The Lamar register., 1917-12-12

coal on hand, enough for over two
years of steady heating. This is a
war hospital On the same day the
Potomac Electric Power Company,
which supplies current for the Dis
trict of Columbia and Arlington, had
a supply estimated to last four days.
Let the power company run out of
coal and the deliberations of our dem
ocratic cabinet would be literally as
well as fgurativcly in the dark. Here
is one among many examples of un-
equitable distribution. Some time ago
Mr.. Garfield published an order cut
ting down the hours for keeping cleo
tric advertising signs burning. This
was said to be a fucl-saving measure
and it was commendablc. A day or
so after the order was published the
Washington Post published in box
head a copy Of a huge electric sign
maintained by the Fuel Administra-
ton. exhorting the country to save
fuel. That was bad example. If
our conservation commissions will lead
the way with a little common sense,
the public will do its best to emulate
them. If it is flattery they arc after
they will find in imitation its sincerest
sort.
Whose Rapacity?
The advances which have been grant
ed by the President to the bituminous
coal OPERATOR is explained as neces-
sary to meet the higher wages which
the miners have demanded and rcceiv-
ed. Yet we have been hearing much
about the "rapacity" Of the men who
own the coal mines and nothing atnll
about the "rapacity' of the men who
work in them. How large a proper
ton of the higher prices which are
r,,1uired for everything may be traced
to the increase in wages is hard to
Determine, yet it seems entirely clear
thlu the one group who have profited
by the necessitous times Of the ma
tion7s participation in war have not
been the former predatory plutocrats
but the organized bands who have
been able to lay the hand of stran-
gulation upon the country's industries
by the menace of strike.
Presidential Sustentation
1t will be no surprise to learn from
Washington that the administration
intends to back Trade Commissioner
Davies as 4 candidate for Senator
Husting's seat from Wisconsin. Da-
vies is an administration favorite. He
was one Of the numerous original VIII
son men, was an officer Of the cam
paign Of 1912, and has been well car
ed for ever since. His election,
though democrat, will be urged upon
a republican state as a matter Of pat
riotism and in order that the Prcsi-
Gcnt may be sustained. Can it be
that the President is disdainful Of the
kind Of support that republicans in
Congress have been giving him?
Won't BE Any Core
The kaiser, the Austrian emperor
king, Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and
Envcr Pasha recently gathered at a
point on the Isoazo front to discuss
topics connected with the war, the
principal subject considered being Aus
tria's share in the Gpoils. There is an
old saying, where the carcass is
there are the vultures gathered to-
psther." In this case, though, there
was no corpse for them to fall upon.
Rallied along the Piave ard rcinforc-
cd by their allies, the Italian armies
were beating back the combined rs
saults Of the Tcuto.ic forces at the
moment when this precious quartette
,rere assembling. When the spoils Of
the war arc finally distributed Ger
m. any, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey
will figure in the proceedings; but
none of them will do the carving.
Prosperity Julep
.lorosperity is rampant in the
Sout h. says a statement issued by an
orga nization seeking to attract immi-
grants to that section Of the country.
aOf the rs new United States army
camps, the SO established in the
South are adding untold millions to
prosperity. These camps
benefit everybody-the men who build
the cantonments, farmers, truckers,
and provision dealers who supply the