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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07
aren't eachers Divided Into
 Districts

TT WILL be of interest to many. who
 are not in close touch with the state rent-Teachers' association tn learn that this year the state is divided into two districts, similar to that of the State Federation of .Women's clubs. This was done with the idea of keeping in closer touch with each association through district chairman.
 Mrs. Nesbitt Hambaueh, who has served SO efficiently as county chair man, has agreed to act as third district chairman, which includes Birmingham and all Jefferson county. Mrs. Hambaugh has called meeting of the district to be held on Thursday, March 2, at Phillips High school at 10 o'clock.
 There will be representative and others from every school in the county, as we'll as the city schools.
 Mrs. Hambaugh will preside and many matters of vital interest will be discussed and much business pertaining to the association will be handled. The morning will be given to speakers, whose subject directly touch on the work be- ing done by the members of Alabama Parent Teacher associations and school improvements. At noon luncheon will be served at Phillips high and later a business meeting held. The program committee, composed of Mrs. Scudder Pyall, chairman Mrs. CA AsP. Under wood, Mrs. R. T. Anderson and Mrs. J. F. Leroy announce the following pro gram: -zf
 Prayer
 Welcome, Dr. C.. B. Glenn, superin- tendent of city schools.
 Response, Mrs. Nesbitt Hambaugh, for the county, and Mrs. Ralph Russell, for the city council. How City PIT A. Can Cooperate with County Associations" Dr. Baker, superintendent county schools.
 How Parents Nigh Aid in the Con- trol of the Incorrigible Boy and Girl, ' Judge Murphy of the juvenile court. Round Table /
 Benefit to be Derived from Super vised Play" leader, Mrs. J. P. Leroy.
 How PIT. A. Can Aid the Travel ing Library in the County" Lloyd Joselyn. superintendent city library.
 "A We'll Conducted Luncheon" Miss Dickerson, of the city schools.
 'The Sub-Normal and Abnormal Child," Miss Elizabeth Dickerson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07

Of course. vanity is the real ex- plantation of why men prefer silli- ness to sense in a woman. Their egotism demands that they should know more than she does, that they should pose as oracles to her and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07

make no public display of any gray matter that she has concealed under her GoscnnuA cut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07

she should be filled with awe and ad- miration at their wisdom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-07
MRS. KRTEGESHABER
 TO LECTURE NEXT WEEK

Reservations. may be made through
 Mrs. J. Witt, Main S30T.J.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
THE SUPREME COURT'SRISE TO POWER
 By LOWELL MELLETT

Buchanan and others, one of the prom lncnt asserters Of this was Abraham Lincoln. He was abused unmercifullv for daring to criticise the Supreme Court, by Stephen A. Douglas in their famous campaign debates, but in the re- gently published t'Works of James Bu- chanan' are letters exchanged between President Buchanan and members of the Supreme Court which appear to sustain Lincoln's charges completely.
 Concerning his right to criticse the courts, Lincoln said:
 Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others, the same passions for party. for power, and the privileges of their corps"
 Concerning the powers assumed by the Supreme Court he said "# * i: the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vi tai questions affecting the whole peo- pie, IS to be irrerocably fixed by deci- Slons of the Supreme Court *the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
MUSTY STATES RIGHTS CLAIM IS NOW USED AGAINST CHILDREN

a national problem. It has been made by The evils of child be confined esection where little exploited.
 The public health safety and morality make it more than question It of city county state regulation. It nationwide n it's and effect
 Twice has attempted to regulate child labor In each the declared unconstitutional by the court
 Congress submits constitutional amendment to the states and the raised that this nterferes with states rights
 significant that when voted tor national child labor law states rights was hardly & discussed I; ~ that A - vadted It will permit to do what the supreme Why did rights silent when passed these national child labor laws and why do they Did these benefactors of guess supreme would declare the two laws unconstitutional
 the abolition of lotteries state banks national questions, why abolition of child abor
 the control of drugs and narcotics national problem why deterioPaons o1n5osIS protect '''''' >S "'
 In against cattle disease agents de- raised Men who talk of rights will have the federal aid them in protecting their cattle but not their children
 In opposing the amendment the Georgia legislature said it would destroy parental authority
 will nothing of the kind. It will permit congress natna child labor law but there will be ob ec"on to IeGst b pasng will De,eF @ be on tefd with any more than under labor laws Georgia the principle of child la
 The Georgia legislature also declared that the amendment would place in the hands of congress power to destroy agrcu
 That demagoguery These lawmakers should be reminded ago Justice Marshall of the United said The the to destroy cCuloch Mary
 Congress exercised oleomargarine and on other occasions
 But that does would national sui eide by destroying the country greaoes activities.
 public opinion be developed in favor of treat ing child labor a national issue
 of alone, todays should that mentally and phy scy equipped defend their and its
 constitution intended be barrier prog intended to be concrete mold It not rigid
 Our constitution must expand needs
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
OUTLAW STRIKES BRING DISASTER TO ALL LABOR,
 BRITISH UNIONS WARN

The originating and dominating prin- engagement in respect of wages, hours, and conditions, and this is impossible apart from the existence of collective authority. The unofficial strike is, therefore, the first stepping stone to- wards industrial chaos, towards crash ing wage rates and lowered standards of living. So seriously have these strike sacrificed the public interests, that pub lie sympathy has been alienated, and what IS even more dangerous to trade unionism is that such strikes are an agonising those workers who, under standing something of trade and com n1erce, are not prepared to see either made the sport of men who are seeking to gratify personal ambitions. These Well-lnformed workers. who have hi thertO been the backbone of trade uniOnism are becoming disgusted. If they quit the movement all workers, skilled and unskilled, must ultuimately suffer.
 Some of the recent unofficial strikes of this character have been examples of folly and selhshness rather than of solidarity and sympathy It may have been the intention of those who en- g1neered sympathetic strikes to give as sistance to other sections of workers, but If their action hurts ten times as ,+ # very much of the practice of cutting off ones nose to spite ones face.
 Another tragedy of the unofficial strike as recently practiced is the mis- cry which is unsympa thetically inflicted upon other trade unionists Some lead CTS of these strikes have spoken con temptuously of the general public. Well, ninety per cent. of the general public are workers, and to the extent that these are inconvenienced and preju- diced the unofficial strike Is anti-social Sooner or later the public will realize the antl-SOCial nature of these unOffi- cial and so-called sympathetic strikes and may then act towards the strikers drastically as the strikers have acted against them, because they believe that such strikes hold up the public services and inf1ict hardship upon the commit nifty and may become an effective way of promoting unemployment of dissipa- ting trade union and friendly society funds and of bringing ruin upon in dustries without which the people can not live"
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
MELLON CUTS OFF SAVINGS STAMPS TO
 AID BIG BUSINESS
Politician Treasurer Takes Away Small Savings Opportunity
 of Public

Washington, July 26-Last Tuesday, acting under orders from Secretary Andrew w. Mellon, eminent Republi- can politician and multi-mi1lionaire ordered the sale of savings stamps suspended until further notice Thus very practical method for people of small means to save their spare cash was cancelled at less than a moments notice Those who did not happen to see the few lines Of tue news item in the papers, i'll obscure positions, got no notice until they applied for their usual amount of stamps and were re- fused. It is refreshing as well as in- structive to read what the rich and able secretary of our treasury has to say about his reason for cancelling the stamp saving habit. Mellon says that 1t is because the United States cannot afford to go on paying AZ per cent interest on the stamps, while money is so cheap and may be procured at in terest rates lower than that" It would do some Of us lot of good if the secretary of OUR national treas ury would tell us where money is loaned out at a lower rate than 452 per cent interest. Not in New Haven nor anywhere in this state, according to those who are supposed to know. New Haven savings banks pay A41z per cent dividends on deposits and they charge 6 per cent interest on mortgages se- cured by real estate. Some co-opera- tive banks are charging as high as per cent on loans placed here in New Haven. So there IS no lower rate of interest in this part of thescountry. It is true that certain favored foreign na- tions that are expendIng immense sums for war equipment are granted rate of interest as low as per cent and
 even lower and that speculation in U. 5. Liberty bonds was allowed two years ago to force down prices and allow at
 least one foreign nation to buy them
 in at less than face value and thus se
 cure even lower rate than per cent,
 but that was done by permission of Secretary Mellon even although Con-
 gress had established per cent in terest rate on all foreign war loans. It looks as if Secretary Mellon is ready
 and willing to grant all sorts of hnan cia1 favors to foreign war-rnaking na tions but Is opposed to allowing the
 American people the shabby privilege of paying themselves even a shabby 1 AZ per cent interest on their savings stamps that spell Self Sacrifice. Sem
 ator Robert M. LaFollette said once
 that Secretary Mellon was the Apostle
 of Special Privilege. The reader Is
 justly entitled to decide for himself.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26

That ancient Rome immune from strikes than modern New York Chicago recalled by the ot strike by The the guild of refused the which additionally the of the state capitol ted in 311 B. C.
 all left Rome and the The situation created by the wakout the could The lured back strateg-hey given very and wod Rome. However, the authorities decided that privilege long had a and restored.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26

By International Labor News Service
 London, July 26-Unoficial or out law strikes are the first steps toward in dustrial chaos, crashing wage scales and lowered standards of living.
 This is the emphatic warning against outlaw strikes given by the British General Federation of Trade Unions, in its twenty-hfth annual report, issued on behalf of the management commit tee by w. A. Appleton, secretary. The report says:
 ''It is impossible to conclude the re- port without some reference to unoffi- cial strikes, though 1t is necessary to premise any criticism of these by de claring most emphatically that not all the fault lies with the men. Irritating and dilatory tactics on the part of some employers accentuate antagOnisms that undoubtedly exist. A little more ex- petition, little more frankness on the part of those who control and direct industry, would make the task of the official who is really trade rnionist, much lighter than it is today.
 "The General Federation is compell- ed, in fairness to the side it represents, to complain of the lack of wisdom which has characterized the emploer's methods of dealing with disturbing sit uations It is necessary because the Federation has not hesitated to point out how disastrously the unofficial and ill-considered strike must react upon the workers themselves.
 Repeatedly during the past six years the General Federation has called at- tention to the dangers which such strikes created. Unfortunately, it has, until recently, received little but attack and opprobrium for its endeavors to save the trade union movement from the disintegration which must follow the practice of striking regardless of rules or of agreement
 "The founders of trade unions al ways looked upon the strike as the last weapon, the modern protagonist acts as if 1t were the first. Possibly some of those who promote the unofficial or the so-called lightning strike are actuated by the best motives, or they may be craftsmen suffering under obvious grie- vances, but generally speaking, where ever a motive is discernible, 1t is per sonal or at least non-trade union mo- tive
 Trade Unionism cannot exist apart from trading and collective bargaining
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26

Sinclair nagnae with Dome naval oil by Fa of the questions propounded him by the Senate investigating committee.
 The judges decides however, Sinclair need relative CD the 75 900 shares of stock supposed given Will Hays the deficit Harding fund.- CD the loan of Sinclair stock one Hays by Sncas secretary and (3) mysterious $O0OO0 from the Park Bank of New York the Metropolitan Bank February 1923 his have been the Sec retary Fall received in the famous ''black bag
 questions To a lay ma they exceedingly pertinent.
 Why should judge be tend with bunch of grate who
  had honored them with leadership?
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
COOPERATIVE INSURANCE

European Cooperative insurance socehe going strides they leaving ordinary private far behind.
 The of the British Coop eratve society which formerly ndePendent ZZ4 5o I9o $40 l923 increase of than 500 per cent the have increased from 4o /44 93OOO OOO Industrial policies show the largest growth with ordinary lie insurance policies coming second In srance from fire policies and dent 600 per In 9 only 2O9 employees were this balance; 9 Zooo were ont the cooperatve's payrolls
 Begums Cooperative Insurance society La Prev0yance DO the leading steadily climbing toward the goal set for insure workers the kingdom In its l9Z3 report which just the All American Cooperative Com
 mission the organization reports 632o5 life insurance pol ces taken during With this addton representing the lives ot households another branch work also showed increases the receipts going from 1O86,779 to 1,454,82O franc during 1923.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
LYNCHINGS DECREASE

of which dearly love mob violence will about the striking decrease ynchng during the first half of the 1924.
 Everybody else will be glad
 cooperation doubt played bringing decrease factors probably sible.
 from south north for thing, which realize negroes savage they wanted to keep them in the south.
 then lynching bill that received much support and outside of ynching materially such bill might become law This, doubt scared souhenes into reanng from lynch talk and action.
 may been factors of which know
 All al while outrageous have ynchings at al ward when become really civilized
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
AT LOWEST RATIO
 IN THIRTEEN YEARS
I. C. C. Statistics Show Great Defla- ton Past Year-Many Dropped
 from Pay Roll.

Wages of railroad workers have been defated until the ratio of labor cost to operating expenses is precisely what it was in 1911, according to the Inter state Commerce Commission.
 Of each dollar that is expended by the carriers of the country, labor is now receiving 61 cents, the lowest fig ure in 13 years. For every dollar of railroad revenue. 48 cents is labor's share, the, lowest since o117
 These figures have been developed in study of the relation of wages to railroad income just completed by the commission.
 They show that, instead of being overpaid, as propagandists persistently contend railroad workers as a matter of fact are getting wages substantially less than is paid to other classes of skilled and semi-skilled workers. The average monthly earnings of the several classes of rail employees work ing on an hourly basis are thus report ed by the carriers to the commission 1 Professional, clerical and general $120 maintenance of way and structures, $8S; maintenance of equipment and stores (shop craft workers), SIPS | transportation. other than train. en- zine and yard service, SIPS; yardmas- ters, switch tenders and host1ers, S145 train and engine service $1SS. The latest compilation of the federal ] Department of Labor of prevailing wage rates i'll all parts of the country l for workers other than those engaged In transportation shows a much hhigh- CT average rate than the commission s l figures covering railroad earnings.
 The Labor Department has averaged wages paid in various industries and reports these results of earnings GOV ering 48-hour week:
 Bakers, $44.20; building trades. in cluding skilled, semi-skilled and un- skilled labor, $51-26; chaufeurs, team sters and drivers, $27.98; freight han dlers, s34.65; stone trades, $5371; line men, $43.14; average for all metal trades, S40.27; average for all mill workers, S45.89; average printing and publishing book and job plants, S4444 A ; average printing and publishing, news papers, S50.25.
 The grand average of weekly earn l ings for these various classes of work CTS on a straight-time basis is given l by the Department of Labor as $45.60
 The average weekly earnings of all classes of railroad workers, according to figures of the Interstate Commerce Commission, are slightly less than S33 i per week
 In April there were empolyed by Class 1 railroads total of $1,787,217 employees, including executives, whose combined compensation for that month was $236,909,220. This compares with 1,S43,652 employees and a payroll cost of $245 5,S74,117 in April of last year.
 During the past year 43,408 shop workers, All transportation employees, l 1869 yardmasters. switch tenders and hostlers, and 22038 employees in train and engine service were dropped from the rolls the figures of hte commits sion disclose.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26

Marconi who probably knows than M man about that with lengths he will be reduced he says and the boadcasting stations will be junked
 A whisper he beach Pymouh England, and he heard distinctly Sydney Australia and nterfere The radio will its destination and ot vvast its energies in the ether
 Thrlngly but where do the public Shall people monopoists control radio with all its fas potentaities for good evil?
 The British Labor toward public ownership and operation.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
Upward Wage Move
 ment

An upward movement in wages is reported throughout England. In the industries for which statistics are available, the changes in rates of wages reported resulted in an aggregate in crease of about 275,OOO pounds in the weekly full-time wages of approximate 1y 1,35O,OOO workers, and in an aggre- gate reduction of 3,700 pounds in those of approximately 45000 workers
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
OIL INVOLVES US IN ANOTHER ROW

Our relations with Roumania taned Oil, of
 The Roumanan has decreed that 60 cent of all Roumanian oil be owned by Roumanians
 That foolish law, but Roumana, independent and sefgovernng naton has doubted right enact
 Standard Oil objects and State Department immediately nsuc our mi to back the Rockefeller demands.
 appear Loco motive Works That be paid the State Department, diplomatic relations will be saned Bldwns owned by Morgan and Morgan
 In the language of the platform recently adopted by the Pro- Cleveland State Department degraded for those ersen engaged in the exploitation of weaker
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-26
Amend Unemployment

By amendment, children of the ages of IA to 16. inclusive, in England, are now excluded from the application of Unemployment Insurance Bill No. 2, thus reducing the contribution income and causing a decrease from 8OO,OOO to 77O,0O0 in the number of persons on the live beneficial register.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
HOOVER NOT CANDIDATE.
Discussion of Him for Vice Presi-
dency Declared Idle.

Published reports that he was to be
a. candidate for the vice presidency
were denied yesterday by Secretary
of Commerce Hoover
There is nothing to the discussion
of the vice presidency in connection
with myself am in nowfse a can
didate," he said.
Evening star., 1924-05-29
ALASKAN FISHERIES
BILL PASSES SENATE
Bitter Fight Ends Over Measure
"to Save Salmon Industry
From Destruction.
HOOVER VOICES PLEASURE
Advisory Board to Be Named to
Work Out Details.
Washington Star Photo.

The Alaskan fisheries BILL urged
by President Coolidge and Secretary
Hoover as necessary to save the sal
mon industry from destruction, was
passed yesterday by the Senate, end
ing a bitter fight which has been in
progress for many months. The bill
had been amended by the Senate and
now goes back to the House. 1t
previously had been approved by the
House. 1t provides authority for the
Commerce Department to establish
closed areas in Alaskan fishing wa
ters and to enforce other measures
designed to conserve the fish as a
food supply.
Passage of the measure was
marked by sharp debate, during
policy was assailed.
Secretary Hoover announced that.
"n order that the new act may be
administered in the most instructive
and intelligent manner he proposed
ito cooperate with the Governor of
Alaska in the appointment of an ad-
visory board representing all ele-
ments of the community in Alaska for
the purpose of developing detailed meth
DDS of controlling the fisheries under
the act.
Preservation of Fisheries.
''The passing of the Alaskan fish
cries conservation bill by the SEN
ate" he added, practically assures
the most important step yet accom-
plished in the preservation of our sea
fisheries. / am naturally very much
pleased, as / have urged this legisla-
ton in every session of Congress
for the last three years.
81 can stand any amount of per-
sonal abuse with all the amiability of
the winner.
"The temporary reserves put in.
two years ago to hold the fort for
the purpose of preventing further
destruction Of the fisheries, owing to
the failure of Congress to take action
at that time, will now come to an
end. They have served their pur-'
pose and there are more fish in
Alaska today than there would have
been otherwise"