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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24
An Appeal. To
Debauchery

Much has been said and written
about the glowing advertisements of
the military to induce young men to
enlist in the army and navy.
The recruiting officer. having failed
to induce sufficient number of young
men to enlist in the service of our
capitalistic war forces by talking OF
god wages, education, travel, and
chances for promotion, has struck upon
new device of appealing to the most
depraved and immo1al instincts of
the animal nature.
In the past few months have travel
ed, from Florida to North Dakota, and
have seen in many Post Offices in
all this wide range of territory an
army poster that ought to arouse the
indignation and sense of shame in the
mind of every decent father and
mother Of boys eligible to service.
The poster in question, among othe,
alluring pictures, portrays the soldier
boys in some coast town being enter
tanned by the lewd dances Of some of
the denizens of the red light districts.
That this poster has the desired eff
feet was we'll illustrated to me &
few days ago when one of the social
ist comrades in a small North Dakota
town told of conversation he over
heard between two young men who
were looking at the poster when one
Of them remarked, pointing at the
lewd women. There is where we can
have a good time" There is no doubt
what the young man meant by good
time.
You fathers and mothers, go down to
your Post Office and look at this poster
put before your sons, printed in lewd
pictures that they may have an op-
portunity while travelling with the
navy to participate in the most dan
gerous profiigacy.
Now another word. What has be
come of all those prudish sex purity
fanatics who are so keen to discover
immortality in the plain scientific
teachings in sociology, and whose fool
ish censorship compels sane, educa-
eional articles on the sex question to
be eliminated from worthy magazines?
Why are these prudish hypocrites
silent while the demoralizing influ-
ences of the money lust force our re-
cruiting officers to advertise debauch-
cry as an Involvement to get our young
men to enlist for lagalized murder?
These canting hypocrites who cry
out that socialism is immoral and will
debauch the youth of the land had
better pay more attention to cleaning
up the present dirty system of its
social filth, before they pose as models
of virtue and censors OF public morals.
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with the message of Socialism is meet
ing with gratifying results
According to the Progressive Wo-
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among party members to the need of
making women Socialists is unprece-
denied. Already, officials in service of
the Socialist party have made many
inquiries of the Progressive Women
for suggestions and information as to
the best means of reaching women and
getting them to join the party organi-
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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24
Nay Day BY AUGUST BebtI

The first of May, the feast day OF
the International working class move.
ment, is here. Throughout the civiliz-
60 world the workers are uniting to
propagate their ideals and press for
WORD their practical demands on pres
enl society. So close your ranks.
This universal feast has made e1or.
nous strides in the course Of the
eNenty-tour years which have elapsed
S,nce the International Congress OF
r rSrls. In 1889 decided to celebrate it
me number of countries that are cele
SSraung 1.-The first of May Is increasing
way Day Is becoming more and more
Worldwide event; The day Of inter
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY.
By Jean Jaures

For the .twenty-fifth time. May Day,
this year, reunites in one international
demonstration the organized working
class Of the two worlds in their affirm
alton of solidarity without distinction
of frontiers, and in mighty declara-
ton of their determination to over
throw the forces which plumber and
murder their class, and endanger the
peace of the world.
At this moment when the struggle
between Capitalism and Labor is at
it's height
At this moment when Government
places more and more at the disposal
of privilege and Capitalism all their
forces, both military and police, in
order to suppress the workers who
are claiming a little more of their
due
At this crisis it is imperative that
organized workers everywhere should
signify to the Capitalist classes that
they have tolerated long enough a
regime founded on the bondage and
subsection of the producers,
Let us be stirring, so that on May
Day we may demonstrate in one body
that the workers of all countries are
ready to recover their rights; ready
also to oppose the plots Of Capitalism,
and of Governments which endanger
international peace.
Let us affirm with vigor our demand
for the limitation of working hours
to eight day.
Let us prove by our action that the
working class will not rest content
until it has secured the complete con-
troll Of the means of production and
exchange, and possession Of which is
the condition Of its emancipation.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24
heFirst ofMay
By Camille Huysmans
Secretary ofthe International Socialist
Bureau

We are passing through a splendid
period of working class unrest More
and more the workers army is solidi-
flying and consolidating its 'organiza-
ton in a way that makes for its we'll
being, prepares the way for its emanci-
patton, and imposes its policy of peace
between the nations upon the world.
Every year. on the first Of May, we
review our army which has now reach
ed the the goodly number of just upon
ten million welldisciplined soldiers,
representing families which may be
counted as $4,000, 900 people.
The history of the world has never
seen since the birth of Christianity
such an intense movement, nor one
which has made its influence felt SO
rapidly.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24

Glance over the advertising columns
o. ne Ma9ortty today. ana Gee wac
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24

equality and everything which makes
for the realization Of every human as
|piration.
Cheers for the international
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-04-24
Care Of the Body.

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We without merchants
food Many Of them have not yet resumed and
many may never people living those towns well regular
patrons we located far above the highest
We are ready mail article want All goods sent
subject the you're not pleased
cases of 81
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

birth of the chapel Interests. The
word church" there means, of course,
the established Episcopal building. The
village clergyman of that order has not
yet often Joined in the movement for
general welfare. But within the congre-
cation of the chapel, whether Meth
odist, Baptist, Independent or what not
the decision has been reached to wVk
under a common name, with liberty to
differ on those things that historically
have divided Christian folk. A beginning
has been made, but the movement has
not reached its zenith. The Council of
Free Churches has brought this about
In some notable cases the name of the
local body has become 1.-The Free church"
and in that body are representatives of
all sects. In America the new move
ment has already become familiar to all
who look at the religious papers. The
Federal Council already exists and has
made great impression on the imagina-
ton of American Professionalism. At Buff
falo N " the other day delegates from
AZ churches, including II different de-
nominations and representing over $4,000
communicates unanimously created
local federation for the purpose of dom
mating the civic conscience of that city.
This 1 gather from the current number
of .'The Congregationalist and Christian
World" Side by side with that record
are some other striking instances of the
same spirit
great nterdenominati ational effort to
establish broad and unsectarian churches
among the Chinese. Japanese and Hin
dus, especially along the Pacific coast
employing three travelling evangelists,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

Alabama rural church, is not difficult
The rural community cries for better
schools, better farms, better living con-
ditions, better health more social unity.
more wholesome and more intelligent
grasp of the things that make for we'll
being. Boys and girls who grow up in
The rural community should have as
great facility for learning and training
in manual arts, as the city child. They
should have the same inspiration to make
the most of life. Their homes should be
well supplied with incentives to read.
Mothers and fathers should be lured
along the path of culture. Rural Sunday
schools should supply something more
than a vague exhortation to "be good
and please papa and mamma" Here is
a challenge to the Christian churches of
this land. The outstanding question is.
Can they do the work? In other terms it
is the q .stion, will they pay the price +?
No doubt can exist as to the price
which must be paid. 1t is new sort
of pastor for these rural communities,
a man with the social vision, who will
therefore care more for the Kingdom of
1pu III titc ONll Hti6bDoi ilOOu lHdH lDI lH6
adventitious additions of members to his
church roll. He must be willing to drop
his denomination while he lifts on the
tremendous burden at his feet. He must
be the pastor of the whole community,
at all costs, OF sinners as wei las saints,
of the dry as wei las the wet, of hetero-
dox as well as orthodox. He must be
willing to disregard unreal distinctions,
to deal with spiritual factors in a Who'll
ly spiritual, wholly physical problem 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

but he proved not to be an apt scholar
in Indanology. He had courted the good
will of the chief of Chicasaws. and had
been requited by a return of civility,
but the Spanard really had contempt
for Indian character and contempt al
ways clouds justice, and when exercised
leads often to serious error.
Now that he was about to quit his en-
campment, DeSoto made a peremptory
order on the Chicasaw chief for 200 of his
ablest men to become his burden bearers.
The Chicasaws were the proudest and
most arrogant of the Indian tribes, and
rather than be humbled, they preferred
death AS allies they were valuable, as
foes formidable.
On the receipt OF the order from Desc
to. the gentleness Of the lamb was turned
into the wrath of the Hon, but he wisely
eurbed his spirit and sent an evasive an
swer not without a dignified phase of
manliness, and an expression of remind
fllness that DeSoto did himself slight
credit by failing to understand the stuff
of which himself the chief. was made
This was not the first time that DeSoto
had encountered men in these western
wilds who were wiser than he took him
self to be. DeSoto saw too late that he
had turned loose a storm which he might
not be able to manage. Moscoso was
summoned, told to be on his guard. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

well being are impinging upon these Sec
tartan tendencies, compelling unity for
common interests. And with this is the
rev understanding of true religion as
something belonging to all the denomi-
national types. There is also a new sim
iarity in services or rituals of worship,
new identity of doctrine, new edu-
cation of the clergy of all denominations
in a common seminary. They all are in
debt to the same great authors, the same
Scottish or German teachers. More and
more of them have the same conception
of the ministry, not as a preaching or d
visiting function. but as the dedication
of life to human welfare.
But up to the present the crossroads
preacher has not been greatly Influenced
by Scottish or German teachers, nor by
the newer sense of the universal church.
| have even known one crude and youth
full whpper-snapper from a denomina-
tional college, proclaiming within these
last few weeks that there was only one
safe way to risk death, namely in full
communion with his brand of church
am glad to report that the church door
was closed against this hardy zealot by
the village folk, who clearly knew more
than he. Still we face our question:
How shall the rural community be
served?
There is a way already tested in Anglo
Saxon villages and being worked satis-
factoriy. 1t is the way of Christian lib
erty and cooperative kindness. Long
ago. in The Age-Herald, told of its in
ception in the villages of England. 1t
simply meant for those villages new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
THE CLOSING SCENE-No 8-By B. F Riley D.

There was no more sleep in the Span
ish camp that night. Moscoso was sum
moned, roundly abused, and cashiered
in the presence of the troops and Belt
ecar was appointed in his stead After
burying his dead, DeSoto set out on D
renewed march, encountred resistance
again at Alilome where after another
fierce engagement he routed the en-
emy, but lost 15 more men, making in
all s15 of the 500 with whom he started
and in May, 1541, reached the Missis-
sippi river of which he is the reputed
discoverer. Here he fingered a year,
making an excursion into Arkansas,
and on his return was stricken with
swamp fever. His system was i'll pre-
pared for this attack, and from the
first he was aware that he must die.
He summoned his men about. him. re-
stored Moscoso to command begged
his men to be subject to the new COM
mander, and yielded to the last foe
death.
To prevent the possible mutilation OF
his body, his men hewed out a coffin
from the trunk of a huge oak, placed
the body within 1t, sealed it securely
and bore 1t to the middle of the deep
Mississippi and lowered 1t in its cur
rent Thus died this chivalrous son Of
Spain, and though monster of cruelty.
none in the annals of that ill-fated
land was ever braver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
CHURCH-No 3-By George Eaves D. D.

is his business to save the nation from
irreligion, so far as he reaches the ma
ton. But irreligion is fostered by sec.
tartan ZEAL even when sectarian zeal be-
comes most intense. 1t repels those
most worth winning To use the forces
of the church for men, the Sabbath for
manhood, the prayer meeting as bless
ing to the farm, the Sunday school as an
instrument of sanitation, worship as an
Incentive to social unity. hymns as an ex-
ercise in intellectual growth-these are
lines of his ambition.
But someone says, "All that is a mill
lennial dreaml''
Then, | retort, the welfare of the Ala
bama rural folk is millenial dream.
But l am persuaded better things will
come, things that accompany saliva
tion,' when the COW and the bear shall
feed, and their young ones lie down to-
gether" It only remains to drive home
upon all church leaders the question,
Who is the Bull and who the Bear in
the spiritual stock market. wherein those
who get mauled and feeced are the
children and the homes of the village
and the crossroads. Surely 1t were better
that a great millstone should be hanged
around the neck of our stupid schisms
than that one of these rural little ones,
the generation to come, should stumble
or perish!
Have l made it clear? / do not ask
the denominations to gather in solemn
conclave and pass resolutions of mutu>2
good will and aspirations after what is
called denominational comfy. That way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

while the dry wattled cane of which the
huts were built lent loud detonations by
the explosion of their joints. The fire
tipped arrows. Desoto later learned, was
by the use of a decoction from certain
herbs known only to these Indians as a
means of occasioning fire.
Springing from his couch. Desoto was
the first to gain his horse, and a cav
elier mounted his own at the same
moment With sword and lance they
spurred their horses into the midst
of the host of savages dealing death
with every moment. Half-dressed the
other troopers followed in quick sue
cession, and soon the camp was the
scene of a hand to- hand fight DeSoto
had failed to fasten the girth of his
saddle sufficiently, and by a sudden
turn of his horse in one of his desper-
ate sallies, he was thrown hard to the
ground, Just as he had laid an Indian
low. He was speedily rescued by his
men. and securing his girth, he fought
as never before While the fight was
at Its height. 80 of his men chose the
moment as an opportune one to desert.
but BeSoto had them brought back,
and join in the fray The Indians were
routed, but not till 40 Spaniards had
been killed This had the effect of
welding the Spaniards afresh, and ended
all INSTRUMENTATION.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

tion by severel nightly visits to the pig
pens. and by a stealthy appropriation of
some of the choicest rooters DeSoto was
willing to divide, but protested against
his pig stys becoming the prey of nightly
marauders. His men lay in wait for the
red rogues. who caught three, two of
whom they killed, and in order to ad-
vertise a warning to future offenders,
cut off the hands of the third at the wrist
and set him free. This was one exception
to the rule working both ways The
Spaniards had never scrupled to steal
from the Indian, TO take by force what
ever might please them. hut so soon as
somebody's else OK was gored the rule
of roguish reciprocity ceased its opera
tion. The standard of the Spanlard was
might makes right. An early spring
came with its balmness, its singing birds
and first blossoms, and DeSoto was actu-
ated to move onward, and yet he was re-
luctant to quit the ease of so many
tmonths. He was worn down by the strain
to which he had so long been subjected.
He sought to rally himself but his gait
had lost much of its elasticity, his eye
was not so lustrous. and the stylus of care
had marked deep crowfeet on his brow.
Whatever there was of nobleness in him
was turned into a sense of sternness.
Presuming that he knew the Indian
character. he had lost much already,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20

lets enframe her fair round face. and her
eyes, blue as the sky on a cloudless morn
ing in May, sparkle with merriment, while
her laughter suggests the ripple of a
musioally flowing fountain, l see an
face is the picture of childish mirth and
mischief, and from whose mouth front
milk tooth is gone; she is arrayed in
the remains of a royal purple satin dress,
emitting the odor of camphor; this dress
was worn for the first time by the beau
tiful lady, whose portrait hangs on the
drawing room wall downstairs, at a re-
ception in Washington in 1854, when Pres
ident Pierce escorted her around the hall.
and where she met jefferson Davis, at
that time Secretary of Wharf.-The latter
acquaintance was renewed when Presi-
dent Davis came to Richmond to live.
Then the other children-but 1 have no
space here for them. All. there was fun
in the attic doldrum. for everything was
at hand to satisfy the childish love of
nerriment!
There was one article of furniture in
that doldrum that children Of this day
know little of. 1t often became an imagi-
nary boat or train of carsl 1t was the
truEdle bed A trundle bed was a low
bedstead were high enough from the floor
was rolled under the high bedstead and
at night wheeled out and prepared for
the children The high bcdstead was
usually of mahogany and surmounted
with a tester, and the side pieces Of the
bedtsead were high enough from the floor
TO admit of the trundle beds passing
backward and forward 1t was always a
Joy to be able to sleep in the trunule
bed, for that meant to be near mother
all through the darkness Of the night
and when the time came for the child to
sleep elsewhere and to give up his trundle
bed, many a night the little fellow would
sob himself to sleep. All, what sacrec
recolleciions are awakened by the old
trundle bed
LAS / rummaged through the attic,
Listening to the falling rain
AS 1t pattered on the shingles
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to get ready for the worst. DeSoto i'm
pressed him with the Importance of the
utmost vigilance, but Moseoso saw moth
ing in it all and continued lax.
Though the trees were budding and the
young leaves were peeping from their CO.
verts, there came on one of the last
nights in March one of those cold snaps
to which this latitude is subject. A cold
wind roared from the north and furious
ly soughed through the trees. In its
suddennness the Sapiards made unusual
preparation for comfort that night, and
huddled together on their hunks of straw
and dried leaves. The camp was as silent
as cemetery save the bowling of the
wind The fires had died down, and the
men were fast asleep. Suddenly there
came a din of confusion rarely heard,
mingled with the bowling of the wind.
From four different quarters came the
sound of the beating of wooden drums,
the hoarse notes of sea shells. and the
unearthly shrieks of thousands of war
riors. When the sleepers awolle the roofs
of dry hay were afire, and the Indians
were already in the camp. They had
wisely chosen that terrible night for the
extinction of the invaders, and on moth
ing less were they bent. The Spaniards
had often had recourse to fire, and the
Indians thought they would test it's vir-
tue. Fire tipped arrows shot into the
straw matched roofs had fired them,