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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-24
COOLIDGE ROUTED
FROM WASHINGTON
HOTELBY FLAMES
Vice President and Members
of Congress Flee Hotel
Willard Blaze.

WASHINGTON. April a. Vice
Prcs't Coolidge and several members
or the house and senate and many
other persons prominent in public.
business and social life were among
some 500 guests at the New Willard
hotel who were routed out Of their
beds al an early hour Sunday by a
fire which swept the top floor of the
10 story grey store structure at Penn
sylvania av. AMI 18th st.
The blaze had It's origin in the ball
room on the tenth floor. where a few
nuors before Pres't Harding. Mr.
Coolidge, members Of the cabinet.
senators and representatives foreign
diplomats and others had sat around
the banquet board as guests Of the
Gridiron club at its annual spring
dinner and frolic. The fire was con-
1ned to that floor and the roof above.
but tons of water poured into the
flames seeped through to the floors
below, causing much damage.
There naturally was some confus-
ion and excitement as hotel attaches.
police and fremen pounded on doors
and the telephone operator on duty
called room after room. but all those
i'm the hotel got out OF their apart
n:eats to the corridors and Hobbies in
safety. Many went TO other hotels.
carrying at least part OF their lug
gage with them. but scores remained
at the New Willard and returned to
their rooms after the fire had been
ettinSuished
Cause Undetermined.
How the fire started may never be
determined, but one theory is that a
cisaret or cigar stump cast aside at
the close of the Gridiron dinner
found a lodging place underneath a
rug or in a fold of heavy drapery. IL
was 5:45 o'clock when a passing po-
licemau noticed smoke coming from
she tenth floor windows He turned
~ an alarm and then rushed into the
hotel informing the night clerk
Several fire companies were on the
scene i'm a few minutes. The clatter
of their ConSs woke Vice Pres {
Coolidge. who upon going TO a win
dow. remarked that there was a fire
(C0utfuued on rage two
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-24
Causc Tndetern1lncd.

Continued on rage two)
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
A HOLLOW ARGUMENT

TIME Springfield Republican has discovered new
Il angle at which to the theory OF protection
The pending bill duty OF cents pound
on long staple cotton OF the production in this
country coming from two counties in Arizona and Cali
fornia where the Government has spent millions OF
dollars in irrigation work The Republican says the
people are taxed both ends" they make the great
American desert blossom like the at so much an
acre. and then get taxed cents pound for IT,"
1t looks like a knockout for the proeconists but a
little investigation shows it is as hollow an argument
was launched at protection.
In the first place. the reclamation law provides that
the entire building irrigation project plus the
maintenance charge shall be repaid to the Government
by the settlers thereon in installments over long
period OF years Eventually It will have cost the gov
eminent nothing and there will be much value added
to taxable resources.
But even if the a permanent expenditure
why pick on the long staple cotton of the Southwest?
Hundreds OF millions of dollars have been spent by the
Government 70 eliminate natural pests Of the far
mers' crops and OF his livestock and In I'M
proving agricultural methods. other huge have
been spent in building roads dredging rivers and
harbors so that the products and factories
can be brought to market easier Many OF the Federal
bureaus at Washington their whole attention to
i'm proving the welfare people and contributing
to their prosperity Many those activities apply to
specal industries particular sections of the coun
try but in the aggregate they benefit the nation as
whole
OF course no thought taken OF that when a tarin
bill is being framed. Every industry in the country
feels directly or indirectly value OF what the gov
eminent is doing but they are all entitled neverthe-
less. to share the benefits OF Republican protection
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
OUR FOREIGN TRADE

TT will interest serious minded Delawareans know
that the fiscal year ended June So 1922. closed
with trade totalng s6s7s 900. OF which
accounted for s26OS 900 and exports s,-
10000 OoO a balance in our ftvor Of s1I62.-
100000. This marked considerable reduction COM
pared with 1921. when foreign toaled s1O,-
371,ooo,o0O, the balance in favor being s2Ss2,-
100000. But. stated by the Department OF Com
"the lower values of imports and exports since
January 1921 compared with previous years do
represent corresponding declines in volume Of trade
great extent due to the fall in prices"
on the import SIDE the fiscal year 1s2o-21 opened
with s5s7oooooo worth OF foreign goods in July and
closed with s1s6 100000 in June while the year
just ended opened with s17sO0OO0o worth OF imports
in July and closed with s26OOO0.O 900 worth. The eff
feet of the emergency tariff restricting the value
of imports during 1922 very npprecable and
salutary and largely the better prices
which agricultural products have bringing during
the past year Yet with that law in force
throughout the the tendency during the past few
months has been to approach an annual average of
nearly s50Oo,ooo,O0O Of imports because OF the low
duties goods unaffected by that Compared with
the year Immediately preceding the outbreak of the
Europe. imports the year just closed were
greater by s714,0oo00O.
On the side. 1s2O-21 opened with ss51 900
goods sold abroad. and closed with sss7 200;
while 1912 opened with sales abroad of 900
and closed with sss4oOoOOO. The record for the past
year s14os excess Of the pre-war year
In 1s1s-14 the balance started against us but
few months after the war orders turned
the balance the other way.
Gold and silver movements showed an excess OF inn
ports Of s44looo.OoO in 1929 compared with $685.
100000 in 1921 OF the former and 900 and
100000 of the latter, the two years compared.
In the matter OF producing the Democratic
tariff law still in force, has lived up to the prom
ises made for 1t by those who drafted that measure
Trer-1 81. oa.-L~
has produced aggregate of considerably less than
81, 100000 on something worth
imports; while the Republican tariff laws in force
19o615. inclusive. produced nearly $4,000 900 Of
imports aggregating less than $4,000
900. 900.
The ensuing will witness exceedingly keen
com petition all the of the world 1t finds
the United states in the hroes of industrial which
fail seriously handicap the to re-
tain foreign markets II persisted in. Capital labor
both need the protective tariff being fought by
the Democratic party apd they should both speedily
recognize the dictates OF economic law and normally II
this country is succeed in the competi
ton entered upon.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
EUROPEAN MIIrARIsM

A DEMOCRATIC contemporary asserts that the
N miiitarism OF Europe is retardins the economic
rehabilitation of the whole world" And that in the
face of the fact OF Nations was created
and is in full operation.
II the European promoters OF the league had been IN
good faith in favor of reduction OF ornaments and the
substitution for force they could now get to-
gether on a plan OF reduction.
What they really wanted for the United States
to become a member of the league whereupon most OF
the burden enforcing the decisions OF the league
could be shifted this country Notwithstanding the
United States might have interest whatever IN the
decisions or the controversies at issue.
Fortunately the Republican Congress refused to
make the supreme sacrifice" We neither hinder nor
helm the work OF the league That organization is just
as strong as the good will OF its members-and that
seems to be not very much. When Its members get
ready to act toward other in spirit of friendship
and 10 recognize and respect national rights there VIII
no no trouble in settling and disbandins
armies
Until they adopt such spirit, II would be folly for
the United states 10 and when they do adopt
IL there will be need.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
AGAINST the Public
(From the New York Trlbune).

That the strike of the railway
shopmen is against the public. not
against the railways, has been mani
fest from its beginning.
Had all the railway employees
gone out, as was threatened last
year. there would be no doubt in
any ones mind. Because the walk
out Is confined to a few crafts and
only partially interferes with trans
portation creates no difference. The
shopmen are doing all In their pow
er to stop the country's industries
and to make every worker jobless
and every home foodless. Spokesman
for the strikers now boast that their
stranglehold will throttle the BUSH
ness revival
The wage decision rejected did
not come from the railroad execu-
tives, whether hard boiled or soft
boiled. The award came from a
duly constituted public agency. 1t
went into effect on the same day the
railroads were forced to accept a
10 per cent reduction in rates. II
was part of the general program
TO bring down prices of all kinds
from war levels.
The shopmen. in lowered living
costs. are enjoying the benefit of
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26

In recent days there has been a
sharp drop in car loadings of soft
coal in the non-union territory
where the bituminous product had
been coming out in steadily in
creasing tonnage The sole reason
for this sudden slump is the bad
order of cars on the railroads serv-
ing such territory.
This rs no credit to those particu-
lar railroads; il is no credit to the
railroads generally. 1t is no credit
10 the United States Department OF
Commerce, which has been so &C
tive with it's efforts 10 try TO stab
ilize coal prices and with its plans
for rationing the bituminous supply.
II is no credit TO any OF them. II
is a reproach to all of them, be-
cause it should have been the first
business of all of them when there
are plenty of cars to see that. what
ever else happened, the supply of
cars fit for hauling the coal should
not run out.
II should have been the first bust
ness of all the railroads, not mere
ly the railroads tapping the operat-
ing coal fields. because all the rail-
roads of the country must have
coal or they cannot operate.
1t should have been the first buH-
ness OF the Department of Com
merce officials seeking to ration the
coal and regulate its price. because
you cannot ration coal IL there is
no coal to ration. and without cars
to haul 1t there cannot be. so far
as consumers are concerned, any
coal either to burn or to ration.
With 80 many thousands of coal
cars not in use on the railroads that
serve union coal territory where the
mines are closed down. there is not
n mere abundance Of there is a vast
surplus of coal cars in good order.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
URGE HELIUM
FOR AIRSHIPS
Non-Burning Gas Would
Have Spared Roma
Grew, Experts Say
u. S. ARMY BOARD
STUDIES HORROR

WASHINGTON, July 26. Omitted
Press)-The use of hellum-the new
non-infiammable gas in all big air
ships OF the army and navy was
recommended today in the official
report of the Army Air Service on
the destruction by fire OF the huge
dirigible, The Roma, at Norfolk, Va,
on February 81.
Many of the 80 men who lost their
lives in the confia grafton following
the plunge to earth of the Roma
would have escaped death IL helium
had been in the big gas bag Of the
ship, according to thesreport which
was compiled by a special board OF
inquiry appointed by General NJ NJ
Patrick, head of the air service.
Several defects in the design Of
the ship by Italian experts were
pointed out. some of which were
disputed by the Italian Air Attache
here, Northumberland A. Guidoni.
The report holds no one responsible
for the accident.
Undoubtedly the loss OF life in
this accident would not have been
so great IL the supporting medium
In this envelope had been nom
lnfammable, non-eXplosive gas such
as helium," the report states. I'm
| addition to the safety measures i'm
dicated above. this accident shows
clearly that in all large air-ships at
least. whenever possible, helum
should be used in place OF hydro
gen." the report stated.
Despite five months of painstaking
inquiry, the army board declared
that the exact cause OF the plunge
Of the big ship to the ground. where
It burst into flames after striking a
high tension electric wire. is still
shrouded in mystery.
The deaths of the experienced OBJ
servers on board the Roma. the ap-
parent unreliability OF testimony Of
eye witnesses. and the destruction OF
parts OF the wreckage OF the hulk
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
Shortage Of Common Sense
as Well as of Coal Cars
CFrom the New York Herald).

The union coal mine country is lit
orally strewn with coal cars. I'M
used and in good order. The side
tracks and storage yards of the
roads owning them are cram jam
med with them. Their division
superintendent don't know where
to put them all.
In good order and with nothing to
do In their own territory, these cars
should have been engaged by the
roads hauling out the non-union
coal They should have been volun-
teered by the other roads. II nee
essary. they should have been COM
mandsered by the Government.
II has been inexplicable stupidity.
In a measure it has been criminal
negligence. that all those concerned
In this imperatively necessary sup
ply OF coal cars that could haul coal
went off wild goose chasing, this one
in this direction and that one in
that direction, after some solution
Of the coal problem. and let the bot
tom fall out of the non-union coal
supply for no better reason than
ing mines when there are plenty of
good order cars elsewhere, more
than could possibly be used. They
let the bottom fall out of the coal
supply. in fact. at the very hour
when the non-union mines had
worked their production up from a
normal output sufficient to supply
one-third Of the country's coal needs
to a forced draft output sufficient
to supply two-thlrds of the coun-
try's soft coal needs. And then
coal, but no carsl
If that kind of muddling by the
by the intervening Gov
arnment agencies. by everybody con-
nerned, is not enough to give COM
mon sense large and abiding pain,
then nothing is.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
AMAZING SAYS
MRS.C.C .FULLER+
IF 1t Hadn't Happened To
Me | Wouldn't Believe
It," She Declares

What Tanlac has done for me IN
the past two weeks seems almost .
too good to be true. and If it were
not my own experience 1 would not
believe it." said Mrs. Carrie c. Full
Ter. residing at 2O10 West IaFav-s
cite Ave, Baltimore. a few DAYS ago..
Nearly ten years ago 1 underwent
a serious operation and since thats
time l have been in an awful run
down, nervous condition. 1 was ac-
tually so nervous that I would walk,
too and fro about the house like a
bear at the zoo-just did not know 8
what to do with myself. The noise
of the nearby mill seemed to set
every nerve in my body a-hutter. I
was strangely depressed and often felt.
that 1 wanted to get away from
everything and everybody.
81 could never get to sleep before
one to three o'clock at night and got,
up every morning with an awful
headache and a mean taste in my
mouth. 1 also suffered from indiges-,
ton and was subject TO sudden at
tacks of dizziness. The least effort
would get me all exhausted and out.
of breath and, my homework was
terrible burden to me.
at certainly seems strange. afters
trying everything for ten years. that
Tanlac is the only thing Bfve found
to do me any real good. ALREADY .
can work all day and just feel tired
enough at night to sleep like child.
Indigestion. nervousness and dizzi-' .
ness have almost left me and have
had only one headache since I be-
gan taking Tanlac. am just So
thankful to see me health and
strength returning that I want to
ell everybody about Tanlac."
Tanlac is sold in Wilmington by
Drug Stores. (Adv.)
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
ONE NIGHT ENOUGH
FOR THIS CARNIVAL

Disposing of all their merchandise
at the first night of the carnival at
the Third and Madison streets play
grounds. members of the Madison
Neighborhood Association last night
decided to discontinue the affair. 1t
had been planned to hold the affair
again tonight.
While the carnival was in progress
last night the Philharmonic Band
gave a concert under the auspices of
the Municipal Music Commission.
The members of the committee
were: Mrs. Samuel Medcaff. Mrs.
Bessie Medcaff. Mrs. Mary Roberts.
Mrs. Blanche Stewart. Mrs. Frank
Skinner. Mrs. Sweetman, Mrs. John
Mitchell, John Mitchell. George
Lynch, Mrs. f. A. Higgins, Miss
Marie Roberts. Mrs. Ella Simmons.
Miss Naomi Sweetman and Miss Ja-
net Hardie.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1922
SUPPRESS THE DRUNKEN DRIVER

MO should be shown by either the police or
the courts in dealing with who, when intoxi-
Gated automobiles in the public highways OF
Delaware.
Viewed from its best side, automobing is hazardous
OF traffic congestion failure OF drivers to obey
fundamental traffic regulations and the narrowness in
places, OF the improved portions Of the highways
There many instances in days travel by auto in
and about Wilmington in which the intelligence and the
aertness sober driver is taxed to its utmost to
avert collision
drunken driver is menace not only TO himself but
to everyone about him. In instance in which one
is caught at his irresponsible and menacng work he
should and punished hts operators IL
should be taken away from him.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
With the Photographers

Margot Asquith says with this country is
too much money We prove it by the way we spend it
on foreign lecturers.-Portland CNie.) Express.
corden Hull. Democratic national committeeman lost
reputation President Harding. but that's the
things Mr.. Hull is expected to do in his poson-sioux
City Journal
Some Of Americas biggest merchants. who have been
having gloves and hosiery made by cheap labor for
eign countries, then bringing II over free trade
basis and selling profits, the hardest
kckers on the pending tariffwhch would cause thezi
TO give this work American labor-Glenwood (Ark)
News-Press
Not long ago there a governor who fearlessly
performed his duty Notwithstanding he made body OF
strikers angry his fight for law and order He
is now President which doesn't much in the
way of itself but the consciousness of hav
ing backbone is probably reward enough TO satisfy
like Calvin Coolidge-Toledo Blade.
The honored president Americas Organization OF
labor that II he considered law unconstu-
tiona would not obey ask his followers to obey
IT, Right there he parts company with Lincoln Only
our courts authorized determine the constitu-
uonality OF law Thousands of union men will not
agree with Gompers in his attitude. They have
only TO turn to the situation Chicago understand
what an inscriptions labor leader like Big Tim Muir
pny can accomplish when he labor as tool for
crime II is to curb such situations Justice Taft
mas ruled against and murder weapons of the
strike-Cedar Rapids Ua) Gazette.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26

prevented the investigating board
from obtaining data on which to
base an authoritative conclusion.
Reiterating over and over that the
matter is not one of controversy be-
tween American and Italian author
tiles and that the exact causes of
the catastrophe will probably never
be ascertained, General Patrick has
advanced as the most probable ex-
PLANTATION of the causes. the follow
ing version:
The Roma" flying at height in
sufficient to maintain proper control
in the air. and unsupplied with
master controls whereby the pilot
could shut off any or all Of the ships
motors, or release any or all OF the
ballast, developed trouble in the air
scoops whereby air was admitted
under the forward gas compartments
to maintain their pressure constant.
Diffusion OF the gas in the COM
partments through this failure per-
mitted the metal nose of the ship to
bend backward. creating a fiatten-
ed surface on the stem of the ship.
Driving through the air at APP
proximately so miles an hour, pres
sure Of the air on this fiattened sur
face tended 10 depress the nose OF
the ship. Stabilizers at the rear OF
the ship. automatically acting to
counteract this tendency, threw a
strain on the keel Of the aircraft.
causing it to buckle.
The buckling then threw the stab
ilizers into an abnormal position and
they ceased to function. With no
means aboard TO check the motors
or to release ballast to gain altitude.
the ship plunged unhindered to its
doom.
Either high tension electric wire
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26
INTERESTING FIGURES

l his address supporting the ship subsidy measure
senator Ransdell Democrat. of Louisiana asking
es mat the United States retain fair share OF itt
1isins trade gave figures which were interest
Said he: FF -
~ Us see what a fair share Of our CARRYING trade
"ouu mean TO US have here a table connpiIed from
''e records OF the Department Of Commerce showing
tne values Of American exports and ,rnor+s .rans-
ported by vessels during the calendar wears 1910 o9o
ana 1871 period in which there has besr . 49,. -,
ume Of tonnage under the America, a. -
three years s2s,17s,oOOooO worth Of eoos. -,
and from American ports by water in the fo..,a.
OF this amount s1s.o2sOoO.ooo was carr,sa -
vessels and of this s1Ols1 900 900 represents
Of British shipping. American vessels carries -,
IA. 10000 worth OF the total
Economic experts figure the ocean freisbts -,
averaging about per cent. of the comm oditv
On this basis foreign ships in American trade d,r,
the three recently ended received ooo ooo
freight money with sss1.oooooo for American shin.
total of s2,sssooo,o 600 in freghts in Amer,
can foreign trade.
III IN these three had carried hal,
that trade. instead OF somewhat more than a third
there would have been retained in this country s275-
900 that vert abroad help develop the shipping
q our foreign rivals. II had able secure as
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-07-26


reductions in other mems wages.
But for themselves they demand ex-
emption from the common lot. II
the public will not submit it is TO be
choked into submission. Yet in 400
cases where the decisions of the
Labor Board had been in their IA
vor the shopmen joyfully accept
ed It's adjudication.
That the shopmen now realize the
unreasonableness and unfairness of
their action is shown by the semi
official announcement that II senior
ity and pension rights are restored
the strike will be called off. This
condition is. of course, technically
indefensible. Those who suddenly
quit forfeited their rights. and the
rights of men who stood by the
public are interchangeable.
But the concession is one that is
commonly made when a labor set
tlement is effected. without re-
gard to any advice given to him by
railroad officials. and having in view
only the publlc's interest. the Presi-
dent will not be critized If he de-
clares amnesty. The occasion is not
one for strict logic. A way can be
found to compensate the new work
ers