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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28

By international Labor News Service.
Washington, ID. c., Dec. 26.-Sus-
pieion that sinister financial interests
are more and more seeking to control
the press for their own selfish ends
has been strengthened by charges re-
Gently made by Senator La Folletee
and BY the Federal Trade Commission.
Senator La Toilette, in La Fol
lette's Magazine, charges that the
press has betrayed the people by per
hitting coal operators to use its col
umns to deceive the public. He de-
clares that certain newspapers fright
ened the public by false reports of
coal shortage and backs up his
charges with quotations from testi-
mony taken by the Senate Committee
on Manufactures. In outlining his
charges, Senator La Toilette says:
"a more amazing indictment of
certain of the newspapers of the
United States has never been made
than that found in the records of the
. National Coal Association, the organ
ization of the bituminous operators.
"The only transcript of the associa
ton meetings which has reached the
public contains indisputable evidence
that the coal operators set out on q
campaign to subsidize the press and
use ii as a medium to create short
age scafes, and to induce the people
to buy coal at high prices.
Sought to Subsidize Newspaper
Editorials.
1.-THE object of the National Coal
Association was not merely to use the
advertising columns of the newspa-
pers, but to obtain the publication OF
inspired news stories and editorials.
The record shows that in this object
the association was eminently sue
cessful."
The Federal Trade Commission
makes its charges affecting improper
employment of newspaper publicity
in a slashing attack on the methods
of the Utah-ldaho Sugar Company
and the Amalgamated Sugar Company
which largely control the beet sugar
industry of the Far West.
After outlining how the two COM
panies obstructed, suppressed and
eliminated competition in the pur-
chase of sugar beets and the manufac-
ture and sale of beet sugar, the trade
commission charges that the Utah
Idaho Sugar Company sought by the
use of great wealth to influence the
editorial policies of weekly and daily
newspapers in Utah and Idaho. The
following extracts from the findings
ofthe commission tell the story
Bought Advertising and Warned
Publishers.
"On or about March 8, 1920, the
respondent Utah-Idaho Sugar Com
pany caused to be published and cir
culated in nine newspapers in the
stateof Idaho, and in 81 newspapers
in the state of Utah, all circulating
in the territory wherein competing
independent enterprises and factories
were and are operating, certain ad-
vertisements addressed to farmers
and beet growers, containing insinuat-
ing statements to the effect that such
competing companies were unreliable
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28
A. F. Of |. DOESN'T
FLY KITES
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
Author of Railroad Wages, Rates and Melons, ETC.

The American labor organization is the best labor or
ganization in the world
What ever you may have heard about it, this is
fact 1t has been my lot to at close range tina labor
movements in many lands, under many conditions If
know the difference between good and bad and hot and
cold, this is the best
Criticism is the safest and easiest of all sports out
door or in Everybody that cannot make tool of Amer
can organized labor finds some fault with 1t.
Som" persons say it ought to be radical and do
new sand dance every morning. Some say it is too rad
cal and peril to the Republic and ought to be brought
down to the functions of pnocle party and discuss
nothing more alarming than chicken pattes.
1t goes on its own way without bohering about
either sand dancers pink eates achieving results be-
yond any other labor organization anywhere.
Many persons think it ought to cut loose and be
political party and get control of the government and m
tate labor parties elsewhere.
1t is evidence of the intelligence and good sense of
the American worker that he has no time for these kite
hyings.
has stuck to the economic field as the right place
for the operation of his organization and behold him now
working on the economic field far better situated than
any other worker on earth.
Better in every way. For while he has been securing
la larger and nearly just share of the fruits of in
dustry he has been stady raising organized labor in the
respect of the country and steadily multiplying its
power and influence for good
These are wonderful results. Reasoning men that
know them may well give thanks this year closes upon
such manifestations.
Parlamentarism is the fatal lure in other countries
the deadly trap, the rock which labor goes smash
soon or late.
1t has never fooled the labor movement in America
The American worker goes into politics and uses his ballot
according to his convictions but he does not tie his
nomc weapon into bundle with his political power and
then find he has made Slap-stick at which in the end
Everybody laughs
The last four years have proved his wisdom about
THIS They have seen the ercest and best generad attack
ever made on his labor organization and his labor
ization comes from the ordeal stronger than ever
AT this again men of any faith in the race and its
destiny rejoice and glad. The year opens with
clearing prospects and better hope because of it. The
Great and benecent part that organized labor plays IL
human progress was never 1t is win for the
worker always the chance of richer fuller and nobe life
TO gam for him always better recognition of his place in
society and to bring men always closer together with
more tolerance and wider vision The new wear will see
made " e'e ever
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28
By MATTHEW WOLL.
Vice President, American Federation
of Labor.

Vice President, American Federation
of Labor.
The year just closed has been a
year of progress. The year to come
will be a year Of greater progress.
The reason is clear The organiza-
tons of labor are stronger than ever,
the period of unemployment which so
seriously injured the workers and
their organizations, is long since
over. The fiendish onslaught on labor
has died away leaving only what
we may call the normal opposition
of blindness.
The road is clear for great work,
for great organization efforts. for the
laying and developing Of great plans
for constructive work.
Two things must be always IN mind.
One, the necessity for organizing the
unorganized and for schooling our
selves in the fundamental principles
of trade unionism, even unto such
elemental things as how TO run un-
ion, how to conduct negotiations, how
make Roadway without being forced
to take losses. Second is the neces-
sity for looking ahead, for under
standing the time in which we live,
with its growing machine power, ITS
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
DIGNITY OF CRAFTSMAN
SHIP NEED OF AMERl-
CAN INDUSTRY.

/. Buffalo, N. Y, Dec. 31.-ln a
!. letter to the apprentice commit
!. tee of the American construc-
!. ton council Franklin ID. Roose-
!. welt deplored the tendency to-
!. ward "white collar" jobs and the
I. failure to appreciate creative
I. labor and to dignity craftsman
!. ship.
j. "What we need is more APP
I. probation of the dignity of
!. craftsmanship" said the former
!. assistant secretary of the navy.
I. eve need the guild spirit of the
! middle ages which made the
I. workmanship of that day some
!. thing to be studied and admired
I. by the generations which fol-
!. lowed.
J. at is the duty of this and
I. other organizations to arouse
I. the country to the need of plac-
I. ing skilled manual labor on par
I. with clerical and non-manual oc-
I. equations in the public esteem"
I. Mr.. Roosevelt urged the adop-
l. ton of practical standards for
I. apprentices that will attract
!. young men to these trades, and
I. to also assure steady employ
I. ment.
I. The letter emphasized the dig
!. nifty of creative labor and de-
!. clared that national spirit to-
]. ward this subject must be de-
y. veloped.
Observation-Disclosures.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28
"0PEN SHOP" PR0P0GANDIST
SEEKS DARK G0MPERS PLOT
TO ENSLAvE LOS ANGELES

organization work has made great
Roadway in Los Angeles and that the
well-being of the city is in spite Of
the long campaign of the organized
labor haters. The Los Angeles
Times and the Zeehandelaar organiza-
ton are the heirs to the old anti
union policy which Harrison Gray
Otis adopted because he thought it
was good business policy. Chandler,
as heir to the Times and its present
owner, is bound to carry on the policy
laid down by Otis and Zeehandelaar
at this late date cannot be expected
to reverse himself, even though he
may fnds it difficult to bolster up his
losing cause.
Zeehandelaar declares that organ
ling plans for los Angeles consti-
tute declaration of war; which
will help to intensity the work of or
ganization.
Los Angeles is astronger union
city tina never-and 1924 will find it
passing its 1928 record in that respect.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28

BY International Labor News Service.
Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. Pc. }.
Zeehendelaar, secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton, of this city, has broken loose
again.
Zeehandelaar has published a sign
ed article in the Los Angeles Times,
owned by Harry Chandler, son-in-law
of the late Harrison Gray Otis, alleg-
ing that the recent American Fedora
ton of Labor convention "appropri-
ated secret fund of 100000 to un-
ionize Los Angeles"
OF course the American Federation
of Labor does not set aside secret
funds; its funds are all in the open
and openly accounted for.
Zeehandelaar looks upon any or
ganizing campaign as destructive eff
fort" and declares that the "open
shop" is responsible for the prosperity
of the city.
Officials of the Central Labor
Council hav eshown conclusively that
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28
Onpose Rad Housing.

Philadelphia, Dec. 31.-Recent in
creases in assessments on private
homes was denounced as Outrageous"
by Mayor Moore in an address to the
national housing conference. The city
official said that bad housing breeds
criminals.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28
Printers MAY Picket.

Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 31.-Judge New
conner has refused the plead of two
commercial printing shop proprietors
for an order that members of the
Typographical union be enjoined from
picketing their plants.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-28

Job Printing at This Office.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
METHODISTS ACTIVE
IN BUILDING HOUSES

CHICAGO, May 2.-Twenty-three
buildings a week are being erected
wholly or in part by the Board of
Home Missions and Church Exten-
sion of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at weekly expense Of $685.
112, according to figures compiled
for the Committee on Conservation
and Advance. Previously only 49,
coo building projects have been put
through IN so years.
In rural and frontier mission
fields 1850 pastors are being main
tanned wholly or in part by the
Board of Home Missions and Church
Extension, each pastor serving from
one to four communities on the cir
cuit-riding" basis. Schools for
training these men are held each
summer at 20 different Methodist
colleges and institutes. Two hun
dred negro pastors also are on the
pay-r~1 of the board There are
in addition 500 pastors and $50 spe-
cially trained Christian social work
ers IN congested city centers of pop
ulation, and the gospel is preached
in 19 languages by 995 hom? mission
pastors.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
.PRESBRTERIANS MERGE
ALL MISSION ACTIVITIES
Oldest Board in Existence Dis
bands In Favor OF National
Missions

NEW YORK, May 3.-One of the
oldest organizations in the United
States, the Presbyterian Board of
home Missions, IN the 121st year
of Its existence, today merged its
IDENTIFY with the Woman's Board Of
Home Missions, the Board of Church
Erection, the Board of Missions for
Freedmen (negroes Of the s0uth) q.
the Permanent Committee on Evan
gelism, and the missionary and
evangelistie section of the Board Of
Publication and Sabbath School
Work, and became a factor in the
new Board of National Missions of
the Presbyterian Church in the
United States.
This reorganization is the second
great accomplishment in the entire
plan of consolidation of the Pres
Dyterian Boards from 16 in to four.
The establishment of the new Ma
tional Missions Board emphasizes
the keynote sounded by the Home
Missions Board In it's last annual re-
port, that "The Presbyterian church
IN the United States has never
ceased to be a national church in
the fullest sense, and has always REG
ognized that every corner Of the
whole United States where need for
our service exists has rightful
claim on the Home Mission forces
EAST, west, north and south
Under the reorganization effected
oday provision is made that the full
board shall meet annually; that an
executive committee of Is, one
third of them women, shall meect
monthly and operate through a ma
yional staff and executives of the
synods, and presbyteries. There IS
to he committee ON army and navy
chaplains, including hospital work
OF disabled army and navy veter-
ans The division of church eX-
uension and missions shall have the
departments of city, immigrant and
industrial work, as we'll as de-
.oruments of town and county, Sun
day school missions, and West In
ues. There will be divisions of
missions for colored people, schools
and hospitals, buildings and prop
erty, and general promotion and
evangelism.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03

you boys, they are interested in
you, in your work, in your play, and
there isn't Rotarian to whom you
cannot go with your problems of
nte. No matter how busy he may
De, he will gladly stop to lend you
whatever aid he may" concluded
Mr. Harrell.
Dr. henry Branhan, state dairy
inspector, spoke to the club for a
Few minutes on milk inspection, say
ing that ten inspection Of milk and
other food products had added years
to the lives of our people. when
was boy" said Dr. .Branhan,
the average life was 80 1-3 years;
today, the insurance companies state
that the average life is somewhere
between q and50 years, You cant
make a GOOD man physically out Of
a man who is physically weak; ="
AT the request of Ralston Cargill,
three additional Rotarians were ap-
pointed to serve on the playground
bond campaign committee. They
were w. l.. English, Herbert Haw-
Nils duC Afa-NC 1 llIiildI.
Luther Harrell announces that the
Rotary contest in defamation held
each year at the High school, the
winner of which is given q medal by
the Rotary club, will occur Tuesday
night, May %, in the High school
The Rotary club will take charge
of the program, attending in a
body, and Eotarians will be judges
in the contest.
Prof. J +. Mathis was in charge
of the program rendered by mem
bers of the High school for the en-
tertainment of the Rotarians. Ed
ward Macarthur read a paper entitled
What | Expect of Rotary Club. .
A quartet composed of Allen Me
Neill, Russell Thomas, John West
Sheffield and Henry Everett, sang
"Oh, Mary Don't You Weep Don't
You Mourn
Sam Conner read a paper entitled
Conservation of a High School Pu
pill" which was a comic sketch OF
Luther Harrell, written from the
viewpoint of the High school stu
dents.
John West Sheffield performed
on the blackboard of some charac
ter sketches of Rotarians. The Higl
school orchestra rendered several in
strumental pieces.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
U. S. S. Olympia, Dewey's Flag
ship, Now in the Philadelphia
Navy Yard

PHILADELPHIA, May s." Save
the Olypmia!"
This is the cry, renewed with de-
termination on this,s the twenty
fifth anniversary of the battle of
Manila Bay.
Members of the United Spanish
War Veterans are circulating a pc
tition to save the Olympia, Dewey's
agship during that memorable bat
tie
The Olympia lies but forgotten
IN the lagoon at the Philadelphia
navy yard, waiting to be scrapped
under provisions of the Washington
conference for limitation of naval
arms. The veterans wish her pre-
served as a floating memorial.
The battle of Manila Bay in which
the late Admiral George Dewey,
then fleet commodore. destroyed the
Spanish fleet without the loss of a
man or a Ship, ranks with the most
colorful in American history.
At 5 O'Clock on the morning of
May l, Dewey's squadron steamed
INTO the harbor and bombarded the
Notifications Of the bav and the
hips of the enemv. The Spanish
hips outnumbered the American
feet, but because of better train
ing and better fighting equipment
Dewey made a clean job of it.
Unofficial news of the victory
quickly trickled back to the United
States Newspapers Of May car
ried complete accounts of the vic
tory in dispatches from London,
Madrid and Hongkong.
1t was not until May 7, however.
that Dewey's official cablegrams of
confirmation reached Washington,
from Hongkong. Direct cables from
Manila had been cut.
Dewey was raised to the rank Of
rear admiral. and soon afterward
made admiral
The Olympia, around which there
now RACES a storm Of protest agains'
its destruction, Mayed mighty
part in this battle.
r The brorze tablet. presented by
The citizens Of Olympia, Wash, is
still on the ship.
"Gridley, vou may FIRE when you
ere ready" the words spoken to
Captain Gr'dley bv Dewey, is. the
legend on this tablet.
Veterans of the Spanish war want
The ship made a trophv vessel. i'm
potent as a FIGHTER hut valuable as
4 patriotic shrine and monument to
the stirring days of the Spanish War
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
W. hlszTt TO CONSIDER
ANTI-NARCCTICS PLEA

ATLANTA, May 3.-The Cen
aral Federation of Women's Clubs.
when it convenes in this city Nav
I'll, will take up, among other
things, the question Of a campaign
against the sale of narcotics
throughout the country.
It is declared by an official of the
federation that the women will Join
hands with the Anti-Narcotic Lea
que in launching a national cam
pa 'gn against the drug evil. An en-
deavor viii be made to secure the
corporation of every member of the
federation. n the work which the
Committee to Publish Facts" al
ready has in hand This committee
consists of DR.. R. B. Won Kleinsmid
president, of the University of Cali
fornia; Judg Benjamin Bledsoe,
United States judge of the 18th fed
eral district; Harold Lloyd, film star
comedian; L. D. Oaks, Los Angeles
chef of Police; J. P. Carter, for
mer collector of the United States
Revenue Department.; Brigadier C.
r. Body, of the Salvation Army; and
others.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
Father and
Son

(This wVlk is Father and Son
week in International Rotary. Most
# the 1880 Rotary clubs are cele.
rating the week with a Father and
son dinner. The following is tax.
N from Rotary international Maga-
inc and was written by Rotariar
-dgar Guest, of Ohio0
Be moret han his day;
Be a chum to the lad;
Be a part of his life
Every hour of the day;
Find time to talk with him,
Take time to walk with him,
Share in his studies
And share in his play;
Take him to places,
To ball games and races,
Teach him the things
That you want him to know
Don't live apart from him,
Don't keep your heart from him,
Be his best comrade,
He's needing YOU so.
Never neglect him,
Tho you still respect him;
Hear his opinions
With patience and pride;
Show him his error,
But be not a terror,
Grim-visaged and fearful,
When he's at your side.
Know what his thoughts are,
Know what his sports are,
Know all his playmates.
It's easy to learn to
Be such a father
That when troubles gather
You'll be the first one
For counsel he'll turn to.
You can inspire him
With courage, and fire him
Hot with ambition
For deeds that are good
He'll not betray you,
Nor i'll repay you,
If you have taught him
The things that you should.
Father and Son
Must in all things be one
Partners in trouble
And comrades in joy.
More than a Dad
Was the best pal you had;
Be such a chum
As you knew, to your boy
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
BALLOON RACE ENDS.

FI11IERALD, May Be. w.
Moore, prominent farmer living
about three miles west of the city,
on z. +. b. No. 3, found, this week,
va toy balloons, to which cards had
been attached giving the inform2-
ton that they had been sent up
from points in Alabama, in a race,
and that the finder of the balloon
that travelled the furthest would be
awarded a premium. The race being
staged by the Canada Life Insur-
ance Company, and from the cards
had been sent up, one from Tennille,
Ala, and the other from Troy, Ala
bama. In some way the strings to
the balloons had become entangled
and both of the balloons were found
together, along side the road.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
FATHER AND SON
LUNCHEON BY ROTES
Music and Program Furnished
BY Americas High School
Students

Rotarians met in the Tea room
Wednesday, each accompanied by
his son, the son of another Rotarian
or a Roy selected by him, at a
luncheon similar to that held By
all OF the other 1915 Rotary clubs
in America. This father and son
luncheon Is one OF the annual fea-
lures of International Rotary.
Music was furnished by the High
school orchestra under the leader
ship of Mrs. Walter Maynard.
President Carr Glover, in weIcom-
ing the boys, gave to them a mes
sage from President Emory Roberts,
Paul B. Harris, Of Chicago, the
father of Rotary. President Glover
advised the boys to be friendly
and fair" and play the greatest
game of mankind, the game of life
according to these rules. he said
to the boys that there were $4,000
Rotarians in the world, members Of
1880 clubs located in 24 countries /;
that Rotary had no paid organiz-
ers, that each of these 1880 clubs
came into being because of the de-
sire in 1880 cities to have in it's
midst a Rotary club,
Boys are the nations greatest
asset" he said, because the boy
of today is the citizen Of tomorrow. "
He advised the boys to use every
endeavor to secure a college educa-
ton, saying that education is one
of the necessities for character build
ing. He said that he hoped and
expected the Americus Rotary club
would have an education loan fund
within the very near future of suf-
ficient size to finance three or
four boys through college In CON
clusion President Glover said;
Boys, play the game square; give
100 cents for every dollar you re-
ceiVe; you have the love and inter
est Of every Rotarian not only in
Americus but Of the world for boys
work is one Of the cardinal princi-
pies of Rotary"
Luther Harrell spoke to the boys
on the subject of Ideal Service"
He said that in his boyhood days
there were three men in particular
whose influence had left its stamp
on his life, among the three being
"My Dad" for he was my ideal OF
a man and his companionship meant
much to me.
Men Of Americus are watching
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
WAR ON WASHERS

SAVANNAH, May Would-be
mashers in Savannah will be forced
o exercise caution in the future lest
5hey fall into the hands of Sayan-
nah's police-women. Two motherly
women are to be selected, Mayor
Seabrook says, to look out for the
welfare of girls. The additions to
the police force will not be uni
formed and will carry neither guns
nor clubs but will have an abund-
ance of arresting power.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
SUNDAY CLOSING LAW

COLUMBUS, May 8,-Tha local
authorities are being urged to en-
force the Sunday laws in Columbus
and Muscogee county in resolutions
adopted by leading ministers and
laymen. The officials are especial.
ly requested to take action in
those hagtint and notorious vio-
lahons, such as open stores, operat-
ing movie shows and all other in
fractions of the Sunday law"
Americus times-recorder., 1923-05-03
MATHIS JOINS FORCE
OF FITZGERALD NATIONAL

FITZGERALD, May 3.-M. E.
Mathis; one of Fitzgerald's most
prominent young men, joined the
forces of the First National Bank
today. For the past several years
he has been prominently connected
with one of the city's largest de
partment stores.