Westville Indicator (Newspaper) - August 14, 1919, Westville, Indiana 3 I- 16. EXTEND CONTROL and Provision of Penalties for Advocated by the FORCE SALE OF Address to Congress the Chief Executive Makes Assertion That We Dealing With Very Critical and Difficult congress proposing remedies to the high cost of President Wilson declared existing laws were inadequate and high prices were not justified by of present or but were created in many cases and by spoke practically as 0ntlcmen of the have this opportunity to address you because It Is clearly my duty call your attention to the present cost of living and to urge upon you with all the force of which I am capable the measures which would be most in controlling It and bringing it prices people of this country are for everything that it Is necessary for them to use in order to live are not Justified by shortage in either present or and are in many cases artificially and deliberately created by vicious practices which ought immediately to be checked by Some of file methods by which these prices are produced are already some of them and those who employ will be energetically proceeded But others have not yet been brought under the and should be dealt with at once by the Increase in the prices of the necessaries of life come demands for In which are Justified If there be no other means of enabling men to the Increase of wages there follows close Increase In the price of the products whose producers have been accorded the a proportionate for the manufacturer does not content with but an Increase considerably greater than the added wage cost and for which the added wage cost Is oftentimes hardly more than an laborers who do not get an increase in pay whan they demand It are likely to and the strike only makes matters checks production; if it affects the railways U prevents distribution and strips the so that there is presently nothing to and there is another excessive addition to prices resulting from the Not are facts and forces with which we have become only too but we are justified because of our familiarity with them or because of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are and In sitting Inactively by und them work their fatal if there is anything that we fan do to correct or reverse I frankly admit that there Is no complete Immediate remedy to be had from legislation and executive The free processes of supply and demand not operate of and no legislative or executive action can force thera Into full and natural operation until there Is Know Terms of There be no confidence in no calculable basis for no confident buying of systematic no certain prospect of no normal restoration of no hopeful at reconstruction or a proper reassembling of the dislocated elements of enterprise until peace has heen so far as may Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and dismembered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more directly with all its terrible and destructive but It has nevertheless profoundly affected and our our productive our economic processes are Inextricably Interwoven with those of other nations and Intimately of all with the nations and peoples whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fell and who are now most dependent upon the cooperative action of the Greatest in are Just now shipping goods our ports to foreign markets than wije ever shipped foodstuffs but stuffs materials of every but this Is no Index of what our foreign sales will continue to be or of the the of our exports will have on supplies and It is impossible yet to predict how far or long foreign purchasers will be able to find the money or the credit to for or sustain such purchases on how soon or to what extent foreign manufacturers can resume their former foreign farmers get their accustomed crops from their own foreign mines resume their former foreign merchants set up again their old machinery of trade with the ends of the All things must remain uncertain until peace Is established und the nations of the have concerted the methods by which normal life and Industry are to be that we shall do In the meantime to restrain and put the lif s of our people upon a tolerable will be makeshift and There can be no settled condition here or elsewhere until the treaty of Is out of the way and the work of liquidating the war has become the chief concern of our government and of the other governments of the will cannot recoup or put her distracted peoples to work exactly where she stands In respect to and what we will do is for her the chief question upon which her of mind and confidence While there is ability that the peace may changed or may be held long in or may not be enforced because of divisions of opinion powers associated against idle to look for permanent Relief By way of Immediate stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the government will be sold and of course sold at prices at Is no And by way of a more permanent correction of prices surplus stocks in private hands will be drawn out of storage and put upon the Fortunately under the terms of the act the hoarding of foodstuffs can be checked and and they will with the greatest Foodstuffs can be drawn out of storage and sold by legal action which the department of justice will institute wherever but as soon as the situation Is systematically dealt with It Is not likely that the courts will often have to be resorted Much of the accumulating of stocka has no doubt been due to the sort of lation which always results from Have Prices Plainly would also recommend that required that all goods destined for Interstate commerce should in every where their form or package makes it possible be plainly with the price at which they left the hands of the Such a requirement would bear a close analogy to certain provisions of the pure food by which it is required that certain detailed Information be given on the labels of packages of foods and it does not seem to me that we could confine ourselves to detailed measures of this if it Is indeed our purpose to assume national control of the processes of I take granted that that is our purpose and our Nothing less will We need not hesitate to handle a national question In a national We should go beyond the measures I have We should formulate a law requiring a federal license of all corporations engaged Irt Interstate commerce and embodying in the or in the conditions under which It Is to be specific regulations designed to secure competitive selling and prevent unconscionable profits In the method of Law Would Do Such a law would afford a welcome opportunity to effect other reforms in the business of Interstate shipment and In the methods of corporations which are engaged In but for the moment I confine my recommendations to the object Immediately In which Is to lower the cost of are gentlemen of the I need hardly with very critical and very difficult We should go forward with confidence along the we but we also seek to comprehend the whole of the scene amidst which we act. There is no ground some of the fearful I hear uttered about but the condition of the world Is unquestionably very grave and we face it The situation of our own country is We of all peoples can afford to keep our heads and to determine upon moderate and sensible courses of action which will Insure uis against the passions and distempers which are working such deep unhappiness for some of the distressed nations on the other side of the we be involved In their distresses unless we and help with energy and the surplus stock in the hands of the there was a greater supply of foodstuffs In this country on June 1 of this year than at the same date last In the combined total of a number of most important foods In dry and cold storage the excess Is quite 19 per cent And yet prices have Department attorney general has been making a careful study of the situation as whole and of the that can be applied to better It and is convinced under the stimulation and temptation of exceptional combinations of producers and combinations of traders have been formed for the control of supplies and of prices which are clearly In restraint of and against these prosecutions will be promptly Instituted and actively pushed which will in all likelihood have a prompt corrective There is reason to believe that the prices of of of lumber and of textiles have been materially affected by forms of concert and co-operation among the producers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which It possible to No watchful or energetic effort will be spared to accomplish this necessary I trust that there will not be many cases In which prosecution will be Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly illegal methods to abandon them promptly and of. their own department of the department of the department of labor and the federal trade commission can do a great deal toward supplying the public systematically and at short with Information regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that Is In existence and available regard to supplies which are In existence but not with regard to the methods of price fixing which are being used by In certain foodstuffs and other Retailers In Part to can be little doubt that retailers are In In for exorbitant and it Is quite practicable for the government through the agencies I have to supply the public with full information as to the prices at which retailers buy and as to the costs of transportation they pay In order that It may be known Just what margin of profit they are Opinion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the me in the first that the present foodstuff control act should be extended both as to the period of during which it shall remain in operation and as to the commodities to which It shall provision against hoarding should be made to apply not only food but to feed to to and many other commodities which are disputably necessaries of As It stands now it is limited In operation the of But that It regard shipment if requirements not ' 1; Is now In scribed that all goods released from should have eath price ' at Into By this means the purchaser would be able leam producer or the wholesale world must pay for the appalling destruction wrought the great we are of We must pay our For five years now the Industry of has been slack anil The normal crops have not been the normal quantity of manufactured goods has not been turned - until there are the usual crops and the usual production of manufactured goods on the other side of the Atlantic can Europe return to the former and It was upon the former not the that our economic wwe built must the fact that unless we help Europe get back to her normal life ai chaos ensue will be communicated to this For the It is our own S. Must Hold World and we almost now the world self-possession depend the affairs of tions It Is in this supreme crisis for all the presence of a World she must show herself capable of sober and effective She saved Europe by her action in must now save by her she will save dld the of the The calmness and capacity with which she deals masters the be the final test and the peoples of the if only in our own we must help the people Europe is our biggest We must keep her going thousands of our shops scores of our mines must There is no such u letting to ruin without ourselves the such face to face with passion must be Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place in the counsels of a free We need not In these solemn times of self-examination and saving who Is in real touch with the silent of our great people knows that the old strong fiber and steady violence or that c ' I am serenely that they will readily find no matter what the and that they will address to of peace with the devotion and same stalwart preference for what Is right that they displayed to the admiration of the whole world In the midst of Sinister Influences at And I enter another confident I have spoken today chiefly of measures of Imperative regulation and legal of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish and doubt v there are other forces that we may count on besides those resident in the department of We have just fully awakened to what has been going on and to the many of them very and that have been ' producing high prices imposing an burden of have brought it all Into the will accomplish the greater part of the result we appeal with entire confidence to our our middlemen and our to deal It Is. their opportunity - show that they that intend to act and that they have the public interest sincerely at Must I that the more extreme leaders of organized labor will presently yield to a sober second and like the great mass of their think and act like true They will see that strikes undertaken at this critical time are certain to make matters not for them and worst the most fatal can be done now Is to stop or or interfere the of goods hy railways and the ' shipping of the many things ought to be corrected in the between capital and in respect of wages and conditions of labor and other things even more and for am ready aro Into conference about these matter with any group of i my fellow who know what they are talking about and are willing to remedy existing conditions by frank counsel rather than by Interest No remedy is possible while men are In a and there can be settlement which not ha its motive and standard the general All Work and undue upon the interest of a single make settlement I believed as I have hitherto had occasion to say to the that the industry life of our people and of the world will suffer damage if employers and workmen are to go on in a perpetual as They ohe plan or be effectively Have { and self-possession and sense to out that the and in the days of readjustment and recuperation that are ahead of us TAKE EXCESSIVE Trade Commission Makes Public Facts Present High Prices of federal trade which recently conducted nn into the leather especially Into the prices of made public a summary of Its report to the the manufacturer of shoes has taken and the of Shelby ville for Labor H. Van aged died from the effects of paris swallowed with ' North board of county awarded the contract for the construction of the Clerkin pike In Campbell ' - plumbers here have raised the wages of journeymen plumbers from 70 to 75 cents an 1. mayor of has completed his budget for presentation to the city In its present iorm it calls for a city tax rate of raising Dr. George W. pastor Universalist church in San has been chosen of St. John's Universalist church here and will liis October 1. First Episcopal church in this city has acquired a building site in the factory district the south of the city and plans to erect a church and community dollars to be the price of membership in Fayette county's organization of which is being perfected for with the Indiana Federation of P. an employee of the Muncie Belt Railway who sued the company for as damages because of injuries suffered while working on the received in a circuit court jury E. Clegg of through failing to take the bath of office within five days of his election as a of the school boaM in the town of will be prevented from filling the it is increase of in his salary has been granted H. B. county superintendent of schools and president of the Indiana by the A petition signed by 500 freeholders was presented and recommended by the township petition signed by 525 voters of Putnam county was presented to the board of asking for an election to decide whether a county costing will be constructed irf this The commissioners named September 30 as the date for the holding of the than 100 members of the Tamarack grange of have organized the Grange Elevator with capital stock of and have W. H. Huston is the president of the and Edward Zieger is The company has taken out a permit to build a grain Deputy camp a Methodist Episcopal held for nearly fifty years at Jefferson 40 miles east of this may die as a result of the world No meeting was held last year and it has not been found practicable to start again this In former years there were large age was and Edward De age was seriously injured by a fall of slate in the Speedwell coal Both were Murray's home was at 1634 North Third street and DeBruler lived at Chase The mine is near West Terre congregation of Harrison Methodist Episcopal church of one of the oldest congregations of the denomination in has voted to amalgamate with the First M. E. church of subject to the decision of the which will be Held the latter part of this years ago Ross M. cashier of the First State bank of flied to it Is of the bank's The alleged defalcation caused the closing of the One day the mail carried full payment of sums due depositors and Stockholders were not assessed and a surplus was left for lying side by with a monkey wrench between were found by workmen excavating an old boiler room the Mooney which in its present location 30 A boiler had stood over the spot where the bones were Before the tannery was built an old the In a fair state of Terre Haute Trust company made Its third by the retailer are not each factor In the to passed to the for reducing tiie high mutet to the in this paragraph John relief the had by a rigid and ment of the laws against perhaps fatally to frank and intimate counsel tmd and triumphal i S selves a united the life of It will not then have looked to us for leadership in federal trade commission has found that the high price of shoes cannot be Justified by commission after exhaustive Inquiry Into the of and Is to congress that the larger packers control the hide supply and have taken excessive and creased costs to subsequent and distribution; that the has taken producers of hides the kitchen stove by tog In the tanning explosion wM elected bf of - aged a retired died at the of his family has its second air fair Katherine Ferguson of N. is the new physical director at Women's Christian petition will be filed with the state highway commission asking for a rehearing on the Albert Nordman road In Pleasant of the Foundry company has been closed six is to reopen not later than September 15w H. township has named R. C. Miss Mildred and Mis Cecilia assistant principal of the Milton new cannery at foup west of has all of its new machinery in place and is ready for business as soon as the tomato crop is ripe enough to Leah Barber of Shelby township has selected by the Jefferson County association to represent the county at the Indiana state fair home economic schools for the Lawrence county board of commissioners met to receive bids for building of nine roads in different parts of the they were surprised to learn no bids had been Gibson board of education reappointed R. R. Marshall county agricultural The board met here at the invitation of George township trustee and member of the were let by the Fulton county commissioners on the road for arid on the U. S. Kroft road for Both are county unit gravel roads and are located in Rochester and Henry of the fire and police departments men employed in the street cleaning department and city teamsters presented a demand to the city council for an increase in The police and firemen are now being paid a The Coal composed of Lee F. Byas and R. F. has bought from the People Coal and Mining company a mine near with a present capacity of 400 tons a It is planned to increase materially the output and improve the Petersburg school board has reorganized with Dr. T. W. as Charles E. and Dr. Frank Doctor Luke is the Democratic member of the board and is the first Democrat to sit on the school board in ten trustees in this county procured a petition from 400 freeholders of the coutny to have the commissioners allow an additional salary to the county superintendent of of Thp would allow only additional and A. O. the has consented to continue in board of county commissioners granted the request of all of the township trustees of Dubois county and of 679 resident freeholders and of 76 other taxpayers of the and allowed an addition of annually to the present salary of the county superintendent of of this Robert E. Eckert Is the councilman from the Fourth ward for the last 24 missed his first meeting of that body recently when he was from attending by It had been his boast that he had never failed to be in his seat when the mayor's gavel called the meetings to Mr. Strack is confined to his home by organic heart old water wheel method of obtaining power is used by Frank who a new flour and grist mill in on Mill creek at is known as Buzzards in Putnam Tile mill has a concrete dam and the water backs for two and one-half making nn excellent place for boating and providing Brazil with a much needed slimmer Opening of the mill was delayed by a large part of the dam washing out in a flood last E. secretary of the Anderson chamber of announced building operations since January 1 of which is for remodeling business and This exceeds building for all 191S, when the cogt of kinds of structures 1917 the cost of Improvements was Two hundred and fifty dwellings are In of the meeting - of the Lebanon city school board J. M. succeeded Roy ' W. Adney as a board for the next year will be of Mr. C. F. S. Neal and John C. M. assistant the city for the past fourteen to Charles has tired on a ' M. Job was for county at an increase of salary of from to Must Wait a While for in congress have reached a decision to postpone indefinitely the question of granting independence to the The decision of the Republican leaders against consideration plea for the recent hearing the Philippine commission at a joint session of house and senate committees on insular It transpired if of the Republican or members of committees been sufficiently impressed by the representations of the delegates to take a stand in favor of freeing the islands at this general conclusion was that no step in this direction should be taken until more convincing proof has been offered of tiie ability of the Filipinos to stand alone and to continue to maintain the institutions of government and education established by the United have wrought such beneficent changes in the islands in 20 it deemed to take a step of such great moment these wards of the American republic until the equilibrium of world conditions is is now taken for that the question of liberating the Philippines will not be considered seriously until the congressional committees shall have visited the islands and an exhaustive investigation and report to Filipino delegation was advised of this status of the matter beforo leaving and made no In it transpires that the delegation did not expect to obtain action at this dispatch of commission by the Philippine legislature was forced by the minority party in the accused the majority party of lack of aggressiveness in seeking Pacific Fleet Is New Naval he departure of the Pacific fleet marks an epoch in American naval the first time the naval force has been divided with exactly half of its power assigned to guard the western For the first time also the strategic value of the to be fully tested when Admiral Hugh Rodman moves his armada through to Pacific And for the first time Americans of the far West are to see with their own eyes the full pomp and power of the navy that has their pride for The main base of the Pacific fleet will be in Puget composition of the Pacific fleet tells its own The three most modern ships of the line in the New Idaho and are headed Not President Roosevelt sent the Atlantic fleet to girdle the globe have the of Oregon and Washington seen in their harbors a more powerful and modern fighting craft than the old hero long out of date ami holding her place on the list only because of her valiant the 30,000 ton flagship of the Pacific fleet the Oregon will be almost a and against even the speed of more than 17 which made the old ship queen of the navy for Rodman's main his eight big can maintain about 21 knots for hours at a while his destroyers can turn up 35 sailing of the great fleet marks a complete change in naval Not while the German fleet existed or while German eyes were leveled covetously at the rich and undt resources of South and Central America could American naval have been and Rich Queen of even in cosmopolitan was the presentation the other day to President Wilson of the special envoys of congratulating him on the successful termination of the war and bearing their The Nado the His fellow envoys were the and the Ato The Ato Sinkae was secretary and The wore red velvet heavy with gold and silver and large silk embroidered with The address was in than - 5,000 years have elapsed since the establishment of the Ethiopian In the time of David and Solomon this was well The queen of all Sheba at that She heard of King Solomon and came to listen to his wisdom and see the and as she returned to her own dominion she proclaimed the religion of the living From that time until Constantino the Great Ethiopia has believed in God according to the laws of the Old In tlie time of Constantino Ethiopia became Christian according to the gospel of Jesus and since that time fought for her Christianity and independence against the surrounding Mohammedans and the of knowing that the United States of after securely establishing her own has taken upon herself the wonderful duty of assisting the allies in gaining equal liberty and rejoiced and praised the American gifts included elephant tusks mounted In solid native garments embroidered in and a gold box containing letters from the empress and her the heir Guard Must Be Reorganized With AILS plans of the war department for reorganization of the Guard as approved by Secretary Baker disclose that the states may organize up to their f ull limit if they but in so far as federal aid Is concerned they may only recruit at present up to 200 men tow each senator and la emergency the maximum organization could be increased to 800 men for each senator and In a circular letter Secretary Baker is the desire of the war de- the National Guard on a firm and efficient and to obtain in the commissioned and a maximum of men with service in the United States army v during the great To achieve that pnd It will be necessary that the regulations be fully and tlie for National Guard both for officers and hien fully appointment of and men not suitable for active field either for professional or who would not he able compi and fully in a federal will serre to as war department requests the territori es in g an - force during of its
