The Washington times., 1920-09-19

Wncn HlStOry reNlcWb thiS ees
industrial feudslism, there will be
emphasis on the news from Italy IN
September, 1920. II tells that
owners of factories are comPro,,
uising with workmen who seized
tn factories, and agree that
wUFkers shall share In manage
uhsot,. profits, etc.
" Originally, government was man
aged by one hand, absolute dicta-
TOR. Then came voting, represen-
tatiye government, parliament,
share In the power OF government;
aISd then came the republic, which
meant nominally that no indiv,d-
uxl had anything TO say. and the
citizens, united, had everything TO
say.S
Perhaps industry will go through
the same process. Now each ousi-
ness has at the top a governing
power. 1t hires and discharges,
regulates wages, shuts down when
profits are not good. All this IS
slightly modified by the power OF
unionism, which in industry repre-
sents to some extent parliament
in q powerful monarchy.
Giving Italian workmen q right
to share in management is like CIV
ing citizens right to vote, a great
and important change which VIII
not be forgotten.
That, if it works out, the thing
will spread to other countries in
Europe, there can be no doubt.
The school of credulous mystics
will be interested in the case OF
Fischer, who sent the warning to
wall Street. Fischer says "warn-
ing Of the disaster came to me
through the air"
His brother-in-law suggests that
Fischer's warning, mentioning the
day of the explosion, was a mere
coincidence. 1t may have been. 1t
certainly was not any message
through the air." Messages do not
travel in that way except with the
help of the Marconi apparatus. 1t
may have been neither an air mes
sage nor a coincidence. Fischer
says his brother-in-law was ruined
in Wall Street.
A linguist might identify the
nationality of the Wall Street
criminal by study of those words
in the message, in red ink, dropped
IN a mail h0x
"Remember, we will not toler.
ate any longer
That sentence was written by
one whose native language is not
English. The verb tolerate" is
much used to express indignation
in France and other Latin coun-
tries. An expert in language
might, with some certainty, give
the nationality Of the man writing
that sentence.
Louis Marshall, IAN authority
on constitutional law" says it is
not constitutional for any city ~
build houses for its inhabitants.
If that is unconstitutional,
change the Constitution. What
could you suggest for Twentieth
Amendment better than giving a
people the right to spend its own
money in its own way?
But is city building really un-
constitutional? Every big. city in
its 200" builds house for, mon
keys, another for elephants, an
other with swimming tank for
"hippos." If city may build
monkey houses, spending money to
heat the monkeys in winter, and
charging no rent, why hasn't it
power on a renting basis to do as
much for citizens and their chill
dren?
F. H. Sisson, viee president Of
Guaranty Trust Company, tells the
national tea and coffee merchants
that prices are actually on their
way down. Good news for every
body, except a few, and perhaps
they have saved enough already,
after long fat months of profteer-
inc.
The news is welcome to work
ers, who read the advice Of the
illinois Free Employment Bureau,
'1f you have a job, keep it. There
are more men than jobs now"
Unemployment on a large scale
before the beginning of winter is
predicted. "Only the most efficient
men can get job
1t ought to be, but is not, the
chief interest of government to
plan for the immediate employ
ment Of surplus labor on a gigantic
scale, and profitably.
A country that had ten thou
sand millions to lend to Europe,
in a good cause, and without ask
ing for the interest, amounting to
two hundred and fifty millions
year, ought to be able to spend
little on American labor. Roads
and bridges need building. The
Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico
should be connected via the Mis-
sissippi by water, making ocean
ports of all lake cities. Deserts
and swamps need irrigating and
draining.
If farmer had FIVE idle sons,
he would put them to work improv-