The Washington times., 1921-07-13

The Reporters Duty.
10 Hours Work, $500.
A Foolish Old Man.
Women Are Brave.

a Foolish Old Man.
Women Are Brave.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright isai.
A gentleman of Los Angeles
writes: 81 have read your writ
ings and thought you were a
Christian and . good man. Now
that know you have been to a
brutal prize fight, ] have no
more use for YOU"
The gentleman does not un-
derstand the whole duty Of man
when engaged in the newspaper
business. 1t is to see every
thing and describe it accurately.
This reporter has seen Prado
and another French criminal
guillotined, has seen Carlisle
Harris and another American
doctor electrocuted, reported
fve hangings in the Tombs
prison, New York, the first ap-
psarance of Woodrow Wilson
addressing Congress, national
conventions, Queen Victoria's
jubilee in London, Pope Leo's
magnificent jubilee in St. Pc
ter's, Boulanger's trip to the
chamber of deputies across the
H. al al
from several districts at once
In Paris, and various things.
But all this does not make
your reporter public execu-
tioner, Boulangist, or anything
but a heterogeneous reporter.
To see clearly and describe
simply is the reporters bust
ness. Providence, not the re-
porter, is responsible for things
seen, from a falling sparrow to
. flying comet.
Here and there we are "get-
ting back to normal" Some
steel mills have reduced pay
for ordinary labor--which means
the hardest labor-to 80 cents
an hour, So for ten hours hard
work. Men work hard when
they know five millions are
waiting to get their job. Unless
you have tried to take care of
. family, with rent, NOT down
to normal, on $18 week,
there is one problem that you
don't know.
Johnson, sixty years old, back
woodsman, with rough hands and
little knowledge, stops you as you
90 through the news. He was am
pushed and shot down with 4 heavy
load of buckshot.
First, in the hospital, he accused
his wife, Ida, twenty-five years
younger than himself, and Ed
Rose, his young hired man. When
he recovered from the shot John
son swore he did not know who
shot him, and stuck to it, although
threatened with prison for perjury.
Perhaps he thought he owed some
thing to the twenty-five years diff
ference in age.
The wife and hired msn were.
SouViSvcv, iHuCh W Sio JOuubon ;
grief. The attitude Of this old man
compared favorably with one of
our conspicuous young American
bankers. It's better to be "a
woman's toy, dog as Einstein
puts it, than to be woman beater.
On the front page you read:
woman risks life, saves two in
the surf" On the back page of
the same newspaper: Girls world
record drop"
The front-page lady, all dressed,
jumped OF dock to save drown
ing children, and saved them,
boy and a girl.
The lady that dropped jumped
from a balloon 1920 feet up,
landed safely by parachute. There
you have one useful and one
wasted display of courage. Who
ever doubts that women are as
brave as the bravest men, and
Drawer than the average, knows
little of women.
President Harding opposes the
tariff on oil. He wants to pro-
tect American industry and la
Dor, not necessarily American
monopoly. Where a product is
in the hands Of a monopoly, as
in the case of oil, gasoline and
other products of oil, there should
be no tariff protection. Protect
ing labor and industry is one
thing, protecting monopoly and
the power to tax the people, as
shown in the oil industry, is diff
ferent.
Manager Hubbell, Of the gigan-
tic Commodore Hotel in New
York, says we all have troubles,
hotel men especially. It costs
Mr.. Hubbell $4,000 a year to
pay private policemen to keep
the guests from wrecking the
hotel and staging wild parties in
their rooms" 1t was less expen-
sive to watch one bar room than
IL is to watch a thousand prohi-
bition private rooms.