Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 333, Hammond, Lake County, 7 April 1922 — Page 1

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Advocates Abolition of Federal Judicial System and Charge to State Courts By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERV1CE1 WASHINGTON, April (-ensuring AVil.lam Howard Taft, chief justice of the United States Supreme court, for his social activities anung the "idle rich." Senator George AV. Norris (R). Neb., today advocated the abolition of the federal Judicial system and conferring of federal jurisdiction on existing state courts. Noma declared that "no judge can stick his legs under the table of tha Idle r:ch every night and be fit the r.ext cs.y to sit in judgment vfpon those n ho toil," The Nebraska senator added that "unnual pilgrlmagei" to Washing-ton by federal circuit judges, as provided In the Cunmins blil. would "further weaken the judicial system." -There is something fundamentally wrong with our judicial system." Nurris raid. "I have reached the conclusion, from my own experi- . er.ee, that the life tenure of office is not good for the people. While in theory the judge apointed ofr life is removed from temptation and has nothing but the straight and narrow path to follow, it often occurs, but too often, that the security of a life salary and a life position makes our judges indifferent and makes some of them forgit the common people.'' N'orris ca'led attention to the provisions in the Cummins bill und-r which senior circuit judges would be brought once a yeu.r to Washington for conferences with the chief justice and the attorney general. "What will these judges do?" Norris' said. "They will meet the chief justice and will e diutd every evening. They will be run to death with socii.1 activities. Thy. will be killed with sxrial favoritism before getling down to buslne-r. especially as it affects the chief justice who dinrs somewhere every niht. -No man will be injured and no Interest will be hurt by abolishment of the United States court and conferring of federal jurif diction on the state courts. HERSHMAM APPOINTS BORHWASSER George P. Bomwasser, of New Al- . bany, assistant secretary of tae Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., has been appointed secretary to succeed William H. Leedy, who died recently. The appointment of Mr. Bomwasser was made by George Herhm.in. of Crown Point. grand-nu.t?r. Mr. Bornwasser had besn aclinic secretary since December 1. Prior to tbat time he va. fie'ei '.ipervis,j? of -he R'at: ie is ; . ihe of fice until the expiraMsn ot 3Ir. leedy's term in November. Mr. Bornwasser was elected -rand rajyter of the or.1;r in 1 1 1 2 an! hai held important posts since that time. He is a member of the Odd Fellow lodre. No. i, of New Albany. ARRESTS MAY SOLVE SOI GARY CRIES The four Gary bank bandits, one white man End three colored, who were arrested in a thrilling man hunt after holding up and robbing a bank at Kau Claire. Mich.. at Tuesday were all employed at the plant of the American Sheet and Tin riat Co.. according to Chief of Police For'ols. who has given the Eau Claire authorities some valuable information sin-e their arres. "The bandit car wan a new one," said Chief P'orbis, "and was pu.--chisfd from a Iora! automobile F.gent last Saturday." The men left Gary on Sunday, driving the machine through to Michigan. According to the police. Mike Frankovich. the only white man 'n the quart'Hte .was employed as a foreman at the tin plate company and the thre colored men were ;i!i employes under him. Frankovich, who is th3 owner f a four-stoiy flat building on the F.-uth side, is said to have been the ring-leader of the bandits. According to Information, the mfn were always seen together, and even at the plant when they had a few minutes leisure time they always occupied it by talking with each other in secrecy. It is the belief of the police that the gang are responsible for a number of crimes committed in Gary this winter. NICK JURICICH, former driver for Sheriff "Hut" Olds and well known deputy sheriff has lost his credentials and badge of authority. He was arrested this week .on a charge of assault and battery preferred by Jennie Pavlltza.

WENTWORTH PUTS OVER NEW STUNT

Wentworth school of West Ham- : mond put over a new stunt last eveJ ning. Parents were permitted to ! look In on classes and make a general inspection of the school's me thods without breaking In on their own day's work. This was made possible by ricking up day classes bodily and setting them over to periods after supper. The first classes started at S o'clock, the second at 8.30 and the third at 3. Students studied in assembly room until their class bells rang and then edged their way through the crowds to the recitation rooms. .Everything -went along 'just as though the visitors were not there. The- recitations' were typical of everyday work. They were not reviews of work in which the students could make a good showing. And to make it realistic there was a wee bit of copying done and at least on fcijt; wau was tnrown. Lven the gym classes went through their exercises. The visitors moved from room to room and spent much time Inspecting the specimens work which were exhibited in all parts cf the building. At 9:31 o'clock class work halted and students and patrons crowded the assembly room. There Supt. Otis Glamore expressed his pleasure over the turnout, and introduced Attorney Martin Finneran, president of the Board of Education. He made a short address which was well received and then gave way to County Superintendent Tobin. Since he saw the way in which West Hammond entertained the teachers last fall the county superintendent makes it a point to visit AYest Hammond regularly. He gets same good ideas there. Superintendent Glamore then announced the long list of prize winners in the school exhibits. He-then announced that the junior class would not be in school today. It was understood that the class which was credited with bringing the largest number of visitors last night would have a holiday today. The AVentworth school embraces the seventh and eighth grades and the four year high school cours. MICE ARE BANE OF U. S. LOCALLY Experts who prepare the rigid specifications for all government construction work will shake their heads and look worried when they learn that Hammond has 'a species of mouse which apparently scorns concrete as a barrier.' Oovernmol; specifications have been considered the stlffest proposition a contractor runs against in his lifetime. The new brand of mice has been causing trouble in the offices of V. S. Commissioner Charles Surprise in the Hammond federal building. The little rascals got into the vault and threatened to make nests out of naturalization records and bankruptcy papers. Every day fresh traces of their presence were found, A hole through the wall from the office proper show ed their path of entrance. The hole was plugged but the mice gouged out another. The only thing to do was to kill off the brood. Miss Kate Emery, clerk at the pas-sport window, undertook the job of extermination. She brought four ordinary traps and Fet thenl in the vault. Yesterday each trap caugnt a. mouse. Miss Emery and Miss Maude Burke, naturalization clerk, looked them over carefully. They expected to find each equipped witii a set of tools teeth twpe. In fact, they seem to be just plain everyday mice. This moTning another was caught. He was no different from those caught yesterday. The traps will be set every da? until everyone is certain that the mice have all been landed. There is a possibility that the concrete expert has not been trapped. In fact, a different tpe of trap may be necessary for it is difficult to believe that a mouse which plows right through cement work should allow a small thing like a ten-Tit mouse trap to hold him long. NEW JEWE'TT ARRIVES HERE The new Jewett has arrived at the O'Ncii Auto Sales.- This is a light six and a product of the Paige organization. The car gets its nanw from Jewett. head of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. "There has always existed a demand for a uighter Paige." says Mr. O'Neil, "and the Jewett is the answer." It will sell in the nelghborhool of a thousand dollars. The new car is now on display. PREPARATIONS are being made this week to start up the plant of the Gary Motor Truck Co.. which! be placed In operation again Mon-j duy with a full working force and a large batch of orders. '

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9 ,V- t Bliss Emeline Kwakerbeck, upper, who made charges against John Duval )odge. son of the late .ohn F. Dodge, millionaire ZiUto manufacturer, lower. John Duval Dodge, son of the late Detroit automobile manufacturer, John F. Dodjre, is serving a five-day sentence in the Detroit house of correction for speeding. Dodfje fclso faces charges of driing while intoxicated and transporting liquor as a result of. a joy ride in which Miss Emeline kwakerbck leaped from his car. She is suffering from a fractured skyiL Radiophone Program Here are the stations and their "calis." Listen for the stand-by signal. Pick out ycur concert. They all start at S:00 p. in. Stations: Chicago. K - Y - W; Pittsburg, K-D-K-A; Springfield, Mass.: W-B-Z; Newark. N. J., AV-J-Z Springfield. Mass., AV-B-Z; Cleveland AV-fl-K; Bedford Hill Side, Mara, W-G-I: Indianapolis, 9-Z-J; Detroit W-W-J. Friday's program, as (broadcasted from Station K-Y-W, beginning at S:00 p. m., follows: CHICAGO Program given by members of the Faculty of the Lyceum Arts Conservatory. Artists. Reader Elias Day. A'iolinist Charles M Ixer. Geranlen Trio Gertrude Farrell, soprano: Anna Braun. contralto; Helm Mueller, contralto. Accompanist Jeanne Boyd. Program. 1. Medley of Southern Airs, Pjke Geranlen Trio. 2. a) Adoration, Borowski; (b) Serenade, Drigo Charles Mixer. 3. Characterization Elias Day. 4. non.' I'm Fair Titania from "MigThomas Gertrude Farrell. lal Berceuse (Jocelyn), Godfb) Sextet ("Lucia") Donizetti ard: Charles Mixer. 6. (a) By the Waters of Minnetonka, Lieurance; (b) Jean. Burleigh Helen Mueller. 7. Characterizations Ellas Day. ( 8. (n't I-and of the Sky Bl'ue Wa ter, Cadman; (b) A Young .Alan's Fancy Geranlen Trio. 9. Piano Selection Duo Art. ill T'KIDDI Nick George, 3539 Block ave , Indiana Harbor. .thought Judge Reit.'r of Room 1 of the Hammond Superior court was kidding when he entered an order recently requiring Nick to pay attorney fees and a temporary allowance during th? pendency of his wife's suit for divorce. Today he is thinking it over in the county Jail at. Crown Point. Wednesday Mrs. George's attorney came into court and informed Judge Reiter that George had disregarded the order. He had not paid his alimony and the attorney had received no money. Judge P.eiter issued a bench warrant returnable fnstanter. This morning George was found and brought into court. He made numerous excuses end Intimated that Mrs. George could take care of her own divorce proceedings. When the Judge aw that Nick was not Inclined to rake the matter seriously he ordered him off to Jail. When he Is released he will be given another opportunitj' to make good obligations. Otherwise it mear.s more time Ifst in th? county jail. CITY ATTY.. James AV. Brlssey, ganiiatlon In the Twin Cities, porting the nomination of Otto F. Flneld for county treasurer.

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Hammond Promoter Gets 5 Year Lease on Old Rohy Race Track Site Contracts were signed yesterday between Jack Ltech. Hammond motorcycle dealer and race promoter, and the Shcdd brothers, owners of the oid Roby raxe track, giving Leech a five-year lease on the mil course which is the only one in a radius of thirty mile?. Mr. Leech has great plans already worked out and will Immediately start putting them into execution. First a stock company is to be formi-d to back motorcycle and automobile racing in Hammond. The association will be incorporated t at least $10,000. Plans for the rehabilitation of the historic old rpeedway include the erection of a ten-foot board fence around the tval. A better drainage system must be devised in o.--der to protect certain parts of the track which have not been sat.r- i factory for years. Then the entire track will be resurfaced with clay. It had a hard surface years ago, but in dragging and working over the top each year tha clay has been scraped off or go mixed with sand that it has become ptactically useless. "The clay surface is absolutely necessary if we expect to attract the best automobile and matoreycle

racers to Hammond." said Mr. Leech. . preme court justice, will ne.." b "It will require several carloads, i brought to .j for the mur(Jer 0f but I am going to select a type c-f! Lieut Col, Paul W. Beck whom, clay which will not grind into dust J)ay charges, he found .' i ckinj? under wear in hot weather, it j Mrs. Day, in the opinion of a nummakes a faster track for tbusiped j ber of Oklahoma legal hghts. Day boys and at the same time; etiiig-j has pleaded the unwritten law -ates the dust nuisance whiclt kei-j that a man's homo is inviolate, , ., i 1 -r " -

It racing is to oe a nimuciai access to the promoters." continued Mr. Leech,' "the fence must be erected at once. AA'e must protect the grandstands and other property from vandals and at the same time must get the money from the people who come to the races. I put -on the last race at the Roby track last fall. I believe 5.000 people turned out for those races and only about 800 of them actually paid admission. "We plan to have another entrance on the east side to take care of the crowd which comes from that direction. At present all have to pass through the gate at the Roby Inn." Leech is hoping to put on the flr?t meet toward the latter part of May. He has received assurances from a number of -ld favorites of the auto and bike game that they will be ready for the start whenever he says so. Winstrom of South Chicago will appear with a, new car. Billy Harris of the Bunnell team has rigged up one with a Leroy motor. Emil Huff has not announced his intentions for this ye'r but Hobart Jtnd Indiana Harbor already have several machines tuned up for the season. There will be no dearth of speedy cars. DIFFERENT 5 YEARS AGO f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 WASHINGTON, April 7. The tifth anniversary of America's declaration of war on Germany came to the national capital yesterday almost unnoticed. Five years ago yesterday the capital throbbed with suppressed emotion over going into the world conflict and congress prepared to rush plans for a hundred-fold increases in the army and navy. Today the largest controversy in congress i over efforts to cut the army to 113.000 men and the navy to 65.00 men. Tariff, the bonus, factional rows., are "big news.'" Five years ago today a democratic president occupied the White House with democrats in control of both houses of congress, Today a republican president sits in the White House with preponderant republican majorities in 'both houses. Five years ago today the German embassy was closed and gathering dust. Today it is reopened and being furnished for the expected arrival of a new German afnbassador. An American ambassador to Berlin is already enroute. completing the cycle from war to peace. WHITING COUPLE WEDS VALPARAISO. April 7. -Axel M. Hansen and Miss Ollie Mae Hallie. both of Whiting, were married here this morning at 9:30 o'clock. JustIce Louderback officiating. GARY now has a thousand laws and ordinances of various kinds which citizens must see that they do not violate. The one thousandth was passed at the council session this week and is an ordinance pro

sup-'vidir.g for the extension of lights to the new Gary-Miller bathing ibeach.

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Jean P. Day, aboe, held in connection with the murder of Lieut, Col. Paul W. Beck, below. Jean P. Day, wealthy Oklahoma oil man and a former state su TRAGEDY STALKS' IN BECK FAMILY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! LA WTO N, OK LA., April 7 Tragedy similar in many ways to the shadow resting on the uniform of Lieut. Col. Paul AVaro Beck, post commandant here, slain in the home of Judge Jean P. Day in Oklahoma City, has stalked its way into the army man's household before. "Col. Beck's brother, John Beck, was shot and killed In an affair centering about money natters," Major L. G. Lanphicr, senior officer of the military court probing Col. Beck's death, announced here Col. Beck never made the details of his brother's death public. It was a matter seldom discussed even in the family circle," Major Lanphier said. Mrs. Rachael Beck, 77 year old mother of the slain airman, was still in ignorance of the events leading to her son's death today. Army women were In constant attendance at her bedside. Captain Alexander Mileau, post physician, said he feared for the aged woman's life if the details of the tragedy were made known to her. Lieu?. John AV. Beck. Jr., non of Col. Beck's slain brother, arrived here last night. Lieut. Paul Ward Beck, Jr., son of Col. Beck, is expected to arrive in Oklahoma tty late tonight. The two young lieutenants will accompany Beck's body to AVasbington Sunday. The mother will also attend her son's funeral at Arlington cemetery. She will be accompanied east by the wife of Lieut. Kenneth Walker. HAIL STORM AT CAPITOL (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE J INDIAN POLLS, 'lnd.. April 7. Considerable minor property damage was done by a hail storm here this noon when ice globes as large as English walnuts pelted the city. Frenzied by the storm a horse ran away and plunged into the canal, dragging a wagon with him. METHODISTS MEET ELKHART. Ind.. April ".Three separate bodies were in session here today in connection with the North Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church the conference proper, the laymen's association and the ministers' wives, widows and daughters. The first session f the layman's organization, was held today and it was attended by about 100 delegates. FORD CAR STOLEN Peter Lieeenfeldt, one of the proprietors of a cigar store at So State street, Hammond, noticed a man entering the garage at his home. 682 State Line street, AVednesday evening. It was about 10:SO o'clock and Pete Just supposed It was the man who rented part of his garage. Yesterday morning he called the AVest Hammond police station and Informed Chief Nits that his Ford touring car had been stolen. The auto was a 1920 model ear with a winter top. The Illinois license number was 124-893.

(Following is the second of a .series of three intimate pictures of John U. Rjckeftller Sr., the multimillionaire oil king. In the warm Florida sunshine, he goes about unguarded, unaimoycd; sometimes in his shirt sleeves l!ke "Grandpa Smith" and he expects to be 10J. Editor's note.) By MILDRED MORRIS 5 (Copyright 1922, by International News Service) ORMOND BEACH. Fla., April 7 John D. Rockefeller plans to live 100 years. "The world is so full of interest, a man must live a long life to cet it all." he says. Hert'3 the Rockefeller receipt for living to a ripe old age: "IDon't worry, ;at timply and moderately, live a Christian life and play golf." Ey following this regime, he says, he hopes to round out the century mark. The Standard Oil magnate is watching the career cf Henry Ford. Mention of the automobile maker, who is said to have supplanted him as the richest man in the world, arouses his rieep interest. Ho expressed admiration for the Detroit multi-millionaire. "Always keep plenty of money on hand" is the advice of the great o:l financier once sent the younger money king. The two most picturesque financial figrures in America. Rockefeller nd Ford, have never met. The man whose riches have made him a figure legend on two hemispheres talks little of money. AVealth cannot buy happiness, he wi'l tell you.

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(DIXIiKTIM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Ar'H 7. The arrest of General Gregorie Semenoff, the noted Cossack leader In Siberia, in New York at the instance.of an American exporting firm is purely a civil acttion, in which ihe Unite I States government 'S pot concerned one way or the other. (BIM.ETIX) f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) CONCORDIA, Kalis., April 7. L. J. Tremblay, father of the family wno were victims of the "axe fiend" near here Tuesday night, when one person was slain and five others injured, committed suicide this morning. (BM.LETIX) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERV1CE1 MILAN. April 7. Pope Pius XI will address a communication to the powers participating In the Genoa conference asking that former Empress Zita of Austria and her children be allowed a free choice as to their future residence. (BIMHTIX) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 7. Employes of the Garnsey CoaA Co., who responded to the nationwide strike call of the United Mine Workers of America, have returned to work, leaving District 20. embracing the entire Alabama coal field, free from strike disturbances, according to ofTicial reports to-' day. CALLS IT A Ik INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! KEAV YORK, April 7 William H. Anderson, state president of I hT! Anti-Saloor league, today branded as "the gurgle of an organized appetite" the formation of a New York division of Association Against the Prohibition amendment. "This organization." continued Mr. Anderson, "flemainda presonal liberty for everyone except the prohibitionist who happens to be in a large majority in this country. The speakers at the meeting of the association against the prohibition amendment held last night in Carnegie Hall, said that a minority of 189,000 persons, whom they branded as intellectual blackmailers, had put over the prohibition amendment. "I should like to point" out that the allied citizens of America, an organization to uphold American ideals and the American constitution in cluding the ISth amendment, has. a membership of Lt0 1,000 In Xew York j siate alone. "The organization against rrohibttion is entitled to our thanks. If their ridiculous claim that prohibition was put over by a minority were true it would constitute the best possible argument in favor or prohibition in that would concede that a minority sober is too much for a majority drunk." REMOVAL NOTICE Dr. A. J. AVarber, Dentist, has Moved his office from 155 State t. to CUiaens National Bank bldg.

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'Money brings happiness only when spent usefully and wisely." he says. "AVealth. should be regarded merely as an instrument to make the world better and happier." Here in this beautiful Florida resort, the "biilion dollar prisoner" ia free of his prison and radiates friendliness under th; warming sun. No inaccessible fences and armei guards to k;ep him from the public as at the grtat Rockefeller estate in Tarry tow n. Rockefeller, "the AVall Street AA'olf," the "Money King," cold and alocp Ormond does not know. It is on neighborly terms with John D. Rockefeller, pleasant old gentleman who works about -lis garden in his shirt sleeves like Grandpa Smith, The aged multi-millionaire roams

at will. He chats with beU boys, the groceryr.ian and the butcher. "Plain as an old shoe a nice old man," say the Orm nd folks. The rich man whose word spells mig'ut in the financial marts of the world takes simple celight in simple things. Golf, the birds, the flowers and the trees in his jard these are subjects on which the great John D. almo.-.t waxes garrulous, forgetting to be thrifty of words. Music is one of his great pleasures. His favorite pieces? He mentioned one to us, "Aloha." During the season the trains running to Ormond Beach stops In front of his house. He stood in his yard last Mondayafternoon watching the last of the season's trains draw out a spare figure with round shoulders, weirir.g a gray fault, and in his shirt sleeves. (Bl'IXETIN) ST. LOLTS. Mo.. April 7. Folquarrel. George L. Richie, 63, was mysteriously shot in his home here eaily todayi He is in dangerous condition at the city hospital, where h-i insists that he shot himself. His daughter Maude, IS. is in custody. ni.LI.KTI) LEAVENWORTH, Kan.,. April 7. Robert Hampton, 33, of Detroit, took a chance in a thousand toda ylo escape serving a ten-year term in the federal penitentiary here, but lost. On the last "ap of his journey to prison, convicted of, motor car thefts, he dove from a Pullman car window. The train was near RushvlHe. Mo., and was traveling at 50 miles 'an hour. He was recaptured. (BUI.I.KTIM WASHINGTON, April 7 Democratic senators made President Harding the target of bitter partisan nttacks in the Senate today when they renewed their charges that he was personally responsible for alleged infractions of civil service regulations. mi I.1.ETIA) COrK, IRELANT. April 7 Motor boats filled with armed men. supported by machine guns, invaded Mddleton today. The men left their boats and raided many stes. The employes of the stores were marched into the streets and searched. THE MULES CAME BACK BRAZIL, lnd., April 7. The mystery of the missing mine mules today is just as mysterious as ever but the mules are back. That's the climax of a little side light f-toi y In accordance with the great coal strike. The tale hinges about the reported failure of the Bay & Iogan Coal company, operating a mine in southern Clay county, to meet its payroll when the mine closed March 31. April Fools Day no joke the five mules used in the mine disappeared. Sherlocking by Sheriff Wallace uncovered the tip that the miners were holding the donkeys as a lien on their pay. An ultimatum from the sheriff granted the miners twelve hours to return the mules. Today the animals were lined up at the manger spirited back to the mine by unknown hand3. JURY SENT HOME The damage spit of Julia Przybysz against H. C. English, which was to have come to trial yesterday in Room 2 of the Superior court before Judge Crites and a jury was -fettled at the eleventh hour and the jury was sent home. In the settlement the defendant agreed to pay $1,250. Przybysz had his collar bone broken in July, 1921. at Gary, when the truck he was riding in was struck toy th'ftautomobile of the defendant. The accident happened at 47th and Harrison streets. McAleer, Dorsey and Gillett were attorneys for the plaintiff. HYMAN M. COHEN, former city judge, was installed as exalted ruler

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Paid Organizers Collect Big Revenue From Secret Meetings

EY ilAROLD CROSS The I. AV. AV. Communist movement, feared as much by la'ior unions as by industries because it seeks to bore within the unions t-nd disrupt them, has been sending out literature anain. This morning under caption of "Confidential Instructions," citizens received the foliowinjr cryptic message, postmarked "Detroit" t-nd presumably from the "House of Masses'" in that city : "You can't start a revolution by sitting on ycur ." Rather inelligant, but doubtless true. "The world is on fire with communism," the confidential instructions declare, adding: "It is impossible to estimate the vast amour.t of money expended In the United States to defeat the communist I. AV. AV. movement. . China's various governments hold communism a greater peril than Japan. There is more bolshevism in Japan than ;s permitted to go over the cables. 'Go Slow' strikes are being conducted by the workman throughout the empire. Bolshevism has taken root in India. ASKED TO "KICK IX" "What are you doing in your town? Arc you holding meeting, talking to ycur fellow workmen about the Great Revolution? "And Don't Forget. It Takes Money to Keep thj Cause Alive. Kick In!" Rather embarrasing. isn't It, to be on the mailing hst of such a worthy enterprise and to have accomplished so little in its behalf? In all probability timilar letters were received by two or three thousand men in Lake county this week. They are urged to: "Take advantage of the low wages now being paid by the steel industry to crystallize the sentiment among workmen and gain new converts to the I. AV. AV. "Tell the workmen that the unions are exploiting them as much as the bosses and that there is ony one square union and that is the One Big Union.' KUSSIAX BOLSHEVISM This propaganda has a two-fold purpose. The first it to stimulate the sale of radical literature, the price list of more than two hundred books being enclosed, and the second to raise money, supposedly for relief in Russia and for organization work in this country. It seems a shame that such a noble political theory should be so gros.sly commercialized, but the. fact remains that the I. AV. w. commun ist movement in the United States has come to be a gigantic graft. When "Big Bill Haywood" led the "AVobblies" a few years ago they were somewhat aloof from grafting. They simply voiced a protest again.-t this thing tailed government. The "AVobblies" of those days operated in the lumber carps, copper mines and wheat fields of thr west, The new I. A W. has a foreign flavor. The control Is now in direct sympathy with Moscow and the movement has spread into the industrial centers of the middle-west and the east. The revenue derived from the secret meetings held in practically every city of the St. Louis. Chicago, Detroit. Pittsburgh and New Jersey industrial districts Is "velvet" for the leaders. The last thing I. W. AV. headquarters in the United States wants is the revolution they are always talking about. The L W. AV. has profited financially In every big strike of recent years. The tig 'AA'oubl" meeting at Turner Hail. Gary, (luring the steel strike and tne meetings at Koscuskio and Ywanls halls in Bast Chicago last winter were merelv advertisements for the underground work of money-getting that has been carried on without Interruption in this district by paid organizers.The dollars collected from workmen, mainly foreirn-?rea-lin8: laborers, keeps the presses of the I. W. W. humming throughout the United States. There is no publishing bufiinpSa H, profitable as that of printing radical literature. The One Big Union Is really th "One Big Graft." ABANDON HOPE OF STRIKE SETTLEMENT WASHINGTON, April 6. All hore of effecting early settlement of the nation-wide coal strike, through a "pear-e meeting" between operators and striking miners, proposed by the House Labor Committee was deflni itcly abandoned this afternoon. Rejection of the Joint conference invitation by a majority of the oporators in the central competitive field was announced by Chairman Nolan of the Congressional committee. The refusals, he admitted, sidetracked efforts to end the strike, "for the present at least.'' "But." he added, "we have not yet lest, all hope that . eventually the operators will agree to holding a Joint conference with the miners as the est method of effectually solving the present controversy." NOTICE OF REPUBLICAN MEETING All republican candidates are 'nvtied to attend the meeting at the Harrison Club !n Gary, Saturday, April 8, at 1 P. L Miss Adalaide Thurston, who has been speaking on the achievements of the Harding administration the

pist week daily in St. LotHa, will make an address. 4-S-2t