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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
YOUTHS LEAVE
FOR SCHOOL AT
ILLINOIS FAIR

Rock Island county representa-
tives to the Illinois state fair
school left this morning for Spring
field in charge of Justin Washburn,
county superintendent of schools.
Superintendent Washburn will have
under his supervision at the school
the boys from the 14th congress
siOnal district
Arriving in Springfield tonight,
the boys will be provided with cots
and tents. Meals will be served be-
ginning tomorrow morning and end
ing Friday night, with dinner. The
school will close with commence
ment All boys will be required to
break camp Friday afternoon.
Rock Island county boys at the
fair are:
Rock Island-Sam Ryerson, Mar
tin Dunavin.
Port Byron-Ralph Moody.
Cordova-Maynard Allen, Charles
Reynolds
Taylor Ridge-Myron Parmenter
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
MRS. OHAvER is
DEAD In SOUTH
Pioneer Settler of County Passes
Away in 0kiahoma-Sfster Of
Late Mrs. Campbell

Mrs. Hezekiah Ohaver, sister OF
the late Mrs. Thomas Campbell,
and herself a resident OF the county
40 years, died yesterday in Musko-
gee, Okla, according to word re-
ceiyed in this city. Mrs. Ohaver
had been ill a year.
Mrs. Ohaver, who was formerly
Hannah Eliza Carson, was born
Sept. 16, 1S41, in Indianapolis, Ind. =,
and was married there March s,
1864, to Mr.. Ohaver. They came
to Rock Island county in the early
eos. settling in Bowling township,
residing on what is now the Cramp-
ton farm.
After several years on the farm,
they moved to South Heights, and
later to Alta Iona, Texas, and aft
er the Galveston flood in 1909,
which destroyed Alta Iona, they
went to Muskogee, where they had
since resided OF four daughters
born to the union, two, Mrs. Lorepa
Dack and Mrs. Mary E. Smith, both
of Muskogee, survive. Mrs. Oliver
was last of family of four sisters.
Funeral services will be held in
Murkogee and burial will take
place there.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
IOWA'S CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
FAIR GROUNDS
Governor n. e. Kendall Delivers
Address-30yO 900 Attend Event
Yesterday.

Iowa day at the Mississippi VAL
ley Fair & Exposition today drew
another immense crowd, according
to reports from fair officials this
afternoon.
Featuring today's program was
the address of Governor n. E. Ken
dali OF Iowa. He talked from in
front of the grandstand at 1 O'Clock.
This was the big day of the race
program. The free-for-all, offering
an attractive purse, drew a large
field of entries, as did the Missis-
sippi Valley derby number. Auto
races will feature the closing day
tomorrow.
Attendance yesterday was esti-
mated at 10000. Last year on
Thursday, 1000 admissions were
recorded. Officials of the fair state
the attendance this year is being
spread out more evenly, and that
there is no reason to believe the
total for the week will be less than
last year.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19

here as meaning that Mr.. Hoover
has accepted the latest compromise
of the soviets on the disputed
points. No word from Mr.. Hoove-,
however, authorizing a continual
ton of the conferences of Walter
L. Brown, European director of the
Relief Administration, with Maxim
Litvinoff, special envoy here, of
the soviet government, has been
received by Mr.. Brown up to the
time set for his meeting this morn
ing with Mr.. Litvinoff.
Less Cholera.
London, Aug. 19.-Famine is still
ravaging the Volga districts of Rus
STA but there is a decrease in the
cholera epidemic there, says the
Moscow correspondent of the Daily
Herald. During July. $4,000 cases
were reported as against $4,000 in
June.
The Russian soviet government
has appropriated 520,OO0,000 rubles
for the initial expenses of the re-
lief committee and has also decid-
ed to levy tax of one pound per
pood (36 pounds) on goods traded
in the free food markets. This
food will be turned over to the
relief committee, the correspond
ent says.
Trades union machinery is being
utilized to transfer the starving
from the famine area to more pros
porous districts, where they can
be employed Free transit of relief
is being permitted every
where in Russia.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
QUAKERS Will
FEED STARVING
Soviet Allows Society of Friends to
Add to Force of Workers in
Russia.

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 10
American Quakers will be permit
ted by the soviet government TO
send an unlimited number of work
ers into Russia to give relief 10
the millions o: needy in that coun-
try. The American Friends Ser
vice committee was notified OF the
decision in cable received today
rem Arthur Watts, its representa-
tive in Moscow.
This action of the soviet govern
ment will allow the Friends TO I'M
nediately add to their number OF
workers in Russia and to begin on
a large scale the relief of famine
conditions which are reported 10
exist there. The Quakers have had
Two representatives in Moscow 1or
year and in that time have dls-
tributed more than 100000 worth
OF food and supplies. Four adtii-
uonal workers are now on their
way to Russia and the Friends Will
send others who have been walt
Ing for this permission to be grant
ed.
The Friends will be the distrlbu-
tors in Russia for the funds OF the
Jewish Joint Distribution commit
tee, and also of the All-American
tLnd for Russian Relief, which is
now being raised in the unitea
States.
Accepts Compromise.
Riga, Russia, Aug 19.-(By the
Associated Press THE announce
ment in Washington OF Herbert
Hoover, as head of the American
Relief administration, that an
agreement had been reached on tae
conditions laid down by the admin
istration concerning American re
lief work among the famine suffer.
ars. Of soviet Russia, Is interpretea
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
film CENS0RS
SAID TO Be idle:

New York, Aug. 19-Censorial
shears of the newly created state
board of moving picture censors
are in imminent danger of rusting
from disuse, Chairman George H.
Cobb indicated today.
It is an undoubted fact" Mr..
Cobb said, that the producers are
themselves eliminating the naughty
parts of their films They have di-
rected to improve the pictures in
their making, rather than after we
demand it The most of the films
we have reviewed, were made last
TALL, but the assembly has been re-
adjusted where necessary, appar-
emily"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
ORDER PROTEST
FOR LABOR DAY
Mental aKick, Against ProhfbitisE
VIII Be Silently Registered
by ~CamelS''.

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 19.-Lewis
L. Kotecki, Milwaukee, national
grand shiek of the Order of Cam
els, has issued a proclamation to
all members of the order, and all
to who are against prohibition and
the blue laws to join in mental
protest at p. m. Labor day. At
this time, the proclamation states,
every man and woman who is
against the United States declar-
ing against personal liberty will be
asked to stand perfectly still for
one minute and give vent to a
mental protest against the anti
saloon and blue laws.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
ALLEGED DEAD
Girl is alive

Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 19.-Serena
Morris, whose body was believed to
have been found in a shallow grave
in a wheat fi-ld near Granite City,
Ill, and was buried as such by the
girls grandmother, is alive here.
She was discovered by the Dellce
on the request of Thomas Gill1land'
held in Jail in Granite City, pending
investigation He said that he was
with the Morris girl in Cincinnati
at the time the body was found. me
notice verified this fact today, thus
securing an alibi for Gililland.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
DAZZLING With
kNTI-BEER LAW
Conflicting Reports As to POSSIBLE
ity of Agreement-VOl
FaVOrs Compromise.

Washington, Aug. 19-There
were conflicting reports as to the
possibility of agreement on the
anti-beer bill when senate and
house conferees took up their work
again today behind closed doors.
Representative Volstead, leader
of the house managers, was said to
be agreeable to a compromise on
the Stanley proposal, but unalter-
ably opposed to its acceptance as
it now reads, and determined to
fight the requirement of warrants
to search other property than
homes, including automobiles.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
SUIT ENJO!NS
SALARY RAISES
Payments to Heads of State De-
partments and Appropriation
Disbursements Protested.

Springfield, Ill, Aug. 19.-Pay-
ment of increases in salary to heads
of state departments, and pay
ments from appropriations to the
state department of finance for re-
serve, were attacked in bills for
injunction which August S. Pea
body of Chicago today asked leave
to file in the Sangamon county cir
cult court. The petition was sent
to Judge e. S. Smith, and a hear
ing will be held next Wednesday,
it was said.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
TAKE STEPS TO
GUARD ICHANC

Shanghai, China, Aug. 19.-Fol-
lowing the looting of the Yangtsze
port of Ichang and the burning of
considerable portion of the city
by mutinous Chinese troops early
in June, it is probable that steps
will be taken to have an interna-
tional settlement under foreign
control established in the city. This
measure was proposed by foreign
residents when they were asked to
advise the Chinese merchants con-
corning how the city may be safe
guarded in the future.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH GAINS

New Yc-k, Aug. 19.-Final re-
vision of the census figures of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States, shows a total communicate
membership of 1,722,361, the Pres
byterian Publicity Bureau an
nouncess a net increase of 81, 256,
over last year. This is the first
time in the history of the church
that the membership has passed the
100000 mark
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
Three BODIES
IN QUARRY POOL

Summit, H., Aug. 10. - Omitted
Press.)-Bodies of three persons
are imprisoned in a coupe at the
bottom of an eighty-foot quarry
pool, Jack Blair, diver, said today.
Blair is "exhuming' autos from
the auto grave" where they were
abandoned by persons who wished
to collect insurance on their cars
and by thieves.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
DEATH INQUIRY
DATE NOT FIXED

Chicago, Aug. 19.-The date for
inquiry into the death of Albert
David, 81 years old, of Rockford,
Ill, who died here at the county
hospital on Aug. 16 had not been
set today. Mr.. David was taken to
the hospital on Aug. s suffering
from gangrene of the left leg, sup
posed to have developed subsequent
to an accident about ten months
ago. He was operated upon but
died, due to his advanced age.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
Personal Points

Mrs. r. L. Fraser of Indianapolis,
Ind, arrived last night for a visit
with relatives
Rev. n. F. Collins of Houston,
Texas, is visiting at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Kurtz, 9IS
Sixth avenue.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
PICNIC PLANS Is
EXCHANGE TOPIC

Tentative plans for a picnic to
be held late next month were dis
cussed at the meeting of the Rock
Island Exchange club yesterday
noon. No definite arrangements
have been made. Only routine
business was attended to at yes
terday's session.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
BERCDOLL Goes
TO SWISS HOTEL
Draft EVader Leaves Germany,
Fearing ExtraditiOn by Ameri-
cans-Has Passport.

Genesa, Switzerland, Aug. 10
Grover c. Bergdoll, the American
draft evader, the ThurgoVie Zeitung
says today, arrived in Constance
from Munich, three days ago and
now is stopping in a hotel at St.
Gall.
Bergdoll came from Germany to
avoid extradition to the United
States, the newspaper asserted. He
has an American passport, it adds,
and now is perfectly safe from ex-
tradition.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
Obituary
Funeral of Mr., Wells.

Funeral services for John v.
Wells were held at 2 O'Clock this
afternoon in the family residence,
1905 Thirty-seventh street Rev. A.
NJ. Stocking, pastor of the Spencer
Memorial church, conducted the
services. Members OF the John
Buford post, G. A R., Woman's Re
life corps and the D. A r. had
charge of the services at the grave
Members of Siboney Bay camp,
No. 8. United Spanish War Vetes-
ans. were pallbearers. Burial was
in Chippiannock cemetery.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19
Funeral of Miss DeRord.

Funeral services for Martha De-
Bord, 16-year-old daughter of M
and Mrs. Edgar E. DeBord, 1877
Thirty sixth street, were held at
2 O'Clock this afternoon in the Knox
chapel. Rev. Oliver B. Enselmau,
pastor of the Centenary Methodist
chapel, conducted the services. Six
girl companions of Miss DeBord
we're pallbearers. Burial was in
Chippiannock cemetery.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-19

Walter Lyman Brown OF Los An
geles. Cal, has been sent to Riga
by Herbert Hoover to discuss with
soviet Representatives the condi-
lions on which the relief admins
tration viii undertake to alleviate
the Russian famine. Brown is di-
rector for Europe of the American
relief administration His head
quarters are at Eaton square, Lon
don.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16
ASK FOR WAGE INCREASES
Heads of Railway Shop Crafts Unions,
Representing Four Hundred Thou
sand Employees, Take Action.

Wage increases of 13 cents an hour
have been requested by the heads OF
railway shops crafts unions, represent
ing about 100000 employees, who asked
railroad executives to confer on the
subject December 20.
This action follows the railroads re-
cent petition to the railroad labor
board proposing to cut wages OF shop
crafts employees to the rate paid the
same craftsmen in other industries.
A decision of the board announced
July 20, 1920, retroactive to May 1,
1920, raised the pay of boilermakers,
blacksmiths electricians, tinsmiths and
sheet metal workers from " cents an
hour to 50 cents. The car repair men
were raised from 67 to 80 cents an
hour.
The general 1919 per cent cut In
wages, effective July 1, 1921, reduced
the wages of the first five classes men
toned to II cents, the present rate,
while the pay of car repairmen was
placed at u cents.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16
WHERE WALL STREET is WEAK.

If President Harding will examine
the map which hangs on the wall OF
his office he will find that the ninety
two Republican Congressman who re-
fused to follow his advice on the in
come tax issue come in the main from
the middle west-Ohio, Illinois, Wis
consin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
Minnesota.
AS sagacious politician, the
President knows that the Middle
West holds the balance Of power be-
tween the Democratic South and the
Republican East.
Without strong support from the
Middle West no political party may
hope to secure control of this govern
ment.
In the last presidential election all
the states named gave Mr. Harding
overwhelming majorities, and sent
practically solid Republican delega-
tions to the House. and the Senate.
Inc IHell Composing IIlCoC bClSS"
tons are personally friendly to the
President. They would like to be
persona grata at the White House.
They respect party regularity and
hesitate to "go against the machine" "
This being true, why did they bolt the
President the other day?
The answer is easy. Like most
men in public life these Congressman
keep their ears to the ground-they
are constantly seeking to ascertain
what the folks back home are think
ing.
They have discovered a growing
dissatisfaction with this administra-
ton because of its apparent determi-
nation to give Wall Street-particu
larly the Notwithstanding they
have the nerve" to demand.
The Presidents attempt to protect
the possessors of big income at the
expene of the rest of the taxpayers
was the last straw. To "stand by"
Mr.. Harding on that issue means hari-
kari in the judgment of the Republi-
cans from the middle west, and they
did not love their leader sufficiently
to commit political suicide for him.
The significance of this revolt
should not be lost on the President
and his advisers Wall Streets favor
is not an asset west of the Alleghe
nies.-Terre Haute Advocate.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16
PROSPERITY'S HABITAT

A third of the nations business fail
ures occur in Massachusetts, New
York, Illinois and Pennsylvania. In
September 36 out of every 100 fail
ures occurred in those four states.
Why? Business in those states is
more artificial. They may develop
and pass on the goods but they do not
produce the materials. The states
which "have the goods" on which our
whole superstructure Of commerce
and business depends, are the agricul-
tural states, the nations foundation.
Even this year, with prices never so
out of line, business is on filmer
basis in the producing states than
elsewhere.
If we are to have prosperity in this
country, we must make it possible for
its prosperity makers, the farming in
dustry and labor to prosper.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16

Thirty-one men were killed in coal
mine accidents in West Virginia dur
ing October, according to the state de-
partment of mines.
At Steubenville, Ohio, the Mingo
Junction plant of the Carnegie Steel
company resumed work. George
Wisener, superintendent, said the
plant, idle eight months, normally en-
ploys 1900 men.
The chamber of commerce of Cape
Girardeau, Mo-, has just made a sur
vey of the employment situation In
that city and found that very few per-
sons are out of work at the present
time.
Detroits unemployment committee
announced the opening Of an "odd
job bureau" through which persons
desiring workers for small tasks
might get in touch with idle workers
of all trades. The bureau is expected
to furnish employment for 5000 per-
sons.
d. c. lacking, managing director OF
the Utah Copper company, declared
that estimates made by him indicated
that the resumption Of the produc-
tion of copper would begin next
spring, subject to the consumption be-
ing on as large a scale as in recent
months.
The Evansville (Ind.) Central La
Dor union has passed a resolution to
be sent to congress against the re-
peal of the medicinal beer bill, point
ing out the repeal of the law will
mean the throwing of men out of en-
ployment. A copy of the resolution
has been sent to the two Indiana sen
ators, James Z. Watson and Harry s..
New.
The three-day strike at the Western
Packing company's plant at Chicago
was settled when some four hundred
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16
Notes From LabOr'S Field

hog ana cattle Killers returned TO work
under orders from Dennis Lane, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butchers Workers
union. The men walked out Armistice
day because they were given an hour
off instead Of a halliday.
Construction Of more than 6,2O1
miles of highways at cost Of $76.-
100000 and the employment of more
than 10000 workers Is about to be
undertaken by 80 states as q result
Of the recent passage Of the federal
highway act, Secretary Hoover an
nounced. The facts were obtained, he
said, by letters sent to the governors
Of states by the national conference
on unemployment.
In Its recently issued report for the
year 1920 the central commission of
the Czechoslovakian trade unions de-
scribes the last year as having been
one of favorable consolidation of the
trade-uniOn movement. At the begin
ming of the year fifty federations, with
727,OO0 members, were represented In
the central commission, while at the
end of the year the number of aftili-
ated declarations had increased to fif-
ty-four and their membership to
$4,000.
One workman was shot dead and
policeman was severely beaten In a
clash at the department of public
works, Havana, Cuba, where hundreds
of street cleaners were seeking to. col
lect overdue wages.
Improvement In unemployment con-
ditions at Detroit was shown In the
weekly report of the Employers as
sociation. The 70 member firms dur
ing the week added 1890 workers to
their forces, bringing the total en-
ployed to 116,8O2. Half Of this num-
ber was working on part-time sched-
ules.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16
OTHER LABOR NOTES

A one big union Of seafarers mas
been organized in Japan with mem
bership Of over 10000.
More than 6,2OO American seamen
began work on American ships during
October, according to report of the
shipping board Many ships are sail
ing with 100 per cent American crews.
Iron and steel workers in the Dues
seldorf Germany area, to the num-
Der of 10000, have struck for an in
crease in wages amounting to 100 per
cent. The masters have declared a
lockout
At Newark, N. j., 400 members of
Local 691 of the Milk Wagon Drivers
union ended the milk strike for that
district by voting to return to work as
individuals. Strike leaders declare
that the strike is not broken.
Eight thousand cigarmakers en-
ployed in factories at Ybor City, Fla,
walked out on strike demanding re-
sumption of the old wage scale. This
follows similar action by 10000 men
employed at west tampa.
Two more packing companies an
nounced that agreements with their
employees, whereby the latter will ac-
cept pay cuts similar to those recently
put into effect by Armour & Co., Swift
& Co. and Morris & Co., had been eff
fected. Wilson & Co.'S employees have
put the new scale into effect
At the end of several days of con-
ferences employees Of the Cudahy
Packing company In Omaha, Neb.,
agreed to accept a reduction Of tn
cents an hour for unskilled labor re-
ceiving 45 cents an hour or less, and a
reduction Of cents an hour for those
who have been getting more than 30
cents an hour.
Failure to supply the miners of the
Donetz basin, in southern Russia, with
foodstuffs has resulted In desertion
by laborers, including more than half
the skilled laborers, and In the sub
stitution of less-skilled workers from
the "mobilized" laborers. Discipline
has deteriorated, there being much
soldering and nonreporting for
work.
Aggregate working forces Of the
seventy-nine firms reporting to the EN-
ployers' association of Detroit Is now
1888, a net decrease Of 484 men
for the week ending November 15, ac-
cording to a report submitted to as
sociated firms by Chester M. Culver,
manager of the association. OF the
total, $500 men are working on re-
duced schedules.
The 1900 employees of the Tidewa-
ter Oil company Of Bayonne, N. j.,
In refusing a request Of the company
to return to work pending settlement
of their grievances charged the COM
pany with unfairness In that their
wages had been cut "a per cent while
those of employees Of the neighboring
Standard OIL plant had been reduced
only 10 per cent.
Rejecting the efforts to provide
work for unemployed men building
construction throughout Massachusetts
increased considerably during October,
according to an announcement by the
state department of labor and indus
tries. The department reports that
the October increase was 3O7 per cent
over the preceding month and 86.9
for October. 1920.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-12-16
WHAT THE LABEL REPRESENTS

The union label symbolizing as it
does the conditions which the union
itself is established to secure and
maintain is proof that these condi-
tions obtain in the making of the
article upon which it appears. Firm
names, brands, trademarks, and other
devices by which products are adver-
tised may lose their original signifi-
canoe through changes in the fortunes
of those who own them. The union
label, being owned by the union and
subject exclusively to its control, rep
resents the same thing always, name
ly, fair wages and hours, clean work
shops, and good workmanship.