Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-23

md, with food for the starving Rus
just dedicated.
Of the details of the cut of $3.50, 100000
in the ordinary government expendi-
lures for the current fiscal year. Re-
auctions for the War department, ship
ping board, railroads, veterans bureau
and in miscellaneous places will pro-
vide $305,O00,000 of this The remain
der will be saved by better co-ordina-
ton in handling departmental pur-
chases and sales Of supplies.
The finance committee completed it's
redrafting of the house tax bill and
experts began getting the measure
ready for presentation in the senate on
September q. Disregarding the. rec
concentrations of Secretary Of the
Treasury Mellon, the committee voted
to repeal the excess profits tax begin
ming January l, 1922, and the capital
stock tax effective in 1922, and to SUBJ
stitute for these fiat corporation tax
of 10 per cent, effective January 1,
1922 Among other changes in the
house bill voted by the committee are
retention of freight and passenger
transportation taxes at half their pres
ent rates and those on express ship
ments and oil pipe lines at their pres
ent rates for another year, and con-
tinuation of many miscellaneous taxes
which the house voted to repeal
The fight against the Ku Klux Khan
is growing more interesting and more
widespread every day, and the Khan is
fighting back against its enemies with
vigor. Various papers in many parts
Of the country have undertaken tex
posures" of the organization and it's
methods and aims, and the Khan has
started or says it will start libel suits
against those publications that misrep-
resent it. In Chicago an organization
called the National Unity council has
been formed with the avOwed purpose
of suppressing the Khan and its So
called invisible empire" The council.
which is to be extended throughout the
country, is headed by Edward F.
Dunno, former governor of Illinois. He
says the Ku KluX are menace to the
nation because they 'savowedly pro-
scribe millions of their fellow citizens
solely because, either they worship
God in a manner permitted by the Con-
stitution of the United States, or be-
cause they were born without the Uni
ted States. They place the black man
without the pale of the law. Such or
CARNATIONS foment racial, religious
and political enmities instead Of en-
couraging comfy and friendship be-
tween all classes of American citizens,
which should be the aim of every
broad-minded American"
Meanwhile the Khan continues to
grow in numbers with extraordinary
rapidity, now having, it is said, more
than half a million members, and be-
ing organized in every state in the
Union except New Hampshire, Utah
and Montana.
The great packing concerns of Ar
mour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy last
week put into operation the newly de-
vised American shop representation"
system, their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
agreement with their workers having
expired. All disputes are to be sub
mitted to shop councils comprised of
employees elected representatives and
persons selected by the employers, and
national councils, to which shop coun-
ellis may appeal, are to be formed in
similar manner. Employees represen-
tatiyes must be employed in the shop
and must be citizens or have taken out
their first papers. Any person is eligi-
BILE for employment, whether union
member or not. While this is "open
shop" the packers say it is not
change of policy since they always
have been open shop. Ninety per cent
of their workers, they say, assented to
the plan.
The terrific flood that struck San An
tonic and other parts of Texas has sub
sided, but its full results are just be-
ginning to be realized. Several hum
QroQ persons, IHoSlly HeSlooS anu NICK
leans, persisted. The property loss in
San Antonio is placed at 100000 and
elsewhere at $10,OO0,00O. The mayor
of the city appealed to Washington for
army tents and cots for the thousands
Of homeless refugees.
The British cruiser Dauntless, bear
ing the bodies of the American Victims
of the ZR-2 disaster, arrived at New
York Friday, escorted by fleet Of air
craft, destroyers and other vessels.
Saturday afternoon the dead were
accorded the full naval honors due
those who gave their lives in the line
of duty.