The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-07-20

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c. T. RAwALT, Publisher
MATTE l. MILLER. Local Editor
Entered as Second Class Matter at the PostofRce st
Crested Butte, Colorado Il
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THIS country stayed the League of Nations to
avoid just what Europe now wants us to do
STRANGE how England and France appeal to
save them from their folly. Now they want to
save Germany. Four years ago they wanted to de-
stroy it.
COL. PADDOCK, of the Boulder Camera is violently
opposing Sweet We are sorry he started early He
has change his mind least six times between
and election.
IN the Puzzle Contest recently carried on by this
paper, Mrs G. W. Zorn of Greybull, Wyoming captured
first prize words numbered the largest and
exceeded There number of other winners Of
minor prizes
THE coal miners quite to obeying the
Presidential order go work for what they get
Ditto the railroad men, The test is right now, we
hope they both have the to stand pat and win this
strike. We laboring making too much
money.
THE tour of VIM E. Sweet over the Western slope
is having its logical effect People are becoming ac-
quanted with the and his opinions and they approve
them From his first of his candidacy it
certainty that he would be on the ticket. 1t now
looks if he might be the strong in the Assembly
THE Colorado Springs Gazette, Governor shoups pc,
organ that the Governor will allow his
name be presented to the Republican assembly. Good
enough Now let the Democrats nominate Sweet and the
issues will be squarey joined Let have square fight
and whether Colorado in control of the people
Big Business.
SENATORIAL committee refusal to recommend
either the Ford Muscle Shoals proposal either Of the
substitutes does not by any kill the matter 1t
will come up for settlement on the open floor and
something will be heard the subject that will open
the eyes of the entire country The fertilizer trust is
ing get its measy hide tanned and will lose this bat
tie sure as shooting. e
TWO Banks have come out strongly for the railroad
and the coal miners Neither bank has been recog
nzed very strongly for the aborng but evidently
they have given sufficient thought to the question to feel
that manifest injustice being done to the workers. One
of the banks is Texas institution and the other is in
Pennsylvania Evidently the idea is gaining ground that
spell prosperity for the country at large
THE Moffat Tunnel Board is progressing finely They
have named consulting board" of the highest
priced experts they find to tell the real Board how
it Possibly by the time the legislature they
will have succeeded in spending the voted in bonds
and be ready for the deficiency appropriation the leaders
built from the first bore the hole. That tunnel is
going cause world of grief, lot of farms
up that way and than likely be built anyway
Note the prediction and see how far we miss it.
DOWN in waissnburu the local courts trying to
induce strikers to go work by arrestng and connng
them vagrants They first advised that if they
cept work the mines they will not be prosecuted but
If they they promptly jailed 1t is nice to have
corporation and soldiers keep folks from
holding meetings protest And do not forget that it
is the State and the Shoup Rangers that
make this possible Let elect Democratic Governor
who is NOT IN FAVOR OF THE PRUSSIAN MILITARY
SYSTEM
TODAY is the day set by the railroad shopmen to
walk 1t very safe to that general walkout
will occur A little cool judgment and slight concessions
both SIDES will benefcia violence wins nothing
-Creede Candle.
The Candle did not shed much light the situation
regards the walk 1t far from very safe to
say general walk out would And it is
ably that actual correction of these strikes and
waIous will be had until material change is made
IN industrial conditions Henry Ford has walkouts
Henry does not boost prices. Henry Ford makes
mcey than any of the Big Business gang. Henry Ford
neither Recognizes the Unions antagonizes them Hen
ry Ford is not laying awake nights for fear socaed ag
will seduce his employees Is general Big Business
id dense that it follow his line of thought?
It in cash. The next popular question for debating
societies should in opinion be- Resolved that Big
Business the United States has brains enough to
pound sand hole with the directions pasted on
the paddle.
JUST SLIGHTLY MISTAKEN
THE Cunnison Empire saws good common sense would