The Washington times., 1922-07-28

King and Crazy Man.
Imagination Kills.
Foolish Plot.
Cheap String Beans.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
Copyright. Issa1

MS house, kept deputy sheriffs
and State police at bay for
thirteen days. He killed one
man, wounded many. Yester-
day bombs filled with "tear gas
conquered him. He appeared at
the door, blood dropping from
his hands, held above his head,
and asked for drink of water.
II such a man, a little less
insane, had happened to be
born king Of some fighting ma
ton, with the power Of that
nation back of him, little boys
IN school might be reading
about him now as a great hero.
The performance in the lit
tie West Virginia house is not
so different from that of
Charles XII of Sweden, when
the sultan sent to arrest him,
and Charles undertook to fight
the whole force of the sultan
with no army but the few serv-
ants in his house.
A man in London tried to
hang himself, his handkerchief
fastened to the bedpost. The
man wasn't hanged, but be.
iieved that he was being hanged,
and died, the doctors say, cf
auto-suggestion." This is in
teresting to all those who be-
iieve and preach the theory Of
mind over matter"
Senator Borah says that in
clnded in the big strikes is "a
plot to kill all unions" That
Will prove a foolish plot, il it
exists and if it should succeed
which it won't.
Money is organized, en-
pioyers are organized, profes-
sions are organized. Labor,
naturally, should be organized.
II it were possible to destroy
the unions employers would
have in place of them l. W. w.
and knights of Labor" organi-
xations, not dealt with as easily
or satisfactorily as labor unions.
The Department of Labor
says that living costs 66.6 per
cent more than in 1914. This
seems strange to those that
raise the food.
William Ffostick, of Allaire,
N. j., gives you the interesting
information that truck farmers
sell string beans 16 quarts for
20 cents. The basket costs
7h cents. That leaves 1914
cents for 16uuafts Or string
beans. In addition the grower
must ship the stuff to market.@
Cabbages are sold at from
80 to 80 cents a barrel.
Potatoes are sold at So
barrel. How much does the
public pay for what it eats?
Imperfect, costly distribu-
ton is the curse of this coun-
try and causes the high cost of
living.
James C. Dean, publicity
man for railway employees, tells
the President that Government
efforts to run the mines and
the railroads may lead to vio-
lence and revolution.
There will not be any revo-
luton.
Mr.. Dean is Mortified at what
he calls drafting men into
involuntary servitude." There
has been no suggestion Of draft
ing men to work by the Presi-
dent or by anybody else. New
ertheless men are drafted into
involuntary servitude in war
because public welfare makes 1t
necessary.
Rather than 60 without coal,
railroad service, or food, the
neople would draft men to work,
promptly and without any rev
olution" talk. =.
The public welfare is the first
thing. Drafting is always done
when public welfare makes it
necessary, no matter what kind
Of war It might happen to be.
In New York a very old
American man jumped out Of a
window and killed himself.
At Deauville, in France, an
old American woman appeared
at the Casino with four dia-
mond bracelets on the right
wrist, four pearl bracelets on
the left wrist, three ropes OF
pearls around her neck, one
holding a diamond three-quar-
ters Of an inch long; also
brooches, rings, etc. There are
great inequalities in this life,
but you are not quite sure
whether you would rather be
the old American that Jumped
out of the window or the old
female American trotting around
Deauville, as described.
The duty on raw wool will be
NJ cents a pound. That seems