Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1926, Page 5

- - NATION'S TRIUMPH OVER DANGER SEEN fSir Philip Gibbs Fearful of { Immediate Situation, But 2 Predicts Peace. BY SIR PHILIP G BBS. By Cadi LO general tain con- industrial of the has be- ganized minds cenes, itish titu meth 'he B of the life DON. May Ftrike througho inues (hat para ictivity uron wh ation at rsis abor, Ted which are s tnd the g peopie, who stand lc tio: vernment pds of political ar Per e most extraordinary ex gerience ever known by a civi country in modern times is the culty experienced E nd news. Now that the ckers have st Newspapers cannot be J distributed, the ple of Great win are depend on handbill pers and wireless broadcasting nformation In London clubs crowds and mem: bers jostied each round the Loazds where wirel etins were posted. They were desperately anx ous for news of what was happen ing throughout the country. All that Wwe could know was that strike or @8 had been cbeved amd that in all the des affected work had e behind_the of the 1 1 to con ent. dithi today print so that roduced or Brit- pa for Jazz Rules Radio. Thosa of have wirele specially wse of us who tountry 1 do, have been Kl ight to wvord o waves which nd peace, and while nation is on the s through fiddie, while Kome burned. gl si icance o2 this no matter what hap. be heavily we ed with 3 of e o first morning of 4 ere s and no v W few p omnil uses, hy thot d women had to alk to of hops in London. Many wiik girls in b X yeles, for mand. All thronged w roads into London we motor traftic and ever: old crock of pre \ was brou: untry me while lux- » lifts to working men re sending out affs at while } \fany great firms sotor lorries to collect their fixed points in o that thy ®on the premises. Spirit of Adventure. All this unusual experience gives @ touch of adventure o life which at first amuses good-hurnored youth. But 1t's no joke after all to sce great lway stations with closed gates hnd te watch crowds of workless men standing with their hands in thelr pockets while the machinery of jish Life is au & dead stop in its most vital trades. I have been watching the faces of the crowd in London, east and west On the whole they are good-natured end not much worried, not vet in- flamed by political passion. But herel end there I have noticed other kinds of faces, those thax are furtive and fullen and rather criminal in type. Out of the dwrk little dens of L don slums some of our night b have stepped into the 1 ecenting trouble, vhance of anarchy tvpes at the preser es that the Driti 1.8 no chances 1 saw the frst constadles marct in new umfor from pol for just sucn Young men of ¢ and acuive rolltng In ev Is any looung bies wili not U gainst such in all great h government is recrufts of special g down Pall Mall 's already provided roa, held in readiness tsns They are mostly 4 class, thi, sturdy usaz ds more are en 1£ there 2 British bLob. Lnout reserve. . Foreseen. gs with a heavy Danger 1 wr and common sense of whose spirit T I cannot conceal fra mysel{-—and serious-minded Jishman can—that this situation may develop on evil lines unless it is set- tled quickly. Owing t ment, bad tr ditions n fultilled 7 time of v ness i tors up 1 surge_up i in the sanity my own pec in tme of ars of unemplo; rde, terrible hou crowded cities too 1 is a lot Politi mouthed me Criminal instinets may trouble. Hunger and failing of strike v and in evitable defeat may hot heads into desperate @ we are throu leas is a quick finish, there is bound to be some ou break of violence leading to ste nd Jneretless suppressio - the sake of Jaw and order. Hardships Are Sure. h countryside as 1 cam ped in peace les were si though it was golden on 1 boys were believe ngland the o, W 2 ons and sma playing cricket. 1t was hard tc that une th this peace of forces were wther which m 1 to dreadful strif n any case Is sure to end in national hardships and gnany evil thin e most tr: ‘ gfljntlzu\d ungay MacDonald his colle ues in the Labor party in the House of Commons. They are men ot peace. T hate and detest revolu- v methods. They wished to play well as for their own have boen outmaneu- vered by vounger and wilder men who have capiured the machinery of labor unions and are cager to set it in mo- tion with all the by eral strike will be broken : threatens the life of the nation British constitution will pi yond any shadow of doubt. cost will be great and the disaster will D felt by all classes and all who seek the progress of democracy in Europe. g T Three Sawmills Burn. CARYVILL, Fla. Fire of undetermined morning _destroyed three sawmills, @ dry klin, a planer mill, 10,000,000 feet of lumber, with an approximate loss of more than $1,000,000. The property was owned by the Brown- Florida Lumber Co. No lives were lost. they P).— igin early thi They Should Walk. ¥rom the Farm Life Magazine. Book Agent (to farmer a few days after the farmer's children had started to echool})—Now you shauld by them an encyclopedia. Farmer—Buy them an encyclopedia? Hanged if I do. Let them walk, like 3aa [copy Lad been inspected. |Soviet Labor Group To Raise $1,750,000 More for Strikers By the Associated Press, MOSCOW, May The execu- tive committee of the Soviet La- bor Confederation d a reso- lution today to appeal to all union members and workers in So.iet institutions to_contribute one-quar- ter of one duy’s wages to the striking British wor In this manner ,000 rubles ($1,750, 000), will 'be raised. There al ready been sent to the Gen- eral English Trade Council. 250, 000 rubles. _The Soviet Transport Workers’ | Union has adopted a resolution not to handle any freight destined for ¥ and. OF STRIKE ABATED { e ‘Sailing of Three Vessels Indi- cates Schedules Will Not Be Disrupted. YORK, May 6.—Steamship | {companies have successfully met the situation created by the British gen- eru men here be- | and Orca f | the Maj and ‘ vesterday were consid- | | i | 'mpton evidence not make schedules that the strike would serious iiling gained inroads on British | for the | of the | for the board on” crew on on carry the ned to that Forty-six <“of the fireroom | force, known as the “bl ng,” be- cause of the griminess of their work, attempted to leave the Arabic before | she left port here vesterday. The uble arose, however, shipping men from of older men that they rva work because of in- sxperience of 16 new hands signed to replace usual deserters. When the President Har ates Lines left y Plymouth instructions were given k to proceed to Soutl conditions at Pl to interfere with el there. Coal Export. M 6 (#).—The Norwegian nment vesterday for- | bade the export of coal and coke. Sail-| in of the Bery Steamship the Olsen Line have been suspended tempo ily be- cause of the British strike. wo ing of the | to er apt. Van Dey mpton if strike mouth threatened the disc Big Steel Plant Reopens. ‘ NEWPORT, England, May 6 (P).— One of the bizgest steel works in s district resumed operations toda: 95 per cent of the workers reporting for duty e Perry Quits Wisconsin U. | MADISON, Wis., May 6 (#).—Prof. H. Ten Eyck Perry of the English department of the University of Wisconsin has resigned. Pe: will join the faculty of the Unive; of 3uffalo, Bu , N. Y. He came here three years ago from Yale Universit; Py the Assoclated Press. 1 The Prince of Wales, who called off | hb vacation in France and flew home | in an airplane because of the strike, | with his brother, the Duke of York, listened in the House of Commons to Home Secretary Joynson-Hicks inti- mate that troops would maintain ser 1ces of vital importance if nec Many American visitors in England are going to take a chance and see the big show through. Numerous other fearing inconvemence, hastentny, to the ! sail | homeward or to the continent. Eastbound passengers who had in-| tended visiting the Britsh Isles are stopping off at Cherbourg and other continental port: The London Times today had 4 pages. It primed 15 columns o? ad- vertisements and the remainder was | devoted mainly to strike news. f The DBrnsn Worker, the laborite | sheet, issued 1w answer to the govern- | ment's British € ette, had a narrow scape from being cond ted. The police held up this morning’ edition, | but lifted the embargo when a sample Its reading considered innocuous. The paper was printed at the plant of the Daily Herald, the regular organ of Labor. 5 matter was The British zette contains a statement by Prime Minister Baldwin in which he say eneral strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarch Ta their strike. The . firs labor quarte men on_strike sritish Worl 00,000 to ab drivers have decides 1 ars in garages and join the t cfficial utterance from s as to the number of is_contained in the , NEE that from 3,000,000 workers have left their job Representatives of the government expr satisfaction over what they term “the improved condition.” ( The Norwegian government has for- bidden the exportation of coal and coke. At Brussels next Monday the exec- | utive committee of the International Miners' Federation will decide on its | attitude toward the British general | strike. L'Impero, the Fascist newspaper in Rome, sees the commencement of the ) decline of the British Empire. “The grandiose phenomenon before our eyes | in England is a terrible revelatory | mptom of the process of decompos tion going on slowly, but with fatally algebraic law,” says the newspaper. The London Daily Mail has been able to get out a two-page typescript edition. It declares that the lawful government of Great Britain or the “unconstitutional revolutionary gov- ernment” representing the trade unionists must go. It added that the people would not see J. H. Thomas and Ramsay MacDonald “imitating | the work of Lenin and Trotsky here,” adding, “nor will the British people submit .to such an odious tyranny.” The general strike started in the Daily Mail plant when the mechanical workers objected to an cditorial last Sunday and walked out. Business firms in New ¥ork which have London connections are keeping SHPLINES' FEARS |is a for norr | 7,720,000 | tur |is likely them informed of what is happening in England. Owing to the suspension of the English néwspapers one firm THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1926. SUPPLIES OF FOOD LESS THANNORMAL Washington Economist Says Fruit Is Plentiful, But Grain and Meat Are Low. What is the state of the Inglish cupboard? This question, which was so important during the World War, rman submarines threatened Britain off from the is being asked again | strike continues, and America are as ble as what is when to cut C outside world, s the industrial s estimates made in likely to be S coming now ¥ 4 . The war emergency brought out and investigations of the en- sh food question, and efforts ade to encourage home pro- duetion of grains and other foods. But the present situation finds Eng- land with a food supply on hand that little below the normal stock times—that is, when ship- ments are steadily coming in. Less Wheat on Hand. of year Tmports lower this nds last the wheat supply at 4,000,000 bushels le And how much of the bushels of wheat at the ports will be turned into flour by the mills during the strike {5 uncer- tain. Homegrown wheat provides only one-fifth of Great Britain’s need ed_supply. Stocks of bacon at Liverpool during rch of this year were lower than wst and stocks of ham amounted to only a little over one-fourth of the tock held at the same time last year. Beef imports are a little higher than last year and mutton a little lower. The great bulk of the milk supply is home produced, and special efforts are being made to distribute it, as it i3 the most vital article of food for young children. The British people are better off when it comes to fruit and vegetables, in the opinion of Edwin Smith, as- sistant chtef marketing speclalist in the United States Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics, who has just re- ed from London. There will be no -ute shortage of potatoes, on which the British housewife relies so heavily, and while this is not a sea- son for large stocks of homegrown vegetables, the Southern mafkets have heen regularly sending shiploads of Spring produce to British ports. Fruit Is on Wa: “This 1s the peak of the season for jan and New Zealand apples 3 » said Mr. Smith. “Whether the cargoes will be unload- ed, however, another question. It that commission merchants so their own trucks to handle he d get it from the docks to market. Cabbage and cauliflower have been coming in from France and Italy and new potatoes from North Africa, British s than | and these cargoes face the same situ- tion at the do Undoubtedly the commission merchants and the farm- “rs will be able to transport quantities of vegetables and fruit on lorries.” , Mr. Smith points out that while the British population has continued to increase land under cultivation in the United Kingdom has decreased. It was asserted during the World War that the country might conceivably make itself independent of other na- tions for its food supply, but to do this it would have to abandon or greatly diminish many of its most important manufacturing industries. The present emergency cannot be met by plans for increasing future har- vests, but it may again stimulate in- terest in farming among the British people. Features of British Strike has sent a cable of 600 words con- taining a resume of the news in Eng- land printed in New York newspapers. The Austrian Metal Workers' As- sociation is to nd financial assist- ance to the British strikers. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the British premier, has plunged into the al struggle to keep up transpor- organizing a special flect of automobiles to bring business women and girls from the suburbs to London. From her he: No. 10 Down- ing street, Mr: n and staff of volunteer woman worl have re- ruited private motors of all kinds for this service. Several hundred automo- biles have been put into service and the number is increasing. Labor headquarters, usually rather drab in appearance, were given a dash of color this morning when Kyrle Bel- lew, ac and wife of Arthur Bour- chier, nanager, arrived to offer her s to the strike leaders. She s husband joined the La- borites s vears ago. Miss Bel- lew arrived in a limousine at head- nd swept into the building, ng in her trail exotic Persian perfume. She was dressed in a check- ered traveling suit, spider-webbed stockings, delicate shoes and a small toque. The strike has produced at least 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1 $1.50, $2.00 $7 rooms, $6 weekly: $10.50 rooms, $8: $13 with toilet, hower and lavatory. $1 2 in_room, 50% more. Rooms like Mother's. % PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. 8. Treasury 1408 H 8T. N. W. The New Orange Grove Market The great opening will be Saturday, May 8, at 11 am., at 1226 H St. N.W,, one door next to cormer 13th and H Sts. N.W. You will be surprised when you see the new market. We will offer the biggest and best Bargains that you ever had in your life at the opening day, so be sure and do mnot miss it. Also we - will have a full line of fresh and smoked meats at the lowest price in town. Look for the orange-color front. one change in the automobile habits of Englishmen. Hitherto silk-hatted men have been accustomed to go to business in lonely state and dignity, but now the American ‘‘pick-up” system has come into vogue. Many men and women who have been accustomed to crowd into the subway busses and trams are now rolling to work in comfortable auto- mobiles as a consequence. Many pri- vate cars now bear placards showing their destination in order to avoid confusion., The pretty girls seem to fare best, many of them getting seats beside the big “butter and egg men” from the western suburbs, The strike has tied up shippin in the Thames, and, as a result, the big liner Minnetonka will have to re- madn at her dock with the cargo which she brought from New York still aboard. The Megantic will sail from Liverpool for Montreal Saturday, and it is hoped that the Cedric will be able to leave Liverpool Monda: A popular belief in Wales fs that rheumatism can be relleved by bind- ing a split mackerel round the af- fected part. MEAT IS ADEQUATE FOR BRITISH NEEDS Milk Rationing Brings Chief Com- plaint From Homes—Prices Continue Normal. By the Assoclated Press, LONDON, May 6.—London will have its usual supply of fish Friday and also fresh Wiltshire ham and Irish bacon. It is said government cire are looking after the transport. It ated today that the supply of fresh and chilled meat throughout the country is sufficient. This seems indicated by the fact that there has been but a slight rise in meat prices in_some of the more remote districts The complaint the housewives hav to offer thus far concerns milk. They have been notificd by the delivery companies that hereafter milk will be rationed somewhat after ns in- augurated during the that henceforth they will be a half their usual supply. The delivery companies and the food minister, how- ever, have agreed to make special ef- forts to supply children and hospitals with almost normal requirements. The prices of eggs and even of game are almost normal. The prices of candles have been boosted, however, owing to an unusual demand. This is taken to indicate that the housewives believe the strike is apt to continue for some time and therefore are buy. ing candles freely in case electricity should be turned off. Woman Makes Active M. P. Mrs. Hilton Philipson, a member of the Inglish Parliament familiarly called “Our Mabel,” is one of the most actize members of the House of Com- She comes from Berwick, and in one week recently is sald to be typical of ‘her activities. She stayed jn the House for a late session one efening, rushed home to dress for a public dinn caught the night express to lunch next day with the Berwick Farmers Union, took the afternoon train back to town and was in the House for the night session, has the reputation also aring properly clad and Several ways of expressing our appre- ciation for thirty-three year of patronage —but the most effective means is found be- low—to bring prices down as low as qual- ity and efficient merchandising permits. © \Q") Men’s Union Suits 79¢ nainseok and madras in a variety of weaves. Athfetic style Sizes 34 to 46. Check Men’s Silk Hose 49¢ Plain color gray navy or blac very pair perfect. Reinforced at toe and heel. Men’s Shirts $].65 6 for $9.50 lmportegd broa dcioth tmadras, oxford, rayon stripe -hundreds of shirts. Sizes 1374 to 18. All styles. Al sleeve lengths,. $6—9$8 Oxfords $4.85 fords in the new styles. sizes—575 to 1. With or without rubber heels. Boys® Golf Hose 59¢ Pr. 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