The Washington times., 1920-04-25

Old Story, Johnson Wins.
Peace, Work or Disaster.
lll-treating the Dead.
How R0ckefeIIers Give.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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johnson, IL seems, has now car
ried Montana, beating his nearest
competitor five or six 10 one.
Locality makes no difference.
johnson Is equally popular in Cali
fornia, his native State; at Mon
tauk Point, Long Island, three
thousand miles away; at Detroit,
up north, where they make auto
mobiles, and everywhere.
The man worth while in one
place Is man worth while In an
other, and Americans recognize
him regardless or location.
The week ended with Nitti,
Italian statesman, warning the ma
tions Of Europe that they all face
direct catastrophe unless peace
be brought back to all Europe and
Europe given back to work"
More than year has been spent
by the victors jumping up and
down on the bodies of the half
dead defeated nations Of Europe.
1t was pleasant revenge, but there
is limit to such pastime. II
Europe does not begin to work,
forgetting its hatreds and allow
ing every nation that can to get
on its feet, SO much the worse for
Europe.
A man like Nitti would be useful
in the United States to remind our
people that they also should get
back to work, real work. not mere
ly seeking the largest possible
amount to be obtained for the least
possible work.
You cannot with impunity cheat
yourself, or cheat your nation. The
man who does not produce fully,
all that he can, Is cheating him
self. The people that does not
produce to its full capacity Is
cheating the nation. The bad citi-
zen, the enemy Of every other, Is
he who plans to do az little as he
can, whether working with his
brain and dealing with millions.
or working with his muscles with
pick and shovel.
Perhaps you read with solemnity
about the treatment accorded dead
bodies Of the Russian royal family
by the ''Bolshevik mob.", On the
18th of this month, according to
the Associated Press, four royal
bodies were quietly buried In the
Russian cemetery of Peking-a
long way from Petrograd.
Royalty set the example of ILL
treating bodies of enemies long
before Bolshevism was evolved.
Cromwell, most powerful man of
England, was buried with honor.
When kings came back they dug
up his body, pulled it on q sled to
Tyburn, where murderers were ex-
ecuted, and hanged the body on
gallows. although 1t had been dead
three years.
In the evening they cut down the
body, chopped off the head, and
set it up on Westminster Hall to
be Knocked. The skull was visible
there twenty-three years after
wards. ...
Voltaire, most powerful, useful
man that France produced, was
buried in the Pantheon, where his
body should be now. When royalty
came back they dug up the body
and put it in a ditch.
The bolsheviki will find it very
hard to do anything to royalty
that royalty has not done ten
thousand times to ordinary people,
no matter how brutal.
The Interchurch World Move
ment wants, just now, 1886, ,770,-
600. John d. Rockefeller, jr.,
starts the collecting by giving
$3.50, 900 for himself, $500, 900 from
fund established by his mother;
S450,000 in all.
A good deal of money to the
ordinary man; little money for
the Rockefellers. The interesting
point is this: Rockefeller gives
hundreds of millions to education,
science, his institute for fighting
disease.
The same Rockefellers make a
modest contribution-less than
half a million-to a religious
movement, presumably for the
benefit Of their own souls. The
richest man today gives to science
and knowledge several hundred
times as much as he gives to OBJ
tain salvation. A century back he
would have given for individual
salvation at least two hundred
times as much as for anything
else. There is improvement.
The League of Nations is dead,
laughed at in Europe, rejected
here.
II you belong to the mourning
minority, be comforted by the fact
that there are on earth two leagues
of nations in good working order.