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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

Prominent builders Of such equip
ment who made a study of the situa-
ton. estimate that the railroads of
this country will need $4,000 cars
during the next three years to meet
their present requirements. OF these.
100000 cars will go to make up a
three-year shortage incurred during
the period of the war and of govern
ment operation. 234.o00 for replace
ments. and $4,000 TO meet the needs
OF increased business over the period
in question. Such a volume OF equip
ment business would call for probably
not less than 100000 to $4,000. 900
tons of finished rolled steel. These
figures appear to indicate that the
steel mills will be busy a long time
And in this country. when the steel
mills are busy everybody is busy or
can be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

Legislation to stabilize the purchas-
ing power of the dollar. so that it will
at all times buy approximately the
same quantity of the necessaries of
life is urged by Representative Hustled
of New York, who has introduced a
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of seven house
members to study the problem and
make recommendations. 1t is pointed
out that the purchasing power of the
American gold dollar has decreased SO
rapidly that ca cents would buy as
large quantihe of the same neces-
saries Of life wholesale in 1895 as $1.96
would buy last year. and dollar
would buy at wholesale as much of the
same necessaries in 1913 as $1.e6
would buy last year. 1t may be re-
called in this connection that when the
purchasing power of the dollar was
three or four times what it is today
nobody was demanding its stabiliza-
ton. When Bryan proposed to reduce
it's purchasing power he was greeted
with derision by the men who had the
dollars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09
A NOTE OF SANITY.

The decision by ali the railroad
union groups with the exception of the
maintenance of way employees and
shop laborers to give the new railroad
act a trial strikes a note of sanity in
these days of industrial hysteria. AL
tho. no doubt, the more aggressive
among the opponents of labor will
seek and may even find none too
creditable motive behind this decision,
by far the great majority of the citi-
zens of this country yilI agree in the
opinion that the railroad workers have
chosen the wiser course. and are en-
titled to full credit for this decision.
The iaborer who is a member of
union, today is paid better for less
work than are millions of his fellow
citizens, among whom may be named
preachers, teachers, journalists. art
lists, policemen. firemen, bank clerks.
bookkeepers, small storekeepers and
farmers. The ordinary bricklayer is
laying fewer bricks for ten. dollars
than he used to lay for six. In certain
branches of the textile industry since
1914 wages have increased more than
lao per cent; hours have fallen from
Sc to "A per week. while efficiency in
output has dropped from 90 to 62 per
cent When the labor union was the
chief instrument by which the work.
ingman was battling for chance to
i've, public opinion decided in its favor
in many a hard-fought struggle. But
today the labor union does not repre-
sent an oppressed class, hence It is not
that recently. SO many
strikes have failed. They needed pub
lie sympathy in order to win and the
public has decided that its sympathy
no longer is needed and therefore has
it. But it will always be
found on tap in just cause
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledgar.l

While we probably shall be unable
m do much for General Wood in the
Chicago convention, the column stands
shoulder to shoulder with him on one
of the points at issue. The general
does not believe the situation is such
in South Dakota as to demand a week
of joint debate between himself and
Senator Miles Poindexter, and frankly
says so,
We have, you may remember. con-
tended from the first that three days
of joint debate were all that were C
quired in South Dakota. Considering
the fact that there is nothing to talk
about, two days should be enough
The Senior Ibanez visualiRes the
American wife as standing behind the
door awaiting her husband, rolling
pin, literally or figuratively, in hand.
The senior has been misguided by the,
SO to speak, American hum rists, one
of whom we have the distinction of
being. 1t is our experience that "a
woman never employs a blunt weapon.
She does not inflict a bruise; she
makes an incision. ~
However, in directing attention to
the state of peonage in which, the
American husband finds himself, the
senior is feeding old straw into the
separator. We pulled it" all twenty
years ago, and 1t was aged stuff then.
Reports from the scrap pile ere to
the effect that the various railway
arrangements are salvaging a consid-
Pennsylvania has found a couple Of
engines, the New York Central a
freight station and the Union Pacific
a caboose. And the process of picking
over what was once the American
railways has barely started.
The impression that there is a joker
in the eighteenth amendment grows.
Whether such impression is based on
fact We have no means of knowing
But il it develops the Joker is there,
We know who is going to get the gold
headed cane.
The gold-headed cane, We may add
to those unacquainted with rural
sports and pastimes, Is the memento
given by a grateful and ppreciative
community to its most popular citizen
Pictures of Governor Frank o.
Lowden. one of the seventeen or eigh-
teen favorite candidates for president,
have permeated the east. Governor
Lowden is a distinguished citizen who
has many claims on public attention,
but we fear he lacks the firmness
requisite in a presidential candidate.
No firm, aggressive man permits his
barber to decide as to the manner in.
which his hair shall be brushed.
The arrangement of the hair which
Governor Lowden affects in his pic
ture was undoubtedly planned and
executed by a barber-possibly by the
head barber himself
Mr.. Hillauft's admission thar tho
Socialists may eventually have to
shoot need not greatly alarm you.
If the Socialists shoot no more effec-
lively than they work. nobody is in
any particular danger.
Horace Greeley James wants to
know how often man should battle.
To make sure, a man should battle
every time the women of his family
leave the bathroom.
Once in a while a prominent man
goes to the penitentiary. But an in
conceivably greater number are SEN
fenced to the forgettery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

The plan of a few grocerymen' to
make every customer his own delivery
clerk in the interest of economy has
been followed in Evanston, ILL.,, by
one in which a single firm makes the
deliveries for all the groeers. The
average costs of the service for one
year from December 1. 1918, until De-
cember 1. 1912. is found to be six and
one-fourth cents a package for horse
delivery and eight and one-fifth cents
for auto truck delivery. From these
figures the consumer can gain q
knowledge of what amount OF his liv-
ing cost goes into service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09
.und on tap Ia a iust cause.

The fact that one of the southern
railroad lines has begun to lay off
men may have the effect of deterring
the maintenance of way men from
carrying out their contemplated strike.
1t is the first instance since the war
of cutting down the working force to
any considerable extent. It is a straw
which it may be well to watch in or
der to determine in which direction
the wind is set
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

What's weighing on your mind.
Cholly?"
DO YOU think my mind is a pair
of scales -
Wei. no. If you want to be pre-
else about it-scales are evenly bal
anced.''
Prutareh ssrs, "she spoke most languages. !.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

The suggestion made to President
Wilson that ItaAy and Jugo-Slavia be
permitted to settle their own quarrel
seems reasonable enough and should
be welcomed by Mr.. Wilson. The ma
lions directly concerned probably
could reach an early agreement IL
freed from outside interference. The
plan is worth a trial. They could
hardly make the situation worse than
~ il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

However, in directing attention to
the state of peonage in which the
American husband finds himself, the
senior is feeding old straw into the
separator. We pulled it" all twenty
years ago, and 1t was aged stuff then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09

The impression that there is a joker
in the eighteenth amendment grows.
Whether such impression is based on
fact We have no means of knowing.
But IL it develops the Joker is there,
We know who is going to get the gold
headed cane.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
TEN POSTS ADOPT ORPHANS
A. e. r. Men. Home Again. Show
They Have Not Forgotten Father.
less French Children.

When the A. f. +. packed all It's
troubles in ITS old kit bag and sailed
for home loaded down with German
helmets, it left behind in France 5000
little war orphans which 1t had adopt
ed during the war aud for whose main
tenance and education it had been pay
ing. There was hardly an outfit in
France which at one time vas not in
communication with its ting mascot,
a communication of a delightfully."-
friendly nature that shellfire, mud and
coolies could not interrupt.
Now the A. T.. +. is back home again
and hundreds of thousands have en-
listed in the ranks of the American
Legion. Consequently, with the mem
cries of the letters of petite Jean and
petite Jeanette fresh in their minds.
the one-time godfathers of the expe-
dltionary forces are again adopting
the wal orphans of France.
SO far ten posts have adopted or
phans, and a heavy enrolment on the
list of godfathers is expected. 1t costs
only $50 to maintain an orphan for a
year, the funds being forwarded to
national headquarters in Indianapolis,
where they are turned over to the
American Red Cross. which is assign
ing the children and attending to all
the details of the work on the other
side.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
WAR BRIDES ORGANIZE CLUB
Newiy~eds From France Band To-
gether in Los Angeles-Hold
Regular Meetings.

When Greek meets Greek there
comes the tug-of-war, but when
French war bride meets French war
bride. they apparently form a club. At
least, that is what they have done in
Los Angeles, which boasts no less than
five one-time mademoiselles who chose
to follow their soldier husbands across
the seas and a continent they had new
er seen before to Il home in sunny
California.
Regular meetings are held by the
club at which, IL is to be presumed,
the main topic of conversation is what
is new in the way of fashions from
Paris, and the latest wrinkle in house
hold thrift, an art wherein the French
woman always has excelled.
The members Of the club are Mrs.
Jack Elwood, formerly Mile. Blanche
Deckukulaire of Lille Mrs. Walter b..
Matthews, formerly Mile. Germaine
Walton OF Paris; Mrs. Robert Allen.
formerly Mile. Helene Bernard of
Paris; Mrs. l.. G. Wilson, formerly
Mile. Hcnriette I,ergeyre of Bordeaux,
and Mrs. Arthur Withrow, formerly
Mile. Maximlllienne Barren of Mar
settles.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
LEGION TO AID IMMIGRANTS
Plan Mapped Out by American Com
mission Of Veterans Organization
to Extend Welcome.

Immigrants entering the United
States will be received and welcomed
by members of the American Legion,
according to plans mapped out by the
National American commission Of the
veterans organization. Arrangements
have been made whereby the local post
of the community which is the ul-
Innate destination of the immigrant
will get in touch with him Immediately
upon his arrival.
Information as to the names and
destinations of all Immigrants will be
secured at the port of New York and
forwarded Immediately to the thou
sands of Legion posts in order thar
they may prepare for the reception OF
the new arrivals.
''In some eases the immigrant may
be going directly tn friends" says
the announcement OF the American
commission, "but in many cases he
will be friendless and will he sure to
have great trouble. He may need as
sistance in finding out where he can
learn English. where he can send his
children to school, where he can find a
place to live and a place to work.
Nothing could be more effective in lin
ing up the new arrival on the side Of
law and order and of the things we
believe In as being best for the coun-
Try than this friendly welcome. II
is this personal greeting from Amer
lea that will help make the newcomer
n 100 per cent American"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03

Is he truest way TO pray. IL is orly
the devil who loves TO find our hands
idle.
Now. ii is true also that il is not
given 10 all men TO make magic fid-
dies. to grasp beauteous ceramics
from the oven or 10 discover new
worlds. But. IL Is also true that every
man can find work for his hands To
do. 1t may be very humble work. in
deed: IL may be work that anyone can
do: but no matter what it is. we can
make II great. We can make 1t holy.
even. We can consecrate our work
by the soul that we put into it.
Ii seems to us that Gods most gra-
cious dispensation to men is that he
continuously creates a sufficient num-
Der of them TO do the common tasks.
If we were all of us bent on making
fiddles or ceramics, painting pictures
and weaving songs. there would he
no one left to hew the wood and
draw the water.
In other words. IL We were all art
lists" who would cool the meals and
wash the dishes;
There is no dignity TO equal the dig
nity Of labor. Remember that. And
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
APPRECIATES AID OF LEGION
Federal Vocational Training Board
Commends Consideration and Co
operation in Connecticut.

Thomas J. Banniean, director Of the
service department Of the American
Legion at Hartford. Conn. has re-
ceived this letter from Thomas Kirby.
central Office eligibility officer for the
federal vocational training board:
Before leaving Connecticut ] de-
sire on behalf of the chief mt Washing
ton and the whole federal board to
express sincere appreciation for the
consistent consideration and hearty
cooperation Of the American Legion
during our stay In this state.
There is consummate satisfaction
and justifiable pride as we syc these
men. bearing the honorable sears Of
national service, marching into the
dawn of a new era in their lives to
become more valuable To themselves
and to the country. and In the sue
cess that has attended our efforts the
w~holehearted support Of your organ
ization has been a conspicuous asset.
while we are to be physically sep
arated from You. you may be assured
the triple chain Of appreciation, re-
spect and esteem that has bound Won
close to us during our brief but
strenuous campaign will continue in
tact. and II In the future the Legion
has any suggestions that might aid
MS in our work. they will receive the
most respectful and serious consider
alton Of the high authorities Of the
board"
Mr.. Bannigan also is the adjutanf
Of the department of Connecticut.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
Labor Organization in
America Can Be Traced
to Movement in 1903

Organizations among American la
carpenters aud calkers of New York
and Boston organized. The tailors
Of q York formed n union the same
year, and 1903 also Witnessed the first
Industrial strike I'm America, when the
New York sailors refused to work.
Before that, however, there had bee;i
labor disturbances anong the bakers
of New York aud the boot and shoe
makers of Philadelphia. II was dur.
lhg the sailors strike of 1873. the
MASSACHUSETTS, shipbulldrrS' strike of
1917, and the Albany printers strike
Ct lS2O, that the terms rat" aud
"scab' were first used. From local
unions, the organization Of labor pro.
gressel until in 1850 the first inter
rational labor union, that OF the print
,rs. was launched.
The first martyrs 10 trade union
ism were thrown into jail AT Tol.
puddle, Dorsetshire. Eng, - years
ago. They were James and George
Lovelace, Thomas Staniicld, james
Brync. The first three men were
Wesleyan preachers, who worked as
farm labOrers on week DAYS and
preached the gospel OF Sundays.
Their Imprisonment was due to their
attempt to form a union of farm la
borers To protest against a proposed
reduction In wages-from seven shill-
ings to six shillings-less than $1.50
a week. The landlords were ali-pow-
erful In Dorsetshire, and the con
spirators" were arrested. stripped,
shorn of their hair and east into jail
and eventually sentenced TO seven
years Imprisonment.
The first demand OF labor unions
for an eight-hour day was made at
a convention held In Baltimore, An
gust 81, 1886. This congress- also
marked the first attempt to organize a
national federation of the various
trade unions. national and interna-
tional. then existing in the United
States and Canada. One hundred del
were present. representing
about GO organizations. The demand
for the ei%ght-hour day was but an in
cideni in the sessions Of the congress.
but ut succeeding gatherings 1t as
great Importance and became !
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03

the leading plank of organized la
boris platform. The second convention
WAS held in Chicago in 1867. The Ma
tional Labor union, after meetings In
Boston, Philadelphia and Columbus,
went out Of existence in 1874. but al
an international congress held at
Rochester In til; t year the movement
was revived under other names. Ser-
eral organizations divided the allegi-
nnce of organized labor, but In 1881
the Federation of Organized Trades
and Labor [ nlons of the United States
and Canada N launched. and out
of this has grown the powerful Amer
lean Federation OF Labor.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
7 OF ToBoLsk..

One of the principal Siberian cities
is Tobolsk. the commercial center of
the vast province of Tobolsk. which
extends over an area of 100000 square
miles, a large portion of which. how
ever. is practically uninhabited. The
most prominent building in the city is
the Kremlin. built in imitation Of the
great citadel In Moscow. This struc-
ture was erected by Swedish prisoners
of war captured by Peter the Great
at the battle of Poltava In 1909.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03

England Association of Farmers, Me-
ehanics and W~orkingmen was organ
lied IN Boston. The three most i'm
portant labor organizations which ap-
pcared before the Civil war were or
ganized in 1915: The New England
Workingmen's association, the New
England Protective union and the In
duStrial Congress of the United
States. All three organizations waned
in the early 'J0s, and from thai time
until the end of the Civil war many
trades unions Of the narrower kind
were formed, During this period
many trade union leaders character
lied the trade union as exclusive and
warmly advocated the formation of
broader organizations which would
elevate the masses by other means
Than the strike and the regulation OF
apprenticeship. In 1896 their efforts
resulted In In" formation of the Ma
tlonal Labor union, which attempted
to found n Labor Reform party and
died in 1870 "of the disease known as
politics.
The work laid down by the National
Labor union fell into the hands of the
Knights of Labor. formed I'm Decem.
her. 1860. 10y leaders of a dissolved
local union Of garment cutters IN
Philadelphia. Until 1882 the name
and purpose " the order were kept
secret. In 1856 il became involved IN
the Missouri Pacific strike. Its mem
bership then numbered 100000. There
after. split by internal diSsensions.
and weakened by strikes, its member
ship and influence declined. In 1914
II had less than 100000 members. The
American Federation of Labor orig
mated In nm attempt Il found a gen.
eral organization of American work
ingncn distinct from the Knights Of
Labor on n trade union basis. A pre-
liminary convention was called by the
Knights of Industry aud the Amalga
Labor union-the latter com
posed largely Of sccelers rom the
of Lahor-and met in Terre
iIaute. Ind, August .. 1881. The first
official convention met Mt Pittsburgh.
Pa. IN Noveu her. 1881. The Ameri-
Federation of Labor has prac-
taken he place of IT'S former
the Knights Of Labor, the organ.
zation which was all-powerful some
twenty-five years ago.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
Arniation Seems Certain.

A close utilization between the Amer
lean Legion. the q. \. X. and the
Great War Veterans Association Of
Canada. Is the aim eXpressHl in a
resolution that the executive council
of the Canadian organization recently
adopted AT Winnipeg. II was recon
mended thai Negotiations be- opened
with the American bodies. The reso-
tuition is to he presented to the Great
War Veterans association for approx
nj. and it Is believed that its adoption
is certain.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
To Each Man Has Been
Allotted Certain Work
to Be Required Of Him

Columbus begged his way from
door TO door in a strange land. lead
ing his little sol forlornly by the
hand. Thomas A. Edison was the
prey of bill collectors who logged his
footsteps like hungry wolves.
There are countless other men
known and unknown to history who
suffered nameless prosecutions, eve
suffering death itself because they
could NOT he dissuaded from doing the
work that they believed it was theirs
10 do.
Work was their religion. 1t was the
ruling passion of their lives. And.
after all. work is the great adventure"
as Frank Lane said not long ago in
me of his public speeches.
Work should be every mans re
'e;..n . Eod himself has said that 1t
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
Labor's First Striving
for place in the Sun
Was Mainly Political

Early manifestations Of the labor
feeling in the United States were po-
%litical. In 1929 "A workingmen'S ticket
was placed ia nomination In New
York. This political movement spread
into Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
and contributed to the formation Of
the Loco Foco party which played AN
important part in the politics of that
organization for trade purposes and
in 1893 the General Trades union Of
the city OF New York elected its presi-
dent to congress. In 1882 the New
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03
MAKING GLASS OF RICE HUsKs.

Experiments have been carried out
- Burma with the idea Of utilizing the
silica content Of paddy. rice husks. in
he manufacture of glass. on burning
The hnsks about Il per cen of white
ash is obtsin-d. and. although this ash
contains small quantities of iron. it
has been proved 10 he suitable for the
manufacture of glass having a pale
green or yellow color. In burning the
husks sufficient heat is generated to
rnrry out tie various processes.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03

Capital Beginning to See DvAy

Labor day. while primarily IL ex
presses the growing authority AVID nd
sancing prosperity Of labor, ought al
so 10 celebrate the higher and better
conceptions Of capital as to its re-
lations with labor. These relations
are rising steadily as years go BY.
The last few years have shown a re-
markable broadening of the views of
employers and there is no phenomenon
In American life more full of promise
than this. III this process is not inter
rupted and thrown back through iniu-
ences invading our life from the cen.
ters of social disease In Europe. Il
will produce in an orderly evolution
a democracy as unsuitable as n =,
benignant.- EXCHANGE.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-09-03

OF a statistical nature their questions
are answered by Miss Pearl BURNETT
of indianapolis.
Miss BURNETT has charge OF the rec
ords in the statistical section of the
organization division at American
Legion national headquarters and
what she doesn't know about the
Legion and its multitude Of integral
units probably isn't worth knowing
anyhow.