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THE ASHEVILIiE CTTOKN, FRIDAY, JNTTARY 2, 1920. THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO THE CITIZEN COMPANY, A8BBVILUS. N. a P. If. BURDETTB.... General Manner CHAS. K. ROBINSON.. Editor JOB I BAKER. .Managing Editor GRAY GORHAM .Cltjr Editor , Entered, at tha postoffic Ashartlle, N. C. us second eisss matter under sot or varcn o. zsis. Business Office kO. Editorial Room 217 , ; v SUBSCRIPTION RATES V (By Carrier la AatwrlUo an4 Suburbs) Dally and Bundav. 1 year, In advance...... t7.(0 Daily and Sunday, t months, in advance. . . . t.TI Daily and Sunday, t months. In advanct l.ti Dily and Sunday, 1 week, in advance IS (By Mail la tnlt4 Mates.) Daily and Sunday, 1 year, tn advance Jfl.00 Daily and Sunday. I month, in advance 1.S0 Dally only, 1 year, in advance... 4.00 . t.0 Bunday only, 1 year, In advance....... the right of policemen to affiliate with the Ameri can Federation of Labor. No, we're not worrying. The people will take care of themselves, at last. They will sea to it that justice is done between worker, employer and public. They will not support nullification of the strike as long as capital has unchallenged right to bring about conditions which cannot be changed except through resort to strike. These are hard tasks and lately the people have wondered If Mr. Oompers has not made some of these problems more difficult. They are wondering if he fa either half as big as they once thought him, or is iiog tled by radicals like Foster. THE SCISSORS ROUTE THE 3LVN WHO WOJX'T. MEMBEK THE ASSOCIATED IRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled . (o the use for republication of all news dl v patches credited to It or not otherwise cred ited in this paper and also the local news published heroin. All rlghtn of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE The E. KAT55 SPECIAL ADVERTISING AGENCY, 1S-1S Es'rt Twenty-sixth street. New Tort City. D14-I2S Harris Trust Building. CliloafO, III, and 713 waidheira Building, Kannas city, no. Friday, January 2, 1920. , The Law's Delays. In a vague way most people feel that the diffi culties encountered by the poor In obtaining jus tice through the courts constitute serious causes of discontent But the majority do not take the matter very seriously because of the conviction that whatever the defects in the Judicial system they are the fault of the system and are not due tei corruption of the judiciary. However, if there is any real denial of justloa to. those who lack means to support litigation in lbs generally long-drawn out course, such condi tions become sources of unrest and anarchy as surely as would Justice that was bought and sold. Reginald H. Smith, of the Boston bar, has re cently published for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching "Justice and the Poor," a study of. the administration of law as it effects those in humble circumstances. Thework ' has the indorsement of Elihu Root, whose ability and conservatism as a lawyer give a weight to the conclusions reached which cannot be brushed aside. Here are two Illustrations of the cases which snow the obstaclea confronting the poor litigant A glazier had a claim of 16.80 against the owner of a barn for placing 22 panes of glass. For lack of money his children went supperless to bad. The claimant applied to a lawyer who told hlpi that ths coats and the tee would amount to $10. f He applied to a municipal court, organized o a poor man's court but the Judge advised as did the lawyer, Another worker secured Judg ment for 110 on January 1, 1911. By appeal and postpoament he was deprived of his money until October 11, 113, Smith makes out a strong case. But his ac count of forces that gre working to remedy these conditions give real ground for belief that a demo cratic people will eventually make the vital rights assured to all men in Magna Charts. Legal Aid. societies in many states give relief including funds for prosecuting suits. Real reform has been undertaken by the establishment of courts to hear araall claims. These courts are conducted without lawyers. In criminal procedure, public defenders are provided In several states to represent the 1m pecunioils and to prevent the depredations of "Jail lawyers," who especially in the largo cities prey upon those accused. In New York a "Voluntary Defenders' Committee" has been organised. . The lawyers as a class are taking the lead in making justice easier to obtain; and while the anarchists advocate the abolition of all courts and government, other reform movements are slowly removing the causes of Just resentment which too : easily becomes revolutionary discontent. Economic Law Inexorable. A review of business conditions for December by the Federal Reserve board shows that ths fundamental causes of economic disorder have not been removed. While manufacturers have more orders than they can fill, prices are still ris ing and the growth of business Is accounted for In terms of money and not by greater production. The retail trade also shows much activity. Ac cording to the United States Chamber of Com mcrcc farmers have plenty of money and are spending liberally. I The reserve board predicts an early readjust ment of prices, baaing its belief on the fact that purchasing power for many commodities has be come so exhausted that a reaction Is inevitable. We are to understand from this prophesy that there aro two nays in which prices may be low ered, but these methods ore not oqually desirable. As production gains on demand, purchasing power naturally revives its strength. This is normal and wholesome. But if underproduction continues and prices climb to a point where legitimate busi ness fears tike future a break in the market may Intervene when buying slows down. This latter process is dangerous because of the loss thoreby Inflicted upon those who are unable to unload holdings In time to save themselves. Discussing labor conditions, the board finds less difficulty lately with strikes than with what it calls the indisposition of labor to increase prod tic Hon and to remain steadily at work. High wages, says the board, tempt many workers to decrease tho number of working days. This review of the Industrial situation is an other warning to the public that real relief from high prices is steady work and economy in spend ing. . Statute law cannot nullify tho laws of supply and demand. (New York Bun.) A new and astonishing reason for a divorce suit comes from California. A woman fell heir to an income of 113,000 or more a venr. Her husband. she complains, failed to expand socially to the ex icnt wnicn sne oeueveu snouid accompany tne new fortunes. He kept on playing poker in the base ment He would shed his clout at dinner. He did not regard the toothpicks as an invisible servant, pie late David Oraham Phillips could have done Justice to such a case and he would not have neglected the husband's side of the story. Maybe the man persisted in the old ways to ag gravate his wife Into qulting him. It is so easy to live up to $12,000 or $12,000,000 a year! A good tutor or even a correspondence school could teach a fellow in ten days to be comfortable at dinner in a dinner coat to look at toothpicks its secret sins and play five dollar limit in anybody's club or library, To say "lounge suit" "perfectly corking," and "old fellow;" to avoid saying "pants" and uumo its tne real interest or Human greatness. TRUTH TEAMING AND THE UNIONS. mm nrcnnnnrQ imiqiq Unllft IILUUUIIULU 111 IUIU INCREASEOS1H,40S,443 Pardons 497 Prisoners In Three Years Gen. Can- New Director. The Ashevllle Advocate is convinced that the Citizen and some other newspapers would serve" the country better if "they didn't worry so much about real big men like Oompers." If labor had not grown intolerant, the said papers, which have used some pounds of news print espousing the fundamental rights of labor, would meet with more cordial treatment when they . venture honest criticism of some labor policies. But it is Inaccurate to say that we're worrying about Mr. Gompers. Wo feel a lot better since representative communities like Massachusetts have delivered a knock-out blow to aar:: of the Gompers ideas of liberty and 'the rel . ' trade unionism. In the past Samuel Oompers has per formed notable service to his country and to labor. Even now when he calls the newspaper men around' him and discourses about "how perfectly safe freedom is" we are tempted, as of yore, to throw our hat higher than that of the editor of a labor paper. But when the venerable leader in terprets freedom as the right of union policemen to lay down their sticks and leave nu n, women and children at the mercy of thugs w. uess that a jolt has been delivered to our ps.'i jologlc in wards. Public servants are not free to strike and to talk ot tha right of revolution will ever bang auch a doctrine into the heads of the American people, Massachusetts) voters have sustained one limi tation of the right to strike. Whether semi-public servants on the railways are to be similarly re stricted by statute or by injunction depends on kew far labor is willing to go in compromise of Industrial disputes, or in the fixing of railway ages by some commission like the Interstate com. tnerce commission. The Advocate's comparisou of labor's threat of a general strike against tho Cummins bill, if en acted, to tho Boston Tea farty, la not convincing. The Tea Party was a protest against taxes laid without representation " and other disregard of isnoamenuu pouuuai riguu. iogieaiiy, labor would also compare the police party in Boston to a r evolution to secure human rights denied, namely si Another Lodge Record. Will Senator Lodge yield to the arguments of Knox, Borah and other friends of separate peace, or will b make some concession to the desire on both sides ot the senate for compromise? Mr. Lodge Is bound by utterances not more than a year old to the principle that the United States cannot make peace except In company with her allies. The following written by the senator In the Forum a year ago would make it embarrassing for him to go further in company with those ,who do not recognise any responsibility of America for the peace of the world: If we sent our armies and our . young men abroad to be killed and wounded in Northern J'rsnoe and in Flanders with no result but this, our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime which nothing can justify. The intent of Con gress and the Intent of the President was that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could recur. We cannot make peace in the ordin'ary way. We cannot, in the first place, make peace except in company with our Allies. It would brand us with everlasting dishonor, and bring ruin to us also, If we undertook to make a separate peace. Excess of Democracy. Marcher in New York, mostly women, asking amnesty for political prisoners should have been arrested or left alone. The police, joined by civ ilians and soldiers, rushed and hurried the pa- raders until many of them were on the verge of exhaustion. The whole affair was marked by the unusual on the part of the officers as well as of those sup nosed to be violators of law. Tho enthusiasts walked six feet apart in single eoluna .in effort to avoid the appearance of a parade aa defined in law. The polioe Jiasttated to take them into cua- today. The parade has brought up again the question of the right of citizens to peaceable assembly guaranteed by the constitution. The same issue was Involved in St. Loula where promoters of a new political party met opposition when they sought to hold an organization moetlng. Steel strikers in Pennsylvania bitterly complain that their peaceful assemblages are broken up by state constabulary. Citizens have on several occasions stormed theatres where plays were given in tha German language. This is not Germany or Russia. Free speech and free assembly, without violence or incitement to violence, cannot be suppressed except by the tyranny which democracy claims as its greatest enemy. (.New York Tribune.) .Members of labor organisations, even those of conservative temper, often complain of the Ignorant stupidity of employers. They declare that they often find them narrowlv selfish, niir.heii.dnd. ob sessed with the ideas that they are not to be dic tated to and that they can prevent masses of men uniting to further legitimate self-interests. Men of the labor organizations have no monopoly of this criticism. When chambers of commerce foregather it is common to hear some one speak harshly of industrial bonoheadlsm. Those unable to adjust themselves to ntiv conditions are roundly berated, amid hearty and wholesome applause. The old-fashioned owner who holds that what Is his ho ean do what he pleases with Is emphatically in formed that labor organizations are here to stav. and that it is unjust and impolitic to deny to au- otner man ngnts claimed by yourself. Is there similar frankness when members of laDor unions assemble? If there is it Is seldom reported. The notion seems to be fostered that the lanor union can do no wrong that Ita nollcies and acts are inherently wise and right. Individually the moor unionist wis too lively a sense ot humor to entertain such a belief, but collectively the labor union avoius tranK self-examination. It Is time to disregard this thnr, Atlll tO lllliffA tho labor union as a mixture, as all other known institutions are mixtures sometimes nettmr intel ligently and sometimes not. It is particularly needed that this examination shall be self-examination. Criticisms from the out side are likely to be discounted, as born of a hostile spirit. What labor organizations greatly need, both in leadership and In rank and lile, are men who don't believe In cajoling and flattering and who speak openly their sincere convictions. What, for example, excites the most opposition to labor unions? It is not the mere fact of organ ization. Nor aversion to collective bargaining, Nor even dislike of hisrher wnfrp. ni- ohm-tor hnnn employers are willing to concede those things, even getting much less than this amount though they do not alwavs enjoy them. The prln-ifor- The farmers who have grown cipal bases for hstility are thee rules that restrict ood and feed crops have found a big production, and thus make difficult a mnethur of "r " yiuuuuu. uu labor demands. I have made tho sales at good prices. me industries 01 jsonn uarouna have In many instances been running extra time. Some have been run ning three shifts and have found a sale of every bit of the product these shifts have turned out. All of this Industrial activity has been added to the agricultural prosperity and have resulted in putting the state a hundred million dollars ahead of the bank resources of a year ago. A conference of the county direc tors of the community service work in the state is being held on Thurs day and Friday at a local hotel, dur ing which time the plans for put ting the physical education for the rural communities will be outlined. This will be the really big work of the coming year for the community service work, and it is expected to ultimately develop into the devel opment of play grounds and well equipped physical education depart ments for all the rural communities in these counties which now have or will install the community ser vice work. One interesting feature of the program for this conference will be a community program to be put on at the governor's mansion on Fri- charge of the . 0,u uttuume ovwiwwi ana gram win be given lust as it would f Ashevllle Citizan Bureau, 402 Merchants' Bank Bul'dlng. (By JULE B. WARREN) Kaleigh, January 1. The unpre cedented prosperity of the state dur ing the past year is revealed in tne fact that the total resources of the banks of the state have Increased $111,498,443, according to the bank statements filed with corporation commission as a result of the exam inations made on November 17. These reports are Just now reaching the offices of the commission and while the details have not been ex amined by tho state, the totals show that the .resources of the banks ex amined by the state amount to $391,-363,760. The total resources of the banks made in the November examinations in 1918 were $179,865,443. The in crease this year over the resources of la.-t year Is almost as much ns the total resources ot tho banks ex amlnod by the corporation commis sion several years ago. For Instance Just two years ugo the banks of the state had total resources of approx imately 117 mlllon dollars, or Just six million dollars more than the In crease this year over the report of last year. The increase in the total resources of 1917 over 1916 amounted to but little over a million dollars, whereas this year there has been an increase of over a hundred million, or more than a hundred fold In crease aa compared with the years of 1916 and 1917. North Carolina is-niore properous today than any other state hi the union. Commissioner A. J. Maxwell believes, when the proportions of wealth are compared. The state has a large variety of industries and farming interests and every single one of these interests nave been unusually prosperous during the past year. The tobacco farmers have sold their crops for larger money than they dreamed of several years ugo. The cotton larmer nas sold cotton tor 35 to 38 cents which he has been DON'T RESOLVE BUT ACT BEGIN ATONCE TO SAVE TO BANK TO HAVE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN ASHEVILLE 4 on Saving and Certificate of Deposit Travelers' Cheque and Foreign Exchange Issued If the labor unions did not invade the field of management and champion Inefficiency, resistance to them would largely disappear. "Turn me loose and give me a chance to work for you while I work for myself," gays the h.irusned manager, as he sees deliberate slacking on the Job in order to multiply wie numoer or jods. It is obviously Impossible to add much to real wages except by increasing production. The ab sorption of all the proflts and interest of capital would not put much in the average pay envelope. Of all populations the men with labor to sell are most interested in addlne to the irt Tho work slacker, the Jracticer of sabotage, the multiplier of Jobs and promoter of other industrial wastes is the greratest enemy of the worker. But how often Is this doctrine preached in the union headquarters? How many labor speakers proclaim it? Do they not whisper that, although they 'personally know artificial Job-making means lower wages, the men will not endure having the truth told out loud to them that n linrfi. innt' "lose his influence" if he oared utter his colfcic tions ? Every machine needs to be kept running, every ship and every car kept moving, aud with the smallest possible expenditure of precious human labor as measured in time. It is the only way to restore normal conditions. No one ascribes! malevolence or depravity to wane parnm-R n have no desire to commit suicide, but If they did , day niKht. This will be in they would prefer a process quicker than starva-' of Mrs. Thomas, secrstary Uon. Yet credence is given to false leaders, and I work in Robeson county. Tt tongue-uea wnan uiey snouid be bold and coura geous ana trutn speaking. THRIFT AND WEALTH. be put on in some rural community In Robeson county, and will be a demonstration of the kind of work being done. During the three years governor T. W. Blckett has been in office he Senator Borah, falling to mobilize more than fifteen republican senators who will sustain the old American policy of every nation for itself and devil take the hindmost, la now preparing a questionnaire for republican presidential aspir ants. Borah s'sys frankly that whether America joins the league or not the question of American attitude to world problems will bo an issue In the coming election. He Is an outspoken advocate of what will be known as "little Americanism" If Borah Is allowed to make his foreign policy an issue in the republican convention. BFJXG KICKED BY A MULE IS DE&IGX, NOT ACCIDENT. "Could I interest you in accident insurance to day?" asked the agent, as he approached the farmer. "I should say not," replied the farmer. ' "But I can show you the beet accident policy ever written," Insisted the agent. "I don't care what you kin show me," replied the farmer. "I want nothln more to do with ac cident Insurance. I had an accident insurance poller last year and a mule kicked me and broke my leg. And tho durn, swindlln' company wouldn't pay me a eent They said it wasn't an accident because tha mulo kicked me on purpose." Cincin nati Enquirer. HUMAN WATS. No one considers tho high coot of pleasure, but after the dancing they growl when the fiddler asks tec Us nay. Atlanta Constitution. One of the most Interesting disclosures reaard- I lss"ePardo"s . 97. Prisoners. In th in.rat hf,r,pfntl,,n k " su,: rse increase in at one tVnia tt. ce,on 1,"" .!!f Tm-rVS Vh hl" rou'h ' ,"? With another year in office, howov- tZt ? ? 5 'm Kockefel llT w?ges; cr. Blcketta pardon record will prob- were at the rate of $50 for three months he kept hlv run muoh lrr than th.t ,,f ,.u ' , J 8 xie"ses anu cnanues the other governors. The increase with equal care. This s xty-year-old ledger Bhows ! la not s0 large as was expected, in that the way the tree is bent the twig was inclined, : view of the fact that Blckett. dur and the gift of one hundred millions last week ng his first year in office went into is no more characteristic than the gift of single j the penitentiary and pardoned a cents when they were harder to spare than the i large number of men who had no minions irom tne oinion accreditee; to mm in friends and whose case had common report. In his own words, hla obligations have grown with his riches until he now feels less Independent than when his wages were raised to $25 a month, but he never was so independent that he failed to save something, or felt free from the duty of having something to give. In his belief the poorest man In the world la he who has nothing but money, and that the only way to get or use money wisely is to keep accounts. The same maxim out of a copy book Is less con vincing than this ledger of a boy who now has his books kept by a corps of lawyers and account ants. It is safe to say that he survived when others succumbed in one of the most adventurous of businesses because he kept better accounts than they. Mr. Rockefeller's boyhood ledner testifies to his philosophy of money getting, keeping, and spend ing. "I believe "it is a religious duty to get all the "money you can, fairly and honestly: to "keep all you can, and to give away all "you can." The keeping and giving necessarily are conditioned up on the getting, and the getting depends much upon the account keying. The proof Is not the indivi dual ledger, lf.t the testimony of tho Insolvency courts and tho efficiency teachers. The professor of business research at Harvard bears witness that merchants often tell him that they do not know what their expenses are, nor their operating costs. Retailers and wholesalers alike do not know how often they turn their stocks over, nor how often they should do so, nor what rate of prortt they make or ought to make. Three merchants are a danger to others as well us to themselves. They often sell at a loss when they think they are making money, and are surprised when they And themselves Insolvent. They have sold too cheaply, below cost. Mr. Rockefeller's career is but an incident of our times in which it has been thought that the remedy for poverty is the punishment of wealth. Ingenuity has been exhausted in providing laws as the remedy for a trouble which calls rather for knowledge. Men who do not know tha causes of their own failure attribute the success of others to evil arts, instead of to thrift and precision. When j Mr. Hurley was nead of the Federal trade com mission he threw its influence toward correcting errors rather than toward punishing crimes. In fact, the earliest cases brought to the federal trade commission were rejected aa unworthy of punish ment, whereas in later years the commission has exhausted ingenuity in ilnding cases to prosecute on facts not submitted to either Judge or Jury. The commission in Its earlier years found that 90 per cent of the concerns reporting do not keep adequate oost accounts. Out of 60,000 corporations reporting Income of $5,000 or over, half do not charge depreciation. Such concerns would now pay taxes on inflated valuations, but if the income ax does nothing else it compels better accounting. Bradstreet's has reported that three-quarters of Insolvencies are due to faults of the insolvents. and not to causes beyond their control. such conditions it is not surprising that of 110,090 corporations 100,000 had no net Income, and that only a quarter in that year exceeded such a modest profit ss I6.00U. Naturally those conditions were those of tines more nearly normal. But conditions will return when business must be done on narrow er margins, and the essentials of solvency will be 4bo same aa in the past l i never been presented to the governor. The increased activity of the board of parole has also increased the num ber of pardons granted by Governor Blckett. General Julian S. Carr of Durham, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the old sol diers home, taking the place vacated by the resignation of Col. A. H. Boyden of Salisbury. The resigna tion was turned over to the secretary of the board some time ago, but fail ure to get a meeting to accept caused many to hope that Col. Boyden would change his mind about getting out of the chairmanship of the old soldiers home. Miss Martha Haywood, of Raleigh, who had been named by the governor to succeed Col. Boyden as a member of ths board, this week took her place on the board, and will take an active part In the deliberations. This is the first time that a woman has been an active member of the board, although they have been members of tho advisory board for a number of years. The resignation of Col. Dave Mil ton, superintendent of tho home for sometime, which was also given at tne time uoi. iioyaen quit, was not accepted. CONSUMPTION OP PAPER INCREASING Record Established In Vso ol News print iAst Three Months. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. Consump tion of newsprint paper in the United States during the last three months reached a record-breaking point, along with prices, the federal trade1 commission reported in a summary I today. The average oost of newsprint at mills at the beginning of Decern" -ber was $3.10 a hundred, the com-, mission reported, aa against $3.75 a' year ago. In 1916 the price was $1.$$, the lowest in several years. High prices failed to cut down con sumption, however, and the commis sion estimated that in 1919, 14 per cent, more newsprint was used than in 191$. During the fourth quarter of 1919 particularly, newsprint con sumption was running up and the commission said, that the increase. Cnder. then over the similar period In 191$. would be between Z and 30 per cent. December figures bare not yet been tabulated. 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