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The New York herald., 1922-11-08

est partisanship, when it ought TO
have been lifted up into the clearer
air OF good sense and national dig
nifty.
Hoover can be elected. He came
home modestly and made splendid
speech. We need a man of great ad-
ministrative ability and OF supreme
sanity who can lead us into quiet wat
crs, if there are any.
We have imported, with our
labor, their discomfort. and the theo-
ries which are founded upon 1t to OBJ
tain the price. But the American
wordngman Is a sensible fellow when
he can have the chance to think with
out being overwhelmed by fear. and
he will realize that his betterment in
a material way must come through
his own individual growth and the
growth of the conscience Of the peo-
pie who believe in square deal. The
serious thing in the whole situation.
to my mind. is the fact that so many
workingmen seem to accept the idea
that they are of a fixed class; that
they cannot move out of their present
conditions; that they want always 20
remain as employees and have no
hope of becoming superintendent,
employers, managers or capitalists,
and therefore think that their only
prospect is in lettering their condi-
ton as a part of class. Great prop
aganda should be carried on to show
how false this is and how much de-
mand there Is for men Of ability.
The eighth installment OF Mr.. Lanes
letters will appear In THE NEW YORK
HERALD tomorrow.
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APPOINTED DAUGHERTY AID.
Augustus II. Seymour of Ohio Sue
ceeds Colonel Goff.

wAsHINoroN, Nov. 7.-Augustus T.
Seymour of Columbus. Ohio. was ap-
pSinted to-day to be assistant to Attor-
ney-General Daugherty to succeed Col.
Guy d Goff. whose resignation was an
rounced by Mr.. Daugherty. Col. Con
severed his connection with the depart
ment so that he might attend to the ex-
tensive business interests in West vir-
ginia which. on account Of the sudden
death recently OF his broiner. require
his early. personal attention.
Mr.. Daushcrty in announcing the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Seymour said he had
known him personally for more than
twenty years. and considered him one
OF the most capable lawyers In the State
of Ohio" Col. Con- will continue to act
for the department in two or three i'm
portant cases with which he has had
personal touch during his activity here.
The New York herald., 1922-11-08
TheLetters Of Franklin K.Lane
HIS EARLY BELIEF WAS
TREATY COULDNOT WIN
Letters Reveal His Great Admiration of Roosevelt
Discuss the Presence of Wilson in Paris-Take
Up the Labor Problem Here-Walm
Praise for Hoover.

publishes heretoh another nsfdtmen OF he
Fronkn Lane hi Secretary OF the
form
history They DU IN The NEW YORK
every completed
INsTALLMENT
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January 199
7 ibly broken over Rooevets death. He
always playing his game IN the
he two fsted fellow
that he TOOK dea TOO
divine right dea but he was bully hghter
meetings his
which sunnose is all 7 can do. he said a
unusfable but fellow doesn't
Of while be human
Republicans nominated him next time undoubtedly They
much the air
standing all worth talked to the
him ndon but
this
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Wilson's Trip Across.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 80, 1871.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80, 1919.
The one thing that bothers us here
is the problem OF unemployment. We
have not. of course, had time to turn
around and develop any plan for re-
construction. Our whole war machine
went to pieces in night. Everybody
who was doing war work dropped his
job with the thought of Paris in his
mind, with the result that everything
has come down with a crash, in the
way of production, but nothing in the
way of wages or living costs. Wages
cannot go down until the cost of living
does, and production won't increase
while people believe prices will be
lower later on. to-day proposed to
Secretary Glass that he enter upon a
campaign to promote production, Cd
by seeing what the Government could
buy. ca by seeing what the industries
would take as bottom price. (3) by
getting the Food Administration at
work to reduce prices. Perhaps it may
do some good.
I have always thought the President
was right in going across, and I believe
that he will pull through League of
Nations.
The Right to Fiume.
WASHINGTON, May /, 1919.
think the President right that
Fiume should not go to Italy. Ger
tainly she has no moral claim. for by
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GRADE PUPILS MARRIED.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YosK HERALD.
MIDpLETowN, ". Y, Nov. 7.-When
Mary Barrett. IS years of age. and AL
vim Johnson. 10. were absent from the
Walden public school complaints were
made by the school authorities to the
parents. This resulted In the discovery
that the two had been married. the cere-
mony being performed at Waikiki. Ul-
ster county. The girl is q student In
the fourth grade and Johnson is in the
fifth
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WEEKS RULES ON BRIDGES.

wAsHrNoroN, Nov. T. Secretary
Weeks announced to-day that he had
decided against any reduction in the
elevation of bridges across the Allie
pheny River near Pittsburgh. as had
been asked recently by n delegation from
that city.
The action of the army engineers In
setting the leyei for new bridges above
normal high water to permit employ
ment Of the waterway TO relieve the
transporta ion problem was sustained by
the Secretary.
The New York herald., 1922-11-08
Chicago Dancing Boys
on Strike for Wages

%HICAGO. Nov. 7.-Dancing
1 boys were on strike to-day,
their members announced.
They want some sort of wages,
they say. for working conditions
are hard. Spokesman declared that
ninety-seven boys who receive
passes TO West Side dancing en-
porium to instruct wall flowers"
but receive no other compensation
were affected
They threatened to spread the
strike to other dance halls. "On
with the dance" remarked the pro-
.prietor of the dance hall in ques-
tion, promising that plenty of in
structors would be on hand to-
night in spite of the strike.
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OWN GUN KILLS HUNTER.

HUNTINGTON, Nov 7.--Christian @.
Stiehl, 25 years old. of Burnside ave-
nue., Brooklyn. was killed instantly
while hunting to-day In West Hills when
his shotgun was exploded accidently.
Stiehl was with his cousin, George
Stoenfeld OF Corona He was grasping
his gun by the barrel. and II is believed
the trigger caught In some underbrush.
The full charge entered HIS body be-
tween the shoulder hlades
The New York herald., 1922-11-08
n. Y.-MIAMI AIR SERVICE.

MIAMI, Fla. Nov. &c. f. Redden
president of New York airplane com
pany announced here to-day that his
company would establish airplane pas
senger service between New York and
Miami in December and that a daily
service probably would begin in the
spring or early next fall.
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His Opinion of Hoover.
wAsHINoroN, Oct. 2, 19

! have all along said that the treaty
could not be ratified without some in
terpretive reservations. think that
the President will see that, although
he sees clearly. as I do. that these in
terpretations are already in the treaty
itself; but on question of construc-
ton two men may honestly differ.
The whole damn thing has gotten into
the maelstrom Of politics. of the nasti-
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erately violated by the operators.
The twenty weeks strike ensued.
the result is a victory for the men
in that they retain the wage scale
then in effect but denied by their en-
ployers. They lose to the extent that
twenty weeks pay, or that portion
at least that they might nave worked
they being normally Idle large
portion Of the summer months under
ordinary condition5--is gone forever.
The big point at issue, the retention
Of the eheck-oH system, without which
lie organization would be greatly
weakened if not destroyed, is retained.
The operators will win large sums If
they are permitted to proiiteer by
boosting prices abnormally BY means
Of stampeding the public into giving
and large orders Tor coal.
1t is veil TO bear in mind that the
miners wages have not been IN
creased, that overhead costs are no
greater, that transportation charges
are lower than one year ago. II you
will refuse to need the propaganda IN
tended to create a panicky demand Tor
fuel supplies and Mr..
Hooye MS permitted TO give full pub
licity TO all profiteering efforts, you
will purchase your coal at normal
prices and in amounts sufficient at all
times to care Tor your needs. By
pursuing this policy you will punish
the operators who planned to disrupt
the United Mine Workers Of America
and at the same time rob the Amen-
can public of untold sums. If they
fail in this another year will not see
a repetition of this great industrial
upheaval for where there is no profit
strikes there will be no tie
up of the coal fields by those who
operate and control them.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
REDUCE PRICES
BY CUTTING
PROFITS FIRST

The railroad situation, the coal
muddle, and every other effort of
capital throughout the field of human
endeavor to enlist all the forces of
modern civilization to protect its prof
its, legitimate and illegitimate from
the slightest diminution regardless
of who or how many must suffer in
consequence. 1t emphasizes the gross
injustice that marks our alleged adj
vancement as a decided retrogression
rather than progression of which we
can be proud and boastful as Bris-
bane recently put it in his pithy style.
"Other things are coming down,
wages must also come down."
Possibly, but who is to decide
WHAT wages shall come down, and
HOW MUCH? Men are not always
in the wrong, when they resist reduc-
tons. For instance, you heard about
the great strike at the Amoskeag tex
tile mills. The highly respectable
owners will tell you that it was nee
essary" to cut wages. Read what the
Rev. Herbert A. Jump, president of
the Ministers Council of Manchester,
N. H., has to say:
Although the Amoskeag has in
creased its capital from $4,000,000 to
S44,000,000 entirely out of war earn
ings, has a surplus of $37 100000 and
has not shaved dividends one cent, it
has asked its employees to stand a
aga per cent. wage cut. The ques-
ton, ii seems to me, is: Should a
corporation of inordinate wealth,
which has made tremendous, profits,
granting that it has lost $1,000, 600
during the past year, put all the bur
den of detlation on its wage earn
ers 2"
The workers in those mills read and
write. They have seen a concern in
crease its capital from four millions
TO forty-four millions. And all the
mill hands have got is their two hands
and their working brains. They see
the mills not cutting a cent off the
dividends of stock owners that do nc
work, but cutting wages 42la pei
cent. Do you wonder they resist, and
do YOU think it would be safe to try
too much force" on men in that
mood?
Adjustment must be made in wages
and prices. But be careful how you
make them by force.
/ He might have consistently added:
And when you resort to force, utilize
/ 1t without partially if it is to inspire
respect. Show no more consideration
/ TO profit than TO the wages of those
] whose energies produce profit. Money
loses its potency in the shadow OF
/ death.
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Gouging the Public.

Neutrality-suspicious. increases in
the price of gasoline have been made
because ''the market could stand it"
was the explanation for gouging the
public that John ID. Clark, vice presi-
dent of the Midwest refining company,
gave to the senate committee on
manufacturers. This committee is in
vestigating the gasoline price situa-
ton, and has decided to summon
officials of the larger oil companies
who can talk about the inside of the
oil industry"
Senator McNary of the committee,
declared it was common report that
some producers holding near-mon-
opolies i'm small fields have resorted
to choking wells that the production
could be held down and the market
'buoyed.'
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
CHILD LABOR.
Observation-Disclosures:

! Big Business in its organized form
+ has ever been a consistent opponent
Of child labor legislation ever since
its primal sponsor, organized labor,
first promulgated the idea Of sup
pressing this crime against childhood,
through the medium Of prombitofy
Legislation Big Business naturally
operates on the theory that in a com
mercial age nothing really counts but
cash. IL has kept up this cry until
even its political henchmen were in
spired With belief and sufficient eour-
remedial legislation In general and
child labor IN particular.
This anti-humanitarian virus soon
efept through the nations veins I'M
til it reached its Judicial heart and
caused that organ to act in a manner
that suggested failure to properly
perform its vital function.
One cannot read the following lines
from the pen Of Berton Bradley with
out realizing to what extent the Su-
preme Court Numbered in its child
labor law decision, which apparently
upholds the Big Business idea that
nothing counts but cash:
Cut down the laborers wage, raise
the rent if you can,
Hire a cheap child if there's ever a
chance,
Since a child works for less than a
man;
Make weary slaves of the children,
give them no leisure to play.
Doubtless they'd waste all the time
that they had, and it wouldn't
help business to pay.
All of this agitation is verify bosh and
trash
The mothers don't count, and the
babies don't count,-there's moth
ing that counts but cash.
What of the girl who struggles, what
of the girl who falls?
None of your business, of course, we
know; but somehow our fate APP
pals.
And the little wraith-like children,
who toll in the roaring mills,
None of OUR business, OF course, you
say--and ever the toiling kills.
But one must have an income and
wonderful gems to Hash
The mothers don't count, and the
children don't count - there's
nothing that counts but cash.
What of the crowded houses, what of
the fetid slum F.?
What of the reeking courts and sinks
where the great white scourge
will come?
What of the children born there, with
never a chance that's fair,
Who die or grow to a half-staryed
life in the poisoned tenement air?
Oh, let us be calm and patient, and
let us do nothing rash
The mothers don't count, and the
babies don't eount-there's moth
ing that counts but CASH.
How long, oh Lord, how long will
you permit such crimes against those
whom Your son invited to come unto
Him, saying: Suffer the little chill
dren to come unto Me, for theirs is
the Kingdom of Heaven" If this be
true, why permit human greed and
ignorance to make life on this earth
hell for these helpless charges, who
cannot protect themselves and are de-
pendent upon those who hold nothing
sacred but Mammon and who would
gladly convert all flesh and blood but
their own into profit under the mis-
taken belief that there's nothing that
counts but cash?
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25

Washington.-0fi and men,
bers of the National Federation of
Post Office Clerks are asking senator's
not to confirm Arch Coleman, who is
serving as postmaster of Minneapolis.
Coleman is charged with incompe-
tency and anti-union narrowness. The
clerks have interested Senator Ladd
of North Dakota in their case.
One year ago Postmaster General
Hays declared that Minneapolis has
the best conducted post office in the
country" Then Postmaster Purdy
recognized the unions and called their
representatives into conference on
matters of office policy.
Now the post office is disorganized,
and because he has adopted the anti
union policy of local corporations,
oleman is openly charged with being
ans errand boy for big business.
Things reached a climax when he dis
missed George N. Meyers, member of
the Post Office Clerks union and
president of the trades and labor as
sembly. The latter body passed a
resolution which expressed sympathy
for striking shop men and disap-
+ prevail of President Harding and his
advisers and associates. Meyer was
not at the meeting when the resolu.
ton was passed, but Coleman dis
charged him.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
THE COAL STRIKE.

1t required the lapse of twenty
weeks for the coal operators to final
ly enter into negotiations with the
miners that resulted in a resumption
of mining of the fuel to supply the
country's winte rneeds. To keep his
tory straight it must be borne in mind
that the operators entered into an
agreement with the men, through
mediation and cooperation with a
federal trade commission, late in 1921
TO settle by conference, such as was
held this week, the wage scales anC
working agreement for the year 1922
1t must be written, without prejudice
that this solemn compact was delib
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
THE WASTEFUL MINING
INDUSTRY.

The Chicago Daily News berates
the miners because it says they de-
mand a living wage for half-time
work.
"There are industries where this
surplus labor that now will neither
mine coal not let anybody else do so
might be employed at good wages the
year around'---testily comments The
News.
That statement is exactly the oppo-
site of the facts. We challenge The
News to make good on it.
1t cannot do SO. The truth is that
from the fall Of 1920 until this sum-
mer there were millions of workers
out of employment in this country
and there are many out of employ
ment now, although the harvest and
the opening of hitherto idle industries
have materially decreased the num-
Der.
Under private ownership of the in
dustries, recurring periods of unem-
ployment are inevitable unless society
prevents them by systematic short
ening of workdays, work weeks OF
shifts in all industries whenever there
is occasion to do so, thereby taking
up the slack. Not only is this true,
but there is constant unemployment
between depressions to a considerable
etxent-chronic unemployment.
We believe that modern society
owes to every citizen an opportunity
to earn a living-and that society
should guarantee his opportunity. Is
that not wise and reasonable?
Society, however-as administered
today--does nothing of the kind. II
ignores its plain duty.
Under these circumstances, how car
one blame workingmen for doing what
they must do in order to live? There
is no certainty of steady employment
the year around in other industries
such as The News alleges. The Goa
miners know this. They therefore
try to get living out of the mines
Who can blame them?
The News says that a searching in
vestigatien of this evil should b
made.
Agreed.
1t may be news to The News tina
the miners have asked for searching
investigation Of the entire Inefficient.
operated mining industry. They aske'
for it before a congressional commit
tee. They have gone to the troubl
and expense of publishing and dis
tributing pamphlets demanding it an
giving their reasons for wanting it.
Let the investigation be had.
honestly conducted and acted upon,
win result in the Specialization of tn
mining industry, Then let society pla
fair as to the other industries
shortening hours whenever necessar
to take up the slack and the waste i
the mining industry can be abolished
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railway arrangements, and pleads for
the truth to be made known. 1t
closes with this untruthful statement:
''In this controversy the shop crafts
employees have not only constantly re-
fused to recognize the United States
labor board, or any of its edicts, but
have information indirectly that
thew have lately imposed unreasona-
BILE and arbitrary conditions for set
Element of the controversy, and in
sist that all of their demands be
complied with, otherwise they will
continue on strike"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25

Chieago.-Much anti-union propa-
ganda Issued from commercial bodies
and chambers ST commerce is inspired
by railroad arrangements, declare
striking shop men, who cite a letter
to station agents of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Burlington from high Off
cial of that road. The station agents
are given this order:
Il wish you would personally give
this memoranda to the secretary of
your commercial club or any other
civic body, and ask him if he will
have the subject brought up for dis
cussion at an early meeting"
The letter then attempts to absolvt
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BOARD DE CENsoRs.

o. II, MILLER, Letter Carriers
Al. ID. CAMPBELL, Transfers, Chaudeurs,
Stabiemen and Helpers.
DAN MENELEH Jauitors.
WOODY MARTIN, L, OF Il. y. no. "a.
ARTHUR MOSS, Building Laborers.
FRED PALMER, BARRIERS.
GEORGE GARST, Plasterers aud Cement
finishers.
A. u. JOLLY, Electrical WORKERS No. 81.
IL. E. KUSTER, Electrical Workers No. 6Ol
JOHN u. TlBRNbf, Cigar Makers.
JAS BROWN, Typographical Union No.
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Operative Plasterers
and Cement Finishers Local
No. 143

Geo. Garst, President, 704 f. Main,
Urbana, Bell 2499.
Geo. Pro, Vice-President, SIT W.
Beardsley, Champaign, Bell 2957.
James Dunn, Fin. and Cor. Sec, 513
w. Beardsley Ave.. Bell S347.
Walter Murphy, Treas. 701 N. Neil
Street.
Claude Spradling, Rec. Sec. 2l0 l..
California, Urbana. Bell 3055.
Thos. Nolan, S. at A., 304 s. Second.
Meets First and Third Wednesday,
7:30 p. NJ. Labor Hall.
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Job work at The Review.
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BARBS.

VIA MAN loHlp DuDSiuy 1911 Bo1hS
to have any luck this season, it is
predicted. Lasker, Chicago advertis-
ing man, who was pulled out Of the
bag by Harding to settle the ship
ping middle, planned a spread eagle
campaign to put over the ship subsidy
bill, rawest proposal in years.
Somehow it didn't take. Plainly,
Lasker has hunked.
OF course the subsidy idea isn't
dead. A lot of people are willing to
pay lot of money to keep it alive.
But it is sick dog at this moment,
due principally to Labor's energy and
activity in telling the people what it
was all about.
Lasker, it is reported, also tried his
hand as adviser to the President In
the railroa dcontroversy, with no bet
ter luck. Lasker will learn some
time that advertising methods succeed
uniformly in selling bunk--or in Civ
ing it away either, for that matter.
Railroad Labor Board also is a sick
dog just now. 1t hung its clothes on
hickory limb when it passed the
famous outlaw resolution. If the con-
traption wished on weary world by
the Esch- Cummins combination will
only stay dead we will have gained
something.
Clint Houston writes, "rhis is a
time when American workers should
establish universal rule of action not
to work at the point of bayonet."
That is AN idea rapidly being put
into practice, and deservedly so.
American workers have the notion
of freedom sunk into them pretty
deeply. The business of having gun
and bayonet in front of your face
while you try to get on with your job
is no go. 1t breeds an irresistible
desire to let the job alone until the
bayonet is put back where it belongs.
Amy anyway, wherever did the idea
start that railroad owners were a lot
of cars with arbitrary rights to do
as they doggone please?
-
The story keeps bobbing up that
the government of Cuba was told in
a communication delivered by Gen.
Crowder, inspired by Senator Reed
Smoot, to limit its sugar crop or pay
the penalty of sky high tariff in this
country.
Beet sugar interests, led by Smoot,
don't like to see ample supply of cane
sugar coming in.
Working people, paying steen cents
pound for sugar, should ponder on
how magnates who neither raise cane
nor beets, juggle with finances and
tariffs and make more profit than the
workers can properly picture in THEN
minds.
Raising tariff is more profitable foi
some than raising sugar is for others
Middlemen and spectators get theirs
coming and going.
A way will be found some day t.
curb those vultures,
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
DIAMOND LODGE No. All

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Euginemen.
Meet in Labor Hall the First and
Third Thursday evenings and Second
and Fourth Thursday afternoons at
1880 o'clock and 2;00 o'clock. Don't
forget the day and hour.
ID. 7. Y0UNGL0YE. Pres. 20S w.
Vine st.
+. II. MOORE, Rec. and Fin. Sec, sos
Locust st.
N. A. MARSHALL, Local Chairman,
So f Healey st.