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The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
Costly Highways Must Distribute Their Benefits
and Costs Equitably


] do not believe that good highways throughout the country are
going to ruin the railroads On the contrary, l think that the more
means there are for travelling and shipping the more travelling and ship
ping increases. When trolley lines were first built there was a hue and cry
that they would take all the business from the railroads. Nothing like
that happened. They merely created more business for everybody.
The magnificent system of highways that have been and are being
built in Illinois viii soon make this state one of the greatest transpora-
ton powers in the Union. Properly built, regulated, and maintained,
they will tend to almost remake our state physically
The people must realize, however, that all final results are based on
taxation. We must see that these costly highways distribute their benefits
and costs equtaby. Truck loadings should be regulated by law and the
people who use our roads for profit should be made to bear their just
burden of the maintenance costs.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12

keep abreast of the swift national movement. Without a doubt this Is
the result Of suggestion driven into the mind from childhood up School
books teach it and it becomes autosuggeston.
The subconscious mind of the American man tells him imperousIy
that he must not tarry. He has no time for leisure; the nation must be
built, and if his own little wheel stops it may check the advance of the
whole machine, and SC the American man is the hardest worker in the
world. A pioneer and a slave to a civilization in the making he condemns
himself to a premature old age.
And too often he takes them to bed with him. His family life is
sacrificed despite his naturally afectonate disposition. Generally a
devoted husband and father, the American is only too willing to leave
the evening of his home and children to his wife. He will send his whole
family away for a holiday or a change regardless of the expense, for
money means little to him. He knows subconsGously that he will earn
as much as is necessary. That is one of the secrets of his success in bust
ness-autosu suggestion Of success. The idea Of success is in the blood of
the nation, for the nation itself is a success-the most gigantic success
history has eve recorded.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
s5oo,ooo JUBILEE SURE

New York Committee UNDERWRITERS
Fund for Disputed Celebration.
New York.-New York city's silver
jubilee will be celebrated without the
expenditure of municipal funds, the
necessary $4,000 O0 having been under
written by the finance committee,
which has chosen William H. Woodin,
former state fuel administrator, chair
man. The original plan Of municipal
officials to have the city bear the cost
was halted in the courts by the Citi-
zens' Union.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
FOSTER JURORS DEApLocKEp

Thirty-eight Ballots Taken in Thirty.
one Hours.
st. Joseph, Mich.-Hopelessly dead
locked after thirty-one and a quarter
hours deliberation, the jury trying
William 2. Foster, of Chicago, for al
legged violation of the Michigan law
aimed against criminal syndicalism,
was discharged by Judge Charles
White.
The jurors stood six to six on all of
their 80 ballots without changing a
vote.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
Buildings of Public Interest Should Be ClasseC
as Public Monuments


Buildings of public interest should be classified as in France as public
monuments. It should be forbidden to alter or DESTROY buildings 81 CLASH
fed except with the consent of these authorities. In return for this a
reduction might be made in taxes. Subsidies might be furnished for
their upkeep and when necessary, money paid for damages for the diminu-
ton of the value of the fee. / believe that if we wish to preserve our
country az we have known it and assimnate our newcomers, money could
not be better spent. The soul of our country is worth saving.
There is no better way to teach immigrants the traditions and ideals
of America than by keeping before their eyes the buildings symbolzing
the best Of Americas past.
1t all comes to this. A city is not a mere heap of stone. 1t is a COM
munny whose aspirations ar expressed by its architecture and by its
loving care Of the relics of the past
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12

Issuance of Tax Exempt Securities Saves
Nothing to the Taxpayers


Tax exemption, in substance, constitutes a subsidy from the federal
government, the cost of which, in the long run, must fall on those tax
payers who do not or can not take refuge in taxexempt securities.
Even from the point of view of the states themselves, l believe it is
clear that the continued issuance of tax-exempt securities saves nothing to
taxes.
The tax-exempt privilege, with the facility that it gives to borrowing,
leads, in many cases, to unnecessary or wasteful public expenditure, and
this, In turn, is bringing about a menaGng increase in the debts of states
and cities. These debts constitute a constantly growing charge upon the
taxpayers in the several states, and will ultimately have to be paid, prn-
cipal and interest, through tax levies upon these very taxpayers.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12

eff | Say That | Never Saw the Evil Side of
Gregory Rasputin-"
By LII DEHN, in "The Real Tsaritsa."

If I say that l never saw the evil side of Gregory Rasputin 1 shall
be called a liar or a fool-perhaps, more chivalrousy, the latter. 1t is
however, the truth when l say that we never saw the evil side of him. May
], therefore, plead for a hearing on the grounds that some men possess
dual natures, and that they adapt these to the company in which they
find themselves?
] have heard of men who at home have led most moral lives, lead
ing elsewhere exstences before which an uptodate French novel is as
naught. Yet they never betrayed themselves to their nearest and dearest.
But even if something unforeseen had disclosed the mans secret
orchard, his inner life, and his fraltes, their existence even then would
most probably have been disbelieved by those who had known him init
mately for years.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
EMsEzzLgMEN,, KHAN CHARGE
Allege Cashier and Secret AGENT
100000 Peculation.

wtNV'VUV 7 NNUIdIIOH.
Atlanta, Ga.-Warrants were issued
for N. N. Furney, cashier of the
Knights Of the Ku Klux Khan, charg.
ing him with embezzlement of $50, 900,
and for t. J. McKinnon, chief of tho
investigating department, charging
enlightenment of $4,000. according to
the sherih's office. The warrants
were sworn to !. E. ]. Jones, an as
sociate of Emperor William j. Sim
mems.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
FEAR u. S. OIL T
Development Program Now Pending
in Angora, Turkey.

in Angora, Turkey.
Paris.-American financial and eco
nomic activities in Turkey looking to
development of this backward coun-
try under the Angora government are
now not only certain to have an air
ing at the resumption OF the Lau-
same Peace Conferences in mid-April.
but are already creating positive con-
sternation among European conces-
sion holders under previous Turkish
regimes.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-12
S~ubconscious Mind of American Tells Him
That He Must Not larry
BY EMILE CoUE. in New York World.
Every American man shows in

Every American man shows in his actions that
he believes himself to be a wheel in the complicated
great machinery that is at work manufacturing a
nation at least, that is the impression they give me.
Their belief in their individual Importance may be,
and often is, unconscious, but it is always percepti-
BILE by the stranger.
It is revealed in his thoroughness, in the fever
ish haste with which he conducts his business as
though working to a hard schedule in order to
achieve perfection or success in a given time and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03

Farnaer-Labor Reconstruction league,
is a traitor to his supporters and IN
league with the corporations, accord
ing to the Oklahoma LeSder. Inc
Leader is the principal mOuthplece- OF
the trainers and workers OF the staCe
and was foremost in the campaign 10
put Mayor Walton of this city into
the governors chair.
A month or two after the stipend
Gus barbecue inaugural at when eV-
erybody in the state who cared TO
come ate and drank and at which dress
suits were taboo, Walton began to
lose touch with labor and the farmers.
His policies and his appointments
evoked protest from rural associations
and from the state federation Of labor.
It is charged that his ambition to be-
come u. S. senator from Oklahoma
dictated a change from progressive
to reactionary alignments.
"sThe Farmer-LabOr forces made y.
C. Walton. He is now in league with
men who wish to destroy the harmony
of these forces. They shall not sue.
coed, not even with the governor or
the state aligned with them" the
Leader declares.
One of the hardest blows dealt the
1 league was the proposed custer OF
George Wilson, appointed to head the
Oklahma Agricultural and Mechanical
| college in Oklahoma, some time ago,
by the governors Wilson was form
| erly head Of the Reconstruction league
in Oklahoma. The fight to GUST Will
son has been waged bitterly by the
American legion, an open-shOp organ
| izGtion in this state. The issue has
| hinged on the state board of agricul-
ture, which controls the college. Up
to the present time there have been
enough league members on the board
to retain Wilson, but with the an
nouncement of the ousting of Pete
Coyne and H. M. Stillwell, two league
/ members on the board, the Wilson dis
missal has been made a certainty.
Another issue in the fight was the
governors refusal to demand that the
union label go on all state printing,
This was one of the promises made by
him in the Shawnee platform, upon
which he ran for Office. He stated that
he would be. handicapped. Resolutions
sent by the executive committee Okla
hOma State Federation of Labor to the
governor demanding the removal OF
two friends of labor" from the state
board of public affairs, WHO opposed
the placing of the label on state print
ing were ignored by Walton. 49,.
One result of Walton's flor. viii bt
the silent burial by night of the man!
claims for the credit of his election
put forward last November. Among
these claimants were the CLEVELAND
Conference for Progressive Politica
action, the Farmer-Labor party an,
the A. F. of L. Nonpartisan COMMITTEE
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03

in Carolina plants, where labor gets
low wages and hours are long,
With the 60-hOur week in the south,
the workers produce so much goods
that northern workers are put on part
time. What is the immediate eject ?
Employers raise the price of the cloth
ga cents a yard and so increase their
rake-Off. But the wage earners are
inteimidated by the small pay. checks,
which at best will not support fam
lily. AS a result President Mcmahon,
United Textile Workers, is forced to
announce that the depression in the
industry makes it inOpportune to ask
for wage increase.
That's just the effect the capitalist
Overlords like to create. That's why
they sOlidly oppose abolition of the
long work day for women in southern
factories.
Abolish the 60-hour week and there
would be plenty of work for all textile
operatives.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
SENATOR
LIKES RUSSIA

After travelling in Russia and COM
ing into close contact with both rulers
and peasants Senator Burton K. |
Wheeler, of oMntana, a representative
of the farmer interests chosen at the
last election, returned with rather
glowing account of conditions under
the Soviet government. The senator
said he found things in Petrograd and
Moscow much the same as in other
large European cities. Shops were
thriving, and with sufficient money
almost anything could be bought.
Hotel Accommodations were good and
much cheaper than in the United
States-two rooms and bath for little
over 81 a day. The people have plen-
ty of food and few hardships, and the
streets were 50 safe that the senator
and his wife drove about in carriage
after witnessing a magnificent per-
Torrance of Shakespeare lasting until
midnight. Autos were found to be
very scarce-nOt more than so in
either Moscow or Petrograd, No in
convenience resulted from the upset
exchange-a dollar being worth 1885,
100000 rubies.
Senator Wheeler favors recognition
of the present Russian government
without delay, "since it is going to
stay in power whether recognized or
not" No one in Russia, he said, con-
siders seriously the possibility of the
SOVIET regime being overthrown; an
efficient and well-trained army of 600
900 is Loyalty supporting it. False
ideas in America regarding Russia,
] the Senator asserted, came largely
from the Russian refugees living near
the bOrderland who have been doing
all they could to discredit the present
Russian regime. The people are in
tensely religious, he found, and at one
time he attended religious services
where. 10000 people were present.
Religious freedom is complete, he de-
clared and the government takes no
sides between its friends and its foes.
The senator found the Russian Off
Gals ready to meet the wishes of
America in regard to recognition.
They are willing, he said, to take up
matters like the Russian debt and the
protection of American rights. Delay
in recognition, he declared, would
work a hardship on 160,000,000 Russ
ians (which is contrary to enlightened
humanitarian principles" and would
strengthen the communists elements
in the United States. Senator Wheel
or was followed in the Russian capital
by Representatives Beedy Of Maine
and Collins of Mississippi, with Sena-
tor Brookhart of Iowa expected. These
visits with those of several American
business men have attracted much at
tention at Moscow and aroused much
! talk of recognition.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
FLIRTS aa
With RUSSIA
Ey LOUIS P. LOCHNER
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN.-"I was not merely sur
prised-I was overwhelmed by the re-
ception given US in France," said
George Ustinov, first secretary of the
Russian embassy at Berlin, upon his
return from Marseilles and Paris as
head of the first Russian Red Cross
mission sent to France.
''We were showered with attention,
dinners, presents, requests from the
press for interviews, and what-nOt.
The chamber of commerce of Marseil-
les is strong for the resumption OF
trade relations with Russia. The bus.
mess men told me that they eagerly
buy up all the grain that Russia is.
ready to export.
cat the very beginning, the police
put sort of watch over US, though
with apologies and because they were
acting under instructions. But when
they saw for themselves that we were
engaged in serious business mission
and not in a propaganda trip, they
left us quite unmolested and would
have withdrawn entirely, except that
in view of the many Russian emigres
living in France they thought it wiser
to have a guard near US for our pro-
lection.
"The interest in the resumption of
relations pervades all classes of
France. Not only workers delega-
tions and representatives of the bus
mess world came to see us, but also
French grandees, marquises and bar
Ons.
"There seems to be only one obsta-
Gle in the way of immediate resump-
ton of relations land that is the fact
that so many of the czarist loans are
placed with small RENTERS" modest
little capitalists, many Of them aged,
who put their meager savings into
Russian securities. pointed out that
even year ago, at Genoa, Tchicherin,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
LABOR
STATEMENT

CHICAGO. = The Farmer-LabOr
party of the u. S. in a statement
written by Robert M. Buck, editor Of
The New Majority, the party's Of
fetal o.1,an, declares that The party
has profited by the July convention
and conference, out of which grew the
new Federated Farmer-LabOr party
with which the Farmer-LabOr party
refused to affiliate.
"The big thing is tlnt the air is
cleared" the statement says. ut has
beer actually demonstrated with re-
spect to all groups that unity at this
time is not possible. 1t has been dem
onstrated that the sFarmer-LabOr par
ty can withstand assaults from the
right and from the left and maintain
itself and not be stampeded into do
ing what it doesn't want to do.
1.-TWO policies have marked the
Fanner-Eabor part tactics from the
very start. The first of these is that
the party scrupulously refrains from
trying to dictate to, the unions as to
how they should run themselves. The
other is that the party has always
stubbornIy refused to fight with other
working class. parties or groups. II
fights only one enemy-the common
enemy of the workers. 1t has no time
nor inclination for red-baiting. 1t has
no abuse to heap on revolutionaries.
- at is in the clear. 1t is on the way
Let's CO." go +"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
EMPLOYERSFORCE
UNEMPLOYMENT
By LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial EditOrl

A serious reduction in the pay
checks of thousands of New England
textile workers is the result of con-
certed action by employers to curtail
production. These workers have pro-
duced more cotton cloth than all the
wage earners in the country can buy
back. Thousands of yards of goods
have piled up in storehOuses. And
because they have produced too much
these textile operatives are going to
get only half weeks pay each week.
For three weeks print cloth mills in
Fall River have not run over four
days a week. Some have not operat-
ed more than two days a week. Last
week the associated manufacturers
got together and decided on "a general
reduction in the working time of all
plants to three days a week.
The Ameskeag mills at Lawrence
have reduced 1000 wage eaEners to
a fOur-day week.
Meanwhile the big southern mills
are operating 60 hours a week. That's
because there is no law in the south
preventing capital from working
women and children 10 hours a day,
six days a week. The workers in
Massachusetts, are being penalized for
getting a law which protects women
and children.
Profits of New England cotton mills
have been big The average Fall
River min in 1922 paid cash dividends
of more than 91a per cent on capital
stock. New Bedford mills paid nearly
9 "a per cent in cash. According to
a compilation of the New York Fed
eral Reserve bank, profits of clothing
and textile concerns in 1922 were more
than double those in 1921. During
the year 20 mills in Fall River and
New Bedford declared stock dividends
running from 25 per cent % 200 per
cent.
These profits do not satisfy the
greed of the owners. So they are ac-
tually taking the machinery out of
New England plants and installing it
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03

stated that Russia was ready TO- rec
oS~,VS the czarist debts with these
little holders of securities, insorder not
to have them suffer, ,..i..a
zone psychological factor which Is Is
basfaning a Franco Russian approach
;s the fear that France has lest Russia
, - Gii Germany may make an alliance
and the further fear that Germany
NAV ma, walk off with the Russian trade
while France is tarrying.
''Taken by and large, | am more
than satisfied with the results achlev-
ed during our stay in France, in
smoothing the path for an approach"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
FEDERATED FARMER
LABOR PROGRAM

AAAO1 CCsOAAtS OVAAbAOA "a HI
dustry by the industrial
workers and the farmers
through their economic or
CARNATIONS and the public
ownership of all utilities
and control of credit are the
outstanding planks of the
program adopted by the
new Federated Farmer-La-
: Dor party at the coalition
convention in Chicago.
POINTS OUT SOURCE OF
GOVERNMENT
The program points out
: that government of, by and
for the people no longer ex-
lists in America and that
: Wall Street and the fiancial
: and industrial system it
represents have control of
: the control. 1t shows how
: the government uses the
: military, judicial, executive
3 and legislative forces to de-
feat labor and the farmer
: when capital engages in an
= assault upon the workers.
: The contest is always loaded
= by the government against
8 the workers and in favor of
= the fiancial controlling min
: Ority of the country. Farm
< er and city worker are both
$ ruined by the federal re-
$ serve banking system which
: creates and intenSifies the
= cycles of depression and in
3 fiatiOn.
= Industrial Insurance
* Federal insurance for all
= workers, urban and rural,
$ against unemployment. ILL
$ ness, accident and death,
3 and the high cost Of living
= is demanded as we'll as two
8 months maternity cOmpen-
: satiOn at trade union wage
3 rates for all women in child
: birth.
X Industrial Progress
= The eight-hOur day, abe
x litiOn of child labor under Is
= years, compulsory educa-
Z ton for all under Is, a fed
= eral minimum wage are the
= other industrial measures.
x Tax Progress
3 Financial demands in
cIude that the insurance
measures be paid by taxes
on incomes, excess profits,
surtaxes, inheritances and
: an extra tax on unearned in
comes. A national soldier
: bonus to be paid in the
same way is provided for.
The federal reserve system
is to be run for service and
not private profit.
Farmer Progress
A companion agrarian
program demands the elm
inatiOn of landlOrdism and
tenantry on farms, the land
to be held by the users only
as long as they use it; gov
eminent control of credit
for service; payment of war
debts and interest out of
excess profits; a five-year
moratorium on farm mort
cages, during which period
: neither principal nor inter
3 est need be paid by the
farmer.
International Progress
Additional resolutions de-
mand recognition by the u.
x S. of Mexico and Russia; re-
StOratiOn of civil liberties in
America; elimination of
: militarist and capitalist
propaganda from school
3 textbooks. Other resOlu.
: tiOns were referred to the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
OKLAHOMA GOVERN
OR DOUBLE CROSSES
FARMER LABORITES

BY CHARLES R. LEAVILLE
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.
OKLAHOMA CITY-Gov. J. c..
Walton, hailed as the peoples govern
or after his election on the Democrat
ic ticket through the backing of the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03

: new. executive committee
: or tabled. - ~.
x = !: ]:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03

Hubby: Confound it, n
boiled in that kitchen? ""' 'nlng d.s
Wife: Wait, dear, IN cali a.
-Wayside Tales. 'au The NJ
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-08-03
NEW YOpV

NEW YORK.-Cart
executive G secretary y'P an pestoaah Ill.,
Committee for Relief l az Pen N Nas..
dren, in in a hospital II bd RossalC
an operation for an me mere fOlosS
appendicitis. Re is re1 1crte sttsss E
come through the op ppsted as Eai5.
fully and to be pra SfissiSn sa,s ss
danger. Vslly oa !,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-01-20
TELEPHONE GUSTS T0M-T0M
AND TRIBE CRlER IN TONGA

No longer do the booming peat or
the tom-tom or the musical n OF
t,a tribal crier summon the swarthy
sons and daughters of the famous
Sou1h Sea Islands to their festive gath
ering saws the Brooklyn Citizen. Inc
telephone has finally made its way into
the great Pacific archipelago and has
came 10 stay in the little Kingdom OF
Tonga. Already the natives OF the
three large islands and the 300 smaller
ones which make up the Tonga group
have become almost as accustomed to
the mysteries of the talking wire as
their more effete friends Of the Oc"i-
dent.
The telephone system just installed
In Tonga by the New Zealand repre-
sentat.ves of the International West
ern Electric Company is one of the
smallest in the world. It consists OF a
l,ttIa less than "A hundred subscriber
tpes. most of which are located on the
main island of the group. Later, as
tire natives get more familiar with
their new utility, it is probable that
extensions I'm service will be made to
most of the outlying settlements in
the 200-old square miles of scattered
islands included in the kingdom.