The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-02
INTERNATIONAL HASH.

INTERNATIONAL HASH.
The demand that an eight-hour law
be incorporated in the peace treaty
suggests many more items of improve
ment The price of butter, milk and
eggs should be fixed permanently and
within reach of everyone, from the
-coolie laborer to the movie actress.
Styles of clothing might be decreed,
with provision for reasonable amend
ment but not in the direction of abb
breviation. The number of food calor-
les necessary to each individual in ac
cordance with his vocation, should be
definitely fixed. The various fuel
economies enforced by Doc. Garfield
during the war should be adopted by
the conferees and perpetuated Let
every restrictive measure which our
martinez bureaucracy has devised dur
ing the past two or three years to fet-
ter and stifle the free-born American
be rammed into the treaty, and then
force it through the senate at the
point of the bayonet. Make the job
complete To the devil with free will.
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AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET SHIPS.
The declaration of Chairman Hud-
dley of the shipping board in favor of
sale of the emergency fleet at the
market value to private ship-owners
is signal to Portland to move in time
to secure some of the vessels, says
the Portland Oregonian. If the terms
proposed by Mr.. Hurley should be
adopted by the board and approved
by congress, there would be many bid
bers, and Portland cannot afford to be
behindhand. The Pacific port which
gets the ships will get the trade.
Though investors from eastern ports
may run lines to Portland, this port
would not have the same hold on
them as if they were owned locally,
and they might be turned to other
ports by offers of tempting rates.
The proposed terms should be at
tractive. The market value OF the
vessels will be far below their war
cost, only one-fourth of the price need
he paid in cash and payment OF the
balance is to be spread over ten years
Freights may be expected to be high
for several years, or until the worlds
tonnage has recovered war losses and
the regular increase which should
have occurred during the war. There
will be opportunity to pay large part
of the first cost out of earnings during
that period.
There should not be much danger
that the proposal of Senator Jones for
government operation will be adopted.
The people are getting their fill OF
government operation with railroads
and wires. They know it means hlge
rates for poor service, and that the
governments two other names are
waste and inefficiency. That kind
of thing may be good enough for boil
shevist Russia. 1t is not good enough
for the United States.
WASHINGTON MAKES DISCOVERY.
Washington has discovered that the
Industrial Workers of the World is a |
revolutionary society whose object |
is to destroy the government of the
United States and to disrupt society |
as it is now organized, says the New
York Sun.
The discovery is interesting, but 1t
is somewhat belated.
The Industrial Workers of the !
World has been in existence since
1904, and from the day of its organiza-
ton it has preached and practlced
revolution whenever and wherever it
had a chance.
Its organizers have travelled about
the country seeking industrial dis
putes and creating industrial disputes
to gain opportunities to carry on the i
program of violence they openly advo-
Gated.
They have never tried to hide their
purpose or to deceive anybody with
regard to their objects.
Whether they have been practising
sabotage in New Jersey silk mills,
teaching walters to poison food in New
York, driving spikes in fruit trees
on the Pacific coast, burning wheat IN
tbe middle west or destroying mach
inery in copper mines, they have not