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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-04

PARKERsBURG: Money believed
to be part Of that solen in the recent
hold-up Of Baltimore and ohio pas
sengers train No. I at Central, has
been discovered in circulation here
They are new twenty dollar bills or
a Dallas. Tex, bank. Federal officer,
are investigating. {.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-04

HUNTINGTON: AS part of fire
hazard campaign. Thomas B. Davis,
fire chief, has notified owners and
Of all motion picture thea
tiers that baby carriages, easels and
all other distractions must be re-
moved from Hobbies and exits.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-04

KINGWoOD: Persons interested
lin the proposed improved road be-
tween Morgantown and the Maryland
state line will be glad to learn that
THE Preston county court has. author
lied an election in Terra Alta district
ito decide on the issuance Of $250,000
in bonds for the same road work.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-04

" GRAFTON: with the release Of
Charles Myers, who served a sixty-day
sentence fora law violation. the Tay7
lor county jail here is practically
empty. the side side Of the jail being
vacant and only one man being con-
fined on the county side. This is the
first time such a condition has existed
In a long time.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-04

y HUNTINGTON.K In his anxiety too
avoid the clutches Of Deputy Sheriff
D. w. Frampton, Walter Thompson,
under Indictment for felony in the
criminal court, Communicated gro
Gerry boy and his delivery wagon,
snatched the reins, drove up Eighth
avenue and boarded a railroad train
at the Chesapeake and Ohio shops and
escaped. The officer was just about
to lay hands on him. E4t
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Concentration of Wealth.

The fiction that large number of
means democratic con-
troll of industry is dispelled.
A single banking house controlled
the United States Steel Corporation
in 1911.
American Tobacco Company was
controlled by ten stockholders be-
fore the dissolution.
Large corporations "almOst with
out exception" are anti-uniOn.
These industrial dictatOrs know
nothing but finance.
The control of manufacturing, mining
and transportation industries is to an
increasing degree passing into the hands
of great corporations through stock
ownership, and control of credit is GEN.
tralized in a comparatively small num-
Der of enormously powerful financial in
sttutions. These financial institutions
are in turn dominated by very small
number of powerful financiers.
The final control of American indus
try rests. therefore, in the hands of a
small number of wealthy and powerful
hnanciers.
The concentration of ownership and
control is greatest in the basis indus
tries upon which the welfare of the
country must finally rest.
With few exceptions each of the
great basic industries is dominated by a
single large corporation, and where this
is not true, the control of the industry
through stock ownership in supposedly
independent corporations and through
credit is almost. if not quite, as potent.
In such corporations, in spite of the
large number of stockholders, the con-
troll through actual stock ownership
rests with a very small number of per-
sons. For example in the United States
Steel Corporation, which had in 1911
approximately 100000 shareholders, IL
per cent of the stockholders held 81 pei
cent of the stock, while the final contro
rested with single private banking
| house.
Similarly in the American Tobacco
Company, before the dissolution, ten
stockholders owned 60 per cent of the
stock.
Almost without exception the en-
ployes of the large corporations are un-
organized, as a result of the active ant
aggressive "non-union" policy of the
corporation arrangements.
Furthermore, the labor policy of the
large corporation almost inevitably de-
termine the labor policy of the entire
industry.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
State Constabulary.

1t is found that the Pennsylvania
state cOnstabulary "is an extremely
efficient force for crushing strikes"
1t does not protect the public, nor
prevent violence, nor maintain legal
and civil rights.
Violence is found to increase when
the cOnstabulary appears.
Extensive investigations of the organ
ization, personnel, and activities of the
Pennsylvania state constabulary were
made and number of witnesses were
heard at length. The findings with re-
gard to this particular police organiza-
ton may be briefly stated: 1t is an ex-
tremely efficient force for crushing
strikes, but it is not successful in pre-
venting violence in connection with
strikes, in maintaining the legal and civil
rights of the parties to the dispute, nor
in protecting the public. On the con-
trary, violence seems to increase rather
than diminish when the constabulary is
brought into an industrial dispute the
legal and civil rights of the workers
have on numerous occasions been vio-
lated by the constabulary; and citizens
not in any way connected with the dis
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Dictionary Lore.

Poison and potion" are doublets,
the former being an older form OF the
latter. Both are derived from the Latin
"potare," to drink, and poison in its
original sense signified merely something
to drink.
While the word human used as
meaning "a human being" is now only
coloqual or humorous, Lowell in the in
PRODUCTION to the "Biglow Papers" chlded
Bartlett for including it in his Die
tionary of Americanisms" and remark
ed that it was Chapman's habitual
phrase in his translation of Homer and
that it is found also in the old play OF
"The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. ."-Ex-
change.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
The Word "Canvassing." :"

How 'canvassing" got its election sig
niiicance is puzzle The word appears
originally to have meant tossing in a
canvas or blanket and then generally
mishandling or assaulting. I'll canvass
thee in thy broad cardinals hat is the
Duke of Gloucester's threat to the
Bishop of Winchester in King Henry
VI The next stage of meaning was
that of destructive criticism, from which
to thorough discussion-"c "canvassing' a
subject-was simple enough. But how
exactly did it arrive at the election
sense? DR.. Johnson explained that the
term meant trying votes previously to
the decision and derived it from "can-
vas. as it signifies sieve
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11

A Russian official once told curious
story of the thoroughness of the Petro-
grad police in the early nineteenth CEN
fury He had lost his pocketbook, con-
tanning a considerable sum, gave notice,
and had the money restored to him with
ing a day or two without the pocket
book Shortly after he found that the
pocketbook, still containing the original
notes. was not lost, but had slipped into
the lining of his fur coat. Naturally, he
asked whence had come the restored
money. He discovered that the police
rather than admit failure had collected
the money among themselves-Dundee
Advertiser
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Words Ending In Cough" ="

Note this list of words ending in ough,
the pronunciation of the more obscure
words being here added, so far as is
ascertainable from the dictionaries !;
Messrs. Cough (gof), Hough (hu) and
Clough (cluD, though tough enough,
thought through the day that they would
visit Mr. Brough (broo), who, having
hiccough (hickup) and cough lived in
clough (cluf or clou), with plenty of
dough and tame clough (chuf) kept
near a plough in rough trough hung to
bough over Tough Coch). AT slough
(sluf) of the bank into the slough
(slew) injured his thoroughbred's hougll
(hock st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11

There is story told of Socrates that
he once asked self-conident pupil to
draw line and, the line being completed
to construct a square upon it. he
youth did as directed. "Now," said the
sage, make me square twice the size
of the one before YOU That is easy"
replied the novice, and forthwith, pro-
ducing the line so that it was double the
length of the first, made an other square
Very carefully Socrates proved to the
now crestfallen follower that the new
square was really four times the size of
the original. Next he explained how the
task ought to have been done, and con-
cluded thus Our first step to wisdom
is ever knowledge of our own igno-
rance"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
A FeW Features of the Industrial
Relation Committees Report of
Interest to Workingnoen,

The following are few of the i'm
portant subjects brought to light by the
report of the Commission on Industrial
Relations
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11

dictation of all working conditions Of
employment by the employer, but by his
usurpation or control of the functions
and machinery of political government
in such communities"
In the available time it has been i'm
possible to ascertain how general such
conditions are, but it is clearly indicated
by the investigations that in isolated in
dustrial, mining or agricultural com
munties, which are owned or controlled
ism is the rule rather than the excep-
ton
In such communities democratic gov
ernment does not as a rule exist, except
in name or form, and as a consequence
there now exists within the body of our
republic petty industrial communities,
which are virtually principalites, oppres-
sive to those dependent upon them for a
livelihood and dreadful menace to the
peace and welfare of the nation
Such conditions as these are the direct
and inevitable consequence of the indus
trial relations which exist in such COM
munities Political freedom can exist
only where there is industrial freedom
political democracy only where there is
industrial democracy.
Such industrial democracy has been
established in a greater or less degree
in certain American industries or for
certain classes of employees But be-
tween such conditions of industrial
democracy and industrial feudalism
there are almost infinite gradations
marking the stages of evolution which
have been reached. In every case, how
ever, investigation has shown that the
degree of political freedom and democ-
racy which exists is conditioned by the
form the majority of the community.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
A Book of Jade.

The most solid book in the world, says
the Fine Arts Journal of Chicago, is in
the Field Museum 1t has only ten
pages, but they consist of exquisitely en-
graved slabs of the finest jade. The
book was made by order of the Chinese
Emperor Kank Hsi 1662-1722), and is
family document of great historic
value The text is in Chinese and
Manchu, with elaborate ornamentation
on the first and last pages.
1t is believed that this precious relic
was turned into cash through the ne
cessities of the deposed imperial family,
which has been in retirement with lin
tied income since the establishment of
the Chinese republic.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
The Two Angels.

The following allegory is told among
the Turks:
Every man has two guardian angels,
one on his right shoulder and one on
his left. In doing good the angel on
the right shoulder notes it down and
sets seal upon it, for what is done is
done forever. When evil is committed
the angel on the left shoulder writes it
down, but he waits until midnight before
he seals it. If by that time the man
bows his head and says, Gracious AL
lah, l have sinned; forgive me-" the
angel blots out the fault but if not he
seals it at midnight, and then the angel
on the right shoulder weeps
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Circumstances Alter Cases.

Anxious aughter-Mother, did papa
have his salary increased when he was
married?
Mother-No. my child.
Anxious Daughter-I don't suppose
he had any money saved up, had he:
Mother-Not a penny. He spent all
he earned.
Anxious Daughter-Did you get along
comfortably?
Mother-We were very happy.
Anxious Daughter-Wel. you know,
George hasn't been able to save a pen
ny, but
Mother-No, Maria, if that poverty
stricken fellow dares to show his face
here again I'll get your father to turn
him out
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Money to Loan

If YOU have household goods, piano. or
other personal property, you can borrow our
cash as follows:
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11

portant subjects brought to light by the
report of the Commission on Industrial
Relations
To Guarantee Justice.
Congress should pass laws that
provide, i'm specific terms, against
encrOachment on personal rights of
individuals by federal and state gov
ernments.
Courts should be prohibited from
declaring laws unconstitutional.
Jurors should be selected by i'm
partial drawings.
Stringent rules governing private
detective agencies and private en-
plOyment agencies recommended.
With full recognition of the gravity
OF the suggestions, the following recon-
mendatlonS are made:
That congress should forthwith in
ltiate an amendment to the constitution
providing in specific terms for the pro-
lection and the personal rights of every
person III the United States from en-
croachment by the federal and state gov
ernments and by private individuals, as
soclations and corporations. The prin-
cipal right which should be thus specif-
cally protected by the power of the fed
eral government are the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus, the right to Jury
trial tree speech, peaceful assemblage,
to keep and bear arms, to be free from
unreasonable searches and seizure, to
speedy public trial, to freedom from ex-
cessive bail, and from cruel and TN
usual punishments.
hat congress Immediately enact by
statute or, if deemed necessary, initiate
a constitutional amendment specifically
prohibiting the courts from declaring
legislative acts stitutional.
That congress enact that in all federal
cases where the trial is by jury, all
included in the list from which jurors
are selected and that they shall be drawn
by the use of a wheel or other device de-
signed to promote absolute impartiality
That congress should drastically regu,
late or prohibit private detective agencies
and private employment agencies doing
business in more than one state, EN-
ployed by company doing an inter
state business, or using the mails in con
nection with their business. Such regu
lation, if it is feasible, should include
particularly the limitation of their &C
tivities to the bona fide functions of de
tecting crime, and adequate provision
should be made for the rigid supervision
of their organization and personnel
That the militia of the several State
being subject to regulation by congress
carefully drawn rules for their per
sonnel, organization and conduct in th
field should be drawn up to insure thei
impartiality during industrial disputes
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Truthful James.

In one instance at least bad spelling
enabled an office boy to express the pre-
else fact. His employer has just re-
luctantly left to attend a meeting Of
bank directors, where the proceedings
were sure to be long and prosy.
lad, put up the sign saying that | am
out"
James sought for it in vain, so he in
scribed and posted the following truth
full announcement Out. Gone to a
bored meeting.-Lippincott's.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11
Workers Must Organize.

where workers are unOrSaniZed
industrial feudalism is the rule
rather than the exception"
Political democracy is possible
only where industrial democracy
exists.
The effects of industrial organiza-
ton are greater than even the form
of our political institutions.
Results of feudalism shown.
THE only hope for the solution of
the tremendous problems created by in
dustrial relationship" says the report
cratic institutions and the rapid extern
sion of the principles of democracy to
industry
The immediate effects of the form
and character of industrial organization
are held to be greater and closer to
the lives and happiness OF all classes of
citizens than even the form and char
acter of our political institutions"
THE ordinary man, it is pointed out,
whether employer or worker, has rela-
lively little contact with the government.
If he and his family are well-fed, we'll
housed, and well-clothed, and if he can
pay for the education of his children,
he can exist even under an autocratiC
monarchy with little concern until some
critical situation develops in which his
own liberty is nterfered with or until
he is deprived of life or property by the
overwhelming power of his tyrannical
ruler. But his industrial relations deter
mine every day what he and his family
shall eat, what they shall wear, how
many hours of his life he shall labor
I and in what surroundings. Under GER
tain conditions where his individual or
corporate employer owns or controls the
community in which he lives, the edu-
cation of his children, the character and
prices of his food, clothing and house
his own actions, speech and opinions
and in some cases even his religion, are
controlled and determined, in sofar as
the interests of the employer make il
desirable for him to exercise such con
troll. Such conditions are established
and maintained not only through the
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-11

with the constabulary have been bru-
tally treated and in one case shot down
by members of the constabulary, who
have escaped punishment for their acts.
Organized upon strictly military basis,
it appears to assume in taking the field
in connection with a strike, that the
strikers are its enemies and the enemies
of the state and that a campaign should
be waged against them as such.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-09

SPENT LONG LIFE TRYING r o GET PERPETUAL MOTION.
L3neyy old
Welton
( Z f
Father untngy
AT uembled
81 +. -. -
and last
white =
"A
ball a
the
BE- found There be doubt Of it. When it is found the world
why thought OF 1T before"
an old man he continued Il the coming the railroads
Back in 1870 predicted that the world would day
than things the little
Mr. Scotland declined
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-09
Aged Woman Stripped of
Jewels BY Masked Rob
bers In Her Home.
SERVANT PARTNER IN CRIME
Bandits Took $4,000 From
Body But Overlooked
Fortune In Safe.

New York, Sept. s.-owney Talas, a,
Russian Finn, for two and one-half
months hall boy in the residence Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols. an aged widow
who met death last night, at the hands
of masked men, who robbed her, of
gems valued at $4,000, was arrested
after he confessed to having played a
part in the crime. AL the other SER.
wants in the house were freed OF sus-i
.picion, the police announced. ia
A preliminary examination Of Mrs
Nichols body revealed the probability
that, she died of fright, otsof strangu-
'lation, as at first was supposed. An
autopsy, to be- performed late today,
will disclose the exact cause of death
Although the Burglars stripped their
victims fingers and ears of diamonds
and other jewels worth $4,000, they
failed to rifle the strong box of her
safe in which she kept gems valued at
from $250,000 to $1,000
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-09
Bret Reports
From War Fields

Petrograd, Sept. s.-The Novoe
Xrenlya announces the formation of a
new ma jortty in the Duna which com
prises the liberal and progressive ele-
nelts, replacing the conservative ma
jortty.
The newspaper editorialiy comments
favorably on the formation Of the new.
majority, saying:
AFTER year Of war we now witness
a union OF all social groups upon a
general program of political action.
What was impossible year ago has
been realized. - '
"A union on a single political PRO-
gram, responding to the requirements
Of the day, af parties differing In
political creeds--this is fact of great
Importance whose consequence can.
not but be reflected Immediately IN
the entire policy Of the empire
The Novoe Vremya, has retained
through the last fifteen years a repu-
tation as a weather vane It's support
Of the. new Durna majority therefore
is regarded as highly significent.
Debate in the Duma on the military
censorship took a wide range, in view
OF renewed. reports that the conserva-
tves were working secretly for disso-
luton OF prorogation. Professor Paul
N. Milukoff. declared the formation IF
a liberal progressive majority in place
OF the conservative block to be an
event OF historic Importance, adding
that the formation of a majority In
the Duma win bring about solution
OF the question Of power, provided
the Dun1a remains alive.
Popular instinct feels this" he con-
tinued, "and the people hear with deep
concern all rurnors of a Dismissal Of
the. Duna. believe Ja<fI cina rlxy ,Iy :
derstand that in these circumstances
dismissal would be political madness.
Let htose who are agitating IL know.
therefore, that If the Durls is proro-
gued now we shall. meet again in a
few weeks, perhaps in a different
frame Of mind. Let the dlinna go on
calmly and uietly with 1tqs work"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-09

London Sept. e-For weeks the Rus
according their statements have inflicted severe de-
opponents battle of Tuesday TarnePo
miles Lsbera and the Geian frontier while
where they striking back after
their long retreat
In this battle included not only
The Russians maintain that 1900
the Of
victory would have been pronounced but for
their inferiority In artillery.
The forging forward slowly by virtue OF
Field Marshal Hinden-
burg 8 still unable to force q Of the pVina
Grand Duke Nicholas removed OF the
Russian today the his headquarters In the
unable what this transfer signifies II
suggested that the shift bS orerunner important Rus
the Turkish frontier connection with Franco
By means Of air raids aun6re from artillery
British continue hammer the German position wtheut launching
by the french Office Germans attacked the French nea
where held last The Frsns took some pTsonsfs
HOW GERMANS. VIEW GRAND DUKES REMOVAL
position eomsnds .oHisf Of the Russian
long s % sb.t H. the says S tRs esaB: eG Bf wa.
understanding his nndsnabs Gifts IN the strategy Of rssrs:tTs h
essls
retired peos Scs Fss.s". ss Psresar
be:
stand duke the party: sro"Gis. @
former honorable and
Post. the Sthst hand the grsrd duke e
Of G :TS .SH S ."S @ and sds that
depends on leader Of titanic strength. ' '.a. ~ -
sULeARIANs STRENGTHEN AEGEAN SEAPORT.
S:S s .c. onS s sei p sn III is ss"cn a..S; @
are being placed at ali strategic points . 81. r
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-09
American, Mixed Up
in Dumba Deal, Must
Come Home and Explain
to u. S. Government

eseeretary Lansing cancelled the
Archibald American correspondent,
from Dr..
the Auso Hungarian ambassador to his foreign
strikes American munitions
plants.
Archibald is at Rotterdam, and American Minister Van
permit
Arehbald the United States when the department OF
decide violated
the
belIigerentsi IS
ArehbaId's the first official
possibly
TO this
at
been
vha caI Iy to mil m
Lansing,
nutritious their He
Officials the department Of justice
which
future. be the Archibald case
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-09
Russians Turn on Teutons
and Inflict Severe Drubbing
Rich CANADIAN
Mine OWNERS
ARE INDICTED

Vancouver, 3. c., Sept. s.-An-
nouncement was made today by the
attorney general Of British Columbia
that indictments for Enanslaughter
had been laid against Thomas Graham
and J. H. Tonkin, two OF the most
prominent mining men in Canada
charged with careiessness in connec-
tion with the disaster that caused the
loss of 100 lives in the reserve mine near
Nanaimo February Is, last.