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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-03-15
Just Outside the
| Famous Loop of
| City
|NCEND|ARY
i Sent Threatening
Letters to Former
Employer
fBy Associated Press,

skago, March ia spectacular
morning fire today destroyed a
s@are of business buildings just
lie Chicago's "loop" or down
district, with a loss estimated
hsm $1OO0O,0O0 to $15,000,000.
fire started in the center of the
l bounded by Van Buren, Canal
Clinton streets and West jack,
bouevard of unknown origin,
IL every structure in that area,
u north across jackson and
Ned the History Chicago, Bur-
n and Quency Railroad General
h building, which also houses
Aercantile Trust and Savings
and, under burden of a strong
dipped over Van Buren street
ward and burned nearly through
AsrisOn street.
u fire was not brought under
nl until nearly 5 o'clock, and
thens firemen were fighting a
n different fires and Others
e out internationally as the wind
fhd sparks about.
HE fireman was killed, another
fuusly injured, ten or more slight
|hrt, and an unknown number of
hndred thousand spectators who
nrsed the burning district slight
aurt by falling bricks, burning
|bes or sparks.
I1e fire for time threatened to
nne virtually unlimited proper
I and every piece of firefighting
FaratuS within five miles was call
out in a series of ten alarms.
'lhe rapidity with which the fire
Rad was astounding" Marshal
uey, assistant fire chief, said.
Y fire actually seemed to run
. u.s."
'Rt the original blaze from which
Immigration grew possibly was
hcendlary origin was the state
Y OF Shirley P. High, city fire
aney, who early today announced
arrest of an unnamed man on in
aauOn supplied by H. T. Schiff,
adent of the Confectionery Spe-
Y company, at 521 West Jack
Olulevard, where the fire started.
y High refused to divulge the
: OF the man arrested, but said
ne was being questioned regard
threatening letters. Mr.. Schiff
'ne man, a former employe, had
~ nm, Mr.. Schiff told I'M. High
nan was discharged when he be-
: ncensed over refusal to per-
MN to purchase stock in the
pany and within the past two
Us had made a series of threats.
g seolff placed his personal loss at
100.
nigh summoned several of his
While the fire was at its height
SAD an investigation would be
I Immediately. He placed the
Y loss at from s1O,OOO,OOO to $751;
y s'erSing the main burned area,
Aetropolitan West Side Elevat-
e today was seriously handi-
Y m delivering its thousands of
~ TO the downtown district, as
y Aurora and Elgin Electric
4'oan line, who. used the four
! structure which was in the
Of the fire.
! nage Burlington Office build
.sled a fireproof structure, held
'e y from spreading northward,
@ue the full block on West
4. boulevard between Canal
0''n'sn streets, while progress
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-03-15

by State Commander Lowry were on
the program for this afternoon. Lat
er, reports were to be heard, and
committees appointed for the con.
veution'ss business.
The election Of officers il schedul.
ed for Friday afternoon.
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NV Associated Press)

Orlando, March 15.-The body of
Mrs. Park Trammell, who died here
at IL o'clock last night, was taken
to Lakeland for burial tomorrow aft
ernoon accompanied by Senator
Trammell, and her father, 7. E. Dar-
bv, of Crescent City, and other men,
bers of the family, and Rev. J. Dean
Adcock, pastor of the First Baptist
church here, who will officiate at the
funeral.
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friends 10 prospect for oil in the state
of Vera Cruz. Sonora Diaz has been
a resident Of the French capital
since her husband, went into exile in
1917,
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WARSAW ADOPTS U. S.
IDEA OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Warsaw March 15.-The Ameri-
can idea of public health nursing has
been formally adopted by the city
council of Warsaw. A corps of nurses
has been organized to work with the
school doctors, examining children
and investigating health conditions
in homes. Fifty thousand children
of local grammar schools make the
first group to come under this new
system. y
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WIDOW OF DIAZ, PLANS H
PROSPECT FOR OIL

Mexico City. March ih-The, widow
of General Porfirop Disz, Mexico's
aerand, old president" Ia said to be
organizing a company Of her Paris
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|gspther Forecast

.,.Ily fair tonyiht except
N, showers in extreme
A .o,tion; Wednesday unset
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
Anything 10 oBsTRUCr

TT is well known among members of the Senate and
i House of Representatives also among people
who frequent the galleries, that the Democrats in the
Senate doing everything possible to kill time and
that doing they often talk without understanding
what they talking about. Sometimes this is so
clearly manifest that the exhibition the Democrats
make of themselves pitiful There notable H.
OF this few days when the Senate had
under consideration the tariff rates thread
On certain grades of thread proposed to have
duties at fractions of per hundred yards varying
with the grade and the finance COMMITTEE in order to
guard against the being relatively high too
low proposed to add proviso declaring that none of
me foregoing shall pay less rate than nor
man 30 per cent ad valorem." will readily
tN@i Il me price Of thread should be high. duty of
~ffl@n traction Of per hundred yards would be
fsarfs1 low in proportion to the value OF the thread
Wa = ne price of thread down the same rate
HSnt " relatively high. 1t was in order to guard
sxass ne being too high or too low that the com
p.ttee proposed this provso
stf@ppf s>fDfooL OF Wisconsin who had been mite
stss - guarding against rates might be TOO high
seeeDtes the proposed amendment saving ,ha, 10 s,a
nct 'Dk ne - per cent rate ever be reached
Dss he thought q best 70 have the lnita,,on 80
Afev mis- remark ~ LeBroot Senator simmons rank-
saz Dsmperst the finance committee arose and sur
E<steo that 81 Limitation be stricken
or.
The aosVrdify Inconsistency Of this will be readily
Apparent The Defaocrsts have been posing all along
guardians Of the Interests OF the consumer They
have display keeping the tariff rates
lers YET IN this instance when the Republican, pro
EssNs Apst tsrjt than IS per cent ad
,xssrss Democratic iesoer proposal to strike out
f5< ssntsboo gyss after Senator ssoot esDsJneo on
b~nst< ~ fbe repgee&ps prosso 70 guard
ssssrss sstd, II want il al
fssee say higher az per cent senator Sim
1>~s r+r><see No ss;eet.es sn4 ssac thAs ~ would
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
EcoNoMY PROVEN coNcLusIvELY

nELAwAREANs will from what follows that a
IL comparison OF the financial status Of the Govern
ment at OF the fiscal June 80 with for
mer years furnishes complete substantiation or the
Republican claim economy national expenditures
and to marked OF efficiency in keeping the
Governments accounts Congressman Martin B. Mad
den of Illinois chairman Of Appropriations
Committee has submitted to his colleagues the actual
figures Of what the Republicans have accomplished
The appropriations for 1922 s4o6so0o,oo0
and those 1928. ss747Oo0.000, showing reduction
of sslsOOO.o0O. Those figures impressive enough
but the shortly after the beginning Of the
fiscal year the Treasury estimated that the expen-
ditures for that year would reach s4554 GOO At
the the year found that they had actually
amounted to but s37e5.O0o,Ooo direct and actual
saving of 600 solely the budget system
and the determination OF President Harding and the
Republican Congress to make possible saving in
the taxpayers money. BY the application OF the same
methods retrenchment it is expected that the
appropriations for 1923. they will be
left unexpended balances the end of the
marked reduction in the appropriations this
year those OF in the line OF national de-
tense 1922. the military and appropriations
totale6 100000. while for 1923 they $780,
100000. saving of s21s.Oooooo. Much Of that econ
onny is directly due the the Washington
conference by President Harding reduce naval
In spite Of the most rigid economy by those
figures big reductions in the national debt have been
the beginning OF the fiscal 1929 the
debt stood at s2s,s77.OOOooo. and the of the
year it had dropped s22.sssooOOO 900, reduction Of
s1.e14 100000.
The object aimed by the Republicans in thus cut
ting expenditures the bone a-eduction in the
burden the people. As the economies
put effect they translated into reduced
taxes during the calendar year 1921 sS0.O0OOO0 is
estimated have been saved the taxpayers. In the
calendar the total saving the people in
reach ss5o.oo0oOO Further savings OF the
will follow in succeeding years.
been the effort of certain partisan Democrats
compare expenditures for the fiscal 1929 with
those for brewar show that Republicans have
failed in their promised return to normalcy How un-
fair such comparison is may be shown by tsbula-
ton someof the increased of that
cannot be avoided
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
COMPROMISE.

From the Marion Star.
The better outlook in the railroad
dispute demonstrates anew the folly
of provocative tactics in Industrial
controversies. There is nothing that
can be attempted in the way of con-
ference and settlement now that
could not have been initiated before
the walkout.
Nothing has been gained. while
every one knows what has been lost.
Labor has lost wages that it can
never recover. The railroads, need
ing the maintenance Of their rolling
stock in the most efficient condition.
are further handicapped, The public
feels the effect on business of every
interruption OF transportation.
The day Of the strike and lockout
should be over. Men competent TO
reach leadership on either side
should not permit the passion of
dispute to lead them TO cut off their
noses TO spite their faces. Eventual
ly. If they stop, TO think 1t out, they
must know that the end will be a
conference and an agreement. They
Aiu Hh"SH DttttA AeaNh tltdt duJuSt-
mentNwith the least loss and inter
rupdon possible, both for their own
sakes and for the sake of the pub
lie they are supposed 10 serve and
from whom they draw their money.
If the rail dispute has reached
the point where that realization has
been arrived at the sooner the whole
matter is adjusted the better for
both sides and for the country.
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
What DO Coal Unions Mean?
CFrom the New York Herald)

Ellis Searles. editor of the United
Mine Workers Journal. offers for
the settlement Of the coal strike two
methods which will appear to the
great mass of newspaper readers
astounding. not as methods but as
suggestions. One method, he says, is
for the President OF the United
States TO call a joint conference OF
the miners and operators and COM
mand both sides to attend.
The other method. Mr.. searles
says, is for the President to tell the
miners to go back to work at the
scale of wages existing at the time
of the strike with the promise that
he will appoint a commission to in
vestigate every phase of the many
situations and make report which
later would be used as the basis for
a new agreement between the miners
and the operators.
But this Is substantially. in many
respects exactly what President
Harding did. He called the Joint
meeting; he got the operators and
miners Into conference; he offered
them a plan for immediate return
to work pending arbitration; he en-
Joined upon them careful considera-
tiop of It and left them to reach an
agreement. The representatives OF
the operators in the main. agreed;
the leaders of the miners unani-
mously refused.
It is splitting hairs to say there is
any essential or even appreciable
difference between Mr.. Searle's sug-
gestion and the Presidents attempt
ed plan. Collective bargaining was
neither abandoned nor tempered
with in the Presidents plan. There
was nothing in the Presidents plan
TO prevent the operators and the
miners from reaching a wage scale
agreement before the coal commits
sion even came into existence. The
Presidents plan for arbitration find
lngs on wage scales and working con-
Evening journal., 1922-07-25

! United States Railroad Labor Board
and obeying the call of duty, stuck
by the ship. Furthermore, other
men not then employed by the roads
left the work they had and went 10
thesroads, under the decision of the
board and under the pledge of the
strike settlement they would be pro-
tected In their new jobs so long as
they were competent.
How many there are of these old
men that stood by the roads and of
new men that went to the roads the
public does not know. The New
York Herald does not Know, perhaps
nobody knows.
But here Is a striking fact In con-
nection with this very important
legal and moral obligation OF the
roads and OF the United States Rail-
road Labor Board, however. impor-
tant or unimportant It may be In
other ways. The strike leaders de-
clare. and they declare with the
loudest assurance that no old men
did stick by the ship. And they as
sert with almost equal emphasis
that the roads never have been able
to gather up more than a handful
Of new men TO put In the places OF
the strikers.
II these strike leaders mean what
they say. therefore, whether they
know what they are talking about
or whether they don't know. 1t ought
not 20 be difficult for the President
of the United States to convince
them that the strikers will do well
10 go back to work with their SEN
iority rights beginning after the
merely negligible number of men
they declare are now on the jobs. II
ought not 10 be difficult for the
strike leaders to save their faces
with the logic that since there are
no men now on the jobs the strikers
can lose nothing in the way OF act
ual seniority rights by going second
to a first that does not really exist.
That solution would let anybody
out OF an uncomfortable hole who
wanted 10 get out that way 1t
would offer a compromise without
causing the railroads to commit and
the gnlted States Railroad Labor
Board to compound a monstrous
legal and moral wrong.
In any event the men who stood
by the board. stood by the roads and
stood by the public must not be |
thrown TO the wolves.
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF FACT
From the New York Trlbuns.

When there is industrial peace
Samuel Gompers. the honored head
of the American Federation of
Labor, talks much sense-often
gives advice that might well be
needed by the members OF the in
dustrial partnership.
But let the strike drum beat and
Mr.. Gompers quickly says farewell
to his intellectuals. and even to his
common sense. He rants as II a
sand-lotter. Perhaps he feels that
he must-that liberty of private
Judgment Is no longer with him and
that his first business, IL his lead
ership is not TO be repudiated, is to
captain the radicals and Guido them
In unreason.
But even in the wild days-such
as he is now passing through-Mr.
Gompers occasionally drops a prof
table saying. For example, he re-
marked the other. day, with respect
to the coal industry, that the day
OF the private ownership of facts
approaches an end.
We know what miners earn; but
we don't know what mine opera
tors earn. The knowledge should be
equalized. We can't be Judges
whether wages are adequate or
prices TO the public are fair II ac-
cess to the budgets of the coal COM
panles is denied. The companies say
they don't make much. But do
they? When the Harding Hoover
commission gets to, work it should
not only wages but
profits.
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
The Cost of Strikes :
CFrOm the New York Tribune.)

Figures compiled by the National
INDUSTRIAL Conference Board esti.
mate that the 100000 American
wage workers now on strike lose the
income OF 100000 or more hours
a day.
Counting wages as low as as 80
cents an hour, here is a loss to wage
workers OF 100000 day. The
wage workers product is most
perishable. It passes with the tick
ing OF the clock A snowflake on a
river has less evanescent life.
Then there are the indirect losses.
There is diminished supply OF
some commodity or service which
brings a rise in prices. This rise af-
fscts the whole supply offthe COM
modify or service. The country's
normal consumption of bituminous
coal approxlmates 100000 tons a
weak and 81 more ton means a
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
The President in Rail Strike
CFrom the New York Herald)

! President Harding's aim to bring
the railroads and the striking shop
unions together would not seem 70
be impossible of achievement. In
the more than three weeks since
the United States Railroad Labor
Boards findings on wages and work
ing rules became applicable TO GER
tain unions there never has been an
iptimation by either side that any
decision OF the board was a definite
final closing OF any issue. There
never has been a moment when any
condition embraced in the board ;
decision could not be brought up by
workers staying on the job or back
on the job for rehearing, reconsid-
alton and redecision.
These are facts horne out by the
plain record. The maintenance OF
way workers on the whole stuck TO
their Jobs under protest and appeal.
and their leaders have been and are
now negotiating, I'm accordance with
the provision act, for notifications
of the new shop rules and changes
In the new wage scales. other Unions
have followed the example OF the
maintenance of way men.
II is true that when the shop
unidDs walked out after Jewells
uitimatum 10 the roads and repudi-
alton of the Board they ceased 10
have any standing before the board
and any rights with the railroads.
Nevertheless IL is a fact that since
then the representatives of the
strikers have been in constant con-
ference both with spokesman of the
railroads and with members of the
board. 1t is fact that after
wrangling and debating and talking
for days all around the questions al
issue the roads generally and the
strikers generally got so close to-
gether that they were separated, SO
TO speak, by no more than the thick
ness OF a thin sheet of paper.
This remaining barrier between
the strikers and employers was the
so-called seniority rights OF the
men. These rules, in brief. de-
termine the relative rank of men in
the order of first right to employ
ment when going on payrolls and
last eompulsion TO go off for reduc-
ton OF force or similar causes.
But when Jewell peremptorily or
dered the men 10 go out they did
not al go. Some OF them, accept
ing in'good faith the decision OF the
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
THE couNrRY's VOICE.

From the Troy Times.
The President is recognized as
the most authoritative spokesman
of the American people. He has
spoken on the strikes. The President
has shown characteristic patience,
but patience and firmness usually
go together.
President Harding says the coal
strike must end. What is still bet
ter, she shows how to end It. Best
of all, he makes the plan he sug-
gests an ultimatum, and back of It
places the whole force of the United
States government.
The plan is nothing more nor
less than arbitration. Arbitration
has been offered before, but not
under such conditions of immediate
lily impending calamity for the
country and its people, and not with
the label. Take II. or leave it at
your peril" It is encouraing TO see
that It is believed at Washington
that the Presidents plan for i'm
mediate resumption of labor at the
mines will succeed. II not, drastic
must be employed-and
has them at hand-for
1t would be suicidal to admit that a /
nation which can whip foreign pow
ers cannot control one branch of its |
own industries.
But there Is another strike. And |
here the authoritative spokesman
speaks again. He says interference
with the running of trains must
stop. That's what President Cleve-
land said. and he stopped it. There
Is no reason to believe that Mr..
Harding, though less brusque than
Mr.. Cleveland, is less determined.
And Washington has much more
power now than in Mr., Cleyeland's
time.
There are many who believe that
II the laws were enforced both of
the tremendously menacing strikes
Evening journal., 1922-07-25

Senator Cummins OF Iowa, one OF the Joint authors
OF the Transportation declares the Government can
compel obedience decisions OF the Railroad Labor
Board Notwithstanding there are penalties for vio
iation That undoubtedly true The Government can
compel permit the operation of trains and
the trains can be operated under the wage schedules
fixed by the board. OF man be forced to
work regardless OF the wage paid him, and Senator
cummins does mean that he-can, but other men
willing to work be protected by the full power of
the government
Evening journal., 1922-07-25
With the Paragraphers

Also we doubt II so many women would want to wear
trousers if their feet large slip through
easily.-Dallas News.
Just because Senator Jsm Watson right on the
League of Nations issue lot of Democrats forgive
him. DO they want him to be wrong on everything?-
Carthage (Mo.) Press.
Somehow couldn't help noticing. that when Lenne
needed doctor he didn't pick that learned DOCTOR
ing in a bolshevist school.-Kansas City Times.
carving imported at s1.s6 sold over the
counters this country for $3.50 by the importers.
says Senator, McCumber. That is profit of 70e per
cent the importer taking the meat and giving the
sumner the bone.-Dubuque Times-Journal.
The beled buzzard has appeared in the ozarks again
and the popuace keep weather eye out for some
unusual What its appearance foretels Is at pres
mystery. Is It forecast of some great political
change forerunner of, momentous turnover in the
financial business world. is il just common
key that has captured and belled Just
for the fun of the hing?-Windsor Review.
Evening journal., 1922-07-25

weekly addition of $50, 900 900 to the
cost OF other things. Even greater
additions to prices come from dis,
organized industry, as one falling
brick pushes down its neighbor.
In an economic way war is about
as hard on the victor as on the van
pushed. Neither side wins or can
win. Even more strikingly is there
this dual loss in industrial war. Any
settlement within reason is better
than conflict, and wage workers,
constituting the majority OF our
population, are hit the hardest, by
disturbance. II there is one mum
dane thing which labor should make
a god OF and worship it is/ arbitra-
ton. Labor unionists VIII vet see
that even faulty resorts to II are
better than noshlng. and Instead Of
criticizing will passionately defend
such agencies as the Railroad Labor
Board.
Evening journal., 1922-07-25

ditions was merely the alternative
for the failure of the operators and
miners TO reach an agreement.
So what does Mr.. Searles. pre-
sumably speaking for the miners as
a whole. mean? He IS not ignorant
Of what the President of the United
States did along the lines Mr..
Searles>urges, and he Is not Ignorant
OF what came OF n, The striking
miners cannot be ignorant of II. For
the editor Of the United Mine Work
ers' Journal to put Forth his sug-
gestion. therefore. without any ref
erence TO the fact that this very
thing had been tried by the President
but had been thwarted by the strike
leaders must seem 10 the American
public, thoroughly familiar with the
fact, as said before. astounding.
Or does Mr.. Sesrles mean that the
strike leaders now realize they made
a mistake and would like the chance
10 correct It? II that Is the case
why do they not say so 10 the Presl-
dent OF the United States? Surely
the President would be glad to
give them the chance to rectify their
error and set themselves right in
this great national issue. The mine
owners would be glad. The country
would be glad.
or does Mr.. Searles mean that the
striking miners realize that their
leaders made mistake. whether the
leaders do or do not yet realize it?
Does he mean that the miners would
like to go back to the point of the
Washington negotiations where their
leaders left off and begin all over
again with or without the leaders?
II that is the case why does not
Mr.. Searles say so in their behalf?
1t would be the straightest and tho
surest way to action.
Indeed. II 1t is the case II would
make a very easy matter out of
what now looks like a hard nut for
the coal strikers to crack.