The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-13
'oday The President Has
 Power. Bad for Rumania. A Swiss Rockefeller. One Rich American.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

privately owned" railroads. They financed these roads in war. saved them from bankruptcy, guaranteed and paid high dividends to stock holders.
 The people have given to the rail- roads all their rights on what are actually public highways that should be publicly owned.
 The President represents the people. has their authority. He has the right to make the railroads run as he chooses while this emergency lasts.
 i. There was no question as to that right in tho time of war. This also is war. capital and labor fighting tie.
 A report from Rumania says 70 Jews have been shot by military au- thorities for political offenses. al- though the king had declared an amnesty. The 40 were shot down. one by one. as they were led to spot where they were supposed to be set free.
 That presumably will not help the sale of Rumanian bonds just offered in this country. Jewish financiers are large buyers of bonds.
 Miss Mccormick rsjoins her Swiss hero. Max oser. 30 years older than she. You can imagine much worse matches for young girl than such a man. It is much better than mar ryins 8 young American gentleman whose business Is getting himself ! sunburned in winter at Palm Beach and plucked in summer at the races. Oser's age makes no difference. According to Plato, men should have children after they are 50. That he Is a riding master means noth- ing. If Bayard himself came to life in these days or Du Guesclin, or Cas- ton de Folk, about the only job they could hold would be that of riding masters.
 It will be an interesting wedding. As you know, from Galton, the gen. ius of fathers is inherited through difference to the Swiss republic if 30 years from now . young MT. Oser, with the John D. Rockefeller blood, should become active. Water falls now going to waste probably would be developed.
 Whether the Swiss system of gov ernment ownership of railroads would survive is a question.
 rich American in Europe hired an ordinary Italian as valet, and treated as such, that human brother. Soon the valet's hair began to change color, and the ingenious valet con fessed" to the American that he was ! ia reality q nobleman, ruined by patriotism and war. He had dyed lis hair to find humble work.
 Thereupon the rich American took that human brother. no longer va- let but a nobleman. to his arms. made much of him, appointed him secretary.
 The valet immediately proceeded to blackmail the rich Amsrican's wife. Now they have put him in jail and the story ends for the time be- ing.
 Europeans get the impression that rich visiting Americans are often rich asses. and they are quite right.
 Henry Ford Mixed poetry and facts. He says the labor unions arc managed really by Wall Street cap italists for their own benefit. They run the unions. tie up the rail- roads and the mines when they want to.
 That of course is poetry. Capi- taIists sometimes bribe labor leaders. Unfortunately they always have spies in their ranks. But that is business. not ownership.
 Henry Ford says the capitalists or Eanize labor unions because it is much easier to do business with labor organizations than with separate in- dividuals. There is solemn fact in the value of labor unions to capital ists and big industrialists.
 If capital could have its foolish way and abolish all unions. as 1t would like 10 do. 1t would be hard to run the industry of the United States.
 Labor unions are to industry what great. we'll organized machinery is to industry. Big units of power are necessary in modern industrial and business method.
 Union labor represents the most important "big unit"
 Experiments with flying ma chimes that have no motors are called useless" on the ground that the gIid- ing plane with no engine will hover be useful. The assumption is foolish. Nothing Is useless that increases knowledge. Gliding machines will enable many at slight expense to ex- pertinent in flying and in flying ma chine construction.
 The gliding machine may be to other flying what the little boys baseball game is to the professional game later. One develops the other.
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