The Washington times., 1921-03-07


. million steel workers II you al
low foreign steel to be sold here
at prices that make its produc-
ton absolutely impossible In
America on q living wage and
, profit basis?
American builders should have
steel and iron as cheaply as pos
sible. But would not the prob
lem raised by millions of men idle
in various Industries be more Sc
rfous than the payment by the
United States as an entire family
of high prices to guarantee Amer
lean business, American wages,
and American industries?
Is the collapse IN European
government to be Followed by
collapse in American manufactur-
ing and American labor and in
dustry? Not II Harding can help
it, probably.
The Rev. J. l. Corrigan,
professor at Boston College, says
the country needs divorce prohibi-
tion more than alcohol prohibition.
, He predicts for 1946 one divorce
for every five marriages. That
would be sad, but not as bad as one
, wife-beater in every five families,
and the rate was once that, and
higher.
Marriage is still a state Of trial
,band of testing. Men are not fit
|, for it yet, not worthy of it. They
will be worthy eventually, and they
must do the best they can in the
meanwhile. The husband is rarely
entitled to divorce. But it might
be dangerous and unjust to say
/, that woman should, under no cir
cumstances, be freed from hasty,
perhaps accidental, unsatisfactory
marriage.
If the choice were divorce or
certain, sure, compulsory imnno-
rality, which would be the choice:
Our law says divorce. Aa
A fierce, fiery, vengeful Govern
ment divided up the Standard Oil
into little bits, but it didn't exactly
destroy it. The Standard Oil must
be like those sea animals that
multiply by dividing.
One little fragment Of the big
company, the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, announces that
after setting aside twenty millions
for income tax and various other
millions for various useful pur-
poses, it has a profit Of forty mil
lion nine hundred and seventy
three thousand dollars to report
for one year that has ended.
The public has not. yet learned
how to deal with great organlza-
tions, as regards financial control.
The surplus profits tax doesn't
work, for the big company can in
vest its money as it chooses,
then issue "stock dividends" and
thanks to the convenient Supreme
Court decision, pay nothing to the
The solution, eventually, OF
course, will be ownership by the
Government. on a just basis, OF
the natural resources and natural
monopolies of the country. Prob
ably those that have developed oil
wells, coal. and other mineral
wealth have earned what they got
by their enterprise, initiative, and
risk. But the thing is done now
by salaried engineers, not by men
risking their lives among the In
dams and steep canyons. The peo-
pie COULD exploit the national
wealth for the nation, and they
OUGHT TO DO 1T.
They ought especially to safe
guard the oil supply, essential to
the navy, until the next fuel shall
be discovered to supplant oil, as
oil supplanted coal and as coal
supplanted wood.
The Rev. Joseph Mayer. jr., OF
the Bud Park Christian Church, in
Kansas City, gives up his pulpit,
takes off his clerical clothing. and
goes to work in a factory. He
thinks he will learn more about
men in a factory than in the pulpit
and that factory work will make
him a better clergyman.
This is interesting theory, not
necessarily accurate. Tolstoi had
the theory, dressed like a peasant,
but he did not work like one.
When he went barefoot, on a pill
srimage to a holy shrine, he took
a chiropodlst with him to look
after his feet.
The Founder Of Christianity,
brought mp at a carpenters bench,
went out from the workshop and
away from manual labor on His
mission OF salvation. He knew
men without laboring with them.
As a matter OF fact, n man
does a real days work in fac
tory, Il takes out OF him so much
that he has little left for studying
men, or anything else that re-
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