The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-05

Says BonfiIs, OF Denver
To Make Ships Pay.
Japan's Car, Homemade.
On "Fanatical Minorlties. :"

On "Fanatical Minorities."
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, Isai.)
President Harding, who asks the
States to help find work for the
idle, will be interested in a tele-
gram from his friend and fellow
editor, Bonfils, Of the Denver
Post:
"The cost of four modern hat
tieships would build two national
kard.surface highways, one from
New York to San Francisco, the
other from the Gulf of Mexico 10
Canada. The four battleships
VIII be obsolete In ten Or fifteen
years, the highways I'LL stand
forever. We have karted a
movement asking the government
TO build these .highwks under
the supervision Of army engin-
eers. This would give employ
ment to several hundred thou
sand, disseminating TIE money
generally among the people, lat
creasing real estate values all
over the country, starting a De-
riod of national internal improve.
ment that would stimulate all
values everywhere. These ma
tionals highways are needed
will be built some day-why not
now! The whole thing is sana,
practical. and wise"
The President ought to employ
Bonfils and his partner, who are
AS determined as bulldogs, and.
like the ella monster, once thew
bite they don't know how to let 90.
Besides the roads that Bonfils
suggests, the country needs canals,
one from Chicago, via the Missis-
sippi valley, to the Gulf, to make
an ocean port Of every city on the
lakes and Of New Orleans a great
port for the whole world.
There Is plenty Of work. II
American ability would take as
much interest in supplying
wages to six million men as in
accumulating q few more dollars
for itself the thing would be
done.
The country will thank Lasker,
Of the Shipping Board, for in
vestigating a deal made with
England by the so-called "Amer-
lean" International Mercantile
If that company, born and
raised in the office Of an Anglo
American banking house, has
made q deal to give England
control Of American ships as
we'll as her own, the people of
the United States ought to
know it.
. Lasker and others, wondering
how American ships can be made
20 pay, should take iessons from
England. Subpoena young Ear-
riman, who is trying to do for
American ships what his father
did for American railroads. Ask
him what happened when he
sent ships to Egypt, thinking he
might be allowed to carry here
Egyptian cotton. Ask him il
the British ever allowed him to
carry a single pound on an
boat.
Then let gentlemen that con-
troll our shipping ask this ques-
ton: "If the power Of England
is used to send every possible
pound Of freight in British bot
toms, why not use the power Of
the American Government to
send our freight in American
ships, thus keeping ready for
war and making better foreign
business?"
Japan exhibits her first
homemade" motor car. The
engine, air cooled, twelve horse
power, is made in Indianapolis;
otherwise it is all Japanese.
That little car, wheel base only
inches, weight $50
suiting narrow Japanese
roads and weak bridges, may be
important.
The question in Japan is: "Shall
the military party or Japanese
labor ruler" II the
midget" japanese automobile sets
free the men that drag the jim
letting them transfer
energy from their legs to their
brains, Japanese labor may win its
fight. The man harnessed to
jinrikisha or to a pick and shovel
has little energy left for thinking;
he is easy to handle.
Tailors and shoetnakers are dan
gerous agitators because at their
work they sit and think.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
lble citizen, whose lectures on edu-
cation are the best this writer has
seen, now warns US against "fanat-
cal minorities." He tells his
students that those minorities are
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