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Evening star., 1923-03-14

Miss Lillian Langworthy is enter
tanning a few guests at bridge in her
apartment at Wardman Park Hotel
this afternoon. from to 4 o'clock. her
guests including Mrs; Bower Hodges
Mrs. S B. Perkins, Mrs. John Bricer.
Mrs. Franklin King. Mrs. Lester
Tracey. Miss Regina German. Mrs. S.
Edward Bacon and Mrs. Moore.
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has re-
turned to Washington and is staying
at Wardman Park Hotel for the
spring.
Miss Agnes Stands left Yesterday
for Pensacola. Fla. where she Will be
the guest of Maj. and Mrs. Austin Nc
Donpell at Fort Barrances for fort
night before going to Atlanta TOT
Easter week. Miss Shands VII, JOIN
Stands. in their home on 10Th street
early in April.
Nine. Peter. wife OF the minister
from Switzerland. will be the honor
guest at a tea TO be given by the
Women's City Club in the cluo-
house. - Jackson place. on Friday
afternoon from 4 80 to 8 CLOCK. MRS.
Lyman Il. Swormstedt president OF
the club. will be assisted in receiving
by the ladies OF the board or d.
rectors Mrs Elliot Woods. Miss Nellie
Sedglev and Mrs. ~ CT. McClintock
will preside at the tea table. The
tea is tor club members only.
Miss Betty Werner is visiting her
cousin. Mrs. Edna Sussman. in New
York city. Miss Werner Will Visit
Miss Francis Dwyer. in Newport, be-
fore returning to Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs WIZ II. Way are spend
ing the winter OF the east coast or
Florida, making Fort Lauderdale their
permanent address. They visited Palm
Beach and Miami earlier i'll the sea-
son, and will go 70 Havana and the
Bahama Islands before returning 20
Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Norm"nt are in
New York. staying at the Plaza Hotel
until the first of the week.
4 conference of the Colonial Danes
of America will be held in Baltimore
Thursday at $3.50 o'clock by Chapter )
of Baltimore at the residence of Mrs.
W. Fl. de Courcy Wright, 500 Cathedral
street.
A luncheon at the MARYLAND Histori-
cal Society will precede the confer
ence Among the members OF Chapter
: of Washington. of which Mrs.
Arthur Addison is n"esidnnt who VIII
Evening star., 1923-03-14

Mrs John r. Mitchell was hostess
TO a small company at luncheon yes
terday at the Shoreham.
Evening star., 1923-03-14

Mrs. Luke McNamee left yesterday
for New York, where she will remain
until the 1st of April.
Evening star., 1923-03-14

attend the conference and lunch are
Mrs. John George Beresford. Mrs.
William Eaches Fendall and Mrs.
Rose GouverneuT Hoes.
Evening star., 1923-03-14
Group
No. 2

Dressy models in tan, grey
stone. navy and black Poiret twill
and cordine in every variance Of
the springtime jacket-in loose
box, Mandarin and hip blouse,
wrap and sash-tied jackets, with
braid, silk and gold thread en-
broiderv.
Evening star., 1923-03-14

Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has re-
turned to Washington and is staying
at Wardman Park Hotel for the
spring.
Evening star., 1923-03-14

the committee on prizes, promises
this feature will be especially unique.
Evening star., 1923-03-14
TWo-Piece
Costume and
Tailored Suits

Tailored Poiret twills, coverts
and velours checks in smart in
terpretations of long slashed panel
Jackets ribbon bound. short hip
lengths with narrow belts, one
button fastening and loose box
styles. Sizes "a to ~, and for
large women in sizes 4OH to 52H.
Evening star., 1923-03-14
Knockabout and
Sports Suits
$3.50

The al-occasion and all-weather suits-the
suit of general service, keyed to utility and
sports in distinctive outdoor fabrics, such as
polaire, cameps hair, English checks, mixtures.
homespuns and diagonal worsteds-favoring
the one-button or double-breasted box jacket.
slashed panels, tucked panels and belted styles.
Tan, gray, camel color, ramie, also combina-
ton checks of tan, brown, gray-blue and rust.
Evening star., 1923-03-14

Miss Lillian Langworthy is enter
tanning a few guests at bridge in her
apartment at Wardman Park Hotel
this afternoon. from to o'clock. her
guests including Mrs. Bower Hodges.
Mrs. S. B. PerkinS. Mrs. John Rricer.
Evening star., 1923-03-14

There simply isn't room to
describe'them as they really
are and because
THERE ARE NO TWO
ALIKE - it would require
this entire page to describe
them. It is not necessary
to tell you to ATTEND
but we earnestly ad.
wise you to
ATTEND EARLYI
Evening star., 1923-03-14

with its fascinating variations of tb mode
the ock top paisley Persian printed
brocaded Rohanraand with the Jacket
that beauty decorative effects sash
box the Mandarin blouse and the slendern%
blouse. In greystone and black.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
KAN OPPOSES COMPENSATION

and half years; that the claim was
settled for $685. less than would have
have been allowed by the State Com
pensation Commission, and that too
at no cost whatever to claimant or en-
ployer and without waste of time, to
say nothing of the $3,730 which was
the average cost Of each case to the
employer, most of which was swal-
lowed up by the rapacious attorney
and court costs.
1t surely takes no very careful
analysis to show that the opposition
to the Workmens Compensation Law
eminates from the second-class lawyer
and the liability insurance companies
which again hope to be permitted to
sell insurance to employers; and no
working man or woman should be de-
ceived by the propaganda originating
from such sources.
The law is endorsed by the Ohio
State Federation of Labor and here
is what it's author William Green, sec
retary-treasurer Of the United Mine
Workers of America, says about it in
recent letter to Thomas j. Donnelly,
Secretary-Treasurer of the O. S. F.
of L.:
GAS author of the Ohio Workmen's
Compensation Law | regard the pro-
posed Constitutional Amendment
which if adopted will terminate open
liability as of great benefit to all
the people of Ohio and particularly
the working people Of the state. l
shall vote for the adoption of this
Constitutional Amendment and | most
earnestly request that my friends and
working people generally throughout
Ohio vote in favor of the adoption of
the Workmen's Constitutional Amend
ment."
Again, the worker is advised to
study the true merits of the matter
we'll, thoughtfully and unbiased, with
out prejudice, before deciding to vote
against a constitutional provision
which assures sure and generous COM
pensation for all injuries or deaths
while employed at any occupation in
Ohio, at actually no cost or trouble
to himself, no attorney fees, no court
costs, no long waits-and the en-
ployer pays the bill.
Study it well, vote for the amend
ment, you can't lose.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Congress No Good
Says Sen. Copeland
(By Federated Press)

New York-Although himself a y
S. senator, Royal S. Copeland, former
commissioner of health of this city
in an address on Human Welfare and
Government" here remarked 81 don't
see why anybody ever goes to see
congress. 1t doesn't do any good
The members never do anything ex-
cept draw their pay"
Copeland related some of his for
mer experiences with congress say
ing he had long given up hope of any
human welfare action by that body
when he was told that the federal ap-
preparation for child welfare was
$4,000 a year, while $4,O00,0OO was
raised annually to combat hog chol-
era. eff you want to see the right
person in congress-" said Copeland
''you have to- take lunch with you
Or you will starve before you reach
the right place."
Copeland then pointed to the lower
east side of New York, where it is
reported 100000 people live in a
square mile, saying: "There isn't
any place like that anywhere else in
the world. Under such conditions
you can't have good health good NOR
ais or good citizenship"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02

In an article carrying a scare head
across the top of it's first page, last
weeks Ohio Fiery Cross, published in
Columbus, devotes considerable space
to it's views on the proposed Work
name Compensation Amendment and
alleged reasons why it should not be
adopted at the coming election.
The principal kick appears to be
that the employer would be relieved
of further responsibility after a claim
had been adjusted by the State Board,
and the beneficiary compelled to ac-
cept such settlement without further
recourse.
Now that is just where the advant-
ages of the proposed amendment
benefit the worker. He would be pro-
tected from the opportunities of those
human vultures in the form of am
bulance-chasing pettifogging lawyers,
who persuade him to give up sure
thing to grasp at the golden promises
they present to his view. And should
their arguments prove successful,
which frequently happens, and they
bring a damage suit against the EN-
ployer, the case is bound to drag a
long time, generally for years,
through the various courts before a
settlement is reached, and then the
party seeking redress is forced to ac-
cept a much smaller amount than he
could have obtained from the State
Compensation Committee and about
half Of what he does receive is swal-
lowed up in attorney fees and court
costs.
This statement is proved by the
following analysis of the results of
fifty-eight suits brought for damages
upon advice of an attorney:
Average amount sued for 9,494
Average total settlement 3,008.
Average court and atty fees 1858.
Average amt. paid claimant 1855.
Average amt. of State compensa-
ton claimant would have reed $500.
Average delay of settlement 2 yrs.
5 mos.
Average total cost to employers,
$3,730.
This proves conclusively that the
average time the claimants were kept
out of their just dues was nearly two
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Matered R. R. Stock
How Job is Worked

Cleveland-How railway stock is
being watered is shown in the recent
Nickle Plate deal. Last summer the
interstate commerce commission au-
thorized the Nickle Plate to absorb
four weaker roads, the Lake Erie &
Western, the Toledo, st. Louis & Wes-
term, and the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati
& Louisville, and the Chicago & State
Line. The promoters of the combine,
two real estate operators of Cleveland
named o. P. and M. ]. Van Swearing
en-, were authorized to increase the
capitalization of the new system from
$78,967, 900, the total value of all the
outstanding securities of the existing
roads to $105,500,000.
The Van Swearingens caused their
own railroad, the Nickle Plate, to is
sue the surplus of both common and
preferred stock to them. They have
kept the common stock, thereby Sc
curing absolute control of the new
system, and have just sold $15,000,000
in 6 per cent cumulative preferred
stock of the new system, thereby OBJ
tanning funds from their watered Sc
curities with which to pay off the pur-
chase price of the roads constituted
under the system. The interesting
point is that the overhead of the rail-
road made IA 2-10 per cent on it's
capitalization and used the profits
thus made as the basis for watering
its stock and now the public will be
expected to keep on paying dividends
on this watered stock.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
ShOpmen Sue PennSy
For Heavy Damages

Chicago-The railway shopmen on
strike against the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, about $4,000 in num-
ber, have brought suit against the
company in the federal courts of
Pennsylvania, to recover about $751;
100000 for underpayment in wages.
The shopmen claim the wages are due
them under decision of the U. S. Rail
road Labor Board which the Pennsyl-
vania refused to recognize and which
the labor board claimed it did not
have legal power to enforce.
The suit is brought by the System
Federation No. 80 of the Railway En-
ployes' Department of the American
Federation of Labor. The claim covers
the period from July 1, 1921, to July
2, 1922, the date. of the shopmen's
strike.
Donald R. Richberg, counsel for the
Railway Employees Department of
the American Federation of Labor;
Henry T. Hunt, one of the original
members of the Railroad Labor Board,
and Morris Hilquit of New York City,
are counsel for System Federation
No. 80.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Unemployment in
New England Growing

Providence R. Large numbers of
New England workers face hard
winter with mills either shutting
down completely for an indefinite
period or operating on a much re-
duced schedule. Depression in busi-
ness" is the reason given for the cur
tailment, according to notices posted
at various plants in Providence, r. l.,
Fitchburg and Clinton, Mass.
In Providence the plant of Brown &
Sharp Mfg. Co., which normally EN-
ployes over 5000 persons, has gone on
a 4O-hour week schedule unit; fur
ther notice. Fitchburg's Star Wor-
sted mill operates only four days a
week, and some departments of the
American Woolen company are also
running on short time; while the Ian
caster Mills at Clinton, Mass, are
reported closed for IN indefinite per-
iod.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Edison Predicts
A FOur-HOur Day
(By Federated Press)

New York-Another electrical ex-
pert, Thomas A. Edison, has indorsed
the opinion of the late DR.. Charles
A. Steinmetz that electrical power ap-
piled to industry will reduce the aver
age workday to four hours some time
in the future. Following a luncheon
given in his honor here, Edison said:
"The time will come when full au-
tomato machinery will be so largely
introduced that production will not
require mans working more than
four hours day. Some hold that
may not be good thing; idleness is
rather Objectionable to the average
man. But from the standpoint of the
old men need never work. The young
man can work and support the fam
ily"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
HERE THEY ARE
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS ARE
DISTRIBUTED
COmmendatiOn and Criticism of Our
Public Servants Bestowed as
Deemed Just BY Leaders
Hired Man
GAN FAITH, HE'LL PRINT 'EM'


Quite a few citizens of Newark have
signifed their willingness to act as
"public servants" and they will be
weighed in the public balance next
Tuesday, and some elected to the po-
sitions to which they aspire, while
the rest will be laid on the shelf.
Of course the Hired Man" has his
preferences but he's not going to state
them or advise others how to vote.
If his friends suffer defeat he will
take his medicine like man and still
keep smiling; but he wants to make
this statement to the successful con-
testants, be they friend or foe: Any
thing of whatever nature deserving
commentator will be commented up
on and given due credit, but matters
which should be censured will be
roasted and shown up to the public
without Fear or Favour"
Let US all "Keep the United States
United" and lend helping hand to
the official family selected by ma
iority of the voters to manage the af-
fairs of the city. They will probably
endeavor to perform their duties just
ly and fairly, but most of them will
gladly accept suggestions and advice
from their constituents So let's give
'em a fair start, without handicap,
but let US also keep our eyes peeled
and be on the lookout for any scheme
or trick they may endeavor to put
across. Be sure the "Hired Man" will
be on the job and will not hesitate to
turn the search light upon anything
of suspicious character as soon as
it appears above the horizon.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Amendments and Referendur
Will Not Repeal
ESCh-CumminS Act
tBy Federated Press)

Washington-Repeal or amendment
of the Esch-Cummins railroad act,
one of the cardinal points in the i'm
mediate program of farmer-labor pro-
gressives, will be resisted by all the
power of organized reaction in and
outside of congress this winter. Con-
troll of the interstate commerce COM
mittee of the house will determine
whether the repeal issue will reach
vote. Both sides are lining up for
battle over that committee when the
house is organized five weeks hence.
Samuel Winslow, veteran of the
Massachusetts bloc in Washington
Lodge, Gillett, Coolidge, Winslow,
Greene, ct ais chairman of this
pivotal committee. Speaker Gillett
owes his job largely to Winslow, and
will fight for Winslow's privilege to
continue to veto rail legislation de-
manded by the labor-farmer voters.
Five vacancies exist on the Repub-
lican side and one on the Democratic
side of the committee. Even if all
six places were now to be filled by
progressives the standpatters would
still have to 7, with 5 others waver-
ing between the two elements. From
such a committee nothing significant
of social vision could be expected
But it now appears quite unlikely
that all the vacancies will be filled by
progressives. Nor, indeed, that the
Old Guard will be seriously shaken in
their hold on the Craftsmanship. Only
concerted action by Republican and
Democratic progressives throughout
the country to set aside Winslow and
reconstruct the entire committee,
from the ground up, will have any
effect on the situation. Signs of such
action are not evident.
The new house stands 222 nominal
Republicans, 207 nominal Democrats,
Socialist, Farmer-Labor, l indie
pendent, 8 vacancies. But a great
majority of Republicans and Dem
ocrats are united in reactionism.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
The Bakers Workers
Are Good Fighters

Chicago, Ill.-The Bakery and Con-
fectionery Workers. international
Union of America has waged 153
strikes during the past three years to
protect bakery workers wages and
hours from the assaults on organized
labor standards made by un-Ameri-
can employers.
The strikes affected 1872 shops, 2742
union members and cost the interna-
tional union $89,344 in strike benefits
Since 1909 the union has paid out
$926,662 in sick and death benefits at
an average monthly cost of slightly
over AZ cents per member.
In 1893 the union had 5000 mem
bers, 1920 in 1908, $4,000 in 1913,
and 27,969 in 1923.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Will DeporI Students.

Springfield, Mass.-Seventeen for
eign students, who had arrived re-
Gently and maticulated at the Amer
ican International college here have
been ordered deported by the federal
immigration authorities according to
advices received by Chancellor c. S.
MCGOWAN. They are charged with
entering the United States after the
quota Of immigrants from their sew
eral countries had been filled.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Machinists "COming Back"

Washington-Loss of membership
in the International Association of
Machinists has ceased and the end
of this winter should see the total
restored to it's prewar level of 200,-
900, according to General Secretary
E. C. Davidson. The railroad shop
strike resulted in a loss of member
ship, but in a staving of further wage
reductions, and today the organiza-
tion is beginning to "come back" with
wage increases that denote new en-
ergy.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02

small-fry lawyer or liability insurance
companies and should be accepted ac-
cordingly.
The "Hired Man" has been a
worker all his life, he believes the law
to be just and fair and of incalculable
benefit to the working people of Ohio,
and he asks and urges all fellow work
ers to give the matter careful thought
and full investigation before de-
Gliding to vote against its adoption.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
BARRIERS Want Six-Day Week.

San Francisco-The BARRIERS union
here has started campaign for Sun
day closing. San Francisco and Los
Angeles, says the union, are the only
cities in California where BARRIERS are
compelled to work seven days week.
There is no objection to Sunday open
ing as such, but the union contends
that every barber should have one day
off a week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Scab- Built Engine Falls Apart.

St. Louis-The Wabash Limited,
fast St. Louis Chicago passenger
train, exposed the work of strike
breakers in the Wabash shops here,
when the locomotive fell apart near
Edwardsville, Ill. Travelling at a
high rate of speed, the locomotive lost
a wheel. The tire came off and the
whole wheel gave away. For dis
tance of 81 rail lengths the loose con-
Meeting rod battered and tore up
track, more than 1000 feet of which
had to be rebuilt.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Rail Workers Awarded Increase.

Ottawa-An increase in pay has
been recommended unanimously by
the board of conciliation that investi-
gated the dispute between the leading
Canadian railways and the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees and Shop Laborers. The
increase is two cents an hour to all
who are now receiving less than 40
cents an hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Printers Gathering Them In.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Fifteen locals of
the International Typographical
Union have harvested new union shop
agreements carrying wage increases
running from $3.50 to 9 for hand men
and operators in both newspaper and
job offices. The new agreements carry
the 44-hour week for book and job
printers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Conditions Bad in Convict Camps.

Mobile, Ala. A. Boyd, president
of the Alabama convict board, after
an investigation of the state convict
camps claims that conditions are un-
sanitary. Mo- pillows are furnished
the bed linen is unclean. Boyd rec
ommends that competent cooks be en-
ployed and urges regular religious
services in the camps.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Charged With Meeting

New Orleans-Frans Ceulemans, a
member of the crew of the Belgian
S. S. Burgundier, has been taken back
to Antwerp, handcuffed, on charge
of mutiny on the high seas. The
"mutiny' consisted in the refusal of
the seaman to work cargo in the
struck port of New Orleans.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Order Cement Trust Dissolved.

New York-The Cement Manufact-
urers' Protective Association, better
known as the Portland Cement trust
and consisting of 19 of the largest
building cement manufacturers in the
country, has been ordered dissolved
by Federal Judge Knox here in a de-
cree sustaining the governments con-
tention that it was engaged in busi-
ness in restraint of interstate trade
and constituted a price-fixing COM
bine
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Russian Union Organizes Schools.

Moscow = The Russian Textile
Workers. Union is said to have organ
lied $50 elementary schools with 40,-
900 children; 43 secondary schools
with 5000 children; 140 clubs with 207
studios; 291 libraries; 205 schools to
eradicate illiteracy from among
adults, and 1876 kindergartens with
$4,000 children.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
More Unions for Garment Workers

New York - The International
Ladies' Garment Workers. union
headquarters here announces the
chartering of three additional locals
during the past week, including one
at Kenosha, Wis, the first Wisconsin
center to come under the banner of
the women garment workers organi-
zation.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
One Million in Building Trades.

washington = Approximately one
million organized building trades
workers are now employed in the
United States, at wages both nominal
ly and actually higher than ever be-
fore have prevailed in this industry,
accarding to John H. Donlin, presi-
dent of the building trades depart
ment of the A. F. of L.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Scab Concern Gets Contract.

St. Louis-Influence of the Mis-
souri, State Federation of Labor and
the pressure of St. Louis organized
labor has been unable to prevent the
letting of big printing contract, in
connection with the new state consti-
tuition. soon to be voted on, to the
Con P. Curran firm. The Curran
company is the outstanding anti
union printing concern in the state.
If the contract is permitted to stand,
labor men predict the defeat of the
new constitution by not less than 20,-
900.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-11-02
Women's Unions Rapidly Organizing

New York-Designers in the wo-
mems wear trades here are rapidly
unionized through the organization
campaign conducted by Designers
Local, As, international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, which reports
the addition of over 100 new members
in the past few weeks.