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Is Rotten Press Stuff for
Arbuckle, But it Will Not
Hurt the Game.
OWN CODE OF MORALS.
1 Tragedy is Not Expected to
Put Damper on Parties of
Wild Night Life.
DISRESPECT" FOR LAW.
Many Stars Have Displayed
Their Utter Disrespect
for Morals and Laws.
: BY SAMUEL WHITE.
j tnff C orrespondent of The Xews,
? Copyright. 1U21. hv Av ishinc Co.
Los Angeles. Sept. 17. What is the
inion of the Los Angeles 'film cot-
:.y ' ct" the Arbuckle case?
I In the characteristic language of that
:;ony, craving always for newspaper
notoriety, it is 'rotten press stuff for
I vrbuckle" but won't "hurt the gams,"
i The "film colony," a very distinct
1 grouping of the Los Angeles popua-
;,on. having its headquarters at Holl-
wood, is gradually returning to what
it happily assumes to be normalcy aftsr
I the 'typhoon kicked up by the tragic
1 titcome of the notorious Labor Day
3 'arty staged by Roscoe Arbuckle at
i ;h-? Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco,
i Vv'hen the big news of the Arbuckle
I began to break in San Francisco,
! i.ews that threw open the columns of
I the newspapers of the land to easy !n
j vasion, there was a stampede in tho
colony. Female members, from star
i to extra girl, with ever ready photo-
graphs and statements more flimsy
than their costumes, led the rush to
' tell the world' what they did or didn t
j cure to take anything he did seriouSiy
? All this was good press stuff until
, the newspapers tired of it and closed
, the gates of their columns to the oe
.-iesinc army and then, personal equa
; tion ehmin ued, they began to study the
- matter from their own outlook their
; jwn luruliar angle with the virtually
. unanimous conclusion as stated that,
while "rotten press stuff" for Arbuckle,
it won't hurt the game, and that's the
end of it.
WILL CAUSE CHANGE.
Will it change the way of life of the
members of the film colony in HolH--
: .cood'.' Put a damper on their "parties?"
I '.ring them to a greater repect for
he laws of the land? In
about
tlv;
-nine ratio that a storm, at sea makes
:he salt waters fresh.
Will the Arbuckle scandal result ?n
Imusp-rlea nine- amnnir the studios
Vj rind fling out as undesirable the no
f ! rious offenders against the morals and
' f andards of conduct common to the
i v --ople of the country? In about the
i I .-tine measure as the revival of some
f i j : rsonal opinion expressed by George
"J ill concerning George Washington
I v.-...i.;!d affect the value of the dollar bill
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I'.isc it bears a likeness of Wasn-
a.
This is because the human elements
th it enter into the private and pub'ic
i . (A the actors for the screen are
c. unchangeable as the sea, and that
the motion picture actor is literally ou-f-a;vd
and exploited upon his or he-:
i nir- viihip. urxi as ions: as mat vauie
holds good, the "business men" njw
in control of the motion picture in
dustry are not going to throw zha
monkey wrench of a moral standard
", I into the machinery that is grinding
! i.ut profits that pour millions of dollars
annually into their pockets,
f I It is a fact that the film colony of
f Hollywood, or more particularly that or
1 i it made up of actors lor the screen,
!:ve under separate code of morals ar.ii
conduct and are a law unto themselves.
It is, broadly speaking, the mounting
t several thousand beggars in motor
(ars and setting them out under moo
rule. There are exceptions, of course.
? ut their number is few among le-i-ton.
THEIR STOCK ALIBI.
The stock alibi when one ia cal.'t
: 'o use by exposure of one flagrant
violation of the moral code as affecti-t
the lives of those of the film colony,
i that the newspapers elevate sm.ie
ottra girl.
The Attorney General of Nevada h-.i
read upon the official records th.it
-j ry Pickford's- divorce was a shamn
; 1 conspiracy to make a mockery of
' laws of that State. The CharUe
Chaplin-Mildred Harris divorce, as the
' vets leak out, was ordained by col'u
n on the part of the principals sucn
to show utter disrespect of the
A few days ago a prisoner in a 1c
d court happened to make the re-...-11
k that he was the husband of May
Allison, one of the few young women
u s of the film who could, with seem
J confidence, make the boast that
"h- had never been snared into ma-'i-hriony.
Miss Allison confronted the
- hsh prisoner, announced prourl.y
had never seen him before in her
hut at the same time coyly ad-
""1 to two marriages within the
! - two years one of them annulled.
'lioria Swanson announces today that,
' i some unknown reason, she has been
rt'-d by her husbind and is thorugh
'n matrimony for lif. Al Semnacher
in mk-r of the Arbuck'o party and
manuger of Virginia Kappe, victim
' that party, appears today in the
" here seeking a divorce from a.
' i ' li' cause she. was too cold to him".
1 JJeverly Payne she whoso affair
' Prances X- Bushman was tne
'- of one of the first sensational
M-r-s that shed Lt?ht upon the pri-livc-s
of the actors o.l tho screen,
. tlio safe distanc3 of Portland,
nurls bitter anathema against the
C"; :j
I !" morals and ways of life of mem-P'-r-,
of the Hollvwood film colony.
AIJISL'CKLE CASE TYPICAL
'A' bile Arbuckle ros to greater prom
' ' nee .-aid had a greater earning capa
l'''y than many other members of the
e, ,'"hi colony, n.s case is typical rather
tho, exceptional tmong its members.
'' f v years ao a porter in a barroom
a few days ago. by reasons of
1 fat and a trick cf making laces and
Uking funny falls, a star of the pictures
HAPPENED TO
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Miss Virginia Rappe.
This informal (as the movie press agents say) photo of Virginia
Rappe was taken a short time ago while she was appearing in a film
comedy. It is in connection with her death following a wild party in
"Fatty" Arbuckle's rooms in a San Francisco hotel that Arbuckle is now
held on a charge of murder.
SPIRIT OF THRIFT
NOT NOTICEABLE
Average American, House
wife is a Spendthrift,
Wide Probe Reveals.
By RALPH BURTON.
Staff Correspondent of The'TVcTs.
Copyright,, 15)21, by 'cw .l'ublisthtns Co.
Washington, Sept. 17. Is the aver
age American housewife a spendthrift?
Government agents, today are studying
this perplexing question.
Their duty is based on the fact that
war's effects have stimulated greatly
the progress of the co-operative move
ment abroad, but although prices have
gone high in the United States and
despite lowered wages, are continuing
to rise after some recession, so that
living costs have proved a .problem for
wage earners, efforts to promote co
operative enterprises have not been
very sucessful. A careful study of co
operation in the United States, just
completed for the University of Illi
nois, gives the lack of a spirit of thrift
among American housewives as among
the principal causes for the failure
of co-operative and rjace prejudice as
another.
The family man, whose income did
not increase between 1914 and 191S.
was, as the Department of Agricul
ture points out in an analysis the price
changes, in a. bad way. Everything hp
needed and all the things his wife ajad
children thought they ought to have
became so costly that a new system
of living had to be adopted. Millions
probably reduced the amount of meat
in their diet. There was a definite low
ering Of the standard of living and a
large number have not yet gone back
to the old schedule.
CIVIL WAR PARALLEL
What happened during the war was
only art intensified manifestation of
wht hopn jmina- on for two or
three decades, acording to some highly
interesting figures just worked out in
an investigation by Prof. Paul H. Doug
las, of the University of Chicago,
which showed that the purchasing
power of -wages have decjined fairly
steadily since the ninties. But the war,
has been the great price change
Anything whose wholesale price did
not double during the war looked upon
as cheap, and the Department of Agrip
culture now reaches, independently,
much the same conclusion that was
reached by the. Federal Trade Commis
sion during; the war namely, that the
course of prices in the World war
was much the same as that in the Civil
war. If the parallel continues, we may
expect never to return to the 1914
price level, but, since, in 1873, prices
had gone back to about the IS 63 level,
in 1926 we may have prices at about
where they were in 1916. And this
will be ' the next price level for the
new normal condition.
Economic pressure which reduces the
standard of living is the great promot
er of co-operation and even in the
United States co-operatives increased in
number and influence during the war.
There is even now a national organ
ization of co-operatives. But they are
not very powerful yet, and apparently
in the view of the University of Illi
nois investigators, are not likely to be
come so in the near future.
CO-OPERATION DIFFICULT
"Absence of a spirit of thrift among
the common people" is blamed for the
failure of co-operatves in the United
.(Continued on Page SU.)
HOLLYWOOD
.KSr.ANi)Al .
END BADLY
IS GREAT STRIDE
FOR DEMOCRACY
Consummation of Court of
Justice Great Stride For
ward for World.
BY GEORGE X. BARNES,
British Parliamentary Leader.
Staff Correspondent of The 2Vevs.
Special Wireless Dispwieh to The New
Copyright, 12J, by Sews Publishing? Co
London, Sept. 17 The second assem
bly of the Ltague of Nations has for
nearly a fortnight beei reviewing a
world plagued with national and class
egotism. The war gave these birth or
expression, but peace has pandered to
them and is being confounded by
them. ,
Most 'of the new States since th
peace - of Paris have been busily on
gaged in removing their ' neighbor's
landmarks, and insurgents in all . of
the States have in turn been explosive
with" exaggerated ideas of the impor
tance of small things. Particularism,
a cursf of the world, is none the less
dangerous and detestable because mas
querading under the guise of class in
terest or race vanity.
Meanwhile, there is war in Anatolia,
wrongful occupation of Vilna, starva
tion in Austria and Russia, squabbling
about Albania, while unemployed laoor
is in poverty everywhere.
Verily th assembled delegates at Ge
neva, in viewing these things, mignt
be disposed to give a gesture of despair,
expressive, of the reflection "what fools
these mortals be?"
Instead of doing that, however, they
have calmly leviewed the field with
courage and discretion and with an ex
pression of good will toward those who.
although not in the league, yet display
endeavors for the world's better guid
ance Nothing could "have been in better
taste than the speech M. Leon Bour-
S geois made when he addressed the as
sembly on behalf of and as ah officer of
the council. Anxiety, he said, had been
expressed about the United States, but
he Yiad felt no- such anxiety. Tne
League, he said, respected national
ideas and rejoiced to find the United
States, although not with . them yet,
striving for the realization of the same
ideas.
M. Bourgeois added to an already
great reputation by his courageous
lead and wise counsel.
Dr. Nansen, of Norway, also made a
great impression by his eloquent an
peal fpr national credits with whicn
to fight the Russian famine, an ap
peal which unhappily e has since been
prejudiced by the alleged intention of
a Bolshevist quarrel with Rumania,
which, if carried to war, would mean
the raiding of the Bessarabian corn
bns. -
ginavasa Hastri, an eloquent Indian,
who recently has come rapidly to th
front in public life, raised a very im
portant point in regard to the alleged
intention of the South African Govern
ment to interpose a color bar in the
mandated territory formerly known as
German Southwest Africa. This, i1
done, he said, would put Indians as
well as Japanese and other Oriental
in a worse condition than was occupied
by them under the Germans. Mr. Has
tri raised a very delicate question of
jurisdiction about which more will be
heard anon.
WIDESPREAD INTEREST.
When it came to the election of
judges to the International Court of
(Continued on Page Six.)
Reparations Burden May
Mean Vast Increase in In
dustrial Power.
WILL BUILD HER UP.
Final Payments Will See
the Country Occupying
Impregnable Height..
By GEORGE BERMIARD.
Editor-in-chief of Vossische Zeitung.
Berlin
(Copyright, 1921, by the United Press.)
Berlin. Sept. 17. oermany has awak
ened to the fact that, once having paid
her reparations, she will stand upon
an unconquerable height in the mat
ter of industrial technique.
The conquered Germany will then
have reached the utmost possible in
economic capabality. And all because
the highly impossible has been de
manded from Germany under pressure
and under threats of penalties.
The "young Germany" of todav is
beginning gradually to comprehend the
whole extent of the reparation problem.
after an initial discouragement over
the gigantic figures fal.sel considered
outside as a lack of willingness to ful
fill the terms the young blood in busi
ness, industry and politics has aroused
itself to a positive will. The last
speeches of the chancellor reflect again
this new spirit of courage. The young
blood in Germany knows that fulfill
ment of the Versailles treaty will bring
many years of difficult won and :,v.i
tation of life pleasure. But it realizes
on the other hand, that tbo compulsion
for reparation is equivai.en to a com
pulsion lor rejuvenating and renewing
itself.
Is the outside world equally as aware
of these f-.cts?
The kernel of the iisniwii repara
tions proVlem is not how will the Ger
man race within be.v.- the heavy burden
of the reparations obligations? Mow
will it secure in paper marks the laxes
and levies?
From the discussions' of the al?jcs
and ".heir . experts in the international
conferences it would appear as though
this relatively insignificant phase of
tme affair concerning chiefly only the
German people had been regarded by
Germahv's creditors as of the first im
portance. For it has always been a
concern of the foreign statesmen
whether Germany was raising taxes as
high as those of the other states or
whether the necessary economy was
exercised in the Germa i budget. This
is merely a repetition of the customs
followed, after previous peaces, when
everything ' was reckoned in smaller
dimensions and when millions instead
of milliards were reckoned.
HEART OF THE QUESTION
In those days, the linancial problem
played the chief role, while today that
is subordinated to th'2 economic prob
lem. And thi economic problem is
the heart of the reparations question.
This economic problem is thus: How
can Germany nay in gold wha.L she owes
in gold? Gold is here only a symbol
in which all international currencies
are expressed. Trade balances show
a nation's debts to the Auslapd and
the Ausland's debts to it in a trade
way. Before the War, Germany's trade
balance was considerable. The interest
upon German capital invested outside,
taken with the ctebit account of tne
German foreign trade and shipping busi
ness, made it possible not only tc draw
necessary imports, but also to under
take private' financings and to issue
loans to foreign countries reaching mfo
millions.
The Versailles peace robbed Germany
of its foreign peace and its com
mercial fleet. Its balances rest now
almost entirely upon figures resulting
from exports and imports. It can obtain
foreign securities only either through
surrender of valuable holdings within
or by obtaining them through a favor
able difference between export and im
port. CERMANY HAS NO CHOICE
Since Germany's obligations to a con
siderable extent are immediate, she has
no choice. She must at once seek to
mobilize a part of her possessions. She
must , either sell or hypothecate her
holdings to foreign countries, subse
quently paying interest from later in
ternal income and gradually amortiz-
M
At the moment, it cannot be judged
whether satisfactory forms can be
found which will offer security enough
for the Ausland, for such considera
tions require time. Hence, for the
first payments Germany must sell from
her internal holdings. But that can
only remain temporary. For, should
this "provisorium" be converted into a
permanent condition, Germany would
find itself one day "sold .out." On the
same day, she would cease being abb?
to pay anything, for the means of pro
ducing goods would then have been
taken from Germany. The concern that
the matter should not go so far is not
alone a German concern, but must
also be the concern pf all those coun
tries which expect to receive anything
from Germany.
The creditors of Germany must de
mand that they be paid through Ger
man work, not German holdings. Re
gardless of whether these lands demand
payment in cash or German goods,
Germany will be able to obtain the
necessary money only through the. sale
of German goods abroad. If France
demands ccld cash, then Europe, Asia
or America must absorb sufficient
German goods, so that Germany can
purchase the necessary money to pay
France. This is quite regardless of
the method of taxation in the country
or of how the government settles with
the manufactures for their reparations
deliveries.
LEW TRADE BALANCE
A part of this truth appears already
to be known in the world, since the
proposed export percentage on German
exports, suggested in the last allied
ultimatum, represented to a certain
extent an attempt to confiscate in ad
vance sums which Germany would ob
tain outside and apply them immediate
(Continued on Page Six.)
Republicans Are Confident;
The Democrats Are Hopeful
First Important Bye-Election Will be Held Tuesday in
New Mexico, JVhere Senator Bursum, Republican
Appointee is Opposed by R. H. Hanna. Democrat.
The first important bye-election since the overwhelming sweep of the
country by the Republican party last Fall is to be held Tuesday in New
Mexico, where Senator Holm O. Bursum, appointed last March as success.ir
to Albert B. Fall, who entered the Harding Cabinet, is opposed by Richard
H. Hanna, Democrat.
The Democrats in New Mexico naturally have attacked the Administra
tion and their line of attack gives an interesting foresight into the likely
issues of the entire Congressional campaign next year. The Democrats
claim to have been handicapped by a lack of funds to carry their campaign
to the people. Senator Bursum is standing jjpon his own brief record in the
Senate and on the Harding Administration.
Herewith are presented the views of two well known New Mexico editors
upon the issues and the probable outcome of the election in dispatches written
the closing day of the active campaign, one supporting Senator Bursum and
one opposing him. The former claims the election by a majority greater than
was given to President Harding. The latter looks for a close decision.
Condemnation Vote
Asked by Democrats
BY E. DONA JOHNSON.
Editor Santa Fee New Mexican, )Ind.i
Copyright, 1U21, by Xews Publishing Co.
Santa Fe, Sept. 17. The issue in the
Senatorial campaign, as between Holm
O. Bursum, Republican candidate, and
Richard H. Hanna, Democrat, is large
ly that of whether or not the Western
states and theeir industries have re
ceived or have actual hope of receiving
substantial recognition from Congress
and the Administration.
The Democrats are asking for a vote
of condemnation and protest n the
ground that Republican tariff legisla
tion proposes to close the safety valve
or foreign outlet for Western raw ma
terials, enabling the Eastern manufac
turer to manipulate the price of wool
in order to reduce import duties. The
Democrats are telling the voters that
New Mexicos great cattle, wool and
copper industries will face stagnation
and disacter because the door to for
eign markets will be closed. They point
to the statement of leading New Mexi
co bankers that the livestock loan pool
plan is unworkable and that New Mexican-
stock men are receiving no actual
aid from it and quote the denuncia
tion by Western Senators of the wool
schedules in the tariff bill as vicious.
The revenue bill and the repeal of the
excess profits tax are attacked as leg
islation to untax the wealth of the East
and to overlook' the West.
Mr. Hanna and Senator A. A, Jones,
Democrat, in speeches this week have
denounced the alleged political and
economic crime to the West as due to
stand-pat Republicans and much capi
tal is being made of the charge that
(Continued on Page Six.)
Seven Days In
By JESSIE HENDERSON.
Staff Correspondent of The Xews.
Copyright, 1021, by Sma Publishing
i ih'fl-rv ;iVhr7fnr a horde a city. You can't even put itching pow
peeled these dark nights foi a hoide o. & ,g bacfc for ft joke
norsewomen pxu.i ;
e- Jh!Lr Sf ?.i"d ?n
from his hiding place in the Biltmora
or tne riicz; wnom mcj win ""'b
shrieking, round the corner to a se
cluded spot near, perhaps, the Metro
politan Museum or the Grand Central,
and whom they will relentlessly tar.
feather and horsewhip.
. 1 1 ....... - ' r 4 -' 1 r'f
WhCl nthTT maJ L h- finds that, by swimming 163 miles in
Fellow who declSes to offe his ha, something over 63 hours (the hours
Sin suhwav seat to a ladv passenger distributed however over six days) at
Tust whThe mil be is a mysSyut" an average speed of two miles an hour,
whoevlrhe bS let him fit ?he one can take off six pounds. Anyone
sound of furious hoofs and rustling welcome to the recipe,
silken robes Ellis Island officials also are losing
' Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler is very clear 1 weight daily in their efforts to make
on the silken robes part. The masks Stefania tell where she put Carolina,
are silken, too, - though whether th3 The 18-year-old Carolina arrived at tne
tar feathers and rods' are carried in Island after the month s quota of immi
vanity cases or in those stunning new grants from Poland had been admitted,
peacock feather wrist-bags, she did not Hence Carolina was booked for depor
say Mrs Tyler is the "first lady" of tation. But Stefania, who has spent
the' Ku Klux Klan. She arrived in most of her 22 years in this country,
this city right after the officials had thought different. So on visiting day,
rebuffed some men Ku Kluxers who Stefania changed clothes with Carolina,
suggested forming a chapter here. Re- and Carolina slipped away to parts un
buffs, however, fail to dishearten Mrs. known. Stefania, threatened with de
Tyler. No sooner had she arrived from portation in Carolina's place, has gone
Atlanta than she announced that 700 on a hunger strike so effectually that
letters of inquiry had reached her New she is too weak to be deported. The
York hotel in two days "95 per cent .officials are at their wits' end
of them, from women." Indeed, it ap- : Meanwhile, Tale Seldin thought he'd
pears that "New York women are flock- have to go back to Miscow because
ing to join the Klan." Before long, the rents were too high in New York for a
shops ought to blossom with pearl-han- shoe-lace vendor. But he stumbled into
died whips, jewel studded and daintily a roofless cellar in the Bronx. The
suited to a lady's grasp. 'other day he confessed that for a year
Masculine Klu Kluxers have to get he has lived in this hole, unroofed ex
along with cotton robes. But Southern cept for a few planks on rainy nights,
gallantry to the Sex has dictated silk and now he is such a fresh-air enthus
en robes for lady "Night Riders." And iast that he would not dwell in a steam
this silken costume, as Mrs. Tyler pret- ( heated flat if you paid the rent for.
tily points out, "is not hair so areaarui
as has been pictured."
THE HAND THAT ROCKS.
"Women, it must be admitted, are
beginning to realize that the hand
which rocks the cradle can rock quite
a number of things when it gets go
ing. It rocked the ballot box thi3
week, for instance, and the town saw
all the primary candidates for mayor
wheedling and lauding the Republic m
women, who, as it happened, held the
balance of power. The fact that thcy.counts to investigate it, adding that the
threw the balance m. Curran s favor ; is talk about a crime wave is a propaganda
a tribute to their innate domesticity; , f th t the. insurance companies.
for. on the eve of the primary, Mr
Curran told the Republican women
that municipal government is just like
house cleaning. As a matter of fact,
if running a city were half so hard as
house cleaning, women would long ago
have been handed the job.
Meanwhile, the Smiths can't speak to
the Auerbachs. Why they should
want To spetk to each other after the
.Jr"L L Qiri 0hnt oflnh ntir
is a question. But even if they thimt
ud brand new impertinences, they are
barred by the court from hollering
them across the vestibule at 240 River
side Drive, or up the speaking tube.
Mrs. .T. Bradlee Smith complained
about what Mrs. Louis Auerbach said,
and Mrs. Auerbach told magistrate what
what Mrs. Smith said, so, after seeing
both of them with a remark about
"ladies of culture and refinement," the
magistrate made them promise never
again to "interfere or communicate"
with each other. If it had happened
anywhere except in a, fashionable New
lis Least Spectacular
Election In History
BY CARL C. MAGEK.
Editor Albuquerque Journal, Republican,
Copyright, 121, by Xews Publishing Co.
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 17. The
Senatorial election has been the least
spectacular in the history of the State.
Senator Bursum has made a tour of the
State by automobile asking for an en
dorsement of t,he Harding Administra
tion's record by the voters of New Mex
ico and preaching the doctrine of ser
vice to the people. His Democratic op
ponent, Judge Richard H. Hanna, has
made only recently an active campaign,
having announced at the time of his
nomination his financial inability to do
otherwise. He has made only a compar
atively few speeches.
The passage of the agricultural relief
bill by Congress, which favorably af
fects our principal industry, livestock
raising, together with the favorable mi
pression here of the record to date of
the Harding Administration has dis
concerted the Democrats and has de
prived -them of enthusiasm. Except
for certain Republican disaffection, the
Bursum election would be by an unpre
cedented majority.
Senator Bursum's progressive atti
tude and his break with some old asso
ciates, augmented by those personal dis
affections which come through years of
political activity, have resulted in an
independent Republican ticket support
ed bv some prominent reactionaries and
personal enemies. It is headed by a
weak candidate and will poll only a
modest vote. Except in Spanish-speak
ing counties, the independents will poll
no vote of consequence. Interest is
being aroused over eleven consitutional
(Continued on Page Six.)
Li'l OF N' York
York apartment house, the quarrel
would have snubbed itself out without
official interposition.
But that's what comes ot living m
without being sent up for a couple, of
weeks. A man found that out to his
sorrow, the other day
HINTS TO WOULD-BE THINS
An entirely new method of weight
reducing has been discovered by Miss
Milla Gade, the Danish swimming cham
pion. Miss Gade, who recently swam
j him.
Seldin, for example, escapes any dis
pute with a landlord such Mrs. Nancy
Steinacke had. The landlord accused
her of robbing his cash box in order to
' pay her rent, which after all looks
like a case of paying him in his own
coin.
CLEVER PROPAGANDA
The rise in the rate of burglar in
surance is what worries Mayor Hylan.
He has ordered his Commissioner of ac
If that is the case, the burglar insur
ance companies have gone about their
propaganda in fairly subtle style. Take
the crime news of this week: fur theives
got ten thousand dollars worth of loot
from a shop, within one block of a
police station, the arrest of five men
cleared up a '"subway bandit" gang
tery which included six hold-ups and
three stolen motor cars; many victims
of burglars have asked permission to
wear masks when they identify sus
pected criminals, because the criminals
are so numerous that the victims fear
their vengeance- If that be propaganda,
make the most of it.
But still and all, crime wave or no,
the starched ruffle banished these
many seasons is upon us again in all
its crisp glory. The Spanish hat has
arrived, topped by a Spanish comb
thrust in at the proper angle. And the
gold anklet set with diamonds and
worn beneath the filmiest silk stocking
has twinkled on the Avenue,
TWO BKMHIS
Ahead, Within the Span of
Seven Days, Lies the In
Industrial Rubicon.
STRIKES THREATENED.
Coal Miners and Railroad
Unions Will Attempt to
Form an Alliance.
By HARDEN COLFAX
Staff Correspondent of The Xews.
Copyright. 1021, by News Publishing Co.
Washington, Sept. 17. Ahead,.
within the span of seven days, lies
the industrial Rubicon. The in
dustries of the country, coal and
transportation, are inarching toward
it. Strikes threaten both. Two and
one-half million men are Involved.
Whether the country will continue
go forward in its reviving prosperity
or receive, a setback comparable to
the slowing down in England, if the
miners strike, is to be determined
largely by labor leaders at Chicago
and Indianapolis.
An alliance between the railroad
workers workers of America and
the coal miners, somewhat similar
to the offensive and defensive
agreement of the triple alliance of
miners, railwaymen and transport
workers in England an alliance
whose bonds snapped at the test,
however is among the possibilities.
For years union officials of advanc
ed, thought have dreamed of such a
partnership here. It appears within
their grasp the coining week.
While the railroad employes' leaders
meet at Chicago to canvass and ad
vance the strike vote, "the miners meet
in Indianapolis to show the program
for the next two years and to elect
officers to lead them during that per
iod. In the "one case it seems almost
certain that John L. Lewis, the present
union head, will lead the miners again
and that he will stand fast and firm
on a platform declaring against reduc
tions in the wartime wages now in
effect. It is likely that the miners will
vote for the workers to strike in pro
test against reduction overtime pay.
It is a fact not generally known ta
the public that, between the miners and '
the railworkers, there exist the deep
est kinds of " sympathy. Both have
much in common. Both come in close
contact through their work. In the
past, here and there, rail workers have
shown many times their fellow feeling
for striking miners- Instances are on
record where this feeling was translat
ed into unwillingness on the part of
union labor, working on railroads, to
handle the product of non-union mines
in time of strike.
CANNOT FORSEE ACTION
No one can tell what fifteen hundred
or more men, meeting in convention to
discuss their grievances and shape wage
demands, will do. That will be the sit
uation at Indianapolis next Saturday
when the United Mine Workers of Am.
erica open their bi ennial convention.
There is almost certain to be much dis
cussion of the present part-time working
week in many fields but two days
out of the week the scanty earnings
of the miners even at present high
prices, and action to increase these
earnings. True the small earnings are
due to the general lack of demand for
coal and not to the wage scale, for if
every man ha'd a full day's work, the
pay envelope would be sufficient. But
that situation will be dwarfed by the
reality of the fact that, at the present
time, with the exception of certain fav
ored localities, miners are receiving min
imum pay.
Inject into that situation a projected
railroad strike and the match may be
applied to the powder. Any one of twen
ty radical leaders at Indianapolis is
ready to propose an alliance with the
railroad workers to link fortunes and
win or lose together. By such an alli
ance, the miners would have all to
gain and little to lose. For, if the rail
workers go out on strike, the miners
can't work anyhow. The coal mines
work from hand to mouth, idleness or
activity being determined primarily by
the car supply. And, as a rail strike
means no cars, the mines would stand
idle.
The whole situation in the coal in
dustry is beset with . trouble. In West
Virginia and Illinois thcra hav-3 been
disorders and marching men, with griev
ances, real or fancied, to remedy. In
Washington, the unions are fighting
for what they term a chance to live.
In Kansas, radical leaders have upset
the industry time after time within
the past 12 months by strikes and inter
ruptions to work. In union fields com
petitive to non-union areas operators
have sought - unsuccessfully to bring
about wage cuts.
DRAW UP WAGE DEMANDS
And capping the climax comes now
the formultion of wage demands for the
next two years. Also for the first time
the anthracite and bituminous workers
frame these dsmandrj to po into effect
on the same date March 31, 1922. Here
t of ore the anthracite agreemerts have
expired on dates different from the
expiration of the bituminous mens' con
tracts. . An anthracite strike saw the
bituminous men at work; a bituminious
strike saw the anthracite miners busy.
This time a strike would affect both
cf mines also is com
ing up, in more vigorous fashion than
before at the Indianapolis meeting. The
miners want the Government take
over the industry, to nationalize it.
They have evn verted to their belief
many men of influence and power who
have seen the mounting prices of coal
and failed to find a check. Some of
their advocates are in the United States'
Congress. In fact, the present Senate
committee investigating the situation in
West Virginia is reported to be consid
ering a recommendation tha the Gov
ernment take over the nonunion fields
in that State.
The union miners are for such action
whole-heartedly. They are looking for
ward to wholesale Indictments of their
men In West Virginia as tne result of
the grand jury's investigation of the
March on Mingo. They would welcome.
another deal.
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