Women Celebrate the Victory of Suffrage
PLAN TO WATER
VAST DRY AREA
To Make Round the World Trade Cruise
Project Up to Congress to Re
claim 4,000.000 Acres at
$250,000,000 Expense.
TURN DESERT INTO EMPIRE
Members of House Committee on Ap
propriations and Group of Western
Colleagues Make Inspection
Tour of Government
Projects.
Unfurling lli<- suffrage flag nt ttie headquarters of the Nutloi il Woman’s party in Washington was the occasion
for a Joyous demonstration hy party workers. Miss Alice Paul, halrman. Is on the balcony. The tlag lias 30 stars,
the last added representing Tennessee.
k
JO.tXXl.tXK) marks, a large portion of
which belongs to the state, is also rep-
sented on the board of the Govern
ment Holding company. The Bavar
ian Lloyd held a commanding position
in transport work on the Danube and
neighboring rivers, hut lost the great
er part of its vessels at the end of the
war. Negotiations are, however, pro
ceedlng between the different govern
output of 100.000 kilowatts and, be
ment departments and others inter
sides running the nitrogen plant, sup ested to put the company once more
plies current to the Berlin Klectric on a commercial footing. The German
works, nnd will shortly extend this ship-salvage company “Odin," Berlin,
supply of energy to Lelpsl'c and the with a capital of 5,(XX),(XX) marks, was
province of Saxony. The Central Ger originally formed to carry out work
man I’owcr Works company comprises in connection with the salvage of
the central power station at Senften- transports and other shipping in the
lierg, formerly belonging to the Alum Baltic. The company was not very
inum works, Luuta, with an output of successful owing to the unsuitable
! 00,000 kilowatts; and the Niederlau- methods of salvage adopted. It Is now
sltzer I’owcr plant, near Spremberg, proposed to divert the company’s ac
with adjacent lignite mines, and with tivities to towage and lighterage work
an output of 20,000 kilowatts. Up to
According to a resolution adopted hy
the present the electric energy devel- the German Metal Economic league,
j oped by these two plants has been util- reported hy the Wolff Telegraph Bu
I Ized In the manufacture of aluminum reau, the export of DO per cent of all
and nitrogen. In the future It will also pig metals coming from German mines
be employed to supply electricity for during May, June, July and August
the surrounding Industrial districts.
Is to he permitted. No limit Is placed
The East Prussia central station, upon the export of all partly manu
which was recently erected to provide factured metal products, provided they
the province of Kast Prussia with nre not sold nt prices under the do
electric power, Is controlled, as also mestic rntes. Germnn manufacturers
Is the Alz works, Munich, which was may Import raw metals, if they do
formed In 1018, In conjunction with not pay more than the standard prices
the Dr. Wacker Alexander company, in the world mnrket. German export
for electrochemical manufacturing, to ] prices on semi-manufactured iron and
utilize the water power of the lower steel products have been materially
Alz. The output Is, roughly, 20,(XX) | lowered during the last few months.
kilowatts. The Württemberg Itural Bar iron selling at C.330 marks in
Klectric company was reorganized in April has been cut to 4,(XX) marks per
1010 t5 enable the state, with the con ton for export to Holland and Switzer
sent of the Württemberg government, land nnd to 3,050 to Denmark, the lat
to take a dominant Interest in the ter being the same as the domestic
supply' of electricity to the province of rate In Germany. The Iron industry
Is protesting against further payment
Württemberg.
Great efforts were made during the of export duties.
wnr to put the manufacture of nlmn-
Intim on a firm footing, In order to BLAME DISASTER TO CARL
make Germany Independent of foreign
supplies. Plants were erected and the Austrian Collapse Charged to Emper
manufacture started at Horrem,, Bit
or’s Conflicting War Orders,
terfeld and Itumnielsburg, each factory
Says Commission.
having an output of ll.onn tons of alum
inum per annum. In 1010 the Krft-
Vienna.—Chief blame for the col
werk company was taken over hy the lapse of the Austrian forces on the
government nnd reorganized with a I’lnve river, in the Austro-Itnllnn cam
capital of 2.ri.000.(XXI marks.
The paign, Is plueed on the former Em
brunch works of Ibis company, In Gre peror Carl hy the report of a commis
venbroich (lower lthlne), have been sion appointed to investigate war de
fitted up to produce 12,000 tons of linquencies.
aluminum per annum.
On the fateful November 2, 1018, the
Iron and Steel Mills.
report says, the then emperor issued
In regard to Iron und steel mills the three conflicting orders within a few
llseder Smelting company and the hours. The first was for the conclu
Pelner Boiling Mills company are con sion of an armistice. Forty-live min
trolled. These works have a capital utes Inter this was revoked and 05
of 20,000,0(K) marks, of which the gov minutes afterward It was Issued again.
ernment holds 25 per cent. The chief During this period, it was said, the
features of this undertaking are that emperor consulted no one on the mat
the tallies producing the ore are In ter.
close proximity to the smelting und
"We must ask," the report says,
rolling plant, and that, situated ns “whether the emperor and Ills advisers
they are In central Germany, they have were not guided hy the fear of the
an advantage over I lie competing army flooding hack on Vienna rather
works in Westphalia in placing their than hy any other circumstances. It
output in adjacent districts. In pre may he, perhaps, not by express Inten
war days ihclr yearly output of ore tion but rather subconsciously, that
amounted to l.ixxi.txx) tons.
the desire prevailed with more than
The lluvnrlan Lloyd Shipping com one of these men that the troops had
pany In Begenshurg with a capital of better not return home nt all."
G erm an W o rk s
R u n B y State
Economic Bureau Looks After
Electric, Steel and Aluminum
Plants.
BUT EXTENSION IS DELAYED
Nationalization of Coal Mines May
Have to Wait Change in Makeup
of Reichstag— Holding Com-
pany Formed.
Washington.—Since the conclusion
of the Spa conference, at which Ger
many agreed to Increase Its coni out
put In order to bring the deliveries to
Franco up lo approximately 2,< mn ),000
tons per month, there has been re
newed agitation among the miners for
the nationalization of the mining in
dustry In the hope that better work
ing conditions and pay may he ob
tained under such a condition than
xvilh the mines owned and operated hy
lingo Si limes and Ills few associate
coal barons. Other sections of Ger
man industrial life are also likely to
ho ultimately run hy the state, al
though It will probably be necessary
for (lie German people to elect a more
radical
relchstag to effect these
changes, ns the present cabinet Is not
pledged to any great extension of the
principle of public ownership and op
eration.
In the meantime, however, as the re
mit of earlier agitation for govern
ment control and operation of the lead
ing Industries, the national economic
bureau of (lie German treasury de
partment lias quite a few Important
government
controlled
Industrial
plants to look after, according to a
Minmiary of Its activities recently pub
lished In the German press and quoted
from In commerce reports. The most
Important of the government factories
me the arsenals and naval construc
tion yards, which are now engaged on
mm-mllltary construction.
This In
clu d e s the manufacture of steel, thfl
making of all sorts and descriptions
of machinery In large quantities,
especially for agricultural and do
mestic purposes, and the repairing of
rolling stock and locomotives. Small-
arms works are being maintained as
such so far as Is consistent with the
provisions of the pence treaty.
State In Control.
"In order lo consolidate the govern
ment Interests In these different un
dertakings a company was formed in
] »eeeniher, 11)10, called (he German In
dustrial Stock company, with a capi
tal of 1(Xi,(XX),rtOO marks (nominally
l*23,8(X),000; nt current exchange, about
$2,250,(XH>) ; the whole of the shares
being In the hands of the government.
The state thus exercises either full or
partial control, according lo the num
ber of electrical, electrochemical and
oilier undertakings.
The huge generating station nt
Zschornowlx- near Hltterllehl, belong
ing to the Klectrle I’lant company. Is
controlled. It provides the current for
tlo> slate nitrogen works In Witten
berg, obtaining tin* necessary find
from adjacent lignite mines. It has an
Washington.—Plans fur
putting
4.(X hi .(XX) acres of land on the agricul
tural map of the United States by a
program of reclamation calling for the
expenditure of about s°f>n OOO.OUO over
a ten-year period are to he considered
seriously hy congress when It reas-
sembles.
Members of the house appropria
tions committee nnd n group of West
ern colleagues who have been making
nil Inspection tour of the government’s
reclamation projects nnd of the nntion-
nl parks in company with officials of
the department of the interior, after
traveling 10,000 miles by train nnd
4,000 milqs by auto and viewing the
irrigation achievements since 1002
have come hack earnest converts to a
big reclamation plan.
Arthur I*. Davis, director and chief
engineer of the reclamation service,
who accompanied the congressional
tour, is now in the West visiting other
projects nnd preparing his recom
mendations for the annual estimates
to be submitted to Secretary Payne.
Secretary Payne, who has just in
spected two of the government's prin
cipal reclamation projects at Yakima,
Wash., and Shoshone, Wyo., has be
come an enthusiast regarding the de
sirability of utilizing America’s unde-
The former German liner Vcn Steuben, which Is being fitted out In New
York for a trade cruise of 12 months all around the world. She will be re
christened the United States and will carry American goods into every port
of importance.
vc* 1 oped resources by building new
commonwealths in the arid West.
While the reclamation service is re
stricted in its estimates to $8,000.000
or $9,000,(XX), equivalent to the amount
received hy sale of public lands, sale
of water and returns on Irrigation de
velopments, Secretary Payne has al
ready declared his Intention of asking
congress for $12,000.000 to open up
100,(XX) acres of reclaimed land in
small farms, with special considera
tion of the Shoshone project.
Representative Will R. Wood (Rep.)
LACK OF SHIPS
HALTS TOURISTS
*
Tu rn Desert Into Empire.
Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore
the land of his birth for a visit.
All Available Accommodations ing It to was
recently said hy the head of gon wrote a favorable report hist De
Are Booked Three Months
a large line in speaking of tariffs, that cember from the committee on Irriga
in 1514 a man could purchase a tour tion and reclamation of arid lands. He
in Advance.
ist ticket including rail fares and hotel pointed out that under the reclamation
accommodations for a trip half way act passed In 1902, the government has
around the world for the same sunt expended in construction work a little
that he Is now compelled to pay for a over $123,000,(XX), that water for ir
one-way ticket from New York to a rigation purposes has been made avail
able for 1,780,000 acres of land, which
Mediterranean port.
had been lnrgely barren, desert waste
Records
of
departures
and
arrivnls
"Ships, Ships and More Ships” Is Plea
and unproductive. . It is now worth
ns
kept
here
by
the
Steamship
Men’s
From United States Ports— Travel
association show that despite the very from $100 to $750 an acre, with an
Only Half What It Was
apparent rush, travel is only about average crop value per acre of $03.00.
in 1914.
“Out of the uninhabited and almost
half, as to number of passengers,
what it was in 11)14. In May and June worthless desert has been carved an
New York.—The slogan of "ships! of that year there sailed from Amer empire of nearly 2,000.000 ncres, in
ships! and still more ships!” so effec- ican to transatlantic ports 104,300 per tensively cultivated and producing
itvely used during the war to speed sons of whom more than 100.000 were crops whose annual average gross re
up America’s ship-building program classed ns third class. In the same turns per acre are about double those
as a defiunce of the submarine cam months of 1920 the outgoing total was I of the rest of the country,” says Di
paign still Is heurd in American sea 80,323 of whom 50.000 were third class. rector Davis of the reclamation serv
ports.
ice.
Arrivals Show Slump.
It comes, however, not so much from
While the hill introduced hy Sena
Of Incoming passengers in one
those having freight for transit as it
month of 1914 there were 105,100 per tor Jones calls for $250,000,000, the
does from those who desire to make sons. The corresponding month this reclamation service is now working on
trips to foreign shores on business or year showed 45,120 arrivals.
30 projects which call for a total ap
pleasure.
The rush this year nnd the difficulty propriation of $302.000,000, hut re
Steamship accommodations for all In getting accommodations is account turns would he coming In from some
lands, despite more than a doubling of
ed for by tile fact that there Is need of the earlier construction before the
pre-wartime tariffs, and rigid restric
ed “ships, ships and more ships!” of entire expenditure was made. Of the
tions as to passports’ are at a premium.
the passenger-carrying class.
Avail 4,000,(r00 acres which It is proposed
All Accommodations Booked.
able tonnage, due to the ravages of to add to the farm lands about one-
Representatives in New York and the war, is greatly depleted. The third is public land belonging to the
other terminals of passenger-carrying North German Lloyd and the Ham- United States government.
lines say that all available accoramo- I burg-Americnn lines, which prior to
Director Davis lias figured out that
dntions are booked as far as three the war carried a large percentage of the nvernge value of lands in the
months ahead. The unfortunate busi- I the transatlantic travel, do not exist, projects did not exceed $10 an acre, ot
ness man faced with the need of mak-
In addition, many of the big liners $17,(XX),000, when the government Ir-
ing an unexpected trip abroad, is of allied flags are gone, ns for exam- ! rlgatlon was started in 1902. nnd that
forced to depend on possible cnncella- | pie, the Lusitania.
Almost all the today they easily represent Increases
tlons of previously engaged passage | ships of the pre-war fleet of another | in land values of $556.000.000 due to
on the part of someone who nt the last large British line were submarine vic I this work, nnd has prepared a de-
moment is prevented from sailing.
tims. Other ships were of a necessity (alien report on this for congress. He
On many ships third-class accom laid up for periods of more than a figures that only 3.5 per cent of the
modations hold men nnd women who | year for reconditioning due to their i total ultimate cost will be finally
nre financially able to travel in the accommodations having been ripped charged against the government.
best that the ship affords. It is no out with axes to make them Into troop
infrequent occurrence for n stnld carriers. An exnmple of this Is the
hanker, or a wealthy hend of a large j huge Olympic, which hut recently was i
business house to be found booked ■ returned to her passenger-carrying j
Rattlesnake and Old
with the humble alien laborer return- I trade.
PASSPORTS AT A PREMIUM
Man Fight to Death
Airplanes for the Rifle Meet
Indians in Annual Canoe Race
Separated for 41 Years,
Then Kiss and Make Up
When Mrs. Mary Wttlrad ami
Charles I.. Walratl, each seven
ty-six years old. met at the Sol-
tilers' home at Leavenworth,
Kan., recently, It was the first
time they hint seen each other in
■41 years. It was also the llrst
time Walrnd had seen Ids
daughter since she was five
months ohi. Mrs. \\ nlrnd lives
at North Miami, Okla. Slit“ and
her husband separated In Joplin,
Mo., In ISTI». Three weeks ago
Walrnd locateti Ills wife, the
meeting wits arrangisi, they
kissed and made up anti will live
together again.
of Indiana, a member of the appro
priations committee, says that he nnd
others who have just inspected these
projects have been converted from
their previous reluctance to make such
large appropriations nnd now believe
that it is a national duty thus to cre
ate opportunities for its citizens to
establish themselves In permanent
homes on such fertile areas, wrested
from the desert.
Many who opposed the “farms for
service men” proposition in the last
cong-ess on the grounds that it was
camouflaged reclamation hnve pledged
their support to an out-and-out irriga
tion development.
Senator Jones of Washington intro
duced a hill in the last session which
seeks an appropriation of $250.000,000
for reclamation work and the interior
department has drafted a program
that calls for more than that.
This Is one of the two airplanes which the United States army r Ir service
has sent to Cainp Perry, Ohio, to participate In the national rifle meet. This
will provide the world’s first competitive aerial shooting match. Every form
of offense nnd defense developed hy alrplnues In warfare will be demonstrated
uuder competitive condition».
■»¿sift
0 ..0 of the most spectacular sporting events In Canada is the annual meet
ing of Ihe tribes In their canoe race. The race course is over a distance of
two miles down the Royal Gorge to a point In front of the Empress hotel at
Victoria. B. C. The picture shows the canoes assembling for the start.
Atlanta, Ga.—Word has been
brought to Atlanta of a remark
able fight to the death between
an aged farmer, living near
Buckhead, nnd n giant rattle
snake.
The farmer, Mnok Richards,
who is well ndvnnced in years,
was nandlng a fence when be
disturbed a rattlesnake so large
that when piled In a coil Its head
was more than two feet above
the ground.
The snake struck nt ldin nnd
would have reached Its mark if
it had not been deflected by
heavy briars.
Before it could coil again, Mr.
Richards seized a rail, nnd
plr.red
the snake against the
ground.
He tried to call for
help, hut none was near.
The snake, hy ntnln strength,
twisted Itself out from under the
rail nnd prepared to strike again.
This
time Mr. Richards got
beyond striking distance, hut the
snake followed him nnd contin
ued the attack.
Mr. Richards picked up a short
er rail and with it gave battle,
finally killing the
reptile. It
measures six feet In length.