The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-29

What Schwab Says.
What Hays Says.
A Good Poem.
Don't Teach BrutaIit,
ARTHUR BRISBANE

by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1870
Charles M. Schwab says the
Germans are beating the Allies in
industry. Germany can put q
ton of steel in England at SEQ
a ton cheaper than England can
make it, and is sending pneu-
matte tools to Detroit. We used
to ship such machinery to Ger
many, sold it cheaper than she
could make it."
Mr.. Schwab says Germany is
ahead Of all Europe in produc-
tion." He concludes that labor
~can be paid only what labor
earns" Very true, but that isn't
the whole story. It is true that
in Germany labor is really work
ing hard. It is also true that in
Germany profiteers are put IN
jdA, not whitewashed. or praised
a. patriots.
Some men in this country,
worrying about the high price Of
labor and planning to cut it down,
would be worrying about the
small size of prison cell il they
were in Germany. In the Chi
cago stockyards they save the
tail of the OK and sell it; they
also pay attention to the ox's
body. Profteering in this coun-
try is the body Of the industrial
OK, labor is only the tail.
Mr.. Hays, Postmaster General,
made a good speech to newspaper
publishers yesterday. He prom
ises that the postoffice will fur
ther develop mail delivery by fly
ing machine. This country ought
to have 10000 first-class flying
machines, trained men to run
them, able to change, from mail
carrying to dynamite carrying in
war, it necessary. That is the
way to prevent war and to real
ize the wish expressed by Presi-
dent Harding yesterday that no
American battleships might ever
again fire a cannon.
Hays says the post office will
not consider labor q commodity.
That is important, when the big
gest employers of the country are
trying to make of labor the cheap
est possible commodity, while
keeping up prices on their own
products.
Mr.. Hays had interesting news
for postoffice robbers; he has
given sixteen thousand automatic
revolvers ard some riot guns to
postoffice employees. The orders
are "Shoot to kill"
Mr.. Hays preached good
sermon on optimism, reciting
little poem called Perspective"
written for Cyrus H. K. Curtis. A
colored gentleman, seeing a rail-
road for the first time, looking
way down the track, then back at
the wide locomotive, decided that
the locomotive wouldn't be able to
90 far, because the rails kept
getting closer together.
The moral of the poem is:
Don't be fooled by perspective and
don't worry about something far
off; when you get there you will
find the rails far enough apart
II there were room here to
print all that Hays said about the
post office statistics, you would
realize that this is pretty good
country. For instance. one post
office in New York City handles
twice as much mail as the whole
of Canada. To this you may add
that one single Hearst newspaper
in New York uses more than twice
'as much newsprint paper as is
used by all the newspapers in
Canada.
Two or three hundred editors
that listened to Hays asked each
other solemnly, what is the mat
ter with business% Answer: Sup
pose you owned the biggest jewell
ry store in town and woke up to
find that everybody on your books
had gone bankrupt. You wouldn't
expect to sell much jewelry for
awhile. The first thine to do
would be to help your customers
get on their feet.
Europe is the customer of the
United States. Europe is half
bankrupt, and it's money is worth
little or nothing. The first thing
is to get Europe started, that
Europeans may buy. Harding and
Hughes are working at that.