The Washington times., 1920-12-04
Today
Strange Socialists.
The Lucky Touch.
Most Interesting Death.
100000 Bottles.
ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright. isie


are run by private owners. They
cut down the service. Thereupon
those Socialist officials loaded the
president of the street car system,
the general manager, and several
crews of employees into the patrol
wagon and took them to the police
station.
The officials were each fined
500; minor employees, $50 apiece.
1t is sad to hear Of such re-
spectacle gentlemen taking ride
in the patrol wagon. But there
may be something in the idea. II
will be worth while TO watch that
street car system and observe its
improvement.
DR.. Robinson, "the colored
Ponzi," of Chicago, had a modern,
good idea. He said the American
Car and Foundry Company. owed
him ten million dollars. and he ex-
pected to collect. While waiting
, for the ten millions he sold his per-
sonal notes, charging ten dollars
! for a two hundred and fifty-dollar
! note. Many, white and colored,
bought those notes, tempted by
large profits" They learned,
however, that the American Car
and Foundry Company never owed
DR.. Robinson anything. DR.. Rob-
, inson will go to Jail, and buyers
of his notes, having learned a les
! son, will now, presumably, resume
the buying of wildcat oil stock.
Harvard students, facing dif-
, fcult examinations, walk up to
Horween, captain of the football
team, and touch him with one
finger "to bring luck"
, Horween won at every game this
season, tossing for the opening
advantage. Being lucky. he is sup
posed to have the power to COM
municate his luck by touch.
! You travel back via Harvard to
! the most ancient belief among hu-
I man beings, kings touching their
subjects to cure them Of "king's
evil" presented the Horween idea.
II Horween had lived ten thou
sand years ago he might have
made, as high priest of some tenn
pie, a first-class living out of the
foolish belief in his "touch."
Many interesting deaths in his
tory-the philosophers that jump
ed into the volcanoes mouth, the
| Nihilist prisoner in Russia that
burned himself to death by press
ing his back against the little oil
lamp high up on his cell wall;
the Japanese, sensitive about his
honor, who rips open his own
stomach to avenge an insult;
Lucretia, who killed herself in
stead OF killing Sextus in the
modern American way. All are to
he eclipsed by d'Annunzio, the
fighting poet. He is determined
that his death shall be as striking
as his curious life. Not satisfied
with the Fiume settlement, it is
announced that dAnnunzio has
undermined the whole city OF
Fiume with dynamite, all the dyna-
mite deposits being connected by
wire. II he cant have his way
d'Annunzio will blow up the city,
and, of course, himself with it.
Tho President tells the farmers
and livestock men, threatened by
disaster through the fall in prices,
that he can do nothing for them,
and is sorry. The Presidents re-
ply is sincere and earnest. Yet
a nation that could do so much for
( all the grafters and profiteers, Hog
Island scoundrels, and others, in
time of war, ought to be able to
do something for it's own farmers
in time of peace.
The farmers have no better
friend than Mr.. Houston, Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. If he could
help them he would.
Europe now owes this country
fourteen thousand million dollars,
Mr.. Houston sayJ, and that is part
of the trouble. You'd think that
a country that, without asking
consent or approval Of its citizens,
lent fourteen thousand millions to
foreign nations could do some
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whose industry all the people de-
pend for their food.
The steel mills close in Ohio.
Steel mills run on half time else
where. a rubber company closes
an important plant. Edison shuts
one factory-and so on. Cnfortu-
nately the country must wait until
next March for an effort by the
Government TO deal with the Sc
rious lack of employment that is
coming. A divided Government,
Republican in Congress, Demo-
cratic in the White House, can do
nothing.
A man who bought wood alcohol
and sold it as whiskey, thus killing
one hundred people in New Eng
land, is sentenced to eighteen and
a half years in prison. 1t is case
Of giving a wholesale rate on mur-
der. If an individual had killed
one individual in a burglary he
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