Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, March 18, 1921, Page 2

| “PUBLICAN” HAD FEW FRIENDS | | SECRETARY MELLON } — Was a Person of Common Andrew W. Mellon of Pittsburg, who is secretary of the treasury in Presi. | dent Harding's cabinet. BRITISH EXECUTE SI IN IRELAND Dublin.—Six prisoners convicted of | complicity in the killing of the British intelligence officers and members of the crown forces in Ireland, were ex- ecuted in Mount Joy prison here Mon- | day morning. The men were hanged | in pairs at intervals of an hour. Twenty thousand people gathered outside the prison during the hours that the executions were going on and all work in the city stopped until 11 o'clock. Even the postoffice was closed and telegraph service was suspended. The scene in front of the prison was impressive, The crowd began as- sembling at dawn and by 7 o'clock the prison doors and on the walls the abutting streets were thronged. Inside the prison, within a few hun- dred feet of the spot where the six condemned men met their death, was Arthur Griffith, Sinn Fein member of parliament, vice president of the Irish republic and head of the Sinn Fein organization. He is a prisoner. Attempts to secure a reprieve for the six republicans failed. Word was re ceived from London early that the home office and the Irish office would not interfere. A deluge of patronage recommen- dations has engulfed President Hard- ing. A general move by railroads to cut war-time wage scales appears to be in full swing. The German reichstag gave the Ger- man cabinet a vote of confidence on the indemnity issue. Deaths from tuberculosis in Chicago in 1920 were fewer than in the two previous years. J. W. Reed, former mayor of Esta- cada, Or, who was fatally injured when crushed by a motor truck, died. Petrograd is in the hands of revo- lutionary forces and the Bolshevikt have been completely overpowered, ac- cording to reports. One hundred and thirty congress- men, many of them accompanied by | their families have sailed for the Panama canal zone. Fourteen negroes were reported to have been shot in “sting which broke out in Springfield, Onw, ._- ing the shooting of a policeman by | a negro who was being searched for firearms. | | Minnesota County Treasury Looted. | St. Paul, Minn.—A shortage of $22,-| 971 exists in the Dakota county treas- urer’s office is alleged, according to the report of the state public examin- er, which declares J. D. Kane, who disappeared in December, 1920, is held responsible. Kane was under $260,000 bonds. | German Police Refuse to Salue French. Duesseldorf.—inability of the Ger- man security police to compel privates to salute French officers caused Gen- eral Degoutte to order the disarm- ament and disbandment of 1600 securi- ty police in Duesseldorf and command | them to leave the city. | Live Stock Rates Attacked. Washington, D. G—The National Livestock association announced that it had filed with the interstate com- merce commission complaint directed against all leading railroads, attack- ing the present rates on ordinary live | stock throughout the country. | Oregon City Man Heads Editors. | St. Augustine, Fla—E. E. Brodie of Oregon City, Or., was elected presi- dent of the National Editorial asso-| ciation here. lowa House Passes Bonus Bill. Des Moines, Ia—The lowa house passed the soldiers’ bonus bill unani amously. ' the publicans. The system was bad | said the timorous customer. Tax-Gatherer, in the Days of Our Lord, Detestation. The publican was a tax-gatherer under a system known as farming out the taxes, common throughout many parts of Roman empire at the time of Our Lord’s earthly ministry. For a capital sum paid down to the gov- ernment the taxes of a province or district were made over to the pur- chaser, who in turn might subdivide his district and sell the taxes of the | parts to different persons. The men | employed to collect the taxes were in many ways. It necessitated large taxes, because only part of the mon- | ey reached the treasury, and it turned loose upon the people an ava- ricious, unscrupulous band of collee- tors. As a class the publicans were detested. Xenophon, the Greek gen- eral and historian, said they were robbers. Theocritus, another anci- ent writer, being asked which were the worst kind of wild beasts, re- plied, “On the mountains, bears and lions; in the cities, publicans and pettifoggers.” By the Jews the pub- licans were especially detested. Theirs was a conquered country, and they hated their Roman con- | querors. The tax-gatherer was a re- minder of their position, and their taxes went to a pagan government. | However, tax-gathering was neces- sary, and no doubt there were honor- able men among the publicans. At least, there was one in Palestine, for | St. Matthew was a publican. QUITE AGREED The Sister—If I were you I) wouldn’t pay so much attention to/| that horrid Fannie Flitters. The Brother—And I wouldn't either, if I were you. BOOK STRANGELY RECOVERED. | From a little fishing village on the | French coast, named Sables d’Olon- ne, comes this story: A little company of fishermen, lifting their nets, found in the midst of an unusually heavy catch of fish a black morocco-bound book, battered and scratched but complete, all its pages stuck together inside the cov- ers. It was a breviary. Within the pages were many holy pictures and pictures of churches, hand-written prayers, ete. One picture was a cathedral un- der which was written, “Our Lady of Dakan.” | Just legible on the flyleaf was the name of the breviary’s owner, Bishop | Jelabert of Dakar, in Africa, who, | with six priests, returning with him | to the African mission. waa ae~- im @ suipwreck fast January. | ‘The breviary has been returned to the bishop’s family. SHE KNEW IT. The comedian was trying to be funny. He said: “Ladies and gen- tlemen, I shall sing you a song en- titled ‘She Swallowed a Spoon, and Now She Can’t Stir.’” The young man turned to the | Sweet Young Thing with him and | said: “He gets paid for that, too!” The S. Y. T., a poor misguided | girl without a sense of humor, re | plied haughtily, as if her intelli-| gence had been insulted: “1 know he does.” FIRST AID. “This stuff won’t kill me, I hope,” | “I don’t think so,” replied the | “blind tiger” proprietor. “But what did you press that but- ton for?” “Oh, I was just calling our pri- vate ambulance.” — Birmingham Age-Herald. HARVARD EXEMPTS NONE. All Harvard students are now re quired to take some active part in athletics. There is no longer any line drawn between the students who go in for development above the col- Jar and those who favor develop- meant below the collar. WAGES OF RAILROAD | voice. | man of the association of railroad ex- PACKERS AND UNIONS ACCEPT MEDIATION Secretary of Labor to Meet With Representatives of Opposing Bodies. Chicago.—After an all day discussion by heads of the packing industry, a telegram was sent Secretary of Labor Davis at Washington accepting his suggestion that they send two repre- sentatives to confer with him and two | representatives of the employes re- garding the situation in the industry. | Secretary Davis’ offer of persona! mediation in an effort to avert a threatened strike also was accepted | by the union leaders, Dennis Lane of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America said in a telegram to him. While awaiting the outcome of medi ation plans and the result of a strike vote, employes in the packing plants of Chicago and their leading branches in the Middle West had decided to go to work Monday under the reduced wage scale announced by the five lead- | ing packers which is in effect. More than 100,000 men are affected by the reduction of 16 and 12% per cent in the hourly rate. MEN TO BE REDUCED St. Paul, Minn.—More than 20,000 unskilled employes of railroads in the Northwest will be effected by pro- posed reductions in wages, it was de- clared here in railroad circles. It is planned to make the reduction effec- tive April 5. Officials of the Northern Pacific railroad said the proposition had been submitted to their men and after dis- cussion between the men’s represen tatives and the roads, the matter would be submitted to the railroad labor board. Roads effected in the Northwest in clude the Great Northern, the North- ern Pacific and the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and the Minne- apolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie Wage reductions ranging from 48% cents an hour to a minimum of 25 cents are contemplated for unskilled workmen by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, it was announced. HEARTBEAT HEARD MILES Device Will Function as Far as Tele- phone Carries Voice. j Washington, D. C.—An amplifying apparatus described as so delicate as to permit a physician in one city to make a stethoscopic study of the heart | action of a patient hundreds of miles away, was demonstrated here to a group of army and civilian medical men at the army signal corps labora- tories. The principle involved is siml- lar to that used in transmitting Pres!- dent Harding’s inaugural address to the great crowd that extended far be- yond the ordinary reach of the human The device may be used in connec tion with any telephone wire and will function, it was said at the labora- tory, as far as the telephone wires will transmit the voice in ordinary con- versation. Four Raliroad Heads to Testify. Chicago, Ul.—The railroad labor board requested four railroad heads to appear before it Wednesday morning | to testify in the hearing over the na- tional agreements. The men sum: | moned were T. Dewitt Cuyler, chair | excutives; W. W. Atterbury, vice-presi- dent of the Pennsylvania railroad; | [ Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific, and R. 8. Binkerd, assistant to Mr. Atterbury. Legion Advises Caution on Slackers, Indianapolis, Ind.—National officers of the American Legion took steps to protect men who may be wrongfully classed as draft evaders in the list to be issued soon by the war department and to make certain that none guilty of evading military service escape. All posts were notified that they should aid in establishing the correctness of the liste. Doom Man Who Advised Murder. Ottawa, Ont. — Canada’s supreme court upheld a decision sentencing to} death a man who counseled another to kill and giving a jail sentence to the one who actually did the crime. Anti-Reds Seize Siberia Railways. Harbin, Manchuria.—Railways run- ning between Omsk and Tumen, Omsk and Mariensk have been captured by the insurgents and the soviet govern ment otherthrown, Costa Rica Accepts Mediation. Geneva—Costa Rica has informed the League of Nations that it had ac cepted American mediation im ita dis pute with Pause ‘ ARE MORE REASONABLE NOW THAN EVER. 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