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Street Cars and Elevators.
Can a Man Own Millions?
$1 Worth 50 Cents.
Disinheriting Wives.
It aithdi Bwsnra.
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Uonol'ktanMnt "irlWCn"
th bacon" sold by lhn ax" ca
uw uaeiBuii. Aauunal Gov
ernment owns postofflccs, local
governments own public schools.
PostotQces and public schools
combined make possible, without
friction or expense, the selling of
millions of dollars worth of food
to people that need it
Foss, of Massachusetts, is a can
didate for governor on this plat
form: "Public ownership of street
cars at a five-cent fare, taxation
to meet the loss, if any."
With public ownership Intelli
gently managed there would be no
loss. But if there were a loss, it
should be met by taxation on
wealth, not by an extra tax of six
cents a day on women and men
going to -work.
City parks are run "at a loss"
that prosperous persons may use
the parks for driving. Taxes pay
the loss, and the tenement houses
in which the poor live help to pay
the taxes. If It is right to tax the
poor to supply FREE parks and
boulevards for automobiles, it
would be all right to supply five
cent street car rides and tax pros
perity to pay the loss.
If there were any loss prosperity
would get back the taxes in an
other way.
The street car in the city is like
the elevator in the office building.
The owner runs his elevators
without charge, does not waste
time collecting fares. That is bet
ter for his building.
Cities one day will run their
street cars as the owner of the
skyscraper runs his elevators.
England announces $1.80 for a
bushel of wheat, after paying,
freight. This worries Canada, for
the government price is $2.15. It'
would interest American farmers,
whose price fixed by Government
is about $1L28.
England evidently has wheat
stored in the Argentine, Australia
or elsewhere and is bound to give
the benefit of cheap prices to her
angry working population.
Carnegie left only fifty millions
perhaps. He handled altogether
about five hundred millions and is
said to have given away at least
threg hundred and fifty millions
a reaaer asjcs uw. ne own mi
that, since he could not possibly
earn it?' -Hard to answer, hard
to deny that workers produced the
money,
What should the farmer with
ten calves in his pasture answer
if asked "Do you own those ten
calves, since the cows, not you,
made them?"
The farmer might answer, "It is
thanks to my management that
the cows had regular feed and
were enabled to raise the calves."
Carnegie might have answered,
"It is thanks to my management
that my workers and managers
were able to produce enough for
them to live on and five hundred
millions additional for me."
Mr. Jones with ten thousand dol
lars thinks Mr. Rockefeller can't
possibly own a thousand millions
honestly. Mr. Bolshevik thinks
Mr. Jones can't possibly own his
ten thousand honestly. Mrs. Tiger
would grab Mr. Bolshevik, break
his back and eat him, asking
"What right have you to this flesh
and blood when I need it to make
milk for my tigsr cubs? You ate
other animals, I eat you." Politi
cal economy is a complicated
study.
Postoffice employes ask for an
increase in pay. Of course, they
must have it. The fanner who
used to feed his horse for fifty
cents knows that he must pay more
now or let the horse die. Printing
presses have been busy. A dollar
is worth fifty cents. A man worth
one dollar before the war is worth
two dollars now, and the world
might as well recognize it.
A grand jury in Massachusetts
discovers that some shoemakers
are earning $120 a week, and many
others $60 a week. High wages do
not explain everything, however.
The same grand jury finds that
shoes sold for $5.50 by the manu
facturer who pays the high wages
were sold, 400 yards from the fac
tory, for $12.
A rich man says in his will: "If
my wife marries again she loses
the money mat i leave ner.
Many foolish men put in their
wills that clause disinheriting the
wife if she remarries. Such a
clause is clearly against public
nolicy and should be declared il
legal. It expresses in a mild way the
feeling of the savage chief who
leaves orders that his wife shall
be buried alive with his corpse, or
the horrible institution in India
called "Suttee," an institution that
caused millions of women to be
burned alive with their husbands'
bodies. ,
The modern savage can't have
his wife buried with him, so be
tries to do the next best thing in
the way of controlling her destiny.
A civilized husband, dying rich,
should put in his will, "I hope my
... wife will marry again. And I order
my executors to pay my successor,
her second husband, as long as he
treats her kindly, $10,000 a year,
with my compliments, to take her
to the theater, buy her useless
presents, and do other things that
WEATHER:
Fair tonight and toraor-i-imt;
not much chance In
temperature. Temperature
at 8 a. m 70 degrees; nor
mal temperature for Aa
Ktist 22 for the last thirty
years, 74 decrees.
NUMBER 11,264.
WU$&BEmMand
BILL
INQUI
D
FICIALS 10
An increase of 25 cents an hour in
.vages of conductors and motormen,
ffith recognition at all times of labor
representatives, beginning Septem
ber 1, is asked by Local No. 875,
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employes, in a
memorandum agreement submitted
to President Ham, of the Washing
ton Railway and Electric Company,
today. The increase will make the
wage .scale for men ia the cmploy
of the company over one year 73
cents an hour.
John D. Nottre, Charles F. Cannon
and Frank Diggs, representing the
association, which claims 800 W. R.
& E. employes as members, present
ed the agreement, with a letter re
questing a conference with railway
officials at the earliest possible mo
ment. .
Promises to Confer.
President Ham received the agree
ment and promised to confer with the
men. This is the first time the com-
pany has agreed to confer with the
Amalgamated -Association.
There is at present, in effect, a rul
ing of the National War Labor Board
as to wages and conditions which ends
with the President's official proclama
tion of peace. This ruling was issued
several months ago. The ruling pro
vides that a revision of conditions
and wages may be made as of October
1. 1919.
President Ham said today the rail-
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NASHVILLE SEIZES
18,000,000 EGGS
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Aug. 22
Eighteen million eggs in cold stor
age were seized here today on order
of the United States district attor
ney at the storage plant of Noel &
Co. Of the 50.000 cases .-eized under
the hoarding law. 11.000 belonged to
swm & co.. 14.000 to Wilson & Co..
and 8.000 to Morris &. Co., big pack
ers. This is the second food seizure by
Federal agents acting under instruc
tions from Washington.
TODAY
I neglected while I was piling up
money."
A new immigration law plans to
keep out workers, unskilled, while
admitting skilled workers. Just
the other kind of law would be
better. This country has plenty
of skill, but too few rough work
ers, diggers, laborers willing to do
the hard work that the American
does not relish. No carpenter,
bricklayer, steamfltter or Iron
worker can get a job until rough
labor has dug the foundations and
taken out the Iron ore.
Profiteering is discouraged as
follows: Sugar wholesalers who
overcharge the retailers are com
pelled to pay the difference. That
does not help the woman who
bought the sugar one pound at a
time. The real remedy was put in
a few words by the Attorney Gen
eral : "Fine profiteers five thousan d
dollars and put them in jail for
two years."
It might better be twenty yearB,
for profiteering starves children,
and that is indirect murder. But
the mere word "Jail" from the
mouth of one who means it will
hare good results.
A COM
AMV
CONFER W 1H
UNION CHEFS
Published every eveninn (Including Sunday)
Entered as second-class matter at the
postofnee at Washington. D. C
PRESIDENT WILL GO
TO N.Y.T0I GREET
PERSHING
When Gen. John J. Pershing
arrives at New York aboard the
Mt. Vernon, either September 9
or 10, he probabl- will be greet
ed by President Wilson.
It was stated at the White
House today that if circum
stances allow, the President, in
all probability, will accord the
commander of the American Ex
peditionary Forces this signal
honor. The President was rep
resented as keenly interested in
the return of General Pershing
and men of the First division
and as anxious to be among the
first to welcome them to Ameri
can soil.
OUSE 10 FIX
TJI AND JUL'
FOR QUEERS
House leaders today moved to rush
through legislation asked by At
torney General Palmer In his cam
paign against profiteers and hoard
ers. The extensions to the food control
act, giving the Department of Jus
tice power to regulate all wearing
apparel and act against profiteering
retailers, besides providing a fine of
$5,000 and two years' ImprlsonmiU
for all violators, wili be taken up as
soon as the House meets. Republican
Leader Mondell expects to keep the
House In session until final action is
taken.
The House Agricultural Committee
experts to start work tomorrow on
another bill framed as a permanent
weapon against cold storage hoard
ing. Congressman Hutchinson of New
Jersey, and officials of the Attorney
General's office have framed the
measure which will prohibit storage
of food longer than ten months, ex
cept by consent of the Secretary of
Agriculture, and provides that all cold
storage food must be so stamped.
The Judiciary Committee next week
plans to consider permanent legisla
tion for a licensing system for cor-
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HUGE FOOD HOARDS
UNEARTHED IN N.Y.
NEW YORK. Aug. 'J-'. Enormous
quantities of food were found in
breweries here as well as warehouses
by firemen who have been Investi
gating these places Mayor Hylan an
nounced today.
Among the stores found, he said,
were half a billion eggs, 5,000,000
pounds of butter. 8,000.000 pounds of
sugar, 7,000.000 pounds of flour and
45.000.000 pounds of coffee.
Vast quantities of fresh meat, poul
try and fish alpo were discovered.
These included J5.77-,.ft40 pounds of
fresh meat. C23.040 pounds and 0.500
cases of poultry. 5,428.850 pounds and
121.703 cases of canned fish. More
than 3.400,000 pounds of pork were
also located.
About 100.O00.000 pounds of beans,
rice and peas were found ae well as
huge store of tea, lard, canned vege
table and milk.
CHARGES G.0.P.BARS
PRAYER FOR LEAGUE
The chaplain of the House has been
prohibited by Republicans from men
tioning the league of nations in his
prayers. Congressman Hefiin charged
on the floor of the House todav.
"A word was said by a high Re
publican to the chaplain uboui noma
remarks he once made about tlio
league, and since then his Itps have
been scaled on this question," Healn
aaid.
K
WASHINGTON,
OF
D
LAN TO OROP
UNLESS TRAIL
President Wilson and Secre
tary Lansing conferred for more
tban an boar at the White House
today. It was Intimated they
had under consideration the re
ply to the protest of the Mexican
government and the request that
troops of the Eighth Cavalry nent
acrona the Mexican border in pur
suit of bandits be withdrawn Ira
mediately.
MABPA, Tex., Aug. 22.-J2ursuit of
the Mexican bandits who held up"
two army airmen for $15,000 ransom,
will be abandoned very soon unless'
the American cavalrymen strike a
hot trail which promises immediate
capture, it was announced here by
Maj. Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, com
mander of the Southern Department,
U.S.A.
Lack Air Equipment.
Maj. Gen. Dickman, who was in
Marfa today inspecting the troops
and equipment, considers the aviation
equipment here insufficient and has
asked that it be doubled. Only six
planes are here co-operating with the
American expedition, which consists
of 300 mounted men and a pack train.
"We cannot continue the search
forever," said Major General Dick
man. "Unless we strike a very hot
trail within a short time, our troops
will come out of Mexico."
Satisfied "With Lnnghomc.
Major General Dickman expressed
himielf as completely satisfied with
the way the search has been con
ducted, and complimented Col. George
T. Langhome upon the disposition of
his troops.
"Everything is being. done that can
e done," said Major General Dick
man. "I cannot speak too highly of
the way Colonel Langhorne is hand
ling the situation. If it is possible to
apprehend the outlaws I am sure
Colonel Langhorne will get them. This
post Is amply equipped, and I shall
make no recommendations for an in
crease in the number of troops or
amount of equipment with the excep
tion of the aviation outfit, which I
feel Is not sufficient for the amount
of patroling done."
While the exact location of the
troops of the Eighth cavalry, who
are searching for the outlaws, is a
military secret, it is known thoy
have penetrated a considerable dis
tance intoe Mexico. This is revealed
by the fact that a landing field for
the planes established In Mexico on
Wednesday is at least thirty miles
fro.n the border. Gasoline and sup
plies for thee American machines are
being rushed there from the base "at
Marfa to save the airmen the trouble
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Keeping Up With
The Times
A FACT A DAY
The Times doesn't claim
distant circulation. It is
made for the Washington
audience and more than 90
per cent of its readers live
in the District of Columbia
and the immediate suburbs.
Yet a stray copy of last
Saturday's Times that went
to Geneva, N. Y., wag re
sponsible for a several hun
dred dollar order from that
town for Security Auto
Theft Signals that were ad
vertised for sale by several
Washington dealers.
BANDIT CHASE
GROWS "HOT"
FRIDAY EVENING,
Increase
FOR
Commissioners Request Policemen
To Withdraw From A. F. of L.
MAPE WANTS
TO TAKE OF
THE LID
Authority to conduct a sweeping
investigation into every branch of
the government of the District of
Columbia is given the subcommittee
of the House District Committee in
a resolution introduced in the House,
today.
I Chairman Carl E. Mapes, of the
House District Committee, intro
duced the measure and asked the
House for unanimous consent for its
immediate consideration.
Would Remove Lid.
"We propose to remove the lid and
let the commlttoe go Into any ques
tion that may develop during the
hearings," Mr. Mapes explained.
Discussing those sections of the res
olution which provide for an investi
gation of the books and accounts of
"any officer or employe (past of
present)." Mr. Mapes said:
"We can never tell Just what may
arise In an investigation of this kind.
AVe are just preparing for emergen
cies." The resolution grew out of a con
ference yeBtorday by the special sub
committee to investigate the salaries
In the Police Department and report
a measure carrying calary Increases.
"Would Probe Conduct.
As announced by The Times, the
subcommittee was not content to In
vestigate salaries alone, but proposed
to go Into an investigation of the
official conduct not only of the offi
cers of the Police Department, but of
officials of other branches of the Dis
trict government.
Chairman Norman J. Gould, of the
subcommittee, held that if the reso
lution creating his committee did not
give authority for an investigation of
official conduct ho would ask that the
District Committee or Its chairman
take steps to grant this authority.
The resolution, as prepared by
Chairman Mapes after conference
with Mr. Gould, would give the sub
committee almost unlimited author
ity. ..The resolution follows:
Resolved, that the committee of
the District of Columliln, or any
Mubcommlttee thereof which the
chairman of the committee may
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PLOT TO INCREASE
'SPUD' PRICE BARED
Conspiracy Between Shippers
and Chicago Commission
Men Charged.
CHICAGO. Aug. 22. Federal Inves
tigation of profiteering was turned
toward the spud today Coincident
with the beginning of an Investiga
tion of the report that more than ten
miles of freight cars loaded with new
potatoes are being held on Chicago
sidings, announcement was made at
the Bureau of Investigation that evi
dence had been secured of a con
spiracy between shippers and com
mission men to juggle the market
and boost the price of potatoes.
The arrest of two produce men, it
was stated at the office of District
Attorney Charles F. Clyne. could be
looked for within a few days. Clyno
charged excessive profiteering Is go
ing on among dealers In peaches,
plums, tomatoes, and other fruits.
Potatoes, he said, sold by the farmer
for $1.50 per bushel, have soared to
$Q whfi sold to the consumer.
TAKE BELJ.-ANH BEFORE MEALS and
ee how nn good digestion mukei you fael.
AdTt,
wms
AUGUST 22, 1919.
in Pay to 73 Cents an Hour
. GOVERNMENT
What the Commissioners
Tell Policemen
"The Commissioners, after careful consideration of the
whole question of the organization of a policemen's union
affiliated with any other labor organization, have reached the
conclusion that they must take the necessary steps to assure
entire and complete independence of the police department.
"They approve heartily of the principle of collective
bargaining and they welcome the organization of members
of the police force for purposes of collective representation,
mutual support and organized effort to increase their salaries
or improve their working conditions.
"They must, however, withhold their consent from any
project to connect such "an organization of members of the.
police department with any other labor .organization.
"The fact that the policeman's union is bound by a
'no-strike' provision, is an earnest of the intention of its mem
bers not to resort to a strike as a weapon of compelling its
demands. But if it be affiliated with other organizations which
do contemplate the use of the strike in an emergency, every
member of the police force who is a member of the union
would be liable to the charge, however falsely made, of
favoritism in the performance of duty in the event of in
dustrial trouble involving the organization with which it is
affiliated.
"Authority, especially here in the National Capital, at
all times must be represented by a police force that has no
connection with any organization but the constituted agencies
of the Government.
"This 'decision must not be interpreted to mean that the
Commissioners are opposed to labor organizations, nor must
it be taken to mean that they are unwilling to meet repre
sentatives of any organization of policemen. It is only what
it purports to be a statement of the decision of the Com
missioners that the organization of policemen, a body of men
sworn to enforce the law impartially under all circumstances,
must be an organization of policemen and nothing more; that
it must not be connected with any other labor organization."
VAS FOOD HOARD
FOUND IN BOSTON
Investigators Uncover Three
Million Pounds of Butter
in Hub Storage Plants.
BOSTON'. Aug. 22. Startling revela
tions of hoarding of food and profit
eering in necessaries of life are said
to have been unearthed by three sepa
rate investigations which have boen
going on here. Drastic action was
forecast today.
Food sleuths havo discovered, it is
reliably reported, that while thou
sands of tons of foodstuffs are stored
in and about Boston prices have been
mounting skyhlgh. No individual or
corporation has been spared by inves
tigators representing the Federal,
State and city governments.
The probe centers at the Federal
building where the grand jury Is
hearing evidence. A dozen butter,
cheese, and tss dealers were before
the jury today. Efforts were being
made to learn whether the price of
butter should have gone up when
figures in the possession of Govern
ment agents show that there are 3.
000,000 pounds in cold storage in Bos
ton alone.
AMBASSADOR PAGE
QUITS; WHITLOCK
HIS SUCCESSOR
Ambassador to Italy Thomas
Nelson Page has resigned, the
State Department announced to
day. His resignation has been ex
pected, and Brand Whitlock is
understood to be slated to suc
ceed him.
Whitlock is in Washington
and is to see President Wilson
today.
Closing Wall Street Prices
SWEEPING
JOSEPH QUITS AS
HUNGARIAN RULER
Archduke Resigns After Peace
Conference Sustains Her
bert Hoover's Protest.
PARIS, Aug. 22. Archduke Joseph
has resigned as head of the Hungarian
government and has left Budapest, a
Vienna dispatch to the Agcnce Radio
reported today.
Archduke Joseph surprised the world,
when he regained power for a Haps
zurg in Hungary at the time the Ru
manian troops occupied Budapest.
His ascent to control of the govern
ment followed the brief administra
tion of Premier Julius Peldl, who
rormea a socialist cabinet after Bela
Kun had been overthrown.
Joseph's government has been held
unrepresentative of th mmtn. .-.
has been charged with reactionary In
tentions, even the restoration of the
monarchy. Foreign Minister Lovassy.
however, in an Interview published
yesterday, declared Joseph would re
sign in a month, as soon as the na
tional assembly was established.
Joseph never received recognition
from the allies, although It was re
ported that the ente representative In
Budapest had established an under
standing with him.
PARIS. Aug. 21 (Delayed). After
Herbert Hoover's protest against Arch
duke Joseph, in which he urged the
allies to ou.t Joseph as head of the
Hungarian government and permit the
establishment of a popular govern
ment, the Council of Five notified the
archduke that the allies would not
treat with a member of the Hapsburg
dynasty. They declared also that they
would not recognize his government,
it became known today.
YIEN'XA. Aug. 20 (Delayed). A
state of sige was proclaimed through-f.-it
Hungary today, it was learned In
dispatches from Budapest.
Rom, Come Home. Nick la on his death
bed. JACK. Advt.
INAL
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS.
G FIGHT IS
LIKELY OVER
By BILL PRICE.
The District Commissioners -today
announced that the City Policemen's
Qaip,- receatlyersasized. lw, aad
-salj ' "contaaHaTte membexshrtJ a
inajority of the nrivates of the force.
Lmust not affiliate -with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor or any other
organization, thus nreamtatratt
what may result in one of the big
gest labor issues presented in years.
Inasmuch as the union started out
with a charter from the federation,
the Commissioners have wit it on
plainly to the policemen that they
must surrender that charter, al
though there is not the slightest ob
jection to their retaining an inde
pendent organization.
Insist on Neutrality.
The Commlsloners state that they
have no objection to obligation of the
firemen, mechanics, or other,-employea
with the federation through their or
ganizations, but that they regard po
licemen as on an entirely different
footing; necessarily a footing that
makes them absolutely neutral in all
matters and relieving them of
charges of partiality in the event that
disorders should arise in which
organizations belonging to the federa
tion may take part.
The action of the Commissioner
was imparted to the pollccraea
through a committee representing the
organization yesterday afternoon, and
its effect was a bombshell throughout
police ranks today.
What th nninn wllT A ( vmH-
lematlcal, but its failure to acqui
esce in tne orders of the Commission
ers, who control the Police Depart
ment through the Superintendent of
Police, would be regarded by munici
pal fathers as disobedience of orders.
What A. F. . Says.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, today
'declared that the Commissioners are
making a mistake and that he fears
they themselves are violating the
laws of the United States, which hold
that there shall be no restraint oa
men organizing for mutual improve
ment. The legislative committee of the
Policemen's Union, the same commit
tee with which the Commissioners
conferred yesterday and notified of the
ban on affiliations, called today at
the headquarters of the American
Federation and were referred to the
legislative committee of that body
for Infom-.ation.
Discussing the action of the Com
missioners Mr. Morrison said: "It
looks very much to me as I fthe Com
missioners have violated the Clayton
anti-trust law. several other laws
and decisions of the courts on this
subject.
"Section 0 of the Clayton act dis
tinctly states that nothing contained
in that act shall prevent men organ
izing for their mutual benefit or pre
vent men carrying out their legiti
mate objects.
"Until these policemen have acted
cutside the law they are entitled to
go along unmolested.
"In this case their legitimate ob
ject was to affiliate with the Federa
tion and obtain the advice and as
sistance of our legislative officers .
In seeking to better their conditions
and obtain increases of wages. So
long as they are doing that lawfully
they should not be molested."
Mr. Morrison went on the explain
that as to all the organizations made
up of Government and municipal em
ployes, the idea of a strike was not
Involved but that their purpose was
to obtain increases of wages or sal
aries through legislative methods.
They can and do this best through
affiliation with the Federation. H
did not say so, but the intimation
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