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THE ALLIANCE HERALD. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1922
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TONIGHT, JANUARY 31
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PHOTOPLAY
Utile Miss Hawk Shaw
"Winners of the West'
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"THE MAN FROM LOST RIVER" I
A Powerful Story of the North
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RANDOM SHOTS
"I can hold my breath for two min
ute?," he brafTKetl to his jrirl. "You
lon't say," ghe cried in amazement,
"and it's so strong tonight, too'
Stolen.
TODAY'S BEST STORY.
Two negroes were lying behind a
packing case on the docks at Brest
taking the labor out of the alleprd
Labor Battalion. Said one boastfully:
"Boy, Ah comes f'um a tough breed.
Wah ole man done cut his nails wif a
ax an' brash his teef wif a file."
"Huh. ain't SO tnno-Vl. Xtsh nla man
am a plumber, an' twice a week he
wne snave nisseii wu a oiow torch.
SOCIETY DIPLOMACY.
(Denver Tost.)
A young matron here is devoted to
""twenty for twenty cigarettes." When
ever she draw3 out her little gold cig
arette case, by way of teasing her for
such low-brow taste, her friends snilr:
'Mercy! What a dreadful odor! What
is it 7 Ragweed or garlic? "
A short time ago, the matron re
turned home smokincr a very deli eh t
fully and highly scented weed. "What
a lucioui odorr they all cried as they
sat about the bridge table. "Adalaide,
where did you get it? And what kind
is it? lt'3 wonderful," they all cried
in one breath.
Which put them to silence.
"And what kind is it?"
"It's a Camille. The latest Egyp
tian brand. (Loftily.)
"A Camille? Wonderful? How
.romantic! May. we try one? Just a
imfT at one?"
"Here's where I 'fess up," laughed
the matron. "They're really "twenty
for twenties," but I grew so tired of
hearing you hisrh-brow them that I ve
housed them all with cologne and re-
.named them 'Cammes.
,j JOY TO THE WORLD.
Old Man Weeks: A Kansas philoso
pher opines that if hoopskirts come
back and cheek-to-cheek dancing con
tinues the world is going to brighten
up a whole lot for the masculine wall
flower. A NEW FEAST DAY
Mr. Callahan was discovered stand
ing before a window displaying a large
ign, "Nut Sundae' and was heard
muttering reflecti very:
"Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday,
Good Friday say, this is a new wan
on me."
The newest thing is golfing togs for
9ady players, and the minute the sea
son opens the Country Club links
should be as good as a musical comedy.
However, to a mere male, the suits
look a trifle warm for summer wear.
-Oh, well, furs are warm, too, but the
iear girls wear 'em.
' A garage in a Mississippi city was
robbed by bandits the other night ,and
loot amounting to $180,000, in cash and
securities, was secured. This is a case
for the grand jury. A garage has no
business to have that much money on
liand unless it is headquarters for a
bootleggers' trust.
That sort of a haul is just like find
ing f 10 in a print shop after the hands
are paid off.
LOYALTY I
(Ravenna New3)
Tdr. Roosevelt once pointed out that
the flabby internationalist who says,
'l love all countries as well as I do
my own," is just like the man who
says, "I love other men's wives as
much as my own." "America First,"
does not mean a disregard for others.
But what shall we say of the loyal
ty to his race of a Hebrew who wa.?
taken fatally ill with smallpox, and
sent for the priest because he didn't
want to pass the smallpox to the rab
bi? A companion to Vance Thompson's
'Eat and Grow Thin" man was dis
covered on a ship out of New York
for Cuba. The man, who appeared to
he in ill health, was looking forward to
the three-mile limit. He said his sys
tem needed beer. He had had enough
of Prohibition hootch.
"It nearly ruined me," he Faid. "AH
I need is a chance to drink and grow
sober."
It's pretty hard to get ahead of J.
Hyde Sweet of the Nebraska City
Press. The flopping galoshes have
made their appearance on Nebraska
City etreets, and J. Hyde suggests that
the vserf, in order to keep up with new
developments in style, allow their Bos
ton garters to slip down on their shoe
tops, An Omaha man was up in police
court, charged with drunkenness, but
lie declared that he supported his fam
ily, even when most intoxocated. The
family admitted that this was true. It
seems that when he got liquored up, he
also got obstreperous, and the entire
family had to sit on him to hold him
down.
The young man who boasted that
there were three brothers in his family,
and that none of them had even been
licked, is now forced to correct the
record.
Ray Ryason, the bachelor end of the
Bridgeport Herald, won't be invited
any more by the Bridgeport girls to
visit in the food annex not if they
have any such spirit as our Alliance
maidens. Listen here how Ray gives
his hostesses away in the last issue:
'You've probably oberved that most
Bridgeport girls eat like a canary
when there's company in the house.
But they make up for it when they get
to the kitchen."
The Railroad Column
(By W. S. CARTER, President
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen.)
Effects of Decrease In Railroad Traf
fic Upon Railroad Corporations
and Employes
In their strenuous efforts to main
tain existing passenger and freight
rates, in accordance with the transpor
tation act, the representatives of the
railroads have, at great length, com-
municated to the senate committee in
I formation as to the effect of the de
pression in business, beginning in Dec
ember, 1920, upon the profits of the
railroads. At no place, however, in
the pr'Kl proceedings of these hear
ings has been noticed any elTort on
the part of the representatives of the
railroad corporations to explain that
this great decrease in railroad busi
ness has already resulted in an enor
mous decrease in the aggregate wajres
paid to railroad employes. If the rail
roads would present tabular state
ments comparing the aggregate earn
ings of railroad employes in 1921 with
1920, it would show that the losses
sustained by the employes because of
such a depression in business have
been almost as great as the losses ac
cruing to the railroad corporations.
In their statistical exhibits great in
creases in wage costs are shown for
1920, when compared with preceding
years. These statements were intro
duced, no doubt, for the purpose of
convincing all that heard or read such
testimony, that labor was largely res
ponsible for the financial condition of
the railroads. If such railroad officials
would revise these tabular statements,
comparing the present year with the
preceding year, they would "prove
that the railroad employes' wages are
50 per cent lower at the present than
in 1920. The enormous labor costs of
1920 and the greatly decreased labor
costs of 1921 prove nothing except that
the volume of business and the extra
ordinary expenses of 1920 greatly ex
ceeded those of 1921.
Purpose of Railroads.
Evidently, it is the purpose of the
railroads to create the impression that
when business is greatly depressed, the
sole remedy i3 to reduce wages and
therefore prevent any effect of a de
pression in business falling upon the
railroad corporations.
If this theory is to be sustained, then
in any industry or merchantile enter
prise, there would be a constant change
in the compensation of employes from
month to month and from season to
season, as the business fluctuates. It
is a known fact that merchants usually
enjoy a heavy business during certain
months of the year and then, usually
after the holidays, there is a creat
depression in business. If the policy
of the railroads is to be accepted as
the proper one, the merchant Vho
probably had done a successful busi
ness all other months of the preced
ing year, would immediately reduce
the wage of his emplyoes during the
few months of depression in business
which usually follows the holiday
trade. In most industries, and in
mercantile undertakings, the business
i3 presumed to so adjust its income
and expenses that the surplus profits
of the busy months will tide over the
commercial undertakings during the
lean months. Whatever is the cause
of the inability of the railroads to meet
such situations, it is unfair to railway
employes to reduce wages simply be
cause there is a decrease in business.
The usual method of reducing the
expense of operation in most irwlm
tries, when business is depressed, is to
curtail the operations of the plant and
iay on large numbers or employes
when their services are not needed.
This has already been done by the
railroads and hundreds of thousands
of railway employes are out of work
entirely and to this extent the labor
costs of the railroads have been great
ly reduced. Not satisfied with this
method of deflating labor, the railroads
are insistent that those employes who
remain in the service must also' bo "de
flated" in order that the railroad cor
porations may not suffer during per
iods of depression.
Locomotive Fireman Out of Work.
It is believed, from information se
cured through a Fpecial investigation,
that for all the railroads in the United
States there were approximately 38,
000 locomotive firemen out of em
ployment on the first day of May,
1921. This would indicate that, so far
as locomotive firemen are concerned,
the depression in railroad business
resulted in the complete loss of earn-:
ing power of approximately one-half
in me nrrmrn wno were in service in
October, 1920. This also indicates that
to a great extent, the labor costs
which seem to have boon so burden
some in 1920 have already largely
eliminated without the necessity of re
ducing wages of those firemen who are
so fortunate as to yet remain in the
service.
It should be remembered that em
ployes in train and engine road service
are paid upon a "mileage basis," which
is, in etToct, nothing more or less than
a piere work system of payment,
which appears to have been strongly
advocated by some of the railronds.
Under this piece work system, or mile
age system of wage payments there
is a premium placed on excessive
hours of employment, or excessive
mileage, with the result that some
employes whose seniority in the ser
vice entitles them to preference of runs
and continuity of employment may ac
quire abnormally high earnings in a
montli or period of months.
Employes in the road service are
employed at a given rate per hundred
..- iur vmnsporung trains, ami the
profits accruing to railronds are ap
proximately the same during periods
of prosperity and of adversity. laving
succeeded in securing a reduction of
wages on July 1, 1921, and assuming
that there has been little decrease in
the tonnage of trains or of the number
of passengers carried in a train, it Is
conclusive that already the railroads
are earning a greater profit upon la
bor and services of such employes.
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Not content with wage reductions r
cently enforced, the railroads now in
wages of these road employes b
granted them by the United States
railroad labor board.
May railroad employes hope for Jus
tice from railroad corporations when
we remember that almost 300 years
ago Coke said of corporations: "They
cannot commit treason, nor be out
lawed, nor excommunicate, for they
have n souls."
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