The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-15

ton as it will do before it gets
through with the present legislature
processes. Everyone seems to ex-
pect the G overnment to get job
for them; to sell their merchandise
or their crops, and to make it easy
to run their affairs at a profit. The
railroads are always bleating for
help from Washington. Heaven
knows they have troubles enough,
but it GEMS that the Government
can do nothing more than pull them
out of one hole before they are
stuck in another Just at the pre-
sent time the transportation carriers
insistently demand that they be
paid something like $500,000,0OO OF
the so-called "refunding debt" The
Railroad Administration says that
the Government owes this amount to
the railroads Mr.. McAdoo, who was
the original Railroad Administrator,
says that the railroads have not
more than half that sum coming to
them. Certain distinguished Sena-
tors have argued long and eloquently
to the effect that the railroads have
nothing coming from the Govern
ment, and one or two of them de-
clare that every cent refunded to
the railroads will be in the nature
of gift. Really, they put it strong
er than this--because, you know
there are, men in the Senate who
see red everytime one says godo
word for the railroads. However,
the plan revolving around aid seems
to chase itself in a circle Give the
railroads $500 100000, We are told,
and the railroads will emplyo a mil
lion more men in doctoring up their
broken-down roads and equipment.
Inside of the circle are pictured in
dustrial establishments burning coal
melting steel, and accelerating the
whole industrial world. Thus as
the circle rolls round and round the
whole slack of industrial unemploy-
ment is made to disappear, and-if
we believe half the good that one
hears about the scheme-everybody
| in the country will soon be working,
with the result that the haberdashers
will again sell silk shirts, stocks and
bonds will boom, and full dinner pals
will take the place of ordinary lunch
baskets.
'sHAPPY WALKS AND SHADES
| 1t is wonderfully confronting to
many of the politicians to figure out
their multitudinous receipts for what
Milton called Happy Walks and
Shades" A few weeks ago We
were told that all that was necessary
to restore normal conditions on the
farm would be the passage of an aci
by Congress providing for farm I'm
ancing. The bill was passed-and
| it has helped, because cotton has adj
vanced in price and some of the agri-
cultural products are moving more
regularly and steadily in the mar
kets and exchanges. Other detours
that are intended to avoid the rough
spots in the old highways through
the laxative processes OF confer
ences." One of these is expected to
solve the problem of unemployment
The famous Mr.. Hoover, known as
the possessor OF great engineering
mind" is to be in charge of this
movement 1t is pointed out that
| in the public service we have an ex-
cess of legal minds, bankers minds
the labor mind an dthe farmer mind
So the engineering mind" is in
rather a distinctive class. just
what Mr.. Hoover and the industrial
conference intend to do is not en-
tirely clear; but Hoover is regarded
as sort of wizard, and there are