The Washington times., 1920-09-10

Watson's Victory.
Muskrat Income.
Armour, Father and Son.
Lead Poisoning.


Lead Poisoning.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1891
Tom Watson, OF Georgia, cheer
fully and easily beating his COM
petitors, gets the Democratic nomi-
nation for the United States Sen
ate, which means, presumably, HIS
ELECTION.
Democrats may see little beam
OF light, when Watson, making MS
night for the Senate upon bitter
opposition to the War League OF
Nations, takes a senatorship from
the Democratic party. Watson Is
not Democrat. He is a wonder
full, energetic, bounding wild man,
giving a good imitation OF the wind
as described in the Bible and blow
ing where he listeth.
Good Bishop Mcdowell says
many clergymen are getting out
Of the church because they can
not keep a sealskin family on
muskrat income"
Clergymen even less fortunate
cannot afford to keep a muskrat
family on a catskin income. In
our high civilization the average
woman school teacher is paid less
than the man that sweeps out the
corridors in a prison. And the
average rich man pays less to the
clergyman who looks after his soul
than to the chauffeur that looks
after his automobile.
Italian workers seized factories,
then found they needed bosses to
direct, and especially commercial
brains to make the factories profit
able. Thererpon, it is alleged, they
kidnapped directors and managers,
planning to compel them to use
their brains and direct the work.
ers' muscles.
Interesting, if true, for it will
teach the workers this:
In our system of industry, for
the big work you must gtue the
big reWard, otherwise you Uom't
get it.
When Ogden Armour inherited
the business from his father, P. D.
Armour, he sent his family to the
country. He stayed in Chicago
through the summer in his house
on the South Side, went to bed
early, and went to "the yards" a
little after 6 in the morning. Thus
he built up the little business that
his father left him from a profit
of one or two millions a year to
the recently announced profit of
twenty-five millions or so. You
could not have made him do that
by kidnapping him, for the kid :
napers wouldn't know how to make ,
him work.
What applies to q man increas-
ing his income from one million
to twenty-five millions applies to
the smaller man. The older Ar
amour, P. D., when young, went to
earn a living in California. He
wheeled wheelbarrow eight hours
in the day time and got six dollars
a day-big in those days. And
then he wheeled the wheelbarrow
six hours more in the evening and
got ten dollars for that. They
needed wheelbarows. That's how
he got his start. You could not
have made him do it by kidnapping
him.
All business men understand that.
The trouble is that they do NOT
understand the fact that all men
are about alike, divergences are
slight, and ALL are alike in this:
No man does his best aOithout
a special incentive. The Woge sys-
tenn is bad, no matter hO,U high the
Wuges. 1t is sort of kidnapping
system, an imitation, from the top,
of what the Italian sOorkers did
from the bottom. They put men to
york and sag, "If you don't do
this Work for this amount you ,oiH
starce." They do work, but they
don't do their best.
Make labor attractive and solve
your industrial problem.
Election news that told how Tom
Watson, fighting the League OF
Nations, took Senatorship from
the Democratic party, brings the
same story from other States.
Moses, fighting the treaty swept
New Hampshire. And, by the way,
Mr.. Esch, father Of the railroad
bill that suited private owners OF
railroads so well, is to stay at
home and think it over Apparent
ly, workmen WE'RE able to infu-
ence the election. The general
theory among politicians is, Don't
bother about the workmen; they
will divide I'd in the old way on