The Washington times., 1921-10-14


the Panama Canal . really
AMERICAN canal. What 10
needed q further legislation
along this line,
Mako the canal absolutely free
10 all Ansriean ships until tolls
paid By the ships Of other eevn-
sTiss shall have paid the cost Of
ths canal Then make the canal
fvsA 10 Ansriea. eeastwiss ship-
piaS. all etAsrs psyias actual
esss ef keeping The canal open.
The United States navy to
eoatrsi The canal always.
Silver goes up in price again;
beef is lower, pork 10 higher,
corn and oats are weak. Not
20 easy to keep track Of values.
And the suggested remedy of
fixing prices by law. with mini
mum guarantees as in war time,
would strike against many rocks.
The baseball fury dies down.
Those that were beaten and
seemed sure to be first are last,
rs 1t is written. For some time
to come millions of young gen.
tlemen will find 1T difficult to
concentrate their minds on any
thing. Football will offer some
slight, merciful relief. How
would it be, the chances of the
Giants and the Yankees being
settled, to spend a few minutes
calculating our own chances in
. more important championship
contest, in which we all start as
babies and in which most of us
shine not very brilliantly. If
youth would pay attention to its
own "errors," it would do better.
f ss 4 ~ fl n.H.
Nj. Ford Is buying another rail-
nd, gradually working his way
from his hig. Michigan plants
down to Muscle Shoals. Mr.. Ford
has offered the Government all
that 1t put into the Muscle Shoals
plant, more than $1o0,ooo,0oo.
The Ford plan is to use Muscle
Shoals to make cheap fertilizer
for the farmers, keep the plant
constantly in working order, ready
20 provide ammunition when need
ed In case of war. also to use
power for experiments In metal
lurgy, which would be Of value to
tho entire country.
II Mr.. Ford's offer for Muscle
Shoals is rejected, IL will mean
that graft, corporation influence.
or both, are as powerful as usual.
This win interest editors only,
hut it Will interest them. Mr..
Hershman. who owns the Pitts
burrh Press, sends out a pink slip
giving the United States Govern
meut circulation statement for Oc-
tober 1, 1921. The Press daily cir
culation, bigger by fifty per cent
than any other evening paper,
gained 1000 copies in the year
and 2.S00 since last April. Every
Pittsburgh evening competitor has
lost since last April.
Mr.. Hershman's Sunday Press,
with circulation almost one hun
dred per cent greater than any
other Pittsburgh Sunday paper,
rained $1,000 In the last year and
has gained 5000 since April 1.
Every other Pittsburgh Sunday
paper has lost since April /.
These figures arr Of interest to
this particular column, which ap-
pears in the Pittsburgh Press
every day in the first column Of
the first page.
Other newspapers printing
this column are invited to send
any triumphant circulation fig
ures to the writer.
The United States Steel Cor
poration, although two-thirds Of
IL great plants are idle, issues
orders to spend ten million dol
lars building new plants, where
workers Of the company are idle.
Judge Gary or somebody else
proves that the steel companies
look ahead and know that
plants two-thirds idle now will
soon be two-thirds too small.
"No gold, no trading" is the
message sent by the British
chancellor Of the exchequer to
Russia. useless TO send goods"
saws the chancellor. "The Rus
sians have nothing to send in ex-
change" That means no gold.