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Pocahontas star herald., 1924-05-16

centers could be built. There is moi
city in the state that is not urgently
in need of money with which to i'm
prove conditions and yet they stand
helpless while cities in other states
have become large and great and beau
/ tiful as the result of their bonded in
debtedness of which the interest only
need be paid. The city Of Little Rock
today is desperately in need of mil
lion dollar high school, and yet II is
impossible to obtain II and the chill
dren therefore suffer the result. The
city of Shreveport. La, two years ago
voted two million dollars or more in
bonds for the erection Of adequate
schools The present generation is do
ing the suffering and the opportunities
are passing by never to return.
Our legislative system needs revi-
sion. The legislature is often critici-
zed for the qualifications of its mem
bers. No high class professional or
business man is willing to leave home
and his affairs and come to Little
Rock for daily wage less than the
cost of providing for himself alone,
much less his family. 1t is a foolish
policy to think that you can get big
men to serve you for little wages and
this applies to the states officers as
well. There are hundreds OF men in
Arkansas with but average ability and
little education earning more money
than any state officer or member of
the Supreme Court. hence II comes
with poor grace to criticize the mem
bership of these bodies instead of the
antiquated constitution which prohibits
decent salaries being paid their incum-
bents In fact, out county and muni-
cipal officers are getting large salaries
than the state officers. Again our en-
tire legislative system is wrong. If
you We're to select the ablest men in
the state of every vocation TO legislate
for you, they would be helpless. They
can remain in session only sixty days
during which time they must pass on
appropriations for every department OF
state government and for all state in
stitutions. task that within itself
ought to consume most of their entire
time. They are then met with hun
dreds of local bills which must be dis
posed Of. How, under these circum-
stances, can they give any time TO the
consideration Of general legislation?
I bitterly opposed the constitutional
amendment limiting the term to sixty
days served two terms in the SEN
ate and realize that sixty days was
not sufficient time TO intelllgently pass
upon the measures coming before the
body. The legislature is not the place
TO fix the salary of the County Judge
of Stone county or determine how
many wires constitute lawful fence
for Montgomery County and how to
divide the road tax in Squendunk
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-05-16

said section line. between sections
thirteen (13D and fourteen (14). thence
east along the said section line. Is
chains and % links, to the place OF
beginning; all in township twenty
north, range one east; and the south
east quarter of the southwest quarter
of section eighteen (1S), in township
900 north of the base line, in range
two (2) east of the fifth principal
meridian, containing in the aggregate
277.50 acres, be the same more or less.
And also the southwest quarter Of
the northwest quarter and the north
west quarter of the northwest quarter
of section twenty (20). township
twenty (20), range two (2) east and
the southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section twenty three (23),
township twenty (20), range one o.
east.
Sale will be made on a credit Of
three months purchaser being required
to execute note with approved perso al
security bearing interest from date Of
sale until paid at the rate of ten per
cent per annum and lien will be ~e-
tained on the land sold for the pur-
chase price and interest thereon. Sale
will be made for the purpose Of pay
ing and satisfying mortgage indebted
ness aggregating S723.33 and interest,"
thereon and costs of said cause an Of
sale.
This May Z, 1924.
Ben F. Mays, Commissioner.
Schoonover & Jackson,
ATTORNEYS for Plaintiff 20 SC.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-05-16
Some Arkansas Issues
(By Chas. Jacobson.)

Editor Candid Opinion:
IL is logical question we are oftel
asked by citizens Of other states
"what is the matter with Arkansas
rich as is perhaps no other state II
natural resources, with a climate ai
salubrious as any other state car
boast, and blessed by nature witt
everything that could be wishedT The
inquiry is pertinent for there is per
haps no other state in the union upon
which nature has so bountlfully lavish
ed her wealth. We have everything
that could be desired; fruit, lumber
minerals, oil, cotton, rice, health get
ting waters. health resorts, fertile
valleys and many other resources,
practically undeyeloped.
We send our cotton to New England
where 1t is manufactured and the
finished product sold back TO us plus
the cost of manufacture and transpor-
tation. We send our hauxite away
and pay several prices for the finished
material. We grow the finest apples
in the country, which are shipped away
and an inferior product sent to MS
from as far west as the states of
Washington and Oregon for which we
pay a fancy price much in excess of
what we receive for our own. In fact,
other states are somewhat dependent
upon our products for their progress.
We lack vision, energy, cooperation
and genius. We have state Univer-
sity and other colleges scattered about,
and yet the vast majority of our chill
dren are sent to colleges and universi-
ties out Of the state. Whatever pro
gress we have made has been forced
upon us rather than due to any energy
we exert. We have been content to
move along the lines of least resistance
like the man who stood still. We are
poor advertisers. We had rather sit
around and talk politics and chant the
song of hate than to get out and hustle
and make Arkansas one Of the greatest
states in the union. We are too con
tent with ourselves. But there is much
work to do at home before we are
ready to do big things. Our house is
not in order. There are many things
needing adjustment. In the first place
we need a working, up-to-date constitu
tion. Arkansas is nothing more MOI
less than a large corporation which
should be conductedl along business
lines and were any business concerr
30 undertake 10 operate ms we do they
would be bankrupted in less than 9
year. No state nor city OF any con
sequence can make necessary improve
ments without borrowing money. hence
they should have the right to do 81
and issue long term bonds under whicl
roads and school houses and municipa
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-05-16
Warming Order

In the j. Z. Court Of Richardson Twp,
Randolph county. Ark.
J. B. Weaver & Co. plaintiff,
VS.
J. Johnson, defendant.
The defendant, J. johnson, is hereby
warned to appear in this court within
thirty days and answer the complaint
of the plaintiff. ]. B. Weaver q Go.
Witness my hand as such Justice Of
the peace this 2Sth day Of April, 1924.
j. A. Crismon,
IS A.. Justice Of the Peace.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21

ington, where the paper had heavy circulation to subscribe any longer.
 The contest between Americas most powerful union and most powerful publisher promises to be a battle royal and test of whether the Interna- tional Typographical Union can be 'broken." The strike has the full sane tion of the international, which has pledged adequate financial support.
 The quasi-libera1 attitude of the Hearst editorial policy is given a rude shock by the anti-union program Through high-priced editorial and fea- ture writers, the Hearst chain has built up favorable sentiment among unionists in all cities where 1t publishes
 Pressmen are the only union with which Hearst now has contract, the newsboys having been denied an agree ment although fully organized with other dailies. Berry is understood to oppose a sympathetic walkout as con trary to the policy of the international.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
S5OO,OO in Graft Money Handled
 By Jess Smith, 'PaP of Daugherty

The special committee of the Senate Investigating the Daugherty scandals did not render final report before ad- journment. but Chairman Brookharr and Senator Ashurst took the floor and reviewed the testimony in the closing hours of the session.
 Under the direction of Senator Wheeler, who has led in the inquiry, the committee will continue it's sessions this week, permitting subordinate off cials of the Department of Justice to explain" irregularities which have been uncovered in the department
 Just before adjournment, Daugherty issued public attack upon the com mittee declining to appear to testify in his own behalf. The former attorney general declared the entire proceedings had been unwarranted and illegal and although he had kept high-paid coun- sel in the committee rooms for months for the purpose of obstructing the hearings, he withdrew them with flourish, branding the committee as
 'prejudiced and unfair
 Senator Brookhart, in a speech i'll the Senate, replied to Daugherty and also obtained the adoption of a reso- lution declaring 1t the sense of the Senate that Judge Cochran of Ohio had rendered an "erroneous" decision when he issued an injunction prevent ing the committee from examining the books of Nal s. Daugherty, brother of the former attorney general. The Sen ate also voted to appeal the case to higher court.
 The only members of the Senate who went to Daugherty's defense were Willis and Fess, stand-pat senators from Ohio They upheld the decision of the Ohio jurist and defended Daugh- erty for refusing to testify.
 Senator Brookhart fatly stated on the Senate floor that the hearings showed more than $50OOOO in graft" had passed through the hands of Jess Smith when the latter was of Daugherty's official and do- mestic household.
 Tn the last few months of his life" Senator Brookhart said Jess Smith became worried and afraid and finally he ccommitted suicide in Daugherty's | apartment.
 These circumstances of a conspir- 1 acy to protect crime are so intimate, so we'll interwoven. so well connected, | so completely undisputed that the evi- dence unquestionably establishes the fact that there existed a conspiracy for the protection of criminals by col
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
FRANK WALSH AND
 SAM INTERVIEWER
 TO DEFEND UNION
Attack of Iron League Open Shop Combine Will Be Resisted
 By Iron Workers.

Farnk P. Walsh and Samuel Unter-
 meyer will act as counsel for the In
 ternational Association of Bridge,
 Structural and Ornamental Iron Work
 CTS in event suit is brought as threat
 ened, against the union by the Iron League, a combination of open shop ereCtOrs and contractors. Announce ment to this effect is made by P. J..
 Morrin, general president of the Iron l Workers.
 The Iron League has been infuen- cing manufacturers of structural steel to withhold material from contractors who sign wage agreements With the union. These methods were exposed last year when the Lockwood commit tee conducted an investigation of hous- ing conditions in New York, with MT. Untermeyer acting as attorney for the committee.
 On May the structural iron work CTS in teh metropolitan district of New York went on strike for a wage in CISdSS DlO.OO to <p1L d day. ol1Cc then many of hte leading contractors have broken away from the Iron League to sign up with the union ar the increased scale. Last week the league, through it's counsel Walter Drew, announced that suit would be brought against the 1nion for inter fering with the right of individual con tract between employers and en- p1oyes."
 In letter to the Iron League. giv- ing notice of his association with Frank P. Walsh in behalf of the Iron Workers Union, MT. Untermeyer said
 This is to advice you that I ask you to so notify your members, that unless you and they forthwith abandon these illegal purposes (withholding material from contractors), it will be necessary to appeal to the courts i'll order 10 maintain the integrity of the union against these attacks.
 T do not question the right of your members to employ non-union rather
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
HEARST LAUNCHES ATTACK AGAINST
 PRINTERS UNION
Millionaire Publisher Believed Ready to Test Strength of Power
 full Group.

Seattle, June 21.-Wil1iam Randolph 1 Hearst, publisher of 24 daily papers
 and numerous other publications. own
 CT of news, picture and feature serv- ices. seems bent en finish fight with the printing unions in his Seattle
 morning daily, the Post t-Intelligencer The union composing roonL of 100 men is on strike and 20 union mailers and Is union stereotypers are locked out because they will not handle non union type from the strikebreakers Hearst has installed. Union pressmen remain at work, fearing that George Berry, their international president and a democratic candidate for the vice presidential nonipation, may order union crews from other towns if they go on sympathetic strike.
 The strike of the printers followed five months of fruitless negotiations, the P.-I. management refusing to sign the contract already in force on the four other Seattle newspapers
 A large crew of non union printers from a typographical school in Spo- kane and the extra force of non union Los Angeles daily had been on hand several weeks awaiting the ex- pected walkout. but the paper was seriously crippled nevertheless, issuing but one edition instead of fO11r the morning after the strike.
 The walkout was forced as a pre- meditated effort by Hearst national offices in New York City, 1t is believed here, and the entire resources of the powerful Hearst organization are pledged behind the effort to introduce the non-union shop in Seattle. Wheth- CT this is the opening wedge in a na- tion-wide effort to deunionize all Hearst papers Is not known, but it is believed likely that insofar as condi- tions are favorable the program will be carried out elsewhere.
 Within three days, 1t was computed by members of Typographical Local POP, the strike has cost Hearst sum in five figures, through losses in ad- vertising and circulation. The plant, manned by amateur printers, was un able to care for the usual volume of business while circulation has been re- duced materially through refusal of throughout western Wash
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
Sense from Congress

We (the Federal Government should be an example for the employ CTS of the country. We should give a model employment. We should pro vide model conditions the influence of which should radiate to all the em- p1oyers of the country and set up a standard which would not be only equal but superior to any employment offered in this country" -Represen- tative John J. Boylan of New York, in speaking i'll favor of Higher Wages for Workers in Government Printing Office
 "Unless the farmer prospers there can not be permanent prosperity for any nation.'-Senator Royal s. Cope land of New York, i'll Discussing Fail ure of Congress to Pass Farm Relief Legislation.
 War is a crime against humanity and civilization. . Those who enter upon competition in armament are driving straight for war. There can be but one end and one result of such a policy, and that is conflict. ."-Repre- sentative George Hudd1eston of Ala bama, in Speaking on Naval Appro- priation Bill.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21

than union men, but I do challenge and propose, if necessary, to test their authority by understanding or concer- ted action to wage warfare against members of the union by means of un lawful discrimination against contrac tors who have chosen to enter into agreement with the union for the em- erence in the furnishing of building material. to the employers of non union men"
 President Morrin states that 30000 iron workers are employed under fair contracts or agreements throughout the country, $500 of them in New York City.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
Injury Compensation
 Restored to Employees

A bill passed by Congress and signed by the President restores to some 100000 federal employees com pensation for injuries sustained while in the performance of their duties. These rights had been denied under a ruling of Comptroller General J. R. McCarl. He virtually stopped the op- erations of the United States em- ployes' compensation commission by a ruling that. awards made for occupa- tional diseases did not come within the meaning of the act and refused to ap- prove appropriations for such pay ments.
 Mrs. Bessie P Bruggeman, chairman of the commission, led the fight for an amendment to the law which would prevent the comptroller from tying the hands of the commission The govern ment again stands back of its work ers," she declared after the bill had been signed.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21

lecting graft from them. Every act and word of Jess Smith III furtherance of this conspiracy is not hearsay but direct evidence as against Daugherty himself, and would be so accepted in any court of law
 Chairman Brookhart showed that time he took office was never as much as $30,000, so far as his income tax re- turns indicated. The committee had been able to ascertain, however, prior to the court injunction halting the in vestigation of Daugherty's bank ac- counts, that since taking office, he had certificates of deposit for $75 1000, and that 500 shares of Wright Martin Air craft stock, owned by him in 1920, had been increased to holdings of 2,500 sha-res in 1921.
 Senator Ashurst urged every senator to read the record of the hearings de- claring it was the most fascinating story of crime, of plot and counter plot" ever told.
 Espionage, decoys, dictagraphs, and thousand dollar bills-come and go upon the pages of these hearings" Senator Ashurst said, and these devices and agencies were employed not so much by Daugherty to detect and punish crime as to shield prohteers, bribe givers and faVorites.'
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
INSURANCE EXPERT GIVES IMPORTANT VIEWS ON CHILD
 LABOR LEGISLATION
Haley Fiske Says Federal Child Labor Amend ment All Important for Proper Protection of Children in 30 States.

Connecticut people who give thought to the subject, are greatly interested in the nationwide movement fostered
 by sociologists, educators and endorsed
 by the American Federation of Labor
 opposing child labor and favoring more
 education for children up to required
 age. One of the most striking public
 statements that has come to Connec-
 Is from Haley Fiske, president of the
 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., MT.
 Fiske has won the reputation of being
 one of Americas progressive men, of
 broad sympathies and of common sense ideas.
 There is no agency that comes closer to the actual, inside life of, the people, especially the working classes than a life insurance company that sells in dustrial policies of protection to the wage earners. And the Metropolitan specializes in the type of policy that may be paid, at rate as low as 10 cents per week So that, taking these facts into consideration, it may be safe ly understood that an insurance mans opinion will be of unusual value Here is part of the statement sent out by MT. Fiske:
 All of the experts on health and education agree that children should be kept in school until they are at least IA. Every right minded man will agree on that point. Whether or not some between IA. and 16 should drop all study and go to work is grave question. But no one will deny that all those youngsters need hours for play while they are growing-for the right play helps to build strong healthy bodies. Now what are the facts? Here they are, furnished by the United States Census Bureau: 378,063 children between the ages of 10 and IA are at work; 692,7o5 children be tween the ages of 14 and 16 are a, work. Remember, the census figures show only those children reported by fathers and mothers. Investigators 1now that there are thousands of chil- iren from to 10 years old whose
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21

work at home is hidden from censp. takers No one can know the exac,
 number.
 All through these bright sunshiny
 days when the beautiful green world Is
 calling boys and girls to come and play the drudge-perhaps a half million of them-mere children. From dawn to dusk you will find them toikng on truck farms During the day you will see them III textile mills, in sweat shops, in food canneries, in beet fields, in coal mines-wherever the state law fails to protect them.
 Poor little souls, many of them doomed to live in the shadow of pov- erty and ignorance all their lives-what chance have they?
 The number of children who are injured at work Is appalling but no. surprising. Children must play and when denied their rightful opportuni- ties they will play at their work and get hurt. Most of hs like to look Or, the sunny side of life and so we should But while we are planning for the hap piness and welfare of our own boys and girls, cant we give just few min utes' thought to the little toilers con- demned to misery unless we help. Thousands of them can be developed into splendid men and women if they are rescued now. Bring them out of the shadow and into the sunshine
 Thirty states do not adequately pro- tect their children under IA Only 1s states have laws under which children may really be protected. Generally speaking, the states that give their children no protection or next to none. have the greatest number of illiterates. They pay the price of their exploita- tion. Child labor In the United States has grown to alarming figures and will continue to grow until public opinion and humanity order 1t stopped.
 And apparently the only thing that can stop it everywhere and at once is the Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The time is com ing when every state will be called up on to ratify the amendment Be ready to do your part to have it sanctioned by the legislature of your state. It is a measure that should have your hearty support"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
WISDOM

Each week a quotation from some wise and famous person whose writings are tucked away in the storehouse of history and achievement
 "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the case of other, or their cae masy, by change of circum- stances, become his."-Thomas Jefferson.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
Vienna Housing
 Problem

The director of the Vienna Munici- pal Tenement Office says that "on January 1, 1923, the frst-class appli cants (persons urgently in need of living quarters) showed the number of 171O9; while on April l. 1924, in spite of the fact that over 7,300 flats had been allotted since January 1923. the number of such applicants had in creased to 23,450."
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-06-21
MINERS FIGHT WAGE CUT

Scranton, Pa, June 14-Because of wage cuts miners employed by the Pennsylvania Coal company have sus- pended work. The strik eis declared to be 100 per cent. effective
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-13

about as he pleased. Discipline never
waH successful with him. Even IN
his infancy he would stamp a tiny
foot and shout defiance 10 correction
Of his imperiouH viii,
Two year, ago his mother died and
tho hoy was left even without that
restraint. living with his busy Z, her
and brother IN a soryant,filled house
With lavish spending money and
sundry automobiles.
"picllo' Loeb. the other slayer.
was like Leopold IN superiority Of
intellect. wealth and family position.
but in temperament he was winsomo
and sunny. where his companion Was
cynical He is slightly younger
Just turned Is. when be graduated
from tho University OF Michigan "a
year ago.
When only 4, he WIS permitted
10 leave tho nursery table AZ home
and eat with the rest Of the family
"a privilege withheld two years
longer from tho older children. lie
was tho fondcst hope.
"Diokle' was a delicate child. His
amusement WAS reading rather than
outdoor sports. During the war he
gave up all his spending nancy TO
send TO French children. 4 year or
two later he started going with girls
10 keep pace with the older boys In
whose classes he studied.
The two for years have been pals.
and for the past year they were In.
scparable. At the same time. Loeb
kept up his fraternity associations
and his loyal brothers still say thcrc
was no better fraternity man in the