The Washington times., 1921-03-04

Presidents. A new engineer takes
charge Of the national train, which
is going, We don't exactly KNOW
whittier, but in the right direction,
We HOPE.
In London they are winding up
a great war in the good old-fash-
toned, barbarous way, the victors,
forgetting their own defeat, schem-
ing TO take all they possibly can
from the vanquished and planting
{ seeds Of the next wars.
In this country, according TO Mr..
b. G. Forbes, who writes ably on
financial topics, capital is not pre-
pared and doesn't wish to see bust
ness start up energetically "be-
cause labor has not been fully
iquidated." which means because
toages hdue not been pushed down
far enough.
OF great value to the human
race, something of which few have
heard, is work nearing compile
tion at the Museum of Natural
History in the city of New York.
In "The Hall of the Age Of
Man." under the direction of
Henry Fairfield Osborn, there will
be presented picture of the life
of man from his beginning on this
earth about five hundred thousand
years ago until today. II Ito know
thyself" Is the first wisdom. this
Hall OF the Age or Man" will do
more for education, through the
eye, than could be done in years
OF reading and thinking.
There man will see himself as
the Trinal ape-man, low forehead,
big jaw; then as the Neanderthal
man, british, but rising; next as
the Cro-Magnon, infinitely more
highly developed man, and SO on
AL through the stages of primi-
tzve and later development.
Studying men, as they have
PASSED upward from cave life and
t0 ftEAAis " " udL VIC
: e&ii "civilization," seeing that only
twelve thousand years separate
this day from the stag-hunters Of
the late Stone Age, we shall un-
derstand more easily the ending
of a war in 1921 with the victors
taking the conquered as slaves,
INDUSTRIALLY, as they used to
make them their slaves physically,
or eat them.
There is more dignity and re-
spectability in Cro-Magnon,
slaughtering his inferior foe,
! breaking open the thigh-bone to
get the marrow, without hypoc-
Srisy. than in modern Europeans
tHguring just how. much they can
lget by enslaving people for forty
years.
The interesting announcement
ofthis day is that Mr.. Wilson, go
ing back thirty-five years, to 1885,
when he first became professor,
intends to start law office with
cambridge, Colby, Secretary of
State, as his partner.
Mr.. Wilson will have in Mr..
Colby a first class partner, a
fighting lawyer, able, thoroughly
equipped. Capitalize your repu-
tation" Is the modern idea.
Every affectionate father should
make his son study law and gain
admittance to the bar. Then. if
he becomes distinguished in other
directions, the law makes it possi-
BILE for him respectfully to accept
payment from anybody who may
feel gratitude.
A lawyer retiring from public
service can capitalize his reputa-
tion over night. A doctor, scientist,
or mere professor not admitted to
the bar cannot.
Lord Haldane, an Engiishman,
points out that TO crowd down
wages, discourage men. take away
hope, instead of keeping the gain
that has been made, means ruin
to the nations in future.
Haldane is right. To cut down
wages as working policy is to
keep down prosperity. Haldane
says truly, at prepares the way
for endless strikes. for deliberate
under-production, for everv trade
hamperins manoeuvre Of which
the workers are capable"
Organized capital has still to
learn, what II might easily learn
by taking trip to China, that the
prosperity of the comfortable
group on the top depends on the
prosperity Of the uncomfortable
many at the bottom. You can only
get a part Of Uhdt you let your
Dorkmen hare, A nations pros
perity depends on what ninety
per cent Of the population can
sperd,
The Federation of Labor is max
ing up its mind about continuing
international cooperation with
European labeF. Certain Ameri-
can labor elements feel that there
Is too much Bolshevism, for health,
in Europe, too much radicalism,
and that American labor would