The Washington times., 1919-10-26

Sleep for the Weary.
No Other Good News.
Camphor Restores Life.
Very Efficient Whiskey.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Copyright. 1870


Beginning today you may stay
In bed one hour longer, and still
be up as early as usual.
Outside OF that nothing very
cheerful appears on the news hori-
ron this Sunday morning.
Something new has happened in
the way Of proIonging life. But
you can hardly call that good news,
when life is so expensive and full
OF worry.
In Japan, Count Terauchi, valu-
able Field Marshal and states
man, died, apparently. Everybody
mourned, the Mikado without loss
OF time conferred "posthumous
honors" upon the dead man.
Meanwhile Japanese doctors
we're injecting camphor into the
tissues OF the aged counts body.
He came back to life and heard
about the honors that had been
given TO him after his death. He
was alive twenty-four hours after
the camphor was injected.
Posthumous honors in Asia are
interesting. Sometimes when a
useful man dies the Chinese gov
eminent will make his great-great-
grandfather a duke. Cinnamon
love their ancestors. It pleases
them 70 make those ancestors
NOBLE. Also to make a mans
MISREPRESENTATION duke
makes that man the fifth duke In
the hne, which adds dignity.
In one Chinese city, K'iuh-fow,
Confucius is supposed to have 5o,-
900 descendants. All are more or
less noble. Written on Confucius'
tomb are the words: 'The most
szgely ancient teacher; the all-ac-
eonphshed, all-informed King"
Quite compliment. Too bad they
can't bring him back to keep the
japanese from taking Shantung,
which includes Confucius' grave.
The bad news is industrial. A
well advertised conference at
Washington was not able to do
more than the famous tailors of
Tooley street. They met, sepa-
rated, that is all. But as a result
Of their meeting industrial strikes
and fights are more bitter.
The foundations of industry are
steel and coal, as bread and water
are the foundations of laboia
There seems little doubt that
workers and employers in steel
and coal are TO have a finish fight,
while the public looks on, wonders
and pays the bill
had for the country, for capital
md for workers is the present con-
dition. There is hatred on the
side Of employers and on the side
bf vsorknen.
Worst Of all, there is a mistaken
feeling eaneng many workers that
they help their fellows when they
90 q poor days work.
In the war the efficiency of
labor was cut down about two
thirds At the present time in
building operations it is reduced by
about twenty-five per cent.
The man has poor intelligence
who imagines that he helps other
workmen by refusing to work
fairly, on the theory that to do
LESS work is to save work for
otter men to do.
70 do less work rs to make q
froi kmaR less rdIaable, to make
tic country less prosperous, and.
irtct is worse, 70 means deBsorul-
i<iHg scorkers. A man cannot de-
tibeyoteiy practise dishonesty
without suffering for 1t
A bill Is prepared that would
absolutely forbid strikes by rail
Fsa ! employees. Labor union Of
tcials say that il such legislation
Is passed they win call strikes OF
all the 112 affiliated unions in' the
American Federation of Labor.
This would mean a stoppage Of AL
work and a good imitation OF
temporary anarchy.
Labor and capital stand now
where the various nations stood
while the war was going on two
years ago. Everybody wanted to
see an end OF the war, nobody knew
how To get IL.
Everybody wants to end indus
trial war. No one knows how.
There is unlimited work, far more
than the men can do. There is
great deal of money, such as it is
the dollar being worth about
fifty cents. There is no trouble
about good pay, no trouble about
short hours. But there is in the
air a dangerous feeling of sus-
picion, hatred. 1t seems that one
or both sides must learn a severe
lesson, know what it means TO 90