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The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03
BOY SCOUTS
Many Acts of Usefulness and Kind
ness Done
1000 Visit Philadelphia

Delaware and montgomery Oouncll,
to the number of more than a thou
sand, have made their annual pilgrim
age to Philadelphia. They were an
impressive array, marching solemnly
down Broad Street to Walnut. The
parade adjourned to the assembly
room of the Manufacturers Club,
where they were entertained at din
ner. Two bands made up of boy musi-
clans furnished the music for the occa-
sion. Three Scouts, each of whom
had saved another person from drown
ing the previous Summer, were form
ally presented with Life Saving med
ais. Two of these heroes, George
Samuel Allen and Richard Lesson,
were from Bridgeport; the third, Don
aid Van Billiard, is from Gynedd.
Thirty-two boys received gold pins as
distinguished Scouts" a local desig-
nation of honor.
They Cremate "Old Man Crouch"
At the Evanston, ILL.,, Camp there Is
an interesting and unique ceremony
known as burning Old Man Crouch"
At the end of the week a huge camp
fire is built and a grotesque figure Is
consumed in the flames. Amy boy who
has harbored any resentment has a
chance to get rid of the incumbrance
at this time. When "Old Mar Crouch"
is cremated everybody starts fresh
with nothing but good will.
National Meeting At Chicago
The twelfth annual meeting of the
National Council will be held at Chi
cago, March 20 and 80. This is the
big event of the year in Scouting.
National Council membership is COM
posed of many Of the leading business
men of the country-bankers, educa-
tors, clergymen. These men will come
from every State in the Union to dis
cuss plans for the future development
of the movement and to hear the re-
ports of the last years progress.
Better Boys Movement
With the purpose of aiding the
moral and spiritual development of its
boys, a City Wide Boys Work Com
mission has been established in Pasa-
dena, Cal. Thirteen local Churches
are represented in this commission,
with the Y. M. G. A. and the Boy
Scouts. Executive Tallman H. Trask-
man has offered full support to the
new movement in behalf of this or
~ganization Though non-sectarian,
Scouting, with its emphasis upon
moral cleanliness, friendliness to all
and the commitment to service, works
with Churches of every denomination,
providing a mid week program of &C
tivities, which Churches correlate
with their own Boys Work plans.
i 4
Page Mr.. Bell!
Twenty-four boys of Missoula,
Mont, started at 10 o'clock in the
morning and by 6 o'clock the same
night had delivered $500 telephone
directories.
To The Rescue
Scene: A Ford car ditched on a
road just outside Newport News; a
wrecking car in operation; traffic hope
lessly snarled.
This was the situation when mem
bers of Troop 2, who had been camp
ing at a nearby pond, started home:
They got in action, directed traffic and
averted accidents.
Won Doctors Admiration
While playing football on the com
mon near the Homeward Presbyterian
Church, Pittsburgh, a small boy,
Joseph Dunlap, was thrown forcibly
against a broken bottle and severed
an a,.ta,uy in bic apkla TUentV-year
The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03

Tor the period between seasons, either
of these will prove a safe choice. The
suit at the left is of Poiret twill with fox
fur in collar and cuffs and band of trim
ming on the coat. The straight-line
loose coat holds an assured place in
spring styles, so this suit is a good in
vestment. The skirt is provided with
a deep hem and may be heightened TO
the regulation eight inches from the
floor.
The youthful suit at the right. with
its faring box coat, merely needs to
replace its fur collar with a throw
collar of cloth and to dispense with
its pockets or to make them of cloth,
to accommodate itself to spring weather
and spring styles.
The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03
Won Doctors Admiration

NOn DOCtOE , AuluiI dliOh
While playing football on the COM
mon near the Homeward Presbyterian
Church, Pittsburgh, a small boy,
Joseph Dunlap, was thrown forcibly
against a broken bottle and severed
an artery in his ankle. Twenty-year
old Randolph l.. Martin, a Tenderfoot,
who aspires soon to be in second-class
ranks, fortunately happened to be on
the spot.
Only a few days before Randolph
had qualified in the first aid test, but
he knew his job. He made a tourni-
quet of his suspender and applied it
accurately. This closed the artery,
which had been bleeding so profusely
that the injured lad would soon have
bled to death. A stretcher was then
improvised from several of the other
boys coats, under young Martins di-
rections, and the victim was carried
to the office of the nearest physician,
DR.. C. j. Yorty. On examining the
treatment, DIR. Yorty said he was
amazed to learn that a twelve-year-
old boy could perform so grave a task
so perfectly. He sat down at once and
wrote a letter to headquarters, detail
ing the incident and emphasizing his
admiration for a movement which
could give boys such training.
The action of Scout Martin is said to
have made a tremendous impression
locally, especially among the parents
of boys. The hero of the incident is a
member of Troop So, of the Second
Pittsburgh District, in charge of r.
E. Baker, who takes pride in his
t,.oonc pro6 o;anov
Here are a few little items with big
significance reported from Knoxville,
Tenn:
"a man inquired of me where a
certain number was. He could neither
read nor write, % | took him to the
house he was looking for"
"Came across a boy who had turned
his ankle and could not walk. l
picked him up and carried him to his
home nearby"
"a lady locked her front door and
found when she came home she had
left the key inside. I went through
the window and opened the door for
her."
at was raining the other day and !
saw a horse standing in the road.
There was a horse blanket in the
wagon so | put it on the horse" .
This laconic statement comes all
from n small boy, no name attach
ed: Carried in kindling for neigh
Dor. Fixed pair of skates for little
boy. Carried suitcase to depot for
lady. Let a boy have some money.
Went to town for a man. Looked
after "a sick boy while his mother
worked. Got some medicine from
drug store for sick boy"
The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03

lingerie. They are made of the same
materials as petticoats; the cotton
ones of batiste and nalnsook and the
silk mes of satins, crepe de chine and
glove silk. The two models pictured
show how attractive these convenient
substitutes for petticoats are. In the
Knockers at the left of the picture, the
scant fullness about the waist is all
gathered In at the sides and back, over
an elastic band. In the pettlbockers it
Is disposed evenly about the waist.
In French lingerie. silk appears to
have absorbed the interest of its In
g%enious makers, and they have sent us
captivating and dainty things in pastel
shades Of flowerlike colors along with
fine linens and sheer cottOns that show
little change In style or decoration.
American manufacturers have adopt
ed these imports to our needs and a
little journey to the shops will repay
the needlewoman who intends t re-
plenish her w supply of underwear
with something of her own making.
The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03

Willis: "What is the solution of orr
present industrial chaos?"
ellis: Labor must ome sdown, cap
ital must core across, efficiency must
come up, and taxes must come off,
Judge.
The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03

1t is nought, it is nought, saith the
buyer; but when he is gone his way,
then he boasteth.
The Penn's Grove record., 1922-02-03
To The Rescue

Scene: A Ford car ditched on a
road just outside Newport News; a
wrecking cal in operation; traffic hope
lessly snarled.
This was the situation when mem
bers of Troop 2, who had been camp
ing at a nearby pond, started home;
They got in action, directed traffic and
averted accidents.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
BIG SCENES WITH FINE PLAYERS IN
 "EBB TIDE" FILM
Battle With Octopus and Storm at Sea Will Thrill All Picture Fans.

A desperate fight with an octopus a breath-taking storm at sea, scenes ] of pearl divers at work and overlay- ing 1t all the remarkably human char
 acters of Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne-such are the high lights of "Ebb Tide," a new George Melford Paramount picture, which comes to the Rialto Theatre next
 Monday.
 The finely drawn characters which are so truly Stevensonian divide in terest so equally in the story that MT. Melford, instead of featuring any one or two players, has assembled a nota- ble cast, all of whom are of "star" or near-star rank in their own right. The women are Lila Lee and Jacqueline Logan. The men include James Kirk wood, Raymond Hatton, George Faw- cett and Noah Beery. All are mem bers of the recently organized Para mount Stock Company players.
 As in the case of Burning Sands" beautiful exterior scenes are the most important feature of "Ebb Tide" A Pacific island was chosen for the To- ca1e and transformed into a tropical isle MT. Melford, with a large amount of portable electrical equip ment, a ueet of power boats and schooners and large force of players and technical help, encamped for whole month at this location.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
CARPENTERS ELECT DELEGATES TO STATE
 CONVENTION

At the regular meeting of the Car penters and Joiners Local Union, No. 7o, six delegates were elected to rep resent the organization at the annual convention of the Connecticut State Council of Carpenters and Joiners which will be held in February in Greenwich, Conn.
 The following members were elect ed: John L. Richards, George F. Mordecai, A. w. Branch, F. A. Odell, J. E. Snow, and John w. Streeter.
 John L. Richards is now serving his first term as president of the state organization and has proven his abil- ity to fill the position on more than one occasion during the past year. It is expected that all of the officers of the state organization will be re- elected at the convention. The pres ent executive board consists of such able men as John L. Richards, presi- dent, of New Haven; H. w. Garnsey, vice president, Derby; Thomas H. Russell, vice-president, Hartford; i; George Chandler, secretary, Green wich, and Fred Dunn, treasurer, New London.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS

No better method can be imagined o participate in spirit of the approaching holiday by following the advice of John J. Manning, secretary the Union Label Trades Department of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. He
 During this of the Is less interested in Christmas shopping amount of money will be spent This fact gives the wide-awake trades food for thought they realize the golden opportunity expen their Christmas for the products of ized labor.
 Cigars tobacco cigarettes writing paper slippers, col ars shirts underwear gloves hosiery suspendes bes and neckes all be obtained with the union label and always prove acceptable gifts.
 Father may need a raincoat a hat pair shoes Supply his need and watch for his look of pleasure when he the union label That will make the gift doubly precious to him.
 Brother may long for a travelling bag, musical instrument of kind. Many housewives would appreciate mattress. The thrifty housekeeper would barrel of flour. A union-made desk table will supply longet of many.
 In making all purchases your patronage should be given those employing union clerks and union drivers.
 Many churches orchestra assist the choir at If have the trade union will that union musicians engaged by those charge
 You will see that all Christmas printed paper and that the label of Allied Printing Trades appears them.
 Should of the Christmas entertainments in clude refreshments that union bread cake and soft drinks served by a union waiter.
 By carrying out these suggestions will make 1t Merry Christmas for of fellow workers in the American labor by ot patronage of the organized workers will be employed
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
SEAPLANE RESCUE BIG
 THRILL IN "OUTCAST'

A despairing woman who jumps from steamship into the sea and who is rescued by seaplane, is the chief figure of "Outcast," a new Paramount picture starring Elsie Fer guson, which will be feature at the Rialto Theatre for three days be- ginning Thursday next.
 The story of this impressive and thrilling photoplay deals with the eff forts of Miriam, a deserted wife who is thrown into the streets through poverty, to reclaim man who dis sipates because of his hopeless love for a hckle woman. The various phases of this picture narrative which have their climax in an attempt at suicide and rescue at sea, are highly thrilling, and all in all, the role DOT trayed by Miss Ferguson is said by her to be one of the strongest she has essaycd during her screen career of five years.
 '"Outcast" is a perturbation of the play of the same name by H. H. Da vies, in which Miss Ferguson starred in New York in 1914. The role of Miriam is an exacting one, requiring histrionic ability of a high order David Powell, we'll known leading man, plays opposite Miss Ferguson, and Mary MacLaren, who was lead ing woman for Wallace Reid and other stars, has the role of Valen- tine.
 The supporting cast includes among others, William Powell, Will liam David, Charles Wellesley and Teddy Sampson
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
U. 5. Taxes Decrease Million Dollars While Stock Dividend Deals Continue OWNERS OF BIG BUSINESS AVOID TAXATION
 AND U. S. REVENUES FALL OFF ONE-TE1IRD

profits and authorized by law to exact tax penalties under law"
 Recent election returns wiped out nearly all of the 1oo republican ma jority in the House." continues Rep resentative Frear, himself a republi- can. "The country apparently could see little hope from a party whose officials during and since the war per mitted extortionists to plumber or a party whose officials have continued the plundering license and recovered nothing Knowing a division of power would be hopeless, a republican majority was returned, but it is mani festly another vote of protest like that of two years ago." ;.
 Proposes Treasury Changes.
 Representative Frear proposes the following rebuilding plan for the U. 5. treasury:
 I. Re-enact the corporation excess profits tax of 1921 fixing a reason able graduated tax rate to discourage extortion.
 2. Place a retroactive graduated tax on undistributed corporation profits to reach large surpluses, here tofore accumulated to avoid taxa ton.
 3. Increase the inheritance tax after reasonable exemptions and add a gift tax to prevent menacing oligarchy.
 4. Enact a stock dividend tax law making such law retroactive, subject to action on the second proposal
 B. Make all tax returns and all tax proceedings public.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
WHEN PRIVILEGE IS CORNERED IT
 USES HONEYED WORDS

! When privilege is cornered it sub i stitutes plausible reasoning and hon eyed words for logic and facts
 It is cornored today. Hence the claim that it's ship subsidy is similar : to people voting money for good roads and inland waterways. Roads and inland waterways are owned and operated by the people for public service and not for profit. All people may use these public utilities just as they use the public schools libraries, and municipal water plants.
 The ship subsidy Is financial aid by the government to private business operated for private profit. This aid is not for every ship owner, but for the few.
 The public is assured that these rich / will dribble benefactions down to the common folk, but the latter no longer accept this Santa Claus picture of privilege and greed.
 Privilege, of course, does not be- lieve there IS any similarity between subsidizing private operations, run for private profit, and maintaining a pub lie utility for service to the people,
 Privilege knows different, but what it knows and what 1t orders it's hoop rollers to do are different proposi- lions.
 Privilege does not attempt to fool itself It's business is to fool others Its life depends on deception and de- ceit. It can not. accept truth and survive.
 To save itself it commands skilled lawyers, educators, psychologists, ob- servers, investigators, a subserVlcnt press, ballyhoos and camp followers who are always found under the ban ner of power and pelf
 This combination is now spreading it's glad tidings that there is no diff ference between a ship subsidy and building good roads.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
ALL WANT PLACE /
 ON BAND WAGON

Washington, Dec. 8.-The rear guard of the old. guard senators have read the returns from the recent cleo ton. They have hopped on the pro- gressive band wagon, or are attempt ing to, and declare they are friends of the farmer" and are deadly enc mics of old man H. C. of L.
 Henceforth no one will shout loud CT than the old guard for the horny handed son of toll and other com mon people.
 The group of popular defenders in the senate, however, refuse to become enthusiastic over the old guards sud den conversion. It Is shown that this conversion and the election returns are too clasely related to indicate sincere repentance.
 The progressive members of the senate suggest that the e1eventh-hour converts sit on the mourners' bench for a spell
 So again is verified the, claim that privilege always attempts to capture and compromise movements that 1t cannot corrupt Or crush.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08

! The same trick reasoning was wit messed when privilege damned the i Cummins- Esch act through congress amid a whirlwind of propaganda un-
 equalled in this country.
 The elements that would soften | opposition to the ship subsidy are the same gentry that cheer for the "open shop" and the "American plan and free and independent workers when privilege launches a union smashing war
 These barkcrs for privilege can re peat backwards their parrot formulas that "thc union minimum wage puts every worker on the same lcver'< and i trade unionistS oppose labor injunc- tions because they want to violate law"
 When the subsidy bill is wrecked Iccts will again assume their anti-la- bor attitude and insist that "the rights of the public are paramount"
 The views of these h. i.'s be it known, will contain no reference to the duties of the public.
 Privilege must depend on a warped public opinion. It can not succeed when the public understand a ques- ton. The hand of privilege is never seen in this inf1aming Of the public mind. It is the business of the bark CTS and hired intellccts to confuse the people, This they do with their sophstry, their decoy phrases and de ccptivc terms.
 Their methods are shown on the trade union question, on the railroad question, on immigration, on child la bor and every other issue that chal- -1-.4 1
 Their trickery and disregard for facts is once again shown by their claim that a ship subsidy is identical to money voted by the people to maintain their roads and improve these inland waterways
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08
Roads Hide Profits

Chicago, Dec. .9.-Railroad manage ments hide a large portion of their profits, while protesting against liv- ing wage, President Fitzgerald, of the organized railway clerks, told the Railroad Labor Board.
 Despite claims of paid propagand- ists, railroads are now in excellent financial condition" he said "The ne, income of the railroads of the country was $Io3,ooo,ooo greater the nine months ending October I, 1922, than in the corresponding period of 1921. This represents an increase of 30 per cent after all taxes and operating ex- penses are paid"
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08

American Radiator Co. ,----@- 6,oo3,o ,ooo | American Shipbuilding Co. - 2,461 ,ooo Mays Department Stores--- (, 1000, ,ooo 1 National Sugar Refnining
 Co. 5000, ,ooo
 Pan American Pet x T..
 Co. ----I7 ,544,275
 Rec Motor Car Co. -------.--------- 6,o37,25o
 Yale & Towne Manfg. Co. -4,oo8774 lngersoll-R Rand Co. ---------------I 5, ,ooo, 900
 National Liberty Ins. Co., 5oo,ooo Globe & Rutgers Fire Ins.
 Co. 2,8oo, ,ooo Hamilton Brown Shoe Co., 1000, o,ooo U. s. Guarantee Co. ---------,---.-,- 300, 1000 Lawyers Mortgage Co. .----., 1000, 1000 Maryland Casualty Co. -------- 1,5oo,o o,ooo Fidelity Casualty Co. ------------ 2,ooo,o o,ooo Federal Sugar Refining Co., 4,8oo,ooo White Eagle Oil & Ref. Co.Io, ,24o,ooo Kellogg Switchboard ----.---.-- 75o,ooo Republic Cotton Mills Co., 1,75o,ooo Corn Exchange Bank 100000 Northwestern Yeast Co. -~---. 3,ooo,ooo All-American Cables Co. - 5,ooo, 900
 The great national disgrace of tax evasion was severely scored by no less a person than Jules Bache, New York banker and stock broker, at the National Industrial Tax confer ence. "The taxpayer" he said, Spends eleven months a year devis- ing schemes by which during the one month that he tries to make up his tax statement he can avoid as many of the taxes as is legally possible and he generally succeeds in avoiding many of them"
 Melons Melons. -t Now comes Cong gressman Frear to tell what Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has been doing while en- trusted with the duty of protecting the public treasury. You helped" he says, repeal the excess profits law with loss to the treasury an- nually when added to surtax reduc- tions, of approximately half bill lion dollars. You opposed any tax on undistributed profits intended to reach such enormous surpluses; you pressed for passage a reduction of one-half of surtax on great incomes; you opposed any inheritance tax or gift tax that would reach gigantic mushroom estates, never before known in history and you express no opinion against legalized secrecy, or concealnfent of public records by your department. In fact, during your own administration the corporation excess 1 profits tax law has been repealed and a large reduction secured in individual high surtax rates. Large melons that for some reason have been gathering for a decade are now being cut dur ing your administration, and you are 1 publicly proclaimed by investment ! journals to be great stock dividend ! beneficiary, and yet you are the only l one acquainted with the enormous l
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-08

By International Labor News Service
 Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.-A de crease of $I,I4I, ,ooo, 900 in income ant profits taxes, or 35 per cent, Tn 1922 IS the staggering loss to the United States government resulting largely from tax evasions, the latest trick be ing the distribution and redistribu tion of wealth through stock divi dend deals.
 Congressional legislation contem- plated the collection eventually oi hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes upon the distribution to stock holders of excessive profits accumu- lated during and since the war period.
 Naturally the millionaires of the United States sought to retain as much of the excess profits as possi- ble.
 Millions of profits were written off and hidden from tax examiners by were delayed until some device could be perfected for evading the taxes payable in the natural course of events.
 Now that Secretary Mellon, appar- ently, backed by decision of the U. $. Supreme Court, has pointed out the legal loophole and has himself started the ball rolling, there has resulted an orgy of stock dividend distributions that has never been paralleled in the history of the country.
 Rush to Share Profits.
 All the big corporations with actual or hidden profits are rushing madly to join in the distribution before Con- gress awakes to the need of action on behalf of the public treasury. But even now 1t is almost too late. The horse will be gone forever when Con- gress puts the lock on the stable door.
 Standard Oil, having the largest profits of any industrial group in the country, was set for killing as soon as the tip went out that the cards were stacked A billion dollars of stock dividends have so far been de- clared by this group. The Atlantic Refining Company has just topped the list with a 900 per cent stock dividend. It had oo,ooo,ooo of profits to dispose of on capitalization of $S,ooo,ooo. Since stock dividends are not taxable, the following Standard Oil stock dividend declarations repre- sent just so much that has been slipped by the income x-.collector .at maximum rate of 6o per cent:
 Standard Oil Companies