The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-16

gone forth looking for locations. The
Wright brothers have not yet dispell-
ed altogether popular prejudice
against which they contended so long
and with such brilliant outcomes.
Mattress factories, stove factories,
paper mills and denatured alcohol
works but no airship factories for us. !"
said the commercial club.
The great headway made against
the white slave traffic In the fight. on
commercialized vice began three years
ago by the Illinois Vigilance asso-
citation In Chicago will be reviewed
soon at the annual meeting of that
orga nization February 12 and 13.
Many convictions have been had
throughout the country already un-
der the interstate statute enacted by
congress and in the nine states which
have passed state laws or strengthen
ed old ones many culprits have been
enrolled in jail and penitentiary ros-
ters Clifford G. Roe. formerly as
sistant states attorney, has devoted
much of his time for two years TO
prosecutions and lecturing against the
barter and sale OF girls for the red
light resorts. Reports of the vigil
ance association will show the Mass
achusetts, the District of Columbia,
Louisiana and several other states
have added to those which with Him
| ois and Minnesota, passed laws under
which can be stamped out the un-
| believable traffic in girls as a COM
| modify TO be caught, lured or trap
| ped by the procurers. The associa-
| ton now has undertaken to promote
| the education of children in social
| hygiene that the penalties acquired
| in red light resorts will he known and
| guarded against. Arthur Burrage Far
| we'll. the president, and Rev. Ernest
| A. Bell vice president of the asso-
| citation were members of the Ameri-
can Purity Federation party which Wis
| tied cities OF the West and the South,
| travelling 1000 miles in their pro-
| paganda. Secretary Burgess has been
notified by eminent public speakers
that they will attend and speak at the
| annual meeting. He has asked that
| ministers of every church in Illinois
preach on the subject of social purity
and notify the association that they
| Will do so.
The pure taxtile law proposed to
stop the prevailing adulteration of
silks, woolens and linens has been side
| tracked according to disclosures In
Chicago because the manufacturers
Of silks, wollens and linens saw In 1t
an end to unusual profits. General r..
C. Young, manager for one of the big
silk concerns. did get some OF the big
silk mills to better themselves, parti-
cularly as to the sde of dress silks in
late years have fallen off as a result of
the dstrust created when the ingen-
| ious deceptions were discovered by
| American women. In the manufact-
ure of woolens adulteratlon has be-
| come fine art-"Shoddy" being
lmade so attractive--and so worthless
that the public Is cheated out of
millions annually. The same is true
in linens. The proposal to penalize
the sale of any goods that are not
what they are represented to be, may
be renewed later but inaction by the
manufacturers fOrbodes trouble for
the purchasers of some makes of
silks, woolens and linens for a year
or two. Garments have been known
| 10 go COUlpitltly W piNt'S III iNW
weeks. Woolen scraps are pasted on
cotton threads by ingenious machin-
cry in such way that the outer coat
ing is wooden. Such fabrics have no
warmth and are sold to a class OF
people who most need warm, sub
stantial clothing.
The railroads of Canada increased
their net earnings of 1910 by 32.3, ac.
| ,ording to j. L. Payne, comptroller OF
the Dominion departm of railways
md canals, In a signed statement in
the Railway Age Gazette, a Chicago
publication. That increase Is TO be
compared with about IS per cent in
The Uuited States. The increase in
Mileage during 1919 in Canada as Of
ically reported was 627 miles of main
line but this did not take into account
the big item, the Grand Trunk Pacl-
hc's increased mileage, In explana-
ion for which Comptroller Payne says
"Of new trackage of all sorts 3,S1s
niles have been put in operation with
| n four years The whole of the mile
lge of the Grand Trunk Pacifice 1;
till officially regarded as being under
construction. The term under con
itruction' Is exceedingly comprehen'
| 5ive, yet under the popular definition
Il least 4,500 miles were so classified
IN June 80. II might be said that thu
Hudson Bay railroad Is under con
| -tru,tion otnca tha dominiOn poVern