South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-14

X the federal fuel administration will be a
lief TO the country. he IS another OF
those republican appointees the war service
made BY the president who has been yaredly sue
eessful in dong everything after to pro-
woke public complaint, and whether intentional or
TO. have Brought much the criticism upon the war
administration. II has been 81 the "thorns 80
the hcsh" OF the congressional smelling commit
fee. investigating the conduct Of the war, hat
wherever they have gone. much
that they have found has been with the work OF re-
publicans that the president trusted. AMI the
democrats, unkindy, havo not been averse 10 lei
ting be known.
Or. Garfield # is claimed. supported P-cet Will
for reelection IN 1915. though always before
that republican bull mooser-thc son Of for
mer Prest James A. Garfield However oven if ne
did support tho president in 1916 that he should
have fallen ba-s into the G. O. D. clutches is n 3.
hard 10 understand. when one considers the facili-
ties that the "od guard" has for whipping its un-
ruly children back into Uneven "A Roosevelt. and
I'd. Toner. We have seen Just lately how the lash
las been applied 10 e-Pr est Taft for his late sup
port OF Unamended and unreserved ratification
20 the Paris treaty and League Of Nations nc has
brought him pretty well to time and if wouldn't be
surprising TO learn that Dr. Garfeld's res Gna, on
eled simsy an excuse, would Prove soon 10
have been calculated the basis Of republican
Aualyze Or. GarheId's excuse for his resignation
and YOU viii find thai it was only an excuse rle
says the presidents proposition accepted by the
miners and operators repudiatcd his proposition.
Wei. the president seems 10 have submitted prop
osidor acceptable TO both. which was more nan
he fuel administrator was able TO do-but DR.
Garfield says he objects because of the possJilitv
of he increase in wages being passed along TO The
consumer. which his plan aid admit
Is that so? Let US see. The existing contract with
the miners to which the fuel administration vo"ld
have held them under the Lever act expires April
which time Or. GarfeIds authority over tho
situation would have ceased, at the larest lie pro
posed an increase or wages amounting to L per
cont. insisting that could be made without the no
cessity of increasing the price of coal That would
nave ont April I. no machinery WAS provided
by which meanwhile TO permanently settle the
strike.
Now as TO the presidents proposition The mon
are return tn 9 basic increase i'm wages
Of Il percent proposed by Dr. Garfield and a
wage commission appointed by the president will
during tho next 60 days investigate conditions oe
mining. profits. hours wages, and dec wheth-
"a percent increase is enough for the men.
whether hours should be shortened, and whether
any OF this Increase to the men and COST to the o.
orators. should be passed along the public
81,
and providing for a settlement OF tie strike that
viii be more permanent than March 81 You are
not supposed. Mr. Reader, TO think of such distnc-
tons that Dr. Garfield who once spoke as fuel
dictator. doesn't propose TO have any improvements
added 20 his dictates and so like the kaiser he re-
his throne and goes into exile Evidently
the doctor got the idea that world was TO come
20 end next April Fool day and that here woull
be further need OF strike settlements or adjust
uent OF labor conditions at the mines-and his
c'ap-trap will be the basis OF p. criticism that
81 should have been done otherwise, YOU being sup
ucsed 70 forget that what he proposed failed to get
IS anywhere, either temporarily permanently.
Pres't Wilson merely supplements Or. GarheId's
proposal with the machinery for a more permanent
settlement OF the strike with provision for final
adIrstment OF difference by commission. rather
0an by temporary official dictaton: on Tho bcsls
~ Intelligent justice sustained by fact perhaps,
rather than by academic whim or one party pinle
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