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The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24

Der, 1920, authorized that freight
 rates be increased 35 to 40 per cent,
 passenger rates 20 per cent, with a
 surcharge of 50 per cent. to those rid
 ing in Pullman cars. There were
 other helps on baggage, switching,
 etc. The commission estimated this
 would bring an additional revenue of SLIPS, 1000 a year to the carriers
 and guarantee a 6 per cent. dividend
 on a valuation of $2o, 800, 900, 900.
 There has been no rate reduction
 other than on a few agricultural pro-
 ducts in the Middle West, referred to
 above. Generally speaking, these rate
 reductions were not made until after
 the farm commodities to which they
 applied had been marketed, hence rep
 resented no real reduction in rates.
 No sooner had the wage increase
 granted under decision No. ? gone in to open up a propaganda campaign for a reduction in wages direct and indirectly through the modification or abrogation of working rules. Re spending to this urge of the carriers, the Labor Board began hearings and on June I, 1921, issued decision No. I47, effective as of July ,Io21, re- ducing wages of all classes of en- ployes on an average of approximate ly I2 per cent, or $45o,ooo,ooo year. Agreeable to demands of the man agement, the board shortly thereafter commenced to hear testimony and ar gument for changing the rules gov erning working conditions. First caue an order abrogating the national agreements. Then followed hearings on general and special rules for vari-
 ous classes of employees. The first of these decisions applied to the mechan- l ical shop forces, and experts for the board estimated that the new rules for these six crafts would bring about an annual saving of $5o,ooo, ,ooo to the l carriers.
 Vast Sums to Roads From Rules Changes.
 If this figure is to be accepted as approximately correct, similar
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24

agreement .CIlC
 In a letter conveying this question to the board, President B. M. Jewell, of the Railway Employees Depart ment, said:
 "The above question, to our mind, is of much importance that 1t de serves careful consideration by all parties, especially the Railroad La bor Board, and we respectfully re- quest that the earliest possible date be set by the board for hearing, this date to be in advance of any date which the board may contem- plate setting for a hearing in connec- ton with the submission involving rates of pay which your board is now receiving"
 Wage Cuts Have Enriched the Rail
 roads.
 Should the board decide in favor of the carriers 1t will mean further wage cut to the railroad workers of $4oo, 100000 or more a year. Rail- road management tells the public that this cut will be reflected in a lower ing of freight and passenger tariffs.
 With exception of about $5o,ooo, ,ooo a year in reduced rates on certain farm products, none of the $15o, o,ooo,- 900 a year taken from employees through decisions of the board within the past seven months has benefited shippers nor consumers. All the rest $7oo, ,ooo a year, has gone to enrich the railroads.
 During the war the 2,ooo,ooo rail road employees stuck to their jobs without material pay advances, while other classes of labor and business generally largely benefited. When the transportation act became a law and the labor board assumed it's duties the wage question had assumed ar acute state. The board immediately began hearings, and on July 20, 1920 handed down decision No. ?, which increased wages for all classes ot railroad labor an average of 20 per cent, or $oI8,ooo,ooo year.
 To enable the roads to meet this additional expense the Interstate Commerce Commission, in Septem
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24
STUNG BY BUCKET SHOPS.

New York, Feb. 24.-More than 100000 persons have been victimIzed by bucket shops in this city last year, according to District Attorney Ban ton, who says he is amazed at the magnitude of these operations
 One of the favorite methods of the bucket shop operators was to inter est people in buying stock on the in stallment plan. The affair was con- ducted along legitimate lines until the stock had been nearly paid for. The bucket shop would then secure con- sent of the customer to place the stock in pool" This was the last heard of the stock.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24

BUY ONLY UN1ON-MADE GOODS
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24
BANKS IN CONTROL
 OF CURRENCY AGAIN U. s. REPORT SHOWS
White House Gleefully Takes Credit While Business Mems
 Credit Wanes.

Washington, Feb. 24.-RcSOurCcS of elusive of rediscounts, amounting to SIo,42O 100000 at the last call on De-
 ccmber 3I, showed an increase of $4o6, ,ooo 900 over the previous call
 in September, according to an analy-
 sis by Comptroller of the Currency
 Crissingcr The condition of the ma tional banks in December he de- scribcd as 'vcry satisfactory and September their resources had more or less steadily declined from their peak of $22.zI ,ooo, ,ooo in December, 1919.
 Conditions of the national banks, as reported by Mir. Crissinger, were said in formal statement issued by the White House to show the most sat isfactory turn in the financial affairs of the country that has been regis tered by bank statement since the conclusion of I0Io,"
  said, that the process oi liquidation has been proceeding at such an excel lent rate that 1t may fairly be :. said that we are we'll on the road to get ting the frozen credits thaWcd out. In this regard, indeed, 1t is by far the most satisfactory showing that has been made since the phrase frozen credits was invented"
 Loans and discounts of the national banks on December 3I, 1921, exclusive
 of rediscounts of $523 3,oo6,ooo, amount ed to $lo,o8I ,7S3 ,ooo, ah increase over the amount reported September 6, compared with the amount on De ccmbcr %, 1920, of $I,TI.15I2,O ,Ooo, Cash in vaults amounting to $34l, SII ,ooo was reduced between Scpten- Der and December 3I, 1921, by $I5,- oSz ,ooo, while the reduction since De cembcr 20, 1920, was SI52, ,580,ooo, Individual deposits, exclusive of United States government deposits of , 1 GOO, and were greater than the amount reported September 6, 1921, by $322, ST ,ooo, but a reduction since Dccem- l Der 20, 1920, of $78o,74I, ,ooo, The az grcgatc of all deposits was $I5,o75,- l Io2, 900, or $5I4,25o,ooo more than on September 6, 1921, and $I, ,2o2, ,655, 900 1 less than on December 20, 1920. The liability for circulation notes : on December 3I, 1921, was $7I7,473,- ! 900, an increase over September 6, of SIP, Sos, ,ooo and an increase over De l ccrnbcr %, 1920, of $23, 556,ooo, The
 liability for bills payable and rediS- counts was reduced between Septcm- ! Der 6, and December 3I, 1921, by 1 $236,S44ooo, the reduction in the I2 ] months period being $I,322, 734,ooo l On December 3I, 1921, these Obliga-
 tions amounted to $I,oI0,92o,Ooo 1 On December 5I. 1921, national i banks had lawful reserves with the hfederal reserve banks to the amount
 of SI,I43,25o oooo, which was $SoS75,-
 900 in excess pf the legal require
 ment.
 It must be borne in mind," the White House statement said, that the national banks represented con
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24
MORE THAN MILLION AND HALF WORKERS AFFECTED WHILE ROADS
 GO ON FILING UP BIG FUNDS
No Reductions Made in Freight Rates Although S45OOOOOOO a Year Has Already Been Taken From WOrkers-Time Banks and Stockholders ''Put In'' Some of
 the Expense Saving.

filed than 
   a
  tive July be heard concurrenly. employees
  train and Railway Elm  a hearing the following 
  anded
  officials thereof d recly interested?" of governing
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24

l. It has been discovered that the reorganization of improvement"
 ? About February I, 1922, George w. AshWorth, chief of the customs division, l. $. treasury, in the serv- ice 20 years, was denoted and Ernest w. Camp, private secretary to Con- grcssman Joseph w. Fordney, was put in his place. Fordney is chair man of the House committee on ways and means and author of the tariff bill now before the House and which con- tains a provision for so-called Amer ican valuation.
 3. The removal of Ashworth was accomplished by executive order, III violation at least of the spirit of civil service. Custom i'll such cases, be- filing of charges Is to certify that there is no one i'll the service qualified for the office, which is not the case in this instance.
 4. chief of the customs division, U. $. treasury, transferred to Buffalo as special agent.
 ,. George Davis, special agent III charge i'll New York, but on special duty in Washington for the customs service before the Senate finance com mittee, has been removed. Davis was opposed to the so-called American valuation plan.
 G. Otto Fix, known as one of the most valuable men in the customs appraisers department in New York, also on duty i'll Washington before the Senate finance committee, was re- duced in salary. He also is opposed to the American valuation plan
 /. Elmer Dover, secretary to the late Mark Hanna, has been made charge of customs and internal rev cnue It has been freely charged that this was done to put Mark Hanna's methods into operation.
 O. btOISS W 1IIldIIS was dppOlHteu to succeed George Davis in New York. Williams made an investiga ton for Fordney in Chicago that fur nished Fordney with what he wanted but that had no value in the way Of getting actual information.
 Q. Every man in the customs serv ice who has testified in favor of the so-calred American valuation plan has been given a salary increase.
 10. One man not even in the GUS toms service but in the department of justice, was given a raise after testi- lying for so-called American valua- tion
 The customs service, highly tech nical one, has for fully eight years been out of politics. Entirely re- gardless of the merits or demerits of the proposed plan, the 10 facts here presented, raise the question of whether an effort is being made to re- store political control and whether that political control is to be used to produce a report in accordance with the desires of those who are making the political changes in the service.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24
MINERS ATTACK GREED.

Haze1ton, Pa, Feb. 24.-Ofhcers of three anthracite miners districts have issued a joint reply to the coal owners public statement that increased wages means higher prices for coal. The union ists call attention to the award of the United States anthracite coal commits sion of 1920 which stated that increased wages at that time offered no justihcat- ion for an advance in the retail price of coal"
 The coal owners ignored this state ment and raised prices.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24

~idcrably less than half of the total banking capacity of the nation. It is, therefore, safe to assume that the state, savings and private banks and trust companies, have experienced the same turn in the tide that is noted in the case oi national banks. We may. therefore, conclude that the" fig urcs for national banks may safely be doubled in order to get an approxi- mate representation of the situation as 10 the entire banking establish mcnt of the nation.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24
hoads Negotiated Dsputes To Bring About the Wage Cuts
CUSTOMS SERVICE
 JIMMIED BY POLITICS

International Labor News
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
tom" LAWSON;
Ills LESSON.

Thomas w lawson the of whose claims fame
that he Frenzied Finance and had the only
sailing the named for him reported
human derelc adr after decades of warfare in the
Street"
His beautiful estates are sold his yachts and other very
wonderful and very costly possessions have gone under the
hammer. s.@.
A few weeks ago he power financially, politically
its weight Tom Lawson, muckrake politician
Today from an obscure town in Maine he his family
not to orry that he all right He is just taking rest Ills
disappearance s explained to extent
Tomorrow power that he today. he will be forgotten
Probably the only thing he did that will live after him will
be his intimate story mysterious trade mart about which
cente so great an for the American Wall
Street
He knew it He played it and he received his knocks
and achieved his victories there
But the Street got him.
lust as Wall Street gets them all in the end
The orgy speculation breed men can only
breed hectic individuals who like the moth that whfls
itself to death into the flame OF light
Inst az the great diversified ship with its great
mass which launched the Fore River shpyads and was
so big that and dove into the opposite bank
Just massive that day turned turtle and sank
of its own weight Tam lawson muckaker politician
Wall Street manipulation of the Seven Stvers fame finally
tuned financially and headed for the place they al
turn to sooner later the asylum where they finish out
what is left of their tottering lives on this planet
In the 90 per of the 0 million souls tins
counry go to work in the morning their lunch and
go home supper night and to live minimum
wage. .....
They do not have all the uxures of life Tom Lawson
did They will 60 tired and worried to bed at night because
times dull and work may be scarce
Which is happiest in the end.
Tom Lawson could tell you, if he would
But he probably won't
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
TIME NOW FOR THE
BIRDS TO FLY SOUTH

lack Frost is beginning to get in his work up North
Canada Birds fly South These migratory flights
mysteries of science
How do they know when ar and where to and how
o find their way?
Bird migration is very old habit Unborn instinct
which was developed ages ago and which naness itself
after year uniform and without any remarkable
close conformity to Immediate conditions
This is Prof ]. Arthur Thomsons explanation in his
Outline of Science In other words the annual southwark
flight of birds habit developed gradually through thousands
of years.
One scientific explanation that the Great Ice Age when
glaciers moved down from the north drove birds South When
The ice slowly etreaed they flew back their odhomesn
warm summer but returned the new homes in winter.
One guess is good as another.
Ever wonder how fast birds travel when they migrate
South? chem reach speed of than miles an
our. When weary you have noticed they camp for
hang around certain locality for day o
Ducks travel "A to 50 miles hour and small ongbds 20
to 81 miles an hour according Colonel Menertzhagens
observations The bird named the swift has been known
pass aiplane doing 68 miles hour and reaches speed
Of than 100 miles when flying with all its energy and
skill - 1sA
Hunters oing their shotguns will be shooting
wild geese and ducks.
The geese travel in a of V formation one side longer
han the other closes up the bird line taking tie fallen
leaders place.
Shoot the leader Of kinds of wild ducksnd say the
Ojbway Indians the flock autters the ground preferably
swamp and presently after much chatterng which they
seem to elect leader
This is the of adventure romance and mystery that
flies our heads and exists all around Nature And
yet some people frequently yawn, bored with life and
plain that Trey can find nothing interesting
Harvard Students Homeless" headline In in a few
weeks they will be home less than
Note to the traffic cop: Brighten the corner where
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09

(FTOm the / lHeS-RecOrdei, OCJ. =,
1922
Mrs. Charles Council has as her
guests, Mrs. Glenn Dodson. Of
Atlanta, and Mrs. Coley Lewis, Of
. MOntezuma.
Mrs. Charles Fricker and Mrs. Eu-
genia Glover, who are spending the
month of October in the East are at
present motoring in New England.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Hodges will
this week give up temporarily their
home on Taylor street and return %
their country home on the Anderson
vile road. Their home on Taylor
street has been leased to Mr.. and
Mrs. j. E. D. Ship, who will occupy
it. R@
Charles Wheatley, the young son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Wheatley IS
i'll with fever to the regret OF Their
friends.
Miss Mildred Hollis is the guest Of
her sister, Mrs. Judson L. Hand, IN
Pelham.
Mrs. c. NJ. Pagan and Miss Bonnie
Pagan leave shortly for Savannah to
reside permanently. Their departure
will he sincerely regretted by many
friends.
D. c. kumph, prominent citizen
of MarshalIville, was recent visitor
to friends here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
THIRTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
ttrom the TimGs-Recorder, Oct. 3.
1922

(trom the IlmeS-RecOrder, Oct. 3,
1922
Miss Genevieve Wright, very at
tractlve and accomplished young lady
Of, Alexander, Va, will spend the
coming winter season in Americas at
the home of Mrs. Adams, 1I2 Lamar
street
Lawson Stapleton and Henry Black
went down the Southwestern yester-
day to look after the wants of their
customers down that way.
Miss Jessie Green, a popular and
attractive young lady, is the guest of
Mrs. o. V. Lamar, in Richland.
Mrs. W, w. Wilson and Miss Emf
ME Wilson, of Quincy, Fla, are
guests at the home of D. T. Wilson on
jackson street.
Ike Solomon, who is now a student
at Mercer University, came down
from Macon yesterday and is the
guest of relatives for the weekend.
Col. and Mrs. w. r. Cox, of Macon.
are guests Of DR.. and Mrs. C. r.
Miller on South Lee street.
Miss Cornie Myers has returned
from visit TO relatives in Sumter
City.
DR.. W. c. Short is again at his post
at the Windsor Pharmacy, after a
stay of several days at Magnolia
Springs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
T O NJ SIMS S A Y S

We would hate to be king. There
is no future in it.
One time we saw a stump speaker
who was up a tree.
The smallest thing on earth may
be an atom, but the too smallest
thing is knot hole in a world series
fence.
Don't crab. Grabs, walking back
wards, can only see where they were.
Kid Rash broke out against Harry
London but was cared in IL rounds.
George is Greece's new king.
Things are better, by George.
Harding's dad endorses Mr.. Her
ring, Democrat, for the u. S. Senate.
A well-known-skippered herring.
Georgia woman who wondered il
thieves would get the jewels in her
piano found they would.
Cement makers use 14,00O,O00
pounds of dynamite a year. May we
say their business is booming?
People who live in rented houses
should not write telephone numbers
on the walls.
Love making by the average man
IS like making fudge. After it is
done he doesn't want any.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

Windsor.
When coal wagon stops at an
Americas home now all the neighbors'
children come out to see this new
exhibition of lavish wealth.
Banners stretched across the
business streets announce the date of
the great Elks' fair in Americas Nov.
3 to 9Th. A solid week of fun it is.
And gradually the cotton market
declines, while the consumers and
spinners are buying up the crop.
Then watch it jump to 10 cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
THOUGHT

What time | afraid will in Thee.-Psam
Fear painful cowardce death
Sir Philip Sidney.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

(FrOm The TImes-Recorder, OCT. q,
1929
A musical concert given at Shorter
College recently by Mrs. Fowler Rich
ardson, who was ably assisted by Miss
FAME Stallings Of Americas, gradu-
uate in music at Shorter and one Of
the most highly accomplished young
ladies in the state in her chosen
work
W. C. Wright was a recent guest
from Mobile registered at the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
THESTANDARD
500 9x12 Wilton Velvet
Rugs at $500

President Wilton Velvet Squares,
size 9X12 feet, three-tone Brown and
Blue; extra heavy; will last a life
time; actual value 500. Here Mon
day and Tuesday ,-.-.------,-....-.. sos. 90
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09

Every man is entitled to life.
liberty and the pursuit of money.
In Portland, Ore, they barred all
music for one day, but no doubt
some was bootlegged.
THE 1922 flapper is 10000 years
old" claims Mr.. Hiler who uses
three naughts too many.
Hunt the bright side. The latest
war is about as far away from the
United States as possible.
twenty-five teams entered one
bicycle race, but pedaling bikes is
better than peddling books.
In sporting circles they say
Johnny Curtin beat Danny Edwards
SO Curtin is going up.
Days are getting so short. Right
after supper it is dark enough to go
JOY riding.
Suppose you had as many wives
as the sultan of Turkey and were
out of work, as he is, with no sultan
jobs open?
Dr. Wright announces that tears
kill germs. Perhaps you squeeze
onions in their eyes.
viii Allen White says use damn"
in place of very" Very fine in
some cases, but Wen be very if it
always goes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09

DR.. Wright announces that tears
kill germs. Perhaps you squeeze
onions in their eyes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
$500 Blue Ribbon Wilton
Velvet Square at $500

Three-tone Green; same quality as
above; size 8 feet 3 inches by 10
feet 6 inches; value 5000; here
Monday and Tuesday ..--.---.... $45.0o
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

From the Tiaes-Recorder, Oct. {
.1Q10l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-09
Csc Pajama Checks at i9c
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-10
PIT. A. STANDS
FOR DRY Law
Also lndorses Anti-Narcotic
Measure

TACOMA. May ies-Rssolutions
oDDosing any change In the voistcad
law to permit light wines and beer.
ana indorsing tho Jones' Miller anti.
narcotic bill as passed by tho house.
we're adopted by the national Moth.
err Congress and Parent. Teacher
association convention Tuesday even
tng.
The conventicn r~affiruned its
stand for reduction OF world srrna.
nens. Yeeodinca,icn Of international
Law. and urged United States PARTED.
patton In the world court at The
Hague-
Other resolutions included indor.s-
mert Of the move for higher stand
ard In phctoplay~: Reinforcement %
tho Tanner Sterling bin. which plans
10 give education an equal place with
other departments Of tn. federal gov.
ernmcnt: Endorsement OF tho Tess
csppsv bill. providing for federal aid
fur enactment OF proper physical edu.
cation laws and Endorsement Of the
Weight bill. providing for prohibition
~ the sale of filled milk.
A short business meeting. presided
over BY Mira Milton Hixgina. nation.
N president. was followed By . reeep-
pon and dance at the Scottish Rite
0empis.
7 Wednesdays program wns 10 b. =
c6ptinuation Of the round table dis.
cs1ssfens. Mrs. Higgins presiding At
The mornine ssszion-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-10
MOTORIST IN
CRASH HELD
Fled After InlurIng Two, Is
Charge

Alleged 10 have deserted his auto.
mobile after II had collide with q
motorcycles. injuring man ana n
woman on nth ava ~. W. late Tues.
day night Harold to.s. 81. OF 2sov
w. asa st. was traiied By tho police
to his home. taken from his bed and
locked In the city Jail on an open
charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. Bailey. ssfs Ninth
ave. ~. w. victims Of the accident.
we're under the care Of q physician
wednesday at their home Bailey
has q broken right log and his wife
was severely kashsd shout the head.
They told the police they were riding
= motorcycle when Ross auto
struck them. dragged fhsm ana the
motorcycle about 100 feet. RIOS. 10
then declared TO have taken a false
license plate from his auto and to
have fled. Police also ssy he had no
drivers license.