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Evening journal., 1921-10-27
Not the old Sort of Strike
(From the New York Tribune).

delightedly accepted the decision OF
1920. They would thus seem COM
mitted to accepting the decision OF
1921. In refusing do they not chal-
lenge the whole system OF regula-
ton which the Esch-Cummins law
set up?
The Federal government is bound
TO support the Railroad Labor
Board. It also owes assistance to
the roads, from which it has taken
away the power to control either
rates or wages. One purpose Of the
Esch- -Cummins law is to keep the
roads operating. A conspiracy to tie
them up is a thing OF which the De-
partment OF Justice may properly
take notice Injunctions may be
obtained against the use OF union
strike funds.
The unions which go out viii be
in a novel and difficult position.
They will have against them the
whole weight OF public and govern
ment disapproval.
The conditions Of which they COM
plain are OF governWental origin,
The existing private management
so far as II relates to the issues in
volved in the strike, is merely nomi-
nal. is not actual. II Is the public
not the railroads. that the brother
hoods are graphing with.
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
viii Not Strike
CFrom the washington Hcrald)

Fhe Herald does not believe there
win he either a general railroad
strike. or that the partial one now
called. will be put in effect. We do
not believe this. because we do
believe in the 1000 900 men who
form the unionized body OF railroad
workers. We have faith in them.
in their humanity. their American
ISM. and their good sense. There
can be no doubt as 10 the suffering
such a strike would cause, the
hardship and losses. but IL would be
lost when the first man walked out.
The British railway strike had q
better chance TO win and Il failed
The British coal mine strike failed.
and Great Britain's workers and
capital are both still suffering the
consequences. These two strikes arc
at the bottom OF the dire British
economic outlook. They have heid
hack that country's recovery and
labor suffers equally with capital
American railroad workers have
less excuse for striking than 81
either instance over there.
There are now between 1000. 900
and 100000 unemployed in thi'
country. The strike would not onl,
make 1t impossible TO put these mil.
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
EAsr ApvIsEs rIE Mrsr.

A CONTROVERSY that Involves national policies In
"A management OF forest the west, preser
Walton OF scenery iis wild state importation OF WOOL
utilization OF Idle lands in the east and regulation OF
dogs has been started by Waiter p Eaton noted author
OF many books for boys particularly Boy Scouts. The
controversy has aroused such wide attention that the
Forest Service took hand discussion and defended
the present practice Of granting grazing permits in the
reserves
Eaton had been camping trip in the Cascade Noun
Oregon and his return article laud-
ing The scenery OF the Cascades about the best
ez praisirs the Columbia highway the finest
scenic drive the world but he severely criticised the
granting grazing privileges large bands OF
sheep giving his that the sheep extermnaie
wild flowers and interfere with the travel OF tourists. It
has always been the contention OF the Forest Service that
grazing destroys underground and grass thus
preventing accumulation OF debris afford starting places
for fires sheep they need the grazing
grounds Of the furnish feed for their nocks
when The grass OF the plains has become inadequate late
In The season.
In ihe course Of his article defending his position Mr.
Eaton says, among other things:
The statement that We must have wool and mutton
any sane man with But In the FIRST Mace No can
Dus WOO and mutton in The Argentine n necessary but
' eannvl Duy scenery and camp sites I contend that
'' a''e' are just as necessary 70 a healthy people
ss " mino as well as body-as The former In the
second place, there millions upon million. n, , h,
these United States far better ADAPTED IN grain, 49,, a.
Cascade Mountains. which are now lying ldle u,,e-l,
waste land My own State OF Massachusetts has al eas,
100000 acres OF such waste land mostly abandoned
FARMS which viii many sheep 10 one acre a. he
Cascades will to twenty. Yet because we have no prope
dog laws and because stupid sleepy lot we bu,
our wool and mutton entirely from the West and sout
America, paying all the haulage Why on earth shoul
Oregon peculiarly blessed with Of the beauty spot
or The continent spoil this beauty spot which might be
revenue for the whole State and refreshments for N
whole nation in order to support few local sheep me
and supply Massachusetts with Hool?"
Tnat written by resident OF the same State whic
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
coRnENIsM UP TO pATE.

ryNEIE NEW YORK WORLD the imperial organ OF the
L Democratic party, publishes communication want
ing to know How long Senator Underwood is going to
hang on to the utterly incompatible positions OF dele
gate the coming international conference and leader OF
the Democratic minority the Senate2" The statement
is also made that a delegate. Senator Underwood can
in the very nature OF the be only agent Of the
Harding administration.
That is the sort OF stun might expect to read in the
World No wonder the Democratic party in Delaware and
the States been led to its ruin with such utter
ances appearing the leading Democratic newspaper.
The two positions not incompatibe-neither does
Mr. Underwood make himself agent OF the Harding
administration. We hold brief for Mr. Underwood.
We differ with him political issues. We believe he is
wrong his tarn views and that he wrong In his
views OF the League OF Nations But also believe that
he is broad-mnded enough and honest enough in his in
teetual processes TO give Mr Harding ap expression Of
his carefully formed opinion any subject that arises,
and assume that exactly is what NIr Haidng wants
Under the Wilson administration there for
any whose mind would not along with that OF
the President There must be perfect accord there
could be relationship whatevef There must be the
supremacy OF mind and that mind MIR Wilson'S
With Mr. Harding 1t is different The present occupant
OF the White House does not 10 know 1t all lie
makes no pretenslons to infalbnity He not only Is
willing to receive the opinions OF those who differ with
him but he invites their opinions Out OF the consdera-
lion OF diverse judgments ne will be able reach The
soundest conclusions for the welfare OF the country
IL is true that Mr. Underwood Is the leader OF The Demo
cratic side OF the Senate-nominally the leader least
He apparently the ablest man on that side the SEN
but there has been much question lately whether he
continues to be the real leader The spokesmanshp seems
to have been transferred Senator Pat Harrison OF Mis-
ssspp who has several superors in the Senate point
OF ability 1t is this acceptance OF incompetent leader
ship that has led largely TO the downfall Of what ought to
be a strong and vlrile political organization.
An International conference ON disarmament Is not a
partisan affair and has treated by President
Harding It project proposed by Republicans before
election and the 100000 plurality OF manlfesiy
contained the OF many who had been Democrats and
perhaps still claim hope time in the future to
claim membership In that party BY the votes Of the
people, the plan for Limitation OF armaments becam,
not party policy but national policy, and It Is
entirely proper that Democrat, and the most able
the Democrats be called to assist in making this natona
policy success.
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
With the Photographers


our observation IS that when marres for money
he nnds 81 long time between pay days.-Dallas News
u is race between mans sins and his wife which will
1nd him out FIRST and my money is his wife-Howard
Kan.l Courant
The people who moved october now wishing they
hadn't and those who didn't move wishing they had
Thus. everything is as usual-'Boston Transcript
George Honn riding the Ferris wheel at the car
the other night he stranger get in his Ford
drive east He yelled to the engineer OF the Ferris
wheel but the engineer didn't stop and Honn didn't get
out OF hs seat in the wheel until four minutes later No
trace OF the thief has been foundPesbody Gazette
A supersiitious young OF Emporia fastened pair
OF rabbits The front Of his Ford Since then il
takes two men and boy fifteen minutes 10 get the Ford
started The trouble TO be that The came on
ordinary rabbit and not killed in cemetery al
midnight by crosseyed Negro with red whlskers-Em-
poria Gazette.
The popularity OF The odde top a gaming device has
become great that the Womans Christian Temperance
Union has thought 1t worth while TO denounce IT, These
tops have had sale recently incident OF
after gambling strange because the implement does
not give that quick action for which most gamesers
long.-NeN York Herald
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
Labor and Common Sense

II their experience in connection
with the revenue bill has not been
sufficient to teach them that they
are footballs OF politics. then It is
indeed difficult to explain the situa-
ton. II may be said. on the other
hand. that there are business rep
resentatives in Washington of the
highest type. OF the most excellent
character, and men who have done
more for business than it is possible
to estimate. Such a man is the
counsel for our Association, Mr..
James A. Emery. and it is impos-
sible to point out how much he has
accomplished through logical rea-
sonihg in preventing the imposition
of unfair legislation on business and
in safeguarding business interests.
But the full force OF all business
should be behind him and every
business man in the United States
should be an active force in de-
manding from Congress a recogni-
tion OF the rights OF business.
II is Interesting in this connection
to note the figures promulgated by
the Census Bureau as the result OF
last years manufactures. The value
OF the products OF the nations
manufacturing industries in 1920
were s63, 900, ,O00. 900, or three times
as great as in 1910 and five and one
half times What they were in 1900.
There was an average Of 9,103,2Oo
wage earners employed last year In
the 2S9,76S manufacturing estab-
lishments Of the country, whose
capitalization totalled $44,67s,911,-
I 600 and whose products were valued
at s62,91O, 100000. Thirteen States
manufactured products with tota'
calue OF more than s1,00Q000,000
New York led all States, with more
than one-eighth OF the country's
total. Pennsylvania second and IL
lionis third remain as before. Ohio
supplanted Massachusetts,. which
held fourth place in 1908. California
which held eleventh place ten years
ago. moved up to eighth place, pass.
ing Missouri, Indiana and Wiscon'
sin. Indiana passed Wisconsin into
ninth place. Wisconsin dropped from
eighth to tenth. Minnesota, ranking
thirteenth. is the last Of the states
producing more than s1.000,pOo,OO'
worth of manufactured goods
The figures for the fifteen leadini
states follow:
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
AN Ex-ENGNEER,s VIEWS

From the Portland Press.
The Chicago Tribune published a
front page story the other day which
quoted a former locomotive engineer
named A. c. Davis, OF jamestown,
N. Y, who said that the public
should call the bluff" OF the rail-
road brotherhoods and have ar'show-
down" once and for all on the trans
portation situation.
He was speaker before an asso-
citation OF manufacturers and he
traced the history OF the railroad de-
velopment OF the country, showing
how through the merit system it had
become unparalleled in the world
for efficiency and low cost until the
unions> during the critical interna-
tional situation in 1916. began their
campaign for boosting wages and
| forced the Adamson bill through
an abject Congress at the behest OF
political leader anxious TO secure
organized labor's pledge OF support
in presidential campaign"
Mr.. Davis Told of the wage in
creases ordered by Mr.. McAdoo in
1918, and Of the so-called national
agreements OF September, 1919.
They never we're agreements at ALL"
he said. They were American Fed
Grafton Of Labor ultimatums - the
price they demanded in times OF our
nations emergency for continuing
their plain duty or tie us up in a
strike" The speaker declared that
the outlaw strike last year was a
move on the part of the unions to
educate the new railway labor board.
He said that the strike ballot is an
other education move. and it is time
for the public representatives Ito
call the blun and have a showdown" !"
Mr.. Davis said there are some
things worse than a strike and one
OF them is "a continuous compromise
with wrong when we know that the
principles are right, when we acqui-
esce for expediency's sake in con-
tinuing an unjust system-"
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
LET THERE BE LIGHT,

TI1HERE old adage. 'Thete are none so blind as
those who will not see"
Such seems not to be the with ex-senator Gore. OF
oklahoma. who is now undergoing treatment for the
restoration OF his sight after 40 years OF blindness
"By. a combination OF electrical treatment muscular
exercises applied psychology and the good
OF the patient expect to restore the sight OF the
Senator" says his physician.
Blind he was. Gore through the League OF Ma
tons covenant and OF the Democrats who re-
pudiated that document.
Who knows?
Perhaps when his sight is restored Gore may see the
allsces Of the Democratic party and turn Republican
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY.

TIVE Department OF reports that one trade
commissioner enabled an American caller to obtain
for his firm the contracts for very important electrical in
staations in Czecho-Sovaka.
commercial attache secured the release Of $4,000
worth Of American securities that had been seized under
la teohnicality
Another attache saved American shippers more than
100000 Spanish peseas by securing the entry OF 25O
American automobiles at the old lower customs rate
The departments Berlin ONCE estimates that its trad,
promoye efforts have netted nearly 100000 OF business
flor American firms
II all This is dollar diplomacy let the dsuuntled Demo
Gratis make the most OF IT,
Evening journal., 1921-10-27

From these increases the cut ap-
proved as OF last July would take
around 100000, 900 on the basis OF
full complement of men or not
much more than half the increase OF
last year. The railroad managers
have asked the labor board for a
further decrease. This could only be
granted after a hearing and none
has yet been ordered.
But the unions called the strike
vote on the basis Of the cut in wages
Of last July and the change in their
rules They order the strike because
OF the request for further cut not
yet allowed and not yet even con-
sidered. No such strike can be won.
because not warranted. It would
lose all the sympathy the unions
have. 1t would soudify public opin-
ion against them and they would
lose more than the strike. more than
their contention. They would lose
their good name and high standing
in public favor.
Evening journal., 1921-10-27

lions at work, but it would add to
their numbers the 1000, 900 railroad
men and all who depend on freight
movement for heir-employment. Al
the same time II would add to the
cost Of living and make this winter
one Of conditions which would re.
act upon the railway unions until
their very name would be anathema.
Their own fellow workers would
suffer most.
What reason is there for this
strike? II has been preceded by
complete publicity and these 'rea-
sons, such as thy are, are known.
The Railroad Labor Board, otter full
hearings, ordered a cut in wages OF
Ia per cent. effective last July
Later they ordered certain changes
IN the union rules which effected
savings in railroad operation, but
took from the men practically moth
ing that was really earned. There
are a lot OF the idle, for instance
who would like a chance to work
overtime at straight wage.
In 1916 railroad wages went up a
total of about 1870, 900. 900. In 1915
another 1870. 100000 was added e
this: in 1919. s2s0,0O0,ooo, and il
1920. for part year, ss3o,oOo,ooo
Evening journal., 1921-10-27


the management actual control OF
the operation OF the property.
The public. said he, certainly had
lost. ..
Now let's see," he said, "the ef-
feet of Regulation on the owners Of
the property.
'Srhe average value OF the stock Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, high and
low, for 1s0O-O1-o2, was "a. Today
it is SO 1-2.
The operating ratio average for
these three years was 65.5. For
1920 the operating ratio was 1852
for the first eight months of 1921.
S7.5.
During that period the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad earned as net income
per dollar Of capital stock approx
imately IL per cent, half OF which
was paid out in dividends at 6 per
cent, and the other half put right
back into the property. In those days
the slogan was "A Dollar for Divi-
dends and a Dollar for Improve
ments.' For the year 1920, after pay
ing the same rate of dividend, there
was six-tenths Of ! per cent put
back into the property.
Thus, after twenty years of reg
ulation. the public finds itself COM
PEELED to pay 100 per cent increase
in freight rates; railroad efficiency
by virtue OF the same influence, has
been reduced. and railroad securi-
ties. under pressure of decreased
earnings, are forced down to sucr
Unprecedented levels that manage
ments are unable to obtain ait
through the usual channels OF pop
ular finance.
From this it is quite evident tina
neither the owners OF sthe property
nor you. the users, can be, nor shoult
be. satisfied with railroad transpor
tation as 1t exists today.
The transportation tools are n
bad shape. and you. the public. VIII
have assumed the functions OF tn
management through your legisla
tive and regulatory bodies. are re
sponsible, nor can you evade you
responsibility. Do not blame 1t oil
the war. Cassatt, Hill. Hartman
and the others all prophesied wha
would happen. Nineteen-seventeei
was but the elimination Of twent
years Of starvation and regulation
Then you tried Government Owner
ship, and then for a few month
you tried, through Government Con
tror, to let the employees run tn
railroads through their labor organ
izations.
Nobody is running the roads; no
body Is responsible for them. Gov
ernment says the management is 1
private hands; but the privatel
elected managers have only sligi
authority and only slight responsi
bility. Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Labor Board and stat
Commissions. all incO ordinate
bodies, say they're not running tn
roads; they are merely laying dow
the rules. Here is the extraordinar
case of a nations land transports
tion system, n vital factor I'm almo'
every industry and business, wit
nobody at all managing It, nvvvo
at all responsible for Il. IL is q
large-noundering.
Government control, to the e.
, tent which regulation has brought
Is a failure. IL win never be a SUI
cess. 1t squeezes out individual IN
, itiative and opportunity. individui
rewards and punishments; nobod
Z has a free hand. nobody Is respoI
, sibIc. 1t decides economic question
; politically.
, "Nothing can take the place Of IL
dividual initiative, ability and II
l sponsibility. We are trying fatuOus
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
LUCK AND work.

ENREDERlcK GARDNER, New York letter carrier. in
Il heriied $4,000 He sn continues his daily rounds
in the Bronx. as though nothing unusual had happened
You probably think you would quit work II you had a
stroke OF luck like Gardners But don't be too sure
about IT, After dling vacation for few months you
would begin hanging around your old job or some one
else's.
Work is the greatest Joy OF life, though few admit it,
Evening journal., 1921-10-27

'NIr President the Republican party has had control OF
IN House and Senate for nearly three years there
fore responsible for many OF the ills that afict us"
warbled the Alabama mocking bird Senator "Tawm"
aIenin recently. Deawareans know that for about two
and aha years OF that time Mr. Wilson was in the White
House veong about every constructive measure that was
sent up to him, Tumulty was doing Il for him
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Naiure neyer co man Inlo crIme.

Nature never leads man into crime
-@.-.
san Jones' me great Georgia evangelist uttered a
nousi worm while when he said that he loved flowers
ana rehslon' put despised botany and theology
-t-'-.
our natures are very largely the result OF environment
no Nohner some women are icebergs. 40 wonder some
men are iroggsh Some houses refrgeraiors anyhow
Evening journal., 1921-10-27

As one way out Of the railroad dnlcuiiy how would IL
do to return the roads TO private management That
has not yet been done for the are s subject TO
rules and limitations established by the McAdoo regime
Evening journal., 1921-10-27

Mrs. Bergdol is her lawyer in suit brought w
The alien property custodian We'd ike 10 see Grover
cleveland Bergdo and defend the case the Sec
retary OF War has against him.
Evening journal., 1921-10-27
The Railroads Can and VIII Ciue LOlUer Rates IT
the Public viii Protect Them in LOuerng Wages

CFrom Manufacturers RecOrd.)
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1921-01-16

The inexoruhir law OF commercial
economies takes ourc of such matters
ir its effort 40 pay dividends TO the
very legislative stockholders who De-.
glstenfiy refuse a. build substantial
base Cos the truck that lays the Eolder
egg
The day will come. regardless ~ OPP
noalfiOn. when tho states who held ont
for restrictive truck legislation VIII
awaken tn tnd that their backward
step leaves their state years behind
those who faced the situation aquHreir
and promptly adopted progressive
measures.
Tho gnH engine with lts wonder
ftlv compact power plant suddenly
places the world ln an entirely new
era ard the sooner every individual
stUns up 90 the window nnd looks to-
ward the horizon With clear vislnlh
lust that much snnncr VIII we All rc'
duWn in work ard prepare 90 meet
fhr lrrrslfiihir force uiniuil viHihie
Ws have got ia stop demanding tho
fi.aHfoet possible stretch % roadway
ior each dollar expended and inriat
upYn ieaa mileage with The hc1t 81
suh.rrauca nhtniHahle Ana the FoN
srnmert must back and control each
rrosresnlya steu NJ q. IT, roinH go b.
doro inteiiirently and economically
Roads 90 today are rs different prob
lem thnr those % yeaterdav and no
nnn fnn foreteil the Definite require
reft nf The roads 81 tomorrow.