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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
** Daylight” Underground 
700,000 miners do their work by the light of 
carbide gas lamps—demand and depend ab¬ 
solutely upon its steady unfailing brilliancy. 
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all kinds of tunnels, subways and other great 
construction works where dark hours cannot 
be tolerated. 
A quarter of a million farm homes owe their 
bright and modern cheerfulness to carbide 
gas lighting and cooking—the Panama 
Canal, lighthouses, buoys, hospitals, schools, 
and churches everywhere are conveniently 
and economically lighted the same efficient 
way. 
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factories and railroads, speeding and cheap¬ 
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lions of dollars daily in material and time. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The National Socialist 
party in a declaration of principles 
adopted at Chicago Sept. 4 unqualifiedly 
indorsed the Soviet Republic of Russia 
and the international Socialist movement 
and condemned the League of Nations. 
Despite the plea of Rose Pastor Stokes, 
the communist party has put into its 
platform a provision that no one receiv¬ 
ing money from rent, interest or “profit” 
may belong. Not only Mrs. Stokes, but 
William Bross Lloyd, who signed the ap¬ 
peal bonds which released a number of 
convicted I. W. W. members from Leaven¬ 
worth penitentiary recently, is barred 
from fellowship. The communist party 
members, radical Socialists, who left the 
National Socialist convention, to organize 
along more “pronounced” lines, also de¬ 
cided that physicians, lawyers and editors 
may have no part, in the “coming revo¬ 
lution.” The communist labor party, an¬ 
other offshoot, plans propaganda for _ a 
“new republic” based on that of Russia, 
with the shop and factory as the all-im¬ 
portant unit. 
Efforts to determine whether the Gov¬ 
ernment is not liable for damages as a 
result of losses sustained by independent 
Pennsylvania anthracite operators through 
the Fuel 'Administration will center in n 
test ease filed in the United States Court, 
of Claims, according to the announcement, 
made by the anthracite bureau of Phila¬ 
delphia. The Fuel Administration’s price 
fixing necessitated operation of the com¬ 
plainants’ mines at so great a loss that 
the suit against the Government seeks to 
recover damages sufficient to recompense 
the operators. It is based on the conten¬ 
tion that the Government is liable under 
the Lever act, which authorized the Fuel 
Administration. 
The total number of deaths in the re¬ 
cent race riots at Chicago was brought 
to 38 Sept. 5 when Samuel Barnett, col¬ 
ored. died of wounds he received in a riot 
fight. Evidence that white men were the 
aggressors in the recent race riot dis¬ 
turbances there resulted Sept. 5 in the 
special Coroner’s Jury appointed to in¬ 
vestigate riot deaths recommending the 
release of two negroes in police custody. 
The negroes were held in connection with 
the death of Joseph Powers, who is said 
to have been in a mob of 15 white men 
who attacked the negroes. 
Representatives of 10 unions of stock- 
yard employees at Chicago submitted 
Sept. 5 to Federal Judge Samuel Al- 
schuler, arbitrator, demands for wage in¬ 
creases ranging from 25 to 50 per cent 
over the scale awarded Feb. 15, 1010. 
The Minnesota Legislature has ratified 
the Federal woman suffrage amendment. 
The vote in the House was 120 to 6. The 
Senate ratified the amendment 00 to 5. 
Five strikers were killed and 15 
wounded Sept. 0 at Hammond, Ind., in a 
battle between 1.000 former employees of 
the Standard Steel Car Company and the 
police. Two months ago 2.000 workmen 
at the plant, went on a strike for increased 
wages and improved working conditions. 
Five weeks ago there was a riot between 
strikers and the police, in which a number 
of persons were injured, and as a result 
of this outbreak Governor Goodrich sent 
a regiment of the Indiana State militia 
to Hammond to restore order. The troops 
were withdrawn about two weeks ago. 
Two hundred strikers returned to work, 
and this caused considerable bad feeling 
among the men who refused to return. 
A series of explosions from a combina¬ 
tion of sewer gas and gasolene fumes 
directly at the crossing under the elevated 
track at Forty-second Street and Third 
Avenue, New York. Sept. 0. sent manhole 
covers soaring, smashed windows in the 
tall buildings surrounding that section 
and caused the injury of about GO persons 
hy flying glass. The manhole covers from 
Fortieth and Third Avenue north to For¬ 
ty-sixth Street, and from Lexington Ave¬ 
nue to Second Avenue, east and west, 
were blown off. The explosion occurred 
in a new sewer connection that was being 
built. The damage was estimated at 
about $50,000. About 17 stores were 
damaged. 
September 9 the entire police force of 
Boston went out on strike to enforce re¬ 
cognition of their union. Sept. 10 the 
whole city was in a state of riot and dis¬ 
order, criminals and hoodlums looting 
stores and houses, robbing and assaulting 
men and women, and inducing in public 
debauchery. State Guardsmen opened 
fire on a mol) in South Boston, killing 
one and wounding several others. The 
firemen and electrical workers threatened 
striking also. 
A tornado of great intensity Sept. 10 
almost demolished Goulds, a town of 500 
inhabitants, 22 miles south of Miami, Fla. 
Ten persons were reported injured. Only 
two houses remain standing. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Findings of 
the Federal Trade Commission in its in¬ 
vestigation of the meat packing industry 
“were directed and controlled, not only in 
the investigation itself, but in the recom¬ 
mendations of the commission” for regu¬ 
lation as embodied in the Kenyon and 
Kendrick bills, Dr. J. M. Wilson, presi¬ 
dent of the Wyepiin' \Vool Growers’ As- 
sosiation, charged in a statement filed 
Sept. 10 with th“' crate Agriculture Com¬ 
mittee. The controlling influence. Dr. 
Wilson’s statement added, was exercised 
“by a small number of men” in the Amer¬ 
ican National Livestock Association, 
September 20. 1010 
chiefly in the association’s market com¬ 
mittee. “I have been a member of the 
executive committee of the association for 
several years, and did not approve this 
plan,” Dr. Wilson said. Dr. Wilson 
quoted at some length from the proceed¬ 
ings of three recent conventions of the 
livestock association, and said that con¬ 
siderable sums of money bad been raised 
and spent in propaganda to bring about 
such an investigation. 
Responding to the request, of the Tan¬ 
ners’ Council, which protested against the 
embargo placed on shipment of leather to 
the United States from India, the State 
Department has directed that full details 
of the Indian government’s action be re¬ 
ported by the American consul general 
there. Until this report is received by 
the department no representations will be 
made to the government of India. The 
appeal of the Tanners’ Council was given 
immediate consideration by the State De¬ 
partment, it was said Sept. 10, but before 
any steps are taken to bring the complaint 
to the notice of the government of India 
a report, on the matter has been sought of 
Consul General N. B. Stewart, American 
representative in India. If Consul Gen¬ 
eral Stewart’s report shows this govern¬ 
ment is being discriminated against by 
the restrictions placed on the exportation 
of leathers, steps will be taken to have 
the embargo modified, it was indicated at 
the State Department. 
WASHINGTON.—A flat increase of 
$150 in the annual wages of all postoffice 
employees is provided by a bill passed 
Sept. 4 by the House and sent to the 
Senate. The increase is retroactive to 
July 1 last, and affects approximately 
250,000 employees. In addition to pro¬ 
viding the increase for permanent em¬ 
ployees. the bill gives an increase of from 
40 to GO cents an hour for temporary and 
auxiliary employees. Both increases, 
which are for one year, will cost the Gov¬ 
ernment $40,000,000, causing a deficit of 
that amount in the postal revenues, ac¬ 
cording to estimates of the department. 
Fifty-nine officials of the Railroad Ad¬ 
ministration receive a much higher salary 
than Gen. Pershing. Representative 
Thompson (Ohio) charged in the House 
Sept. 10. “Seventy-two men on the staff 
of the Director-General of Railroads re¬ 
ceive salaries aggregating $1,398,100 an¬ 
nually,” Mr. Thompson asserted. “Most 
of them receive more than the Chief Jus¬ 
tice of the United States, whose compen¬ 
sation is $15,000 a year; more than Gen. 
Pershing, more than Cabinet officers. 
Senators and Representatives. The re¬ 
cords will show that five of those officials 
are each receiving $50,000 per annum, 
two are getting $40,000, three $35,000. 
two $30,000. eight $25,000, eleven, $20.- 
000. one 818.500. one $18,000, one $17.- 
000. six $15,000, one $14,000, one $13,- 
200. one $12,500. four $12,000. one 810,- 
800, one $10,600. and twenty-three $10,- 
000. None of these large salaries were 
authorized specifically by Congress ” 
Obtaining passports to visit foreign 
countries will he a simple matter if Con¬ 
gress enacts into a law a bill introduced 
Sept. 10 by Senator Nelson of Minnesota, 
chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to 
which the measure was referred. Native 
horn citizens, instead of producing birth 
certificates, will have to tell their State 
Department only where and when they 
were born. Naturalized citizens will he 
compelled only to furnish evidence of 
their naturalization. It will be unneces¬ 
sary for either class to say for what pur¬ 
pose the passport is desired. Photographs 
of the applicants will not be required. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Get. 2—Imported Guernseys. F. S. 
Peer, Cranford. N. J. 
Oct. 6-8—Holsteine. Quality Ilolsteius. 
Chicago. Ill. 
Oct. S—Blair Co., Pa.. Holstein Breed 
ers’ Association, Consignment Sale, Fair 
Grounds, Altoona, Pa. 
Oct. 8-9—Holsteins. Annual Dairy¬ 
men’s Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Laeona. 
N. Y., manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris. Ill. 
Oct. 13—New York State Guernsey 
Breeders’ Consignment Sale, Fernbrook 
Farm. Menands Road, Albany, N. Y. 
Oct. 15—Guernseys. Mrs. E. W. 
Strawbridge Brophy, Moorestown, N. J. 
Nov. 1—Baltimore County Guernsey 
Breeders’ Association Sale, Pavilion, 
Timonium, Md. 
Nov. G—Berkshire Swine, Berkshire 
County Berkshire Club, Pittsfield, Mass. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth nnnual fair. Burgettstown, Pa., 
Sept. 30—-Oct. 1-12. 
New England Fruit Show, with Rhode 
Island Fruit Growers’ Association, Elks 
Auditorium, Providence, R. I . Nov. 10-13. 
National Grange, annual meeting. 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 12. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Dee. 3-8. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, Dec. 
1-3. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Roanoke. Dec. 2-4. 
Virginia State Corn Growers, annual 
convention and exhibit, Roanoke, Va., 
Dee. 2-4. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and Ohio 
Apple Show, Terminal Auditorium. To¬ 
ledo. O . Dee 4-12. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, thirty- 
fourth annual meeting, Chestertown. Md., 
Jan. 6-8. 1920. 
