The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-02

The President Means It. Another Strike. A Priests Courage. A Gamblers End.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE

"A Gambler End.
 By ARTHUR BRISBANE
 President Harding has told the workers emphatically and the rail- road owners still more emphatically. that the strike Is threat against the entire nation. and must end.
 He has made the railroad men know that he means it, and the strike will end. You may write that down.
 The railroad owners protest that they must be allowed "to punish" their men by depriving old employees of their seniority rights. transferring those rights to new men taken on to help beat tha strike.
 They say they are afraid that if they don't give seniority to the new men they will not be able to get enough men when another strike comes along.
 They needn't worry about that Human nature is feeble thing, and there will always be plenty of men to sell out their fellows and take their jobs if they oan get them.
 As the railroad strike in the nation approaches it's end there comes the heavy shadow of another strike threatening the city of Chicago-one tkat would tie up all street oars, surface and elevated. injurins the great city. as 6 railroad strike would injure the merchants.
 Those that know say the Chicago monaco is what is called Tabor demonstration.- the men going on strike not that they are dissatisfied TOW. but to prevent future cuts in wages by showing their power.
 No such demonstration should be necessary. They would not happen if the people owned their street cars and managed them for their own convenience and profit. as they should do. You don't see such "dem- onstrations" in the postoffice service.
 The street car is to 6 city what elevators are to 6 great office build ing or hotel. The owner of the build ing would consider himself an idiot if hs allowed outssdors to own his elevators, annoy his tenants and make them walk up.
 The owners oS . great city are foolish to allow outsiders to own their street ears. 8 majority of the owners living . thousand miles from Chicago.
 For an example of rare courage, consider the case of Father Daily ceiebratins the mass In St Patrioks cathedral in New York. An unfor- tunate man. oraoed by religion, knife in hand. rushed to the altar and to the feet of tho priest officiating.
 Instead of striking the priest, as all feared he would do. he slashed upon his own barred breast the sign of the cross, cutting deep into the flesh. saying he wanted to give his blood as a sacrffice-
 Father Daiy quistsd she poor erea- ture with few words and went on with the mass, nnmoved. That was his important york. And that Is discipline.
 Charlie wells ~brokc the bank at Monte Cario- in the nineties. His life ends at s1 in suicide in Paris.
 He didn't break the bank; nobody ever does that. Each gambling rou- letts wheel in the morning. each ''so and <o'' table receives a certain amount of cash when 1t opens. When the cash is gone. which happens some times. but not often-aii gambling establishments are sure things" for the ovners--officials como in, test the rouletts wheel with a steel die, or investigate the losing ~so-4e'' table. Then the game goes on with moro money.
 Once. conniving with q gambling house servant, some ingenious gen- tleman pinched very slightly all the black compartments of . roulette wheel. The eye of chance could see the difference. although the eye of man could not, and the red won at least three times out of five all day. Hence the steel die to make sure that the trick has not been re- peated
 The Greeks want permission to take Constantinople from the Turks. They say they can't permanently dis pose of Turkey unless Greece can have Constantinople.
 The allies. led by England. ray tne Greeks mustn't touch Constantinople. And as Greece cannot well fight the allied nations. the order probably will be obsyed.
 England controls one, door to .he Mediterranean at Gibraltar. The other door. Constantinople. is now more important. That Is the door through which Russia, if she started on her world travels, would come out in-o tha ancient sea The Ep01t.h