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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13
SleNIFI o .'M0T JONES
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B.w cFleNERY IN CHICAGO HERAlD


i.awson. officials ol the United Mine Workers to meet him as dan 70 Man for n di8cuseion of che Colorado aitu- ation Concerning bis talk with hirs. Jones he had said She 1ola me about the schools and about Che de. slro of the miners to choose their own teachers. the company's stores and the right of the workmen to bring thelr grievances to one Of the higher odcials or to 8 director without leop- ardizing their positions.
 q found myself able to agree with all she said on these things ID prinei' pile. although. of course, lt was in' possible for me Go talk about what 1t may be possible for Che company to do,
 And concerning his Interview with lho union leaders 80 lately nis otter enemles. MT. Rockefeller continued : .I believe. .it win be for the good oi everybody if can haze talks with these union men want Go iind out exactly how they look at things and want to tell them what my own views are. am sure we shall un- derstand each other better
 Avertlne Tragedies.
 lt Ia now 3 matter of history that ii an attitude such as that displayed by the younger Rockefeller had been ta. Ken by his representatives In Colo rado the terrible tragedy of the coai strike might have been avoided El- forts one after another were made to get the union men and Che company officials together for conference
 GOV E. N. Ammons repeatedly tried to effect this Upon more than one occasion representatives of Che men were assembled in one room and rep resentatives of the coal operators were collected in 9 chamber adjoining Ai the men wanted was chance to meet their employers as man to man Ey' cry other grievance could be el'mipat. ed. And every time the local repre- sentatives Of the hocheleiiel Aiite' 1as' made this impossible
 The company's officials thought ol course, that they were serving their employer. As matter of fact they were doing him the worst possible injury Men and magazines who had been apatheuc toward union labor or even hostile to it were won by the drama of the coal fields The fight in Colorado touched the conscience or the nation as nothing had done m years.
 A nanscendant event like the burn ing of women and children at Ludlow is needed to put some now beliet ia' to the minds Of the people The re- fusal of the representative masters to meet their men achieved this l was the event of a decade but it was cruelty unnccessary- Hate came 10 Colorado and hate came Co the No' lion. It was because men did not know each other
 As the President reiterated tne otn' er day. you can't hate fellow you know Even the soldiers Of hostile armios play together it given chance So is it in induhtrlal warfare.
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iong, and fifty-milean.bour railway train that started to run It's whole length at the time that Alexander Che Great was. conquerlng the world wonld just about be pulling into the Union station now.
 And the bull, of that crop. The Washington Monumont is pretty big thing. yet the corn crop last year ir moulded into structures the size of the monument would if placed side by side. make an imposing row Of obelIsks just tweniy.eight miles long.
 Suppose one had to build a big bin to contain this vasta crop lt would haze to be more than half mile long, moro than a quarter of mile wide, and more chan two and half times as high as the Washington Mon- ument. The great grain elevators Of Chicago would look beside such an im- mense structure like the toy Noah's ark of the children beside the capitol building
 In weight this great crop Is l6O,- O00.000.0O0 pounds or S0.0OO,0Oo tons. It would take 2.0O0.0o0 ordinary cars to transport such a load. Laden in the ordinary manner a freight rain con taining this great burden would reach around the world at the equator Load ed in the largest of sea.going mer- ohantmen. it would take more than e,000 Of them to carry such a cargo.
 Let us put this great crop in ordi- nary saclm and pile them up on one another as high as The Star building. The mighty wall would reach rom Washington to San Francisco and back again and then have more than enough left over 10 roach to New York City and back again.
 II we laid out the bags end to end they would make line oi grain that would stretch rom the earth to the raoon. back again and then around the earth six times Even then taere would be enough corn left over to feed Belgium through tho winter
 If this vast array Of grain bae8 should march past 9 given point four and a half feet apart-a comtortable distance for g portly grain bag--at the rate of three miles an hour which is lhe soldiers marching time, 1t would take eighe-fiye years for the proces sion Co pass
 Let us bring t nearer home II aii this crop of corn was spilled out over the District of columbia it would en- tlrely cover it to a depth Of about Q foot and hall The wheap crop lorI 1ef4-nsariy e0000a00o buahels
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.o,1lJ nol oovor one.halI of t.

would hut cover Vu9'N"iA VI. -.
 The value of this huge crop to mon
 y staegers the imagination. seven
 con hundred million dollars. it would run the government of the Unit cd States for nearly two years 1T the .aue of the crop in silver dollars was piled up 1t would make stack more than 5000 miles high. If laid sile by side they would reach around the world at the equator one and three quarter times 1t would weigh ai- most 100000 tons and, if loaded into wagons of ordinary carrying capaclty she wagon train would make me 500 miles Ions. In gold it would weigh more than 6.500 tons.
 Tho farmers of the West speak or wheat as being the greatest product or the American farms, and the plant sr4 of the South cry Cotton Is King but the combined value oi both crops last year would be far below the value of the corn crop. The wheat crop was valued at a little less than nine hun dred million dollars; the cotton crop at five hundred and twenty millions. The two of them were almost four hundred million dollars less than me corn crop
 < striking item in the latest farm ers bulletin from the Department or Agriculture is that concerning flax seed If the average man were asked what amount of fiaxseed was raised in the United Siates he would prob ably say about 8 million dollars in valuation would be the limit Yet ln 1914 there was raised in the United States nearly twenty millions of dol lars worth. Yet In 1913 the value Of the crop was more than thirty two millions dollars.
 Indeed, the flaxseed crop ranks far above that of rice or buckwheat, and is as valuable, in yearly average, as tbe rye crop or the sugar beet about which such fuss is made In Congress-. This Is explained by the fact that gaxseed has other uses than remoy- ing a oinder from the eye or ponl- tlcing a stone bruise the uses to which lho average citizen commonly puts il. It Is the raw material from which lin, seed oil is made. and ilnseed oil fur nishcs the base for all paints made whether for the arts or for the com. merclal use There was nearly ti- teen million bushels Of 1t grown DO che United States laet year
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13
NEWS NOTES oF LABOR

French labor unions have earned the respect of the French government by their support of the war
 A movement Is on foot lu New ter sey to glye to the labor element a seat on the court of errors and ap, peals.
 The eyes Of the labor world arc turned on the New York hearings of the federal investigation Of industrial conditions.
 Women laundry workers in Kansas City have succeeded in getting wage scale of from g to Ss Q week
 heports rom industrial centers are showing another great increase iu business this week, and the taking on of many thousands Of workers.
 Canadian enginemen have asked Che Ottawa commission Co limit their con Gnuous service to 14 hours They claim that they are now required to do 2+hour stretches.
 4 strike for blankets for European armies in Philadelphia was caused by the use Of shoddy which was so diffI- cult to handle that the operatives lost f5 cents per day.
 The Jones & Mclaughlin and mi nois steel plants reduced the num- Der of claimants Of accidents by 71 per cent. and the Inland Steel com pany claims a reduction Of 55 per cent
 worlmens compensation is before many legislatures this spring. Re ports from most Of these are bright for the adoption of tho measure and some states are broadening their pre- vious statutes
 The federal employment bureau is opposed by labor men in some sec. dons. mostly because the scheme is little understood.
 Statistics snow that less than hall as many worismen are injured during the first hour in the morning as in the hour before lunch and less than half as many are hurt in the first hour after lunch as n the last hour of the working day
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The corn crop raised In the United States In the year 1914 was the larg- est crop of any kind ever raised In any country in Che history of the en- tire world-largest ln bulk, n acre age planted and in money value
 Figures are dull things and atatis- ics put tho reader to sleep but when figures and statistics mount into such astounding proportions as those of our Uncle sam's last year's corn crop even the most careless reader must sit mp and take notice. There were planted in corn 10S.835.OOO acres, or I6I617 square miles, harvesting 72,sO4Oo0 bushels worth SilO259g'- 0oO
 Let us see what an this means in terms of things chat the mind can grasp lamBlarly This great corn. field of the United states is five times as large as the state Of Virginia It is nearly sixteen times as large as the atde Kingdom of Belgium and more than three-fourths as large as the great German empire or the republic of France.
 The sun is approximately sO.00oO00 miles from the earth A railroad train running fifty miles an hour would take 2O6 years to get there-longer than an the years that have elapsed since George Washingtons mother was born Yet the furrow that was plough ed to plant that corn crop. if stretched out in a straight lne would reach from here to the sun eleven times. It would be about one million miles
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13
FOR DoNKEYs ALSO.

A Washington dietist aays bran is an ideal food lt certainly ought to be for some statesmen we know, and a Htle hay and fodder to go with it Tor variety wouldn't be out of place. GIouston Post)
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French labor unions have earned the respect of the French government
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A Rich Personality

Hardships had not embittered her. She was talking of tho psychology Of classes. of the need for education and of fundamental liberties of nations. Her own legal imprisonment meant little to her except as it showed how tho writ of habeas corpus might be swept aside. She was concerned for the long future. H. C. Wells Social Forces in England and America' was then being generally discussed. Mo ther Jones had not read it for she has little leisure, and she Is entirely an unacademic person Yet aealn and again she gave voice to incisive cri- ticisms of society, drawn from her own experiences. which coincided with Che doctrines Of the famous English observer Hour after hour her mind ranged widely over human affairs The easy mastery of her comment was thrilling The inevitable conclusion phrases itself Here Is a great wo- man"
 And now she and John D. Rockefel- Ter UT. have met upon friendly basis. At the end of the conference Mother Jonts paused to say: CT have just ,oiJ Mir Rockefeller one thing-we have been misrepresentine him terri bly. as much as anybody else. A generous confession from a leader Of the YanQuished
 "As Man To Man"
 After his conference with Mother Jones MT. Rockefeller invited Frank J. Hayes. Edward Doyle and John
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13
iaoz uNgMpLoYE0 AT EAULT2

Never before in our history says Col. Roosevelt "were SO many peo- pie suffering from lack Of employment through no fault Of their own" We hope the Colonel is not knocking the 200 GOO men who were thrown out of work by the Roosevelt panic of l9O7.8.- (New York World)
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Let us bring it nearer home t an this crop Of corn was spilled out over the District of Columbia !, would en- tirely cover it to a depth Of about Q foot and hali The wheap crop fer 1ef4-nsariv 90000o00o huahels
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13

The federal employment bureau is opposed by labor men in some sec. dons. mostly because the scheme is little understood.
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NoT FAsT EN0ucH.

(st Louis Globe.Democrat)
 Villa says that Gutierrez took S4,- 100000 from the public treasury when he left Mexico City Pass the presi' dency around more rapidly
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13
rhe Lono Talk.

After got through with my re- marks gaid the orator nthe people applaudedly loudly.
 q joined in that applause, replied Miss Cayenne
 You were inierestedI
 eYes and grateful ] was afraid Tor awhile that you had grown absenl- minded and thought you were nlibus- terlng. .'t (Washington Star)
 Ten years ago you uaed Co se1a flowers to your Valentine. DO ll NOW. 2-18.lt
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-02-13

Tho picture of Mother Jones, tho S2-year old leader Of the coal miners hobnobhing with John D. Rockefeller Jr., Is one of tho most important as well as ono of Che pdettiest incidents in the recent struggle between labor and very rich men.
 Mother Jones is Q born leader oi men For lnto old age she retains the vibrant enthaslasms ol youth. 3t time when most men and women havo succumbed 10 weaSness and are glad only to keep worm ln the rom ance Of the past. this old veteran has stood exposed on the battling line of industry Again and again she has gone to prison, and at ieast three times she has been inc0rcerated In direct violation of the constitutions of two states and Of tho United States.
 What miltants have endured she has suffered willingly for her spirit Is unamable She has undergone con slderabiy more than tho lighting suf- fragists. because no slander has been loo foul for her enemies. talked with her Q day or two after she was released by the martial rulers of Colo rado. She had been pent up niue long weeks In a military prison, deprived of all opportunities for exercise, and forbidden an human companionship. Despits all this. her step was elastic her eyes flashed brilliantly and her rich voice rang with the sonorous mu- sic which men described in William Jennings Bryan on bis great day in lS96.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
Plan RECONSTRUCT
FORTY TWO BRIDGES
HENRY COUNTY SUPERVISORS
AND ENGINEER ARE TO BE
VERY BUSY

Mtl Pleasant, May 1O-The board OF
supervisors at recent meeting offic'
tally ordered the immediate construc-
ton of forty-two permanent cement
bridges in various parts of the county.
/ Practically every township and i'm.
portant thoroughfare in the county
will be benefited by this action of the
board. This order does not include
the. many small culverts that will be
jput in, but real bridges up to a span
that is the limit of concrete con-
lstruction.
Mt Pleasant will benefit in this
bridge building program. The bridge
over Saunders creek on West Wash
ington street will be taken out and
fine new concrete structure put in.
This is the last bridge in the city linn
Its that needs rebuilding. AL others.
have been put in Every street cross
run in the city limits are now pro-
|vided with wide permanent concrete
bridges or will be when the West
Washington street bridge is put in.
Among the new bridges scheduled,
and which will be of interest to Mt.
Pleasant is one on the Blue Grass road
lat Ross spring east of town. The
present bridge is one Of the narrow
ones and with considerable hump.
The old bridge will come out and a
new wide one OF easy grade will take
its place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
TEMPE RANCE men
Want INJUNCTION
DELEWARE COUNTY ASSOCIATION
COMMENCE ACTION AGAINST
PHARMACISTS.

Manchester. May 1O.-The Deleware
County Temperance association has nj
ed petitions with the clerk Of the Dele
waro district court, asking for a tenn
porary injun ction, restraining the drug
gists and their registered pharmacists
from selling intoxicating liquors. The
druggists who are defendants IN these
eleven actions are:
N. A. Gearhart, Hopinkinton, l.. M
Barnes, c. A. Kendall, Earlville; j. "
Zastera and r. A. Barry of Ryan; A.
M. SOLVE of Masonville, T. M. Arm
strong Of Greeley, w. c. Amsden, A. C.
Philip, H. C. Smith and B. w. Grems
of Manchester. The petitions were
filed on Wednesday afternoon, and will
be considered by Judge Geo. w. Dun
ham on the opening day of the May
term which convenes on the 18th day
of the month. The wholesale filing OF
the petitions has caused an unusual
amount of interest in the county, and
the outcome will be watched with keen
interest. It is rumored that the Off
GERS Of the temperance association has
facts In its possession which will add
much interest to the case.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
WOMAN ENDS HER
LIFE WITH RAZOR

Nevada, May 10-One of the sad
dest tragedies that has occurred in this
city for years was the suicide of Mrs
Oliver Batman. No reason for the act
has been brougt to light, unless it be
on account of family sickness.
Mrs. Batman used razor for the
deed and died about an hour later
About Z o'clock the husband went
into her room to call her and found
her lying on the bed bleeding copi.
ously from the wound. DR.. F. B
Winsett was the first man on the
scene, and other doctors arrived soon
after but nothing could be done to
save her
Dean Batman, the son of the par.
ents, was operated upon few days
ago for severe case of Appendicitis
and was to be taken home today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
VALLEY JUNCTION
WANTS NEW NAME

Des Moines, May 10.-Now comes
Valley Junction, suburb six miles dis
tant from Des Moines, and complains
that its name is to It's disadvantage
and prays for relief in the form OF a
new name.
The movement for the new monick-
er was given a boost by the new city
council which has taken upon itself
the task Of selecting new name
Once this is done no further action
will be taken until the general cleo
ton next fall II Valley Junction de-
cides 1t ought to be something else,
something else it will be.
The fault found with the present
name is that the word Junction" in
dicates that Valley Junction Is rail
road crossing, not thriving city.
Valley Junction come into the lime
light prominently a year ago last De-
cember when the Des Moines saloons
were closed by the supreme court.
Street cars and taxi-cabs were over
crowded with thirsty persons on their
way from here to the grog shops of
the suburb. When the saloons were
closed the first of the year here the
Valley Junction council closed those
In that place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
CHARLTON.

Rev. Theodore H. Aszman will pre-
side at the installation of the Rev. Mr..
Morton as pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church at Centerville tomorrow
Miss Myra 3. DUNCAN left last even
ing for Waterloo to attend the conven-
ton Of the Central Commercial Teach
ers' association.
Mrs. Bun Graves and baby left last
evening for visit in Milo at the home
of her father DR.. Price.
VIM. Haven of Ottumwa, formerly Of
this city was here yesterday visiting his
son Cushman and old friends.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Strieff of Lovilia and
grandson Donald Violet of Madrid, Wis
tied in Charlton few days this week
with her brother w. G. Butcher and
family.
Mrs. AL Johnson is expected home
this evening from few days visit with
relatives and friends In Abba and Hite-
man.
Mrs. B. A. French and son Dean left
yesterday for a visit of three weeks
with relatives in Skidmore and Mound
City, Mo.
o. l.. Mace departed yesterday for
Asherville, Kans., in response to a mes
sage announcing the sudden death Of
his brother J. G.. Mace which occurred
Tuesday
Mrs. II. w. Gridley of villisca came
yesterday for visit with her brother
S. L. Smith and family enroute home
from visit ii Kirkwood. Ill
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Perry departed
yesterday for Lowell, Mich, where they
have ranch and where they will
spend about three months.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
TEACHERS FORM
CLUB FOR COUNTY
NEW ORGANIZATION Is STARTED
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
INSTRUCTORS.

The Wapello County Teachers club
was organized Saturday afternoon in
the Office of the county superintend-
ent at the court house, following the
regular session of the Wapello county
rural teachers reading circle.
The object of this new organization
is to elevate the profession Of teach
ing. advance the cause of education
and to promote feeling of fellowship
and cooperation among the teachers
of the county. Any instructor Of Wa
'pello county may become . member.
It is especially to help the teachers In
the rural schools and those who are
instructors in the town schools outside
of Ottumwa that this organization has
been formed. The Ottumwa teachers
have club of their own known as the
Ottumwa Teachers club, and this new
one is modelled considerably after it.
The officers elected are Miss Ella
Harlem, president; Miss Maude
O'Brian, vice president; Ray v. Sow.
ers, secretary, and Miss Lena Dimmitt,
treasurer. The executive committee
which il to consist of the officers and
three members, one to retire each year
is made up of the following people:
Miss Josephine Murray, three years;
Miss Edna Adcock, two years, and
Miss Julia Wellman, one year. There
will be i've meetings held during the
year on the third Saturdays of Sep
TENDER, November, January, March
and May. There will be another meet
ing of the reading circle. on Saturday,
Nav 20, to finish up work left undone
Saturday There was an unusually
large attendance last week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
SCHOOL CASES CO
/ T0sUPREMEC
RULING ON CONSOLIDATED DIS
TRIcT LAW ASKED FOR IN
THE APPEAL.

Des Moines May 1O.-In the case OF
the consolidated school districts OF
Webster and Jefferson townships yer
sus p H. Martin, treasurer Of Polk
county, which was submitted to the
supreme court yesterday, construction
of the law providing for the formation
of consolidated school districts was re-
quested.
The court Is asked to rule before
May Is in order that the district in
question may proceed with the con
struction of school building. If de-
layed, the district will lose consider
able money by the expiration. of pre-
sent contracts, the attorneys said.
The consolidated school act, the at
torneys said, has many clouded points.
Unless these disputed provisions are
officially ruled upon, many districts
will continue to stagger along in uncer-
tainty as to their legality, it was argu-
ed. The court is asked to make clear
what "ten days next preceding the
election" takes in. It Is also asked to
rule on the matter Of furnishing separ-
ate ballot boxes in towns and villages
where the towns and villages appear
only on paper.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-11
WEST LIBERTY WILL
PAVEANYWAY ITSAYS

West Liberty, May 1o-The fac;
that Judge Barker in the district court
has helped portion of the suit for In
junction against the proposed street
paving for West Liberty. will not
serve to deter the town council from
its determination. The town, how
ever, will not fight the case in the
courts, but will reject all the previous
bids and again advertise. 1t Is fig
ured that the delay in this preliminary
work, will be much less than the time
consumed by legal fight.
The court has held that the original
resolution of necessity as we'll as the
granting Of the contract, was entirely
valid, but the clause in the contract
which gave the town engineer power
to increase the amount Of work, is
held at fault, and the towns demurrer
to the Injunction petition was over
ruled on this account
The council proposes to take i'm
steps toward second adver-
Using, and hopes to be in readiness
for actual work June 1.