Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-22
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Observation-Disclosures

Observation-Disclosures
Twelve are dead and seventeen hurr
IN blast in a pine extracting plant
at Pensacola, Fla.
Leon Trotsky is elected to the polit
bureau, which rules Red Russia, the
Communist party and the Red Inter
nationales. The bureau was enlarge,
TO membership Of ten, adding thre,
new places. kamenetf. old Lenint
standby, got the gate.
Rhine floods break lo0-year records
and threaten pestilence because of du.
ration and great depth of water.
Grosvenor Atterbury, member OF
the Research Council of the lnstituts
of Architects, New York, says that by
WHOLESALE operations, standardized
methods and factory operation wher-
ever possible instead of field work
workmen's homes can be built fol
about half present cost.
Senator King, Democrat, Utah, IN
PRODUCES resolution for investigation
of the Federal banking system.
Comptroller McCarl rules that i'm
migrants must be fed on cheapes,
meals obtainable, ordering acceptance
of a bid of On cents per meal fol
Asiatic immigrants. European and
others" are fed a trifle extensively.
The current wage law" of Okla
homa, applying to labor employed on
State contract work, was declared I'M
constitutional by the United States
Supreme Court and invalid as Grim
inal statute.
Briefs appealing the Scopes evolu'
ton case have been filed with the
State Supreme Court at Nashville
Tenn. Speeches by Coolidge were
cited in the briefs.
Secretary Mellon tells congressional
committee it's best TO accept debt set
Elements made with European nations
especially in the cases of Italy and
Belgium, because it's a case of take
these settlements or get nothing at all
A. +. Defcourt, who once sold news.
papers at its entrance, buys the Hotel
INormandie on Broadway, New York
thus proving that Horatio Alger never
told lie, either.
One of first acts of the new comp
troler under Mayor Walker in New
York is TO return to the Federation
Bank of New York the s250,000 or
dered withdrawn by the then Mayor
Hyland during the last campaign and
to increase the deposit by turning in
another 100000. President Peter j.
Brady says he hopes this S350,0O0
total will be further increased and
he smiles Happy New Year smile.
Ninety-three killed in explosion in
non-union coal, mine at Wilburton,
Okla. Eight are saved.
Lawrence w. Wallace has been re-
elected president of the Eyesight Con-
seryation Council of America. Mr..
Wallace is executive secretary of the
American Engineering Council and
was vice chairman of the Hoover con-
ference on elimination of waste in in
dustry.
A Council for Research in the Social
Sciences, with DIR. Frederick j. h.
Woodbridge as chairman, has been or
ganized at Columbia University. Five
research projects are under way with
more planned. The work is made pos
sible by grant from the Laura Spell
man Rockefeller Memorial.
Charles f. Hughes says he will not
run for Governor of New York.
United States State Department
protests to Mexico against new oil and
land laws, holding they do not protect
American citizens interests. Mexican
foreign minister retorts that Mexican
courts will amply protect American
interests.
B. Mussolini, boss of Italy, says
democracy, in certain respects, is
more apparent than real in America
and that it functions at all here only
because the nation is Immensely
wealthy and can stand waste.
New York Times reports that Sen
at committee on elections has prac-
tically unanimous report ready against
allowing Senator Brookhart 10 retain
his seat and TO seat instead his Demo
cratic opponent, Daniel +. Steck.
Mexican Supreme Court rules that
Aguila Oil Co. must pay strikers ST.
900 900 and says workers had right TO
accept findings of Board of Award.
II is announced men will not return To
work until the court decision is pub
licly announced by the court, which
has not yet been done.
Maxim Gorky is reported TO have
turned Communist.
Helen Keller calls on Coolidge and
calls him "a dear President" whose
words are "jewels."
New York women renew effort TO
secure passage of 48-hour-week bill
by Legislature.
Scottish Rite headquarters issues a
publication in New York declaring
Mussolini has practically destroyed
the order in Italy.
leaders of the Muscle Shoals opposi-
Senators Norris and Underwood.
ton, both now believe the issue will
be settled in present session of Con-
gress. Norris says he will no longer
block action.
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