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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-26
Almost Co-Partnership

Upton Sinclair. at vegetarian banquet in Wilmington. said of certain charity:
 Its got a big income, sumptuous suite of offices and very highly paid stan. bat what 1t actually gives to the poor is inflnitesima
 "This charity reminds me of a trust that employs 7e.oo0 hands.
 {" We've worked out a grand benefit system for our veteran employees now the trust president said one day glee- fully
 .Yes2" said the listener
 Yes the president resumed. Every man that's been with us over 30 years Is to get hereafter a nickel nN Nlal: over 4o years bronze medal and over 50 years solid silver medal, together With an em- bossed certificate suitable for framing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-26
UNCLE SAM'S FIGHT WITH

1c Inded by wide verandas, so that they arc cool and airy. The walls are yelled i'll woven wire netting to keep out the mosquitoes, and everything Is so large ard roomy that 1t Is cool day and night. All of the buildings have reading rooms ard libraries. They have poolrooms and billiard rooms. They have bowling al- levs and gymnasiums, as well as rooms for checkers. chess and other games. Each house has It's own refreshment rooms. and in the lobby there are cigar ana candy stands.
 Let us take look at the clubhouse here at Cilebra. It stands high above the g. cat cut and so commands it that you can see for several miles the work going on beneath you. The building is about 20l feet long and 50 feet wide. We go in through the wide front door. which leads te the lobby or office, which is also the lilrary. The library contains about 1000 betks. consisting largely of biography and fction and is well patronized
 The books drawn out at Culebra this IT onth numbered TOO and those distributed throughout the whole zone were more than 30o0.
 But listen 10 the>musici It comes from that phonograph there at the right. On the opposite side of the hall Is an upright piano, which we may hear later on
 Passing through the lobby we turn to the right and go into the reading room. This is filled with men in easy chairs reading and chatting. They are in their shirt sleeves and look very comfortable. At one end of this room are two men playing chess. and at the opposite side several are writing.
 The scenes are for all the word like those of a big city club In the United States. The tables are covered with magazines. Seventy-fve of the best pe- rlodicals and journals are taken. and ohe can find anything here from science to fiction. As to the writing tables. 1000 letters are sent out from this room every month and from the seven clubhouses 5000 or 10000 are mailed home in that time.
 In the Billiard Room
 Put let us go to the other side of the hall and enter the billiard room. Every one of these clubhouses has billiard t3 bies and cues. The game keeps the men out of the poolrooms of the saloon, which were nightly filled with employees bcfore the club houses were started
 The members pay 30 cents an hour for tie use of the club tables They are good players, too. and they have billiard tournaments Saturday nights, when the men come in crowds to look on. If you would know Just how popular this form Of amusement Is I would say that 700o pool games were played here at Culebra sst month. and that similar proportion was played at the other cluhhouses. The caral commission and the Y NJ C. A. believe that pool and billiards are good eyereise an dthey encourage them. In the meantime the patronage of the pool rooms of the saloons has fallen to noth- exercise and they encourage them. In Crlebra and I could not find more than couple of employees In any of them.
 Baseball and Bowling
 Among other popular amusements here are baseball and bowling. Every club house has ifs bowling room. and there are bowling clubs, which contest with one an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-26

Copyright. 1912. by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Culebra, Canal Zone. Panama
 HAVE headed this letter Uncle sam's
 Fight with the Devil" The title IS 4 sensational. but 1t fits the story. It Is the light of Uncle sam for the souls of his canal employees It tells how he has taken 5000 or 10000 men. such as you find at a mining camp or on the frontier, and put them to work at high wages, and at thc same time has kept them free from gambling, lust and the other vices which have heretofore been always associated with such organizations. When the T1erch started this canal they baptised it in champagne. Their officials locked hands with Lucifer and Baechus. They brought their mistresses with them from Paris and graft and extravaganza danced beside them over the canal zone on the icad to bankruptcy and financial destruc- ton.
 UDlift Work at Panama
 So far our canal has been built without graft. We have spent hundreds, of mill lions and no one has charged that a cent or a dollar has gone into anything but rre legitimate expenses connected there- with. More than that the work has been done in a Christian way by body of Christian men. whose conduct Is morally aa good as that of any social community ii the United States or the world. This it seems to me. is quite as wonderful as the building of the canal itself.
 Ilow has it been accomplished?
 It has been done by the marrying of business to Christianity; by bringing to the front the forces which make for good ano as far as possible eliminating those which make for the bad; by throwing the T. M. c. A clubhouse and it's attractions as open as the devil throws open the sa- lcen, and by feeding the minds and the souls of the men with the good rather u an the bad.
 The result has been a social up1ift rath-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-26

topic, What Is Happtness2' and that or Gatun discussed What Is Fatlure2 while another society used the "College Man" as it's subject of discussion. l derbt not the political situation will be well canvassed at these clubs. There are now one hundred and fifty men enrolled in the dramatic clubs, sixty in the camera clubs and there are two hundred who serve on various club committees There are also Bible study clubs which meet together on Sundays and which work Independent of the churches.
 Among the other institutions Of these elubhouses are the barber shops and pressing clubs. Good barbers are ne- cessity in the tropics and the men know that they can find sanitary shops al the clubhouses. Many Of them pay so much month to have their clothes pressed, the barbers and pressers bring ing in something of an income 10 the institutions.
 A Talk With the Superintendent of
 Clubs
 During my stay here I have had chat with Mir. A. B. Dickson, who is the head of the clubhouses under the 18th milan canal commission. He was for merly the financial secretary of the 23d street Y. NJ C. A. In New York city. Among the questions I asked were wheth- ef many young men had been ruined by their life in the canal zone. To this he replied:
 T do not think so. The inducements to keep right are as strong here as in any part of the United States. Drunken ness and gambling are quite as digraee- ful and the men who engage In them are regarded just the same as at home. The clubhouse has done much to elevate the moral standing of the canal com inunity. It Is the chief meeting place an6 the men go there to loaf rather than to the saloons You must remember that our canal employees are far above tho average of mankind as to their habits and ambitions. They are picked men who are earning high wages. They are now saving money and planning as to what they will do when they leave. They find that the clubhouse costs them prac- tieally nothing, and that 1t takes the place of the more expensive and wicked amuse- ments found in the saloons. Without these clubs they would have nothing to do except stay at home or go to the sa- loons Their work is strenuous and they need recreation. This need has been supplied by the clubs. Indeed. l may say that the clubs are an absolute necessity to efficient labor on the canal. They have aided in making the employees contented and have also done much for the high ihofai standing or the Aneflcan con- munity.
 The Boy Scouts of Panama 1 Connected with these clubs are upft movements of various kinds and among others that of the Boy Scouts. We have now seven companies of these scouts on the zone. Each company Las a piece of land for clubhouse which4 has been given by the canal commission, and the boys have erected their own elubhouses, the lumber being given by the canal au- thorties. The most of them have eight by ten foot shacks. very rough finished. The scouts are to have a charter from the national headquarters of New York and they are to be known as the 1sthmian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-26
I THE DEVTL-By Frank C. Carpenter

one West Indian mission at Empires which has 15O communicants, and there are other missions patronized by the West Indian negroes. There is a colored mission al culebra and q young mems colored institute there.
 There are also a number of Sunday schools on the zone. some for negroes and some for whites. The negro Sunday schools are the oldest. those for white children dating back only to 19o5. Tho white Sunday schools are fourteen in number and their enrolment is something like TOO.
 The Salvation Army
 The Salvation Army began it's work here eight years ago. when one of the soldiers from Jamaica came and submitted a plan of salvation to the governor of the zone. He was given a house in Cristobal and later on the commission appropriated sev- eral thousand dollars for building there. This contains restaurant a kitchen reading room and dormitory. including baih and toilet rooms. It has also living apartments for the commander and his son.
 The Salvation Army work Is confined almost entirely to the negroes. although at the quarters some whites are occasion- ally registered During one week the guests included Americans English, Scotch. Seandinavlans. Russians. Bone mians Jaraaoans, Chileans. Peruvians and Barhadians. More than 50 per cent of the men who come to these quarters pay back what they receive before leav- ing the isthmus, and the institution Is self-snpporting. Lodging costs 25 cents night to those who can pay. and the oth- CTS have their beds free.
 In addition to the quarters at cristobal another salvation building Is to be erected at Panama. and outpost work is carried on also at Gorgona and Empire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-26
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When the reporters, copy readers and otfel members of the staff of the Daily Advertiser of the city of New Yark ar lived at the office on April 1, 1897, and looked at the bulletin board, they saw rotioe somewhat like this;
 "The Services of All Members of the
 City Staff of This Newspaper Are Required No Longer. (Signed) ". l R. HEARST"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
BELIEF IN POLYCAMY
BAR TO CITIZENSHIP

Edward Richard Dittmer, a German,
who applied for citizenship in the fed
cral court yesterday. discovered that
be NAV not become citizen of the
United States until he has made up his
mind TO avow his disbelief in the prac.
tice Of polygamy.
Dittmer was examined yesterday
morning upon his application for citi-
zonshlp. and while he had witnesses to
swear that he had lived in this coun-
trv the requisite number of years, he
encountered stumbling block on the
polYgamY question.
DO You believe in tho practice of
polygamyl asked Inspector Northrop,
Well, replied Dittmer. ''one rove.
lation of the Lord says it ia right, and
vet another revelation commands US to
obey the law. Polygamy was right
because the Lord revealed it So
Dlttmer was then asked what he
would do If revelation were received
commanding the return to polygamy.
''The Lori always opens up the way
for His people, was the reply.
Judge Marshall denied him citizen.
shin,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
CHICAGO FIRM Gets
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE
Highest Bid Is Accepted; DR.
BaScom Elected to Mem
bership.

Bids for the purchase OF the s32j.000
bond issue recently authorized at a
special election. were opened by the
board Of education at a special session
Saturday noon Seven bids were sub
mttcd. That Of y. W. Halsey Of Chi
ca2o was accepted. The board entered
into q contract with this firm for the
sale of the bonds
Most of the bids we're conditional.
but the premium offered by the sue
cessful bidder was considerably better
than the others, The premium amount
ed TO $3.50. The bond issue is to re.
tire the upredeenlcd portion of bond
issue Of twenty years ago for the pur-
chase of new school sites and build
ings-
The board unanimously elected DR..
f. 5. BascOm member of the board to
succeed Mayor Samuel G.. Park, re.
signed. The name of DR.. Bascom was
presented by Arnold G.. Giauaue, fcl-
low member of Mayor Park from the
Second ward.
Dr. Bascom is president of the state
board of health and for more than
twenty years has been the director of
the medical department of st. Mark s
hospital.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
WILEY DISCUSSES
DRINK SITUATION
Pure Food Expert Would Make
All Those Who Tipplc Take
Out License.
BY International News Service.

BY International News Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-DecIaring his
belief that most of the drunkenness in
America originates In clubs. DR.. Har-
vey Wiley, pur food expert OF the gov
ernment, today advanced as a solution
for critical situation that all drinking
men and men who treat be forced TO
take out individual licenses.
II have stopped drinking In my club f"
explained Dr. Wiley. mot because | am
stingy. Things have come TO the state
that where six or seven meet and one
offers to buy drink they keep right
on treating until every one present has
treated. Pretty soon they are all drunk
IF I had my way We would stop max
Ing saloon keepers pay huge license
fees. Why not charge them nominal
fee and regulate them? Then put tho
real tax on the drinkers. Make every
person who wants a drink take out a
license and pay 81 a year for il. II any
person Is seen TO be drinking too much or
his family needs the money, or he has a
weak constitution. then refuse TO give
him a license.
when a man goes into saloon make
him present his license number and pay
one cent internal revenue tax for every
drink, Make him write his name On a
slip for every drink II II is seen that
a saloon keeper is giving too many drinks
to any one man. then stop the soloon
mans license. Do these things and YOU
stop drunkenness -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
BLOODY BATTLE
IN THE STREETS
Arrival of Peace Commission at
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Fol
lowed by Outbreak.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. co
Fighting occurred In the streets last
evening and was kept up all night be-
tween 7dherents OF General Leonidas S
Flaza and supporters Of General Alfsro.
The followers OF General Plaza were de :
feated, The losses OF both parties were
severe.
The affair began al the moment of ar
rival OF a peace commission, composed of
American and British consuls and four
other prominent personages. The com v
missioners went to Duran to meet Cen
eral Julio Andradc. who yesterday at
tackled and defeated an army OF Guaya
quill troops. Their purpose was TO learn
the condition on which an understanding
between the two armies could be brought
about.
General Andrade's whereabouts could
not be discovered by the commissioners
who then returned TO Guayaquil, Upon
their landing cheers for General Plaza
and counter cheers for General Alfaro
We're given by a large crowd and shoot
Ing commenced shortly afterward,
There is a panic I'm tho city az the
Inhabitants fear an attack by the Quito
troops. II is thought probable that Cen
cral Andrade Is advancing with his army.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
PRAISES MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT OF "U''
DR.. {. Arthur Carr, Member of
Official Board of Inspectors,
Here on Tour.

Il am very fsvorably impressed
with the medical department of you.
state university, both as to its person
mol and cnuipmcnt. -
This was the opinion expressed last
night by DR.. T.. Arthur Carr OF Lincoln
Neb., after a thorough inspection OF
tho school Yesterday in company with
DR.. &. j., Harding, secretary of the
state board Of medical examiners.
DR.. Carr 3 opinion has great weight
in view of the fact that he is one OF
the inspecting and rating committee Of
the American Confederation of Rccip
rocIting and Licensing Medical boar,is
This body is the national organization
of the different state medical boards
Owing TO the great criticism Of med
zeal schools Of the country it was dc
cldcd two Years ago by the nationa
bo1v TO make its own inspections and
ratings that tho schools might b'
brought TO a uniform standard, and
that tho different schools of modica'
practice might be equally recognized
A committee of seven was appointed
to make these inspections and 10 re
port the result at the coming meeting
of the national organization, the lat
ter part Of February this year, at CHI
caCo.
DR. Carr has the territory west OF
Chicago to inspect. His inspections
are made together with a member OF
the state board in each state, There
IS nothing perfunctory about the in
spections. Every instrument and tube
used are examined and the instructions
and courses are studied. While DR..
Carr is under the obligation of secrecy
as to what rating he gave the local in
stitution IN advance of his formal re
port, he went so far AS to say that he
was most favorably impressed. You
have some very capable men III your
school, said he.
DR.. Carr left last night for Portland
Ore, to examine the medical schools
up and down the Pacific coast.
He is accompanied by his wife and
two children. DR.. Carr is secretary
Of the Nebraska state board Of meli"
cal examiners when he is at home.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
RICHESON EXPRESSES
SYMPATHY FOR PHELPS

BOSTON, Jan. 20,--The Rev C. V. r.
RlcheSon, sentenced to die for the mur-
der OF Avis Linnell, learned tonight FOL
the first time that there would be no
communication OF the death sentence of
Silss N Phelps.
MAY God have mercy on Silss y.
Phelps I am deeply sorry TO learn that
he must die In tho electric chair" ex-
claimed Richcson as his counsel William
A, Morse, broke the news to him.
The decision In the Phelps case has
been held 10 have a vital bearing on the
case Of Richeson and on account OF the
laJters nervous condition the news OF the
governors action has been withheld from
him for several days In the fear that il
might cause n collapse.
Richeson bore up bravely. however. ac-
cording TO his counsel. who said he has
still hope and that the tight for commu-
tatioD OF his sentence would go on.
'If il must he that we cannot secure
communication or sentence, Mr.. Rlchcsou
is prepared To face the worst and will go
to the chair brave man." declared his
counsel after he left the prisoner tonight.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
HARRY THORNE FILES
BILL OF EXCEPTIONS

The bill Of exceptions and transcript
Of evidence in the case of the state
against Harry Thorne. twice convicted
Of murder in the first degree for the
killing of George w. Fsssell, nearly
three years ago, was filed in the Third
district court Saturday morning, prior
to the case being taken into the SUI
preme court. On the first conviction
the supreme court reversed the judg.
ment of the district court ard granted
a new trial. The second trinl resulted
in another conviction of first degree
murder, without a recommendation of
mercy.
Thorne was first convicted July z,
1910, and after months of delays and
continuances, the case was finally de-
cidcd on the appeal by the supreme
court last summer. Tborne was again
convicted on November | last, and on
November 10 be was sentenced TO be
shot on December %. Notice of mo-
tion for new trial was filed, and with
1T the defendant received the statutory
time, thirty days, in which to prepare
and file his bill of exceptions. The
same day. however. an additional stay
or thirty days was granted. making
sixty days, or until January 10, and
on January there was second addi
tional stay. OF ten days granted, which
give the defendant until Saturday,
when it was again filed,
Under the law. the transcript of ap~
peal must be filed in the supreme court
within ten days. The case can not be
considered in the supreme court until
the, May term at the earliest, it is
said
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
MOVEMENT IN FAVOR
OF HITCHCOCK PI AN

WASHINGTON, Jan 2O.-Rcpre.
sentative Carey Of Wisconsin, Repub-
ican, today introduced bill provid.
ing for government ownership Of tclc,
graph lines, project recently urged
by Postmaster General Hitchcock IL
WAS referred TO the postofiicc commit.
tco.
The bill would place the telegraph
systems under the supervision of the
postofiice department. III charge OF a
commissioners Of telegrapbs,
The bill would provide that the in.
terstate commerce commission appraise
ut their bona 6de market value all the
telegraph properties engaged in inter
state commerce, the attorney general
then to begin condemnation proceed
ings,
The measure stipulHtes that wages
should not be increased more than Is
per cent over those paid the year pre-.
cedIng government acquisition aud
would bar any immediate decrease of
telegraph tolls. -.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
BERGER ARRAIGNED
ON MURDER CHARGE

Leo Berger, charged with the muir
der Of Thomas Cummings, who was
shot in the ri ght shoulder and fatally
alleged arrears in rents, last Tuesday
forenoon mt 9 Mortenscn court, was
arraigned before Judge j. M. Bow.
man Of tho police court yesterday aft
crnooD.
Berger is charged with murder in
the first degree, Through his attor-
ney, h, J.. Baglcy, the defendant asked
until Monday morning at 10 'clock
TO enter "A plea. Ho was committed
to the custody Of the sheriff without
bail
A. Fogarty, 4 patroIman on the
Philadelphia police department. tclc-
graphcd O'DonnelI g. Co.. undortakers,
yesterday, asking tho company to de.
fer funeral arrangements until letters
which he had despatched arrived in
Salt Lake, Fogarty says that he is q
nephew Of Cummings.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
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