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The Detroit times., 1913-08-09
A Sample Strike

Read the story OF the great silk
mill strike al Paterson. y j., as told
in the Associated Press dispatches
last Monday evening: The last
J.. strike today when the handful
left OF the original 10000 striking silk
mill workers decided 10 90 quietly
back 70 work as fast as the mills can
make places for them. The strikers
are returning TO the wages and the
conditions they left Feb. %, They
have a loss in wages OF $500. 900 to
struggle against, the city OF Pater-
son is out $4,000 spent for extra po-
lice protection, the manufacturers es-
innate their loss at $1,000 900 and adj
nit II may take years for the city TO
regain its prestige as manufacturing
center. The police are thankfully
resting after having made 2S32 ar
rests, lawyers and Judges are hasten
ing strike cases still on the dockets.
armed guards are being slowly with
drawn from the storm centers and
the wheels are turning in all Of the
300 mills affected This takes no ac-
count OF the killed and wounded. Re
turning 10 the wages and conditions
they left Feb. %" How like the de-
nouement in Galsworthys play.
Strife" The Paterson strike was an
I. w. W. strike. The Syndicalists
stole it from the unions and tried the
new tactics and they failed Does
any strike ever win anything directly
for anybody? Even the employers
lose when they win. The strike is
as wicked a waste as war. And yet,
without the union and the strike,
where would wages be?-Reedy's Mir.
ror, ST. Louis, Mo
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09
If Money IS TgM
Bankers Keep FACT Secret

denounced the Standard OH company
as one OF the most vicious trusts, ana
dtcreed that this trust should bee dis
solved Now. either ,his trust has
been dissolved or 10 has not Either
the supreme court meant what IL said,
or 10 did not Either the supreme
court lis potent or IL is impOtent
Either these men are human beings
with minds operating like other men IS
minds or they are doddering Old
dOIos. or-oue other alternative
they are dishonest Ii their minds
operate like ordinary minds We Won
der what they think when they per
ceiVe that their decree OF dissolution
does not dissolve; that It's only re-
suit Is 10 Increase the net earnings
from $4,000 900 10 $1,000 O0U, which
is 20 per cent on the enormous value
of property which has been amassed'
according 20 the supreme count
Through monopoly and oppression.
Within this year the Standard OH
company has increased the price OF
gasoline Nom TO Is cents o gallon
and kerosene from six 20 eight cents
gallon. and thiS i'm spite OF general
Improvement o. business ana large
earnings IL has done this because II
could. and Il could because it is an un-
dissolved monopoly. Ten per cent on
the corporations capital stock would
be ample dividends for any Ouslne s.
SO the additional $50,0oV,0o0 when
have been taken from the people Is
the annual tax Of al oppressive cor
poration which has been dissolved
by the United States supreme court
And yet Justice Day deplores the ten
dency OF the public TO speak disre'
specially of our courts.
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09
History, You Repeater

In India chats far away
TWO angry tribes went ont 10 Stay
\ very cruel beast of prey
Who truly needed Sitting
But as they went TO DO the deed
They found they wholly dlsaEreec
Which was entitled 10 the lead
In this most worthy kllling
And while they paused. with angry
words
The tiger came and ate their herds'
II she would check the Grecian foe
y pass must Persia hold (EOu know
All this was centuries ago,
Romantic in the distance).
But her two leading warriors said,
"Houll have To put me AT the head
And when those views 90 Quarrels lva.
The foe met no resistance.
While they were lighting for command
He walked right IN and took the and
Two honest suitors loved maid
or knickerbocker's highest grade,
A crooked person too displayed
\ Keen desire TO win her
said one, I'm tell her all the truth
About this Mr. Tigprtootb
"Oh. no. remarked the other youth,
Let me unmask the sinner
And while they quarreled which should
She went and we'd the crooked Teller,
How often since the person man
His little game of grab began
The cry of Loyal 20 the clan"
Has merely hid ambition
historians rehukes bestoW
Upon defenders who said, "Ho'
III lead, or else yuu'N see the zoe
Divide this opposition"'
But that was In the days OF yore.
II couldn't happen any more,
John O'Keefc
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09

would be foine, wouldn't it,"
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09

Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall
For girl. just a girl,
Just a girl who holds in thrall
Hearts of men, both great and small
King and yassal duke and earl.
Kingdoms rise and Kingdoms fall,
And it's all about a girl,
Just a girl.
q have sung this song before
OF girl--just girl"
Yes, I've sung it Ger and Ger
And I'll doubtless sing some more.
And who stops me is churl-
! have sung this song before?
Well, who wants 10 make a roar,
When It's all about a girl,
Just a girl.
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09

ms 10 " ANT MS
q ldric % reserve
currency The sec
Rotary OF the treas
url has twice tried
10 pass n oUt 90
the bankers. hear
ilg their wall that
money is eight
The law provides
that they can put
mp bonds as securi-
Ties. and McAaoo
has even offered TO
accept prime com
mercial paper, al
though there Is
nothing i'm the las
Df 1907 which can
be- construed as
giving any author
lty for the accept
ince OF ANY such
security. and yet
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09

Why is Billy glum and sad?
Just a girl--just girl,
Just a girl he wanted bad,
But who didn't love the lad.
so, amid the busy whirl,
Bill-poor devil's-glum and sad
And it's all about a girl,
Just a girl.
Why is Jimmie full OF Joy?
Just a girl--just a girl
just a girl who loves the boy.
Hence his rapture, sans alloy,
And his very soul a-whirl:
Lucky Jim-he's full of Joy
And It's all about a girl,
Just a girl.
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09
Is a. @(:sg, M@ROcEBass
l-sA he Reviews Casey for Three NIiLJ
|gNN2 Cent a Delicate ThM8A
~AN&u E %8
BY TOM MAY

ELL take the
a
'O had rock stockin'
oh thin We fT
Casey.
D. r.. said Grogan.
sadC Casey" IN
that I all bout"
Well said On tried
tell half III
in rland
But tn back than last
election William
1T agreement L 81
his
But he wild problem
unmely political
But loike buckin
would
got
his proposition he looked oke tn ma-arket place Belfast tn
twelfth
Thin he declared called tn popace change their
nkel d. t. conductor
a he
rs peek ay his cap"
sadC Casey la would be wouldn't
The Detroit times., 1913-08-09
80 GLLNON GINnNER-

WASHINGTON, Aug s.-McAdoo ,
money is COINS begging Nobody
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Philander Knox's Prisoners

Philander Knox, Secretary of State,
is working the immigration laws to
the limit. He has Cipriana Castro
cooped up on Ellis Island on the gen.
eral ground that he is an "undesira-
BILE alien" No one claims that he is
an anarchist or black handler, or that
he has any scheme of Venezuelan
revolution up his sleeve. Philander
simply says he is an undesirable alien,
and he is trying to hetchel him until
he returns in disgust to Europe, but
this is just what Castro does not pro-
pose to do. His fighting blood is
arounsed. No one but Philander Knox,
the man of blunders innumerable,
would confine Castro to Ellis Island.
Mr.. Knox has accumulated at Ellis
Island another undesirable citizen in
the person of Edward Mylius, the Bel
gian newspaper man. Mylius printed
the story that King George had mar
ried daughter of Admiral Seymour
before he became King. The story was
disproved, but a King cannot be
libelled, for he is above the law. 1t
was an attempt to upset the King, an
act of sedition in other words, and
sedition is a political offense. He con-
tinues, however, to hold Mylius at
Ellis Island, and nothing but the near
ending of his power keeps that island
from being overcrowded with men
that Philander Knox does not admire.
He admires standpatters and reac-
tionarfes only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14

mural decorations in Memorial hall. Rich
mond. Va. and $4,000 for miscellaneous
philanthrophy.
Mrs. Russell sage continues to be ae-
tive in philanthropic work and among
her gifts last year were s65,O0o for he
completion of Holder hall in Princeton
university: $4,000 to Syracuse university
for its agricultural school; $25,0Oo TO Co.
lumbia university; $4,000 to the New YORK
Women's league for animals; 5000 for the
In the Balkans; 5000 to the Audubon so
partment; $1,000 to the Turkish wouhoeo
in the Balkans; 5000 to the Audubon So
ciety; $500 for Marsh Island, La, FOR a
refuge for birds and a substantial dona-
ton to the southern flood relief commit
tee.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave sl'ooo'vo
for a psychological laboratory to ald III
rescuing women from a life of crime soO,-
600 TO fight white slavery, and $4,000 70
Brown university.
Mrs. ]. Jarrett Blodgett gave sl2o,9oo
to the cathedral of St. John the Divine.
TT was announced that George F. Ba-
ker of New York, member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the southern rail-
way, would finance an alliance for medl-
cal research between the Cornell Universe
ty Medical college and the New York hos
pital: 1t is estimated that this gift will be
81 100000.
These great benefactions show the
trend of mind and the wide range of sym
pathy of the plutocratic folks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14

From the Holland Magazine.
Bill Buck, young negro, was before
Justice Greer the other day, charged with
stealing a 'shootin' IRON from Ellis
Houston. He had just completed 80 days
for carrying the gun. The squire asked
him how he wanted to plead on the new
charge.
Nights we'll say guilty. said Buck.
"A niger don't get no show in this
country, nohow.''
Don't. eh?" said the court. Nicholas
0he constable) you skirmish around and
pick up dozen or two likely colored
men for jury service and be quick. Wen
show him.
In half an hour the constable had the
little court room full of grinning negroes
of all shapes and sizes. Happy anticipa-
tion was written on the dusky faces.
Every one of them knew Buck from his
days of pickaninnyism up, and Buck
knew they knew. He glared at the ebony
crowd and then turned sullenly to the
court.
IF yous goin' ter make all dat russ
over two-bit popgun," he said. Il pleads
guilty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
SOMETHING AWFUL.

From the New York Sun.
A hush of expectancy, as the books say,
in London. Hardly the, most sensi-
tive ear, straining, catch the roar and
thunder rattle and screech of the motor
buses and Bernard Shaw. Everything is
quiet except the petticoated Bellonas and
Penthesileas. They are playing their new
game of Hunt the Cabinet" They have
sworn to kidnap member of the govern
ment Mr.. Asquith and the rest of his
long prosecuted flock might be said to be
in hiding II there were on ground or be-
meath or above it any lurking place. crypt
or tower recess TO screen them from
tcese merciless trackers.
The militant avengers flop down CHM
neys and bob up from trapdoors. Bolts
cannot exclude them. Cupboards fly open
to them. The pursued shave in feverish
anxiety and with trembling hand. Can
detectives, boobies, yeomanry, household
troops, anybody save them?
Who will be the victim? What will be
his doom? What If Winston Churchill
were selected; and dreadly punished by
being compelled to listen for days to his
own and Lloyd Georges speeches?
Chains are clanlSing in Downing street.
The ministry has been made fast for its
own protection.
p. S.-Miss PanShurst has swooped
down upon the house secretary and cot
away with him in an aeroplane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
The New Amusement

THE latest and most popular form of
amusement is the tabloid musical COM
edy," said Ernest Looney, for years
the popular treasurer at the Bijou thea
tre II have been travelling through the
south a great deal recently, and l have
dropped into the various theatres, and
everywhere l find the call for tabloid
musical comedy strong and persistent
II have seen several of these tab
loids recently In Knoxville, Nashville,
Chattanooga and other cities, and the
theatres were packed to their utmost
capacity at every performance. In one
theatre where the weeks businss used
to be around $1,000 the tabloid musical
comedies are drawing as much as $1,000
and even $500 In week. That shows
that the public in the south wants this
class of entertainment.
Birmingham has always been a big
musical comedy town, and l predict that
the tabloid musical comedy sandwiched
in with the best class of family vaude-
vile will be an immense hit here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Pure Food and Drugs for the People

Pure Food and Drugs Tor the feopie
DR.. Bigelow has succeeded DR.. Doc
little on the board of food and drug
inspection, but DIR. Bigelow is an old
official of the bureau of chemistry.
So for that matter is DR.. Alsberg,
who has become chief of the bureau
of chemistry. Both have been trained
in the methods of Secretary Wilson.
The pure food and drugs act VIII
never be fully enforced by these old
officials trained as thy have been to
wink at transgressions of the law by
favored manufacturers. The country
is full of impure canned food and other
articles which are as freely purchased
by the rank and file of the people.
There is but one sure way to en-
force the pure food and drugs act,
and that way consists in placing DR..
Harvey w. Wiley prominently in the
department of agriculture. The bare
announcement of DIR. Wiley's appoint
ment would be notice to all users OF
benzoic acid and other harmful pre-
servatives to quit at once such prac-
tices. None of them are necessary
when sound articles are to be canned.
1t is the canning of odds and ends of
a factory that renders strong preserv-
atives necessary.
The rank and file will be benefited
BY the appointment of DIR. Wiley, and
no one understands the food and drug
situation better than does the Presi-
dent-elect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14

ican youth still has his beef hash and
hot cakes. 1t is a further noteworthy
fact that the interest in delicaeies in
creases rather than decreases. The
cook book is still one of the best sell
lers. Correspondence cooking schools
are coming to be more and more IN
vogue. Marion Harland, with her
tempting recipes" was popular 20
years ago, but she is 100 times more
widely read today than ever. Men as
well as women call for pie, la mode,
plum pudding and the like.
The suffragette movement has
made headway and in several states
of the union women are full fledged
voters. They might seem more man
nish perhaps were they to affect
contempt for custards and jellies as
some of them are lerning to scorn
paint and powder and gay millinery.
But so long as the majority Oh peoPie
have red corpuscles in their blood it
may be accepted as certain that they
have spent little time in Fletcherizing
or in studying the predigested food
bill Of fare.
The best cooking does not neces-
sarily include rich food but the two
naturally go together. Civilization
will never march far enough to change
human nature or to find healthy men
and women without an appetite for
beef and potatoes, OF flesh and blood
mortals who have lost the sweet tooth.
And most of US are optimistic enough
to think that the old ways are best
for most people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Weather Predictions

"The goose bone prophet as well as
the United States weather bureau some-
times goes wrong in his forecast said
a citizen. Il used to go by what the
weather wise man, otherwise the goose
bone prophet, said but henceforth I shall
be very sl1eptical.
In November Birmingham's goose
bone prophet was very bold in forecast
ing December weather. And his forecast
came true. But recently he told US that
we would have very cold weather early
IN January. In that prediction he has
failed utterly. This month is now two
weeks gone and we have barely had a
freeze. He told us that the temperature
would be down nearly to zero before the
end of the month and that February
would be very cold month My guess
is that the rest of the winter will be
mild. OF course, we are apt to have
some rough weather between now and
Easter, but comparatively little tenn
perature below % degrees
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Sending Liquors to Dry Districts

On February 10 the Senate will vote
on the Sheppard-Kenyon bill which
prohibits the shipment in the course
Of interstate commerce of liquors to
"dry" districts. The bill was favorably
reported by the Senate judiciary COM
mittee, after its passage through the
House. The vote on February 10 will
will determine it's fate.
The law in short gives the state
full control over liquors which have
been shipped in interstate commerce,
upon their arrival within the borders
Of the state, and yet the courts have
left undecided the vital question
whether liquor shipped in any form
from a dealer in one state direct to
a buyer in another state may be sub
jected to the laws of the latter state
before the consignment of liquor
reaches the purchaser. Nor is it yet
settled that a citizen in 'dry" dis
trict, who may purchase liquor from
another state and have it shipped to
him for his own use, and with no in
tent on the part of the buyer to vio-
late the laws of his state enacted
against the manufacture and sale
within such state of intoxicating
liquors, is not acting within his con-
stitutional rights.
The point has been made in connec-
ton with this discussion that until
every state in the Union has enacted
laws which prohibit the manufacture
and sale of liquors, or until state
has actually prohibited the drinking
of liquors by any citizen within its
borders, it is not possible for Con-
gress, even making allowance for the
broad powers embraced within the
commerce clause of the constitution,
to pass laws which shall attach state
laws to interstate commercesor which
contain the elements of the proposition
that interstate commerce may be in
terfered with either by Congress or
by the state in the transportation of
products that are not subject to such
inhibition as has been imposed by
Congress upon diseased meats, lottery
tickets, explosives or other articles
VIGOROUSLY recognized as so injurious
to the public health and safety as to be
legitimate objects of the laws of Con-
gress against the transportation of
such articles in the commerce between
the states.
1t is an old battle that is being
fought out-a battle between the
police powers of the state and the
commerce clause of the United States
constitution. One side claims that
liquors should be classed with dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14

eased meats, lottery tickets and the
like, and the other side claims that
liquors are legitimate objects of in
terstate traffic, especially when sent
in an unbroken package by consign-
or in one state to a consignee in an
other.
No doubt the questions involved
will be warmly discussed now that the
Archibald trial is ended, and the dis
cussion bids fair to last to February
10, when the final vote will be taken
on it in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
The FIonznIey Programme

1T is a safe prediction that the Flon-
zaley quartet will draw the largest au-
dience at the Jefferson theatre next Sun
day afternoon seen in Birmingham
in recent years outside of a May festi-
VAL said an old music lover
The fame of the Flonzaley organiza-
tion is so great as to make the name
a household word. The artists compos-
ing the quartet are so fine as to leave
nothing to be desired on the part of
the audience. In this country and Eu-
rope where they have appeared the
Flonzaleys are accorded unstinted praise
both by critics and those who are classed
merely as amusement goers.
THE programme arranged for Bir-
mingham is exceptionally attractive
Haydn quartet in B major, that heav-
emily andante cantabile with variations
from Beethoven's quartet in A major and
the celebrated Tschaikowsky quartet in
D major which is now all the rage,
SO to speak. Yes, that is a great pro-
gramme. Mr.. Richard F. Johnston, in
writing of it in the Ledger, well says:
The opening will be in the limpid and
chaste style of Haydn, succeeded by the
grandeur of Beethoven and that in turn
by the spirited and romantic witchery
of Tschaikowsky. The four artists are
absolutely the best in the world, ac-
cording to reputable critics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Civilization and Good Eating

The march of civilization has been
accompanied by radical changes of
one sort and another affecting the
body polite and creature comforts.
Great progress has been made in
science, and within the past 25 years
chemistry and electrical engineering
have made such marvellous strides as
almost to revolutionize commerce and
society. Cultural standards have been
raised and ethics and esthetics have
both been technically classified and
reduced to a science. Psychology,
which used to be term chiefly con-
fined to the French and the German
savant is now a pat word in the public
school.
Along with the progress of science
has come the accumulation of vast
fortunes. There were rich men in an
cient times but the millionaire and the
multi-millionaire and the money pow
er are modern products. This is indeed
q high pressure age. But it is note
worthy fact that there has been no
appreciable change in the home life
of the average we'll ordered modern
family. Boys and girls grow up with
healthy minds and healthy bodies. A
few may indulge in predigested
breakfast foods but the normal Amer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
Holding Compaaies in New Jersey

Holding Companies in New Jersey
The President-elect is not SO busy
holding conferences with United
States senators that he is not attend
ing to business closely in New Jersey.
He is at present consulting with Chan
cellor Walker, the highest judicial
officer in New Jersey, in an endeayor
tn nrepare a bill to drive out OF the
state all holding companies, and es-
pecially those that hold watered
stocks. These holding companies are
the very foundation of monopoly, and
Governor Wilson hopes to induce the
New Jersey legislature to drive them
out of that state.
Governor Wilson thinks that the
holding company has no excuse Tor
existence. It is not an operative COM
pany. It develops nothing. 1t is SIM
nlv scheme to render feasible monop-
oly in some form. He maintains that
a really honest and desirable holding
company does not exist, and not one
does exist that is not based on undue
downright monopoly. If Governor VIII
son succeeds in driving them out OF
New Jersey he will have accomplished
a work that will prove popular before
his term is ended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
HOLLY SONG

BY William Shakespeare.
Blow. blow, thou Winter winde,
Thou art not so unkinde,
As mans ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keene,
Because thou art not scene.
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh no, sing Neigh no, unto the
greene holly
Most friendships fayning; most Low
ing meere folly;
Then heigh no, the holly,
This life is most jolly.
Freize, freise. thou bitter skie
That dost not blight so nigh
AS benefits forgot;
Though thou the waters warpe,
Thy sting is not so sharpe,
AS friend remembered not.
Heigh ho, sing heigh no, unto tho
greene holly.
Most friendship is fayning; most Lovi
ing mere folly:
Then heigh ho, the holly,
This Life is most jolly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
nIEEERENCE IN LOCATION

From the Washington Star.
John Drew, the actor. at the age of
SO looks no more than 50. Complimented
on this fact. Mr.. Drew said;
Il try to keep my hair on and my
stomach off-that is the true secret of
perennial youth"
Then he told one of his famous
stories illustrative of the horrors OF
corpulence.
"A fat man." he said. could not help
laughing one day at the ludicrous aps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
a lie can run forever without getting
out of breath.
Patriotism is no job for man with
a weak voice.
A good foundation for one mans sue
cess seems to be the failing OF many
others.
A man thinks he's hero when ne ii
let the baby have the hot water. ne
wanted to shave with.
The way woman grows more beau
tifur is to be in a favorite photograph
that doesn't look like her.