The Washington times., 1919-11-09
Today
Don't Brag, Capital.
A Dangerous Mouse.
Great Coal Fire.
- Arthur BRISBANE
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labor has It's troubles, as well as
capital The man to whom it
makes no difference how much
food costs cannot understand the
mood OF the other man whose en-
tire income goes for food, clothing
and rent
You sympathize with the man
who tried yainly to carry water In
. sieve. Sympathize also with a.
working man who tries 10 carry
part OF his pay home, past food
store and landlord. 1t all leaks
away.
The important thing now Is to
GET WORK DONE. Those that
are responsible for carrying on
government. or influencing public
opinion, are justified In every
honest effort to discourage strikes
and continue production.
The whole world has come
through terrific wreck. The hour
Following q wreck Is no time for
the crew OF the lifeboat to go on
strike, or stop. rowing. Labor Is
the lifeooat crew that must save
the world today.
On the other hand. this Is no
time for insulting or taunting the
men that row the lseboat II Is
no time for Growing or Dragging
BY representatives of capital. be-
Cause they happen TO elect this or
hat man opposed to strikes.
Politeness, difference, q spirit of
give and take. free from Dragging.
would become employees and capi-
talfsts at this time
In London they had German
opera all through the war. The
English are philosophicaIly dra-
matte In Paris they have German
muxic at the concerts now. One
Preach Newspaper lightly says:
Let us consider German music
ons Of the spoils Of war
Why not consider good music
rather one Of the expressions of
lofty genius standing far above the
miserable brutality and ccntempti-
BE svaxiciousness upon which the
vzrs ara based?
The world Is menaced by a
ncuse, OF rather By tiny creature
that Gves IN the mouse.
The mouse lives in Japan in the
river valleys and agitates very
Justly the learned editor Of the
iseFszy Digest. Il spreads . dis
nse e1ned stmtmonmushi." This
6sease threatens - start world
pla1Ue. ~ 6pon3sA influen1a, bu-
beoe plague and other diseases
have done
TIE field mouse carries In its
blood the germ of the disease. An
insect, called sakamushi," first
bites the mouse, then bites human
beings. 49,
This is nothing new to science.
The sleeping sickness which has
killed millions in Africa, can be
caused by q germ that lives IN the
blood Of the crocodile. The tse-
tse fly bites the crocodile, then
pats the germ in the blood Of men
and animais.
More important to the human
race, In the long run, than all
strikes, wars, and other human
leviltry, Is the question OF disease
germs and the carriers that plant
them IN the human body.
Yellow fever is carried only by
fhe mosquito, and the same is true
Of malaria These diseases kill
millions
Typhus, 30 deadly in the late
var, comes only from the lice that
.tafest unclean human bodies.
Tho disease With the new strange
name can be killed o6 only by de-
seroyfng the neid mice in which the
disease germ breeds. Eventually
and inevitably, the only life on the
planet win be human life. That
VIII be the beginning Of a day
when all VIII die Of old age, and
disease germs will be seen, great
b magnifed, only in museums, be-
side the dinossur.
From newspapers and officials
you hear. constantly of "a finish
hght" between capital and labor.
There cannot be q finish fight"
for IL would finish capital or labor.
And the finish of one would
mean the finish OF both.
A finish night with capital win
ntng would mean labor working
for anything that capital chose to
pay. That would end labor. A
hnish tight with labor victorious
would leave capital, which is
stored up intelligence and self
hootrol. deprived of all reward.
That won't happen-
There Will be in future as there
has been for many thousand years,
O eoafinuation Of the struggle be-
tween classes, between those that
work With their strength and those
that work with cunning, the VIC
tory apparently now on this side,
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