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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-28

T1AIR tonight and Sunday.
l. Somewhat warmer Sunday
afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-28

HULL service of United Press,
l. United News, United Finan-
cial, NEA and Scripps Alliance.
Evening star., 1923-10-12

many's interest In her first colony. and
she went into the development OF Q
colonial empire with her accustomed
tnoroughness.
within q little more than two de-
west Africa's dreary s0o-rnile coast line
were punctuated by port which had
the tallest wireless tower OF her day,
modern electric railways, q public
library, government buildings and q
newspaper.
1.-The city first was called Luderitz, for
the Bremen merchant who bought 1t Tor
a tride from a native chief. but now Is
known as Angra Pequena.
Museum I'm Sand Dunes.
1.-THE bewildered Hottentot, wearing
little more than his sweat wiper (Which
is the correct though not polite desfg-
nation Of the fox's tail mounted on a
stick he invariably carries), accom-
panied by his wife in her numerous leg
rings, strolled from native kraaI into
an electric lighted, smoothly paved city,
where even a museum had been pro-
vided so Germany's colonists might feel
completely at home.
ITO student of racial history the
entire colony, almost as large as Brit
ish Columbia on. our continent, Is vast
museum because 1t comprises these
Hottentot tribes, the debris Of a stock
which only two centuries ago was one
of the most powerful over the greater
part OF South Africa
To-day the Hottentot has been all
dressed up by the missionaries; but
Evening star., 1923-10-12
Dean En,,na NJ. Cillett Resigns
La,U School Leadership Today
First Won, an to-
Hold Position
in america. |
Miss E. C.. Harris Is
Successor in
Office.

Miss Emma NJ. Gillett, dean of the
Washington College of Law for many
years, and one of its founders, today
.relinquished her active leadership to
Miss Elizabeth c. Harris, who was
graduated from the college in 1917.
Miss Gillett will not sever her con-
nection with the college, but will re-
main one of its supervisors and help
to work out some Of the details in the
college curriculum. Her successor is
at present engaged in practice as an
attorney-at-law, and will continue to
serve before the courts in that
capacity.
Miss Gillett was born in Wisconsin
and came to this city in 1880. The
following year she was appointed
notary public by President GARFIELD.
and was the first woman notary pub
lie in the District of Columbia. In
addition Miss Gillett holds the dis
tinction of practicing tho longest of
any woman member of the bar here.
She was the only woman dean Of a
law coll ege in America, en- honor Miss
Harris will now hold. Miss Gillett
founded the Washington College of
Law with Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
+ in 1895. Mrs. Mussey served as dean
for seventeen years and now holds
the title of honorary dean.
Miss Harris came to Washington from
Boston about twelve years ago Both
her grandfather and father served as
representatives from Massachusetts.
Her father. Robert o. Harris, is at
present United States district at
torney in Boston.
The Easter lily is a comparatively
new thing in Christendom. 1t was
introduced from Japan about fifty
years ago.
Evening star., 1923-10-12
PRIMARY CAUSE OF World VAR
in GERMAN COLONY In AFRICA

Orange river in what once was Ger
man Southwest Africa.
This former German colony, whose
name describes its location, was Ger
many's first adventure into COLOMBIA
tion. Her acquisition of the colony
was accidental and her interest in
it was incidental until, in 1903. the
Hottentots revolted.
"A German general embarked upon
a policy of determination which
aroused such indignation jim his home
land that Chancellor Won Buelow dis
avowed his more drastic acts. How
ever, the misguided officer had aroused
the natives of all southwest Africa,
and the discomfort spread to adjoin-
Ing British possessions, so that the
issue became drawn between white
or black supremacy in all South
Africa.
Forced Germany's Hand.
"A war that lasted four years and
took toll of several thousand German
soldiers brought squarely before the
German parliament the question OF
whether Germany was to adopt perma-
nently colonial expansion policy. The
Hottentot had unwittingly famed Ger
Evening star., 1923-10-12

"Now here Is the kind Of thing |
mean" explains Mr.. Argumentative
Citizen, confident of his innate capac-
ity to run a newspaper. This item
says the mandates commission criti-
cizes the South African government t's
policy toward the Bondelzwart.
why should an American news
paper bother to print that?
whats is 1t to me, or you, or the
United States?"
'It so happens" according to a
bulletin from the Washington. D. c.,
headquarters OF the Matte nal Geo.
graphic Society. "that the Bondelz-
warts furnished the impetus toward
the German empires ambition to cut
the Cape-toCafro railway route,
which effort, along with her posi-
tive plans toward Berlin to- -Bagdad
road. had considerable to do with
|, starting the world war.
Germany's First Colony.
1.-The Bondelzwarts are the Hotten-
tots who live directly north of the
Evening star., 1923-10-12
Used Swan Skins in Trade.
ON the Kansas City Times

From the Kansas City Times.
Swans are not diving birds. They
obtain their food from the bottom Of
lake or stream by tipping and reach
ing down with their long Decks. Their
food consists OF larvae. young frogs
and other forms of subaqueous life.
This is varied by vegetable food. e1ch
as the soft roots of water plants and
forms Of wild grain found by the mar
gins OF inland waters.
When the Hudson Bay Company op-
Grated trading posts on Canadian
prairies swan skins were common
articles of trade. They were not rat
ed very highly. but nevertheless the
Indian hunters slew many a noble
swan. They did not eat the flesh Of
the bird. as 1t is far from being edi-
BILE. even to a hungry red man.
Evening star., 1923-10-12

he literally never had any place to 20
which Is principally what Is the
matter with him. He was pastoral
and could well afford to dream when
he pleased, which was often all day
long, and work when he pleased,
which was seldom.
HE would betaks himself to the
woods to hunt. leaving his wife. or
wives, to look after his cattle and do
his cooking. She did this, and in the
course of many generations took ad-
vantage of her Importance acquired
thereby to achieve an independence
equaIed nowhere, perhaps, except
among the Tauregs of the Sahara and
the enfranchised women Of English
speaking nations today.
In primitive tribes the sons still
take her name; the daughters are
named for the father
Despite his occasional uprisings,
such as the recent one against the
new Union of South Africa mandatory,
the Hottentot is gentle creature,
with scarcely any explosive qualities
except his language. He enunciates
a large number of clicks and clucks,
like the noise a farmer makes to
hurry his horse along. Unlike his
Bushman neighbor, the Hottentot is
not savage and daring, nor has he the
bravado and quick temper of the
kaffir."
Evening star., 1923-10-12
DESERT MIRAGES
FOOL EXPERIENCED
from the Adventure Magazine.

from the Adventure Magazine.
One of the most extraordinary eS-
amples of the phenomenon known as
the mirage was witnessed by Edward
Bryant, who crossed overland to Cali
fornia in 1S47. His party had left Utah
Lake and was we'll out on the Great
Salt desert on August 3 when furi-
Gus sandstorm assailed them from the
south. While the storm was dying
Bryant was walking several rods
ahead of the party, having turned
his mule in with the other stock.
Very often during the trip across
the plains he had been entertained
and fascinated by beautiful illusions
In the sky.
Now occurred something so entirely
different that Mr.. Bryant was thor
oughly deceived. AS he walked along
he was amazed to behold on his right
- score of men approaching, some
mounted. some on foot Measuring
three to five miles away. but instead
of being dots on the dread waste
they looked as large as If only a
few rods distant. Mr.. Bryant could
explain this amazing fact away only
by assuming them to be giants. His
next thought was that they must be
II band of Utah Indians, but he knew
10 hunters or warriors would be cut
ling his trail. He called out to his
companions to join him, as men Of gil
cantic stature were coming. His
followers ran forward. Then he saw
the score of newcomers increased to
three or four hundred. and they were
quickening their pace.
Although reason was staggered, yet
Mr.. Bryant sought an explanation.
Perhaps ii might be Capt. Fremont
and his band returning from Cali
fornia, although this theory did not
Explain away the huge proportions
To make sure the spectacle was not
the work of his imagination, he asked
one of his followers If he saw them.
THE man replied he had glimpsed the
strange band several times, but as 1t
disappeared and reappeared miracu-
lously he assumed 1t to be a mirage.
Mr.. Bryant, In part, says: "It was
then for the first time, so perfect
WAS the deception, that con-
jcctuied that probably these f1g-
ures were the reflections Of our own
images by the atmosphere, filled as
il was with fine particles of crystal
lized matter. or by the distant hori-
zon, covered by the same substance"
Following out this line of reason
ing, he studied the figure in advance
Of the main. band and discovered 1t
resembled himself. It was uncanny
TO see himself clearly apparent at a
distance of several miles. He half
turned and stretched his arms at full
length, and instantly the strange
figure did the same. He ran forward
several PAGES, ard the figure instant
ly did likewise. He tested his double
by other maneuvers and found 1t was
like posing before q mirror. Every
movement of his and Of his follow
crs was instantly duplicated by the
newcomers. For nearly an hour the
spectral band continued to approach
them, but never drew any nearer. and
lradually melted away. In conciu-
zion, Mr.. Bryant says. "the figures
were our own shadows, produced and
reproduced by the mirror-1ke COM
1.paitIon lmprcgnating the atmos-
-. ana covering the plaia.'
Evening star., 1923-10-12
Some Queer English.

From the Boston Transcript.
Probably with a certain popular
song In mind, II. o. writes that he
overheard the following in a restaur-
ant recently: A customer had started
for the door when he remembered
that he hadn't paid his check. Going
back, he said to the cashier, "I don I
pay you yet, amt it?''
"Yes. not yet" answered the cash
Ter
Evening star., 1923-10-12

An uphill journey early in life
strengthens your staying power.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
UTAH Man WOULD MAKE LABOR COGS
IN MACHINES AS REMEDY FOR ILLS
.tHy International Labor News LabOr)

(Ry international Labor News Labor)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 25-Dust
off your stock Of leather medals re-
served for union foes. all you union
members, and pick out the best, big
lest and shiniest for Thos. A. Stroup,
superintendent of the Utah Fuel Co.,
Clear Creek, Utah.
For if ever man deserved a leath-
er medal It is this same Thomas A.
Stroup. who has just laid before a
palpitating world nifty, high-gear
little scheme guaranteed to abolish
anionism and to make every worker a
cog in a vast profit-producing ma
chine.
"Stroup's Patent Sure Death for
Unionism," as his scheme may be-
come known, is based on the theory
that most of the nations workers are
sub-normal mentally. In other words,
they are "dumbbells," according to
Mr. Stroup, who expounds the theory
that uni0nism makes the workers be-
lieve they are intelligent, even though
such is not the case, with the result
that they bullheadedly organize. Mr.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
GOOD WAGES STIMULATE
OUTPUT, MOTOR CO. FINDS

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-By
actual practice the White Motor
Co, Of Cleveland, o., has proved
the contention of organized labor
that good wages stimulate pro-
duction, according to an article
in The Iron Age, organ of the
steel and iron interests.
Discussing the labor policy of
the White company, the Iron Age
article says:
'The company believes that it
gets more work from its men by
paying higher, than the average
wages. II also holds that its
ability to pay wages higher than
the average management and
that good wages are largely a
question Of good management.
Under good management it in
clndes skill in planning and rout-
ing the work, care in inspecting
work, and in procuring uniform
materials and training foremen
and workmen to use skill in
managing their own jobs with
the minimum of supervision
from the higher ranks"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
WHAT ONE UNION HAS DONE

subscribed, together with a surplus
Dfean equal amount It is predicted
hat the bank, within a short time
after It is opened, will have resource
es Of $500, 900.
Since its organization. the union
has been steadily securing improve
ments in the wages and working con-
dittons of workers on women's gar
ments, and today it has $4,000 men,
bers in the New York Metropolis dis
ttirct alone. Their dues and ASSESS
inents amount to from $1,000, 900 to
$s,OOO,O 900 a year, most of which goes
to help pay for the health. education
al and recreational activities Of the
union.
"A union that can do what the gar
ment workers have done can hardly
be classed as weak" or inefficient" "
can It? What it has accomplished
shows the opportunities open to or
sanized labor In America to benefit
the workers physically, mentally and
spiritually. Its accomplishments re-
fute the attacks OF critics whose crit
icism Is purely destructive and ex-
pose to the clear light of MONDAY the
shallowness and weakness of the "ar-
guments'' employed by the anvil
chorus"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
IlANV OFFICERS Of
| NATIONAL UNIONS
| VISITED SEATTLE
EANY OTHER SECTIONS OF THE
STATE ALSO VISITED ON
WAY HOME FROM THE
CONVENTION.
Local Unions Benefited BY Contact
With Officers Who Represent
Them Nationally.

Seattle was honored last week by
the visit Of q large number of prdlni-
nent national leaders, who spent q
few days here while on their way
home from the American Federation
of Labor convention held in Portland.
Prominent among the visitors were
fHe national officers of the culinary
trades, who spent several days in Sc
attic attending to the business Of
their organizations, also paying brief
visits to other cities of Che state.
Matthew Woll, president Of the
Photo Engravers National Union,
and member of the A. F. of l.. .ex-
ecutive council, was also a visitor for
a couple of days at Seattle and paid
a flying visit to other sections Of the
state.
James Duncan (Big Jim), former
president of the Granite Cutters I'm
ion, and also a member of the execu-
tive council of the A. F. of L., spent
two days in Seattle and addressed a
AlCCSI4b VI uAS OASdtlAldblOu willie
here. Arrangements had been made
for outside members to attend the
meeting.
Bill Mahon, president of the Street
Car Mems Union, spent all of last
week at Seattle, also visited Tacoma,
Everett, Bellingham and other CEN
ters, addressing meetings of the 10
cal membership.
Harrington III
Frank Harrington, the popular
president of the Miners Union of Illi-
nois, and John H. Walker, former
president of the Illinois miners and
now president of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor, spent several
days at Seattle visiting old friends,
Continued on Page Eighty
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
PLAN FLORIDA HOME
Z FOR AGED MEMBERS
CONTINUED on Page Eight.)
(IntertypO News sarvice.)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct &c.
Millionaires will have nothing on the
aged and infrm members of the In
ternational Typographical Union if
the organizations executive council
finds merit in the proposal of the
West Palm Beach union local for the
establishment Of a home in Florida.
The southern union has offered fifty
acres of land for the nucleous of a
home site in the Palm Beach region
along the famous Indian river in the
heart of the orange country.
High up in the Rocky mountains
the international union now main
tains Union Printers Home that is
larger and more imposing than most
resort hotels and the grounds of
which cover 255 acres. Hospital fa-
cilities at the home near Colorado
Springs have attracted wide atten-
tion and artistic landscaping has add
ed to the beauty of the scenry of the
farflung mountains.
The addition of a Florida home in
the winter climate belt was proposed
at the recent convention of the union
in Atlanta, Ca, and the executive
council was instructed to investigate.
The council will journey to Florida
this winter to view the West Palm
Beach site and also to look at other
property in that state suggested by
members of the union.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
BENEFITS PAID TO
MEMBERS IN NEED

Trade unionists regard protecting
their members and their members
families by means of sick and death
benefits as one of their outstanding
duties.
According to figures submitted by
Frank Morrison to the 1923 conven-
tion of the federation, the affiliated
national and international unions
paid out during the year $2,778,5
for benefits. OF this amount 1894
$50 went for death benefits to men,
bers' wives, $685. $50 for sick bene-
fits, $2S,S20 for unemployed bene-
fits and 1919 for tool insurance.
These amounts represent largely
the benefits paid directly by the ma
tional and international unions and
do not include much greater sums by
many local unions for similar pur-
poses.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
INJUNCTION DENIED
BY JUDGE FRENCH

Labor leaders and lawyers are
united in declaring that the decision
handed down by Judge French. deny
ing a temporary injunction restrain
ing the musicians, motion picture op-
orators and building service employees
unions from pieketing John Danz'
string Of unfair theatres, was one Of
the most sweeping and outstanding
victories that labor has achieved in
this state in years.
Judge French has received much
praise over his clear-cut interpreta-
ton of the law and the unions have
also been congratulated upon the
method in which they handled the
matter.
The decision caused such constern-
alton in the ranks of the anti-labor
forces Of the state that Harry L. Kays,
secretary of the Associated Industries
Of Washington, was not even able to
discuss the question nationally or
without profanity Saturday, it is
stated.
What Judge French's decision real
ly means:
1. That pieketing is no longer ipso
facto unlawful in the state of Wash.
ington. Workers have the right to
do, collectively anything that they
have the right to do as individuals.
Continued on Page Sikh
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
By }. NJ. Basr, The conarsssman
Cartoonlst


Cartoonlst
Those highly critical persons, few
IN number but who decry American
organized labor as weak" and "inef-
ficient" should study the record OF
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union.
The garment workers union has
made remarkable progress in the last
ten years. Today 1t is one Of the
richest unions affiliated with the
American Federation OF Labor. In
New York alone 1t owns seven build
ings. valued at approximately s1.0O0,-
900.
The union has a health center
which treats 10, 900 patients annually
ana guards the health OF union work
ers In the women's garment industry.
not only in the shop but In the home.
To supplement- the work OF the health
center, the union conducts a summer
resort in one OF the most picturesaue
resorts Of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Every summer thousands OF garment
workers are given the opportunity for
rest and recreation at this camp.
On December 1, the union will open
a bank in New York City. The capi-
tai stock OF $25OOOO has been fully
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26

The accumulated wealth of the
country, much of which is a gift from
the past, is crystalized into great cor
perations which are generally speak
ing managed by salaried employees.
Inventive genius has brought to
the front wonderfully improved meth
ods Of production and to such an ex-
tent syndicated capitalists have had
to create extensive selling facilities.
This fact in itself has created a
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
OREGON FEDERATION
CONVENES MONDAY
(state Federation Bulletin.)

The annual convention of the Ore
gon State Federation of Labor will
convene Monday morning, October 30,
1928, at Astoria. A large delegation
from every section of Oregon will
attend and fraternal delegates from
adjoining states will also be in at
tendance.
The Washington State Federation
of Labor will be represented by it's
president
A lengthy program is being sub
mitted to the convention by its exec
utive officers, dealing with the work
to be done during the coming year,
and embracing a review of activities
during the past year.
An article dealing with the work
of the convention will be sent out in
subsequent issue of the Bulletin.
The president of the State Fedora
tion of Labor will stop in Olympia on
his way down, and will also stop al
kelso for conference with the local
labor representatives there, and pos
sibly with officers of the Long Bell
company relative to the Mexican la
Dor situation at Longview, which is
being investigated by the federal inn
migration department and by Con-
gresham Albert Johnson of the
Southwest Washington district. The
housing situation at Longview is in
deplorable condition and the trades
unionists at Kelso are advising work
men to stay away from there until
something has been done to remedy
it. Consideration of this question
will also be given during his visit.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-10-26
EMPLOY CHILDREN
IN TEXTILE MILLS

The children Of the textile workers
Of the south are future citizens of
the United States and as such must
be prepared to meet their RESPONSE
bilities.
Every American citizen is entitled
to 3 liberal education" declares Cal
vim Coolidge, president of the United
States, in his proclamation urging OBJ
servance of national education week.
without this there is no hope for
the permanence of free institutions" !"
continues the president, mo hope of
perpetuating self-government.
"Despotism finds its chief support
in ignorance. knowledge and freedom
go hand in hand"
The textile workers children have
the right to the education which the
president truly asserts is necessary
for the citizens whose duty is to
guard American institutions.
They are evidently being deprived
of this right by conspiracy between
the governments of the southern
states and the textile mill owners
who profit from child labor.
Conclusive testimony on this point
is given by E. M. Crouch, superin-
tendent of the public schools of
Mooresville, N. c., in a statement
condemning the nn-American educa-
tional policy of the state, which per-
mits the mill barons to stunt the
mental and physical lives of children
by taking them from school to the
cotton mills and turning their brains
and bodies into profit for the mill
owners.
"The great state of North Caro-
lima let's children by the thousands
leave school when they reach their
14th birthday" declares Prof.
Crouch.
School Age.
ain Mooresville there are 70 boys
and 43 girls, aged Z to ID years, out
of school. This group of 11S chill
dren would fill three rooms and oc-
cupy three teachers. But this is not
all. There are 329 children, aged IA
to 20 years, who are out of school.
These are of high school age"
Pointing out that the state allows
a teachers salary in the elementary
schools for every 35 scholars and in
the high schools for every 80 schol-
ars, Prof. Crouch asserts that the sal
aries of IA teachers, amounting to
$14,715, are lost in Mooresville be-
cause of the children out of school.
This deplorable condition is attrib-
utable to the hoggish greed Of the
textile barons who practically own
Mooresville, 80 per cent of the pop
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