The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-09


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major parties without any candidate
for the United States senate on the
ballot. The Democrats han 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. Maytield, Dem
ocratic candidate, because be was said
to have been a member .. the Ku
Klux Klan. This has resulted in a
legal complication which at this writ
Ing seems likely to keep Mayfelds
name off the ballot. The fight may be
carried to the senate.
M UNICIPAL elections in England.
A'A 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 149 seats which
they had held in London and about
16O seats they had held In so boroughs
outside the capital.
Cuba also had elections and the
Liberal party scored 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 church at Tepe-
huantes and within few hours had
been court-martialed, condemned and
executed by 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 pacifl-
cation of the country.
THREE notable men died last week.
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 a 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.
TEN for presenting the claims was set
tied. The American commissioner is
Judge Edwin r. Parker and the Ger
man commissioner, DR.. Wilhelm Kies-
selbach.
D ECENTLY the federal railway Ia.
IN Dor board rendered majority
opinion rejecting ''the living wage"
theory advanced by spokesman for
railway unions. II given strict appli.
cation, 1t would give common laborers
a minimum wage Of about Y cents an
hour, and as step toward this the
maintenance of way men asked a 49,
cent minimum. The labor board, in.
creasing the prevailing rate cents
an hour, granted minimum ranging
from 25 to 81 cents an hour. 1t 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 II ex-
tended to other industries, would car
ry them into communistic ruin" Sam.
uel Gompers, Edsel Ford and William
Randolph Hearst all assalled this
view. Their attacks rolled Ben w.
Hooper. chairman Of the board, and
he retaliated with a 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.
dustrlal machinery and that the
theoretical living wage should not be
established AL at once, but the mini
mum should be made 4S cents per
hour. This would likewise create a
deficit of several hundred million dol
lars.
"The swelling tide Of prosperity in
our country cannot be hastapAd By
methods of this kind"