Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 268, 25 August 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUG. 25, 1919.

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The High Cost of Strikes The Chicago Tribune believes the lack of cooperative effort between labor and capital and a general failure to appreciate moral values account for the prevalence of strikes in all parts of our country. The cost of a suspension of productive agencies, no matter what the cause, is to be felt, the Tribune believes, in an increase in living expenses. Or, in other words, every time a plant is idle, no matter who brought about the suspension, production ceases and the scarcity of commodities is increased. And the scarcer commodities become, the higher goes their price. Almost every person who has made an investigation of the high cost of living cites the interruption of production as one cause, and suggests as a remedy increased production. The unanimity of opinion on this point should convince the most doubting Thomas that there is virtue in its logic. Every time a strike halts production, the out-' put of goods is appreciably diminished. In an era when great production is absolutely necessary to restore goods consumed by war and to offset the inability of forty million men, under arms for five years, to produce, every cessation of industry aggravates an acute situation. The reasoning of the Tribune follows : Strikes and rumors of strikes have become so much a part of our daily routine that more than half the time the average citizen doesn't even trouble himself to find what they are all about. In a great many of these cases he probably couldn't find out if he tried ; even trained investigators have been baffled in an effort to discover the real grievances. Some men strike for higher wages, some for better working conditions, and some, it would seem, for the pleasure of striking. We speak of the present period as one of fermnf n nns in wrnrh orpflt. nsvphnlnonral fnrr.ps

unloosed by the war are operating. Our grand-1 J 11 I J 1 VI 1 3 -1- I

lainers wouia proDaDiy nave scorneu such explanations as mere euphemisms.' They would suggest, we think, a searching of hearts to discover whether our trouble after all is not simply a general yielding to the old temptations of idleness and luxury ; whether as a matter of fact we are not suffering from a disinclination to perform faithful work, to attend to duty and to live simply and frugally. These questions imply a moral point of view, but we are of the opinion that they could be profitably considered from the standpoint solely of our material welfare. The tendency to strike on the least provocation, the tendency to skimp work and curtail production, the tendency toward extravagant living all of these clearly operate to undermine our material prosperity. They operate primarily to increase the cost of living. It cannot be repeated too often that the world is desperately in need of production.

Industrial Europe is disorganized not only by strikes, but by various wars and conflicts for political power. We in America are not so badly off, but we too are suffering from widespread industrial disorganization caused chiefly by strikes. Now it is obvious that the greater number of strikes the greater will be the falling off in productive output and the higher prices will rise. No one in his senses would deny labor the privilege of seeking to better its condition, but, as one writer puts it, the present efforts in this direction suggest nothing so much as an attempt to lift oneself by one's bootstraps. Employers cannot altogether escape the blame for the prevalence of strikes; they have an obligation to pay their workmen a living wage, and if they do not do so we cannot complain if labor resorts to its most effective weapon. The point is that there is too little realiza

tion of the need for co-operative effort and too little appreciation of the economic dangers of curtailed production. We now talk of the high cost of living, but we shall be foolish if we underrate the high cost of strikes. "Compel" is a Hard Word Samuel Gompers, quoted in a United Press dispatch from Paris in an interview on the railroad situation, surprises us with a hard word. Mr. Gompers has grown greatly in public esteem on account of his form and patriotic stand for justice and fair play during the war. All the more reason for astonishment when he says: "American railway workers intend not only to COMPEL the government to take over the railways but will demand, as the next logical step, that labor shall be granted a permanent equal voice in railway administration." Now, we all know that the railroads will never again be handled in exactly the same way as they were before the war. We know that they must and will be run to give the greatest good to the greatest number. We do not know yet what plan or system of management will prove most workable. Most of us feel that the interests of a'hundred million people are of greater importance than the interests of either railroad owners or workers. For either of these two groups to endeavor to secure some permanent advantage at the cost of permanent disadvantage to the body of the nation would be wrong and unfair. One thing seems certain: railroad operation, in future will never yield large profits. Indeed, it appears that it will require a desperate struggle

to make ends meet. A loose system of operation would mean rising costs, with resulting deficits to be met either by increasing freight rates and passenger fares, or by heavy taxation. Government ownership and operation, if bedeviled by political meddling and muddling, would likely prove expensive and disappointing. Mr. Gompers, Mr. Stone, Mr. Garretson, and all the men under them are perfectly free to use all their powers of persuasion and enlightenment in seeking to show the rest of us the merits of their plan. The rest of us ought to consider their proposal fairly and with open minds. But, gentlemen, please do not say that you are going to compel congress to do your bidding. Teach us first so that we may tell our congressmen what we wish them to do. Naming the War What name shall we give in history to the war from whose horrors we still suffer? Some have called it the European War, some the Great War, some the War of 1914. Someone

has suggested the War of German Aggression.!

That is an excellent proposal, because it covers the ground so fully and puts the blame right where it belongs. But who, in ordinary writing or conversation, is likely to take the time to use four words if he can find two that will answer? An interesting feature of the important meeting in the White House the other day, when president and senators discussed the meanings of the peace treaty, was the use, several times, of a common term. All hands referred to the con

flict as the German War. Can we improve upon that? The Germans started it, and the chief result was the suppression of Germany. The expression is short and adequate. Why not call it the German War, and let it go at that?

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

KINGSLEY The i'j116 ,n wlch Charles King-sley lived and wrote was akin to our own. The rising- of the oppressed workers and the social ferment in England following the revolution of 1848 in France were in a small way similar to the Impetus toward freedom stirred by the Russian revolution throughout the world.

Kingrsley's vigorous yet sympathetic personality, his flashing scorn tor hypocrisy and his fearless love of justice made him a natural champion of the oppressed. "Alton Locke" and "Yeast" both appeared the year after the revolution. The first is an exposition of the sweating system in which London low life and workingclass thought are pictured with extraordinary vividness and understanding. "Yeast," written in burning indignation at the condition of the agricultural laborer in England, has a "depth and passion and power, a life, an intensity, the tenth part of which would make the fortune of a novel now." Ktngsley was a tireless worker for practical reform, but the great lesson he tried to convey was that "the future welfare of society demands a new outburst of the latent forces of Christ's religion." It was not amazing, therefore, that he should have turned from English settings and subjects, in which he was so passionately Interested, to a study of the fifth century. The empire at that period was enslaving the masses; a universal fermentation of human thought was in process. Tho Young Church and the Old World were at grips in a death struggle. He wished to prove in a novel of that enoch that "Christianity is the onlv

really democratic creed," so he wrote the brilliant and tragic "Hypatla.". The richness of Kingsley's personality Is realized as one turns frpm "Hypatia" to the Incomparable "Water Babies," whimsical, charming, eternally delightful to big and little children.

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HYPATIA BY CHARLES KINGSLEY Condensation by Professor William Fenwick Harris

Philafnmon could bear no more. Another moment and he had hurled down through the dense mass of spectators, clearing rank after rank of seats by the sheer strength of madness, leaped tho balustrade into the orchestra below, and rushed across the space to the foot of the platform. "Pelagia! Sister! My sister! Have mercy on me! on yourself! I will hide you! save you! and we -will flee to-

and mind was surging most violently the struggle and conflict which is the keynote o the book. Should the traditions of Jewry, the lure of Greek philosophy, the charm of a pleasant 11 tumultuous world, or the power of Christianity conquer in him? In his apparently easy going way through existence, fie was measuring what every phase of that seething cauldron

; had to offer as a solution for the

gether out of this infernal place! this i problems which a human soul has to

world of devils! I am your brother!

Come!" She looked at him one moment with wide, wild eyes, the truth flashed on her "Brother! " And she sprang from the platform into his arms. A vision of a lofty window in Athens,

looking out over far olive yards and

ponder for its own salvation. It took

him long to decide, and it was only by the ministrations of Augustine and Synesius and the living example of Victoria that he finally found in Christianity the truly democratic creed by which the world could best live. Struggle and strife of soul or body Philammon's yearning to see more of the world than the monastery in the

gardens, and the bright roofs and! desert; his enthrallment by the charm

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

REASON FOR FOND GRATITUDE Memphis Tribune. The defense of "Hard Boiled" Smith seems to be that the great majority of men who passed through his camp escaped with their lives.

WORRY NO. 1 New York Telegraph. I know a housewife who says she would be more concerned over the fuel problem is she was quite sure she'd have anything to cook when winter comes.

The Family Man

basins of the Piraeus, and the broad blue sea, with the purple peaks of

Aegina beyond all and a dark-eyed boy, with his arm around her neck, pointed laughing to the twinkling masts in the far harbor, and called her sister The dead soul woke her; and with a wild cry she recoiled from him in an agony of shame, and covering her face with bojji her hands, sank down among the blood-stained sands. A yell, as of all hell broke loose, rang along that vast circle. "Down with him! Away with him Crucify the slave! Give the barbarian to the beasts! To the beasts with him, noble Prefect!" The pleasure-loving people of Alexandria did not take kindly to the youth who so rudely interrupted the delici

ous spectacle which their prefect had staged for them, "Aphrodite Rising From the Sea.' It was Alexandria in the fifth century of our era. The city founded by a king who dreamed not in empires but in continents, placed at the strategic point where it would command three of those great units, but achieved a pre-eminence in beauty, in vice, in learning, in turbulence, in the cosmopolitan character of its people. The three continents which Alexander would unite into one had poured into his city their best and their worst, and each strove desperately for supremacy. Many a man in those days must have thought that East is East and West is West. And never the twain shall wed, though meet they did in ways as tempestuous as the most violent of matrimony. The empire, nominally Chris-

of Hynatia's beauty and her learning:

Cyril's struggles by militant means toward a spiritual end! Orestes' to win an empire; Pelagia's to win love, Raphael to find the truth; the conflict between old thought and neW; and as the climax, the conflict and the end in Hypatia's case: "Yes, on into the church itself! Into the cool, dim shadow, with its fretted pillars, and towering domes, and candles, and incense and blazing altar, and great pictures, looking from the walls athwart the gorgeous gloom. And right in front, above the altar, the colossal Christ watching unmoved from off the wall, his right hand raised to give a blessing or a curse? "On, up the nave, fresh shreds of her dress strewing the holy pavement, up the chancel steps themselves up to the altar right underneath the

gieat, still Christ; and there even those hell-hounds paused. "She shook herself free from her tormentors, and springing back, rose lor one moment to her full height, naked, snow-white against the dusky mass around, shame and indignation in those wide, clear eyes, but not a stain of fear. With one hand she clasped her golden locks around her; the other long, white arm was stretched upward toward the great still Christ, appealing and who dare say, in vain? from man to god. Her lips were opened to speak; but the words that should have come from them reached God's ears alone; for in an instant they struck her down, the dark mass closed over her again and then wail on wail ear-piercing, rang along the vaulted

roofs, and thrilled like the trumpet of

tian in the persons of the rulers since avenging angels through Philammon's

the unsuccessful attempt of Julian to ears."

I urn back the hands of time to the faith of paganism, found itself in constant clashes with the growing power of the church; Orestes, the imperial Drefect. and Cvril. the militant bishop.

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Constantinople, each complaining at

the other's usurpations; the army of legionaries and the vast throngs of monks each entertained a considerable respect for the fighting qualities of the other. The Jews were in great numbers and were not in the happiest position between church and empire; while the descendants of Alexander's Macedonians and Greeks from al quarters of ihe eastern Mediterranean, could not

masters of Egypt. Constant conflict j Jenkins lived in a flat and the man in the streets between the partisaus below was learning to play a tromof each side laid a fitting scene for, bone.

Dinner Stories

From the Muncle Press. HERE'S to the family man, the kind-faced, happy and chirruping family man! He's the fellow that holds up the world and keeps it from streaking off into space after false planets and giddy planetesses. He is not only the salt of the earth, but the pepper and vinegar and horseradish and mustard. Without him there would be no churches, no schools, no lodges, no heated political discussions, no children, no newspapers, no anything worth mentioning. You may see him, if you wish to see him, any evening now, out sprinkling the front lawn or the street or the garden, or, maybe he will be trimming the rose bushes or pottering around the little old flivver with a sponge and rag. and sometimes, if he's feeling very rakish, he'll have an old pipe in liis mouth and a battered old straw hat on his head and he'll be in his shirt rleeves. And lots of times he wears glasses, too. T.he really good family man of sorts, has been kept busy all his life lookias for enough dollars to make both ends meet for the missus and the kids that he's Just naturally injured his sight, that's all. and he has to wear "specs" or not be able to see much of anything. But he beams through 'em. lor' bless you, like the beneficent old owl that he is, and his eyes with funny little wrinkles at the corners, laugh through these "specs" and make you laugh back at him aa you Inquire, "Heard anything 'bout when the boy's going to get back from France?" And then maybe the family man's face will sober

a little, but not for long as he tell3 you he hopes, if all goes well to have the boy back home with him again in a few short years when the lad gets through occupying Germany and sleeping in the former Kaiser's beds and things like that. And then the family man is off to tell you about his flowers and his garden. And his face glows with pride as he refers to his daughter just home from boarding school to spend her vacation, or maybe just going away to college. But always the children of the family man seem about to do something rather wonderful and he likes to tell about it, whatever it is. And he's not ashamed, the family man is not, If occasion require, to don a gingham apron and help with the dishes nor sweep, nor stay at home and care for the children while the tired wife and mother goes to a party or a movie or on a visit to her "folks" in a distant town. He's that way. He's never had the time nor the inclination to be selfish. He's been too busily occupied with seeing that his brood is kept comfortable and happy to get ahead much, as a rule. Almost never is he rich but pretty often he Is in what is known as "comfortable circumstances," which In these days means that he has his home paid for and is able to own a light, cheap, automobile of popular make which he uses for the purpose of taking the family long excursions into the country where there are many flowers and growing things and brooks and rivers and green meadows. And he always sems to have money enough to allow the folks to go to the movies.

Charles Kingsley's religious philoso

phic historical melodrama. Cyril, Bishop and later saint, is nominally the leader of the battling churchmen of the tale; the great Augustine and the philosophic churchmen of the tale; the great Augustine and the philosophic Synesius, bishops both, are minor personages of the drama, with many other passing figures of the church, but the leading character from that side is the humble Phllammon, the young boy of the monastery in the desert, who makes his way in the simplicity of his zeal to brave the world, the flesh, and the devil, where so many other monks of fiction have found that interesting triad, keeping headquarters at Alexandria. The city was ruled by Orestes, so far as any prefect could rule that unduly cosmopolis, a worldly and elusive person, who, not satisfied with the troubles already at hand, would conspire to erect an empire of Africa out of the difficulties of Rome and Constantinople, and to crown as his empress Hypatia, idealist, mathematician, neo-Platonlst, leader and teacher of what remained of Greek philosophy as a living force. Under Hypatia's sway fell the young Philammon by reason of her beauty, her power of speech, and the Inherited appeal of philosophy to one whose ancestry was Athenian. An appeal of another sort came to him from Peligia, dancer and beauty, darling of the city in general and of Individuals in particular. To the charm of Hypatia yielded not only the worldly prefect and the simple monk, but the most interesting figure of the story, Raphael-Aben-Ezra, descended from the blood of Solomon, rich, lazy, and selfish to all appearance, but the personage in whose soul

He was surprised and a little flattered when Jenkins came down to borrow the instrument. He lent it willingly and told Jenkins he could have it any time he wanted it. . Jenkins took full advantage of the offer. He was always borrowing that trombone. "What do you borrow it for?" asked Jenkins wife. 'You can't play it." "I know," said Jenkins cheerfully. "Nor can that fellow down stairs while I've got it."

Holders of Railroad Securities Offer Substitute For Plumb Plan; Private Ownership Feature

Luther M. Walter (left) and S. Davles Warfleld.

Luther M. Walter, general counsel for the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, and S. Davles Warfleld, president of the same organ ization, have proposed a substitute for the Plumb plan of railroad ownership. They would have the interstate commerce commission make a rate which, would insure a return of 6 percent to the roads. Any surplus above this would be divided as follows: One-third to the road which earned it, a third to labor and the other third to a reserve fund managed by a corporation consisting of nine interstate commerce commissioners and eight railroad men who would be directors.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK GET YOURSELF ACROSS! Many of us spend too much time on non-essentials and refine ments. We pay too little attention to the big Ideas that hold the reins to the things that lead the details and take care of them. Get YOURSELF across! It's the YOU in you that is the all-Important thing. And It Is the expression of that "you" that makes all the difference in the world with every little thing In the world. Get yourself across. There Is a common phrase that is Interesting: "What's the BIG idea?" they say meaning what are you driving at, or what is there worth while about what you are trying to talk about or explain? In reality, it means that you are not getting your thoughts across and why don't you! Get yourself across. Many people never get themselves across because they not only under-rate themselves, but they under-BELIEVE in themselves. A man has to believe in himself before anyone else can. You cannot sell wares about which you know nothing and believe less. Get yourself across. Folks respect the chap who has the daring to put his best into everything for that is what puts him across. And soon whole empires want his leadership. For the one capable of putting himself across, finds it fun to aid in putting others across. And that is really one of the things which gives to life its choicest zest, But do it honestly, enthusiastically, putting all the clean glory of which you are capable into the process.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

There are a few oldtimers who can remember back five or six years ago when $1.25 wheat made a sensation and $1 potatoes absolutely set the people to crying about high prices.

AGAIN THIS LANGUAGE OF OURS WANTED A first class second-hand man. Adv. in Elmira (N. Y.) Paper.

Dear Roy: Excuse my unpardonable ignorance, but in that Quiet Little Game at Paris who won the equator, and what guy has got to look after the temperature of the gulf stream or be kicked out of the club? In our frantic tussle with H. C. L. we are prone to forget some of the more important ideals for which we waded all the way across the pond. A. ALEXANDER THOMAS. OTHERWISE NOT John McCue, return home If alive. Your wife. Personal Col. New York paper. HOUSEWORK Green colored girl wishes position general housework. 115 E. 100th street. New York World.

A Montana private who was among the wounded soldiers arriving in New York the other day exhibited a Bible that had been given him by the W. C. T. U. of Ills home town. A German bullet had struck the Bible, which deflected the course of the bullet and saved the soldier's life. The private said that the funny thing was he hadn't believed in any church, but when he was asked if he believed in God, he answered fervently: "Oh, hell yes." The Bible will be his most prized possession all his life, although' the German bullet has spoiled it for reading purposes. "Do you believe that fighting is at an end?" asked Mr. Dolan. "Yes." replied Mr. Rafferty. "We're going to live peaceable hereafter." "Well, I don't want to spoil any pleasant sociability. But thre was two cr three little meetings I'd like to have had before they changed the rules." "Please, mum. there ain't no coal left In the cellar." "Why on earth didn't you tell me before?" "Because there was some then."

A prominent metropolitan hotel advertises that its new bridal suite is surrounded by glass. This seems like the limit of publicity for any bridal couple. GIVE HIM ROOM! A. B. GOFF, Constable for Putman County. Works in single or double harness anywhere. Works without weapings. A forty years service and

will go anywhere In the county for money. "Afraid of nothing or nobody." Card in a Kentucky Paper.

MODEL CATS FOR SALE Two highly bred cats. Niagara 6tret. At home evenings. Adv. in Buffalo News. Meat eaters are said to be more active than vegetarians. They have to be In order to get the price of the meat.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today

Dr. A. T. Kinnaman and Dr. Forbush addressed the teachers' institute at Chautauqua. Jacob Abel, a local War Veteran, while returning from the G. A. R: convention at Sal. Lake City, was in a serious train accident in Utah in which many persons were killed and injured. A. E. Taylor, assistant state geologist, arrived in the city to make Investigations of conditions in Wayne county. Barney Oldfield, racer, was in the city enroute to Findlay where he was entered In races. Harry Karns and Mabel Ford were married.

A MUNDSEN DRIFTS THROUGH FREEZING WATERS TO POLE (By Associated Press) SEATTLE, Aug. 25. Bound for the. North Pole, Roald Amundsen, Norwegian discoverer of the South Pole, is at present drifting in his ice locked schooner, the Maud, somewhere north, of western Siberia, according to beliefs held by the Seattle Norwegian vice-consulate and Vllhjalmuh Stefan-j

sson, Canadian Arctic explorer. In planning the trip, the explore? said he expected, after reaching tha; pole, to return eitheT to Grant Land' west of Greenland, or Melville Island; which lies in the Arctic Ocean north, of Canada. Should he reach Melvllla Island he probably would Journey by sea to Nome, Alaska or overland to) Dawson, Yukon Territory. Two airplanes It is believed, formed) a part of the Maud's equipment when she left Norway last fall and sailed through the White Sea bound for thai icy north. The final dash to the polemay be made in one of the planes., Amundsen, it is believed, may also lljrj rn"1- 'n civilization in one of thai machines. Aotiiicg has been heard frouu Amundsen since September 1, 1918. nearly one year ago. At that time tha Maud was reported taking oil for her motors at Dixson Island, a White Sea point. After taking the oil she sailed northeast into the rapidly freezing, waters of the Arctic Ocean. Would Sail Across Pole. At the New Siberian Islands, It was believed, the drift ould carry the boat toward, if not across, the pole, and Amundsen intended to use the airplanes If he found the drift would not carry him across the "top of the earth." Amundsen in a degree, followed the footsteps of his countryman, Fridtjof Nensen, in 1895-96. Nansen in the

! Fram started on a drift across tho

pole but left his boat and tried unsuccessfully to reach the goal on foot. Later the Fram drifted as close to the pole as Nensen got. The Maud carries wireless sending apparatus but no receiving instruments. Amundsen said he would not install the receiving apparatus because he did not want to be worried by news from the outside world. The Norwegian government this summer arranged to establish several food depots on Grant Land, from Cape Columbus to Robinson Channel, for the use of Amundsen in case he comes out by his eastern route.

AFTER OIL WILDCATTING.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. Investigations of approximately 60 complaints of the sale of "wildcat" oil stocks of the Texas oil fields have been started by the Federal Trade Commission. The commission announced today that it had sent two of Its Investigators Into the region with Instructions to make Inquiry into cases, complaints of which we,re lodged with the commission by concerns interested in v tho legitimate development of the field.