SAYS ESCH BILL IS INADEQUATE Railway Age Severely Criti cises Measure Passed by the House . The Esch bill passed by the House of Representatives immediately be fore it adjourned is severely criti cised in the current issue of the Rail way Age, which has resumed publi cation after hating been tied up by the New York printers' strike for seven weeks. "In some respects," says the Rail way Age, "the bill is very weak, and, jhideed, in certain particulars it is no less than vicious. Its most extra ordinary provision is one relating to labor controversies. The effect of this provision is to fix forever us minimum wages and conditions of employment the wages and condi tions of employment established by the Railroad administration. The provision in question confirms for the future "all decisions of a general character made by the United States Railroad Administration affecting the question of wages, hours of service, or conditions of employment," and also decisions applying to individual carriers, which must remain in ef fect until superseded either by agreement between the companies and their employes, or by the deci sion of a board of adjustment or a Commission of labor disputes each of which shall be composed of equal numbers of representatives of the companies and the employes. Under this provision it would be impossible to reduce any wage or to change any condition of employment fixed by the Railroad Administration without pravious assent of the rep resentatives of tlie employes, and it is needless to say that that assent, if it made wages or conditions of employment less favorabio to the men, would never be given. Forever Impracticable "Will tlie people of the United States endorse a provision whose adoption would make it forever im practicable for any railroad company to reduce wages or change condi tions of employment regardless of what changes in wages and condi tions of employment might be made in other lines of industry? "The Esch bill as reported from committee," tlie Railway Age con tinues, provided that 'in reaching its conclusion as to the justness and reasonableness of any rate * TAKE A FLIGHT IN THE AIR on our Canadian Curtiss Airplane. Sensational and healthful. One flight In our Airplane gives as much joy and happiness as a six months' vacation. We are flying daily. Competent flyer. In case you desire taking a special trip, call Bell 49:51. LEARN A TRADE AND EARN WHILE Some of our students are making $120.00 a month while learning-. We can place you. ||®w|jp We teach aeroplane operating, piloting and construction, automobile mechanism, wireless telegraphy and radio telephone. 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Instead of shaking a fire until live coals fall through, a bed of ashes should be kept on top of the grates at all times, its size being reduced as the weather grows colder. In severe weather the grates should be •shaken until a glow appears through the bed of ashes and can be seen in the ash-pit. In mild weather the fire should not be shaken this severely and there should be no glow in the ash-pit. In shaking, a short, quick stroke should be used; never a long stroke, which disturbs the fire bed unduly spoils a good lire. After shaking, care should be taken that grates are left in a perfectly flat position. ' United Ice & Coal Co. Forstcr & Cowden Sts. 7th & Woodbine St.s. 6th & Hamilton Sts. 7th & Reily Sts 15th & Chestnut Sts. 'S • t ' • / ''' ' • / ' . • s • ' , ' " ' SATURDAY EVENING. v • HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 6, 1919. tlie Commission shall talc Into con sideration the interest of the public, the shippers, the reasonable cost of maintenance and operation and a fair return upon the value of the property used or held for the serv ice of transportation.' This provision was intended to give the Interstate Commerce Commission authority and instructions to so regulate rates as to not merely to make them non confiscatory, but sufficient to enable the railways adequately to des'elop their facilities. The provision was not well drawn for its purpose, but its adoption would have effected some improvement iti the existing law. This provision, however, was stricken from the bill on the floor of the House. The Heart of It. R. Problem "If the Esch bill as finally passed by the House should become a law tlie act to regulate commerce would continue to require merely that rates shall be 'just and reasonable." Under the requirement that rates shall be made just and reasonable the Inter state Commerce Commission has in the past so regulated rates that the net operating income of the railways and the new investment made in their properties have steadily de clined. There is no reason for be lieving that under this provision the Commission would regulate rates any differently in the future from what it has in the past. Therefore, the enactment of the Esch bill would have no tendency whatever to en courage increased Investment in rail roads or the expansion of railroad facilities. Tlie rate problem is the heart of the railroad problem, and the Esch bill would contribute al most nothing toward the solution of the rate problem. "It is very, doubtful whether the bill us passed- expressed the real views of even those who voted for it. When it was originally reported from committee it contained some very good provisions. There is good reason to believe that many of the in ambers who voted to eliminate some of its important provisions did so to placate certain interests. The Senate doubtless will pass a very different bill after Congress recon venes. There is much ground for hoping that the bill finally reported by the conference committee will he a great improvement over the Esch bill in the form in which it was passed by tlie House." Appointed Prohibition Director For This State By Associated Press Washington, Dec. C. Wayne W. Hindman, of Clarion, Pa., is appoint ed Federal prohibition director of that state by Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue Roper. 8,318,476 IS THE STATE ACREAGE Latest Figures Show Increase in Land Now Under Cultivation First summaries of the results of the joint survey of crops and acre ages made by the United Slates and Pennsylvania Statq Departments of Agriculture indicate that during 1919 the farmers of Pennsylvania culti vated 8,318,475 acres, land devoted to orchards, berry patches and tlie like being excepted. The figures, compiled from some 20,000 reports received from township assessors and others, show a decline in corn, buckwheat, potatoes and hay, a jump in the spring wheat acreage mostly in northern counties and a gain in oats and tobacco, 13 coun ties being shown as growers of the latter. Perhaps the greatest surprise came in regard to wheat, it being shown that there were 1,663,913 acres against R578.270 estimated by tlie State last year. Over 26,000 of this acreage is in spring wheat's reports. The value of the survey will be that it will give a new basis and the estimates based on reports are as follows: Winter wheat, 1,637,684 acres; spring wheat, 26,229; corn, 1,535,797; rye, 228,050; oats, 1,188,- 794; buckwheat, 255,698; barley, 16,095; potatoes, 253,865; tobacco, 41,288; timothy and clover, 2,876,- 962; alfalfa. 62,214; other hay, 52,- 551; vegetables, 78,325; beans, 22,- 901; other crops, 42,123. The leading counties with the new acreage estimates for the various crops are: Winter Wheat—l-ancaster, 129.296 acres; York, 112,058; Franklin, 96,642; Cumberlan!d, 64,437; Adams, 63.615; Chester, 58,899; Bucks, 43,- 610; Washington, 41,115. Spring Wheat—Westmoreland, 5,- 210 acres; Jefferson, 1,904; Alle gheny, 1,555; York, 1,284; Bradford, 1,175; Clarion, 1,085; Tioga, 1,098. Corn Lancaster, 93,731 acres; York, 79,768; Berks, 64,806; Chester, 62.204; Franklin. 59,209: Bucks. 61,- 559; Adams, 46,684; Cumberland, 44,770; Montgomery, 43,432. Bye—-Berks, 15,018 acres; Indi ana, 14,690; Montgomery, 9,959; Bucks, 9.500; Franklin, 8,74 5; Mon roe, 8.659; 'Lehigh, .7,815; Bradford, 7,278; Bedford, 7,535. Oats Bradford, 44,192 acres; Berks, 40,310; Westmoreland, 37,- 400; Somerset, 37,298; Crawford, 36,498; Mercer, 34,564; Erie, 33,- 661; Washington, 32,390. Buckwheat Bradford, 27,486 acres; Tioga, 10,544; Crawford, 14,916; Indiana, 11,089; Jefferson, 36,489; Mercer, 34,564; Erie; 33,- 9,890; Erie, 9,415; Bedford, 9,286. Barley Centre, 2,347 acres; Tioga, 2.038; Warren, 1,147r Potter, 1,110; York, 811; Bradford, 800; Erie, 766. Potatoes Lehigh, 21,211 acres; Lancaster, 12,443; York, 11,600; Berks, 11,483; Chester, 9,634; Bucks, 8,709; Schuylkill, 7,810. Tobacco Lancaster, 33,773 acres; York, 3,873; Lebanon, 936,- Chester, 763; jurtiata, 535; Tioga, 400.; Berks, 382; Clinton, 327; Brad ford, 150. Timothy and Clover Bradford, 115,472 acres; Crawford, 115,241; Tioga, 100,740; Ijancaster, 91,995; Erie, 90,757; Washington, 87,281; York, 85,697; Berks, 83.915; West moreland, 82,254. Alfalfa Chester, 6.995 acres; Berks, 4,995; Northampton, 4,386; Lancaster, 3,535; Westmoreland. 2.- 608: Lebanon, 2,605;- Cumberland, 2-,405; Fayette, 2,287. Vegetables Allegheny, 6,682; acres; Luzerne, 4,454; Bucks, 4,- 203; Lancaster, 3,765; Montgomery, 3,744; Philadelphia, 3,647; Berks, 3,040. Beans Clarion, 2,584 acres; Washington, 1,827; York, 1,078; Cumberland, 998; Bucks, 730; Fay ette, 701. Turkeys on Way to U. S. Soldiers in Rhineland! \V;i>liington. Dec. 6, • American ; soldiers on duty along the Rhine I and in Siberia are to have a real | Christmae~-some well-fllicd "stock- j ings" and dinners of turkey and I pumpkin pie. The War Department announced j to-day that the steamship Mercury j sailed from New York for Antwerp | last Wednesday carrying these pro- | visions for the Christmas aud New j Year's dinners of the American j forces in Germany: 30,000 pounds, of fresh turkey and as much chicken, I 5,000 cans of mince meat, 2,000 hot- j ties of olives and 2,400 cars each of I pumpkin and sweet potatoes for pies. > A shipment of turkeys and "auxiliar- | ies" already hus gone forward to j the Yanks in eastern Siberia. The Red Cross on Christmas Day j will give to every American soldier; in France and Germany a pair of j socks, chocolate, e.igarets, chewing; and' smoking tobacco, postcards, tooth paste and a comb and tooth brush. Similar provision is expected 1 to be made for the soldiers in Sibe ria. For the men In this country tu. key dinners, Christmas trees and ela borate entertainments will be pro vided by the War Department and the Red Cross. Committee Favors More Pay For Army Washington, Dec. 6. A flat in crease of 10 per cent, in the pay of army, navy and marine corps officers and a 20 per cent, increase in the pay of'enlisted men was voted to day by the Senate military affairs committee. N Apprentice seamen and "buck pri vates" whose pay is less than $33 a "month are affected. The 10 per cent, increase would also apply to all officers of the Const Guard, public healtft service, contract surgeons, warrant officers of the army, mine planter service, army field clerks, and field clerks of the quartermaster corps. Nurses of the army and navy would be given a 20 per cent, in crease. The Senate committee amended the Wadsworth pay bill to conform with the Crago bill in the house. The total pay increases would amount to $59,000,000 a year. It was estimated. Palmer Drops Southern Pacific Oil Land Appeals Washington. Dec. 6. —The govern ment hus decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court in an effort to take from the Southern Pacific Rail road 162,000 acres of oil and min eral lands in California, Assistant At torney General Nelieker, in charge of the public lands division of the De partment of Justice, said. The decision cume as a surprise. In view of the fact that the govern ment won a similar suit in the Su preme Court a few weeks ago, tak ing from the Southern Pacific 6,000 acres of oil lands in the Elk Hills. Nebeker explained this by saying that the government has documen tary evidence of fraud in the Elk Hills case. In the other suit, which represented six combined cases, Ne beker said, the government was con vinced this public land was not ob tained through fraud, pointing out that the road at first offered it for sale as agricultural land. Harrisburg Boy Meets With Success Charles L. Downie, grandson of J. R. Miller, 1316 North Sixth street, after successfully climbing, the in dustrial ladder, has been appointed manager of the Birmingham Steel Corporation, of Birmingham, Ala. The plant of this com pan v covers an enclosed plot of 17 acres and was built at the cost of $1,000,000 being equipped with the most mod ern machinery, and, located close to the" Gulf of Mexico, its future for export trade is assured. While connected with the Balti more Bridge Works, of Baltimore, Md„ in the capacity of assistant chief engineer, Mr. Downie had charge of the export trade for over ten years, ♦his experience peculiarly fitting him for the Latin-American trade of which the Birmingham Steel Cor poration expects its share. Fishes Church Poor Box With a Corset Rib New York, Dec. 6.T—Found fish ing in the poor box of St. Bernard's Church, Brooklyn, Into yesterday af i ternoon. with a corset rib, at the end of which was some sticky substance j like guni, it is alleged. Jobn Perino, . Manhattan, was urraigned in court :in Brooklyn on a charge of petty I larceny. Tt was said he bad got twenty eight pennies when he was iliscover i cd by the sexton. i The police said that ho recently [served a year in prison for robbing j St, Mary's Star of the Sea Church, at Coprt and Luquer streets, Brook j lyn. He was held in $2,000 hall to day after pleading not guilty. PASSES INDIA BILL ; lon.lon, Dec. 6. The House of , Commons last night passed the third • reading of the India bill, giving | India a measure of self-government. Middletown { • * I The Middletown Praying Band will meet at the home of Samuel Reitzel, I High street, this evening. Robert Fornwalt, has purchased the Horst property in Race street, oc cupied bv William Clouser. Mrs. Charles Schell entertained a | number of friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Etter on Wednesday evening, to an oyster supper. Those present were Miss Marie Loekard, Miss Bessie Huel, Miss Annie Schell, Mrs. Lydia Behmin, Mrs, Mary Schell, Mrs. Alice Houser, Mr. and Mrs. George Etter and children. Miss Charlotte Schell, of town. Miss Haz~l Rich, of.Columbia: Miss Mary Rhodes, of Harrisburg l ; Miss Emma Acker man, Washington Boro, and Eugene Umberhan, Lebanon. Charles Whitman and Sons, who ccnduct the drug store in the Rewalt block on Union street", have purchas ed the McNair block, in South Union street. The Girl Scouts held a meeting in the parish house of the Lutheran church. ITho Ladles' Aid Society, of the Methodist Church, met at the home oi Mrs. H. W. Troop. Pino street. Robert Fornwalt has sold a plot of ground in I'ine street to Jacob Wise, of North Union streot. GOLDMAN SEES , U. S. UPRISING Makes Prophecy as She and Bcrkinan Go to Island ; Coun sel Seeks Habeas Corpus New York, Dec. B.—"There will be a revolution in the United States within five years, and we will he asked to return by Ihe workers to aid in the establishment of Soviet America." These were the last words that Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkmpn uttered before being in carcerated in the detention rooms on Ellis Island, where they will be held until they are deported to Rus sia. The two anarchists were accom panied to the Island by a group of more than 50 of their fellow radicals. With Goldman were her niece, Stella Comyn, and her sister, Mrs. H. llockstein. Writs of habeas corpus are to ho 'applied for by Harry Weinberger, 'counsel for Goldman and Rerkman, [in a last desperate effort to stay the Government's deportation of his clients. "If application for the writs is : granted," Commissioner Byron H. Uhl said, "the two prisoners will appear in court on the day set for the hearing. Rut there is some doubt as to whether any judge will take such action as the proportion of writs granted to those applied for is something like 1 in 50." Tears flowed freely when the two anarchists who will be deported on the lirst available steamship were officially turned over to the immigra tion officials by Woinbcrger in the reception room at noon. Even Emma's eyes were noticeably moist when she took leave of her friends, kissing them all and calling them "Comrade." 14 Points About The Thrift Club What is the Thrift Club for? To help you to save regularly. How does the Thrift Club do this? By helping you to lay by a small amount weekly. T How does the Thrift Club differ from Christmas Clubs, Vacation Clubs or Lib erty Bond Clubs? Christmas and Vacation Clubs help to save money which is to be spent, Liberty Bond Clubs help to buy Liberty Bonds. Our Thrift Club is to help you to save , r to have. 4. How long does the Thrift Club run ? It runs for fifty weeks from the date of your first payment which is stamped in your book. When can I start? A Thrift Club Book can be started at any time, on and after December 10, 1919. How much do I pay each week? We have three classes, 50c, SI.OO, $2.00; and you can join any or all. How do I join? Ask at the Dauphin Deposit Trust Company, for a Thrift Club Book and pay the first week's dues. ft Must I pay every week ? You can pay in advance at any time and as much as you wish, (} What will happen if I cannot keep up my payments ? You must wait until the end of the fifty weeks to get back what you have paid in. 10. How can I withdraw ? * No withdrawals are allowed before the end of the fifty weeks. \l Can I transfer my book? h \ No. II thrift club \ 12. What do I get at the end of the fifty weeks? ■ill jJffjSmWi \ We will then give you a check for the amount you k \ \ have paid or a Savings Account Book, for that amount. 1 \ \ The Savings Account will draw interest. ffl l\ \ 13. What receipt do I get for my payments? Hll\ * \ You will receive a book with fifty coupons, one of liUA* s®"" 5 ®"" " \ which is marked "Paid" each time you make a pay- IB I\ \ \ ment. . I! \ \ \ t \ 14. What would happen if I lost my coupon book ? We have complete records of your payments and do not ask to see your receipts. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVESYSTEM ' < Seal your gifts with American Red Cross Christmas Seals* which are being sold here by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Customers of the Dauphin Deposit Trust Company may buy them from us. Cabinet Discusses the Coal Situation; Action Is Not Made Public Washington, I>Cc. B.—The general j i eoal situation was discussed again ! ! to-day at a meeting of the Presi- : j dent's cabinet but there was no la- j I tiniation of what new step was con- i ; | Fuel Administrator Garfield and j I Director General Mines told the j cabinet what had been done. Dr. | ; Garfield later conferred with De-' I partment of Justice officials and the, I executive committee of the biturnl- j j nous coal operators of the United' j States, members of which had been ! kept here lo watch the situation. The fuel administration indicated that coal production was increasing. The operators' committee issued a statement characterizing as "vicious and misleading" published reports . lo the effect that they were qonsid j eiing proposals to compromise with i striking mine workers by paying ! more Mian the 14 per cent increase I suggested by Dr. Garfield, and in- I creasing the price of coal. There I will he no compromise on the de j mands, they said. ! Wilson in Good Shape, \ , Senator Fall Declares Washington, Dec .B.—President Wilson, during his conference with ! Senators Fall and Hitchcock to-day ! referred to his illness. Senator Fall ! said, by commenting on the pub -1 lished statement of Senator Moses, I Republican, New Hampshire, some : weeks ago, that Mr. Wilson had suff- I ered a brain lesion, j "The President said that as a re sult of the conference, the senator I would he reassured, although he ! might he disappointed." said Sena tor Fall. "The President appeared to me I certainly to lie in as good mental j condition as any man could he who i had been ill for nine or ten weeks." Senator Fall declared. 'Berlin Newspapers Know Nothing of the Entente Ultimatum j ljniiiion, Dec. 6. —A wireless dis , patch received here from Berlin says j the newspapers in Berlin have been authoritatively informed that the i Berlin authorities know nothing 'whatever of reported impending j i forcible measures by the Entente, ' such as an ultimatum, with refer | once to the signing of the protocol, ; and new notes inhibiting the manu ; facture of arms. The dispatch says I that negotiations with Paris are i about to be resumed and that the j foreign office denies the report that j Miniser of Foreign Affairs Mueller | has resigned. Treaty With Hungary i Ready to Be Signed Paris, Dec. 6.—The peace treaty ■ between the allied and associated i powers and Hungary is ready fori j signing, the Supreme Council having ! adopted economic', financial and I reparation clauses. I The Supreme Council also up-, j proved treaty provisions regulating, I the frontier between Poland and I Czscho-Slovakia which place west lorn (ialieia within the boundaries j of Poland. Plenipotentiaries including Count I Albert Apponyi, the premier, rc i eently were appointed by the llun- I garinn government to sign the treaty t when completed by the council. Jersey City Has Enough Coal, Manufacturers Say j Jersey City. N*. J., Dec. 6. As- : sured that Jersey* City has never | "been in better shape for coal ! than at present," manufacturers. II business men and city officials at a i conference yesterday adopted a res olution which was sent to Fuel Ad ministrator Garfield protesting 1 against "any action of the fuel ad- ministration" which would prsvenj manufacturers who had a supply of fuel from continuing operation of their plants at full capacity. "To do otherwise than opwata whenever posible woufil cause great economic waste, and entail suffering and privation to the workers," the resolution added. Bigamist Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison New York. Dec. 6. Frank H. Gibson, convicted of bigamy, who admitted he had five wives, was sen tenced by County Jtftlge Young at "White Plains to four years and three months In Sing Sing prison. Gibsou, who is 52 years old, ad mitted at the trial that he had serv ; od live, years for defrauding through i the mails and two years for bigamy | in Pennsylvania. When Judge Young asked the prisoner if he had anything to say Gibson replied: "I am about half i blind and thy physical condition is not very good and for that reason, I plead for leniency." I "There may be something in your physical make-up to excite sympa thy," said Judge. Y'oung, "but your i relations with women call for no leni j ency from the court." No Cooluoft A Nutritious Diet for All Ages Quick Lunch at Home or Office Avoid Imitations and Substitutes 7
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