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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03
EVERYONE TO HAVE CHANGE TO SHOW
 TALENT ON STAGE
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 complete freedom of bodily express sion. All she does Is persuasively artistic"
 The two plays of the initial per- formance are well chosen. one being an American and the other an Eng fish selection. Susan Glaspell, author of "Trifles," is an Iowa woman. as you'd probably like to know, who. iE real life, is Mrs. George Grain Cook, and who has. contributed numerous stories to magazines throughout the country. She was Identified with the Little Theatre movement through the Princetown Players, and is tho author of The Glory of the Conquered" and Lifted Masks"
 The author of "The Maker of Dreams, "Oliphant Downs, Is an Eng lishman who has become famous through his writings, and whose poetic fantasy will be very obvious to those who. see the Drama League players this week.
 The first of the month comes three times a day on Mars, as one of its moons makes three complete revolu- tions around the planet in one Mar tian day, which is about one-half longer than our day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03
VERDICT SURE MONDAY
 IN D0LOMITE INQUEST

A verdict on the Dolomite mine disaster will be returned Monday, ac- cording to Coroner J. D. Russum. The investigation halted Friday, while search was made for an employe who was working as a sprinkler at the tirse of the explosion. and whose tes- timony Is desired. Coroner Russum indicated that he would return verdict Monday. regardless of the re- suits in the present search for the missing man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03
B'NAl BIRTH MEETING

Birmingham lodge. No. 36s. Inde- pendent Order of B'nai Brith will hold its regular meeting at the ves- try room of Temple Emanu-El Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
 A number of interesting matters will be brought before the lodge, i'm cluding the report of the intercity committee. All members of the or der are invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03
SHIPS AFT | R ] [ ]. BEST IN FACILITIES.
 AT ALABAMA PORT.
Oil and Coal Storage, Dry Docks, Accessibility and Calm Anchorage Are
 Among Attributes
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the natural outlet and that market Is growing one. It is the gulf coast Itself with it's teeming population needing what Alabama has to offer. At this time. for example, there is a regular interchange of coal and iron and steel products on the one hand and sulphur on the other between the Birmingham district and Texas through oceangoing barges operating between Mobile and Galveston and connecting at Mobile with the War rior river barges.
 How Warrior Serves
 A large interchange of business has been worked up between the Pacific coast and Alabama via Mobile and the Warrior barges. the Pacific coast taking iron and steel products and sending back flour, canned goods and dried fruits. The Warrior barges de- liver the northbound merchandise to railroads at the northern Alabama river functions and delivery is made to merchants In Alabama and parts of Mississippi, Georgia and Tennes- see at 20 per cent under the all-rail rate.
 In like manner the Mallory line brings goods from the north Atlantic ports. which are carried up the War rior at the same reduction in freight rates. This territory, in which the freight differential now applies, will be extended as it's advantages are understood until the Warrior becomes feeder to the port of Mobile from many states and distributing agency to these states for imports coming into Mobile.
 The Alabama Dry Dock and Ship building company, one of the leading plants, has six dry docks, one of which is of 10000 tons capacity. It is the largest plant on the Gulf of Mexico and equipped to make com plete repairs to all lines of wood and steel vessels
 Building Steel Ships
 What was done at Mobile in the Shipbuilding and Car company was sition of Mobile for the building of in Birmingham mills and floated fitted al the Mobile yards to the hull. were three-fourths manufactured in were shown to be the ideal comple- of large steel ships.
 The Mobile Shipbuilding company also built dozen ships of steel turned out in Birmingham plant.
 All the foundations have been laid 1t Mobile. State aid is to develop on these foundations as New Orleans was made into the second port of the country through Louisiana state aid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-03


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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10

and land transport is just as i'm
portant to the country in peace
and IN war as water transport.
And there are a whole lot more in
dustries that could make the same
claims for a subsidy at the hands
Of the general taxpayer. There
are the newspapers for instance.
They are a rather necessary thing
in a democratic government in or
der to keep the people informed of
what their country and the world
is doing. Very few of them are
paying any dividends these days.
Most of them are losing money.
Why not subsidize them out of the
general taxpayers money up to the
point where they pay 10 per cent
dividends on the actual capital in
vested just as congress proposes to
do in the case of capital invested
in water transportation. And we
can think of scores of other in
dustries that need a subsidy just
as badly, and are important factors
in our national life and prosperity.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10
COLLECTING ANTIQUES, ETC.

Collections are many and varied;
some folks have beautiful collections
of rare old paintings; others take pride
collecting n lot of antinQue furniture:
others are collectors of revenues Of
various sorts; merchants try to collect
accounts. due, and past due; all 10
doubt meet with varying results. which
is. perhaps. the reason we often hear
collections referred To as being rot
ten" Collections of pictures. furui-
ture and the like arc not necessary.
only a hobby; but certain collections
arc absolutely necessary, the very life
Of any business depends upon %collec-
tons. and the failure TO make them is
sure death TO the business. We have
seen banks close because they failed to
collect: banks are no different than
any other business, all must collect to
live. We are not collecting pictures or
old furniture. but we MUST, and will.
collect a lot of past due subscription
accounts, SO when you receive a state
ment from us, for Gods sake mail
check.-Ths VaiEerlan.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10
Labor Notes

Increasing activities in the agricnl-
tural industries have reduced the total
number of unemployed by almost one
third in Italy,
A workman i'm a French i~ronworks
has been retired on q pension after
continuous employment of So years. 1t
is said that his only complaint against
being pensioned was that when he took
the Job he thought it was 10 be perma-
nent.
Loss of life in the mining industry
has been decreased prop~ortionately 30
ner cent during the period from 1907
to 1922.
In 1907 the loss of life in coal mines
ner 1000 men employed was 4.O1 and
the life loss per 1.0O0,fs o. tons OF coal
mined was CTS. In 1920 the life loss
per 1000 men employed in the industry
was 80 and the life loss per 1000
900 tons of coal mined was $50.
The worlds production of coal in
the first half Of 1920 was greater than
in the corresponding period of 1921.
Total output was about 56S.600,NNN
tons. Continued for Il months, this
rate would yield 1,13T,ooo,o 600 tons.
The number of wage carners in the
textile industries in the United States
exceeds that of every other industrial
group in the country. according TO the
census of 1919. which showed there
was an average of t.e11,S0a wage earn
ers in the 2s,552 textile establishments
The iron and steel industries ran q
close second with an average of 1885
712 wage in the 20, f20 estab-
lishmrntS for that industry.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10
A SUBSIDY FOR
RAILROADS.

THE SUBSIDY idea grows.
1 President Rea of the Pennsyl-
vania system in a letter to the
Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce,
says: eff the government, to Sc
cure adequate transportation, is
willing to subsidize the waterways,
and is also substituting the high
ways, but largely at the expense Of
taxes imposed on the railroads, I
see no reason why it should not
subsidize the railroads, although
personally disbelieving entirely in
the theory of subsidies. The mat
ter in a nutshell is this: Are the
shippers and the public going to
pay the rates necessary under pres
ent economic conditions to secure
adequate and proper transportation
by way of rail2 If not, / do not
believe it can be furnished salts
factorily much longer, and some
other plan must be devised. Mean
| while the industries, the farms, the
mines, and the travelling public
must suffer the cost Of congestion,
delay and inconvenience which the
railroads are working day and
night to prevent"
This argument coming from the
head of the largest railway system
in the east is perfectly logical.
The ship owners say that because
they have to. pay American wages
to their employees they cannot
make any money in furnishing sea
transportation for American goods.
Therefore they say they must have
a subsidy from the taxpayers pock-
cts so they can pay adequate div
idends on the money invested in
their ships. And President Har-
ding and the republican party says,
THAT is so, and we will give to you
IN large enough measure SO that
you can pay 10 per cent dividends"
President Rea can very Justly say
to congress, How about my case?
The government fixed the wages
of my employees at SO high a figure
that I can make no adequate div
idends on the actual replacement
value of my property. Besides
congress passed a law that prac-
tically prohibits me from making
over 6 per cent for dividends. If
congress is ready to add to sea
transport dividends up to 10 per
cent why not treat me the sarne2"
And why not? Surely railroads
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10

rates. There has been solicitation
of business and keen effort to d.
vert traffic from one line to the
other at like rates, but cut rates to
get business has been abolished
among railroads long ago. So has
rebates, which was only a secret
way getting business by cutting
rates, and prohibited by law. We
are not much worried by the elm
nation of competition through
railroad mergers. 1t is only a form
of words and means little.
We are more worried by the
possibility that long established
trade routes may be broken up by
new mergers to the damage of the
public as well as the railroads.
And here we repeat what we have
said before. Their real interests
are the same in this measure.
What hurts the public hurts the
railroads and what hurts the rail-
roads hurts the public in violent
and unwise merging Of interests.
For that reason we are very firm
ly Of the opinion that the merger
which the late James ]. Hill
planned and which was upset by
the supreme court because it tend
ed to destroy competition between
the Northern Pacific, the Great
Northern and the Burlington, a
competition that did not exist when
the merger was attempted and has
never existed since, is really the
most natural and beneficial merger
that the northwestern states could
have. This, however, leaves the
Milwaukee system out in the cold.
The Milwaukee people have had
little to say about the merger pro-
posals. We do not know what
their wishes are. We guess they
would be glad to be merged with
any strong financial road, as their
territory does not produce a rev.
enue adequate to pay any fair in
terest on the money invested. And
for the same reason the stronger
financial roads are not anxious to
take them over. The Great North
ern would rather see the Northern
Pacific father them in cas- they
have to be included in the north
western pooling system, and the
Northern Pacific would rather
have the Great Northern take a
paternal charge of them and both
of them would rather some other
road outside the Hill system got
the Milwaukee.
However the merger is settled,
we are of the opinion that public
interest in Montana will best be
served by a merger of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific
with the Burlington and its subsl-
diary connection serving both rail-
roads as it now does.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10
Sees Hope for u. S,
Dry Laws in Record
of Kansas Fight

In Kansas for more than 80 years
after Nav 1. 1881. the prohibition
question was the one great political:
social. business and moral issue OF
more than 100000 people, living IN
the geographical center Of q nation.
isolated by more than LOCO miles
from any other state having a similar
law, ridiculed by q powerful national
press. by financial and political or
carnations. says DIR. Charles II. Shell
don in the Christian Herald.
It is Of course true that during the
entire IL years of Kansas prohibition
there have been many and brutal vio-
Iations of the law. But all the law
lessness and disorder and deceit and
trouble of various sorts under an i'm
perfectly obeyed prohibition law were
not a drop In Noah's flood compared
with the same things intensified which
Kansas had endured under the saloon.
In other words, prohibition at its
worst was tremendously better than
the saloon at its best, and the foes Of
prohibition need to have the fact ham
mered into their skulls with Il bu1g
starter.
The history of Kansas in its fight
with the liquor interests is being re-
produced in the national conflict al
most step by step. The difference
consists in the tremendous advantage
that Uncle Sam has over the single
state that stood for so many years
alone. But the evasions, the home
brew, the illicit sales, the lawlessness
of the highbrow and the lowbrow ele-
ment in hatred OF the law, the cry of
personal liberty, the exaggerated thirst
that the law breakers would have us
believe 100000 people have, the
apathy or direct sympathy with law
leSsness that certain graf dailieS
still express-haye we not seen all
that in the history Of Kansas. and all
of it intensified by the combined. at
tack of forces that are NJ longer in
political or social power? Yea. verify.
And. if alone. handicapped, sur
rounded. deluged with whisky and beer
from every quarter of her boundaries.
betrayed by her own sworn public of
ficials. and smitten by the very forces
Of civilization that should have rallied
to her support. Kansas fought and
won. how much more now. with all
that as past history, is the hope and
faith that the United States shall drive
this common enemy of the church and
home and business into the sea. so far
beyond the three mile limit that not
ven q wireless can get her last call
for help.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10

The number Of female cooks in the
United States decreased from 333.i36
in 1910 to 26S,61S in 1920.
In 1910 there were 50. T9S wait
resses. and in 1920 the number had in
creased to 116,92l.
Twelve women held jobs as tele-
phone and telegraph linemen in 1920.
that being an increase of SIX over 1910,
Accidents. illness, etc, lose to in
dustrv every year in the United States
about 252, 600, 900 working days by A.
100000 men and ome ~gainfully EN-
ployed.
The employment of children between
the ages Of 10 and - years is decreas-
ing in every section Of the country.
Practically all the newspapers in
Switzerland have suspended publication
owing to the suspension Of work by
printers.
The latest census figures show that
there are more than 10000 female tele-
graph operators employed in the
United States.
The percentage OF women in clerical
nositions increased from 10 in 1910 to
16.7 in 1920.
The automotive industry today is the
largest among America manufactures.
It Is bigger than oil, meat. lumber and
iron and steel.
A form of punicc stone has been
discovered in Japan which can he used
in concrete for boat building, making
concrete AZ strong. hut 60 per cent
lighter than the ordinary kind.
The number of female persons 10
Years of age and over engaged in gain
mi occupations in this country rose
from 2,647, 157 in 1880 TO S,54o,311 in
1920.
Trades Union congress has fallen off
100000 since last year,
The public employment bureaus OF
California filled 2a,oS6 jobs during the
month Of October, "A 100 per cent IN
crease over October, 1921.
Engineers in most Ct the federal
buildings in Washington work seven
DAYS Il week.
The cost of living among wage earn
ers' families increased ! per cent be
tween September Is and October 10,
according to figures collected by the
national industrial conference board.
Workers in iron and steel mills in
October earned 5 per g more per
CAPITA than III September.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10

tempts OF get the senate committed to
the change.
"IJnder the existing plan, evolved by
the trainers of the federal constitution
and amended in important respects a
few years afterward, each state has It's
saw in the choice of president and
vice president. BY that process d
candidate who does not poll a ma
iority in the nations vote can become
president. Under the change, Mon
tana, for instance, really would nave
much less influence than it now has
in the election-its voting population
is comparatively small. Apparently
the present agitation is prompted by
the theory that under the direct proc
ess there would be more opportunity
to get independent candidates into the
running"
The Chouteau County Independent
lind. rep.) would like to see candl-
dates for president nominated in direct
primary as we'll as elected by direct
vote. The Independent says:
LET us have a national direct pri-
mary. It is time the American people
and not a handful Of American poiti-
clans picked and elected the presidents
of the United States. Senator Norris
has introduced a. bill for the abolition
Of the electoral college, but If this
great reform is to become effective, the
Nebraska senator must have the solid
support of the people. This is one time
when every man and wonan OF voting
age should write letters to their sena-
tors and congressman urging them TO
restore to Americans their right of
franchise by supporting the Norris bill.
The electoral college stands as
nothing but the symbol of defiance Of
every principle of democracy: indeed,
the whole world has wondered how such
an archaic institution has been t%olerat-
ed in q country supposed TO have gov
eminent by majority.
1.-THE proposal for direct election
needs no further brief than Brecken-
ridge got only l. electoral votes to -
for the K%entuckian.
"Since then the election of minority
presidents has become notorious, and
the fact that the nominees are chosen
BY the bosses and that the people have
little voice in the choice of their presl-
dent. has been q standing indictment
of the vi~rility OF the people themselves
who have supinely permitted the con
dition to exist.
The contention that the day has
passed when the electoral college dare
fly in defiance of the peoples vote IS
beside the issue. Even an honest vote
is not representative, and the fact is
that open disregard of the public will
remains possible.
THE world war has brought to the
United States more than n awaken
ing. perhaps the most notable Il reall-
cation that the American people must
take the government of their own
country into their own hands, and by
that is meant that the sixty millions
of Americans resident in the small
towns and on the farms arc the bal
ance of power, and should not be
sauelched at the behest of interests in
the cities, by interests that have 20
litical bosses hamstrung and obedient
to the crack of the whip.
Country America can and must die
tate the presidency of the United
States. As a start to our political
renaissance. the sooner we throw the
electoral college into the discard the
better
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10

! Ten million men and women have
signed Il petition asking congress to
amend the constitution 10 provide
greater protection for the child
workers.
The total wages paid by textile estab-
which is considerable below the total
lishments in 1919 was St,4S2, 1926, $50,
wages paid by the iron and steel es-
adjustments. which amounted to s.
1913, 1903, 301.
One out of three bales OF cotton
consumed in the United States goes
into automobile tires. While four out
of every five pounds Of rubber also
goes into tires.
The bank which New York state and
city labor intends to establish will
attempt TO favor loans for the build
ing of factories. development of bust
ness and the building of homes for
workers.
Some other industries in which per
capita earnings rose in October We're
brick and WOODEN manufacturers, i per
cent; lumber. slightly more than = per
cent; silk, > per cent; leather, more
than & per cent; automobiles. nearly 10
per cent: tobacco. fn.4 per cent, and
flour milling. 1873 per cent.
Per capita earnings of workers in the
United States were higher in nine basic
Industries in October than in the pre-
ceding month.
A wage increase of II per cent for
cutters and 10 per cent for makers has
been granted glove workers by the
Associated Glove Manufacturers of
New York state.
Employees Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road are buying stock Of the company
on the installment plan. and only re-
Gently nearly 1900 shares have been
purchased for their account,
The Wisconsin unemployment insur-
ance bill is modelled Upon the Wisconsin
workmen's compensation insurance act.
1t provides that all employers in Wis
consin shall insure their workers
against unemployment. Insurance will
be provided at cost and will be admin
istered through a mutual insurance
company. Workers who are unem-
ployed through nc fault of their own
are to receive 81 a day for a period of
not more than ID weeks. The plan will
be supervised by the industrial COM
mission.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-10
PEOPLE HAVE SOME RIGHTS

Now that the legislature is about
to meet in Helena, there seems TO exist
considerable doubt as to who owns the
membership. 1t was heralded from
Helena some weeks ago that Dixon
really controlled" the men elected, and
it was claimed as a grand yindication
Of the miserable failure in the state
government under his direction. Now
that the time is near for action. the
Dixon forces are beginning to hedge
and are in some doubt as to who really
owns the Legislative assembly. 1t is to
be hoped that the people Of Montana
have some rights and claims upon the
members, and that some real. honest
70 God reforms may be put over
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