The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-13
! Oday
Drifting Along. End Old Debt, Make
 New. Why Red
 Stenographers? Maria Del Pillar.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

getting a little worse. describes the coal and railroad strikes.
 Railroads are cutting off scores of trains. especially commuters trains Commuters must travel anyhow, and that ayes operating difficulty with out forfeiting income.
 There Is talk of coal rationing by the government. the same as In war days, an unnecessary extension of the war period.
 The President means to settle the two strikes by arbitration if pos sible; In some other way if neces- sary. He Is in earnest about 1t and that Is encouraging.
 If the strikes drift on, the coun- try will find itself with millions out of work and great industrial set- hack when there ought to be building up in every direction.
 Workmen depending on coal and the transportation of working ma terials will, of course. be the great est suffers. If the strikes last.
 
 This is the European suggestion for adjusting matters over there: England will be asked to cancel 1 the debt that France owes her. This | country will be asked to cancel its entire European debt of more than s1c,ooo, 100000. 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. England 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 gi- | santic loan. to be held in due course of time that 1t is our duty to cancel | that new debt and make another loan.
 If we accept this suggestion 1t is suggested that France will be con- tent to take only all the money that Germany has. without insisting on absolute German bankruptcy and col lapse.
 It is not . bad program-for Flu rope.
 Mir. Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor. to his regret, has been obliged to take away the charter of New York Stenographers, | Bookkeepers and Accountants union The union Is too red" too radical. It uses rough words like "capitaiist" and Glass consciousness" so 1t must die and start over again. Why are some stenographers red" because they are on the inside" They know how big money is made, how 1t is spent, and some other things. The proud and naughty Mexican deputy, Francisco Dejeda Llorca, did | rot like things written by Jesus V. Moreno. editor of Ell Heraldo de Mexico. So Llorca shot and killed Moreno. That's chapter one.
 Chapter two finds Moreno's daughter. Maria Del Pillar, 15 years old, standing in front of Llorca's house. When he comes out she kills him with four bullets. She promised to do that over her fathers dead body.
 Llorca didn't like what Moreno said on public questions. Now both are where they will have all eternity to talk 1t over.
 teresting will tell what the Mexicansl do with Maria Del Pillar. who said she couldn't allow life to remain In the man thar killed her father.
 The Bolshevik government. has a disasreeably frank way. A letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury protested against prosecution of Rus sian clergy refusing to use church treasures to feed the poor.
 The archbishop suggested that England would send over a little commission to investigate Russian methods.
 The Russian government replies that 1t would rather have the soviet send to England small commission to investigate to what extent, the la-
  ially and spiritually by the hier- archies of various English churches in order to maintain the domination of the exploiting classes.
 The Russians don't seem to know that certain things you are not sun posed to say
 For instance, the Russian foreign secretary once wrote ingenuously to our government, substantially as fol- lows:
 You don't like our kind of eovern- rent and think We ought to be in jail. We on the other hand, think that MT. Debs ought to be president of the United States and that MT. Wilson ought to be in jail.
 Everybody is entitled to his own opinion"
 The Russians will never get any where In polite society if they con tinue that kind of frank talk. It TO- minds you of the letters that Milton used to write to be signed by Crom- well--disag greeably short and to the point.
 Melons sold in New York yesterday for 3 cents apiece, extra choice melons from California for cents- to whosalers. That must be cheer full for the growers. after growing the fruit, paying pickers and pack CTS, buying containers. and payiug tho present railroad rates.
 With immigration laws shutting out labor, and farm help almost i1n- possible to get. the farmer has a cheerful time.
 The consumer will feel 1t later when conditions show in the prices