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Evening star., 1922-02-26
All for the Love of a Lady and
A Millionaire;s Lively Adventures

wasting tho gifts Of Providence. Con.
sequently. he feinted with his left.
drew a blow. and then. ducking quick
straight right.
The effect was remarkable. The
Bear Cat uttered a startled grunt; q
look came into his face Of mingled
pain and reproach. and he fell into q
clinch.
Leave me stummick be. you rum
N.Y." he hissed rapidly. "Ain't you
got no tact? 'Blinky' promised me
fifty II I'd let you stay three rounds,
but one more like that and I'll forget
meself and knock you through the
ceiling"
Only when he reached his corner
did the full meaning Of the words
strike Freddie. All the glow OF VIC
tory left him. 1t was a frame-up!
Blinky. to insure his patrons some.
thing resembling a fight. had induced
the Bear Cat to stall during the first
three rounds. Probably his opponent
had been laughing at him all the
time. The thought stung him.
Tho third round was the most spec
tacular Of the fight. Even the regu-
lar patrons Of "Blinky's" Saturday
night exhibitions threw aside their
prudence and beloved approval.
Smiling wanly and clinching often.
the Bear Cat fixed his mind on his $50
to buoy himself UP. while Freddie be-
haved every moment moro as Santa
Barbara Whirlwind might reasonably
be expected to behave. Seldom had
the Bear Cat heard sweeter music
than the note Of the gong terminating
the round. He moved slowly to his
corner. and handed his chewing gum
to his second to hold for him. It was
strictly business now. He thought
hard thoughts as he lay back in his
chair.
TN the other corner Freddie also was
thinking. The celebrating exer-
else Of the last round had soothed him
and cleared his brain: and he. too. as
he left his corner for the fourth ses-
sion, was resolved to attend strictly
to business. And his business was to
stay five rounds and earn that 500.
Connoisseurs in the ring seats. who
had been telling their friends during
the previous interval that Freddie
had got him going" changed their
minds and gave It as their opinion
that he had blown up" They were
wrong. He was nehting solely on the
defensive now from policy, not from
fatigue.
The Bear Cat came on with a rush,
head down, swinging with left and
right. The change from his former
attitude was remarkable. There was
no standing up against such an on
slaught. Freddie covered up and
ducked and slipped and side-stepped,
and slipped again. and. when the gong
sounded. he was still intact.
Freddie came up for the fifth round
brimming over with determination.
He meant to do or die. Before the
end of the first half minute it wa.
borne in upon him that he was far
Evening star., 1922-02-26

hobby" The term "hobby" would not
At Mrs. McCormick's dairy farm at
all. However, she does enjoy her
work, every bit of It, because OF that
great sympathy she has. But don't
forget that it isn't play she is en-
gagged in; 1t is work-hard, RESPONSE
BILE work. Sometimes it might be
positive drudgery if Ruth McCormick's
spirit didn't lift it far above that.
One incident illustrates what I
mean. One night shortly before our
visit, Mrs. Mccormick went to bed
planning to attend the county fair the
next day. She was awakened the
next morning by one Of the men, who
said that the cooks, husband and wife,
had left that night without previous
notice. Mrs. Mccormick dressed
hastily, went to the mems dormitory.
and for i've days did all tho cooking
for twewnty-four men. That is typi.
cal Of her; she Keeps the place going.
Mrs. Mccormick's purpose to be-
come an actual, active dairy farmer
came from the illness of her little
daughter Katrina, five years ago. At
that time she was Mortified by the
assertion Of her family physician that
there was little milk in Chicago or
nearby that could be guaranteed as
pure. The milk he could recommend
was bottled in Wisconsin. It was not
didicult, OF course, for the McCor-
micks to insure an adequate supply
Of pure milk for their three children,
but Mrs. Mocormick's heart went out
to the thousands Of city mothers who
were not financially able to provide
good milk for their little ones. And
80 Rock River farms were founded.
One of the pleasant experiences
that comes to the manager OF Rock
River farms is to receive q letter
every few days from some one whose
child has been helped by the pure
milk from the farms. Some time ago
q woman in California wrote to q
Chicago physician. asking II It would
be possible to-obtain milk that would
Evening star., 1922-02-26
Smallest Visible Things.

LEW persons would guess that the
I smallest things visible, TO the eye
are the stars Yet Divere was no
doubt correct in declaring that such
is the case. Great as many OF the
stars are in actual magnitude, their
distance 10 SO immense that their an
gular diameter becomes insensible
and they approach the condition Of
Keometr1oal pointA The miAutA disks
that they appear to hare ara Ouri-
oun. IN s6eOG ok xfra0ixtdus
Evening star., 1922-02-26
A JOB OF WORK :.

self in his corner, ran his eye over
Mr.. "Blinky" Anderson's celebrated
basement. Most Of the light in the
place was concentrated over the roped
platform Of the ring. and all he got
was vague impression OF space.
There seemed to be great many
people present.
His eye was caught by q face in
Evening star., 1922-02-26

Of buildings. The first group Of six
settlement" It contains Mrs. Nc
Cormick's bungalow, with its two
sleeping porches, nursery. sitting
room and two baths. Nearby is the
guests bungalow, with three bed
rooms. sleeping porch and two baths.
Then there is the bungalow with the
dining porch, kitchen, large sitting
room and library and great porches.
Scattered about are the bungalows
for servants and the laundry. The
second group Of buildings. a quarter
Of a mile away, contains the mems
dormitory. barns. milk house, garages
and the production end group Of the
farm. Most Of the small dwellings are
portable. and all are electric lighted
Mrs. Mccormick did not like the un-
attractive designs Of the portable
houses, SO. instead Of buying entire
houses, she literally bought them by
the yard-that is. she bought differ
ent sections Of houses and put them
together to suit her tastes. She her
self put up the ceiling OF her sitting
room and made a very pleasing CELL
ing Of it, too.
Every morning at $50 Mrs. Mccor-
mick gets on a horse. and from that
time until o'clock she is 100 per
cent farmer. Her farm carries ITS
dairy COWS; it's big institution, but
nothing goes on there that Mrs. Nc
Cormick does not know about or have
a hand in; she II actively engaged in
every part of the work. After lunch
Mrs. Mccormick becomes chiefly a
neighbor. She visits around in the
neighborhood. receives visitors or is
busy in whatever community enter
prise her amazing talent for teamwork
may demand.
4 +
.DoUBTLESs somebody viii say.
"well. Mrs. Mccormick just en-
toys that, ~ would any other woman
|of keen mind ana with money enough
sta -9rasafy har hobhy os fads tts her
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Senator's Wife at Head of Big Dairy Farm
Mrs. Medill Mccormick,
Wife of the Senator
From Illinois! Takes
Up Service to Aid Ba-
bies of Nation-Story
of Her Work, Told by
Mrs. Capper, Wife of
Kansas Senator.
BY MRS. ARTHUR cAPPER.

r SPENT day and night on an
Illinois farm recently. When
departed after that brief but alb
i sorbing visit said Of the woman
of that farm, "She is the greatest
woman / know" I wish I cou>d tell
how strongly feel about her a9.d her
splendid work. She is not the farm
er's wife. She herself is the farmer;
her husband is only a United States
Senator. A good part Of the year she
is giving her time. her whole heart
and energy Of mind and body to the
active management of a farm solely
that hundreds of babies in Chicago
may have tho safe and wholesome
food they otherwise might not have
IL she did not supply 1,100 to 1900
quarts of certified milk to the city
babies daily.
Tho woman Of that farm is Ruth
Mccormick, wife Of Senator Medill
Mccormick of Chicago and daughter
of the late Mark Hanna. She doesn't
have to assume the worries or the
hard work-the downright toll on
occasions-that the active manage
ment of her big dairy farm entails.
She easily could employ all the expert
MANAGERIAL talent needed. she Is
carrying that burden herself because
Of q conviction that she should DO
something for others. and she Is do
ing a wonderful service because OF
her sympathy and love for humanity.
That Is why I say she is the greatest
woman I know. I suppose you could
find many technically trained women
who could run the Mccormick dairy
farm as q business just as success
fully as Mrs. Mccormick runs 1t as
a part Of her duty as an American
citizen, but those technically trained
women would be doing 1t as a legitf-
mate business enterprise. laudable. to
be sure, but without that great pur-'
pose that moves Ruth Mccormick-a
love for humanity. To my mind true
greatness has but two attributes-ths
ability to achieve for the good OF
mankind and the desire to achieve
for the love Of mankind.
WE were visiting at Aurora, ILL.,.
w when Mrs. Mccormick tele-
phoned us from Rock River farms,
seventy miles away. that she would
motor over for US the next day. It
rained that night. 50 the next day
we drove twenty miles to Coleman
and took a milk train to Rockford,
where Mrs. Mccormick met US and
took US to her farm, twelve miles
distant.
During the drive she spoke Of her
plans for the farm, Of the barns she
had built and the improvements she
hoped to put in. We stopped At one
farm to engage carpenter. and while
she and the farmer were talking the
farmers wife and Mrs. Mccormick
stood with their arms linked together.
She seems to have made such a ~
able place for herself in that COM
mdnity that everybody accepts her as
Just one Of the neighbor folks.
when We turned into Rock River
farm I began to get most thoroughly
interested. and that interest viii
never cease The place looks like .
smsl settlement, with dts two sroups
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that his ordeal was to be q mere
eight or nine months canter Of un-
exacting work In quite comfortable
surroundings. Datchet himself could
have done 1t on his butter-co1ored
head.
For four days all went we'll. He
lobby. He enjoyed selling two dollar
novels to men who had meant to buy
evening papers. But on the flfth day
came reaction. The customers irri-
tated him. He was hopelessly bored.
The end was in sight. It came
early on the afternoon Of the sixth
day through the medium Of one of
the regular customers. He was man
with a rasping voice and peremp-
tory manner, who demanded a daily
paper or . stamp with the air of one
cursing an enemy.
Freddie had fallen into gloomy
meditation when this man appeared
before him and shouted: stamp"
"Stamp!'
Freddie's gaze circled round the
lobby and eventually rested on the
object before him.
Stamp!'
Freddie inspected him with frigid
scorn.
IT WON'T" he answered coldly.
The hotel in which Freddie had
found employment was a sporting
hotel in the heart Of the Tenderloin.
It's patrons were mainly racing men,
gamblers and drummers, men OF ac-
tion rather than words. This par
ticular patron was essentially the
man of action. He hit Freddie in the
eye. Five minutes later Freddie,
painting . little and blinking to ease
the pain Of his injured eye. was wait
ing for his opponent to rise from the
Aoaxk-1AAfhiA Do5n3 4hesaanage9RD
The labor world., 1922-06-24

Textile Union Men Detailed 10
Keep. the Peace.


BY International Labor News Service
Manchester, N: H., June 22.-Re-
peating the performance Of striking
copper miners during the regime Of
Gov. Hunt in Arizona, striking cot
ton mill workers have taken over
the job of :policing the stSike.
Strike. leaders,: by agreement with
the chief Of police, are now in charge
Of police protection.' Vice President
James Starr OF the United Textile
Workers Of America and Organizer
Horace Riviere. were placed in COM
mand of the labor patrol force.
The strikers took charge of ar
rangements at a critical period, up
ON the attempt of the mill owners to
reopen the mills. The first task of
the labor force was to maintain or
der in a crowd of fully 1000, gath
cred to-. watch the reopening of the
Amoskeag Manufacturing company's
Coolidge MILL,
The opening day to break the
strike,.;.is usually attended by dis
ORDER On this occasion it was as
quiet as on Sabbath.
The labor world., 1922-06-24
L0ANERS EXACT
TOO HIGH RATE
Washington Home Buyers
Charged Extortionate Interest

Money loaners in the capital Of the
nation mulct home buyers from 20
to 40 per cent in excess of the actual
value of the money borrowed for
home buying purposes, according to
a report of Mrs. Eli A. Helmick,
chairman of the citizens committee
to investigate housing conditions in
the District of Columbia.
The report points out that most
Of the banks decline to make second
mortgage loans. which are neces-
sary for the home buying wage and
salary earners. AS q result there
are many individuals and financial
concerns who charg~ 20 per cent
for discounting second mortgages.
1t is contended that this gouging
prevents potential home buyers from
buying homes and compels those
who do buy to pay .extortionate
prices.
I'm the stick selling literature of
some of these financing concerns"
says the report, the open boast is
A'Ae@AS SAAoI IAACy IL Jill oV W w
per cent on their capital and that
the profit on discounts of second
mortgages is at least Is per cent.
The home buyer, therefore, pays
from 20 to 40 per cent above the
actual value of such money bor-
rowed by him on the property >pur-
chased" !:
It is charged that bank directors
and big business are in league with
the second mortgage concerns to
compel home-buying wage and sal
ary earners to "pay a bonus Of from
$500 to $1,000 in addition to the in
flated cost Of the dwelling purchased
or built"
Money lenders, because Of their
unique position" concludes the re-
port. "have taken advantage of the
dire necessity for h3me buying In
Washington IN the part of persons
with small capital and no estah=
lished bank rating to reap uncon-
sctonable premiums for the use of
their money beyond the rate of in
terest allowed by law.
This seeking of abnormal profit
more than any other condition cre-
ates the lack of needed and suitable
housing facilities in the District"
The labor world., 1922-06-24
STATE ACCIDENT
FUND PROVES TO
Be MONEY Saver
Ohio Plan Corrects Evils Of
.. Workmen's mpsnsatlon.

Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22.-Work-
mems compensation and what in
surance companies do when they
have their hands on it's administra-
tion was pictured to the American
Federation of Labor convention by
Thomas J. Duffy, Ohio Industrial
commission chairman.
Duffy said that if. insurance COM
panies had participated in Ohio COM
pensation would have cost emplyo-
ers $25,oO0,000 more during the last
year and would have meant law
suits and less money for the injured.
What compensation means in one
state can be seen from Duffy's Zig:
ures. He says that compensation
paid during the year amounts to
$13,O00,O00. The state insurance fea-
ture is compulsory in Ohio, though
insurance companies keep up a
steady fight to worm their way into
the business once more.
For eight. years the compulsory
feature has been in effect. In that
time the insurance fund has collect
ed $77.OO0,000. 1t has at present
$4O,000,O00. IT." said Duffy, I'VE
were called upon today to pay off
all our obligations we wou d have
net surplus Of s4,oO0,ooo." Fur
ther he said, "our plan is to collect
enough each year to take care of
the industrial accidents occurring in
that year. even though some of them
will not be paid out for eight. ten,
or perhaps twenty years. We feel
that is the only sound actuarial sys-
tenn upon which to conduct fund
of that kind"
Answering the question as to why
the state took over the business
Duffy said: 1T is for the purpose Of
preventing any individual or corpor-
alton from making profits out of the
broken bones, the amputated limbs
or crushed out lives of the laboring
people of Ohio"
Showing the lack of litigation in
volved. Duffy said: More than 90
per cent of the claims for compen-
sation under this state insurance fea-
ture are settled by the filing of the
application made out by the injured
worker and signed by the employer"
The convention rolled up it's sleeves
and took a wallop at the sales tax.
Unanimous vote recorded the opin-
ion of labor that the sales tax was
devised to soak the public and line
the pockets of few.
On a sweltering day, with dele
gates in shirt sleeves, the convention
voted five to one to change the con-
vention time from June to the first
Monday in October. The next con-
vention will be held in October, 1922.
The labor world., 1922-06-24

Big Sale Of Spring Overcoats
All prices reduced. The Big Duluth.
The labor world., 1922-06-24
METAL TRADES TO OPPOSE
:ANT|.tAB0R C0NGRESSMEN

The; metal trades department of
the American Federation of Labor
will undertake to defeat anti-labor
candidates for congress in the No.
vember elections. according to res
olution adopted by the convention
of the department.. -
For many months congress has
sneered and scoffed at the duly elect
ed representatives Of organized la
boF who have been charged by the
wage earners with the responsibility
Of securing necessary and justifiable
legislation" said the resolution. \
:. The, convention directed President
James O'Connell to oppose anti
labor candidates for both congress
md state legislatures.
The labor world., 1922-06-24
EMPLOYERS and WORKERS {. !:
IS @--rx.. -.-.-T ~2-'r-s'." u. ::
]. { f OF AUSTRALIA IN CONFLICT
High Cost Of Production Assigned as Reasons for Stopping
! Operation Of tSmefers. :. -. ..** =.

:. fAdelaide, South Australia.-(Spe-
cial Correspondence.)- 1.-The indus
trial position in this state remains
serious. In the one hand, the employ
ers assert that the workers are act
ing in a manner which amounts to
an organized attempt, to smash pri-
yate enterprise; on the other, the
men insist that huge profits are be-
ing made, and that there is widen
ing conspiracy to decrease wages.
The unions have carried their de-
Termination so far that many hun
dreds prefer to- be idle rather than
accept what they regard as an i'm
possible wage rate. Their argument
is that the cost of living in Austria
liza has not fallen sufficiently to JUS
'tify any decrease.
The large mining towns of York
Peninsula are now wrapped in the
gloom Of inactivity. Mines and smell
ters have been closed in what are
usually busy industrial centers. Nei-
ther side will yield.
Competition Adds Difficulty.
According to q statement just is
sued by the superintendent of the
Port Prize smelling works. very
large concern-the general position
of the Australian lead smelling in
dustry has lately become more Sc
rious. This has been intensified by
the growing competition from Ger
man and Belgian industries. The
shareholders, in the Associated Smell
ters company arer five of the Bro
ken Hill mining companies. Under
long-term contracts an agreement
has been entered into to purchase
the whole of the lead concentrate
output of these companies. as well
as another. The lead concentrate
purchase is realized upon by the
company, either by smelling at Port
Pirie, and selling the resulting lead
and silver, principally in overseas
markets, or by export and sale of
the concentrates. The amount of
money invested in the business is
The labor world., 1922-06-24
UNIONS ARE INVITED TO
PARTICIPATE IN PARADE

Union labor is invited to partici-
pate in the Fourth of July celebra-
ton at West Duluth, according to
word received by Tie Labor World
yesterday. The celebl ton will be
conducted under the auspices of the
West Duluth Business Mems club.
The invitation is as follows:
The West Duluth Business Mems
club would like to ,,aVe you notify
all the unions through your good
paper shat we extend to them an in
vitation to participate with US in
making our Fourth Of July parade
one of the largest parades that has
ever been held in our city, The
letter was signed by S. M. Strain,
secretary.
The labor world., 1922-06-24
BUILDING TRADES UNIONS
TO PUT ON BIG CAMPAIGN

The executive officers Of every
building trades union in the city
met last evening art Trade Union
hall and laid plans for conducting
an active campaign Of organization
in the city among building trades
workers.
The 10 local building trades unions
are voting on a proposition of levy
ing an assessment on the member
ship of IS cents week for five
weeks to finance the campaign. They
expect to make the building trades
section 100 per cent strong in the
city.
The labor world., 1922-06-24
old GUARD winner, BUT IT GETS T
SHOCK IN tue ESDAYS ELECTION
Kellogg and Preus Not Song Opposition Candidates Given
Big Vote; Johnson Makes Great Race for Sheriff..

surprised them all. w Liam Bernard,
the veteran legislator, ran short of
his normal strength, while. John
Goodwin anc . .Vilbert Anderson
ran neck and neck to the finish.
Goodwin was defeated. Bernard and
Goodwin were endorsed b ythe la
Dor committee.
Mrs. Peter Oleson was given a fine
vote in st. LOUIS county in her can
didacy for the senate. Senator Mich
ael Boyland of Virginia was an easy
winner in the Sixty-first district,
running almost two to one ahead of
r. J. McGhie, with whom he will
fight it out in November.
The labor world., 1922-06-24

FL 100000. Until recently the num-
ber of men employed was 1000.
Interruptions Costly. ~
The chairman of directors of the
Wallaroo & Moonta Mining company,
Sir Lancelot Stirling. says in recent
years there have been constant in
terruptions of work, and the price
paid for lack of continuity has been
very heavy. Early last month, prior
to which work. was continued on a
somewhat restricted output, the di!
rectors decided to close owing to the
high cost of production. There are
now signs that the financial posi-
ton is easier and sounder, but Sir
Lancelot laments that trade in the
key Industries has not shown a cor
responding improvement.
The demand in England for cop
per has fallen off in a most pro-
nounced manner. and the outlook is
too involved to make any reliable
forecast. What the Wallaroo &
Moonta Mining company is looking
for to put it again in a profit-nak-
ing position is a general trade re-
vival in Australia. From authorita-
tive accounts, it appears that the
surplus stocks of copper, over and
above those for current consump-
tion,~ are materially less than they
were IL, Or even six months ago.
This is reported to be the case also
in America.
The company is now exploiting
brown coal deposits to reduce it's
fuel costs. and conditions are favor
able to the discovery of extensive
bodies of good assay quality, suit
able for the company's uses, and
which, it is hoped, will be raised at
a cost which will compare favorably
with the Newcastle coal. ::
The labor world., 1922-06-24
E.. w. GRIFFIN RETURNS.

E. w. Griffin, delegate to the bi-
ennial convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen & En-
ginemen from Duluth, returned yes
terday after an absence of six weeks.
The convention was held at Houston,
Texas, beginning May I.
The labor world., 1922-06-24

AS near as We understand it, the
supreme court believes congress has
the power to protect war babies like
the dye interests, but protecting chill
dren of the working class is anoth-
er matter.
The labor world., 1922-06-24

ASSEMBLY MEETS TONIGHT.
The regular semimonthly meet
ing of the Federated Trades assem-
bly, will be held tonight, Friday,
Owls hall. A good attendance of
delegates is requested.
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