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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1923)
Work Greatest Need of World, Harding Says *’No Place for Loafers,” Presi dent Declares—Opposed to ^ Nationalizing of Coal Mines. (Continued From P«*a One.) States coal commission, made up of ftlde and earnest men, has been en-, ' Raged in a thorough investigation of this vital problem and will report to the congress next December. "It is going thoroughly in the labor controversy, studying living conditions and the community life in the min ing regions, ascertaining facts about the inadequacies which prevent prompt distribution, inquiring into engineering problems and tile eco nomic errors incident to over develop ment, looking to the excesses in prof its reflected in inordinate charges for coal, and preparing an exhaustive re port on the entire industry. It will bo revealing and, we hope, remedial. We shall know the facts about a basic industry, which is the source of peril to the nation’s industrial life, and a more or less continuous threat to our domestic comfort, sometimes a menace to life and health. New Understanding. It Is too early to say whether the commission will suggest plans of per manent cure which the congress will adopt. I do know that It will bring tis to a new understanding of a prob lem which must be solved. We shall have a publicity which will make greed Impossible, and point the way to solve a question which must be an swered in behalf of a vital public interest. "Doubtless there will be a recom mendation of vast storage during seasons of least consumption to guard against the heavy needs in winter or in suspended production. Probably there will be recommendations for enhanced distribution, the need for which is already proven. There may be revelations as to cost of produc tion, which will destroy price-making abuses through insistent public Opinion. I hope for the revelation of economic blunder in operating * lines half and quarter time. by Ikloh the higher labor costs are made fcfccessai y. Asks Public lo Help. Wleanwhile, we shall the better fuard against Inconvenience and ardship it the-consuming public will help as best it can, without expect ing the government to assume all the responsibility. "If the coal consuming world would buy coal during the periods of scant consumption, it would guard itself against price panics and dangerous shortage* when consumption is at the peak. In the hope of lowered prices. * the buying Is postponed anil that very postponement is contributing to a decided price increase. There is need for some individual initiative and responsbility in preparing for the wintry days to come. There is a mis taken notion that somehow the gov ernment may wield a magic wand, or strike with the iron hand and produce cheap coal. It can do neither. You can no more force the mine worker to produce coal than you can force the farmer to grow wheat or corn, or wool. We saw that erroneous belief exploded n year ago. Haps at Mine Operators. "Many mine operators, who were as much responsible for the strike as the workmen who struck, insisted that under law enforcement they could produce all the coal that was needed. The law enforcement was provided but no coal was produced. There ran be no coal mining in free America under ihe force of arms. But if we understand tho situation fully and justly, and men accustomed lo produce coal will not work to meet the public need, the public will pro duce their successors. "The common weal transeends every other Interest and puts aside i v ery obstacle. We will find the solution. I hope we shall find it with out further hardships or endangered life or menaced industry. Hut we shall not find it in nationalizing the mines. That would be only another step to the national.paralysis, which a sane America will everlastingly avoid. "Nor shall we solve it by main taining * basic industry like that of bituminous coal production, under a plan of operation which affords the wine worker only a hundred or a 150 Working days a year. The normal •nan, aspiring for himself and his 'amily, cannot live that way, even hough he is paid what is seemingly i generous wage, because his wage days are not ample for a life of hon «t industry and becoming thrift. Cannot Dodge I'rohlrm. "Such a problem is very insistent. It can not lie dodged nor solved In demagogy. It demands our liest thought mid all our courage, f.et ns r---- - - I _ THE Gate City Trans fer Company looked over its Goodyear Cushion Tires after three years of service and found they had given 22,000 miles on city and country roads and looked good for still another year of Goodyear wear. It m one of the complete ling J of (iondyear AIT Weather Tread Truck Tire> we tell | ^ Rusch Tire Service I 2205-07 I•mum St. GOODYEAR hope that in the search for a way to full justice in dealing with coal, we may find a suggested plan for dealing with kindred problems which are ever menacing our industrial peace and hindering our full accom plishment.” The president's arrival at Cheyenne was signaled In advance to the wait ing crowds through an aerial escort of five United States mail airplanes which met the train about 20 miles from the city and followed the tracks, flying high above the train and drop ping roses about the moving cars. Upon arrival, the chief executive was greeted by Governor Ross, Sen ator Warren and a small reception committee. After a public reception and the formal address, the president left for Ogden, Utah, where he is scheduled to arrive Tuesday morning for a brief stop before motoring to Salt Lake City for an evening speech. Big Crowd at Greeley. The largest gathering (o greet the president nt any nonseheduied stop on the trip to date was at Greeley, Colo., where the cliiefexecutive made a five-minute talk. Noting that Gree ley was a state educational center, he asserted that "we are going to have, some of these days, a real department of education and public welfare.” "X hope that realization will come before the next congress closes its long term.” he said. "I do not want you to misunderstand me; I do not favor the federal government taking upon itself that responsibility for edu cation which belongs to every com munity in the United States, because whenever a community loses interest in and concern for its educational activities, there is not anything to hope for in this reputilic of ours. Touches on Sugar Question. "I have not come to talk politics to you, but, as you know, there has been considerable discussion recently as to the high cost of sugar, and a good many people have found fault with the president because lie did not exercise the authority conferred on him by congress to raise or lower the tariff to meet existing conditions. "I at once caused an inquiry to be made in the sugar situation and I be came persuaded that a modification of the sugar tariffs, so far as the president had authority, would have little to do with a decrease of price to tlie American consumer, but might destroy the American sugar industry itself, to which the American consum ers must look for stabilized prices in the future. I believe, with all my heart, in ample protection to the American sugar industry, because, in my opinion. American self-reliance in the production of sugar will make us free from tlie greed of great sugar producing countries of the world. "I am proud of the great develop ment of the sugar industry in the state of Colorado. I need not tell you. my countrymen, that the govern ment is also concerned wdth the good I fortune of the people of the I'nited States. Xt Is not concerned merely with the good fortune of the corpor ate interests; it is not concerned alone with tlie good fortune of the captains of industry; your government is not alone concerned with the welfare of agriculture: it has at heart deep and abiding concern for the little fellow, the one who makes up the great rank ar.d file of American productive activ ity. We want him to prosper, be cause unless he does, real good for tune cannot abide throughout the X'nited States." Funeral Services for Sunmer Curtis Held at Denver Body of Republican Commit tee Representative With Harding's Party on Way to Chicago. Denver, June 27.—-Funeral service* for Sumner Curtis, representative of the republican national committee on President Harding's trip to Alaska, were held this afternoon at a local mortuary. Curtis, Thomas F. Daw son, formerly a widely known Wash ington newspaper man, and Thomas A. French of Denver lost their lives as a result of on accident Sunday on the Bear Creek canyon road, when tlie automobile In which they were riding plunged over a 73-foot em bankment. Though seriously injured, the con dition of Donald Craig, Washington correspondent of the New York Herald was declared hopeful tonight, and an x-ray failed to show any frac tures. No internal injuries have de veloped. John F. Vivien, national republican committeeman for Colorado, left for Chicago late today with the body of Mr. Curtis. At Chicago representa tives of the Chicago newspapers, with a delegation from Washington, will meet the body and with them will he Mrs. Curtis, the widow. Mr. Curtis was for many years connected with Chicago newspapers. An escort com posed of members of the Denver Press club and Hoy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, representing the Washington correspondents wTith tlie presidential party, attended the ser vice and accompanied the body to the train. Mr. Dawson's funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon from First Church of Christ, Scientist, of which he was a member. Solemn high mass will be said for Mr. French Wednesday morning at it in Doyola chapel. The Knights of Columbus and representatives of the Denver Press club and tlie Washing ton correspondents with tlie presiden tial jiarty will attend. Mr. French was driving the ill-fated automobile, having volunteered to act as one of the hosts for the drive through the Denver mountain parka. Ten Killed, 40 Hurt, in New York ‘L’ Wreck (Continued From r**e One.) in and saved the victims from fire. Flames gave way to curling pillars of smoke as water •played on the wreckage. Police reserves from five stations threw a cordon around the wreckage, pushed back for a block tlie crowd which had grown to thou sand* and rnadu room for ambulances that raced up from the nearest hospi tals. Bodies Recovered. The postoffice substation at that corner was converted into a tempo rary hospital, where row after row of \ Mone M National Park "The Magnetic West” lies nght in your path when you travel via West Yellowstone. From the car window you see, as via no other route, Cheyenne and the great cattle ranges where the old west still lives, the Overland and Oregon Trails of the pioneers, Echo and Weber Canyons, the Rockies and Wasatch, Targhee Forest and the grand Tetons in the Jackson Hole country. You can go and return direct in through sleep* ing cars from Omaha via Salt Lake City. Or you can make a Grand Circle Tout for the Price ofe Ticket toYcllowstonc alone embracing Yellowatone, Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Ogden Canyon, the Royal Gorge, Colorado Springs, Pike* Peak and Denver— mn advantage exclusive to this route. You can do it all in two weeks or stop-over at any point as long as you wish. $46.00 Round Trip from Omaha Automobile transportation in Ycllowstona with acc-om* modationa at Hotals $34 00 additional; at Camp* $43.00. (Seaton opena June 20.) Sid* trip irom Denver to Rocky Mountain National (Estes) Park $10.30. if going to th* Pacific Coast visit Ysllowston* an rout*. Writs Lat us hslp you plsn your trip snd send For Frae you btaulifully illustrated booklet* aad Booklets map*. For (nlormstien, ark — A £**•■ *«'"«• U. P. Sritem. r 'L0'1*' S'• Omaha, I’hont Jaikann |l>t Hi6 Dodgt St., Phone Atlantic «jt4 or loth and Marts Strtata l/nion Pacific bloodstained men, women and chll-1 dren lay groaning and in lho street surgeons worked feverishly within the ambulances, which kept a stream of injured flowing towards the better facilities of hospitals. "With the flood of Injured moving away, the firemen, throwing off their rubber coats and helmets and fight ing furiously beneath a torrid sun to lift the heavy wreckage, began their fight for the dead. Among the first to come out were the bodies of a young girl and a white-haired woman, their arms still thrown comfortingly around each other. Apparently they had found such refuge as the cars leaped the rails and plunged on, heedless of the frantic application of brakes as Ed win P. Parcells, the motorman, stuck to his post even as the fatal plunge loomed. Clergymen on Scene. In the wake of the tragedy ap peared 10 clergymen who moved from the dead, to whom they administered last rites, to the less severely in jured, whom they attempted to con sole. Edwin Parcells, the motorman, aft er being dragged from the wreckage, was arrested on a charge of homi cide. Officials who flocked to the scene, led by Mayor Hylan, investi gated. They were aghast at what they quickly branded the criminal use of wooden cars and hurriedly plunged into the problem of finding who w-as to blame, w'ith a view to dealing out Justice. "This is a terrible calamity," Mayor Hylan declared after investigating the scene of the wreck. "Someone should be indicted. The wooden cars and rotten wooden structure are to be blamed, in my opinion." Gerhard Dahl, superintendent of the "Jj." said the use of wooden cars would be discontinued immediately. Trusted Woman Employe Faces Fraud Charge Anna M. Crowley, Saddlery Company Offiec Worker, Arrested—Supported Her Aged Mother. E. P. Shaeffer, manager of the forgery bond department of the Na tional Surety company, filed a com plaint yesterday which caused the ar rest of Anna M. Crowley, who has been a trusted employe of the Marks Saddlery company for 13 years, dur ing which time she has supported her aged mother. It was charged that she defrauded the company out of $11,000 during the last four years. E. W. Merrow, attorney for the company, accompanied Mr. Shaeffer to the central police station after the issuance of the warrant, to turn it over to the police. During her employment. Miss Crow ley handled the company's finances and drew all the checks. The com pany officials say that she raised the amount on the checks after they had been signed and confirmed the new amount on the face of the check by means of the check protecting device. It is alleged that she took these cheeks and paid small bills with them, keeping the remainder of the money. It was not until the company was forced to borrow jnoney that the dis crepancy was noticed. This happened in "February, when Miss Crowley was out of town. Miss Crowley said yes terday that she had put the money in the hank in her own name. Miss Crowley lives with her mother ;<t 1113 South Tenth street. She has two sisters, one of whom is living in | Omaha. Th* othrr ona IK’aa In Cali fornia. Armours 1 STAR BACON —It*a handy—to have a side of Star Bacon in your refrigerator. * —And it*a economical— to buy it ~ by the whole piece. But, best of all, you have true bacon I®' quality—tenderness, sweetness and de ' licious mildness of flavor—when your larder is stocked with Star. Sold also by the pound, or sliced in cartons, if you prefer. 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