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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-04
Smoked Out...

smudge which smoked the elder Rookie
Teller to beautiful and ham-liKe
brown. Frank ]. Hayes, John R. Law
son and Edward Doyle told stories
which called for and demanded an
swers. The Colorado situation-the
whole coal mining cause-was put so
plainly before the commission and the
people, both in Colorado and in New
York City, that the newspapers of the
country greedily took cognizance of
the evidence as making the best story
in years. Then Standard Oil and
Colorado Fuel & Iron, driven toI the
last trench, had to poke their heads
above their sheltering dirt piles and
fight for their lives.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that
the commission summoned these wit
nesses in the first place, and gave
and make their arguments. Also
the commissioners asked many ques-
lions to elaborate on obscure points
They gave much time to the Colorado
testimony, to the story Of Ludlow, the
causes for the strike and the posi-
bilities of its settlement. The COM
mission did these things when it might
have idestepped; when it might have
lodged. or eVaded.
Wherefore, let us give the glory
for this unprecedented smoking to the
Federal Commission on Industrial Re.
lations. Hayes, Lawson. Doyle, White,
Green, McLennan, ct al, do not need
it anyway. They have enough as
it is.
Let's go back to John D. Rockefel
Ter ST., passing by the son, who as
first witnes sfor the family before the
commission, probably only voiced the
sentiments and views of the parent.
Heretofore the elder Rockefeller
has steadfastly refused to testify be
for commissions, grand juries, inves
Itigating boards and what not. He has
even carried this refusal to the hiding
out stage, concealing himself for days
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and weeks from subpoena servers and
deputy sheriffs. In fact, he had gone
to the point of. refusing to be inter-
viewed, had locked himself away from
newspaper men and the public; has
surrounded himself with a Gordon of
guards as would an endangered or
badgered monarch.
No body of men, on inquiry bent,
could muster sufficient show of force
to appall this richest man in the
world or cause him to lower his bat
tile flags. He was not to be probed,
Investigated, scrutinized, interviewed.
He was bigger than Congress, might
Ter than the people, higher than legis-
lative statute or resolution.
Memory recalls the time when a
Congressional commission, known as
the Pujo Committee, attempted to hail
the Rockefeller family into public hall
for cross-examination. One Samuel
Untermyer, who himself testified be-
fore this present industrial commits
sion, was attorney for the Puio body,
which had set about to discover the
source Of some Of the nations swollen
fortunes.
Untermyer issued his subpoenaes,
only to find the mignored. Then he
began a pursuit of the Rockefeller
breed, chasing William, brother Of
John Dee, to Jeykl island, of the bleak
Atlantic coast and there running him
to cover in sick bed. But the thing
did not end there. The brother re-
fused to give any real testimony, fall
ing back upon the whine that he was
sick man-oh, very, very sick-and
to disturb him would be the death of
him. In fact, the physicians gathered
lat his bedside assured Mr.. Untermyer
that William Rockefeller was not long
for this world. All, sick-sick!
Also it may be suggested that this
William Rockefeller is still numbered
among those of this earth, although
the incident related was some few
years ago. Said William showed re
markable recuperative powers-after
Mr.. Untermyer left and the Pujo Com
mittee adjourned. He soon became
strong and we'll, and is now indeed
hale and hearty!
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man on earth must come forward In
his own defense! 1t was no time to
trust the work to son or hirelings! 1t
was a task which called for his own
presence, his own personality!
And thus he came, tapping, tapping
at the door his millions left behind,
and with nothing to aid him but the
words he might utter! -
The chairman Of this commission,
Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas City, Mo-,
is deserving of word, that the min
ers may know him better.
Walsh is lawyer-and a good one,
too. He Is reckoned as leader at
the bar in all the Central States.
Calm, courteous, polite, judicial, he
appears exactly the right man in the
right place.
He is a cross-examiner par excel
lence, asking questions in placid, re-
spectful tone which brings the proper
answer and forever does away with
the possibility of refusal on the part
Of the witness. He has the gift Of be-
ing able to put the most searching
personal query In a manner which
creates the Impression In the witness
mind that that question, no matter
how cutting, concise or probing, must
he answered. It does not seem to be
Walsh who Is asking theq uestions. 1t
does not seem to be the man. 1t, is as
tif something higher and mightier
than any mere individual were con
Quoting an inquiry. 1t is as If the law
the goyernment!-were asking and
insisting on the answer.
And he does 1t with quiet gentle
manliness which wins him friends
even among those he must put On the
grill, In the courtroom he is the same
the dignified. refined, complacent
Ecivil man; the man who does not bully
lnor intimidate, yet; who arrives At his
LOCAL. Just as he forced Mr.. Rockefel
Ter to come into court and confess
| Judgment.
I well remember an Incident In Col
dorado which well illustrates this chair
lman's deneanor and calm knowledge
Of his power. 1t was before the com
mission, then sitting In Denver had
/ called It's first witness. l asked Mr.
walsh:
! .What If the witnesses refuse t.
testify"
/ had in mind the corporation heads
iwho were to be called, the document'
they would be asked to produce, and
the biting, digging questions which
lvouid Be put Sal dMr Walsh, viii
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This only shows to what distances
the Rockefellers will run when pur-
sued by public questioners. But none
Of this with the present Industrial
Relations Commission! -.
The commission net in Colorado for
two weeks SHORTLY before Christmas.
It heard Of the coal strike in District
Is from every possible angle. Then,
in performing its further duties, It
found occasion to go to New York to
Investigate the Rockefeller and other
foundation to ascertain what effect
the tying up of such huge sums OF
money might have upon the entire in
dustrial situation.
But the Colorado strike was too big
thing to be shaken off Even in New
York it injected itself into the de-
alterations Of the commission. In fact.
to show the other side Of the indus
rial picture, the commission had
brought witnesses from Ludlow
women, wives of strikers, who had
crooned over their burned and smoth-
cred babes in the black holes on that
black day in April These women's
stories, and the stories Of the labor
leaders, demanded answer-called for
explanation.
John D. Rockefeller, s. could not
escape the issue!
His son had testified. His secre-
retaries, his lieutenants and captains
had attempted to struggle against the
lines which weee closing in on the
chief. But alt In vain! @
Then 1t was that the elder, for the
first time in his almost four-score
years, emerged from his obscurity,
fear and worry written into the etched
lines of his face, and askedN to be
heard.
Asked to be heard!
John D. Rockefeller. the Millionaire,
the employer OF thousands. the man
of colossal wealth, the genius OF the
| money world, raped humbly on the
public's door and craved moment OF
its time! =
Was there ever such a sight? Did
ever union or its members score such
a victory? Did ever Congressional
commission so nearly carry out the
purposes for which it had beer
reated? 's~.'
] No excitement! No browbeating!
No laying by the heels! No force!
! Just simple, straightforward expo
sition of actual facts by men and
women who knew the things OF which
they spoke! And when this richest
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ton of the country, has Investigated
much and learned much.
But 1t is the Intention to go farther
than the submitting of a mere report.
recommendations will be forthcom-
ing. Congress will be urged to. pass
certain laws and lay down particular
regulations. And the workingmen of
the country will certainly be gamers
through the work of the body
Certainly not all the members are
enthusiastically for organized labor,
and yet labor is well and ably repre-
sented John B. Lennon, treasurer,
and James O'Connell, vice president
Of the American Federation Of Labor,
(COutinueA On Page 81
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.,deraI Industrial Commission Cam
paqn of Publicity Forced Rookie
teller to Testify.
(By Samuel }. -Lewis.)

If the Federal Commission on Indus
trial Relations, which has been meet
Jag in New York, did no more than
inc one thing it should have a most
prominent place in history as the body
which started the fire that smoked out
John D. Rockefeller. ST..
And this, too, without any great
-blare of trumpets. burning of stink
pots, beating of tom toms or other
, considerable war cry!
OF course, at the outset, it might be
said, and it might be well to say that
the witnesses summoned and the evil
dence they gave constituted the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-04
one OF his crooked and kindly smiles;

one OF his crooked and kindly smiles:
"oh, they'll testify?"
And they did.
There was no slightest boast in his
tones; no urging Of the powers which
lay behind his Congressional. commit
tee and which might be called upon !;
no bravado; no threat: 1t was just
the assurance of one who knew that
the thing he said was true. and would
be proved true.
AZ
This Federal Commission is not Civ
Sen with legislative powers. 1t can
only inquire and report. Its duties
Aend on the 31st Of July Of this year
Then its findings will be presented tc
Congress, and they will be Volumin
GUS, too, for it has been in every sec
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Robbed Of $4,000, and Nov St
Cling to Keep the "AdVentnre

She became regular. with the most INN
tons. no doubt; but having no children sb
sucked into the maelstrom. Every affirmed
ming she visited the Wide White Alley. s.
poise. was no longer conventional. imagine
had become part Of bohemia"
And this word Bohemia" let me say in
the most seductive "rot" as we'll as the rnt
shot the "moh" has In its arsenal. 1t 10
how many men and women have squint for
she and her companions would swing from
place TO another in an automobile. and 1t vi
OF course before she had dancing compd
was a parasite working with the mob"
lie made set" for her as soon as he ieari
had good bank account and that her h|
prominent In business. When the trap wal
baited the young man told her another wont
OF the set-his paramount, az a matter OF
MIN $4,000 and that. Unexpectedly. he nsal
The woman had offered him her Jewels, but
accept them on such terms. His honor
would not permit, but that If she could n
for $4,000 he could get his money. The fol
was induced to make temporary loan OF
she could Immediately command on cI
rhinestone junk not worth 500, the Sew
held one month. If at the expiration of thai
were not redeemed they were to be retail
nently
The pair disappeared after they got the |
are now In San Francisco. Their victim ne,
cry loud enough to be heard in the md
factory.
What the woman did was to open negott
loan shark, and she Ia now painfully and
struggling to keep the knowledge of her esd
the head OF the house But she has had hesI
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is my purpose to moralize but to tell straight
away story OF how the modern social gster works
and how he preys upon social set that as recently
as five years ago was remotely removed from his
circle the stars removed from the earth far
probability Of reciprocal amenities concerned.
Hero In New York public dance has proved
greater social ieveer than any upheava recall In his
tory except the French Revolution. IL makes for
demoeraoy--and promscuity. And Il has brought to
tho surface q class Of Iyn~eyed alert parasites who
originally poo sharks "petor-
men," Flush workers" of Tho welLdressed type, 'eon
hppers' re boosters" and touts sevenyfVe per cent
Of whom when the graft 10 poor depend on women The
"skrt meal ticket is much OF feature OF the under
world ss 10 the "plPe" or the needle"
class have mentioned of course eager 70 accept
It's overtures for friendly Intercourse and 30 this
class recognized that field Of graft had opened.
field that promised richer returns than that
had been powed before
The grafters organized and being sophisticated they
not long IN discovering score OF ways they could
turn the now order OF things to profitable account.
Men and alike were selected as potential victims
and although there Is no feeling OF loyalty or even OF
class consciousness between gangsters. honor among
thieves being myth. they were held together by the
cohesive power OF expected profit.
Talk about your military system Of espionage. these
systems cannot have much the system by which
'frame-up" 10 manipulated In tho cabaret and tango
Tea life OF New York City.
It ls an nterleekns system chain, with restaurant
walters Of shady reputation forming extrems link
and the lawyer and private banker Of crooked habits
OF the walters will speak hrst for in nine out
OF ten when net to be spread the initial step Is taken
by waiter, to change the metaphor the restaurant
walters Of New York the and miners Of the
army OF marauders who live upon the passions. the
credulity and the vanity OF young young
who have money than is good for Them OF vain
old women who seek to renew their youth by dissipa
ton and foolish old who spur their jaded nerves
the waved floors when they ought to be at home with
pipe and slippers.
The majority of walters are. OF course perfectly
est certain percentage of them hold position
not for the they earn for the liberal tips
they receive They where they are as "lookouts"
lighthouses" "decoys" and every Of this type
woman" sometimes two or three OF them working
for him.
With his aid and usually though always. through
the woman the net Is spread.
know one restaurant keeper whose place is as
respectable as hot competition and the wes OF less
conscientious rivals will permit It be- who turned
forty out Of his place in afternoon because
he became convinced that they waiting" for the
wall street break" Of business married single
young and elderly who afternoon this and
other tango restaurants These women. said inyes
cation had showed him friends of his presumably
French and other foreign walters, the tango trim
mers" In league with them
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MIR. Val o'Farrell is the famous New Y
tive who made the investigation in the
Eugenia Kelly Mr.. o Farrell, in the cour
investigation, made some astonishing disco
the methods of the new social gangsters,"
never before printed, will be part of the ca;
be opened this Fall and Winter to clean the
out OF the dance places and make it safe fol
lovers OF the dance to enjoy themselves
MIR. O'Farrell discovered that hundred
scrupulous men and women, whose sole
livelihood was their wits had seized upon
craze and the opportunities it afforded them
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astonishing Revelations of the Merciless Sy1
Upon Idle Matr0ns and Foolish Girls bu
Who Frequent Even the Most I'D
by Val OFarrell Famous New Detective Who c.

T HE matter Of police regulation of public dance
places-and these include cabarets tango
teas and roof gardens-is one that began last
Spring to occupy the attention of the authorities of
New York
The matter brought to head, it will be rel
membered by the arrest of Miss Eugenia Kelly ricn
and fashionable young woman, the sister of the first
to take this extreme measure to free her daughter
from the friends she had made at these places and
also to rescue her from what seemed to be progress
on the road to ruin.
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society have been drawn together to remarkable de-
gree by the tango magnet. Ten years ago Broadway
lemon squcezer, Broadway booster" q Broad
way coin fpper" dancing the floor Of public
ballroom with the wife Of lawyer in good standing
OF banker of prosperous merchant with a
convent bred girl. OF young woman with diploma
from one OF the institutions OF higher education would
have been unthinkable.
Now such sights common 1t is unprecedented
unheayal
Younger girls become victims in way not materially
different from that have already described and
here's the pity Of It, 1t Is not uncommon for mother
to be responsible for daughters undoing. She acts
chaperon at first She claims to be broadmnded and to
harm in the dance. Maybe she is something of
tango fend" herself. And she has money.
have woman otherwise perfectly sit and
goat with pride the fact that her innocent
in the Of tango trimmer" who
superior dancer She called II lesson" and such les
cost In the beginning from So to $40 hour in
cash. The cost in another is beyond computation.
In tmo the white lights grip the daughter. she breaks
from parsnta restraint and later Is without
her ehaperon going from cabaret to cabaret at all hours
after midnight The number that have been destroyed
forever Is almost beyond computation We hear Of so
lated but general thing family advertscs
its disgrace.
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Vicious Restaurant Waters Who
Are "LookOnts'' for the tango Mob

to say woman who appears to be a little out
OF his her orbtthe waiter tips of smooth tango
trimmer by telephone, and woman is needed as
Is usually the case, the trimmer supplies They
arrive casually, iptroductionto the man IL the
prey Is woman, to the woman II the prey man
follows through the good offices OF the waiter and the
hunt is
The graft has been good In this game that numbers
Of egrafters turned social gangsters be any
afternoon evening in Of the tango parors
Ing on the floor with diotic fat women who pay them
from dollar lesson to s25 for afternoon evening
u tho woman has money che Is introduced to some
married female member Of tho "nob" who turns her
head with tzos Of Bohemia. She 10 hesnited to tea
In tawdry flat or In tho studio Of some efemnate male
"artlst" where the atmosphere Ia Oriental she
thinks she 10 seeing life. The pipe, cocaine. heroin
worae vcee follow, and tho woman who is not
at heart. finds herself enmeshe6 She Is steered
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Mrs. Ruth Helen Con-
lin, q Long Island Girl
of Fine Family, Who,
with Young Mr.. DON
aid Clapham, a Neigh.
Dor, Ro b b e d the
Houses of Friends to
Secure Enough Money
to Keep Up Their
Round Of Cabarets
and Dance Places
Along Broadway.
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particularly the older women who are for ttS
free to do as, they like. There Is no appaf
for her favors. but she is fattered by het
She Is told what a charming dancer she will
time. even II she is as clumsy as a dromedl
husband is living IL is intimate6 to her that
appreciate her artistic soul. and that he ha
common with her aspirations. II a widow. 81
to believe that she was much neglected vii
she is introduced into circle that very 81
her OF her substance.
know Of one wealthy woman who was II
gang in this way. She was a simpleton witt
money and with a husband who was too B
TO his hoard TO keep tabs on her. She COT
notion that although she had her own bank
was permitted 10 come and go as she plea 81
very badly treated creature. and almost
knew 1t she was tea drnker in the social
OF the social gangs;er. bridge player and
the class OF studios to which have alrea
The fact that she went no farther. that she /
honor the man who had spent mis- life in try
her happy and crafty her whims. was
strength Of character. but TO her lack of att
and here may say that these weaklings OF
present another paradox. They arc not III
possession" OF any wonan-it is her IL
they are after AS matter OF truth neare
OF them is already tied 10 q woman OF hisE
and while these painted creatures will n
affinties TO go far in the way Of business
Jealous after the manner OF their kind.
The woman | refer to. after being iutrode
set. and after being entertained In many a /
was recently guided to q roulette wheel /
ond floor of well-known Broadway restauss
she dropped $3.50 il almost no time.
OF another restaurant man whom she could 'e
she sent messenger TO borrow $500 from
she had lost this $500 she sent a request fo&
which was also granted. In less than an ho6
senger came back with note asking for
restaurant man knew the woman TO be SOM
fool and he visited the restaurant fromS
had sent. He found her hanging over q " I
mob Of tangoists" and ne knew the
Spiked! He declined to let her have any ii
and calling her aside told her what she wasb
She quit the game. and when she compa
gang that had robbed her they threatened To,
to her husband, and she had to accept the S l
/ know personally OF a case in whichS
woman figured. She lived decently and soS
until she was twentyseven years old, and he5
BILE was the fact that she had too much ~
husband was too indulgent. just as the husbS
referred to was too indulgent This Womais
duced to the tango parlor by her husband hi
was a business man OF wealth. not "rounG3
but by no means & Puritan. He had been
in fact, before marrying and establishing
own. There were no children and the ca
about a great deal. Four years after the nj
tango parlor was visited She had never
modern dance, but at the suggestion OF, h T
who was "broad-mnded." she concluded II
chance cabaret acquaintance "capper' +
her to a teacher whose terms were $40 les q
took fifty lessons before being pronounced N
the tango. lame duck, one step, hesitatiorS
variations Of St Vitus's dance.
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against roulette and other
games, and II she runs
short Of ready cash she Is
introduced to a money
Notwithstanding that she
10 financially responsible,
or that her husband 10.
What she borrows ia de.
posted In a private bank
operated by a social gang.
ster, or a person in league
with tho "mob." Ruin
folIoWs AZ a matter Of
course.
Bear in mind. I do not
say that the social register
has surrendered its ideals
or opened It's doors to the
social gangster, but ] do
Say that these antithesos OF
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Miss Eugenia Kelly, the Rich
and Fashionable Young Won.
an Whose Experiences Told in
Court Precipitated the Investi.
CATION of the Tango Palaces"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-05-21
Insure Pigs " Sweden.

Though il is commonly known that
there is scarcely anything in the
world that cannot be insured. the lay
man would probably hesitate before
he FASTENED to Lloyds TO insure his
pigs. In Sweden. however. no Difficult
ties stand in his way. In fact. there
are several competing companies all
anxious TO insure the lives of pigs
belonging TO the small farmer But
as yet the industry has not developed
as much as IL might. since out 10 the
seven hundred Swedish institutions
which insure live stock there are only
forty which insure pigs. These so
cieties are most numerous in the
thickly populated districts. where they
insure pigs only. The pigs insured
must be at first in good condition. and
the agencies refuse TO pay II the ami
mails die IN consequence of III treat
ment or neglect