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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1922-05-05
THE FORDNEY
TARIFF BILL

IL HobnthS ndG hdppeneu III Hlty
years.
Mr.. Fordney is shouting, "Every-
thing is 80. per cent labor" state
ment true probably before machir-
cry was invented. Today nothing,
generally speaking, is more than
80 per cent labor, and many things
are far less Therefore, protec-
tective tariff that protected labor
on the old90 per cent basis can be
cut in two in the high spots, and
further reduced where automatic
machines do most of the work, and
be as protective" as before.
A single operator at about $3 per
day running twenty automatic
machines produces 1900 pairs of
the cheapest mems socks per day,
selling at 6 or Z cents per pair.
The hosiery people now have 36
per cent or $45 protection on the
entire 1,600 pairs to protect total
wage cost of $50, and they are cry
ing for about 70 per cent protec.
ton. They have no right to any
for no Nation equals our hosiery
costs.
So, single operator with Is
or 20 automatic screw machines
produces as much as 500 men
could have produced two or three
generation ago. Sometimes from
each of these machines three drops
every three minutes piece of met
al cut outside and inside into most
difficult shapes which would have
taken skilled man days to pro-
duct in the early days of produc-
ton. And yet the protection to-
day is three or four times more
than Alexander Hamilton gave in
1889, when everything wassS0 per
cent labor. No Nation equals us
in this kind of quantity produc-
tion.
So shoes, operators do in 45 min
-utes now what used to take two
days time. And in sewing cloth
in 1850 a woman took 20 minutes
time to sew seam yard long; in
1870 two minutes with sewing
machine with handle on the hy-
wheel; then one minute with the
foot-treadle machine; and the lat
est invention operated by electrici-
ty does in 20 seconds what used to
take 20 minutes.
The Fair Tariff League has stud
led 29 industries producing mostly
the things that ELL our stores. 1t
finds that the total wages in these
industries are seldom more than
30 per cent of the factory selling
price of the eproduct. In some pro-
ducts it is from six to fifteen per
cent. A tariff of from fifteen to
thirty per cent would, with few
exceptions, equal the total wage
cost in the industry itself, while
much less than this would repre-
sent the difference in the wage
cost" in this country and in foreign
countries.
To these rates would have to be
added other percentages, usually
much less, for work done in prior
processes, which prepare the mate
rial for the factories that make the
finished product like clocks, gloves.
cutlery, etc.
The United States makes hosiery
of all sorts, pressed glass, plate
glass, sanitary ware, cheap gloves,
ordinary table cutlery, cheap cot
tons, kitchen cutlery, many kinds
of hardware, baud tools etc, cheap.
er than anywhere else in the world.
In these things protection has
accomplished whet was predicted
at the start. High-paid labor IL
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1922-05-05

The farmer who vents tosucceed
and earn the reputation for de-
pendability can not afford to neg
lect doing his work on time-doing
it when it should be done. He can
not afford to put off until tomorrow
the task assigned for today. 1t
does not matter in what capacity
we work, we have responsibilities.
Somebody is depending On us, and
in order todo our work well and at
the right time we must plan for
each day and each week.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1922-05-05
w WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES
BY WALLACE BASSFORD,
Especial News Correspondent

When the Arms Conference gath
cred in Washington, as provided
by the Democratic Congress and
President in the naval act of 1916.
revamped by the Borah resolution,
President Harding said: an So
berest reflection, the worlds hun
dreds of millions who pay in peace
and die in war which their states
men to turn the expenditures for
destruction into means of cohstruc-
ton, aimed at higher state for
those who live aud follow after"
A noble sentiment, endorsed by
everyone who had no personal
pocketbook to fill through a big
army or navy, and would have en-
titled the President to the credit
due for it's utterance, If events had
shown that he meant it. When
the naval bill was reported to the
House it provided for $1,000 men
to handle our diminished navy.
and Chairman Kelley demonstrate
ed that the number was sufficient.
Then came Nick Longworth with
"a letter from Harding asking that
the number of men be increased by
$4,000 and the House, with Hard
ing's words at the Arms Confer
'ence still ringing in it's ears, voted
the increase! What is the result?
1t is that the naval expenditures
for the next fiscal year, instead of
being decreased from $410,000,OOO,
the figures for the present year,
will run about ten millions higher.
This is due partly to the increase
in personnel above Chairman Kel-
ley's figures and partly to "author-
lied" expenditures, not actually ap-
propriated in the bill, amounting
to about S67 100000. This is a
peculiar legislative device used to
make larger funds available while
showing economic" in the bill.
Secretary Mellon told Congress
some months ago that the Treasury
was threatened with deficit of
some fifty millions unless appro-
priations were reduced. The Pres
ident and the Republican leaders
in Congress have been vociferating
loudly about the wonderful econo-
.omies practiced, but Mellon is now
out with statement showing that
the deficit will be about four hum
dred millions instead of fifty. An
other year of such Republican
ECONOMY" will put Uncle Sam in
the poor house. ff the bonus bill
passes the Senate and is signed by
the President, another heavy load
is placed on the Treasury unless a
way can be found to,pay the bonus
out of the interest and principal of
the debts owed us by foreign gov
.ernments. The chance that it can
be paid in this manner is not prom.
Using, as England is the only one
of our debtors capable of making
large payments now or within the
near future.
The Senate Republicans are
placing in the tariff bill duty on
hides, to fool the farmer. They
will probably discover next Novem-
ber that the farmer is not easily
fooled; he knows that a tariff on
hides can not compel the packers
trust to pay more for the live steer
by reason of the hide which covers
it. The reckers bid their price for
the steer, considering him as so
much beef and viewing the hide as
a by-product obtained for practi-
cally nothing. 1t would take an
lngenius Philadelphia lawyer to
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1922-05-05

millions with practically DO chance
that it will ever be paid unless it
is done out of the money which the
President desires to advance. The
chief object of the loan seems to
be to show the colored voter in this
country what great and good
friend the race has in the White
House. Like the anti-lynching
bill, it is intended to produce pro-
found effect on the colored BROTH
er.
*M
The administration continues to
make no effort to settle either the
textile or the coal strike, which
threatens every industry using
coal.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1922-05-05

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Evening star., 1922-11-19

unimpressively. He read most of bis
speeches, and they were coucAed In N
academic vein. He did not "take his
coat off," and the British elector, like
the American, likes nothing better
than to see a man hustle and talk
plainly in support, of himself or his
party.
1t now appears that in the three
cornered fight In the London borough
in which Wells stood as a candidate
he ran last, receiving only 1.427 votes
to 2.1s0 for the second man and S,S3a
for the conservative. This was q rather
sorry showing. But. then. 1t was asked
at the beginning, and 1t 10 asked now,
Why should Wells rate himself a. q
laborite? He has never been a work.
ingman. He has been a professional
writer practically all his life. publish.
ing his first story at the age Of twenty
nine. He Is friend Of labor" how.
ever, just as George Bernard Shaw is
an advocate Of the proletariat. Shaw
might have made a better showing. He
would at least have conducted q
hustling and vivid campaign. Wells
must either change his style or his
party If he wants to succeed in the
field Of politics.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
"Don't Get Hurt" !"

This slogan Of Safety week" is
backward. OF course, it is well enough
to warn the pedestrian not to get hurt.
He has had the warning thousands Of
times, and in the large he has needed
it well, else the entire community
would be dead or manned.
Don't hurt" should be the primary
slogan. A negative statement is bad
enough, but eternally to place the
blame upon the inoffensive man in
the street" is worse than putting the
cart before the horse.
Communities are 50 used to traffic
accidents that they commonly fail to
be stirred by them unless the tragedy
happens to themselves or to some one
dear to them. Then it suddenly Is
seen in all its unnecessary hideous.
mass. But a traffic accident Is always
hideous. ..
Don't hurt"
That is the proper warning. placing
the emphasis where it belongs. The
thing to do is to take primary atten.
rion of the man who gets run over and
place it upon the man who does the
running over. Such q white light Of
publicity and attention will make
scores of motorists, perhaps even the
most reckless, heed the true warning.
Don't hurt!" -.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
A Tale Of Two Brothers.

Interest, more or less national, viii
attach to Charles w. Bryan when he
assumes and while he performs the
duties Of Governor Of Nebraska.
Information about him today Is
meager beyond the fact that he Is the
younger brother Of the famous VIII
liam j., and has been closely asso-
ciated with him In business and poll
tics since the latter came into his
kingdom Of national consequence and
prosperity. The close association has
existed now for a full quarter century.
Those who know the younger man
speak praise Of him. They hold in high
regard both his ability and the loyalty
Of his nature. He has until now large
ly effaced himself in the interests Of
the older man. who. with his brilliant
and snowy parts. captured popular
notice At Chicago in 1896 and has kept
we'll IN the spotlight ever since.
At last, however. Charles W. has
emerged from William Us shadow
and become an individual in his own
right. How will he acquit himself in
the office he has secured, and: If sue
cessfully, to what may the success
lead?
Unlike his brother. he is not an elo-
quent man, but Is said to possess q
level head and to keep it level on his
shoulders. Unlike his brother again,
he is a plodding investigator, and
goes into questions thoroughly.
There Is no suggestion that sue
cessful term as Governor Of Nebraska
might make Charles w. q presidential
quantity, but 1t Is thought that it
might land him in the Senate here. or
in q cabinet office IL a democrat
should succeed Mr.. Harding in the
White House. He would be equal,
his friends claim, to either place.
Patience sometimes has full reward.
Surely this man has been patient. He
has waited long for a chance; and now
it has come to him at a time when the
stakes are large, the play high and
the players in a state Of great ex-
hilaration.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Caps and Fame.

Many a man great in his own es.
TEEN for qualities Of statesmanship
and perhaps in the esteem of others
has been chagrined In the course Of
his career to find his name given to a
five-cent cigar. Perhaps the same
emotion is felt by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle Just now. He Is earnestly try
ing to. bring the world to an accept-
ance Of certain psychic phenomena in
manifestation Of law which Is not
indorsed by material science. But the
unheeding world, instead Of recogniz.
ing ectoplasms, adopts the Sherlock
Holmes cap" That fore-andaft head
gear, SO familiar to the readers Of de.
tective fiction. has suddenly become
the vogue. It had period Of popu-
larity some years ago. when the great
crime detector was spinning his yarns,
and then passed, to be readopted by a
few sea travellers and country club
habitues. Now it is 1.-The thing" in
caps, with its double flap, tied at the
crest with q little ribbon, and its visors
at both ends. What will the movie
directors do now? The film managers
have been known for some time by the
reversal Of their caps. the sure sign
manual Of authority in studio and on
location. But with yisors at both ends
the best they can do to difrerentiate
from the ordinary run Of mankind will
be to turn their caps sidewise. in the
Napolsonic style. Will the pipe and
perhaps the dressing gown come back
into vogue with the 'double.peaked de-
tective cap? There is plenty OF
amateur detective talent at large in
this country, and maybe the new style
will stimulate It to even greater &C.
tivity than heretofore.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Hague and Haig.

In commenting upon the night Of
the Sultan Of Turkey to British bat
tleship for refuge one Of the higher
authorities Of the government at Lon.
don, not named in the dispatches, 10
quoted as saying:
Great Britain has traditionaliy been
the refuge of deposed sovereigns.
Even Napoleon was removed for SAFE
ty on q British ship. and the only
reason the kaiser did not offer himself
the danger of passing through the
firing lines on the western front
1t Is interesting to know that the
kaiser actually wanted to surrender
himself to the British. Much different,
indeed. would have been tho situation
if he had done SO. 1t would not have
been so easy then to avoid the issue Of
a trial. Wilhelm in England or in
some English possession might have
made a very great alteration in the
British attitude.
It Is to be noted that tho diniculty
which prevented surrender to Haig
was the danger Of passing through the
firing lines on the western front"
Is there a significance in the plural?
The firing Zines" consisted first Of
German forces and then Of allied
troops. To get to Haig 1t would have
been necessary to pass through the
former. Was not the danger to the
kaiser greater in the first step than in
the second?
1t has been said that the reason
Wilhelm fled into Holland was that
he feared his own troops. and that the
way was open to the northeast. This
throws light upon the suggestion con-
tanned In the London dispatch that the
kaiser could not get through the west.
ern lines in safety. Probably the gov.
ernment at The Hague devoutIy
wishes that another Haig had received
the fugitive.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Politics at Home
A Tale Of Two Radicals.

Robert M. La Toilette and Hiram
johnson achieved the most pronounced
personal triumphs in the recent cam.
paign. Each had walkaway on cleo.
ton day. Each made show Of his
company. Each stood. and was elect
cd, a. q republican. and yet both lig-
ure prominently In all speculation
about the organization Of third
party.
Both are credited with radical views
and tendencies. And yet they differ
sharply about some things. A. one
star dinereth from another star in
glory, one radical may differ from an.
other radical in radicalism. These two
radicals do.
In personal gifts and dispositions
they are much alike. Both are orators
Of the impassioned school. Both han
die crowds in much the same fashion.
Both inspire ardent devotion. Men
who come under their spell swear by
them. They like obedience, and know
how to command It.
Both have had experience in both
executive and legislative ONCE. Each
has served as tho governor Of his
state.
Mr.. La Toilette is the older. though
not IN old man. There seems to be an
abundance Of pep and zip in him yet.
Conceding for speculation's sake
that a third party impends, would 1t
be possible to bring these men to-
gether on the same platform? To 60
even further, would it be possible to
make q presidential ticket out Of
them? II 50. which for drst place?
Mr.. La Toilette Is not only the older,
but q q radical, a reformer. what you
please, has had much the longer and
wider experience. He might claim first
place on that score. And yet it is din
cult to think Of Mr.. johnson In second
place, even with q veteran Of e.ninence
in first.
When the ball opens, these two men
will be prominent and important hg-
ures on the floor: and all they say and
all they do will be chronicled. and ap-
praised by an interested public.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Will There Be Two Caliphs7

Undoubtedly the flight Of the sui
tan will be construed by the Turkish
nationalists as q surrender Of the
caliphate. Rafet Pasha, the Kemalist
Governor Of Constantinople, has al
ready declared that his placing himself
under Christian protection is an aban-
donment Of all authority over the Mos
lem. It is intimated that a demand
will be made upon Great Britain for
the restoration Of Mohammed vi for
trial.
Apart from the question Of British
liability in the matter arises the ques.
ton of the sultan's status as the head
Of the church. Suppose the Angora
government declares that he is no
longer caliph, having abandoned that
Office upon entering Christian terri.
tory. Will that declaration stand with
the other Moslem powers and peoples?
VIII 1t be accepted by the Arabs of
the Hedjaz or by the Mohammedans
Of India. or the followers Of the
prophet In Africa? The Angora gov
ernment had previously decreed the
ONCE Of sultan vacant and separated
the political and religious functions.
1t is quite probable that Moslems in
other countries will accept this sep
aration decree and insist that Moham-
med vi remains the caliph despite any
declaration by the Angora authori.
ties.
Should this happen and should the
Kemalist government name q new
caliph the Moslem world will be seri.
ously troubled by the presence Of two
heads Of the religion. With Moham'
med vi perhaps installed at Mecca un.
der the protection Of the King Of the
Hedjaz, and a caliph chosen by Kemal
Pasha's national assembly established
at Constantinople, a schism would be
effected In Islam that would much
relieve the Christian world on the
score Of possible Mohammedan con-
centration. The flight Of the sultan,
therefore, may have very important
consequences apart from any immedi.
ate embarrassment to England on the
score Of his reception on a British
warship.
Evening star., 1922-11-19

money by which tho offender was
enabled to hire his prison proxy. He
was tried on = charge Of conspiracy
to defeat justice and was sentenced to
serve three months.
The serious part Of this matter is
that 1t is reported that several cases
Of this same character have occurred
in different parts Of the country. and
that Z standard rate Of SO day has
been established for substitute prison
service.
It seems incredible that proxies
could ever get to prison without the
connivance Of court Or Jail officials.
Such a connivance Is. Of course, in It,
self a criminal act and deserves Sc
we're punishment. In the Cleveland
case there were three parties to the
offense. the lawbreaker. the provider
Of funds and the proxy himself. II
there was any official knowledge Of
the substitution, whoever aided in 1t
was also guilty.
Tn. hiring Of substitutes to serve
prison terms has been known in the
past; indeed, was accepted as a pos
sible expedient. but long since the law
has refused to recognize the right Of a
man. a violator himself. to pass his
penalty on to another for a considera.
ton.
BY hiring q substitute the man who
is given Jail sentence In effect trans
mutes it into a fine, thus minimizing
the effectiveness Of the penalty. In
almost all cases q prison term Is
dreaded, and it is the possibility Of
doing time" that chiefly deters poten.
tial lawbreakers rather. than the
chance Of suffering pecuniarily.
This Cleveland case should be fol.
lowed thoroughly to determine whether
the practice prevails elsewhere In this
country. 1t is a dangerous breach OF
the safeguards that have been erected
for the protection Of society.
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Wells q Poor Third,

n. q. Wells. British author and
publicist, offered himself as a candi.
date Tor the house Of commons on the
labor ticket In the recent campaign.
He threw himself into the canvass
vigorously. Much interest was mani
tested In him because Of his wide repu.
tation a0 q writer and commentator
on international affairs. But those
who followed his course during the
Aght were not surprised when they
learned the result. For Wells ct no
time in the campaign measured up to
the standard Of . political contestant.
He had much to nay. but he fki1ed TO
Evening star., 1922-11-19
Politics.

Politics? We are going to have
"oodlings'' Of politics in this country
during the next two years. It viii be
the wear. Every politician between the
two oceans will be In action. Old poll
ticians and new will md work ready
to hand, and appealing in the strong
est way to their tastes and talents.
Let US all welcome the fact. Every.
thing is disturbed. and much is in
disorder, and only men Of public spirit,
and experienced in public affairs,
exerting themselves according to their
lights to bring order out Of public con-
ditions, can save the day as the day
should be saved.
There are opinions galore about
what last weeks election results
signify. There are quite as many
opinions about what those returns
call for. Scrap the old parties is the
raucous demand In one quarter. Change
their leadership is the demand in an
other quartey. And In q third quarter
is q frank confession that the con.
fusion In 50 great It would be wel1 for
everybody for the present to think
more and talk less.
But. whatever ones opinion may be,
let all be buoyed by, and act upon. the
conviction that we shah come through
and carry on. We are not at the end
Of our resources by q long shot. On
the contrary, We may be on the eve
Of greater, bigger things than We have
hitherto accomplished. We are today
the soundest and most powerful go
ing concern in the. world, and, az q
matter Of fact, the envy Of peoples
elsewhere. who, IN their greater dis.
trsss, are looking to us for suggestions
and an example.
The American who IL pulling q long
face now IN out Of character: He is
not playing the proper part. His ex-
preston IL not becoming 70 the Amer
lean style Of beauty. He should revise
his phiz, 20 to say, and inspire cheer.
fuiness In all behoiders.