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The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13
'AUTOMUDBUS," TAKEN
 FROM GRAVE, IS FAD"

SAN DIAGO, Cal, March 13.-With it's heart stilled five years ago beneath a bank of mud, a cheap automobile be- longing to T. B. Baines has come back to life. Today the rusty, rattling old bus stands as a relic on the city's streets-chug- -chugging in testimony of the fact that "a car may be down, but it's never out"
 The car was lost in the 1916 flood when it was buried in a surGing sea of mud and water several miles from here. The floods of two weeks ago washed it up. The Rip Van Wrinkle "automudbus" was yanked from it's siesta under the rills of the gurgling mire and hauled to repair shop.
 Played by the elements for five long years, the car still was somewhat sturdy. The tires had routed, but the gas was still tanked. With it's origl- nal machinery the car now is throbbing advertisement
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 canneries here, are planning to con solidate their operations and pack sal mon at the Carlisle plant this sea son.
 A rotary fleet, composed of rotary, two powerful engines, and a caboose, left Saturday for up the railroad line, but encountered blizzard 21 miles out, at Gulcana, and was forced to re- turn to Cordova. The other fleet and the local following arrived on sched- ule time at Cordova. Going with the blizzard was lots easier than buck ing it. Commander Davis of the steamship Victoria performed the same stunt on the up trip few days ago. "Oh, very we'll" he said to the storm king, when the storm king, challenge just off Cape St. Elias, and, turning the gallant old Victoria, the navigator rode the mighty pillows southbound until old Boreas tired of the sport and veered off toward Si- beria. Captain Davis then turned the Victoria and sailed serenely on. Rail- road commanders sometimes have to follow the same tactics.
 "The heart makers" at the railroad shops have started, in a small way, an unique industry that affords many of the "boys" pleasure and profit. With a piece of copper ore in one hand and a common file in the other, they turn out beautiful hand-ground hearts for wife, sweetheart, or friend. It is a suggestive and desirable Cor dova souvenir.
 F. M. Ledley of Seattle, arrived on the s. S. Northwestern to. accept a position with the Cordova Drug Con- pany.
 Bob" Bogart has been busy the last few days moving his stock of wall papers, paints, etc., to his new loca- tion in the Mickelson building, First
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 NOTICE, PIONEERS
 Pioneers of Alaska will meet to- night at o'clock in Eagles hall. Full attendance is desired.
 Ira Miller has returned to Cordova from Mile I'll.
 returned on the Northwestern last night from a business trip to An chorage.
 Mrs. Thos. J. Donohoe left on the Northwestern this afternoon for Seat tie.
 Marshal Price and wife, who spent the past few months here, returned today to their Pennsylvania home. B. w. Tillman and wife were passen- gers for Seattle on todays boat.
 Harry w. Achison, of the Bank of A 1nc1yo 1nft TT N r. tie and Portland.
 The steamer Admiral Watson sailed for Seattle at 11:30 o'clock last night, with the following passengers for Jul neau: Ben Dalzelle, A. R. Johnstone, H. E. Newton and John Moronich.
 The steamer Northwestern sailed for Seattle this afternoon, with the fol- lowing passengers from here: Mar shal Price and wife, Mrs. J. R. Cole, Mrs. H. A. McDaniels, B. w. Tillman and wife. Mrs. Thos. J. Donohoe, H. w. Achison and Lewis Monson.
 Basket ball game at Eagle hall to- night at 9:3O o'clock, between the Cordova Athletic team and the North land Arrows. Each team has won one game thus far and close and excit- ing match may be expected tonight. Agent Carroll of the Admiral Line, neglected to lower his bedroom win dow night or two ago and when he woke up some time later with that funny feeling that someone was in the room he discovered two night prowl- ing tomcats promenading upon his bed.
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Bob" Bogart has been busy the last few days moving his stock of wall papers, paints, etc., to his new loca- tion in the Mickelson building, First and c. streets.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

B. w. Tillman and wife were passen- gers for Seattle on today's boat.
 Harry w. Achison, of the Bank of Alaska, left today on a trip to Seat tie and Portland
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Kennecott Copper Corporation 2S1s Mother Lode Coalition "A
 Anaconda Copper ..-----....-.-...-.----. 91s Utah Copper ............................... 63k
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The steamer Admiral Watson sailed for Seattle at 11:30 o'clock last night, with the following passengers for Jul neau: Ben Dalzelle, A. R. Johnstone, H. E. Newton and John Moronich.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

F. M. Ledley of Seattle, arrived on the s. S. Northwestern to. accept a position with the Cordova Drug Con- pany.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-13

Basket ball game at Eagle hall to- night at 9:3O o'clock, between the Cordova Athletic team and the North land Arrows. Each team has won one game thus far and a close and excit- ing match may be expected tonight.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
There is not one substantial reason

nue in the service There substantial reason
why they should not
There have been pcayune criticisms of Principal
Coke No doubt a of the field would develop
Just as many picayune criticisms Of Superintendent
Ward Both should remember, however, that little
minded men and little-minded like little things
and eyes closed the big things of life
and work.
It is at a time like this when educational reform is
at stake; when the future the Ward administration
hangs the balance when the future desnies of
the High School involved that the School Commits
sioners City Superintendent the High School Prin-
cpal others who truly interested in the
of education, should think big and big and leave
the little things TO men and women with little minds
The people Of Wilmington want Ward for another
year and they for another year, nothing
short of that will satisfy them They want Ward be-
cause he has done splendid in the general field
and they he has done splendid work
in the High School field II a referendum vote were
today would result Overwhelmingly in favor of
continuance OF the two in their respective offices
those who have been endeavoring TO
stir up trouble the Department of Education. where
fundamental trouble exists but where the wouldtbe
trouble makers hopeful that someone will emulate
the example OF Mrs oLearys in Chicago and start
conhagration that will consume local educational re-
form and everything connected with It.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1922
DELIVER THE DEEDS,


TN view existing conditions, surprising that
purchasers OF houses i'm Union Park Gardens this
&ty, indignant.
sThey have waited for weeks for the Federal officials
charge the village and the sale of the proper
res composing it wipe the large mortgage in
debtedness execute deliver the deeds, but
neither has been done.
with moving day almost here and with the pur-
chasers eager to get themselves settled such a oond-
ton is highly exasperating
The entire transaction has been mismanaged shame
fully the government side, and responsible inteIi
gent and energetic officials in Washington should get
after and dispose OF incompetents who have made
such a miserable of things.
Those who purchased the hundreds of houses
titled TO their deeds also clear titles their
properties. They know it public knows It. In
f5 everybody know IL except those represen
tatives Federal whose duty is 10
clear the title and and pass the deeds.
In the opinion of many persons, average Office boys
in real agency could have handled the situation
better than the Federal Governments agents have
handled ii.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY is WISE

yVTHEN bids for Wilmington city contract. it
w presumed by the city officials that before maxi
ing bid considered all elements OF the situ-
alton decided that his contract price will leave
him a reasonable profit at the end OF his work
presumed that the price shall stand If
prove be advantageous TO him and that it shall be
modified or cancelled IL prove be dsadvantageous
to him. such a pursued, city contracts
soon would become a convenience to contractors
and a burden the taxpayers.
The Republican majority in City Council will be com
mended by taxpayers for its refusal to heed the
wish Of the Board of Health and the Democratic
minority Council that the contract price fixed by the
garbage removal be boosted si2,5OO for the
comfort OF the contractor.
II the Republican majority were to become a party
to such a boosting plan. little while city contract
would be looked upon joke and the city officials
would find themselves confronted by a series Of en-
barrassments result of low bids made by persons
who do not think they should be held to their bar
gains i
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
An ErcuseLess Strike
(From the New York Tribune.)

The heads of the various railroad
unions affected by recent reduc-
tions of wages have made pu,lic n
letter attacking the Railroad Labor
Board and warning its chairman
that they will sanction strike if
the workers vote for it.
This letter charges the Railroad
Labor Board with having violated
the provisions of the transportation
act. The board. which is the only
body having power to fix wages or
change them, is accused of misusing
its authority. Yet the union officials
DO not seek a remedy against the
board. They turn aside and threaten
a strike against the users OF the
railroads. For something which the.
board-a governmental agency
has done they want to punish inno-
cent third parties.
The union leaders say that they
have no remedy against the board.
In that they are wrong. II the
board has violated the law il can be
called to account in the courts. Only
few weeks ago the Pennsylvania
Railroad secured an order enjoininR
the enforcement of a board ruling
for which the courts found no war
rant in the transportation law. If
the wage reductions violate the law
they can be similarly suspended
through legal processes.
BY sanctioning a strike the union
officials would. in fact aim at the
Evening journal., 1922-06-21

annulment of the law, not its vindi-
cation. They would try to break
down the form OF regulation Gre
ated in 1920 in the public interest.
And what would be the result If
they did break down? Either gov
ernment regulation would be
strengthened by an amendment pro-
viding for compulsory acceptance of
the boards decisions Qf they are
within the law or the fixing Of
wages would be turned back TO the
railroad managements.
The claim that railroad pay is
being unjustly or unequally reduced
should deceive nobody. Roughly
speaking, railroad wages in the lat
ter part of 1920 were from. 1876 to
$50 per cent higher than they were
in 1915. Wages had more than
overtaken mounting living costs.
The new scales proposed by the
Railroad Labor Board are still in
some classifications more than 100
per cent above the scales in opera
tion in December, 1917 when the
government took over the railroads.
Living costs have come down faster
than wages.
There is no reason for n strike,
as the union officials well know or
they would state 1t. And strike
would not only challenge the gov
ernment's authority but would unite
about ninetenths of the population
of the country against the strikers.
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per cent. better off. They know tn,
signal gang foremen were A pc
cent. better off. the slgnalmen near
, ly 4S per cent. better off and the as
sistant signalmen 80 per cent. bet
ter off. They know the stationary
engineers were 10 per cent. better
off and the stationary fremen more
than 25 per cent. better off.
As for the section gang work kers
largely the common labor on the
roadbeds, the average monthly wage
in 1915 was S44.17; now it is S9S.SS
This is an increase of 124 per cent
Station, storehouse and warehouse
| employees, watchmen, freight truck
ers, showers, &c, had an average
wage In 1915 Of $51.72. which went
up 10 s119.7S. or an increase OF
1916 per cent.
What the leaders of those railroad
unions are fighting against, there
fore, is not, as they say, a wage re-
adjustment by which workers are
degraded below a level of bare ami
NAL existence" They are fighting tc
perpetuate an abnormal railroad la
Dor charge that makes il impossible
for the public which pays all the
transportation bills to get lower
freight and passenger traffic rates tc
correspond with the public's own re-
duced wages and earnings.
The railroad payrolls by the end
OF 1920 were up as a straight in
crease over 1915 by more than two
billions of dollars a year. That was
an increased transportation labor
cost on the public averaging 500.
for every family in the United States
The total railroad payrolls for 1920
were S3,7OO,0OO,00. That was a
transportation labor cost on the pub
lie averaging s1S5 a year for every
family in the United States.
The American peoples total rail
way transportation bill-labor, coal
material and supplies. taxes and
everything else-ought not TO be as
much as the railway labor bill alone
is. Until 1917 the American pee
ple's total transportation bill was
not so heavy as the 1872 railway la
Dor charge became.
In the fiscal year of 1916 all that
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railroads-in total operating reve-
nues received by the roads from all
soNces-was S3,3S1, 597, 200. In
1915 it was only 1861 In
1912 it was only $2.SO5, ,OOO.O .OO-nine
hundred millions of dollars a year
less for everything that was paid tc
the railroads by the public at that
time than the railroads paid for la
Dor alone in 1920.
The American people. with their
own earnings Debated from the wal
levels cannot carry the inflated
transportation charges--the railroad
operating revenues-strapped upon
their shoulders to the staggering to-
tai in 1920 of more than six billions
Of dollars. And there is no posi-
BILE way to get that crushing load OF
charges against the
public down where it ought to &C
and where it must go without the
dehation OF highly inflated railway
labor charges along with the defia-
tion OF all other railway charges.
That's the whole issue-the Amer
lean public's issue.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
CAN GoMPERs DELIVER

Unless members OF organized labor break from the
u the control OF the managing their affairs
they will the American Federation Of Labor turned
over to the Democratic party adjunct OF its po
ical machine.
Mr. Gompers has not the influence at the White
House that he enjoyed during the wilson regime, he
has vowed vengeance President Harding and the Re-
publican party. His hand is plainly in evidence in the
convention of the Federation of Labor at Cincinnati
The ship subsidy bill was condemned The basic
purpose Of that BILL every intelligent man knows, IS
to secure export trade against interruption thereby
assuring continuous employment in American indus
tries
1t is essentially in of labor, but It is Of
Republican origin so needs be condemned by Mr..
Gompers and his packed convention OF delegates.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
With the Pardgrdphers

The Genoa parey may have failed in all else but 1t
has succeeded turning out some war talk-Des
Moines Register.
Mrs. Leslie Thornton happened the misfortune Of
getting dog bit few days ago.-Burr Oak correspond
Marshall Mountain Wave.
Unable get Uncle Sam sit in" the Genoa
shell game paraphernaa is be moved rhe Hague.
Monte Carlo will probably be the next stop.-New Cas-
tie (Ind) Courier
In one direction Mr. Bryan certainly has an advan-
the person who undertook knock him into
cooked hat. He plays the game and knows how to
keep his frlends.-Detroit Free Press.
Trying to talk with soviet delegates doubt is
like trying give telephone number 10 operator
who in saying I'm ringing them" before she has
heard your number.-Kansas City Star.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21

After being in an invalid's chair
for almost a year and bedfast for
nearly three years. am able to
walk today and I can thank only
Plant Juice for my remarkable re-
covery." Mrs. Hunt told the Plant
Juice Man in an interview at To-
ledo.
My case was pronounced palsy
and was given up as hopeless.
could not even walk across the room
and I thought that my days on earth
were few because I took every medi-
cine I heard of and none of them
DID me any good.
LAS a last resort. I started taking
Plant JUICE recently and It prove :
TO be a wonderful blessing. Ny en-
tire system seems 10 be made over
and ] am able to walk. I feel years
younger-never felt any better in my
life-and I eat and sleep well and
am even doing my house cleaning
and I want to say that it surely is
a pleasure to be able to work after
my long Illness.
MY fr ends all wonder at my re-
covery and I myself can hardly
realize It. I think Plant Juice is the
most wonderful medicine in the
world and Is worth many times what
1t costs and I can honestly recon-
mend it for believe it saved my
life"
Plant Juice is sold in Wilmington
at The Miller drug store. 4O4-4O6
Market street. in New Castle nv 7,
& Son; in Newport by c.
3. White; in Newark by W. E..
Brown.-(adv.)
Evening journal., 1922-06-21

PUPILS ISSUE PAPER

The June number of the Ameri-
canization News, published by the
Americanization classes of Delaware
has been issued and forms the most
attractive edition yet published. 1t
comprises 20 pages, containing seven
fuil-page etchings showing Ameri-
canization students in costumes Of
their native lands.
The recent commencement eXer-
cises are reviewed and the speeches
delivered by the graduates are given
in full. There also is a section de-
voted to news gof the Americaniza-
ton schools alumni and an honor.
roll giving the names of all menu
bers of the classes who have attend
ed at least 80 per cent. of the num-
ber of nights the schools We're in
session from October last until they
closed this month.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
What the Rail Wages Really Are
(From the New York Herald.)

II It were true. as declared in tn
defiant letter of some of the rail
road union officers OF the United
States Railroad Labor Board, tina
the lowest paid employees "have
been degraded below level Of bar,
animal subsistence" and the earning
capacity OF the employees in the
higher grades reduced "below a
standard 'of healthful and decent
livlng"-if that were true the wage
cuts ordered by the board. slight
though they be. would be in defens-
ible. But II Is not true. It is no
where near true.
The record is very clear. In re-
spect TO the particular unions and
crafts whose officers signed the
statement the facts Of plain record
are emphatically and irrefutably
contrary TO what the union officers
and leaders assert.
The average wage in 1914 for
the railway machinists, bollermak-
ers. blacksmiths. sheet metal work
ers, electrical workers and molders
was s7S.75 a month, while last Feb
ruary, after the first wage read
justment, it was s1S4.O1 a month.
This shows an increase in wage OF
1874 per cent.
In the summer of 1914 the aver
age wage of car men was S62.S4 a
month. while at the close OF last year
It was nearly three times as high at
s1S0.63 a month.
In the summer of 1914 the aver
age wage of signal foremen was
sS2.90 a month. In February of
this year It was s205.72, or an in
crease Of more than 14S per cent
The average of signal men in 1914
was S71.20. in February last S1S1.05
an increase of more than 154 per
cent. For assistant signal men the
wage went up from ss0.4O to s137.47
or more than 127 per cent.
Stationary engineers had their
average go up from S77.S7 in 1914
TO S15S.42 in 1922; stationary fire.
men went up from S63.21 to S1S6.26
Now the officers OF the foregoing
unions cannot he ignorant Of these
facts and figures. because they were
all put into the record at the hear
ings before the United States Rail-
road Labor Board and the officers
Of the unions followed closely every
word Of testimony and every scrap
of exhibit that were submitted &c
the board. These facts and figures
have not been disproved and cannot
be disproved. 4 so when the officers
OF the unions to which the wage av
erages apply put out such state
ment as they have put out they
know it Is false statement.
And those union officers know |
while the average wage OF the ma
blacksmiths, boilermakers |
&C., was up 134 per cent. the cost
of living increase by the United |
States Department of Labor figures /
was so much lower than the wage |
increase that with their wages ex
pressed in terms Of commodities I
rents, SC. those employees were 35 |
per cent better off than they ever |
had been before the cost of living /
vent up. They know the car men |
With their wages expressed in terms /
If commodities, rents, SC, were 60 /
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
ELKs ON RIVER TONIGHT.

Wilmington Lodge, 3. p. o. Elks
will go on moonlight excursion to-
night aboard the CITY of Whining
ton" leaving Fourth street wharf at
7.45 daylight saving time.
Tickets for the trip can be had al
the Elks Home, No. l119 Market
street or at the wharf before leav-
ing time.
The entertainment committee has
arranged a delightful program for
the evening. one of the best "la2z'
orchestras has been engaged. There
will be dancing ana many other
features to amuse the eXcursionists.
The management of the Wilson
Line has given permission to park
automobiles in the company's yards
at Fourth street wharf topight.
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LOSES HIS $4,000 CASH BAIL.

WEST CHESTER. Pa, June 21.-'
James Ricci. a West Chester busi-
ness man, yesterday forfeited $4,000
cash bail he had posted as security
that Joseph Randozza, Of Philadel-
phia, would appear in court to an
swer a charge Of stealing two auto
mobiles. The charge has been held
over for several months, Ricci al
ways hoping the defendant would
appear, but the end came today
when the court ordered the bail for
feited to the county and Ricci ar
ranged for the payment.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
srrEL PoINrs TnE wAY

EuIE situation In the steel industry is always taken as
Il an accurate index of business in general.
The rise in the production ingots that began
last December stl continues
In December the production was at the rate of 90
600 900 tons a year. in March the rate 5O,OOOOOo
tons. in April, s5.OOOOOO tons and it well over
37OOO,O0O tons.
In the first months of 1920 there very heavy
demand for steel the present is only 10
cent. below the production at that time
The two biggest tonnage years before the were
1912 and 1913, but this year the indications that
those records will be exceeded by Us per cent.
Evening journal., 1922-06-21
ICE CREAM ALL YEAR
ROUND FOOD NOW

There was a time when ice cream
was considered largely a dessert
created especially for women and
children. Nowadays, ice cream is
eaten for its health value as well as
its deliciousness. And it is eaten in
the winter months as we'll as in hot
weather.
The other day, in a hotel dining
room in a metropolitan city, an in
vestigation was made of the kind Of
desser tordered by the men and wo-
men at dinner. OF the forty diners,
thirty-seven ordered dessert after
their meal. All but two of the
thirty-seven ordered ice cream.
Burdan Brothers. ice cream manu-
facturers, have consistently advocat-
ed taking ice cream out of the
treat" class and making it a food
for service at meal-time. Good ice
cream Is healthful, they point out.
a quart of it is equal in food value
to three and three-quarters pounds
of chicken. 1t is asserted. Physicians
recommend it for convalescents;
mothers serve il to their youngsters
and the kiddies thrive on it; business
men eat it for efficiency and pep"
and many persons say a dish of ice
cream just before retiring encour-
ages restful sleep.
Burdan Brothers have been MAX
ing ice cream for nearly a quarter
of a century. They know that il
contains only the purest and best
ingredients and they say they can
readily why it has be-
come such an important factor in
the daily life Of the average per-
son.
Sales Of Burdans ice cream have
increased materially because of the
Burdan campaign to educate people
10 eat ice cream all the year round.