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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-06

room, which is unusually attractive.
In size it Is comparable with the liv-
ing rooms in many very large homes
and in every respect of arrangement
and furnishing expresses the spirit
OF hospitality and friendliness. The
interest in the room is found in the
fireplace In the middle of the south
wall. The furniture OF the room is so
grouped that the cheer Of the fire
place is enjoyed from every corner of
the room.
The windows are curtained with silk
sunfast in a colorful combination Of
mulberry and tan. This note of mul-
berry is the characteristic one in the
room. being repeated in the corded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-06
LIONS ENDORSE ORDINANCE
Snethen Talks on Smoke Abatement
at Weekly Luncheon.

The proposed smoke abatement
ordinance has received the indorse-
ment of the Lions Club, following ex-
plantations made by e. o. Snethen,
president of the Federated Community
Civic Clubs at a luncheon in the Lin
coin, Wednesday. The A-ltrusa Club
and University OF Michigan alumni
have indorsed the ordinance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-09-06
MUTE CUTS ARM TALKING
Calculations on Restaurant Counter
DemOIish Glass.

Samuel White. "a. Vincennes. Ind.
deaf and dumb talked" himself into
the city hospital early today, with a
severe cut on his right arm.
c. G.. Claman Of the Claman Dairy
Lunch, 209 n. Delaware St, told po-
Ice White and Fred Fox, PIT s. Da-
wilson ST. came into the restaurant
and asked to have a $50 check dashed.
When he did not have the money
White began explaining" by beating
on a cigar case with his fist and the
glass broke, cutting his arm. police
said. At the city prison Fox will face
trial today on charge of intoxica-
ton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
TAX DODCINC
SCHEME

Washington.-Stoc dividends make
it possible for the corporation to be
the only one who can evade the income
tax law, said Senator Trammell of
Florida
There are all sort of reasons why
stock dividends are issued, he said,
but one reason stands out paramount
they are evading the payment of in
come taxes.
"While everybody else in this coun-
try is required to contribute to the
support of the government on the ba-
sis of his income, the big corporate
interests of the country are evading
the payment of their just proportion
of the income taxes. Most of these
tax dividends constitute bold, brazen
cases of tax lodging.
"To me it is indefensible that we
have a system of taxation which per"
mits such evasion of law. If we are
hedged about by constitutional pro-
visions so that there is an avenue OF
escape for the most prosperous con-
Germs by declaring stock dividends,
then we need constitutional amend
ment so that such procedure may be
rendered impossible and that there
can not be an evasion of the income
tax law or the intent of it, as writ
ten by the congress"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16

finally said: "Well, we won't whip
you. You can go now."
Parr said ne went directly to his
home and remained there till he
started for Little Rock
One of the most significant pieces
of testimony was that given by John
7. Rogers, ST. Louis newspaper man.
Rogers, after describing the difficulty
of his efforts to get through mob
ruled territory, said that upon being
restrained by mob guards his release
was obtained by an appeal to General
Manager Murray, of the Missouri &
North Arkansas Railroad. Murray
says pass these men," were the magic
words that got Rogers and his jour
nalistic companion out of danger.
In Harrison, Rogers says, he was
instructed that what took place there
must be a "closed book"
The legislative committee has clos
ed its Little Rock hearings and will
hold the remaining hearings in Harri-
son. 1t is curious that none of the
IL members of the mob dictatorship
was questioned in Little Rock. Mel
ther was General Manager Murray.
These are to be heard in Harrison, if
at all, for reasons that the committee
seems to consider sufficient.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
ANTI-STRIKE LAW
For Curbing Texas Workers
Is Vicious Proposal

Austin, Railroad attorneys
succeeded in convincing both senate
and house committees that the open
port law should not be repealed.
This bill outlaws any strike that in
terferes with the transportation of
commerce, and applies to "any person
or persons employed in any way on
the docks, wharves, switches, railroad
tracks, express companies, depots,
freight depots, pipe lines or approach
es or appurtenances to, or incident to,
or used in connection with the han
ding of commerce by common car
riers within this state"
The law defines common carriers to
mean "any railroad corporation, any
express company, any interurban rail
way company, and street car COM
pany, and ship, dock, wharf company,
any pipe line company engaged in the
transportation of freight, express or
passengers"
The law not only accepts the hand
cuff principle of the Kansas "can't-
strike" law, but it permits the attor-
ney general of the state or a county
attorney to change any other coun-
ty he sees fit the trial of workers
charged with violating the law
Where workers are arrested, the at
torney general or county attorney
may demand change of venue on the
ground that the prosecution can not
secure a fair and impartial trial in
the county where the Indictment is
found. Upon the filling of such mo-
ton, it shall be the duty of the court
to order such change of venue, but he
must not select any county that, ''in
the opinion of the attorney general or
the county attorney" is subject to
like conditions and objections.
Under this law the prosecution has
! the sole right to select the county in
which workers shall be tried. This
county may be hostile to strikers and
it may be such distance that it is
impossible for workers to pay the ex.
pense of their witnesses.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
BELONGS TO ALL
Bounty of the Earth" Not
Intended For Few, Says
Church Man

Washington.-Th "Christian doc
trine of property" is explained in a
pamphlet written by DR.. John A.
Ryan, and which will appear in the
near future, announces the national
Catholic welfare council, department
of social action.
"The most striking recognition OF
the claims of all men to the bounty of
the earth," it is stated, 'is found in
the writings of the church. They all
express definitely the belief that the
earth belongs to ALL that the super
fuities of the rich are the necessaries
of the poor About 35 years ago
Cardinal Manning reiterated this doc
trine when he declared that the starv-
ing man had right to steal to save
himself from starvation. Some of the
papers of that day denounced this
principle as anarchistic."
The pamphlet includes an original
application of the principles of the in
trinsic sacredness of the human indi-
vidual and the fundamental equality
of all men. 1t suggests limitation of
capitalist property plan whereby
labor would be given the same incen-
tive as has heretofore been accorded
only to capitalize hope of indefinite
gain unrestricted by law and deter
mined only by the finite capacities of
the pursuers.
'"The scheme in general proposes to
assure the capitalist fair return for
the loan of his money, sufficient to in
duce investment, but to give the sur
plus profits to the wage earners and
the management. This would eventu-
ally result in the steadying of the mar
ket and the abolition of the specula-
tive function of Wall street. The cor
poration would become a productive
concern rather than a gambling me-
dium."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
ALL EXCITED
Child Labor Charge Stirs
Mine Owners

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. ca radio broad
cast statement on child labor in coal
mines has got the mine owners all
"het up" and in Coal Review for
January 81 big, black headlines pro-
claim the labor department lecture a
misleading attack"
The labor department is Sitting
pretty" and saying nothing officially.
More radio broadcasts are to follow,
it is understood, on the same sub
ject.
These statements, broadcasted
from the navy station at Arlington
reach half the country.
The joke on the mine owners is
that this material was published by
the department of labor children's bu-
reau as a report year ago and in all
that time has not been questioned by
mine owners or anyone else.
The mine owners say the broad
casted statement sounded like "an
attack that might be launched by the
U. M. w of A."
The government department insists
that the facts are accurate and it is
pointed out that the mine owners have
for a year failed to object, becoming
'riled" only when the statement is
sent out by radio year after it was
first made public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
SOUNDS GOOD TO UNKNOWING
HOWEVER, PROOF is GIVEN THAT COMPUL sorry ARBITRA-
|TION Is TRAGEDY AND FAILURE-ALSO THAT CAN'T BE
FORCED TO WORK AGAINST WILL
Russell Says Before Considering The Mills
fully Study New Zealand Where Such Laws Already

from which they had been taken.
After butting heads for few weeks
against this situation, the social doc
tors learned what they might have
known from the beginning, that you
can't make men work if they don't
want to work and that consequently
compulsory arbitration is an idle
dream. There isn't any such thing
and can't be.
What this bill really aims at is the
camel's nose trick under the tent.
If it should be passed it would de-
prive labor of what it has gained of
the right to collective bargaining.
Labor unions should be on the alert
to see that it does not pass.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16

men refused to accept. So down came
the magnificent new law full tilt.
Strikers were arrested and slung into
jail. Levies were made on all they
possessed-wash boiler and all.
Then the social doctors became
aware of three things. First, putting
men into Jail didn't end the strike.
Men can't mine coal in jail. Second,
there weren't enough jails in all New
Zealand to hold one-tenth of the
strikers. Third, the levies on the
washboiler all crumpled up.
When the officers of the law had
seized all the contents of a miners
home and offered them for sale, the
highest bid would be 25cents. Where
upon the purchaser would move the
goods back into the miners house
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
LABOR SHORTAGE" CRY
RENDERED BY ASSOCIATED GENERAL CON-
TRACTORS LACKS IN HARMONY AND is
REPLETE WITH DISCORDANT NOTES,
SAYS SPENCER
Many Members of Building Crafts Are Ide-Demand For
Immigrants Comes Only From Cheap Labor
Advocates

Washington.-The associated gen
eral contractors are singing the Tabor
shortage" song and their action, ac-
cording to William J. Spencer, secre-
treasurer of the building trades
department, A. F. of L., is 'based
either upon gross ignorance of the
facts or serves some special purpose
which the contractors are unwilling to
disclose"
At their Los Angeles convention the
contractors outdid the widest plea
of cheap laborites for unrestricted i'm
migration and claimed that an alleged
labor shortage in the building indus
try can be traced to the present i'm
migration law and the failure to in
troduce apprentices in this industry
Secretary Spencer shows that the
immigration law does not interfere
with the building industry, as foreign
building craftsmen come from the
British Isles, Germany, Sweden, Den
mark and Norway, which countries
have not sent their quotas under the
existing law The countries that have
exhausted their quotas are the Bal
kans and southern Europe, but con-
tractors have shown decided reluc-
tance to employ these immigrants,
said Secretary Spencer.
If there is a shortage of bricklay-
ers and plasterers, said Secretary
Spencer, it is due to the unprecedent-
ed housing program launched
throughout the country which is near
ing completion at this time.
st will be admitted that during the
war solid structures We're not erected
by the government nor were private
enterprises in building erection per-
mitted, so that since there were no
workmen employed it follows no ap-
prentices were introduced to the
trades.
There is, perhaps, no one in this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16

country in a better position to Judge
as to the truthfulness of the latter
statement than officials of the asso-
ciated general contractors of Amer
ica, who had charge of all cantonment
work, and indeed all war construction,
and who will, without doubt, readily
admit that there was little if any en-
ployment for the workmen of the two
trades herewith mentioned, and that
under the draft laws prospective ap-
prentices would not be permitted en-
ployment even had the opportunity
been open to them"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
Written Especially for International
Labor News Service and the
Butler County Press

H. R. lo0G2, the Mills bill to provide
for compulsory arbitration of labor
disputes, is now pending in the house
of representatives, congress of the
United States.
Keep your eye on this bill. 1t is
the most vicious piece of anti-labor
legislation that has so far been at
tempted in congress. Unless there
is adequate and united action it will
GO over.
One great danger in it is that to
persons that don't know it sounds so
good
Arbitration-that's as fair for one
side as for the other, isn't it? And
if labor dispute is arbitrated then
we don't have strike, do we? Hence
let US have arbitration.
That is the way the average out
slider argues, and this bill is drawn to
appeal to the uninformed average out
slider.
He doesn't know that compulsory
arbitration is the biggest bunk and
the biggest nonsense and the biggest
fake ever known, but there is one part
of the world that knows that fact and
knows it henceforth and forever. No
one will ever be able again to fool
New Zealand with this little trick
1t has been stung once and that was
enough.
If New Zealand's experience were
well known in this country nobody
here would have the nerve to talk
about compulsory arbitration.
About % years ago, following a big
maritime strike, a neat little law was
put over providing that all labor dis
putes thereafter were to be settled
by a board of three arbitrators, one
chosen by the labor unions, one by
the employers associations, and the
third being a justice of the supreme
court.
This meant, of course, arbitration
by one man-the justice of the SUI
preme court.
Fines were provided for employers
or workers that refused to accept
the awards of this tribunal; heavy
fines.
For some time the awards were in
favor of the men. Lovely. No
strikes.
After a time the employers said
that wages had gone as high as they
could stand, and if there were any
more increases manufacturing would
quit the country.
The next award was against the
men.
The men refused to accept it and
went on strike.
The courts levied fines. The men
refused to pay them. When execu-
tions were issued there was nothing
to levy on but the family wash boiler
and that was exempt. So the strike
went on and the award went i,limmer-
ing
/ The social doctors then said that the
law wasn't strong enough. What was
needed was Jail sentence and no ex.
emptions on levies for fines. So the
law was amended and made as strong
as human ingenuity could make any
law. Compulsory arbitration to the
limit. Jail sentences and everything
The next year there was an aware
in the coal mining industry that the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
CURBING PROFITEERS

Philadelphia.-The public service
commission has ordered the Pennsyl-
vania railroad to discontinue coal
shipments to M. J. Carroll, coal
dealer charged with profteering. 1t
is alleged that Carroll sold coal in
ton lots at $22 and in 100-pound lots
at $30.24 ton. There was much for
eign matter sold as part of the coal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
STEEL PRICES GO UP

New York.-Steel prices are head
ed for higher levels, according 70
Judge Gary. In plain English, this
means that prices are going up. The
judge deplores the scarcity of laboc.
It seems that no one with American
lied idea is willing to accept the
Judges II and II hour day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
STEREOTYPERS GAIN

Brockton, Mass.-Organized stere-
otypers employed on newspapers in
this city have raised wages from
$6.25 day or night to 81. In Lowell
the stereotypers changed the old scale
of $35 week to s42 for day work
and $45 for night work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-02-16
ONLY SMALL MATTER
MOB FACTS LAID BARE SHOWING HOW HARRI-
SON OFFICIALS WERE FORCED TO RESIGN
BUT NEWSPAPERS DON'T WANT
TO BOTHER THEIR READERS
Reporter Instructed That What Took Place Must Be
"Closed Book"-Legislatve Committee Now
Conducting Investigation

While the Harrison, Ark, mob sit
uation is closed book in most daily
newspaper offices the state legislative
inquiry committee goes on digging up
sensational and important informa-
ton.
Numerous witnesses have testified
to being whipped, threatened, impris-
oned or deported.
Witnesses also have testified to be-
ing sworn in as deputy sheriffs and
then being assigned to duty as mem
bers of squads of the mob organiza-
tionl
William Parr, the white-haired mar
shall of Harrison, has told the COM
mittee how he was forced to resign
and how he remained hidden in his
own attic for hours to "save his neck
from the mob that compelled him to
resign.
He and his wife remained in the
Monday noon until Wednesday fore
noon, and while there heard several
persons enter the house below and
ransack it.
"About noon Monday" he testified,
George O'Neal told me the commit
tee had called him, and asked me to
go with him. At the postoffce there
was mob and fellow called out,
THE Harrison police. Hang the
-.' They pointed
guns at me, but we kept on up to the
committee room in the Rotary Club.
Clay Holt showed me out, saying:
We'll get you later and down in the
street, when the mob threatened me
again, Walter Snapp told them: Let
him alone, now Well get him later.
l went home and hid"
A little before daylight Wednes-
day, he continued, his wife went down
town and saw an attorney, Colonel
Crump, through whose son-in-law, F.
M. Garvin, Parr was told that the
committee wanted him to resign. Gar
vim, he said, wrote out the resigna-
ton, took it to the committee after
it was signed, and then took Parr up
to the committee room, where he rec
ognized among the members Clay
Holt, Walter Snapp, Sam Dennis and
George Mckinney.
He said all the members" gave
him a roundup" accusing him of
union sympathies and that "Sam"
Evening star., 1923-01-12

DIR. Arthur E. Brides, widely known
as a foot ball player and coach at
! Yale, declared not guilty of multiple
charges. then voluntarily resigned as
New England director to enter pri-
vate practice; his resignation accept
ed and Col. John +. j. Herbert of
W orcester appointed temporarily i'll
his place.
Capt. Blake Relieved.
Capt. William J. Blake, assistant
director charged by DR.. Brides with
lack of cooperation and ineftfciency,
to report at Washington for reas-
TO report at Washington for re-as-
assignment; Malcolm Stoddard. chief
of the subdivision at Portland, Me-,
ordered here in his stead.
DR.. David S. Flanagan, chief medi-
cal officer, under charges of ineth-
cheney and lack of co-operat tion. which
were not heard. relieved from further
duty here. and ordered to report to
headquarters at Washington: DIR.
Winthrop Adams, assistant, advanced
to succeed him.
Haywood c. #. Mott. an emp1oye
discharged by Or. Brides as disloyal,
who preferred the charges against the
directors. ordered reinstated.
Fred T. Mcleod, chief of rehabilita-
tion at the bureau. relieved and or
dered to Washington for reassign-
ment; S. c. Leary Named to succeed
him temporarily.
Coordination Chief Relieved.
Guy Doherty, chief of coordination,
relieved and ordered to report to
Washington for reaSSignment
l.. H. ShaughneSsy, a clerk, declared
surplus, and dropped from the bureau.
The bureau under temporary or
ganization placed on probation for a
month, with word that it must pass
inspection by Col. Forbes at the end
of that time.
Col. Forbes said he had found in
trigue and false ambitions through
out the local office, affecting alike en-
plOyes and chiefs of departments. Tn
less he found conditions remedied, his
broom would sweep clean on his re-
turn. he said. The offices themselves.
he directed, should be removed from
the business district where they are
maintained at a rental of $3.50 a
year to the Army base, where they
could be kept for $4,000
Evening star., 1923-01-12

who had his daughter was a king, If
a barbarfc one, and civilized to
certain extent. She had not fallen
into the clutches of that grimy,
naked. foaming wretch, as he had i'm
ag1ned. And the knowledge eased his
tortured spirit considerably.
CHAPTER XVI.
After that interview with her cap
tor Pansy's life rapidly developed into
one long struggle between inclina-
tion and upbringing.
She knew she loved the sultan, but
all her standards revolted against
marrying him. She could not bear
TO think about the wild past that was
his. but she equally could not bear
to think that he might fall into sin
again when hers was the power to
prevent him.
What was more, she knew he had
guessed her love for him and was
doing his best to make her succumb
to his attractions.
After that one interview she was
not allowed out of the sensual,
scented precincts of the harem. She
had no occupation, no amusements.
no books even. Nothing to do all
day except Just think about her lover
And he made the battle all the
harder. Never day passed, but
what he was there, big and hand
SOME and fascinating. He would
come upon her in the little walled
garden and linger with her among
the roses. BY the hour he would sit
with her in the wide gallery over
looking the desert. Very often nc
dined with her in the gilded chamber
light of the shaded lamps, watching
her with soft, mocking eyes
And very often he would say:
Well, Pansy, have you made up
your mind whether you are going to
marry me or not?"
IL seemed to the girl that the whole
world was combining to drive her
into the arms of u man she ought to
turn from with contempt and disgust.
At the end of a fortnight he said:
''Pansy, you're the first woman who
has ever fought against her love for
me. It's all amusing sight, but I'm
beginning to wish you weren't such a
determined fighter"
At the end of a month some of the
mockery had gone out of his eyes,
giving place to q hungry CLEAN. For
the girl had not Succumbed to his
fascinations. although her face was
confinement and the ceaseless battle
that went on within herself.
And the man VINO acknowledged no
law except his own appetiteS and
who, up till now, had llVed Tor moth
ing else, loved the girl all the more
deeply because she did not succumb
TO his attractions. because she had
a soul above her senses and tried to
live up to her own ideals, refusing
to come down to his level. AT times
he felt he must try and grope his
way up to the heights, and uncon-
sciously he was rising from the
depths.
water can always reach the level
L.. Il
Although wild craving for his
girl prisoner often kept him wakeful,
although there was none to stop him.
and only u short length of passage