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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRTBUNE. TO CURB THE PROFITEERS MILLION DOLLAR LOSS BY STORM lire Relief Powers of Commerce Commission Over Car Distribution Principal Weapon to Control Prices. FOR INDIGESTION BOTH SIDES HOPE FOR SPEEDY END Union Heads Receive Call for Conference with Operators in Chicago. Waters that Sweep Northeast Section of Stato Drive Many from Homes. FARMERS GROWING UNEASY Continuance of Rail and Miner Strike May Seriously Interfero with Harvesting and Marketing. Norfolk, Neb. Flood waters nrc covering nearly a dozen cities and i owns and form an almost unbroken iitn over tin; farm lnndH of five north tiii.slorn Nebraska counties, rendering liumlri'ils homeless; a ureal wall of water Ik riiNhlng down the narrow Jilklioru vnllo.v upon till" city, en liingorhig the east business district mid practically all train service has :euii cancelled, an a rosult of a cloud "burst and hailstorms, which caused snore than a million dollars damage. The Northrork river Joins the Hlk lioni Junt outside the city limits, and it Is feared that the swollen hitter rttream will hack the Hood from the isorthfork over a huge portion of this city. The Norlhfork went out of Its hanks ii several places, hut slight damage was done. Crews worked desperately for hours In an effort to hiilhl sand bag hanks high enough to prevent an overllow Into the city, hut it Is feared their efforts will he without success. Thousands of acres of shocked grain aver northeastern Nebraska have been wwepl clean by the worst lined In ypjir, and corn llelds have been tin 1 -tened, both by water and by heavy liall which laid waste wide strips over many miles of territory. C : Farmers Becoming Disturbed. Chicago. Hoports from thirteen Btates to Secretary .1. V. Coverdale, of the American farm bureau federa tion, show that farmers are becoming nnxlous over the continuance of the coal and rail strikes, fearing that Hhortago of fuel or transportation inay seriously Interfere with harvest ing and marketing their crops. Federation olllclals lt Iowa, Wash ington, Wisconsin and Illinois report ed a shortage of coal, It was said by hu olllclals in the various states that Morions shortage of transportation would result if the strike continued. In Iowa, the tit1 o limit was estimated at a week to ten days; in Ohio grain elovutors cannot now obtain sufUelent fnrs; in Missouri threshing coal Is available but cannot bo moved because of the luck of cars. 'Immediate ac tion" was said to bo necessary in Call forttla; In Nebraska ono station com Ulained of n grain car shortage. In South Dakota It was reported that the lending railroad had only .'100 surplus Kraln ears against 2,000 normally and In Idaho August 1 was sot as the last lay when shipment of potatoes should begin. Look for Summer Coal Famine. Washington. The nation within a month will he In throes of the worst Hummer coal famine In the history of the country unless the miners' strlko Is settled or u big lncreaso in pro luction Is made possible, a high olll Jul of the government declares. A shortage next winter Is now be lieved Inescapable, even If full pro duction Is soon resumed. Unless the movement of coal can lie started soon to the northwest and New Fngland till that will prevent HUlflTerlng there will be a rigid policy of fuel rationing. To Market 20,000,000 Bushels of Wheat Orand Forks, N. I). Marketing of iipproxlniutoly liO.OOO.OOO bushels of wheat this year Is expected, according to olllclals of the North Dakota Wheat Growers' association, which claims M.OOO member, with less than two years' oxlsteu. Fear Big Loss on Fruit. San Francisco. Farmers throughout the state rue apprehensive of the ef fects of the rail strike and are Insis tent on Hielr demands that the state take steps to Insure the movement of their fruit crops which are Hearing the time of harvest. To Help Relieve Coal Shortage. Manila, l I. Mine owners In the hlllpplues are .forwarding to Secre tary Hoover a proposal to supply ap proximately '20.000 tons of Philippine coal a month to the United States to lielp relieve the shortage during the Htrtke. One-half of this amount would liu semi-anthracite from the Island of Mindanao, provided the company which makes this offer wore provided with f2.r)(),(MM) with which to Increase Its production faculties. Grain Growers Ship to Market. Tronton, Neb. Wheat from the pool of the Nebraska Wheat Growers' as sociation Is being shipped to markets la Minneapolis and Kansas City, ac cording to tho organization's head quarters olllce which recently was es tablished here. The total pool now amounts to about 1,000.000 bushels. although organizers are still In the Held and n considerably larger amount Is tsxpw ted before the end of tho tpreft'inUciop movement. Washington. Mobilized to meet the crisis of a nation-wide fuel shortage, federal agencies, producing operators and railroad tralllc experts are await ing tile word from President Harding to set in motion tho administration's machine for emergency coal control. Ground work for the operation of the emergency fuel rationing program was laid by the Interstate commerce commission, which declared an emer gency existed on the railroads east of the Mississippi river. This formal announcement of the cari'lcrs' Inability to serve the public In the transporta tion of iiel'ossltlos opened the way for the distribution of con! under the plan unanimously adopted by repre sentatives of the producing Ileitis In conference with Secretary Hoover. Two ordem, both based on Its de claration that an emergency In trans porlatlon existed, were Issued by the commission. The llrst directed rail roads all over the United States to disregard usual or questioned routing of shipments in favor of such routing as would expedite movement and avoid congestion, while the second establish ed a system of preference and priori ties In shipments over all roads o;.st of the Mississippi. The administration announced that It would support the Un'ted Slates railroad labor board as the only emer gency erected by law for handling the rallstrlke. The labor board adhered to Its an nounced "hands-off" of policy In con nection with the strike and members said no action was contemplated. Plan to Curb Profiteers. Washington. Secretary of. . Cpjn aerce Hoover's plan to curb prolltoer Ing In coal and facilitate distribution to points where the fuel shortage Is already acute has been announced with the complete approval of the Department of Justice. The plan contains two outstanding features. First, the formation of voluntary association of producing operators to keep down prices. Second, use of the powers of the Interstate Commerce commission over car distribution as the principal weapon to cope with tho prollteors. In other words, the operators able to produce coal will be called upon voluntarily to enter Into agreements to maintain fair and reasonable prices, and If they refuse they may ilud diniculty In getting cars to shlu their coal from tho mines. Will be Laid on Armistice Day. Lincoln. Tho corner stono of Ne braska's iU!W cnpltol building will bo laid on Armistice day, November 11, according to Governor S. It. McKolvlc. This decision was reached at a meet- ng of the cnpltol commission to award tho contract for the lower super structure of tho new building, which will bo dedicated to ex-soldiers of thv world war. Land Opened to Homesteaders. Spokane. Thousands of acres . In tho south half of tho Colvllle Indian reservation, formerly classified as mineral lands, have been reclassified to como under homestead IHInir rlirhts and honorably discharged veterans of tne world war "will be given preferen tial rights. Filings will bo accepted July !U to August Ul. Should all tho land not bo disposed of to var veterans, it will bo opene-. December 11 to others who have tlloj Black Stem Rust Took Big Toll. Minneapolis. lllnck stem rust has taken a toll estimated at 150,000,000 bushels of grain, valued at .?'J00,(MX),000 In seven o" tho most Important cereal producing states during three-year period from 1010 to 11)21, according to an announcement made here by tho conference for tho prevention of grain rust. Moratorium Only Solution. Paris. Tho allied committee or guarantees has returned from u month's Inquiry in Ilerlin with tho majority considering that a mora torium of two years or more on cash Indemnity payments Is the only solu tion of tho present tlnauclal crisis in Germany. Wet and Dry Issues In Campaign. Chicago. Well dotlnojl wet and dry Issues appeared In several middle western states in tho campaign pro ceding the primaries, while Congress man Volstead has active opposition In Minnesota, although the prohibition Issue has not been raised there. Would Exempt Farm Loans. Washington. Money loaned to fann ers on mortgages would he exempt from Income taxes under a bill intro duced by Chairman McCumher of tho senate tlnance committee. liOiidon. A quarter of a million tons of coal are available In Ungland for Immediate shipment to the United States as soon as American supplies are exhausted as a result of the strike. English coal production could he speeded up to permit the shipment of iiOO.OOO tons weekly, If necessary, as all the pits aro not working fnlltlnio now. There aro plenty of vessels available to transport enormous sun plies of coal, and, owing to the stagna tion in tho shipping business, It Is not expected t lint the rates would bo In. creases) w Hawaiian Fishermen Meed the Trained -.Proparpd by tile National Geofrriiphte Society, WaslilnBton. D. C.) Now that vacation days are bring ing play to the fore for old and young, Jt Is worth recalling that sports and games ever were magic touchstones to geography and to those allied sciences which provide the surest clues to how peoples live, and work, and think. In countless ways science has learned about cllmntes, and products, and customs, and peoples of the past from toys, games and sports. An en tire new field of Investigation was Opened by the discovery that back gammon, as played In Iitirmn, also was known to tho pre-Columbian Mexicans. A new light Is shed on an ancient civilization when we learn that there was a law jimnog the Persians by which all children were to be taught three things, horsemanship, shooting witli the bow and telling the truth. Carthaginians and Phoenicians owed something of ther maritime glory to u love of swimming, the sport by which they llrst mastered their fear of the sea. Kqually significant In the history of nations Is the decline of their sports. While the Persians observed the rigid regimen of the chase, as prescribed by Cyrus, their armies were victorious. While Spartan youths followed the rigorous discipline of Lycurgus, their city was Inviolate. Led, by Alexander tho Great In ways of abnegation and exercise, the Macedonians were In vincible. The ltomans extended their civilization so long as their gymnasia prepared youths 'to endure long murches and bear crushing burdens. It Is fairly obvious that coasting Is n sport of the zone where snow falls, and reasonable that those peoples most generally proficient In swimming should he found In the equatorial Islands, where limpid waters Invite surcease from tho scorching sun, but less well known, perhaps, that card and hoard games developed In south ern Asia, where zest for play Is Just as keen hut temperature dampens tho ardor for exertion. The reactions of geography and sport are mutual. To tho Netherlands are traced tho stilt and the skate, which even yet have their work-n-day use In Hooded and frozen areas, but aro playing for tho rest of tho world. Sometimes sports spread beyond na tional boundary lines and express the common Ideals of an age. Thus the tournaments of the middle ages were the normal symptoms of tho adven turous spirit reflected In the quests for tho Holy Grail. Games and tho- Individual. Games invariably adapt themselves to tho Individual need for a balanced life, mental and physical. This fact was Illustrated by comments of civilian writers In the fighting zones during the World war, who told how English men and Americans sought diversion In active play, while Frenchmen re luxed in more quiet fashion smoking, reading, or day-dreaming by the side of a welcome tlreplace. Many noted this as a contradiction, In view of tho supposed sprightly temperament of our Gallic cousins. Hut us a sporting writer, In an article printed years beforo the World war, put It, "the Englishman, phleg matic during his work, seeks excite ment as a relaxation, while tho more nnlmnted Gaul needs qulot during his leisure." Just as tho Individual adopts games which meet his bodily need, so it seems that national pastimes are modi fied to foster and fortify tho peoples who play them. Influence of England's Sports. night up to 101-1 It was almost btomldlc to laugh at tho Englishman for putting his recreations In his "Who's Who," alongside of matters considered more weighty, and for pub llshlng massive tomes and cyclopedias of sport. Now the world knows that ,tho Derby at Epsom, tho cricket at Itugby, and tho fox-hunts ot Mirtu amptonshlre had everything to do with the bulldoi; determination with which ho "carried on" on Heartbreaking Bummer after another against vlclfcus Hun onslaughts in Flanders. lint even tho sport-loving llrltons nro said to havo admired and on dcred at the American dough-boy, whacking out three-baggers amid the booming of Iilg Herthns, issuing oc casional rain-checks In mld-lnnlng Muscle and Sure Eye of the Athlete, when the downpour of bursting shell became too distracting. Some historians assert that the Greek games formed the foundation fur the lucid thinking and tho lofty art concepts that made her product classic. Yet the Olympian and the Pythian games at their best afforded no such spontaneous, and at the same time Intricate, Interpluy of muscle and mind as baseball. Throwing, catching, and running are as old as man; but It took' the Ameri can genius for piny, no less distinc tive thnn the American genius for science, Industry, nnd commerce, to weld these motifs Into a game that fiats a premium on skill, yet admits of infinite variety; that rawest youth or trained athlete may play; and that Presidents and ofllet?' boys steal away to watch. If the Greeks paved the way for classic art by teaching adults to play and Great "Britain followed in her footsteps with a more spontaneous and democratic fervor, America now appears as the most forward-looking nation In her attention to children's playgrounds. There Is nothing arti ficial about the games taught to chil dren on American playgrounds. They are products of a rich heritage of play tradition. Neither written history nor the faint traces of prehistoric times carry us back to a period when children did riot play. Excavators In Central America found tiny rattles of hone ahrt clay, ns old as the pyramids of Egypt, In graves alongside baby skeletons. In Attica's tombs were uncovered dolls of pro-classic days, made of Ivory and terra cotta. Little Hippodamla hnd n mlnlnture bed, with slnts, for his dolls, for hoys formerly played with dolls. Itomnn children's toys were held In such high esteem by their elders that when the children grew too old for them they wore offered to patron gods. Games With the Ball, nunnlng, throwing, hitting, and kicking aro tho fundnmontnl muscular operations of America's characteristic sports baseball, football, tennis, pnd golf. Tho peoples of antiquity mani fested all these Instincts In cruder form. Luzon hlllmen, the Polynesians, and tho Eskimo and Sumatra Islanders had games played by kicking a ball. Greeks played It, nnd the Roman game, harpastum, derived its name from the Greek "I seize," which la evidence that carrying the ball was piactlced then. With shoes of hide, tho medieval Italians played a game which seems the direct nncestor of the Anglo-Saxon college sport. Gaelic scholars point to n football game in Ireland before the time of Christ, and until comparatively recant times Shrove Tuesday wns distinctively an occasion for football as Is our Thanks giving today. In old England football was even rougher than most sports of those hardy times. James I thought It wns "mooter for hunelng than making able the users thereof." Henry VIII and Elizabeth ruled against It. Edwnrd II frowned upon It for Its Interference with archery and also because of tho commotion It aroused. Likewise, one must go back to the Greeks and Romans for the origin of tennis, which descended to Eng land by way to Franco. In the Twelfth century n game with hall and plaited gut bat was played on horseback. Then came "La houdo," In which tho horses wcro abandoned. Henry VTII of England was a youthful devotee, while Louis XIV's heavy expense ac counts show salaries paid to care takers of his courts. If tennis has n royal lineage, golf, which was later regarded as a rich man's gume, had most plebeian be ginnings. Contrary to a widespread belief, It seems lot to have originated In Scotland, but In northern Europe. Apparently It wns first played on Ice, being one of tho winter sports adapted to tho physical geography of tho Low Countries. Hy tho Fifteenth century golf had attained such voguo In Scotland that It threatened tho cherished archery, and It Is classed with "fute-ball" and other "unprolltnhll sportls" by James IV. That monarch, however, seoms to have disregarded his own edict, ns did enough othor Scotchmon to keep tho game alive. SOFT COAL STRIKE OUTLOOK Taking Steps for Equal Distributes and Maintalnance of Fair Prices for Coal. Chicago. With President Hnrdlng prepured to submit dellnlte proposals to end the railway shopmen's strlko and 11. M. Jewell, head of the shop crafts and his International presidents hurrying hack to Chicago after con ferences with .Mr. Harding, the fourth week of the walkout ended while both executives nnd union heads viewed optimistically tho possibility of an early settlement. Strike headquarters received a message from .Mr. Jewell at Washing ton calling a meeting of tho shop crafts executive committee to be held here at once, ltulhyay executives have already Issued a cull for a meeting In New York, when tho peace proposals are expected to be submitted. Seniority, which determines which employes shall have llrst chance at desirable positions and which shall be last to be laid off, has been the great stumbling block In peace nego tiations conducted for the past two weeks through Chairman Hen W. Hooper of tho railroad labor board. Rift Seen In Mine Strike. Philadelphia. Powerful Influences, governmental and otherwise, are understood to be at work to arrange an Interstate Joint wnge conference and thereby bring to an end the soft coal strlko. John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, would not indicate where and how these Influ ences are being exerted, but he let It be known that he had "every reason to believe that an interstate Joint con ference of the central competitive fields will he arranged within a few days." Union lenders made known that as soon ns they have ussurance that suf Uelent tonnnge will bo represented at an Interstate conference to make a basic wage scale possible, a call for the meeting will be Issued at once. Such u cull, It was said, may comj any day. Coal Machinery in Motion. Washington. President nardlng has set In motion the federal emergency fuel control organization with the selection of a central coal dlstrlbut'on committee of government ofliclals under the chairmanship of Secretary Hoover. The commerce secretary Immediate ly wired the governors of the various states asking them to set up emer gency state organizations as the llrst step toward decentralizing the organ ization for equitnblo distribution and maintenance of fair p'lces for coal under the administration's plan. Co-operation of state organizations nlso was asked by Interstate Com merce Commissioner Atchison, who telegraphed the several transportation regulatory boards of tin states east of the Mississippi, requesting them to act as representative of the commis sion In facilitating operation of the emergency service orders giving priority to the shipments of coal and necessities. Southern Miners Ordered Out. Muskogee, Okla. Engineers, pump men, electricians and repair men em ployed by coal operators In Oklahoma and Arkansas to keep tho mines in a safe condition, have been rdercd out hy the hoard of tho United Mine Workers, district No. 21. The order was passed unanimously. Pleads to Striking Shopmen. Washington. President Harding has appealed to the 400,000 striking shop men to return to work, promising to ask for a rehearing of any case beforo the railroad labor board "concerning which there Is a reasonable doubt about the correctness or the justness of the decision."" New Hospital for Service Men. Washington. Selection of St. Cloud, Minn., as a site for the new iBl.OOO.OOO hospital for service men with facili ties for between "J."0 and :i."0 mental cases Is announced by Director Forbes of the veterans' bureau. Ban on Imported Wines and Liquors. Washington. Imports of wines and liquors have been banned by Com missioner Hlalr of internal revenue until supplies already In the country for nonbeverage uses are sufllclent ta meet the national requirements. Object to Primary Amendment. Lincoln. Tho league of women voters have filed with Secretary of Stato Amsberry their objection to the law amending the direct primary, which Is to bo voted on at the Novem ber election. 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