The Washington times., 1921-09-29

Gambling on the Deep.
Cut Wages Fairly.
Each Year a Language.
Caruso's 80 Millions.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
(CopyriEht. is3i.)

by ARTHUR BRIsBANK--l
tcopyriEht. issi.I
You may now make a one hun
dred per cent American trip to
Europe. Stock tickers are in
stalled on steamers. wireless te-
iegraphy sends the ups and
downs Of the Street. You may
get IN or out as You walk the
Such a ticker would have
spared one man a severe shock.
Leonard Jerome. Of the family
that financed the Churchills
through marriage. decided to 20
TO Europe and enjoy some of
MS money. When he rgot there
ne had none to enjoy. A first
class Wall Street smash had
pankrupted him, and he never
had a chance, far out at sea, to
use his Judgment.
:. The first thought of the gen
tlemen dealing with unemploy-
ment is "cut down wages to
compete with lower wages in
foreign countries. Wages in
some lines must drop-nave
dropped. The committee should
not overlook the fact that in
many lines American workers
produce twice as much as Euro
pean workers. A recent able ar
ticle by Mr.. Hinman gives facts
that should interest that COM
mittee.
In China. moving freight costs
more than here. although the
workers may get only 10 cents
day. They move the freight by
man power. American workers,
ss well as capitalists, are enti-
/, I'D to part of the prosperity
mat comes from machinery.
Edward Roche Hardy, aged
thirteen. speaks twelve Ian
Ruages, weighs $50 pounds, will
soon be out of college, with a
Few more languages added to his
list, and. after absorbing theol-
ogy, will 20 to the Far East as
= missionary.
Nhere Is the gift of tongues.
tav vengeance. The heather in
elindness should surely bow
TO Edward Roche Hardy,
than to wood and stone"
lads, speaking only one
.ge, and that not too well,
eclipse young Hardy. That is
e.
Caruso left fortune of thirty
million lire. Did he earn it all
singing in opera? No. only
small part. Most of the money
came to him from the Victor Talk
ing Machine Company in payment
for records. The talking machine
does for singers and their fortunes
what the printing press does for
writers-makes them rich beyond
! the dreams of ancient times.
J, Carusof Sthirtr million lires
amorht now to about 81 1,250,000.
Too bad he did not keep it all in
dollars. In American dollars the
fortune would be $6,000,0 900. He
earned all of it many times, giving
happiness to millions that never
saw him.
Albania and Serbia are fighting.
Greece and Turkey are fighting.
Trotzky, reviewing his Russian
troops, tells them he expects soon
to be fighting Poland and Ru-
mania, urged on by France. Two
Central American countries would
be fighting now, only Uncle Sam
would not let them. Some South
American countries want to fight
and may start.
There ought to be some way of
compelling the nations to get back
to sanity. Limiting" armaments
won't do 1t. Poison gas, air bombs,
and flying machines are quickly
made.
Trotzky. by the way, spoke near
the Kremlin. on a stand below the
tower on which Ivan the Terrible
once addressed his troops. 1t
would surprise Ivan, and Peter,
too, to find the armies of Holy
Russia commanded by q Jew-and
incidentally winning fights and
beating back combination of half
the nations of Europe.
The intrusive book agent,
kicked from one floor do%n to
the other for ten flights by ten
different men, said he could not
help admiring the system. That
is how you feel about police
bootlegging in Chicago, whereby
the crimes are revealed, not con-
doned or hidden, by the police
chief.
Policemen in uniform seized
liquor in freight cars. Then
they sold it at a low price, then
seized it again-other policemen
making another seizure. Some
times they seized and reseized it
! a dozen times, the whiskey fl
nally reaching some favored bar
for retailing at high prices.
That is a perfect system, and
IL will not be broken up. Where