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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
BUREAU OF LABOR TABLES

The cost Of drilling oil wells and
of all operations in connection with
the refining and marketing of oil and
it's products has increased in the
last ten years, along with other
costs. Wages are two to three times
what they were twenty-four years
ago. In the face of these conditions
the prices of crude oil and its pro-
ducts have kept relatively below the
general range of prices of other,
commodities, as shown by the table.
above.
The prices of oil and oil products
have fluctuated with oil production,
following it closely with the play of
supply and demand, and there has
been an enormous increase of COM
petition in the oil business in the
last twenty-four years.
The Lumber Industry.
Great changes have taken place in
the lumber industry and trade since
1900, owing to the rapid inroads
made upon the original timber re-
sources of the country. 1t could not
be supposed that lumber prices
would not increase with the
cutting Of the original forests,
which at one time furnished near
by supplies to nearly every section.
AS these supplies have diminished
it has been necessary for the prin-
cipal consuming districts to draw
more and more >on remote sources,
which has meant increased costs of
transportation, higher prices for
stumpage in all parts Of the country
and higher prices for lumber.
The tendency of prices therefore
has been naturally upward in the
last twenty-four years, but with
fluctuations as in other prices, infiu-
enced by the state of trade. A great
price imitation occurred in the post
war period, followed by a slump of
over 80 per cent in 1921. Market
conditions in 1890 were abnor-
NAL in every respect, with wild, COM
petitive bidding for the available
supplies Of lumber, which had beer
depleted by the curtailment Of the
industry in previous years under
government direction. Number !
common boards are a good item to
select for comparing prices. Accord
ing to figures printed in the U. S.
Department of Commerce, Survey Of
Current Business, May 1924, Doug
las fir No. common boards were
worth on the average in 1918 $9.208
per thousand board feet. The cor
responding averages by the same
authority for the years since are
given below. these being fob. mill
prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

showing Of their earnings to their
creditors from year to year. The
four largest companies made an av-
erage profit in 1928 Of 1.56 per
cent on their sales. If they control
prices to suit themselves it must be
said that they are moderate in their
exactions, and that their profits have
not been increasing in recent years.
1t is proper tc say also that the
profits realized by the industry are
only an insignificant part OF the
economies which it has effected by
the utilization Of by-products which
formerly were wasted.
All of the big five companies have
suffered heavy losses since 1919, one
(Morris) being obliged to go out OF
business, while several of the others
have had to be financed with new
capital. All who are well-informed
about the industry are aware that
the competition Of companies of
noderate@ize is more important to-
day than it was "a years ago. At
the close of the fiscal year, June 80,
1924, government inspectors were
stationed in 1853 establishments, To-
Gated in 253 towns and cities. Of
these 34S conducted slaughter oper-
ations. The plants under Federal
inspection are engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce.
John Clay & Company, a we'll
known live stock commission house
with headquarters in Chicago, in a
recent number of it's publication,
olive Stock Markets." gives the
following statement showing the
distribution of live stock receipts
at Chicago in the first four months
of 1924:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Predict Airplans Speed Of 1900 Miles
an Houp

Flights between Europe and Amer
lea in two hours At an altitude Of 10
miles and with 1000 horsepower mo-
tors, are forecast by s. Lindequist, n
well-known Swedish airplane con-
structor, in q statement published
by leading Stockholm paper.
One Of the greatest aims in avia-
tion in the immediate future should
be 10 cut down the flying time be-
tween continents, says Mr.. Linde-
nuist. and this probably can be done
by flying at extremely high attitudes.
with the increase in altitude, and 1t
has been estimated. he says, that a
plane which has a speed OF 100 miles
an hour near the surface OF the
earth can attain a speed OF 1900
miles an hour at an altitude OF about
10 miles.
At such q height the rarity Of the
atmosphere would constitute a dis
advantage both to the ordinary
motor and the ordinary propeller.
But this difhculty can be overcome,
declares Mr.. Lindequist. by using
propeller with adjustable blades. 50
that the pitch OF the blades could be
altered with the density of the air,
and by using special compressors for
the motor which would compensate
for the decrease in barometric pres
sure at high attitudes. Such q motor
would probably have to develop about
1000 horsepower. Mr.. Lindequist de-
clares that the problems Of the adjus-
table propeller and aerial compression
motor can be solved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
GREAT ASSEMBLAGE OF Talent ON HAND
FOR Dinner OF IMPERIAL DUTCH CLUB

Milton o. Dean Of Augusta. for the
past year President of the Imperial
Dutch Club of Maine, was reelected
Saturday afternoon at the annual
meeting of the club, which was held
at New Meadows inn. The other Of
ficers. Walter Mitchell of -Saco, the
secretary, and Dwight Higgins of
Augusta, treasurer. were also re-
elected.
The club which is composed Of men
prominent in the textile industry to-
gether with those prominent in public
affairs and industries, was formed in
July, 1928. 1t numbers many talent
ed men among its members and an
especially pleasing program was put
on by some Of these men.
Thirty six members were present
when the gathering sat down to din
ner at the inn. AS Saturday was the
birthday of Lloyd Eenalson of Bid
deford, one of the very popular mem
bers, a beautiful birthday cake was
one of the features of the dinner.
Between courses group singing was
enjoyed and the members of the I'M
perial quartet, consisting of Keith
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

Taking the 1918 average price as
100, the 1920 index number was 325;
1921 was 1923; 1922 was 156; 1924
was 211; and 1924 so far is esti-
mated at about $50.
The Bureau Of Labor table shows
that taking the 1913 price as 100.
the index for No. 1 Northern Hem
lock at New York in 1928 was 1888,
and for Yellow Pine flooring, fob,
was 215.7.
The peak Of lumber industry
wages, like that of prices. was
reached in 1920. AS a rule. until this
seasons relative depression in the
lumber industry. labor was able to
hold on almost to the 1920 peak. At
this time wages on the Pacific Coast
are relatively higher than lumber
prices, using 1918 as the base, but
there are no official figures for that
section by itself. The Monthly
Labor Review, published by the Blu
reau Of Labor, January 1924, con-
tanned statistics based on reports
secured from 252 representative saw
mills in % states in 1928. The study
covered 45,068 employees. A labor
scale index was figured out based on
lfaverage full time weekly earnings
in 1913, in all Of these mills. They
include the Southern millg, where q
large proportion Of negro labor is
employed and where labor does not
respond to commodity price changes
as fully as in other parts Of the
country. The index for these aver
age full.time wages per week in all
Of these mills for the several classes
Of mill labor was given m follows;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Keeping Lights Burning
e. Nail 6;Iata

For Mail Pilots
The L. s. Air Mail puddle jump
er." so named because It gets in and
out OF pastures and other small areas
to fix the airway lights. finds favor
with Tex Marshall. veteran pilot.
The old reliable D. II. planes with
their 400 h. y. motors could not be-
gin TO get out Of the small places we
have to enter" Marshall says. "'Pud-
die Jumper is rather a compliment
airy term applied to the Curtiss $50
h. p. maintenance plane which oper-
ates from haywood, ILL.,, to apd from
Iowa City, and Cleveland. 1t can
cut weeds with its all-metal propel-
Ter. making II possible to alight and
take off safely in weeds that would
badly chew up the wooden parts OF
other propellers.
I'VE like it because Of She big fat
wheels. the puppy feet we call
them. which enable us to land in
soft field. The radiator in the upper
wing contains the water and envel-
opes the gasoline tank. The 33-foot
hi-lift wings, Z feet 4 inches wide
and nearly foot in thickness. enable
the ship TO land slowly. therefore al
lowing 1t to enter and leave very
small fields. We have been in grain
fields with the stalks standing waist
high.
"One Of the first official ships TO
carry typewriter is this plane. The
electrician holds IT on his knees while
in flight, observes what needs TO be
done to some OF the lights as seen
from above. types the instructions.
wraps up the necessary materials
along with the message. with q long
white tail attached, and drops the
packet overheard to the waiting
caretaker below"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

Cuban raws is slightly higher now
than it was then. Production costs
in Cuba, transportation costs from
Cuba, refining and handling costs
in New York are all higher than in
1900, but the price Of all refined
sugar at this time is higher than in
1900 by a lower percentage than the
increase in the "all commodity" av-
erage since 1918, as shown by the
Bureau of Labor tables.
The sugar industry is subject to
great price fluctuations, because,
like other agricultural products, it
is subject to the vicissitudes Of the
weather. When prices rise there US
ually is a great outcry by political
agitators against the trust" When
prices decline nothing is said about
it. II there should be such a rise in
sugar as has occurred IN wheat and
hogs in the last month, there would
Be street parades and public meet
ings and perhaps q government suit.
The price Of sugar in this country
is affected by the protective tariff,
and there is room for differing opin-
ions about that, but the sugar duty
has been q favorite with the farm
bloc in Congress, and the leader Of
the third party has been q protec-
ZIONIST throughout his political
career.
Senator La Toilette has issued q
statement in which he refers to an
effort in 1922 to get the Cuban sug-
ar producers AZ q condition Of the
reciprocity arrangement to agree to
limit their production to $500, 900
tons. Such an effort was made, the
price Of sugar at the time being 50
low that the beet sugar interests
considered the industry threatened
with extinction. It is difficult, how
ever, to see why 90 much should be
made Of an effort upon which the
American sugar interests were divi.
deds and which failed and was aban.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Consider Jewish
Migration to Mexico

New York. Aug. 11-President-
elect Gales recent invitation for
Jewish mass migration into Mexico
was given serious consideration to-
Gay at an executive conference of the
American Emergency Committee on
Jewish refugees, Louis Marshall
chairman Of the committee, announC-
ed today. The organization has fol
its purpose the aiding of approx
mately 10000 Jews who are strand
ed in European ports. barred from
this country by the quota restric-
tons.
President elect Gales. Just before
sailing for Europe a week ago, pro-
posed that the Jews colonize Mex
leo. Further details waer supplied tc
the committee by Roberto Haberman
former government and labor official
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Awe. full.time 1923 Index

All the costs OF mill operations
and maintenance, and of conducting
the business, have increased with
the general rise of prices, with the
net result that considering the pro-
gressive depletion of the forests it
cannot be said that lumber prices
have advanced out Of proportion to
the general movement Of prices,
or out of proportion to other
factors in the cost Of building
houses. The increased cost of hous-
ing the American people certainly
is not due in greater degree to the
rise of lumber than to the rise Of
wages in the building trades, which
are higher now than at any previous
time. General building trades labor
is a larger factor in the cost Of a
house than lumber is.
The Meat-Packing Industry
The meat-packing industry has
been investigated many times, and
the stock Of the large companies is
widely distributed. Swift & Co. hav-
ing over 10000 stockholders. The
companies are large borrowers and
under the necessity of making a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Hibernians Rap =
Khan at Atlantic City

Atlantic City, \. J., Aug. ia
resolution condemninK the interjec-
ton OF The issue OF religion into
politics and public forums OF the ma
tony and terming the Ku Klux
Is "A hooded cobra which threatens
to strike its poisoned fangs into the
very Vitals OF our nations free in
situations" was adopted by the AMI
cient Order Of Hibernians and the
Ladies Auxiliary at the Traymore
today.
Other resolutions passed reafirm-
ed allegiance to the pope In matters
pertaining 10 the church and the 10y
atty of the Irish race TO the govern.
ment of the United States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Auto Crushed at
Crossing; Two Killed

New Bedford. Mass, Aug. IL
Henri E. Dubois of Victoria street.
this city. was instantly killed and
Max Rock, 1882 Chaffee street, died
of his injuries when a New Bedford
Boston passenger train struck their
automobile at the crossing at Bra
of this city.
Rock was alive when picked UP
but died soon after being started
for the hospital on a Fall River
bound train.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
SENATOR COLT
VERY NEAR DEATH

Providence, r, J.. Aug. 1I-Res
ports from Linden Place. the Bris-
toll. home OF Senator Lebaron Brad
ford Colt. indicated that the sena-
tor. who is critically i'll, might not
survive the night. The latest bull
etin, issued at $50 tonight by DR..
Alfred NJ. Merriman, was as follows:
Senator Colts condition Is not go
good. He has had very bad day
and at present his condition Is very
critical"
All members OF his family are at
the senator's bedside.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

more sophisticated people of the Pac-
ific coast city. -
The investigation into the activities
OF DR.. Sir Robert Walter Douglas
seems to have been thorough and to
have shown that there Is not the
slightest fabric of truth in any of the
extravagant claims he has made
even his claim that a promising mu-
steal career WIS nippeG in the bud by
an unfortunate illness.
In an effort to expose the fallacy
OF the pseudo opera singers claims
the Los Angeles Times has seEt
cablegrans to all European capitals
in an effort to unearth someone who
had knowledge of the robert Walter
Douglas. brilliant. young baritone,
who was the favorite Of royalty, bu:
tc no avail.
A search of the Hapsburg archives
was made in Vienna in an effort to
prove or disprove Sir Robert Wal
ter Douglass claim that he had had
conferred upon his the order of the
Golden Fleece from Emperor Franz
Josef OF Austria Hungary in recogni-
ton of diplomatic services. Nowhere
was there reference to such an Incl
dent
Never Heard Of in London
A cable to London brought the in
formation that Douglas had never
been heard of although he claimed
Il have been a favorite singer at
buckingham Palace Officials of the
Imperial Opear in Berlin denied that
Douglas had ever sung there, as he
claimed to have done. The most tina:
the authorities could unearth regard =
ing the fabulous musical career that
Douglas claimed to have had was
that he was baritone vocalist OF
more or less negligible merit, that he
taught both piano and voice, and that
he managed some private concerts.
Douglass activities were brought
IT, the attention of the authorities
'--''~-', y los Angeles Opera Club,
sncalled the n,Irnnse of which WuI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

7 highway. struck q tree and overturu.
, ed near here today.
witnesses said the car skideed In
to the tree when the driver applied
the brakes too quickly. It was re-
turning to New York city from Sara.
toga Springs.
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enabled every man to be present in
plenty Of time for dinner. thus giving
the afternoons program the right
kind of a start and from that time
on the program was carried out
smoothly and without a hitch.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

alleged to be to house a variety OF
artistic projects in massive art cen
ter to be known as the American
Academy of Master Arts. Douglas, II
Is understood. was DESTROYS of secuE-
ing Glengarry castle, the paiatlal
home of Sessue Hayakawa in Holly
wood for that purpose.
Memberships sold in the Opera
Club originally ranged in price from
s25 to $1,000.
Douglas is accused of having used
without authorization the names of
such people as Mrs. Hancock Ban
ming, Mrs. Joseph Sartori, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Doheny and others
equally prominent in Los Angeles So
ciety to promote his project.
He claimed that the organization
of the Los Angeles Opera Club was
the result of plans formulated by
himself, the late President Roosevelt
and the late Nine. Lillian Nordica.
More serious. however, is the
charge Of embezzling which was
launched against him a few days
after he had been taken to the prose-
cutor's Office, and had confessed to
making fraudulent claims about his
achievements.
This charge is that he and associ-
ates in a s1.000.000 corporation known
as the lac!fic Coast Home Building
Company have obtained large sums
of money from poor people in Los
Angeles and vicinity on the claim
that they would build homes for
them, and then failed to provide the
homes.
Real Name Robert Andrews
According to information obtained
from Maine by the Los Angeles Times
Douglass's real name is Robert An
drews. although he was adopted in
early childhood after the death Of his
parents by a family named Douglas.
He is understood, to have a sister,
Mrs. Davis, now living in Lewiston,
and his foster mother, Mrs. G. W.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Skidding Auto
Hits Tree; 3 Killed

Cohoes, \. V, Aug. 1.-two men
were killed, woman is believed to
be near death and fourth person
escaped serious injury when an au-
tomobilc skidded on a wet concrete
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Clothing and Shoes

The manufacture Of clothing is
carried on by many firms located in
many cities and is a highly COMPETE
tive industry. There is no showing
to the contrary. In the principal
centres Of the industry, labor is eff
fectively organized, and wages at
this time range from 100 to 200 per
cent above the level of pre-war
years. The increase in clothing
prices is less than the increase in
wages and raw materials. A recent
inquiry by the Bureau Of Labor has
resulted in report showing that
average hourly earnings Of labor in
the cotton goods mills Of this coun-
try are ISL per cent higher in 1924
than in 1918, and wages in the man
ufacture Of wooden cloth are on APP
proximately the same level.
The Bureau Of Labor has recently
completed a survey Of wages and
working hours in the boot and shoe
industry, frem which it arrives at
the conclusion that the general av-
erage of earnings per hour in 1924
was ia per cent higher than in
1918.
Sugar.
The price Of refined sugar is about
25 per cent below what II was one
year ago at this time, which prob
ably is because thera is competition
in the business and the relation be-
tween supply and demand produces
this result. As an alternative to
this explanation we must suppose
that the sugar trust" has reduced
the price from goodness Of heart.
The average price Of graduated
sugar in New York twenty-four
years ago flor the year 1900) was
SO cents. according TO the Bureau Of
Labor table. At this writing (July,
1920 II ID 6.6 cents. The duty on
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

Some politicians talk too much.s
Perhaps" replied Senator sorg.
hum. But II you deprive q man 90
the joy OF speechifying where's the
Joy OF being In politics. T'-wasf1ne-
ton &tAEa - -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
What Makes . Liv. Community

What Makes . Live Community?
Discussions about art and even
disputes about art gre very necessary
in live and fully developed commun-
tiles and in fact the term Tive, may
they do not occur. And ''iives art
lists. profoundly in earnest over their
work, never worry over these dis
cussions--it IL only the sluggish and
political who fear the public and try
to hush 1t up. RX
Henry Mcbride n.Ths Dial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
AUGUSTA LOCALS

The Sons of Veterans Auxiliary will
meet at G. A. r. hall at $50 this eve
ming.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Rich. is said to have died there two

Rich Is said to have died there two
years ago.
Journal to locate someone in the town
OF Manchester who could recall any
thing of Robert Andrews origin and
early life in that town. But inquiry
amcng some of the older residents Of
Manchester failed to to develop any,
thing new either in regard to the
self styled Scotch nobleman, or the
Douglas family. by whom it was said
he was adopted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18

JULY PRICE :.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
The Lying Press

The capitalist press never lived up to its reputa-
ton as perverter of facts and purveyor of false
hood better than in its treatment of the ST. Paul
convention. For months before the date of the his
toric gathering every capitalist propaganda agen-
CIV, including labor fakers fake liberals and the
bankrupt socialist party poured out the Walls of
their wrath on the great class farmerlabor move
ment that had its focal point in St Paul.
Various discredited political hacks trotted
out to denounce it. Gompers did his stuff The
socialist party kept up constant stream of villif
cation. Finally, Robert Marion LaFollette was in
duced to raise his voice against it. Then the anvil
chorus began in real earnest concerted effort
was made to brighten the workers and dirt farm
ers away from ST. Paul by frantically waving the
Communist banner. This stunt was fiat failure
The workers and farmers came to St Paul and SO
did the Communists.
But the capitalist reporters did their darndest
on the eve of the convention. Several of the best
liars in the country were in Chicago, Washington
and ST. Paul Tired radicals, discredited labor
takers and pulpitless preachers who turned from
God to the workers for a meal ticket delivered
themselves of weighty pronounceamentos. St
Paul would fizzle. 1t would 60 on the rocks.
Then from the twin cities came the news that
the Communists we're not admitted to the conven
ton This was the biggest whopper of the lot
1t is a poor tale that is not adorned by moral
and the moral of this story is If you want to
learn the truth about the labor movement read
your own paper, the DAILY WORKER.