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The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19
ADJUSTMENTS K. K. K. Minstrels

Next Saturday evening, Feb ruary 26th. the K. K. Minstrels will stage their long looked for and much ttllzed of show.
 The troupe is positively the finest aggregation of high class colored talent WI ich has ever travelled this far north.
 The songs are the very latest hits from New York and Paris, and the jokes are all of the vim tage of nineteen twenty one.
 In addition to this the scenery and props for tEe pt rtornance are most elaborate. Through the kind courtesy of Queen K .nnecabasco of Hilo, some O. her favorite artists will also appear.
 Tickets are now on sale at the Mccarthy Drug Store at one dollar.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19
ROAD COM MISSION OFFICIALS VISITMcCARTHY

OFFICIALS VISITMcCARTHY
 MessrS. Daniel Jones and Gus Johnson arrived on Sundays train on An official visit
 During the week they made d trip to the Nizina, where they made examination of the various parts of the river with a view to choosing 8 bridge site.
 There is probability of the new bridge being of suspen- sion structure, which, although entailing heavy expense, is the only solution of the trouble.
 We are informed by Mir. Jones that work upon the stalking of the trail to Chisana over the glaciers will be pro- ceeded with immediately
 The wagon road over Sour dough to the river will be ro- stunned just as soon as climatic conditions permit.
 Gus Johnson will again be in charge of the work.
 Altogether things in the Roads and Trails Department are look ing mighty good for Mccarthy and her districts.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19
CUT OF TOWN TOPICS

CUT OF TOWN TOPICS
 Percy Thornton and John Swanson, mir ing CTerAto"s of Chi>ar a, left this week for the interior camp.
 Mail for Chisana left on Mon day.
 Carl Anderson, Miles Atkin- son and Bill Maher left this week for Young creek, where they have secu. ed a lease on the mining property of J.H Murray ct al on Calamity G,ulch.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19
MCCARTHY ATHLETIC CLUB

Monday evening, Feb. 28th will be the Grand Opening of the Mccarthy Athletic Club. An original program of stunts has been arranged for the ent. ertainment of visitors and an extra good time is promised by the Chairman and House com mittee, who have the affair in hand.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19

incOAe tax retur1> must be made before March 1ovI.
 JUST RECEIVED On Yes terdays Train - Fresh killed Broilers, young RoAsters, fresh Eas tern Oysters. Jersey Creamery Butter 6Oc lb. Fresh Ranch Eggs 65c lb doz
 k. L.. H. Marshall.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19

The Dan Creek Mining Co. freight of sixty tons is being hauled to Dan creek by J. H. Nitric.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-02-19

M. ". Cole, notary public, Speciality, Income Tax Returns
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
RAILROAD
TRANSPORTA.
TION AND RATES

Probably the question uppermost
in the public mind today is that of
railroad transportation and rates, yet
strange as it may seem, there is no
question upon which there is so much
general misinformation. Recently,
this News Bureau issued an analysis
of the Transportation Act insofar as
it affected the financial relations be-
tween the government and the rail
roads. The purpose of that analysis
was to show the falsity of the repeat
ed charges that the government is
guaranteeing an income to the rail-
roads.
Another equally false and misehiev-
Gus charge is to the effect that since
the Interstate Commerce Commission
made the general advances in freight
rates effective as of September l,
| 1920, there have been no decreases in
| the rates then authorized. The Inter
state Commerce Commission has been
portrayed as hard-boiled, standpat
organization, wholly out of sympathy
with the shippers of the country and
completely Indifferent to the econom.
ic needs and conditions of the hour
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
DEATH OF MRS.
NELLIE FONTAINE

TAINE-October 21. Mrs.
Nellie Fontaine, aged go years, at her
late residence, 5436 Lemon Grove Av-
enue, Hollywood, beloved wife of Err
nest H. Fontaine, loving mother of
Mrs. w. B. Ingersoll, Misses Angelic
A. and Madeline Fontaine, and Ernest
and Louis Fontaine Services Mon
day, October "a, at P. M. from the
little Church of the Flowers, Forest
Lawn Cemetery. Interment in Maui
soleum. Friends invited-Los Angel
es Times.
The above announcement was a
gre 1t surprise to US, as we were not
aware of her illness. Her death must
have been sudden. She is the below
ed wife of our oldest brother, Ernest
H. Fontaine and leaves her husband
and five grown up children to mourn
her great loss. They have the SYM
pathy of relatives and friends here
in this hour of their bereavement. We
mourn her great loss.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10

To cap the climax of this misrepre
sentation, the leaders of the various
railroad brotherhoods issued state
ment October %, Immediately follow
ing the announcement by the Inter
state Commerce Commission of gen.
eral reduction in rates on hay and
grain to the effect that their threat
of a strike forced the Interstate Com
merce Commission to make such de-
cision. The exact language of this
statement was as follows:
1--WE are advised through the news
papers that the Interstate Commerce
Commission has authorized a consid-
cradle reduction in freight rates.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
wages of the railroad employees have
been reduced II per cent since July
/, there was no talk of reduction of
freights until this crisis arose. Now
the railroads are attempting to gain
the sympathy of the public in this
crisis by this late reduction in freight
rates.
The public never would have re-
ceived this reduction with the consent
of the railroads had the railroads not
been confronted with this emergency"
If that were true, either in whole
or part, the Interstate Commerce
Commission should well be abolished.
For in that event it would be but
body of men controlled by fear and
influenced by intimidation, making
decisions only under duress. It is to
be regretted that men Of such res
possibility in the world of affairs, and
especially men who are leaders of
great classes of laborers, should so
grossly misrepresent the facts in or
der to further some end in which they
are interested
In order to get the facts before the
country and make the matter of of
ficial record, compilation has been
made of rate reductions ordered by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
since September /, 1920. This COM
pilation is being printed as a House
Document upon motion of Represent
ative Everett Sanders (Rep.) of In
diana, member of the House Com
nfit,ee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
DEMOCRACY IS AMERICAS
GREATEST SOCIAL ASSET

ployers was to keep these concentrat-
ed populations so far as possible, at
mere subsistence level of wages.
Unions Halt Class
But for the trade-unicn movement
entering into modern industrial life,
combating the ever present tendency
of employers toward mere subsist-
ence wage, combating their tendency
to retain the long employment day
that had obtained prior to the devel-
opment of factory life, America would
have had class as distinctly marked
apart from the rest Of society as any
European country.
The idea obtains to some extent
that trade-unions are merely organi-
cations of aggression, that they are
something in the nature of predatory
bands formed to secure for their
members such temporary advantages
as may be possible, no matter what
the cost to employers or to society.
Of course, those who out of short
sightedness oppose the trade union
movement, seek always to spread
this false impression.
The truth is that no organization
in America is broader in its outlook
or attempts to more intelligently un-
derstand the general needs of our So
ciety or to fit in more conStructiyely
and helpfully.
, An understanding of the structure
of the American Federation of Labor
may be helpful in leading to an un-
derstanding if its activities and its
policies. The form of organization
around which the American labor
movement is built is exactly like the
form of organization in the political
life of our country. The American
Federation OF Labor is constructed
with its foundation on the ground
and all powers proceed from the base
upward and not from the top down
ward The smallest unit of organi-
cation is the local union. Local uni
ons are composed of groups Of people
working in the same trade, in the
same communities These local uni
ons are affiliated into what are known
as city central bodies or city central
labor unions. The city central labor
union is, thus, representative orga-
nization composed of delegates from
all the local unions in a city. By the
same process, state federations of la
Dor are formed In most cities, there
are, in additionto the city central la
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
NO CLASS LINES IN AMERICA,
SAYS SAMUEL GOMPERS
Declares Unions Keep Standard of
Workers on Plane of
Self Respect

By SAMUEL GOMPERS
President of the American Federation
of Labor
Editors Note-No man in the
world today stands so high in the es-
TEEN of labor as does Samuel Com
pers, and no man is given more res
pect by the employers, for while the
latter were opposed to the organiza-
tions he represents, they admitted he
was honest, fair and open to reason,
as well as being a clean fighter for
the rights he believed due to his fol-
lowers. He knows the ideals, the
aims and the strength of unionism as
no other man Goes.
America has no peasantry.
America has no class set apart,
marked apart, definitely classified as
being apart and irrevocably fixed as
apart from the great mass of her
people America has no class from
which it is impossible to emerge.
America is distinguished through
out the world by the high standard
of living which the masses of her peo-
pie enjoy. The comparison is sharp
and distinct.
For this, the American trade-un-
ion movement is primarily response
BILE. America has no proletariat as
Europe knows the proletariat.
In the beginning this was because
of the manner in which our country
was settled and because of it's bound
less natural resources. It has re.
manned so primarily because of the
trade-union movement.
For this, if for no other reason
the trade union movement of the Uni
ted States is entitled to be ranked as
one of the country's greatest, if not
indeed, as the greatest asset of ALL
The growth of the trade-unior
movement has substantially parallel
ed the growth of the machine or fac
| tory system. With the coming o.
steam and the subsequent coming Of
electricity and the use of these agen
cies of power in the development Of
factory life, the tendency of industry
was to concentrate populations int.
small areas and the tendency of EN-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
GRADUATE
SCORES HONORS

E. L. Browne, former Tech student
was one of three University of Mary
land representatives to receive five
hundred dollar bronze trophy cup,
medal and about ninety dollars in
cash for blue-ribbon display at the
dairy-cattle exhibition held in Spring
field, Mass, last month. The trio
including ]. H. Snyder, Clayton Rey-
nolds and Browne, practically corn
cred the honors at the exhibitions.
The above is taken from the Nc
Kinley Technical Manual Training
school paper, and the E. L. Browne
mentioned is a son of Congressman
and Mrs. Edward E. Browne. He is
a senior in the agricultural course,
State University of Maryland.
The Maryland team won frst-place
in the Students Dairy Cattle Judg-
ing Contest at the Springfield Ex-
position, Springfield, Mass, Compel
ing with Cornell, Mass, New York,
and all the agricultural schools Of the
Eastern states.
Hoard's Dairyman also gives
write-up and picture of the winning
team.-Waupaca News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
SAM MILLER
KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT

On Sunday evening, November 6,
1921, while returning from Kellner in
John LindahPs Ford Sedan, in COM
pany with John Lindahl, Bat O'Day
and John Ohmholt, Sam Miller was
instantly killed when the car went
into the Four Mile Greek bottoms off
the main travelled road. The accident
occurred while coming home from
Kellner at $50 o'clock. While de-
scending the Four Mile Creek hill,
the car left the roadway and turned
completely over, causing Sam Miller's
death and injury to the other occu-
pants. Shortly after the accident oc-
Cured. Edward Witte came along and
noticed the predicament which the
car was in ana drove to Kellner for
more help to extricate the luckless
men. They soon released the men
by righting the car, and found them
all dazed from the shakeup they had
received, though they were all able
to walk about, more or less, except
Miller, who was dead when they were
released. The wonder is that they
were not all dead when one realizes
the distance they had fallen and the
contact they must have received when
they landed.
Sam Miller, the deceased, is the
son of Mrs. John Miller, with whom
he resided and made his home. He
was native of this city. Raised and
educated here. An industrious young
man, and was in the employ of his
brother, Eugene Miller, who operates
a bicycle store and Standard Oil Sta
tion. His death in this manner is
greatly to be regretted. He was q
splendid young man with many
The funeral services were held on
friends.
Tuesday afternoon from the home on
9Th Street S., Rev. A. A. Bennett, pas
tor of the NJ. E. Church officiating.
Burial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10

the public would be largely bored. For
people don't care to be artists and
aren't particularly interested in what
artists achieve.
But the hero has been changed from
the soldier to the industrial leader; and
| think in fifty years, or perhaps a
hundred, America will awaken to an
appreciation of art. When it does, |
think the golden era of art will come
again for whatever interests us as
people, that we can do better than any
one else.
Perhaps motion pictures will do
more to stimulate this artistic interest
than any other force. One must re-
member that our children today, ten,
twelve. fourteen years old, have had
more dramatic experience than all
and his father? Three or four, or less.
And as We go back, the less plays they
saw until in the time of the masques
only one in many years-if ever.
So we have, peculiar condition in
our audiences-a dramatically mature
audience of youths; and a dramatical-
ly youthful audience of adults. With
no intent to strain for paradoxical
quip, it is truth that the older a mo-
tion picture audience is, the younger
it is; and again, the younger it is, the
older it is.
They Ask CensCt
These mature persons know nothing
of the history of the stage, its con-
ventions, customs, privileges, liberties
or experiences. They see nothing in
motion pictures that has been common
to the stage for hundred years, yet,
because they are superlatively ig1.cr-
ant of stage drama, they are Mortified
at something that is absolutely COM
monplace to the play-goer.
With confidence that only such
prospering ignorance can bring, these
persons are determined that the public
shall not see these things which they
think shouldn't be seen. This is the
type that demands the censor.
So the censor now will have to play
with pictures for a few years until
they get tyrannical and are cast out,
or become merely clerical and unim-
portant.
Censorship is an ideal, and when
you try to localize an ideal in three
persons who need their small salaries
and play politics to get them, it isn't |
difficult to believe that the ideal may |
get jostled. The type of mind that de-
nlands censorship has advanced the ar
gument that we censor meats and |
therefor should censor pictures, and |
presume they would feel quite salts |
for the work of the perss in following /
fled to have the same person decide the |
fitness of pigs carcass and finn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
MARATHON co.
BAR ENDORSES
JUDGE REID

They passed the following resolu-
tion supporting his position:
.These facts require no discus sion.
They demonstrate that the situation
which they portray imperatively de-
manded the proceedings instituted a.
gainst Peter Christ for his fragrant
and insulting defiance of the lawful
and necessary order of the court, is
sued to prevent further acts of con-
tempt of the authority of the court
and of the law that the court was en-
forcing; and also to prevent the con-
dltion of lawlessness and violence that
would inevitably follow if such con-
tempt were not rebuked and re-
strained; and the sentence of impris-
onment that the court imposed upon
the offender, who admitted his of
fense, was richly deserved. AS it was
imposed for contempt of court, and
not for melting nor participating in
the strike, it is manifest that the al
legged termination of the strike, be-
fore the expiration of the term of i'm
prisonment, could present no logical
reason for shortening the term of
punishment for that contempt.
at follows, therefore, that the gov
ernor's pardon in the premises could
subserve no just or useful purpose,
but was mischievous and manifestly
calculated to impair and undermine
the authority of the courts and that
respect for their just decisions which
is essential to the preservation of law
and order.
"The reasons given by the governor
for this pardon emphasize these con-
clusions:
''The first, that the Imprisonment
should cease a few days before the
conclusion of it's term because, as al
legged by the governor, the strike had
long been settled is inconclusive and
puerile.
''The second, that the serving of
the few remaining days of this term
of Imprisonment would, in the circum-
stances only give force to the fast
growing public opinion that the law
is an instrument against the weak and
in favor of the strong is wholly un-
founded and indefensible. We know
of no such opinion of the law or its
enforcement by our courts that OBJ
tains amongst intelligent, lawabiding
citizens-and this ill-advised and un-
warranted public statement, coming
from the governor of this state, him
self lawyer and hence an officer of
the courts, merits the severest con-
1emnation.
AS for the charge made by the
governor against Judge Reid of 'in-
termeddling through arbitrary judi
cial power with the duties of a sher-
iff and refusing to proceed according
to aw',-it is not only grossly dis
courteous and unworthy of the gov
ernor's nigh office but will be chal-
lenged and denounced by all who, like
ourselves, have the privilege of ac-
quaintance with Judge Reid and who
therefore respect and admire him for
his high character and ability and his
conscientious fidelity to his duty as
a judge and to righteous enforcement
of the law"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
International Scope

In addition to these representative
community organizations, there are
national and international unions.
Most American unions have adopted
the term, international" because
their membership extends into Cana
da and Mexico. National and Inter
national unions are formed by unit
ing ali of the local unions in a given
trade.
Comparing the trade-union move
ment with our political structure. the
national and international unions re-
ally correspond to the departments
of government. The American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor is, as it's name i'm
plies, a federation-a federation of
unions corresponding to the fedora
tion of states. 1t is an affiliation of
national and international unions. In
its annual conventions, these national
and international unions are entitled
to vote in proportion to the member
ship on which they pay per capita
tax to the American Federation of
Labor. In addition, each city central
body, each state federation and each
of the five departments of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor-Mine, Met
al Trades, Building Trades, Union
Label Trades and Railroad Employees
Department, are entitled to one dele
gate.
Many persons think that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is an or
ganization of great power In a most
important sense this is true, but in
the sense in which it is understood
by many of labor's critics, it is with
out truth. The great power of the
American Federation of Labor is the
power of moral suasion. It is the
united opinion of four million organ
lied wage earners that has weight
and power.
The American Federation of Labor
has no power of con1pulsion either
over its own affiliated membership or
those outside its membership. 1t is
believed by many that the American
Federation Of Labor orders strikes.
This is not the case. The American
Federation of Labor cannot order ev-
en- one person to cease work. The
statement that the American Fedora
tion of Labor has no power of COM
pulsion is absolute. There is no quail
ification whatever. 1t can say, thru
it's conventions, or through it's Execu-
tive Council and it's officers that GER
tain courses or certain policies are
advisable, but only as there is gen
eral unity of opinion and the moral
force of that unity of opinion is there
any actual power to compel compli-
ance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10

Dor union, delegate bodies represent
ing the unions in specific branches of
industry, such as the building trades,
the metal trades and the printing
trades. Through these representa-
i've community organizations, the
wage earners in each city are brought
together and are placed in a position
to act unitedly and inteligently for
the conservation and advancement of
their own interests and for the con-
sideration of problems of all kinds
relating to the life of the municipal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
NEARLY FOUR INCHES OF
SNOW FALLS ON NOV. 7TH

On Monady night and Tuesday
morning 2.9 inches of snow fell in
this locality. The weather was cold
and snappy. Quite change from the
nice Fall weather we have been hav-
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
NOTICE

Effective Monday, November IA,
the time schedule of G. B. & w. train
No. between Green Bay ana Wis
consin Rapids will be changed to
leave Green Bay at 1:10 P. nj. and
will arrive at Wisconsin Rapids at
Sos P. nj.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-11-10
Who IS YOUR HERO
By DAVID WARK GRIFFITH

Editors Note-David Wark Grif-
fifth stands so high above all other mo-
tion-picture producers that he may be
said to be in a class by himself. His
grasp of picture making is only equal
ed by his grasp of the cinema's future,
the needs and wants of the public, and
the motion picture is part of every
mans life.