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New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
Funeral of Major Scull
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


BOSTON, Nov. l.-Distinguished per
sons acted as pallbearers this noon at
the funeral of Major Guy Hamilton
Scull, who died in New New York sud
denly last Friday The services were
held in the chapel at Mount Augurn
Cemetery and were conducted by the
Rev Francis Lee Whttemore, rector Of
st. Paul's Church, Dedham. The quar-
tet from Kings Chapel Furnished the
music Burial was in the family lot
Inc pallbcarcrs were General Leonard
Wood, Colonel Arthur Woods, of New
York, and former Police Commissioner
of that city; Langdon T. Marvin, Sam
ucl L. Fuller and George Utassy, all Of
New York; Norman ". Cabot, Of Bos-
ton; Judge Daniel f. Murphy, of Wash
ington; David NJ. Goodrich and Jay
Cass, Of New YORK; Dr. Fellowes Davis
and Bartlett II. Hayes
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
Key " est-Hauas,a dir
NuiI ScrUice Started

KEY WEST, Fla, Nov. T.
Aerial mail service between the
United States and Cuba was in
augurated to-day with the depar-
ture from Key West of two sea-
planes for Havana.
Each of the planes to be used
in the service has a capacity Of
1000 pounds of mail, twelve pas
sengcrs and 400 pounds of lug
gage. On the initial trip the
planes carried a full list of pas
sengers and a large amount Of
mail.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
Appelbaum Slightly Better
Not Out of Danger From Mer-
cury Poisoning

Misha Appelbaum, founder of the HUI
manitarian Cult, VINO is in the Knicker-
booker Hospital in critical condition
as a result of bchloride of mercury
poisoning, was reported to be slightly
improved last night. Appelbaum, the
physicians said, had recovered cor
scousness and rested we'll throughout
the day. 1t was asserted, however, that
he was not out Of danger.
Appclbaum and his wife were taken
ID the KnickerbocKer Hospital on Octo-
Der %, both suffering from the effects
of bichloride Of mercury. Mrs. Appel
baum was discharged from the hospital
several davs ago,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
Harding Sends Greetings
TO O,Uners OF Esperanto
Competition Stimulates Interest
in Work Of Re-esfablishing
Merchant Marine. He SAYS

GLOUCESTER, Mass. Nov. l.
Congratulations for the victory of the
Gloucester schooner Esperanto over
the Lunenberg schooner Delawanna off
Halifax were extended by Senator
Harding in telegram received by the
boats owners here tonight.
Have just learned of the victory of
your schooner Esperanto" the tele-
gram said, "and wish to extend my
warm congratulations Such competi-
tion can only have the effect of stimu-
latng interest in the great work of re-
establishing and maintaining our
American merchant marine and re-
directing the interest of our people
toward the sea- That is task worthy
the best efforts of all of US"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
League Demonstration al
White House Is Postnoned

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.-Plans Of the
local Democratic committee for a
League of Nations demonstration at the
White House tonight were called of at
the suggestion Of Secretary Tumulty.
Announcement was made at rally
tonight, after which it had been
planned to march to the White House.
that the demonstration had been post
poned until later in the week, after the
conference with the Presidents secre-
tary.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
I.M.M.Assigns CAPTAINS 10 Ships

Changes in commanders on the Amer
lean flag ships of the International
Mercantile Marine Company are an
nonnced. Captain H. A 7. Candy, who
commanded the American liner Phila-
delphia from 1915 to 1877, and when
she went into the navy as the Harris
burg, is assigned to the Red Star liner
Finland. Captain Herbert Hartley. who
for twenty years commanded the Amer
lean liner ST. Louis, is assigned TO the
Mongolia, Of the American Lines New
York Ham BIZ service.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
400 Strike, Say Bakers;
Owners Estimate 1000
Employers Declare Walk-Out
Breach of Agreement; Won't
Yield, They Assert

Bakers and bakery owners disagreed
Yesterday ~ an unNe"ol Wa" 90, ~e.''-.-
ing the bakers strike which began
~ a rA;iN l.!-.-L. =. --.--:-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-02

to Broad Street Hospital. -Four !,
were sent home in taxicabs afte, ,'asil e =
had been treated for severe brsi tne9
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11
l

troiler of the Currency says that the banks of the country are .'full of mon- ey'', and that the profits made by the bankers are greater than ever before in the history of the United States. The report is so glowing that one is almost inclined to lose sympathy with the financiers who complain about the Tow rates of interest" which they have been charging.
 Standard In Europe
 The State Department has been no- titied regarding many cases of trav- elers being stranded in Europe, and a warning has been issued telling the globe trotters to be sure and provide their own methods of financing them selves abroad. The rates of exchange are matter which no one except Pom zi, the Boston financial specialist, has attempted to solve.
 Dollars And Scents In Skunks
 Skunks yielded $1,OOO,O00 worth of hides to New York State farmers and trappers in one year. The United States Department of Agriculture, in a new circular on the fur industry, gives suggestions for making this supposed pest into a profitable friend of the farmer.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11
OUTDOOR ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR
 THE FARM

The first thing one thinks of in con- nectlon with electricity on the farm is
 light in the house and barns, and yet farmers who have installed electricity md that, one of the most useful lights on their places is an outside light.
 In great many instances farm buildings are so arranged that a single Eight can be used to illuminate all the ground between the house and the barns. Quite generally it is found that windmill tower, the peak of the roof of one of the buildings, or other ready-made support offers the best location for the light. An enam- eiled reflector is used, which insures the even and strong distribution of all of the light from the lamp over the area where 1t is needed. Switches to control the light are placed both in the house and in the barn, that is, the light is wired so that it can be turned on or off from either the house or the barn. It is this feature which makes this particular light so valua- ble to the farmer. He drives into the barn yard at night with the lights of his car turned on, switches on the yard lights when he gets out to open the garage doors, and thus is able to walk up to the house over path that he can see all the way. If the season demands that he get up before dawn or if there is a sudden necessity for his going to the barn in the middle of the night he does not have to find and light lantern. A touch of a button and the whole barnyard is flooded with light. Powerful lights are used for this kind of lighting, 75 to 100 watts, and yet the cost of burning them is less than half cent an hour.
 The low cost of such lighting, and it's reliability, is due to the great de- velopment of farm electric plants dur ing the last few years Today the farmer can have electric service from a plant that is low in cost, reliable and remarkably simple in operation.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11

lie interest
 The Transportation Act says that it shall be the duty of the Board to es- tablish rates of pay and standards of working conditions which in the opin- ion of the Board are just as reasona- ble, and in determining the justices and reasonableness of such rates the Board shall take into consideration among other things, the scale of wages paid for similar kinds of work in other industries; the relation be- tween wages and the cost of living; the hazards of the employment; the training and skill required; the degree of responsibility; the character and regularity of the employment; and in equalities of increases in wages or of treatment, the result of previous wage orders or adjustments.
 MT. Willard says: Ut may fairly be said that Congress by this Act has made a preferred class of the railway workers, because so far as know this is the first time that Congress has ever said that any particular class of the people should be given at all times and under all circumstances just and reasonable wages and just and req sonable working conditions"
 Of course it may be said that Con- gress did not do this primarily in the interest of the workers, nor would Congress have been justified in doing so. Congress acted only as it had a right to act in the interests of the Ma ton as a whole. Congress acted with a full realization of the importance of an uninterrupted transportation sys- tenn in country such as ours, but be- ing unwilling to deprive the workers of their right to strike, it sought to provide machinery which would make it unnecessary under any circum- stances for the men to stop work in order to obtain just and reasonable treatment The progress of events appears to indicate that as this labor law comes to be better understood by the railway workers as whole they will realize that they have indeed been made preferred class, and MT. Will lard adds in expressing the belief "that we will be free from railway strikes in the future, not, however, be- cause the men have been forbidden to strike, for repeat, there is nothing in tnc ldW NlISH tilC IlSiie VI tiiC railway workers to strike if they want to do so, but simply because the law provides way by which they can ob- tain without striking everything that they could reasonably expect to obtain even if they did strike
 In the only award so far announced by the Labor Board it was stated that the effect of the higher wages then al- lowed would mean an aggregate in- crease in wages to all of the railway workers of approximately $600,000,000 per year.
 Is Petroleum Being Cornered.
 "AIl the world knows that this is the Day of Petroleum, but what is the time O day? Does the clock make forenoon, high noon, or afternoon ?"
 Thus, an engineering firm expresses it's cryptic forebodings concerning pe- troleum. Within few years coal and wood as fuel have found a powerful in the oil fields. Our oil- burning war ships and merchant fleets have joined the procession led by the
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11

automotive industry in trying to burn up the oil that men are bringing out of the bowels of the earth. Of course, it is natural that there are many ques- tions concerning the reasons for the constantly rising prices in the com modity; but strange enough the ans werS are far from satisfying.
 The engineering report referred to above says that after every effort has been exhausted to secure petroleum, that the results are that there is scarcely more than enough to relieve the current stringency. What re- mains underground" continues the re- port, is mot reserve, but in defiance of the widest extravaganza of effort to get it out"
 The truth of this statement can hardly be questioned, but in this day of regulating public utilities, and safe guarding the public interests against unfair methods in distribution, prices and the like, it reads queer that statement with all the earmarks of having been prepared by oil producers should declare that the oil concerns have actually started to select their customers, for we are told in the re- port that, lone, at least, of the great refinery interests which some months back withdrew gas oil from the mar ket, has now arranged to discontinue the sale of fuel oil, entirely
 In view of this admission 1t will be interesting to follow the processes of organizations like the Federal Trade Commission, which is interesting it. self very vigorously in the coal situa- tion For coal, like oil, is fuel; and any coal mining district that would refuse to supply specified industry would soon be called to account. The great oil interests have apparently made their own methods for handling the public in the past. and it remains to be seen whether they can continue this policy, especially when they dis criminate against manufacturing in- terests that require fuel oil.
 Ownership Of Big Companies
 People who regard the big utility concerns of the country as "close cor porations," are usually laboring under delusions. The railroads, electric light and power concerns, street rail ways, and big corporate industries, are usually built from the wealth of all classes of people. For the United States is made up of a people who are investors MT. H. B. Thayer, presi- dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in a recent state ment tells who owns the great concern of which he is the executive head. 1t appears that there are 5000 owners of stock of that company, and about as many more owners of it's bonds. There are 46,126 employees who have purchased stock.
 In Illinois there are 275,00G men and women who own securities in the diff ferent utilities of the State.
 Perhaps the war issues of liberty bonds served as an eye-opener to many people, who learned from their experi- ences that there are a great many se- curities on the market that furnish sfae and profitable investment for their idle funds, and good place fda them to keep their 'nest eggs"
 Banks Are Prosperous
 A recent statement from the Con-
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
(By J. E. Jones
A Preferred Class of Workmen


 The address of Daniel Willard on the subject of relations between em- ployers and employees in railroad ope- ration, has attracted good deal of comment in Washington. When war darkened the country's horizon, MT. Willard was one of the first railroad presidents summoned to Washington and his great services to his country lave made of him character whose judgment and opinions carry unusual weight In discussias the work per formed by the Railroad Labor Beard, MT. Willard reminds us that it is ap- pointed by the President and con firmed by the Senate, just as are mem bers of the United States Supreme Court. Three of the members are nominated by the railroad compa- nies, three by the railway employees, and three by the President himself as representing in a larger way the pub
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11

prominently featured the negro. They can all come back now for we have forever eliminated the negro as fac tor in the Republican party in this state. We are going to be considered seriously in Arkansas in the future. The recent campaign has demonstrat- ed the fact that there are more Re publicans in Arkansas than the Dem ocrats would like to admit. We are going to force the issue in all coming elections. We are going to make 1t a question of Citizenship rather than Partianship. We are going to put out men of such sterling character that the Democrats must put up wor- thy men or suffer defeat. I do not know what is the political future of the negro. 1 can see none for him, unless he forms party of his own and even in that case, the future for him is not a great White Way
 A. c. Remmel is a nephew of Col. H. L. Remmel, recognized head of the Republican party in Arkansas. He is expected to succeed Colonel Remmel as the state agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon retirement of Colonel Remmel, and the mantle of national Republican Committeeman for Arkansas will also fall upon his shoulders when it is relinquished by his astute uncle Gus Remmel has as large an acquaintance over the state as any Democrat who has not sought state office, and without boosting a Republican, 1t must be admitted that he is as popular with his acquaint- ances as 1t would be possible for a Democrat to be-
The Carlisle independent., 1920-11-11


 Rent profteers are going to have a hard time in Arkansas if the next leg islature acts favorably upon meas ure which will be presented to it. This bill will require every property own CT, who rents building for residen- tial or business purposes to file a re- port with the Tax Assessor of the county, showing the amount of rent collected. The tax assessor can then estimate the value of the property and thus prevent a lower valuation being placed upon it by the owner. Such bill has already been proposed to friends of the incoming admins tration, and approved by them. While rent profiteering is not so common in Arkansas as in the North and East, there are many instances in Little Rock of where the annual rent amounts to 25 per cent of the invest ment.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
RAILROADS GET MORE

Observation-Disclosures owners have
been handed additional millions of
dollars as result of legislation that
was quietly rushed through congress
with no debate and no publicity.
The bill postpones the law effective
January / next which prohibits rail-
roads from dealing with concerns that
are connected, through intelocking
directorates, with the railroads. This
law was passed to stop the grating
of millions of dollars which stock
holders lost, but the loss has been
shifted to the treasury of the United
States, which is called upon, under the
Cummins- -Esch act, to guarantee
dividends to stockholders.
Now railroad owners may enter
into any conract they see fit with
concerns that are controlled by them.
They may abolish repair shops, for
instance, and turn this work over to
private owned companies in which
they are interested. These companies
have a free hand in making charges
to the railroad for their work, and if
the railroad has a deficit, the govern
ment comes to the rescue, and pays
6 per cent to stockholders.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
Workers Expose Greed

Anacortes, Wash.-Because of an
attempt by the Anacortes Lumber and
Box Co. to reduce wages of it's organ
lied timber workers these employees
presented figures that expose the
greed Of this concern.
The company recently closed it's
plant and shortly afterwards an
nounced that operations would be re-
sumed with wage reduction Of $1.28
a day. The unionists published a
statement by the company in which
it is shown that enormous profits, as
high as $50 a thousand, have been
continually made during the last few
years up to last July. Now, owing to
the cost of lumber and because logs
are costing the same figure as they
did last April (or at the markets
high fgure) their books show loss
of 221a cents, with logs at their
highest figure.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
WOULD GUST MINERS

Williamson, w. Va.-Coal owners
who have evicted striking miners
from company houses are now at
tempting to oust them from tents
furnished by the union. The miners
leased ground for this purpose and
the coal barons claim the land be-
longs to them. The miners are
sheltering their wives and children
from wintry blasts but this is nothing
to the coal owners, when workers in
sist on joining union.
Another attack on the miners is
shown in Governor Cornwalls re-
quest to the state health commissioner
that sanitary conditions in the tent
colony be investigated. The miners
suggest to the governor that the
sanitary conditions are more health
full than when they were forced to
live in company houses and work for
wages that made it impossible to
maintain living standards, condition
ignored by him.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
How Steel Trust Schemes

New York-The hypocrisy of anti
union steel mill owners, who talk
"open shop" was shown at a hearing
by the joint legislative committee
that is investigating the building
trust.
Representatives of the George Full
Ter company and the Thompson-Star-
rett company-two Of the largest
construction companies in the United
States-stated that they were unable
to purchase structural steel direct be-
cause they operated under union con-
ditions. They were refused steel by
the American Bridge company, a unit
of the steel trust, and by the Beth
lehem Steel company, although they
had made direct appeals to Charles
Schwab of the latter concern. The
constructors declared that they had
been virtually driven out of the steel
erection business because of their
of union men.
This testimony may be interesting
to those people who believed the
claim made by the steel trust, last
year, that the reason it opposed the
steel strike was because of one man
who was on the strike committee.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
Union Ex-ServiCe Men
Warn Florida Thugs

Tampa, Fla.-The 1900 union cigar
makers who took part in the world
war and are now resisting the attempt
of cigar manufacturers to deunionize
this industry, have given notice to
these employers and other business
men that their bluff and coercion will
not be tolerated.
The ex-service men are members Of
the Cigar Makers union. In an at
tempt to drive back to work the 12,-
900 cigar makers a committee of self
appointed business men called at
strike headquarters and attempted to
intimidate officials in charge.
In an open letter to these thugs the
ex-service men cal attention to the
principles they fought for in France.
eve are just as loyal to these prin-
ciples now as we were then, and GER
tainly we do not propose to desert
our leaders in a fight for a just cause
as a result of threats and bulldozing
intimidation of handful of men act
ing for the manufacturers under the
guise of the citizens committee
eve also want to inform you that
when you attempt to carry into exc
cution your threat against certain
members of the unions and their in
ternational representative you will
find these 1,500 ex-service men as
persistent in their opposition as they
were in their defense of just principles
in France.
"We do not seek trouble, indus
trially or otherwise, but, upon the
contrary, will endeavor to promote
peace, harmony and progress upon all
occasions and it is upon this basis
that we now pledge our best efforts
against such illegal and disturbing
elements as the citizens COM
mittee.'
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-12-31
HOW IT IS DONE
LAW TO ESTABLISH SERFDOM
APPROVED BY SENATE
So-CaIled Anti-Strike Bill is Rushed
Through Although No Quorum
Is in Attendance

Washington-The Poindexter rail-
road anti-strike bill slipped through
the United States senate as quietly
as a motion to indorse the appoint
ment of a crossroads postmaster.
Several routine bills were being con-
sidered while handful of senator's
were present.
The clerk read the PoindeXter bill
as favored by the committee. This
proposal involving the liberty of mil
lions of citizens was not discussed for
an instant. No objection was raised,
no vote was taken and the chair an
nounced its adoption.
Almost Immediately after its pas
sage Senator LaFollette appeared in
the chamber and gave notice Of re-
consideration of the vote, This pro-
cedure holds the bill in the senate un-
til finally disposed of.
The bill is referrd to as railroad
anti-strike bill, but it applies to
everything that enters interstate and
foreign commerce and sets aside the
foundation of the LaFollette seamen's
law, which permits seamen to quit
their employment when their vessel
is safely docked.
Railroad employees are not only pre-
vented from striking but the act ap-
plies with equal rigor to anyone who
"seeks to prevent any person from
engaging in employment in any
capacity in the production, care,
maintenance or operation of any
means or agency of such commerce"
Under this section a machinist en-
ployed on work intended to be shipped
to another state or to a foreign coun-
try could quit his employment, but if
he induced another to quit, he would
be liable to a fine of $4,000 or IS
years in prison, or both.
The act is the most far-reaching
ever passed by an American law
making body and would enslave the
wage earners of this country.
With fine irony, the last section of
the bill provides: "That nothing in
this act shall be taken to deny to any
individual the right to quit his en-
ployment for any reason"
But if that individual does anything
with intent to obstruct, delay, hinder
or prevent the movement" of inter-
state or foreign commerce, he is liable
to heavy fine and Imprisonment.
A strike is not necessary to have
him thus jailed or fined. If he does
anything with intent" he is liable.
If he makes a speech, or circulates
printed word that the court would
hold is liable" to cause a strike and
thus interfer with interstate or for
eign commerce, he can be held under
the act.