Show tisI I Is encouraging to see that the efforts ef-forts to set tie the coal strike continue President lioosevclt having been suggested sug-gested as arbitrator he announces that he Is willing to do whatever Is possible for him to do In the way of hoping to an agreement A special committee la also suggested that will visit time mines and recommend points of conciliation nibs latter however w see no advantage ad-vantage In over what could be done by the great conciliation committee of the Civil 1 Federation which the operators expressly and very arbitrarily and unwisely un-wisely barred out The strike must of course be netted Dome line and there ifj n general feeling that It will be settled set-tled soon And no It Is to be hopod it may he for the losses on both sides and especially to labor arc tremendous The probability Is that the operators will have to back down from most of their positions as the public generally thinks they ought to do for their tub born objection to the employment of the general committee of conciliation to arbitrate the differences between them and the minors betrays a feeling on their part that their positions are not such as will bear impartial Investigation Investiga-tion The strike mint be settled and we believe that the miners ought to carry their points |