Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-11
FOR rs 'EART Is TRUE
Walter L. Sanborn Declares Bolshe-
vism Won't Grow In Maine,
Famine in Freight Cars
BY GEORGE NON MCCAIN
WALTER l.. sANBoRN is a Penn

DS OEOROE NUN MCJNlN
WALTER l.. SANBORN is Pennsyl.
w vanian by adoption. lie is product
of Maine and fine sample of the kind of
men Bowdoin College turns out. In bust
ness way he is editor aud publisher of the
Lansdae Reporter, which will celebrate its
| iftieth anniversary this year
| IF there is one member above another
among the thirty odd members OF the Bow
doin College Alumni Club of Philadelphia
and vicinity whose affections bark back to
campus days, Walter l.. Sanborn is that
man. Paraphrasing the old, old sea ditty,
- Is cart is true TO Bowdoip."
Let me tell you something unusual
said he in his big breezy way the other
evening at the Manufacturers Club. I'm
! the recent raids by the Department of JUS
| ticc agents against the Reds the old Pine
| Tree State was the only one in the Union
in which no Red arrest was made.
Maine isn't the kind of soil in which
| communism and bolshevism flourish. The
ozone of her patriotism means death to
hat sort of microbe. President X. g. M.
Sills, of Bowdoin, who came all the way
from Brunswick to talk at the annual din
per of our alumni cxiles, made that
statement, and you can fancy what effect
his words had ON the old grads present.
huiue is us Sieduy III DeT pohli'S ohN
is in her patriotism. She keeps her rep
resentatives in Washington term after term
and a result she's usually in the middle
of the road with her sleeves rolled UP every
time there's fight, for she has able men to
look after her interests.
And congressional history for half cen
tury proves Sanborn is right,
DOLAND II. REUTLINGER, coal op-
~ orator, who is interested in mines scat
tered through four western Pennsylvania
counties, offers very cogent reason for the
prevalent famine in freight cars and the
consequent disturbance of trade and trans
portation.
Without mincing words he places the
blame directly upon the shoulders of the
railroad administration.
He informs me on the authority Of re-
sponsible western correspondents that there
are from $4,000 to 10000 loaded coal cars
standing on sidings at various points in
the West.
During the recent coal strike the ad
ministraton diverted thousands of cars of
coal from ,nonunon fields. At the con
clusion of the strike this confscation~
ceased, and as a result thousands of cars
which had been diverted from original
routes were left without destination dis .
position.
According to Mr.. Reutlinger, the railroad
administration apparently thinks that its
public duty ended when il diverted the coal
from the eastern onerator and wholesaler.
and sent II on wild goose chase over the
country pennsvlvania oncrators are ont
of least q, million dollars which is renro
sentod in commandecred coal living nm
claimed in the West
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Reutlinper informs me that If has annroxi
notolv So5o OOo duo II for copfiso.ted coal
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i only necessary to direct attention to the
fact that the idea is not new nor will they he
tbe pioueer body of the kind in the country.
Philadelphia, as usual. leads.
Months ago a newspaper veterans associa
ton was organized in this city as the result
of A dinner given by Congressman Moore at
the Rellevue- Stratford. The reouisite for
membership is twenty five years in the news
paper business. or at least an experience on
philadelphia newspapers prior TO the last
quarter of a century.
The membership of the association TODAY