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WOMAN FORMS A BATTALION.

ed out lot of corruption in municipal
and local governments, and he did
more than any one has ever done to
humanize the administration of the
poor law since that system was Great
ed to take the place of the charities
of the suppressed monasteries in the
time of Queen Elizabeth.
There is no doubt that John Burns
felt keenIy his being pushed into the
background. When the writer says
he is vain man he uses the word
vain" for want of better, and not
in any invidious sense. +. cry one who
knows Burns knows that he has "a
guild conceit of himself" He fully
realizes what a tremendous feat he
has accomplished in rising in England
from the position of errand boy in a
candle factory to that of cabinet min
lister. privy councilcr and trusted ad-
wiser of the king. He has no hesita-
ton in telling any one all about it,
not in boasting manner. but as one
might talk of some one else who de-
served credit for something he had
done. On top of that he knew that
he was doing really good work in his
department and he felt that to be
shelved was a great injustice.
Another factor in Burns eclipse, or
rather in deciding his action, was per-
haps that like many "selfmade" men.
he is just a wee bit of a snob. John
Burns was immensely pleased at the
attention showed him by royalty. First
King Edward and then King George
really took him into their circle of per-
sonal friends. Both father and son
realized the value to them of Burns
experience of all classes of their sub
jects. and both enjoyed his blunt hon
esty of speech. for although he de-
lighted in the company of kings, Burns
was no lip server and always told
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her after the war he will find me a
full private, and I'll have to salute him.
Good luck to him! I'll be glad to do so,
out of the drawing room while he does
his courting."
This anti-aircraft corps is one of the
many examples of the efficient way in
which the British government is
making use of all the available mate
rial human and otherwise, at Its COM
mand. 1t is composed of professional
men of all kinds. doctors. lawyers,
journalists and men of every trade
who are too old or whose family or
business ties prevent their going to
the front They are not compelled to
give up their business. for their duty
is arranged in four-hour shifts each
day and every effort is made to ac-
commodate the mans shift to his hours
of work A friend, who is an editorial
writer on a newspaper. does his duty
from 4 to pm. every day, and then
comes on to his Office in uniform to
do his work.
One of the men who has enrolled in
this corps is George Grossmith, the
actor, who is almost as well known in
America as in England. The men are
trained to work a special high angle
gun throwing shrapnel and are armed
as well with rifles. They are perched
on the roofs of high buildings in varl-
Gus parts of the metropolis.
One of the best stories of the war
concerns well known American
newspaper man, Ed Cleary of Ken
lucky, who has been acting as CORE
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An Irish Brigade, Fully Differed by Irishmen, Is
Obtained by John Redmond-Trade Unions
and the Government-Warring Nations
Sweeping the World for Horses-Estimated
That Each Trooper Has Already Used Three
Mounts-Busy Lord Kitchener.

have it's headquarters at Mallow. Coun-
ty Cork Gen Sir Lawrence w. Par
sons. an Irishman, has been appointed
to the command.
Every effort is being made by the
Sim Fein element to hamper enlist
ment, and one of the most subtle was
the circulation last week of rumor
that the militia ballot act was about to
be put in force in ireland. This is con-
scription pure and simple, and 1T was
insdiously pointed out that 1t was
only going to be applied to Ireland.
OF course. there was not word OF
truth in it and it was promptly de-
MED.
One of the interesting side issues OF
the war is the improved position Of the
trade unions Not so very long ago in
England trade unions were an Illegal
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ponent than Burns, who never hesitat-
ed to declare that he considered it i'm
practical and injurious to the best in
terests of labor. Besides this the labor
party has no more use for a pacifst
than the two great parties. 1t threw
over its two oldest and most trusted
leaders, Keir Hardie and Ramsay Mac
donald. because they. were opposed to
the war and elected as chairman of the
party Arthur Henderson, who has three
sons serving in the new army.
In the whole party not a single man,
except Hardie and Macdonald, raised
his voice against the war and all the
labor NJ. P.s are speaking nightly
throughout the country on the recruit
ing platforms.
1t seems certain that John Burns
career as a politician is ended. He will
probably continue to sit in parliament
as an unofficial liberal, for his personal
hold on Battersea is about as great as
that of the late Joseph Chamberlain in
Birmingham, but he will never prob
ably hold office again. He will no
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conspiracy. Then they were legalized
but frowned on. Now the government
has selected them as the instrument for
dealing with any distress caused by
the war. The board of trade has noti-
fed the unions that in all cases where
they can satisfy the board that there
is distress caused by the war the board
Will make grants to the union funds to
be applied as out of work benefit.
Fortunately. except in one or two
trades. this grant will not be required.
for employment is steadily improving
In the ZOO trades of which accurate
statistics are kept the percentage or
unemployment this week was i.46. a.
compared with $50 a week ago and
5.79 month ago.
The condition of affairs in the unin-
sured trades is shown by the fact that
the government labor exchange had
5000 fewer names on their registers
this week than last.
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army. is still doing excellent work for
much against his advice Percin de-
clared that he could hold the town, but
the citizens. who saw before them an
other Louvain, appealed to the French
government to declare it an open town.
and convinced the politicians that 1t
could not be defended. Now Lille is
suffering all the horrors that Louvain
went through. for it is a center of the
fighting on the left wing of the allies.
Another rumor which has been fly
ing about and which is probably as
untrue as the rest concerns an alleged
attempt by German agents in Calcutta
to stir up trouble in the bazaars. One
there has been shot. The objection to
that is that all the German diplomatic
and consular agents left British terri
tory when the war began.
We are just beginning to hear now
Of the tremendous wastage of horses in
this war. It has been to an extent al
together unexpected a cavalry war
and a war of kind that is uncom-
monty hard on horses. The German
cavalry has been seriously crippled. 1T
is reported, and the English remount
department is securing the world for
fresh sources of supply. One officer the
other day estimated that on an aver
horses since the beginning of the war.
He himself had lost four horses.
John Redmond has won his fight for
an Irish brigade, officered as fully as
possible by Irishmen. 1t will be COM
posed of twelve regiments and will
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the kaiser to find a man in high office
who would talk to him as one man to
another and tell him exactly what ne
thought without hope of reward or
fear of punishment.
The kaiser invited Burns to be his
guest at the German army maneuvers
on two occasions and showered atten-
tions on him. He convinced Burns that
he was desirous above all things OF
peace and when his imperial friend
was accused by the British and French
statesmen of breaking the peace Burns
simply could not believe it. He placed
his own observation of the man above
the official documents telling of the
acts of the emperor.
Now, in telling all this it is desired
particularly to avoid giving the i'm
preston that Burns Is unpatriotic. or
even that he is anti British in this war.
He is. first of all. pacifist, and he be-
lieves that the kaiser is too. 1t is re-
ported that he said over the dinner
table q few nights ago that the kaiser
had behaved like a gentleman through
out, but that he had been misled by the
PrusSian junkerS.
Burns patriotism is beyond doubt,
and he is displaying it now, by work
ing night and day. despite his terrible
disappointment, at the one task which
a pacifist can conscientiously under
take for his country in war time. He
has accepted-in fact, he asked for
the unpaid post of chairman of the
London committee for the prevention
and relief of distress. and he Is busy
organizing the means of dealing with
unemployment and distress arising out
of the war
How consistent he is in his attitude
is shown by the following letter. which
he wrote the other day in reply to an
invitation to address a recruiting meet
ing from the mayor of BatterSea, his
own constituency:
Il cannot accept your kind invitation
to attend the towns meeting tomorrow
night, The war has brought in its train
whole series of industrial and CONNER
cial dislocations which threaten to in
hict very serious hardships on the
working classes, and as chairman OF
the London committee for the pre'en-
tion and relief of distress, my time ls
wholly, and think l may say usefully.
occupied in endeavoring to adjust these
disturbances and mitigate their hard-
ships"
Now, what about John Burns future"
There is no doubt that he has broken
war question. The writer Is told tnat
he declared at a cabinet meeting IN
his blunt way that they were "slither-
ing into hell" Obviously, he has moth
ing more 10 nope Iof Aioia INC 20.
which made him. and which now re-
CARDS him as an migrate and a traitor
in the political sense only. Still less
has he any future in the tory party.
even If it should return to power.
which at the present time seems ex-
tremely unlikely to happen for many
years to come A pacifst who car
ried his principles to the extent OF
parting from his colleagues in great
crisis like the present war, wouid De
even less welcome among the tories
than among the liberals. 1t has been
suggested that he might throw IN ms
lot with the labor party, but thls Is
considered most improbable.
Burns has had no more bitter
enemies than the labor men, who re-
garded him as a traitor to their cause
when he Joined the liberals, and the
labor party has had no StOuter Op-
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doubt be called on to serve on parlia-
mentary committees and on royal COM
missions when his knowledge of life
and of administrative problems will
make him uncommonly useful.
AS far as money goes Burns is to-
day a fairly well-to-do man. For
many years he lived on the salary of
$40 week allowed him by the ANAL
gamated Society of Engineers as its
representative in parliament, and for
an English NJ. p. to live on $50 a
week. and to bring u pa family OF it,
too, means no small degree of frugal
ity. His one extravaganza Is and al
ways has been books. and he has one
of the finest private Libraries in Lon
don. His collection of blue books
government reports-is said to be the
cost complete outside the libraries of
the house of commons and the Brit
ish Museum. He is also a keen judge
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early days he Went without dinner
for weeks TO buy coveted volume.
Burns became president OF the local
government board in 1905. His salary
was $4,000 Il year for the first six
years and since then it has been $4,000
a year. That is to say, he has drawn
about S125,0o0 in salary in the last
nine years. He has continued to live
frugally and modestly and except that
he has sent his boy to a good school
and has bought more books, he has
not changed his style of living in the
slightest degree. A couple of years
ago he moved into a larger house, but
it is still very modest house, even
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special Correspondence of The Star.


LONDON. November 1a. 1914.
~ CRING the last week there has
been a distinct feeling of op-
timism in London official
IL circles. These waves of feel
ing succeed one another
in the most inexplicable way. NO
one seems to know why every
one is confident today, or why
they are depressed tomorrow. for
most of the time there is no news to
Justify it A couple of weeks ago all
the officials at the war office and ad-
miralty were talking about war that
would last a year or eighteen months
This week every man the writer met
connected with these departments was
positive that it would all be over by
Christmas.
There is not the slightest doubt that
this is the most democratic war that
Britain has ever engaged in. Men OF
very class are enlisting in the ranks.
The day has gone by when the only
qualification for Il commission was
good birth and influence.
Today although Kitchener is Sorely
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in working class Battersea.
He has spent, at the outside, less
than $1,000 a year, or s50,o06 for the
ten years. That leaves him with q.
nice little nest egg Of $4,000, which.
properly invested. ought to bring him
in about $4,000 Il year. II. P.'s are
now paid by the state, SO that if he re-
mains in parliament he viii receive
another $1,000 a year.
For Il man of John Burns tastes this
is wealth, and as he is only fifty-siN
years old and in the pink of condition
he may reasonably hope to live many
years to enjoy it.
Copyright, 1911, 10y Curtis Broyn.)
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With
With Policy Declaring War-Roe
Kaiser Who Had
Shown Him GeaAt En- O. His
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them exactly what he thought on any
subject on which he was consulted.
Now We come to d phase of this side
Of his career which il is extremely diff
iicult to discuss without doing him an
injustice. There is no doubt that
Burns was immensely fiattered by the
attentions showered on him by the
kaiser. That astute monarch made his
acquaintance on one of his visits to
England and was attracted by the same
qualities which made Burns persona
grata with the English sovereigns. No
doubt it was a refreshing surprise to
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and an authority on rare editions and
he has fine collection of Shakespear
lana. lie has often told how in the
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Burns has had no more bitter
enemies than the labor men, who re-
garded him as a traitor to their cause
when he Joined the liberals, and the
labor party has had no stouter op-
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LONDON. November II, I4II.
NE of the miner tragedies Of
the great European war is the
fate of John Burns, Honest
John" the English laboring
man, who became a cabinet
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Special Correspondence Of The star.
LONDON November 10. |
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
MANY SOLDIERS
NEVER FIRE SHOT
(BY ASSOCIATED PREsS.)

BAR~LE DUO, Dec. 3.-Tens OF
thousands of soldiers in the active
fighting army at the front have not
fired a shot for month or two at a
time. They serve their fortnight at
the extreme firing line, some hours a
day in the trenches or just next to
them with their own artillery throw
ing shells over their heads, but never
having the chance to empty cart
ridge at their adversaries. The in
tervals in the reserve lines are spent
in hard work, trenching and fortify.
ing, repairing roads, building shelf
ers for themselves and the rorses and
in towns, where quartered, keeping
streets clean.
The private is becoming thoroughly
tired Of the war, but his attitude to-
ward all the unromantic aspects of his
work is fine. He understands that in
mending a road he is contributing tc
the success of the French armies just
as though he were firing a gun. AL.
though he wants the war to get on
ward and end, he cheerfully takes the
commonplace with the excitement
Some of the excellent roads back Of
the lines are being repaired with poles
cut from the forests laid crosswise
making the old-fashioned American
"corduroy road"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
'S0UTAR A HIT
IN OKLAHOMA
Former Physical Director of Vir-
ginia Schools Popular at
Norman University.

Ralph G. Soutar, former physical
director in the schools Of Superior and
Virginia, whose resignation from that
position in the Virginia schools about
a year ago, caused something Of a
sensation and was at the time the SUBJ
ject of much gossip, is making a fine
hit as physical director at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma at Norman, Okla.
Copies of the Daily Oklahoman re-
ceived in Virginia today contain a
picture Of Soutar and review Of the
years athletic activities at the uni
versity. Soutar is given credit for
Icing one Of the most proficient
coaches in general athletics and one
of the best athletic directors in the
southwest. He has given the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma it's greatest football
team and his direction of the athletic
activities Of the Oklahoma school has
been highly successful. He is given
credit for being a hard worker and
with being deeply interested in his
work Mr.. Soutar has many friends
in Virginia who will be pleased to
l,arn Of his success.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
THIRTY-0NE TRUE
BY GRAND JURY
THIS AFTERNOON:
CURLING RINK
READY SOON

The new rink Of the Virginia Curl
ing club, which is being constructed at
the foot of Cleveland avenue on the
ground designated as the city market
place will be ready for curling by
Christmas Day according to President
Mcneil Of the club. The piles for
the foundation are all in place, work
on the superstructure, which is easily
put up, begins today and will be hur-
ried to completion as soon as possible.
There will be five sheets of ice at the
new rink and schedule of games be-
tween the various rinks will be ready
about the first of the year. New men,
bers are being solicited for the club
and large number are being secured.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
VIRGINIA MAN
IN THE TRENCHES

Godfrey Roper, former bookkeeper
at the offices of the Bailey Lumber
company, who has many friends here
and who left Virginia when war was
declared to join the Princess Patricia's s
Infantry modified at Ottawa, is prob
ably in the trenches in the north of
Flanders with his regiment today. In
letter dated Nov, 10 Mr.. Roper
writes to H. C. Kelley Of the Bailey
Lumber company Office force that his
regiment was at Winchester and ex-
pected momentarily to be ordered to
embark for France. The day before
the letter was written they had been
ordered to entrain, but the order had
afterward been countermanded. Roper
is with the first detachment Of Cana
dian troops to be moved from Sails
bury plains. None of the territorials
from Canada had gone to the front
1T the time his letter was written and
10000 Canadians were in the mobili-
zat;on camp at Salisbury Plains await
ing orders to go to the war zone.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
POLICE FIND
AN OLD FRIEND

Today when Mrs. Eva Smith told
to them story Of having been robbed
of SO by a young man Of whom she
was able to give only an imperfect
description, near the Madrid mine, the
rolice recognized an old friend and
Mrs. Smith, who is also known here
IS Eva Heikkila, was jailed with a
man who claimed he is her husband,
gives the name Of A. M. Smith and
says he is employed in a. Christmas
tree factory at Cook. The woman has
several times been ordered to leave
the city by the police and her story
cf being robbed has been told to them
before. She will have a hearing be-
fore Judge Carey some time today and
will probably be sent to the work farm
at Duluth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
ICE MATlNEES
AT ELY LAKE

Walter Dewitt is in the city today
from his lodge at Ely Lake and re-
ports that during the winter range
horsemen may decide to stage num-
ber Of ice matinees at Ely lake, where
here is afforded one Of the finest
>traight-away tracks in the country.
Several horsemen in Virginia, Eve
leth, Chisholm and Hibbing have har-
ness horses who are good ice perform
ers and in past seasons ice races have
been a fine attraction. Jim Hender-
son, the peer Of range ice PAGERS, is
now owned at Hibbing by George Ma
on. He is still going good and Mr..
Mason is always ready to match him
Tor an ice performance. 1t is prob
able the first card at Ely lake will be
run off some time this month and if
the interest is sufficient there will be
others during the winter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
SC0UTMAS1ER
IS REPEVTAlNI
Captain Andersen Declares HI
Hopes Boy Scouts Will Keep
Up Organization.

Captain Hans Carl Andersen, who
begins today to serve a sentence Of 80
days at the county work farm, impos-
ed by Judge Hughes yesterday when
he entered a plea of guilty to charge
reduced from grand to petit larceny,
committed in embezzling the funds of
the Virginia Boy Scouts organization,
is sorry for his past misdeeds. Yes
terday he sent Boy Scout who called
on him at the county jail to the Offices
of local newspapers and asked that
reporters be assigned to interview
him.
II want to thank all my friends
among the Boy Scouts. of Virginia. -
said Anderson at the county Jail this
morning." for the confidence and
trust they placed in me. I am deeply
huniliated and sincerely sorry for my
past misdeeds. I feared arrest and
did not feel equal to facing the or
deal. My trouble came on because /
had been unable to make both ends
meet in financial way. I had always
hoped to be in a position where I
might discharge my financial obliga-
tlons, but matters never seemed to
so shape themselves SO that I could.
Loves the Boy Scouts.
81 love the Virginia Boy Scouts. I
don't believe anyone is as loyal to his
friends as an American Boy Scout.
Since my arrest and incarceration in
Jail number Of my friends among
the boys have called upon me. One
of them even came to Duluth to see
me while was in the county Jail.
hope the Scout movement does not die
cut here. 1t is noble work and the
.ocal corps gives promise Of becoming
one of the best in the state. When
went to Winnipeg I had intended to
work and repay the money took
here. The day I left Virginia took
the street car to Hibbing and from
trere took the train to Duluth and
Canada. 1t pays to be honest and in
the future shall try to make amends
for the wrongs have been forced in
to doing here"
Andersen at the county farm will
be put at work cleass;ng land with
other inmates at the farm. He de.
clares he will welcome chance to
get out in the open air after his two
months confinement in Jail.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-12-04
TO V0TE0N BIG
ISSUE OF BONDS
Chisholm Prepares to Clear Up
Old Indebtedness and Make
improvements.

Whether or not refunding bonds in
the sum of $50O,O00 shall be issued
will be determined at special elec-
ton to be held in Chisholm Tuesday Of
next week, which is arousing a good
deal of local interest, according to a
we'll known Chisholm man in the city
today.
The bond issue will permit the vii
lage to discharge all it's past indebt-
edness. The tax levy recently fixed
upon by the council was 1882 900, which
is for current running expenses and
to provide for an extensive improve
ment campaign which is contemplated
for next year.