Life — September 22, 1921 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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September 22 and reasonableness, and maybe it will turn out to be necessary even to the Irish.” It is natural to feel so, but probably not helpful, The Irish negotiations will probably work out. The Sinn Fein leaders know that however enjoyable their present importance is, it cannot last unless they continue to have the support of the voters in Ireland and the contributors in these States. They know of course that complete success would mean that they would cease to be ructionary chiefs and leaders and them- selves become Government. And then what? When they get through heck- ling, haggling and head-lining, they wili probably come to terms, and Lloyd George is Lloyd George, and knows his job, and can be trusted to side-step the reconquest of Ireland, if it is within the powers of human talent to do it. UR government, though it shares considerably the dilapidated repu- tation into which all governments have fallen, has not yet quit its employment. It still sends out weather reports—very trying ones—collects taxes, and legi lates after a fashion, There was quite a promising civil war under way in West Virginia between coal miners and coal operators, and our government has ened with troops and has induced an appearance of peace, and professes to intend to inquire into the causes of the hostilities and remove them if pos- sible. Somebody said the worst of the coal war would be what The N. Re- public would say about it, and that may be bad, but a dearth of coal next winter may also be bad, and possibly the West Virginia mines are important. When the French queen heard that the people lacked bread she said give them cake, and in the same spirit we would face a dearth of coal by a resolve to cook with gas. HE American Bar Association has isited its “unqualified condemna- tion” on Judge Landis for being a base- ball judge at $42,500 a year while re- ceiving a salary of $7,500 as a Federal judge. The ociation does not ap- prove of having the judicial ermine agged around the bases in that fashion. The Association ‘has spoken with em- phasis, but, after all, it is a constituted authority, and being more or less under the blight that has fallen on all mem- bers of that family, its fulminations may not have much effect. Judge Lan- dis does not seem crushed by its disap- probation, and at this writing has made no response to it. One good thing Judge Landis has done by accepting the baseball salary. He has given a loud and picturesque publicity to the well-known fact that the Federal judges, district and circuit, in large cities and important districts are ridiculously underpaid and always have been. They are very hard worked ; their work is very important, and their salaries are less than half of what they should be. One may almost excuse Judge Landis’s deficiencies in judicial decorum for the sake of his usefulness as an advertiser of that fact. The 15 spectacle of one Federal judge who is paid enough to live on and something over is not entirely displeasing to spec- tators. And the judge seems to have done another highly important service in his extra-judicial decision about the wages of union workers in the Building Trades in Chicago. “He was called upon to be umpire in that dispute because the union-worke like the baseball men, have confidence in him as a man of courage and experience, not too closely tied up to capitalism and the existing order. His decision cuts the cost of building in Chicago about twenty per cent., and make: reading for common citi E. S. Martin. first-rate The Truth About Lenine As Revealed by Any Two Interviewers —— more the appeerance of a hyena thane man ——————————— weterly without scruple, his of the Bow prosperous MRussion peasentry orgy of terrorism and wholesale massecre hes won him the affection comicbooks.com