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The Washington times., 1922-04-03
Daugherty:
Stop the
Coal Strike
THE coal operators are wrong.
They have brought on q strike

AhSy AN'S IA OA "a oSA Inv
which they deserve to lose.
The public opinion of the country,
as fast as it becomes enlightened,
is turning against them.
The great issue is the contest
between the United Mine Work
ers and the operators in the cen
trail competitive field-Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Western Pennsyl-
vania-where most of the bitumi-
nous coal is produced.
For twenty years representa-
tives of the operators and miners
in this great area have met in a
single conference and made sue
cessive contracts covering wages
and working conditions.
The miners have been eager to
meet and confer regarding renew
al of the last contract. The
operators refuse, although the
contract provides for such con-
ference and renewal:
An INTERSTATE joint con-
ference shall be held prior to
April 1, 1922, the time and place
of holding such meeting to be
referred to a committee of two
operators and two miners from
each State herein represented,
together with the international
officers of the United Mine
Workers Association.
That is, there is a specific con-
tract to hold an INTERSTATE
conference.-the all previous ones
covering ALL States in the
competitive field.
Mine owners will not so confer.
They will only confer State by
State, four separate conferences.
They want to break their contract
and break the miners up into four
groups, thus shattering their
strength. The mine owners know
that the miners finances are low
because of the terrible period of
slack employment they went
through in 1921. MINE OWN
ERS WANT THIS STRIKE
NOW.
Miners and public, now on the
same side, don't want the strike.
Are we helpless7 No. A court
injunction can be obtained to
force operators to carry out their
contract and confer.
The women garment workers
in New York last year by injunc-
tion prevented their employers
from breaking a contract and
declaring a wage cut before the
time limit of the existing wage
scale. The workers won.
Just so the miners, by injunc-
ton, could have forced the oper-
ators into a conference. The
miners have not taken this action,
perhaps from ignorance, perhaps
because, following Sam Gompers,
they will not touch the injunction
an instrument always used
against labor-on the ground that
union use Of the injunction means
union sanction of the injunction
as an institution.
All right. But there is third
party to this contract, the breach
of which means the insufferable
interruption of our chief national
public utility. That third party
is the public.
The injunction is used to pre-
vent irreparable harm. Attorney
General Daugherty, why not have
the injunction so used today, to
prevent irreparable harm to us,
the public, the silent partner in
the bituminous coal contract7
Mr.. Daugherty, the miners say
you would proceed quickly enough
against them if they were causing
this strike. They recall how the
The Washington times., 1922-04-03
We TOWNE GOSSIP
tCopyright. 1S11.)
BY K. G. B.

THAT SOMEONE
invented.
TO ENRICH himself.
AND PUT them In
stores.
AND PARENTS
bought them.
AND TOOK them
homo.
AND SHOWED the
kids.
HOW TO rattle them.
AND scREEch with
them.
AND TURNED them
loose.
ON THE neighbors'
ears.
AND so it is.
If I'm disturbed.
.
IT ISN'T the kids.
WHO ARE doing it.
NOT HALF SO much.
As THE srown-ups.
BUT NEvERTHE-
LESS.
1T ,s the kids.
WHO GET the blame.
AND IF I had the guy.
WHO INVENTED the
things.
THEY'RE WHANG-
ING on.
THIS VERY minute.
10 MAKE him eat
EN-.
AND THEY'RE made
of tin.
AND PAINTED green.
The Washington times., 1922-04-03

"IT MUST be.
THAT YOU'RE
getting old.
"AND A little crabby."
I SAID to myself.
JUST A moment ago.
FOR SITTING here.
IN THE sunny room.
WHERE ! do my
work.
I'VE BEEN disturbed.
By SOME little kids.
WHo.A ARE at play.
IN THE court outside.
AND ! was surprised.
THEY SHOULD
bother me.
FOR YESTERDAY.
AND THE day before.
THEY PLAYED out
there.
AND YELLED a lot.
AND LAUGHED . lot.
AND ! wasn't
disturbed.
IN THE very least.
AND I'VE wondered
why.
! SHOULD have
changed.
AND I'VE figured 1t
out.
AND THE reason is.
-
THAT TWO Of the
kids.
SHOWED UP to-day,
WITH SOME man
made things.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
With Illustrations by Albert Leperins

'ne straight hair that stopped growing at
her death thirty years ago. And. finally.
look at her small, beady, black eyes kept
polished and shiny by running up and
down the interest tables Of her little brown
books worn tables in the 10 and II and
Ia per cent columns. That's why she is
stu unburied. The undertaken Is afraid
to tackle her. She would bleed him white.
She is greatly interested in her SOULS
eternal salvation, and when she invites the
Ladies' Society to give a church social in
her big house she always sends the bill
to the society for the coffee and fuel and
lights. Her home is a good investment
because it is in good neighborhood, and
by charging her son board and her sick
brother rent. and taking his note for it,
she manages 10 keep going, sustained by
a blessed hope that she will meet her be-
loved husband in the Beautiful Island of
Somewhere and collect his funeral ex-
penses.
So We come to No. Of the cast Of char
acters, Thomas Parsons, deceased, a
mousey little man, late partner Of Turner
McGaw, thrifty, dainty, undersized per-
son, who in life had an addiction for buy
ing tax sale titles and sponging around
the grocery stores at noon, picking up such
unguarded food as might be exposed in
boxes, barrels, kits and frkins. He was
an honest and hard-saving man who died
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

worth half million and managed 10 evade
the inheritance tax by having II all in his
wife's name at the Great Moment, and she
had 1t all in mortgages safely hidden away
from the assessors over in Missouri.
A ND now behold a mystery. Enter the
Christmas Spirit. A powerful thing
It is-worker Of marvels In the human
heart. Here a merry countenance that
doeth good like medicine; here a genial
smile from some oyerAowing heart; here
warm handclasp and a CHEEKY word
from some passing friend; the Christmas
Joke-that fine fellowship which makes
us all pretend boredom in the Joy that
CLEANS from our faces, the Christmas col
ors, green and red, flashing everywhere;
the Christmas trot, hurrying the feet of
staid and dignifed pedestrians; the whole
delightful stimulation that comes with
the Christmas season-some way all these
glorious ingredients got into the flint
covered recess deep in her consciousness
where she hid her heart and made Lavina
Parsons feel the pangs Of strange, new
birth So powerful is the leaven Of good
will among men that it penetrates all the
secret places Of our souls, and either by
remembrance Of benefits forgot or by the
hunger Of kindly human relations expands
our lives and brings us into communion
with the visions Of our neighbors. No
miracle Of mans early days is as mex
plicable as this wonder that comes to US
moderns with the return Of that season
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

Lauina a drab figure in the
episode. For it was
from zion Carter Horton, the post
,.,. bonOved the money for which he
.,rs second mortgage on his house and
ehsisel mortgage on all his worldly
goods
60 there they are, the dramatis per-
sonr Of this story. AID in presenting
them for an Introductory closeup let US
climax them and give the Christmas
Spirit the Grand Entry with the roll Of
drums and fare Of trumpets. First, we
.baB open the camera to disclose Carter
Horizons portman's cap, dingy gray,
With battered visor, Under the visor
Of the cap behold sOrrowful face, and
what seems ike dirt is but the second
days growth Of beard. His head lunges
forward and his shoulders lurch forward
into what soon will be a stoop. And a
button is off the lower part Of his coat.
A spot the size Of a dime adorns his
winkled trousers at the knee. The COW
moved while he was milking. And his
,loeq have thin soles and worn heels
Eut he looks at the camera without
gindng. ike a man. And he is no
asyen, even though his face is lined with
trouble. He lives out in the edge of town
where he can keep COW, and the COW
is the mainstay Of his family. The baby
and bis two younger. children live of
The milk nearly, and while the Oldest
little girl, aged thirteen, is dressing them
in the morning and getting breakfast,
her father mlks. AS for their mother,
she left the story six months ago, and
80 we will let the camera shutter close
IN Carter Horton, lingering for mo
nent upon his heart-broken eyes
LoW, behold The NeighbOrhOod-the
Faubourg st. German Of Kanapolis.
Iere upon asphalt streets in smart mod
IN houses, in some looking Colonial in
ONE looking quite English, in some mod
led after Italian villas, in some skinny
md angular like Norman chateaux, here
i've the feudal barons Of the town with
breakfast room, two sleeping porches
and at least four tiled bathrooms upon
their consciousness all the time. It's
grand neighborhoOd and three Of the
houses in it have two stalls in Their ga
RACES. And one Of these twO-stalled
prages belongs to Mrs. Lavina Parsons.
Consider large. thin woman in fur
coat q mink Of the late 'SOs. A spare,
strong face, thin-Epped mouth that seems
never to have been adequately kissed for
three generations. Note the leathery skin,
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
The Regeneration of Aunt Lavina

THIS is a story Of
Il the Christmas
spirit Incidentally,
four other persons
are concerned. Old
Tom Parsons, who is
dead and buried; La
yina Parsons, his
wife, who also was
dead but is stin un-
buried; Carter Hor-
con, the postman, and
the Neighborhood.
There is also Turner
McGaw, who lends
money TO men who
have no credit at the
bank. But he is only
a drab figure in the
episode. For it was
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

when the years harvests and hopes have
been brought 10 barn and the new years
seeds and visions are quiekening eager for
the spring.
Yet We are never prepared for the
miracle when It's divine fire bursts from
some dead chalicc. The Neighborhood
was coming from Commercial Street eve.
ming after evening, with its arms full Of
bundles, with little wagon tongues, sleds
and skates jabbing people under the chin
in the streetcars; with the seats and hoors
of automobiles bristling with angular
packages like quills upon the fretfu por-
cupine, with holly wreaths in the windows
and Santa Clauses in the Easements Of the
store. And still the people in The Neigh
borhood were aghast when Lavina Parsons
appeared among them upon. Christmas
errand.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

appeared among them upon, a Christmas
errand.
"SURE, mother, give it to her, said the
head Of the House with the White
Pillars. "Give her fifty If she wants it.
OF course, old Horton shouldn't have TO be
staggering through life under mortgage
on his COW. If anythink would crack open
that old niggerhead Of heart Of hers let's
help"
Joy to the world, the Lord is come"
sang the head Of the House with the
Sprawling English Gables. "old Lavina is
out getting money for a Christmas pres
ent for dear old Carter Horton, who has
been carrying this route for twenty-five
years. / put down $50 and / knew YOU
would say amen when you came home
this evening
'Lsvina!' cried No. 2, batting his eyes;
mot Layina Parsonsw
"None other" answered the responsi.
bic head Of the family, shooing the chill
dren out Of fathers chair. "She wants us
to help pay Oft the mortgage on his house
and a chattel mortgage on his household
goods. You know what awful luck old
Carter has had this year"
"Hooray and hooroar!" beloved the
Duke in the Italian villa in Jackson Street
when he heard the news. "Put me down
for seyenty-fye and make it hundred II
she bats an eye. Why, that old tightwad
hasn't given cent to any campaign the
town has put on since the war, when we
painted her garage for her.
And the Duchess made answer: "Not
a cent has she given. Turned me out Of
the house when asked her for the Y. W.
subscription. Said, let EN- earn their
money and save it as | do when'I asked
her for ten for the Welfare Association.
Wouldn't give penny TO the Day Nursery
and pulled down her blinds and refused TO
come 10 the door when we went for the
Red Cross roll call dollar"
"Give her seyenty-fve, mother; kiss her
and tell her 10 come again" beloved the
old devil in the Dutch Colonial on Lincoln
Avenue. "The way TO make good town
is for every one to put on his paint and
dance when any one else sounds the COM
munity tocsin. She wouldn't dance for
our College DOrmitory Drive, but we'll
show her that wen dance for her war
whoop. OF course wen help old Carter
scare of the wolf for Christmas. What il
we do 60 to the poorhouse--the high school
girls in this Gown are sending turkey'out
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-23
Men of st. Matthews
Parish to Organize

The men Of Saint Matthew'S parish
are meeting in the study OF the rec
tory, 167 Second street. on Monday eve
ling. Acv. 81. for the purpose Of or
ganizihs mems club In the parish.
The idea cf such q club was suggested
at the recent meeting of the vcstry Of
the church and met with such approx
al tina: IL was decided 20 take definite
steps toward forming such an organ
cation in the near future. The pur-
bose OF the club Is 10 further socia.
bility among the men OF the parish,
end also 70 give the men an opportu-
nifty 70 hear about and discuss such
matters regarding the church and
churohly things as may interest them.
IS OFTEN as possible. speakers from
cut Of town will be invited in to talk
ct the meetings of the club on topics
most familiar 10 them that have to do
with some particular phase of religion
CT the life of the church as whole.
II has been proposed that the meetings
be hcld once every month and the men
feel that al evening spent in this man
rer at sucn intervals will be we'll
spent. They hope through the medium
OF the club to arouse and revive the
interest Of the men in the parish in the
work ut the church, and it is felt that
the life of Saint Matthews church will
be simulated by the organization. All
men of the parish and other men who
are III any way interested in Saint Mat
thew church and its work are not only
invited, but urged to be present at
this meeting on Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Stafford returned
from brunswick Tuesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-23

cal, was put into prison garb early
today. Late last night Lloyd, CON
Nicted with 70 others under an I'LL
nois law for radical utterances. VOL
unfairly surrendered at the Joliet
penitentiary to begin serving his SEN
tence of one to five years.
Washington Statistics issued to-
day by the census bureau showing
increases in the number of prisoners
in state and federal institutions
since the wet" year 1917. reveal
that the 18th amendment and the
Nolstead act have not been deter
rents to crime, w. ii. Stayton. foun-
der and head of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
declared today.
Chicago.-Armed bandits early to-
day. held up and robbed post office
motor truck carrying air mail mat
ter at Checkerboard flying field for
transfer to mail plane. kidnapped
the truck driver and escaped.
hington.-Among the fading
tributes to Americas unknown SOL
der, laid on the tomb at Arlington
Cemetery on Armistice Day. more
than a week ago, is one great wreath
bearing the legend, I'm undyinS
memory" and below the inscription
that it came from the British en-
bassy.
Paris. are proceed
ing at London between French and
British oil interests under which
American oil interests will be admit
ted to one-quarter participation in
the Mesopotamia fields. according to
the Lausanne correspondent of the
Paris Herald. The French and Brit
ish. he says. will give up part Of
the shares they received under the
San Reno agreement.
Waco. Tex.-Twenty Texas Ran
gers were sent here today as pre-
cautionary measure i'll the event of
an arrest as the result of the killing
of Grady Skipworth. 10, and attack
on his youug woman companion.
The young woman, who was not Sc
riously injured when her body
struck tree wh-f. her assailant
threw her over q fifty foot cliff, ac-
cused an unidentified Negro.
Boston--Marriage of William M.
Garland. Jr., of Los Angeles. a sem
Tor at Harvard College, and Dorothy
Fenron of Newark. y. j.. a musical
comedy chorus girl, awaits parental
permission. Intentions were filed by
them at City Hall, but the license
was with her because Miss Fenron
who gave her age as Is years, was
unable to prove she had the consent
of her parents.
Tacoma, Wash.-A record price for
eggs in this section as established
when II. NJ. Leathers of Woodland
sold 20 eggs from Lady Jewell" his
champion white leghorn hen for $500.
Lady jewell laid 315 eggs for the
year ending Nov. /, at the official egg
laying contest conducted by the
Western Washington Experiment
Station.
MISUNDERSTANDING increas-
ed in 20 and decreased in II indus
tries in October as compared with.
September, the Department OF La
Dor announced today. In the same
period, "a of the AZ industries re-
ported increased payrolIs. The fig
ures covered 3.064 representative es-
adjustments which employed 1885,
7s5 persons last month.
Burlington, Vt.-The cross-exami-
nation Of Dorrit Woodhouse, plain
tiff in the million dollar alienation
suit was continued this afternoon. In
substance Mrs. Woodhouse said she
considered the action of her hus-
bands parents in refusing TO recos
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-23
Beeckman Takes Stand
in Libel Suit Against
Providence News

Providence. r. l., Nov. 2c.-Formor
Governor r. Livingston Beeckman, de-
teated for the United States Senate in
tie recent election by Senator Peter
u. Gerry. took the stand in the sixth
u str,ct court here today as q witness
fer he defense in his own case charc-
ing that he was criminauy libelled by
the Providence News, which accused
nina OF bribery during the campaign.
Nj. Beeckman's counsel offered in
evidence copy of the publication and
.ontended that the burden of proof
shat the article. was true and without
malice rested with the defendants. who
are J3nn y. Hennessy of New York. ed
itor &C Providence News; Henry De
witt Hamilton OF New York, secretary
and treasurer of the Hope Publishing
Co. publishers of the paper, and the
Hope Publishing Co, as Rhode Island
corpora ton
TEa witness was closely Questioned
by John J. Fitzgerald, counsel for tn.
defense. concerning the payment Of
Sl5u" tC Hervc J. Lagace of Woonsocb-
ct. transaction which was called in
the alleged libclous article a bride
Coun:c, for the prosecution admitted
the payment of the sum in question,
But claimed that it was given to La
gace who posed as a disgruntled Dem
ccrat, to carry the expenses Of the
! camraign work he promised to do for
the Republican candidate for the Unit
cd states Senate
The trial was marked by treatment
Clashes between co,nsel If ,,.oS oa,
tinued. II viii be followed by another
Iria', il: which Hennessey and Hamil-
ton viii be the defendants against
criminal conspiracy charge brought by
FIR. Eecckman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-23
Current Events Club
Hears Talk on Cancer
Control at Open Meet

HaIlcwell Current Events Club held
its regular meeting Wednesday after
noon with Tic president. Miss Elizabeth
AIcC,cMch. at the home of Mrs. Wallace
Perry. Owing to the nature of the
program the meeting was an open one
and was we'll attended.
A short business session preceded
the program. The question of the pur-
chase by the club of copies Of Walter
EmereoE's When the North Wind
Flows" and the matter of the new
state Year Books We're both consid-
cred.
Following the business meeting DR..
Charles L. Il. Beane spoke on the sub
jcct If cancer control. He was clear,
direct end forceful, and non-technical
in his presentation. making tile sub
jcct very clear. These addresses, Of
which Dr. Eeane has delivered NUM-
Der within the past few days before
various organizations. are a part Of
the work undertaken for Cancer Con-
troll Week" Of which the Kennebec
Cou.ty Medical Association is the i'm
mediate sponsor. So definite is the
SubJtN presented tUaI OIu Supti
tons and prejudices disappear in the
light Ct certain knowledge. Both the
Importance of the subject and the eff
fect;vaness of DR.. Beane's treatment
made the talk Of much value.
Mrs. Georgiana Lilly then read pa
per Ca Our Natural Resources.
Gear and Interesting presentation Of
what America has in the way Of treas
ures il her storehouse. Coal. ron.
forests. all that serves to make the
United states n great industrial ma
ton. received adequate treatment.
Mss Adele fitzpatrick presented the
situation IN the Near East leading up
10 tn, Lausanne conference. in wey
that helped to clear UP misconceptions
and untanelc twisted ideas. Other
members presented various items OF
presef. dag interests.
number Of guests were present,
Among theya were Miss Georgia Norris.
Miss Ethe, Cochramc. Miss Helen Coch-
ranc. Mfs. Charles Il. II. Beane. One
cues CT few Years, Miss Catherine
Robinson. was much appreciated. The
women teachers AT the high school VINO
we're not already members had been
invited 70 become associate members
for tie Writer Miss Haskell, MSS
Ethel Rice and Miss Irene Robinson
were present at this meeting. Mrs.
Waller p. Bradford is also to become
an ass. Ciatc members Of the club
Inc next meeting is to be of unusuai
interest. A lecture on art IN the home.
illustrated by a large number of Pho
togra plis, will be the feature. Tne
meeting will be with Mrs Noel Sleeves.
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nize her at tho hospital in Ii Z
Branch, y. j.. the same as "c1
bidding her tha house." She nttgl
asked the elder WoodhOuses whts,
their son was because they had ri
fused to speak to her personally. sid
was asked il she didn't run up LII
against him amounting 10 $4,000 4
$4,000 in eighteen months. The vii
ness admitted il might have amount
ed to that much. /
Rutland, Vt.-Suit has hNi
brought in Rutland court by L. 4
Paris, of DANNY, Vt, against J. n
Wilbur, of Manchester, to Reeve,
possession of q document alleged 4
be q broadside issued by Ethan Aid
in 1874, commanding Captain Midi
Vail, of Dandy, to gather troops 4
guard Vermont interests against n
vasion of New Workers. Part OF "a
document is in Ethan Aliens hand
writing. Mr.. Paris values it at 81
coo.
Boston, Nov. 22.-Nelson NJ. SgE|
son. a newspaper row pencil venda|
who wears a placard, 81 am blind
admitted in Superior Court totsI
that he could see fifty feet and wi
awarded 5000 damages by jury
his suit brought against Frank WI
fora. whose automobile, he chafgs1
ran him down in July 1919. He sag
he made sl5 a week and sent SIS
month to his wife and three childH1
in New Hampshire.
Washington, Nov. 22.--An inyii|
ton to participate with the Intel
national Federation of Trades unlo'|
in u general labor anti-war confe1
ence at the Hague. December 10, va
rejected today by Presiden, Comps
and the executive council Of W
American Federation of Labor.
Morristown, n. J.-Justice Mahl'1
G. Pitney of the United States 81
preme Court. left today for Washln:1
ton, much improved after having beg
r. filmed at a private hospital s.f1
1ul~.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-23
To Provide for
Abandoned Boys

Windham, Me-, Nov. 22-Town Of
ficials have taken pwith the pro-
bate court at Portland, the DISPOSE
ton Of three boys, five. nine and ej-
even years old. who were abandoned
here four weeks ago by woman Civ
ing the name of Mrs. Zubrukier. and
reporting to be from New Jersey
The mother lived here several
months with family named Staples,
previous to her departure. The state
board of children's guardians will
authorities.