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New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Welfare Bills Opposed
by Women Republicans
No Need to Compel What Indus
try Already Has Conceded.
Thew Declare

The Womcn's Republican Club. AZ q
meeting yesterday, indorsed the aim.
OF the Woman's Equal Opportunity
League, which is fighting the welfare
Dllls advocated by suffragists and
labor leaders. The chief sneaker IN
opposition to the welfare bills was
MRS. Ada r. Wolff, a printer. she
said: one
WProtection for the office worker is
q a. work OF superfluty in this state,
newspaper tell the story. The fortvss ,l. &
four-hour week, the five day week week
never more than forty ight- hour
week, is advertised for office and fac
tory. One does not need law com
Relilng what industry has conceded.
Inese short shifts are for the m
skilled and unorganized as we'll as for
tne skilled and organized worker. But.
women III banks, accountants, advertis
ing women, magazine editors, court
reporters, women in skilled trades
where men are predominant. all these
women, who have had the courage and
initiative to climb the business ladder.
Will be forced off the higher runps hv
such legislation; for the more skill
needed n given business. the less
possible it is to put an arbitrary limit
lha hours of tNose engaged ir FUR
therlng the success Of said business.
The fixing of wage scales by State
or Federal government is an unwar-
ranted exercise of power on the part
of politically controlled wage boards,
and involves an amount of prying into
the private life of women wage earn
ers that every self-respecting woman
citizen resents when she understands
how the decisions of the board are
reached"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
McCue Fights for
Reconsideration of
Dry Ratification
New York Assemblyman's
Bill for Its Repeal Is Sent
to Committee, but Spon-
sor Says He Will Revive 1t
StoF CORES ponde,,t


ALBANY, Jan. 13.-Assemb,vman
Martin G. Mccue, democrat sss",S'sVam Of Nsw
York, intends to force debate and
vote on his resolution, CARRYING out
Governor Smiths recommer dation that
the state rescind its ratification of
Federal prohibition. When he called
1t up in the Assembly to-day. Majority
Leader Simon L. Adler moved t1at 4
be referred to the Judiciary Committee.
On, let's debate this next Monday
night said McCue. "This is too inn
portant question and the people are
zoo much interested in it to have it
buried away in a committee"
he was told by Speaker Sweet that
MS only recourse was to move to as
charge the committee
We'll, give notice now that / intend
TO make that motion later" he said.
interest in prohibition legislation
vas given further impetus when
governor Smith eliminated from
the executive budget which he sub
item of $4,000 for continuing the
State Excise Department as prohjbi-
tlon enforcement bureau The depart
ment has sufficient money to run until
April l. IT the Legislature makes no
further provision in the meantime the
two or three hundred employees OF the
department. will soon be out of jobs.
Republicans had talked of keeping
the department as an enforcement bu-
rcau and there is now considerable
speculation as to what enforcement
legislation they will favor. The Anti
Saloon League bill merely puts the
provisions of the Volstead act into
state law and contains no provision for
an enforcement department. Bills
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
''Dry'' Leader argues
Ratification Must Stand
Wayne Q. wheeler Quotes De-
cisiOn on Fourteenth Amend
rneJt as Being Parallel Case

WASHINGTON, Jan. Estate lcxis-
laturcs under the law cannot repeal
ratification Of the Constitutional pro-
hibition amendment, Wayne B. Wheeler,
counsel for the Anti-Saloon League de-
clared to-day in a statement discussing
recommendation for repeal made TO the
lawmakers of New York and Maryland
by the Governors of those states.
Mr.. Wheeler cited the attempt of New
Jersey and Ohio to Withdraw ratification
of the Fourteenth Amendment. Con-
gress refused to accept the repeal and
both states we're counted among those
voting affirmativcly. Without their rat-
fication the amendment lacked sufficient
votes to become operative.
Chief Justice Marshall was quoted
by Mr.. Wheeler as follows:
"The principle is asserted that one
Legislature is competent to repeal an
act which former Legislature was COM
petcnt to pass. The correctness of this
principle, SO far as respects general leg
islation, can never be controvcrted. But
if an act be done under a law, sue
ceeding Legislature cannot undo it. The
past cannot be recalled by the most alb
solute power
Suffrage Ratification Bill
A bill for the ratification of the pro-
posed woman suffrage amendment was
introduced by Senator Mackay, of Ber-
gen County. A measure presented by
Senator Sturgcss, of Gloucester County,
would compel the Legislature 80 submit
a prorosed Federal amendment to pop
ular vote before either ratiiying or re-
jectine it.
A daylight saving bill, providing for
the change in time in New Jersey in
March and October Of each .'ear, was
presented by Senator MacKay.
A measure introduced by Senator
Pilgrim, of Essex, would make it high
misdemeanor to advocate hostility tow
ard the state or Federal government.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Senate Lectured
BY Williams for
Power Bill Delay
People Will Demand Aboli.
ton of Body for Failing
to Furction, He Tells
Few Who Stay to Listen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Demand-
ing recognition just before adjourn
ment tonight, Senator Williams,
Democrat. of Mississippi, launched
into bitter attack upon the Senate
for failure to give what he described
as proper consideration to the pend
ing water power bill.
~ motion to adjourn had been with
drawn temporarily for presentation of
,wo minor bills. and members were
hurrying out in some confusion when
the strident voice of the Mississippi
Senator, rising above the din, brought
8 ON to a halt. Eleven Senators re-
n. nd and, counting six on tie
Democratic and five on the Republican
side of the chamber, Senator Williams
declared the upper branch of Congress
|a9 paying no attetion whatever to the
peoples business.
|. The, people of this country are
/ gradually rising to the point where
tthsy. demand aabolition Of the Senate
for failing to Junction." Senator Will
Jams shouted. "Here is great b ]
before 1t and 10 attention paid to it,
and am inclined to agree with Benja-
min Franklin. who declared the SEN
ate of the United States was like the
fifth wheel of a wagon"
Senate Floor Almost Deserted
Again surveying The almost empty
Chamber, Senator Williams said:
"Mr. President, am almost tempted
! 70 demand quorum, only it would
hc too un-clublike."
With that Senator Williams sat
down, and Senator Smith, Of Georgia.
On his way out, hat and overcoat in
hand, ended the proceedings by cal
ng attention to the fact that the
motion to adjourn was pending.
BY a vote OF 40 to 16, the Senate late
to-day re- jected an amendment by Sen
a.or Harrison, Democrat, Of Mississippi
which would have exempted the waters
OF the st. Lawrence and Niagara rivers
from its provision.
All of the principal amendments to
the bill which the House adopted last
June were acted on during the five
hours the measure was before the SEN
ate, and the indication tonight was
that final vote would be taken to-
morrow. In one form or another the
water power bill mas been before Con-
gress for ten years.
Senator Nelson, Republican, of Min
nesota, in charge of the bill, sharply
resented during debate arguments by
opponents OF the measure to the effect
that Congress in passing the bill would
he would not suggest that the people
holding big power development plants
were trying to defeat it.
Lenroot Says Wilson Will Veto
Senator Lerroot, Republican, of Wis
consin, declared that water power in
tcrcsts Represented in the gallery"
got what they wanted, and asserted
that the governmes.t IN making~only u
nominal charge fG each hOrsenOwer
developed "was surrs ndering to special
interests" The Wisconsin Senator pre-
dicted that in the end the measure
would be vetoed b. President Wilson
because of amendments limiting fran
chises.
An amendment by Senator Norris,
Republican, Of Nebraska, providing for
development of Great Falls in the Po-
tomac River near Washington, at a
cost not to exceed $25,00o,oo0, was
adopted.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

bearing on the prohibition question are
being introduced every day.
A bill by Assemblyman o. J. Smith,
Of New York, would direct the At
torney General to arrange with Fed.
eral authorities for enforcement
In this state of the Federal prohibition
amendment, until the state concurs in
the Nolstead act. If such an agreement
Is made the Attorney General is then
to proceed to the United States Su-
preme Court to enjoin the enforcement
of the act. Another bill by Mr.. Smith
would make gross drunkenness as one
of the grounds for divorce.
Concurrent resolution by William G..
Amos, Republican, of New York, would
require that all amendments to the
Federal Constitution first go to the
people OF the various states before
being ratified.
Miss NJ. L. Smith, Republican, of New
York, introduced bill appropriating
S2o,0oo-o00 for payment of SO FOR each
month of service to all persons who
served IN the army or navy or Red
Cross during the war.
A bill by Senator John j. Mackcrell,
Democrat, of Troy, provides that chill
dren under sixteen wears of age can
not be employed in any gainful occu-
potion not regulated by the labor law,
but it is not to apply to farm work
or street trades. 1t also requires that
boys as we'll as girls under eighteen
work only six days and not more than
tlfty-four hours week. Senator Will
lam c. Dodge, OF New York, intro
duced bill requiring public defend
ers in all counties with populations of
more than 100000: In the counties of
greater New York they are to receive
salary of $4,000
The Assembly to-day adopted by a
rising vote the resolution of Assem-
blyman Lewis A. Cuvillier. of New
York, memorializing Congress to adopt
"a peace treaty" The resolution, in
troduced by Minority Leader Charles
D. Donohue to carry out the Cover
nor's recommendation on the peace
treaty has not vet been acted on.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Malone Unable to Keep
Cook Post Engagement
Invitation to Explain Contro.
versy With American Legion
May Not Be Renewed

Dudley Field Malone, who was re-
}ected for membership by Charles H.
Fox Post, American Legion, Of Croton-
on-Hudson, and who had accepted an
Invitation to tell his side of the case to
COOK z Post. Yonkers, at a meeting to-
morrow night, telegraphed last eve
ming to Harry Williams, president of
Cook Post, that he would be unable
to appear.
The message said that Mr.. Malone
would be in Washington tomorrow
night. He did not ask that a subse-
quent date be fixed for him to speak.
None has been set, and Mr.. Williams
said he thought that the plan to hear
the former Collector of the Port of
New York would be dropped.
Ever since the Westchester County
committee of the American Legion on
January 81 affirmed the decision of the
Gro Post to reject Mr.. Malone there
mas been report that his name would
be proposed in some other post in the
county. 1t has not been proposed in
Cook Post, Mr.. Williams said.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Indianians Put Roosevelt
Or, Ticket With Johnson
Epeclnt CoYregpon<iencn


BLOOMINGTON. Ind, Jan. 13.-~A
petition containing 500 Republican
names asking the State Auditor to
place the names Of Hiram w. Johnson,
of California. and Lieutenant Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, Of New York, on
the Indiana primary ballot in May for
President and cc-President re-
spectiyely WAS gotten up by City At
torney Il. l.. Morgan and others to-day.
Mr. Morgan afterward received the fol-
loving telegram from Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt:
"You arc trump! ! can't tell you
how much ! appreciate what you have
done. II will be my earnest cndcavor
~ justify the good opinions OF such
people 81 you and those OF Monroe
County VINO have signed tho petition.
do not, however, With TO be put in the
running for the Tce-prssidcncy.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Republicans Show Cain

The party enrolment in Brooklyn
for 1920, announced yesterday, shows
q net gain over last year, for the Re-
publicans, of 42,S43. This vear there
were l92,357 Democrats enrolled and
lsS.S3o r. i5licans, the Democrats
exceeding the Republicans by 23,527.
Last year. the Democratic lead was
6o,37o and the enrolment in the two
principal parties was: Democrats
204,674; Republicans, 138,304. This
shows Dem ocratic loss of 1887 and
a Republican gain of 3O,52S.
The enrolment Of women this wear
was 123,8aS in the two old parties. Of
these 62,465 were enrolled as Demo-
Gratis and 61,293 as Republicans. The
Socialist enrolment this year is H.
sos, with 11,433 men and 6,O75 women.
There were 2,54d Prohibitionists-963
men and 1881 women.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Jamaica Bay Project
Before War Department
Ncw York Tribuns
Washington Bureau


Washington Burcdu
WASHINGl10;s, Jan. l3.-Murray
Hulburt, Commissioner of Docks of
New York, to-day laid before the Board
Of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
of the War Department the proposal of
the City of New York to cooperate with
the government in completing the ia
maica Bay project. Representative
Caldwell, Of the Long leland district in
which most of the Improvement would
be made, also presented the city's plans
for the development Of the water way
The proposal Of the New York Board
of Estimate and the Sinking Fund Com
mission to appropriate funds to-
ward the construction of six piers in
the event the Federal government
carries out it's plan of making the chan
mel 1900 feet at it's entrance, 1000 feet
inside and with depth Of thirty feet
throughout, was explained in detail by
the speakers.
Accompanying Commissi5ner Hull
burt before the board was practically
all the New York State Congressional
delegation.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

question to referendum was argued
in the State Supreme Court here to-
day.
Assistan: Attorney General Retain.
arguing .cr sae state. contended thp.
only acts o. ,f.s State Legislature az
subject to referendum. He insisted
an act meant a bill passed by the Leg
fslature. Attorneys for the "wet" ad-
vocates con.ended that legislative
power rested solely in the electorate
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Legality Of Prohibition
Ratification Is Contested

LANSING, Mich, Jan 13.-Va!iditv Of
the action of the Michigan Legis ature
in ratifying the Federal prob :bition
amendment without submitting the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Indiana to Ratifv Suffrage

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 18.--Governor
Goodrich to-day called a special ses-
day for tho purpose Of ratifying the
Federal suffrage amendment.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

feel that my present work should be
lmo.e along the practical line of actual
eo"'ac1 with the government"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-14

Out of accumulated capital
have arisen all the successes
of industry and applied Sci
ence, all the comforts aud
ameliorations of the common
lot. Upon it the world must
depend for the process of re-
construction in which all have
20 share.
JAMES j. HILL
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
Tenants Purchase $75,00O,00O Worth
 of Realty in Year

New York, May 13.-Tenants have purchased more than $75,O00, ,000 worth of realty in New York in the last year under the cooperative ownership plan, as a protest against high rentals, it was learned today.
 Of this amount at least $25,000,- 900 of the properties have been pur chased for private occupancy by the buyers while cooperative owners have bought apartments and business structures for the remaining $50, 0,000,- 900. Millionaires as well as ordin- ary tenants have joined the move- ment which has gained considerable momentum in the past few months.
 No uniform plan has been follow ed in either buying or holding. In many cases, purchasers have obtained single apartments in fashionable apartment houses districts either by outright buying or by taking stock in holding companies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
FRIDAY, MAY IA, 1920.
SPEAKING OF NoN-pRoDucERs

While we are ambasting the loafers and idlers for their failure to work at time when production is needed, while we are criticising the man who stands on the street corner all day while others are toiling, it might be we'll to take in . few others for q share of our condemnation.
 For instance, the Chicago Classical club the other day held a 24-hour eel ebration. Many members devoted all of their time to it for weeks. They went through long siege of prepara- tion.
 And what are they celebrating The 2O24th anniversary of the battle of Thermopylae. Of course, they have . grounds for defense. In commemo. rating the victory of Leonidas, they are helping to preserve interest ir history and creating interest among those who haven't been interested they're engaged in literary work o1 q serious nature. We've always beer told that such matters are necessary The youngsters ought to know some s thing of Greek history, they ought t1
 have passing. acquaintance witt Shakespeare and Thockery and Car
 lyle. It gives them something indefi
 mite that they ought to have, we'r'
 told. Of course after they get ou
 of school they'll seldom be required
 to use anything that they learned
 from history or that they read iron { any of the playwrights or novelist or essayists of two hundred year
 ago.
 However, they are supposed to knov and it's all very we'll and good tha they should. But when in times lik the present group of adults devote' weeks and weeks of preparation to pageant giving some interpretation 2 of battle that was fought 200 years ago, it's time to call halt. They come pretty near placing then selves in position where they ar
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
Old Clothes Fashion
 at New Orleans Now

New Orleans, May 13.-Threadbare coats,s shiny trousers last years straws and re-sold shoes were the order of the day here, signalizing the opening of the city's second organiz- ed drive on the high cost of living. Proclaimed "old clothes day" by Act ing Mayor Hicks as a part of the campaign begun at Tulane university, the celebration was intended to arouse interest in the organization of the "waer'em and patch'em clubs'' designed as were the overall clubs to force down the cost of cloth ing
 Indications early today were that the movement was meeting with gen eral support, hundreds of business men appearing at their offices in once discarded garments. Emery of all sorts was taboo. Originators of the plan predicted far more bene- ficial effect than resulted from the overall movement and expressed be- lief that the movement would spread.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
Hiram Will Appeal
 to Business Men

New York, May 13.--Senator Hi ram w. Johnson will make tour of the large cities in the east and mid dlewest between now and the date of the republican convention in Chi cago with view of placing his can didacy for the republican presiden- tial nomination before business men it was announced at Johnson head unarters here today.
 No dates were given but it was said the itinerary would include New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Cleveland and Chicago. The Chicago meeting will be held in the Coliseum just before it is turned over to workmen to be prepared for the con vention. and will be preceded by a torch light parade.
 Senator Johnson's speeches on this tour, it was stated, would be design ed to counteract a flood of literature disseminated among business men picturing him as an extreme radical
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14

tosome of our brilliant young men and women. In all of his editorial work he was kindly and sympathetic and he has always tried to help rathe, than to harm.
 William Ocean Howells was a tire. less producer himself. He has lief, some chesse and we'll chiseled monu ments in novels, poems and essays that are adornments in the hall ot American letters. He will hold . place, not as world luminous gen jus, but rather as master craftsman who knew the tools with which he worked and who was careful, correct and withal kindly in all that he did
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

In all truth it may be said that the dean of American literature has passed from labors that have contrib uted to the intellectual development and profit of the whole nation, says the Commercial-Appeal. William Dean Howells has gone to join "Mark Twain" Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Watson Glider and others who have contributed so much to shaping the course of American letters in our day. Not only also as producers, but also as discerning crit. ics, either in editorial or publishing capacities, all of these men left g visible impression on the last half ot the nineteenth and the beginning oi the present century. They helped to make the profession of letters an oc- fMpation profitable financially to the producers as we'll as beneficial intel lectually to the great mass of Ameri- een readers.
 MT. Howells began life in newspa- per and editorial work just as Clem- s eps and Stedman and Glider did. In their youth the newspaper was as much of literary venture as it was chronicle of the daily happenings in the world. They saw the news re- porting feature of the daily press t4ke first place over the purely lit larary departments, although the best uapers still cater in some measure to the intellectual enjoyment of their leaders. When the daily press took ajp it's more important assignment the rational wceklies and monthlies car lied on the more finished and more bisurely work of spreading pure lit- 9rature and encouraging taste for
 In his capacity of editor of several national periodicals MT. Howells has heen literary Warwick. He has spoken with finality on matters touching poetry, the novel and the es- " because he has been skilled worker himself in each and all ot fhese literary forms. We have no 4rench Academy, but word of praise sad commendation from MT. Howells
 Sout the work of some ambitious 3[Shhg litetateur in most cases was a
 Sxd Of admission to consideration by fe not exclusive literary circles. His 4fi jcjsms of value in the great world TT imgspjnative creation have passed 1S9Sl teuder and have given start
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
PUT OUT YOUR OLD CLOTHES

It's bad enough to have anything wearable idle in your closets.
 If you're not wearing your old clothes you're not helping beat down the cost of living. If you're not wear ing them and not letting anyone else wear them you're helping put the H. c. L. higher. The Associated Char .ities is in need of old clothing of all sorts. On Saturday the Rotary club aided by the Boy Scouts is going to make an old clothes drive in Pine Bluff. Put your clothing for which you have no further use on you, front porch and the Rotarians and the Boy Scouts will do the rest. It's a hard matter for many people who have good jobs and money in the bank to buy clothing. There are some who can't make the grade at all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
Pleasant Condemns
 Federal Suffrage

Baton Rouge, La., May 13.-Gov- ernor Pleasant, in a message to the Louisiana legislature today, con demned the proposal for suffrage by federal amendment as in invasion of states rights and a menace to the South.
 The governors message was trans mitted in submitting the federal wo- man suffrage amendment.
 A memorial against federal suf- frage from the Maryland legislature also was presented to the Louisiana legislatu ture today.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-14
IA Bishops to be
 Named by Churcl,

Des Moines, Ia., May 13.-The Methodist Episcopal church will elect IA new bishops, if the report of the committee on Episcopacy, reday to be presented today is adopted In ad- dition to this number, three mission ary bishops will be raised to the full general superintendency making IT in all-the largest number ever balloted upon at any general confer ence of the church.
 Of the total number of IA bishops recommended by the committee two of them will be negroes.