Evening star., 1923-06-27
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

the United States may use Of natures
bounty and thrift. The workers con-
stitute 10000 miners. who can take
out some 100000 tons. But will
they7 The commission reports that
the miners can make $4,000 a year.
IL they work full time, but that soYns
earn only $500. The men who earn
SO little work proportionately, but
are unwilling, it is alleged, to WORK
at other trades when mines are closed
down.
1t is charged by the Department Of
Justice that the United Mine Workers
or America have entered into agree
ments with miners of Europe that no
coal shall be permitted to be i'm
ported into America under any cir
cumstances
The Department of Justice is re-
ported to be investigating with
view to prosecuting the union, on the
ground or conspiracy. Some seem 10
think that 1t is the function Of Can
the protecting necessary of the infant
industries
Imagine some blue sky corpora
tfon which could buy up or pre-empt
all the air, with it's stored nitrogen.
which nature has been putting there
throughout the millions of years
Then let the monopolists begin tell
ing US mortals that we shall do no
unnecessary breathing. and that ex-
tracing nitrogen, for any purpose.
wastes oxygen, which has to be
burned up to release it's nitrogen
They might propose to dictate terms
to US on which they would deliver
SO many barrels of air to each of us
nrnvidnd air yoin y
, , strike.
Ridiculous? OF course, it is: but is
1t more absurd than for US who need
natures stores beneath us, just as
| badly as we do the floating stores
above US, to be dependent upon
| monopolists as to our life sustenanceo
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In less than a week after President
| Harding left Washington for Alaska.
Controller Of the Currency McCari de-
fled the Attorney General, intimating
that the President himself could not
interfere with his right to final de
| cision against cabinet officials in the
| matter of spending money. Only
Congress can tell Mr.. McCarl where
| he heads in, he says, and Congress
| is six months away.
And Laddie Boy is just s obstrep-
erous as If he were a controller or
that his master was away out In
Colorado than he turned on the pet
squirrel, Piggy. which shared the
Presidents affections. The dog
barked defiance, then murdered the
sharer of court honors.
II the Bootleggers' Union should
| take pointers from the United Mine
Workers Union. it would stop these
inportations of liquor which all the
ships from the league Of nations member
| nations are pouring in upon us. Where
| is the United States Treasury going to
store the confiscated stuff. after
everybody's cellar is filled with coal.
in anticipation of a cold and coalless
winter coming soon? There is no
room in the Treasury, where all the
vaults are checked full of gold. The
! Bootleggers' Union should have seer
1 its duty and done it, without waiting
to be pushed. There is no tariff OIL
contraband. No protection!
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! Before the American expeditionary
forces were allowed to sail for
with various kinds of virus to avert
disease. but now just before Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon takes the
same trip. the life-preservers of the
| nation, not content with subjecting
him to doctors, make himself a doctor
| five times over. If he catches any
J thing, he can't put the responsibility
onto the regimental surgeon. He's it.
Five colleges have given him doctors
degrees. Melons have often been
| the occasion of sending for a doctor.
but a combination of Mellon and doctor
in one parcel is an improvement.
| Copyright, 1923. by P. V. Collins.)