The Washington times., 1921-02-22
Today
Hughes Public Service.
Rockefeller and Mr.. Brady.
Fifty Flying Beds.
Times and Kings Change.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANI
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IDy ARTHUR bhISbANE-l
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Mr.. Hughes is to be Secretary
OF State. Mr.. Harding means II
when he says Mr.. Hughes will be
the boss and run the State De-
partment.
In this instance the office has
sought the man. Mr.. Hughes has
sacrificed his selfish interests. his
financial welfare, and that OF his
family, to undertake work for the
people.
He is a man with a family and
without any considerable fortune.
Having been on the Supreme
Court bench and governor OF New
York State, a place in the Cabinet
adds nothing to his reputation.
For his services the people will
pay him about twice as much as
q generous employer pays a good
chauffeur. Mr.. Hughes gives up a
law practice. to which he had just
returned. and an income OF at
least a quarter million dollars a
year, which would soon have made
him and his family rich.
There are, in the public service,
men that put duty before profit.
Labor" In the person of Mr..
Peter j. Brady, OF the committee
on education Of the New York
State Federation of Labor, objects
to the gift of seventy millions
made by John d. Rockefeller to
the cause Of education. Fifty mil
lions go to universities and col
leges to give teachers decent pay;
twenty millions will be spent to
improve medical education.
Mr.. Brady thinks Rockefeller
Is conspiring with his seventy
millions to influence the public
through education. How would
you influence the public through
twenty million dollars worth Of
medical education?
Suppose the professors that owe
better pay to Rockefeller's gen
erosity do occasionally praise Mr..
Rockefeller. They won't do it
often, not as often as they should.
A man who collects some hun
dreds of millions among people
that don't know enough to man.
age their own affairs and gives it
back to them in education and in
science is giving good imitation
of practical providence.
"Give light, and the people will
find their own road" said Dante.
"Give education, and the people
will 90 ahead" says Rockefeller.
Dante and Rockefeller are right.
Peter j. Brady is wrong.
knowledge is the brains weapon.
Whoever distributes knowledge in
creases the power of the masses.
Some Of the worlds greatest
universities were founded upon the
basest superstition; and what they
created wiped out the superstition.
So, Mr.. Brady, let the Rockefel-
lers give, and don't worry. All
this is regulated by well-informed
Providence.
On the Clyde, where many of the
worlds greatest surface ships have
been built, they are just finishing
. a flying ship. This boat of the
air is toicarry mail and passengers
from England to Egypt. One COM
partment will contain fifty beds,
of the Pullman sleeper type, for
passengers.
Who would have believed that
q short time ago?
Times change, kings change with
the times.
King Alfonso of Spain was go
ing to make a friendly call on his
royal brother, t. King of Italy.
But Alfonso's friend and subject,
the Duke of Bivona, has great
Italian domains in Sicily. The
peasants invaded and cultivated
the dukes land without paying for
it. Alfonso wanted. his Italian
brother to punish those peasants.
The Italian King wouldn't do it
he remembers Garibaldi, Cavour,
and q few others.
Now Alfonso will not call on his
Italian brother. Once the Italian
King would have shot the peas
ants, quietly, to please his broth
er Alfonso, and all would have
been well. Things change.
Mr.. Harding announces, defi-
nitely, the choice of Mr.. Daugh-
erty as Attorney General. The New
York World, which wanted Cox
for President, objects to Mr..
Daugherty, and the New York
Evening Post, owned in j. Pier
pont Morgan's office, showed
angrily why Daugherty should not
be named. Yet Senator Harding
names him. Apparently, he in
tends to be President without the
help of Morgan & Co.