Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-12-28

their broughams to the most aTistocrat-
ic churches and taking up residences
among the best people" OF course,
not a dollar of commission or graft
ever reached the fingers of the lament
ed Mckinley; not a penny of the pres
emf doubly large fund will ever reach
the incumbent of the White House;
but 1t will go somewhere In the United
States, as Mr.. Creel ~enjoins US to say.
Why not know where? defy this
or any other Congress to find out.
The food problem doesn'tappear any
nearer solution than before a costly
department was organized for its s'reg-
ulation." Nothing is cheaper! Prof
iteers are defying threats that, SO far,
appear to be bluff. The wheat crop
exceeds any previous year. Thousands
of bushels of grain of all kinds have
been removed from detained Dutch,
Norwegian and Swedish steamers, still
at anchor in this harbor; but flour is
as high as ever.
The %resounding tramp of a million
steers from the grazing lands of Texas
aud Wyoming toward Kansas City
and Chicago has not resulted in lower
ing the price of beef Hogs are utter
ing their final shrieks at the otock yards
when thrown alive into the scalding
| N ,ldrOp h1f hon, opd ha0nn nom
mand prohibitive prices. Sugar Is doled
out by the single pound only by oblig-
ing tradesmen.
So on to the end of the list of life's
essentials.
The labor situation is equally unsat-
isfactory. Never IA there a time in
this country when idleness was so ab-
solutely unnecessary. There is work
for every man aud woman at better
wages than formerly; but there are, not
apparently but actually, a million II
wou't-worksn outside the labor organ
izasions that prefer winter lodgings in
the poor houses of the nation 10 honest
toll
Each person has his or her individ-
ual quibble-except that none believe
wages too high.
Mr.. Garfield has failed to prevent
serious coal shortage in the populous
centers of the country. Many apart
ment houses in Greater New York are
today filled with shivering tenants,
aud conservation of gas for cooking
purposes threatens to drive some of US
to delicatessen fare-to live from hand
to mouth.
The oDe comfort people in Manhat-
tan derive from a shortage of coal is
partial obliteration of the costly and
wasteful electric signs along 1.-THE
Great White Way" The white light
district has become as offensive as the
old 'red-light" section of the Devery
and Van Wyak regime.
A special committee is to find out
why ships are not gliding into the
water more rapidly.
Nobody knows where most of our
Navy is at this hour. Let us hope
those splendid shil s, comparatively
few as we have of them, are still af1oat.
Millions upon mi lions of money are
10 hand to equip ships not yet born !
The Navy Department will stand a lot
of curiosity not to employ a more COM
%prehensive word. 1t is exceedingly
gratifying to learn that Secretary Dap
iels agrees with public sentiment in
this respect and WELCOMES the most
thorough investigation He takes a
natural, manly and commonsense view
of the matter.
1t is regrettable Mr.. Hoover is not
in the same frame of mind when Mr..
Spreckles asks him awkward ques-
lions.
"You're another !" is the sort of ex-
PLANTATION that belongs to the school
house yard.
Finally, it is an undeniable fact that
the American people are reaching a
condition of mind that goes beyond
curiosity" and will assuredly develop
into swami of confidence somewhere
AS Mr.. Creel might say. L desire
to conform to the censor's regulations
and therefore omit suggesting where
the mismanagement probably exists.
gressional special committees, by no
means confident that all of us will be
enlightened.
For once in the long history of Con-
gressional investigations, let these in
quiries get to the bottom OF conditions
and nnhlieh the truth. IL there are