The Washington times., 1921-03-02
Today

By ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright. issi.)


cided with the profteers in de-
claring the Lever act unconstitu-
tional The Supreme Court de-
cides that the Lever act was care
lessly, inerectively drawn. II was
too vague. unconstitutional be-
cause II did not tell what consu-
tuted the crime TO be punished
or just how il was to be punished.
II was free and easy legislation.
passed In a free and easy moment.
possibly with help from ingen-
ious lawyers seeking to protect
prof1teer clients.
On the United States Supreme
Bench there Is probably no JUS
tice that sympathizes with profit
eers as against the public.
The Lever act was decided to be
as unconstitutional as though 1t
had read. "All citizens shall be
hanged by the neck until they are
dead, II they commit crimes which
in the opinion of the Administra-
ton make II desirable to hang
them" You have to be precise In
law. The Lever act was loose.
A condensed story OF human life
10 Ia the voyage Of the Carmania,
Just arrived. One day out, Daniel
Bragan, coal trimmer, sweating
and black, walked out among the
steerage passengers. did you
ever see a man drown?" he asked.
Nor '"Then here goes" He
Jumped over the rail. The boat
stopped, but did not find him.
Little fishes nibbling at. him, big
fishes tearing at Min, have car
ried him of in a thousand direc-
tions. His troubles are over.
The passengers raised three
hundred dollars for his wife and
children. People are generous on
ship; they say to themselves,
~who knows but may sink?
Credit for good deeds will help
me"
Next, Mrs. Hannah Walker, in
the steerage, gave birth to q little
girl. She was named Carmen
Walker, and will start life in
America with a "swell" name.
Her mother will never forget the
ocean. Having a child in the rock
ing steerage is no joke.
After the baby was born, Heinie
Fielk, q nine-year-old Russian
Jewish girl, died. The Jewish pas
sengers held q funeral service and
the child's mother saw the little
body thrown into the ocean. She
will never forrpt the ocean. Its
dreadful wide Matefs witi haueFall
through life more meaning for her
than for all the people on that
boat. te.,ssa @
When the ship docked men well
armed were on hand to take Oft
six million dollars in gold bars
sonsigned to Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
One killed himself, one was born,
one died. And the gold came safe
ly ashore. VOLTA la vte, as the
head waiter at Monte Carlo used
to say, seeing the winners spend
and the losers kill themselves
Senator Harding will offer Cen
eral Wood a post in charge of the
Philippines. That will be an in.
teresting international event, If
General Wood accepts. He prob
ably will, for he likes the prospect
of a fight. General Wood is the
best-known soldier in the country.
To equip him with an adequate
armed force and a collection of
battleships, flying machines and
submarines, at the door of Asia
might be useful to peace, in a pro-
phylactic way.
To preserve peace, let others
know they would find war expen-
sive.
Even those not Socialists or
Bolshevists will admit that it is
better to be big corporation than
a little workman.
In New York City, a big gas
company, freed from an annoying
injunction, puts the price to one
dollar and fifty cents thousand.
It used to sell for eighty cents. The
company says simply:
1--WE need the money" It needs
the money because it pays lot
for oil. And much of it's stock is
owned by those that sell the oil,
which simplifies putting up the
prices.
When bad times come for a
workman he loses his job, then
he gets hungry, then he says, "I1l
take what I can get" and goes and
takes il.
When a big corporation begins
to lose profits it raises it's price
and 81 need the money" is suf-
ficient explanation.
Big corporations have something
to do with selecting judges. They
hire and pay well the best lawyers.
They show PERMANENT GRAFT
TUDE to every man that serves
them. And they STICK To-
GETHER.
Worknep do NOT stick To-