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HUNDREDS DIE IN PUEBLO, COLORADO. FLOODS
PRESIDENT HARDING
IN SYMPATHY WITH
PLIfiMW
BY DAVID LAWKENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, '921.)
WASHINGTON, June 4.—President
Harding is encountering the full force
of the tidal wave which rises out of
a distressed econiomic situation and
mistakenly demands that the govern
ment cure all business ills and re
store the profits ob by-gone days.
The president told friends today
that judging by the appeals for gov
ernment aid, many people imagined
it possible for the executive and his
administration, by a wave of the
hand, to bring back normal condi
tions. The president looks upon the
economic situation as the inevitable
result of reconstruction and read
justment following the war. The
cabinet at its Friday meeting dis
cussed what the government could
do, but unfortunately the govern
ment cannot do much more than
buide certain currents that may have
an Influence on the situation.
After all, it is the feeling of the
president that the big industries
themselves will find the way out.
America, he thinks, will recover from
the shock of the European war just
as she did from the Civil war—in a
natural and orderly way. It is the
agricultural situation, however,
which causes concern, for while the
big industries can in a sense help
themselves, the farmer needs to be
financed and needs to have an export
trade and at the same time must be
protected in his home market. All
these different desires are the basis
for the so-called agricultural bloc
in oengress, composed of members of
both parties, mostly from tYie west
and south, -who are able to pi|t
through congress practically any
measure of relief that the farmers
may want. And President Harding
is unquestionably sympathetic with
the agricultural group.
Trouble at Present
Meanwhile the president himself
recognized that the chief trouble of
the present moment In the economic
situation is the fact that the'profits
of yesterday out of which it might
be possible for the American busi
ness man to recoup losses of today
are inaccessible. Yarge portions of
those profits have been paid into the
treasury of the United States as in
come taxes and have in turn -been
expanded by the government. ,
Were it possible for the business i
poeple of America to have paid taxes 1
over a period of years rather than
over a single year as a unit, they
would have been, better able to fi
nance themselves in the trying era
of reconstruction when goods bought
at steep prices must be sold below
cost to clean shelves and empty the
warehouses for new supplies.
But this -s impossible. The gov
ernment faces a condition and not
a hypothetical case. And Mr. Har
ding realizes that the full strength
of the electorate is being exerted to
make the administration move in
this or that direction so as to hasten
a return to normalcy. It is a fact
that the Harding administration has
given more time and thought to do
mestic problems and particularly
business readjustment than anything
slse but even the folks in the ad
ministration admit that the tide of
circumstances over which no one in
;he government had control is almost
Irresistible.
Breaks Precedent
During the week President Har
iing broke a precedent in order to
speed one form of relief for Ameri
can producers. By implication he
suggested reductions tn freight rates
In the interstate commerce commis
sion and found upon inquiry there
ehat already' the commission was
trying to work cut a program of vol
untary reduction by the carriers of
burdensome rates. Incidentally Mr.
Harding seems to trunk that the
days of horizontal increases or de
creases ! n freight rates are about
over and that the inequities of that
system ought not to be repeated in
any revision of freight rates.
The farmers have been clamoring
for an adjustment of freight rates.
The carriers have been reluctant but
the power of the agricultural ele
ments of the nation in the Harding
administration loomed as too great
to resist and the carriers are try
ing to work out a program -that v ill
be least harmful to them.
Os course if there were a definite
tax program available, the air would
be cleared but congresi is having
trouble enough with the tariff, let
alone a revnue bill, and the pros- I
pect-: are not as bright as they were
for an early cleaning up of legisla
tion affecting business. The chances
ate that next fall congress will still
be here haranguing about tariff or
taxes. Everything moves slowly in
the convalescent period—even the
wheels of congress. The administra
tion is proceeding steadily but it
would breathe much easier if the
peonle didn't expect so much of the
government'.
Expert Woman Flier
Crashes to Death
While Trying ‘Loop’
NEW YORK, June 6. Aviation ex
perts today were examining the
wreckage of the Canadian plane
which carried Miss Laura Bromwell,
26, holder of the woman’s loop-the
loop record, to her death at the Gar
den City flying field yesterday aft
ernoon. They were of the opinion
she had been tangled in the straps,
which held her away from the foot
gears, causing the uncontrolled ma
chine to topple from a height of 1.-
800 feet and plunge, nose downwarfl.
into a roadway.
The plane, experts said, was a
large Canadian type and too big for
Miss Bromwell to handle easily.
George Davis, fiance of Miss Brom
well. had kissed, her good-bye just
before she started aloft. She had
promised him to give up flying aft
er they were married.
MODIFICATIONS Os
REPARATIONS PACT
TO BUM FRANCE
BY ANDRE TARDIEU
(Former French High Commissioner
to America and Del»ga|e to the Peace
Conference.)
(Special Cable to The Journal)
(Copyright, 1921.)
PARIS, June 4.—France is about
to be saddled with a heavy burden of
taxation to pay for a great part of
the reconstruction of her northern
provinces, and to provide war pen
sions, all because Germany has been
granted a remission of more than
one-third of her just war debt—from
sixty to ninety billions of francs.
On account of this, and deficient
revenues this year,-we are facing a
supplementary fiscal of at
least seven billion francs a year.
Which when submitted to the tax
payers is certain to cause unanimous
irritation, because the whole of
France considers it unjust to make
the French people pay instead of the
Germans in plain contradiction of
the promises of the treaty of Ver
sailles.
This realization comes at a time
when news from beyond the Rhine is
only moderately satisfactory. It is
true the Wirth cabinet has paid a
single billion exacted under the Lon
don agreement, instead of the twelve
billions which according to the treaty
she should have paid on May 1.
But Bavaria still refuses to dis
arm.
German Penetration
German troops continue to pene
trate upper Silesia. We see well
known agents of pre-war imperialism
now in the German cabinet, men like
Rosen, the foreign minister, one of
the most vehement opponents of the
recent settlement, and like Rathenau
the minister of reconstruction. To
profess confidence in these men and
this situation, as Premier Briand did
in this week’s debates in the cham
ber of deputies, demands great cre
dulity.
These debates, based upon the dif
ferent and the difficult problems
suggested by the London reparations
agreement, resulted, in a vote in th
chamber which requires some analy
sis. Out of six hundred and twenty
deputies. £hree hundred and ninety
approved the government in an order
of the day which pointed out that the
melancholy London decisions repre
sent the “irreducible minimum” of
what France can accept, tn addition to
the one hundred and fifty-eight dep
uties who voted against the govern
ment, about fifty abstained from vot
ing, which means that more than one
third of the chamber refused to vote
their confidence in the cabinet decla
rations.
The vote marks the important fact
that there is objection of a definite
character to the reduction of France's
rights under the Versailles treaty
In pointing out the reasons for the
vote. I propose to make known to the
American public the present state of
French opinion. I need not empha
size tlie fact that it was with any
thing but a glad heart that the
French chamber approved a policy
which even M. Dourner, the minister
of finance, himself admits is leaving
France with a war burden of at least
sixty- billion francs. My estimate
and that of the chairman of the sen
ate finance commission. Is ninety
billions, all of which, according to
the Versailles treaty, Germany ought
to pay.
Yet a majority agreed to ratify
this solution of the problem.
Why?
Many Reasons
There are all sorts of reasons
Some concern home .affairs, others
concern the international ituatioh
Concerning home affairs, the cham
ber—much to its credit—dreads a
new ministerial crisis and desires for
France a steadfast government. Fur
thermore, the Briand cabinet had
taken precautions to consolidate its
forces before the opening of the de
bate. To the parties of the right it
granted the nomination of an am
bassador to the Vatican a gen
eral chaplain to the Rhine armies. To
the parties of the extreme left, the
police commissioner of Paris was
sacrificed, because he was unpopular
in socialist circles.
Finally the semi-official press had
celebrated the London agreement s o
loudly it had made a distinct im
pression upon many deputies unfa
miliar with the complex problems of
the settlement.
Abroad the government found sup
port in the very difficulties which
seemed to be disturbing the relations
between France and Great Britain in
regard to Upper Silesia.
The government waved the threat
of “rupture” and “isolation” before
the eyes of the deputies.
I had occasion, like many mem
bers of the parliament, to remind the
people that the viewpoint of the
British government was open to dis
cussion and possibly open even to
modification, without the danger of
a break with Great Britain. Clemen
ceau proved this on many occasions
by acts during the war and during
the peace negotiations.
But the French parliament, tired
of the constant negotiations and in
ter-allied conferences of t'he last ten
months, yielded to the hope that the
London agreement, once ratified
would be the last.
So there is the illusion that ,he
conferences are finished. But many
hoid the contrary view and say that
because we have violated the stipu
lations of the Versailles treaty we
■have condemned ourselves to perpet
ual private negotiations and are de
prived of the firm basis afforded by
the signed and ratified treaty.
Terrible Tax Burden
What is certain, and what will
probably decide French opinion in a
more positive' way, is the terrible j
burden of taxes about to fall upon i
our shoulders.
Meantime, the unsatisfactory news !
from bevond the Rhine, is complicat
ed by the fact that stability has not
been established in the east. Pan- I
German agitation, the effects of ;
which are felt in central Europe, is |
pushing its way into Turkey. The |
Angora government is bound to the |
soviet regime and Germany is losing ]
sight neither of Moscow nor of Asia i
Minor.
Because we have failed to compy I
Germany to execute the treaty she I
signed with the allied powers, we |
have engendered a spirit of anarchy
inside Europe and out. The game
has become so complicated that pub
lic opinibn is giving up the attempt
to follow conditions in the various
countries
A certain detachment is shown re
garding politics. This psychologica
condition in my opinion is one of the
most disturbing features of the pres
ent state of affairs in the world.
The war was won by a united will
and mind and heart. Neither by in
difference nor division can the peace
of the world be organized.
LARGE FOOD CROPS .
EXPECTEDJN STATE
Figures showing that Georgia this
year will produce an extraordinary
quantity &£ food crops such as ce
reals, truck, watermelons, peanuts,
hay, potatoes, peaches and other va
ried products, were made public Sat
urday from the office of John S. Den
nee, agricultural statistician of the
crop reporting service for Georgia.
Cotton acreage has decreased ap
proximately 33 per cent to make way
for the production of foodstuffs, ac
cording to the figures.
Estimating according to the acre
age, Georgia will produce 2,437,000
bushels of wheat, a 10 per cent in
crease; 94,000,000 bushels (shelled)
of corn, a 20 per cent increase, and
12,300,000 bushels of oats, a 12 per
cent-increase. Peas, velvet beans and
soy beans show a 15 per cent in
crease in acreage; sweet potatoes a
21 per cent increase, and sugar cane
a 13 per cent increase. The #each
crop is expected to yield 8,400 car
loads, an increase of 2,000 cars ove r
last year. Many other crops have
grown proportionately in acreage.
The figures on foodstuffs shown
are as follows:
[Acres injAcres in| Inc.
| 1920. | 1921. I
Corn . . . .[5,100,000 6,273,000123 p. c.
Oats . . . .| 550,000 616,000112 p. C.
Wheat . . ,|
Sweet pot’s.| 148,000 179,000|21 p. c.
Irish pot’s.) 22,000| 24,420111 p. c.
Sugar cane.| 72,000| 81,360)13 p.c
Waterm’s. .| 40,333] 43,156107 pc.
In considering the monster corn
yield expected from Georgia it will
be remembered that last year Kan
sas; one of the greatest corn states,
produced 137,000,000 bushels. Geor
gia’s 94,000,000 bushels will compare
most favorably with the production
of the corn states this year.
Mr. Dennee’s figures are compiled
from crop reports subm'tted from
hundreds of correspondents through
out the state, and are considered
most authoritative. The crop fig
ures come from practically every sec
tion of the state, and indicate tha
the increases in food crops are prac
tically universal throughout the
Much of the cotton land has been
planted in peas and beans to prepare
it for crops next year. In spite of
the cotton situation the reports show
that there is a great deal of agricul
tural activity and that farmers in
all sections are showing unparalleled
industry in preparing for their new
crops. __________
Here’s a Belled Buzzard
That Got Belled Away
Back Before the War
BY O. B. HEEDER
(Belled Buzzard Editor)
The more they come, the farther
back they get. Here is the account
of a Belled Buzzard away back before
the period of the War Between the
States It is told clearly and straight
forwardly by W. M. Hines, whose ad
dress is Box 595, Lanett, Ala., as fol
lows:
“Here Is a story of the Belled Buz
zard, related to me by my mother,
who is still living.
“In 1855 she was living three miles
from Columbus, Ga., and a negro
named Tuck Fountain caught a
young buzzard and raised it around
a tanyard, of which her father was
superintendent.
“The buzzard got to be as tame as
a house cat, and after it was ibout
grown, Tuck fastened a little brass
bell around its neck with a strip of
rawhide. The buzzard stayed around
the place for two or three years, and
my mother' says she often played
with it, and once asked Tuck to give
it to her as a pet.
“Finally the buzzard got to going
away for several days at a time, and
keeping company with other buz
zards, and one day it went away and
never came back. But my mother
said she heard its bell on several oc
casions after that. At that time my
mother’s name was Maranda White.”
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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1921.
ALBERT 0. LASKER.
BUSINESS GENIUS.
ACCEPJSJIG POST
BY DAVID X.AWRENCE
(Leased Wir? Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, June 6. —Albert D.
Lasker, of Chicago, has accepted the
chairmanship of the United States
shipping board. President Harding
first offered the place to Mr. Lasker
a fortnight ago, but the latter came
to Washington and urged the presi
dent to appoint Walter C. Teagle.
president of the Standard Oil Com
pany of New Jersey. Mr. Lasker
believed that Mr. Teagle knew more
about ships and the particular prob
lems of the government than anybody
else, and even was willing to act as
an assistant to Mr. Teagle in order
to persuade the latter to take the
job.
The president yielded to Mr. Las
ker’s advice and made a final effort
to get Mr. Teagle. Everything was
arranged satisfactorily when the man
who was to take over Mr. Teagle’s
work in the Standard Oil company
suddenly became ill and the doctors
advised a prolonged trip to Europe.
Mr. Teagle therefore couldn’t leave
his work and declined the position.
Mr. Harding consequently fell back
on Mr. Lasker and insisted that the
latter accept as originally planned.
Mr. Lasker admitted that he didn't
know a thing about ships, but the
president was of the opinion that
technical assistance could be pro
cured so long as the man at the
head of the shipping board was an
organizer and a business man.
Head of Lord & Thomas
Mr. Lasker is president and owner
of the Lord & Thomas Advertising
agency, but is one of the principal
owners in many big business enter
prises. He is a part owner of the
Mitchell Car company, Quaker Oats,
Van Camp’s, the Chicago Cubs Base
ball club and several other com
panies. He is the author of the
famous Lasker plan by which the
warfare in baseball which developed
last winter finally was settled. Mr.
Lasker first suggested Judge Landis
as the arbiter of baseball disputes,
and he has the happy faculty of be
ing able to settle tangled problems
without much fuss or feathers.
Bitten ByTPet Puppy,
Broxton Child Dies
Sunday of Rabies
FITZGERALD, Ga., June 6.
From the bite of a rabid pet dog,
five-year-old Ralph Jones, son of
Fred Jones, well-known Coffee coun
ty farmer ana merchant, died in ag
ony at a local hospital Sunday
m'ornin.
The child was bitten by his pet, a
three-months- old puppy, at his
home in Broxton, May 7, and was
rushed to Atlanta with the puppy’s
head. Rabies were found in the dog
and treatments to prevent hydro
phobia were started immediately at
an Atlanta hospital. The child was
brought back home about three
weeks ago and treatments were con
tinued.
The first symptoms of the horrible
disease developed Thursday night
and the little fellow was brought to
the local hospital ) Saturday. The
funeral was held from the home -at
Broxton, Monday. The little pet
dog was not kept in leash and
strayed away from home. He is be
lieved to have been bit by a rabid
stray dog.
179 RAILROADS ASK
RIGHT TO REDUCE
FMI’LIhES'WAGES
CHICAGO, June 6.—Extra pay for
over time and uniform wages for the
same classes of railroad employes
over the entire country were de
nounced and their abolition demand
ed by railroad representatives ap
pearing before the United State's
railroad labor board today. About
175 roads appeared before the board
in the second wage reduction drive
this spring, by which the roads are
attempting to cut their labor bill.
Over the objection of W. S. Carter,
head of the enginemen and firemen,
John G. Walber, representing the
eastern railroads, asked for substi
tution of pro rata payment instead
of time and one-half pay, the present
rate, for overtime in freight and yard
service. Mr. Carter declared such
a proposition was a mater of rules
rather than wages and had no place
in the present hearing. Mr. Walber,
however, insisted that time and one
half was “injected into the wage
schedules as a pay increase meas
ure” and the railroads felt that it
should have attention now.
“The standardization of wages for
all classes of railroad employes
which disregards local conditions is
a serious violation of economic laws,”
Mr. Walber continued. "Continuation
of such a policy would be in viola
tion of the transportation act. In
any circumstances, the largest area
to be considered by the labor board
in determining wage scales should
be the rate regions as established
by the interstate commerce commis
sion.”
Mr. Walber declared that changing
costs of living and wage scales
would soon require still further re
ductions in wages.
German Officer Charged
With Sinking Hospital
Ship Is Acquitted
LEIPSIG, June 4. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) —The entente officials
who expected the German submarine
policy in the war to be passed upon
in its broader aspects by the high
court in session here for the trial
of persons charged with war crimes,
when it dealt with the case of Lieut
enant Karl Neumann, charged with
the sinking of the hospital ship
Dover Castle by the German sub
marine which he commanded, were
bitterly disappointed. Lieutenant
Neumann was acquitted today after
a hearing of his case before the
court, and through , the... manner in
Which the issue was handled by the
judicial body the only point at issue
was. whether he carried out his or
ders.
Proof was brought to the court’s
satisfaction that the lieutenant had
acted clearly within the inst’-ucions
given him by his superiors, and he
was speedily exonerated from crimi
nality under this construction of the
case. Whether Emperor William,
Admiral von Tirpitz or other Ger
man officials who had a hand in in
augurating the ruthless submarine
policy were criminally responsible
was not touched upon.
As the submarine commandeis who
sank the Lusitania and hundred of
other entente ships probably can
shield themselves as Neumann did
behind their orders, it was comment
ed in entente quarters here today,
there is apparently slight chance of
securing the infliction of punishment
upon these submarine officers.
Today’s trial closed the Britisn
cases, so far as they are at present
ready for presentment.
These cases proved disappointing
to most of the entente observers,
whose criticism has been that the
cases were poorly selected and badly
supported by evidence.
Entente citizens who attended the
trials have generally expressed them
selves as regarding the German court
as a dignified and reasonable body.
FAVOR MOVES TO
ASSJSnARMERS
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Reduc
tion of federal reserve rediscount
rates and time extension of loans on
agricultural paper were favored at
a meeting today of nineteen senators
of the new agricultural “bloc.” A
bill by Senator Capper, Republican,
Kansas, to add the secretaries of ag
riculture and commerce to the fed
eral reserve board also was indors
ed.
Senator Smith, Democrat. South
Carolina, was delegated by the “bloc”
to discuss such legislation with Sec
retary Mellon and other government
officials. The senator has drafted a
tentative bill amending the federal
reserve act to make the time limit
on agriculture loans one year, in lieu
of the present six months’ limit,
when secured by warehouse repeipts.
Senator Smith has discussed with
President Harding the question of
reducing the rediscount rate on ag
ricultural paper to 5 per cent, as
well as obtaining more credit for
agriculturists. He received a letter
today from the president in reply to
resolutions adopted by the Cotton
Consultation Conference in New York
last month. The conference recom
mended reduction of the rediscount
rate to 5 per cent and also increased
credits through the federal reserve
system. , i
President Harding, dn response to
the resolutions wrote Senator Smith
an expression of “appreciation of the
expression made by the conference.”
The president added that “many of
the suggestions are receiving the at
tention of the administration in the
most effective way possible.”
Senator Smith gave out a state
ment declaring that he had found the
president “enthusiastic in his desire
to relieve as far as possible the pres
ent unfortunate .d disastrous con
dition in which the agricultural in
terests of the country are.”
“The administ ation seems desir
ous,” said Senator ..a, “to extend
credit to the cotton producers and
to open Up the farm markets as rap
idly and as extensively as possible.”
Every '"'’pai'tment of the govern
ment having to do with finance and
commerce chat he has visited, he
added, is earnestly at work to meet
this desperate situation and to re
lieve it. He expressed the opinion
that the most helpful thing that can
be done at the present time is for
the federal reserve board .u use its
influence in having the member
banks renew the obligations of farm
ers now held by them, extending the
time for the nayment of such papers,
thus m to distribute
their sales in such manner as may
be profitable to them. It was his
opin' e added, that this will be
done.
Mexican Insurgent
General Is Executed
MEXICO CITY, June 6.—A simple
white cross over the grave of Gen
eral Fernaudo Viscaino today served
as a warning to anti-government
plotters. Viscaino was executed yes
terday by a firing squad for con
spiring against the government.
Seized at his home late Saturday
night Viscaino was tried, and found
guilty. He disdained a blindfold and
cooly smoked a cigarette as the squad
marched into the prison court.
Bandits Get $4,000
DETROIT. Mich., June 4.—Three
armed men today held up William
Lychtig. manager, and Henry Cook,
superintendent of the Consolidated
Cigar company, and after beating
them severely, drove off with their
automobile and $4,000 in payroll
cash.
ENGUIND IS W
TO LIMIT HER MW
: IF 11. S. WILL ALSO
L
BY GEORGE N. BARNES
Former member British war cabinet
(Special Cable to The Journal)
> (Copyright, 1921.)
LONDON, June 4.—“Barkis is will-
- ing.”
In other words, England is ready
to agree to a limitation of naval
i strength, if Japan and the United
' States will do the same.
But Japan is the difficulty.
Perhaps it may be necessary diplo
rriatically to remind that country of
I her dependence upon outside sources
for a supply of steel and other req
[ uisites for naval armaments, and
( suggest to her that she may be
rationed.
[ There has been much comment here
• regarding the attitude of President
. Harding toward disarmament, and
. the unanimous adoption by the Unit
. ed States senate of Senator Borah’s
. amendment to the naval bill, request
, ing the president to invite Great
, Britain and Japan to consider with
. the United States the mutual limita
tion of naval armaments.
Mr. Lloyd George, the prime minis
' ter, has been asked to submit an in
, dorsing motion to the house of com
mons, and while his answers have
> been non-commital, they have been
l unfavorable.
; But there is no doubt as to the
■ attitude of this country in regard to
. naval reduction. The country wants
i it.
Poignant Application
; The subject has had a poignant ap
; plication, for one of the notable
events of the week has been the sale
’ for breaking up of one hundred and
fourteen obsolete naval craft, includ-
- ing the original and once all-powerful
‘ “dreadnought.” They have been sold
. for three million dollars. Their orig
’ inal cost was probably in excess of
( one hundred million dollars, figures
, that should emphasize the wastes of
: war preparation.
We still are confronted by the
[ Irish situation and the coal strike.
• The full results of the Ulster elec
s tions, now at hand, are more favor
able to the unionists than I .edk.t
--7 ed in my last dispatch. The Unlon’st
, party has succeeded in placing urac-
■ tically all of its nominees, so that
' the new northern parliament in Ire-
• land will start with forty members
favorable to a British union, with but
twelve in opposition. Only six of
the latter are Sinn Feiners.
The elections have passed off with
out serious truble and they demon
strate in a striking manner the
strength of the Unionist sentiment in
the northeast of Ireland. Ireland
now has a chance to redeem herself
by the co-operation of the elements
In Ulster and elsewhere.
The retirement of Sir Edward Car
son fittingly synchronizes with the
establishment of the new Irish par
liaments. He has been a picturesque
figure in the house of commons,
which I must say will be the poorer
for his loss. In the future he will
be hidden in the house of lords as a
member of the court of appeals.
little Sign of Peace
Meantime, there is little sign of
peace between the Sinn Fein and the
British government. The latter is
about to largely increase the number
of her military forces in the un
happy island.
The position in regard to the mine
disputes is much the same as tt was
a month ago. Conferences have been
held but they have proved abortive,
except for the fact that the mine
owners and the miners are putting
the new proposals of the prime min
ister up to their respective district
committees.
In effect the proposals amount to
arbitration. Fending a permanent
settlement it is proposed that work
should be resumed on a temporary
basis, with a subsidy of fifty mill'on
dollars from the government to be
used in easing down the wages of the
miners instead of submitting them to
an abrupt cut. It appears hat t.ne
leaders of the miners finally are
dropping the idea of a national pool
to equalize wages as inapplicable to
the private ownership of mines They
doubtless have become convinced that
the country is not disposed for an
experiment in nationalization.
Other Considerations
But this coal dispute has brought
other considerations into view. Surety
it has brought us nearer to a ?-
nition of the interest of the commu
nity at large in industrial disputes.
Modern organizations of capital and
labor have as yet been unaccompa
nied by a sense of civic respo ' ‘l
- They have only widened the area
and increased loss and uffering
through strikes and lockouts.
They have jeopardized the interest |
of the community, a condition of I
things which I predicted might |
ensue when I addressed the Civic ]
Federation conference in New York -
nearly twenty years ago. It is al
condition of things which if contin- I
ued must bring ruin in its train. In
dustrial disputes must somehow be
settled by reason and the examina
tion of the facts. There must be a
progressive application of the prin
ciple of arbitration.
Industrial arbitrations, of course,
are anathema to the reactionaries of
both sides —men wl. want to enjoy
the amenities of civilized life with- ■
out pay for them.
But enlightened arbitration will 1
have to come, for all that, if we are
to escape anarchy.
$ 1,000,000 Dormitory
Given by Rockefeller
NEW YORK, June 4.—John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., has promised the
Cosmopolitan club, an organization ■
of foreign students at Columbia uni
versity and other local educational
institutions, a $1,000,000 dormitory. <
the New York Evening Psot stated i
today.
The newspaper said it had learn- ] a
ed the dormitory would contain 500 i <
rooms and would be built on River- I <
side drive opposite Grant's tomb. The ! <
donation will be made as a personal i
gift, rather than as one from any of I
the Rockefeller philanthropic bodies.
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.50 A. YEAR.
LIGHTNING SETS FIRE
TO BUSINESS HOUSES
ICOUNTRYJIUNDATED
DENVER, Col., June 6.—Mar
tial law in the name of the state '*
was declared in Pueblo Saturday
by Joe Moorehead, secretary to
Governor Shoup, acting for the
governor. Moorehead reached
Pueblo at a late hour tonight.
Major Newton was put in com
mand of the military forces by
Moorehead.
PUEBLO. Col.. June 6.—Flood
waters of the Arkansas river swept
through Pueblo Friday, Saturday
and Sunday night and caused
deaths that may total 500 and prop
erty damage in excess of $10,000,000.
according to the fragmentary reports
that can be gathered as the flood re
cedes.
Morgues were opened in different
parts of the city and by mid-after
noon 132 bodies had been recovered.
The entire eastern and northern sec
tions were cut off from the business
section.
The Red Cross organized to aid
sufferers, and C. W. Lee was named
official food administrator to have
charge of rationing the food avail
able in the city.
To add to the horror of last night,
lightning set fire to half a dozen
buildings in the center of the city.
Firemen could not reach the scene,
and they would have been helpless
if they could, for the flood had 1-
ready cut ofg, water service as well as
the electric lights.
At the same time, the rising flood
overturned two trains filled with pas
sengers. -
While the greater loss of life ap
pears to have been in Pueblo, reports
of damage to property came from
many sections of southeastern Colo
rado. Streams, sent out of their
banks by cloudbursts in the moun
tains, carried away farm buildings
and drowned many head of cattle. .
Residents of the rural districts ad
jacent to irrigation projects spent
the night last night prepared to flee
instantly if the impounded water
broke through irrigation dams.
Railroad and highway bridges were,
carried away and miles of telegraph
and telephone lines were laid low.
Fires Increase Damage ,
In Pueblo, damage was increased
by fires in the business section, start
ed by lightning, and unquenched fer
lack of water pressure.
The whole "business portion of
Pueblo was under six to eight feet
of water this morning but by after
noon the flood had begun to recede,
disclosing a scene of devasation.
The railroad yards were left filled
with mud-covered debris and broken
and overturned equipment, carrying
the damages to more than a million
dollars. Business houses inside and
out, were covered with, the sama
slimy mud. and in manWrcases even
i brick buildings were undermined and
wrecked. Frame buildings in the
path of the flood were swept away,
in many cases carrying their In
habitants with them.
While the flood warnings had been
given before dark last night, many
persons did not heed them, and to
this is ascribed a goodly part of tha
death loss.
Thousands of Mexicans with pos
sessions on their backs, were wander
ing through the city this afternoon
with nothing to eat and no nlace to
sleep. No gas or drinking water
were available.
A paty of Pueblo business men,
who assembled for a dinner at Minnqp
qua club last night still were ma
rooned there today.
Frank Pryor, of a local furnitura
company, spent last night on tha
standing wall of his four-story build
ing which collapsed. Rescuers were
endeavoring to reach him this after
noon.
Richard Philbins was rescued fom
a telephone pole, where he had spent
the night. He was riding a horse
last night when the waters over
whelmed him. The horse was drown
ed but Philbins managed to swim
to the pole.
City Without Eights
Means of communication from
Pueblo are most meager. The West
ern Union company nas three or four
wires from a neighboring suburb,
but these are so crowded with official
business that press despatches have
little show. The roads »to the Ruti
side are so torn by the storm that it
is almost impossible to make prog
ress over them.
The city was without electric light
tonight. Gas also was unavailable.
This added to the plight of the suf
ferers. The water nlant was nut out
of commission by the flood and there
was no drinking water available
from the citv mains.
The flooded section of Pueblo is de
scribed as extending from Second
street to the Mesa. It contains a
large portion of the business district.
Starting shortly after 5 o’clock yes
terday afternoon. Pueblo’s fire whis
tles sounded the flood alarm. At that
hour both the Arkansas and the
Fountain were rising rapidly from
the cloudbursts that prevailed dur
ing the day. Hundreds of persons
took warning and gathered a few be
longings and sought safety in the
hills around the city. Others paid
no attention to the warning. Many
of these paid with their lives.
Start of Flood
The floods swept into the city
proper about 7 o’clock. Police and
guards drove the crowds back from
the main bridges where the people
had taken refuge. In half an nour
water was pouring over the top of
the railings of bridges and the main,
business section was inundated.
Street cars stopped, electric lights
went off
In the darkness could be heard the
roar of the onrushing waters, and the
crash of falling buildings. A rain
was falling to add to the discomfit
ure. Here and there with the.flashes
of lightning, spectators could see
small houses floating about. Over in.
the railroad yards passenger coaches,
and other car equipment lay overturn
ed and out of the night came the
cries of the stricken women and chil
dren, all appealing for help.
Scores of strong men risked their
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