NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE APPEARANCE of Charles S. Mellen on the witness stand before the Interstate Commerce Commission last week opened up a new chapter in the government's record of the crimes...
...Company and higher commanders will be instructed that, except in emergencies, they must prevent their men ¦ from occupying native houses or loitering in them unless the place has been fumigated or pronounced free from disease...
...The House committee made an unfavorable report upon this appropriation but it was put into the bill by the House, despite the committee's, report...
...That there were certain outstanding Westchester shares which the New Haven wished to obtain, but it was encountering difficulties...
...Meanwhile the Rayburn bill for federal control of railroad stock and bond issues, one of the three Administration-Caucus measures slated for action, was reported favorably to the House on May iG by the Interstate Commerce Committee...
...After a reign of terror by gunmen, Chicago's city council passed an ordinance at top speed to make it impossible for anyone to purchase a revolver or other concealable weapon in the city without obtaining a permit from the chief of police, on the recommendation of two tax payers...
...And President Wilson's control of the legislative situation which has been so remarkable to date, is menaced, not to speak of the political consequences in the country at large...
...I made a list of these thirteen changes that we wanted in the franchise, and held the New Haven stock until this was accomplished...
...Governor Amnions replied that the state could and would do without federal troops as soon as its funds had been replenished and that measures were being taken to that end...
...It is not that way at all, and except as to the agency that is responsible the rules practically allow all the restriction of .measures that the leaders decree...
...The feeling that is uppermost," he said, "is one of profound grief, and yet there is mixed with that grief a profound pride that they should have gone as they did, and if I may say it out of my heart, a touch of envy of those who were permitted so quietly, so nobly to do their duty...
...Socialists- Demand Public Ownersiilp of Mines John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was denounced and public ownership of mines was advocated in resolutions adopted last week by the national committee of the Socialist party...
...Mellen was postponed for several days to permit him to secure papers and documents from Boston with which 'he desires to support his testimony...
...President Wilson had come from Washington and was...
...The power to grant the franchise in question was in the hands of the Board of Estimate of New York City...
...Repeal of the constitutional right which forbids compelling a person to testify against* himself was advocated in a recent speech by Chief Justice John B. Winslow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court...
...The natives of the plateau region were quite unclean, and, putting this together with the fact that vermin cannot live in the hot climate of the coast they deduced the probability of transmission...
...Folk took the ground that Mellen as a willing witness would perform far greater benefits to, society than Mellen as a defendant, so he was ordered to appear...
...Moreover, a committee on mediation of the present strike has been provided and appointed...
...MELLEN (on the witness stand): "When I was carrying on this transaction through Mr...
...The possibility of bringing typhus fever to the United States by returning troops is admitted to be serious...
...Fixing of responsibility for his death and punishment of his slaying may be deferred until it is shown whether the This War Is Justifiable...
...Yellow fever fortunately has not been prevalent in Vera Cruz in recent years...
...Upon the arrival in Washington of the three envoys sent by President Huerta to represent his interests at the A-B-C mediation conference to be held in Niagara Falls, the word was passed around that the retirement of Huerta is almost certain to be conceded for the reason that his administration in Mexico City is fast crumbling and that the-choice of someone to succeed Huerta is inevitable...
...Surgeon General Gorgas has put two Army sanitary experts on the job...
...This requirement did not appeal to Mr...
...It threatens the efficiency of caucus rule just as the former insurgency...
...The report prepared by Chairman Adanison analyzed the purposes of the bill, told of the reforms it would accomplish, declared the personal punishment provided was the ony way to deai with malefactors, and aimed a blow at what the report called "the cupidity or incompetency of railroad directorates or avarice or exploitation of speculators who use the power of their positions to wreck the carriers and make large gains...
...The symptoms and treatment are different, and typhus develops much quicker...
...In a recent interview, General Gorgas Said: "Typhus is the only disease .the American army is likely to meet in Mexico with which it has not had experience...
...A stormy session ensued, at the close of which Mr...
...Yellow fever is avoidable by protection against mosquitoes...
...Folk and Mr...
...Wilson Prods Colorado's Governor To Action President Wilson last week sharply requested Governor Amnions of Colorado to find ways and means of maintaining peace and order in that commonwealth so that the federal troops may be withdrawn from the scene of war between the Rockefeller coal interests and the miners that has stained the soil of Colorado with the blood of desperate workmen and their wives and children...
...One bill regulates the possession and sale of firearms and another provides the closing of all saloons in times of disturbances...
...I wanted to reach the devil or anybody else who could amend the charter...
...Instead of directly dealing with the trust problem, which was on the original program, the committee has turned to side issues, such as discrimination in price, exclusive contracts and'the use of injunctions in labor disputes...
...I cannot conceive that the state is willing to forego her sovereignty or to throw herself entirely upon the government of the United States and 1 am quite clear that she has no constitutional right to do so when it is within the power of her legislature to take effective action...
...Typhus is not to be confused with typhoid, which is not as deadly nor as contagious...
...Fears that the murder of Parks might cause complications, compelling American reprisals against Huerta, were considerably allayed when Secretary Bryan explained that his demands did not predicate aggression even if it is admitted that Parks was slain...
...The further examination of Mr...
...We urge upon the workers the necessity of abolishing capitalist ownership of the mines and mining industry of the country and the substitution therefor of public ownership and control for the common benefit of the working class...
...During his preliminary examination he made the amazing statement that to carry out his plans he wTas willing "to reach the devil or anybody else...
...The same methods which Gorgas used to stamp out tropical disease in Panama will be employed and the medical corps is confident, as an officer expressed it, that Vera Cruz "will be so healthful that it won't recognize itself," when the task is finished...
...Four lives were lost and more than one million dollars worth of property was destroyed by a tornado and severe electrical storms which swept across Wisconsin, Iowa and northern Illinois...
...The latest mandate laid own by the Democratic organization in Congress, carrying out President Wilson's demand, is that the three administration trust bills are to monopolize the program of Congress for the rest of the present session...
...That he gave due bills to Byrnes that if presented to Mellen they would be redeemed...
...The studies of Drs...
...If the feeling that has been engendered continues it is likely to be of far-reaching effect...
...Ho declared that the country demands peace in industry as well as peace in Mexico and he gave warning that disaster would come to the party unless "bickering" was stopped...
...Morgan's Helper: Satan MR...
...In addition to this act, the legislature has enacted a law permitting the governor to close saloons in times of disorder and also a law prohibiting the carrying and disposition of firearms in time of disorder...
...After declaring that by Control of the governor and other officials the mine owners have established a state of capitalist anarchy, the resolutions continue as follows: "Glaring inconsistencies of the companies of the ruling class and their servants were manifested in the declaration of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., that he is willing to sacrifice his fortune in continuance of the outrageous policy adopted by his agents...
...Tiiis is the only constitutional method of raising funds in the immediate future...
...The problem of its prevention is simply a problem of personal cleanliness...
...A newspaper dispatch from Vera Cruz on the night of May 16 declared that Huerta had suffered a severe stroke upon leaving a public drinking place, and wild rumors were flying about Mexico City concerning his condition...
...Tampico is the port next in importance to Vera Cruz and its loss is a tremendous blow to Huerta...
...The appropriation measure provides a bond issue of $3,000,000 to meet debts caused by the strike...
...That he "had a suspicion the Westchester shares were scattered around among people who had influence" and that he "wanted to reach the devil or anybody it was necessary to reach...
...Mellen, the erstwhile president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, was placed on the stand...
...Typhus fever, one of the oldest of contagious diseases and called at different times 'army fever,' 'camp fever,' 'ship fever,' 'jail fever' and like names, has decimated the armies of almost all previous wars...
...We do not want to light the Mexicans...
...As soon as these bonds can be issued, these funds will be available and this state can and will control the situation...
...Malaria, also, is a mosquito disease and is preventable by- the destruction of the breeding places of these pests...
...that he did not ap...
...Jelke and seven associates were convicted recently of conspiracy to defraud the government of the tax on colored oleo...
...The situation assumed proportions serious enough to impel Floor Leader Underwood to address the House in open session on May 14 on the necessity of doing the business in hand as speedily as possible and then closing up shop for the summer...
...Vaccinations will prevent smallpox and typhoid, and clean food and water can prevent the spread of dysentery...
...Saving Lives Instead of Killing DISEASE is more deadly than bullets...
...A dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald says: "The autocratic power of the present 'king' is as pronounced as that of the old 'czar.' When the rules were revised a few years ago it was supposed the happy time had been reached when there would be a free-for-all show for all matters...
...That the New Haven got the stock and also the desired modifications in the franchise and that Thomas F. Byrnes of New York, former police inspector, arranged the details of the deal...
...The most impressive funeral pageant since the time of the Spanish war drew hundreds of thousands of citizens of the city of New York from the Battery to Brooklyn navy yard...
...McChord left the room...
...Like a Don Quixote, the committee sallied forth valiantly to overthrow the giant monopoly, but under the pressure of political expediency it turned aside to assail the windmills of little business...
...latter purpose excited the opposition of southern Representatives and is expected to meet with similar opposition in the Senate...
...The head of the nation looked out over the thousands, massed about the coffins on the parade ground, and his voice shook with emotion as he declared bis creed: "We have gone down to Mexico," he said, "to serve mankind if we can find out a way...
...That the franchise needed "modifying...
...The legislature has just passed an act which I have approved, providing for a bond issue of $1,000,000 to pay for indebtedness...
...The resolution introduced by Senator W. C. Robinson, asking Governor Amnions to resign, was defeated...
...I wanted to reach the people that it was necessary to reach...
...As a result, there has been another outburst of Democratic Insurgency...
...The next step will be the safeguarding of the city's water supply and the adoption of methods of purification...
...It was stated afterward that the Attorney General had practically ordered them to leave...
...in the action of General Chase in having his troops ride down, wound and kill defenseless women and children after illegally investing with military power imported thugs hired as mine guards, and in the action of Governor Ammons in abetting the reign of terror perpetrated upon the miners and their families...
...Whereupon Chief Counsel Folk, Commissioner McChord and several Senators called upon the Attorney General to find out what were his intentions...
...Byrnes—well, that is—I had a hunch that he was in touch with .and could reach people of influence in regard to having the changes made in the proposed charter...
...If he is innocent it can do him no harm to take the witness stand...
...McReynolds made vague representations that by putting Mellen on the stand it might gain immunity for him from possible prosecution for his connection with the New Haven deals, but the Commission and Mr...
...in the other party threatened and finally overthrew Cannonism...
...The full appropriation of $164,-640 for the Children's Bureau which was requested by Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the bureau, is retained in the bill as reported to the United States Senate by the Senate Committee on Appropriations...
...He testified: That the New Haven, early in 1908, started in to acquire the New York, Westchester and Boston electric line...
...trusts receives only incidental consideration...
...he asked...
...The spirit of compromise, which runs through the spirit of the brave declaration that 'a private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable,' but rather in it we detect the 'atmosphere of accommodation and mutual understanding' between the government and big business which the President advocated in his trust message...
...Why should not a criminal be compelled to incriminate himsef if guilty...
...We favor having complete amnesty declared for the strikers in Colorado who took up arms in self-defense and pledge them our fullest support should they be prosecuted for having done so...
...Yv'e want to serve the Mexicans...
...This insurgency has not manifested itself in action but in protest and a mild filibuster...
...I regret exceedingly that you have been misinformed," he wired in reply...
...Now that the armed forces of the United States are in control of Vera Cruz, plans are already under way to ensure the health, not only of the American troops, but of the inhabitants as well...
...The appropriation was asked by Miss Lathrop to carry on investigations of infant mortality and child labor conditions...
...Gorgas proved that in Panama...
...The legislature also adopted a resolution providing for a committee of three from each house to investigate the strike and report to the next session...
...Slain Marines Honored Memorial services were held May 11 for the seventeen blue jackets and marines who lost their ives at Vera Cruz...
...It was only after overriding the heated protest of Attorney General McReynolds that Mr...
...On May 16 President Wilson wired to Governor Amnions as follows: "Am disturbed to hear of the probability of the adjournment of your legislature and feel bound to remind you that my constitutional obligations with regard to the maintenance of order in Colorado are not to be indefinitely continued by the inaction of the state legislature...
...The financial losses are confined chiefly to farm houses and barns...
...Harsh criticism was made of the President' in the caucus by Democratic Representatives who demanded that rural credits be kept on the legislative program...
...Wheeler...
...He had testified previously that the government could produce radium at less than half the present market price, which is $120,000 a gram...
...McReynolds attempted to induce the Interstate Commerce Commission not to examine Mr...
...Prohibition has been sidestepped again and votes for women has no place in the program...
...The net result of the two weeks special session of the legislature called to deal with conditions in the strike zone was the passage of the appropriation measure and two bills designed to prevent disorder in future strikes...
...Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago has declined to serve on the Federal Reserve Board...
...News Worth Remembering THE APPEARANCE of Charles S. Mellen on the witness stand before the Interstate Commerce Commission last week opened up a new chapter in the government's record of the crimes of high finance—a chapter that gives promise of being one of the most sensational in years...
...With the knowledge of sanitary methods which we now have, typhus fever, the scourge of previous campaigns, should now be the most easily avoided of diseases...
...In spite of the President's telegram, the Colorado legislature adjourned the same evening without undertaking further legislation, but not until a fierce debate had been provoked in the Senate during which Governor Amnions was denounced by several Progressive Democrats...
...No rural credit legislation is to be attempted until next fall along with various other matters that have been put off "until after election...
...Tampico was captured by the constitutionalists after a terriffic battle...
...Parks, it appeared, wandered from the United States lines near Vera Cruz and disappeared...
...Mellen proved a willing witness...
...Present prices of radium are exorbitant, monopolistic conditions prevail in the producing business, and two private concerns control most of the valuable claims in Colorado and Utah, Director Holmes, of the federal mines bureau, told the Senate committee working on the Walsh bill for government control of the healing metal...
...There will be a campaign against mosquitoes, stagnant pools and all other yellow, typhoid fever and malarial breeding conditions, and the inhabitants will find themselves under strict rules of sanitary conduct...
...And warfare today is accompanied by skirmishes between Science and the germs of yellow fever, typhus, dysentery...
...That 8,000 shares of New Haven stock were exchanged for 24,000 shares of Westchester stock, although he considered the Westchester stock worth only "ten cents a pound...
...Early rumors that he had committed suicide were dispelled, but so strong did the feeling that he was in a serious condition become that Carranza sympathizers became bold enough to pass about constitutionalist literature openly on the streets...
...i "¦ The first step undertaken will be to establish a system for the proper disposition of human waste, unless it is found that the present city system is adequate...
...Meanwhile the Commission has made it known that they are going to make a thorough investigation to find out just who got the vanished millions belonging to the stock holders of the New Haven Railroad and just how the deals were carried on by which these millions were diverted from the road's treasury to the pockets of favored financiers...
...Following the protest of the United States, General Maas was relieved of his command of the Mexican troops facing the American lines at Vera Cruz and on his return to Mexico City a newspaper dispatch (censored) was sent out in which he denied absolutely that Parks had been executed by the federals under his command...
...Caucus Mandate: Pass Trust Bills and Then Adjourn King Caucus has again spoken...
...ply for the position, and that it came in the nature of a surprise to him...
...The other tropical diseases need not be feared, according to army authorities...
...Recent studies among the crowded tenement dwellers in our large cities have tended to show that a mild form of typhus exists...
...The law requires that a member of the board obligate himself not to become associated with any member banks within two years after leaving the board...
...There has not been a case reported since September 28, 1909...
...with the procession from the time it left the Battery, until the squad of marines fired their parting volleys over the flag-draped coffins at the Brooklyn navy yard and the navy bugler sounded the "taps" that proclaimed the end of the ceremony.- - , To the President was left the privilege of voicing the nation's grief and the nation's belief that those who died in the performance of duty had done for their country a service not to be measured by their individual deeds...
...Plain washing of clothes is sufficient to kill the cause if the garments are afterward exposed to the sun...
...Huei'ta Appears Doomed Three events of the past week served to indicate that the end of Huer-ta is near at hand...
...Native bedding and clothing, they will be instructed, should under no circumstances be used unless previously disinfected by boiling water...
...The United States government demanded of Huerta news of the fate of Parks, declaring that unless information about him was given immediately the American - government would consider that an "unfriendly, and hostile act had been committed in violation of the understanding for a cessation of hostilities pending mediation...
...News Notes -Civil suits demanding oleo margarine taxes and interest aggregating $800,000 . were . filed . by the United States government last week against John F. Jelke of Chicago and the company bearing his name...
...The water from all sources will be analyzed, and there is being shipped to Vera Cruz equipment for-purification by means of chlorine gas.and ultra-violet rays...
...The federal forces are there only until Colorado has time and opportunity to resume complete sovereignty and control in the matter...
...Mellen testified that he was made president of the New Haven by J. Pierpont Morgan the elder...
...Anderson and Goldberger of the United States public health service in Mexico have shown that it was only on the high plateau country of Mexico that typhus was found, and never in the lowlands along the coast...
...During the week some anxiety was caused by the reported torture and execution of Private Samuel Parks...
Vol. 6 • May 1914 • No. 21
