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Associated Press is exclusively tehes credii ‘bite wrist Se rms eee MORE THAN “FACT FINDING” NEEDED, i another column is printed a telegram from A. M. Ogle, spokesman for the bituminous: coal operators, protesting The Evening World’s opinion that his recent recommendation of a fact- «finding tribunal was buncombe. : The telegram itself is more buncombe. It is ® merely added evidence that the operators are try4 ing to win public favor on false pretense. This sudden “holier than thou” espousal of publicity doesn’t jibe with the rest of the record. It is common knowledge that the operators have fought every effort to get the facts. , They have fought in the courts, in legislative lobbies, and through propaganda. The same applies to “the labor unions. © -In spite of this, most of the facts are known. «Perhaps the most important missing links are the profiteering records of some of the mines. The profiteering records of the miners Mave been bet~ ter advertised. The essential facts are,that there are too many mines, too many miners, day wages too high and yearly wages too low. We still'believe the sudden popularity of “fact finding” is buncombe. This attitude was arrived _at after the miners had refused arbitration and after enough operators had refused so that the “acceptance by a reported majority had no prac- tical meaning. This left Mr. Ogle a talking point, but it doesn’t mean anything. 4 Nor does it mean anything when.he says: f “This vital question before the American people to-day is whether the public shall be dominated by an arrogant set of union labor leaders who attempt to override laws, courts and the Government itself.” F It doesn’t mean anything more than w! cn the pot calls the kettle black. If the strike could be settled to-morrow, we believe the sudden converts to publicity would backslide. We may be wrong, but that is the way their record to date would indicate. For years The Evening World has been advo- cating “fact finding” in the coal industry. That is not enough to-day. It is now time to takey But tn the movin’ drastic measures to stabilize the industry. Neither the operators nor the union leaders ‘want to look the facts in the face. This would entail the recognition of coal mining as a public Service subject to public supervision and regula- tion. It would mean the closing of mines and reduction of the number of miners who pay dues to the union organization. Fact finding isn’t enough. The need is for radical reform. - Is there any man who can hand over the Democratio Party in this State to any other _ man? ,WHY NOT EMERGENCY POWER ? N any large city failure of transit power is in- convenient. In New York it is serious, New York ought to have more and better safe- guards than other cities because power failure “hits harder here. ~ This applies particularly to the subway sec- ‘tions. When trains are stalled in the subway passengers become uneasy and uncomfortable, A single hysterical individual might start a panic. The danger of hysteria multiplies with every passing minute. : The Williamsburg Power Plant of the B. R. T. © was supposed to be “‘sectionalized” until a break down of a few units would not throw out all the power. But these precautions failed. Neither the B. R. T. nor the I. R. T. should : be allowed to depend exclusively on one plant. * Provision should be made for supplying small amounts of emergency power trom other sources, The B. R. T. has twenty-six substations, (There should be emergency wiring so these could be connected with other power plants, the Brook- lyn Edison Co. for example. Ot course if the main power plant goes out of commission the company can not expect to run trains, but it ought to be possible to send emer- gency power first to the river tunnel sections, and THE EVENING WORLD, then to subway and elevated sections, if only for a few moments each. Even a little emergency power would enable tunnel trains to get out from under the river and other trains to draw up to station platforms where passengers could be unloaded safely and conveniently. A RASH TEST. HE striking railroad workers have been at times unfortunate in their spokesmen or in those who pretend to speak for them. First it was President Jewell of the Railway Employees’ Department of the A. F. L., who tried to dismiss the Railroad Labor Board as “a Wall Street scheme to crush the unions.” Now it is Chairman J. Cleve Dean of the Rail- way Employees’ Publicity Association, who cuses President Harding of “attempting to place “ American labor under the gun.” This kind of talk is to be regretted because it draws forth the inevitable retort that goes down to fundamentals and raises issues that need not be raised. President Harding, for example, comes back at Mr. Dean with the following: “The same unchallenged freedom which per- mits you and your associates to decline to ‘work is no less the heritage of the free Ameri- an who chooses to accept employment under the terms proposed.” Pyblic sympathy has not been and is not now against the strikers. The public realizes that the railroads did not come into the present contro- versy with clean hands. The public is inclined to feel the railroads should now yield on the seniority question which is blecking the path to settlement. The public wants to see the old, ex- perienced workers back at their jobs with con- fidence that the Labor Board will yet do them justice. The last thing the public desires is a turnout and replacement of labor in any depart- ment of railroad service. But—when a spokesman for railroad labor Yatks of “involuntary servitude” and “revolu- tion,” he forces the“public to ask itself this ques- tion; When union labor strikes, must the work it leaves undone remain undone—at whatever cost to the public—for as long as the strikers decree? This is a bad question to raise. Public sympa- thy with the striking railroad workers should not be rashly tested with the proposition that all competition in labor has ceased and that a Goy- ernment which recognizes or protects such com- petition is inviting revolution. The railroad strike can be settled without that test. FROM THE PROFESSION ITSELF. HEN the baseball business, the motion pic- ture industry, and even the building trades organization felt the need of a czar, a dic- tator, a supreme administrator. or whatever the office happened to be called, the prime movers for self-censorship and self-discipline went outside the business to hire a Landis, a Hays, or a Roose- velt. This procedure was not the result of prefer- ence. These men would prcbably have preferred a man who knew the business and still had the confidence of his associates and of the public. the building trades and base- balt no such men were available. The theatrical producers were more fortunate. There was one—and only one—man for the job, Augustus Thomas, The producers, whatever their object may be, were fortunate to be able to call on Mr. Thomas. If anyone can do what needs doing he promises to be that one. Mr. Thomas knows the stage and its people as player, playwright, manager, and also as a com- petent publicity man or press agent. In a long career connected with the theatre he has worked for good and clean dramatic art. If all playwrights and managers had proved as conscientious and scrupulous there would be no tendency toward theatrical censorship, no need for a Landis of the stage. ‘ ACHES AND PAINS Speaking of baboons anent Dr. McPherson's “doost- ers,” Dr, W. T. Hornaday says the African baboon has taught the King of Beasts to let small animals atone. The lon treats the agile ape with wholesome respect, Otherwise he would get his hide torn off. . Dr. W. T. Grenfell 4s authority for the statement that the biggest cod on record weighed 160 pounds be- fore being converted into fish balls. He once saw a cod that had captured and swallowed two incautious ducks, . Two belated volumes of Lord Byron's letters nave been published. How he loved the ladies! It witt shock admirers of his handsome portrait to learn that his hair did not curt naturally but was the work of the iron, ra ee After all, a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the most agreeable bits of exercise we know of, . The late wild flowers are beginning to show in white, purple and gold, . The ingenious French have devised a “divorce” ring to take the place of the clrclet of matrimony when discarded, Next thing they will be proposing that the wedding ring be worn in the nose, JOHN KEETZ, | Can You Beat It! ROLLIN MARRIED AN OLD FASHIONED From Evening World Reader What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousafid words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Fr. Ogle Protests. To the Editor of The Evening World: Your statement in your editorial of July 24, charging the bituminous coal operators with buncombe in urging the President to appoint a “fact- finding tribunal,” was based un- doubtedly on your own lack of in- formation about the attitude of the operators, Because we want you and the pub- le to have the facts we are advocat- ing a tribunal. The miners have re- fused any form of arbitration, There- fore, if all the facts are to be put before the public the only immediate step open to the President 1s to ap- point the “fact-finding tribunal” that we have advocated and urged, This tribunal, if immediately ap- pointed, might develop very promptly the main issues in this controversy, and with these facts generally known a definite plan of action by the, Presi- dent, backed solidly by the/puble, could be adopted. We believe our recommendation 1s not only fair and just but entirely in the public inter- est. There {8 not and cannot be any buncombe in this position, ‘The operators have been striving to bring down the cost of production and the price of coal to the public. They have sought to accomplish the same liquidation that has taken place in all other industries, There is, however, a greater issue now involved, which x far above the price of coal‘or wages paid to the miners, This vital question before the American people to-day is whether the public shall be domt- nated by an arrogant set of union labor leaders who attempt to override laws, courts and the Government it- self and look with apparent equanim- ity upon murder and massacre if it helps gain their ends. This 1s an- archy. You are interested in the defense of those principles upon which our Government and all elvil- tion are founded and will join, are sure, in our appeal for the establishment of a non-partisan tri- bunal to properly develop and pre- sent all the facts relating to our in- dustry. A. M. OGLE. President of the National Coal As- sociation, Indianapolis, Ind,, July 26, 1922. What Is Moneyt To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The study of money is the study of Ignorance of that is the cause of all the dif an exact science, seience culties. and unr in the civilized world to-day. Germany is_ prir millions of paper marks and is trying to pay France in gold marks, Impossible, France is turning all the gold metal she gets from Germany into francs. The result, an increase in the price of everything. Russia, after abolishing, as she thought, money, is now look ing for gold to re-establish a currency system, Humbug. The United States has twelve regional Federal banks. some of them increasing the amount of paper money In circulation weekly, others decreasing the amount. Will prices remain stable? Not until she stabilizes the dollar. Coal strikes and railroad strikes can be settled if the value of the dollar is stabilized. How can a basic wage be determined in a dollar whose value shifts each and every week in some part of the United States? During the war the United States increased its currency from $37 per capita to $72 per capita and prices went up. As prices went up labor's wages went up. Now we are trying to reduce prices by reducing wages without touching the dollar. Impos- sible. Why? The money of the United States {s not in banks, it fs in the hands of the people and it 1s much easier to shoot new money into circulation than it is to withdraw it from circulation. Every increase in the amount of money in circulation decreases the value of every outstanding dollar and every mortgage, stock or bond pay- able in that new money, ‘The individual who bought the first Liberty bond paid more for his bond than the individual who bought the last one, even if they both paid the same number of dollars. If you don't believe that statement, sell one of the bonds and see what you can buy with the money as compared with what you could buy when the first bonds were issued. DENIS O'SULLIVAN, 561 East 161st Street, Bronx, N, Y, “The Necessity Side. To the Editor of The Evening World: Your correspondent, Mr. Milton B, Seasonwein, talks about the selling of liquor aboard American ships in the manner of a blue law exponent, which he may be. He tries to prove that the ‘moral side of the question must not be neglected,"” which is true, but I maintain that that phase vf the issue must be considered only after the more important view--the neces. sity side. Mr. Seasonwein is very {dealistic and voices beautiful thoughts, but, alus! this a materialistte world, and I fear that We must cast aside’ such idealistic contempts. To get to the point, American ship- ping to remain American shipping must have some other means of reve- mue than mere passage paymeat. dew York, June 21, 1922, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) A LESSON ON A GOLF COURS! Near New York a golf club whose membership is made up largely of business men who have worked hard all their lives and are now playing hard. On the course at week ends are men internationally famous—bankers, big merchants, eminent men in all lines of industry and politics. Mahy of these men have taken yp golf late in life, fol- lowing the instructions of their doctors to get more exer than that derived from saying “H to the chauf- feur of a costly, cushioned limousine. Those who take up golf late in life do not do very well at it—at first. Unless they are unusually determined and proof against discouragement they do very badly at it indeed. For golf is a game which demands obedience from stub- born and habit settled muscles, and in the elderly these mus- cles are very independent and set in their ways, and dislike exceedingly to take orders, But the majority of the members ef this particular club are men who are accustomed to accomplish what they have set out to accomplish. Their present purpose is to play golf, not like profes- sionals or lusty young amateurs but well enough to get en- joyment out of it. : To watch them is an inspiration and a lesson. For they bring to the game the purpose and the dogged persistence that has won them fortune and position. They play badly at first, but that makes no difference. They are out on the course at the next opportunity finding out what was wrong the day before and correcting it as best they can. They do not always keep their tempers, but they do keep their intention to succeed. They are not accustomed to being beaten or to let their personal feelings interfere with their success, And so, though they frequently are humiliated by their own awkwardness, they keep pegging away with their clubs, and tearing up the turf and learning the game—and all of them who are not too fat or too feeble will learn it. The persistence that made them leaders in industry in youth will make them at least fair golfers in the autumn of their lives, and the man who can become even a fair golfer after forty-five is unusual, Watch them on the course and you will understand why they succeeded, It is a method by which all fairly in- telligent men can succeed, if they will. It consists of keep- ing at it till you know how. ne, James! ‘he sale of Mquor aboard the ships provides for this. In addition, if there were no Hquor for sale many passengers would be tempted to sail on foreign boats. Mr. Seasonwein {s really right in a very deep sense, but the moral side esa Publishing Co. WHICH ONE MAKES THE BETTER WIFE e eee “That’s a Fact” (The New York Evening Epoch-Making BOOKS « By Thomas Bragg t, 1922 (New York Hventi Worle). by Press Publishing Gor CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS,” “Di Delitte @ delle Pene’ (On Crimes and Punishments), by Caesar Beccaria, was published 158 years ago —Mareh, 1764. ; The message that it brought to the world was absolutely new, and of the blessedness of its influence it would be impossible to speak too highly. If human happiness {is a holy thing, then it may be said, without reserva- tion or qualification, that a hdlier book than Beccaria’s “D1 Delitte delle Pene'? was never written. The most hideous nightmare visions of “Hell” and its fiends were never more terrible than were the actual conditions on this planet throughout the thousand years preceding Bec- caria’s birth in 1735. For all of that long period the world was one great torture-pen, filled with the screams and groans of those who were being subjected to the infernal’ prison methods everywhere prevall- ing In chureh and state, The lamentations of the tortured ones were still to be heard so late as tho middle of the eighteenth century, and inspired by Beccarla’s ringing ap- peal, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Bayle, Did rot and others swore @rat they, should cease. With his heart almost breaking at the thought of the suffering to which his fellow men were everywhere sub- jected, and his brain fairly afire with indignation over the brutality of the authorities which made such suffering possible, Reccaria wrote his book and sent it forth on its blessed mission. The effect was instantaneous. Its influence spread over Europe with the rapidity of a prairio fire. For some strange reason the book was put on the “Index,” but it made no difference, Within a) few months the book had six or seven editions. The lead- ing minds of all the European coun- tries read it, and from its powerful arguments there was no escape. It convinced the reason, it touched the any, even among the ." shudder and feel amed of themselves, of Russia abolished torture throughout her dominions, and Frederick of Prussia and Leopold of Tuscany followed suit. Slowly but steadily the good work went on, and by and by the penal codes and prison methods of all Europe began to show a change for the better, This is a great time for the erection of memorials to distinguished men and women, In the parks and public squares of the world's big cities stand splendid monuments erected to late the memory of n, historians, or . navi- inventors and others who “did s." but I do not remember ever ¢| {0 have seen anywhere in my travels monument to Caesar Borresano ecaria, the man who did most to do way with unmerited sorrow,.and who stands first among the noble souls throughout the years who have fought for human happiness and against the brutal and unfeeli aws which had s maddened them with their rnal tortures, 2 a WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 193.—ELEGANT, “plegant” is one of the most ‘tre- quently and most gries---*- abused in the Eng It has dropped so far from its classte words ) language, estate that some ca users of the English language are now disposed to reject‘ altogether as unfit. “Elegant” is derived directly from the Latin “elegans' “ex, or e,”* meaning out, and In an obsolete use, as individual, the word meant a person pe ing judgment and taste—a per- son capable of choosng. Then it came to mean pleasing to the eye, by grace and harmony, or possessing qualities of distinction or impressive- nes A speaker may be “elegant,” but cake certainly may not be described as elegant. Nor can a drink cr. a man's suit be thus described, When You Go to the Museum Relatives of the Horse. We are accustomed to speak of “wild horse: of the American plains, But it is a bad habit, There are no “wild horse: xcept horses lapsed into wildness—on this continent, The only 1d horses” in the world are two species in Asia, known as the Asiatic wild ass and the Przewalsky horse, found on the desert plains of Central Asia, the African wild ass and the various breeds of zebra, Some scientists hold that the pre- historic ancestor the horse was striped like the zebra, but no evidence has been produced to prove this con- tention, and science does not accept anything without proof, : The domestic ass, or burro, as he js called in Spanish America, is a de- ndant of captured wild ancestors, a right good friend of man he ts hough man maligns him by call- him obstinate and treating him accordingly, to choose. pplied to an ‘Old Cumberland 9|||times called the Road."" Aertel “Minster,” in the names of English places, always signifies the site of a monastery or abbey, as Bedminster, of the question must be withdrawn to retain American shipping. Our ships The ‘National Road’ must sail the high seas, for the mo- is an ancient Axminster, Leominster, &c, , Elbert Hubbard and his wife, Alice, ment that commerce in Yankee ships|Pational highway — established — by Toth writers and the founders of the Pages then woe to American indus. |Thomas Jefferson and once a great|Roycroft Inn at East Aurora, N. Y., try and then woe to America. Amer-|thoroughfare. It extended from Bal-|perished in. the destruction of the ican shipping is the keystone of the|timore, Md., through Frederick and |*Lusitania,"" which was torpedoed by, bridge of American life. 6. A.K. /Cumberland, Md., and Wheeling, W.|the Germans on May 7, 1915, at 2 ‘Va., to Columbus, O, It was some- o'clock in the afternoon,