The Washington times., 1922-08-15

Two Strong Men Gone.
Levy Mayer-NorthcIiffe.
The Roads Say mo"
Ko Lows End.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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Inc sudden death OF Levy
Mayer takes from the Amer
lean bar one Of its most pow
erful figures, and from many
great industrial and other or
ganizations their ablest ad-
wiser.
Levy Mayer died a victim Of
work and of devotion to his
clients. He worked ceaselessly
night and day. Interests en-
trusted to him were never out
of his mind.
He supplied to his important
clients, not only legal knowl-
edge and fighting ability, but
the mental courage to face
their difficulties.
Many will testify to that.
While working profession
ally for others, he neglected
himself, his own health. He
devoted no time to real exer-
else, recreation, or vacation.
His death is a warning to other
men past fifty.
He leaves behind him many
earnest friendships, earned by
unselfishness and loyalty.
Alfred Harmsworth, who be-
came Sir Alfred, then Lord
Northcliffe, is dead, leaving no
child to inherit his title. his
vast fortune, or the marvellous
engine of publicity, the many
newspapers that he leaves be-
hind him. :
He worked we'll and cour-
ageously for the British En-
pire that gave him his sue
cess.
And he worked FOR THE
BRITISH EMPIRE, not for
ANY OTHER country. Not for
any other thing. Some Ameri-
can so-called Statesmen might
remember that.
Wherever England was con-
cerned, Northcliffe's idea was
that England should rule. News
papers that attacked him
through envy, malice, or igno-
rance while he was alive will
praise him now. He was for
England.
The private owners of rail-
roads, who feel that they can
always "even things up by tax
ing the public" say that they
want to fight to a finish with
union labor. If it must come,
It ought to finish first of all
p private ownership of public
n,onopolies and necessities upon
which the people depend.
The railroads Of the United
States have long sine, out
grown the brains and pocket
books, although not the cupidity,
of their owners.
Ko Low is buried. Five motor
cars carried five thousand dol
lars worth of flowers to his
grave. He lay in his coffin in
Chinatown dressed in a black
Yankee coat, his checks rouged,
his eyebrows penciled. .
White girls, also rouged and
penciled, poor things, wept at
his coffin when the crowd had
gone. He had been kind to
them.
A Chinese Baptist that
was to have helped bury him
did not appear. Ko Low had
been converted to the Catholic
, faith in London when he mar
ried an English girl, so a
Catholic performed the last
rites.
The dead Chinese wore his
decorations as Past Grand
Master in the Masonic order.
And the Standard Oil Company
sent a wreath to his funeral.
A thousand marched. four
abreast, TO the grave. A small
boy distributed coins from big
paper bag, presents from the
dead man. Into the open grave
his friends threw "praye- rib
bons."
And that was the end of Ko
Low, head of the powerful Hip
Sing Tong, who was murdered
as he walked out of the Chinese
Delmonico's with a white girl
on either arm.
When Ko Low arrives on that
other shore it may be found
difficult to classify him.
The best news from Russia,
and for Russia, in many a day
Is the opening of the great fair
at Mini Novgorod. II Is to be
hoped that some good moving
picture man was present in the
great building, one mil, square,
where Russians, Mongolians,
Chinese, Japanese, horses,
donkeys, camels, and motor
trucks gathered to buy and
sell.
.Bolshevik Russia Is organiz-
ing a church and a clergy Of