Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 21, 1918, Page 2

“ No attention paid to anonymous. con! I buti @ known to the editor, but not necessarily for' publl "' Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must réach. this oftice \ater than Tuesdsy of each week to insure publication in the current i THE WEEELY PIONEER i Ten pages, desessesssesssusssns s hhh;.mmiryulfluuw'lolfiiqmi. Pub- nfiqmmtw‘flwmmm;% I I R IR O S & RN \ ' 0! FICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS . . The Dally Plonser 1s & member of the United Press ' represented for forelgn advertising by the ok X . Generai offices 12 New York and Chicago, mn.. in ."mwm ?’“ff : EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM THE .. COUNTRY’S LEADING New "'I'ork Times—We hope - the president will immediately. reconsid- er. and revoke Mr. Garfleld's = a9- ,tdundlng order suspending the busi- ness of the country for five days and on -every Monday for ten consecu- tive weeks. An invasion of the United States by German armies and the capture of citles could hardly be more gnlamltoul in 4fs ‘effects upon our industries and our trade or up- on-the spirit of the nation. . Millions of ‘meén ‘and women will be called upon to forfeit the gains of trades and the wages of employment, and there is too much ‘reason’ to fear that with vast numbers the loss of employment will be prolonged. - It 18/ ‘the worst possible preparation for the ‘next: Liberty Loan. Mr. Gar- field 18 not the man for the fuel ad- ministratorship. " Providence Journal—The order bears every evidence of panic-sticken incompetency. Being, as it is, the ‘culmination of many months of stu- pidity and vacillation, it houses in- stead of approval the grave doubt as to whether the same mentality that has brought us to this pass can be depended onh to make the most of a five-day . respite from general coal consumption. . Here {8 an. effort to rectify a succession of pathetic blun- ders by paralyzing the'life of the United States. Can the most prac- tical and business-like nation in the world risk a second exhibition of this charagter to its own humiliation and the satisfaction of its enemies? .“New York Sun—Although in the coalless days of the restricted period set by the administration, fuel will be supplied for, public utilities, food producers and various necessary plants and business, there are some foolish and futile restrictions upon . the activities of the others, which will save little coal and do no great _ good. ~ Yet to free the railroads and the coal’ from their deadlock we shall make the best of it. First, be- . cause we must, ‘Second, because we shall see in ‘the calamity which has befallen us it is the only way. New York World—The coal or- ders "issued ' by Funel Administrator QGarfleld last night-is the greatest disaster that has befallen the United States in this war. Mr. Garfleld’s plan to increase our supply of. coal by shutting up the United States is an act of folly and panic for which there . i8 ‘no . precedent.. That wild excitement is economic worthy of a Bolsheviki government, has been re- gserved for the United States, which has more fuel than any other bel- ligerent and a system of transporta- tion that is adequate to every neces- sity if it is properly used. Presi- dent, Wilson;should not lose an hour in nullifying the Garfield order. That done, his next duty is to re- move ‘Mr. Garfleld. - ~New York Tribune—The order is impossible of coherent enforcement. The attempt to enforce it will be oyerwhelmed by demands for inter- pretation. The fuel administration _has lost its head; Dr. Garfield is in a panic and acts in a headlong man- ner.. - The mechanism will somewhat ~‘survive, -but fancy the effect that willibe produced upon the minds of our partners in war and upon the enemy. People are very patient. £ NEWSPAPERS New York Herald—It 18 impos- sible ‘to escape the cgnviction that somebody at' Washington has @ bun- gled ‘badly in the handling of the fuel problem. The order of the fuel ‘administrator is a blow between the eyes of business.. It is' hoped that there will be ‘serieus reconsideratio: of the whole of this order. 2 Chicago. Herald—At ‘a word of command ~ from Washington .. the great industries. of the greatest: in- dustrial sections of the nation stand idle. A few days ago and: the idea was to keep them going at full speed. The" war could not wait." Tomor- row, by exercise of - governmental power which for drastic character and’ suddenness :combined,: exceeds anything on record in this country. They are stopped for a period of five days completely and for. Sunday-and Monday of each week for a period:of ten weeks. It.was a tremendous de- cision,:and :carries. with it a tremen- dous responsibility. It is,'in a sense, a catastrophe that can only be justi- fled on the ground that it as need- ed to prevent :a still greater catas- trophe. Let us trust that the un- precedented measure will speedily banish the terror of an_impending coal famine. Duluth- News-Tribune--Close down and ‘shut ' is' the order that comes from Washington with a bang. Twenty-four hours. {8 not long no- tice to give business’ and’ industry for five days and throw many tens of thousands out of employment. Coal at’any price would have been cheaper. - The order will be obeyed loyally. The sacrifice and hardship will be shouldered.” This .will be done good naturedly, as’is-the American habit in accepting the . inevitable. ~ Yet back of this order and made'plain by it is the almost total business incom- petence of this administration. The - result cannot be shifted “to the storm. That was but a factor; Neither can coal shortage be put as the cause. - There are other ways of meeting that by longer workihg hours and increased mine crews. The greatest coal‘ country in the world does not have to be short of coal unless some one. fumbles. The real cause back ‘of this or- der is railway and shipping’conges- tion. | Back of that is'congestion: of industry-and terminals in the great cities, overgrown because of this very congestion. .- The .final-answer is to scatter industries, free terminals to common use ‘and break’ the ‘shackles put on the country by our American Despot. g : A case directly:in: point is the Du- luth steel plant, producing only pri- mary steel products to be shipped 500 miles by. rail to'Chicago, while its. merchant mills .are idle ‘-and wholesalers in this western: section are unable to get the staple forms of finished steel products these mer- chant mills could supply. 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