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Evening journal., 1921-05-17
WHEN THE frost Is
ON THE PUNKIN'
(After James whitcomb RiIey.)

BURLINGTON. Colo.-F. H.
Chandler. melon grower. is to raise
melons that will exceed 10 per cent.
in alcoholic content. He will plug
each alf-grown melon, insert a spe-
cial yeast, replace the plug and al
low the growth to continue until
fall--News item.
When the frost is on the punkin and
tho meion'o full of shock"
And you hear the kyouck and COB
BILE OF the strutting turkey
cock,
And the clackin' OF the guineys and
the cluckin' OF the hens,
And the ROSTERS hallyloolyer as he
tiptoes on the fence;
Oh. it's thens the time fellar feels
like goin' on a toot
with the risin' yeast to greet him
when he opens up the fruit,
AS he leaves the house quite thirsty
in a quest for private stock.
When the frost in on the punkin
and the melons full Of "shock. q"
They's something kind O. narty-like
about the atmusfere,
When you knw that what yer rails
ing beats the tatse OF home
made beer;
or course we miss the flowers. and
tho blossoms on the trees.
And the humble of the hummin'
birds and buzzin' of the bees.
But the airs so appetizin' and the
landscape through the haze
Makes a feller sorter feel that he is
seein' better days.
o love the zippy feelin, as 1 see
the autumn sky,
When the frost in on the punkin
and the melons full OF rye.
The husky. rusty russell OF the tas-
sells of the "corn,"
And the giggles OF the farmhands as
they fll themselves a horni
The stubble in the furries, kindc
Evening journal., 1921-05-17

stead Of more trouble or misunder-
standing with Japan, there is every
reason to believe that Japan wants to
get rid of everything that might
cause trouble with us. The other
countries feel the same way in the
zap matter-that the fact we have
complained about Japan having con
troll OF Yap was within our rights.
And another thing, Riddles, If Eng
land and Japan agree to our wishes
about Yap, we can naturally expect
them to agree TO what We think
should be done in the orient. un-
derstand that Japan has been ad-
vised by Great Britain to agree to
the wishes of America regarding
both Shantung and Yap.
Another thing that seems to me
to be coming closer and closer as a
result of the splendid work of Presi-
dent Harding is disarmament. or
course, 1 don't for one minute think
we should stop building ships and
training a fair-sized army just be-
cause a part of the world is talking
about getting rid OF fighting mate
rlals. But when taxes keep getting
higher and higher, as they have been
in Japan. they sure have good rea-
son to talk about at least cutting
down the amount of money to be
spent on great fleets OF battleships.
There will be a lot of talk back
and forth across the ocean for some
time to come, in order to get the
politics of the world straight, but
you both can just remember this,
that no matter how the details look
no matter how much criticism is made
Of the way in which things are ac-
complished-that President Harding
and Secretary of State Charles e.
Hughes have in the short space of a
few weeks shown the world that
America Is again a government by
law and that she means to keep her
place in the world. demanding that
which is justly hers and demanding
IL in a way that shows we mean busi-
ness. For the first time in years. Eu-
rope realizes that a herman sits in
the White House at Washington
backed by many he-men advisors
and that he listens to their advice
because he knows Il is sound. once
a course is decided upon, 1t is told
the world in language that any one
can understand and not in terms
that can be read in a dozen different
ways.
I'm other words. the world knows
we mean businessi"
"Hurrah for a real peace" yelled
Jack
Evening journal., 1921-05-17
is 1T WILDE.

Are you a wild man? or a wild
woman? For if your name is Wilde
or Wild. your ancestors were just
what they sounded like-wild. in the
sense Of being rude and uncultivat-
ed and unacquainted with the ways
of court or city.
The name Savage is Of similar
origin. 1t came through the French
into England, and in France it was
le Savage, the wild, or the savage
man. At least some students Of
nomenclature say it came into Eng
land, from France, in the train Of
Isabella Of France, queen of Ed
ward II. Others point out that the
name existed in Ireland before those
days 1t was latinized in medieval
deeds as Salvagius, and it is possi-
BILE that Wild sometimes was a trans
lation Of this form.
AS one might imagine, this is one
Of the earliest of all surnames, for
as soon as there were men there
were wild ones. There is a hamlet
in Berkshire, England, named Wilde,
and from this doubtless some men Of
calm and mild manner took their
name.
Early variations Of the name were
Wylde, Wildes and Wyld.
"a big New England familN Of the
name was established at Braintree.
Evening journal., 1921-05-17
Uncle Ted's Bedtime Stories
ezra of Good Feeling" Here at Last
More About zap

well, I've been reading about II
and 1t says that Japan says she Is
going TO have the island OF Yap, no
matter II we were supposed to get
equal rights there, said Jack.
Eyes, and / heard a friend of
Daddy say that England agreed with
Japan. and that all of those coun-
tries over there were against the
United States" commented Ruth.
Now you lxiddies don't know your
current history very well. If that is
what you think and believe" said
Uncle Ted. who had been listening
"Tu admit that the relations be-
tween United States and Japan, ac-
cording TO some, have not been the
best since Japan insisted upon TAX
ing charge Of the island Of zap. OF
course. this little island and the talk
about it is only one thing in the big
accumulation OF troubles throughout
the world in which the United States
is more or less interested since the
Great War. But we have a new Pres
ident and a new Secretary OF State
two things you may seem to have
forgotten. When, it comes to getting
toward real peace in the world and
stopping all the trouble between
countries growing out OF the war, /
know that more has been done in the
last few weeks than in all the rest
Of the time since November, 1918,
put together.
There are some who do not feel
that every move of the President
and Secretary Hughes has been the
best, but the results are what count
and thase results are promoting the
cause Of permanent peace. The other
day. Senator Pat Harrison tried to
discredit Mr.. George Harvey, the
new Ambassador to Great Britain, by
a speech in the Senate which was
not only poor taste but might cause
grave misunderstanding in England
If the English people believed what
he said. After that, he made other
remarks. as did other Democrats
that the Harding administration has
been forced to follow the policy OF
Woodrow Wilson and that eventu-
ally we would enter the World Club
plan"
Gee, that can't be-" said Jack.
1T not only can't be but won't
and no one knows this better thar
the men who have fought the world
club. II we were going into the world
club. how could Colonel George Har-
vey be our representative In the SUI
preme Council. where he will sit and
listen? Colonel Harvey, who hates
the world club plan in every way
would be the last man to agree. tc
anything that would even recognize
the world club. OF course, that Is
ridiculous. and our Democratic
friends and newspapers know that.
But TO get back to the success OF
President Harding's moves so far as
Europe is concerned, we find that in
Evening journal., 1921-05-17

lonesome-like; the "stll"
A-beckonin' us TO it in the barn be-
hind the hin;
The strawstack in the medder and
the reaper with a head;
The horses in their stalls below.
with bottles for a bedl
o its sets my heart a-clickin' and I
do the hootchy-cootch,
When the frost is on the punkin
and the melons full Of
hootchl
Then your melons is all gathered.
and folks stand round like
gawks.
And they leap upon the melons.
crazy-like. and pull the
corks,
And your liquor-makin's over, and
your wimmen folks is through
With their mince and apple butter.
and they're souse and sau-
sage, tool
don't know how to tell it--but If
sech thing could be
AS the hootch hounds wantin'
boardin', and they'd call
around on me,
I'd want to 'commodate email the
while-indurin' flock
When the frost is on the punkin
and the melons full Of
Shock"
with my compliments to the
farmers down in little Delaware" "
S. LEROY LAYTON.
by my friends, II. L. Phillips. of
this city.
Los Angeles, California. Apri 81
1921.
Evening journal., 1921-05-17

North Carolina had at least 10
capitals before the establishment Of
Raleigh as permanent capital.
China had compulsory education
nearly 1000 years before the Chris
tian era
Evening journal., 1921-05-17
YOUR LAST NAME
BY MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
ight, 1920, by The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.

Massachusetts,, at the end Of the sew
enteenth century. OF this family
was John Wild, who married as a
second wife one Sarah, who was
condemned and executed as a witch
in the famous witchcraft frenzy of
New England.
Copyright, 1921, by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.).
Evening journal., 1921-05-17

The palace at Vienna, which is
being turned into a public building,
has 1900 rooms.
The American navy is said to con-
sist of the best fed body Of men in
the world.
Evening journal., 1921-05-17
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stripes, lined pants; sizes
2 to II. Reg. $3.50 value.
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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Proposed Wage Cuts
By Eastern Railways
(By Federated Press)

New York-General wage reduc-
tions, affecting about 100000 men, are
to be posted Immediately by the East
ern railroads. The proposed cuts,
voted by the Eastern Presidents Asso-
citation at meeting here, probably
will range from 10 per cent for train
hands to 80 in the cases of common
laborers.
Fifty-two Eastern roads, comprising
the group in the Classification Terri
tory east of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio, are represented in the
association. The move follows SIM
liar announcement by the Western
roads that "an immediate posting of
notices of wage reductions" would be
made.
The announcement has been fol-
lowed by an announcement by William
j. Connors at Buffalo, N. Y, that he
has leased the car repair shops owned
there by the New York Central and
that he would assemble Immediately
force of 1000 to $500 men to be
employed solely on rolling stock of
the New York Central.
This move is in line with similar
ones in the last few weeks by other
roads to evade the regulations estab-
lished by the Railroad Labor Board.
1t is the plan to cut the wages there
BY in the shops below the rates fixed
by the Rail Board.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Defeat COOlie Plan

Honolulu-George w. Wright, of
the central labor council, has returned
from Washington where he assisted
in labor's fight against coolie importa-
tion to these islands. Writing in the
Labor Review of Hawaii, he says:
"The persistent opposition of Mr..
Gompers and the A. F. of l.. to any
modification of the Chinese exclusion
laws proved. effective in blocking the
attempt of the Hawaiian sugar plant
ers to orientalize still further a ter
ritory of the United States"
The Labor Review calls attention
to declarations by the sugar planters
that they must continue the sugar in
dustry under decreased acreage.
"This," says the Labor Review, "is
a practical admission that the plant
ers have met defeat in their lobbying
campaign in Washington, and that la
boris fight in the national capital for
the preservation of American stan
dards of living has turned out to be
complete success. The defeat of the
bill is certain unless some shady
politics are introduced by the ad-
vocates of the bill.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
AS EXPECTED
REPEAL PROFITS TAX - FREE
HAND FOR BIG BIZ.
Source of Immense Revenue Killed to
Satisfy Greed of Grasping Mill
liOnaire ShylOcks and
Money Grabbers.

Washington-Big business has won
it's fight for repeal of the excess prof
it's tax, and after this year the merry
game of gouging will be clear velvet,
without contributions to the treasury
department.
For months the people have been
told that this tax is a check on busi-
ness initiative, and men who pose as
leaders of the nation have joined in
the confusing hubbub, ignoring the
law which provides tax not on nor
NAL profits, or large profits, but on
"eXcess profits" Section 312 of the
law says:
"That the excess profits credit shall
consist of specific exemption Of
SO 900, plus an amount of credit equal
to per cent of the invested capital
for the taxable year"
This means that after a business
man pays salaries to himself and asso-
ciate managers, wages to his employ
es, interest on his bonds, sets aside
substantial sums for depreciation of
plant, provide for a sinking fund to
care for outstanding Indebtedness, etc,
he may then set aside $4,000 of his
profits, and then an additional amount
equal to per cent of his invested
capital.
Then and not till then are his prof
its subject to an 8 per cent tax under
excess profits tax.
Even under these conditions the cap
italist can conceal large amounts
through a ruling that he may inven-
tory his plant at the present market
price rather than the original cost.
The treasury department estimates
that the excess profits for 1920 will
amount to $850,000,000, and that this
years tax will total about one-half
of that amount.
These vast sums will be increased
beyond computation in the coming
days of prosperity, but no portion of
them will assist in paying the nations
debts.
The repeal Of this law will put an
added war tax burden on the common
people, who are being called upon to
pay the staggering war debt, includ-
ing an annual interest charge Of ST.
OO0,0O0,000 on the Liberty and Vic
tory bonds.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
SenateSurtaxUpheId
House COnCurs With the Higher Body
and Propaganda of the War
Rich is Unsuccessful

hington-Despite heroic mea-
sures to escape taxation, Americas
war rich have lost their fight to have
the surtax, or extra tax, on large in
comes cut in two. The president en-
tered the fight for lower surtaxes, but
nearly 100 members of his party re-
fused to follow him.
In a letter to Congressman Ford
ney, chairman of the house ways and
means committee, the chief executive
said that while he favored 32 per
cent surtax, he believed 40 per cent
would be a fair compromise.
The present law provides for IS
per cent surtax. The house changed
this to 32 per cent, when it passed the
new revenue bill. A countrywide pro-
test, that was especially strong in
the west, forced the senate to raise
the figures to so per cent. When the
differences reached the house, that
body ignored the presidents letter
and accepted the senate's figures by a
vote of POI to 173.
In urging the so per cent surtax
Congressman Sinott of Oregon,
showed the reason for the propaganda
for lower taxes on high incomes. The
32 per cent surtax of the house, or
the so per cent of the senate, he said,
made little differences to incomes of
$4,000.
But when you get to the man with
an income of 100000, he said, the
saving is $2,730 under the 32 per
cent tax.
"When you get to the man with
81 100000 a year income he is saving
$274,730 under this proposition of 80
per cent.
GLOW can you justify such discrim-
ination?" asked the law maker.
There is no material reduction in
taxes by the house surtax rates till
you reach an income of 100000 per
annum, when the reduction is $2,730;
for S150,000 incomes the reduction is
$12,730; for 100000 incomes the re-
duction is $22,730; from this point on
the reduction is startling, being $274,
730 for 81 100000 and 81 ,594,730 for a
$5,000,000 income.
ooh, they tell us that this surplus
money these earnings of the man with
a big income like $1,000,000 year, is
being poured into non-taxable securi-
ties.
"Did you ever try to find out from
the treasury department in the last
six months what has been the in
crease over prior years in the purchase
of non-taXable securities by men hav-
ing an income of 100000 and over?
eff you have, you have received no
information. They have had six
months to produce these statistics
six months to go over $4,000 returns
There is a presumption of law-I do
not wish to invoke it here-that he
who suppresses evidence 'suppresses il
because it is against him. Senators
and representative have written tc
the treaury department for this infor-
nation and it has not been forthcom-
ing"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Milk Wagon Drivers
Winning in New York
(By Federated Press)

New York - The Meadowbrook
Dairy Company, the third large milk
distributor to desert the ranks of the
Milk Conference Board of New York
has signed an agreement with the
union of milk wagon drivers and
handlers. Fifty smaller companies
already have signed agreements pro-
viding their employees shall continue
to work under union conditions, with
a SIS weekly wage increase.
The victory in the case of the
Meadowbrook Compnay, according to
George w. Briggs, who is directing
the strike, more than offsets the tenn
porary court injunction which has
been issued prohibiting any sort OF
interference with milk deliveries. The
injunction was issued in practically
the exact form in which the distri-
butors asked. 1t forbids the unions
or their members even to use persu-
aston, to gather, or to appeal to the
consumers,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Dressmakers Will Join Strike

New York-Thirty thousand dress
makers probably will join the strike
of 10000 cloak and suit makers here
as a result of proposals by the Dress
Manufacturers Association which are
in direct violation of the agreement
with the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union. The manufac-
turers have served notice on the work
ers that unless they "make certain
concessions" they could expect to be
laid off at the end of the season.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Committee For Civil Liberty

Baltimore-Men and women from
the American Federation of Labor,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, In
dustrial Workers of the World, Church
League of Industrial Democracy, and
business and professional groups in
this city have formed the Maryland
Committee for Civil Liberties, which
will cooperate with the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02

New York-The milk trust, known
as the New York Milk Conference
Board, which has been engaged for
nearly a fortnight in an attempt to
destroy the Milk Drivers Union here,
is charged by Local No 584 of the
union with extorting a profit of from
to 6 cents on each quart or bottle
of milk.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Japanese Labor Growing Unruly

Seattle-Japanese labor is gradual
ly organizing and growing more Gun
ruly" despite the fact that Japan is
the least hit by industrial depression
of any of the nations of the Far East,
according to H. X. Smith of Pitts
burgh, electrical engineer who has
been doing engineering work in the
Orient for years.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
To Reclassify Civil Service Jobs

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
salaries and jobs in the Federal Civil
Service, demanded by the National
Federation of Federal Employees, ap-
pears to be possibility before next
summer The bill approved in gen.
eral by the organized Civil Service
employees has at last been favorably
reported from committee. Senate and
House are alike believed to be ready
to pass it.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
UNEMPLOYED to Meet

Detroit, Mich.-A call for a ma
tional conference on unemployment to
be held in Auto Workers Hall here
December 8 and has been issued by
James Eads How, Jacob Coxey and
Urban LedouX.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Railroad Wage Cut Halted

Topeka, Kansas-Attempts Of the
owners of the Wichita Street Railway
System to reduce the pay of their en-
ployes have been temporarily halted
by the Industrial Court. The Court
will take so days to determine whether
the traction company's returns justify
a decrease in pay.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Violation of Antitrust Law

New York-Seventy corporations
and individuals, comprising the tile
and mantel combine, indicted by a
Federal grand jury here last August
on charges of violation of the Sher-
man Antitrust Law, have withdrawn
their mot guilty" pleas and entered
pleas of guilty to the four counts in
the indictments. Sentence was re-
served
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Farmers Will Burn Corn

Des Moines, Ia.-Much Iowa corn
has been sold at 20 to % cents and
some as low as II cents a bushel this
year, but this is not the lowest price
at which the grain has ever been sold
in the State, according to Charles D.
Reed, director of the Iowa Weather
and Crop Service. He says that in
1896 corn sold for IA cents a bushel.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Raising Mooney Relief Fund

Seattle-Every Seattle union will
be asked to contribute SIS to a fund
to be handled by Rena Mooney to
carry the fight for the release of Tom
Mooney and Warren K. Billings be-
fore higher courts, the Central Labor
Council has decided.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Labor Opposes "Welfare Bureau"

Seattle-Labor here is opposed to
the abolition of the Federal Depart
ment of Labor for "Welfare Bu-
reau," according to resolution passed
by the Central Labor Council. Action
was taken in response to plea by
Samuel Gompers that scrapping the
department meant depriving organ
lied workers of voice in government
councils.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Strikers Preparing For Long Fight

New York-The members of the
international Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, now estimated at 10000,
who have been on strike here against
a return to sweatshop conditions and
lower wages, are prepared for an all
winter fight if necessary, the union
announces.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02
Packing House Cuts Wages

Chicago-Morris & Co. have fol-
lowed the lead of the other four large
packing firms in cutting the pay of
its employees. The Morris firm re-
sorted to no subterfuge, but frankly
announced a cut Of approximately ten
per cent. The unskilled and piece
work employees are principally affected
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-02

Undoubtedly many mistakes are
made by those who do something.
But the greatest mistake of the work
ing class is by doing nothing for the
betterment of their condition. Stop
your growing, get in and help do
something to help in the march of
progress.