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«broadcasts attacks on labor civil liberties union says ,nNF AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF NEW Effuses to permit defense of work. 1REI liberals is charge. ÿs AND tho radio to spread u ' intr ! j hor and anti-1 • in according to the aean van Civil Liberties. A m«le public the re " ' Ivl correspondence e: arrving on with W. fairer of the Ameri-i -kres- N 3 jeiegraph broad ephone a n(1 r station* ()fficer , of the :nf thirties Union, their| ClU , '..tracked by William „ Vnf the Department of cï 2 U organization which ^ (i in a statement 5UPP Iujv evidence was ' R irn< to substantiate his ' of the Union de- 1 I maintain that, during the yrican If the. ve been :X ; ' . «an an Lf- DV »<44 ,g g , g . j, ||, •• ❖ Ready For A A ❖ ❖ V • « •• ❖ 'i ❖ % -, ❖ v .. % * t 4? 7k * « » * J i . i * , [ « » J J 4 , *. * J \ i\ i » j I ( * 4> 4 ] * • * J 4 , O 4 , * J 4 4 * * ' J 4 , * • * *> * ^ 4» * i ' ^ r .* « ->•/ So,/ I BUSINESS He have completed our moving from our old stand at the Little OI' Store up street to the KTER BUILDING I ❖ A v ^nere we are now at work placing stock for your in ^ on in this more commodious show room. It ° e a nionth yet before the stock is entirely ar Nd for the convenience of the public, and until it *'H be impossible for us to give our multitude of Römers the attention and service, for which the NÜAND-STRAND COMPANY, is noted, but our Comers, we are sure, will bear with us, as we do ? . *° serve them, as we work toward a situation Wowing *.* * ❖ A AND BETTER ICE THAN EVER IlLAND-STRAND t t i I t Z THE OLD RELIABLE STORE". % Recommend r e V those watches which our exper ience has taught us require the least attention to keep them per forming accurately. That's why you will make no mistake in asking our advice on what watch to buy. I? il ^ Srac'•— y o% u. t* m You will find all the newest styles in dials and cases, and movements of unquestioned superiority in our store. J A. G. AMUNDSEN —The Jeweler— » 40.00 recent walkout of the union coal min ers, the strikers were attacked over the raido, as was also the Socialist Party. Immediately after the Bums attack, the Civil Liberties Union requested of Harkness that some member of their national committee be permitted !o reply over the radio. Norman Hap good was chosen to broadcast a state ment but was turned down ground that the -programs pretty well filled for some time to come." Professor Robert Morss Levett, act ing chairman of the Union, then asked Harkness if he found anything objec tionable in Norman Hapgood's svnop sis of his proposed speech which he had submitted for the approval of the radio committee on broadcasting. oil the were would fidve^an^jm if Darkness „ n „,. glVe an appointment to Han fo ^peak on™ "i th ru liberal America^, wiÄe°ne a Ä rt,eS °" " y date ui ratner John A. Rvan or otW men cans who belive in the consti as4°mhl nghts , °/ free s Peech and free cafonwT 5 ' be S )re Ha PS00d's appli cation was considered. Harkness re^d to answer these see tW® ClaiITling that "we do not ee that any good can be accomplished ?y a discussion which mvite." ir T . h L A o ri'i Can f ivil Liberties Union, MS.«* radio°^roadcasting nïïT , Â: Hrtn " on Septembw . ■?r Vie w 0f . the importance of Con stitut 10 » Week and the fact that the National Security League is broad casting on that subject, we respectful ly request the opportunity of having Norman Hapgood or some other prom inent citizen on our committee broad cast on civil liberty and the constitu tion. your questions Harkness refused to Union's telegram. ,, lu ls * appropriate that the attitude of the American Telephone and Tele graph Company in regard to free speech should be so explicitly defiant m connection with the celebration of Constitution Week," declares. "The results of pondence with that answer the Professor Lovett our corres . .. organization are indicative of the danger involved in the control of the radio by tions that are reactionary view of public announcements. corpora in their WORKERS ARE BLACK LISTED CZAR LYSLE OF STEEL TOWN IS ON WARPATH. GETS WARN ING FROM GOVERNOR PINCHOT Three workers who attended the free speech rally in McKeesport, Pa., Sunday, September 9th, at which three speakers aÄd two other workers were arrested by order of Mayor Lysle of that city, were fired from the mills on the following Tuesday, according to information received by the Amercian Civil Liberties Union from the repre sentative of that organization in Mc Keesport. The communication to the American Civil Liberties Union follows: "Czar Lysle is on the warpath. He threatens to deport all foreign radi cals and to imprison the Americans, Three workers who attended our meet ing were fired from the mills on Tues day following. The owner of the lot on which our rally was held has been put through the third degree and threatened by both the owner of the mill where he works and the Mayor." • According to Robert W. Dunn, ?/ sociate director of the Civil Liberties L T nion, who was one of the five ar rested in McKeesport, Attorney Gcn eral Woodruff of Pennsylvania is in vestigating Mayor Lysle's alleged un lawful action. In a letter to the May or of the steel town, Attorney Gener al Woodruff explains that it is the Governor's duty to "take care that the law's of the state be faithfully execut ed." Woodruff has informed the Un ion that if Gov, Pinchot finds the Mayor guilty of violating the constitu tion of the state, he may bring a mo tion for the impeachment of Mayor Lysle before the state Sepate. "Meanwhile w'e are appealing our illegal arrests before the Allegheny Court on Monday, September 24," Dunn states. "We are also going to enjoin Mayor Lysle from his criminal assaults on the civil rights of the steel w'orkers." SAFE ROAD LIGHTING OF THE NEXT DECADE CURE FOR GLARE SEEN IN PER MANENT ROAD LIGHTS. "Legislature against the glaring headlight fiend," says the motorist. But legislation doesn't cure the evils of glare, mainly because the law which cuts down the glare so it is "safe" also cuts down the light so much that its use is unsafe. Comparatively speaking, glareless lights can be, and are made, but their use requires a scientific adjustment of the lens, reflector and lamp, each to each and the whole to the running plane of the car. Such an adjustment does not remain permanent; variations in tire pressure alter it, and jars, jolts and looseness of parts alter the rela tions of the lamp and reflector. For the present, better designs of lenses, greater strictness in regula tions as to tilt of headlights ,and new er and better designs of headlights must be depended upon to minimize, if not to cure the evil. But in the future, the complete cure will come in lighted highways. . A hundred years ago cities were un lighted, or, if lighted at all, were very poorly illuminated. In thousands of small towns today the street lamps are so few and far between that the neighbor pays his evennig visit equip ped with a lantern. Yet our cities are well lighted; so well lighted that the "glare" trouble of headlights is easily solved by forbidding, in cities, any but signal headlights. Exactly as the Post Office Depart ment maintains beacons to guide its mail fliers at night, so will the Nation al Government eventually light its na tional highways at night, volume of traffic which will inevitably flow' over national highways between great centers, it will be more econom ical to light them from the side, than to permit the motorist to light his own section of the road with an illumina tion which causes accidents. With the There are 34 state highway projects under construction representing now a complete cost of $1,959,133.70. Broadus—Powder river bridge nears completion. Montana has 650 grain elevators with combined capacity of 20,202,000 bushels. ... SEN. WHEELER PREDICTS THIRD PARTY SAY ^ NEWPARTY LED BY "OUTSTANDING AMERI CAN WILL PUT ELECTION UP TO CONGRESS. Chicago, Sept. 26.—-The Chicago American reports an interview with Sen. B. K. Wheeler of Montana today by William K. Hutchinson, Interna tional News Service Staff Correspond ent, published under a Washington date line of September 26, as follows: The creation of a third party, led by an "outstanding Ameri can," would throw the 1924 presi dential election into Congress, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Dem ocrat, of Montana, told Interna tional News Service today. "Making his first visit to the capital since his election last Fall, Wheeler, declared the West tired of both old parties" and would demand progressive candi dates in 1924 under threat of bolf ing. was .. WEST FOR CHANGE The Montana senator saw a "dead-locked election" under such circumstances, with the West sup porting the third party, the South going Democratic and the North and Northeast voting Republican. He did not concede the third party a chance of winning the elation. The "outstanding Americans," who could lead a third party into a real heat with its older rivals. Senator Robert M. LaFolIette and Senator William E. Borah, in the order named. Ford is the strongest man in • the whole West. He probably can carry every state west of the Mis sissippi if nominated by one of the older parties. There isn't even any question about the coast states, including California, LA FOLLETTE STRONG "L&FolIette is stronger than the East ever dreams. He can carry Wisconsin, Minnesota. North Da kota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, probably South Dakota and possi bly Montana, Idaho and Washing ton. *4 It is doubtful whether a third because the party could win South will go Democratic as usual and the Republican party will re tain Äs hold on the East and New England." COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS At 2 o'clock P. M. September 22nd, 1923 the Board of County Commission ers met in Special Session, All Mem bers and Clerk present. On motion the Bond of The State Bank of Plentywood Approved and the Clerk was instructed to forward Mr. L. Q. Skelton Superintendent of Banks the following information: We, the undersigned Board of County Commis sioners of Sheridan County, Plenty w'ood, Montana, wish to inform you that we now have a good, and suffic ient Bond signed by N. L. *Neîson, Mollie Fadness, Peter Marron, H. W. Earner, and F. N. Huff, Covering county deposit now 7 in the amount of $12,621.77, deposited in the State Bank of Plentywood, Plentywood, Montana. Trusting that this will meet with your approval, we are, Yours very truly, R. G. Tyler, Jens Ibsen, and Chas. Lundeen, Commissioners of Sheridan County. On motion taxes Nels Peter Moe, page 38, Line 39 in the amount of $29.72 cancelled account duplicate as sessment. On motion the reports of the Coun ty Clerk and Recorder, Sheriff and County Clerks Trial Balance Approved On motion the Clerk and Recorders Reports showing fees collected for Butchers Licenses Months ending June 30th and August 31st, 1923 Approved. On motion the resignation of Fran cis Madden, Beryle Pierce, and Charles Johnson, Clerks on tax books , Ap proved. On motion the appointment of J. J. McElroy, Special Deputy Sheriff, tak ing Joe Kohut to Warm Springs, Ap proved. On motion claims were allowed on the following funds and the Clerk di rected to issue warrants therefore. GENERAL FUND Olson, L. S., justice fees. Salisbury, Rodney, exp. Care Insane . Crone, Emma, exp. visiting schools . Crone, Emma, exp. re Teachers..$17.67 Salisbury, Rodney, exp & mile age Dolin, Jos. F., county printing..,.$57.60 Dolin, Jos. F. county printing....$20.00 Casper, Guy, exp. on stolen horses $33.50 $159.13 $50.83 $101.25 $38.00 ROAD FUND Nereson, Martin, road foreman. $60.00 Everson, Hal vor, road const. Sparling, Harry, road const. Hanson, Henry, road const. Mill, Co. F. G. road const. POOR FUND Patterson, Mrs. Nellie, nursing Triplett family .$224.00 Grant, Chas. refund Bachelor tax $3.00 Dahlby, Mrs. Julia, board for Johnson boy. Dahlby, Mrs. Julia, board for Johnson boy . Dahlby, Mrs. Julia, board for ... Johnson boy . $17.30 ..$7.00 $36.75 -$2.50 $15.00 $15.00' $15.00 BRIDGE FUND Plentywood Machine Shop, bridge const. v . Wolfe, A. E. loading lumber. SEED RELIEF FUND Klovstad, S. T. exp. collecting notes . At 5 o'clock P. M. September 22nd, 1923, the Board Adjourned. Attest: $ 21.00 -$2.50 $74.25 Chairman. The Union Pacific System pays taxes of $36,306 a day. This is an in crease of nearly 300 per cent between 1912 and 1922 or from $4,668,875 to $13,251,552. These taxes take 6.87 cents out of every dollar of gross earnings or 27.3 cents out of every dollar of net earnings. Hassell—Iron Mask mine has suffic ient ore showing to put on large crew men. Clerk BOB SIM ON COAL NATIONALIZATION By LAWRENCE TODD Federated Press Staff Correspondent. Plymouth, Eng.—Nationalization of the coal mines is today supported by every section of British labor, but the hostility of British capitalists to the miners' plan is so deep that action will probably await the time when the La bor party has an overwhelming ma jority in parliament. So Bofcf Smilie told me, in an inform al interview for the Federated Press. And Smilie, who attained world fame when he cross-examined the coal-land owning dukes in the Sankey commis sion inquiry in 1919, ought to know. No man in Britain will question his judgment or his information on this central theme of the miners' struggle. 1 he miners want nationalization in order that the industry may be run for service rather than for profit, and in order that their own lives may be made more bearable through an ade quate and uniform wage scale, regu larity of employment and improved working conditions. Their demands led Lloyd George to create the Sankey commission, with the understanding that its report would be taken as the program of the government. A ma jority of that commission reported, after an exhaustive investigation, that private exploitation of coal mines in Britain should be abolished in favor of nationalization or some other plan. Lloyd George failed to make good. The miners then drew up their own proposal, calling for the confiscation of jdl mineral deposits, since these were not created by human labor, and for the condemnation and purchase by the nation of all mines, since mines are the produce of human labor. These demands were made the object of a strike, but the government suc cessfully resisted the miners. It in-, stinctively defended the private ers of coal lands in their claim for a toll on industry. Today the British miners are in pro cess of recovery from the wage cut ting lockout of 1921. Smilie says they will soon be back to a 90 per cent basis in many districts. But they know that their plan for rationaliza tion must come up next time with the whole force of the British working class behind it. "We must fact the fact," he said, "that no capitalist government will grant our demand. Nor would we be safe in bringing it forward in a Labor party government which held power by only a moderate majority in the house of commons. Reaction is or ganized nationally through the Fed eration of British Industries and otherwise, and I feel sure that it is internationally organized as well. We have see reaction in armed revolt in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent, and we know that British reaction might also take desperate steps. If it had the support of the army, and had the guns, great losses might be inflicted on the unarmed workers. We might be crushed out in spite of our numerical majority. "I do not look for a sudden indus trial revolution. I look for peaceful growth and steady building up of the power of the workers of Britain. My greatest hope is that they avoid fac tionalism and misunderstandings be tween right wing and left. Unless we all stand together for the working class emancipation we shall be beaten here as the Italians have been beaten." Smilie inquired as to two men in the American labor movement. They were John H. Walker and Duncan Mc Donald of the Illinois had watched the attempt to establish a Farmer-Labor party in America in which these men had a part. (McDon ald is still in the fight while Walker gave up at the 1923 convention of the Illinois State Federaton of Labor.) In his own recent triumphant campaign for election to parliament, the vete' an leader of the British miners had the distinction of being opposed by didate supported by all the capitalist parties, under instructions from the respective headquarters in London. A feature of his campaign was a dem onstration planned in the city of Dur ham and carried out by 10,000 members of the Labor party. All through the fight Smilie cheer fully acknowledged the charges hurled at him by the enemy press, that he has all his life been in revolt against capitalistic society. His majority was the largest ever polled by Labor in the constituency. own miners. He a can women STILL FOUND NEAR WESTBY Sheriff Hayes and H. A. Roberts made an unsuspected visit to the west end of the county Thursday afternoon for the purpose of stopping the sup ply of illicit liquor in the west end towns. The purpose was partially ac complished as Tney returned to Cros by in the evening with considerable home-made distillery apparatus which was found in abandoned farm two miles northeast of Westby—the old Effinger farm. Inquiry at the neighboring farms fail ed to reveal the owner of the still, so Sheriff Hayes and Mr. Roberts en gaged in a "Carrie Nation" act, de stroying the contents of several bar rels of mash, two gasoline stoves and other utinsils ued in manufacturing of the liquor which was carried on in a deserted hen coop. The still con fiscated was a crude affair, being con structed by using two copper wash boilers and the coil was a lead one and this was the most "deadly" part of the contraption. Patrons of the "moonshiner" in the west part of the county should thank their lucky stars that Sheriff Hayes made the raid in stead of the coroner to hold an inquest. —Farmers Press, Crosby. some shacks on an Try a Want Ad—It brings Results. 10 cents a line per issue. W ELASTICITY OF QUOTA CURE FOR STRIKE EVILS --. • c "s pbotosed MM,gration law Washington, Sept. 27.—Much ad verse comment has been arauvH in Washington among go^ernmS of ficiak bv thd overnmentail of T..1- tV n statement accredited to i Julius H. Barnes president of thî Chamber of rnmrôil™ ° T - ."*® States that immSZH? ° f the Lni 1 tefl restrictions shouIH^b^l^ia (lao . ta law of labor stress tn^nl ta" 1 tlTT ?, es According ot niihMd-io i ' stnk ? e Vi s ' Barnes said^ P ** reports ' Mr * "Would it Mrtt V.« « ». *• . , effective restraint nn a,K if Tle o? lnÄ ° f P0Wer ; present fmmio-r?t1 f t f buse as at faxpd • quotas w « re re * contract the WGre , free to Dresses Of Rare Beauty The season's newest colors in a variety of tones, materials of the finest weaves, and work manship that interprets in exacting detail the new style tendencies, combine to present for your aprov al these most beautiful gowns. „ A i. .Co A »1 The prices for this Beau tiful Dress creation de pend on style and quality —you can find something to delight range of prices, which run you in our SERGES — TRICOTINES — POIRET TWILLS $5.75 $10. 75 $18.50 to $45.00 CREPE SILKS A WONDERFUL SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM $18. 50 to $4 5.00 Kitzenberg's Plenty wood's Best Ready-to-Wear Store / ■s. ■ ft m : V Ù —L J »> M ■"■i I j j .a: ■ ■ A Quiet Dinner « The next time you want to give Her a real treat, bring Her here and let us serve you one of our tasty, well-cooked Dinners. It will open the way to confidences and—but come and see how cozy we can fix you up—almost like eating in a home of your own. TRY ONE OF OUR DELICIOUS DINNERS ANY EVENING CITY CAFE HARRY KOIKE, Prop. tial arbitration in any industry which vitally affects the public?" h«-»«*, «.«« w use me mi ™£L. 10P < | u ? ta a " u? s a means of combating labor troubles pvtrpmplv nninct in tv>o to accept terms prescribed by impar It is generally held in governmental circles interested in the revision up ward, rather than downward, of im migration quality, that to use the im would be ext ,f mel y to % country we H as to labor organizations. ' Quota law, it is noted, is not frar or administered in favor of labor capital, or as inimical to the interests cither. Its purpose is to provide time for the country as a whole to as . s imilate its alien immigrants. To l ake down the bars it is held, merely to force strikers t0 accept terms, even if such terms be dictated by an impartial tribunal would be to degrade a pro toction devised to raise the standard S enshiPi int0 a mere 1001 pf in - as The is not framed or