Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 57, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1922 Page: 4 of 10
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PAGE FOUR
OKLAHOMA L.UADUK
DURING FIRST YEAR OF PtflOE
Municipal Works of Moscow Self-Supporting—City Is
Made More Sanitary—Striking Feature is Planting
Flowers and Outdoor Decoration.
*ALS — Asher Didn't Exactly Score a Hit.
Take. A I nrtu at .mV i
By ANISE,
Federated Pretta Staff Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Oct. 2< . -Very strik-
ing ia tho report of how Moscow
has repaired Itself during the six
months of summer in 11)22, the year
spoken of throughout Russia as tho
"first year of peace." It is the first
year slnco 1914 that Russia has
been free from war or famine, free
to turn her attention to. tho taskH
of reconstruction. And all sorts
of rebuildln* have gone ahead with
a rush.
The department of community
economy, under which come street
cars, water, light, street repair,
housing. sewerH. and roads and
bridges throughout the province of
Moscow, is entirely self-supporting.
Not only that, it ia even self-ex-
tending. "Of course if we had
some capital, we could improve
quickly, «h we really ourM," said
Sovietnikof, hoad of this depart-
ment. to me, "but still we are go-
ing ahead pretty fant,"
"Our light and water are sold to
the people of Moscow for about
half what they cost us, but we
make up our budget in other ways,
chiefly through the ronts of stores
and market booths, which are all
tho property of the city," he said.
"Our biggest expenditure are for
city sanitation anu county road and
bridge repairing, and our biggest
income is from the rents I have j
mentioned." he snid.
Ken In Pay Repair*.
"How about houee rents?" I
asked. "Don't you get a good deal
from them?"
"Not so much as you would I
think, because the city was so bad-
ly destroyed, and we run our holla-
ing department merely to make the
rents repair the houses of Moscow.
Many houses were shattered by the
civil war; but many more went to
pieces in the fuelless w'nters, when
people huddled together and lore
up floors and doors and woodwork
to burn them. To the workers'
communes we naturally give tho
best houses, the ones needing lenst
repair, for they have no money.
Often the city Itself repairs these
houses, loaning the money without
Interest.
"To capitalists we give houses
for a term of years also. We have
given such contracts on 124 apart-
ment houses, with forty to two
hundred apartments in eaeh; some
to an English Arm, some to a Ger-
man Arm, some to a Swiss linn
and the rest to Russians. Alter
they repair them thoy must give
the city 10 per cent of the floor
space to use for housing city work-
ers; the rest they are free to rent
at whatever they choos<> for a cer-
tain number of years, after which
these houses also come back to the
city."
Flower Hetl* Planted.
This year on the self-supporting
budget, the department has done
wonders. Some 30,000 miles of
sewers have been cleaned, between
April and August, and 1,804 wells
have been cleaned. The filter sta-
tion has been re-established for the
city water and capital repairs have
been made on pumps. One hun-
dred thousand square meters (one
n^ter is a little over a square
yard) of street pavements, have
been repaired, and six bridges.
And most striking of all, thero is
the report of 120,000 square meters
of flow• r beds planted In tho city
parks and boulevards. Russians
love flower, so much that theso
seem their next need after food.
lOven in the faniiue area one saw
greenhouses. So this spring in
.Moscow there have been 7,105 car-
loads of soli and manure brought I
in. 14,500 small trees and over a
million flower plants have been
planted. And in all the open
squares of Moscow, in front of ho-
t«li and oftth#drali. jroa vondir ti
tho richness and beauty of the
flowers.
"It is the speculators that pay
for it all," you bear poople say
"Wo get it out of the rents for the i
shops and market booths." Tor this
Is the real meaning of the new
economic policy, not tin turning
over of the state to capitalists—not
at all, but the permission of capi-
talist industry in limited fields, un-
der toll of tribute to the state.
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JERRY ON THE JOB— Viewing the Silver Lining.
—By WALTER UOBAN
R. H. Wilson Returns From
Texas Trip.
United States Senator Robert L.
Owen will take the stump Monday
in behalf of J. ('. Walton and will
continue to speak during the bal-
ance of the campaign, closing No-
\ember 4 with a speech at Musko-
gee. his home city. Senator Owen
will make two and three speeches
every day.
0. A. Brewer, chairman of the
speakers' bureau at democratic
stato headquarters, received .i
wire yesterday from former Sena-
tor T. P. Gore, saying he was
drafted by the national committee
to make two speeches in Ohio this
week for the ticket there, and would
arrive in Oklahoma early next week
ready to go on the stump for tho
ticket.
U. H. Wilson who was called to
Texas on account of the Illness of
his mother will return to the state
Sunday and resume his itinerary,
opening with an address at Black-
well ut 2 o'clock p. in.
Following are the announced
speaking dates of Senator Owen:
Oct. 23—Cleveland, Monday, 2 p. m.
Jennings, c p. m.
Yale, 8 p. m.
Oct. 24—Pawnee, Tuesday, 2 p. m.
Stillwater, 8 p. ni.
Oct 26—Guthrie. Wednesday, 2 p. m.
Kdmond, 5 p. m.
Oklahoma City, 8 p. m.
Oct. 26 clinton, Thursday, 2 p. m
< 'ordell, 4 p. m.
Hobart, 8 p. m.
Oct. 27—Mangum, Friday, 2 p. in.
Alius. 8 p. m.
Oct. 28—Frederick, Saturay, 2 p. m
Grandfield. 8 p. m.
j Oct. 30—Pauls Valley, Monday. ^
p. m.
Ardmore, 8 p. m.
Oct. 31— Durant. Tuesday, 2 p. m.
Caddo, ft p. m.
Atoka, S p. ni.
J Nov. 1— Pryor, Wednesday, 2 p. m
claremore, 8 p. m.
j Nov. 2 Nowata, Thursday, 2 p. m
Bartlesville, 8 p. ni.
I Nov. 3—Collinsville, Friday, 2 p. m.
Broken Arrow, 8 p. m.
(Nov. 4- Okmulgee, Saturday, 2pm
Muskogee, 8 p. m.
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ALBANY, N. Y.. Oct. 20.—Em-
ployment in the manufacturing in-
dustry in New York Htate increased
2 per cent in September over Au-
gust, ii is announced by the state
industrial commissioner. The re-
port says that the number of fac-
tory workers has risen every
month since August of last year,
nxcept last January and last April.
j The appointment of Mrs. Paul E.
. . Telegraphing 2.88S words withou Devine as postmistress of John-
A mysterlou> crime committed an error waa tjie recor(| 0f a Ger son City, Tenn., is said to be the
j Tulsa county was unearthed by the men woman operator in a receir first appointment of a woman to a
■ sheriff's office here Wednesday • international contest. first-cjass postof'fice in the South.
A. S. Brown Arrested
Tulsa Officers.
For
WOIthKltS KiAINHT II U1IHM..
HAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Oct. 20.—
"Ii' there is a working man uere
who can say that the Harding ad- 1
ministration lias done anything for
him—not to him, but for him — I
wish lie would stand up," said i
United States Senator T. H. Cara- i
way. democrat of Arkansas, ad
dressing an audience here.
GRABLE SWEPT
OUT OF OFFICE
Has No Candidate But Backs
I Farmer-Labor Ticket.
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1 evening when Arthur S. Brown was
[arrested on request of the sheriff
I of Tulsa county. Technically, j
Brown was wanted for removing a
mortgaged automobile from that!
county.
At about the time Brown was
Known to have left Tulsa two girls,
i Halley Ballard and Uena Jenkins.
! aged 13 and 14 years respectively,
were missing from home. The dis-
appearance of the girls was not
connected with Brown's departure.
, but w hen arrested here they were
found living with him and his wife
and their daughter of about the
same : go of the Ballard and n
kins girls.
Brown made no explanation nor
gave any reason for having the
girls with him other than that w hen
he was ready to leave Tulsa they
wanted to accompany him and lie ,
had no objection, he said. Officers
say that Brown was foupd living in
a shack amid dirt and squalor and
ii barely subsisting.
j [ The father of one of the missing
j Rirls was here Thursday and got
: his daughter and the other run-
| away girl and returned home with
| them. He and the parents of the
| other uirl bad been hunting for
; their lost children ever since their
disappearance last summer and ho
said that he had walked hundreds
i of miles in the quest lor his daugli-
I ter without ever finding a clue to
her w hereabouts.
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Corrrigtit, 1H1, Th« Ball BrndlcaU, Inc.)
THE 1)1 RUE OF THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER
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SYNDICALISM
LAW CALLED
AN OUTRAGE
SAN FRANriSCO, Oct. 20.- ' Mips
Whitney's experience is an illustra- i
♦ion of our failure to preserve
American liberties. It seems to me
an unthinking state of iftind that
would convict a woman for no
crime except protest against social
injustice. Men jailed for no crime
but membership in the Industrial
Workers of the World are reaching
the conclusion that our government
intends to suppress the very groups
who have suffered most from in-
! dustrial conditions."
Mary Van Kleeck. director. Rus-
sell Sago foundation of New York,
and the only woman member of
the committee on the business
1 cycle appointed by Hoover after
| Harding's unemployment confer-
ence, has caused considerable agi-
; tation in reactionary circles here
by the above and similar state-
ments, made during a visit en route
to the Kplrcopal church conference
in Portland. They were made In
Fpeechcs at the University of Call-
i fornia.
Another shortage soon will come
In something that 1 need-
In tooth paste, fountain pens, or gun
Or stamps or chicken feed.
From worry I am never free;
I'm worried and perplexed;
The question that is puzzling me
Is: Who'll be striking next?
1 haven't got the funds to bus
Big stocks of suits and shoes.
Or purchase half a year's supply
Of everything I use.
Like others, 1 am short of coal
And 1 am growing gray,
For I can't guess, to save my soul,
What strike is on the way!
It may be bread that can't be had
At any price at all;
It may be ham, or pie or shad,
That will run short this fall.
If 1 hut knew I'd stock myself
Completely in advance,
But 1 cannot invest my pelf
Upon a flimsy chance!
Oh! workingman, if in your heart
You've made a solemn vow
That you will presently depart
The place you're filling now
Pray feel for me one pitying throb,
Before you rise and ilit,
And kindly tell me just what iob
It is you're going to quit'.
Dl-n itOlT, Oct. 20.- 10. T. Grafale,
president, United Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employes, fell
a victim to the amalgamation spirit
of the triennial convention and las'
his job to F. H. Fljozdal who will
take office next week.
By HARRY GODFREY, «™ble Is the man who ignored
Federated 1'iess Staff Correspondent t'ae overwhelming strike vote of
M-:vv YORK, Oct. 20. The ilrnt tte. unlon last June_and refused,
big rally of the amalgamated po-
litical labor organizations of this
state—the American Labor party -
with the approval of his grand
(lodge, to call a strike of the 400,000
'maintenance of way men at the
... u, i.. T i . j time the 400,000 shopmen and their
was held here In the Lexington a„ios wa)ked out JuJ The maln.
theater while .Morris Hillquit, Ed- m„n „r, "
ward F. t assuly, candidate for gov-
ernor, Congressman Meyer London,
he Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, candidate
for state assembly, and others were
cheered almost continuously in
their appeals for workers' votes.
The new party, organized last
July, for the present will not occu-
py a space of its own on the bal-
lot, but will support the joint can-
didates of the Socialist and the
Farmer-Labor parties.
"There are still large numbers —
of deluded toilers," said Mr. Hill- |
quit, "who persist in seeking the |
fleshpots of Fgypt in the elusive j
pantries of Tammany Hall or the j
republican machine. I make the j
prediction, however, that the po- j
j litical separation of the classes
I will bo complete in America within
{a few years, and that perhaps the
I presidential campaign of 1928 will
see the party of the propertied
classes arrayed against the party
of the working class in a final
struggle.
"It is unspeakable folly for the
workers to support their open en-
emies; it is degrading and humili-
ating for them to accept the eon-
descending 'friendship* of their
I masters' tools: The workers are
j strong enough to defy tjieir
| enemies in open battle and to re-
i joct with contempt the patronizing
benevolence of their 'superiors.'
j The millions of no n and Women in
' America who work in the mines
and on the railroads. In the mills
and factories and on the farms, in
'he counting rooms and offices and
in all other fields of useful human
j endeavor, have it within their pow-
' or today to outvote the idlers and
to take the government of the
J country into their own hands."
A telegram was read from Dr.
Charles P. Steinmetz, known as one
of the greatest electrical engineers
j in the world, who i- candidate for
; state engineer, as follows in part:
"I shall endeavor, If elected as
state engineer, to develop for the
use of all the people the vast re-
sources of our state, to extend and
develop the roads and highways,
tho canals and waterways, protect
the forests and parks, an-l push
without regard any selfish in-
terests the immediate development
of the great water power resources
of New York state, of which ov« r
four million horsepower are till
undeveloped and running to waste,
sufficient when developed to sav ■
thirty million tons of coal annually
and to bring electric light and
power Into every home."
tenauce men had the same grlev-
| ance of slashed wages, work farmed
out by the railroad companies and
working conditions made harder by
order of the U. S. rail labor board.
When the convention by a three
to one vote passed the amalgama-
tion resolution over Orable's op-
position his doom was sealed.
Swept away with him are the 14
vice presidents at annual salaries
of $fi,OO0 each. In their place are
put five vice presidents at $4,200
salary.
WOMAN'S ASSAILANT
SENTENCED FOR LIFE
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. >.. Fred
Brown, alias Gus Grimes, was to-
day found guilty of kidnaping and
assaulting Mrs. Jean Jenkins hen-
last May.
He was sentenced to life impris-
onment.
Brown kidnaped Mrs. Jenkins
and Miss Katheryn McNamara,
drove them to a shack in the out-
skirts of the city, assaulted tlieni
and left them chained in a dungeon
for more than 24 hours.
Brown was captured after one of
the most sensational attempts at
escape in Nebraska history, !)•
was captured near Medicine Bow,
Wyo., after leading his pursuers a
chase of over 1,000 miles.
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Copper Cornice Skylights
Composition, Tar and
Gravel Roofing and Asbestos
Shingles
Genuine 0. S. Army Blankets
All Wool—Regulation Size
$3.50—or 3 for $10
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115 NORTH ROBINSON
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