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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-27
THE MARKETS.

FLOUR-Hard spring wheat-Short pat
ents, $7.e0@T.10; special mill brands, in 90
lib cotton sacks, $7.6007.70; warehouse de-
livery, So 25@S.30. Soft winter wheat
Short patent, s6OO@6.25. Hard winter
wheat-Short patent $615Q6.25. Rye flour
white patent. $4.SO@4.S5; dark, sS2503. so.
HAY-No. timothy hay, S2100Q22. 90;
NO, light clover mixed, s19.0OQ20.00; No,
timothy, $1S.00G19.00; No. / light clover
mixed and No. mixed, s1700Q1S.00.
CATTLE-Feeding steers, s4.750600:
heifers, $5.00QS00; yeariings, fair to choice,
sS.500l0.25; plain to good steers, 5000
$50; fair to choice cows, $3.50@600; cam
ners. $00@2.S5; cutters, s2.6503.50; bologna
bulls, $S25G4.75; heavy calves, s3.50Q7. so;
good to fancy calves sS.00G11.50.
HOGS-Choice light butchers, $1,000. 10:
medium weight butchers, $S65G9.00; heavy
butchers, s8.05@S.75; fair to fancy lights,
S. 25@9.25; heavy packing, S.50QS0O; rough
packing, $6S6QT.5O; pigs, sS.O0@9.90.
sHEEP-Good to choice lambs, s12ooq
1876; feeding lambs, s10.0O01275; Gull
lambs, sS.0O@115o; yearling. sS.0001225;
wethers, $6.6009o0; ewes, s600@7.75.
LIVE POULTRY Turkeys, CSC: fowls,
&c: springs, 225kc; rocsters. TIC: ducks.
&c; geese. Ito.
DRESSED POULTRY-Turkeys, zEc;
fowls, &02sc; ROSTERS, 1sc; spring chick
ems. 33024c: ducks. 25@26c: geese. 19c.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-27
Russ Concur in Genoa Plan.

MOSCOW, Jan. 23.-Soviet foreign
minister Tchitcherin, in a note dis
matched to the italian jremier In an
swer to the invitation to send dele
Gates to the coming Genoa conference,
says the Russian central executive
committee has been called In extraor-
binary esssion to decide upon the per-
sonnel Of the Russian delegation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-27
wife pies in Lake Storm

Port Wing, Wis, Jan. 24-Carried
out into the ice-coated waters of Lake
Superior when severe gale sprang
up. Alfred Peterson, fisherman of
Knife River, Mimi, reached here after
his wife had persisted IN the open row.
boat.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17

| creating havoc in the North Atlantic
have virtually all been driven into
other occupations, and the exodus still
continues.
We call attention to this distress
ing state of affairs because the les
sons of history upon that subject are
exceptionally clear and emphatic.
From the days of the Pheonicians and
lyrlans, mastery of the sea has been
won and held by the nation which
could furnish the greatest number of
skilled and valorous seamen. No ma
ton has ever developed a sea power
unless it furnished the seamen from
its own population. No nation has
long retained sea power after its men
quit the sea.
"Ships alone have never won a bat
tie, and the fruits of naval victories
are easily dissipated unless the vic
tors are backed by sufficiently nu-
merous seafaring population in their
home land. For in the final ANALYSIS
sea power is in the seamen Vessels
are but the seamens tools. And
tools have always belonged to the
races or nations who can use them
most effectively"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
EMPLOY YELLOW men
NUMBER OF CHINESE USED TO MAN GOVERN
MENT-OWNED SHIPS RAPIDLY INCREAS-
ING-SUBSIDY BILL SUPPORTS
DISLOYAL PLAN
Seamens Chief in Vigorous Protest Warns President
Harding That Nations Maritime Power Depends
Not So Much Ships, as Upon It's
Seafaring People

San Chinese, in in
creasing numbers, are manning gov
ernment owned passenger and freight
vessels, declared Andrew Furuseth,
president of the International Sea-
mems Union, in a letter to President
Harding.
In protesting against this China
flying of the American merchant ma
rine, the trade unionist reminded the
chief executive of the historic fact
that nations maritime power de-
pends not upon ships, but upon its
seafaring people.
"a brief analysis of the subsidy
bill should prove to you that it ex-
pressly permits the employment of
Chinese and other Orientals in the
stewards department of each subsi-
died vessel" said President Furu-
seth. "Of course, you will appreciate
that the stewards department in
passenger vessels usually constitutes
the majority of the vessels crew.
'It has been claimed by spokesmen
for the shipping board that Ameri-
cans cannot be found to serve in the
stewards department of American
ships. This is a claim based upon
imagination only. Americans do not
and will not shirk from any honest
toll if conditions are tolerable. To
be sure, the American boy has refused
to work, eat and sleep with Chinese
coolies, and this is exactly what GER
tain ship owners and managers ex-
pect him to do.
"We are convinced that the most
liberal subsidizing will never create
a genuine American merchant marine.
This can only be done by the develop
ment of a personnel at least of equal
skill and efficiency with the personnel
of any competing nation. We feel
that highly trained, skilled and eff
cient crews are the essential factors
to the future of our merchant marine.
Yet the tendency for the past two
years, at least, has been in the oppo-
site direction. Men in high author
ity have made it their business to dis
courage efficiency, to mock at skill
and to ridicule proper training of
young native Americans.
"The inevitable result of such a
policy spells failure for Americas
future upon the sea.
Native and naturalized Americans
who so gladly responded to the call
of the sea when the submarines were
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
SMOOTH GARY
Defends pittsburgh Plus"
Plan of Handling Myth
Freight Cost to Gus
toner

Washington. - pittsburgh plus"
was defended by Judge Gary before
the federal trade commission.
Under pittsburgh plus" steel
mill located at Duluth, within 60
miles of rich iron ore fields, must add
to a customers bill the freight cost
of the steel from Pittsburgh to Du-
luth, though the steel was manufact-
ured in Duluth and never saw Pitts
burgh. This puts the trusts mills in
Pittsburgh on an equal footing with
Duluth mills, and the public pays
for this unnecessary cost. Millions of
dollars are annually taken from the
public by system which, Judge Gary
says, exists, so far as | know, for
the purpose of fixing a quotation
price"
''If Pittsburgh plus" did not exist,
northwestern buyers of steel for in
stance, would patronize steel mills in
that section because of their proxim-
ity to the Minnesota iron ore range.
This would mean lower costs for
steel, as freight charges would be
low Now when a ton of steel is
sold, the buyer must pay an addi
tional price equal to the freight
charge of that ton of steel from
monopoly on the iron ore it can en-
force pittsburgh plus" while eff
ciency-mad editors conveniently over
look this gouge that runs into mil
lions of dollars.
Judge Gary told the federal trade
commission there is no such thing as
competition There is always good
natured competition" he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
WOULD LAW STRIKES
LAST WEAPON OF DEFENSE WOULD BE TAKEN
FROM WORKERS IF LATEST DECISION OF
FEDERAL COURT WAS PERMITTED
TO STAND
st. Louis Leather Workers Charged With Interfering
With Interstate Commerce Raises Question of
Difference Between Production and
Transportation

Kansas City, Mo.-In divided
opinion the federal court of appeals
has ruled that when a strike inter
feres with the manufacture of articles
intended for interstate commerce,
such strike is illegal In a minority
opinion Judge Stone declared, in
effect, that if the decision is upheld
it will outlaw every strike.
The decision is made in the case of
several st. Louis leather manufactur-
ers and their organized leather work
ers, who suspended work when they
were refused wage scale and i'm
proved working conditions. The
strike was so effective that the en-
ployers asked Federal District Judge
Wade to issue an injunction against
picketing on the ground that the
strikers were interfering with inter
state commerce. The court refused
but later issued the injunction.
The United Leather Workers In
ternational Union aided their st.
Louis members in appealing the de-
cision to the federal court of appeals,
which now sustains Judge Wade In
upholding the lower court, Judge San
born said:
Manufacture of articles contract
ed or intended to go into interstate
commerce constitutes part of same.
That where the purpose of the con
spiracy is to prevent the manufact-
ure of such articles, the inevitable
effect is to interfere with interstate
commerce"
The leather workers announce they
will appeal this decision to the United
States supreme court, which has re-
peatedly made a clear distinction be-
tween production and transportation.
The supreme court made this dis
tinction when it set aside the federal
child labor act of 1916, which pro-
hibited the products of child labor en-
tering interstate commerce. In that
case (Hammer versus Dagenhart) the
court said:
"The making of goods and the
mining of coal are not interstate
commerce, nor does the fact that
these things are to be afterwards
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
GUARDS KILL WORK
ERS

Chicago.-M w Martin, editor of
the Blacksmiths' Journal and chair
man of the Hammond defense fund
committee, announces that a legal
battle will soon be staged in Federal
Judge Andersons court at Indianapo-
lis, when private guards and city
police of Hammond will be arraigned
in the Hammond, Ind, murder cases.
Striking employees of the Standard
Steel Car Company were attacked by
the Hammond city police and the COM
pany's private guards. The posse
shot into crowd of workers, killing
four and seriously wounding 20
others.
The workers say the Standard
Steel Car Company, controlled by the
Mellon interests, Wall street and
bankers, will be well supplied with
finances to care for the accused.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
SHORTAGE OFLABOR" CRY
BUT LOW WAGE PROPAGANDA OF BIG BIZ IN TO SMASH
ALL IMMIGRATION BARS THAT CHEAP LABOR
MAY BE IMPORTED
Survey BY A F. of L. Shows
Country Are Unemployed And Whose Numbers Greatly
Increased During The Months

Washignton.-A survey conducted
by the American Federation of Labor
proves that the stories of a labor
shortage in this country are false.
The survey shows that these sto-
ries are circulated by newspapers
published in cities where men are
tramping the streets in their search
for work. From the Atlantic to the
Pacific, from the lakes to the Gulf of
Mexico, comes the same story of men
looking for work.
information on the alleged short
age of labor has been received from
nearly 200 city central bodies, located
in every state, in answer to a request
by Frank Morrison, secretary of the
A. F. of L., that these labor organiza-
tions furnish the A. F. of L. "the
very best information you can in re-
gard to unemployment in your city"
In every city reporting except one,
labor surplus is recorded Kanka-
kee, H., does not report surplus,
but states that "the supply is about
equal to the demand"
Some of the letters support their
claim of labor surplus by including
newspaper clippings in which the in
creasing activities of local charity or
ganizationS is recorded.
Most of the letters are bitter to.
ward propagandists who would ere,
ate the impression that labor short
age exist, and who are heartless and
blind to present conditions which
they would intensity
The following excerpts from letters
from various sections are indicative
of the general tone of all the letters:
Boston-"There are thousands out
of work here"
Los Angeles, Cal.-"There is ap
parently about 10000 unemployed in
this city"
Minneapolis 1900 un-
employed here. No scarcity of labor
in any industry"
Portland, Ore.-"In no industry is
there a scarcity of labor"
Detroit, Mich.-"There is line up
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
RECALL PICKET DE-
SION

Washington.-A stock dividend of
18 per cent by American steel foun-
dries recalls the recent -picketing
decision by the United States su-
preme court.
American steel foundries is New
Jersey corporation and cut wages at
it's Granite City, ILL.,, plant. The
workers struck and the company Sc
cured an injunction from Federal
Judge Humphrey, who outlawed pick
citing and declared that the Granite
City central body is an illegal organi-
zation. This stone-age ruling was
reversed by the federal court of ap-
peals. The company carried the case
to the United State supreme court,
which ruled, in effect, that picketing
will be permitted if done under the
eye of the court. Chief Justice Taft
suggested that one picket at each fac
tory gate should be sufficient.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17

shipped or used in interstate com
merce make their production a part
thereof"
In the case of Coe versus Enrol
GIG U. S., SD the supreme court
also drew a sharp line between pro-
duction and transportation. This case
revolved around the right of a state
to tax logs intended for export. The
court said that while the logs were
intended for export the owner has a
perfect right to change his mind,
"and until actually put in motion for
some place out of the state, or com
mitted to the carrier for transporta-
tion to such place, why may they not
be regarded as still remaining part
of the general mass of property in the
state?
The court further stated that until
actually launched on its way to
another state, or committed to a COM
mon carrier for transportation to such
state, its destination is not fixed and
certain"
In these cases the supreme court
takes position in sharp contrast to
the court of appeals, which rules that
because strike makes it impossible
for an employer to manufacture ar
ticles intended for interstate COM
merce, that this strike is a violation
of law
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
CHEAP PATERNALISM

Chicago.-The Pullman Company
announces that it's free" life insur-
ance for employees whose annual
wage is $4,000 or less will become
effective December l. The company
withholds the right to say upon whom
this blessing shall be bestowed
This cheap paternalism is linked up
with the Pullman Company union"
which is intended to offset the in
crease of trade unionism
In a recent statement President
Gompers of the A. F. of L. showed
that if the Pullman concern can en-
force it's company ''union," this will
supercede boni fide trade unionism in
negotiating with the company under
the transportation law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17

in front of every employment agency
in the city The mission houses are
full. More men are seeking employ
ment at local factories than can be
used by them. There is a big over
supply of common labor and consid-
cradle of surplus of skilled workers
in Detroit"
Philadelphia.-"A fair estimate OF
the unemployment in Philadelphia at
present is approximately about $1,000
people"
Houston, Texas" There are plenty
of mechanics and hundreds of com
mon laborers looking for work every
day here"
Pittsburgh, Pa.-"There is no ma
terial labor shortage" This letter
states that steel mills shortage is be-
cause men refuse to work long hours
for low wages. Men are being
brought from south but do not stay.
Alexandria, La.-"There are two
men for every job and work is awful
scarce here"
Atlanta, Ga.-Reports show that
even building craftsmen are unem-
ployed despite the big building pro-
gram that has been on.
ST. Louis, Mo- There is no sign
of labor shortage in this locality. We
are looking for the number of idle
workers to increase as the winter
months roll around"
Seattle, Wash.-"Ther will be no
less than 5000 men here cut of work
unless they go elsewhere for work. T"
Bellows Falls, Vt.-"There is no
shortage of labor here"
San Antonio, Texas -"There is a
large number of skilled labor idle in
this city. AS to unskilled labor this
city is flooded"
Milwaukee, -"There is no indus
try here that has shortage of la
bor."
Spokane, Wash.-City free employ
ment bureau is quoted: "Still plenty
of unemployment in Spokane" City
central official estimates between 500
and 1000 unemployed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
BUILDING COSTS GO UP

Washington.-Th level of whole
sale prices of building material rose
1871 per cent between March and
September, the season of active con-
struction, according to nationwide
survey by the department of labor.
The survey covered all principal mar
kets and materials, including lum-
ber, brick, steel, cement and hard
ware.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17

Youngstown, Ohio.-This central
body reports that steel mills cry labor
shortage and force men to undergo a
physical examination. Low wages,
which make it impossible to live, is
the rule. Men appear at the factory
gates but are not employed
Dayton, Ohio.-"There are about
1000 unemployed here. Manager of
state-city free employment bureau
here places it at $1,000"
Kenosha, Wis There is unem-
ployment galore and we expect same
to be worse a month from now"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
WILL TAB" SEAMEN

New York.-The American Ship
Owners Association will adopt the
new continuous discharge books for
members of crews. The owners say
these books safeguard ship owners
by recording continuous service. The
seamen declare it is system of finger
printing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
BARRIERS FIGHT DISEASE

Rochester, N. Y.-Organized bar
bers in this city are waging cam
paign against diseased breeding shops.
These places ignore the first rules of
sanitation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
GIVES EN- EXTRA STOCK

Pittsburgh, Pa-The Union Ma
tural Gas Company has declared its
usual dividend and an extra rs per
cent stock dividend The capital
stock is increased to $20,OOO,OOO.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-11-17
GUST ONE-MAN CARS

Toledo, Ohio.-The common council
has prohibited the use of one-man
street cars in this city. Too dan
gerous, the city dads aver.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-31
THE LEPER BAND.

In recent number of the Literary
Digest there is shown a photograph
of a brass band playing at a mis-
sion in Culion, Philippine Islands
The players are native Filipinos
They are all cheerful and sturdy
looking. And all of them are, OF
have been, lepers. They are called
the "leper band. +"
Here is change, indeed, from
the immemorial plight of the leper
until the other day cast out as "un-
clean" and regarded with horror
and fear. Modern medical science,
among its many miracles, has found
the other contagious diseases, and
there is no reason either for despair
On the part of the victim or panic on
the part of community where a
case appears.
All over the world now the dis
ease is being handled more intelli-
geltly. The basis Of the treatment
is chaulmoogra oil, which is sup
plenented with gurgan, arsenic, qui-
nine and carbolic oil, and helped ma
terially by a rational course OF care
and nourishmont, with surgical work
when it is necessary. In leper set
Elements in India three-fourths of
the patients are cured. and the chill
dren of the lepers are brought up
sound and clean. Our federal gov
eminent has made a model home for
lepers at Carville, La, on the Mis-
sissippi river, and is doing excellent
.<ork there for this country's com
rsratively small leper population.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-31
TRUMAN HANDS
ALL STARS A
IA DRUBBINC
Jinx Pursues Locals In Tus-
sic With Truman and
Another Game Goes TO
That Outfit


Tackling the baseball team from
Truman Saturday afternoon for the
fifth time this year, the local All
stars were forced to hand over
the third game to that team this
season, the All Stars having won
two games on previous occasions
The game opened with the visitors
scoring three runs in the first halt
OF the first inning, although only
two hits were made. By counting
two runs in each the second and
fourth innings the All Stars man
aged to force ahead but were again
forced to take back seat when
Truman added three runs in the
sixth and one in the ninth to end
the day.
The game was won and lest on
the side of the error column, the
locals making five costly boots and
the Truman nine only one miscue
The hits were divided about as
evenly as the runs, Truman polling
out eight while the All Stars tould
touch Burrus for only four binRleS
Woodward featured with a one hand
stop and toss of a hard hit ground
er between first and second that
seemed to be a sure nit. Two
men were on the base paths at the
time and were left there as the
result of the sensational stop.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-31
REpORTORIAI. HONOR.

Judge Wills N1ckery, veteran
,ember of the Ohio bench, address
ing law school graduating class on
legal ethics,' held up the news
paper profession as a model of faith
fitness, saying.
Il have been dealing with report
e-s for nearly 40 years, and not once
have | been doubled crossed or had
Z confidence broken by reporter
They respect confidential relations
religiously. The attorney should do
likewise"
This is worth remembering the
Lext time somebody makes a shall,
low remark about newspaper men
not being trustworthy.
One of the most curious miseon-
ceptions about newspaper work is
the notion that a reporter or editor
always tells all he knows. If news
papers did that, it might blow the
roof off 'mcst any town.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-31
Mind Clears; Denies
Committing Crime

Little Rock, May @0.-After be-
Ing confined in the state Hospital
for Nervous Diseases, George Flake,
charged with killing Wallace VIII
son, his brothor-in-laW, Suddenly
rcg9inod his senses recently and de-
clared that lie was innocent OF the
crime and stated that Wilson was
killed by Roy Johnson, who also is
wanted b. Faulkner county officers
for the murders of George Hopkins
and his his wife, Nettie Hopkins. in
Faulkner county last January.
Flake is said to have made a
statement eonfessing the Wilson
murder, bat the confession was
made, according to information
here, when Flakes mind was cloud
cd. due 10 agitation. .,n,
After spending 10 weeks in the
State Hospital For Nervous Diseases,
suffering from a form of insanitYg
Flakes mind, ABOUT three weeks ago,
Suddenly cleared, according to Or.
c. c. Kirk, superintendent Of the
hospital,
DR.. Kirk stated yesterday that
after Flakes mind had cleared he
told Dr. Eirk a straightforward and
apparently coherent story Of the at
fair.
Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-31
Evelyn Whelchel Dies
From Food Poisonin g

Monday afternoon at 1880 little
Evelyn, the two year old daughter
of Mr., and Mrs. Walter Whelchel
of 500 North Second street, was
stricken with a spasm from which
she died at AIS, caused by food
poisoning. As soon as the child was
stricken a physician was summoned,
The child had been indisposed all
day, but its condition caused nc
alarm until about 1 o'clock when
she suffered her first attack which
was continued b. one spaam folloN-
ing another until AIS when death
interviewed Funeral was held this
Iafternocn and followed by interment
lat Fairyiew cemetery.