The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-07-16

spend much Of his summer vacation on
the, stump in a coast to coast cam
paign for the reform Of the senate
rules.
TWO big American cities have been
l. partly tied up by street transport
tation strikes. In New York the mo-
tormen and switchmen Of the subway
division, Interborough Rapid Transit
company. quit work and in few
days were Joined by the men on the
elevated lines. They demanded higher
wages. Hundreds of strikebreakers
were employed by the company and
partial service was maintained, but
New Workers found it difficult to get
to their work and home again.
Street railroad employees of Indian
apolis also struck for more pay and
for recognition of their national union.
The public there was not seriously In
convenienced. The police, remember
ing the strike riots of 1913, were
armed with sawed-off shotguns and ar
rested a number of strikers who at
tackled street cars.
THE new board of mediation Gre
L ated by the Watson-P Parker railway
labor act has been appointed by Presi-
dent Coolidge and has organized for
work The members are Samuel e.
% oh,Icn 70
turer and former chairman of the
house interstate commerce committee;
Edwin P. Morrow and G. w. w. Han
ger, who were on the old railroad
labor board; Carl Williams, editor OF
the Oklahoma Farmer Stockman, and
Hywel Davies, mediator for the De-
partment of Labor. The first thing
before the board is the wage demand
of the four big railroad brotherhoods,
the members of which ask increases
averaging one dollar day each. The
railroads in the eastern district re-
jected the demands, saying they could
not raise wages wlten they had not
yet earned the return of 5% per cent
prescribed by the Interstate Commerce
commission under the transportation
act. Both sides agreed to submit the
dispute to the board of mediation.
Railroads of the South and West are
expected to reach an agreement with
the brotherhoods to let the board de-
eide the matter.
EVERYONE in the remotest degree
IL interested in automobiles will be
interested in the figures just am
nounced by the Department Of Com
merce, showing that one person in
every seventy-one in the world owns
car. On the basis of world popula-
ton in 1925 of 1,748,0O0OO0, this
means that more than 24,00O,O00 per-
sons are automobile owners. The fig
ures reveal that the, United States
leads with the highest ratio to popula-
tion-one to every six persons. Hawaii
has one to every eleven, and Canada
one to thirteen. In the lower ratios
is Afghanistan, with one to 100000
persons; Hejaz, with only four cars,
or one for every 225.O00; Abyssinia,
one to 1883, and China, one for
every 31,8T1. The Solomon islands,
with $4,000 persons, have only two
automobiles, while Liberia~h has "a, or
one for every .54,259.
In 10 of SO countries surveyed at
least 80 per cent of the automobiles
owned were of American manufac-
ture; in seven, American made cars
constituted so per cent. South Amer
lea had the greater proportion, Eu-
ropean countries showed a much lower
ratio.
D UNIC inscriptions recently found
IN in the state of Washington have
been translated by Prof. Oluf Opsjon
who declares the discovery is the
greatest Morse record ever found In
the United States. The first inscrip-
lions, found near Spokane, tell of the
journey Of band Of vikings across
the continent in 1910 A. D. and Of
their desperate battle with Indians
and the burial of their dead. The Sec
ond group of Runes, in Grant county,
Washington, describes NOrsemen SWIM
ming for their lives across the Column
bia river to escape the Indians and
starving beneath the river cliffs. 1t
also is dated 1910.
Under to new Illinois boxing law
~ Chicago has again become a prize
fight center. In the first affair, Sam
my Mandell of Rockford captured the
lightweight championship from Rocky
Kansas of Buffalo. The referee said
Sammy outpointed Rocky In the ten.
round bout. but his decision was
severely criticized.