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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14
HOQUIAM MEN BUY
ALLEN DRUG STORE

The Allen Drug store has been pur-
chased by L. e. Hultgren and Alonzo
Hubble, both of Hoquiam. The store
win be under the management of Mr..
Hultgren, pharmacist, OF many years
OF experience. Mr.. Hultgren is the
senior member of the Owl Pharmacy
of HoQuiam and has been engaged ip
the business on the Harbor and the
Sound country for over fifteen years.
Mr.. Hubble is the well known steam
boat captain.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14
TAX PLAN IS CHANGED
TREASURY HEAD LOSES

WASHINGTON March 1S.-Despite
an extensive propaganda in its behalf
Secretary OF the Treasury Mellon has
lost his tax bill fight in the house.
Enough of the administration party
joined with the minority in favoring
the bill proposed by Congressman
Garner of Texas, that the administra-
tion party was forced to produce a
substitute which was accepted by a
vote of 40S to 8.
The portion of direct interest to
wage workers is the tax on incomes
not exceeding $4,000 Under the bill
as passed this tax will be 2 per cen.
The present law provides for per
cent. The Mellon bill called for per
cent and the Garner bill for per
cent.
The new proposal makes no change
in exemptions. These are 81 900 for
a single person and $4,000 for heads
of families.
The big fight wealth made for the
Mellon plan was centered on its re-
duction of the surtax. Under the
present law surtax rates are as high
as so per cent on incomes in.excess OF
5000, 900 a year. The Mellon bin re-
duced this to 25 per cent on incomes
in excess of 100000.
Every power that wealth, plutOcra-
cy and privilege could muster was
rallied in defense Of this substantial
cut of their. income taxes.
The Garner bill reduced this surtax
only per cent, or to "A per cent
Fearful that this bill would be adopt
ed, the administration party dropped
the Mellon 25 per cent reduction and
favored 1215 per cent reduction. OF
a 371k per cent tax, which has been
approved.
It is claimed that the Mellon plan
advocates are not pleased and that
they will attempt to have the senate
restore the original proposed cut Of
25 per cent.
:. This alleged dissatisfaction is good
istrategy as it would be folly for Dlu-
tocracy to boast that it secured any
reduction. Besides If it is as success.
ful in the next two years, it will have
secured a % per cent cut.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14
OPINION or HEARST PAPER
OF AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS

The following is taken from the
March 4th issue Of the Washing
ton Herald:
"Onr American labor organiza-
tions are scattered, discordant,
belligerant. Their titular leader
spends his time denouncing pro-
hibition and insisting that the
American working men should
have the right to get drunk every
Saturday night, and many other
leaders are spending most of their
time quarreling over questions OF
Jurisdiction.
Three years ago the British Ia
Dor Representatives came to this
country to watch the convention
of the American Federation OF
Labor, and the returned after CIV
ing out a statement that Ameri-
can labor was at least rs and pos
sibly so years behind the times.
They were mistaken in this, for
when American labor once finds
itself and gathers to its fold all
who are willing to help and are
capable of helping It will make
up its lost time rapidly"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14

-.AmERlcAN BLocv TO FIGHT
OPENING oc GATES TO
IMMIGRATION
Warning Sounded BY Scion In Speech
in House on immigration

WASHINGTON; D. c., March h.
Formation OF an e'American bloc"
TO fight unrestricted immigration was
strongly urged by Representatives
John L. Cable, Of Ohio, in a speech
In the House on immigration.
That such a '1bloc" is needed Is
shown by the feverish activity Of the
foes of the immigration bill backed
by organized labor. In the last few
weeks, Washington has been overrun
by delegations representing certain
alien groups which have been working
with might and main to open the port
ais of the United States TO 3 flood
of undesirable immigrants.
In addition to the alien groups,
greedy and unpatriotic manufacturers
who wish plentiful supply Of cheap
and docile labor are doing their best
to defeat legislation which proposes to
keep immigration to reasonable limits.
Nation May be Left Without Law /
AS a result of the efforts of these
two groups in Washington and OF the
misleading and lying propaganda
which they have spread all over the
nation, the immigration situation is
serious With congress still busy
with the ever-growing oil scandals,
there Il grave danger that no con-
structiye immigration legislation win
be passed. This may bring about the
re-enactment of the present immigra-
tlon law for another year.
On the other hand, It is possible
that no Immigration legislation VIII
be enacteso, (which woald mean lie
unpreoeedented rush Of Immigrants
to the United States after June 90
of this year, when the present "S per
cent law expires.
Congress cannot plead ignorance of
the danger threatening L1o nation
unrestricted immigration, as Repre-
sentative Gable and other members.
together with the legislative repre-
sentatives of the American Federation
Continued on Page Six)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14
LABOR MAN MAY Be
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
Labor Leader May Be Democratic
Nominee for Nations Vice.
s President
(WashInolon State Federation Bullstln)

(WashInuton State Federation Bulleiln)
George L. Berry, International pres
ident Of the Printing Pressman's union
with headquarters at Pressmen's
Home, Tenn, may be the democratic
nominee for Vice-President of the
United States. Mr.. Berry is one of
the best known and best liked men in
the nation, and has a long record
for constructive achievement on be-
half of his organization. He is for
meF natiDnal senior vice-commander
81 the American Legion, and was Civ
en- the unanimous vote Of the con-
vention when elected fo-that position.
He stands high in the councils OF the
Veterans organizations throughout
the country. IN 1916 he lacked only
81 votes of getting the democratic
nomination for governor, which is
equivalent to election in his own
home state OF Tennessee. In 1918 he
served as q member OF the Labor
commission sent to Europe, and later
entered the service OF his country and
was given the rank of Major. Follow
ing the armistice he was named by
Secretary of War Baker as Laison
between the labor forces and the
peace conference at Versailles, while
the labor provisions of the League of
Nations were being formulated. His
candidacy for the vice-president nomi-
nation has been given TIE hearty
support of officers and leaders of
both the American Federation OF La
bor and the American Legion, as well
as many other outside leaders of pro-
gressive thought in the nation. Word
recently received at Seattle show the
following states are lining up behind
his candidacy: Maine, Vermont, Mass
achusetts, Ohio, Colorado, Rhode ISL
and, Pennsylvania. Tennessee, West
Virginia, Texas louisiana, Florida,
and Mississippi, with strong assur-
ance of support from both New York
! and Illinois. It is also expected that
his name will go on the ballot with
out opposition in Oregon. Mr.. Berry
will be the principal speaker at the
Jackson Day banquet at Seattle, and
is travelling across the continent to
make that date It is quite possible
that following his Seattle speech a
move will be made to place the Wash
j ington delegation behind his candi-
dacy. Communications were recently
sent out from Philadelphia urging
labor bodies all over the country to
indorse his candidacy, and emphasiz-
ing the opportunity presented to nomi-
nate q labor man to that high office.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14
sTEREoTYPERs CAN

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 13.-
Organized stereotypers have .negotiat-
ed a new agreement with the local
newspaper publishers association.
The rate is s46 q week Cor day work
and $49 for night work. The old rate
was $3.50 and $45.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14

Official Organ Of the kber-
dsen Central Labor Council,
Hoauia1n Trades and Labor
Council and the Washington
State Federation of Labor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-14

American Telephone & Telegraph
Co, starts legal fight for control OF
radio broadcasting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Riding Two Horses.
Says Opposition Has
Kent Bob In Power.

Arthur Evans, Tribune correspon-
dent, was in Lancaster briefly last
Tuesday. Mr.. Evans was much i'm
pressed with Grant county and the
county seat as we'll and advised the
Herald that if we wished to advertise
the county we should see that the
Tribune gets news items from this
section. Which advice will be follow
ed.
The same days Tribune carried a
news story from Mr.. Evans on the
Wisconsin political situation. He says
that opposition to La Toilette has kept
him in power His views are obtained
from all classes, Stalwarts and Pro-
gressives alike. Another point Evans
makes is that while other pseudo
progressives have gradually become
Conservatives La Toilette has remain
ed in the radical vanguard, allowing
no one else to steal his thunder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
SOME, TAXES

There is an indignant taxpayer up
in Fordville. n D., who has, in high
degree, the ability to say what he
wants to say in a few short and we'll
chosen words.
Witness the following letter, written
by this man to the county treasurer
of Walsh county:
Herewith is my personal check for
the price of a new court house in pay
ment of taxes on my cook stove and
baby's high chair.
81 am so glad to see Walsh county
so ready to pay off the war debt for
the allies and am glad to help in this
manner If, at any future date, it is
decided that we need new battle
ship, please let me know"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
WHICH WILL BE THE COAT?

Railroad employees want more pay
and farmers want lower freight rates.
The railroad employees propose to
accomplish this for both by having
the farmers join with them in support
of radical candidates for office.
But how may this be done?
Wages paid railroad employees are
obtained by the railroads hauling
freight. passengers, mail and express
and charging for such service.
Railroad earnings are such that any
substantial increase in wages OF rail-
road employees would necessitate an
increase in rates.
On the other hand, any substantial
reduction in rates would necessltate
reduction in the wages of railroad
employees.
How, then, is it possible for both
to accomplish the desired end? Is 1t
not self-evident that one faction or
the other must lose out? Is 1t not al
so self-evident that with railroad Ia
Dor organized and the farmers unor-
ganized, the big organized vote would
take the turkey and the farmer the
crow?
But the radical politician and the
labor leaders want more-they want
government ownership of the rail-
roads.
They want this in face of the fact
that during federal control, WIN
freight and passenger rates the high
est ever known, the railroads were
operated at a loss running high IN
the millions. :
But the organized railroad vote IS
about 100000 That is lot OF
votes. and votes are what the poll
tician is looking for. What politician
would run the risk of losing them by
opposing wage increases that might
even necessitate an increase IN rates.
with knowledge that those who pay
the rates are unorganized and there-
fore helpless?
Manifestly there is no BOND OF
mutual interest between the farmer
and the railroader, for as to rates
and wages what would be good Tor
one would be bad for the other.
The farmer has had some expert
ence with the increased cost OF farm
labor. He knows what high wages
and short work-days mean and they
mean no less on the railroad than on
the farm, for compared with the
farm, work-days on the railroad are
shorter and wages five times higher
Selected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Farmers Invention Rebels,
Tearing His Clothes Off

AlgOma, Wis.-William Otto, engag-
ing battle with manure loader no
a farm near here, emerged victorious,
but sans everything except his shoes
and one sock William was tinkering
with the mechanism, endeavoring to
find a knock, when his pants caught
on a set screw of swiftly revolving
shaft AS his clothing left him piece
at time. William chung desperately
to a brace, shouting for help to stop
the internal machine.
William complained bitterly of the
cold after the machine sputtered and
died down The manure loader was
his own invention.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
NEW S25O,OOO SCHOOL BUILD
ING FOR WHITEWATER

tewater-Construct of the
new Whitewater Normal school bull
ding is progressing satisfactorily, !"
according to supervising engineers.
The first floor of the building has been
completed, and workmen are now en-
gagged in setting the steel dome. Sept,
1925, should see completion of the
school, though this is not definite, ac-
cording to the engineers. The school
is being constructed at cost of
$250,000, appropriated by the legisla-
ture in 1921.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
ATGTST

Flowering catnip with its pungent
odor greets you at the roadside; freck-
led tiger lilies smile and stately golden
rod paint the landscape in flame OF
glory. The golden grain in death pours
out her wealth of the harvest. The
tasseling corn with its promise of an
other golden treasure later on. The
militant blackbird has started to mo-
Billie for his annual flight to southern
climes. The greedy squirrel, like the
greedy boy, does not wait for nature
to complete her handiwork but de-
spoils natures unripe offerings. The
cricket tunes it's fiddle and makes a
belated entry into summers orches-
ira of insect life. Lassitude grips the
soul and we care not to be cured; but
drift happily along in the lazy cara
van of life.-F. w. D. in Darlington
Republican.
Take away wonderland men would
follow.
In an inability to be fair, rests most
wickedness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Boy, 2, Killed as Girl
Gets Car From Garage

Racine-Phillip Bennett, 2-year-old
son of DR.. and Mrs. ]. F. Bennett, of
Burlington, was run down and killed
by his fathers automobile Tuesday
afternoon.
The car was being backed from the
garage by Loretta Ebbers, clerk in DR..
Benefits office, when the child ran
from the yard of the home and was
knocked down and run over by the
car, the left wheels passing over and
crushing his chest.
The young woman driving the car
did not know of the accident until she
saw the body after the car had passed
over it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Pony Frightened; Boy
Loses Leg in Wheel

MadisOn-Neil Householder, 6-year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn M.
Householder, lost his left leg when it
became caught in the wheel of his
pony cart The boy was mounting to
the seat of the cart and as he stepped
upon one of the spokes of the wheel
his pony became frightened. The
boys leg slipped through and was
twisted and broken in several places.
Mr.. Householder is farm manager for
the state board of control.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
FREE ADVERTISING

Newspaper men, as a rule, have but
two things to sell, space and sub
scription. 1t would be just as consls-
tent to ask your grocer for dozen
oranges, Gust to fill" as to ask the
editor to boost your business, with
the idea you are doing kindness tc
fill up space. Try getting free din
ner at the restaurant, new tie at the
clothiers or horse shod at the black
smith shop, just to make a show FOL
the house-Platt eville Witness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
WILL. REAR MATCHING

When Sol. Levitan spoke here two
weeks ago he stated twice that the
attorney general is member OF the
emergency board, which put across
grab of state money last winter.
It lust occurs to us that the at,
torney general is not member OF
this board, and that so far from this
being the case, Attorney General Elk
ern ruled that Levitan and Blame
had no legal right to put this scheme
thru. Watch old Sol.-Dodgeville Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Madison Police Seize
AZ During Week End

MadiSOn-Forty-two men were ar
rested in weekend campaign against
law violators in Madison. Twenty
two of the offenders were arrested for
being intoxicated. This is the largest
number of persons arrested in a 80
hour period in Madison's history, ac-
cording to Chief of Police Thomas
ShaugneSSy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Canada's Wheat Crop
Drops 100000 Bushels

Ottawa Government statisticians
have estimated the 1924 Canadian
wheat crop at nearly 100000 bushels
less than the yield for 1928, and do
minion farmers are expecting to sell
their grain at prices which may equal
the war time peak Official crop esti-
mates put the probable 1924 yield at
282,042,000 bushels. The decrease
chiefly is due to adverse weather con-
ditionS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20

Eyes tested and glasses correctly fit
ted. Come in and get your glasses
Strengthened. No charge.
At WRIGHT HOUSE, Room 10
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sun
day forenoon, Aug. q, %, %, "a
At Ostermeier's Hotel, POtOsi, Monday,
Aug. 25th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
FINE BOOTLEGGER $3.50

A fine of $3.50 and costs, a total of
1920, was assessed Henry Reber, aged
81, for alleged bootlegging, when he
was taken before Judge George Grimm
in GAINESVILLE the other day. Reber
was arrested in Monroe, on July 80,
by Federal prohibition officer, who
stated he had purchased alleged moon
shine from the young man.-Monroe
Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
HAS READ BIBLE 30 TIMES

Madison-Bjergo Larson, SO, has
read the Bible from cover to cover 80
times, he says. 81 get more enjoyment
out of reading the Bible than any 9TH
er book" he added. Each time I read
it I get something new and better
from it."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20

Highly colored stories are never in
the white-lie class.
Boosting in the midst of knockers
is no agreeable job
There is no task too hard for lazy
man not to attempt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20

Why does so much ill-will get into
any reform"
''Will you be mine?" is catch ques-
ton for girls.
Some men need to be called down
about twice a day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Dawes Upside Down Pipe
Makes Inventor Wealthy.

N. c. Lyon, inventor of the upside
down pipe is getting rich. Orders for
pipes are pouring in at the rate of
thousands month. Lyons only worry
is how he can fill the orders.
All this good fortune came to Lyon
because Gen. Charles G. Dawes smok-
ed Lyon pipe. He gave them to his
friends. He was photographed with
the pipe. When Dawes was nominated
vice president his pipe became char
acteristic Lyon has reaped the har-
vest.
Lyon is a millwright by trade. He
lost his arm and entered the garage
business in a small way. Then he in
vented his patent pipe which cares
for the unpleasant juice common to
ordinary pipes and gives the smoker
a clean, sweet smoke. Dawes, a mil
lionaire, could afford dollar Havanas.
He prefers the upside down pipe and
ordinary Kentucky burlie tobacco.
That preference has made Lyon rich.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Our Vaudeville Treasurer.

If Uncle Sol. Levitan would stop his
vaudeville stunts long enough to ex-
plain the charge that he uses the
states open account for the benefit of
his own bank the Herald might not be
so amused and diverted but better in
formed And if Sol. gave a good an
swer we might feel inclined to vote
for him.
SOILS antics are amusing and his
stage nagement clever. He accen-
tuates racial characteristics and gets
a laugh. He works comedy overtime
and gets away with it. But the public
should not allow itself to be diverted
from business by sympathizing with
a poor boy who became famous and
laughing at his witticisims.
No state treasurer has the moral
right to use single penny of the
state funds so that it will earn inter
est for himself He may have the le-
gal right but if his morality is so OBJ
fuse that he cannot see the impropri-
ETY. of personally making money from
the state funds-we do not want him
long.
The Herald would like to hear from
Sol. as to his views on this point. I'm
less he gives a satisfactory account
w " III fOIC III lIAo opponent NClUQS-
vile and camouflage notwithstanding.
900
Holding Back the Clock.
In Withdrawing state support from
schools which teach evolution legis-
latures remind one of the learned
churchman who denounced the Copper
nican theory of the solar system as
absurd in philosophy and formally
heretical because expressly contrary
to Holy Scriptures"
Copernicus discovered and Galilee
affirmed the theory that the earth
travelled around the sun instead of the
sun around the earth. This theory has
been accepted by science since.
The churchmen were not greatly
concerned with the scientific aspects
of the question. Any fool could see
that the sun moved from east to west
across the heavens, once daily That
3 body the size of the earth should
fly faster than a bullet in its orbit
and turn like a top in the meantime.
struck the critics as highly absurd
Further, they argued, it reflected dis
credit on the Holy writ, for how could
Joshua have commanded the sun to
stand still if it had not been moving?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
po,1r,cA1. ANNOUNCEMENT

I wish to announce my candidacy Ios
sheriff on the Republican ticket. II eiecteo
authorities A. l.. MORSE, Lancaster, Wis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20

The proposition was profane and I'M
thfnkable.
Since then church and science have
reconciled their differences. Meagre
minds, unable to differentiate be-
tween spiritual life and natural law
now set up other differences. But
time too, will settle the evolution
question without conflict with reli-
eiOus feeling
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
Government Subsidies.

AS President Coolidge has pointed
out an effort to keep any class of ag-
riculturists on their feet by means of
government subsidies, holding corpor-
ations or guaranteed prices is unset
entific, uneconomic and would not
work out.
The plain fact is that aside from
its undemocratic principle favors ex-
tended to any one class are paid for
by the other classes. To make things
even it then becomes necessary to
keep on extending privileges until all
classes are satisfied. Once this is at
tanned things would be evened up and
the entire mass back where they start
ed. Plus, however, a heavy cost of adj
ministration.
The American idea, which has sue
ceeded very we'll SO far, is to let sup
ply and demand regulate price Legis-
lation can keep the lines straight and
prevent unfair advantages. AS far as
that goes it is all right. For the gov
eminent to build up subsidies for any
one class is unfair and would NC work
out anyhow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
ANNnuNCENTENT

desire to announce my candidacy TOT
the office of Register Of Deeds OF Grant
county. If elected 1 will conduct the office
in a business-li like manner. Your vote at the
September primaries will be appreciates.
~ M Ethel, JJTT, Lancaster, WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
HARRY f. LIVINGSTON
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF.

PIafform-Dry. Full enforcement OF the
law. Uphold the Constitution.
NV name will appear on the republican
ticI[st AZ the September primaries. If cleo
tad I will carry out this platform. Your
suunort will be appreciated.
IJAPRY r LIVINGSTON, Livingston, WIS.