Nebraska Newspapers

    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.
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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)
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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. Among othor things they
allege that tho proposed law deprives
women of their legnl right to represen
tation with men in tho party organiza
tions. They nlso claim it places ji
tho linnds of tho state conventions
the solectlon of delegatus to national
conventions.
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