Show IDa Daily ly Editorial Digest To Save Central EuropeN Europe N calling upon congress congress to too su supply plY IN the means for tor the of ot economic life Ufe among the tho people between the tho Baltic and Black Dlack teas seas Mr DavIson is not pleading for charity The task which America must face tace is vastly beyond the powers of all aU the charitable effort we wo could bring to bear The Red fled Cross and the services services ices of Individuals have dune done their best to cope with destitution and disease I now ravaging ra the peoples of ot Juro Europe e eon on a 11 scale for tor which modern history has no parallel But when Poland counts her typhus cases cases' by the tho q quarter arter million when halt half tho the population of the Ukraine is swept with typhoid and I influenza when Vienna is ravaged by hy tuberculosis hen when Budapest t must feed half halt of ot her school children it is not nut charlt charity that is demanded but restora restora- tion We e must cure not typhus in Poland but Poland Itself We Ve must feed teed the children of ot Vienna and Budapest Budapest Buda nuda pest by enabling the fathers of Vienna and Budapest to earn break brena for their children n. n Charity can deal only with a a. fraction of ot the enormous mass of misery mis ery cry and e even n then is sure surd to break breakdown down do under the strain The peoples es of Central Europe must be lifted out of ot the of economic paralysis out of ot the fears tears and suspicions which are an e evil U heritage of ot the UIe war and must be set to work The Tho solution at which Mr Davison has arrived is one into which ultimately all plans for tor the lifting of out of the aftermath of war misery Y res resolve lve themselves Even In the rase rash of ot Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many whose economic prostration does not approach tho the breakdown of nt pro uro i ro- ro life in the new states of middle Europe It is recognized that help must come from the tho outside The economic memorandum of ot the tho supreme council recognized this fact tact months ago Germany Germany Ger- Ger many must have aid ald in order to pay her obligations to the victors Central Europe outside of ot Germany must have hav help for tor a a. more Immediate obligation It must have help simply to live The task is a a. formidable one one but ItIs it itIs itis Is not one to paralyze our energies with the tho te fear r of t failure It If only AmerIca Amer Amer- ica lea wil wU show the way the rest of ot the world worM will follow And not the least the peoples of the tho unhappy countries to whom we reach out a hand will be lifted out of the stupor and discouragement discouragement discouragement and misery to which in the long run is the only permanent form of help Now help Now Now York Ev Evening Post Ind I 1 Newspaper Postage Rates The committee on the and and post roads of the house of ot representatives tives has reported favorably an amendment to the postal revenue laws designed to suspend further increase until July 1 I 1921 In the rates charged for carrying newspapers and cals call through the malls mails As a measure measure measure meas meas- ure of temporary relief to the much harassed publishing industry and as asa asa asa a check on the tho continuing tendency toward increase in the rates at which i newspapers are sold to their readers i this amendment should have the I prompt approval of congress A worse time could not be chosen for pressing I upon the public the theory that as I Ithe the mere cost of handling and carrying carrying carryIng carry carry- ing second class mall mail matter as such j is less Jess than the direct revenue from this class of postage bookkeeping bookkeeping book book- keeping theories of the de department department de de- would be better sere served by I advancing ad the second class rates What has been called persistently a I loss in the carrying of printed man mall matter us ns a a. math matter t of ot fact is not a loss toss at all Tho postal service Is a n. great business organization working working- through various interlocking branches first of all to rive ti efficient service and incidentally to produce an operating operating oper oper- profit where It can Neither profits nor net deficiencies however can be charged properly to any single branch maintained for the carrying of ot any particular class of et mall malt The four great subdivisions or classes serve erve each other Tit The advertising and reading matt matter r carried b by newspapers develops and stimulates in to very great degree the operations of ot the profitable profitable profit able first class or letter carrying division Both first and second classes increase the business of the parcels post The rhe rural free tree delivery In itself more conspicuously than the second class clasp service helps in turn to make business for all three The people who vho use the mails malls that is is in a a. a word all an of the people of ot the country pay for or the tho ce maintenance of I the composite department It If they stand a loss in one part of ot the service ser ser- service vice this loss is promptly offset by the profits of ot another and the people are quite quito content conten contents with that balance of ot results Certainly there are are- areno no deficits due to the transportation of second class mail mall that are paid by the government from funds other than postal revenues that revenues that is there were no such deficits a n year ago and if deficits are are ro to be faced the present year the they will be be chargeable to an entirely now new set of ot causes Where as a a. matter of fact tact the government got gov is called upon to carry any anye e excess cess of ot postal expenditure over cost outside the postal revenues such an outlay comes clearly under the head of government service to the people people- service of ot the class performed by the department of agriculture the department department depart depart- ment of ot commerce the bureau of ed education education ed- ed or perhaps one half the operating operating oper oper- departmental services of ot the national na- na nl na administration To the country this particular service means the placing placing ing of reading material news and the offer of business opportunity before the they people everywhere at an e expense pense that is comparatively slight and aid that that the people are perfectly willing willing- to New Nev bear New York Times Ind Dem Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities II If Jt employers and employed could by some miracle of common sense declare I I an industrial and social mor moratorium for tor a a. period of three months and de decide de cide tide to get along with each other bearing with if it not each ach others other's bur- bur I f deps in the strictly Scriptural sense One ne would not need to be a n. prophet to predict that that the country would be I thrice b blessed essed and would afford a lesson lesson lesson les les- les- les son in tranquillity to the whole world But since such a miracle Is Js not likely to to happen overnight and the will Ao to d do the common sense thing does not seem to be strikingly in evidence either among the employers or the employed pro producers or consumers It is evident that we shall shan have to continue con con- to use such regulations as we t I have set up to check the of offending tendIng capital on the one side and restrain the Irresponsible fomenters of trouble among the employed on an the other Whether the economic outlook be favorable or or- otherwise it is worthwhile worth worthwhile while noting that the National Association Association Asso Asso- of Manufacturers which has just adjourned Its New York YorI session I believes that the time has come when organized labor as well as organized capital hall havo have the tame same status beSore be be be- tore Sore the law I In view of what is hapPE happening ning now all over the country the plea of ot the manufacturers for tor equality before the law an ail d 1 l that t the e same Same principles r of or I conduct must apply to all classes of citizens should meet with sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic response And while drives are not exactly popular the drive that the manufacturers propose In the shape of ofa ofa ofa a national campaign for Industriousness Industrious Industrious- ness thrift and common sense in connection with the slogan of an honest days day's pay for Cor an honest behest days day's work and an honest days day's work for tor foran foran toran an honest days day's pay as the simplest and best platform for employer em em- and public alike aUke ought to appeal appeal ap ap- peal to everyone It Is about time that agitation for tor the sake of agitation agitation tion Uon should be outlawed A drive for fora I a return to common sense and a reasonable reasonable rea rea- I acceptance of ot common rei re- re i might easily produce therefore the about face in our indusi industrial industrial indus indus- i trial and business relations that sane thinkers believe would spell stability and prosperity for tor Philadelphia all Public Ledger Ind I II I Give Us Men MenThe The problem of ot immigration is an exceptionally serious one for this country The labor shortage which hampers production In the country as aswell aswell aswell well as in the factories requires n. n rapid raId solution of ot the problem Thus alone will the current of Immigration tion again t turn rn towards these shores a current of ot active elements able to develop and to exploit the great natural natural natural nat nat- ural resources many of which are still sun unexploited while others are goIng going going go- go Ing to ruin Agriculture particularly suffers from want of labor The whole hole building of national American prosperity threatens to break down because its foundations which consist of ot the treasures of ot the soil soli are weakened No illusion is possible America needs needs' immigration in order to develop and to prosper the more so because the American people are not particularly particularly particularly prolific Bollettino Bollettino I dItalia d'Italia Italian Ind |