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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-25

Brooks, William Gaxton and Blanche
Ring as assistants will provide hilar-
ious entertainment ut the Eltinge to-
day and Saturday.
Old-timers will testify that the
phrase has nothing to do with the
army. Fields himself says it means,
"Never give sucker an even break"
And that just about explains it.
Remember the old circus and
medicine side-shows that used to
arrive in town? There was always
a redfaced chap mounted on a plat
form who called out: "Step up, la
a-adies and gents! See if you can
tell under which shell is the peal
Then he moved the shells around
rapidly and you'd guess. Usually
wrong.
Well, that's "the old army game. >
"The old army game" has been
practiced as long as humans have
lived. They say prehistoric cave
men used to play it. Definite rec
ords show that it had mart in early
Chinese history. And the Romans,
at the height of their glory, were ex-
perts in kidding the suckers"
Fields participation in New York
lot selling scheme in Florida and his
trip in his Ford to New York City
are extremely funny situations.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-06-25
REX THEATRE

Tom Mix in a real honest western.
playing in the roll of sheriff, en-
titled THE Man From Texas" The
title itself should prove to you the
nature Of the picture. If you are
aching for real treat in a western.
don't miss this one.
The serial miracles of the Jungle"
is we'll known. Showing today chap
ter IL. entitled Cheating Death"
Monday we present Cecil (Ole)
Vernon in person in Scandinavian
dialogue.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Federal Bank System
Has Many LOOphOles

New York, Jan. 5.-When the fed
eral reserve bank system was in,
stalled several years ago, the public
was assured that this marked the enc
of high hinterest on money and stock
Now it is acknowledged that specu.
lators have no trouble securing funds
and the biggest stock market ever
known has been going on for year.
Under the law member banks can
not pass up to the reserve banks
loans secured by stocks and bonds,
but they can turn in paper having its
origin in commercial transactions and
lend the proceeds in the stock market.
George +. Roberts, vice president
of the National Cityl bank and former
director of the United States mint, in
Inmates that the federal reserve sys-
tenn has not justified the predictions
of its friends.
Experience shows" he says, "that
money or credit can not be kept IN
water-tight compartments"
During the year 1925 the nations
credit, under the federal reserve sys-
TEN, has expanded half a billion dol
lars, and "as result of this expan-
sion the prospects is for dearer money
for all purposes in 1926 than in 1870.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Senate Will Consider
Impeachment Charges

Washington, Jan. 5.-The senate is
preparing 10 impeach Federal Judge
English Of East st. Louis. He Is
charged with high crimes and misde-
meanors," which include favoritism In
the naming Of receivers for bankrupt
business firms and dividing fees re-
ceived by his appointeea.
While Judge English was indulRing
in these practices he Numbered against
"law-defyinR" shop men during their
nationwide strike. The English court
was an automatic injunction mill.
A special committee Of the house
has unanimously recommended i'm
peachment The accused will face the
senate, whose members are sworn TO
act a. a high court Of impeachment.
Judge English will be ordered TO ap-
pear before the trial court and the
managers Of the house will present
their evidence. Following this the
high court will hear arguments. II
will require a two-thirds vote 10 flnd
him guilty. Forfeiture Of Office and
Of all rights as a citizen Is the limit
penalty that may be imposed.
This is the tenth time in the history
Of the United States that the senate
has considered impeachment charges.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
University Probes
Bring Mill Threat

Charlotte, N. c., Jan. 5.-If the
University of North Carolina insists
on Investigating economic conditions
in this states textile mills it may find
It's appropriations curtailed by the
legislature.
This threat is made by David Clark,
editor of the Southern Textile Bulle-
tin, spokesman for the textile manu-
iactufers and opponent of any pro-
posal that is intended to improve
working conditions.
The editor said he was speaking
''unolrieially," but let the university
authorities know that the manufac-
turers "can and may bring pressure"
to bear on the Legislature to lessen the
schools appropriations if they insist
on Investigating the manufacture of
cotton goods. Mr.. Clark wants the
university to confine itself to academic
courses of study and to leave social
questions alone.
This attitude is in line with a
declaration of a mill owners conven-
ton in Pinehurst which rejected the
request of university officials that
they be allowed entrance to the mills
to make a social and economic study
Of conditions therein.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
The Old Year In
Retrospect ;.The New
Year I'm Prospect
BY GEORGE ARNOLD
State Director of Labor Of Illinois

A year ago numerous persons oi
prominence in this State ISSUED
statements prognosticating the trend
of industry for 1925. They were al
most without exception optimistic
that prosperity was at the door and
that 1926 would be record year.
Our gauge of the stage of industry.
however. showed that there would
have TO be a phenomenal change TO
bear out the predictions of the optim-
lists.
Now, year later, we find that it
was not phenomenal year, but quite
an ordinary one. As far as labor was
concerned, 1925 was a year OF very
uneven prosperity. While some of the
industries were at flood tide, others
weer deep in the shadows, with a con-
sequence that, though some workers
enjoyed prosperity that was without q
counterpart elsewhere in our economic
istory, other localities We're subject
TO a plague Of poverty.
The year 1925 started with indus
try lethargic in the depression that
set in the last half of 1924. After only
moderate spring swell, early in the
last year the trend Of industrial oper-
ations descended to point which was,
though not as low as 1921, still dan
gerously near il. Since July of 1925,
there has been much improvement in
the situation. Steadier employment
has lifted the average weekly earn
ings of employees to the highest point
on record in the State, and the indus
oh -, N dol ua4s
months ago are now growing active.
The betterment has continued down to
date, and though it has not at any
time approached the boom stage, we
have ended 1925 with things much
over the stage of the end of
1924.
Nor is that alone the reason that
labor in Illinois should be happy for
the new year Although ! was not one
of those who was optimistic a year
ago, | am now. The railroad equip
ment industry, which is one of the
most important in the State and
which has been dead, is reviving.
Orders have been placed for new
equipment by a number of the roads,
and the trade papers tell of new in
quiries that will likely bring new
orders to this State. Building work,
which was at high point throughout
the year, will be sustained at level
a singh or probably a little higher
throughout the first part of the year,
the permits already issued indicate.
are high for industrial work
ers, and the mines are in a condition
that is not far from satisfactory. |
find myself more optimistic on New
Years Day than at any time since
1923.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Workers Not Selfish
In Bread Trust Fight

Chicago, Jan. 5-The Bakers Jour
nal reminds the public that the work
ers' fight against the bread trust is
of interest to them.
This trust already controls the
bread market TO such an extent that
it is able to dictate prices of the most
important means of life" says the
labor paper. Every technical inn
provement in its plants, every saving
liz wages, every additional exploita-
ton OF labor power increases profits
of a small group of capitalists. who
annually reap millions Of dollars.
This monopoly is growing rapidly
Into a gigantic trust which will ulti-
mately levy tribute upon all the peo-
pie. providing the latter permit it
through their carelessness.
If any one entertains the idea that
the bread trust pays low wages TO
cheaper bread, they are mistaken.
Neither do the workers nor the con-
sumiDg masses benefit from the tech
nical advantages and the labor-saving
machinery used by the bread trust to
a greater extent than in smaller bake
shops"
The Bakers Journal points out that
Iunionists and the people generally
can combat the trust by buying union
label bread.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Canadian Business In
terests Devise Plan
For Prosperity
By international Labor News Service

By international Labor News Service
Montreal, Jan. canadian busi
ness has moments of inspiration.
As result of a national conferenc.
| of representatives of Boards of Trade
called to devise policy to put the
country on the highroad to progress
and prosperity, a delegation waited on
the Dominion government and asked
That economy in public expenditure
be practiced as well as preached.
That $250,000,000 of public money
be used to promote immigration.
Premier King, in reply, said the
Civil Service Commission had deprived
the government of control of the pub
lie service, created a vast number of
functionaries and so became a source
of great expense.
J. A. Robb, minister of finance, who
until recently was minister of immi-
grafton, said he was all for economy,
but believed it was difficult to get inn
migrants because owing to the break
up of big estates in England and
there was now cheaper than in Can
ada. He instanced a farmer who
sold his land Is miles from Winnipeg
and bought better land at a lower
price per acre within 20 miles of
London, England.
These interesting results of the Ma
tion Saving Conference have caused
Canadian workers to sit up and take
notice. They wonder how the business
men reconcile their demand for gov
eminent subsidy Of $3.50 700 900 TO in
crease the competition for jobs with
the desire of most of the same bust
ness men for protection against the
competition of foreign goods.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
rNION MEN AND WOMEN, YOUR FAMILIES
AND FRIENDS

The Twin City Review is going to put an educa-
ona Union Label Contest and give out prizes to the ones
that send in the correct of the union labels that are
to published in its paper and short essay of not over
one hundred words of "why should demand the Union
poyes of The Twin City Review the old folks and the
Young too get in this contest when starts and
there will be six cash prizes awarded to the contestants
who send in the best answers.
Rules and Regulations of this Contest will be pub
Hhed when the contest starts start looking up your
labels and study them-so that you may win one of the
prizes to be given out in this contest Patronize the label
Merchandise and your friendly merchants and ask some
Of them about the different union labels and they may be
able to help you.
We will announce in later issues when this contest
will start don't forget about the contest of The Twin
City Review is going to put for the benefit of the Union
label and the labor movement.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08

Hazelton. Pa, Jan. b. Miners em-
ployed by the Jeddo-llighland Coal
company have exposed propaganda of
this corporation TO develop a public
sentiment against these strikers,
When Governor rinchot called 4
conference of municipal officials IN the
anthracite region, the burgess Of
Jeddo announced that his constituents
are against the pinehot plan Of settle
ment The miners show that the bur
gess "happens 10 be" superintendent
of the company, and that the popula-
tion Of Jeddo IL composed of officials,
clerks, and confidential and monthly
men. The borough Is owned and dom
mated by the company,
'"fbe cheap trick Of the company
and It's burgess was 40 evident" the
miners state, that newspaper report
ers at the conference did not mention
the burgess In their reports"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Prison Warden Heads
Death Penalty Drive

New York, Dec. 2s.-Lewis f.
lawes, warden of Sing Sing prison,
has taken the chairmanship of the
League for the Abolition of Capital
Punishment, national organization.
We are not sentimental in this
campaign said Warden Lawes. "Pe-
nologists have long known that il is
'the certainty, not the nature of the
penalty, that deters crime. We find
fewer homicidal crimes in states that
have abolished the death penalty than
in those where it is retained. There
are also more convictions nj the abo-
lition states. We have had capt al
punishment for generations and are
as far from a successful solution of
the problem of homicide as ever"
Warden Lawes said that after 20
years in penal work and six years as
warden of Sing Sing, and after in
vestigating and intensive study, he
not only does not believe in the
death penalty as a deterrent, but that
he is prepared to work for practical
solution of the problem. He advocates
life sentence as substitute, with no
rehearing for at least 20 years, except
on order from the state supreme court
showing ground for reopening a case.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Automobile Output at
Swift Pace; October
Production Makes Record

by international Labor News Service
Washington, ID, C., Jan. 9TH,
manufctufc of automobiles formerly
was considered highly seasonal In.
dustry with large production in the
spring and summer but with the out
put gradually dwindling In the winter
months. The year 1925 saw de-
crease in this tendency, taking the
automobile industry as "a whole.
Automobile production figures for
November are the latest definite data
available. In that month 336,35s pas
senger cars were produced. That was
less than October, "A month when pro-
duction was influenced by special cir
cumstances. However, November was
greater than August and September
and only slightly below the spring and
summer months.
Last year the seasonal factor was
more visible In the monthly produc-
tion figures with both November and
October being below the September
totals.
In the first three months of this
year automobile production was less
than the similar months of 1924. Since
then production as a whole has gone
far above the 1924 figures and have
euualed or bettered those of 1923
whic hsaw the record production Of all
time with the exception of this year.
October this year saw the greatest
passenger car production In any one
month in history, the number topping
four hundred thousand.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
|" Well Attended
At Virginia Theatre

\ crowd Of two thousand or more
people Of the Twin Cities. witnessed
the picture "Lahor's Rewanl" az the
Virginia Theatre. Sunday eveaing,
January ;. This picture Vas spon-
sored by the American Federation Il
Labor Thought very short il was a
wonderful lesson Il some and should
be remembered by all
In connection with "iaher's Re-
want was shown an educational ,.
reel film Of how cigarettes and to-
haccos are made in the factory of
ANion- Fisher rohacco Co. Of Louis.
vile, Nv, whore the famous Clown
cigarettes are manufactured. Most
Of you Union men know this-if you
dent--you should On the program
was several lectures which were en-
leyed by all, except the last one, which
Nc are not SO sure about. the shee
probably ht some Of Us, and Ne should
profit by that leeture-you know the
one about the union hair cut and the
nop-unton hat that one should be
remembered too. The program was a
big success and the Twin City Re
view extends wefd of thanks TO the
Theatre and their manager.
Mr., GoExor, for their hearty CO.
operation IN connection with the pro-
gram
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Wheeler Wins by
Knockout! Judge Rules
Indictment Out

by international Labor News Service
Senator Burton X. Wheeler and his
Ico-defcndanis were cleared of charges
brought against them IN federal in
dictments alleging conspiracy TO de
fraud the government when Justice
Jennings Bailey of the District Of
Columbia Supreme Court this week
sustaind the defense demurrer Of the
indictment.
The judge held that the indictment
failed 10 charge violation of the
law and was therefore invalid. He
held that the federal land act does not
limit the number Of permits that may
be issued to any one proRnectof and
that the Secretary of the Interior can
not make regulations that extend be-
yond the act itself.
The government has the right to
appeal, but as the matter stands
Wheeler has won smashing victory
against those who attacked him in the
midst Of his fight on former Attorney
General Daugherty
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Trade lnionism of
First Importance

II can not be too often emphasized
that the organization OF wage workers
Is Of first Importance
Ne wrong can be righted OF ideal
realized without the driving power of
unity
Men have wasted their lives In futile
petitions and hope for improved con
diuona, but not until they organized
were their hopes realized.
Again and again must men be
shown that there Is no royal road to
a better day.
Those who control the lives of wage
earners, and their families will not
surrender that control, They will only
yield Ms they are completed 10 by
power intelligently directed
The industrial autocrat may con
ceal his power. he may exercise IL
cautiously when unrest Is evident. but
behind the velvet glove looms an iron
fist
He may flll his plant with spies, or
he may assume a patefnaliatic atti-
tude with his company union" his
stock ownership or bonus systems,
but always he determines working
|eonditions. He objects 10 workers
having n voice in the manner OF their
|employmenl--the one thing that dis
| tlnguishea free men.
No man can be free In the lrus
sense until he can ac, With ~ fel.
lows, Out Of this collective movement
comes development IN every other iield
Of activity.
without organization the worker Is
a social cipher.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Labor Doubles Production
In 24-Year Period

By International Labor News Service
New York City, Jan. 5.-Labor men
lhard-boiled employers representatives
and spokesmen of the uplift mingled
together in joint sessions of th'
American Economic Association, the
American Statistical Association anc
the American Association for the Ad'
vancement of Labor Legislation anC
heard one large fact, which was:
Production per factory worker was
50 per cent higher in 1923 than II
1899.
Another was this:
The standard working week has
decreased 20 per cent in length since
1890.
More: -,
The man who works with his hands
is about q per cent better on II
real wages, than in the nlhetlesS'
Factory workers run little above thiS
figure Transportation workers stanc
at % per cent better on; " nL'e
collar workers hit the cellar Win
5 per cent drop. =, /,
These figures we're produced BY
Paul H. Douglas, University OF Chl,
cago. Other speakers pointed oul
that unemployment was not faetol
in the computation Of the declmals an'
70 that extent they do not with exact
ness represent averages. ,,.,,
But the figure on increased piouuC p!l;"-
tivitv is not disturbed by onisS'o'
of the unemployment factor.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Builders to Probe
Their Own Industry

New York, Jan. 5.-A committee
has been organized to consider evils
in the building industry, following a
mass meeting of 500 architects, build
erS, contractors, fnanciers and build
ing material men. The business men
are alarmed at the disappearance of
quality production in building and the
graft, theft, substitution of material
and high finance that permeates this
industry.
In the mad rush to place building
money, it is stated that heedlessness
as to the maintenance cost of most
Of these buildings has jeopardized the
welfare of people who have to work
and live in them. 1t is also creating a
financial hazard to thrifty persons
who are pouring their money into this
kind of investment, without thought
how fast depreciation in a "gypped'
building cuts into operating costs
when buildings are erected where
there is a concerted movement all
along the line to sc chow much can be
Subtracted from the specification with
out detection, what can be substituted
and covered up, and where there Is
under-inspection, or, in the case of a
certain typs of speculative building,
where no attempt at inspection by the
owner is made.
The committee says it will endeavor
to trace back through the various de-
partments of the industry the reasons
why "bungle bidding" and counter
bidding" have brought about situa-
tons where substitution, subterfuge
and traffic in stolen materials, equip
ment and appliances are no longer the
uncommon events in a builders eX-
0erence.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Norris Would Abolish
"Lame-Duck' Congress.

Washington, Jan. 5.--Senator Nor,
ris' constitutional amendment to abol
ish the ''lame-tluck" congress and in.
augurate presidents in January. in.
stead Of Mareh. is favored by the sen.
ate judiciary committee.
Under the present system congress
is elected in November. but is not
sworn in until a year from the fol-
lowing December---lS months later.
A congress that may be repudia,ed by
the people thus continue 70 make laws.
This permits "lame-dueks representa-
tives and senators to pass vicious leg
islation. because they are no longer
to the people
This system was adopted by the
Constitutional Fathers when travel
was by stage coach.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
Union Label Educational Contest
Milk Wagon Drivers
Aid City's Riddles

Chicago, Jan. 5.--organized milk
wagon drivers, affiliated to the Broth
erhood Of reamsters, voted 5000 to
children who would be overlooked by
Santa Claus. These unioniSts are as
generous as they are aggressive in
maintaining wage standards that will
benefit their own children. Each
member reported unfortunate cases
along their route and check for $40
was forwarded.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
THE LOST LEADER
BY ROBERT BROWNING

lust for a handful of silver he left us,
~ Just for a riband to stick in his coat
Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote;
They with the gold to give, doed him out silver,
So much theirs who so little allowed
How all our copper had gone for his servicel
Rags-were they purple, his heart had been proud!
We that had loved him So followed him, honored him.
Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,
Learned his great language caupgt his clear accents
Made him our pattern to live and to die
Shakespeare of us, Milton was for us,
Burns, Shelley, were with us-they watch from
their graves
He alone breaks from the van and the freemen
He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves
We shall march prospering-not thro' his presence;
Songs may inspire us-not from his Tyre;
Deeds will be done-whe he boasts his uuiescence
Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire:
Blot out his name then, record one lost soul more
One task more declined one more footpath untrod
AOne more devs-triumph and sorrow for angels.
One wrong more to man, one more insult to God
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
senate Row Looms

Washington, Jan. 5.--The presi.
dents appointment Of Thomas +.
Woodlock, New York, and Richard V.
Taylor. Alabama, as members Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, will
be opposed by senators who claim that
the commission In being "packed" "
Both appointees have had railroad
connections. The New York appoin-
tee has been rejected by the senate.
but the president gave him a recess
early last summer after
the senate adjourned.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-08
PRISON LABOR LABEL
OPPOSED ny BUSINESS

Olympia, Wash, Jan. b.--Businesa
interests oppose bill that would
make Il compulsory for merchants To
label prison-made goods that they
offer for sale. The proposal has been
favored by Legislative committe, but
the house rules committee refuses TO
place IL on the calendar.