The Washington times., 1920-02-10

Selflshness and Progress.
Alcohol and Flying.
Labor and Politics.
The Mark of Cain.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

hence the enamel bath IN every
little flat. -. .,
The Emperor wanted for that
bath pure water from the spland'
That started the aqueduct systems
that now supply the top floors OF
tenement houses.
Young men with nothing to DO
but spend money were In ter
rifle hurry to go somewhere, al
though 1t didn't In the least mat
ter whether they went or not
Money they otherwise would have
wasted was used to build the frst
expensive automobiles. Hence.
the farmers and business mans
cheap car.
Foolish experiments In transmu-
tation Of metals, trying 10 manu-
fActure gold. resulted In most val
liable chemical discoveries.
Now mans self-indulgent thirst,
demanding something more excit-
ing than plain water. will contrib
ute to the development OF the pow
erful flying machine.
America is the land of prohibi-
ton and virtue. Cuba is the near
by, sunny, alcoholic oasis. Already
they have a regulal' flying machine
route from Key West to Havana.
Fast trains from San Francisco,
Chicago, New York to Key West,
then short Highland no pro-
hibition. .... ....
A twenty-million- dollar hotel is
being built near Havana to take
care of the crowd. Soon fast pas
senger ships, such as were for
merly used in the Mediterranean
trade, will run from New York TO
Havana in the winter.
A little later the big flying ma
chine, making the round trip in q
few hours, will travel between the
island Of Cuba and Long Island in
absolute safety. Thirst will hurry
on the day of passenger flying.
Cuba before long will be the
land flowing with alcohol and
money. Scores Of millions Of gal
Ions Of whiskey already have gone
there.
Thousands of American travel
ers and millions of American
money are pouring in. With its
sugar crop worth more than half
a billion a year going out and
American cash coming in, Cuba,
the pearl of the Antilles" will
soon be the gold nugget among
nations.
Organised labor, entering peli-
tics, will elect true and tried
friends Of the trade union move
ment."
Interesting announcement. In
England organized labor is a gi-
gantic force in politics; in Amer
lea it is not. On election day the
crowds divide, following party
lines. Each party prepares plat
form saying it is the only real
friend labor ever had. Half the
labor men go one way, half the
other. The politicians laugh
well they may.
The statement of union men that
they will elect "true and tried
friends of union labor should
cause them to ask themselves
some questions.
How does a man get true and
tried friends? He gets them and
keeps them by showing that he
appreciates friendship, by proving
that he does not forget tomorrow
the kindness of today.
To what men can labor unions
point-powerful in public affairs
for whom union labor has ever
really done anything?
The strongest, hardest fighting
friend of the unions in this coun-
try, rs everybody knows, Is SAM
uel Gompers. And large section
of union labor is viciously fighting
Gompers today.
To have true and tried friends,
you must do something to deserve
them.
Union men know, perhaps, and
il they don't know this writer
can tell them, that in every cleo
ton the politicians say to the
newspaper men: "Dont pay any
attention to union labor. 1t
doesn't count in politics. 1t is
with you one day, and knives you
the next. We hand them little
jolly in the platform and let it
60 at that"
New York and other cities, and
hundreds of towns, are buried
in snow, transportation stopped,
workmen idle. Every year snow
surprises and paralyzes the intel
lgent American public as though
it never happened before. This
; would be excusable on the Equa-
tor, not in the Latitude Of New
York or Chicago. q
The hundreds OF tanks owned
by the Government and lying idle
would clear away the snow in New
York city in a day. But this would
mean cooperation between ma
tional and local governments,
which does not exist The snow
would melt twice while the neces-
sary red tape was being unwound.
The Augusta Chronicle points