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I Ne two er he hadkd .il
In% and te Presie t suggests
64 we oesgep, as pym tem
Est b e, beds that Belgi we
Nt trod Gemay.
3 we se .Ielm's debt. W
Whf ber German heads we us
diS to sieBst en them.
We anemmeed that we didn't
wait any lest when the war was
eWe either in money or territory.
, Is I a gNod Idea to make eum
seine 'the theroughly hated eel
lister ot the anlies, and do their
week. e*iam*ig from a bemkrupt
Why sheald they not d their
9s esleetlag from Germany?
liat questies, Senator Harding
ett answer.
Oarag' health is improving;
eveepbedy bs delighted. The dan
ge: is I the line "he eats three
meals a day.'' bocters that know
how to eare patients sometimes let
in kill themselves by eating
Pinatfely or wrongly. One great
eiegeo allowed a patient after a
sucessful major operation to eat
heartily of salad and other food
and the patient died.
When a man. is eliminating the
Peison of disease he is in no eon
dltlon to assimilate much food.
Here is something to make all
memahni ers think - workmen
asae. In the British parliament
?oebody wants to know whether
Germany's ability to manufacture
cheaply is gaging lack of employ
mist. It seems that Germany
sends bicycles to Digland that
: cost, delivered, 87 shillings for a
ir*t-class machine. At the pres
eat rate of exchange, that is
about $17.
Things that seem wise at frst
etes turf out otherwise. You
might with war indemnities, taxes
- l iorts. etc., rednee seventy
mnlions of Germans to a condi
tis of coolie labor. Sit then
peer own working peopip must
f1I seee labor a at
ra tat joltm* at.
qae , y interesting pregs m n
In eMots with the allies' In
dessant pla is the .shame to put
a tax of 12% per cent an every
thing; , out of Germany,
e~ipwftsto iA. United
B es.
Under that plan this country
submits to an alien tax on its oom
meree with a foreign nation. It
is told. 'When you trade with
Germany, we ad 12% per cent to
your cost in the shape of an ex
pert ta."
Does the United States see a
goad recsc why the allies, who
swe s many thousand millions
of dollars, should put A tax of
1% per cent on our trade with
a fuueiga country? What other b&o h
r p oa the foreign trade of the
UnidStates are contemnplated?
elny iubca sIth Iil
gaa- mnos by Mayor Hylan, fight
ing the deet ca.r trust in New
Ytt Gt Hylan baa engaged
111ram Johnson, of CalifornIa, to
fght the trust, and, incidentally,
to fight Mr. Miller, Republican
governor of, New York State, who
feels that, conditions justify the
s9etear tr'ast in breaking its
Thsethtknew Hiram
Jbsnfought the railroads In
~N*and beat theen, know
wikidof a fight he will make
in New York. It may develop into
audtical fight, a wail asa
j1IhtiI~tU~ti~gnew In the
wof a political pat.Hiram
Jnsnis a big eubia; eer
~gblsslnthe Nato.Ther
soeinteresting fireworks
iaNe York.
Railroads are laigoff msen;
that msay be jutfe.They are
eelaig rear esalso many of
by threeshops.
The is to have the work
dm msre economically in shov
not owned by the railroad. Is te
Idea also to break up the unions?
Thit susa to he pert of the pree
est Industrial proga in the
St gs of Isnada if
"ieligent, would not want
a og~ rybelow the.n,
ht a well oraie rmy wth
~oplof the United 8ta
er spent putting the reeds
have given the rail
roadslncra~e5In pas
LABOR TO ARM
Calls on Neds of 109 Unions
To F t P tocratic
ISSUES ARE FUNDAMENTAL
"Must Safeguard Fteedom,"
He Says, Addressing Con
forenoe Here.
Samuel Gomprn, president ot the
Amercan Federation ot Labor, to
day called upon organised labor to
protect "the democratic tastitntons
of our country" from attecks "tW
plutocratic reaction" and "insidious
propaganda of European Insanity."
TO P'ONT orUM sUoP.
Gompers, addressing the opening
conference of heads of the national
and international unions affiliated
with the American Federation of La
bor. called upon the representatives
of labor to meet "the issues of the
most serious character affecting our
people and our republic."
The conference was called to com
bat the open shop movement, to draw
up a bill of rights and make demands
for legislation protecting the rights
of labor for collective bargaining, and
to - organise against movements for
reduction of wages and longer work
tng hours.
Mr. Gompers statement was as fol
lows:
"This conference of officials, repre
seating the national and international
unions has been called to consider is
sues of the most serious character
afectig our people and our Republic.
ISSUES ARE vUNDAMENTAL.
"It is not possible to forecast the
manner in which the conference will
deal with these isses but it is certain
that the thought expressed will be for
the bened of our country, and Se
the advsfemlan of the Sakee
standards and freedem of our e.
"Thee issue. that
ganised people and all
are of the most fesdamental
I cannot undertake to recount
In the main they are known s,
the gh not understood by all.
I may may before the
emce opens: Our concern is
democratic institutions of our
for the safeguarding of our f
wherever those things may be at
tacked, whether the attacks are made
by plutocratic reaction or by the in
s uous propaganda of European in
sanity."
100 UNIONS PRESENT.
Representatives of 100 international
unions aaliated with the American
Federation of Labor were present
when the conference convened. The
executive council of the federation
submitted for their consideration an
outline of the stand which organised
labor will take in the present econo
mic and industrial crisis. It is not ex
pected that the program of the coun
ail will be materially altered by the
conference of union leaders.
The program submitted by the
council, it is understood, dealt in de
tail with plans for increasing the
power and membership of the unions
and broadening their scope, with pro
posed legislation affecting organized
labor and with the campaign against
the open shop. It Is expected the con
ference will take a determined stand
against any reduction of the present
wage scales or lengthening of the
present hours of labor.
A NOTICE TO HAnDING.
Coming immediately before the in
auguration of President-elect Hard
ing and the installation of the new
Administration, this program, eon
sidered as "labor's bill of rights," is
expected to serve as formal notice
to the Harding regime of what labor
expects and will demand.
Some of the organizations sent sev
eral delegates and nearly two hun
hundred union leaders were present
when the meeting was called to order
behind closed doors.
AIDE TOClEVLtAND
SUCCUMS INW.VA.
Joseph S. Miller, Twice Revenue
Commissioner Under Demo
cratic Executive, Dead.
Joseph S. Miller, commissioner of
internal revenue during beth adminis
trations of Grover Cleveland, died
last night at Kenova, W. Vs,
Mr. Miller was one of the most
beloved of Government oficils dur
lug his terms of service here. Before
coming to Washington he was audi
tor of the State of West Virginia and
was tw'ominent in the business life
of the State.
He was aret appointed internal rev
enue ommissioner en March 19, 188.
serving until Marecr 18, 188e. His
second term was from April 18, 1888,
to November 08, 1I0
Pollowing his service with the
Government be returned to his be
in Huntington, W. Vs., where he
again teek up a business eareer.
3e was numbered admong the warm
est personal friend, of President
Cleveland. whom he often sceps
nied on aching trips and other out
ings.
Mr. Miller i survived by his widow
sad a danghtea.
'Just Dama
Riches Camp
And I Pay,
F a~ of...r e"..a
f9 r yetas. w ner
By CLARA
illCop fSt. 1531, h
ARDMORE, Okla, Feb.
my happiness ended.
"If I could have seen th
day we stood together watch
breathless with joy I would
life then. I would have seen
that followed, years that sick
life. Oh, if I only could fi
nightmare, they return to han
The past will not let me alone. A
monster has me in its clutches and
tortures me with memories. I must
go on and on, living through the
agony and degradation of those years
that destroyed my world of love and
dreams.
WUAI/r$-THEN NINVI.
As soon as wealth came into his
hands, his ambitions soared. He saw
himself a great power. I no longer
figured in his plans. The girl who
had given him her youth, everything.
when he was poor now bored him. He
had used me and now he wanted to
cast me of, a broken toy, on the
doorsteps of the world.
Before he had been insanely jeal
ous of me. I dared not leek at another
man. He required of me the adora
tion of a slave bound to him body and
soul, and I gave it. He was the can
t of my universe and I was con
to woeship at his feet. To be
with him was enough, but he added
to my happiness by the little atten
tions that so appeal to women. It Is
a man's consideration in the little
things that attract and held a woman.
MnMOUY NWNSUD LOVE,
Later when he became brutal and
bestial, it was the memory of these
things that kept me from hating him.
This memory blinded me to his neg
lect when it began. I clung to my
illusions. I could not bear to buys
love's dreams shuttered. I kept ea
a ins him to myself. I held to the
l pe that my love would bring him
bakif I waited long enought
Shad no friends In Ardmore thea.
to break my hbrt yIet
les excused him. Even when
health broke down tnder his
empt and ill treatment. my heart
bope. He kept me in two shah
y dark rooms in a hotel here and
there I lay crying my eyes out, vir
tually a prisoner and he, my keeper.
Why did I stay as the years grew?
Because I still clung to the memories
of the past and always the hope
throbbed in my heart that his old
love for me would return.
Aid Near fc
Known to
As 'Wom
There is no mystery aboi
has haunted the House and
the halls of Congress for mc
thetic figure, a woman whose
maman-.a soldier-with an
gres for funds to relieve hei
Blanche Winters is the widow of
Charles F. Winters. of Kansas City,
o., who conducted the camp bank
at Camp Funston, Kan., on January
11, 1413. Capt. Louis R. Whistler,
Company m, 354th Infantry Regiment,
ighty-ninth Division. entered the
bank that evening to rob it. After gag
ging and binding five men whom he
found in the bank. he killed four of
them. including Winters, with an ax
and seriously wounded the fifth man.
He got away with $4,830, of which
$K 300 was recovered the following
day when the body of Captain
Whistler, who had committed suicide.
was found in ais room.
WIDOW W@UYoW FUNDS.
Mrs, winters, the widow, was left
without funds by the maurder of her
husband. She came to Washington,
seeking assistance from Congress.
Bravely she has knocked at the door
of every Senator and every Congress
an, falteringly she has told them her
pitiul story. she has sought out the
wvqe of the Senators and member.
ad enlisted their sympathetic help.
Bills for her relief apprepriating
pam00 were introduced in House and
Senate. The latter honored her claim,
and passed the relief bill. The House
War Claimts Comomittee, obdurate at
rst and rejecting the claim, hal
about-faceS and reported favorably a
bwa redehg the payment to 315,000.
engesmn Poeht of Pennsylvania
will mnake an effort to get the bill
through at the present session,
though the time is short and the op
portuity slim.
KEarney Wernall, who was injured
by the eresy captain, tells a graphic
story of the murder.. Whistler came
in through the back door, which had
met bedn looked, and stepped around
to where Winters was working.
Whistler pulled a hatchet from his
pcket ,and aa automatic gun and
trek at Wittters w~th the hatchet.
Wilnters had no idsa that a hold-up
was intended and started a parley
with Whistler.
Captain Whistler,' Wheli he eniteed
the bank, on his desperate mission,
seemed muceh put out that his ibtivee
ma .robbey wern e sapt eig take.se..
ged Goods;
,Love Died,
Sobs Clara
23.-When his fortune came,
e future unroll itself on that
ing his Arst oil well eome in,
have prayed God to end my
before me the years of horror
med my soul and wrecked my
rget themt Like a hideous
nt me.
But if I had left him, what was
there before me? I was damaged
goods In the eyes of the world
my virtue, my good name, every
thing that makes a woman precious
to a good man gone. I have been
pictured as a woman who wanted
money. If he had given me all the
millions in the world, could they
have brought back my virtue, my
good name?
The women have been wonderful
to me because they understand. They
understand as no man ever ean.
society condones a man who casts
of a woman to fade and wither after
he has robbed her of her sweetness
and bloom. On the woman society
burns the scarlet letter..
To be haunted always by ghosts of
the paut-can any one conceive a
greater punishment?
I was only seventeen when I was
lured to sin by a worldly men. eld
enough to be my father. But I could
never rise in politics in Oklahoma or
attain a place of public honer. Mv
past would be bared. If ever I do
anything worth while my past will
be dragged out.
MUgr PAY-ARD PAT A145.
But the man who entered the gar
den of my life and trampled on my
dream% leaving behind only crushed
hopes and a broken heart. society
honored. He res high In puWe life
and all paid hetrthq _
I twith
*nv in eae hgve
Mh e y
inand the truth as i
gars tell It en the witesa tandU. I
WA nothing to fear from the truth. I
was made to go to save scandal.
I do not ask pity, I do not ask even
tolerance-all I ask Is Justice.
I have bidden girls to take a moral
lesson from my life. I have learned
from cruel experience that the woman
who gives herself out of wedlock
wears heavier bonds than were ever
forged at any marriage altar.
or Widow
Congress
in in Black'
it "the woman in black" who
Senate Office Buildings and
nths past. She is just a pa
husband was beheaded by a
ax, and she was asking Con
distress.
ously. and took several minutes in
explaining that he was short of funds.
had to make good and took this
means of getting the money. At the
point of the gun he made all in the
bank lie down. ese on top of the
other, and required Wornall to tie the
others.
RINDS DANE OPICIALS.
The captain was not satised with
Wornall's Job, took rope from his
poeket and tied them all more se
curely. He had gags for eash 'man
and used them roughly. He required
Wornall to turn out a light and pull
the abdes ever a window. winters
reognised the captain and several
time. told his companions to "play
stare with the captain and let him
get away." T0 eaptata said he coentd
get away in a hour. He took a sack
from undet the counter and Oiled it
with IS0 bills. Then he hit Wornall
with the hatebet, and the latter knew
~t wo fter woral had fallen
that the bleed lust seined Whistler.
He turned on the bound and gagged
men with his hand an, or hatchet,
and beat in their skulls. Winters was
found dying with his head nearly
chopped from his body, lying on bags
of money In the open safe. One oem.
pnion was dying alo when found,
and two others were dead.
s. hipping Board steamer Cam
brdge sat out an "U. 0. 5." early
todayrting herself helpless of
the coast. The naval authorities said
they would send a destroyer to aid
her if the Cambridge was in i.
ediate danger of sinking. The
steamtship reported that she was not
in such an extremity.
There was no coast guard eette'r
in pout at the time but the Mann
ig wa. espeeted to attive hero
arlt, im aae aftasana.
COVIC FiGI
WADOO FLAYS
'LAD LAW
Eaeh-Cummins Bill, Restoring
Private Ownership, Charao
terized as "Bunk."
TELLS OF FOREIGN LOANS
Says He Opposed Them After
Marsh, 1920-Disliked Them
Even Before That.
By W. H. ATKINS.
I.ternatiemal News gseniee.
American railroads ae "moving
rapidly towards Goverinnent ownerm
snhip,"~ William G. McAdoe, ferinsr
Director General of the Raiload Ad
ministration declared here toda
The aEch-O mis blwih
provided for the return of the rail
roads to private ownership, was
characterised by MAdeo as "the
biggest piece of bunk" ever put over
on the American people.
ToeN o1 IoION LOAis.
Mr. McAdoo, in eommenting on the
foreign loan situation said that he so
eepted full responsibility for all for
eign loans made up to Marsh. 1 0
but said that after that date he had
adopted a poliey of refusing to mnake
further lans.
MeAdoo, in commenting on the
fore loan situation, said that sce
Mare, 1.10. he has strongly oppesed
the granting of further loans to
foreign g.ewsmests. "As early as
Marsh, 1920, I believed It to be a bad
peac time policy to make further
Iseas," Meadoe said. "I take full in
spnsibility for the ?aqush
made, however, ap I
this natles hl falin her eeq
uhieb it alb ot
1s hoer beend to
en oredit already
Returnin to the* question of the
railroads, 1[eoe charged that "a
vicious propageada" had been carried
on to secure the return of the rail
roads to private control sad he de
clared that the present condition of
the railroads shows that "Govern
mont operation was more officient
than private operation."
"The railroads are going from bad
to worse," McAdoo said. He de
clared that the Cummins-Esch bill
had created "gratuities" for the rail
roads which they are now reaching
out to grab" and that the American
people have been "batted" to estab
lish these funds for the railroads.
McAdoo said it is folly to make the
American people give the railroads a
" per cent return upon valuations
fixed, which do not represent the
service performed. Adequate rate for
adequate service performed. McAdeo
said, should be the standard.
31633R RATUS NO EULP.
"Higher' freight and passenger
rates have not helped the rail situa
tion," McAdoo aid. "Advances in
rates have largely benetted those car
riers in the more prosperous class,
but very little help has been given
under them to the weaker lines.
"Higher rates mean less business
handled" said McAdoo. "Rates should
be maintained that will act as a
stimulent to industry, not as a check
to its growth and development.
"Present rates, for example are
running some New England indus
tries out of business. Such industries
are unable to compete with similar
industries located in other parts of
the country."
The former rail director attacked
the whole Government policy of ex
tending financial aid to the rail
roads, in the form of "gratuities."
"The roads are wading into the
Treasury for all they can get and
Continued on Page 19. Column .)
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IT BEGUN 1
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AMi th
This is the First of I
By Herman Ba
to Hem
By HNMA
AutAhr aed JeureMst of Ister
JudaieAs, W. WasA aPeseenger e
Who, es Be o Aasess JesA
,uded e Ani- Asendtde Pro
(C0opwght, 1eas. by
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.
has spoken. Henry Ford h
nine months of brasen, sham
against the Jewish people i
Henry Ford has at last deel
published in The Washingtc
World why he is heart and s
anti-Jewish campaign.
Henry Ford gave the to
"We are not anti-Semit
anti-Semitism, which was i
Cardinal O'Connell and oth
would have signed it.
"It is my desire to bring abe
world pe until the internatlon
mone orwars.
W. do not M e the Jew for I
do blase the poor Gentile boob to
earnest and lL
"The artils in the Dearben
been ei-SemItie in purpose and '
. articles are to prie i
And thsseing to a eerreq
"You knew back in,191s I said I
ese ging to denote my NO and hor
That wa not id ' *
then and I mesa it awse thea ever
new. In studying the pohins
of permanent.world pease fries oery
angle, I studied also the esaso of
war, and I am convinced that nearly
aO wars were caused so that s
one would profit and those who
profited and are profiting now are
the international fnansaers-the
Jews, with possibly themn a
few Gentiles with connee
tions. They are what are called the
international Jews, German Jews
French Jews, English Jews,
American Jews.
"Thor would control America as
they control the Old World countries,
if they could. Therefore, it is a duty
e eto the of the Aerican
o the 7 heare in."
In answer to the how the
international Jew had started the
World War, Mr. Fr elained:
that by Iwhl et on s bte p e
is the real behind this edo
eational camp
CALLED AX sI VUSeeATRON.
"The purpose of this campaign is
not anti-Semitic. It is not persecu
tion. It is really net a campaign. It
is an investigation. IL is an open
case before the people of the world
who will act as a jury.'
Thus spoke the man whose chief
distinction is that he has amassed
millions rapidly, that with the aid of
his money he undertook a grotesque.
quixotic peace expedition which, in
deed, helped to fan the flames of
war, and that he made a universal
laughing stock of himself under oath
by exposing his profound ignorance
of most elementary matters at the
Chicago trial.
At frat Henry Ford found oen
solation in the fact that his peace
expedition was greeted with ridicule.
In this he saw signs of its greatness.
Somebody had told him that great
mnovements in history have alwas
been ridiculed In the beginning, but
Ford did not appear to know that
not all mnevement. that were ridi
culed were great.
And now Henry Word, talking about
the venomous and dastardly attacks
made upon the Jews in his weekly,
says:
"My life is devoted to peace, peace
is the real purpose behind this educa
tienal campaign. It is not anti-semi
tismn. It is not persecution."
When Ford undertook his pease
cruise and people everywhere laughed
at him. I was one of those few who
defended him because I considered
him merely a deluded idealist. I be
lieved he was not a knave but
naive that his mnotives were pure,
and his intentions good. It is ima
possible to believe that any longer.
His ignorance is assuming most
dangerous proportions.
The "good intentions" of this wil
ful millionaire at large, engaged in
what he calls an educational oem
paign of peace, are of the kind that
turn heaven into bell, inciting preju
dice, hatred and mob violence.
Whon Ford wras en tale witness
stand at the Chisage trial and could
not answer simplest questions that
any little school boy could have an
swered without difficulty, he often
said that when he wanted to know
things he could find smeo one who
eould tell him all about them in Ave
minutes. Mr. Ford apparently wanted
to know something about the civil
war and Abraham Idoeein and es
aosed his information freom a tierman.
0 REDUUE
iSwim sof Artice
uitein Reply
y Ford.
uesn 8.siteddie, AuJthrv e1
m Fons "Pow.. " and
Pests. Amrsona.)
At last the sage of Michigan
is opened his mouth. After
?less insinuations and attacks
a his Dearborn Independent,
tred in authorised interviews
n Times and the New York
onl behind the "educational"
lowing explanations:
ic. Had the protest against
igned by President Wilson,
ors, been presented to me I
at would pones. Thern can be se
di Jewish bankers cease providing
is eMosod and b, t we
not waking up and b just as
Jadieud ar e t and have net
i wpcbLTh S7ii state fects,
wud panes." veary Fed
ndaemt Mr. Ford oudt
In Nea Ford's Detsn ladepen
dont f 212 there a eared
am arfiue mttea os~a
taA qthe basis hae it
t?n1 armTuft
the la- .s It
betrays the seereg of HEsry Verds
inspiration. It is the poisomeus anti
Semitism e Germany, embodied in
one of the mest preposterous and
nilens a a t -Semitiemi
brought from autocratic Germany by
the "American" Henry Ford. It is
on the face of it a fabricstion. in
tended to inject strife and race hatred
tn this country.
CAMPAIGN A V3A5tt!.
Heory Ford's asti.eemitie campaign
In this country has been a ases.
None of the serious and Important
organs of the American press paid
any attentics to it. Craving notoriety
and publicity. Mr. Ford was deeply
disappeinted. Though he had seat
broadcast eopies of "The Internatienal
Jew." a book made up of the anti
Semitic articles published In the
Dearborn Independent, the preen of
America ignored Henry Ford's "sig
catlonal" campaign.
The dignifed and authoritative
statement ii ud by the American
Jewish Committee and other Amer
leas Jewish organisatoin, esplain
Ing the absurdity of the anti-Semltie
charges, was reprodeed througheut
the country, and the voles of the
American press was unnb" e
I Its de et d t h m.-e alie, un
Ameriean 'and n-4hrisn methfods
whteh Henry Ford is easeavsels
to intredsee tn this semasp. The
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ at their conveatien is eston
about two months ago adopted a
strong resolution denouncing the un
fair anti -Semitic propaganda spread
in America.
Then came the striking statement
signed by the President of the Unit
ed States and by a large number of
the foremost Christian Amertas.s
also denouncing the propaganda
sponsored by Henry Ford and carried
oat by his hirelings and scribes.
Henry Ford Imagines that all his
tery of human progress began and
ends with the Ford moter.
By his actions he has shown that
Christianity is foreign to him, and
that he knows nething of Judaim,
from which Christianity came Into
being.
Under oath he has demonstrated
that he is Ignorant .f Amserica his.
tory7.
creau suwrm nonemum.a
I knew many Jewish immigrants
who have come to this ouentry in
euest of liberty and, a hoe.a who se4
religiens persecution abroad, and who
love Amserica with an atntes love
which Benry Ford eenld never under
stand-ImmIgrants who have becme
part and parcel of America. werkers
and producers who are helping to
build America and make it even
greater, who are advancing American
institutions and ideals, which Heavy
Ford and his hirilings, i their
lnoranoe and bitternes are en
deavoring to dlmeredit, ridiule, and
pull down by their propaganda ef
hatred and falsehood.
In his despair and failure to spread
the epidemic of anti-Iesitism in
Ameriea.- Henry Ford bee now hame
in a German who dsd de Psise
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PASSL "RESYMDY YEl"
NEW YORK. Fe. En.-Brico
Caruso, seriously Ill here from
pleuriay and heart trouble, passed the
most favorable day and night slase
hi atest reae~~wtannonce
CAR FAKE
VIAN74NTi
W.R ERAT,
FK FOR C. T.
Federation of Cltlwns to Launch
Campaign at Hering
Next Month.
EARNINGS TO SUPPORT PLEA
Wiliam Mok. Clayton Announces
Plan to Lower Traction
Charges in Capital.
HAM ELS B
Wiliam P Has. president of
the Washington Rlafiway and
lectric Company, today told
members of the City Club he op.
posed any ,trust railway merger
that might be torse/ upon the
two street railway ompanies in
Washlngtea.
Mr. Has% speaking at the
weekly forum luncheon, sal
that the pubi'e should be pa
tient in the mtoe of a merger
and that the best results would
be obtained by a voluntary mer
ger.
'he mssou -epesltlea is
not oe that Mr. amllte.
president of the C 55,1TrlPie
tion company. and I ca dealb.
he said. 'Thurs are hundreds
of steekholim to pesasmder
od as
A . raght -s ars 9r (p
ital Traction and a T'enst' trs
"Men for 25o804nt for th sh
bnton Railway and Ele=* com
psny will be isked .:st mm by
the Fed ration of Gt al Asmda
29 em..
"We Intend to make a sbw tbt
for reduction of fares in ' "
William leE. Clayton. alaI" ot
the Pubilo Ulities Committee at the
Federatien. said today.
'The utilities eommittee we meet
shorty to make plasfr a ..a to
the P.... Utilities Cmn in !ser
owt a the lins Of th. C. ,ta
Traotioa company.
We feel that the capital Trastis
o ma ea afford to sps" e on a
mek lower fale than at present. d
wil dIrest all of our enorsies to that
elnd."
Wert mouth the W. X h I Wg
some before the oeoabls ter a
estinuatlon of the present rate of
fare of $ cents. four tekum to to
see. It will be at heeutnga ts
reuest that the federatis vw be
gia itscampalgn for lower ear farns.
SUCCmO6PUL Uona.
It will be remembered that tho fed
ersation's last emapaiga for lower
ratem of fare was partally granted
by the esemssloa. The Msma~tc
redueed the Cost of lnter-ammpe==
f- rethat these
transfers be free, but the oemmlsla.s
stated It felt a 1 eeat eharge was
aseessary.
Clayton today Ls busy gathering
facts and Igurie about the two sum
penies Re has followed closely the
recent hearings before Congrese on
the merger of the railway oempanies.
LOEGWORTH OlflS I
10OREVISETARiFFLAWS
A ta. revision program was laid
before the Rouse today In a bil te
berIte edty o ngesme og
peeted to be acted upon at this ses
Lengwrth's bill prevldea for re
peal of the ezeess profits tax, the
tranaportation tax and the tax en soett
drinks. It would reduce the heavy
ertaxee on inoesses from the present
maximum of 72 per esat. the surtaa
of U per cent plus the normal tax ot
S per cent, to 40 per ent.
TIE,SEN0T CHIARES
Umoot IsI the buidn!
thoghtevfie whoa ha* ' m tm.
oernmen buildig atew anae
Re also stated that he blee
many ofte girt wue g arUd
b amhe tm ad thisata t~
em te a rentw sla a
bil adta eko ebaGe
