The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 8

' PAGE EIGHT SUPREME COURT | DECIDES: CHILD LABOR LAWFUL Holds Child Labor Law Invalid In Appeal From North Carolina Court STATE RIGHTS INVOLVED ‘Washington, May 15.—The supreme court held the child labor law uncon- stitutional and not valid. This deci- sion came in the case of the govern- ment versus the Drezell Furniture company of South Carolina. What was generally regarded as one of the most vitally important questions to reach the Supreme Court in recent years, involving the extent to which the courts will interpret the “motives” of Congress in determin- ing the constitutionallty of its ex cise of the right to impose excise es, was presented in the child labor cases, Three Cases Up These cases, three in number, came from North Carolina, where the Unit- ed States District Courts held that the excise tax levied by Congress "p- on mines and ffaftries empénl( g child labor was an unconstitutional encroachment upon the prerogatives of the states in the exercise of their police powers,,The same issue was presented to thé court-inothe “Future ‘Trading Act’ .case, bronant ‘by mem- bers of the Chicago Board of Trade. Solicitor general in presenting the views! of the government contended the people, and NOT the courts, should in- quire into the object of Congress in levying taxes which may have the effect of extending Federal control in- to thé field of regulatory government- al activity formerly exclusixel¥ occu- pied by the state. Unless the Supreme Court adopted! that doctrine, and as one of the ‘three coordinate branches of the government, refused to investi- acting excise tax legislation, the. na- tion, he insisted, would be confronted with “a serious dilemna.” Contention of Opponents The court should hold that such a, tax imposed by Congress cannot be: nullified by attributing to Congress; an ulterior motive, the solicitor gen- eral insisted, declaring that otherwise “an intolerable burden may be put upon the court,” and require it in the future to determine the purpose which Congress may have had in the enact-| ment of any tax law which may be; KENZISAW MOUNTAIN 4 iy now supreme arbiter of baseball, who gate the “motives” of Congress in en-|.ag federal judge made the wage award LANDIS, that led to the Chicago labor tnouble. By NEA Service Chicago, May 15.—The Chicago la- bor war, now on in full. blast, has been waged in more or less violent fashion ‘or 12 years. Causes behind the present trouble are these 3 RESUSAL by 10 of | the 12 building trades unions to accept the condi- tions laid down in the Judge Landis award, cutting building trades work- ore wages appro:f.mutely, 12.5° per cen challenged. The solicitor general frankly stated that should the covet refuse to question the “motives” pf Congress , tien it wenld be possible for “the nowers of the Fed-; eral government to be utilized to se-, cure objectives which are beyond ‘the scope of Federal power.” Opponents of the child labor law (REPUDIATION by the 10 unions. of Employment of outside non-union labor by the Chicago Citizens Commit- tee, which has taken hold of the labor situation purely for the sake of get- ting’ the $110,020,000 belated building program under way. . ‘FIEFUSAL of the Citizens.Commit- contended that the court should take judicial notice of what was charactor- ized as the constant encroachment of Congress upon the strictly local af- fairs of the states, and consider the motive behind each Federal law, re-! gardless+of whether it imposed an éx- cise tax., They pointed out that when the Supreme Court holds unconstitu- tional the former child labor act,’ in which the penalty was the exclusion of child labor products from interstate commerce, Congress promptly re-en- acted it in the form of the present law by merely gubstituting an excise) tax as the pefalty. It was insisted that the court never intended that, such regulatory measures, encroaching up-; on the police powers of the stator, could be made Tegally effective | by merely a change in the form of pen- alty imposed. BEGIN LAST JOB ON NEW BRIDGE ‘First concrete onthe new bridge across the (Missouri river here was \ poured today. It is expected that the work of pouring the concrete base for the pavement on the bridge will be | completed in two or three weeks. Ce- ment sidewalks also are being laid. The concrete will be surfaced with} asphalt. This is the final job on the bridge. | Diamond Rivets, ‘The geological formation, of the fa- | mous diamond region in the state of Bahia, Brazil, shows that at some time in the history of the world the | mountains there were thrown up by a hot mass and the carbon in the stone crystalized into gems. It was, in ef- fect, an electric furnace on a gigantic scale, In Brazilian diamond mining natural water courses play an impor- tant part. Water and the weather gradually disintegrate the rocks, and the diamonds are washed down into! gullies and the beds of rivers, whence they are recovered by the miners, In some places divers are ‘employed to work at the bottom of the rivers, fill- ing {sacks with silt that contains the diamonds, ‘The river beds are rich in precious stones which cannot be ex- i tracted advantageously, if at all, by the methods now in vogue. Exercise for Blood Pressure. Certain vigorous exercises are dis- tinctly beneficial in most cases of too high blood pressure. At a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine Dr. ©. Ward Crampton de- scribed his favorite treatment of this trouble, which included regular exer- cise. In the earlier stages the following program was advised: 1. Morning ex- ercise, 12 minutes; 2, Walk three- quarters of an hour; 3. Vigorous ex- ercise with sweating three times a week; 4. In the open half a day. , In advanced cases the exercise should be milder. Of course, exercise is only a part of the general treat- tee .to recognize or deal with either officers or’ men of the insurgent 10 asa union group.as punishment for failure to live up to their agreement to. the Landis award. PUBLIC disapproval and demand ‘for inquiry into the trials of union, lead- ers who were freed from criminal charges under unusual circumstances. | Began ‘in July The present disturbances date back to last July. Up to’ that time offi- cials believed. that the:long years of | labor wars would come to an end fol- lowing the seemingly ‘satisfactory magna, charta of new working condi- tions handed down. by Judge Landis, formerly on the federal bench. But the 10 unions ‘rebelled against it. These 10 were: Carpenters, sheet metal workers, ce- ment finishers, hoisting enginers, fix- ture hangers, lathers, plumera,. la< borers, composition roofers and ‘slate and tile roofers, The remaining 22 union crafts abid-, ed by their acceptance ofthe agree- ment. Even as far back as early spring Fred Mader, president of the Build- ing Trades Council, issued'a. warning that after April 1 he did not see how he could anv longer keep hig men in check or prevent them from commit- tions were altered. ' Denunciation by Judge Chief‘ Justice Kickhamh - Scanlan, elected on a labor platform and al- ways a champion of unjonism, sprang a surprise at about this time by mak- ing an address to the jury in open court in which he charged that some convicts and gun men, making ion of some labor leaders im- possible. He charged that honest men in thes2 unions have been terrorized by_the gin men leaders. Judge Scanlan’s charges followed acquittal of two Chicago union lead- ers, one of a murder charge follow- ing a killing in a saloon fight, and the other of graft and extortion char- ges in connection with labor troubles. it Leaders Say Union officials deny charges of law- lessness leveled against them, Here is what some of them say: Fred Mader, president Building Trades Council: “The present situa- tion is but a natural result coming from an attempt made by politica: and other agencies to foist the open shop on Chicago unionism. We are nov the ‘black sheep that we have been paint- ed. We neither employ ruthless tac- tics to gain our ends nor do we coun- tenance them. “Some ‘time ago I went to Chief Fitzmorris and told him I wanted to go through this huilding fight with clean hands and I have done my part. The men who committed the outrages should be. arrested, tried and pun- ished. I will do all I can to help.” “But the situation hag come to such a noint that whenever there *- a fire, explosion or some other crime, pro- paganda is issued blaming labor for the deed.” “Lies,” Says Murphy “Big Tim’. Murphy, head of the Gas House Workers and Street Cleaners’ ‘Unicon: “Lies, lies, a mess of lies. That's what they’ve told about us, Chi- cago unionism is the same as union- ism anywhete, The big fight is over the open shop which they are trying to push us into. But union men aren’t ment, and there are many cases in which it should not be given, especial- jy those in which the heart and kid- Beys are seriously involved. | running about with guns.” ‘Thomas Walsh, business agent for the ‘Sheet Metal Workers: “Back of eb THOMAS F. WALSH, business agent their agreement to the (Lattdis: award, ' ting acts of vidlence unless condi-' the whole situation is a clever plot, instigated by enemies of labor, to WHAT'S BACK OF CHICAGO LABOR WAR. Angles On The Story That The Wires Won't. Carry , “Rig TIM” ‘MURPHY, head of th for the Shcat Metal Workers’ Union. Gas (House Workors-and Street Clean-chief. justice, who, elected on a labor SO: ers’ Union. | ORARLES C. FITZMORRIS, police chief, of Chicago, who says he is go- ‘ing to the bottom of the murders in connection‘ with Chicago’s labor. war ‘and make the guilty pay. |supplant unionism with. the ope |union leaders out of the way first, jand, with that accomplished, to make jthe downfall of unionism easier. Char-| ‘ges that we afe using criminal means are lies.” — ' WHY: HER WATCH GOES WRONG Various Causes Given for Undoubted Fact. That Woman's Timepiece Is Generally Incorrect. | Punctuality ts sald to be the virtue of kings, but not of women,’ The lat- ter will not, however, admit their lack i of it. But. when a lady has: kept, a’ Mere man. waiting for her an indefi-; ; nitely long time her excuse, cynics de must be wrong.” And, strange to say, | this reason given as an. excuse, differ-| ent from other. excuses, is almost al-| ways valid. ‘The watches of women: are much less exact than those of, men. ' An Englishman, Herbert ‘Duke, who! occupied himself with this problem in Profound speculations, thinks he has traced it to its source, He has ob- served that the same watch, when worn by. his wife, runs very irregu- larly, whereas when worn by him it | is perfectly correct. “Now, how Is 1 it" he asks, “that, ‘so many women j have such a baleful influence on | watches?” . Certainly much is due to the: fact } that to women the watch is a less necessary tool of life than a beautiful | adornment; that they care more .for its looking elegant on the wrist than for its being right; that they handle! carelessly and inconsiderately this dell- cate apparatus. . But there must be another more po- tent cause. It has been observed that the electricity contained in the human body exerts a direct influence on the | delicate mechanism of the watch. It may be that the small form of a wom- \ ; an’s watch renders it very sensitive to the electro-magnetic influence that emanates from the body. 1 SNAKES HAVE LARGE ‘LITTERS’ Abe Arner | Boa Constrictor, in Captivity, Gave | Birth to Sixty-Four Living Young —Others Prolific. | The sixteen-foot Trinidad anaconda, or water boa, at. the London Zoologic- al gardens, not long ago gave birth to twenty-folir young. pnes. The new- born snakes were twenty-six: inches long and about an inch in diameter at the thickest part of. the: body. In color and marking they regembled the adults—that is, they were of*a dark greenish hue with black spots. That number of young had been,ex- ceeded by. a seventeen-foot snake at the New York Zoological park, which produced thirty-four young. Still an- other anaconda has been known to produce thirty-seven at a birth, and a large specimen of boa constrictor gave birth to. sixty-four living young. The pythons: differ from the bons in that they lay eggs and coil around a heap of them until they hatch. An official of the New York Zoo says that the pythons. produce from fifty to a hun- dred eggs at a time, and a specimen of python reticulatus deposited. sixty eggs, about which she coiled, and from which she fought off all intruders, but her efforts. proved of no avail, for the eggs were infertile, CONCERT GIVEN AT TAPPEN Steele, N. D., May 15.—The Steele, Tappen and Medina bands were com- bined with Martin Sollie as director, and rendered a program at the Tappen opera house Fiday evening. The com- ishop. It seems to be the plan to get! clare, is really at hand:. “My watch) ; 4 a home in Iceland, for the first set- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE @ KICKHAM SCANLAN, _ Chicago platform, made ‘a scathing denuncia- tion of labor conditions in Chicago in an address to the’ jury in open court. (RED MADER, president of the Chicago Building Trades Council. ne | bined band contained about 50 pieces. jit played five numbers which, with | duets, readings, sOlos, made up a pleas- jing program, : | The Medina ‘and. Steele band will |likely give another concert each in ‘the near future and invite the other ‘bands to attend. The committee be- lieves the meetings tend ,to create ! good fellowshiz and tt'is:the hope of the committee that many:more such GRAIN FUTURES ACT I$ HELD | . Supreme Court Holds That Pro- hibitive ‘Tax Section ’ Is Invalid (Washington, May 15.—The supreme court today held section 4 of the fu- tures trading act unenforceable. It held sections 3, 9 and others enforce- able. Justice Brandeis dissenting, said he could not agree with the opin. ion which in substance held the law invalid, Section 4 proposed to levy a virtual- ly prohibitive tax of 20 cents per bus- hel on futures trading. Section 9 empowers the sécretary or agriculture to investigate boards of ‘VOID IN PART o———_. Aamodt bait, \ raised in the county. thousand pounds of sweet clover seed Cavarier county for use during this seeding season. The orders were tak- en by W. L. Johns, county agent. Langdon, 'N. D., May 15.—Ar unique type of organization has been formed in Cavalier county, to oversee the far labor. conditions of tue county and to protect the farmers against certair labor abuses which have ibeen in ev) trades, IGNORANCE HARD TO. CREDIT |; Superstitious Bell@f Almost Cost Woman In German Village Her i Life, It Is Reported, To cast the devil out of a woman Itving in a village of the Lauenburger district-of Pomerania, Germany, three hags tortured her. She appears to have been of a sour and somewhat hysterical disposition and three of the village gossips came to the conclusion that ‘her “feelings were due to dla- bolical possession and. resolved to ef- fect a: cure by means of ancient en- chantments known by them, It {s re- ported, They: first of all gathered the herbs ‘needed for the purpose in the forests at the proper conjunction of the. stars. Then:a tripod was formed of three chairs and to these the ‘pa- tient’ was bound, Beneath her was placed a pail of redhot coal on which the herbs were scattered. As the fumes of the burning weeds velled the victim the. three hags croned the prescribed enchantment. The louder the woman shrieked the louder they sang, and after the process.had heen con- tinued long enough to ;prove effective they ran away,, believing the devil would run out of. the woman after them: She, however, continued to shriek. Her cries were heard by 8, man who came to the rescue and un- bound her. \ , Pithy, Paragraphs, { ‘There are some who say that !deals are but elusive phantoms—mere will- , concerts may fe given. ‘An effort: is being made to ‘‘organize’a ‘band at | Driscoll, so asi to. have'four-bands th the circuit, : which: will:.,enable the bands to keep‘a:first class director and teacher. “#0. + ea ASK SEPAT \ NB, HIOCESE Fargo, May-15.—Plans--for making the’ Episcorate of ‘North Dakota an in- dependent dio¢ese ‘by-raiging sufficient endowment to-make it'self-supporting: were discussed at'a business sesston of tho Protestant:«Episcopal church here today. Ministers and lay mem- ‘berg are ‘here for the. 38th annual ‘North Dakota’ convocation which be- gan yesterday, aed HAD HIGH RANK AS HUMORIST Wiltiam Evarts “One of the Wittiest Men: 1. Ever Met,” Asserted Chauncey M. Depew. “William M. Evarts was the wittlest man I ever met,” writes Chauncey M. Depew in Scribner's magazine. “It is difficult°to rehabilitate in the, sayings” of ‘a wit the complete flavor of the ut- terance, It.is easier witha man of Lumor. - aie. sis “Evarts was very proud of;his efforts as a former on his large estate in Ver- mont. ‘Athong his prizes,was'a drove of pigs. He sent to Chief Justice Mor- rison R. Walte a copy of his eulogy on Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Walte's predecessor,/and at the. same time a ham, saying in his letter: ‘My dear chief justice, I send you today one of my prize hams and-also my eulogy on Chief Justice Chase, both the products of my pen.’ / “The: good things Mr. Evarts sald would be talked of long after a dinner. I remember on one occasion his fa- mous partner, Mr. Choate, .who was a Harvard’ man,. while ‘Evarts was a graduate from Yale, introduced Mr. Evarts by saying that -he was sur- prised that a Yale man, -with all the prejudices of that institution ‘against the superior advantages of Harvard, should have'risked the coats of his stomach at a Harvard dinner. Mr. Evarts replied: ‘When. I .go*to a Har- vard dinnér I always leave the coats’ of my stomach at home.’” y Irish Settled in Iceland. It was only in 1918 that the long constitutional controversy between ‘Ice- land and the Danish government re- suited in the recognition of that is- land as a free and sovereign state. in association with Denmark, under one | and the same king,-ana once more “the hermit of we Atlantic,” as it has| been called, fs free to pufsue its way in accord with thosé early days when ! colonists from Norway. and Ireland established a commonwealth which lasted more tnan four centuries. i The Irish of the Twelfth century were not the first of their race to find tlers were anchorites froma Ireland who found in these remote .atitudes a place to exercise their yocation.— Christian Science Monitor. Dance every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday evenings a 8:30 at The Coliseum. 10 Cents per. dance, o’-the-wisps of fancy. They scoff at | tliem,- but thelr. scoffing fs only a mask. | —Crawford C. McCullough. Diplomats cannot make international peace. All they:can do 1s to embody in definite form such spirit’ of peace | dence in the past. The organizatior Was perfected by a meeting of delc gates from each township in the coun 5 E arn Agricultural News el Bottineau, N. D., May 15.—To, help one of the townships of this county in an effort to control rodents, ©. B. prepared 36 bushel of poison (Bowbells, N. D., May 15.—County ‘Agent Karl Swanson has purchased 2,600. pounds of sweet clover for the use of two communitieg in the county. Neither community has ever raised | Sweet clover before and little hag been Langdon, N. D., May 15.—Fifteen has been purchased for the farmers of MONDAY, MAY 15, 1922 effort to stabilize wages, “to protect the honest workers; to obtain experi- enced farm laborers for its member and in every way to protegt the in- ‘terest of the employer and the honest, taith¢ul employe,” according to the announcement of W. L. Johnson, ‘county agent. A patrol: system of re- ports covering each section of the county has been instituted, ‘Bllendale, N. D., May 15.—To make certain that the farmers who have re- cently entered the dairy fbusiness in - this county, County. egent E. A, Adams ig ‘visiting the individual farms and planning with the owners for an ade- quate amount of feed for the entire year, ; Washburn, N. D.,May 15.—Practical- ly three carloads of improved seeds have been shipped into McLean coun- ty on orders, passing through the of- fice of County Agent A. L, Norling. 2,200 acres of sweet clover will bo planted in this. county this spring. Devils Lake, May 15.—Three hun- ‘red and fifty bushels of poisoned bait hag been distributed from here in a vounty ‘with warfare on rodents in ‘amsey county. The rodent control ‘ampaign ig under the direction of the ty. The organization will make every county agent. WAIT FOR IT Big Bankrupt SALE | Coming Soon 504 Broadway a8 already’exists or can be created in their © several, communitiex—Lyman |; Abbott. © : ; : The struggle for business success has often been so unrelenting that men: have forgotten the dream chil- dren of thelr boyhood days, have dis- sipated a priceless legacy, and, at} last, having arrived at the goal of; material success, find themselves pen-| niless in all that matters—penniless in compantonship, friendship .and Jove. | / —Orawford C. McCullough. The cherry tree story finds no place in standard biographies, while had ‘Washington; never told a le the Brit: ish would have got him early fn the war.—James H. Collins, The Clearing House of National Thought ze Do you, know that Uncle Sem conducts the largest printing-plant in the World? It re- quires five thousand people and a plant worth five million’ dollars to produce the printing utilized in operating the government. Then there is the seven million dollar build- ing—one of the most beautiful in the world —housing the Library of Congress. The story of the small:beginnings of these Civilization Traced In Coins. Man first had an opportunity to call “heads or tails” more than 2,200 years ago, when the practice.of stamp- ing a head on coins was instituted by the Greeks, with the likeness of Alex- ander the Great. Some of these an- clent Greek coins are valuable as art objects alone, the embossing being of rare workmanship and surpassing any- thing to be seen on the coinage of to- day. It is naturally an example of the great height. which Greek .culture reached in that day. The course of civilization, in fact, can’ easily: be traced in these coins. The Roman coinage, some of which bears the head of Nerd, is not. equal in ‘beauty to' that of the Greek, but nevertheless shows a high quality of art. ‘But the money of the succeeding “Dark *Ages” ‘Is crude in the extreme, and even the English ten-cent piece, of,1000 A. D. is childishly primitive in comparison, two great institutions, their steady growth, and their present importance in the.work of the nation, is‘told:in an attractively illustrat- ed folder of the series on’ Our Government “| now being issued by this'Institution..~ 7 There has been a great demand foi stories and it is evident that they ha' doing a valuable work in informing the people of this community about our government, ay Bismarck Bank Bismarck, N: Dei The war is over. You can now get better quality, better prices and better service from the manufacturer, the jobber and the retailer. . Patronize the Tisiness man who advertises. ‘By advertising he shows he is progressive and a regular GO-GETTER. 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