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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
NOTICE TO ELKS

No. 1872 B. P. o. E1ks, and all
Elks in the United States are expec-
ted on Nov. II, Armistice Day at II
A. NJ. to stand attention and salute
the Flag with right hand over heart
for one minute.
E. C. HOPKINS, SE,TY.
11-5-6t
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
Armistice Day

AT the eleventh hour OF the mist
hung morning OF the eleventh day OF
the eleventh month of 1918, an en-
tire world threw off the spell OIL war
and stood upright in new age. 1t
was as if another Easter had come.
Three years have passed since
rumors dashed across the battlefield
of France and carried to farthest
out posts the order to cease firing
and now, on the eve OF November
18th of 1921, the nations are going
back to the spirit OF November llth,
of that fateful year 1918.
To America, as to the whole world
Armistice Day will hereafter be es-
sentially a day of rejoicing, but this
year a note of solemnity dominates
the harmony of our JOY in peace.
Our duty to our dead, that they may
receive part OIL their share OF honor,
will be discharged to the best OF our
ability in the burial OF an unknown
American soldier representative OIL
all unidentified American dead OF the
World War-whose body is beng
brought from a battlefield of France
to rest at last in the Central Amphl-
theatre of the Arlington National
Cemetery.
At the instant the body is being
lowered the nationfi by Proclamation
of President Harding, will stand III
silent prayer for two minutes from
IL o'clock noon until 1902.
1t is hoped that the good citizens
of our community will observe the
above SO that those who lie in
Flanders Field will know that they
have not died in vain but whose
memory we still love and cherish.
'.'In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the peoples blow
Between the crosses, row in row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still gayly singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns belo =.
I'VE are the dead, short day. ago,
We lived. felt dawn, saw sunset:
glow.
Loved and were loved and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Take VI the quarrel with the foe,
To you. from falling hands we throw
The torch. but yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
In Flanders Fields
We the living comrades OF GU
fallen brothers in arms feel ii gu
duty that this day shall not SO b.
without some fitting exercise be he'll
to commemorate their memories an
we rededicate our lives with the fol
lowing response tO the above.
"Thc Response"
Rest We in peace, We Flanders dead
The fight that We so bravely led
We've taken up, and we shall keep
True faith with you who lie asleep
With each a cross to mark his bed
And peoples blowing over head
Where once his life blood ran red
So let your sleep be sweet and deep
In Flanders Fields.
Fear not that We have died for naugh
The torch We threw to US, we'v
caught,
Ten million hands will hold it high,
And freedoms light shall never die
We learned the lesson that ye laugh
In Flanders Fields"
HOWARD B. MATTHEWS,
Post Commander, L. F. No. AS, A, ]
P 5. 5mQsHdu000es l u;
ssiilN s0TurTTS that they ar
not forgotten, also that those havin!
American flags, display them, as t.
US, Armistice Day is the same a
Memorial Day is to the Grand Arm.
of the Republic.
We ask the public to bear head
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
Notice to Public

1 buy and sell second hand stoves
of all kinds, also furniture uphol-
stored. work done well. Many years
experience. Prices reasonable. Now
have a few cook and coal stoves for
reasonable prices.
G.. Il. HUBBARD, I Pleasant St.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
FOR RENT

Furnished apartment, good location.
Will sell furniture or v i'll sell furni-
ture and sublet apartment apply Az
care of Banner Office. 1l-10-4t
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10

Gratis took two out of six in Washing
ton county, two out of five in Fred
erick, four out of five in Prince
Georges, two out of three in Cecil
two out of three in Dorchester and
one out Of two in Howard.
The results on the House of Dele
gates contests ran pretty close to
what would be indicated by affiliated
majorities on the registration books.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
NOTICE

Will be closed tomorrow Armistice
Day.
CAMBRIDGE LAUNDRY
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
CORDY LEAD INCREASED
TO 24,37S BY COUNTIES

Democratic Tide Sweeps In Comptroi-
Ie? And Gives Party House And
Senate. Doub Defeats Judge
Walsh. ID. Stephen DecisiVeiy
Beaten In Caroline County BY l.. b.
Towers.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
P 5. Noso,taWQsHoo -

- ssU7UrTTS That they are
not forgotten, also that those having
American flags, display them, as to
US, Armistice Day is the same as
Memorial Day is to the Grand Army
of the Republic.
We ask the public to bear heads
and offer up, a prayer at II O'Clock
noon to 1902, as by Proclamation Of
President Harding
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10

Totals .....154,91O 100, 532
Gordy plurality, 24,378.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10
Public Sale
OF
Household Effects

Having decided to discontinue house
keeping 1 will sell at public sale at
my residence. No. 6 Cedar street, this
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-11-10

Donated BY W. NJ MacNAUGHTON
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
DAVIS PLEADS FOR
 MORE CONCILIATORS
Secretary of Labor Asks Congress to Allow Him Trained
 Probers.

Washington, Dec. 23-In the first an nual report Secretary of Labor Davis asks congress to appropriate $25O,00O for the appointment of technicians as conciliators in each of the 12 basic in- duStries of the country.
 The secretary says that the useful ness of these special men will extend far outside this sphere of settling occasional controversies"
 They will" he says, be particularly useful in talks to meetings of the work ing people or the general public on the subject of sound economic principles. They will be able to explain the working problems of management and they may keep the managers reminded of the trials and struggles of their employees.
 "The man assigned to each of these basic industries must know his special in dustry from top to bottom. He must know every technical process involved in that industry. He must know what is to be expected of every worker in each step of the process. He must, also know spmething of the operation of manage rhent so as to have the necessary under standing of the problems and hazards that go with the handling of business"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
FRENCH TURNOVER
 TAX IS FAILURE
Plan Similar to Sales Tax Here
 Doesn't Fill the Bill

New York, Dec 23-Advocates of the sales tax in the United States will get little consolation from an article written in the Annalist financial paper, by Alzada Comstock, on Lessons of the French Turnover Tax"
 "The l8-months' trial of the turn over tax which France is owcomplet- ing" he says, "augurs badly for similar experiments which are being urged in the United States
 'E'The French tax deserves a closer in spection than is usually given it by pro- ponents of the sales tax in this country. Sales taxes levied in che Philippines and in Mexico can hardly be considered per- feet illustrations for the purpose of a great industrial and commercial country like our own. The Canadian sales tax is also cited, but Canada's business is on a small scale compared with ours"
 In stating that conditions in France is more nearly comparable to the United States, MT. Comstock says that the French tax yields but one-third of what it was estimated to yield.
 "The lessons for the United States are clear. The two chief dangers of the sales tax are the possibilities of evasion and the inequalities of application to agricultural and business classes"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
CHRISTMAS CLUBS
 ORIGIN AND OUTGROWTH

The distribution of we'll over a half million dollars of Christmas Savings Club checks by the New Haven banks
 will play a large part in Merry Christ
 mas for many New Haven workers. The Christmas Club idea dates back to 1 17o8. In that year the Reverend Joseph
 Smith of Wendover, England, in con- 1 junction with two of his parishioners, | offered to receive from members of his congregation any sum from two pence up- 1 ward, to be returned at Christmas. It was due to this service and to the en- deavors of others interested in the we'll fare of the poor in the following ten years that resulted in the organization in 1910 of the Duncan Parish Bank" upon which the modern self-sustaining mutual savings bank Is patterned. The present Christmas Club movement appears to date from 1910 when such plan was adopted by the Carlisle Trust Company of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
 Statistics for 1921 are not yet avail able. Reports made to the, Savings Bank Division, American Bankers Asso- ciation on the Christmas Clubs of 1920 show that there were oOo such Clubs in Al states, having at the start 1,O2O,126 members, to whom was paid in December, 1920 the sum of $45,712, ,12o.64.
 The National Savings Bank and the Merchants National Bank are to con- tinue their Christmas Club for 1922. The Connecticut Savings Bank is also or ganlz1ng club for 1922 so that the
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
UNIONS URGED TO
 WATCH LEGISLATION
Gompers Also Recommends Record of Legislators" Kept for
 Future Use.

Washington, Dec. 23.-"Watch all leg islation and keep record of legislators says President Gompers in statement issued to the general labor movement.
 "Whenever labor organizations have established legislative committees" says the A. F. of L. executive, they have been generally successful in either pre- venting hostile legislation against the wage earners or keeping 1t down to a minimum It is, therefore, necessary that every organization should be awake to the dangers that will come to the wage workers if they neglect to select willing and effective members on their legisla- tive committees.
 "In the A. F. of L. headquarters we are keeping accurate record of the mem bers of both houses of congress. Records of every member of local legislative body should be kept by the respective legislative committees. During political campaigns the legislative committees of each organization may automatically be- come non-partisan political campaign committees. They will make public at the proper time the labor records of all legislators who have been false to the people, as we'll as of those who have been true to the people.
 Permit me to most strongly impress upon all the necessity of closely watch ing all proposed legislation i'll order that the rights and interests of labor and all the people will be rigidly safeguarded."
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
'CAN'T-STRIKE' PLAN
 PROVEN FAULTY
Australian Employers Federation Admits That It Causes More
 Trouble.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Dec. 23.-Among the latest to acknowledge that the Australian "can't-strike" law has failed is T. R. Ashworth, president of the Victorian employers federation. At the annual meeting of the federation, held in this city, MT. Ashworth also frankly blamed employers for present conditions.
 Strikes for inadequate reasons and III defiance of the awards of industrial tri- bunals," he said, have caused prolonged suspension of many industries, and those concerned with coal mining and shipping have caused widespread stoppage of work in other trades.
 "The truculent attitude of labor has lessened the investment of capital III the expansion of existing industries and Ill launching new enterprises. But while as employers we are keenly alive to the shortcomings of labor's policy, we sohuld remember that in each case they are reaction against the inevitable errors of the past which were associated with the development of a new industrial sys- tenn For instance, if labor is making the mistake of striving for unduly short hours, and is inclined to go-slow methods, we must admit that in the past excessive hours were worked and the pace was forced, with the result that efficiency was impaired through physical and moral de terioration.
 Can not employers and wage earners both realize that they are still larely in the rip of error and unite their forces to slay this common enemy? Criticisms by each of the policy of the other is the best weapon for the purpose"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
SHOP UNIONS FIGHT RAILROADS ACTION
Farming Out of Contracts Denounced as Plot Against Labor
 Board.

Chicago, Dec. 23.-The right of railway companies to contract work 10 firms or individuals removed from the jurisdiction fthe United States railroad labor board come up for fed eral investigation when disputes on nine railroads were heard before the board this week The controversies involve car and locomotive repairs work, track and common labor jobs.
 The action in each case was brought by employees organizations, whose members formerly did the work now being done by outside firms under contract. In most cases, the wages paid by the contracting firms are less than those specified for rail way employees, situation which, the men out of oWrk and removes wages and working regulations from the jur isdiction of the labor board.
 Characterizing the cases regarding contract work as the most important to the employees, the integrity of the labor board and the public, that have ever been submitted for a decision, Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the shop crafts organization, in a statement said that if the railroads are success full in their contention, 1t will mean the destruction of the railroad labor board.
 "The railroads are in nationwide conspiracy to avoid the provisions of the transportation act so far as 1t safeguards the rights of the railway employees and the public, by pretend ing that they are contracting and leasing out to sub-contractors and padrones the most important func tions in the operation of the rail roads," Mr. Walsh said. "The em- ployes claim that the alleged private contracts are crooked devices to dodge the cellar provisions of the transportation act"
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
PLANS TO tJNIONIZE
 AMERICAN BOXERS
National Sports Alliance Is Formed in New York and Will Seek
 to Join A. F. of L.

Permanent organization of the Nation al Sports Alliance, body whose ultimate object is the unionizing of boxers throughout the country and affiliation of boxing interests with the American Fed eration of Labor, was accomplished at a meeting of managers, boxers and boxing fans held at the Lexington Avenue Thea tre, New York, this week.
 Although the present organization in cludes sports followers only in New York State, it is the expectation of the alliance to extend its scope to every State in the union and perhaps to every other country where boxing is part of the sport curriculum, and to include not only boxing and wrestling, but every other form of professional sport.
 The decision to affiliate with the Amer ican Federation of Labor became known when Secretary Charles A. White, in ex- blaming to the members present at the meeting the provisions of the constitution, stated that the document had been drawn with the idea of its being at some future date acceptable to the A. F. of L.
 Thus the time may soon come when boxers throughout the country will be joined together in an alliance which will place them on the same footing as other labor organizations, SO far as the rights of bargaining and other questions are concerned.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
CANAL ECONOMY
 PLAN UNWISE . AND UNJUST
Workers There Point Out Menace
 That Lurks in Weeks Scheme.

Balboa, Canal Zone, Dec. 23.-Recom- mendations of commission appointed by Secretary of War Weeks to investigate the Panama canal zone are unwise unjust and in some cases ridiculous, says H. A. McConaughey, president of the Panama metal trades council, in statement which the council is distributing to the trade union movement.
 The Weeks report calls for reduc- ton of wages and an increase of the governors salary.
 It IS shown that white employees on the canal zone are but per cent organized, yet the commission reported that "the open shop exists in theory only, and that the government should cease to deal with representatives of labor organizations.
 This recommendation" says Presid- ent McConoughey, clearly reveals the fact that this commission considered that their mission to the canal zone was to break up labor unions and install the sort of an open shop policy that consists of preferential treatment to non-union workers.
 ''The work of the sanitary department on the canal zone was declared to be splendid, but the commission discovered the alarming fact that the malarial rates and the mortality rates were lower on the Panama canal zone than III certain dis tricts in the United States. This would never do! The canal zone is too healthy !! The commission promptly recommends that the sanitary work be decreased to a point where the malarial rate would be on par with the aforementioned local ities in the United States This will be good news for the undertakers."
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
UNION HEADS
 :, INDICTED
Forty Building Trades Agents and
 Contractors Accused of .. Conspiracy.

Chicago, Dec. 23-Forty business agents and contractors, among them Wm. Brins, former President of the Carpen- ters' District Council; Joseph Veltman, Charles Wright and William Schardt of the Carpenters Union, have been indicted for conspiracy.
 The Citizens Committee and major ity of contractors have declared an "open shop" against the union of carpenters, plumbers and roofers. The Citizens Committee is subscribing $3,OOO,OO0 to enforce the Landis award in the building trades.
 Indictments directed against steamft- ting contractors are charged, it is under stood, with conspiracy to fix prices, pool bids and allot work.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
GOWDY WANTS NEW
 BASEBALL CONTRACT

Lank Hank Gowdy, who slugged his way to fame in a worlds series once and then beat all the other ball players to the enlistment office when the World War broke out has come out for a new form of contract for major league play CTS.
 Gowdy would substitute a 1-nonths contract for the present one, which holds only during the playing season. And Hank, i'll his calm way, puts forward some reasonable arguments for such a change.
 At present, Hank points out, the base ball moguls forbid transforming trips after the season by championship team me1nbers-thereby preventing the players from adding extra money to their rolls And then the same said moguls ask the ball players to go through a training period of several weeks in the spring without pay. During the time that the players are training they draw advances and find themselves in the hole when the season opens
 With a 12-month contract, Hank points out, the players would be con- pelled to observe club rules all year This would aid the owners in keeping the players III condition and in forcing them to conduct themselves as exam ples to young America" should The players would draw their salary over the 12-months period and would not need to obtain advances after winter which brought them nothing from their trade
 There is food for thought in what Hank says. There has been dissatisfac- tion over the present contracts on both sides. It is a good bet that the matter will be talked over thoroughly at the winter sessions of the big league mag nates
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
RAINS UNCOVER
 GIANT RACE
Skeletons Found Show These Were
 Once Men of Large Size.

Douglas, Ariz., Dec. 23.-Recent heavy rains i'll eth vicinity of Reddington have uncovered the burial grounds of race Of giant people who are thought to have lived thousands of years ago, according to August Ealey, miner, who has been efployed i'll the Reddington district. ,.
 Ealey described parts of the skeletons recovered from the cemetery and declar- ed that the statute of the race must have been twice that of the average man of the present.
 One skull showed thickness of about an inch, Ealey said, and was in state of perfect preservation. Pieces of pottery, earrings, remains of charcoal fires and other evidence uncovered by the rains had led Ealey to report the discovery to the State University.
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
THE FOUNDATION
 PROSPERITY
By S. Fred Strong, Treasurer, Connecticut Savings Bank.


 Business IS coming back, not so rapidly as some might wish, but with a steadi- ness which indicates that the renewed activity will not be purely temporary. And business IS coming back rapidly and generally throughout New England as we'll as in other sections of the land. New England Is the nations workshop, a district of innu1nerable manufacturing in terests. Returning prosperity, for us, is the best proof of improved markets else where
 The explanation of New England s good fortune IS not far to seek. Busi- ness cannot run: without capital, and capital is nothing more than reserve purchasing poWer-accumulated savings Without it industry cannot produce or purchase raw materials, meet payrolls and other manufacturing expenses. or undertake distribution and marketing
 New England has the capital, and it has the capital largely because its people are thrifty The mutual savings bank has made them so. This section of the United States Is the stronghold of the mutual savings institution, the bank which IS owned by its depositors, rather than by stockholders interested only in their dividend checks, and which is limited to the safest and most conser- vative investments under rigidly enforced statutes.
 Within. ; the year past, despite wide spread and unprecedented business de- pression and resultant shrinkage in the deposits of many thousands of financial institutions, the mutual savings banks of the country have gained nearly 7H per cent in deposits. This money, loaned out conservatively for home building and buying, on farm mortgages, and on the most carefully selected collateral, has served to free other money for essen- tial < industrial and commercial uses, evef as it has stimulated all lines of business by the purchase which it makes possible.
 New Haven, essentially an industrial community, is just beginning to feel the favorable reaction along with the rest of this section of the country. There is promise of increasing activity in almost every industrial line, and great improve
The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-23
RAILROADS RATES
 FULLY GUARANTEED
Propagandists Claim Cummins-Esch Act Doesn't Do What Others
 Prove It Does

Washington, Dec. 23-The boldest railroad propaganda is the claim that the Cum1nins- -Esch act does not guaran- tee railroads a fixed return on their in- vestment, and that the law simply calls for flair return
 In refuting this repeated statement Senator Kendrick quoted from recent decision by the interstate commerce com mission, which ruled in effect, that re- gardless of the language of the act, the intent IS clear that rates are authorized to net 5H per cent, with an additional 1a per cent for improvements.
 "We have no discretion" said the commission, referring to the mandate that the 5a per cent and 1a per cent shall be applied.
 The senator said that the interstate commerce commission was established to protect the public from the extortions of railroads, but under the Cummins-Esch act the commission "has been required to ignore and disregard entirely the rights of the shipper"
 Tt is true that 5 or 6 per cent can not be called a high rate of income, if based on a fair valuation. The case against the guaranty clause is clear. It is funda- mentally unsound, because a law which lays tax upon all industry for the benefit of one is indefensible from any point of view.
 Not in a generation has the west been in asmore critical position than it is today, and I have no hesitancy in saying that the high freight rates caused by this guaranty clause contribute the factor which more than any other one thing is preventing readjustment There can be no return to normalcy' while industry as whole is laboring under this unjusti- fab1e tax"