The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1920, Page 11

La TIES UP BILLIONS IN FOOD SUPPLIES iis Kansas Has 35,000,000 Bush- els of Wheat and No Cars To Ship It In. -CROPS ROT IN FIELDS. » Lines Need 106,000 New Cars Hy * While Country Faces Coal Famine This Winter. f° By U.S. Senator Arthur Capper WICHITA, Kan, July %—In one recent day fifty grain elevators in Kansas could get only seven empty freight cars‘in which to ship grain. Kansas has approximately 35,000,000 busbels of last year’s wheat atill in farm bins and small elevators. To get this to market will require the loading of about 480 cars every day for sixty days. Meanwhile Kansas has begun the harvest of another > 100,000,000 bushel wheat crop which Will more than load 80,000 grain cars. Where are they to come from? Formerly at this time of year the railroads began accumulating empty ears on Kansas sidings to rush the grain to market, Now they cannot supply anywhere near enough cars to move the old crop surplus, or any considerable part of it. And the situ. ation is the same everywhere, The most critical and discouraging phase of the business situation In the coun- try to-day and the one that gives the least promise of improvement any time in the near future is the trans- portation problem, which undoubtedly is the biggest problem we have, The big stee! mills employing hun- reds of thousands of hands are slowing down, They cannot make deliveries. A carload of steel which left Pittsburgh Jan. 4, arrived in New York May"14, SHORTAGE MAKES 40,000 IN DETROIT. Forty thousand factory hands have been laid off in Detrait because enough raw material cannot be ~ shipped in to keep them busy. The cabbage and potato growers of the Rio Grande in Texas were forced to seo their crop rot this spring be- cause there were no cars to ship it to market. They lost at least $1,000,000. Before the annual grain movement sets in 25,000,000 homes in the United “States should be laying in next win- ter’s supply of coal, but are not. The orders are placed, but rail deliveries are scant and intermittent. Already we are facing a coal famine in the coming winter. Enormous quantities of grain sold last December for export still stand in the terminal elevators at Minne- apolis, In Central Europe at this moment, not less than 3,000,000 per- sons—mostly children—are slowly starving to death while flour rots on our docks and at our terminals, and eexcars in which to ship grain at home IDLE | PB. for abroad are lacking, These are terrible facts. They are not massed here for the purpose of harrowing you up, but to prepare you for the serious difficulties ‘that are piling up for us as a people because our railway transport system has not been expanded while the country and its population has kept on growing. Between 1906 and 1916, 150,600 new freight cars were put in service an- nually, while 80,000 to 85,000 were re- tired each year. During 1917-1918- 1919 new cars averaged less than 100,000 a year, There is a present shortage of 3,000 locomotives. SAY 106,000 NEW CARS ARE NEEDED. Testimony was recently offered In Washington by railroad executives showing that $610,000,000 worth of now equipment is needed at once if . the carriers are to give good service, These estimates call for: 100,000 fretzht cam cunt: Plage wuceceetcemh edge care Cowling POOMUF® CONTE, The railways, It is said, are hauling to-day as much or more freight than ever, and every city and every large- sized town !n the land ts shipping freight daily by truck, Yet the Na- tion's transport service is lamentably Inadequate and ts not supplying our , commonest needs, At the same time, the necessity of getting maximum service out of ex- equipment ef the roads seriously de- terlorated. This paraly the hoarcer. to “corner” or hold up local supylles, even regional sy public to bid higher {ts necessities, Warchouses are fuil of wool, full of hides, coffee, sugar, flour. A billion dollars worth of food {s inpounde. in Chicago's houses alone. These suy out as sparingly as possible to tain “shortages” and keep up p also, in many instance compe ln 180,000,000 s of transport has given | profiteer his great chance | the nd higher for all storage Hes are doled VOAPR Aro lates a le Sauararmepereriae: |S ation, after eighteen months of p>om- {ses of wage relief and postponed ful- filment, the switchmen’s strike for more pay came along with the result- ing congestion at terminals, the rail- Way managers in desperation were compelled to appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission to take over the routing of the tides of tra Me, There has been some noticeable tm- provement since, some relief, but it Is of the drop-in-the-bucket kind, for, after all, rerouting cannot make up for a shortage of cars and motive power. Under the $00,000,000 revolving tonn | fund provided for the railroads in the Esch-Cummins law, the Interstate Commerce Commission has recently | apportioned $125,000,000 for new equlp- | ment. $76,000,000 for freight cars and | $59,000,000 for freight engines, besides $75,000,000 for other improvements. Congress was criticised in some quar- tere for making this provision, but I jdoubt if the last session performed ‘any more vital and necessary act for the benefit of the whole country. However, months must pass before we shall benefit from this relief and I fear it will be more or less temporary and inadequate. With this Government now bor- rowing money at the astounding rate of 6 per cent, I question if it can offer the roads more financial aid at this time. The Government already owns 354 million dollars of equip- ment trust certificates and 490 mil- Hon dollars of additional debt in bonds or notes. If the 300 million dollars appropriated by the Trans. portation Act also is invested forth. with in railway loa ment will hold approximately 1,100 million dollars worth of the railway securities of the country. “I believe transportation ts to ba our biggest domestic problem for years to come. We have got to at- tack it from every possible side, not only as a means of supplying the needs of the people of the United States, but as a means of lowering living ‘costs and lessening the inter- minable and costly hgndling of goods by transportation companies and middlemen. AWNING FIRE ROUTS ST. REGIS GUESTS Lighted Cigarette Thrown From Window Causes Excitement, but Little Damage. Most of the guests of the St. Regis Hotel, many of them In bathrobes, left their rooms and filled the halls at 2 A. M. to-day because of a fire are due to blazing awnings. The | fire was of little consequence, though | awnings were on fire on the twelfth, eleventh, seventh and fifth floors as a result of carelessness with a lighted cigarette. A fuse blew out while the tele- Phone operator was calling the Fire Department, and telephones began to ring throughout the hote’ The cigarette dropped on an awning outside the window of the twelfth floor room on the 55th Street side of the hotel, occupied by Mr, and Mrs, Frederick Forest body, — WOULD HOUSE 500 FAMILIES. Realty Man WiI1 Spend $2,000,000 if City Exempte Tax, William E, Harmor, President of Wiltam E. Harmon & Co., realty op- erators, has written to Tenement House Commissioner Mann of the Mayor's Housing Conference Committee, ofter- ing to erect additional housing, at a | cost of $2,000,000, Within one year, if a | law be passed ‘exempting new | con- struction from taxation for # Umited period. “Lan “that tre onfident," Mr. Harmon wrote, offer made here wiil bring a endous response among our wide- builders. Assuming housin, © the rate of §800 per room, Whether made up of small houses or | apartment houses of the middle class, | this will provide 2,600 rooms, or commodations for from five to six hun- dred families. “The city loses absolutely nothing by exempting taxes on houses that would never come into existence except tor the fact of the exemption. SAY IT MAKES REAL BEER. Federal Dry Ofictals Open War on Brewerles in Wisconsin, MILWAUKEE, July 2.—With the in- stitution of a suit in equity against the Klinkert Brewing Company of Ra ine to close the brewery as a nuisance, the first shot was fired in the Federal war against State brewers for the alleged manufacture of real beer, Federal Judge Geiger issued a temporary in- Junction restraining the brewery from operation pending a hearing on July 10, when officers of the brewery must answer charges that they have been making and selling real beer. On information obtained the Mil- waukce office of the Federal Prohibi- tion Enforcement Bureau, the Govern- ment charges that the brewery has had for sale since Dec. 31 quantities of beer containing more than one-half of 1 por cent. alcohol, LL eisiinciesls HAYS BUSY IN NEW YORK, Prepares Campatgn Here—starta Went To-Morrow, Chatrman Hays of the Republican National Committee yesterday begin definite preparations for the New York end of the Presidential campaign, He spent the day at headquarters, No. 21 West 44th Street, in conference with National Committeemen Charles D. Hilles of New York, T. Coleman du {ating equipment prevents proper|Vont’ of Delaware, John W,. Weeks of Tmainionance, In August, 1917, 4 per| Massachusetts and” Barl Kinsley’ of cent. of the freight locomotives of] These men, Mr, Hays ald, would de- the country were in bad order, In! {ai ,iiove, OF thelr time Hie Bema ' ary, 1920, 27.8 por cent. were non-| not.to like the te rd of January, ps exy” when it was ‘vated serviceable, During the period of | BEY ayy thatartuny weRvated to nim, Federal control the freight hauling| what the men would be In. reality. Mr. Hays will start hig home in Sullivan, will spend the Fourth. | two Weeks in Chi to-mosrow for Ind., where he He will spend See Accuned of Stealing 116 Auto Tires, John M. ‘Trainor of No, 501 West 59th Street, Inborer, was arrested to-day by Detgetive P, J. Maney charged with being one of the men who broke Into the United States Garage at 12th Ave- nue and eet in the night of stolen tires, at Park Ave= h Stree without the nue and Dr, tarkt College Ing ‘to transport gods from places’ Mayor Hytan yesterday appointed Dr. where they are plentiful to other Wiliam 4 momiber of the points where they are scarce and in Beard Ore magie of the ileme of th the great demand. No. 2 Weet 94th, Greact, He Is Supreme When, on top of this critical situs Director of the Knights of Columbus. » the Govern-! THIRTY RAILROADS FORM JOINT BOARD TOFIGHT OUTLAWS Heads of Big flies Take United Action for Co-opera- ation Throughout Nation. After discussing for three hours yesterday afternoon in the Grand Central Terminal the transportation troubles arising from the “outlaw” strikes, a meeting of more than thirty executives of raflroads ap- pointed an advisory committee of nine “to deal promptly and effec- tively with the transportation emer- gencies through the co-operative ac- tion of all the roads of the country.” Those at the meeting comprised the Association of Railway Executives. Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, Chairman of the association, told reporters “it was the largest meeting of railroad executives that has ever been held.” ‘The meeting, it is understood, voted to “stand pat” on the refusal to treat with the “outlaw” strikers or to yield to their demands that the men be taken back on the basis of old senior- ity rights. Though many of the executives re- ported serious traffic congestion, it |was the general opinion that present freight embargoes will soon be lifted. The Advisory Committee consists of President Daniel Willard, Balti- more and Ohio, Chairman; Vice Presl- dent W. W. Atterbury, Pennsylvania; President C, H. Markham, [linots Central; President H, H. Truesdale, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western; President Hale Holden, Chicago, Bur- lngton and Quincy; President F. J. | Pearson, New Haven; President W. | B. Storey, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Chairman Edward Elliott, North- ern Paoific; President B, F. Bush, Missourt Pacific, This committee was named after the submission of a report by a spe- cial committee headed by President Willard, The report said in part: “The committee firmly belleves that in the final analysis the test of pri- vate ownership which the public will apply will be the ability of the car- riers to render efficient service to the country as a whole and under all con- ditions. While we believe that the best results from private ownership can only be realized under conditions which permit the fullest opportunity for individual initiative and action under normal] circumstances, we also believe that in order to preserve pri- vate ownership it is incumbent upon the individual companics by volun- tary action and co-operation to estab- pe ates tas aeaataatidiy “ Double holiday! Anything needed? Bathing suit, tennis racket, tennis balls. Golf clubs, golf balls. White shoes, white wool socks, white and stripe flannel trousers. Soft collared shirts, underwear, handkerchiefs. Motor lunch kit. Kodak. At your service. Quick! Quick! Quick! Phone if you're rushed. Open to-morrow until 12, © Closed Monday. ROGERS PEET COMPANY Broadway : Broadway at 13th St. “The at 34th St, Four Broadway Comers” _—‘Fifth Ave. st Warren at 41st St. 'A PURE EGG MAYONNAISE MAKES EVERYTHING GOD TO Ear, BETTER! 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Relief from the inarticulate sounds emanating from guards in announcing subway stations ts in sight for Brook- lynites, It is to come in the form of a “loud-speaking” telephone which has received a trial and is reported satis- factory. The instrument is the development of E. BE. Trafton, telephone engineer of the B. R. T. system. It will be em- ployed to announce all station and such warnings as “Watch Your Step!” ‘Step Lively, Please!" &c. To date only one of the telephones has been installed. This is attached to car No. 1,022 of the Fourth Avenue subway line, and the resuite have con- vinced the railroad officials that one should be placed on every car. Its op- eration entails little effort on the part of the conductor, who speaks in an ordinary voice through a transmitter in the centre of the car, his words coming forth in increased volume at each end. The phone ts audible on the car platforms, This equipment 1s made possible by Atlanta the use of new principles of design. 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