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Show THE CITIZEN man of the house. ' But Sport wots not of the ruin of womanly hopes of a new hat or a set of summef furs, he has thusly and ruthlessly business as wrecked he just goes along about his contented, as suave and as unperturbed as if nothing had ever happened, or would ever happen to disturb the even tenor of his dogly ways. While the enraged and outraged housewife fumes and fusses and say it slow sometimes cusses, Sport drapes a languid form over a green spot' on the front lawn and complacently licks his ample dog-supervisi- on chops. The desire to rove at large and very much at will,, is an ingrafted trait with Sport. .He often follows the writer down town of a bright morning. This is a rare excursion for Sport. On the way he always encounters three of his own kind of folks two shaggy Airedales, and hound. Duke, the first Airedale whose feeding grounds a blue-blac- k Sport, invades, never varies his action in greeting the intruder one tithe or tittle. Duke charges like a storm cloud and emits a low, resonant growl that sounds like distant thunder. He never hesitates in his wild rush until he meets up with Sport, who always neatly circles him and with tail erect and mane bristling, steps gingerly around, trying to work himself into a raging passion. After Duke's desire to kill has subsided somewhat, Spdrt scratches a little gravel and lets out a few saucy barks. It is a clerverly staged affair that seldom varies and is intensely suggestive of supreme bluff and counter-bluf- f. No sleuth, whether home talent or foreign, will ever get anyhound in the matter of approaching an enemy. thing on the blue-blac- k canine can give a cat cards and spades and leave him This a mile behind in a race to surprise a foe. He has all the gum-sho- e artists we have ever met up with backed clean off the map. His approach is always blameless, always unexpected and always ends in a bound and an arching of the neck he never growls apparently saving his wind for greater effort. Sport knows the spot where he usualand the mighty bound. So ly encounters this big surprise-approac- h Sport always begins to sniff the air when he hits the grit in Canyon Road after negotiating downward the nine flights of cement steps at Fourth avenue. He is so used to being surprised and so accustomed to dodging the bound by squatting low down, that he will instinctively duck if a car toots in the distance or a heavy foot clanks against a bit of gravel in the road. The hound never barks never attempts to bit just sneaks up on Sport's dark side and makes his supreme bluff then he fades away like a phantom in the dark. It's funny, yet it is real fascinating in its fantastic portrayal of dog lop-ear- ed character. The third and. last dog Sport encounters on his trip to the marts of the city, is also a shaggy Airedale. He never bluffs he comes with a mad rush and just stops short of committing a great indiscretion. Sport always wheels and faces him and shows two fine rows of gleaming white teeth, with tusks set for instant business. Always this Airedale pauses just long enough to think the matter over, and apparently satisfied that Sport is only taking his usual morning constitutional and really means on harm, he throws off a couple of deep base growls, and trots loftily homeward, conscious of a duty well performed. After passing these outpost of contention Sport always frisks a bit about his companion and then leaps gaily off in the lead, nosing a garbage can here and there, anon casting a surley glance at a passing auto, but always keeping within easy distance of the human equation, whom he recognizes as his guide, mentor and protector. Sport is a boon companion, a gifted thief of dainties, a miserably spoiled cur because everybody in his block loves and pets him. Sport is just a dog, but he doesnt seem to know it. THE STRIKE PROBLEM. grown up out of the late world war, and which today confront this country, pale into insignificance compared to the divergent opinions now held by labor and capital in the conduct of industrial affairs of the nation. How much of the attempt of the money changers and the bloated, All those vexing questions which have - over-sangui- ne and insatible owners of our national wealth labor unions down below their natural size and, if possible i from the industrial map, is envolved in the present labor stri promises, to seriously impede if not .wreck our entire structure, is entirely beside the mark. The attitude of capital towards organized labor and the very evident desire factions to absolutely control every situation, is the real cm matter. Like a multitude of marble statues, standing within the this great conflict for control, and indubitably the most seri fected, the dear public is forced to take its place, while th ions of labor afe marshaled for the strife and the power issues its mandate and then sits tight. Too often the public, who must pay the strike bills i not know what it is all about. Too often t analysis-d- oes people are too indifferent to raise even a feeble voice in tl behalf. Too often are they made. the innocent victims of thi internecine strife, which appears to be mutually destructive, subversive and mutually reprehensible insofar as organized ca organized labor are concerned. Only when the shoe pinches that the resultant pain can no longer be withstood, does t public rise up and demand an accounting. And that cond arrived in the present strike situation, affecting, as it does the most vital commodities of industry and the home, and available means of transportation on a scale commensurate size and importance of our national domain. It appears that the hour has struck for the public to take ing hand in this war that promises to devastate the entire lai it is speedily checked. The foes of industrial peace, organiz and organized capital both striving to gain the upper hand, allied against the best interests of the nation and the surviv battle of the republican form of government. This age-ol- d lords of w of labor, one one hand, and the the other, cannot continue at the approximate rate of 3,001 annually, if the nation is to survive; Every strike is but breeder of discontent which fastens itself on the masses of ers and lingers with them like a cancerous growth, ready to inflame when the next labor battle portends. Every strike blow to the economic stability of the country and leaves woe in its wake. Every strike even though successful from the stani either faction is but another round in the ladder of destrui are building for themselves, as well as for the nation. Eve widens the gaping gulf between organized capital arid organu and our offic and renders the efforts of the peace-makethat much harder in foisting .a semblance of control over turbed situation.. Apparently there is bitter hatred ranklin mentalities of organized capital and organized labor for ea of t Apparently each is pledged to accomplish the utter ruin trial entity of the country, before it will sacrifice one iota o And apparently this bitter strife is fast leading the nati( fend condition bordering on communism on one hand and the other. Where exist no common purpose, no altruism, as betff datory organizations of capital and unforgiving organizations each will ever goad the other to take the most drastic m win control. Witness the loud appeal of the capitalists tor ha' they which is called time a strike government every on and certainly made no effort to stop! Witness the attitu workers in dealing with those who through force of ciro11 the or from other motives stick to their jobs ! Check up of direct action that always crop out in present-da- y it and speculate a bit on what portends in which direction In view of the fact that organized labor and organize time organized, primarily, to fight each other, it is about F05 party the innocent party the party that makes wages earns the vast interest and other increments on the manipulated by organized capital, take a deciding stan,f1 ter of destructive strikes. It is high time to shackle an self-aggrandiz- Pl te ide IOC nnj DC lei ic E D lor sti U lm ae ioi 11 rat at ed bli bi rs oer on ab: eti 0,( ioi rill les an no )0C vii ine he 00 o 00 00 to! de pe: ici ex er 41 me 9 iar |