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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-04

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-04
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-04

The North Topeka branch of the W. c
I. U. will meet Wednesday afternoon a
the home of Mrs. G. L. Cambridge. 102
jackson street. Arrangements for the ]
l.. of North Topeka will be made and al
members are asked to be present.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Open Meeting of LoneIm
 Local Union No. 4096

There will be an open meeting of Lonelm Local Union No. 4O96 on Friday night, April Eth. 1922 following the first days session of the County Convention which will be held at I.onelm. April 2 and 8th 1922.
 Following is the program of open meeting:
 l. Welcome Address by J., l.. Mcclellan. 2. Response by Roy Lancaster. 5. Music. i. Declama- tiOn. Earl Hunter. 5. Music.
 In connection with the above there will be some good speakers present who will address the peo- pie on uniOnism.
 By Order of Committee.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
It Pays to Advertise

A few days ago. people who were interested in HixOn Ceme- tery decided to have a cleanup day and put the place in order for their annual decoration day, and they began by inserting notices in the Ozark papers. inviting neighbors and friends to turn out last Friday spend the day there at work.
 Friday was a very disagreeable day, cool and stormy, raining good part of this day but the crowd was there, thirty or forty, and the work was well carried on and easily finished up Monday morning.
 For several weeks the students of the High School have been preparing for a debate with the Fort Smith High School students and last Friday evening the visit ing students arrived and it was whispered around that there would be debate at the Court House, even the popular way of making announcements at church services. had been omitted. A select few gathered in the Court room. some came to see why the lights were on in the upper room and after long, patient waiting the debate began. The subject was one of the very best for de- batting The speakers were at their best and regardless of which side won it was well worth a dol lar to hear these fine arguments. The people of Ozark are the losers by not hearing them. Whose fault was it that the court room was not filled to capacity?
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Community Singing

The community singing Sun- day afternoon April the second was a very enjoyable affair. There was a large crowd in at tendance, quite a bunch coming up from Altns and Denning. The program consisted of songs; a very interesting little musical reading given. Two splendid Guitar solos by Miss Floy Warn CT, which was a real treat: vocal solo by Mrs. Dupriest: three vocal quartets given by the Altus male quartet; a selection of poems by Mrs. Smith and a very interesting talk by Dr. Douglass.
 The Altus quartet have prom ised to come again. We hope they will be back next Sunday.
 Remember the time is 3:30 o'clock, the place is the Baptist Church.
 A good program is being prepared.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Packages From the North

Mrs. Anna Bill had a letter sometime last week from her daughter, Mrs. Ward Rice, of Milwaukee. saying that she was very busy getting two packages off to Ozark. Ark. She said it was costing a lot of money to send them as they were too large to go by parcel post and were perishable and could not go by freight. and would be sent first class. They would be tagged and labeled red and brown but that they were not moOnshine. They arrived Monday afternoon. Miss Louella Bill Rice and little daughter. Margaret.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Mene, Meme. tekel, Upharsin.
Psalm With Variations

Harding is now my shepherd; and l am in want. He maketh to lie down on the park benches; he leadeth me besides the free soup houses. H restoreth my doubt in the Republican party; he leadeth me in the paths of de. struction for his party's sake. Yea. though l walk through the valley of the shadow of starva. tion. l do not fear evil for thou art against me. thy policies and the profteers they frighten me. Thou preparest a reduction in wages before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anointest my income with taxes; my expenses runneth over my income. Surely. prOverty and unemployment will follow me all the days of this normalcy administration, and l will dwell in a rented house for. ever. FIX.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
MCllrOy Wins MayoraIty
 By Big Majority

J. C. McIlroy won the race for mayor today in another of Ozark's 8 hotly contested municipal elec- tion by majority of 56 over his opponent, Elsey Harris, who was running for reelection. McIlroy received 151 votes and Harris 95.
 S.J. Forest was elected Record CT by majority of 60 over Carl Strong.
 The Aldermen and their re- spective vote are:
 J. c. Wakefield, 172; Farris Greer. 229; F. l. GOsnell, l42; Ben Burns. 152; Dr. kennon, 145.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Sulphur Springs
Health pretty good. Raining right along.

Health pretty good.
 Raining right along.
 Miss Lizzie Matt Riggs and Mir. Champe Taff visited Miss Nellie Barham Sunday.
 Miss Eva Riggs visited Miss Stella Barham Saturday night. Miss Mary Willis spent Sunday evening Mrs. Corn Carpenter. Mir. John Willis and Mir. Jeff White took supper with Mrs. Rowe Saturday night.
 Misses Myrtle. Jessie and Jet tie Harris visited Mrs. Linton Findley Sunday.
 Mr. Hoyt Carpenter spent Sat urday night and Sunday with Mir. Lester Carpenter.
 Miss Stella Barham and Miss
  Eva Riggs said they had a good time Sunday. Did you kids? Ho. hO!
 Mir. K. M. Barham visited his mother. Mrs. w. A. Barham, Sunday.
 Miss Mary Willis spent Sun day evening with Misses Nellie and Stella Barham.
 The dance at Mir. and Mrs. Harland Woods Saturday night was fine. Everybody reported a nice time.
 MT. John Willis spent Satur- day night with Ernest White at .JethrO.
 Misses Nellie and Stella Bar ham spent Monday with Miss Mary Willis.
 Pap's Baby Girl.
The spectator., 1922-04-04

try. Moreover. we boast. and justly. that this is the richest country on earth.
 And vet the miners, who form the very foundation of our nati- onal prosperity, are blamed for demanding more than a brute existence.
 Are beans and bacon and a shack to live in all that the men are entitled to who daily risk their lives in producing the sub stance which turns the wheels of industry?
 We claim first right to life. liberty and happiness and we base this claim on service rend- cred to society.
 We claim we have a right to demand that our children be reared in healthy and happy surroundings.
 We claim we are entitled to at least some of the cherished ac- quisition of our race, to a little art. music and literature.
 We refuse to be degraded to beasts of burden.
 We decline to accept mere brute existence as the reward of our labor.
 We smelt your iron and forge your steel. We drive your en- zines and your motors. We warm your homes and brighten your nights with the frozen sum- shine of our toil.
 On our pended backs we bear your civilization and from this civilization we claim our share.
 Oscar Ameringer.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Constituted New Church.

Elder w. A. Barham went to Bokoshe, Oklahoma, last week, where he was called to constitute a new Primitive Baptist Church near there. He preached for them Saturday and Sunday. re- turning home Monday. There were fifteen constituted mem- bers and five joined, giving them twenty members to begin with.
 They named the church Lone Dove"
The spectator., 1922-04-04
North Franklin County
 Convention F. E. and (. U

The North Franklin County Convention of the Farmers Un- ion will meet at Lonelm Friday and Saturday, April z and s, 1922. All local unions are urged to send full delegations as some inn portant business will come before this meeting.
 J. w. Arbaugh. Pres. A. A. Williams. Sec'y.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Fire at Hunt Town

Nath JOhnson's big barn and contents were destroyed by fire after midnight Saturday night. Three mules. three calves. ore hale of cotton, a new wagon. two good saddles. all his corn. hay and cotton seed were burned. also one mare was badly burned. He considers his loss. at a low esti- mate $l00. The origin of the lire is not known. Mir. Johnson is unable to account for it.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Men And Coal

HIS IS tHe age or Steel ana iron. of engines, motors and m achines. And they are the children of coal. Hence coal is the rock foundation of modern civilization.
 Coal is the black slave upon which is reared the supremacy of the white race.
 People without coal have no place in the sun.
 Coal is the sun-born gift of nature.
 Millions of years before con- ceited man walked the earth, coal grew in the form of ferns and trees in swamps and plains. Thousands of generations of plants lived and died to fill the peat bogs which time and pres- sure wrought into coal.
 Coal is force, light and heat hidden and buried aeons ago awaiting the touch of toiling hands to spring to life again.
 Coal is frozen sunshine.
 Would men say to other men: Take the sun that we may buy 1t back from you ray by ray"?
 They surely would not do such foolish act. Yet men have turn ed the coal fields of this nation to other men who have no other object in life than to produce coal as cheap as possible. sell it as high as possible and pocket the difference.
 Thus coal, the life giving force of our industrial age, has be- come the object of gambling, speculation and exploitation and men and nature are robbed for the sake of private gain.
 We men, who burrow in the earth for black diamonds are not responsible for the laws or customs which allow few to own and control the coal supply of this country.
 Whatever inconvenience or hardships the public may suffer from this system can not be laid at our door.
 Nevertheless. a persistent effort is made in the press to make the coal miners responsible for the high price of coal.
 Here in Illinois, for instance. the miners are accused of draw. ing an average wage of nearly Sl0UO per year.
 We'll. let us suppose that this IS true and that the coal miners are actually being paid at the rate of $500 per year. What kind of living will $500 purch- ase If stretched over 365 days? How much life. culture and civilization may be bought by a family of five with four dollars per day?
 Man for man. the America coal miner produces twice as much
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Mesdames J. 5. Hayes
 And Leila Davis Entertain

Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Haynes gave a delightful party at her home. The parlors were splendidly appointed with violets and ferns. The same color scheme was carried out in the delicate and delicious refesh. ments. In the evening another group of friends were entertain ed with five hundred, until a late hour when most platable re- freshment course was served.
 The honor guest was Mrs. Lin Johnston of Little Rock.
 The young son of Mrs. Walter Mcllroy dislocated both sides of his jawbone several days ago when he was trying to loosen some part of a dipper handle with his teeth. The people of Cass made a donation to the value of $97. % to have him treated and cared for. Richard Tompkins very generously paid twenty-five dollars to a Doctor from Ozark which was not included in the ninety-seven dollars. This is certainly commendable in the pco- pie of that vicinity. What does the Book say is true religion. ''To visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction.
The spectator., 1922-04-04

See w. l.. Haskew for your fertilizer. We take subscriptions for the Arkansas Gazette.
 Burns Brothers.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
Ladies Ticket Defeated

The Ladies ticket at Altus was defeated by a majority of about two to one.
The spectator., 1922-04-04
A Woman G0v-
 ernor And Why

MISS Allce Lorraine Daly who is Nonpartisan Leagu e's nominee for Governor is likened to modern Joan of Arc. Her nom- ination is equivalent to election.
 When asked to tell something of her life story. Miss Daly re- sponded readily:
 The experiences that have shaped my life have been the needs and sorrows of other peo- pie. Those incidents stands out like flaming torches against a midnight sky. Each has been q spiritual crisis in my fife the execution of Sir Roger Easement; Me mobbing of a pacifst in his home town, which was also my town, after he had served his sentence in the penitentiary; the fact that 1 witnessed the farmers of county excluded from a hall that they had engaged for a meeting because the local authori- ties had learned, after renting the hall, that the farmers intend ed to hold a Nonpartisan League meeting. These experiences brought home to me with terrific force the realization that l was teaching these farmers sons and daughters, not living truth. but falsehoOd, when l taught them the first Amendment to the Con- stitution. The cry of under nourished children echoing through unkempt day coaches. as they numbered slowly over South Dakota prairies; the knowledge that mothers. already too heavily burdened with care. responsibili- ty and endless work, must go down into the shadow of the Val ley of Death, alone, miles from any medical aid. in iorder that our state, needless of their needs. might be enriched by the coming of new life; the dearth of good homes among our workers: the lack of educational opportunities for our rural children; the insist ent and unanswered appeal of our hungry-minded. hungry-hearted women on the farms an appeal that always brought to my mind
 flashing memories of Bastien Le Pages painting, The Noon Hour"; all these constitute the ray that has fallen before my eyes and to which ray l feel called upon to testify.
 My campaign will not be a campaign against anyone. It will be campaign against condi- tions, against the weaknesses of our present, outworn, economic system. and for a more modern system of finance, credit, public control and ownership. a system that will lift from the masses of our people the burdens of mort- gages, taxes and overcoming payments of interest that keep them Tn state of servitude.
 Il feel that the greatest need of our nation today is able, fear less. spiritual leadership in gover- mental affairs. We need men and women who see life sanely and see it whole, men and women who have plumbed the depths of human suffering and have been
 born again. Such leaders will clarify our sense of values, will shatter to pieces the hungry materialism of our era, and will illuminate it with such a light as has never been seen on sea or land. This light will reaffirm in our minds the old truth that this era has travestied: that not property rights but human rights are the most precious concern of 2 wise people.
 We must cultivate in the rising gene eration an attitude
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Glasses Are Compared.

The following circular letter was dis
tributed generally in Kansas City and
other Western cities In April and May
Working men and women every
where, you see the capitalistic class
standing as one man, while the work
ing class is divided and seemingly
powerless to protect itself. The capi-
talist class is drunk with its success
against the steel workers and it's more
recent success against the packing
house workers, whom 1t has forced
back into conditions worse than chat
tel slavery, and also it has now forced
the coal miners to strike in the face
of q critical situation by refusing to
deal with their union. Only by soli-
darity of the entire working class can
we hope to cope with the situation.
Let our slogan henceforth be UNITY
In unity there is strength.
"You are hereby extended an invita-
ton to send three delegates to joint
conference to be held April II for the
purpose of drawing up plans for a
giant mass meeting.
Cordially yours,
workers PARTY OF AMERICA,
Central Executive Committee"
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Defense of Massacre.

The Workers Challenge, organ OF the
Minority of the Communist Party of
America and OF the Toilers OF Amer
lea, wrote vigorous editorial on the
Herrin tragedy.
Mad with blood lust" it declares,
1.-The Unsuitable jaclkal pack of capital
ism howls for the lives of the men of
Herrin who had the courage to defend
themselves against an invading horde
of hired degenerates who had terror
ized the whole community with their
vile insults hurled at the wives ahd
daughters of the miners and who had
assaulted citizens of the entire coun-
tryside, finally resorting to deliberate
murder of two unarmed miners.
1.-THE National Coal Association, Illi-
nois Industrial Council and other
agencies of predatory capitalism, ably
supported by the anvil chorus of pen
prostitutes on the capitalist press. de-
mand death for the union miners of
Herrin.
"The working class of the nation is
watching Herrin and will see that the
miners are defended in any assault
made against them by any minions of
capitalism who may attempt TO legally
lynch them. They fought n worthy
struggle and were victorious, and we
glory in their victory"
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Manifestoes Distributed.

Appeals for united front and dras-
tic action We're kept up. Millions of
copies of a manifesto demanding
Workers. Unite for the Struggle
Against the Bosses," were distributed
In industrial centers throughout the
United States.
on May % q circular entitled az
Dollar to Build the United Front" ap-
pealed for funds. It read:
"The working people of the United
States arc fighting against the great
est drive TO decrease wages. increase
hours and to smash the unions in the
history OF the country. For more than
q year the capitalists have attacked
ail along the line. They selected the
time when there were millions of un-
employed upon the streets because Of
the breakdown of their system of pro-
duction as a result of the forces let
loose by the war
The New York herald., 1922-12-11

partisan League leaders were arriving
here tonight for the opening tomorrow
morning Of two day session Of the
second conference for progressive po-
litical action, at which labor and the
farmers will map out future political
action.
meeting OF the executive committee
OF the conference was held here this
afternoon at which the procedure for
the conference was decided. William
II. Johnston. president OF the Tnterna-
tional Machinists Union and presidenr
OF the conference, announced at the close
of the session that II had been decided
among the leaders to take no action
relative TO the formation of third
party AZ this time, Delegates among the
rank and file arriving tonight, however.
SEEMED disposed 70 favor third party
movement and it was predicted that the
discussion OF this subject might be one
of the features of the conference.
President Johnston declared that the
main purpose OF the meeting was TO
set up active organizations in all States
for the participation by progressive
voters IN primaries"
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
DEBATE ON CAPITALISM
PROVES LIVELY CLASH
Charge of Prejudice PreUents
Vote by Audience.

a large audience heard Herbert
Adams Gibbons, historian and war cor
respondent, and Scott Nearing formerly
assistant professor of economies at the
University of Pennsylvania, debate the
question, 'Can Every Man Earn n LiV
ing Under Capitalism" at the Brook
lyn Academy of Music yesterday after
noon. the former taking the affirmative.
II don't think that either has proved
his case" remarked Don G. SeitZ, the
referee.
Upon motion Of Harry Cooper. presi-
dent Of the Brooklyn Philosophical
Society, the audience refrained from Sc
lecting the winner
Mr. Gibbons conrended that the peo-
pie of the world were never better off
than now and that opportunity never
before was 50 great. This is due 20 the
capitalistic regime. he argued
Alr. Nearing dcfiued earning a lv-
ing" as the Opportunity to earn an
amount which is adequate to maintain
physical health and social decency." II
could easily demonstrate to you he
said that there are people in America
who are not earning a living"
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Revolutionary Press's Advice.

The Vilnis. Lithuanian Communist
semi-weeldy of Chicago, in it's issue of
July 4. referring to the Workers Party
proclamation on the Herrin outbreak.
said:
'The Workers Party appeals to all
the proletariat of the country TO has
ten to the miners help. 1t warns the
wage slave against believing what the
capitalist press has to say on that ac-
count, advising them to read their
own revolutionary press and take the
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Must Build United Front.

Workers of the United States: The
Workers Party Of America calls UPON
you to unite for the struggle against
the bosses. The armed Struggle at
Herrin shows how bitter the struggle
against the capitalist drive to reduce
wages and smash the unions is grow
ing. To win in that struggle we must
build a united front of labor.
The miners must be supported by
the whole working class by all the
power the working class can muster.
"WoRNERs! Rally to the support Of
the miners.
BEAT Down THE CAPITALIST ATTACK.
BUILD THE UNITED FRONT OF LABOR.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
British Workers Condemned.

The Workers Party Of America is
sued the following press statement in
Chicago during the coal strike:
I'VE condemn British workers for
becoming more active while Americans
are striking. Operators will not meet
United Mine Workers until thousands
of tons OF coal now in storage are
consumed. The price OF coal has be-
gun to climb and will continue sky
ward as the press reminds the public
of the coal shortage.
I'm the Collinsville region "a series
Of monster mass meetings have been
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Life and Death Struggle.

'"The attack of the capitalists is not
yet over. At the present time a half
million miners and a hundred thou
sand textile workers are fighting a life
and death struggle against the cap
italists. Millions OF unemployed are
still upon tho streets and their fam
Ties are suffering the deprivations and
poverty which unemployment brings.
THE only way the capitalist ofrense
can be met and beaten is by a united
front. We must unite the workers of
the United States for the struggle
against the capitalists.
"You viii help build the united front
by contributing dollar to the United
Front campaign fund. Act quickly so
that the work can 20 on. VIII you
give "A dollar for this work."
In spite of the internal rows that
threatened its very existence the
Workers Party of America was active
in strike centers.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
Proclamation of the Party.

a proclamation of the Workers
Party distributed throughout the
United States reads:
AT Herrin, Illinois, striking miners
Nave been engaged in an armed strug-
glewith the gunmen and scabs in the
employ of the bosses.
This breaking out OF the class
struggle into open force has given the
capitalist newspapers the opportunity
to pour forth their wrath upon the
heads of the miners. With one voice
these lying tools of the bosses are de-
nouncing the miners and their union.
The bosses see in this armed de-
fense of the miners against the arme d
attack of the gunmen of the employer
the opportunity to break the strike.
They hope to use the fact that blood
has been shed and scabs and gunmen
have lost their lives to create that
sentiment among the people OF the
country which will enable them to
throw all their forces against the
miners.
The New York herald., 1922-12-11
United Toilers' Bulletin.

The United Toilers of America, a
Communist organization, about the
10th of July issued this railroad strike
bulletin in the form of leaf1et:
ITO THE STRIKERS:
do not let any one tell you that 1t
IL crime to strike against the de;
cisions of the Rail Labor Board.
"Hardings proclamation means
nothing except that the Government
is to officially protect scabs.
"It is i'm the scab business. but you
can stay on strike. and induce others
to strike by any lawful means within
your power"
c. f. Ruthenberg issued this bulletin
in July, and it was accepted as a gen.
eral proclamation to all striking bodies
to unite and force the Government TO
keep hands off.