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TUB SUNDAY CITIZEN, ASHEVILLE, N. C DECEMBER 28, 1919. THE ASHEVILLE" CITIZEN PUBLI8HBD EVERT MORNINO BY THE CITIZEN COMPANY, ASHBVILLE, N. C. Manager whole. The states remain, sovereigns, united sovereigns, Indlssolubly connected, but potent en titles. The suit will review the history ofthe forma tion of the constitution and will Involve the clr- cumiUncw attending the original articles of con calk It KRoS6n:.V.".V;:. .!!?'' . . 7. Editor 1 Mention. Blmply. and very inadequately .t.ted. jrne L. BAKER, t '.'.'.'.'.'... .Managing Kdltor the contention la thin; In Ha very mature amend- O&AY GO R HAM City Editor mont j8 necessarily an alteration of aomethlng 'department. Those Medals. Offered a distinguished service award, an officer of the,U. 8. Navy who commanded a transport sunk by a Qerman aubmarine, haa declined it on the ground that he does not deserve It, having lout hla J ahlp. Thua more fuel Is added to the firq started I by Admiral Sims' criticism of the awards for mer itorious service recently announced by the naval Till: ENEMIES OF MANKIND. Entered at the postofftce Ashevllle. N. C, its second ... class matter under aot of March 5, 1$7. TELEPHONES Business Offlca . Editorial Rooms 20T SUBSCRIPTION RATES (By Carrier in Ashevllle and Suburb) Jal!y and Sunday. 1 year, In advance $7.00 Daily and Sunday, I months, in advanoe. . ... I TS . Dally and Sunday, I months, In advance..... 1-tS Hally and Sunday, 1 week. In advance 15 ' (By Mall la United StatM.) Daily and Sunday, 1 year. In advonce $6.00 Dally and Sunday, 8 months. In advance 1.56 .Dally only. 1 yean In advance 4.00 Dally only, I month. In advance... 100 Hur.day only, 1 year, In advance 2.00 which exists. The constitution Is not a politic Deity but something limited In nature, so ex pressed even by Itself in its declaration that pow ers not expressly granted to it by the states are reserved to them or the peoples thereof. Being thus limited. It is argued, amendments can relate only to matters within the purview of the constitution, and cannot affect others since they The controversy has ita basis In a long standing difference of opinion in the navy an to tho test of merit to be applied In the cane of citations for merit, and theory and practice are apparently sadly mixed. Some measure by results achieved, main taining that a naval officer on shore duty may have rendered such extraordinary high service that he Is entitled to a higher award than the of- are reserved to the states. There were originally,, leer who risked his life lit arduous! and dangerous MEMBER TITE ASSOCIATED TRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of a',1 news dis patches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited In this paper and also tne local news published heroin. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ' SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE The E. KATZ 8PKCIAI. ADVERTISING AGENCY, 18-1 Ea:.t Twenty-sixth street. New York City, 9x4-025 Harris Trust Building, Chicago. 111., and til Waldhelm Building, Kansas City, Mo. Sunday. December 28, 1919. The Christmas Carry-On. It la curious that at Chrlstmas-tlme ' the glow which lasts until midnight of the twenty-fifth has a way of fading ouUhy the morning of the twenty sixth. We wonder yhen we had better take down the holly and get back to the humdrum. After i ur recent good humor, we are chagrined to find I the old Irritability again threatening our conver sation. We pack away the Christmas tree tinsel with a dull sense that It la not the only bright thing we are shutting up to a year of dlause. ' . The truth Is that Christmas la a day for Open ing doors, and that open doors mean discoveries, and one is always sorry when a discovery Is over. On moat days of the year people are conscious of their facet and keep them locked, but on Chrlst mas every face on the street throws Its doors . wWe, and .every chance passer-by is cheered by ' hla discovery of the shining lights inside, only to be too soon dulled and baffled again by the old shut doors. If only those Christmas glimpses of , each bther's kindest selvea might come a little oftener through the year! Sometimes at Christmas we are more surprised by ourselves thart by anybody else. Tho Christmas spirit makes us do astonishing things. We Invite strangers to dinner, we forget our tiffs with the neighbors, our boredom with our relatlyes. We had not dreamed our good will to all could carry us so far, or so high. We are exhilarated as it we had climbed a mountain, with all Its opened vista for discovery, and we wish we could remain certain clauses or provisions, with the power to amend them or the matters Involved in them, but not to create new matter. In the ensuing years sundry amendments were adopted to these provisloiH, and Bpch amend ments could of course be amended. Dut there has been, it is claimed, no departure from in herent procedure until the coming of tho 18th. amendment. Asked If the antl-slavcry amend ment might not come within his objection, a proponent of the theory discussed replied that it was germane since slavery was an institution re ferred to In tho constitution. He was frank enough even to sugge.it that an amendment creat ing a king instead of a president might be enter tained legally since this would be an amendment merely changing the nature of the chief mag istracy. It Is on tho theory of the reserved powers of the state that Rhode Island as a state Is (to bring an action attacking the 18th amendment. Rhode sea work .while others claim that the winning in actual fighting should rank highest. Secretary Daniels apparently sees merit in both contentions and seeks a happy medium. Ho' states that "The value of duly on shore wus duly recog nised, but it should be of the holiest importance and responsibility In order that this duly Khould be recognized by tho award of the name kind of medals as that given to officers charged with great responsibility and at the same thne in positions of great danger In the active war none." With some officers success is the. test ot merit, and a proponent of this theory is the ofllcer who says ho does not deserve any medal because he lost his ahlp. His conduct was guilunt, but he was not lucky; seamen are apt to bow to the decrees of luck, an officer who has lost his ship, however blameless he may be, feeling that a stigma attaches to him. Defeat does not disgrace the soldier if he fought well, as all history tells, but in the army as well as naked Island accepted tho constitution with reservations, tho navy there Is the disposition to award tho high and Its theory Is that not all the other states have jest honors to those In the fighting line, whether the power to tako any of these reserved - lights j actualpartlclpants in' fighting or not, and, not to without its. onent. jtho staff officers at home even though their super- The theory of tho attackers Is given as a matter of Interest. The defense shows for itself, a con stitutional amendment formally declared adopted, something apparently grounded on bod rock. "Unavoidable" Accidents. Reports of accidents Involving automobiles are frequently featured by the statement of one or more of the persons concerned that tho accident was "unavoidable." Sometimes this declaration may be true but the chances In Its favor are about as remote as the finding of a hen with teeth. A wise public knows that while the mishap may have been unavoidable by one of the Individuals Involved, "unavoidable" accidents are so rare as to' be ranked as curiosities. According to local calculators the time is now at hand for another "wave" of accidents In and around Ashevllle. After there have beVn several bad smashes of cars, perhaps one or two people klllbdi and careful drivers so much frightened that they keep their cars at home, the officers get busy, the courts Increase penalties and drivers and pedestrian become more careful, Then comes a period ot relative safety and few minor acci dents, a let-up of precautions, less official vigi lance, and' tho courts forget their threat of jail sentences for oft-time offenders, and then another wave of accidents and recurrence of "unavold; able." Eternal vlgilence is the price of safety form au- InmnhlU NiM'l.lnntu VIcHlfinn fa flamanftA frnm a little longer on the cheery heights of Christ-1 , , , ; '. . . . , ... pedestrians no less than from car drivers; from the public as well as the police and the courts. Rut latlve achievements alone made possible the win ning by others. Lee and Grant, Pershing and Halg. did no actual fighting, rarely witnessed any even, and no one questions their right to honors, but there would be a clamor of controversy about a high award to some supply officer at Washing ton or London who supplied tho means of battle. The controversy is fundamental, it involves tho entire matter of award of war honors. Tho same thing Is Involved in a base-ball game where a bat ter scores a runner on third with the winning run. Mho won the game? The batter, manv Others say the hit would have done no good and the game would have been lost if the runner had not been on third base. Secretary Daniels has re-referred the whole matter of awards to the official board In hope of an adjustment. "A thousand knees Ten thousand years together fasting, ' L'pon a barren mountain, and still winter . In storm perpetual, could not move the gods To look that wsy thou wert." That, or more ruthless execration, would every patriotic and honest man hurl at the unspeakable miscreant, whether subject of England or citizen of America, who wishes a war be tween the two great Anglo-Saxon na tions. And In a "hearing" before the house committee of foreign affairs one Cohalan, a New York Judge, ex pressed a wish that such a war should come. The President of tne united States less than a year ago decided that this same Cohalan polluted any presence he came into, and the Presi dent Is vindicated in his opinion ana conduct toward this man by his advo cacy of a great war that would visit a calamity on mankind ten times as great as that which grew out ot tne world ' war. A fight to a finish between the I'nlted States and Oreat Britain and that Is what it will be If the war come would last for years and be the death of Christian rflvlllration. Krom such a war the victor would emerge as completely ruined as the van quished, and It is almighty doubtful if the United States would be the victor. Cohalan sought to encourage the committee to Insult and browbeat England by paying that "England would yield." That la what the kaiser thought in 1914 that "England would yield." The Anglo-Saxon is not made of the stuff that "yields." mu good fellowship. Yet perhaps there are ways of making Christ mas last a little longer, ways peculiarly available for us who live in Ashevllle. The Oreat War has given Us some great phrases, none more inspiring than Carry-on, and none more applicable to the prolonging of Christmas. In old legand the "Christ-child knocks on Christmas-Eve at every door, lonely and homeless, and bringing miraculous revelations of blessing to those who welcome him. Ashevllle to a city of the stranger and therefore a city where hospitality has Its richest opportunity. , The government hospitals have brought to us strangers who have vn especial appeal because . they wear their country's uniform, and because ( many of them are sick and lonely. Another col - umn describes the organization of a fitting welcome for these boys through the Church Canteen Club, but the true spirit of Christmas hospitality can not pervade the new club house without the co operation Of the people of Ashevllle. The Church Canteen Club Is one means by which Ashevllle may , make the warmth and gladness of Christmas en .. dure both for herself and for her soldier guests. One might sometimes wonder why we submit tamely to the tyranny of the calendar and compel ourselves to wait three hundred and sixty-four days before reviving 'tho spirit of merry Christ mas. Too often our Chrlstmase are like moun tain peaks between which lies the valley of the s Oreat Slump. If Instead we could make each Christmas a stopping place in an ever aspiring climb, each atop finding us sturdier lo serving others, kinder in judging them, more hospitable in opening to them the doors of our hearts, then per haps there need never be throughout the year any cassation of Christmas discovery, nor any slacken ing of the Christmas Carry-on. " The Prohibition Amendment. , Many people have expressed surprise that Binco the supreme court upheld the validity of war-time prohibition and formal ratification of the national prohibition amendment has been proclaimed, that legal steps to restore the former status of intoxi- :.. eating liquor should continue. They wonder what possible hope of success can bo entertained by le gal attack on an amendment now incorporated in tltd constitution itself. The matter Is of interest since counsel repre senting the attacking forces are lawyers of great ability who would not risk their reputation on contentions not worthy at least of a hearing. . - yunuug) jMieiu w x,ijiiu xiutu, ine teauer in a reccm suit brought to set aside the 18th. amendment to ths constitution. Two grounds of Mr. Root's challenge ot the .amendment are well known and call for no com ment One is that two-thirds of the members of Congress did not vote to submit the amendment to the states, but only two-thirds of those present. The other ground is that not enough states voted for the amendment without including those which 111? V BB ft v wvu ava W T - - m .w viiuuiUi These objections are of a comparatively simple type. Mr. Root's real objection goes far deeper; it involves fundamentals Involving the very nature of the constitution Itself, that constitution which 'represents a union of states, not a melting pot in which each has lost its identity in common j . - - i- - - the first thought of the publio on learning of a bad smash Involving a motor car is to hold the driver primarily responsible and then the officials. This Idea comes somewhat naturally, even though the foot-passenger nay have stepped from be hind a street car directly in front of the motor car, pecause If is the automobile which does the damage, regardless of where the fault may lie. And the officers are looked, on as insurers of the public safety. Then, too, it Is realized by the public that the automobile provides exceptional facilities for law breakers, and therefore a number of reckless per sons, some professional law breakers, others merely potentially dangerous, have engaged in the automobile business, and this tends to associate the Innocent with the culpable. The average au tomobile driver, certainly the citizen owning his own car, is restrained not only by consideration for the public, but by the knowledge that he may be called to costly account if he Is not careful. The reckless class has neither of these restraints, and officers and courts should deal with them severely. Sometimes the requirement that the offending driver pay for the damages he has Inflicted may be a salutary method of correction, but It should not be applied In the case of one often appre hended for breaking the law. Jail sentences for such, and the revocation of licenses will be the surest deterrents. Why not acknowledge this now instead of waiting for some little child to bei a needless sacrifice. These remarks apply especially to accidents on the roads outside the city where thero are fewer olflcers, and since trial magistrates, generally have neither the judicial poise nor the resolution of the Judge of the city court to make the punishment fit tho crime. The silicltor and Judges of the 8u perior courts are called on to do a duty which is not to be measured by compromise or threat of future punishmont. They must take up the pub lic's case, regardless of any private settlement be tween the offender and the person he haa Injured Crustbreakers Club. Novel in nomenclature if not in purpose is the "Crustbreakers Club" which has come into being in Oaffney, S. C, and Is apparently doing a good business at the table. Supposedly tho club serves somewhat the same purpose as Rotary, or Klwanls, or perhaps the Pen and Plate or the Wranglers, affording a mental jtreat In connection with physical repast. But the I Crustbreakers organization Is more frank, we may say circumspectly and with all respect to our admirable organization; It is more above board, so to speak, that is the table board, but at the same time a suspicion comes that thero may be a bit of camouflage (yes, we know it is not used now), or, dare we say, and not during will not say it, hypocracy, In Ha pronouncement of name,? Do the eminent gentlemen who compose tho club really think we will think they eat crusts when, despite the cost of living there be many tempting edibles in Gaffney? Is there to be no chicken, no pie, no cake, but all must be crust? Or, and again we venture fearfully, will they go through the ceremony of breaking crusts and throwing the fragments under the table, and turn their teeth to pie? There are many things we want to know and one of them relates to the Cruatbearers. The disgraceful scene in the com mittee hearing camo about this way. One Mason, commonly known as "Billy." Is a statesman In the Ameri can congress solely to illustrate the universality of American citizenship as It discovered In the conglomerate and mosaic population of Chicago. He Is pure demagogue, and dearly loves to flatter the hyphen, from whom he draws the food to nourish his political vitality and the raiment to clothe his political carcass. He shed an ocean of briny tears over the woes of the Boers, and if he had had his way we Would have licked England for their independence. He mourned with a walling at once Intolerable and ridic ulous over tho story of Spanish rule In Cuba mostly lies and urged TTnrle Sam to give poor old Spain a drubbing because Spain was addicted to putting off till tomorrow what could be done today. He was Intense ly and fanatically pro-Oerman when the world war came and remained so as long as it was. safe to do so. Per haps there was method In It, for prac tical purpose, he hns but a single con stituent, the pro-German mayor of Chicago one Thompson. Well, this here "Billy" Mason has introduced a bill In congress that Is designed to recognize that opera bouffe absurdity that calls Itself "the Irish republic." There may be method In that, too, for If congress were lunatic enough to enact such a legis lative monstrosity some millions of Irish bonds could be negotiated in our glorious union. Fortunately, England has a lot of demagogues of her own, and she thoroughly understands, ex acUy estimates, American demagogues of tho "Billy" Mason stripe, whose antics commingle the silly and the disgusting. The Holiday Season affords an opportunity to expresi Qgain the pleasure we derive from our business relations with you and to tharh you for the loyal support given us during the successful year now drawing to a close. On behalf of our entire organization, we wish for you and yours , A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEWYEAR. WACHOVIA BANK & TRUST CO Capital and Surplus. $2,000,000. Member Federal ReVerve System. PLAN to make 1920 more successful than any of the years that are past. Spend wisely and save a good portion of your income now, while the purchasing power of our dollar is small. In a year or so, your money will be worth more and buy more, to say nothing of the compound interest it will earn for you in the meantime if placed in the savings department of our strong safe bank. AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN ASHEVILLE L. L. JENKINS 'President J. B. RANKIN Vice-President A. E. RANKIN Vice-President & Cashier H. REDWOOD Vlce-Presldont JOS. B. BRANDT Assistant Cashier J. B. WHITFIELD Assistant Cashier THE SCISSORS ROUTE B1GYE.S8" IS NOT A CKIMK Wired Wireless. ' W ired wireless" la the name given to a multi plex telephone Invention by which ten or more con versations can be carried on at great distance by the use of a single wire. It is the dlscovesy of Major General George H. Squler, Chief Signal Ofllcer of the army. , The Invention adapts the wireless to the wire and thereby gains a concentration of Impulse which eliminates broadcasting and maintains a power sufficient to make possible a conversation, or rather conversations, between Buenos Ayres and Alaska, The wire guides the ligh-frequency cur rent which travels along but riot in It as the cur rent now does when a .wire Is used. The current passes through the ether as does the radio wares. following a path of which the wire is the core. Practice haa demonstarted the power or the Invention to perform what is claimed for it. It la officially stated N And It Is of popular concern to note that the invention is not to be patented but given to the public, the Inventor, moved by the high Ideals of army men considering that what he has dons Is in the Una of duty. General Squler becan his experiments in l6i. (New YorkHerald.) Under the Injunction decree, against the big packers they are compelled "to sell under super vision of the United States District court all their holdings in public stockyards, all their Interest In railroads and terminals all their Interests in cold storage warehouses, to disassociate themselves with all unrelated lines of business, to abandon branch houses and yards and trucks for any other purpose than meat and dairy products, to cease carrying on a monopoly or combination or indulging in any un fair and unlawful practices." It appears that the packers and the attorney general reached an agreement to settle the con troversy arising out of the public agitation of the high cost of food and "to help dvercome the suspicion which still lurks In the minds of many people. It is emphatically stated that the decree finds the packers "In no way guilty of combination in restraint of trade or of any illegal practices. While all corporations should be made amenable to the law a.s individuals are. and punished for violations thereof, the probability is that the in junction and dissolution will not bring down prices or have the slightest effect in stopping the growth and progress of large corporations. When the Standard Oil and American Tobacco corporations were dissolved no great change In the price of their products could bo observed. Unscrambled profits are reported to have been greater than scrambled profits. The growth of corporations has been a normal economic development. No legislation has been able to stop it. The laws of business and economic progress are above man-made laws. One great mistake many public men have mode Is In enter taining the belief that an act of congress can stop the Niagara of business. The anti-trust laws pass ed by congress have proved futile. During the war they were ignored by the government which enact ed them. Evils and wrongs attending big corporations can best be reached by strict government regulation, not by destruction or dissolution. Admitting that the present economic system is not perfect and that perils exist, Jitill it remains that the natural laws of business aevelopment will be supreme and big" corporations will grow out of small ones. The government's dissolution program is an economic mistake. Instead of decreasing it probably will Increase the cost of food products to the public. The high cost of living can only be reduced through Increased production. England, more than any other single factor, rescued democracy from the clutch of autocracy In the world war. and since April, 1 9 J7, England has been our all, in that war, which technically Is not yet concluded. And here come before a committee of the American congress a lot of profes sional Irishmen, who sympathized with Germany, rejoicing In her vic tories and mourning in her defeats In that awful conflict, demanding of the American congress legislation alto gether calculated to make a war be tween the United States and England! Ours is the richest nation in the world mainly because for a century England has been our best customer. She loaned us money with which we builded our tremendous railroad sys tems and developed the middle west and the Trans-Mississippi west, and though we forbade her trade by means of idiotic and rascally tariffs, she bought lavishly of us, and from her custom our nation reaped a gain that beggars all the wealth of "either Ind.' Why should we go to war with our best customer to appease the clamor of a scurvey set that Is more loyal to "the Irish republic" than to any other government? Toung Teddy Roosevelt hade these folk take their belonging and return to Ireland where they be long. If the war with England should come at the bidding of Cohalan, Bourke 'Cockran and "Billy" Mason, at Its conclusion our nation would be hopelessly bankrupt in purse, and our citizenship powerless In the Insane grasp of the bolshevlkl. Chaos would pervade the Caucasian world. But such a war Is unthinkable. The idea is lunacy rampant. It would ap peal to the devil himself. It la Im possible. The Sinn Feiners are not to monopolize the forum perpetually. The other day a score or so of Irish, Protestant clergy landed on our shores, and their mission is to state tho Ulster side of 'the Irish question. They will commune with our Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and other Protestant sects and tell their side of the story. w nen they are through, congress likely will open its eyes to the fact that there are two sides to the Irish question, and I predict that Chairman Hays, of the G. O. P. general staff, will look up those Sinn Feiners who offer to sell him the Irish vote, and say to them something like this: "Nothing doing!" Washington, December 25. DREADNAUGHT ASPHALT SHINGLES The Roof For Every Building BECAUSE They do not warp or crack. They will not curl up or blacken. They are absolutely storm proof. They are spark proof fire resisting. They outwear and outlast any wooden shingles made. It's the GUARANTEE roofing. Vim - 25 BROADWAY PHONES 2586 AN 2SS7 flclent honesty and wisdom in the land from which to draft such a tri bunal, and there ought to be enough Intelligence and self-denial in each of the parties to an industrial quarrel to abide the decision arrived at. Unless It can find a beater weapon than the strike, God help organized labor. Idleness is a cure for no evil, and there is nothing but truth in the adage, "the devil finds work for Idle hands to do." The strike makes Idle ness; Idleness makes waste; waste makes want; want makes discontent, discontent makes violence, and vio lence manes ruin. Tne evils are It is estimated that the two strikes that have plagued business and haressed society the past two or three months, that of the steel workers and that of the miners, have inflicted a loss amounting to $100,000,000 upon the strikers. That is frightful; It is ruin; It Is stupid. What Is more, both parties, capital and labor, are to blame, and unless some way is found to compose the differences Between these quarrelsome and reckless parties, a revolution more or less frightful will overtake our govern ment and our people. For fifty years before Wood row Wilson became the president of the United States, capital, much of it un scrupulous and predatory, was fa vored by our government. It made a hog of capital, for privilege long enjoyed usurps the robe of vested right. It begun with a rascally cor poration once notorious under the name of "The Credit-Mobiller of America." Ita board of directors were drafted from the directories of the subsidized Pacific railroads. These magnates of big business" were inter locking In their operation. As direc tors of the Credit-Mobiller they con tracted with themselves as directors of the roads to build the roads, and evidence was later produced to show that the sum paid for constructing the road was out or all proportion to the cost of construction. Kor "grad ing" the track over the dead level oralrles of the west as much as 140, 000 a mile was paid. Then, after bulldlner the roads at this frlehtful waste and by means of thlfT horrible corruption, the concern actually in the Credit-Mobilier. distributed "where It Id Jay Gould's breasworks, musket nana, to oppose us.". Amongst the privileges enjoyed bj capital was that of forgery and counterfeiting for that Is what "water ed stock" is and all It Is. Equally as rascally and nearly as profitable graft came from interlocking directories. Every railroad cost more than it should. Then there was tho cry for competion, which caused roads to be built to compete with roads already In existence and capable of doing all the transportation necessary between the two terminals. Bankrupt roads had the right to water stocks and they thus piled up millions for their manipulators. RETVRXIXG EMPTIES. An optimistic Colorado farmer, on seeing some clouds floating by, remarked: "Well. I guess we are going to have some rain." "Aw: said nls pessimistic neignDor, an ex-raii- road man. "those are Just empties coming back from Iowa." From the New Haven Register. t . ,. AX OTHER REFORMER. "He's a modern reformer." That's so?" "Yes, he's out to reform the reformers." "In what way?" "He's trying to educate them to discover that not everything the other fellow gets some fun out of Is anuoUr wrong." Detroit Free Press. children of the strike. A day wasted i bribed congress with stock In IHI.n.ui in A Hav Inst fnrever Tn . rV.Hit-f nVilli.r rllRtrihuted stead of adding to comfort, an idle would do the most good," to subordi day subtracts from comfort present I ate the mortgage of the government and comfort to be. I on the roads for the cash subsidy of Another thing capital can better $10,000 a mile paid out of the public stand a loss of dividend than labor treasury, to the Credlt-Mobileler's can stand a loss of wage, for capital I mortgage for construction at a cost nas more iaia away ior a, rainy ay tne most or wntcn was simply roD than Jhbor has. Capital can flee to pecy. new pastures, laour, comparatively speaking is found to the immediate environment When Citizen A and Citizen B have dealings, and disagree about the amount one owes tne otner, And the thing prevailed. It was many years before Thurman, a demo cratic senator from Ohio, and Ed- appeal is had to courts of justice, I munas, repuoucan senator irora ver. which hear the quarrel and render mont, argued congress into enacting Judgment by whlcn botn parties' wa uai "re ' vLj. . . abide. Why not make a tribunal to to the people ths cash subsidy. As far which caDital and labor can appeal their quarrels T Ther are thre par ties to every strike capital, labor and the public All tnree snouia oe rep resented on this proposed bench of appeal. Let labor choose its arbiters, let capital name Ita referees, let the government select the umpires for ths publio. Surely ttwro is auf- the land grant, that was a gracious gift. In 1114 ths democrats, plaster ed the country over with this passage from a statement Dy enaior ta munds: "Every time Judge Thurman and I sought to bring ths subsidised Pacific railroads to book for what they owned the government, op sprang James O. Blaine from behind Had the railroads been honestly builded and honestly managed thero would never have been ny railroad problem to embarrass honest business and defile legitimate politics. Ths dividend should have been fixed by law at a rate to maintain the stock at par and all the rest of the net earn ings shoud have been devoted to im provement of the roads' physical con dition. But to get back some steps must b taken to make capital and labor frlehds and partners, or there'll b the devil to pay and no hot pitch handy In our glorious union before you know It. Washington, Dec. 22. G. 0. P. CONVENTION TO BE AT ROANOKE ROANOKE, Va., Dee. 27. Ths state republican convention of 1930 will be held in Roanoke, March 17. This decision was reached here today at a meeting of the state executive , committee. Roanoke won the convention over the bids of three other cities, Lynch burg, Staunton and Harrisonburg. ' '"' The convention will elect four dele- ' gates-at-large, two from the Ninth district, and one from each of the oth- ' er nine districts to the national re publican convention In Chicago next June. The convention also will nomi nate a United States senator. - RETAINS TENNIS TITLE. NEW YORK. Dec 27. Vincent. Richards, of Yonkera, holder of ths aenlor and Junior national imioor tennis ' championships, successfully defended his title hers today, defeat ing Frank T. Anderson, of Brooklyn, at the seventh regiment armory in ths final of ths national junior in door singles championship tourna ment.. Ha Won thrss out ot flva sets. the scores being -ll; -$; 6-ti t-t;