The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-05
A FAR-REACHING PROBLEM

The controversy over the renewal
of the labor contract in the anthrac-
lite coal field, while it affects directly
only a comparatively small percent
age of the American people, is of vital
interest to the entire nation.
If capital or labor can so tie up
an industry upon which the life and
welfare of the people depend that the
product of that industry can be denied
the people, the national welfare is
seriously menaced and drastic rene
dies are called for. If the American
farmer were to say that he would de-
liver no food to the American people
unless the price of all his products
were to be doubled or THRILLED, there
would be a great wall of indignation
and it would be manifestly necessary
for some new power to be given the
government, whereby the government
could make it possible for the people
to secure food at a reasonable price.
Tribunals would have to be estab-
Ushed to determine what was rea-
sonable price If the farmers re-
fused to furnish it at that price IL
might be necessary to draft workers
to produce it.
Similarly if the coal operators or
the miners refuse to produce coal for
a fair profit and a fair wage, some
power will have to be exercised by
the government to get that coal pro-
duced. The mines may have to be
seized, miners may have to be drafted,
or other steps taken. The claims and
contentious of operators and miners
can not be allowed to go so far that
the people will be deprived of one OF
the vital necessities of life.
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The steel industry has now done
away with the 12-hour day. That will
leave editors and reporters an exclu-
sive class which works all day and
all night and thinks nothing of it,
says an exchange.
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The boy or girl who has decided
not to attend school this year had
better reconsider before it is too late.
The pocket money they can earn at
some easily obtained job looks big to
them, while results of book learning
look small. They do not stop to con-
slider whether the job is one by which
they may climb to something better.
1t may be a task that they can learn
in half a day and which, after it is
learned, is just matter of routine |
People climb through the exercise of
brain power, and the modern school
is designed to develop brain power,
and is the best method there is for |
that purpose. 1t doesn't pay to quit |
school, unless one is forced to by dire |
necessity.
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Business would be at standstlii
f insurance should go on strike !
Not train would move; not ship
would sail. The machines in fac
.ories would be stilled automobiles
would be left in garages. Even the
,anker's hand would be paralyzed-
le would not know which would be
he better policy; to call loan, the
collateral support of which is unpro-
ected by insurance, or pile the money
n vaults deprived of the burglary pro-
ection insurance Indeed, the sense
# security against misfortune which
he public enjoys, is given to it by
insurance. The public in general is
lot acquainted with the fact.-Ex.
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Mr.. Coolidge is evidently deter
mined to stick to his job, not to inter-
ere with any other mans, and to
observe his energy for that purpose
" not making speeches. He says
title, but when he makes any state
tent through his spokesman there IS
O mistaking his meaning. We have
othing sensational or spectacular to
xpect from such a man, but we may
e sure that when he strikes, he will
-rike no soft blow and that he will
it the spot at which he aims-Ore- :
oman.