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Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

Anew YORK.-Rival gangsters fought
a revolver battle from automobiles
on primary day, September 16, IN
broad sunlight, at the corner OF Sixty
fifth street and Broadway just as the
matinee crowds were pouring out OF
the theaters. The police managed 10
get four of the combatants, and the
car which they had used in the shoot
ing ARRAY was found to contain lists
of voters in six election districts, sys-
tematically arranged to enable repeat
ing.
It was the gang in the service OF the
politician, just as in the hosenthaI
murder the gang had been in the serv-
ice of a high police official. The
gang serves those who pay 1t or can
protect it against the law. For 80
it will detail kid to black mans
ewes: for $50 you can have man
stabbed. and doing the big job VIII
cost you more than $500 or $1,000 II
YOU are properly vouched for to the
gang leader by some one with big
pull"
The man with the big pull is al
WAYS a politician or gambler, writes
Henry N. Hall in the Sunday New
York World The politicians alliance
with the gangster is as close today,
If not as Open as when district
leader on the eve of an important cleo
ton gave an interview to newspaper
men with one foot on box from Whlch
his lieutenants were distributing 500
lead-loaded blackjacks to the boys
for use the next. day, or when q poiii1.115
~ h INhusi --noWv one OF New YORK y
most distinguished representatives in
the congress of the United States
went over to New Jersey to testify I'M
| der oath that Monk Eastman was
reputable business man and an other
wise desirable citizen.
Difficult Problem.
There is no more difficult problem
in American civic life today than the
elimination of the gang There are
three reasons for this. The first is
| that the American public is Indifferent
to crime. There is no place in the
world where the man in the street who
goes about his own business and keeps
clear of the underworld is as safe in
! his person as he is here, and the
result is that unless he himself, or
some one he knows personally, is the
victim of crime, he reads about these
things in the paper with an interested
complacency not unlike the feelings he
derives from a thrilling moving picture
show. Gangs, gangsters, Black Hand
crimes and bomb outrages are accept
ed as among the things incidental to
life in big city, and it is impossible
to arouse anything like public indig-
nation over their presence.
The second reason is that the inter-
ests to which the gangs are useful
the politicians, the gamblers and those
who grow rich in the underworld-are
so powerful that they are able to pro-
tect those who are of service to them.
1t is only in exceptional cases, when
public feeling is outraged by some
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25
Roosevelt Made Things Hot.

.Washington.-Mem of the diplo-
matte corps, especially representatives
from the South American countries,
we're greatly interested in report
reaching Washington that former
President Roosevelt and Dr. Marcial
Martinez, at one time Chilean min
lister to the United States, had clash
ed at Santiago de Chile on account
of divergent views on the Monroe doc
trine. The Chilean is reported to have
strongly dissented from the Roosevelt
view that the much discussed doctrine
still is a vital issue.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25
Objection to Doctors
With Boards
By HoRATIo S. BREWER. Chicago

il not die suddenly of apopexy and socaed
ba failure are close shaen of history that the
oldest men, those who passed the pan life and lived great
were hirsutely adorned?
AS physician nearly fifty years experience will to eat all
M microbes and germs that those princes surgeons D Murphy and
Evans acquire and to call for more
Have we not enough and rights endure? Shall we finally
have go uncd and this climate for fear some risky mcrooe WI"
get goat?
Why not get of of this nightmare about germs and microbes
Fear and apprehension give lot of trouble.
II seems TO me what he doing when ne created man with
heard But Lama IN old fogy
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25
NEW YORK FACES
PROBLEM IN IT'S
RIVAL GANGSTERS
Politicians and High Police OFF,
Gals Blamed for Existence
of This Menace to the
Country'S Chief City.
PUBLIC ALSO INDIFFERENT
TO CRIME AND CRIMINALS

Efforts to Break Up the More Power
full Organizations Have Resulted in
the Formation Of Smaller Bodies
Just as Menacins-Writer Sees
Possible Good in the Boy Scout
Movement - Lawless Youngsters
Mostly American Born and Come
From the Tenement Districts.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

by the appearance Of three or four
smaller and rival Organizations-~, Il Is
only scattering the trouble.
Catching the Gansster Young.
There Is only one way 70 pat down
gangs in a city like New York and
that is to cut on their supply OF re
cruits. The gangster has TO b, caught
young. There is no gang in New York
today which willingly adds grown men
to its ranks. The new recruits all
come up from the streets / have
talked with a number of gangsters. and
there is such a surprising unanimity
about their boyhood days that II is not
impossible to picture the upgrowth
OF the gorilla"
Watch almost any gang. OF small
BOYS playing in the streets Of the ten
ement districts. They always have
leader. II matters not wh9v they are
doing or to what mischief they are
up, there is always one who is Drawer,
stronger more resourceful than the
rest. He will grow into q man of ac-
ton. He will make a success of life
if his home influences andNearly oppor-
tunities give him a fair chance; but
if he goes wrong he is the material OF
which the gangster is made. 1t is SO
easy for him to go wrong.
AS he gets older he may commit
some little breach of the law that
other boys will take pride in as
proof of his daring. Fhe corner sa-
loonkeeper patronizes him and mar
shals him with others of his kind. He
gets his introduction Mo the under
world and meets real gangsters upon
whom the women of .tbe streets fawn
and who nod knowingly to the cop
on the corner If he stumbles into
scrape the saloonkeeper or one of his
newly acquired friends will appeal to
some ward politician for bail, lawyers
and the necessary pull to get him
out of trouble Then he sticks to his
friends, and gangdom has won another
recruit.
IrrepressibIe Conflict.
All this is perfectly we'll known to
the churches, the settlement workers
and all the "reformers," and many and
strange are the ways of those who
would lead youth in the paths of right
eousness. There is going on all the
time in this as in every other great
city a constant tussle between the
forces OF good and the forces of evil.
Both are reaching down into the
struggling mascot upgrowing human
ity. seeking for new recruits.
A great deal of perfectly good en-
ergy has been wasted in trying to get
real live boys to spend their Sunday
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

I have watched the pass
ing show for fifty years, and
| see strange, unaccount-
able things, reversions to
savagery and self-torture,
and l wonder what it all
means. The normal foot re-
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

One Of the calls to which
the human mind responds
most promptly is that of
self-preservation. In an
swering this call, however,
it sometimes happens that
persons take the action least
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

What more practical &C
tiyity for anti-tubercular so
cieties than a campaign for
open window schOOlroOms .
These fortify children
against disease and teach
parents through the chill
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

An eminent physician OBJ
jects to doctors wearing
boards. as he holds that they
are refugees for all sorts of
germs, microbes and so
forth. He says nothing
about wooden clothes. Now,
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

The politicians alliance with the
ganester Is as close today as when
political leader went over to New Jer-
sey TO testify under oath that monk"
Eastman was a reputable business
man.
wanton defiance of law, some very
spectacular and serious crime, that
protection from above" fails to secure
immunity.
The third reason is that however
effectively you may break up a gang
its members will always ally them
selves with other gangsters and re-
form other associations. Breaking up
y powerful gang is followed too often
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25
. Drills are
.reat Value
GERRY Cb;caoo

calls the themselves of fire often breeds panic,
of deaths factory teae other crowd
ertso11 temporarily under such conditions.
ned working of the human mind emphasize the
1r;so
hat she given the other day when weeory building
- devoted to the manufacture of clothing, emp
~ Z less than fifteen minutes
I'm FUNDED. There was nothing resem-
And for an instant they stood Rich they left the building This
was an o LAP ud helpless Of them foreigners,
do and
realize their presene nor feel ds inclination toward
Mark,h
still gripping the In New York. by warnings
Van use people being taught prepare their minds
locating the exit and by remembering not to bolt
. an alarm sounded
The requiring fire drills of heater
employees possible pancs suggested that audiences
be subjected similar drills.
All reasonable precautions that train the human mind restraint
emergencies ought to be encouraged everywhere
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25

prepared ready
Woman's name
ter Grace arrive
'ernor Robertson
Grace to warn h
threatened by
Standish and is
Grace appeals to
fight in order Il
refuses. Grace
apologies for !
Wanda's assista
III a
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25
Jim Blake. Loser.

less than f
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
COURT REFUSES TO SET
ASIDE REALTY CONVEYANCE

Claiming that his mind was UNI
balanced by the death of his wife,
simon Dunn, 81 years old, today testi-
fed in suit to set aside the convey
ance of property before Vice-chan-
cellor VIVIAN M. Lewis. The Defend
ants are Mr. and Mrs. James b.
Ryan, of Madison.
The aged complainant declared that
after the death of his wife last Feb
ruary he made a deed for his phop-
erty. worth $4,000, to the Ryans fol
s., 900. The defendants were to pro-
vide him with a home for the re-
mainder of his life.
The alleged failure of Mr.. and Mrs
Ryan to make proper provisions fol
Dunn resulted in the suit
Vice Chancellor Lewis decided no
| 10 set aside the conveyance on thu
ground that the evidence showed
| Dunn had refused to let the Ryan
on his premises. The Ryans. said tn
| yice-chancellor, were willing to carr.
out their part of the pact, but wer
unable to when Dunn refused then
admittance to his home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
MINISTER LEADS
STRIKERS MARCH
Complain to Mayor of Judge
Herr's Alleged Unfair
Rulings.
lcontlauea srom Flr.. Pase.l

ployees of Benedict & Wendin, an
other of the large manufacturers in
the Hill section, displayed a ban
ner reading THE Boss Claims we
Are Satisfied. We Can Prove the
Contrary: Sympathize with U.s."
Employees of the Broad street cloth
iers carried a banner which read,
I'VE Average IS a Week. Do You
Wonder Why We Striker?
The ranks of the strikers were aug
mented by about 100 employees of the
Colonial overcoat Company, on La
fayette street These workers had
returned to their employment more
than a week ago. after an agreement
had been signed with their employer.
The latter, in response to request
from a committee of the strikers,
granted permission to his employees
TO participate in the parade today.
stlgIItz Marshals Marchers.
Abraham Stiglitz, the local repre-
sentative of the United Garment
Workers, who was assaulted yester-
day morning, losing several teeth and
receiving a badly-swollen jaw, was
on hand early marshaling the strik-
ers. stiglitz characterized the assault
upon him IS "put-up job" When he
was beaten he was investigating a
story that strikebreakers were work.
ing in a shop on Paramount avenue,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
avenues.
Finding nothing at the shop In
question to warrant the sending out
Of plckets, Stiglitz was about to re-
turn to the headquarters, when a
man stepped from a group at Fiji
teenth avenue. and, after asking the
labor leader IL he were Mr.. Stiglitz
and receiving an affirmative reply,
struck him. Stiglitz Is under the i'm
preston that his assailant was en-
ployed by the employers to get
him and thus intimidate the strikers
The police of the Fourth precinct
are Investigate ting the case OF a Black
Hand" letter received by Giovanni
Sanford, a journeyman tailor, who is
employed by his brother, member
of the firm of Sanford & Salomini, at
249 Camden street. The garment
workers are emphatic in declaring
that they do not believe that the let
ter was sent by any of their num-
Der. because the question of whether
a single man goes on strike, they say,
makes little difference.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
FALLS THREE FLOORS;
is BADLY INJURED
WindoW-CIeaner Loses Balance
and Plunges to Ground.

Metro Galeck, 20 years old, of 305
Fairmount avenue, who lost his bal
ance while cleaning windows on the
third floor of the Camden Street
Public School yesterday and plunged
headforemost to the pavement below,
is in a critical condition at the City
Hospital, suffering from fractured
skull, two broken wrists, internal in
juries and broken foot.
Yesterday was the first time that
Galeck worked in this city. He pro-
cured temporary work as Window
cleaner and it was while he was
leaning far out of the third floor
window that several passersby saw
him slip and pitch downward.
David Silverberg, of 226 Paramount
avenue, who was passing in his au-
tomobile, was the first to reach the
man, and willing hands helped him
nut the injured man into the ma
chine, which rushed him full speed
to the hospital. Galeck came to this
city several days ago from Plain
field and has been living with Jacot
Friedman at the Paramount avenu,
address.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
barrow Again
Brought to Trial

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 20
Clarence s. Darrow was placed on
trial today for the second time on a
charge of having attempted to cor
rupt a juror in the McNamara case.
After trial lasting nearly all last
summer Darrow was ecquitted
of having bribed George n.
Lockwood talesman, called in
the trial of James b. Nc
Namara, now serving life sem
tence at San Quentin prison for blow
ing up the Los Angeles Times build
ing Today the lawyer was put on
trial on the charge of having bribed
Robert f. Balm, the first juror chosen
In the same case.
District-Attorney Fredericks is au-
thority for a prediction that the pres
ent trial will not last more than two
weeks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
FARMERS TARIFF
ON CARPET TODAY
Agricultural Schedule Comes
Up Before House Ways and
Means Committee.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The agri-
cultural schedule of the tariff came
up today before the House ways and
means committee. 1t is the portion
OF the Payne-Aldrich law which ap-
peals most to the farmers. Many
witnesses We're on the program.
Some of the provisions of the
schedule now in effect represents re-
auctions from the Dingley law.
Representative Payne, who was
chairman of the committee when the
present tariff was started on its path
through Congress. and who is now
ranking Republican on the committee.
estimated that the consumption value
of articles on which the rates of duty
were increased or decreased in the
present law was: Articles on which
duties were decreased, $4S9,430, 637:
articles on which duties were in
creased s4.3SO,4s3.
Democratic members of the COM
mite stated today that there would
be material reductions from the pres
ent law on many articles in the
schedule.
r. Tyner Smith, of Baltimore
asked for a uniform rate of 20 per
cent. ad valored on pineapples. He
claimed that under the present law
imposing a higher rate, the Hawaiian
pineapple packers had nearly ant
.-o,,Id aooD ap4ira1v cacura q nopon,
oily of the trade in pineapples Il
which sugar is added.
e. w Durkee, of New York, fol
the American Spice Association
wanted the present tariff on spices t
remain. r. NJ. Mccormick. of Balti
more, contends that prohibitiv'
rate on spices should be maintained
for protection against impure foot
products from abroad.
Representative Broussars, Of Loui
siana; w. B. Dunlop, of Beaumont
Texas, president of an association
of rice producers in Texas, Louisiana
and Arkansas, and S. Locke Breaux
of New Orleans, wanted the presen
tariff maintained to protect rice
growers against labor of the Orient
"What would be the effect o.
Louisiana of making rice and suga
free of duty?"
eff the effect is 50 serious as |
annihilate the rice and sugar busi
ness. Louisiana will be in condi
ton of distress such as has not &c
Cured SINCE tile Civil War" said tn
| witness.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
CHILDREN HATE
CASTOR OIL, UGH!
Delicious Syrup of Figs" Best
for Their Little Stom-
achs, Liver and Waste
cIogged Bowels.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the physic that mother IN
sisted on-castor oil, calomel, cathar-
tics. How you hated them. how you
fought against taking them.
With our children it's different. The
day of harsh physic is over. We
don't force the liver and thirty feet
of bowels now; we coax them. We
have no dreaded after effects.
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is we'll
founded. Their little stomachs and
tender bowels are injured by them.
II your child is fretful peevish,
half sick, stomach sour. breath fever
ish and it's little system full of cold,
has diarrhoea, stomach-ache. doesn't
eat or rest INSTRUMENTATION at
the tongue. If coated, give a tea
spoonful of Syrup of Figs, then don't
worry, because you surely will have
a well, smiling child in few hours
Syrup of Figs being composed en-
tirely Of luscious figs, SIENNA and aro-
mates simply cannot be harmful. 1t
sweetens the stomach, makes the
liver active and thoroughly cleanses
the little ones waste-clogged bowels.
In a few hours all sour bile, I'M
digested fermenting food and con-
stipated waste matter gently moves
on and out of the system without
gripping or nausea.
Directions for children of all ages,
also for grown-ups, plainly printed
on the package.
By all means get the genuine. Ask
your druggist for the full name
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA"
prepared by the California Fig
Syrup Company. Accept nothing else.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
SAYS WIFE'S AFFECTIONS
WERE FOR FARMLAND
Husband Seeks Divorce and
Accuses Former EMPLOYEE.

Alleging that his wife bestowed her
affections on a farmland in his en-
ploy. Charles Greisshaber, of Bloom
field. today testified in a suit for di-
vorce against his wife In chancery
chambers. According to Greisshaber,
the domestic difficulties took a Sc
rious aspect last May.
About that time the farmland left
Bloomfield and went to Middletown
n. Y. The wife is alleged to have
followed him there. Charles H. Spices
owner of a farm near Middleton
was called as a witness and told Ad-
visory Master Francis Child that
Mrs. Greisshaber announced her in
tention of marrying the farmland.
Mrs. Greisshaber denies the ale
cation of her husband and asserts
that their marital relations We're
strained after she had been obliged
to work too hard on the Bloomfield
farm. She was recently awarded
SIS week alimony by Vice lancel-
Tor Stevens pending the suit for d.
vOrce.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
Plan to Relieve Traffic on Mar
ket Street Considered
at Conference.
CITY PLAN COMMISSION
WORKS BOARD IN SESSION
Cost of Extension May Be More
Than Million
Dollars.

Relief for the congestion of the
"zour Corners is at hand at last.
Plans for relieving Market street
OF good portion of its present heavy
traffic, assumed definite shape for
the first time today in the decision
Of the Board of Works To continue
Branford place. from Halsey street
to High street. where it will open
into Springfield avenue.
Work on this Improvement, which
was decided upon at a joint con-
ference between the Board of Works
and the City Plan Commission at
noon, will be started just as soon as
the necessary details can be arranged
by the engineers. 1t will be taken
up officially by the board at its meet
Ing next week. The cost of the
work will be more than a million
dollars, the former estimate for the
condemnation alone being $750,000.
Under the plans thus far suggested,
Branford place will be made an ave-
nue. for vehicular traffic from Spring
field avenue at High street, through
10 Ferry street. At present, however.
ii win extend only to Broad street,
hut the Improvement will be made to
conform with the plans for the WIDEN
ing of Mechanic street. This latter
work will be taken up Immediately
upon the completion of Bfanford
place.
Branford place. from Broad to Hal
sey streets, is now about 5S feet wide
and will probably not be touched.
From Halsey street it will be widened
to about sixty feet. 1t will run
through to Washington street and
talong the north side of the new Tele-
phone building, making this latter
corner building, and necessitating the
Fazlng of the present Washington
Theatre building.
=. Al Shipman street the new thor
onehfare will probably widen out to
about 70 or so feet, and will cut into
Springfield avenue at High street
II will open into Springfield avenue
almost on a line with Stirling street
II the plan to cut away a portion of
The northeast corner of High street
Is arrie7 out.
Besides providing the relief for
xehicular traffic. for which il is pri-
marily intended, the new improve
ment will make a beauty spot of that
section. as it is suggested that a
mammoth plaza be made of the TRAN
euar piece of property bounded by
Springfield avenue. High street and
Thirteenth avenue. This property,
which at present belongs to the coun-
~. Is covered by a number of wooden
ffez-
THE Improvements will be made in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-20
SALOON-KEEPER SLASHED
SAVING 10 FROM H0LD.UP

HOBOKEN. N. j., Jan. 20.-Two
men with revolvers held up ten men
in a saloon at 300 Bloomfield street
last night. Eugene Vorburger. pro-
prietor of the place. showed fight
and managed to save his money, but
he was gashe6 on the face and neck
by one of the robbers, who had dis
carded his revolver and drawn a
razor.
The men seemed to realize there
was. no prospect of getting any money
and made a hasty retreat. Not until
they were outside the building did
any of the men within recover from
their fright and then they all made a
dash to the sidewalk. but the two
hlghwaymen were nowhere to be
seen.