The Washington times., 1919-12-20

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veloped with adequate capital un-
der the direction Of army engi-
neers, would produce millions a
year In food values, and tens of
millions of such acres are going
TO waste.
Jacob Rush, prosperous farmer,
Ii sued for divorce within a month
of marriage. His wife says he de-
votes all his attention to a barrel
OF hard cider. The mans friends
say he is a victim of our human
nature. IL the Government had
prohibited matrimony instead of
alcohol, he would have paid all at
teation to his wife and neglected
the hard cider.
Investigating the coal strike, a
Federal Judge says he intends to
nnd out whether the Government
OF the United States or a group. of
men shall rule this country"
II Is an important question. But
Why is 1t asked only when working
msu demand more pay? McAdoo
uAys coal mine owners were max
h8 from i've hundred to two thou
sand per cent profit. yet nobody
seemed to get excited about that,
nothing happened in court
a large body of workmen de-
handing steady work and fair
pay IL q menace to the Govern
msnt. But a small group of men
exploiting natural resources and
roobing the entire nation through
trust methods is merely good
American business"
The street car trust in New
York, which has done as brazen
stealing as any organization in
the country-and that is saying
. good deal-declsres, with Of
fcial backing, that it must add
3 cents to the street car fare Of
working men, women and chill
droa to earn dividends on its
wAee9ed stocks and bonds. It's
expeSts say that the transporta-
ton trust i -~ieGing" eight mil
lion dollars a year. 1t carries
TIVE billion passengers yearly.
Two billion times cents ex-
ira fare would mean sixty mil
lions more net annual revenue.
Stealing from the people sixty
millions to make up for an al
legged deficit Of eight millions is
typical Of corporation extortion.
The trust win compromise if it
can. on forty millions. Does any
court get excited about that?
On what has labor been feed
ing in England, that makes it so
bold! A few hundred Asiatics
IN British India tor a few thou
sand, it doesn't make much dif-
ference where they breed so rap
idly) have been shot down by
orders of British commander.
And British labor, if you please,
announces that it will compel the
Government to punish the COM
mander that ordered the mas
sacre. The interesting part is
that, in England, labor really has
the power. Over there they
haven't got what We have, half
dozen men running for Presi-
dent on the platform. "elect me
and III show labor where it gets
o6."
Four women called to jury
duty in the murder trial of a
young man named New in Los
Angeles were dismissed. They
said that they would not vote to
inhict death in any case. Proud
man says this shows that wo-
men are not fit to be jurymen,
or vote, or do anything else out
side of kitchen or boudoir.
Before the French Revolution
the same women would have re-
fused to condemn witnesses to
the torture ordinary and eXtrsor-
dinary." 1t was the custom when
q rich man was accused of crime
to torture his servants, although
known to be innocent. to make
them confess what they knew
about their master. Often they
were tortured into bearing false
NlLHcSS- hcll, tilcil, NoGIu HdNc
said that women objecting 10 tor
ture were not fit for public affairs.
II was agreed that torture was es-
sential to justice. Woman's influ-
ence will end capital punishment,
and that will be another step to-
ward civilization, as was the end
Of public torture brought about by
the French Revolution.
An Asiatic scientist has per-
fected an instrument magnifying
by hundred thousand the highest
power of the microscope and max
ing it possible actually to see the
growth Of plants. This enables
future Burbanks TO watch from
hour to hour the effect of different
fertilizers, Of water, of electricity,
and even of alcohol, on plant life,
instead of waiting an entire season
to note results. With the new
"crescograph" to watch a plants
growth, the ex-ray 10 look inside
Of il, and the whole science OF
chemistry to stimulate il. man
who seems TO pOsSpss eyar,ytb;n,