Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 175, 3 June 1921 — Page 1

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U. 8. FEELERS ON NAVAL CUT SENT COUNCIL Harding's Advisors Have Persuaded Him To Use Allied Body To Take up Subject of Disarmament.

PRESSURE IS STRONG BY MARK sri.MVAN WASHINGTON, D. C, June 3. For the public distant from Washington to understand what progress is being made in the direction of disarmament it is necessary to make several distinctions clear. The first is between land disarmament ana naval disarmament. For the present, nothing is being done in the direction of an agreement about land disarmament. It is recogrized that Europe cannot very well uiM'uss the reduction of its arms so long as Russia remains a potential military menace. It is always possible for affairs In Russia to take such a tarn as might make large armies very necessary ro the rest of Europe. It is within the possibilities that a military dictator of the type of NaP"1ean might arise in Russia. This is f least a possitility which the nations el Europe might reasonably raise if they were approached on the subject of land disarms ment. For this and ether reasons, those who are taking ihe lead in America do not regard the present as a good time to raise the question of land disarmament. Two Plana. In the matter of naval disarmament there are two plans. The plan of Senator Borah ard those who follow 1 is leadership in the senate is to take rotice of the fact, that Great Britain, Japan and the United States are the only three nations which are now increasing their naval armaments. Their plan therefore, is to call a conference of these three nations separately. They have in mind the educational value of such a conference and want it called in Washington, for. the discussion of this subject alone. They want to avoid the interruptions ard distractions of a body which has additional business to attend to. Also they want the conference published. But the other plan, which President Harding advisors have persuaded him to embark upon in a cautious way. is to take up the subject of naval disarmament with ihe supreme allied council. . Taking the matter up with this body of course includes Italy and Trance as well as the other three nations in the negotiations. No Binding Action. It is to be borne in mind that the supreme allied council has nothing to do with the League of Nations and That what President Harding is doing involves him. therefore, in no suspicion among the irreconcilables in the senate. The distinction between the League of Nations and the supreme allied council is that the latter can t&ke no binding action, but can merely recommend action to the various governments represented. If President Harding makes progress with his plan for a disarmament rgreement through the mechanism of the supreme allied council, it is quire possible that he may take this body as the cornerstone for the structure of that association of nations which he has freouently promised, and that he lr.ay build upon it in addition to an pgreement for disarmament, a court and various other mechanisms for the preservation of peace. Some of President Harding's advisors believe that i the supreme aPied council can be kept going successfully for a few years and that if its actions are acceptable to America, that body may well turn out to be a relatively satisfactory substitute for what ex-President Wilson meant to accomplish through the League of Nations. Strong Pressure. Meanwhile, as a matter of domestic pnli the pressure upon President Harding to make reasonable progress in the direction of a conference for dis-r-moment is very strong. It. is as strong as any political or moral movement now apparent in the United States. It has beh'nd it several elements. It has beh'nd it the bulk of those who believed in the League of Nations in its original form. It has in addition, the support of those who did not approve of the League of Nations in its original form tut who strongly demand some mechanism for the prevention of future wars. These two elements combined are much more than half of the voters of the United States. In addition to them, there is al?o a large body of opinion whose primary motive is reduction of taxes. The discussion of taration has now gone far enough to demonstrate that the only appreciable progress that can be made toward reducing government expenditures is through the reduction of armaments. K'opyitght 1921 by the New Yoik Evening Post, Inc.) PORTER PEACE PACT GAINS APPROVAL (Bv Associated Pre5s WASHINGTON, June 3. The house foreign affairs committee with Democratic members dissenting, voted today to report the Porter resolution for termination of the state of war between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary. Republican members voted solidly to adopt the Porter measure as a substitute for the Knox resolution passed by the senate and repealing the declaration of war. The Democrats merely voted present. Chairman Porter announced that the resolution would b presented to the house next week for immediate consideration. A minority report will be filed by committee Democrats.

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One of the most serious race riots in the history of the nation began recently in Tulsa, Okla., when the negro population heard rumors that Dick Rowland, a negro suspected of attacking an orphan white girl, was to be lynched by the whites. Scores of negroes and whites were wounded and sev-

MORE EFFICIENT AND CHEAPER OPERATION DNDER CITY MANAGER, SAYS KALAMAZOO MAN

More efficient and cheaper operation of the city business, and a general satisfaction with the working of the city manager form of government were claimed by George Ford, partner in a Kalamazoo siga painting firm, when in Richmond Friday morning. "Kalamazoo objectors to the city manager form of government point to higher taxes as proof that the new plan is a failure," said Mr. Ford. 'It is true that taxes have been raised irom $18 to $21 per $1,000, but that was to pay for improvements that would have had to be put in anyway. Furthermore, this $21 pays for all improvements without the issuance of any bonds, and in addition is retiring old bonds which have been carried for years." The commissioners found thousands of dollars of old debts when they took office, debts on which the city had paid interest for years, and we have been able to pay off a considerable part of this already. A policy that is novel to many cities has been inaugurated in Kalamazoo ONE HOUR EXTRA PAY PER WEEK COSTS ROADS $6,445,658, IS CLAIM WASHINGTON, June 3 Provisions of the national agreements placed in effect during government control, which required "the railroads to allow employes one hour extra pay each week for punching the clock regardless of the number of hours actually worked" cost the railroads $6,445,656 during the first six months of last year, E. T. Whiter of Philadelphia, chairman of the conference committee of managers, told a senate investigating committee today. An order issued by the director general in July, 1918, guaranteeing to men employed on piece work "the same minimum hourly rate as those of hourly workers, resulted in a decrease ranging from 10 to 40 per cent in the output of piece workmen, Mr. Whiter said, adding: Production Falls Off "This falling off in production became uniformly noticeable when it was known by the piece workers that they would receive no Increases but were guaranteed only the minimum Comparisons between the piece work basis and hourly basis were maintained by the railroads until February, 1919, when the managements were prohibited by the roalroad administration from continuing such comparisons. Piece work was finally abolished by the director general on December 31. Provisions of the national agreement permitting the employment as car repairers of only those men who have served an apprenticeship in the car department or who have had four years' practical experience on car work, Mr. Whiter said, results in a "waste of skill and an unnecessary increase in the cost of such repairs." Says Rule Impracticable "The rule is not consistent or practical," he contended, "and draws a line around work which prevents the employment of any man who has had experience in analogous work. The railroads should have the privilege of employing for the car department, upholsterers, painters, pattern makers, etc.. men who have had experience, irrespective of where acquired even though they have not previously had four years' experience on car work. There is no justification whatever for such a rule in connection with freight car work." What I Think of the City Manager System Evry u'av 11 reporter will auk a prrnon picked at rnndoni, bla opinion on the proposed plan. Of three people picked at random at the Pennsylvania railroad depot Thursday afternoon, two asserted that they would vote in favor of the city manager plan, and th'e other stated that he was on the fence. "I think that it will clean things up around Richmond to adopt the plan here," stated one. "Give it a trial, it can't be any worse. The thing I like about it most is that you can get the man at the head out if you don't like him," another stated. "I don't know which way I will vote." the third man stated. "I liked the proposition at first glance but it doesn't seem so good now. I haven't made up my mind yet, however."

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city finances, according to Mr. Ford. 'We have adopted the policy of pay as you go," he said, "and intend to save all the interest charges that we have been paying on bonds, besides having a smaller first cost for our improvements. Our $21 tax is paying all running expenses, paying off old debts, and in addition, paying for mora improvements than the city has had in the same length of time before. In every precinct in the city, you caa (Continued on Page Thirteen) OLD RUSSIAN STATES MAY FORM ENTENTE (By Associated Press HELSIXGPORS, Finland, June 3. Poland will shortly invite representatives of Finland, Letvis, Esthonia and Lithuania to a conference in Tarsas to discuss an entente of all states formerly belonging to the Russian empire, according to information obtained here. Preparations for the conference already have been made, it is said. The Polish envoy at Reval, advices from that city state, has left for Warsaw to confer with his government on the subject. It was stated in a Paris dispatch of May 30 that a conference of the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Letvia and Esthonia would be held in Riga in June, with a view, it was understood, to the organization of a league of Baltic states. It was said, however, that Finland and Poland were not expected to participate in this conference, although it was believed that the league, if it came into being, would have the support of both countries. REFUSE TO CONSIDER U, S. IRISH REPORT (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 3 Efforts on the part of extremists in the Australian house of representatives to introduce the report of the American commission on Ireand into the official record of that body were defeated yesterday, says a Melbourne dispatch to the London Times. M. P. Considine read the conclusions of the American committee and while he was thus engaged, Sir Robert W. Best, of Victoria, denounced them as "vile and odious slanders upon the empire." The motion to include the report In the official result was lost by a vote of 36 to 9, the minority being made up of Laborites. Several representatives of the labor party declined to participate in the voting. SAY FRENCH OFFICIAL ABUSED HIS OFFICE (By Associated Press) PARIS, June 3 M. Vilgrain, who served as under-secretary of the ministry of munitions during the Clemenceau administration, is to be prosecuted by the government for using his office for promoting his own interests, ft is declared by the Journal. Such an offeor; is punishable by Imprisonment of six months to two years and a heavy fine. M. Vilgrain ordnated a system of booths which were erected in squares through Paris and the suburbs at which food was sold direct to the people. These booths bore the undersecretary's name. DAYTON PLANE TAKES U. S. CONTEST AWARD (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. June 3. First award in the navy department's competition for designs of air craft to be used on board naval vessels goes to the Dayton-Wright of Dayton, O., It was announced today. The winning design will be purchased for $16,000, and a contract let for the construction nf Tnprimpntfll nlnnes Tht H o1 cm of G. Leias and Brothers, Buffalo, I N. Y., was purchased for $10,000 and a sample plane contract will be award-

ed. The third award of $5,000 went) WILLIAMSON, W. Va.. June 3. Rcto the Curtiss Airplane and Motor j ports were in circulation here today corporation, Garden City, L. I., and that the Kentucky national guardsthe fourth, $3,000, to Alexander Kle-! men on duty on the Kentucky side of mln, New York City. The awards j the Tug river border where recent diswere made by a board of four offices j orders occurred, would be withdrawn commanded by Commander J. C. Hun-j shortly. Authorities have been unsaker or te bureau of construction, i able to confirm the report.

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eral killed during the trouble. The negro quarters of the city lie in the north-;

east section and form a letter "L",

west and from half a mile to a mile north and south. The situation seems to be under control today.

Harding to Go by Auto For Week-End Visit (By Associated Prsas) WASHINGTON, June 3. President Harding is considering leaving Washington tomorrow by automobile for a week-end visit to the home of Senator Knox near Valley Forge, Pa. It was said today at the White House that no definite plans had been made, although the president probably would make the trip if public business permitted. Spanish Premier Outlines Future Government Policy (By Associated Press.) MADRID, June 3. Announcement that the government was determined to carry out its legislative program, which includes bills relative to transportation and public works, the reform of the penal code and a measure for cheaper housing was made by the premier in parliament yesterday. G E R M A N MINISTER ADVOCATES RECOVERY OF FRENCH WAR ZONE (By Associated Press BERLIN, June 3. Dr. Walter Bathenau, the new minister of restoration, was severely heckled by members of the Nationalist German People's and Ultra-radical porties yesterday, when he took the floor in the Reichstag during the debate, following up the address of Dr. Wlrth, the chancellor He told the deputies that nothing contained in his industrial philosophy or in his public activities would conflict with the program he had mapped out in connection with the reconstruction program. He said he purposed to keep his ministry from police and war profiteers and expressed the belief that reconcilliation was needed in the carrying out of the gigantic task before all nations. "The world," he declared, "is not composed of chauvinists nor is it made up of 1,500,000,000 forces, bu' it holds a large body of fair minded individuals whose eyes were turned toward Germany, and who were inquiring what Germany will do; will her life be devoted to the fulfillment of her debt?" "Work of rebuilding the devastated zone in France is not a national but a world problem. It is a running sore on the continent of Europe and until it is healed world peace is unthinkable." TULSA MILITIAMEN WILL BE WITHDRAWN (By Associated Press) TULSA, Okla., June 3. Troops on duty here under a proclamation of martial law, will be recalled at 3 p. m. today unless some ontoward Incident occurs before that hour. Adjutant General Charles Barrett announced today after a telephone conversation with Governor Robertson, at Oklahoma City. SLAYER OF TURKISH MINISTER ACQUITTED (By Associated Press) BERLIN, June 3. Salamon Teilir-j ian. the Armenian student, who in March last, shot and killed Talatt Pasha, former grand vizier, and min ister of finance of Turkey was quitted in the assize court here today The trial opened Thursday. Teilirian in his defense asserted i that his mother, who was murdered in

1915, during the massacres in Armenia i Thirty-third Precinct John Mchad appeared before him in a vision ; Manus, judge; Elizabeth Henderson, and exhorted him to kill Talaat in re-icl'rk' Eighth Ward, venge for the massacre of 100,000 Ar-j Thirty-fourth Precinct A. L. Ellis, menians. Talaat was killed in Char- judge; M. C. Addington. clerk, lottenberg. a suburb of Berlin. ; Thirty-fifth Precinct Paul Ellis, The Armenian accosted him in the ! judge; Emmett Fawcett, clerk.

street and shot him dead, also wound-; ing Talaat's wife. Rumor Border Troops Withdrawn Shortly ' (By Associated Press)

flames from the burning negro district.

extending a quarter of a mile east and INJECT ENTHUSIASM INTO CITY CAMPAIGN; ANNOUNCE OFFICIALS Advocates of the city manager form of government for Richmond added new enthusiasm to their campaign at an organization meeting held in the K. of P. building Thursday. All the ward chairmen of the city were present at the meeting, and several other interested parties were called into consultation. Jesse Bailey, city chairman of the pro-city manager organize tion, presided. Ward chairmen reported that their organizations were doing good wok, although admitting the fight was gradually growing warmer as the date of the election, June 14, approaches. Optimistic predictions were made by the leaders. Announce Meeting Announcement of a Fourth ward meeting at the South End hose house Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, at which Wilfred Jessup and John Putterbaugh will speak favoring the new plan, was made. Election officials of the ward, precinct committeemen and other ward workers were requested to make sDecial efforts to attend this meeting. Election officials favoring the adoption of the city manager plan were announced at the meeting. Sheriffs will receive $6 a day, judges and clerks $9 an4 inspectors $12, according to ruling by the state attorney general The election coming under the 1920 general election laws and not under the special primary act which allowed $3 a day. Officials are: First Ward Sixth Precinct Eugene Herold, judge; Elma Rohe, clerk. Seventh Precinct John Hasemeier. judge: Anna Brehm, clerk. Eighth Precinct John Siekman, judge; Helen Walterman, clerk. Ninth Precinct Elmer Oesting, judge; Anna Stolle, clerk. Second Ward Tenth Precinct Jack Branson, judge; Helen C. Faul, clerk. Eleventh Precinct W. S. Hancock, judge; Ethel Thompson, clerk. Twelfth Precinct Carl Thompson, judge; W. O. Crawford, clerk. Thirteenth Precinct Maurice Carroll, jurge; Luclle Carney, clerk. Third Ward. Fourteenth Precinct Charles E. Marlatt, judge: Helen Griffiis, clerk. Fifteenth Precinct Harry Stillinger, judge; Rena Cunningham, clerk. Sixteenth Precinct William Lancaster, judge; Herman Heitzman, clerk. Seventeenth Precinct Thomas Cooper, judge; Newton A. Moser, clerk. Fourth Ward. Eighteenth Precinct James E. King, judge; Ada Parson, clerk. Nineteenth Precinct John Coyle, judge; Robert Graham, clerk. Twentieth Precinct Will Meerhoff, judge; Fannie Nicholson, clerk. Twenty-first Precinct Henry R. Siekman, judge; Elizabeth Drifmeyer, clerk. Twenty-second Precinct James Van Zant, judge; W. L. Dunham, clerk. Fifth Ward. Twenty-third Precinct O r v i 1 1 e Price, judge; Ida L. Huber, clerk. Twenty-fourth Precinct Richard P. Strohm, judge; Angeline Hay. clerk. Twenty-fifth Precinct Morris Pitman, judge; Louis Salzarule, clerk. Twenty-sixth Precinct Harry Hodgin, judge; Margaret Handley, clerk. Twenty-seventh Precinct - H. E. Druley, judge; Annie Day, clerk. Thirty-sixth Precinct Thomas Wood, judge; Mrs. Iva M. Worth, clerk. I Sixth Ward. Twenty-eighth Precinct William A. Dunham, judge; Dorothy Dilks, clerk. Twenty-ninth Precinct William H. (Ward, judge; Florence Roach, clerk, i Thirtieth Precinct Edward Tim-

ac-:berlake, judge; Nina H. Reller, clerk.

! Seventh Ward. j Thirty-first Precinct Harlow Llndley. judge; Frances Wright, clerk. Thirty-second Precinct Robert C. Wilson, judge; Jessie Orr, clerk. 200 Civilians Kill 4 Constables, Injure S (By Associated Press) DUBLIN, June 3. Four constables were killed and five wounded in an ambush by 200 civilians at 10 o'clock this morning in Kylebeg Cross, near Borrlsokane, county Tlpperary, says an official statement .issued here. The constables were in motor cars and on bicycles when attacked by the civilians who were concealed in the wood3, tne statement aaag.

SLH, NEW BEDFORD, NEW SECRETARY OF COMMUNITY SERVICE

P. H. Slocum, of New Bedford, Mass., arrives Friday night to assume the duties of executive secretary of the local community service organization for the ensuing year. Information that Mr. Slocum was the man to head the body here was given out Friday by C. B. Root, who has been in charge of community service work in Richmond since Jan. j 19, 1921. Mr. Root said that he ex-i pected to leave Richmond Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. He does not know where he will be sent by the national organization Mr. Slocum has been secured through the efforts made to get a secretary. started when Prof. J. H. Bent-) ley was sent to Chicago to select sev - vi. u .; j It was undecided for a time whether Mr. Slocum would come to Richmond or go to a city hi Michigan which had bid for his services Is Well Equipped It is said that Mr. Slocum has had approximately nine years experience in physical education activities while connected with Y. M. C. A. work. He was a captain in the United States army during the war and served overseas. Since returning, however, he has been engaged in community work. He has been attending the Chicago community training" school during the last several weeks. One member of the local community service committee said Friday that with the cash on hand and the pledges expected to be realized, the service would have between $5,000 and $8,000 with which to promote community service in Richmond for the coming year. Mr. Slocum, a man. of 31 years, is believed to be the man to successfully lead the service work in this city. Miss Wright, colored community service worker for the national organization, is to leave Richmond Saturday for Chicago. She will remain there for two weeks. It is possible she will return to Richmond at the expiration of that time. HUGHES, FORMERLY OF RICHMOND, GRADUATES AT NAVAL ACADEMY James Rowland Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Carnaghan Hughes, of Newport, R. I., and formerly of Richmond, was one of the members of the graduating class at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. ajMd., Thursday. Ensign Hughes has been assigned to duty on one of the new battleships, the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. He Is the grandson of Mrs. Isaac M. Hughes, of North Ninth street, and Mr. and Mrs. William Dudley Foulke. of South Eighteenth street. Mr. and Mrs. Foulke attended the commencement at Annapolis. William Dudley Foulke Hughes, a brother of the ensign, who is preparing for the ministry at Oxford university, England, will come to this country via Montreal, Canada, to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Foulke will go to Montreal to meet him when he lands June 17. Mr. Hughes' grandfather, the late Rev. I. M. Hughes, was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city. His father is rector of the Episcopal church at Newport, R. I. ENGLISH COAL MINERS REJECT SETTLEMENT (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 3. The executive body of the striking coal miners today finally rejected the government's proposals for a settlement of the coal strike. Dr. Simon Borne h, Father of Financier, is Dead (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. June 3. Dr. Simon Baruch. noted physician and father of Bernard M. Baruch, financier, died at 1:10 this afternoon from an ailment of the lungs, complicated by heart disease. Weather Forecast Relief from the present hot spell is clcse at hand. It will come from western Canada in the form of cool breezes from the cold wave which is now over that country, with temperatures of freezing or below there. The temperature here is expected to drop this afternoon or tonight. MOORE'S LOCAL FORECAST Partly cloudy, mostly fair; cool tonight and Saturday. A break in the hot wave is imminent. It will be cooler Friday after noon and night, and continue cool Sat - urday. Northerly winds will prevail. due to an extensive cool wave which is now overspreading the Great Lakes. For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight and in south portion Saturday. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 92 Minimum 60 Today Noon . . . . S3 Weather Condition -The heat wave continues from the Ohio valley states southward, while an extensive cool wave is moving toward the Great Lakes and Central States. Minimum temperatures of freezing occurred in Alberta. Canada, Thursday. Evansville. Ind- had a temperature of 96 on Thursday. .Local thunderstorms, severe in a few localities in Indiana, last night. Heavy rains in portions of the Central States, upper Mississippi valley and over the Florida peninsula.

BOTH LABOR AND CAPITAL ARE SCORED

Over 50 Per Cent Waste Laid at Door of Employers 25 Per Cent Caused by Labor Urge Co-operation. MILLION MEN ARE IDLE Bv Ass.-.ciated Press) ST ujxjis, June 3. Responsibility f , . for more than fifty per cent of the waste in industrial processes, wh:ch is causing enormous annual losses to the nation can be placed at the door of the management and less than 25 per cent at the door of labor, declared j a report of the American EngineerIng council's committee on elimina tion of waste In industry made pub lie today at a meeting of the council'? executive board. The committee was appointed by Herbert Hoover, secre tary of commerce, when he was head of the council. The report showed that the margin of unemployment amounted to more than a million men; that billions of dollars were tied up in idle equipment; that high labor turnover was a rough index of one of the commonest wastes, and that waste of time and energy and money through duplications and estimates and bids in building trades ran into millions annually. Restrict Out-Put Both employer and employes restrict output, it was said. Both capital and labor are blamed for existing abuses out the annual losses through waste by conflicts between them is much less than popularly supposed. From four to five million workers were idle during January and February of this year. In 1921 half a billion dollars will bs lost in wages iD the building trades, it was said. Nation-wide machinery to obtain continuous information concerning unemployment conditions throughout the country is declared necessary by I the report. Means for regulating em ployment in the principal industries were urged and a nation-wide plan of co-operation between the government, the public, trade associations, the industries, labor, baners and engineers was outlined. Seek Harmony The waste inquiry was in charge, of a committee of sixteen headed byJ. Parke Channing of New York, as chairman, and L. W. Wallace of Washington, executive secretary of the American engineering council of the Federated American Engineering Societies, as vice-chairman. This was a beginning of a movement by the country's organized engineers, about 200,000 in number, to bring about better industrial conditions and more harmonious relations between capital and labor. The full report comprises 125,000 words and deals with the deep-seated causes of waste, and does not consider "the present business crisis due in part to world-wide waste and extravagance, caused by the war", as an excuse for transitory experiments and as an opportunity to point out the need for permanent reform. Propose Program The committee outlined the following proposed program of governmental assistance to eliminate waste: "A national industrial information service should be established to furnish more timely, regular and complete information covering current production and consumption and stocks of commodity; a national statistical service should be established covering employment requirements; a national policy regarding public health should be fostered and encouraged; the national program for industrial rehabilitation should be encouraged and should offer opportunities for education and placement to those having physical defects as well as those handicapped because of industrial accidents; a nationwide program of industrial standardization should be encouraged in conJunction with industrial interests; the government should recognize the ne cessity for a revision of such federal laws as interfering with the stabillzation of industry; a body of principles should be accepted which could be developed for the adjustment and settlement of labor disputes." Urpe Co-Operation. After emphasizing the need of reform and imorovement in plant management and administrative policies, the report urged the co-operation of labor. Declaring that the annual economic loss in the country through preventable diseases and death amounted to ! $3.000. 000,000, the report urged a mor. general use of safety mehods already perfected. It was asserted that 75 pe--cent of the deaths and serious accidents in industry could be thus prevented. , Plant idleness came In for Its share of the blame for waste. In the printing industry alone the report savs, an investment of more than $100,000,000 in stocks of paper required to meet 1 trade requliements could be . cut in half through standardization in the brands of paper. Score Building. ' . The building industry was said to be about six per cent efficient. In the shoe industry the waste is about 35 per cent. . The average plant In the metal trades group is from 25 to 30 per cent behind the best plant In output per employe. -. . In the ready made clothing Industry the report said, it should be relatively easy to save three-quarters of a 'million dollars a day, an ' increase of forty per cent in effectiveness. . The vain of th nntnnt In tfila Ttn I -

put at $6,000,000,000 a year. ' f