The Washington times., 1922-07-18
Today,
3 Babies, "a Pounds.
Too Much ''Force" Talk.
Amoskeag's Cut.
War, and Birth Control.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. lses.)

"hV hNCo
IN Kentucky, weighs 100 pounds.
Her three babies just born
weigh IA pounds, 8 pounds
each. That's a record. There
are men who think she shouldn't
vote unless she can carry a gun
and go to war. They are
foolish.
"A Washington correspondent
who doesn't understand Presi-
uent Harding says the latter
believes" that the coal and
railroad strikes can be settled
only by force. But the Presi-
dent is delaying the use Of
troops"
President Hardin g's last
choice would be force inside the
borders of the United States.
For Grover Cleveland to
order troops to end one small
localized strike in Chicago was
simple enough.
When you begin using force
In strikes that affect all the
coal mines and railroads of the
United States you don't quite
know where it will end. Two
or three millions of workmen
may keep force" up indef-
nitely.
Good judgment, the power Of
public opinion, and the pressure
that the President can bring to
bear, not only upon workingmen
by the use Of soldiers, but upon
capitalists, owners of mines and
railroads, in other ways, should
settle the strikes.
Force should not be necessary
among civilized beings.
Force is not a pretty thing,
and If you start force going
among two or three millions Of
men, you don't quite know when
it will stop.
"Other things are coming
down, wages must also come
down.
Possibly, but who is to de-
eide WHAT wages shall come
down, and HOW MUCH? Men
are not always in the wrong
when they resist reductions.
For instance, you heard about
the great strike at the Amos
keag textile mills. The highly
respectable owners will tell you
that it was necessary" to cut
wages. Read what the Rev.
Herbert A. Jump, president Of
the ministers council, of Man.
chester, N. H., has to say:
"Although the Amoskeag has
increased its capital from $4,-
100000 to S44,000,000 entirely
out of war earnings, has a, sur
plus of $4,000, 900, and has not
shaved dividends one cent, it
has asked it's employees to stand
q 42T per cent wage cut. The
question, 1t seems to me, Is:
Should a corporation Of inordi-
nate wealth, which has made
tremendous profits, granting
that it has lost S1.000,0O0 dur
ing the past year, put all the
burden of deflation on its wage
earners?"
The workers in those mills
read and write. They have seen
a concern increase its capital
from four millions to forty
four millions. And all the mill
hands have got is their two
hands and their working brains.
They see the mills not cutting
a cent off the dividends Of
stock owners that do not work,
but cutting wages 42h PER
CENT. Do you wonder they re-
sist and do you think it would
be safe to try too much force"
on men in that mood?
Adjustments must be made
in wages and prices. But be
careful how you make them by
force.
A gentleman tells the Inter
national Birth Control Con-
press: "Birth control will abol-
ish war. Men fight because the
population increases and there
isn't enough for ALL"
Assuming that population
doubles every fifty years, he
shows that in 1000 years there
will be more than two trillions
of human beings on earth,
more than a thousand times as
many as there are now.
First, the earth could sup
mort a thousand times as many
people easily, if it were prop
erly, intensively cultivated.
Second, as time passes and
people become civilized, they
viii have fewer children. Henry
George tells you that if a pup
py's tail continued growing
siways as it grows the first
month, every dog would have a
tail several yards long. At the
right time the tail stops grow
ing. So does population.
Third, it isn't population, but
brutality and greed that make
men fight. Men that start wars,
Napoleons eager for land they
don't need, bankers or mer-
chants eager for money and