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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

Washington, July 19.--'It Is a
national necessity that the public
understands financial methods Of
building promoters" declared VIM.
J. Spencer, secretary treasurer
building trades department, A. j. Of
l., in discussing the claim Of New
York fealtor that labor Is response
BILE for high costs Of HOUSING.
The wages labor receives for erect
ing the average building Is nothing as
with what the promoter
flches from the transaction, said the
trade unionist, who explained how
money is borrowed by the promoter,
who then cuts the cost Of the build
ing, pockets the difference and shoyS
his plans as proof that the building
represents the original cost proposal
and justifies high rents.
Often The price Of the building IS IN
creased By placing three and four
mortgages on IL, which eompels an
additional rent increase 10 guarantee
interest charges -
"ro illustrate this practice" said
Secretary Spencer. stake a s2OO,OOO
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
VICTOR A. OLANDER MAKES
DIRE PROPHECY; OPPOSES
JUNIOR HIGH" SCHOOLS

grade, the parents must decide then
and there what the future of that
child is to be, as the school authors
ties must then be advised as to
whether or not it Is to be sent into
the high school term three years
later, at the age of Is, when the So
called Junior high term will have
been completed.
ain other words, the 12-year-old
child must make a choice between a
course which leads to the high school
and one that does not. Thus the
question of whether boy or a girl is
to have the benefit of high school
education is to be largely determined
by the economic status of the child's
family three years before 1t is eligi-
bic for the high school.
'sThe European method of class dis
tinction compels the European parent
to make the decision some years in
advance. Thus the schools Of Europe
have helped to keep European society
static and to maintain clear and dis
tinct class divisions. That is what
the effect of the so-called Junior
high scheme will be in America If it
is permitted to operate as intended
by its promoters.
sThe intensity of the housing prob
lem Immediately after the war caused
local school authorities to concentrate
their thought and energies toward
the solution of that one problem, and
as a result they were easily led IN
many communities to overlook educa-
tional features and educational val
ues.
"The labor movement must be on
guard against this new development
or il will find the door of the Ameri-
can public high school closed against
the children of the common people in
less than another decade"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
DEFENSE EfOC
SYSTEM. Tam
WORN r .sN1IAL

Cleveland. Ohio. laat A grew.
sug spitli Of rs a8Isk among the
various eeou0mlc I#4sHssts " cur
eouna, Is "duc - IL h.gnt of cur
problem and The s.lazzutss OF cur
brains said eNsbeNtfa.Y James
hafmess Of Nemesa. pres dent Of
the American engiueeIlHe e-uncn. in
an address 90 TIE issa1 ,ng,ueering
society.
Tie speaker saio tai "our whole
industrial structure may tumble
down unles q national plan of team
work IS devised aud carried cut BY
well.defned hloes, or groups. In asso-
citation with the federal government.
Common effort among the great
divisions Of interests in this nation
must he brought about he said. in
order that We may have economic and
vocational as well a. political and
geographical unity
Team work, asserted Mr.. Hattness.
will eliminate the enormous industrial
waste disclosed by the Hoover com.
mlttee Of the American engineering
council. Industry, he said, Il Still con.
ifolled more by instinct than by the
brain. and il Is not humiaating IL
admit tins fact.
The vast scope Of achievement In
research, invention and production by
the process of team work Is greater
than any enc brain can comprehend,
be said
Nov We have great groups In each
Of thousands of voeasions. including
trades, professions, business, arts,
sciences, and In fact, all phases Of life
in the home, the field, the factory,
stores, school, church and through all
other interests, The members OF each
of these groups have not only a
special interest IN their own aetiyi-
ties, hnt each has special knowledge
of some very important matter thai
the national government should con-
slider. BY eo.ordinatlng the Efforts of
these groups we can achieve higher
results In science and industry
The farm bloc was cited by Mr..
Hartness as natural group which,
when eo.ordinated with other groups,
will exercise a vast influence on the
social order
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
MINERS WAGE
CUTS WILL NOT
LOWER PRICE ES

Oklahoma City. July i9.--Coal own
ers at Wilburton have broken their
contract with the United Mine Work.
ers, though the manager acknowl-
edges no does not know whether a
'inwer wape scale WIN bring MN more
business.
Vice President Metlroy OF the state
federation Of labor shows that a salRe
cut will not relieve the depressed con
dition of the coal business IN Okla
homa. "The high price Of coal Is
brought about after IL leaves the
mines,n said Mr.. MeElroy. 'ffhe
miner who digs the coal OF Si.2h ton
pays coal owners nj Wiiburton $7.b0
a ton for what he buys, and | am
informed that the neople in the west
efn part Of the state pay Sli.bo a
ton for COAL
The trade unionist showed that II
the miner dug the coal for nothing
and put II on the railroad ear without
cost TO the coal owner this would
afford but scant relief 10 the CON
sumer,
"ln January Of this year some of
the coal owners were brought before
the corporation commission to explain
why gfarmefs had to pay Sia50 for
coal. The state records show that IN
1928 the cost Of putting coal on the
car averaged S2,7b ton. Thus II
wages were cut, coal costs would be
affected but little.
IN Muskogee last winter union.
mined coal and non-uniop mined coal
were placed on the market and there
was practically no difference IN price,
although the union miner received
$50 a day while the noii-union miner
was paid aa low as 81 a day.
"Who got the profit represented by
the difference In wagesg The public
did not get II. And neither would IL
get IL now II the miners accepted a
wage reduction"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
BUILDING PROMOTERS JUG
GLE COSTS; WATER VALUES
CAUSE MOST HIGH RENTS

development The promoter submits
his plans to bank that loans him
the money to build. Unknown TO the
bank, the promoter substitutes, wher-
ever possible, tile for granite, hard
wood for marble, Georgia pine for
hardwood, galvanized iron for copper,
cheap paint and plastering, the low
est grade Of plumbing the inspector
will permit, and a reduction Of the
elevator scheme.
'9Theae changes often cut the cost
in two and the "romoter pockets the
Difference while he markets the
tsructure on the basis Of original cost
proposals. Instead Of rents being
lowered because Of the cheap build
ing, the rents are even increased as
the mortgages send the property
values skyward.
This policy of financial high
binders Is widely praetieed by men
who advertised their allaged 'serv-
ice to the community and who loudly
shout against what they term high
wages for men engaged in an occu-
patton that Is both seasonal and dan
gerous," said Secretary Spencer.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

Chicago, July i9.-There Is pos
sibility that the children of the masses
may be barred from high schools
within another decade, according to
Victor A. Olander, secretary of the
Illinois state federation of labor, who
IS leading fight against the Junior
high" school
These schools do not connect with
the upper high school. So-called
"couneslors" are employed to select
the pupils to be given the benefit of
courses which lead to the high school,
and those who are to be encouraged
10 take courses which will definitely
complete their school life at the end
Of the ninth grade, when the average
child is 10 years of age.
Thus the Rochester school authori-
ties report that, by grouping the chill
dren according to sc-called ability
tests, they have developed a very etfl.
Gent scheme whereby the superior
groups are encouraged to go on into
the regular high school, while the
lower" group sare advised to take
work in household and industrial
courses, which do not fit them for any
hlgh school activity.
The Junior high" said Secretary
olander, ''is simply an educational
switching arrangement which enables
the school authorities to sidetrack the
children away from the. main line OF
education in such a manner that they
are prevented from reaching the high
school. That is the purpose of the
system, and although in some cities
the switch has not yet been turned, Ii
IS ready to be used for sidetracking
purposes whenever the public temper
permits.
Under this scheme, when the aver
age child reaches the age Of IL years
and is about to enter the seventh
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

PROBE OF PARTY
PLATFORMS

Washington, July I9.-rhe eNteu-
Tive committee Of the A. /. Il l. ua.
sloual non- Rallisan political campaign
committee Is examining re various
political platforms ,ha, have been
sdop;ed TIE pasy mGpth, Statements
by presidential nominees en the occ&-
sen of their formal acceptance ot
their nomination viii also De giVea
consideration BY the committee. The
candidates Nil undoubtedly take al.
vantage q the official notification oi
their nomination 10 present their
views and place their interpretations
ou platform declarations of THEN
party,
rhC executive committee vii then
make its report 10 the \. + of l..
executive council, aud that body viii
submit lis comparisons aud the rec.
orus oi the various candidates 10 the
org9u,1ed labor movement
Reports 10 4. r. of l. headquar-
tets Indicate thai there is greater non.
partisan activity among the organized
workers taan ever before.
Workers are not overlooking the
Importance Of the congressional cleo
tonS, The entire membership Of the
house and enc. lhird OF the senate wall
be voted on. The present congress
will expire March 4. when the con.
gleSs 10 be elected this fall will as
sumo office. Privilege eNpeest little
from the present congress aud strong
effort viii he made 10 have the next
congress amenahle to the wishes Of
those who oppose social Legislation on
changes IN the transportation act, and
who favor low surtaNes. free lmmi-
grafton, the sales tax, the Mellon plan
and other stand.pat proposals.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
INJUNCTION JUDGES
USURP POWER; SENATOR
URGES new viewpoint

Phadelphia July 19--h discussing the labor in.
junction before joint meeting of the national and state
bar associations in this city, United States Senator Pep
per gave broad ntmation that the labor injunction judge
usurps his power.
In referring to the loss of popular confidence the
courts suffer as result of the labor injunction, Senator
Pepper asked this significant question:
ITO maintain such confidence must We not contne the
courts to the sphere in which the creators of con
tutona system intended them to live and move and have
their beng?"
The senator declared that opposition to the labor
injunction develop revolutionary sentiment in this
country He said that confidence in our judicial system
pretty nearly essential to national safety and
policy of dragging the courts into industrial disputes
tends to lessen popular confidence and respect.
The remedy for this situation is not legislation but
public opinion that organized labor should be leading
factor in developing, according to Senator Pepper He
gave this hint trade unons on the value of agitation
and their power to create public opinion:
Wherever organized labor has failed to create an
Overwhelming sentiment for the closed shop, ii not
in the absence of such sentiment successfully do the
things which otherwise public opinion would approve
"As long as the enlightened of the community
fails to recognize the difference between the sefprotec
ton of an industrial class and mere wanton conspiracy
nure property and business continued Senator Pepper
Just long judges who have power in their hands are
likely to when urged thereto by the owners of the
property and the business or by the official representative
|of the government of which the judges themselves
part The problem is not primarily the problem of chang
ling the point of view of federal judges, but of deten-
ling what the community attitude toward organized labor
lis going to be-
In the Last analysis .she -tttua- the esasssHaity
viii be determined by the workers themselves.
Senator Pepper deplored continuous efforts to compel
United States courts ito take up the shock of indus
trial warfare He referred to the recent decision by the
United States supreme court in the leather workers
wherein six justices to three held that pcketng to pre-
went the manufacture of goods which, if manufactured
would have been shipped in interstate commerce. not
la conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce within
the antitrust act
"Any other decision" said Senator Pepper would
IN n
single factory the product of which was destined to swell
the volume of interstate commerce.
3Under such system of government as ours the
maintenance of well-ngh universal confidence in the
Judiciary pretty nearly essential to national safety Is
it not worth our while to place elsewhere than upon
federal judges the burden of solving for legislative
and executive problems?
"To maintain such confidence must not confne the
courts to the sphere in which the creators of constt
tional system intended them to live and move and have
their beng?"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
PARKING RULES
PROVE ASSET
TO BUSINESS

The new parking ordinance now II
faree in Champaign Is effective IN
clearing the main business stgeets ei
a surplus crowd of automobiles.
Before the ordinance went into
effect there was an unwarranted con-
eeStion of cars in the business dis-
Iriet. This has been largely done
awar with, in view of the fact thai
Office and professional men have dis.
continued the practice of parking
their cars in one place and leaving
them throughout the day.
In the vicinity of the Lincoln, First
National Bank, Illinois and Robeson
buildings the congestion was espe-
ciallv noticeable and farmers could
not get within gunshot of these
buildings. They were compelled to
park theii cars ON the more remote
streets and walk to business houses To
trade
At first farmers were inclined to
charge that they were Disseminated
against. but as the plan of the COM
missioners became understood the
rural population found that the law
was especially made for their conven-
ienee.
During last week no fines for vio-
lations of the ordinance were assess
ed. but early this week Magistrate
James began requiring the minimum
fine of SO from offenders. This
amount will be increased to $5 as
the community becomes more familiar
with the ordinance, according to the
magistrate.
The city has already large
revenue coming into the treasury as
a result of violations of the Green
street boulevard ordinance and the
laws against bad parking and speed
ing. The large percent of arrests
during the last year have been made
in enforcing various automobile regu-
lations.
The courts in the Twin Cities are
harder on the speeder and the man
sho drives car while intoxicated,
than on any other class of offenders.
Saeeders are fined $3.50 for the first
offense, and the intoxicated driver
seldom gets off with less than S5O
and costs, and sometimes Jail SEN
tence is appended.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

nit the crime. 1t would do this upaD
the premise that it is infinitely better
to ultimately heal any manner of dis
ease than 1t is. to kill the subject. 1t
would exhaust the resources OF a NE
time to correct such fatal error. !,
Darrow's theory that Leopold and
Loeb should be saved for scientIhe
study is not religious. II Is simply
humanitarian. He hopes that in the
study of these two young men some
of the most perplexing scientific prob
lens will be solved, and through the
added knowledge of human nature
gained by such study, that many
Young men will be prevented from
following the same course. barrow
is lxfty in his purpose. Can the COM
mon mind grasp his thought!
In Minneapolis every railroad head
quarters has announced direct conf
petition with bus lines. They plan
to use .railriding busses to compete
with the highway motors. fhev VIII
build branch lines, If necessary, 10
make the competition successful.
That is the proper way 10 compete
against the motor bus. Nothing IS
gained by forcing through Legislation
to stop the highway motor bus. fhis
only engenders the hatred Of the
public for railroads and electric lines,
and ultimately reacts to their disad-
vantage.
The motor bus is faster than the
or steam car. II Is an
ultra modern vehicle and will ulti-
mately be substituted on all short
distance runs. The sooner railroads
and interurbans wake up to this fact
and follow the example set by MIN
neapolis. railroads, the more quickly
the problem will be solved.
President Calvin Coolidge does not
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
Conference on immigration Act.

Based upon the theory that "re-
tluced quotas have quite a paralyzing
effect on the North Atlantic emigra-
ton traffic" conference of repre-
sentatives, numbering about twenty
persons, of the various American,
British, German, French. Dutch,
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish
steamship lines, engaged in emigrn-
ton traffic to the United States, was
held in Copenhagen during the first
ten days Of June, 1924, for the pur-
pose of diseussingstte situation Great.
ed by the new American Immigration
Act.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
JOHN WHEATON, A
PLUMBER, DROWN
ED IN FLORIDA

The Plumbers Union and the Loyal
Order of Moose each received word
Wednesday, ofsthe death By drowning
of John Wheaton, at Miami Beach,
Florida. No particulars were given
in the telegrams. The body will be
sent to his former home, 312 Williams
street. and burial will take place here.
He has sister, Lille Wheaton, and
a father, Chas. 6. Wheaton, painter,
living at the above address.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
Food Costs Go Up.

Washington, July 19.--Reports to
the bureau Of labor statistics from "a
cities show the following increases in
food costs from May Is to June 15:
Columbus, Denver, Fall River, st.
Paul, Salt Lake City, San Francisco
and Seattle, per cent; Baltimore,
Boston, Bridgeport, Kansas City, Los
Angeles, Louisville, Manchester, Mil
waukee, Richmond, Rochester, Scran-
ton, Philadelphia, per cent; Butte,
New Haven, Portland, Me-, Portland,
Ore, st. Louis, less than five-tenths
of | per cent.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01
LIVE TOPICS
FROM COUNTRY
4 \ ID TOW n

Clarence True Wilson opposes
Boo" IaFellette on the ground that
ne is the only wet candidate fol
president. There may be a question
As to whether MI. wilson IS correct
in his diagnosis Of the Wisconsin
senator.
There are drys in fact who believe
that the present prohibition Law is
actually productive of wet regime
and VINO seek u remedy in less dras-
| tic legislation.
Ii is not uncommon 10 find tetotal-
els who declare that the liquor traffic
was more effectively suppressed under
local option than IL is under the Vol
Islead act. Certainly there VAS no
more liquor sold in Champaign and
Urbana under local option than there
| is at present.
Officers of the law who are COM
PEELED TO take oath to enforce the
present law against bootlegging are
in despair of ever being able to full
till their VOWS 10 the state, though
lthey are making every effort 10 do
so. Many of the most loyal officers
declare that the law is an unwise
piece of legislation, as we'll as unfair
and discriminating.
If loyal prohibition enforcement
officers take this stand it is not TO be
expected that less conscientious Off
GERS will defend the law. They are,
on the contrary, very apt to wink at
violations. In fact this is exactly
what they are doing.
There is a strong probability that
the United States has not acted wlesly
| in demanding national prohibition.
1t is therefore the extremist who de-
clares that every public officer who
opposes the present prohibition law
is "wet." Some of the dryest people
in the world, who would not indulge
in drop of intoxicating liquor, pro-
fess to see the i'll effects of extreme
measures in attempting to control the
traffic.
Henry Snake, full blooded Indian
| from an Oklahoma reservation, ar
rived Monday in Chicago to attend
the trial of Leopold and Loeb, con-
fessed murderers of young Robert
Franks.
The Indian medicine men want te
know Mr. Snakes opinion of the trial
Tie will study the young men to find
out whether they are possessed of the
devil.
"My people," he said, "want tc
know what is happening here. Oui
old medicine men say that the devil
is in Leopold and Loeb" Attorney:
/ on both sides are calling In thell
alienists to determine whether the
two students are sane and morally
responsible. This may be distinction
without a difference.
In a recent article the Review
pointed out that our present mode OF
| furnishing criminals is based upor
such theories as that advanced by the
medicine man, and here is concrete
| illustration.
What would the Indians do to Leo.
pold and Loeb? If permitted to fol
low their barbarous practices they
would probably be burned to destroy
the devils in them. People who pro-
fess to be civilized demand that they
be executed. Here is another dis
tinction without a difference. Civiliza-
tion merely puts the old theories In
modern language. Practically there
| is no change.
A pure ChEstian civilization would
cure the moral disease of Leopold
and Loeb which caused them to COM
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

Gently made to the Persian govern.
ment. Mrs. Katherine Imbrie, widow
of the vice consul was recently sub.
jected 10 III treatment by friends Of
the mob who attacked and murdered
her husband. The United States gov
eminent will ask settlement for this
offense also.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

head the Republican ticket at the No
sember election He may have read
something in the newspapers about
the convention, but newspaper reports
are often greatly exaggerated.
However, he will not be in ignof-
ance long. Sometime during the sec.
ond week in August a committee will
go to the White House and tell him
all about it, and he will answer and
tell them how miserably the Demo-
Gratis have failed, and what crisis
the American people will face il a
Democrat or "a renegade Republican"
like Bob" LaFollette Is elected presi-
dent.
He will probably send a copy Of his
speech to George w. Davis who will
substitute the word Republican" for
"Democrat" and vice versa and use
the same speech when the Democratic
committee calls upon him on similar
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

The Twin Cities were in a turmoil
Monday when the news was flashed
throughout the city that an oil well
stood waiting to be shot north OF
Longview.
Many Twin City people who are in
terested in the drilling process that
has been going on for several weeks,
drove rapidly to the scene. VIII
Champaign and Urbana become an oil
station. viii it become a second
Teapot Dome without the scandal
That is the question that is upper
most in the minds of all speculative
citizens.
The United States will break off
dinlomatic relations with the Persian
government II the expense Of sending
a war vessel to that country for the
body Of Vice Consul Imbrie who wa
murdered by Persian mob.
A statement 10 this effect was re-
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-08-01

President Calvin Coolidge does not
know that he has been nominated to