The Washington times., 1922-07-12

Dth1nk dionBs WIFI cOnul-
tions getting a little worse. de-
scribes the coal and railroad
strikes. Railroads are cutting
off scores of trains, especially
commuters trains. Commuters
must travel anyhow, and that
saves operating difficulty with
out forfeiting income.
There is talk Of coal ration
ing by the Government, the
same as in war days, an un-
necessary extension of the war
period. '
The President means to set
tie the two strikes by arbitra-
tion If possible: in some other
way If necessary. He is in
earnest about it. and that is
encouraging.
II the strikes drift on, the
country will find itself with
millions out of work. and a
great industrial setback when
there ought to be building up
In every direction.
Workmen depending on coal
and the transportation of work.
ing materials will, of course,
be the greatest sufferers if the
strikes last.
This is the European sugges-
tion for adjusting matters over
there: England will be asked
to cancel. the debt that France
owes her. This country will be
asked to cancel its entire Euro
pean debt of more than ten
thousand million dollars and to
make a new loan in addition,
and all start over again happily.
Thus France would get rid of
her debt to England and her
debt to the United States. Eng
land would get rid OF her debt
to the United States, so that
forgiving the French debt
would cost her nothing.
And we would make another
gigantic loan, to be told in due
-~arse of time that it is our
duty to cancel that new debt
also and make another loan.
II we accept this suggestion,
IL is suggested that France will
be content to take only all
the money that Germany has,
without insisting on absolute
German bankruptcy and col
lapse.
Il is not a bad program
for Europe.
SSr. Gompers, head Of the
American Federation of Labor,
to his regret has been obliged
to take away the charter OF
the New York stenographers',
bookkeepers' and accountants.
union. The union is too red"
too radical. It uses rough
words like Capitalist" and
"class consciousness" SO 1t
must die and start over again.
Why are some stenographers
"red?" Because they are on
the "inside." They know how
RIG MONEY is made, how it
IL spent, and some other things.
The proud and naughty Mexi-
can deputy, Francisco de Jeda
Llorca, did not like things writ
ten by Jesus V. Moreno, edi-
tor of El Heraldo de Mexico.
So Llorca shot and killed Nor
emo. That's chapter one.
Chapter two finds Moreno.s
daughter, Maria del Pillar, fiji
teen years old. standing in front
of Llorca's house. When ne
comes out she kills him with
four bullets. She promised,
over her fathers dead body to
Liorca didn't like what Mo-
reno said on public questions:
Now both are where they will
have all eternity to talk 1t
over. ~,
Chapter three, to be the most
Interesting, will tell what the
Mexicans do with Maria del
Pillar, who said she couldn't
allow life to remain in the man
that killed her father.
The Bolshevik government has
a disagreeably frank way. A
letter from the Archbishop Of
canterbury protested against
prosecution of Russian clergy
refusing to use church treas
ures to feed the poor.
The archbishop suggested that
England would send over lit
lie commission to investigate
Russian methods.
The Russian government re-
plies that it would rather have
Gthe Soviet send to England
small commission to investigate
TO what extent the laboring
masses are exploited materially
and spiritually by the hierarch.
les of various English churches
in order to maintain the domi-
nation of the exploiting classes"
The Russians don't seem to
know that there are certain
things you are not supposed to
say.