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The New York herald., 1922-02-12
CITIES FIND WAYS
TO HELP JOBLESS
Rock Piles and Tree ChOpping
Among Relief Systems
Devised.

American ingenuity in contriving jobs
unemployment emergency is shown by
hundreds of reports submitted to Col.
Arthur Woods of the Presidents confer
cnce on unemployment from cities and
Mayors take great pride in the novel
means devised by their employment com
mittees to care for the home folk
Fort Smith, Ark, has rock pile
where men break big stones into little
ones. to be mixed with cement and sand
to improve the local streets.
Gloucester. Mass. and Evanston, Ill,
pay the jobless to chop down condemned
city timber, which is sold for fuel. Pub.
lie spirited citizens in Rock Island. ILL.,,
have banded together to hire one man
cne day week to keep him from be-
coming an object of charity.
In Erie Pa, drive has been mad
to push the sale of "Erie-made" prod
ucts in order to provide local employ
ment. Lima, c.. has put 100 men 20
work two or three days a week. paying
them in orders on grocery stores for
food. Butte, Mont. raises $60.000 each
month and extends some sort of aid to
$500 families. Unemployed single men
can get two meals day of beef stew,
vegetables, bread and butter and coffee
out of this fund. Galesburg, ILL.,, has
put 100000 into water mains and work
has gone on right through the winter,
while the town provides lodging and
food for the destitute.
Youngstown. Ohio, has sold municipal
bonds and provides work in the city
parks for men with families. They are
divided into two groups and work in
two week shifts. The election officials
lent their machinery and a day was set
apart for the registration of the unem-
ployed Allentown, Pa, is continuing all
public work regardless of weather condl-
tions and a special drive mas been made
to remodel store fronts in order to give
work TO builders. A cheap homes cam
paign has also stimulated employment
and solved the housing problem
Pittsfield, Mass, has flying shoveI
squadron" which reports Immediately to
any citizen who telephones, and clears
the snow from his sidewalk in jiffy.
Fort Dodge, Iowa, reports that Jotiess
miners are working abandoned coal
mines in the vicinity. which has given
them a living and reduced the price oi
coal at the same time. Red Oak. Iowa
has opened a stone quarry and hauls
the rock to the locations where it will
be used in the spring.
Salt Lake City Utah. has established
a municipal woodyard, where old rall-
road ties and discarded telephone and
electric light poles are sawed into IRE
wood by the unemployed at % cents an
hour. They are paid in lodging and meal
tickets, and the kindling is sold
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
BAD BOYS TO LEARN
LINCOLN'S ADDRESS
If Train Stoners and Car Hop
pers Fail They Go to
Reform School.

Five boys who threw stones at Lacla-
homes in Clifton. y. j., and now and
then caught rides on them. were SEN
fenced Yesterday by Recorder william.
j. Barbour of Clifton to study Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address" The Oldest boy
John hallimiak. aged IA. viii have to
memorize the address and repeat it to
the Recorder four weeks hence. The
others must know it so we'll that they
will be able to answer any question the
Recorder may ask regarding it when
they come before him at the end of the
four week period
The Recorder devised the sentence after
he had informed the youthful defendants
that he thought they ought to be better
Americans, and If they turned their
careers from a rather u1favorable start
they might be OF as great public service
vet to the nation as was Lincoln.
A heavy threat lay back of the in
junction to pore over the address. For
the Recorder announced that he would
grade the defendants on their "eXamina-
ton before him one month hence, and
their passing mark would be so. If they
went below so. he said he would provide
a graduated sentence of one year in the
reform school for each five points they
dropped under the mark.
Thus If they stand 70 their sentence
will be one year and IL they drop as low
as 90 their term in the reformatory will
be four years. In view of the severity
of this threat Anthony Kulick, aged 8;
Michael Gaboteski, II; Stephen Sezeck,
y and John Salernik. the other defend
ants, were greatly alarmed and told the
Recorder, with much earnestness. that
they would learn the address just as
thoroughly as John Hallimiak would
commit it to memory. And they didn't
smile when the Recorder became more
kindly as he sent them home and said
nc had hopes for them and wanted them
to try to emulate Lincoln and not be
naughty and risk their lives catching
rides or the displeasure of officials by
damaging property.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
OKLAHOMA JURORS
DEFY ABSENT JUDGE
ii. Fl. Christopher Gets a
Warming Not to Return
to Okmulgee.
is ADVISED BY BAR
Jurist Who Dismissed
Grand Jury Heard From
After Disappearance.
FEARED KU KLUX KHAN
Threats Reported After Fail,
ure to Receive Indictments
in Bank Case.

OKMULGE Okla. Feb. lin net
work OF tangled banking finances, said
to involve the highest officials in the
State as well as prominent local men,
Okmulgee tonight is seeking justice.
The faith of thousands is shaken in
fhe courts and the question is, will the
guilty be punished or will ,3igh in
huence prevail?
The temper of this community is
better told in a telegram sent tonight
TO Judge II. r. Christopher, who on
Thursday dismissed grand jury,
which was about to vote ind ctments
in bank investigation.
Judge Christopher was told point
blank that any attempt on his part ito
reconvene the grand jury or to call
another at this time would be unwise. "
The message was in answer to one sent
by the Judge earlier in the day to
James Hepburn, County Attorney. Of
fering to return to Okmulgee and re-
convene the grand jury he so suddenly
dismissed
Judge Christopher is in Coyle, a hun
dred miles away. Until heard from
to-day, his whereabouts has been un-
known since Thursday when he dis
appeared. The report is he fled fear
1ng personal safety because of a dem
onstration of the Ku KluX Klan Thurs
day night
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
DER HEARING FEBRUARY 1s.

The examination of Charles A. Stone
ham. chief owner of the New York
Giants, and Ross d. Robertson in con-
nection with the investigation into the
failure of T.. ID. Dier G. Co. brokerage
house, was postponed by agreement yes
terday until February 16 when the two
witnesses will appear before Alexander
Gilchrist, Jr., United States Commits
soner in Bankruptcy, and will be ques-
toned by Arthur Garfield Hays, of
counsel for the receivers of the insol-
vent concern.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

ment, reveals simply this: THAT the
process of tearing down or dismantling
the wheels of industry by laying off
labor has definitely been checked, that
the hand to mouth. period OF merely
seasonal employment has been passed
over and that now industry is begin
ming, very slowly, TO lay in new human
equipment for the full revival, still
many months off,
The report says that In the general
labor line the last few weeks have
demonstrated an increase in the demand
of 200 per cent. over any previous
weeks Since the bureau was organized.
Improvement is recorded in the fol-
lowing kinds of labor: Department
store, high class clothing lines. produc-
ton force. electrical goods and instru-
ments, pencil and button manufacture,
metal goods operators, dry batter ma
kers. makers OF storage batteries for
automobiles and dye house work on
mems clothing and ladies' suits. The
increase in the machinery and metal
industries has been approximately 100
per cent There has also been inn
provement in the printing trades.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
CORNERSTONE is LAID
FOR LOYAL MOOSE HOME
Atlantic City Building viii
Cost $500, 900.

ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 1.-Secretary Of
Labor James j. Davis Supreme Dictator
OF the Loyal Order Of Moose, to-day
was the chief speaker at the laying of
The cornerstoneNof the new Moose Home
Mr. Davis was accompanied by fifty
members OF the order from other cities.
Secretary Davis extolled the principles
upon which the order was founded. He
also declared that marked improvement
had been observed in the present labor
situation and that all indications now
pointed toward gradual but continued
bettermeni.
The ceremony followed a luncheon and
parade. The new building will cost
$780, 900.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
WANT MORE JUDGES
IN CRIMINAL COURTS
Lawyers Report Shortage of
2 in General Sessions and 4
on Supreme Bench.

Two more judges for General Sessions
and until they can be appointed an
assignment of ten supreme Court JUS
tices for four months or four for ten
months to the criminal branch of the
Supreme Court are sought in report
from its committee on criminal courts
to the New York County Lawyers AS
sociation. The report was adopted
unanimously by the directors of the as
sociation last week.
The committee found that some quick
practical means of speeding the trial
of cases accumulated in the criminal
courts was necessary because at the
close of last year there were 2,1G0 cases
undisposed of in General Sessions. in
cludng those of 215 men who were in
the Tombs unable to get bail. During
last year the Grand Jury found 2,405
indictments ana only 4.42l of them were
disposed of.
The report said:
"The fact that an indictment in a
bail case often does not appear on the
calendar for trial for eighteen months
is truly appalling. for unquestionably
immediate prosecution and conviction of
criminals has a marked tendency toward
the reduction OF crime. An analysis of
the statistics shows also great fall
ing off i'm the number of pleas OF guilty
during 1921 for which two causes exist.
"iTrst. the length of time elapsing be-
tween indictment and trial, which OBJ
vously makes prosecution more difficult
because witnesses may disappear or die
and the complaining witnesses lose zest
or interest in the proceedings.
Second. the falling off in the per-
centage of convictions. due partly to
difficulty in securing them after eigh-
teen months, and possibly to lessened
efficiency of the District Attorneys
staff. In this connection, however II is
only fair to observe that during the last
administra ton the District Attorney and
various members of his staff We're for
long periods under charges or investiga-
ton which inevitably resulted in de-
teroraton of morale"
The report called special attention TO
the fact that five parts of General Ses-
sions remained open last summer though
the law requires that only three parts
of the court remain open In July and
August and that often court sessions
were prolonged into the night. This was
made possible by judges and members
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

Jury could be reimpaneled. but added
there were too many chances of techni-
calities being raised and that any in
dictments that would be voted might be
invalidated.
The proba bility of reimpaneling thu
old Grand Jury received the severcsi
blow from Gordon Clark. foreman of tho
jury. He appeared at the meeting OF
the lawyers. County Attorney Hepburn
introduced Clark.
Il wouldn't call him Judge Chris
topher," said Mr.. Clark with feeling.
you men are charitable to apply sthat
title. If he is permitted to come back
| would refuse TO serve. I'd go 10 Jail
first and / might add, that | believe
tha, is the opinion of other members of
the jury"
Whether Judge Christopher will at
tempt to return after receiving the mes
sage is an uuanswerable question here
tonight. Whether he does or does not.
it appears well settled question he will
not reconvene the old Grand Jury and
will not have. anything to do with
future Investigations.
A new Grand Jury has been sum-
moned to appear Monday by Judge Marx
L. Bozarth of the district. County At
torney Hepburn made the statement to-
night that no attempt would be made
by his office 10 place evidence before the
Grand Jury of the failure of the Bank
of Commerce before February 27.
The dismissed Grand Jury had about
concluded hearing evidence, had ordered
indictments drawn when Judge Chris
topher suddenly discharged the investt-
eating body Thursday.
Judge Christopher explained his sud
den action by saying that the jury had
keen Illegally drawn. Dismissal of the
Jury provoked demonstration of the
Ku KluX I<lan. who in a parade called
on public officials ito do their duty"
Hepburn said tonight that all of the
evidence i'm his possession concerning
the bank failures would be placed before
the new iury
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
GOOD BURGLAR FREED.
Behaved i'm Sing Sing and Old
Warrant Is Cancelled.

Because Jacob Deitch. burglar and
second offender, behaved well in Sing
Sing and promised to reform a variant
issued in Brooklyn and calling for his
arrest was withdraw when his sentence
expired yesterday. Prison attaches say
the fact he has secured enjoyment out
side saved him from further punish
ment.
He completed three and a half years
for burglary in Kings county. a war
rant had been filed requiring the prison
authorities to hold him to be rearrested
when his term was served.
Louis Colombani. who served two
years for an offense in Manhattan. and
stephen Rietano who served three and
a half years for grand larceny in Brook
lyn. also were released.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
FINDS OUTLOOK BETTER
Trade ReDiUal Foundations
NoU Being Laid.

Although the City Employment Bu-
reau. 129 Worth street. declared that
there is nothing to justify the belief,
which 1t says is somehow current. that
an industrial revival of comprehensive
proportions is imminent, it nevertheless
asserts in a statement issued yesterday
that figures in It's possession indicate
that the foundations for business re-
sumption are now being laid.
IAN examination of the bureaus rec
ord of classes Of labor i'm demand over
the period of four and a half months
since the inception of municipal en-
ployment activities says the state
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Message to Judge.

The message to Judge Christopher,
signed by a committee of three mem
bers of the Bar. states:
Your telegram to the County Attor-
ney was referred to such members of
the bar as could be gotten together, and
upon consideration they unanimously
expressed the view that any attempt
on your part to reconvene the grand
Jury or to call another at this time
would be unwise."
Tho undenied sentiment is that the
presence of Judge Christopher here is
not desired, and is deemed by many
inadvisable
Tell him not TO como back was the
way a. +. Graham, attorney, expressed
his views at meeting of bar members
at the Court House to-day.
MY money is in that bank and he's
helping them to get away with it," was
the statement of another.
Other lawyers. however. while con-
demning the jurist, said that no such
warning as Mr. Graham suggested
should be send The idea, it was agreed,
should be given to the judge, but in diff
ferent language.
Members of the bar found that as a
legal proposition the discharged Grand
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

OF the District Attorney.s staff foregoing
their ordinary time OF vacation.
Several Supreme Court justices. accord
ing to the report. have been spoken to
about assignment to the criminal branch
of their court, and number both in
this and other counties have expressed
their willingness to preside at criminal
trials for as long as they may be needed.
The report closes with three recon-
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

mendations to relieve the higher crimi-
nal courts from press OF business: a
law increasing the amount stolen diff
ferentiating grand from petit larceny
(now 500 so as to divert a number OF
cases now tried at General Sessions to
Special Sessions. a law making liquor
cases triable at Special Sessions and
law increasing the penalties imposed
for the various classes of homicide.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-07
FOREST

Under a law recently enacted in Louisiana one
of the largest lumber countries in that state has
placed 3 5000 acres of its forest land on a reproduc-
ton basis. The law provides that if the owners of a
tract of lanJ will place it. under the supervisory
of the state forest forestry bureau, for a
period Of. from fifteen TO twenty years, and under
take to make systematic reforestation there shall be
no increase liz the rate Of tax assessment during the
|regrowing period.
The enactment Of this law removes . decided in
|%centive to timber slashing which now exists. If the
owner Of timber land is confronted with the prospect
of continued increases in the valuation of his lands
for taxation, he has an object i'll removing the tim
Der as rapidly as possible, otherwise the value of
increased growth may easily be all consumed in
taxes. Under the new arrangement the owner is
relieved of this menace, and may rcforest his land
without paying a penalty for doing so. The state,
on the other hand, is secure, for while its tax collec-
tons may be somewhat diminished for a short
period, there is being created within its borders new
wealth which will ultimately become taxable, and
which, under enlightened management, will become
permanent, yielding its revenues year after year.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-07
SENATE SENIORITY.

The senate seniority rule is again to be under
fire. Under that rule length Of Service automatieal-
~ moved a man forward to the more important
committee positions, regardless of his ability. The
rule is a survival OF the theory Of ultra-dignity that
has surrounded all matters senatorial from the be
ginning Of the nation. The senator's, two from each
Estate, are representatives OF the states themselves,
and it must be remembered that in the beginning
the states chung fondly to the theory that they were
$50 many independent nations and not parts of one
greater nation. The senator's. therefore, were neces-
sarily persons Of some dignity, and as they were
)equal in standing and dignity, it would not do TO
discriminate in the treatment of them, or to assume
THAT any were lacking in any Of the superlative
of craftsmanship. ;
The seniority rule has resulted in a lot of alb
|surdities. At the same time, it has saved senator's
themselves from a lot of controversy and not a little
|heartburning. 1t has given some mighty poor re-
lsults. 1t remains to be seen whether any other sys-
tenn will operate with any greater general s~atisfac-
(tion,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-07
PATHETIC.

1t would be difficult to imagine a more pathetic
!thing than the recent marriage Of the former Ger
inan war lord, William Of Hohenzolern. A few
}years ago William was in his own estimation the
}most important figure in the world. By virtue Of
1.-THE position to which he was born and the intense
egotismr which led him on all occasions to make the
lmost of that position, and to use it as a means to-
tward the furtherance of still greater ambitions, he
twas actually a very important person, and one
Whose acts held a deep significance for the world.
To-day, deposed, a fugitive, the unwelcorne guest Of
d %neighbor~ shorn of every sernblance Of authority.
The has just become a bridegroom for the second
ltine, and his nuptials were attended with a cheap
land tawdry imitation of state ceremonies which
provoked the jeers of irreverent Dutch villagers who
viewed the pitiful pageant from surrounding tree
TOPS to see if it contained any elements Of entertain
Iment. s.
1 A quiet wedding, with only the simplest and
fbriefest of ceremonies, and without any regal pre-
stensions, would have commanded respect by its
dignity. But the deposed kaiser seems to be in
jcapable Of forgetting for a moment his passion to
Ibe the center Of the spectacle, no matter how pitiful
Hhe spectacle may be.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-07
NO VERDICT ON PROHIBITION.

The vets and the drys have both been hoping
for some advantage as a result of the fall elections,
and both sides have put forth claims that their views
would be endorsed at the polls by the people. Real
ly, there is no basis for any claim of the sort. In a
very few cases candidates have declared themselves
emphatically on one side oNthe other of the prohi-
Ibition question, and are opposed by other candidates
who take the opposite side, with equal emphasis.
But even such a state of affairs does not necessarily
make prohibition the issue on which the voters rem
der their verdict. Where the opposing candidates
are definitely lined up on opposite sides of this
Question, prohibition undoubtedly becomes one of
the issues in that particular campaign. 1t may be
the main issue. Usually, however, it is but one of
many elements which enter into the contest. The
political party to which the candidate belongs is an
important factor, and in some cases it is the domin-
ant factor. The personality Of the candidate enters
into the case, his attitude toward local political or
CARNATIONS or machines, his record on matters of
Legislation having a general or local bearing, and in
which his prospective constituents fell a keen inter
est.
Take the state of North Dakota, for instance.
Presumably the attitude of all the candidates for
congress and the senate on prohibition has been
investigated by representatives of the two great in
terests. But what voter in North Dakota is casting
'his'ybte on that basis? What voter knows anything
about the candidates position on this question, ex-
cept in a general way, or is paying any attention to
it! The decision in this state will be made without
consideration being given to this question at all, and
this is true Of probably ninety per cent of the dis
tricts in the country. 2
II the voters OF the country arc expressing them
selves at this time on the subject of prohibition, it
is in exceedingly roundabout!a and indefinite way. !
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-07
ANSWERS TO- QUEsTIoNs.

9. Where was the first real tea1e-
phonszpxchange installed? H,lS. K.
A, The first commercial exchange
in the United States was established
IN New Haven on January ~, 1875.
Q. How many people will the the
aters Of New York seat? II, 81,
A. Itlts estimated that the seating
capacity Of New York thsAtSrs Il
q. How Is Roausfort che.se
made? g. i IF.
a. 1t is made at Roauefort In Gu.
ienne, France, from the milk OF ewes.
When sufficiently dried and compact
ed, the chaeses are placed In 4 recsss
In q deep cavern OF Limestone rock
ih which the temperature ii always
about 40 degrees +. While n he
cave they are sailed ana the mold
Is scraped from them from time ia
time During this period Of ID dayi
the color changes ranging from white
the cheese 10 ready for use.
g. Are full handicabs allowed III
Y: plhy-ssalnst-par compstitiols "a
4. ~ g general practice In shapdt-
esp mafchs! 8agalpst pSrs Tho playSfs
are allowed tbree-foHrtM 81 their
handicaps. taking the strokes OF ttls
holss indicated on ftHs card. For In
stance, q Ia handicap man would 10
allowed = ltrokes. and would thus
have q stroke on each ot tho 4 Sh0ISS
rated az b most diikicults OF tn
and could win each OF any ~ those
noles 3 y scoring par thereon.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-07
APPREHENSION
In AUSTRALIA AS
EMBARGO is LIFTED

Sydney. N. s. VA great deal Of
garding the lifting Of the embargo
upon German goods which took place
August /. Three days before this date
the steamer Maimyo. which had load
ed at Hamburg. and was the first yes-
sci to come here from Germany RtncS,
1914. landed a portion Of her cargo
at Melbourne. y
A. storm of public protest. and
threats OF oil sorts Of action by the
customs authorities ceased when it
was discovered>that the official origin
Of most Of the cargo was Czecho-Slo-
vakia, which made them. immune
from prohibition. Some German goods
IN tho cargo We're landed here on the
day the embargo was lifted. They COM
prised pianos and toys, marked at
prices considerably lower than those
current here. Eleven other vessels
were. listed to load at Hamburg Tor
Australian ports during August.
The federal conference of returned
soldiers here adopted a resolution urg-
ing the federal government to pass
legislation which would prevent the
dumping Of German goods and pro-
tect Australian and British manufac-
turers. Another resolution provided
for a nation wide campaign to pledge
AustralianS to purchase Australians
produced goods exclusively.
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