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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-04
81 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
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mediate possession. - 300. = 600 cash
paved street Gail C. J. barton. with
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some trade. Call y b Madden
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Main 3715 Res Har 226GW
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$500 cash. balance So per month buys
this 7-room home; prie" only $4,000
small Barrett for paved street This
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must sell. DreXel 1896.
$40 CHASE St. 2-storv Groom home
gas electric lEhts price - $50 $3.50
cash Call " y Madden with
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and painted. price $4,000. 5000 cash.
Call W. Madden with
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Main 37l5- Res Har. 1903 W.
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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-28
WOLFPACK IN FULL CRY
AGAINST CHILD AMENDMENT

The wolfpack, led by the National Manufacturers
association is in full cry against the federal chd aDof
amendment The pack is fianked by every eXploltef,
standpatter and beneficiary Of the status quo
The wolfpack's cry is familiar one. 1t has been
heard every time social progress is proposed.
The wolfpack does not hear the plea OF children VINO
are forced to labor in mills mines and factories instead
it would prove that these children total but one mlon
or lust few hundred thousand.
The horrors of even one child forced to labor is lost
on the wolfpack.
old game is again being payed-errfy and mystify TIE
people, and Islander every citizen who in the vanguard
of social progress -,
The wolfpack paints frghtful pictures of children
thrown into the NAV of federal bureaucracy.
This is the intellectual capacity of men and women
who never raised their voice against the greatest wrong
a nation can do-permit child labor. .
The familiar cry of 'un-Amercan and socialism
is yeped against unsesh citizens who have forced ou
nation to advanced social positions while the Wofpack
snarled and claWed they snar and claw today.
Every ancient sOphistry legal twist and sharp reas-
oning again rooped before the people to bewder and
confuse.
The wopack senses another danger in the child labor
amendment.
100 years that was initiated by the people 1t Is
the first amendment to challenge the forces of privilege
No other amendment to the constitution so directly
affects the profits of privilege.
This amendment is devoid of any possibility that
court interpretations twist it to the advantage of
privilege has been the with other amendments.
If the child labor amendment is adopted it means
that the provisions of the constitution providing for
amendment can function.
1t also that the people will note that is within
their power to change the constitution regardless of the
wishes of privilege.
This possibility is not overlooked by the wolfpack
That's why its members Fundamentally oppose the
child labor amendment though many of the pack not
directly interested in child labor.
Defeat this amendment and hereafter the constitu
ton will not be changed except with consent is the
wolfpacks strategy.
The wolfpacks plea for country and for home is be.
dragged and meworn, but the pack is hopeful there is
victory in the overworked and untruthfu cry
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-28
DRAMATIC MEET I
ING On THE RIO
GRANDE RIVER

II Paso, Texas, Nov. 1.-The con-
vention Of the A. +. Of L. in this city
will be marked by dramatic joint
meetings with the Mexican Fedora
ton Of Labor, whose annual eonven-
ton will be held at Ciudad Juarez,
across the Rio Grande river from FL
Paso.
One day has been set aside for
these historic gatherings. In the
morning the Mexican delegates will
sit in the American convention and In
the afternoon the procedure will be
reversed. Later the delegates will
journey to Mexico City and participate
in the inaugural Of Presldent-elect
Gales, whose election was made pos
sible through the united support Of
the Mexican organized workers.
while the ideals Of the American
and the Mexican trade union move
ments are identical, their organiza-
ton methods differ" said Spanish
language Secretary Vargas of the
an-American Federation of Labor.
The Pan American is a federation of
the American Federation of Labor
the Mexican Federation of Labor and
the trade union movements Of South
America.
"The executive council of the Mexi-
can Federation of Labor is composed
of six secretaries, who are assigned
various duties, such as domestic af-
fairs, international affairs and agri-
culture" Secretary Vargas said.
'These activities naturally interlock
and overlap. The council is presided
over by a secretary general, who
might be called president of the coun-
ell"
Secretary Vargas said that the
meeting on the Rio Grande will
strengthen the bond of fraternity be-
tween workers of both countries, as
will the convention of the Pan-Amer-
lean Federation of Labor, which opens
in Mexico City on December 3. Sam
uel Gompers is president of the Pan
American and will preside at the con
vention.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-28
EXPLORERS OF
CHILD LABOR
TO TERRORIZE US

Friends of the federal child labor
amendment should not forget that
congress spassed a child labor law in
1916 and a child labor law in 1919.
In neither instance did congress at
tempt the things that are now predict
ed by oponents of the amendment.
The 1916 law prohibited child labor
under IA in shops and factories, and
under 10 years in mines. To make
that law effective it was provided that
the products of concerns violating the
law shall be debarred from interstate
commerce. The United States su-
preme court held the law illegal.
In 1919 congress passed the same
law, with the exception that it pro
vided that where concerns violated
The act, it might pay 10 per cent of its
profits into the United States treas
ury.
The supreme court ser this law
aside, though it had made contrary
rulings in the state bank case and the
oleomargarine case.
In both 1916 and 1919 congress
believed it had the constitutional
power to pass these acts. :,
The proposed amendment would
make it impossible for the court to
duplicate its performances. 1t would
give congress the power that it be.
lieved it possessed on two former
occasions.
What congress has done in the past
is the best indication of what it will
do in the future. The history of con-
gress show that that body, together
with the chief executive, do not &c
beyond a sound public opinion.
To create contrary belief is to
reject the principle of popular gov
eminent.
The forces that oppose the federal
child labor amendment are using the
same argument, word for word, that
they always use when social legisla-
ton is proposed.
Disregard facts and terrorize the
people, is reactions historic policy.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-28

Urgent and effective measures to
introduce foreign labor, especially
in the cocoa districts of Bahia,
Brazil, are said to be contemplated
on account of the exodus of native
labor to other parts of Brazil; and
under recent legislative enactments
work has been begun on station for
the reception of immigrants who are
to be located near Sac Salvador and
Camnissary.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-28
Steam Engineers Gain

Denver, Col, Nov. 22.-Steam En-
gineers' union has secured substantial
wage increases, effective the first of
the year.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-28
Virginia Theatre

FINEST IN THE MIDDLE WEST
me Healfhiest and Safest spot 10 tns
Twin Cities. so, 900 Cubic Feet OF Fresn
AIR Circulated Every Minute.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
THE CLASS Of 1925
WILL PRESENT
Booth Tarkington's
Seventeen on Dec. Il
Cast Chosen from Senior Class Oh
High School Especially Adapted
to This Comedy

When Hamlet demanded of the
strollipg players at Elsinore that
they snould hold "as 'twere, the mir
ror up to nature" he did not realize
that this immortal precept was TO
mold the drama of centuries to come.
The evolutionary process of his idea
seems to have reached its climax in
the realism of the modern American
theatre; a realism. which in its hap
pier phases is delight to both actors
and audience.
In no play of the last few seasons
has the human touch been more pro-
nounced than in the delicious comedy
Seventeen adapted from Booth
Tarkington's book of happy memory.
Those who laughed over the novel
will be grateful to. find that the auth
ors Of the play have retained in full
the essence of the book, its charact-
erization, its lines, and its situations.
Seventeen" tells the story of the
average American boy who feels that
he is misunderstood by his family.
Willie Baxter, in the grip of what he
fancies is his first love, in his strug
gle to obtain a dress suit with which
TO eclipse his rivals. in all the loy-
able absurdites of his seventeen
years is easily recognized by all
who inhabit that part of Main street
where young America resides. His
kindly but puzzled father. his human
and understanding mother, and his
ten year old sister Jane, who is the
banc of his existence, might live in
any one of the white houses with
green shutters that stretch from
Maine to California.
Then there is Lola Pratt, the visit
ing girl with the little white dog and
the fund of fascinating baby-talk
which completely subiugates Willie
Baxter and all his kind. There are
the same boys and girls who fit across
the pages of the novel: May and
Johnnie and Wallie and Mary and
Joe There is George CrOoper. the
stranger of nineteen who has two
cars and sound appreciation of his
own charms and there is the master
full Ethel Boke with whom Willie is
forced to dance away Lola's last prec-
ious evening There is Mr., Parcher
To whom youth is an enigma and who
protests in strong language against
baby-talk for breakfast and Serenades
by moonlight. And last, but not
least, there is Genesis. the colored
man of all work, who plays no small
part in the simple story unfolded in
the four act play.
The cast chosen from the senior
class of Skowhegan high school is
especially adapted To this comedy of
American life. Weeks of painstaking
rehearsals promise finished per
formanee on December 18th. The
play is directed by Pauline Eaton
Oak.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
CONSIDERED
Eighteen in Somerset
Co. Might be Cured

The ROIarians at their regular
meeting Tuesday noon, took up very
seriously the problem OF continuing
the work begun at the clinic in Sep
tember for crippled children OF SOM
erset County Dir. George +. Young
took up the work of the International
Society in the United States. telling
particularly Of the accomplishments
of Daddy" Allen OF. Ohio. who gave
the first start OF definite program
of clinics for children in the homes.
Dr. Young stated that most OF the
crippled children in Somerset County
were thus afflicted through disease
and he stated that eighteen OF the
thirty-one examined at the local eli
mic could be cured but said financial
aid was needed Free beds are
furnished at the Children's Hospital
in Portland. but the capacity of this
institution is so crowded that II
would be years before tho eighteen
children already referred to. could
have the prescribed course OF treat
ment there. This leaves the propo-
sition Of getting the children pro-
yided for in other hospitals in the
state. The talk resulted in dis
cussion of how best to procure the
necessary finances and DR.. Young
suggested that Rotary directors might
work with the Somerset County
Health organization and thus retain
money from the sale OF seals and
bonds to aid in This work for Grip
Piled children. L. F. Merrill, Dr..
Richardson, DR.. GAIA, J. II. Jenkins
H.
and ". n. cummings dlscu6sed tle
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
LICENSE FOR PICTURE
HOUSE A QUESTION
Negotiations Underway Tor Converting
Grange Hall into Il Motion
Picture Theatre

Negotiations have been underway
for several days, relative 10 the leas-
ing of Grange Hall to an out Of town
company for moving picture place.
The Grange would still have the hall
for use on the evenings of its regular
meetings and probably two other
nights each month While some feel
that competition in pictures would
give better amusement, there is also
a feeling that Grange Hall, which is
much used for social events. smaller
plays and banquets, would be sorely
missed
There is also another phase of the
question and that is the action taken
by the town sometime since, that no
other, license should be issued for
motion pictufes in the town, except
o." condition that the rent of the
municipal building, now occupied by
the present firm of Smith & st. Led
ger would drop to so low figure,
that II would not prove Il money pay
ing proposition to the town License
for moving picture concerns to oper-
ate are granted by the selectmen.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
WILL Be welded THIS
AFTERNOON
kennebec Valley Hospital Nurse to
Marry SkoN hegan Man

The marriage of Lloyd Rogers
Groves and Miss Julia Ann Buffers
will be solemnized this Thursday,
probably at about 3 O'Clock, at the
parsonage of the Federated Church
with Rev. George Loring Thurlow Of
ficiating. The future groom Is the
second son of Mr., and Mrs. Herbert
Groves. who came here from Smith
field about four years ago He grad
mated from Skowhegan high school in
the class of 1928 Miss Buffers was
born in Drew Plantation and received
the greater part Of her education IN
Wytopitlock. Her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvra Buffers now reside in
Hartland. She has been training at
Kennebec Valley Hospital.
The young couple will spend the
winter with Mr.. Groves parents and
in the spring intend to build here. Mr.,
Groves is salesman for Holt &
Hight, a local automobile concern
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
CAN THE TOWN BENEFIT BY AN ADD|-
T|ONAL MOVING PICTURE THEATRE?
Smith & St. Ledger Make General Statement to
the Skowhegau Public

portaut in moving picture production.
Practically the only ones you would
want Us 10 consider. These firms
produce about $50 films a year. We
change programs every day. You
Will see that We must handle about
every one they make in d years time.
Of course we are moved to make
this argument because we have
business proposition involved. We
come frankly to YOU with this state
ment because We know we have
just cause and believe we are dealing
With public that would be glad to
deal Justly by us. You will want to
use us right but If you did not. would
ii be good business for SkoWhegan
TO sacrifice $500 annual income
from its own property even If there
were a possibility Of slight benefit
10 smaller group Of its citizens.
We nave tried not only to carry out
our contract on honor but we have
wanted. mighty bad 10 be good fe-
lows; be courteous and accommodat-
ing and. by George. We think We
have We will own to a feeling Of
disappointment and regret IL our ef-
forts fail OF appreciation at this time.
4 good many OF you have had friend
ly conferences with us as to moving
picture benefits. You have never
realized the aggregate of this bus-
ness. but it has been genuine pleas
IRE fer us to turn over to the various
societies. schools. etc. 5000 as their
part OF the profit OF these benefit
evenings during the past year.
Some of you viii remember talking
with us about rehearsals for amateur
plays and their final production. You
have had the theatre for rehearsals
Tor 81 an evening You must know
that this would not any more than
pay the cost OF lights and is way be-
low what You could have gotten ac-
commodations for elsewhere in this
or any other town. For your anna
teur productions you have had the
use OF the auditorium and stage for
SO. Here is d vivid comparison
The Runaways. an amateur produc-
tion here in 1923. rehearsed three
weeks and had the hall for the final
production paying Us only S25 for all.
The same thing Was put on in Ban
gor few days later. paying $3.50 for
the Opera House Tor single even
ing
You will he keen enough to see that
your benefit nights and amateur
shows at the present time have little
or no competition II another NOV
ing picture theatre is started. this de-
sirable condition would not exist
You would have competition right
away
We have shown YOU above that We
closed out our own houses and went
into the present arrangement in good
faith, believing the move to be mu-
tually advantageous The contract
with the town was surely equitable.
Anyone could bid who chose Il was
awarded us because NC bid the high
est figure. We have accepted cheer
fully the increased cost OF janitorship.
lights, heat. etc. caused by the in
creased use of the building The
moving picture business is practically
under the control Of single head in
the important communities nearest to
us. our prices here are lower than
most other cities and towns in Maine.
Continued on Page TWol
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
SOLON MINISTER WEDS
MISS LATHE
Interesting Nuptial> Today nj High
Noon in the Scion Methodist
Church

IN interesting ceremony occurred
today "Wednesday in the Methodist
Church at Scion. when Rev. J. G. 2.
Sherbourne. the pastor, was married
10 Miss {. Hazel Lathe of sydney.
Rev { O Perry of Pennington wa
the officiating minister The groom
Is native OF Hallowell and tho
church in Scion is the first OF which
he has been pastor The bride is
a sister OF Miss Ruby Lathe. teach
er in the Iearitt street schools cf
Skowhegan. and has lately returned
from a long absence in Paris, France.
where she has been staying with an
aunt The future home OF the Young
couple will be in the Methodist par
sonaEe at Solon.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
THIRTEEN BOTTLES OF
ALCOHOL FOUND
James George 0i Fairfield Arrested
Aftef Search and Seizure

James George Of Fairfield was ar
rested following search and seizure
case at Fairfield, made by Deputies
Flewelling of that town, Hunnewell
of Lakewood, f. f. Tuscan of Skow-
hegan, T. II. Tuscan Of Solon and
Thibodeau of Skowhegan Thirteen
bottles OF alcohol were found hidden
on the premises and at hearing be-
fore Trial Justice Lord Monday
George was sentenced to three months
in Jail and 5000 with three months
additional in default of payment He
appealed from the sentence and gave
bonds in the sum of $1,000
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
TELEPHONE
CHANGES WIRES
Doing liz Part to Remove Overhead
Wiring from the Business
Section oi SkOM hegan

Following out the general plan -
removing overhead wires in the bust
ness section OF Water street ant
Madison avenue. the Farmers Tele.
phone Company have been changing
over their lines on Water street from
the bridge to the Opera House and
up Madison avenue To Russell street.
Their wires Will not be run under
ground but are being strung i'll the
rear of the business buildings on the
west side of Madison avenue, and the
south side of Water street. About
10000 of covered wire are being used
in the change The Maine Tel &.
Tel Company have their eonduits in
stalled. but the cables have not yet
been placed therein,
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-11-27
STARKS SkGWER MILL
ONLY ONE IN COUNTY
II. l.. Soule is Proprietor OF Plant
Soon TO be ReObeDed for the
Winter

Renairs are being made on the
Skewer Mill at Starks by the proprie
tor and founder of the enterprise,
Ralph L. Soule. The establishment
will probably be reopened for opera
tions next week There are about
two hundred cords of hardwood lum-
Der in the yard and this will probably
furnish employment for twenty-six
men and women during the winter.
1t is interesting to note that this is
the only mill of its kind in Somerset
County. 1t was established in about
1920, when large portion of the fac
tory was built, part of 1t having
once been a stable The prodNct is
used mainly for fastening burlap
about beef and is shipped all over the
United States. The process is an in
teresting one to watch. The lumber
is first sawed into pieces. a little
wider than the ordinary skewer. 1t
is then run through dowel machine,
where it is rounded and then goes to
the pointer. This last piece of ma
chinery was made by Charles Thomp-
son. Starks resident and finished
by Mr.. Soule. although the latter says
that the credit for the making of this
machine is due Mr.. Thompson. The
skewers come out of this machine
pointed and are then placed on driers
IN the drying room. From there
they are thrown together and by the
and of little parafine come out for
packing nicely smoothed. Women
are employed to do the packing, plac-
ing one thousand of the sticks in a
carton and thirty of these cartons fill
a case ready for shipment. This is
the principal winter industry at
Starks.