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The New York herald., 1921-08-04
21 JAPANESE INDICTED.
Plot Charged In Hawaiian Sugar
Strike.
Bg the Associated Press.

HONOLULU, Aug. 3.-Twenty-one Jap
anese. many OF them prominent, were
indicted here yesterday on charges Of
criminal conspiracy in connection with
violence incident to the strike of sugar
plantation workers last year. Six Of
the indicted men surrendered. six others
were arrested at HiIo. Island of Hawaii,
and three are known to have escaped to
Japan.
The eliminating act of violence dur
ing the strike occurred June 3, 1920,
when the house Of a Japanese who re-
fused to join the strikers was dyna-
mited
The New York herald., 1921-08-04
SENTENCED TO 60 TO CHURCH.

WASHINGTON. n. G.. Aug S.-Five
young men Of this city are under SEN
tence to attend church regularly for one
year. They were convicted OF stealing
automobile supplies, and Judge Horton
gave them the choice of going TO the
county roads for one year or attending
church regularly for the same length OF
time.
The New York herald., 1921-08-04
-FOUR DIE IN POWDER BLAST.

UrroNTowN. Pa, Aug, 3.--The press
mill az The Du Pont Powder Company's
plant MT Oriental. near here, was wrecked
by an explosion early this afternoon.
-Four men are known 10 have been Killed
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

subsidized at the expense OF the
railroad companies and they are
forced TO handle this product at a
rate which does not yield them a
new dollar for an old one, others
are going to demand the same treat
ment. The result will be hat the
railroads will be in a o preca-
riOus condition than any OF the in
dustries so dependent upon them
for efficient service in the manufac-
turing and marketing of their pro
ducta.
II. railroads must be allowed
no only to earn their necessary
expenses but n SUR cient margin
above that, which will serve to at
tract new capital and make possible
expenditures for new engines and
cars, greater and more efficient
terminals, the reduction of grades,
the shortening OF lines and all of
those necessary things which go
to make a better transportation ma
chine. z. N. Hurley, writing in Coll
lier's Weekly recently. quoted an in
ternational banker as saying The
American people do not want to
own their utilities. But also they
do not wan the present owners of
them to make a living" The atti-
tude of many now seeking a general
rate reduction would seem to give
the color of truth TO this state
ment.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

first meeting Of the season this az
ternoon at the home Of Mrs. George
S. Hyer.
The official visitation o. the Dis
trict Deputy. Mrs. Henrietta Choates.
to Golden Chapter. order Of the
Eastern star. took place Wednesday
night. when a large delegation Of
visiting officials and friends were
present as guests OF the chapter. in
cluding visitors from Woodbridge
and Perth Amboy. A program was
given which included a farce in
which the parts were played by Mrs.
Howard Hanson, Mrs. George Birch
and Mrs. Harry NJ. Aumack. A So
cial time followed and refreshments
were served.
The informal dance to be given
by Raritan Post No. %. American
Legion. at the Post rooms in the
building at the corner OF Front and
Church streets this evening prom
ises to be a pleasing event. The
young mems orchestra OF the bor-
ough will furnish the music for the
occasion.
Under the direction og Golden
Chapter. Order OF the Eastern Star.
a card party will be held at the
Yacht Club Tuesday night OF next
week. tickets now being sold by the
members Of the committee in charge.
All card games will be played as
well as dominoes and billiards for
those who do not play the card
games. A social hour viii follow
and refreshments will be served.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07
R. R. Situation Outlined
By Lehigh Valley Head

also enough to maintain them
selves according to American
standards. But wages are not alone
involved In the present controversy
with labor. True. the Labor Board
has ordered a reduction of IL per
cent from the peak. but this appar-
emily does not disturb the union
heads nearly so much as the elimi-
nation of the National Agreements
covering rules and working condi-
tons they drew and prevailed upon
the Railroad Administration to ac-
cent AS a result of these agree
ments piece work in railroad shops
,ds abolished. workers in most
crafts were paid time and a half for
work after eight hours and on Sum-
days and holidays, seniority of SER
vice was made a fetish. practically
promotions without re-
gard to efficiency. Laborers were
made skilled mechanics over night
and without regard to their qualih-
cations. Various rules calculated to
increase wages were put into effect
and old-time discipline was upset
by the creation Of Board of Adjust
located at Washington to
any d~isgruntled employe
might appeal his case and have 1t
by a tribunal of men to-
unfamiliar with local condi-
tions, and upon which the public
pays the bills was unrepre-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

a statement issued recently by E.
+. Loomis. president of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, regard
ing the present railroad il of par
ticular interest to the people Of this
vicinity where so many railroad
employees live and where so many
Industries are served by the Lehigh
Valley railroad. Mr.. Loomis said:
W. important questions affecting
our national transportation service
gre before the public at this time.
Various unions of railroad workers
are taking or have taken strike
votes and their spokesman have fill
ed the air with threats of complete
tieups. This is the problem of labor.
The other is that of freight rates.
As / view the situation 1t is impos-
sible to comply completely with the
demands of labor and many ship
pers and give the American people
the character of transportation ser-
vice they desire and to which they
are entitled.
Wage increases granted during
Federal control and subsequently by
the Labor Board amounted approx
imately to 90 per cent above those
paid in 1917. These increases
probably were necessary. I am a
strong believer that the best eff
cheney is obtainable only from a
force of satisfied men. who are not
only receiving a living wage, but
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

panies hurried 10 the scene aud
found a haystack and shed partly
ablaze. Michael Beihon was the
owner and damage was estimated at
$3.50. Children setting fire to the
nay started the blaze.
quite a delegation OF Republicans
Of the second ward motored to New
Brunswick last night. where they
attended the meeting Of the Repub-
lIcan county committee.
Mrs. Frank Fesier successfully
passed the examinations for chauf-
feur at New Brunswick yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs John J.. Burke and
children, OF Perth Amboy. visited
Mr.. and Mrs. William Romer yester-
dav.
Charles Lipka Is rapidly
Ing from his recent trouble with his
eyes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

tons these various crafts obtained
during Federal control.
That is the general railroad la
Dor situation today. Whether all or
any of these organizations which
vote to strike will do so is question:
able. That they have any expecta-
ton of success seems unlikely IL the
public can be made to understand
that they are seeking to continue
working conditions which eight of
the nine members of the Labor
Board have recently agreed were
"burdensome, unreasonable and I'M
just
Rates must BE Maintained
In the meanwhile present freight
rates must be maintained IL the rail
roads are to give the service the
country demands OF them. They
cannot hope to do so with their rev.
enues reduced. Rates have not ad-
vanced in harmony with wage in
creases or the prices of materials.
In 1916 and 1917 freight rates gen.
orally were lower than they were
in 1900, and it was a well known
fact that many of the lines were
running seriously behind and their
plants were deteriorating badly as
a result of their inability, under
the rigid regulation with which the
country was suffering, to earn suff
cient revenue to enable them to
develop their properties that they
might be used to the best advantage
But the Railroad Administration,
despite its SO per cent increase in
wages to employees contented itself
with only a 80 per cent advance IN
rates.
Recognition of the conditions I'M
der which the railroads had labored
prior to Federal control led to the
provision of the Transportation Act
which required that the Interstate
Commerce Commission should make
rates which would yield a fair re-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

turn upon the aggregate value Of
the railway properties of the car
riers. This was no guarantee, mere
ly a direction to the Commission. in
which s per cent on the aggregate
value was specified as a fair return
until February rs, 1922. AS a re-
suit in September 1920 after wages
had continued to go up until they
were nearly 100 per cent above 1917
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in accordance with the Trans
p~ortation Act authorized an adj
vance in rates Of about 35 per cent.
Despite this however, the wage in
creeses and the business depression
served to make this impossible and
the railroads as a whole have not
earned more than "a per cent since
the transportation Act went into eff
feet. In the first six months OF this
year the Glass I roads of the coun-
try failed by s34s. $4,000 to earn
revenues which would have yielded
them a s per cent return on their
Investments.
some rates should be readjusted and
railroad men are cooperating fully
in this direction and have made
many reductions A proper read
however, is something en-
urely different from using the rail-
roads to subsidize any special in
dustry. And yet that is exactly
what the railroads were called upon
to do in a recent report of an Inter-
state Commerce Commission exam
liner. who said that while actual
costs did not Justify a reduction up
on the particular commodity such a
reduction was vital IL the industry
was to be saved.
Subsidy at Railroad Expense
The dangers of such q situation
are readily apparent. II one indus
try, which is in danger Of its life
because of existing freight rates, Is
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07
KEYPORT

Mrs. Charles j. DUR. of New Hav-
en-, Conn, has returned after having
spent three weeks with Mr.. and
NJ. Lester Terry. Mrs. Terry
accompanied Mrs. DUR to New
Haven for q visit.
The annual meeting of the Liter
airy Association will be held in the
library Tuesday night.
The Literary Club Is holding the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

sented.
With the ending of government
operation and the creation of the
Labor Board under the Transporta-
ton Act, the Boards of Adjustment
were abolished and early last spring
the Labor Board ordered the abro-
cation of the National Agreements.
Instead, it told the railroad and
their employees to get together on
each road and make new agree
ments regarding working conditions
which would be mutually satisfac-
tory.
Demand Same Old Agreement
This has been attempted, but
with no great Union lead
ers have insisted upon the accept
ance by the roads of agreements
practically identical with the ones
made with the Railroad Administra-
ton. Consequently, the question
has gone back once more to the
Labor Board, and 1t is this situa-
ton which brought forth its recent
decision on the subject of overtime.
The Board, by a majority of eight
to one 1.-THE eight including two I'M
ion men), declared that while shop
craft employees should be paid time
and a half after eight hours. work.
ers of that class used in emergency
work in order to keep trains run
ming would receive only their
straight time when working on Sum
days and holidays.
This decision has been received
with great dissatisfaction by the
shop craft unions, and 1t is reported
they are taking a strike vote in re-
gard to 1t. The four transportation
brotherhoods, the switchmen, the
telegraphers and possibly others are
also taking strike votes on the re-
cent wage reduction and because
the managers of the railroads will
not agree that no effort will be
made to modify the working condi-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07
KEASBEY

Protection Fire Company No. 1
and Fords Fire Company were given
a goose chase yesterday afternoon IN
answer to call No. IS. Both compa-
MES searched the district for the fire
and were ready TO return when word
came that the fire was in the La
fayette Heights section. The COM
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-07

Subsidy at RafIrOad Expense
The dangers of such q situation
are readily apparent. II n indus
try, which Is in danger Of its life
because of existing freight rates, Is
Evening star., 1921-07-10

automobile acnts at the railroad
automobile
a Mr. Motor
to SAY ms iveH.
Evening star., 1921-07-10
AMERICAN AUTOS
IN BIG FRENCH RACE
Four Cars Entered in Grand
Prix-First U. S. Entries
in Fourteen Years.

When the four Duesenberg cars
face the starter at LIE Mans. Tour
raine July IS, it will be the first time
that an American entry has appeared
in the grand prix, great European
racing classic, in fourteen years.
The drivers for the American cars
have not yet been selected. but with
tentative selections of Guyot. winner
of the 1921 Corsican road race; Eddie
Hearne. former Fiat and Benz pilot /;
Eddie Pullen, dirt track speedster,
and Albert Ingebert. French star. who
rode with Guyot. at Indianapolis this
year, chances are bright for an Amer
ican victory.
Strangely enough. foreign drivers
have been selected to pilot American
built cars in the great race, while an
American will drive and captain a
team of foreign cars. Daring Ralph
De Palma. will be at the wheel of
the Goodyear-eQuipped French Ballot
that he has been using on speedways
in the United States for the last two
seasons. The popular Italian, who is
as we'll known abroad as in America,
has thousands of followers who be-
! lieve he will take first honors when
he pits his skill against the cream of
European stars. To further compli-
| cate the international aspect OF the
race the entire team of Ballot cars
! will be on American tires.
The grand prix this year will be
Evening star., 1921-07-10
new ERA OPENED
:. BY MOTOR TRUCK
Compares Introduction Into
Transportation World With
Railroad History.

"A study Of the economic history
OF the United States quickly discloses
the giant role played by the rail-
roads-initiated by private capital
aided by land grants. alternately
hampered and succored by the fed
eral government. but always going
forward. opening up new trading
zones. developing and going into new
territories" says G. A. Kissel, presi-
dent Of the Kissel Motor Car Com
pany.
Then came the industrial era of
intensive manufacture and its prob
lens of extensive distribution. Again
the railroads.
To-day we see our Industrial his
tory repeating itself. doubling back
over the old problems. but with a
new distribution solution-the motor
truck.
Decade to Study Products.
Industrial America has spent the
past decade or more in studies of its
products - seeking refinements in
MISUNDERSTANDING and some
times controlling sources of supply
and later a more or less close survey
Of markets.
manufacturers on an equal plane of
endeavor in buying and fabricating
are seeking the margina factor in
distribution. And in physical dis
tribution the motor truck is playing
the role destined for 1t from the first.
For in the motor truck lie the same
potentialities for the individual busi-
ness firm that formerly lay in the
rails at an earlier stage. The ele-
ment possessed, by the motor truck
is that in itself 1t is susceptible to
Evening star., 1921-07-10
GOOD ROADS TOUR PARTY
LEAVES DETROIT TODAY
Seventh Annual Event Will Have
for Its Object Popularizing Of
Routes About Great Lakes.

DETROIT. July s-The seventh an
nual good roads tour Of the Michigan
Pixies Association, Inc, left here to-
day at noon for a fifteen and -a-half
day campaign for better highways and
the popularization Of through tour
routes in the great lakes district.
The tour Is International for the
second time. its most northern ter
mini being the Canadian twin ports,
Fort William and Port Arthur. It is
known as the around Lake Superior
tour. 1t will traverse the lower Mich
igan peninsula from south to north,
the upper peninsula Of the Wolver-
fne state from east to west; skirt the
southern shore of Lake Superior
through northern Wisconsin; follow
the north shore of Superior from
Duluth through Minnesota and On
tario: then south through Michigan to
Detroit.
Forty cars and trucks and approxi-
mately 200 tourists accompanied the
motorcade. Twelve men prominent in
the good roads work in Canada and
the United States accompanied the
tour to do the speechmaking for the
route. The tour also carried a band
and male quartet. No hotels will be
used by the tourists. the road boost
ers being lodged, barrack fashion, in
large buildings. The train of nine
light trucks carried folding cots
blankets and baggage for the tour.
lists.
The first nights stop was in Ian
sing, the Michigan capital, where
Gov. Alex. Groesbeck and former Gov
Chase S. Osborn made the speeche.
at the good roads meeting on th'
capitol lawn. The entire party w:
the guest of the REQ Motor Car Com
pany, being fed and lodged In th'
Lansing factory's clubhouse.
Evening star., 1921-07-10

under contract: one mile and a half
north out of Ridgely, ready for con-
tract: about two miles and q half on
the Ridgely- -Hillsboro road, ready for
Dorchester .oounty-Two miles out
OF Cambridge. toward Lloyds, ready
for contract; two miles on the
Shorters Landing road. ready for con-
tract. with federal aid; two miles
north from Eldorado. under contract,
Wiconico county-Four miles on
Quantico road. ready for contract;
two miles on Newhope-Powellsvi
road. under contract.
Somerset county-One mile through
Crisffeld, under contract; one mile
and a half on Pocomoke-westo
road. under contract: four miles on
Princess Anne-Deals Island road
ready for contract.
Worcester county-About four miles
on Pocomoke-Stockton road, ready
for contract. with federal aid; stwo
miles connecting Snow Hill-Stockton
road. ready for contract; four miles
on Berlin Delaware state line (du
Pont road connection), under contract
The mileages given in this program
are in round figures and are to be
considered as approximatea
Evening star., 1921-07-10

A former Of Mills county. Iowa, claims
to have killed -739 rats In little more than
Il month.
Evening star., 1921-07-10

the hrst since 1914, due to the war.
and the drst to be held at Le Mans
since 1900. 1t 10 . road race OF 32l
miles, ten miles to circuit, over
level dirt roads with many danger
Gus turns. Tourraine 10 the garden
spot of France. while LIE Mans is his
toric as the place where the Wright
brothers first demonstrated abroad
the success Of flying.
Nineteen cars-pick Of America and
Europe-wili struggle for the racing
Evening star., 1921-07-10
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. C., JULY TO-
$50 Slo,o, See T0,Dn,
Or Fast, See Jail,''
Adpice to A,ltOists
By the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMESBURY. Mass, July e.
~GO slow and see our t0wns 20
fast and see 0uF jail"
This combined Invitation and
admcnitiOn posted conspicuous
ly along the afate Highway hAs
proved an effective means Of
stopping automobile speeding.
Tourists from Boston to re-
sorts In New Hampshlre and
Maine pass, through Amesbufy
In large numbers and the good
roads have tempted fast travel-
ing. Az the levy of small dnes
hnd no material effect ON the
number Of speedsters, Chief of
Police Rogers decided to post
tho signs.
Their effectiveness was shown
by the fact tAat On the Afst
sunday the signs appeared there
were NO overniEht guests ut
the police station.
Evening star., 1921-07-10

crown. Among them will be Ballot,
De Palma; Sunbeam. Rene Thomas;
a Mathis; Talbot, Dario Resta: Tai
bot-Darracq, Zobrowski; Duesenperg
sagne; Sunbeam. Boillot; Talbot. K
Lee Guinness; Talbot-Darraca, Ses-
grave; Duesenberg, Hearne: wagner;
Talbot Darracq. Cooper; Duesenoerg'
Ingebert; Fiat, Borodino; Duesenoers'
Pullen, and two more Ballots. drivers
tn he selected
Evening star., 1921-07-10
WILL DESIGN RACE CAR.
Chevrolet Wants to Win Indianap.
oils Race on Six Cylinders.

Grandpa Louis Chevrolet. veteran
race driver and famous automobile de-
signer. plans to design and build a six
cylinder car for the International race
at Indianapolis in 1922.
Two years ago he built the four.
cylinder Frontenac that flashed across
the finish a winner with the late Gas
ton Chevrolet at the wheel. This year
he designed an eight cylinder in line
car that. took first money under the
heady driving Of Tommy Milton. who
driven a mile at the speed of 156 miles
an hour in a. Goodyear-equipped Due
senberg Special.
AS the st. Paul boy rolled into the
pits at the end Of the race Chevrolet
yelled, you're hired to drive my car
in next years race. won last year
with a four and today with an eight >
now want to win with six I" -,
Evening star., 1921-07-10

the same degree of refinement in
utilization that the manufacturer
found paid him SO we'll in manufac-
turing processes.
Standard transportation Unit.
''In short, the motor truck Is
standardized unit of transportation
capable Of being organized for each
business on a parity with fabrica-
ton process and like machine units.
But first 1t is necessary for indus
trial America to realize that IT has
a trucking problem and that 1t can
be solved by study. Once on the
way to solution. it will be discovered
that this new department Of trans
portation has laid new requirements
on every other business department
which will make. for an acceleration
such as is experienced when efhciency
methods are initiated in the factory.
Evening star., 1921-07-10

connecting link from Frederick and the
east to the Valley Of Virginia over good
roads without detour. Tourists going
south will do well to take this route.
Evening star., 1921-07-10
Standard Transportation Unit.
CLASS A ROAD FINISHED.

CHARLES TOWN. W, Va, July s.
The new class A road between Charles
Town and Harpers Ferry has been COM
pleted and is now open. 1t makes the
Evening star., 1921-07-10

In the fiords indenting the Norwegian
coas are more than 10000 islands.
Evening journal., 1921-10-25
WHY WE LIVE.

Ii human devices, with the exception OF the wheel
N are found in nature Birds. beasts lsh had them
before they were invented by man. says Dr. Lucen Cuen
tot famous French biologist, after lifetime study.
Cuentot points out that the ne anchor the rails and
grooves OF guidance doveiailing and many manual
srumenis, known so well to the people OF Delaware all
have their counierparts nature developed before
existed
The grasshopper torpedo tube for planting its eggs
deeply bark or earth The cuttenshs outer skin is
bucked about its throat by system OF snaps as
use gloves Your elbow was the original hinge your
heart the original pump.
Cuentot says that the wheel our only invention that
is not found in nature Mountaneers might tell him OF
the hoopsnake said to put its tail its mouth and roll
ldownhil
One Of first inventions was the net for catching
nsh. He got his idea from studying a spiders web
Flexible armor copied from the scale OF a nsh
The early caacomb dwelers probably learned their
architecture from the ant The beaver taught bridge
building.
All human inventions come from studying and copying
nature
Nature says Euento is such perfect inventor that she
keeps her inventions ahead OF the requirements life
Thus, when the reptile evolved bird with feathers
needed Tor flying, It given feathers long before
scared into the air Nature provides the tools so they will
be ready when needed.
This leads scientist Cuentot toward the belief that there
is intention" back OF all Notwithstanding that is
denied by the scientist who believes that life de-
veops by chance that its evolution is mechanical and
aimless unguded by Supreme Intelligence
This brings us to the question: Why are we here
earth2 Why do we liver
yet there lis no answer But the more science Inves-
tgaes, the more II is over to the theological or
spiritual belief that and all other forms OF life are
here earth for definite purpose That purpose pre-
paratory to something later, beyond the grave