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KENTUCKY MILITARISM
Following reports that conditions in Newport, Ky., aie
"unparalleled in the history of the American labor movement." j
the American Civil Liberties Union has sent a strong protest
to Governor Morrow of Kentucky, in which the use of armored I
"tanks" and machine guns against the workers are particu-
larly condemned. The governor had recently written to the
Civil Liberties Union that the troops were "necessary"
Newport to handle conditions of wholesale violation of liquor
laws, although they were originally sent there to handle a
strike at the Newport Rolling Mills.
The Civil Liberties Union charges that the troops "shifted
their efforts into an anti-bootlegging crusade alter they found
that the whole community was in sympathy with the strikers
and that they could not successfully aid the employers on a
straight-out issue of strike-breaking."
The so-called riots in Newport, the letter says, on the
authority of responsible citizens, were provoked by company
gunmen to discredit the strikers and bring about a state of
affairs on which an appeal for troops could be made.
"We are further informed," it continues, "that city offi-
cials, including Mayor Joseph Hermann, Police Chief Frank
Bregel and County Judge William Buten, have been arrested
for sympathizing with the strikers, though martial law has
not been declared and the city nominaly is under the juris-!
diction of the local officials. Affidavits of Newport citizens,
many of them not connected in any way with the strikers,
describe attacks by armored 'tanks' and machine puns on
persons and on property in a fashion which suggests enemy
occupation of a country in time of war. Citizens have been
compelled to seek safety in their cellars during fusilades
of shots."
WHEN THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR COMES!
A German Ambassador is reported to be coming to the United States.
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AMERICAN LEGION OFFICER:
MY MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
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Why Did Picky Steal Madge?
My little prophecy concerning
Katharine was promptly fulfilled.
After a few hours of rest enforced
is agreeable to Mrs. Bickett." He
bowed formally.
"He is the same ridiculous darling
old ramrod," Katherine declared
by Lillian, she declared herself more , balt-afTectionately, half-derisively, as
than ready to begin the delicate and after perfunctory farewells we drove
aiduous work planned for her. Ac i rapidly bark to the farmhouse,
cordlngly, Lillian, Katherine and I j * wonder if he 11 ever marry. If
drove to Dr. Pettit's on the very eve-1 he managed to get the right sort of
ning of the day she came, to us, foi w^e ^or ^'s temperament, she d cure
the arrangement of the necessary ^im °* a *ot those little manner-
TODAY
ARTHUR BRISBANE.
j crease the average daily wage you
(BCTMlk wealth, increase the na-
| tion's supply of money, and the pos-
| sible amount that can be earned.
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"AN UTTER LACK OF STATESMANSHIP"
Here's a wail of grief from the organ of the republican
party in Oklahoma. It is a paragraph from the Tulsa World.
Read it:
The farmers are to be immunized from the anti-trust laws. This
In spite of the fact that similar action In behalf of labor a few eyars
a*o has caused untold grief to the government. Opportunism, cow-
ardice, an utter lack of statesmanship!
Yes, the farmers are to be immunized from prosecution
for doing what, all the time, they have had a right to do, but
never had gumption enough to do before. Congress has
epoken, but the highest and most powerful branch of the
government is yet to speak—the Supreme Court.
If the organizations now being developed by the grain
and cotton growers reach that degree of perfection where
they will eliminate the middlemen, who have been making bil-
lions annually for no other reason than that the farmers were
disorganized, and therefore, were without protection, we may I sand of our primitive ancestors, if
| be sure that legal proceedings will be instituted, to have the ! uW°'')(thri,oy''cn|
Supreme Court set aside the immunizing act which congress . ....    —  i— .■ *-
has passed.
The utter lack of statesmanship on the part of congress
' lies, not in this tardy effort to protect those who feed the
nation, but in its utter failure, so far, to protect this useful j M^'wuh "movfng^t^
and necessary portion of our population against the predatory
activities of those whose operations have been useless and
criminal.
What Rockefeller Saw
In China, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
saw men and women carrying brick
and sand up on the mountainside on
their backs and learned of a law
of I that forbids carrying such freight
(hauee for linentors.
The marine borer which attacks
wood under water does damage
umoun ing to billions. In two years
It has cantral twenty millions of
damage In San Fianclsco Bay alone, by rail, for fear the workers would
If you can invent a method for cir-1 loae the,r oniy way 0f earning
cumventlng that borer. you will have
wealth beyond the dreams of Roths-
child.
Creosoting Is not sufficient pro-
tection. Tne ihinne: t covering of
living. If you suggested a dollar a
day for wages in China they would
think you crazy.
More than $2,445 may be the aver-
copper would protect perfectly. Cop- age earning of a man with wife and
per is cheap. What about applying j children to support some day. How
thin copper plating to timbers well | soon depends upon the intelligence
planed? Is that possible?
The Anaconda Copper Company
wisely pushing the manufacture of
copper roofing, might answer the
question.
of those that control industry and
finance.
Those that control should bear in
mind that the more the little man
gets, the more the big man can
make. There was no fortune of a
thousand millions in the United
States when men worked for less
than one hundred dollars a year.
Hating Their Heads Off
Various newspapers day after day
print, more or less concisely, what
despair, representing a national loss
in labor of more than twice the
cost of government, should arouse
no paraticular interest.
If a farmer had five horses eat-
ing their heads off, doing no work,
he would blame himself. The na-
tion has five million men eating
their hearts out, doing no work.
Canadian Liquor
in Ontario, Canada, you may
manufacture liquor. You mustn't
sell it there, but you may sell it in
the Congress of the United States the United States. Proceedings in
does as its day's work. Read it court show how Canadian author-
every day and you will wait long j ities collect a duty of $13.50 a case
before you find any serious refer-
ence to the five million men out of
work in the United States.
It is a curious thing that in a re-
on the whisky as it is shipped into
this country.
Apparently Canada knows more
than we know about watching boot
The Buenos Ay res Zoological So-
ciety has actually sent an expedition
to hunt for the gigantic plesiosaurus,
huge cieature supposed to have sur-
vived from ancient times In Pata-
gonia.
The big animal may be anywhere
from thirty to sixty feet long, some-
thing like a snake and something
like a bird. It will be hunted with
dynamite and elephant guns.
It Is moderately safe to predict
that he will not be found. It does
not seem probable that creatures
that could have lived on this earth
millions of years ago could breathe
the changed atmosphere of today.
When the plesiosaurus was alive
no human being existed. A thou
twelve could blow its small head in
pieces with a chargc of buckshot.
Pictures Teach History.
Professors of Yale, through
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
(Copyright, 1921, Th. Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
public, widespread idleness which, leggers, shipments of whisky, etc.
drives a feew to crime and many to j Possibly an arrangement could be
■ mafje ky Which this country would
l pay to Canada the $13.50 a case, and
Canada would help the United
States to catch the bootleggers that
flood the country with whisky.
OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT
DINNER PAIL
EPIC
That this would happen was pre-
dicted by Uiis writer many years
ago, when the moving picture was
housed in vacant lots or little halls,
and people wondered "how long it
would last."
It's a long jump from cuneiform
inscription, or hieroglyphics, to the
moving picture that could tell you
all of Egypt's history, worth know-
ing. in an hour, and tell it so that
Two little Russian children walked into the local Quak-
ers' church in Seattle recently with three pounds of pennies
i tied up in small envelopes. "In this enevelope," says the
inscription thereon, "I am putting as much every day as I
pay for one meal myself; when 1 go to church or theater I do y0Tj™l0rtvl"(,mp™?"e!tRttiicked to-
the same. It is for my Russian guest, who is hungry. I hope ] ,iay ,la the printing press was at
I shall not be discourteous to him—and let him starve." tacked when it was
to be the greatest of all teachers
and civillzers.
1« Too MnoM
It is said by workers that $2,445
1 per year Is the lowest sum on which
j a man can live decently, supporting
I a wife and three children under
fourteen years old.
Professor Heilman, of Chicago.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
FROM DARKEST AMERICA
Milwaukee Leader. .
The vital Issue In the West Vlr-, all ye*re In 1921. He further testl-1 W .""1 the amount reaulr«d c«n
ginia case concerns
the claim ol the *l«I <hat his company had accumu- not be supplied now because the
tne Claim o[ tne ln other Darts of the ">'*1 Income of the United States
mine workers that they are denied cmmt* ,t no.ooo.ooo. with I •  '« <,n0"*h ,n P"? ,h«t *niount per
* *** $6,000,000 in government bonds, tie- jyear 1u everybody,
posited in Boston.
Regarding the right of free as-
semblage, Mr. Cool id gt testified:
"We hear about peaceful assem-
bly—the right of peaceful assembly.
Why, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen.
there Is no right of peaceful assem-
bly in a street without permit. The     . .
street I. for the people to pas. and '  *'hat 1 /" b~ "" ',f Z, "
repass. There 1. no right of these, °f th'  *" «••
gentlemen to assemble on ray prop-
the right of free speech, the right
of fre« assembly and the right of
joining the union—and that this de-
nial takes the form of forcible ejec-
tion of union mine workers and offi-
cials, hot only from company prop-
erty, but from the community and
even from the county in which they
have been living.
It is admitted that the deputy
jsheriffa of the county are paid their
|salarlea by the coal operators.
J The attitdue of the operators In
•this matter Is crystallized in the tes-
Jkimony of William H. Coolldge of
Boston.
Mr. Coolldge is chairman of the
board of directors of the Island
Creek Coal Co., of Logan county, one
of the largeat operators in Went Vir-
ginia. Mr. Coolldge la also a lawyer
of promirence and a man of many
slness and financial Interests, be-
dl rector of some 20 Industrial
orations.
Mr. Coolldge testified that the as-
aed valuation of the property of
his company la $3,000,000, and that
\m 1820 ita net profits were $2,400,000,
after deducting all taxes. Including
the excess profit* tax, as well as al-
lowances for depletion, depreciation
and obaoleacence, Also that his cora-
paiy's Profits were as great or great-
er in J917, 191# and 1919, with pros-
pect* tor the bi#b«isl production of
We are not curious, as a rule—
A grievous mental 'ack, no doubt—
We never troubled while at school,
As others did, to find things out.
If information came our way
We soaked it in—if it did not
"Well, let it slide," we used to say,
"It will not worry us a lot!"
But when the old clock on the tower,
As shadows round our bedside brood,
Strikes "One!"—which means half past the hour-
We curse its inexactitude.
"Half past ?-Nine?-Ten?-Eleven?-Twelve?
As late as midnight? Surely not?"
Through dull subconsciousness we delve;
Why can't it tell us half past what?
The night is chili; across the room.
As distant as the polar -star,
Beyond a veil of Stygian gloom.
Our watch reposes—far too far.
A fevered thirst to know that hour
Is tossing us in tortured throes.
With ears alert in bed we cower—
And then ensues another doze.
Again we wake; again the bell,
As forth our questing head we poke.
Is peeling out a solemn knell—
Consisting of a single stroke.
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We who were young are bent and gray;
Departed is our strength and youth.
And all because these locks purvey
But useless fragments of the truth!
Down in Washington, we see, a
move to get a subsidy, so our ship
owners will not fail to get. their
profit by the tail. And all this
comes right at a time when con-
gress thinks it is a crime to pay a
bonus to the guys what won the
war and swallowed lies.
First congress gives the owners I
bank notes. They sell 'em to them |
awful cheap, although they stood us
out a heap. The congress will hand
out some dough, with which to make
the big fleet go. And then, as fur-
ther relaxation, the owners escape
taxation. They're out to get. not
what they need, but all that's called
for by their greed.
And Mister Harding makes a
speech to put these things within
their reach. The owners, way it
seems to me, will furnish nothing
but the sea. To put the owners at
their best, the government supplies
the rest.
But when the out-of-works tried
hard to get some butter or some
lard, Harding, he gave them, in de-
fense, an unemployment conference.
Some difference who It is that shout,
the way our congress moves about.
The farmer said that he was broke,
and congress said: "You go and soak
your head In some damp cloths to-
night, and some day you will see
day-light."
The owners ask all this, you know
when seamen's wages are down low.
They want the subsidy, you see, to
put the flag upon the sea. It is
more necessary, far, to hand more
wages to the tar.
preliminaries to her hospital engage
ment the next day.
The tall, grave physician wel-
comed my little friend with more
real, unaffected cordiality that I had
seen in him for many months. I re-
called that in the old days of my
first acquaintance with Katherine, I
had suspected Dr. Pettit of a tender-
ness toward her, but I had decided
afterward that his feeling for her
was simply the admiration and lik-
ing of a physician for an unusually
capable and gifted nurse, who pos-
sessed besides a most attractive per-
sonality.
But whatever his feeling of the old
days. Dr. Pettit's pleasure in seeing
Katherine again was moat patent,
•and for a few minutes Lillian did
not interrupt the exchange of ques-
tions and reminiscences between
them.
Indeed, it was Katherine herself
who, with characteristic thoughtful-
ness, put a period to the conversa-
tion and turned to Lillian with the
apologetic:
"Pardon, I should have remem-
bered that you have something most
important to discuss with Dr.
tit."
"It is perfectly all right, my dear,"
Lillian responded. "Be sure that I
should have interrupted you ruth-
lessly if I had felt that I must. But
If you have finished—" she paused
tentatively.
"Absolutely," Katherine smiled.
1'Then let's get down to cases. You
have managed so that no suspicion
of anything out of the ordinary will
attach itself to Mrs. Blckett's arrival
at the hospital." Lillian's tone was
assertive rather than questioning.
Fortunately, it arranged itself,"
Dr. Pettit returned. "The man whose
car struck our unknown friend, was
so conscience-stricken over the re-
sult of hlB reckless driving that he
ordered no expense to be spared in
his care. That has meant a private
room, and a private nurse. But the
staff of nurses is short-handed, and
my suggestion that I could bring an-
other nurse for this man was re-
ceived with much joy, especially as
the one who has been caring for him
has been asked for in another case.
So Mrs. Bickett will slip into the
place without any question or com-
ment."
"Good!" Lillian's characteristic
monosyllable was emphatic. "Then
what time tomorrow will you call
for her? It will be better for Mrs.
Graham and me not to appear in the
matter at all."
Of course," the physician agreed,
'And I will call at 10 o'clock, if that ine.
isms."
Discussing Br. Pettit.
"And be in her coffin or a padded
cell when she got the job accom-
plished," Lillian commented dryly.
"Nay, nay. dear heart, your friend is
a born old bachelor—he wouldn't fit
into the picture of any other capa-
city."
"I thing you're wrong," Katherine
retorted spiritedly. "If he ever fell
in love—"
He's been in love," Lilian's quo-
tation of the phrase was exquisitely
ironical, "twice to my knowledge, and
if there could be found on either oc-
casion a more anointed idiot than he
'd go a long way to get a view of
that phenomenon. But let's not
waste our time talking about him.
We've got a session coming with the
Dickybird when he learns you're go-
ing to leave us, or I miss ray guess."
I was thankful, indeed, that she
had so summarily switched the sub-
ject, and I hoped frantically that my
seat at the wheel had prevented
either oi my friends from noticing
the flush which 1 could not control
at Lillian's words.
For I knew that her reference to
Dr. Pettit's excursions into senti-
mental regions not only meant his
recent infatuation for Claire Foster,
but the feeling for me which he had
so frequently betrayed in the euxly
years of my marriage, and which
had caused me so much annoyance,
and Dicky many ill-tempered hours.
I knew that Lillian believed Kathar-
ine to be ignorant of Dr. Pettit's
former penchant for ne, or she
would not have alluded tc it, but I
was not so sure that the Veen intel-
ligence of the little nurse had not
perceived more than she had ever
betrayed in those old days of clo«e
association.
Dicky <>oes Riding,
I sent the car along speeilly, giv-
ing but perfunctory attenticn to Lil-
lian's instructions to Kathe ine as to
her answers to Dicky's possible
questions. And when we ha/ reached
home again we found Dftky en-
sconced on the varanda.
Dicky sprang up as we timed in
the driveway and helped Lil ian and
Katherine out—greeting Katherine
charmingly but oddly—then puttihg
me back with a gesture, he .'limfood
to the seat beside me.
"Pardon, girls,'' he called mock -
ingly, "but I feel like a littla splti,
so I'm going to steal Frlenl Wift>
as a chauffeuse for a few m'nutes.'
He settled himself beside ine, anol
I tried to gather my scrambled wit«
together, for 1 foresaw a
catechism on the subject of
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CO-OPERATION
NEW YORK CO-OPS DO BIG BUSINESj
All-American Co-operative Commission.
However, what is true this year
may not be true flfty years hence.
Not long ago a President of the
United States complained that you
couldn't hire a good workman for
less than $100 a year.
The wealth of the United States
GROWING BETTER.
Jud Tunklns says it's a sure sign
of progress when nations take more
pride In their conversational powers
than in their fighting abilities
Washington Star.
STRONGLY ENTRENCHED.
"I dare say Senator Snortsworthy
would retire from public life with
reluctance?"
"With so much reluctance that his
retirement would have to be pre-
ceded by the destruction of one of
the most efficient political machines
ever established in a free and en-
lightened country." — Birmingham
Age-Herald
The co-operative associations in
New York city did a business of $1,-
600,000 during 1921, according to
Louis Blachly, director of the Co-
operative division of the state de-
partment of farms and markets. This
does not include housing co-opera-
tives. While some weak organizations
went to the wall, the well-organized
groups continued to grow and pros-
per. Two of the co-operatives which
paid no dividends in 1920. made 6 per
cent returns to their members last
year. The large co-operatives made
a steady increase in the number of
members and the amount of business
done.
The largest co-operative in New
York is the Finnish Co-operative
Trading assoication. During 1921 its
business was $269,000, including re-
ceipts from its bakery, a meatmarket
and a poolroom. A co-operative res-
taurant is run by another society in
the same building. The receipts from
the restaurant were $70,000 last year.
The members of the Finnish Trad-
ing Association conduct several
A SLOGAN.
Bite off more than you can chew;
Then chew it.
Plan for more than you can do,
Then do it.
Hitch your wagon to a star,
Keep your seat .and there you are!
Pittsburgh Christian Advocate
large apartment houses
ively.
A co-operative bakery in Bi
has a membership of 2,000 am
business of $176,000 for the
The Workmen's Circle conduc1
co-operative bakery in the Br
sales of which amounted to $206,
he had
pep-
man
during the year 1921. Six butchi^L /
shops are run by the People's Co^m^ 1
gentlemen to asaemDie on my prop- | rtt i m
orty or in my house, on your prop- KKAAX JvAl
city or in your house. If you Invite
them, they come, but If >ou invite
theni not to come you hav   the right ]
to huve them stay away. They have
no righ  of peaceful assembly per se.
They have the right If they get per-
mission."
But from whom shall the "permls- \
slon" be gotten? In the communities
with which Mr. Coolldge is here con-
cerned, this permission must be got- j
ten from the operators, or from their
agents. For all buildings, vacant
property, streets and alleways are
owned by the company, as well as
halls, schools and church buildings. 1
There is absolutely no place for 1
men to meet or to express views con-
trary In the slightest to the dealres
of the operators and their agents. In
practice, free speech Is dead, or at
least, la driven for expression Into
tellers anr other hidden places
>uu U "tr%9 Aun>iJ\;a,"
operative Society, a Jewish group.
The business amounted to $225,000,
meat being furnished below current
pricec.
One of the most successful co-ops
in New York is "Our Co-operative
Cafeteria," which runs three cafe-
terias. Two months ago a branch
was established in the heart of tho
financial district. Members receive
rebates of from 6 to 10 per cent on
their meals. The membership of this
co-operative consists largely of
women.
The principal co-operatives of New
York City are affiliated with the
Federation of Co-operatives Associa-
tions of New York, and with the Co-
operative League of America.
OLD STYLE.
"Mrs. Flubdub Is getting a di-
vorce."
'But I thought he was a modeel
husband."
"Well, he was a 1918 model."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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