The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-06

IT will not do IT," was his reply.
ITO do that would be to take sides,
Eut I have the soldiers ready and II
single man Who wan wants TO 20 to work
The strikers may talk TO the workers
all they want to-but they must not lay
hands on them"
There was no trouble. In another
town the street car workers struck
Walkers Ended Trolley Strike.
stop the cars for a few hours" Cox
this strike"
The men and women who walked
brought pressure to bear on both sides
has been satisfactory ever since. Dur
ing the steel strike some West Vir-
ginia strikers planned an invasion OF
Ohio to force out the men at several
plants. Cox was called on for action,
He sent for some OF the leaders OF the
men.
"ThIs Is proud state" said he.
I'VE cannot permit, such an invasion.
Go tell your men that and tell them
that l mean business"
The threatened raid came to moth
ing. He is proud that he has never
been forced to use a soldier against a
striker Once he removed an. Ohio
democratic mayor who was furthering
pathizing with unruly strikers and re-
placed him by republican. The dis
orders stopped.
"AS business man believe in the
enforcement OF law" said he. III the
law is not right change It,"
radicalism in Ohio There was, a
soapbox orator on every corner" I'm
der the old Ohio written
in stage coach days"-the workman
The employer then had three defenses
against an action for personal injury
the three being acceptance of risk. con-
tributory negligence, and the fellow
workman. Fifty thousand accident
cases were being brought against en-
ployers annually In the Ohio courts.
"The injured man had no chance, y
said Cox. THE employer was covered
by liability insurance and the insur-
ance company furnished the best law
yers to be found. The workman relied
on the first lawyer he met at the county
seat The three defenses always won. y
The Ohio constitution was changed,
laws were modernized, the working
man protected and today not fifty per-
sonal accident cases are being brought
In Ohio's courts. Both sides are well
pleased"
His Cure for Radleallsm.
''Radcalism can only be fought by
fair treatment" said he do you re-
member how the old school physicians
used to treat scarlet fever? They tried
to ,repress it, and the result was that
in nine cases out of ten the patient
died or lost his sight or hearing. Now
they scatter 1t and scarlet fever Is no
longer dangerous"
He would have men meet and talk
their causes OF difference over. Men
find II hard to quarrel face TO fa>.
1t Is difficult to look a man in the eye
and be unfair to him." He does not
believe that the so-called ''radicalism"
Of today is of the red sort at all: 1t is
discomfort, n lack of complete knowl-
edge at times, failure on both sides to
understand and appreciate the other;
mo wonder there have been radi-
calls" said he. Men have been
worked twelve hours day year in
and out. What chance have they to
know anything of this country and OF
what this country should mean to
them? A twelve hour "A day man is too
tired to study or read or even learn
a new language. My Information Is
to read American newspapers and talk
with American comrades is never a
radical.
Cox's Ideas on AmerieanIzation.
1.-The reds are only those who can
only talk their native tongues, manu-
facturers' detectives have told me so.
AS soon as they know how to talk
United States the agitators can't hold
them"
SO he would Amercanize the alien
bY the process of reducing his hours
OF work and aiding him to better his
surroundings.
ibid you ever notice." said he. that
it is next thing to impossible to pick
out the child of an alien? Give the
youngsters clean homes and clean
clothes and r. clean school and little
flower in the front yard and they are
Americana"
That suggested another thing.
"They have a love of art and an ap-
probation for 1t that we seem not to
have cultivated" said he. II have noted
at art museums-where ! have usually
gone on official buslness-that the child
who wanders through these halls OF
beauty is apt to be foreign born. The
alien has something to give as well as
to take from u.s."
Against Excess Profits Tax.
He thinks the excess profits tax an
unwise means OF raising revenue. "A
business man does not know where he
is at. l will venture that not one man
in this town here has received his cor
rected return for 1919. So he has to
guess at the price to charge and that
makes for profteering. This is not said
in criticism of the individuals engaged
in the collection. The system is wrong.
with It,"
Something Of the high cost OF living
is due to this and other allied causes.
Some other portion is due to the In
EMERGENCY WIN WnlCn railroads. are OPP
Grated. Talk Of the red tape OF the gov
eminent; 1t is nothing to the red tape
in which the railroad operation is en-
tangled. Talk to any brakeman or |
freight conductor-he'll tell you. We
need reform in the methods OF rail-
road operation--fresh blood-a livelier
outlook--more pep"
Consular Service Needs "Pep."
The consular service, too, Is in need |
Of change. lie would make 1t a real
aid to the American manufacturer and |
exporter. Now consuls report on trade |
matters 10 the state department. These |
are nor state department affairs. !
would have the American consuis In
each foreign country make their reports |
to chief agent located In the capital
of that country-a man who, knows
of trade and of what our
men want to know. Then he could keep
in touch with our exporters while the
story is still fresh. More pep is needed
in the consular service, too. Once 1t
was first rate. Now 1t is not"
lie would aid American exporters by
Fishing federal reserve bank
abroad. wherever one is needed 10 help
our men get trade He feels deeply on
the federal reserve banking issue.
There are too many bankers on the
board" said he. II would have men in
other lines represented there, so that II
should be thoroughly Representatives"
Must Not Hog Foreign Trade"
America is in foreign trade to stay, he
thinks. But our manufacturers must
be educated and helped. They do not
vet appreciate the importance OF foreign
trade, nor understand the methods OF
securing il. He believes that the Amer
have a proportioiate share OF the cargo
carrying bottoms OF the world.
can marine is coming into It's own and
hopes and believes that II will always
But we must be decent about IT,"
said he. we must not hog IT, Let
other nations have their share without
Decent competition IL the
life of the world. The moment we try 10
get everything for the United States and