The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-14

WASHINGTON, d. c., July IA
One of the most interesting personal
tiles the capital has seen of late-and
| it has lamped a batch of them-is "Tay
Pay" In the British Isles that nick
name would be quite sufficient to iden-
tify him, like "T. R." is in the good old
U. S. A. But this is not the jolly old
islands, you know, so let us hasten
salong and interpret "Tay Pay" to you
as the Rt. Hon. T. P. o'Connor, an
Irish leader in Englands parliament,
with as brilliant mind and as merry
brogue as you ever listened to. This
was pleasure had last night. and a
never.to-be.forgotten privilege. "Tay
Pay" is no. the kind Of an Irishman you
might think he is with your mind fresh
ly filled with the doings and carvings
on of the Sem Feiners. They, accord
ing to our distinguished guest, are as
wilddreamers as the 0rangemen are
crazy radical. We take it that "Tay
Pay" is a happy mean of the two;
that he is, compared to them, what the
bit.champing breed of our own politics
tag Uncle Joe Cannon-a stand.patter
(stand back, little boys, he'll bite you),
reactionary, stiff-backed, unsurren-
dering conservative. IAN Irish Repub-
lic," says "Tay Pay" will come into
existence only when lreland's armies
and navies can conquer the armies and
navies Of England" Which fine bit OF
irony shows that "Tay Pay" is not
looking for an Irish Republic anyways
soon. This sort of talk is not likely
to make him popular lion with the
Irish progeny in this country, who be-
lieve that Ireland is being bled white,
or green, by oppression from its gov
eminent. His is the moderate view Of
the Irish question. He thinks that that
view will eventually bring home rule
for Ireland, and he believes that the
Irishmen in America or his father who
came here after the forties would un-
derstand the real necessity for this
moderate view if he would go back to
Ireland and see how the country has
been reborn, how thousands Of the
farmers now own their own lands, and
how thousands Of them have become
prosperous. America once reused
pity the German rulers who under
estimate her determination" said
"Tay Pay" 81 pity the man within
her borders and under the control Of
her laws who centuries to oppose her
will" And this bit for the mothers
of the country: 81 heard of a promi-
nent Washington woman a few days
ago who complained to a high official
because she feared her butler would
be drafted. Had she been in England
she would not have complained If the
last Of her three sons had just been
called" To "Tay Pay" the Papa
Joftre salute; he's a good old scout!
congresswoman Rankin started an
investigation of labo. conditions at the
big engraving and printing plant.
where thousands Of women and girls
are employed, and won her case in ex.
actly forty-eight hours by the clock.
Congressman Jeanette said that mem
bers of her sex were being worked
twelve, thirteen and in some cases as
high as sixteen hours day; that the
hospital records would show that their
health was giving away under the
strain and that while a few Amazons
could stand up under the overtime and
were greedy for the extra pay, the rest
Of the women and girls couldn't, and
that when they were forced by wan
ing strength to refuse extra time, they
were Disseminated. against and per-
secuted by Director Ralph. OF course
Ralph denied all the serious charges.
He did acknowledge working exrta
time with extra pay, Of course, but
blamed this on the unprecedented de-
mands made by the war, such as get.
ting out the Liberty Loan bonds, etc.
An hours investigation by the three
OFFICIALS named by Secretary McAdoo
to probe the situation in that great
establishment was sufficient to show
that the overtime program held the
boards long before our neutrality was
DOTTED for the more grim attire Of
Mars. In AZ moye hours the inYestigas
tors had found out enough to close the
case before Director Ralph got both
.his OFFICIAL optics creped. They sad