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BROKE TRUST LAW, Anthracite Operators Urge Substitution of Reason for Force in Settling Disputes. “Salvation for the coal industry” is not possible unless the “chapter of history” written by the 1922 coal miners’ strike can be “reversed” and <ome remedy be found “whereby force can be dethroned and reason recog- nized us ruler.” anthracite coal op- erators contended in a brief filed with United States Coal Commission, made public yesterday ‘The United Mine Workers also made public a statement in which th subjected the brief to severe criti- cism and declared that “when anthra- cite operators talk about a ‘hold-up’ they are treading on very ‘thin With the strike of last vear starting point for its discussion, th brief of the operators asserted that “this national hold-up. by refusing to negotiate with willing union oper- ators with whom there was no dis pute: by disrupting non-union oper- ations, by avoiding an anthracite set- tlement. by flouting the President of ithe United States and by refusing to arbitrate, had for its purpose the at- tainment’ of Its ends by ruthlessly inflicting injury on the public in fla- grant violation of the federal anti- trust laws Accused of Blow at Public. The refusal to permit resumption of coal production by the producers of 80 per cent the nation's supply. on any terms within the res the as a ¢ conl of coul n of the partics. was not to bring pres- {hoer children in her home near Coles- { sure on these producers to grant more concessions, but to starve the public nto submission through a protracted coal faminc “The purpose to extead the power of the United Mine Workers by in- ternational combinations to deprive the American people of coal is clear if the report from London under date of April 12, 1923, is true, that Presi- dent Lewis has offered u resolution before the executive committee of the International Federation of ners declaring ‘in case of strike all eans should be taken to prevent export of coal to countries involved in strike.’ Fought for “Reason.” “Throughout the trying days of 2 the operators were fighting for 1e principle of settlement by reason nd the mine workers were fighting or a settlement by foree. The operu- tors stood for arbitration in an in- dustry of great public importanc, The miners stood for coercion by public privation. In the end the de- mwands of a frightened public. suj vorted by the urzings of public off cials, led to a sueri of the prin- ciple in order that the public migh have coal. “Tnle can by sion ca )ree can ognized a s that reversed tind chapter of unless the eommi: some remedy whereby be dethroned and reason as_ruler, there is no sal- ation for the anthracite industry. Nearly all other questions are sub- ordinate to this. It ot as a wage- adjusting body that th commission can hest serve its country, but in es- tablishing durable and workable ma chinery for the adjustment of peace- ful methods of all differences that nay hereafter arise and the elimin tion of industrial warfare. Would Bar Strikes. “The strike is « legitimate weapon , drive an economic bargain with a selfish employer, but there is no moral right. and should be ne legal right, to organize strikes or Jockouts in basic ndustries or transportation where disinterested agencles for adjustment and adjudication are ailable. “A national combination. ing coal production., whether it be of employers or employes. which disre gards the public interest and willfull seeks to produce a coul famine by r fusing to arbitrate industrial disputes, deserves correction and regulation at the hands of government. A gov- arnment which is unafraid can do no less than meet this issue If society s a right to protect itself agains abuses in the coal industry, here sign to act. If this major prob- ghes'unremedied, there is no con- ency in . proposing remecdies for minor problem Mine Workers' Comment. 'he comment of the United Mine Workers on the brief follow. “If ever there wasan unconscionable hold-up it is the one that has been nflicted on consumers n the last several months, statement said. “It costs around $4 a ton to produce anthracite at the mines, but the consumer is compelled history 10 pay $16 to $17 a ton for that same | coal. , Tt the anthracite operators really’ wish to put a stop to a hold-up let them begin at home and relieve the consumer of a part of this im position. The miner receives but very small share of this He is not responsible for the gouge of the consumers’ pocketbook. The coal consumer would like to know who gets this money. The anthracite operators could tell him, would. “And when these the question of monopoly they are again on thin ice, for one of the greatest and most powerful monopo- lies in America is the anthracite coal There is such an intricate ing of coal companies, an- thracite railroads, scales companie wholesalers and distributors, all con- trolled and dominated by the same entical interests, that the anthra- te business is a’gizantic, scientific monopoly. a fact well known for many years. It the anthracite com- panies are in earnest in their demand for correction and regulation of the antracite monopoly the United Min Workers of America will be indeed, to help them to clean it up. Possibly, once that were accomplish- ad. this monopoly would be forced reduce the outrageous price which the consumer now is required to pay for anthracite. RECOVER THREE BODIES. No Trace Found of 17 Others Lost When Motor Bark Sinks. MEXICO CITY. April 16—Advices from Merida, Yucatan, say that only the bodies of three children have been recovered from Lebis bay, in which twenty persons were drowned last Wednesday, when notor - driven park foundered. A e party from Bayo Obispo, territory of Quintana, Roo, has been searching the vicinit: The name of the bishop® of Belize, who was reported among those lost, does not appear in the report from. Merida. WIVES GET THIRD OF PAY Can Demand It Under German Law to Keep Up Tables. BERLIN, April 16.—German husbands must give their wives one-third of their incomes to maintain the family table. ‘That is the law, and the German newspapers now are calling it to the attention of housewives who are hav- ing trouble making their allowances cover increased food costs. This one-third income s not to meet rent or the wages of servants; it Is merely ‘to cover the expense of Keeping up the table. "NOTED MISSIONARY DIES. Tir the Associated Press. HONOLULU, T. H., John. . Thomas' Gulick, missionary, died here Saturday. He was a writer on evolution and other sclentific subjects. A operators raise April 16.—Dr. widely known of anthracite | the: union | $16 or $17.1 happy. | ROCKVILLE. By the Assoclated Press. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 16.—Con- ceiving the idea tuat it would be a mark of courtesy to the thousands of Shriners and others who will pass through Rockville on thelr way to and from the convention to clean up and paint up the town before then and an excellent way to impress upon the visitors that there is such a place as Rockville on the map, & delegation consisting of Mrs. Ernest L. Bullard, Mrs. Otis M. Linthicum and Mrs. George H. Lamar, represent- ing the Rockville Woman's Club and the Rockville Inguiry Club, appear- ed before the mayor and town cof cil and asked that they co-operate. Students of the Rockville High School are arranging to issue a school paper about the lst of Ma) The staff has been selected as follows: Editor-in-chief, Miss Mary Kingdon: assistant editors, Miss Mary Rome {and Guy Hicks: sports editors. Verna Viett, for girls, and Raymond Anderson, for boyvs; reporters, Misses Hendricks, Jeanette De Esworthy., Susan Aud, and Mildred Gardner, Ston Lamar. Bowman, | Fry Trail, Ganley. eorge Sch: it he recently elected officers of W ner Memorial Presbyterian Church, at ngton, were installed in the presence of large congregation. They are Harlan W. Fisk, J. M. Chance and E. F. Burner. elders; Wil liam H. Ronsaville and Byron W Kumler, trustees, and Wilson 1. Townsend, deacon. The installation was conducted by th Robert Atkinson. assisted Lee Downing. engaged in mi work in Africa, who'ix a | Dr. Atkinson. Rev. Mr. Downing de- flivered an address, telling in an in- teresting manner of his work in Africa. At the recent annual business meeting the church membership w shown to be 163 and that $6.345 was raised for ali purposes during the year, of which amount $1.018 went for missionary and ULenevolent ob- jects. {7 Within a very few minutes jshe had finished dancing with o fter of ville, this_county, Mrs. Ella lidwards. wife of George W. Edwards, a well known farmer, complained of being ill. and before the arrival of a phy- sician, who was immediately summoned, her death occurred. heart disease be- ing the cause. She was fifty-seven years old. Surviving her are her husband. four sons and two daugh- ters. The funeral took place from the Methodist Church at Burtonsville, burial being in the cemetery nearby. Mrs. Edwards, who was before her {marriage a Miss Gray, was a native of Virginia HYATTSVILLE. £ The Star. Md, april 1 securing better Georges county result { Correspondence HYATTSVILLE toward Prince Progress teachers for schools is being made {of an unceasing campaign waged by Prof. Nicholas Orem, county superintendent of schools, and his co- workers. “It is the aim of the school authorities to have each teaacher in the county schools secure first- grade certificate” says Prof. Orem “This necessarily will take time. but undoubtedly real progress is being made toward the goal” Next year the county expects to employ teich- ers as follows: Forty-one white high School teachers at $51,000, two col- {ored high school at $1.800, white elomentary at 3171,000 and sixty coi- ored elementary at $33.000 The nature of permanent improv: as the a !road and Guy avenues wiil be de- termined at a special meeting of the mayor and common council in the council chamber of the municipal building tomorrow night, when the owners of property abutting on these thoroughfares will be before t counceil V. E. Violland, « L. Smallwood, ' L. Turner and rising the com- controll- i mittee of tha grand jury for the April §30.12: 12 m jterm of the circuit court for Prince Georges county appointed to inspect the county jail and courthouse here. in its report just submitt. to the court states “the sanitary condition of the jail is fair” At a specla} meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in headquarters in the mu- nicipal building the volunteer fire de- aville will choose five alternates D the arnual convention of the {land State Firemen's Association, to ibe held June 7, 8 and 9 in Frederick { University of Maryland will re- ceive one of the t all-round ath- lotes ever produced in Prince Georges {county high school ranks if Samuel jCrosthwaite, who will be graduated School, carries out his present inten- tion of entering the College Park in- {stitution. Crosthwaite is a_ star at ibase ball, track, soccer and basket {ball, belng particularly adept at the | last two sports. | Representing Orlole Lodge, No. 47, {at the annual state convention ot |0dd Fellows in Baltimore are Newton { A. James, as delegate, and Ardley D. | Hart, as alternate. = Past Grand {George R. Maxwall and Past Grand | Farwall also are attending. i { ALEXANDRIA. if they! ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 161t the new traffic rules proposcd by City Manager Rich are adopted leity ‘council at its meeting next { Thursday pavking on King street {may be lengthened from one-half { hour to an hour. Discussing the pro- i posed change it was ated by the | city manager today that in a great number of cases persons going_into la lunchroom and into other places {along that thoroughfare spend an ihour, and only a half hour parking !time for their machines frequently works a hardship on them. Recently a movement was launched to round” up all persons guilty of (parking on King street between { Fairfax and Patrick streets for more !than’ half an hour. As a _result { Traffic Policeman Lawrence Padgett iSaturday night cited seven auto owners either in person or by card to appear in court today, all of the {machines being parked longer than half an hour on King street between Columbus and_ Alfred streets, he I stated. Two of those cited appeared | and Acting Justice Nicol required jeach to pay $3. the costs of the case: jone forfeited $5 collateral and four | failed to show up. The delinquents {will be haled into court later. Two_state organizations will hold annual meetings in this city begin- { ning tomorrow. They are the Order of Fraternal Americans, which will con- :30_o'clock in the Young People’s bullding’ at its fourteenth | annual session, and the Grand Coun- {cil of Virginia, Royal Arcanum, which will meet at noon in the Elks’ lodge- room at its forty-first annual session, Both organizations will be in session two days. The Fraternal Americans expect 100 delegates here and the Royal Arcanum sixty delegates. Many of the delegates will arrive here tonight and will be tendered an {informal reception by the members o the respective organizations, and the glad-hand committee of the chamber }of commerce will be on hand tomor- jTow to welcome the visitors. Elaborate programs have been pre- rared and a pilgrimagze to Mount Vernon and Arlington in automobiles is among the features of the enter- tainment planned. Dr. Willlam Tate Graham, the state orthopedic surgeon of Richmond, Va., yesterday examined twenty - three crippled children at the clinic held in the chamber of commerce under the auspices of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society and the American Red Crose. Dr. Graham was assisted at the clinic by Miss Emily Thornhill, the anti- tuberculosis nurse; Miss Bertha Bristow, the Red Cross nurs Mary Monroe, the school nurse: Miss Meta Tanner and a group of young girls who helped to amuse the ohil- dren who were waiting to be exam- ned. As soon as beds ars avallable most of these children will be operated on vene at Miss | being | {ments to be made in Littlefield, Rail- | Mary- | | this June from, the Hyattsville High ; THE EVENING STAR. 'WASHINGY - i Brought Prosperity to America. Improved conditions in this country regarding unemployment, threatened and general with the situation in tries evidence the suc publican administration tion palicrs during the last 1wo years, John T. Adums, the the republican prosperity as compared luropean coun- of the re- onstruc- according to chairman of national committee. He emphasizes that “for fifty 1o party ever came into pow fronted by more problems vital to the welfare of the American people” and in his prepared statement says “When one travels in Europe strengthens his confidence in Ameri- can institutions, and in policies as There is a great contr; between wditions there and the United States. Two years ago this contrast was not so t. Then years 1 ve well. Says Party Has! financinl stringency, business activity | republican | | 1 | our percen of ur 3 not much less than Europe’s. ernment b our busine: the futur 1w fearful of A gene and unrest and the feeling of uncertainty | Credit for Changes. { =% this has been nsformation has net 11 has structive n party, enacted info {ricd into execution by adminisirati “Without changed. Th been acciden largely the the republi and exaggeration {stated that for fifty y ever came into power confronted fwore problems vital to the wel of the American people. 1In the of unusually trying conditions. b dent Harding has given the Unit States the best business administ tion in the history of the cour This has been mainly respon the improvement in conditions United States during the la years. “Such a r . b cord is in Leep the history of the republic which hasx written most of { sressive legislatic the nat { Affords. Example. The prozram formulated and exe ministration. affords a high ex to all nations which they coulidl low to their profit and to the and the peace of the engire worll 1 “Comparison of European conditions | with_those in America leads one to | appreciate more fully what the Hard ing administration has done and to be kful that the work so well hegun continued. ablican which have to the existing p will he reconstru uted by this ad fol policies ted conditions public welfare will and promoted by wh legislation the occasic THE WEATHER of Columbia and Maryland air tonight, h frost Ifalr with ng temperat ‘m—"vu- westerly winds. Virgi osperous ane | i H { District tomorrow mod- a lignt frost temperature westerly winds —Fair tonight and to- frost tonight West Virg { morrow: Records for Twenty-four Hour | Thermomete 10; 8 p.o., {12 midnight 100 8 am ! Barometer 4 bm “ 4 an 13 1 n night. 20.08: noon. 29,49 perature, rred lowest temperature, am. today m. 30.16; o I8 m., 30.9 | Highest t jat noon today 29, occurred at ® Temperature same date lust Highest, 68; lowest, 41 Conditlon of the Water. Temperature water at s i perature. 45; vear— and condition « am.: Great Falls ndition v muddy Tide Tables. (Furnished by Unite and geodetic Todav—Low tide : high tide, 8:17 omorrow-—Low p.m.; high tide tates survey.) 2:20 am. and 2:57 m. and $:43 p.m tide 3:08 am. and am. and 9:20 i 3 Ipan { The Sun and { Today—Sun rose isets 645> p.m Tomorrow—Sun rises sets 6:46 p.m, Moon rises 5 Automobile one-half hour Wenther to be after sunset in Various Cities. Temperature. State of Siations Weather. +aajouoseg om0l i eeuag gsep Clonds Cloudy Clouds Cloudy Clear, | Bismas Clear | Boston Clou Buffalo s { Charleston. Chicago | Cincinnat Cleveland .. Denver : Detroit El Paso.. Galveston FHelena < Huron, S. D! | Jacksonville. Kansas City. 3 Tos Angeles. Louisville . — Abilene, Tex. 3010 | Albany”... .. 2 | Atlantie Gty 1 Baitimore | Birmingham Ciondy Prcioudy Clindy Clear Clear Rain Clouds Trcio Philadelph Phoenix. Ari Pittsburgh. . 29.9% Portland. Me. 20.94 Portland. Ore 20.80 Raleigh,N.C. 30.08 {8, Lake City 20.98 San’Antonto. San Diego.... 2 Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Pt.clondy Cloudy Clear Cloudy FOREIGN. (8 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperatura, Weather. London, England. 48 rt cloudy France. 48 Tart cloudy 3% Raining penhagen, a8 t cloudy Stockholm, Sweden.... .. 34 cloudy i 58 Clondy Hamilton, Bermuda.. W Clondy San Juan, Porto Rico 8 Clear Havana, Cubd...... i Clondy Colony Canal Zone. 80 Clear by Dr. Graham at Hospital, Richmond. David ' T. . Demarest, eighty-four years old, dled vesterday at the home of his son, H. L. Demarest, Falls Church. The deceased, besides his wife is survived by a son and a daughter. His funeral will take place at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from his late residence and the burial will be {n the Presbyterlan cemetery Chis ty. Canton No, 1, Alexandria Odd Fel-/ lows, will confar the degree of chivalry at the annual meeting of the grand lodge of that organization which will be held at Norton, Va. May 8-10, in- clusive. ~The final arrangements for the trip have been made and a special Pullman car will be chartered by the. Alexandria Odd Fellows wha, will at- tend the eighty-sixth annual meetin, of the grand lodge. A delegution about thirty-five from thig clty ex- pect to attend. the Orthopedic i told ters irope by CON, . D. €, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923. How to Torture Your Wife. 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T O RATHER LIKE Tp BE —— —— = AND BRING Dowrt ray | SOLF CLUBS WHE ('\’/2:; come ! I may \ MEED ‘€M ( weLd AROUM D TC-MORRoW 1F | COULD . UMFORTUNATELY THE BOSS IS SEMNODING (VIE QUT CF TOWN To-MIGHT 16 BE GOME ! Four DAVS . HAW ;’o casjce Ar} = M ~MT COMTRACT, ULy Yoo | 211“,,"°§‘5'2c.‘.|~e My SOTCASE, DEAR ? f they were taken in the small boat | Deertield 23 ALIENS SMUGGLED . OVER FLORIDA LINE .. o-iec toffice in Havana, is alleged to be man who arran County Sheriff Rounds Up Men mouey country. The same man that in anothe week of 150 Italians wili be Florida coast. together with of whisky When h party said, eighty others sailed for the England ast, wh th expect to land in the vi ity of Boste Lombardi stated he sailed from Barcelona, Spain, February 19, on the steamship Oriana of the Spanish | after they were assured there would be no difficuity in entering the United said the trip Cuba e week, the party having sailed in a large fishing smack with- out any cabin. Lombardi h a Lrother living in New Conn., who, he says, business man Most of the take sald to be nati Czeche the others being Italians A search showed several tration cards sl that been in the Uni world war. This led th ficers to believe that ti ne been ported and that several may in te ''Missing Men Seek Haven in g to Lombardi. an Amer ive. located in a real « 1 and accep for smugg Wandering Along Swamp Highway. to! HONOLULT, Honolulu Chica By thie Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, 16.—Twenty-three gled into the United S of Cuba Deerfield April €- Fla., ens Leing s 1 Paris ates from E John H. W Widow Murpl cated-here or whe jr. has pped AN inform the parents or them a if they were captured last night and this heriff Paul C. Bryan Sheriff W. A. Hicks of The men were county 1 ed from a small boat near Deer- to the Palm Beach county to shift for themselves hurriedly, but the nis deputy rounded them veral were taken in a h long_the highway and Pompano and shacks along the way near s ning b Deputy hn Smith this port that fond relatives are 1 will be and o - maye Honolulu chief exceuti men pvakia had they regis- had wing Deerfield, others : Fort Lauderc others in small in rs ov publicat day a ne story newspapers for Only the othe Giuseppe Lombardi. one of the men Deputy Sheriff Hicks @eir story 4 that in Cuba there is a_com- which agrees to smuggle foreign- into America for $200. The men paid that sum in Ttaly and were taken to Cuba, said Lombardi. and from there B e Experiments are to be made Philippines in the preparation for the manufacture of hemp waste and low-grade He s pany astonishi “how man whom 'inquiries ar here ™ fib EN’S WEAR Price Talks, But It Takes Quality to Keep Up the Conversation! 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