The Washington times., 1920-02-11

Our Father the Sun.
He Behaves Well, Luckily,
Five Million Workers.
$4,000 Million Dollars.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
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According to scientists in Paris
our wireless apparatus has been
disturbed, not by messages from
Mars or venus, but d electilc
storms in our stellar tather' TIE
sun.
Just what the sun is, we don't
know. Until lately scientists as
sumed, foohsnly, that 1t was q
huge mass burning up, as coal
burns in your CRATE. Nature
works through order. growth, or
ganized life. not through con-
flagration. 1t was silly to sup,
pose that a great bonfire cou.d
be the center of life's orderly
evolution on the planets.
Biologists knew that the sun
could not be merely a burning
mass; for, knowing the suns size
and weight, it was clear that the
solar bonfire could not have
lasted through a period Of time
long enough to permit OF earth,s
geological changes lasting through
scores of millions of years.
When radium was discovered,
sending out endlessly its billions
of particles with terrific force, 1t
was seen that radium in the sun
could explain its fearful, enduring
energy. Our sun is a radio active
engine of life.
The storms on the suns surface
are wonderful spectacles, even on
prosaic Photographic plates.
Imagine a wave of fire before
which this earth would vanish like
a dry leaf on a burning prairie:
Those sun storms, electrical. send
their influence to our earth
through ninety million miles OF
ether.
Fortunate for us that the cos
mic scheme is well balanced, and
little earth goes rolling on, per-
mitting us human microbes to
continue the upward struggle to-
ward civilization.
Congressman Blanton. OF Texas,
Mortified by the announcement
that organized labor is going into
politics. says:
"When the organized minority Of
less than five per cent OF the peo.
pie can control Legislation, and
now threatens to elect Il Congress
of serfs, It is indeed . national
crisis"
1t would be a mistake to let five
control ninety-five per cent OF the
country. But what percentage OF
the total population doeS Mr.. Blan-
ton think is represented In the
little group of corporation rulers
that have so largely controlled leg
islation hitherto?
1t isn't one per cent. or the one-
hundredth part of one per cent
Yet it has exercised and will con-
tinue to exercise one hundred
thousand times more influence than
all labor combined. Z
1t will be some time before or
ganized labor has Congressional
serfs" obeying orsers in the Sen
ate or House. But organized n
nance has long had its obedient
serfs in both houses. Whoever
read the famous Standard Oil let
ters knows 1t.
, Organized labor in politics will
possess not too much but too little
power. On election day working
men never stand together. They
don't remember their friends.
They forget their enemies and
vote like sheep, following a party
emblem as sheep follow a bell
wether.
What is needed is party
sanely, conservatively radical and
progressive, thinking of the coun-
try with it's hundred million peo-
pie first, of individuals and groups
last. Such a party should exist.
made up of all labor, organized
and unorganized, made up also Of
farmers and farm workers, of
city clerks and little people that
Ieat what the farms produce.
With an organization of labor.
OF CleThS OF ldTHltTS StdHulHk
alone, the union of organized capi-
tai can deal easily. Clever law
yers, with constitutional interpre-
tations, judges with convenient in
functions, and if worst comes to
worst, carefully planned sedition
laws to make discomfort keep it's
mouth shut, are all at the serv-
ice of organized finance.
You can't combat an organiza-
tion of fifty thousand million. dol
lars by organizing any one little
group Of men. An organization Of
labor, farmers, clerks and small
business men, including about
ninety-nine millions of human be-
ings, would be the right sort Of
progressive political party.
But how are you going to con-
vince the ninety-nine millions that
they all have the same interests?
And if you could convince them,
where would you find men to lead
them? Leaders are as important
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