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New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Senator Calder Says Mayor
Is Trying to Bankrupt
Companies TO Force Mu.
nicipal Ownership on City
Passengers Stranded
Nixo,, Foresees$25, 900, 900
Increase in Taxes Unless
Remedy Is Obtained Now

United States Senator William NJ
Calder, Of Brooklyn, and Public Service
Commissioner Lewis Nixon blamed
Mayor Hylan yesterday for the era Of
confusion and increased car fares
which struck Brooklyn in full force
after the breakup of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit system by default OF
leases TO the Brooklyn City Railroad
Company.
Senator Calder's statement charged
the Mayor with trying to bankrupt the
traction companies for the purpose Of
foisting municipal ownership on the
city. Commissioner Nixon predicted
that if Hylan did not answer the pro-
test Of the people now, New York City
residents would have to pay $25, 100000
in increased taxes in the next two
years
Both attacks on the Mayor were
called forth by the transit. tangle
which showed AT its worst at the morn
ing and evening rush hours. The re-
routing of many OF the lines Of the
Brooklyn City company left passengers
stranded miles away from their IN
tended destinations. Headways, IN
general, were below normal, and cor con!
gestion of cars at important traffic
points, Borough Hall, for instance, was
below the normal rush hour.
Many Cars Nearly Empty
Brooklyn's greatest outdoor sport
beating the r. R. T.--started early IN
the morning. 1t was seen that cars
stead of the usual 2-ccnt transfers,
were bowling along practically empty,
while suburbantes were taking other
means of reaching downtown Brooklyn
and the business district of Manhattan
Thousands walked to the nearest
transfer pcint, smiling grimly ct the
untitled trolleys going by. Others
were crowded into automobiles. whose
owners had offered a Gift" while q
few hardy souls numbered roller
skates to cover the distance necessary
to save an extra fare.
About one-fifth the usual number OF
transfers were issued, according to
statistics taken nt several busy points
This was taken to mean that many OF
those who formerly used the trolleys
we're walking TO the nearest subway
or elevated station instead,
Actual disturbs nccs were absent, al
though the police were prepared tt
handle any possible breach Of the
peace There was much individual com
plaint, however, and steps were takel
Cor holding larsa number of meeting
under the auspices of civic, taxpayers
and neighborhood associations.
5000 Walk Shuttle Line
The largest parades Of "save-a
nickel" advocates were staged in Flat
lands and at Concy Island. Six thou
sand men and women, it was estimated
walked to the terminal at Nostrand an
Flatbush avenues, instead Of payin
, for ride on shuttle car. The othe
regiment promenaded along Surf Ave
= nue.. Coney Island, from Sea Gate t
) the West End terminal.
Senator Calder said:
"The people Of Brooklyn are reapin
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
r. F. Cutting State Chairman
For National Budget Campaig

The National Budget Committee
which is organizing in every state to
urge national budget system by Con
gress. announced yesterday the APP
pointment of r. Fulton Cutting, the
banker, as New York State chairman
The vice-chair1nen are DR.. Albert
Shaw, editor of "The Amsterdam Re
view of Reviews" and DR.. e. r. A
Seligman. professor of political econ
omy at Columbia University
Announcement was made also of the
appointment of John H. Fahey, OF Bos-
ton, as chairman for Massachusetts
and the appointment Of William Oxlcy
Thompson, president of Ohio State
University, as the national committee's
agricultural representative. Ten states
have been organized by the committee.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
Polish Plea for u. S. Army
Supplies Refused in Paris

PARIS, Oct. 20--Although appeals
have been made by Poland for Amer
lean army clothing and shoes to supply
the Polish troops. 1t was made known
in the Supreme Council meeting to-
day that the United States could no,
give surplus army supplies to POLAND
+ without the special authority of Cen
gress. Consequently the task Of sup
plying the Poles, whose needs are ur-
gent, will, it is stated, devolve upor
France.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21

cials of the New York City Railways
Company and subsidiaries, and with
representatives OF financial interests
in the corporation. Mr.. Nixon said he
had been deputized by the officials to
arrive at a relative appraisal Of the
lines with a view to coordinate the
system again. Before and after the
war appraisals in his possession, he
said. fixed the property's value be-
tween s7O,0OOoO0 and 100000.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
death or resignation the vacancy will
stand"
Tells of Rio Jucreasas

Tells of Big Increases
According to figures given out by
Charles +. Kerrigan, secretary to the
Finance Department, the budget and
finance committee OF the Board Of
Estimate and Apportionment has in
creased the tentative budget by ap-
proXimately $775,O00.
Mr.. kerrigan said the increases for
personal service amount to approx
mately $4,000. These increases are
only for positions paying over $4,000.
Among them are included mandatory
increases granted by the Legislature,
notably to employees of the various
courts and county Offices. These in
creases total approximately $4,000
and the on-mandatory increases al
lowed by the committee approximate
$3.50. 900.
Additions to the budget other than
for personal service total S663.S51.
These, according to q statement given
out by Mr.. Kerrigan, included the fol-
lowing:
Queens sewers s.''''''' $1,000 5000
Brooklyn sewers ..........-..' -V"nVo
Manhattan parks ........s.'.. s3VVnV
Armory Bonrd .......... ............... l9UuVV
nennrtment of Water Supply. ..... 10000
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
KEEP THEM U

Ii is said that at every European port Bolsheviki agents
ere gathering, waiting the presidents proclamation of peace in
order to invade our borders. We must ~disappoint them by
keeping the bars up against them. We have no use for such
destructionists on this side of the Atlantic. They have helped
TO lay Russia PROSTATE, they have stirred up the restless and
the uneducated throughout Europe, and they hope to inject
their virus into the entire American political system.
The house of representatives voted ten days ago, and
almost unanimously, in favor of continuing our war passport
restrictions another year. These restrictions were absolutely
necessary, of course, in war time, but they are scarcely less
needed now, when the hare-brained theorists of eastern Europe
are anxious to overrun us and would, if they could, incite our
inflammatory elements to revolution.
There are already too many Bolshevists of one or anothe:
sort in the United States. Why is it that more of them are
not deported? On this point the New York Times says:
at must be remembered that aliens who have
been convicted of offenses against the government,
also many suspects who have been proved 'undesir-
able, have not been deported as the law requires.
This ~scandalous Incidence of justice is well known in
Europe, and it is a reason why the European Bolshe-
wiki regard America as the land of opportunity for
them, the soil in which to sow their poisonous seed"
Let us have done with leniency toward the potters who
wish to Russianize America. There is, or ought to be, no room
for them in a republic whose basic principle is wholly hostile
to the abominable class tyranny which the Bolsheviki advocate
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
THE BOLSHEVIST INFECTION

Major General Leonard Wood, as a result of his abserva-
tons at Gary and Omaha, told us that a "small, we'll financed
group" of Red agitators was responsible for the violence in
both places, and he was convinced that wherever there is a
prospect of creating disorder The group can be counted upon
to appear and stir it up.
General Wood appears to have traced the disease to its
source. The original conditions in the two cities, where
federal troops under his command were summoned to aid the
local authorities in keeping the peace, were not at all alike
But the condition when the soldiers arrived was the same in
both places. Mob rule existed. The defiance of constituted
authority was so definite that it threatened civil war within
The area affected by the inflammatory infection.
A microscopic germ may cause appealing results, provided
it finds a favorable environment. This environment both at
Gary and Omaha was an unassimilated alien element. The
main body of the strikers at Gary, General Wood asserted,
like the greater part of the population of Omaha, had no sym
pathy with the tactics aimed at the destruction of law and
order-as the Bolshevist literature which the military authori-
ties seized expressed it, Down with the United States"
The 'smal well-fipanced group is ready to entrain for
any place where a welcome to Red doctrine may be looked for.
From what source is it financed? General Wood does not
undertake to say, although he is ready to accept the explana-
ton that the apparently ample fund may be traced back to
Soviet Russia. 1t is a matter for the secret service agents to
probe. 1t may be believed that the department OF justice
already knows more than the public has been told.
The American people will agree with General Wood that
the time for making faces, like fools, at this situation has gone
by. Vigorous and immediate measures must be undertaken,
and when once started should be continued to the end.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
TURKEY OR MEXICO?

In England. if we may judge by expressions of the
British press, they are willing that their Uncle Sam shall
assume to keep order in Constantinople, Armenia, Ant0lia and
some allied regions, but they smile at the suggestion that we
shall share in the honors at Gibraltar. oh, MOI of course not.
Their Uncle Sam is only useful to do the work in which there
is no pay, only trouble. They want to use that convenient and
rich uncle to keep peace everywhere in which peace is the only
others will mandatory" themselves. The job which the
two or three hundred thousand men and a billion or two a year
but. is not the United States rich and shall it not serve the
world?
But who gave that Mr.. Morgenthau authority for suggest
ing on our behalf that we participate in the holding of Glib
raltar? What are they so anxious about? Why do we not
have more Americans who want to attend to their own bust
ness? What's ailing. them and us that we want to go and
attend to the business of the whole world, while neglecting
our own?
AS to the Turkish question, we really are not concerned
about it as a government. It may be easily recalled that we
the declaring seemed to be good, we do not know, but our
government deemed it best at that time not to become involved
in those disputes. Not being parties to the war against Tur-
key, we cannot really be parties to the disposition of Tur-
key i'll the peace terms, except upon the cOurtesies of those
who were at war with that country. We take it that the Turk
ish government in Europe continues to exist because there is
no one to put it out of existence. And we should not be in
favor of Uncle Sam taking up the work of putting it out of
existence-not as long as we have in Mexico right in our own
door yard, a duplicate of the Turkish government.
The king Of Belgium, who has visited a few of our schools
has repeatedly commented upon their excellence and he has
connected the efficiency of our army in Europe with the train
ing the men received in the schools of America. Has it taken q
man from the outside to call attention to the fact that we have
really good schools in this country, schools of which we can
be proud and which we ought to cherish more and more as
national institutions?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
LET'S HAVE IT OUT

Kiwak, Staravoito, Karsochky, Garbuz, Melnichenko, Ser
guck and Takamuk. Ne should worry if they all run amuck.
but how silly it is of them to believe that the might and
majesty of this nation is going to bow and cringe before them
and how silly is all talk of them unsetting our government
with their pamphlets and their bombs. If they could even
brighten us then America would not be worth blowing up.
That there should be fear or trembling anywhere over such
vile and vicious elements who have been gathered here from
the four quarters of the earth is beyond our comprehension.
If we do not dare to kick them out of the country Before they
have dared to do any damage to it, then we are not men as we
ought to be. s.
Let us have it out and that right now. Let us not go on
fearing these /. w. w. and Bolsheviki. Let us not continue to
live in dread of what they may do or that they may take over
our government, born and bred in the blood and bone OF pa
triotic American for a'cehtury and a half. Let us tell them
row and for all time to come out of this hiding and attempt to
upset this government or the conditions that we have learned
to call American. There is no doubt as to the outcome. Have
10 fears. That kind of human cattle may throw bombs and
loot buildings, but they do not have the fighting courage OF
even hyenas. f5"
Let us have an accounting and a settling of all these
yelled intimidations. Let us separate the sheep from the goats
and let us not he afraid to send the goats back to where they
came from. They may be able to use their own mentally and
morally misshapen products, but we should find no pace for
them. Up with red courage and down with red radicalism.
Let's get cleared away into American ways and then let's all
go ahead with rebuilding the nation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
THAT AMERICAN D

Congress may decide to send the necessary troops :"
Armenia to police that section of Europe but when the senate
through with the treaty it will be up to congress 70 ~
The decision, for if any one thing about the league OF na'ons
is already settled it is that this power will not be ii' 70 ue
decision Of any one man. The lowest estimate OF the hunlDer
of troops necessary to this job, as given by military non :.
100000, and others reach double this number. In any event
t would require an army twice the size we maintained before
The war for this job alone. Europe doesn't want the JoD anu
Uncle Sam is expected to take it. The folo"ihe
the London Chronicle is in line with much OF the Driu'"
press comment:
The only real way to keep the peace there Is
have some troops on the spot; and If America IS
as anxious as we believe her to be, to save the
Armenian people, she must accelerate her decision
about the Armenian mandate. If she will take IL,
everybody in Europe will recognize that the best soiu-
ton has been found but if she will not, let her say So
and thus enable some other arrangement to be mace.
1t is not reasonable that the armed forces OF Great
Britain should be asked any further to stop this par
ticular gap. We only agreed to police the trans
Caucasian territories as a strictly temporary measure;
we have throughout declared our unwilingness 10
adopt any permanent mandate there; and we have
quite sufficient responsibilities elsewhere. The costly
and thankless task which we have already discharged
among the Armenians~ and their %neighbors constitutes
a disinterested service TO the peace conference when
it has no right to expect us to go on rendering.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01

In New York it is openly charged, in space paid for, that
the Washington government in disposing of the war materials
in France disposed of 22,OOO,OOO pounds of sugar which we
,eeded at home and also many other things that we are now
short on here. And that Junk" was sold for less than four
teen or fifteen cents on the dona4-did the sugar also go in
with the rest at a sixth Of its real value? The New York
advertisement which is paid for by the Hartman bank charges
that our shortages in this, country are likely due to the short
age of business brains in Washington. We wonder, as the
Yankee used to say, and then we wonder again and wonder
and wonder and wonder.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
THE Won DER GOLTZ "REvOLT'

The old American backwoodsmen found it necessary to
shoot skulking Redskins first and ask questions afterward. The
same philosophy may be applied to military undertakings Of
German and Russian imperialists. The western nations had
better defeat those undertakings first and then they can at
their leisure investigate the purposes which prompted them.
Won der Goltz and the Russian iunkers of the Baltic
provinces have been prolific in excuses. They have had no
lack of plausible explanations for their activities. They
were gathering an army in the Baltic states, they said, in order
to cooperate with the Let's and Esthonians in holding back
the Bolsheviki. Perhaps this was part Of their purpose but
ii was not ALL. Today Won der Goltzs Germans and the Rus
sian Baltic junkers are fighting the Esthonians and the Let's
and nobody knows whether they are still hostile to the Boil
sheviki or not. And the German government pretends it has
lost control of these German troops.
There has been talk of cooperation between these iunkers
and the Reds. That, it might be said, would be an unnatural
alliance. So it would be, but no more unnatural than the yir-
tual alliance between Lenine and the Hohenzollerns. an ALI
ance which was not an alliance and yet was an alliance and
which, whatever else it might have done or not done. did come
very near to enabling the Hohenzollerns to crush the British
and French armies in the great 1913 offensive. Unnatural
alliances sometimes work very well when both parties are
threatened by the same foe. In this instance both German
imperialism and Russian Bolshevism see in the entente allies
their common enemy.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01

According to statistics compiled in Washington and sent
out by the Associated Press, the steel men have had in
creases amounting td 22i per cent, or more than that received
by any other industry. 1t strikes the average mar that tbaso
increases have to be stopped at some convenient noint They
cannot go on forever, unless there is to be no regard Maid 70
the ability of others to pay for steel products. The FARMERS
of the country feel these increases for they have to Inv fance
wire and nails and staples-and they are paying three ordinary
prices for them now. Every man who builds q home or rents
one; every man who uses steel orliron in anything he makes
for sale to the public pays the increase and must !, = =
The consumer or quit business.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-18
Nothinn poinn There.

Nolselessly. but with all his might,
the burglar tugged away at the dress
ing table drawer.
In vain. 1t refused to open. He
tugged again.
"Give it another jerk said a voice
behind him.
The burglar turned. The owner of
the house was sitting up in bed and
looking at him with an expression of
the deepest interest on his face.
"Jerk it again. There's a lot of
valuable property in that drawer, but
we haven't been able to open it since
the damp weather began. If you can
pull it out I'll give you a handsome
royalty on everything that's"
But the burglar had disappeared
through the window, taking part of
the sash with him-Pearson's Weekly
Cheeks are not always as pink as
they're rouged.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-18
CLIMB ON HIGH WITH
AN ARMY CHAUFFEUR
RoCkieSt Road to Dublin Is Lo-
Gated in France.
Private Employers Who Are operat-
ing Large Fleet Of Trucks for De-
livery Purpose Are Told to (
Remember Army Men.

The chauffeur who used to consider
Broadway and Forty-second street a
hard place to cross went to war to dis
cover that the rockiest road to Dublin
lay in France, after all. For automo-
bile driving became a supreme art over
there, where there were no lights to
illuminate the roads, and often no
roads to illuminate.
With shells bursting on all sides, and
bombs dropping from the Jerrys above,
the truck, ambulance and lorry drivs
ers soon learned a thousand new tricks
in the trade: how TO keep a straight
course without benefit of compass or
light, how to climb out of mud hub
deep, how to run on three wheels If
something happened to the fourth, in
short, how to do the impossible. all
to the glory of the allies and Novem-
ber 11th e@
These men are now coming back to
the United States, master mechanics
and drivers, trained in the hardest
school to every emergency that an au-
tornobile could confront Some Of them
are stiH jobless, and Col. Arthur
Woods assistant to the secretary of
war, and in charge of the governments
unemployment campaign for ex-service
men, offers them as the best possible
material in the world for expert auto
mobile driving.
Private employers who are operating
large fleets of trucks for delivery and
transportation purposes, are especial
ly recommended to these expert driv-
ers. The various governmental and well
fare agencies will be the means for
bringing the men and the jobs to-
gether.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-18
INSISTED ON QUICK ACTION
rhis Father About as Sensible as Many
Who Expect Wonders From Cor
respondenee School.

Henry p Dawson was talking about
the numerous correspondence courses
in five lessons-each lesson to be mas
tered in one evening over the after
dinner cigar-whlch teach a man how
to become a Napoleon Of finance.
"YOu can't learn to be a Napoleon
of finance or anything else so easily"
he said. "rhese courses remind me Of
the man who brought his son to the
school of mines and growled:
ST want you to learn this here boy
to be an expert minin' engineer, but
look a-here-I don't want him to waste
his time over lot of book nonsense
about strata and denudatiOns, and
don't bother him with minerology and
crystals, neither. What | want him to
learn is how to find gold and silver and
copper in payin' quantities-payin'
quantities, mind yOu-and I'll call for
him and put him in to work Monday a
week
The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-18

Peddling farm produce from "side-
door Pullmans' is market outlet
which some producers have followed
as, by accompanying a car of their
produce on the road and selling direct
ly from the car door to dealers and
consumers in a number of small towns,
they realize remunerative return from
their marketing operations. In most
of the places where this method of
''car peddling" is practieed the pro-
ducers take out a license from the
authorities which gives them tempo
rary selling privileges, such licenses
costing from $40 to $25 apiece. This
system of self-service salesmanship is
applicable only in regions where the
growers have no cooperative associa-
ton. 1t would be extremely unwise
for the individual producer to go On
the road in active competition with
an extensive selling organization.
Cut in Profits.
The growers also must bear in mind
the fact, although the returns from
this method of selling at first may ap-
pear large. they will be cut down to a
great extent by his expenses, the time
consumed, and the consequent neglect
of his regular business. This practice
may result also in lowering wholesale
prices, inasmuch as the grower may
be anxious to get away and may sell
at figures which the regular dealers
would not accept. Car peddling is
The Monmouth inquirer., 1919-09-18
NEITHER HAD KICK COMING
Mutual Mistake Nothing for Gentle,
men to Worry About in These
Servantless Days.

The head of one house where war
conditions had left the place helpless
drove his daughter to a party.
The head of the house where the
party was held was perfOrce acting as
his own carriage man and door-opener.
Afterward. when they We're formal
iy presented. one said:
81 certainly must beg your pardon
for something, sir"
"What is it,"
"You know that night when you
drove your daughter to my daughters
partyY'
"Yes."
"Well, when / came to open the door
l thought you were your chauffeur"
Cheer up! thought you were your
butler Farm Life, England.