Cedar Rapids Tribune (Newspaper) - November 17, 1916, Cedar Rapids, Iowa A Newspaper Without a Muzzle VOLUME XIV CEDAR RAPIDS l NOVEMBER 17 1916 MORRIS PLAN BANK LOANS GREAT AID TO TOILERS That now babies ate the greatest in lie world to run mnn in debt that illness starts that more rapidly than they can be cul down and that Cedar Rapids ar- honest upright that nre taking tage ot every opportunity to tetter themselves arc some ot the that the first week's operations of the PUBLIC WEARY OF XMAS TREE li -n a nn There will be no Christinas tree this year In Greene square Uie cil having wisely decided thai things more In tho way ot gifts OF SHORTER morly on show anil stand efforts Poverty stricken kids ft D V I h ill half endangered lives I I Jl I I while standing In the freezing H 1 LI 1 Ll fi II NUMBl'R 1 toads Suits in eral Court for In- Morris plan bank have developed When the Morris plan bank during the ceremonies perhaps more than full share ot and candy In all Christmas Ireo stuff was so badly played last car thai the pub He be cam o concensus of la the whole thing hould hack lo Frank Ward nil the workers In the Sunshine Mission who the needs of the have the daca as to heir places or resilience anil who are are really Interested in it was announced that the primary purpose of institution would bo to reach a claas of who are unable lo obtain money from other U has dune this more Incidentally It has shown just what the class ot who aro un- able to obtain money otherwise are what their fears and hopes are and their lives arc like It hns alFO shown juel how badly such an Is needed here It has shown that tho though quiescent for a long time la not yet entirely out of business Tickets Tell Story The bank keeps a tard Index which tells the whole story They contain the names of the prospective rower his occupation and n brief statement of the reasons for wanting the These last brief statements Wife il for New baby owes need complete Boa's lull ion To Improve To uay debts To nay To pay this Is about bow the yellow run The of the new plan brnik arc not exactly elaborate When the comes In ti borrow he Is not He doe not walk on a soft plush floor Am he meets a man In a majority know personally who inspires confidence and frank ness no lioy come the lei the I should say sail Harry And do you know that w bave not cs yet found a case where tbe facts been deliberately Visitor Advertiser I need the worst said one ol the men from a largo business lie then went Int -In de- tails and we found out there was lo be an addition In his family He had had lo pay the doctor a nurse buy medicine and employ a lo cook his meals A payment on his home fell due He didn't have any money and needed It badly and thought he needed it worse than ho did The visitor gave Information He save the names of two ot his fellow In three hours after he had been In the the loan committee met and proved his loan He received it and went out lie followed by a business man who conducts a I need said the visitor I need it badly I am not getting any of this war money and everybody else Is Times are hard im a little fellow T have got to keep slop Can you lend He gave good 1 and received his loan leaving the bank smiling and telling everyone he met what the Morris plan accumulation of Pratt said la no bar lo securing what a man It Is accumulation or debts that wo wish to relieve How ever when It is shown that a mar haa been a waster we proceed slowly U stands to reason that he will re peat the offense if ho has allows or En any form to drive him into straits nd minds that In The n Hill rL of a a Brady he Crystal Sunday for three lays lovers of tho best In the film will be thrilled with scene ot patriotic action upon UK Ife of Hale and taken from lly I Association Baltimore Nov with greater problems than over be- fore lu EU annual of the Pud tion of Is ihc ot the first week's the old well la control and the split along lines Whatever may have been the effect ot the position of the Brand old man of labor Iu the recent the sudden formation of the National Industrial board frank staling its tn opposition lo uplift legislation ant tho American Federation these lines has solidified the present to number of In- socialists under ship of Max Hayes and Vic Berger beautifully staged Is the story in brief of this wonderful Thursday and ending ith the Saturday night Manager Hewsky offers Life's Shadows BO complete scenes of Joys from Lie play of Clyde Fitch in of Gompers both for re election and tn behalf of his policies Differ Shorter Day by The at one time apparent victor if tho rail for a short T workday by legislative enactment and thn Indorsement o that position by Gompers is in the way of a come-back A tho Frisco convention tbe Federa tion leader was bitter In his oppo billon to a resolution Indorsed such measures and methods Pointing to the possibility of legislatures that could enact a len hour an well 03 an Com pers look tho broader view that th establishment of tho standard day could only rome throng direct negotiation upon tho trial crafis and Confronted today with a even a th rail mecs the wise leadership fall back Hio position an positive actual life as to furnish grip upon all patrons Nance in the Iron n ends this week's program ilay afternoon and evening ed houses greeted yesterday's DAN ROSS IS DEAD WAS A GOOD CITIZEN IX A I toss passed away warning Sunday at home on ond avenue west A few minutes fore lie was In his spirits commenting upon current events with his son Guy and others tUc family lie first complained t a numbness in his elbows quickly as si tig to a nd within an hour Mr toss was of sterling American Insists that i be made LIKE SHORT POLICE FORCE BUSY Tho Illinois Central PUBLIC AGHAST IS DEMANDING IS RELIEF FROM BY ROBBERY lth Mexico tit the suffered the privations and the rials thai go the building of owa He Inherited mill obtained environment a deep rooted ease of those that go o make for the higher Ideals In our life He had a rugged sense if devotion for the for com- nou principles of every day decency -in he was of the typo of ither days before fails and fancies and misinterpreted A few are they are passing Hence this tribute CHASE THIS BUNCH WITHOUT HESITATION If the city loses its case a gainE R A Cater peddler of Junk at nig prices plus a contract that calls for an assignment of the wage of all the bread winners la the fam is but little doubt but ho and Ills wrecking cre less pastures will hit fo f citizenship or the kind if We are afraid of said a high federation official What Is done by legislation can bo undone We want to put through nn eight-hour day principle direct negotiation with private employers through the force of organized Wo want to extend the day to all industries It is un- disputed Ii makes for efficiency A man can do more and belle r work in eight hours than ho can In a longer day At present the building ists boiler makers and other unions no standard day The 1 the petition 1C the law la upheld he railroad's lawyers assert they will immediately to the Court of Appeals aud the case will precedence there there unless taken to United Supreme Court will be final had pre- sot December 4 for hearing he petition of Jacob AI Dickinson receiver for the Rock Island Lines for permission to a similar tbe government AH the government's district neya In F E C Knolls of Springfield and Chart ra A Karch of tS Louis nrc defendants iu the Central action Several heads of trninmen's organizations also ore named Arguments are expected to last a week Sines Predicts Strike Xew Mov railroad again growing another meeting of officials the Hig Four brotherhoods and railway managers has been set for Sunday In Wash ington II may be held sooner A deadlock exists after the futile sessions held yesterday Thi employes threaten to strike unless tlie Adamson act goes into ef feel January 1 The railroads are righting the constitutionality Xo power on earth can prevent national strike if the Adamson law 1 hold declared G H yines vice-president of the Brother hood of Railway Tnf IMMORALITY OF WAR SPREADS TO UNITED STATES ment navy yards rk the men eight ho ura a day Wo are to try to obtain recognition of tho hour day In this trade and also In Of his every day acts and deeds In this trade and al ore la but little to Iron and steel Industrie ho uity well an an in days He was more leas prominent In work and as an In lodges Ho waa a conscientious and consistent Mason and an equally devout Methodist Ho and five sons lo mourn ils demise Dutch Doing Fine is Cleaning Up Old Shacks Tf there Is one particular thing for which tho present administration ou the Island should given credit it Is ils Indorsement of the policies of After finding hat he conld expect and support at part of the time In his crusade against the shacks Will One MS question Is the minds and conversation of the delegates Will the four rail appreciate their duty and their needs by seeking with the Either Monday or Tuesday Leo Carter and will ad- dress thn convention At least they will bo present and one of tho ber outline the brotherhood at- towards real American labor movement Never before has this element been represented or IL Is believed that Gompers and the secured some understanding will lead to affiliation In the near future Protection An for protection o-f ers prompted by dismissal tit 38 Chicago wna made to Women Greatest in History of World wave spread lo u Taylor noted Orker of said iu tiu a< Aurora this war la Europe has greal st wave of immorality tho world ha rer seen This flood tide was eve lo Ihls country Mr Taylo aid even bint at the being shown to women In Eu Mr said and this di is growing Jn Ihla country Thirty-six hours after the wa all the standards of iaU been broken America were taken off coaches at th of Munich and have held meeting declaring thai do vant their soldier sweethearts an back federation by souths ic that disgrace acres upon I representing tht that's no our or Teachers district he requesting dismantling orders Some of hit our muchly rich exponents hard this element being the proud possesses of a great deal of Ihi American Tho teachers federation presentee a resolution A K of to the vicious wide attempt to abridge the freedon of the eachor freedom of s class of property held only for organization and of o purposes the rentals merely I X Pittsburgh Pa ing ta chief is no of anything in our ist firo Central union Introduced condemning the plans 01 particular thai interferes with his Secretary of War Baker for forma duties as a of tion of military bodies tn public Judge as yel ired but it is evident Thes laical to go Tion He has played no favorites and schools Thuy the move as one- toward militarism The establishment anil ance by the federation In tion with other labor bodies of I of an international con results through council is the barn owned dy Ooo T Hedges in Uie rear of Second avenue a 1 affair In the very midst of trii-t Star of tho West Lodge K of T will vole at their meeting on ber 4 as the ol ing tax for the of n Pythian home There Is some op- position to tho project Next Tuesday evening 1s dale for the annual stag party and dinner The program announces new and novel no Con Is a Thousand Jackson Mich Nov Makers union has adopted n now scale of prices which calls for 50 a thousand on all work and for lucks royal and The new scale went into effect Monday last iich political by the work era as will bring lo attention of gov re present at of stich na lions the expediency of by diplomatic moans A R la la nail wee for South America His nates can handle tho pending rai trouble without his so ho says HEART STILL IN MOVEMENT SAYS HENKE Arthur W H which nt ti llh a prefix onal secretary of the and avy division af Ibe Y M C A ated In city ns a guest a sister that the organization had liable information to tbe effect that o situation had become Intolerable OBJ the administration standpoints of watchful ng or ot aaa is in victories for e bandit Villa whose forced are ing constantly by de- from the ol Xot ily is occurring dally but tin population that ia D LQ neutral ever fickle is flocking the support of Villa In ever numbers Slnst Get Villa Quickly As Villa ia thn nan who was re- for the murderous out- ages committed on this aide of order and ho ia as the eader of the clement which lis country must settle for past according to tbe information iou of the Y M C A ose illative the administration has that the has arrived real warfare before he forces of become so po ul thai it require several ears lo pain a decisive This gentleman let JBl Paso The picas dispatches of livening carry the news of the bore the marks of the gang who have been working in Waterloo windows being left open ia both Of courbe it Is too much to expect hat ran work tills tory uL night tho force being small that only scant i pro lection can bo given even This tn verified by the Kaplan and burglaries last evening A night watchman discovered the 50 glass window broken with a brick at Tho wact losses iu property is not Known But a to tbe between and Third avenues the same bunch at the same used the same methods on Ben Kaplan's windows getting away with a large amount of loot This was not discovered Mr Kaplan opened the store In the morning Mrs Kaplan heard the sound ot breaking glass about Looking out of the she saw an auto driving away and assumed a wind shield bad been broken Wo are going to a lot or Ibid stuff nulled this winter If the department Is not Increased to a size where a number men on night force can be to properly patrol the business dis- predicted art officer the uard Hashing of troops oC war It the alory given his as o con tern southern movement HELEN IN AGAIN WHILE FRIENDS MAKE GETAWAY Helen Snouffer alias Helen Is in again and is the possibility of being returned to cago and tho reformatory which she was paroled a month or so ago after being sentenced for one year because of the escapades which the public is familiar Helen acquired a beautiful javy load late Thursday evening tn tho course of her wanderings she kicked or broke out a window in a Bailor shop la fce Central block Later she was picked up In the by of the where BO she declared she was waiting for a professional man who Is her friend Tho cops forgot to bring In her companion Chief of Police was in- formed late to Jay that the Illinois Authorities would arrive shortly and return her to that state The case of this young and beautiful ia pathetically pitiful and thaw who know the circumstances overlook faults FIRE FIGHTERS MAKE PROGRESS IOWA IS IN LEAD By Chemical is lovely with tho City association We have been organized five months and prospects for the future are grnt Organizing and de- with tae A b is a new movement only sixteen being organized In United wilti sU of her largest lies Moines Sioux City Bluffs dar Mars hull town The rest are well distributed over remainder of the country sylvania Montana Colorado Arkan sas and Illinois being represented distribution as above and many departments having ious not affiliated it should be an easy matter to line them up from a or international and then us grow A Peculiar Condition Our biggest obstacle locally is a meeting place There are hardly enough men off on one day to form a quorum ao tho only we have eft IB to meet at one of tbe stations and hare the men attend while on duty But we will get by some way or the lime being and lank forward o something better which is bound to come In time Along with the much talked of ear nide slops for street cars our city is soon to take on another air Jn the near future the Bremen will be equipped with mets to warU off brick we are all waiting anxiously to SOD Louie Krout wearing his Tied is to taTte trip to Davenporl Monday to visit relatives ind no doubt the other side of the iver is getting well acquainted hfe car at 4 ami can go With the excitement caused by tho a thing of the past the of all citizens is once more prices of the are the wage confronted with the problem of making a full pay the ex- penses but tho maa certain standards ot living and ao method or manner of Increasing his income has met with a task just us difficult and perhaps moru rassing The city authorities were ed from participating in tbe com- munity merchandising business with potatoes as tbe experiment la retailing by City Solicitor Owen liott who easily found a legal way of preventing any move that would tend to lighten He burdens ol tbe purchasing public That euch methods had pursued fully In other cities made no ence to the man employed lo legal riddles one knows and no one authority appears to care as to the causes ol present prices in this city II Is rumored thai all lines of i aro 20 to 50 per cent per Iu Ibe small towns In Lino ity That prices -n villages on tho three the city are far lower and that tbo ping rales could possibly be tbe cause of the difference In Chicago the city council and Cook county authorities bane tar ted a rigid Investigation ami the federal authorities hive joined with them Already it has discovered tbat atio are for Yet produce prices lower than in Cedar Few Fines Will Protection There is talk at the city halt of establishing some form of safelj zone with posts aod chains to In the successful operation of the stop plan In the loop dis In the opinion of Mr this would but add to the lit without half trying what Brother id tho Hi We loins now too hard to pitch horse shoes Wo d on I Bf e No 6 at Centra often enough to know whet is doing ut there Xo 3 station has a couple of coats of paint Perhaps the coo breezes from Cedar will find few less cracks to tho seem lo exactly fit he Is merely distinctive char act eristic of the modern minister is successful 13 from La Porto City where he la enshrined or entombed for another My interest in tho labor nc is unabated ami I hope hat Gome In tho near future I can make my influence felt with thn fellows who are putting up he says among other things some highly complimentary to this newspaper mo to tbo men of Federation I am going in which he is I up there will not have In Perhaps one per cent of the stove FO this winter heedlessly drive by cars receiving Cap uolan and his crew are and passengers A few fine and according to ly copa stationed conveniently and Johnnie should know f ing the nnh hours conld pick iip tho offenders Judge nd add about and the safely zone theory bo ly established once and for all in n manner highly profitable to street railway patrons and the city sury Editor's Thursday Delegate representing the Iowa ation of a lution at before tho A of Ji convention requesting tbe for- ation of nn International Rapids In many Without any blow or blunter tho one dealer in Cedar Rapids 13 selling good a bushel delivered is Philip of the Boston store And he's selling em at the about 100 bushels per Jay content o take a very small margin of profit In last two or weeVs n radically every commodity which enters Into tho dally of faro has taken several lumps toward the azure blue It would seed that prices for Ibe necessities of life had cached there must bo a and a cor- ding adjustment of waxes to tho requirements of tho butcher baker and grocar It Is that several largo employers of labor Including tho Rock Island road are Increases for employes but even with such increases there is something wrong rith the economic system when are retailing at a bushel and flour IB hopping gaily along ward a mark of a Back Toots Uko A Frame-up a there a conspiracy among com- men and cold storage plants In tbe big centers to tho market on certain foods tuffs End thus Increase the cost of An investigation begun by federal agents in Chicago this week there la some ground for fiuch have been sent out to atl grocers lu Chicago ing tho boosting ot prices la ance with tho present market These dealers are being told and urged to take down the big profits they are entitled to on goods chased when tbo market or buying price low Coal too is going up and some local dealers declare their supply firms have all future quotations Local bakers admit they are compelled to evil down the of their loaves rather than raise the prices to seven or eight cents por loaf They hesitate to load up very heavily on Hour hoping it will be- gin to go down before long in the history of the baking business they say has flour been so high all over thn pre- for While it never and we've had many a bant in this land of fren ami tV ion of City Firemen be referred to the executive council after adjournment venders now I Judge Landis Fines paring to nsk President Wilson to place an embargo on wheat s It lo drop in sonio Thursday out that spuds must go to for n old-fashioned visit or more because according to the Was It O Ii Hastings representing Two More Railroads eastern corporation commit led of by permitting excuse factory rumor tons tons Avero frozen on tracks and a during Lho recent cold snap returned to his chambers In dealers should hazard tho Chicago Nov 17 Federal cide going by tho gas route case was Lovo for his wife who had forsaken him was tho cause assigned in a ho left written on tho back of an containing I her final of his fort another Hastings the police an once before to bring him buck to life At that lime his condition was said to be due to dope Ho was 45 yuara of age of i to stand EK cars when ample warning waa given of the drop In temperature is not Honor IMS Mr The successful candidates o county ticket gave a but orate in honor of thn man who steered their craft so steadily Guy r chairman of the local committee Several pleading personality ia survived laudatory to the retiring by a daughter and a son county attorney were made Is claimed is being shipped large quantities lo foreign countries Enough iV shortage in freight is given as another prime reason why prices J on for Instance tre so high In this vicinity Local men say If they could get shipments through that plenty of excellent are to be had at prices in Colorado Idaho and other wee tern stales Grupo of the who lately re turn oil from says there Is plenty of fine potatoes In that stale but that the Federal building long enough yesterday to assess fines against two more railroads lie ordered Grand Trunk Western to pay farmers aro burying them In pita ami costs on each of eight charges i walling for n further advance In thai they worked employees price The utter lack of freight cars ami ordered a like fine on each is perhaps tho feature of fho of two similar charges against tho Illinois Central Total Ho lined six railroads more than 000 Saturday and then said he was going away for three weeks Out he remembered two today and so returned to chambers for two situation in Mr opinion The fact that moat of tho Colorado and Idaho farmers are unusually prosperous just now makes the in In- dependent and many of them aro going to hold their potato crop until spring In the hope that prices will bo far greater than they are now
