The Washington times., 1922-07-29

Judge oary's 3 Words.
Potatoes s1.2s a Barrel.
To Make Strikes Last.
Sewer Rats Fight.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
(Copyrikht. lg22.l

by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. 1ss2)
To get an idea from your
own head into other heads,
says Judge Gary, is the chief
work of man. When he was
young lawyer he used to
say, Give me a judge that
understands. That's all / ask"
AS head of New York's pub
lie safety committee, Judge
Gary puts three words, Don't
get hurt" in place of the usual
iong-winded warnings and
pleadings.
Don't get hurt +" means
something every human being
has heard from babyhood on.
Make your meaning plain.
mo sign of any drop in the
high cost Of living" says
high authority. Here's what
OUGHT to be a sign. Mr..
Alsheimer, able German-Amer-
lean farmer, works Peter
Berg's farm, corner Front
street and Barnum avenue,
Hampstead, Long Island. Two
days ago he sold his new po-
tatoes, best grade, for $1.25
q barrel, the lowest price in
his experience. What do you
pay for YOUR potatoes at re-
tail?
For milk that retails at 1s
cents, the farmer gets Az
cents or less. The. problem
of this nation is the extrava-
CANT cost of distribution, and
no one pays any attention
to it.
A plan "to settle the rail-
road strike" begins as follows:
STRIKERS to rank below the
men who remained loyal to
the roads,"
That's a plan to make the
strike last longer. The Presi-
dent, with good judgment, has
asked the road owners NOT
to diminish the seniority rights
of strikers when they return,
Presumably he will insist on
II. The roads will obey the
President when they know he
MEANS it. d.
Railroad owners would de-
spise any of their own crowd
that should side with the men
against road ownership. The
men despise workers that side
with road ownership agaius.
their own crowd, and it is pr
fectly natural.
IL America produces the best
workers in the world, 1t is be-
cause the men, are self-re-
specting and loyal to each
other-with the pocket second,
not first.
sLeonard and Tender, young
Jewish prize fighters, fought
on Thursday. To any, intel
lectually above a microcephalic
idiot, the fight was no more
important than struggle
between two rats in a sewer.
More than 10000 human"
beings paid $450,000 to see the
undersized men jump around,
hitting each others dull faces.
Neither fighter won. 1t was
perhaps arranged that way, that
the 10000 fools might come
again. One of the fighters
got $751; $50, the other 100000
the promoter of the fight got
S153,750.
When the fight ended, a
terrific thunderstorm arose.
Five hundred years ago it
would have been believed that
the Divinity was protesting
against brutal stupidity.
The Government Bureau OF
Standards has perfected a ma
chine to test the wearing quail
;ty of cloth. It would be a
rood thing to test with this
machine all the material that
roes into clothing, including
the so-called pure wool"
shoddy. That might do more
than a high tariff to encour:
age sheep raising and wool
production, especially if the
Clothing were marked accord
ing to the test.
Once gasoline was worth
8 cents a gallon, to wash ink
from type and for other hum
lie work. The motor made
a. what it is today.
Platinum, produced chiefly
IN Russia, was worth about
as much as gold, around $50
an ounce. Now platinum,
which has just jumped So an
.rnca il worth $9S an ounce.