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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
u S. RAILWAY LABOR BOARD MAKES
PAY REDUCTION ON RAIL WAY WORKERS

not. ard time and onc,half will be
given thereafter.
Formerly the firemen and oilers. all
of whom work around railroad shops.
we're paid time and one-half after
eight hours.
Sundays and holidays will be paid
for at the prorata rate, a minimum of
three hours pay being made for two
hours work or less. Monthly rated
employees wages are to be adjusted
to eliminate the old-time and one-half
provisions.
Ten rules regarding discipline griev-
ances, discrimination against commit
teemen and similar matters were re-
manded to the employees and the roads
for further negotiation. The boards
new rules supplant the national agree
ment made during federal control
which has been in effect since Jan
16, 1920.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23

Chicago, Feb 23.-Another pay
slash, this time hitting 10000 railroad
firemen and oilers. was made by the
United States Railroad Labor board
today when it announced rules. effec-
tive March l, eliminating extra pay
until after the tenth hour and setting
up split trick" of eight hours within
a spread of twelve without any over.
time pay.
Following several other decisions
virtually restoring the ten-hour day
for railroad workers, the board today
authorized the roads to pay only pro
rata wages after the regular eight
hours which the board retained in
principle as constituting a days work.
Time and one-half will be paid after
ten hours. In the case of the split
trick straight time will be paid for
the first ten hours work, whether in
cluded in the twelve hour spread or
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
JOHN D. HOLDING OUT

Daytona, Fla, Feb. 23-John D.
Rockefeller, Sr.. grandfather of l6-
year-old Mathilda Mccormick, whose
engagement to Max Oser, Swiss rid
ing academy proprietor, has been an
nounced by members of the McCor-
mick family. has not given his con-
sent to the match, according to close
friends here of Mr.. Rockefeller. Mr..
Rockefeller is now at the Easements,
his winter home at Ormond Beach,
near here.
Daytona, Fla. Feb. 23.-Harold F .
Mccormick, recently divorced by Mr..
Rockefeller's daughter, Miss Mathilda
Mccormick, will visit Mr.. Rockefeller
at Ormond within theanear future to
discuss the proposed marriage, it was
said today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
CAPTAIN OF VESSEL COMMITS
SUICIDE. DRIFTS TILL RESCUED

Key West, Feb. 23.-J. N. Schultz,
captain of the four-masted British
schooner, Lewis Brothers, on voyage
from Mobile to Spain, shot himself to
death Tuesday morning while the yes
sci was off the southeast coast OF
Florida. With no member of the crew
competent to navigate the vessel, the
schooner drifted aimlessly until spok
en- by the tank steamship Sanin Sun
The tanker put one of its officers, H
Schoo, aboard the schooner and Schoo
brought the vessel into Key West. Nc
reason was given for the suicide.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
Last Minute Briefs
RlcKARp INDICTED

New York, Feb. 23.-Tex Rickard,
boxing promoter, today was indicted
twice by supreme court grand jury
on charges of abductne Anna Hess
and Nellie Gasko, young school girls,
and his bail was raised from $4,000
to $4,000, the lower amount was fixed
few days ago when Rickard was
charged with criminal assault upon
two other girls, both is years old.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
REAL ESTATE TRANSFER

BY a real estate transfer recently
made, the beautiful bearing grove of
+. J. Rifel, formerly of Iowa, has be-
come the property of F. A. Biss2tt,
shop foreman of the Atlantic Coast
Line. Mr.. Rifel taking as part payment
Mr.. Bissett's grove and home in Lake.
land. The deal was made through the
office Of the Prudential Realty Gem
pany.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
GOVERNMENT MAKES sTATMENr

Jackson, Miss, Feb. 23.-GoV. Lee
Russell, in special message 10 the
legislature today. charged the Old
Line Fire Insurance Company, which
withdrew from she state last year be-
cause of antitrust legislation, with
fostering the S1oc,o0o seduction suit
filed against him by Miss Frances
Birkenhead, his former stenographer.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
EXTENSION OF TIME GRANTED

Washington, Feb. ga general ex.
tension of time for the filing Of in
come tax re urns was granted corpor-
ations today by Internal Revenue OF.
ficer Blair.
Corporations are given up to June
IS under new treasury decision for
completing returns Of income for the
year 1921, the fiscal year ended Jan.
81, 1922, and the fiscal year ending
Feb. %, 1922.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
HARD|NG'S ADVICE IS
SOUGHT BY SENATORS

Washington, Feb. 23.-Advice of
President Harding as to acceptance of
reservations to the four power pact
treaty was sought at conference with
the executive today by Senators
Lodge of Massachusetts, and New of
Indiana, the former chairman and the
latter a leading Republican member
of the foreign relations committee.
The conferences generally were re-
garded as having an important bear
ing on the progress of the Pacific pact
toward Senate ratification, action of
the foreign relations committee hav-
ing been held up pending ascertain
ment of the presidents views
Foremost among the proposed res
ervations discussed by the two sena-
tors was that of Senator Brandgee,
Republican, Connecticut, providing
that every adjustment reached under
the treaty shall be subject to the re-
view of congress. This has been op-
posed in committee by the Indiana
senator while Chairman Lodge has not
committed himself Mr. New reiterat-
ed his opposition again today after
seeing Mr.. Harding but gave no indi-
cation of the presidents views.
Washington, Feb. 23.-The new res
ervation intends as a sub for that pro-
posed several days ago by Senator
Brandgee, republican, Connecticut,
provides that nothing in the treaty
shall be construed as committing the
United States to an exercise of armed
force without the consent of Congress.
After an hours debate which failed
to win over to the new proposal any
of the senators who had supported
the Brandgee resolution. the commit
tee adjourned without action.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
TREATY RESERVATIONS BY
LODGE MEETS OPPOSITION

Washington, Feb. 23.-Modified
blanket reservation to the four-power
pact treaty. laid before the Senate
foreign relations committee today by
Chairman Lodge after a conference
with President Harding met with i'm
mediate opposition from several Re-
publican as well as Democratic com
mittee members.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
LLoYD-eEoReE TO
ACT WITH PoINcARE

London, Feb 23.-(By the Associat-
ed Press. Prime Minister Lloyd
George will meet Premier Poincare Of
France either at Boulogne or Calais
for discussion of questions relating to
the Genoa conference and the pro-
posed Anglo-French pact, 1t was an
nounced today. Mr. Lloyd-George will
leave London Saturday for the meet
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23

Lakeland is constantly waving the
red flag these days. but II is the nag
of the auctioneer and betokens de-
velopment.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-23
THE WEATHER

Local rains tonight and Friday;
cooler Friday and in northwes. por-
ton tonight; fresh southerly winds.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10
TREAT ALL COUNTIES ALIKE

"f it is true" says The Jerseyman which is published
Of Morristown, "that Morris and Middlesex have been picked
10 be plucked for re-assessment, then these two counties
ought to combine their efforts for a revaluation in every
county in the state. There is not a county that can stand
The s%earchlight of equal assessments, so having started the
game it should result in a Round Robin"
The Jerseyman's suggestion is a good one. There is no
reason why Middlesex and Morris counties should be made
the goats in this taxation business. We understand that a
demand has been made on the Middlesex assessors to make
their tax returns with assessments at true value under pen
atty of dismissal. There is not a county in the state where
the assessment is made at true value. We doubt If there is a
property in either Union or Essex county that is assessed at
true value. These are the two counties that have been jump
ing on Middlesex and Morris so why not give them a taste OF
their own medicine.
To assess property at its true value, unless there IS a
decided decrease in the tax rate, would mean a great many
concerns would be taxed out of eXistance. TO single out two
counties for assessmen at true value and let all the rest
alone when it is know that, at best, they are not assessed
at more than sixty-fve to seventy per cent. OF their true
value, is so unjust and beyond all reason that we cannot see
how the State Board of Taxation can take such action with
out including every county in the state. Such a radical
change in policy is not to be jumped at; neither is it some
thing to be put over On one or two counties while all the rest
enjoy their ancient privileges. Truly, it is time for Middle
sex and Morris to call for a show down. .
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10

ications, especially by rail: and the
Fedora government now has under
construction a railroad, which Is de.
signed to open up the country for
both travel and industry. There are
457 miles of this road in operation.
Only SO miles remain to be con-
structed to give this road it's total
trackage of $40 miles.
ALASKA was not taken in to the
Federal domain without much crit
ioism. None of 1t, however, reached
the height of invective with which
Eastern statesmen had condemned
the Oregon territory at an earlier
period, though the later prophets OF
ill have been as deeply COMPOUNDED
as the others. The price paid SEEM
ed entirely out of proportion to the
benefits to be derived; and even
those who were inclined to favor the
project as a means Of demonstrating
good will to Russia for her UNI
swerving friendship during the Civil
war found scanty argument in sup
porting the payment of what then
appeared SO huge a sum. None Of
them could foresee that in a single
year-and that almost within a gem
GRAFTON of the time of purchase
Alaska would yield nearly one thous-
VA PSI SShS uPOh tIS puICidSC
price then paid-for in 1916 the
value of exports of minerals and
merchandise from the Territory
amounted to $66,61S,656.
ut is to Stewards foresight and
persistence that the United States
owns this opulent outpost. The fl
nal diplomatic action which consum-
mated the bargain was as p~recipi-
tous, almost, as that which gave to
us later the title to the Panama
Canal Zonc--for the treaty was
drafted, signed and submitted tt
the senate within but little more
than twelve hours, and the prelimi-
Eary negotiations, including the
time occupied by the then Rus ian
Minister from Washington to st.
T etersburg and return, was not as
many months. By it's terms we took
over an area equal to nearly one
fifth of the whole Of the continental
United States Of today an area which
lay fallow for a full generation after
it came into our hands and whoss
progress in the last twenty years
has been from rugged primitiveness
to bustling modernism in every To-
caIity where wen slight Energy has
been expended. What the next fifty
years of American rule in Alaska
may produce is limited only by the
imagination which the progress of
the last half century may call up
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10
is PERTH AMBoY EASY?
Perth Amboy seems to be an easy mark.

Perth Amboy seems to be an easy mark.
Following the removal of the transportation tax on
January 4, there was a reduction of twenty-five cents a ton
in the price of coal in many places. True, this is not very
much considering the excessive price that the public is pay
ing, but it is a trend in the right direction. Asbury Park got
the benefit of this reduction; so did Elizabeth. Why not
Perth Amboy? Here we are told that instead of a reduction
The price is likely to go up. Why? In other places the bene-
fit derived from the removal of the transportation tax is
passed on to the consumer. Not so in Perth Amboy. Is it
because Perth Amboy is easy?
Early in December the price of gas was reduced by the
cubic feet to 1925. This was done "voluntarily' after the
city of Elizabeth had appealed to the Public Utility Commits
sion to have the price reduced to Sl.10 per 1000. When
The Elizabeth company made this reduction it suggested to
the city authorities that hereafter when it was felt that
things were not as they should be the matter be taken up
with the company direct to see if adjustments could not be
made without going to the bother of a hearing before the
utility commission.
But the Eizabethtown Gaslight Company is controlled
by the same people who control the Perth Amboy Gasight
Company and the Perth Amboy company is, perhaps, the big
gest customer of the Elizabeth concern, much of the gas
used here coming from Elizabeth. The local company must
have benefited from the reduction. Why was not this benefit
passd on to local consumers?
Why should Perth Amboy go on paying the excessive
price Tor gas when the people of Elizabeth who use the same
gas, are getting ii much cheaper? Is sit because Perth Amboy
lis easy?
Isn't it about time to insist that some of the good things
in the way of price reductions in public utilities that are
going on at the present time come TO this city? 1t is up to
somebody to get busy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10
MAKE THE SESSION SHORT

With the converting of the legislature today the states
Jaw mill begins to grind. 1t promises to be a snort session.
however, because there is politics in the wind. Inc
breeze from the campaign next fall is already beginning to
be felt; it is going to blow stronger from day to day. There
is no doubt that everything done in the legislature this year
will be done with the coming political battle always IN MIND
The governors annual message, filled with the usual
recommendations, will be found published in full on anoth-
err page today. AS the governor is being groomed for the
nomination for United States senator this fall, what he has
TO saw will be considered always with that idea in view.
As was to be expected, he asks for the repeal OF the
Van Ness act, making this his first subject for Considerations.
AS his campaign for the United States senate will be based
mainly on his appeal to the ''wets' this subject is necessarily
emphasized. But the Republican majority in the legislature
is not going to play the governors game.
The whole session is going to be a battle OF politics and
If the people derive any benefit they will be lucky. Ihe
best thing about it is the determination to make the session
short.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10
PUBLIC OPINION
SUGGESTED L~FGISLATTON
DI1OR n NEWS:

EDtlOiN ENlNd VS..
In yesterdays issue of your valu-
able paper L notes that there is a
movement afloat TO procure a ON
mission form OF government for
Perth Amboy.
While 1t is not my policy to dwell
on the benefits of a change in the
manner in whicN cur affairs should
be conducted, 1 think that our pres
ent system is not only obsolete. but
rotten and that a change TO the
commission form may be had at any
time that the people desire il.
OF course 1t will be said that we
tried to effect a change on I'VE oc-
casions and failed Correct, But
is that a sufficient reason why we
should abandon all hope? There
We're umcrou reasons why we fail
ed in the past-one of the chief
causes of failure was due to the
claim of politicians that the salary
paid a commissioner was inadequate
to compensate a high class man who
would be called upon to devote all
of his time to the Office of commits
sioner. to which he might be elect
ed. In other words. it would not
pay a decent man to bother with
the job.
Now. our legislature meets next
week. Mr.. Peterson, and you repre-
sent Perth Amboy as we'll as the
state of New Jersey in general. Can
you not introduce and have passed
a bill that will raise the compensa-
ton due a commissioner to a point
sufficiently large to fully meet this
requirement an6 thus make the Of
fee worth seeking?
Again, Mr.. Peterson, we all know
that you are inclined to make good
and call your attention to another
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10

to substantiate from the figures. IL
is true that the discrepancy between
number OF children born n num-
Der living is slightly larger among
Iaborers, stevedCres and loom nxers
than it is among doctors. lawyers
and Judges, but the difference Is not
large. ~SteveGores average 3.S chill
dren horn and 80 children living.
Lawyers average "a children porn
and 2.2 children living. The child
of a lawyer has only a little better
chance to survive than the child OF
a stevedore, according to this.
1t is only in the country that a
consistently higher rate of increase
is found. Farmers, farm workmen
and tarm laborers AVE S.4, 3.2 ana
3 children living on an average per
family, respectively. Here is a sllgnt
increase, which doubtless accounts
in part for the movement from the
farms toward the city.
In general, the picture which tins
tabulation draws is that of a coun-
try where competition is hard in all
| o%ccurations and reproduction there
fore naturally SLOW. 1t is a country
getting OVER it's age of pioneer ex-
p~ansivenes-, reaching the point when
it's population, if let alone, would
become relatively stable. But this
population is being constantly in
creased from without by the influx
from countries where the standard
of living is lower.
The immigration we were getting
so years ago was enc we needed
There was abundant room for the
immigrant then to ettain to the Am
erican standard of living. There is
no real room for the hordes who are
coming now-no land, no jobs. They
can find places only by displacing,
by underseVing. someone else.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10
HASKIN TELLS OF PROLIFIC
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

it we're common, some of these aver
ages would Inevitably be higher.
Far example, the largest wage
earning class in the cities is that OIL
factory workers. In the factories you
find most of those immigrant fam
lilies are reputed to be so large. This
tapulation lists about 40 different
| occupations in manufacturing and
mechanical Industries. The highest
average number of children living
per family is found among furnace
men. smeltermen, heaters n pour
ers, who perspire % maintain an ave-
rage of "a children per famlly.
Electricians andtengravers are FOUND
to tie the least prolific men in the
manufacturing industries, averaging
only FL children living per family.
The great majority of the types OF
workers in factories have less than
three children living on an average.
Comparing these with the profess
| SIGNALS we find that clergymen are
| the only professional class having an
average of three living children.
Architects, artists and sculptors have
two. Musicians, photographers, doc
tors, teachers and writers are in the
same class with az average or but
FL children per family. Actors,
chemists, dentists, inventors and en-
gineers all average slightly less than
two living children per family.
Thus it would seem that the diff
ference in size of families between
wage workers and professionals IS
not nearly as large as has been as
sumed. ana that families of more
than three or -four children must be
rare everywhere i'll the United States.
1t is also commonly asserted that
among working people many more
children are born to die than among
the well-tr-do, but this is also hard
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The
United States really is going dry!
Federal Prohibition Commissioner
Roy A. Haynes says so.
He admir- prohibition isn't 100 per
cen. efficient right now. But he
says enforcement is improving and
that a real dry era is ahead.
This is 6. new law" Haynes says.
None of us expected 100 per cent
enforcement at the start. Can you
recall 100 pc. cent enforcement of
any law, no matter how long it had
been operative
Haynes branded reports of the
breakdown of prohibition enforce
ment as propaganda.
"The amount of liquor imported
into this country has been blazed in
capital letters" Haynes said.
The facts show that the total
known importation last year was
one-half of one Pc cen of the total
consumption of liquor in America
the year before prohibition went into
effect.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-10
u. S. DRY-SOMETIME

1.-THE propaganda tells you prohi-
bition is responsible for an increase
in crime.
but the crime wave is world
widei Thu American phase is MY
q reflex.
Arrests for drunkenness have de-
creased 60 per cent in America I'M
der prohibition. Convictions Tor
drunkenness in wet England increas-
ed in about the same proportion last
year. ,
Liquor Withdrawals in the United
States in October, 1921, were only
so per cent of Withdrawals for the
same period in 1920.
. "Whiskey Withdrawals by whole
ealers in New York in September
and October. 1921, totaled less than
4 per cent of the Withdrawals for
June and July, 1921.
with the fedora! prohibition en-
forcement department fully organ
lied and every true American citi-
zen back cf us, prohibition will be
just as successful as other laws that
now are operating"