New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1919, Page 1

'STEEL CORP. HEAD WOUL | News of the World. By Asseciated Press. \ - D Herald “Ads” Me Better Business [ — NEW BRITAIN HERAL ESTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, SE&TEMBER 4, 1 19. —TWELVE PAGES PRICE THREE CENT D TRADE WITH HUNS; UNDERWOOD RECOGNIZES NEED OF FEDERA. R. R. CONTROL TO GUARD AGAINST STRIEE BOVERNMENT BOARD 10 FiX WAGES AND RATES IS URGED Alabama Senator Says Contests of Brute| Force Between Cap- ital and Labor Must Cease MEN WON'T STRIKE AGAINST FAIR RULE Thinks Congress Has Right to Create Body to Deter- mine Pay As Well As Charges. Washington, Sept. 4.—Establish- ment of a governmental commission or board with powers to fix bath rail- road wag scales and transportation rates was advocated in the senate to- day by Senator Underwood of Ala- bama, democratic member of the in- terstate commerce committee. Without disclosing whether he fa- vored the interstate cammerce com- mission the proposed tribunal, or discussing the Cummins bill's plan to prohibit strikes and lockouts of em- ployes, Senator Underwood said the interests of the public, of capital :Amli of railroad employes require such plan. It is clearly within the right of | congr ne declared, to creatc an agency to determine wages as well as rates a Will Not Oppose. “Men will not strike,” said the Ala- bama senator. “against the just deci- sions of the government. After a fair determination of the controversy by an impartial tribunai, public sentiment will force the contending parties to accept the verdict rendered as final. It must be done in the interest of the men involved, the industry of the peo- ple and the peace of the nation.” Public Must Be Protected. The tribunal he proposed. Senator Underwood continued, “must have the authority and power to protect the rights of the whole people against the recurrence of strikes and lockouts Disturbance of transportation, he said, affects the whole public and therefare | railroad employes owe' obligations in | their action different from thase in | private industry. i | Tribunal to Settle Wages. “There is but one way out, in my: judgment,” he continued, *and that is to appoint a tribunal with the pow- er to adjust these matters, which hns! the time to consider and the oppor-} tunity to know the facts. Such a trib- unal must not only have the power and be prepared to do what is right and just, by the labor employed on the railroads, but must have authority and power to see that proverty is not com- fiscated by its decisions. For, should You confiscate the property of the transportation companies you would break down the channels of transpor- tation as effectively you would break them down in a strike, with the resultant injury to the people. A tribunal of this kipd must also have the authority and opportunity to con- sider the rights of shippers and trav- elers who in the last analysis will bear any increased burden that falls on the carriage of property or persons over the transportation lines. What Must Be Determined. “If you want a final and just solu- tion of such a controversy you ar practically driven to leaving the deci- sion to a governmental commission that has full and ample opportunity to investigate the rates of wage, the earning power of the transportation companies, the cost of living, the bur- den that rests on the shipping public and to determine: 1—What is a fair, wage far the men; 2—How far this placed on the capital tion without breaking stroying the value of its securitles, bankrupting its property and taking away from the investing public a fair Teturn for capital invested: —How far an increased charge for labor, interest or supplies can be handed down to the public without doing injustice to the shipper and traveler, and without becoming a menace to the development of indus- try, “It is essential that the board or commission that is given the power to adjust the wage scale of the men must (Continued on Eleventh Page) as just and living charge can he of the corpora- it downm, de- | dres ; ject of divorce. COUNTRY’S FAMILY LIFE 1§ IN PERIL Obio Jurist Predicts 400,000 Divorce Cases This Year ADVISES SPECIAL GOURTS. American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology Hears Sugges- tions For Betterment of Civiliza- tion—Root Makes Recommendation. Boston, ment of menace to the presented by the recommended by W. Hoffman relations last 4.—The courts” to marriage relation divorce evil was Chief Jusice Charles of the court of domestic at Cincinnati, O., in an ad- night before the American Institute of Criminal Law and Crim- inology in session here in connection with the annual meeting of the Am- erican Bar association. “Marriage as an institution dangered in America today through the divorce evil, and the only way to save it is by the establishment of family courts in which social evidence as distinguished from legal, will be considered” Judge Hoffman said. Sees 400.000 Divorce Cases. “There will be more than 400,000 divorce cases filed before the courts of the land this year, and something must be done to save our family lif the greatest civilizing force we have,” he continued. *“The family court should be an extension of the princi- ple upon which juvenile courts are founded. “It will establish- meet the Sept. family is en- be possible, tem to correlate the work of juvenile and divorce divisions of court anda obtain reliable kcignt data. This the final purpose of the family court and it will be through the facts developed that the requisite knowledge and information necessary for regulation - of marriage divorce will he acquired. law has ever been under this is and No scientifie made on the sub- Divorces are granted for certain causes, but no effort is made to classify basic causes.” Elihu Root’s Suggestions. Elihu Root former secretary of state speaking before the judical sec- tion of the association said he favored wiping out the “business of attempt- ing to bring about justice by statute” and that he believed it best to “leave it to the judges to do justice.” “A few meagre rules embodying the fundamental principles are all that is necessary,” he added. “One of the great troubles with .egislation today is that it does not permit the judges to do justice.” Young and in- experienced lawyers in the legisla- tures who “because they did not turn out the way they thought it should proceed as soon as they get a chance in the legislature to bring about the change they think ought to be made ““‘were largely responsible for the condition, he thought Pceople Chafe at Law. The real reason for criticlsm of the courts is not that the people have Jost faith in the courts and confidence in our judges, but that they have come to where they want less and less to be bound by law. U. S. Forces tt; Hold Much Hun Territory Coblenz, Sept. 4, (By The Asso- ciated Press.)—Marshal Foch, the Al- lied commander-in-chief, has decided upon the extent of the territory in the Rhineland to be held permanent- ly by American forces. Its area will be twice as large as that which has been under American jurisdiction since the combat division left for home. Austria Granted Time Extention Paris, Sept. 4, (Havas.)—The preme council of the peace confer- ence has decided to grant the request of the Austrian peace delegation for two days' delay in the time for pre- last su- i sald, WILSON OPENS CAMPAIGN, DECLARING HE WILL MAKE REPORT DIRECTLY TO PEOPLE; BOOSTS TREATY AND LEAGUE OF NATIONS | s in Coumbus. et WORK SLACKERS ARE @ Latter . SEEN AS PROFITEERS Germany and Latter Ful- Robert Scoville Says For $1 fills America’s Promise tol | l Every Man Should Re- End Wars. Columbus, O., turn $1 of Production. Wilson, opening his speaking tour for the peace treaty declared in an address here today that his purpose was to “go out and report to my fellow countrymen.” “The only people I owe any report,” said the president, “are you and the other citizens of the United States.” i Sees Need of Explanation. L The president said it also “seemed “increasingly necessary'" that he should make such a report because he had read many speeches about the treaty and was unable to gather from them much of what the treaty contained. Mr. Wilson began by say- ing that he had ‘‘chafed at the con- finement of Washington,” and wa. glad to get out to make his report to the people In the first Sept. 4.—President country-wide Hartford, Sept. 4.—Robert Scoville, federal food administrator for Con- necticut, in a statement issued today, declared that ‘“the real profiteer is the man who, for a dollar received in wages, has not offered in return at least one dollar of production.” A definition of the purposes of a fair price committee for the state is given, There will be sub-committees repre- senting affected lines of trade in ali of the large centers. Until the price committee has undertaken its work, Mr. Scoville will issue no fur- ther statement. He is serving at the request of Attorney-General Palm Mr. Scoville says that the seemini delay in getting the committee under way Is due to failure of congress to provide the law and the funds to es- tablish and maintain headquarters for handling complaints and the suance of price lists. Mr. Scoville says that tivity of the committee the food administration will to prepare fair price lists. He has felt that in a compact community like this state, where practically all merchants are doing business under highly com- e 3 A petitive conditions, there was proi- prehend its meaning. ably less profiteering than is common- League Fulfills Promise. | 1y supposed. If this reasoning is cor- The league of nations, the president rect, he says, it follows that there declared, was for the fulfillment of the promise that the United States was fighting this war “to end business of that sort” forever. ot to estab- lish the league he said, would be “un- faithful” to those who had died. “If we do not do this thing, declared. “We have neglected the central covenant we promised our people. The league of nations is the only thing that can prevent the recur- rence of this catastrophe.’” Besides this, the president contin- ued, the treaty ‘‘tears away the chains of oppression and gave small nationalities the right live their own lives. ““That,” he said. “was the American fair place. the president said, the treaty undertook to punish Germany but there was no thought of overwhelmingly crushing any great people. Restraint had is- been exercised, he said, and there was provision for making the reparation no greater than Germany could pay. Mr. Wilson said he had tonished” at statements made about the treaty and was convinced many of them were made by men who had not read it or else had failed to com- the only ac- in revising he been ‘“‘as- can be no pronounced reductions in prices expected from this activity alone. Mr. Scoville analyzes his views prevalling conditions arising prima- ily, he claims, from lack of produc- \ tion and high cost of production, say- ing of the man does not return a dollar’s value in production for dollar’s wage received that man subtracting from the natural wealth, and every day of his employ- ment finds tlie country poorer and not riche He is in effect demanding support from the community and thus contributes in no small degree to :he high cost of living on the part of others as well as himself. of he who a such a is to | their bodies badly mutilated. Tale of Terrible Massacre as Reds Told By Survivor. ! Evacuate Town Constantinople, 4.—More than executed by the they evacuated southern Russia, via London, 1,000 persons were Bolsheviki before Yekaterinoslav in according to a dis- patch received here from that city. | The dispatch gives an account of the massacres as described by a phy- siclan who was the principal medical expert present at the opening of the pits into which the bodies of these vietims had been thrown after their execution. This physician, Dr Robin, declares the victims' heads had been crushed with hammers and Many of them, he says were found with broken legs and ribs caused by blows with sledge hammers, specimens of which were found in the vicinity. The physician tells of one officer who missed being struck by the firing squad’s bullets and then by simulating death, escaped the Bol- sheviki who came along bayoneting the wounded. The Bolshevik organizations in the ity had been headed by a workman named Valiavka and various com- | munists the report adds and the prin- cipal posts of the Soviet administra- tion under:them were in the hands of voung men and women Wholesale pillaging is delared to have occurred in the town hefore its evacuation. The evacuation of Yekaterinoslav by the Bolsheviki apparently occurred more than two months ago A Rus- slan wireless dispatch from Moscow on July 1 which reported the capture by the Cossacks of Kharkov an-| nounced also that the Bolsheviki had lost Yekaterinoslav, 115 miles south- west of Kharkov Sept HOOVER SAILS SATURDAY, Paris, Sept. 4 director-general Herbert Hoover, the international relief organization, left here today for London. He will sail for the United States, September 6, on the Aquitania. of position and 1 was glad to fight for Takes Up Fiume Question. Ttaly, the president presented to the trary proposal in ume, Though there were only scattered Ttalian settlements there, he declared, Ttaly wanted Fiume for strategic and military purposes. If there were league of nations, he asserted, would not need that foothold “I'd rather have everybody on my | side,” he continued, *“than be armed to the teeth.” Referring to criticism that the treaty violated American traditions, Mr. Wilson said he was proud that he too belonged to the old revolutionar: school and that he was following the | purpose of the vision which the fath- l continued, had conference a con- her request for Fi- Washington, Sept. 4.—Final action on the peace treaty b the s(*n;ll\:] foreign relations committee late today was planned by republican leaders. It was proposed that a resolution of ratification, including reservations be adopted and the treaty ordered ported to the senate. 1t was announed that Senator Fall had withdrawn the only remaining | amendment before the committee, proposing to strike out the labor sections and that a special executive | meeting called for this afternoon was for the purpose of a a Italy re- | { | | to FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE IN SECRE s SESSION, TALKING TREATY that if treaty the Te- Chairman Lodge said committee ordered today he report and probably the ported would prepare his submit the treaty of the make the Monday democrats were expected minority reports Although an agreement the republican members radical and moderate had not been reached it some of the reservations proposed probably would be adopted by the committee by a solid republican vote. senate Some to between favoring reservations was said ers had seen. “This treaty is an attempt to right the wrongs of Europe,” said the pres- | ident, “and in my humble opinion it is a measurable success.” He used the word ‘“‘measurable,” he added, because racial lines were not always distinct and could not be drawn with absolute precision on a map. Urges Acceptance of Ter Praising the treaty provision pro- Str.ilzin;r At.;tor; T ;) Aid Little Orphans Chicago, Sept. 4.—Striking engaged in the benefit at the auditorium this week an- nounced today that next Sunday's afternoon proceeds should be donated to the three orphaned Tanner chil- miding frorfaniinternations illatox) oy | (dnSHNEHoss parelish ene il e Rby el manization which Wil old first | train at Hubbard Woods on Monday meetingliin WashingtoniniOctober, | SYeRINS I MEs STann enii Foot Jeaught Rerrceldent eaal while crossing the tracks and her me tell ‘[ A Al tehl Han ey You it iwilEmectiwhethei hettreaty sl o Rand Wil axn SHLICHE A inep D e 2 her from a fast train ratified by then or not.” an oo e [Thelpiesider dbpeaieditolinisihenpti|dledRmAthEh epiclasped inEDIS anms: ers to exert their influence for ceptance of the treaty actou performance its MORE LAND FOR PRISON. “Don’t let men pull it down.” he Hartford, Sept. 4—The directors of | sald “dont let them misrepresent it.” | 1o gtate prison have purchased six | “When this treaty is accepted,” he | 5 =20 > | o5 of d, a total of 15 acres, “the men in khaki will pisceSoliand. g 2 never | P2 oy > 2l : the prison traca in Wether have to cross the seas agai iay | Addoining r s eas again, and L say | .14 which is now increased to 35 when it is accepted because it will be 5 accepted.” : e it will be | | les. The purchase price of the 15 acres was $39,650. Announcement of {he purchase was made today ac- Chinaman Accosts President. As the president w leaving the hall @ Chinaman in the allery called several times, “Mr. Wilson, how abont | Shantung The presiden: apparent- Iy did not hear him The treaty also contains, the presi- through with the American principle of the choice of the governed." Te tdeaty also contains, the WEATHER. Il | Hartford, Sept. ore- cast for New Britain and vi- presi- cinity: Fair tonight and Thur: senting the Austrian answer to the terms of peace. Hl day: stightly cooler. (Continued on Eleventh Page.) | LSS =) | with $75.2 DRIVE FOR $15,000 HAS NETTED $352 rst Day’s Campaign for Welcome Celebration Shows Subscriptions to This Amount. Willam J. Farley and his team- $15,000 expenses of workers in the campaign for the Home celebration to were the top liners reports submitted at the Elks' club during the first to aid in defraying the Welcome service men, the noonday captains the $35 the in the of day by today raised of the ¢ reported won by ign, Mr. Farle Second honors A. G. Kimball's Many of the team and captains report today. The amounts reported by the t are follows: Captain C. H. $12; Captain $16; Captain | Starr, §$15; Captain Taylor, $22; Captain Upson, $¥: Captain Maxwell S. Porter, $30; Captuin Pape, $7.30 Captain Mrs. A. G. Kimball, $73.50; | Roys' (‘lub $1.28 . W the Chamber Commerce, presided meeting that the of atfending noonday impressed upon the and captains. amp $95 Mrs V's team were teary mem. bers failed to make any ims as 1ox, | Kraus, team Pelton, of of vho at toda importance | meetings team urged the be members | GARY THINKS AN ERICA NEEDS AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN 600 E el | State Department Receives Direct Apology From Carranza Govt. PLANE NOT ACROSS BORDER At No Time Did American Aviators Cross International Line—Immedi- ate Investigation of Incident Prom- ised in Message Received, Washington, the firing plane on been expressed ernment, it Sept. 4.—Regret American Army b r, Tuesday the Mexican gg announced today the State department Assuran were given that immediate inves- tigation would be made with to satisfactory adjustment Acted Without Orders. The message the received by the department regarding the in- cident and did not attempt to identify the Mexicans. Officials on the Mexi- can side of the horder have admitted, however, that the shots were fired hy Mexican federal troops who, it is vimed, were acting without orders. Was Not Across Border. “Lieutenant Johnson, Captain Nabb, fired by cans numbering 20 ranch Mexican side miles stream from sage. ‘'Plane titude when pilot the Mexican side decker’s ranch number of people. to altitude of 100 feet the town when plane radiator punctured made landing side. M right over over atl an ai the was an a view was first observer upon at ' a 12 said the flving 500 noticed the town opposite contained Plane on up- mes- al- on Leyende- of river, Laredo,” was feet an descended ahove river fired pilot American slightly Airplane Mexican near was on, was and ovced Captain above no time on Nabb wounded ear. at tory.” The expression by the acting fairs after the American embassy Mexico City had formally called tention to the report of the by the American consul at Laredo 600,000 WORKERS ASK WAGE ADJUSTMENTS United was terri- of minis regret er of was made foreign «f- at- ent Neuvo inc Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railroad Shop La- borers Voice Complaint. Washington, Sept. 4 tives of the 600,000 members the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and railroad shop asked the railroad wage board today to adfust theid wages in accordance with the principle laid down by ident Wilson in approving adjust- ments last week for the railroad men. The board was that adhered the president’s that there should of wages were seeking nomic conditions to normal but they felt the inequalities in pay ex isting as between the employves of different railroad systems should 1 corrected. Ths maintenance of way men and shop laborers, the spokes- men said, received the lowest pay of any class of emploves railroad service Decision to ask for adjustment of their wages at this time was reach- ed by the men recently through a se- cret ballot. [t was announceil of a general wage increase considered at the annual Detroit, September Liberty Motor In European Flight York, News European tlight triplune equipped was made public here today Contl, American represents the Caproni Co A by Mr. Conti ‘aproni triplane motors and an Representa- of laborers Pres- shop- told the nien decision neral in- vernment return to be no creases while agencies to eco- that rates of in the an that the question would convention be New successtul Sept. 4 of a C Liberty a of proni with motors, by D. G tive of received telegram from Milan fitted with 18 passenger Liberty { cabin flew frop Milan across the Alps to Lyons, Paris, Brussels, dam, on its way to London. Amster- unusual | 'MORE THAN THOUSAND MEXICO EXPRESSFS Thinks Resumptic EXECUTED BY SOVIETS REGRET FOR ATTACK ~Business Relati . Aid in Stabilizing | change and U . Would Benefit. PREDICTS TREATY WILL BE PAS American Businessmen vised They Are Fa Fiercest Commercial H in History of World. Boston, S of and Ilbert pt. 4.—Immediath 1siness relations, Austria was adwd H. Gary, chairn directors of the an address befo of the Ameri Gary preface sumption Germany today by the hoard Steel Corp., in annual meeting association. M speech with a declaration, tha majority of the people of Amn were in favor of the peace treaf] the league of nations and tha would assume it would be ad without material change of Sees Benefit to re-establishment the United vas v, of trad] States and the urged the sp that we need G4 Austrian goods and also such purchases would have a dd influence in stabilizing exchange: “From an economic standpoin id considering of paramou) nificance the question of benef ourse we ought to resume: elations with Germany and The tweer tral on nd Powers by the ground a ves, ness tria at once As further ternational Gary means to restore ti situation, the United our other des fortunate in rel productive capaci resources, and that should chase their products up to the of our requirements and ability also sugg that the adoptio] the American dollar as a bas standard of currency and would be of universal benefif. Talks On Race Discriminatid Referritg to the question @ discrimination Mr. Gary asserted it that if compariso to intelligence and general meriy between those whoj immigrate to the who are denjel 1tage woul latter.” H] questions wew by the leag] pass upof ‘without unt league is business declared should finance countries less tating their “we sted is possible to be made permitted States privi the found in fav clared that propriate for nations which s to wnd those adv the hesc Letion ould vote fter tt pleted ard adopted Fierce Struggle unanimous delay by sary e \head: business men facing in the ners,” he were the fi hist said s thel ind @ American ed that they commercial sty the gazing rertile tation operation many trol o1 vere 128 world upon country tield adventure By ry known , mea Great Britain, France and other lands will seek td trad must el As of vital there s be th | a intense spirit | operation between all our peop tween labor and capital, employe: cmployes. the state and vate interests As one essential success i coming business struggle the spi maintained that we must have ‘& chant marine equal in every paf# to the hest, with all advantagesa disadvantages in comparison Wi ers, unhampered laws, rull regulations whicl interfer practical and busings eration Antidote Turning Gary was plenty o excel in the justice to vent and a oversea ourselves we zgressive sequence o | consistent a between might successful 3olshevism, labor questi or For to the the said antidote 1t Dol A dntained t pensation ployérs must ground foy nish them =a a and conditions of we oppod advance and invest their savin! business with which they ed. 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