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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
New Editor Had Long Experience
 On Newspapers

Boston. March 2-Wi1Iis J. Abbot. newly elected editor of the Christian Science Monitor at the conclusion of difficulties over control of the Chris tian Science periodicals, is an Ameri- can newspaper man of long experi- ence.
 Active in national politics and prominent as a writer from Wash ington on political topics. he ts also a member of the Authors League of America. Patriotic themes have largely interested him as an author.
 It is 30 years ago this year that the Monitors new editor came into prominence in the newspaper world as managing editor of the old Chi cago Times. Going to New York a few years later. he served for various periods as writing editor of the New York Journal chief editorial writer of the New York American. and writing editor of the New York Sun.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02

of farming revealed the same gen. eral conditions, although usually not quite so acute as among the beet growers. Such conditions were found by the National Child Labor Committees investigation in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey, and among the itinerant berry and vegetable pickers of Delaware and Maryland.
 In the cotton fields of Texas, little children were found working long hours. living in unsanitary conditions and being kept out of school This was also true in the cotton fields of Oklahoma and in various kinds of agricultural Indus tries In North Dakota, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia. California and elsewhere
 In other words. to quote Gertrude H. Folks, who has made con- siderable investigation of this sub iect "When is child labor not child labor7 Every state in the Union
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02

two million child 1aborers in this country between the ages of ten and sixteen years at least 70 per cent. or nearly one million five hun dred thousand, are at work on the farm and practically every state specifically exempts agriculture from the provisions of its child labor law. And unfortunately in some sections, notably Tn the sugar beet fields of Colorado, Michigan and other states, this army is still further augmented by a consider able contingent of little Iaborers under the age of ten
 While the evil of child labor exists generally throughout the farming section of the country, one of the most fragrant examples of it at the present time is found in the sugar beet fields, the source of the raw material of one of the largest American industries.
 One of our general readers with the usual stock of wrong impress sions suffered his first rude awak- ening while travelling through Colo rsdo. Passing by a great field of sugar beets he was amazed to find much of the work being done by young children, boys and girls alike, some of them under eight years Of age. He found that from early spring until the late fall. ex- ceptfng for a slight iet-up in mid summer, these children worked unceasingly, some of them eleven hours day, thinning out the small beet plants in the spring, hoeing the crops through the summer and pulling up the beets and cutting off their tops at harvest time.
 While the conditions in the Colo rado beet fields are particularly | fragrant, they are in no way excep- tionaL. The National Child Labor Committees investigations in the same industry in Michigan showed | conditions equally bad. Other lines l
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02

wage earners in fhe cry nave be.
 come easier. There is much work
 in these regions that children can
 do. The returns to tenant farmers
 are so low that they must have the
 work Of children in order to make
 a living. Owners do not provide
 modern machinery for farm ten-
 ants. It is largely hand work wach
 children can do. This work is not
 training them to be any better
 farmers. It is mere drudgery and
 the parents get the returns from
 their labors.
 Tenants move about continuously
 which interferes with schooling. Such a changing population in a section creates an attitude of in- difference toward the school devel-
 opment- In one community, for in-
 stance, the average schooling was found to be only six months q year. Owner parents, who are able, send
 their children to town schools. Very generally in these one crop regions child labor is contracted for iu family groups. This is particu- larly true in the sugar beet fields
 The general result of farm labor
 upon children in after life is strik- fngly shown by the tests made upon soldiers in the army. It was found that the young men from the farm not only are not as well edu- cated as young men from the cities, but they have not the same degree of mental alertness.
 It was found that farm work over-developed the major muscles while the finer muscles were neg lected. The surprising result was that the farm-reared young man tired out more quickly than the city-reared young man. under physl- cal strain that demanded the use of the whole body. It was also found that the farm boys have 8 greater number of correctabla physical defects than the city reared boys.
 When 1t comes to education it is well known that the percentage of illiteracy in the country Is twice that in the city, one in every ten Of the rural population being class ed as i1literate. One investigator finds that of the sixteen states hay. ing percentage of illiteracy greater than that of the United States as q whole, fifteen have a foreign population percentage far below 14.7, that of the United States as a whole, the average be- ing only 2o per cent.
 These fifteen states include all but one of the thirteen states which have a child labor percentage in ex- cess of the average for the United States as . whole.
 But aside from the wrecking of the health and the educational equipment of the individual child by farm labor, there is another se- rious effect upon the nation as large. Oppressed by the hard and life at home and the greater lures of the city. the coun- try boy is leaving the farm. Every year it Is getting harder for tho farmer to find labor to till hiA crops. At the same time, the son4 of farm owners are unwilling ts stay on the farms their hard work. Ing fathers leave them, and the old lime, substantial American farmer s giving way to the migratory alien tenant.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
DIED.

CONWAY = In this city. Feb. 2s. 1922, Margarita G.. widow of John J. Conway.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence. 289 Davenport street. on Friday. March 8, at S:30 a. m.. and from Blessed Sacrament church at g a. m.
 New Haven, Conn. B2sss LEWIS - In this city. Wednesday March 1, 1922. Benjamin Beach Lewis, son of the late Benjamin Lewis and Marissa Beach. aged 50 years, months.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence. 1729 Boston avenue. on Saturday, March 4, at 2 o'clock.
 Interment at Lakeview cemetery. Kindly omit flowers. S1s~ RocKEIn Philadelphia, ah Pa, Tues nell, wife of Frederick Rock.
 Friends are invited to attend the brother, William J. O'Donnel. 84 James street. on Friday, March 3, at 9:3o a. m., and from St. August ines church at 10 a. m.. with a solemn high mass.
 Interment at St. Michaers cem- s.ratford, Conn. Ma,~h 1, 1922. Martha E.. wife of Lotus l.. sherwood, aged 4S years, l month, 20 days.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the Mortuary Chapel of August G. Baker, 1888 Stratford avenue, on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
 Interment' Lakeview cemetery.
 S2b* CONNOR - In this city. March 1. 1922, Robert T. Connor.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 442 Fairview avenue on Saturday. March 4, at g a. m.. and from St. Patrick's church at 9:S0 a. m., with solemn high mass.
 Interment at St. Michaefs ceme- tery. S2b BANNON - In this city. Thursday. March 2, 1922. at the residence of J. J. Fitzgerald, POT Catherine street, Ellen Ramon.
 Notice of funeral hereafter. a" this city. Wednesday. March 1, 1922, Nellie F. Sutton, wife of Samuel s. Teller. aged TO years.
 Funeral service will be held at her late home, 160 Beechwood av- enue, on Saturday, March {, at 2:30 D. m.
 Burial in Union cemetery. strat- ford. Slbs
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
By JOHN cARRETsEE
THAT is child labor? Wh

Y THAT is child labor? Where A is it found? To what ex-
 " tent does this long fought
 economic evil still exist Tn so-called free America? What class of little unfortunates are still its victims?
 In answer the average reader sees at once a vision of factory towns, of squaIid, crowded city tenements, of pale, malformed mites of human ity toiling hopelessly for long nreary hours in changing mills, in mines or in quarries.
 This avereage reader is some years behind the times. AS a mat ter of fact out of the two million children ten to fifteen years of age engaged in gainful occupations in the United States according to the census of 1910, those laboring in factories, mines and Quarries were only about 15 per cent In other words the average readers impress sion was never more than one-sixth correct Today 1t is even less true as the result largely Of the work of the National Child Labor Con- mittee, organized in 1904. This minor phase of the problem has been pretty well solved, at least as far as the enactment of laws goes. Most states of the Union have adopted at least a fourteen year-old age limit for the employ ment of children in factories, If not in all occupations.
 The federal tax on child labor has further cllnched the matter. It Is at last we'll established in this country that children under four teen years of age shall not be en- pioyed in mills, factories. canneries and workshops.
 In short, It Is the American farm and not the factory which is the stronghold of child labor. Of the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02

Recently he has been staff corre- spondent for one of the national weekIes.
 Taking an active interest In poli- tics, Mir Abbot in 1898 directed as chairman the Henry George cam paign committee in New York, and was manager of the Democratic na- tiona1 press bureau in the presiden- tial campaigns of 1900 and 1908
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
ANTHRACITE FIELD THREATENED WITH
 COMPLETE TIE-UP
Mines May Close April 1
 Because Of Stand On
 Workers Wage Increases

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mar. Not since 1902, when the anthracite indus try was alm ost completely tied up by a six months strike of the United Mine Workers of America, has said the hard fields faced a situation fraught with greater danger of indus trial stagnation than at present. Dangerous as the situation really is, there is back of it. nevertheless, the deep-rooted belief that peace Is not impossible and that April 1 may see no closing down of the anthracite mines.
 Anthracite operators are not talk ing strike. Neither are the United there to obtain a divorce.
 1 am in favor of a uniform divorce law that will bring about divorce on the simple grounds of incompatibility if for no other reason than for the sake of the children. How can any children grow up to live useful, happy lives when their parents are continual 1y fighting at home2"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
NOTICE.

Quotations will be received at the office of the Board of Contract ana Suuply. Room 23, City Hall, up to March g. 1922, for 100 extra heavy Galvanized street Cans, height "A inches, top diameter 19 inches. bot tom diameter 16 inches. Extra heavy handles rivited to sides of can. In ouoting, give name of maker. and size, and weight of can.
 Signed:
 Board of Contract and Supply.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
MAYOR GUILFOYLE TO SPEAK
 ON EMMETT MONDAY NIGHT

Mayor Guilfoyle. of Waterbury. Will make the principal address at the big celebration Monday night at Hiber- nian Home, 161 Washington avenue, to honor the birth of the great Irish leader, Robert Emmett. This cele- bration is the first in honor of the great Irishman since the war and promises to be largely attended.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
SETTLE SIX RIALTO
 FIRE DAMAGE SUITS.

New Haven, March 2-Six attach ments placed upon real estate to col lect damages sustained in the Rialto theatre fire on November 27. were re- mover yesterday. Their removal fol- lowed settlement of suits for dam ages. The terms were not given out Settlements in previous Rialto cases have been at the sums of $2,000.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02
NOTICE.

Quotations will be received at the office of the Board of Contract and Supply. Room 23. City Hall, up to March G. 1922. on 1 No. 96 Curtis & Curtis Pipe Cutting and Threading Machine; also 1 No. Curtis & Cur tis Patent Nipple Holder.
 Signed:
 Board of Contract and Supply.
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-02

that had been in front of his place at table. and extinguished it in his bed room.
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The Monett times., 1922-12-22
JONATHAN d. GOODNIGHT Sue
CUMBS TO HEART DISEASE

Relatives in Monet received the
news Tuesday of the death of Jona-
than D. Goodnight of Pineville, Mo-,
which occurred some time Tuesday.
His death was attributed to heart
disease. The remains were brought
to Monet Wednesday morning and
funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock from the New
Salem church, conducted by the Rev.
Crawford, assisted by Rev. Goodnight
Burial was made in the family ceme-
terry.
The surviving relatives are his wife
and seven children, Mrs. I. E. jack
son and Mrs. Claude Beymer of Kings
Prairie township; Earl Goodnight of
California, Rev. Clarence Goodnight,
Lloyd Goodnight and Vernon Good
night of the home address and another
daughter whose name could not be
learned and who resides at Pineville.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
A. T. BRAMER DIES
TUESDAY EVENING

A. T. Bramer, prominent contract
or and builder of Monet, died at his
home, 504 Eighth street, at TAO
o'clock Tuesday evening, after more
than four months illness with cancer
of the glands of the neck. He was 70
years, II months and % days old.
Funeral services will be held at St
Lawrence Catholic church at 9 O'Clock
Friday morning, December %, con-
Quoted by the pastor, the Rev. Father
McNamee. Interment will be made in
the Catholic cemetery.
August T. Bramer was born at St
Louis, October 27, 1852. He was mar
ried to Miss Annie Chavnue in Boil
niger county, Missouri, September 25
1873. Following his occupation of
contractor and builder, Mr.. Bramer
moved number of times, living at
different times at Leopold, Mo-; st.
Leborg and st. Petersburgh, Neb.,
Fort Scott, Kansas, Talmadge and
Wentworth, Mo. The family came to
Monet about twenty-five years ago,
and with the exception of a short
time they lived at Oklahoms City,
they have made their home here since
that time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bramer were the par
ents of nine children, eight of whom
are living. George Bramer died
several years ago. The children liv-
ing are A. NJ. Bramer, of Joplin; F. r.
Bramer, Houston, Tex; J. G. Bramer
Mrs. P. c. Wimsatt, Mrs. Pete Hanlon
Charles Bramer and Mrs. C. L. Sweet,
of Monett and Mrs. A. T. Huffman,
of Springfield.
Mr.. Bramer led an active life up to
August of this year. At that time a
cancer developed in the glands of his
neck. Everything known to science
was done to relieve him, but the
disease could not be conquered and
was the cause of his death.
The deceased was a good and honor
able citizen and kind and loving hus-
band and father.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
MONETT CASES IN SPRING.
FIELD COURT OF APPEALS

Two Monett cases were tried in the
December call of the October term of
the Springfield court of appeals at
Springfield Monday, December Is.
The case of Clara Opal King, re-
spondent, VS. The Standard Acci1cns
Insurance Company, appellant, was
argued and submitted to the jury. The
result will not be learned before 80
days. Attorney D. S. Mayhem re-
presented Mrs. King, and Attorney tT.
D. Steele represented the Insurance
Company.
The case of Luther M. Burkhart,
respondent, VS.. The Industrial Trans
portation company, appellant, was
continued to the February call. At
torney James E. Safer represented the
Industrial Transportation Company.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
FRUIT GROWERS TO
MEET JANUARY 2
Annual Meeting viii Be Held at
Monett-Prominen Horticultur-
lists On Program.

The Ozark Fruit Growers associ-
alton will open its annual meeting at
Monet, Tuesday, January 2, the ses-
sion lasting two days. Tuesday morn
ing will be devoted to business. Re-
ports Of officers, appointment OF COM
mittees, election of three directors
and three members of the strawberry
committee. Tuesday afternoon the
following program will be carried cut:
Importance of Keeping Up the
Berry Acreage in the Ozark District"
E. A. O'Dwyer, Monet.
Duties OF Local Managers During
Shipping Season." F. A. Taiclet, Neo-
sho, Mo.
"What Is the Difference Between a
Central Sales Agency and Cooper
ative Marketing, If Any?" R. M. Hit
Koshkonong, Mo.
"The Needs and Benefits of Field
Work." Charles Carmichael, Webb
City.
"The Future of Grape Growing in
the Ozarks," John P. Davis, Monet.
"Review of Past Seasons Business"
P. A. Rodgers, sales manager Ozark
Fruit Growers association.
Importance of Grade and Pack"
E. N. Plank, Decatur, Ark.
Result of Cooperative Market
ing in West Tennessee" T. N. Nelson,
Humboldt, Tenn.
"Value of a District Paper as a
Factor in Stimulating a Deeper In
terest in the Production of Small
Fruits in the Ozarks," Cowgirl Blair,
Joplin.
"Plant Disease" C. R. Phipps,
etomologist, Mountain Grove.
Address, D. E. Eicher, Frisco hor-
ticulturist.
Address, ]. M. Crawford, division
superintendent American Railway Elk
press company, st. Louis.
Wednesday will be devoted to
general discussion by delegates from
all local associations.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
PIONEER

George Hutchins and sister Esther
were Monett visitors Saturday.
Earl and Cecil Francis of Wheaton
spent the week end with their grand
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman
Francis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Stark and lit
tie daughter Pauline called on Mrs.
George Berzlel Sunday night.
Misses Lovena Bradley, Nora
Wogoman and Leah Hart, Messrs Lee
Wilmington, Emery Chastain and
Arthur Brown attended church at
New Salem Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hutchins and
little son Earl spent Sunday at the
home of John McTeer near Purdy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Craft and little
son Ray who have been visiting at the
home of the latters father Henry Biv-
ms departed for their home in Joplin
Saturday.
Col. A. L. Belka spent Saturday
night and Sunday visiting at Verona.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lehr and daugh-
ters were shopping in Peirce City Sat-
urday.
John Lampkins has been suffering
for week with very sore hand.
Oren McMillon was a pleasant cal
Ter at the hore of Miss Beulah Coat
ney Sunday.
Mrs. Orville Berziel and children
and Miss Ara Hance were the dinner
guests of Mrs. Maggie Jeffries Sun
day.
1 will ring off wishing the Times
and all of its readers a Merry Christ
mas and Happy New Year.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
HUNG JURY IN JOHNSON CASE

The case of the City of Monett
against W. A. Johnson, charged with
operating a pool hall within a re-
stricted district, which Is within four
blocks Of a school or church, was tried
in Police court before Judge D. B.
Meador Tuesday afternoon at the city
hall. After hearing the evidence il
the case it went into the hands of the
jury about o'clock and resulted in a
hung jury of 3 to 3. A new trial will
be granted after the first of the year.
The dates has not been agreed upon.
Important evidence in TIE case was
a letter read which was written by
Mayor A. w. Thomas on October 8,
and sent to the County Court, in
which Mr.. Thomas advised the court
to grant county license to Mr.. johnson
to operate pool hall in Monet. On
the strength of the said letter, the
license was granted. This is test
case to test the legality of the city
ordinance on this subject.
Mr.. Johnson is not charged with
operating a pool hall without city
license, but for violation of the city
ordinance which restricts pool halls
within a limited distance of schools
and churches.
Attorneys J. e. Safer and T. D.
Steele were council for the defendant
and J. T. Burgess and E. C. Medlin
were attorneys for the city.
The jurors were: B. E. Williams,
Fred Walton, Fenton Boucher, Am
brose Black, I. L. Mace and z. E.
Riggs.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
PLEASANT RIDGE

Hollis Walton who, is working for
Claud Fletcher visited home folks
Saturday night and Sunday.
Those that visited at the home OF
Aaron Black Sunday were Jam Binionr
Harold Kerns, Nora Lawson and Mr.,
and Mrs. M. F. Black.
Henry Henson who is sick is slowly
improving.
The little son of Fannie Ferrell is
on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Taylor and
family, Walter Lawson and son High
Eldon Pennell and wife and Mr.. Chas
Maths of Kansas visited Mr.. and Mrs,
E. Bolton Sunday.
Wanda Lawson visited Miss Aza
Crouch Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Haley
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Ernie FerreIl
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Bertha Pennel visited her sis
ter Nova Terrell Wednesday of last
week.
Prayer meeting was well attended
Sunday night.
Mrs. W. b. Such was shopping in
O-s EsalI
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
BISHOP QUAYLE MAY BE
REMOVED TO HOSPITAL

Baldwin, Kansas Dec. 19.-BishoE
W. A. Quayle of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, st. Louis, who is crit
ically ill at his home here, will be
taken to hospital at st. Joseph, Mo.
next Tuesday if his condition has i'm
proved sufficiently. This announce
ment was made late today by Mrs
QuayIe after a consultation with DR.
William ]. McGill of st. Joseph.
Since the bishops second paralytic
stroke last Sunday, his side has beer
affected and his speech partly i'm
paired.
DIR. McGill returned to st. Joseph
today.
The Monett times., 1922-12-22
BIDS ON Z ROADS TO
BE OPENED SOON

Bids on seven highway projecrs,
totaling about twenty-three miles, in
six southwest Missouri counties, esti-
mated to involve approximately $780,
1000, are to be opened by the state
highway commission through the di-
vision office at Joplin this week and
next.
The largest of these is 18O-foot
concrete bridge of three sixty-foot
arches, and .32 OF a mile eighteen
foot concrete highway at a point a
short distance northeast of Carthage.
Bids fer this work will be opened at
Carthage at o'clock Thursday after
noon, December %, by Ray Dunlap,
division engineer in charge of tine
Joplin office.
The Cartilage project is the only
concrete job included in the seven.
Two are gravel roads and the others
graded earth.
Two of the projects are located in
SCutL NouhtJ, 11llu ollC SGlGl Ill NCiHuH,
Newton, Dade and Barry counties.
One of the gravel roads is i'll Cellar
county and the other in Barry. The
Cedar county gravel road lies from
Eldorado Springs to the St. Clair
county line. 1t is 2.02 miles long.
The Barry county road runs from
Purdy to Cassville, distance of 4.57
miles. The last named road already
is graded and bridged and the con-
tract which remains to be let involves
only placing gravel on the road.
A sixty-foot single span concrete
bridge is included in the Vernon coun-
ty project. The road runs from Ne
vada to Eldorado Springs, and is
half mile long. The bridge crosses
Fly creek.
The earthen road in Cedar county
runs through Stockton, east and west,
a distance of 4.08 miles.
The Newton county road is 4.62
miles long, reaching from CRANKY to
the Barry county line.
The Dade county road is between
Greenfield and Stockton and is So
miles long.
The dates and places of the open
ing of the bids are as follows: Cedar
county as Stockton, December 22;
Vernon county at Nevada, December
23; Newton county at Neosho, De-
cember 27; Jasper county at Car
thage, Dade at Greenfield and Barry
at Cassville on December 20. All are
Ito be opened at 2 p. m. on the dates
indicated.
Letting of contracts to the lowest
bidders will be subject to approval
of the state highway commission at
Jefferson City.
Considerable interest in the projects
is being evinced by contractors and
it is expected a large number Of bids
will be submitted.