Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 2, 1921, Page 2

CABINET DEEP IN HMLWAY PROBLEN PR!SIDENT HAS GIVEN' MATTEI EXHAUSTIVE STUDY AND WILL OFFER SOLUTION. |LONG DEBATE MAY FOLLOW All Agree That Freight Rates Are Too * High, ‘and Railroad Executives De. ¢clare That Wages Also Must Be Re- duced. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.—At this tiwe the Presi- dent’s cabinet is giving serious consid: eration to railroad matters. Transpor- | mllon seems to loom large as one of | ‘e vital problems of the day. Recently the President has been con- ferring with members of the railway ilabor board. Everybody knows that ithe question of wages is the one which \Is being pressed for answer. The rail- road managements declare that there {can be no hope of railroad prosperity unless wages In’some places shall be 'decreased. “The labor men charge that the railronds are not being econom- feully manuged; that money can be :saved In many ways, and that there is \no necessity todny of lowering the iwage rate. It seems to e the feeling in Wash- lington that when congress undertakes lt-glsintluu on railrond matters the dis- | [cusslon will be long continued, taking {probably as much time in the house us| itariff discussion. Unguestionably there |are men who take part in the present _?controversy who .desire government o“nershlp There aré also men who, lwhile not wanting government owner- iship, want government supervision to {such an extent that it will amount vir- tunlly to government control. Then 'there are men friendly to private own- 'ership who say that if costs can be ad- Justed, and the railrond managements can be given a free hand, prosperity ‘will return. President Harding has made it evi- ‘dent that for a“time at least he does mot intend to confer with the railwny the committee as they will bhe set Jown in the ‘report to the President, who will frame his recommendations 10 congress thereon. The first duty of the committee has Jeen to notify the various officlals of | the war risk -Insurance bureau, of the vocational training bureau and of the | subiic health service that they will be axpected ! to answer questions in a | juick endeavor by the committee to et explanations for the partial fall- | ure of relief work in the past. Amer- | «caw Leglon officials from various parts of the country alse have been sum- moned and from them at first hand the onditions’ affecting the sick and the wounded as they exist in the various | rommunities of the land are to be de- termined. It has been from the first the in- tention of the committee: to get the salient facts of existing conditions 80 that it can tell congress, through the President, specifically how seeming wrongs can be rectified. The com- mittees “ of ‘congress, therefore, will have in concrete form the recommen- | dations of the committee endorsed by | American Legion officials everywhere, and reinforced by the specific endorse- | ment of the President of the United | States, It is said that ifie’ American |Legion ofticials did not have to urge the President to the necessity of quick and hearty action in these cases. { Consolidation Seems Certain, | 1t seems certain that all the various |bureaus of government which have been trusted with the work of soldier {relief will be speedily ‘consolidated in one bureau, and that scattering work will be a thing of the past. urganlznllon will be under the direct | charge of one of the assistant secre- taries of one of the great departments of government who will give virtually his entire time to the work. It is not believed itoday that the bureau which grows: out of the con- solidation will be compelled to look after the matter of pensions. There was an intimation that“pensions, as such, would be placed under the con- | trol of the mew organization, but the | belief seems to be that such an addi- | tion to the work would cripple the | machinery and delay immediate steps | for rellef of conditions as they exist. It is not the intention of the Amer- ican Legion to recede from its de- mands for permanent hospitals. Mon- ey has been appropriated for new hos- V | i | | | | executives, ‘but will limit his discus- sions temporarily to the chiefs of the varlous bursaus of the government. ‘Later on it is known that the Presi- dent will ask the opinions of the big railway men of the country. Freight Rates Must Come Down. It is virtually admitted here by the ! 'government officinls who have given| ‘the mutter consideration that the e: !sting freight rates cannot continue. (It is ‘charged that it is more costly to| Ilhlp farin produce from farming sece !tlons to the cities of the East than it !is to ship to foreign ports. i, Of course there is something entirely wrong: with the whole matter and the ‘members of the cabinet, and the-Presi- dent with them, realize it. All the cab- inet officers: intimate that what they desire is to get the whole truth if they can. After the truth has been found ‘they believe that they can frarme some “&ind of a policy for rate adjustment ‘that will not cause injury to general ‘busiress, nor to the people as a whole " Congress always has been afraid of ‘the rallrond question. Politics enters +into it to an unusual degree. It is said ‘that there were many members of the Jower house of congress who voted for a law a few years ago in which none of them believed, and voted for it be- cause they feared that a certain part ‘of thelr constituencies, holding the bal- ‘ance of power, would defeat them for re-election if they had voted in reverse. It is rather a hard thing to Intimate ‘that some congressmen are moved by thelr fears rather than by their con- Victions, but the charge is made so “frequently that there seems to he :something back of it, and when one enalyzes some of the votes In house .and senate with a view to the sections M the country represented by the vot- Aors, the charge seems to have somo ‘truth back of It. Wage Scale the Hardest Problem. * The biggest question today, of course, s that of the change in the wage scale. /If wages are reduced a strike is feared, iand if they are not reduced the con- stinuance of high freight and passenger .rates is feared, and if some of the rail- «road” managers tell the truth, bank- iruptey of the railroads is feared. The ‘cabinet is concerned over all these fquestions. The President eventually wlll make ‘his recommendations to congress on ‘this great raijroad subject. He has heen studying the thing personally ever since he was elected. He has had advice from all quarters. He has read, {t is said, all that the railroad managers have to say, all that the shippers have ito say, and all that the wage earners have to say. Hehas a barrelful of infor- . matlon and his problem now is to aver- ‘age the contents of the barrel, wmuke iallowance for overstatements and un- dersta(emeuts. for prejudices and per- ‘hnps for some actual untruths. Then he will act in the way of recommenda- Jfion, and of course the hope of the {business and the labor world is that 'he will act in a way to bring peace, !nnd with it prosperity, in the trauspor- ‘tation world. Quick Work for Soldier Rellef. President Harding's committee into 'whose hands has'béen given the duty lof speeding up the work of relief for e wounded, and sick soldlers of the United-States, has held Its first meet- i | It u possible for your correspond ent to glre in detall the intentions of _w\\olk of rehabilitating the physically pitals, and it is the intention of the |Legion to stand by its guns in this imatter, although there have been at: tempts to make it retreat from its | | position. i It may be considered as only a (guess, but I think it is fairly safe to |say that before long the public health |service will be in full charge of the ‘fllsnlyled White House Door Closes a Bit / President’ Harding has been com- pelled to swing the open door of the White House an inch or two It may, not toward the closing point. be mnecessary to move. it but If the influx of visitor its present current the. door may go within a foot or two of the fast shut point. A good deal was written In the first Jdays of the Harding administration | concerning the open-door policy. Seemingly everybody who came to | Washington, and everybody was a mul- titude, had received the informatio: | that the White House doors were to be fastened back. Of course,.the open- door policy of the White House con. cerns itself largely with persons who want to see the President on husiness, but it also was intended that within proper limitations the general public would be recelved in the office bulld- lng between certain hours. Every day In the week, except Sun- day, for several weeks President Hard- ing received multitudes of people be- tween the noon hour and the luncheon hour. He had a clasp of the hand and a “Glad to see you” for many hun- dreds of people In the course of a week. Within a few days it has been found out that this general public function has interfered’with fhe trans- nction of public business, and so the receptions have been reslrlcted to three days in a week: 1t would be hard for a person at a distance to get n conception of the size of the crowds of sightseers and hand-shakers plus the office-seekers who are now in this city in the glad April month. Schools ‘all’ ‘over the country have sent delegatiens of pu- | pils here to enjoy their spring holiday and to learn at first hand how things are done in the capital city. Egg Rolling Was Great Sight. There never was a sight in the city of Washington of like kind as that hefore the eye in the White House grounds on egg-rolling day. Children always have gone to the egg-rolling | fiesta in large numbers, but inasmuch ns the celebration has not been held for some years there was a renewed desire to take advantage of the first occasion possible, 1t will be a month before the White House gardeners succeed in getting all the egg shells disentangled from the | grass of the great White House lawn, | The children were there literally by! the thousands and the eggs by the tens of thousands, because not a child appeared who did not have in his or her basket at least a dozen Enster‘ eggs, colored with every hue of a sun- favored springtide. No one was allowed in the Whlte; House grounds except the children and thel¢ parents or guardians or othenm | attendants. In other sords, no on | could get into the grounds unless he had a child or two in tow. i | H | The new ' i with her son, 11 great-granddaughter, at the Daugherty home in Washington C. H., Ohio. " Mrs. D: !n widow when the new attorney general wus four S'mu's old. Mrs. Jane A. Daugherty, -mother of Attorney General Hurry M. Daugherty M. 8. Daugherty, her grandson, ¥. Ellis Dangherty, and her Janet, daughter of Ii. Ellis Daughe photographed shierty was lef:‘ FEMINISTS ARISE IN PERSIA Insist That Veils Are No Longer Re- That feminine fashions will not be coerced by law, even thcough prison sentence be inflicted, was the opinion of Prof. Jenabe FKuzel of the Queen’s university of Teheran, who addressed members of the California elub re- cently on the feminlue wovement in Persia, While some American and English women usking for the su![rngu their progress- ive 'sisters in Persia 'were filling the prisops because they insisted on leav- ing oft the veil such a majority. that the jails in Per- sia were overcrowded and in despair the government acquiesced. That 4 womel may appear on the streets of (3] The’-_‘ Smare, Persia . without ‘the vell. imposed ’? 2 o- ol inposed by el em” nothl g, eh? What about the’ staté religion 'is ‘regarded . over there as a great triumph in the eman- zlpation of womanhood. Ptofessor Fazel, who holds the chair of philosophy _in_the only uniye: ..IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlllliifllmllIImlllllmnllIlllllllll!llllll!l E] for wonien i Pérsiu, spoke in niusical ; Persian, his sentences being inter-! preted as he went along by Mirza Ah- mad Sobrab, former secretary of the, Persian legation at Washington, and ikewise a believer in the emnnclp'\- tion of the women of the Orient. Both | are followeys of the Bahia phuusophy. through the teachings of which the| Persian women ‘gttained what inde- pendence of thought. and action they :njoy today. According to the Persian savant, it Is the destiny of women to become members. of the:.eongresses and par- tiaments of all the countries of the world.—San " Francisco Chronicle, quired and That Women Are Independent Thinkers, were belng imprisoned for Indoor Plants. 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