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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10

Deception as to income expense and
| profit has been the rule Of those who
| have prepared railway reports f0i
public purposes from the very begin
ming.
As long ago as 1866 such reports
were said to have been made "notOri-
ously Incorrect and made so inten-
| tiOnally TO deceive both the share.
/ holders and the public" See Senate
document No. 80, New York, 1865
And this complaint included the OPP
erations of others tates and Of pre-
yious years.
The first annual report Of the New
York Board of Railroad Commission.
ers (1SS3) complained that the re-
/ ports submitted prior to that year. as
required by the railroad law of 1856
/ New York; were made sometimes
so incorrect and incomplete as TO be
/ of no value whatever, and sometimes
| drawn so earelessly and Indifferent
as TO excite only ridicule and dis
gust
In later years, yet many years ago
| Charles Francis Adams, first presi-
dent of the Union Pacific Railroad
Massachusetts Board of Railroad
Commissioners, commenting on the
operations of railroad officials in gen
eral, declared that "by lawlessness
and violence among themselves" they
had become hardly better than race
of horse jockeys on a large scale
The then prevailing unsatisfactory
and bewildered conditions of Amerl-
can railways" said Mr. Adams, was
due to the covetousness; the want of
good faith, and the low moral tone of
railroad managers, and the absence
among them of any high standard of
commercial honor"
The Hon. William Larrabee, ex-
governor of Iowa at the time, writ
ing in 1898 of these remarks of Mr..
Adams, said: "These are strong
words, and yet, as a result of per-
nearly twenty years, make bold to
STRONG AS THE OCCASION
WOULD JUSTIFY. Our railroad
system is managed on principles
which, unless change of heart oc-
ours, and that soon, must inevitably
lead to financial disaster of the most
serious consequences"
There has been no Change of
heart" and the financial disaster fore
cast by Mr.. Larrabee is upon US.
The criminal operations of the past
have wrought their inevitable unes-
capable consequences, namely, finan-
cial disaster that will now certainly
plunge the nation into financial
chaos unless drastic remedies can be
applied forthwith.
The lamentable unfortunate cir
cumstance that now constitutes the
greatest menace is this: The people
have been deceived so persistently
and so cleverly and effectively, and
for so many years, that they are slow
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
INDUSTRIAL
UNION FORMED
BY BUTCHERS

Industrial unionism has been found
necessary by the packing house work
ers OF st. louis, who have amalga-
mated all the various local unions in
the packing industry into a single or
gamzation for the purpose of demand
ing return of the eight hour day and
time and one-half for overtime.
After practically losing the strike
last winter, local and international
officials became convinced that thew
lost the struggle because too MANY
unions We're involved. A resolution
was unanimously adopted in the last
convention of the international union.
held In st. Paul last July, to change
the union from one of sausage MAX
ers, cattle and hog butchers to gem
eral industrial union, including all
workers of any trade in the meat in
dustry. This means teamsters, fire.
men, engineers, oilers, electricians,
etc. Heretofore these workers have
belonged to the craft unions of their
respective trades.
ms defensive step is the direct
result of the efforts Of combined pack
ing interests of st. Louis and else
where to disrupt the Butcher Work
mems union. 1t is expected the lead
OF the st. Louis men will be followed
by unions. in other packing centers.
1t Is an indication of the forward
trend of unioniSm, being necessitated
oy the opposition of large associations
of union busters.
The st. Louis movement Is being
conducted by International President
y. j. Hayes of Chicago.
The News-Gazette is now issuing
Saturday evening paper.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
AN OCEAN OF PROFIT FROM
AN inheritance OF CRIME
BY LEVI STEVENS LEWIS.

to recognize the intolerable cOndi-
i tons that now obtain.
THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT
i THEY HAVE BEEN HURT AND
ARE BEING HURT NOW, UNTO
/ DEATH, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW
WHAT IT IS THAT'S HURTING
THEM"
J Moreover, it is still the practice in
/ 1872, as it was in 1865, and during
i the earlier years, and in all recent
i years, to disseminate propaganda in
tended to deceive land that Ger
tainly does deceived both the public
and the shareholders"
Sufficient evidence of criminal de-
ception has already been submitted,
! yet further cofroboratiYe evidence is
] well worth looking up and consider
ing in connection with that which
here follows. See article entitled,
Starving the Railroads and We
Starve With Them" written by
Frank A. Munsey, proprietor of the
New York Herald, and published in
Munsey's Magazine for April, 1914.
More unimpeachable evidence of
criminal deception. The following
figures should be verified by the
pupils in the high schools and col
leges. THE children of today will
be the citizens of tomorrow"
Flour is transported at a rate of
"a cents per ton per mile. Coal is
transported at the rate Of cents and
z mills per ton per mile. Perhaps
these rates are about the average
rate, perhaps a trifle less or a trife
more. We don't know. No one
knows. But the following calculation
is based on a rate a little less than
half the above mentioned rates.
Twelve hundred tons of merchan-
disc Zone train can be carried 100
miles in ten hours at rate of 2 cents
per ton per mile, and yield 81 600 net
profit allowing $500 for expense of
transportation.
A single track road 100 miles long,
having no income from passenger
traffic, or mail, or express, no extra
charges of any name or nature, no
income whatever save only its freight
income, and operating only one train
IN "a hours--one freight train daily
OF less than average cargo capacity,
carrying merchandise at a rate of 10
cents per hundred pounds and not
less than 1,200 tons daily; daily ex-
pense $500, earns 1854, 900 net profit
in 365 days.
The railroad mileage of the United
States is equal to 1900 roads each
100 miles long as near as can be
learned. 100000 miles.) If each
of these 1900 roads operates only
one freight train day at profit of
$1,000 per train, the aggregate year
~ profit is not less than $1,51S,400,-
900 or something in excess of 71aa
on all capital of all American rail
roads said to be outstanding at this
date.
But there are thousands of trains
in operation daily west of the Missis-
sippi river and tens of thousands in
daily operation on the lines east of
the Mississippi, and in the Atlantic
and New England states, and the ag-
gregate profit these roads realize
from some thirty different sources of
revenue in addition to the profit
from their tremendous freight traffic.
is a very considerable aggregation of
profit.
The aggregate net profit of all the
railway lines in the United States is
apparently in excess of $4,000 000,-
600 month; NOT LESS than $685.
00,OO0000 in 365 days.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
LARGE MILITARY
FORCE NEEDED FOR
STANDARD OIL

Nashington.-Th greatest need for
an increased army and navy seems
to lie in protecting Standard oil. so
why not compel this corporation 10
pay its Just taxes asks Congressman
Frear in a letter TO Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon. Standard oil is
charged with meddling with every de-
partment Of government.
1T is regarded as an open secret
in many quarters" continues the
Wisconsin laWmaker, that Philippine
independence or the date of our re-
lease of the islands depends in part
on the result of Standard oil exploita-
ton in the islands.
THE most eloquent pleader before
the supreme court in the stock divi-
dend case who won 10 his view the
fifth and deciding justice, now in his
present position as a cabinet officer
(Hughes) of great ability and dis
tinction, has Just secured for Stand
ard oil and other American interests
a right TO 10 per cent of Mesopo-
tamia's oil fields. If Turkey protests
and refuses the demands of Standard
oil, it remains for the government TO
use force to carry out the demands Of
any secretary of state, and force
means an army and navy with which
to fight the battles of private oil
corporations.
Notwithstanding Washington's past
and prospective world peace confer
ences, your close associates, Secretar-
les Weeks and DENLY, are constantly
quoted in the press in favor OF a
large army and navy with which to
meet foreign complications. the great
est of which appears to lie in pro-
tecting Standard oils various foreign
development and exploitation activi-
ties.
would it not be a matter of par
tial justice to compel Standard oil to
to pay its full share of taxes with
which to build any extra $40,000,000
battleships and to pay the extra men
required? Why not let John and
not George do it,"
Congressman Frear predicted that
if the treasury continues its present
policy of interpreting taxing laws in
favor Of big business a movement
will be started to re-enact the excess
profits tax, increase the rates of in
heritance and make the income tax
records public.
Government by Standard oil and
United States steel will not be a
matter of friction if these great COM
binations Of wealth are able to put
aside between them $1,500,000, 900 in
surplus for the purpose of escaping
the payment of individual surtaxes
without any enforcement of the law
provided by congress in 1921 to reach
fraudulent efforts, and at time
when the humblest citizen is obliged
to pay every penny of his tax.
"How far Standard oil and its oil
associates control this government
and threaten our relations with 9TH
ers may not be a part of a discussion
of its refusal to pay legitimate taxes,
but believe it not remiss to call your
attention to its recognized power to-
day." said Mr.. Frear.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
PROBABLY THIS JUDGE
THINKS HE HAS A
GOD-GIVEN RIGHT

Columbus, Ohio.-Federal Judge
Safer illustrated what organized labor
means when it demands government
by law when he sentenced two men to
Jail for 80 days for making sarcastic
remarks about a group of strike
breakers in a railroad coach.
The men were not accused of vio-
lating law, and were denied a trial
by jury. The court considered the
men did wrong. 1t is his personal
opinion. There is no law to sustain
him.
When trade unionists oppose gov
eminent by injunction, tory-minded
persons accuse them of demanding
license to violate law"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
PAGE FOUR
We NEVER HEARD OF
A WORKER BEING GUAR
ANTEED 4 DIVIDEND

New York.-This bit Of Wall street
gossip is interesting in view of the
oft-repeated statement that rail
road earnings are not guaranteed;
although it is popularity supposed
the So per cent represents the maxi
mum amount that railroads are sup
posed to earn on their valuation, rail
way executives maintain that the 6
per cent rate specified in the first
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10

ruling has been superseded, and that,
therefore the higher rate Is to be
accepted as the minimum"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10

The Meat Cutters Union wants
every wage Garner and his family to
become better acquainted with their
shop card and the member Of the
family who does the trading to be
instructed to patronize only shops
that display the union market card.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
GREAT GUNS! WONDER
WHAT THEY MADE
DURING THE WAR?

Wilmington, Del.-The Hercules
powder company has declared stock
dividend of 100 per cent.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10

After you have read, think.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10

The News-Gazette is now issuing
q Saturday evening paper.
The Kusko times., 1922-03-15
OUTCOME
 DOUBTFUL.
Four-Power Treaty Now Under Consideration
 By Senate.

Washington, March, 12. While bhe vote of the Senate on the 5our power treaty is still far off, opponents. are freely claiming 5he odds to be against ratifca sion of the treaty. Word was brought from the Democratic side this afternoon that there will be twenty-eight Democratic votes against the treaty. Pledge to this effect was given to the irreconcilable Republicans, of whom there are four, and thirty two votes would defeat the treaty. Lodge, leader for the administration, claims more than enough votes to ratify.
 Assailing the four power treaty IS quadruple alliance. Johnson Gal told the Senate today that it's ratification would mean not merely recession from American tradition, but, national surrender 1nder threat of foreign powers.
The Kusko times., 1922-03-15
Madalyne Obenchain
 On Trial for Murder

Los Angeles, March .14.-Brabdlng Madalyne Obenchain as vain, design- ing woman, siren of modern society, who led J. Bolton Kennedy to his death, District Etterney.Woolwine to- day appealed to the jury to adjudge her guilty of first degree murder.
 Mr. and Mr3 Charles Nicolet, of the Forks, were McGrath visitors yester- day.
 John O: Strand arrived yesterday from Nixon and is making short visit in town.
 Alex. Hately returned today from trip to Nixon.
 Charlie Woods returned here yester- day, after short trip in the hills.
The Kusko times., 1922-03-15
KILLED .,IN
 COLLISION |
Fourteen Meet Death When Auto Bus and
 Train. Collide.

Cleveland, March 13.-Four- teen people were killed today when an auto bus colllded with 8 New York Central passenger train at Gainesville. Nine women are among the dead.
 A number of others were in- iured, everyone in the bus being either killed or seriously injured.
The Kusko times., 1922-03-15
Rep. Kelly Will Oppose Townsend for Senator
 in State of Michigan

Washington. March l3.-Represent- ative Patrick H. Kelly, of Lansing, Mich, today announced his cahdidacy for United States Senator. He will op- poss Sanator Townsend, of Michigan, for Republican nomination, on an anti Newberrv platform.
The Kusko times., 1922-03-15
D0NE: IN SELF
 DE:FE:NSEE: z B:
Former Canadian Pugi- list Killed By Seattle
 Oil Worker.

Seattle, March 12-Johnny O'Learv, former champion lightweight boxer of Canada, was shot knd killed by Frank <. Leslie, an oil plant worker, this morning. After the kiling., Leslie telephoned the police, saying that o Leary and another man had attacked him because he was working in the plant where the strike was on.
 Seattle, March I4-Frank E Leslie, who shot and killed Johnny O'Leary during an assault by the latter, will not be prosecuted for the staying. ac- cording to. an announcement by Prose- outing Attorney Douglas, who holds that 1t was clearly a case of self de- fense.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-28
PARENTS-TEACHERS
GET Together
Meet at High School and Enjoy Fine
Program and Social Evening
Nothing Formal About 1t

On Wednesday evening the Civic
Club and members of the school
board held a community get-to-
gether" meeting for the school pa
irons and our teachers. The large
gymnasium where the meeting was
held was fitted up with rug, library
tables, pillows and chairs, to look
like an immense living room Potted
plants and cut flowers added to the
attraetiveness. Halloween colors
were also in evidence.
Our club president, Mrs Vande-
grift, gave few opening remarks
on community singing, and then in
vited the guests to join in singing a
few popular songs. After singing
"Out Where the West Begins" the
crowd sang "Howdy," and each
shook hands with his neighbors, thus
breaking any formality which might
have existed previously.
Worth S. Lee made short address
about the work the school board is
trying to accomplish and said In
part: Oar schools in Mountain Home
represent a large expenditure OF
money for teachers salaries, repairs
heat and equipment for the year
1922-23 being about $41,275.5O. Our
schools are the place where our chill
dren lay the foundations for their
life work and they should have a
building equipped in the best pos
sible manner, but with 338 pupils in
the grades and lis in high school,
the present building is inadequate
to accommodate them all, and some
of the lower grades are being housed
in the basement of the Baptist
church. The need of an addiffNn to
our building is being keenly felt. In
spite of our limited quarters, we are
doing some very fine work. Espe-
cially is this true in our commercial
department, under the able direction
of Mrs. Hayes. Our boys and girls
finish this department of the school
work and are able to hold response
BILE positions without further tram
ing.
Mr.. Nixon then gave a short talk
about the schools throughout Idaho,
and spoke of the scarcity of teachers
who have had proper training for the
work.
Mrs. zacher then gave reading
very appropriate to the occasion, en-
titled "Life's Canvas
The male quartette Of Mountain
Home favored us with two selections
after which the jolly crowd was IN
vited down Nairs, where the school
board and their wives had provided
ice cream and waters. very satis-
factory and happy evening was
brought to a close by the singing oi
old time songs, concluding with
Good Night, Ladies.
The Civic Club and school Doard
and community in general unite IL
extending a vote of thanks to the
commercial department OF our schooi
for the many copies OF the hyeiy
songs which added life to the enthu-
siastic crowd.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-28
AUTOISTS HAVE
NARROW ESCAPE
Saxon Car Strikes Telephone Pole on
Boise Road While Going at Fair
Speed Shaking Up Results

Mr.. and Mrs. o. ID. Ruse and son
Dale, en- route from Jerome, Idaho,
to Stockton, Cal, barely escaped with
their lives Thursday morning about
10 O'Clock at the outskirts of Moan
tain Home.
Mr.. Ruse, who was at the wheel,
had just tanked up his car after the
run from Jerome, and was hitting
the high places for Boise. Approach
ing the turn from the highway that
leads off to Canyon Greek. he saw
the red spot on the telephone pole,
and thinking he should turn to the
right, swung on the steering wheel.
tne speed at which the car was
going was too great to make the turn
and before The driver could gain con
troll the car had Veered off the road
and torn into large guy line pole.
cutting it off at the top of the
ground.
The occupants of the car were Civ
en- a good shaking up and were very
thankful that they had escaped with
their lives.
Ny. Ruse was manager of the
Home Lumber Co. at Jerome for the
last year and had resigned and was
on his way with his family to Stock
ton, Cal, to accept a similar position
with the Sunset Lumber Co.
The party was making record
time, as Mr.. Ruse was to report for
duty Nov. 1, and knowing there were
worse roads further on, was giving
the big Saxon an open throttle when
he left Mountain Home.
Rev. Tom Blodgett was the first
arrival on the scene of the disaster,
and brought Mrs. Ruse and son Dale
to the NJ. e. parsonage to get their
nerves quieted and be their guests
while local mechanics repaired the
car. The damage, strange
to say, was not great.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-28
FORMER RESIDENT
FATALLY INJURED
Joe Forges Crushed by Car of Lum-
Der at Barber-Wife Had
Planned Surprise

Joe Forges, who will no doubt b,
remembered by many Mountain
Home people, he having formerly
been employed at the Mountain
Home Hotel, was fatally injured last
Saturday night at Barber, dying a
short time after being removed tc
the emergency hospital at the Bar
Der Hotel
Mrs. Forges had planned a sur
prise for her husband for last Sun
day. She had had a photograph OF
the two children taken holding the
American flag, and had sent copy
of the photograph to The Boise
Statesman without informing her
husband of it. She was waiting to
see his pleased surprise when he saw
his own kiddies in an American pa
per. The picture appeared last Sun
day in the paper and Mr.. Forges met
his tragic death the night before.
Mondays Statesman had the fol-
lowing account of the accident:
Joe Forges, 25, an employe of the
Boise Payette Lumber Company at
Barber, was fatally injured Saturday
night when he was crushed under a
load of green lumber while he was
working in the storage yards. He
died few minutes after he had been
taken to the emergency hospital at
the Barber Hotel. According TO the
story told by men who were working
on the same shift with Forges, he
was driving a small gasoline loco
motive used to haul the loads of
lumber from the "green chains" at
the mill to the storage yards. The
yard is built on an incline, the
lower end sloping to the sawmill.
When Forges attempted to spot" the
load of lumber in the proper alley,
ne found that the load ahead was
not properly blocked and would start
on the downgrade when struck by
the other load. When Forges at
tempted to stop the incoming load
with piece of lumber, the impro-
vised block held in Forges' hand
the load of lumber to upset, |
Forges. His back was
broken and he died within few
minutes. Forges was member OF
the John Regan Post of the Ameri-
can Legion. He is survived by a
wife residing at Barber and two
children, a boy and girl, Everett
Daniel, aged % months, and Dona
iarie, aged 9 months respectively.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-10-28
FRANKLIN CAR
IS DESTROYED
7. P. Scholtz Loses Fine Touring
Car White Out Duck Hunting
Was Partly Insured

T. P. (Dutch) scholtz, the popular
proprietor of the Mellen Hotel
played in hard luck last Sunday
which resulted in the loss of his fine
Franklin car.
Mr.. Scholtz and companion went
down near the Bruneau bridge duck
hunting, and on the way Mr. Scholtz
remarked that he could smell some
thing burning, but after their arrival
at the happy hunting grounds an
examination of the car failed to re-
veal any trace of fire.
The boys then proceeded over to a
bayou and got busy on the ducks, but
suddenly noticed that something was
burning in the direction from whence
they came, and soon discovered that
it was their conveyance. When they
had returned they found the car in
flames. and it wss soon totally de-
stroyed, with all of its contents.
The hunters walked back to the
bridge, where Tom and Fred found
them deiectedly taking stock, and
brought the unlucky hunters back to
town.
Mr.. Scholtz informed The Repub-
lican that while the car carried in
surance, it would not cover the cost
of the vehicle by any means.
The car was a five-passenger tour
ing. and was practically new.