Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 262, 18 August 1919 — Page 7
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1919.
PLUMB PLAN IS COPY OF SOVIET OHIOANJHARGES Fess Declares Plan of Brotherhood is Worse Than Government Ownership. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. Representative Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio, Chairman of the Republican Congressional committee, who has received many letters from advocates ht the plan of Glenn E. Plumb for tripartite
control of American railroads In a statement Issued today made plain his position on the proposal. "The Plumb plan." he salfl, "smacks too much of the Russian Soviet system, of which it is a fairly good copy, to Americans. The plan is worse than government ownership, bad as that is, in that it seeks power to command all to do the bidding of the brotherhoods. "This would dictate to all Interests dependent upon the roads, which would Include most of the industries of the nation, and would enforce that authority, if necessary, at the price of total paralysis of industries through a nation-wide strike. The plan simply is unthinkable."" Garber Has Plan. Former Congressman Harvey C. Garber, of Columbus. Ohio, at one time Democratic National committeeman from the Buckeye State, has a plan for the solution of the railroad problem. He has asked for the advice of Washington .friends, but has not yet submitted It to any committee of congress on governmental tribunal. Garber's plan opens a way whereby employes may share in ownership, but differs radically from the Plumb plan. It provides that employes 6hall pay for the stock out of their earnings and limits the total amount of stock that may be acquired by the employes to 60 per cent of the total value of the railroad property. Under the Garber plan the government would is6ue bonds bearing four and one-half per cent interest to pay for outstanding stock. Purchase of stock by employes would be voluntary on their part, and they would have to pay from 5 to 10 per cent of their wages. The bonds would run 60 years and provision would be made to pay them off when due. The Garber plan provides for strict government regulation of rates and requires guarantees from employes that there would be no strikes. Men of 84th Division Will Picnic on Aug. 23. (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, August 18 A joint picnic of the 84th Division Kindling club and the 334th regiment Infantry club, will be held here August 23. It is said that Colonel Theodore Schultz, who commanded the 334th while at Camp Zachary Taylor, will be In attendance. The picnic is arranged for every Indiana man who was at any time a member of any unit in the 84th division. Men from all over the state are expected to attend, and are asked to take the newspaper announcement as an invitation. Alpinists Go Climbing on "Sea of Ice" in Pajamas GENEVA. Switzerland. Aug. 17. Switzerland has been suffering from a magnetic heat wave for four days. The telegraph lines have been greatly disturbed. The heat has been so intense that two Alpinists were seen yesterday on the Mer DeGlace (the sea of ice), near Chamonix, clad only in pajamas. Watermelons Sold on Streets at Elwood (By Associated Press) ELWOOD, Ind., Aug. 18. In order to reduce the price of food. Mayor Lewis gave permission to two automobile truck men to sell watermelons on the street without llense. More than 1,600 Indiana watermelons were sold In one day, at about one-third less than the market price. The city authorities have been selling West Virginia coal at a reduced price and have ordered two car3 of the army surplus food. Bash Will Recommend Change in Tax Law (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. IS. Edgar D. Bush, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana has announced that he will recommend to the State Senate, ammendments to the state tax law, limiting the power of state tax commission, in event a special session of the legislature is called by Governor Goodrich. PETLURA TAKES ZWERINKA (By Associated Press) WARSAW, Aug. 18. General Petlura. Ukrainian anti-Bolshevik leader, has attacked and captured the important town of Zwerlnka. For Skin Tortures Dont worry about eczema or other skin troubles. You can have a clear, healthy skin by using Zemo, obtained at any drug store for 35c, or extra large bottle at $1.00. Zemo generally removes pimples, blackheads, blotches, eczema and ringworm and makes the skin clear and healthy. Zemo is a dean, penetrating, antiseptic liquid, neither sticky nor greasy and stains nothing. It is easily applied and costs a mere trifle for each application. It is always dependable. The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland. O.
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JAUNTY TAFFETAS STILL HOLD SWAY
Here is a smart new model developed in taffeta which remains as one of the favorite fabrics for informal frocks. The, under part of this dress is made on very straight, slender lines. The novel effect given by the overskirt, which ties on as an apron, is a rather pleasing innovation. Silver braid trims the skirt, tunic, short sleeves and round neck line. Former Service Men Are Entertained at Economy ECONOMY, Ind., August 18. Paul Comstock, of Richmond, who was a major in the American forces during the war, was one of the speakers at the picnic heldvfor returned service men here Saturday. Owing to the rain, the picnic was held in the Friends church where dinner was served to 130 persons. A program was given during the afternoon. Several selections were given by the Economy orchestra. Mrs. Gail Cain sang a solo, and the Rev. Mr. Fischer sang "I Love My Daddy, a song of his own composition, accompanied by Mrs. F. F. Greenstreet. Dr. A. L. Loop gave a short talk. The Rev. O. M. Frazer opened the program, and the benediction was given by the Rev. Lester Woods of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Eighteen soldiers were present. They included Charles Edwards, Verda Coombs, P. O. Beckman, Walter Bond, Raymond Lamb, Howard Hunnicutt, Raymond Hofford, John Jessup, Erwin Hunt, Harold Fonts, Dr. A. L. Loop, Worth Hill, William Ballenger, Earl Conley, Harvey Saunders, Albert Atkinson, Worth Fletcher, Paul Working of Hagerstown. The picnic was given under the auspices of the War Council, the Red Cross and the Mothers' club. Military Band Pays Farewell to Consul (By Associated Press) PERNAMBUCO. Brazil, Aug. 18. A. T. Haeberle, of Missouri, American consul here since 1915, sailed Thursday for Rio Janeiro to take charge of the consulate general there. Many Americans and Brazilian friends went to the docks, accompanied by a military band to bid him farewell. The local military garrison also was at the landing. The newspapers praise his work here and declare he did his best to promote a better understanding and friendship between the two republics. Middle names were once illegal In England.
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IS WANDERING OF FARMER ONE CAUSE FOR H, G. L. ASK LEADERS OF MOVEMENT
(Orange Judd Farmer) Over across the field on the section line road is a little clump of trees, a few broken down box elders and some ragged apples, the latter over-grown and crusted with San Jose scale. The corn grows a little taller and greener In one place, than In the rest of the field. "Dad, did somebody use to live there?" inquired the boy. as he and his father were going out to work one day. The father thought a minute, and said, "Why, yes, son, there used to be a house there about twenty years ago. The folks moved away to town, and the buildings were finally torn down when the Williamsons bought in that quarter section." The father was President J. R. Howard of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. He told of the incident during the hearing at Chicago last week, when, for one afternoon, the discussion veered away from control of the packers and took up the question of the high cost of living. Many Move From Farm. "After the boy brought up the question," said Mr. Howard, "I thought over the changes in ownership in our neighborhood since I could remember, and found there were not less than forty such places almost within the circle of the horizon, which had been sold out because the folks had gone away gone to some other place or moved to town." Possibly, he suggested, there is some connection between that and the present nation-wide complaint about the cost of food. Possibly there is a relation between this gradual lessening of farm population and the increasing depletion of the national reserves of food. Farmers. Work Harder Each Year "We worked harder last year than we ever did before," continued Mr. Howard. "We worked harder the year before than we ever worked before. I know several farmers who are leav ing their farms after this year. These men are not leaving because they have made enough money to last the rest of their lives, but because they can find other labor which does not Involve such hard work or such long hours." Charlie Borgelt of Illinois took up the same subject. "They are leaving the farm right along, and I don't know as you can blame them," he said. "What is there to make a boy stay on a job that takes the hardest kind of work for twelve or fourteen hours a day, when he can go to town and make good wages and work only six or eight hours, and take it easy. Of course he isn't likely to come out as well later on, but the young folks can't be expected to take the same point of view as us older fellows. Old Timers Can Stand it. "The hours don't ever get too long for us old timers, for we have been used to hard work all our lives and we don't mind. But the young fellows see their friends in town having an easier life, getting ahead, and they can't be blamed for getting discontented. "And what a difference there is to the women folks and children. Our children learn to work in the fields when they are barely big enough to climb into a wagon, and they do work thousands of them, when they have a right to be playing or going to school, taking life a little more delibey rate, the way children in the cities do. And our women folks, just like the men, work on the well known eighthour schedule of the farm, eight hours before dinner and eight hours after. The Secret of Shorter Hours. "I wonder if it is the way the Lord intended things, that in the cities and the general field of industry the workers should make a living by working only eight hours a day, or less, while out here in he country we must put in nearly twice that much, and harder work. Somehow it seems as if there must be one of the secrets of this socalled 'high cost of living in that.' Then John Brown of Indiana spoke up. "In our town one recent Saturday j me grocer was paying iorty cents tor oo-cc YTo 1nQf?r! q race nnH tnftV fhom in, and when we got paid for them it stead of forty. The grocer said that was the price they were paying. And a girl who was clerking there confided in me that the price had been forty cents until noon, as the grocer said there wouldn't be many farmers in
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town until afernoon anyway. Now those eggs were sold at the same price, and we can't see where there should have been that difference between forenoon and afternoon. Maybe the consumer would be interested in some of these things that we have to meet." Class Farmers as Profiteers. And so the discussion went on by these men who have been bending their backs to hard work from boyhood up, whose doctrine has been to do the job first and look at the clock afterward. Out on the street, meanwhile, the city papers were heralding strikes here, and walkouts there, and demands for higher wages and shorter hours somewhere else. And from every corner of the country was coming the complaint about the high cost of food. They are starting to find the "profiteers" and a good many of them seem to think that the farmer is the fellow they are after. Wealth Depends on Labor. A nation's wealth is its people, and its prosperity is the sum and result of their wholesome labor. Our great national resources, of ore, coal, oil, timber, soil fertility, are as dead as the craters on the moon except as they are worked and utilized by men. A million dollars won't buy a ham sandwish unless somebody raises wheat and hogs. Prosperity exists in the minds and hearts of men, just as happiness exists in the hearts of a family, and not in the boards and shingles and plas
ter of the house. Old Captain John Smith had the right fundamental idea when he de creed for his little colony, "He who will not work shall not eat!" I wonder if Cap. Smith's men worked on a basis of so many hours a day, and if some worked twice as long as others? Who Will Produce Food? Here, indeed, is a queer situation. On the farms of the middle west there is crying need for help to produce and care for food. No help is to be had. At the other end of the line are thousands of men, who, basing their complaint on the "high cost of living" have quit work, and must have still more pay and shorter hours before they will get busy again. And the pay they ask is far above what farmers could pay them, and the hours they demand are only about half as long as the hours on the farm. The question that has arisen in my mind is the same that has come to thousands of farmers through the mid dle west. Is this a stable condition of affairs? Is it right and sound that on one side a class, of people shall labor long and faithfully, with relatively small reward, to feed another class that is letting the wheels of industry stand idle and -non-productive? There is an answer. "What goes up must come down." The Law of Compensation is working now, and folks don't seem to recognize it. Maybe it will finally bring back some of the folks who have moved out of the neighborhood and gone to hunt an easier job, and maybe farming will not always be so hard. MEXICANS FIGHT DUEL (By Associated Press) LAREDO, Texas, Aug. 18. A duel between two members of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, Victorio L'Orandi, of Vera Cruz, and Luis Espinosa, of Chipas, at a point near the capital, is described by all the Mexico Citp papers received here. Six shots were fired without effect. I
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ITALIAN LEADER, COUSIN OF KING, WILL VISIT U.S
Duke D'Aosta, a recent photograph. Duke D'Aosta, commander of the Italian third army during the war and oldest cousin of King Victor Emanuel, will visit the United States soon, according to word from Italy. He will go to China and Japan from this country. Americans Give Ward To Polish Hospital WASHINGTON, August 18. A onehundred bed memorial ward has just been presented to the Warsay university clinic at Child Jesus hospital in the Polish capital, as a permanent contribution by the American people to the educational and health welfare of free Poland, it was announced today at headquarters of the Red Cross. The university has had no clinical ward of its own and has depended on the various hospitals of the city for assistance in carrying on this branch of the work. Besides the memorial ward the hospital is receiving from the American organization linen and a supply of rubber goods, ether and other drugs. But be sure you get Release and the Self - the utmost cleanliness Telephone Just phone us and learn home, or come in and see makes them so clean
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