Today -100: March 9, 1920: Does any one really want to see the old game played again?

The West Virginia State Senate is evenly divided on the federal women’s suffrage Amendment, which the lower house has already passed. The suffrage side are trying to get Sen. Bloch (this article has his first name as William, a later one says Jesse) back from California, hiring a plane to take him the Chicago-to-Cincinnati leg of the trip. Assuming they can get him on a plane.

Pres. Wilson (or whoever) writes to Sen. Hitchcock, rejecting any and all reservations to the Peace Treaty – “I hear of reservationists and mild reservationists, but I cannot understand the difference between a nullifier and a mild nullifier.” He declares Article X (mutual self-defense and renunciation of war) “the essence of Americanism.” “The reservation proposed would perpetuate the old order. Does any one really want to see the old game played again?”

The Supreme Court rules that stock dividends are capital, not income, and therefore not subject to the income tax. The stock market tanks on the news after Dow-Jones and other news agencies initially report the exact opposite.

Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg announces that he is running for president of Germany. His supporters are claiming his is a non-partisan candidacy and are trying to convince voters that he would uphold the Republic (naturally he privately got permission to run from former kaiser Wilhelm).

Wilhelm’s cousin, Prince Joachim Albrecht, has taken to going around Berlin restaurants and paying the orchestra to strike up Deutschland Uber Alles. After doing so at the Hotel Adlon, he led an attack on two out-of-uniform French officers who failed to stand. When German patrons tried to stop him, telling him to at least remember that Germany lost the war, he insisted, “No! We won it.” His arrest has been ordered by the minister of defense.

Headline of the Day -100: 

“Her inhabitants do not promenade or saunter; they walk straight ahead with preoccupied, downward gaze and with definite if unhasty footsteps.”

Cardinal O’Connell, Archbishop of Boston, attacks “false feminism”: “The women are becoming masculine, if you please, and the men are becoming effeminate. This is disorder.”

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