Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1919 — Page 6

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ESCOVRAQINO STRIKES

There may or may not have been collusion between officials and employe* of the New York Interborough Rapid Transit Company to bring about a strike as charged by Mayor. Hylan. The accusation Is of the sort / that brings political fruits and hls honor Is not ohe to overlook any opportunity to increase the harvest. The point is

or not there was collusion some such secret underwould in all probability have out to the advantage of both

contesting parties. The New York tmotion companies have for soma tim-5 been maneuvering for fare increases. The public, naturally, has opposed any effort to add materially to living costs already embarrassingly high. One way to Increase the value of any commodity in the minds of users Is to oblige them to do without It for a time. If New Yorkers could be made to walk to work for a few days they might be led to believe that 8 cents for the ride was exceedingly cheap. The company could easily afford to pay whatever wage Increase was made the strike issue If fares were advanced as a result. Perhaps the New York street car officials had nothing to do with fomenting and encouraging the strike. The circumstance*, however, were un-

The striking organisation was

affiliated with the ordinary labor bodies, but was farmed r by the company. Strike literature, according to Mayor Hyland, was paid for .by the company. When the men left Work no effort was made ‘by the company to operate the cars with strike breakers. Some members of the organisation are said to have been paid for striking. These charges may be false and the obvious inference from them may Ip this particular case be unfair, but the lesson and the warning are unmistakably plain. Utility owners and manneed have no objection to strikes large pay increases if rates are l correspondingly. On occasion, strikes would be very much to their

are the rewfthte us, we

are inevitably pan of what is coming to be a very small world, a world in which ideas travel with a freed ist force us to in our views, and must by international consideraever may be oar natural to Chauvinism or our disrard an insular Isol • •- Let no American feel a escape all relationship to

Europe. That

«teg impossible, wo at least aim to understand those iently to recognise of their significance to us and judge of our responsibilities to the outside world, f The future of Europe ia r to be largely shaped by or the lack of wisdom that we in

Very "Unsettled"

CHICAGO, August Si.—The prieo of shoe shines dropped to 10 cents here, today. Several days ago the shining parlors announced a raise to If cents “on account of unsettled conditions," but It was said business was off to such an extent that it was decided to go back to the old price.

Hiding Behind the Farmer

■ our world

the sincerity with

affairs, in the way opportunities and In

which we discharge our world obligations and render service where service is due. If we are narrow, provincial, selfish, all those qualities will react

on our future.

[Cincinnati Enquirer]

Rather reassuring is the discovery made concerning the actual social status of the head of a so-called co-operative milk producing company, who was indicted at Cleveland, arrested and thrown into the calaboose with a number of imperfectly washed and crude mannered misdemeanants. Indignation flamed from the citadel of the organised agrarians and the average diisra was forced to adopt the conclusion that the rude minions of a harsh law had dragged an inoffensive farmer from his homestead In the still watches of the night and hurled him. protesting. Into a second

"Black hole” of Calcutta.

Now it is found that this injured

farmer, in whose turists propose to of 390 acres of

uuu tn» injure” lefense the agrlculrise. Is merely the of fine land In the

If the "future of Europe is going to be largely ahaped" toy us. it surely is to our interest that It be shaped rightly. During the war. before our active participation in it, ws shuddered at every defeat of our friends, and wondered whether the western front would hold against the Germans. When Haig told hi* soldiers that they would have to fight with their "backs to the wall" w# prayed that they would stand fast. It waa dear enough then that a French. British or Italian disaster waa our disaster. Precisely eo to it aow. It to still necessary to us that the people of Europe hold as against the post-way enemies, hunger, suffering idleness, disorders and revolution looming in the background. Plague almost invariably follows famine, and plagues have a way

of sweeping over the world. Ws are j The law should be ns oot M ion, M Europe I. "«•*'* JKi*.« T th. ftSST*

There is the other motive that used to 1 be — and we believe still Is — controlling with the American people, and that is the divine psssion to help and serve.

Lake Erie district, and that hto real occupation to practicing law at the seat of the county In which the land is situated Moreover, he to the ylee-ptSSl dent of the foremost bank and trust company in the county. Producing milk is entirely what would be described as

a side Issue. I -

Investigation further Into the outrage, to accept the definition of the grangers, reveals that another of the party who spent an uncomfortable night in the Clevriaad jail to a merchant engaged at a county seat with his brother in a large and lucrative retail business. Like the lawyer, he owns hundreds of acres and produces milk in a subsidiary way The Cuyahoga county grand jury held

respecter of

farmers

BAPTISTS ELECT OFFICERS

When and If the league of peace to filially ratified by all concerned the American people should not expect the millenium. We doubt If there will be any Immediate preceptibie effect. Human nature is Involved, for one thing, and even the Csecho-Slovaks and all the halfbreeds that are Involved In the perturbed European, conditions, share with the rest of mankind In the yearnings, ambitions, hatreds and selfishness characteristic of the race. Nothing but education and Christianity will eradicate the real causes of quarrels and wars. Humap agreements may help, and everything that promises well should be accepted In the effort to benefit mankind; but it would be in defiance of human experience to expect any treaty or resolutions to possess sufficient potency to ove/throw or to change in a twinkling existing conditions. Reformation to a growth and a life. Dr. Muck will probably feel more at home in Germany. It will not do, however, to get the Idea that the cost of living matter is to be solved by seizing goods held In storage which might be more uaeMrt next winter. Perhaps the grocers will be able to suggest a check that will successfully check the packers. The Palmer Incident ought to be a lesson to the gentlemen who are planning to win elections by appealing to German votes. . It is difficult for the ordinary billpayer to understand why Carnegie couldn't have been a pauper if he really so wished.

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facultte. of col- , Th. reform th. outside by flow ot recru Its Instead it must

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schools in the 1 that trouble,

pay more If the . _ As a rule the > to fight for every

legislatures that nerufc ana ir«-

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come to the of teaching

advantage. In shor*. the issue in every strike Is not primarily between the employer—or wealth, or capital—and labor, but between labor and the public, or more exactly, between one class of labor and all classes. When that fact Is thoroughly understood strikes and large wage increases should lose some

of their present popularity.

Well, if by Prussianizing, we can get cme streets like those they nave in I say leP% Prussianize them. — Attorney Walker, of Trinidad asphalt

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counsel.

But, sir, Prussianizing can only be achieved by Prussian methods, and they are far from popular with most other people. 2 Chances are the militiamen at Hammond will not Insist on eight hours a day and increased pay, with Saturday afternoons off and double time on Sundays and holidays. A cent a pound profit knd a spoonful to a cup seems to be a good working basis from a sugar standpoint. Community spirit Is one thing you can keep around the house and need have no fear of arrest.

A WORLD INTEREST

average Those Americans who are arguing that more we ought to look out for ourselves first, would perhaps, if they would reflect a little, see that we can not do this without to a very considerable ex-

women will do tent looking out for others. We. say permitting the noting of the obligation that we have a comparatively to suffering and atarving people in Eu-

rope. great as it is, but ask that the subject be considered from the purely selfish point of view. This country would suffer frightfully should there be a general breakdown in Europe, or anything approaching it. If there should be anything like a general revolution In Europe, we should feel Us effects here. On the other hand, everything that is done to promote social stability In Europe will steady conditions here. We can not "stay quietly at home,” feeding only ourselves and enjoying our prosperity, and expect to be untouched toy the demoralization of Europe. We

the cause of1 and our friends beyond seas are bound

together by too many ties — political, commercial, industrial and financial. The very depreciation of foreign exchange will affect us closely, and limit

-- >- the purchasing power of those who seek

da. Europe is Indebted to us in of dollars, and we surely are in-

sim- terested in our debtors. It is generally

that our people will have to beeavy investors In European seand to permit foreign peoples establish credits in this country.

we are all bound together in the relations. Europe’s interests in a very real sense, interests. In his very Interbook. "What Happened to EuMr. Vanderlip says:

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not stand a world apart

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ws may believe ourselves to be.

It’s one thing to win a woman's political affections and quite another to keep them. Carnegie failed to die a pauper, but he did not fail to die. Since the Hawaiian girls greeted Secretary Daniels in their shredded wheat skirts, maybe official visits to Honolulu will become popular However, bagging two Mexicans does not even up the score by any means. Apparently what Hammond most needs to a few companies of school teachers armed with elementary school books. , J In estimating that a family of five should spend about W10 a year for food the commissioner of labor statistics must have figured on free gasoline. Those automobile stalls painted on the downtown streets go a long way toward solving the high cost of collisions. That air service discussion to again becoming heated to the point where the public will have to make the customary allowances. With the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and the American Bankers’ Association on the trail of fake stdek companies the "blue sky” outlook to a little cloudy. Naturally when the tribe gets to Louisville the pennant race will take a turn for the better. Judging from the way the German people are howling at Erxberger it's only a question of time till he’ll be looking for a far4n in Holland. A sugar profiteer stands about as much show these days as a lump of sugar in a cup of hot coffee. If It costs anything to declare martial law In Hungary it to no wonder the country Is bankrupt Speaking of debatable questions, what is the difference between a Mexican bandit and a Mexican 7

It to believed, however, that the war department did not adopt the steel helmet as part of the regular wjutpment of the army In order to demonstrate its faith in the peace-promoting power

of the unrattfled treaty.

The coal outlook to described by experts as gloomy, but so. for that matter, to about every other outlook the

experts look out for.

Bethel Associatidn Ends Meeting at

New Albany.

[Special to The Indianapolis New*]

NEW ALBANY. Ind., August 22.-The Bethel Baptist Association, composed of the Baptist churches in Floyd. Clark and Washington counties, at its dosing session Thursday, at the Tabernacle Baptist church in this city, elected the Rev. H. 8. Burns, of Salem, as moderator; the Rev. S. Holmes Wood, of Salem, vice-moderator; Mrs. Katherinv J. Sigmon, New Albany, clerk, and T. CV Neely, of Enon. treasurer. The association adopted resolutions Indorsin

the Thrift stamp campaign and urg the purchase of the certificates.

ing red

A Warning to Amerfca

[Chicago Tribune] Mr. Lloyd George's warning to the British people to quite as much a warning to the American people. In fact, we are In greater need of it than they, for already there is evidence that the British have seen the dangers into which they were running, In which they have almost engulfed their fortunes, and are regaining self-control. But we are moving head on and with Increasing speed into exactly the disaster which the British people now foresee and seem sane enough to avoid. If we have any advantage It is because our descent has begun from a higher level of fortune, life are not so weakened by years of war and our reserves are greater^ than England’s were when the armistice came. But, on the other hand, we have not yet realized the deetryctlve possibilities of industrial disorganization and the paralyzing effects of widespread Industrial disorder. The vital necessity pointed out by the British prime minister of "vastly increased production,” and curtailment of waste, is vital to us also. Yet we find universal and increasing extravagances and an industrial warfare which 1s diminishing production in steadily Increasing degree. Legitimate demands of labor for bringing income into fair relation with necessary expense have now become a comparatively small phase of the labor conflict. The most exaggerated and irrational demands are made and are multiplying- The result can only be a disaster inolving all class%s, including first the wage earner. Not only our ability to hold our own in the perilous world situation to being destroyed, but if the reign of unreason continues an internal collapse will occur such as the American people have never known. If American labor, the most prosperous In the world, and the most assured of steady progress, surrenders itself now, for the first time In Its history, to the hysteria of the time and to the Incitements of radicalism bent Upon the destruction of the American system, it Is going, about suicide in the most effective way. We are not yet ready to believe American common sense and constructive instinct have been so shaken. We are confident reason and self-control will reassert themselves. But it is high time for their return. Sane and courageous leadership in the labor world is immediately called for. and back of it must be the intelligence of a rank and file wakened to the certainties of destruction toward which the present mood to sweeping the whole country.

An Inexplicable President

[Chicago Tribune] _.. . . Any interested American might wish to live until the record of the proceedings of the Big Fopr to available for historians. It will be Interesting If Mr. Wilson is one of the historians. He says now that he does not know whether he committed any blazing Indiscretions or not. What Mr. Wilson did will remain inexplicable until full light is given to the whole proceedings. Four men sat down in privacy and talked and the world is asked to accept their decisions for its guidance. With only the Incomplete record of the proceedings, such as the discretion of statecraft permits to be known, a rational American finds himself totally unable to understand the part played by the Predicant of the United States. He said he would not ask anything for the United States. We know he did not. Mr. Wilson was deeply impressed by the glory of a moral attitude. We do not. At least the United States got nothing. Mr. Wilson was deeply impressed ant facts because they were inconsistent with the glory of this moral attitude or did not learn them because in his isolation he would not listen to any one. not even Colonel House. There Is evidence that efforts were made to acquaint him with facts. Mr. Wilson may not have wanted to know them. He seems to have been let In for a series of astonishments. The most disconcerting, so far as he lets us Into hls emotions, was the Shantung dtecovery. That was disconcerting to a moral attitude. He says he had heard something of an agreement regarding Avlona. but never saw it. Did he know anything of Belgium designs against Holland? The painful thing for a rational American to consider is that Mr. Wilson, making discovery after discovery in 1ft 1“ -

He can now assert a principle of millennial liberty and Justice for hto own country and declare that the heart of the world will break unless his own country adopts and lives up to these principles when he knows that the world is full of subject peoples whose subjugation to definitely and precisely stipu-

lated by the document

United States to sign. The moral attitudes

he asks the

of Mr. Wilson are

inexplicable^

We are glad the United States senate has not been carried away by the glorv of the attitudes. The senators, after conference with the President, are reported to be more determined than ever to put the covenant of the league in such shape that it will not make dangerous pledges for this country. In doing this the senate win serve this country and will damage no other.

COST OF DISTRIBUTION A year before the world war began Clyde L. King, of the Wharton school of finance and commerce. University of Pennsylvania, Investigating methods of lowering for Philadelphia consumers the price paid for farmers’ produce, found that the consumer was paying from 76 to MS more than the producer received, the average being 1S6 per cent. One of the remedies he recommended was a municipal wholesale terminal market, which would reduce the number of middlemen and middlemen’s profits. He gave striking examples of how additions are made to prices as commodities go through the several agencies from producer to consumer. At that time fanners were receiving only « cents a pound for poultry and consumers were paying 28 cents, and this to how he found the 22 cents was made up: Farmers received a pound M Freight, a pound .oou Jobbers’ profit cgu Wholesalers’ profit Ot Retailers’ profit .* u Total paid by consumer .a He gave eggs as another example of numerous middlemen’s profits as follows: Farmers received, a dozen .a Freight Jobbers' profit 08 Wholesalers’ profit 08 Retailers’ profit QS Total paid hy consumer ... M In the case of poultry the consumer paid 286 per cent, more than the producer received, and in the case of eggs about 70 per cent On the average he found that the farmer was receiving 44 per cent of the retail price of a number of pro ducts, the railroads for transportation, 2 per cent, the jobber 8 per cent, the wholesaler 8 per cent, and the retailer 43 per cent The retailer eras receiving practically as large a per oent of the price paid by the consumer as was the producer. Professor King accentuated the fact that the cost of distribution must be reduced If the consumer Is to get food for .:*e—that ways must be found for more economic handling of food. Investigators of food distribution problems are practically all of the opinion that the wholesale terminal market, such as has proved successful in Europe, to an effective method of saving costs of distribution and making it possible for consumers to buy at a price not much higher than the fanner receives, plus the cost of transportation to the centra! market Wholesale terminal markets sell in quantities not beyond the pocketbooks of many individual consumers and encourage co-operative buying. They aleo sell to retailers, for it has been found that the retailer serves a useful function In distribution. Since Profeseor King made the investigation there has been a vast increase in prices received by farmers, as well as In prices paid by consumers. but there still remains the large margin of distribution charges. Present high costs accentuate the need of attacking the problem of lowering the coats of distribution. ““

The Great Mlagivtng. “Not our*," say *om*, "the thought et death to dread; Asking no heaven, we fear no fabled hefi; Life is a feast, and we have b *** Shall not the worm* aa welll ‘The after-silence, when the feast la e’er. And void the piece# where the mineuels stood. Differ* in nought from what hath been be-

fort*

And la not U1 nor good.”

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The beckoning finger bidding me , The fellowship, th* converse, and the

The eonga, the festal glow!

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There la, O grave, thy hourly vietorf.

And there, O death, thy sting!

—william Wataea.

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SCRAPS

Approaching Railway Crisis

[Chicago Tribune]

It is beginning to be clearly evident that the demands of the railroad brotherhoods are rapidly bringing thi* country to a transportation crisis which will make that which preceded the passage of the Adamson law seem quite insignificant The brotherhood* want not only an increase in wages but the nationalization of the railroads under a plan which la actually though not ostensibly designed to give them virtual control of the transportation systems

of the country.

The wage demands have been presented as a separate issue, but they have a direct bearing on the nationalization propaganda. Consider for one thing that these demands total approximately 8800,000,000; consider also that adding this amount to the pay rolls would almost certainly mean the bankruptcy of the roads. Insolvency could only be avoided in the opinion of a writer In the New York Annalist by increasing rates 30 to 40 per cent. But such rate increases would have an enormous effect upon raising the cost of living, about which the public mind to al-

ready Inflamed.

Nationalisation to the answer, say the brotherhoods. They have no desire to throw the railroads Into bankruptcy; neither have they any desire, they say, to place a heavy new burden on the public. On the contrary, they would have „u* believe that the efficiencies and economies which will flow from soviet rule are a guaranty that the public’* burden will be lightened, while at the same time they themselves would get a satisfactory wage adjustment That this is a pure hypothesis and an unlikely one is fairly obvious. You can not draw blood from a stone, and there is no legerdemain to take more out of the railroads than the public pays in. The revenue can, of course, be distributed in different ways, and there Is a chance that the brotherhoods

to be ehurrh, Friday.

COLl MBl'S—Samuel Sharp, county superintendent. has completed the program for the annual Bartholomew county teachers' Institute, to be held here September l to ». F. C. TUden. of DePauw university, and of Indiana university, will make the addressee HUNTINOTON—Lawrence Eaton, of Bluffton. use released in the court of G. W. Stults, justice of the peace, Thursday afterboon when he proved that he had been In ®»*on waa charged with the theft of 1147 from the Hotel HuntJPfJ™ °* fe ' "here he was employed until Sunday morning. w Woman* Club was add re seed b i' Gerhard, repreaentaUvo from Purdue univeMty, who hae b ?® n , ^etfi'ed to give Instruction In the care of aick,. In apprehension of a recurrence of an Influensa epidemic. , Miss Gerhard discussed the subject of child welfare, la which branch of work the Woman's Club Is specially Interested.

completed tor the twenty-seventh annua) convention of the Young Peoples’ Christian Lnton of th* Northern Indiana presbvtery

■ held at the United Presbyterian at Idaville, next Thursday and

LAW RENCEBURG-Th* George H. Bishop #. C®-* manufacturers, and the James °h)an * Bon* Saw Manufacturing Company,

of Columbus, O.. have effected a merger. The conaoltdation of the two companies will result In the production of a complete line of wood and metal cutting saw*, tools and accessories. The Lawrenceburg plant will continue without any radical change In the

operating force.

BOWLING GREEN-Mr and Mrs. Stewart

Drake celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of thslr marriage Tuesday at their home. The

children present wsre: OUs Drake, H. R.

Drake, Ernest Drake, Chester Drake and Mrs. Zella Kendall. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Drake entertained In the evening as guest*, the members of the Ladles’ Aid Society of the Methodist church with their husbands,

besides other friends of the family. B LOOM I NOD ALE—Th# Alumni Association

of BloomIngdale academy met in tta annual assembly Thursday night. The Rev. Aadrew F. Mitchell, pastor of the South Eighth Street Friends' church, Richmond. Ind.. de-

livered sn address, taking as hls theme, "How We Can Help a Convalescent World."

Two gold stars were placed on the service flag In memory of Horace Undley, das* of

ItlS, and Clifford Cox, class of 1»U. GRE BIN CASTLE—A high tension wire on

the lino of the Terrs Haute, Indianapolis

A Eastern Traction Company falling on

a city service wire, caused a fire Thursday at the home of Mrs. W. F Swehlen end

might achieve their object the simple Mr. and Mr*. J. P. Allen, Jr.. Mrs. Swahlen ■ *' “* —— — ‘was In th# home alone when the wire fell

followed. Apparently

expedient of radically reducing the return to security holders, or more sim-

ply still by dispossessing a large

centa%e of them entirely.

by d

of thi. .. _

This expedient would precipitate the

greatest financial panic in our history, and everv man and woman in the country. Including the railroad workers themselves, would suffer severely by the disaster. Insurance companies and savings banka, which are among the larger holders of railway securities, would not be able to meet their obligations to their patrons, and thrift and providence

would everywhere be penalised. It does not seem likely at the present

moment that the brotherhoods wfl strike for nationalisation as such, but It is quite probable tbat they are prepared to strike for higher wages. Such a strike would Inevitably lead to an effort to force congress to adopt their whole legislative program. Nationalization will then be offered as the only solution, just as the Adamson bill was offered as the only solution when the previous

strike was threatened.

end a loud ex tbs interurban

INDIANA NEWS IN BRIEF

ENGLISH—The seventh annual chowdsr dinner at Union chapel, which Is five miles ■ ‘ be held August ». free to all who come and spopn. SH E Y VI LLfThe fanners of this county are forming orgamUstlon.* by townships following the rocent meeting held here. Two out-townshlps, Washington and Jackson, are making an active canvass for membership. ANDERSON-The Anderson Trades Council decided Wednesday night to have a local celebration on Labor day Instead of participating In ealebratlons elsewhere on that day. Francis Meeks was mad# chairman of the general committee for the celebration. MO NTICH5LLO—Arrangements have been

. , . .. wire had burned the! HP! fixture In the chandller and had caused the explosion from the escaping gas. The blaze was confined to the upper part of the ALEXANDRIA -The Rev. U. E. Harding, of Newcastle, Ind., was re-elected district superintendent of the district assembly of the Nasarene church In the opening business session at Beulah park Thursday. He le asrving In hie fifth year. The Rev. W. B. Shepard, of Pasadena. Cal., continues to attract large audiences each night. Ministers attending the meeting are discussing the eztenaive missionary campaign work In foreign countries which will be taken up by the Nasarene church during

the next year.

LOGANSPORT-Oeorge A. Raub has been elected president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank her* to succeed M. W. Coiletr. G. A. Kletler was elected vice-president. ....Newspaper publishers of northern Indians were guests here Wednesday of W. R. Ems11*. of th* Logansport Pharos-Reporter, at th* regular monthly meeting. After a business discussion they at* lunch at the Country Club. Those present were Dal# Crlttenberger and Thomas w. McCullough. Anderaon; John A. Kautz, Kokomo; George D. Lindsay and Edgar A. Moss. Marlon; A. A. Mayersteln and Ralph Mayersteln, Lafayette; W. H. Leeds and E. H. Harris, Richmond; W. 8. Steele, Muncle. and Walter Ball, Huntington. GREEN8BURO—Fbur of ten occupant* of an automobile driven by Michael Glotz, of this city, war* Injured Wednesday when the machine went into a ditch northwest of here. Giotz attempted to pass another machine at th* time of the accident. Mrs. Fred Ulrich, of Shelbyville, suffered cuts on her face, her sL-year-old son waa Injured and Will Ulrich, age nine, another son, was bruised about the face. Imogens Goble, another child, also was injured.... Pickpockets were active Wednesday, when a Welcome Home celebration was held for Decatur county service men, (according to reports made to the police. Among those reporting losses to the police were Alez Purvla, 13): Joseph Towler, I7J; James Borden, tS.U; William Back. IS; Edward Griffin. 117: Alez Gardner, ID; Walter McCoy, |12, and an unknown woman, $30.

DIVIDED BROTHERHOODS

[New York Times]

By the action of their leaders the four brotherhoods of railway employe* are officially and ostensibly united in support of the eccentric Plumb plan for federal control of the railways. There are many rifts in that union; there^ Is a division of opinions, as anybody can And out for himself by talking to members whom he knows well enough for them to be frank with him. In a general sense, the radicals, the advocates of public control and & mixed management that amounts to control bv employes, are the younger men. These, too, as a class, though there must be many exceptions, are much lee* Interested In the high cost of living and much less saving than their elders. The middle-aged engineers and conductors are usually saving, and have long been so. They own houses and bonds and stocks, often. They are* devoted to their homes, and their gardens, if they live

nMar

te the country.

ley are prosperous

and shrewd men. Many of the young er men, on the contrary. P«t their wages largely into luxuries and amusements. and. like so many other highly paid wage earners at the present time, prefer a “car” to the accumu-

lation of a nestegg.

The elder men, from their experience, are more capable of judging government management, of making unfavorable comparisons between Its results and those of private administration. They have seen th# tendency of government direction to accumulate unnecessary employes and to decrease efficiency of serv

he help fearing that, under the rule of the employes he will be shelved and a voung trainman promoted in hls plaice? Is not the same thing true of locomotive engineers, a select class, trained to danger and responsibility, a skilled profession? Grizzled and gray many of them are, picked veterans, intelligent, prudent.

gards them as old fogies and itches for their places? Apparently certain transatlantic novelties of Socialist or syndicalist labor have been Instilled into the heads of the chiefs of the brotherhoods. A lawyer, shaky in hls economics, produced the other day that plan for the demoralization of the railroads and the injury of the public which the public received with almost universal derision and hostility. To any plan that promises higher wages for themselves the members of the brotherhoods are naturally friendly; but how far are the members of the brotherhoods, for ail the air of conviction publicly manifested by their chiefs, really friendly to the Plumb plan? The soberer and more thoughtful members have had their lesson in government

i and

A serious shortage of raw materials exists in Finland. Porto Rico has about 750 miles of macadamised government roads. The population ot Cuba to about fifty* nine persons to the square mile. Diamonds worth > $100,000 have been obtained in two months on a farm tn the Orange Free State. Th* British and Fortlga Bible Society issues the Scriptures in upward of 810 languages and dialects. Live lobsters were the first merchandise carried by the new air service hatween Paris and Brussels. A certain county of Connecticut boasts of Us record of having had but two murders in neau-ly 100 years. A new baby aeroplane of Swedish make weighs only 700 pounds, and has a speed of eighty miles an hour. Bankruptcies are almost unknown In China, probably owing to the fact that they entail immediate execution. The water in a public drinking fountain in a Kansas City park to cooled by running It through a coll of pipe sunk in an old well. Factories have been established in Spain for the manufacture of paper from vine shoots and of paper pulp from esparto grass. The saloon free lunch to a thing of the past, but a Springfield (III.) church offers free lemonade to all who attend the Sunday services. On July 26. 1W», Louis - Blerlot, of France, flew from Langatte to Dover, across the English channel. He [P&s the first to make the trip. A Bulgarian woman arriving in New York from Christiania had eight bottles containing perfume known as attar of roses, said to be worth $78,000. Jimmy, a Springfield (Mass.) dog who goes with hto master to the market, won't touch meat that Is offered to him until hto master has paid for it. Scientists In New Zealand are studying the possibility of producing pig iron on a large seal* thare by elsctricity as much ore and affiple water power are available. It Is estimated that the number of new dwelling house* required tn the United Kingdom to meet the demands within the next few years will be from $00,000 to 890,000. A heap of sausages on a steamer coming into San Francisco harbor looked so toothsome that a customs Inspector lifted one to admire it Altogether they contained $10,000 worth of opium. Solomon L, Baxter, jeweler, of Wellesley square, Boston, has mane a goldhandled penknife with two steel blades, which to'only three thirty-seconds of an inch long, and would pass through the eye of an ordinary »i»e darning needla. Believing that a little song before wbrk is a good thing, a dry goods company, of Bridgeport, Cofin., has ar, r ranged to have choral and community singing by its employes one-half hour before opening time every .Thursday and Monday. The entire crew of ers will be assembled on the main tit and, under the direction of ski leaders, pour out a song of cheer. A slx-weekK-old pig Was eent by parcel, poet from Bryantsville to Cotuit, Maes., by Mrs. Joseph Oowlar, who to the pig’s foster mother, having brought it up on a bottle since it was one day old. The little black arid white fellow has been a great pet, and wherever Mrs. Dowlar went It trotted behind her like a dog. She sent It to her brother, who I* an invalid, thinking the pig would amuse him and help him pass the time away. Born together, like the Siamese twins, Mary and Margaret Gibb, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Gibb, of Holyoke. Mass., are regular attendants at the First Presbyterian, church. They were, born in Springfield, Mass., May 20, 1011 They are brought to the church in a large twin carriage, and when they are In the pew no one would know that they are joined together. Mr. and Mrs. Gibb have repeatedly refused offer* to exhibit the children, and have never been willing that a photograph of them should be published. The following President# served In war: General Washington, revolutionary; James Monroe, revolutionary; Andrew Jackson, revolutionary and 1112; Franklin Pierce, Mexican; William Henry Harrison, 1812; John Tyler, 1812; Zachary Taylor, 1812 and Mexican: Abraham Lincoln, Black Hawk; Andrew Johnson, civil war; General Grant, Mexican and civil war; Rutherford B. Hayes, civil war; James A. Garfield, civil war; Benjamin Harrison, civil war; William McKinley, civil war; Theodore Roosevelt, Spanish war, Macaulay’s premature death In 1180 left hto history of England uncompleted. Ill health interrupted the work as early as 1882. Volume IV of the earlier editions brought the work to the time of William III and ends with the peace of Ryswick in 1697. Aa expressed on the title page, It was the author’s original intention to extend the history "from the accession of King James II down to a time which to within the memory of men still living.” In M61 Lady Trevelyaa, sister of Lord Macaulay, edited thM chapters of hto unfinished history which he left at the time of his death. These were published as Volume V of the early editions, and contained also additional notes to the four previous

chapters.

As savers

Investors

management,

they have an interest in the prosperity of railroads and the rest of the country which some of the younger men lack or can not understand. They doubt that government control and "democratic operation" would bring "the Increased production resulting from harmonious relations between employes and their managers." seen In the rosy vision painted by the four heads of the

brotherhoods.

Harmonious relations between managed and manager employes might be more than a little difficult. In short, the more the plan Is considered, the more inharmonious relations between brotherhood and brotherhood It to likely to produce. Many members take exactly the same ground in regard to it that well-informed, thrifty men in other

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■■PHHinMPPHVPHHIi thinking with an enormous discount; forehanded. Is not their sense of secur- The large, conservative, saving and 4*y weakened by any prospect of the in- well-to-do members of the brotherhoods filtration of radical and revolutionary can t have much use for It They are

lasts too wise. They have too much at stake

radical and

ideas, of the sway of eager enthusla*

’ eager enthusiasts too wise. They have too much at sta th^r^ !° f 1

betpfen tnem ana me element mat re* ’r&iftroaas ana me cumin unity.

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