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Wednesday, May 4, 1921
UNCLE SAM CLOSES THE DOOR
"So long as the door to Washington
is open to us we do not propose to
knock at other doors."
So said the German Government.
Now the door of Uncle Sam is, to all
intents and purposes, closed by Sec
retary Hughes, expressing desire for
prompt settlement, who "strongly
urges the German government at
once to make directly to the allied
governments, clear, definite and ade
quate proposals, which would in all
respects meet its just obligations.”
Secretary Hughes chose his words
with noticeable felicity. They amount
to telling Germany that the needful
thing lor her to consider "at once" is
to assure the people she owes that
she will pay. Germany insulted the
American intelligence when she
sought to make our government a
cats-paw. She hoped to find support
for her desire to debate and delay
settlement trusting that she and
time, after the manner of Turkey,
might force the Allies into conces
sions. These obtained, the next gen
eration would exult in the knowledge
that the Allies had been tricked out
of victory. The world has only to re
call what Germany had done when
she was the victor. That is her only
conception of the meaning of victory.
Any other view of it would not be
understood or appreciated by her. Al
ready she lias been given much bet
ter terms than she threatened to im
pose if she should be victorious, and
she has not had the good sense to ac
cede gracefully. Her policy is dis
gusting and should deprive her of all
the sympathy which she otherwise
might have received.
THE ARMY LIMIT
Conservative authorities are yet in
sisting that 175,000 men is the least
number which should be fixed for our
army. This question was all gone
over at the last Congress with the
result that the number fixed by the
committee was 168.000. If that be
not adequate now is the time for the
others to prove their case as those
opposed \'iave already secured, an
amendment in the House to the army
appropriation bill fixing the limit for
the next year at $150,000. The pre
vious administration, notwithstand
ing the enormous debts piled up and
the apparent antagonism of the coun
try to a large army, tried by every
means to get the limit and the army
today is slightly in excess of 200,000.
Kveryhody wants to see a suitable
army and conservative authorities
think 175,000 is the least limit that
will properly fill the hill. There is
little likelihood, however, that the j
country will suffer very materially if
the number be reduced to 150,000,’
though this may be below the num- ;
bor necessary for the best results. 1
Moreover it might afford opportunity J
to eliminate the Bergdollites from the j
army as now made up.
A GREAT NEED DEMONSTRATED
Doubtless some will see In the Dial
bill, reported favorably by the Sen
ate Judiciary committee, requiring
Federal judges to devote their entire
time to their duties, a move cal
culated to block the plans of Judge
Landis. The need of such a require
ment ought to be obvious, irrespec
tive of Landis’ baseball activities.
The congested condition of the
rourts, the setting aside of verdicts
on errors by the trial judge, would
seem to aiTord all the proof re
quired that full-sized judges on full
time duty are an imperative neces
sity.
When a chief justice of the United
State Supreme Court, referring to the
trial judge’s error in instructing the
Jnry in the Newberry case, as a
“grave misapprehension and grievous
misapplication of the statute,” it
would appear that there is more than
full time on the job required of the
Federal judges. The further fact
that this could not be determined by
the highest court until more than
thirteen months elasped indicates
that time in which justice may be ar
rived at isn’t receiving due con
sideration.
Bangor may be pardoned for being
proud of the fact that she had the
second electric railroad in the coun
try to be operated by the overhead
trolley system. She remembered it
because Wednesday, May 3 was the
33rd anniversary of the successful
trolley car, which was born in Rich
mond, Va.
Will the price of Fords go up, to
offset that $600,000 verdict given the
New York hotel company against the
Ford Motor Co., for failure to keep its
contract for the erection of a hotel in
York?
THE NEWBERRY DECISION
Among the results of the decision
of the United States Supreme Court
in the Newberry case one finds a
mingling of certainty and uncer
tainty, an establishing of some facts
and a raising up of questions.
For one thing it serves to confirm
the impression that the verdict
against Newberry was obtained un
der pressure of the previous adminis
tration; that the judge wras in error.
Long ago it was certain that the de
feated candidate was unfit for the
place. With all due respect to Mr.
Ford, and he is entitled to much, fit
ness for the United States Senate is
not applicable to him. With this cer
tainty, however, the court had noth
ing to do.
On the other hand there is a con
flict of opinion among the Judges,
from which issues are likely to arise
which will have to be determined
later, although the judges were un
animous in setting aside the verdict.
Five out of the nine decide that the
primary law of Michigan is uncon
stitutional. Four, including the chief
justice express different opinions, the
latter declaring that unless govern
ment had power over primaries such
as this it could not live. Justice Pit
r.ey's conclusion was: “To safeguard
the final elections, while leaving the
proceedings for proposing the can
didates unregulated, is to postpone
regulation until it is comparitively
futile.”
Whether there may ultimately he
found in this decision of the court
or in legislation inspired by it, any
restraint on the expenditure of money
in effecting the choice of senators re
mains to bo seen
‘‘FOOD FOR THOUGHT”
"The price situation in the United
States is one which gives much food
for thought. The New York Federal
Reserve Bank has constructed an in
dex of the price movements of twelve
basic commodities, namely:—hides,
rubber, cotton, wheat, corn, hogs,
sugar, copper, lead, pig iron, timber
and petroleum. These indispensable
articles of modern life .and industry
rose to a high point—132.3 per cent,
above their average level during the
year 1013. Since the highest price,
which was reached on May 17, 1920,
they have steadily receded until on
April 16 they were only 11.3 per cent,
above the pre-war level of 1913."
Here indeed is food for thought,
something for careful consideration,
a matter that should be given pub
licity. Already it has been learned
that the price of chewing gum has
fallen in some localities. It.will be
advisable to spread the news that
some other staples are lower in price
—if one is buying at wholesale.
The Knox peace resolution is well
on the road to a passage, and when
that shall be the war trade-board
with its embargo powers, and other
war-time conditions under which
some protection against dumping
might be had, will be ended. The
emergency tariff law may not do all
that its friends claim for it, legisla
tion of any sort usually doesn’t, but
it provides for opportunity to secure
the proper legislation, which may
protect this country against the for
eign industries, highly subsidized as
they are by the rates of foreign ex
change, and manned by those forced
to work for what they can get to keep
from starving. But for some such
measure this great American mar
ket would in quite a degree be at
their mercy, the quality of which is
not encouraging or likely to inspire
confidence in our business circles.
The onward march of civilization
has ever added to history in that the
aborigines have faded away before
it, but seldom has such a terrible
story followed such advance as that
brought by the missionary from
Northern Quebec, who asserts that
the arrival there of the modern long
range rifle has so depleted game that
the Indians and Esquimaux are be
ing driven into cannibalism. It is
difficult to credit it.
The Eddington man who said he
only did it “in fun,” when charged
with assault with intent to kill upon
his .wife, will probably not be se
lected to stage any church fairs or
Chautauqua entertainments, since he
merely threatened her with a butcher
knife, fired a gun in the house and
beat her up a little with his fists.
Perfectly harmless amusement!
Now is the time for every Maine
boy to make sure that his name is
not on the list of World War slack
ers on file in the adjutant general’s
bfllce, especially if you were out of
the State when the Selective Service
registration was made. It might be
there, through no fault of your own—
and you wouldn’t wish it to appear in
the list soon to be published.
I am thankful that the good name
of the state of Michigan has been ab
solutely cleared," said Senator New
berry. But has it? We are not in
formed of any dispute that a tre
mendous lot of money seemed to be
AT A MOTHERS’ MEETING
the wife of a noted New York divine
said to her listeners, “Watch care
fully your daughter’s physical devel
opment. Mothers should keep their
daughters well informed as to mat
ters pertaining to health, and should
see that nature is assisted, if neces
sary, to perform its offices.”
Irregularities and pain are warn
ing symptoms of some trouble, and
mothers may depend upon Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to
correct them, and restore the system
to a healthy, normal condition.— ]
AdV« I
ASPIRIN
Name “Bayer” on Genuine
Beware! Unless you see the name
“Bayer” on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told in the
Bayer package for Colds, Headache,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Earache,
Toothache, Lumbago, and for Pain.
Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer
Tablets of Aspirin cost few cents.
Druggists also sell larger packages.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer
Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester
of Salicylicacid.—Adv.
required for that state to choose a
senator.
Coastwise papers are now running
the yearly items about the first of the
summer cottage people to open their
summer abodes. Shucks! We oc
cupied our summer (also spring, fall
' and winter) abode on the very first
i day of the season.'
I
1 *■* 1
Tap is an island but unfortunately
] the controversy isn’t entirely sur
I rounded by water—and with a mill
! stone hitched to it.
The Government is to use its full
power to move its ships. It is both
justified and obligated to do so.
Maine Gossip
Wails of a Tramp
Did I hair yer say ole feller
You wuz boarding down the street?
Then I knows what makes yer lanky,
' It's becuz you cannot eat.
)
1 Take a tip from me ole codger,
| Just fergit yer ain’t at home:
| Make the most >jf what's before you
While it is your luck to roam.
| 'Taint no use of alters fussin’
j 'Cause the grub ain't fit ter eat,
'Jest keep chewing on ole leather
Try ter think yer eating meat.
Mebbe soup is mostly water.
It might be a durn sight wuss.
j Tell the waitress “It's the candy"
lie a sport! Don’t sit an' fuss.
If your cabbage looks like onion
Mebbe they’ve been mixed a bit.
Never bat an eye, ole feller
Take it in, an' let 'er slip.
Pie you sed ain't fit to eat.
Jest a mess of nasty paste!
Let 'er flicker! down 'er quick,
Don’t yer stop to look fer taste.
l
I \\ lien you've learned to fool digestion
: Let ’em fetch in all the grub,
j T'other folk will get still thinner
While you're fatter ’en a tub.
—FL OK BINGE L. rALMER.
Little Joan Elmer Woodbury, flve
! year-old daughter of Elmer M.
; Woodbury, managing director of the
Hotel Richilieu of San Francisco, is(
to represent the California poppy, the,
flower of that state, at a flower fete
of the three-day wild flower festival
held there this week, says the Port
land Press. Baby Joan’s father was
formerly of this city where he is well
known. He was connected for a long
time with the hotels and restaurants
on the M. C. R. It. and was at Union
Station for some time. Baby Joan,
in her yellow tarletan robes with
headdress and blossoms, will be a
charming representative of the gold
en poppy. The festival is the seventh
| annual exhibit of the wild flowers of
California which is attracting wide
spread attention on the Pacific coast.
It is expected that 200 specimens will
be on exhibition.
A retired sea captain, who some
time ago crossed the threshold of the
eighties, has worn no stockings
winter or summer for several years,
says the Courier-Gazette. He is not
a disciple of “Sockless Jerry” Simp
son, but has discarded hosiery be
lieves he gets better results. Some
‘•years ago he found that he was suf- i
fering from cold feet. Somebody ad- j
vised him to try cotton stockings in - |
i stead of woolen ones, and he did so, !
! with what he regarded as favorable !
results. "Why wear any stockings?”
was the thought which occurred to
him one day, and he began the ex
| pertment. No amount of persua
sion would get him to resume stock- !
ings now.
A really extraordinary White Wy
andotte pullet of some 11 months of
age, belonging to Charles H. Adams
of South Portland, turns out eggs
weighing 4 and one-half ounces. A re
cent marvel in the egg world, a spec
imen laid by this pullet, appeared one
noon last week, and when Mr. Adams
| had sufficiently recovered from his
! surprise at its proportions to weigh
it he found it to measure six and 3-4
inches around in girth and 8 1-4 in
ches around in length. The first egg
laid was nearly as large, and there
have been five other whopping spec
imens since that time.
The widely featured Herbert T. An
drews of Greenwich, Conn., who has
been so prominent in the columns of
the Boston press for the past few
•weeks on account of his unusual fam- .
ily relations, was for several years a
i resident of Belfast. His parents came
to that city at the time of the Duplex
Roller Bushing plant's activities.
Herbert attended the town High
school and was for some time em
ployed in the office of the Trust Com
pany. He is remembered there as a
well mannered, pleasant boy.
Friends of the Old Town girl, Luel
la Tucker, who is now a Junior at
Wellesley, will be pleased to hear that
she was recently announced president
of her dormitory, Beebe Hall, in the
well-known Wellesley Quadrangle
between Tower Court and Mary Hem
enway Hall. The announcement were
made following chapel exercises last
Friday morning after votes had been
taken by the student residents of the
dormitories and recommendations
made by the dormitory matrons, re
tiring presidents and Wellesley Col
lege government officials and execu
tive board.
Editorial Comment
Welcome to the Kennebec.
(Bath Times.)
Readers of the Times have noticed,
no doubt, the increased number of
arrivals of craft in the Kennebec the
last week or two. More coal cargoes
are coming by water than has been
the case for a long time and there are
indications that a part of the coal
carrying trade may again be done in
schooners and barges, as was the
case before the war. It seems good
to see more shipping on the river
and is a hopeful sign for the future
of our wooden shipyards.
The “Open Price” Combine
(Boston Herald)
The Lockwood committee, with
Samuel Untermyer as counsel, is now
upon a new trail, which promises to
develop evidence of a more extended
and unscrupulous combine than that
which was manipulated in the build
ing trades by Hettrick with his "code
of practice” in alliance with BrAlell,
the head of the Building sJEdes
Council. Jp
This new combiners in charSe of a
professional secretary, Albert A.
Ainsworth, who receives about $50,
000 a year. There are nine “open
price” associations in the combine,
organized after the Hettrick plan,
which operate through a central
clearing house. These associations,
known as exchanges, manufacture gas
ranges, water metres, pipe fittings,
valves, range boilers, sandpaper and
sandcloth, steel window sashes, steel
lockers, steel shelving, tubular plumb
ing goods, brass and copper fittings.
The various firms are known by code
numbers, not for secrecy, but for
brevity, it was explained, and keys
to the names of the firms in each as
sociation were in the hands of the
members—the reports sent to the
members bearing no names, but only
the code numbers. Mr. Ainsworth's
assistant testified that there were
about 150 concerns in the nine com
binations, and he described the sys
tem under which the members re
ported. day by day, the names of cus
tomers to whom they sold goods, the
date of the sale, character of the ship
ment, price and other details, so that
by the end of the day a member might
know what his competitor’s business
for the previous day amounted to.
The assistant professed to think that
the 100 or more complete reports
sent to members daily were only "as
a matter of information,” but he ad
mitted that there was nothing to pre
vent a man, after seeing his competi
tors’ figures, from locating his price
to a figure just below that of a com
petitor. The manufacturers spend
about $200,000 a year in maintaining
the “combine.”
Mr. Untermyer, at the end of the
second day of the inquiry, declared
that the country is honeycombed with
so-called open price associations,
which in reality are nothing less than
combinations to maintain prices at
certain levels in violation of the Sher
man act; and that so far he was only
skirting the fringe of an exposure of
conditions that would make John T.
Hettrick, author of the famous “code
of practice,” who is now' serving a
sentence on Blackwell’s island, “look
like a piker.”
Editor’s Table
"Stories Always New,” brought to
gether by Cora Morris, story-teller
pto children. Illustrated in colors by
Antoinnetto Tnglis, Lothrop, bee &
Shepard Co., Boston. Miss Morris
takes some of the most charming
parts of charming literature and
tells in her own language the story to
the children, grouping the stories
under the countries in which they
are told and retold, as for instance
of the Pilgrims and their experien
ces for our own country. Prom Eng
land come “The bittle Lame Prince”
and the constant favorite, “Tom
Thumb.” From Italy we have “Pip
po,” which is the Italian “Puss in
Boots,” "The Story of Moufflou,”
“Uanella,” the Italian “Cinderella,”
“Gigi and the Magic Ring,” and
“Piecola.” From Belgium, there is
a delightful tale, “Sugar-Candy
House,” and from France, “Jeanne
D’Arc” and several others, not for
getting the ever-popular “Sleeping
Beauty.” The pictures by Mrs. In
glis are of unusual excellence.
VASSALBORO
NORTH—Rev. and Mrs. John Gib
son and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. B. Ayres,
who have been in attendance upon
the session of the East Maine con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, returned Monday. Mr. Gib
son has been returned to this church
for another year.
Stanton Aver of Berlin, N. H.,
passed Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Ayer.
The funeral of James Cooper was
held Sunday from his late home,
Rev. John Gibson attending. The
burial was in the village cemetery.
The annual meeting of the Ladies’
Aid Society of the M. E. Church will
be held in the vestry Thursday after
noon.
Grass in this vicinity seems to have
wintered well and with the heavy
rains promises a good hay crop.
W. T. Berry has been shipping his
potatoes to Portland. The price is
low.
George W. Taylor, C. B. Denico and
H. D. Ayer have recently had their
buildings painted.
Work on the Federal road is pro
gressing rapidly. Upward of 100 men
are now at work and hope to finish
by September 1.
IODINE HEALS
RUNNING SORES
QUICK RELIEF
Old Sores, Abscesses, Bolls, Ring
worms. Chronic Ulcers, etc., are best
treated and most quickly healed by the
application of Iodine, says a well
known authority who also states that
the wide-spread use of Iodine in ar
my medical corps, hag thoroughly
proved its great value. He warns,
however, against the use of common
tincture of Iodine, because in this
form it irritates and stains the skin.
The new form of Iodine—Lanolated
Iodine Compound—is the best for such
purposes. This comes in the form of
an ointment, and is practically stain
less, will not irritate, and is readily ab
sorbed by the tissues. In the Lanolated
form. Iodine is easy and pleasant to
use and every disagreeable feature has
been removed. It quickly penetrates,
soothes, cleanses, and heals and is
really delightful. Nearly all local drug
gists' now sell and recommend Lano
lated Iodine. Try It today! We believe
nothing you have ever used will prove
10 effective and satisfying.—Adv.
MAJORIC LEROUX
Says From Now On
Tanlac Is His Standby
No Doubt In Hit Mind At To Itt
Merit, For After Putting It to the
Tett Twice He Statet It Always
Did the Work ' ♦
! “I have put Tanlac to the test on
two different occasions and I am con
vinced that this medicine is in a class
by itself,” declared Majoric Leroux,
61 Warren St., Laconia, N. H., a
valued employee of the Laconia Car
Company.
‘‘For four or five years,” said Mr.
Leroux “my stomach was badly out
of- order. I would sit down to the
table and then go away without eat
ing a mouthful, scarcely. When I did
cat I had an awful time with indiges
tion, and anything rich or the least
bit heavy would simply cause me to
suffer agonies.
"What sleep I got did me very lit
tle good, I had awful headaches, dizzy
! spells and attacks or faintness, when
j my legs would just give way under
! me. My whole system seemed to have
l just collapsed, and I became alarmed,
.for I was getting worse all the time.
"Well sir, it looked like I couldn’t
pick up a paper but what somebody
was telling how Taplac had pulled
| him out of his troubles, so I started
: taking it. Right off, I got to eating
i hearty and everything agreed with
; me, and pretty soon I had taken on
| ten pounds in weight and the last
one of my ailments had left me.
j "That was last spring. The winters
; have always been" especially hard on
I me, so this past winter I got me some
more Tanlac and it fixed me up fine,
i I don’t remember a year when I have
passed through the cold season as
’ well as I have this one, and it’s all
! due to Tanlac. It’s going to be my
I standby from now on."
; Tanlac is sold in Augusta by John
j Coughlin; in Weeks’ Mills by J. A.
j Merrill; in West Washington by Wal
j ter F. Burdick; in China by Bailey
i Bros.; in Albion by L. F. Gannon; in
Palermo by H. W. Worthing; and by
the leading druggist in every city and
town.—Adv.
Big Questions Before
Nat’l. Foreign Trade
Council at Cleveland
Cleveland, O., May 3—Financing
foreign trade, the tariff and “double
taxation" of American investments
abroad are the chief subjects which
will be taken up by some of the na
tion’s leading manufacturers, bank
ers and railroad and steamship men
at the National Foreign Trade Coun
cil which opens tomorrow and ex
tends through May 7. About 3,000
persons are expected
It is believed that the convention
will take action favoring an elastic
bargaining clause in any new tariff
laws enacted by Congress. The Na
tional Trade Council has conducted
an extensive fight for such a provi
sion for some time. The council has
taken the position that if the Unit
ed States’ volume of exports in re
cent years is to be maintained, its
foreign customers must be permit
ted to repay largely with goods of
their own manufacture.
Under the bargain tariff plan pro- !
posed by the National Foreign Trade
Council and approved by many ex
porters, Congress would define a !
general policy, fixing the various
flexible rates of duty. Both a maxi- :
mum and a minimum rate applica
ble to imports in general would be
fixed.
The President would be given
power, under this plan, upon certifi- j
cation to him by a tariff commis
sion, either to impose penalties for !
discrimination against Air TjfBr
products or to grant concessi J #br '
their favorable treatment.
The council also has urged that
the law bo sufficiently broad to per
mit the president to discourage not
only open discrimination but also
any secret discrimination which
might be disguised under other :
names.
In the matter of financing foreign
trade, the keynote of the convention
will be sounded by W. P. G. Hard- 1
ing, governor of the Federal Re- !
servo Bank, who will speak on ;
"Frozen Credits—What They Are
and How to Thaw Them,” and by
Fred I. Kent, of the Bankers Trust ;
Company of New York, who will |
talk on "Financing Foreign Trade.” j
The National Foreign Trade Coun- |
cil has repeatedly advocated a pol- I
icy for American manufacturers of i
allocating at least 20 per cent
of their annual production for
export, contending that the domes
tic demand upon the average falls
just about that much short of con
suming the normal output.
The convention probably will take
some action dealing with the laws
under which American interests
abroad now are taxed both abroad
and at home. Judge Daniel R. Wil
liams of Manilla will be one of the j
chief speakers on this subject and
will detail conditions in ’the Philip- i
pines.
Tokio, March 26—Japan has de
cided to adopt the metric system.
The bill as passed by the House of
Peers stipulates that in the five years
to come all leading factories, govern
ment offices, government works and
technical schools will be asked to
use the metric system of weights and
measures instead of the Japanese.
The general public will be made
to use the system within twenty
years.
Shanghai, March 26—Approxi
mately SOO lives were lost in the
wreck of the steamer Hong Moh of
Singapore which went aground off
the White Rocks, Ramock Island, on
March 3 while proceding from Sing
apore to Amoy.
The Hong Moh was taking 1,100
Chinese passengers to Amoy. It was
believed that Capt. H. W. Holmes of
the vessel was drowned.
Assault with Intent to Kill
Halton Grant of Eddington was on
Monday at Bangor bound over in
11000 for assault with intent to kill
upon his wife, Virginia. The com
plaint was made by her father, Ar
thur M. Robbins. Grant gave ball.
It was charged that he was riotous in
his home, firing a gun and threaten
ing to kill his wife with a butcher
knife, beside beating her with his
Bats. He denied to; wrong Intent.
Claim Frame-Up
Against Consumer
in Soft Coal Trade
Indianapolis, lnd.. May 3.—A crimi
nal partnership between soft coal op
erators, miners and retailers has ex
isted for many years, according to the
charge of the government in its anti
trust prosecution which began in the
Federal court here today.
The indictment is directed at 226
persons and corporations and is in five
counts, each charging violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law.
Among the individual defendants are
John L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America; D. B.
Wentz, president of the National Coal
Association, many others of both or
ganizations and some of the most
prominent operators in the country.
The miners officials under indict
ment number 39. the operators, retail
ers and their employees 88; the cor
porate defendants 99. The defendants
reside in six states—Missouri, 3Hi- .
nois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Taken as' a whole the
indictments charge: First, restraint
of trade; second, restraint 'of com
merce; third, restraint of trade and
commerce; fourth, conspiracy to mo
nopolize, and fifth, monopolization.
[ The indictment is estimated to contain
50,000 words, one paragraph of which
says: ‘'That at various joint confer
ences, miners and operators agreed
and arranged that they were partners
in the mining, production and distrubu
tion of bituminous dial in the several
states, and that they should and would
aid and assist each other in their plans
and efforts to increase wages, increase
prices, create shortages and limit pro
duction and distribution; that bitu
minous coal should not be sold at any
time for a price that did not at the
time yield a profit to the operators;
that whatever increase of wages of
miners should be agreed upon, should
be added to the price of coal; that com- ;
petition among operators should be
eliminated by organization among
operators and such other methods .
and means as would be effective there- j
for; • * • • that the means of increas
ing the cost of production and the
price of coal was by closing down and
keeping idle the coal mines.”'
The indictment also attacks the fa
mous ‘‘check-off” system of paying
union dues of miners by which the
operators virtually act as a collect
ing agency of the union by withhold
ing part of the miners’ wages and
paying this to the union.
The 1920 coal shortage, according to
the indictment was manufactured by
the operators "as a part of the general
plan of conspiracy.”
By refusing to contract for future
deliveries except "for a price which
would be the ruling price at the time
of delivery” the operators are charged i
with having erected a "spot” market
last year, their alleged plan being "to
create a scarcity of available coal and
cause a high and excessive price.”
The operators are charged with ob
taining priority coal shipment orders
from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, which diverted 20,000,000 tons
of coal f 10m the normal market
places, mainly by shipments of West
Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky coal
to New England and the Northwest.
This diversion, in part, is alleged to
have effected contract deliveries,
caused immediate purchases at high
er prices, and drove consumers into
distant markets and so disturbed con
ditions that local shortages were
created and industries forced to sus
pend work.
In respect to the 1920 coal situation
ttie indictment cnarges that “there was
NO shortage of available coal in the
United States during that time."
Various other acts are charged by
(he long indictment as a part of the
conspiracy, including allegations of
fixed territorial limits for an opera
tors’ sales, the promotion of strikes,
the private agreements of operators to
maintain uniform sales contracts, the
breaking of contract deliveries, the re
fusal to sell direct to consumers and :
also to retailers who were NOT mem
bers of the retailers’ association, and
the inflation of prices, especially by j
“pretended sale and distribution” ;
through sales agencies "separate only j
in name from the operating and pro- !
ouction companies.”
The Indictments were returned last
February 23, after an almost contin
uous investigation by the government
for 18 months.
Rich Oil Fields
Uncovered in
Argentine Republic
Buenos Aires, April 9.—(By Asso- :
ciated Press).—Experts in oil produc- j'
tion say that, as a result of (he rich ! 1
discoveries of oil in the Commodore *
Rlvadavia field, Argentina may be
come one of the world’s great sources ‘
of fuel. The Well No. 128 which came i
in on February 28 with an initial pro- j 1
duction of about 1200 barrels an hour I '
is continuing to flow at approximate- !
ly the same amount. 1 £
The Commodore Rlvadavia oil pro- i *
ducing area is located in the terri- t1
tory of Chubut, in the region called ‘ ’
Patagonia, and is more than 600 miles! 1
southwest of Buenos Aires. It was'
discovered in 1907 when a deep test'
was being made in an effort to locate s
a water supply. The government, ex- 1
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M. Stated convocation Thursday
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U. S. 1 EASLEE, N. G.
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Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
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Thursday of each month.
GEO. E. GAY, Commander.
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O. O. STETSON. Quartermaster.
j CALANTHE LODGE. NO. 52. K. P.
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l’ERLEY T. STEVENS, Sachem.
JAMES A. JONES, Chief of Records.
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IVA HASKELL, Oracle.
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Wednesday evening of each month at
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W. W. JACKSON. Sec.. 18 Pike St.
U.O.G.C. MORRILL COMMANDERY
No. 326, U. O. G. C. Regular meetings
second and fourth Tuesday evenings
at 7.30 o'clock at Golden Cross hall.
ETHEL V. COLBY. N. C.
W. E. CLOUGH. F. K. R.
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ercising its ownership of mineral
rights, sot aside 12,500 acres of land
in the district and began the work of
exploiting the field. Laten another
12.500 acres was reserved.
Since that time 128 wells have been
sunk and production has gradually in
crease^ up to the present. In 1920 the
total production was more thanl.000,
000 barrels. The oil is heavy with
small kerosene and gasoline content
and is used principally as fuel oil, be
ing sold to a number of industries In
the country. Drilling depths are be
tween 1,500 and 1,800 feet.
Until AVell No. 128 was brought In,
all the wells had shown small produc
tion although several of them were
gushers and had an initial production
that passed the 1000 barrel mark.
Practically every well drilled found
oil in paying quantities.
©utside of the government's re
served area there Is some production
by private companies. Several Argen
tine railroads that plan to burn oil in
stead of worfd or coal recently made
a contract with one of these companies
and have undertaken an extensive cam
paign of explorations.
The completion of the big well has
served to call attention once more to
the other districts of Argentina that
are ranked as favorable Tor oil pro
duction. An American oil engineer
who is familiar with prospects from
the northern border of the country to
Tierra del Fuego told the correspond
ent that he looked fbr Argentina to de
velop into one of the producing centers
of the world. He regards as espe
cially favorable some sections of Jujuy,
Mendoza. Neuquen and Santa Cruz.
Whether these prove to be produc
ing areas or not, it is known that Eng
lish and American companies, together
with companies representing other na
tions, are actively at work, trying to
get a foothold in the country.
“At the present time," said an au
thority, "English interests are much
more largely represented in Argentina
than American. For several years
they have been quietly scouting and
studying the country. I look for Ar
gentina within the next few years to
become a large oil producing region.
American companies should not hold
1 ack because of the impossibility of
securing large concessions unless they
ire content to And Argentina's best
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