Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-19
HARDING DODGED
CHANCE TO AID IN
REDUCING H. c. |.
Was Silent When Anti
Profiteering Measures
Came Up in Senate.
cox MAKES CHARGE TO BIG
AUDIENCES IN CALIFORNIA
Democrat Favors Bills and Will
Advocate Them When
President.
Thy Universal Service.


SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. Is.-Adyo-
eating four concrete and definite
measures" for reduction of the high
cost OF living and elimination OF
prohtecrs. Governor James NJ. Cox. in
speeches to great audiences in Oak
land and San Francisco today, de-
clarcd that the voice of Senator
Harding was silent" when he had an
opportunity to support these meas
urcs in the Senate.
In his address today Governor Cox
advocated:
Would Limit Cold Storage.
]. y law limiting the period during
which goods may be kept in cold
storage.
2. y law requiring that tho price
at which goods were placed in storage
must be marked upon them.
3. a law requiring that all goods
destined for Interstate commerce
shall BIO marked with tho price a,
which they left the hands of the pro-
Queer.
4 A law licensing and regulating
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce 30 as to prevent uncon-
scionable protns. These measures,
Governor Cox said, were presented
In the Senate. and that Senator
Harding had an opportunity to brcak
AWAY from the 'reactionary crowd
but remained silent.
According to Governor Cox, profit
eering Is prolific cause of radical
ism Radical hn
somctimcs-and tho rank and flle
usually-sincere. declaring them gen.
orally well-intentioned people who
complain bitterly OF abuses which
the government could have orrect ed
but did not because 1t was in re-
dictionary hands"
Seized Coal A Cktc. -
Il cite personal experience Cox
said. where 1t was necessary to ap-
ply the forces Of government in the
face OF human suffering without any
hair splitting conditions as tc
method. In the bitter winter of the
war. miles and miles Of cars flled
with coal were crossing our State
consigned by tho fuel administration
to the lakes. The lakes were
frozen. People could look ou,
OF their homes. which were cold
and see hundreds OF thousands OF
tons of fuel billed to ports from
which 1t could not be shipped. Self
preservation Is the first law of ma
ture. and 1t would have been invoked
with accruing chaos and some dis
order II the government had not in
tervened. I seized the coal and
turned it over to the people, after
adopting systematic method OF
compensation to tho owners"
Such policy, argued the Cover
nor. should have been adopted by the
government against the sugar prof-
iteers.
MIR. Hoovcr's effective service in the
war was largely due to his thorough
training as an engineer, he said. and
II 1 can induce him, one OF the best
engineers in the country will sit In
my Cabinet
The Governor also favored in this
speech the abolishinE Of the excess
profit tax. which he said was justified
during the war. but no longer neces-
sary. and the substitution for 1t Of n
tax Of LIZ per cent on the volume
of business Of firm.
AT a luncheon at the San Francisco
Center. q woman's Organization, he
declared the country would have had
4 much better idea of basic conditions
in Russia IL a group OF women of tho
character of Jane Adams or the
heads Of American educational insti-
tutions had been included in the Root
mission to Russia.
fund by which the President could
buy up an entire sugar crop. or in
any other way meet n food crisis
when Congress was not in session,
was proposed in both his talks. He
said the government should have In
vcntories OF all food supplies to fore
stall alarm over the possibilities of
food shortages.
Governor Cox. in an address hero
today before luncheon OF business
mon, referred to Herbert Hoover as
the typo of trained minds he would
like to have in his Cabinet If elected.