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the Interstate Commerce Commission to protest against a reduction freight *nd passonger rates?" /j \

"The railroad unions, no less than! the railroad executives, havo their statisticians" warns the Journal. (

It-is not difficult to guess what the people would think about this trans-action if they could only be placet^ in possession of the facts. ' Unfortu­nately, the railroads seem to have such a grip on the newspapers ttat they refuse to print the truth even when the mouthpiece of Wall Street "lets the oat out of the bag."

ESIUSE TO BE TOOLED. It is not easy to bamboozle the inters as some people imagine. When the railroads a few weeks

nj;y annoUnccd a cut ot 10 per ecnt iu freight rates on all farm .products i iitl attempted to substitute it for the H! per cent reduction in rates on hay r: iul grain ordered by the Interstate i oinmcree Commission, they thought ti:ry would succeed in pulling the wool

•j\ or the eyes of "Old Reuben." But they were mistaken. The Iowa

Homestead, an agricultural paper uhich enters liiJ.OOO farm houses in Iowa, in reviewing the effort of West-j ru farmers to secure just' freight n-'es. declares:

'•'ill? history ox this latest bit of I'ever tactics on the part of the rail­roads is a perfect example of the man-j i cr in which the transportation in-j [ . -vests arc able to maintain a stran- j

f.;a l-o!d upon the agricultural indus- j try and rctaiu for au indefinite time) liio enormous revenues which they arc tr.rning at the expense of the farm-

u^idcr the iisch-Cumniina bill." In September last, the Homestead

1 THE IRON MAN. ..$2.(0 ^ Crime waves and world wars arc " !j[J caused by the automatic machinc. This =* J theory is advanced by Rev. Joel B.

| Mavden, Presbytfrian minister, of Cleveland.

The automatic machine, says Dr. llayden, keeps its operator's mind relatively unemployed.

Thinking, no matter what it is about, is the gymnasium cxtrcise that trains the brain. The old-time work­man had his personal skill and in­genuity constantly called into play. The automatic machinc does its own thinking.

But no human brain ever is idle. Constantly it is thinking. It is like a pool of water, with the winds of emotions alternately whipping it into billows or playing on it with peace­ful ripples.

The automatic machine may not keep its operator's mind on his work. But it has released the operator's at­tention, during working hours, for thought on outside problems.

The real problem is to divert that attention to worth-while subjects.

The 'curse of the automatic ma­chine is in monotony. Put a coin in your palm. Try to turn it over and over for eight hours. You'll probably wind up with a desire to scream or jump out of the window.

What, then, is the effect on a fac-ory girl who sews endless shirts, us-lilt ; cut. tho Western grain dealers

: 11perilod to the Interstate Commerce j ing a maGhine> year after year? Commission for a education in rates | what jg the cffect on a machine hi hay and grain. On October 20, the ; ]1Rn(] whose life, in half of its walt-•fiiniuiss.on ordered a reduction of 16 j hours, is devoted to producing one pi-:- cent effective November 20.

The railroads defied tho order and nolii'ied the commission that they v'.3hcd to make a 30 per cent reduc-'";iv on shipments of all farm prod-„>»•;<? outside of New England.

small metal part, hour after hour, day after day, year after year?

Monotony wrecks the nerves, para­lyses the will power, chloroforms ini­tiative and ingenuity. The reaction

aj>t to be a frenzy of the emotions. After much juggling tho commas- j 'fhat, twin brother of crooked think-

5i"an was induecd to issue an order j jhg ,,n(j J s the real danger. | Man is being devoured by his nta-. ' chines, says R. Austin Freeman in his

"The farmer will get a little or no j rtL»ont book, "Social Decay and Be-fipne-fit from a rate reduction on hay 1

making the new rates effective De rember 27.

i ud grain on December 27, for the j rodueer who has needed relief most •..ill have sold his crop and moved it from the farm by that time," says tho ITcmcstead. "The speculator, the lc:niint;l elevator man and the Chi-fa^o grain dealers will profit. If the < riginal order had stood, grain-belt

generation." In a nut shell, his idea i« that machinery, intended to become a man's slave, is gaining the whip-hand as man's master.

A MECHANIC HONORED. A mechanic, carrying the Union

card, was tho champion pinch hitter in. the manufacture of ammunition for

nrmers would have benefited to the i Uncle Sam's soldiers, and recently was loud of millions. •' This manipulation of the Inter­

fere Commerce Commission is a dis­graceful ercample of what can be dono iiuiH- our transportation act..

"DOES ANY ONE BELIEVE IF i«N* OCTOBER 24 THE LABOR i:OARI> HAD.-ORDERED THE RAIL­ROADS TO CUT WAGES 16 PER I |;:>T ON NOVEMBER 20 THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ANY POST-I-C::E:»IENT OF ACTION J"

t ' j , y o u so", tho farmer isn't such : • easv mark " after all.

LETTING THE CAT OUT. The Wall Street Journal prints an

ii;.:nlnating editorial under the cap-! '.,n "Second. Thoughts on Extra .'! v j.ienuH.

The sturdy old organ of "Big f;-.!,s:ne:-:.s" points out that the Chi-• Burlington and Quiney during tin* last year declared a stock diri-u-ad of $60,000,000, thus increasing I lie capitalization on which the peo-l le, under the Esch-Cummins act, must ' ay G per cent interest, from $110,000,-'0u to .<(>170,000,000 WITHOUT AD-IMNO A IKJLLAR OF REAL MONEY I'O THE ASSETS OF THE COM-w x y .

Then the Burlington declared a cash Kvidend of 25 per cent on its stock, '•water" and all. This dividend J mounted to $42,000,000 and 97 per »ent went to the Great Northern and northern Pacific which, by extraor­dinary financial juggling, secured title 'o all but 3 per cent of Burlington • t.x-k without the outlay of a penny, 'vV i; h the money thus secured the fireat Northern and Northern Pacific [>aid a 7 per tjent dividend to their k: ockholders.

After this rare bit of financial tegerdermain, the Burlington, the tiro at Northern and the Northern t'ccific united with the other roads in a petition to the Labor Board for an immediate cut in the workers' i' ages,, without regard to the cost of living or any other consideration.

The whole transaction disgusts the Kail Street Journal. It is too raw. ''What will the public think?" asks Hie Journal. "How will the embat-Med farmers of Lexington, Neb., be Impressed.? How will the Burlington 'jfdain the deal when its officers face

this heretofore unknown hero honored. Hjalmar G. Carlson, Worcester, Mass., is his name and address, and he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Amer­ican Society of Mechanical Engineers for his invention making possible the production of 30,000,000 drawn steel booster casings, used extensively in explosive shells, gas shells and bombs.

The greatest engineering minds of the country were taxed at the time to invent' the proper casing, and these experts were up a tree until Carlson invented the right kind. .Carlsoin, who is of Swedish extraction, was rated previous to that occasion an ordinary mechanic, but his wonderful invention, the greatest of its kind, stamped him as a mechanic of excellent ability. Thus he takes his place in the Honor Roll of this Engineering Society with Edison, Westinghouse and other in­ventors. His ingenuity may lead to other inventions, as engineers agree that a mind trained tp» invent the Carlson easing is capable of other wonders.

Members of f he Engineering Society admit that th achievement of Carl­son is a striking example of what is possible in merican industry. The fact that a pea .ant boy from Sweden, and trained in an American machinc shop, was atlft to turn the tide in tinfe of danger, illustrates the tre­mendous oppor tunity which this coun­try affords tci the immigrant. No honor ever conferred by an American Engineering Society was more richly deserved than this.

Carlson is not the «nnly genius em­ployed in American ni^chine shops. A majority of mechanic^ and tool-making inventions were» made by "ordinary mechanics," wtiw unfortu­nately did not have the capital to promate the results of their intellec­tual ability, and passed the Wood things along to higher officials. ^

ABB WE BULLDOZING MEXIClo? According to advices from the Ci^

of Mexioo, the United States and o er nations have protested against land policy of the Obregon govern­ment.

Obregon has been breaking up tJhc large estates and giving his land-lijun-gry people an opportunity to SCtfure homesteads. No one receives nitdre

land than he can handle with the as-I sistanec of the members of hig fam­ily. The government retains title, but the occupant and his heirs may re­main in possession as long -as tJK'v cultivate the land. Financial assist ance on reasonable terms is an im­portant feature of the scheme.

Properly administered this plan would soon make Mexico a nation of small land owners, content and pros­perous, and revolutions would be un­known. '

Why should the United States pro­test against such an enlightened pol­icy?

Who is th? official who has pre- j

sumcd to place the American ucop»? | in the position oi battling on th« side ; of reaction ? {

From time to time, it is said, that I our state department, under both the j Wilson and the Harding administra­tion, was sending notes to Mexico «'> jecting to matters; which concerned th© Mcxican people and no oni else. It was said that several of theso notes related to the liberal treatment of labor organizations which ha? bsen one of the outstanding policies of Ob­regon.

Notes of this kind are never giveu to the press. So the American peo­ple are not permitted to know what is being said in their name.

The time has come when the light should be turned on. If our state department is aping the rotten fore.<;n offices of Europe, our people should be placed in possession of the Z.icts.

so the. government may pay the ex-service men a bonus.

We want to see the soldiers get their bonus, but we insist that the money should come out of the bulg­ing pockets of the profiteers who were robbing the citizens and the government .while our boys were dying in Flanders.

Write your Senators and Congress­men today. <

THE UNION STILL LIVES. The strike of packing house em­

ployes reveals the impotency of in­dustrial court and company unions.

The members of the packers' trust expended much time and money on their company-controlled employes' organization. Their publicity agents a few weeks ago deluged the news­papers with stories telling how the representatives of this organization had examined the company's books and had suggested a cut in wages. By a remarkable coincidence, the fig­ures agreed upon by these alleged rep­resentatives of the employes were exactly the figures the employers had in mind!

Newspapers throughout the land printed long editorials proclaiming tho '1 beginning of a new- epoch'' in industrial relations. We were to have an end of unionism of the A. F. of L. type, because workers would troop into the company organizations, and busy themselves with the task of cut­ting their own wages.

When the test came, however, the large majority of the packers' em­ployes rejected the wage «ut and re­sponded to tho strike call of the un­ion. The hand-picked "representa­tives" who had signed the agreement with the trust wore repudiated on all sides.

Kansas' well-advertised industrial, c-ourt was no more successful in "de­livering the goods."

Some of the largest packing plants in the country arc located in Kansas City, Kansas. NOWHERE HAS THE STRIKE BEEN MORE SUCCESS­FUL.

The members of the industrial court were early on the scene. First they threatened, then they eoaxed, but the strikers could not be moved.

THE COURT COULD DO NOTH­ING. There were not sufficient jails in Kansas to house the men who were fighting for a decent American wage nor policemen enough to arrest them.

If trades unionism is to be de­stroyed its enemies must devise more effective weapons.

THE SALES TAX AGAIN. This is a good time to urge your

Senators and Congressmen to vote against the "sales tax" which will be brought forward again during this session of Congress.

Powerful interests are financing the propaganda in support of this vicious tax. They will not be sat­isfied until they substitute it for the income tax, which is hitting their pocketbooks very hard.

Just now they are telling the peo­ple that Canada ha# adopted the sales tax and that every one is enthusiastic about it.

Canada has a sales tax and it has resulted in transferring a large, part of the burdens of government from the rieh to the moderately well-to-do.

A Canadian correspondent points out that in this country a man with a wife and three children and an income of $2,500 a year would be subject to no Federal tax, except what he paid through/the tariff and the taxes on cigars and tobacco.

A man in Canada, similarly situat­ed, would pay an income tax of $4 and a "sales tax" of (31.10 or a total of (33.10.

That tells the story. The income tax compels men to contribute ac­cording to their ability to pay.

The sales tax ignores ability .to pay

and levies toll' on everything men eat and use and wear.

Up to- date Congress has defeated this cruel and nnjust tax but its sup­porters are returning to attack.. This time they say they want a sales tax

, HOW FOOLISH IS HEEARST? Mr. Hearst has many aewspapers

and much wealth.

He can say to his cditorsj "write this" and they obey.

He can take & trainloau of con­gressmen to see what he wishes to have them see.

He can be as inconsistent as he likes.

He has many papers, much large frype, many clever. writers, and much red and black ink.

Mr. Hearst is using his-varied re­sources to oppose the work of the International Conference on Limita­tion of Armament.

Mr. Hearst thinks that Lincoln was wrong. Mr. Hearst thinks that most of the people can be fooled all of the time.

Mr. Brisbane, who writes the prin;

cipal editorials for Mr. Hearst, and who is paid a very large salary, prob­ably is wiser than Mr. Hearst* and he also probably is wise enough not to enlighten Mr. Hearst on that point.

Six million Americans want disar­mament and peace enough to write to the advisory commission of the Amer­ican delegation saying so.

How many of Mr. Hearst's readers have written saying they want arma­ment and war I

How long will Mr. Hearst keep on disagreeing with Lincoln?

TWO KINDS OF # RICH MEN. It should not be forgotten in think­

ing of the contest between T. S. New­berry, now by grace of; the courts and the senate a member of our house of lords, and Henry Ford, who heeds no identification, that it throws on the screen of public life a specimen of two sorts of rich men.

Both are very' rich. If called upon to do it, Ford could lay down on the table dollar- for dollar against all the Ncwbery tribe could produce, and beat them at: it.

But Ford refused to do it. He refused to buy' his election. He of­fered himself to the electors of Michi­gan in an honorable way, and most people who know think he got the votes, in spite of the despicable poli­tical dodges of the Newberry family to put their favorite seion in the sen­ate.

One man-stayed at home. The other went to the senate. The one stands higher than ever in public esteem, in spito of some odd notions. As he rose, Newberry went down. Who has any respect for Newberry f Not the mem­bers of the senate, for they hated themselves as they seated him. Not the people of Michigan, for they were humiliated. • • '

So far as public pglicies are eon-corned, his championship of anything is a black eye for it. He is a minus quantity in Michigan's influence. If he wants a measure to pass, the-best thing lie • can do for it is to speak against it and vote for it. And vice versa.

Ford, because of his fine determi­nation as to tho function of money in this world, sta.nds as compared with Newberry, as an antidote for the New­berry poison.

Ford is doing more for good in his aefeat than Newberry could possibly do through his dubious and dark suc­cess.

Newberry is gone. Ford has ar­rived.

visiota would bo.terrible.tragedy.j?It will not be if humanity achieves/ its clear desire—and humanity will achieve" that desire IF IT COM­MANDS!

GOING' TOWARD PEACE. It is'particularly satisfying to be

able to record the official positions of British and American labor as identical in support of the Interna­tional Conference on Limitation of Armament.

The conference itself is a real re­sponse to a real world, publie opinion led by the opinion of America. And in forming the opinion of America the labor movement led the way!

If now, labor can carry its leader­ship'forward in bringing the nations into an economic conference and if there can be developed ah organic, continuing relationship between na­tions, the year 1922 will indeed be the brightest that ever dawned- upon humanity.

Human hearts everyhere yearn for lasting peitee, for a chance to live and to labor in peace, bending all effort to improving civilization and broad­ening the human horizon*

But human hearts, have yearned from time out of mind. There must be more than yearning—there must be a voice to express the yearning. Let the voice speak!

Let there -be created among, men the institutions which will - make peace possible. .

For the bright new iun just now ascending1 into tho. sky. to fall back upon the depths below the line of

GOIjD AND WORLD CREDITS. America, has all the gold in the

world. This statement is often made, and while not literally true, it is a fact that wfe have about all the gold which can be used to build up world credits and give the world any re­lief from the paper scraps with which it is trying to do business. .

Thii may mean th& salvation of the world from the fate of Russia, if the gold can be used ,to save the day for civilization and used properly and promptly.

. But in what business arc the nations most interested f

France shivers at the. thought of re­ducing her army. She threatens to leave the Washington conference if Germany is invited to sit in.

Poland, Jugo-Slavia, Czccho-Slo-vakia and Rumania are flat broke, with worthless currencies, and instead of trying . to balance their voutgo against their income, they are out­doing France in pursuing a policy of militarism.

Greece is fighting the .Kemalist Turks and swearing she will go after certain territories in Europe whieh have been given' to someone else as soon as her hands are free.

How can credits be planned or given to nations hotly engaged in ruining themselves, or t'o their peoples? To back them would be to back their ef­forts to commit suicide.

The first requisite for the. rebuild­ing of sound economic conditions is to get rid of the will to war.

The course of disarmament and mutual'trust of some sort is the only way to save civilization. The present way is the road to ruin cer­tain and complete. The way toward disarmament and trust may be dan­gerous, but it is the least of the dan­gers. Until this course is adopted no way seems open to the- United States or to American business to help Eu­rope. . —

And the death of Europe means peril to us.

? Y0UM6 EARTH: By CHARLES' MACKAY.

Old Earth? Young Earth!—-through . myriad years,

Since Time's primeval morn, She may have bloom'd amid the

spheres Before, a man was borVi!

Six"thousand years! what have they brought.

O, poor ephemeral man? Go, reckon centuries by thought,

Thou'lt find them but a span.

Go reckon time by progress made, And lo! what ages pass,

Swift as the transitory shade Of clouds upon the grass. '»

The* myriads, seeking to create An idol to adore,

Have made their God a God of Hate, And worshlp'd him with gore.

And living multitudes have heard That Love is Nature's plan.

Yet shut their souls against" the Word

That teaches love to man.

But there is progress in the spheres. The' glorious Earth is young: '

The seed has lain six thousand years, The tender shoots have sprung.

Young Earth!—her sad six thousand years,

Now passing swift away, Are but her infancy tears—

The dawn before the day.

FREEDOM BEST OF JILL

JUDGES AND JUDGMENT. Criminal courts, whose principal

business is to punish, the guilty, con­tinue to operate without any stand­ards of punishment.

They ought to^make the punish­ment fit the crime, but they don't.

Every • ether institution has. fixed standards—from the, profession of medicine to the trade of horseshoe-ing- k

The other day a Philadelphia court sent One man up for. 10 years tor rais­ing a $2 banknote to $10. The same day the eotirt sent up for only one year two men who had defrauded the government's Emergency Fleet Cor­poration of $10,000„

Ten years for an $8 fraud; one year for a $10,000 fraud.

• Do judges show good judgment!

At the present fate of progress, the senate will reach a decision to permit Mr. Newberry to come in just when the people of Michigan will be get­ting things nicely fixed up to put him out.

Never yet has the management of the Pennsylvania railroad permitted a little matter of law or a court to stand in the path when it started out to have its own sweet, unbridled way.

The Queensland labor government' is carrying out its pledge to abolish the legislative council, or upper houfee, and the assembly has passed a bill to this end as the first step. The Queensland high court has sus-tained the validity of this legislation.

The New South Wales labor gov­ernment- is also pledged- to abolish the, upper house of that state, but as yet has failed to make its pledge effective.

Opponents of the second, house insist that occasions for constitu­tional conflict are' increased and the unity and vigor necessary for national action are diminished be­cause of the second house. From a practical standpoint,, opposition to the second house centers on the fact that it is the stronghold for reaction, and that the veto power over the lower house nullifies- the utility of. democratic suffrage.

TAKING NO CHANCES. A boy was visiting another boy,

and as they were going, to bed the little-host knelt to say his prayers:

"I never say. my prayers when I am. at home," said the visitor.

"That's all right," said the other boy. "You better say them here. This is a folding bed.

IT'S PLAIN TO TELL. "The wicked stand in . slippery

places." . ; "How do you know they a.re wick­

ed?" "By the language they use when

they slip."

QUIT LOOKING AT HER. "Why does that pretty boarder

blush /every time, she sees ..you?" I got her laundry last week by

m'Ssta^e." ..

Slavery includes aril other crimes* • It is the Joint product of the kid­naper, the priate, thief, murderer and hypocrite. It degrades labor and corrupts leisure.

With the idea that labor is the basis of progress goes the truth that labor must be free. The laborer must be a free man.

I Would like to see this world, at last, so that a man could die and not feel that he had- left his wife and children a prey to the greed, the avarice or the cruelties of mankind.

There is' something wrong in a government where' they who do the most have the least. There is some­thing wrong when honesty wears a ragr £rnd rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes—the la­borers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest who live upon the un­paid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

We need free bodies and free minds, free labor and free thought, chainleSs hands and fetterless brains. Free labor will give us wealth. Free thought will give us truth.

When women reason, and babies sit in the laps of Philosophy, the victory of reason over the shadowy host of darkness will be complete.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred—mar­riage should be a perfect partner­ship—every family should be a re­public—every fireside a democracy.

Robert G. Ingersoll.

German Labor No Menace to Aneriea

WISE AND OTHERWISE If you do an unsatisfactory job, db

it over—but don't overdo it.

Wise is the famous man who doesn't overwork his popularity.

Many a*Joke that Is enjoyed today was considered funny centuries ago.

Manufacturers of eighteen-inch armor plate are beginning to feel uneasy.

It looks as if the mark has fol­lowing the ruble in the effort to find out how deep is the bottomless pit.

Absence from the battle ship build­ing mimia will not make the world's heart grow fonder.

Whenvwar is abolished let us take the mean politics out of politics—or even before.

A fool may Insult and abuse others, but awise man gives people credit for what they are actually worth.

It Is remarkable that, the Insanity of all these murderers is not dis­covered until they kill somebody.

- Age may bring wisdom but some men we know, will have tq outlive Methuselah if they ever make good.

NEVER SATISFIED. Mother (anxiously)—"What Is

Willy crying for?" Willy's Brother—"Oh, nothing

much. He dug a hole in the garden and now the rain's come on he w.ants to bring the hole into the house,"

•*" * THEY GO TOGETHER.

* "The rapidly increasing divorce rate," remarked the. wft£ "indicates that America Is Indeed becoming the land of the free."

"Yes." replied his prosaic friend, *'but the continued marriage1 rate suggests that it is still the home -of the brave."-—-The American Legion Weekly.

MAMMY KNOWS 'EM. Booth Tarkington met a negro

woman with her youthful family. '.'So this is the little girl, eh?"

Tarkington said to. her as she dis­played her children. "And this sturdy little* urchin in the bib be­longs, I suppose, to the contrary sex."

"Yassah,* the woman replied; "yassah-, dat's a girl, too/'

AUTO-INTOXICATION. "What was tae excitement down

Ihe street?" "Oh a man in a reverie ran into a

woman in > a taritrum." "Were the .machines badly dam-

laged?" - ' . ** • • ."j.!*. ' t, •• •.

Profiteers in special lines, or may we call them grave diggers of gen­eral prosperity, are now using fool­ish newspapers to tell us that Ger­many is a menace to our trade and that we must cut costs prodigiously to": compete with the race east of the Rhine. They also tell us that France is running'into a great busi­ness stride and we must watch her closely in the foreign markets. That, is sick thinking.

Of course, those who put out this sort of stuff belong to two groups One favors the open shop and would make us believe that trade unionism is a menace. The other is the group which wants to fatten off tariff schedules specially prepared for their own benefit and for our tax­ation.

The indisputable fact is that Ger­many has lost through death or dis­ability two in- every three men be­tween the ages of 18 and 33. She has reduced her earning power by billions a year and will not recover it in a quarter of a century. France has lovst three in every five of the flower of her manhood,, with one-third of her industries wrecked and hfer debt appalling. Germany not only has her debt to -care for but also the giant indemnity that she must steadily pay. The only way for her to survive is to. put the in­terest payments annually, and part of the principal, -into the selling value of the goods she puts on. the market.

There is no other way she can coU gathers the money from the sky gathers' the money frrm the ky. France must do the same. . Neither country can undersell us anywhere, except, of course, that in the ex­treme poverty of today either nation, or both, may sell under cost for the

moment in order to get som# caah. and keep tho people active in in­dustry.

That, however, is a temporary condition which should have no con­sideration with. us" in framing Our own prosperity and in seeing that our standards Of living remain at least as good as they are today. We have the raw material, the capital/ the.man power and the macHinery^ All that is needed is a fair-deal-be-, tween capital and labor, the Aesire of both to go to work for the com-; mon good without oppression on the one side or defective service on the other. There ought to; be no-hos­tile camps.

It Is true that we also need assis­tance through legislation to repair some of the ills of war: We should ,set the railroads pegging along at higher speed, for they are the' vita!, arteries of our prosperity and we can start that by the funding of cer-, tain indebtedness. We • should set­tle tax revision without, politics arid distribute the load so that honest business will not be sandbagged or the worker taxe<jp to death, either through the internal revenue office or in high living costs.

But with all4'the legislative assis­tance we can possibly get we shall find no team work for. real prosper-, ity and low production costs "Until labor and capital agree upon a code of honor where capital will have its honest share and those who toil will feel they are not victims Of indus­trial slavery. v

With the troper viewpoint this republic would be all conquering .in commerce within a year and our cel­ling costs low enough to compete with any powerful nation to the ends of the earth.—The Elevator Con­structor.

M

The West Virginian Federational-ist draws this moral that should be remembered by organized labor: .

"The members, of Mingo county have taught the greatest lesson of the results of solidarity that can be learned, and one. that -should carry enlightenment throughout the state. Thrown upon the public highways before' the ink had dried upon their charters-they carried on the greatest resistance to organized greed in the history of the American labor move­ment and while this battle is raging it is to be deplored that union men who have been members of the or­ganization for 20 years, throughout the state are quibbling and squab­bling in their locals over the merest trifles and thus weakening, the mor­ale of the movement.

"Cut out your foolishness, take fa lesson of. solidarity of action from the Mingo minerp and solidify your forces and unite in one grand move­ment for the advancement, of tho cause of the working class. Personal feelings, selfish motives and self ag-. grandisement have no place in the ranks of organized labor."

STARTING THE EVENING SESSION.

Willie—"Paw, why do women cry at a wedding?"

Maw—"Because they have been married themselves, my son."

Paw—"You better keep your mouth shut, young man."

THE BENEFICIARY. Mrs. Goodsole—-"I am soliciting

for the poor. What do you do with your cast-off clothing?"

Mr. Longsufferer.—"I hang them up carefully and put on my paja­mas. Then I resume them in the morning."—Boston Globe.

The wonder of the age is how wo­men hide it.

One move to enforce prohibition would be to remove the Bahamas.

God dress our snappy home. We can't.

If things don't come your way you may be on the wrong road.

Some are misused car dealers.

NEW MATERNITY BILL WILL BE EDOCATIOML •**

Few legislative proposals before congress has been so misrepresented-as the Sheppard-Towner, maternity and infanfcy bill, which provides for co-operation between the federal government and the various states in an educational campaign among those mothers who desire this infor­mation.

Lurid, charges have been made that the government would enter the homes, etc., etc. The incorrectn'ess of this statement is indicated by the following discussion between Conf* gressman Meyer London and Con­gressman Barkley, a member of the committee having the bill in eharge:

"Mr. London—The department of' agriculture spends money out of t^te treasury of the-United .-Stakes--to teach how to breed cattle^ does it. not?

"Mr. Barkley—Yes. ' -"Mr. London—And to impart

other valuable information to the agricultural classes of the people! Now, the ottly thing, this bill don is to aid the educational facilities of certain bureaus of the government, is not that true? *

"Mr. Barkley—absolutely." ; - -

SHOE PROFITEERS EXPOSED. , "Why are^shoes so high?" com­plains the customer.

"Labor costs," is the -unvarying, reply of the urbane dealer.

Here are the facts as presented by the editor of the "Shoe Workers* Journal:"

Before the war the laber eost of a pair of shoes retailing at 13750'w&s approximately 60 cents.

; During the war the labor cost, was increased 10 cents a pair and the .re-* tail price was advanced $8.$0 a. pair.

The labor cost of shoes selling for $18 wag $1.30.

Now the manufacturers are seek­ing to reduce wages while still main­taining profiteering prices,' and the workers, to use the language of the editor of the Journal, "decline to be the goats." -

Fortune smiles at some people and laughs out loud at others. . . .

A happy medium was jailed the. other day.

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Mm*s dfaeh I.—WE BELIEVE in Duluth; in the Ability, Integrity, Sincerity and Loyalty of its people.

II.—WE BELIEVE in the future of the great territory adjacent to Duluth, lands rich in agri­cultural and grazing values; in the vast natural resources of this region; and in the advance­ment which shall come to the city and com­munity through the development of the great water-way which has its western terminous here. '

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III.—WE BELIEVE that Co-operation, Indus­try, and Thrift will bring prosperity to our city and success io its people.

_ IV.—WE THEREFORE pledge our support to 'the end that a.greater advancement;may comc

to Duluth and this community, arid that otir people shall have. Happiness and Prosperity iiVthis New Year of 1922.

First National Bank of Duluth

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