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Evening journal., 1922-08-23
PosT-DRY SENTIMENT.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
The nation-w wide poll OF 10000
persons on prohibition sentiment
conducted by <he Literary Digest
has progressed slightly past the 7OO,-
600 mark, with the ratio of en-
forcement, modification and repeal
vote running just about the same
as at the start. The grand total Of
votes in the latest tabulation shows
271,954 for strict enforcement, 29O,-
172 for modification and 146,679
for repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment An interesting side showing
in connection with the general poll
IS the first iDstalment OF a spe-
cial poll of 100000 women of the
nation on the subject. A summary
OF the first 21,467 votes in this lat
ter poll shows 1868 for enforcement,
S,575 for modification and 5,529 for
repeal. The percentages at present
stand a little more than 65 against
the continuance and strict enforce
ment OF the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead law in the women's
poll and slightly more than 61.6
against in the main poll.
Recognized leaders of the drys are
vigorously contending that the Di-
gest's poll does not afford a fair
representation of the real sentiment
regarding prohibition enforcement in
the country, and they point TO re-
suits in State elections and primaries
where the wet and dry proposition
was declared to have been an issue
in support of their contention that
the majority of the voters of the
country are for the amendment and
the law as il stands. If, however,
the entire 100000 persons whose
expression OF opinion has been
sought respond, or anywhere near
that number. the showing whatever
Il may be, can not be loosely con-
sldered. 1t is significant that the
have run so nearly
inform in the poll thus far, and it
s also significant that the women's
sentiment is so akin 10 that shown /
n the general results. While vote 4
taken in this way can have no effect I
IN the law or its enforcement, it is .
perfectly proper to set forth present
lay opinion on a question which a
arge part Of the population refuses
o regard as settled for all time.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23

recovery from what has been one OF
the most intense financial shocks In
the history of the world, will, under
the bonus proposal Of the Senate
Finince Committee, be again subject
ed to a financial burden, which must
necessarily continue IL not enlarge a
system OF national taxation which
has been largely responsible for re-
tarding the nation in its endeavors
to regain its commercial supremacy.
The nation has already voted a
s27O,000,000 cash bonus to all vet
Grams so the present proposal is for
a second bonus, and for the veterans
who live in the is States which have
voted 1928. 100000 in bonuses, the
present bill II II passes wtll constitute
a third cash bonus to one-third of
our veteran army.
And this within four years OF the
war.
The Veterans Bureau for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1922, spent
S4S1, 100000 for disabled veterans.
II expects to spend $4,000, 900 dur
ing the current fiscal year. It is
estimated that $1,000, 900, 900 a year
will be required within a few years
TO care for disabled and incapaci-
tated veterans.
If you are in accord with the
policy OF the national chamber in its
to the cash bonus and the
certificate plan. and its advocacy of
provisions which include
adequate land settlement and voca-
tional training. you are requested
to make your position
known to your senators. or to re-
lterate your views il they have been
previously given.
There is tremendous campaign
under way at this moment TO get
veterans and all their relatives TO
wire the Senator at once in favor of
4 bonus in anticipation OF the fact
hat the bonus bill comes up for
early next week. There
ire thousands OF veterans who are
opposed to the bonus, and their op- /
5osition. with your own. should be
'lgorous.
Very truly yours,
JULIUS Fl. BARNES.
President.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23

Salisbury. North Carolina, were not
repairing rolling stock at a rate
alarming to the striking shopmen,
neither strikers nor strikers sympa-
thizers would have taken the trou
bic TO cut the water mains serving
the yard on Saturday night.
Such acts of violence are not dem
onstrations OF strength by strikers or
strikers sympathizers. They are con-
fessions of weakness. confessions Of
defeat. They are designed to intimi-
date the public at large. They cor
roborate the confident assertions Of
the railroad executives that So far as
it is a struggle between the railroads
and shop unions the shopmen's
strike has been won by the rail-
roads.
Perhaps there are strikers and
strikers sympathizers who in their
desperation believe they can intimi-
date the American people by vio-
lence. They cannot do Il. The
American people are not to be in
timidated by the lawless acts OF
reckless strikers or sympathizers
with the strikers.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23
With the Photographers

plate glass window to take the place of the
cracked recently was placed in the Boston candy
store window Monday. The old window, is thought
cracked by thunder.-Boonville (NIo) Republican.
Several responsible citizens OF this willing
to pay dollar or more for fifty or a hundred live
leather winged bats. This is Joke. Any who can
supply number OF these little creatures living and
in good condition, asked address Max Price town
manager, Punta Gorda.-Punta Gorda (Fla.) Herald.
The League of Nations is trying to get those
countries sgnatories the Washington
reduce their nayies voluntarily. Really. though with
ene naVies OF America Britain, France and Japan fixed
on the basis Of the Washington agreement it doesn't
seem TO matter much what the other countries about
Star - O-''
Evening journal., 1922-08-23
ANIMALS AND BIRDS
KILLED BY POISON

WEST CHESTER. Pa, Aug. a.
Cows, Chickens. turkeys, rabbits
and game birds are reported to have
been killed along the lines of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. between
West Chester and Wawa, and be-
tween Frazer and this place by a.
poisonous solution sprinkled on the
road bed TO destroy vegetation.
At Darlington Station, on the
Maryland division. three cows are
reported to have been killed at the
farm of Jared Darlington by eat
ing grass beside the railroad which
had been sprinkled when the poison
was applied. A dozen turkeys were
killed at Morstein and many chick
ems and ducks at other points. The
bodies of a number of squirrels and
rabbits have been found.
The railroad company has placed
notices at all stations warning res
idents along the lines to keep their
stock from the roadbed until the
poison has disappeared.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23
. PLATFORM UPON WHICH All NAV er,,,n

REAlHlNG loyalty TO the national administration
ana the interests of the public. the platform
adopted by the Republicans Of Delaware AZ ,ba, s..
convention held in Dover yesterday makes one q, tho
strongest political papers promulgated in no.
time by political organization in our commonwealth
Twenty subjects of varying degrees public interest
treated in this declaration OF where Delaware Ro
pubiicans stand. There is no evasion or equvocston
with respect to of them. The platform made IN
of frank avowals of principles and purposes forth
In phrases and plain that they be mis-
understood misnterpreted by any honest mind.
The praise bestowed upon President Harding and his
Evening journal., 1922-08-23
SEEKING FEDERAL CoNTROL2

| SEEKING FEDERAL CONTHOLY
From the Boston Transcript.
Another impasse seems to have
been reached in the railroad strike
situation as the result of President
Harding's second attempt to bring
about settlement, this time on
the basis OF sending the men back
to work under old conditions and
letting the Railroad Labor Board
arbitrate the seniority question. On
the part of the railroad executives
comes the statement from L. f.
Loree that to comply with the Presi-
dents request would be for the rail-
roads to surrender the position they
took, in which they maintained that
promises to men who have taken the
places OF those former employees who
voluntarily left their jobs must be
kept.
The leaders OF the strikers have
no desire to settle on the basis of
the Presidents request. 1t may be
we'll to remember that the leaders
of the railroad strikers are looking
far bevond the present difficulty.
which they regard as a minor one.
L htAA SN4utht "eSA' Z 70 ~ HiANS ~ 40
serious as possible in the way of
paralyzing traffic and discommod-
ing the public. regardless of the
train of terrorism accompanying II.
But the end they have in view.
admittedly, is to force Federal oper-
alton of the railroads. Some of
them are ardent advocates of the
Plumb plan and have been working
for years to bring about its adop-
ton. Apparently they have not the
slightest desire TO submit the now
Evening journal., 1922-08-23
EDITORIAL OPINION

disputed minor question of senior
| ity rights to the Railroad Labor
Board. In fact, having struck
against the wage decision of the
Railroad Labor Beard, in the pres
ent instance, there is nothing to in
dicate that they would not again
strike against its edict-or that of
any other impartially constituted
body-if they happened to regard
the edict as unfavorable to them.
In the present instance the real
strike leaders seem TO be busy try
Ing to get all the railroad organiza-
tions to strike in furtherance Of their
grand plan.
FARMERS AND THE STRIKE.
Arthur Evans in Chicago Tribune.
AS usual the farmer again bids
fair to be stung by the industrial
controversies now rampant. Bust
ness analysts are trying to figure
what effect the rail and coal strikes
will have upon the price the farmer
will get for his crops and what dam
age will be done TO the purchasing
power Of the agricultural regions,
which have been furnishing much OF
the Juice of the business revival.
With the crop movement coming
on apace. the number OF freight
cars on the sidetracks for repairs is
rapidly growing. Next month is ex-
pected by many to find farming sec
tions faced by car shortage quite
a arfA af sT.r
some districts are suffering from
the pinch in both fuel and transpor-
tation. Thrashing and the move
ment to market are both being in
terfered with. In Illinois seven
teen counties report n coal shortage
and some farmers are stacking their
grain for lack OF fuel for thrashing.
In Michigan the fruit raisers face
a rail situation that bids fair to be
calamitous to many local
tiles. Perishable products, moving
over carriers which have reduced
their train service. are endangered
as the fruit ripens. A combination |
OF truck service and boat lines. how
ever is expected to aid materially |
With a big grain crop in sight, !
prices the farmer will get hang
largely upon the extent Of the car |
shortage when the market move |
ment hits it's stride Last year, by .
he end OF September, so some ex-
perts figure, over one-half of the !
-otal wheat surplus of the United |
States had been disposed of.
This year the difficulty OF moving
he grain to seaboard is expected
% hold the American farmer back
rom the worlds markets until some
II his foreign competitors l1ve cut
n stronger than usual. AS the nc
Evening journal., 1922-08-23

Rolling Down to Rio ought to be the chantey Of
our travellers vacationists during the next few
months. The exposition offers opportunity for
inenting the relations between the the
American republics that seldom presents itself
Perennial pilgrims Europe well afford divert
their itineraries South America this year
steamers under the American nag offer every comfort
and luxury found the best Atlantic liners and
special for the exposition offered. Let's get
acquainted with our neighbors to the south.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23

cepted theory is that the price the
farmer gets for his grain is 'cs' er-
mined by the price the surplus
brings in the worlds markets, the
real situation is fringed with gloom
for the grain raiser.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23

orable man as Mr.. dupont for United
States Senator.
Yours respectfully,
ELMER II. WALKER.
CLOS Jefferson Street
Philadelphia. Pa, August %, 1929.
Evening journal., 1922-08-23

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-26
Tch'tcher;u IL, Embrace

TP is curiously amusing to find Russia
coming forward with the protest that
the United States has insulted the soviet
IN declining to permit a Russian commission
TO come to America.
RUSSIA assures he world, through a care
FULLY censored press, that she would welcome
an American commission to investigate con-
ultions ana analrs throughout the bolshevik
republic; and that she is unspeakably hurt
Dy the fact that the United States has 1ex
pressed d1s1nclination to entertain a Rus
sian commission to be sent here for the same
purpose.
Just why we should assume that delega-
lion named by the Trotzky government could
help us by visiting America, Russia does not
make clear, but she has no difficulty in
proving to us how cry helpful it would be
for Russian trade if an American delegation
there.
1t is pretty much as If the members
or a prison commission, studying penal insti-
tut1ons, were asked to permit certain num-
per OF the gentlemen who are Unnamed there
to come from out their cells and study the
commission.
Russias foreign minister M, Tchftcherin
is much aggrieved, and he has not failed to
take the entire world into his confidence and
weep upoL such shoulders as are available.
Look at u.s." says Tchitcherir in effect
look at us and behold our plight. Then
consider that America would not permit us
to visit her.
What M. Tchitcherin fails to explain, how
ever, Is that an American commission to Rus
STA would be simply and solely a delegation
OF business men and students who would
have no diplomatic standing and in no wise
represent the United States as nation:
whereas it is becoming increasingly plain that
any Russian visitors entertained here would
be stamped with the bolshevik label.
Russia's move is childishly patent, She
thought, doubtless, to gain some measure of
attention from other nations by the fact that
the United States would receive her trade
delegation, and, because America has failed
as the phrase goes-to fall for such an OBJ
vious game, M. Tchitcherin is disconsolate.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-26
LABOR UNIONS-THE OTHER
SIDE
BV DR.. Frank Crane

Some days ago i published a letter from a
railway fireman in a western state. His at
titude was somewhat critical of labor unions.
have received letter from Rose Gollup
Cohen, of New York, who gives her opinion
of the other side of the case, which 1 am
glad to set forth. She says:
That we all have Our good and bad i'm
pulses, and should encourage the good and
repress the bad. The firemans impulse
seemed to her to be twisted bit; for while
he does not find it in his heart to help the
striking railway men through whose" organ
1zation he has profited, he is fired with gen.
crosby to help the strike-breaker who is de-
stroying the principles in which he, the fire.
men, believes as union man.
She gives her own experience.
when I was little child and worked
fourteen hours day in the sweatshops, and
man came and organized my shop, and
our work day became twelve hours, it was
very wonderful to have these extra two
hours I had long lost the habit Of play.
But it was wonderful to have the time to
just go out into the street and stand watch
ing other children play. From the age Of
twelve till seventeen I worked at making
fine coats, clothing the world. But when I
would pick up printed page all could do
was stare at it. Who can understand the
pain, the humiliation Of illiteracy! I felt
like a dumb, blind beast. It was like a
miracle, then, when again through the union
my wages, which were So week for doing
a WOmanS WOrk, were raised TO 30 week.
My hours were reduced two hours more, and
1 was able to run to night school decently
dressed and learn even If it were a word
or two at time.
"The union did this and more for me and
for many thousand, others.
$50, if unions are not perfect, am hop
ing that some day they will be, when we
ourselves are less selfish, more understand
ing, more just. If we break the union row,
would we not have to put something else
in it's place? The time for single-handed
dealing is passed because we are so many!
And, too, some are too weak. Here and
there there is some one who can stand Ly
himself, and does not like to belong to a
group. He better leave it, then, and work
for himself, as you advise. Would 1t be
right for him to interfere with the group,
become a strike-breaker? I believe that no
really good and bra man becomes strike
breaker. One who does it, is either because
he does not understand, is ignorant Of the
principles, the soul behind, or else he is a
fool, or deliberately vicious. For a truly
fine, brave man, even if he does not be-
lieve, would go and do other work. would
not find it in his heart to break down what
other men are building with their flesh and
blood.
"This, my dear sir, is my personal angle
on trade unionism."
So there are two sides to this and to all
questions, which is a statement that we Of
ten forget.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-26
GENT studies of the cost of highw

~ ECENT studies Of the cost Of highway
tx transportation disclose the striking
= fact that where one dollar is spent on
the road twelve are spent on the vehicle. The
pith of the problem thus appears to be how
to increase the efficiency both Of the road
and of the vehicle so that the total transpor-
tation cost will be reduced Heretofore
these two factors have been treated too fire.
quently as if they were quite disjoined Good
roads, all agreed, are an economy, and poor
roads an extravaganza; but few pressed on
to ascertain in precisely what economy might
consist. "In the past" writes DR.. w. K.
HIATT, of the highway department o. the Ma
tional Research council, 1--WE have confined
our attention too closely to the materials of
construction; now we are alive to the 3eed
OF fitting the road to the traffic"
peculiarly apt and fertile phrase Is this,
fitting the road to the traffic." 1t suggests
that If the transport bill is to be lessened-
and therein lies a large, if not indeed the
largest, practical reason, for highway i'm
provement-the vehicle and the road must
be studied thoroughly in their relations, each
to the other. This now is being done by the
National Research council in cooperation
with the United States Bureau of Public
Roads and the quartermaster corps of the
army. The surveys and experiments, which
will be completed within less than a year, in
clude "tests with various types of motor We
hicles with the load, tire and spring equip
ment moving at different speeds over varying
kinds of road surfaces There will be also
ample data touching "the amount of gasoline
used, the resistance of the road wind resist
ance and internal engine resistance" Pos
sess1ng~ full and exact information on these
matters, the highway engineer can determine
what type of surface to use for given VOL
ume of traffic to result in the least total cost
for road and vehicle OPERATION
1t is by this total cost that the success of a
highway investment is rightly to be measur-
ed, not simply by the extent of mileage con-
structed Through such investigation as the
Research council and kindred institutions are
making, new ef1ciencies and new economies
in highway building may be expected The
consequent benefits to the farmer, the mer-
chant, the manufacturer and the rank and
ME OF consumers and taxpayers will be i'm
mense. = A far day it now seems when road
building was regarded as mainly matter of
picks and shovels. AS it grows more scien-
t1tc Its costs will be less and its services
longer The state of Georgia never made a
sounder investment than in establishing a
highway department directed upon these for
ward-reaching lines
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-26
Hearte,'ng to Georgia

rHE recently issued report Of Mr.. T. R.
Bennett, superintendent, shows that
states banking department.. shows
during the year ended June 30. Georgia
banks have reduced loans and discounts by
$35,391, 042.8O.
1t is not necessary that one be either a
statistican or a financier to understand
these iigures and, while the total may seem
a bold one to most Of us who are unaccus-
toned to such figures the fact remains that
somehow, during that past year Of the re-
port Georgia banks were repaid more than
100000.
Where the money came from, the
statement does not show nor is the question
easily answerable; but it did come from
somewhere and, somehow, it was paid
and, by virtue Of the payment, Georgia bust
ness is richer.
Another good omen: Foreign banks-that
Is, banks outside the state of Georgia-owe
to Georgia banks more money than we owe
them. In still simpler wording this would
appear that for some little time money will
be paid into our state banks instead of be-
ing paid out.
The general business prospect for fall
and winter gives promise of an excellent ga
son; so much so that even the more pessi-
mistic have been inclined recently to
admit that there Is occasionally a ray
of sunshine somewhere, despite such handi-
caps as mis-legislation and a staggering
Republican tariff.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-26
Mr.. Ford's Socialism, p"

THE announcement by the Wall street
Journal that Henry Ford. has be-
come the richest man in America, has
caused more than a little speculation con-
corning the automobile manufacturer and
his political views.
Until this announcement, there were those
who held that Henry Fords socialistic tend
encies were unmistakable. To the support
of this contention they brought Mr.. Fords
attacks on Wall street and the capitalists, as
If the argument thus were clinched.
To those who hold no BRIEF either for "the
wealthiest man in America" or for the
Socialist party, it seems apropos to point out
that socialism, as such, Is but little under
stood, and that verbal assaults on capitalism
do not necessarily mark one as a communist.
Thus, as Morris Hillquit pointed out long
time ago, while Marx, Engels and Las
sale were unquestionably the founders of
theoretical socialism, their economic and po-
litical doctrines have been modified sub
stantially.
And there is one point that must be borne
in mind in the discussion that is centering
about Ford, and that Is the fact that eau
thorities" are such only within the scope of
their competency.
AS O the manufacture of automobiles Mr..
Ford can no doubt speak from knowledge
(which encompasses that industry, but his
opinions on other subjects must not-be-
cause of this-be charged to the socialistic
movement; nor need they be listened to with
seriousness.
The term socialism, In this day and time,
Is used Unfortunately to designate GER
tain social philosophy, scheme Of social or
ganization and an active political movement,
and, as such it is but natural that socialism
concerns itself with many more things than
attacks on the monetary system Of the United
States and on capitalists as individuals.
1t is obviously difficult to reconcile some of
Mr.. Ford's utterances with the figures that
stand for his bank balance expressed in dol
lars, but it is by these same figures that the
fact is quite satisfactorily demonstrated that
Mr.. Ford knows whereof he speaks when he
talks of aking.