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PAGE A ti-Trust Laws A re Much Better Let Alone At present dttl of proptlthe notion Ihii if the ganda is betas drenfctedi repeated md busincts ot which 13 repeal of the federal allowed to do a it pleased, the antwnst law. of the consumer imaedi- The aisBJoeot li UAt ei-jittly would become paramount tiUnce of prevenu varl- point oils toiustrla from setting together and planning production so Hat piriodlc market gluts no longer would afflict us. Also. It Is zAld that If these laws were repealed great economies could be effected by farther combinations of plant and capital. Both arguments are good If each is accompanied by a proviso that thcw w5jo advance them coruoonly omit to mention.

It would be unobjectionable, and might be highly beneficial, for Industries to get together and plan production, provided their planning were, so supervised that It could not result in harmful restraint of competition. It would be unobjectionable, and might be hiRhly profitable, combinations and consolidations in Industry, provided And here we arrive ai which generally is overlooked in discussions of such questions. We already permit certtln industries-which we call public utilities--to combine In practically monopolistic. jroups. that were the economies so effected made to consumer, not solely the combination or consolidation.

these provisos are of. the first importance; For unfortunately the history of American business prior So the enactment, of the antitrust offers very little evidence that planning and cbnsolida- 'Uon 'ais undertaken with the Interests as a major ''ebnaiderktlon. recent history But these wa regulate, or attempt to regulate; so that the customer may be' at least partially protected against the exactions of monopoly. Now would those i i which now aie clamoring for repeal of the anti-trust isws like to trade competition without regulation for relative monopoly with regulation? Probably r.ot; at least, not If the regulation really regulated. Tct that is choice, the country could afford to offer.

It can. not even consider going bacic to the days, when the rule was every msu for himself and the devil take-the consumer. And It is not ail likely, that the people of this country are ready to plunge their government into the enormous task of overseeing and regulating an Its major -industries. Thus -we find ourselves going around In a circle the moment we really begin analyze proposal to repeal or to "liberalize" the anti-trust iuws. And'it bscotnta evident that, for the present at least; those laws are better left.

business: encourage jalone. Of Results Ssimuel Untenneyer, f(imou8 New 1 a. trip ibrofid the other day, said: The' contempt, for and the debacle in our ministration of jiutice, resulting irom the futile attempts to enforce the prohibition' are stecding'in the way of our financial rehabilitation. The revenues front the. substitution of wiBft regulation of the added to tho economies and improvements the adminis- tration of the law that would result.

wouJd fill -in bur. recovery. I regard tHe reijm of terror that'll 'iweepihe over the country in 'dangerously increasing voluir.ij'and' that has paralyzrf 'thd-forqes 'qt-law and order as dircc'Uy. due to our -experiment" in prohibition. It has so multiplied and enriched- the gangsters and lawbreakers that they are'able'.

to equip, all the inodern machinery for 'safely crimes and -maUlnj; their Escape. -The' hap- peniriga-we are. now. witnessing constitute the 'most 'terrible in- dictment ever framed against -law' enforcement machin- ery of. any country on earth claiming to be civilized.

Untx-nheycr docs net exaggerate the situation in the slightest Nor is there any real, hope for Improvement until a saner and more sensible method of dealing with the liquor problem is adopted; until the Volstead Ac.t Is replaced by legislation which will have the. support and respect of citizenry; until the statutes purged, of their idiotic provisions to make criminal that which the Christ blessed at the marriage feast at Cana. Only fanaticism can take cheer in things as they are; or see any possibility, of breaking the power of the racketeering gangs as long as millions from the illicit business in liquor continue their pockets. to pour into -The California Department of the American Legion struck tho nail on the head when, in its convention at Ixmg Beach, it demanded a revision of the law in the interests of true temperance. A change must be made; and the sooner the better.

Postal. Wage Cuts Strongly Opposed Congressman M. Clyde Kelly is the house committee on postal rates, and a recognized authority on the postal service in In a recent publication from his hand, In book form, he condemns Postmaster a Jrown for advocating cuts.in the wages of employes, in the postal department, and also for favoring increase ol Kelly declares the department a public service-which returns to the people very much that cannot be computed in terms of money, tn his opinion the so-called "deficits" are a kind of bookkeeping which does not -represent the true situa- Kelly farther says that during the entire history- of the postal service, from 1789 down to 1930, postal officials' always have yet. that during tho same tperlod "subsidies and free services amounted to So he Insists that had the postal been given proper credit it vould ohow. a' profit instead of a deficit.

He mentions, the fact that last ar the department paid out DOO.OOO in' subsidies to shipping and tviatlon Interests, which sum was ut $18,000,000 less than what Jrowri officially had reported as a deficit." And the congressman further ays that had "franked" mail and ther free service been taken into ccount the department would have hown a profit. RAMSAY IN THE LIONS' DEN Editor of Th? nstn look to a mar- 5 7 "retail SICIi'a CiTSO- their iracle cut Jets there. And the vfTY producer car. turn cul I he can tell, a I I Some Private Thinks K. BUSINESS DECLARED TO ALL ASKED TO WORK INCREASE WITH WAGES TOWARD BETTERMENT To Kditor of The H.TU: a zif-zi deal sals and of late I abouT r--jblic v.erk and th? unenv tut rhouM be sivcn soir.t i i ion.

The idea of --J only $230 a year JHT --less tliaa half thr average in the highest group, low-wage slates are has a five-year plan, ami we have been two years iryinp to set a plan. let's keep working away. Maybe will find something that wil both agricultural a.nd industrial; here almost as many farmers work reasonably we i and ma industrial wage-earners. The public sentiment to javor some uWm wnument? wage-earners. too.

arc "very poor, it is the mental attitude of the public. and when we get together as one mind it Is Renerally for the group, a nearly JMO higher and business betterment of mankind A great to oo stores ear above the lowest group-a rise of 70 per cent. In these eleven helpless states industrial workers are moral, financial or otherwise, tlnctly the dominating group, Retirement Often Speeds Death Qf Average Successful Person i By DR. MOBBIS FISHBEHf healthy preludeito crossing the Editor, Journal of the American ar Thus one may point out that Medical Association, of Hya, Uie Health Magazine Another Senseless Censorship Ruling The New York Board of Motion Picture Censors has Issued a ukaao barring from tho screen any showing an infant at tho breast of Ua mother, tho mother IB civilized. But If such a scene is offensive In the case of a civilized mother, why not of any mother? If It io degrading in tho one case, It Is degrading in tlio other.

Why in oither? As tho New "York Nation well remarks: This one of the most InK and beautiful of human ro- Such cenaoriihip rulings aro Idiotic in view of the constant, continued nnrt deliberate exploitation on tlio screen of (lift low and de- of KOX, about which Uo lg ftald and is done, Kelly strongly objects to the postmaster general's advocacy of wage He declares every wage increase has, brought increased efficiency in the postal He also firmly supports what he con- to be tho -right of postal workers to organize, which was not accomplished until 1012. Kelly undoubtedly is right in his stand for proper pay of postal em- ployes, and his justification of their clftimo for considerate and appreciative; treatment by the government in other respects, which reacts for tho benefit public in general. Philadelphia Draws Line At Loco Weed The shocking news has from Phi! ft dolphin that nctuull; tho clt.y limits has been dis covered a ten-acre patch a nar cottc plant known as marijuana unlawfully cultivation hu valued at $125,000 for illicit pur It IH commonly known as Indian hemp or "loco weed." Under federal luwa the drug 1 produces IH prohibited from impor iatlon or use. Accordingly, in this case, tho local health department promptly gave notice that tho ten aero patch would be bwiicd over immediately. Illicit political practices may bo tolerated In Philadelphia, but no the growing of ft loco weed crop open field.

dignitaries of. the church, chief justices en supreme court benches, to the conduct of their their economic tirnated by Dublin, statistician of a famous life insurance company, that cne and one-quarter million persons in. the'United Statea a a ge of 65 arc in want. and a charity, i and private. This meats that 23 pei ent OP more than jtis out of every our are dependent.

It be Irement not inf ened the death of the-aged. A suc- casful business man, when relieved the usual life and caused to re- ort to idle luxury, tends to degcn- rate rapidly. Every trifling ail- nent begins to receive his undivided attention. The mental atti- nde is important. Sir Humphrey Rolleaton says" that "a well-occu- ied mind, a happy disposition that hinksth no evil, naturally smiles nstead of-frowning on a stranger A.

new idea, free from latred' or jealousy, the vice, that no pleasure to any and attitude of charity in its origi- fal and best ssnee to all, tend to Tolong life and make, it a happy, Baer Facts By ARTHUR 'BUGS' BAEB and helps to nom In the group, wages average an usness jumps $160 per person per many people want George to oo bove the lowest group-a jsomethms for them but George is unless he haa some sup, ral, financial or otherwise, i so let each of us we are wiU hesti RIchclleus and book-worm gucssers arraign protective tariffs "a fundamental cause of the revailing world wish 10 rush their linguistic jattering rams thereagainst in order to "strengthen the beleaguered Tee trade sentiment in customers of stores, for (hey outnumber farmers and farm labor two to one. Farmers in general are not so poor, for the group includes such rich fanning states as Tezas, Missouri and South Dakota. Kentucky is the exception, where farm- era 'are very poor but far.tory workers better off. The group also ncludes a manufacturing states--M a a Hhode island, Maryland. With group three comes a 5100 rise in the average wage level, and to do our part toward bettering our conditions.

Some people want to do away with labor-saving machinery, but I fail to see why we should turn the clock backward or try io unscramble the egg. Do we want to go back to the ox team and the crooked stick for a plow? Should we turn backward and do away with machinery? How far back do we want to go? Why not use the great inventions for the benefit of the masses instead of a few stockholders? We have a few institutions we do not wish to ba bandied by some private company, such as highways been known that has baa- prolonged tend to live longer than (j there. Apparently the most important advice for attaining and prolonging old age has to do with the diet. A half-dozen proverbs attest the man- i ner In which nipn have accepted fact ''You dig your grave with 'your "Man does not die, he! himself," and best of all statement of the Hoo-r jsier'farmer: "Pigs would live a lot jlonger if they didn't make hogs of An investigation made one life insurance company 'vealed that 13 per cent of some thousands of policy holders beyond the aga of -10 were more than 20 per cent overweight Persons at this age have-usually stopped taking even the physical exercise of walking. Since it is impossible for us to choose our all that we can do towards the prolongation of life ia to avoid preventable diaeaso by the usual sanitary and hygienic precautions and by having physical examinations at least once a year io detect the presence of the diseases of middle life that come on insidiously.

Avoid worry since it is of the greatest importance in using up the inherent vitality. Moderation in'all things, a certain amount of mental and physical exercise, some time in the open air, and a reasonable amount of happiness--these constitute the prescription for a long life and a useful one. THE THREE R'S--RUNNING, HOOTING AND HOCGH HOUSF NEW YORK, Sept, 9--Now is the time for ai' good students to go back to college for the football reason. business increases. In this per capita 1 sales of stores frem S392 to 5424 per year.

Industrial vase-earners arc even more important as customers, for and public schools. 50 why should they outnumber farmers four to not the public lake one. These twenty-one states in- machinery and elude most of our wealthiest manu- lsr en factoring states-New York, Penis-1 would not be so many unemp.os cd. sylvania, Ohio. New Jersey--and several of our richest farming states--Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska.

Farmers' Incomes are higher than in any other group, but wage earners dominate. Group four is the highest, with seven states. Workers' incomes are $225 above jjroup three and retail business jumps from $424 to $500 It is high that free trade sentiment in England not only waa beleaguered, but even destroyed. Under free trade, English manu- 'acturera are undersold right at their own doorsteps by German producers. Even on the streets of.

Sheffield the stores sell cutlery 'rom the Fatherland. And, "loyal'' John Bull buys it because it is cheaper. per person per year. Industrial New York, Day By Day By O. O.

MelNTTRE NEW YORK, Sept. iic midget market is boomltsg. Not incc Barnum presented 'General Thumb has there been such a de- and In the amusement world for the strange little people." Few lidget actors arc at liberty and ircuaes find such performers have, ncreased drawing power this-year. Movie temples, presenting acts with feature films, -report hem a sure fire draw. For many midgets were offered merely human, freaks by side, shows, mt to-day they are singing, danc- ng and portraying boisterous com- dy as well as dramatic roles.

The majority of midgets come rom the mountainous areas of middle Europe, chiefly Austria and Germany. Science advances a the- try that; the biological reason for ia due-to defective hyrold glands in their parents. But science is not certain. It rare- it developed be had had a iingle small glass of beer in the neighborhood--and drew a blank. OO-Another cloud piercer ia in e.vca- 'stage in my part vating and l'c is.

Anyway, Js discovered that sympathy, in most instances, 'is wasted on midgets. Few who would exchange places with normally developed men and women. Rather do they glory In their dl- mlnutivenesB. Furthermore they are surprisingly healthy and happy. And invariably thrifty.

While the giant Is of ils size the niidget seldom Is. has very little timidity about-appearing in public nor doea he mind 3elng stared at. Instincts proriue- of matrimony arc minimized but when midRcts marry they a often parents of fully proportioned children. A California college fullback Is tho, reputed son of midget parents The midget Is often testy. He does not particularly care for tho term mid cot --nit hough it.

is the narnic useu In medical hooks and other treatises (in the subject. He prefers to be called a Lilliputian. -00- am told, that Lilliputians are heavy users of tobacco nnr that It does not a them as the avovftgo amoJter, A lhonlvlcnl mnn- agor tells of a mid got In ono of hi companies who smokes duy.r-n or morn fiercely black cigars du w(th pipe between tinifis. weighs but foity-nlnu pounds. OO-Contrariwise, midgets arc highly susf.cptlhln to tho punch In alcohol and rarely touch intoxicants.

Several years ago midget fiuddonls' appeared at tho roaring oornor of Forty-second and Tflntli ami bcpnn to illrorf I i Such 'd like to be away-until it Is The boys are matriculating in za i henties, neck-twisting and ankle-grabbing. The difference between a college and a university is in the size uf the stadium. professor of history, science a gin-making at a cks up his first interview yesterday. He said: want any of my students to fearn the alphabet this season. "The critics claim that would be placing too much emphasis on education.

"The result is thai the boys are going into a huddle on everything, especially ono of them happens to swipe a lis'. of quiz answers. "Quite a Jot of boyti go through my class room every day. ''That's because my room is a short cut between the gymnasium and the stadium. workers dominate, outnumbering armers and farm workers three to one.

The two large manufacturing "states in the top group aro Illinois and Michigan, which also support rich farms, and one other rich farm state, Kansas, is included. Wages the highest group average nearly wice those in the lowest group, and stores sell more than twice aa much per person. It is significant that in groups of states, with each rise in the wage level, business per person Increases. Wo have known that this must be true, hut we have never before had figures which show this close relationship. C.

NUJTNALLT, Calif. PRESSURE TO COMPEL SPENDING ADVOCATED To the Editor of The Ncwsilerakl: i 1 i rn i a does things well. We learn that employers have assured employes of their "One hoy actually sat down for fifteen minutes. "I discovered later that he was "He was very nice about it and accepted- the dean's apology. Yes, it looks like a studious year on the five-yard 1 ine.

The prexy is so popular with tho stuuent body that he is going to be allowed to carry 'inished. From two workshop the water bucket. And I love my windows during 1 my time In New York, I have watched various graduations of skyscraper construc- -Woolworth Tower and silver pinnacled Waldorf. Glanc- ng up from my typewriter to sec such gigantic endeavors makes my luhy efforts doubly depressing. 3ften I've bad to down the )llnds to finish my --GO-I like the late Clare Briggs 1 face- Jous optimism about his dally stunt.

'Often 11 he would cash in at our poker same, stretch and, itifling A bored yawn, sigh: "Weil, must gallop to the drawing board and show up a few of the old masters." Sometimes I think he did. Tho other day I Inquired the fate of silver flasks. I had not seen one months. Many manufacturers have written in there Is still market and one grown extraordinarily ambitious and improved his product. Says he: "Our thermos flask absolutely removes that delicately topld taste that conies from being carried on a warm hip.

1 Hotch-potchlc! -OO-Broadway now has a Java nnrt sinker salon for dunking do luxe on. th.c corner north of tho Astor where glittering machines once cascaded clgarcts. To-day drool- Ing peepers through the oval win daws sen machines minting lua clous brown doughnuts. -OO- Tn my yoars on postcards R. "I saw you the first time the other night after midnight 1 and you looked llkft scared and Innocent titmouse.

Ant did the cop at Street whisper Into your can?" HP was (slipping mo a few facts of iifo. him took tho hou.r. Hf foil UNANKWKKKD (V'mni The Humorist) HOUW. Do vou believe In power of prayer? the would If you had jfono homo nn hour ngo. CLOSK I I A (From An.swiM-si KIUEND; YOIII luiflm his luilr cllopod i dope.

work. The salary ia small here. But got a free ticket to all ft home games." Denver. Colo. there These things come about with a struggle, for the sense of necessity is already a part of the worker's mental process.

He can not comprehend why he should work so htird to obtain that which is just and right, but he should fight at all costs. Liberty and struggle arc automatically linked together. We advance by adversity. Therefore, we should ail work for our liberty and the good things in this life, and not just wait for some one to arrange the good things for us and we can do this best by working to overcome the different problems that come before us. A.

M. DORN. Selma, Calif. BRITISH DOLE VERSUS THE AMERICAN METHOD To the Editor The News-Herald: are prone to speak of the "dole" something to fear in the future, as though it were not already upon us. Why blink the fact? Surely hypocrisy not avail us any more.

If a needy person receives help from the Army, county, begs It the Salvation from door to door, is it not. a dole grudgingly bestowed? As it seems to me, the only question is: Which is better, this haphazard, inefficient, inadequate system we have, or something like employment. This should have been what they have in Great Britain? done long ago. In our case the burden falls Now in spite of all our theorizing upon the generous, many of wnoir and philosophizing, we have got to arc too poor themselves to afford produce and consume to keep industry Banks are full to overflowing. Working people are putting that money there.

Owing to high- interest paid to depositors and wage earners having learned The saving habit, employers may have to go one step farther and compel the employe to spend. Bankers should get in on this thing and do their part to bring about better times. They should lend for much less interest. To be able to do that they should pay less in tercst. By so doing, they would also discourage so much do- positing.

The same people are here and the same money, and so why hard times? It Is the hoarding and the fear spirit that principally cause it. The employers have done their part. Now, Mr. Banker and em- ployes, will you fall in line? thfi relief the occasion demands. In England, presumably, it is impartially imposed upon those best able to' bear it and upon industry in general.

I saw cartoon taken from a Glasgow paper that graphically portrayed the situation. The title was: The Dole In England va The United States. In London where the needy had just rsceived their dole, they were joking, smoking, smiling and seemed to be at peace with all the world. In New York, there was a long line of haggard, ragged, dejected-looking men in one of the many breadlines. I do not mean to say the cartoon told the truth in every detail, but I do say a copy of it should b( nailed up on every charity soup- kitchen in the United Statea next Winter.

Hiverdale, Calif. KOSLER, THE FAMILY ALBUM--LEFT IN THE CAR asleep in a duii: ami wltcu awk-l I'tt, ilio' cuwaid. WILLIAMS CflUS WHERE'S HIS RfllN- IK mi CLOSET AND HE- RETURNS SPtnfERINS THE CAR I5NTTHERE. THRT MOMENT WIL- FREP PftlVES itf. EPPIIWflKASKWO) XEAVEG TROTS OUT FREP HAS 66SE DOWN STORE IN IT ID HIM Tt RRINCOAT HIS W1LFREP WITHOUT IT; HEARD.

GOK, COST 73 FINDS WILFRED HAS RONS BACK INTO HOUSE fiKDS WKCOAT FOR KEV AMP RETURNS CRR AND REfWS 76 It) HOUSE, MILDREP TO DRV. FECIPES WTO 60CUT A6fl)N TO-NI6HT nations" on any j.rotf-ctive-tariff This object lesson by these apos- Ics of fi'ec trade probably 13 only he beginning of their program. Next they may be expected to rally all their forces in an effort to have combined Europe "prevail" upon the United Statea to go to free trade. And that probably would be by way of an international boycott. It would be a calamity for Uncle Sam to embrace free trade.

It would be industrial suicide. He has gone too far--much too far--in his tariff exact! But none of the evils connected therewith could be compared to the catastrophe thai would occur in this nation if he opened wide the gates to an unlimited ava- ianehe of untaxed European and Asiatic goods. And, by the way. what dp Leaguc- of-Kations enthusiasts think now of the continued appeal io have the United States join that international organization? If this nation did that it probably would not have the chance in this tariff matter--or on any ofher issue, for that matter--of the proverbial snowball in hell. The gangsters of York still are in the saddle.

Still do the roar of the armored gun and the "petulant pop of iha pistol" punctuate the air. Still do inoffensive men and women, and even little children, fall victims to the murderous hell-fiends. And a city of probably 8,000,000 seems helpless In the throttling grasp of a comparative handful. It is a shams not only to th3 United States, but even to our common humanity. If the civil law is inadequate to cope with the monstrous evil, then, the city should put herself under martial law.

And If, even under that, the vermin are not exterminated, then her citizens should organize a vigilance committee and hang these devils by the hundreds to the nearest lamp posts. Some readers may object to this "bloodthirsty and lawless" suggestion. But they should remember that nothing else could be as bad as the present situation. llany moons ago in a sterling and stirring melodrama, ono of the characters remarked: "Where there is biit ono road one must take it, lead through what paths it if a vigilance committee bo the ciily road along New York can travel to safety, she should take it. And ishould which In some ways and under some circumstances, Judge Lynch Is noi so black as he is painted.

And his reign In San Francisco-- "whar there might have been mighty little aw hcrc was heaps of a blessing to that community. In Hcrmosillo, Sonorn, Mexico.n lad of 6 years has been senlenred to two years in a slate penitentiary stenlinR seven cartridges froin tho army barracks. J-At us oee! The world Is to-dny l.SilS years from tho date upon I which Christ dicil on the toiv.ako it belted.