The Washington times., 1921-10-10
Today
Mr.. couxens, Of Detroit.
And Small Yellow Cars.
Corporate Labor Deal
A New Teacher Is Coming
ARTHUR BRIsBAl
Copyright issI.y

Public officials generally. please
read:
Mayor Couzens Of Detroit viii
be renominated at the Detroit
primaries tomorrow. and he will
be reelected. as he deserves to be,
and small yellow "one-man" street
cars running through Detroit In
,all directions tell you why.
Those cars are municipality
owned, and Detroit owes them to
Mayor Couzens, who has sense
enough TO know that the people
have a right to own street cars II
they want to.
In Detroit, the wonder city that
has passed competitors as an auto
mobile passes a buggy, workers
Used TO stand in the rain or snow
waiting twenty minutes or more
Tor chance to hang on to strap
going to work or coming back.
Now they get comfortable cars
quickly, and get seats, sometimes,
At least.
Some object, saying that pro-
viding city-owned cars for work.
ers adds to taxation. 1t does not,
in the long run--it makes land
more valuable, the city more de-
sirable, its income bigger-but
u suppose comfortable transporta-
tion for all the people did mean
) some slight taxation. What Of it?
To provide fine bride paths in
public parks and magnificent au-
tomobile roads means taxation.
The workers do not object, al
though they may use them lit
tie.
Mayor Couzens is compare
lively rich man, even in our day
and in Detroit, being worth
thirty or forty millions, and is a
taxpayer. He knows that a city
is made prosperous by making
the great crowd comfortable and
recognizing it's rights to manage
its own affairs.
For that reason he will be re-
elected. Occasionally the voters
prove that they know it pays
to recognize service with graft
tude.
Detroit is a lesson to all Amer
leans as we'll as to some public
officials. New York thinks of
itself as the only city. with giant
Nbuildings of the Equitable build-s
! ing type. You could lose the
New York Equitable building in,
the new mammoth general Office
building of the General Motors
Company at Detroit as you could
lose the village smithy in mod
ern automobile factory.
When you look across the river
in Detroit, standing on United
States soil, and gazing south at
Canada, or see children pointing
in amazement at team Of horses
in the street or see the magnifi-
cent white library in city where
many workmen read, You realize
that the development OF this
country is beginning.
From Chicago you learn, IT ac-
cusations against the Edison Elec-
trio Light Company be true, that
the big corporations are learn
ing the power of union. The
charge is made that in colusion
with the electrical workers union
the big company is carrying
agents of the union on its pay
roll, the agents doing useful work
tjfor the big company.
! The wonder is that big corporate
employers did not realize long ago
what could be done by combining
with their workmen to exploit the
public more thoroughly. The thing
has been done in a small way,
according TO the mayor OF New
York. who says the street car trust
told its homemade, hand-picked
labor organization 10 strike for
more pay-the pay would be raised
four mllllOnS, Une pubic iCo
would be raised twenty to sixty
millions.
Education is a beautiful thing.
Uncle Sam may soon have a new
teacher. Hereafter, If the law goes
through. corporations will be al
lowed to deduct from income tax
any money they spend on educa-
tion. Corporation money given
afor charitable, educational and re-
ligious purposes" can be deducted
up to Is per cent of the total
income.
II corporations contribute to
. educational schemes, showing, for
instance, that public and munich
nal ownership are Bolshevism and
! labor unions degrading to Ameri-
can manhood, could they deduct
that expense?
n they hired "educationalists"
to teach that children over four
teen are better off in the factory
than in the school, would that come
under education 7" Legal assump-