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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-09-04
PPayiig For The Coal Strike

Secretary Honnolc OF the Illinois
Coal Operators association estimates
that the coal strike has cost the resi-
dents Of this state upward of Sl0O,-
600 600. He figures the loss i'll
wages 10 the striking miners at $50
80, 900. the loss to the mining COM
panies through the idleness of their
property at $25, 100000, and the
loss to the public through higher
prices and freight rates on coal that
should have been mined in Illinois
but was hauled i'll from other states
at $30,000,000.
No careful estimate has been pre-
scented of the cost of the strike to the
entire nation, but guesses by coal
producers range from $500, 900
upward.
Consumers must bear in mind,
however, that the strike loss actually
is all theirs. For the miners by the
steady work which they are now as
sured during the fall and winter will
make up for the wages they might
have earned by broken time employ
ment through the spring and sum
mer, while the mine operators will
SSli Sodl at hiSoilSI VI iSNS Stii1 IL iS''A
quantities through intensive effort "a
the mines. Meanwhile higher prices
of coal to consumers and the in
creased cost of manufactured arti-
Giles, into which are figured the high
er prices of the manufacturers fuel,
will make the public the actual suf-
ferers. AS DR.. HonnOld says, it is
the people of this country who lost
the strike.
Similar strike losses by the pub
lie in the future can and must be pre-
vented. The price of coal to the con-
sumner can be reduced to a reasOna-
BILE level if the recent proposals of
President Harding to congress are
carried out. His fact-fnding COM
mission should be authorized by Con-
gress without delay. It's members
The New York herald., 1922-04-22

The smartest of tailored coats for grls-embody-
ing the newest features of the mode, and in SO
many models that both the young lady and her
mother are certain to find exactly what they want
Included are tailored effects in loose or belted mod
els, full fared capes, and the "happy medium
that of combining short cape to coat: De
veloped in homespun, polette, covert, English
tweeds, novelty fabrics and checks. All fully lined
Sizes to Io years. Second Floor
The New York herald., 1922-04-22
The Pony Pen

Inc P0ny Zen
-ArriUes
A pen round the neck is
worth tayo in the desk. Hence
the new pony fountain pen,
which hangs round the neck
on a ribbon, and looks more
like a tiny jet perfume holder
than anything else. 1.5O
Jecelry Dep., Street Floor
Evening journal., 1922-08-22

individual earnings. The work In
seasonal and it should not be.
AS The New York Herald said on
April 2: THE coal business Of the
country should be so organized that
every mine will do its part in sun
plying the nation with its needed
coal, so organized that all coal min
ers the country over will get sub
stanually the same return for a
given amount of man power.
whether that given amount produces
one ton OF coal or i've tons"
Nationsl!sm OF the coal mines is
not necessary II will be sufficient 10
consolidate them into a few groups
operated by private ownership under
the control OF the Government. The
fat mines can carry the lean ones.
The costs can be averaged and
standardized. The miners can have
steady work and living wage. The
owners can have a reasonable and
dependable profit And the public.
which is the chief sufferer from coal
troubles year after year, can be as
sured of a steady supply at a price
lower than II now pays.
Senator Borah's bill paves the way
for the reform of the coal industry
but ultimate success will depend
greatly upon the personnel of the
oal Commission.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
EDITORIAL OPINION
BUSY FOREIGN PROPAGANDA.

BUSY FOREIGN PROPAGANDA.
From the Dubuque Times-Journal.
Foreign propagandists invaded
this country TO drag us into the
league of nations. Foreign propa-
gandists are still active in their ef-
forts to effect cancellation of the
foreign debts to the United States.
The country is swarming with for
eign commissions besieging the State
department and circulating publicity
material designed 10 sway American
foreign policy. Foreign emissaries
have not ceased to importune the
American government for loans.
Foreign agents even foreign en-
bassadors. have been working to pre-
vent the passage of the protective
tariff bill which would carry out a
distinctively American and domestic
policy. Foreign influences are at
work 10 defeat the ship subsidy
measure. And. finally. mischief
makers Of foreign birth have united
in an attack on the federal Consti-
tuition and have pledged themselves
TO work for the emasculation OF the
United States Supreme Court.
Is II not high time the American
people got together and told these
foreign meddlers where they belong?
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
Miners and Arbitration
From the Washington Post.)

cessities. When individual bargain
ing relates to subjects that imper-
atively demand settlement. and par
ties involved are unable to effect ad-
1ustment by their own efforts. re-
sort to arbitration in or out OF
courts or justice IS called for. So
with collective bargaining on mat
ters that. in the public interest, re-
quire settlement, when the parties
involved fail to reach agreement,
arbitration is demanded, to the end
that adjustment may be effected
with Justice to those Immediately
concerned and with minimum in
jury to the public. Especially is this
so. when production OF coal or other
essential commodity is involved In
dispute between employers and en-
ployes.
This opposition OF the miners to-
arbitration is not reconcilable either
with proper regard for the rights
and interests OF the people or with
proper cncern for industries effect
ed. While they may be reluctant to
surrender the strike as a weapon of
collective bargaining. they can not
cling to II in the face OF growing
demand for its abandonment with
out forfeiting claims TO sympathy
OF the public. the chief demandant
Persistence in opposing arbitration
would injure rather than aid their
cause, for IL would imply unwilling
ness TO submit their contentious to
fairly constituted and justice render
ing arbitral bodies and this in turn
would imply lack OF confidence in
the soundness of their position. II
they believe their cause is just, they
should not refuse TO submit disputes
in which they are involved TO fair
minded arbitrators for determina-
ton. Refusal so TO submit disputes
raises the ugly suggestion that It is
prompted by q desire to cling TO un-
fair means OF enforcing unfair de-
mands.
The miners should realize that, In
opposing arbitration. they oppose
public opinion and that, II they con-
tinue in this direction. they will
necessarily antsgonize the American
people, without whose support they
can not carry their cause through
TO ultimate victory. The public is
now in position to see the merits OF
arbitration as a reasonable and fair
method OF adjustmsnt, and to see
the strike as 1t is, a weapon of in
dustrial warfare that is to be list
ed as prohibitively costly. The ter
rife losses sustained by the miners
who resorted to It as a means of
compelling acceptance of their terms
by those against whom It was used
and by the nation, which was in
position Of helpless and interested
bystander. constitute a staggering
count against this weapon that de-
mands its abandonment, and urges
acceptance Of arbitration, which
carries guaranty against such losses
In It's stead.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22

that a power inherent in national
sovereignty and implied in our treat
les with other States has been so long
withheld from the Federal govern
ment through Congressional indiffer-
ence. Such power would be exer-
cised only If State or local Justice
was inadequate. The Withholding OF
1t only covers up local delinquency
and encourages despicable spirit of
lawlessness.
The Dyer anti-lynching bill re-
Gently reported to the Senate would
put check on mob violence against
citizens OF the United States as we'll
as against aliens. II also ought TO
pass. Yet il American citizens are
deprived of the equal protection OF
the laws that is a household AFFAIR.
We disgrace ourselves but we do not
break our word to other govern
ments. The kellogg bill deals sim
ply with the problem of putting our
engagements with other countries on
a more honorable two-sided basis.
Congress should not hesitate to re-
store the nations dignity and self
respect by giving assaults on aliens
a Federal character. They undeni-
ably have that character. What
Congress has done so far is simply
to run away from what 1t has con-
sidered a duty to strangers within
our borders having no votes and
therefore negligible.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
MAKE TT A oRIMnNAL oFFENsE

TyHAT automobile accident near Ocean City. Nd, on
l. Sunday night in which Miss Sarah L. wilson for
rnerly of this city, killed and two other persons
were injured seriously impeis the thought that the
Delaware Legislature its session, should pass
law making a serious offense for automobil.s to
run into person or vehicle any and then go
without disclosing his her identity offering to
give aid
In the Ocean City case. the who were in the
roadster that sdeswipped and wrecked the in which
Miss Wilson riding. proceeded their way with
out inquiring whether anyone had been hurt
It dastardly thing for them to do II they be
caught. they should be punished severely.
There have been many OF a similar. al
though usually less tragic. in Delaware. As
auto traffic Increases there will be many Of them
unless the Legislature makes criminal offense for
autorn obilists to indulge in such a practice.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
10 Get the Coal Facts
(From the New York Herald).

President Harding has made a
good short cut toward solving the
problems OF the coal industry by ac-
cepung Senator Borah's Coal Com
mission bill. This measure provides
Tor hnding all the facts about the
coal business. The commission will
look into the productive capacity OF
the various mining fields and mines:
into the wages and living conditions
OF the miners; into the costs of pro-
duction and delivery; into the feast
bility of necessity of Government
control.
This kind of inquiry. II carried on
oy men OF real business capacity,
viii get somewhere.
Last April, just after the strike
began, The New York Herald point
ed out why the coal Industry was so
constantly sick. We are working ten
thousand mines. some fat, some
lean. A fat mine may produce coal
hve times as cheaply as a lean
mine. II the lean mine charges a
fair profit the fat mine charges the
same price and takes an excessive
profit.
There are too many men In the in
dustry 10 provide constant work for
all. Holidays, vacations and strikes
derange production and decrease the
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
DELAY MAY RESULT IN GOOD

NHEMBERs of the Wilmington Board Of Education
lfl have done well in ABANDONING for the time being
at least their project installing the platoon system in
our public schools.
It would a lot Of mony to put such system IN
fun operation. with only ss75Ooo to come and go on
for all purposes clearly apparent that the board
could not go toward converting our entire system
TO the platoon plan without demorazing the finances
of the Department OF Education and causing great
public dissatisfaction
For the time being it is tho purpose to try out the
system in one school as that school can be put
in readiness for the experiment
Meanwhile, something even better than the platoon
system may crop up somewhere and the board mem
bers and public here be well pleased that the
present delay occurred.
Educational ideas and methods changing all the
time and only educator would assert that the
platoon plan Is the word when It 10 system
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
MAY IT COME TRUE

INDICATIONS that the Pusey and Jones Com
IL pany of this city, will receive from the Wilson
for building large steamboats, which
will be added 10 the Wilson Line feet. wimingtonians
will be we'll pleased If the awards be made.
It will many months of employment for hum
dreds OF Wilmington mechanics and the putting into
many thousands dollars paid out
for wages and materials.
In addition the people OF city are well pleased
that the Wilson Line. which is Wilmington institution
is prosperng well that it is for it to add
large its fleet to enable keep pace with
the constantly growing trafhc.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
Good From EUiI
(From the New York Tribune).

Some good will come out of the
evil OF the coal strike II Congress is
spurred into passing Senator kel-
logg's bill enlarging the Federal
power TO protect aliens against mob
violence. The Herrin massacre was
not alone stain on the credit of the
State whose constitutional guaran-
ties II fiouted; It has subjected the
United States again, as President
Harding pointed out last Friday, to
the reproach OF bad faith in its for
eign relations.
We make treaties with other ma
tions in which we promise 70 give
their nationals entering our territory
the equal protection OF our laws. We
demand similar treatment for our
nationals who go abroad. But our
government lacks adequate author
ity TO make good its word. It is
obliged to depend on the good faith
of the States and OF subdivisions of
the States. If an alien is lynched or
mobbed and no local reparation is
our State Department can
only apologize and regret It's impo-
tency to reach the offenders.
This situation has arisen many
times and been deplored by many
Mr.. Harding says that
It recurred when the authorities OF
County Ill, turned an
of the Herrin murders
into q mockery. II is deplorable
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
pUU,MER,s DETROIT MISSION

TyHERE is no man in Delaware who could represent
i our state at the hfty-second annual Congress Of
American Prison Associations better warden
Plunner Of the New Castle County workhouse. who
has been appointed attend the congress in Detroit
He is an enthusiast in the matter OF prison reform
and Deawareans assured that the other dele
gates to the congress and the people Of Detroit viii
know that and that he has ideas with re-
spect prison management which are peculiarly his
own.
And after he has the sessions and listened
20 the exchange Of views have no doubt that he
will Delaware bigger and broader prison
administrator than he is today. Quite naturally he
thinks much own system but he is not welded
to IT to such is unwilling add to it
any good features which other penoogss conceive
and make public.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22

liquor and bad home brew as great
as those OF the saloon?
When these votes have been clas-
sified more in detail 1t will be easier
to form a judgment upon their sig
niflcance. 1t has already been
shown in the general poll that there
are regional and class differences on
the liquor question. The cities and
Industrial centers are for the most
part wetter than the country. The
factory workers are Overwhelmingly
wet.
To charge propaganda or TO ques-
tiOn the validity of the figures is
unfair. Whatever influence may be
brought to bear by certain un-
scrupulous partisans OF the vets
is probably OFFSET by equally un-
scrupulous partisans Of the drys
and moists. The poll may honestly
be considered as an accurate express
sion Z the general sentiment OF the
country and as such should dlspel
many illusions.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
WAGES M INDUSTRIES

TN December 1921. the hourly earnings Of a.
industrial wage earners in the United States wer
fortyefght and two-tenths cents es cent ahov
the July 1914. level OF twentyfour and three-tenth
cents, according comprehensive survey just com
pleted by National Industrial Conference Board
In December 1921 the average hourly earnings o
common labor were ssss. or 90 per cent above the
July 1914 of s2o7 and hourly earn
ings of skilled male labor were $500, or ss per cent
above the of July 1s14s2so; the hourly earn
ings women s.s47. 12s per cent above the
1914 level-S.156.
The analysis the &c major industries
$500 Industrial establishments and million wage
pre-war period up the end of 1921
The average weekly earnings in these industries were
50 per cent above the 1914 level
The net increases in hourly earnings, in
December 1921. July 1914" says the boards re-
port. occurred the wool industry, paper products
silk manufacturing In the metal trades
the ranged from rs per cent in the iron and
industry % per automobiles The larg
est percentages of decline have occurred fertilizer
manufacturing, Southern cotton mills and rubber
manufacturing."
The average weekly earnings OF all wage earnsrs on
January 1, 1929 stood s2227. compared with sl2Se
IN July 1914. in July, 1914 that the effects or
the Democratic tariff registered the worst indus
situation in and the balance of trade
in our foreign commercs went s5.5ssoOO against US
and shortly orders began TO resusctate
mills and For considerable period follow
ing armistics European purchases for Rehabilitation
purposes continued keep producers busy, but
when European stocks again replenished Demo-
policies again began display their handicap
ping The board ststes beginning in Decern-
ber 1920 and continuing through July l. 1921 there
were extensive lay-offs since August 1921. there
has been a slow and gradual increase" The unwise
dehation policy OF administration which tied
up the purchasing power Of the farmers was largely
reflected in these extensive lay-orrs."
The fact that wages in this country have almost
doubled since pre-war days added and powerful
argument support the Republican protective tarin
policy. No such increase has been recorded in the
countries competing with Today the average hourly
earnings Of an American workman about large
as the daily wage the workman and greatly
in excess Of the wages by British French and
Japanese operatives And since wages mako up al
least s5 per of production, the effect
Of these wage disparities here and abroad the bill
lions Of dollars worth OF goods produced by can well
be imagined
How could employers continue TO pay the present
wages II the country continued operate under the
present near-rss-trade tariff law? Yet. despite all the
Importers may say to contrary the pending Ford
ney-Mccumber tariff bill carries the lowest average ad
vaIorem rate OF any Republican tariff law ever pro-
posed which could be consistent with the policy OF
protection
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
STIMULATING MURDER

A PHILADELPHIA mail order house advertises
N genuine German ortgies automatics," described
as mice small size. easily carried"
Any crook who wants of these revolvers can get
1t secretly by mail delivered 81. If the crook buys
gun in town. usually the sale has to be reg
istered with the police
Murders, burglary and hod-ups would be cut down
by law prohibiting the retailing revolvers by parcel
post express.
In fact why not have here IN Delaware registration
system whereby person who purchases pistol shall
sign up for it on blank which gives the name num-
caliber OF the such registration being
open TO the scrutiny OF the police7
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
TUESDAY, AUGUST D, 1922
OUR SLOGAN:
The Evening Journol-the First
Paper of the First City of the First
State.
HARDING AND THE BoNus

CITIzENs of the United states look TO President
" Harding to protect their pockets against the SOL
ier-and-sailor bonus raiders
They feel they have been betrayed by setseeS-
ing members of the House OF Representatives
They are that they not on the eve OF De-
traya or attempted betrayal by self-seekng members
the Senate.
with Congress In its present attitude they feel that
President Harding and power constitute their
assurance OF protection against those who seek TO DIS
tribute billions OF dollars belonging to the people Oh
Delaware and the other states. among former soldiers
and sailors who passed scathess through the World
War
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
SAM GoSPERs.
From the Boston Herald.
The president OF the An

From the Boston Herald.
The president OF the American
Federation OF Labor is one OF the
most interesting exhibits IN the Uni
ted States. No one better under
stands the value of good slogan.
No one Is more clever in playing TO
the galleries. No one can adopt a
false position and keep his balance
through as long a term OF years as
Sam Gompers can.
When 1t is proposed that a nation
al court OF conciliation somewhat
Ike the Kansas court OF industrial
relations shall be established, he is
right on the trigger with his shop
worn shockers about compelling
men to work, about reducing workers
TO slavery, about Involuntary servi-
tude. That IS all "old stuff and he
knows It Is all buncombe, to use the
older term, or bunk" to use the
newer one. He may have reiterated
the phrases so often 10 himself as TO
believe them by this time. But the
truth is that he objects to oil forms
OF industrial tribunals established
by law and to all proposals for the
incorporation Of labor unions be-
cause the strategy of his job re-
quires him so to do and because he
wants the labor unions to keep their
autocracy in the industrial world.
The federation which he heads is the
one body in this country that under
takes to say who shall work and who
snail not. The right TO strike he
makes the cardinal article in his
creed. The right to prevent other
men from working is not avowed in
the creed, but his organization lives
by Il and would have hard work to
live without 1t. How long. we won
der. will Mr.. Gompers, clever as he
is. be able TO put over the same old
traGe about the enslavement of
labor.
STRIKES AND PROSPERITY
From the Washington Post.
Vice President Coolidge in a speech
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
IT is Up TO TILE POLICE

MERE was another shooting ARRAY in the streets of
wilmington last night. A Negro who had engaged
= Nsue quarrel with another man and who had been
worsted had two bullets sent into his bod when ,o ras
running away
ais assaiiant was carrying concealed a deadly
weapon Just as many other in certain quarters Of
our city doubtless are carrying them day and night
concerted movement should be unado bv +be' o,,ce
to round up these gun-toters that they may be taken he
fore the courts to receive maximum sentences II is
only through energetic and unremtng activity by the
police that the vicious elements In Wilmington c he
forced to disarn.
Evening journal., 1922-08-22
HERRIN AND THE
JOLIET 3fURDERs

From the Chicao Tribune.
That the sheriff of VIII COUNT
should be shot in the performance
of his duty is a natural sequel tc
the Herrin massacre, or, rather, ID
the failure to bring any one 10 pun
ishment for that crime. At Herrin
union men on strike asserted this
right to murder non-union men
They killed by wholesale with zes1
and openly gloried IN the atrocityl
Moreover, there has been no en-
phatic reputation from the leader
ship OF union labor, much less asl
sistance 10 authorities in bringind
the guilty to justice.
AS for the action of constituted
authority, It has been ineffectiveI
The local machinery of Justice ID
apparently tainted with the pervert
ed public sentiment and savage parl
tisanism OF the district. The State|
authorities apparently have been di |
vided as TO measures and the atJ
torney general has not been abld
to get prompt results. The result
is that the HerTin massacre erandj
today an unchalIenged defiance Of
our law and civilization. As suct'
It Is an invitation to murder and Il
massacre, TO mob tyranny and inso
lent disregard OF private rights o.
public authority. When a crowd
gathers in sympathy with striker.
and threatens riot and assault, ar
son or murder, the peace ofncer.
must expect murderous attack 50
long as the Herrin outrage goes IN
punished.