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gathering data on the sanitary condl-
lions under which the employees are
working; the information gathered
will be presented in the form of a
report, that will carry many recon-
mendations to improve the health of
the pottery workers of the country.
1t is expected that the convention will
broaden the scope of this commission
the coming year. The manufacturing
|potters are deeply interested in health
Of the employees as are the members
Of the organization, as they are work
ling in conjunction with the N. B. OF
o. p. through the commission.
The books of the national organizer
was being audited this week and re-
quired the attention of the COMMITTEES
for the greater part of the week. The
national officers are expected to show
the Defense and the General funds In
great shape, even though the year
was a very lean one for the pottery in
dustry.
The Pottery industry is about as
it was last week with the Western
end of the business, while not crowd
ed, getting their share of the business.
East Liverpool being pottery CEN
ter. the potters as a rule get their
share Of the political plums and this
year it appears to be no exception to
the general rule, as the several pro-
minent potters are now in the race
for different Offices. James Gillgallon.
Ia cup-handler, is a candidate for
Democratic nomination for mayor. q
The business of the pottery at Pad
den City, this State. has improved to
such an extent that the management
has contracted for the erection OF
two additional kilns; work on this
new addition to start at once.
Work at both potteries here still
continues good; the Warwick is pro
ducing line Of goods that will attract
many buyers, as the goods made are
Ia first class china and carry advanced
ideas in decorations.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24
Social Justice As A
Military Defense

The Berlin magazine, Bodenrefrom,
in it's issue of April 20, gives the fol-
lowing interesting account, which IL
Illustrates how social justice is the best
public policy:
1.-THE seaport city of Tanga in Ger
man East Africa, place of $4,000 in
habitants, is the first city in Africa
which has become, in corporate ca
pacity, a member Of the League, of
German Land Reformers. An enthu-
siastic member had brought about
adoption of reforms in the land sys
TEN. This broke up ring Of specu
lators who had located in the grow
ing town, brought under city owner
ship two-thirds of the municipal area.
brought about taxation of communal
values, and, most noteworthy Of all,
had secured equal rights for the ma
tives. For the first time these were
conceded rights to the soil that af-
forded them security of possession of
homes. The gratitude OF the negroes
has since been most clearly mani
tested.
"The English attacked the place
with an .overpowering force of 5000
men, against whom the Germans
could bring but 1000 men. Successful
resistance depended entirely on
whether the Negroes would refrain
from bertaying a trap which the Ger
mans had set for the superior Eng
fish army. And the Negroes proved
faithful. In the greatest battle that
has so far been fought on African
soil, the English lost 5000 men. The
rest were compelled to retreat to
their ships. Tanga remained free be-
)cause social justice had awakened and
strengthened the affection of the ma
tives. Strength in war is everywhere
one OF the results of social Justice
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24

employees, placing them upon an IAN
nual employees list. The prevailing
rate is only paid to those who are
engaged in day work.
By forming councils Of its annual
employees" sending delegates to CEN
trail council which confers, with de-
partment heads. the Mitchell regime,
which is based upon economy" is
endeavuring to eliminate the influence
of the unions which have Jurisdiction
over the city employees.
Delegates pointed out several anti
labor moves made by the Mitchell ad-
ministration, particularly the dis
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24
NEW YORK CITY GOVERNMENT
IN WlGE,cUI1NG SCHEME

NEW YORK, June a. A plan
whereby the so-called business adj
ministration'' Of the City of New
York is apparently endeavoring to
evade the law which provides that
the prevailing rate of wages in an in
dustry must be paid to employees of
the municipality, was brought to light
by delegates at meeting of the Cen,
tral Federated Union, the central
labor body of the city.
Delegates pointed out that the adj
ministration refuses to pay the pre-
Valline rate % IT. regularly engaged
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24
AT The Mercy OF
Lord Rockefeller

w. Z. Mackenzie King. who has
charge Of the sociological work of the
Rockefeller foundation. frankly urges
q benevolent despotism as solution of
the labor question. Mr. King made
this clear in his statement to the
Commission on Industrial Relations at
Wsphington % Nay e. Hs declared
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24

charge of 600 employees of the Dock
Department during the extreme crisis
of unemployment in the city last win
ter.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24
OOOOOOOOOOOOO
Pottery News
OOOOOOooOOOOO

The coming convention of the Pot
tiers, to be held at Atlantic City, is
about the most interesting topic con
sidered by the members Of this organ
ization and many are of the belief
that while many changes will be ef-
fected in the working rules and the
conditions under which the work is
performed at the present time, there
will be many measures demanded
which will bring forth opposition, due
to the lean year experienced by the
manufacturers of this line of goods.
This being the year that the time and
the attention of the delegates will be
taken up with the wage scale and the
conditions of the general ware work
ers.
Special Car.
The convention will be held at Odd
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24

See that YOUR MERCHANT is A
MAJORITY ADVERTISER.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-06-24

Fellows hall, Atlantic City. and will
open Friday morning at 10 a. M, July
End. The Western delegates will
travel out of Pittsburg, over the B. &
O., and on the train leaving there
Thursday morning a special car will
be carried for the benefit Of those de-
string to travel together. This is an
arrangement that has been enjoyed
by the Western delegates for some
time, as it gives all delegates time on
the trip to get acquainted or renew
old friendships.
tuberculosis Crusade.
The Health Commission Of the or
ganization have considerable work to
do the year through, and as the or
ganization has made such fight
against the ravages of tuberculosis in
the trade this commission will have
a very interesting report and many
recommendations to make in order
that the danger of this disease will be
reduced within the next few years.
William Mushet, the chairman of the
Health Commission, is making tour
of the Sanitary potteries Of the west
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
HAS TRADE SCHOOL FOR MEN
Great Britain Fits Grown-Ups for
Jobs Which Require Skilled
Labor.

London.-One OF the most interest
ing employment experiments in Eng
land is a trade trailing school for
men, enabling them to shift from a
trade temporarily stagnant owing to
the war, into one where skilled labor
is urgently needed. he experiment
is being carried out by the Prince of
Wales Relief fund, and if successful
may be indefinitely extended.
Furniture trade was one of those
adversely affected by the war, and a
large number of skilled furniture
workers have since become skilled
leather workers, on military equip
ment.
The school was opened December Z,
last. In the first five weeks Of its
existence it enrolled 1879 men, GA Of
whom already rave graduated" and
obtained employment as leather stitch
ers.
More than half Of the men placed
have been more than forty years old,
and the report of the first five weeks
work in the school says men more
than forty, and indeed over fifty" are
as quick and adaptable as the younger
men.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
hsttsr Have Len n AIone.

Duncan's wife had the reputation
of being a frst-class shrew. When
Duncan died his neighbors put a tomb
stone over his grave. with the epitaph.
Asleep in Peace" Widow Duncan
was wild. II was meant as a slam at
her and she knew 1t was. 1t meant
that she did not let him sleep IN
peace when alive. The neighbors an
sured her that it was not meant that
way. Then 1t ought to say So" To
please her they got a stone cutter 70
add. 1--WE all believe that he did have
peace here, when he slept" much to
the merriment Of the neiEhbors.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
DoDGED SCHOOL, MADE PILE
Country Boy Returns Home After Few
Weeks Absence Driving a
Racing Car.

Hutchinson, Kan.-Henry Koehn, a
country boy from Galva, Mcpherson
county, was sent to Hutchinson a few
weeks ago by his father to get an ed
ucation in a business college. His IA
ther gave him $3.50 and good advice.
Now, Henry, be careful" his father
advised. This will be enough money.
You can't have extras" Henry came
back home. driving a 1915 model rae
ing roadster. He wore a tailor-made
suit and a diamond ring. Also he had
in his pocket a bank book showing
that he had $500 or more on deposit
In q bank.
A few days after his arrival in
Hutchinson with his $3.50. he fell in
with a friend of his father, a grain
man, Henry was tempted. He in
vested his $3.50 In wheat. Usually It
pans out the other way. In Henry's
case it didn't. Some say he cleaned
up as much as $1,000. Henry is not
going to school.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
"HlCCoUGHS OF THE SEA"
Scientists Explain Frequent Reports
Of ca%nnonadina Heard in the
North Sea.

Paris.-The frequent reports, which
subsequently were not confirmed. that
heavy ~cannonading had been heard in
the North sea, have led to an investi-
cation by scientists. 1t was thus dis
closed that the reports of %detonations
were authentic, although no firing took
place.
Scientists who were on the lookout
for a repetition of this phenomenon
were rewarded by hearing loud detona-
tions off the coast on a day when it
was known that nc naval action what
eve was in progress. This phenome-
non was noted along the French coast,
off the Department of Pas-de-Calais.
Able Moreux of the observatory at
Bourges anne to the conclusion that
these loud reports were simply what
the Belgians call "~mistpoeffers," or ex-
p~losions of fog. They are called "hic-
coughs of the sea" in Holland, and
sometimes are referred to as marine
bombs. The same phenomenon has
been observed on the banks of the
great lakes and on the great plains OF
the Delta of the Ganges.
After the theory that these detona
lions were produced by artillery had
been discarded, it was thought possible
that they were the result of electrical
discharges. Finally Able Moreux no
ticed that the appearance of this phe
nomenon was generally simultaneous
with reports of explosions of fredamI
in mines.
The electrical action of the sun upoI
the surface of the earth, the able says
provokes movements favorable to tn,
expansion of imprisoned gases where
ever there are assures in the crust.
These gases, liberated from thei
prisons, explode and at the sam
time explosions of firedamp and eartt
quakes. The able pointed out tina
earthquakes are always preceded b
noises resembling distant defamation
of artillery. Vibrating shocks Iorigina
ing in the interior Of the crust of tn
earth may produce sonorous wave
which are quite ~perceptible if the a
mosphere is in repose.
Able Moreux says that meteort
logical conditions do not, as has bee
supposed, cause the phenomenon, a
though they may favor its production.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

extends a fragrant welcome Books, papers, maps, charts and all of the
stereotyped paraphernaEa of the conventional schooroom ire missing.
The btackboards are empty of history outlines, columns of spelling words
tonguetwistng geographical names and branfaggtng mathematical problems
of percentage and discount poruayng instead working drawings or the
young carpenter, days menus and the cost per article thereof for a family
of six, names of cuts of meat and various termsf the lingo of cookery and
marketing. Across the hall in the sewing classroom may be seer black
board pictures of fashions extremes.
1t is not until the startled gaze adjusts itself somewhat to the novelty Of
the scene and the different classes are studied Individually that the real
spirit of this place makes itself felt, for it is a school to dignity labor and
to give to boys and girls some idea of the demands of life.
Though all signs of academic instruction are absent from the shops and
housekeeping department, the pupils are faithfully taught the traditional
RS" and all else prescribed in the usual curriculum for the grades to which
they belong. Music. physical culture and drawing are curtafed, but not
entirely omitted.
In addition, the plan is to equip the pupils SO that they may step out into
the commercial world, and by making Use of the instruction they have re-
ceved here be able readily to secure employment n a familiar line of work.
and also be spared many weary hours of apprenticeship, should they con-
cude to use what they have learned as the foundation upon which to build
their life work
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

any one of which would make most
towns famous, and attract visitors
from far and near.
City Walls and Their Bars,
There are the city walls, for in
stance, with their famous bars. All
of the bars formerly had barbicans
and portcullis, but the ~eXigencies of
trade" have demanded the abolition
of all of the former except the n at
Walmgate, and there are even super
vandals who have essayed to have this
one removed also! Monk bar still re-
tains its portcullis, and when last year
It was lowered for the first time for
many years for cleaning purposes, it
proved such an attraction that hopes
were entertained that it might be fire.
~quently lowered when the require
ments of traffic permitted,
Mickelgate bar has the weird no
toriety that belongs of necessity to
the spot commonly selected for the
display of the CORY heads of the flow
er Of the nobility, which had been
cut off by the headsman to allay the
fears of a king, or to appease the a n
cour of rivals. Hard by the Minister
is the renowned treasurer's house,
once the abode of the chosen repre-
sentative of the king to govern the
North. To the skill and enterprise of
Mr.. Frank Green England owes Il
debt for having rescued this splendid
specimen of medieval architecture
from the degraded state into which
it had fallen, and for restoring it
again to a near approach to its for
mer glory. no the same g~entleman's
patriotism also we must render most
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
TRIAL OF STAMINA

soldiers mouth. The bullet could not
be seen from the inside, but he could
feel it through the cheek.
Nov, hold tight. little brother" he
said. arming himself with pincers,
land don't you move"
Ready to obey, your honor" re-
piled the soldier, quite briskly, forget
ting the pain.
A most painful operation ensued.
The surgeon made one pull, then an
other, and yet another, and all proved
unsuccessful, and only the fourth pull
brought out the bullet. With his
mouth bleeding %profusely, he asked
the surgeon to let him have his bullet
as a souvenir. Smiling and happy, he
sat down to tea.
"Ah, it is good to drink hot tea now
l got quite cold. My back is wet and
cold-all sticky"
What is the matter with it?" in.
CURED the priest.
ooh, it must be a bullet-grazed my
back" answered the soldier, quite in
differently.
The priest again called the sur
geon. The soldier was quite upset t
trouble Ibis honor" when he was 81
busy.
"a through wound" a~nxiously re
marked the surgeon, after a quick ex
animation.
well, there you are" quite cheer
fully retorted the soldier; she wen
in and out. So why waste your tim
over her? No harm done. If you
honor would only bandage it, l shall
be all right"
The surgeon had to bring down tn
whole weight of his authority to pre-
vent him from scooting back to tn
trenches with a fresh through
wound in his chest.
This sturdy, simple-hearted soldier
so Indifferent to pain and %privation,
but a type of Russia's peasant wa
riors. Against an army of such wa
, riors all the impetuous German Of
I slaughts will break like sea wave
against a granite rock.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Endurance, Not Snowy Battles,
Will Decide This War.
Case of One of Cars Troopers Cited
to Show Endurance of Russians
Perforated, Anxious to
Return to Front.

Warsaw.-There a be no doubt
now that this war is going to be de-
cided, not by a series of brilliant,
SNOWY victories in grand battles, but
by a trial of stamina and power of en-
durance between the allies and their
Teutonic enemies.
Nowhere do the conditions of war
demand of the allies so much patient
endurance and indifference to great
sufferings as on the eastern front,
where the Russian army is laboring
under most cruel disadvantages owing
to scarcity of railways and almost to-
tai absence of good roads, while the
Germans have in their rear the most
perfect system of strategic railways
in the world, built entirely for the pur-
poses of an aggressive war against
Russia.
For this trial of endurance and
stamina the Russian army is emf
nently suited, both collectively and in
dividually. There is no other soldier
in the world who can stand so much
physical pain and %privation as the
Russian.
In this connection one may recall a
characteristic scene described in the
Russkoye Slovo of Moscow, by its cor
respondent at the front.
The scene took place at a field hos
pital. In front Of a large tent a crowd
of wounded soldiers. straight from
the trenches, were waiting medical
aid. A kindly Russian priest was
handing round mugs of tea, which he
poured from a large samovar. The
soldiers drank their tea with frank
expressions of enjoyment on theil
faces-all except one. He first silent
ly brushed aside the proffered hand OF
the priest, and when the latter pressed
upon him a mug Of tea mumbled
DULY:
Cant. The tooth aches. Please,
can l see the doctor?"
The priest could not refrain from re
preaching the big fellow for troubling
the doctor with a toothache.
why" he said. fancy a strong,
! healthy fellow like you coming here
with a toothache, just after the battle,
when the doctors are so busy with
really important cases. Couldn't you
waltz"
ut aches something awful" mum.
bled the soldier.
Then, why didn't you come earlier
before the battle?"
1T didn't ache then. 1t started
aching only when the bullet got in my
mouth. 1t stuck there"
The soldier touched his cheek witt
his finger.
Only then did the priest realize how
unjust he was in r~eproaching the sol
der with malingering. He hurried fol
a surgeon, who hastily examined the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Bowler or Derby2

Most men find a bowler hat best for
rough weather, and the president of
the Royal Institute of Painters in Wa
ter Colors declares it to be artistic as
well as ~serviceable. The bowler was
worn by the Greeks" says Sir James
Linton. What was good enough for
Athens ought to do for London. Why,
ever Mercury wore a bowler haiti
the Greek vases are to be believed
and If he put wings into it, it vas
only by way of trimming" The Amer
leans, with whom this is a favorite
hat, prefer to call it a derby-it Is
difficult to say why. Even the Cen
fury dictionary, though stating that
the hat itself was adopted In the
United States as C fashionable novelty
in the year 1874. gives no clue to the
origin Of this term.-London Chron-
icle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

grateful thanks for having rescued st
Williams college from the fate which
threatened it, ard saved to posterity
one of the most interesting and pic
turesque buildings in the city.
Some Of the Antiquities.
Clifford's tower is a charm in IT,
self, despite the sinister memories
which cling to it regarding the mas
sacre of the Jews. The ancient royal
palace. now occupied as a school for
the blind, takes one back with its
courts and alleys to the stormy period
of the Tudors and Stuarts. Inside the
museum grounds can be studied the
splendid ruins of st. Mary's abbey,
while the patched up state Of tho
round tower at the top Of Marygate
tells eloquently of the siege when it
was blown up with g%unpowder.
There is more than one pair of stocks
still to be seen in York, notably in
the churchyard of Holy Trinity
church. Mickelgate; and at either end
of the city, at the end of Burton lane
and opposite the infantry barracks at
Fulford, are two plague stones.
which recall to mind those terrible
~visitations of the Middle Ages. At the
stones the country people used to de-
post their wares, and then retire a
short distance until the townsfolk had
advanced and, taking up their pur-
chases, had deposited the money for
the same in water, when, N their turn.
the vendors advanced and picked out
the coins. In this manner the two
parties never came in contact with
each other.
In the infantry barracks a grand old
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

he has been taking the rodents at the
rate of 1000 per month.
For this service he received the reg
ular price paid for rats. and in addi-
ton was given a bonus of $40 provided
he caught as many Is 1000 in thirty
days.
When Charles began his career as
rat catcher he said he would quit
when he had made enough money to
buy a boat and a gasoline engine. Re-
Gently he made the purchase. and then
appeared at the health office and laid
down his commission.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

at all, others contributory to the work
ing out of the invention in some way
or another. Science follows the inva-
riable custom, however, of crediting
and accepting as the inventor the man
who has really succeeded in making
the invention practicable and bringing
it to an actual achievement. 1t is OF
course impossible to tell how many
men may have had ideas more OF less
similar to Bells or to those of any
men who have succeeded in great in
ventions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
pIscordant Thoughts.

In wandering through your mental
pleasure-grounds. whenever you come
upon an ugly intruder of a thought
which might bloom into some poi
sonous emotion such as fear. envy,
hate. worry, remorse. anger, and the
like. there is only NJ right way to
treat 1t. Pull 1t up like a weed; drop
It upon the rubbish-heap as prompt
ly as If 1t were a stinging nettle; and
let some harmonious thought grow In
its place.-Robert II. Schaufnar
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15
Bound to Be Seen.

Little Mr.. Einstein, a travelling
salesman, found himself far away
from home, and naturally very lone
some. He knew not a soul In the no
tel at which he was staying and he
decided that ne must attract some at
tention at any cost. Presently a bell
hop came through the lobby paging a
Mr.. Murphy. mr.. Murphy he shout
ed. At this point Mr.. Einstein jumped
up and hollered: Say, boy. vat ini-
alsf"-Everybody's.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-15

boys that II he ever got hard u d he would use the permit to make some
money. Harrison is better known among the Baltimore "newses" a Ger
barrassment to Germany when he undertook to tell the president how
much the Baltimore "newses" appreciated his letter and the sentiments he
had shown therein.
The president in his letter ito the newsboys said:
Il am vey glad to hear about the way in which you youngsters are be-
ginning to take care of yourselves and stop the things that you are sure to
be sorry for afterward, and want to send you this message of hearty good
will and express the hope that the things you III learning now will make
you no. only more successful men, but happier men"