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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13

during the war period amounted to $685.
O43, 1oQ34o.
The total gross debt on April 5, 1917,
was ST ,281 ,968, 500, while on June 80, 1919,
it amounted to SIS, 484, SOC, 100. The gross
debt increase for the war period was $24,
202,537 1853.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
NOTED ZIONIST CONGRESS MEETS
in CHICAGO

The twenty-second annual convention of
the Zionist organization of America, which
opens in Chicago Sept. II, promises to be
the most important yet held, by virtue of
the presence of so many distinguished dele
gates, and coming as it does on the eve of
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PRICE FIXERS HERE TO
FACE PUBLIC WRATH
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'DN I'M Ep fHlM fATb 'NE
icy" he said. TO fix prices below
the retail market"
Baker also announced the depart
ment will offer for parcel post sale
August Is its vast surplus stocks
Of cotton. wool and blankets.
Prices will range from So to Sc.
Undershirts and sloves and other
clothing also will be sold by the
department.
As the War Department scored
yesterday in reducing living costs
wheels began to turn in Congress
to grind out the new legislation
asked by President Wilson to pre-
vent monopoly and profiteering.
Senator Kellogg. of Minnesota,
introduced a bill to license cor
pOrations under the Federal Trade
Commission. This would give the
I government almost unlimited con-
troll of corporations.
Kellogg's bill is along the lines
( of suggestions made by President
/ Wilson.
I Senator Cummins. chairman of
the Senate Interstate Commerce
( Committee, appointed sub-cOm-
mittee to frame other measures
suggested by the President
Tht subcommittee is made up of
Senators Townsend. LaFolIette, Wat
son. Underwood and Smith of South
Carolina.
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iature. Mr.. Jordan explained. toolr 81,
me Questions Of the picture br1d.sI
the land leasing bill. which woulI
prohibit the japanese from les,,,,
American soil for development n,,r
poses. and also the Amendment :,
prevent Japanese from forming an,
business corporation unless al Ieas
30 per cent OF the stockholders ver
OF American birth.
Although these bills were considere
urgent and apparently would hav
beenS approved IL acted upon, GOV
William p. Johnson. governor a
California, thought that they wouR
be in poor diplomatic taste as IN
United States was at that time Nc
eotisting the peace treaty in Psr1I
Secretary Of State Lansing was cable
in regard 20 the subject and replie.
that il would be extremely poor al
plomacy for this country to take sue
steps at that time. so the legislatu-
adjourned without having taken an,
action upon the bills.
Mr.. Jordan. who is a Republican. I
now serving his third term as Stat
secretary Of California, and has beei
In politics for many years He ha
never suffered a political defeat ant
each election gives him a larger ma,
Jority over his opponents
He IL in the Capital for = few day1
on business and looks very spry 70,
his So summers.
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WILSON FLAYED
BY POINDEXTER
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tagonized and affronted our allies in
the war.
For a long period Of time the
President has absented himself from
the seat of government. and for a
period of six months. with one brier
interval. has neglected the duties of
his office. being absent from the Capl-
tai and beyond the seas
He has endeavored to place llmi-
tations and restrictions on the power
vested in Congress by the Constitu-
tioa. He has proposed and is now
attempting to secure an arrangement
by which, under Article 15 Of the pro-
posed league OF nations, the United
States shall be in a state OF war with
foreign countries. without a deClara-
ton of war by the Congress or assent
thereto by the people Of the United
States.
He has agreed with the represent
otives of foreign countries in Article
Is Of the proposed league. that every
dispute OF the United States likely
to lead to a rupture however vital to
the interests Of the United States.
shall be placed under the control of a
foreign tribunal. in which. in such
cases. the United States will have no
vote
He has neglected the duty and
interests of the United States in
Mexico and after the expenditure
of tho lives and treasure of our
peopl" in expeditions into Mexico,
without the authority of Congress.
has uselessIy abandoned these cam
paigns, and withdrawn thcrefrom
without purpose or result.
H has attempted to impose
( on the United States the joint
duty with other nations of 'prescrv-
I ing as against external aggression
I the territorial integrity and exist
/ in- political independence of Great
Britain. India, South Africa. Aus
tralia, Canada. Hedjas. Portugal,
Italy, Japan. and many other ma
tiOns, thus embrOiling US in the
quarrels of most of the world.
He has advocated as President
of the United States. that we
should make a supreme national
sacrifice though we have COM
mitt"d no international sin for
which this saCritiCe is to atone.
He has used the influence OF Fed
eTaI Chief Executive to trcspass upon
. the independent Jurisdiction OF the
states OF California and Utah. by at
tempting to interfere with the course
OF justice in those States.
by general phrases of vague mean
in-. such as the characterization of
industry without definition or applI-
cation. he has aroused aspirations
throughout the world which he IS in
capable of satisfying. tending to set
the word in chaos.
Quoting from his propaganda. the
communists demand. under threat OF
revolution. that the railroads be given,
at public expense into the possession
and management of the operatives and
employees"
The Washington herald., 1919-08-12
ALEXANDRIA COUNTY
TO HONOR ITS HEROES

Alexandria County Court House,
Aug. 1.-THE committee in charge
of the home coming celebration to
be held at the court house Labor
Day, met last night, Chairman Wib-
ert, of the board of supervisors,
presiding. Frederic b Keefer, of
Clarendon, was elected permanent
secretary Of the committee.
1t was agreed that the official
ceremonies should start at l o'clock,
to be preceded with an automobile
parade throughout the county. Dim
ner will be provided the soldiers
and guests, the visitors expecting to
bring baskets, although refresh
ment stands will be provided by tho
committee
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Ohio, Democrat. declared today In a
letter TO a committee OF railway em-
ployes at Columbus. Ohio. who had
asked his views on the bill.
Myers 0enounces PInn.
Senator Myers Joined Pomerene in
denouncing the Plumb plan.
II am not willing TO De party to
sovietizing the railroads of this coun-
try" Myers declared in a speech in
the Senate.
Senator Nelson asked II the admin
istration should not have put on the
brake three years ago when the Ad-
amson law was up
IF the railroad men held up the
government once they should not be
allowed to do 1t again." Myers agreed.
The preliminary conference called
here by advocates OF rail nationalist
ton. to outline some program for Sc
curing adoption OF the plan, adjourned
today. leaving its business In charge
Of an executive committee OF which
Supreme Court Justice Clark OF North
Carolina is chairman.
Declaring that all the elements Of
the chaos prevailing in Europe are In
action in this country, and that social
unrest here is at the danger point,
A. B. Garretson. adviser of the Order
of Railway Conductors. yesterday
urged upon Congress the imperative
necessity for prompt action to prevent
a general industrial upheaval
GarretsOn formerly was president OF
the conductors union. In advocating
adoption of the Plumb plan before the
House Interstate Commerce Commit
tee. he said he appeared in behalf OF
all of the fourteen railway brother
hoods and the railway employees de-
partment of the American Federation
Of Labor.
Social unrest Is underlying the
smooth crust the labor representa-
tive declared. and It can disrupt the
crust If it seems that no effort is being
made to remedy the existing intoler-
able conditions.
'Inaction on the part of Congress is
a sure thing to bring that element to
the surface"
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JAPANESE PERIL
CROWS IN West
Californian Says Governor
Halts Legislation for
Diplomacy S Sake"

The Japanese in California must be
curbed by legislation" said Frank
Jordan. secretary Of State Of Califor-
MIA, at the Hotel Washington, last
night.
Mr.. Jordan. who has been in close
touch with the problems Of California
for many years. declared that imme-
date action by the State legislature
alone can stop the interference with
American business by the japanese
immigrants in California.
According to Mr.. Jordan. the pic
ture bride" method of bringing wives
into this country from Japan is large
ly responsible for this situation. The
Jap desiring to own a tract of land,
weds his unknown bride through this
Correspondence" scheme. and she is
brought into America. children are
torn on American soil and no law
can stop the Jap father from buying
land for his American son and then
developing that land TO compete with
American business.
According 10 the present laws,
japanese can also lease a tract OF
land for q period Of three years and,
during this period. he may use this
land for any business purpose that
he may desire.
Mr.. Jordan also stated that the
people Of California were calling upon
the governor 10 call a special session
OF the legislature to take up these
important problems. The Japanese
competition has been fel' 30 keenly in
California that Senator James D.
Phelan has determined to introduce
an exclusion bllr' in the Senate un-
l,. = some other action is taken IN the
matter.
The last session OF the State legis-
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tory. 1t was over the morning coffee
and Mr.. Carnegie said: do you
KNOW, MIR. Morgan, l have been think
ing 1t over and I find made a mis-
| take. l should have asked you an
other hundred million for those Car
negie properties"
Morgan answered. IF you had. /
should have paid it,"
Keen Industrial strife.
Financial journals told this anec-
dote as authentic. 1t is certain
there was then involved the most
daring industrial strategy and the
most curious psychology of financial
rivalry that American economies had
ever witnessed. Bridge and tube cor
porations. owned largely by Morgan
interests, had been planning 10
manufacture their own billets-a
field dominated by Carnegie. He sent
out word he was going into the bridge
and tube business and would build his
own railroads from Pittsburgh to the
Great Lakes on the west and to the
Atlantic seabOard on the EAST. Sur
veying parties were rushed out TO
find routes. Other preliminaries made
1t look as though the Canny Scot at
Pittsburgh was making no bluff at
all
A price OF s3oOOoo.OO for his steel
properties-actual and physical value
| estimated at one-siXth to one-fourth
OF this figure - arranged the matter
satisfactorily all round
Andy" as his friends all called
him, then went in for writing books
and giving library buildings to any
town that would raise for itself sum
OF money equal to his benefaction. In
1912 alone he bestowed sl3N 10000 on
any and all various interests.
Author of Many Books.
He wrote and spoke often on topics
raising the question. What shall a
rich man do with his money? Is It
possible to formulate a science of wise
benefcerce?" Triumphant Democracy.
The Gospel Of Wealth. The Man and
His Work are suggestive titles OF
books he wrote.
Medals and pensions to heroes win
ming awards from the Carnesie Hero
Fund commission were intended to
stimulate human courage. The en-
dowment was in 1904 for 10000 The
Carnegie Institute Of Technology. Car
negin Institute Of Washington Car
negie Endowment for international
P.ece. and Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement OF Teaching, were
all forms of layishly endowed enter
Drisos planned to attack human iS-
norance. human incompetenCy, and the
issues that weave in and out Of world
folly and misery.
"DIe Poor and Avoid DIsErace."
The aim of the millionaire should
be to die poor and thus avoid dis
grace" wrote Mr.. Carnegie in 1913.
The highest use of great fortunes
is in public work and service. for
mankind. This is the true antidote
to unequal distribution and would
pave the way for the communist It
ideal in the yet unevolved future He
must consider his surplus trust
funds as held for the community,
and the best means of distribution
is by giving free libraries. parks.
works of art and public institutions
of various kinds.
"Thc rich man may experience
the stimulus Of being in debt by
anticipating income in works for
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HEART BROKEN BY
WAR, CARNEGIE DIES
AT SUMMER HOME
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national arbitration at The Hague
shown to have been useless. so far
as averting the great world conflict
was concerned. He lived to see the
future seat of international arbitra-
ton removed from The Hague to be
set up anew in Switzerland by the
league OF nations.
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REDUCE WEIGHT

Il you wish 10 reduce, yet eat candy ice
cream, etc. get a snail boz Of oil ., kor.sn
at The druggists. Follow the directions A..
soiute5 safe. guaranteed method of becoming
thin. No self-starring; you become .ende-
E-aoeiully. Tirscious. mentally and Physically
srt-sad you're alive! Reduction xuarauteed
70 70 % pounds or no cost 10 youLAdT.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-12
KAROLYI HUNGARIAN
MINISTER AT PRAGUE

Count Michael Karolyi. former pre-
mier OF Hungary. has been appointed
minister from Hungary at Prague.
press dispatches. received by the State
Department through official channels,
stated yesterday. Karolyi has been in
Prague for three weeks. IL was said.
Prague newspapers reported Satur-
day that DR. Milan Hodsea. who rep
resented the de facto government Of
CzechO-Slovakia at Budapest and later
was minister of interior in the Czecho-
Slovak cabinet. left for Budapest Sat
urday to take up his duties as special
commissioner of the Czecho-Slovak re-
public to Hungary.
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ALEXANDRIA
THE HERALD BUREAU.
A. =. Doniphsn,
King Street

A. +. Doniphsn,
y King Street
Alexandria, Va, Aug. 1.-THE rail-
road employees OF the Southern shops
and the Potomac yards In mass meet
ing held today in the opera house
voted not to return to work until their
original demands are compiled with.
The strikers demand that they be
gwen 50 cents an hour for mechanics
ana " cents an hour for helpers and a
proportionate increase for apprentices.
Another meeting of the strikers is
scheduled to be held at o'clock to-
morrow morning in the opera house.
one OF the officials of the local union
stated that II all of the strikers in
the different parts OF the country
return TO work the local strikers Will.
Otherwise he stated that they will hold
out for their original demands.
The 800 men employed at the South
ern Railway shops went on a strike
August l and the 100 men at the Po-
tomac yards have been on a strike
since August 4.
Miss Helen Y. HeishIey. OF this city,
died Sunday in Los Angeles, Cal,
after a long illness. NThe deceased
this city Besides her 'bpother. she Is
survived by seven sisters, those
of this city being Misses Esther,
Mary. Ruth and Bertha Helshley. The
body will be brought TO this city for
burial.
Ollie Simpson, a brakeman employed
by the Southern Railway Company,
was badly bruised while on q car at
the compsnys yards when he Jumped
to prevent being killed. The car was
overturned just as Simpson leaped
off. He received first aid treatment
at the Alexandra Hospital and after
ward was taken to his home.
Mrs. Lawrence Washington an
nounces the marriage of her daughter,
Miss Mary Kathleen to Edward Yer
non Sipos. OF Washington. The ore
mony took place Saturday at the par
sonage of st. Mary's Catholic Church.
Rev. l. F. Kelly, assistant rector.
otriciating.
Newell S .Greenaway. clerk Of the
courts, has gone to Huntington, W.
Va, to visit his daughter. Mrs. Charles
P. McKenna.
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New York Village Burned

Buffalo, Aug. Il.-While State troops
patrolled the fre-ridden village of
Bliss today. citizens Of that little
farming village in the heart Of the
Wyoming Valley searched the smoul-
dering ruins of their homes. seeking
to salvage something OF value from
the $500, ,OO0 CONFEDERATION which swept
the village late yesterday.
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Ironmaster's Life
And Benefactions
MILE POSTS IN CAREER

Born in Dunfermline. Scot
land. November rs. 1898.
Arrived in America with
parents, 1S4s.
Got first job as bobbin
boy at $1.20 a week. 1s4s.
Became telegraph operator
at $35 a month, 1851.
First investment, ten shares
Adams Express Company stock
at $50. 1851.
Speculated in oil stocks and
Invested in other concerns.
Bought interest in Iron City
Forge Company, 1854.
Installed Bessemer Process,
1868.
Acquired control of other
concerns until he had abso-
lutte control OF steel industry.
Sold interests to United States
Steel Corporation and retired,
1901:
PRINCIPAL BENEFACTIoNs
Total benefactions up to July
l, 1918, sS5O,b9o'6 653.
Estimated value of residue
OF estate. s25O.O00,0
Carnegie Corporation (Edu-
cationaD, s125, 100000.
Libraries 10000. s65, 100000.
Carnegie Institute. Pitts
burgh. S25,000,000.
Carnegie Foundation for Ad-
vancement of Teaching. s15,-
100000.
Carnegie Research Institute.
Washington. s10,000.000.
Carnegie Peace Endowment,
$1O.0O0.000.
Carnegie Educational Fund,
Scotland. s10,0O0.000.
Employees Pension and Re-
lief Fund. s4.000,000.
Carnegie Hero Fund. $1,000
900.
Carnegie Music Hall, New
York. S2.0O0000.
Allied Engineering Societies,
s2,0O0,000.
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WILSON ISSUES
CALL TO WORLD
LABOR MEETING
Washington to Be Scene of
Conference-Many Dele
gates to Come.
STRIKE is ENDED HERE.
A. F. Of L. Leaders See
Hope of Meeting Hines to
Present Wage Demands.

President Wilson has issued call
for an international labor conference
in Washington for October %.
Provision for the conference was
included in the treaty OF peace, but
in view Of present circumstances the
Capital may have the spectacle OF an
International labor conference. held
in the United States. but minus
American representatives.
This will hinge entirely on whether
or not the treaty is ratified by that
date. The Senate, by resolution. gave
the President authority to call the
conference. but inserted a provlso
preventing him from naming any
American delegates unless the peace
treaty had been ratified in the mean
time. The situation may therefore re-
solve itself. providing American la
Dor has any great desire to be rep
resented in the conference. TO the
application OF additional pressure on
the Senate to ratify the treaty. ac-
cording to views expressed today.
Zach government will have four
delegates. One will represent labor.
another capital. and .wo the state.
-Four outstanding issues are slated
for discussion at the first conference
They are.
'Univeral application Of the princi-
v,1o or ,f-kt L.,,-
Government aid in connection with
n" worlds unemployment situation
Safeguards for women in industry.
Protection OF children in industry. %
officials at the headquarters of the
American Federation Of Labor were
encouraged to hope that conferences
can begin this week with Rail Director
Hines on wage increases demanded by
the shopmen and other rail workers.
Conferences viii begin only when all
shopmen now on unauthorized strikes
At Chicago. Atlanta and other cities
return to their jobs. President Wilson
has ordered.
Terminal Strike Ends.
Approximately 10 shopmen today
will return to work for the Washing
ton Terminal Company in accordance
with vote taken yesterday ending
an unauthorized strike begun several
DAYS ago
Ending other unauthorized strikes
N other cities 2O.OCO shopmen Of the
South and West returned to work
yesterday. Mere are expected to 20
3ack TO work today.
II h= Plumb plan for naturalization
Of the railroads will not be pushed
further at this time by railroad unions
which Joined 10 back it several days
ago.
The plan will he held over until the
meeting Of conference of economists
mere in October. Plans for the con-
ference We're made At 4 preliminary
meeting Saturday and Sunday in
which union heads Joined.
The Plumb plan is the most vicious
piece Of legislation that has been pre-
sented 10 Congress since I have been
in the Senate" Senator Pomerene.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-12
.Grentest Moncy-Giver.

Andrew Carnegie during the latter
period of his life undoubtedly ranked
as the greatest American spendcr Of
endowment and philanthropic mon
eys
That is, Inc amounts of cash he
donated to enterprises OF Public or
quasi-public nature exceeded those Of
any other American philanthropist.
In substance. using the slang OF the
day. he might have been called the
champion philanthropist. It might
also be correct to characterize him as
the foremost teacher OF fruEality and
thrift in America during the past two
decades. stEsUY
lie was best known in two fields.
Stcel-where he made money and
public Hbraries-to which special field
he gave moncv to ar unprecedented
and sensational extent.
Born in 1881 in Dunfermline, Fife
shire Scotland. ne came 10 the L. 8.
A. in lS4S and took a job at 81 a week
as a wcaver's assistant in a mill at
Allegheny. Pa. Next he was mcsscn-
ger boy for the Ohio Telegraph Com
pany in Pittsburgh and soon was a
telegraph operator for the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, mounting upward and
onward-for his was an upward and
onward career e pluribus unum-till
he became superintendent OF the
Pittsburgh division.
Foundation of Fortune.
The Woodruff Sleeping Car Com
pany and investments in oil lands
near Oil City, Pa, were the mediums
through which he laid the founda-
ton for a fortune with which to be-
gin operations in the steel game.
where he made his way to supremacy.
Hc introduced the Bessemer process
in 1858. and a string of bridge, iron
and steel plants were brought t0ge'h-
cr in 1899 in the Carnegie Steel Com
pany.
The United States Steel Corporation
paid him $500, 10000 for his entire hold
inEs OF steel in 1901. What IS told as
the bitterest experience in his life. is
conversation between J. p. Morgan
and Carnegie on an Atlantic liner
leaving New York after closing up
the biggest steel deal in human his
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the general good and avoiding all
forms of extravaganza and osten-
tation Death duties and inheri-
tanco taxes, provided they are high
enough, should be considered among
the wisest forms of taxation"
In 1887 Carnegie married Louise
Whitfield of New York They had
one daughter, Margaret. now Mrs
Roswell Miller.