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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-15
HOOVER AS A
REPUBLICAN,.

In his telegram TO Chandler NJ.
Wood OF Boston, Mr.. Hoover has
definitely announced that he would
not accept the Democratic nomina-
ton for President. No longer IAN
Independent progressive" Mr.. Hoo.
yer wishes to be considered as a Re-
publican and only as a Republican.
Evidently his political opinions
have undergone a process of crys-
utilization since his statement six
weeks ago that before | can answer
whether | am a Democrat or a Re-
publican | shall have to know how
each party stands on those issues"
to say nothing Of his previous
statement that until it more def
nitely appears what the party man
ayers stand for, l must exercise a
prerogative of American citizenship
and decline to pledge my vote blind
fold"
What Qualification of issues has
taken place which enables Mr.. Hoo
yer to make his choice of PARTIES at
this time is not apparent, but he
has evidently determined. for rea-
sons satisfactory to himself, to
make his fight wholly within the Re-
publican party, and such a choice is
likewise the precogative of hImeri-
can citizenship.
Mr.. Gerard, who advocated Mr.
HoOver's nomination at the Jackson
Day dinner in Washington, turned
against him at the Jefferson Day
dinner of the National Democratic
Club and said:
But a Herbert Hoover, a partisan
seeking only the Republican nomi-
nation, standing hat in hand before
the door of the house where the
forces Of reaction are in council, is
quite another Hoover. 1t is a Ma
homet going a suppliant to the
mountain-not the mountain offer
ing the nomination TO a great fnde.
pendent
Whether Mr.. Hoover IS standing
hat in hand before the forces OF re-
action remains to be proved. We
shall believe it only when We have
seen it with our own eyes. At the
same time, every friend of Mr.. Hoo
YER must concede that he has been
maneuvered in to a much weaker po-
sition than that which he formerly
occupied.
The leaders of the Republican Old
Guard are no longer afraid OF him
as a Democratic Presidential posi-
bility. They have no inducement
to nominate him lest the Democrats
should take him away and sweep the
coustry. Mr.. Hoover is at a further
disadvantage in formally aligning
himself with the Republicans at the
timew hen Hiram Johnson has as
sumed the leadership OF all the rad
tcal elements of the party and
shrewdly turned the coming Nation
al Convention into a contest be
tween himself and the reactionar-
les.
A situation might easily develop
out OF which Mr. Hoover would be
nominated at Chicago but in pres
ent circumstances it would be a
nomination dictated by the Old
Guard in the effort to save their
own skins by using Hoover as bull
wark against the rising wrath OF
the country. Mr.. Hoovers position
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| they were. Throughout these
months Director General Hines was
besought to take some action on
| the brotherhoods' demand, either
affirmative or negative. In Febru-
airy Mr.. Hines, refusing to commit
himself on the justice of the wage
| demands, stated that on the eve OF
resumption Of private control OF the
rails he was unwilling TO saddle
the operators with burden OF
huge wage increases. The brother
hood leaders went to the White
House once more, and President
Wilson told them that he believed
their cause should be intrusted to
that tribunal.
This brief summary brings mat
ters to the present hour. The pres
ident has not yet appointed the
members of the Railroad Wage
Board. The cost of living has not
receded. Brotherhood leaders have
counseled patience, delay for more
than year, risked their own posi-
tions with the rank and file to keep
faith with the Washington author
tiles, and have been undermined.
The radicals who preach direct
action" and the fundamental insin-
cerity of all recommendation are
making Roadway.
Samuel Gompers told the first
National Industrial Conference that
the country had a choice between
the Federation and the l. W. w.
Chief Sheppard, of the Brotherhood
of Railway Conductors said his
hardest work was to hold his own
people in line; that he felt himself
slipping. When the Inflated Plumb
Plan League was launched last Aug
ust, it was common gossip among
cynies IN labor circles that the
real object Of the league was to
keep the conservative brotherhood
chiefs in power by dangling some
new and glittering proposal before
the rank and file. For months It has
been common report that Messrs.
Stone, Lee, Shea, Sheppard and
Jewell had to choose between
breaking with the Washington
crowd" and their own men.
The present instruction will
likely prove TO be a 1laSh IN the
pan. 1t is hardly more than a symp-
tom of what may come if the hand,
Of the brotherhood chiefs is not
strengthened. The brotherhoods
know that the fall OF even a part Of
their citadel will be OF sinister i'm
port to the organized labor move
ment. II they crush the revolt and
regain control, the goyernment
should support them on the basic
lines Of fair piay.-Baltimor Sun
Qnd. Dem.)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-15
BOTH SIDES OF
THE RAILROAD STRIKE

The striking switchmen and en-
ginemen who have seeded from
the established organization Of their
craft and broken bounds are guilty
of an egregious blunder, There can
be no doubt of that. Their own peo-
pie call them outlaws. Labor read
ers everywhere know what outlawry
means. Through a heartbreaking
generation Of guerilla fighting
they have brought trade unionism
to a position of public confidence
and esteem. 1t would be, they know,
the deepest tragedy to forfeit that
confidence to lose the fruits of a
whole era of constructive industrial
effort, and to throw the cause OF Ia
Dor back into the old dark days
when every hand, seemingly, was
turned against it.
That being said, however, there is
no need to add unqualified condem-
nation to these thousands Of men
who have taken the bit between
their teeth and done the thing
which the conservatives In the bro
therhoods have dreaded, but have
known was coming for many months
They can make out some sort of
case for themselves, and it is nee
essary that 1t be understood before
the public verdict can be rendered.
1t is more than a year since the
wage demands of certain Of the
brotherhoods were placed before
the Board Of Wages and Working
Conditions under the former Rail
road Administration After LONG
mulling of the question that board
failed to agree upon a finding, and
threw the matter into the lap of Di-
rector General Hines in July. At
this criticai hour group Of brother
hood leaders called upon President
Wilson and made a formal request
either that immediate steps be ia
ken to reduce the cost of living, or
that wage increases be given GER
tain classes of railroad workers, so
that they could live in accordance
with the minimum comfort" bulge
tary standard sponsored by the De
partment of Labor.
The president did two things. he
delivered a special message to con-
gress on the subject of the high
cost of living, nipping in the bud a
plan for midsummer adjournment,
and recommended a rather impos-
! ing facade Of legislation which he
thought might serve to bring the
prices back to normal. 1t is inter-
esting to note that not single one
of these legislative recommended
tons has been carried out; that,
although Congress has had eight
months to ponder the problem, not
single high cost of living" bill
has been placed on the statute
books.
He did not stop there. He asked
for ninety days period of grace
while the Attorney General con.
Quoted raid against profteers un-
der the Lever act. That notable
drive of the Department of Justice
resulted in the tining and falling of
handful of greedy retailers, in the
confiscating OF hundreds of thou
sands of eggs in cold storage, etc;
but when Christmas rolled around
Mr.. Palmer was forced to admit
that the high cost OF living had sur
vived the bombardment and was, &C
cording to the monthly index of
Duns and the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics, trife higher than when
the drive started
That left matters pretty much a.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has just
bought himself new electric run
about. Probably feels that he can't
afford gasoline this summer.-Brad
tleboro Reformer.
A trade journal declares tina
Russia produces % per cent of Il
worlds oats. This estimate is We
low if Wild oats are included
Omaha News
Speaking Of the sweep towai\
polygamy, a Chicago newspaper
headline says: General Graves
and 119 War Brides Arrived at Ma
Mia" -Milwaukee Journal.
Red has always been a signal OF
danger in railroad service, and th1
present strike more than proves i
Omaha Bee.
"Penrose Train Annuled
Strike" 1t will be interesting to 81.
If 1t will affect his steam roller
Philadelphia North American.
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service in return.
If the government taxes the idle
land held for speculation the own.
er will quit holding it. This would
cause the land to fall into the
hands of people who would use it..
Once put to use, the land could af-
ford to pay a stiff tax and at the
same time produce sufficient to help
lower the high cost Of living. But
so long as the land held is for spec.
ulation and not for use, it will per-
form no service to ease the burdens
of misunderstanding Press (lnd.)
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TELEPHONE NUMBERS
C. V. 192-D. C. & P. 80.
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THURSDAY, APRIL IS, 1920
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-15
FRANCE AND
TIE MILITAPISTS

With the attitude Of this country
England and other nations toward
the French military invasion OF
Germany still unannounced, but
suspected of being at least dubious
of the propriety of the action. it be-
gins to look as though the President
was not far affeld when he referred
recently to France as being in the
grip of the militarists.
Surely whether France was JUST.
fed or not in it's action to give Ger
many show Of force" the step 1t
took was dear to the hearts Of mil
tarists everywhere. Unless her al
lies back her up, France can pro-
duce for herself and the remainder
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of the world an overfowing meas
ure of embarrassment. 1t may apj
pear later as the entirely prope1
course to take, but whatever doubt
there is on that score, what Francs
is doing is bread and wine to tho
militarists.- Harrisburg Patriot
lnd DENY
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-02-13

hgently and quietly working. The
present officers of the Cambria La
dies Aid are Mrs. Dan Williams
president; Mrs. George Michaelson
vice president; Mrs. Owen Owens,
secretary; Mrs. George Crawford
treasurer and Mrs. Dan Harris, chair
man of the working committee. The
work is divided into five branches
and the assistants of the chairman at
the head of each branch are Mrs. Will
liam Edwards. quilts; Mrs James d.
Price, rugs; Mrs. Lawrence Peterson.
fancy work; Mrs. Hugh Edwards,
knitting; Mrs. Owen Owens, aprons
and children's clothing. The Ladies'
Aid has been organized for about
nine months and the membership is
gradually increasing. They have 5000
in the Cambria bank, about $50 worth
of working material on hand and
about $50 cash balance.
The church officers are Dan Harris,
secretary and Ole Sveum, treasurer. A
business meeting for the members
will be held this week for the pur.
pose of electing temporary deacons,
who are to hold office until the COM
ing convention next June when per-
manent deacons will be chosen.
The officers of the Cambria Sun
day school are ID. Charles Price, SUI
perintendent; Mrs. Lawrence Peter
son, secretary; Mrs. George Crawford,
treasurer and Mrs. Crawford and Mrs.
Ole Sveum. pianists. The teachers
are James ID. Price, adult class; Mrs.
Dan Harris, young peoples class and
Mrs. Lawrence Peterson, primary
class. The president of the Cambria
Christian Endeavor society is Owen
Owens.
The outlook for the church work at
Cambria is very encouraging and there
is plenty to do. 1t was evident that
there must be a church in the viii
lage as the population was constant
ly on the increase and the majority of
the villagers had no way to ride out
to the country churches. A town
without religious meetings must de-
generate morally so it was for these
reasons and with the earnest hopes of
rearing the little ones and the COM
ing generation to know and to trust
in their Lord and Saviour and to help
keep the young people and adults to
observe the Lords day and 10 be a
moral uplift to the members, the viii
layers and the community the Cam
bria church was organized.
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Mankato TOWNSHIP

School district No SO of which Miss
Macbeth is the teacher. has been clos
ed for two weeks on account of SO
many cases of the flu in the neigh
borhood. ..
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Schmidt and
two youngest children are recovering
slowly from seige of the flu.
Mrs AL Hoffman is on the gain and
the children have recovered. At the
Will Hoffman home Elmer is able to
be about and Edna is some better.
Mrs. Fl. Nelson is sick with the flu,
also the Joe Hodapp family. The Han
ell family is able to be up and around
again. ..5..
Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Carroll visited
their sister, Mrs. f. Guthrie and fami-
ly Sunday.
Fred Stamford was unable TO at
tend school for several days because
of lad cold.
..s -
Wendell Hodapp was at the hos
pital for q couple of days, where he
had an abcess removed from his face.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dittberner and two
children are on the gain from an at
tack of the flu. Mrs. Ditti erner had a
light case of pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs
Dittberner of Waseca, parents of the
former, drove down from their place
to care for their son and family
Miss Mamie Foley was also sick
with the flu.
john Jensen will have an auction
about March l, when he will move
bought home there last fall Mr..
Dittserner of Pemberton who pur-
chased the Jensen farm will then take
possession.
Mrs. John Cate of North Mankato
spent a couple of days caring for her
niece, Mrs. Fred Schulz, Jr., who was
sick with flu.
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WHAT'S TH|SL|OVE WORTH
HUBBY PLACES VALUE
AT FULL $25, 900
Martin County Man Sues An
other, Alleging Theft of
Wife's Affections

Fairmont, February 5.--An adjourn
ed term of the district courts is in
session here. The first case to come
up for trial is that of Paul Wagner VS..
Fred Klopp.
This is en- action in which the plain
tiff Wagner OF FairiHont sues Klopp,
a wealthy Truman farmer who owns
$40 of Minnesota's fertile acres, for
$4,000. heart balm for alleged aliena-
ton of his wife's affections. The plain
Tiff Wagner alleges that in October,
1918, the wife of the defendant Klopp,
who lives near Truman, died OF the
flu and left five little children, rang
ing in ages from two to ten years.
Mrs. Wagner was sister of Mrs.
Kiopp. She promised her sister before
Mrs. Klopp's death that she would
care for the motharless little children
and in the pursuance of that promise,
she went to the home Of her brother
in law to make good her promise, TAX
ing with her own four children.
What The Husband Alleges
Her husband now alleges that dur
ing the time she kept house and cared
for the defendants children, Klopp
became too intimate with her, and
that as result of such intimacy, she
refused to return to live with the
plaintiff Wagner.
Some time in 1919, Mrs. Wagner
brought an action against her hus-
band, Paul Wagner. for divorce,
charging cruel and inhuman treat
ment. After this suit was started, the
action for alienation was begun
The plaintiff Wagner is forty seven
years of age, his wife, thirty two and
the defendant Klopp forty one. Mr..
Klop2 denies all of the allegations of
Wagner and claims that he has no
intimacy to ALLEVIATE the affections of
Wagner's wife.
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Flood Reservoirs Proposed
Along the Minnesota
CHECK ON RIVER SPREAD
Ideal Spot For Basin at junction
Of Minnesota and Blue
Earth

Establishment of flood reservoirs
along the Minnesota, Blue Earth and
Cottonwood rivers, at points where
the water might most easily be con-
served. to hold large volumes of
water at flood time and sprevent this
water from sweeping over the tilled
fields Eclow, was advocated at the
flood prevention meeting, neid at the
council chambers in the city hall
building yesterday afternoon. The
meeting was not well attended. Few
men outside the immediate vicinity
Of Mankato were present. Because
OF this fact no action was taken on
the plans proposed at the meeting,
it being considered the best course
to wait until today, when a more re-
preventative gathering was expected
at New Ulm. -
Magnus Larson of Judson was
chosen chairman of the meeting and
Frank Simonds of Mapleton, secre-
tary. A. B. Kaercher of Ortonville
was the first speaker. He explained
the purpose of calling the meeting,
outlined the benefits of the proposed
system OF checking foods and point
ed to the flood reservoirs as the best
means of aiding farmers whose lands
are flooded.
He sketched the method of pro-
cedure, TO have memters at the
meeting sign petitions for the flood
basins and pledge support to the
MI 7 of dnla nj rncfo Oh
would meet at Tri State meeting,
select five delegates representing the
Dakotas and Minnesota and send
them to Washington to get the aid
possible to carry through the pro-
ject.
Federal Engineer Spoke.
Engineer Adolph Meyer, now in the
federal employ, spoke to some length
and explained in detail the method
by which these flood reservoirs
would fill, hold the high water and
prevent floods down the rivers below
them. Motive power could be utilized
from flood basins also, he stated.
Meyer declared that one ideal spot
for such flood basin was at the
juncture of the Blue Earth and Mimi
esota rivers. He reviewed the find
ings he made on the Minnesota
river led ten years ago, when he
surveyed it for the government and
stated that the Blue Earth and
Cottonwood basins had not yet been
surveyed
Lands below sCarEer on che Mimi
esota, Mr.. Meyer declared. would not
be benefited by this plan because the
Mississippi river hacks up and floods
these lands every year
Address BY Willard.
E. v. Willard, state drainage engin-
eer, also spoke at length on the pro-
ject and the possibility of having it
carried through to a successful COM
pletion. He expressed his disappoint-
ment at the small number of men
in attendance and said that the land
owners in the Minnesota valley
must evidence more iiits rest u they
wanted any legisIation to better the
situation.
/ ~ u Mor5arty d shaxopee, august
Ring Of Shakope Is Eng nicer Willard,
and others present joined II the
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trA3A.l11ltE S.rlcJiG NINLiBELt lbtt.kttff9 Ntg(
general discussion which, followed
the addresses. There was general
feeling that the gathering present
was not representative enough to
warrant any action. A. B. Kaercher
of Ortonville declared that the flood
reservoirs, if made deep enough
could be used as state fisheries and
that as such the land flooded would
be more valuable than for agricultural
purposes.
No Action Taken.
After lengthy discussion of the
various merits of the plans the meet
ing adjourned without taking any
action. 1t was expected that the
meeting at New Ulm today would be
letter attended and a majority of
those present at the Mankato meet
ing planned to be there.
Senator +. L. Cliff and represen-
tative o. Newman, authors Of bills to
relieve flood conditions, who were to
have been present at the meeting,
were unable to attend. They were ex-
pected to be at the New Ulm meeting
today.
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kerns

The Young Peoples society of the
Swedish church will be postponed for
one month on account of the flu.
School in district No. Il is closed
on account of influenza in the district.
Mrs. August Johnson and daughter
Mrs. Holmgren are still sick with in
f1uenZa ,.. .,....-.,g- s...-a
Members of the HAT family are
sick with influenza.
Any one who wishes to file for
town office should file with Fred
Johnson before the 2Sth of this
month. ...
Arthur Sharp will hold a sale at
his place next week Tuesday, Feb
ruary IT, Lunch will be served free
at noon.
Marie Wussow of North Mankato
spent part of last week with Marcella
Parsons. ......''.-- ....
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heise and
family spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr.. and Mrs r. e. Grice and Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Grice.
Arthur Sharp, Harry Parsons and
Ed. Parsons fished at Duck lake Mon
day.
Mrs. Virgil Walker entertained a
party of young ladies at a quilting bee
Tuesday afternoon. Those present
were Cora Johnson, Penelope Hanson,
Bessie Michels, Callie Buick and
Esther Michels. :.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Parsons enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs: A. Sharp and
sons, Pearl Parsons and Miss Eyrich
for dinner Sunday.
Mrs. A. Evenson and sons and
daughter, who have been very sick
are much better.
Fred Forsberg and family are bet
ter at this writing.
Mrs. F. f. Jefferson thanks the
many friends for cards she has re-
ceived. Mrs. Jefferson's arm is I'M
proving slowly.
Amelia Johnson is very sick with
the flu
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TRAVEL Will BE HEAVY
[Continued From Page One.]

lCOnLl0ueQ FrOM rage OQe.
eminent in the most economical way.
If any legislator cares to interview
any taxpayer while plotting the ink
on his tax reports, he will find out
that this is putting it much milder
than the harassed citizen usually does.
The Ministerial Middle.
Following the declaration by a
score clergymen representing a
Protestant interdenominationai body
that they oppose deportation and
other efforts to protect the homes Of
this country against red raids, New
Workers are inclined to regard with
sadness rather than anger such at
tempts to hamper official anti -anar-
chistic activities. If these estimable
dominies knew one hundredth part
Of what the department of justice has
dug up to prove the ever present
danger of communist revolution, it
is declared that they would have re-
served judgment. Since they can not
know this, and are in no way author
ICED to represent their laymen in
such secular matters, little attention
is being paid here to their creed.
Some Revenue Raiding.
Passing by millions of dollars
worth of liquor in the vaults of the
wealthy and sieging. scores of poor
people who can be caught carrying
jugs of wine from one home to an
other, the revenue raiders have just
begun to function in this city as .ev-
eryone expected. While booze fairly
bubbles all over the big clubs, the
little saloons and stills are receiy-
ing the full force of the attack Of
Uncle Sans sleuths. With q ten
dollar bill anyone can be pretty
sure to get drink in the gilded belt,
though a nickle's worth of beer may
spell arrest on the edges of town.