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The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13
Noise Calling This Cop.
The Cost Of Living and The Workers.

olen Go. made cleaning of Sc per cent
in 1917 and 1918. There can hardly be
said TO be a shortage OF cotton with H.
100000 bales plus 100000 left over from
1918, but this does not stop the specula-
tors from boosting the cotton crop values
5O,00O,0O0 or more in day. In one week,
while the war was on, they boosted it one
half a billion dollars. No reason here to
wonder why cotton costs more now than
silk used to
A so per cent increase in the price of
shoes by next summer is predicted by one
of the largest shoe manufacturers. At the
same time, leather companies and shoe
manufacturers are declaring "extra" di-
vindends. As matter of fact, with each
shortage" in any line Of commodities
which is said to occur, the stock of all
companies dealing in that line at once goes
up in price.
From July of 1914, to November 1919,
food prices advanced go per cent, clothing
1876 per cent, fuel 4S per cent and rent 80
per cent.
Just now there is said to be "sugar
shortage. The increase in price will add
billion or so to the previous robberies
OF the gentlemen whose private control Of
the necessities of life enable them to ey
tort almost at will such huge sums from
their victims.
Turning to the cases which the govern
ment has stauted against the profiteers
who have been caught in the wide meshes
of the anti profiteering laws, we find that
there have been 179 alleged profiteers
nabbed. In but three cases fines and SEN
tences were imposed.
The government was exceedingly
harsh i'm its treatment Of these thieves as
is seen in the punishments meted out. One
was fined $4,000 and spent few days in
JAIL Another paid a fine Of $25O00 and
spent three months behind the bars. The
other drew $4,000 fine and six months
Continued on page 4th.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13
spartacan and Bolshevik agents
carry messages from leaders giving
details for carrying on propaganda

While a few arrests have been made
Of secret agents passing between Ber-
lin and Soviet Russia, it is believed
that many get thru the frontiers safe
ly with messages for the Communist
groups in these and other countries.
London repoils state. Bolsheyist
agents intrusted with messages regard
ing sensational widespread Red plans
have been for a considerable time
travelling between Berlin and Soviet
Russia on false credentials, it is stat.
ed in official quarters The credent
ials they carried are said to have
described them as delegates of the
American Red Cross mission in Berlin
to conduct Investigations regarding the
exchange of German prisoners mrom
Russia.
These couriers, it appears, were
carrying dispatches between Moscow
and Bolshevist organizations in other
countries, including the German Spar.
tacides and the Swiss Communists
Lithuanian authorities discovered the
illicit travelling after Lithuania 8 hord
ers had been crossed many times and
number Of arrests followed. Not al
the conriers were provided with Amer
lean papers, but such forged credent
ials were found on several of the pris
cners.
Two men who carried Red cros
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13
VANDERBILT PREDICTS
EUROPEAN CRISIS,
Believes United States Should Aid
Foreign Nations -conceives
Revolt in Germany.

Basirg his predictions on. economic
factors which he said were clearly oh.
sers able, Frank A. Vanderlip, former
President of the National City Bank,
claims that dire times were near for
Europe. With countries on the other
side of the Atlantic facing an inflated
currency and an unwillingness on the
Part of other nations to extend credit
to them, he said, there was reason TO
believe the pesent crisis would he
more acute. Mr.. Vanderlip believed
the United States, as the only solvent
country in the world, should have tho
ability to assume world leadership.
What the world needed was moral
leadership, he maintained, and it was
practically up to us to aid in the re.
Mobilization of the other countries.
Mr.. vanderlip said, that when he
assumed the role of a prophet last
year on his return from Europe he
was termed a pessimist. The march
of events since then substantiated his
predictions as to what was going to
happen on the other side, he said.
APPALLING SITUATION"
1.-THE same conditions are present
now, except they point to worse con.
dition," he said "The food situation
in Central Europe is certain to be.
come extreme between now and the
next harvest. There is an appalling
situation just ahead in Poland, An.
stria and Armenia. There political
outlook Is portentous Look at Ger
many, with her indefinite indemnities,
disorganized politically. Then there
is Poland, hungcring, without the
means Of obtaining credit to alleviate
this want, presSnting me possibilities
or political revolution.
cit is conceivable that there will
be political revolution in Germany
Bolshevist in character, which will
hold out a friendly hand to Sovie,
Russia. What We should have done
years ago to remedy al' this trouble
was to make loans. but not through
the Government. I say this because
our Government has loaned 100000.
600 to nations which think they ought
to pay II back And there is somc
thing to he said on their side, too, al
many Of thNp cam pay It back. =
Mr.. vanderlip went into detail u
explain how initiation was broush
about through the printing Of Paps
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13
Secret COurieTs Cross
Boundaries.

passes admitted they had nothing to
do with the American mission, but
in reality were working for the Com
One woman, similarly equip
red, who worked from Dwinsk, said
she had been instructed to deliver
documents to persons she did not know
personally.
Most interesting of the captures
we're two men en- route to Moscow by
way of Berlin. They carried letters
concealed in their neckties One Of
them was a German, and a member
Of the Independent Socialist Party of
Germany, and the other was Swiss
belonging to an extremist organization
called the Socialist-D Democratic Organ.
zation of Young People in swit7er-
land.
The German carried letter from
the head Of Spartacist organiza-
tion in Germany to M. Tchicherin,
Russian Bolshevist Minister of For
eign Affairs. The letter Indignantly
denied the report that German Spar
tacides were counter-revolutionary to
the Russian Bolsheviki. 1t declared
that Karl Radek (the Bolshevist pro-
ipagandist who recently left Berlin)
could testify to the writer's communist
sympathies. It was said further by
the writer that he was arranging will
the Russian Bolshevik Zinovieff with
regard to spreading communist pre-
paganda in all parts of the world by
special courier service from Berlin.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13
GITLOW FOUND GUILTY.

Summing up in his own behelf, Ben
ianin Gitlow, former Socialist Assemb-
lyman on trial before Justice Bartov
S. Weeks on charge Of criminal
anarchy. last week asserted that the
revolutionary principles of the Left
Wing Socialist Party are the princi-
pies he believes in.
"I will fight for those principles,
Gitlow added. ''My life is devoted
20 them. I ask no clemency. Re-
gardless Of your verdict I claim that
these principles are correct"
The defendant was permitted by
Justice Weeks to make the summing
up address, despite the fact that Git
low did not take the witness stand !
during the trial, and therefore had not
been subjected to any cross-ex-
animation.
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The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-02-13

money not backed by reserve. lie
traced the credit system from its ear
hest beginning to the present time
md .fov4tS bows credits had been ex-
4: "a y 4 era q
81 America tf expansion had not
quite reached the limit allowed. he said
but the effect Of the increases was
the basis Of the high cost Of living.
He declared that this country should
take note Of the results of over-ex-
pansion and not bring about similar
crisis here.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Diptheria in
Iowa Almost at
Epidemic Stage
Existence of Disease Thought
To Be Due to Weather
Changes-Panic Averted
By Careful Treatment.

Des Moines, Nov. l4-Diphtheria
is approaching epidemic proper
tions in Iowa, according to the
State Board OF Health. This is
cue, it is said, to the uncertain
weather that comes at the change
of seasons. People-chiefy of the
younger generations-according to
the health officials. assume that the
weather is not yet cold enough to
warrant their bundling themselves
up in warm winter clothes; and yet
hpd it too chilly 20 go without such
clothes comfortably. The result is
sickness.
Diphtheria, records at the state
board of health office show, is cpl
uemic now at Ottumwa, Dubuque
and Abba. O.tu,nwa has requested
and been granted state aid to cope
with the situation. The disease is
also prevalent at present in Des
Moines, Sioux City, Waterloo. Fort
Dodge and Charles City. A number
of other cities, large and small. have
reported cases of it.
A noticeable feature of the present
prevalence of the disease is the fact
that it has caused next to no panic.
This is due. it is thought. to the care
ful treatment which the victims re-
ceive. Diphtheria patients are now
adays invariably isolated and so
cared for that the community runs
a minimum of risk.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Roosevelt May
Get Cabinet Job
Son of Former President Men.
toned As Secretary of Labor
Under Harding. j..

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Nov. 14.-Lieut- Col.
Theodore Roosevelt has been sug-
gested and, it is learned, is being
seriously considered for tbs. post
of secretary of labor in the cabinet
of President-elect Harding. He is
being urged dor the place by a num-
Der of republican leaders who be-
lieve not only that he would bring
progressive views into the cabinet.
but that he is specially fitted for the
place because practically all of the
more than 10 years that he has been
out of college have been devoted to
all intensive study of the labor con-
ditions from the viewpoint of the
wage earners themselves.
Word comes to Washington that
Senator Harding has been greatly
impressed by the claims being put
forward for Roosevelt by his friends
and that he has indicated he will
give every consideration to them.
Although it is yet too early for
anyone to be certain as to the make
up of the Harding cabinet. the feel
ing is that unless something hap
pens to upset the present situation.
Colonel Roosevelt has an excellent
chance of becoming cabinet officer
at the age of 50
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
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Movie Panic
False Cry of Fire in East Side
Movie House Results in
Injury to Ten
Others.

New York, Nov. l4.-Six children
between the ages OF 3 to 10 years,
were trampled to death during a
panic in an East Side motion pic
ture theater late today, caused by
a false crys of fire" Ten other
children were injured. About 800
persons, a large number OF them
children, were in the audience When
smoke began to pour from the base
ment under the theater. The care
;aker was making a fire in the fur
mace and the smoke was caused by
paper and othct rubbish he had
thrown into the furnace.
As it grew in volume someone
shouted FIRE" Instantly there was
{. mad rush for the exits and the
fight among the frantic men and
women to the street, little ones.
caught in the crush, were thrown
TO the floor and trampled
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Reduction Of One Cent
Per Gallon in Gasoline
=. Announced in South,

New Orleans, Nov. 14.-Reduc-
ton in ,cnk wagon prices of | cent
per gallon for gasoline, effective
Monday throughout Louisiana, Ten
nesser and Arkansas, was announced
by the Standard Oil company OF
Louisiana, as an aid to theIrestora-
ton of what is properly considered
normal prices.
The retail price of gasoline here
becomes 2S15 cents. A statement
said:
"While there has been no material
>~,lase from any of the conditions
which brought the rise in the price
of petroleum. products. the Standard
Oil company of louisiana believes
that the process of readjustment
now under way in the business world
must eventually contribute TO their
operations of producing and rehn-
ing oil.
"Up to date there is no lowering
of labor costs for crude oil price or
recessions in the demand for gaso-
line. Reductions which have already
taken place in many of the principal
items entering into the cost OF living
have, for the most part, not reached
the ultimate consumer, but it is in
evitable that before long lower
prices will be brought about by new
quotations now prevailing in primary
markets
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
To Challenge Right
OF Court to Dismiss
Federal Indictments

New York, Nov. 14.-The juris-
diction of Supreme Court Justice
Robert F. Wagner, to. decide mo-
ton for dismissal of indictments
against Charles F. Murphy, leader
of Tammany Hall, and Others, will
be challenged before the state court
of appeals. Col. William Rand.
counsel for the extraordinary grand
jury, which returned the inG,ct-
ments, announced.
Colonel Rand served formal no.
tice upon counsel for Mr.. Murphy
and other defendants OF his inten-
ton to- apply, next Friday, to the
appellate division OF the supreme
court for permission to take the
question t. the court of appeals.
Justice Wagner previously held that
he has jurisdiction and the appellate
division sustained him.
The defendants are charged iii the
indictment with conspiracy to de-
fraud the federal government by
falsely certifying to their income tax
returns. Besides Mr.. Murphy, the
defendants include Arthur ]. Bald
win, attorney; Assistant District At
torpey ]. E. Smith. John A., Nc
Carthy. former business partner of
Mr.. Murphy's brother; Ernst B.
Walden, vice president of the Corn
Products company and the company
itself.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Much Interest Shown
In Election in Greece

Athens. Nov. .14-(By the A. P.)
All Greece is deeply absorbed in
tomorrow's election. the outcome of
which is generallys expected to be
the return of Premier Venizelos and
the liberal party to power by a large
majority. The election is regarded
as having the greatest influence or
the country's future.
Although he has expressed him.
self as confident of victory, the
premier has been conducting most
active campaign. He returned to
Athens ON Thursday in time to ad-
dress an Armistice gathering, where
he was given ans ovation by more
than 100000 persons,
While the country is calm. trouble
is forecast after the election. no
matter which side wins. If Ncni-
zelos gets the majority of 270 OF
total of S6S, which his supporters
claim. it is expected the royalists
will denounce the election as fraud
ulent. Should the royalists win. the
Venizelists have announced they will
not accept the political dethrone-
ment OF their chief.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
10 Red Cross Workers
Decorated by Wrangel

Constantinople. Nov. 14.-Sixteen
American Red Cross workers have
been decorated by General Wrangel
for services rendered. the civilian
population of the Crimea and South
Russia. -t
DR.. Livingston Farrand of Wash
ington, receives the Order of St.
Anne, the highest civilian honor of
the old Russian government. Fred
crick P. Keppell, Washington. and
Robert Z. Olds. St. Paul, were given
the order of St. Stanislav: George
Herbert Ryden. Kansas City, Mo-,
and Jay r.. Clewell, BellingFam,
Wash, received the order of St.
Anne of the second class; Robert
7. Moss and Nelson Mills, New
York, Frederick w. Bobbett. St.
Paul, Horace Morrison and Charles
{. Davis, Boston, and H. L. Bridges,
Atlanta, received in order of St.
Stanislav of the second class; c. D.
Morris, Olean, N. Y. Robert o.
Barrett. New York, and w. H. Day,
Richmond, Va, received the order
of St. Anne of the third class. and
James c. A. Mills the order of St.
Stanislav of the third class.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Panama Canal Now
Is SeE-Sustaining

Washington, Nov. l4.-The Pana-
ma canal is now full self-sustaining,
and had there been no change in the
rules OF measurement. such as were
recently made, would show a COM
Portable surplus over cost of opera
ton, according to the current Canal
Record, the official publication of
the zone. The statement does not
show the exact proportion OF tolls
paid by American ships, nor indicate
the deficiency, if any, that would
have to be met from the national
treasury if American craft were ex-
empted. ...a
During the last fiscal year total
operating expenses were S6,548,272
and receipts $S,935,S71, leaving
profit of S2,3S7, 500. This does not
take into account interest on capital
invested, amounting to $367,l5l ,696,
representing the entire cost of the
canal
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Coast Guards Search \
For Bodies Of Flyers
Lost on Lake Michigan

,Muskegon, Mich. Nov. a.
Coast guards were patrolling the
Lake Michigan shore tonight in
search of the bodies OF the crew Of
the naval seaplare, the wreckage Of
which was picked up betweeen Mus
kegon and White Lake station this
afternoon. The members of the
cre,N it was believed, had perishcd
when the machine which left Great
Lakes naval training station last
Wednesday, encountered a storm
over the lake on Thursday.
The wreckage, which was strewn
along the beach for five miles, in
cluded practically all the lighter
structure of a seaplane. Although
there were no marks OF identihca-
ton, coast guard patrols declared
the navy gray color convinced them
that the wreckage was part of the
machine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Great Britain
Wins Victory in.
Hunger Strike
Prisoners in Cork Jail Re
leased From Pledges by
''Actng President Irish
Republic
BY JOHN BUTLER.
New York Times Chicago Tribune Cable.
COpyright 1920.

London, Nov. 14.-Great Britain,
by her refusal to release the late
Lord Mayor MacSwiney, Joseph
Murphy, alleged American citizen,
and Fitzgerald, another Irish hun
ger striker, before they died, has
brought the Sim Fein to capitula-
ton. e
Following the sensational death Of
the lord mayor of Cork after more
than two months hunger strike, to-
gether with the deaths Of the two
Sim Fein prisoners in Cork, Arthur
Griffith, acting president OF the
Irish Republic" officially released
the nine other Sim ,Fein prisoners
in the Cork Jail from their obliga-
ton to continue their death strike.
In Cork Jail these nine men have
wasted away to the point Of being
mere skeletons. They have not
tasted food for "a days. Grief
stricken mothers have entered the
prison and pleaded with their sons
to break their death fast. but they
have stood fast, placing their duties
to their nation above duties even to
their mothers, according 10 Sim
Fein officials.
They have seeen three of their
fellow prisoners lie i'll alleged mar
tyrdom for free ireland, and despite
pleas of their loved ones, they have
decided to follow in their footsteps.
The following message received
from Arthur Griffith by the Lord
Mayor of Cork has been trans
mitted Ito the hunger strikers:
Our country,nen in Cork prison
sufficiently have proved their devo-
ton and fidelity, and they should
now, as they were prepared to die
for Ireland, prepare again to live
for her."
A highly placed British official in
closest touch with Prime Minister
Lloyd George said: r..
"The proclamation by Mr.. Grit
fifth stopping TIL, rest of his country
men from dying in Cork jail pleases
us. The only objection. we have to
ii is that it is so he1ated. Mr.. Mac
Swiney and his Two. misguided COM
patriots died before it was issued.
To this tardinesS on the part of
Mr.. Griffith and his followers must
be placed the guilt for the death OF
Mr.. MacSwiney and others"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Chicago Tribune to 1
4 Cooperate in Forming
School Of journalism

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire
Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE Chicago
Tribune is cooperating with North
western university in the founding
of the Joseph Medill school of jour-
nalism.
The new school, which is to be es-
tablished within the next few
months, will be the only metropoli-
tan newspaper training institution
west of the Allcghenies.
The editors of The Chicago Trf
bune, comforting with the trustees
of the university, represented by
President Walter Dill Scott and
Ralph f. Heilman, dean of the school
of commerce. agreed the school
should be established as tribute to
Joseph Medill. the builder of the
Chicago Tribune.
The name has also met with the
OF editors and publishers of
other Chicago papers. These other
papers have agreed to cooperate
with the Joseph Medill school to the
fullest extent. a..,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
Cardinal Gibbons Issues Appeal
For Annual Red Cross Roll Call

Washington, Nov. IA. - Tie fol-
lowing signed statement q Cardinal
Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore
and spokesman of the Roman
Catholic church in America, relative
to the fourth Red Cross roll call,
was made public here
AT the DEVELOPMENT of its peace
time program SO broad as to meet
every form of suffering and distress
which face the American people, the
American Red Cross has written
another chapter IN its history, per-
haps less dramatic than that of wal
time, but none the less glorious its
spirit and its object. Its thought. its
influence and its splendid orgaAiza-
ton have been to the interest OF the
people of America. who by reason of
circumstances, need just the help
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-15
School Hazing
Results in Gun
Play at Chicago
One Youth Wounded and An.
other Beaten Into Insensi-
bility, Following Attempt
To Kidnap Lad.

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire
Chicago, Nov. Ia. Antagonists,
between the sophomores and fresh
men classes of the Waukegan high
school developed into a gun battle
and free-for-all fight, in which one
student was shot in the heel and an
other beaten into insensibility.
The students involved in the af-
fray were from some of the most
prominent families of the city. All
of their names have not yet been
ascertained by the police.
The row started when party of
three boys and two girls drove up to
the high school building to attend
4 party Friday evening.
Those in the party were Karl AM
brose, 13; Elizabeth Lyon, 10; Mar
garet Pulse, 10; Donald Doolittle,
10, and Arthur Shumway, Is. :
AS soon as the five left their car
they were confronted ky five
masked youths. Ambrose, the small
est i'll the party, was gruffly ordered
to go with them.
Several times previously Ambrose
had been hazcd by upper classmen.
On several occasions he had been
transported far out into the country
and forced to Walk back.
This time, instead of obeying the
command of the five youths, he
whipped out the automatic pistol
used by his father in the army.
He fired one shot. This shot tore
through the 'heef of Theodore Lux, a
sophomore. who has not yet been
identified as a member of the haz-
ing party.
Neal Dickson, an upper classman,
who was near the scene, tore the gun
from Ambrose. The nla asked youths
then beat him into insensibility.
Shumway was also badly bruised.
The Misses Lyon and Pulse then
took hand. Miss Lyon secured the
gun and fired two shots in the air.
The boys ran. The two girls got
Shumway and Doolittle into the car,
hid them under an automobile robe.
and drove the car back into the city.
Ambrose, recovering conscious
ness, found himself alone.