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MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE

Mis-, ois Hoy. Of Cre.Jull 7 in
Cody this week.
Miss Cassie Barber was in from
Blackwater Camp this week.
Somebody must be praying, "Give
us this day our daily shower"
Isl" Davis of Sunlight is freight
ing to Cooke City this summer.
Miss Pearl E. Vance of Pella,
Iowa was visiting with friends in
Cody last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Hogg of Nee
teetse are spending a few days in
Cody.
Bert Oliver and Frankie Lasater
are out in the hills with a party from
the Simon Snyder Ranch in Sunlight.
L. A. Willard, Income Tax Collector
from Worland, was attending to bust
ness matters in Cody this week.
Mrs. F. v. H. Collins of Forsyth,
Montana was visiting in Cody IN Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl w. Becker of
Hollywood, California, were Cody
visitors this week.
Carl T. Davis of Casper was look
ing after business matters in Cody
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Mccormick
of Tfermopolis were in Cody this
week while enroute to the Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Potts of Den
yer are enjoying a trip through the
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray O. Larson left
on Sunday for a two weeks trip
through Yellowstone and Glacier
Parks, and other points in Montana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Bennion, Mrs.
J.. E. Bennion and Ray and Sonny
Bennion were shopping in Cody this
week.
Mr.. ]. r. Swearingen, President of
the Montana Sash and Door Co., of
Billings, Montana was attending to
business matters in Cody this week.
Eek Binder and family left last
Saturday for Gebo where Mr.. Binder
has taken a position with the Owl
Creek Mercantile Company.
Henry Griffin, one of the promin-
ent stockmen of the Burlington
country, was attending to business
matters in Cody this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Evans ac-
companied by Mrs. Henry Pool are
motoring to Billings this week for a
short visit.
Misses Nell and Sue w. Anderson
and Grace o. Driscoll of Thermopolis
were in Cody this week while enroute
to the Park.
Mrs. Henry E.. Jones who is visit
ing with friends and relatives in
Oskaloosa and other towns in Iowa,
is expected home the last of the
month.
MI. and Mrs. Sanford A. Watkins
accompanied by Miss Elsie Wiggen-
horn motored to Billings on Tuesday
for a short visit in the Montana
metropolis.
Most of the grown-ups and all the
kids in town will be sorry to learn
that Harry Wizard is planning to
leave for California with his family
the first of next month to remain
permanently.
B. C. Rumsey is leaving shortly on
a pack-trip with a party of eighteen.
George Mccullough was in town
Saturday after taking a party of boys
through the Clarks Fork and Crandall
Creek country and into the Park.
Mrs. Van Peterson and daughter
Bedtime, from Curtis. Nebraska, are
stopping in Cody tor a few days after
having spent the past fortnight with
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Hogg at the
Butte Ranch on the Upper Greybull
River.
, 1923-08-08

That Tavern Orchestra Of Billings
will play at the dance to be given BY
the 40 and 8 Of the American Legion
at the Temple theatre Friday night.
August IT.
, 1923-08-08

Mems Union Suits, grey cotton mixed,
long sleeves and legs, at S5c at Cody
Trading Company.
, 1923-08-08

BIDS WANTED-On Buffalo hide,
7x5 #. Unmounted, well tanned and
in excellent condition. Box SGT Basin,
, 1923-08-08

FOR RENT-Store furnished with
show cases and counters. Four liv-
ing rooms connected. Inquire at Ross
Inn a1-2tc
, 1923-08-08

FOR RENT room house, furnished
Phone 116-J. 49tf
, 1923-08-08

FOR SALE-10 Acre ranch, close
to town, Excellent for chicken ranch.
Much small fruit. Good terms. In
quire of Joseph F. Vogel Aft
, 1923-08-08

Mrs. Effner is offering for sale her
gentle driving mare. Will work any
where, saddle or pack. Gentle for
chaldren. Call at Enterprise 46tf
, 1923-08-08

FOR SALE-6 acre farm, joining
East side Cody Townsite. 4-acres
wheat; 1'acre alfalfa. 4-room house,
Barn, chicken houses. See or write
Perry Sandy, Cody. dts
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

individual that he or she cannot
escape.
Are there any fundamental reasons
why the hours of labor for women
should be less than the hours of labor
for men? There are no physiological
reasons, for nature has endowed
woman with greater powers of en-
durance in proportion to her strength
than man. This is but a just COM
pensation for the special burden i'm
posed upon women in connection with
the perpetuation of the race.
1t has become the universal practice
in industry to assign work in our
various manufacturing establishments
i in accordance with the natural physi-
cal and temperamental qualifications
of the various employees; in fact, sue
cess depends to no inconsiderable ex-
tent upon the careful adjustment of
the burden of any particular operation
to the natural qualifications of the
various workers.
Under no circumstances can we af-
ford to ignore our women, and the
special consideration due them as the
mothers of our children; and it is for
InlS reason Inal L DTlelly refer 10 lne
initial phase of the question at issue,
Notwithstanding the fact that they
have been practically eliminated as a
sex by the belated admission that the
real object of the so-called 4S-hour
week for women is a 48-hour-week for
all employees in Names industries
generally. l am sure the women have
never had any doubts themselves as to
their equal if not superior. powers of
endurance; and any man who has been
so incautious as to attempt to follow
his wife on a shopping trip is not like
ly to subject himself to such a test of
endurance a second time if he can
help it.
The ultimate question, however, for
our consideration to-day is: Will the
adoption of a measure restricting the
hours of labor of some of our citizens
to forty eight hours a week be bene-
fetal to the State of Maine, and pro-
mote the welfare of all, or a majority,
of our citizens? If we find that such
measure would be generally beneficial,
ii is our clear duty as citizens not
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

the Associated Industries of Maine en-
dorsed
In an interview recently published,
State Senator Clyde H. Smith admits
That the proposed 4S-hour-law would
curtail the hours of work for men as
well as for women in mills and
factories where women and men are
employed jointly" 1t is indeed graft
tying to have this phase of the ques-
ton cleared up by an admission that
in common honesty should have been
made when the referendum petition
was being circulated for signatures;
and it is a matter of no small impor-
lance that State Senator Smith has
now thrown off the mask of the
senatorial toga, and appears in his true
character as the agent of the union
labor interests.
While it might be said that the
question of limited hours of labor for
women has been eliminated by the
free admission that the limitation, If
the proposed 4S-hour amendment is
adopted, will also affect the men, it
will not do to ignore this phase of the
present situation. First impressions
are almost always Lie SlIOHScSl, dllu
liable to linger. We should, therefore,
give serious and earnest consideration
to the question as to the relative pow
ers of endurance of men and women,
and in considering it, difficult though
it may be. we must clear our minds of
that habit of thought which is tradi-
tional with the men of these United
States, and has become almost second
nature. which, in any difficult situation,
gives first consideration to the welfare
of our women and their children. God
forbid that we soil. even by touch, so
much as one petal of this sacred
flower of modern Auglo Saxon civili-
2ation. Quite the contrary-for we
have come to recognize the equal
ri ghts of women in our political sys
tenn; and the question raised by any
proposition to limit the hours of labor
is, after all, not a question of conces-
sion or special privilege, but one of
arbitrary restriction of an inherent
right, and is only justified when in
dustrial social or economic conditions
tend to impose unjust burdens upon the
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

vantages, but the present and probable
future high cost of transportation for
raw material in, and finished product
out. has disturbed the balance. re-
stricted the further DEVELOPMENT of
our manufacturing establishments
and created tendency on the part of
our manufacturers to look for more
favorable locations for the expansion
or their business. 1t is for those of
you who are representing special in
dustrfes to advise us from your more
mature study of the question. whether
or not 1t would be practical for our
Maine industries to maintain their
present prosperity under a 4S-hour
week. 1t is for the representatives of
our agriculturists to advise us as to
What erect, If any, such legal restric-
tion of the hours of labor would have
upon the prosperity of our farmers
II is Tor the representatives of our
banks to advise us to what extent
TINS proposed restriction would be felt
IN our financial institutions And fl
nally, but most important of all. If ia
for our women to advise us what thew
think about the matter
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04
FORTY-EIGHT HOUR LAW
What 1t would Mean to State OF
Maine Industrially.

The voters of Maine, on October
Is next, will give their verdict on
the proposed forty-eight hour law.
At a special meeting of the Associ-
ated Industries of Maine, called for
the purpose, the matter was taken
up, and a committee appointed to
launch a campaign against the pro-
posed law. DR.. w. E. Elwell of
Portland, president of the associ-
alton. in the principal speech Of the
day. said in part:
The governor has, by proclamation,
fixed the 18th day of October, 1928, as
the date for a special election, at
which the voters of our State will
have the opportunity to decide by their
ballots whether or not Maine will
abandon the present 54-hour week
and adopt the 4S-hour week as the
legal limit beyond which women are
not permitted to labor in certain in
dustries
This measure is a part of the pro-
gram of the American Federation of
Labor in it's effort to completely
union re all American labor, and die
tate to all workers. as well as their
employers what hours of labor may
be in industry i is not too much to
say that the initiative in this i'm
stance was secured under what pref
ty nearly amounts to false pretenses.
The petition to the legislature, and
the proposed amendment to our pres
ent laws refer only to the hours of
labor for women, and no doubt APP
,I.,.7 cir Cd tl. nat
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04
North Hancock.

Ira Colewell is home from Oak
Point, where he has been hauling
pulpwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Peterson of
Westboro, Mass, were guests Thurs
day and Friday of Mrs. Peterson's
uncle, John w. Mckay. They were
on their return trip from Nova
Scotia. They are enthusiastic auto
moblists, and said their ride through
Cherryfield woods was the most en-
joyable of their trip. Unlike most of
the people who own automobiles.
they never ride Sunday.
July 9 M
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04
Seal Cove,

Clarence Dow, wife and son
Horace, of Bar Harbor, and Wesley
Dow, wife and two sons, of Dor
chester, Mass, visited their uncle,
James A. Gray, recently
Benjamin w. Arnold of Albany, N.
Y, and Northeast Harbor, is at his
bungalow at Robbins Point, for
few days.
Friends of V. J. Flye of Bangor
regret to hear of his serious illness.
Mrs. L. r. Hodgdon is visiting in
Hampden and Bangor.
Mrs. l.. r. Hodgdon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Hodgdon. Mrs Mile Reed and
daughter Glennis, were in West
Brooksville for a short visit recently.
July l. N.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04
West Franklin.

Olive DeBeck, Pauline Smith and
Della Ryder have gone to Hancock
Point to work
Vernon Smith Joined his family
here Saturday.
Charles Brown of Wakefield,
Mass, is boarding with Mrs H. G.
Wooster.
e. O. Hardison has purchased a
new car.
Laura Williams has gone to Han
cock Point, where she has employ
ment.
July 3, M. F. B.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

only to vote for it's adoption, but to in
fluence others to do likewise.
If, on the other hand, we find that 1t
is clearly against the best interests
of all, or a majority of our citizens, 1t
is clearly our duty to vote against
and influence others to vote against
this measure. In any event, we should
exert such influence as we may have
to keep this question entirely out OF
party politics. 1t would indeed be I'M
fortunate if anyone should attempt to
make a political party issue out of a
question that affects practically all of
our citizens, without regard to their
political affiliations.
One of the fundamentals that is in
volved in the issue that we are asked
to settle by our ballots at the ap-
preaching special election is: Shall a
minority group, acting together for
what it believes to be its special adj
vantage, impose an unwelcome re-
striction upon the State as a whole?
Are we here in Maine prepared to &C
cept the dictation of the American
Federation of Labor? Can we main
tain our present prosperity in agricul-
ture, as well as industry, under plan
that means a reduction of IL per cent.
in our productive hours of labor?
What is the situation in other in
dustrial states? Two states have not
limited the hours of labor by law. In
other states the hours are as follows,
viz:
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

Itch! Itch! Itch Scratch! Scratch'
Scratch! The more you scratch the
worse the itch. Try Doan's Ointment.
For eczema, any skin itching soc a
boX.-Advt.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04
ALGOLA PILLS

Regulate the Stomach, Liver and Bowels.
Make Pure Blood. For Constipation Relieve
Gas, Indigestion, Biliousness, Sick Headache.
Try them: lOc Csc. At druggists. Duane
Pharmacal Co. sole proprietor, P. O. Box
1903, City Hall Station, New York See
signature on each box.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

Out as a matter of fact only one of
these two states, namely, Massachu-
sets, has any important industrial
establishments which are affected by
this measure; the other state is Cali
fornia, which has an inconsequential
number of textile industries).
8 60 hours
10 Including Maine 81 hours.
1t will be seen that Maine is in a
class with a majority, but is at a GER
tain disadvantage agriculturally and
industrially as compared with nine
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-07-04

4 man doesn't haze to be much of an
authority on driung car to know
that its a heap-sigh better to be care
tul than to Dish afterwards that you
had been. Cdrelessness, notreckless-
ness, causes most of the accidents"
(The Traffic Officer
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
WAGES OF WORKERS RAISED
New System Put in Operation In Plant
OF Allegheny Plate Glass Com
pany, Glassmere.

Henry Ford has increased wages Of
the employees Of the Allegheny Plate
Glass company of Glassmere, his re-
cent purchase, 80 per cent. Announce
ment of the action was made by d.
X. Albright, general manager Of the
plant.
According to the new scale, common
laborers will be paid 62A cents an
hour at the start and skilled men will
receive an advance of 80 per cent over
their present wages. Those hired at
the rate of 62h cents an hour will be
on a 6O-day probation. If their serv-
ices prove satisfactory their pay will
be increased to rs cents an hour The
standard working day at the big plant
will be eight hours. No person under
twenty years old will be given en-
ployment.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
GRANVILLE CAR LINE NO MORE

AS Samson by his own act ended
his life and destroyed the temple, so
Granville, while perhaps not destroy
ing that attractive village, undoubt-
edly destroyed the main factor in
keeping it on the map when, by deny
ing the patronage and support to
which it was entitled, it forced the
first electric interurban line in the
United States out of business, and
compelled the Columbus, Newark and
GAINESVILLE Traction Co. to start its
last and final car from Newark's un-
appreciative suburb at 11:30 Saturday
night.
From present indications the fate
which befell the Granville line hangs
over the city system in Newark, and
the sooner our citizens realize this
the sooner will they awaken to the
fact that Newark will surely be rank
ed among the "dead ones" should she
be deprived of the great convenience
and safety of this mode of travel
which carries so many workers to
and from their places of employment.
Let us think it over and act accord
ingly.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
LABOR LOSES FRIEND

The country has lost an active and
influential liberal through the death
of Charles d. Williams, bishop for II
years of the Episcopal diocese OF
Michigan, following attacks of influ-
enza and apoplexy.
Bishop Williams, sometimes iden-
titled by the term Christian Socialist,
said in a recent Detroit address:
'If the Lord in desperation (par-
don the phrase) should say, 4 will
feed these downtrodden starving chill
dren Of mine,' and rain brown bread
and molasses upon the earth, it would
do nothing to help the poverty Of the
world under our present system. 1t
would merely raise the land value
where the fall was heaviest"
The bishop, after an investigation,
was outspoken against Palmer's red
raids in 1919-20 in Detroit. He was
national director of the American
Civil Liberties union and president of
the National Church league for So
cial and Industrial Democracy.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
COURTS AND THEIR POWER

That the men who are clothed with
the power of Supreme Court justices
have their own peculiar veiws of life
and its problems goes without say
ing. That they are influenced by
those views in passing upon questions
beclouded by fundamental differences
of thought in economic and sociology
is equally true.
There is no assurance that the view
of a select few is the view of a ma
jority of the people, yet they are per-
mitted to decide those great questions
freighted with veal or woe to the
millions and establish their views as
the law of the land in place of an
come the law and in effect part of
the constitution itself and may not be
changed except through the difficult
and protracted process of amend
ment to that instrument. Yet that is
the sort of government we are living
under today-a government where
the will of one man, as in the income
tax case, is substituted for the will
OF the people. 1t took sixteen weary
years of persistent effort to amend
the constitution to accord with the
view of that one man and to enact
the present income tax law.
And even that has been emasculat-
ed by the Supreme Court in its late
decision that stock dividends are not
taxable as income. AS a consequence
all the big corporations have to do
now to evade paying the income tax
is to withhold the payment of divi-
dends or reduce them to nominal
figure, permit their earnings to ac-
cumulate as surplus and then distri-
butte those profits in the form of stock
dividends. The newspapers keep us
informed of how this unfortunate de-
cision works in practice. They re-
port daily the endless stream of stock
dividends ranging from 100 to 900
per cent of the capital stock which
are being declared by corporations all
over the country.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16

PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
MORE WAGE DISPUTES IN 1923

The next six months will probably
be characterized by more rapidly
increasing cost of living and by
greater prevalence of industrial dis
putes.
The course of business activity has
reached the point where the increased
cost of raw materials will begin to be
a factor in manufacturing costs and
in prices. Higher prices will make
requests for wage increases the logl-
cal thing. But the increasing costs
of the manufacturer will decrease his
willingness to grant wage increases
except under pressure.
The price situation can be summed
up briefly. The figures of the Fed
eral Reserve Board show prices Of
raw materials 22f6 higher in Decem-
Der, 1922, than in the same month Of
the previous year. During the same
period prices of producers goods ad-
vanced only SO, while wholesale
prices of consumers goods advanced
about 4Gt. The increased cost of raw
materials will now begin to be re-
flected in finished goods. This will
mean that the cost of living will rise
during 1923 and will become an in
centive to labor to seek wage in
creaseS.
The steady increase in production
which marked the last months of 1922
appears to be continuing. This will
mean full employment which will
place labor in a good strategic posi-
ton.
During the past six months this
rapid improvement in business has
made many employers willing to pay
additional wages in order to build up
the working forces which they need
ed to meet the new period of activity.
This does not mean that there are not
plenty of workers in the country to
carry on industrial activity at the
present level. The latest figures of
the Federal Reserve Board show that
employment is still 4%6 short of the
full time mark. And it must not be
forgotten that this country was able
to raise production to new high levels
in 1917-18 in spite of the fact that
several million fit young men had
been herded off into the army and
quite withdrawn from useful occupa
tions.
AS the pressure for wage in
creases again develops employers will
organize to prevent labor from using
the period Of activity to improve liv-
ing standards. The experience of the
war period should at least prevent
labor from allowing itself to be dis
armed by conciliatory tactics.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
VALUE OF UTILITY SERVICES

Suppose transportation service, tel
ephones, street cars, electric lights
gas, were suddenly to disappear!
No disaster could be worse!
Boston, Denver and Chicago, with
only their street car facilities sus-
pended, lost so per cent of their
trade and rs per cent of their labor
and wages.
Contrast with these gloomy facts
the health, happiness and comfort
that depend upon your public utility
service.
You press a button and light in
stantly Eliminates your house. You
pick up a telephone receiver and your
place of business or your home imme-
diately replies. Turn lever and gas
at once is ready to cook the evening
meal. Board a street car and, car
ried by some invisible power, you
reach your destination.
New York can talk with San Fran
cisco. A roomful of people in New
Orleans can hear the symphony or
chestra in Minneapolis. The utmost
parts of the earth are in touch with
cur daily press. There is not a mo-
ment of our lives, sleeping or wax
ing, that is not made richer in poss-
Utilities, because men of genius and
vision have delved into the secrets of
electricity and kindred sources and
have placed them right at our hand,
ready, powerful, cheap.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
Inventors Form Union

Washington-The latest thing in
organization here is the inventors
union, organized to aid each other by
transferring ideas and including all
persons, regardless of race or creed,
who have either invented something
or are working on inventions. VIM.
F.. Armstrong, the organizer, said the
object is to "mother inventors" and
protect their ideas.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16

If you are thinking about buying
something, we hope that you will look
carefully over all of our advertise
ments and see how easy it will be for
you to patronize some one who is not
too prejudiced against the cause of
labor to advertise in the labor paper.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-03-16
Hotel Workers Organizing

New York-In line with a member
ship drive started here by the bak-
ers', butchers and other unions of the
Amalgamated Food Workers, the To-
cal hotel workers branch of the or
ganization has begun campaign to
organize completely the hotels and
restaurant workers of the city.