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BRICKLAYERS MAKE
SACRIFICE
In Order to Stimulate Build
ing Trade They Voluntar
ily Reduce Wages
Cut 12.5 Cents an Hour,
Meaning Dollar a Day
Less for Workers
The Hamilton Bricklayers' Union
announced Wednesday, as its contri
bution to the lowering of living costs,
a voluntary reduction in wages of
]2V£ merits per hour, effective on April
1, 1922. This announcement was
made in the following statement, is
sued Wednesday:
"Realizing that building activity is
not keeping pace with the needs 5f
the country and that costs are prob
ably the principal factor in holding
back new and needed construction, we,
the members of the Bricklayers'
Union, of Hamilton, have this day
decided to voluntarily reduce our wage
scale 1216 cents per hour, effective
on April 1, next.
"We take this step in the belief
that it will encourage persons having
building work in contemplation to pro
ceed with such work at this time. We
are also influenced by our desire to
stimulate construction work for the
benefit of all building crafts, many of
whose members are suffering from
the lack of continuous employment
occasioned by the limited amount of
construction now under way.
"We have further given assurance
to all employing contractors that the
members of our organization will ex
ert themselves to lay up the maxi
mum number of brick so that the
ultimate cost of the finished work
will be the lowest consistent with
e-ood work.
"MORRIS MASTOW, President.
"R. A. ROBARDS, Secretary."
A leading Hamilton contractor
Wednesday, 111 commenting upon the
action of the bricklayers, said: "Noth
ing that has occurred in the building
trades in Hamilton in a long time has
so greatly encouraged us. Coming as
it does at the beginning of the season
we believe that this announcement
cannot fail to strongly stimulate
building work. It should particularly
foster the erection of brick residences.
"We have been getting excellent
co-operation from the bricklayers for
some time. The amount of work they
put up in a day has been brought to
a high point and this, taken with the
reduction in the wage scale, will en
able us to provide really economical
brick work. Conditions now justify
building, and we think there will be
a large volume of work this year."
Last year
a good suit
here
cost you $10.
But today
things are
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Haw wool
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so is I he
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linings, trimmings
n'everything
and the
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it all is
you now get
a better suit
here for
$22.50
than those
we sold last
year at
almost double.
The Spring Clothes
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You get your
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of any suit,
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at $22.r0.
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AT THE R1ALT0
Fox. Presents Great Mark Twain
Story
Mark Twain's masterpiece, "A Con
necticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court," has been made into a motion
picture by William Fox on a scale
worthy of the subject. Issued as a
special production, it will open a five
day engagement at the Rialto, theatre
on Sunday.
Known to the multitude of Mark
Twain lovers as "The Yankee," this
story is regarded not only as a great
classic of American humor, but also
as a forceful satire directed against
those who sigh for the "good old
times." Mark Twain set out to show
that the world we live in is the best
of all possible worlds, and the time
we live in is the best of all possible
times.
This he did by taking a typical
young American, bright as a new
penny, filled with smart, up-to-date
ideas, and setting him down in a me
dieval court, where he could judge
for himself whether the knights of old
were more courageous than the men
of today, and whether life as a whole
was more comfortable then than now.
The result is exquisite fantasy and
delicious fooling, with a sharply
drawn conclusion. "The Yankee" is
rated high among Mark Twain's
books. Certainly it is one of the fun
niest.
The picture was directed by Em
mett J. Flynn, noted for his skill in
fidelity to detail. The Yankee is
played by Harry C. Myers, a well
known light comedian.
Popular American Illustrator Comes
To Rescue When Art Work
Is Needed in Film
"Illustrated by Penryhn Stanlaws."
On the front page of a magazine
such a notation costs the publication
several thousands of dollars, for il
lustrations by the famous American
artist come decidedly high.
Local playgoers, however, will see
for the price of a movie admission
only, a genuine Stanlaws sketch,
such as culk'ctors purchase for small
fortunes.
For on the easel of an artist's stu
dio in "The Outside Woman," the
latest Wanda Hawley production for
Realart, coming to the Rialto theatre
for two days beginning Friday, pa
trons of the photoplay will see the
growth cff a drawing ostensibly done
by the artist of the picture—but real
ly accomplished by the one and only
Penrhyn Stanlaws.
It seems that on thi* day set for
the 'Studio scertes the hack artist
hired for the drawings was suddenly
taken ill. Realart officials were dis
mayed at the idea of holding up pro
duction.
Penrhyn Stanlaws happened to be
visiting the Realart studio in Los
Angeles at the time. "I'll do the
drawings," he said. And so it is that
a "genuine Stanlaws" is one of the
attractions of this clever new com
edy-drama.
Impressed by the beauty of Miss
Hawley, Mr. Stanlaws also designed
several special costumes for the star
to wear in this picture—not as a paid
fashion designer, of course, but to
demonstrate several original ideas of
his own on the subject of dress.
"The Outside Woman" was adapt
ed by Douglas Bronson from Phillip
Bartholomae's successful stage farce,
"All Night Long." Included in the
cast besides Miss Hawley are Clyde
Fillmore, Sidney Bracey, Rosita Mar
stini, Misao Seki and Thena Jasper.
BOXING_CARNIVAL
At Jefferson Next Tuesday
To Be Biggest Ever Stag
ed in Hamilton
Sport fans are to be given a real
treat on next Tuesday night when the
Lenox Athletic Club will stage what
is considered the best boxing card ever
proposed in Ilamiton. The big show
will be held in the Jefferson theatre.
A glance at the card arranged will
convince the knowing ones that they
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are going to see the real thing and
get more than their money's worth.
There are to be 36 rounds of fight
ing, starting off with four rounds by
two of the fastest little fighters in this
neck of the woods. This will be fol
lowed by an 8-round setto in which
Kid Rhodes, the speed marvel of Day
ton, will meet Kid Palmer, the clever
lad from New Orleans. Rattlesnake
Williams?- who has gained the reputa
tion of being the most aggressive
fighter ever shown here, will meet
Billy Philpot, known as the Fighting
Colored Boy. These two clever fight
ers will fight 8 rounds, and something
good can be looked for when they
hook up. The big feature of the even
ing will be a ten-round go between
Kid Rouk, the Memphis sensation,
and Arthur Stigall, known as the
Maryland Bear Cat. A real thing in
the way of a knock-out is looked for
in this bout. Both have reputations
for fighting ability and for sledge
hammer punching.
The Lenox Athletic Club is certainly
to be congratulated on the high class
card it has prepared for the delight
of the boxing fans for next Tuesday
night.
TIMES-STAR EDITOR
Scored For Unfair Biased
Stand in Mooney
Situation
San Francisco. The Mooney-Bil
lings defense has let loose an on
slaught upon the Cincinnati Times
Star which in a recent editorial gave
vent, by inference, to the wish that
Tom Mooney, the framed labor leader,
might have been hung instead of
commuted to life imprisonment as a
result of the open-shop, Chamber of
Commerce conspiracy on the Pacific
coast.
The occasion for the poisonous
sheet's outburst is the debate between
Solicitor-General Beck and Prof. Felix
Frankfurter, recently appearing in
The New Republic.
"In reviewing the debate," the de
fense committee writes the editor, "in
which Prof. Frankfurter defends
President Wilson's intercession to pre
vent the gratuitous execution of Tom
Mooney, a labor leader, you deliver
yourself piously of the following:
"We can concede Mr. Frankfurter's
argument, and then express wonder
ment at the facts, j*nd with this won
derment, utter the prayer that Presi
dent Wilson's action never will be re
garded as a precedent."
"From this," the defense committee
retorts, "an intelligent individual
would assume that you had read Mr.
Frankfurter's argument since you are
ready to concede it yet that intelli
gent individual would be in error, evi
dently, since you ascribe to President
Wilson, as his reason for interference,
the wish 'to placate the liberal element
of Russia, which has made the Moon
ey case provocation for demonstra
tions in Petrograd and Moscow.' If
you had read Mr. Frankfurter's reply
to Mr. Beck, you would have seen that
the desire 'to placate the liberal ele
ment of Russia' had NEVER been
expressed by either Mr. Wilson or Mr.
Frankfurter, who was counsel to the
president's mediation commission, but
had been invented and ascribed mali
ciously and falsely to Mr. Frankfur
ter by former District Attorney Fick
ert, Mooney's prosecutor, whose sub
ornations have long been public know
ledge as the result of confessions by
his principal witnesses. In short,
from your very biassed editorial, it
appears that you read only Mr. Beck's
side of the debate or that, having read
Mr. Frankfurter's rebuttal, you dis
carded the refutation and held on to
Mr. Beck's assertion which had been
based upon Fickert's hysterical de
fense of so improper a conduct of the
prosecutor's office that, only by the
aid of the dictaphone, was Secretary
of Labor Wilson's Densmore report
able to show to the world, as an offi
cial document, the perjury, fraud, in
timidation and violence employed by a
law officer to railroad to the toils for
life a man whose only crime was to
workin defense of the labor movement
Long ago, of course, the Mooney-Bil
lings case transcended a local 'fel
ony.'
CRIMINAL LAW
Enforced y Injunction
Judge
Buffalo, N. Y.—For the first time
within the memory of lawyers an in
junction was asked to prevent prose
uting officers from proceeding with
the trial of a criminal case.
The incident shows the trend of
injunction use.
The incident shows the trend of in
junction use.
The application was made to Su
preme Court Justice Pooley by the
Buffalo gravel corporation, which
asked that the district attorney be
restrained from prosecuting any of
the anti-trust cases growing out of
the visit which the Lockwood build
ing probe committee paid this city
More than 00 individuals and cor
jiorations have been indicted, under
the Donnelly anti-trust act, which has
been on the statutes for 13 years
and has been repeatedly upheld by
New York courts. Justice Pooley
however, settles the plea for an in
junction against the district attorney
by ruling that the anti-trust law is
invalid.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
STRENGTH OF ORANG-OUTANG
If Properly Braced, It Is Said the Anl.
mat "Can Easily Bend Almost
Anything.'*
The strength of a full-crown orang
outang Is enormous. I have seen one
bend a 1-inch steel bar as though it
were made of rubber. If he can brace
himself properly, with plenty of room
to exert his entire strength, be can
bend almost anything but between
bending a bar and breaking a rope by
pulling, there is a great deal of dif
ference. A. rattan rope will hold him,
though a simple menagerie cage may
not give him any more trouble than
a paper hoop.
The strength of the orang-outang, or
wild man," as the name means In
Malay, is largely In his arms. The
arms of a mias—the breed that we
wero after in Borneo—measure ten
feet or more from tip to tip. The mias
type, which is next in size to the goril
la, is somewhat larger tiian the or
dinary breed. It is distinguished by
a darker color and by folds of skin
at each side of the face. Its body,
from shoulders to hips, is about the
size of a man's, it lias short, unde
veloped legs, long lingers and thumbs
that are mere stubs.
An orang-outang never travels on
the ground when he can swing from
tree to tree, and, since there are very
few open spaces in the jungle, he
aeldom reaches ground except when ho
goes down i« get something, tie can
swing incredible distances, hurtling
through the air and catching branches
with perfect accuracy.
Orang-outangs usually live in col
onies numbering from -k) to 00, and the
largest tu.d UJOSI powerful is chief.
They makt their home." on platforms
in the branches of trees and they build
the platforms by breaking off limbs
and putting them crisscross, in mating
seuson the male and fernaLe live to
gether, but the couples separate after
the young are born. The motlier takes
cure of them and the father goes off
about his business.—Charles Mayer in
Asia Magazine.
INSECTS MAKE LEAVES 'WALK'
Queer Creature* Responsible for Odd
Belief That Has Long Been Hold
in Australia.
There are some strange leaves in
Australia which the people used to
think could walk alone. Whenever
there came a gust of wind these queer
leaves blew off iu a perfect shower.
As leaves generally do, they turned
over and over, and rested upon the
ground. Then they would seem to
crawl toward the trunk of the tree
from which they fell. Since that time
it has been found that these leaves,
as they were thought to be, were real
Insects and lived upon those Very
trees. Their bodies are thin and flat
and their wings veined, Just like a
leaf, if they are disturbed their legs,
which are folded away under their
bodies, leave their whole shape ex
actly like the leaf of a tree, with stem
and all. Bright green in the summer,
these singular little insects, chame
leon-like, slowly change their color to
a dingy brown, just like a leaf that
has been frosted. It Is strange that,
with wings, they d® not tiy, but rath'
er walk or crawl along the ground.
Queen Liked Her Ale Strong.
The City of London Brewery com
pany, whose premises are offered for
sale, claim to be the only brewery In
the city of London existing from the
time of Queen Elizabeth, and it is
quite possible that the queen occasion
ally sampled their brew. Elizabeth
was a specialist in ale. She liked it
strong, as witness the plaintive note
her host, the earl of Leicester, sent to
Lord Burleigh: "There is not one
drop of good drink for her here. We
were fain to send to London and
Kenilworth and divers other places
where ale was her own beer was so
strong that there was no man able to
drink it."
Teoting Material In Cloth.
Mixtures of cotton and wool may
be tested by raveling a bit of cloth
and burning two of the threads, one
running with the selvage, the other
TOSS
wise to It. The cotton thread
bums quickly with a flame and smells
like wood wool chars slowly without
a flame and smells like burning hair.
Shoddy, or remanufactured wool, is
often used with wool. This can be
detected by raveling out a bit of the
material, when short broken fibers
may be seen. In general, a woolen
material which has cotton in It will
become more wrinkled when wet than
all-wool goods.
Anclont Zoological Gardens.
Records show that King Nezahual
coyotl had zoological gardens In Tex
cuco, Mexico, In the middle of the Fif
teenth century, and In the next ceju
tury Cortex found aviaries and flsh
ponds at lztupulapan. Montezuma II,
emperor of Mexico In the beginning of
the Sixteenth century, had large col
lections of animals in the gardens of
his capital.
Almost all of the modern zoological
jrardens date from comparatively re
cent years, and contain largo collet
tlons of fine animals, more suitably
housed than at any time in the his
tory of the world.
Great Help.
MA
new clerk in a police court is
greatly helped by one thing."
"What is that?"
"The way prisoners understand pro
cedure and routine."—Louisville1 Cour
ier-Journal. i
MILL GUARDS HELD
Steubenville,Ohio.—Two mill guards
employed by the Wheeling steel cor
poration at Yorkville have been held
without bail on a first degree murder
charge because of the death of Elmer
Cost, a union picket.
The strikers are members of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers. They are
resisting wage cuts.
"CAN'T STRIKE" LAWS
roving Great Lesson To
Labor
New York.—If labor is slow and
neffective, why this country-wide cry
for "can't-strike" laws, asks Justice,
fficial magazine of the International
,adies' Garment Workers' Union.
"The growth of the labor movement
is disturbing the peace of our cham
bers of commerce," says this labor
paper. "While we believe that the
scheme of prohibiting strikes will
give a powerful impetus to the labor
movement, we point out to those of
our readers who may have been think
ng that our labor movement is hope
lessly slow and ineffective, that our
ulers and masters disagree with them
entirely.
"The masters consider our labor
movement as the only great menace
to their continued domination, and
that explains the meaning of their
newest plot to destroy the labor
movement by legislation. We are con
inced that this attempt will be a
lesson on the need of greater unity
nd loyalty to a number of our work
rs and that it will drive out their
lessimism.
"Henceforth, the works must forget
all their imaginary differences and
ine up their forces against the dark
powers which threaten the life of tin
nbor movement.
"But should all these means of pro
est fail and labor serfdom be made
part of our law books, we should not
iespair of the character and aspira
ions of our labor movement. The
odern worker can no longer be con
erted into a slave, and if he decides
to quit work, quit he will, legally if
possible, illegally if necessary."
A FEW QUESTIONS
Where can a man buy a cap for his
knee,
Or a key to the lock of his hair
an his eyes be called an academy
Because there are pupils there?
In the crown of his head what gem
are found
Who travels the bridge of his nose?
""an he use, when shingling, the roof
of his mouth,
The nails on the end of his toes?
!1 the crook of his elbow he -eti!
jail
If so, what did he do?
How does he sharpen his -houhiei
blades
I'll be hanged if I know, do you'.'
Can he sit in the shade of the palm
of his hands?
Or beat on the drum of his ear
hies the calf of his let.1 eal the con
on his toes
If so, whv not urow corn on the ear".
What helps you when in trouble in
a strange city? Auto Club member
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THE NATURAL BRIDGES OF
UTAH
FORTY-FIVE
One
miies north of Bluff,
in Southwestern Utah, within a
space of about five miles, are three
natural bridges which are tuiderstood
to be the largest of their kind in
existence.
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Named Sipapu (Gate of Heaven),
Kachima (Cuardian Spirit) and Owa
chomo (Rock Mound), these bridges
were discovered in The three
constitute a National monument, being
se proclaimed by Presidential an
nounceiuent in 1SKJ8.
The largest of the three has an ex
treine height of 222 feet and is 6f
feet thick at the top of the arch,
which is 28 feet wide. It has a span
of 201 feet, ihe height of the span
being 157 feet.
but to fix those figures in
his mind to gain u fair ideu of the
Immensity of these wonders which
Nature fashioned from the lofty walls
of
White canyon.
Near the monument are some caves
and ruins which are believed to have
been the homes of a prhistorie race
which inhabited this section.
These bridges are best reached h\
s'tage or team from the railroad sta
tion at Thompson. Utah, to Monticellu,
thence by paek-hor^e- Journey
through a strange .le- ei i«*d !..iitng.
hut interesting land.
Where do you get uuto road maps
free? The Auto Chili office, 205 S.
Third street.
Eyesight
Insurance
We insure our lives,
wlty not our eyes? Eye
sight means almost as
much as life.
You can insure eyesight
and relieve those constant
headaches and many other
complicated pains by hav
ing your eyes examined
and fitted with properly
adjusted glasses.
We examine the eyes
and furnish the glasses
for one ehnr e a reason-
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