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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
FROM ALAMO CITY
San Antonio, Texas, 6-l1-2O.

San Antonio, Texas, 6-l1-2O.
Dear Signal:
II may be OF interest to some OF
our friends at Snyder to know what
has become of us.
We started on our trip about the
last of April, and made our way thru
the oil fields before the rains set in.
We spent some time at Weathertord
during the wet weather, and then
came here. We came via Fort Worth,
Waxahachie, Hillsboro, Waco, Tenn
pie and Austin. We had very good
roads except through Hill county and
parts OF Bell. where many bridges
had washed away a few days before.
We reached here nealy three weeks
ago. We intended going on to Cor
rus after short stop here, but
found il necessary for Mrs. Dayen-
port TO submit 10 an operation
which she did on May 81. She spent
ten days in the hospital and is do
ing yerynicely now. and strange to
say. she don't have headache any
more
Please send the Signal TO 5o-
Chicago Blvd. san a,
don't know just when we will
return TO snyder. but will try TO be
there when the first oil we'll comes
In.
We would be delighted TO hear
from any OF our Snyder friends.
Yours very truly.
p. +. DAVENPORT
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18

There are more croakers 10 the
sqaure mile in America today than
there were witches In New England
two hunderd years ago. They croak
first at the general prosperity. next
at the high cost OF living. then at
the income tax or some other kind
OF government exaction, interest pro
fits and dividends should be high and
every thing else low. Silly! IL wages
and profits were as high as at pres
ent, and the cost OF living. includ-
ing taxes, as low as In 1913, we
should have an intolerable condition.
During the last days OF theConfeder-
acy the most plentiful thing in the
South was the Confederate money.
Everybody had wads of II. Taxes
were low, and the cost OF living was
based upon barter rather than upon
monetary measurements. But were
the people happy? They were not.
They were little less miserable than
are the Russians of today, for al
though they had the tokens of veal
that as expressed in bundles OF crude
currency, they had not a sufficiency
OF food or clothing or household
furnishings. That condition could
as easily be repeated with Federal
money as It was instituted with Con-
federate money. A surplus of even
good thing subtracts from it's value
in proportion to its superfluity, and
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
ASPIRIN

Name ''Bayer" on Genuine
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18

II we all had high wages. big divi-
dends and low living costs. our In
crease OF money over our living ex-
penses would amount TO nothing sub
stantial. What We think we mean by
the expression normal times" will
never again be experienced until the
volume OF money and moneys equi-
valent. credit. shall come to ebb-
tide. The reason why ten dollars
today represents five dollars OF pre-
war value is because there are twice
as many dollars available now as
then. II this condition is to be per-
manent we must adjust our living
andand thinking conditions. II It
is not tobe PERMANENT, the sooner we
get back to the level ground the bet
ter for all nterests.-Dallas News.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
Amerlca's Share

Iris, June THE share OF the
Jed States in the first twenty
Jon marks gold OF reparation
|ds which Germany is required to
le under the Versailles treaty will
about $500. 100000. 1t was stated
} today.
MS sum, II was explained, will be
thrisettf o rINoBMohl gesesee
The first twenty months occupa-
.of the Rhineland by American
'ps.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18

Ed J. Thompson has come back
to Snyder to reside after an absence
OF three or four years. He was at
Little Rock for awhile. but has been
In Fort Worth for the last year. His
family will be here In a few days.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
How We Cleared Our Summer Home
OF Rats" by Mrs. Perry.

when we opened our seaside
home last May. 1t was alive with
rats. They'd gnawed all the uphol-
stering. We cleaned them out in a
week with RAT-SNAP. prefer this
rat killer because II comes in cake
form no mixing. Saves dirtying
hands and plates" Three sizes, 25c,
JOc. a nd 800. Sold and guaranteed
by w. G.. Ralston.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
Estray Notice
!, STATE OF TEXAS,

ID STATE OF TEAAS,
bnty OF Borden.
hken up by s. II. Jones and estray-
u before ]. II. Miller, Justice OF
h, Peace Precinct No. 5, Borden
bmnty: One Brown mare Mule
bout Is hands tall. bad wire cut
!, right foreleg, age 10 or 20 years,
ahnded JE on left shoulder and b
d left hip. Appraised at Forty dol
8.
G The owner OF said stock is re-
sested to come forward, prove prop
BY. pay charges. and take the same
otay. or It will be dealt with as the
,Lx directs.
eGiven under my hand and seal OF
efice. this the eth day OF June,
l2o.
y MAGGIE WILLIAMS,
.Flerk County Court Borden County
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
Servant Girl Wouldn't Go in Cellar,
Fearing Rats

Mrs. Topper, Plainfield. N. j., says
Rats were so bad in our cellar the
ervant girl wouldn't go there.
Bought some RAT-SNAF and it
cleaned all the rats out" RAT
SNAP destroys rats and mice. ABB
solutely prevents odors. Comes in
cake form, no mixing. Cats and dogs
won't touch It. Three sizes, CSC,
soc, and s1.O0. Sold and guaran-
teed by w. G.. Ralston.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
had CHRONIC BRONCHITIS
FOR TWENTY SIX YEARS
NOW WELL AND HAPPY
TKIs Is WORT!l REAnING

! The experience Of Mr.. +. J. Tou-
palik, 143S Rose street, Lacrosse,
wisconsin, is chiefly romarkaPle
pm account OF the length Of time
le was afflicted.
! lie writes: 81 have been suf-
de.ing with chronic bronchitis for
tveaty-six years and every winter
- would catch cold ard become so
Ohoarse | could not speak for six or
eight weeks. ] could get only tenn
relief.
:, This winter ! was taken with
NGr.1 and was ia awful shape. A
yellow workman advised nae TO take
(PE-RU-NA. Ey the time l had
used three-f0ur,bs of q bottle, the
ho.rseness was gone, also that
tired feeling. | am on M second
| bottle. Hereafter PE-RU-NA viii
! be constantly in my house. Il Is
.hc best medicine ever put up for
the purpose
For any disease due to catarrh
or catarrhal conditions, PE-RU-NA
is equally dependable. Coughs,
colds, catarrh Of the head, stomach
trouble, constipation, rheumatism,
pains in the back, side and loins.
boating, belching gas, Indigestion,
catarrh OF the large and small in
testines. are some Of the troubles
for which PE-RU-NA is especially
recommended.
pE-RU-NA can be purchased
anywhere in either tablet or liquid
form.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18
WILL BUILD RAILROAD
OR PAVED ROAD

A, meeting OF the Plainview and
Silyerton railroad committee was
held a few days ago.
II was decided to have a direct
line surveyed from Plainvlew to Sill
verton. a distance of about 81 miles,
and II found to be impossible to build
railroad that a hard surfaced or
paved roadway be built between the
two towns. A subcommittee was
appointed to have charge OF the work
of making the survey. and to have
It done as soon as possible.-Plain-
view News.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18

zMr W. J. Granthar, Of Snyder.
Ark, is here this week for visit
10 the Grantham family This Is
his first visit here in four years and
he stnl likes the town and people
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-06-18

Daphne. Harold and A. ID. Meador
of Big Spring. are visiting their
their gradtather d. W. Meador.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
EQUAL EDUCAT TON AND JUSTICE
CURE FOR INDUSTRIAL UNREST

week the Rocky Mountain
Work Denver that have no need
this but that what do have In
real at this time, industrial unrest
Speaking people with whom she has had
considerable back of the yards
exist among them them Socialists be-
eving justice she has known only foreigner who was
a revoutonist
cold print but cold facts cast another light
of whom there
not of workers have around They
institutions and found them
wanting weighed public and their deeds and
and economic salvation they thrust down unw
ing throats to teach theoretical system
protection
tyranny duty assimate Ameranism not to offer
substitutes for it.
Socialism ideal It simply futile feeble
Russia today the best example OF what
Socialism today the best sample OF the
today grand failure OF Socialism and OF ITS
Anarchy They both breed OF yants who could
teach autocracy to
things cannot with Miss Mcdowell
nothing fear from BosheVm IN this
would if true; but unfortunately such
much fear There remedy to check
viruen however, and believe that Mr.
this disease of Boshevsm
malignant form of industrial unrest when, at recent
Chicago he advised that education and justice be
both and employers We think the applca
would that workers who Social
Americans change
a could the employers
Of their workers Education and
wonders for employers and employees
McDowes that nothing
to from Bolshevism in this country come true
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
OPEN SHOPPERS PAVING WAY FOR
~ GREAT INDUSTRIAL TURMOIL

that Big Business
fight the closed shop policy OF
the A. F. Of mighty employers and
Citizens Committee
also y Judge States Steel Company and by
era railroad shop chest myth
really look trades unonsm
for industry They realize according
that the labor movement merltorlou
Gompe and the lesser cheans that they
would destroy the Federation if they could
of Labor reputable, legitimate
Locals believes
financially socially and morally
To such large and
body individuals fired with ambition to
industrial but the Fedora
ton held responsible for the outbursts OF
the Gomper and his able
tenants have peenty successfully fought the cone big
l. W. W. radicals and the direct acons and
have pursued a dgnifed, conservative policy.
the Big Business representatives that they
L. they could indicates
ton of the safeguard against rabd radical
determination institute Open Shop
rule proves approval the A F. of L. extends only to
value as such safeguard Rendered practically mpotent under
rigid Open Shop enorcementwhich open to every
A. F. of L. would be handy
institution It's wonder that of the acumen
Big Business do
realize conditions the A. F. of L. could longer
the radical revolutionary horde
with ge the overthrow OF and
organized labor which would surely follow national
ttOpen Shop victory.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
Making a Concerted Drive
CHILD LABOR.
Another Million eco It Alone"
in General Field of Employment.

From the United States Chi1dren's
Bureau comes the word that again over
100000 children have invaded the
fields of employment throughout the
entire country One would think that
ers' ranks would almost settle any la
Dor shortage that might exist. How
ever, we find that the same thing oc-
ours. at this time every year and that
little or no relief results. The facts
are their own light.
When child comes from school,
unaided in his quest for employment,
he naturally acts upon the timeworn
suggestions of parents who are trying
to make an opera star or preacher
out of their plumber offspring He
hits out" rather timidly after his first
job and cracks it in the neck, only to
find that he doesn't fit it or it doesn't
fit him.
He goes from one thing to another
for quite some time, merely exchang-
ing positions with his former class
mate. It may take the youngster years
to find and settle into his own like
ness. But then after he does find it
he'll stick to it.
So it is a good suggestion for par
ents to act upon and remember that
things are not the same today as they
were yesterday, when the only place a
man could get job was on the police
department or the only trade he could
learn was in the gas house. Remem-
Der that there are greater opportun-
tiles now and that possibilities are be-
coming real things every day.,
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
STRIKES.
More Than Half in 1919 Occurred
in Five States.

Official statistics from the Depart
ment of Labor show there were 1874
strikes and 1ockouts, affecting 4,00O,-
900 workers, in 1919, and one-half of
the strikes occurred in five states,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New York and Illinois. There were 81
more strikes reported last year than in
1918, but the total for 1919 was lower
than that of 1916 and 1917 Violence
last year was absent in all the import
ant strikes, showing that the manage
ment of disputes is undergoing a
change, and that the supply of strike
breakers is exhausted.
The strike is a costly experiment for
both sides, but it is Labor's only weap-
on. AS a rule, there is sufficient cause
for group of workers to cease produc-
ing, and it is not always the wage is
sue. Grievances of minor character
are sometimes famed into serious out
bursts, and a majority of these dis
putes could be avoided if employers
would meet their help and talk over the
situations.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
PUBLIC" A MYTH.
Who Is Public if Not the Worker
Seeking His Rights.

It has become the fashion for writers
to divide the people thus: Capital, La
Dor and the Public.
The public seems to be a mythical
something which lies between the con-
tending forces of Capital and Labor
and always seems to suffer during
strikes, lockouts, or when Capital and
Labor is deadlocked.
Who, to personify it, is the Public?
asks the Machine Shop News. What
comprises that mythical entity for
which there is SO much sympathy while
often Capital and Labor are con-
demned?
Capital, or those who control the cap
ital of this country, consists of but a
mere handful of the population and
need hardly be considered when we try
to arrive at the Public"
Labor, Union Labor, has member
ship of about five million, and with
their families comprises about one
fourth of the population of the country,
or about twenty-five million people.
That leaves seventy-fve million to be
placed somewhere
We know these seventy-hve million
are not capitalists, neither are they
union labor members. What are they,
the Public? Perhaps. Let us see.
We know some are farmers, some are
clerks, some are professional men and
women, and minor children of all of
these, and there are also those laborers'
and their families who are not union
men and women.
Some of the professional men and
women can be c1assed with Capital, &C
cording to their sympathies, and the
clerks, farmers and others are 1aborers.
We see from the above that our
Public" has evaporated, and leaves
only Capital and Labor, and it is La
Dor, organized and unorganized,, which
represent Capital refuse to deal justly
and squarely with Labor
The long suffering Public does not
exist except in the minds of those who
do not analyze our economic system.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
LABOR IS VICTOR
IN BITTER FIGHT
! FOR CLOSED SHOP
Rochester Building Men Succeed
After Il Weeks of
Strike. E..

After Il weeks of the bitterest at
tempt ever made in Rochester to force
the open shops system on building
craftsmen, warfare has apparently
ceased, with victory for the striking
journeymen. This prolonged struggle
could have but one finish-success for
the strikers, @inasmuch as their en-
ployers provoked the fight by insisting
that union men shall work elbow to ell
bow with scabs, strikerbreakers and a
mixture of others.
The wage. question naturally entered
into the issue, as it was found to be an
important part of the peace terms, and
the electricians, plumbers and steam
filters took stand for what they-and
all other unionists-believed was a de-
cent scale of wages. The strike started
April lst, was Waged without cessation
all along the line, and the journeymen
stood ready to make sacrifices for a
year IT necessary to win.
Employers will be heavy losers by
reason of their prejudice against
unionism, and they will have cause to
regret their misguided step for the
open shop. Strained relations between
employer and employe do not make for
efficiency.
The 50 day must come! A man cam
not support his family and himself on
less. Butter at 65 cents, and going up !;
eggs will be $1.25 a dozen this winter !;
coal $40 higher than it was five years
ago, and rising every day, with not
enough to supply the city's wants !;
sugar, 28 cents; it is needless to go on !;
the list is unbearab1y gloomy, and a
man with family must get decent wages
or starve. Farmers are growing only
one-third crops of foodstuffs, so there
is no telling what will happen this WIN
ter.
One interesting development of this
building trades strike was the ex-
posture of the enormous profits derived
by employers. The electricians proved
contractors received $12 a day for each
mans services, and that the journey
man got only 81 of this. When the
journeyman was offered s. he kicked
and demanded So, The same rule
plumbers and steamhtters implied, OBJ
tanned in their business Surely an en-
p1oye is entitled to three-quarters of
what is paid for his services.
Many of the journeymen took ad-
vantage of the strike to engage in bust
ness, and they are doing a thriving
business and having the goodwill of
their active associates. These young
merchants are true-blue unionists. ready
to pay the scale, and to recognize the
card. and eventually will rise to fame,
glory and prosperity.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
1900 PER CENT.
ARMOUR PROFIT in
FOUR WAR YEARS
Enormous Sum Acknowledged in
Issue of New Stock
Dividend.

In 1916 the capital stock of Armour
& Co., member of the big Five" pack
ing house trust in Chicago, was $20,-
100000. This week it will have been
increased to $400,OO0,000, according to
an announcement which appeared on
the financial page of the New York
Times, issue of July J.
This is an increase of 1000 per cent.
in four years without investment of a
single additional dollar.
After paying regular dividends this
immense excess profit remained and
was converted into stock dividends in
order to escape nayment of war taxes.
This is permitted under recent ruling
of the United States Supreme Court,
which held that stock dividends are not
subject to taxation as excess profits.
Also it is ''legalized" through the con-
nivance of Attorney General Palmer
and the Department of Justice under
an agreement reached between the at
torney general and the packers for with
drawal of suits which hal been en-
tered under the Sherman Anti Trust
Act
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
PA TERNALLSN NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR WORKERS, RIG4TFUL SHARE

Boston dsapprova
factories industrial because
paternal character There great deal OF foundation to
welfare work at best strikes the
something that rghuy belongs to them To provide
factories undoubtedly benefits the workers.
auredy benefits the employer because the eents that
pockebook So after ALL he
tanning their shoulder All getting breeze and
happy 1t is good BUSINESS but nothing particularly
phianthropic.
of the clay their employers, do not
want to be the objects paerna fulfilling
They the parties of the first part
share the profits He does not want
pension make for just bonus to requite him
of cubroom molfy
All these things appreciated
when they ADDITIONS and NOT SUBSTITUTES for his
share of the profits
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
FEAR PUBLICITY
Coal Operators Oppose Exhibits
Because of Effect on Public.

At the wage hearing in Scranton,
Pa, before the anthracite coal COM
mission coal owners opposed the con-
sideratlon of exhibits produced by the
miners, which charge the coal owners
with monopolistic control and prof.
teering.
On the commission is a representa-
tive of the public, who is charged with
the duty of protecting the ,pub1ic's in
terest after he has received full in
formation. The miners are prepared to
show the profits of anthracite coal min
ing companies; the relation of wages to
production costs, profits and prices J;
the wholesale and retail prices of an
thracite coal from 1913 to 1920; freight
rates and transportation costs of this
coal; operating and financial perform
ances of anthracite railroads; COM
bination in the anthracite industry and
production costs at the mines in March,
1920.
The coal owners do not want this in
formation considered by the commits
sion. They insist that the miners de-
mands for wage increases and union
recognition are the only issues and the
exhibits have no connection with the
case.
The coal owners position is inter-
esting, in view of former claims by
them and their defenders that "the in
terests of the public are paramount"
Now the miners want to prove that the
public is gouged by the solicitous coal
owners.
The miners have proof that the an
thracite industry is dominated by seven
railroads which control the production,
transportation and sale to local dealers
of certain proportion of the total an
thracite consumed These railroads,
operating through their coal companies,
control over 90 per cent. of the un-
mined coal. This condition permits of
only 4 per cent. of anthracite coal that
is free from the control of this COM
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24
CRASH Is COMING. s.s
Whiskey Lid Will Be Clamped
Down When Banks Recoup.

There are 100000 gallons of whis-
key in bonded warehouses in various
parts of the United States, and it is
being withdrawn at the rate of 1,000,-
600 gallons month, according to off1c-
ial reports.
All the whiskey withdrawn is sup
posed to be used for medicinal pur-
poses, but that is mere camoufage, &C
cording to the officials.
In the city of Philadelphia alone more
than so per cent. of the men who have
secured permits authorizing them to
withdraw whiskey-have been summoned
to appear before federal officials to
show cause why their permits should
alleged that the whiskey withdrawn for
medicinal purposes was sold for bever-
age purposes.
Those who violate the law are fined
when caught, but are not sent to jail.
why don't you try sending some of
the violators to jail?" representative
of Labor asked prominent government
official.
IF the truth were known" he re-
piled, I suppose the correct answer
would be that we do not send them to
jail because we do not want to en-
barrass the banks. -
you see the banks had millions of
dollars loaned on whiskey when pro-
hibition came along. The only way
they could get their money back was
by the government permitting the whis-
key to be withdrawn from bond and
sold.
"Of course, we make every man who
gets permit certify mat he intends
to use the whiskey for medicinal pur-
poses, but we know that in the major
ity of cases they are lying. Now we
are checking up, and as we catch vio-
lators, we compel them to pay an extra
tax of $4.20 gallon, and in some
instances, assess an additional fine
THE difficulty with the system is that
the Whiskey men advance the price so
as to cover the possibility of being COM
PEELED to pay fine. If they are not
caught they are that much ahead. If
they are caught and fined they still re-
tain their liberty and good profit. -
He concluded: ''The banks will soon
have their money back, and then we will
go after the law violators with a ven
geance"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-24

was shown, the man was arrested and
taken to the city jail. The men were
each fined 500 with the option of so
days in the county jail. The case was
appealed on the ground that the ordin-
ance was void, illegal, unfair, discrim-
inatory, oppressive and unreasonable
and in violation of the constitutional
rights of the people to free speech and
free assemb1age"
Judge Kennedy held that under the
ordinance it is necessary before public
meetings can be held to obtain a per-
NIT, and if the mayor in his judgment
feels the proposed meeting will be detri-
mental to the public he~can refuse to
grant a permit. Refusal is not an in
vasion of the rights of the people. but
if the meeting might tend to provoke
disorder, refusal of the permit affords
a protection and preservation of their
rights.