Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-11-30


use and vii require several weeks
time.
Representative of the street car
company have invited students of the
University 70 watch the process in
operation.
Much Of the track has been laid,
bat Welding commenced last Monday.
II weather permits the paving viii
be completed and the line In operation
before the HOLIDAYS.
William Marqui.1, alleged ahseon-
der with 81 800 Of the Western Union
telegraph eompany's funds. was
given a preliminary hearing in Mag
istrate James court Tuesday. He
waived examination and vas returned
10 jail under bends OF $1,000
Marquitz was arrested recently in
Chicago by Detective NJ. Ii. Myers,
head OF the Champaign county dctec-
tive bureau. Marquitz faces term
of from one 10 IL years in the Chester
penitentiary. His trial vii be heart
during the January term Of court.
A man who was recently arrested
fer passing a fraudulent check At the
Miller Woll store in Champaign in eN-
change for cash and merchandise is
wanted in Kansas City for the alleged
theft OF iewelfy and other valuable
articles from John Lach, said 10 be a
prominent cluhman Of that city.
Laeh's name was used on the check,
and his identification card bearing
the seal of the Elk's lodge was used
to gain the confidence of the Miller
Wohl manager who eaShed his check,
In his possession was Union card
which had been issued TO Jack Brown
stein, waiter employed at high
class hotel i'm Syracuse, n. y. Local
detectives at first believed the man
under arrest to be Brownstein, but
with police in that city
proved that Brownstein was reputa-
bic Union employe. Evidently the
card had been stolen.
In the mans nossession was another
identification card belonging TO rail-
road employe named keifer. Letters
found in his suit case indicated that
keifer had been granted a leave of
absence for a month beginning in
September. Detectives expect even
tually to learn that this card and the
letters were also stolen.
The man under arrest refuses To
talk. He will be compelled TO remain
in jail until his case can be tried inI
January.
Another winter approaching finds
"A sprinking of homeless men out OF
employment seeking refuge at police
headquarters for nights lodging.
Ten or twelve u night is now the rule
as indicated by the police docket.
Already men are heard complaining
that they have been laid oil from
work aA1st Of these are common la
borers, who during the season nave
been paid comparatively small wages.
Many of these will have to be cared
for during the winter season when
labor is scarce. In the end the public
has to pay wages. If wages are not
paid by those who hire labor they are
paid in taxation TO be distributed out
to the laborers who are poorly paid in
wages. or they are paid through offer
ings TO the United Charities and sal
walton Army.
Henry Ford believes that TO deal
cut. charity is poor way TO pay
workmen. He believes in paying com
mon laborers wages in proportion 10
the service they render. and no man
in his employ is poorly paid, and few,
il any, thrown on the county or chan-
table institutions to be kent during
the winter season when labor Is
scarce.
Sometime the country will come TO
see the wisdom of Henry Ford's atti-
tude to his employees. Ford Is reputed
today to be the richest man In the
world yet he has always pad good
wages in comparison with other IN
dustries.
That ought to be a lesson for the
coal operators and few railroads and
oil companies as well as steel cor
porations who are attempting to-
thrive on cheap labor.
Fighting TO hold the scale of wages
to the minimum these capitalists are
complaining of havlng To-
pay low dividends to stockholders.
No one hears Henry Ford COMPLAIN
ing. There ought to be a lesson in
this.
LIQUOR law violations are on the de
crease in Champaign county If the
number of arrests on the charge OF
bootlegging is a valid sign.
The wave of arrests for this oifense
has subsidized greatly within the past
few weeks, though arrests on charges
of intoxication, continue to form a
large percent of those docketed at the
Champaign and Urbana police sta
tons.
That prohibition is effective in a
large degree is evident however, from
a comparison with the boOtleRging
days in the Twin Cities before ma
tional prohibition went into effect.
The number Of arrests in the last
years before prohibition more than
double the arrests since 1918.
The number Of arrests for this Of
fense however, has grown abnormal
" since 1920, leading the public to
conclude that b0otleggers are finding
II easier to outwit the law than in the
early days Of prohibition.
The country is flooded with cheap,
unreliable publications Of the weekly
or monthly magazine form. The trash
published in these Un-American
newspapers" is soaked in by a large
percent Of the public seemingly in the
belief that they contain the sum total
of all truth.
The effect can be only to awaken
suspicion that everybody is wrong
but few would-be editors who are
either fanatical in their zeal for a
cause" or INSCRIPTIONS in their
methods Of making money.
The need Of the newspaper world
today is for editors, reporters and