The Washington times., 1920-07-27
Today
Profit Astray.
Prize Fight Worship.
lenin, Surprise Party.
Discuss This Topic.
ARTHUR BRISBA
Copyright. isss)

Nifou ihna Ilc disturbed the soicm-
nifty Of Westminster Abbey, snuff
fing out the altar candles and max
Ing this speech:
i am q prophet. A great crisis
has arisen, and if there be no gen
eral repentance of the people, then
the great country Of America will
come and dominate England"
IL that prophet could come here
Tor week, study some of the Wall
Street newspapers and some Of the
Wall Street statesmen, he would
30 back to Westminster Abbey,
light up the candles again, and
say, please excuse me; l was
mixed up and got turned around.
have been in the United States,
and l perceive that England is
dominating there"
AS the increase in wages for
railroad men was announced, it
was stated that the Pennsylvania
would drop twelve thousand men.
In this column was asked whether
those men would receive the back
pay that would have been due had
they not bdsn discharged.
Elisha Lee, vice president of
the Pennsylvania system, says the
men discharged will receive back
pay from May /.
That good news comes from
. railroad that has been managed,
to Its credit. AS A RAILROAD. and
fnr ctoNk tohhfnu GttlI haf-
ter news would be that plans had
been made to keep the twelve thou
sand men working in the trans
portation system of the country
somewhere, II only to help move
the coal now standing still. This
does not seem the right moment
to scatter twelve thousand trained
men.
Two thousand negroes. yelling
with excitement, waited at the
Chicago railroad station to greet
Jack Johnson, prize fighter. The
police took Johnson of the train
a little ahead OF his destination,
because 1T was felt that 1t would
have a bad effect on the crowd and
perhaps bring about race trouble
to allow the black prize fighter to
be made hero.0 r r'' - -,
Possibly, but what about allow
ing ANY prize ffghter, white or
black, to be made hero any
whefa2s
While the Chicago police dis
al vYt m nj
black fighter, "eminently respect
able gentlemen" in the country's
biggest city, New York, are organ
izing prize fighting and the hero
worship Of fighters on ten-mil-
lion dollar scale.
They are creating a center Of
brutality, blackguardism, thievery,
and disease, as they we'll know.
Watch news from Russia and
Poland. With one exception the
big nations Of Europe have had
about as much fighting, killing,
and spending as their peoples will
stand
England, France, Italy, and
Germany don't know what the
crowd Spf cannon fodder" would
say il anather big war we're an
nounced for next week.
The one exception is Russia.
There Lenin and Trotzky have two
hundred million human beings,
with whom they can do about as
they please.
They have given them the land
and promise them the earth. They
have organized a "red army of
more than two and half mil
lions. And they do not treat their
army asrthis country treats its
. army. They do. not promise them
sApnus and then cheat them out
NIT z Z 4r =, :: =,
.Nhe soldier in LeniRs t'red3armyD
A6ws that his family, relatives,
SiEsbf chem, are getting an extra
ssail6mance of food and of money
5because he is ih the army. He is
~f1fhtipc> rs the soldiers Of Caesar
ana Aienlnder used tdfiaht, know
ing that After5 victory the man at
the top viii see that they all get
somethiHg, ! : . ~ .
.H~. ,..t,~ = A'N --r-- - ~.
=, Something new in 1920 Russian
Bolshevism with it's army and it's
hundreds Of millionss back of it. 1t
is ~ though Father Time had gone
into the ice box of history and
taksn out something, preserved for
thousands of years-vast masses
of population, asking no questions,
with powerful leadership.
Who would have thought, . few
months ago that today Lenin
would be laying down. the law to
England and Franccf At Brest-,
Litovsk, where Germany once
robbed Russia, Lenin win soon be
telling Poland what she can keep
of her own territory, telling
France and England just how Rus
sia purposes to trade with Ger
many, and. casually announcing
that she intends to have for her
self the free use of the harbor Of
Danzig. "a,
Lenin uttered a solemn truth
when he said, the other day, the
capitalist nations, fighting, muir
Jcr;na and weakening each other,