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THE BOSTON GLOBE-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1919 6 The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All Trains By Fontaine Fox 1STREET RAILWAY jBasfmt j0nilD Inhe waist up, has hit upon ore of the conspicuous reasons why such gowns are objectionable. ENDICOTT OPPOSES ANTISTRIKE BILL grip the Imagination quite as powerfully, if not more powerfully than all the orchestral thunders with which Wagner treats the same situation In his opera, with about $200,000 worth of stage equipment. It is not the equipment that counts; it is the gray matter. An old nursery rhyme utters the same truth: A poem, said Teddy Van Jink, SKIPPEK DEARLY L0YES A GOOD -SToRY AMD WHEN OWE OF THE BOYS BRINGS A MeW OHE OUT FRoM THE CITY THE SKIPPER WILL STop THE CAR ANYTIME To LISTEN To T. COUNCIL CONFIRMS ENTIRE BIG LIST More Truth By James Cheer Up Reds are thick and getting thicker! Stocks are falling watch the ticker; you cant buy a drop of liquor, wails your pessimistic friend.

Angry strikers fight and riot; every business is unquiet; we shall all be ruined by it, if this chaos doesnt end! It is hard to see how the Senate orators can say anything new, though they may say more, about the Treaty. It is doubtful whether anybody in New Hampshire had a happier Thanksgiving than George A. Carpenter of Wolfe-boro, who distributed 40 turkeys and 250 chickens, each with, all the fixins, among the needy of the town. Transferring the offices of the Elevated from Bostons business center to the corner of Newbury street and Massachusetts avenue will help move Bostons business center. To give Chicago people an opportunity to reduce the cost of living by buying sea food, the enterprising Chicago Tribune has brought from the Boston Fish Pier a refrigerator car with 15 tons of fish, which has been sold to the Chicago people at pricee ranging from 31 cents a pound for haddock to 25 cents a pound for halibut prices that look attractive to housekeepers in Boston.

No shop-keeper has yet ventured to insist that a customer must buy a bushel of cranberries in order to get a pound of sugar. The fact that the Rapid Transit Company in Philadelphia is paying 5 percent dividends on a five-cent fare is bothering those who are trying to boost street-car fares in New York city, and naturally arouses questionings in other cities where street-car passengers are required to pay seven-cent, eight-cent, or ten-cent fares. In Los Angeles, too, a jitney will still pay for a long ride on a street car. Poet -aviator -statesman dAnnunzio continues to refuse positively to ratify the Treaty of Versailles without extensive reservations. The Prince of Wales was deeply impressed when he saw that there were no fortifications of any kind along the boundary line between the United States and Canada.

If he had extended his travels further he would no doubt have been impressed also with the need of a tall barbed-wire fence all the way along the countrys Southern border. The Maine sardine season having closed, the sardine-packing factories at Lubec are busy putting up thousands of tons of smoked herring. Why is smoked halibut so hard to get? The New York taxi driver who took a passenger an unconscionably long way around from 44th street to 53d street, claiming that the streets were in poor shape, probably thought he had a plausible argument until the passenger threw open his coat and showed his detectives badge. Prohibition has proved to be a blessing to the vineyardists of California, who have been able to sell their grapes, for which a few years ago they were glad to get $15 a ton, for from 130 to $50 a ton because the people this year are making their own wines! One reason for the large increase savings bank deposits may be that Bostonians now save 10 cents carfare when they choose to walk. Lady Astor, by George, is rigt.i! "You dont talk too much if you want things done.

Little question for teday: Which is farther from Paris, Natal or New York? Is Baltimore aiming to get rid of her Blue Laws by enforcing them? politics, politics, what crimes are committed in thy name! coined Attaboy! says non Hughey Jennings. Attaboy! Ultimatum is a great big word. WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT Anonymous communications will receive no attention, nor will any notice be paid those of undue length. Denominational or sectarian questions will not be acceptable. Raise in Governor's Salary SI.

T. Oleary, Westfield In 101-4, during Gov David I. Walsh- first term, the salary of the Governor of Massachusetts was increased from to $10,000. Gov Walsh refused to accept the increased salary that year, but did accept for bis second term in 1915. High Seas Mary F.

Finch High sens, the open sea or ocean. The claims of various Nations to exclusive rights and superiority over extensive tracts of the ocean highway have been settled after much controversy by a general international law. The principle now accepted is that the jurisdiction of maritime States extends only for three miles oft their own coasts; the remainder of the seas being high seas, accessible on equal terms to all Nations. Inland seas and estuaries, of course, excepted. Charles Sumners Wife Editor Peoples Column Alice Mason Hooper, the widow of William Sturgis Hooper, was about 28 years of age at the time of her marriage to Charles Sumner.

She married William Sturgis Hooper On Oct ti, 1857, and according to the record of the marriage which is in the Boston Itegtstry, she was then 19 years of age. She died In London on Jan 15, 1913, and according to the chronicle of her death which was in the London Times of Jan 17, 1913, she was In her 75th year at the time of her death. The fact that she was in her 75th year on Jan 15, 1913, fixes the date of her birth as being between Jan 15, 1838 and Jan 15, 1839. Boston. Observer.

Lake Chad, Africa William M. Frentiss On the west shore of Lake Chad is perfectly flat, so that the slightest rise in the water causes the inundation of a considerable area, which gives rise to a wide variety of estimates as to the size of the lake, depending upon the time the observation was made. Lake Chad is also shrinking, the drying-up process having been rapid since the middle of the 19th century. A town which in 1850 was on the southern margin of the lake was in 1905 over 20 miles from It. According to reliable authority, the area is estimated at 80,000 square miles during the rainy season and less than 7000 square miles in the dry season, and It is then surrounded by vast marshes while the remaining water is very shallow.

Lessen Auto Accidents Editor People's Column The vast number of automobile accidents daily tint occur through- out the city, as well as suburban districts, could be reduced if the cliiUliea were given daily le-sons or impression with their regular studies iu the schools. This subject snoubl be part of the curriculum, the danger pf riding on the rear end of a truck or touring car, also on a trolley car and suddenly darting out in front of an approaching vehicle. 1 write this, that you may give it publicity, that the School I Committee may euforee and see that these daily lessons be taught in the f-hxds. so that we can i lessen the vast number of accidents that occur through the carelessness of toys between the ages of 5 to 16, and sometimes girls. J.

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H. We know of no place in Bostoa where monkeys are for sale. You might obtain one by advertising. Herbert Evans Apply to the Y. M.

C. A. or at the Mechanics Building. Huntington ar. Frank Coogan The Portland was lost Nov 23-27, 1898.

ABE MARTIN SAYS i Prices every day are rising at a rate thats paralyzing; there is really no disguising that were due to have a crash. Anyone can see the Nation in this dreadful situation will be forced by wild inflation to a swift and awful crash! Would Increase Discontent, He Tells Committee Sees Fertile Field for Radical Agitation If It Becomes Law Henry B. Endlcott opposed the so-called Anti-Strike bill at a hearing before the Legislative Committee on Legal Affairs at the State House yesterday afternoon. The measure prevents employes of publicly controlled street railways from going on strike on pain of being barred from reemployment until after a stated period and then through the Public Service Commission. Mr Endicott told the committee he did not believe such a measure would prevent strife; he thought, however, it would add to industrial unrest.

Several legislators, members of the Special Commission of Street Railways which reported the bill, ppoke in its favor. Senator John -J. Kearney opposed it. Mr Endicotts Address In his address Mr Endicott said; If any body of men, or any legislators. can devise any plan, or pass any law that really means there shall be no more industrial strife in tins' country, I am with them to the limit, but on thinking about the practical workings of this Antistrike bill, it seems to me that there is a great danger that it not only will not prevent strife, but that it will add to the industrial unrest throughout the country.

This bill proposes to take away the right of the employes of the street railways to strike, and it proposes in place of this right that they be obliged to submit their claim to a board of arbitration mutually agreed upon; failing to agree on a satisfactory board, the case is put entirely in the hands of the Public Service Commission. It takes away the right from the men which they have had since I knew anything about labor difficulties, and, of course, stripped of everything, it means compulsory arbitration, and in this case it further means that one eide or the other is going to finally decide that the Public Service Commission is where they would get the best deal. I am not, of course, reflecting at all on the makeup of the Public Service Commission. I havent the slightest idea whether they would be naturally inclined toward the employer or the employe. Arbitration has been only fairly satisfactory where both sides have mutually agreed as to the arbitrators, and when they mutually agree they assume the responsibility, and the responsibility keeps them in line.

There is no responsibility here. It simply means that these men are not free agents, and they have the feeling, whether right or wrong, that in submitting their case to compulsory arbitration they are no longer free American citizens. Means Dissatisfied Men Now, what does this mean? It means that a man feeling his rights have been taken away from him. that we shall have no more satisfied, contented and happy men working on our street railways, but in place of these have discontented, dissatisfied and disgruntled men, and this means a very dangerous situation at this tfme. Do you suppose, for a moment, that the preachers of the gospel of Bolshevism wouldnt -immediately know that there were many thousands tprobably 20,000 discontented men in Massachu- setts men who felt they were slaves! an exaggerated feeling of course, but the feeling will be there just the same, and knowing this fact these preachers would immediately get busy, and thev certainly would find some fertile soil to sow their seed.

Now, presumably, this bill was proposed to save the public from the great inconvenience and loss caused by the discontinuance of street railway transportation, so this bill says to the different classes of employes of the street railways, You shall not have the same rights that are allowed employes in other corporations. It says to the carpenters, blacksmiths, machinists and painters everybody else shall have the right to strike, but you must submit your case to the Public Service Commission. Why Not Include Everybody? Now, if legislation of this kind is proposed that the public shall not be inconvenienced. then it would seem to me that there would be more reason in passing a law that all handlers of foodstuffs must submit to compulsory arbitration, the right to strike should be taken away from all men and women employed in dealing in any of the necessities of life. All men who work in the gas and electric companies, all telephone and telegraph workers, and so on all down the line.

All should be obliged to submit to compulsory arbitration; in other words. If compulsory arbitration will insure us against labor troubles, it should be applied to everybody, but I think that it is a well-known fact that any attempt at compulsory arbitration has always proved a disastrous failure. In thinking over this question. I have tried to put myself in the place of an employe of the street railway, and tried to realize what effect such legislation would have upon me. If you gentlemen of this committee will do the same.

I believe you will think it unwise to pass the proposed bill. The Story of the Lost Mule In saying this to you I am reminded of an old story which I have told several times, but this story expresses what I mean in a very few words. The story is laid in a small Western town where was a mule by the name of Billy, who was a great favorite with the children and grownup people as well, and one day Billy was lost, and there was great excitement in the town schools closed down and stores stopped business so that everybody could take part in the hunt for Billy. The hunt was carried on without any success for several hours, and finally a farmer, who lived seven or eight miles out of town came into the village and '''as. surprised at the excitement tnat the whole town seemed to be under and immediately inquired whether or not it was a holiday.

They answered that it was not exact-run 1ollday-, bat they were in trouble as Billy was lost. The farmer expressed peat surprise that they couldnt find J'j and iyhy 1 can flnI him, and accordingly he started off. and an hour came back leading Billv with a rope around his neck. Everybody was greatly surprised and of course inquired immediately How in the world did you find Billy world The said I just thought like a mule, and I walked straight to him. Must Rely on Public Opinion I dont believe there is a true Amorim1 country but what prys that strikes and all labor unrest may but 1 thmk we must rely upon public opinion to bring about the best results.

Rublio opinion has grown verv strong against strikes of all kinds, and it is my judgment that the employes everywhere are growing rapidly Hired of interruption to work; therefore I ii iiici etui i look fora gradual slowing: down of industrial troubles. I am greatly in hopes that this preset conference called at Washington will agree on recommendations which can go out to the coustry, which can be used to good effect, and be of great help in saving us from the terrible waste which is occasioned by these in terruptions to production, Young Favors Measure Representative Young of the special commission said the problem is one affecting all the people, rather than that part of them composed of the trolley workers. He said he was not opposed to strikes in privatelv-managed enterprises, holding that in some instances they are as necessary for the public welfare as that of the strikers themselves. I am opposed, however, to a strike among those workers who are serving the public. If it be unlawful for the poliremen to strike it must also be unlawful for public employes of fire, waterworks and other utilities to go out.

Mr Young attributed the unrest among public employes to the inflexibility of the present compensation He advocated the creation of a permanent wage adjustment board, on which the PROBLEM UP TODAY House Ready to Start oa Main Work of Session Detailed Reports Freni Eleratej ..2 Eastern Massachusetts W2ntd The Massachusetts I1-. of sentatives is expected today to ta the street railway thus far r- I ported by the Committee on F.reet HaX 1 ways. The subject is the prir -ini for which the tpecial sees.on At the brief session of the Hoy, terday afternoon Mr Young of had postponed until today the reference to the next LecisUnr, so much of the reiort of the i commission on street ra.lms J- lates to the ass ur.pt v.n cf su' rentals by the communities the Boston Elevated. Mr Your wa desirable that all street matters be taken ur together. Mr Hays of Brighton gave a son for postponing unt.l today a.

the bill reported by the commc-ee provide annual instead of quarter i chances in rates of fare bv the ia.iis.' Elevated. Both motions were i rr.rj without debate. Wants Detailed Reports Mr Worrall of Attleboro offered as order, which was referred to the ou. nuttee on Rules, that lie of the Boston Elevated Railway ton pair le requested to inform the House mht obligations, other than sto ard bonus were outstanding when they t. control of the proiwrty July 1.

Jrs, a-i what they were Nv 1. pci; aj-o what pvrt-ose the $.. r.i:-ed ni.d-r Special Act of 191S was and Ur what purpose the after by- bonds was nent. Furthermore, the ord-r seeks to 1. what sums the trustees l.nc from sale of real estate and property since July 1.

l. and whist i'-loal has been made of th- rn-nev; a-o what iu ha'e lon P.r new rolling stock ad other ri ments since the tru-tees t.Mk 1 bow miiih they bale charged depreciation, obsolescence a i n-ntent of property. Tlie trustees ae requested to state wnit sue ed to put the ro.id arid it vu.Jr In proper condition and the amount at bonds falling due betr-n now m.i end of he term of the tsuids. lr Worrall alo offered art order. was referre.i to the toiiurrstiee r-n asking detailed queuu.m of the t-it.

tees of the Eastern Massachusetts -et Railway Company the ctrr than stork and Umlt iisv 1 control and on Nov I. tie if track discontinued since Jan I. many were -taut -r were run at loss: also how ua.ir proposed to on cf jitnev op-ration-; also for ji the was used wimii a raised under act of IIIs. i i.r for reserve fund, what -t for repair and uewlv acquired iMef and how- much has Men chars -1 9 latlon. obsolescence or 1:1 a of property.

The Commute on a atiJ reported ought to pass on the til frorterl bv the Sir Railwav 1 to provide annual r-ay'-n'-nt state, instead of fdiil-linul. oi S' count of deficit in the cost of oj-rcun of the Burton Elevated. To Probe Bonos Payments Mr Reading cf Cam rs'ee o-fcrel order which was referred to Ur n-nut'ce on Rules for a of two Senaf-rs an I III" to tie 1' rfr? Of payment of the to tel'-" men hy the State Tffc1 )' ur. iv to see Whether the lull-u transacted tn an ordefB and economical manner, wittoul an si ssv, re annoy sun or lro.j) J-r la th benefl' lain-s. Mr Miami of lhudon offered lion protesting against li euojf.

i -r-of sugar on tn grour-l 11 sh- flags cause great suffering sM venience to the peot le of the Pi--wa sent to the Committee on Under suspen-; -n ft r'l House admitted and referred the I- I-tions that the City of ii--authorized to grai increases tf s.i-f e. for persons serving the schools of the city: tie 1 public school janitors tr the Can, bridge School ommi authorized to appropriate -A money to increase tne Du.es of b- hou-e janitors -'J ferterJ: Jin Charles H- CYoy cf Haterhi 1 city 1-e authorized to way between the city and I ra 4 snj of F. P. Esta brook and otl er UtU Boston he authorized to r-se by lavs tun such additional sums of may be required to provide an turret of Foi In the salaries of tne public school teachers. A resolve wa pacd through Its eral stave to provide for an appre; ation of $'-3 to compensate men hers fc the special session, to payable now lU $75 in the middle of the month.

CITY FIGHTS BILL TO FREE OF STREET REPAIR COST Hearings wrere given yesterday by Committee on Street Railway on 1 1- recommended by the special coti.n. -sion. At the afternoon orp ration Counsel Arthur D. Hi. I and Iu Work Commissioner Sullivan the b.U to relieve the Boston Lie.

at-a cf the sxpense of making street between its rati. Mr Sullivan said the M.l is bxsed the old theory that the traction were originally comp-lka to --v thi expense because of their horses, in hauimg cars, wore the street surface i-etween the ra a matter cf fact, he said, the cor.d i created by the horses have teen mated by the weight and speed of user, -day cars. Ve touid Install paving. he ra 'L that would withstand horse wear 4-J years, hut which goes to pie in a very few years, becau-e of the u-n-t-ndous strain put upon it by th car. Under the law.

the eitv tr.ii1 It contract to the bid i-. gardjes of his resnor Mod.ty. result is that some of lonsTU done by men wiio would not be fit A -a hole in the street, evert there no car tracks. If this "dll passe, or cars In Boston will running over tracks that are very likely to Lecce. undermined because cf jeor cori'rc-tlcn.

The Elevated, pound by co lame restrictions, can place it cca-struction contracts as it see fit. and always selects a rei-pony, Je bui.de-. i cause the Elevated hi to PM tne Ml for damage tf construction proves faultv. Mr Sulhvan wer.t on record a faffing public owner-hip cf the Lv.tei. as a means of pat ex)ne jiartn uianze on this po.nl.

he -id it inconceivable that ur.rt-r put: there would be five trustee- a year each, a fr. -is1 j.1 i and a get, eral manager -Me also pointed out that employes cf Elevated are paid fuly percent mors than city employes of the gra In the morning a hearing was i the bill to place in the hand ti Rublle Service Commission con-pb'e i -thoritv over the of The bill wa opposed toy Mayor Jf-id L. Whiton of tjuincv on the 4 that It would take away from r. pailtles all regulatory rower, a tlon. he believed, wh.rh tu.

for the best interests of the Ex-Conrressman Charles of Worcester, chairman of the s' i Street Railway Comrr.i-'-,r, favr-j, re measure because it would rw-' dial relations between the 5 ar.d the road. JaT.es IV. an r- I.yr.n. rejiresentir.g the tf that city, opposed the cr. ground that it is too droatic.

Mr Sullivan de-lared men are making enormous re cited the case of one owner of un si.o had made $7 7'j in one tt.or the fare under which he operated 1 that charged by the trolley Itr.e. contended the public was a' -l like imourt during tne ea-ne llonrer Lormg of l.ct-ern tru-iec. profit are e-curtd at tt.e -vp-- trolley company and tn car rider, in that the trate their service on the very lev line. leaving the corif 'r the burden of serving the pa-. tied section.

City isoitcitor John It. Tracv cf Tau--ton favored the meaeure lecau-e it would eliminate Irresponsible cart from whom no damages can he cr 1Tf If a. passenger cr pedestrian is taci-v tv wt avgt, aw 1 Consideration the Jitney ttJ fee resumed thie morning. TUESDAY, DEC 2, 1919 Tb ABOToUte! Pre Is exclusively entitle! to the uee tr republirntloQ of all nw llxfatrhea rr dlted to It or not other-! credited In thie jafer, and alao tbe f)fVR pnbJUhcd herein. All rights of repiihllritioa of iecUl dispatch herein ere nIho reerred.

The Globe Mans Daily Story A prominent journalist once addressed the students of a New England college on the subject of Success in Life, and he wanted to give them some new points which he did not usually dwell upon in his lecture. He told the students that in order to prompt his memory, in Case he forget these new points, he had noted them on one of his cuffs. When cuffs was mentioned there was at once a loud explosion from the audience and the speaker wondered for a moment what blunder he had made. When the presiding officer whispered to him that two boys had been dropped from college two days before for having notes about their lessons written on their cuffs, the journalist rose to the occasion and said, I am innocent, boys, because when I went to school I did not have any cuffs. IF I WERE KING MR E.

II. SOTIIERN Is fond of acting a play In which a vagabond poet composes a ballad of what great things he would do If he were King. Most of us have felt the same wray. If things were only arranged a little differently; If we were in eomebody elses shoes; If we had the power or the position we would make the world sit up and take notice. Lacking it.

of course, we cannot be blamed for tamely slumping into tbird-rateness. The Centre College football team of Danville, Kentucky, came to 6e something of a joke among Eastern sporting editors this season. By a curious sequence of defeats and ties, which Centre College alone escaped, the championship seemed to belong officially to that eleven. Then the Boston Post had the bright idea, of sending its sporting editor, Mr Howard G. Reynolds, and Mr Edward V.

Mahan, captain of the Harvard football team of 1915, down to Danville to see what this legendary-championship eleven was like. They saw all sorts of curious and interesting tilings. But sound as some of them may like a musical comedy by George Ade, the advantage of the contrast is by no means all or even mostly on the side of the Eastern colleges. They saw the coach, who is a combination of big brother, uncle, stern parent, chief cook and bottle-washer, sitting up late before the night of the championship game to nail new cleats on the teams shoes, and being helped by one of the players who got up every morning at 4 to milk 13 cows, the way boys do at small Middle Western Colleges when they are in earnest about getting an education. They saw the captain end the college president praying with the team before they went on the.

field; they saw the team go on the field in unabashed tears after these prayers and play clean but whirlwind football; they saw a squad numbering only 16 in all, out of a total student enrollment of 203, or less than go out for football at a big Eastern college. None of the boys were over 22 years, and most of them were working to pay part or all of their college expenses. Up in their studies they had to be in order to be allowed to play at all. And the two competent critics from the East declare that the team could probably make a very creditdble showing against an Eastern university eleven. Eastern college players begin to pass the ball as early as August, usually at a Summer resort or somewhere up among the mountains.

The team has professional trainers and a staff of doctors. Its training table is a daily feast of the best quality of nourishing food. It takes its own drinking water along when it goes to play at another college. The night before a big game it Is taken out to a country club and entertained in order to quiet Its nerves. It has the latest thing In equipment and every care that money can buy.

But A falling apple was enough to suggest the law of gravity to Sir Isaac Newton. A kite and a key were enough for Benjamin Franklin to trap an electric current. Shaksperes stage was a platform and a back-drop. Ibsen, in our own times, has been able to produce his most powerful scenes in a single room with one side open to tL? audience. Galileo guessed the pendulum from watching a lamp swing in a church.

There are 20 lines of verse at the end of the first part of Matthew Arnolds Tristram and Iseult which You can hear the earthquake rumble! Industry is going to tumble, the Republic sure will crumble and leave honest people fiat. Bolsheviks with evil cravings will go southward with our savings, with demoniacal ravings and rough gestures of eclat. Is nothing but paper and ink, Now I have them both here On the table, its clear; But theres something still lacking, I think. It is the old story of thl Greek ruler who sought to disgrace his rival by appointing him to the office of public The retort of his rival was to clean the city so well that it became an honor to hold the post of scavenger. There is a predicament, of course, abundantly known to history, in which men find themselves prevented from giving their best to the world simply because the proper tools are denied them in which case it becomes their principal duty to obtain those tools.

But once possession of the tools has been obtained, there i3 no excuse for haggling over whether they are clumsy or crude. For when the final trial balance is taken, the question is not, How much have you done? but How well have you done with what you had? Uncle Dudley. THE SIEGE THE country has been summoned to fight a fuel famine. Mr Garfields coal order has put us in respect to that essential on a war basis. Until further notice, coal is not to be distributed except to the first five war-priority classes, and but sparingly to them.

In some respects coal rations are to be shorter than during actual hostilities. And the date is Dec 2. Winter is ahead of us. When the Nation was bent on the defeat of Germany and casualty lists were a grisly item in the news of the day, drastic restrictions were endured with philosophic calm. When so-calied non-essential industries were eliminated, Americans learned to shrug their shoulders like the French and say; It is war.

To preserve a similar stoicism now, when the Nation is struggling to recover from the war, is more difficult. In times of peace the line between essential and non-essential industry becomes very faint. Business is so organized that every industry, however apparently frivolous, produces the income of some section of the people. The Lever act was invoked against the officials of the miners union on the ground that we were still at war. It is now made to apply to all the rest of us.

To break the strike the Government has tried mediation. Failing, it resorted to the courts. The mines are still either idle or running at greatly reduced production. And now the Government has summoned us all to take part in a siege. Within the beleaguered city are idle miners.

Outside of it are all the rest of us. But this siege is peculiar in that essential supplies for the besiegers are in the hands of the other side. The plan of the Government is for us to bear our hardships with greater fortitude than the miners bear theirs. TING-A-LING-A-LING HEY dont answer, says a clear female voice. And the party, who is sure they are in, and not only in but sitting close to the receiver, would like to say, I believe you were reading a novel or talking over last nights dance and did not take the trouble to ring my number.

The reason he does not say so because he does not dare. Instead of letting oft steam, he The returned nickel is an insult and not enough to drown the sorrow and cool the anger of the thwarted in a glass of ice cream soda. In the Metropolitan telephone division they dont answer has passed out of use. A new device now permits the maker of the call to hear a distinct ringing signal on the line when the bell at the station called is rung. Another step has been taken in the direction of the perfect telephone.

Of course the user cannot yet be sure that the operator is not calling Beach when asked for Richmond, or that she has not taken 542 to mean 22685, but he has the satisfaction, of knowing that she has put a plug in somewhere. If the great invention of Mr Bell were not so useful it -would not have caused so much profanity. The world, which can neither transact business nor arrange social engagements without it, hails every Improvement and then asks for more. Some day the whole process of talking with a fellow-being at a distance may be entirely in the hands of the person who initiates the call. Many numbers will be in front of him, 'and it will be his own fault if he connects himself with the undertaker instead of the grocer.

About that time telephone users will begin to wonder how the Hello girls managed to get so many numbers right. EDITORIAL POINTS Of course Prof Dorr's estimate that the earth weighs 0,000,000,000,000.000,000,000 tons includes that half-ton of coal and anything else you may have in the cellar. Have you finished with the remnants of the Thanksgiving turkey? How would you like another one? All theatres, cafes, and restaurants in Paris have been ordered to close at 11:30 to reduce coal consumption. Gay, reckless Paris! By a new ruling of the War Trade Board, the impoitation of sugar into the United States is permitted from every country in the world, save that part of Russia dominated by the Bolsheviki sugar from wnich we should look on with suspicion, anyway. It is so convenient to call her "Lady Nancy Astor that American editors probably will Keep right on doing it, although Lady Astor, or possibly Nancy, 1 ady Astor, is the proper form.

Ex-King Manuel announces that he no longer has any interest in a return to the Throne of Portugal. Well, he has enough to live on. Aviator Maynard, protesting against gowns cut so low in the back that one can count every vertebra from the Though I would not try to smother the repining of this brother, I believe somehow or other that hes just a trifle wrong. For were told by sundry sages that the history of the ages has contained its gloomy pages, yet the world has jogged along. Things may look a bit depressing; times may seem somewhat distressing; future prospects keep us guessing; skies may look extremely black; but despite our troubled glances at rude strikes and mixed finances, we are banking on the chances that the countrys coming back.

YIW ISM It Will Be a Hard Winter, Too Hot words around the arbitration council wont warm the country half as well as the coal would. (Copyright. 1919, by the Syndicate. Inc.) Than Poetry Montague Hurried Island has gone dry once more. The time to rush down to the corner and Bull Syndicate, Ine.) served by the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway and the Boston, Revere Beach Lynn, and adds that the establishment of a new station would entail needless expense.

The commission dismissed the petition asking for the reopening of the old Ohickering railroad station on the New York. New Haven Hartford Railroad in the Back Bay. REPUBLICAN CLUB HAD $13,483 CAMPAIGN FUND The return of the Republican Club of Massachusetts on its receipts and expenses for tlie campaign of Iil9 was tiled yesterday with the Secretary of State, it shows receipts amounting to $13,483. Those ho contributed $5o or more are as follows: John Puff. 11.

x. Hayward. J. 11. kiiHfnrv II.

Proctor. $10 Kuh iiliam Kndicott. Alfred F. William K. I'nyht.

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Con not-The largest expenditure was for printing. The Tremont Tempie rally cost LW5.XS, which 3s 1 fop newspaper advertising. Clerical assistance cost $1138. There was spent for postage $629.18. There was a deficit of $165 on the dinner the right before the Republican State convention.

The total expenditures were $11,794. and the bills remaining unpaid amount to $544.14. If They By a second court ruling Rhode boys in the courtroom just about had get a drink. Bayrd andWasgatt Replace Baxter and Tinkham Langtry and Trefry Submit Lists of Names for Approval The entire "Mg list of nomination submitted a. week ago by Gov Coolidge in connection with the reorganization and consolidation of State departments, boards and commissions was confirmed yesterday by the Executive Council in special session.

No protest against any of the nominations had been filed with the Governor's office, the clerk of the Council or the Council Itself. Except In the case of the Departm- of Public Utilities the vote was unanimous. Councilor Lewis R. Sullivan voted against the appointment of Henry C. Attwill as chairman.

Everett E. Stone of Springfield. Alonzo R- Weed of Newton. David A. Ellis of Boston and Henry G.

YVelis of Haverhill. In addition to the larger list the Governor submitted the- nominations of Frank A. Bayrd of Mald-n to be a member of the Metropolitan District Commission. the position which Charles Baxter declined, and Herbert P. Waeeatt of Everett to be an Associate Conimsioner of Labor.

Mr Wasg.itts name was uo-stituted for that of Herbert L. Ting-ham of Brockton, who was unable to find time to till the position. Both nominations were confirmed by the Council under a suspension of the rules. Mr Baj rd is the publisher of the Malden Evening News and a former member of the Legislature. Mr Wasgatt an ex-Mayor of Everett, a former member of the Executive Council and is engaged in the shoe business in this city.

iiliam It. T. Trefry, Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation, sent to the Council his nominations of directors of the various division in which his department is reorgan.zed by the act. His selections, which, with the salaries to be paid, are subject to approval by the Governor and Council, are as follows: I-irst Deputy Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation. Alexander Holmes of Kingston.

$5000. Second Deputy Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation. Edward A. Doherty of Cambridge. $40(.

Director of the income tax division. Irving L. Shaw of Quincy, $1509. Director of the corporat.on division. Harold S.

Lyon of Bridgewater. $35u). Director of the inheritance tax dl-vision, George S. Hatch of Medford. Director of the division of local taxa-tton.

Albert F. li. I-'ales of Somerville. Director of accounts. Theodore N.

addell of Winthrop, $40uJ. Sec of State Albert P- I-antry sent to the Council for approval his selections ror two new positions In his deptirtment created by the reorganization act. They are: rank S. Perkins of Salem, supervisor of public records, iiliam G. Grundy of Boston, supervisor of the decennial census, Some of the Governors 'appointees qualified yesterday, including Messrs ole, Attwill and Stone of the Public tfiities; Col Alfred E.

Foote head of the Department of Public Safety and Mis Ethel M. Johnson, Associate Commissioner of Labor. BATES RESIGNS CITY POST. MAYOR MAY LEAVE JOB OPEN Scores of friends called upon or telephoned Renal Institution Commissioner Sanford Bate late yesterday at his office to congratulate him upon approval by the Council of the Governors appointment of Mr Bate to be State Commissioner of Correction. Early in the afternoon, Mr" Bate handed In his resignation of the position he has filled for about a year; he leaves city service tomorrow.

The Mayor has told reporters he so far has nobody in mind as Bates successor: he may leave the post oi-n indefinitely, pending an arrangement hereby the State would assume control of many city penal institutions. ALLOW GAS COMPANIES i TO CHARGE 5 CENTS MORE The East Boston Go Company and the Newton Watertown Gas Light are each allowed to charge five cets more to consumer under derisions of the Gas and Electric Light Commission handed down yesterday. Each coir.pany wanted a lo-cent raise and will accept the ruling of the commission under proteet. seeking later to quash the dl- ision. The commission rti-missed the complain of Mayor Gleason of Brockton against what he terms the high rates charged by the Brockton Ga Usht Company, the rate being $1.45 per thousand cubic feet to consumer in rock -to, i and $1 8.

to those In the surrounding Mayor Gleason contended that the Brockton rate should be lower, in that the city consumer are now helping to pay the Mil of those living in the outside towns. An investigation showed that the revenues of tne company were fnsufficint to fully meet depreciation chargts aad ay dividends. No Good You can till export whisky without getting arrested, but who wants to export whisky nowadays? (Copyright. 1919. by the public money ia being paid in to keep the railways in operation.

He believed that those who will benefit mostly by the passages of the legislation will he the working people, not those who can afford to ride in automobiles. Representative David J. Maloney or Chelsea, also a member of the special commission, pointed out that the People of the State decided that the Boston Elevated and the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway systems are public necessities when they put them under public control. Senator John J. Kearney of Boston declared that the passage of the bill would be a direct blow at organized labor The people would be unwise to assume this attitude, he said, because of the benefit labor is conferring on them by fighting the radicals.

In my own union alone, the waiters Union, he said, the I. has spent $40,000 in Boston and vicinity in its efforts to win over the ignorant men who are employed in our occupation. SENATE BARS BILL TO RAISE WORCESTER TEACHERS PAY The State Senate yesterday afternoon refused to concur with the House in suspending the rules to admit bills providing for the Increase of the salaries of Worcester public schoolteachers. The measure was accordingly referred to the next General Court. WINTHROP AND REVERE FARE PETITION SHELVED The Rublic Service Commission announced yesterday afternoon it had placed on file the petition of the municipal officials of Revere and Winthrop for a five-cent fare on the Boston.

Revere Beach Lynn Railroad within the limits of each community. The commission says rhe company has agreed to institute an eight-cent fare pending the adjustment of -a wage schedule and has put into effect-a five-cent ticket for school pupils. It is understood, however, that the petition may be taken from the tiles before the fare case on the road is finallv disposed of. The commission dismissed the petition of residents of Revere that it require the Boston Maine Railroad to establish a passenger station in Revere st or to remove the existing station in Revere to Beach st. a mile north of the present location.

The commission contends that the territory affected is sufficiently I Mrs Tawnev Apple is havin her eye- hrnwst weeded nut Lot folk look I brows weeded out. Lots folks look shorter when they stand on ther dig- nity. I ft public employes would be represented. Representative William A. Kneeland of winchegter.

another members of the special commission, said that the public is entitled to eoatinaous service when.