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Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13:5. It’s Capital and Labor, Now STRIKING shopmen say the Labor Board’s wage reduction will give them a wage which will not permit them a “decent American standard of living.” If to a railroad corporation is decreed a schedule of rates that will not give it the equivalent of a “decent American standard of living,” namely, a “fair return” upon its capital, what does it do? It goes to court and gets an injunction. The court immediately keeps it from being hurt temporarily and goes thoroughly into the matter of the fairness of the scale proposed. W 1 y did not the shop crafts go into court and get an injunction that would keep the reduced wage scale from being put into effect? There are several reasons, legal and otherwise, but the chief one is that no court will enjoin an employer from paying a wage so low as he chooses, and many fix it short-sightedly as low as will enable them to hire help. That’s the truth of the matter and that’s another fundamental trouble with our present industrial situation. A stockholder’s dividends will be protected, a bondholder’s interest will be protected, but a shopman will not be protected to the extent of being paid enough money to maintain a “decent American standard of living.” It is not the fault of the courts. It is the fault of a system of government which has not advanced to the point where the earnings of the humble toiler are as important as the earnings on the invested dollar. Babies and Padded Milk DAIRY interests are no doubt in favor of the Voigt anti-filled-milk bill, now before the Senate. But people interested in babies, and in the future of the race, are really the ones who feel strongly in the matter. It is only recently that we have learned that the mother animal puts into the food she gives her young something which the chemist has never isolated so as to know just what it is, and without which the young things can not grow. Some of them call this mysterious thing one thing and some another, but the popular name for it is “vitamine.” Dr. Babcock of "Wisconsin fed cows on feeds deficient in vitamines, so that they could not take them from the feeds and put them into .the cream. Cows so fed never had calves which could stand up—yet chemically the cows had a perfectly good ration. Mill: which has the cream removed is deficient in vitamines. When fil. ed again with good oils it tastes good, looks good, and is a good food—for grownups. But many people can not read labels on cans. How would they know that the filled milk is a food which will stunt their babies? Much milk is sold outside the cans. How can people be protected against that, if it is called milk, looks like milk, tastes like milk, and satisfies the grown-up’s appetite? Millions of people have no idea that there are such things as vitamines. These give their babies foods with vitamines because there is no spurious food for them on the market. Ought such a spurious food be allowed on the market? Should there fee any possibility permitted for the babies to be robbed of their natural food, by mistake or fraud? If we were all grown up, or even all able to read and provided with the proper knowledge, it would be different. This is not a farm bloc question, not a dairy question. It is a baby question.

Worthington Says Strike's End Depends on Quiet Return so Work

To the Editor of The Time* Viewing the existing railroad situation as one fraught with the gravest dangers, not only to the railroads and their employes, but to the peace and welfare of the entire Nation, I cannot refrain from expressing my feeling of amazement at the spirit of your editorial of Aug. 3, entitled “The President and the King.” I prefer to believe that the editorial is confident!*" isly conceived, and on that basis merely to point out errors in the statement of facts upon which, by its own terms, it is based. In so doing, I shall confine myself to one of several misstatements, the one which the writer of the editorial assumes. If I understand him, to be of the greatest importance. He says: "How about that priority thing and the concern that King Railroad has for its preservation? The fact is that at bottom the men struck because King Railroad was destroying the seniority rights which he now holds so sacred. The railroads entered upon a deliberate program of giving the.r car repair work to contractors in closing down the company repair shops. That meant lockout for the railroad shopmen. It meant that they not only lost their seniority rights, but their jobs as well.” Concerning this let me say: 1 — Far from being a major issue "contracting out” was a practice followed by only a very few railroads—not over sixteen or eighteen at most. 2 Whatever importance it may have had as an issue was removed when the railroads informed the railroad labor board of their abandonment of the practice, with, as I am informed, only two exceptions, and theee roads took exception to the power of the labor board under the Transportation Act to order discontinuance, and appealed to the courts to determine what those powers are. 3 The same employes who were working for the railroads worked for the contracting companies, and no jobs were lost as a result of contracting out. except such work as could be and should be dispensed with because of its purely wasteful character. To talk of "contracting out” as a major issue at this time is to utterly misunderstand proportions. It is not so regarded even by the union leaders themselves. When the President proposed terms of settlement he named three points to which both sids were to agree. The railroads dissented from the President's views on one point only, the

third, when he suggested that, “all employes now on strike be returned to work and to their former positions with seniority and other rights unimpaired.” Thus seniority became the major issue. The railroads now have at work, helping to keep the commerce of the United States moving, more than 200,000 shop-craft men, loyal employes and new employes whose seniority rights the strikers are asking the executives to barter away. Entirely aside from the moral question involved in such an undertaking, the executives have no power to barter away their men's rights. I call your attention to decision No. 299 of the United States railroad labor board, dated Oct. 29, 1921. This is the decision handed down after the threatened train service strike last fall was called off. The last paragraph of this decision reads as follows: “The board further points out for the consideration of employes interested that when such action does result In a strike, the organization so acting has forfeited its rights ind the rights of its members in and to the provisions and benefits of all contracts theretofore existing, and the employes so striking have voluntarily removed themselves from the classes entitled to appeal to this board for relief and protection.” It seems to me to follow from this that on July 1 of this year no carrier legally had any shop-craft employes, except those that remained in its service. As new men were taken on and accorded, under the resolution of the labor board of July 3, the benefits of "the outstanding wage and rule decision of the board,” they were entitled to have their names entered in the order of their employment Immediately under the names of the loyal employes who remained at work. The striking employes, under the terms of the board’s decision, ceased to be railroad employes, and this is the position which they themselves took In denying the board's jurisdiction. If this ba correct, this strike cannot be settled in ways which were ,jpossible prior to, the passage of the transportation acf and the establishment of the United States railroad labor board. The only way for the j employes to accept the jurisdiction of j the board is to accept it by going back and offering themselves fc. employment. So far as they are accepted, they necessarily would come on as new

HJOH PARTIES REVERT TO OLD LEADING ISSUES Republicans Choose Tariff for Campaign; Democrats Use Hard Times. OTHER QUESTIONS APPEAR Personality May Play Part With Johnson, Frazier and Reed. By ROBERT J. BENDER United Veins Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. —Prohibition and personalities promise to be the headliners on this fall's election stage. Bereft of outstanding issues, as off-year elections usually are. the po- : litical atmosphere so far this year has been singularly free of that sort of 1 ammunition employed by stumping spell binders to lift the listening voter out of his seat. Hence the dramatic possibilities in the two issues mentioned. Republicans are going to talk about : the tariff, farm credits and the arms ! conference. Democrats are going to ; talk about bard times, the defection of 1 influential Republican leaders and I newspapers from the party itself, and numerous alleged failures of the G. O. P. to make good. The outstanding contests this year, however, will be for senatorshlps in California, Missouri, Wisconsin, North ; Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio. New Jersey, i New York and Massachusetts. In all j of these, it is safe to say, the Repub- | lican tariff, farm credits and Repub. | lican defections in the East will play about as little as part as the question of Philippine independence. Johnson the Man The contest in California has its center and vortex in Hiram Johnson, the man. The fight in Wisconsin, similarly, is against LaFollette. the j man. The North Dakota contest will be decided very largely on the issue of the Non-Partisan League. Lynn J. Frazier, the Republican nominee, is perhaps the best known ‘‘leaguer” in the country today. Minnesota’s contest is of interest because it is be- j tween Senator Kellogg, close friend of | President Harding, and a woman, Mrs. j | Peter Oiesen, the Democratic nominee. : Ohio's election will hinge largely on ; whether the home State of the Prcsl-. | dent wishes to Indorse him by defeat-i ing Senator Pomcrene, Democrat. ’J he ; ! principal issue in Massachusetts will j ibe Senator Lodge. All these contests I will be primarily personality contest!. Contests in Missouri. New Jersey, and, to a lesser degree. New York, will center almost exclusively or th • wet and dry question. In Missouri. Senator Reed. Democrat, and i-.nowt as a strong ‘‘liberal’' on the pr-nibi tion question, will be opposed by R N. Brewster, a bone-dry Republican In New Jersey, Senator Frelinghuysen. who happens to be the only Republican candidate thus far per**| sonally indorsed by the President, is a “dry." He will probably be renominated and will run against Cover- | nor Edwards, who will be the I>mo 1 cratic senatorial nominee, a "wringing wet." The prohibition issue will decide this contest—probably in favor of Edwards. Indiana Enters Fray While these two contests around the prohibition issue stand out. there will i be a general outbreak of the issue in both congressional and senatorial contests in Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland, according to re- | ports to party headquarters here and from the field agents of both the Anti- j Saloon League and the association against prohibition. Excluding Arkansas, a complete official tabulation reveals that 256 congressional nominations have now been made —over half the total. Os these, 200 were renominations, of which 182 are known as ‘’drys,‘‘ 38 are known as wets, and of the remaining 36 a majority are more dry than wet. ‘‘Prohis’’ Well Organized Because of the drive of anti-prohi-bitionists, there is concern in both the major party organizations that the issue may become embarrassing before election day rolls around. Both parties. so far as theif national headquarters are concerned, will keep hands off the issue. The Anti-Saloon League, meantime, is preparing for a bitter fight against all wet candidates. Organizations are established in every congressional district in the country. BOOKS FOR CHESS PLAYERS Indianapolis Public Library Circular tion Department, St. Clair Square. (Free Book Service) "The Art of Chess," by James Mason. "Chess Fundamentals,” by Jose R. Capablanca. "Chess Openings,” by E. Freebo rough. “The Major Tactics of Chess,” by F. K. Young. "Chess Tales,” by Willard Fiske. employes, subject to the rights retained by the loyal employes who remained at work and the rights attained by the new men employed since the strike began. When any such striker does return, if he thinks he is lawfully entitled to his former seniority rights, nobody could keep him from bringing that question before the labor board. But the labor board would have to reverse every fundamental rilling it has made on seniority in order to give him anything but what tht manage- j ments stand ready to give him. Were the railroads to attempt to barter away the rights of their men at work, another strike, by these faithful employes and new employes, might easily be the result. The most important question to be answered by the outcome of this strike is this: “Shall industrial disputes affecting the railroads be settled by orderly process as contemplated hv Congress when it passed the transportation act, 1 or shall they be settled by force or threats of force?” There is a way to settle this strike immediately and with full justice to the public, the men and the railroads. Let it be settled by orderly process in* the manner outlined above. B. A. WORTHINGTON.

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Anniversary of Lincoln-Douglas Debate Beckons Thousands to Freeport, Illinois

By NEA Service FREEPORT, 111., Aug. 11.—Some 60,000 visitors are expected to come luxuriously autoing and train-travel-ing into Freeport Aug. 27. The occasion is the celebration of the fact, sixty-four years ago, some 20,000 visitors came riding here in carts, wagons, carriages, and many afoot, expecting to see the popular orator, Stephen A. Douglas, the “Little Giant,” ignomiously crush in debate a long, ugly backwoodsman by the name of Abraham Lincoln. This debate, held Aug. 27, 1858, eventually put Lincoln in the White House and changed the destiny of a Nation. The celebration this year will last all day, with parades, fireworks, community singing and other similar features. But it is expected to have a deeper significance, also. For the committee in charge has arranged for speeches by a Democrat, Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi, and by a Republican, Karl C. Schuyler of Denver, Co'o., former speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, on the subject, “Application of the principles of the Lincoln-Douglas debate to problems today.” Slogans which will be used in the political battle for control of Congress next fall will be sounded by the orators, it is predicted. The Quest on The prize for which Lincoln and Douglas debated in Freeport was ostensibly a United States senatorship. But Lincoln looked further ahead into the future, when the presidency would be the prize. Already there was talk of armed conflict between the North and South, and slavery had become a paramount issue. Lincoln interpreted these things more clearly than did his famous opponent. In Lincoln's brain, and also (if history is true) on a paper stuffed in the crown of his battered stovepipe hat. nas a question. His advisers warned him that to ask it meant defeat —perhaps political annihilation. But the gawky country lawyer did not waver. "Can the people of a United States territory, in a lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from let. limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?" he asked in a tone which carried to the outermost limits of the throng from the platform where he stood. Douglas’ reply that it could, because "slavery cannot exist unless sup ported by local police regulations.” won Douglas the senatorship—and cost him the presidency two year* later. Split Democrats The question proved a wedge which split the Democratic party in two. and put Lincoln into the White Hiuss in the resultant bitter three-cornered fight. The site of the debate is marked by a huge boulder, dedicated by Theodore Roosevelt in 1303. On it is a plate with the following inscription: Within this block was held the second joint debate in the senatorial contest between ABRAHAM LINCOLN and Stephen A. 'Douglas Aug. 27, 1858 “I am not for the dissolution of the Union under any circumstances." —Douglas. "This Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” —Lincoln. Dedicated by President Roosevelt in 1303. IT’S THE LIFE By BERTON BRALEY. WH3N you're In lore with some one And she* in lore with you. The world Si fair, and everywhere The skies seem bright and blue: And on this humdrum planet. With lightsome feet you tread. And undismayed and unafraid. You taco what lies ahead. THK cynic folk may mock you. With jeers both loud and long. But you don t mind their thoughts unkind. You know that they ate wrong I You knov that life is golden If you will see it so. You know there's bliss in every kiss— And that s a lot to know. XTOUR eyes are full of glamor, Y Your pulses are astir -A And ai! that s worth the whUe on earth Is just wrapped up in Her; You know there is a Heaven. You knov/ that dreams comes true. When you're in love with someone And she's in love with you. (Copyrijtit, 1022, NBA Service)

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THE STONE MARKING THE SHOT WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN OUTWITTED STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS IN THE GREAT FREEPORT DEBATE IS SHOWN IN THE CENTER. UPPER LEFT—LINCOLN: UPPER RIGHT—DOUGLAS. BELOW ARE TWO ORATORS WHO WILL SPEAK AT THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: LEFT—BYRON PATTON HARRISON, U. S. SENATOR FROM MISSISSIPPI; RIGHT—KARL C- SCHUYLER, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE COLORADO HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES.

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EUROPE MISUSES THEE FOIBLES. wmmsEUTS American Abroad Is Obliged to Take Wines With Despite Averseness. THINK WE ARE PRODIGALS We Do—But Foreigner Knows Better; Even the Russians Out-Spent Us. By EDNA FERBER Noted Short Story Writer; Author •/ “The Girls." (Copyright, 19SS, by United Press.) PARIS, Aug. 11.—Of all the bitter souls in Europe today—and Europe’s bilious with bitterness —the most envenomed, surely, is that impressive gentleman with the ball and chain worn around his neck, who, once you’ve given your dinner order, approaches your restaurant tabie and thrusts under your nose for your perusal a large octavo volume entitled "Wines.”. There is reason for his resentment. This book-bearing gentleman knows. He knows that you are an American. He knows Americans are not a winedrinking people. He knows that it is the American who is doing all the European traveling this year. His face is a citrous th.ng as he hears you say: "Listen, folks, what do you want to drink, h’ro?” Maybe We Forgot We Americans do not know how to drink wine. It doesn’t mix with our habits, temeprament, or way of living. To be a natural-bom wine drinker, you must have the Latin temperament, the habit of leisure, and the after dinner nap custom. When the United States begins to shut up shop between noon and 2 p m. it will have become a Nation of wine drinkers. The chances appear remote. While we rather pride ourselves on being spenders. Europe knows better. Europe knows that the' spenders of the world —the Russians, the Austrians, the Hungarians, the wealthy Germans—are paupers today. Os these, the Russians used to be the most prodigal. Even at the great cures and springs such as Karlsbad, Vichy, or Baden-Baden, where alcoholic drinks were forbidden him, the Russian spender used to order champagne though he didn’t intend to drink it. He was just used to having it sitting around, like the salt. Tipping Has Ceased The waiter, the head waiter, the cab driver, the lift man, the chauiberma.d, the friseur, the wine man, will all tell you that the grand old days of stagger.ng tips are over. W.th this knowledge rankling In their minds, they punish the waterdrinking Washingtonian. Now it Is one thing to want a drink and not to be allowed to buy it. It is another thing not to want a drink and be obl.ged to buy it. Os the two it is hard to decide which is the more unpleasant.