The Washington times., 1920-12-02
Things in General

The Vocational Board. Democratic Church One Union.

efficiency certain happened In Nocationa
Board established restore to usefulness soldiers and
sailors disabled in the
For every ten of the disabled men getting instruction
there was the payroll Government employe In
other words public official for every ten men helped
In the way of SUPPLYING JOBS, that seems to be a
record
You will also be interested in the fact that seventy
thousand disabled fighters are still waiting for training
that is to help make themselves self supporting If they
dent die before their turn comes
To understand conditions in Ireland. where
the Sinn Fen kill their enemies and the BLACK and Tan
police retaate by killing Unfortunately and setting fire
to houses you must know the great advantage that the
police have in this kind of war They hunt down and
arrest any suspicious lettering characters lock them up
and in doing so have the government back of them.
The "Back and Tan" engaged in reprisa!s' is pro-
tected from suspicion by his office and his uniform He
is shot occasionally, but never arrested :
He has a right to be anywhere, and with matches
behind barn. creamery just before fire breaks
out It is uneven fighting. Yet through numbers and
public opinion, the Sim Fen side may win.
At St. Patrick's Cathedral solemn mass
was celebrated in memory of the Lord Mayor of Cork
McSwiney. The Union Club opposite, with lack Of tact
to put it mildly hung up English flag on the day OF
the McSwney mass 1rishmen after the service showed
their annoyance by breaking Union Club windows
The club with its display of the British flag such
occasion acted stupidity Ishmen creating riot in New
Work City, which, after ALL responsible for eands
'misgovernment acted unwisely
Sixty extremely prosperous members Of the Catholic
Church. members of the Union Club wrote to Arch
bishop Hayes protesting against the action of the mob and
intmatng that Irish politics was mixed with the Catholic
religion.
The answer that they got from the Archbishop is i'm
poran It is particularly interesting to nonCathocs as
indicating that the power Of the Catholic Church in this
country rests a democratic basis
The Archbishop apparently cared little about sixty
of the richest Catholics he would about sixty spar
rows the sidewalk in front of the Cathedral The reply
of the Archbishop their meddng and muddling was
mot mild.
In many Protestant churches this indifference to the
views of the sixty richest parshiones would be lacking
General Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad the Pennsylvania directors against the ef
fort to establish zone big union It is fact that Zone big
union is undesirable inasmuch the nation itself is and
should be THE one big union without competitor.
But employers that talk of destroying all unions and
establishing the open shop ought to know that they work
ing to establish lone big union that would dsor
ganzaton of labor the establishment of conditions under
which big employers would be unable to deal with any
sponsibe leaders.
AS an excuse for the closed shop the effort to undo
everything that union labor has accomplished employers
point out individual labor leaders guilty OF graft But that
is There employers that fall go into bank
ruptcy cheat their and the public yet that doesn't
cause or justify any combination against employers
The Mayor of Louisville is considering" the
purchase of coal mine and the establishment of municipal
coal yards to rid Lousves people of the coal problem and
coal extoron It is pleasing to know that the thing even
CONSIDERED"
It is an extraordinary thing that a hundred million
human beings should live absolutely tied down by system
Of corporation taxation without representation is even
extraordinary that those people, when they plan to
help themselves with Government municipal ownership
should be content with the answer it isn't constitutional
or ''you wouldn't know how to do it."
Patos in the sitting with their backs the
fire. their faces toward the shadows the wall thinking
those shadows the only realities wise com
pared to obedient population
Once-OVers