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I'VE WANTED A CHANGE"

We We're getting a dollar six bits for
our corn,
We could sell every hide from the
hoof to the horn;
!. But we wanted a change and we
got it.
Now we're getting a quarter for corn
its so cheap -.
That we burn it for fuel, our toes
warm to keep;
We can't sell the hides so we bury
them Deep y,
But we wanted a change and we
The poor working man pulled down
- eight bucks a day, =:
Now he's darn glad to work for half
of that pay; .
But he wanted a change and he
got it.. -,
There was work and plenty for
< every mans sou,
And warm food and shelter when
: : that work was done. .>
Now millions are idle, where before
there were none; :r
But weawanted a change and we
got it. !
Mr.. Wilson spent quite a long time
e over there, .11
For peace he was fighting, but what
did we care? -, ;. =
We wanted change and We got
it.
Now all we read of is .golf and. va
-cations, "
Gay week-ends at summer resorts
and plantations, r -.
(Not what we expect from the head
of nation); +
But we wanted a change and we
got it.. ! =.
We were prosperous and happy, well
. fed and gay; EE~e
Now millions of children go hungry
each day; e
But we wanted a change and we
got it. >. -
Meanwhile we hear this: 1T was
certain to come = = ....
Reaction from war time"-and war
:. three years done! ~,.
If we wanted a lemon we sure did
pick one. ri
Well, we wanted change. Now
we've got it. Selected.
The labor world., 1922-10-21
POLITICS AND GARDENS:
BY J. Nj. BAER,
The Ex- Congressman Oartoonist.
Politics. is mucl4 like a garden.

Politics. is mucL% like a garden. =
In the first place, one does, not
make much of success out of gard
ening if he chooses poor seeds. In
politics the people too often allow
the politicians; through conventions
and often through the primary cleo
tions, to choose tie candidates.
When they do the voters have no
choice. $:>~ 49,. -. +,,z e. ,2i:;5 %,:-<
Sometimes, in the Fall of the year
the home gardener goes out into his
little patch and finds that it has
grown up into a weed sbed. Between
the; thistles and the parasitical In
,sects there is! nothing left. He looks
at the promising picture on the seed
package, then he observes the sf1iv-
eled-up results and says to his neigh
Dor: Look, this is all + got out lof
my garden" = y -. .ss.l :.
S The neighbor, who sissa good gard
ener, replies: "You can't expect
much when you only work in it one
day in the year" Sst< -. " =
so it is with politics. The voter
cannot expect to harvest, bumper
crop when he only spends an hour
at the. polls in a year. The voter
should educate his neighbors; organ
ize them; get the men and women in
,hic precinct rog.sters and vote. He
should do more hoeing and cultivat-
ing in his political garden and then
y -. - 4 ;
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BILLBOARD PROSPERITY

Another overworked slogan Of the
Republicans is prosperity is Just
Around the Cprner'''-which means,
Of course, that it Is out of sight. Since
last spring the Republican adminis-
tration and prospective candidates
have specialized in this form of pros
perity, which. is better classified and
identified as Billboard and SSoa pbox
Prosperity. E - - =:
It should not be imagined. how
ever, that no one is enjoyi:. :; pros
perity. The Standard OH company Of
California, according to an announce
ment made Oct.=I3, will pay stock
dividend of 200 percent on,Dec. 80,
1922. Subsidiaries of the STANDARD
Oil have recently; acquired through
secret leases from the interior de-
.partment tn, naval oil. reserves in
California and Wyoming under terms
which would seem to justify the
present prosperity of that company.
The Steel Trust, too, is fairly pros
porous. The Woolen Trust is doing
we'll under it's recent advance In
prices and its maximum. of prctec-
ton under the, FordneysMc lmber,
bill. All of the profiteers who en-
joy a special license under that. bill
have fair prospects Of prosp srity. But
all ofsthis prosperity spells adversely
and disaster to legitimate business
and to the individuals who pay the
taxes and. bear the burdens. Of the
increasing high cost of living. !,
Even Uncle Sam is over $780,,
100000 shy Of having enough money
in sight to pay the running expenses
of the government5f for the fiscal year
of 1923, according to his budget. II
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A FAUX PAS.

At Southern railway stations it is
custom of darkies to sell chicken
patties and other delicacies to pas
sensers. sA-spassenger who had en-
joyed: patty and was leaning out of
the window to buy another, asked Of
the dusky salesman: Il ~. ..:sss .:.s:..s ].
e Where do you get your chicken ~
- The darky rolled hfs5eyes. "You-
all fom de Moth. amt you, sah?''
he queried.. sE - ID .%5-ss.zs, =.
T. {. Yes" was the reply '.Butswhy
doy you ask that?'' IS: s.. 49,.
IL ! "case, sab! mo gemrm'n r ON
de South eber asksa Niger whar he
gifts his chicken The SArgonaut
(SaneFrancisco). !. -. Z. - - .a..-i .sa..ssi
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READ Them AND ! WEEP Y |
The coal .siness can be reformed

The coal .siness can be reformed
by business methods. In progressive
business in eased service follows
decreased cost to the public. The his
tory of the coal business is. an un-
broken increase Of cost to the pub
lie with g. distressful decrease in
service. To save itself the coal bust
ness has got to make coal a drug on
the nlarket-make it the cheapest,
as it is the most plentiful, of all our
natural products. The busin ,ss ought
to be put on a basis VIII. :. would
keep it busy trying to sell coal. It
doesn't have to sell it now. It is busy
devising new methods to gouge peo-
pie clamorous. to, buy. The business
is doomed unless modern methods
are adopted at once. Profits made
out Of the distress Of the people are
always. much smaller than profits
made out Of the most lavish service
of the people at the lowest prices
that competent management can
make possible.-The Dearborn Inde-
pendent. 49,. 49,
p, LeHlne is DdCk on has job, and his
first act of IMPORTANCE, as reported
in a dispatch to the Times from
Moscow, is to repudiate and annul
the trade concession recently; agreed
upon between the Soviet officials
and the British captain of industry,
Mr.. Urquhart.' Over this there has
been quite a flourish of Bolshevist
trumpets.-New York Times.
Bankers Now Ready to Guide the
York Times.
o 49,
Congressman Siegel predicted that
the recent 20 per cent raise of the
United States Steel corporation to
it's common labor would be followed
in short time by another raise, be-
cause of the shortage of common la
Dor and competition for it among
big employees. - A vigorus de-
mand from large employers for a
loosening of immigration restrictions
is anticipated when the. committee
begins next month to- hold hearings
on the question of modifying the i'm
migration laws.-New York Times.
The labor world., 1922-10-21
LABOR ALWAYS LOYAL.

AA6On ALWAYS AO AL.
)" Gompers Conveniently Forgets,'
reads the caption over an editorial in
the Duluth News Tribune.
The morning paper takes exception
to the declaration made by the presi-
dent of the A. F. of L., at the con-
vention of the American Legion that
labor could always be depended upon
to stand behind the government Of the
United States. It holds that because
Mr.. Gompers attacked Judge Wilker-
son s injunction he did not stand be-
hind the government in that instance.
There is good deal of difference
between the government of the United
States and Single department in the
government. American labor believes
in the United States government. It
believes in. the Constitution, and be-
cause of such belief it attacks with
all it's might an attorney general amt
federal judge who would supplant
government by law with government
by the courts. It would .impeach any
public official who violates the Con-
stitution, such as Daugherty has done,
to serve the interests that put him in
the cabinet of the president Of the
United Staes. -"
No.. no, Mr.. Daugherty is not the
government any more tnan congress-
man is the government. Judge Wilker-
son is not the government any more
than court commissioner is. The
government consists of three co-ordi:
nate branches and Mr.. .Gompers, or
any other person, has as much right
to criticize or attack the conduct and
acts OF an attorney general or court,
as he has to take exception to rul-
ing Of president or to what he may
regard as an unconstitutional act
passed by congress. One Of the fine
things about free government such
as ours is intended to be is that
person has that right, and he is priv
ileged to- use it without being disloyal
If the News Tribune delights in
drawing such a fine line as to what
constitutes loyalty, may we not be
pardoned for reminding its editor and
our readers that there was a., time
during the war when the loyalty OF
the morning paper was brought into
question because it refused to back UP
President Wilson and his department
heads in a number of their war plans
and rulings. X ....' %.j%.,,
;. Labor men did not accuse the News
Tribune of disloyalty then, for they
conceded that it had the right to criti-
else or attack. any public official in
any capacity during the war or at
any time for his public conduct and
acts There, ARE :nnmber Of men still
in federal prisons who said less
against the administration during the
war: than our morning paper said.
Union labor believes that the sweep.
ing injunction issued by Judge Will
kerson at the request of the attorney
general is contrary to law and to the
Constitution Mr.. Gompers and the
workers have as much right to attack
and ignore an unconstitutional court
order as big business has to attack
an unconstitutional law. II doing.
such SUI IS disloyal the workers have.
plenty Of company. ass5.
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POLICING TIE HIGHWAYS.

Il is, turning cut just as we had ex'
pected. We've got to have a state
onstabulary to supervise traffic on
the new paved highways of the state.
That is to be the entering wedge for
a State police system.
The secretary Of the Duluth Cham
her Of Commerce, we'll meaning gen
tleman, has written Governor Preus
urging him to "have the next legis-
lature enact law that will provide
for the patrol of all paved highways
in Minnesota
The establishment of state con-
stabulary or some body to patrol the
roads and put a stop to the sale Of
moonsh;nc along the highways is alb
solutely necessary MIR. Saxby, the
secretary Of the Duluth Chamber of
Commerce, wrote the governor.
That s sweet music for Governor
Preus. All such letters will be graft
flying to him. They are an endorse
ment of his claim for the establish
ment of a state police. Even the Du-
luth Herald is falling for it and be-
Iicves the state should police the
highways, and it advocates this new
expense to the tax payers in the same
c2Iumn that it pleads for economy in
the conduct of local and state gov
ernments.
No friend of local self government
will urge the legislature to enact a
law extending the police system to
the state government. The sheriff is
the peace officer of the county and
it is his duty to supervise traffic on
The highways outside of the corporate
limits of the cities and villages. IT
he hasn t money enough to do. the job
it is up to the county board to make
an additional appropriation for SUCH
or any other purpose to keep and
maintain the peace.
1t may be argued that some of the
money paid by automobile owners to
the state as license tax and which
goes into the state road fund might
be used to pay for the employment
of traffic officers on the state high
ArI b,k e., III r;rb4 Ma
objection can be made to such an ap.
rortionment of state funds, but the
employment and supervision Of the
men to be employed as highway traf-
fic police should be left to the sher-
ifs in the several counties.
The governor Of the state has about
all the patronage to give out that is
good for him. If he had any more it
would be bad for good government.
The establishment of a state police
Of any kind but cures one evil that
will bring hundred more jim it's wake.
Our forcfathers found it to be safe
10 keep the police authority close to
home. They knew some of the causes
&C political tyranny. Kings are not the
only tyrants. Presidents and COVER
nors might be such if they had the
power of kings. Governor Preus would
be a past master in the art of Mich
olas if he had state police to order
about. We want none of it in ours. We
are having difficult time as it is
preserving the essentials Of human
liberty without an imported state con-
etabulary to override the simple rights
of the common folks.
Beware of state police under any
pretense. Vote for no man or woman
fer the state legislature who will no:
be pledged to oppose with might and
main the extension of the ordinary
peace preserving power from the local
communities and the county to the
state. The system is fraught with
danger.
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LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES.

Ism It it strange that in a great
statewide political contest involving z
the election of members of both
branches Of the legislature the daily
papers are painfully silent on the
measures that are due to come before
the states law-making body. They
discuss no issue in the legislative cam
paign. They care little what candi-
date stands. for so long as he is not
liberal or radical in his thinking.
But there are grave issues in the
campaign and"the people should know
where the candidates they expect to
vote for stand on the most important
measures that are to be discussed and
acted upon at the next session of the
legislature
Labor and other Justice loving vot-
crs are interested in at least two mat
tcrs that will be disposed Of in some
way at st. Paul caring the coming
winter. One of them is the proposition
OF Governor Preus to establish q state
police system, and the other will be
the repeal or continuance Of the
Brooks-Co act, the law that took
the control Of local traction compa-
MES from the cities and lod ged it with
state commission.
There will be other important meas
ures, but the two above mentioned
are the most important because they
involve questions Of local self f-govern-
ment. One supplements the police
duty of the city and county with that
of the state and removes the custo-
dlans of the simple liberties of the
average person another step from the
people. 1t is a vicious, I'm American
principle that was repudiated at the
outset by the founders Of. the Re-
public.
The other attacks the principle of
home-rulc in our city governments.
principle recognized in the state
constitution granting to municipali-
ties the right to draft charters with
out the consent or interference Of the
legislature. 1t also impairs the obli
CATION of contract and treats as =
scrap of paper a franchise granted
by city to public service CORPORA
ton. Instead Of removing such from
politics it puts them, into politics
deeper than ever. The Brooks. Coleman
law was not drafted in the public in
terest, but in that of the traction CON-
panles. 1t should be repealed.
Labor presents to the people Of the
ty-eighth and Fifty-nintb districts
candidates for the legislature who are
pledged to vote against state con-
stabulary and for the repeal of the
lnlqultous Brooks-C Caleman act. The
candidates endorsed by labor stand
Tor other progressive measures. but
the two herein mentioned are given
emphasis because they are paramount
to most others. 49,. .< y
The pledged candidates in the Fiji.
ty-eighth district are e.. y. Lock- hart
the present tried and true incumbent,
and chauncey Peterson, for the low:
er house. Henry l.. NORM Tor the sen. e 4
ate and William Bernard and A. vii.
bert Anderson for the house in the
Fifty ninth district are from convic-
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naming the Republican nominee for

naming the Republican nominee for
governor. If Ivan continues on his
"good BEHAVIOR Senator Nelson can
rest assured that his pupil will be we'll
provided for. But; what is to be done
for Louis Collins, lieutenant governor
and soldier man?
So runs the great political dynasty
Of Minnesota. And the people really
believe they rule the state? Not by
long shot. They merely go through
the motions.
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commission sets freight rates for him

commission sets freight rates for him.
The worker, too, can get out Of Jail,
but he must surrender his liberty.
Or, to put it another way-the cap
italist is in Jail because he clings to
a free mans rights. -,
In the first instance, money is in
volved. In the other instance, human
liberty is involved.
The proposal to empower the rail-
road labor board to enforce it's
awards is a step backward.
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| ton squarely with labor on the two
measures in question. They are the
labor candidates.
There are other candidates for the
house and senate who are pledged to
vote against state police and for
the repeal of the Brooks Coleman act,
but the candidates above mentioned
can be depended upon to vote con-
sistently all the time with the CON-
mon people and against the special
interests.
The sternness of the situation, be-
yond every other consideration, war
rants the election of the candidates
endorsed by labor. -, .
ONLY WORKERS ARE JAILED.
Certain senators are preparing the
public mind for a movement in con-
gress to ''put teeth in the labor
section of the Cummins-Esch act.
,Thespubic is told that decisions by
the railroad labor board "will be
made enforceable~on capital (mean-
ing capitalists) and labor alike.'
This seems fair to the element of
our population that forms it's opinions
by reading newspaper headlines, but
organized workers know different.
The public is assured that "capital
(meaning capitalists) favor this
plan."
Why wouldn't they? It would fling
the strike power from the hands Of
labor, strip workers of their most ef-
fective weapon and place their liberty
and welfare in the hands Of a gov
ernment agency.
A railroad labor board award can
not affect the liberty Of capitalist.
His identity. is lost in the corpora
tion and a corporation cannot be
jailed. A corporation may be fined
for violating an award, but that will
be charged to operating expense and
rates screwed up so that dividends are
assured, no matter how large the fine.
To talk of jailing a capitalist is
ridiculous. One Of his managers might
go to Jail, but hired man is not a
capitalist. To conjure an extreme pos
sibility, let us assume the president
Of railroad is sent to jail-until he
is released by habeas corpus proceed:
ings. But he, also, is a hired man.
He is not a capitalist.
Who will say that the railroad la
Dor board would dare reach down into
Wall street and Jail capitalist of the
standing Of Mr.. Morgan or Mr.. Kuhn
because one. Of their corporations vio-
lated an award?
Even were this possible, there yet
remains a fundamental difference be-
tween. jailing workers and jailing a
capitalist for violating one of these
awards. =
The capitalist is jailed because he
refuses to pay a certain wage rate,
or because he objects to improving
working conditions. This is merely a
difference Of opinion between the
capitalist and the labor board. There
is no principle involved between the
two parties. Their standards OF living
fol, the workers is but point of view,
with both insisting that their guess
is correct. x -, :
When the worker is jailed because
he suspends work and refuses to ac-
:cept the boards decision, his personal
liberty: is involved, while dollars IS
the only thing involved in, the cap.
italist's case ~. s> e e
The: worker refuses to labor under
conditions distasteful to him. He quits
and induces others-so quit. d tt I.
The capitalist can get out Of Jail if
he will let the board set wages for
him, just as the interstate commerce
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ALL CLEAR NOW.

A professor says that sedentary
work tends to lessen the endurance.
In other words, the more one sits
the less, one can stand.-Boston
e. -. : -,
The mud baths Of today were popu-
lar in the seventeenth century. -.
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Bankers Now Ready to Guide the
York Times. -"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-10-12

ter Beechwood school for girls. She
was accompanied by her sister. Mrs
Walter Jacobs who will then so. to
New York city for visit of few
days with relatives.
Fresh oysters at the Checkerline
Market.
Do you, dare you? or course You
do What?--Want to see Tom Mix
in DO and Dare at Harte theatre
Saturday.
The men members of st. Jean Bap.
tiste will hold whistN party in the
~ w. c, rooms tonight at O'Clock
Music will be furnished by The
bargo's orchestra. Admission, %
cents.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Il. Sargent
and daughters, Virginia and Nancy
accompanied by Daniel c. HurIbut
Henry u. Walbridge and Frederick
J. Beeohep lett by AUTOMOBILES this
morning for Burlington Mrs. Sar
gent and children will proceed tc
Bristol, Mrs Sargent's former home
/ where they will spend the remainde
of the week with relatives, but tn,
men will attend the sessions of tn,
Vermont Consistory of Scottish Ritz
Masons being held this week at Bui
lington.
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, Odd and Interesting.

Grabs change their shells Annually.
Bamboo trees bloom only twice in
centm.
There are $4,000 seeds in a bushcl
! Of wheat.
Damascus in Syria, Is the oldest
! Of ! existing cities.
The human voice is produced by
icgty-four different muscles.
An ordinary mouse averages run
Of len and half miles . day.
a square mile will accommodate
7sG5,0o0 people standing close to.
gethe:,
One big steamship company runs its
own laundry, which handles 6,50O0OO
articles year.
The human body generates enough
heat during the day to melt A
pounds of ice and raise the liquid to
boiling point.
The first of British writer's to make
large fortune was Sir Walter Scott
who earned about Sl,OOO,OOO by his
pen.
The oldest boat in the worlds be.
ing dug out of n bog on the S'esvig
coast; It is believed to date back to
the beginning of the second century.
Early next year will be celebrated
4 the centenary Of the first performance
+ in public. at Convent Garden Opera
House, Of that wonderful song,
Home. Sweet Home
In 1910 the record time for cross
ing the Atlantic was fourteen days
and eight hours This year the
steamship Mauretania holds the rec
ord. her time being four days, eight
hours.
Sleeping in church used to be
such common habit that men had
to be employed to walk about during
the services and wake up the worship
pers who had fallen asleep. In the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
money was often left for this pur-
pose.
Cocaine first obtained recognition
as a medicinal drug about thirty-fve
''~""s 100 and the commercial supply
was derived from leaves of the wild
cuca plant OF Peru. Now the shrub
~ cultivated extensively in Java
which will export this year about
100000 pounds Of the leaves.
landing has been made with an
aeronlane on the brink of the crater
of volcano in eruption. The hero
f the exploit is Chanteoup. the fam.
GUS French pilot. who, with three
friends went to Java in search of the
most daring feat he could achieve in
= small aerop'ane. He effected a
landing on Bromo, one of the series
of active volcanoes in the Tengger
chain of mountains, and more than
5000 feet high.