The Washington times., 1921-02-24

Shirtfront Newspapers.
One lew Beat 100?
Beware OF Cats.
Can't Talk In Jail.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrixht, ls2l.)

to fght the street Car trust. There
is loud outcry. corporation weep.
Ing. wailing. and gnashing OF
teeth, with high moral indignation
that q Senator Of the United States
should engage in private law
practice"
Hiram johnson says: "If l were
here with the gentlemen who rep
resent the corporate interests /
should be very respectfully treat
ed, but what different tone it is
when l am here for the people!
OF course. mean on the part Of
the 'shirtfront' press"
A good expression-"the shirt
front press" Entering q restau-
rant, you look around for a man
In a "shirtfront" to order what
you want, and subsequently pay
for II.
In that bigger restaurant call
cd the United States, the corpo-
ration looks around for = shirt
front" newspaper to order what
Is wanted, and then pays for 1t.
Fortunately for the people. the
corporation frequently orders and
pays for what 1t doesn't get. New
fork's "shirtfront" press has been
well cared for by corporations, but
some OF them, including the street
car trust, thanks to Hiram John
son, are not going to get what
they thought they had bought.
Hiram Johnson's New York
hight will be against a Republican
governor. Miller. and that gov
ernor is against direct primaries,
convinced that "better minds" in
an inside room ought to select
the peoples candidates. johnson,
on the other hand, favors direct
primaries, naturally, as he owes
to the primaries proof of the fact
that he Is the strongest man in
the Republican party.
In beating the street car trust
and Governor Miller, Johnson may
save the primaries-an extra in
ducement to hard work.
Mr.. Henry Ford and others al
lege that. Jews are planning ito
control the world" They pay the
Jews a compliment, giving them
credit for enterprise and courage,
unusual.
Courtland Smith, president of
the American Press Association,
calls attention to the fact that on
this earth there are about one
thousand six hundred and ninety
nine million human beings. OF
these, fifteen million four hundred
and thirty thousand are Jews.
And of Jews, three million one
hundred thousand are in this coun-
try. =
Jews make up less than one per
cent of the population Of the
world, less than three per cent Of
the population Of the United
States. If one per cent plans to
conquer ninety-nine per cent, or
three per cent undertakes to con-
quer ninety-seven per cent, give
the three per cent or one per cent
credit for genuine enterprise.
Mr.. Tumulty makes public the
opinion of Mr.. Houston, Secretary
of the Treasury, that an embargo
on immigration "would be not
only unwarranted but exceedingly
harmful at this time" Mr.. Hous-
ton deserves thanks for talking
common sense on the immigration
question.
OF the land in this country, thir-
teen per cent is used and under
cultivation. Eighty-seven per cent
is not used. Does that look like Eek
cessive population?" Do we not
need another hundred million white
men and women, and their chill
dren, to develop the eighty-seven
per cent of the United States land
that lies unused?
Whoever knows anything about
business, the del mined, constant,
intensive effort that produces re-
suits, builds up cities and factories,
knows that the best thing that could
happen to this country would be to
receive and start in business three
million more Jews as quickly as
possible.
This is for parents that keep
near their children "cats," always
dangerous, in themselves, and al
ways carriers Of disease germs in
their fur:
Mrs. John Reardon gave a bot
tie Of milk to her eight-months-old
baby. The cat, powerful and jeal-
GUS, attacked the child, biting it
dangerously, then attacked the
mother. Cats spread scarlet fever,
diphtheria, and other diseases. Sick
children "play with the kitty" and
kitty transfers the germs to the
cat of the child next door.
A cat, in the cellar, killing mice
and rats, may have its place, al
though there are better things
than cats for that purpose. A dog
out of doors and kept out of doors
may have its place. But whoever
brings his children, indoors, in con-
tact with animals brings them in
contact with disease, also in dam
ger of hydrophobia.