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Show regarded as a nuisance. It Is common com-mon to go further and state that they are definitely undesirable citizens citi-zens and a menace to sound government. govern-ment. Cyrus H. McCormick of Chicago Chi-cago left an estate of twenty-two million dollars. According to current cur-rent newspaper print fifty-two per cent of what he accumulated wem for state and federal taxes. Assuming Assum-ing that his active life covered the span of fifty years, he worked twenty-six of them to accumulate about eleven million dollars for the public treasury. That is not so bad a record after all. Probably Mi. McCormick would have registered an emphatic "No" had he been asked ask-ed to make a free will gift of more than half his goods to the common purse, but that does not enter into the argument. The fact remains that the world found that It could use him, even though he happened to be a millionaire. Federation of Labor, come into open physical clash. In the old days of volunteer fire companies, the partisans par-tisans of rival organizations often expended more time and effort in keeping each other In the background back-ground than they devoted to the conflagration. The internal strife in the Republican party during the presidential campaign of 1884 gave rise to a cartoon based on the contending con-tending fire company Idea. Mr. Blaine was defeated as a result of division in the ranks of those who might have been expected to form a united group behind him. The Democrats received similar Instruction Instruc-tion in the bitter school of experience exper-ience when they split on the free silver issue. The title of the cartoon car-toon was: "Fighting While the Fire Burns." The phrase oarrles a timely warning to labor. France, Great Britian and Belgium Bel-gium are said to be working upon a plan having indefinite boundaries but intended to Insure the aid of the United States to combat what the Washington Post calls the universal uni-versal heritage to disorder. Those are well sounding words. Getting a little closer to facts, an economic conference is proposed. It is suggested sug-gested that some system ma b. worked out whereby lasting pear in Europe can be attained. On the surface of things, the scheme has a benign aspect, but brooks run on to rivers and rivers flow to the sea. There is talk about "a relaxation relaxa-tion of the firm American policy of isolation." The word "isolation" carries with it an imputation calculated cal-culated to shame the United States into putting its finger within a very hot pie not of American baking. Relaxation is a good word also, but before giving it too much currency, one should do a little independent investigating and get some first hand information. That can be done by interviewing a dozen or so of the men who were "over there" two decades ago, and finding out how many crave a second opportunity to relax. . In many quarters, rich men, viewed view-ed in the most favorable light, are Current Comment When two women were litigating before King Solomon a matter Involving In-volving the maternal parentage of an infant, that wise judge proposed to settle the controversy by cutting the child apart and giving half to each of the persons claiming It as a whole. Congress ordinarily cannot can-not dispose of its business in so simple and direct a fashion. It musi j search out, weigh and consider all the Intricate rules that govern law making. Now and then, however, it falls back on simple maxims that remind one of a Solomonic Judgment, Judg-ment, an example of which is: "Enough is enough". The Senate Judiciary Ju-diciary Committee is approaching the conclusion that it has In hand all the testimony that It needs respecting re-specting the court change, and that hearings should cease. With the public out of the encounter, the battle bat-tle will settle down to a hand to hand conflict on the floor. Even though the numbers engaged will be reduced, there will be no lack of sport for those who like to see a good fight, and the indications are that the fight will be sharp and long. In Cleveland, supporters of th Committee for Industrial Organization, Organiza-tion, familiarly known as the C. I. O., and members of the American |