Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1921, Page 49

" TAQ TOTON N - TTNT " Part 2—16 Pages WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORNING, 1921. That Hard Work Is Injuri Health U 1y t, but Strikes Are F ‘ Y BYN0; MESSENGER; health and strength building second | cabinet for preliminary handling, and | culated thal the average Increase of | GENERAL tendency toward “!s,mf“t:]':",:’ }'-»‘T;x{ EeNerpect ]_,‘,),',,f,flt':‘,':"x‘ :»:";f‘rlr':ut:"f!\tf:ul:l :w\r"-n»"\’\-‘"l Whether str will re- b« RESIDENT HARDING amazes ©NlY to eating and sleeping. final disposition in most cases, 1€av= | cocts due to fed coxabion b 45 reduction in wages throughout [ vorable. During the p celcconfer: | ri e movement spread to depends upon nes; ons now his friends and official asso- P tag only fmportant questions of Dol-{por gent. deral ‘taxatlon ‘s 28 the country, combined with a|enoes were held between masterithe western part of the state. Other in progress between the operating B ciates by his scemingly inex- Meet the Pfesident at dinner, or in|icy for presentation to the execu-| Tnat ig federal taxation, now, mind | tefensy on the fdrtind '“h‘"':‘um:f” a"dd"p"\wmahw: 0 b Mo o L N B [memiphios WHd (RE ahatn; Bhs A haustible capacity for contin-|social converse in the evening, and|tive for decision tn time-uf doubt. [vou on top of all slate and locai|l" the east to resist the .cul, and a|building _trades unlons discussingcitl nd' dten impends over the on, from 60 ta 45 conts an hour, wous i aeTuous otk et man] e b camires mud fitent ubon thel It i% ‘wet @ lenedman. adminferras| i DU RO BL RS ioctl | general fecling that the peak of un- | stabilization of the tndustry. Another |announced intention of the cmpisyers Wi pul into offcet in Albans. Janu- is a4 wonder.” one of his cabinet €X- | things which come up at the mo-|tion by any manner of mea Thell e ey T outd b suflictent | T8 o has been reached, are the | Meeting will be heid within the next 1o cut wages 20 per cent ary and was followed by a strike Clatmed, “and it is-a marvel (o uS|ment. You. mever wvateh fim in ] cabliet was elected With thut flenfops o attention of the man in | oo e ontained in| (w0 weeks. The attitude of the com-| A bresk in relations between the of the 1500 carmen. The strike re- o Bl y b 2 . iy " the street to the consideration of| ¥ ial \ation | mittee representing members of the|clothing manufacturers —and the mains in progress, with no appar how he gets away with the work he | “brown study,” with his thoughts|in View. as the exceptional ability |pjan Ry Of reports on the industrial uation no apparent takes on.” Y reverting fo¢ that " 2P ot | ot ‘the mien proves. [plans for readjusting taxation which i fPor S 08 0 T i the Union. | Builders —and Manufacturers’ Bx-|Amalgamated Clothing Workers' of of settlement akes verting to that mountain of of- | 0! proves now under: s rsis in O a y 8 : 2 Sisaic) iy A < oy ool : The President spends the greater!ficial care which towers before him * ok k¥ Tt ot e D vAle I COnETeRV A decldedibuckc 'fo ithe: farm. move: Changs for! reduiction i Wiges. ) Kubsics, which cume during & slack principal labor controversy part of his days seeing visitors, talk- | constantly, He does not allow |The plan at the moment being most{ o s alco noted in the reports and | Which 'is counterbalanced by the|spell in January, has resulted in a looked for on May day is in the print- it e D |iconstantls: e does not allow its Sut outside of the ecabinet every- |earnestly mooted is a general sales| ‘ule there is no lack of farm |unions’ stand for a maintenance of | condition that contains elements of|ing trades, and the cond n New tnz about a variety of things, the | shadow to overtake him in the Val-|noqy and all classes with troubles | tax of 1 per cent. e e e | present wage standard: both strike and lacko Some 16.000 ; s subjects ranging from what some|leys of rest and recreation to which e mresident, with YN ihelp in any section. | presed age standards rike and lockout. Some 14.000 York state affecting this cr are the . might consider trivial to those of ac- he resorts, run straight to the ”l.‘l‘”v\’ ! y i The only labor troubles that have| Although the journeymen tailors workers were employed in the in practically every other knowledgpd deep gravity. Some days| Members of the cabinet, who are :!-W"{,. T,‘i\:l :L.‘r."..:iu;'":?u v:-:;{.l::m-; Jlf.:f, "Z-, a. T'":r;‘} sales tax? Let!snown up previous to this May day] IR 80 (ed, & Qesrease of 10 ""’:"fl;’s';yl;',’{'“”'"f.] PN ana i (s SRl atiaon his appointments run for hours on a!all in close touch with him. are ex- h rom y fth - distress its n S ML ke ,su ppear in New York and Massa. cent in wages starting the new yearj 8¢ oF beore HEistds hidve ey Wage cuts, ranging from 10 to 20 five minute schodile—tHab Ju.he WIlll piesstig rescutment over wna: foks ;}:u 1.‘.,{: m.v:‘ ‘fl.u‘l :;“i“:u:h(px. sl:’.“.“. )(i:\fisl (-unf;flcunllb htfoshnr: | chusetts, where strikes of a rather .\lvn'I.X.. the cut has not been ):vn-rahrl'(\jlrnpd to the machines; shops, per cent, are in prospect in the butld- #ive five minutes fo'm caller-and then|ture ‘0f the TEEPORRIBIIILES THIE AF6 |t b ofodbles Eb: 1OMINE |Warés and i he &ross value of £00dS. | serious nature have been in Progress|on dceount of guod conditions now [having closcd and moved clsewhere | ing trades. Some strikes i the build- Base on tp iha mext visitor, whose |thrust upon nim. and which, in relthing. - Labor_troubles are looming args an merchandise, whether FaW und where more are threatencd as Pre ling, it was said by a unionland members of the union Nave|ing industrs are looked for. but ghe O ot o o fac|rusn dpon, by apd wiich. fn hisiidree sqmitinuly; andl everybods material or manufactured or partially | (he result of the proposed reduction|TePTesentative to the Central Labor|refused to work under the reduced fbelicf ix widespread that in view of apart from the last man's as the two | republican party, he 13 on glances anxiously at the President imanufactured products, whether of iy wages in several trades. Union last week. | wages. Shops are picketed daily by !lthe great curtaidment of building op- poles, . %6 miuch: to; Bk :i “sm‘l’n;‘:";;- as if he could take a silk hat and imnmvsuc or foreign origin, whether in‘l However, in the we outh and| National interest in the cabietl is|decreasing numbers of workless ones, ! erations during the past two or three Prestdent. Hardlng NS, the WADDY | sertoand thet ia the Dikerable, sorc| by copirers watd :;‘ .,:Tf'“ On;’\i;t_ arter. or on u ‘cash, credit or In-lcentral states the reporis show that |centering about the campaign inaugu- | Who are fast moving elsewhere | vears the major portion of the work- faculty of adiasting his. wind. Yy it Tactions? Nights mmong: the: veo| o oiet GULiol 2 handkerchicf. OnIY |stallment basis. which tax shall ac-in o number of industries the wage | Fated by President Samuel Gompers|secking other occupations {ers would prefer 1o labor u & & = | oss scems disposed Lo e up lerue a i 5 e J i Saders i aed chianai - o € it o the beat ublder Invband ot T mannee ot Satey) Congress scauit disphsed LB LR MPIGHIB et e Hineurspeor e of all | cuts nave already gone into efteet. [Of the American Federation of Labor| Decided changes in rates of wages | wage reduction than (o wniders: ’ i en raina i Dorsomeiho (BR2itie | etk reitelog sy ‘un o M| oate jof (e resfonct L8 S {such goods, wares and merchandise at| Tne government, state and labor |4Sainst the inclusion of bureaus of|and conditions of employment are|periods of idleness o SL01 toat TOE Tha time. at Tenst | ChioaEn. THS Arcnite ob matomabe | rash Ut O e e e e e (0tal | Jednrs anpear to be pinning hopes | the Department of Labor in the social | being considered in several industri o i the attention of the executive is fixed | dispensation. B€ | jects within its hax:\»:‘k. value at the time of such change of! g, 4 return to normal conditions in|Welfare department proposed in the|some involving a large number of| PENNSYLVANIA—The situation with 7 4 % lownership. i 5 con bi va X k =l SYLVANIA —The situatio e o] e iohy ot soWE GC e * lr\.\.Tn;rwhllv _ | the opening up. on a large scale, of Kcv:,\ on bill. Local labor indorsed the | employes, most of them 10 take effect | regard (o wages is @ mixed one. In R Sreessions upon mubiects | sounnbioe s of geme Of these] and this remark leads naturally to] he tax is similar to an overhead | (ne puilding industry coming, as they | PTOLest against transfer of the divi-{upon the expiration of the existing|many trades and industrics the trend i of profound gravity he will pause 0| parison with the real troubles that|more discussion of taxation problems. h""]“"- to e 3":“‘ to the cost of ”'_e;hupc, with the full operation of the «;m"s in a resolution unanimously in-|agreements, according to a recent|downward and in othors wage rates re. Thake hands with & Eraduating c1ass | he mae In pand. that thes exeite tne MOt By way of repetition, but rather | E00ds, nr:’: finally rm.;; by u:: ulti- | agricultural work. orsed at its last meeting. eport by the state department of \main stationary ates of young ladies or a detachment of | indignation of men close to him, and | CORtinuation. for the discussion is but Q~‘,' ” consumer.™ ere Senalor| e troubles in the eastern scction * ok ok ok labor and industries. The records| \yhile the wage rate among commor 4* Boy Scouts, or a Eroup of the Plain{ they make no bones of expressing |in it3 incipiekey now and much o el Jloelf. and | appear to be pecullar Lo thelr own| MASSACHUSETTS—An unusual indicated, it was said, that there Were labor in independent 1! companios s people on here .from some distant ! themselves in_ tones of exasperation |De heard of it in the coming weeks | §SUEL (T O noUhing in (he Jocality, the. only mation-wide COn-isitustion has arisen in the printing existing in Massachusetts on AT 1| been cut labor prives i the sreat conl Point and introduced by their 5enator| ang geprecation. There are several |and months. No use to get ‘ired of u.<_l;’wrm"’1" the : "el_‘c:':["cha‘: f"" : troversies appearing in the commercial | trade in Boston and vicinity and with | \Wenty-SiX labor disputes, strikes or inqustry of the state have Moy o -’u- or representative in Congress. states where the.republicans are so|foF it has hardly commenced. ans £ "’ arge, and; printing field, where a coNtroversy over|ihe astern Massachusetts Street Rail- lockouts, the largest of which Was|(iined. This is dus large Pl R aivided over the-spolls of ofies,| THat emipent sconomist and prac: lh?[»?-n:wb: w',l e (ll:"." ‘“1“’ m“fy the forty-four-hour week has arisen.|way and its employes. For the first | (hat inVOIVIng the building tradesmen | ments in effect with u'\.d e 3 o i N c.hp |€stablishments where their sales prof- o railroad situation. i < L ! s : o > - cf e miners’ union, Some of his overanzious friends|quarreling over very small and |lical business man, Otto H. hdf‘;_"' ts e Tarees & inlan onMmIBt, Al and in the rai el - time in this state, according to In. |°f BOSton. “The majority of disputes |which have another year to run At think the President is showing the|meager bones, it would secem, that|of New Fotis addzessine the Tr:v " right enough, isn't he? s : COLUMBIA.—Wash formation available from the statejrecorded are dircctly traceable tortempis 1o start up idle mines at reduced strain of all this, but he laughs at the | Party success for the future is ac- [Club of Pittsburgh last l'r:urs o | gl i _ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.— oy department of labor and industries, al(emr‘%i to reduce wages, to establish | wagog have failed. Although their rate suggestion. His expression is natu- | tually threatened. The President is after reciting the principal domestic| ington's labor horizon, from present in- | reductions in wages have been an-|OPh ops or 1o both of these|of pay has not been cut, the earnings of rally serious; he is of grave demeanor, | Patiently, for the welfare of party, [ill* burdens and desperate conditions,| He is backed up, though mot quite | dications, will be serene, except for & |noyficed in these instances simulta- | C2USes,” the department stated i the mine workers have & 3 1 > & 2 < t S * | asked why they existed, and answered |so hopefully, by Mr. Otto Kahn, who |few light clouds, when May dav rolls | neously with reduction s, * % ¥ % i s have been reduced in and the pallor of close confinement to | trying to pacify the excited, clam- | o inin Gt e 1o catis R O R fiia excepiion, OL 5n1 in rates. Thel {many cases becauss of idieness due to £ ' Peim ettt et cme_‘omus factions, but that effort is|thus: ) | expresses the opini at he i satis- | past this year. With the excoption of printers and allied workers have gone NEW YORK.—In New York there is | slack demand for coal e e A mron: somotimes seemy to| “taking It out of him” to a degree| “It is mainly because the clumsy |fled sules tax cannot be pyramided |minor troubles and the local aspect of jout on strike us a protest, and the | one exceptionally large strike, that in{ In Philadelphia there ix much idieness show on his deaply marked features. |that adds material and, it is contend- |hand of faulty taxation has been |to any appreciable extent, if at all. | the printers disagreement nn]l e forty- street railway workers threaten to the clothing workers' industry, where|in the great textile industry for t bt probably saves the day for|cd, unnecessary. weight to the load |shoved into the aelicately adjusted or- | He say T am satisfied that a 1 per | four-hour week, labor troubles Will be [strike if the cut is enforced on May | 65.000 members are striking. Fifteen | reasons—one, depre: ety i him is his adaptability to “turning oft | he ls carrying. | kanization of our commerce and in-|cent sales tax imposed on all stages | conspicuous by their absence. it is P¥- (1, as announced. The opposition by | thousand painters have Just returned | the other the refusni of wonmose | the sitih™ fram. dOidial FATeR WhHeED * k% |Qustry. Capital has been driven from |from eriginal producer to final con- | dicted. ] | the unions is said to be based on the to work, however, having signed new many cases to return to work £ tote the moment of relaxation comes. He| President Harding would certainly |the highways of trade because e |isumer wolild Hot ‘Asgregats, e Jutchers ate on strike against thelcontention that cost of materials in agreements. e at lowep Worka hard, but he also plays hard, | find his burdens of state appreciably jEovernment lies in wait and exacts @ |than 31 per cent to the ultimate pur-| Cudahy Company and the Rossiyn many lines can be substantially| The marine workers are also on| Shipyard workers in the Philadeiph o when he plays he leaves the work | heavier were it not for the notable | Fuge toll, going up 1o th:g-qu?ncrslchusar e — | Packing.Company. the total number ag- | reduced as a first measure of economy | strike, at, least in part. protesting o] gratrice areireniatitng 4t s SRNGS Denind, He does not consider golfing | relief afforded by his cabinet in |Of the wayfarer'kincome, blithely un-} | Eregating not more than sixty; sight- | without touching the purchasing reduction of wages amounting to £33 |ment at a St v—‘r employ- P as strictly recreation, but as a me-|taking from his shoulders as much | mindful, too, of the fact that there I8 | just a word; i you become interest. | sceing bus lecturers are conducting a|power of the laborer. and $30 a month. One hundred and|wages. None nr';, ‘{m e g i %o health and revivication of |of them as possible by his conspicu- |another way called ‘tax exempt se-leq in the question, write to your con- | campaign for recogfition of the union| The building trades situation is twenty thousand membe. Bnliwases N [ the plants, however, is dium ealth - ities which is not only safer. 3 > | i : ; s ‘mbers of the In-|working with full forces P ttrength. When he walks the links | ously eficient body of advisers. This curitie i s t ¥ er. | gressman; that's what he is there for. [by a few of the larger sishtsecingalmost state-wide. Strikes or lockouts, | ternational Seamen’s Union are tak-| According to th e : Sver Bis mind is upon the game, upon | administration, so early in its ex- | smoother ?N‘l less 1*"’0""“’“‘3 travel |gut if you want to please those | lines. and minor troubles are evidenced as the case may be, have kept 16,000 ing a strike vote on the proposed re- meree of Phils ‘.xa'w'; e O satdoors beauty. upon his mus-|istence, is marked to & pronounced | but Is entirely free from toll. about the President and who are con- |in individual instances, with no definite | men in idleness at Boston since early | duction in wages. e sy o Bt cles and the joy of living in the open. | degree by the distribution of lhei K ] cerned with his tasks and burdens, | effect upon the community. January over a question of the rate . Employes of traction companies Cu;. wages ‘lofl.{:“‘:‘nu 2 g i he regards as an essential tol problems of government among the | The Department of Justice has cal- |don't "take it up” with him In the case of the building trades the lof wage and the conditions under throughout the state will suffer a Ben A0 o 200pec oenti imetl 3 uffer a (Continued on Fifteenth Pag ° . . S B b Employes Given New Hope Consuming Public Has Power Names of P €nros r . . € an (0) ey . . icl f Administrati To Correct Price Unfairn S B I By Policies o ministration t aIrness oon to (0) i f the W 1d < it ) n 5 BY SHELDON S. CLINE. In some cases this barrier is p - Y. i jately into effect on ROM all parts of the coun- erected at the retailer's end of BY WILL P. KENKEDY. The Post Office Department is a;and went immedia 3 L ) e . y ; HE new order is here. Under |Striking example of the complete re-|the subject of reinstatements. This try there are coming to the line. In others it is at the BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Underwood-Simmons act—now on the | Senator Aldrich left the Senate in " rder the ;., army | Vulsion of feeling that has come with | provides that if an employe resigned officials in Washington producer's end. In still other ASTOR and Pollux, Damon |Slatute books, has been in effect for | 1911, for two vears. Then his purty et e rea is go. |the Harding regime. Postmaster Gen-|on account of illness he is to be cordial indorsements of the | cases the barrier will be found and Pythias, on down the |CiSht Years. The republicans claim |became the minority party for six e e 'ander | eral Hays, has announced his intention | reinstated at his ol grade of salary.| Harding Administration’s program | at some point between the pro- line through . the ages to|that this tariff law “for revenue only” years. Two years azo Senator Pen- fer swies and along pleasanter ways | to establish a division of welfare work, |and i he resigned for any other| 1o equalize and stabilize prices and | ducer and the retailer. But Penrose and Fordney, the |Would have brought about the defeal rose was again elected chairman, ¢ :,“m :“"e:c::m;i:::,:m The most | to have charge of such activities, that|reason he is to be reinstated one| g, get business under Wway again wherever erected, it is in viola- |DBames of men bound by various ties |Of the democrats ultimately—that the when the republicans regained vun-. _::iu‘ fact from Uncle Sam's point of | will spread into all the postoffices | grade below the one he occupied| ., , jevel of prices that has some ;‘;r’!’dofal:; "'1“3'“‘,,‘;‘;2'{. a;:] ::;; have been linked together in popular | COURrY’'s business was already on the | trol of the Senate. The republicans, s 21 O | throughout the country and brighten |[when he left the service. The sec- . o values and costs i ity ot Ahe thought. Senator Boise Penrose of |t0bOggan, with production falling off while they held contro e last view is that greater efficiency in his &] . just relation t righ he whole |y 3 2nd i 5 5 ¥ rol of the last abon: 3 lting. while congres-|the lives and improve the working ond reinstatement is to be two grades| " 4 0500 It is a program to people. ennsylvania and Representative Jo- mports increasing. But the war | Congress, realiz@d that it.would be workshop is resulting: > below and the third reinstatement P » No doubt the erectors of these |seph W. Fordney, respectively chair- |in Europe, embroiling all’ th eat ile sional committees are yet mulling over | conditions for every man or woman o At el which the whole American people barriers, in a great many cases, |man of the Senal. a 3 fiations, bobbed Ry e great futile for them to attempt a revision preliminary proposals and elemental who helps Uncle Sam deliver the|three grades below. ean subscribe, withqut regard to are able to find abundant personal e finance committee b ed up and so changed the | of the tariff laws with Woodrow Wil- iy D i ity matis: < Admitted that that was a victory be, e eny | Justification. But they cannot be |&nd the House ways and means com- entire business situation that the tar- | son in the White House ready to veto e e e, Srp Sl s ; PP for the organized employes—but it| party affiliations or divere T o onomically Conany | mittee, are about to go down into |Iff became a matter of more or less|any protective tarift law they sent federal service to attain - was a much bigger victory for Uncle| views as to the league of nations. national scale. history as the co-authors of the new |minor importance. him. It woul g much-desired result. In instituting this social welfare re-| . ° bl The economists of the Harding In such cases where there is | oo piioon i% Qariet 1aw Anunusial Sitiats T 3 would have been impossible The morale of the federal service Is|form in the postal service Postmaster| ' \" nae; instead of having theset riosidi Honbers | 7ot greedy and shameless profit- 8 permanent” tariff law—y situation exists in the|to muster the necessary two-thirds being built up, in just about the same |G \ 3 vt aiceaay umh_'ponul employes all fighting the de-| administration—of whom Herber eering the erectors of barriers |Permanent merely to distinguish the | Senate today regarding the tariff.|vote to pass it over the presidential ;en;-xm“ it el m o Ll avs slaving, r:::u(iti‘)" o |partment. as they have becn of re-| Hoover. Secretary of Commerce. 13 | may find personal justification in | measure from the “emergency” tarift Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama | veto. vay - e of e 4.000, a well recognize . g g _ ; Ty i ! e very human reiuctance to ac- i S i S S “oldiers who went into the world warlorganizing genius, called into con- ;Ml ):lzrs._ lhhey are n’nw all fighting [ the most widely known—are united i cept business losses. The mer- ;’1‘“’ which _now_beau lhe‘name of :'ndt:en‘awr Furnifold M. Simmons of{ Both Senator Penrose and Mr. Ford- \nder the Stars and Stripes was 50 ef- | ference the bes€ possible authorities— [ o it ;h'* ";”“;‘"‘""‘- f p¥leving that tbe mosLipress. | chant Whoss sheivas aro stocked k:{’:"“m“ve Tongror North D Meea fii"’('fi.'f' w}ms: i ro | pon A oM abihe tank game Wy % ¢ fectively done as to be a marvel to the | Dr. Garland. in charge of social wel- e ing need of the day is equalization e manufi“__mmr LT .TJ&E 5 i bersasied ‘D 9!;911 ;a:l_ aw, are | Fordney was a prominent member of world. fare work for the National Cash Reg- In the closing days of the Sixty-sixth | of prices. There can be no general BIGCKL 0 TaW MBTerIalh Chnirart How permanent the new tariff lgw Sy ving in that body. Senator|ihe ways and means committee when P ister ‘Company, and Mr. Frankel, In|Consress the members of the| industrial revival, nor can there | ed for before the slump, cannots| ¥ill be remains to be seen. Tariff | erwood is democratic leader and|Ar. Puyne was chuirman. Both have g By getting the government employes . charge of similar work for the Metro- House and Senate were up in arms| phe any enduring prosperitg, so :f‘:o"l:ailr 1;1e” .:M?&m‘i 22{ :&e o,} unfkeflng hasva.rl least frequently been ;::SEO;Q?IX‘:Imnn:': flramkmx demo- | peen regarded as high protectionists, y to pull with rathef than against and o | politan Life Tnsurance Company. | Decaus® they charked. under ihe| long as one staple commodily 8 | his predicament with a whole skin £ Aoferunner, if Mot (e ol O et e SAARiE s et ] . TbndpAters” f {Be Nilles tope 3 fight for inatead of amainst the oMicial! Buc ‘while arganising for such a|/SA3erShID of Chairman Lehibach of Ting below its true value while | But'the farmers and others whose |J¢™Rfall of political parties in this | /4% Which ® hend it the taril legis- | Democrats insist today that the mere in charge, it is recognized by psycholo-igygtematic development of good feel- the committee on reform in the civil nother fetches twice its worth. prices have been deflated—deflat- country during the last half century. | ! - Although Senator Underwood | fact that the republican tariff law is . e Eomomists and sclentific eXDerts | 1e: postmaster General Hays put his|7F¥ice. who fathered the eivil serv- That 1 the situation which exists | until they hurt like sin—cannot |Yet whenever the democratic or re- |iS recognized as one of the most emi- | (o pe called the “Ienrose-Fordney ' that the most| oo aR e y8 /D fee retirement bill, that the specific| today. In some lines, mainly agri- | take this view of it. They are |publican party comes into power the |nent experts on the tariff in the coun- | act on shop management tha! own personality and genial affability cultural, the retail selling price often unable to see that the skin of the | g .=\, it a % try, he ‘has made no) eft i act” will be enough to damn it. But O omie and efficient service can be | oy wome Thers are o big fowr of |Provisions and well established in-| g below cost of production. On other above merchant or manufacturer | first thing oes is to revamp the | f¥. e no eflort Whalever| that, of course, is democratic con- o md, andl that is Just the new wave |07~ r | There ATS o el pervice,| [t and spirit of the retirement| commodities profits are being ex- is any more entitled to special | tariff laws. This happened when |Since coming to the Senate to be ap-|yersation. of feeling that is spreading through the | rooiouon, o it ity D ers. | the |12W had been set aside by the Post-| acted as great or greater than the consideration than was their own | the dsmocrats took command In 1913, pointed a member of the finance com-| How far President Harding plans e 3 inflated profits of the war period. . with Woodrow Wilson in the White |Mittee. The consequence is that the i revivified army of government em- master General. L = e te q T€|to go in the matter of tariff making iy rural carrlers, the post ofice clerke| FPostmaster General Hays has let S T whieh o T House; when the republicans won |15 no Prospect of a split in the demo- | 1o not yet been made clear. Thers The Post OMce Department has ni- |0 g AT B o oficers in | It De known, and Congress has ap-| a remedy must be found speedily. Do pm:fi:; a8 it may be, those | under Willlam MeKinley,. and #0 ‘on cratic ranks because of rival leaders | geems little doubt, however, that it . . who are holding back and trying |down the line. on the subject of the tariff. . i tiated this new order and the other, g _|plauded the decision, that the Post * & %% 5 - = 5 oS the republicans get into a snarl ovi ns e elowing | W/A2hinEton to represent thelr tater-lE o S rnens, On the mattér of i - 4. | to maintain war-time prices for * x % * | To Senator Simmons will be 8c-|yasioun. taeir o 0 & pnasl over Fovernment departmen! eets before the department and before In the correction of this condi tha Thi% s INey Bave ts sell whila e | various tariff schedules—and thay the good example, as witness the ap-lc o orogy retirement, {8 going to apply the 1aw | tion there isn't a great deal that he thinge they have (05! while | The 1ast republican revision of the | coaic | the task of leading the demo- | may well do so with the conflicting pointment of Miss Mary A. Tate as as- in ita real Intent and mpirlt. This| con'hedone by congressional enact- | onas argely | et came when President Taft be- | o> If the tariff fight now coming | interests of producers and consun 3 Carter, the govern- R means that men who reach the re- deflated prices for about one-half in the Senate, while Senator Under- gt o € sstant to George Caren N avtieaiar| These oicers of the organized labor | tirement age and are still capable of | T O adminiatrative decree. The | of the things thédy have to buy, |C2me chiel executive in 1909 The | oo4" will be the democratic field | e snpents to the cict carcutive, Tais e er. ies ate's rticul - e o s 3 i v v lemox ic el 1. o X e iate o st in their |In the Post Office Department asked | performing satisfactory service are| POPle—the uitimate conswmers™ | must undero the shinning proes Tepublicans had been in POWer €ON-ipurena) on the floor, directing the | pap et sariy iy e ve. This O e o mtoren of the | Postmaster General Burleson for| to be recommended for retention, The | Pave the remedy in thew owh | g Tt will' hurt, Just as it hurt | Unuously fef twelve years & The|seneral attack upon the republicans TATDeael s ho ey work among the 4.5 C . - those who already have been |Dingley tariff act, put through in | tration, when night conferences a! o ment. printing office, about one. | Fecognition. and he ignored their re- |blanket rullng of the previous Post- hands, and unlees they will use it skinned, but until the operation is | 1587, soon after William M,,.Ei,,,,v and their administration. White House over the t rzpi o~ third of whom are women, | auest. Postmaster General Hays sent|master General was that all must go resolutely and consistently the cu- performed business, as a whole | " Toedia tad y x % k ¥ h he tariff became The big iden {3 to bulld up the spirit [0t &n invitation to thess representa- |on reaching the age of retirement.| rative process ls bound to be ex- | Cannot be restored to normal "‘Z"‘"" b“;‘ °f"'- ad been on the| Chajrman Penrose of the finance ™ €OMmoOn affalr, and to some extent of the warking organivation. so that n- | Uves to meet him In his oftics for a|Of courss, under the Hays regime| CCdingly tedious 25d lone drewn hedha it tn the people, the con :;-.:r‘;mmu:o :rs;’arlc:lhe;‘n “:‘e'{ o | committes nan heen & member ot lh'li:h:n g de“l‘uc“w e e wt i ey of getiing off in smanl groups and | conference, which they did on Tuesday, | there must be careful safeguards to out That _,‘:‘"""e’" o e, suming public, which must do the | Cid ,:h i R velt was |committee for many years, almost, indetwood-tisimcon law sofl went de knocking they are becoming individuaily ; APFll #1- maintaln the eMclency of tha merv-| lace value fof every dollar he T TiVIsSd 1a ta Stady the telntion: |one of the fow. Presidents who dia| % 86070 of yeass. H scrved on thel gl ed “nmuu RElaSR T 1 o 4 s advised is to study the relation- v. | disputes oluts, and collectively “hoonters.” It:is an important fact that im-|lce as well as to avold placing the| pays out. i ot prices to values, and Rot | not tamper With the tarl®t during hig | O Tiitce under Sonator Aldrich. He g Y The Harding administration has rec- | Mmedlately an agreement was reached |burden of continued work upon those! A year or more ago there was a to buy where the price is too |, dministratios And th /| YAa chalrman o fthe committee, after ognized that to get such a spirit into| = in whem the spirit ia willing, but the| natlon-wide “buyers' strike” based high. [idong; acministrat ot ] 0. tas Men In public life have had their & th kshop the right type of execu- % flesh weak, To ba retained they (] upon tho settled belief that all But how, the buyer may ask, am | fell to his successor, with more or | fame Increased or lessened at times 5 8 woehshop, > Rumor Makes Him Next 105 "6 N Y must! prices were too high and profits I to know the just reiationship |less disastrous results. Selected as Head Ly reason of their activitles regard- . tives must be selected. They must be D 2 provide a physiclan’s certificate as| too great all down the line. 1t between price and value? President Taft called Congress into s Ilea s g men, and women, who will lay out work Republlcan Chairman | t¢ thelr physical fitness und must sup- | was a drastic remedy anglied to a There isn't any definite and it 1 for th Of Virgin Islands|"® the tariff, Willam McKinley's Il right and expect to get it dono right, ply & statement from patrons of the| desperate case and drastic conclustve way 1o know, but there | Sbecial session, or o purpose of irgin 1slands| ume stands alone in conncction with - e e ol Z - aivica 25 ©o itie ehbric o len are apt to do. 10 has in- 18 one pretty safe rule to go by. 1f | considering the tariff, not long after S 1 ¢hs RaelE AL of LBNS, Baswn 46 0N > but who In their |rv ns wit u.: = 7 e aracter of work flicted upon the patient a train of the price you are asked to pay for [ phe entered the White House. Sereno L “McKinley mct. H(_' SRS o X o e : 5 : = - 25 eus chairman employes—the rubbing together y pertorm, ted Don e e s wide. | 4n article i moro than 50 per cent |13 bayne of New York, chalrman if ; a irma ® houlders—will not hesitate to extend LI ] e al Honrasiope above what you were reaulred to | FRITR 0 O L ans commit of the House ways und means com- or the same article in % o o wa! ns commit- % : 2 e he good hand of fellowghip, human SUI further avidence of how the, PR That ‘Particular price meeds look- | tes, and Senator Nelson M, Aldrich of mistes, BenfaminHarrison was dncs. sympathy and establish a commeraderie new order {8 working to effect agree- Ko it falls out that ths nation ing Into. There may be some just | o, o, yoand chairman of the Senate ident at the time of this enactment. moere potent than great Wwmes of rule ments by friendly conference fs found| s o ed by thia | reason why maintenance of "t : L But the democrats overthrew the re- B ttons, Ittes and prohibi 4 Lo TAGt ARaL toRIoFFD { ‘finds “ltself iconfromte ¥ higher price 18 necessary, but the | finance committee, had the handling A A CoUDIS O yieasa Tates A and regulations, penalties -1 norrow represent-| gjlemma: chances are that somewhere along | of the measure, which was to become | 3 . , s tions. | atives of the rallway- postal clerks U'nless there is a resumption of the line will be found one of those |y . wn ag the Payne-Aldrich tariff{ elected Grover Cleveland. Then cawme e re to have a conference with 1. H barriers spoken of above. no s y the Wilson-Gorman tarift act of factod ith 8H Shiaennes s, i th 1% H.l puying there can be no industrial * % ok % | act. There is no doubt but what the 0L et tih e s, 3 The Cabinet was selecte ris Shaughnessy, the second assistant| rovival, and things will go from Payne-Aldrich tarift law brought . he famous struggle over ides in the back of President’s Hard- postmaster general, at which an effi-| poq (o worse. with bread lines The advice given consumers, it | SYRETEICEEL L R fowntall of that measure between Senator Ar- ing’s head. Secretary Weeks, In the clency rating system, hours of service,| and soup kitchens looming in the the price asked for an article is m:‘:(_' ublicans |‘:. 19'“, and 1912, Fol thur Pue Gorman of Maryland and War Department, is n good ¢xample of | seniority nnd other Guestions will be( distance too high In relation to prewar prices | 11 PRt S B T President Cleveland and other demo- the genial good fellow who makes| discussed, The representatives of the Dot ’{“":"{.';‘,fg;fid',',:“",‘,:;‘(.:"':: for the same article and present °&’h"f‘ Al B dnw crats, The Maryland senator was friends of all with whom he associ- employes do not expect any difficulty| equallties, there elther must be 'a?| prices for other commodities, 1 to :" S ;'"am:‘t;flu"d pu;“cm“ o"“‘:'l“i accused of catering to speclal inter- ates, while at the same fime getting whatever In reaching an agreement| speedy ascent of the lower prices rhop about and see If some other & ests in this measure, He was the - results. Secretary Hoover gave the with the department on these sub.| tO the higher levels or the whole denler 1a mot selling at a price | United States, the democrats elected democratic leader of the Senate, not f jects, rabric _soon will come tumbling more commensurate with the gen- |@ majority of the House In 1910, and ! € entire country a direct and personal ecta, Gown again, with more grievous | erai level. If It 18 found that the |two years later they mained control chairman of the finance committee. illustration of his power to spread All threugh the federal servics the coml!li::lllo;l‘;d than those of the unreasonably high price is gen- | o iy genate also, and put & demo Daniel W, Vorhees was chairman of ol -c army of employen 1s responsive to the| Ppresent porod. eral on that particular artitle, 2 5 c. i - Sathusism #nd & #pirit of co-oper oy T it | P'A Condition In which all prices | don't buy if you can get along [cratio President in the White House. o o D T mAi Ia RAVRE tion as food administrator when h e e an e e hfama™ | are too high is bad enough. Such | without it, If you must bave i, | Of course, the split In the republican used in connection With the tariff aid, “Let's do this”' And the peop! at Teast @ _quarter of o century that! & condition results from inflation then buy sparingly and for imme, act of 1894, so dominant was the in- whe toliowed: Lils ‘lead ‘duciig. (e war ther il nave & chunce 1o Win ‘ad.{ and enriches the many at the ex- | giate needs only. party, when under the leadership of fliioncs of Repeior Gacm h for h lead, vancement by broven merit, and that| pense of a few. But a conditlon This program, the economists Theodore Roosevelt the progressive s sorman, are still cheering for him as leader. means more to them than small quar-| in which some prices are too high mit, may work some injustice in |party was organized, had much to do Mr. McKinley was the ouly one of Now this isn't propaganda for any - reling over a few minutes more or| 8nd others too low is a great deal cases where there is valid reason | i\ (h1g victory of the democrats. the tariff makers in recent years department, The attention of the GE WoRLD less in & day's work or a few cents| Worse. Such a condition results for the maintenance of high prices, i elevated to the presidency. During o B PROTO extra in pay. from profiteering and enriches the but in general, they insist, it will But the dissatisfaction with the his_administration the republicans writer was us! eep v Those who are looking at tho gov-, few at the expense of the many. operate for the public good, and |Payne-Aldrich law had not a little to revised the tariff, and the Dingley of feeling and seal that is spreading ernment service as on the biggest in- PR in the end the isolated cases of in- Alssatistaction whichiex: act approved in 1597 was the result. through the entire federal service by | dustrial unit in the world see more Justice will correct themselves. In |90 With the diesa h " < Dingley was chairman of the House roug . 2 i B O ORDSEt Al GachomY Rnd emeiency There 1s today just one reason T hossiblo. working out of the |lsted among the more progressive| oo "o wyen w0 ways and means committee and Jul . the mest unexpected agency—leade! e ey {hrough development of this morale| why all prices agh not at thelr | program, it is declared, can there |members of the republican party and 2 2 tin'S. Morrill of Vermont was chair= € of erganized labor—who heretofore under the right sort of officials than| ¢rye level. It 18 because artifictal | be such serious injustice as is in- |y, Stetbating factor 1n the . ubs S. N., who has bee: man of the Senate finance committee. Of Seattle, Wash, member of the|th do f sars a8 & Co uting P have been having cat-and-dog fights ey do for y:ars te eome through v by volved In continuance of present uty as govermor of But Senator Morrill's name was never Wanhington committee which recenmt-|voluminous and fitricate reorganiza-| barriers have been interposed to table price conditions buflding of the third party. lands and se commandant of the|used widely in eonnection with mt. aval station there. law. : EDITORIAL PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL ARTICLES @ the government ofictals. i conferred with Fresident Harding. ‘ion and reci wmiion schones. interfere with the leveling provess. , [ . T by The Washingtou Star.) The last democratic tariff law—the oha .