The Washington times., 1922-05-25

|Daugherty and Morse.
She Met TrogIodytes.
Beneficial Rate Cuts. i
Roroaster, Then BoIshevis
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrikht. le22.l

DduRneTCy, while prdCLlClnR Ia"
and not holding office. took or
did not take a fee from Mr..
Morse, to help him get out of
prison. Is not important.
Every man in Jail or out Is
entitled to the help Of the best
lawyer he can hire. When he
had no public office, if Mr..
Daugherty included Mr.. Morse
or Beelzebub himself among his
clients, that means nothing.
The important thing as re-
cards Mr.. Daugherty is that
he, as Attorney General, brought
about the indictment of Morse,
accused of swindling the Gov
eminent in war time.
That is the important thing,
and, incidentally, it may cx-
plain part Of the agitation.
Lady Dorothy Mills. grand
daughter of Corbin. who built
the Long Island Railroad, has
visited cave dwellers in the
Tripoli mountains Of North Az
rica.
Cave children ran in and out
Of the caves like rabbits in a
warren, says she. The cave
dwelling Troglodytes, or "gnaw-
ers of bone," are of European
stock. although in Africa. A
husband buys his wife, and If
he doesn't like her after the
first day he can send her back
and have the price returned
a department store method ap-
piled to marriage. This ex-
plains, probably, why those gen.
tlemen have remained Troglo-
dyte cave dwellers. An eX-
changeable wife has no incen-
tive to establish a home.
The Interstate Commerce
Commission decides that 5%
per cent is enough return for
railroad stockholders. Consid-
ering that many stocks are
largely water and that the peo-
pie of the United States were
taxed to carry the railroads
through the war and keep
them out of bankruptcy, the
return seems fair.
The commission cut rates 10
per cent average, and railroad
stocks did not drop-the first
day at least. To cut excessive
charges is what railroads need.
The Manhattan Elevated Rail-
road, in New York, didn't make
money until the fare was cut
from ten cents to five cents, in
spite Of the stockholders.
Western civilization may not
understand Russia, with her
strange Lenins and Trotzkys.
But Russians understand West
ern civilization pretty well-at
least in spots. The Moscow
Izvestiu says the Genoa meet
ing was a scramble for the oil
supply of the world, and adds:
"Russia was an amused on
locker in this scramble among
the petroleum imperialists. The
Azerbaijan petroleum is firmly
in our hands and the Oil Trust
will soon apply to us and not
we to them"
Other times, other uses. Nat
ural gas wells on the shores of
the Black Sea were once used
by the priests of Zoroaster to
collect money from fire wor-
shippers. What more convinc-
ing than a priest with power
to bring flaming fire from the
earth? =,
Those gas wells and oil wells
now will be used by priests of
Bolshevism to extract profits
from capitalist civilization.
DISPATCHES late yesterday
said that Mr.. Hall, running for
governor in Oregon, backed by
the Ku Klux Klan. was running
behind. But whoever underesti-
mates the power of such an
organization as the Ku Klux
Klan or of other secret organi-
cations fails to understand that
what Fourier called "the caba-
listic" instinct in man is over
whelmingly powerful.
To know something that 9TH
ers do not know. to be part Of
"deep mystery" to be set apart
and made strange by clothing,
passwords, grips, and mutter-
ings, appeals strongly to all
half-savage men. All this re-
ligious leaders have used intel
ligently in building their organ
izations.
Men trying to fly around the
world expect to spend three
months on the journey, only
500 hours of that time in the
air, about 1900 hours on the
ground, repairing and resting.
That is not discouraging. You
remember a little while ago,
when the automobile was new,
how the roadways were lined
with machines broken down,
fiat tires, spark trouble. and
every trouble. Now they run
from the Atlantic to the Pa
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