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Show i f.. ... m r ' MEN' TO BE UNDER FIRE Proceedings Against These Characters Will Have Considerable Effect on the Legislation to Pay a Bonus to .Those Who Fought. By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington. The promise has come from the Department of Justice thut on the passage of a bill fur an additional grand jury for the District of Columbia, cases which have been preprofipared aguiust alleged war-tim- e teers will be tukeu up fur indictment and for the prosecution of the indicted. For weeks charges were made freely that the Department of Justice was a laggard in its attempts to get at the profiteers. The mutter was taken up in congress and direct charges against the department were mude by some Republican representatives, uud of course the Democrats have been muk-in- g capital out of the controversy. A promise of prosecution and a statement of what has been done were made by the attorney general in a letter to the President. Tiie direct word is that some of the big ones of earth will be under the fire of tiie courts before much time has elapsed. The fate of the bill for bonus for the former service men Is perhaps in some measure dependent upon what happens to the profiteers or to tiie men If there had alleged to be such. been no profiteering during tiie war, there probably would have been no demand for a bonus from veteraus of the World war. The majority in the senate today Is trying to figure out some means of providing wbut is equivalent to a cosh bonus aud doing it in such a way that it will receive the Presidential sanction. If developments prove that men in business life most active In opposition to the bonus profited largely at the expense of the government during the war. It seems likely that opposition to tiie cash payments to the veterans will melt away like a snow on a southern slope under a spring sun. No Politico in tha Bonus. Of course the fact that some men profiteered during the war, "did their government out of money and enriched themselves at the expense of the taxpayers does not in Itself form an excuse for tiie calling upon the taxpayers to pay more money, but it supplies the human reason for tiie demen that they mand of the get a bonus, and it also supplies a reason why tiie men asking for the bonus get considerable sympathy from the people for their demand. Members of the lower house who voted in favor of the bonus have told your correspondent that they do not believe thut a vote for or against tiie bonus will have any political effect one way or the other. These members said they thought men who voted against the meusure will get us much oting benefit at tiie polls from their action as would come to men who voted for the measure. One of these representatives has told me that he was moved to vote for the bonus by the comparatively recent action of certain great .business organizations of the country which came out in hitter opposition to the !payuieut of anything to tiie former service men. This man said that a study of the persounel of the business organizations showed him that a large number of the memberships are held by men who reaped financial hurvests from the war, although he would not say whether or not be thought all these men actually were intentional profiteers. The representative added tlmt opposition to tiie payment of comparatively Small sums of money to the men who served did not come with good grace from men who did Dot serve and who made large sums of money as a result of their business activities during the wnr. Many Charges by Both Parties. The profiteering charges have been provocative of all kinds of charges against individuals and corporations in private life and against oilicluls of government. Democrats and some Republicans with them have charged that the present administration has endeavored through Its Department of Justice to cover up some of tiie profiteering. Many Republicans have declared, on the contrary, that the Department of Justice has been at work unearthing the facts in the various cases, and tliut when they are disclosed to the public view it will be found thut ollielals of the previous administration winked at profiteering operations. That there was profiteering during the war is known to every American. Men who made fortunes out of the government contracts spent their acquired riches in glaring living in New York city, nnd, in winter, at Florida resorts and elsewhere. They flaunted their wealth. It Is said that many of them since have gone broke, not being able to stand the prosperity .which suddenly came to them. Bureau Transfer Controversy. It is intended to transfer soae certnin bureaus of government from departments in which they have operdepartments ated for years to other . iof Uncle Sams sen-iceCabinet officers who perhnps may lose control of btreaus over which ; , hey and their predocessoi s have exercised Jurisdiction for many years do not believe in every insiume Hint t lie changes recommended are tor. Hie Ollier cabinet good of I lie service. oilicers vv bo expect to profit by the enlargement ot their department naturally hold tliut the proposal tor Hie transfers is much to tie commended. The the report recommending changes is that of Walter F. Brown of Ohio, w ho is the chairman of what is called the joint congressional commission oil tiie reorganization of government departments and bureaus. Mr. Rrown is the only member of tiie commission who holds no seat in congress. So far as the formulation of the is concerned he lias been the whole commission. There have been efforts, more or less apparent, to make it appear that no bitterness has been shown by any of the officials whose departments or bureaus probably are to be affected. There has been bitterness and there is bitterness today. What President Harding, and everybody else wants of course, is the good of the service. The difficulty has been to decide what is good for tiie service. Wallaces Department Hit. The proposal to transfer tiie forestry Lureau from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior tins revived the controversies of the past. One can hear almost anything with one enr that he Is willing to hear In favor of the transfer, aud then with the other he can hear almost anything that he Is willing to hear against the transfer. A Solomon is needed to decide as between Secretary Wnlluee and Secretaries Fail and Hoover. The Department of Agriculture will be harder hit than any of the other departments If the proposed changes In jurisdiction over certain bureaus of government shall be made. Secretary Hoovers outfit believes thut It better can care for the bureau of publio roads and the bureau of markets than it Is possible for Secretary Wallaces outfit to care for them. The proposal. It Is understood, Is to trunsfer these two bureaus to the care of Mr. Hoover. President Hardings letter to congress 1ms shown what the budget system aud the operations of General Dawes have done for economy and It is held by persons efficiency. here tlmt second only in saving gruce to the operations of the budget will he that which will come to the government If the bureau transfers should he effected. Time alone will tell. The opponents of some of the transfers say that extravagance rather than economy will result from the ndoptioa of the report of Chairman Brown. There seemingly Is point to the argument of the Department of Commerce that It should have control of of the bureuu of public roads, because roads are the instrument of commerce. The same argument might hold true so far as the bureau of markets Is concerned, but agriculture says tlmt merkets represent the products of the soil, and tlmt the producers want the furming department of government to cantlnue Its control. Memorial Day Plans. Preparations ure being made in for the unnual MeWashington morial day exercises. In Arlington across tiie Potomac from Washington sleep thousands upon thousands of the countrys dead. Federal officers and soldiers and Confederate officers and soldiers, side by side, and with them tiie dead of all tiie wars, including the Worlds war, In which American men have gone forth to the fighting. Arlington is the camping ground of an army that never again will bear arms. Since ths lust Memorial day the unknown sold'er whose body was brought from France lias found a resting place In front of the great amphitheater. Tiie people, of course, will rememhe tiie ceremonies attending tiie interment on Armistice day of tiie body of this soldier who in a high sense represented ull of his fallen comrades. On Memorial day tiie soldiers of the regular army and tiie volunteer veterans of all tiie wars wit assemble and march to do honor to tiie dead. Northern veterans of tiie Civfi war will remember alike the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. A little later, however, there will be another observance at Arlington whoa tiie Confederate veterans and Daughters of tiie Confederacy will hold u special memorial service of their own, in honor of tiie southern dead. Sometime it nmy he tlmt the Federal and Confederate memorial ceremonies will be held on tiie same day. Grant and Sherman Not There. Grunt and Sherman, the two greatest of tiie northern chieftains, sleep elsewhere one on the shores of the Hudson and the other in u beautiful cemetery in the city of St. Louis. Their place is in Arlington. Generals, colonels, sergeants, corporals and privates are side by side In tills encampment of tiie dead. Tiie silent tents of Unionists and Confederates are pitched not far apart, and no guard stands between them. Schofield (federal) and 1 heeler (Confederate) sleep almost side by side. They were friends, then enemies in war, and then friends again serving under tiie same flag, both dying while in the service of the United States. Tin re are soldiers of many wars Revolutionary resting in Arlington. veterans lie under tiie same trees tlmt shelter their descendants killed in the Philippine islands. Soldiers who were the victims of the Seminole and Sioux sleep side by side, and with them are tiie men who fell at Molino del Itey und Henna Vista, at Gettysburg and Chateau Thierry. Sailors who served on tiie Constitution and on the Ylalnt are in port in Arlington. BAN PLACED ON I ATTORNEY GENERAL PROMISES .THEY WILL BE INDICTED AND PROSECUTED. BIG THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA UTAH CONTRACT WORK Momentous Decision Is Handed Down by United States Rail- road Labor Board. WORKERS HAD MADE PROTEST May Avert Threatened Strike Which Would Have Involved Six Hundred Thousand Men Vote Finally Unanimous. Action te-po- rt One of the most deci- far-reachi- sions ever Issued by the United States railroad labor board came in a ruling that places a ban on the contract system, under which many roads are alleged to have been evading the boards orders as to wages, working conditions, and other matters. The decision, it was said, may serve to avert the threatened strike of 600,-00- 0 railway shopmen and switchmen. The fannlng-ou- t system, through which, in some instances, entire shops, were let to contractors, who, not being-undejurisdiction of the labor board, paid lower wages than those prescribed, has been a chief grievance of the shop- r men. Tiie boards decision was based on the Indiana Harbor Belt line case, but, it was said, will apply to all other similar cases now pending before the board. There are many of these, notably one Involving the Erie. Although it wns reported that one of the three labor hoard members representing tiie railroad group demurred for a time, tiie vote on the farming out decision was finally unanimous. In specific explanation as to the nature of the case, the opinion said: Contracts have been recently entered into by various carriers, purinporting to turn over to dependent contractors the work of the following classes of employees: The six shop crafts, the maintenance of way, certain employees embraced in the clerks organization, the firemen and oilers, the hostlers (embraced in the engine service), nnd signal department employees. Tiie employees referred to those affected nre said to number 150,000 are formally brought back under the labor board's jurisdiction, entitled to the protection of its rulings as to pay, working conditions, and the like. Approximately 1,600 shopmen and maintenance of way men on tiie Western Maryland railway have been on strike several weeks in protest against the farming out of work by that road. Philadelphia.,. 'v'Jvirv ETSY ROSS is no myth so maintained Levi L. Alrich during his life, and so says Emma B. Alrich, his widow. The Alrlches jjfiy 'Krts were editor and associate editor of the Public Record of Cavvker City, Kan., for 35 years (1SS3-191SUr. Alrich died In the year 1917. As I could not lift the forms alone, and everybody was gone to war, lays Mrs. Alrich, I was obliged to close business. The statement was made In the National Tribune, Washington, D. C., that the story of Betsy Ross and the I want to get the Bag is a myth. refutation of Mr. Alrich before the public. I shall send a copy to every historical society in the United States. The Kansas D. A. R. state convention took It up and Indorsed it and placed it In their records. Mr. Alrich, In the Civil wnr. was a member of Company B, Bakers Cali). Pennfornia regiment (Seventy-firs- t Mrs. Alrich Is sylvania infantry). Ben(er vice president of the Notional Womans Relief Corps. Alarlc G. Alrich, their son, is past division commander, Sons of Veterans of Kansas. Mrs. Alrich has printed a pamphlet with the title, History, Not Myth, Which contains her husband's "refutation mentioned In the foregoing. Mrs. Alrich's pamphlet begins thus: Tbe statement recently made that the story of Betsy Ross and the Flag Is a Myth, aroused a feeling that I would not be loyal to tiie memory of late husband, Levi L. Alrich of Bakers California regiment (Seventy-firs- t Pennsylvania Infantry), who enlisted May, 1S61, and took part In 15 battles In 18 months, unless publicity was given to his response to the same remark several years ago. Born and reared In Philadelphia, Ia., he improved the opportunities of research, It. the State Historical society; the records of the Friends meetings; also of the Holland Society of New York; the latter In the descent from Jac'b and Peter Alrich, Patch governors o' Delaware, under Peter Stuyvesant of New York. "In 1868, when frequenting places of Information, he met William J. Canby, who had the only genealogical tree of the Canby family in America ; beginning with Tnomas Canby, who came from Thom, England, in 16S5, which has on it all of his 16 children and their descendants down to 1868. One Susan Cauby, mnrried a Peter Alrich, who was the paternal grandfather of I,evl I., Alrich, while Susan was the maternal grandmother of William J. Canby. This tree Is tangible evidence that William J. Canby is not a myth ; and my Chinese Compliment In high Dma.' if one desires to express of a person, the cwMipliment right thumb is stuck up above a closed fist. Ta extend the little finger, though, is to suggest that the person is beneath contempt. When the Changsha man refers to his fellow citizens, he always resembles a patient about from his Quaker training not inclined to perpetrate a lie on the public, when he in 1870 prepared a paper on the Flag which he read before the Pennsylvania Historical society, also told the story, not from tradition, but as told by Mrs. Ross to Mr. Canby. Then follows the refutation, among the papers of Mr. Alrich, as he used it on previous occasions. It contulns the following: "A myth exists only In the imagination. Is Betsy Ross a myth? Did such a person live, and did she make the first Stars and Stripes which we now reverently speak of as Old Glory? It Is recorded that some time between May 23 and June 7, 1777. Commander in Chief George Washington, accompanied by the committee, Robert Morris and Col. George Ross (a relative of Betsy) called on her, and there after , consultation, instructed her to make the Flag. The American congress resolved, on Safe urday, June 14, 1777, that the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the union be 13 stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation. This was substantially the design agreed upon by the committee and made by Betsy Ross. 'But who was Betsy Russ? Her maiden name was Griscom, Elisabeth Griscom, born In 1752. of Quaker parents, Samuei and Rebecca Griscom. Samuel was a descendant of Andrew Griscom, who brought the first cargo of bricks from England, of which this famous house was built. Elisabeth married John Ross, an Episcopalian, and for this awful misdemeanor she was expelled from the Friends society. and becoming an Episcopalian, with her husband, worshiped In the Old Christ Church, only a short distance from her home, and where the pew she occupied (So. 12) Is still mnrked to designate It ns hers, as Is also her grave in Mount Moriah cemetery, beside her husband, Cla.vpoole. General Washington also worshiped In the same church, and his pew Is nlso marked, and both are shown todn.v. Two children vere born to Jolin and Betsy Ross, one Zillah dying in The other was named infancy. Eliza. Ross died when a young man. his widow being at the time of the years of age. Ross episode twenty-fiv- e was nn upholsterer, his widow g the husine-s- . was so occupied when the commit to' called upon her. Widow Ross mnrried Joseplf Ash-burwho was devtted to flip cause of the young republic, and was captured by tiie British nnd died in Mill prison at Portsmouth, England. During his Imprisonment he told a fellow prisoner. John Claypoole, his story con-tlnuin- wns closely related to America, for it was here that many of the firecrackers which formerly announced t!e Inwere day celebration dependence made. Among the great men who have been among Changsha's chief products was Geu. Tseng Kuo Fun. whose cooperation with Chinese Gordon wns largely instrumental In putting down the Taiping rebellion. to have his thumb bandaged. Long Healthy Complexion Assured. before Yale established the Yale in Martha was a pale little wife whose China" college in Changsha, the city white cheeks Indicated ber listless con about a wife and child In Philadelphia. Claypoole (with 215 prisoners) wa9 placed on board the ship Symmetry nnd was exchanged on reaching America. lie sought out Mrs. Ashburn, who was so favorably Impressed with him, that they were married. May 8, 17S3. Five daughters were born to them, one, Clarissa, murried a Wilson, and succeeded her mother In the GENERAL LABOR NEWS Flag making business. The original number nnd street of the Flag house was 89 Mulberry Labor councils in cities which have street ; but Mulberry was changed to a major league baseball team are to be Arch. The numbers began at the requested not to attend the games as Delaware river, alternating on north long as former Judge Landis remains and south side of the street. In as baseball commissioner. 1856 the present system of numberAt Haverhill, Mass., the arbitration ing in all cities originated in Phil- board, of which N. A. Heard of Bosadelphia, giving 100 to each block ton was the neutral member, settled-tii(or square, In local parlance of that tiie manubetween wage dispute city), the Flag house becoming 239. facturers nnd the Box Makers union The writer lived below the old house 3 to 18 per a short time before the new system by reducing wages from with an average reduction of 11 cent, of numbering was adopted, when cent. The manufacturers asked a Mrs. Mund then kept a tobacco store per 20 per cent reduction. Tiie new prices In It, nnd refused large sums of will continue in effect for six months money for parts of the house as in eight factories, employing 400. relics. Resolutions declaring they will acThen follows William J. Canbys no further wage reductions under cept statement: threat of a nation-wid- e strike were It Is not tradition, it Is report trom adopted by tiie delegates the lips of the principal 'participator 150,000 members of tiie representing Amalgamated in the transaction directly told, not Workers of America. Iay of to one or two, but to a dozen or more Clothing the clothing workers was cut about living witnesses, of whom I am one, 15 per cent last year. It was followed though but a little boy when I heard a strike in New York by it. I was eleven years old when Mrs in which tiie closed shop was the chief Ross died in our house, and well reissue. A defense fund of $2,300,000 member her telling the story. I have was raised to support the workers. the narrative from the oldest of my A uniform a aunts, reduced in writing In 1857. month for thewage reduction of $5unseveral grades of This aunt, Mrs. Clarissa Wilson, succeeded to the business of making flags licensed seamen on tiie Great Lakes which had leen exclusively held by for tiie 1922 season 1ms been anMrs. Ross, and she continued to nounced by the executive committee of make flags for the navy yard nnd the the Lake Carriers association. A reduction of 25 cents per day in arsenals for many years until, being conscientious on the subject of war, the wage of the 40,000,(XK) laborers in she gave up the government business, the United States, Secretary of Labor but continued the mercantile business Davis declared, would decrease the until 1857. Washington was a fre- purchasing power of the nation q day $3,000,000,000 a year. quent visitor at my grandmothers Combined common sense and justice before house, receiving command of his army. She embroidered his to all persons concerned in railroad shirt ruflles and did many other labor disputes will be the means of a He knew her skill solution of every problem affecting the things for him. with the needle. Colonel Ross, with relations of rnilroads and their emRobert Morris and Gentral Wash- ployees, Ben W. Hooper, chairman of ington, called upon Mrs. Ross and tiie United States railroad labor board, aid before members of the Brothertold her they were a committee of hood of Railroad Trainmen, in trienand wanted to her make congress the Flag from a drawing, a rough one, nial convention at Toronto. Canada. More than 2.000 men are on strike which upon her suggestion waa reIn the Raritan River (X. J.) industrial General drawn by Washington, district because a demand for wage chiefly because the stars were and not five cornered. I increases 1ms been refused. The following plants nre closed: American fix the date to be during Washingtons visit to congress from New York Smelting nnd Refining company. 000 when he came to confer upon the af- men; Barber Asphalt company, 550 fairs of the army, the Flag being, no men ; Henry Maurer brickworks, 400 tnon ; Sayre & Fisher brick works, doubt, one of these affairs. 500 men. Labor efficiency is higher with three dition. Her husband worried about shifts of eight hours each than with her lack of bloom till Cousin Helen two twelve-hou- r shifts, according to came from tiie East for a visit. Martiie engineerifig council of the Federtini Improved wonderfully with bright ated American Engineering societies, companionship. Her husband was not which recently concluded a national slow to express his gratitude to his survey nnd found that more than 500.-00- 0 wifes cousin. Helen, you cant Imagshift vverkers are employed in ine how much good your visit has done Martha. She looks ten years American industry. The Pottstown (la.) plant of the younger." Well, I am o glad. Cousin Nagel Steel company, the Universal And if she George," Helen babbled. keeps nr using that rouge Im leaving Mill nnd seven puddling fnrng'Vs of her shell always have that healthy the Glasgow Iron company have resumed. The Spicer autnr.u-1-ilparts complexion, like mine Exchange. klnnt has reopened on part time. $10,-000.0- d, e |