Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-15
FACTS AND COMMENT


not have to so to the senate for rati- /
| fication and Mr.. Hines has already as
sumed his new duties. They are not, |
however, entirely new to him as he has
| been acting as Mr.. McAdoos assistant. /
Indeed the salary of $4,000 that he re-
ceived as assistant director is to re-
main unaltered. Oddly enough the
railway administration has been the
| one department of the government
in which the assistant received more
than his chief. Since Mr.. McAdoo has
been receiving salary as cabinet Of
[ fcer, he was prevented by law from
accepting further compensation no
tmatter what other work he might be
performing, hence $4,000 a year was
the maximum that he received from
the government.
Mr.. Hines was born in Kentucky in
/ 1870. He is graduate of the Uni
Iversity of Virainia, lawyer and q
man of long railway experience. He
has served the Louisville & Nashville
as assistant attorney and LIST vice PRES
ident, has been counsel for the South
ern Pacific and other roads and at the
entrance of America into the war he
was chairman of the Santa Fee Mr..
! Hines was one of the many great
: business men who resigned their
, places and offered their service to the
. government.
: TIL strike of 5000 employees on
: the ferries, tugs, lighters and docks
) that paralyzed all traffic about New
: York city during Thursday, Friday
, and Saturday of last week was the sort
of outrage of which the American peo-
pie are too tolerant. The demand was
the old and just one of an eight hour
day and living wage. The war
labor board was on hand to settle the
5 differences between employers and
employees One party would not ae-
= cept the recommendations Of tnat:on-
al board, hence the strike. A thou
sand craft were tide up, several hun
dred thousand workers were cut off
from their places of business, supplies
g tc the army in France were delayed.
l food and fuel supplies FOR millions Of
= innocent people were endangered and
the Z. S. war, navy ana postoffice de-
g partment were hiudered in the per-
4 Torrance Of their functions A cabled
= message from the president brought
g about the return of the employees to
Il work and the prospective settlement
Y of the dispute by the same board that
r was ready TO undertake the task at all
y time Surely the country has much to
q learn in the matter of handling strikes
It looks more and more if compulsory
- arbitration must be provided by law
= with severe penalties for the party
u that refuses to accept the award Of
n the referee
To assume that the chaos OF Eerlir
. IS the rule throughout Germany is as
:" misleading TO outs de opinion as it L
Is unjust TO the steadiaess OF the Ger.
l. mans in general 1t is true OF course
e that the daily course Of existence i:
n not as it was before the war. Food i.
1 no. r,,1
shortage Of labor due 10 the enormous
losses Of the war Transportation i
sadly inadequate partly from the ex
N csSiye use and ina dequate repair 0
20 The railways, partly from the surrende
20 of thousands OF locomotives and car
- under the terms OF the arnstice. Fac
VI tories are unable to continue optra
N tidns owing to the lack OF raw ma
/ trials cut off by the four years block
ye ade, and labor troubles exist every
al where. Yet in spita Of thes accum
or Glatd difficulties the pnlognatic peas
ant and artisan outside The great rOp
~ ulation centres would be resumir
= life where ne left Off IN 1914 if ~
. government Of any sort were maxim
SIS this possible for him. Accustomed +
en- obey authority and pay taxes. Ii
g German is not by nature revClutionar,
c. With this solid founda ton on which /
to 'tlitJ - Tie greater ,llty I1laL 4
no building is yet begun or even aketcne
- in outline.
t. The reconstruction Of German
re means more than the alteration Of
20 Eovernn aIt. The union CT states r
~, longer exists. Prussia is hated by ne
~ independent Bavaria, Poland has de
" tached herself from her 0ppressor ar
the Prussian Rhine.and is proposing
MI follow suit. There is nothing to biz
as the numerous states together exec
en a common liability which each is an.
IT. ious to avoid. Furthermore all Ii
Cd ancient Grudges that kept them at OF,
u for centuries, racial social, polite
and religious, have appeared anew no
ny that PrusSian repression and Hohl
He zollern compulgion have been remove
try 70 make matters worse, the individu
co, states themselves are in state of re
the olutson. When the thirteen Americt
ma colonies decided to form a more pc
esf feet union in 1887 each was already e
no Joylng a stable government OF it's ov
D and their legislatures had meref,
subscribe to the new Constitute
the These legislatures were elect
ard under laws already established and
ion electors already qualified. IN the &c
lav man states revolution has discredit
put the existing legislatures and unsettl
hat ed the qualifications Of the electo
iii orkmen's and soldiers councils aIo
"!,' exist, impromptu organizations Ii
% have no legal standing whatsoev
The brains of the American colon
wrote the Constitution and tn
brought all their influence to bear
their separate populations to acce
ing thir work. But the trained admin
ro- traitors of Germany are excluded FRI
all share in public life because tn
eht belonged to the old regime. Ebert q
sn't ms ms leiioNS hau loIlg been members
suffered them TO gain government
lere perience by holding office. And n
S when the confidence that is only be
in experience is so sadly needed
I'M put down the lawless elements Of
to capital there isn't trained admin
q a traitor among the socialists of G.
many, nor has anyone yet arisen w
~. backbone enough 70 control Berlin |
q. ~" ~ till the good sense of the country
ting
the or-, 90 nita ,0 oitIi ,,.o otales owns
the than M nrnsenf II Sc 49, - ~
kelly ceiye of anarchy and labor tro,b
in Washington. The population
; is Washington cannot bring the slight
tain pressure to bear on congress, for CT
,on- gress governs the city according to
own wishes. Such outbreaks as E
the -
ais IS TEIIAI FIEF1lI0