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Show I WASHINGTON SHOULD ACT. Having felt the full force of his pent up emotions, Senator Borah on Monday Mon-day Issued a formal etatpment -which Is nothing lees than a gloomy forecast. fore-cast. Dealing with tho coal and railroad strikes and the industrial conditions general! Senator Borah said: "The situation startles anyone who stops to think about It and who known I the real condition. The outlook for the settlement of these matters is not ver encouraging. But. if they were, settled this week, still the damage, the injury to business and the disturbing effect upon business would bo very great The coming -winter at the very best is to try the patience and the courage and the patriotism of our people peo-ple the whole industrial world, capl tal and labor alikt- Nothing can prevent pre-vent heavy losse.s to the farmers, imit growers and potato growers of the west, by reason of the difficulty superimposed In getting cars to move heir crops, especially such crops as fruit and potatoes " One regrettable feature of thia pond iijl upset is that the men in Washing ton seem to be unaware of the crisis I which is upon the country They call j conferences days apart and allow 'he uncertainty to drag. Now is the time for definite action The administration administra-tion should begin to have . fixed pol-1 Icy, either in on direction or the other. There is a meeting on Sunday and i then a marking of urn Bui the de siructive forces at play throughout ihn United Statps are operating day and night Ib the president waiting for an explosion, ex-plosion, or has he no well defined solu-, tion? We know the president has, a most difficult task and is aiming to be Just, but elements of indecision seem to be creeping into affairs at Washington, vrhlch call for more firmness on thei part of President Harding If Senator Borah sees with prophet-lc prophet-lc eyes, America is approaching a condition con-dition of misery which can be averted only by immediately applying the brakes to the downward course of, events. A -winter of destitution, unempioy-, meut and discontent might bring us a , train of disasters beyond imagination. I |