The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-19

 ing. says the latter believes" that the coal and railroad strikes can be settled only by force. But the Pres ident Is delaying the use of troops"
 President HArdings last choice would be force inside the borders of the United States.
 For Grover Cleveland to order troops to end enc small localized strike in Chicago was simple enough. ,whsn yoz begin using force in strikes that affect all the coal mines and railroads of the United States you don't quite know where 1t will end. Two or three millions of work men may keer force" up indef- initeiy.
 Good judgment. the power of pull lie eplnion and the pressure that the President can bring to bear not only upon workinEmen by the use of sol diers, bus upon capitalists. owners of mines and railroads in other waya should settle the strikes.
 Force should not be necessary nnaons civilized beings.
 Forcs is not . pretty thing and # you start force going among two er three millions of mon you don't quite knew when 1t will stop.
 -oshee things are coming down. wages nauat also come down."
 Possibly. but who is to decide what wages shall come down and how muchf Men are not always in the wrong. when they resist reductions. For instance. you heard about the great strike at the Amoskeag tex tile mills. The highly respectable owners will tell you that 1t was necessary" to cut wages. Read what tho Rev. Herbert A. Jump, president of the Ministers Council of Man chester, N. H., has to say:
 Although the Amoskeag has in- srtsped. sts capital from 5000, 900 to s44 4.ooo,ooo, entirely out of war cara inEs, has surplus of s37 ,000. 900 and las not shaved dividends one cent, 1t has asked It's employees to stand a 42M per cent wage cut. The ques- ton. 1t seems to me, is: Should g corporation of inordinate wealth, which has made tremendous profits, granting that 1t has lost $1.0o0. .00o curing the past year. put all the bur den of deflation on its wage earn ers?"
 The workers in those mills read and write. They have seen a con rern increase It's capital from s4.ooo.- 900 to s44.oeo,0oo And all the mill hands have got is their two hands. and their working brains. They see mills gre not outting a cent off the dividends on stock owners that do no work. but cutting wages 42h per cent. Do you wonder they resist and do you think it would be safe to try too much force on men in that mood?
 Adjustments must be made In wages and prices. But be careful how you make them by force.
 4 gentleman tells the International Birth Control congress:
 sBipth control will abolish war. Men fight because the population in- oreasss and thsre isn't enough for ans
 Aasamtng that population doubles svery 70 yesSa. hs shows that in 4neo years there will be more than | 1.ooo. .ooo, ,eo0.oeo of human begins on sAssA, more than . thousand times as unaAx e there are now.
 yzrs& ths earth could support a | sheusand times as many people easily, | if t were properly. intensively cul- t1vate6
 Second. as ssms passes and people become civilized. they will have fewer ehtidrss. Henry George tells you that if puppy's tail continued growing always as it grows the first month. every dog would have . tail several yards long. At the right time the tail stops growing. So does popuiati ton.
 Third. 1t is not population. but bru- tality and greed that make men fight | Men that start wars, Napo1eons eager for land they don't need, bankers or merchants eager for money and trade or kings divertins their peoples minds. are not influenced by the size of the population.
 Birth control would give poor women the right to possess and util- | ixe information now possed by all rich women. given them by their doc tors. That's enough oe an argument, if you want one.
 But birth control. limiting families, | would have cut off Caruso, the nine- teenth child; Napoleon. Benjamin Franklin. Carlyle and thousands of others worth more to the world than any theory.
 President Harding says the United States must lead in airship building in quantity and in quality of airships. The Postmaster General reports that | mails have been carried through the | air for a year without one fatal ac- cident. If the President will push this through. and actually build up for he United States. an adequate air fleet | paying its way in peace by serving | the post office. we shall have little to l worrv aho,,t x,han xyar .on.a, <a |