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New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
4 Railroad Mans Plan
BY Paul Shoup VcePresden Of the Southern Pacific Company
What Expert Conccipes Should Be the True Service
Of Railroads. Hon That Service Has Been HAMMERED
and the One Wav in Which CONGRESS Can Restore II

The Congress of the United States
has before it great opportunity. If,
in connection with railroad legislation,
1t keeps one great purpose in view, 1t
will do more to maintain the prosperity
Of this country than it is possible for it
to accomplish in any other single legis-
lative act. This purpose should be to
create conditions under which good
railway service, fully adequate in all
sections of the country at ali times, may
be given. No other legislative gift to
the people, in the power Of the Congress
in returning the railroads to private
control, compares with this in value.
1t is service the people want--service
local and transcontinental, freight and
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Cost Is Negligible

To do these things it is necessary to
as attractive as other forms Of invest
ment. The railroads must get their
money in competition with all other de-
mands. They have been unsuccessful in
this competition in the last six or eight
years because other investments, from
oil wells to farm lands, from timber
tracts to steamships, from steel mills to
cotton plantations, could offer greater
inducements.
There is very little question as to
freight rates or fares involved in con-
nection with this situation. AS matter
of fact, 1t costs more to support q
wretched and unreliable railroad than
it does one that is dependable and eff
cient.
On the financial side, if the railroads
arc so treated by the lawmakers and
the public generally that investors
are assured as to the safety of their
investment. then the interest rnte de-
mnnded as the return commensurate
with the lessened risk will actually be
less than If these carriers are treated
with the political suspicion and cold in
difference that have been their lot in
the past. II the railroads credit is SO
stable that thsy can borrow money ats
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
No Strike for q Year

lnasmuch as no class in the United
States can use force in its own interest
to the extent of creating a public peril,
thus in effect depriving the citizens Of
their constitutional rights, it is entire
ly right that this board should have
the power to enforce its decision for a
period Of at least one year, and that no
strike should be permitted as a conse-
quence of that decision.
The further changes the Congress
should make in pursuit of the purpose
to give to the country adequate railway
service should include provision that
will make it necessary for public bodies
such as the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to render decisions within a
reasonable period, Just as other busi-
ness institutions have to do if they ex-
pect to stay in business.
And the further provision In the pro-
posed legislation that the Interstate
Commerce Commission should have the
freight and passenger terminals of an
other line for joint use is merely an
other one Of the steps taken to dis
courage the initiative, far-sightedness
and enterprise necessary to successful
railroad management.
Summary
Summed up, then, if the legislation
that the Congress is to create within
the next thirty days in returning the
railroads to private control is to serve
the ono great purpose Of giving the
people Of the United States adequate
railroad service, planned in advance to
meet their growing needs, that legisla-
tion must give to the railroads eff
GENTLY managed all that they earn; 1t
must assure the investors in railroads
that if these railroads are reasonably
we'll managed they will be permitted to
earn fair return; it must eliminate
ell proposed experiments with this
$4,000 .0000 worth of property where
the experimenters have no responsibility
for the result; it must, in brief, in the
public interest be as .nsistent upon dol
lars being attracted TO and retained in
the railroad service as it is insistent
that men shall be so employed and re-
tanned.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Men Not Enough

The House and Senate bills now in
conference both make elaborate. pro-
vision, from my viewpoint entirely too
elaborate, for the prevention of inter
rupton Of service through disputes be-
tween managements and railroad en-
poyees. Pages are devoted to the prob
lem of keeping men on the job. Per-
haps, though, Of course. unconsciously.
Judging from some Of the debates on
the subject, tho idea seems to prevail
TINT II the railroads arc equipped with
man thax aaed AothiRx slaes Bpt Just
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
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Sunday. JANUARY 25. 1920

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New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
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New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Eliminate Experiments

3. The experiments proposed in the
senate bill should all be eliminated.
There is no demand for involuntary
consultations to be dictated by Fed
eral board, appointed by the Presi-
dent, which will be without responsible
lty to the people whose properties it
ls expected to carve up and assort
into new systems. The investor is
timid enough now without suggesting
TO him that he may put his money into
one company and wake up seven years
hence and find il intrusted to new
company under new management. So
with the representation proposed by the
Senate bill of railroad employees and
the government on me boards of di-
rectors. These boards are the last
refuge Of the shareholders. The en-
ployees have demonstrated an organiza-
ton adequate to take care of them
selves. The government, state and ma
tlonal, exercises jurisdiction within and
without these corporations already.
Surely the shareholders should be able
to elect their own boards of directors.
who are the only people responsible to
them for the welfare of their property.
There Is no objection to the voluntary
consultations provided for in the
House bill, subject to prior approval
Of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion or a similar body.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
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WI,nt the Public Wants

The California shipper, with a car
load of fresh peaches or grapes or
oranges destined to an Eastern market,
worth, say $4,000, and the fruit spoil
ing on his hands; the Idaho potato
grower, whose crop is sprouting in the
warehouse while the market disap-
pears; the Arizona cattle raiser, who
is feeding cattle. ready to ship at a
loading station, with hay at $40 a ton
what do you suppose concerns them
roads, debates as to who is to control
extension of lines, the method of ad
Justing employees grievances. the ques
tion of whether the railroads should
earn 5l2 per cent or 6 per cent or I
per cent, the discussion of whether the
freight rate across the country should
be 81 ton more or 81 a ton less, or
the need for more cars?
1t costs the merchant probably 10
cents a pair to move shoes from Bos-
ton or St. Louis to San Francisco by
rail- a shirt five cents and a suit of
clothes, poss bly,, in some instances, so
cents. Do you suppose he is interested
in freight charges Oh these articles of
two cents more or two cents less, in
comparison with his interest in having
goods promptly and safely transported
in time for him to meet q seasona! de-
mand? And as for passengers-do they
prefer irregular, infrequent and slow
trains OF overcrowded, dingy coaches,
with locomotives so dirty that the
names or initials Of the owning road
can scarcely be discerned, or would
they rather pay little more and ride
on the clean and com Portable, fast and
frequent trains which have created the
American standard?
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Labor

4. The sections of the two bills con-
cernlng labor are cumbersome, provide
unnecessary public tribunals and, in the
case of the House bill, perpetuate the
thousands of mistakes made in connec-
tlon with the questions of wages, hours
of service and conditions of employment
involved in the decisions of the Division
of Labor, United States Railroad Admin
lstration. Washington, D. c., which has
been overworked and entirely too far
removed from the places where such
questions arose. Decisions that need
revision are the natural result. and
hundreds of them can be found on every
large system. On twenty-four hours
notice l will undertake to provide a
hundred that cannot be properly de-
Tended on one railroad alone.
Properly, the railroads should do as
they did before the period of govern
ment control--settle their own labor
questions with their own employees; and
there should be no appeal to the public
except when the public welfare is threat
ened. In that case, only q national tri-
buna should care for the situation. and
inasmuch as it will take hold only be-
cause the public welfare is threatened,
the public itself should have at least
one-third of the members thereof and
the railroad management and railroad
employees the other two-thrds repre-
sentation, in each case the representa-
ton to be selected by all of the classes
who may be affected by the decision.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

what effort is being made in this legis-
latlon to attract the investors dollar,
just as necessary TO railroad service as
is the human element?
Various estimates have been made as
to how many billions of dollars the
railroads are behind the public's need
for service. A reasonable one is $1,000
100000, or, rather, that $4,000 900, 900
should be spent in the next five years.
1t must be remembered that the dollar
of 1920 creates only as much railroad
as did the 55 cents of 1915 1t has been
but a few years since $4,000 pound
capacity box cars cost around $1,000
Now the cost is nearer $4,000. Re-
frigerator cars that cost 81, 400 or 81 800
each few years ago can be replaced
now only al an expense Of $3.50. Lo-
comotves have more than doubled in
price Steel rails at the mills have gone
from s2s to SAT ton and the freight
rates for transporting them have been
increased in proportion.
lie peOpIe OIL LQS I NlteO OLACeS must
have, to serve their growing industries
thousands upon thousands more of cars
and locomotives, greatly enlarged ter
minals. many additional main line
tracks, larger repair shops, hundreds of
new sdings and the like. They need
also, in order to make economic and eff
fective use Of existing facilities, to bore
tunnels through mountains, eliminate
curvature everywhere, reduce grades,
replace wooden structures with steel,
ballast their roadbeds and renew very
extensively the thousands Of miles of
light and worn rail and the ties be-
meath All these things need to be
done to insure good service, the one
vitality essential thing affecting all
the American people
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Who Reads Poetry?

A columnist in The Globe prints
somebody's list of the thirteen great
est living American poets, and then
remarks:
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
RArE,S-Bv MAIL ,nclualnc
s.s IN TEE UNITED STATES AND

FOREIGN RATS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
Nation POWerless
 to Combat New
 Outbreak of Flu

St. Louis, Jan. 2.-Establish- ment of community health centers throughout the country to promote physical health and efficiency through organized community ef- fort was advocated at the closing session of the convention of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science here to- night.
 Professor C., E. A. Winslow, of the Yale College Medical school in an address warned that scientists and the medical fraternity would be powerless to combat another siege of influenza if one appeared in the near future, but asserted such community centers would go a long way toward preventing an other epidemic.
 The work of such community or ganizations, he explained, would be to disseminate health propa- ganda in an effort to make sani- tary the various neighborhoods ir which they are located; to control infections and contagious diseased and to conduct a nursing service for the early diagnosis and pre-. ventive treatment of maladies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
QUESTION OF 5000
 10 10000 WORDS
 ASKED0F ALlENISTS
Fight to Prove News Sanity is Nearing the S End

Los Angeles, Jan. 2.-Defense counsel for Harry New, on trial here on a charge of murdering his fiance, Miss Freda Lesser, closed their case today with the testi- mony of five alienists.
 Lecomte Davis of counsel for New, asked the alienists hypo- thetical question of from 5000 to 10000 words, based on all testi- mony introduced in the case and said that he expected the defense experts to answer it by stating the defendant was insane.
 Following this testimony the prosecution will present it's ll,- buttal evidence. There will be several witnesses, including Mrs Alice Lesser, mother of the dead girl, beside alienists called by the state, according to Thomas Lee Woolwine, district attorney.
 The arguments will require at least a day for each side, de- fense and prosecution attorneys have agreed. They thought it un- likely the case would go to the jury before next Wednesday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
} are Held Under
 the Harrison Act

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 2.-Two druggists, George R. Cooper and Wilbur J. Dean, and John B. My matt, former federal agent for the enforcement of the Harrison anti narcotic act, were arrested here today by itnernal revenue agents and brought before a United States commissioner, charged with bribing and attempting to bribe Frank E. Digges, chief of the To- cal federal bureau for the enforce ment of the Harrison act, All were released on $15,000 bond.
 Digges says he was first ap- preached November 1 and offered several thousand dollars a year to guarantee immunity to the two dealers who, he said he believes are at the head of the distribution of habit forming drugs in this dis trict. He "took the matter under advisement" and informed federal authorities.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
DRAFT OFFICER
 MURDlE:: {: RED FOR
 DOIN, HIS DUTY
You Helped Get Us; We'll Get
 You, Says Note
0kLAH0MAN FOUND
 IN ROAD MURDERED
Arrests Expected lIourly-Man Helped Handle Uprising of Many ObjectorS During
 First Year of War

konawa, Okla, Jan. 2.-"You helped to get lot of Us fellows into the amy to get killed, and row We are going to get Nou.' read q note which was found ir the possession of Tom Rag!lnl Seminole county war worker when his body was found along the road four miles south of here this norning. He was shot thret tines With shotgun.
 John Goodrich and John Craven both of this city. who were mem. befS of the county council of de. fense and draft boards during the war, received similar notes. Nc names CT initials were signed |, the threats, but it is thought that some enc tired to evade the draft and have returned from service are responsible for the killing. Tn, dead man mad been out to inspect his fafns south of konawa an; was returning home, when tn, sh Dts were fired from behird, kill ing him instantly The body !. supposed to have lain where it fell all night.
 Officers here are being aided i, the search for the slayers by tn; sheriFfs Of Seminole, Pottawatomic Hughes ard Pontotoc counties BloodhoGnds put on the trail thi afterr oon failed to follow it. The trouble is believed tc lat, back to the uprising" here in l91' when the draft regulations wer, defied by q number of objectors but who were later inducted int the service. Members of the Worl. Glass union are suspected.
 Officers said tonight that ar rests were expected to be mad shortly after midnight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
RADICAL RAIDS IN s CITIES, WARRANTS ISSUED MAY RESULT
 IN TIE ARREST OF 5000 MEN
Negro Activity Also Unearthed-S 800 in New York, 400 in Newark, 300 in Jersey City are
 Sought

Washington, Jan. 2.-Launchina 8 concerted and carefully prapares movement against communists end communist labor groups 9 radicals, agents of the department of justice tonight conducted raidt in 33 cities from coast to coast The warrants may total 5000.
 Raids were conducted in the following cities:
 New York, Baltimore. Boston Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Den. yer, Des Moines, Detroit, Crane Rapids, Hartford, Indianapolis Jacksonville, Kansas City Los Angeles, Louisville, Milwaukee Newark, Omaha. Philadelphia Pittsburgh, Portland, Maine Portland, Oregon; Providence San Francisco, Scranton, Spokane St. Louis, St. Paul, Springfield Mass; Syracuse, Toledo and Tren- ton.
 The object of the raids, Assist ant Attorney General Garv'n said was to obtain for submission te the department of labor cases fol deportation of "a very large num- Der of our most dangerous anar- chists and radical agitators. Agents cf the department, he add ed, went out prepared to catch ths radicals "with the goods on"
 The general charge of attempt ing to overthrow the government by force and violence, was placed against the persons arrested dur. ing the raids. Officials declared they believed that several hun dred members of the communists and communication parties Woulc be ehind the bars before morning
 Officials here declared the round up was the most completely plan. ned and the machinery was the best oiled for this of any raids launched against the radical elo ment in this country. It was ar; ranged 10 days ago that the raid should take place tonight and con,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
]. [. (. GIVEN
 SUPREME RATE:
 FIXING POWERS
COnferees on ESch- -Cummins Bill to Stipuiate
 This

Washington, Jan. 2.-An agree ment to give the interstate com- merce commission supreme au- thcrity in fixing railroad rates with power to suspend and an- nual rate orders of state commis- sions, was reached today by the senate and house conferees con- sidering the Esch- -Cummins rail- road reorganization bills.
 The federal commission would be authorized to substitute it's findings and rate orders for those of state commissions when the latter gave an unfair advantage CT to discriminate against inter- state commerce interests eith- CT outside or inside of state.
 The conferees agreement pro, vides for little change in the ex- isting law, but more definitely es- tablishes the supreme rate power of the federal commission and is designed to remove doubt, raised in several cases before the su- preme court as to the authority of the commission over intrastate rates which conflict with intra- state tariffs. The power of state railway commission, however, would not be encroached upon by the federal commission in the mak- ing of intrastate rates if such do not prejudice or discriminate against interests outside of the state. The conference agreement. Chairman Cummins announced to- night, provides for adoption of the senate bills provisions.
 The house plan of authorizing the federal commission to suspend state rates placing an "undue bur- den," upon interstate commerce would, it was believed, by some of the conferees, have conferred upon the commission power to super wise all state rates.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
JURORS THINK DOCTOR SCHOTT
 IS NOT GUILTY
Non -COmmittaI Verdict is the Result of Inquest
 Held

Louisville, Ky, Jan 2.-Two of the six members of the coroner's jury which today returned a non committal verdict in the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Ford Griffith believed that the girl committed suicide; two believed she was killed and two were in doubt as to whether it was a case of murder or suicide. None of them however, thought that Dr. Christo- pher G. Schott, charged with mur- dering his 17-year-old office as- slstant, killed her.
 The jury reported inability to determine who fired the fatal shot Except letter written to Dr.. Schott by Miss Griffith last May, when she was fiancee of the physician, apparently little light was thrown on the death of tho girl, which the coroner had heiJ took place between 1 and 3 o'clock of the afternoon of December o4 The letter was found in the girl;s purse. ''
 Phrases of the letter revealed that Miss Griffith had been deeply m love with Dr. Schott but had grown indifferent after he had shown unjust suspicious" of her friends. It is said she had al- ways been "true" to him, though he had had different girl every night"
 It concluded with statement that she had been "fed up on ex- cuses and promises for three years" apparently referring to marriage. "
 Laurene Gardner, girl of 13 and pr. Schott's alleged compan ion on the. afternoon of December "A. on the stand today, reiterated that she 4and the doctor were delivering Christmas presents he tween l and 3 o'clock that after. noon. 1i.
 She told of Miss Griffith's dis satisfaction with a Christmas gift of $l0, given her by the doctor shortly before l o'clock when the; left the office, and stated thai Miss Griffith began to cry after she asked Dr. Schott if another girl was receiving the manicure set"
 Dr. Schott did not testify. He has been released on $38, ,OOO bal, pending investigation by a grar d jury January 9.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
Mining Board .. Fails to Reach
 Decision on Shaw

Fort Smith, Ark, Jan. 2.-The Arkansas state mining board to- day failed to reach a decision in the case of Thomas H. Shaw, de- posed state mine inspector, but Chairman Young stated tonight a decision would be announced early tomorrow morning.
 The entire day was taken up with the examination of witnesses and submission of testimony, sent the board by letters and messages from Governor Brough who asked the board to investigate the case. Shaw was represented by an at. torney and according to arguments presented the board, Shaw con- tends the governor has no legal right to discharge him. The legal ity of the boards Investigating the matter is also attacked.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03
Won't Let Berger
 @ Deliver Address

Providence, R. l., Jan. 2.-Vic- tor L. Berger, who postponed an engagement to speak here Satur- day night with the understanding that he would speak in the city at later date. will not be allowed to make public address here, ac- cording to decision announced today by Walter A. Presby, chair man of the police commission. After conferences with Mayor Baynor and the city solicitor on protest filed by Providence Post of the American Legion, the com mission issued statement review ing Berger's record and asserting that "to allow him to make an address in public here would per init him to further assail Ameri- can institutions, besides endanger- ing the public peace"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-03

fldentlal communications were sent to department of justice repre- sentativcs and United States at tornegs in the 33 cities,
 Department of justice agents desired most of all to capture in- crinoinating documents, not #5 much literature and propaganda as papers showing details of tn" communist organizations in each city.
 Negroes Active.
 It was indicated that f such evidence were obtained deporta- tion would be easy, As in the case of the members of the Union of Russian Workers, several score of whom were aboard the Buford. wn'ch sailed from New York 10 days ago. membership cards in the organization were regarded by Of ficers as constituting the best docum entary evidence o1 which to base deportation cases
 Officials said the only difference between the communist and tn" communist parties was one of leadership. Both have been CT. deavoring to establish a soviet form of government in this coun- try since their organization last September. according to officials
 Documents gathered by fedora agents recently show conclusively it was said, that plans were drawn up by each of these parties to develop a score CT more of soyiets throughout the country These were to be merged under 9 soviet council similar to that which exists in Russia, according to MT. Garvin.
 The department also revealed to- night activities of the two organi- cations among the negroes. Offl- cials admitted that this propagan- da had gone so far that troubiS
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