The Washington times., 1922-05-12

Cities 100 Years Hence.
Mr.. Dempsey-Mr. Wills.
Human Flies and Others.
Labor Destroys Labor.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.

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millions. then died. leaving all
to his wife. She died, leaving
all to a Russell Sage Founda-
tion" in memory Of her hus-
band. The foundation has de-
cided to spend money mapping
out the development and ex-
pansion of New York city for
the next hundred years. -.
If a committee one hundred
years ago had planned for a
century of New York exten-
sion, the committee would be
surprised il it could return to-
day. Still more surprised
would be today's committee II
It should come back a hundred
years from now.
1t might find many city
blocks thrown into one to make
safe landing places for flying
Observation-Disclosures Island one
big business office. with the
real city on Long Island and
across the Hudson m New Jer-
sey.
Or it might find city govern
ment a mere shell, the popula-
tion of the city cut down to
almost nothing. with the mil
lions living far off on the hills,
flying to their work, some to
great factory in one location,
others to a business building in
another location; with cities
gone and specialized buildings
q mile or more square replacing
them. The ant hill that we call
a city, with its drafts. darkness,
! filth. and slums. will not ex-
ist always.
Mr.. Dempsey, white heavy
weight, will fight Mr.. Wills,
black heavyweight, in Montreal
July I. Montreal guarantees:
First, no interference with the
fight: second. no objection to
mixed colors. One million dol
lars gate money is expected.
Suppose some manager
from equatorial Africa should
put into the ring with the white,
man and the black man one Of
their alf-brothers, an eight
football red-haired gorilla. And
1 suppose that gorilla should take
Dempsey in one hand and throw
him ont of the ring to the left.
take the black man and throw
him to the right, saving, "Give
me the million dollars" 1t
won't happen. but how inter-
esting it would be.
A full-sized eight-fcot goril-
la, with a chest 100 inches
round. would throw Dempsey
as Dempsey would throw a kit
ten. For that matter. an
orang-outapg half the size of
Dempsey could dispose of him
in thirty seconds. That shows
how unimportant mere brute
force is.
However. it is the oaly thing
that really interests mere
brutes, and they are willing to
paw a million to see what they
want to see.
The "human fly" so called
by the police, crawls up the
outside of houses, enters through
an upper window, steals what
he wants.
How energetically the public
would fight that burglar fly if
he became numerous.
How indifferent the public is
TO the common house fly. more
dangerous than any burglar.
The "human flv" enters houses,
but does not leave disease on
the food that children eat. He
does not crawl with dirty feet
over the mouths of sleeping in
fants.
A mother that would scream
with horror II she saw the "hu-
man fly" crawl in, goes calmly
about her business with dozens
of the more dangerous flies do
Ing their work.
Let her think about that, and
remember that this spring sea-
son is the time to kill the flv,
before she gets under way with
her breeding work that will
mean millions more flies by fall.
In a Chicago labor dispute,
building trades workers agreed
to accept Judge Landis rs arbi-
traitor. When his decision did
not suit, they refused to abide
by it. That was a bad thing
for union labor. and sensible
working men know it.
There was trouble again, two
policemen were murdered in one
day, a third shot. and buildings
were attacked with dynamite
bombs. That is a much worse
thing for labor.
The crimes have nothing to
do with tens Of thousands of
honest, hard-working men in
the building trades. But, as
law holds a man responsible for
the acts of his servants. so pub
lie opinion holds workingmen re-
sponsible for the acts of THAR