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Arrested 59 So President Would Not Be Bothered Fifty-eight men and'women were arrested in Portland, Oregop, July 4th, for distributing tags asking for the release of ploitical prisoners, ac cording to information received by * the American Civil Liberties Union from the Portland branch of the Gen eral. Defense Committee. “All were held under $500 bail each in order td make it imposisble for them to be released until Presi dent Harding, who was scheduled to spehk on that day, had left town,” the communication to the Civil Liber ties Union states. “In the police court, the prisoners were charged with violating a city ordinance hgainst passing handbills which, of course, did not apply to them. All were released but one, who was fined $25. He is out under $100 bail. We are going) to test the validity of this fine in the courts.” “In View of the fact that President Harding took advantage of the an niversary of the signing of the Dec laration of Independence for advo cating imprisonment and deportment for those who presume to question the policies of our government, it is not strange that these 58 people should have been arrested for distributing tpgs asking for the .release of all po litical prisoners,” Robert W. Dunn, associate director of thp Civil Liber ties Ujnion, states. “If there is any law prohibiting American citizens from questioning those whom they have elected to govern their country, we are un aware of it. These people were guilty of no overt act. They were entirely within their civil rights. The Portland arrests were obviously a miserable trick to prevent any dis comfiture the President might have felt in being reminded of the forty fdur political prisoners and the more than a hundred workers still held under state criminal syndicalism acts.’ Miss Green has ispent 40 Ominutes trying to improve the tastes of her young pupils in things literary and dramatic. “Now,' boys,” she said at the end of the lesson, “what is the name of the play I have been reading to you?” “ ‘Hamlet,’ Miss!” answered the class in unison. “And who wrote this play?” was her next question. “Shakespeare!” chorused the boys. “Now, Willie,” said Miss Greene to a boy whos he noticed, hacl not answered with the rest, “which would you rathr be, Shakespeare or Charlie Chaplin?” “Charlie Chaplin, Miss!” was the unexpected answer. “W,hy, pray?” “ ’Cause he ain’t dead, Miss!” re plied the youngster hopfeul. BARBERS RAISE WAGES. Toledo, Ohio, July l$.-<-Organized barbers have secured a new wage agreement which, calls for $30 a week guarantee, with 60 per cent over $42. Theold rate was $26 a week and 60 per cent over $37. RAIL INCOMES HIGH. New York, July 18.—Reports from leading railroads for "the last five months indicate that practically all of these corporations will show a gain over last year. Buy Coal Now! We have for immediate delivery all of the best grades at Slimmer Prices Phone Us Your Order Today H. V. JOHNSON & SON E. Vance and Sou. Rwy. Phone 1465 f ’ IF YOU AND I, BILL, can’t get a little ahead with the wonderful facilities affoYded by the Mutual B. & L. for saving and home-buying, we should “throw up the sponge” and “ji'ne de wuthless club,” sf or that’t our real classification. This is the best B. tc. L. in America, furnishes- the ideal savings plan, provides the cheapest money, gives the greatest gratuitous service, and it’s all yours. THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST obtains today and it’s right. Will you provide for wife and children, or leave them to charity? That’s your problem. All places haven’t a Mutual B. & L. Do you appreciate your opportunities? THIS IS THE VERY BEST savings institution possible, yet you stumble along, thoughtless, indifferent as to tomorrow’s needs and your duty. Yours the crime, your family the sufferers. He who provides not for the rainy day is a fool. OUR JULY SERIES is just starting. The man who doesn’t Save something each Week is already running on the rocks. My! My! how I shudder at your improvidence! Others are preparing for sickness, death, or lack of employment, but you are dead to the inevitable. JNO. R. PHARR, President E. L. KEESLER, Secy.Treas. That Vacation Trip Can be made in. one of OUR .USED CARS. You need have no fear but what they will take you there and bring you back. Every one has been thoroughly overhauled and placed in the best of condition—some have new paint. Below we list just a few of the many bargains: We Make Demonstrations One Chalm,ers 7-Passenger, 1920 model One Essex 5-Passenger Touring, 1920 model One Velie 5-Passenger One Piedmont 5-Passenger One Oldsmobile Sport, newly painted One Jackson 5-Passenger, newly painted One Cole “8” 7-Passenger— a bargain. VELIE SIX ANDERSON SIX “They Are Wonderful” “Made in Carolina” CAROLINA AUTOMOBILE COMPANY DISTRIBUTORS T Phono* 1222-1223 209 South Church Straet ^Orange' ■crush, S.BOTTLC/ ^tfLojyz DRINK ORANGE CRUSH LIME CRUSH LEMON CRUSH * IN KRINKLY BOTTLES Orange Crush Bottling Co. SOLD EVERYWHERE What You Read in Your Daily Paper Public Confession by the Associated Press in Chemical Foundation Case-—Other Instanced Where Facts * Were Garbled Do you believe EVERYTHING you read in your daily paper? If you do you should be sure to read this editorial, because it . gives you a glimpse of the way “NEWS” IS MANUFACTURED. If you take your daily paper with a generous pinch of saft, as you should, you will still find this editorial worth reading. * * * * During the war the federal gov ernment seized dye patents of great value, owned by enemy aliens. After the armistice, instead of returning these patents to their owners, as we were in honor bound to do, they were sold for about five cents on the dol lar to the Chemical Foundation, an other name for the Du Pont Powder Trust. Many of the government officials who engineered this disgraceful deal were given fat jobs with the Foun dation. Among those mixed up in the affair was A. Mitchell Palmer, at one time Attorney General and be fore that Alien. Property Custodian. The power and prestige of both of fices were used in a vain attempt to make Palmer a candidate for Presi dent. President Harding was induced to order the Attorney General to bring suit to recover the patents. The case is bing tried in Wilming ton, Delaware, where the Du Ponts own everything visible, including the newspapers, and much that is invis ible, including the souls of the poli much that is invisible, including the souls of the politicians. The Powder Trust and the Chemi cal \ Foundation sought to discredit the government’s witnesses by pictur ing them as “Pro-Germans.” To bolster up this charge one of the Wilmington papers printed and the Associated Press sent out to its mil lions of readers a story relating in detail how former Congressman H. A. -Metz, of New York, a multi-mil lionaire, had confessed on the stand that he had employed E. Wi. Dieters to gather information to be used in a senatorial investigation of the dye combine, and that Metz knew that Dieters had been arrested as a spy for German dye interests and had later fled the' country. To avoid a libel suit, the Associat ed Press has printed a public apology admitting that no such testimony was given by Metz or anyone else; that it did not haye a representative in the courtroom; that it accepted' the story as it was prepared for it by Du Pont’s Wilmington paper; and that the Wilmington paper did not have a representative in attendance on the trial but manufactured the libelous tale in its own office. This is the same Associated Press which quoted Senator LaPollette as having said in St. Paul, soon after we entered the war: “We had NO grievances against Germany,” and later admitted that the Wisconsin Senator had not used the word “no.” Months elapsed before the Associated Press acknowledged the truth in La Follette’s case, and in the meantime the senator’s enemies endeavored to have him deprived of his seat in the Senate, basing their attacks on the one lying word. It is the same Associated Press which in the summer of 1920, at the request of a rich mine ownef, who was acting for the National Coal As sociation, sent out a report of an im pending coal shortage, when, as a matter of fact, the coal market was about to break because of over-pro duction. It is estimated that this false report cost the coal consumers of the country in the neighborhood of $500,000,000 in increased-prices. It is the same Associated Press which day after day during the shop men’s strike magnified every justice coUrt “scrap” into a case of “mur derous assault” in an effort to make the pteople believe that the railroad workers were a band of lawless ruf ticians. -*4 * * * , The indictment might be prolonged indefinitely, but what’s the use? The foregoiftg is enough. It proves that the springs of information from which the American pfeople expect to get the “news” of national and inter national events may be, and often are, poisoned at their source.^Wash ington, (D. C.) Trades Unionist. New Testament Printed In 10 Hours, By Hand i. ' ’■ Just when the movement for the revision of the King James version of thfe Bible was started is not known to -the writer, but many Biblical scholars, both American and English, about the middle of the last century advocatd a revision, and as a result of/their agitation and discussion of the subject a body of eminent British and American Greek and Hebrew scholars was selected in 1870 to un dertake the work. Early in 1881 it was announced that the revision of the New Testa ment had been completed, that the copy was in the hands of London printers, and that bound copies would be for sale by English book-fl sellers in May, and a consignment would be shipped to the United States early in that month. This news aroused so much inter est among readers and students of the Bible in this country that the Chicago Tribune determined to is sue the revised New Testament as a supplement, so that its subscribers would have an opportunity to read and study the new version before it was placed on sale in Chicago book stores. Sam Medill (a brother of Joseph Medill), then managing edi tor, sent a representative, Charles Hjarrnijgton, to London with instruc tions to procure at least two copies and to take the first steamer for New York after he hadobtain them. He failed to get the books in Lon don, but he secured passage on the steamer that carried the American consignment, and before the vessel reached New York he obtained the. capies. The boat arrived in New York on Thursday. Mr. Harrington wired the Tribune his mission had been successful; and he was instructed to take the first train for Chicago and bring the books to the Tribune office immediately on his arrival Saturday morning. The management decided, on the receipt of "his telegram, to print the revised New Testament as a supplement to the Sunday issue. The composing room force was ordered to report for duty about 9:30 Saturday morning. It wafc after 10 o’clock before copy began to come in, because Mr. Harrington disobey ed his instructions to come directly to the office on the arrival of the train. He went to a restaurant for breakfast, which caused a delay of half an hour, in starting work. Typesetting machines were un known in those days, which are sometimes referred to by old-time printers as the “good old handset days,” when every line of type in a newspaper, book or magazine was composed of individual types set by hand. Minion, nonpareil and'agate con stituted the body type of the Tribune at that time. It previously had been determined to set the New Testament in minion, and plenty of “s'orts” had ben obtained from the type foundry. On Friday the men were instructed to distribute as much nonpareil and agate as possible. The Saturday paper was rushed to press so that the men in all departments could get a few hours slepe before starting on the tremendous task that was ahead of them. Typesetting began Saturday morn ing about 10 o’clock. By 11 every man in the composing room was at work. It was a steady grind of set ting solid minion until about 7 p. m., when the work of setting on the New Testament was finished. Two or three men had been kept busy all the af ternoon carrying around “sorts” and there was not much type left in the minion cases. The men had already done a day’s work, but they had to start in on the regular Sunday paper, which had to be set in nonpareil and agate. It was 4 o’clock Sunday morning be fore the copy-cutter cried out, “The jig is us,” and a shout of relief and thanksgiving went up from the ex huasted compositors, makeups^" and proofreaders. Wfork had been con tinuous for about eighteen hours, with two short intervals for lunch. The stereotypers and pressmen did their duty also, and the Chicago Tri bune appeared on the streets and in the homes of its subscribers Sunday morning, May 22, 1881, about its usual time, and surprised its readers by presenting them with a complete ' copy fo the revised New Testament as a sixteen-page supplement to the regular paper of twenty pages. Nevir Before had a d^ily paper of thirty-six pages—twenty pages of nonpareil nad agate and sixteeft pages of solid minion—been set up and printed in less than twenty-four hours. * No other paper in the United States could have duplicated the^feat not even the liferald, Times or Tri bune, the leading New York papers of that day. WjJbur F. Storey was the owner of the Chicago Times then, and he got wind in some way of what the Tri bune was going to do. He\ had a .considerable portion of the King James version put in type and ar ranged with some one in New York to get a copy, of the revised version and telegraph the changes in each chapter, but that scheme was an ab solute failure. The Times composing room was non-union then and Storey’s fiasco naturally pleased the union printers of Chicago. \ There were sixty-two caseholders in the Tribune composing roofii and perhaps thirty subs. All worked that day. There were some fast type setters on the force. \Vjord was pass •ed around early in the day that a race was on between Vent Beiler, a neat, dapper little fellow who set type with the precision and accuracy of a machine, and Charlie Beers, one of the subs, both conceded to be the fastest men in the office. Beers won, setting nearly 27,000 ems in the 18 hours’ work. Beiler set about 25,000 ems. The rest of the force trailed along with from 18,000 to ^4,(t00 ems. The high man got less than $11 ,for 18 hours’ work and the low man about $7.50. T. B. Catlin worked in the proofroom as an extra, and for his eighteen hours’ work be got $7.50. The eight-hour day was not in ef fect then, neither was price and a half for overtime. Not less than seven hours’ composition constituted a night’s work. If the exigencies of the news of the day called for longer hours they were worked without ex tra compensation. There are now employed in the Tribune composing room six men who worked on-the revised New Tes tament edition printed nearly forty two years ago—Tom Sullivan, who was foreman at that time; T. B. Catlin, Ed Dorman, Tom Chamber lain, George Kinnear and Michael Colbert, Sanford Burket, Wiilliam Faul and Hugh Conner are on the Tribune pension roll and also on the Internationa^ Typographical Union pension roll. Other known survivors are R. L. C. Brown and ‘John Schildhelm, Chicago Daily News; Tom Wilson and Vint Beiler, Chicago Evening Post; James Garner, proprietor of a job office in Chicago; Ted Reed, To ronto, Ont.; John Mann, Chicago, a union pensioner; Nelson Bowerman, California soldiers’, home; James Rice, Union Printers Home, Colorado Springs; George Bonnell and E. A. Erickson, sotnewhre in the state of Whshington, pensioners of the Inter national Typographical Union. There may be a few others alive, but the great majority of the men employed in MayN.1881, have passed away. MICHAEL COLBERT, Chicago, 111. THE INTERNATIONAL , LABOR CONFERENCE At a recent session of the Govern ing body of the International Labor Organization it was decided tp con vene the International Labor Con ference for one . week only, at which time the subject of factory inspec tion will be discussed. Other sub jects which had been placed on the Agenda for this Conference has been placed on the Agenda of the Sixth Session of the International Labor Conference which will be convened in June, 1924. This has been done for two reas ons: First to provide a more accept able date for the meetings of the An nual Conference, namely in the spring of the year. This will also enable the Annual Report Of the Di rector to cover the calendar year. Heretofore the conferences have been convened in October and the Director's report Oas therefore been incomplete. That fact that two Con ferences will be held within seven months caused the governing body to decide to eliminate certain items on the Agenda for this year’s session, and to place them on the Agenda of tl^ next session. *This will also give an opportunity for a more thorough study of the questions placed on th Agenda and allow more time for the preparation of technical reports compiled from information which is now being col lected throughout the world on vari ous subjects included in the Agenda. The Governing Body has also de cided to place before the 1924 ses sion of the Conference the report of the Advisory Committee on Anthrax to which the United States sent a representative when its meeting was held in December last. DID DAUGHERTY WRITE COMMISSION’S REPORT? Atlantic City, N. J., July 18.—Did Attorney General Daugherty write certain important portions of the coal commission’s report? A coal publication made this charge which has been denied by the attorney general and two members of the coal commission. At the wage conference between mine workers and mine owners in this city, the former presented a resolution that the charges be investigated, but the coal owners refused to concur. They said the denial of the two members of the commission is sufficient, and that further action would involve the integrity of the commission. CAR MEN, RAISE WAGES. Peoria, 111., July 18.—-An arbitra tor has awarded street car men in this city a straight 3-cent an hour increase. Proper Safeguard Knock Out Accident Menace of Buildiv By International Labor Newt Service. Washington, July 18—Accidents in building construction due ft) work men falling and being struck by fall ing objects can be largely reduced or almost? eliminated. Tbis is pointed out by the Oregbn State Labor Bureau, the Orgon In dustrial Accident Commission and the Oregon and Columbia River Di vision of the National Safety Coun cil. These three bodies, in a joint statement, declare that the great danger to workmen from falling and of being hit by falling objects is shown by a study of experience in Oregon for all occupations covering a period of three years. Falls of workmen were responsible for 14.69 per cent of all accidents and caused one-eighth or 12;9 per cent of all actual and potential days lost in' all occupations. There were only two other major divisions- of causes that showed a higher percent age of frequency of occurrence. Falling objects caused 8.95 per cent of all accidents and 13.10 per cent of all days lost. In tone year there were 356 accidents caused by falls of men from scaffolds and stag* ing, ah average of more than one accident from this cause for each work day of the year. . In this Same year, there were also 108 accidents caused by objects fall ing from scaffolds and staging. __ _ ■ HowVnost of these accidents could , have been prevented is emphasized by pictures and description showing the construction ;and safeguarding of scaffolds on a large building in Port land. The outriggers which support the scaffolds, instead of being held at the end by bags of sand and other insecure devices are held down to the roof of the building by timber thor- f oughly braced and bolted. The platforms on which the men work are fenced in with strong net ting to prevent any material from falling on the workers or on pedes trians below. The platform is raised f by a series of small winches. "If the accident hazard was 'givep consideration in all cases hs it has been on this buliding, fatalities due to this cause would be materially lessened,” says the report. Cochran & Ross Co. 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Mechanics Perpetual Opened a New Series on July 7th and we would point out the wisdom of taking shares now in order to line up for a similar celebration when this series shall mature. Mechanics Perpetual Building & Loan Ass'n. 225 North Tryon Street ESTABLISHED IN *1883 PRITCHARD PAINT CO. Successor* to Ezell-Pritchard Company Paint, Glass and Painters* Supplies 12 and 14 West Fifth Street Charlotte, N. C. .—1-\' A PAINT STORE FOR 25 YEARS Make Your Plans For Painting Your Property Now COME TO SEE US 'OR PHONE 765 The Successful Finish SOME people are apt to forget that there can lie no successful finish without an intelligent be ginning. Certainly if—you never begin you can nevCT finish. The beginning of almost every finan cial success is right in a man’s savings account. Security Savings Bank SECURITY--PROGRESS—- SERVICE 4 SOUTH TRYON STREET J y FREE MAPS STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM OF NORTH CAROLINA We have secured a supply of these maps for distribution and we shall be pleased to give one to those who call for same. If you reside out of Charlotte, advise us and we wjill mail you a map. Merchants and Farmers National Bank CHARLOTTE, N. C. ' w
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