Evening star., 1932-11-29
ERLINER LOKEL ANZEIGER.-
All men are q little crack
Drained in one respect or an
other not consciously. perhaps,

IL OLleT nOt CONSCIOUSLY, peiLhpS,
nor due in any respect to their
own determinations, but rather traceable
to a provision of Nature which, in the last
analysis, makes them all equal in ability
and accomplishment. Scientists, doc
tors, lawyers and philosophers are,
therefore, no exceptions to the rule.
But at present. and for once, at least,
we want to talk about the bats in the
belfries of the technical geniuses, and,
incidentally, about the trans in the
beautiful city of Mannheim.
These experts wanted to know the
exact number Of passengers that
travelled on some Of their lines. Moth
ing simplerl" one is inclined to reflect.
And that is just what they thought in
Mannheim, too. So they installed an
each cara sort of treadle which, being
stepped upon, made contact with an
electrically operated register "Just the
thing" said the street car directors
when they introduced this clever ap-
paratus. But after little experience
Herewith they were not so sure. Pas
sengers, enjoying the novelty Of the
miniature springboard, were inclined to
hop up and down a few times before
finally entering the conveyance:
The technique of the invention was
thus discovered to be faulty, and the
statistics derived therefrom quite wrong.
But there must be something aniss with
all the minor Manufacturers, too, since
pensity to jump about like q flock Of
water wagtailsl
II \
Chilean Ruling Bars
Strikers From Jobs.
III ,~f~ vyJ1-
general of industry, who has Just re-
turned from an investigation of the
strikes in the Province of Coquimbo, has
established a ruling which shall here
after govern the status of men who,
having work, relinquish it voluntarily
and then seek either to regain their
employment or the benefits Of public as
sistance. In the district mentioned
these provisions apply especially to the
gold (ore) washers, many Of whom, de-
spite the multitude Of equally capable
unemployed in that same zone, have
surrendered their jobs because Of dis
satisfaction with the rates of pay.
The fact Of the matter was that the
mine operators we're endeavoring only
to distribute their work over twice as
many workers as were actually required
to prevent larger numbers of the local
population becoming beneflciaries of the
already hard-pressed fiscal department.
In doing so wages necessarily had to be
reduced in the case of each man en-
ployed, but this procedure was thought
better than halving the force and CIV
ing those retained twice as much as
they needed for actual subsistence and
the others nothing.
The workers who did not submit to
the inherent justice of this tenet and
tmpetuously gave up their Jobs because
Of their reduced emoluments are now
pupils OF still sterner discipline and
becoming daily more cognizant Of the
fact that half loaf is better than no
bread. To put these subjects immedi-
ately into free lodging houses and on
the dole would, however, in the opin-
ion Of the director general be but put
ting premium upon selfishness and
Incidence. The advance guard of this
disfranchised group has already arrived
at Andacollo on foot and is arranging
to spend its first night on the hard
ground under the open sky Is 1t these
men that the fiscal ought to help, and
not those in distress because they have
lately had no opportunity to earn any
thing at all?
This public assistance, eel albsrgue, -
Il, ct least, q formidable error. II
would be fatality for al, except that
1t g, w hope. but . tSnnsitory means
sof relieving unprecedented otmcultaes.