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ME NATIONAL DAILY THUR WAONIIubON TI Qe JUE"9"12 M r M wIwwfuU 1 __ what Wght WaSes Meni iUving Costeb bat Also More A4" HuaMinds, ke oes, i! l s eaM, de 1il good,"4 tP e peteM 1 Ied g1 ia rapier as 'w W, WU W se*. The a hirho geos ten doles wbe he ed t get Ave mo spoed in da uais whes be he o. Thre Is, howev n bemt is wages more itpo-M than stA messy to speed er the tmporary -xwn or csmfort of the individual. When wages se low and men are cheap it is hard to g6 these that have power to pay atesBons 1o the weekues. There was a Urns when chimneys were elsened by tying 'a stg to the lea e goose ad dropping the goose down the thimany. trggling, lapping her wings, tshe goose west down and took the soot wit her. In England and various other countries, in place of the goose a small child was used. Children were underfed purposely and thus kept thin that they might be able to go thregh the smalest chimneys. At the same time other children were being used up in fasterlss. Then one day the British government discovered that it lacked men big enough to go into the army. It out down the army regulation sin; still the men were too small. Then it was discovered that chimney sweeping and work were harmful, and the government made laws to protect children. If plenty of big men had remained after small children had been used in factories and chim aeys those laws would have been delayed. Bimilarly in this and other countries, while met and ebildren, are plentiful and cheap little attention is paid to improving machinery or protecting children. The mine owners could hire small boys for a few cents a day to work on the breakers, picking the sharp slate from the coal with Keeding iAngers. So the problem seemed perfectly solved by the "breaker boys." But when unions developed strength, and even boys became expensive, their wages high, it was worth while to iavent machinery that would do the work that the boys' lngers had been doing. When "patriotism" was at its height it was made even more simple by selling the coal with the slate in it. A farm hand getting seven dollars a day will do a great -ideal to develop agricultural machinery. Double wages for cotton pickers will probably bring forth the much-sought-for machine to pick cotton. It may be possible to do it on the "vacuum cleaner" basis. Ditch digging will be done by machinery when diggers' Wages rise to eight or ten dollars a day, or none are to be found, and so with other lines of work. The ignorant, of course, will say that all these new manhines will "cut down employment" and "starve the But only the deeply ignorant will say it. A few print era objected to the printing machine, which employs more painters than ever set type by hand. Practically all the men engaged in cloth making in England rebelled against the improved machinery that now produces about a thousand times as much cloth, hires a hundred times as many men, and pays much higher wages. When life is easy we take things easily. When human bcris cheap we use only human labor and are content. rWen life becomes diffcult and labor becomes expensive s use their brains, and that means progress. The high wages of this day will mean better machinery mad consequently.greater production, and incidentally higher . wages in the future day. Votes For Washington Congressman J. Will Taylor of Tennessee says it has fiequently occurred to him during his service in Congress that the District of Columbia is entitled to and should have a Delegate in the House, elected in the same manner * and with the same privileges that are now possessed by Delegates from Alaska, Ha waii, and the Philippines. "This, in my judgment, will give the District all the rep resentation It needs," he add d."Washington is the great. stcity in the world. It is essentially the National City oftegreatest csuntry on the globe. Its chief Importance and glory consists In that fact. *To grantit the right of suf frage, with all the prerog-1 ativew and responsibilities rCONG. 3. wIL TAYLOR. thereuto appertaining, would, ( In my opinion, cense the less is a very large measure of Its Identity as the National City. "As a matter of fact, a large per cent of the residents of Washington retain their citizenship in the States whence they came and exercise the right of suffrage there. This Is entirely proper and, in my opinion, is highly commenable. "In view of its very limited area, it would certainly not be entitled to Statehood, with the same representation In the Senate and the House that is now accorded to the States. Thijs would, of course, be preposterous. However, It has frequently occurred to me, during my short service In Cc. gpes, that the District of Columbia is entitled to and should have a Delegate in the House, selected in the same maner ad with the same privileges that are now possessed by Delegates from Alaska, Hawaii, and the PhilIppines. This, inmy judgment, will give the District all of the represents Iatt ineedas Convention p~flNK Ba8t SDW4 3 JAc ofr A7T COLy it, 7 Letters To the Editor of THE TIMES: The Sterling-Lehlbach act provides for automatic retirement on annui ties of civil service employes who have served for a specified number of years and attained to a certain age. These two qualifications are definitely set forth in the law and evidently the sole requirements con templated by the act. It was inspired by a feeling of justice and humanity. and nowhere contains the suggestion of peremptory dismissal of any em ploye. I understand that regulations un der the civil service law specify that applicants for examination must de clare under oath that they are not over forty-Ave years of age. Under such a provision it would hardly seem possible for an employe regularly in the civil service now to be seventy years of age and yet have a credit of legs than fifteen years' service. At any rate. I do not believe that the retirement law is applicable in any way to such cases. JOHN R. WEATHERS. IT -Iowa circle. A Good Healthy Smile Mumn Te the Uditor of THE TIME8: I was just looking over your edi torial, "The Face With a Smile Is Not a Thinking Face," and, although I think that the vast majority of your editorials are diadems of thought and good to follow. I yet think that the smile editorial is pernicious in its effect and rather aimless in its constuction. A good. healthy smile means confi dence. without which qualification there is no success. By a smile I, of course, do not mean smirkinlems or. the Lord preserve us. a continuous t is the man who has never learned to smile, who takes every thing too seriously, who thinks that there Is virtue in frowns, and worry. that goes to his grave unhonored nd unsUng. IUncoin smiled often and much, yet his task was heavy and his success beyond computation. It is said that Napoleon never smiled, and perhaps Waterloo and St. Helena are ot unfttinlg sequels to the man who took himself too seriously. The doctor cures more with his smile than with his pills. Smiling help the entire physical economy. To be in a good frame of mind ii 1.o e in good health. H. MUU8MAN. Give Service Man a Job. Te the Editor of T H E 11ME: Let me tell you what Ohio is doing for the service men. They are in the ear future going to give every serv ie man from Ohio a position without a ivil service examinationl. The best thing Congress can do for the service man is give him a Government position without ez. Congrss had better do something soon, and do it without delay. If they dent. beth the Democrats and Re publicans will look like a sick mule at the next Presidential election, in November. 1980.-romD the Legion of he State of Ohio. Sas Boam WUB Ieres Tames. Te the ditor et THE TIM 33: I agree with the fellow who re. maa.. .maa e aslaaiet Tis Sketches Fro mso W/tW ~. Belds f Frace, a onusiageat //.Q S7.2~1wNY /fL )NuT S~uN From the I .that the proposition of giving every man who served in the late war, either at the camps or on the battle fields of France, a bonus, is a great injustice both to the country and to the soldier himself. I am positively not in favor of a bonus for all ex soldiers. However, I am in favor of a very liberal bonus, say of $100. $1,000, or even $10,000, for all soldiers and sailors who were wounded or permanently disabled, or who con tracted disease in the line of duty in the service of the United States. It seems to me that all true Americans who are ex-soldiers are also not in favor of a bonus. A bonus to every soldier. etc., at this time only tends. to make the taxes higher, and certainly the high cost of living cannot come down until the taxes are reduced. EVERETTE E. NEAL A. E. F. The Cro "He who dailies is a dastard. He who doubts is damned," echo the tones of Marse Henry Watterson of other days, as the Sage of Mansfield lingers by his Kentucky mint bed and diSdains to watch the new breeds fid de at Frisco. Newspaperdomn may welcome Presi dent Wilson into its ranks after he leaves the White House, says Admiral Grayson, who adds that the Chief Ex ecutive is considering becoming head of a college. In either sphere he, wifl 'be free to continue the din on Arti cle X. There's a vacant AND THEY C~ALL seat on the old DEAlT 01 bus. Will s om e Joseph L. Bristow, o f t he Kansas wheat fields? 4 T he work of building up the 4~ standard of the Republican candi- 2 dates goes merrily on in New Eng land. as Wesleyanl University makes Calvin coolidge a dotor of laws. As. they put ok "; the f in ishing '' touches of bawl ing out the Ball rent law, Uncle a m drops his towel as second to the rent commis to the fracas him self. (From the Tol Dy the census returns we find that Vincennes, Ind., has felt the hand of industrial advaneamnenlt, but a lot of us will dream of it as Maurice Thomp son pictured it in the days of Alice. G overnr' Diehett passes the suf f rage buck to Tennessee and alaso takes a swipe at the call of Prest dent Wilson by declaring that the Tr es have neither the time nor ahe .mosey ate amsh a move. * 0Oj DRY I MLW APPLICATION bM toi tih an WORTH OP aOD a I hae th getes rpethr en f cr,T t uitr of Ten the ae ot ay posintion os prernly udged whtoc tion should be taken In a question of this nature. It appears to me a great many of the people are laboring un der a misapprehension. For every officer there are scores of enlisted men. For every officer receiving a very good rate of pay, and there are hundreds who received more pay In the army than they did in civilian life, there are multitudes of enlisted men who received a very inferior sum and a large percentage who received such a small remuneration that it is hardly comparable with that re w'.9s Nest Whoever selected the slogan, "Back ".4l. ... --0 ..IACE". AA.n6n cottal' ain h od ocarjn meaublndth rtro r nthel n Ino the Leagueo Tof TSopr.Ms ab rt ppearin poing Tut sme avera, at qute oftenthe y no ei boghtio toenty-perl hadge wnat Wae bury, Chonn., beo teia othestioy and inpature.nt ahero ae a great magnyd of the phopme rn kingbor un-0 deramsapreenionBurleo eveys officrthreta e Whore tef Houlste men.Forveryoffcer receiviong verygoo rat ofpyc ad the hare hundrds wh reci's mrefreyhing the rmyhan te have th civlia lif, her ae mlttorneys fenlham sucha smll rmerat that Eiteis hardycopaaleywtery that te Whoeerelecedphre, loa mai to he arm' eidetly didnotcon temlat th flrebckheis stervhind up t thecounry. dge but20per, cent f oupop latookow hanve the coat ails facngate o orhar andte meadowand t e trareoy l e istn. -4 Babe uth salo pnege othse aveag. a te dspterhs saytee bouhttwnt~fvehatsei a W ater DURDN. telie Houen act shs rown Governo R hber s o erse ris pary nedsthepa ae o the wm an ffrge menment, and then thwe dountry an ben teryt' cotne es th "Eon of ra."a ma in e can eep hosredhaed shme esstraght or hi so patnmer thed willhavethe theo ofiAla n trum m.h.attheret fate ofterter r T. E. POWERS PLANK ,PACK UP . (105 002 R 71CW4TS AT FR ISCO ,44UL Editor eeived previous to entrance into the service. Those already blessed with opulence need not assume any responsibility; they do not have to accept it. How does a man with one limb gone, given ti his country, eke out an existence on the nineteen dollars per month he re ceives from the Government? EX-TOP-SOAE. Coady". MM Ur. To the Editor of THE TIMES: Please permit this in reply to one of your male critics: If men had cour age they wouldn't button up in swelt. tering clothes, and they wouldn't criticise women who make themselves comfortable. When women made up their minds to wear nice cool waists they did it regardless of criticism. It makes us uncomfortable to see men wearing hot coats in summer. Why don't your H and S men-folka start a COATLESS campaign, no mat. ter how many howls from prudes antid cranks? It would mean comfort and keeping down the cost of living. what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. It's true that women may want tc vote, but we are still on the job cook ing meals for men, darning their socks, washing and ironing their nice shirts to prevent wear and tear andi to save laundry bills, besides numer ous other chores that help our bus bands. When we ride in street carn we appreciate seats offered by gen tlemen. MRS. R. T. P. Bonus For' the Boys. To the Editor of THE TIMES: Don't give England our money! We need it to pay our own soldiers a bonus. England has already paid her soldiers a bonus at our expense, or, al least. out of this country's money. Now there is talk of canceling het debt that she owes the United States The billions England owes us is more than sufficient to make a fair read justment to our army salary of 8361 per year. The boys want a bonus and not only that, they NEED a bonus, so don't let us hear any more about calling England's debt off. EDWIN C. GEORGE. Bread Pric.s in Europ. To the Editor of THE TIMES: The raw material in a pound o, bread costs 5 cents and the public ii compelled to pay 12 cents a pount for bread. In Europe, bread mlad4 fronm American flour is sold for 7M, cents per pound, and that allows reasonable profit. There. is a stand ing custom in France and on thi continent that the price of breat shall be the same per pound as thi price of flour. It takes two-thirds o1 a pound of flour for a pound of bread and a pound of wheat makes two thirds of a pound of flour. In bak. ers' parlance, they mix so mana pounds of water with enough flout to give it the consiistenicy of dough The bread prices permitted in this country are not permitted in am: ohier nation en eaih. J.' ROUINUON. I Congressmn Poory Paid Who's Looney Now? By BILL PRICE. Washington's wealthy and highly overpaid Govermast employes-those described by the Honsrable Soda Fountaia BLANTON of Texas as having "cinches" in life's strug. glee-eannot fail to be deeply interested in an interview in the admirable hotel-corridor column of the Post. This interview is with "Colonel"-Teaneusemaa never have subordinate titles-THOMAS C. LOONEY, of Mess phis. Colonel Looney sympathises deeply with members of Congress and high officers of the Governent in the sma salaries paid them. He feels that "they are hit as hard" by et, the high cost of living as "salaried persons in all other walks of life." Those are the quoted words. Probably the colonel, whose human sympathies do not necessarily indicate he is "looney" now, or ever will be, does not know the facts about Washington salary workers. The pay of a Congressman is $7,500 a year. The Tennis. seean frankly concedes that many of them are not word that; are truly overpaid. The 100,000 or more Federal and District Government employes in Washington average little above a statutory salary of $1,200 a year, a difference is pay of more than $6,000 a year. Thousands of Government employee are paid less than $900 a year. We grant that a Congressman must put up "a front." Most of them got into' Congress that way. Many house keepers judge a can of tomatoes by the pretty label thereon., The tomatoes thus "get by." We grant that a national legislator should dress somewhat better than the middle class salary man or the mechanic, not that he is any better than any other man, but that other nations and peopleg would be badly impressed to see able statesmen like Uncli JOE CANNON wearing overalls, with his sleeves turned up and face and arms black with grime. We concede that the cost of putting up "a front" is considerable, but the main cost of living now is in food supplies, the absolute necessaries of life. And as to that the "front" should disappear. A Congressman's stomach may be larger than that of a $1,200 Government clerk-and it usually is-but it is not entitled to any more inside of it ' or to any better quality of food. Neither prestige nor possession of money removes the fact that a poor man re quires as much to sustain life as his more fortunate fellow being. And what the small-salary man buys in essentials cost him just as much as it costs a Congressman. His under worked digestive tract enjoys a juicy steak as much as the other man's overworked digestive engine. . Nobody will begrudge a Congressman salary suffeient to maintain himself in reasonable station, but he should dat deny-as he has done-a living wage to the Government worker, a wage that will enable that worker to have reason able comforts. HEARD AND SEEN 1yg FRXCKLES GIRL. SHOUL "GREAT FALLS" Here's a little advice for the fair EAR ANOTHER NANIt flapper, who asked you how to care This fro Dr. WULJAI( tZNDAU. freckles: will Interest all Wshstoaiaas. Fah A little bit of powder, titularly the local hltertans: A little bit of palst Da DILL P: Make little freckles It bes ose to le Look just what they ain't. C. B. IWVELACE. e ttle we mst straagee "You an't teeds aturn ap'lster to ad sacs less vfaeef waer thee" e of bog meeat it beu!~~iw tlaet groat k it te te ee tageous if we could turn a silk parse rwo ad rreathat i e ..aes into a sow'sst the esea -RDhl the ant of wather e FRD ErE. doemM.t befits to eeg~aawrewi TWO RIDDLUs A DAY. at the Dues K the lumies urver. the Variety ad aragesient ef the 1. What was the ant bet ever made? eeinestten an tneemsiey mere 2. What word of eight letters is attract O. aoasttute amass is there from which You can subtrat wt y a same wis s five letters and leave ten? t " al le ANSWERS. rinim' estarsta U 1. The alphabet. d t I enwrese thle e that the aatilipstIeus exalted 2. Tendency. by t same were ar tem having V. s SNO0W. bees eebiiiei -ok~ ..m hof~ the bright reade, B. D. 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