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The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
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HOW MUCH DO STRIKES COST
THE NATION?
Curious Figures Based on Department
of Labor Statistics.

Washington, July 6.-Statistics is
sued by the Department of Labor show
that strikes in this country average
more than $500 per year. 1t is not
contended by the department that its
figures are accurate, since they de-
pend upon newspaper and trade paper
reports for the most part, but that
they are under, rather than OverState-
mentS.
1t is impossible truthfully to esti-
mate the average cost of strike, since
they vary so in duration, number Of
workmen affected and economic loss
through whatever industry is wholly
or partially shut down. But if the
most conservative possible estimate be
adopted, and it is considered that the
average strike affects 100 worzmen,
and that the average strike lasts ten
days, the total arrived at is 100000
working days lost per year If the
average cost to each workman is So
per day and the average loss to each
industry does not exceed three times
the loss to the workmen, then strikes
cost this country some $66,000,000 a
year.
It is not believed that these figures
are anything but suggestive. The
average strike undoubtedly affects
thousands, rather ehan hundreds, and
for many more than ten days.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
POLICE ACCUSED BY PASTOR
Officers Alleged to Have Tried to At
tack Women Prisoners at East
ST. Louis.

East st. Louis, Ul.-An affidavit
that two police officers had attempted
to attack a woman prisoner at head
quarters has been made public by Rev.
w. r. Evans. He is chairman of a
citizens committee interested in
charges of brutality against police.
Resignation of Chief of Police Mulcon-
merry, Chief of Detectives Neville and
seven other officials was demanded by
the outgoing board of fire and police
commissioners, following an investiga-
ton of brutality charges, one of which
was that John Campanella, prisoner,
had been beaten to death, but on ad-
vice that the action was illegal they
are holding over.
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COMPROMISE REJECTED
SHOPMEN MUST SUBMIT PEACE
PROPOSALS THROUGH LABOR
BOARD, SAY CARRIERS.

Chicago.-While fatty refusing to
meet the leaders of 100000 striking
shOpmen to discuss peace proposals,
railway executives have left open the
door for a settlement of the strike
through the United States Railroad
Labor Board.
Immediately after reaching an agree
brOtherhOods not to require their
members to do any of the work of
striking shopmen, the executives be-
gan consideration. of a peace program
submitted to them by Ben w. Hooper,
chairman of the labor board, after a
conference with B. M. Jewell, head of
the shopmen's agreement.
Their answer in the form of a letter
addressed to Mr.. Hooper, who said
that he was acting in personal ca
pacity," in initiating negotiations as
serted that the strike was called in de-
fiance of the board and that therefore
any conference between the executives
and the strikers would not be ''per-
missible or tOlerable," as it would
place the carriers in the position Of
seeking to find means to subvert the
decision of the board.
ga prompt recall of the strike or
der" the letter added, however,
would permit the resumption of for
mer methods of conference and permit
the consideration of any matters which
representatives of employees might de-
sire to submit"
The willingness Of the roads, how
ever, to respond promptly to any sum-
mons by the labor board to any fur
Their hearing that may be called in con-
nection with this subject in event the
board should determine upon that
course, was expressed in closing by the
executives.
'It may be final, but it's only final
for today" declared Mr.. Jewell when
the text of the letter was read to him
over the telephone.
In railway circles the belief was
expressed that the mere opening of
negotiations was a long step toward
pCdIC1uL SCIllCluCnI anu ludL IIl6
moves of the day had resulted in
throwing the case back into the lap
of the labor board in the exact posi-
ton in which it had rested when Mr..
Jewell had allowed a strike order to
go into effect on July 1, after ignor-
ing summons to appear before the
board with the railway executives
Authoritative reports declare that
the shOpmen's program for settlement
of the strike include an agreement to
abolish the farming out of shop work
to contractors, the revision of pay
schedules in respect to overtime, per-
mission for a rehearing of the whole
wage controversy by the labor board
and the creation by the railways of
boards of adjustment provided for in
the transportation act.
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CUTS THIRD TEETH AT ia
Former Slave Is Just Learning How
to Read-Born on Christ
mas, 1907.

st. Louis. -Ebbie Talbot, a half In
dian and negro woman, who says she
is one hundred and fourteen years
old, is exhibiting her third set Of
teeth, of which she now has three.
She has paper, purporting to have
been written by a person where she
formerly lived who was in possession
Of the facts, which states that she
was born in North Carolina on Christ
mas day, 1907. Born in slavery, she
says she was more than fifty years
old when she was emancipated.
She does all her own homework
and has cared for a twenty-seven-
year-old paralytic since childhood.
Her mind and faculties are unim-
paired. and with a primer and the
help Of a neighbor she is learning to
read. She is supported by the char
ity Of neighbors and Of others.
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Germany Can Not Paw.

Paris.-Germany served notice on
the allied powers through the repara-
lions commission that she could no
longer meet cash obligations of any
sort, whether growing out of the Yer
sailles treaty stipulations, undertaken
by acceptance of the London ultima
tum of May 5, 1921, or arranged by the
schedule of payments drawn up by the
PREPARATIONS commission on March 81,
1922. The depreciation of the mark
on foreign exchanges is given as the
reason for the impossibility of Ger
many to pay.
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Law to Regulate Slow Drivers.

Salem, Ore-Proposed legislation
looking to the regulation of the slow
driver as well as the speeder will be
sought at the next session of the Leg
islature, T. A. Rafferty,, chief inspec-
tor for the law enforcement bureau Of
the state motor vehicle department,
announces. Mr.. Rafferty, said the per-
son who drives his automobile too slow
on the state highway is menace to
traffic, in that he retards the car fol-
lowing and causes the latter driver to
take chances He added that laws reg
ulating traffic on the state highways
should set out minimum as well as a
maximum speed.
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will satisfy them that the cattle and
stock raising possibilities are fully as
good as they have been told.
The reports from all parts of West
ern Canada at the present time fully
bear out the most optimistic expecta-
lions and hopes of the early days of
seeding. Evidence of the splendid
growth of this year is the fact that
alfalfa was cut on the 10Th of June
and yielded nearly two tons to the
acre.
Corn planted on the 23rd of May,
on the 9Th of June was showing sew
eral inches about the ground and
making glad the heart of the farmer
who had built his silo, which he hoped
to fill in the latter days of August
Advertisement
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carry themselves and their families
to the country of their choice. Such
settlers are bound to succeed. Some
OF them go two or three hundred miles
inland, and select their homes in the
park districts of Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta. Others purchase
improved and unimproved farms in
the more thickly settled districts in
the Southerly and central parts of
these provinces. Wherever they may
go, they are certain to secure land
Of certain possibilities. They will see
grain crops of high value, wheat that
will produce from 20 to 40 bushels
per acre, oats giving high yields, bar
ley a certain producer, and grass and
fodder in quantity and quality that
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WORKS IN VAIN TO
FREE DYING WIFE
Pinned Under Overturned Auto
She Is StrangIed to Death
Before Husbands Eyes.

Franklin, Pa.-While her husband
vainly tried to lift an automobile
which had overturned and pinned her
neck beneath the running board, Mrs.
William Howser, forty-eight, stran-
gled to death before his eyes.
Mrs. Howser was able to talk with
him for time, but as the heavy car
settled in the soft earth her breath
became slower, and she died as he
strove in desperation to lift weight
he could not bulge.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. M. Ferringtons,
wb" Were also occupants of the car.
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soviets Disrupt Conference.

The Hague-Two stormy sessions
of the conference on Russian problems
disturbed the calm of the Carnegie
peace palace and apparently ended all
chance of an agreement between the
Russians and the other powers. The
chasm between the Russians and the
other powers apparently is far wider
than at Genoa. while the non Russian
group is not divided as IL was at
Genoa. The British and French are
acting now In agreement on the de.
mands.
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ouch.

"Hey, Cap" excitedly cried an &C
quaintance rushing up to Gap John
son of Rumpus Ridge, who had come
to town on shopping expedition ac-
companied by his young son. "Your
boy, Bearcat, fell into the machinery
over at the mill while he was poster
ing round, and"
Great day!" was the reply. "Hurt
him much?"
mo, but the miller is hollering about
suing you for damages b'cuz the works
of his internal mill are busted to
thunder" City Star.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
MYSTERY CENTERS
ABOUT LOST Girl
Parents Identify Child as Their
Own, Then Discovery of Body
Causes Doubt.
PROBLEM FOR POLICE
Small French Village Is Torn With
Excitement Over Battling Mystery
Body Of Child Found in
MangIed Condition.

Paris-A battling mystery Is ex-
citing the inhabitants of the small
Brittany village of Gaos Al Ludu, near
Chateaulin, in the Brest district.
Early in April a little girl, Pauline
Picard, disappeared from her parents
farm, not the slightest clue existing
as to what had become Of the child
and all searches proving fruitless.
Finally, it was thought she must have
been carried off by gypsies, although
none had been observed in the neigh
borhood at the time of her disap-
pearance.
Just when the parents had given up
hope of finding their daughter, it was
reported from Cherbourg that small
girl had been found wandering there,
whose age and appearance CORE
SpOnded to that of the missing Paul
Inc. The Picards Immediately hurried
to Cherbourg and declared the child
theirs.
Don't Know Parents.
A curious fact, however, was that
the child did not seem to recognize
the parents and remained mute when
addressed in Breton, although Pauline
had been used to speak that language.
Taken home, the child was recognized
by neighbors and the police officer
who accompanied her from Cherbourg
was satisfied that she really was
Pauline Picard, although there was
no indication as to how she had
reached Cherbourg.
The adventure thus, appeared to
have reached happy ending until re-
Gently startling discovery was made
which makes the whole affair more
mysterious than ever. A farmer cross
ing a field about a mile from Goas AL
Ludu discovered the horribly mutt
lated body of a small girl, entirely
naked and the head cut off. Close by,
carefully folded, lay the clothes.
Recognize Her Clothes.
The farmer hurried to the village
and returned with gendarmes, fol-
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Did Not Seem to Recognize the Par

lowed by the inhabitants, among them
the Picards, who recognized the
clothes as those worn by Pauline the
day she disappeared in April. The
child itself could not be identified, the
face having been partly devoured by
foxes.
Although it would seem almost in
credible that the parents should make
a mistake, the Picards are now uncer-
tain whether the child they have been
nursing for more than a month is
really their own, and the police are
faced by a threefold task: To dis
cover the murderer, identify the MUIR
dered child, and if she is proved to be
Pauline Picard, discover the identity
of the little girl from Cherbourg.
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suffered injuries and were unable to
assist Howser in his efforts.
Howser was driving so fast at a
bend that he was unable to make the
turn. The car shot to one side of the
road and went over an eight-foot en-
bankment. Howser and the Ferring-
tons were thrown clear of the car,
but Mrs. Howser was caught under it
when it landed, upside down. The
running board rested on her neck.
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from one of the northern states
~ vay to their new home near
|. Winnepegosis, Manitoba. They
T. 3 sturdy, self-reliant lot and
IT, with them a full complement
Farm machinery. With the tractor
h they intended to commence
Ibsr extensive operations this spring
,bo land which their scouts had
Ip,dy inspected and reported on
Io-ably as to it's productiveness.
N almost every point on the Cana
|, border where there are located
aps for admitting settlers, the re-
II are that it is almost a daily
rrence' to admit settlers from
tps as far off as Texas who have
nted the automobile as a means to
The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
Asks for Harmony in G. o. p. Ranks

Columbus, Ohio.-President Harding
in an address here made vigorous
appeal for harmony in the ranks of the
Republican party. Too many who pro-
fess to be Republicans, he declared,
are attempting to 'attract attention to
themselves" instead of working for
the good of their party and country.
The President said he did not care
to be "soloist," but added that some
one had to act as director, otherwise
there would be no harmony.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
Whiskers Killed Her Love.

4 divorce decree has been granted
Vienna because a wife objected
bat her husband, an eX-officer, did
BIT shave or wash himself properly.
The official defender of the mar
ta9 bond appealed against the di-
'fa cOntending that soap and other
pet articles were now so dear that
llT wives were discontinued with
u husbands toilet.
he appeal court, however. decided
7 the couple were Incompatible,
mat if the marriage had not been
lnly due to the glamour of uniform
Z wife would have condoned her
Nand'S toilet economies.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
Souvenir Shell Kills Eight Children.

Waterfowl, N. Y.-Eight children,
ranging in age from IL to 16 years,
were blown to pieces by the explosion
of three-inch shell on the back porch
of a house occupied by Edward G.
Workman, The shell, which was
owned by Mr.. Workman, was one
which he had kept as a souvenir and
used on the rear porch to hold the
door from closing. 1t was believed to
be dead" The shell is believed to
have either been set off by the sun, or
to have been struck by one of the vic
Tins with croquet mallet
The Snowflake herald., 1922-07-21
Jai|breaker Is Trapped
by Cat and Sardines

Sacramento, GAIA cat and
a can of sardines stood between
Frank Owen, Folsom state peni-
Tertiary convict, according to
the testimony Of Owen, on trial
on the charge of escaping.
Owen made cache Of food
and bedding under an old stair
way of a guards house.
He planned to remain there a
week or ten days, but on the
fourth day he opened a can of
sardines, which attracted a cat.
The cat tried to gain entrance
to the hiding place and Owen,
fearing the animals action
might lead to his detection,
made a break for liberty.
He was caught a few miles
from the prison.
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Eorner Is Freed by Court Order.

Los Angeles, Calif.-William Strick-
Ter. 10. whose wife and babe were sick,
got a days work and check for 81
in payment. He put zero after the
four, cashed the check and spent the
$40 on his family. A few days later
Strickler's wife died and Stricken, at
her grave was arrested, handcuffed
and taken to Jail. The case was dis
missed by the court.
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Bumper Corn Crop Predicted.

Washington.-Prod of corn,
the cOuntry's most valuable farm
crop, was forecast for this year at
2S60,000,000 bushels by the Depart
ment of Agriculture in it's July report.
This is 100000 bushels more than
the five-year average, but 22O,O0O,OOO
bushels less than last years crop.
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Alike After All.

Mary Alice had chickenpox and be-
cause the doctor had come to see her,
was putting on great airs. She was
strutting on the porch when the little
boy next door came over. "I've got
chickenpOX," she boosted.
For a minute he was crest-fallen
and then a look of JOY came on his
face. "That amt nothing" he re-
torted. Last week / had gooseflesh."
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Invention.

A French inventor has a device that
takes $4,000 photographs a second. 1t
will be a big nelp to rapid movies
which slow down action and show
you each step of the growth of a plant
or men jumping hurdles.
The rapid camera stretches Sec
ond into a minute. Time is relative,
elastic.
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Different.

rDo YOU think we ought to finance
|dn enterprises"
Perhaps" replied Mr.. Dustin Stax;
HI that's different from calling in
|sgn enterprise TO dictate how we
In spend our money"
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YOU CAN WALK IN C0MFORT

If you Shake Into Your Shoes some ALIENS
FOOT=EASE, the Antiseptic, Healing pow
der for shoes that pinch feet that ache
1t takes the friction from the shoe and
gives relief to corns and bunions hot, tired
sweating, swollen feet. Ladies can wear
shoes size smaller by shaking Aliens
Foot=Ease in each observation-disclosures
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crtieura Comforts Raby's Skin

Cutcura Comforts BdbyS Skin
hen red, rough and itching, by hot
this of Cuticura Soap and touches of
hticura Ointment. Also make use
lT and then of that exquisitely scented
raing powder, Cuticura Talcum, one
the indispensable Cuticura Toilet
advertisement.
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! TRACTOR ON
RIP TO CANADA
:, Settlers From United
y .,otes on Way to the
and of Big Crops.

their way to and through
tiers Oh not always rely on the
90 ~ sor transportation. Here,
pads 90 is a photograph of a
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The best any of us poor mortalS
can do is to hope we are right.
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More speed trials in the courts and
fewer on the highways might help.
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"Aen a man is full of himself there
room for much else.
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Important to Mothers

Cryptic Language. p
0nat are those flappers talking
VpIy a tlapper can tell"
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Recognize Her Clothes

The farmer hurried to the village
and returned with gendarmes, fol.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-18
Faith Bankruptcy.
From the Madisonian.

The Madisonian wishes every reader of this
paper would think on these few lines from
Mrs Cora Harris, who has been named as
one of Americas twelve greatest women. We
are getting away from the old fundamentals
Of right living and the moral fabric OF our
people is giving away. We ought to work
more zealouSly, employ more wholesome
pleasures and pastimes and live more sObery
and sanely in every way.
Bankruptcy of faith in God, in the old
order of virtue and especially mans faith are
the most dangerous deficits of the present
generation. Instruct your pupils in morals as
we'll as mathematics, her message to
northwest Georgia teachers in Rome Mrs
Harris had been invited to address the teach
ers, but her health prevented her attendance.
She sent her message in letter to her friend
Miss Martha Berry.
Writing from her home I'm the Valley"
at Rydal, Ga. Mrs Harris said:
If I had message that | could deliver in
person to your teachers it would be this: In
struct your pupils in morals as well as mathe-
mates. Instill the principles of courage and
faith in them; spare no effort to revive the
faith men and women must have in each 9th
er to hold the moral order together
IF l had to name what l believe is the
most dangerous deficit of this generation it
is the bankruptcy of faith in God, in the old
order Of virtue, and especially mans faith
in man. We are guilty of subtracting our
selves from one anOther. we are CuItlVatlng
the critical faculties and cynicism at the ex-
pense of ourselves and mankind.
I'VE must discover the great truth believe
it and teach it without ceasing. | think every
pupil in every school in this country should
be required once month to stand a written
examination of morals, the practical every
day issues of their lives in decency honor
and Righteousness, just as they stand exam-
nations in history, English and mathematics.
Nothing counts, neither wit nor wisdom,
which is not trained and energzed to produce
virtue and those things of great report upon
which we are enjoined by the Great Apostle
to think particularly.
"We are thinking too much upon other
things that are not of good report"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-18
The Doomed Flapper.
From the Washington Post.

Word comes from an unquestionable source
of the doom of The happer. Her days are
numbered Her fate is sealed. Wlthstanding
all the abuse of her cynical detractors and the
moralizing denunciation OF the pulpit she is
about to collapse, cash in, vanish, be obllt-
Grated by the memorable decree OF fashion.
The ladies tailors refuse to produce any
more skirts of knee length; and to defy the
producer of feminine costumes is like letting
the chef OF smart establishment see one
put salt in the soup he already has seasoned,
1t is generally agreed that a girl cannot be
happer without the short skirts that have
been recognized as her most visible charac-
teristic. Even the bodied hair, it is reported,
is to go, which will cause more confusion
for obvious reasons than the lengthening OF
the habiliments from the dressmaker's shop.
But the question is, after the happer has
been reegated to the limbo of those other
dodos of femininity-the crinollne girl, the
Gibson girl and all the rest back to time OF
Pocahontas-will her spirit survive and walk
the earth in some new form? You may wager
that it will, and that there will be something
to keep the prudes and would be mentors
from losing their occupation. The next thing
may be a demurity that will be positively
shocking. Youth will find way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-07-18
Wasting Time.
From the Colquitt Sun.

Had YOU ever noticed as you meander
through the world the time that is being lost
bv able-bodied men, boys and women who are
doing nothing? Go to town, and make men
tai note of the people you see who are abb
solute1y doing nothing. If it was possible to
make a calculation of the time lost in idle
ness the figure would be startling.
1t is sad to see young men and boys who
are wasting and idling their time away. Not
reading, not working, not earning and not
learning The same is true of both sexes.
Young girls walking the streets, sitting
around soda founts, sitting on their front
porches and doing nothing. Grown men
standing on the street corners talking about
nothing trying to learn nothing, having
and seemingly wanting nothing to do.
Young boys who waste every nlc<le they can
get who have no occupation, who have no
Jobs, want no Jobs, playing, idling, talking
and wasting their time.
BOYS, listen If you waste one hour day
on an average it is only three hundred and
sixty-fve hours in each year, and get you
pencil and figure out for yourself how much
your time YOU could be doing something for
yourself and your felowmen. There is some
thing that you could do for your mother or
your father and they would appreciate it.
You could be big help to them. You could
be reading good book or studying some
thing that would be useful to you in the
years to come.
The grasshopper sits still in the sunshine
and when he moves he simply jumps to his
next sitting place. All around him is the in
dustrious ant who is busy all the time,
laying up something to be used in the time
of need.