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, 1921-12-29
"GHOST" IN NO MANS LAND
Germans Thought They Were Listen.
Ing to Unesrthly Visitor, put It
Was Clever Propaganda.

The only direct propaganda raid for
which the American army had oppor-
tunity before the armistice was
planned and carried out on the Metz
front by Capt. IL. Il. Osann. an officer
of Belgian descent who was familiar
with the German army. says Mr.. He
Der Blankenhorn in Harper's Maya
zine.
This is my funeral" Capt. Osann
said when he explained his scheme.
"All l want is 10000 leaflets. That
division is full of Alsace-Lorrainers,
n l know the names of scores of
men in 1t. Well drop special leaflets
on them for n few days, and after
they have soaked in I'll take IA patrol
some night and 20 up to their wire
and call. Don't shoot I'm not going
to shoot. Is Fritz Schneider there? l
want to talk TO him. Where is Willy
LiebmannP'"
You'll get n prompt answer from
machine guns" l observed.
"Oh, yes, but only a burst or two"
0sann said. They'll miss. and there'u
be II pause. and I'll call more names.
If | get somebody out there t. argue
with, I'll send him back to bring his
whole battalion over"
We showered them with Osann's
leaflets In French and German, adj
dressed to Alsace-Lorrainers-simple
statements of what the victory of one
side or h other would mean TO them.
Then on n quiet night Osann and a
patrol of - stole along the railway
that ran into the enemy's lines before
DampvitouX. Alone. he made his way
within 80 yards of an observation post
On the edge of Il wired woods and
boldly set up his call. There was not
even a shot. Aften ten minutes he
began again. "NIen of the Sixty-First
regiment, listen.' Then the patrol be-
hind him began to hear voices in the
Boche trench II cultural but earnest
discussion was going on.
Again Osann shouted names he
knew in the silence the whole patrol
could hear the footsteps Of Il man
walking along the railway track to-
ward OSann, hut he ran back and
Osann had TO come away.
A few days later we took prisoners
on that front. and every man had
copies of the Alsace-Lorraine leafiet
In his pockets. When we asked IL
they had noticed anything recently in
No Mans land at night. they an
swered. You mean the ghost?" A
ghost. they said. had been heard call
ing soldiers by name. Their officers
had made II report Of the ghost to the
Kommando.
For all I know the command may
have issued orders about II. "Gn fu-
ture ghosts will be met with five
rounds of NJ. G. fire angel with ten"
, 1921-12-29
BALM WIRE.
(By Earl II. Emmons.)

(By Earl ii. EmmonS.)
You can talk about the hair-pin and its
wide and varied fame,
And of female ingenuity in the han
din of the same,
But for plain and fancy genius, now
the bird that | admire
Is a tough old Black Hills hombre with
Il piece of balm wire.
You n 90 from Boyd to Rapid. or
from Deadwood to the Gap:
Stop at Custer, climb to Harvey, wan
der all around the map:
Go by rail or trail or roadway where
and far as you desire,
But there's nowhere you can go and
get away from balm wire.
You will see it on the ranches. in the
mines and ut the mills;
It's been used for mendin' every tool
that's used around the Hills;
If n Teller cracks II single-tree or looS-
Ems up "A tire,
Or splits IL tongue or breaks n spring,
he grabs for balm wire.
On a harness IL can substitute from
tugs and reins to bit
You can twist il into scores of tools.
and weave n bunk with it:
As n mule whip its authority is quite
severe and dire,
And there's beer some rustlers in the
Hills got hanged with balm wire.
1t will take the place of nails or make
II handle for II pail;
You can anchor up your pants with il
in case suSpenders fail:
And it's good for hundreds more of
other fhippS ~ WON in,,,ir,
And the Hills would not be settled vet.
except for balm wiret
, 1921-12-29
Notice Of stoeLhoIders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Stock Growers State Bank Of Saratoga,
Wyoming, Will be- held at 100 o'clock
D. m. on Monday, the nth day Of Jan
nary, In the offices Of snid Bank In the
Of Saratoga. Wyoming.
Said meeting is called for the pur.
pose of elcctlng Il board of directors for
the ensuing year, and for the tran
saction Of any other business which
may legally come before II.
Dated this Sth day of December,
1921. II. ii. HEALEY.
i3-S-J President.
, 1921-12-29
AFTER THREE YEARS.
This Testimony Remains mistaken

Time is the best test Of truth. Here
is II Laramie story that has stood the
test of time. II is n story with "A poink
which will come straight home 20 many
of MS.
Mrs. j. G. Klock. 80 S. 18th St. Lar
annie, Wyo., says: 81 suffered severely
with kidney trouble for a long time. (
first noticed the trouble coming on by
my kidneys acting ~irrcgularly. My
back became weak and lame and it
soon developed into lumbago. Shars
pains cut through my kidneys and /
was desperate with the suffering.
Doan's Kidney Pills were recommend
ed TO me and / got a box. The first
helped me considerably and | used
three boxes aud was cured" Estate
ment given February 10, 1870
ON May %, 1920, Mrs. Klock said
Il gladly repeat all | said in favor OF
Doan's Kidney Pills. | have had no
need to use Doan's for the last two
years"
6Oc, at all dealers. Foster-AIiIburn
Co, Mfrs, Buffalo, n. Y. ADV.
, 1921-12-29
THE lINCEP-
TION.

Talk Is cheap,
they say.
Not always. My
wife talked me
out OF u W. hun
dred dollar gown
last night.
, 1921-12-29

Nm. RICHARDSON a SONS
P~ostofice. Milo, wyo.
Cattle branded q on both sides.
Dewlup ON v brisket.
Range, Elk Mountain.
, 1921-12-29
To Hunters and Fishermen.

No Fishing or hunting allowed on the
Condict ranch on Brush Creek.
W. G. CONDICT.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
MASS MEETING. LABOR HALL SUNDAY
Workers of All Classes and the General Public Invited
TO Attend the Second of Series of General
Meetings to BE Held This Winter

Every member of organized labor and their families
should attend the public meeting in Labor Hall Sunday
afternoon at o'clock Max s. Hayes the speaker will
wake em up as no one but he can. Mr.. Hayes is a
former Ameican Federation of Labor official and has
served in international conferences and acted upon ma
tona labor boards He has been continuous delegates
to the American Federation of Labor from the nerna-
tiona Typographical Union for many years and is one
of the veest at their conventions. Mr. Hayes will talk
upon "The Open Shop Humbuggery" The general public
is invited. Let's fill the hail.
The subject of Mr. Hayes address is one that every
laborng man-union and non nionis vitality interested
in Mr. Hayes will handle his subject in a manner born
of years of study and experience He will make clear
the attitude of open shoppers toward all labor and will
point out the results sought to be obtained by organized
labors foes.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
RAILROAD BOSSES
PLAN TO SMASH
RAIL UNIONS
fBy The Federated Press)

Washington.-Wh Secretary of
Labor J. H. Davis sat silently by as
an interested witness, William III.
Johnston, president of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists, told
members of the Washington City
Club that small group of railroad
executives were engaged in a plot 10
smash the railway unions and that
only government ownership of the
carriers would end the danger Of
strikes and give the country cheap
and efficient transportation.
There will always$be danger
of strikes" said Johnston, ESQ
long as the railroads are allow
to defy the rail boards decisions
against the workers. 1t required
the Railway Labor Board show
that it had any power at ALL"
Johnston asserted that the railroad
purporting to show
high wages paid were false and de-
MED that the men threatened to strike
because of the old wage cut. He said
the strike was called to ward off an
other decrease. Considering the in
crease in the cost of living, ne said
railroad wages are lower than before
the war.
Abolition of private ownership 10
be succeeded by government owner
SHIP is the only method TO obtain
reasonable rail rates, according u
Johnston.
"No industry in America is so
grossly mismanaged, lie declared,
"and the nation cannot expect free
dom from strike threats, proper
freight rates and efficient operation
until the small and powerful clique
not always owners of the roads
cease their efforts to wreck the la
Dor organizations which are necessary
to give the workers American stand
ards of living"
Johnston charged that the railroads
are spending much money needlessIy
by subletting their repair work 10
outside firms when it could be done
in their own shops at much lower
cost. This was done to permit the
railroads to discharge union employees
on the excuse that there "is not
sufficient work TO keep them busy"
He asserted that this was part Of the
plot TO destroy union labor and said
it was done in defiance of Railroad
Labor Board rulings.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
W WHITEWASHING
THE FACTS IN
WASHINGTON
Vast Percentage of Revenue Spent
for War Sought Ia Re Hidden
hs War Lords.

american Union Against Mlitarisml
hig army and navy advocates are
much disturbed because the facts ne
gansing government expenditures
have at last reached the public. The
citizens of the country have learned
with alarm thai SS.I per cent Of the
total appropriations Of the United
States government for the fiscal
year 1921 went 20 pay the casts of
past wars and to prepare Tor future
Mars.
IL is necessary to cover up these
disturbing facts somehow 50 the
army popagandiSta are fegrouping
the years figures and spreading them
over the country Ia an effort To hide
the important facts. The costs Of tho
World War, comprising b2,a per cent
Of the whole budget, are grouped to
gcther eonspieuousls as though they
were an entierly separate item, he
side them are placed the amounts Of
the current appropriations for the
army and navy by way of eontarat.
but not with the idea that they
should be considered together. They
are To be taken separately, there Il
tn be no relation In the readers mind
between war costs and costs for main
tenance and enlargement of the mill
tary machine. All emphasis IL laid
ON theSi60, 900 appropriated for
the navy aud the SliS, 200, 900 for the
army which together amount TO lS.3
per cent Of the whole expenditures Of
the government. The public In Ia
think the only important fact Is that
the services get so small an amount
of the whole, II Is not pointed out
that even this 1873 per cent II more
than half again as much aa the en-
tire amount that wns spent for con-
structive purposes for the whole year
Less than twelve dollars out of every
hundred spent by tho government IN
tho fiscal year 1921 went for CON
struetion. The balance went TO pay
the costs Of past destruction and Co
prepare for more, or, In other words,
To pay war costa.
That Ia the fact the milltanatg
would cover up and that Is what the
tax payer has found out, Having
learned where over three-fonfths OF
his taxes go no amount of whitewash
ing of the facts ia going 10 silence
his protests. Those protests are
pouring Into Washington front all
sides. He IL demanding results from
the conference now meeting In that
city: results which shall mean real
reduction In the armament burden of
the world
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
EMPLOYMENT IN
ILLINOIS SHOWS
IMPROVEMENT
lThe EmpIoyment Dullellnl

The employment condition TN I'LL
n0ig continues to improve slowly. Re
ports from 6i7 firms who nsmally
employ about 235 900 persons, show
an Increase from ,g23 employees
on August 81, TO 1o6,06s on Septem-
Der 80. The increase IN operations
has given employment 10 ii,d4b
more persons. Although this i'm
provement is somewhat minimized by
the fact that two large firms alone
added nearly 10000 employees, never
theess clear upward trend Is seen
in comparing the number Of firms
which increased operations with those
which reduced. Two hundred seventy
firms added 20 their forces while 2iS
reduced and l29 made no change.
The increase in employment in Chi
cago was 10 per cent which was
slightly greater than the increase for
the entire state. The increase for
the state was 5.8i per cent, compared
with an increase of o per cent for
the period from May 81 10 August 81.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
CITY OFFICIALS
TAKE UP MATTER
OF LOWER FARES
Twin City Federation Of Labor's
Resolution Receives Favorable
Consideration.

That Champaign and urbana will
ask for reduction In street car fares
is now certainty.
The Urbana city council received
and acted upon the Twin City FEEDER
alton of Labor's resolution asking for
IA five cent fare at its last meeting,
and appointed committee consisting
of X. Nj. Storey, Jacob White and
Corporation Counsel Finfrock to meet
with the Champaign authorities. The
Champaign commissioners have au-
thorzed Mayor Tucker to act for
them in arranging for joint fight
before the state commerce commits
sion.
No announcement was made as 10
whether or not IL was proposed TO
have the recent increase in gas and
electric rates suspended, but since
the company's own statement of earn
ings show such "A decided increase
during the past ten years and the gas
test was 80 far below standard, action
in that line, too, would be a relief
to the citizens of the Twin Cities.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
JUDGE ANDERSON'S
INJUNCTION is TO
BE CONTESTED
(By The Federated Press)

New York.-0fficial here of in
ternational labor unions as we'll as
industrial and labor legislation spe-
cialists, declare the injunction issued
by Federal Judge Anderson in In
dianapolis against the "ckeck off"
system in the coal mines should be
resisted to the limit, regardless of
the immediate consequences.
The decision of Judge Anderson
is not surprising" said Joseph
Schlosberg, general secretary-treas-
urer of the Amalgamated Garment
Workers. "1tis merely one more in
dication of what labor is facing to-
day. -. ss,... s..s.-.
Labor has failed to take the firm
stand it should have taken against its
enemies. The collapse of the rail-
road brotherhoods has encouraged the
capitalists to begin final effort to
crush organized labor.
"The time has come for the mine
union officials to show that they
have backbone enough to take the
penalty, if necessary, of fighting this
Injunction to finish. The situation
calls for men-not towards"
Benjamin Schlesinger, president of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, declared the reastion
from the Anderson injunction must
eventually be favorable tabor. at
is one of the things which must drive
labor into politics." he said, "just
as similar court actions in England
have driven the English workers to
establish their powerful labor party"
The injunction was characterized
by Roger Baldwin, secretary of the
American Civil Liberties Union, as
the most reactionary and momentous
decision affecting labor yet made.
Every legal effort should be made
to set it aside," he said, "and if that
fails the miners leaders should ignore
the injunction and go to Jail so that
the case can be carried to the Su-
preme court without delay"
Heber Blankenhorn of the Bureau
Of Industrial Research, declared the
injunction, if enforced, means a re-
turn to the days of the jungle in the
coal fields, but he added that from
ms observation of the mine workers
1t would not be obeyed. Some oper-
ators will fight it, he said, and some
unions will collect dues independent
~, while still other unions probably
viii obtain opposing injunctions.
Judge Anderson" said Blanken-
horn, has demonstrated again that
ne Is fully entitled to the epithet be-
slowed upon him by Theodore Roose-
felt' Roosevelt called Anderson a
iackaSs.)
John B. Andrews, secretary of the
american Association for Labor Leg
lSlation, said: 'The decision cannot
result in the interest of the general
pubic. 1t will tend/to provoke ex-
treme action"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
JUDGE DEFIES
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
"a. f. of l.. News Servicel

MISUNDERSTANDING Cor his
anti-trade union employers before
the senate committee on education
and labor, Judge z. T. Vinson. chief
counsel for West Virginia coal own
ers, defied the government. the
president and the senate. He gave
this notice that his employers would
continue their warlike course, and
would ignore every overture for
peace:
"We will not have anything
whatever to do under any cir
cumstances with the United Mine
Workers of America, or their
: representatives. / see, no reason
why we should recognize their
union, and under no circum-
stances will we do so, either
through this honorable comfiit-
tee, through the president of the
United States, or any other trib-
unal."
This spokesman for plutocracy
misstated the miners position. He
knows, and the senate committee
knows, that the miners have not
asked for union recognition.
But the straw man that Vinson
erected SeTVeu llS purpose. IL was
Mammon's' snarl that the govern
ment must not interfere win its
West Virginia property-Mingo, Lo-
gan and Mcdowell counties, and in
habitants therein.
Wilson'S def was less crude than
the methods of the Bald win -Feltz
thug, but its intent was as sharp and
clean cut as the bullets zip as it
speeds from the thugs rifle into the
tented colony of striking miners.
No one accepted Vinson's chal-
lenge. No public official has picked
up this gauntlet that Garyism filings
in the face of government.
When workers would strike against
wage cuts, they are warned no. TO
defy government. But when autoc-
racy shows its teeth, these lecturers
are silent.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
AND ELECTRIC
COMPANIES MAY CLASH
OVER TECHNICAL MATTERS

A controversy over the placing Of
a high-tension power wire by the
local electric light company parallel
TO the toll wire of the Bell Telephone
company is reported likely. 1t is
said the light company proposes to
furnish electricity 10 a single farm
house a short distance southeast of
Urbana, which it is said Champaign
city official is interested in. The wire
in question will start near the Dod-
son place east of the poor house and
run east one half mile and then south
for nearly one and one-half miles.
The high tension viii be so close to
the toll line Of the Telephone COM
pany as to greatly interfere with ser
vice. it is said. But where is the
profit in running a wire two miles to
furnish electricity for one farm?
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
LABOR BACKED THREE
MAIN DRIVES TO THE
LIMIT OF ABILITY

Notwithstanding that the laboring
man is not financially as we'll off now
az in normal times, because Of the
fight waged against IL by the open
shopposs, yet the manner in which
they have backed the various drives
and especially the three major ones--
the stadium, hotel and hospitals
commendabe.
Those who purchased stock in Ur-
bana's new hotel did 50 for two reas-
ons-it meant more work and 1t was
a safe investment. The returns on
contributions made 10 Mercy hospital
cannot be measured in terms Of dol
lars and cents. In building the sta
dium II will not only In time return
the principal but the interest paid
to each individual will be compounded
many times over In the years to come.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
LABOR PAPER TO BE
FINANCED by BRICK
AND CLAY WORKERS

District Number /, international
Union of United Brick and Clay
Workers of America, Is the first large
branch Of an international union In
the United States TO take the ini-
tiative in supporting financially a
labor paper.
At recent meeting they decided 10
send In one dollar per month for each
local union in their district TO Secre-
tary-Treasurer J. G. Brown, National
Farmer-Labor Party. This Is the
amount and the system Of dues pay
ing to the national Farmer-Labor
Party organization from labor organ
izations that has been agreed upon
by the national officers Of the Farm
er-Labor Party.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
RAILROADS START
ANOTHER WAGE
SLASHING PLAN
Nation Wide Strike Plans of Rail-
road Employees May BE Revived
as a Result.
by The Federated Press)

y tBy The Federated Press)
Chicago. following closely upon
the solemn assurances given the
chiefs of the Railway Brotherhoods
that no more wage cuts were in
prospect-for time at least--the
United States Railway Labor Board
last week did what many union labor
leaders expected: started another
wage slashing process that must in
evitably revive nation wide strike
plans.
Over the protest of A. o. Wharton
and w. l.. MeMenimen, labor MEM
bers, the board cut rates of pay for
virtually all classes of railroad em-
ployes of the New Orleans a. Great
Northern Railroad company of Mis-
sissippi. The announcement eamou-
flaged the decision by declaring that
this particular road was not party
to the case involving the wage in
crease of July / last.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the wage cut the National
Industrial Traffic League, composed
Of the big shipping interests OF the
country, in convention here adopted
resolution urging the railroads TO
press their claims for further wage
reduction as a basis for freight rate
readjustment.
This action is expected TO make IL
possible for the railroad executives TO
barnstorm the Railway Labor Board
with demands for further hilarious
wage cutting, and at the same time
plead, at amt US as wants it, but
We gods! what would you do? Blame
the shippersw The resolution of the
shippers urges that call employees of
carriers be reduced in wages to a
point corresponding TO the salaries
and wages in other lines of work" "
whatever that may mean.
Under the Railway Boards ruling,
train and engine service employees
were returned without qualification TO
the rates of pay in effect March l.,
1920, but rates for shop crafts and
roundhouse iaborers weer specified by
the board class by class and station
agents were similarly rated.
The decision said the roads repre-
sentatives testified TO an operating
deficit Of $500,000 for 1920, and
further operating deficit Of $4,000
for the first half of 1921, together
with deferred maintenance of $780,
900, accumulated since the ending of
federal control.
All classes of employees on the road,
the decision said, except maintenance
of way forces, declined 10 accept the
reductions of July last or rates pro-
posed by the roads. The dissenting
opinion filed by Wharton differed
from the majority decision with par
ticular reference to the manifestly un-
just and unreasonable treatment ac-
corded shop employees in the decision
and the indefensibly low rate estab-
lished for laborers."
"By this decision the board has de-
creed that laborer who has hereto
fore generally received rate higher
than that paid a section laborer shall
now be paid a wage Of $3.50 for a
full time week." Wharton's dissent
ing opinion said, "a wage that is be-
low the minimum established by var
ious agencies as being sufficient 10
support one worker and many Of
these are men Of families.
as it just or reasonable that a
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
AUSTRALIAN CHAIN OF
LABOR PAPERS is NOW
WELL UNDER WAY
lBy The Federated Pressl

:, sydney, N. S. W.-The scheme for
Sne starting of the chain of daily
labor newspapers in Australia is well
iHhder way, and the collecting of the
leeYy e from all Australian unionists-
goo from maleadults and sf.2E
rom female and juvenile unionists-
~ now taking place. Meetings are
ENG held throughout Australia and
special committees are busy explain
,ns s the scheme. 1t is expected that
most OF the money required will be
III hand by the end of the year.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-18
Indy Cooperntors 10 Meel.

The Ladies OF the W0men'B Cooper
atiye League will meet Friday after
noon at 2:30 at Labor Hall. All la
dies are requested to be present. Inn
portant business will be transacted.
and a social hour, at which luncheon
will be served, viii be held.