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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
MAINTAINING LIBERTY

Workers must know that the con
tinuance of their liberties and the
maintenance Of the rights which they
have secured by alert contentious
covering many years, depends on theii
keeping alive and strong every safe
guard these years have erected. They
can not let up for a moment for a
selfish and resourceful enemy con
fronts them, ready to seize upon every
opportunity.
Human liberty is something which
must be continually exercised if It IS
10 live. Liberty, human liberty with
out its exercise, is similar TO the
muscular system our Creator has
given to US. If we fail to take physl-
cal exercise our muscles not only
grow weak and habby, but in time be
come atrophied.
We must never forget that our
Federal Constitution was not the act
which made US free. 1t was the de-
termination of our f0refathers to eXer-
else their freedom, which made them
free men. Ii was their successful
resistance against the tyranny of the
mother country which established then
freedom, for the Declaration of In
dependence and the Federal Constitu-
ton are evidence in themselves that
they were documents prepared by men
who had already established then
freedom, who realized what then
rights were as flee men, and who
were determined to protect these
rights with their lives if necessary.
The all important fact for labor to
realize is to be truly free, if its con-
stitutional rights are to be fully
recognized, every man who works foi
another must continually apply and
exercise his freedom and independence
as man.
The employer who uses ways and
means to prevent his employees from
enjoying the right of voluntary as
ISOLATION must be recognized and con-
sidered for what he really is--an
enemy of the free institutions of our
country, and the member of the legis-
latufe or the judge who assists him in
maintaining his position must be
looked upon as an equally dangerous
character.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17

About 600 labor papers, issued by
labor or closely discussing labor ques-
tons appear regularly in the United
States, according to the new American
Labor Press Directory, just published
by the Labor Research Department OF
the Rand School of Social Science, in
New York.
The American Federation of Labor
and practically every national and
international union affiliated with it
are represented by official organs.
The most frequent kind of labor
paper is the local journal issued by
some person or group, often with the
endorsement of the trade unions in
the vicinity. Several of the indie
pendent unions publish papers fol
their members.
The various political parties which
claim to speak for labor are actively
pushing journals which aim to inter
pref events in terms of their particu.
ar programs. Progressive farmers
groups and the cooperative movement
nave number of papers of their own
Then there are the various govern
mental, sociological, and religious
journals which pay special attention
TO labor problems.
This is the first time an American
Labor Press Directory has been at
tempted. The book gives the name
and address of each paper, the editor
and publisher, size, frequency of pub
LEGATION, subscription price, and ether
information invaluable to every labor
editor and publicity worker.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
Storrs Predicts Greater
Electric Railway Service

French Lick, lnd.-lmproved local
transportation service throughout the
United States, with present electrical
railway arrangements handling the
bulk of traffic, was predicted by Lu.
cius S. Storrs, the new managing
director of the electric railway in
dustry, in addressing the Central
Electric Railway Association here.
He said these bettered conditions
would result from companies giving
broadcast possible service and public
officials relieving companies from on.
erous taxes, such as Tor paving, and
insuring free movement of cars and
buses in streets.
Storrs particularly emphasized the
need for giving all vehicles, including
automobiles and street cars, free
movements through the streets. The
streets should not be used as storage
spaces, he insisted.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
Purposes of Unions
Differ From Capital

Buffalo, N. Y, July THE pur-
poses of organized labor and organ
ize dcapital are not similar, said Viii
liam Green, president of the A. f. of
L., in an address to the New York
State Christian Endeavor Union in
this city.
Organized labor" said President
Green, seeks to elevate the human
factor in industry. Ii seeks to pro-
mote and advance the material, intel
lectual and social interests of work.
ing men and women.
Unlike organized capital, which has
for its purpose the exploitation of in
dustry for the main purpose of making
money, organized labor endeavors,
through the collective strength, power
and influence of working men and
women, to raise living standards and
to create opportunities for social, edu-
eational and intellectual enjoyment.
Il am sure no one will deny that
organized labor has succeeded i'm i'm
proving the economic, industrial and
social lives of the workers. That fact
is generally conceded"
In an appeal for a better under
standing of organized labor's prin.
eiples by the nations religious forces.
President Green said:
Regarding those subjects upon
which we may not be in accord. We
can at least, maintain a charitable
and sympathetic attitude toward each
other and in this spirit promote peace,
concord and happiness, so far as we
can among the people of our own land
and the nations throughout the world"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
Self Preservation

Certain well-meaning but badly
misguided folks insist that our coun
try 5 laws relating to immigration
and naturalization should be modified
to meet the objections raised by GER
tain other nations. In considering
this subject the following points
should be borne in mind:
immigration is a domestic problem.
International law so recognizes and
defines it.
A sovereign nation has the right to
determine who shall be admitted to
citizenship. 1t is an inalienable right
OF sovereignty and elf-government.
1t Is a necessary law of self-preserva-
ton.
A nation which yields or delegates
this power becomes a subject nation,
subject to the will of other nations
which have no immigration problem.
No nation, and least of all America,
can afford to yield this right.-The
Seamen's Journal.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17

Car loadings establish high record
for 1925.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
INCREASE LABOR'S BUYING
POWER

The International Chamber Of Com
merce met in Brussels last week tC
diagnose the economic and poitica
ills of the world and suggest RENE.
dies which appealed to the "souno
common sense" of business men.
Business men are inordinately proud
Of their common SENSE" They are
forever telling as about it and assur-
ing US that whenever they are per
mitted to apply it to any problem
even if they never gave the problem
serious, unselfish study-presto! the
answer is found.
If the business men who attended
the Brussels gathering had this
precious sixth sense, we wonder how
they sat through the speeches fired at
them by the great statesmen who
did most of the talking
rbaemoptsu l. mi mtl-zetaoinnn
Labor must produce more or take
less" Earl Balfour, ancient British
Tory, told them.
But 100000 British workers are
walking the streets, and hundreds of
thousands more are working part
time. Those who are fully employed
are receiving barely enough to keep
body and soul together. How can the
unemployed produce more when they
are not permitted to work? How can
the employed accept less when less
would mean starvation?
British employers say this situation
is due to lack of a marke' for what
the workers produce.
What would happen if all British
workers were employed and all
speeded up? And what would happen
if the workers o. all other countries
followed the British example?
Clearly the earth would be congest.
ed with surplus of every thing pro.
duced by the hand of man unless-and
here is the point of the story-the
consuming power of the masses was
increased.
The consuming power of the masses
can only be increased by an uadvance
in real wages3that is, in the purchas.
ing power of wages--thus enabling
the masses to actually buy more OF
the necessaries and Injuries of life.
How that result may be secured is
the problem to which statesmen and
business men must address themselves
if they wish to avoid the most serious
consequences.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17

by doing without a lot of comforts
and outright necessities.
When the better paid skilled me-
ehanics help the common laborer to
get organized and to get better wages
and to improve working conditions
they are also helping themselves and
making their own situation and estab-
lished standard of living more secure.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
ORGANIZED COMMON LABoRERs


There is no more important branch
of the Labor Movement than the COM
mon laborer, To this department the
unskilled are forced to go as the only
avenue that is open to them, while
even the skilled and semi-skilled are
frequently forced by prolonged per-
iods of unemployment to seek tenn
porary relief in the ranks of the com.
mon laborer, thus agglavating con-
ditions there. The most disagreeablt
and oftentimes the heaviest and
hardest work falls to the lot of the
common laborer. His job is one that
most anybody who has health and
strength can do, and his job is the
one that all kinds of people go after
when they find it impossible to obtain
any other employment. The result
Is that wages of the common laborer
average lower than related employ
ment and the lower these wages be-
come the greater becomes the pres
sure and desire to break away from
this field Of work and get into the
ranks of the skilled by most any
course that may be open or that may
be offered by INSCRIPTIONS employers
as method of undermining the wage
standards that have been established
by the more skilled trades.
The lowering of the standard of
wages for the common laborer is a
real menace to the working conditions
OF every skilled trade, whether direct
ly or indirectly connected with it, for
the reason that it is far more difficult
to hold wage standards, or better
them, if the wage rate of the COM
mon laborer is tumbling. The fact
that the lower paid laborer manages
to exist Is even used as an argument
to Prove that the skilled man could
live for less than he is getting, and
the lower the wages of the common
laDoTer become the more force this
argument has and the more difficult
1t Is TO conteraet in any wage nego-
uations that may arise.
There is nobody who needs organ
'zation and the better wage and work.
ing conditions resulting therefrom as
-.
badly as does the common laborer. 1t
costs him just as much for everything
ne buys as the same things cost
anybody else and the only way he and
his family manages to exist at all is
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
Warns of Power Combine.

Spokane, Wash. July IA ma
tion-wide unregulated electric mon
opoly, under the name Of superpoeer'
Is under way" said Governor Pinchot
of Pennsylvania in an address in tins
city. Explaining the difference be
tween superpower and giant power,
he said:
The sole object Of superpower IS
profit to the electric companies, while
the object of giant power it the public
welfare, including the welfare Of the
electric companies a. well "a the vel
fare of the people who use their cur
rent"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17
Taxi Drivers Win

Portland, Ore, June 30.-Organized
taxi drivers have adjusted their wage
dispute with employers. Through arbl
tation the workers made gains and
defeated the proposal 10 eSIaDnsn i
commission OASIS OF setting wages.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-17

Railroad trainmen and conductor;
plan meeting in November to consider
asking wage increase.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
JUsTIFIEs AUTO TIME SALES
President of Studebaker Corporation
 Answers Critics

In answer to the criticism of auto mobile time sales, A. k. Erskine, president of the Stakeholder Corpora ton of America, says:
 Without desiring to justify the abuse of credit, the automobile in- dustry must vigorously use and de- fend it against unwarranted attack
 'The whole business structure of the nation and our present standard of living are supported by credit, and principally by consumer credit.
 Credit to consumers and time payments are made operative by our finance companies, redisenunting through our banks and trust compan- ies, which normally supply eommer. cial credits Combined, these financial institutions comprise the greatest banking system ever created, and supply machinery for the conduct of business and credit which is q marvel of efficiency and effectiveness.
 Manufacturers, merchants and h- nanciers fully realize today, as never before, that the wheels of business cannot be kept turning, on a broad scale, without mass consumption.
 That credit must be available to consumers as well as to producers and distributors of the products of indus try and agriculture. Mass eonsump- ton is necessary 10 support mass pro duction and high wages, and mass credit is the Atlas which holds up all of them.
 "The IIaitea States is primarily ST industrial country. Our citizens who live in the great industrial regions north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers prosper when the plants are operating and suffer when they are not.
 "The automobile industry ranks first among all manufacturing indus tries in the United States; s2,000,- GOO, 900 of capital k invested in it. Its wage and salary rolls amount to nearly $500, ,000, 900 annually, and over 3,000,0 persons are employed directly or indirectly by it.
 "It discovered and applied quantity production and doubled the wage standard of the country. lt was the chief instrumentality in developing the high standard of living we enjoy today. Its benefits to the country are incalcalsbIe."
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
DEPLETED MEMBERSHIP CAUSES OLD ORGANIZATION TO GIVE UP FINE QUARTERS ON SOUTH MAIN
 STREET.-oUIT POSSESSION TUESDAY
Many Clubs In City to Allow of Independent Clubs sup
 port-Property to Be Sold

received it's death blow when it was forced to vacate it's quarters in the wooden building on Main street which was torn down to make room for the l Putnam Savings Bank building. But a meeting vas called and it was voted to keep going and further voted to hire the former home of Mrs. Mary Gard ner on South Main street for club pur- poses.
 When it became known that the town was going to sell the property, meeting of the club was held and 1t was decided to purchase the estate. |. Shares were issued to members of the club and the Arcanum Club Assoeia- ton, separate organization from the Areanum Club, although composed of club members, was formed
 The Arcanum Club Association rent cd the property to the club. Improve ments were made until the club had the best quarters in its history in & building practically it's own. It was thought for time that the days Of hardship were at an end. But the jinx was still trailing the perseyering organization, and once more members began to drop by the wayside until again the membership was down well toward the fifty mark. And here con- ditions remained month after month. The income from dues, 1t was found, was not sufficient to pay the overhead. Talk of disbanding began nearly a year ago. But the old veterans felt that they had always come through and could do it again. But no silver clouds appeared upon the horizon. As the weeks passed even the most op- timistie began to realize, and 10 ad- init, that the unballasted ship was headed for the rocks.
 Drastic Action Taken
 The meeting last Friday night was for the purpose of taking action on the future course to be pursued. After a lengthy discussion in which it ap- peared to be agreed that the end was not far off 1t was put to a vote whether to vacate immediately or to keep on and round out the thirty years of eN- istence. The first vote was a tie vote but on the second ballot 1t was deeid- ed to vacate the premises at once, thus to save further expense and be able to liauidate with a small balance re- maining in the treasury. All of the assets of the club were turned over to the association. and it is understood that the property will be sold.
 Organized In 1896
 The Arcanum club was formed February 27. 1896 in response to the following notice: Agreeable to mo- tice a meeting was held in Royal Ar canum hall for the purpose of orga- nizing a social club. Dr. F. A. Nor rell was chairman and F. J. Daniels clerk"
 The first officers of the club were :: President. Edward c. Wright; vice president. Byron n. Bugbee; secre-I tary. Horace H. Burnham; treasurer, William C. Grieve; executive commit tee, Dr. F. A. Morrell, F. J. Daniels, C. D. Sharpe, II. J. Thayer and David Flagg. Constitution and bylaws drawn up by Eric H. Johnson were adopted It was voted that the exc cutive committee use their own judg- ment in hiring and furnishing suitable rooms and the committee was instruct ed to procure billiard table.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

The Arcanum Club of Putnam would have celebrated it's thirtieth anniyer- sarv in it's club rooms on South Main street next February, had not the club. st a meeting last Friday night, decided to vacate it's present quarters. While the club, as an organization, has moi as yet disbanded. the club is with out a home.
 The organization of a number of clubs by fraternal societies in the city has SO split up the numbers who enjoy elub life that 1t has been known for some time that the only non-political, pnn-sectarian and non-affiliated club in Putnam was doomed. It has been an uphill fight that the Arcanum Club has made for years. It has been in financial holes time and again. but has always pulled itself out by its boot straps. The straps have become old and worn and would stand no more pulling. The club has resorted to minstrel shows from the talent among ifs membership. It has staged vaiide- vile shows, whists and dances in or der to bolster up the finances of the organization. It's members have open ed their purses to extra assessments from time to time. This has gone on for years in the hopes that there were enough men and young men in Put nam, who wanted a club such as the Areanum Club, to support it. Mem bership drives have been made, and for time proved successful. But one by one members dropped out. leaving nothing but the old guard of about fifty blue blood Arcanumites to push on year after year.
 In December. 1922. the club nearly
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

gently rapping. with a shovel on a coal bin floor. Raised an echo soul less, dreary, made the somber room grow eerie, echoes sounding-Never more
 Gone the click of worries rolling, gone the bids and pasteboards doling. gone the laughter. gone the fun, gone the play of thirty one. Naught but emptiness, dull smoke cloud, naugnt but somber black of death shroud naught but memories of the days of yore. And then 1t comes to every member. it is midnight. 'tis Deeem- Der. bleak and dreary, homeless, they pass out and slam the clubhouse door. Its resounding echo stealing. from wall Go wall and wall to ceiling, empty rooms that eeho-Never more
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04
Arcanunl Club Passes Out
 On EUe Of Thirtieth Birthddu

At the annual meeting in 1897 there were seventeen present and the same officers were elected In 1898 Jerome Warren was elected secretary.
 Changes Quarter,
 In 1899 it was voted to lease from R. H. Bradley the upper floor of the old "Duttee Smith" block, the club. up to this time, having quarters in the Hathaway block. now the Elks block. in the room at present occupied by Dr. E. L. Simpson. The block refer. red to became known as the Bradley building and it was from this block that the club was forced to move when the building was sold by the then owner, William St. Onge, to the Put nam Savings Bank in 1922. At this same meeting in 1899 it was voted to accept the members of the Cargill Club as members of the Arcanum Club with the understanding that the club turn over it's property to the Arcanum club.
 In 1901 Lucius P Merriam became secretary and F. J. Daniels president. In 1908 George 4. Hammond was elected president In 1904 Erie II Johnson became secretary and treas urer. In 1905 Lucius r. Merriam be- came vice president. In 1906 J. Harry Mann was elected secretary and treas urer, F.. Nj. Arnold being elected presi- dent. Frank D. Thayer was elected secretary and treasurer in 1907 and he was succeeded by George W. Baker in 1909.
 Augustus I Morse was elected president in 1910 and after one year N NJ. Parker became president in 1911. In 1912 George W. Baker was elected president and Lueius P. Mer- riam again became secretary and treasurer J. Harry Mann was presi- dent in 1914 and was succeeded in 1916 by Charles L. Torrey who con- tinued in office until 1922 when Dr. Frederick T. Baldwin was elected
 Met Situation
 December i, 1929, a meeting Was called to see what action the club would take, having been notified that the building had been sold. It was voted to keep the club in existence and to hire the Gardner house.
 In 1923 the first annual meeting was held in the new club house" At the postponed annual meeting in 1924 James H. Rafferty was elected president and he, together with all other officers were reelected this year.
 For few years of it's existence the club was prosperous. Its membership was limited to 100 but so large be. came the waiting list that the mem bership list was increased to ll5 ! Then the tide of prosperity began to ebb and 1t never again flowed back to normal.
 Decide to Quit
 Monday evening few members gathered at the club house for the last time as a club organization. The evening was spent in talking over the pleasures of the past. The amusing incidents and the heartbreaking strug- gles of bygone years were reviewed. And there they sat waiting for the stroke of twelve. The last trolley car had ratified by. the trolley harp play ing it's swan song, song soon to re- sound over the cOalless bin below those waiting the midnight hour.
 Never More
 And so they sat.--There was Brad and there was Lucius, as loquacious as Confucius, as another mourner came within the door. There was Jack, and Dick. and Allen. sitting there amongst the fallen, waiting for the midnight hour. Suddenly they heard a tapping. sounds of someone
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

The original warrant for the exc cution of Charles l is in the library of the House of Lords. This warrant was produced by Colonel Harker after the Restoration and was the evidence upon which those who had signed it were excepted from the Indemnity Act.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

Clay pigeons or Blue Rocks" are of American origin. having been in vented about thirty years ago to sub stitute the ancient practice of shoot ing live birds.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

Woods Hutchinson has called the fly "the joy automobile of the Germ for as many as 6,000,000 germs have been found in the body of single insect.
Putnam patriot., 1925-12-04

The rapid recession of giant glacier has created new tidewatcr inlet, cutting the Panhandle of Alaska in two. and giving British Columbia d new outlet Co the sea to the north