Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1921 — Page 6
RAIL CONTRACTS MENACE SHIPS; PROBE LOOMS Senate Investigation May Follow Charges of Hurtful Agreements. FOREIGN LINES BENEFIT Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Not. 15.—Another thoroughgoing investigation of the United States Shipping Board by the Senate Is in prospect as a result of the charges that American railroads have entered into agreements with foreign shipping lines which menaces the life of the American Merchant Marine. It is aimed this time not so much at the board or the administration of the Jones Act as at the contracts made by the railroads. Adoption of the LaFollette resolution or a aimilar measure calling for such an investigation is regarded as certain. Senators interested in the strict enforcement of the Jones Act hope in such an investigation to definitely ascertain what is hindering the development of the American merchant marine and to what extent these contracts are contributing to the unfavorable condition now facing it. The infant American Merchant Marine, struggling for existence, is losing much of the trade it otherwise would receive because of contracts for handling freight between American railroads and foreign shipping lines. Senator Jones of Washington, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, made public a letter from the National Merchant Marine Association setting forth startling facts relative to these agreements. “There are a nnmber of these contracts,” Henry C. Wittbank, secretary of association said, "and their provisions constitute potentialities that are so grave a menace to the development of the American" Merchant Marine that a Searching investigation of them seems not only wise, but a vital necessity for the preservation of a volume of American shipping adequate to our needs.” From figures made available, there is evidence that ten of the leading railroad lines, including the Pennsylvania system, in 1920, turned over almost 2.000.000 tons of freight t> foreign ships and in return received a little more than 600.000 tons. Th "’ennsylvania system, according to the figures published by the National Merchant Marine Association, turned ever more than 234.000 tons of this •mount and restelved. something over 60,000 tops. The agreements, according to the association, provide privileges for the contracting parties ranging from spe-ial piers set aside by railroads for foreign lines to reduced freight rates and pledges to work together against competitors Among those called attention to were contracts between the Pennsylvania system and the Northern Central Railway and Furness, Withy & Cos., and the Pennsylvania system with the International Mercantile Company, the latter for use of niers. “In 1920 alone," according to the record's own figures, “Practically 2.000.000 tons of export turned over to foreign steamship companies by railroads, most of which had contracts with foreign * continued. as this amount, however, It falls far short of representing actual total deliveries of exports by American carriers to our competiiors in onr own ocean-going trade. None of the agreements on file with the I. C. C., so fai as bae been possible to ascertain, covers transportation to or from the port of New York, and the same is true in regard *® other large American ports. ‘ Many of the large railway systems of the tutted States have executed agreements binding them to give the preference to foreign steamship lines OTer American lines, and in cases where subsidiary of the leading roads have executed contracts with foreigners, it is specified that the provisions of the agree ments shall apply also to the connection of the road; thus linking op great
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Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. By CONSTANCE DREXEL. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Women havo had their prayers answered. They could not have expected more than what President Harding and Secretary Hughes did at the opening of the Washington conference. It was like a breath from anew world or a vision Into a promised land, where children can be born without the dread of being shattered to a hideous death. The system of wholesale slaughter of human beings is about to end. The killing contests between nations will be no more if the lead taken by America is followed. “Our 100,000,000 want less of armament and none of war,” said President Harding in his speech. And then Secretary Hughes threw all the cards on the table and offered a concrete plan. We women did not believtf America would have the courage to take the whole world by the shoulder, so to sjieak, and shove it into i new path of thought and action. But that is what was done. Were the four women sitting among the advisory delegates. General Pershing, Secretary Hoover and other famous men, responsible for America's stand? WOMEN’S PRAYERS SEEM HEARD. Probably not they themselves so much, snrely American women as a whole may feel that their advent, their participation In political afTairs in the last year, has borne fruit—this answer to their prayer for anew order. It was so different in Paris. In the making of the peace treaty and League of Nations which a weary world looked to for a cessation of the mad race of armaments, women had no part. American women did not have the vote, at that time; they were busy trying to got it, because they instinctively felt that men had gone along the old paths so long that no such radical step as was taken today would come about until women also took their share of responsibility. Women had no vote In France where the conference of nations was conducted. At the momentous meetings in Paris and Versailles which were to decide the fate of a watting world I saw no women taking part. They were not consulted. They took but little inrerest In the proceedings. The result was failure. How different was today's opening session of the Washington conference. Besides the four women appointed by President Harding to be advisory
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