Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 34, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1920 — Page 1

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MEN A CED SHORTA THE WEATHER, FOR IDIAXA Fair tonight and Thnrsdnyj little change in tfmpfralue. npmrn? COUNTY JLLd On streets and newsstands, 3o rr cop 7. JDaUTered toy carrier la EasuBonl a.nd West. Ximmosd, SOo per month. VOL XV, NO. 34. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1920. HAMMOND, INDIANA BILL II

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S BILL f.4 rCapUav Says Home Rule Tax - Bill Is A Contractors' Bill ft. 7 " " ? T " BCLLETrX ivpiaxapolis. isn.. Ju'r s All bill raising the salaries of publio officials, with the exception of the Lake county bill. parsed by the pedal session of the legislature, will be vetoed by Gov. Goodrich, It tto learned authoritatively. A number of salary bills had been passed by both houses. INDIANAPOLIS. INT.. July 2 i-Cenatcr James J. Nejdl. of Whiting:, j took the floor In the senate as a chaniItplon of the. McKinley House Dill to rdowipel wholesalers to sell to co-oper-Ltlve stores. The measure was one cf th most closely contested in the (senate (Jurinfr the special session and irss finally killed by a vote cf 17 ayes t And 17 noes. i WANTS TO PROTECT THEM . Senator Xe-Jdl declared that he believed In protecting tho co-operative I concerns. Ha asserted that these organliatior.s have been discriminated j against 4n the paet and that he berlleved that the proposed legislation i -was In line with the desires of the ; senate to do something to bring about a reduction in the cost of living. : "I am not a Socialist." SenaUir Nejd said, "but I believe this form of cooperative business Is coming. I know In the past that Jobbers have discriminated against this business." CALLS IT BLACKMAIL ', The eppesite stand was taken by Senator Hagerty of South Bend, who declered that the measure proposed a "form cf Soc:al!em and a form of black tr.nll." It was regarded as rather unusual that Senator Nejdl wold support the irfeature so strenuously. It was noted, however, that the co-operative stores bill was Introduced in the house by Clark McKinley of Muncte and that action on the bill tn the senate was called for by his brother, Arthur D. McKlnley. Senator McKinley was es pecially desirous of seeing the misur 'pass. THEY MAKE DEDUCTIONS From the caucus meetings also comes "r-ord that Senator McKinley is supportlng the Iake county senators In CContlnued on page three.) iVITNESS SAYS MEN WEREJNTOXI GATED frTew Angle to West Hammond Auto Fatality Yesterday at Inquest. That Mike Rutyna and h'.s companion were intoxicate! when their car went inio the ditch on Burnham read 'Monday night, resulting In the death lof Rutyna. was brought out yesterday afternoon at the opening- of the inquest which Is being conducted by a "deputy from the office of Coroner Fetr Hoffc.an. Only three witnesses wer examined In the session yesterday afternoon at the West Hammond police station. The Inquest was to have opened at two o'clock but becauie of other matters the deputy coroner was unable to reach the city until after 4:30 o'Ci'xk. George tiroeling and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Reed who saw- Rutyna lying In the road near the road and brought patrolman John Kosraala to the scne. ave their testimony before the Jury (h!ch had been selcted. They had en no one around the car when they passed but said that when they returned with the officer. Theodora luczak, the driver and several of his compan ions naa returned wnn ropes ana wer." prepariig to pull the car frr-m the counted the Coroner asked If th re ditch. After their story had been rewere any 'indications that the men had teen Intoxicated. Mr. Groeiing replied that a!l were Intoxicated. The boys immediately after the accident had blamed the wreck another car which they met on the narrow road, claiming that th bright ed Luczak. What effect this new angle ltghts of an anproaching car had bhndcf the case will have on the verdict of the Jury regains to be sen. The other witnesses who were aiicccupants cf the wrecked car will e examined at another session which has been set Xor Thursday. August 5th. ARMOUR CO. VISITED BY FIRE CHICAGO, July Z$. More than 200 tremen were overcome by heat and pmoked in a fire that partialy destroyed the beef house of Armour & Co.. covering half a block at the stock yards, early to-day. Damage of hundreds of thousands of dollars was caused by the blase. Several of the firemen were rtished !n an unconscious condition to hospitals . HOUSEBREAKERS BUSY Three hemes on Sheffield avpni. were broken Into by thieves last nicht. The victim.-- were W V. . Acker?, ."hi Sheffield avenue, rhii Lckman. "f ti'.l Sheffiei'd avenue; rnd Alexander Kiten. 3(55 Sheffield avenue. None of the residents reported losses to the police.

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t N - f A 1 ; to"Jimmy SloanJames Sloan, known as "Jimmy" to three president, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, will again become a familiar figure this fall to people who welcome presidential nominees. Jimmy will be Senator, Harding's bodyguard throughout the campaign. LIGHTS BURNED OUT; DISABLED HIS CAR Alwin Schreiber Not Speeding at Time of Accident His Friends Declare. Asking why D-puty Coroner H. J. Whit? who exonerated hr son. Alwin from blame in the Becker auto acident, had changed hia verdict to criminal negligence. Mrs. August Schreiber to a Tikes representative. threw further light on the accident today. She said "When Alwin. whose word is as good as his bond, started out on the trip his lights were all right, but they burned out near Clark road cn ths hom trip frc-m Gary. He was not speeding for his car was disabled and he didn't dare speed. He did not para a single car ind did not drive over 20 miles an hour when he met a machine he got over toward the ditch. His wind-shield was blurred from the fog and if the truck with which ha collided had been equlrped with a proper light, the accident wculd never have happened. The light was a barn lantern, up high on a stick opposite frm where tail lights are generally located. Alwin was looking for tai!-l:hts and did not see the feeble flicker cf the lantrn until the point cf contact. We feel that the boy who Is, still disabled as a result cf th accident was not negligent and did all he could, under the circumstances as to his lights." FEEL QUAKE SHOCK First hand news of the Los Anrles e.-wthq-iak'S came to Jacb Fohl-cr. Hammond shoe dealer, in a letter from hlR brother. Charles S'-hlocr. who Uvea nt Hollywood, Cal., a suburb of Lcs Angclc. Henry Lundt. former Hammond man. has . grocery store at KnKhth and liuriington streets, Los Ang"le. axil Mr. unci Mrs. Schloer ha"d dropped in to do some trading the day of the heavi"?t fl'iakc. They were talking with Mr. T.unilt when th carth befran to troinble. Shelves in tho stor shook and rattled violently and soon canned and bottle. 1 goods were tumbling from their places to th fl irr. They rushed Into the street and found that everybody else In their part of the city had also hastened to vacate their houses. The damage done by the. quake was found to have been slight. t Mr. Lundt's store is located in a substantial three-story brick building which w as not affected by the vihraton. MINSTREL SHOW REHEARSALS BEGIN At the Joint meeting last night of Hamond Test IS and the Women's Auxiliary to the American Legion, plans were laid for the presentation on Aug ust 12. 13 and 14 of a minstrel ejiterta'nnient to comprise Heal and imported talent. The Joe Bren c-rgan iiation of Chicago will briny out a company of black face comedians. The program will be intercepted w:th dashes of local color supplied by Legic-n men. their sisters and friends. Tonight Is rehearsal night. Members of the post and their friends who have talent cr think they have, will have an opportunity to sacrifice them..pjves on the stage. Irving Cliayken in charge of the talent-getting committee urz's r.ll members ' either legion or .-.uxii.ar to prerent themeselves tonight. Tickets were distributed last night for the shew. It is eipr- tod that a'.l 3.'i00 pasie-o. arris will h iaroed within a week. up

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Gen. W. G. Haan On Radicalism

MUSKEGON. MICH . July 2 5 Just as we learned how to w in the war from Germany, so are we learning from that country how to curb the radicals In tha United States." declared MaJ. General W. O. Ilaan. former commander of the Wlsconsin-Michican national guard 32nd division. A. K. F.. now of the general staff, at a dinner following the inspection cf Camp Roosevelt, the Chicago P.. O .T. C. camp. Gen. Haan declared the switchmen's "outlaw" ttrlke to be the supreme effort of the "OO.OOrt radicals in the United States. He said it came within seven days of R!icc3ss in New York. It was only that the workers themselves learned they were hclnx fooled that the strike, backed by n mater mind, was broken. he declared. Gen. Haan Intimated the. government was prepared for civil war. ARMY READY FOR 15F. 'Every plan had been made for I force j usinsr the United States army, if was needed to curb the radicals. said , Gen. Haan. "It was my business to work out these plans for the use of the army. Our officers were bu?y in Germany nh. tainlng Information as how the civil "I'll make no personal campaign, in fact. I don't think I'll even have card printed. All my energy W'ill be throw n into the success of the Labor party as a whole and I believe with a little concentration of power and harmony of organization In the coun,ty we'll sweep our candidates Into every office," said Carl Mullen, of Hammond, last night . He was nominated Saturday at Indianapolis for the office of lieutenantgovernor on the Labor-Farmer ticket. Mullen, whose birthplace is Lebanon. Ind.. where he first saw th light or day. 34 years ago. is secretary of the painter's -local. 16( in Hammond. H Is married and has three children. He lives at 147 Sibley street. LEWIS URGES Bf LLETI DA.WILLE, ILL., July 2? The rst break In the coal strike thnt has seriously threatened the supply from the central competitive fields since lnt Friday. cme todny when men employed in twelve Illinois mines returned to work. An Increase of 92 a day for "top men" was the basts for the settlement that brought the men bark to workShipping mines are till shut down but it Is believed the men returning will hasten settlement. INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE IXDIAXAPOLIS. Ind.. July 2R. Hope that prompt remedial adjustments of the disrupted coal industry in tho mirt. die west may be had ' by orderly pro cesses." as urged by Tresidei-t John L. Lewis, of th t.'ni'.ed Mine Workers, ran hi;h today while a reply was awaited to the union head's telegram to Thomas T. Brewster of Pi. Louis, chair man of the operators executive com. rnittee, requesting Fircwster to Join him in a call for a Joint conference of miners and operators. In view of the fact that the operators have been clai oring Tor a denlte stand by the government for either federal action tt end the Illinois strikes which have since spread to Indiana, Ohio. Michigan and Kansas or for a "hands off'.' policy permitting the operators to negotiate directly with the strikers, union leaders look for prompt acquiescence In Mr. Lewis' request. When and where the joint conference will be he.ld remains to he decided. LIVED IN COUNTY FOR 65 YEARS HESSVILLE, Ind.. July 28. Death again visited this place yesterday and claimed an o'd settler, Mrs. Mary C. Neff, wife of the late A. M. Neff, nearly 74 years of age with the exception of a few years spent in the West. She last lived in Lake county, over 65 years, being well known in the Southern part of the county and highly respected. She leaves tc mourn her, a "daughter Bessie Smith and two sons. T. L. and W. E. Neff, two slaters and a brother, five grand-children, a great grand-child, nieces. nephews and a host of friends. The remains will lie in state until riday morning ot the home of her daughter, 2S4 Towle st. The? funeral will be held in charge cf Eurns from the house t 12:30 Friday and at one at the Hessville ChristIan church. VISITING HIS . DISTRICT CHAIRMAN VALPARAISO. July 25 Ed. Simon, democratic rlstrict chairman for this district came in this afternoon from i Hammond and held a conference J county chairman Spooner. with

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strife was curbed there. Information of tho four great efforts of the radicals had been obtained weeks' in advance. " "The switchmen's strike was the supreme effort. The others were the police, coal and steel strikes. Th order was given that there should be

no rioting by the strikers. The people. were to do the rioting and then the. strikers planned to step In and gain control of the situation. "Union leaders had become disheartened, but decided to remain with the unions to drive out the radicals. Seven days more and the radical.- would have controlled New York through the switchmen's strike. It shows something of the power cf the problem we face, and I believe the best way to meet this by such training as given at Camp Hoosevelt.' UI.AMES POOK LEADERSHIP I 'Much ft th discontent Is lustified In the United States. It comes from r,oor leadership in civil life. The wnkn r-,vn alwavs is thir.kine and u.qual-i ly ritrht. When th ladrrs think vrong tl-.e nr-n simply say. 'to hell j with them." We hack leaders today in. civil life, when they ar as necessary as in the army . " Alimony From One Annuity From Another CSICAO-O, Jnly 28 A woman who gets alimony of $30,000 from her second husband and an annuity of SI 0,000 from her first, was revealed. In a will made publis in tha probata court here today. She is Mrs. Helen. Maloney. White, formerly of Chicago, bat now of the Plaza Hotel. New York City. Hsr first hniband was the late James Maioney, former president of the Chicago Belting concern, and her second husband was Wm. J. White, former mayor of ClsTsland. Fifteen years ago she divorced U. loney and later married Whits. The latter marriage also proving nnenscessfnl, she ODtained a divorce from White with alimony of 330,000 a year. The will cf Ualoney, disclosed today, contains a provision specifying that $10,000 shall be paid annually to Sirs. Madeline Barker, Mrs. White's sister, for the support of Mrs. Whits and herself. LAKE CO. CITIES ARE INTERESTED IN BIL1 'INTERNATIONAL rWS SERVICfl INDIANAPOLIS. IND.. July 28 The lower house of the legislature today passed the Hopston two platoon fire de. partment bill. 71! to 1. The bill is now ready for the governor's signature. The measure Is applicable to citlc3 of more than 15,000 population. Itep. Covalt. of Howard county, cast the only dissenting vote. Hep. McKinley of Delaware county, deplored the fact that cities of less than 15.000 were not included in the fireman's relief plan. Such a bill had been passed, but the governor withheld his signature. ROAD RIPPERS PINCHED IN WEE SMA' HOURS Springing a new surprise In his war on speeders. Chief -f Police Feter Austgen yesterday assigned Motorcycle officer H. Ray Bell to patrol Summer st., during the early morning hours with the result that between 5 and 7 a. m. today Bell had picked up 3 "road-rippers." The men were booked at the police station on charges of speedTng and will be arraigned In the city court tomorrow morning. They are Joe Vlasinik. US Co. Honssaid to have been going S5 miles an hour; Ed. Kartns. 30 r.e street, who was hitting It up at 40 m1c; and H. C. Miller. 42S Prackert street, g' ing 35 miles an hour. INDIANA MAN SEEKS HIS GIRL CHICAGO, July 2S. A father, whitehaired and stooped, was In Chicago today, trying to find his "only girl." Police of two cities are aiding in the search. "She's all I hsv I hope no violence has come to her. Perhaps it would have been better if she hadn't roamed." The story has to do with Miss Anne Wilkinson. 35. daughter of Samuel Wilkinson, an aged carpenter contractor, 427 East Ohio street. Indianapolis, Ind. Anne has been In Chicago off and on for five years." he said. "Her mother died IS years ago. Anna worked here for a doctor at times. On May 7 I got a letter from her. 'Dad. I'm sick and I may have to go to a hospital." she wrote. She hasn't written since." DR. L. 0STR0WSKT IS NOW MAJOR Friends erf Dr. Leonard Ostrowsk!, formerly of Indiana Harbor, a brother of Dr. R. O. Ostrowski of Hammond, for two years an officer tn the Polish Red Cress in Europe wil be gratified to learn he has "5een promoted to Ma jor. He is the second highest officer in the Red Cross and is now In WarI saw where he heads the hospital work ' erf the Red Crosj.

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5 EE NEWS FLASHES (BULLETIN) INTtRNATIONAL NCWS SERVICE CHICAUO. July Coincident with the report today from lnnville. 111., that the men in 12 niinea in that vicinity had gone back to work after being idle since last l"Yiday, came the news that .Vnnn workers are idle at Gary steel mills owing to lack o fuel. (BULLETIN) 1 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, July 28. Identification of tho body of Mrs. Katherine Jackson-Leroy. trunk murder victim, was completed this afternoon. Mrs. Mario Trumbull and her husband, l'atrolman Leo Trumbull of Detroit, lockvd at the shrunken and discolored features of the woman who was murderetl tn Detroit and whose body was shipped to this city in a trunk and both said it was rs. Leroy. who formerly lived at their homo and who was a close friend of Mrs. Trumbull. (BTJLLETTN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 BERLIN. July 2h. Unconfirmed rumors were current here today that a revolution has broken out at 1'oscn. in West Prussia. Strikes and riots are said to be occurring. According to rcrorts from Ison, Polish troors have been called out to suppress the disorders. (BULLETIN") r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 BERLIN. July 2h. A plot for a Bolshevist uprising in Germany as soon as the Russian red troops crossed the Prussian frontier and the declaration of a Bolshevik republic, has been discovered, the Lokal Anzeiger announced today. (BULLETIN) WASHINGTON. July 2?. Secretary of Labor Wilson is expected to make a report to the resident today on the coal situation, it was announced at the White Hon". The president w ill not act w ith regard to appealing to coal miners to settle their labr troubles, until he has studied the report of Secretary Wilson. f INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! RIVERSIDE. Cal.. July A slight earthquake shock was felt here at 7:53 a. m. today. The temblor occasioned no alarm, and there was tio damage reported froir. any quarter. BILI.ETIV r I NTER N AT10N A L NrwS SERVICE! ERIE. PA.. July 28 Twelve people were seriously injured and a scors o fothers badly bruised in a head-on collision between an Erie end Cambridge Springs trolley car and a milk train at McKean. twelve miles south of Erie, this afternon. BtLLETIV t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' TERRE HAUTE, IND.. July 28 Striking Indiana coal miners today were ordered or at least "advised" to return to work by President Ed .Stewart, of District No. 11. United Mine Workers, it was learned from miners who attended a meeting. EAST CHICAGO MAN ASKS DAMAGES! . j George Raeich. of East Chicago, asks damages of the Gary Street Railway in the amount of 110.000 in a personal injury suit filed in the Superior court yeterday.

, X Train Wrecks Auto, Killing ., Family of 5 Bl I.1.KTIN The Jnnkltls family, live members ef TChirb were killed yesterday about noon nenr Mlchlicon ly when the outnmoblle in which Ihcy rrere rldlna n-ns struck by n Miehljsnn ( ditrnl train stopped In Knt Chicago yesterday mornlne and Inquired of speclnl police, man. Bill Schulte regarding the ronrf to Benton Hnrbor. The vacation tour of a Chicago family ended in sudden tragedy near Michigan City yesterday when an automobile, driven by Teter Jaukitis. 215S West Twenty-third street. Chicago, was struck by a fast Michigan Central railroad train. Five members of the party, including two little children, were instantly killed and Mrs. John Jaukitis. mother of one of the children, was seriously Injured. The accident was witnessed by I'eter Jaukitis, Jr. in an automobile just ahead of the car which was struck. The party, in two cars, was enroufe to Benton Harbor. The dead : Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jaukitis. 2158 W. Twenty-third street. , Adolph Jaukitis. 2, and his cousin. Victoria, 6. Frank Iwanouskas. 22n" W. Twenty-second street. TV.iRMMi TOO LATE The two cares had Just left Michigan City and had reached the railroad crossing st the township line. The first car crossed ahead of the train. Young Jaukitis turned to wave a wsrniij iii iain.1 oiny in see t tie CUT struck by the engine and roiir.j v.-r and over. The bodies of the dead will be returned to Chicago today following th. inquest . REV. ALLEN HERE THIS EVENING Rev. Albert Allen, of the Episcopal diocese nf Long Island. New York, w io will address a public meeting in the Orpheum hall. Hammond, this evening, arrived in South Pend. yesterday evening and cinie to Hammond this morning. Dr. Allen, who is of the family of tb Revolutionary leader. Ethan Allen, has made a deep impres.'-ion on those who have met him. in South .Bend. He will discuss the subject: "Is the Trlh Q iestioi A Religious Question?" This aspect of fne Irish question has been carefully studied and investigated by the reverand gentleman, and he Is able to dispel many misleading notions prevalent concerning it. Rev. Dr. Allen impresses an observer-as an earnest an dwell-informed speaker, one who makes upon an audience an Impression that they cannot fail to carry "o won- with them. The other speakers listed are Prof. Daniel Foley of Boston. Man., and Hon James Burke, members of the Irish Republican Congress. MINE OWNERS PR0FITEERNG? riNTEP NATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. July 2K. From fifteen to twenty warants against leadins: mine wner.- of Kentucky and ! Tennesee. charging nrofHee-i ing under th pi'pr act. will be isued within the next few days, it was reported here today. Books of the coil operators have been under federal investigation for several weeks i accordance with the inquiry ordered by Dist. Atty. W. W. Kennerly.

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WASHINGTON, July 2S Shortage ot farm labor ia no longer a menace J bumper crops, according to reports today to the bureau of farm management of the department of agriculture. The farm labor situation has bee-i relieved materially and there will b adequate labor for the harvesting ot the bumper crops, according to the a.creage planted was limited because acreage planted wa sltmlted becausof a labor shortage, but that exceptional crops have offset this. SAYS BELIEF IS TEH I'OIIAHY Lepresentatives of farmers here aro not rejoicing over the labor situation, however, J. B. Howard, president of the American Farm Buteau Federation today declared that farmers are but temporarily relieved. "Regardless of recent apparent im provement in the farm help situation, scarcity of labor still continues to b the limiting factor In agricultural production." Howard said. "The hign wage? offered harvest hands In Kansas, Missouri. Nebraska and other heavy grain-growing states of the middli west have succeeded in bringing rort 11 a force of transient workers. These men set $6 and J:' a day and board. It makes expensive fcarves'irg for thi farmer. HELP OF" TWO KINDS "It must be remembered that th. farmers' help normally Is of two distinct klndi. The farmer neede extra transient help at seeding and at har vest time, but in addition on most farms he must have, a regular all th9 year round 'hired-hand.' It 1e the lack of this latter type of help that has so seriously disarranged the cropping system." Higher prices are the only permanent solution of the farm labor shortage, according to Hdward. He declared that unless food prices go higher th? farmers cannot compete with the cities for year round labor. He further declares that higher prics would send a wave of labor back to the farms. DECLINE I PRlfES ' Reports to the bureau of market of the department of agriculture do not indicate, however, any general tendency toward an increase in food prices, but to the contrary there is a declln shown In the prices of many farm products, and experts in. the bures.u look for greater decreases vis the harvests are gathered. Imports are cutting irto the markets in pome food commodities and causing lower prices. AVith the farm labor problem at least temporarily settled, the eiuestiorrof financing the movement of crops Is causing little worry, and with bumper crops reported the department of agrirulturilooks upon the approaching harvest season as one of the most auspicious American agriculture ha3 had. for several seasons. ISSUES A BT WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI WASHINGTON. July 28 Warning all concerned not to play politics with the industrial situation, either by laying off men or reducing their wages, Samuel Gompe-rs. president of the American Federation of Labor, in an exclustvw interview given today to the International NeTTs Service, declared that what the country reeds is production and that "arrogance, bigotry and autocratic conduct of employers is a waste that society can ill afford. President Gompers scored the tendency to lay off men and asked if it wero a political trick for the purpose of scaring them Into one or the other of the political camps. As to wage reductions, he said, labor would tolerate no such thing and would reoist to t he last ditch. , "For months we have V,eard the cry." he said, "dinned and dinned Into our ears: 'Increase production'.' increase production" How can increased production be accomplished under a pj'.icy of laying off thousands of worker? "The American Woolen, Mills in Massachusetts close their doors. it may be of interest to note the record of profits for this company and to recall statements of President Win. W. Wood . "Th? American Wonjen Co. increased its net income 316 per cent for 1?18 over 1914. The net Incrtvse in common stock earnings was 531 per cent. Since the American Woolen Mills control so large a portion of the business of making wool cloth, being commonly known as 'the wool trust.' it may be well to go into moie details re garding l: operations. "There were for the year ending December 31. 1019. after deduction '! taxes and all charges, net earninE;'' of $10,770,804. equal to p"r Shar on the $20.000.oon of common stoc;: This is after allowance has been made for preferred dividends. In 1918 the earnings per share on common stock were $13.84. a total of $5,572,527. President Wood told his stockholders that the close of the year left the company with unfilled orders sufficient t keep ihe machinery fully employed well intc 1P20. and with good prospects for full production for the entire year. "Foreign deliveries increased approximately 100 per cent during lii'S. "In addition to this case there is the action of the Pennsylvania railroad t laying off approximately 12.000, If reports are accurate. "Will this help to move freight? Will it help to give the nation tliat increased production of which it stand.' in real nceO "Or Is th" laying off of worker ' revival of hat l,J and crd- policy of layin g off men during n p d.t i'an'in;;n for the purpose of dr.vum them In frigl.t and necity Uit a political anr

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