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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15

III Manic street, are spending the
week With Mrs Rodgers parents in
fcIarksburg,
Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Wright, at their home near No. eS,
IL baby boy.
Mrs. A. A Dye entertained me
second division Of the Baptist Ais.
sion circle at the Baptist church
last evening.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15

The earth's orbit around the sun
is about 56O.0ON;o6O miIes-the dis
tance the earth travels each year.
Earth's diameter from pole to
pole is 81 miles shorter than that at
the equator.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15
Pioneer Dead.

James Jackson. a pioneer re
dei-t OF Marion county. died at hi
home at 245 Walnut street Monda}
morning at Z o'clock. Nj. Jackson
was 81 years Of age and is survived
BY his wife and three childrei
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15

riasc and love in all forms-maF.
r:aPe as it is being lived today, and
the author has taken The characters
he needs, to portray what, he knows
is i~rrevOcahlY true and he has made
a fine job of it.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15
MONONGAH
Aid Society.

Mrs. Carson Mason will enrerta
the Ladies' Aid society OF the J
L. church. South. at her home {
Thursday at a quilting party.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15

L5JhSrlRs aud Northumberland and;
fIIfS GfSne EdseIl The fnnetas
VIM tak8ptasa from the honse on
Wednesday, Afternoon at Q O'Clock.
Buriat WHl be made IN the Cochran
cemetery near Worthington.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15
Has Success.

Wldi turkeys, squirrels and rab
bits all fell for Jake Scarf who was
hunting In the mountains of Web
ster county last week. Mr.. Scarf
has been the most successful hunter
from Monongah this season.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15

The Baptist Mission circle "
hold an oyster supper in tho Re
Cross rom Saturday evening. ~
yember ..
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-15

Personals.
Mrs. Fl. NJ. Rodgers and children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
down 20 Per CENT
Santa Fe Announces Reduction
Wages May IL.
Slice Hits All Lower Officials
and Employees.

Chicago, April 13.-Notices of a re-
duction of 20 per cent in the pay of
all subordinate officials and employees
other than common laborers of the
Santa Fe railroad system were mailed
out yesterday. it was announced here
today.
The proposed reduction would be eff
fective May IL and meanwhile the
road asks conferences with all classes
of employees, these gatherings to be
held between April 25 and May Z, at
the office of the general manager in
Topeka, Kan.
The notice referred to, according to
general officers of the Santa F'e in
Topeka, is the notice which was first
announced in The State Journal of
Monday evening calling the confer
ences to be held here.
No definite statement of a wage
cut will be made until the results Of
the conferences to be held in Topeka
are made known, it was stated at the
general offices today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
PRESS CLUB INvADES DREAD
Topeka News Men To Be Guests OF
Il. U. Fraternity Tonight.

ing pans, over thirty members OF the
Topeka Press club leave via a special
car on the Santa Fe this evening Tor
Lawrence. At Lawrence the newspa-
per men will be the guests of the
Sigma Delta Chi fraternity of the
Armed with their notorious" fry
university school of journalism at a
banquet given in their honor at the
Phi Psi chapter house.
The chief feature of the evening on
Mount Dread will be the sketch, THE
Cub Factory" the Topekans have ar
ranged to present as their share of the
entertainment. 1t is a skit done in
Press club style panning the school OF
journalism and starring Clyde Reed
in the part of Clyde Reed.
special rehearsal of the skit was
held at the Chamber of Commerce
rooms last evening, where final plans
were made for the trip and arrange
ments made for another rehearsal to
be held in the special Press club car
en- route to Lawrence.
The following members of the club
have pledged their attendance for the
invasion of the university ]. f. Jar
relI, Harry Wright, Charles l. Mitch
ell, Arthur J. Carruth. jr.. Milton Ia
Dor, F. L. Pinet, E. d. Keilmann, Keith
CIevenger, Charles e. Sweet. Will
Townsley. A. L. Shultz, William Bacon,
W. L. Huggins, jr., Clyde NJ. Reed
Roy y. Moore. Kenneth Clark, Tom
Brown. Cecil Howes, N. A. Turner. G
E. Yetter, ]. C. Mohler. G.. E. Hobbs
Joe Nickel, E. D. George, II. G
Sticher. E w. Swan, L. r. Booth
charles Trapp, Carl Bolmar, Vernon
E. Bundy. r. f. Lewis, Paul Loveweli
A. G. Hill and Joe Murray.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
BOOZE TO BLAME
''PuSsyfOOt" johnson Declares
British Strikers Are Unruly.
Even Leaders Cannot Control
Them, Says Dry Evangelist.

Waterville, O., April 13.-"They
spent all their money for booze and
now they are hollering for something
to eat.''
William ("Pussyfoot') Johnson,
American prohibition advocate, gave
this explanation today to the cause of
the general labor strike called in Eng
land.
THE drink question is back of it,
he charged. with but few excep-
tions leaders of British labor are dry,
while spots in the rank and file are
wet and beyond control of their Of
ficers.'
johnson, whose vision was impaired
in q London riot, a year ago, is going
to risk his other eye. = linda united by
his physical sufferings and the hostile
demonstration in Windsor, Canada,
Monday night, he left here today for
another campaign to dry up England.
He will sail from New York Saturday
on the first leg of an eight months
world tour.
I'm not going to die until the whole
world is dry" johnson confidently
smiled as he forecast prohibition sue
cess during the coming year in Eng
land, ireland, Wales, New Zealand
and India. He also expressed pleasure
with prohibition conditions in the
United States, altho admitting boot
Logging was a thriving business.
The coming general elections in
England will give the drys a telling
victory, he said.
THE drys will go after the indi-
vidual members, of parliament in the
coming elections and the chances are
that will give the people the right to
vote on the question:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13

Another thirty-six hours of rain
and chill are ahead of Kansas At z
O'Clock this morning a very unusual
condition, in that the rain was falling
over the entire state. existed.
Topeka has had "a inch of rainfall
in the past twenty-four hours; Con-
cordia, 20 inch; Wichita, SO inch;
Dodge City, SO inch; Goodland, .0S
inch; Kansas City, % inch. and ST.
Joseph, .0S inch.
The rain is proving valuable from
the agricultural standpoint, especially
in the western section OF the state.
The cold is delaying the growth of
vegetation in the eastern end of the
state, but the moisture being stored
up will probably prove valuable later
in the growing season.
The temperature in Topeka will not
go above so degrees this afternoon,
and will drop to about As degrees this
evening. Thursday it will not rise
above 60 degrees.
The rain is general today over Ok
lahoma, Texas. Missouri and Arkan-
sas, as well as Kansas, which is the
center of the low pressure area caus-
Continued on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
CONGRESS- ON JOB
Both Houses Buckle Down to
Heavy Program.
Tariff and Sales Tax Bills Are
Being Rushed.

Washington, April IS. Congress
buckled down today to the big job cut
out for it in President Harding's
message. Tariff and taxation pro-
gram preliminarfes were tackled in
both branches.
While the house ways and means
committee was putting the enlarged
emergency tariff bill in form for pas
sage tomorrow or Friday, the senate
tax and tax reform hearings, which
Senator Penrose, chairman, said would
start soon.
Republican leaders, comforting after
Hardings message, decided to lump
the emergency tariff and anti-dump-
ing bills into one measure and touch
it off with an angle of foreign ex-
change adjustment. This made neces-
sary further committee action today
and postponed for one or two days the
passage of the bill by the house.
However, time will be saved in the
long. rum" said Representative Young,
NoSth Dakota, in charge of the
we will have both the emergency
tariff and anti-dumping measures out
of the house and up in the senate by
F'ridayeat the latest"
u iThe Young bill, reported today in
.aNco cortianee with the new program. is
made up of the old F0rdney emerg-
ency tariff bill with rates unchanged,
the anti-dumping bill, and contains an
exchange fixing clause.
Italy, Germany, Austria and the
central European and Balkan states
will be affected by this new feature
Because of exchange disparities, tariff
duties on imports from those countries
to the United States would be in
creased from three to five times by
this plan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13

care for their employed and the gov
ernnent called out more troops to
preserve order.
Rolls OF volunteers for service in
the vital industries continued to file
rapidly. More recruits were taken
into the army and every barrack saw
green men taking their first military
drill.
Be 1000 900 Idle.
The triple alliance" is made up of
the National Miners federation, hav-
ing membership of 100000. the Ma
tional union of railway men, with
100000 members, and the National
have a membership of close to 300,
alliance" should call a strike there
would be nearly 100000 persons idle
in England as a result
The decision to strike was reached
unanimously by the transport workers
eral secretary of the Railway Mems
union, said after this mornings meet
ing.
THE walkout," he declared, will
take place at 10 o'clock Friday night.
Many other unions have sent applica-
tions to join the strike and these are
being considered
Other labor organizations may be-
come involved in the controversy be-
tween the government and the triple
alliance" The Daily Mail declared
] today that 1he executive committee of
the Electrical Trades union resolved
last night to support the triple al
lance"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
DEPEND ON PLACE
At One End of Building Work
ers Strike-At Other Don't.
Builders and Union Men Tan
gIed in Mass of TechnicalitieS.

The difference between two ends of
the same building is the difference
between striking and not striking for
the metal workers who are employed
on the Warren NJ. Crosby building, and
who were called on strike by the
building trades council.
Whether the metal workers were
striking or whether they were not has
been a moot question. The F. M.
Spencer & Sons Contracting company
stated Tuesday that the men were at
work in violation of the orders of the
building trades council.
Today an official of the council as
serted that the men are working on
a separate job-a repair job on the
roof of the old portion of the Crosby
building on the Kansas avenue side,
and that they are working on a job
for the Crosby company, but not for
the Spencer firm, which is construct
ing the new building fronting on Jack
son street. They are still working for
George Warner & Sons, sub contrac-
tors, but are on strike so far as the
Spencer job on Jackson is concerned.
The union official declared that the
union men affected by the strike order
simply leave the jobs, from which
union carpenters were locked out by
tn Master Builders association, and go
to other jobs" They are not leaving
the jobs on which no union carpenters
are employed, they say.
Resort to Technicalities.
Both sides of the open shop war
seem to be resorting to every techni-
cality possible on the one side to keep
their jobs moving, and on the other
to keep their members at work. Mean
while each side makes sweeping state
ments.
The official of the building trades
council previously quoted said today
that the only men affected either by
the lockout" or the strike, are the
forty union carpenters, land many OF
them have other jobs" The members
of the other unions simply leave one
| job, where they consider the carpen-
| ters have been unfairly treated, and
go to jobs on which they have not
, been locked out, he said.
The statement published this morn
ing to the effect that electricians are
still working for the Spencer firm
, was denied by the union official, in
sofar as it concerns the union electri-
clans. There were no union electri-
! clans working there anyhow" he de-
clared.
The union man charged that the
news stories given out by the builders
are for the purpose of breaking the
morale of the union men, and of Sc
curing public opinion for their side
! I'VE know what they are up to. ano
/ their stories are not having any effec1
I whatever on u.s." he said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Driver for Wall Paper Store Hurt in
Collision Today.

Clyde Stanley, driver for the A.
c. Hughes & Company wall paper and
paint store, at Gil Jackson street, was
painfully injured about 8 o'clock this
morning when a Payne taxicab col
lided with his truck at Seventh and
Clay streets.
The truck was hurled against tele-
phone pole by the force of the impact.
The taxi. it was said. rebounded and
turned over onto its side. then skidded
into the rear end of the truck The
driver crawled from the cab with
only a slight cut on his face. One
of Stanley's arms was badly bruised
and he was badly shaken up.
Roy Payne at noon denied that he
knew there had been an accident or
that one of his cars had been injured.
The taxicab wass almost demolished
and the truck was badly damaged.
Slippery pavements were blamed for
the collision
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
Medicine Lodge Teachers
Go Or, Strike Industrial
LaU Does Not Offer Relief
First General Walkout of Instructors in Kansas-Gov
Allen Decides Court Has No Power
Over Disgruntled Teachers.

School teachers in Medicine Lodge,
county seat of Barber county, have
gone on Il strike. The entire teach
ing staff has refused to guide thoughts
of the budding youth of Barber
county and the school board today ap-
pealed to Governor Allen for help.
The situation is not covered by the
industrial court act and Medicine
Lodge must solve its own problem.
Joe Sims, chairman of the Medi-
cine Lodge board of education, today
sent Governor Allen a telegram ad-
vising him of the situation. He asked
if the industrial court act applied
The governor replied that teaching
did not come under legislative inter
probation of essential industries.
Whether the teacher strike is inn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
TODAY IN CONGRESS-
In the Senate.

Continues discussion of Colombian
treaty.
Senator Cummins to call up resolu-
ton for investigation of railroads.
Finance committee to meet to set
time for beginning tax hearings.
Launching the fight against the
$4,000. 900 Colombian treaty Senator
Kellogg, Republican, Minnesota, told
the senate today that ratification OF
the pact would place stain upon
the name and fame of Theodore
Roosevelt and would acknowledge
that the United States wronged Co.
lombia, violated her rights and are
now willing to make reparations
therefor
The first move in the present con-
gress looking to disarmament came
today with the introduction by Sena-
tor Rorah, Republican, Idaho. of his
resolutions authorizing sthe president
to open negotiations with Great Brit
ain and Japan looking TO a reduction
in future naval building by those
countries and the United States.
In the House.
To consider revised emergency tariff
bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
RED RIVER FIGHT CONTINUES
Supreme Court Decision Did Not End
Battle for Oil Land.

Austin, Tex, April 13.-The United
States supreme courts decision favor
ing Oklahoma in the Red river Texas
Oklahoma boundary dispute ends only
the first legal skirmish in the case,
Attorney General Cureton declared
here today.
Cureton said the court decided only
that the south side of the river is the
legal boundary. Should the court
hold that the south bank is at the wa
ter's edge at low water stage, Texas
wins the suit, he continued.
The big battle. he said. will be
waged around this issue. He an
nounced he will leave for Washington.
taking Assistant Attorney General
Taylor along, and remain there indef-
initely in connection with the case and
others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
CONFER FIFTEENTH DEGREE.
FTfty-Sixth Semi-AnnuaI Reunion of
Scottish Rite viii Close Friday.

The program of the fifty-sixth semi
annual reunion of the Scottish Rite
Masons had progressed today as far as
the opening of the Rose Croix chap
ter. The fifteenth degree, the first in
the Rose Croix, was conferred this
morning. In addition to the candi-
dates who took the first fourteen de-
grees of the work Tuesday, several
attended today. who previously had
taken the work in the lodge of per-
lection.
Tonight. the program will have fin
ished with the nineteenth degree, in
the Council of Kadosh
The reunion will end Friday night
with a reception and banquet for the
members and the class who have at
tanned to the thirty-second degree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
PANAMA NOTE is DEFIANT
Republic Refuses to Accept Supreme
Court Decision on Boundary Line.

Washington. April 13.-The reply
of Panama to the last Hughes note on
the boundary question between that
country and Costa Rica was received
at the state department today.
Panamas answer is regarded by this
government as most unsatisfactory"
it was learned. The note reiterates
Panama's s refusal to accept the White
award as a basis for settling the boun-
dairy controversy. This award was up
held by Secretary of State Hughes.
The Panama reply is exceedingly long
and goes into the history of the case
in an effort to vindicate it's position in
the boundary question.
1t was indicated today at the state
department that the American govern
ment was disposed to insist upon its
original position that Panama settle
it's boundary dispute with Costa Rica
on the basis of the White award de-
spite the protest contained in Pan
ama's reply, received today to Secre-
tary Hughes note of last month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13

is not definitely stated, altho Sims's
wire indicates that schools in the
town have been closed. All of the
teachers nave Joined in the strike, the
telegram announced.
In his-wire to Sims, the governor
said:
industrial court law holds thay
food, fuel. clothing and transporta-
tion' are the four essential industries
under the regulation of the court. II
is not thought that the profession of
teaching would be interpreted as be-
ing under the jurisdiction of this law.
This is the first wholesale teacher
strike declared in Kansas. 1t is also
the first move to secure an interpre-
tation of the industrial court law as
applied to professional services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Pertinent Question and Answer
Given and Gathered Today by
State journal Reporters.
TODAY,S QUESTION.
What do you think of the views ex-
pressed by Alexander Howat?
THE ANSWERS.

THE ANSWERS.
Gov Henry j. Allen-"The only
significance of Howat's meeting is the
new purpose it discloses among the
radicals. 1t is, 1 take it, the opening
of a program to go forward until next
election in an effort to combine radi-
cal leadership of labor with the Nom
partisan league. 1t will be an effort
to create a radical program in Kansas
under the labor r-farmer banner"
Sen. Charles H. Thompson, Marion
"Howat represents the absolute reds.
1 sat in his meeting last night. His
speech was demoralizing to good gov
ernment and good society. 1 watched
the crowd carefully. The radicals
were there and they heard just what
they wanted in order to inflame their.
passion and prejudice"
Sen. A P Burdick, Atchison-''Ef
feet of the Howat speech is bad. 1t
is bad for the state. The people of
Kansas cannot understand how Howat
can continue to call strikes and defy
courts and stay out of jail. The fact
that he is out on the stump doesn't
help in removing this feeling"
N. A. Turner, state auditor-"How-
ats speech was of the destructive
rather than the constructive type. 1t
makes a bad situation between en-
ployer and employe worse.- That, in
my opinion, is the most important eff
feet of the speech"
D. o. McCray, assistant secretary of
state-"Howats speech was of the
, radical brand, just as expected. This
campaign of unrest will have its ef-
feet in the next election. His speak
1 IL IL II
the purpose of uniting the radicals for
political purposes"
Otto Rain, printer-"I was agree
ably surprised at Howat- 1 had
thought he was rather a rough neck.
But he talked well and was well re-
ceived Everyone 1 have talked to
was well impressed. There is nc
question but that thousands or even
millions of dollars are being spent in
this country to crush organized labor
and Howat was trying to make the
public understand it. You l.otice that
he talked on the general labor prob
lem more than he did on Kansas ques-
tions. 1 agree with him that the labor
workers have been misunderstood ano
that there is need for active work
| against the anti-labor forces. Why
we have to have our unions to better
our conditions
| d. H. Branaman. city attorney"
1 think. Howat is a dangerous man.
was surprised at the crowd that came
to hear him last night. came ovel
out of curiosity, as 1 think many o
| those present must have His argu
ment was not convincing to me, bu
| it seems to have been to others from
| the way in which they cheered him.
! Miss Blanche Weir, city hall-"Dis
gusting! Absurd! Didn't like him a
ALL"
E. E. Braymer. agent for the Ameri.
can Railway Express company
| didn't go to hear him. I've known
Howat for good many years, and
didn't think it was right to encourage
an avowed lawbreaker by going t
hear him. 1 don't think the people
should have crowded to hear him al
they did,
| George Senne. contractor-"I didn
1 attend the meeting. but 1 really don
believe that Howat has any rea
| views"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
REDUCE PHONE TOLL CHARGES
Local Telephone Companies Will Re-
ceive 30 Per Cent on Messages.

Under an order by the public uti1i-
ties commission local telephone COM
panies will receive 20 per cent of the
toll for all messages delivered over
their lines They now receive 25 per
cent on messages originating over the
lines. This amount will be reduced
to 20 per cent.
Hearing on the new order has been
set for May % and the order is made
effective July l. The new ruling will
mean a big slice in revenues of the
Southwestern Bell and companies in
the larger towns and cities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
MISS BRESETTE APPOINTED
VIII Head Welfare Department Under
Court of Industrial Relations.


Miss Lima E. Bresette has been re-
appointed as head of the welfare de-
partment under the court of indus
trial relations. The appointment was
made late Tuesday afternoon at a
conference of industrial court judges.
Miss Bresette was appointed secre-
tary of the industrial welfare commits
sion by Governor Hodges in 1913. She
continued to hold the position under
the state labor department during the
administration of Governor Capper in
spite of her Democrat partisanship.
She was also reappointed during the
first term of the Allen administration
and was selected to succeed herself by
the court which is to supervise the de-
partment under the new law.