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FROM PENS OF OTHERS ARE MANUAL WORKERS CtTfZEffSf (Raleigh SfeWsr and* Obserar.)' Are manual workers cftfcsens of fl%€' munity in whidt they live? To ask the question is to answer % Most assuredly .fhey .are. No^ . body has been heard to dispute it, f or'that mat | ter, but in practice most|8i|igj4shid toWhs jpfocdted | on the theory that they ajfe riot Such citizens as l to be entitled to all the rights artd privileges Com I monly accorded to those known as representative | citizens. Chambers of commerce are usually composed i of the business and professional men of the city or town. They may be a few representatives of ■ the great working elass, but ordinarily they are quite few. One secretary of a chamber of com 1 merce had an idea that a chamber of commerce ought to bo composed of all the eitizens of the community instead’ of a selected class. The idea hit him so hard that he decided to put it into operation. The result has been to attract na tional attention to that little city, and his idea promises to spread all over America. The towin is located in Ohio and its name is Middletown. The name of the secretary of its chamber of commerce is Dwight E. Smith. He is reported in The Otulook as havingg told his 4 board of director®: “I want to see labor occupying seats on the f floor of major community organizations. In other words, I want them on the inside rubbing should* i ers with the business men, helping guide the destinies of the city they live in instead of being on the outside looking in and wondering what it is all about.” He explained that the chamber of commerce exists to promote confidence and good feeling v in the community. In the average industrial city or town, 80 per cent of the population is com posed of manual workers. They are kept on the outside looking in and if they attempt to look in they are charged with being agitators. What was the result of the plan inaugurated by Mr. Smith? A membership campaign was put on with a minimum rate of $12 each, which netted a total of members, of wttitft- 2T» , 900. were from the working class- The total bud get for the year was fixed at $$165,000, but so enthusiastic had: everybody become that $172j000 Was raised for financing the various activities promoted by the- chamber of commerce. Money was deeded for the building of » 7. Mi C.- JL, a hospital said for establishing play grounds It did hot seen* wise to bond these' kb stitufions, atfd the city put on a campaign to raise-* ttlfflio# doSaaw for these:purposes. This Was ad average of $40 per. capita. The million dollars was raised with a small surplus in addi ction. : * • ■ , - . ,. Whtat wilt be the final outcome of this latest venture in pivie co-eperatron remains to be seen* but it does show what a 'city can do when all its people get behind it and give a long, steady push. More of that lind of co-operation is needed. SAVING THE CONSTITUTION. ' (Raleigh News and Observer.) What is the greatest danger to the American Constitution? Is it more seriously menaced by the Russian Reds Without. Who would overthrow it entirely or by those American citizens within who violate the spirit of its fundamental prin ciples in their Seal to save it from contamina tion? . Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, who is recognised • as 0#*, of the outstanding lawyers of the United States senate, is not a fireeater. 1 He keeps an even keef'ihd doesn’t lose his head, ft was his everlasting, persistence that brought the recent startling revelations” about the oil scandal to the surface. What he has to say on important and vital at subject ought to be of in terest to every patriotic American. The Senator just now is resting in North Car olina but before leaving Washington he utrned aside from his Senatorial duties long enough to write- an instructive review of. Louie F. Post’s book, “The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen Twenty," which appears in The’ New Republic-. It is a dispassionate piece of work as hr all that Senator Walsh does. Senator Walsh is conversant with the fears f6r the- safety of the Constitution and refers to the recent observance' of “Constitution Week,” which was sponsored by; the American Bar as sociation. I'll is association, composed of leading lawyers has- been loud in its appeals for the up holding of the Constitution, but “discreetly silent as to the more sinster'assaults by its sWorft guardians,” Senator Walsh explains. Continu ; ing the .Sertator said: “The ‘Sentinels of the Constitution,’ who have, in a Knight-errant spirit, taken up the cudgels in defense of our organic law are equally voice less concerning the flagrant violation of its letter and spirit of which Mr. Post tells, lending color to- the suggestion that they are more concerned about the Constitution as the bulwark of prop erty as the* last resource of the opponents of progress, than they are in the constitution as the palladium of the liberties of the people,” During the raids described in Mr, Post’s book, ten thousand arrests were made. Half of those arrested wore discharged after the preliminary hearing and when the weeding out process had been completed there were about 3,000 held under warrants. Of the total number arrested* only 556 wpre ordered deported as undesirable citi zens. • Senator Walsh explains that the greajfc major ity of those placed under arrest were perfectly harmless, alccording to testimony before a Senate committee. There is no way to atone for tke misery inflicted upon innocent men and womteiv and no recfeess that can be made for mjan’s in humanity to man, he points out, and add& that so far as getting any information of an organized effort |o overthrow the government is concerned, the raids were a complete failure, t The ?great danger to our Constitution, as re vealed |by the raids, Senator Walsh sums up as follows: In its- essence the affair was an attempt to sup plant the American system for the detection, and punishment of crime by that in vogue in Europe, to transfer the details of government in that re . gard from the local community to which, in ac cordance' With American ideals, it has always been intrusted, to officilas in Washington, with out diteet responsiblity to the people for their acts and'under the influence of ambition and in trigue [such as has scandalized the administra tion ofjj justice on the continent. STRIKEBREAKERS smash trains AND CARGO ON THE VIRGINIAN (Special Conrespowdfence) Norfolk, Va„ Feb. 20.—Locomo tive engineers and firemen who left the service of the Virginia on a legal strike are still remaining 100 per cent loyal to the cause, and are just as determined to see that jus tice is done as on November 8, when they withdrew from the ser vice. Wrecks are of ifin almost daily oc currence on the Virginian Railway, any many minor collisions have oc curred, due to inexperienced men operating the engines. Numerous serious accidents have been avert ed by the trainmen and conductors applying the air from the rear of the train when the strike-breaking engineers overlooked the meeting points. - ^ January 26 a head-on collision occurred at' Thermo, W. Va.y'be tween a westbound extra freight and a pusher engine. The pusher engine was standing about six car lengths behind another extra west-, bound freight which was placing some cars on a siding. When the collision occurred it was tvith such force that it drove the pusher en gine into the caboose of the stand ing freight, demolishing , the ca boose and a number of cars. The two engines were badly damaged and several cars were wrecked on both trains. Ijrd' the Trick Again. -fahuany 30 the same engineer who was responsible *4or the wreck at Thermo side-swiped another train pulling out of the west end of Elmore yard, damaging the engine and turning over a number of cars. January 30, a collision occurred between two engines on the pit track at Pemberton, shoving one of the engines over the derail on .to* the ground. 1 January 31, Conductor W. E>. Bur well was seriously injured through the rough handling of the j i Walt mason SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS: Standing on a corner, Waiting for a street car, Fuming, fretting and cuss ing, Because you can’t get .thar.. It makes you look pathetic, and a little foolish, too, for there’s always some thing A real man can dp. Stop waiting on the corner, and losing all that time, Bay -an automobile And end this little rhyme. WE HAVE THEM X >:■ ■ ’ ■■■ New, Nearly New, and Many That Will Do A Decision, a Few Dollars, and the Car is Youirs. Dail-Overiand Co. 136 W. Trade Phone 2596 tmmmmmmmm—mmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn* / f % ail brakes by a strike-breaking en gineer. February 1, passenger train No. 11 running between Pemberton * and Firco met an extra which had over looked the scheduled passenger train between stations land a collison was barely averted, by the trainmen pulling tiie air from the rear of the passenger train. February 2, some 18 cars of coal were derailed two miles east of Salem. Newspaper Tell* and Story,. The following report of this ac cident is from the Roanoke News World, Roanoke, Va.:***' “Eighteen cars loaded With coal were turned topsy-turVy and smash ed, coal Was scattered over a wide area when a Virginian Railway freight • train, extra No. 728,. east bound from Princeton,. W. Va., to Roanoke, ran into an open switch two miles east of Salem at the Salem1 Brick company about 3 o'clock this morning, According to a statement by E. H[. Birchfield, general agent | of the company he«, All indica tions point to'6 jrob of tritiff wreck ers, he said. The safety light sig nal of the switch was on. Nobody was injured. “The engine passed over the switch. The coal cars were wrench ed .loose and ran into the open switch piling one Upon the other. There were no other cars on the siding of the Salem Bride company when the wreck occurred. “An examination of the switch showed that it had been broken open. The safety signal of the switch was on. An examination of it showed, it is said, that train wreckers had after throwing the switch, taken a wrench ■ or some such instrument and twisted tho green signal in place so that it would show. A Reward Goes Unclaimed “The company has offered a re ward of $500 for any information that will lead tp the arrest and con viction of the train wreckers. The agent of the company said thus far the company had no idea who open ed the switch.” While it is claimed by the com pany that the switch at this particu lar point had been tampered" with or was open, the fact that the engine passed over the switch,- down tht main line without derailing it, indfc* cates that nothing was wrong with the switch; further, after eight cars had been derailed a number of cars passed on down the main track and then a number of additional cars in the train were derailed. ' In this connection it is known the strike-breaking engineers are high speed artists and' have been taken' to task numberous times by the officials of the company for fast running, and no doubt in this par ticular instance the strike-breakers handling this train were trying to make a record run. INDUSTRY’S VICTIMS ARE PAID MILLIONS Harrisburg, aP., Feb, 20.—More than $83,000,000 has been paid to the victims of industrial accidents in this state the past eight years, ac cording to Gabriel Moyer, manager of the state insurance fund. iV ‘ During this period there have been 20,462 fatal accidents, more than 100,000 serious accidents and more than 1,500',000 accidents of all degrees of severity. fn 1023 ; there were mere than 3,000 fatal accidents end more thaw 110,000 ; seriott^accidents. More than one-half ®f the total money paid has been to widows and orphans, Mr. Moyer said. i BY DANIEL J. TOBIN President* International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers. JpEACE and hormany is what is needed in the Labor Movement both in dealing wiith our employers and ambngst ourselves, but the peace and harmony purchased by dishonor or cowardice is not gopd for either a nation, an organization, or an individual. The most peace able of men and nations will fight when attacked in -their own house hold. v v The Labor Movement stands for and advocates world peace, arbi tration of world differences, concil iation on matters of, 4isagreementr but the Labor Movement will never subscribe to having our country meekly submit when it is unjustly attacked by enemies from within or without. The same is true for the labor organizations of our country. They want peaee. They want to work in harmony with ihe employ ing classes. They have no desire to disturb industry because they know that no one suffers as much as do the workers in time of strife. W.e believe in carrying out our wage contracts and agreements through negotiations, arbitration and concil iation, but when it comes to a point where men cannot get anything to which they are entitled, there is a limit to the patience and endurance of the workers, and, if they submit to actual injustice without resisting, then their labor organizations have lost their usefulness and should be disbanded. Workers should use every means within their power to prevent any condition that would bring about a stoppage of work if it could possibly be avoided, but ^workers who refuse to fight, to strike, who surrender when they are gbused, insulted and deprived of justice,, are moral cow ards and poop citizens—excuses only for real men. Sometimes strikes which , are forced upon the workers are lost insofar as the men obtaining the Conditions for which the strike was called, but in reality never was a just strike lost, even though, for the time being, the mem bers submitted and returned to work uncondiitonaAly, the fight they made was helpful to them in years to come. Even though they supposedly had lost they really won, for they drove home to the employer the lesson that a strike is very expen sive, so that this same set of employ ers is never very anxious to enter into another conflict. Tea, we abhor and- detest strikes because they mean- long suffering, sometimes injunctions, court prose cutions, bodily injury and, m many instances, imprisonment. But, no great victory was ever achieved in thid or any other country during the course of civilization except through suffering and privation and sacrifice being made. Denby’s Editors Lost In 'Distant Southern Waters On Board a Canoe, Floating Down the Catawba River, Somewhere in South Carolina, Feb. 20—(By Radio: ito The Herald.)-S-Where, oh! where ‘are we at? We, the editors invited by Secretary Denby to float down the Catawba rjver and explore the uncivilized sections of South, Car olina, and discover, if possible*, where Cole Blease gets his strength and support, are lost. We are rud derlessi We know not whither we | go nor when we will return, ndr do we know what to say after our re** turn. That bird,: Denby, who sent us on • this wild goose chase has done and ■ Went and quit his job as secretary " of the' navy, right when we, the im Vited editors, were midstreaih in the Catawba river, floating- down stream like hell beating tanbark. Wehe stuck. We feel like we'd beeri sold'. Whose guests are we now, any way? Who is responsible for out .return to our native hearths and hearthstones and editorial sanctum sanctorums? Who is booss of the boats noW? What, the devil did Denby send us out here for, any way? Of course he expected us to write something pice about him and his navy and boats and sailors and things, but now that Denby’s dona and played the devil and chucked hi's.job, what are we to write about Whin we get home? Blame it all! Oar party is feeling pretty good, except for headaches, which are nat ural considering we’re twelve miles out in the Catawba river, -and iff South Carolina, where there are no revenue agents, nor 18th amend ments, nor Mecklenburg Declara tions of Independence, nor republi cans, except black ones, and they know nothing about oil nor the Tea pot Dome. There is much concern about the editors as to the deception we will get when we get home. All the cbpy we had prepared about Secre tary Denby is wasted.' Some of it was good copy, for it was Written when inspiration reigned supreme and unchallenged among the pea pushers. In the cool, calm reflec tion of'the morning after the night before, we’re wondering what our readers will say to ns for running off with a republican secretary of the navy, anyway. And now that secretary has quit his job, Ain’t it h—? One safe observation to ma'ke is that the further south we go the blacker are the niggers. No one can make political capital out of that statement. We passed Cuba and Rock HSU on our way down, and expect to reach Lancaster before long. None of u§ are quite sure whether We want to stop at Lan caster, for the record of the king of* that Godforsaken place is none too good, ’Tie said he looks with suspicion upon all strangers, and as there are some strange looking an imals among our numbet, we fear he will put us to work in one of his cotton mills. Our lockers are getting low. Our spirits are getting low. Our grub is getting low, and we think it was a low-down trick for Denby to send us off on tkis long jaunt in a bunch SPECIAL Friday Saturday R:'« W Ladies' House Dresses..........$2.50 value, $1 -98 Ladies’ Blouses and Wa»t*... .....,. $2*98 value, $1.95 Ladies’ Safin Slippers . .. . ..$2.50 value, $1.98 Ladiei’ Grey Slippers. .....$4.95 value, $5.95 Men’s Dress Shirts.........$1.25 value, 98c ^ / Special Prices On OVERALLS BIG ASSORTMENT OF ' / Ladies’ and ChiMren’s Spring Hats $1.98 to $5.98 Worth More. \ 1 ^ .... • ... . ;;;;i . ‘ SHOES SHOES SHOES For the whole family at a big saving. , We have a large assort ment to select from. Pay Us a Visit We Save You Money THE WONDER STORE 315 East Trade Street - - - of aoata and then up and quit his job as secretary before we get back home. We just passed an island and fired ^eighteen guns as a salute to the in* habitants. They paid us no - atten tion whatever. We found they were holding an investigation. One of the officers of the island had leas ed all the cocoanut oil to the South ern Power company, and the islafid^ ers were investigating: the conduct of their officials. We gave them the last teapot we had in the boat kitch en and went on our way. Some of them suggested that the king of the island send for J. Crawford Biggs, of Raleigh, io help them out. Some of u< are uneasy about our papers while weJre away from home on this fool ,chase. We're afraid our understudy will get oU- paper or our favorite candidate in- Dutch while we’re away. It took brains to write editorials during a political campaign, and some of use left men in charge of our papers who are woe fully lacking in that ^ thing called brains. We trust our readers will be lenient with us. The preachers, at least, ought to have sufficient feeling to lay off the mistakes our substitutes make, and be charitable to the feeble minded. If we ever do get back home, never again will a republican office holder fool us into taking a fool trip like this. We are going to change out miail from the postoffice, and get it by express, just because Mr. Allbright is a republican, and he might up arid quit his job some day, just after we’d mailed a letter, and then where would that letter go to? Old Denby got all us good demo cratic editors 'way off doWn here in the muddy waters of South Carolina, and then up and* quit his job. The smlart Devil, he is! But we’ve learned some lessons. One of them is this: “Ride in your own canoe, and paddle it yourself.” And another is this: “Bewiare of navy secretaries bear ing passports and free tickets.” Yours truly, DERBY’S GUESTS ON SOUTH ERN CRUISE. p. s.—Don’t let ’em finish: the city hall before our return. P. S. No, 2—Don’t let ’em build the market house before our return. ~ p. S. No. 3.—Don’t Let the school bond issue pass until we return. P. S. No, 4.—Don’t let ’em do a dern thing to the county court house before we get back.7—D. G. O. S. C. PL RADS Ter*SAVE FORESTS, Washington, Feb. 2Q.—The con servation of forests is one of the nation’s most important problems. Secretary \of Agjfeulture Wallace told a meeting of leaders in the HUNTERSVILLE WOMEN DO , THEIR OWN WELFARE WORK Huntersville, N. Q., Feb. 20.— Last Thursday night Local Union 1217 held a splendid meeting. The hall was packed with an interested group of people. The mayor of the city, the aldermen and members of the police force were present as guests of the union. Refreshments were served by the ladies of the Uniojt-Welfare com mittee. The women of Huntersville have been a great help to the labor movement here, and the fact that the union conducts its own welfare and community is sufficient evi dence of the activities of the ,ladies of this city. Rev. M. "V. Snypes, pastor of the Baptist church, was the first speak er of the evening, and as usual, this popular minister delighted the large crowd. Rev. J. H. Bradley, pastor of the Methodist church of Ccrrneilus, was the next speaker. He, too, spoke some great truths to the workers, and both ministers praised the good work; that is being done by the un ion of Huntersville. Hon. j. Frank Flowers, Char lotte lawyer, was the principal speaker of the evening, and it was indeed a rare treat for all those who heard him. Mr. Flowers Was so in earnest in his appeal to the peo ple to continue their advancement through intelligent organisation, that those who heard him had dif ficulty in remembering that he is a lawyer. His address sounded more like that of a labor official, and at other times so much like a' sermon* that his hearers would almost for get that it was a lawyer address ing them. * The welfare committee of the union has expended 12",305.92 in ministering to- the sick: and needy in- this place, in addition to the nu merous suppers and ice cream-so cials that have been given for the pleasure and benefit of the union* Huntersville workers believe every* place ought to have a welfare committee appointed by , the union, STATE UNIONS TO RtEgtf. Chattanooga, Teim., Feb. 2t>.— Officers of the * Tennessee state state federation of labor* have is sued a ftall for the annual conven tion, which will be held in this city, beginning Monday, May 5. pulp and paper industry here. “In our country we have been easily deceived by the vast visible supplies of wood and by the com fortable thought that anyway we can make up any deficit by imports,” said the cabinet official. “We have tolerated a most costly abuse of our forests,” , ^ i and do their oWn Welfare work, in stead, of leaving that work up to the paid, agents of the milt owners.-* . *''■ ' •• *' ■ ■ - - - ■ - - - A Prescription Billy Sunday Should Approve Bo yew -realize how easy many get into the various dope habits? Many mothers make the mistake of giving the baby Paregoric, • and soothing syrups for the colic. All people are liable at some time to have fermentation and--gas upon the stomach attd intestines ; they are | nervous and can’t sleep. They nat urally want reilef, - and many of them take dope and anodyne medi cines' to- obtain it,, instead1 of taking something that will remove the cause, and heal the congested mu cous membrane. “Billy” Sunday is a great believer in Squibb’s Bicart bonate of Soda. We/have a reni» edy, and in addition to Squibb’s Bi 'carbonate of Soda it has the mild and soothing laxative, Heavy Cal cined Magnesia (Squibbs> and tile most healing remedy in the Fhar-* maeopoeia, Bismuth Sub*litrat<^f (Squibbs>. A great prescription,' but it may not appeal to some on account of not containing a nar cotic. Is that not at least one reason why you should advocate ivi Ah it not only relieves the pain, but it also removes the cause and heals the mucous membrane. Below we give a® extract from a letter to the retail druggists: “We wish to, eall to your atten tion the valuable stomach remedy that we are handling: “Ali-Sto-Re“ (All Healing Stomach Remedy)1. It is not a “Cure-all” nor even a “New Discovery.,r But it originated from a precrptie® of one o£ the most eminent stomach specialists in the Ifnited States, : ' The chief difference between the origin*! presciiiptfon and “A&Stm Re” is the latter ds very palaffebpPr even children do not object to the tffS, It relieves ti¥e_“Collc if the Baby” the Sluggish Bowels o§ tiie GadtpSenerian, the Toxic condition of the Pregnant Mother, with uni versal efficiency; as well as AcidosA and all Stomach and Intestinal de? rangements. It contain# Squibbs, Subnitrate of Bismuht, Heavy Calcined Magne sia, and Bicarbonate of Soda. In recommending it you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have sold- a remedy that relieves by healing, as it does not have one atom of narcotic, nor one drop of alcohef Those that, use it, praise it because they are conscious of the relief that they have received.” For sale by Sff cents. Young Cagfe Brug~iCo., Distributors, Char lotte, M. C. —Advjyt
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