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All rlehts of republication of special dispatches herein ere nlse reserved. 1'hilidtlplil., TliunJiy, Ammt 24. 152: PINCHOT'S PLAIN PLATFORM FTHNSEL generalities of the familiar tjpc JL' of political platform find no place in tlie direct ami cnmlld statement of Clifferd Pin Pin chet, addressed te editors of Republican newspapers In Pennsylvania. Mr. Plnchet Is, fortunately, unglftei with powers of gaudy rhetoric. His manifesto, which is In the nature of a prelude te the gubernatorial campaign, bears directly en concrete issues, is wholly in line with pre pre Tleus premises and is constructive In the best and least delusive seii'-e of that word. That he has net forgotten, nnd is deter mined net te forget, one of the pregnant causes of the political revolution in this Commonwealth Is cenfirmptl by his declared Intention te make the quickest possible use pfithc findings of his unofficial committee designated te explore the welter of waste and confusion in the finances of Pennsjl vanla. The reorganization of the State Govern ment and the elimination of the saloon are we ether policies which he plans te carry Inte prompt effect In the clearly fore shadowed event of his election. His reor ganization program Involves, as It should, the cause of local self-government for cities, boroughs, townships nnd school districts. nd the mitigation ns much as possible of cumbersome nnd epprcsshe dictation from Barrlsburg. It Is upon this same theme that Jehn A. McSparran has waxed particularly fervent. In his opposition te ever-centralization mid the creation of ponderous and costly bu reaucracies nt Harrisburg, Mr. l'lncbet leaves his political competitor in the posi tion of n protestant clamoring for a reform already sighted. It Is refreshing te note throughout .the Republican candidate's preliminary state ment the emphasis upon definite objectives. The' entire announcement is as devoid of clap-trap and pretense ns are the career tuid personality of the author. THE ONLY WAY OUT THE country at large, uninformed as it K about the underlying details of the coal situation, will yet be right in refusing te sympathize with the demand of the nnthra cite miners for wage contracts covering a period of jcars which has brought strike ettlemcnt negotiations te another deadlock. The proposal of the operators te continue the old wnge schedule nnd te leave future disputes te arbitration seemed fair and rea sonable enough. Arbitration of this" Sert worked well in the past. There is no con ceivable reason why it should net work well In ,the future. Jehn It. Lewis, refusing te accept the principle of arbitration for the miners, Is open te suspicion of a desire te fortify the institutions and usages of his unions at great nnd needless expense te the miners themselves and the country at large. TVintcr rs coming en nnd coal It scarce and prices arc high, and there Is no sign of relief for the unorganized public. But mns opinion in the United States is surely, if lowly, crystallizing In definite nnd novel forms opposed allke te the nutecracy of unions and operating corporations in control of csscntlnl Industries. It is becoming clearer ciery day that the people will Lave te reconcile themselves te the prospect of a long period of Industrial regulation by Fed eral commissions or te a continunnce of ruinous waste in the larger fields of pro ductive effort. A spirit of geed will and enlightenment In the groups new opposed te each ether would make n choice between thes alternatives unnecessary. But there is no sign or prom prem ise of It anywhere, and it is significant of the state of mind of labor leaders that Mr. Lewis should telegraph te the I'rc-ldcnt de manding union representation en the fact finding coal commission seen te be estab lished with the authority of Congress. All the bitter expoiicnce of the last three years proves, however, that such an ar rangement would be disastrous. The fail ures nnd tribulations of the Railroad Laber Beard may mean nothing te Mr. Lewis, though te every one outside the circle cstab jj llshcd by the unions nnd the corporations they mean that the whole plun en which in dustrial arbitration commissions have been conceived since the war is wrong. The Rail Benrd Is composed of nine mem bers. Three members are appointed te rep resent the rnilread corporations, three te represent railway labor and three tn repre sent the public. In practice it has been demonstrated that the corporation commis sioners are forever for the corporations and that the labor group is always ready te sup port nry demands thet unions miiy make. Thus the Rnilread Laber Beard, In se far as it may be expected te guard the public Interest, is net a commission of nine, but a commissien'of three. In a commission of three one mnn will always delnluate by the force of an aggres sive, or superior mind or character. Se it has been In the Rail Benrd. The decisions of the beard have been the derisions of Ben W Heeper, head of the public greun. It has been contended In Reme quarters that Mr. Heeper's handling of the Issue raised by the shepmen nnd intensified by their strike was faulty. Mr. Heeper should net be blamed for this. The responsibilities I gV-vSsfced upon him have been tee heavy for any inuiviuuai te near wim uigiuty or very properly departed from organization reflected in the ive aw ueiiru wiivii iiu ui'Giiu iu piuu ter a t-1 fact-finding coal commission, lle has In 2fc.siuanlnjlty, Ifvfl'Tbe President S'TvI laWinclple of ..:fuwh i .. fit 'V l'm ft commitstslett that shall be without dl tRMtact representation of cither operators or i, .Vnmers. In tue course of time the Rail JMsru m imyu iu iiu ii-"mniiizuu iifiun sinu Yls Uaes. .iWhat we shall have te have nrn OTMBiltpsjBBl' uuie te ue us impnruni anu iiMt.MW' United States SupremeV Court, and ns completely detached from conflicting industrial groups. Only1 a little while agt it appeared that the form In which the Rail Heard was organized was Ideal. But we have lived nnd learned. In the future th expert knowledge which "Interested groups" were supposed te contribute te conciliation beards will hnve te be obtained from the witnesses which Federal commissions have the power te summon. IRELAND'S YOUTHFUL LINCOLN AND HIS UNFINISHED LABORS A Pitiful Sacrifice te the Fanaticism That Always Has Made Na tional Martyrs IS IT the fate of the Irish people te be forever divided against themselves? What thoughts are new in the mind of De Vnlcra, whose warm nnd generous friend Michael Cellins was? What new and In eradicable hates will spring from the killing of one of the most devoted friends that Ire land ever had te make new divisions in a land weakened nnd sick at heart with in herited hatreds? The habit of martyring great men Is net by any means a monopoly In Ireland. AH peoples, or, rather, the seers of red In the lunatic fringe that forms about every great popular cause, succumb te it at regular Intervnls. But the circumstances of Cellins' end were strangely pitiful nnd Ironically and Insanely cruel. Hnd he ever been nfruld of n fight or otherwise than smilingly con temptuous of the nssesslns who skulked In pursuit of him or unwilling te confront an enemy upon even terms, his death by a shot from ambush would net seem se intolerable as It does, nor se completely outside the decent order of war or peace. The bullet that ended me life of this genius of Irelnnd mny have been fired by one of the bush fighters that the radicals huvc Imported from Australia or by an un thinking rebel under orders In ambush or by some one of the youths of the land who have been lnllnmed te a degree of fanntlctsm by elder men who ought te knew better. In any case It will leave a lasting mark upon the face of contemporary Ireland. And such Is the wny of mankind that the death of the ablest and bravest of Irish lenders may be the thing needed te bring the mis guided factionalism te their senses nnd te an understanding of the harm they arc doing te their country, their traditions and their people's hopes. Upen nil Americans of Irish birth or sym pathy the affair near Cerk ought te have a lasting effect for geed. It has been clear for a long time that this large group was almost universally in support of Cellins nnd the Irish Free State Government nnd the principle of compromise with Englnnd which that Government represents, even though the Dublin regime did net seem te be altogether In nccerd with the tradltiennl conception of n free Ireland. Yet it has been passive in the presence of n persistent agitation carried en by an embittered minority determined te cheese chaos in Ireland rather than the system of constructive and progressive com promise which Michael Cellins and his as sociates perfected and realized. Te a world that is warmly friendly to ward Ireland and ready always te recognize the justice of Its claims te Independence nnd Tightness of Its aspirations as a racial nnd national entity nnd, Indeed, te some of the met ardent Irishmen In Ireland, the bitter ness of the conflict In the Seuth has been be wildering. Judgments pronounced nt this distance are dangerous, since it is impossible te bring all the details of n situation as complicated ns the Irish one into the. focus of an over seas lcw. Hut we knew thnt an overwhelm ing percentage of the people in Southern Irelnnd support the Free Stnte Government, thnt the guerrillas organized ns Dc Valer ists have' wrought devastation in the eco nomic, social and political sjstem of the Seuth counties and that Cellins differed only in method nnd net in the degree of his pa triotism from the men who shot him. And we fear that Ireland, en trie read te pence, en the way te freedom, nt the open portals of a new nnd prosperous national life, will again be frustrated by Its "patriots" and returned te the confusion of fifty years age and opened again for an invasion of British arms unless the fates provide n leader ns oble and courageous as Cellins was te undo the work of random assassins. "It Is nbeut time," says Bernard Shaw, himself en Irishman nnd nn Inexorable critic of the English theory of control In Ireland, "that Irishmen stepped talking of dying for their country and prepared te live for it." Similarly it is about time thnt the radi cals of the republican cause ccaed te pro vide ammunition for the British reactionaries who labor twenty-four hours a day te con vince the world tbnt Ireland is ruled by emotion rather than logic, nnd thnt en; thing like a free government of the country would be Impossible. As matters are going new the outside world hears only of ambushes, assassina tions nnd red-het factional war in Ireland. It Is net permitted, because of the general clamor, te hear of the constructive work being done by Intellectual, devoted groups In Dublin nnd elsewhere. It must seem te any reasonable person that friends of Ireland In the United States would new endeavor te help the builders of the new Irelnnd. The wild work of the wreckers has been permtttert te go far enough. All the world of men, in a quest for peace, is trying te forget ancient griev ances nnd the injustices that are past. Surely it Is felly for Irish men and women te feel that Ireland ought te bleed te death for the past and close her eyes te the prom prem ises of the present and the future. "MEALS INCLUDED" C OLLAl'SE of the evening trade, ns a re sult of prohibition legislation, is nmeng the reasons given by tlie international Stew ards Convention new In session In St. Leuis for Its prediction of the return of the Amer ican plan te the hetelH of this ceuntiy. The popularity of "platter combinations" is nlse cited us n mark of change In the eating habits of the Natien. Patronage of the fixed-price tnble d'hete suggests that the iittractleu of liberty of cholce has proved delusive. It Is te he sincerely hoped that the stew ard und hotel proprietor who have of late been, displaying similar powers of prophecy will be specific Just exactly what Is meant by "American .plan"? U a restoration of the bird-bath system of service, of the old multifarious menu, maguificenk ta,iU premises, disheart ening in Us violefiins, la Intended, It is high time te erganise'" ledges of sorrow throughout the land. American hotels are new, all things con sidered, 'the best In the world. A goodly part of 'their present' eminence is due te the successful revolt against the 'dreary Indt gcsllblllty nnd,bnd cooking of the "mcals lncludcd" formula. . "Evening trade," new reported missing,, may have been mentally nnd morally frivolous, but the linperlous linperleus ness of its taste was unquestionably salu tary and productive of enterprise and artistry In cuisine. The reunders may have vanished, but It would be well' for the hetclmen, te realize that the revolution in gastronomy cannot be undone without depressing consequences. A NATIONAL PRK NEXT DOOR? AS AN nppreprlnte adjunct te the Sesqul Centennial, Congressman Charles J. Haminltt, of New Jersey, is pressing an ambitious project th'nt is perhaps capable of development nleng interesting nnd nttrnc nttrnc tlve lines. This is nothing less than the creation of n natlennl park In the region In which Washington crossed the Delaware en route te the great surprise victory at Tren Tren eon. Natlennl parks In the East are rare. There Is, In fact, only one such preserve, the Lnfnyctte Park, with an area of eight square miles, In the picturesque granite mountains of Mount Desert Island. Still mere novel is the conception of a national domain, emphasizing historic rather than scenic nttrnctiens. In Representative Hammitt's project, however, natural charms would, nlse play a part, since the Upper Delaware Valley Is a gracious and charming region. The school of American nrtits, Including netnbly Gar ber nnd Rcdficld, who have pictured the valley's beauties, Is evidence of its potent allurements. There artr, of course, serious practical obstacles in the wny of Mr. Hammitt's pro gram. But the conception Is, en the whole, less fanciful than it might be deemed with out investigation. Despite their majesty, there Is no background of associations with the grcnt Western parks. Their appeal Is objective. Within the radius of fifty or sixty miles from Philadelphia there are stretches of de lightful country hallowed by epochal events in the making of the Nntien. Any move ment which seems te safeguard the Inspira tional values of thc-e regions nnd te respect their relics of n heroic past is one te be en couraged. Who would have Puncturing suspected that the second the Bubble Johnstown Heed te burst Its dnius and tumble into the news would be one of real beer? Nobody. Se thrilling was the news, se renllstie (for free lunch was coupled with the real beer) that, the sophisticated began te wonder if the whole thing were net merely n bid for the tourist trade. And new comes the nfflrmatien thnt the stuff is nothing mere than near-beer and that its kick is purely psychological. Hew the truth will hurt and sndden the convivial ones w he have sampled and approved ! SHORT CUTS Stranec it the fate of the acremarine. Queir is the picture a vietima tUl pninf it. Schooner that rctcued them cannot 6e teen Rum go, ain't itt Rail birds continue te destroy Uncle Sam's crops. What Hill desires from Ilaynes, ap parently, is a frank statement. 'Tis n blnck mark Ireland has given herself In the slaying of Cellins. It appears that no long airplane flight Is complete without n wreck or two. Anthracite miners nnd operators won't find any meat en thcbnne of contention. Perhaps there will be no rail settle ment until the Government has tamped u tie. Settlement of the steel strike may be obscured by the darkness that precedes the dawn. Te hear some of the European corre spondents tell it, Mars is merely changing his urraer. Every householder with nn empty bin has his own coal commission, but It isn't getting him nn where. Semp of the men who profess te be shocked nt Newberry are net nbeve buying votes witu n uenus. There is little likelihood that rail execu tives are looking with ever-friendly eyes in the direction of Judge Gary. Somehow we 'begin te wonder hew Con gressmen are going te point with prlde daring the coming campaign. Judge Landis Bays he believes In tem pering Justice with mercy, ibut you just can't make some of his victims believe It. Though we rejoice at the thought of a fact-finding commission, It will take mere than coaled facts te keep the home fires burning. Willinmspert, Pa., man shed tears and was cured of color blindness. And yet we have known onion peelers te speak of them ns while violets. Hindenburg is being lionized In Munich, Indication, perhaps, that he was net suffi ciently mouseitied before the war was per mitted te end. Soviet authorities are ssld te be making an effort te sell the Russian crown jewels, valued at ?.ri00,000,000. The amazing fact is that they ere still intact. The finppcr has steed for a geed deal nnd hns come up smiling, but the declara tion of New Yerk dancing masters thaCshe Is ungraceful and can't dnnce is a knock out. Greenshurg, Pa., reports frost. The time draws nenr when newspaper nara- graphers slinplv can't refrain mentioning what James Whltcemb Riley had te say about the punkln. Adelph Lerenz says the one lessen he has learned in life is never te step working; but, of course, this expert opinion need net be allowed te Interfere with vacation plans. The local burglar, who worked for hours te enter n warehouse, get fifty pennies from a cash register and was then pinched, is probably of the opinion thnt there Is truth in the scriptural dictum that the way of the transgressor Is hard. Man does his routine work though the heavens fall. Thus there is cause for con gratulation rather than surprise in the fact that desplte political upheavals the farmers of Russia and Poland went ahead and planted grain and nre new assured geed crops. Unde Ham sugges'ts that Cuba put up entry barriers as a first step toward pre venting the smuggling of Chinese and Euro pean aliens from the Islund republic te the I'nlU'd States a case of suggested crop restriction that will awaken no controversy, It Is confidently expected thnt the con templated Turce-Greek conference near Con stantinople will accomplish ampst as much as some ether recent conferences of ether participants in the big war; which fact, somehow, is net "overwhelmingly encourag ing. .... INSURING AGAINST RAIN End of First Summer of New Kind of Business Shows Many Sporting and Outdoor. Events Were. Covered by Policies WHEN a social club called the "Goofs" planned n dnncc last April in the Craftsman Club nt Drcxcl Hill, .some one nmeng the committee in charge brought up the question of hew they would stand" th! financial less in ense it rained, and some seme lmdy else said that he hat! heard It was posslble te take out Insurance against less by rain, and that is hew the business of rain Insurance, began, se far as Philadel phia Is concerned. .LFe.r, n?nl-y " J'ar before that several of the big insurance companies in New Yerk had been writing rain insurance policies ?...nn.".!,t nlu' tx, et thorn hnd appointed Philadelphia agents te take care of any such business If It should happen te come in. The (mefs were 'said te be the first customers here. Since then this unusual end of the busi ness has become popular among people who organize public functions where n decided finnnclnl less would occur through bad weather. Naturally the'summer time brings most of this business because of the many baseball games nnd picnics nnd tleck parties nnd such events. This summer-time busi ness Is new n'beut done nnd the Insurance people are in n position te formulate some itjen of where they Stand. THE books show that se far as the actual finances of rnln insurance are concerned, the companies have broken just nbeut even. But they ure satisfied If the, business keeps up in that way because they hove found thnt it Is one of the best ways of mnklng new friends and new-friends mean new cus tomers In their regular line. The records of t,hls summer's rnln In surance bring out some very interesting side lights en tills new kind of policy writing. Seme months nge a motion picture was sent out en the read through the smaller cites of Pcnnsjlvnnln. The film carried with it one of the livest of motion-picture publicity men nnd he, in the press agent's usunl search for n new "stunt" te get spnee in the newspapers, came across an Item about rain Insurance and this gave him his idea. In Rending, Easten and Allentown he inserted big advertisements, such as had never -been seen before. In announcing his open ng night he guaranteed that If it should rain at the time the people would erd narlly go'te the theatre, he would send tnxlcabs for all who phoned for them nnd nke them te the show, and if it wns rain ing when the house let out, ne would nlse tnke them home in tnxicubs. Such an unusual offer nnturally became legitimate news, nnd it wns the medium through which the announcement of the opening became very widely heralded In the ecnl Papers. The officials in the home office immediately bombarded the press agent with reproaches for taking sueli n cheiiee at losing money, but he calmed them by the simple answer: : "Fully covered by rain insurance." This was- the second policy written in the local office. rpiIE first policy running up into fairly A large figures was written for the Wynne Wynne weed Peny nnd Deg Shew held en Mnv U. It railed for n pnjment of $2000 if ,., 7,'m1 rnm. n8. ,m,ich nB one-tenth of nn inch from 4 o'clock until the time the afternoon show closed. nrttf11! ",mi;,('r ? ln"J it started te rain nnd it looked as though the company which w i, ie l'" ey wl"s Kin ta establish a less, but at five minutes of four the rnln stepped nnd the show went en without another drop. Oddly enough, it started te pour early in the evening, and nil of the iTmJ-J? T',( WPre fP0"wl. hut no rnln insurance had been taken out for them. Naturally, the most common form of rain Insurance taken out during the summer months is written te cover baseball gnmes. The Seuth Philadelphia Club bes been one of the steady customers during the present season. The Strnwbrlge & Clothier team, the Donevan -Armstrong team nnd nlmest 0,1 , f. the clubs which hove been plnving twilight nnd Saturday nfternoen games quickly realized the advantage of guaran teeing themselves ngninst less, and have become regulnr customers. American Legien fetes nnd lawn parties given bv fire ceinpnnles in the nearby sub urban towns have been protected in this way. and nn event held by the Frnnkferd Test. June 10 nnd 17, threatened the com panies with less, but the requisite one tenth of nn inch did net fall. Ti1AnXerU'c'",lern .S1,ri" clu took out 1 SBTOO policy for their "Streets of Beg- 'J?,'1,, ,f,t0, ,nt f,ex Clm1-0' June 24- and the Philadelphia Protestant Federation, plan ning a moonlight excursion en a river steamer, covered the expense of hiring the beat and nn orchestra by a $400 policy. UP UNTIL the end of May the insurance companies hnd struck all of the best luck, nnd it began te leek as If these policies were going te return geed nctual profit, but en June 2 rain forced the pn)ment of $1000 te cover the lawn fete of the Church of the New Jerusalem, held at 4740 Caster avenue. This scorned' te start bad luck for the companies. The very next policy written, calling for $200 for the Seuth Philadelphia baseball game, had te be paid, and In rapid Fiiecesslen enme the puyment of $,"00 for the Pageant of Old Genuantewn nt the Germnntewn Cricket Club, nnd a com promise payment of the difference between the amount of the policy nnd the nctual box office receipts at a Lafayette College base ball game. The Shannhan Club carried rain insurance, constantly for two or three weeks, nnd the Chestnut Hill Club took out a policy of $200 against rain between 5 and 1) o'clock en the morning of July 20, when they planned n railroad excursion te Atlantic City. The Seuth Philadelphia Baseball Club also collected $500 for rain or August 12. The biggest policies vet handled locally have been written within the Inst week. The customer in this cese Is the manage ment of the Philadelphia County Fair, which will he held et By berry during the first days of September. i The mnnngement has taken out a $0000 policy te cover Laber Day, and a $7000 one te cover Saturday. These policies must be paid if ene-tenth of an inch of rnln fnlls en cither of these two dnys during ex hibition hours. RAIN insurance sounds as theugiTlt were merely n gnmble hut, young as the idea is, the probabilities have been figured out scientifically. Just ns they nre Ik'nred In ether kinds of Insurance, nnd the rales of premiums nre based upon official statis tics. Thus a search of the Philadelphia Weather Bureau records shows the following average of days having ene-tenth of nn inch or mere of rainfall in each of the menths: January, 12 da.vs; February, 12; March, 18; April, 11: Mev, 12; June. 10; July, 12; August, 10; September, 0; October, B): November, 10, nnd December, 10. The companies have tehlps using these numbers ns nn Index, nnd the rate of premium per $100 Is found In the column headed by these figures. Thus, next month gives the lowest premiums. The payment for $100 worth of lnsurnnce for ene hour Is $5.01), and this increnses gradually with the time up te four hours, when the payment Is $7.47 per $100. Frem four hours en it in creases mere rapidly, nnd n policy covering eight hours costs $14.0!) per $100, nnd n whole day of twenty -four hours costs $45. In the worst month, March, the figures nre almost 50 per cent higher. One hour costs $8.(15 per $100, four hours costs $10.70, eight hours cost $21.05 nnd twenty-four hours cost $05. Unsebell policies are somewhat different from the ordinary ones. The usual policy for a game Insures ngninst rain from (he previous midnight until four and a half innings have been played. In that rnse the rate Is arrived at by multiplying the imlex number by J. a, or If the pejlcy begins from ft o'clock the base number Is multiplied byl2, ' , . i i. , ; . t vmm W NOW MY IDEA IS THIS! Daily Talks With Thinking Philadelphia en Subjects They Knew Best C. BURGESS TAYLOR On Settlement of Industrial Troubles THE business of protecting the public against the results of protracted or violent industrial disputes Is ene which belongs- primarily te the State, according te ('. Burgess Tayler, of the Northwestern Life Insurnnce Company, n member of the Industrial Relations Committee of the Plinmhm. nt Pnniinprep. nnil n mnn who has much experience In the field of industrial v disputes. "Every man, no mnttcr what hls-buslness or civic stntus," said Mr. Tayler, "has n vital Interest in nil' industrial relations, because these conditions affect every one In the end. All the tnlk which we hear of a 'finish fight' in industrial disturbances is nonsense. There never has and never can be such n thing because of the human equa tion, which makes it nn ever-shifting nnd a new problem as new phases of the old sit uation arise. "One thing always develops In every strike or lockout. The monkey "wrench In the works of the rnilread dispute today is the matter of seniority; everything else is settled. But when this strike wns declared, this was net nn issue at all, but it has be come a 'by-product' of the trouble. In every dispute of llke kind, It is' the 'by-product' which causes most of the trouble and net the original dispute. "There hns never been nny question about the legal relations of employers nnd the cm cm pleves. This is ns old as the common law itself. The thing which we lnck is the judicial machinery which pnrticularlv is adapted te adjust these disputes. It Is the ene wenk spot today in the social order. When emnlevers and emnleves have n dis pute, society permits them te fight It out en their own tcrmB. This would be all right If it did net dislocate everything else in the nrca in which it takes place. The Canadian Act "Nearly cverv one who hns heard of the adjustment of industrial disputes by legal machinery has something te sny about com pulsory arbitration. This method wns first tried in Australia and New Zealand, nnd resulted In n complete failure. England and ether nations were groping In the dark for a solution when the Canadian Indus trial Disputes Act, was passed by the Cana dian Parliament, eh a result of the rec ommendations of W. L. Mackenzie King, the present Premier. "The snlicnt difference between the Cana dian act nnd all ether former labor legis lation is (his: The act forbids a strike or a lockout being declnrcd until nfter nn in vestigation is mode of the facts in the case, nnd the results of their investiga tion mnde public in n report ever the signatures et the Investigators, This gives public 'opinion it chance te crystnllize en the merits" of the ense before work can be suspended by cither slde. It Is easy te see that nfter the investigation hns been made and the facts published, public opinion will deal a crushing blew le the element In the dispute which is seen te be in the wrong or te be unreasonable. "The first step nleng the-OIncs of the Canadian act which were token In this country wns the Kansas Industrial Court. There U no mere compulsory arbitration in the Kansas act than there is in the Cana dian act, but it leeks nt the matter from n different nngle, and both acts have worked out in a highly successful manner. Three Basic Principles "There are three principles, which always have been the basis of all industrial legis lation : First, compulsory arbitration, which lias broken down completely; becend, the Canadian Industrlnl Disputes Act, with Its Investigation and making public the results of that investigation, and, third, the Kansas uct, which embodies the principle of adjudi catien, "This last means that where the Cana dian act came into the dispute wlthMts in vestigation und the laying of the facts be fore thenihllc, tin lug' (e adjust the matter as the Investigation proceeded, as it gen erally; succeeded In doing the Industrial Court of Kansas enters and make's an in. vistlgatlen just as would be1 the case' in a ,7f an Blv fln.Hn. .ihnl.S.." ........ ...... .. ......, ..., .vuj dltlens. must be se and se, thnt wages are tee high or are tee low, and this decision is final. "It is important te get these things cienr .in the public mind, because loose talk about, compulsory arbitration is confusing nnd prejudices the cause of permanent economic pence. When the Canadian Industrlnl Dis putes Act wns first enncted. it wns bitterly opposed by both employers nnd empleyes, but the Tact thnt it has remained fifteen years en the statute books of the Dominion, with never nn attempt te repcnl it, shows thnt it hns been a geed thing. The 6ame is true in Kansas. "One of the unfortunate things nbeut both the Canadian and the Kansas laws Is that both were passed te meet some grent crisis and net ns the result of a deliberate and bread-minded effort permanently te Im prove tudustrlul conditions. It was a coal strike in both cases. Cost of Rival Organizations "The enormous sums expended annually in maintaining labor unions nnd employers' associations nre a great drain en industry, which could be eliminated entirely If the State found some simple nnd adequate ma chinery for Invcstlgnting nnd ndjustlng In dustrial troubles. The Industrial Relations Committee of the Chamber of Commerce is spending ns much money nnnunlly in nn ef fort te bring nbeut desirable industrlnl con ditions In Philadelphia alone as the Do minion of Cnnndn spends in administering its Department or i.noer. "But privote citizens cannot be expected te give the time nnd money necessnry te estnblish the best working conditions, and whatever they might de would be only of a local character and subject te unfavorable reaction In ether parts of the State, while State ngencies could vlew the field from a broader outlook. "It is conceded by thinking persons that the present war and waste following in the wnke of strikes nnd lockouts will prove fatal te the economic order If permit ted te remain unremedied. There Is no difference except In degree between the forces employ ed in industrial warfare and these in the inte International war; nnd it cannot be ex pected thnt the pnrtles involved will ever approach their problem with that degree of forbearance and'patience which will effect a solution. , A Function of the State "That is distinctly n function of the State. It Is te be hoped thnt the people of Penn sylvania will take te heart the present lessen being taught us as a result of our Indifference, nnd will set in motion influences which will compel the next session of the Legislature te estnblish n Court of Indus trial Relations, which will serve the"entlre State and set an example te the sister States of the Natien. This need net fellow either the Knnsas or the Canadian law, hut by adopting the best of ouch and mnklng such nddltlens ns our local situations may re quire, It would seem that great improvements could be mad en both these systems, nnd n way opened for an era of industrial 'peace which would mean much te our progress and prosperity. "A survey of present conditions must carry te the minds of nil nn appreciation of several conditions which confront this country. In the midst of n railway slrlke which is net only prestrntlng Industry, but Is n menace te the lives of every person in the country who travels, nnd n threatened coal famine, the severity of which can be determined only by the character of the winter we are te have, there can he no doubt that in the language of the Psalmist, these disputes arc like 'the ncstllenea unlet. wnlketh In the darkness nnd the destroyer that wasteth at noonday.' Fere of Public Opinion '.'Our State should declare In Its sovereign cnpaclty that men Nhall be protected In the right te cheese their own wny of life, but thnt they shall net Interfere with the same right of their neighbors by imlulg ng in disputes, the muses and the conditions of which are shrouded In mvsierv. Let an Intelligent- public opinion force n law en the statute hooks which shall lay bnre the facts In the disputes, nnd theiiIetpublIn opinion force n just Judgment based nn.thr-He fm. . LEa " .. .,'r",""-X I ""c"F"r-.r"M,' "" ' IICTI.I., tl- n .,.AftlA l.'t--. .. ,.iinpurjjap;v nai ue tmien can SBIfk hi I . . MESBI responsibility te assist in securing these bet ter conditions. However, it is, a' great and' hopeful sign te see that such Institutions of learning as Bryn Mawr arid many honest and sincere men and women in individual capacities arc preparing the way for the settlement of this great issue in the same spirit of courage and fairness that always has marked the judgments of public opin ion in this country." What De Yeu Knew? QUIZ 1. For'hew many years did Napeleon Bena parte rule as Emperor of the French? 2. What Is a pasticcio? 3. Hew old Is the game of lawn tennlsT 4. Who was the first Whig President of th United States? 6. What kind of a bird Is a reek? 6. What fabulous animal was supposed te llve In flre? 7. What Is the nameef the pipe of peaca used by American Indiana In con clave? 8. What country has been cnllcd the "Ceck pit of Europe"? 9. What Is meant by complementary colors? ' 10. What is an "ex parte" statement? f Answers te Yesterday's Quli 1. It has been asserted that Cluirlcs da Vllle Wells, who recently died In , Paris, nged eighty-two, was the origi nal "Alan That Broke the Hank at Monte Cnrle." On ene occasion In the fameua Casine Wells' winnings wer se great that the gaming-table bank , rnn out of 100,000 franc notes, ana a messenger wns dispatched te a bank' In the town te bring back 28,00 worth of francs for the lucky player. I. Millard Fillmore . was the last Whig (President of the United States. 5. Adolphe Thiers was the first President of the Third French Republic. Hi wns In oince from 1871 te 1873. 4. Ptolemaic theory la the name given te the fallacious theory popularized by ClauRlus Ptolemy, nn astronomer, who lived In Alexandria In the second cen tury A. I)., that the enrth was ths central body around which the sun and the planets moved. The system was accepted until replaced In tn sixteenth century by the Cepernlcan or modern system, In which It i proved that the sun Is the central body about which the earth nnd tn planets move. 6. A duome is n cathedral, especially pna In Italy. The word, which Is erlgl-, nally Italian. Is descended, like tnj( weul dome, from the Latin "demus, house. , . Galena Is a metallic lead-gray lead; also nn Important ero of lead. . " 7. Sir Henry Itneburn was a noted Scetcn fiertraft painter. Among the most dls Ingulshed of his subjects were Hume, Beawell nnd Sir Walter Scott IU lmm died In 1823. . 8. Jcjune means dry, lifeless, dull. It If , from the Latin "JeJunus." hungry, tns meaning of which can be found In ins French word "dejeuner," breakfast. "Dejeuner" is compounded of tn French "Jeuner." te fast, erlglnall; , from the Latin "Jejunus" and 'de, here used In the nense of the Engium prefix "un." Hence "dejeuner' 1 "unfastlng." or brenkfnst. 8. A fault in geology Is a dislocation, rela tively te each ether, of rock masses en opposite side of a frncture. 10. A carcauet Is an ornamental cellar or necklace of geld: a Jeweled drew formerly worn. In the hair. MOON MAN Moen man, moon man, With big round copper face. Walking in the weed read Through the jaggered space There between the spruce trees, v I've been a -watching you. . Hew de de I Hew de de I Hew de de I Grandpa says you're very old; He says your copper smile Was friendly with the ancient men. Dead n long, Jeng while. Yeu could tell hew Adam looked If you wanted te, ... ,. And all the white-halred Bible folks, And what they used te de, Ami'hew the great Kings went te flgM And captured cities in tha night. I'm waltlng7hcre te talk with you. Hew de de ! Marie Drrunan, In the New Yerk Times. -t 'J. ii- A Missouri Child's Deduction lfsartn flirt Durta ttmiv ' i it was 'a, Paris four-year-old who en, seeing a Sterk staring at him irem me iv si I..... ..., .f n .i,l.r, ltifer,ni.,l'1ll4-niUtlltf.i3l - that the stork was looking te see If 'he ceuH", .rcwcinWrh . - . ? ij vk3: vV:R- is' . 7 V.. t'X. t' . 4 t ". ,.., , : ', UFcirU S , -1' ll'i HA if , i
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