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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

BY rendering assistance to the agri
cultural sections the Congress kept
alive the buying power of over halt
the nations population. This aid, al
though extended directly to agricul
ture, was of vital importance to bust
ness.
Although no act Of Congress figured
In the process, nevertheless, the in
huences OF the Republican admins
tration, Of which the Congress is a
part, gave such confidence to the
business world that within year
from the time the Republican party
took control Of all branches of the
Government prices of practically all
sound securities advanced materially
The most outstanding example of this
is the increase OF Is per cent. in the
value Of $4,000, 100000 worth of out
standing Liberty bonds.
AS another reflex of the influence OF
the Republican administration, inter.
est rates have been lowered, from 7
per cent. to ~ within II months, thus
releasing money at reasonable rate
for the use Of business interests.
No one has the temerity to deny that
business conditions today, compared
with a year ago, are not infinitely bet
ter and that prospects are undoubted.
ly for further Improvement. There is
No other explanation for this trans
formation in the business world ex.
cept the II months application of Re.
publican policies and the certain
knowledge throughout the business
world that the influences and policies
OF the Republican, Party, which will
direct the ahairs Of the nation for the
next two years, are constructive In
duences that make for accumulA tion
rather than waste, assist legitimate ae.
tivities, stand four squared for the pro
lection Of capital and labor and stand
equally firm against the fallacious
theories of Communism and Social.
ism. s. .5Ez9f 1851 L
n brief, the commercial optimism
With which the people Of III classes ii
the United States face the coming
year must be Wholly attributed 70 the
.fact that an branches of the Govern.
meat of the United States are NOV II
contrcl q the u PaEty.
Mo-
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

er control law, it was written by Re.
puollcans, introduced by Republicans
ana passed by Republican majorities.
One of the immediate and urgent
needs OF the farming communities was
credit to tide them over their imme-
date crisis. In order to furnish this
credit the Republican Congress amend
ed the War Finance Corporation Act
so as to enable that organization to
have revolving fund of $1,000, o0o,-
600 to be used exclusively in making
loans to livestock and agricultural in.
terests. Since that body began func-
tloning under it's newly acquired pow
ers it has been loaning money to the
agricultural and livestock interests Of
the United States at rate in excess
of $1,000,000 day.
One Of the earliest acts of this Con-
gress was the appropriation of $4,000.
600 to be used in the purchase of seed
for the drought-stricken farmers of the
northwest. Since that time legislation
and appropriations have been made to
assist drought-stricken farmers in
other sections Of the country, and also
to relieve the settlers upon reclama.
ton and irrigation projects.
Still another act of this Congress
was the increase of the available cap
ltal of the Farm Loan Banks in the
sum Of $25,000,00O, giving the Farm
Loan Banks total revolving fund OF
$56,00O,000. This bill was written by
Republicans, introduced by Republi-
cans and passed by Republican major
tiles in both branches of Congress.
Modern methods in the comm erclal
world have demonstrated the neces.
sity of the farmers being permitted to
sell his crops under cooperative sys.
tenn, and that this might be done legal
ly and without Interference or irrita
ton, the present Congress enacted the
Cooperative Marketing Bill This is
another bill written by Republicans
introduced in both branches of Con
gress by Republicans and passed by
Republican majorities.
Honorable Henry c. Wallace, Secre
tary of Agriculture, truly summed ii
up when he said:
Never in the same length of time
did Congress give more serious atten
ton to farm needs. All of the legisla.
ton is of constructive character and
will be more helpful than is now
realized.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06
HUMAN MACHINERY

The enormous Importance now being
attached in America to what may be
called the care Of human machinery is
made clearer every day. For it is
recognized on the other side Of the At
lantic that unless and until industry
grapples with and solves it's human
problem there can be no peace within
its ranks. The latest proof of this
enthusiasm is Bulletin 299" of the
United States Department of Labor
which is a Guide to Organized Re-
search in Employment, Management,
Industrial Relations, Training and
Working Conditions" The volume con-
tains 1919 pages devoted to short notes
on the hundreds of agencies, both
state municipal, Industrial and private,
which are now laboring on this prob
lem. The study of efficiently and
fatigue at work is very we'll covered
in America, as is also the subject
of industrial hygiene and occupational
disease, including what is called Gin
dustrial morbidity," and accident pre-
vention. The Importance of this great
work is only being realized now in this
country says the London Times. It is
a new science of the first magnitude :;
it provides, moreover, a real working
basis of agreement between capital
and labor. There is no finer antidote
y to the unrest now disturbing the world.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06
Congress Goes to Aid "
of Agricultural Industry
List of More Important Measures Written,
Introduced and Passed by Republicans
To Assist Farmers During Crisis
q. 8. REPRESENTATIVE J. n. TINCHER (KAN-
sAs). AEABER HOUSE coMMIrrEE ON
AGRICULTURE

Farmers of the United States not
only comprise the largest single class
of producers but they are the largest
Single class of consumers of finished
products of all kinds, and the largest
class of shippers. In view of all
this, it is essential, in order that the
country as whole be PROSPEROUS. that
the farmer as class be prosperous.
When the Republican Party came
into power in March, 1921, the agricul-
tural sections of the country were in
the midst of the greatest depression
they had ever experienced.
In response to general demand
from the agricultural interests the Re-
publican Congress, on May q, 1921, 40
days after the session convened, en-
acted the Emergency, or Farmers
Tariff. This stopped at once the influx
of agricultural imports and saved to
the American farm producer his home
markets.
The best proof that the tariff really
protects the American farmer is the
fact that since its operation Canada
has renewed her efforts to negotiate a
reciprocity treaty that will admit her
agricultural products into this country
free. AS further proof of the effect
iveness of this tariff it was renewed
November 16, 1921, by the solid vote
of the congressman representing the
agricultural States The enactment
of this tariff was opposed by the solid
Democratic minority in both House
and Senate, with few notable excep-
tions
For more than quarter of a CEN
fury there has been a demand from the
producers and consumers for control
of the packing and allied industries
Responsive to this demand Congress
enacted such law. 1t cannot be gain
said that the livestock industry of the
United States has had better treatment
from the very day that this law began
to operate. This bill was drawn by
Republicans, introduced in both
branches of Congress by Republicans,
and passed by both branches of Con-
gress controlled by Republicans
For more than 40 years there has
been pending before Congress, in one
form or another, legislation to control
grain exchanges and to stop the manip-
ulation of prices of farm products.
Such law has been enacted by this
Congress. Like the pack
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

Junior high school boys Of Lexing-
ton, Ky, acquire skill in the manual
training department and put it to prac-
tical use at home as we'll as in the
classroom, according to the United
States bureau Of education. Some of
the jobs done at home by these boys
are the following: Mending a leaking
roof, repairing fences, building garage,
mending steps, screening houser in
stalling electric lights, helping to re-
pair barn, papering rooms, staining
and waxing floors. The boys also
made much Of the furniture for the
practice house used by the girls Of the
home economic classes.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

The Republican administration came
into authority in March, 1921, pledged
to put more business in government
md to have less of government in
BUSINESS. That pledge has been lib
rally redeemed. One of the first
Kings which the Republican admins
Iration did was to impress upon
business interests that it was up to
them to become self-reliant if they
wished to become self-sustaining;
that they must begin to work out their
oNI salvation instead of running to
.he Government for artificial stimulus.
legislation has been enacted wherever
it could prove helpful, but it has not
been permitted to take the place OF
individual energy and thrift
Simultaneously with the elimina-
ton of Government in business there
was an injection Of business in Gov.
eminent. Perhaps what will go down
as one of the greatest pieces of con-
structive legislation of the last half
century was the enactment Of law
creating Budget Bureau, which
) made it not only possible but man
datory for the first time in the his.
tory of the United States Government
to conduct the Governments business
in an orderly manner. It is largely
due to the Inauguration of this bud
get system that the daily operating
expenses Of the Government have
been reduced in the aggregate over
s2.000,000.a day under this admins
tration. =
The business interests Of the coun-
try were given consideration in the
enactment OF the. new tax. measure.
Surtaxes were decreased, excess profits
taxes were abolished altogether, and
the shipping interests Of the United
Stats which include practically every
business and industry -were relieved
from the burdensome transportation
taxes that we're levied upon freight,
express and passenger traffic. II
The Edge Act to facilitate the Or
ganization Of corporations to promote
sxports was amended ii order to ren-
der needed assistance % business In
itsrests endeayoring to expand Amer
lica's markets In foreign countries,
thereby increasing produetion and
sIemployment 1t home
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

Quebec proposes to encourage lit
erature by offering annual prizes Of
$4,000 for the best books written dur
ing each preceding year. The ques-
ton whether this will stimulate the
production of better books or only
make the same old kind little more
profitable remains, however, to be de-
termined by events
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

A new automobile fuel has been dis
covered that. doubles the mileage per
gallon. But there's not enough OF 1t
for practical purposes, so there's no
use 81 getting excited
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

The American people pay $1,000. 00o,-
600 year to 60 to the movies. But
that isn't equivalent to saying that if
the movies were abolished we, would
save billion a year. -& 81
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-04-06

Scientists report that through an
amplider, the footsteps of fly doomed
out like thunder. Now for some kind
Of get-up by the scientists that win
make man with swatter quicker
than lightning. i. &C. s. s
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
CURB SOME STRIKES

Denver. - Distric Judge Morrow
has ruled that amendments to the
'can't-strike" law of this state is un-
constitutional because they fail to
limit the activities of the state indus
trial commission to controversies that
are affected with public interest.
The packing houses, says the court,
are not such an industry.
The decision does not affect the
vicious principle behind the cant
strike" law, as the court, in effect,
holds that any strike that does not
inconvenience the public very much
can not be interfered with by the
commission, but where workers are
employed in a calling or industry that
is necessary for the public's every
day convenience, these workers can
not strike for 80 days, or until the
commission acts.
Judge Morrow's decision does not
affect an injunction judges power to
smash the butcher workmen's strike
by issuing one of the well-known
"thou-ShaIt-not" WritS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
"SUCAR COATED
BUNK"
Fed to Workers Daily BY
Capitalist Press and Too
Much Swallowed
Cigar Makers President
Urges Stronger Support
of Labor Press

Chicago.-It would profit workers
if they supported and read their la
Dor press rather than swallow the
sugar coated bunk" that is daily fed
to them, says George w. Perkins,
president of the Cigar Makers Inter
national Union, writing in the official
mafiazine of that organization.
"The privileged few and big inter-
ests know the value of propaganda, !"
says this trade unionist.
ut is said that lie travels faster
than the truth; that half truth is
often worse than whole lie. These
people know that the constant teach
ing of false news and erroneous ideas
creates psychology that it takes
years to destroy.
"The people, the public generally,
are really hungry for news. They
swallow without analysis false state
ments made for ulterior purposes. 1t
would be much better if the workers
got their views on economics from
the labor press and from their own
official journals. 1t would be better
still if the most of US got down to
rock-bottom facts and did our own
thinking instead of swallowing the
sugar-coated bunk that we get on the
news stands for 2 or cents per.
"Newspapers are useful as a time
killer, for baseball scores, etc. Some
like them for divorce news, murders
and dinner parties given to trained
monkeys. We have no objection to
anybody reading the daily press We
think they should, but when it comes
to our own best interests let US be
guided by facts and our own deduc-
tions
S"Fhe most of us know that a good
bill of prices, reasonable working
hours and fair shop conditions are
the proper things for US, and we,
moreover, know that the only way to
get these things is through the trade
unions. On this there is no argument.
Anyone who disputes it has an ak to
grind or has space to rent in the top
of his head. He might be, however,
repeating parrot-like, things he had
heard from those with interests di-
vergent from those of the workers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
OF French Not Successful

New York-Advocates of the sales
tax in the United States will get lit
tie consolation from an article writ
ten in the Annalist, financial paper, by
Alzada Comstock, on Lessons of the
French Turnover Tax"
"The 18-months' trial of the turn
oxer tax which France is now COM
pleting," he says, "augurs badly for
similar experiments which are being
urged in the United States.
"The French tax deserves a closer
inspection than is usually given it by
proponents of the sales tax in this
country. Sales taxes levied in the
Philippines and in Mexico can hardly
be considered perfect illustrations for
the purposes of great industrial
and commercial country like our own.
The Canadian sales tax is also cited,
but Canada's business is on small
scale compared with ours"
In stating that conditions in France
is more nearly comparable to the
United States, Mr.. Comstock says
that the French tax yields but one
third of what it was estimated to
yield
"The lessons for the United States
are clear. The two chief dangers of
the sales tax are the possibilities of
evasion and the inequalities of appli-
cation to agricultural and business
classes"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
REVOLUTION
Started By Another Work
ers' Party in New York
Everything To Be Over
thrown, Including Gov
ernment and A. F.
of l..

New York-For the steenth time
a revolutionary party has been form
ed to save the workers and overthrow
the government. The American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, of course, will go
down in the grand crash.
The new venture it is to be known
as the workers party of America.
This sounds smoother than commun-
ist party. 1t was formed in this city
by about 100 delegates representing
groups who demand purified, unadul-
terated revolution. The third interna-
tionale of Moscow was indorsed and
the usual program agreed to that
will always turn the labor movement
inside out.
The program was attacked by some
of the delegates One was unkind
enough to label the ponderous docu-
ment "a hodgepodge of muddled
brains" Another declared it was
mess" party, rather than a mass
party.
Defenders of the program acknowl-
edge it's revolutionary weakness, but
pleaded that the need of the hour is
to get ''toe hold" Afterwards, the
simor-pure revolution will begin. 1t
was stated that the workers are un-
acquainted with the beauties of COM
muHism, and this theory must be
cautiously fed to them by the self
appointed guardians. A central ex-
ecutive committee, with wide powers,
was elected to direct how the A. +.
of L. will be captured and how work
ers are to be inoculated with the ideals
of the third internationale.
The usual roof-raising denunciation
of "Gompers bureaucracy" was IN
dulged in. This is a favorite oratori-
cal trick of capitalist and revolution
| list.
The new revolution will not be
given a clear track by its brother rev
olutionists in other camps. The |. W..
w. group of this district says 1t IS
dominated by lot of cheap poll
ticians who have never had any revo-
lutionary experience"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
THE SPIDER FAMILY
Intolerant of Organization"
Highly Skilled Craftsmen
in Silk Weaving, Spin
ming, Silk Manufact-
uring
BY S. B. Hedges

Silk making, or weaving, is not a
monopoly or a community enterprise,
in the spider family; but is carried on
as individual enterprises, and is in
tolerant of organization or competi-
tion. If two spiders happen to locate
on the same hunting grounds, in a
short while the stronger or most cum
ming will eat the weaker one. The
honey bee and silkworm have held
places as exploitable insects, but now
the spider is held in hig favor; es-
pecially one of the large species. 1t
can manufacture three or four hum
dred yards of the strongest known
silk in day and keep it up through
out the season, while rearing fam
ily-an impossibility for the silkworm
to duplicate. | am not sure this spe-
cies is of the tarantula family, but
is as large.
In addition to the spiders skill as
fabric maker, it is a very skillful
butcher, and can administer knockout
drops hyperdermically, on a certain
part of the victims anatomy and pro-
duce instant death. This method is
reserved for other killers of equal
daring and skill. The same knock
out drops would be used on differ
ent portion of ruminant's body, and
cause a partial paralysis, and at its
leisure the spider sucks out the vic
TINS life juices; if the victim is then
released, it sometimes partially re-
covers AMI lives a sickly existence for
a few weeks longer.
The spider family often surprises
and amazes our intelligence, but does
not utterly upset it. One would be
inclined to say that the insect comes
from another planet, more monstrous,
more energetic, more insane, more
atrocious, more Internal than our own.
1t kills to eat and gorges itself one
day, if necessary remains victualless
for some days without impairment of
hunting prowess or working skill. 1t
decorates its living room, dug in some
instances eight or nine inches deep in
the ground, with fine fluffy silk
fabric; where it lounges in snug Sc
clusion, patiently waiting for a din
ner to pass by, and be attracted a
little too close through curiousity;
then Mrs. Spider dimes.
The large colony of baby spiders
when the time comes to leave the home
nest, climbs up as individuals on some
tall herb or grass; each tiny spider
constructing for itself toy silk bal
loon, and on light breeze it goes
a-ballooning; seeking prospective
hunting territory, if it is lucky to es-
cape being eaten, it builds itself a
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
JAZZ MUSIC
Not Needed Where Work
Interests, Says Engineer

New York.-Welfare workers and
lazzers in industry are on the wrong
course because they would divert the
attention from work to recreation, ac-
cording to Walter N Polokov, con-
sulting engineer, in an address at the
annual meeting of the American So
ciety of mechanical engineers.
The speaker said work should be
made interesting rather than attempt
to amuse workers and divert their at
tention from "the monotony of ami
mal-like work"
This welfare work was referred to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06

This statement is in line with de-
clarations made last August by At.
torney General Daugherty before the
convention of the American bar as.
sociation in Cincinnati. At that time
the presidents legal adviser favored
compulsory jurisdiction over industri-
al disputes so that 1--WE will have a
more intelligent basis upon which to
enact compulsory legislation upon this
subject"
In recommending to congress that
trade unions be Incorporated, Presi-
dent Harding said:
In the case of the corporation
which enjoys the privilege of limited
liability of stockholders, particularly
when engaged in the public service,
1T is recognized that the outside pub
lie has large concern which must
be protected; and so we provide reg
ulations, restrictions and in some
cases detailed supervision. Likewise
IN the case of labor organizations. we
might well apply similar and equally
well-defined principles of regulation
and supervision in order to conserve
the public's interest as affected by
their operations"
In public statement on this por-
tion of the chief executives message,
President Gompers said that the rec
concentrations revert back to condi-
tlons 400 years ago when English
courts determined the wages of the
workers and prohibited them from
asking for more or for employers
paying more than the courts decision
and to condemn men to compulsory
serwtude and slavery if they resented
in any way the decisions Of these
courts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
"CAN'T-STRIKE" LAW
Suggested in Presidents An
nual Message to Congress
incorporation Of Trade
Unions Also Favored By
Nations Executive

Washington-In his message to
congress, President Harding recog-
nizes the right of labor to organize
and be represented by agents of its
own choosing-with the two important
privisos that strikes be regulated by
law and trade unions be Incorporated.
He said there should be established
judicial or quasi judicial tribunals
for the consideration and determine
tion of all disputes which menace the
public welfare"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
CONVENTION
PROCEEDINGS MAILED

The final proceedings of the 1921
convention of the Ohio State Fedora
tion of Labor were mailed to the dele
gates and labor unions throughout the
state last week Thos. ]. Donnelly
came to Hamilton and personally con-
Quoted the mailing of the proceedings
which was quite job. The proceed
ings is the largest ever issued by the
o. S. f. of L., and contains every
detail Of the convention held in Ham
ilton. They should be read by every
trade unionists in the state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
N ~ ~
PLEA FOR VETS AID

Westinghouse Ashurst has
served warning on his colleagues that
unless immediate and adequate appro-
priation is made for sick and disabled
former service men he will inaugurate
a single handled campaign against
the men who have disregarded the
public interest"
The Arizona lawmaker insisted
that solons who burned with patriot
lie fervor during the war should now
make good"