South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-21
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JANUARY 81, 1913.
HARDY VIOLATION NOT GARFIELD's.

HARDY'S VACILATION NOT GARFIELD'S
Any -ttempt to hold Federal Fuel Administrators
responsible the vaclating orders that have
been issued locally by Administrator Hardy finally
smmerug back what the federal administrator di-
rected In the main Will hardly hold with thinking
people Hardy the blame for his vacila-
ton himself and is criterion by which to judge
the general working Garfield order. the re-
suits This is proven by kilograms from various cities
the country Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio, as eX-
amples. and also Chicago. Coal is being saved, and
moving. along with it there is relief in
freight congestion already being recognized as
worth all the inconvenience, caused by the general
order has cost II Mr. Hardy wished try do
than the order specifically contemplated and then
tempOrizng with every Tom, Dick and Harry, who
wished to complain, back in spots the do
ing Of less that is a local situation which belongs to
him and not TO Mr.. Garfield at all.
II is always easy TO find fault to criticize-the
easiest thing the world the critical moment or
with the hypercrtca regardless of that moment Ac-
cordingly have from ALI the country South
Bend no exception that'the whole present situation is
the fault OF the officials of the government-Seey Of
War Baker. the fuel administrator himself secy Nc
Adoo by innuendo Pres't Wson,-that they didn't
do something long ago. We wonder when they could
have done it, or what they could have done with a
congressional campaign approaching. that wouldn't
with the same hair-brained raery, and from
much the same 5ourees-politicaI propagandists and
their unsophistcaed dupes the latter easily attanabe
because hit somewhat in the purse.
Oh. no this latter isn't it! No never, The com
plant S due they tell it, the hardships that
the enforced holidays confer upon the poor working
man. II all the workingman and his inter
ests be loved ard regarded by cOnsderate
capitalism Garfield issued that conservation
order have been seen weep great drops of dew
the loss of time to their workingmen since this
order out; who never before regarded their
xorkingmen as very much anything better than
slaves. course the profit those mems labor had
nothing to do with these "ae,, drops" They we're
purely phiIanthropic. few orders and they
apparently would get loving their workinsmen so
hiatt would end in real kissing match.
But they say the order causes unrest among these
people. Ii needn't The order isn't causing half the
unrest both the hypercrtical and hypocritical
Of it causing Talk about universal mill
AIRY training as means of discpIining people IN
heir citizenship strange that these same mill
sarists in main. should be the people are
showing the slightest examples of discipline Sodierly
d-citzenlike, popular with the order
for that is what is-would render TOO un-
popular and unpleasant TO be seriously INDUCED in.
There is time enough i'm which make political or
even economic footballs Of after war
$ over Our presen, business is too win the war.
Would YOU have bit of concrete proof of the
iemagoguery that is playing politics with the order
Tor congressional effect? Take from local re-
publican organ If stereotyped and by the
republican being quite Identical
language and sentiment with that portion of the re-
publican press OF the country-whch is "copperhead
n its learnings We quote.
THE coal order is designed to relieve rail-
road congestion. Why are roads congested?
The answer discloses series of blunders.
They began with the political cry he kept us
out war Then last summer when experts
saw the troubles ahead and offered solutions
OF the coal problem Baker and Garfield multi
ned them The order applies only states
east OF the Mississippi because in those states
lie the eastern railroads which congested.
They are Congested because the administra-
foolishly placed the great bulk of
muniuon ard shipbuildrg plants in the
without counting the railroad facilities. Coal
which not mined last summer mined
this fall and winter AMI then forced
pete with steel and munitions for cars and
service eastern lines"
Megaphonic voice Of Sen. James Eli Watson echoins
back from Roanoke Va. significant attitude
Of every republican spelIbnder on his every oppor-
.unity heard The the Peabody coal solu-
lion nulihei by Secy Baker and Fuel Administra-
Tor Garfield was that il wasn't solution Conhrma-
notwithstanding. would have been confirmation of the
coal sraft with the railroad graft addenda
as anticipated increase OF freight 20 the
railroads the main. through interloeking director
ates. etc. the owners of the mines
The fault with the federal fuel administration is
the administrator didn't something long