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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1928
YOU MUST REGISTER
Every man and woman who wants
to vote at the election in November
must register anew this fall. No
matter whether you registered at the
primaries or any time in the past,
such registration does not entitle you
to vote in the future. You must reg
ister this fall. Everybody must reg
ister. There are four registration
days: October 4, 11, 19 and 20. The
hours are 8 a. m. to 2 p. in and 4 p. m.
to 9 p. m. Next Thursday is the first
registration day. Set a good example
for others by going to your precinct
polls and registering.
LAW'S TRAGIC BLUNDERS
New Jersey has just discovered thatl
it has been holding an innocent manl
in jail. James Sweeney was sen-l
tenced in 1927 to life imprisonment
for alleged participation in a maill
robbery. Last June his innocence was
established. He is still waiting fori
the board of pardons to turn himl
loose. He will get no compensation)
for the time he has spent in prison,
nor for the anguish he must have suf-|
fered. New Jersey had a worse cast
not many years ago. One Raffaelcl
Morello served eight years after be-|
ing convicted of murdering his wife.
He was released as innocent, but gotl
no compensation. England is about tol
pay $30,000 to a man who served
18% years unjustly. No judicial sys
tem can entirely preclude injustice,
but at least there can be some recom
pense for the tragic errors of thel
courts. Surely American states ought
to remedy this sad defect in theirl
laws.
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COMMUNISTS ARE JOKERS
The observance of Tolstoy's cente
nary by the Russian government is|
the prize joke.
Tolstoy's life was a contradiction)
of everything communistic. He plead
ed for non-resistance, fraternity andl
literal obediance to Christ's words.
Force in every form was abhorrent to
Tolstoy.
The communist is the embodiment
of force. It is not good tactics to re
veal this position, which was opposed
by Tolstoy, and who was despised by
revolutionists.
If Tolstoy wer« alive he would flay
these "reds," with their centralized
government and rulership from above.
Tolstoy could not be fooled by hon
eyed pleas of revolutionists. They
would risk a world's censure by stand
ing him before a firing squad, as is
being done with thousands of un
known Russian heroes who dare plead
for elemental liberty.
But Tolstoy is dead and the hun
dredth anniversary of his birth is cele
brated by men who gag free speech,
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NEITHER POVERTY NOR
RICHES:—Remove far from me van
ity and lies give me neither poverty
nor riches feed me with food conve
nient for me.—Proverbs 30::8.
PRAYER:—O Lord, keep us from
presumptuous sins let them not have
dominion over us.
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who profess even a fraction of his
ideals.
The cheap gesture of communists
should be repudiated by thoughtful
people.
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NAILING AN ANCIENT LIE
Hoping to nail a ghost story that
has been current for many years and
doubly current since the war, the
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers'
International Union, in convention,
has sent forth to the world a resolu
tion declaring that it neither prac
tices nor tolerates restriction of work
or output.
The idea of restriction of output
comes from old days—conolnial days
and post-colonial days—and there are
few evidences of such practices to
lay. Restrictions adopted by unions
are in the direction of cutting down
the number of hours of work per day
and the number of days per week.
The bricklayers have done a wise
thing to nail this ancient lie. The
American workman works while he
works, his aim being to see to it that
he doesn't work more than a fair
portion of the day or week.
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"BIGGER AND BETTER"
PROFITS
The Standard Oil companies are
getting ready to declare a record quar
terly dividend. This group once was
"busted" by Judge Landis, after
which its health was much better.
Bigger and better profits have result
d. The dividends of the group will
amount to a little more than fifty
million dollars for the third quarterl
of this year, nearly three millions
more than for the same period lastl
year, and fifteen million more thanl
"or the same quarter in 1924.
Pursuing the subject, it will be not-|
that there is and has been growing
prosperity in the automobile industry
and all that caters to it, in the amuse
ment industry and all that caters to|
.t, and in almost every other indu3
try that offers luxury or amusement.!
"n many other directions there is any-|
thing but prosperity.
Many old economy "truths" seeml
to be going by the board, and labor,
if it wants to know really where it
is going, has got many new things)
to take into account.
THE FIVE-DAY WEEK
What of the five-day week? Is|
this further shortening of hours of la
bor a dream, or a national promise?
!f the latter, will it take as long inl
Tulfillment as previous gains of the
same sort, the eight-hour day, for
example In a word, what is the
present status and what the probable
outlook in this new industrial reform
Questions like these are frequently
asked. As the first part of a reply,
here is a memorandum from investi
gators who are studying the matter
(for the ^L. F. of L.:
"The needle trades are active in the
[five-day week movement. The cloak
industry of New York city, employ
ing approximately 40,000 workers, has
just been put on a 40-hour week basis.
Chicago cloak makers have taken the
same position, and the movement is
[spreading through the country.
"Large numbers of building trades
(workers have the five-day week. The
Brotherhood of Painters and Decora
tors, for example, report that more
Ithan half of their 145,000 members
lhave the five-day week. This develop
ment has gone farthest on the Pacific
Icoast.
"The metal trades, machinists, iron
Imolders, patternmakers, boilermakers,
Iblacksmith, etc., are making a vigor
lour agitation for the five-day week,
land the printing trades are develop-
ing the same sentiment."
The Federal Council of Churches in
Christ, in its message seht out fox
Labor Sunday, says:
"Industrial developments and the
growing efficiency of labor suggestj
a further shortening of hours and a
five-day week in certain industries.
Churches and social agencies must be
prepared to do their part in provid-|
ing for the increasing leisure time for
all as hours are shortened.
"We have learned to view with con
fidence the ability of the workers, if
opportunities are provided, to make
as good use of their leisure time as
any other social group."
That last statement is distinctly re
freshing. The old-fashioned theory
was that the worker had to have his
nose on the grindstone to keep him
from rioting.
Lastly may be cited a shrewd state
ment by C. W. Barron, head of the
Wall Street Joumla:
"The half day's labor on Saturday
spoils the day for both production and
consumption. It is uneconomical from
all points of view. Laborx agitation]
has shortened the hours of labor and
increased the opportunity for con
sumption. Capitalists should now
take a hand, and reduce the working
week by cutting off the half Satur
day,"
To sum up: The five-day week has
arrived. It has gained a foothold,
and is spreadingy It is welcomed byI
the wiser and more far-seeing men
in the ranks of employers, and it has
a great technical advantage in the
fact that the half day's work on Sat
urday suits nobody. Its rapid prog
ress seems sure.
should be provided for in the work
men's compensation laws of the
various states, the American Associa
tion for Labor Legislation points out
The employment may be illegal be
cause the child is working without
the employment or educational certifi
cate required by law or because he
is employed at work prohibited to
minors.
The standard law proposed by the
association would provide for the child
injured while working without a cer
tificate twice as much compensation
as he would receive if legally em
ployed, and for the child working in
a prohibited occupation three times
the compensation that he would re
ceive if legally employed. Eight
states have already provided for ex
tra compensation in such cases.
TYPOS
Reject Proposal For Labor!
Party
Charleston, S. C. (I. L. N. S.).
Proposals for the formation of a labor
party and a nation-wide referendum
to ascertain the sentiment of the peo
ple on the Volstead Act, were voted
down at the annual convention of the
International Typographical Union
here.
The union selected Seattle, Wash.,
as the next convention city. In the
race for the 1929 convention Seattle
won over Milwaukee, Wis., and Kansas
City, Mo.
A determined effort was made on
the convention floor to have the union
commit itself to support the organi
sation of an American labor party
whenever a majority of the unions
affiliated with the American Federa
tion of Labor favor such a step, but
the proposal was defeated. Organiza
tion of the party on the coalition plan
similar to the British labor party was
suggested.
President Charles P. Howard took
-he floor in opposition to the measure.
He declared that American workers
are now on a higher plane than those
of any other country, and that it would
be foolish to adopt in any respect a
political attitude for organized labor.
|MAY UNITE, HOLDS
STATE BOARD!
Denver.—The State Industrial Com-I
Imissiongravely pondered over the
question of whether workers may
lunite, and has finally handed down an
|affirmative reply.
The case involved organized laundry
Iwagon drivers, whose president was
victimized by a member of the em
|ployers' organization.
The state commission sits in judg
Iment on labor controversies. It is il
legal for employes to suspend work
until the commission publishes its find
lings.
The commission recently declared
[against the seven-day week enforced
on Colorado Springs culinary work
ers. The employer ignored the award
and the unionists must depend upon
their economic power.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
The Cherry
9 w Where with our
a Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
At last Jim Duncan has gone. "At
last," it is written, because for months
the old battler has lain on a bed of
pain, wracked and worn, battered and
beaten, fighting it out to the last, a§
he fought so many battles.
Jim Duncan never gave up. He be
lieved he would again be able to
plunge into battle. He planned for it.
When he could talk he spoke of it.
He wasn't the kind to give up. A few!
of the friends of the pioneer went to
see him. Some of them came away
to wipe furtive tears from their eyes.
The old comrade was such a pitiful
shadow of his former robust self!
INCREASE COMPENSATION
FOR CHILD WORKERS
Increased compensation in the case
of child workers illegally employed| bark of the exterior of this towering
figure of a man. The fine grain that
was beneath was known to fewer per-
There are a great many outstand-
:ng
figures in the labor movement who
vere in baby clothes when Jim Dun
can began his career as an organizer
and leader of wage^ earners. There
"ire many who were not born. And,|
there are a great many .who might
well remember James Duncan as a
man who did a good part of his fight
ing in the search for knowledge. Night
schools were well known to the young
Duncan who was to become one of
the intellectual giants of the American
rade union movement, respected for
his ability and force of intellect even
by those whom he fought most bitter
ly.
Duncan knew his books. He knew
his boks of economics, his books ofI
pure literature, his Shakespeare, yes,
of course, his beloved Bobby Burns,
und also his Keats, his Kipling and
his ponderous historians. Duncan
*ould adorn every speech and every
tale with the wit and wisdom of the
world's brightest and mightiest.
Many came to know only the rough
sons still fewer knew that whimsical
treak of almost womanlike sentiment
that could so easily be touched and
that so often was disguised. The voice
that could roar and thi'eaten across
convention floors and could cajole and
grow soft with the tenderness of af
fection and the softness of deep com
passion.
There were many sides to Jim Dun
can and that was one of the things
that gave him greatness. And there
ought to be no mistake about the prop
osition that any man who could ride
through the long years of the build
ing of the American trade union move
ment that were spanned by this man's
"areer had to have about him that pe
culiar thing men call greatness. Noth
ing less could survive in the position
that Duncan occupied^ any more than
it could have survived in the position
that his great friend Gompers occu
pied.
Duncan stood for a definite philoso
phy of trade unionism, just as Gom
pers did. It may be that Duncan was
even the more inflexible of the two—
inflexible out of conviction, not out of
that pettiness called obstinacy. Had
Duncan not been cast in a character
hat called for fighting, endless fight
ing, ne would almost surely have
gained renown as a scholar, for he
vas essentially a scholar with a schol
ar's mind and a scholar's thirst for
truth. In his famous Tanyard Club
it was the uncovering of truth that
mattered.
But it was ordained that Duncan
should go into many battles, espous
ing a cause. There was no fairer
fighter. Jim Duncan hated the unfair
ind the mean. He hated the narrow
and he hated the sordid. He stood up
and fought and whoever was engaged
n battle with this giant knew ere the
finish that there had been a fight!
But Jim Duncan—almost everyone
called him "Jim" in conversation if
not to his face—has fought his last
fight. A character of dignity, of poise,
if tremendous emotional capacity, of
^eal and rare integrity, has passed
*rom the scene of earthly cares. Deep
sorrows and disappointments entered
into his last years—burdens that
would have crushed a lesser man and
that marked deeply even this nigged
character—but for* all of these he
fought to live and serve. It is the law
of earth, however, that no man can
"orever hold at bay the disintegration
that comes with passing years.
k is but a brief span since Jim Dun
can stood by# the side of the bed of
his colleague, his pal Sam, in the dim
hours of an early morning and held
his hand while that hand grew still.
Two giants there were, one slipping
rway, the other left to struggle on so
short a time, then to waver and fall
as all must do.
It is good for America that Duncan I
lived as it is good that Gompers lived.
Both knew a loyalty to an ideal, an
incorruptible faith and an unshakable
philosophy that made the American
trade union movement what it is. Mil
lions of homes are brighter, millions
enjoy more freedom, millions have I
more of knowledge and more of happi
ness. American wage earners are bet
ter off in every way. America is bet-1
|ter off.
A last salute to you, Jim Duncan. I
You lived a fine life you served your|
I fellow men.
Debt-Paying in China
Has Humorous Side
Many amusing tales are: told oi dif
ficulties arising in China froui the an
cient custom which decrees that each
man must pay Ills debts before the
sun ris^es on New Year's morning.
Practically every person in China
owes some one else, all transactions
being conducted on the bnsls that one
may evade paying one's debts until
the new year, and it is not a Chines*
trait to pay a bill tiptil payment has
been requested at least twice. This
accounts for the frantic ha^te in
which the men rush here and there
trying at once to collect debts and
avoid creditors.
If one cannot meet bis financial ob
ligations he must secure a new loan
from another person, and as there is
no law, he may be forced to pay as
high as f() per cent or more interest.
To dun a debtor on New Year's day
is not considered good form hence it
is not uncommon to see an anxious
creditor carrying a lantern In broad
daylight, seeking to find his debtor, on
the assumption that, because of his
carrying a light, it Is still the night
before.
Happy Is the man who can outwit
his creditors during the last precious
hours of the old year, for he may then
sail along in peaceful, undisturbed wa
ters for another year.—Inez Marfcp
Lowdermilk, In the Dearborn ln"
pendent
Dog Formally Tried
for Slealing C.Acken
Today the satirists have plenty to
wear themselves out on, but one thing
that does not annoy them Is the trial
of dogs for committing the crime of
stealing chickens. Itacine, the great
French poet and dramatist, whom w?
loosely think of today as a placid soul
living in a placid age. satirized such a
trial in his day.
He portrayed the case of a dog ac
cused of stealing and eating a capon
which had been scheduled to adorn
somebody's dinner table. Racine paints
a ludicrous picture in his play. "Les
Pluideurs," which means the attorneys,
literally "pleaders," of the dog before
the court. The lawyers are as windy
as ever they should be in such a case,
the judge as doggedly intent on im
partiality. The dog is condemned to
the'galleys, although what he would
do in the galleys is a subject of won
der. Perhaps he was sentenced to be
a mascot. Hut the lawyer for the dog
hits upon the idea of bringing before
the court the dog's sons and daugh
ters, a litter of puppies, "poor chil
dren that would be rendered orphans."
The judge is touched by this scene,
for he also has children. The out
come of the case is not related. Prob
ably the dog was "simply kno Uod on
the head."—Kansns City Star.
Ring Fingers
For many centuries wedding rings
were worn on the thumb, and even as
late as the reign of (Jeorne I it was
the rule for brides, although the wed
ding ring was placed on the finger
now customary, to remove It, after the
ceremony to the thumb. Ecclesiastical
admonitions, however, had the effect
of bringing that somewhat queer cus
tom to an end.
It Is a pretty belief, but Incorrect,
that the fourth finger of the left hand
was chosen for the ring finger because
from that a vein ran directly to the
heart. The choice was for practical
reasons—to save the ring from un
necessary usage. That also is the rea
son for the ring being worn on the
left hand.
Harvesting Almonds
But lew people realize Uie trouble
taken in the cultivation of almonds.
They are the most important crop of
the island of Majorca, where many
varieties are cultivated, and the in
dustry is so prosperous that as old
olive trees die they are replaced hy
almonds.
When the almonds are almost ripe
they are knocked off the branches by
long bamboo poles and then picked up
by women and children. The nuts are
separated from the hu?ks after dry
ing, and the shells are then broken
by hand or machinery and the kernels
extracted.
Real Womanhobd Admirtd
I know a woman who is naturally
thoroughly feminine, and has many of
those gentle qualities which make men
marvel. Suffrage has changed her
somewhat: she has heard about her
wrongs until she believes she has
some. In addition, she is a spinster,
and somehow holds the men responsi
ble for that. Still, she has frequent
flashes of beautiful natural woman
hood, and the men love to hang
around and admire her. There is
nothing the men admire so much as
real womanhood nothing they so
much dislike as the new flapper type.
—E. W. Howe's Monthly.
Insects in Disguise
There are beetles that pietend to bv
wasps, and plenty of flies that try to
palm themselves off as unsavory ants.
There is even a spider that assumes
the appearance of an ant. At first
sight it would seem that the possession
of eight legs would be a bar to the dis
guise, but, when occasion requires, up
go the front pair of legs as counter
feit antennae. Instances might be
multiplied One South American fly
which happens to be first-class eating
goes about under a shield fashioned in
the appearai.ee of a highly indigestible
ant
POINDEXTER
DEFEATED WOULD
OUTLAW STRIKESI
Philadelphia.—By a two-to-one vote
the federal circuit court of appeals
held that the Radio Corporation of
America can not compel licensee man
ufacturers to use only corporation
tubes in the construction of receiving
sets.
The court approved Federal Dis
trict Judge Marris' decision that this
is a violation of the anti-trust law.
Judge Buffington, of the circuit court,
held that the Radio Corporation was
[within its rights.
An appeal will be made to the su
preme court by the corporation, which
has used this provision to control the
radio industry.
MEDICAL CZAR
LOSES FIGHT
WITH TEACHERS
New York.—A medical czar of the
(board of education has lost his fight
to retire Mary B. C. Byrne, a teacher,
(because of "mental incapacity."
The Teachers' Union took up the
lease, and on an appeal to the board
of retirement one member said, after
hearing the teacher present her case:
"If that woman is suffering from psy
|chosis, so am 1."
FIVE-DAY WEEK
Urged By Machinists Law
Ignoring Managers
Scored
Atlanta.—"The time has passed
when those who labor need justify
every crumb of improvement in their
conditions by the plea that without it
they can not exist," declared officers
of the International Association of
Machinists in their report to the eigh
Iteenth convention, held in this city
The report is marked by a confident
[spirit and the workers are urged to
insist on a greater share of the pro
ducts of industry.
"The five-day week is demanded be
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cause workers have the right to benefit
by the fruits of industrial progreus,"
declare these unionists.
The worker is entitled to the brief*
est possible working time which mod
ern machine methods will enable him
to secure and at the same time satisfy
the. needs of society. To be satisfied
with less is to forego his just due."
The report includes statements from
employers' sources which prove that
the five-day week is practicable be
cause of overproduction.
Railroad managers who have ig
nored the railroad labor act by refus
ng to treat with unions selected by
their employes were denounced.
The honor, good faith and integrity
that these managers profess is labeled
Bosh" by the unionists.
"The law does not mean anything
to these men, who are apparently ap
pointed to the positions they occupy
because of the very fact that they are
unscrupulous. This type of employer,
represented by some railroad officials,
is comparable to the 'reds' and the
Communists the world over."
The report includes the significant
suggestion that when the pendulum
swings the other way "we may pos
sibly be inclined to pay in kind."
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*CHOOL DAYS are almost here.
Before long your youngsters will
be bade at their desks, engaged in childhood's
daily grind. Good food is necessary for their con
tinued health and to keep their minds alert and
r.
Deprived of several hours per day of exercise
they have been enjoying, their appetites will prob­
ably be less sharp-but they'll never refuse to eat delicious
BAMBY BREAD
These wholesome loaves contain food value in abundance—
the very elements needed to supply healthy growing bodies. They
are made from the best of ingredients, and are handled with the
utmost care and cleanliness in every step of mixing, baking and
delivery.
WEIK'S BAKERY
1375-1381 Shuler Ave. Phone 3883
Bread Is Your Best Food—Eat More Of It
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