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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
CITY LIBRARY TO
LOAN BOOKS SOON
NEW VOLUMES RECEIVED
CLERK WILLIAMS CATA-
LOGING BOOKS NOW

A regular meeting of the city
council was held Monday evening
at the city hall All members of
She council were present with the
exception of Aldermen Ferguson
/ and Conrad of the third ward.
After the routine reading and
approval of the minutes of the
previous meeting, B. A. Barick-
man, as a delegate from the Am
ericam Legion, came before the
council and asked permission for
the Legion to put on five-day
indoor circus at the Coliseum.
This permission was duly grant
ed upon the motion of Alderman
Johnson seconded by Alderman
Garden.
New Books for Library
The following communication
from the city clerk was read:
Honorable Mayor and City
Council,
Cent emen:
I wish to report to you that |
lswe received the books from the
church and the La
dies Club and have them cata
Iogued by authors and am now
engaged in cataloging them al
phalbe.ically by titles, and I also
wish to report THAI I have re-
ceived from R. L. Stephens ten
volumes off Literature of All Ma
lions, together with fourteen
books of fiction; and from Joseph
VI Montgomery an encyclopedia on
and have the promise
If number of books from ]. K.
8ramble. The above mentioned
oooks are well bound and in good
condition.
'I will be able to let out what
books we now have as soon as
,our honorable body formulates
he rules under which you wish
he library conducted. Yours very
ruly, F. C. Williams, city clerk"
Owing to the expense necessary
o the establ' shing of the library
md the inipossibility of securing
ity funds for the same until a
rear from mex. January, the
ouncil recommended that the
rice of membership cards from
he present date until January
st, 1928 be twenty-five cents,
nd they requested the clerk to
raw up a set of rules governing
he library and submit them to
he Council for their approval.
Continued on Page Four)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
HERALD GIVEN MENTION
In NATIONAL CONTEST

The Herald can't help feeling a
little bit proud of an honor which
came to US recently when we were
included among the first II week
ly newspapers entered in a ma
tional contest conducted by the
Illinois Press association. This
honorable mention came as a sur
prise, since we did not know that
The Herald was entered in the
contest. Last May, at the request
eff the School of journalism of
the University of Missouri, several
copies of The Herald were sent
Continued on Page Four)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
GEORGE EDER BOUND
OVER TO DIST. COURT

"a preliminary hearing in the
case of George Eder, charged
with horse stealing, was held be-
fore Judge Gordon Wednesday
afternoon. Eder was recently
arrested at Roman after an ex-
tensive search and brought back
here by Charles Council, under
sheriff.
Eder was bound over to the
district court under S2500 bonds.
Arlie M. Foor, deputy county at
torney, acted as prosecuting at
torney and Frank M. Catlin
appeared for the plaintiff.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
ARMISTICE DANCE
BIG SUCCESS

The American Legions' Armis-
ice Day dance, at the Coliseum
was a wonderful success enjoyed
by an immense crowd, many Of
whom came from surrounding
towns. Dancing and merrymak-
ing lasted until late hour. The
fine weather greatly aided the
plans Of the day and evening.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
MONTANA FARM LEADERS HEAR
LOWDEN TALK ON SOIL PROBLEMS
CROWD JAMS FARM BUREAU
BANQUET AND MEETING
AT HELENA
montana Record Herald)

The decay OF agriculture al
\ ways has marked the first stage II
the decline of a nations great
ness" declared former Governor
Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois, when
he spoke at a public meeting at
the Shrine temple auditorium
Saturday evening under the aus
pices of the Lewis and Clark farm
bureau.
"There is a farm problem of
sthe gravest Importance" he con-
tinued, when explaining that a
solution must be found for it if
we are to preserve our civiliza-
ton.
Governor and Mrs. Lowden were
guests of the farm bureau, when
more than 700 were served at the
annual banquet at the Shrine
temple. Notable guests were
present, including state farm bu-
reau officials, business men of
Montana cities and community
leaders Of Helena and Lewis and
Clark county.
r. Cunning ham is Chairman
While the banquet was being
served under the direction of Zeb
Melhorn of The Weiss cafe, Fred
Stark and Charles Streedbeck en-
tertained with negro melodies and
Swedish monologues. George
Mason sang three solos. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Mason.
The crowd moved to the mainI
auditorium where Tom Herrin,
pres dent of the farm bureau, in
Produced H. R. Cunningham as
Chairman. On the platform with
Mr.. Lowden and Mr.. Cunningham
were many prominent in state af-
fairs and members of the farm
bureau, including former Govern
or Joseph M. Dixon, A. B. Cook,
Mrs. Ivan Gore, district represen-
tative of the national farm bureau;
w. L. Stockton, president of the
state farm bureau; former Gov
ernor s. v. Stewart, Governor
John E. Erickson, Alfred Atkin-
son, president Of the state col
iege.
Mrs. Gore told of the farm bu-
reau organization which embraces {
As states. Ii
"The bureau is TO the farmers
what chambers of commerce are :
to business men," she said, when
the value Of co-opera- :
tive marketing. +
Farm is Basis :
griculture is the basis of all
and we have gathered
at this non-political meeting to
hear a great man discuss it," said
Mr.. Cunningham in his introduct-
ory remarks. "There is no man in +
country better qualified to discuss
5his great subject than Mr.. Low L
den. 1t is one of the greatest
nonors Of my life to introduce n
Mr. Lowden, former congressman :
and former governor of Illinois.
Lowden Moves Down
Expressing desire to be near :
II his audience, Mr.. Lowden left j
he platform and talked from the n
loor Immediately in front of the
auditorium seats. The reception 3
also left the platform 1
ior the floor.
Launching into a study of the
agricultural problems, Mr.. Low
len told of the farmers problem
n the disposal Of his product at a
living price. His address was "
,unctua-ed by frequent applause W
The meeting was closed by Mr.. n
Ierrin, who expressed thanks to d
Ir. Lowden and appreciation to It
II who had helped to make the Il
nnual meeting a success.
Mr.. Lowden said, in part m
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11
STATE and COUNTY RESULTS
TRUE TO FIRST INDICATIONS

Prohibition Repeal And Good Roads Held Great
est Interest For Voters-County Returns Official
ly Canvassed, State Still mplete-County
Vote Was Light Scarcely Twothrds
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-11-11

tinued on last page)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
GOVERNMENT IN
VENTION HELPS
COTTON INDUSTRY

Washington.-An attachment for
use on cotton planters to insure uni
form depth of planting and proper
packing of the soil around the seed
has been perfected by the United
States department of agriculture.
Commercial cotton planters have
reduced the output of cotton by inn
proper planting, resulting in poor
stands through lack of termination.
The departments invention has been
enthusiastically received by the cot
ton planters, whose poor stands of
cotton are attributed to improper
planting machines.
The department has applied for
public-service patent covering the in
vention This will make it available
to all without payment of royalties
necessary with privately owned pat
ents.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
Fear Of Building Iie-Up In Chicago
Fades as Unions Negotiate Pay Raises

of the notorious rat" printing firm
of r. r. Donnelly & Sons, four years
ago. The scale for carpenters then
was $125 an hour. Judge Lands
tried to lower the scale to 81 an
hour, but the carpenters stood pat and
the scale was not lowered
Today there are more than 10000
members on the rolls of the Chicago
Carpenters District Council, with the
scale at $1.371a an hour and an
agreement signed to make the scale
81 so an hour October /.
Not only that, but the Carpenters
District Council has erected and paid
for one of the finest labor headquar-
ters buildings in the world. The
carpenters started out on this enter
prise while the fight made by the
Lands committee was being vigor-
ously waged. The property as it
stands is worth $325,000, without a
dollar of indebtedness against it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
Economists Urge Gathering
of Facts on Business Trend
ToLessen Unemployment Evil

By International Labor News Service
New York City.-A plan to fore
stall periods of extensive unemploy-
ment, such as often follow waves of
unusual prosperity, was announced
here by economists who have been
studying the problem of the worker
and his job since the industrial crisis
of 1921. The plan is presented in
the report of study made under
the direction of committee of the
American Statistical Association, of
which Mary Van Kleeck, director of
the Russell Sage Foundations de-
partment of industrial studies, is
chairman.
'The purpose of the PLAN" the re-
port states, 'is to lessen unemploy-
ment by providing facts needed to
understand and control fluctuations in
the production Of goods and obstruc-
tions to their sale. These Interrupt
tions in economic processes throw
men and women out of work"
Declaring the unemployment spec
ire to be mo vague abstraction of
economic theory" the report says
ITO be out of work and out of wages
in an economic world in which the
dollar earned is the only means of
securing food, clothing, and lodging,
overwhelms the worker with a sense
of personal failure and discourage
ment, illustrates his hope of maintain
ing and raising the standard of living
of his family and forces his children
to begin wage-earning too early"
The report declares that the dis
tress suffered by large groups of
workers periodically thrown out of
employment in times of business de-
preston can largely be avoided by ac-
curate advance information on the
trend Of employment Such informa-
ton, if gathered monthly under a
comprehensive plan covering the en-
tire nation and classified as to indus
tries as well as geographically,
would, the report says, enable local
governments and welfare agencies to
foresee widespread unemployment
many months earlier than is at pres
ent possible and to initiate munich
pal improvements and other relief
measures before crisis develops.
The report is an outgrowth of Pres
ident Harding's conference on unem-
ployment in 1921 and of Secretary
Hoover's committee on the business
cycle.
Federal Agencies to Help
The plan now presented calls for
the collection of employment statistics
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11

Pounds dismal prophets, both produc-
ton and sales beating the record this
spring. The business is becoming
highly competitive and its is notice
able that gains of some companies are
being made at the expense of others.
Overproduction is not evident.
A sign of trouble is in the sliding
down of prices of farm products, a
drop of 107 per cent being noted in
March. A drop of Al per cent in
food prices and a decline of sc per
cent of all commodities, including
clothing, metals and house furnishing
goods, were noted in March. This
is part of a world trend and will ease
off business activity in the end, it is
expected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
BY Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service

BY Staff Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago building trades situ>
alton in Chicago has become suff
GENTLY clarified to warrant the pre-
diction that there will no general tie
up of building operations here this.
summer. Direct negotiations be-
tween the organized employers and
union officers, together with refusal
to tolerate outside interference, has
brought about the result.
The Carpenters District Council
started the movement toward a
peaceful solution of very tangled
situation when it voted approval of a
compromise offer from the Millwork
Association in reference to the de-
mand for an increase in pay of 10
cents an hour for the $500 union
millmen. The employers offered 5
cents an hour increase, and this was
overwhelmingly approved in a refer
endum vote Of the millmen
Outside Men Get Raise Next Fall
The Carpenters District Council
was demanding an increase of 12R
cents an hour for the 26,000 outside
carpenters, which would raise the
scale to $150 an hour. After pro-
tracted negotiations the bosses offer
ed compromise by which the out
side carpenters would receive the
askedfor increase on October / next,
instead of on June /.
President Harry Jensen and the
other officers of the District Council
thought this a good offer. The dele
gate body agreed with the officers,
and the proposition was sent to the
referendum. The members enthusi-
astically voted acceptance.
Increase Total About S8,000,000
This means that the millmen and
outside carpenters under the jurisdic-
ton of the Chicago Carpenters Dis
trict Council have obtained increases
in pay totaling about $8,O00,000 a
year. The best part of the story is
that this great accomplishment was
brought about through negotiation
alone and without stoppage of work
The plasterers, too, have settled
their dispute by accepting compro-
mise offer. They had been receiving
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
BUSINESS BOOMS
Despite Pessimistic Talk
Work Plenty and Pro-
ductiOn Absorbed, Is
Bank Report

By International Labor News Service
New York City.-The high level of
production and trade was maintained
in April and there is now little doubt
that for the year 1926 prosperity will
be maintained owing to the fine
start made in the. first half of the
year. This is in marked contrast with
the failure of Europe to recover,
Great Britain, Germany, France and
particularly Russia showing little
signs of improvement.
Factory employment is at high
level throughout the country, accord
ing to statistics gathered by the Ma
tional City Bank, the building and
automobile industries continuing
their phenomenal records. New
building contracts for March and
April for the whole country were 22
per cent higher than the record
breaking months of 1925, and while
all believe the turn in building is not
far ahead, the volume for 1926 is
certain to be as great as 1925.
Steel production, the pulse of in
dustry, also set new high record,
far above that of the 1924 peak. Tex
tiles are the exceptions, cotton, woolen
and silk suffering for lack of orders
The automobile output is already
being stabilized; figures show the gen
eral output for the last three years
being about the same and what slight
increase there has been has gone into
the export trade. Financiers are
eager to see Europe regain its pur-
chasing vigor if for no other reason
than to bolster Americas industry
when consumption here begins to lag
The automobile trade again con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
Favorable Compromise Offers
Accepted by Several Trades;
Outside Interference Fails

$3.50 an hour and asked for a raise
to $175. After 5000 men had been
out for short time while the strike
was settled on a basis Of $l62R an
hour.
The bricklayers signed up at the
old scale of $1.50 an hour, and the
plumbers have contract which does
not expire for two years.
Other Trades to Stay at Work
The steamfitters have made a ten
tative agreement with their employ
ers which extends the operation of the
present pact for some weeks, due to
the absence of their employers at a
convention.
The hosting engineers, cement fin
ishers, and laborers have likewise
agreed with their employers to re-
main at work pending negotiations
The wages for cement fnishers and
hosting engineers, now getting
$1.37h an hour, are to be raised to
$1.50 an hour October /, the rates to
continue in effect until May 81, 1928
Laborers will get raise of two and
one-half cents, making their wages 80
cents an hour after October l.
The structural iron workers are ne
gotiating for raise from $1.3712 to
$1.50 an hour.
Employers Ignore Lands Committee
The citizens committee to enforce
the Lands award, strike breaking
outfit organized here four years ago
with the avowed purpose of breaking
the building trades unions, had very
little effect on the negotiations this
spring. The employers put their feet
under the table with their employees
and settled their differences without
regard to the Lands committee.
The Lands committee spent mil
lions of dollars in an effort to bring
about open shop conditions in the
building industry of Chicago, and yet
the unions have come out of the
struggle stronger than ever.
Carpenters Thrive, Despite Opposi-
tiOn
Take the carpenters as an example
The carpenters local unions here had
a membership of $4,000 when the
Lands committee started its fight, un-
der the leadership of I. E. Donnelly,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11

by state labor bureau, with the
United States department of labor the
co-ordinating center. In addition, the
plan commends and urges the extern
sion of the regular collection of en-
ployment statistics by federal bu-
reaus having direct relation to cer-
tain industries, such as the geological
survey for mines and quarries, the
interstate commerce commission for
railroads, and the department of ag-
riculture for farms, and the reporting
of all these data to the federal bu-
reau of labor statistics for prompt
publication of national indices of en-
ployment
The industries from which it is
proposed to collect the data are man
ufacturing, mining and quarrying,
communication, building construction,
wholesale trade, retail trade, logging
and lumber work, and agriculture.
Valuable Data Sought
If the plan advocated is carried out,
the committee says, information will
be available for business men, bank
ers, and social agencies which will
show each month for every important
industry, for every state, and for
every important community and in
dustrial area, whether the number on
the payrolls and the total wages paid
are less or greater than in the pre-
ceding month, in the preceding year,
and at other periods significant for
comparison.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
Failure to Buy at Home
One Big Trouble With Coal
Industry, Editor Points Out

BY international Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Ellis Searles,
editor of the United Mine Workers
Journal, official organ of the United
Mine Workers of America, addressed
the Rotary Club of Lima, Ohio, on
What Is the Matter With Coal?"
Mr.. Searles told Ohio citizens that
one thing the matter with the coal
business was that Ohio industries did
not burn Ohio coal; and by the same
token the people of Indiana and Illi-
nois did not burn their native Goals,
but go all the way to West Virginia
to buy coal supplies because of a saw
ing of few cents ton.
Send Money Outside
"The people of Ohio send their
money to West Virginia" Mr.. Searles
said, "and keep the miners of that
state employed while the miners of
Ohio stand in idleness. There are 40,-
900 miners in Ohio and all are ready
to work and earn money which they
will spend in the stores and business
houses of Ohio. But they have no
work, because the people of Ohio re-
fuse to patronize and sustain the
great industry of their own state.
''You expect these 10000 men to
buy here at home the groceries, dry
goods, clothing, shoes, drugs, hard
ware, lumber and everything else
that they and their families need.
You expect them to pay taxes for the
upkeep of state, county and city. You
expect them to help keep up the
schools and everything lese, yet you
do not provide them with employment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS
DEMANDED BY BISHOP

acknowledgements inspec-
tion of books in libraries, with a
view to censoring those found to be
bad food for the mind, was advocat-
ed by Bishop John w. Hamilton, in
an address at the laying of the cor
ner stone of the Bratelle Memorial
Library building at the American
University here.
The bishop holds that an "unguard-
ed library" is a great danger His
reasoning is that the state provides
inspectors of food for the body.
Therefore the state should also pro-
vide inspectors Of the food for the
mind"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11

so that they can earn money to do
this. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois money
pays West Virginia's taxes, keeps up
West Virginia institutions and schools
and makes business for West Vir-
ginia merchants"
Ohio Miners Union Men
Mr.. Searles said the Ohio miners
were union men and demanded de-
cent American wages for the labor
they performed. In West Virginia, he
pointed out, non-union miners are en-
ployed and the men work for any
wage the operators see fit to give
them. In Ohio the miners wage is
fair, he said, but in West Virginia
it is a starvation wage.
"Men are working in West Vir-
ginia,' Mr.. Searles declared, "for as
little as So day, and they stay be-
cause they can not get away. That is
the kind of condition against which
the solid substantial, American miner
of Ohio is asked to compete.
Miners Boost Home State
"The United Mine Workers of
America is the largest labor union in
America, with 100000 members. and
believes in the policy of boosting the
home state. The mine workers of
Ohio have the right to an opportunity
to earn an income that will maintain
their families on decent American
level of living They should not be
asked nor expected to degrade them
selves down to the poverty or strva-
tion level that exists in West Vir-
ginia."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
ELECTRICAL
WORKERS
To Hold Institute at Labor
College

By International Labor News Service.
Katonah, N. Y.-The summer in
stitute to be conducted by the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, July 1881 at Brookwood
Labor College here is arousing con-
siderable interest among the men,
ber.
The local union in Boston, Mass, is
conducting a membership campaign
and the two men who bring in the
most members are to be sent as rep
resentatives to the institute. The
Massachusetts State Association of
Electrical Workers, comprising rep
resentatives of all the unions in the
state, has officially indorsed the insti-
tute and is urging that each local in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
AUTO KILLS
THOUSANDS

New York-The automobile is as
destructive as war, according to fig
ures by William H. Connell, retiring
president of the American Road
Builders Association. Last year
automobiles in the United States
killed $4,000 persons and injured
100000.
"While drastic measures must be
taken to eliminate reckless driving"
said Mr.. Connell, "a great deal of
money must also be spent on the
elimination of dangerous conditions
on the public highways"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11

the state send representative Lo-
Gals in other states have voted to
send delegates.
The central theme of the institute
will be Giant Power" Technical
problems involved as well as the re-
lations of organized labor to electrical
power projects will be discussed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1926-06-11
WIDE DISPARITY BETWEEN
WAGES OF MEN AND WOMEN

Albany.-Wide disparity between
the weekly earnings of men and
women factory workers is shown by
the report of the state department
of labor on earnings for April, 1926.
Weekly earnings of men averaged
$32.75, while the women averaged
$3.50.