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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
BRYAN SAYS:
Five Causes of Crime!
By w. +. BRYAN
General President, United Leather
Workers International Union.

Some causes promoting crime are:
Failure of the courts to render swift
and adequate punishment.
Inscriptions lawyers profit more
from criminal clients than any others
who would retain them, through nu-
nerous continuances, appeals, freedom
under bond lin many cases the bond
worthless), habeus corpus, etc., which
operates to give the criminal his free
dom to commit other crimes and Sc
cure the money needed for lawyers,
bondsmen and political "ixers."
Lawyers compose the majority Of
our legislative bodies and have made
1t their business to make the laws nu-
merous and conflicting, thus by "sharp
practice" justice is many times de-
feated.
ENTIRELY too many people, particu-
larly the young generation, attempt to
live beyond their means. They are un-
able to hit the pace" through honest
earnings and resort to crime as a
means whereby their desires may be
realized.
The rapid changes and extreme
styls of wearing apparel demand high
prices when in vogue to cover losses
upon goods hard TO dispose of when
the style changes and the mania for
keeping in style promotes crime.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Illusion of War


BY RICHARD LIE GALLIENNE.
War l abhor, and yet how sweet
The sound along the marching stree
VI drum and fife, and l forget
Wet eyes of widows, and forget
Broken old mothers, and the whole
Dark butchery without a soul.
Without a soul, save this bright drinl
VI heady music, sweet as hell;
And even my peace-abiding feet
20 marching with the marching
street
For yonder. yonder goes the fife,
And what care ] for human life!
The tears fill my astonished eyes,
And my full heart is like to break;
And yet It's all embannered lies,
A dream those little drummers make.
., it. is wickedness to clothe
fon hideous grim 'ug thing that
stalks,
Hidden IN music, like a queen,
That IN q garden Of glory walks,
I'LL good men love the thing they
lothe.
Art thou hast many infamies,
But not an infamy like this
Oh. snap the fife, and still the drum.
show the monster as she Is!
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

"Labor's Reward" the moving pie.
ture which is creating such wide in
terest among Union men as well as
among others, is one of the special
attractions in Champaign and Urbana
1t is not merely an entertaining
film, but is filled with wholesome ad,
vice and examples of the clean conduct
of this country's working people. NJ
one should fail to see it.
The picture on the whole is an ex.
ample of what may be done in film
land instead of giving the entire pro
duction of pictures owe TO romance
On the whole people are fed up or
romance, and much of the trash that
we see depicted is bound to give place
to a much more instructive and pleas.
ing class Of shows.
Labor has started a movement that
every civic and moral organization as
well as the church should follow, for
it means that the moving picture car
be redeemed.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
KNOW ILLINOIS

There were 2,626,547 persons-40.5
per cent of the total population Of the
state-gainfully employed in Illinois
according to the census report. Farm
ers topped the list with a total of
215,414 persons engaged.
approximately 1,l23,000 automo-
biles were registered in the state of
Illinois during 1925.
Danville makes enough bricks each
year to build 5000 average-sized
houses. A train 1,767 miles long
would be required to transport all the
bricks it has produced since the in
dustry was started in 1909.
Illinois had a combined generating
capacity of 2,364.000 horsepower of
electrical energy on January l, 1925.
Illinois is adding 100000 persons to
its population each year.
Illinois contains the largest number
of telephone stations per one thous-
and of population of any state in the
union except one, according to the
United States ensus of electrical in
dustries, issued in 1924.
Public service companies of Chicago
are planning and building for a city
of 100000 persons by 1850 or there
abouts.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

to the principles of a world court; that
we urge continuance of study by Pres
ldent Green of all proposals submitted
on TINS subject to the United States
congress; that he, President Green,
keep the executive council continually
ADVISED and informed of his progress
SVe studies, and that he be authorized
TO further the participation and adj
herence of the United States in a
world court, on such conditions and
with such reservations as in his judg-
ment and that of the executive council
shall deem best to protect American
wage earners and all our citizens, and
at the same time promote internation-
al concord and world amity through
a world court.
That all city and state f~ederations
OF labor be advised of this action: that
they be continually informed of sub
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

center and drive but, for they are sur,
to drive all the big game away.
The common plan in community
chest drives is to solicit the bigger
payers first and get what is called an
advance donation as a nucleus from
which to work, but the fault in this
lies in the fact hat too many, from
whom large gifts are expected, give
much less than they should.
We suggest widening the circle.
Soliciting first the people who usually
are expected to donate the residue, of
five or ten thousand. Then advance to
the center, not only asking, but urging
the larger givers to make up the re-
mainder.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Labor Men Dedicate
FOOtstOne at Grave
of Samuel GOmpers

New York, Dec. 2S.-Labor repre-
%sentatives attended the dedication of a
footStone on the grave of Samuel
Gompers, late president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, in Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery after appropriate
and simple ceremony. Floral tributes
were laid on the grave. A monument
to mark the place where rests Ameri-
cas- greatest labor leader will be
erected in due time.
The American Federation of Labor
was represented by Hugh Frayne,
general organizer in New York, and
James Duncan, first vice president;
the New York State Federation OF
Labor by Joseph Ryan and Thomas ].
Curtis; the White Plains Labor Coun-
ell by William MeGlory, president. and
the Central Trades and Labor Council
of New York by John Coughlin.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Railroad Has Profits
But Can't Pay Wages

Wilmington, N. c., Dec. 2s.-The
committee of the organized railroad
te~legraphers, on strike against the At
lantic City Line, r giving the pub
lie some interesting information on
the profits of this corporation.
The Coast Line permitted its
telegraphers TO suspend work rather
than pay a standard wage. Turmoil.
freight blockades and wrecks are now
the order on that line.
The committee says that the past
year the Coast Line has turned over
to the revolving fund of the Interstate
Commerce Commission several million
dollars in excess profits.
What is your opinion of a concern
that will refuse TO pay living wages
to its employees and at the same time
earn more money than it can legally
retain? ?" the telegraphers ask.
The committee says that the rail
road management requested them to
help pile up material evidence which
would strengthen the Coast Lines re-
quest to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for increased freight
rates.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Why! Is There a Cure?
STRIKING REPLIES by LABOR MEN
National Inquiry Brings Flood of Letters Which
Will Be Published Week by Week Throughout Nation.

THE number and the variety of opinions expressed by
i labor men in commenting on the crime situation, at
the request of this newspaper, in association with Inter-
national Labor News Service and its associated newspa-
.pers, show that the prevalence of crime is stirring deep
and widespread interest.
Labor men, who are in closer touch with the great
masses of the people than are most so-called "crime ex-
perts,' are observing the crime situation, watching its
effects and trying to see beneath the surface to find out
the why's and wherefores.
Their answers, as here published from week to week,
will be presented to the National Crime Commission for
the consideration of that body.
Here are two more interesting responses from men at
the head of international unions. There will be more next
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
World Court Favored
By Organized Labor

washington, Dec. 2S.-In reminding
organized labor that the A. F. of I,
Is committed to the principle of =
world court, President Green includes
a pamphlet covering this subject. He
suggests that those particularly in
teresoed In this question constitute
themselves a group to hold a special
meeflng Tor the purpose of reading
gether."
me world court question was re-
Ierred TO the executive council by the
uan City convention of the 4. +
OF l. The council adopted the follow
ing: ~
"lnasmneh as former conventions of
the A. +. Of l. have endorsed a world
eouTs- that We reatirm "a adherence
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

Champaign and Urbana are not the
only cities that have had difficulty in
raising a Community Chest fund.
Word comes from cities in Iowa to the
effect that in spite of the intensive
drive put on the charities are nearly
broke" The people of this city
should be congratulated on the splen-
did showing they have made this win
ter in the drive recently put on, judg-
ing from conditions elsewhere.
Practically the entire amount has
been pledged or paid in cash this year
and that is a record that the cities
a we'll be proud of as well as the
workers who gave their time freel,
10 n campaign Of soliciting.
But another year should serve I,
develop a better plan of action. W,
suggest that the method Of hunter,
. who stage a jack rabbit drive in tn,
! west be followed, instead Of the pla,
adopted this year. Hunters drive I,
1.-THE center, They do not begin at tn.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
UniOnists Frame Up"
Victims; Newspaper
Aids Bungling Job

Chicago, Dec. 2S.--Walter W. Brit.
ton, president of the Metal polishers
International union, and Business
Agent Werlik were victims of a bun.
Cling "frame-up" that would connec,
them with a nalleged attempt to bomt
the Cribben & Sexton Stove company
plant. This concern manufactures
Universal stoves, ranges and fur.
naces and is attempting to smash the
Metal Polishers' union.
As a preliminary to the "frame-up,'
the Chicago Tribune printed a lurid
story of a bombing outrage that was
not attempted. The bomber lost his
nerve, according to the Tribune, be-
cause the Waterman at the plant had
several children, "but he (the bomb
er) was only waiting till a policeman
was detailed as Waterman who had no
children, when the job would be COM
pleted," said the Tribune. It was fur
Their stated that States Attorney
Grove has possession of this evidence.
With this as a foundation, the two
unionists were taken to the Office Of
the states attorney at the county Jail
by three detectives. They were de-
MED an attorney, shut off from OUT
side communication and subjected 10
the third degree on the Crbben &
Sexton strike. Owners of a~nti-union
job shops and other persons believed
to be private detectives were permit
ted 70 view the trade union officials.
The grand jury was in session at the
time, but refused to consider an in
dictment. BY accident a friend of the
~unlonists discovered their p~redicament
and called their attorney, who threat
ened to sue out a habeas corpus writ
unless sufficient evidence was pro-
duced to secure their immediate in
dictment.
This unlooked-for move caused a
Scurry, and after five hours confine-
ment they were released with the
threat, Wei get you yet"
These are States Attorney Groves
methods to enforce law"-when trade
unionists are on strike. Only recently
Coroner Oscar Wolff charged Grove
with the real responsibility for the
reign of murder and lawlessnessn in
this city. The coroner found il I'M
possible to secure assistance from
Groves office in convicting gunner.
The coroner exhibited a photograph
OF a banquet rendered to Grove, last
year, In which recognized leaders Of
gun men and gangsters sat at the
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Retain Seven Day Week.

Olympia, Wash, Dec. 2S.-The state
senate rejected a bill which would give
street a men me days rest in seven.
The Washington Water Power COM
pany, owner of the Spokane street
car system, led the fight against the
bill Spokane street a employees are
anorganiezd. They petitioned the leg
l%slature to permit them to work seven
days a week. In many sections of the
state, where these workers are or
gained, the ~seyen-day week has been
abolished.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

Higher wages and shorter working
hours are the solution of the present
day Labor problem which has been
occasioned by machine work, according
to James M. Lynch, conservative La
Dor leader in a recent speech before
the International Typographical Un-
ion.
MIR. Lynch calls attention TO the fact
that in many crafts labor conditions
have been acute, owing to the advance
in machine construction within the
last twenty years.
While these conditions are not felt
in such cities as Champaign and Ur-
bana 1t is a we'll known fact that they
prevail in larger industrial regions.
Only shorter hours and higher
wages for Labor will solve the prob,
lem. These advances, of course, viii
be combatted by employers in gen
eral, on the ground that their invest
ment in modern machinery demands
that they obtain larger profits.
But what is the workman to do
ldleness is productive of more injur,
to society than constant employment
This goes without proving. When tn,
laborer is idle there is temptation t
resort to other methods of obtaining
a livelihood than work.
A nan out of employment said {
the writer the other day: "I've got I
make a living somehow. There is n
work and think | will turn to boot
Logging" He was not a Union labor
er, but he was a man who had to liv
somehow. This is a concrete illu,
tration of common evils which bus
ness in general does not take into cor
sideration.
Churches plead for protectio
against all forms of vice and Grim,
Officers are alert to locate the erin
inal. Business does not want to suffe
the effects of criminality in the for
of hOhld-ups and murder. But appal
emily none have been able to find
solution TO the problem.
The average mar is honest if he
given a fair chance. And a fair chanc
means employment. The average ma
would steal before starving.
1t is alright to talk honesty whe
you are prosperous and have need G
nothing, and it is a proper standar
to maintain for the general welfare o
society. But certain things must ulti
mately be taken into consideration
Unemployment is one of these, and
most important one For as surely a
men are not employed they will fin
some other way to make a living TO
themselves and families, and that wa
is not always the right way, If W
are going to cure crime and vice i
this world we shall have to begin q
the root of the disease.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Car Men Win Eight Hours

Oakland, Cal, Dec. 2S.-Street can
men have won an arbitration award
that establishes the basic eight-houl
day, with the following rates: First
three months, 81 cents an hour; next
nine months, 50 cents; thereafter, 20
cents. The former maximum was Sc
cents for a 1O-hour day.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Q.-Does organized labor favor in
dependence for the Philippine Islands? ?

AYES. The 1924 convention of
the American Federation of Labor de-
clared for the speedy independence of
.the Philippines.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Q.-When was the International
MOlders' Union organized?

A.-Various local holders unions
met at Philadelphia July 5, 1859, and
organized a national union, which be-
came the International holders I'm
ion. The national convention was held
largely as a result of the efforts of
William H. Sylvis, a leading spirit
among union molders, who was after
ward the first great figure in the
American labor movement.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Labor Queries

QUESTIONS and Answers on
Labor: What 1t Has Done;
Where Ii Stands on Problems of
the Day; Its Aim and Program;
Who's Who in the Ranks of the
Organized TOilers, ETC., etc.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
F. K. robson

speakers table with the states at
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Q.-Does organized labor sympa-

Q.-Does organized labor sympa-
thize with the plan of Vice President
Dawes TO reform the Senate rules?
A.-The 1925 convention of the
American Federation of Labor de-
nounced the scheme of Dawes as a
plan to abolish free speech in the Sen
ate. The scheme was branded as not
in the interest of the people but in the
interest of the reactionary element
that is seeking to control all legisla-
ltion,
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Q.-What does organized labor
think of Sunday "blue laws?"

A.-Labor is opposed to such laws,
the last A. +. of l.. convention de-
claring them to be another interfer-
ence with personal liberty"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

Q.-Who said: Labor in this coun-
try is independent and proud. Ii has
not to ask the patronage of capital,
but capital solicits the aid of labor"
A.-Daniel Webster, in a speech
made in April, 1924.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01

sequent decisions of the eNee- .5sy
council on this subject, and tas: - IN
be requested not to take any 4Ss.;srs
this subject contrary TO tie ~
of the A. F. of l.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-01
Burial Baskets in
L. S, Take 100000.
Trees Every Year

Washngton, Oct. 1.-@fP) Some in
'ercstlng facts about the consumption
al lumber III the seemingly minor in
dustries ere 81 own IN studies made
by the Forest Products Laboratory.
1t was found that it requires 1922
100000 feet of softwood lumber
equal to 100000 mature timber trees
to make burial caskets used yearly
in the United States.
Screens to keep out mosquitoes and
flies use up 20.00O,0OO feet yearly,
while another 3O,000,00O feet goes
into signs each year. Pals, tubs,
clothes racks, bowls, stepladders,
hose reels, churns, ironing boards,
bread boards and other woodcnware
call for 100000, 900 feet Of lumber.
Honey bees require 100000 feet
year for their hives, while incubat-
ing eggs and baby chicks need TO-
100000 feet. Toys consume 1900, 900
feet of softwood, to say nothing Of
hardwood.
The Forest Service and the Nation
al Lumber Manufacturers ISOLATION
arc cooperating in campaign of
education to have the manufacturers
buy in short lengths SO the mills
may utilize all of the tree in turning
out lumber.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-01

DON'T INVEST IN GOLD FROM SEA
Berlin-Dont invest In sea water.
.TAat was the warning issued by Prof.
Fritx Haber, famous German chem
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-01
MUCH TAXABLE
PROPERTY IS.
II \
NOT ON LIST
- - -
Electric Distribution Lines
and Cream Stations. Not
Listed in Many Cases

Thousands Of dollars Of property in
the shape of electric distribution
lines in towns and villages and cream,
stations maintained by dairy cOmpa-
mics and individuals do not appear on
!. the tax lists Of North Dakota coun-
ties. according to information re-.
ccived mt the state tax commissioner 5
office.
-. II. Patrick, tax supervisor in
this district, has uncovered scores OF
cases in which this situation exists,
according to report received here,
and T. II. H. Thorcscn, state tax COM
! missioner, expresses the opinion that
the condition is general throughout
the state.
May BE Misunderstanding
In tho case Of electric lines located
IN cities, he said, misunderstanding
.-as to the relative duties Of the state
tax commission and local assessors
: may be responsible.
The state fixes the tax on electric
transmission lines operated by power
companies but not on distribution
Tines located in cities and towns. In
many cases local assessors apparently
presumed that the state had fixed
valuations on such property and
failed to list it.
= How so many Of the 800 cream
stations happen to be off the tax
lists, Thorescn has no idea. In most
cases the taxable valuation Of cream
station is from 5000 to $500. If the
records Of every county are in line
with reports from counties where in
vestigations already have been made
the total of such property not on the
tax list will be large, Thorescn said
Electric Systems Not Listed
The list Of electric systems not on
the tax lists as reported by Patrick
follow:
Mclean county-Coleharbor. first
comm il toner's district six miles from
Washburn. Mercer township system,
Max. Washburn, Turtle Lake, Under
wood. Wilton and Roseglcn township.
In all cases an attempt will be made
to collect back taxes from 1920. The
total valuation for the combined years
on these properties is $l05,s00.
Wells county - Cathay, Hamburg
and Hurdsficld. Four Delco systems
Mt Manfred also were listed by Pat
rick hut Thorcscn is.not sure they are
taxable under the law. In many cases
this equipment is considered 4 part
Of the building when valuations for
taxation purposes are made.
Sheridan county = McClusky and
Goodrich.
Burlcigh county--Regan.
Cream Stations Missing
The number Of cream stations and
their taxable value for 1926 found by
Patrick to be missing from tax rolls,
by countics. follows:
Dickcy county-ll stations. S2,li3.
Wells county-1s stations. S2.A10.
Sheridan county-lo stations s3.S03.
Reports from tax supervisors who
are checking the tax rolls in other
counties have not yet been received
here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-01
DEATH STING
BEING TAKEN
FROM SNAKES
.Antivenin Institute Makes
Serum Which Will Save
Lives of These Bitten

Cambridge. Mass, Oct. l.---tP)-
Science has stretched out its hand in
the form of the newly organized Anti
vcnin Institute of America TO take
death dealing powers from the rat
tier, moccasin and the other venom
Gus snakes.
Dir. Afranio do Amaral. from the
state of Sac Paulo Serum Institute
and Snake Farm in Brazil, mas as
sumcd dictatorship Of the organza
ton and has retained IL. Harvard
From "A summer tour If the United
States. studying the dangers Of the
different localities and organizing
the institute which is to combat them
Warning on Poison
Beh mo this war on poison are
Harvard University, the United States
army, the milford company of Phila-
delphia and the Tnaed Fruit COM
pany OF Boston. The battle mas open
ed on Two new fronts this summer.
Central and North America, besides
the Brazilian state.
The scientific base Of the North
American division has been estab
lisned at Harvard The experiment
tai station, where the serum is pre-
pared is at Glenolden. Pa. Field sta
tons for the capture of the reptiles,
the extraction of their venom, and
the distribution Of the life saving
serum arc at San Antonio, New
Orleans and San Diego.
Squeeze Out Venom
The field workers 80 into "snake"
country and lasso the reptiles with
u loop Of Irvine on the end of
stick. They are then shipped to the
central snake houses of the field sta
tons The venom is extracted by
squeezing the gland contents out
through opened mouth. The venom
is dried and the resulting yellow
crystals are sent on to the Glen
olden station. The snakes live about
six months in captivity and every fort
night they are forced to yield up
their store Of poison. They are not
fed, for the venom is form of saliva
used in digestion.
At Glenoldcn. solution is made,
tested and standa rdizcd. Then. very
gradually so that the animals are
not made i'll, the solution is injected
into horses. After six months Of this
treatment the horse is bled and yields
up the serum which is said to have