The Washington times., 1922-07-27

Employers viii Win.
Will They Be Wise?
Promise Something.
Get a New Body.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1s22.)

the Chicago, Milwaukee, and st.
Paul Railway, sends a telegram
of which this is the substance:
Railroads are not seeking to
destroy the seniority of strik-
Ing employees, but merely to
subordinate their seniority to
those employees who have re-
mained at work"
1t is for railroad owners TO
decide what they should do.
Admitting that men have
right to strike-the President
and the laws say they have
the question is: Is it wise to
punish them for striking by
eonfiscating their seniority
rights?
Railroads now are functioning
only 80 per cent; the public
does not threaten to confiscate
their right of way or other as
sets. Intelligent men should
know enough to avoid threats
and avoid arousing hatreds un-
necessarily.
The men will lose these
strikes-coal and railroad. For,
as was said here at the begin
ming, public indifference and
the Administration are against
them. But employers, for a
change, should be wisely trium-
phant, not sowing seed of -fu-
ture troubles.
Senator Culberson is beaten
IN Texas after long years of
service, and the Ku Klux Klan
comes to the top politically. The
program is "get rid of Catho-
lies, Jews and negroes" That
program won't last and won't
work. But 1T is A PROGRAM
that seems to be what people
want Just now. They are sick
Of drifting. If you want sup
port. promise SOMETHING
DEFINITE.
Germany is making a film
to show surgical operations
that will make old men young.
It appears that for awhile, at
least, surgery can restore GER
tain nervous energy. Cripples
from the war and hundreds of
guinea pigs, dogs, monkeys,
pigs, goats, and horses will
figure in the picture.
1t is all interesting, but very
foolish.
Theebest way to restore en-
ergy in the old is to live quietly
while you are old, die quietly
when the time comes, and
begin all over again, in a body
brand new, from head to foot.
Soft coal went up more than
$3 ton last week. The Presi-
dent sent a message asking
governors of the States to pro-
tect from violence men willing
to work in place of strikers.
Please send out another mes
sage asking somebody to pro-
tect the public from robbery.
The fact that coal is scarce
ought not to be a sound argu-
ment in favor of highway rob-
berry.
Good missionaries in the east
complain that American NOV
ing pictures give the heather
a false idea of ''life among
Christians" They say they
can't convert heather ladies and
gentlemen after they have been
to movies showing Christians
shooting one another, swim
ming half naked, etc. There
may be something in that.
Many things in Christian ma
tions more serious than "mov-
les" would make the heathen
pause and think hard.
Germany possesses a certain
"rich man" with much common
sense. His name is SHINES.
He owns all sorts of things in
Germany, in Russia, in South
America - factories, castles,
mines, and NEWSPAPERS.
His most important newspa-
per is the Deutsche Allgemeine
keitung, and he has made Paul
Lensch, moderate Socialist, chief
editor. SHINES himself is no
more a Socialist than a Bengal
tiger is vegetarian. But he is
an intelligent capitalist. He
knows that the thing for an in
telligent capitalist to do is to
make hay while the sun shines,
NOW. Times will not always
be so good. He uses everything
that comes into his hands, from
iron to quicksilver, from con-
servatism to serialism, and from
Terra Del Fuego to Moscow.
A woman, poor, turned on the
gas, killed herself and two chill
dren in a big city night before
last. Despondent, she could
find nobody interested in her,
and the children were only ba-
bies-twins.
A little while before, with en-
pense and skill, a man sentenced
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