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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
BUSINESS IMPROVING

Conservative reports throughout the couil-
try indicate that business is getting better
slow but sure New York Chicago Pitts
burgh and other large cities report hotels have
been full to capacity There is a marked
increase in postal receipts at large number OF
postoffices and the business people are again
beginning to increase their advertising appro-
priations These are it is claimed. sure signs
that business is getting back to normal
According to DunnS Review. evidence OF
further business expansion appeared last
week and it cites the TACT that activities Ill
most quarters steadily gain momentum, and
the point has been reached in different in
stances where results are being compared with
the best previous record No month even III
war times saw SO many cotton spindleS run
ming as was the case this January, and the
steel industry has attained practically the
highest rate OF operation possible under pres
ent conditions.
The main problem now. broadly considered,
is not one OF finding employment for work
ers, bun rather OF securing enough men 10
maintain outputs ON the scale warranted by
current demands Some buyers. quicker than
others to sense the changed situation have
endeavored to commit themselves with manu-
iaCturerS, SO as to secure protection against
future requirements. The policy of not a
few producers, however, Is one OF discourag-
ing Over-purchaSing
Commenting on the situation the l'hlla-
dephia Records says:
In the Pittsburgh steel market the attl-
tude of the average producer is said to be
that the market is in danger of runaway
bur that the increasing prices, coupled with a
refusal of the mills to sell more than a GER
tain tonnage or to make deliveries beyond GER
tain dates, are likely to prevent such an &C
currence Last week it was said that prem
iunlS of So to So a ton were bid for prompt
delivery of certain finished steel products
Copper continues to advance Ill price The
present wave of buying is for both domestic
and foreign account
In the textile trade like conditions exist.
The Government reports show consumption
of 6l0,SI bales OF cotton by American mills
last month, the largest, with two exceptions,
in six years Saturdays sales brought the
market to $500 for March, 1897 Tor May
and 2S.4S for July, within s points OF the
seasons high for May and from q to 81 OF
the high for March and July, The demand
for wool was reported irregular in the Boston
market and hardly as heavy as week ago,
Prices remain irm with foreign woods as the
bulk of the transactions.
The Chicago wheat market was unsettled,
with May under pressure and closing at
Sl.20 II. The foreign situation was re-
ported as improving, with the Liverpool close
at ID pence higher. Corn closed at Is 81
for May and 70 is for July.
Call money in New York was quoted at
4a6 per cent, compared with 4a4 81 the
previous week"
NOWADAYS when an old-fashioned DerSOn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

trait of human nature, so COM
mon, that it is accepted as al
most universal, that he who
starts by committing small
crimes will soon commit great
ones to cover up the small.
And there is the fatal defect in
Ku K.ux philosophy. The order
may start out with comparative
ly harmless pranks; but once. it
has discarded respect for the law
il will get progressively worse
and worse, until it ends by perpe-
trating the most detestable atroc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

iites. The Ku Klux took these
men away. If they are not dead,
let the Ku Klux bring them back
to prove it. 1t is being prophe;
sled that the invesqgatioh, by the
grand jury will result in mo ii;
dictments; but that may meh
only that the grand jury is pack
cd with kluckers. Tho 'only way
to settle the argument definitely
in favor of the kluckers is for
them to produce the men they
unlawfully took away.-Greens-
boro On. c. News.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
NEWS IN THE GAZETTE
III YEARS AGO

Extract From Letter, Dated
Copenhagen, July rs, 1912
Yesterday he pilot schooner
Champlin touched here, with a
fair wind, and proceeded on TO
Cronstadt.
The advice of war having
been declared between Great
Britain and the United States
will secure all American YES
sells in the Baltic and at Got
tenburg where she touched.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
MEXICO RT g. s. STATE
FAIRS

Mexico City, Mexico, by mail
S the pniseds PfeA .AMsyieq will
probably iiavel national exhibits at
she wisconsin and. Minnesota state
fairs this year, A apecidl COM
mittee rs now at, work ON the
plans of the proposed exhibit and
under present arrangements a
Mexican military band will ac-
company the exhibits.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

Nowadays when an old-fashioned person
ventures to quote anything from the Bible,
somebody wants to know who wrote such
queer stuff.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

The French are digging i'll, and the Ger
mans viii have to dig up or dig out
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

l Gave You Up Just Before
You Threw Me Down.
Don't Say Goodbye. Fox
Trots. Phil Gilman and
Harry Reser, A.37s5 75s
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
Just As Long As You Have

Just As Long AS You Have
Me. Intro. "The Twinkle
in Your Eye" From "The
Bingham Girl"
Syncopate. Intro. ''When
All Your Castles Come
.Tumbling Down." From
"Molly Darling" Med
ley Fox-Trots.
The Coktmbians. A-3789 z!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

You Gave Me Your Heart.
Fox-Trot. The Happy Sir.
Burning Sands. Fox-Trot.
Yerkes' S. S. Flotilld Or
chestra. A-3765 rs,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

Just Like a Doll. Intro. ain
Brazil" From Spring
time of Youth"
Journeys End. Intro.
"Tyup." From Cup She
Goes" Medley Fox
Trots. The Columbians.
A-3776 75e
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
POPULAR SONGS

Who Cares? Al Jolson.
In q Corner Of the World
All Our Own.
Lelcis James. A-3779 75c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
OUT TO-DAY
DANCE MUSIC

Stop Your Kidding.
Greenwich Witch. Fox
Trots. Frank WestphaL
and His Orchestra.
A-37e6 75c
Lady Of the Evening.
Porcelain Maid. FoX-Trots.
From Irving Berlin's
Music Box Revue" Paul
Speckt and His Orchestra.
A-377s 75c
/ Wish l Could Shimmy Like
My Sister Kate.
Chicago (That To ddling
TOWN.. Fox-Trots. The
Georgians. A-3775 75c
Until My Luck Comes Roll
ing Along. From Little
Nellie Kelly" Fox-Trot.
Paul Specht and His Or
chestra.
A Kiss in the Dark. From
"Orange Blossoms"
Waltz. Columbia Dance
Orchestra. A-3774 Use
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

MIR. Gallagher and Mr..
Shean. One-Step. Paul
Biese's Orchestra.
Helloi Hello! Hello! LeWis
and Dody. A-37S3 75c
Baby Blue Eyes.
When You're Near. Fox
Trots. Accordion Solos.
Guido Deiro. A-37S8 Use
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

Falling. Elliott Sha1c.
I'm Just n Little Blue (For
You). Nelson and Hart.
A-3791 75s
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20

How Va Gonna Keep Your
Mind on Dancing.
Joe Il Hcrs. Eddie Cantor.
A-37s< 75c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-20
Runnin' Wild.

Runnin' Wild.
St. Louis Blues. Fox-Trots.
Ted LeWis and HIS Band.
A-3790 75c
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04
FISHERMEN'S UNION
REACHES AGREEMENT

Alaska fish companies agreed to the
demands of the Alaska Fishermen's
union for an increase in the price of
fish caught this season. and is sign
ing up crews for the fishing boats in
Seattle harbor.
The sailing of the fishing boats was
delayed about three weeks because
crews could not be obtained at the
lower wage scale. Four ships signed
crews and sailed the first of the
week. Two others win sign May 9
and 10. All told about 400 men have
signed to make the fishing trip.
Under the agreed terms $3.50
run" money will be paid and differ
emit prices for different varieties Of
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04
COURT DECISIONS BASED on ECoNOMIC views.

function of the supreme court to set aside acts
of Congress because these do not accord with the economic
Judges said Chief Justice Taft in dissenting from the
courts District of Columbia minimum wage decision.
Justice Sanford concurred in the claim that justices of this
high by their economic views rather than by
the Constitution This statement win become historic the
between the people and judicial ogarchs develops.
Justice Holmes, philosopher and urist member of the
has made similar charges did the late Justice Moody
It the first time however that the charge made by chief
justice, who says:
the function congressional
acts invalid simply because they passed carry out
nomic views which believes
history of the supreme is filled with instances
where views have replaced the Constitution and law
Chief Justice Taft himself annued
the The of these include the Duplex and
Truax boycott the Granite City pckeng and the
two child labor In the first of these the decisions
conflict with the Clayton law that pckeng is legal the
Withholding of patronage
agree with this AS result Congress ignored the
Clayton law practically annued through hostile nterpreta
tons Congress has also declared in the Clayton law that he
labor of human being is not commodity article of
commerce."
This rejected by the majority of the court in the mini
The court presents this lastcentury view
points I'm principle there be difference between the
of selling labor and the of selling goods"
In annuEng the federal income tax law passed by Con-
1894 Justice Field sad he present assault upon
capital is but the beginning This the Justice
the law by to VOTE There is not much law-as
stood by Congressn Justice Fields decision with
economic preudces and determination to defend what he
termed capital"
In refusing dissolve the steel trust three years ago.
court said that dissolution might result in risk of injury
the public interest including material disturbance Of and
be serious detrment the foreign
like meeting of stockholders rather than the supreme
court of the United States which supposed
how trade will be affected by its decisions If trade guide
this court when does the Constitution and law apply?
In the stock dividend decided three years ago.
views again tumphed law. In his minority opinion
Brandes said that this setting aside of the income would
lea to taxation of large part of what actually
their income"
These decisions indicate phase of the supreme that
concealed by its defenders They have long played the
ness-of-thecout game off criticism policy has
been overwoed and the court is finally before public
opinion.
Democracy is sufficiently handicapped carry
the extra burden of judiciary that peoples will
and unmake laws bet its moods These judges
functionng lawmakers Their decisions be based on
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

hawking, mucous discharge, dryness
or headache; no struggling for breath
at night.
Get a small bottle Of EIy's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply
a little of this fragrant antiseptic
cream in your nostrils. 1t penetrates
through every air passage of the head,
sothing and healing the swollen or
inflamed mucous membrance, giving
You instant relief. Head colds and
catarrh yield like magic. Don't stay
stuffed-up and miserable. Relief is
sure.-Adv.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

If this item escapes the censorship
of the editor of The Labor Press, and
is not deleted, want to call the at
tention of the business agent of the
Painters Uniony that with my own
eyes, both OF them, saw one ALT. E.
VOTERS, paint brush in hand, deco
rating a chicken coop in his yard at
home with a mixture resembling pea
green paint. The color chosen was
probably due to humane consideration
for the eyes of the young frys, as
green Is resting to the vision. On the
other hand, it might have been purely
from a selfish motive In that the
chickens would better be able to
gather more and better health-giving
provender, the quicker to decorate
the table and appease the voracious
appetite of the editor of The Labor
Press.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

salmon caught. The general average
price will be about half a cent a
pound above last yead's rates.
Reports from San Francisco and
Astoria state that a settlement had
also been made by the Alaska Fisher
mems union and that crewers were
being signed.
Headquarters for the fishing fleet
are maintained in San Francisco.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

down to a normal level inside OF
thirty days.
II Big Bill Haywood, formerly huge
chief of the International "wobbIies, /"
now exiled in Bolshevik Russia, a
fugitive from United States authori.
ties, would send for the members of
his, organization still remaining in this
country, he would be doing humane
act forsour free America.
A committee of college professors
are going daffy in trying to decide on
''the best story ever written" That's
easy enough. Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary is the book, but the Ian
guage therein is somewhat discon-
nected. All there is to do is a proper
arrangement of the words into SEN
fences.
Nope, hain't got none! / read the
other day where a counterfeit one-hun-
bred dollar bill was on the market
that was deceiving the scrutiny of
banks and bankers. After a minute
examination of the contents Of my
purse. was very much. relieved to
find that none of the filthy stuff had
been passed on me.
When unions affiliated with the
American Federation go on strike they
do so only as a last resort and as
means to an end, only after all con-
ferences between employer and en-
ploye have failed. The /. w. w. go on
strike and then tell you afterward
what they want. The lumber mag
mates Of Grays Harbor can CLEAN
heaps Of information by studying the
local situation.
Many mercantile industries and cor
porations now require their employees
who meet the public to command a
knowledge Of the Mexican language.
have often wondered what lingo
the Aberdeen telephone girls used
when l was trying to make them I'M
derstand the particular number
wanted. and not myself being a Span
ish scholar. have decided that the
telephone company was the first local
institution to adopt the new rule.
The manufacturers and merchants
in 1914 raised the prices Of commodi-
ties and forced the workmen to ask
for higher wages so they wouldn't
have to buy a dog to keep the wolf
from the door. Now these same mer-
chants and manufacturers want wages
reduced without giving us any assur-
ance that living will be cheaper. Does
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

any one see an equitable break in such
proposition? Labor viii meet bust
ness half way. Give us a nickel soup
bone. six pounds Of those little old
fashioned beans for quarter. load
of wood for $3.50, and labor win do its
part toward getting back to "the good
old days"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

Laundry Workers. Prayer.
Dear Lord. in my humble position,
ask nothing for myself, but look
with favor upon my mother and find
her q son-in-laW.1
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04
Today
(BY JOSEPH JAcos)

Vt vVoEFI VNOVbJ
By legislative act the study Of evo-
luton has been eliminated in South
Carolina schools. The better way,
it seems, would be a continuance of
its study and showing its fallacy-if
it can be done.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

Grays Harbor county pays into the
state school fund $157.371.0O. It gets
back s117.771.OO. The wealthiest and
largest counties in the state seem to
have better luck. Seattle pays in
S7Ss,OOO and gets back $sOS,O0O.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

At the Pan-American conference
now on at Santiago. Chile. the prOpo-
sal is to come up to invite Canada to
become a member Of the union OF
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

Wait until Mrs. Poindexter begins
to write about Saavedra. dictator Of
Bolivia, and Leguia. dictator Of Peru.
Washington life with all its hlIarity is
a tame affair when compared to the
abuses that prevail both in Peru and
Bolivia under the alleged one-man
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

In Oregon the government is offer
ing to sell 685.OO0.OOO feet Of Douglis
fir at a minimum price Of s2.25 per
thousand board feet. The tract is
tributary to the new railroad known
as the Natron cutoff and can be cut
off when the cutoff is completed.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

The world court Is q going concern.
An American citizen is member of
said court. Several international dis
pntes have been amicably settled
through its cooperation. America
probably will never need the assist
ance Of any court to come to an agree
ment with nation with whom posi-
be differences might arise But il
court holds the old country settle
troubles between them. why not bid
the court Godspeed and throw in
few dollars to help pay it's expenses?
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04
REFLECTIONS
By Sadie Mcclure.

If the five million housewives of
the United States would declare a
boycott on sugar. they would bring it
down to a normal level inside of
thirty days.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04
managsmenl q asII-Impoaed uaarnsr.

management Of self-imposed usurpars.
A Honolulu pineapple planter says
sugar Is up because pineapple produe-
ers and owners Of sugar plantations
in Honolulu ere competing against
each other to secure sufficient labor
to handle the crops. Wages are M
and going higher because the demand
for labor is greater than the available
supply.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

The best takeoff we have seen on
Tutankamen, the mummified Egyptian
king. Is the inscription placed on a
road house sign in California: foot
an-kum-in."
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

American states. Immediately this
would let Great Britain in as men,
Der of the League Of American Ma
tions. Rather a novel Dosition-nOt
unlike making a party both plaintiff
and defendant in a lawsuit.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-04

Too much OF Is coming out Of the
ground in Southern California. Large
owners are 'pinching back" produc-
tiOns Of the wells and practically
insist on small producers doing the
same. There are also too many rails
ms in California, and a reorganization
of the distributing end had to be in
vOked to save the largest cooperative
concern from going to pieces. In both
cases 1t shows that a market is just
as essential as is production to make
a given enterprise a success.
Evening star., 1923-07-28
HORROR PEAK IN HISTORY.
Turko.G Greek Deportations Have No
Parallel in Ancient Annals.

William T. Ellis, in the Saturday Evening Post.
When Mr.. Wells portrays for a
popular audience the atrocities of
Attila or of Jenghiz Khan or of IT.
muir the Lame the shock is purely
intellectual, for the reality is remote
in time and place and circumstances.
This present horror of the "ex-
change OF populations" in the near
going on this very moment. Most
persons cannot contemplate that
anything epochal and broadly his
toric can take place under their own
eyes; we turn to the sacred record Of
the Jewish exile into Babylonia for
that event was small and simple as
compared with the Turco-Greek de-
portations now actually in progress.
Many tears have been shed over
the plight Of the Acadians: as pic
ine." yet there are more. exiles in
Selamie barracks at this moment
than were involved in the whole
Acadian catastrophe, and they are in
an infinitely worse plight.
ton, with its Incidental loss of life
mounting into thousands. is too near
and too contemporaneous to be COM
pretended. let US see IL we cannot at
sass ana sss grip on on Il the simple
crying: The unspeakable Turks
have done it," or 1.-THE greedy Greeks
did it!' But the cold. unmistakable
truth. that will appear with increas-
after the clamor of the propagan-
dists has died down, is that politi-
clans did 1t, and the shrewd and in
terested forces behind them.
Evening star., 1923-07-28
PROBE RYAN'S ACTIVITY
IN "POISON.PEN" CASE
Prosecutor Thinks Financier Visit
ed Apartment of Maxwell
to Find Evidence.
By the Associa ted Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 27-Expressing
the conviction that Allan A. Ryan.
capitalist. was the detective" who
visited the apartment of George Max
well, president OF the American As
sociation of Authors, Composers and
Publishers. in company with Assist
ant District Attorney Kilroe, and OBJ
tanned evidence on which Maxwell
was indicted for the writing of
pcfson-pen letters about Mrs. Ryan.
Acting District Attorney Pecora has
announced he would conduct a thor
ough investigation into Mr.. Kilroe's
handling of the case.
Testimony of Mr.. Ryan before the
grand jury, made public when Mr..
Maxwell obtained permission to in
spect the minutes in his fight to
quash the indictments, was to the
effect that Mr.. Ryan had obtained
there several pictures of Mrs. Ryan
in Maxwell's company. and an article
of wearing apparel belonging to her.
Mr. Ryan specifically denied that he
had visited the apartment seeking
evidence to be used in divorce suit
and declared his only object was to
send Maxwell to Jail.
Neither District Attorney Banton
nor myself had the slightest idea that
Mr.. Ryan had visited Mr.. Maxwell's
apartment" Mr.. Pecora said.
Maxwell has indicated determine
ton to bring some form Of action
against Mr.. Ryan as soon as the
charges against him have been per-
manently disposed OF.