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Evening journal., 1913-06-23
MONDAY. JUNE %. 1913.
FNE COLLEeE AID HIGH scHOOL sPIRIr.

MUCH Of the big educational work in this country
Il has been promoted by Alumni associations That
statement applies practically to all the States. We
have here in Delaware two such organizations which
are engaged at the present time in laudable enter
prises One is the Delaware College Alumni Assoca-
ton, which is trying to raise s25OOOO applied to
the educational efficiency Of Delawares lead
ing institution of learning at Newark; the other is
the Wilmington High School Alumni Association which
is trying to raise endowment fund to be applied
to scholarships for the benefit OF deserving graduates
of local High School,
Both Of these enterprises are we'll worthy Of pub
lie support They speak well for those who conceived
them and who are engaged in the work OF carrying
them to whole partial success The activity re-
yeals college and school spirit Of the first order and
If the people Of Delaware generally of the city of
Wilmington particularly fail to respond it will be be-
cause they lacking in patriotic spirit and home
pride. The Alumni Association Of Delaware College
has been at work its project for several months
It has made material progress has failed to build
up its endowment fund to anything like the amount
desired The work is in the hands Of competent men,
however and it is to be presumed that they will carry
1t through
The spirit Of the Wilmington High School Alumni
Association also is shown by the that it has made
arrangements to give the most elaborate dinner and
receptQn its history this years boy graduates Of
the Hg4 school. It win be held IN the Hotel DUPONT
on JuneO 26th, and should be attended by scores
Of men who take pleasure in claiming the local High
School their Alma Mater There are at the present
time almost a thousand men who were graduated from
the Wilmington High School. Many Of them have at
ained high position in professional Industrial com
mercia and other walks of life With such an
Alumni, it would seem to that no great difficulty
should be experienced in arousng sufficient public in
terest to give to the endowment fund raising move
ment the unqualified success it deserves to have.
Evening journal., 1913-06-23

The enthusiasm Of doing ones very
best. the resolve TO advance 10 better
things and broader fields OF activity
IS stimulated by the chances OF the
Want Cniumns.-Adv
Evening journal., 1913-06-23

The arrest of Mrs. Pankhurst by the British Gov
ernment she about leave home TO attend the
funeral of Miss DAWSON the militant suffragist killed
on the Epson Downs course, will not strengthen the
position of the government It was impoltc and only
serves strengthen in unthnking minds the position
Of troublesome woman as a martyr
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
CHEMICAL EXACTNESS.
Bunsen's Feat After His Goblet of
Solution Had Been Upset.

The remarkable skill in dealing with
the material of their experiments that
some chemists have is well illustrated
by the following story told of the great
German chemist Professor Robert Bun
sen:
Professor Bunsen evaporated fifty
hogsheads OF water from the Durk-
helm spring and carefully isolated
from the residue a small quantity of
the salts OF two very rare elements,
caesium and rubidum He dissolved
these salts in small beaker of water
and set them aside on his laboratory
table
One day a friend came to see Profess
sor Bunsen Unnoticed by the chemist
his visitor in leaning against the labo
ratory table tipped over the beaker and
spilled its contents on the floor and on
his clothing The solution looked like
plain water SO the man thought moth
ing of the accident and few minutes
later took his departure.
Shortly after the gentleman had gone
Bunsen noticed that the contents of
the beaker had been spilled Instantly
he ran out to the street overlook his
friend and brought him back to the
laboratory.
With water Bunsen carefully extract
ed the salts from the sleeve of the gen.
tleman's coat and his underclothing,
washed his arm, cleaned off drop
that had spattered on his shoe. careful
ly washed the floor and the table, col
lected all the solutions together. puri-
fed them and on evaporation found
salts! SO perfect was his skill that he
had not lost a weighable amount
Youths Companion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
EMPLOYERS to Blame.

That arbitration which would have
prevented any strike in Indianapolis.
but which the street car company re-
fused to concede, has been agreed to
after a prolonged period of violence
and after the entire state militia had
been ordered to the city. There would
have been no strike if the corporation
had not declared from the start that 1t
had nothing to arbitrate and had not
fatty rejected all proposals for
peaceful settlement Whether or not
their demands were justified in full or
in part. the street car employees were
openly committed to a hearing before
a fair and impartial board of arbitra-
tors Every effort at mediation by
public officials and commercial bodies
failed because of the corporations OBJ
stinacy. which in the end proved so
needlessly costly to the company and
the public ii serves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
WAGES OF c0NvlCTS.
Missouri Raises Price of Prison Labor
to Contractors.

The board of prison inspectors has
served notice on the contractors leas-
ing the labor of convicts at the Mis-
souri, state penitentiary that after Dec.
81 the price per man will be S5 cents
a day instead of 20 cents. as hereto
fore.
Two prison shoe factories. one cloth
ing. one broom one saddletree. one
leather finding establishment and one
saddlery. according TO advance infor-
nation for the 1913 red book, made
public by Commissioner John L. titz-
patrick, turned out products in l9l2
worth $4.29l.494, to compete with the
same line of articles made elsewhere in
the state by free labor which costs
from two to five times as much.
The force of convicts which made
most of these commodities consisted OF
1,649 men and forty-four women. all
inmates Of the state penitentiary at
jefferson City. The state received for
male conyicts 70 cents day and for
women 80 cents a day
Organized labor contends and has
contended for years that the prison
contractors would have to pay from
$50 to S4 a day for similar labor
outside OF the prison. Therefore prls-
on products which are generally solo
for less money, but with greater prof
its. must be disposed of first before the
"outside" competing manufactures has
any chance with his output.
The proposed increase per day for
each ablebodied male convict is 10
cents. This sum looks small, but speed
lily assumed large proportions when
multiplied by the number of conyicts
worked daily and the number of work
| ing days in the year. which are about
| $40 In a day the increase for l.64s
| conyicts amounts to $247 divided be
tween seven prison shops and in the
course Of year to S76,570. The con
tract leasing system will be abolished
on Dec. 81. 1918.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
DECIDES FOR WOMEN.
Federal Judge Declares Oregon Wage
Law Constitutional.

aW Constitutional,
The first step toward tnal decision
of the Oregon minimum wage law by
the United States supreme court re
suited when Circuit Judge Cleeton at
Portland rendered a decision declaring
constitutional the act of the last Ore
gon legislature creating the Industrial
welfare commission TO administer the
law and defining the purposes OF the
statute and the powers of the com
mission
Holding that the limitations of the
police powers Of the state must be de-
termined by reason and justice and
with due regard to the preservation OF
public peace. health. morality and gen
eral welfare. Judge Cleeton denied the
application for writ Of injunction to
restrain the commission from putting
into effect its order regulating the
wage to be paid women workers en-
ployed in Portland factories. The
question of police power determined
most if not all of the objections raised
against the statute
THE objects and purposes of the
statute being passed for the general
welfare" said Judge Cleeton. "the
statute must necessarily have a liberal
construction. and by considering this
statute from this standpoint it is my
opinion that the regulation of the min
imum wage for women and minors, as
announced in the act, is within the
police power of the state and is there
fore constitutional"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
FREAKS OF THE TIDE.
The Caldron Of the Spotted Seas and
the Amazon River Bore.

the Amazon River Bore.
To the ordinary lay mind the tides
along our coast are most puzzling He
knows that the tides rise aud fall
twice in twenty foul hours and that
this depends IN some mysterious way
upon the moon. But II in his travels
he sees a spot along the shore where
there is no tide he is al Il loss to az
count for it,
To, be exact there is only one ocean
in the world where the tides follow the
moon with regularity and this is the
great Antarctic basin And the reason
is that there is the only place Il sweep
of water is to be found that is entirely
uninterrupted by land The enormous
waves caused by the moons attrac
ton course round the world south OF
Cape Horn and the Cape of Good
Hope, with absolutely nothing to break
them Here in our northern hemisphere
great masses of land interrupt the
tidal waves and combined with the
shallowness of the inland seas, cause
them to perform antics which seem
iDOSl Sll dbSt
The depth of the water has much to
SO with the tidal irregularities Out in
she open ocean. where the tide Is
abnormal-ahout 5000 fathoms the
speed of the waves is amazing When
the depth decreases to FIVE fathoms
the tide cannot travel more than fir
| teen miles an hour In England for
example, which is surrounded by mar
row, land broken seas. the result Is
| that they get some of the most dan
gerous tidal races and currents 10 be
! found The most formidable OF these
/ is the whirlpool between the islands
| of Jura and Scarba, on the west coast
of Scotland This is known as the
"Caldron of the Spotted Seas
There the current runs at times AT
the rate of more than twelve miles an
hour. and the force OF heavy tidal
current rushing up TO the wide mouth
ed river forms what Is called bore. "
A most striking example of this tidal
feature is often seen on the Amazon
| when moving wall of water. reach
ing from bank 70 bank and TO a height
of more than twenty feet. will rush In
land. New York sun.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
Inflated theatrical Values.

"The show business proper namely,
the business of securing and producing
plays for the entertainment Of the
theater going public-is a business of
false and inflated Values writes
prominent theatrical manager in the
American Magazine. Regulations,
receipts, salaries, expenditures, costs
of production, losses on failure and so
on through the list-eyerythng is In
fated.
'The 100000 production probably
cost 100000. out of which. in case Of
failure, there was salvage of $4,000
The $4,000 production can easily be
duplicated for $4,000 and many a
dramatic production has been made for
from $4,000 to $4,000 that In the pub
lished figures represented an outlay Of
'$25 900 before the curtain rose"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
A VIEW OF "EFFiCIENCY."
Scientific Management Reduces Man
to a Mere Machine.

to a Mere Machine.
Not few leaders Of organized labor
are opposed to scientific management
in industry One of them, John T..
Frey of Cincinnati has written an ar
ticle on the subject which appeared In
the Journal of Political Economy. Ia
this he declared that scientific. man
agement is most eminently unscien-
tific'' because lit does not include an
adequate system for the education of
apprentices from whom competent me
chanics can be developed.
1T is unscientific' goes on MIR. Frey,
because it does not adequately pro-
vide for the workman's progress in
mechanical knowledge, but tends to
restrict him to the subdivision of a
speciality, keeping him endlessly per-
forming the same operation, disregard
ing the fact that this constant repe-
tition which in time becomes semi
automatic on the workmans part.
through its very monotony numbs the
mind instead of inspiring it.
1T is unscientific because if applied
in all of our industries it would at
once prevent the development of COM
petent mechanics and produce in their
place fractional mechanics who could
work effectively only under the groups
of functional foremen and superfore-
men provided for by the system.
1T is unscientific because it has fail
ed adequately to understand the hu-
man factor and the spirit Of our Amer
lean institutions, for it makes of one
man a taskmaster and taskmaster
without the free consent of the other
1t ignores the principle so clearly set
forth by the congressional committee,
which, after investigating the Taylor
and other systems Of shop manage
ment. said in its report, Government
in a mill should be like government in
state. with the consent Of the gov
erned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
SHE HAD A K,Rt.,.E TONGUE.
The Old Duchess Could and Did Swear
Like a Trooper.


Like a Trooper
The old Duchess Of st Adams, who
had been the widow Of Alr Coutts the
banker. when the duke, much her jun
ior in age. married her, was one Of the
habitual visitors at falmouth My first
view Of her, however. WAS ut the Grief
hotel on her way through TO Kenmore,
when the duchess and her retinue ar
rived in eight carriages for though by
birth of no family She had a most ex
alted idea Of her own Importance and
when paying series Of short visits to
country houses was 50 convinced of
the savage condition of the highlands
that she Travelled always with her own
chef and patiSSier, who alone were per
mftted to cook her meals at the inns
she stopped at on the road.
/ shall not easily forget the sight Of
the disgoraing Of the duchess own
chariot when il pulled up at the inn
door, First emerged her grace herself,
an enormously fat woman; then fol
lowed her three nieces. daughters of
Sir Francis Burdett, whereof the
youngest and best looking became in
heritress Of her wealth. and Baroness
Burdett- -Coutts.
These young ladies'. evidently in NOR
tai terror of their awful relative not
without reason-followed the duchess
In single file dutifully carrying each
some article necessary TO her grace's.
comfort - reticule, cushion wraps,
books, footstool and bag Of toilet requi-
sites, the duchess favorite lap dog and
her pet parrot in a cage After them
eame her grace's private physician,
who Travelled always in the same car
hage as herself, so as to be on the spot,
while the duke preferred the coach box
to the company inside-and no wonder!
All the time the duchess tongue was
heard going scolding complaining,
abusing everybody. from her husband
downward. in unmeasured terms The
unfortunate nieces came in for no small
share of her harangue and earned pain
fully any share of her fortune she may
have left them in her will, for she
swore like a trooper or a Billingsgate
fshwife the whole time.-Lady Login
in Cornhill Magazine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
A Cautious Young Woman.

Elizabeth had been strictly trained
in the proprieties Of receiving gifts Of
money Uncle John arrived, a privi-
legged character, and after the custom
of uncles produced a quarter dollar.
Likewise he offered to so TO the candy
mans shop across the way on souan-
dering expedition.
There Elizabeth chose box Of candy
at 10 cents. The shopkeeper took the
quarter and produced in exchange the
box and Is cents. Elizabeth was po-
lite, but firm. as she refused the change.
"Thank you" she said. but we are
not allowed to take money from every
body"-New York Post.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
Chinese Idols.

The Chinese, according to a mission
airy, are the most exacting of worship
ers. When they pray to their idols
they ask for definite material blessings
and they expect results. The life of an
idol in China is precarious. Gifts will
be heaped before it only rs long as it
seems to be bringing about the wishes
of its followers. If the shrine falls
upon evil times and disappoints its
worshipers their homage soon fades
Not only do the gifts cease, but the re-
sentful people of the countryside will
come in body and smash the ineffi-
cient symbol
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
Worker Gets $4,000 Verdict.

Fred c. Neun. a New York city iron
worker. who had his neck dislocated
while he was at work, recently receiv-
ed $4,000 verdict against his en-
ployers In the New York supreme court.
The verdict is said to be the largest
one for personal injuries rendered in
New York county under the compara-
lively new workmen's compensation
law He sued for $4,000.
Neun. who is twenty eight years old.
has a wife and three children, who are
respectively seven and FIVE years and
seven months old Before the accident
be was an athlete, making running his
speciality He belonged to the Pastime
Athletic club.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
PULLMAN MEN ORGANIZE.
Conductors and Porters Seek to Better
Their Condition.

Conductors and Porters Seek to Better
Their Condition.
After years of effort the men who are
employed on sleeping cars In the Pull
man service have organized In an er-
fort to better the conditions under
which they work. Two associations.
known as the Federation of Pullman
Conductors of America and the Fed
GRAFTON of Pullman Porters of Ameri-
ca, have fitted up Offices in Chicago
and are rapidly perfecting their organ
iZations.
Men employed in the sleeping car
service have long been considered out
of the pale of all the other railroad or
ganizations, and. as a matter of fact,
they are the last branch of railroad
service to form combination for the
protection of their interests. Some
time ago an effort was made to form
an association, which was to have been
known as the Sleeping Car Employers
association In the process of organ
ization many of the leading spirits in
the movement lost their positions, and
the idea was for time abandoned.
Since the organization of the twin
federatlons very friendly spirit has
been shown by all of the other unions
of railroad workers. aud the officers of
the new unions are confident some OF
the unpleasant features of their work
will soon be corrected Their princi-
pal complaints are that they are un-
derpaid and worked too long continu-
ously and that owing to the trivial
character of the complaints which may
be filed against them they are not in
a position to qualify for the good rec
ord bonuses
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
TRADE UNION NOTES.


4 determined effort will be made to
organize UtahS women workers.
Union painters of st. Louis are now
receiving the 30 cent per hour scale.
Convict made goods sold or offered
for sale in Texas must be labelled
"convict made.
About $4,000 is earned annually by
the boys in the cooperative industrial
rourse in the high school at Fitchburg.
Mass
The international Brotherhood Of
Painters will erect monument in
bonor Of its founder John I Elliot,
In Greenmount cemetery Baltimore.
New Hampshire allows a destitute
mother a pension Of so mouth If
she has but one child under sixteen
years ard s. month extra for each
additional child
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
FEARS LABOR INVASION.
Frank Morrison Says indiscriminate
immigration Is an Evil.

immigration - on EVIL
Frank Morrison. secretary Of the
American Federation of Labor, adj
dressing the western labor tmmigra-
ton congress ut Seattle, Wash. de-
nounced ex-President Taft for vetoing
the immigration bin passed year ago
and declared that employers who op-
posed this bill were bent on tearing
down the civilization Of the country to
fatten their own purses"
Mr. Morrison predicted an enormous
fow Of European immigrants TO the
Pacific coast through the Panama ca
nal
When these strangers come-500O00
to 100000 of them the trSt year" he
said. they will have TO find work. Ii
they can't get So day they will take
less. possibly 30 cents. or just enough
to buy bread and avoid starvation BY
admitting these people you are not
only hurting Yourself. but the nations
from which they come If conditions
are bad there the only way they will
ever be bettered will be by forcing the
dissatisfied workers to remain and fight
their own way TO victory"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12

men were doing more work In eight
hours than they formerly had done In
either nine or ten hours.
Some opponents of short hours,
commented the secretary. have car
ried our Illustrations to ridicule. They
argue that If man can do more work
In nine hours than be can do IN ten
and more in eight hours than in nine
he could do more in one hour than in
eight and maybe he could do most by
not working at all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
PATHWAY TO DISASTER.
Overconfdence Has Been the Ruin of
Many Good Man.

Overconfidence Has Been the Ruin of
Many a Good Man.
When the skillful general wishes to
capture fort he often tries to find a
place that the garrison, sure of its
strength. has left unguarded So Wolfe
planned. and so Quebec fell
Many Of those accidentally drowned
are good swimmers, afraid of nothing
in the water
Many a trainer, before a great inter.
collegiate football match. has said that
his team would surely wiD-if\ the
coaches could cure the players Of over
confidence Overconhdence is the sure
forerunner OF disaster
Every boy has seen some wretched
drunkard. with his blear eyes and bro
ken gait his rags and filth shamelessly
and pitifully pleading for a few pen
nies with which to buy drink No
one can look on that sight. common
as il is. without shndder Yet there
was time when every such pitiful be
ing was free from the desire for drink
For time he took his glass IN mader
alton. until suddenly hidden inherit
ance from some ancestor, hitherto un
suspected awoke In him and drove
him headIong No one knows whether
that taint is in his blood Yet every
where men are saying, "Oh. shall
never be a drunkard! ] can take care
of myselfr'
So it was that good swimmers
thought as they swan TO a point be
yond their strength SO 1t was that
the poor wretch thought in the days
when he drank before II was too late
Youths Companion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12
omaha rroIleymen Get Raise.

The Omaha and Council Bluffs Street
Railway company has announced an
increase in wages The employees
on this line on Ian are to receive
a fiat increase of per cent per hour.
After the first of next year the begin
ner in the street railway service will
be paid 24 cents an hour and will have
his pay raised cent an hour each
year until the fifth year. when he will
be receiving 2S cents per hour. After
the tenth year % centS per hour is TO
be paid 1t is claimed that the raise.
to be effective Jan /. will bring the
pay up to cent iii hour more than
was asked in the trolleymen's strike
three years ago
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1913-12-12

Button strikes are frowned lpon
by the conciliation boards of the Mine
Workers union In the PENNSYLVANIA
coal districts.
Postal employees in st. Panl have
organized cooperative company and
opened a store with view of reduc-
ing for themselves the cost of living.
The next meeting of the internation-
al secretariat will be held In San
Francisco in 1918 The international
secretariat is the World Federation of
Labor, in which the federated labor
movements of the countries of the
world ara affiliated