The Glenwood post., 1922-09-21
Uncle Ted's Bed Time Stories
Current Events for the Children
and Grown-ups, Too
SELFISHNESs MUST
BE SET ASIDE

II don It know much about it. but i
do know from all / we heard AMI read
that every time there is strike of
any kind there is one class of people
who suffer no matter what the results
are 1t was Jack speaking after
having had little argument with
Freddie, who always seems to start
him gong.
'Who is thatg' asked Ruth.
1.-THE PUBLIC!" answered Jack
with n bang. "Ever since the govern
ment from Washington obtained what
the newspaper says is temporary in
junction which is to keep the railroad
shopmen who have been on strike for
80 long time from interfering m any
way with the operation of the rail
roads, some of the boys have been sore
as can be because they don't like it.
Talking about the big government
court order, I suppose" said Uncle
Ted, who had just appeared on the
scene. "Wen, it sure has caused some
excitement and I IN mighty glad it
has. 1t was time that everybody in
this country realized that the govern
ment comes first That no class can
make it impossible for all the people
to live and pursue their work and hap
piness. I am not talking about the
striking shopmen alone. They have a
right to quit, but they have no right to
go further and interfere with the
trains which must carry mail and food,
not to mention passengers. The inn
portant phase of this whole matter, to
me, is the fact that there are many
leaders who seem to think that the
un ons should hold themselves above
the law when dealing with this injunc-
tion. They do not represent the whole
unions, but they do great damage to
the work kmgman cause because their
radical statements and actions are
heard and seen while the conyersatiye
patriotic workingman who thinks of
the nation as a whole first is not seen
or heard.
II am certainly disappointed, to say
the least, in Samuel Gompers, head of
the American Federation of Labor, who
DIN t wait minute to issue a state
ment after the injunction order was
sent out. He holds that the order is
illegal, calls the attorney general the
attorney of the railroad companies
and from everything he said it is pla n
that he will encourage labor to follow
course of defiance and continued bat.
tie so far as the federal governments IS
order is concerned. While such leaders
rs Mr.. Gompers are going along danger
Gus paths IN urging defiance of the
government s order, there is another
class of people who are speaking in
no mistaken terms. That class is the
class to which Jack referred as T came
into the room The PUBLIC has spo.
Ken In this matter. From every sec
tion of the country they are uphold
ing the Harding administration in the
only step which could have been taken
m this serious trouble. Our president
IS peace-loving man. hard and siren
uous worker. All Labor Day, when
Others of his office were away enjoy
ing the holiday, he stayed at his desk
working and trying to bring about a
result in these matters which shall
mean the best for the most of all the
peop'e whom he is serving as the head
of this great country. / said that the
Public had spoken IN this matter
There is no doubt of that in view of
the thousands of messages that have
been pouring into Washington ever
since the injunction step was taken.
You see, kiddies, the American peo.
pie are true lovers of liberty. They
are raised on it. The country was
built on Il. They cannot stand by
and agree to few people dominat ng
any situation. Before everything else.
there must be law and order, else we
would find our great country turning
to the long, hard and evil road which
has been Travelled by Russia of recent
years, once one of the most powerful
and richest countries on the globe.
"Samuel Gompers in his Labor Day