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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
Organization Does 1t!

Writing in that fine old organ of reaction, the Phila
dephia Public Ledger Raymond &. Carroll draws rosy
picture of the building workers lot IN New York City
After telling of an iron worker employed on an uilf
shed hotel in the aristocratc Park Avenue section OF
New York who dined in the completed part Of the same
hotel in the evening" Mr. Carroll remarks:
"This is the mechanic of 1924-al doors open to him,
swimming the best that the city has to offer her favored
sons He has motor car, monograph and radio set
everything"
'The building construction planned for this year
alone in New York. Mr.. Carroll adds, will cost in the
neighborhood of $600000000 to $1,000000000. To do
this building construction the city has army of about
100000 union workers, who are enjoying the highest
wages paid anywhere in the world under agreements
made with 900 contractor members of the Building Trades
Employers Association"
Mr. Carroll goes on to say that 1t is "labors harvest
time for the whole situation has been democratlzed
The control is in labor congress, where all the building
trades represented"
Perhaps because of fear of wounding the delicate
capabilities of the Iedgers antuniOn readers Mr. Car
roll does not point out that organization and organization
alone has given the building mechanic the wages and
working conditions that he enjoys But to the reader
of his article it is plain that he recognizes that organiza
ton has brought the benefits he goWngy describes
Nor does Mr.. Carroll point out what would be the
plight of New Yorks building workers If they were un-
organzed-he does not tell of the poverty, distress and
endless suspensions of work by poorly paid and discOn
tented workmen which would prevail Labor doesn't have
to be told what happens without organization however
and because it knows what organization does it is steadily
extending the benefits of union membership to larger
numbers of workers of both sexes
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
Observation-Disclosures.

Shipping B GARD announces entire
Government merchant fleet is for sale
Senate immigration Committee dis
cards Johnson immigration bill, backed
by organized labor.
Railroad Brotherhoods back bill in
Congress abolishing Railroad Labor
Board.
Workers Labor School of Balti-
more, Md, to start classes in dancing
and appreciation of art.
Passenger fares on French rail
roads increased.
Charles Il. Forbes, former head of
Veterans Bureau and John w. Thomp-
son, contractor, indicted for bribery
and corruption.
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad
signs agreement with train service
Brotherhoods for wage increase.
Two die, five injured in strawboard
mill explosion at Quincy, Ill.
Royalist and Socialist members bat
tie on floor of French Chamber of
Deputies.
Eighteen killed, many hurt, as ex-
plosion wipes out Vibration Works
at Nixon, N. J..
Grave diggers of Naples. Italy,
strike for more pay.
Observation-Disclosures.
BY helping others we help our
selves. Always demand the union
label, Look for the shop card and
working button.
Observation-Disclosures.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

fare above self-a servant who would
be willing to take counsel from the
voice of a prophet.
We do not want a Republican or
Democratic executive, judge, COVER
nor or legislator who will hinder
good legislation because Of his per-
sonal dislike for the man or party
who happens to foster such legisla-
ton.
The distinguishing mark of a man
of small caliber is his disposition to
thwart all good legislation that may
be prompted by his opposing party.
There can be no ethical loyalty which
requires a partisan official to defeat
the aim of an opponent by defeating
good legislation that would be bene-
fetal to the whole people.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

The lack of men qualified to hold
public office is thing most apparent
at an election. We do not select men
for the minor offices on the ground
of their general fitness either to make
law or to administer the laws Of the
state that have been enacted.
We elect them because they aspire
to office, or because they have moth
ing to do, or because they have made
a fair success of previous undertake
ings.
We have no preparatory school for
prospective law makers or executives.
In our public schools and universities
we teach a smattering of political
economy, and law; we teach all boys
and girls the fundamentals Of govern
ment as digested in the Constitution
of the United States and the Constitu-
tions of their respective states and
we teach them a triaing amount of
political history and expect them to
30 odt anu HldhC anu SASSuAt laws
No wonder the mass of our public
officials are incompetent, and no Won
der we have so many impractical
laws that cannot be enforced, and for
which the masses have no particular
respect.
If citizen contemplates building
a house he does not chose a workman
whose theoretical and practical knowl-
edge of house-building consists only
in what he has assimilated through a
course of manual training in high
school; or if patient intends having
his yermiform appendix removed he
does not choose physician" to per-
form the operation whose sole knowl-
edge of surgery consists in what he
has studied of physiology or hygiene
in the public schools.
Yet at the ballot box we are asked
to vote for candidates for the eXecu-
tive and legislative offices who know
no more of law making or law eXecu-
ton than high school graduate does
Of the practice Of surgery.
In every successful government law
makers and executives are trained
men, honest men, God-fearing men.
1t is purely an accident if we get any
one of the three.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
INSURANCE BILL FOR
SOLDIERS HELP CIV
EN- ENDORSEMENT

At a meeting of the Executive
Board of the Illinois State Federation
OF Labor held in Chicago, March II,
President John II. Walker reported
that in conformity with the reques1
Of the American Federation of Labor
he had appeared before the House
Committee in Washington to present
arguments in support of the Fitzger-
aid Compensation Insurance bill
which provides a system of state in
surance in connection with Workmen's
Compensation for the District of Co
lumbia; that together with Secretary
Olander he had addressed letters to
all Illinois Congressman urging their
support of the measure.
Congressman Rathbone, Kunz, Maj
or, SABBATH and Doyle replied that they
would support the bill. The following
letter was received from the intro
Queer of the bill, Congressman Fitz-
gerald, of Ohio:
Washington, D. C. Feb. IS, 1924.
Mr.. j. IL. Walker, President,
Illinois State Federation of Labor,
Miners Bldg, Springfield, Ill.
Dear Mr.. Walker:
| wish to thank you for the very
able, logical and persuasive argument
which you presented to the subcom-
mittee of the committee of the Dis
trict of Columbia of the House of Rep
resentatives considering the Fitzger-
aid Workmen's Compensation. bill for
the workers of the District" Of CO.
lumbia with its exclusive fund feature.
Your statement that it was costing
the workers of Illinois two hundred
thousand dollars a year from their
wages to hire lawyers and represen-
tatives to protect them against the
shrewd claim agents and able lawyers
employed by the insurance companies
to resist the just claims of injured
workmen in your state where the COM
petitive system is in force, was most
Illuminating.
| take this opportunity of express
ing my appreciation for the sympa-
thetic interest taken by Representa-
tives in Congress, such as Honorable
Henry X. Rathbone, and Honorable
Stanley H. Kunz, both members of the
District of Columbia Committee from
Illinois, in this humanitarian measure.
Very respectfully yours,
Roy G. Fitzgerald, Member
Congress of the u, S.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

No one save our officials-eleet car
prevent the disagreeable reaction Of
such a policy, They must be men Of
integrity, honor, and faith, and they
must have the essential intellectual
and moral qualifications for admins
tering the affairs of the offices Il
which they aspire.
They must be more than this. They
must be men and women who recog.
nize the eter"al fact that all men mus
eventually account to God for the
manner in which they administer g
public trust. They need not be Protest,
ants, Catholics, Jews or Unitarians
They must not be infidels, atheists
skepties, agnostics or libertines. They
must acknowledge both in public and
private life the supremacy of justice
morality, and integrity as defined ano
sanctioned by the most perfect form
of faith.
We fear the elevation of church.
men to public office, becaues we feal
the denominationalism for which We
believe they stand, and which we think
bases them in favor of a particular
creed. For this reasno the church
owes the nation a reformation Of
policy in its attitude to civil govern.
mentor at least it owes the natior
a clear and unmistakable explanation
of its attitude if that attitude is right
in terms of the American Constitu
ton. This explanation wanting an,
the church may continue to expec
distrust of its motives.
Because we fear the political mo
tives of the church in all its respective
branches we are prone to elect mei
to office who are not religious enough
to have a bias toward the truth 70
which the church stands, and upol
which every branch of the ehurcl
agrees.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

In ancient Israel kings were elected
by popular acclaim, or appointed by
the prophets who interpreted the
choice of the Hebrew God. Usually
"a mighty man of valor" noted fol
some outstanding military achieve
ment was chosen except when the
prophet interviewed and selected a
king for his moral worth.
Today if a minister were to choose
president or even United States
senator, governor of state or legis-
lator he would be a public servant
whom God would tust-one whom
he could leave with a task and know
that the task would be done in ac-
cordance with the divine villa ser.
want who would put the kingdom OF
justice and truth and the public vel
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

AT one time in world history the
church and state were too close to-
gether. Now they are too far apart.
The church is not permitted to exer-
else a proper authority in the selec-
ton of candidates for public office.
Somewhere we have gotten the inn
preston that a minister should not
take politics into the pulpit. We have
divorced him from all right to think
with his congregation on political
topics, and if any minister so fan
forgets the duty which we have arbi
trarily outlined for him, we proceed
to cut off his ecclesiastical head. We
do not use the guillotine; we merely
withhold his pay check, and he
moves on to another parish.
In the ancient day government
policy was dictated by the church
which was not a bad thing excep
when abused; but because of The
abuse we permitted the pendulum t
swing to the opposite extreme anC
forbade the church to exercise an!
authority in matters pertaining t.
civil government. Like the mar
possessed of seven devils our las
state is worse than the first.
The result is that we have prac
tically eliminated the voice of The
prophet from among our civil coun
selors, and have virtually denied thai
God is a factor in the making Of
civil government. As a consequence,
the integrity and justice for which
the church and the bible stand are no
enforced except when eXpedient-anc
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
Bows Knee Pants

Bring him in and pick out a pair of
these hard wear pants. Neat dark
patterns, good wearing hard finish
materials, substantial pockets Csc
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
DRS. ZORGER & ZORGER

DIR. Annie l.. ZOrger-Eye, Eur, Nose
and Throat, Glasses Fitted.
DIR. w. IL. Zorger-Physician
and Surgeon
Office, 5 Main Street. Both Phones.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

Our motive was right, but our aim
was bad. We intended that no large
division of the church should dictate
terms Of civil government that would,
in effect, deny the right OF any man
to worship God according to the dis
tates of his conscience. We did not
want a Methodist, Presbyterian, Bap-
fist, Catholic or Mohammedan civil
government. But in saving our gov
eminent from the dominance of any
of these we have lost sight of Jehovah,
the God of Israel, and the God of the
Christian church, and the influence of
his true prophets is overshadowed by
the prophets of Baal.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

Samuel Gompers declares for full
exposure of every detail of oil scan
dals, in leading American Fedora
ZIONIST editorial.
Arthur Henderson, Labor Govern
ment Home Secretary, wins Parlia-
ment seat by 7,037 majority, in by
election.
Germany refuses to join League of
Nations except upon basis of abso-
lutte equality.
Hungary to recognize Soviet Gov
eminent.
Senator Edwards, of New Jersey,
demands thorough inquiry of dry en-
foreement agencies.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
Spring Hats

These hats will tune up your ap-
pearance and at the same time give
you sturdy all weather service.
Light weight dress crushers S1.95.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

For dress up occasions these are
just the thing. They're new in shape
in shade and color. Worth easily 81
and $3.50. Our price is $3.50 and Csc.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

w is M !!

: "The only way to keep men .
Z from agitating against griev- .
Z ances is to remove the griev- .
!. ances. An unwillingness even .
: to discuss these matters pro- .
!. duces only dissatisfaction and .
7 gives comfort to the extreme .
!. elements in our country, which .
!. endeavor to stir up disturbances .
!. in order to provoke governments .
: to embark upon a course of re- .
: taliation and repression. The :
= seed of revolution is repression. .
: The remedy for these things (.
= must not be negative in charac- .
= ter. 1t must be constructive. 1t .
: must comprehend the general .
: interest. The real antidote for .
!. the unrest which manifests it. =
Z self is not suppression, but a .
: deep consideration of the .
Z wrongs that beset our national .
!. life and the application of a .
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I Message to the Goth Congress. .
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
Boys Stockings

A standard 35c school stocking is
now available at just about half the
regular stamped price. Double heels
and toes, we'll made throughout. Not
more than 6 pair to a customer at
pair 19c.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11
BOARD OF cENsoRs.

]. Il. LEONARD, Letter Carriers.
J. +. McGRATH, Plumbers.
L. II. Langhoff, Sheet Metal Workers,
No. go.
DAN MENELEY, Janitors.
WOODY MARTIN, b. of u. T. No. 271.
ARTHUR MOSS, Building Laborers.
FRED PALMER. BARRIERS.
JESSE ADAMS, l. A, II. s. II.
A. ID. JOLLY. Electrical Workers No. S27
r. L. KUsTER, Electrical Workers No. 60l
JOHN II. TIERNEY, Cigar Makers.
JAS. BROWN, Typographical Union No
444
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-11

that as a matter of policy instead of
principle.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02
.RUSHES BACK ID
 HIS FIRST LOVE
tilted by No. 2, Youth Finds No. 1 Waiting for Him

Bloomfield, \. J., May 2.--Rus- sell Atkinson, member of the young CT set here. is proud of his new apart ment at IF Hill street and proud of hi. pretty wife to whom he was mar ried on last Tuesday in the Hill street home. His wife was Miss Gertrude Corby of l5S Grafton avenue. New ark. Had there not been a sudden change of mind by Miss Alice M. Walsh of 541 Freeman street, Orange not Miss Corby. but Miss Walsh would now be Mrs. Atkinson and mistress of the love nest.
 Miss Walsh was to have been mar ried to Atkinson in the Church of Our Lady of the Valley in Orange on last Teusday afternoon. The Rev. Cor nelius ]. Boyle was to have performed the ceremony. Everything was ar ranged.
 On last Thursday, however. Miss Walsh learned that it was Albinson's intention to have a second marriage ceremony in the Hill street apartment with his brother. the Rev. James w. Atkinson, of Pompton Lakes, a Prot estant minister officiating. Miss Walsh's parents would have none of this. The Catholic ceremony in the church was all they desired for their daughter. The engagement was brok- en.
 Quick Work For Rus
 Atkinson did some quick thinking. He telephoned to Miss Corby whom he met three years ago. Their en-
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02

gagenlent was broken on Christmas day. 1922, after a lovers quarrel.
 Will you marry me-" asked Albin- son.
 At the hour appointed for the we'd ding with Miss Walsh in the Orange church. Miss Cordy became Albinson' $ bride in the Hill street apartment. His brother performed the ceremony.
 ''I always liked Gertrude, anyway, Atkinson said in his apartment last night as his wife moved about hap oily. ''She has so much sense and she's such good sport. I knew that if anything went wrong, l was going to turn back 10 Gertrude"
 Miss Walsh sent to the Hill street house for hope chest" and wearing apparel she said belonged to her. AL binson turned over the wearing ap- parel. but refused to part with the hope chest.
 T paid for that and it's mine" he said.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02
Copyright, 1924. Reproduction
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 We have had many contributions, but often they are not in accord with the rules for one reason or another. Therefore we are again outlining the regulations, as follows:
 Humor must be original and here totore unpublished.
 Contributions must be written on one side of the paper only.
 Manuscripts will not be returned, even though accompanied by stamped envelope.
 The writers name and address must be placed upon the sheet of paper containing the contribution.
 Inasmuch as the contributors to this column are entering a national contest it will prove exceedingly dif- ficult to win acceptance for manus- cripts. However, the ,Herald Fun Shop editor has decided to choose from the stuff submitted by persons in this vicinity the three best bits of , humor in the course of week. These will be printed In the Fun Shop col- umn Saturday night of each week. and will be paid for at the rate of one dollar each. The copy will also he sent to New York and the con tributor. in addition to the Herald prize. will have an opportunity 10 get the money for an acceptance in the national column.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02

Bob--"Uh-huh His favorite er- expression is, I raise you one"
 Corey Ford
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02

There are 4o,oo0 unemployed boys and girls in London.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02

Snow prevents plants from be- coming frosbitten.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02

Senator Sorghum says There is no such thing as idle gossip in Washing ton; it's always industrious.
New Britain herald., 1924-05-02

I've wondered if you'd land him. I've always thought him mighty queer, But maybe you can stand him.
 The Card She Sent
 My Visit at Your House I'm home again this card assures, With happy memories, too. 4 stay at your house always cures Me when I'm feeling blue.
 The Card She Meant
 My Visit at Your House I'm home again this card assures And glad must confess. l wouldn't trade my house for yours, For yours is such mess.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-08-13
BY ROBERT STEAD
Author of "Ths CotS Puncbsr"-"T TIE
Homssssodsrs''-''N sifbBors." ere.
Copyright By ROBERT STEAD

how empty It was. I think there is
! one word for both these things, and, II
may be, for even more. You known"
II know" she said, and her voice
was scarcely audible.
But 1t Is your fortune / am to
read" he corrected himself. 1T has
been your fortune to open that new
world to me. That can never be un-
done-those gates can never te closed
no matter where the paths may
lead. Those two paths go down to the
future-as all paths must-even as
this road leads away through the val
ley to the sunset Zen-if only, like
this road, they could run side by side
to the sunset-Ohl Zen, II they
couldT
II know" she said, and as she
raised her face he saw that her eyes
were wet. II know-If only they
couldi
There was little sob In her voice,
and In her beauty and distress she
was altogether irresistible. He
reached out his arms and would have
taken her In them, but she thrust her
hands In his and held herself back.
She turned the diamond deliberately
to his eyes. She could feel his grip
relax and apparently grow suddenly
cold. He stood speechless, like one
dazed-benumbed.
you see, should not have let you
talk-it Is my fault" she said, speak
Ing hurriedly. Il should not have let
you talk. Please do not think / am
shallow; that let you suffer to graft
fy my vanity" Her eyes found his
again. IF I had not believed every
word you said-if I had not-hoped-
every word you said, l would not have
listened. But you see how 1t Is"
He was silent for so long that she
thought he was not going to answer
her at all. When he spoke 1t was In
a dry, parched voice.
II beg your pardon he said. ~
should not have presumed"
II know, I know. If only"
Then he looked straight at her and |
.alked out.
you liked me enough to let me
peak as did. / opened my heart to
you. l ask no such concession In re-
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-08-13
Immense Waterspout

A Washington scientist has recorded
the particulars concerning a great
waterspout he observed south Of Cape
Comorln on a day when the weather
was fine and the sea smooth. The
watcrspout formed between a russell
gray cloud and the sea nearly five
miles from the ship. At first the dis
lance between the base Of the cloud
and the surface Of the sea was 46Od
feet and the width of the column
tapered from 500 feet at Its juncture
with the cloud to $50 feet at the sea.
The vortex appeared to be a tube
with taperlng sides and a central
column. The walls seemed to consist of
water moving downward and the central
column Of water ascending. The pine
nomenon lasted for thirteen minutes
The walls broke and the central col
umn appeared to ascend into tbs
cloud