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The New York herald., 1922-08-18
VOL. LXXXVI.-NO. 353-DAILY.
CONVICTS STAGE RIOT, SEIZE
WARDEN, FLEE IN MOTOR CAR
Four Desperate Criminals in South Dakota Use Knives
Stab Deputy and Raise Pandemonium-
Airplane and Posse in Pursuit.

Special Dispatch TO THE New YoEK HERALD.
SIOUX FALLS. s. D.. Aug. 17.-ATaking
Warden George w. Jamison with them,
four convicts escaped from the South
Dakota penitentiary here late today after
starting a riot in which they severely
knitted Deputy Warden Arthur Muchow.
The prisoners fed in q motor car parked
just outside the prison. Several posses Of
State and county officers, as well as
American Legion members. Immediately
set out in pursuit.
Tonight the prisoners had not been
overtaken. and apparently Warden
Jamison. had not been released from
the car. as no word had been heard from
him. The warden was slightly injured
in the riot.
The four corvicts, whose names are
Henry Coffee. Joe Foreman. Joe Tcel
and ]. b. King, were serving sentences
for grand larceny. Coffee is negro.
The riot was started in the tailor shop
OF the prison. Deputy Muchow. hearing
the noise. rushed there and was at
tackled by the four men, who had OBJ
tanned knives. Deputy Muchow was
badly cut. Warden Jamison was in his
Office at the time and hurried out. The
prisoners seized him and at the point of
their knives forced him to lead the way
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through the prison gates to the outside.
There they leaped into the car. which
had been left by motorist. and sped
north A guard fired a shot. but feared
TO aim directly at the occupants be-
cause of the warden's presence.
Warning was Immediately given and
neighboring towns were notified 70
watch for the fleeing convicts. who
stopped at Ellis, a nearby town. and
stole another car. The pursuing
posse had no clew to the direction the
prisoners had taken other than was
shown by the theft OF the car at Ellis.
1t is believed by authorities here that
the convicts will keep the warden with
them until they have gone a consider
able distance from Sioux Falls. Th ~
could use him as a means of protection
from .Cun fire. An airplane was OBJ
tained to aid in the pursuit, but the
approaching darkness made its work in
effective.
Pandemonium followed the riot One
guard as we'll as Deputy Muchow was
thrown into cell in order to prevent
pursuit.
According to statements made By
other prisoners, the convicts had bean
wanting to get" the deputy for long
time.
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Special Dispatch 70 THE Nrw YorK HrnAtp.
MusKEooN, Mich, Aug. f7.--lf she is
willing to apologize to her brother Mrs.
Gertrude Linderman Gilmore Of New
York city will receive s1s7.5oo from the
estate Of her mother. Mrs. Ella A. Lin
derman OF whitehall, Mich. under the
terms OF Mrs Linderman's will filed
here to-day, disposing Of an estate Of
about s750.000
The brother to whom she must apollo
gize for alleged attacks and for an al
legged attempt to ruin the family" Is
II. Archie Linderman. Washington and
Chicago clubman and a millionaire. The
will brought to light for the first time
here a quarrel In the family over the
division OF stock, patents and other
property Of the Linderman Machine
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Must Apologize to Brother to Get
SI87 500 BY Her Mothers Will
Continued On Page Five.

Company at the time of the death OF
Alfred Linderman. the father. several
years ago.
Mrs. Linderman's will, written sev-
eral years ago. divided the estate equally
among her four children. In 1918 a
codicli was fled saying that Mrs. Gil
more was TO be cut OFF from sharing In
the estate ~ she does not stop the
prosecutions of her brother and her ef-
forts TO ruin the family"
This codicl was followed by another
providing that Mrs. Gilmore must make
a written acknowledgment Of her wrong,
setting forth that she is satisfied with
the division Of the property at the time
of her fathers death. The apology must
satisfy her brother. and unless Il does
the entire estate 10 TO be divided among
the three other $rhildren.
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FOREST FIRES WIPE OUT
TWO MINNESOTA TOWNS

DULUTH, Mimi. Aug II ASSOCIATED
Press) Six known dead. hundreds
homeless, Mt least two towns wiped out
and dozen others In imminent danger
was the apparent toll tonight Of series
OF forest fires which swept northeastern
Minnesota to-day, the worst since 1918.
when four hundred persons lost their
lives.
Gov. J. A. G. Preus tonight took
personal charge Of the situation, order
Ing out National 0uardsmen here TO as
sist IN the fight against the flames.
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Jewell Is Optimistic.


Bert Jewell. after hearing from the
brotherhood medIators last night how
the meeting had Jared thus FAR. had
nothing to say about It except that he
believed IL was apparently working
toward n satisfactory solution. or the
situation generally he said
The settlement OF the coal strike will
10 a large degree determine the settle
ment OF the railroad strike. The re-
sumption Of coal mining and the vastly
increased demand for coal resulting
from depleted stocks will force the rail-
roads TO move more coal in the next few
weeks than ever before In history This
means a record breaking demand for
cars. In the face OF this demand there
Is AZ the present time a record breaking
shortage Of good order coal equipment.
The railroads will be required by urgent
necessity TO repair their coal cars in the
shortest possible time This will bring
the most inslstent kind Of pressure upon
the roads TO get a maximum number os
skilled mechanics into their shops. II
is safe to say there viii be places for
one and half times the normal number
Of men in coal car repair shops alone. "
IL Ia believed that the question Of
seniority was virtually the only one dis
cussed in yesterdays conference at 81
Broadway. How shall the strikers rank
when they return 70 their Jobs-that Is
the overshadowing Issue. Late In the
afternoon a messenger was sent out OF
the room for tho record OF decisions OF
the United States Railroad Labor Board
dealing with seniority N other strikes.
one OF these. decision 2ga rendered on
October 20. 1921 dealt with test case
involving brotherhood employees VI the
Ann Arbor Railroad. The board held
that the striking organizations forfeited
the rights Of their members TO the privi-
leRes and benefits of all contracts there
tofore existing, and "the employees so
striking have voluntarily removed them
selves from the classes entitled 10 ap-
peal to the board for relief and protec-
ton" To this and other decisions OF
the railroad labor board the company
executives are able to point in support
OF their contention that they S&pnot. In
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Theatrical and Hotel ana Restaurants.
Advertising will be found on PagsN 6.--Adu.
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100000 workers Concerned.

While the heads OF the brotherhoods
were pleading the cause OF the strikers
IN the meeting with the executives. Bert
NJ Jewell, head OF the railway depart
mcnt Of the American Federation Of
Labor and the big chief of the strike.
sat at the Hotel Woodstock in West
Forty-third street awaiting the returns.
With him were the heads OF most OF the
other railway unions. who, although not
on strike, have a vital interest In tho
negotiations, particularly the decision
as to the main point at issue--whether
or not the strikers are TO be restored
to their full seniority rights II and when
they go back to work. In all these
groups OF allied unions are about 2.000,-
900 men. II is not too much 70 say that
the five brotherhood chiefs battling at
81 Brcadwav with the railroad execu-
tives are really the spokesmen for
1000 900 workers. Just as the eight rail
executives on the other side OF the tabls
feel that they speak for the interests OF
hundreds Of thousands of patrons and
stockholders and billions OF invested
capital
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cites Boston Police strike.

Reports that he already has formu.
lated plan which contemplated calling
for 100000 volunteers TO protect prop
erty, junction points and strategic CEN
ters were discounted by officials. one
Cabinet member saying There Is not
word OF truth in the rumor." Secretary
OF War Weeks is authority for the state
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Continued ON Page Seven.
:
When you think Of writing
Think Of Whitinks--Adv.
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DYNAMITE WRECKS TRAIN; 40 HURT
HARDING TO PROPOSE LAWS
TO CURE INDUSTRIAL ILLS

speoiar Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
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PIutocracy's Crumbs.

Continued ON Pnge seven,
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CHIEFS OPTIMISTIC
Big Four Understood to
Have Offered Remedy
or Alternative for !
Seniority.
SESSION LASTS 4 HOURS
Meanwhile Representatives
of the Shop Crafts
Await Decision.
COAL PEACE IS FACTOR
Need for Coal Cars Will Neces-
state Hiring of Extra
shop Forces.
COAL PEACE IS FACTOR

The most promising Of the many at
tempts to end the railroad strike was
begun yesterday in q board roen or
the eighteenth floor 6l Iway,
overlooking New York herhoe when
executives repre- mt
into conference I'VE
non-striking bro,Aerue. ag as
mediators for the striking SHOP unions.
The first session lasted four hours
and twenty minutes. The conference
was then adjourned TO 10 o'clock this
morning. Nothing was made public as
to the nature or progress Of the debate
and neither side would venture a pre-
diction as to the outcome.
That the negotiations are in q deli
cate and probably hopeful stage is in
dicated by the fact that both the rail-
roads and the unions made the un-
usual request that newspapers refrain
from speculation until a conclusion is
reached. on the ground that possible
misunderstanding might result.
Suyier Issues statement.
The only statement made after the
adjournment Of the conference at 8 30
+. NJ. came from 4. DE Witt Cuyler.
chairman OF the Association OF Railway
Executives. In whose headquarters The
meetings are being held.
"A conference was held this after
noon" he said. between a committee OF
the carriers and the heads OF the five
train service organizations. who wished
it 10 be distinctly understood that they
appeared as mediators OF their own
motion.
"A discussion of the present railroad
situation so far as 1t relates TO the shop
craft strike took place. The questions
involved were discussed with the earnest
desire to arrive at q definite solution
OF the problem. IL possible. No definite
conclusion was arrived at and the con-
ference was adjourned until tomorrow
morning"
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THE BEST IN IT'S HISTOR'

The New York Herald. with all that was
best of The Sun intertwined with it. and
the whole revitalized, is bigger and better
and sounder newspaper than ever before.
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WEATHER FoRECAAyG t9

Partly cloudy and continued warm to-day;
thunder showers tonight or tomorrow.
Highest temperature yesterday. oI; lowest. ~.
Detailed weather reports found o.ss
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XII.
WHY GOOD MEN QUIT

Go today into the Treasury depart
meht, the Department of Agriculture,
the Department of Commerce, or into
any other establishment of the govern
ment doing important technical work,
ana they Will tell you that their chief
dihicuity Is to retain competent en-
ployees In the supervisory and tech
nical positions. Their turnover is alb
normally high in these positions.
Every day men leave the service
TO accept private employment at ma
terlally increased salaries, so that the
departments are continuously going
through a process of selecting and
training executives and technical en-
pioyees, only to lose them. as they be-
come really valuable on account of
the inadequacy of their compensation.
Inc second factor which contrib
utes to the present ineffectiveness of
the government as business estab-
llshment Is found in the improper or
ganiZation of the executive branch of
the government for effective service.
You are familiar, at least in a general
way, with the defects of the present
administrative machinery.
You know for example, that the In
terior department now has Jurisdiction
over great number Of bureaus of a
miscellaneous character that have
nothing to do with each other or with
the functions which the Interior de-
partment was originally established to
perform.
hot nj hos
been located In the Treasury depart
ment, the great fiscal department of
the government, which are purely non
fiscal in character, such as the coast
guard, the public health service, the
supervising architects office and the
bureau of war risk insurance.
You know that the great bulk of
the civil public works Of the govern
ment are executed under the super
vision of the War department, although
the bureau of public roads Is located
in the Department of Agriculture. and
the reclamation service in the Depart
ment of the Interior.
You know, furthermore, of the in
dependent existence outside the juris-
diction of any of the great executive
departments. Of some 4O-odd boards,
commissions, offices and bureaus.
These are merely examples of con-
dItion that would require volumes to
describe fully, but 1t is generally
known that the executive branch Of the
government Is at the present time IL
logically and uneconomically organ
lied in many important particulars.
1t should be remembered, however,
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will often start it into growth. Grid
ling produces similar result. Notch
ing the stem does the same. Rubbing
the stem also starts the plant into
growth. In all these examples of the
stimulation Of growth by injury 1t Is
conceived that the enzym, or soluble
ferment which Is found in all plants
and which transforms starch into su-
gar, is brought Into contact with the
starch as u direct result of the break
ing and straining Of the cells, thus
causing sugar to be formed and growth
to begin. Tropical plants probably
have various methods of coming out
of their dormancy, and there is every
reason to expect that some of them
will be found to accomplish this act
in the same way as our long dormant
greenhouse, by the weakening of their
cell membranes. This is in effect sub
stantially identical with chilling.
AS IL single example of the practi-
cal application Of the principle of chill
ing, it may be stated that the scien-
fists of the Department Of Agricul-
ture in efforts to domesticate the wild
blueberry plant. have succeeded.
tuTOuSh lHe Hleuiuh VI Hy DiiuS, III
bringing these plants into highly pro-
ductive bearing. They have made
them fruit so luxuriously and abund-
antly that they brought returns to the
growers at the rate of more than ST.
900 an acre. In a word, they changed
the blueberry from a small wild fruit
the size of pea to fruit almost
the size of a Concord grape, and they
have made its culture profitable in
dustry.
These things they would not have
been able to do, however, unless they
had first worked out the principle Of
chilling, an understanding of which
was essential to their work of breed
ing and propagation.
Going still further, the scientists re-
sponsible for these improved varie-
ties of blueberries have made them
YIELD in greenhouses, ripe blueberries
in February and March, the largest
berries reaching diameter of over
three-quarters of an inch. At various
times from midsummer to autumn the
plants were placed in I ass frames arti-
ficially chilled. After two or three
months chilling they were taken into
greenhouse anu at once began grow
ing and Towering, while similar plants
that had not been through the chilling
period continued dormant in the same
of the fact that period of chilling is
general requirement of northern
Plants.
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Copyright. Western Newspaper Union

that even with an Ideal personnel and
perfect organization 1t is doubtful
II the high degree of economy and
efficiency that characterizes private
business can ever be attained In the
government offices. This is so because
economies made by government Off
cials are not transformed into divi-
dends for themselves as they are in
private business.
There is an impression in congress
and throughout the country that men
of great ability are not found in gov
ernment service; that the salaries are
not sufficient to attract and hold them.
On the contrary, there are great
many people of distinguished ability
In the government service. One is
more and more impressed by that fact,
especially since the war sent to Wash
ington so many men of large means
and famous names with whom the
government employees could be COM
pared. The comparison was time and
again to the advantage of the govern
ment employee. But the salaries are
not the attraction; it is the work it
self. This is we'll understood by some
eminent observers Of public life. Sec
retary of State Hughes declared him
self as follows before the advisory
committees of the war risk Insurance
bureau:
1t has been my experience that with
the higher officers. the officers of greater
institutions, where efficiency Is rewarded
by public representation-while the field
I,nra nf he
portunity to men of ablity-it is still en-
tirely possible to draw to the public serv-
ice men of great ability and distinction.
because of the desire to render public
SERVICE and the number of men VINO are
available for that purpose. while rela-
lively small, is still sufficient IL the ap-
pointing officer wants men of that class.
In order to obtain them, however he
must give a free field. He must not i'll
terfere as to political action to control
administration tendencies and must per-
nit them to be given the reward which
well-conducted office of Importance VIII
give to it's incumbent in the public esti-
nation.
Now the difficulty increases when you
pass those heads that get the credit and
come to the technical expert who has
got to do the regular work and upon
whose efficiency the operation OF the de-
partment finally depends. These men are
little known. The public hasn't time even
to learn their names. They are interested
in work to degree of being willing to
make sacrifices.
There is active competition for men of
brains and great ability of that sort. and
the government will never be served un-
less it pays the price for those men. Now
1 think that is a plain situation. You
may be able to get q director in the bu-
reau of war risk insurance for 5000 a
year. or for nothing at all. but you can
| not get an actuary. You cannot get in
! surance men. You cannot get supern-
tendents. That would be my judgment.
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VIEW OF THE EMPLOYEE

The employees are recruited under
law: which provides test Of
qualifications, and probably nine-tenths
of the rank and file have satisfactorily
passed the entrance test. But the
better positions, say from $4,000 up
ward, are usually occupied by political
appOintees. Another considerable
group of employees get their appoint
ments by executive order. waiving
civil-service tests of fitness.
The newcomer In the service, there
fore, finds himself up against a mini
mum of opportunity for promotion.
with the disheartening knowledge that
the advancement which is earned by
competence is all too likely to be given
to the friend or political supporter of
some congressman or executive who
wishes to pay political debt. And
the employee is subject to dismissal
at the will of the executive of his de-
partment, unless he can bring sufficient
political influence to bear.
In other words, the civil-service law
is not backed up by enforcing power In
the Civil Service commission. 1t
merely recruits the applicants for en-
trance. Thereafter the employees
fate is largely matter of his own
luck and negative passive merit. There
Is no system by which he may be
fitted to the job and no protection
against dismissal, unless the employee
himself can show that the reason is
political or religious. "For the good
Of the service" as the law reads,
covers every other charge which the
executive official may bring. There is
no court of appeal.
Such is the oppressive. incentiveless,
vitiating atmosphere Of the govern
ment service. 1t stiles initiative,
illustrates ambitions and reduces the
mass of employees to more or less
passive state, which is permeated by
a sense of fear.
In such an atmosphere, naturally
enough, the physical conditions Of en-
ployment are far from what they
should be, and the government loses
efficiency, as does any other employer
where the wage scale Is inadequate
and unstandardized, where sanitary
conditions are bad and hours OF work
too long and irregular.
The wage scale is SO low that the
Civil Service commission has difhculty
In securing properly qualified appli-
cants, and throughout the service the
turnover is high. Employees doing
the same kind Of work often receive
widely different rates of pay; ex-
perienced workers often receive less
than beginners, and virtually every
kind Of inequality and injustice exists.
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The obvious solution of the govern
ment's employment problem is the
Standardization and readjustment OF
salaries. To be scientific, such re-
adjustment must rest upon careful
reclassificatiOn of the service. Con-
aItions are very different now, both
in regard to the functions of offices
and the cost Of living, from what they
were when positions in the govern
ment service were first classified and
salaries assigned to those positions.
1t struck me that an interested party
in this inquiry into how the govern
ment conducts its business was the
employee himself. He ought to know
from actual daily experience some
thing about the mechanism Of the
national business and the relations be-
tween the working force and employer.
1t was clearly impossible to talk to
the more than 100000 men and women
who work for the government, but l
learned that between $4,000 and co.
600 of them are banded together in an
association called the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees. 1t Is a
regular labor union, and Is amliated
with the American Federation of
Labor. 1t includes all classes of gov
ernment workers, technical and
scientific men, as we'll as clerks and
unskilled workers.
1 asked the president of this en-
ployees' union, Luther G. Steward, II
he and his associates were authorized
to speak for all its membership. He
assured me that they were.
So I asked him to tell me about the
conditions of government employment
and how the business was carried on.
l am glad did, for what he told
me discloses not only facts. but
state of mind existing among the en-
ployees which necessarily must be
taken into account In any considera-
tion of the efficiency and management
of our common business. Here then
is what the employees. who speak
through Mr.. Steward, have to say, and
the constructive program they present
for the Improvement of the service:
The civil service on its human side
consists Of about 100000 men and
women engaged in the operation of an
antiquated patched-up machine. Be
cause of the durability of Its vital
parts and the faith and ability of the
mass of the operatives the machine
still functions. But the parts are
ill.fitted, and many Of them are de-
fective. The managers and superin-
tendents of the establishment, being
too often chosen for political reasons,
are frequently inexpert. and the opefat-'
ing system IL clumsy and disjoInted.
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These Post.War Days.

Representative Frear of Wisconsin
said mt dinner at Milwaukee,:
"There has been lot of talk to
the contrary, but nevertheless the cost
of all kinds Of wearing apparel keeps
unreasOnably high.
"a rich Milwaukee banker sat at
luncheon the other day when SER
want entered and said:
"'There's econd-hand-clothes man
al the back door, SIR
"'Goodr said the rich banker. ASK
him If he can let me have second
hand pair of shoes at reasonable
price,"
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WEIGHT CHANGES

We are lightest when we rise in the
morning. Breakfast puts on pound
or SO, but we lose some Of this by
lunch time, when we again add to our
weight. After lunch back we go once
more, though, as between breakfast
and lunch, we retain part of the In
crease. Then comes dinner. which
brings us up to our maximum. We
have then gained, on the average,
seven pounds during the day. Cen