The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-28
One Pennsylvania CITY
Beats Out Hard Times:
Everything Is Lovely
Yv HERBERT w. FORSTER.
In the New York Times

Wluy attention ever since IL adUptyd
is own plan of solving its particular
probloms OF business depression.
ono morning. about seven weeks
hEu, the town woke UP, rubbed It's
.r,.. and found Itself ON the front
llea of Chicago and new YORK
newspapers. and all because, on the
d. Hc!nra. the !ahor!m. u.au "a "a.
one industry had agreed without
f,uptOms of dissatisfaction to "A 40
r.r cent wage cut, backed by
promise on the part OF the employ
u.t % reduce the cost of living by
H. nearly 80 per cent as possible.
Economists and students OF capt
tai and labor questions have waNtd
warm over Duubar's example. They
hru asking If the little town, IN
working out the destiny of Ito 1000
Inhabitants, has not come upon "A
s,hyme worthy of wider applica-
t..u as a method OF tldiug over bad
tines. In enthusiasm over tho first
reports from Dunbar, they have ap-
Tu.I such growing terms rs local
d,,ptlon" and successful economic
r,aIlustment" to the Pennsylvania
village.
IYt, whatever technical joys the
EtIttIon may afford to students OF
economics \Dunbar takes itself very
calmly and adds a knowing grain OF
sl.t fo tho news 1t reads about itself.
IrDfr was a 40 per cent wage cut,
th.y are all very sure Of that; and
tn company has done its best to re-
cu., the cost of living. But Dun
bar does not take much stock In the
enthusiastic impression that it in
suparated its local deflation' and
"suoycssiul economic rcadjust-
meut' with bouquets; 1t insists that
tho men did not beg the company
g. reduce their wages, nor the COM
rny beg the men to let 1t reduce
their cost OF living.
F.ouonnists. ,arer to find so,ne-
.t.r. "A shirip,, .va,nnia ~ sv..t-
r.s. md lipht may have thought
-. b.f tho work inpncn and IN. Of
,,rfsIs at Dunbar are bnih of one
mind in that the millennium has not
sr-fysd AT their town. nor have thew
v,rfod miracles. They do not know
that they faced a tough situation,
listened 10 "A sensible proposition
frnp' a man NO trusted and took
u as the besrRvn,, out Thcv arc far
trori~ being supremely hanpy AZ the
turu OF events altholgh the plan is
succeeding aa well as thcy hoped
Vet they stick To IT. and not a word
~ lissatisfactlon or a threat OF a
hGEn I
a,G that 10 tbe real nrobIem the
to,yn has solved. the human prob
lofu of Xeeping the men at work
with small pay. the storea open
with little or no profits, and the
plaDt going at costs which make the
iroJucts profitable.
Where Chjmncys Still Smoke,
For. after all. no matter what in
depreciation is put upon Dunbar's
methods. the fact remains that I'm
the whole great Connellsville coke
region. where formerly thousands OF
OK. ovens glowed and tall. black
cGimnoys smoked away, there is
now the gloom of almost universal
trartiyitv until the traveller comes TO
Dunbar. whore the ovens and chin
rays OF the American manganese
Manuafucturing company are glow
if- and smoking as though they
were producing for world still
hungry with a wartime appetite for
materials.
As tho single industry Of the town,
,h~oo companles cooperate in an
unusually intimate manner, The
American Manganese Manufacture
n, company. chief OF the three.
mines coal from the hillside; the
Sefuct-Solcav conpany transforms
tho coal into COKE In its ovens, uses
ihe by-products in it's own pro-
cosses. and hands the coke and gas
70 tho Manganese company and the
Pennsylvania Wire Glass company,
which also obtains sand from the
Manganese company. The latter
rypq the coke in it's blast furnaces TO
produce pig iron and ferro -mangan-
csc. These three companies faced
the same problem at the same time.