The Washington times., 1922-08-05
Today
Labor Did 1t.
Action Wanted.
Munsey, Spartan Nurse.
The Royal Remembrance
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

the House Rules Committee,
member of Congress for many
years, important supporter Of
this Administration, Is well
and badly beaten. He says in
substance, Labor beat me.
Fifteen thousand strikers voted
for my opponent"
Many Republicans will tell a
sad story about "labor" after
this election. When working
men feel that the Administra-
ton is not only owned, but
more or less despised, by rail-
road owners that refuse to con-
slider its suggestions, there Is
apt to be surprising voting.
Those at the top believe
that when the big election
comes in two years all this
will be forgotten. They may
be right, for ''labor" has a
faculty for forgetting. The
coming election, however, WILL
see surprises.
The country wants action,
something done, matters clear
ed up here in the United
States. It is tired of seeing
industry and recuperation at
the mercy of pickering en-
ployers and employees.
The public has not changed
its mind on fundamental ques-
tions.
Senator Reed carries the
State of Missouri, and in do
ing that he defeats the Wilson
democracy, which had attacked
him in the person of Mr.. Will
son himself, and defeats the
League of Nations advocate.
The people don't want a
League of Nations to manage
the whole world, but they DO
want an American administra-
tion able to manage the United
States.
One Senator suggested an
investigation to find whether
tariff Senators were working
for dear people or their dear
Now Senator Gooding, Of
Idaho, head of the Republican
farm tariff bloc, and as it hap
pens a sheep-owning Senator
(which is to his credit, the
country needs sheep, suggests
an investigation of the "entire
press" He suspects that news
papers oppose excessive tariff
charges because they are paid,
through advertising, to do
what "big stores want"
This will be welcome to real
newspaper men, If the Senate
has time for the Investigation.
Newspapers weak enough to
take orders from advertisers
amount to SO little that it isn't
worth while to advertise in
them.
1t is suggested that Munsey,
publisher of the New York
Herald, ETC., should be investi-
gated. That would suit Munsey,
for his intellect is far above
mere money. NOBODY can ac-
cuse him Of getting advertis-
ing by attacking the tariff or
otherwise. Standing like a
Spartan nurse, he has seen a
dozen little newspaper babies
die right in his arms, simply
because he had nothing with
which to feed them.
Some newspaper men are
foolish, poor things, come from
nowhere; are pitiful snobs,
toadying to what they call re-
spectability, and some admire
accumulated money so much
that they spend their time
kneeling before it.
But as a rule newspapers are
honest. =.
You can decide for yourself
whether they deserve credit for
It.
II they have big circulation,
you can't keep advertising out
Of them. If they haven't the
circulation, they won't get ad-
vertising.
Public officials seem to be
getting ready to begin to plan
to do something, but that is as
far as they have got.
What will the people do about
coal this winter? Individuals
are chosen to divide what coal
there is, and decide who shall
have it. That will not help the
average little fellow. The di-
viders of the coal will never
hear of him.
Railroad owners have told the
President to mind his own busi-
ness definitely. The coal mine
workers have done about the
same. You can't run railroads
with scab labor, and you can't
dig coal with interesting "plans.'
The right WILL POWER
could take railroad-owning gen.
tlemen by the back Of the neck,
make them listen and obey
quickly.
The king has his "royal re-
membrancer" to tell him what
engagements he has, etc. The