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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — The city council of 
Newport News, Va., has ordered all idlers 
to go to work, qujt the city or go to jail. 
There are about 500 seamen idle in New¬ 
port News. The authorities are not en¬ 
forcing the “go to work or leave town” 
order on them in a body, since many are 
honestly seeking work and are unable to 
find it. They are without food or a place 
to sleep and they are being cared for by 
welfare organizations. 
As a result of the hold-up of seven men 
guests, nine women and a chauffeur, on 
their way home from the Baltusrol Golf 
Club at Springfield, N. J., February 6, 
and the wounding of one of them, the 
Governor and Legislature of New Jersey 
will be called upon for aid in suppressing 
banditry in the northern part, of the 
State. The formation of a State con¬ 
stabulary is urged. 
Judge A. J. Curran issued attachments 
February 7 at Pittsburg, Kan., for the 
immediate arrest of Alexander Ilowatt, 
president of the Kansas coal miners, and 
for all the members of the district execu¬ 
tive board of the union. Judge Curran’s 
action followed evidence given by George 
Young, an official of the miners’ union 
local at Scammon, involved in the strike 
on “H” mine, that Ilowatt handed to him 
personally the order for the walkout of 
coal workers. 
Loren Williamson, of Mount Vernon, 
Ill., was" ordered held for the grand jury 
at Centralia February 8 on a charge of 
complicity in a $210,000 mail robbery at 
Mount Vernon January 14. Bail was 
fixed at $20,000. Williamson pleaded not 
guilty. Guy Kyle, a former preacher, of 
Mount Vernon, and Williamson’s partner 
in the garage business, was the only wit¬ 
ness. Williamson formerly was a postal 
employee at Mount Vernon. Kyle said 
he stole, the money and Williamson as¬ 
sisted him in hiding it. Kyle is at lib¬ 
erty under $20,000 bond. 
February 7 Justice John V. McAvoy of 
the New. York Supreme Court gave au 
indeterminate sentence of five to 10 years’ 
imprisonment to Robert I’. Brindel'l, the 
labor leader found guilty of extortion. 
He is. still to be placed on trial on two 
more indictments. 
New York State is preparing to tax 
heavy motor trucks off the highways, be¬ 
ing unable to enact legislation which will 
prevent the use in this State of the big 
modern trucks which are ruining the 
roads and bridges. The tax, which is 
proposed in a bill now living drawn and 
to be introduced by Senator Hewitt, chair¬ 
man of the Finance Committee, will im¬ 
pose a prohibitive assessment on the big 
motor truck, which is fast becoming a big 
factor in transportation and industry. 
The result will be. if the measure is en¬ 
acted. that the. small, light truck only can 
be used in this State with profit. One 
hundred dollars for each ton capacity on 
all trucks of five tons or over is what the 
State proposes. This means a tax of 
$500 on a five-ton truck and $1,000 for 
each 10-ton truck. The tax on trucks 
smaller than five tons would be doubled. 
It now ranges from $25 to $45. so that 
under the proposed law the assessment 
would still be less than $100. As a re¬ 
sult of the practice which developed out 
of the war emergency the heavy truck 
has been growing in popular use. Hun¬ 
dreds of the five and 10-ton vehicles run 
across the State every day. They are now 
a decided factor in handling State trans¬ 
portation. State officials say that their 
tremendous loads are breaking down the 
State’s highways, which were not built 
for such use. 
WASHINGTON.—Congress is about 
to pass upon legislation that after July 
1 will. prohibit Government employees in 
executive departments from smoking 
while on duty. The State Appropriations 
Committee favorably reported as an 
amendment to the sundry civil bill legis¬ 
lation proposed originally as a separate 
bill by Senator Smoot (Utah), making it 
unlawful to smoke in buildings “owned, 
rented or. leased by any executive depart¬ 
ment or independent establishment of the 
Government.” The penalty is a fine of 
$o0. The anti-smoking proposal was 
made by Senator Smoot immediately af¬ 
ter.a fire in the Department of Commerce 
Building, which resulted in the destruc¬ 
tion of valuable century old census rec¬ 
ords, which cannot be replaced. The fire 
was said to have been caused by a smoul¬ 
dering cigarette thrown among some 
papers by an employee. 
. All Government publications not spe¬ 
cifically authorized 1 v Congress would be 
discontinued after t~e first of next De¬ 
cember under an amendment to the sun¬ 
dry civil appropriation bill adopted Feb¬ 
ruary 7 by the Senate. . A similar pro¬ 
vision last year was eliminated as the 
result of a veto by President Wilson. 
The Department of Justice February 4 
was asked by Representative Julius Kahn 
(Cal.), chairman of the House Military 
Affairs Committee, for all the informa- 
tion in its possession regarding the case 
of Grover Bergdoll, draft dodger of Phil¬ 
adelphia. who recently bobbed up at Eber- 
bach, Germany. Mr. Kahn said his com¬ 
mittee is anxious to obtain all information 
possible regarding the contracts Bergdoll 
is. said to have with lawyers to obtain 
his freedom and the draft dodger’s charge 
that he was asked to pay $100,000 for 
distribution in Washington to get his 
freedom. 
The Army Appropriation bill carrying 
approximately $820,000,000 and providing 
for a force of only 150.000 men in 1922 
was passed February 8 by the House and 
sent to the Senate. The measure was 
passed practically as it came from the 
appropriations committee. A last minute 
move to cut the number of officers from 
14.000 to 9,000 was blocked by a vote of 
271 to 58. The House also refused, by 
a vote of 219 to 110, to insert a specific 
provision that the army be reduced to 
150.000 men during the year, but the 
funds appropriated for enlisted men’s pay 
are sufficient only for a force of that size. 
No vessel of any nationality may enter 
a United States port or come within the 
three-mile limit bearing any intoxicating 
liquor in transit without being liable to 
seizure and the other penalties of the 
Volstead act under an opinion given by 
the Department of Justice February 8 to 
the Treasury. The opinion is the most 
sweeping construction of the dry law yet 
given by the law officers of the Govern¬ 
ment. It states specifically that, no ship 
transporting liquor from one foreign port 
to another can touch at an American 
port and that liquor consigned from one 
foreign country, to another cannot move 
through the United States in transit even 
if . sealed -under customs rules. The 
opinion states that the law is clear and 
rigid and that all transportation and pos¬ 
session. except for personal use in the 
home is prohibited in all United States 
territory with the single exception of the 
Panama Canal. It goes even further and 
holds that the ban applies not only to 
liquors for beverage use, but any liquid 
that contains more than one-half of one 
per cent of alcohol. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—At the an¬ 
nual meeting of. the Rhode Island Fruit 
Growers’ Association at Providence the 
following officers were elected: Presi¬ 
dent, Nicholas 8. Winsor, Greenville; 
vice-president, John M. Dean, Meshauti- 
eut Park; secretary and treasurer, Rich¬ 
ard M. Bowen, Buttonwoods. Executive 
committee: Dr. Howard Edwards, Kings¬ 
ton ; Hon. Henry O. Anthony, Ports¬ 
mouth, and Thomas K. Winsor, Green¬ 
ville. Exhibition committee: Richard 
M. Bowen, Buttonwoods; Frank Farrar, 
Greenville, and Mrs. Charles P. Cornell, 
Providence. Auditor: Thomas II. Mat- 
teson, Auburn. A feature of the meeting 
was the explanation of the new agricul¬ 
tural. department of the Rhode Island 
1 lospital Trust Company, given by E. K. 
Thomas, recently of the State College at 
Kingston. Mr. Thomas pointed out in 
detail the benefit to farming which will 
accrue from this inauguration. The or¬ 
ganization now has 155 members, 15 hav¬ 
ing been added to the rolls during the 
past year. A committee consisting of N. 
8. Winsor, T. Iv. Winsor, 8. B. Steere, 
E. B. Dexter and James Winror was 
appointed to investigate and report on 
the feasibility of building, owning ami 
operating a cold storage plant to hold 
from 10,000 to 20.000 barrels of apples, 
this being the average annual production 
by the members of this association, and 
an appropriation of $250 was made to 
defray their expenses. As this committee 
is composed wholly of large, apple growers 
and as.the vote of the society was unani¬ 
mous, it indicates that in the near future 
the. society will have a cold storage plant 
of its own, which will be a financial bene¬ 
fit to the society as well as a help to its 
members. 
A sweet potato syrup plant is to be 
established by the Government at Fitz¬ 
gerald, Ga. Under a laboratory process 
worked out and patented by Dr. II. C. 
Gore, bureau of chemistry, the commercial 
possibilities in manufacture of a fine, 
brown “highly palatable” syrup from a 
heretofore waste product are to be ex¬ 
plored, according to announcement Febru¬ 
ary 8 by the Agricultural Department. 
“Many persons think it equal to first-class 
cane syrup,” the statement said of the 
sweet potato product. 
Everybody seems to be organizing these 
days, and it is a good thing. The tobacco 
growers of South Carolina recently met 
and formed an association for the pur¬ 
pose of handling, their product. It is to 
be a co-operative association to encourage 
marketing, and will include tobacco grow¬ 
ers in Virginia, North Carolina, South 
Carolina and Tennessee, with a hope that 
other States will also join. They propose 
to make a five years’ contract for the 
association to handle the tobacco for in¬ 
dividual growers. There is a member¬ 
ship fee of $8 for each grower, and steps 
will be taken at once to sign up as many 
of the Southern growers as possible. 
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