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Evening star., 1921-05-08

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. May 7-Mobbed by
natives of distant lands who want
ed to be baptized. was one of the
experiences told about by the Rt.
Rev. Edward Arthur Dunn, An
gelican bishop of the diocese of
British Honduras, who is now
visiting in Baltimore this week.
The larger part of the diocese is
jungle, says Bishop Dunn-crossed
only by paths. not by the crudest
form of wagon road, but in which
one encounters at times the ruins
of temples built by the native in
habitants long before Cortez con-
quered Nc 6ico. Indians inhabit
these jungies. their dwellings be-
ing mere huts There are secluded
mining communities. and there are
Evening star., 1921-05-08

France proposes compulsory phys
ical training for schoolgirls.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
.6,945,22O CHINESE
AIDED IN FAMINE ZONE
Relief Fund Workers Get Reports
of Special Distress-New
Menace Threatens.

Especially distressing conditions in
the provinces of Shensi, Chilli, Honan
and Shantung are described in re-
norts sent the American committee
for China famine fund by Col. DryeS-
dale military attache at the AMERICAN
legation in Peking. who mas pee"
making personal Investigations among
the famine sufferers. FROM lheSc
provinces. moreover. an exodus OF
destit,1t. persons to more favorable
regions has developed, which is as
suming threatening proportions 10
the inhabitants of the latter que 10
the fact that newcomers Will work III
the rice fields for food alone without
wages.
the appeal of China famine week.
which concludes today. Paul ;.
Reinsch, former United states min
lister to Peking, declared that the
special appeal of China'S famine VIC
tins should come to Americans with
all the more force because of the at
titude of love and admiration almost
universally found in China toward
this country.
A total of 6,945r22O starving people
in China are now receiving relief
through International committees
all American moneys have been al
lotted and additional funds are
urgently needed is the report made
to the American committee for China
famine fund in a cablegram just re-
ceivcd from Frederick w. Sevens of the
American committee in Peking which
is in charge of the distribution OF
American relief funds and of which
Minister Charles r. Crane is chair
man.
Contributions may be sent to Charles
F. Howe. local treasurer. American
Security and Trust Company, or tc
Vernon Munroe. national treasurer
Bible House, New York city.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
BISHOP NOBBED BY JUNGLE NATIVES
WHO ARE EAGER TO BE BAPTIZED

ports on the coast where Hfe is
so uneventful that the coming OF
a ship is the great event of weeks
In these places the population is
made up of government otficlaiS,
American engineers, business men
and clerks in the offices of the
fruit company.
To properly administer the af-
fairs of such a diocese one must
be ready to conduct baptismal
service in a native hut crowded
to suffocation with Indians who
have come out of the surrounding
jungle an hour before at the I'M
perative summons of their chlef.
They are suspicious of religion
and of the representative of 1t,
but upon seeing one woman bap-
tiZed they may rise in mass and
demand that each be baptized
instantly, childlike in their eager
ness. Bishop Dunn has had that
experience.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
KILLS WIFE AND SELF.

ATLANTA. May 7.-Otis w. Crane,
aged twenty-five. cut his wife's
throat and then shot himself through
the temple in rooming house here
shortly before noon today. Neighbors
who heard a woman's scream and a
pistol shot found the bodies lying a
few feet apart on the floor. Accord
ing to reports to the police. Crane
was a drug addict, but nothing was
found to indicate the cause of the
tragedy.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
ASK LUSITANIA DAMAGES.

NEW YORK, May 7.--Eepresenta-
tives of claimants for damages in thet
louisiana disaster today named a
committee to ask the state Depart
ment and senate foreign relations
committee for immediate payment
from proceeds from the sale of Ger
man ships or from furis in posses
sion of the alien property custodian.
At the meeting. held on the sixth
anniversary Of the sinking of the
steamship by a German submarine.
the government was criticised for not
having taken action to make repara-
tion.
Claims for loss of life ,and personal
injury amount TO several million dol
lars.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
AID FOR NEW TURNPIKE.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
LEESBURG. Va. May "A mass
meeting here in the interest of the
Washington-L -Leesburg turnpike was
addressed Monday evening by Col. r
n Harper of Washington. Represen-
tative r. Walton Moore and others
1t was called under the joint auspices
of the Washington and Ieeshurg
chambers of commerce. Resolutions
were adopted pledging the cordial aid
to the enterprise of the people of this
vicinity. President Thompson of the
IeeSburg cha mber was requested to
appoint a committee to canvass for
subscriptions to the stock or bonds
of the turnpike company and an exec
utivc to cooperate with the execu-
tives of that organization
Evening star., 1921-05-08
BUILDING BOOM IS ON.

RICHMOND. Va, May Especially -
Richmond is enjoying a building boom
that indicates reduction in house
rents at an early date. Permits for
buildings are being issued every day,
and the bricklayers, the carpenters
and timers are working with a rush.
There is ample labor, however, for
much more work tfan is under way.
and at this time there are more idle
men than have been seen on the
streets in twenty years.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
PRESIDENT is PROMISED
GOOD TIME AT LEESBURG
Officials and People Join in Assur'
ances if President Goes There
for Week Ends.

Special Dispa tch TO The Star.
LEESBURG, Va. May Nothing
definite has been heard regarding the
rumored purpose of President Har-
ding to spend all or large number
of his summer week ends here at the
Mclean farm, but the Loudoun county
and Leesburg town officials, the.cham-
Der of commerce here and the people
of all parties have united in formal
communications to him, assuring him
that he would be welcomed warmly
and that every possible provision to
meet his wishes and provide for his
comfort will 1v made if he decides to
come.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, May 7.-Bruns-
wick. the second largest town IN
Frederick county, is without police
protection foV twelve hours each day.
Because of a deadlock between the
mayor, f. c. Shafer. and four mem
bers of his council, the town has but
one shift of police at night.
Several times Mayor Shafer mas
presented the name of Charles Bono
to the council for continuation; ana
each time it has been voted down.
The mayor is for Bond and. viii
make no other selection. and the
council is against Bond and will not
confirm.
Mayor Shafer has been in office for
nearly year and has more than a
Evening star., 1921-05-08
GERMAN FILM STOPPED.
Crowd Attempts to Force Entrance
to Theater

Los ANGELES, May 1-Production
of an alleged German made film in II
downtown thcater was stopped by
the management tonight after a
crowd including a score Of sailors.
had attempted to force an entrance
to the building. protesting against
the performance. The sailors were
stopped by a squad of police and a
naval provost guard.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
MARYLAND TOWN is POLICELESS
~ HOURS DAILY, OWING TO FIGHT

year yet to serve. Soon after the
new administration assumed charge
of the affairs of the town contro-
Versy. at first trivial. broke into an
open flame and has never ended. In
the controversy the councilmen have
been bitter in their attacks on the
mayor and the mayor in turn has
been caustic against the four insur-
gent councilmen.
Evening star., 1921-05-08
BURGLARS TUNNEL BANK

TrTTLE y D.. May 7.-BurgIars
today tunncled their way into the
vault OF the First National Bank here
wrecked the safe and escaped in the
poscmaster's automobile with $500
in money and negotiable securities
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
Big Biz Has AIibl
When Plan Slips

Winetke, Ill.-In a debate on pend
ing cossack legislation with Secretary
Olander, of the Illinois state fedora
tion of labor, John M. Glenn, secre-
tary of the Illinois Manufacturers as
sociation, attempted to shift the
blame for cossack agitation from the
shoulders of big business to grafters.
Glenn avoided discussing the bills
details, while generalizing on the
necessity for "rural protection"
Olander then read the bill, section
by section, and showed that it pro-
vides for a military chief, appointed
for life, who would have autocratic
power over a military force that could
raid any community "for any pur-
pose or at any time the military chief
might decide upon"
Glenn wobbled under this array of
facts and the declared that the whole
trouble was caused by grafters who
preyed on innocent business men.
He agreed that the strike features
of the bill are "bad," and said the
bill was not originated among busi-
ness men, but had been conceived by
self-appointed committee of pub
licity agents who used it as a means
by which to solicit financial contri-
buttons from business men. He said
this so-called committee handed busi-
ness men ga lot of bunk" and that
they chad fallen for it."
This surprising confession comes at
time when the state is aroused
through the agitation by organized
labor
The question now is: If organized
labor was not alert, would Glenn pre-
sent his alibi while defending the bill :?
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
THIS STORY NOT TOLD

Cleveland - Trade unionists show
that stating contractor bought slate
at $11.25 a square with the under
standing that there would be no sale
unless he charged $23 square for
putting it on.
"Let's see, what is it that makes
building high-oh, yes, it's the high
cost of labor, isn't it?" is the COM
ment of Charles Smith, business
representatives of the building trades
council.
"This seems like a pretty good
argument when we. go to talk to the
employers" said Smith, "but the un-
fortunate part of the business is that
this is not the kind of story which
the anti-union campaigners are feed.
ing the public. They conceal story
of this kind"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
Trusts Back Gary

New York-At their annual meeting
in this city steel trust stockholders
pledged support to Judge Gary in any
future conflicts" with labor unions.
The majority of the stockholders
were represented, as is usual, by
large banking and other interests,
who declared that they are willing
to forego profits to maintain the
right of each American citizen" to
enter into private contract with en-
ployers.
The prospect of single wage
Garner being denied the right to enter
into contract with the gigantic steel
trust is too much for these stock
holders, and they notify the world
that the loss of their profits is moth
ing compared with the loss to that
worker.
The resolution is heroic, except to
trade unionists, to whom it is "old
stuff" The organized workers have
heard this song from every employer
Practically all of them pledged "thetr
lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor" to resist trade unionism, but
they change their opinion when en-
ployes become 100 per cent organized
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
Workers Made SCapegOats
By Charles w. Kelley

There is absolutely no sincerity in
the present attitude of railroad man.
agements to the question of wages.
The workers are being made scape-
goats for official venality and in
compentency. By charging that wages
are too high and >handicapping the
railroads the officials hoped to divert
attention from their own short
comings, and were succeeding in their
plans until the Interstate Commerce
Commission took off the lid and re-
vealed the fostering rottenness that
has been injecting the transportation
system and has brought it to the
verge of collapse.
For nine years preceding the period
of federal control the railroads blamed
the Interstate Commerce Commission
for every defect of management. The
public was constantly being lombard
ed with the charge that the commits
sion had set up regulations that were
intended to make operation inefficient
And the people believed this to be
true.
When the roads had reached the
end of their tether and came running
to the government with an urgent de-
mand that they be taken over during
the period of the war they gained
temporary respite from insoluble diff
ficulties. The managers should have
been grateful for the service rendered
then, but they were not. They i'm
mediately launched a disgraceful
campaign of misrepresentation anc
slander against the government ano
for nearly three years unloaded al
the defects of their own vicious sys
tenn on to the shoulders of men who
were performing a wonderful job Of
reconstruction.
So thoroughly had they infamed anC
prejudiced public opinion that they
were able to secure the maximum o1
their demands from Congress, EN-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
"WaIl St. Control" is Grim Fact

basic raw materials have dropped in
price the combine has maintained
prices for the mineral products, and
that the combine controls the mineral
products. 1t is also stated that "the
combine is holding up the prices of
steel and other railway materials with
view of accentuating the depression
and then persuading the public that
the railways cannot agree with the
equipment companies over prices" al
though the railways and equipment
companies are controlled by the same
combine.
Of the IL New York banks that
are in this combine, the Guaranty
Trust company leads with director
ships in SO railroads. The National
city bank is next with 48 directors.
The directors are named and the
report states that a number of them
belong to the inner banking circle
centering around the house of Morgan
and the National city bank"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29

bodied in the Cummins-Esch bill.
That measure, properly appraised and
severely denounced by workers and
others, contained in its complicated
sections more injury to the public
and more opportunities for exploita-
tion by the managers than they ever
hoped to secure. And the day it went
into effect the Pennsylvania and other
roads proceeded to the execution Of
plans that had been carefully pre-
pared and long held in allegiance, with
results that are now all too we'll ap-
parent.
1t was inevitable that a breakdown
would come, and that when it came
the roads would be seeking a new
alibi. They couldn't blame the Inter
state Commerce Commission, which
Congress had hog-tied, and they
couldn't blame Congress, which had
been more than generous. So they
were compelled to blame their work
ers, who alone remained as objects
of attack.
With statesmanlike intelligence and
unsurpassed restraint the workers
have been trying to get the real story
home to the people. The have fought
against floods Of propaganda and the
ill-concealed hostility of government
agencies. They have answered at
tack with facts, have used argument
to offset infammatory denunciation
| confident that in the fullness of time
all things would be made plain and
| the public would at least realize the
true cause of railroad difficulties
And now comes the Interstate Com
merce Commission with it's over
whelming and unassailable mountain
of facts showing that inside looting
has dissipated railroad earnings, that
workers are more efficient than ever
and that they alone have kept faith
with the people by doing what they
could to make transportation supply
a genuine public need.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29

Chicago-"The power of Wall
street" is not fiction but grim fact,
according to a 1875, 5,000-word document
filed with the railroad labor board by
w. Jett Lauck, economist for the
railway trade unions.
Mr.. Lauck names II New York
financial institutions that control
majority of the country's important
railroads and the country's basic raw
materials. This is accomplished
through 100 directors of these banks,
who have interlocked their interests
in 92 class l railroads, in 20 rail
road equipment companies and "a
coal railroads and coal companies.
Through non-banking directors this
combine is still further interlocked.
"The evidence shows" says the
survey, "that there is a capital
combine consisting of the major
banks, the railroads and the industries
controlling basic materials, and that
| this combine has and exercises a
power over the economic destiny Of
the United States. 1t shows that
within the identical capitalistic group
lies the power to adjust or misadjust
relative prices in manner that will
stimulate or suppress industrial
activity.
1T points out that this focal cap
italist group has deliberately main
tanned high prices of steel, coal, cement
and other basic materials, and that
the railroads financed by the same
interests have refused to place the
orders for plant maintenance or even
the orders necessary to prevent plant
and equipment deterioration.
"The exhibit shows that the greater
factors in American industry-the
railway equipment producers-all are
closely bound together by intercapital
relations and interlocking directories,
coming to focus in the house of
Morgan.
"The industrial paralysis, which has
staggered America, is capital on
strike against society," And capital,
national and international, organized
and concentrated, takes the stand
that the capital strike shall go on
until labor comes to it's knees and
consents to sweeping reductions of
wages, and also consents to sur
render its right to bargain collectively
on scale co-extensive with the or
ganization of the employers"
It is shown that while agricultural
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
Roads Invited Tie-Up

Washington-The reason for the
present plight of the railroads is their
illegal and dishonest expenditure of
money for maintenance and their pro-
hibitive rates which have stalled
traffic" said Senator La Toilette, in
an address before the peoples recon-
struction league.
Having dictated the terms of this
law" he said, "and having failed
completely to put the transportation
system on a sound basis under it's
operation, the railroads are again
here in Washington preparing to make
another raid on congress.
"Any difficulties that the carriers
are now in is due to misfeasance be-
fore government control and to art
ificial and malicious distractions by
men in high railroad places to make
the system fail"
The senator declared that misman-
agement and not high wages is re-
sponsible for the present CONDITION of
the railroads. 81 have read hundreds
of affdavits of men who stated under
OATH" he said, "that they were order
ed and required to execute orders
which blockaded transportation, orders
which undermined and retarded the
work, orders which destroyed mate
| rial"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
Urge Joint Bargaining

Cleveland = Collective bargaining
was again indorsed by the national
league of women voters at it's second
annual convention in this city. 1t was
unanimously declared: owe affirm
our belief in the right of the workers
to bargain collectively through trade
unions and regard the organization of
working women as especially import
ant because of the peculiar handicaps
from which they suffer in the labor
market"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
PrOfiteerS Blamed
By Federal Board

Washington-If retail prices are to
be readjusted, profteers and mono
polists must be reached, says the
federal trade commission in a state
ment to President Harding. The board
ignores the vaporings of surface
thinkers who insist that wage reduc-
tions, with lessening of purchasing
power, will bring prosperity.
The commission urges legislation
that will permit it to make public
information relating to the necess-
sites of life. Other recommendations
are:
Investigation of the open price as
sociations, which are alleged to
stabilize business, but which set
prices; encouragement of farmers
and consumers cooperative organiza-
tions, and protection of the farmers
against the more closely organized
elements with which Re has to deal. y
The commission says that the fun
damentals in the cost of living is the
housing shortage and the excessive
price of fuel. High rents and high
coal prices" it is stated, "limit the
buying power Of the general public
The excessive price of many basic
commodities, prominent among which
is coal, vitality affects the cost of other
commodities.
The commission also refers to or
ganizations that interfere with chan
nels of trade, and cites the Cuban
sugar commission, syndicate OF
planters, bankers and dealers which
caused an increase in the retail price
of sugar throughout the United
States. Other instances of the same
type are illustrated by "the Brazilian
coffee valorization scheme, the Ecu.
ador cocoa organization, the Yucatar
sisal combination and the Chilean
nitrate producers syndicate"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
RAILWAY MANAGERS MIGHT
TELL US WHY

Some very pertinent questions are
being asked the railroad managers
these days, the questions having their
origin in figures given out by the
interstate commerce commission and
the railroads themselves.
The commission shows that in 1919,
under government control, the operat-
ing expenses were $4,419,00O,O00
In 1920, under private control, the
expenses were $5,810,0OO,OOO.
In one year the increase was ST.
391 100000.
The railroads claim $48O,OOO,OOO
went to meet wage increases.
Suppose we concede this. Then
where did the other $911 100000 go?
So far, the railroad managers
haven't answered.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-04-29
Just As Expected
cant STRIKE" PLAN Is TEN
DER TO BOSSES
Employees to be Heavily Fined and
Imprisoned But the High-Ups
Get Off Easy as Usual

Washington - Senator Poindexter
has reintroduced his bill to make in
terstate commerce strikes illegal. This
bill slipped through the senate at the
last session, when half a dozen mem
bers were present, but was held in
the senate by a parliamentary move
of its opponents and congress ad-
journed without taking action.
The bill provides for fine of $10,-
900 or 10 years Imprisonment, or
both, for any one who "shall by word
of mouth, or by the presentation, ex-
hibition or circulation of written or
printed words, or otherwise, solicit,
advise, induce or persuade, or attempt
to induce or persuade any person or
persons, employed by any common
carrier subject to the act to regulate
comerce" to quit their employment.
In another section of the law
punishment of $500 or six months
Imprisonment is provided where
managers or employees combine with
the intent to substantially" interfere
with commerce.
Where the managers are involved
less punishment is provided and the
intent to interfere must be Sub
stantially." In the section that makes
it illegal for one worker to even sat
tempt to induce" another worker to
quit his employment there is no
reference to substantially" and the
fine is not $500 and six months i'm
prisonment. 1t is $4,000 and 10
years.
In other words it is twenty times
as serious for one railroad employe
to ask another to quit his employ
ment as it is for railroad managers
to combine to substantially" hinder
transportation. The managers have
an additional loophole to escape by
being permitted to prove that their
hindrance to commerce was not Sub
stantial." In the workers case he
violates the law before commerce is
bindered. If he even suggests to a
fellow worker that he should quit, he
is guilty under the law and can be
jailed for 10 years.