The Washington times., 1922-02-14

The Two-Shift Man.
81 MILLIONS, Please.
II Wise Men In Europe.
Foolish Discussing.
ihy ARTHUR BRISBANE-
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Mr.. Edison. telling Of his
birthday. says he "feels WELL"
"A "two-shift" man always feels
well, says he. meaning that II
You work hard enough you are
always happy.
That depends, dear, young,
seventy-five-year-old genius, on
HOW you work.
Working as Edison does. be-
cause he likes to work, because
he is working for himself. car
rying out his own ideas. is one
thing.
Working because you are
driven to it, doing a double
shift" because your employer
knows how to get it out of
you, working against the grain
without interest. at unattractive
work-that's another. thing.
There will be plenty of Edi-
sons in the world when human
intelligence makes labor attrac-
tive for the great mass of
workers.
Now conditions make it re-
pulsive. And the "two-shift
man" is not to be envied.
The New Haven Railroad
wants the Government kindly to
lend 1t a trifle over thirty-one
million dollars. The road wants
to pay off twenty-six millions
borrowed in Europe. and needs
a little extra. That's interest
ing to the widows and orphans
that bought New Haven stock
for two hundred dollars a share
and up. then saw the road
, Quilted and mismanaged. It is
interesting to others who OBJ
serve that. while the Govern
ment isn't good enough to own
and manage railroads. it is quite
good enough to supply incompe-
tent management with millions
when it needs them.
The soldier, by the way, will
want to know whether the Gov
eminent. which has no money
for his bonus, has thirty-one
million dollars to hand to a
badly managed railroad. That
railroad never crossed the ocean,
never lost its Job.
Half of all the gold of all
the nations is now in the
United States. Last month our
exports fell off fifteen millions.
Business is bad. And the CEN
ter of financial control is said
to have returned to London.
They seem to know some things
over there that we do not
know.
In one church on Sunday the
Rev. DR.. Straton argued with
the not reverend William A.:
Brady as to the morals Of
moving picture and stage peo-
pie. Foolish discussion. There
are some immoral actors and
actresses. There are even some
immoral clergymen, and some
have gone to jail. But nobody
with any sepses denounces the
stage, or, hat great modern
educating force,S the moving
picture, because some actors or
managers are fools. Nobody
certainly would denounce the
church because here and there
q clergyman had committed
crime, or been convicted OF
breaking UP somebody else's
family. An institution is one
thing, the individual another.
In another church last Sun
day-these are days of open
minds-there was a service OF
the Zoroastrian creed. A Parsee
priest went through the serv-
ices of his faith, with the regu-
lar clergyman, an Episcopalian,
looking on, assisting and en-
couraging. The worshipers
adored the sacred fire. 1t was
interesting, old and quaint.
If Zoroaster could have come
back to that Episcopalian
Church, through four or five
thousand years of time-no-
body knows exactly when he
did live-he would have been
surprised to see what the Par
sees have made of his religion.
As for Ormuzd, he would not
have recognized it.
In Yucatan the legislature is
considering a bill to reduce the
number of Catholic priests in
the whole country to six. Prob
ably the Yucatan legislature,
hostile to religion, feels that it
is exercising great power. But
across the ocean Plus XI is
crowned "Rector of the World"
and accurate statistics show
that his church in the United
States has more members than
anv other church. Those that