The Washington times., 1920-04-03

Any Injunction Coming7
Tiger" Rockefeller, Glenn
enceau.
Are We Still Fighting7
Cray and Tired"
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrisht. lslO.l

So< oito tuCus
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
copyright. isio)
Coal miners get a wage increase
Of twenty-seven per cent This
adds from fsrty to fifty cents to
the cost of a ton Of coal. Dealers
Immediately add from one dollar
to a dollar and a half per ton to
the price.
You will pay OF do without.
When working miners, some
time ago, struck to get more
money for their families they were
stopped with an injunction. What
will be done about enjoining the
coal dealers?
There is not, let us hope, one
kind of law and one kind Of in
junction for workingmen trying to
better their cond ton, another
kind Of law and NO injunc' ion for
prosperous dealers robbing the
whole public.
Clemenceau, the French "tiger,"
having shot his first crocodile, said
he supposed 1t was the first time
a crocodile had been killed by a
tiger. The crocodile's fate, he
thought, should teach human be-
ings to keep their mouths shut.
The crocodile was killed with a
bullet sent into its wide-open
mouth.
The crocodile lies in the hot sun
with it's mouth open, while agile
birds pick from its teeth fragments
of its latest repast. Flies also en-
ter the huge mouth and drink the
crocodile's blood.
II one of those, called the tse-
tse fly, had flown from the mouth
of the crocodile to the skin Of the
Frenchman and, biting him, had
planted in his blood gorms taken
from the crocodile's blood, the
French "tiger," as we'll as the
crocodile, would now be dead.
In the. crocodile's blood, only
grow deadly germs of the African
sleeping sickness, carried to men
and animals by the tse-tse fly.
Travelling swiftly from Clemen-
ceau and the banks of the Nile to
the city Of New York, you find
John D. Rockefeller in his valuable
institute, fighting the tse-tse germ
with science.
John D. Rockefeller, Junior, once
showed to this writer, under the
microscope, one of the deadly
germs, alive, swimming furiously
about in a drop Of blood.
1t looked like q miscroscopic
dragon with huge head, or some
thing like a small catfish with
sharp spines, that little boys catch
in stagnant ponds.
In that short cablegram about
Clemenceau and his first crocodile,
you see diplomacy killing brute
force, and arc reminded OF the
ease with which human beings
will destroy disease when they
stop destroying each other. Your
imagination, at one glance, sees
the French statesman shooting the
crocodile, and the American finan-
cier with science and dollars,
studying the dangerous germs that
live in the crocodile's blood, and
fighting successfully q disease that
now desolates vast regions in
Africa.
Dollars, used scientifically, are
more. powerful than germs or dip
lomats-
What, in the name of celestial
wisdom and earthly common sense,
is the objection to proclaiming the
end of war with Germany by act of
Congress?
Are we still fighting Germany?
Do we intend to take up once more
the shipping of men and the squan-
dering of profiteer billions?
Is not the war over as a matter
Of FACT? Did not the President
long ago say that it WAS over?
How can any Congressman vote
against proclaiming the end Of a
war that ended long ago? War
with Germany is as dead as the
war with Spain, why not say so?
Mrs. Elmer Cowart lived in a
tent with five children and her
husband, near Elk City, Okla.
The floor was the bare ground.
The children were young, they
came closer together. The hus-
band worked in a mill and made
little.
After the woman had killed her
five children, and cut her own
throat, she could not speak because
Of her wound. Her mind cleared
up in the hospital just before she
died and she wrote on the wall,
al was crazy and tired. know
all about it now"