cost to applicants. date of cancellation, i = + = = « «'s = MAY 13, 193% | FOR GOV. PINCHOT’S CONSIDERATION. If an extra session of the Pennsylvania Legislature is called Governor Pinchot could go far toward bolstering up his waning prestige in the State if he were to greet the Assembly with a decla- ration of intent to cut the salaries of every State employee, start- ing with his own, as much as those engaged in corporate or private business enterprises have been cut. Nobody wants to see wages reduced, but since no method to avoid it has been found during the two years that economists and financiers have been searching for one practical employers have been forced to make reductions in order to keep what little business they do have. In Bellefonte, semi-skilled labor is working for twenty-five cents an hour. That is small compensation for the rough, back breaking grind that labor in our quarries endures. It is better than nothing, however, and since the law of supply and demand governs | the labor market, exactly as it does the commodity market, there are thousands of unemployed ready to take the places of any who | refuse to accept it. The problem of wage cuts is a more serious one now than it has ever been before in the history of American industry, for the reason that there are so many young workers who have never known anything else than a four or five or six dollar day. To them the dollar and a half their fathers worked for forty years ago has been mere cigarette mone The change brings on anothe: serious matter to be taken into consideration. A generation raised to regard as necessaries things that the preceding one considered luxuries will not give them up without some mental webellion. In that state the masses need only a leader to focus their attention on the government. Always con- | stituted authority is held responsible for the condition of its sub-| jects and looked to for betterment of their condition. When men who are forced to take twenty-five cents an hour know that within the year eight hundred new positions have been | created in Harrisburg at an annual cost of a million dollars to them, when they know that among the thousands of State employees there | are many, receiving from three to six thousand: dollars a year, who | in the present competitive employment market, would be lucky if they could get half such sums, mental unrest is increased. A far more dangerous situation confronts the State and the Na- | tion than those who have been delegated to govern seem to realize. While it is hoped they are not the Neros who fiddle while Rome burns, unless something is done soon there is very grave danger that history might have to class them with the witless Roman Em- | peror. To prevent the possibility of such a disaster no other sedative would be more efficacious right now than one prescribed specially | for the mind of American labor. We submit, to that end, that the ‘Governor would be hailed as a great doctor if he were to start the “process of curing the State by prescribing the same dose for its employees that those who provide the taxes to pay them have no other alternative than to take. Mr. GUFFEY REVEALS THE REAL PURPOSE. The real motive that led to the exploitation of the Roosevelt | candidacy in the recent Pennsylvania primaries will be revealed next Thursday, May 19, when the Democratic State Committee meets in | Harrisburg for the purpose of organizing for the coming cam- paign. Then an attempt will be made to defeat our present Chairman, | John R. Collins, as well as our member