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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
Lame 1t On The
EN- GIN Il E r
From Life, July 81, 1917

trrom Lie, July ~, l9l1.)
A lurch that filings the rushing train,
A roaring shock that rips and rends,
The groan of death, the shrieks of
pain,
And-Holy, Holy Dividends!
THE Engineer? Poor chap. he's kill
led.
That makes the explanation clear.
A trusted servant, tried and skilled
Well blame it on the Engineer.
TO bad, he served us fairly well.
Of course, We gave him ample pay
And worked him through this torrid
spell
Not more than sixteen hours a day.
His train was late, it seems agreed !;
he disobeyed commands, we fear,
And tore ahead at reckless speed
Let's blame it on the Engineer"
Some day, some day, the Truth may
leap.
In lines of flame across the Blue,
OF eyes weighed down for lack of
sleep,
Of man that works one man for
two.
Of coward shifts, of simple zeal,
And when the witnesses appear,
Perhaps the Court of Last Appeal
Won't blame 1t on the Engineer.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
Chicago City Council Hits
School Head for Attacking
Display of Patriotic Pictures
By International Labor News Service.

by International Labor News Service.
Chicago, Jan. Observation-Disclosures
of Schools William A. McAndrew, inn
ported from New York at the behest
of big business interests about two
years ago. has finally run into hor-
nets nest.
The Chicago City Council by unani-
nous vote passed a resolution intro
duced by Alderman Oscar +. Nelson.
vice president of the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor, taking a Slap at Nc
Andrew for an article which he wrote
for an educational magazine condemn
ing the display of patriotic pictures
such rs The Spirit of rs" in school
rooms and text books.
Having caused the removal of sucn
pictures from the schoolrooms of Chi
cago, McAndrew sought to have them
removed on nationwide scale. He
alleges that pictures of that character
breed war spirit"
McAndrew has been battling the
Chicago Teachers Federation ever
since he came to Chicago. One of the
first things he did after his arrival
was 10 abolish the teachers councils,
established by the board of education
about ten years previously. When the
teachers refused 10 obey the order of
McAndrew in this matter he finally
mustered enough votes in the board to
have that body reSeind its action of a
decade prior.
AeAndrew also has been engaged
in long-drawn-out fight with organ
lied labor over his establishment of
the platoon system, junior highs and
intelligence tests in the public schools
of Chicago. He has had powerful
backing from newspapers and big
financial interests, who apparently
have deserted him in his latest delim-
ma.
After suspending the rules, the city
council passed the resolution by a
unanimous viva voce vote. Ten alder
men voted against suspension Of the
rules. The resolution was based on
the allegation that MeAndrew ex-
pressed himself against the display of
the picture known as The Spirit of
49," which it declared has instilled
love of country and good citizenship
in the youths. II concluded thus:
Resolved, That the City Council
approve and encourage the display OF
patriotic pictures in text books and
classrooms."
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
THE ANTHRACITE CON
TROVERSY.

The terms of adjustment which
Governor Pinchot offered the miners
and the anthracite operators brought
substantial hope that the anthracite
controversy would be ended. This
feeling was Strengthened when the
representatives accepted the offer.
Their acceptance was regarded as a
contribution and willingness to reacn
an agreement.
The refusal Of the operators brough.
a definite reaction in public opinion
against them. Their action was an un-
mistakabe refusal to consider the
needs of the public. Wage earners,
who constitute considerable portion
Of public opinion, regarded the Pinchot
proposal as a reasonable adjustment.
Its acceptance would have had general
favor.
What do the operators propose to
do? viii they ignore public opinion
and public interests as they have
ignored the miners presentations Of
demands for equitable adjustments :?
Will they continue their stubborn re-
sistaince despite general criticism and
lack of sympathy with their course?
The hopes of industry, commerce,
domestic users of anthracite and the
general public were reused by this
last move for adjustment Of the
strike. The ready acceptance of the
miners was in line with 4 constructive
move. Can the operators afford to
ignore public interest?
The Governor of Pennsylvania has
declared that operation of the anthra-
cite industry is matter of public in
terest and asks state legislation TO de-
clare the industry a public utility and
to provide for regulation by a public
service commission. Refusal to nego-
tiate differences forces action in public
interests.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
100000 CALLS PER DAY
SAYS BELL PHONE HEAD

Springfield, Ill.,-"Telephone serv-
ice in Illinois is furnished by s3I tel
ephone companies which operate
slightly more than 100000 tele-
phones which are used about 1850, 00C
times day. Thirty-five thousand
trained workers are required"
With these statements w. r. Alb
bot, president of the Illinois Bell
Telephone company, summarized the
states telephon facilities, while speak
ing hire before the Midday club in
commemoration of the fiftieth ami
versary of the invention of the tele-
phone.
Practically all of the telephones in
the state are connected to the Bell
systm, which gives them access to
tn remainder of the 100000 tele-
phones in the United States. During
1925 over eight million toll messages
were interchanged between our sub
Scribers and those of other telephone
companies with which we connect in
Illinois, there being about 1000, 900
such messages originated by each
~roup of subscribers" he stated.
A condition which is peculiar to the
telephone business was explained by
Mr.. Abbott. THE distribution of
population is of greater Importance
to telephone company than to any
other public utility or ~rivate corpor-
alton. The telephone service is distin-
gulshed from transportation, electric
light and power, gas or water service
IN that each telephone subscriber has
to have his own direct connection with
the source of service supply, whereas
all other utilities sarve their custo-
mers by common mains, or by facili-
ties used in common by large groups
of patrons
The speake rtold of a new cable
now being constructed between Chica-
60 and st. Louis at cost of $1,000
600. By connection at its north ter
minal with the recently-complaed
Chicago-New York cable, a practically
storm-proof service between Illinois
and the Atlantic seaboard will be had
ne said. The new cable is completed
from Peoria to St. Louis, via SPRING
field, and is under construction be-
tween Peoria and Joliet. At Joliet
It will join with an existing cable to
Chicago.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
A QUESTION OF FAIR PLAY
AND JUSTICE

The public today as a whole does
not know the situation Of the chiro-
practors of Illinois. First, We desire
to say that the writer is not chifo-
practor patient. 1t is merely IA case
of fair play and justice which be be-
lieye everybody is entitled to.
The chiropractor today has no
examining board of his own in the
state. He is being arrested and fined,
driven from one community to another
like a common criminal and even put
in jail unless he takes the examination
under a medical board. Do you think
that it fair He can obtain license
in Illinois today only by passing an
examination given by body of medl-
cal examiners. But he never uses
medicine, it is entirely contrary to the
fundamental tenets of his profession.
And when he has a surgical case, he
turns it over to a recognized surgeon
for treatment.
A knowledge of medicine and sur
gerry are about as useful to a chiro-
practor as knowledge of plumbing 20
a newspaper man, but he is, however,
trained to recognize bodily ailments
and to relieve them by method of
his own. If he used medicine or sur
gerry, he would be an MD. or a sur
geon, not a chiropractor.
Under these unfortunate conditions,
bona fide chiropractors with thous-
ands of dollars worth of equipment,
are being ousted from Illinois, sacri-
ficing business which has been built
up at great expenditure of time and
money. Under the present law, the
public has no protection against I'M
scrupulous men posing as chiroprac-
tors who enter a community for Il
short time, gather a harvest of money,
and skip out over night.
In order to meet this situation and
remedy conditions, the thoughtful and
conservative chiropractOrs of Illinois
have organized the Illinois Chiroprac-
tic Research Bureau. This bureau is
definite, permanent organization with
responsible officers.
The object of the Bureau is:
/. To bring about a law at the
next session of the legislature proyid-
ing for the recognition of properly
qualified chiropractors and their
licensing after careful examination
and
2. The elimination of fraudulent
chiropractors whose existence leopard
ICES honest, conscientious chiroprac
tors and endangers persons seeking
adjustments from them.
Genuine chiropractors are an en-
thusiastic, studious, progressive typ
of citizens. They want t. do RICH
and they want to be treated right, ant
The Review feels when it comes L
fair play and justice, they are getting
a rotten deal.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
All Rail Interests
Urge Labor Bill

Washington, Jan. 23.-Railroad
managers and representatives of 20
railroad labor organizations urged the
senate interstate commerce commits
sion to favor the railroad labor bill
agreed to by these interests. The bill
is opposed by the anti-union National
Association of Manufacturers.
THE strongest feature of this bill
is" said Donald r. Richberg, counsel
for the labor organizations. "that il
does represent the agreement of the
parties, and all concerned will be
placed under a moral obligation 10
see that the machinery devised and
accepted is utilized in good faith"
Alfred p. Thorn, counsel for the
managers, said that labor refuses 10
be placed in straight jacket, and
that the managers do not favor this
policy. I'VE are trusting to their good
faith in this matter" he said.
There are certain things labor is
very much opposed to-" he continued.
They do not want to write an anti
strike clause in bill. They think this
ball, If enacted, will end strikes and
be the beginning Of peace and under
standing between railroad employees
and executives. This is a measure
agreed upon by tn parties who say
that this will work. Now, if you
change the provisions you then re-
lieve, to that extent, the parties TO
the moral obligation to make it work"
Mr.. Thorn acknowledged hat anti
strike laws are futile. He said "our
belief" is that stringent methods"
would only result in antagonism.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
STRIKE SETTLED.

The Metal PoliShers' International
Union have settled their four months
strike at the Cribben and Sexton Stove
Factory of Chicago.
This strike which occurred Septem-
Der 10, 1925, was satisfactorily ad-
justed on January rs, 1926.
Every condition demanded by the
union was granted by the firm.
The long series of preliminary con-
ferences which resulted in the settle
ment have effectively overcome in
every way possible all ill-feeling
which may have been engendered be-
cause of the strike. Nothing what
ever was overlooked which would leave
cause to doubt that complete concord
was finally effected. Both sides ex-
press satisfaction and a WILLINGNESS
TO work for their mutual interests.
The Metal PoliShers Information un-
ion takes this occasion to express its
sincere thanks for the support rem
dered them in this struggle by labor
and the labor press, and earnestly re
quest this same spirit will manifest
itself in hearty cooperation by Civ
ing this settlement the same publicity
that you gave when the strike was
on, that orPanized labor everywhere
may know that the Universal" stoves
are again fair TO organized labor.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
COMPANY UNIONS NOT ENOUGH

COMPANY UNIONS NOT ENOUGH.
The company union is in fact a very
genuine tribute to the effectiveness of
the real trade union. II is recognition
of the principle that there is need TO,
an agency through which the will and
the experience of wage earners can
have an influence in the determination
of issues affecting wage earners. But
some employers want the constructive
advantages of collective action with
out what they consider its drawbacks
Drawbacks to them consist in that
power and resourcefulness that enable
the Unions to secure for the ideas of
the workers that consideration which
is rightly theirs. Certain employers
object to the presentation of views
except those which sustain their ad-
vantages. Employers of this type
resent the trade union because it
functions independently of their con-
troll. Trade unions by federation
create an organization paralleling the
industry and hence have power COM
parable to that of the employer.
Their special experts have knowledge
of the whole industry as we'll as the
technique of collective bargaining.
The company union or whatever
name is given the representation plan
provided by the company, exists by
the desire Of the employer. Certain
employers claim that the company
union makes possible cooperation be-
tween management and workers in
production problems. Such coopera-
ton with unions they claim is impos-
sibie because, as they say, unions are
organized for militant purposes only
There is no justification for this
declaration, for employers themselves
make it necessary for unions TO EN-.
ploy defensive and militant purposes
and methods. Unions have been forced
on the defensive Cooperation in
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05

wolves recognition Of reciprocal rights
and duties.
There are convincing proofs of the
economic values of union manage
ment cooperation, which demonstrates
that the cooperation between company
union and management is most super-
fetal.
Wage earners will do themselves
and industries Il great service when
they capture company unions and
convert them into real trade unions.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
PabSt Corporation
Makes Settlement
To the Editors of all
Labor panarS ord Io,,,.I.

To the Editors of all
Labor Papers and Journals,
Greeting:
1t affords US great pleasure to in
form you that a very satisfactory
settlement has been reached between
The Pabst Corporation of Milwaukee.
WIS, and our Information Union,
whereby the Pabst Corporation will
operate under strictly union condi-
tons.
we, therefore, recommend that you
again patronize the products of the
Pabst Corporation.
With many thanks for past favors,
We remain,
Fraternally and sincerely yours,
John RAIDER,
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
Capital Comment
BY FRED s. WALKER.

A House subcommittee has been
giving the people of Washington a
chance to convince them that our
board of education should be elected
by the people. Much is said and writ
ten about giving the people the right
to elect the board, which, of course,
is all wong. The very fact that
America still has congress proves
that all Americans have the fright"
to elect their officials. In 1878 con-
gress deprived the people here of the
privilege Of exercising that right, and
all that now can be done is TO re-
store that privilege, which is one of
the pillars of the we'll known constl-
tuition of the United States.
While we are on this subject how
would you folks back in the states
like to have your board of education
appointed by the federal judges of
your state? And how about having
the president appoint your city Off
cials? Well. that's us.
\ congressional committee is inves-
tigating the reason for the high price
of coal in the District. We can get
practically nothing but bituminous
coal, and for that We pay anthracite
prices. Somebody is always making
it hot for us.
Billy Mitchell has fired himself rath-
err than retain his commission at halt
pay with a string tied on TO it. Al
about the time the colonel was writ
ing that resignation half million
dollars worth of airplanes went up in
smoke at our air station. More dis
| armament.
Some congressman are continually
| shooting bull labout the low taxes paid
in the District of Columbia. A rad
10 speaker last week showed that
! while the tax rate here is $l.70 a hun
| dIed, property is assessed at full val
ue. A higher rate with low assess.
ment, as done in manv states, looks
big at first glance, but in the end the
tax is lower.
The drive of the Woman's Party 4
repeal the laws protecting women il
industry had hot reception at con,
vention here. Trade union women il
the organization exposed the trick
campaign and took the convention
away from the ladies who were per
forming under instructions from the
National Association of Manufactur.
ers.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05

Dominion government ready to CO.
operate with government OF Nova
Scotia in relieving distress of striking
Cape Breton miners, minister of in
terror announces.
Work begins in New York CITY on
worlds tallest building; will be SIS
stories high and tower 500 feet.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05

William V. Dwyer, Sportsman and
race track owner and so others indict-
ed by the Federal grand jury on
charges of conspiracy 10 violate prohi-
bition law.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05

Massachusetts department of labor
and industry votes to form wage
boards TO recommend new minimum
wage rates for women employed in the
making of jewelry, toys, games, sport
ing goods and related lines.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05

fuckers, needleworkers, hemshteh-
ers and pleaters. numbering $500,
strike in New York City to compel re-
newal Of agreement.
Smyrna times., 1926-11-17
Pays to Admit Errors

Nothing is perfect. and you don't
have to claim an article is perfect to
sell 1t. The best article is the one
that has fewest things wrong with
it; like the pumpkin that took the
prize at the fair
i've seen better pumpkins than
that" remarked a farme'.
Maybe so,' his neighbor replied,
"but that amt the point This is the
best pumpkin in the show"
A competitor may beat you in this
point or that Don't argue against
the obvious. If you are trying to de-
fend an article or a position that has
too many features wrong, drop It,
Take up something worth while. Many
an argument and friend is won by the
man big enough to say that the other
Is right-System
Smyrna times., 1926-11-17
Petrol Employed as
Torch In Sheffoads

The romance of artificial lighting
has been traced back to the days when
the early Shetland islanders fashioned
a torch lamp by sticking wick into
the throat of a fat stormy petrol and
to other crude beginnings by DIR. Wal
ter Hough of the National museum.
says Popular Mechanics Magazine.
His researches reveal that animals
have played an important part In fur
nishing light for man. In the tropics
of America natives once built cages
for a species of large luminous beetles
and used them as lanterns, while the
Indians off the northwest coast Of
America burn a fat little fish for light
ing purposes In much the same way
as the Shetland islanders did the
stormy petrol.
Whales and seals have made the
largest contribution in supplying lamp
fuel. Up to 1859, when petroleum was
discovered In large quantities, they
furnished the major part of the worlds
lamp oil. An important step in the de-
velopment of artificial lighting was the
solution of the problem of draft for
lamps. This is credited to Swiss en-
gineer named Argand in 1882. George
Washington had some Of the Argand
lamps at Mount Vernon, and these are
now included in the collections of the
museum.
Smyrna times., 1926-11-17
New Dover Opera House. Dover

Friday and Saturday-As a writer
of outdoor yarns, particularly those
of the great West he knows so well,
Zane Grey is firmly established in the
minds and hearts of millions of read
ers. In "Born to the West" those
qualified to judge, feel that he has
evolved one of the most entertaining
and true-to-life stories thus far writ
ten. Paramount has brought it to the
screen with marvellous fidelity. The
rather lengthy cast is filled with
names that stand high in the cinema
world,-all well known and popular
for their former achievements. The
story starts with a fight beween two
boys over a girl. Both emerge from
the fray with marks they carry from
school through life,marks which seem
to remind them of the enmity that
must exist to the end. Their trail in
after years crosses many times and
in many places but neither gives nor
takes quarter. The net results is a
picture that teens with action every
inch of the way. Jack Holt, the
screens most representative portrayer
of he-man western roles, is seen as
Colorado" cowpuncher. Bruce
Gordon is his sworn enemy and Mar
garet Morris, the girl. Two great
character roles are portrayed by Ray
mond Hatton and Tom Kennedy of
"Behind noables in the cast include
George Siegman, Edith Yorke and
William Carroll. Arlette Marchal, the
gorgeously beautiful French girl rec
emily signed by Paramount, plays the
role of "Belle of Paradise Bar" and
gives a striking performance.
Smyrna times., 1926-11-17
Kanakas Left Record
of Engineering Skill

In bygone days the natives of New
Caledonia displayed an astonishing
knowledge of engineering.
Because the valleys where they
lived were too narrow to support a
growing population, they carved the
sides of the hills into great terraces.
These were carefully graded so that
mountain streams could be made to
flow smoothly along each terrace and
down to the next In zigzags, each
half a mile or so long, says a writer
In Adventure Magazine. If there wEs
no spring on the hillside, they brought
water from neighboring slopes along
viaducts made of hollowed-out tree
trunks. They gauged levels with a
nicely modern engineers might envy.
Few of these terraced hillsides are
cultivated today. The white man has
changed all that.
The native population is decreasing.
the survivors are apathetic and indO-
lent; they work on plantations or cat
tie ranches, and on Sundays they get
drunk when they are not attending
church,
Smyrna times., 1926-11-17
Grateful Spirit

The gift of a doll for the harvest
festival at a suburban church empha-
sizes a breaking away from the con-
ventional big loaves, sour apples,
giant marrows and shocks of corn
hitherto deemed essential to such oc-
casions. A well-known vicar recently
declared that he thought gifts of coal,
tools, tobacco, etc, would be more
appropriate In his downtown church.
and, after all, the chief thing is to be
thankful-and show It. AS an old
woman once told Dean Hole, 1--WE had
a lot O. trouble this year. lost my
sister. then lost my pig. But there's
one thing 1 will say-the Lords been
pretty well ON my side this year for
greens."-LondOn Telegraph.
Smyrna times., 1926-11-17
Meaning of sfChicago"

Chicago" is an Anglicized form Of
the Indian word ''shegahg," ordinarily
meaning skunk, but whose uses were
intended so as to make 1t a synonym
for strong" 'pungent," mighty" 1t
was applied to the wild onion, to O
line of Indian chiefs, to thunder, and
among other rivers, to that which
runs through the present city Of Chi
cago. In this case the name was not
meant as a tribute to the magnitude
OF the stream, but merely COM
memorated the tradition that one of
the Shegahg chiefs had at some re-
mote period been drowned In its wa
ters.