstition goes deep desp Into the brain science penetrates only a little way as yet Stamford's mayor adl advises l lash lash- lashing laah ing husbands that beat their wives wl More imitation is not the widest kind of ot justice although men have havo practiced It tor for ages It If a man stole something with his right richt hand land they cut off oft that right hand If It ho he blasphemed they cut out his tongue It If he put out another r mans man's right eye ee they put out his right richt ee eye etc Modern rodern wisdom should find better was wa's ways than mere mir Imitation to punish a IL wife beater h why hy hy not put him to work until he be earns enough money to buy uy his wife a anIce anice anice- anice nIce little automobile automobile he he h could do that In two years ears Then let him sit by the window and see ee her drive by and warn him that It if he repeats his orren offense e eHe He will have to earn a new ear car for Jor her Better Retter plans could be sound round but nothing could be more moro dull than merely Imitating the wife b beater by beating him as we imitate the murderer by killing him I Last Satu Saturday Sir Samuel Hoare H are British air minister and andI I his wife finished their flight nt from fromI from I London to Delhi Deihl Inda The trip tripI I of miles was made in 63 flying hours an average of ot miles an hour Lady Jady Hoare said salol It was a comfortable trip and she could use her powder putt puff very nicely in flight t Men that thet manage Britain's fly fly- flyIng flying fly Ing force actually t fly That seems c strange In this more mor conservative country quite without adequate all air defence Its flying in the tho hands ot of men that know us ns much about practical flying as a turtle knows about ice skating We e had one real rea real flying officer Mitchell ranking with a y flier in Europe but his talk Inter Inter- interfered Interfered with battleship contracts and it did not take long Ions to set get rid of him Arabs are picturesque but when they come to parI Paris the they bring smallpox with them and Frenchmen get eel It So France will vaccinate all her Arabs Ara s whether they Ilk like it or not which will mean a hard fight against Mo Mo- Mohammedan Mo- Mo Mohammedan Mohammedan superstition For mys mys- mysterious mys- mys mysterious mysterious reasons providence allows religions old and new to oppose the progress of science Hindus rage rae when the British wont won't let them swim in the th filthy holY Ganges with Its thou ot of floating floating- corpses Tell them such stupidity spreads plague and they tell you the Ganges Gang is a holy river Tell certain Americans that their children should be vaccinated ed and they will give you OU some religious objection or a worse or n-or pseudo scientific lc one of their own manufacture When Lady Wortley ortley Montagu had herself vaccinated thereby saving her life undoubtedly her friends thought her crazy The Tho Russian empress Cather Cather- CatherInc Catherine ine Inc enlightened perhaps haps by her correspondence with Voltaire was vaccinated and upon th the little lit little lit lit- little tle boy whose whoso arm supplied the vaccine she conferred th the title Duke of Smallpox most seri seri- seriously seriously seriously One One ne thing Is certain the French are logical scientific and do not turn back They will vaccinate those Arabs whether hether or no and let them wonder why Allah and Mohammed do not appear to pre pre- prevent prevent pre prevent vent it In Mexico religious agitation continues at boiling point railway bridges have been burned In pro pro- protect protest test agaInst af the religious anti antl laws rebellions have broken out In many places Most Interesting and an- perhaps most Important in Its effect upon the Catholic protesters is the story of a miracle performed by bythe bythe bythe the virgin virg-ln ot of Guadalupe Mexico's patron saint A small boy bey- oy Alfredo Treo Trejo ran to his mother crying that the Vir- Vir Virgin Vir Virgin gin had appeared on earth again ho he had seen her ber and she had lefther left lefther lefther her image upon a tree The Tir municipal authorities according nc- nc cordin ac-cordin cording cording- to Associated Press ills ills- patches ills patches took charge chare of the Ire tree and the th population unable to find any Imago image upon It accused the authorities of sacrilegiously re re- re removing re moving it Such a miracle believed hy by thousands will move public opinIon opinion opinion ion And th the Mexican unrest is 18 l backed by the tho power ot of certain AmerIcan oil Interests annoyed by bylI lI Now o Mexican laws and powerful In a practical way There ire are still opportunities to in Inthe the tho world It 1 you are not In the army of young gentlemen deter deter- determined determined mined not to work myself to death A fe few years ago aro J II Stein Stein- hardt hardt had Iad nothing but lip hI also lacked the tho conviction that the great thin thing is not to work too hard He lie started a as a 11 fruit peddler worked early worked late lat Per Per- Perhaps Perhaps Per Perhaps haps It was not the best thing thine for bl health b But nut the other day he left lert a business ot of o a year ear and believe it It if you OU can young gentlemen he always said the best part of it was W the hard work that built it up General Butler who wore him him- himself himself himself self out fighting bootleggers and bootlegging police in Philadelphia and was then thrown own out has changed his mind about prohibition prohibition prohibition tion He lIe discovered that it Is S only the poor man that Is s deprived ot of liquor and as for tor the better belter says he There Is always a plen plen- plentiful plentiful plentiful supply on hand for corruption corruption corruption tion in the tho th upper crust General Butler Cutler should know that equal justice must not rot be betaken betaken taken too seriously And r rater ter all the tho humble arthe are the great reat majority What an admirable ad- ad adI admirable I mirable thing If it they can be kept virtuous while their more pros pros- brother drinks his cham- cham champagne champagne and cocktails |
