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New-York tribune., 1922-02-26


rcel The persons ere liabel and Myrtle.
w ABEL-Looka. There's the Vice
M Count La sasrr.s
/ v Z Myrtle-Yeah Amt no Rudolph
Valentino, is he?
Mabel-Not so bad loolzin' though, but
Linda old.
1lyltle--1 suppose them princesses has to
marry old guys. Need some guy with lotta
sense to look after their 1ools an palaces and
all
Mabel-Princes don't have no palaces. They
gotta live in ordinary castles after they're
married.
Myrtle-Pretty tough on the poor things,
amt il? guess ld just hate to haf to live
IN castle
.Mabel-You needn't laf. It's come-down,
alter you've been gon round with your folks
rom one big palace to another an havin'
y1hole scots O rooms in all Of EN- fer your
T.
Myrtle---I s'pose she won't have no scots O
SONS in them castles, will she?
Mabel-She an the vice count will have
the whole house, but it won't be like living in
the palace an being in on all the parties and
+lines RE King and Queen is always giving.
Myrtle-I'll bet she has plenty O. parties
I'll bet she has a party every night if she
New-York tribune., 1922-02-26

The scene is obout the center Of q ntot'e
'heuter during the progress Of tie necs
reel. The persons ere .uabel and Myrtle.
, 1922-01-05

party. preferably the latter, having already assumed
the direction of one or two of the minor organizations
Of the state. and proceed to select the United States
senator, member of congress, governor and the COM
piete list of state officers together with a working ma
jority Of the state legislature, after which he designs
to establish a situation in Wyoming which could not be
described otherwise than as hell on the Wabash
This Lux person is lnxuriously fitted out with nerve.
We cannot conceive Of a self-respecting Democrat
joining any such menagerie as Lux ringmasters. any
more than we can imagine a decent Republican asso-
ciating with such a circus. The Wyoming members of
these two political parties are pretty hard headed peo-
pie, pretty solidly aligned with the party Of their choice
and believers IN party principles. The great majority
Of them cannot be brought into association with an
exploded and discredited theory. They are wise to the
amateur dissemination Of bull and will contact with
none ether than the expert.
Yes, We have in our minds eye q picture Of Lux,
old sport. cracking the non-partisan whip and driving
a lot of old ring-tailed Democrats into the N. P. cor
al, and then doing the same thing to an equal num-
er of d-without-end Republicans.
oh, yes, the old warriors Of this imperial common
wealth who believe in and have fought for this con-
government and all of the institutions
under 1t, will bend the knee in submission to
charla,an like Lux. throw away their principles, their
homes, property, citizenship. and all the hard earned
privileges they -ossess merely to follow s transparency,
carried by Luz, down the street.
II Lux succeeds, the insane hospital at Evanston
must necessarily be enlarged.
, 1922-01-05
Current Business Conditions

eisired BY the organizers of the
movement
The first effect Of the revised csti-
mate was to AUST cotton to sell of,
January contracts going under II
cents. but since then with good
conditions in the cotton goods
trade prices have advanced about
two cents the pound Exports Of
cotton since June have been well
above those OF the corresponding
months OF last year, and there IS
some feeling in the British cotton
trade THAI world stocks of cotton
goods are low and that better buy
ing Is not far off. Trade in India
is unfavorabiy affected by the pafri-
otto Boycott OF British goods.
The Governments final report
makes this country's production of
wheat about 100000 bushels above
former figures. Exports for the
twenty-five weeks ended December p,
as reported by Bradstreet's aggregated
23i,oO0,000 bushels against ZB,5co,OOO
in the corresponding time last
The market has been unsettled md
fuctuating. but at the end of Decern-
Der was upon about the same level as
at the beginning. The worlds needs
and supplies seems to be closely ball
anced in this crop, but the growing
crop in this country Is rated at a low
condition.
The West has a surplus of corr
which rests heavily upon the market,
but prices have held their own during
the past month. and gained a couple
OF cents, partly on the strength of
prospective purchases for Russia.
Cattle arc depressed, but hogs around
81 per hundred-weight in Chicago
yield a fair return to the farmer who
has grown a good crop of corn. Dairy
products also arc bringing fair prices.
Farmers who W their land and
are out of debt can get along very
well under present conditions, although
local taxes have been pushed up m
recent years until they are as much
as rent was twenty years ago. Far
mcrs who went into debt for land al
the prices ruling two years ago have
an interest charge which cannot be
md from the land. This will be the
first year in a>grcat many in which
numerous defaults will occur in the
payment of interest upon farm mort
cages.
there Is good reason TO believe that
present prices for farm products are
about the lowest that will be seen.
The last two seasons have been un-
usually favorable for the grain erops
The carry-over of wheat certainly
will not be large and the growing crop
has a poor start. 1t would be re-
markable to have another bumper corn
yield after three great crops, and there
is reason to believe that less corn will
be planted this year. Moreover. il is
likely that the hog crop will be in
creased. During the years when corn
brought high prices. il became the
popular thing to sell orr and a good
many farmers got out of hogs. They
are likely to get back to a more evenly
balanced agriculture, with more mich
cows, more pigs. more grass and for
7rc nj and more scientific culture
, 1922-01-05
By GEORGE z. ROBERTS

The operation OF railway repair
shops always has been regarded as
a matter OF policy within the dis
crction OF the management. II :
company can Ave money by oper-
ating its own shops II should do so,
and BY the Same reasoning II money
can be saved by letting out the
work, that should be done. The
railroads are maintained primarily
10 give service to the public, and
the public is entitled to have them
operated upon a level of costs cor
responding TO what the public pays
and receives for like iabo-s and ser
vices Continuity of service and
merit in service may well be recog-
nized, bu; compensation should be
based upon the value OF services
rendered Any other system would
make railroad employees a favored
class, at the expense. not of the rail-
road companies, but OF the public,
including millions OF people who
have less pay than the railroad men.
We have a letter from Mont
gomery. Ala, In which the writer
says
'-The producers are forced to sell beef for
from ~ to eeais per pound and hide.
pay from IS to 40 cents per pound for
sSse. Is. ' ssise : true u Il s.Iss PRED sSI
sf a salary q fSsn 500 10 500 PEI ssass
LOT eight hours Of easy work a day; while
the farm iaborers work from 10 to ~ hour,
a day in tbe dew and cold and receive .
the farmer loses money paying that salary.
Something q, radically wrong and I fear
the resslt will not be good for cur country"
The prospect is for a cessation OF
coal-mining when existing contracts
expire on April LIST The pay for
mining coal is so far above what
II was before the war that the price
of coal is one of the most serious
obstacles to the general reduction
of living costs and the revival Of
industry. The increased cost of
coal and increased cost of trans
p~ortation are causing more unem-
ployment and more hardship in this
country than any other two infu-
ences that can be named. No pre-
dictions can be ventured as to when
industry will be running full time
so long as it labors Under such
handicaps.
(onuiuouS
Conditions in the agricultural sec
tons T far from inspiring. but in
the cotton country the feeling is a
little better. The final government
estimate upon the cotton crop is
$4,000 bales. which compares
with the October estimate OF
6.537.000 bales. an increase that
might have been expected TO play
smash with the market. The ex-
PLANTATION given for this extraor-
binary revision is that the Depart
ment of Agriculture was crippled in
the bureau of estimates by a reduc-
ton OF its force Of investigators.
and was misled as to the acreag
planted in cotton. The ginnings
proved the ~inaccuracy OF the DC
tober estimate. and the conclusion
seems to be forced that the acreage
-r-tsh-,-nt was -,r~h f~~s .t--
, 1922-01-05
LET'S DO BUSINESS.

History repeats itself and not often stutteringly
but in a clear well-expressed manner. 1t is Just ABOUT
time q repetition occurred, and the page due TO be re-
iterated is that of the period Of 1896, the zero point
of the well-remembered Cleveland depression. FOR
four years encouragement had brooded over the land
millions of working men and women were without en-
ployment and square meals were phenomena and wide
~ separated, great industrial plants stood silent, de-
serted and fell into ruin and decay from rust and dis
use. Prices of commodities did not warrant the cost
of production even at the pitiful sum asked by labor.
Financial enterprise existed only as a dream Of for
mer and happier times Goods became shelf-worn by
reason of lack of customers. Business of all kinds was
stagnant. Discouragement and incidence were every
where.
Finally, hope appeared In the person of William Nc
Kinley. People realized to some degree the psychol-
ogy of the situation. They were worn and weary with
the hopeless condition which had pinned them down
for four miserable years. They determined to end it.
They aroused themselves, and their assumption OF ac-
tivity awakened confidence, the thing then most lack
ing. With the inauguration of Mckinley and the
prompt action of congress on tariff matters and en-
couragement of industrial enterprise, almost overnight
the country began an era of unparalleled prosperity.
In fact the high water mark of the country's we'll
being. Those who survived that dismal time and had
tho nerve to re-enter business will recall with salts
faction the rewards that were theirs.
There is in the present time a somewhat parallel
situation. The depression into which We were plunged
by the sudden ceasing of high tension war activity,
has lasted something like three years. There is nothing
fundamentally wrong. Simply a suddenly created
situation to which we have been unable to adjust our
selves with facility. And the longer it proceeded the
worse it grew and the more formidable It appeared.
Just as the 1896 situation presented itself, the pa
thence of the people has become threadbare. Signs
of an aroused determination appear in the present
gloom; and with a president who wants to do and has
done all that is humanity possible for the people, there
remains nothing to be done except to abolish the
psychological spell, take up the pick and shovel and go
to work.
The condition Of mind works just as well in one d.
rection as in the other. The honest desire to work
creates the work to be done. The doing Of work by
one suggests the desirability to others. Pursued to
the natural conclusion you have something started in
which all viii join and make the volume.
The people are in the proper frame Of mind. All
that is required Is the person with nerve and initia-
tive to break the letters that are holding things back.
What do you say. that we cease talking about So
called hard times and with the materials, machinery
and facilities at hand lay hold Of them and proceed to
do business7
, 1922-01-05
RISE AND FALL OF IsMs.

Ny world The dreams these Non-Partisan BOOM
es do have? They have no h~esitancy in hitching their
wagon to a star. Whether they are fools or wise in
their own conceit is to be determined by the good sense
of the people Of Wyoming.
We have noted the rise and fall of the isms for many
years. They have core and gone as the plague. Some
ti.pss they have occasic-cd temporary discomfort as
they gravitated toward the scrap heap, but more often
manner In which they would ~aeeomplish the desider-
alum.
All OF these gentlemen with ctn~-alls, paramount IS
sues, quick-repairs for the body polite have but one
object. The money of the people and the control of
their property through its power. It was SO with
greenbackism, SO with populism, SO with free-silverism
and truer than ever with non-partisanism. whereve-
any of these half-baked theories were remotely at
tempted in practice, calamity followed. Greenbacksm
and free-silverism were ridiculed out of the country
because of their economic unsoundness In principle.
PopuIism which gained a temporary footing in Kan.
sas, Nebraska, Colorado and a few other western
states set these states back In progress from twenty
TO twenty-five years, and their financial reputation was
questioned for many years subsequently,.
The rape of North Dakota and the wreckape. iron,
which the people of that state are even now er,erg
ing, occasioned by the visitation of non-partisanism. Il
enough warning to at least place the people Of othe,
states upon guard against the latest and worst of al
the isms that have afflicted US since the passing gen
Grafton can remember.
Non-partisan piracy, and It Is nothing else. seek,
control of the peoples affairs through someone Of tn,
politica1 PARTIES. which is the only means under on
system of government. The promoters tried and faiIe,
in the organization Of n party of their own. Thei
plsn now is alliance of the weaker parties or the can
ture Of the stronger ones through nronaeanda that an
peals TO ignorance but insults intelligence.
An IRRESPONSIBLE person named Lux. which Was q
the old day. the DESIGNATION Of n famous brow mad
IT Omaha and Distributed over the northwest %
libating purposes, proposes In apparent seriousness. Z
take charge Of either the Democratic or Republicsi
, 1922-01-05
dcRsE BEFORE THE A

Too many politicians have worked hand in glove
with destructioEists to mako industrial enterprises diff
hcult and impossible. Taxation should cease to be OPP
pressive and all state and federal departments should
become seh-sustaining instead of parasitic. II they
have any excuse for existence at all. make those who
get special service from u government function pay
for that service, and not everyone in the state for
Something that is of no earthly use to them. In ad-
dition, the various functions exercised by the state in
regulating business and industries, and human activi-
ties, like banking commissions, corporation commits
sions. tax commissions, labor commissions, ad infini-
tum, should become constructive, and it should be their
poast that in their various fields of offcialism they ac-
tualy do things of practical value for the masses of
the people and the prosperity of the commonwealth.
Why should not tax commissions help reduce taxes
instead of holding conventions of taxation experts to
invent new ways Of getting more revenues GU. of the
people? Why should not a corporation or Blue Sky
commission make it n boast that it has encouraged the
creation of new corporations? Why continue making
it difficult and expensive for anyone to organize any
new business enterprise? Why contine killing them
with demands for ~red-tape reports and official tape
Why should not a state labor commission
boast of having dine something to give some poor man
or woman n job, instead of making it harder all the
time for anyone to start an industry and maintain a
payroll? Why should not all thesboards and commits
sions which live off the efforts of industry be made to
justify their existence by showing assistance to in
dustry?
They are killing the goose that lays the golden egg
OF oficiaGsm by driving capital away from investment
IN industries and force the idle billions into invest
ing in non-taxable securities instead of establishing
new manufacturing establishments. Paternalism has
gone so far as to pauperze not only the 10, 600, 900
persons now said to be in the public employ, but to
make them believe that they are the government, and
the rest of the 0.000, 900 American nuts, called pri-
vate citizens by mere courtesy, ought to be grateful
they are permitted to live by the grace of an Of
fetal oligarchy. The cart must be got behind the
that drags the industrial cart or the same will
happen that did to an Italian fruit peddler on the
docks at Seattle one fine morning. He had loaded his
with assorted fruits and vegetables for his days
and was trying to lead the donkey off the
docks with his towering load. The donk was OBJ
and baked and backed until cart, load and
jackass went off into Puget Sound and disappeared.
Watching the bubbles come up the italian looked down
where his earthly hopes had disappeared to rise no
more, and said: 81 hope you gotta your goddam sat
isfyr"
, 1922-01-05
THE l

All the cities in the United States of more than 20,-l
coo population have now been reached by the presi-
dents conference on unemployment, and some very
interesting reports have been received as to the novel
means taken by various communities to provide work
for the jobless. These are collected in the clearing
house Of information maintained bv the committee on
civic and emergency measures at Washington and are
sent out in bulletin form every ten days to all may
ors, as suggestions towards the solution of their own
problems.
Chicago has made a house-to-house a nvass under
the direction of the 90 battalion fire chiefs, to COM
pei householders to remove from their prsui<es all
combustible material and refuse, as a fire prevention
measure. This campaign has Great d many short time
Jobs. The women's City Club has divided the city into
SO districts, each In charge of a woman chairman, who
devotes specified hours each day to getting iobs
through its membership.
Dallas. Texas, took a church census Of its 100, 900
population and each householder was asked II some
special odd job, painting, carpentry, gardening. or
cleaning, could be furnished the unemployed. and a
record was kept of the replies and addresses, with the
result that a large number of days of work were Sc
cured for the most needy.
In Fort Wayne, Ind, advertisements were published
In the newspapers, and the unemployed were asked to
fill out and send in blanks. These were turned over
to the local employment agency, and local industries
secured the helm they needed.
kearny, N. j.. has an agent out every afternoon.
covering the town with several helpers, In automobiles
They visit buildings under construction. look over
streets being paved, and call at all Industrial plants
and railroad shops, offering the cooperation of the To-
eal employment bureau, and ascertining exactly what
kind of help is needed.
In New York City, 1903 social agencies have CO.
operated in relief work for the unemployed and have
established a central bureau of registration to act as 4
clearing house. Pittsburgh contractors and EMPLOYERS
hnve been urged to keep one or two men in each Fam
iv on the payroll, and to hire to a large extent those
living in the city who have dependents.
Each ward in Rockford, ILL.,, has a committee with
the two aldermen as chairmen. These committees in
turn have organized precinct committees with a mem.
5 her in charge of each city block. Personal contact
ike this has resulted in a very successful campaign To
Z provide jobs and relieve distress.
4 Sehnectadv, N. Y. has taken care Of its own prob
r lem bv bond issues for public improvements. and thu
city officials are enforcing rigidlv such ordinances a,
Snow removal, which is done under CITY supervision
and charged on tax bills of all derelict property
n owners.
e Atlanta, Ga. has formed a club of 500 citizens, each
T OF whom has pledged the building of a DWELLING to be
Q reiited ut a reasonable figure, thus giving employment
n to many, ond also helping The housing situation.
, 1922-01-05
By The Unknown Soldiers Grave
I lie hereof the many. one
Who for the worlds life gave a life.
Somewhat alone.
NEW YORK TIMES

I lie hereof the many. one
Who for the worlds life gave a life.
Somewhat alone.
Tonight a sorrowing mother mourns
her son.
Somewhere n father or mayhap a wife
Suffers in silence: Can the world go
on
Regardless? Meath this heavy stone
| slept in peace until a voice today
Rang through the earth to every so
dier's grave.
Whether in far-off France or here at
home.
shrilling; .Awakei Awakel A. move
ment crave
This dull earth's ear to listen. Prayl
To the most high God-to men. There
may be some
To heed you yeti Your prisons cannot
open
Beyond mans pardon and beyond his
hope
Ye lie. Yet he who dared not fight,
But bayed at US and thought to tie
our hands
Who triee to aid u foe. starve out
he today walks out into the light,
From his base wrists fall off the prison
bands:
For him the sunlight and the sweet
airs good.
And. u~nrepentant. no is pardoned! Oh
arisel
, 1922-01-05

TN an industrial forecast for 1922
II is necessary TO consider the
causes OF the depression. CHIEF
among which is the unbaianceS -
lztionship between the prices OF
farm and other primary products on
the one hand, and the prices OF
manufactured goods, transportation
service and various other products
and services on the other hand
The final estimates OF the Depart
ment of Agriculture upon the 1921
crops give them a market value TO
the farmers $1,000, 000. 900 below the
value OF the crop Of 1918 and
S5.400.0 0o. 900 below the value of the
crop Of 1920. These are figures OF
great significance. The farmers
lave produced nearly as much In
quantity, but il has been valued in
the exchanges al less than one-half
the figures Of 1919. As other prod
ucts and services have o declined
in ike degree, the farmers must buy
much less. and all the industries are
suffering in consequence.
1t is useless to expect a return to
normal conditions while this dis
parity OF compensation between
great bodies of producers exist II
IS unfair and It establishes an
effective blockage against a revival
of busir .ss. II is time that the BUSH
ness community took cognizance OF
the situation, and set itself TO the
task of correcting il. The argument
that stock on hand was purchased
at higher prices has lost whatever
force il ever had. Merchants who
are interested in the return OF pros,
perity should do their part for il.
and one of their duties is to reduce
operating costs
In large part the situation is
ehargeable to the action of organ
lied labor in eiinging to the war
time wage rates. Raw materials
and foodstuffs have had a great de-
cline at wholesale, but between the
wholesale M kets and consumers
the cost of handling and snanufac-
turing has not declined in like pro-
portions. The effect is TO obstruct
the distribution of goods and throw
millions of wage-earners out of en-
ployment, at the same time keeping
up the cost OF living on the entire
wage-carning population. In the
aggregate there is no gain, but a
great loss, to the wage-earners as a
class.
Railroad Wages
The railroad companies are
struggling with a difficult situation.
and although their efforts are in the
public interest they have little help
from the public. Railroad wages
in shops and for common labor are
so far above the wages paid for
similar work along their lines that
the companies find it practicable to
make important savings by con
tracing for their repairs and much
other work. The New York Central
has contracted for freight-handling
at some OF its terminals, and the
Erie has contracted for brakeman
tenance over a portion NJ its r-r
, 1922-01-05

Shake off Deaths fettersl From your
eyes
Ye suffered oncel Be men again,
And march TO meet this bastard foe
"Ah. me I may not rise nor 60
To take my vengeancel Yesterday my
bier
Was borne midst silent crowds. and
tears were shed,
And music walled and strong men laid
me here.
2 lay my worst detractor lifts his head
And spurns me with his foot, q free
man midst the free.
Why bring me here except It was u
mockery?"
CROwDER GOES TO KEY WEST
HAVANA. Jan. MAJ. Gen. E.. II.
crowder has booked passage on the
steamship Mascotte, sailing, January
5 for Key West.
General Crowder has been special
representative OF the United States in
Cuba in connection with proposed H.
nancial reforms.
, 1922-01-05
NAMED.

WASHINGTON. jar. 4.-Postmas.
tiers nominated to the senate by Presi.
dent Harding tcday include. Joseph p.
Downey. Miami, Ariz.