Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 161, Hammond, Lake County, 29 December 1922 — Page 5
Friday, Dec. 29, 1922
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TURNS OVER HIS PLANT TO WORKERS New Jersey Factory Today Runs by and for Its Employees
By JOHN C. KLEIN, INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. Dec. 29. The factory run by and for its employes functioned smoothly the first day. It was the plant formerly owned by Henry A. Dix. millionaire employer of New Tork and Millville. N. J., who announced that he would turn his $1,000,000 a year dress manufacturing business over to the workers as a reward for their faithful service and who put the announcement in effect yesterday. He reduced his own salary, at the same time, from $60,000 to 50 cents annually. He also loaned the employes $250,000 cash capital with which to carry on the business. They are to pay for the blocks of stock they receive out of the future profits of the business. The solution of the labor problem in the United States isn't entirely perhaps, but very largely in the hands of employes," Mr. Dix said today "And the solution, as I see it, is this: Treat your employes fairly, remember they are just human being like yourself and that without them your business success would be impossible. "It is all simple enough when Comes in Patent and FRENCH Satin PEACOCK SHOE Boot Shop FIVE SIX NINE HOHMAN STREET
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you come to look at it. It is nothing much more than the practical application of the Golden Rule. "And with it, in my case go the lore and thoughtfulness for well being and aid of others as they came from the soul of a woman my wife who died three years ago, for it was she who guided and advised me in whatever I have been able to do for the welfare of others. "I and my family have been termed 'cranks' here before, by business men, large employers of labor themselves, for giving away, as they termed it, money and charitable and educational gifts which have come chiefly through the earnings of my business. "In answering them I have pointed out that unless it had been for these employee, my firm would have made no profits and I would have been in no position to have given them a dollar. "The trouble with employers today is they give too much thought to the profits they hope to make, to the repair of a leak in the roof of one of their buildings, perhaps, or to some other less essential and not enough to the welfare of the people who have made their success possible. "It has been my experience that if employes are treated fairly, if their rights are given consideration they will do the fair thing by you in return. I have never had a strike among the many people I have employed because they all knew I did not regard them merely as beasts of burden but and women who have feelings just as I have, who are part of our common humanity. In this view my wife always agreed with me and it was she who suggested many of the things which have been done for those who were in my employ. "Other 'business men throughout the country may not follow our example, but it has been demonstrated to our satisfaction it is the right course. We have shown the way to others. If they follow there will be less labor unrest and dissatisfaction in this country."
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BELGIAN BRIDE'S CONFESSION CAUSES WAR VET TO SHOOT DOWN HER BETRAYER
Yvonne Wilmot. A confession of infidelity, a prayer for vengeance and a threat of suicide on the part of pretty Yvonne Wilmot almost cost the life of Paul Peter, the "other man," for the husband, Scott Wilmot, went agunning for Peter and laid him low in his own home with a well directed bullet after the alleged homewrecker had admitted the truth of Mrs. Wilmots charges. Peter is recovering. Wilmot is charged with shooting to kill, but he and his bride have become reconciled and repors have it that the charges will not.be pressed.
LAW FIRM HAS Prosecuting attorney Dwight M. Kinder of Lake County i san advocate of progressiveness and believes in keeping up with the times. This week, the law offices of Kinder, Draper and Draper in the Reynolds building took the lead in Gary law office equipment with the purchase of a new and costly dictaphone which will become a permanent fixture. It is the only law firm in the city to put the dictaphone into use. Several other machines have been installed at the Commercial Trust Co. and East Sixth avenue for some time and according to officials, they could not get along without them. The dictaphone is made up by the Columbia Graphaphone Co. of New York City and of the latest type. The one installed in the Kinder and Draper offices has been in use for several days now and according to Mr. Kinder,( is a mechanical perfection. Although the stenographer seems elated that she will not have to be bothered with dictations in the future, she stated that he has been kept busy from morning until night explaining to people coming into the office that the machine is not a radio outfit and that she must have a pretty soft time of it, being able to listen to the radio eight hours of the day and get paid for it. When the members of the law firm wish to dictate a letter, brief or any other dictation, it is not necessary to call the "stenog" to see if she is "too busy" or "out at lunch." The dictator simply gives the dictation into a mouth piece at the end of a tube leading to the dictaphone recorder and the dictation is recorded on a cylindrical record. When the stenographer wishes to take the dictation she simply takes the record and places it on a machine similar to a phonograph. A receiver connected with the ears transmits the message when the machine is turned on. Both machines are operated by electricity. THINKS WE CAN STAND ANOTHER INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29. "I knew nothing about any ether grand jury investigation in Lake County," Homer Elliott, United States district attorney, said yesterday in referenee to the announcement that a special grand jury in Lake county will investigate liquor law violations; ''They can stand two investigations up there very well." The federal grand jury will reconvene January 8 to resume an investigation of the situation in Lake county regarding the enforcement of the liquor laws, A large number of indictment are expected to be returned some of which may be against officials. GARY NEWS WOULD REPLEVIN $550.00 TRUCK A petition for an order to replevin a Ford truck now in the possession of Warneck Lakin, was filed in the Gary Superior court. The E. K. Bunnell company is the plaintiff. On account of the alleged unlawful detention of the truck the plaintiff company asks damages in the sum of $800. The truck which is valued at $550 is said to ha in the Washington garage, which is owned and operated by the defendant. SEVERAL FIRES; SMALL LOSS Quick work on the part of the Gary fire boys caused losses occasioned by fires to be exceedingly small.
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Several runs were made by the department. At the home of L. E. Keller. 715 Pierce street, an electric motor set fire to the house causing a loss of $20.00. At 743 Carolina street, 1679 West 11th avenue, 7th avenue and Adams street, and 526 Maryland, chimney sparks ignited the roofs, but the blaze was extinguished with no loss to the buildings. ELRIE GREEN DIES After a lingering sickness. Elrie Green, died at his home, 401 Connecticut street. The deceased, who was 68 years old at the time of his death, moved to Gary from Michigan where he had operated a farm. The body will be sent to Eau Claire, Michigan, for burial by Williams undertaking establishment. BREAK UP BY B. V. STURDIVANT STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE BASTROP, La., Dec. 29. Disingegration of the local branch of the Knights of the Ku KIux Klan through fear of wholesale arrests and prosecution of members as a result of the governmental and state investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Watt Daniels and Thomas F. Richards last August was the gist of reports which ran rampant today, through all Moorehouse Parish. These reports had it that the Klansmen Of this Tarish have silently disrobed at the orders of exalted Cyclops J. K. Skipworth, and that the members have agreed to keep locked behind their own lips the identities of every member: One prominent planter of this district closely concerned with activities of the Klan stated that members at Spyker held a solemn meeting Sunday, night at the command of the exalted Cyclops. Some thirty or forty members met in the stillness of the Louisiana darkness and set fire to their robes and all they ever were connected with the Klan. Letters, records, hoods all went up in smoke. BRUTAL KILLING IN NEW JERSEY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 28. Police were questioning William E. Battles, held without bail on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the brutal killing of Mrs. Eleanor Louise Brigham in an effort to secure a confession from him. Feeling is running high in this little town against the black and his father, who in being detained by officials for examination. The body of Mrs. Brigham was found last night by detectives in the basement of her home in an exclusive residential district, packed into a preserve closet in the cellar. She had been strangled. Discovery of the murder came when Brigharn, on his return from business, found his wife missing. Battle was arrested after Margaret, the 7 year old daughter of the Brighams, had identified him as a man who had been working about the home during the day. The negro denied knowledge of the crime. Mrs. Brigham's body, horribly mutilated, evidently had been crammed hastily into the closet by the murderer before he fled. Her clothing was badly torn. Authorities after an examination of the body proceeded on the theory that Mrs. Brigham had been the victim of a degenerate. Brigham collapsed after he had found his wife's body and today was nearly wild with grief. He is a well known and prosperous business man. Mrs. Brigham was a good looking woman, quiet and domestic, and a devoted mother to three little children
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who were asleep when their mother met her frightful fate. The children were all confined to their room upstairs by measles. They told their father that they had heard no sound. The police say the evidence is that the woman was either attacked in her kitchen and dragged to the cellar, or was attacked suddenly by a concealed assailant in the cellar when she went there on some household errand.
STARVE WITH JARS OF GOLD IN THE BOUSE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. Dec. 29. 'The Ghost House" of the Bronx is untenanted today, even by a specter. One of Its two occupants for forty years. Miss Losinde Christensen, seventy-five, lies dead in the morgue. The other, her blind sister, Amelia, eighty-two, is near death from prolonger hunger. The younger sister had starved to death in the house of mystery with $375 In jars and vases about her. Scores of curious folk visited "the ghost house," a two-story frame structure, battered by wind and rain for half a century and surrounded by thick underbrush and tattered trees. The sisters were taken out of the house in which they seclued themselves when they came from Denmark, long ago, for the first time in years, after Amelia called the attention of the police by faint tappings on a window after her sister had died. To the children of the neighborhood they had long been known as "witches" because their habit of calling to the outside world by this same tapping and then vanishing into the dark recesses of the house. When the door was broken in by the police the house was found in a pitiful state, disordered, chilly, a remnant of a once prosperous and comfortable home. The strange story of the aged women, perhaps concealing shattered romance of long ago, is unknown to any person save the surviving sister, now too weak to speak. Absolutely Opposed to Forcing Indemnities Out of Germany. BY F A. WRAY LONDON, Dec. 29. "Germany should be made to pay war damages to the very utmost of her ability, but beyond that Europe start with a clean slate." This is the official program of the powerful British labor party as outlined to the International News Service today by Philip Snowden. M. P., one of the floor leaders of the Laborite (opposition) in the house of commons. Snowden, a lame, frail man, is one of the intellectuals among the labor leaders and he is expected to serve as chancellor of the exchequer if a labor government should come into power. "We are absolutely opposed to payment of indemnities, whether financial or in goods," continued Snowden. "Payment of huge finan-
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cial indemnity by Germany is impossible, while payment of goods would be fatal to British Industries and the general economic recovery in Europe. "If we are able to remove from Germany the overhanging fear that we intend to impose the collection of vast, unnamed amounts of indemnities, then we should immediately restore the inclination to work. Then we could take the first great step towards international trade recovery. "I do not think that the American commission of inquiry in Germany would lead to the discovery of any further facts than those already known. But I entirely sympathize with the general attitude of the United States towards Europe. It would be mine if I were an American. "I am not hopeful of the results of the Paris meeting next week. I do not believe that the British will be able to present any plan which the French will accept. Also, I am certain that British opinion would not countenance vast monetary payments by Germany to France which would immediately be used up in building additional armaments and which might be accompanied by further occupation of German soil by French troops.
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"One solution of the present crisis is that the United States take over the administration of Central Europe or that it should be left to the league of nations."
FARMER'S WIFE KILLED MARSHFIELD, Wis., Dec 29. Arrests were said to be near today as authorities continued the investigation of Mrs. James R. Chapman of this community who was killed by an infernal machine received through the mail Christmas. A former neighbor of the Chapman family was said to be under suspicion as a result of the investigation of postal authorities. An arrest will be made before night officials predicted The package, bearing the inscription "open on Christmas Day" was opened by Chapman in the presence of hie wife and grandson. Mrs. Chapman was killed, the husband's hand was blown to bits and the grandson thrown into hysterics. He still is unable to talk. Radio Boots
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That is the function of Advertising to create consumer demand and consumer preference. With this demand as a fact all selling plans have a chance to succeed. Without it they fail. The only chance for salesmanship to succeed without an existing demand is for salesmanship to assume the task that belongs to advertising the task of creating demand. If the present efforts that are being put into selling were amply supported by a corresponding effort to create consumer demand through Advertising, the business conditions of this country would be rapidly changed into an era of great prosperity in spite of Old World conditions and everything else. The proof of this is in the fact that right now, under these very conditions, the manufacturers who are putting proper emphasis on creating a demand for their product, as well as selling it, are doing a big business and are actually getting the high turnover that others are trying so strenuously to get through intensive selling.
The man under suspicion whose name is not revealed, is said to have been a bitter foe of a farm project favored and sponsored by Chapman.
DEPUTY CONSTABLE IS BOUND OVER Homer Saulters (colored), fomer deputy constable, well known colored political worker of Gary, whom it is alleged was in the employment of federal prohibition officers during their stay in Gary, was bound over to the criminal court by City Judge William Dunn this morning on a charge of impersonating an officer. The" bond was set at $500. A Mexican has invented a process for making paper pulp from the fiber of the various plants that grow in abundance all over Mexico. It is ascerted that the entire process from the crude plant to the perfect state for paper purposes is accomplished in twenty-four hours, and at a comparatively low cost.