The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-11-12

4 Labor crime7
Quality Through the Dam.
Sd Armistice Day-ouiet.
z Italian Transformations


I2 italian Transformations.
by ARTHUR RRlsBANE-I
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The New York Evening World
makss the positive assertion that
the Wall Street explosion was
planned and carried out by work
nan that had been deprived OF
their work by blsclmsilins labor
grafters.
Not anarchists seeking to de-
stroy Wall Street bankers. But
men out of work seeking to kill q
gang Of eighty-five workmen
that had taken their place, caused
the explosion In Wall Street. d.
rectly opposite the spot where the
eiRhty-five hated workers were
employed on the stock exchange
annex.
~ All wondered why a bomb, sup
bosedly intended for rich men,
should have been exploded at IL
o'clock. Rich men do not 60 10
lunch at IL, they are safe INDOORS
at that hour. But working men
do pour out into the streets from
their work at noon.
Investigation will prove or dis
prove the Evening Worlds story.
II proved it comes as one OF many
hard blows for organized labor.
/. Recent investigations by Samuel
Untermyer, revealing In a week
more of graft and dishonesty than
all the opera comique investiga~
tions by Government prosecutors
have revealed in years, shows q
most vicious condition In certain
lines of industry. 49,.
Honest workmen, unwilling to
pay blachmail, could not find en-
ployment. Decent builders, un-
willing to be blackmailed and pass
the blackmail along to investors,
could get no work, or could not
finish the work if they Undertook
1t.
Now a responsible newspaper
makes the positive statement that
Organized workers, driven to des-
Z fperation by blackmailing and
blacklisting that kept them out OF
work, sought revenge on other
Workers in a most horrible man
her, destroying many innocent
y lives.
R A lady with a strong, cheerful
nee, named Callahan, has two
ms, Tim and Mike. When she
Y es to the Yale-Princeton football
Rajne she will be entitled to q
Trent seat, for Tim is captain of
-4heNYALE football team, and Mike
is captain Of the PRINCETON
team. .t
Students of race horses have a
saying quality comes through
the dam" Galton. whose great
book on heredity you should read,
tells you that among humans also
quality comes through the DAM"
daughters, not sons, inherit the
best qualities of their fathers.
The sister of the great Angus
tus was a better "man" than
he. Sons get their best qualities
from their mothers. 1t was Alex
ander's wild, impetuous, snake
dancing, husband-killing mother
that made him conqueror Of the
world, not his mild father. Nancy
Hanks made Lincoln; Madame
Bonaparte made Napoleon; Lin
coin and Napoleon had second rate
slipshod fathers.
The country yesterday cele-
brated Armistice Day. Very
mildly. Some whistles and some
orators sounded, and small boys
tried to seem excited. Nobody
WAS excited. The world soon
forgets big things. Grass is grow
ing where the barbed wire was,
the French have rebuilt their fac
tories. This country is busy won
dering what is the matter with
prices and why we sell nothing
abroad any more. Armistice Day
amounted to less than. any ordi-
nary Fourth of July, because, big
as it is, this late war means much
less to America than the little
war Of 1776.
The Italians have settled with
the Jugo-Slavs in the right way,
by keeping Fiume Italian, as it has
been for two thousand years.
This means that British ships Of
gthe Cunard and other lines will
J not be able to monopolize the big
Z sseerage traffic pouring through
Fiume. That is sad for the Gu
! nArd, but will give Italian ship
ping a chance.
The greatest Transformation, ex-
\ Scepsing one, in all history is the
Poet D'Anhunzio, who suddenly
dives up writing unpleasant books
SbcGt women he has known, and
by sheer power of genius holds
for his nation territory rightly be-
longing TO Italy.
The other fanous Italian trans