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Labor Efficiency Attention has been called by many leaders to a slump in production. It has been asserted generally and usually without a citation of figures that production has fallen off to such a marked

degree that our industrial welfare is not only hampered but also jeopardized. Few specific instances, however, hav been cited. The Kansas City Times mentions a few that may be typica A summary of its findings shows : Although there were 140,000 more employes of the railroads in December, 1918, than in December, 1917, the amount of freight handled fell off. The head of a large corporation offered figures to show that the product of his mills had decreased 40 per cent for each employe. A mill owned by Kansas City interests produced only 45,000 feet of lumber daily compared with 70,000 five years ago. The Chicago News adduces these examples: A factory producing overalls had been obliged to reduce the number of working hours weekly from forty-eight to forty-four and was unable to fill orders. Production had fallen off because each of 700 employes worked four hours less each week, a total of 2,800 working hours thus having been lost every six days. A company in the east that makes suits has had a similar experience because its tailors now work only five days a week. Steel companies report a large loss in tonnage production per man in the last five years. If these instances can be accepted at their face value, and other causes are not responsible for the decrease in production, it can readily be seen that there is little hope for a reduction of prices soon. If production falls off and consumption remains normal or increases, prices naturally will retain their present level or go still higher. Shorter hours with increased pay that result in a reduced production will help neither the public nor the worker. An increased production to lower prices is absolutely necessary. Thoughtful leaders of the labor movement have accepted this principle.

Railways Operated at Loss by English Government That England has not profited financially in the operation of railroads from the opening of the war to the end of 1918 is apparent when one considers an actual net loss of about $119,000,000. These figures corroborate returns from other countries where government ownership of railroads have proved a costly experiment. The loss, it must be remembered, will fall on the taxpayers. Or in other words, if government ownership proves a failure, the people must pay for it directly and indirectly. The men employed by the railroads do not escape paying their share

of the loss, but must cany it along with the ma

chinist, carpenter and business man.

A New York bank gives the following summary of government operation of railroads in England: "During what may be termed the war period of government railway control in the United Kingdom, lasting from August 5, 1914, to December 31, 1918, the average net annual operatingrevenue of the roads exceeded that of 1913, in spite of a slight deficit in the first part of the period, ending with December, 1919. The amount of the railways' net income in 1913 had been granted them as a yearly guarantee by the government at the outset of the war. These figures, which are shown in a recent statement presented to the British parliament, do not, however, in

clude extra wear and tear arising from additional j traffic carried, which is estimated at $200,000,000 and for which the government still remains liable to the companies. Aa a result of this liability, it is estimated that during the period considered, the government, although making an apparent profit of $81,000,000 from running the railways, actually sustained a net loss of some $119,000,000. "The year 1918 marked the end of a balance of revenue, a large deficit being unavoidable in the 1919 operation of the railways. This year's revenue is estimated at $725,000,000, the decrease from last year being due to a large falling off in government traffic. Expenditures are estimated at the unprecedented figure of $881,000,000, because of increased cost of labor and materials. The resulting deficit is $156,000,000. In addition to meeting this deficit, the public treasury must pay the railways their annual guaranteed revenue. As a result the charge on the public for government operation of the railways during the current year will be about $370,000,000." Advocates of government ownership of the roads seemingly overlook the facts that deficits in the operation can only be met by either in

creasing the rates or taxing the people. Past experience has proved that government ownership is a failure. We have no assurance that this will not be the fate of federal ownership in the United States.

Condensed Classics of Eamous Authors

Honoring General Pershing Congressional action to confer the title of general on John J. Pershing, commander of the expeditionary forces in Europe, will meet with approval all over the country. His task from the day he was selected to lead the American forces

until the armistice was signed was a heavy one. j He was sent to France to help win the war, and nothing that transpired swerved him from that one purpose. He has been bitterly criticised for many of his actions, but no great leader has escaped this fate. General Grant was accused of slaughtering men by the thousands, but history now says that was the best conservation of human lives in the long run. And so also with Pershing. His position in France was not an enviable one. Besides being forced, owing, to our long policy of unpreparedness, to train our forces, equip them, organize and lead them, he was forced to convince Foch that his men really were ready to fight in the crucial hour of the war. It took confidence of the highest kind in the stamina of American manhood and its fighting ability to appear before Foch and predict with assurance that our soldiers were the match of the seasoned veterans of Germany. It was a bold decision of Pershing, but he knew his men, and their response to the confidence of their commander is one of the bright chapters of the war. America has never been hasty in awarding high honors to its fighters on land and sea. Decorations must be won by brave exploits. Advancement to high position has never been given without cause. For that reason the titles of general and admiral have a high meaning'' in the American army and navy. Other nations have honored their military and naval leaders by signal distinctions. America

will not be bestowing an idle honor if the rank of general is accorded to Pershing.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

DICKENS No biographical sketch about Charles Dickens that neglects hla Interest in actinsr would be complete. He never saw a play that he did not envy one or the players., rndeed, he almost became an actor Instead of a novelist. Before he began reporting, he applied for & position at Covent uaruen, and only an illness, a very fortunate Illness, prevented his followingup this ambition. t. HL3J.,,ove1.for &matetr theatricals pave this passion full play. He played Boabdll, the braggart, so successfully in Ben Jonson's "Every Man n Humour that Leigh Hunt thought him superior to professional- actors, lbe drama pleased so many that it was repeated, under Dickens" direction, in the largest theaters In London, Manchester, Liverpool and other large cities. In appearance Dickens impressed his friends as being under rather than over the average height and weight. His eyes were the first of his reaturei 1, J? . w attent!n- They were bright and piercing, like tho eyes of birds m their darting animation. They gave to his face a quality of steelllKe hardness that Mrs. Carlyle and others noticed. Most Englishmen of his time preferred being correct to being themselves. They strove to look like everyone else. Dickens had 1n him little of this. He wore velvet coats and waistcoats that were, aa Chesterton remarks, "like Incredible sunsets." He liked, too, "large hats of an lent colors. If he exaggerated his Is." Ho wore dressing-gowns in viounnecessary and startling whitenesikes and dislikes, Jt was because ha felt them so strongly.

LITTLE DORRIT BY CHARLES DICKENS Condensation by Charles E. I Win gate

"Affery, what girl was that in my mother's room Just now?" "Oh, she? Little Dorrlt? She's nothing; she's a whim of her's." And thus Mrs. Fllntwlnch, wife of the crafty, crab-like walking footman of the household, Introduced to Arthur Clennam the name of the poor little seamstress of the paralytic Mrs. Clennam. He had noted her pale, transparent face, quick in expression though not beautiful In feature, excepting for Its soft hazel eyes. A delicately bent head, a tiny form, a shabby dress It must needs have been very shabby to look at all so, being so neat were Little Dorrlt as she sat at work. A strange presentiment came Into Arthur's mind that, in some way, this gentle maiden was connected with his history. For , twenty years young Clennam had lived in China with h!s father, only to return now, puzzled over a mysterious watch which that father, in the very last moments of his life, had

given to his son, murmuring faintly and indistinctly at the time "Your Mother." Naturally, Arthur had assumed that it was intended for Mrs. Clennan, whom he and the world supposed to be his mother. Inside the watch-casing was an old silk paper with the initials D N F worked into it in beads. It was a message but the vountr man could

not fathom it and the old woman would not enlighten him. Was Little Dorrit, to whom the stony Mrs. Clennam paid such strange, unusual kindness, connected with the mystery? They grew to see more of each other the girl and the young man and Arthur learned that the generous little Amy Dorrit was suporting not only her poor old father, who had been condemned to a debtor's prison, but also her pretty, frivolous sister, Fanny, and her wild, lazy brother, Tip. Under the then existing English laws they were all allowed to live with their father In that dreary prison. Little wonder that Clennan often spoke kindly to her an.d that he helped the family. But love had not yet come to him though It had to Little Dorrit. He heard the thrill in her voice, he saw the quickened bosom, and yet the remotest suspicion of the truth never dawned upon his mind. It must be added here that Little Dorrit had innocently wen the love of another man, the sentimental son of the prison turnkey, small of stature, with rather weak legs and very weak eyes, gentle but great of soul, poetical and faithful. If one were to doubt his devotion he need only read the inscription for his own tombstone, which the romantic youth had composed when Little Dorrit said "No" to him. It ran thus:

HOPE FOR MERCY Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Senate Judiciary Committee approves the making of wine and other beverages in the home for personal consumption. Grandma's elder-blossom cordial may not be branded as a wicked criminal after all.

: Here Lies-, the Mortal Remains of : JOHN CHIVERY : Never Anything Worth : Mentioning : Who Died of a Broken Heart : Requesting With His Last Breath : that the Word : AMY

: Might be Inscribed Over His : : Ashes : : Which Was Done by His Afflicted : : Parents. : But, at last, the tables turned for our little heroin. A quopr, kindhearted, rent collector, Pancks a panting little steam-tug of a man, with his puffing and his pauses had

j learned to value the friendship of this

money to help him overcome his distress. And then, as be refused the money, he realized, for the first time, that she loved him and that he, too, loved her. A feeling of peace comes over his mind. The clouds begin to break. And strange to say. It is a rascally adventurer, Rigaud, a murderous Jailbird, with drooping a nose and ascending mustache, who opens the rift still further for the sunshine. He has discovered Mrs. Clennam's secret, having stolen the strong-box that Flintwinch had smuggled Into Holland and In which lay a page of the will of Arthur's uncle, a page which Mrs. Clennam had concealed for years. Rigaud visits the strange old lady. Leaning over the sofa, poised on two legs of his chair and his left elbow, coarse, insolent, rapacious, cruel, he reveals to her his knowledge. Then, torn by the explosion of her

passion, the old lady vehemently tells her own storyShe had learned, after Mr. Clennam's mariage to her ( a marriage commanded by his overbearing uncle) that her husband had loved and gone through a sort of ceremony with a beautiful young singer whom Frederick Dorrit, a kind-hearted musician (the uncle of Little Dorrit), was befriending and giving an education. She had obtained the first clue from those Initials in her husband's watch, which she found years ago, signifying Do Not Forget.' She accused both

her husband and the woman who put the initials there. "I said to her," declared Mrs. Clennam, "you have a child; I have none. You love that child. Give him to me and swear never again to see his father. Then I will support you and not expose your shame. And I will reclaim the otherwise lost boy.'." Thus it had been that Arthur came into the Clennam home. At this point in her narrative Rigaud contemptuously interrupted. "Come straight to the stolen money." he comanded. "Wretch I" she responded. "Know then that I supresed a part of the will ef my husband's uncle" the part In which that uncle had revealed the maternity of Arthur and had left, as a repentant compensation, a legacy to Arthur's mother and to the neice of the man who had befriended her "but I found that niece of Frederick Dorrit and what I did for her was better for her than the money."

Instantly Rigaud, seeking to black

mail the old lady, declared he had deposited with the niece, Little Amy Dorrit, then at the prison with Arthur.

a packet containing the suppressed section of the will with instructions to open it at a certain hour unless reclaimed by him. What would Mrs. Clennam pay him to reclaim It? To the astonishment of all, the paralytic old woman rises to her feet and rushes from the house to the prison; seeks Little Dorrit; calls for the packet, and then bids Amy read it. at the same time begging her to forgive the past. "I forgive you freely," cries the generous girl. "God bless you!" waa the fervent and broken response. And then came the good news that Arthur's firm had re-established itself and that he would be able now to leave the debtor's prison. ! So they were married but not be- ! fore Little Dorrit had handed to Arthur a folded bit of legal paper

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

THE LEAD PENCIC I feel lost without a lead pencil In my pocket or on my desk or somewhere about me. And many an idea and many a plan would bay died still-born had I not had my lead pencil to warm it to Ufa and to action. My hat off to the inventor of the lead pencil! As I look at the half dozen lead pencils before me, I smile at them and thank them for keeping me company. The idea of this little talk was jotted down in my room by one of thfci. And I always carry another next my heart, so that when a good thought bubbles I may Instantly take its call. For my lead pencil is a sort of Inanimate secretary. When I read, I read with a lead pencil. I mark my books all up, as tho I walked gladly and impressively thru them. I like to think that my books like that. And then, every time my reading suggests an idea, I ask my pencil-aide to file it away forquick use. I like lead pencils! t is told of Lincoln that his great Gettysburg speech was written on the back of an envelope with a lead pencil. A man is always far from oblivion with a handy lead pencil near and a will sitting in council in his brain. Lead pencils are the little servants of work and progress. Their path is the way of history. And many an Immortal piece of art first budded at the point of a lead pencil. If you are an employer, be free with your lead pencils. Encourage their use. Show me the person who uses bi3 lead pencil handily and I will show you a thinker and a doer. One more thought In regard to the lead pencil keep it sharp I

Good E

BY ROY K. MOULTON

looa nveninp:

OLD DOCS AND NEW. Oh, what has become of the old-fashioned doc, Who carried a satchel containing a stock Of pills and squills To cure all our ills The old-fashioned party without any frills? He doctored our pains and our aches and our chills. And never was quick at collecting his bills. The old-fashioned doc wore a shiny

high hat. And a Prince Albert coat and white tie, and all that; And his old one-horse shay Traveled slowly all day. He wore flowing whiskers, or mutton chops gray Which offered a place for the microbes to stay: But the old-feshioned doo worried not about germs He and the bacill were on splendid terms. The new-fashioned doc, he's a dinger aU right: He's on the job always from morning to night. His face is shaven clean, He Is suave and serene,

And he dashes about in a high-power

ed machine. The new-fashioned doc Is a business man, too, He carries no bundle of bills past due He's up to the minute There's eood money in it.

When a new eerm appears, he is

promptly agin" it He will swat it and stab it and smash it and skin it The old-fashioned doc is no more in

the land; The new-fashioned doc gets the call3, understand? An economist says a dollar will not go far now, but at that it goes so far that it never gets back.

Dinner Stories j

- t Rebecca, age eight, was very proud of her father's rank as a first lieutenant, and grew quite indignant when a neighbor boy called him "captain." "I'll have you understand that my daddy is not a captain." she said, "he's a lieutenant" "Oh, it doesn't matter," replied the boy, "he's an officer." "Indeed he is not an officer," she protested. "Yes, dear, a lieutenant is an officer, Interrupted Rebecca's mother "Well," persisted Rebecca, still determined to maintain her daddy's dignity at all cost, "he is not much of an officer." What constitutes recreation depends, of course, on the point of view. Here is that of a certain small citizen in a school for dependent children. He wrote to his father thus: "We are having a good time here now. Mr. Jones broke his leg and can't work. We went on a picnic and it rained and we all got wet. Many children here are elck with mumps. Mr. Smith fell off of the wagon and broke his ribs, but he can work a little. The man who is digging the deep well whipped us boys with a buggy whip because we threw sand in his machine, and made black and blue marks on It. Harry cut his finger badly. JIVe are all very happy." "Sam, the officer says you were full of liquor," said the court. "No. sah," said Sam. "Sam," asked the Judge rravelv, "do you know what liquor Is?" "Oh, yes, sah, judge." answered Sam. "L'quah, yo' honoh, is somethin' what thar ain't none of."

motherless girl, and so. having acci- - VT TZ 1

New York World. Congress 13 emphatically opposed to daylight saving. But if it would save any kind of time by getting forward with the nation's business the American people would be immensely relieved.

Why Price Fixing Doesn't Work

From the Kansas City Star. ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER announces he is finding many cases of profiteering in food. More grease to his elbow. At a time like this, when the adjustment is going on from a law to a high price level, there are unusual opportunities for a greedy dealer to practice extortion. The customer is prepared for high prices and the temptation is always present to overchargo This condition, however, is temporary. In the long run competition will take care of extortionate profits. But in the meantime fair price committees through publicity, and action by the government, may help protect the consumer. The question naturally occurs why the government cannot resort to price fixing as a settled policy to the advantage of the people. The chief reason is that such an arrangement would interfere with what common experience has shown to bo after all the fairest and roost effective system to regulate prices the needs of the public as expressed in the law of supply and demand. Where there is an open market, as in the case of most things the public uses, the price is the device by which the supply is adjusted to the demand. For instance, if the price of wheat is artificially fixed above its normal market price, then the wheat area will be increased and the corn area diminished until the rising price of corn makes it as profitable to raise corn as wheat. The effect is to increase temporarily the supply of

the one commodity at the expense of the supply of the other commodity which may be just as necessary. To get more bread we sacrifice meat which depends on corn. We have substituted the Judgment of a few men for the Judgment of all the people, which In the long run Is what determines demand. When the prices of both wheat and corn are fixed by the market demand, then In the long run the relative supply of the two grains will adjust itself to the needs of the public, measured by the price the public is willing to pay. Suppose in the course of business the prices of shoes become abnormally high, due to a relative scarcity. Under the ordinary workings of the law of supply and demand, capital will be attracted into theinduBtry until the increased production brings down prices to a normal level. For if a man can get a larger profit making shoes than making hats, he will turn his resources to the shoe business rather than to the manufacture of hats. But if a price commission should Intervene and say, "Prices of shoes must come down, there would be no incentive to expand the shoe business. So the condition to be desired the increase in the number of shoes made would not come. There would continue to be a shortage of shoes and the fundamental trouble would continue. The attempt to fix prices on a large scale by government action would seriously interfere with the operation of the law of supply and demand. It would result in one-sided production and would do more harm than good. i

dentally discovered that her father estate had run down the clues until estate, had run down the clues util finally the great wen 1th was turned over to old Mr. Dorrit. Then away from the dreary prison hurried the entire family. Yet riches brought slight pleasure to Little Dorrlt. The much-changed father became ashamed of his debtor life, and with the richly dressed sister and the pambling brother, put on many airs. The father even employed a chappron, named Mrs. General, to teach Little Dorrit society manners. "Don't say ' Father,' " declared this

lady, "Papa is the preferable word; it; gives a pretty form to the lips. 'Fath-; er' is rather vulgar, my dear. You will find it serviceable in the formation of a demeanor, if you say to yourself, on entering a room filled with company,

'Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism.' " At this juncture the wealthy Mr. Merdle took an active part in the Dorrlts' lives. The chuckle-headed son of the Merdles fell in love with Fanny, and after their marriage Mr. Dorrit put all his wealth into Mr. Merdle's

schemes for had not this wonderful

"Is it a charm?" he asked, smilingly. "And does the charm want any words to be said?" he added, as he held the

paper over the flames. "You can say (if you don't mind) 'I love you!'" answered Little Dorrit. So he said it and the paper burned away. With It died the secret of Arthur's birth, never to be known to him; and with it also, Little Dorrit had voluntarily destroyed the evidence of her own Ipgacy. And they were married with the sun shining in on them through the painted figure of Our Savior on the window. Then they went quietly down into the roaring streets, inseparable and blessed; and, as they passed along In the sunshine and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain fretted, and chafed, and made their usual uproar. Coryrlght. 1913. by the Post Publishing Company (The Boston Post). Cojyrllit In the United Kingdom, the Dominions. Its Colonies and dependencies, under the copyright act, by the Post Publishing' Company, Boston, Mass., U. H. A. All rights reserved.

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HE DID SOMETHING. "Now I guess folks will know tnat old Captain Simon' has done something" he said and he lay down and

died. Grand Rapids Herald.

FAGE HARRY FEE. The traffic officer on the corner

really has a snap. He doesn't have

much to do. All he has to do all day and simultaneously is Dodge street cars. Dodge automobiles. Dodge motorcycles. Dodge the fire department. Dodge delivery wagons. Answer fool questions. Tell one person every three seconds where the postoffice Is. Keep train schedules in his head. Look for lost or stolen articles. Salute the sergeant. Jaw tho coal wagon drivers. Keep boneheads from being run over. Lift young kids out of the street. Help Indies with baby cabs. After he gets through with this he has nothing to do till tomorrow.

BEEBE WILL NOT BUILD ADDITION

S. J. Beebe, of the Beebe Glove Company, announced Tuesday that there would be no factory addition built to the present Richmond plant at Eighth and Washington streets. According to reports printed In Indianapolis papers. Beebe was having plans drawn by William Russ, an Indianapolis architect, " for a factory building. According to the specifications mentioned in the report, the building was to be fifty by one hundred and forty feet and to be built of reinforced con crete with a brick facing.

TRADE TO BE RESUMED.

PARIS, September 2. A decree announcing the resumption of commer clal relations with Germany was to be published Tuesday.

FAVORABLE REPORT ORDERED.

The shrub from which the French manufacture the perfume casie has been found abundantly in the Philippines.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. Favorable report without amendment today was ordered by the Senate Judiciary Committee upon the House bill providing for the incorporation of the American Legion.

Two hundred and fifty miles ot British war medal ribbon are to be Issued to those entitled to. these decorations.

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and others? By a strange fatality. Arthur, too, was led to invest his firm's money in the famous Mr. Merdle's schemes. And then the bubble broke. Merdlo committed suicide. Investigations showed that he had fleeced everybody. The Dorrits' money was gone. Ar-

"East Lynne," by Mrs. Henry Wood, will be printed tomorrow.

WILSON TO ATTEND DINNER.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 President Wilson accepted an invitation to attend a dinner to be eiven in his honor

thur's firm was ruined and Arthur next month by the Society of Arts and himself was thrown into prison the Sciences of New York. The date will same poor debtor's prison that had, be fixed later. The invitation was ex-

lor so long, Deen the home of Little tended by Dr. John S. Tucker, of New

Dorrit.

The days dragged wearily on. At last, Arthur, despondent and crushed, haggard from brooding, and stricken from fever, one day saw, as in a vision, kneeling before him the figure of dear Little Dorrit. She had hastened to, make happier the lot of the man who had helped her family in the same gloomy surroundings and whom she loved. She nursed him hi

York City, a member of the Board of Governors of the society.

BUERO IS CHOSEN

(By Associated 'Press) MONTEVIDEO, Sunday, August 31 Juan Antoifto Buero, minister of foreign affairs, has been chosen Uru

guayan representative at the interna

tional labor conference to be Jield in

bis sickness. Bhe offered him all "hei i Washington this autumn

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