The Washington herald., 1919-04-13

that's the trouble with a whole lot of
people these days, Mawruss. They
are figuring on world propositions
and what goes on in the next block
don't interest them at ALL Worrying
should begin at home, Mawruss.
whereas with them world-thinkers
they couldn't get really and truly
going anywheres nearer TO the Wool
worth building than the Nevski-
Prospekt. Amt you ashamed OF
yourselves to be kicking about not
turning American soldiers, when
thousands Of moujiks in Ukrainia is
Idle And they go to work and col
lect dollar after dollar for milk TO feed
ICzecho-Slovak babies with sixty
cents after sixty cents overhead on
the collection y understand. while
right here in New York City families
with an income of eighteen dollars
week has got to pay twenty cents
a quart for grade b milk when the
milk drivers amt on strike"
People has become European
Americans from reading too much
newspapers nowadays, Abe" Morris
! said. (which in these times of one
newspaper trying to show the others
how much more money it is spending
for foreign cables, y understand, II
| you want to see who is being mur-
dered in your own town, understand
me, you are liable to find a couple
of lines about ii most any part of
the paper except in the first four
pages, and the consequences Is that
people gets the impression from read
ing the papers that a strike in Berlin
is ever so much more important than
strike in Hoboken for the simple
reason that as the Berlin strike cost
the newspaper proprietor several hun
dred dollars for cables, he put il on
the front page, whereas the strike in
Hoboken only cost him seven cents
carfare for the reporter each way.
and therefore it gets slipped in on the
eleventh page with over 1t the head
line: Plan American Orchestra, Chi
cago's New Philharmonic is Headed
by Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, the or
chestra story with the strike headline
having failed to get into the paper at
ALL"
well. I'll tell you," Abe said. .'peo-
pie which reads the newspapers don't
take the same amount of interest ip
strikes like they once used TO did be-
fore the United States Government
organized them Cancellation and Ar
bitration Boards, Mayruss, which
nowadays strikes is long dull affairs
consisting of the first strike, the or
bitration. the decision, the second
strike. the arbitration. the decision.
the third strike and so on for several
months. because that's the trouble
with arbitration. Mayruss. Everybody
is willing to arbitrate and nobody is
willing 10 be decided against"
Also strikes is becoming too COM
mon. Ale" Morris said. Everybody
is going to strike nowadays, from milk
wagon drivers to the United States
Senate, and although the last strike
only begun as a strike and ended up
as a lockout, understand. still the
example wasn't good to the country.
which II the strike fever is going to
spread as high up as the United States
Senate. Abe, where is 1t going to stop?
The first thing you know. the MEM
bers of the Metropolitan Club will be
going on strike for a minimum of
six hundred sturgeon eggs in a SO
portion of Fresh Astrachan Caviare.
and the Amalgamated Bank Presidents
of America. New York Local No. !.
will be walking out in a body for a
minimum wage of $4,000 a year. with
maximum working year of four
months"
foreign competition in the newspapers,