The Washington times., 1922-07-19

Be Careful With Matches.
Let Him Live.
u Mr.. Harding Means II.
Debs' Change Of Mind.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The New York Times says
evidence accumulates that
there are furious passions ready
to break loose in all the strike
troubles"
Yes, verify.
The Times asks the Cover n
ment not "to delay in resolute-
,ly graphing, ETC."
"Resolute graphing" is good.
Walking into a powder room
with lighted candle is not so
good. Gentlemen who have
made their little pile and have
1t stored just above the powder
room should be Careful about
their matches and their advice.
If you had a big fat man
living in the same room with
you, and knew that his body,
dead or alive, would always be
IN that room, you would want
him to live. Dead men are
unpleasant room mates. France,
Germany and England live in
the same room, geographically.
England and France have de-
cidcd, it seems, that Germany
shall stay alive, instead of dy-
ing and decaying beside them.
The proposition is for Eng
land to forgive the debt Of
France, and for France and
England to cut Germany's in
demnity down to fifty thousand
million gold marks, about
twelve times what Bismarck
took from France after the
1870 war.
President Harding tells mine
owners he is sorry they will not
accept his suggestion, arbitrate,
and resume meanwhile.
Being sorry isn't enough.
Mine owners will resume pro-
duction if they believe Presi-
dent Harding means that coal
shall be produced.
Mr.. Harding, why not open
these mines yourself? Yoi can
do II. The owners are too wise
to resist you. Put the union
men at work. Instead of hav-
ing the army shoot them, let
the people hire them. You
couldn't run the mines with
scabs; they don't know how, and
you don't know how. Find out
what coal really costs, at what
price it ought to sell. You may
find il isn't necessary to reduce
workmen's wages, only neces-
sary to reduce mine owners ex-
tortionate charges. ..
Eugene Debs advises the
workers to fight. He says,
THE crowd you fought for IN
the war would now shoot you
down like dogs"
Mr.. Debs changes his mind.
He advised his friends not to
fight in the late big war. IL
Q job on the railroad is worth
fighting for, you would think
the whole United States would
be worth fighting for.
However, this is the point:
Mr.. Debs understands mob psy-
chology. And the Government
would be foolish, especially that
part of 1t interested in the next
election, if its deeds should
seem to Justify Mr.. Debs' vio-
lent statement and advice.
Shooting should not begin with
the Government.
Forty-five years ago yester-
day Edison had what was called
"a crazy idea" He was work
ing on a machine for recording
kilograms, to gain speed. He
began working as a telegraph
operator, you know, and noticed
that a sound could be recorded
and produced. From that was
born the phonograph and all
the talking machines.
Don't neglect your crazy
ideas, at least don't let other
people decide for you whether
they are crazy or not.
Leah Silver had a baby.
Various "charitable" institu-
tions refused to take her or
the baby in. She left the six
teen-months-old girl in a
swamp. The mosquitoes nearly
ate it. She was arrested, locked
up. They haven't arrested the
man yet. Now she is out on
$4,000 bail and will soon have
another baby. A sailor has
offered to marry her, thanks to
newspaper publicity.
What about the man? Stern
morality says the mother de-
serves no consideration. But
what about the baby, the one
the mosquitoes nearly ate, and
the new one?
A Frenchman, eighty years
old, goes every morning to a
little chapel to look on the face
of his father, who died thirty
seven years ago. Having OBJ
tanned permission of civil and
religious authorities, the man
placed his fathers body in