Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FAIR OAKS. Lawler and Hillis both shipped a lot a fat cattle to Chicago this week. Mrs. John Gilmore and son, Howard, have returned from a visit in Chicago. Esther Karr is attending a school at Berrien Springs, Mich., this summer. ' Grandpa Abel came over from Medaryville to stay with the Al Abel family awhile. Judge Hanley and W. L. Wood delivered very interesting addresses here the forenoon of the 4th. Herbert Bozelle started Saturday for Edinburg, Ind., where he will visit a few days with his parents. Frank Kessack, who has been with relatives in Minnesota, has come to stay awhile with his sister, Mrs. Carl Carpenter. Frank McKay and family, of Buchanan, Mich., and Fred McKay, of Van Meter, lowa, visited home folk 3 this week. The celebration here was well attended and everybody seemed to have a good time. It was a general homecoming for many who had once made Fair Oaks their home. John Shelter, who graduated this year from Northwestern Dental College, came Wednesday for a visit with friends here.

Union Services. Union services Sunday evening on court house lawn at 7. Dr. McKenzie, district superintendent of the Methodist church, will deliver the sermon. In case of rain it has been arranged to hold services in the court room. Notice to Building and Loan Stockholders. Special Meeting.® By order of the board of directors, notice is hereby given that there will be a special meeting of the stockholders of the Rensselaer Building, Loan and Savings Association of Rensselaer, Indiana, on July 11th, 1916, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., in the west court room in said city. Said meeting is called for the purpose of hearing the report of the auditing committee for the six months ending June 30, 1916, on the business of the association and for the further purpose of discussing other matters pertaining to the welfare of said Association. B. F. FENDIG, President. D. D. DEAN, Secretary.

Federal Inquiry or Railroad Strike? Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen that would impose on the country an additional burden in transportation costs of $100,000,000 a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled by reference to an impartial Federal tribunal. With these employes, whose efficient service is the railroads have no differences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by such • public body. Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: •*Our conferences have demonstrates that wa cannot harmoniac our differences at Minion and that eventually tho matters in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinterested aeencie*. Therefore, we propose that your proposals and the proposition of tho railways be disposed of by oac or the other of tho following methods: > 1. Preferably by submission to the Interstate Commerce Coasmisaioa, the only tribunal which, by reason of Ha accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and Its control of ths rovenut of tho railways, is in a position to consider and protect the rigkta and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue accessary to meet ths added cost of opsratiott in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and reasonable; or, ii the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premises, that we jointly request Congress In take such action as may be necessary to kaablc the Commission to consider and promptly dispose of the questions involved; or \ t. By arbitration in accordance with tho proviaiMs of tho Federal law” (Tho New I ends Act). Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New York, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: No other body with such aa intimate knowledge ployetae wage*; and tho money to pay increatcd wages f •f railroad condition* hat *uch an nnquoationed port- can come from no rtktr aonree than tho rate* paid tion In the public confidence. by the public. The rate* the railroad* may charge the public for The latcratatc Commerce Commieaion, with its contransportation are now largely fixed by this Govern- tro | over rates, is in a position to maka a eompleta meat board. iaveatigatioa and render suck decision as would pro* Out of every dollar received bv the railroads from tect tbs interests of tba railroad employes, the owaeia lb* public nearly one-half i* paid directly to the cm- of the railroads, sod the public. A Question For the Public to Decide , The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of $100,000,000 a to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. The single issue before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by an impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. National Conference Committee of the Railways

ELISHA LEE, Ckairmmm r. K. ALBRIGHT. Gm7Msaei*r. Atlantic Coast Lina Railroad. . L. V. BALDWIN,’Gan'/ Ummmtm. Cantral ol Georgia Rail wav. C. L. BARDO. Gao'/ Msnagtr. Naw York, Naw Haven A Hartford Railroad a H. CoApMAN, VifPruidtnt Baatharn Railway. 8. B. COTTER, Gas7ifaaanr Wabaah Railway. F.R. CROWLEY, dart. Vtc+fmUmt. New Yaefc Central Railway.