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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
AMERICANS DRIVEN
OUT BY FOREIGN
LIVING STANDARDS

New York.-Writing in a local
newspaper, Henry A. Wise Wood, in
ventor of printing machinery, chal-
lengeS the plea of the national asso-
citation of manufacturers for more i'm
migrants to do the rougher tasks that
Americans now refuse. Mr.. Wood
says:
"The American has shown aversion
to the "rougher tasks only where
these were performed by the foreigner
with whom he does not care to asso-
ciate, and upon whose lower pay he
can not subsist. One need only go
upon the farms and cattle ranges of
the country and into the smaller vii
lagos where foreign labor has not yet
penetrated, to find robust natives con-
tentedly performing the rougher tasks
of agriculture and industry.
''The truth of the matter is that into
whatever walk of industrial life the
foreigner has come his lesser living
needs have driven out the American.
"The committees report broadly
charges the shortage of labor to the
absence of immigration. 1t does not
reveal the fact that the most keenly
felt shortage of labor is in those
highly skilled trades that are always
beyond the immigrant; nor the other
fact that the so-called shortage Of
rough labor is local and not general;
that il is a matter of maldistribution
and of pay.
"The committees report, of course,
does not reveal what is TO be done IN
bad times with the alien labor II
wants let in now.
"Were the manufacturers them
selves. instead of the whole commun-
ity, to be charged with the slack-time
support of this much-wanted alien
labor, it is to be suspected that they
would be able to worry along with
out it."
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01

Washington. - Better food for
young children to ward off tubercul0-
sis is recommended by the United
States health service, which states
that there are 100000 persons in
this country who are continuously
sick with this disease.
Children, particularly under the age
of 5 years, are said to be more sus-
eeptible to infection. The public
health service says that the we'll fed
resist tuberculosis we'll; the underfed
yield readily"
The service also deplofes hasiy
breakfasts and lunches Of adults;
calls attention 10 the generally pre-
vailing lack Of knowledge Of food
values and says that diet should be
suited 10 the age Of the individual
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
COAL OWNERS
CAUSE SURPLUS
OF COAL MINERS

Washington.-Coal owners are re-
sponsfSGe for "bald-faced misleading
statements" in connection with the
alleged surplus of 200, 900 employees in
the coal industry, declared commit
tee of the United Mine Workers IN a
document filed with the United States
coal commission.
The commission is reminded that
the coal owners had employed all of
these miners, and that the coal owners
are responsible for maintaining 1000
more mines than needed, and keeping
100 per cent working force in readi-
ness to operate them at all times
though they actually could furnish all
the miners only part-time employ
ment.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
Mary had 9 little law
It's fleece vas white as snow;
The fleecers didn't like the law
And so il had 10 go.

Mary had 9 little law
It's fleece vas white as snow;
The feecers didn't like the law
And SO II had To go.
Some Of you horny headed sons Of
toll are raising an awful row because
the Supreme Court declared the
Nomen's Minimum Wage Law uneon-
Sttutional. This all comes from the
fact that you fellows don't know a
blooming thing about government,
constitution, Supreme Court and law.
Well, let Adam tell you. He knows
all about such things.
In the first place. governments are
Instituted for the benefit of the peo-
pie who have enough sense to let
others do their work. The first gov
eminent started when fellow by the
name of BruiSer. living back of
Paradise, caught guy by the name
Of hunt and made him work in his
potato patch. Runt would a heap
rather have raised potatoes for his
own tummy, exclusively, but Bruiser
stood over him with a club aud
threatened to knock his brains out if
ne ever attempted to skip out.
BY and by Bruiser wanted TO 90
fshing, so he bowed in peck of
HUNTS tubers and employed strong
armed gink by the name of Thug to
hold the club over Runt. That's how
Capital, Labor and Law came into
existence and all the constitutions,
laws and courts are but Celebrations
OF the simple arrangement entered
into between Bruiser, and Thug for
keeping Runt on the job. You will
also understand now why people talk
about the strong arm of the law.
In the course of time Roman laws,
English laws, Common laws and uns
Common laws were invented. Some
were written in Latin, some in Greek
and some in lawyers lingo, which is
worse than Greek. But no matter in
what language these laws were writ
ten, they were always written by the
people who owned the potato patches.
The business end of the strong arm
of the law also went through many
transformations and elongations. In
the beginning it held club, later on
ii held stone AK, still later it swung
butchers cleayer on a stick and
nowadays it is. ornamented with an
automatic gat in testimony of the
great progress we have made since
Bruiser hired Thug to keep Runt in
his place. The point you've got to
keep in mind to comprehend the ma
ture, origin and evolution of law is
that law is the club in the hands of
property against folks who have no
property. -
When Liberty was invented in 1776
and the Runts were told that all men
were born free and equal Ind all gov
ernments derived their just powers
from the consent of the governed,
there was great rejoicing among the
Runts. They reasoned that if gov
ernments are instituted for the benefit
of the governed they could make any
law they darned pleased, because the
Runts are always in the majority.
But the Khan of Bruisers, while
short in numbers, was long in brain
so it was only natural that they would
write the new law. The result was a
government of THE people by THE
people and for THE people. The
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01

Harrisburg, Pa.--Twenty thousand
more industrial accidents were re-
ported to the workmen's compeusa-
ton bureau for the first four months
of the year than for corresponding
period in 1922, according to DIR. Royal
Meeker, commissioner of labor and in
dustry.
For the first quarter, out Of 1903
accidents, including GA fatalities,
the industries with the largest per
centage were, in order of accident
frequency, metals, bituminous mines,
public service, anthracite mines. build
ing, glass, mercantile establishments,
food manufacturers and lumber man
ufacturers.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
New Steel Record.

New York The steel trust Is
operating Al p per cent Of is ca
ptaeity. making new record in this
industry. Production In April, il Is
stated. was ut the annual rate Of Is
eco goo tens year. This production
was undreamed Of even during the
war and has been made while Judge
Gary and his associates are demand
ing a lessenine of the immigration
law because Of the "lahor shortage.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01

Somerset, Pa.-Judge John A.
Berkey stopped hearings in the in
junction granted the Quemahonlng
coal company against the United Mine
Workers. The court announced that
the injunction will remain in force
until a further hearing is held, but
he has set no date. The injunction
is one Of the most sweeping ever
granted in a coal strike.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
DIAMOND LODGE No. AIT
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

brotherhood 0T Locomotive FIftmeh
and Euginemen.
Meet IN |. q. %. 4. Hall. First and
Third Thursday evenings and Second
and Fourth Thursday afternoons at
1850 o'clock and 200 o'clock. Don't
forget the day and hour.
ID. 4. YoUNGLoyE, Pres. 205 w.
Vine 81.
+. II. MOORE, Rec. and Fin. See, 500
Locust 81.
N. A. MARSHALL, Local Chairman,
IS l. Heaiey Sc.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-01
FOR FREEDOMS SAKE
(By ADAM COALDlGG Err, In Illinois Miner

people could vote fer any iaN they
wanted and II Congress voted fer that
law the President didn't veto Il ant
the Supreme Court didn't declare j,
unconstitutional, they could have what
the yvoteS for. The keystone in their
arch Of liberty was the supreme
judges are not elected ana can re; be
ousted by the people they are at
liberty To do anything 10 the people
they feel like doing. And because
the Supreme Court judges are the
only people in the world Who are re
sponSihle 10 nobody, We call them the
the hulwark of liberty, With the accent
on the bull.
This may also explain why, in
the struggle between property and
labor. the former gets the decision
and the latter the black eye Bs this,
| don't mean &c say Supreme Court
judges are naturally dishonest. |
only mean 10 show how they get that
way.
With these brief remarks | shall
now introduce the Momen,s Minimum
Wage Law and the strange case OF
Mary Magdalena Murphy.
Mary NJ. was elevator chauffeur in
Washington hotel. For the many
ups and downs pertaining to her oe-
eupation, she received the queenly
wage of SIG per week. She might
have gotten more If the boss had
been agreeable and she could have
gotten less had il not been for the
minimum wage law which stipulates
the sixteen per Here then was a
fragrant violation of Mary's liberty.
She would gladly have worked for
less. Her boss would gladly have paid
her less or hired some other Mary
for less. But, alas aud alack, how
could he, how could she, with that
tyrannieal minimum wage law hang
ing over their heads like the sword
of Damocles? Liberty cried for its
bulwark and 10 the bulwark warked
and struck the cheekles from Mary's
purse.
Oh, my fellow citizens, can you
imagine the joy of Mary's little heart
| when she heard of her liberation
Can you see her rush TO the arms OF
her grey haired mother, shouting Ia
glee, Mother, dear, Mother, dear
I'm free at last, the Supreme Court
decided in my favor No longer an
! forced to drag down sixteen iror
men on Saturday night? The Su
preme Court has confirmed my righ
to work for any ware the boss Il
willing to pay. oh, liberty, wha
nice things are committed in tn.
nameP
This is the story of how the Bull
wank of Liberty warked Mary anc
how the strong arm of the law eman.
cipated all working Marys from the
slavery of square meals for freedoms
sake.
In closing, want to state that
while the Supreme Court declared
the womens minimum wage law un.
constitutional because it interfered
with the liberty Of Mary To work fol
less than a living wage, the same
court declared constitutional the
Esch- Cummins law which guarantees
living profit to the railroads.
Oh why wasn't little Mary born a
railroad?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
Memorial

Lafayette Journal and Courter)
In erecting a memorial to Indiana
soldiers on the plaza site at Indian
apolis, the artistic values and the en-
during beauty of the monument should
not be cluttered up with any so-called
unitarian adjuncts which might in
future years detract from or make a
standing mockery of the original pur-
pose of the structure. If it is feasible
to provide headquarters for patriotic
organizations adjacent to the mo
mortal. well and good. so long as those
offices or office buildings do not have
the effect of spelling the sentimental
and artistic effect. The monument is
to stand for generations. Human or
CARNATIONS and their headquarters
come and go. A monument to World
war soldiers raised as headquarters
building for an existing organization
or Organizations, might fifty years from
now or 100 years hence be found oc.
cupied and used for commercial Dur.
poses, or by groups utterly different
from those to whose use 1t first was
dedicated or offered. It is wise to di
Vorce the unitarian from the me.
mortal idea, The monument must he
a monument and a memorial for al,
generations and not alone for the one
That gives 1t form and substance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
Science

One of the greatest inventions Of
man is the microscope.
Thirty or forty years ago every
boy tried to produce snakes by put
ting horse hairs in a glass or bottle
of water. Many country people be-
lieve to this day that cells can be
grown by putting horse hairs in a
pond.
The microscope destroyed these
and many other similar ideas, when
1t overturned what is called the doc
trine Of spontaneous generation. That
doctrine taught that lifeless matter
was suddenly converted into living
matter. For example. dead carcass
was supposed to breed insects and
maggots.
The microscope revealed the hith-
erto unknown world of cells from
which every living thing is composed.
Small bits of matter, such as a grain
Of sand or a spoonful of water, are
now known 10 be composed of many
small units. In a similar way the
bodies of all living things are built
out of these units.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
OSTRICHES AND POLITICIANS

TRANGE BIRDS politicianst Indiana type
- feren from his brethren in Ohio, Maine California.
We laugh when the ostrich buries its head and thinks
approaching catastrophe But ism funny
politician bures his mind under the praise of friends
squats his office until public upheayal
him and out7
Saw of those upheavals in Minnesota! Republican
amazed the election of Magnus johnson,
Of people, the United States Senate The President
chagrined say dispatches from Alaska Just if Min
differ with powers
by them!
And Democratic reoce They think by some
pocus they will be by this popular
Maybe they will, and maybe they won't
What difference exists between the parties anyways
Folks asking that And justly too. To few Demo
their party differ from the Republicans may
LIBERAL party of protest But to the politicians
day power the party be it Democratic Republican,
merely vehicle to power.
for party the other change
Republican party will do almost nil Chances
the Democrats will do it little better and that than
nothing
This the chance lifetime one for
minority party leaders being monographs
set forth some fulfilling will people
Now put cellar ifyou get prices
In the cellar
European nations can't get peace with each other by trying
get piece of each other.
The ambitious thinks the golf hash
holes digs few himself
Too peoples idea of good time be many
peoples idea of a wicked time
people making long trips success
going, but not coming
4 bee or not bee, that's the piena question
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
INDIANAPOLIs TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

NHERE is good in what Miss Maurice
OConne winner of The Times traffic contest has to
regulation Indianapolis The suggestions have
the advantage including any radical changes in
regulation
Much of the difficulty regulation the
motorists are acquainted traffic rules Miss OConnel
suggestion they we'll taken Of course
be expected keep up with regulations they
be changed night average of twice
month
OConnell suggests parking be permitted in the
downtown congesd district and that parking be permitted
Meridian St Clair St north the creek during rush
old problem of where be
parked One suggestion that street be Topped around the
congested the middle of Washington ST. instead
the edges be used for parking This suggestion how
ever has with much opposition in the past
Widening Meridian ST also suggested This may have
eventually but when it does will be extremely
pensve undertaking Many of the larger cities the streets
Of which not wide those Indianapolis have
found way traffic regulations successful Capitol Ave and
main arteries the north 1t might be well
to north traffic aPd the other south
traffic street.
Traffic in indianapolis runs many
large cities This due the fact that the
police department insists slow driving but extremely
traffic the fact slow driver gets the middle
and holds everything behind him Miss OOConnes
suggestion that slow traffic the curb
rule of this kind should be enforced strictly
rule that stop before crossing entering bou
wards.
There nothing than to be compelled to
crawl along Meridian St during the rush hour behind slowly
moving truck Incidentally of
permits that supposed be used for passenger
vehicles only.
Horse sense can do Strengthening traffic
jams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
SIMS
Says

Nice thing about porch swing is
it never has a puncture or runs into
ditch.
Keep looking up and you will learn
the sky is the limit.
You are not getting old until you
leave the swimming hole before it is
time to leave.
Value of a kiss depends upon the
law of supply and demand.
1t Is estimated great many people
get fat loaf1ng around trying to keep
cool.
Wouldn't it be funny if everybody
believed everybody
Lots of birds think they are wise
as owls because they are always
hooting at somebody.
Quite a few married men carry
their religion In their wife's name.
Some people have to brag about
their ancestors because they have
no descendants to speak of.
Everybody should talk as we'll as
they do loud.
Most weather-beaten man in this
town is the weather man.
Ninety per cent of the men hunt
ing trouble are single.
What the United States needs is a
serious reformer shortage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
TAKE ALOOK
BY RERTON RRALEY


We read in myths and fairy tales
Of how the mountains and the wales,
The woods and lakes and dewy dales,
Were much frequented
By hamadryads slim and fair,
And nymphs of pagan beauty rare,
Who we're encountered everywhere
In forests scented.
And there is much mythology
Regarding ladies Of the sea
Who, in manner bold and free,
Vamped many sailors;
Their garments were exceeding sheer
according to the yarns we hear,
They didn't give much work, l fear,
To ladies' tailors.
Where are those nymphs and dryads,
too,
Who roamed the forest pathways
through?
Where are the sirens of the blue,
Blue ocean reaches?
Where are they now?" the poet
cries
1t is cinCh TO put him wise.
He merely needs to use his eyes
Upon the beaches!
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
Indiana
Sunshine

Teachers and pupils Of the old dis.
trict school No. 5. near Elwood, are
making plans for the annual reunion
to be held July %, at F1eenor Grove.
The 1923 graduating class of the
Charlottesville High School has an
nounced that It viii purchase three
sections Of bleechers to be placed on
the auditorium stage, as a class gift
TO the school
A rebate Of $1,000 to farmers Of
Bartholomew County was announced
by the farm bureau. The money,
saved through cooperative buying,
will be equally distributed to mem.
bers.
Rare specimens OF Indiana Indian
relics was presented to the Miami
county museum by John Reynolds.
70. Peru. a lifelong devotee of the
relic tAbit.
w. =. Colvert, 80, farmer near
Franklin, planned to spend his recent
birthday In his usual manner, attend
ing TO his farm, but his activities were
interrupted by visits from about $50
friends who called on him during the
afternoon and evening.
Work on the new Lawrence county
Speedway to be constructed near Bed
ford is under way Eighty acres OF
ground along the Dixie highway were
purchased The grandstand viii scat
5000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
RALsTON's .sMUNICTPAI. GUARDIANSHIP"

WNTUNICIPAL guardianship is the term used by Boyd NJ
INl Raston, candidate for mayor of Indianapolis
in describing somewhat plan of utility ownership he has
outlined the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Ralston would have the of utility product
the stock preferably each subscriber share and the
paerna guardianship the extent
of controlling stock transfers The city would operate the
utility would with certain restrictions
The restrictions the important point When the Citizens
Gas Company formed be something of mutual
Stock sold from door door Then along
bought up the stock from the Now
the ownership of the little different from that of
any public utility Admittedly, Mr. Ralston plan would elm
mate a recurrence of this situation.
Mr. Raon presumably would have the city operate utility
says nothing about the stockholders having vote There
day. who do not have stock would have
say about operating the utility those who do Of
stockholders stand chance of collecting profit
if any
As whole Mr. Rastons idea to differ little from
a plan of municipal ownership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
Animal Facts

Wisconsin is worried about its mus.
kellunge, "the tiger of the fresh
waters" 1t is being flshed out and
Is near extinction there. Muskie fry
cannot be Matched as can the eggs of
bass. trout, pickerel and pike, and
the adult fish cannot be netted he
cause of distractions in the lakes and
rivers 1t inhabits. So it must be left
to increase in its own home or it will
disappear forever. Wisconsin is think.
ing of establishing a closed season of
several years In order to restocI, ITS
streams with this greatest fighter Of
all fresh-water fishes.
II you want to kill cougars and bob
cats go to the mountain districts of
Arizona. The ranchers will welcome
you, and even will they give YOU easo-
line and oil for your autos. if vol,
stick around and kill off the predatory
beasts. One lion killed means MANY
head Of stock saved in a year.
II y ever saw jumping mouse"
you have sharp eye0 because, although
there are many from New England to
California, they do all their visiting
around at night. Fur is a dusty vel
low and they have long hind legs and
feet, just like the kangaroo, so they
can jump fast instead Of run. jump
ing mouse has pouches in his cheeks
and he carries his food home in these
handy valises. He likes beechnuts
best. He sleeps all winter doubled up
like ball of fur, and if you carry him
in where it's warm he will awaken
and be lively as in summer. Take him
back to his nest and he'll drop to sleep
right away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
Observations

IF you can't say it, whistle it," In
Boston a free, clinic employs whistling
as a help to those aff1iched with i'm
pediments Of speech.
Amarillo, Texas. has decided street
cars are has-beens. 1t declines to re-
new the franchise Of it's street rail-
way company and calls on motor bus
concerns to make bids for use of the
public streets.
Forty States have capital punish.
ment. Twenty-Five use gallows, II
use electricity. and in Nevada, lethal
gas.
Canada, at least, is grateful. 1t will
give an annuity to DR.. f. G. Banting
dlscoverer of insulin, large enough to
permit the doctor to devote his life
to medical research
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
What Editors
Are Saying
Spirit
alexandra Times-Tribune)

There are not enough willing help.
ers in the average small city to put
anything big across. 1t is too true
that whenever civic enterprise worth
while is started. the load falls upon
the same few who bear all the bur
dens OF voluntary contributions IN
such cases. II ALL the citizens would
help in proportion to their means, no
civic or community enterprise would
fail for want of support There is
nothing like community spirit backed
up by sensible liberalty to make a
town or city the envy Of the envied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-07-23
Waiting

The undertakers' association OF
Long Island, N. Y, urges the board
of alderman to reduce the auto speed
limit
This will not affect our business
we'd rather wait for them than pick
them up" says J. G. Brophy, secre-
tary of the association.
It would do many of us consider
able good to pause occasionally and
ponder that our activities here on
earth are rapidly taking us to an in.
evitable destination, the frock-coated
gentleman who is patiently waiting
until 1t is our turn. Most people act
as if they We're going to be here for
ever