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THE RAILWAY LABOR MEASURE
The railway labor bill, sponsored by
Representative Parker in the House and
Senator Watson in the Senate, is awaiting
approval bv the Senate, after having pass
ed the House by a vote of 381 to 13. It pro
vides a method of adjusting railway labor
disputes, primarily by the parties themselv
es, and secondarily by meditation. Opposi
tion to the bill has been manifested by ship
pers’ organizations, on the ground that the
bill would open the way for increased rail
road rates thru collusion of the railroads
and their workers.
There is no merit in this contention.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has
full control of rates, and any attempt on the
part of the carriers to concede higher wages
and then compel the public to pay the cost
thereof in increased rates would be fruit
less unless such increases were found to be
in the public interest.
That the railroads and their employes,
after years of friction, have agreed upon a
method of amicable adjustment of wage dis
putes, is a fact creditable to all concerned.
The arrangement should be- legalized with
out delay. "The Parker-'Watson bill is a long
step in advance of the unsatisfactory law
under which the railway labor board at
tempted to adjust labor disputes on the rail
roads.
MOTHERS’ PENSIONS.
The Senate can not with any degree of
consistency pass the mothers’ pension bill
in the form sought by Senator Wadsworth.
To do so would be to undo the legislation al
ready enacted, which on July 1 will set up a
joint administration for all local charitable
and correctional agencies. Congress passed
this bill creating the board of public w'elfare
after considering it for two years. It was
the result of several years of study by the
child welfare commission.
A bill drawn by Senator Capper and in
dorsed by the Senate District committee, the
District commissioners and all local civic
and welfare bodies is pending before the
Senate. It would set up a fund of $100,000
for the home care of dependent children, the
fund to be administered by the board of pub
lic welfare, 'which has already been author
ized to deal with charitable agencies here.
The plan proposed by Senator Wads
worth is that devised by Miss Sophie Irene
Lobe. It provides for a separate board to
administer the mothers’ pension fund. The
plan is unacceptable to the authorities and
people of Washington, and would call for
needless expense. Welfare leaders who seek
prestige thruout the country are insisting
upon adoption of the Loeb plan as a ‘'model”
for the States without regard to its suitabil
ity for the District of Columbia. The Cap
per bill meets all requirements and should
be approved by the Senate.
In this free and glorious country the
humblest citizen can offer a bid on Muscle
Shoals.
OUR BOYS AND WALTER JOHNSONS
There is noticeable at this time of year
a tendency, especially among people who
think they belong in "the “intellectual” class,
to bemoan the extreme popularity of such
big league baseball stars as Johnson, Horns
by, Cobb, Ruth and the rest. It’s a bad thing
| they say, to fill the minds of young boys •with
excessive admiration for “mere” athletes.
It distorts values, places too much emphasis
on the physical side of life. Perhaps there’s
| something in what they say. It is regnetta
j ble that no American boy was even yet
known to select Isaac Newton or Galileo as
| his beau ideal; regrettable, but natural. Yet
the intellectuals miss the point. It is the
way of boys and young men to admire the
doer, the man of action. And in a land that
produces such evil-doers as Gerald Chap
man, Martin Durkin and the like—shouldn't
we be mighty thankful that there are a few
Walter Johnsons and Roger Horasbys to
give our children heroes that are more
wholesome to admire?
TWENTY BILLIONS FOR TRAVELING
Five years ago America spent $12,000,
000,000 on travel. This year the cost of gad
ding by family motor car, community bus
or limited train will run to $20,000,000,000.
Back in 1900 we thought travel had reached
a pretty high peak when the country took
a billion dollars' worth of jaunts.
The motor car and bus have been the
great agent in increasing travel. The in
vestment in automobiles and busses exceeds
that of the railroads now. The annual
transportation bill on highways is twice that
of railroads. The railroads are realizing
that they must not fight the bus, but use it.
Accordingly most roads are co-ordinating
bus service and trucks.
Davy Dome, 92 years old, ran away
from his Sacramento home to take an air
plane ride 3500 feet up in the air. Some
thing has got to be done to control the de
mand of our youth for thrill.
SPEAK LOUDER, SENATOR
Senator Borah so vs, ‘‘I am one of those
who believe the Constitution is of sufficient
value, if it is necessary, to trace our way
thru fire and flood t maintain it as it is."
Will the senator please repeat it in a louder
voice for the benefit of theantireapportion
ment element in the other chamber?
ITALY’S WOOD MARKET
America is in danger of losing its wood
market in Italy. That country has been im
porting large quantities of wood from Am
erica and Australia, but for some time the
kingdom has been unable to purchase wood
from these countries because of the dollar
exchange and the Australian prohibition
on wood exports. N ow the French are at
tempting to organize, with good prospects
of success, a market in Italy for French
wood.
APPROVED WITHOUT RESERVATION
Few persons, however much intent on
keeping immigration within the present sal
utary limits, will cavil at the approval by
the Senate committee on immigration of the
admittance outside the quota within the pe
riod of one year of aliens who fought in the
American army in the world war, and of
their wives and minor children. This is a
patriotic concession entirely commendable,
as is the further proposal for the naturaliza
tion of the veterans automatically if they
made application for citizenship within two
years after being honorably discharged.
Perhaps execution of gangsters is in
frequent in Chicago because the gangsters
do it so efficiently themselves.
Many a congressman's words sound
convincingly dry because you aren’t close
enough to smell them.
HOW WOULD WHISKY DO?
Now that this “medical beer, has been
fully described, the next thing to know is
the antidote.
Fellows, we may as well give up. We
are licked. We thought there might be a
chance for us yet, but yesterday we saw &
girl strike a match with her thumb nail to
light her cigarette.
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