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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
"JIM" is NOW AN OIL BARON

1t is said that just as soon as the
American Tribune can discover an
equally good man Jim Criswell, who
for long time has been the adver-
tising manager of the paper, will
permanently quit on the job and re-
tire to his estate in the fastesnesses
of the rocky hills near Hanover.
Not that Jim has decided to become
hermit or recluse, no not by any
manner of means, but you see he's
now living On the sunny side of Easy
street." and is enrolled among the
Rockefeller gang of oil magnates. In
fact, Jim has "struck ile"; a paying
we'll having come in on his farm,
which renders further toll on his part
not only superfluity but an actual
piece of foolishness.
There is no one in town whom the
"Hired Man" would sooner see step
into a bunch of velvet than Mr.. Girls
well, but sincere regret is felt because
of the void created by the retirement of
one Of the most competent, courteous
and pleasant gentlemen connected
with the newspaper fraternity in the
'city. Our best wishes accompany him
together with the hope that some
time when strawberries and spring
Continued on Page Five)
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12

Washington-Charley Dawes rec
ord in the banking game grows worse
and more astonishing as it is uncov-
cred. But it does explain why Dawes
was sent to Europe, and why he was
later nominated by the Republican
convention.
Dawes is the boy who threw into a
receivers hands the great Globe bank
in Boston, 25 years ago, and forced
the sale of it's assets, including GER
tain copper stocks which would deter
mine control of the Anaconda proper
ties in Montana, in the midst Of a
desperate fight by Augustus Heinze
to prevent Standard Oil from gaining
that control. The stocks were sold by
the receiver to Standard Oil Ana
conda Copper became an asset of
Standard OIL And Dawes afterward
organized a small bank, into which
Standard Oil promptly delivered de-
posit of $5,OO0,000 which remained
there and enabled Dawes to grow
rich.
Go back to the Boston newspapers
of Dec. %, 1899 for the story of the
sudden closing of the Globe bank. It's
president, Cole, was obliged to resign.
Afterward he was sent to the penl-
tertiary for misuse of funds. But
when the bank was first closed it
showed a surplus of $120,000 and as
sets far above it's liabilities. Dawes,
then controller of the currency, had
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12

trusted him.
1t was because he was brother to
the real bosses that he lent 81 100000
to the "blond boss" Billy Lorimer, at
a later period, so that Lorimer could
pass inspection Of his own bank. The
Inspector asked Lorimer to show his
money; Lorimer flashed a certified or
cashiers check on Dawes bank for
S1,200,000, which was what Lorimer
had to own. The Inspector went to
Dawes bank and was shown the ready
cash, which he was assured was held
for payment of that check Then the
check was torn up, and when after
ward the Lorimer bank blew up, and
1000 depositors found themselves
robbed, judges on the Illinois bench
decided there was no escape for
Dawes-he must make good. 1t took
10 years for the court of last resort
to hand down its verdict against
Dawes. This happened on the very
day of his nomination for the vice
presidency of the United States as
the worthy running mate of Cal Cool
idge.
1t is on this record that Dawes
stands when he invites the nation to
uphold American institutions and
safeguard the constitution" And the
strong, silent man in the white house
will be very silent indeed upon this
same record.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
CHILD LABOR
THE AMENDMENT is FAVORED
BY CHURCHMEN
Religious Denominations Throughout
the Country Will Assist in Sc
curing Its Adoption

Observation-Disclosures of the ma
ton are wholeheartedly supporting
the child labor amendment to the fed
eral constitution.
In statement Just issued bv the
commission on the church and social
service Of the Federal Council Of the
Churches Of Christ in America, this
spokesman for Protestant churchn1en
refers to the child labor amendment
as "a charter of freedom for child
hood"
.",Churches throughout the country
Will need to exert their full influence
upon public opinion in the states to
secure ratification" the commission
says. Congress will then have the
aQthorlty, now lacking, to accomplish
what 1T has twice attempted, only to
have its acts declared unconstitutiol-
al, and to legislate from time to time
Tor the protection of children. More
than million children who have been
kept out Of school to work will then
be given their chance at life. A uni
form national law, controlling child
labor, Will bring all industries under
0AAN1iol4o VI d IluIILnuNn stand
ard.
The bishops program of social re-
construction, issued by an organiza-
ton composed of the Catholic arch
bishops of the United States. calls for
a federal child law.
The child labor amendment per
mlts only a nationwide minimum
standard" says the department of So
clal action, National Catholic Welfare
conference. "Any state may exceed
the standard. This is done so as not
TO hamper the states whose conscience
is awake and so as to avoid centrali-
zatlon. 1t Is the stagnant and back
ward states, remaining obdurate in
the face of federal law that will
have their child labor conditions reg
ulated much by the federal govern
ment, and it is expected that there
will be few OF none of these after the
national amendment is passed and a
child labor law is put on the federal
statutes"
Jewish clergymen have also taken
strong ground against child labor.
though the Central Conference of
American Rabbis has not convened
since congress passed the child labor
amendment. In their conferences of
1920 and 1922, the child labor declara-
Iton OF the rabbis included demand
for raising the standard of age
Wherever the legal age limit is lower
than IS consistent with moral and
physical health"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12

| son. Frankly reactionary, the makers
of the platform at Cleveland treated
the demands of the progressives and
the proponents of labor with brutal
cynicism. The Democratic platform,
upon the livest issues, is a cowardly
evasion.
"Mr. Coolidge, a few days ago, as
! if issues were not created by the
gravity of human events, the opera
ton Of social and economic law, and
the administration or mal-administra-
ton Of government, issued state
ment to the effect that he was about
to decide the issues of the campaign
and he thought he would make the
issue international relations.
Today, however, Mr.. Coolidge
finds it necessary to again take
refuge in silence, and declares that
he will have little to say during the
campaign. There are two main rea-
sons for this policy of silence. First
ly, no man could be shameless enough
to defend the recent record of the Re-
publican party, and secondly, his past
record clearly indicates that it is only
with difficulty that Mr.. Coolidge can
think Of anything to say even under
the most stirring and favorabel cir
cumStance.
aMy prediction is that before the
campaign is many days older the
White House Myth will be explod-
ed
Even in the financial district of
strength, as we'll as that of Mr.. Davis,
it is admitted with painful reluctance
that Coolidge is a man of mediocre
ability but he is we'll advised
Between Coolidge and Davis as
servitors Of the industrial and bank
ing magnates of this country and
Europe, obviously these interests
would prefer Davis. His vast expe-
rience IN the service Of monopolistic
corporations, his social position, his
contact with the great financial in
stitutions of Europe while at the
Court of St. James, and his smooth
ness, would make him infinitely more
valuable to the special privilege
groups in the office of President; not
because he would be any more will
ing, but because he would be vastly
more capable and useful than Mr..
Coolidge Mr.. Davis entire record,
public and private, justifies this con-
clusion.
"In this day the great bulk of the
law affecting the public welfare and
industrial life of the nation is to be
found in judicial decisions. Even in
ferior courts freely set aside laws of
state and nation as unconstitutional
Statutes are daily interpreted and de-
Il. -.
makers, too often on the sharp edge
of mere technicality. The rule of
reason is read into positive statutes
changing the letter of the law as we'll
as the intent of the law maker. Any
lawyer habitually arrayed against
the people in cases of great social
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
NEWARK, OHIO. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER H.
FRANK P. WALSH SUPPORTS THE
LA FOLLETTE-WHE TICKET

(From Frank A. Pattison, Chair
man, National Bureau of Information
and Education).
Frank P. Walsh, Chairman of the
| United States Commission on Indus.
trial Relations in the first Wilson Ad
ministration and joint Chairman with
Ex-President Taft of the National
War Labor Board, has issued through
the Committee of 48 a statement tell
ing why he supports La Toilette anC
! Wheeler. Mr.. Walsh was Chairman
of the Cooper Union meeting Satur-
day night, September 9th, when Sen
ator Wheeler spoke.
Mr.. Walsh is one of Americas fore
most lawyers and has perhaps tried
as many cases, civil and criminal, as
| any man at the American bar.
81 am for Robert M. La Toilette
for President" said Mr.. Walsh. "A
recent professional trip which
brought me in close contact with
many of the leaders of thought in
the midwest and Mississippi Valley
removed any doubt | may have had
and convinced me that Senator La
Toilette can be elected President this
year. | believe he will be elected
But if mine were the only vote for
him in the United States, my con-
science would compel me to cast it
that way.
LA Toilette is the most intelligent,
the sincerest and the bravest man
ever nominated for high public office
during my generation.
GAS a constructive statesman he
has no peer in American political life.
1t is no eXaggeration to say that his
thought and labor have made a deep
er impress upon our Legislation,
State and National, than any other
public man of his day.
''To those who may regard him as
an 'aimless visionary | call attention
to the Interchangeable record Of funda-
mental reforms written into our laws
during the past thirty years of our
country's history. 81.
LA Follette's fight up to the pres
ent time has been within the ranks of
the Republican party.
''In 1908 Senator La Toilette took
his first platform to National Re
publican Convention with an instruct
ed delegation to advocate its adop-
ton. He has sent his platforms and
instructed delegations to each success
sive National Republican Convention,
including the Convention of 1924.
These conventions uniformly rejected
the La Toilette Platform, usually
with denunciation and derision.
"He has consistently fought for the
principles contained in those plat
forms in and out of the Congress of
the United States. Out of the very
needs of the people and the inherent
justice and Common sense of his de-
mands, 26 of the 81 La Toilette
Planks' have been enacted, in some
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
NATIONS
HIGH COURT
is DESPOTIC

Washington--In one of the bit
terest criticisms ever made on the
supreme court of the United
States, Justice John Ford of the
New York supreme court in
forms Senator La Toilette that he
will support the La Toilette
Wheeler ticket. The federal high
court is declared "an absolute
.despotism" which makes democ-
Nracy San idle dream"
"For the citizen who loves our
democracy and believes with Lin
coin in a government of, by and
for the people, and holds with
jefferson that the true object of
government should be the great
est good for the greatest num-
ber," said Justice Ford, "there is
no practical way in which he can
express his convictions by his bal
lot in this election except by vot-
ing your ticket.
"The supreme court of the
United States is an absolute des-
potism. 1t is beyond the control
of congress, of the constitution,
of the people and of any author
ity which is directly or indirectly
responsible to the people.
"Your stand for divesting the
federal judiciary of it's irrespon-
sible power especially recon-
mends your candidacy to me.
Believing as / do in the prin-
ciples you stand for, ! should con-
slider myself guilty of conduct
sounding in treason should I fail
to give my full support to the
scause you represent"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12

consequence cannot excuse himself by
declaring that his sole duty is to
serve his client faithfully, as priest
or surgeon to penitent or patient.
Nor is success in such litigation the
test of right or wrong. Abraham
Lincoln denounced the lawyer who
would advocate cause inherently un-
just though technically legal. This
distinction of the great Lincoln is a
part Of the moral and ethical code of
the independent, right thinking law
YER And | make this declaration,
Notwithstanding the specious plea of
Mr.. Davis to the contrary, carried
by the Associated Press throughout
the Nation upon April 1st last, the
time when Mr.. Davis really began
his still hunt for the Presidential
nomination, and purporting to be an
answer to letter from a mysteri-
Gus correspondent, unnamed, and un-
located.
'In court contests between the peo-
pie and entrenched privilege Mr.,
Davis is always found serving the
same masters and opposing the pub
lie veal, Had he prevailed in his
contentious in the case Of the Coro-
nado Coal Company against the
United States Mine Workers of
America that great organization
would have been destroyed and along
with it the American labor move
ment.
"In the case of the New York Tel
ephone Company VS.. the People of
New York, Mr.. Davis was the cham
pion of the telephone company, and
succeeded in placing an additional
burden upon the backs of the people
amounting to millions of dollars a
year.
81 quote but two of the long list
of legal contests in which Mr.. Davis
has thrown his professional skill as
we'll as the influence and prestige
acquired as Solicitor General and Am
bassador to Great Britain into the bal
ance against the people. All of these
cases, with their grave public conse-
quences, will be thoroughly discussed
in the present campaign as proving
the anti-social tendencies of the Dem
ocratic candidate.
at must be patent to the citizen
ship of the nation that the exploiting
interess have succeeded in capturing
the machinery and nominees of the
two old parties. In Robert NJ. La
Toilette lies the only hope of our peo-
pie for honest and progressive gov
e1nment. A fair discussion of the
issues of this campaign should bring
to La Toilette the support Of mil
lions of progressives. | am glad to
accept the chairmanship Of the meet
ing at Cooper Union Saturday night,
September 9th, which is to be honor
ed by the presence of Hon. Burton
K. Wheeler, La Follette's runnin'
mate, who himself has made a record
which has won him high place in the
consideration and affections of the
American public"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12

been visited by committee of Boston
financiers who had heard of his inten-
ton, and had offered to put many
millions behind the institution. The
Boston clearing house did put up 3d.
100000, and Edward A. Clarke and
VIM. Coolidge, associates Of Cole, put
up $1,000,000 to cover any shrinkage
in the value of the copper stocks
which the bank had been buying.
Dawes refused to let the Boston fin
anciers save the bank. He sent in
spector Daniel Wing to Boston and
had a receiver appointed.
Dawes chief, Lyman j. Gage, sec
retary of the treasury, had been pres
ident of the First National bank in
Chicago-a Standard Oil concern
and Gage and Dawes knew how big
a prize was involved in the posses
sion of the Globe banks copper
shares. According to the Boston
press of that time, Standard Oil came
in with S3,000,000 and absorbed the
copper shares which were thrown up
on the market in Boston. These
shares gave the Rockefellers a ma
joTity voting control of the copper
companies which now are consolidat-
ed in the Anaconda.
When Dawes retired from the con-
trollership, he attempted to run for
the. senate from Illinois, but was un-
able to gather following. In dis
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
DAWES RECORD
By Laurence Todd
Federated Press Staff Correspondentl

III correspondent
gust with politics, he organized the
Central Trust Co. in Chicago, with
100000 stock subscribed. Within a
few days after he had begun busi-
ness the older banks in Chicago learn
ed that the Standard Oil Co. Of In
diana had deposited S5,000,0O0 with
DaWes-and there the money remain
ed year after year as a nest egg for
the fortune which the bank accumu-
lated for its promoter.
Daniel Wing, whom Dawes sent to
Boston to protect" the public by
closing the Globe bank, and who help
ed to put the copper stocks in the
way of Standard Oil, became presi-
dent of the First National bank in
Boston.
1t is not to be assumed that it was
solely because of the Boston incident
that Dawes became a favorite of the
money gods. He had qualified
earlier, and he proved his caliber on
numerous occasions afterward. His
earlier test was when he audited the
S7,000,000 campaign fund spent by
Mark Hanna in electing Mckinley in
1896. Nobody ever found out what
became of some $3,000,000 of that
money, although it was used in the
final stages of the fight. Dawes was
acquainted with the secrets of that
gigantic effort of money to retain its
hold on the government. The bosses
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
WORKERS
DEPRIVED
OF RIGHST'

Seattle-The workers are vic
TINS of new theory of govern
ment, declared United States
Senator Shipstead, in explaining
the labor injunction at a mass
meeting in this city.
Workers are deprived of their
rights under the law" said Sena-
tor Shipstead. "Workers are
made subjects of the irresponsi-
bic will of what is sometimes call
ed the conscience of our judges,
sitting in courts of equity,
through the misuse of the power
OF injunction. In other words, so
far as labor is concerned, govern
ment by injunction is displacing
government by law. We believe
these conditions have been
brought about by the misuse of
the power of government by
those who have been entrusted
with the control of that power.
We believe that the para
mount duty of every American
citizen, man and woman, this
year is to join hands with the
progressive forces and elect Rob
ert La Toilette president, and
Burton K, Wheeler vice presi
dent, in order that the admins
tratlon of government may be
taken from those who have, and.
as we believe will, continue to
use 1t for special privilege, and
IN order that the administration
OF government shall be vested in
men who shall see to it that the
powers of government shall be
used for the purpose for which
the government is intended"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
HERE THEY ARE
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS ARE
DISTRIBUTED
COmmendatiOn and Criticism Handed
Out PrOmiscuously as Deemed
Just by Our Hired Man
SPECIAL MEETING A FIZZLE

The special, or rather two special
meetings of the city council called for
Tuesday evening ended in dismal
failures.
One was to be held at half-past
seven o'clock to welcome and have a
talkfest with delegation from
GAINESVILLE regarding the problems
confronting the Ohio Electric Rail-
way The GAINESVILLE boys were on
hand all right, but after cooling their
heels in the public council room for
an hour or more Charlie Kent, who
had deserted an important meeting
in order to be on hand at 1880, ap-
peared from the sanctum sanctorum
ard sadly told them that as but three
of the nine members had showed up,
prospects for meeting were decided
ly slim, and advised them to make O.
second visit at the regular meeting
next Monday night.
After the Clay City visitors had
pulled out a "watch meeting" was
held in the city clerks office, watch
ing for enough members to turn up
to hold the meeting called for $50.
No efforts were spared to accomplish
that object. Automobiles and the
telephone were resorted to, and the
auto gang did finally capture one
"dad", and tried unsuccessfully to To-
cate another at the home of his best
girl.
1t was after nine o'clock before the
faithful few shut up shop and went
home.
"The best laid schemes of mice and
men
Oft gang a'glee"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
ASS'nS Assets Increase

Columbus, O.-Ohio building and
loan associations of the state gained
S113,633,450 in assets for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1924, compared
to that of 1923, according to figures
announced Tuesday, by officials of
the Ohio Building Association league.
The annual convention of the organ
ization will be held here October 21,
1928. Last years gain was the
greatest in the history of the insti-
tutions, and brings their total assets
to 1854, ,794, ,409.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
Alarming Increase In Child Labor

ed an increase in the number of chill
dren under 16 entering regular en-
ployment for the first time during
the calendar year 1923 as compared
with 1922. In these "a cities the
number of IA and 15-year-old children
receiving first regular employment
certificates was 1856 in 1922 and
90,166 in 1923.
In 19 of the cities reporting there
was an increase of at least 20 per
cent. and in 9 the increase was ap-
proximately so per cent or more.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12

Washington : Figures recently
issued by the Children's Bureau of
the United States Department of
Labor emphasize the necessity for
quick action on the child labor amend
ment.
The report indicates that child lab
or is on the increase and confirms the
results of previous Investigations. Ac-
cording to the bureau, of "a cities
furnishing statistics of employment
certificate issuance in 1923, 29 report
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
Money Gone to Waste

Washington-It is roughly esti-
mated that about one million dollars
was spent in Wisconsin in an effort
to defeat the state and congressional
candidates pledged to Senator La
Toilette,
The senator's friends didn't get all
the votes in the primaries, but there
were mighty few cast for their op-
ponents. The special interests paid
about $40 each for the few votes Sc
cured.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
Movie Men Raised Five Percent

New York-Five percent increase
IN wages and the two shift day have
been won by the Moving Picture Op-
orators union, local 3O6, on the eve
OF their threatened strike. A two
year agreement was signed with the
Vaudeville Managers Assn, which
controls many Of the big movie
houses, providing for another so in
crease Sept. l, 1925.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
MR.. WORKINGMAN:

The Leader is your paper. 1t
publishes matter pertaining to your
life and welfare. 1t wants your
support. Your cause would be
weak without a labor paper to
champion it. Support The Leader.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-12
MR.. MERCHANT:

Has it ever occurred to you that
The Leader goes into the homes
OF the best paid workmen of New
ark and Licking county? 1t is
carefully read by every adult mem
Der Of the household.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-29
Overland Used on
Highest Highway

Marked tribute was paid to the
power and stamina of the Over
land motor by the State highway
department of Colorado by the
selection of an Overland Spad for
the preliminary work on the new
Mt. Evans auto highway, which
will have the distinction, when
completed, of being the highest
automobile roadway in the world,
exceeding in altitude that of Pixies
Peak by several hundred feet
This car is now used in survey
work which requires operation over
almost inaccessible grades, partially
constructed roads and even to points
which have not yet been touched by
a grading crew.
The sale of the Spad was COM
pleted only after exhaustive COM
petitive tests with other light cars
over some of the toughest roads
within the state boundaries. 1t is
the first Overland ever purchased
for this work by the Colorado
state highway commissioners, but
since its preliminary showing it has
been decided that all future re-
placements for mountain work would
be made with Overlands.
Since the first car was put into
service on the Mt. Evans highway
additional cars have been added to
the highway departments at Delta
and Rifle, Colo.