The Washington times., 1920-04-27

Welcome Mr.. Wilson.
Forty-elght Unions.
Dinner Pail Miracle.
Mars Indifference.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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By ARTHUR BRISBANE
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Mr.. Wilson is coming back into
active politics. That is this morn
inss news. interesting and well
come. He will find plenty OF poll
tics In which to be active. For. SO
Tar as activity Is concerned, Con.
gress. the lswmaking machine. has
recently been as mild as a gold
hsh globe with no gold fish in il.
The garment workers. a very
important body OF skilled men and
women, whose product runs into
billions yearly. now talk of "one
big union." borrowing the express
sion from the so-called outlaws.
who recently dropped their leaders
and went ii alone. for little while.
much to the satisfaction of the
railroad owners.
Garment workers and others that
talk OF one big union should re-
member that in division. diversity
OF opinion and Of action. there is
safety and progress.
In the animal kingdom. the one
big union was represented by the
dinosaur. He did not last.
In government. the one big union
was represented by the Russian
Gar bossing everything. He and
his empire did not last,
Let those that talk about one big
union consider the United States
OF America. That is q union, but
it is made up Of forty-sight small
unions, the torty-eight States.
Each of these forty-eight unions
legislates for itself, solves its prob
lens In its own way.
In one State there is no death
penalty. In another State they
hanged q man for stealing horse.
In ono State there is practically
no divorce. In another State you
can get q divorce almost as easily
rs you can get nut sundae.
In one children are protected.
In another, they are exploited, and
SO on.
This gives elasticity, pliability.
It enables forty-eight bodies of
citizens to do forty-eight kinds of
thinking and experimenting. Each
of the forty-eight is ready and
able at any time to profit by what
it learns from the forty-seven
other experimenters.
.--.-Workingmen also should be di-
yided into groups, working and ex-
perimenting successfully each
group and the entire body profiting
by the mistakes and the achieve
ments Of the others.
For instance, take the locomotive
engineers. For a generation they
haven't lost a strike. They got
wages that were considered gigan-
tic. Thus they set a standard.
If they had been part of one big
union they would necessarily have
tried to get those high wages for
everybody. They would have
failed.
But the engineers got the high
wages for themselves, and now the
wonderfully high pay of the loco
motive engineers Of few years
ago is less than the pay Of the
laborer that carries brick in hod
as helper to the bricklayer.
Don't put all your eggs in one
basket, as union men or as citizens
of a nation.
Scientists and others met to cele-
Ibrate the virtues of Andrew Carne-
gle in a memorial meeting. They
all said his memory will last
through generations and centuries.
He who built so many Libraries
will be remembered perhaps as
long as the slave who burned the
great library in order that his
memory might last forever.
Mr.. Carnegie will not be re-
membered so much as mere
builder OF libraries, but rather as
one Of the first men with a great
deal Of money. spending the money
to advertise his intelligent philan-
thropy during his lifetime and to
do good, instead Of leaving it to
be spent for the salvation Of his
soul after death.
Carnegie was worth five hundred
millions. He had sense enough to
know that was too much money to
spend on one little Scotch soul.
Long after they forget the good
that he did, even the fact that he
set the example Of wholesale phi
lanthropy, they will remember the
remarkable fact that he gave away
libraries and never gave away a
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