The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 28

Uk Th The Evening By Bide Dudley Wile Martin Green | Gors: 49: (New Publishing 667 CHE Fuet Admini ‘ij marked the P seem to Le cutting much ice in the way of dumping coal the ce 8 of New York.” It will take more than a Fuel Ad supply of coal to tion,” re ‘doesn't sot. 1922 (New York Evening World), Figes Publishing Combery T our reqyest, Ellabelle Mac Doolittle, the noted poetess inte Coristmas poem. It is a rhyme of tue sort that inspires one to do big A Doolittle Gem. A of Deibi, has written a things. Read it: Ch hey inal sonable price,” de- igeex head ay eee ere? clared the observer. The consumer “corps nageetens is squeezed between two f res Brings back the youthful days of cheer, And also expectation, Old Santa will the chimney come ons exerted by the mine owners and the other by the union miners, until the pressures are uncoupled there can be no relief, “Naturally the sympathy the’ public ig with the miners, but the miners knew very well what the re- sult would be when they planned the strike. They didn’t think of the pub- lic. And as for the coal barons, they wanted a strike. and idren, let's be jolly; come to you astound, Maybe a parrot—pretty Polly! My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Called Dr. Barnes a faker. Oh. Teeney, you little jiggets, You are not the candlestick maker. But, getting back to dear Christmas, Old memories make me sigh, 1 cannot pass the new drug store Without the clerk giving me the eye. jong as the olvners of thie ate assured that their n will be kept clear of water and venti- lated and that their machinery will be preserved intact and oiled and polished | they don’t care whe the work or out. The consumer has to ‘The harder it is to get coal the more the barons ean charge for it. “In preserving the mines and the machinery the m’ners work hand in hand with the owners. mines OBSERVATIONS, Silk stockings ate to be cheaper. The longer skirts are having their effect. We saw a policeman pay his way through a subway turnstile yester- day. Probably new on the force! ‘ The American potato bug has reached France. Something else the French can blame us for, eb? “And now,” said a Philadelphia woman recently, on being divorced, “Til get my teeth fixed.” Probably wore them out chewing the rag. miners: have coal The union in every strike furnishes men to work the pumps and the ventilators and keep the mines neat and tidy so to speak, The men who do this Kk are well paid while their fellow min Sre refusing to get out coal, “The business of mining anthracite coal in Pennsylvania, where Ww York's supply comes from, is the most thoroughly regulated and super- vised by the State Government of any industry, but the regulation and su- pervision deals only with the actual mining of coal and working condi- ions. The old days when an anthra- cite miner went down into a dark hole with an oil lamp fastened to the front o: his hat are gone. “The boss miner and his gang— consisting of five or six or more men —n0 down into the mine in these days A Happy Man. Seb the surgcon laughing, Hear his joyous tones! Football season brought him Many busted boncs. TELEPHONE LOVE. What Has Gone Uefore—Mary Dingle, & sweet girl, lever the Beekman Change to seek excitement several newspaper men, rather mild, her Chinese Various advent but nothing’ te very Poh, peching ke vary, in an electrie lighted elevator op- ae Ry s a) fad erated by electricity. They proceed to narrative!) i When struck by two hard- p dolled eggs, the robber hesitated. “What was that?" he asked Abba Dabba had recognized in him a long-lost lover from Hill City, Kan, # “Hello, Robber!" “Bus did Abba Dabba greet him. She expected recognition. “Good-morning!” So replied the robber, a rough man, with a beard, , Mary saw the situation was in hand. Arising, she took the sugar bow! and held it aloft. “The symbol of purity,” she sald. The robber was a real man. In bis youth be had been young and had run away from home to escape filling the wood box. When he saw the sugar bow! he was petrified, He began to cry. Abba Dabba realized his feel- ing. In China she had once seen the Emperor, and therefore knew what heartaches could be. “Here!” she said to the rob- ber. “Take my handkerchief.” The man wiped away a tear, Just then the waiter charged the girls $7 for the eggs. At once they realized there were two robbers aboard.the car. “Tut, tut!” said Mary. It all seemed so absurd (To Be Continued.) THIS AND THAT. Somebody's been spoofing Andrew Mack, actor and tenor. Andy, un- able to get any coal at Bayelde, sought the help of friends and,|,, through them, was able to buy five tons in New York. A few diys after the coal was delivered, Andy a received a telephone call that set him wild. “We understand,” said a man's Voice, “that you are selling that coal |train and, as he alighted at his home by the bushel. This is the firm that}town, he even smiled at the bag solg you the coal. We had no idea | gageman you would peddle it around.” “Merry Wow! Andy went right up in the}said Andy air. He couldn't wait for trains so ‘D2 Bred a taxicab and came to New York to deny the accusation with} A reporter friend of ours was words, fists and even brickbats, if {talking to the cigur girl in a Broad- necessary. At the office of the coal] way hotel. fompany it was suggested that per-[ “Yes. he ssid, the heading on which they are to op- crate on electric driven trains through an electric Ughted tunnel as brightly iNuminated as most city streets. fore they go to work a State inspector has certified that the mine is free of gas and that working conditions arc in accordance with the provisions of the law. “The boss miner directs his men in arilling into the coal vein and placing the explosives. He dees no physical work. When the dynamite ts placed he sets it off by a mechanical con- trivance. Down comes tho coal and his work for the day Is done, Gen- erally he works only four or five hours. The moment the blast is set off he goes out of the mine. “His helpers spend an hour of two longer in loading the coal into cars which are propelled by electricity The loading completed they climb on the cars and ride to the scales, where the result of the day's operations are weighed and credited to the miners under the supervision of a member of the union. For lis work the boss miner gets $15 to $20 a day and the helpers from $§ to $12 a day, “The trouble is that there are two miners for every job, and that is why «| the mine owners are howling for un- restricted immigration. They want the oversupply of labor to continue. The ordinary miner is the best paid unskited laborer in the werld—when jt works, and his boss don't care much whether he works or not, for, in the end, the consumer pays not only the miners’ wager posititious losses that the owners mark up when the mines are idle “L always thought," said the Pilot, that the anthracite coal miner was to the front ranks of the downtrod.” “Most of the self-professed down- ‘od,’ said the Observer, sciously tri Be- but the sup- “are uncon: ng on themselves.” Christmas, everybody!" “ve interviewed haps somebody was spoofing Andy|a lot of interesting people in my aud then the singing star saw a/time. great light, , He went back, to Bayside on a Just had a talk with Irvin Cobb.” She did not reply. al JOE’S CAR Mark Meg. U. 8. Pat, oft That’s How Joe Feels About It! eee . ’ | VERY WELL, IF 1 EVER Go To ANOTHER sata WELL. A BUNCH OF MILLION IM*NaTura , 1 AM. IF THINK | | SWELL DINNER YOU'LL WEAR A GAG! 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