The Washington times., 1920-04-29


Americanism in which / believe
would maintain America as the ar
bitter Of her own destiny"
What Americans think of John
son they showed again in New
Jersey yesterday. The corpora
tions that hate him have great
power in New Jersey, which is
largely an annex Of its corpora
tions.
Yet, within a few votes, John
son won their favorite State from
the corporations.
Attention was called recently to
the birth of baby pigmy hippo
potamus in New York. Soon you
will learn of another birth more
important, no pigmy this time, but
4 giant baby.
Several great steel companies
are to be united to compete with
THE great steel company for
which j. Pierpont Morgan was
midwife and Judge Gary, from the
beginning, financial trained nurse.
It will be an interesting birth, an
interesting trust infant, il 1t comes
safely into being, and will be very
interesting in the history Of the
United States.
viii 1t fight with its big half
brother, the United States Steel
Corporation, or will the big COM
pany say to the little baby trust:
1.-THE world is large enough for
thee and me; let's have a friendly
/, talk?"
Yesterday the Derby favorite
won the 1000 Guineas. That
doesn't mean much in America
in England it means more to
eighty out of hundred than the
German settlement by the allies.
"The Derby favorite" is the
horse expected to win the Derby
race. The 1000 Guineas is the
most important race preceding
the Derby, run on June I'd.
Let us not, however, scorn the
English. Many Of our news
papers recently printed a picture
of Jack Dempsey's fist, life size.
II the same papers on the same
day had printed picture, life size,
of Herbert Spencer, who was born
one hundred years ago, at least
ten proud Americans would have
studied Dempsey's fist for one
that studied Spencer's forehead.
Beveridge, of Indiana, once Sena-
tor, dreams q dream, more grue..
some than anything composed
since Racine wrote his powerful
Rsve dAthalie. Alfalfa, during
the horror Of a profound night,
saw her mother Jezebel torn to
pieces by dogs in the street.
Beveffdge Dreams fifteen million
Americans out Of work and much
turmoil ~
There won't be fifteen million
Americans idle; the country Is not
going crazy. >, !,
But there will be turmoil and
trouble, unless workers Of the top,
bottom and middle of the social
pile go back to doing a days work
in a day.
It took sixty years for employers
here to realize that they owed
something to labor that builds
them up.
It should not take sixty years
for labor to realize that it owes
something to capital, which means
money accumulated sometimes by
cunning, sometimes by intelligence,
nearly always by self-denial.
The most dangerous folly In
America is the idea of many WORK
ers that when they do a half day s
work they cheat the employer and
help fellow workmen to JOB.
They cheat themselves, putting
up the high cost of living and pre-
pairing a day Of reckoning. we
shan't see fifteen million men idle
at one time, but we shall see a
good many hungry, many bread
lines formed, unless the day once
more produces a days work. Ana
the workers, not the employers,
will be in the breadlines.
The women Of the country
should impress upon their sons,
husbands and brothers one fact
that men ignore.
ONE WORKMAN FOR A DAYS
PAY GETS ONLY WHAT AN
OTHER WORKMAN PRODUCES.
Cut the days production in two
and you cut your OWN pay In two
In the long run.
England will modify her divorce
laws. AS they stand they are In
teresting. II an English wife Is
beaten by her husband, the hus-
band remaining faithful, she can
not get divorce.
III the English husband is un-
faithful in q marital way, but re-
trains from beating his wife, she
cannot get a divorce. The English
husband must be both a wife-beat-
er and unfaithful, a combination
comparatively rare. That has made
IL difficult for some English wives
10 get a divorce when they needed