Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-10-27

tnat railroads and street lighting SyS'
TENS In continental countries Of Eur
ope will soon be needing coal. Brt
tain supplies them until q strike |
comes; then she shuts down the gate,
and they use up their slender stocks
and rush madly to America or some
other possible source of fuel for an
emergency supply.
Now, America has shortage in
coal production at present. This is
due, not to lack of mines or miners
but to paralysis of our railroad sys-
TEN, so far as the supplying of coal
cars is concerned. We are just two
weeks supply ahead of the mines, and
if anything should take place which
would cut off the production of bitun.
nous coal by even 2 per cent, some OF
our industries would have to close
down. Two years ago, when indus
try was said to be in chaotic condi
ton due to the war, our supply of coal
above ground was three times what
it is now
Add to our shortage of cars and CT
mined coal the fact that Tonnage for
the ocean voyage is not now to be had
in any large amount, and the added
fact that British lockers would re.
fuse to unload "unfah" coal. and you
have the picture John Bull will have
to settle with his coal miners without
the help Of coal from America
NO CANADIAN AMBASSADOR.
Canada is not to have her resident
high commissioner in Washington, af,
ter all, according to confidential ad.
vices from British officialdom. This
Lloyd G eorge cabinet has made an
other somersault, when Canada had
for months been engaged in planning
the achievements of her first ambassa.
dor here, and London cables the word
that the scheme Is dead.
Mystery surrounds the motive for
the withdrawal of consent. Those
who watched the Canadian plan m ost
hopefully believe that imperial policy
has again been changed, under fear
that any division of British represen.
tation here would soon lead to a null
sador from the United Kingdom. 1t
IS offered as an excuse for the cabi-
nets new position, that it can not
face the certainty that Australia and
New Zealand, with their LOUD anti Jap.
anese propaganda, would make trouble
here when they, too, sent their own
ENJOYS. And after them would come
fvf1 wit III
JUDGES -embarrassing to imperial pol.
icy in the Orient.
PoLAND's GENTLEMAN
FARMER.
Our latest gentleman farmer IN pol.
itics is General Pilsudski, military
chief as we'll as president of Poland
Some say Poland isa republic Others
especially those who have non-Polish
rc1atjves over there, say that Poland
is crime Which soon will become g
monarchy. In any case, Pilsudski
controls Poland, and one of his mill
tary forces has just violated a peace
armistice and grabbed the capital Of
the neighboring republic Of Lithuania
: Now comes the Lithuanian envoy In
the United States-whose plea for rec
| ogn1tion Secretary Colby has frigidly
rejected-and shows that Pilsudski is
the owner of the big landed estates
near Wilma, and that in order to hold
| those estates Pilsudski secretly pro
| posed to this Lithuanian statesman in
the spring of 1919 that they agree on
q revolt and "cantonal state" with
Wilma as it's center, to be under con
troll Of Pilsudski, who promised to re
sign as president of Poland
The offer was refused and Pilsud
ski promptly carried out threat con
tanned in his ofter-that he would tax.
Wilma with the Polish army. Since
then he has been driven out by thu
Russians, and only recently It's troops
after an armistice, "revolted" and cap
tured the city and got possession Of
his lands. = Now Pilsudsh resigns
again.
Will he take a chance on keepln5
Russia, Lithuania and all other coun
tries at bay while he settles down OF
his Vino farm?
PLUMB PLAN VICTORIES.
The Plumb Plan league announce,
that at least 40 members of the hous'
and senate who supported the Esch
Cummins act have been beaten.
predicts the defeat In November o
half as many more-making tina
measure the real political test in thi
campaign.
Reports from Iowa and Wisconsi,
show that Cummins and Lenroot ar
now getting barrels" from the Re
publican national committee to he'll
their defense against organized farm
ers ard labor. In Indiana Jim Watson
has conducted the, most expensive
campaign in the history of golden
broidered politics In that state. AL
three men are now in danger.
New York-Use Of light wines an
liquors is recommended by the Pert
Amboy, N. j., Medical society in n
solution. The resolution suggests tn
modification Of the Volstead act 80 q
to permit their use. The explanatio
given is that "intoxication has becom