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V^J-lil ?'~ York (It,
AU Surplus Army Food Is
Railroad Employes Dema
Ordered Sold to Public;
nd Government Ownership
Tobacco Ban
In 1924, Aim
OfW.CT.U.
Association Opposed to
Prohibitions Says Or
ganization Leads Move
?o Eliminate Nicotine I
Plan for Campaign
Shown in Detail
Propaganda in Schools Is
Said To Be Prelude to
a Nation-Wide Crusade
Leadership in a movement having
for its gonl adoption of a nineteenth
amendment to the Constitution pro?
hibiting the use of tobacco is at?
tributed to the Woman's Christian Tem?
perarle Union by the Association Op
po?ed to national Prohibitions, which
made public esterday the result of
many weeks of investigation of the
' acco < rusaders.
The ' soi ii ? . : In a statement issued j
?: \ th( '.??:, tartera, 19 West Forty-!
fourth 5ti an ! which way read into!
"The < onal Record" in the !
House ii Representative Haskell, of I
New York. . immarizes the results of
its investigation as follows: j
"1. There is indeed, a concerted plan
of actiu- ' ised upon a mutual pledge I
of m err.' * : hip, to have anti-tobacco i
laws ? ??' : in every state in the !
Union ai pos? ibly, by Congi-ess, in j
bmitting ?! constitutional amendment!
ore Marcl 20, 1924, when the
I man's Christian Temperance Union!
i- cell rate its fiftieth anniversary.!
Leadership Charged to W. C. T. ?.
"2. The leadership in this anti-tobac- |
to crusade has beer, assumed by the ]
? ?.'.'.- Christian Temperance Union,'
ca d 'm thi r' by the Anti-Saloon
and othei prohibition organi
ia*.i ns, all o? which were cooperative
al i in tiie nation-wide prohibition
can .
? Woman's Christian Temper?
an i rjion began a drive lust .March
fi Oi ,000, and has announced that,
( of this sum \ '? be expen ic?
on irk of 'child welfare,' 'health
i orality' and 'education and in?
formation,' and it is under these head
ii that the anti>tobacco campaign
v financed, instead of appealing
direct for money to prohibit the use I
cr ' il acco. ?
the puise of 'child welfare'I
: ity and health' the activities
of ? 'i Chi stian Temperance
Ui have Inca carried into the pub?
lie schools and recitation books have
bei furnished to children which fia
gi u . olate the sanctity of home and
filial devotion by portraying a father
who : acco as filthy and unfit
for i'-? 1; ;h caresses.
"5, Proti sts on the part of parents
have caused .-uch interfering between
father and chid to be stopped in cer?
ta ?. sehe- is. and the Association Op
P" tri to National Prohibition will carry
the ai tack further.
Fight Launched in Georgia
"6. A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to prohibit the use j
ot to . e o in any form whatever, and]
measures have been introduced in the j
?gislatures of other Southern and
Western states to put a ban upon cig-1
arettes.
"7. Certain officers of the Anti-Saloon j
League have denied any participation
by that organization in the anti-tobacco
Crusade, knowing it would hurt the
chances of prohibition as now enacted
and hanging under a cloud of public re?
vulsion, but others have bluntly admit?
ted that 'nicotine will be next.' The
Anti-Saloon League cannot stay out
Without a breach with its ally, the W.
C. T. U. The W. C. T. U. has been a
faithful co-worker with the Anti-Saloon
League for years. Now the league must
either support or repudiate this anti
tobacco campaign by the W. C. T. U.
The Ami-Saloon League must 'fish or
eut bait.' "
1 hi anti-tobacco propaganda of the
"? ?, T. 1'. was first brought to the at?
tention of the Association Opposed to
National Prohibitions in a statement
by Dr. P. Charles Green, of 2660 North
Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia. Dr.
Gr#en's son, Charles A. Green, an
eighth grade student at the M. Hall
Stanton public school, brought home
*or study "Book No. 7. Woman's Chris?
tian Temperance Union."
Association Appealed To
After perusing this book. Dr. Green
wrote to the association as follows:
"1 desire to call your attention to the
effort;! of the Woman's Christian Tem?
perance Union to use the public schools
"?exploit an unliterary, unfair, un?
ethical propaganda ostensibly directed
?gainst alcohol and tobacco. This
Movement strikes at the very root of
American life and is national in its
8c<>Pe. Before turning the light of
publicity upon what I have discovered
' believe it is vitally important that the
Pernicious activity of this organization
be investigated, and the data I have
?ecured furnish a strong foundation
on which to start. The method of ap?
proach in this city is to secure the co?
operation of a friendly principal. Our
?ocal Board of Education is in no sense
* P?rty to the scheme."
Dr. Green's ?on had been instructed
*?. learn one of the selections con?
tained in "Book 7?' in preparation for
?n etocution contest with seven other
Pipils of his grade. One of the selec
j'ons, entitled "Not Fit To Be Kissed."
?>!d in verse the troubles of a child
*ho couldn't kiss her father because
?? ?meUed of tobacco. *
?Jjft Green made a number of pro
Continued on page three
J[h^ First Monthly Reports on the Effect of Prohibition
From the Anti-Saloon League
(Copyright, 1913. New York Tribuno Inc.)
From the Liquor Dealers' Association
Shoots Wife,
Kills Man and
i
Wounds Three!
Carpenter Slays Watchman
and Is Beaten by Crowd
at "Good Husbands Club"
Fete in Harlem Casino
Arthur Goului, a carpenter, of 104
East 112th Street, shot his wife at the
Harlem River Casino last night and
then broke up the festivities of the
Good Husbands Social Club there as?
sembled by firing the four remaining'
shots in his pistol at the crowd. He
killed one man, wounded two others
and injured a little girl. His victims
are:
Mrs. Irene Gould, thirty-one, of 531
East 135th Street, The Bronx, wounded
in the wrist and thigh.
Richard Gallagher, twenty-seven,
watchman at the Casino, shot through
head, dying instantly.
William Lahme, twentv-seven, 251
East Thirty-fifth Street, shot through
left thigh.
Thomas Smith, twenty-five, 238 East
Thirty-fifth Street, shot in right leg.
Emma Wilson, fourteen, 320 East
136th Street, shot in left ankle.
Separated from Wife
According to the police, Gould and
his wife have been separated for two
months. Witnesses told detectives that
he met her last night at the casino
and became involved in a heated arg?- ;
ment, which terminated when Mrs. ?
Gould exclaimed: "I'm not afraid of!
you. You don't dare."
It was then, they say, that Gould
pulled a pistol from his pocket. The
woman turned to run and he fired at
her back, the bullet shattering her
wrist and burying itself ;n her thigh.
Immediately the Good Husbands' So?
cial Club became a panic-stricken
crowd, seeking cover. Gallegher, how- '
ever, ran to the assistance of Mrs.
Gould, whose husband brought him
down w:th a bullet through the head.
He then emptied his revolver, wound?
ing the three others.
Beaten by Crowd
The crowd, which had been hiding
under and behind every possible pro?
tection, hearing the cl'ck of the tmpty
pistol as Gould pulled the trigger again
and again, rushed at him with chairs,
beer bottles and other improvised
weapons. The man was down when
Patrolman Kelty and Probationary
Patrolman Moany fought their way to
him and held off the mob at pistols'
points until the reserves from the
East 126th Street Station arrived.
Gould was taken to the stat'on, cov?
ered with cuts and bruises, and charged
with homicide. Mra. Gould was taken
to Harlem Hospital a?d the other in-?
?ured were attended by surgeons from,
ferlent end Knickerbocker hospitals.
Massacre of Jews
In Odessa Reported \
LONDON, Aug. 2,?A massacre in I
the Jewish quarter of Odessa, carried j
out by troops of General Gregorieff,
Russian anti-Bolshevik leader, which !
are occupying that city, is reported j
in advices received by semi-official \
Polish sources. The Jewish quarter j
was surrounded by the troops, it is de- j
clared, and a massacre was begun from !
which no one escaped. The entire
quarter was for three days and nights
in the hands of the Russian soldiers,
the advices assert.
The Jews of the Ukraine and Bessa?
rabia, it was added, have proclaimed a
mourning period of fourteen days.
General Gregorieff entered Odessa
early in July after severe fighting, and
at the time was quoted as saying that
he was ready to join the Allies in a
combined attack on the Bolsheviki, if
the latter began an offensive on the
Dniester River".
Cecil B. Harmsworth, British Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in
the House of Commons on July 8 that
General Gregorieff was stated to be
strongly anti-Jewish in his sympathies.
Japanese Send More
Troops to Manchuria
TOKIO, Aug. 2 (By The Associated
Press).?A War Office communication
says reinforcements have been sent to
Chang-Chung (Manchuria) to guard
the railroad zone.
Dispatches received from Darien,
northeast of Port Arthur, say the
Manchurian garrisons are concentrat?
ing at Chang-Chugg.
Fifteen hundred Chinese soldiers and
I a much smaller number of Japanese
? were reported to have been engaged in
a tight on July 19 at Kwenge-Cheng
Ku, which lasted two hours. Japanese
official reports said the Japanese lost
sixteen killed and seventeen were
wounded. Three police officers were
killed.
Ex-Soldier Elected to
Congress in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE Ky.? Aug. 2.?In the
Bpecial election in the Eighth Con?
gressional District to-day King Swope,
a returned soldier, running on the
Republican ticket, was elected over
Judge Charles A. Hardin, Democrat,
by a majority estimated at from 1,200
to 1,400. It was the first time a Re?
publican candidate ?ver w*s victorious
in that district. The seat was vacated
by the death of Harvey Helm.
? ? i?
Sinn Feiners Raid
Depot, Seize Rifles
BELFAST, Aug. 2 (By The Associated
Press).?Sinn Feiners to-day raided the
freight depot at Greenmore and carried
off a quantity of rifles which had just
arrived from England.
The rifles were addressed to the com?
manding officer of thp Boyal Artillery.
B?la Kun Out,
Hungarians Ask
Peace of Allies
Budapest Soviet Leader
Resigns, Declaring, "I
Did the Best I Could";
New Cabinet Is Formed
VIENNA, Aug. 2 (By The Associated
Press).?Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet
government was overturned Thursday
afternoon as the result of the Allied
refusal to make peace and the crush?
ing defeat of the Red army Thursday
by the Rumanians, according to advices
. received here.
Kun, the dictator, pale-faced on re?
ceipt of the news of his army's col
, lapse and with his back to the wall in
the final meeting of the government,
declared:
"Very well, if you demand it I must
resign. I made the best fight I could."
A purely Socialistic government was
quickly formed under the leadership
of Herr Peidll and installed in office
by the trade unions.
The new government has issued a
manifesto declaring that its chief task
will be to preserve international order
and enter into negotiations with the
Entente.
Ask Peace With Allies
Overtures for peace with the Allies
have been begun by the new govern
| ment through Joseph Weltner, presi
; dent of the Soldiers' and Workers' So
; viet of Hungary, who, rrriving in Vi
! enna from Budapest, asked Colonel
] Cunningham, the leading representative
j of the Allies at Vienna, and the other
Allied officials here, to recognize the
new government and treat for peace.
The commander of the Italian mili
| tary mission at Budapest, according to
' information received here, sent a wire
1 less message to Premier Clemenceau
at Paris stating the new Hungarian
government asked for an armistice on
the basis of the recent Allied pro?
posals. The Hungarian government
asked also that a provisional frontier
line with Rumania be drawn on the
Theiss River.
New Hungarian Cabinet
The new Cabinet is presided over
by Jules Poidll, formerly 'Minister of
the People's Welfare in the Count
Continued on page eight
-_-1?_?,
Senators to
Quiz Lansing
This Week
Foreign Committee Will
Question Him on U. S.
Envoys' Reported Pro?
test Over Shantung
Treaty Secrets
Also Are Sought
Lamont and Davis Like?
wise Will Be Inter?
rogated on Reparations
?<?eu> York Tribun?
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.?The For?
eign Relations Committee of the Sen?
ate to-day completed questioning Ber?
nard M. Baruch, one of the financial
advisers of the American peace dele?
gation at Paris, on the peace treaty,
and expects next week to hear Secre?
tary of State Lansing, Thomas W. La?
ment, another of the American delega?
tion's financial advisers, and Norman
Davis, an expert attached to the com?
mission.
Mr. Lansing will be ' questioned
about his reported protest, in company
with Henry White and General Blist,
against the Shantung settlement.
The Secretary will also be asked as
to the various other treaties signed by
the President, such as the Polish
treaty, which was read into the record
for tlie first time yesterday by Senator
Lodge, of which the Fresident had
given no word to the Senate, although
they have been laid before the House
of Commons by Lloyd George, and be?
fore the French Chamber of Deputies
by Premier Clemenceau.
League Foeg Hopeful
Opponents of the league of nations
co%'enant asserted to-night that the
number of Senators who are flatly
against the league is growing. They
j hoped to gain such strength, if the
ratification of the treaty is long de?
layed, that President Wilson would be
put on the defensive and become will?
ing to accept any set of reservations
to savo the treaty.
On the other hand, seven Republican
Senators who framed compromise res?
ervations this week will confer Mon?
day with other Republican Senators in
the hope of winning league oppononts
over to the proposed reservations. The
Senators seeking a compromise say
that if they can get as many as twenty
Senators to support the reservations
they can lay the programme before the
Administration with the assurance
that, aided by forty-five Senators who
seek unreserved ratification, the treaty
can be ratified without radically affect?
ing the league principles. The vote re?
quired for ratification is sixty-four.
Republican leaders asserted to-day
that the ratification of the Franco
American treaty would not be permit?
ted unless the section connecting i1
with the league covenant was elimi?
nated.
"We do not want to have to asl
permission of the league council to gc
to the aid of France if she is threat?
ened by Germany," said a Republicar
member of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee. This Senator believes tht
?French treaty has small chance of be?
ing ratified by the Senate unless there
is some clearing up of the situation.
Another Senator said to-day h<
i doubted if a majority vote could be
mustered in the Senate for the Frencr
treaty in its present form and wit!
the league as a corollary.
Borah Especially Bitter
So far from pleasing the "Borah ir
reconcilables," the four reservationi
drafted by the "mild reservationists,'
or "group of seven," seems to have en
couraged the foes ofi the league t<
a more determined effort to kill it.
Senator Borah was especially bitte:
in his criticism of the reservation in
tended to prevent the United State:
! from being bound to send troops ti
engage in foreign wars. He character
ized it as "intellectually dishonest,
and asserted that it would not accom
plish the purpose at which it professei
j to aim.
"There is only one way to deal wit!
! Article X," said Senator Borah, "am
; that is to take it out of the league cove
\ nant."
As aii indication of the jrrowth o
strength of the "Borah irreconcilables,
as the faction desiring that the leagu
of nations be postponed if not killed i
called, those definitely in that class o
the Foreign Relations Committee alon
include Senators Knox, Brandegei
Hiram Johnson. Moses, Fall and Boral
Senator New almost qualifies, and th
spirit of Senator Harding is declare
to be willing.
This leaves, of the Republican men
bership of the committee, only Sena
tor McCumber, who is frankly pr<
league, and Chairman Ledge.
Unions Fight
Roads Being
Turned Back!
Can "See No Hope of Gain I
in Contest Between Ris- i
ing Cost of Living and;
Increase in Earnings ?
Bill Introduced
In the House
It Provides for U. S. Pur
chase and Gives Men
Share in Management
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.?Government
ownership of the railroads is proposed
in a bill introduced to-day by Repre?
sentative Sims, Democrat, Tennessee.
The measure embodies the plan which
has been indorsed by the four brother?
hoods and the American Federation of
Labor, and which was presented to
Congressional committees recently by
? Glenn E. Plumb.
In a statement accompanying the
measure Representative Sims said its
enactment wojild "establish harmony
between the public interest-, the wage
earners and capital" and would be a
long step toward solving the high cost
of living problem by lowering trans?
portation charges.
Meanwhile the strike of railway
shopmen is spreading. Leaders of the
movement declared to-night thai
2"0,000 shopmen are idle as the result
of the lockout. The same authorities
said" they saw no immediate prospect
of settlement. High officials of the na?
tional organization of electricians
have called on electricians who have
gone out to return to work.
Tinder the bill for government own?
ership introduced to-day opeiating con?
trol of railroads would be vested in n
directorate of fifteen, five appointed by
the President, five by operating officials
and five by employes. Holders of 4
per cent bonds, which the government
would issue for the purchase of the
lines, and the employes would share
equally in the earnings of the roads.
Believe It Will Bring Action
Senator Cummins, chairman of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit?
tee, and other members of that bodv
believe |he demands made by railroad
employes for increased wages to meet
the high cost of living will hasten ac- j
tion by Congress on legislation estab?
lishing a national policy with respect
to the railroads.
Both the Senate and House commit?
tees have been working on such legis?
lation for some time, and presentation
of a tentative bill this month is ex?
pected.
, "Labor's railroad bill has the pur?
pose of reducing the cost of living by
operating the most important industry
in the country for service rather than
for profit," said a statement on the .
Sims bill by the head of the railroad
brotherhoods.
"Labor faces a persistently serous
situation, due to the*ost of living and
the impossibility of wages keeping pace
with the depreciation of money. No
fundamental changes are being ad?
vanced to save workers from continual
defeat in the economic struggle of life. :
The Mood of Labor
"The railroad employes are in no
mood to brook the return of the lines
to their former control, since all the
plans suggested for th's settlement of I
the problem leave labor essentially
where it has stood %nd where it is ;
determined not to stand.
"We realize that in the strife for!
wage increases we cannot win any per- j
manent v'ctory? It is not money, but;
value, which counts. The vicious cir?
cle is infinite; increased wages are
overcapitalized for inflated profits, and
the cost of goods mounts faster than
the wage level. A few grow wealthy
and the multitude is impoverished.
"Any basic change must begin with
. the railroads. Not only have we suf- ?
fered from inadequate wages, but the
public has paid an extortionate tax
for transportation, a tax based on in?
flated values and collected from every j
person buying the necessaries of life.
Wilson Is Quoted
"President Wilson declared in his
message of May 20, 1919, for "the genu?
ine democratization of industry, based
upon a full recognition of the right of
those who work, in whatever rank, to
participate in some organic way in j
every decision which directly affects
their welfare in the part they are to
play in industry.' He spoke plainly in
behalf of a genuine cooperation and
I partnership, based upon real com
; munity of interest and participation in
? control.
"It has been argued that labor is
merely asking the public to let the
I workers become the railroad profiteers
i in place of \\all Street. This argu
? ment cannot survive a scrutiny of our
proposal.
"We do ask for a share of the sur
i plus, at the end of each year, after op
j erating costs are met and fixed charges
' are paid. But we also provide an auto
j matic reduction in rates when this
' surplus comes to a given level. To re
! store the surplus the employes of the
i railroads must increase the efficiency
j of their management and they must
i invite new ousiness."
The Plan Summarized
Another statement issued in behalf
r.f the government ownership bill sum
I marized is as follows:
| "1. Purchase by the government on
valuation as determined finally by the
counts.
| f'2, Operation by directorate of fif
j teen, live to be chosen by the President
I to represent the public,
: elected by the operating official . and
I five by the classified employ?;.
? "3. Equal division of surplus, after
! paying fixed charges and operating
Continued on page Un
-a
14 Are Killed as
Giant 'Plane Falls
CapronVs Passengers and
Crew Dashed 3,000 Ft.
to Death Near Verona
_ i
ROME, Aug. 2 (By The Associated'
Press).?A Caproni airplane flying from I
Venice to Milan tp-day with fourteen ?
persons on board fell to the ground !
from a height of 1,000 metres (about !
3,300 feet) near Verona. All on board!
were k>lled.
The giant Caproni airplanes were
specially designed and built to estab?
lish passenger service between the
principal Ita ian cities, which was to be
further extended to French and British
cities as the business developed. The
service between Venice and Milan was
to be inaugurated this summer, and
yesterday's disastrous flight may have
been the first trip of the ill-fated ma?
chine.
Erie President
Is x\rrested to
Test Ferry Rule
Acts for Mothers and
Babies Riding on Staten
Island Boat; Assails Regu?
lation Putting Them Off
Frederick D. Underwood, president
i of the Erie Railroad, put on an immac
j ulate crash suit and a white yachting
leap yesterday and set out to effect
i some transportation reforms. He be
! ?an with the municipal ferry to St.
j George, Staten Island.
i The large and determined figure of
! the white-clad crusader occupied a
| chair on' the upper stern deck of the
i ferryboat Brooklyn as it left the South
j Ferry slip at 3:40 p. in. Some twenty
minutes later the rattle of winches be
] tokened arrival in port.
There was a shuffling of feet as the
| non-crusading passengers jostled one
* mother in the rush for the companion
: ways, but Frederic Douglas Underwood
i ueard ?ii M.e sounds o? departure the
; challenge to combat and sat solid as an
| armored knight in the saddle.
The Foe Appears
Nor was this Casablanca mistaken.
Presently his foes appeared, two in
number and accoutred as deckhands.
"All off!" remarked one of them,
giving Mr. Undcrw od what is known ;
to ferryboat deckhands and Bowery
bouncers as "the eye."
The eye didn't take on Frederick
Douglas Underwood; the. president of j
the Erie seemed immune. He was gaz-!
ing thoughtfully at the hazy towers of,
Manhattan, one hand casually seeking
his coat pocket.
??Hey, you!" called the deckhand. "All
off here' Palm Beach!"
Mr. Underwood withdrew his hand ;
from his pocket and mildly fluttered a;
bit of pasteboard before the deck- !
hards.
?'That is a ticket," he said. "It en- i
titles me to ride back to New York. ;
Th"* ' where I wish to go."
'x i off the boat," countered the |
deckhands. "Can't you read them rules
pasted up over your head? Everybody's;
got to get off when the boat stops. If j
you got a ticket give it to the collector
in the ferry house and then get aboard
again if you want to."
Mr. Underwood cooly reiterated that
he was going to New York; if the
rules forbade deckhands to receive
tickets he suggested they could go
ashore themselves and bring back some?
one authorized to take the ticket. He
was going to stay until the boat reached
South Ferry.
The deckhands retired in a state as
near confusion as the mental poise of
deckhands permits. Presently, how?
ever, tjhey were back with reinforce?
ments?two ticket agents, each duly
authorized to accept tickets if offered
at the proper time and place.
Mr. Underwood's resolution was
agent-proof as well as deckhand-proof".
The combined arguments of the four
men failed to move him, and they fell
back amid a barrage of comment from
newly arriving passengers who paused
to watch the combat. All four soon
were back again with a patrolman, who
likewise expounded the rules and regu?
lations of the municipal ferry.
With the help of the patrolman, the i
two ticket agents and the deckhands, !
Mr. Underwood was placed under ar- j
I rest and marched off the boat. The
policeman started off at a brisk pace,
but Mr. Underwood hung back. The :
patrolman said that according to the
rules of the department his prisoner
would have to be booked at Stapleton, ?
two miles away. Mr. Underwood re- j
?ponded that in that case the patrol- ?
man would have to carry him or per- !
mit him to hire a taxi.
Taxi to Jail in State
The patrolman chose the taxi, find
! ing nothing in the rules to forbid it,
? and the pair drove in state to th3
?police station. There a charge of dis
; orderly conduct was entered against
j .Mr. underwood and the lieutenant in
| formed him that if he had $500 to put
? up as bail he would be released.
Mr. Underwood didn't happen to
I have .*500 and c fered a diamond ring
! which, according to the lieutenant'.?
i recollection. he said was worth
$20,000. The lieutenan. looked at the
I ring and said maybe it was, but it was
' aga nst t? e rules to take it as bail. So
1 Mr. Underwood sat in a corridor until
Thomas R. McGinley, an accommodat?
ing undertaker of Stapleton, happened
along and ga"? bai: ?r>r him.
Then he departed in the taxi which
had been waiting for him and came
back to Manhattan by virtue of the
ticket which two deckhands and two
ticket agents bad spurned.
Mr, Underwood said he had planned
"air as a Ust case and that h'
v.o..id retain c lunsel and sue for
. . ??:?.. lie thought it was a shame
that women and children out for a
Saturday or Sunday excursion should
have to give up their seats on arrival
at Staten Island and take their chances
with an unruly crowd of recovering
them again.
Greatest Sale
In Historv on
August 18
People Invited to Order
Direct From Govern?
ment; Delivery Will Be
Made by Parcel Post
Many Millions of
Pounds Offered
President Gets Reports
on Situation ; House and
Senate Debate Subject
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.?In the face
of growing unrest over the high cost
of living, as indicated by the spread?
ing strike of railroad workers, many
government agencies moved to-day \n
efforts to effect a return to normal
price levels.
Immediate sale of all surplus food?
stuffs purchased for the army, instead
of only canned goods, was ordered by
the War Department. Millions of
pounds of meat, beans, pumpkin, squash
and other commodities will be offered
to the public Monday, August 18.
through the parcel post system, at
prices materially lower than those now
prevailing in the market. Purchasers
will have to pay postage charges from
the place of storage. This sale, it is
pointed out. will be the largest sale
direct to the consumer ever attempted
in the history of the country
Director Genera! Ilines, Commis?
sioner Colver and Assistant Secretary
Leffingwell, appointed by the confer?
ence assembled by Attorney General
Palmer to recommend steps to reduce
living costs, were engaged to-day in an
exchange of memoranda bearing on the
problem.
No Final Decision
The impressioi: went out that the
committee had agreed that steps could
be taken by Congress which would al
leviate the situation at once, but it
was s;iid at Mr. Hines's office that noth?
ing lina! had been decided upon.
The committte was instructed par?
ticularly to deal with profiteering and
to suggest how law enforcement agen?
cies should proceed to bring to jus?
tice men guilty of extortion through
unreasonable puces.
If any recommendation is made to
Congress it is believed most likely
that it will deal with the sale of the
wheat crop at market prices and the
absorption by the government of the
loss between those prices and the $2.26
guaranteed the farmer. Many orlicials
have indicated that ?his is the most
practicable step which could be taken
and the one most likely to have an
immediate effect.
President Gets Reports
Congress continued to discuss ih?
living question, and at the White
House President Wilson was said to
be receiving full reports on all phases
of it. The Senate adopted a resolution
asking the Banking Committee whether
reduction of the currency inflation
would help the situation In the House
an attempt to recess tor two weeks
was blocked by Representative Igoe,
Democrat, of Missouri because his res?
olution to have the Federal Trade Com?
mission investigate the price of shoes
was not acted upon.
The new demands of railway em?
ployes for more wages to meet the high
cost of living drew fire from Repre?
sentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas,
who said the railroad men were acting
like "highwaymen" in " attempting to
obtain "another unfair billion dollars'
raise."
Introduction in the House of a gov?
ernment ownership railroad bill, with
the employes participating in the con?
trol an '. profits of the roads, was made
the occasion of a statement by leaders
of the four brotherhoods that the high
cost of living demanded the operation
of the country's most'important indus?
try "for service, rather than for profit."
No Chance to Catch Up
The statement declared that wage
earners could never hope to gain a
permanent victory in the economic
strife bnder present conditions because
of the constantly growing cycle of
prices based on wages, and declared
it was not money, but value, which real?
ly counted. Ally basic change, it wai
argued, must commence with the rail?
roads, the fundamental industry ou
which all others are dependent.
Speaker Gillett made public a letter
he sent to President Wilson in re?
sponse to the request tnat the five
week recess be abandoned. The Speaker
wrote:
"The President.
"Dear Sir: I have received your let?
ter of this date expressing the wish
that Congress should not recess at
present. I presume it i i in lieu of the
; ordinary method of communicating
\ your views to Congress, and will cause
it to be read in the House.
"I regret that you did not arrive at
i these conclusions sooner and advise us
! when the subject was under considera
j tion by Confess some days ago, as, of
i course, it will now interfere with many
perfected plans. But if, as intimated in
your letter, you expect s-oa-n to recom?
mend to us important legislation, I have
no doubt that the House will be glad
to await and consider the proposals
? you are preparing.
"As to railroad legislation, I sup
j posed by act of Congress you had now
full authority, and one of the reasons
1 for our recess was that the committees
of the Housevmight, uninterrupted by