The Washington times., 1922-05-30

Russia, France, and v. S. A.
Girls Are the Same.
Saving on 400. 1000.
Harden Is Wrong. .-.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1922.

W LIS nhgue dnd uedlinR Win
Russia. because Americas at
titude toward Russia is a re-
Election of the French attitude"
That's a mistake. Americas
attitude towards Russia is a re-
Election of the attitude of Amer
lean financiers foolish enough
to buy the cars bonds. #..
We resemble France in one
way: We are refusing to rec
ognize the government of Rus
sia. in an effort to blackmail
Russia into paying the debts Of
the car.
This nation did not pay the
debts of the South after the
North won. There Is no rea-
son why Russia, having got
rid Of the car and the grand
dukes. should pay their debts.
Republicans in France and
America foolish enough to lend
to an autocracy should and
probably will lose their money.
1t will be an education to them.
Bishop Gailor, head of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in
America, says that much nom
sense is talked about the young
women Of this period called
"flappers." Girls today, says
he, are lust as good as they
ever were. That is quite true.
Girls now indicate a little more
freely what they feel and think
than they used to. That's the
only difference: they think and
feel the same.
The good bishop also says
that prohibition is a farce. That
Is not quite true. Whiskey is
still sold, unfortunately. and
even worse whiskey than the
kind that used to be sold. And
the drug habit is growing. But
there are no longer whiskey-
selling saloons on every corner;
four staring at each other from
four corners.
You can get whiskey il you
want it, but you must look for
1t. 1t Is no longer thrust at
you. There is no farce about
that.
Another cut in wages for the
railroad men will save forty
eight million dollars for railroad
owners.
There are various ways of
making money. Henry Ford IL
lustrates one way. He raises
wages and cuts the price Of his
goods. The railroads. out Of
date, badly managed, stupidity
competing, represent the other
way. They raise the cost Of
tickets and freight and cut down
the wages,
This latest cut will take s
cents an hour from the wages
of 400, 900 men-nearly all COM
mon laborers."
If the men work nine hours,
that means As cents a day. It's
n small sum to the man that
lives on dividends from railroad
stocks or interest on bonds.
But It is a large sum for the
woman that clothes and feeds
the family of the common Ia
borer."
Forty-eight million dollars a
year is the latest cut in wages.
-Four hundred million dollars
year was the last cut.
Intelligence could make the
railroads profitable without any
cuts. But intelligence is one
thing the railroad management
of this country hasn't got. The
people of the country haven't
even got the intelligence to take
the railroads over and run them.
Therefore, the four hundred
thousand common laborers"
must resign themselves to ths
cut of 5 cents per hour, which
is the modern "Americap plan.
The Moline Plow Works and
Henry Ford have agents in Rus
sia, planning to resume busi-
ness there. Ford expects to
have an assembling plant in
Petrograd and another in Mos
COW. It will take quite a few
rubles to pay Ford wages.
That is the way to deal with
Russia, even from the capi-
talistic point of view. Get
business going, make the Rus
slams rich. There is nothing
like wealth to pacify radicalism.
There is considerable agita-
ton in Congress because the
Department of Justice is ac-
cused of hiring detectives "to
. trail members Of Congress and
officials" The department
knows best why it is trailing
The various official gentlemen.
But why do they howl about it?
If they attend to business and
then 60 home, trailing won't
do them any harm. Where do
they wander. that they fear
trailing?
Maximilian Harden says that
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