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FAIR.
VOLUME XX—NO. 332
UNIONS HAVE FUND
OF INSUFFICIENT
AMOUNT LAST LON 6
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Tis is Opinion of John Grunau,
Head of Big Outlaw
f Union.
BROTHERHOODS BROKE HIS
WHICH WAS CALLED INf 1920.
Has Issued Circular to His Mem
bers, But in Meantime, is of
pinion That There Will be no
Walkout.—Thousands of Our
Members Walking the Street
• While Their Families are Suf
-1 fering. M
Chicago, Oct. 17.—The railroad
brotherhoods have a strike fund of
12,000,000, which is insufficient fdr a
general strike of any length, jQhn
Grunau, president of the United Asso
ciation of Railway (Employees of
North America and leader of the un
authorised switchmen’s strike last
year, declared today.
Outlines Position.
Grunau has issued a circular to the
80,000 members of his organization
outlining the association’s position in
event of a strike, but declaring that
he does not believe there will be n
walkout. He pointed out that the
brotherhood leaders have weakened
their own ranks by circulating report*
that members of his organization will
step in as strikebreakers in revenge
for the efforts of thei old organizations
to break the Grunau strike In April,
1920. Grunau denied any such inten
tlon.
Broke "Outlaw" Strike.
"There are thousands of bur mem
ber walking the streets today while
their families suffer, ’’ the circular
say#. "Why? Because when wo wen
on strike in 1920 for *1685 days the
recognized brotherhood leaders estab
Jbthed #trlke breaking and scab herd
ink agencies In all terminals affected
by our movement, causing our de
feat.”
The circular concluded with the
ironical statement;
“The so-called 'outlaws' will not ex
pel any of their members for partici
pating in a strike, whether peered
by their leaders or by another organ
isation. Neither will they revoke the
charter of any local that goes on rec
ord to participate in a strike, and
most positively this association will
pot establish strike breaking or scab
herding agencies as was done by the
famous- brotherhoods while the mem
her* of our association were on vara
tlon last year."
Grunau said his union has 216 lo*
ekl# In the United States and Canada.
Under the name of the Chicago Yard
men’s Association ha v called a strike
In 4920 that, for a time, threatened
tp paralyze the, nation’s transporta
tkm facilities. - * •
Two labor organisations outside the
sixteen standard bodies, Announced
that no strike votes had been taken
O. J. Luhrsen. president of the Amer
ican Train Dispatchers’ Association,
which claims a membership of 98 per
cant of the country’s train dispatch
er*. said hla organixatlon was going
to ’’keep Its skirts dear.”
'The Toledo convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Rallr>ad Workers,
an organisation claiming 50.000 mem*
berfs. will decide the strike question
frr that body, when the convention
opens tomorrow At headquarters
here. It was said no strike vote had
been taken. Umkpr the by laws, the
convention ha* full power to act.
fROM WYOMING’S CAPTAL
TO FLORIDA BY AUTOMOBILE
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Mr. and Mrm. Chariea D. Reaiar.'Wf
Cheyenne, Were Among TpuHUti
Mere YeUrd|r,
— * * wt<f *
from Cheyenbe, Wyomtng. to Mi
•mi. Fla.. Ia twoity good Jump by
automobile b fhM 1 l# the trip Chi*
D, Re*l<*r •tut hM fMFtty of wife and
three children ire making and they
•U •oom to bo ehjoytng themselves
•n| loti acme interesting experience#
they boro bod along lb# rood The
quart** during lb# latter port
of Auu*t ood. boring o nice eatnpin*;
outfit along. they stopped ot several
places for thro# ond for day* ot o
tint#
Mr. Rosier own* eevoral Ashing
boot* ot Mtomt ond to going tbor# to
uko rbotgd of tb# af hi*
Mttkn o* bio *o. wbo boo boon
tboro for wtml tnontbo to In ill
booitb ond will go Colorado In
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
INVESTIGATION OF
KU KLUX KLAN BLEW
AT LAST HEARING
Ten Minutes Session Behind]
Closed Doors and All*
Was Over.
REPRESENTATIVE UPSHAW
IS TOLD TO “SIT DOWN.”
Considered by Members of the
Committee That as Far as It
is Concerned Klan Will Not
• Be Molested Unless Depart
ment of Justice Succeeds in
Securing Evidence of Damag
ing Nature.
(By Associ&ted Press.)
Washington, Oct. 17. —The proposed
investigation of the Ku Klux Klan
by congress "blew” today after a ten
minute session behind closed doors
by the house rules committee, which
at the morning session put W. J. Sim
mons, imperial wizard, through a i ’g
id examination and voted unanimous
ly not to call any more witnesses cer
tainly at'this time.
Announcement of this action was
made by Chairman Campbell and
while the chairman and members re
fused to comment beyond the bare
statement regarding witnesses, it i?
expected that an adverse report will
be submitted to the bouse on a num
ber of resolutions providing for the
investigation. Final action, however,
will not be taken until several absent
members return to Washington, but
the house members accepted it as
settled that they are done with the
Klan unless the department of Jus
tien comes forward with unexpected
testimony.
A sharp , clash between Simmons
and Chairman Campbell, of the house
rule* committee, marked the reopen
ing today of the wizard’s examination.
Wizard Simmons declared that As
sistant Attorney General Crime re
marked at the time of his physical col
lapse last week, "damn such faking.
I have been expecting it all along.’’
Wizard Simmons also said he was
told that Crime and Chairman Camp
bell had said “It was cheap theatri
cals. Intended to create sympathy.”
Chairman Campbell tapped on the
table and said:
"If the rest of your statement is
as false as its reference to me, it Is
utterly without foundation. T made
no such statement."
Representative Upshaw, of Geor
gia, attempted to speak bat was or
dered to sit down.
Wizard Simmons today launched in
to an attack on the New York World.
Everybody grinned when he declared
the World was preparing to have one
of Its representatives tarred ?ml
feathered in an effort to make it ap
pear that the crime was the work of
t,he Ku Klux Klan
SENATOR MILLER
INJURED BY AUTO
Representative in Uppfcr House
From Tennessee Was Hit by
Car While on His Way to Cap
ital Yesterday Morning.—Not
Seriously Injured.
Washington. Oct. 17. —Senator Me-
Kellar. of Tennessee. was knocked
down and run over by an automobile
today* white crossing Pennsylvania
avenue in front of the White House.
He received cgtg about the face, and
bruise*. mW of which, were serious.
Presence of mind probably saved
the Tennessee senator from more ser
lotus Injury, as when he saw the auto
mobile bearing down upon him he
dropped pavement and thereby
the full impact of the machine was
averted.
The senator was taken into a near
by bank and after examination ot in
juries it was fold tt would not be
necessary for him to be taken to a
hospital. He was on his way to the
eanilo! when the accident occurred.
hope that he will be benefltted
‘This K flue weather, do you hare
it often?** Mr. Resier asked a New*
man, and when informed that this
wa* an average day. he seemed sur
prised. saying It t* Just about as good
as Florida Mfara,
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER QF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When Ex-President
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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Left to right, the members of the supreme court are: Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices McKenna,
Holmes, Day, Mcßeynolds, Van Dcvanter, Pitney, Cl arke and Brandeis.
Trading through the rain to and House to he sworn in as chief justice pacities. He Is shown above in front
from the street car, William Howard of the United State* supreme court— of the House, after he had been
_ sworn in, with the other eight raem
aft* former president of the U. S., the first man to have the honor of bers of the highest tribunal of te land.
recently journeyed to the White serving his country in these two ca- Taft was” appointed last summer.
LAST CALL TODAY
FOR MOTORCADE
Itinerary Has Been Changed
and It Will Suit Everybody.—
Chairman Miller Must Have
Names of All Who Intend Go
ing at Once, or Trip is Off.
Today will settle the fate of the
motorcade to Florida and unless Con
stant Miller hears something definite
from those who have said they intend
to make the trip, it, will be tilled off.
The motorcade has been*endorsed
by both the Board of Trade and the
Young Men’s Club and by the county
commissioners, city commissioners
and various Brunswickians and it will
be a 'bad idea to let it drop at this
Jatei day. The city commissioners
have named Manager Oramllng and
Commissioner Andrew* to represent
the hoard w-hile from the county com
missioners will be Clerk A. O. Town
send and Supt. Higginbotham.
The Corrected Itinerary.
Here Is the corrected Itinerary:
Leave this city next Monday morning
at 7 o'clock, arrive Jacksonville at
noon, leave Jacksonville * o’clock in
the afternoon, arrive at St. Augustine
at R. spending the night there, leaving
he Ancient City the following morn
ing for Hastings, where a stop of 15
minute* will be made, then on to
Daytona where a short stop will *)*<>
he made arriving at DeLand t p. m.
for Innoh. A side trip will he made
from this point to Deljind Springs,
which bubbles a million gallons of
water an hour and a vllst to Spring
Garden ranch also. Here the mem
bers of the party will be the guests of
the DeTand Commercial Club, spend
ing the night there, leave DeLand on
the 25th. for Orlando, via Sanford,
jvne hour stop at Sanford, leaving Or
lando at 2 o'clock, arriving at Tam
pa at R. leave Tampa 11 a. m.. arrive
i Lakeland for dinner, leave lakeland
at 1 o’clock for Klsalmmee and after
118 minute* leave for Orlando. Pel4md
cla A pooka. Mt Dora. Rustls and Al*
! ton. arriving at DeLand R o’clock for
sunper. Guests of the Commercial
club Leave DeLand at 9a.m. of the
18th for West Palm Beach, via New
Smyrna, Cocoa and Ft. Pierce, leave
; Palm seach for Miami at * a, tn..
snepdlng the dav at Miami and Miami
Beach, returning to West Palm Beach
j tn time for dinner at 6 o'clock leaving
West Palm Beach on ’the morning of
,the 3(Rh for Davtona and leaving af-
Sunday for Jnckaonvilla,
stjefLflln* Sunday night In Jackson
,v{lle and reaching Brunswick Monday,
BOX SUPPER FOR TONIGHT
ON AT COMMUNITY SCHOOL
One of the moet Interesting and
pleasant affairs to be held in some
time Is the Box Supper*- to be given
at the Community school tonight be
ginning at $ o'clock.
An inritatloa is extended to th#
public and from indications this af
fair will be both interesting and en
joyable
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCT. 18, 1921.
RAILROAD SHARES
SHOOTING DOWNWARD.
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(By lAssoeiated Press.)
New York, Oct. ,17. —Railroad
shares were sharply depressed
on the stock market today,
i Heavy celling resulted, from,
the prospects of a country-wide
strike.
DIG STRIKE WILL
NOT AFFftfT AIM,
A • p
This Road of More Than Six
Hundred Miles is Operated
Exclusively by Non-union La
bor, Consequently Its Opera
tion Will Not be Hindered.
The Atlanta. Birmingham A At
lantic With nearly seven hundred
miles of trackage, will not In arty
way. as operating la concerned, be
affected by the proposed strike as
t|ji road is non-union in all depart
ments. and. therefore will continue
In the even tenor of Its way. with
probably Increased business all along
Its line.
Col. B. L. Bugg, receiver, now doing
the duties of president and general
manager. Is out in a statement tell
ing the pnblic that the strike will not
Interfere with the road. It Is stated
that scores who seek
with the road almost dally are on the
waiting list and the force could be
doubled, ’officials stale. *
Recently the road has inaugurated
its former schedule and reports busi
ness as Increasing daily In both pas
senger and freight departments.
MOTOR TRUCKS IN
CASE 816 STRIKE
Fifty-seven Thousand Will be
Put on the Job in New York
the Minute Railroad Trains
Discontinue Their Opera
tion. ,
New York. Oct. 17 —A fleet 0f&7,-
000 motor trucks, or as many of them
as are found necessary, will be -tnobil
i*ed In tbe event of a protracted gen
eral railroad strika to bring. New
York Its daily quota of 1..100 carloads
ofl foodstuffs. Health CommlsMoner
Copeland announced today.
There are adequate supplies In stor
age. he said, to ration the city through
a rail tie-up of three weeks, but im
portation of milk by tracks would
have to begin at once.
A SUCCESSOR TO SENATOR
KNOX NAMED BY SPROUI
(By Associated Preas.i
Philadelphia. Oct. 17.—Coventor
Sprout today announced the appoint-
PUNISHMENT OF BOY
WAS JUSTIFIABLE
Mrs. Eylau Anderson is Exhon
orated by School Officials.—
Waives Justice Hearing and
Warrant is Issued For Con
stable Huff.
There were several developments
yesterday following the Issuing of a
warrant for assault and battery
against Miss Eylau Anderson, princi
pal of Purvis school on an affidavit
made by Mrs. J. R. Knight mother of
a lad who had been punished for gross
di obedience by the principal. • The
school authorities Investigated the so
called inhuman punishment and ex
it on orated Miss Anderson and, acting
for her. waived a Justice court hear
Ing. which takes the matter to the
city court of Brunswick.
Gross disobedience of the boy. who
had struck another pupil with a rock
during recess caused this punishment
He was called by the principal and it
is*' stated, was impertinent to ex
treme. So much so that he attempt
ed to leave th@ school before the
teacher could even have a chance to
Investigate the fight. Miss Anderson
took a couple of small switches from
the desk of the teacher of the grade
in which the young Knight was a* l
member and proceeded to chastise
him. The lad had on a thin Jacket,
and there may have been a mark or
two but. It Is staled positively that
the punishment was not of a severe
nature. SupL Oryden Investigated
the so-called unusual punishment, and
the members of the Board ot Educa
tion, as well as Mr. Dryden, held that
discipline demanded that the Knight*
hoy be punished.
Warrant For Arresting Officar.
Late In the afternoon. Sipt. Dry
den, after a consultation with Solici
tor Scarlett, of the city corfrt, swore
out a warrant again*! J. E. Huff, con
stable at Judge Beach’s court, ebarg
Ing him with lnterferrlng with school
and his bond was a*****d at I so ®
by the Solicitor. This‘ will be placed
In the hands of Sheriff Pyle* this
morning and will also go to the city
court
Officer Huff* Statement
Constable Huff mad? a statement to
The News last night In which he satd:
**l am being prosecuted for doing m j
duty. After the warrant was sworn
out for Iftse Anderson and ptaped in
my hands I handled tt in inch a way
that I thought would not embarrass
her. not even requiring a bond' when
the warrant was executed Saturday
but notifying her to appear court
Monday afternoon 3 o'clock. - Yester
day afternoon I went .to the school
and asked her for s bond and |he at
titude of the teacher was anything hut
pleasant. She refused to sign a bond
©Ten after I had Informed her that
I would take It to any .person desired
and get It signed. I returned to my
office and rtater Co\. Mark Wilcox
came there with the bond signed,
which was readily accepted."
ment of State Senator William K
Crow as United States Senator o
succeed the lato Senator Philander
C. Knox
Board of Education
Now Taking a Vote
As to School Hours
PREPARATIONS OF
WATCHFUL NATURE
PART GOVERNMENT
Postmaster General Hays Says
Strike or No Strike the
Mails Will Move.
NO STATEMENT FROM fHE
f WHITE HOUSE LAST NIGHT
Stone Says Government Can
Prevent Strike by Taking Ov
er Roads.—Officials of Rail
roads Assert Strike is Plan
ned in Order to Annul the Act
Which Created Railroad La
bor Board.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. Oct. 17.—'Reports em
bodying the result of conferences be
tween the public group of the Railway
Labor Board and the Interstate Com
merce Commission on the threatened
railroad strike were laid before Pres
ident Harding today.
Text of the report is not made pub-j
lie but Chairman McCord, of the
commission, announces the confer
ence has concluded and said anything
regarding the report must come from
the President at the White House. No
statement was issued on the strike
tonight.
The atfitude of whtehful prepara
tions characterized other government
al agencies, the heads of which are
studying the statement of Postmast
er General Hays that the mails would
move right along during the strike.
STONE SAYS GOVERNMENT
MUST TAKE OVER ROADB.
(By Associated press.)
Cleveland. Oct. 17. —The progres
sive railroad strike scheduled to start
Octoher 30, can be settled by the rail
roads or prevented by the government
by taking over the roads, Warren -S.
Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood
of Railway Engineers, said tonight
when asked his opinion.
The situation, Stone added. Ig that
the government will take over the
roads.
'WALKOUT IS A STRIKE
AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
Chicago, Oct. 17.*—Presidents of the
middle western railroads In a Joint
statement tonight turned down as
"impossible’! the*proposal of the pub
lic group of the Railroad Labor Board
that the freight rates be,reduced im
mediately as a possible means of
averting a genera] rail strike and '
charged the walkout would be a
"strike against the government, called
by the unions for the purpose of nul
lifying the transportation act creat
ing the Labor Board."
MR. AND MRS. C. W. HARPER
BACK FROM FLORIDA TOUR.
George W. Harper. accompanied, by
Mr*. Harper, reached the city In their
car yesterday after six month* *pent
in Florida, oovprlng the greater part
of the state and It may be said that
the trip ha* proved beneficial .to both
as their avoirdupois makes this fact
clearly evident. ,
Mr. and Mr*. Harper spent several
week* in Orlando, where they pur
chased a beautiful home, kept (t for, a
short time, and were offered Just don
hie what they paid for it and. being
a quick trader, Mr. Harper let If go.
**l am back here to stay. Talk about
other places, but Brunswick for me."
he said, and Mrs. Harper shared his
opinion. It Is likely that Mr. Harper
will again enter business here, hut
Ju*t wbat character he did not state.
The entire city welcomes them.
TO TRY PREACHER FOR MURDER
Birmingham. Ala., Oct. 17. —The Ju
ry has been secured for the trial of
Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson for the
killing, of Father J, E. Coyle, a Cath
olic priest because he married his
daughter to a Roman Ctahodic
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PRICE FIV. . , SNTS
SENT PARENTS OF
ALL THE CHILDREN
A Little Slip on Which Answer
is to be Made is
Enclosed.
WILL GET SENTMIENT OF
ALL INTERESTED PARTIES
Letters Were Given Each Pupil
With Request That They
Have One of Little Slips Sign
ed and Return to Respective
School as Soon as Possible,-
After Canvassing Returns
Action Will be Taken.
In the desire to ascertain exactly
how parents and guardians ot the chil
dren of the public schools feel about
the* sessions matter, the Bo jrd of Ed
ucation yesterday gave out a circu
lar letter to each pupil to take homo.
An extra slip was enclosed with the
letter for a vote. On this Is: “'i favor
opening school at 8:30 a. m., and clos
ing 2:30 p. m.. with 20 minutes lunch
recess.” Below this: “I favo:* opening
school 8:30 a. m., and closing at 3:30
p. m., with one hour and twenty min
utes dinner period.”
The letter, which is addressed to
parents and guardians is as follows:
With reference to the to
1 hiingc th 4 present :wo-so>-sio , pi**
of the city schools to a one-session
plan, the Board of Bdneation regrets
that it is impossible to provide a sche
dule closing at 2 o’clock In the after
noon.
This closing hour would not give
time enough to do the work that mud
be done.
Without going Into all of the de
tails, we take the High School as an
Illustration, Out of the thirty pupils
graduated last June, eighteen ara
away at college, and two others ara
ready to go. In order that the gradu
ating pupils may be admitted Into
the colleges, It Is absolutely neces
sary that our school continue to ba
rated as an accredited high school of
Group I. Such an aecrel’ted high
school must have period* of not less
than forty minutes each of actual
teaching time besides covering all of
the subjects prescribed. We now
have forty-five minute periods. With
our present available faci! ties, we
are compelled to have at leant seven
teaching periods. We are willing to
try reducing these to forty two min
utes, which will allow only two min
utes for change ofclasset. Beyond
that we cannot go and msiatsin an
accredited high school; ard we will
not consider giving up that standard.
The tendency In edncat<>cal mat
iters is to lengthen the school d,ay.
You will recall that our ache.*!* d's
mlssed last term at 3: SO, while this
year the time wig lengthened to i JQ
o'clock. Thf* extension cf lime was
due to two mandatory act* of
the Georgia Legislature requiring
thirty minute* each day to physical
exercise under supervision, and tha
reading of one chapter from the Bl*
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It will be seen, therefore, that flva
hours and forty minute* must be con
sumed In carrying on the work; aid
this limited time ts providing for 47-
minute periods hasten I,mf lha 45 mbi*
utes as at present. ' |*
With these facta before you, !n ylewr
of the proponed change. It put*
pose of the Board of Education to
leave to you between what periods
of the day -these five hours and forty
minute* shall be apent in the school
room. .
If you so desire the school* will
open at 8:30 as at present and cloaa
at 2:30. This will permit a twenty
minute hunch, rece** near the nocn
bour> In the Grammar grades it wR!
also permit a short additional recess.
Or. the schools will open a tha
same hour and dismiss at Btß#, which
will allow for an boor and twenty
minute* for dinner.
The Board ha* not bow. and did not
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