The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-09-24

Various Things, Such as
Englands Problem Political Prisoners, Trouble in Rome

ENGLAND waits to know whether she is toI
have coal from her miners to all factories railways
etc. closed There all unions work together and
great organizations miners, railway men and transport
workers. have combined power greater than that OF the
governmenfor they stop, they choose and without
them government cannot function
While England wonders how to solve her coal problem
and how to keep for the Government the sixty million
pounds year profit in taxation taken export Of
the German goes ahead with plan for the
naturalization Of mines
In Germany they have got beyond wondering whether
they will do what worlmen want They are only asking
themselves HOW they can manage it?
The marvellous thing is that the German government
has persisted without change or breakdown from the
armstice until now.
To those who have influence and want
peace, with freedom from anarchistc outbreaks
Advise your friends in this Administration to re-
lease political prisoners, beginning with Eugene Debs
now locked up in Atlanta prison.
The principal question for you to consider is not
"Dd those express, write or think opinions that
we object o' The question is rather What is going
to be the result of keeping these political prisoners in
JAIL with the sight of them behind the bars constant
incentive hareds rebellion and violence among their
folowersi'
In Europe they understand government and know q
little about public opinion As the war ended political
prisoners set free This included prisoners that ad
vsed against the draft and against soldering the
for which Debs was convicted.
In Rome, which has just passed the 6ftieth
anniversary of the ctys existence capital Of united
Italy there problems difficult actually than those
faced by England with her labor and Irish troubles or by
Germany with the load Of defeat her back 4
With extraordinary tact and Intelligence Italian states
have dealt with the outbreak among workers, the
seng of factories They have used arguments instead
of machine guns knowing the Italian populations have had
enough of machine guns during the last five years and
would not take kindly to them.
The serious Italian trouble appears to be out
break of the most radical element against religion and all
that represents it, shown in the effort to break into
churches There is danger of trouble serious and
be remeded from that direction than from any tenn
porary outbreak of "Sovetism" in the factories.
Macbeth, when everything had gone wrong,
asked the doctor:
"Canst thou not minister to mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perous stuff
Which weighs upon the hearth
those days the doctor had to Therein the
patient must minister to himself but he makes more
satisfactory answer in modern times At Columbia Uni
tells young gentlemen that physicians Of the future must
administer to bodily ills and mental ills also"
DR.. Fordyce even thinks that by steering minds Of
patients the right direction doctors may be able to deal
with, diminish abolish the present SOCIAL unrest
large and interesting contract.