Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 3

AhE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1921 8 FREIGHT RATES AND BUSINESS | Abe Martin Says: = ¢ IWUM[N LAY PLANS [Fmrmuiar e = | ot S ey Have You Done Your Share? Improvement in election methods. | Of Chicago, known fo SUBJECT OF CLASHING VIEWS : S et 1o e e e L P 2 i - n ities of lite. ’-pecror- on a train bon‘l s Are you one of the 4384 persons who have responded e | rohi o Mamsna, Mornhine; cocaiag to the appeal of the Associated Charities and the Citi- e 3 4 nd $50,000, which, it is charged, were Uniform laws concerning women. | in his possession, were sei: zens’ Relief Association for more members and more money? Program to spread knowledge of heaith laws. Totection of women in industry 1t foan said that the first subject to . sidered would be the present. [NSURANCE BUSINESS - - Amem.an direct primary election sys- | for cash. tem. ! Room 202. 1336 New York Effect of High Rail Charges Found to Be Less Serious Than Has Been Cl.umed i by Some Shippers. 1 WANT TO BUY Upward of 1,000 Delegatesi Expected at Next Week’s Convention. By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 7.—The board of directors, regional directors and chairmen of standing committees Eight thousand dollars is still needed to enable these family welfare agencies to continue their work. They need your help. BY G. GOULD LINCOL! ;-“m' of the men is paid foé“df C:";:n"l 21 requently the tools needed ar (Copyright, 1921, by The Washington Star.) | o "GINTEREY SIS (00 ours are wast- (This is the sixth of a series of articles | ed. Sometimes a needed part is taken oo the acute railrond and railroad labor | from one locomotive and placed on problems. The next will appear in an | another, and this process is repeated ‘Will you give it by sending a.contribution to Howard S. Reeside, 923 H street northwest? Big Vocalion Record Hit T 7 (First ith a dance of this pi PHILADELPHIA HOLDS ° [STATE SENATOR IS HELD |mestin to map out the wark ot the| P el e ALL-AMERICAN DAY | ON CHARGE OF BRIBERY : jhich,orens nere Siondas”and' confi: | 1.000 delegates and alternates, repre- | - LR L ] o ot momenes see e rimmem 5| (nderneath Hawatian Skies early issue.) again_and again, with consequent £ of the National League of Women Many shippers in the United States | l0oss of time. Voters will meet here today in a closed are protesting vigorously against the Means of Ecomomy. conference and pre-convention business It would take money to provld- the necessary equipment of the railroad shops, the men admit, but they say it would work a very great saving in the long run. And right here it high freight rates now maintaining on the railroads. It would he extraor- dinary if they did not. They have seen their business on the -declire during the last few months. They|may be said that some of the men % are casting about for the reasons, and | &re not inclined to blame all tne - Gen. Pershing and Admirals Speak. The standing committees, appointed | one of the handiest 1s found In the | They menike the tlaras et the roads Monster Parade Set After Alleged Passage of after the league's first convention in | > Yy mmé} e e charge that seithe je. Chicago last year, have been working | F T “ !. b R‘ ] L) mck lm‘ high freight rates. Storles are printed | are inefficiently managed because Tilford Moots has started t’ for Tonight. Money. continuously ‘on the program formu- | ox Trot—P) yel y yullkll an about produce allowed to rot because | &Ctual owners of the roads are "a"‘; 5 P lated at that time. What they have | Melol it did not pay -to ship it o the mar- | ciers '-n;i not-railroad men, in the r:;e save fer his next year’s income PHILADELPHIA, April 7.—Phila- NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 7.—Sena- | accomplished and what. they pian for ly ys ket. Coal, on which the rates are|pense of the term: The owners tax dephia today celebrated All-Ameri- | tor E. ! the roads for gambling purposes on | taX. 3 very high, Is not moving. N. Clabo, republican, of Sevier-|1921-22 will be reported to the conven- - 2 Sovns | tlon T e Secommcnaations sebmit: | Reverse side—Molly (Fox Trot) Without holding a brief for high can day. with Gen. Pershing, Ad-|ville, Tenn, who was arrested upon a| pireq 'y o chalrman. the stock market, they say. Squire Marsh Swallow, who In support of their contention that|. . Tt . mirals Benson, Sims and Coontz and | charge of accepting a bribe of $300 de freight rates, and with every desire i -|is in sh = ks ! DUNE Among recommendations to be made S that the'raich may B reduced in the | sttt the Teal canss ot wue Sl COnnEl“t\eg \\“?tghmt‘;‘l’ Or?u:tngi?:lrm Sproul among the guesis of o defeat the passaze of a sales tax|!to the convention by the standing com- Vocalion Records Play on Any Phonograph mear future, it is still possible to fig- [ off in the business of both the shipper 5 LR 1C€, | honor. Il in the Tennessee senate, was re- | mittees are: - ure that the big siump which has oc-|and the railroads, the roads’ execu- [ Says th’ plum line is four miles| 7he municipal government, ""-ILT;T;:‘N;':E:WJ::({ oalfisel";ggn :mnm_n;:lr Continued effortstoipass’ the Shep gurred in buy """"f,“““"“’,g‘c”::;;‘{;g iseaivointitathaltact jthat dhe £scond flong. | American Legion and scores of civic, | liminary hearing is set for Tuesday.! 7 SPECIALISTS IN PLAYER PIANOS n consequence. in the tra : ot Sep- ! ot : ! | 1 & ay. y by the railroads—Is due in large part | tember, October. November and De-| Copsright National Newspaper Service. !m_c !. business, charitable and "".fi'fw‘“r’i.'ffl,‘é a1 localisttorney; L OJ DeMOLL EMMONS S SMITH 10 other causes than the high freight | Cember. 1920, when the high rates|———— _ ilrml(c organizations joined in pa-!ZUHCC Tor, the warrant fo B‘ S :;"e’fln: | A rates. | were in effect. shows many. many, !triotic demonstrations. | dictment by the grand jury. s l H more cars loaded in_those months all-rail rate from the Somerset coal | A patriotic_mass meeting of ap-i° . : | olemn ! Strike Against High Prices. than in the corresponding months of | field to Boston was $2. in | proximate! 000 wckosl “enildrens] .y Brrert afi Scoalor Clabo fs she oo The people on the whole ha\:u:ra‘:n 1912 The loading of cars |r;;ronh=!:-r;|,wu $2.85 in 1918. $3.30 in August,!was held in Independenc Sauare Slasion o ey ot Wi ,;’;&“ . n their horns. They are not buying atter of fact. after the high!1920, and after the last increase $4.72. | while a_half-holiday was general > P hfi lM as they did a year ago. They have i rates went into effect. But in Janu-| Another table siows tha. tie trans. |observed. Admiral Tensod was the | 14T with regard to certain bills onuincal iviass Vpshmé‘tons AEOLIAN HALL - Twelfth and G Sfiug struck against high prices in many | ary and February of this vear *he|portation charge on coal per ton from | principal speaker at an All FinSthelrestaurancoraatTor (o no et 5 Stenvay Duo-Art Puarolas Veber Duo-Art Puanclas Aeolian Vocalions cases. In addition to this, the men | ¢ar loadings show a distinct falling | Fairmont, W. to Baltimore, Md., |day luncheon of the Poor few minutes after he is alleged to have of R uiem and women of the country are not ;_fl from the records of January and|was $2.25 a ton in 1914 and $3.58 in ' Club. received the money in another hotel. eq ¢ did a year | February of 1920. This indicates.|;gyq, ti Mass meetings will be held tonight ! 3 making the money they di year| FRUEUSEY 008 ot R an Increasé of $1.33. Not all of ! A ago. 2L a2t fomething besides the|this increase was due, of course, to|at two of the city's Jargest audi- high freight rates has affected busi- toriums, both of which will be ad-! One New York hotel has 2,300 bath- In the first place, hundreds of thou-{n the increase granted last August 5 3 sands of workers have been laid off. | "3 Fecent report received by the car|BUt the figures show the very appre- | dressed by Gep. Pershing. AQRiral|rooms, Unemployment has reached Into the |service division of the American Rail- | Ciable increases in the cost of coal| /G Mis Douglas Robinson. millions. In the second place, many |way Association of the United States |due to freight charges. 'A military and civic parade- to- of those who still hold jobs are work- |showed that the greatest number of | It is easy to see that the Increases|pight, with thousands in line, and ing only part time. The workers are | surplus freight cars—cars not re-in freight rates have hit long haul|no flag ibut the American g, will Teceiving in some Instances reduced |quired for the transportation of cur-|business, for instance on lumber from | be a feature. pay. All of these factors result in @|Te€nt traffic—in the history of Ameri-|the northwest to the Atlantic sea- decrease in the buying power of the |Can railroads was recorded March 23.|board. But at the same time it has By Hot-Water, Steam or Vapor- Deople. 1921, he number was 459411 This|given a boost to the business of lum- “ ST 'AMPS asure Systems During the perfod of high wages | i Bare o e (e e the | Der Producers in the southern states. POSTAGE If you need a new System, a For His Eminence| Cardinal Gibbons CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY TY the poor Greek who walked through life draped in a sheet. and big volume of business many | gectiT. "D So lumber manufacturers have not GYMNASIUM of the workers, who had more money | Sicnin: ot the armistice. 1t In an in: | Deen able to combine in an assault 20th_Century new Heater, or other Repairs, than they ever had before. stocked [creasn” of 35000 over tne total on|UBom the Increased raten, FOR COLLECTIONS fEKET it 0w e = 5 up on articles which ordinarily they |March 15, 1921. say avail- p h 1 l.u would mot have been able to buy. Ppai e LR been a decided increase in the ship- e it ,’ able. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1ty the poor clot They are using these stocks now. ments from the west coast through ew Wm While the shippers are protesting | o "°n the, frelght rate increases|(he Panama canal and vice versa, due Asnembly, & var..10¢ | . . vigorousy against high freight rates, ¥ !to the increase in rates. But they !| Letvia Jubilee, 4 var. B H hn THE aou ™ omciala. ana the Tail- | TioE, commiegion Jast TAueuat, W |, nisin thats atier aih, the tnoreases ||| Ukrainta: 1428 1a rae. comis? ;:: 1ggs feaung Lo. road workers are together in their !1oaq fanor organizations. and afieials|in freight rates are not the great! !Alo-trl;‘?‘_.' . 12 var. comp insistence that the rates cannot come |of the railroads put out statements |COmmanding cause of the falling off ||| STmenta, W Sar SPRP -~ - ,‘,) W. H, Gottlieb, H. E. Huntsberry, down under existing conditions of | ghowing the vers small increase in|in business. !Pr- o ’s e Sl el , the transportation business, although Pproféssing a desire to see a change |DhiSen that would be required upon | e sHopP ||| ?:L’o-fl; i&n'vq'w' maker who tried to satisfy his craving for something new. 10:00 AM. The Public Is Cordially Invifed to Attend. Waste all your pity on these : various necessaries purchased by the in conditions that would make a re- | hpiie® TPOURIrEn purchased by thei rne municipal courcll of Paris is{|l" oo o o L Owen Eveaisgs < 5 duction in wages possible. They In- that the increase in frelght rates on | orsioer \n& & scheme for underground e ancients. {or thc Od ern sist that the increase g a suit of men's clothes weighing four e 1— 3 my man freight rates, as reflected in the cost | I unqs. relieving the congestion of passen- shi r] & < L) . ed—is_infinitesimal. That has been 31 cenfs; on a pair of shoos shipped their position from the Inception of | frore Boston, Mass., to Balt) e : the higher rates last fall. They |0.937 centas = These ngu:eam:::&);un H ? 1 : e's learned the satisfac~ : tion of wearing Fashion Shop Clothes—tailored in Roches~ admit, however, that the higher [out by the roads. Mr. Tquck maje. | OU get the o I ter. rates on heavier and bulkier com- - .z K modities, much ‘as ‘coal, lumber and | o can the Increarey froioor iy services of a building materials, have increased [be made to justify an increase of 1 specialist the costs to the consumers. cent per pound in the price of meat, h h i Question of Wages. or 5 cents per pair in the price of $ES. NN, 18 The raliroads, While maintaining | Shoe! 1 backed by an or- that the prices of most commodities Mr. Lauck maintained that there g a n i zation of are not seriously affected by the|Was mo occasion for alarm by the Specialists. The The New “CREST” Thealert Regal style intelligence is evident ln:verylxnee%fihu ‘Crest” Oxford. While freight rates, are not slow to point | Public in the prospect of an addition ot ihat & reduetion in rates camnot | of a billion and a half dollars to {he . best man for on:hgmeofvalu:, mnndadwladm ¥ be expected until there is . reduc-|annual transportation bill of the ||fj your case is assigned to your i 2 tion in the expenditures of the' country, as figured out for the freight individual case. roads—and they speak with particu- | Fate increases. He admitted, how- lar reference to wages, the heaviest | ever. and the rallroad executives ad- | || expenditure of the roads. mit the same thing, that the increases | We solicit the listing of Railroad labor, on the other hand, | in freight rates on coal and other | your property. “Maximum - takes the view ‘:hlt 2 debc‘;'e‘.le 1,.; :::mal?d \liulky comr:odme- would Service” 1is developed | ‘to rates cannot be brought about unt erially increase their prices to ||l y there has_been a reform 1:. the | the consumer. bis its highest degree by this method of operating the railroads. Coal Charges Compared. ofice—and you are ms- It _charges the present management| qp. op; ppers of coal today are, in ! |li sured prompt action and O e s many instances. denouncing the High satisfactory remulis when between design, material and workman- ers. has told the Railroad Labor | T2(€%, and claim that much of the your property is hamdied ship wbich is the wofs!ylg—— Board that. with certain economies, | cTIUEEM Of tholr business in recent | i s i s the ‘railroads can be operated at a | T3NS NAZ Beon dus o the high it would lurd to this ngm saving of $1,000.000.000 a year—and | f23¢ 'y have compiled many Brogue in genuine Dark Brown Cal this - without reduction of wages to | !ables of statistics showing the in- ||| v any appreciable extent crease in cost of coal due to increase A meuummn]wm model, full per- One of the charges brought by rajl- | I _transportation charges. One of ||i forated and e of walkmF backstay. fullluduhmd.’l'ou ot The New “SPAD” For a pefect example of that fine relation soad workers against the manag these deals with the shipment of coal : to New England points, a compara- | - weight. Heel 7§ inch high and T O e e e oy sanire of | tively long haul from the coal fields. gh Z terials d - | Much of thl coal goes by rail and I A i meneral. Rallroad machinieia | boat to New England. But the ail- | | REGAL SHOE COMPANY will tell you that the railroad shope. | rail "'0';""“ to these points - is BOSTON, MASS. on the whole, are the poorest equipped | cheaper. because of the high rate: machine shops in the country, al-|on the boats. From the Pocahontas though thev should be the best)and New River coal district to Bos- 2 % equipped. The result of this failure, |ton, Mass. by rail and boat, 2 they say. may be measured in millions | transportation charge prior to the . of dollars of waste annually. war in 1914 was $2.36 a ton: in 1918 || —overlooking beautiful Soldiers’ Men spend hours, they say, looking was $5.0° August, 1920, just |} Home grounds. A The Tasnion Ghop y UPTOWN: DOWNTOWN: hoy Fifteénth and G Streets P = for bolts and necessary parta for re- l;:::ar?‘ t‘n'e“n;;v“me“.d went inio”ef- A o:‘;x't) t;. ;:een"nn-" Washington's 42nd and fyfi;'m i :?g"n at h::d A1 of the | crease in rates it was $5.99. The || Inspect 4114 3rd St. N.W. R‘g‘l Shoes f‘" SP'”'E are ”7'5 0, "8‘50 and ”'50 i Rochester Tailored Clothes 4 large bedrooms, large Hlivin v SPECIAL NOTICES. mcmr. ’0’!’1(‘2‘{. and dining rooms. breakfast and‘ REGAL ; SHOE STORES Manhattan Shirts Interwoven Hose il MICHARL, 3. COLBERT ANNOUNCES #5 ] an o Jom. )l-r-n-ll phee, ity beliding. tated rm of ‘Bell, sleeping porches. Very deep lots. Always open until 9 p.m. Ol RADNOR HEIGHTS—LARGE A T reen Fi. Myer and Wasbington: ad- ge: overlooking whole Iriced: esayterme LOUIS In WASHINGTON Pl fSiade: e A AR nu; FIOGEE PLANE = Men's Store Women’s Store ,,:;,.,,, from Sal ks m‘uw sample iy aagf.r"n:o‘n:':." an 1003 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. 1203 F Street N.W. 5 Burg. Va. SMITH'S 'rlu\:n:x AND STOR-| bad. O. ADAMS, 607 G st. n.w. Fr. 2518. ge (Cor. D Street) (Near 12th Street) . ' AGE. WANTED—A VANLOAD OF FURRITCRE L April 13 TRANRRER (0. Ne.*1Z5 14t S . Phone Main 2 CLAFLIN FOR EYEGLASSES. PIANOS FOR RENT—UPRIGHT AND GRAND vhm !'r reat -z reasonable prla. reat & i \ Sk “Delmar’ . Y. Ave. Main 1267 in bul 0N CLARK, Sole Distribator. 1313, ave. lnn-» Lise. ANNOUNCEMENT. take pleasure in announcing that Mr. Joreph 5. Hearn, formerly with J. C. Wine man & Co., is now connected with ‘this houee, Where he will be pleased to serve his many friends and the public generally T. E. GILBERT, Tmporter_and Tailor, Get Wcl! 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