Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1922, Page 41

_Part 214 Pages PLAN DRASTIC REGULATION EDITORIAL PAGE " 'NATIONAL PROBLEMS' - "SPECIAL ARTICLES oz Ao, OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY —— Conservationists Give Alarmiig ¢ 4 to Show How Rapidly American Forests Are Being Denuded of Timber. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. s T is difficult to conceive a time when, in the United States. wood—just plain, ordinary wood—snall become so scare that it will be impossible to use it for kindling a fire, and prices of lumber for structural purposes will make the war prices for lumber pale into insignificance. But that is just where this country is headed, according ‘to the conservationists. Furthermore, the American people are going ahead using up the vast natural resources of the country without any heed for the future, much in the spirit of “After us, the deluge.” If the American people, and particu- larly the lumber people, intend to pro- ceed in this extravagant use of the lum- ber resources of the people, them, say the conservationists, it is time to call a halt. So the foremost men in the con- servation group—"bloc” I8 the more popular term pow—have drafted a bill, Senator Capper of Kansas has intro- duced it in the Senate and Secretary ‘Wallace of the Department of Agricul- ture, under whom comes the forest serv- ice, has written a report on the meas- ure which strongly urges that some- thing be done to stem the waste and unwise use of the lumber resources of the country. Measure More Draitie Tham Any in Past. The bill now put forward by the con- servationists—with Gifford Pinchot, once United States forester, in a leading roll —is much more drastic than any pro- posal for regulating the lumber business of the proposed law returns must be In fact the new bill proposes to deal with all “commercial forest land” in the United States, which means all private land within this country which is now or- hereafter in forest, except farm wood lots. It proposes “that the Secsetiry of Agriculture hall set up standards under which ‘orest crops” shall be harvested: that federal licenses shall be lssued to all “operators” engaged in the business of harvesting forest crops: that the country shall be divided by the Secretary into “forest regions,” in order that the standards establish- ed and definéd by regional and local regulations may be adapted to and . applied In ageord with local forest and economic conditions. Regulation of Industry. By Means of Taxation. 3 The new law is to be called the “taxatlon of forest products agt.” It is proposed to u## the power of taxation as the basis for the control of the lumber industry. A more or less nominal tax is to be paid upon the products of the forest harvested in accordance with the standards and regulations established by the Secre- tary of Agriculture in conjunctions with the regional and local authori- ties. This tax is to be five cents per thousand board feet, standard log scale, in respect to all taxable prod- ucts of the foreat. But where the products are below the standard set and produced not in conformity with the regulations, then the tax is to be raised from five cents to $5 per thou- {the other ‘hand, ‘the conservationists ingist that the forest resources of the country are a matter of public intgrest, just as much ‘transporta- tign, the business of meéat packlng and other industries that the govern- nient nbw regulates. Certainly In his report on the bill toithe Senate agriculture committee Sechetary Wallace has revealed some astounding and flarming facts in re- gard to the lumber situation in this country. He says: “The United States is now consum- ing wood nearly four and one-half times-as fast as ft is being grown. We are steadily eating up what is left of r forest ¢apital. As a’re- sult thé. country now faces the definite prospects | of a growing scarcity and fncreasing cost of every- thing made from wood. It is a prob- lem which every class of Amierican citizens. affects the manufacturer, builder and the farmer to an almost equal degree.” Three-Fifths of Timber Already Used Up. Particularly doea the burden fall upon those sections of the country where the timber lands have long since been lumbered over and which are now a long way from the existing sources of supply, as in the case of the middle Atlantic states and New England. Originally the forest of the United States, according to government esti- mates, covered® 822,000,000 acres. They contained 5,200,000,000 = bomrd feot of timber. Today five-sixths of this huge timber supply area has been cut over or burned. There are left in the country about 137.000.000 acres of virgin timber, 112,000,000 acres of second growth of saw-tim: ber size, 133,000,000 acres partially stocked with smaller growth and 81, 000,000 acres of devastatedsand prac- tically waste land. At least three- fifths in volume of the timber orig- inally in the United States is gone, 1t is said. ‘Yet the United States, in point of years, is only in its swaddling clothes. It Forest Fires Destroy More Than Is Cut. What s more, the remaining forests of the United States are be- ing cut -at the rate of about 5,000,000 acres annually, and from 000,000 to 10,000,000 acres are being burmell each year-by forest fires. Sixty-one per cent of the timber left s west of the Rocky mountains, while, Secretary 'Wallace points out. four-fifths of the population, four-fifths of American agriculture and nine-tenths of American manufac- fhres are east of the Rocky mounx tains. And in the meantime the rates for transporting lumber have steadily increased. Two-thirds, of the lumber users of the couritry foday pay more per thousand feet in lumber freight alone than they paid for the delivered commodity thirty years ago. At Leslst Three Gemerations Needed to Cateh Up. In order to maintain the present consumption-of lumber the existing Supremc' :.Court"De.ci‘sion Held a Warning To Congress to Keep Within Its Powers ° + BY N. 0. MESSENGER. ONGRESSMEN are coming to realize that one of the most momentous domestic events of the times is the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States laying the restraining hand of the Constitution upon the legislative branch and preventing -the invasion of the reserve Powers of the states by the federal govern- ment. - "The national legislators recognize in it an epoch-marking laying down of the su- in the long run affects| the home |. preme law of the land. posed national child labor law. Hardly could there be found a subject coming closer to the heart of the people, or better designed to sway the judgment, than this proposal in behalf of the preservation of children from the rapacity of cqmmerce. But the court sternly subordinated gonsld- erations of sentiment to the meaning of the Censtitution and. its requirements®and warned on. ' * % ¥ X This is the second time the Congress has " tried without avail to apply a federal law to the regulation of child labor. to approach it through the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. A law was enacted to prohibit transportation in interstate commerce of goods made at a fac- tory in which there were employed children of prescribed age. The Supreme Court held that “in our view, the necessary effect of this act Is. by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of children in factories and mines within the states, a purely state authority." Ia the second instance Congress sought to enforce the same regulations by applying a tax on the profits of factories and mines em- ploying children under age. The Supreme taxes in respect thereto; to regulate commerce in coal among the several | states &nd with foreign nations; to supply coal for the Navy and the merchant marine; to protect the sup- ply of coal for the District of Colum- bia, forts, arsenals, and other build- ings belonging to the government outside the District of Columbia. The commission to be authorized to ob- tain data and information from any source relative to wages, prices, con- | codil.mines and land, ete. ,The com- mission is to be given authority to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and examine witnesses,-and call upon the courts of the United States to en- force its prerogatives, and to punish delinquents. In framing the proposed bill, afl in- formation relating to the coal indus- try with special regard to the cost of produstion, working and living condi- the ditionp of production, ownership of j ! MERICANS who have dation in Zealand. tions. of the employes, retail ‘and!afternoon. wholesale price of coal, its transpor-| “I might. tatlon, profits and other matters, in- | replied. cluding strikes, was sought. Needed Information Denfed. It is estimated there are 11,000 coal mines in the United States. The chief source of Information on miost sub- jects was the geological survey and As it more clearly to accentuate the ad- monition to Congress, the court's decision was in a case which might be expected to appeal peculiarly to sentiment and sympathy—& pro- Congress of,the danger to the country lurking slation of the class denounced in the First, it sought’ reference to their country, “Do you know my |South Africa nor New Zealand. cousin in America?" has honest foun- [regard England as the oldest me:uber | heard since I bad howled my disap- In Washington I{of the British family, the head of *he found that the interest ip New Zea- | house, but you have to use the iiyre land was exceeded only by the inno- cence- in our regard. “I once met a woman from New I wonder if you know her?" the joke about “Oh, I don’t know her name. she was a Unitarian—a tall wnmau,ur-ndma England and Miss {with gray hair.” and was the first'to give hel The absence of a flax mat round my walst at soclal functions was, I| think, at first regarded as an affecta- e Court has now declared this method uncon- stitutional. * ok *x X% The warning which congressmen see in the ‘latest decision is conveyed in these words of Mr, Chief Justice Taft: “Grant the validity of this law and all that Congress would need to do hereafter, in seek- ing to take over to its control any one of the great number of the subjects of public in- terest, jurisdiction of which the states have never parted with, and which are reserved to them by the tenth' amendmeént, Would be to enact a de ailed measure of complete regula- tion of the subject and enforce it by & so- called tax upon departures from it. “To give such inagic to'the word ‘tax’ would be to break down all constitutional limitation of the power of Congress and to wipe out the sovereignty of the states.” Many thoughtful men In public life have noted the propensity of Congress to regulate nationally. in ever growing degree, to oblit- erate state authority. * k Kk ¥ It is a far crd from the times of Chief Jus- tice Marshfll to Chief Justice Taft. but in the dictum of the court in this latest decision there is heard an echo of the words pro- nounced by that eminent earlier Chief Jus- tice, when he said: “Should Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited, by the Constitution, or should L‘ongrys. under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the government, it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it. to say that such an act was not the law of the land.” Chicf Justice Taft found it appropriate to reiterate that warning of his predecessor and to apply it to the case in hand. ok ok ok ok “The good sought in unconstitutional legis- lation,” the Supreme Court said in this latest admonition to the legislative branch, “is an insidious. feature, because it leads citizens and legislators of good purpose to promote it without thought of the serious breach it will BY NELLIE MARGARET SCANLAN of Wellington, New Zealand been abroad are often amazed at States. - ignorance displayed in fact.- to cover us all. a sub-deb. ‘What was her name?’ I |halr, but. | bia, * ko x * ! women votes. i here, Washington, ‘D. C., is the Unitea|had only one front name ) comprehensive term. “British empire,” | ~ Before the war New Zealand, the youngest. and poseibly the fairest of Britain's daughters, was I was asked at a club reception one [ what you would call in this country Now she has-put up her been presented at court, \d' {has a say in family counsels. Ev¥h | s a sub-deb she ket the pa * k¥ *x The telephone system, as operated makes for concentration, self- make In the ark of our covenant or the harm which will come from breaking down recos- nized standards. In the maintenance of local self-government, on the one hadd, and the national power, on the other, our country has been able to endure and prosper for nearly & century and & half” i .o - * kK K - 5 tional législators. They feel they have been caught in the act of trying to take a short cut to reach what is thought by the majority of the people to' be a desirable end—national regulation- of ,child labor—and turned back. They will have'to seek another path, and only one seems to be available, an amendment to the Constitution, giving the Congress power to regulate child-Jabor, just as it was found necessary to amend the-Constitution to permit Congress to regulate the liquor traffic. The resolution introduced in the House by Mr. Fitzgerald of Ohio would submit to the stafes the proposed ratification of such ap amendment. If passed by the constitutional majority in Congress it would then be for the states to decide whether they would relinquish their authority over tha subject. * ok % % The argument in favor of a national child labor law, of course, is to have uniformity of regulation. Many of the states now have such humanitarian laws on their statute books, but they vary in scope. Others of the states re- fuse to enact them and have an adyantage in ceértain lines of commerce over the more ad- vanced commonwealths. This is & proposition which will have to be worked out through the years to come. * ok ok X But over and above this particular object of legislation towers the bigger and broader and more important feature, the warning to Congress_to restrain its activities within the clearly defined Jimitations of the Constitution. Coming on the eve of proposals for broader national legislagion affecting commerce, trade and production, the words of the Supreme Court will echo in waPning tones at perhaps critical times. [ monial adventures.. No matter how long the name, it is always used in its entiréty. Every time you speak of IM . William Willlard Watson West- inghouse you say Mrs. William Wil- ard atson Westinghouse. You never amputate a syllable, even if you do get short of breath or miss your train. The lady also has three names in her own right, and as president of her club she signs herself Elizabeth Franklyn Georgina Westinghouse. I hen I \reached America, but after surviving | The term England does not Include |the promiscuous affixing of an addi- and ! Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, | tional Minnie and Katherine I resur- W i rected a second, which had not been proval at the font. in self-defense. 1 did this merely * x X % How did the Hardings come to the White House? That is easy. Most of the women and some-of the men voted for Mr. Harding, and moet of the men and some of the women voted for Mrs. Evvh | Harding. Every one likes a good looker. for | After you have “followed the man from :n- | Cooks” down the White House vestibule, - [ uP tae stairs, turned to the left, through the dining room, the red room and to i the blue Foorfi, you come away with the | memory of two smiles and a firm hand- clasp. B On my first visit 1 was immediately not Afford to Play - BY WILL P. KENNEDY. BRIGHTER days are in pros. Dpect for the city of Washing- toh. The people gemerally throughout the country are coming more and more to realize that it-is their Capital city, and to take & PEOPLE OF NATION TAKING KEEN INTEREST IN CAPITAL Members of Congress Learnmg They Can- With Distriet of Columbia. Ducks and Drakes’ without any legislation turning the hands of the clock. When the propo- sition was before the House District committee to pass a daylight-saving {law “just for the District” there were vigorous protests that “we dare mot do it.". Members argued that the rep- There is fo criticism of nor cavil at the pronouncement of the court among the na- b keen and personal Interest in Its de-|resentatives from the western states velopment. Members of Congress,| “Who are now in the saddle” would many of whom have been accustomed | Promptly cry it down. as an invasion to consider the District of Columbisjupon the farmers. They contended as & “no man’s land” of politics, are | that it would be used as an opening having it impressed upon them that it wedge for daylight saving all over is not only a part of the United States, | the country. but the very heart of the nation. And they cited prohibition as hav- So that it is coming to pass that!ing been put through in just this way Instead of “trying it out on the dog': | —imposed first upon the District and when immature, half-baked, revolu-|then mationally. Like Nose of Camel tionary or -propagandized legislation is proposed, the members of Congress| Under the Tent. are now being forced by sentiment! Again, when the bill to extend the from “back home” to go cautiously[life of the Rent Commission in the and to weigh well how similar legis- | District for two years was under con- lation would fit in the home district.|sideration, those opposing the meas- Several notable and recent spasms of | ure figured that they had scored an nightmare legislation to the contraryjimportant point when they forced nothwithstanding. \Representative Hammer of North s o' =l 3 t that, he would not dare to champion such legislation Congress is coming to appreciate|sor pig nome state and got it put em- that while it has sole jurisdiction OVer | bnatically into the Record that few the Capital city, It must consider erslye oo member would have e carefully, how laws passed forathe|iomerity Yo propose it for his own District of (iolull!bll may spread to community. With the rent legisla- home balliwicks, and also how theliion gtill pending, members from various interests in the home towns every state al being e and states may be vitally affected by | ([T SEE TE Being addressed dn a measure drafted nominally for ¢ i I real estate boards, realt % { Washington only. ; altors and oth Tn this way the District of Columbia. | 0,10 be 1ike gectink the ners o ton instead of being a “no man's 1and." i8| camel under the tent—that it would in reality the first lime trench of 18- | regult in an invasion of propert: islation, because laws made Primarily | rights a1l over this land -4 for the Federal city directly or indi-} Recently the Semate approved & rectly, sooner or later have & VerY|proposal: by Senator Fernald of material effect on the whole COURtLy. | Maine, chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds, for a" sirvey of the banks of the Potoma river from Washington to and be- ypnd Great Falls, with a view to de- loping an extension of the Capital City parkway, the establishment of a great recreation park about the falls conservation of the water and People Want Washington Treafed Generously. Prominent members of Congress in the present campaign are finding out that they have to answer directly to their constituents for their initia- | tion or support of measures affecting the National Capital. This account- ing of stewardship is demanded m0t|the ®Bemmuitu; aoemic o Lo Of alone by the Voters from the sevoral | bamks of the river agatge deom states. who are living by the Bub-|yion This measure is now pendin, dreds in Washington, but maintainiog | perore the House. fathered Lr ok "'“;Z“:;' in the states. The |, .sontative J. Charles umm:u:.“:; ::::-r:ew;flnim !:;0;'“““‘ 'he | Maryland. The point is that Repre- 7 5 & thelr represent- | gopiative Linthicum and other mem Atives and senators that they ‘Wantiy, s of Congress are. receiviag Girect the capital city treated not only With: | mcuuges from evers stace in th. out parsimony, but with Bositive! Union urging that inie g :o’"' ':; sencrosity. They personally like 10! carried through. This imelume. (e comie to, Washington for a visit, and | gariot, CTOET Dowertil sabai when they come here they want 0] oreanizations. marvel at the most peautiful city in} the world, instead of seeing a stretch | W A{ChIAE Plan to Provide of undeveloped Jand, fll-kept, between | WOrkmen's Compensation. the Union stdtion and the Capitol, or Still another illustration Repre- to " go bumping over unrepaired ®entative Roy G. Fitzgerald of Ohio streets, or even to read in the daily | '® fathering a bill to establish « papers that there are not suficient | Workmen's compensation law for the schoolrooms here to accommodate the, District—or compulsory industrial in- children who are learning their hi i’l“l‘lnct This again has aroused in- | tory and patriotism at the vety shrine terest all over the countrs. Pr orNRE hation. { tically every Washington correspond- { Despite the efforts of some wn_‘em has been instructed by his papers gressmen to make it appear that un- | 10 Watch this measure. Labor orgun- izations have taken a strong and pe der the half-and-half plun each Amer- ican is called upon to pay a m“ch]llulenl interest in it. Industrial con- as each resident of the District of!Cern® have sent representatives to Columbia toward maintenance of the | K€€P in touch with the developments. capital, the people know as a matter| Propagandist and ,welfare workers have flocked here to help sway the vote. Members of Congress have had sand feet. - To carry out the taxation features of the proposed law returns must be | __.made by the operators each year—on | S or before March 15—for the preceding P , just as returns are now made One woman confided to. me in a ldiscipline and the marshaling of ideas. {An unlimited telephone leads to un- tidy thinking. You order everything for the salad, everything but the let- tuce, so you have to ring up l$ mar- ket again. You call up Mrs. William Williard Watson Westinghouse to ask her to bridge, but she startsyin first with an account of a “perfectly ador- able man from Zanzibar who lectured last night at our club,” and you for- get what you called her for. An hour {later you remember and call again. Not so with the limited phone or timber lands should be growing tim- | the Department of Labor. A court|tion. ber at the rate of fifty-two cubic feet | injunction prevented information as per acre’a year, a yield which is bare- | to cost of production, prevented. the ly reached in well managed produc-|Federal Trade Commission from fur- tive, forests- of Europe—and a yleld | nishing much information. Voluntary which it is sald this country cannot | information revealed the fact that it hope to ,equal for three gemeratiops,was impossible for the committee to to come, even If the country tries for|arrive at any reasonable, accurate it frdm this day on. * |ana fair estimate of the average Secretary Wallage has earrestly 3 recommended that-everything possible be done to bring about -the good man- | agement of the-forests and their pro- behind a woman who had changed her | mind, and incidently her dress, after llylnw foundations of her toilet. For an inch above the upper rim of bodice was nature unadorned. From there up- wards was tae product of the beauty of fact that the average tax against pariour.- It was like the seashore after | each ‘American for the purpose is less high tide. © than 10 cents a year, and that of|lefters from all the states. If Mr. Harding ever gets tired of | every $500 paid in taxes, less than| LeE'slation is also afoot to set up being President he need have no fear|one is spent on the Federal city. | P2TTiers against the herding here of for the future. With that.face and{There {sn't a man, woman or child in | 53le8 organizations for worthless or figure there will always be a job for | the country who would not be willing | NEhIY speculative stocks or securi- him at Hollywood. ' fo spend at least @ dollar a year, it ties. Practically every state in the lector. But these forest crop re- ns must be made in duplicate to . internal revenue collector and to dithe regional forester. The bill pro- S vides for fleld inspection and exam- Snation of accounts; for the impositi>n y/9f-heavy penalties, including fine and “failed to obtain unbiased Information, but they have | imprisonment. Also the Secretary of | toction against fire. Realizing that|peen denied the legal right to obtain one of the buffalo’variety. If you live * % x asked to, to make and maintain m,I:-’::n h-ls "t:ueh sky” legislation of Asriculture i directed to recommend | tRe Capper blll may appear 00 big a | such information.” where there is only a slot telephone, | popesty is strangely Interpreted in ::;y1°: v::-hlnnl:n Pt She Rubyt bean- e ‘.h?:l.h:?nc:neihzrld.l; ‘:“:"".d ul in the world. ot become dose to swallow in ‘one gulp, the See- retary has urged the prompt enact- ment of a partial program of refor- estation covering the following fea- tures: v E : 1. Extension of the existing federal co-operation with the states in forest | . The bill seems to the layman dn!_lnrokecuom 2. Initiation of federal l tio in the extreme. It proposes that | co-operation with states in growing i It s claimed that there are one- third too many coal mines and one- thirdl too many miners for proper eco= nomic development” of the' industry; that the overdevelopment of the coal- mining industry is largely due to the seasonable character of. the business. This results in waste, industrial dis- pates ‘and strikes, followed by high prices and public inconvenience. g A -Public Industry. . for each forest region of the United States the essential requirements in i protecting timber and cut-over lands .. from fire. you keep your mind on the card in- dex system. You have to. It is rain- ing, and you want a taxi in a hurry. You search madly for a Mttle coln with a buffalo' on one side. No buf- falo, no call; no call, no taxi; no taxi, no party. (Register despal You ask the janitor for change, but he never has less than a 320’ bill. You clutch the postman as he leaves the mall, but he looks sadly, and says it is a week to pay day. You dash wildly the United States. The honestgrespect pennies; the dishonest despiste them.|!Imterest Not Comfimed - You may see a stack of pennies on a |To Question of Taxes. 4 Aside from the merits of any pile of newspapers outside tae shop| But entirely aside from the general | these questions, and scores of oth door all day and no one will disturb| policy of decently supporting the Fed- | that could be mentioned, the them. And little troughs of dally news | eral city. the seat of government, the [ sticks out that the people il :“k"‘“y:"“’: ;"p":"l‘;‘d" 5.‘.75‘&’,':..,’3.3 People in every state are taking a|the country are personally interested ftee T Toean the fowapaDE (ot déep, personal, individual interest in|in legislation that affects the District ou’ with: petintes~ and sufely. that ia legislation proposed for the District | of Columbia. and do net want to have he supreme test. Down by the Po. O Columbia. Illustrations are nu-|anyihing “put over” here that would tomac river the thrifty ill the vacanty TeFOUS: but lo give only a few that|not be countenanced at home. wnd ! : are ‘Present tense they are stressing this upon their headquarters for fake stock-promo- tion concerns. of { Secretary Wallace Gives / fuct i Some Alarming Figures. <~the government shall 1. its heavy |and uistributing forest trees or tree hand on private business for regula- | Seeds for planting. 3. Extension of { s#0ry purposes once again. But, on ! the national forests. i SRR onslanite ook Nenadiae R ST “Nation-Wide Inquiry' Proposed % " Into the Coal Industry .in Public Interest. \ BY EDWARD NBLSON DINGLEY. NNOUNCEMENT is made that a conference of coal operators has been called to devise imeasures for the ‘“protection of consumers from the tendency of coal prices to rise.” From the White House comes the hint that the gov- ernment may take & hand in_fhe sit- uation. 5y i The subject of coal, coal supplies and éoal prices has been a topic of discussion for some time. Ittouches the pockets of many and Bas a pow- erful bedring on the cost of living. The House committee dn labor ‘has been considering the whole question -ot ‘coal supply and prices, as'they re- late to the welfare of the ‘people.’ There has been evolved a bill “to es- | 0f the Anthracite Coal tablish a commission to inquire into group appointed by the President by and with tle advice and consent ot .the Senate; two members constitut- ing the miners’ group to be appoinded by the President with the advice and consent of the sepate from foyr nominees presented. by the president of the. United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, and_two members constituting the operators’ group_to be appojnted by the President by and with the ad- vice and consént of the Senate, 0 to be appointed from two nominges presented ‘to the President -by .the president.of the National Coal Asso- ciation and ope to Be appolnted from two nominees’ présented joinlly by the, president of the an cite bu- | redu of intormation ana-t] Dpresident Mritors’ As- sogiation. "Egch sppointed member “The problem is .BD' to prevent .lh.l {ndustry from being seasonable:” (it | mag in June.” “Then I suppose you is sald. The storage of coal during} ypisper that what amazed her was chehper summer freight rate has been | gecasion. suggested. The proposition’ that| I have been ked if we have con- as cheap and abundant supply of fuel is|veniences in- our homes, such vital to-the industrial life of the na-|baths, and the inqulrer was much re- tion pérmits no argument, it is said. The coal industry becomes a -quasi- public industry in character, say the tfee members. thit /fhe proposed agency, will give tie! President and Congress all the information desired to work dut and .séttle ‘this most important problem. It is thought|sh¥dowy corner, “You look so En:’;‘ lieved when I pleaded guilty, on bes half of my country,.to the daily dip. ' Once a voice followed me from a lish—just like, Princess Mary.” my modesty I blyshed, hut decided to put a tuck in my skirt. Hearing that in New. Zealand De- cember is the midsummer month, one No'Gther existing government ageney | .. \o.s soul remarked, “Then I sup- has the powers granted to it that is granted ‘this. proposed coal agency. pose you keep Christmas in June.” In her opinion the sehson, and not the The proposed agency, if created,|fato was the determining factor. will hiive no administfative power ex- My “English-. &ccent,” 7 however, ‘eept to_obtain facts, will not regulate, ! proved most mMleading, and I have control or influence, thé industry in ny Wway. and caprot, it is said, fall ‘within the class of cases where regu-. lation s demied the federal govern- ment to ers purely intrastate. The proposition rebes on the constitu- tional/powerto obtain information as w’ basfs of legisiation. The atate of Indiana:has a caal commission’ which has 'stood he test of the codrts.. A Istened to delightful reminiscences - old London and “English lanes— yards of it—before. I . Drotes that I had never seefi England. This constant reference. to.speak: 1hg Englfsh with an “English ac- cent” has made me wonder if M. Briand was accused- of speaking ‘French with a French accent ana Signor Gentilli of speaking Italia) : | through your purse once more. and Jeeep ORrlst-| urn out randfuls (2) of doliar bills, | o; vagetables. < There dimes and quarters, but not a single | ;g fences -or 4eth ; Outside the rain raineth. the ‘summer has been suggested. " Jltnat I knew what to wear on‘each |gesperation you pour dimes and quar- ters into the slot, but it ig of no llvllL Once more you register de- buffalo. Even the newspapers trust you m' penntes. S land, sow and rake and raise & crop Y i "| Washington is now trying to ob- bull de yet | 8erve daylight saving unoffieially, no one-interferes or deprives the hard- | k B 5 Radio Service O In working man of his harvest. ‘When you want to be dishonest in is country you fly high and try for e milion mark. But in this mase of crime and crookedness which supplies the papers with their alluring head- lines, and is flashed across the world |- to your discredit, this oddly rigid hon-| . esty in pennies is too small & thing for | American mav: Seneral comment. Yot It cOUAts, COUNIS Ruaters anywhere on the Sione cun be quitg, a lot.” How many_more Teople | ouched at almost any instant leave these penhles than the mil- L0 20 T o eid Tesly mcky - | ELven orders through the great chain a A ghore 3 of high-powered radio stations. Fe: est in a close-up than you read—when e i T v . people realize the importance of this T % vast, invisible chain of communica- |tion, ‘50 vital-to the strategic move- ment of American forces at all times, in war as In peace. In fact, some of the stations now used in the system are an outgrowth of the necessities of the last war, when 1t was neces- .« {587 to maintain lines of communica- 3 3 }.. . w|tion everywhere. For the enemy could Japan's triangular feet prevent -|destroy cables and land wires, but it the development of a market for |couldn't stop:the ether waves sent *| American shoes In_that pgrt of the |speeding across ocean and land by the orlent, according to a report to the |nigh-powered stations. . Commeérce Department from Con- ‘The value of fhis vast communica- -sul Langdon at Yokohama. tion system, material alone, is $25,- . Jperated by Navy Pays Good Profit on Investment representatives Senate. in both House wnd These stations on the great lakes alone handle volumes of commercial trafic for ships operating on the - lakes, and, as on the coastal stations, they save many mariners serious trou- bles by furnishing them their posi- tions during heavy and thick weather, through the medium of the radio comy=* pass. J The. radio service of the Navy turns into the United States Treasury each™, year large sums of money obtained through commercial traffic handled” through the Navy stations. In 1917, the first year of the war, this totaled $32,249; 1918, $291,903; 1919, $221,171; 1920, $646,585, and 1921, $666.362. This shows the steadily increasing use to which this,service Is being put by the commercial inter: It will incresfe further, according to Capt. BrysaX in #pair.; After that you buy $5 worth of buffalos and keep them with your rabbers for s rainy day. - o Pt *ox ok 2 !nht ials are seldom ‘used “in. this country—always the full mame, and aome of them are very full. - Even the | ‘poor can afford two, but when you get| federal agency, it Is sald, may do tor| ihe-whole- country what the Fritana |. * % x ; coallcommiasion has done for Indians.| Americans generally- refer to. any- is much prejudice [thing British as Bpglish: xmng!u‘u on of more co; *F recent Srmament 'conference the Brit- uch fngérest is ¥ re- shall reeceive a salary of $8,000. It is provided thit the association shall cease. to “exist two yéars atier with an Italian accent. “The everage Japauese foot.” He |000,000, and last year the government , charge of the radio communication said, “is broader than that of the |traffic handled by the naval communi- |service of the Navy. The work of the . ‘occidental, ' ‘particularly between .‘auon service totaled $3,647,947.56, to|Navy does not hamper commercial */ the ball of the foot and "he base |say nothing of the commercial traffic | stations, as they only handle busine: of the'small toe, and has straight; |which the Navy handies at many | where commercial stations do ot roughly resemibles a tffingle in {at stations which were p: dur-{, The point is made, however, that it " shape, with the apex at the heel. |ing the war. It has stations at But-|is necessary to maintain this highly Such & foot cannot possibly be in- |falo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroft, Du. { efficient service as a measure of na- “cased in & shoe of stand " Jiuth, Eagle Harbor, Great Lakes and|tional security, and in times of peace fean x - | Manistique. it can be used for other purposes. 1abor conditions in the coal industry.” Two Years to Do Work. The proposed governmental agency : 1s to be known as the “coal investi- gation agency,” composed of ten members: The director of the geo. logical survey, the director of the|tion is t bureau_of mines, the director of thegress as bureag®of the census and the com- missioner of labor statistics; two members constituting ?c public wayn apoke of “Britain's - attitude.” England embraces England alone, ard |