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Evening journal., 1923-02-05
CFrom the washington Post.)

industrial leaders II Is high time
that other leaders should scan their
policies and consider whether or
not their industries are conducted
in harmony with the spirit OF the
people.
The railroad executives are con-
tinually asking for popular support
in the struggle that began some
years ago and which is steadily in
creasing in intensity. a struggle that
will determine whether railroads
shall rsrnain in private hands or be
owned mad operated by the govern
ment The instructive opinion OF
the average American is in favor
Of individual and corporate owner
ship and operation of industry, and
against too much government inter-
ference with business. But when
gross abuses grow up in the railroad
industry, resulting in the wrec Eing
of great properties and the undue
taxation OF the public to fatten pri-
vate pockets, all without any PRO
test from the organized executives
themselves. then the average citizen
begins to think that nothing but
control-with ownership
and operation IL necessary-is ade-
quate to stop the abuses.
This is a nation of workers.
American labor is king-not the
unions. but the workers themselves,
organized and unorganized. Every
man who is worth his salt is a work
er. Hence. when any great industry
or industrial group attempts to do
injustice to the workers. OF that
group. there is developed a feeling
among the millions OF workers that
bodies no good TO the offending in
dustry. Thereo must be justice to
the workers. This is so fundamental
a necessity that no industrial leader
deserves the name or the power
unless he recognizes 1t and strives
10 give an absolutely square deal
10 the workers in his organization.
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
WE'LL MAY WELCOME TT

n EFERRINc, TO the investigation that has or
III dered by the interstate Commerce Commission re-
gardng the efficiency with which railway equipment is
being used. the Railway Age says;
The railways well may welcome investigation Of
that matter at this time within weeks they
have been making the records in the efficient use
OF equipment ever made this time of year. They
have been helped by mild winter weather but they
have records in spite OF the fact that the
shop employees strike is sti in effect on most roads
I'm the three months from ls. 1922, to Janu
ary 49, 1929 the total number OF carloads OF freight
moved was 1172SOss. The best previous record ever
made in a corresponding period in 192e-2l when
from the middle October the middle of January
they moved 1O71s,27s loads The record made within
he last three months has been 1O11765 cars almost
ten per cent. better than before"
II is shown labor leaders and other agitators
have been going to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and members OF Congress and telling them thst
the railways have breaking down because most
Of them have not with their striking shop EN-
nloves These figures are conclusive answer to that
claim.
The latest statistics OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission which give in detail showing the efficiency
with which the railways been using their equip
throw much light the question OF how the rail-
roads have succeeded still succeeding in hand
ling more business than before at the same uhe
iaet year The results previously obtained in
The number of tons OF freight carried mile last NO
vember were larger in November 1920 While the
number Of freight train miles smaller This was
due 10 the fact that this month in 1920 the average
number of tons OF freight carried train was 6sl
while in 1922 It was 71s shippers did not load as
much freight per car the number Of tons per
loaded car in 1920 being so2 and in 1922 only 2Sz
but there were more in the average train, the
number in 1920 being 81. while in 1922 it was al
most 49, The average distance cars were moved per
dav in November. 1920 slightly less than twenty
seven miles while in 1922 It slightly more than
this To state the matter in another way, while the
average load per showed reduction, the average
miles each car was moved daily showed an increase
nd in consequence in spite OF lighter loading almost
exactlv the same amount of freight service was rem
dered daily with each and because on the average
there we've more cars in each train, there was more
freight service rendered with each train. In Novem-
her 1929 almost 81 per cent Of all the mileage made
bv freight cars was made by empty cars. In Novem-
ber 1922 only about s2h per cent Of the car mileage
was made by empty cars
The shop crafts unions tried break down the
railroads. they trying TO show that they
did So the railroads refused TO "brea down
and the statistics OF operation most conclusively
prove it.
Evening journal., 1923-02-05

and the overthrow of his govern
ment came as a result of the civil
war last fall between General WI
Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, when Cen
eral Chen Chiung-ning. one of the
southern leaders. Joined with Cen
eral WI and captured Canton.
A month ago the temporary Can
ton Government, which had replaced
DR.. SUMS republic. notified Pekin it
was willing to reunite with the
northern Government and to aban-
don its pretence OF ruling. To the
well uishers of China this was graft
fylng, for it indicated restoration of
China TO the same territorial boun-
darles it had at the time of the en-
pire and an end of serious factional
dierences.
The reunion OF the north and
south was the chief thing for which
DR.. Sun contended, and now that 1t
is apparently an accomplished fact
the outside world IS asking why DR..
Sun disapproves Of it and insists
upon a union based on his own for
mula. 1t also is asking why he took
Chang Tso-lin's side in the civil war
instead Of General WI Pei-fu's. The
former is recosnizeI as a Manchu-
rian brlgand leader whose one aim
was 10 obtain possession Of Pekin
and restore the Manchu dynasty to
power, while General Wu's whole
course showed him a man imbued
with practical constructive ideas and
one who with proper support might
have restored China TO the govern
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would be struck and the animosities
and disabilities of the war would be
wiped out.
Great Britain's offer to conclude
funding terms spoils this idealistic
conception. II she pays us, the big
gest single plus nugget will not go
into ths pot. But if she pays US
she will expect France to pay her.
and France, in turn, will look to
Germany to pay. Thus Germany
will be left, as before. to carry the
burden which she has been moving
heaven and earth to throw off. The
condemned criminal will not escape
judgment. The America that
fought and contributed her savings
TO subdue the. outlaw OF Europe will
not humbly assume the duty of dis
charging the outlaws war debts.
Mr.. Borah is sorrowful that we
should get any Of our money back.
Well, DR.. Cuno and Hugo SHINES
are probably even more sorrowfuI
than he is.
Evening journal., 1923-02-05

STAR ATHLETES AS STUDENTS.
From the New York Evening Post
One by one cherished notions go
into the discard. A few years ago
investigation showed that members
OF college fraternities averaged
about as. we'll as their scholastic
standing as non-members. NOW
comes Earlham college, Indiana
with evidence that star athletes
carry more college work. and carry
It better, than do non-athletes. The
average number OF credit hours for
non-athletes and athletes who have
not won the right to wear the col
lege letter at Earlham last year was
27.649. For letter men it was 29'-
946. or credit points per hour the
non-letter men attained 1851, the
letter men 1.649. After this we shall
not be surprised to learn that mem
bers OF college debating teams al
ways have difficulty in passing in
telligence tests
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
Rrtainis

troops and the pick Of Britains
naval and military strength
In the work of peace it is evident
that Ambassador Child is striving 90
play a proper part. It was his mis-
sion at Lausanne to protect the
moral and material Interests OF the
United states in the Near East and
first among those interests is the
safeguarding of peace. THE ialiure
of world peace would" he sara IN
reviewing the situation. "be worIo
calamity. but for Turkey It would
be an irreparable tragedy
There can be no great doubt as 20
the issue Of an armed struggle pe-
tween Britain and Turkey unoer
Afustapha Kemals courageous lead
ership, the Turk has again battered
has way into Europe. He has done
so at a time when Europe seemed al
last to have got rid of its unUelcome
Mohammedan invaders.
Defeat Of the Turks in fresh
struggle would seal their fate. Eu-
rope would know them no more
Upon the realization OF this at An
CORA depends the success or failure
OF Lausanne.
Evening journal., 1923-02-05

The fact that American industry
as a whole is coming 20 trial at
the bar of public opinion is now
recognizing by a few leaders OF in
dustry. The situation thus arising is
abundant cause for anxiety.
One of the clearest warnings to
industry by one of its own lead
ers. is that uttered recently by Col.
Robert w. Stewart. chairman OF the
board of the Standard Oil Company
OF Indiana. Col. Stewards state
ment was published in The Wash
ingt on Post on January %. In sub
stance he holds that American in
dustry is not coming up to the pop
ulsr demands, and that, unless re-
forms are instituted by industry it.
self. they will be made by the people
in such thorough going fashion that
industry may be entirely transform
ed. He mentions the agitation for
the governor ownership of the coal
fields and the railroads ss instances
OF popular dissatisfaction with pres
ent conditions. Col. Stewart insists
that the drastic cutting of wages to
meet competitors in foreign mar
kets is a mistake. because the Ameri-
can market is worth more than all
others. and because the welfare OF
American workers is more import
ant to industry than is the increase
Of foreign trade. His solution of
the problem confronting industry Is
the adoption of an economic policy
that will win popular approval. and |
the education of the public TO un-
derstand that anything that harms
industry harms the people as
whole.
We think the education OF indus
try, and not the education of the |
public, Is industry's prime task and |
duty American industry in many |
respects has been blind to light and |
deaf TO reason in matters affecting /
its existence. When opinions sucn
as these herein cited are uttered by !
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
DIR. CopEIAND's DELUsIoN.

From the New York Tribune.
Senator Copeland has done
himself little credit by repeating the
empty charge that the coal short
age in this city was due to the
inability Of the carriers to move
coal: This inability was laid to the
railroad shopmen's strike, for which
DR.. Copeland seems also to put the
blame on the railroads. although II
was called as a protest against a de-
cision of the Railroad Labor Board.
According TO Mr.. Robert S. Bin
kend, vice-chairman of the commit
tee on public relations of the East
ern railroads. Geological Survey fig
ures show that since September H.
1922, when mining was resumed
and January 20. 1928, the anthra-
ite-csrrying roads handled So
O52,OOO tons OF coal. as against SO,-
$4,000 tons handled in the cor
responding period a year ago.
Mr.. Binkerd further reports that
the heads Of the three railroads
which carry the bulk of this citys
suppiy-the Central OF New Jer-
sey the Lackawanna and the Lehlsh
Valley-have contradicted DR.. Cope
lands statement and that General
Goethals. the Fuel Commissioner,
backs them up.
The anthracite shortage is due
primarily and exclusively, so far as
this city Is concerned. to the pro-
tracted strike of 1922. Anthracite
reserves were exhausted then and
have not yet been made good. The
railway shopmen's strike affected
the Eastern roads 10 some extent.
But it did not seriously interrupt
freight traffic between the mines
and the coal markets. Freight
statistics prove this. There was not
enough coal on hand to carry last
summer. Suspension Of production
caused the shortage and the ration
ing from which the consumer here
now suffers.
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Pull IS more often the tomb of push"
:-:-.-:
Life and death are contemporaries As soon as we
are born begin to die
:-:-:-:
Many a man measures ME moral obligations by the
rule Don't get caught in the act"
:-:--:
Luck smiles him who has a mind 10 will and to
do Incidence foreshadows faalure-sure and certain
:-:-:-.
Some survive just because they are owned So
the donkey that pulls cart around in
the moonlight.
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AS TO 'NfINDING OUR
OWN BUSINESS .

From the Scranton Republican.
More than a century ago John
Quincy Adams. as the result of his
study Of conditions abroad, empha-
sized the Importance OF America
keeping aloof from Old World quar-
rels. This country had he declared,
"abstained from interference in the
concerns of others because It had
seen that probably for centuries to
come all the contest OF that Acel-
DANA, the European world. will be
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
"IuST A POOR BEAN"

From the New York Evening Tele-
gram.
The Rev. Harry z. Fosdick might
have been a bit more temperate in
his negative tribute to the intelli-
gence and breadth Of vision by Will
els sa UmHo Due. cccccc
liam Jennings Bryan than 10 have
referred to him as "a poor beam
hut then Fosdick was laboring un-
der the stress Of anger engendered
by Mr.. Bryan's reference to him as
the most altitudinous higher
critic"
Temperance iN utterance is just as
necessary for the preservation OF the
amenities as temperance in the use
OF stimulants is essential TO the
preservation of public order. Neither
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
pRnspECrs AT lausanne

BHAlSBIAIS Al AlNA1-hAN%NA<
From the New York Herald.
British opinion has been per-
picked by the action OF NJ. Poin-
care, in informing Mustapha Kemal
that however firm the British may
appear TO be in their attitude France
does not deem as definite the terms
Of peace drawn up by the Allies and
presented, rather in the manner of
an ultimatum to the Turks at Lau-
same. France, NJ. POincare de-
clares, will be ready to continue or
to resume negotiations even il Bri-
tain should absent herself.
Lord Curzon has agreed to give
the Turks until Sunday TO consider
the draft of the proposed treaty and
effort TO avoid a conflagration, is
being made in private negOtions.
1t Is difficult TO see by what diplo-
matte ingenuity a climb down, on
one side or the other, can be grace
fully performed. But. though dark,
the prosects are by no means hope
less and Lausanne, even if it ends in
negotiations being broken off, need
not lead to immediate war.
With the Ruhr problem pressing
upon every country, Great Britain
can have no desire save TO cooper
aate to the utmost in the work of
peace salvage Of the next few days
Neither can the Turks, despite all
their pride in victory over the Greek
army. contemplate complacently a
war between their ill-equipped
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
SUFFERED With
stomach YEARS
Now Praises the Plant Juice
and Says 1t Gave Him
Blessed Relief
SAYS NOTHING EVER
HELPED HIM BEFORE

When the stomach IS swollen and
distended with painful gases; when
there is indigestion, sour stomach,
biliousness. headaches and awful
pain in the stomach and chest
then life becomes a mere existence
and the poor sufferer just drags
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
SARAH A. HIUYARD DIES.

Special 10 The Evening journal.
MIDDLETOWN, Feb. 5.-Miss
Sarah A. Hilyard died at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thom-
as Roberts. on Lake street, Friday
night, after an extended illness. Be
sides her parents she is survived by
a brother. Harry Hilyard, and a sis
ter, Mrs. William Robinson, both of
this town. Funeral services will be
held today. Interment will be IN
Forest Cemetery.
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whom he in contact. He faithful TO the
arduous and exacting duties that go With his calling
BY his many of charity had endeared himself In
the hearts OF thousands the east side OF our city
comforting in time trouble and the broad
sympathies he showed his daily duties will his
memory be cherished. His life will his
greatest monument
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
With the Pardgraphers

There are ways OF helping Europe without lying
down in the mire with Europe.-St. Louis Times.
Kentucky women reported carrying guns Their
California sisters only carrying them but use 'em.
Wheeling Register
Letters of the late Franklin X Lane, Secretary of
the Interior in the Wilson administration shows that
as man he did not hold Wilson very high regard
Lansing, Garrison, Bryan and other cabinet officers
seem to share the same view-Spencer (w Va
Times Review.
topeka is receiving present from Johs II. Bland. Of
Concordia- giant golden eagle aptured near Con-
corda during recent sleet storm is enroue to Gag
PARK 70 be placed on exhibition in the geological
dem Mr. Bland found the bird an extra fine specimen
chilled and almost dead. By careful feeding he re-
Vived the eagle and asked State Game Warden Clapp
at Pratt what to do with the prize The warden re-
ierred him 10 the Topeka Observation-Disclosures
News.
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PoPUIIsM FORGOTTEN

IOGNlllch EOiAOO1 AA1ANs
From the Topeka Capital.
There is no indoor political sport
more popular than to draw a parallel
between conservative legislation OF
today and Populist proposals Of 25
years ago. An example is William
Allen Whites statement that the
Capper rural credits bill is virtually
duplicate OF the credit legislation
for the farmer proposed by Senator
PETER and the Populists of the last
century.
Such parallels are superficial. The
essence OF the Populist projects on
credit was first last and all the time
They might propose more liberal
credit plans for agriculture, but the
credit would always be rag money,
irredeemable, like the distinguished
German mark or. Russian ruble. To
liken such legislation TO the present
rural credits bill is TO miss the Pop
ulist point Populism was born,
lived, fought, bled and died for ir-
redeemable paper money. and that
was the beginning and end OF 1t.
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contests between inveterate power
and emerging right. America" he
asserted, lis the well-wisher TO the
freedom and independence Of all.
She is the champion and vindicator
OF her own"
As il he had foreseen the attempt
to involve this republic in the league
Of nations, Adams said: "She we'll
knows that by once enlisting under
other banners than her own she
would involve herself beyond the
power OF extraction in all the wars
OF interest and intrigue, Of avarice
envy and ambition. The funda-
mental maxims OF her policy would
change from liberty to force"
That was wholesome advice. al
though given a good many years ago.
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
DIsTRUsT IN COLLEGE SPORT.

From the New York Herald
Dean Briggs, OF Harvard, hit the
nail squarely on the head when he
deplored the fact that his own uni
versity had entered into an agree
ment with Yale and Princeton con-
cerning the management OF their
athletic affairs. The long list Of
regulations which went into effect
on January /. emphasizes the exis-
tence OF distrust in college sport. As
Dean Briggs pointed out. the agree
ment, which seeks TO guide the Big
Three in the paths Of sportsmanship,
is itself lacking in sportsmanship
Faith IS needed in the ideal
human relationship. When suspi-
cion enters-and when this suspi-
cion takes the form of a set OF
rules through which one college
tells another how it shall conduct
itself-the spirit of true sportsman
ship Is violated. II the athletic re-
lations Of che Big Three cannot be
Evening journal., 1923-02-05
EDITORIAL OPINION

4 the controversialists seems to
ave thought OF this.
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Sun Xet-Sen s Return TO Canton

(FrOm the NewYork Herald)
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-04-05

maintain n monopoly OF street traffic
for tho benefit 81 tho bondholdcra
Furthermore. tho city. no n law max.
Ing body. having established a mo.
uopaiy Of street traffic, presumably
FOR tho purpose Of enabling the syus
tenn 20 render creator service % tho
community by tho way o. low uni
form faro. OF otherwise, tho city. hA
manager Of tho system. II under no
obligation 10 exploit such monopoly
IN obtaining revenue 90 meet bond
payments, on tho contrary. u IL un.
der a moral n not legal obligation
not 70 skin tho car riders
The answer 20 tho following gus.
ton will point cut the courus tho city
nhouid take IN this matter would a
faro higher than our present fare
bring IN a greater No, revenue under
frce traffic conditions o. under traf.
nc conditions existing ~ tho time the
uoa'rari Of purchase was made than
the present faro docs under tho trat.
nc monopoly Tho city hiss estnb.
l!shed7 Obviously. u would not
Hence. tho common sense and ait.
around equiiabla course for tho city
70 take IL 10 manage the system as
efficiently Rs Il can b. managed
WITH TIE FARE AS IT ~, II tho
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-04-05
The Elite Mob

The warden of the Oregon pententary was recently
besieged with urgent requests hundreds of requests 20
view the hanging of half-wit boy murderer Nor were
these the muck and ruck of the ctzenry; indeed they
were men of official position of standing in their
communities, men who aspire to- and men who have &C
quired, leadership
Two women trial at Chicago with series Of re-
voting poison murders the courtroom doors were nearly
torn from their hinges by the morbid mob; mob well
dressed, with plenty of idle time its hands, mob
Of the elite.
The normal man wouldn't causeessy injure kitten:
the average householder shrnks from Furnishing his
errng child; the American people nation shrink from
PAM and so their hospitals the best equipped and
their dental rooms are the most efficient and their ma
ternity homes the finest earth yet the nation
over, very considerable portion of the best people
delight IN morbidty, thrill burning at the stake
dIlate over the limp swayng body of foolish boy dang
ling slack from the gallows
There should be- in every decent person. an innate
snudder over these morbid happenings and when any
considerable portion of the people become hardened and
deDased so that the outre alone is enjoyable the heart
has rather well departed from the nation
Any man who would torture another man. or who would
willingly witness the execution of another man has some
thing wrong with his internal machinery. Aye that's
the answer; his insdes just machinery.
You keep the telephone disturbing you by no, psyr IN,
telephone bills - 49, '-''A '
While out sowing his Wild frequently cain instead
growing "
PEDESTRIAN has the law his Side but they hit behind
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-04-05
Promoting Telephone Etiauet

Down in Oklahoma, the ladies do things when some
buSybody takes down the receiver and listens in You
Oklahoma is big state settled largely in spots with
comparatively few custerngs of folks, and the party
ne with all that II means Of blasphemy, bacbitng and
social vieiouSneSs is much in vogue To illustrate how
the Oklahoma meSdame does things, give this report
Of an Oklahoma City incident sent direct by Okla
hona editor:
Mrs c. w. Torbert using her damn party line
phoning some things about q near neghbor or some
the receiver when she suspected somebody listening
in. The thing had happened every time Mrs Torbert
had an important secret, and indignation filled her.
She Immediately gets out her gun and fires two shots
across the back fence, promiscuous like,
The courts amt going TO hold that any particular
person was listening in Mrs. Torbert perhaps, but
Mrs. Myrtle Vaughn has got fair-Sized bullet in her
leg high up. The latter feels hurt as she's swearing to
God that while she line with tho back fence she
couldn't have been the party line / guess Mrs.
Vaughn will be believed all right as circumstantia evil
dence amt going far in these parts nowadays as when
we used to hang fellow for horSesealing because he
was carrying a halter that hadn't his initials on It."
AushOres Gertrude Ahon
announcing that gc0d we love has
band didn't stand when moherlaw
noticed the renissncs Gertrude
down as long As mothcrinlaw the place.
Los Angeles pictures spirit good All one could
expect a medium picture.
The by dancing stopping would
wash dishes six weeks,
Never cat fast 1t sets bad c1amps children mosquitoes