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The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
ALEXANDRIA
The Herald Bureau.
A. s. Douiphan,

III King street
Alexandria, Va. April is.-The
executive committee appointed last
Friday night by a mass meeting
held in the Opera House to devtss
a plan in the change Of form OF
city government has decided uDon
the council-manager plan to submit
to the electorate OF the city.
A subcommittee has been named
to draw up detailed plans and pre-
pare petitions to be submitted to
the voters for their signature.
When the required number of sig
natures have been obtained the
judge of the Circuit Court will be
asked to call a special election when
all of the qualified voters will have
ap opportunity to pass upon the
matter.
Stricken with heart failure while
driving to his home in Newcastle.
Pa, Elmer Lamterman Kimberly. So
years old. a retired business man.
died in his automobile late last
night while near Camp Humphreys.
Va. Mr.. Kimberly was accompanied
by his wife. three sons and a niece
He was rushed to the hospital at
the camp. where the surgeon pro-
nounced life extinct. The deceased
was motoring from Florida. where
he had spent the winter with his
family. The body was brought to
Alexandria and shipped today by
Demaine & Son. undertakers. to
Newcastle. Pa. for burial
Mrs. Mary Muir Stringfellow, widow
of Rev. Horace Stringfellow. d. D..
died Sunday at her residence at Mont
gomery. Ala She was a daughter of
the late James Green. of this city.
The body was brought here tonight
and taken to the residence of her
nieces, Misses Green, 212 South Fair
fax street. Her funeral will take place
at II O'Clock Thursday morning, and
burial will be in Ivy Hill Cemetery.
and interment will be private.
John ]. Nugent and others have sold
to Robert I. Kane and others a lot
and building on the east side of Pitt,
between Wilkes and Gibbon streets.
Mrs. Fannie A. Steiner, widow of
James Il. Steiner. died shortly before
o'clock this worning at the resi-
dence of her daughter. Mrs. Carter
II. Smith, 4os North Alfred street
Besides a daughter, Mrs. Smith. she
is survived by two sons, Frank Il.
and Henry b. Steiner. Her funeral
will take place at , O'Clock Friday
afternoon from the residence OF her
daughter.
At a special meeting of the board
OF aldermen held last night the sum
of $500 was appropriated for the
purchase of a lot for the erection
OF a school building for colored chill
dren. The sum of 1900 was appro-
priated to make up the deficit for
cleaning streets and moving ashes.
A southbound train over the Wash
ington-Virginia Railway jumped the
track near Alexander Island. south
OF the Highway Bridge. shortly be-
fore o'clock this afternoon. Pas
sengers were badly shaken up None
was seriously hurt Traffic, however
over the southbound track was con-
siderably delayed.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
DERNBURG APPOINTED
MINISTER OF FINANCE
Former Director Of German Propa.
ganda in America Honored.

Berne. April 16.-Dr. Dernburg
has accepted the portfolio Of finance
in Chancellor Scheidemann's cabi-
net. made vacant through resigns-
ton OF DR.. Schiller. a Berlin dis
patch reported today.
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Deserted; Won War Gross.

Springfield. Mo-. April le.-Frank
wallee wears the Croix de Guerre.
but he also faces a charge of de-
sertion from the navy. The ship
was assigned to coast guard duty.
SO Wallee Joined the army and got
across
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
Huns Pillage u. S. Food Ship.

Zurich, April 16-An American food
ship. destined for Poland. has been
pillaged by Germans. a Hamburg dis
patch reported today.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
Movies in School Room.

Detroit. Mich. April 16.-School
should become popular for the kid
dies here. Moving pictures will be
used to aid instruction. the Board
OF Education decided.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
CLAIM CONTINUED
SUCCESS IN RUSSIA
Bolshevists Send Message to Mos
coy Telling of Victory.

London. April 16.-Continued sue
cess in Southern Russia was claim
ed by -Bolsheviki in a wireless
message from Moscow.
"On April IL. after a fierce en-
counter, Soviet forces cleared the
'Dneister from Mchilev to Kamen-
etc." the eommunique said. THE
Rumanians are in general retreat
into Bessarabia.
"On April II Ukrainian sovfst
forces occupied. zhitomir."
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The "Dr. Dernburg" referred 10
Is probably DR.. Bernhard DernburE.
who was director OF German props-
ganda in the United States.
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Town Subscribes Loan Quota.

Dunkirk. N. Y. April 16.-The town.
ship of Sherman, Chautauqua County,
with a Victory Loan quota of $4,000,
has fully subscribed the amount.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17

San Francisco, April 1s. - Fifteen
thousand Pacific Coast telephone op-
orators were today ready to strike
following the strike of operators in
New England exchanges. kilograms
were sent today to Miss Julia O'Con-
nor. head of the telephone operators,
asking what action the operators
should take.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
Public Interest Involved.

THE employees should realize that
the public interest Is involved and
should return to work at once upon
the assurance that their demands will
be carefully Investigated to determine
whether increased wages can be
granted without impairment of the
financial stability of the company.
IF the employees will submit their
demands to the general manager and
return to work they have the assur-
ance of the government that they
will be dealt with fairly. II they con-
tinue to disregard the public interest.
the public will be less likely to give
the employees the support necessary to
warrant favorable government ac-
tion"
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17

At a special meeting OF the board
OF aldermen held last night the sum
'of $500 was appropriated for the
purchase of a lot for the erection
OF a school building for colored chill
dren. The sum OF 1900 was appro-
priated to make up the deficit for
cleaning streets and moving ashes.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17
TUMULTY URGES
TELEPHONE STRIKERS
RETURN TO WORK
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

oNTlNuED FROM PAGE ONE
business precaution must be OBJ
served.
During the period of government
management. the Postofice Depart
ment feels that 1t cannot grant wage
increases merely on demand from
the employees. A strike on the part
OF employees working for the gov
ernment is not permissible. Sound
public opinion can always be de-
pended upon to secure for them alb
solute justice. 1t must always be
kept in mind that a strike cannot
be successful without public ap-
proval.
The Washington herald., 1919-04-17

II. A. Sotzin, temporarily teacher.
Class GA. at Mckinley High: l. W.
Wilkinson, teacher in School Gar
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

Railroad Brotherhood Proposal Line Ownership Weful
Finance Juggling g-Causes of High Prices

extingushed, capitalization will be for the sole
purpose of transferring needed materials or labor
from other industries; or in other words, for the
apportionment to the railway service of it's proper
share of accumulated industrial facilities.
The essential features in this plan are that it
provides for living wage and for the division of
any surplus above living wage between the rail-
way employees and the public-that is, between the
railway employees and all other workers. if all other
industries be organized the same basis. Hereto
fore the surplus has gone to vested interests-as
rent, interest or profits This takes us to the very
heart of the problem of the cost of living. The
cost of living ought to be measured by the amount
of expenditure of human energy necessary to pro-
duce the things which sustain life; that is, all the
products of all the workers should go to all the
workers. These products should be divided either
re-and-share- alike or proportionate to group
and Individual efficiency The brotherhood plan
looks 70 the latter method of sharing, and thereby
directly challenges its opponents, who have always
so insistenty held that good service depends upon
adequate rewards to those responsible for efficiency
The brotherhoods maintain that it is the Drawn and
brain of the men and operating the roads,
organized as a great industrial unit, that alone
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

produce the efficiency of our transportation lnes
The brotherhood plan recognizes the need of cap
ital for the running of the railroads. but it denies
the justice or the necessity for their control by
groups of men who, by financial hook or crook, may
be able to dictate the terms upon which the peoples
utilities may obtain that capital. They admit that
where the savings of part of the people are en-
ployed in further production for the benefit of all
fair return should be made, as interest upon such
savings; but they deny that these savings may
rightly be assilnilated by credit monopolies, and
doled out to the industries of the people at such
times, in such manner and at such rates as will best
serve the conscienceless profiteering purposes of
those monopolies. The brotherhoods hold that the
greatest of public utilities should be able to 90
into the open market for its money backed by the
credit and confidence of the entire country.
This proposition involves no overturning of ac-
cepted economic principles. According to the most
orthodox of economic writer's the capitalists share
in the products of industry is interest on the amount
of capital invested. They make as clear distinc-
ton between capital and rent, on the one hand as
between capital and wages or profits on the other.
1t would be complete negation of the very essen
als of economic science to say that the rate of in
terest may be arbitrarily determined An open
PAGE TEN
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24


into rails and engines and the numerous other
structures, tools and machines that make up the
equipment of railroad.
These processes themselves required equipment,
organization and an available supply of intellectual
and manual skill, all of which represented an accu-
mutation of the products of other organized and
equipped labor. This may be traced back to where
the primitive workman fashioned his first rude tool
with his bare hands; that in the last analysis,
all production comes from the application of labor
to the materials supplied by nature.
Capital is material shaped by man for the uses
of Professionalism and nothing else. A capitalist
is one who owns, contracts hires rents out such
materials or equipment. There is no ground for
quarrel between labor and capital, nor ever has
been. The quarrel is primarily between the men
who work and the men who have seized upon the
organization and the instrumentalities of produc-
tion, and will allow the men who work to use them
only under their direction and control SO that the
worker is always a subordinate, and his employer
in position to dictate both wages and hours and
conditions of labor. Under such conditions there
can be no such thing as freedom for workingmen.
And since most men must always work, that means
that under such conditions most men win be indus
Continued on page 21)
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24
PLAN WOULD PRESERVE
CAPITAL, DECLARATION

1t has been repeatedly asserted or assumed
that the brotherhood plan proposes to destroy
dustry it would destroy all capital. On the
contrary, it would preserve capital, and would
provide for it's easy flow to the industries where
it is needed. Nor would it injure the man who
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

by his Skill and energy or
his thrift has accumulated
and saved facilities or ma
terials useful for further
production. 1t will injure
none but those who have
stood between this ulti-
mate capitalist and the in
dustry into which his saw
ings would go, and who, as
bonus, interest or divi-
dends, have taken a toll
for merely passing those
savings on that has nearly
wrecked our railroads and
threatens the present ruin
of all industry.
The three great factors in
all production are labor, equip
ment and organization. An
effective organization is one
which applies labor and equip
ment to the job in hand, with
the least possible friction, du-
plication or waste, so as to
achieve the highest possible
production at the lowest posi-
BILE expenditure of labor, and
the least possible waste of
equipment. Equipment in turn
is produced by labor. For ex-
ample: Iron ore is mined,
transported to the smelters,
the metal extracted and
moulded into shapes conven-
lent for handling and trans
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

meet on equal terms. In such market the lender.
would not be able to say to the borrower: "I will
lend you the money to build and run your railroad,
at the market rate of interest," plus 80 per cent of
whatever profit you are able to make" Confronted
with such proposition the borrower would SIM
ply go to another lender until he had satisfied him
self that he was securing the lowest possible rate
that existing financial conditions would yield If
that lowest rate proved too high he would curtail
his operations to the limits of his present capital,
abandon his enterprise entirely, in which case the
money offered would go into some other industry
that could pay the rate. In other way can differ
ent industries be placed upon an equal footing with
regard to the use of the capital that all industry
has accumulated.
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

=, f1eu;
not the merely nominal wage level. They recog-
nize the futiity of wage increases which are al
ways more than neutralized by advances in the
prices of all things that the worker consumes. In
other words, they have made their demands in
terms of fundamental wages; and by doing so they
have placed themselves in position to speak for
all who are unjustly suffering from the effects of
high prices. The principle upon which the claims
OF the brotherhoods rests is that every worker shall
receive the fruits of his labor, and that in the ex-
change of products the purchaser shall be able "
buy at COST cost to include all the labor, of every
kind, put into the thing bought.
This is the principle that underlies the plan
formulated by the brotherhoods for the conduct of
their own industry-the national railroads. They
propose to fix wage scale which will in effect
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24
BY w. G.. ROYLANCE

FAR the most significant thing
about the present agitation over
the high cost of living is the
attitude Of the railway brother
hoods. In presenting their de-
mands for wage advances they
have made it plain that it is
the purchasing power of wages
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

eStaDllsn minimum wage Tor
each class of employees, based
upon known present efficiency,
as measured by railway earn
ings, with due regard for liv-
ing conditions, and then to
make additional rewards de-
pend upon the actual develop
ment of a higher efficiency by
the workers themselves. They
do not, however, propose to
take to themselves the whole
of the gain from the higher eff
ficiency developed, recognizing
the fact that such higher eff
cheney is not due wholly to
their own efforts, but in part
to general industrial causes.
They propose that increased
earnings shall be partly alb
sorbed by decreases, in rates,
until the relation between
rates and wages shall be so
stabilized that the charges for
railway service will accurately
represent the labor-service of
the men in that employment,
relative to the labor-service of
workers in all other industries.
1t is significant that the
brotherhood plan elimi-
mates the capitalist entire
ly. The holder of railroad
securities is to be paid the
actual value, on the basis
of investments in the rail-
roads Honestly and pru-
IDENTIFY made" The governm,
value, in cash or in bonds, at
security holder, and is then
~ ~
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24
PUBLIC AND WORKERS
TO GOVERN ROADS

PUBLIC AND WORKERS
TO GOVERN ROADS
A corporation is to be formed, governed by a
board representing the classified railway employees,
the appointive employees general and division
superintendents, managers, etc.), and the public:
the roads to be leased to this corporaton rates
are to be- fixed by the interstate commerce commits
sion, and wages by wage board. The wage and
salary payrolls will be fixed charge upon oper-
atng receipts Until finally extinguished, the in
terest upon the bonds issued for the extinguish-
ment of private interests in the roads will be
another fixed charge Nothing will be charged off
for rent or for the payment of dividends as the
wage-dividend proposed is essentially an increase
in wages proportioned to the increased efficiency of
all the railroad workers.
This plan reduces the cost of transportation to a
labor basis considering labor in the broadest sense
There will be no rent charge, because all the land
used will be the rights-of-way and the shop, yard
and station sites retained condemned for those
purposes. After the private interests have been
The nonpartisan leader., 1919-11-24

IDENTIFY made. The government is to pay this
value, in cash or in bonds, at the option of the
security holder, and is thenceforth to retain
the absolute ownership of the roads.
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Prince Guarded by $500
Police and yAefecsires
arrangements 10" Safeguard.
ing Visitor Arc Similar TO
Those Made for President

Police arrangements for the protec
tion Of the Prince Of Wales upon MS
arrival and during his trip through
the city were second only 20 thoso
usually accorded The President Of the
United States. More than $500 police
men, detectives and Federal Secret Ser
vice men lined the streets trtversed by
the royal visitor.
Large numbers OF plainclothes men
were stationed on the roofs Of the
smaller structures down town They
were particularly motto, able on the
Old Astoi House and the postotfice. op-
posite City Hall. Sim lar measures
had been adopted only on President
Wilson's last two visits here. They
were not thought neces AIRY for The
King ond Queen Of the Bn.glans.
The moment the Prif * Of Walcs
landed at the Battery he Vas aarrouua-
ed by sw~rms Of Depart OF Jus
tee agents and local dett .tives. whi'e
hundreds OF cniFotmed kept tna
crowds at distance. IS the party
moved up Broadway toward City Hal
i've special age Of The Department.
of Justice rode inNeGiutely behind the
young heir in an open car, scanning
the faces in the crowds At the same
time hundreds Of operatives mingled
with the throngs.
along the entire route of the rova
party. from the Battery up TO CnaA
hers Street, up Lafayette Street to
Ninth Street, over 10 Fifth Avenue. up
Fifth Avenue 10 Sixtieth Stree.
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Traffic Squad. There were thirty
MounCod police and we can say that
they are not one of the finest squad,
but the finest squad. in the world
Medals were given out as usual, and
while there weren't enough to go
around each man deserved one if only
for being so handsome.
In the lady's saddle class. which was
Judged at Sis, that stunning mare
Bit O Glory won her second blue for
the day. 1t was a foregone CONCLUSION
as soon as she stepped in the ring that
the azure was hers. but the judges
picked out half q dozen entries and
sent them around the ring after giving
the gate to mere than score. Those
in the final contest we're Nancy Bright
chestnut mare from the stable of
Mrs. A. j. Lindsay. which won the
white ribbon; Allah, Clara Peck's chest
nut ge ding, which was placed third {;
Isabella Wanamaker's Cherrystonc. the
red ribbon winner, and Mrs. Joseph
Sylvester's Avonmore and Mrs Charlie,
Wiggins's Kitty Reynolds, which went
unplaeed.
Golden Duck Defeated
Ida Fleitmann's Golden Duck, which
sails over the fences like q swallow.
net defeat yesterday in the class for
the Smithtown Hunt Cup A yellow
ribbon was his lot, the two first rib
bons going to Isaac Clothier's King
DAILY and Judge.
Captain John Rafferty, won his first
leg on the. Beresford Challenge Cup
with a chestnut geldng. Alazan. If
e does this mex year the cup will be
his. Captain Nelson's Ginger, who
needed only one more leg to carry
he cup home, was only third in the
competition.
TIE summaries:
Class 81 tHackney brood rnares>--Frst,
Dinarh Com, b. m. owner, Mrs. +. r.
Garvan; second Mel Valleys Best or All
D. M, owner. Wilisbfook Farm; third.
Garvan; fourth. Tisslncton Amassis. b. M.
owner. WiIlsbrook Farm.
Class rs tHackney pony yeariings)-
Dorchester Farm; second. hamilton Fash
ion Girl, b. m. owner Hamilton Farm;
third, Hamilton Little Wonder. b. s,
owner. Hamilton Farms; fourt l, Hamilton
Glass lS1 tofficers' chargers, middle and
Ugh, weig ht)--First. Tom vele. CHI. g..
9wnsT, Capt, Lewis Brown r. second.
Brown; third. Sir pixon so sop c. 'o oMne X
Brig. Gen William Mitchell; fourth. Home
Again. sor. m, owner, Brig. Gen. william
Mitchell.
Glass iss (nilitia mountsl-First. Gwen.
doiyn, b. H.. owner. Lieut.. Col r Harry
stanton; second. Du Barry, b. IN. Squad
ron A, Cavalry, New York; third. Lady
Isabella b. ~. owner. Troop F. LIST Cav
ass 'ro ses shown in runa bouts,-
First, Jack Tar. e., owner. John n
'"oinpsop second. Minnie Alerton. br. M,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-19
Society Folk at Sho,u
Include Titled and
Military Foreigners

There was much larger attendance
at the sessions Of the Horse Show
yesterday than on the opening day, and
society was we'll represented in the
gathering. Many Of the boxes were
1illed and the first few rows Of the
seats back of them were also occupied
by persons OF prominence in the social
world. In the gathering were noticed
several British and French officers and
titled foreigners.
Among those seen were Mrs. David
Wagstaff. who occupied the old Alfred
q. Vanderbilt box No. 49, Her guests
were Mrs. Dave H. Coddington and
Miss Susan Fish Dresser.
In box on the opposite of the Gar
den were Mr.. and Mrs. W. Russell
Grace, Mrs: William R. Grace. Mrs.
D'Oench, Mrs. s. Bryce Wing. Miss
Grace and Harvey S. Ladew.
With Mrs. William Eleitmann were
Miss Ida Louise Fleltmann and James
W. Gerard
Mrs. George Rose and Mrs. Charles de
Loosely Oclrichs were together and Miss
Eleanora Sears and Lady Ward occu-
pied seats throughout the afternoon.
Among others seen were Pierre Loril-
lard. w. Archer Thompson, Mrs. vii
Der Bloodgood and Miss Resale 3 God
good; Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Haight, Will
liam f. lselin. Mr.. and Mrs. John NICE.
bowman, Lieutenant Fare, Rowland
Davis. Thomas Hitchcock, Miss Julia
Lentilhon. Mrs. Work Hewitt and Mrs.
Burke Roche, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Newton Jr.. Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt
Mrs. John S. Rogers, Mrs Crimmins
Jennings, Miss Louisa Ceballos, G
Creighton Webb. MIR. ard Mrs. E. von
der Horst Koch. Theodore Frelnghuy-
sen, Judge William II. Moore. Ropert
Sedgwick, Miss Frances Thorley Good
win, Mr. and Mrs J. Franklin Kehoe.
Charles Thorley, John r. Townsend, DR.
James O. Green, Miss Marion Tiffany
Miss Genevieve Clendennn, Norman
Prince. Mrs. K. Penn Smith, jr., Briga
der General and Mrs. W. Mitchell and
Co onel William Thaw.
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Mrs. Douglas Robinson 10
Be Hays Dinner Hostess

Mrs. Albert II Gleason n~nourcc,
last night that Mrs. Douglas Robinson
had consented to ast AZ chairman o.
the reception committee fov dinse,
the Republican Women's State i,ccl
tive Committee will give 20 w n
Hays chairman % tho Republican "a
tionri Comm tee. ~ The Ho-ei Asfo-
Dccener 3 Mrs. Gleason has charge O..
ngcments for the dinner
Am-rg those ON Mrs Robinson.
committee are Mrs Hcrrv g. a'sx
ander. Mrs Herbert II Satferlce 70
y cholas Murray Butler. Nrs flwari
McV ckar. Mrs Robert l.. Bacon M.
Ebert If Gary. Mrs William ieHows.
Morgan, Mr. Cornelius Bliss. lr.. Mrs
Henry W Taft. Miss J.. louise Sands
Mrs. Charles n. Sebin. Mrs a7me.
Griswo.d Nentz. Mrs Grayscn " P
Murphy, Mrs. William L Ni4oon aao
Miss Maudc Netmorc
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through Central Park 10 Cs'hedrs
Parkway and up Riverside Drive g
Grants Tomb. Inspector John q Bri,f.
said 1T the end Of thc trip che or
trouble the police had was in keep q.
young women from rushing" tho heir
car
During the night Reveral hurdrsr
men were on duty about the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel where the prince "a
guest at q dinner, and 81 the Me-.
pontan Opera House. where he lac
attended concert.