The Washington times., 1922-08-12

The President Has Power.
Bad for Rumania.
A Swiss Rockefeller.
One Rich American.
ARTHUR BRISBANE,
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The people have q claim on
the privately owned" rail-
roads. They financed those
roads in war, saved them from
bankruptcy, guaranteed and
paid high dividends to stock
holders. -...
The people have given to the
railroads all their rights on
what are actually public high
ways that should be publicly
owned.
The President represents the
people, has their authority. He
mas the right to make the rail-
roads run asl he chooses while
this emergency lasts.
There was no question as to
that right in the time of war.
This also is war, capital and
labor fighting, and the nation
the victim of the battle.
A report from Rumania
says forty Jews have been shot
by military authorities for po-
litical offenses, although the
king had declared an amnesty.
The forty were shot down one
by one as they were led to q
spot where they were supposed
to be set free.
That presumably will not
help the sale of Rumanian
bonds just offered in this coun-
try. Jewish financiers are large
buyers of bonds.
Miss Mccormick rejoins her
Swiss hero, Max Oser, thirty
years older than she. You can
imagine much worse matches
for a young girl than such a
man. 1t is much better than
marrying a young American
gentleman whose business is
getting himself sunburned in
winter at Palm Beach and
plucked in summer at the races.
Oser's age makes no differ
ence. According to Plato, men
should have children after they
are fifty. That he is a riding
master means nothing. If Bay
ard himself came to life in
these days, or Du Guesclin, or
CASTOR de Folk, about the only
job they could hold would be
that of riding masters.
1t will be an interesting we'd
ding. AS you know, from Gal
ton, the genius of fathers is
inherited through the female
line. 1t might make a differ
ence to the Swiss republic If
thirty years from riowsa young
Mr.. 0ser, with the John u.
Rockefeller blood; should become
active. Waterfalls now going
to waste probably would be de-
veloped. -. -"...
Whether the Swiss system of
government ownership of rail-
roads would survive Is a ques-
tion.
A rich American in Europe
hired an ordinary Italian as
valet and treated as such that
human brother. Soon the
Wallets hair began to change
color, and the ingenious valet
confessed" to the American
that he was in reality a noble
man, ruined by patriotism and
war. He had dyed his hair to
find humble work.
Thereupon, the rich American
took that human brother, no
longer a valet, but a nobleman,
to his arms, made much of him,
appointed him secretary.
The valet Immediately pro-
ceeded to blackmail the rich
Americans wife. Now they
have put him in Jail and the
story ends for the time being.
Europeans get the impression
that rich visiting Americans
are often rich asses, and they
are quite right.
Henry Ford mixed poetry and
facts. He says the labor unions
are managed really by Wall
Street capitalists for their own
benefit. They run the unions,
tie up the railroads and the
mines when they want to.
That, Of course, is poetry.
Capitalists sometimes bribe la
Dor leaders. Unfortunately,
they always have spies in their
ranks. But that is business,
not ownership.
Henry Ford says the. capital
lists organize labor unions be-
cause it Is much easier to do
business with labor organiza-
tions than with separate indi-
viduals. There is solemn fact
in the value Of labor unions to
CAPITALISTS and big industrialists.
If capital could have it's fool
ish way and abolish all unions.
as II would like to do. it would
be hard to run the industry Of
fba limited States.