The Washington times., 1920-05-12
THINGS IN GENERAL
Sugar. Rockefeller, Railroads, Con-
scription and Stupidity

= On one page of one morning Newspaper you
rad concerning railroads the following headlines:
Chicago Situation Declared AcuteLack OF Cars and
Goal May Cause Industrial Shutdown.
2-Ral Strike Thestens to Tie Up Buffalo Plants
3-Detroit Faces Close Down Owing TO Freight lie Up
e Rail Situation Worse In Cleveland District.
6-Ra Strike Continues to Tie Up Pittsburgh Industries
All that, dearly beloved. II under PRIVATE ownership
AFTER the muoh-urged giving up OF control by the
Government
nl.informsd business men, whose profound knowledge
Of world affairs is sometimes limited to their financial
front and back yards whose opinions controlled by their
own investments will make up their minds eventually that
something must be done about efficient railroad system
to the extent Of swallowing that dreadful sociastc
monster, Government ownership.
The refnsr who recently shipped thirty thousand
pounds Of sugar to Washington by parcel post could tell
other business something about Government control
- Senators discuss ten-million dollar fund to
buy President Of the United States for those that need ono
hundred concerns In the country could afford tan
millions for such purchase the article purchased
should refuse TO stand without tying more than half the time
The President of the United States is the worlds most
powerful ruler With few words half Of them veneered
with solemn patriotism he could hand ten million dollars day
to . few big corporations
Fortunately the Presidency be bought The peo
pie take much interest in their election this time sena
tor Borah however renders public service in keeping
track Of the political money spending and asking plain dis
agreeable questions
A Mr.. Riggs, of Washington, excited, sees
possibilities of Asatic thuggery victims sacrificed TO the
goddess Kali" etc., in the fact that Christian Scientist
doctor The daughter died. the father fined thousand
dollars Considerable excitement in and out Of Christian
Science.
Those oppose Christian Science violently may
take comfort in the fact that it is dangerous and
deadly the Christian Scientists will all die off, and settle the
problem.
The majority who prefer the odfashoned science to
Christian Science without getting worked about it, know
that the death rate is going be greatly affected either
way and that the comfort human beings find in religious
faith than Offsets any little Inconvenience.
Mr. Rockefeller has a large estate at Pecan
tco Hills His agent the newspaper says, finds hard to
employ at reasonable the to keep the
grounds in order.
Mr.. Rockefeller has taught organization and its
omy in production to the business Of the world He
might teach of large estates economy in the
reconstruction period he would fence in his flowers and
shrubs with chicken wre put in sheep instead Of lawn
mowers small tractor with spring tooth brush
harrow instead of with rakes and hoes to keep down
the weeds in his drives he would have in the fall several
thousand lambs for sale his neghbor several thousand
pounds of fresh WOOL and money saved his pay roll
If you think that Mr. Rockefeller lives in wild luxury
which he does not since the most he gets out of life is
game of golf and glass of milk and setzer ask yourself
what MIGHT be done with fortune such his in the way
Of squanderng money wasting human labor and setting
example Of extravaganza.
The remarkable thing about very rich of this age
that the biggest of them spend their lives making and CIV
ing away and they drop almost literally from their Office
chairs into the grave and keep their dollars working at pro-
ducton providing employment which is great thing
Would you like to wake up tomorrow, If you
male between the ages of 18 and 49, - and get an
order to appear for immediate conscription?
If YES or if NO, you interested in army organi
saton bill that has passed the Senate Under that BILL il
the President should say, There exists national
gency and if Congress should say, II guess you're right "
YOU could be conscpd and sent anywhere between the
North South Poles without asking your advice about it,
The national emergency" doesn't have to be an
international WAR could be ordered to drop your