Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-11-10

nave Won COuITOl OI Italy. O-hluS
ad of Queen Marie.
major parties without any candidate
for the United States senate on the
ballot. The Democrats had G. E. B.
Peddy, fusion candidate barred from
the ticket because he participated in
the Democratic primary. This af-
fected the 10000 Texans who voted
for Harding Then charges were
brought against E. B. Mayfleld, Dem
ocratic candidate, because he was said
to have been q member of the Ku
Klux Klan. This has resulted in q
legal complication which at this writ
ing seems likely to keep Mayfield's
name off the ballot. The fight may be
carried to the senate.
M UNICIPAL elections in England,
4VA which were taken as indication
Of the results in the coming general
elections, turned out very badly for
the laborites, usually classed there as
Socialists. They lost 14o seats which
they had held in London and about
160 seats they had held in so boroughs
outside the capital.
Cuba also had elections and the
Liberal party scored a sweeping vic
tory, increasing their representation in
the lower house of congress so much
that the administration majority is
imperiled. 1t is worthy Of note that
no disturbances were reported.
DRESIDENT OBREGON of Mexico
got rid of one of his most danger
Gus enemies last week. General Muir
guia, leader of the latest revolt, was
caught asleep In a church at Tepe-
huantes and within a few hours had
been court-martialed, condemned and
executed by a firing squad. The haste
was explained by the fact that he was
seeking legal restraints to prevent an
immediate trial 1t was felt In Mex
leo City that Murguia's death brought
appreciably nearer the general pacif-
cation of the country.
THREE notable men died last week.
i Father Bernard Vaughan. famous
Jesuit preacher and brother of Card
inal Vaughan, passed away in Eng
land. Thomas Nelson Page, we'll
known American author and former
ambassador to Italy. died in Virginia.
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company and chair
man of the Railroad Executives asso-
citation, was found dead in q private
car at Philadelphia.
THE mixed claims commission,
l. named to adjudicate war claims
between the United States and Ger
many, Is now busy in Washington. At
the first sessions, with Justice Day
presiding as umpire, the working sys-
tenn for presenting the claims was set
tied. The American commissioner is
Judge Edwin B. Parker and the Ger
man commissioner, DR.. Wilhelm Kies-
selbach.
ID ECENTLY the federal railway Ia
IN Dor board rendered a majority
opinion rejecting ''the living wage"
theory advanced by spokesmen for.
railway unions. If given strict appli-
cation, 1t would give common laborersi
hour, and as step toward this the.
maintenance Of way men asked 49,.
cent minimum. The labor board, In.
creasing the prevailing rate cents.
an hour, granted minimum ranging
from 25 to 81 cents an hour. It was
In connection with this decision that
the living wage opinion was given,
the board asserting that the wage
theory of labor If given application
would wreck every road, and If ex-
tended to other industries, would car
ry them into communistic ruin" Sam
lel Gompers, Edsel Ford and William
Randolph Hearst all assailed this
view. Their attacks rolled Ben W..
Hooper, chairman Of the board, and
he retaliated with stinging state
ment. He gave Mr.. Gompers credit
for sincerity, marveled at the attitude
of the Hearst papers and poked fun
at young Ford. He continued:
zone of the expert economists who
presented the matter to the board for
the employees stated that this would
throw a monkey wrench into the in
dustrial machinery and that the
theoretical living wage should not be
established all at once, but the mini
mum should be made 48 cents per
hour. This would likewise create a
deficit Of several hundred million dol
i lars
"The swelling tide Of prosperity in
our country cannot be FASTENED by
methods Of this kind"