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The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
PORCH POLICY
WINNING FAVOR
Harding Giving Cox Blow
For Blow, Declare Friends
At Marion, Ohio.
(By United PresS.b

Marion, Ohio. July 2o.-The ag-
gressive fighting temper which
Warren G. Harding has shown In
the first two weeks of his front
porch campaign is meeting with en-
thusiastic approval among his ad-
visers and friends here.
The Republican Presidential can
didate has surprised even his closest
friends by his readiness to pull of
his coat and give blow for blow
right at the start of the campaign
Incidentally, 1t is said. he is win
hing converts to the front porch
campaign daily.
Harding has Failed to justify the
fears of some of his advisers who
opposed the front porch campaign
thinking that the nominee would
settle down in a rocking chair and
let his opponent take tho lead. II
can be said that there was some ap.
prehensicn after Cox was nominated
because of the Ohio governors repu.
tation as a fighter. 1t was feared by
some in the Harding camp that the
Democratic nominee would take the
offensive and place the Senator at 6
disadvantage.
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Union Leaders
CanteyRoads
Accept Verdict
Retroactive Feature Softens
Sting Of Defeated Pay
Demands.
(By UniversaI serviee.)

Chicago, July 2o.-Union railroad
men are not satisfied with the wage
award made today by the United
States Labor Board. They are de-
batting whether they should accept
it as ''the best they can get under
the circumstances or reject It and
strike to enforce their demands.
The award grants an aggregate
pay increase of 100000. 900 a year,
or a raise Of Is to 81 per cent for
the men. The workers had asked
an increase Of so per cent. Part of
the sting Is taken out of the award
by the fact that it is retroactive to
May 1. This is having some in
fiuence on the deliberations of the
men,.
Union Heads Confer.
AS soon as the award was granted
heads of the unions went into ses-
sion to consider it. They ad-
| journed two hours later to meet
with the separate crafts who are
still in session and continued their
discussions during the night
Another meeting of the union
chiefs will be held tomorrow when
they will go over the opinions OF
the men as expressed at tonight's
sessions. After that meeting an Of
fetal statement will probaly be Is
sued setting forth the opinion and
position of the unions.
The unions had completed in ad-
vance their plans to do one Of
three things after they had seen
the award:
! l. Accept the award. ~
2. Call a referendum vote Of the
men.
3. Call a general strike.
| The brotherhood heads have been
empowered to call the strike IL they
see Mt. but there is a tendency on
the part of these men to act eau
tiously.
Railroads to Accept.
| Railroad executives have an
nounced that they will accept the
award. They will look to the Inter
state Commerce Commission to
grant an increase in rates sum =
cient to overcome the swell in the
payrolls.
1 E. T. Whittier, spokesman for the
railroads, said as soon as the award
was made:
The railroads will accept this
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
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Especial to washinSton II

Especial to Warrington Heraid.)
Baltimore, Md, July 20. - Frank
D. Schultz, alleged male VAN
pire," on whom Miss Bessie L. Pick,
s17 North Gilmor street. is said to
have spent the ss,673.14 which she
embezzled from her employers,
broke two hearts when he became
enmeshed in the law. The other
heart belonged to a girl of Tide
water, Va, who had been engaged
to Schultz. and was waiting for him
to claim her as his bride. say the
police.
Although Schultz did not know It,
his fiancee from VirginiaNgazed upon
the man she expected would be her
husband as he was arraigned be-
fore Justice Supplee in the United
States Court yesterday afternoon.
She heard Miss Pick tell of her love
for Schultz and her relations COW
ering period of nearly a year. 1t
was then she learned Schultz had
been untrue.
The police are trying to shield the
Tidewater girl from what they con-
slider unnecessary notoriety and are
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
PLANS
PENSION MOVE
Retirement Mix-up Forms
. Basis of Discussion at
Cabinet Session.

Formulation by the President of
a policy governing the interpreta-
tion and execution of the Civil Serv-
ice retirement law Is probable. as
the outcome Of a Cabinet meeting
yesterday when government depart
ment heads presented their views on
the subject.
Following the meeting. 1t was
learned that the President had au-
thorized the Cabinet to discuss
among themselves the feasibility of
a law which would apply TO all de-
partments alike. II difficulty In
framing the measure is encountered,
the President will offer a remedy
for the retirement mix-up.
The present law requires all ap-
plications for retirement to be in
the hands Of the Civil Service Com
mission by today at the latest, but
an extension of time for submitting
applications is expected consequent
70 the meeting.
Members of the Cabinet were reti-
cent regarding the meeting. Post
master General Burleson, storm CEN
ter of the retirement fight. indicated
that the Cabinet would proceed with
discretion in its arrangements.
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hamas in two days"
Not a bad guess, dad; you
haven't missed it far.
"Ah." said Anthony, keenly:
what's her name?'
Richard began to walk up and
down the library floor. There was
enough comradeship and sympa-
thy in this crude old father of his
to draw his confidence.
why don't you ask herr" de-
manded old Anthony. She'll jump
at you. You've got the money
and the looks. and you're de-
cent boy. Your hands are clean.
You've got no Eureka soap on 'em.
You've been to college. but she'll
overlook that
IT haven't had chance" said
Richard.
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Rockwell, who never cared for bills,
went to the door and shouted: "Miker'

that can't sleep of nights because
! bought in between EN-"
There are some things that
money can't accomplish" re-
marked young Rockwall. rather
gloomily.
Now, don's say that" said old
Anthony. shocked. II bet my
money on money every time. i've
been through the encyclopedias
down to Y looking for something
you can't buy with 1T; and ex-
pect to have to. take up the ap-
pendix next week. I'm for money
against the field. Tell me some
thing money won't buy"
For one thing" answered Rich
ard. ranking little. cit won't
buy one into the exclusive circles
of society"
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5000, 100000 WAGE AWARD
DISAPPOINTS RAHMEN;
STRIKE REFERENDUM UP
HOW ROAD MEN SHARE
IN $500. 900 900 RAISE

Passenger Service - Engineers
and motormen. firemen and help
ers. so cents per day.
Freight Service - Engineers,
fremen and helpers. s1.o4 per
day.
Yard Service-Engineers, fire.
men and helpers, Is cents per
hour.
Passenger Service-Conductors.
ticket collectors. baggagemen,
hagmen and brakemen, $40 per
month. Suburban service passen-
ger employees. $50 per month.
Freight Service - Conductors,
fagmen and brakemen. s1.o4 per
day.
Superseding rates established
by the Railroad Administration,
the board fixed the following
schedules:
Yard Service " Foremen, $e.se
per day; helpers, $6.4s; switch
tenders, $5.04.
Hostler Service-Outside host
lers, 1924 per day; inside host
lers, $500 per day; helpers. s5.o4.
Increases for shop employees:
Supervisory Forces - Machin-
lists. boilermakers, blacksmiths.
sheet metal workers, electrical
workers. power men, moulders,
cupola tenders and coremakers,
including those with less than
four years experience. all crafts.
13 cents an hour. Regular and
helper apprentices and helpers.
all classes, l3 cents an hour. Car
cleaners, 5 cents an hour.
Telegraphers. telephone opera
tors. agents, towermen, lever
men, tower and train directors,
block operators and staff men,
10 cents an hour. Agents at
small non-telegraph stations, S
cents an hour.
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New Demands
May Be Made
And No Strike
Labor Officials See Danger
OfLosing Back Pay in
Declining Terms.
By WINpER a. HARRIs,

Universal service STAFF Correspondent-'
There will be no strike = you
can rest assured of that"
This assurance, though given un-
officially. aptly represents the re-
action at the headquarters here of
the American Federation of Labor
on the wage increase awards an
nounced by the Railway Labor
Board at Chicago yesterday.
While the increases allowed by
the board. aggregating about $780,
600. 200. are not entirely satisfac-
tory. in that they amount to only
about so per cent Of the $1,000. .ooo.-
900 sought by the railroad workers,
IL was stated, they constitute a
good start" toward the desired to-
tai.
! And the opinion of the Fedora
ton officials is that the men will
accept the boards decision, and
then Immediately "go back for
more" through the same channels.
The foundation of this belief is
the retroactive feature of the
awards. The increases. 1t is pro-
vided in the boards decision, are
retroactive to May / of this year.
Therefore. IL the awards are ac-
cepted by both sides and go into
effect, the rail workers on their
August l pay day will have the ac-
cumulated increases for three
months coming to them. in addition
to the current wage for the half
month.
Back Pay q Question.
Should the men reject the awards
and strike, il was pointed out, they
would probably lose the back pay,
which amounts to a considerable
sum in every case. They will take
no chance on that the Federation
officials believe, especially in view
of the fact that the railroad cor
porations, through their representa-
tfves- at Chicago. dectered ifnmedi-
ate1y upon the announcement of the
boards decision that they would ac-
cept it.
The men will make sure of thar
back pay" was the way one Off
cial of the A. +. L. put il. There
will be no cessation of work. II
the men think they are due more
than is allowed by the Board, they
can go back to the same channels
for IL. Btu IL, they should strike,
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m" IN ]. NJ. COX
FOR MONROE"
Correct Middle Name Of
Governor Not Middleton,
Says Secretary.

Gov. James NJ. Cox, of Ohio, has
been the Democratic Presidential
nominee for weeks now and still
the country is uncertain about what
the m" stands for the mystery
which is generally solved without
delay whenever a man is nominated
for President by one of the major
parties.
Middleton has been the generally
accepted middle name of the Demo-
ocratic nominee. 1t had been ae-
cepted to the point where the Demo-
cratic National Committee had or
dered campaign literature carrying
such as his middle name. His real
name is James Monroe Stokes Cox
Charles E. Morris, the governors
private secretary, has been called
upon to correct the false impression
regarding the candidates name IL
seems that in years past there was
always difficulty in establishing
that elusive middle name. Newspa-
per men took the matter in their
own hands and made 1t Middle
town" for his home town.
From that IL was worked InIv
Middleton. which has been widely
accepted" explained Mr.. Morris.
But / have ii from the authority OF
the governors own mother. since
deceased. that his middle name is
Monroe. II necessary we will get
out the family Bible and dismiss all
doubts"
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Reservations Nkilson Defeated
Certain if Harding is Elected,
Saus Former President Taft

how little real difference there was
A bipartisan committee represent.
ing both sides met to see whether
1t could not agree. OF the fourteen
reservations supported by the Re-
publicans. six were interpretative
two were declaratory of constitu-
tional law and six reduced the obli-
cations or relieved the limitations
of the treaty as to the United
States. 1t is not too much to say
that this bipartisan committee
substantially agreed on all of the
reservations but two-those as to
the Monroe Doctrine ard as to Ar
ticle X.
1t is true that the Democrats OBJ
jected to excluding the President
from participation in any decision
to withdraw from the league while
the Republicans insisted on it: but
with a Republican President neither
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.
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ENTIRE VILLAGE
Many Homeless as Fire
Burns Tenement District
Near Baltimore.
Especial to washinstsn HeraId.)

tSpecfaI TO "asnim8ten hefuio.D
Baltimore, Md. July 20.-With
fire raging over more than fifteen
acres of the Industrial and resi-
Dental settlement at East Brook
lyn, Wagners Point, and threaten
ing to wipe out the town, an cpl
demic of six smaller fires broke
out this afternoon in downtown
sections. The fire department was
so hard put for apparatus it was
necessary to draw pieces from one
of the larger blazes to put down
the smaller ones.
The fate of the fire at Wagners
Point was in the hands of the
weather at a late hour tonight. II
high winds blow the burning oil to
the east. the $4,000 gallons of oil
in tank No. 1o1 will go up and
engulf the community. Predictions
were that the present variable
winds from the south, now cover
ing the city with a black pail, will
Mold.
Forced from their homes by this
fire, several hundred families are
encamped in the fields with parts
Of their household effects. The suf-
fering OF these people Is intense.
for almost all of them have been
without food for more than TWEEN
ty-four hours. 1t was not until
noon today that big trucks with
food and other supplies began ar
riving. Twenty-three homes have
been burned. Other residents OF
the settlement are being kept away
by orders of the fire department.
Two tanks at the United States
Asphalt Refining Company's plant
are still burning with thousands of
barrels of crude oil in them. Should
either of them boil over or collapse,
as did tank 103 last night, firemen
say the entire town will be doomed.
Besides the twenty-three homes
the entire plant of the Asphalt
Company has been burned with the
CONTINUED On PAGE THREE.
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his poke. with the other.
Richard" said Anthony Rock
wall. what do you pay for the
soap that you user"
Richard. only six months home
from college. was startled a lit
tie. He had not yet taken the
measure of this sire of his, who
was as full of unexpectednesses
as a girl at her first party.
six dollars a dozen, I think,
dad"
And your clothes?'
II suppose about $50. as a rule"
You're a gentleman" said An
thony. decidedly. I've hearo ..
these young bloods spending $24
a dozen for soap. end going over
the hundred mark for clothes.
You've got as much money to
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
EDISON'S CLICKS TO KEY MEN
PUT INTO DISK FOR POSTERITY

New York, July 2o-Grippng telegraph key for the first
nineteen years. Thomas Edison
tery today from his home in Orange N j. The rattle of the
clicked off the inventors inscribed
mpehabe phonogaph record and placed IN the archives
of Historical Association The d-
rectly committee of the oldtime egraphers, and
"Amd busy life full of expectations hopes
and fears thoughts of early ASSOCIATION with my comrades of
delight and pleasure
consider pleasure record in Morse characters
indestructble beginnings electricity
through the telegraph and with Godspeed to the fraternity
throughout world"
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"Oho! won't it?' thundered the
champion of the root of evil. You
tell me where your exclusive cir
cies would be If the first Astor
hadn't had the money to pay for
his steerage passage overT
Richard sighed.
And that's what / was coming
to-" said the old man, less bois.
terously. That's why / asked
you to come in. There's some
thing going wrong with you. boy.
I've been noticing it for two
weeks. Out with 1t. 1 guess 1
could lay my hands on eleven
millions within twenty-four hours
besides the real estate. II it's
your liver. there's the Rambler
down in the bay. coaled, and
ready to steam down to the Ba-
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waste as any of 'em. and yet you
stick to what's decent and mod
crate. Now use the old Eu-
reka-not only for sentiment. but
it's the purest soap made. When
ever you pay more than 10 cents
a cake for soap you buy bad per
fumes and labels. But 50 cents Us
doing very well for a young man
In your generation. position and
condition. AS I said. you're a
gentleman. They say 1t takes
three generations to make one.
They're on. Money'li do IL as
slick as soap grease. It's made
You one. BY hokeyi 1t almost
made one OF me. I'm nearly as
impolite and disagreeable and III
hammered as these two old Knick-
erbocker gents on each side Of me
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
POLAND FACING
ABYSS CRIES TO
WORLD FOR AID
Paderwski Resents Blame
Laid to Nation for War.
With Bolshevists.
LEFT ALONE BY ALLIES
Criticism Follows Failure
Of Offensive Undertaken
For Europe.
by CARL w. ACKERMAN.
twashington Hersld-Publie Ledges
Service, Special Cable Dispsteh.)

ny SAhL w. AChEHMAN.
twashington Her.Id-PubIie Ledger
Service, Special Cable DispstehJ
London, July 2o.-Poland today is
on the verge of a great crisis, IL
not a calamity. Paderewski. Pc
lands first premier. today in an ex-
elusive statement to the Public
Ledger Foreign Service, not only
denied the charge that Poland is
making war on Russia" but de-
clared, "she continues the action
which the allies began and "she
expects the civilized world will not
leave her alone"
Paderewski would not put the
blame for Poland's action upon any
one or any group of powers, but to
me it was quite evident that what
actually happened in Poland was
that the country undertook an Of
fensive against Russia discouraged
by none OF the great powers and
encouraged by one Of them. while
all the time Europe hoped that
Poland would save the chestnuts Of
European civilization from the fires
of Bolshevism without burning her
fingers. II she had succeeded
against Russia she would have
been praised to the skies; failing
in the attempt to defend herself
against the threatened Bolshevist
offensive she is now the subject OF
world criticism. Paderewski shows
how unfair this criticism is.
Calls Accusation Absurd.
First of ALL" he said, let me
say the accusation that Poland
wages war against Russia is per-
fectly absurd. II Poland makes
war on Russia then Judenich, koi-
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PEPCO ROUSES
WAR0N HIGHER
LIGHT RATES
Amusement Expressed by
Speakers at General
Citizens Meeting,
REVTVES OLD FIGHT
Disposition Of $l,5OO,OOO
Fund Held in Litigation
Given Bearing in Case.

Business men. private individuals,
patriotic organizations and the
Federation of Citizens Associations
last night expressed unqualified
amazement at the action of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Company In
asking the Public Utilities Commits
sion, in a petition made public yes
terday afternoon. for permission to
increase their light rates in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Bitter attack upon the petition
was made by william B. westlake
president of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations.
The request. filed with the Public
Utilities Commission, declares the
present rates to be "non-compensa-
tory in their entirety, insufficient
and confiscatory." 1t requests nc
specific increase but asks that the
rates be raised so as to afford the
CONTINuED ON PAGE TWO
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see IL that'll make his Dutcn
nose turn up any higher"
And then Anthony Rockwan,
who never cared for bells. went
to the door Of his library ana
shouted "Mikew in the same
voice that had once clipped of
pieces Of the welkin on the Kan
sas prairies.
Tell my son." said Anthony to
the answering menial. "to come
in here before he leaves the
house"
When young Rockwall entered
the library the old man laid asiae
his newspaper. looked at him with
kindly grimness on his big.
smooth. ruddy countenance. rum
pied his mop Of white hair with
one hand and ratified the keys In
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
By O. HENRY

Make one" said Anthony.
Take her for a walk In the path.
or a straw ride. or walk home
with her from church. Chance!
Pshaw!"
You don't know the social
mill. dad. Shed part Of the stream
that turns IL. Every hour and
minute of her time is arranged
for days in advance. I must have
that girl. dad. or this town is a
blackjack swamp forevermore.
and 1 can't write It'll can't do
that"
Tut" said the old man.. do
you mean to tell me that with all
the money I've got you can't get
an hour or two Of girls time
CONTINUED on PAGE SEVEN.
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Frank Schultz, Baltimore "Vamp"
Object of Bessie. Picks Lauishing,
Breaks Virginia Girls Heart Also

Withholding her name. The girl,
they say, learned through the
newspapers that Schultz had been
arrested. and came here with her
brother.
She had met Schultz, she said, at
her home town of Tidewater about
four years ago. He was a travelling
salesman, but he came often to see
her. About two years ago, they
became engaged. The time for the
nuptials, she firmly believed, was
drawing near when she read of
Schultz's arrest.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.


1t has been asserted in these
columns several times that IL Mr..
Harding is elected President and.
pursuing the course which his votes
in the Senate give US reason to
think he will take. sends the Ger
man treaty to the Senate again to
receive Republican reservations. II
will secure enough Democratic
votes to ratify 1t. The treaty with
such reservations lacked only seven
Democratic votes in February last.
The record clearly proves that but
for Mr.. Wilson's Intervention the
needed seven votes and more would
then have been cast for the League
and reservations.
Considering how much is made of
the struggle in the Senate and the
so-called vital differences between
the Republican and Democratic
Senators, 1t is startling to note
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
PUBLIC TO PAY
INCREASE
Rates on Freight and Pas
senger to be Raised by In
terstate Commission.
IBy Universal service.D

The American public, in increased
freight and passenger rates. will be
compelled to pay the 100000, ,0o0
increase in pay granted the railway
workers by the United States Rail-
way Labor Board, in its award
handed down in Chicago.
This was made clear yesterday
when it became known that the In
terstate Commerce Commission al
ready had taken under advisenent
the award to the railway workers.
Under the Cummins-Esch trans
portation act, it is specifically pro.
vided that the Interstate Commerce
Commi ssion take into consideration
labor costs on the railroads in fig-
uring the necessary increase in
rates to give the roads a 1-2 per
cent return on their capital stock
as provided in the act.
This will necessitate the commits
sion's granting such increases in
both freight and passenger rates as
will include the s6O0,000,o00 award
which must be added to the operat-
ing costs of the railroads.
1t was estimated by officials yes
terday that the granting of the
award will have to be followed by
an increase of at least ~ per cent
in freight and passenger rates in
order to absorb the resulting higher
operating costs.
Previous estimates on the exten,
CT the increased rates to insure the
railroads a 5 1-2 per cent return
had indicated that the average in
crease would have to be about 2S
per cent. This estimate was made
however. before it was known whal
the wage grants would be.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
MAlNlNON AND THE ARCHER
Anthony RockwaI,

NLD Anthony Rockwall, re-
~ tired manufacturer and
proprietor of RockwalPs Eureka
Soap. looked out the library win
dow of his Fifth avenue mansion
and grinned. His neighbor to the
right-the aristocratic clubman.
G. Van schuylight Suffolk Jones
came out to his waiting motor
car, wrinkling contumelious
nostril. as usual, at the italian
renaissance sculpture of the soap
palaces front elevation.
"Stuck-up old statuette On
nothing doingw commented the
ex-Soap King. The Eden Mu-
see1l get that old frozen Nessel-
rode yet II he don't watch out.
I'll have this house painted red.
white. and blue next summer and