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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
MEXICO LOOKS
FORWARD TO
BETTER TIME
By CHESTER VI. WRIGHT

Recent events in Russia have
served again to play into the hands
Of persons hostile 10 the Mexican
people.
Because the Mexican people have
finally separated church and state
and have sought to curb the political
power of the church; and because OF
the insanely treacherous and brutal
attitude Of the Russian soviets to-
ward religion, propagandists playing
the big business game have sought 10
place the two countries on a par,
condemning both.
1t is well to keep some facts IN
mind.
As to Russia: Russia today is
despotieally ruled by the bloody hand
of a set OF brigands who grant to the
people not the slightest semblance oil
power to determine their own destln-
les. Russia offers the most complete
contrast to democracy. Oppression,
rapine, slaughter, terrorsm--these
are at their height in unhappy Russia.
AS to Mexico A democratlcally
elected government functioning Tor
the people. In free elections the peo-
pie voted this government into power.
Soon they will have another election
and the present president cannot sue
coed himself. Mexico lives under a
constitution which contains definite
guarantees of freedom and these
guarantees are respected.
In Russia the ruling clique rules
by armed force; in Mexico the people
dominate as completely as Is ever
possible in a nation burdened with so
much illiteracy. -
No friend OF Mexico and no fair
observer will ever contend that there
is "a millenial state in Mexico. There
Is much poverty, much that is wrong,
much that needs TO be done by educa-
ton and slow change.
But the fundamental principle up
on which Mexico operates Is demo-
cratic.
Mexico is neither capitalistic nor
bolshevik. As to religion Mexico re-
fuses to be dominated by 1t, but 1t
offers freedom to religion to function
as religion. Those who teach religion
in Mexico do so with perfect freedom.
Mexico merely draws the line when
religion seeks to enter into politics.
The American government does not
recognize the government of Mexico
for reasons which apparently seem
sufficient to Mr.. Hughes and Presi-
dent Harding. They undoubtedly
seem sufficient to some others; but to
the wage earners of America they do
not seem sufficient
The American labor movement en-
joys fraternal relations with the or
ganized wage earners of Mexico. In
each country the wage earners adopt
those policies which seem to slem
best suited to their own problems.
Mexico, in the ordering of her in
situations, is following closely the
pattern of American constructive eff
fort and development.
Mexico has been burdened, not to
her liking, with agents of the bolshe-
visit regime; and so has our own Re
public. A
But Mexico is democratic nation,
looking forward to a better develop
ment of democracy, not backward to
the horrors, the expressions and the
butchery of Russia.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
PINCH PENNY POLICY
BRINGS CRISIS To
L. o. DEPARTMENT

Washington. - The undermined
post office department is In the midst
Of another crisis. an officers Of ne
National Federation Of Post Office
Clerks appeal 10 these workers 10 use
their heads and not indulge IN mock
heroies and representations 10 the
flag. the country and glorifea
service"
The statement is signed by Presi-
dent Hyatt and Secfetary-Tfeasurer
Flaherty. The union executives call
attention 10 the fam5uOyaut EXPIRES
sions Of loyalty by paper patriots.
Against this policy is that Of the Fed
GRAFTON Of Post Office Clerks whose
Offices warned the department more
ed additional clerks.
We were gently febuked for our
presumption" the federation officials
say. "The department continued TO
rely for its facts upon the expert in
vestigations Of post Office inspectors.
The unreliability Of this source Of in
formation is shown in the present
breakdown.
I'VE have had much philosophical
'humanizing' of the service recently.
\ ilLle pidctiCdl huihdhiLiiiki a. fs4-
deneed by better treatment Of the en-
ployes by supervisory officials, would
go far in meeting the problems of
this unusual postal situation.
I'VE are not suggesting that the
members of the National Federation
of Post Office Clerks work overtime
without pay. The law does not per
NIT such service. Moreover, we have
always held that the longer work day
is wrong in principle and eurtails
rather than increases output. We
hope that this crisis will convince the
department experts of the correct
ness of our position on this issue"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
COURTS SERVE
THE EMPLOYERS,
NOT THE PUBLIC
By JOHN X. FORD,
Justice, New York State Supreme
Court,

Justice, New York State supreme
Court.
Our New York courts have not been |
behind the Federal courts in declar-
ing public welfare laws unconstitu-
tional and their readiness to grant In
functions against labor organizations |
recently called forth special mention |
and denuneiation from the national |
convention of the American Fedora |
ton of Labor. | shall let Theodore
Roosevelt speak for me here. In his
Lincoln Day speech in 1918 he sand:
"In this State of New York, for in
stance, there have been many we'll
meaning judges who, in certain cases,
usually affecting labor, have rendered
decisions which were wholly improper,
wholly reactionary and fraught with
the gravest injustice to those classes
of the community standing most In
need of justice"
Colonel Roosevelt mentioned par
ticularly the tenement house cigar
| factory decision, the bakershop decls-
| ion, the workman's compensation act
| decision and the eight-hour law de-
| cision, all of which, held unconstitu-
| tional acts of the legislature, were
passed in the interest of the working
people.
All that | have said is but fleet
ing glance at this tendency of the
courts to back the employed against
the employee, to serve the rich rather
than the poor, to espouse the cause
of the mighty instead OF the weak
and lowly. Volumes might be written
without exhausting the subject.
This arrogation of sovereign power
by the courts-the power to make
laws which fit their individual politi-
cal and economic views and predilec-
tions-without responsibility to the
people bound by those laws, is a
growing danger to our democracy,
It's beginning was timid and its pro-
gress slow. But the expression OF
personal views by the judges, wholly
irrelevant to the questions before
them, were seized upon in subsequent
cases as precedents upon which to
base decisions still further advanced
toward judicial autocracy. Little by
little this process of usurpation has
gone on till now we find the courts
boldly proclaiming the right to say
what shall and shall not be law re
gardless of the legislature or the will
of the people. They contemptuously
allude to popular sentiment as pub
lie clamor' and pride themselves upon
their courage in defying it. And why ?
Because the people themselves have
so long permitted them to do so With
out effective protest.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
WORKERS EDUCATION
RECEIVES PRAISE
OF PRES. GOMPERS

Washington.-"We all look to our
tomorrows, some with one dream,
some with another; but we all look
for something better, for something
more adequate and satisfying said
President Gompers in a message to
the annual convention of the work
ers' education bureau of America.
The bureau is Endorsed by the A. +.
of l.. which has representation upon
the bureaus executive board.
President Gompers said he regarded
the work of the bureau as of unusual
and lasting Importance.
knowledge is one Of the most po-
tent sources of power in all the
world" he said. knowledge leads
everywhere. Knowledge breaks down
all obstacles. Those who know the
facts of history and the facts of our
time are the ones best fitted to cope
with the great problems that confront
US. Those who do not know must
either be taught to know or they must
be carried along in the march of pro-
gress by those who do know 1t is
only knowledge that leads US forward.
at is not necessary to say anything
derogatory to our established institu-
tons of learning, either those con-
Quoted by the state of those privately
endowed
Conditions, however, have made it
impossible for thousands upon thous-
ands of adult workers to avail them
selves of educational facilities. 1t is
to them that our work is properly di-
rected. We must reach those who
were unable in their youth to acquire
that education that they now need.
1--WE seek to help those wage earn
ers who were penalized because they
were poor, who We're denied educa-
ton because they could not go where
education awaited them"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
DAIRYMEN PLAN
GIGANTIC COOP
MARKET AGENCY

Chicago.-A gigantic cooperative
dairy association including all Of the
dairy associations of the six import
ant middle western states which sup
ply rs per cent of the dairy produc-
ton of the country, is to be organized
into a central agency, according to
delegates meeting here.
The central organization is to be
organized and incorporated in some
state where the cooperative laws
are most liberal.
The organization is to market di-
rectly products for the members with
the exception of fluid milk. Control
is to be based upon vote for each
member.
More than 125,0OO dairymen in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio were represented in
the meeting here.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
BABIES AREN'T
WANTED MUCH,
BUREAU FEARS

Chicago. - CONNECTIONS, cosmetics,
movies, cigarets and motor cars are
more desired than babies by the
American woman, it has been decided
by the American Home bureau. The
first nine months of 1922 shows loss
of births of 322,932 as compared with
the year of 1921, and predicts that
the loss continues for ten years it will
bring on a national catastrophe.
The report gees into the home life
Of the country and by comparison
says the women of the country are
fast giving the normal life the GO
by. In part it is claimed that hous-
ing conditions are to be blamed for
many childless homes. The crying
child is not wanted in the "boxy
apartment of today, though the
lamentations Of the photograph are
tolerated. The average sale of wash
ing machines has fallen off one-third,
the report claims, while the sale of
motor cars has continued to climb.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27
BY THE WAY

The Cincinnati Industrial Associa-
ton, using paid advertising space in
the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,
cries out in distraction:
Would you want the whole nation
to be like Herrin ?"
These organized employers believe
doubt that it would be nice If the
whole world were like themselves.
But of course that cannot be, since
if all were employers and bankers and
big business people, there would be
none to do the work and none to con-
sumo the commodities.
But take minute to read what
these employers say about Herrin:
Murders of the most vicious type
have been committed without convic-
tons. People terrorized and afraid
to stand up for what they know to
be justice. The labor union rules
with an iron hand--an iron sword!
A blot on the country
And they print that stuff, expect
ing that it will be believed! Truth is,
many will believe it.
Now this Cincinnati Industrial As
ISOLATION stuff is the cheapest, mean
est kind of slanderous generalization.
But it is not their limit. They say:
at is not a far cry from the domi-
nant policies of labor union leaders
to violence" That is downright "
ing. 1t is false and any person that
knows anything about the American
labor movement knows it is false
When an organization uses language
like that it ceases to merit respect in
any degree. But the advertisement
continues:
1.-THE American Federation of Labor
provided defense for those indicted
for the Herrin murderers. The Ameri-
can Federation secured their acquit-
tai"
This is d baseness that knows nc
conscience and no scruple.
This touches the depths of depray.
! ity. The communist reds stand a
, one end of the social spectrum hurl
ing one kind of sinister investive a
the true labor movement. The biz
business blacks stand at the othe
end, hurting another kind of villifca
ton and SANDER, Both play the gam
of destructive attack. The trade un
ion movement must carry the figh
against both.
| Not all organizations of employer
are thus without honor. Those tina
have honor, that are honest, tina
have some constructive purpose
should feel themselves aggrieved an
demeaned by this descent to the bof
tom where the dirtiest dregs com
| from.
| But labor moves on, majesti
| proud, unafraid, clean-and everlas
ingly determined upon the achiev'
ment of world richer in justic
more richly endowed with the bles
} ings of freedom and more fitting
the needs Of free people.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27

1t is only question Of time until
every pedestrian will have car oil
wings
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27

1t is cabled that German printers
hope to turn out enough marks by the
end of the year to make an even tril-
lion in circulation. Some people like
to make records whether they mean
anything or not
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-04-27

Not all is coal that makes a black
mark.
Evening star., 1923-07-29

Night At The Village Is A me AS
VIII Meet One Town You Care 10 Wait Whe The Mail Being
Sending Ptah The =
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To The =
At The Arcade Where Sin And Shame" With Wilma i
The Right Mrs Charles Dby Is Listening
To Thrilling Add Mrs Dbney /.XixSTSMe
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
NEW oNE-CENr srAMP.

Benjamin Franklin, first postmas-
ter general, was honored Jan. IL b.
the Postoffice Department, which
observed the two hundred and
seventeenth anniversary Of his birth
at Boston by the issuance of the
new 1-cent stamp bearing portrait
of Franklin different from that on
the present Scent stamp.
One million of the new stamps
will be placed on sale at the Phila-
delphia postoffice as a recognition oil
Philadelphia as the home of the frs.
postmaster general, and the frs. sis
teen sheets of the new issue tina.
were engraved, autographed by AS
sistant Postmaster General Glover
and Director Hill, of the Bureau OF
Engraving and Printing, will be put
on sale, at the Government philatelic
agency in Washington. Other post
offices will not be supplied with the
new Franklin 1-cent stamp until the
present reserve supply of the issue
bearing Washington's portrait, i:
exhausted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
THE LONGEST, CONTINUOUS
TUNNEL IN THE WORLD.

The distinction of being the long
est continuous tunnel in the world
is held by the Shandaken Tunnel
under the Catskills. It's erection is
under the direction of the Board of
Water Supply of New York City.
When completed, it will carry water
from the Catskills to New York
City. a distance of more than one
hundred miles, through afaqueduct,
under tunneled mountains and ST.
phoned rivers.
This accomplishment represents
he excavation and lining of tunnel
is miles long, ranging from ia
feet to SAT feet underground.
Roughly the size of the tunnel is ap-
proximately that of a single-track
railroad tunnel, which. when COM
pleted, will be horseshoe in section,
concrete lined, with inside dimen-
sions Of eleven and half feet in
height by ten and a quarter feet in
width. 1t provides for a uniform
slope of "A feet per mile except for
the northerly three and one-half
miles which is depressed, making
this portion pressure tunnel.
Engineering plans for this work
involved the sinking of eight shafts,
the deepest of which is SAT feet,
nearly 100 feet deeper than the
Washington monument 1t high.
A further idea of it's magnitude
may be grasped when it is stated
that this tunnel construction re-
quires approximately 100000 cubic
yards of earth excavation, 200, 900
cubic yards of concrete masonry,
and 445,000 barrels of cement.
The contract for the Shandaken
Tunnel was let November TO-. 1917,
and the work is now in it's final
stages. The total cost will be APP
proximately $3.50, 100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
Foreign Advertising Represen ia tive
THE AMERiCAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
IMPROVED WHEAT VARIETIES
AMONG YEARS ACHIEVE
MENTC

The Office of Cereal Investigations
in the Bureau of Plant Industry.
United States Department of Agri-
culture, is working steadily to i'm
prove the varieties of wheat and
other cereals grown in this country.
In the annual report of the bureau
recently made public are listed
among the significant accomplish
ments of the past fiscal year, two
new wheats named Forward and
Honor that have been developed in
the breeding experiments in CO.
operation with the agricultural ex-
pertinent station of Cornell Univer-
sity. These are now being grown
commercially, and seed is offered
for sale by seedsmen and farmers in
New York State.
Kota, a beared, hard red spring
variety, discovered in 1918 to be
especially resistant to stem rust
was grown in 1921 at 80 experiment
stations to determine it's value in
comparison with adapted CONNER
cial varieties Of both common and
durum wheats. During the past
three years its resistance to stem
rust has proved nearly equal to that
of the most resistant durum vari-
cites. The commercial stocks OF
Kota seed were increased to about
5000 bushels in 1921, and nearly
all of this was sown in 1922.
A number of other varieties de-
veloped by the department have
continued to give good satisfaction
with the result that their CONNER
cial production has been increased
considerably.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
SEN. SMITH GETS $4,000, 900
ADVANCE FOR COTTON AND
FRUIT GROWERS.

Senator Ellison D. Smith of South
Carolina, ever watchful of the in
terests of the cotton growers of the
South and of agricultural interests
generally, has succeeded in passing
his resolution for a $10,000,000 ap-
preparation for the purchase of nj
trate of soda and white arsenic to
be resold to the cotton growers and
to western fruit growers as we'll,
which helps to insure the cotton
crop this year by providing proper
fertilizer and also protection against
boil weevil. Fruit growers also use
the arsenic for spraying, A similar
appropriation was obtained by
Senator Smith in 1917.
When the Fordney tariff was
under discussion in the Senate, the
Republicans attempted to put a duty
on, white arsenic, but were defeated.
AS result the cotton and fruit
growers will have to pay much less
for it than would have been the
case if calcium arsenate had been
taken off the free list.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
Foreign Advertising Representa- tive
THE ANERIC PRESS ASSOCiATlON
INCOME TAX FACTS.

Following is the first of a series
of short stories of informative value
to the average taxpayer in the max
ing of his income tax return for the
year 1922.
Revenue officers are visiting every
county in the United States to aid
taxpayers in the preparation of their
income tax returns for the year
1922. Information concerning the
date Of their arrival and the location
Of their Offices may be obtained by
writing the collector of internal
revenue for the district in which the
taxpayer lives.
Forms for filing returns for the
year 1921. Failure to receive a
form, however, does not relieve the
taxpayer of his obligation to file q
return and pay the tax on time, on
or before March Is, 1928. The
forms, 104OA for filing returns OF
net income $4,000 and less and 1O4O
for filing returns of net income in
excess of $4,000, may be obtained
from collectors of internal revenue
and deputy collectors.
Returns are required OF every
single person whose net income fol
1922 was 1000 or more or whose
gross income was $4,000 or more
and Of every married person whose
net income was $4,000 or more
whose gross income was $4,000 OF
more. Careful study of the instruc
lions on the forms will greatly aid
in making correct return.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
WHAT DID THEY DO SATURDAY
NIGHTS?

We are indebted to Colyumnist in
one of our daily newspapers for the
following short history of the bath
tub:
The first American bathtub was
installed December 20, 1912 in Gin
cinnati by Adam Thompson. 1t was
made of mahogany and lined with
sheet lead. At Christmas party,
he gave an exhibition of it's use, and
four guests took a plunge.
The next day the Cincinnati pa
pers discussed the invention, and
violent controversy was provoked.
Some papers designated it an cpl
curean luxury, others as undemo-
cratic, as it lacked simplicity in sur
roundings. Medical authorities at
tackled it as dangerous to health, a
certain inviter of rheumatism, fevers
and Inflammation of the lungs.
The controversy soon reached
other cities and in more than one
place medical opposition was re-
Elected in legislation.
Late in 1843 the Philadelphia
common council considered an ordi-
nance prohibiting bathing between
November and March Is, and the
ordinance failed of passage by but
two votes.
During the same year the Legisla-
ton of Virginia, laid tax of $50 a
year for all bathtubs.
In Hartford, Providence, Charles
ton and Wilmington, Del, heavy
rates were laid on people who had
bathtubs. Boston, early in 1845.
made bathing unlawful except on
medical advice, but the ordinance
was never enforced and in 1852 it
was repealed.
President Willard Fillmore gave
the bathtub recognition. While Vice
President he visited Cincinnati, in
1850 and inspected the original
bathtub. and used it. On becoming
President he had bathtub installed
in the White House. This tub con-
tinued to be used until the first
Cleveland administration.
And now one can hardly wait
until Saturday night for BATH
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-02-09
CUT OF LUMBER DECREASING
IN EAST.

The cut of lumber is decreasing
in all the Eastern States; in prac-
tically every State west of the Great
Plains it is increasing, says the
Forest Service, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. The prin-
cipal source of softwood lumber for
the entire Nation will soon have
shifted to the West Coast and the
average freight cost paid by the
home builder or manufacturer will
have advanced to new and higher
level.
According to the Forest Service,
there has been marked and fairly
steady decline in our national out
put of lumber from about 49,
O00,000,000 board feet in 1906 to
less than $4,000, 100000 board feet
in 1920 The decline in the pro
duction of lumber and the increase
in population have resulted in &
striking drop in the per capita con-
sumption Of lumber from over
500 board feet per person in 1900
to about $50 board feet in 1920.
Approximately 16 per cent of our
lumber goes into crates and boxes
The failure of containers in ship
ment results in enormous annual
losses.