The Washington times., 1920-05-13

She lust Made Butter.
Great Women Live Long.
Rare Thing, Real Democrat.
Armour, Swift, ct al.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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A statesman In Congress says
the eight-hour day must be done
away with to speed up production
and provide what the world needs.
There Is no such necessity. An
eight-hour day OF REAL WORK,
where eight hours have been the
usual day. will supply all the pro-
duction needed. The important
thing is that THERE SHOULD
BE EIGHT HOURS OF WORK,
not eight hours Of dawdling and
half working. The right kind Of
! = man can earn his wages in eight
hours and in eight hours can give
all the good work in him. Not
longer hours, but willingness to
WORK eight hours is what the
country needs.
Statesmen that want working
hours made longer and working
men who think the nations prob
lem can be solved by doing half =
days work for a days pay should
hand-in-hand study Cup Queen, the
champion Jersey cow with a new
world record,
Cup Queen has produced nine
hundred and thirty pounds Of but
ter in a year, considerably more
probably than her own weight.
She didn't work longer in the year
than other cows, didn't eat any
different food, she just made
butter.
In various places and ways yes
terday the world celebrated the
hundredth anniversary of the
birth Of Florence Nightingale.
Some one should write a history
Of that extraordinary woman, es-
pecially for young ladies who ask,
"What can 1 do worth while?"
Florence Nightingale went to
the military hospital at Scutari
during the Crimean war. She
found, cut, and unwound military
red tape. She forced even the
British government to pay 'atten-
tion to the fact that soldiers, neg
lected. were rotting of their
wounds.
She never paused, never stop
ped, never gave up her savage
fighting against official indiffer-
ence and stupidity. She is the
mother Of modern nursing.
You can get a fairly good idea
of her life in Strachey's book,
Eminent Victorians." You will
find in that book some other por-
traits worth reading.
Florence Nightingale, like other
women using their brains, lived to
be old.
j.. Like trees we die first at he top,
men and women.
Florence Nightingale lived to
ninety; Julia Ward Howe, one Of
: our best women, lived to ninety
one; Harriet Beecher Stowe, to
eighty five. And Cleopatra,
never a beauty, but always
thinking woman and politician,
highly intelligent. last of the won
derful line of Ptolemies, would
probably have lived to be a hun
dred, and to manage many gentle
men, besides Caesar and Antony,
except for Antony's irresolution
and the asp.
William Dean Howells was
buried yesterday. He was eighty
three years old, as prosperous as
he cared to be, famous, admired
throughout the country. Yet to
the day of his death he was a
democrat, sympathizing with those
that need sympathy.
More than eighty years Of life
had taught him that the poor have
little to give; not even gratitude,
~as a rule. The rich have every
thing to give, gratitude always
included. In spite of that, How
ellis sympathies had not wandered
from the men that surrounded him
seventy years ago, when he worked
in a printing office. That doesn't
happen often in this practical
land.
Big, rich, good-natured is the
u. S. A. COW. Many are the milk
ers and thick the cream. The
Department of Justice says that
six hundred million dollars will be
taken from the people this year
in sugar speculation ALONE.
1t should be somebody's bust
ness, but it isn't, to protect the
public against the largest items of
national robbery.
One trouble is cost Of distribu-
ton. Before the war sugar was
sold to the consumer for about
ONE cent a pound more than it
cost at the refinery. Today it is
retailed for more than TEN cents
above refinery cost,
Perhaps one cent profit was too
, small. Certainly ten cents Is too
big.
Armour, Swift, Wilson, and
other big food men, wouldn't it be
worth YOUR while to organize
food sailing directly IN the nuhlic