Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 2

Attorney General applied for the sw against the railroad $1,840,000,000 IS GIVEN VETERANS Washington, D. C.—More than $1, 840,000,000 has been expended by the government on behalf of former serv ice men through the veterans’ bureau, according to a statement showing the bureau's expenditures to August 1 Of the total, approximately $314, Daugherty, who ping injunction strikers. 419,000 was expended for vocational | insurance, | training, $345,473,000 for $369,619,000 for compensation, $301,- 136,000 for allotments, $282,373,000 for allowarices, $35,093,000 for marine and | | on the same hand. seamen's insurance, $138,961,000 for medical and hospital service, $988,000 for hospital facilities and service and $52,196,000 for administrative ex penses. The number of government insur ance policies in force was reported to | be 579,570 of the value of over $1,194, 000,000. Former service men receiv- ing compensation numbered 174,364 and men who received hospital treat ment totaled 259,283, while the medi cal examination of 1,194,481 men has been ordered. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS Hiram W. Johnson was renominated United States senator from California by a majority in the nelghborhood of 70,000 Approximately 400,000 citizens of Washington are registered and quali- fied to participate in the primary elections of the three political parties, September 12. The wet and dry issue has been dropped in the congressional contests thus far in Minnesota for the Novem- ber election because of an absence of wet candidates. Seattle Elks bade goodwill to Port- land lodge Saturday when the corner- stone in the new $1,000,000 Portland Elk temple at 11th and Alder streets was laid amid noise and cefemony. The Pomerene corrupt practices act passed the senate without a record vote. It limits expenditure of sena- torial candidates in the general elec- tions to $10,000, and candidates for the house to $5000. Official denial was made by the State department that the United States has any intention of interven ing in Cuba or that any ultimatum “has been served on the island repub- Me through General Crowder” or any- body else 3 Idaho Parties to Open Campaign. Boise, Idaho.—Idaho has formally Opened its 1922 political campaign with three parties in the field as con- tenders and a three-cornered contest that is holding the attention of the electors at large. State political head- quarters have been opened in Boise by IL H. Nash, chairman of the re. publican state committee; Will H Hornibrook, chairman of the demo- cratic state committee, and Frank E Johnesse, chairman of the progressive | state committee. Seattle Man He Washington Legion Wenatchee, Wash.—L. B. Sehwel- lenbach, Seattle attorney, was unant- mously elected commander of the Washington department of the Amer- jean Legion. Olympia was named the convention city for the 1923 conven- tion. Widows of Veterans’ Pensions Raised. Washington, D. C.—President Hard- ing signed a bill increasing the pen- sions of widows of Spanisu-American war veterans from $12 to $20 a month, and the pensions of their dependeat eblidren from $2 to $4 a month, | your hands. | | price | TURW Hai EVE To Business| — Edhem Said Bey Got Bevy of Cireas- sian Girls for Far Less Than Purchase Price, Edhem Said Bey, a Turk tho was feeling acutely the servant problem in Constantinople, tells of going to Asia | Minor and buying half a dozen serv- ants. He went to the first Circassian | village and asked the chief of the elders to exhibit the daughters for sale, In the evening 15 or 20 girl§ were assembled in the town hall with their futhers. They were dressed to show themselves off to advantage. The girls danced to the tune of priml- tive oriental music composed of @ flute and cymbals. Edhem Said Bey carefully noted which girls pleased him the most, motioned them to one side, aud called their fathers, After long bargaining with the fathers the bey went to the market and bought donkeys, buffaloes and silver-mounted arms for a tenth of the price he had agreed upon for the girls. These were then presented to the fathers as payment. A_ buffalo which the bey had bought for 20 gold pleces, he would offer as a priceless animal to be credited to bim in the payment for the girl at five or ten times that price. -His object was to make the father think he had received two or three hundred gold pieces for his daughter, although the actual value of the material delivered might be only one-tenth of that amount, so that the father might boast of a bigh to his friends. SPEED OF FINGERS DIFFERS Those of the Right Hand Quicker and More Accurate Than Those of the Left. The fingers of your right hand are quicker and more accurate than those of your left, says the Popular Sctence Monthly. The ring finger of your left hand shows a burst of speed when- ever It can work with the forefinger of your right hand; and it slows down noticeably when it must team with the middle finger of your left hand. Two fing working together are faster than one going it alone. And a combination of two fingers on op- posite hands ts faster than two fingers Practice, while it increases the speed of all fingers, tends to Increase the rate of the slow ones more than the fast ones, thus overcoming the handi- cap of the ones that lag naturally. If you are a typist or pianist, per- haps you have already discovered some of these facts about the workings of They were conclusively demonstrated by a series of tests con- ducted at the Carnegie Institute of Technology by Esther L. Gatewood. Hindus’ Love of Jewelry. The ruling ‘passion of the natives of India ts an inordinate love of jJewel- ry. Every Hindu as soon as he has accumulated any surplus cash, imme- diately converts the same into gaudy and often expensive ornaments for himself, his wife and children. Every Hindu wears earrings and, on great occasions, as many as half a dozen pairs. Poor people who cannot afford gold pass copper wires through their ears and noses. In some dis- tricts married men wear silver rings on their toes, and another fashion is to have tied on the upper arm a gold box containing a charm to avert bad luck, It is the women, however, who appear in the greatest splendor, It is not uncommon to see a woman at- tending some festival or other with decorations in her halr, her ears, her nose, around her forehead, her neck, her arms, her wrists, her fingers, about her breast and neck, and around her knees, calvés, ankles and toes, Origin of “Fifty-Fifty.” “Fifty-fitty” originated in the thea- ter box office. It developed back in the old days before engagements for various companies were arranged from New York by owners of chains of theaters. Then each’ company had to look out for its own engagements and made the best deal It could for a division of the receipts with the owner of the theater, explains the Detrott News. “Sixty-forty” was a good deal the “forty” going to the house. More often it was a “sixty-five-thirty-five” basis. So the adoption of “fifty-fifty” as an expression to indicate an absolute | ly even division of anything, whether in or out of the theater, was a per- fectly natural development. Emancipation Days. There are emancipation § celebra- tions at various times of the year. Au- gust 4 is observed as a celebration of | the emancipation of Haitian negroes by the British. August 1 is celebrated as the anniversary of the proclamation issued August 1, 1884, by the British government, freeing slaves in its colo- nies, More than 700,000 slaves were set free in the West Indies at that time, principally In Jamaica, the Eng lish government paying several mil- lions of dollars to the slave owners as indemnity. The day most widely cel- ebrated, however, is September 22, the anniversary of Lincoln's proclamation issued in 1863. The Way cf Speculation. The Get-Rich-Quicker (wildly)—You told me that stock I bought two weeks age would take a big Jump within ten days. Explain! Near-Broker (in an Injured tone)— It did, my fried; but sad to aay, it was a beckwerd jumy.—Juflalo Ex — — INJUNCTION ISSUED AGAINST SHOPMEN Drastic Step is Taken By At- torney-General to Keep Cars Moving. Chicago —By one of the most drastic steps ever taken in a strike situation, the United States government obtained a temporary federal order restraining striking railroad shopmen, their offt- cers and affiliated bodies throughout the country from interfering in any | way whatever with the operation of | the nation’s railroads. The restraining order, hearing on which was set for September 11, was is- sued by Federal Judge Wilkerson, up- on the petition of Attorney-General Daugherty, who came here from Wash- ington to argue the action. The underlying principle involved in the action, the attorney general said, in concluding bis argument for the order, is “the survival and the supre- macy of the government of the United States.” Declaring that his request was not aimed at union labor, the attorney gen- eral said that the step was necessary to the preservation of the unions themselves, At the same time he as- serted that the government expected to use its authority to prevent the “labor union from destroying the open shop.” “When the unions claim the right to dictate to the government and to dom- inate the American people and deprive the American people of the necessities of life,” he warned, “then the govern ment will destroy the unions, for the | government of the United States is su preme and must endure.” Washington, D. C.—Inflamed and aroused by the most drastic restraint order ever issued by a court in an in- dustrial dispute, organized labor pro- jected the menacing shadow of a gen- eral strike across the country in an- swer to what Samuel Gompers bitterly and contemptuously described as “gov ernment by injunction.” From being merely a strike of 400, | 000 shopmen, endangering the trans- portation system of the country, the strike has now been magnified to the point where it threatens to affect all organized labor and engulf all in- dustry, labor leaders privately de- clared, The executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, representing between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 work- ers, will meet in the national capital | September 9 in what promises to be the most momentous gathering of labor leaders witnessed in years. While the council has not the power | to call a general strike itself, it is the governing body of the federation and ite advice usually is taken by the rank and file of the federation. RELIEF GRANTED GERMANY | No Further Cash Payments in 1922 | to Be Required. Paris.—The reparations commission bas relieved Germany of the necessity | of making any further cash payments | in reparations for the remainder of | 1922, but defers its decision on the question of a moratorium until radical reforms in Germany's finances are carried out. These include the bal- ancing of her budget, reduction o. Germany's foreign obligations, cur- rency reform and the issue of foreign | fj and internal loans. In rendering its decision, the repar- ations commission takes into account the fact that “the German state bas lost its credit and the mark has de- preciated continually.” Reciamation Bill Support Asked. Phoenix, Ariz.—Governor Campbell wired 47 state governors, asking their | influence and support for the Mc- Nary-Smith reclamation bill, which is | now in conference as a rider to the soldier bonus bill. The governor's telegram urged support for the bill on the grounds that it will provide re clamation for vast areas of the south and west. Big Stee! Merger is Held tilegal. Washington, D. C.—The federal trade commission issued a formal com- plaint, charging that the proposed merger of the Midvale, Republic and Inland Steel companies was in viola- ticn of the law in that it constituted an “unfair method of competition.” Winter Wheat Is Under Average, Washington, D. 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