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the way In the South for more humane
laws for child workers, and he did this
blaxontng while holding down the two
handed and unusual combination Of jobs
as editor Of the Charlotte, N. c., News.
daily paper. and the Presbyterian
Standard. weekly church periodical
With Mr.. McKelway hammerins away
editorially through these two channels.
and with Josephus Daniels pounding
hard at the same idea over at Raleigh
In the News and Observer. North Caro-
lima legislators were forced to pass the
first restrictive legislation against
child labor enacted in that state.
| A professional reformer. perhaps long
haired. you might imagine Mr.. Nickel
| right guess.
ton FOR children Is a simple patriotic
task. and II takes organisation. hard
work. and constant effort" he will tell
| you.
! In this simple businesslike fashion
he has gone about the work OF carrying
. his propaganda into ever corner Of the
! Union. And his crisp. incisive speech
his sledgehammer arguments. his brisk
manner. suggest the banker. the mer-
| chant, or the erstwhile editor, rather
| than the exponent OF a great reform
Tells Of Ten-Y Year Gains.
! How successful he and his associates
! nave been IN their Self-appOlnted task
Is indicated In his own account Of the
results of the ten-year fight. He said
| Every state In the Union has now
| some measure OF legislative protec-
| tion for the working children, and
| for the employment Of children in
factories all have reached the four
gone beyond Jescep pt tn. two s Caro-.
linas. Alabama, and Mississippi, in
the South: New Mexico and Nevada
in the West. and Vermont in the
East-fortv out OF forty-eight. so,
on the legislative side. the work
of child labor reform has progress
ed further in the last decade than
IN the century preceding.
! Why. then. one naturally inquiries. i!
this movement for national Legislation
ON child labor. as embodied in tn,
iTalmer-Owcn bill. with which the con
terence next week will largely deal. anc
! which It is hoped will be passed at thi
hession" To that Mr. Mckelway'a an
sp er Is this:
u Forty-eight States must Of neces-
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sity have forty-c,ght standards of
law enforcement to say nothing or
legislation, and one great obstacle in
the advance Of child labor reform
along both lines ~ the effect ~
low styndard State in Its influence
upon surrounding states.
Manufacturers Complain.
Manufacturers of Massachusetts
complain that the eight-hour day
puts them at u disadvantage with
their competitors in the other New
England States, which still allow
Il nine or ten-hour day for the em-
ployment Of children between four
teen and sixteen years. The glass
manufacturers OF New jersey aud
the law prohibiting the employment
Of boys under sixteen at night work
In their establishments. because the
glass manufacturers OF Pennsyl-
vania have continued to be more
powerful with the legislature Of that
state than the friends Of the chill
dren.
The Palner-Owen bill sets fourteen
year age limit for all children In fac
tories and q sixtcen-yenr limit for those
In mines or quarries. An eieht-hour day
and a sixiday week are prescribed Tor
all workers between fourteen and six
teen years. The merit Of the present
BIZ is believed to lie in the fact that
II places the responsibility for q viola
ton upon the manufacturer shipping
goods made under illegal conditions out
side his State, instead Of placing the
penalty upon the carriers. as was pro,
vlded in tho Beveridge and Kenyon
bills. previously introduced.
Public Conscience Reused.
State legislation has not been the only
ach evement Of the child labor com
mittee. asserts Mr. McKelway. Alons
with the passage Of laws In state after
state has come an awakening Of public
conscience. He explained:
The nation Is as vitality concerned
in the protection Of its children as
lives unto himself, The illiteracy Of
the voters Of South Carolina is felt
in national legislation that affects
Massachusetts, and California as
well. The nation as a whole is be-
ginning to recognize that 1t must in
ter'ere to protect its citizens from
physical and moral degeneracy and
all the vices Of an empty mind.
There 8 another moral question in
volved. That Is the growing real.
izatiOn that consumers have a right
to protest against goods made by
anti-social child labor. Can We not.
each one OF us. say for himself. II
do not want to wear hosiery made
4 IN reOTelA WneTe ten-year-OlO CnI-
dren may work eleven hours a day
in mills: do not wish to adorn
myself with cotton goods manurac-
tured in Alabama. where fourteen
year-old children are allowed to
work at night in their production;
do not wish to buy tomatoes from
the canner'es Of Maryland. which
recently persuaded the Maryland
legislature to allow them to employ
ten-year-old children for unlimited
hours In tomato canning"
Not only national legislation, bu
work yet to be done IN States. will b
! discussed ut next weeks conference.
This conference will be held next Tues
| day and Wednesday at the willard
Among the notable speakers at the cor
ference will be Or. Felix Adler, Jan
| Addams, Mrs. Florence kelley an
| Rerpa ri C1eYpNr
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Marrc ana there prepare his offensive
On tn" first of September this move
mont WAS wei Under way and, 80 iar
as ! can gather, II was the raDidht OF
th movement VIII ch fooled the Ger
man commanders nnu lcd them into the
error Of believing the French and tGng-
lirh armies, To- all intcnts. routed
From this supposed definite retreat OF
the allies. the German commanders took
TO fheir cue. They had two alternatives
before them; either they would have to
pursue the allies with the bulk Of their
arm les. In the moment ncelectinr Paris,
or else let the allies go and take Paris.
q result apparently arden,ly dcs red
OF view. If they chose the irst course,
they risked development In country
cut by numerous water courses-Marne,
Grand NORM. Petit MORN. ntc.--but
number Of troops would be necessary
that elsewhere their lines would be SO
weakened that an offensive by the all es
might prove disastrous.
So they chose the first course, since
apparently the allies were practically
defeated. determining to pursue them
and annihiate both French and Eng-
lish. Thus came to be fought the battle
of the Marine. which was not really the
battle of the Marne at all, but OF Ave
or six other rivers as well.
Feared Enveloping Move.
The battle commenced September 8
The danger Of the envelopina move
! rnent. probably foreseen by the Ger
! mans. but discounted because the,
thought the allies definitely In retrea
and incapable of serious fighting, a
once became apparent. The French nnt
: English pressed In from the west. max
ing a pocket. the bottom Of which wa
| In the region Of Couiommiers. Courta
! con and Esternay. and here Generali
! Foch. d'Esperey. and others. resu,ninl
the offensive. began their smashini
blows. The rest of the story is known
| The Germans retreated .precipltously
leaving behind considerable material
The French praise the German com
manders for escaping at all. Under les
! able leaders. the French say. the!
could not have cxtricated their armies
so well prepared were the plans o
General Joffrc.
, Among military men, foreign as wei
as French. General Joffre is regarde
as q fox for strategy and utterly fre
| from pose. These two qualities. the
say. permit him to plan his movement
| carefully, and without an eye to tn
| bleachers or an ear to public opinion
He fights for France instead Of for hi
own CORY.
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Thieves Unable to Force
Safe of Grocery Store.

Thieves who entered the grocery
store of J. L. -. Pyles, at Al2 Fourth
street southeast. by breaking the sky
light and, after futile attempts to.
force the safe, robbed the place Of
more than 100 pounds Of hams, are
being sought today by the police of
the Fourth precinct.
The robbers abandoned the meat at
Fourth and G streets southeast. sew
eral squares from where the robbery
incurred
The Washington times., 1915-01-02

hair tonics and skin soaps but none seemed
to do very much good II any. was advised
By friend to try Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment which did. and now my hair he's
stopped coming out and my scalp is clean
Of dandruf7. My hair is thick as 1t ever was.
l also had pimples and blackheads on my
fsoe but Cuticura Soap and Ointment hss
healed them" (Signed) Curtis Sullivan.
July 81, 1914.
Sample Each Free by Mail
With SIP. Skin Book on request. Ad-
dress postcard "'Cuticurs, Dept. T, Boz.
ton." Sold throughout the world.
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Draft of 70 Prisoners
Moved Without Shackles

AUBURN, Jan. For the first time
in the prison history Of New York, a
draft of prisoners from Sing Sing 10
Auburn has been made without the use
of shackles.
No attempt was made to escape by
the scvcnty-threc prisoners. At Syra-
cuse arrangements had been made by
telegram for coffee and crullers, also
an innovation.
Thomas NJ. Osborne. the new warden
oS Sing Sing. was thanked by the pr!s-
cners in a round robin statement
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Manchester Lads Give
Loving Cup to Thaw

MANCHESTER. n. H.. Jan. e.
Harry Thaw entertained at his home
forty small boys. who presented to
him a loving cup from their savingS
Thaw has had the boys at his
home for tea, and has presented
skates. sleds, and other toys to them
On several occasions he has Joined
them in shedding and coasting.
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Beet Sugar Output to
Be Increased a Quarter

OGDEN, Utah. Jan. 2.--Sugar beet
crops of 1915 will be made into a
tonnage OF sugar % per cent greater
than that of 1914. The output Of four
sugar factories. operated b yone COM
pany during 1914. at Ogden, Logan.
Idsbo ahd Lew W. s'GM ooS 6an' az anG bIrlHS
crease of c5 per cent over 1919.
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Fractured Knee Cap.

Or. Clarence A. Weaver OF l6Al .
street northwest, Is confined to his home
with fractured knee cap. The injury
was received when the physician clipped
and fell In a corridor at Sibley Hospi-
tai yesterday.
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HOW JOFFRE BALKED
THE MARCH ON PARIS
Led Germans Into a Pocket and
at Battle Of Marne Began
His Smashing Blows.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AT
THE, FRONT. Nov. 70 U3y mail to New
York. .)--Aftcr talking with Off GERS here.
who took part in the fighting and who
have since made an exhaustive study
of the tuation, ] am now able to throw
additional light on thc mystery of
August that period of the war lead
ing up to the battle of the Marne and
about which practically nothing thus
far has been made public
The official conmuniqucs during Au-
gust were short and contained no de-
Ia Is. All that the world knew was that
fierce lighting was In progress: that the
French and English armies were In re-
treat: that Paris was In gloom. with
| fleeing southwark and the government
preparing to move to Bordeaux.
Just what was going on at the front
the public q d not know. Ruinor had
It, toward the first of September that
the Germans we're in the Paris suburbs,
! and the exodus was increased, railway
, stations were packed and many people
with first class tickets were glad to
find plank seats in freight cars bound
| for the aouth.
! At this precise moment. without the
publ C knowing 1t, the tide had turned
| the Germans had abandoned Paris Us
their objective; General Joffrc. had
| outplayed Generals Won kluck and Vor
Bulow and set the stage for the Ger.
| mans check and retreat.
Fooled Rival Com manders.
1t now appears certu n that General
Joffrc deliberately led the Germans into
believing his army definitely beaten ant
the British expcditonary forces com
pleteIy done for, lett ng them think al
they had to do was to let Paris &c
for the moment, follow up the frencr
and English and crush them for goot
and all. Overconfident. the Germans
were caught off their guard. just al
Jofrre expected they would he and tho
So called battle Of the Marnc ended /,
a victory for the allies and the conse
quent saving of the capital.
How did Joffre lead up to his victory
BY refusing to play the grand stand
by attending to his job regardless o
what the publ e might think.
The French comma nderin-ch' eff d"
cided to retire the bulk of his force
east Of Paris 20 positions south of The
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times I would be compelled
TO scratch even In company
and l WAS losing my hair very
fast. The dandru6 would
scale of and show In my hair
and when I would comb 1t
tho dandru6 would almost
cover my coat around the
collar.
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Pioneer in Child Labor War
To See Gathering Here Give
Final Impetus to Crusade
A. J. McKelway, Who Blazed Way When He Edited
Two Papers at Once in North Carolina,
Tells Why National Law Is Demanded.

Formerly a wo,anded editor editing secular daily and
a religious weekly at the same time.
undertook the twohanded fight for child labor legsla
ion and has been working it since.
colleague and neghbor in the field
Josephus Daniels A. J. McKeway landed in Washington.
Next week a Washington Of notable
give the final impetus the PalmerOwen national
child labor BILL before Congress.
By J, r. HILDEBRAND,
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DANDRUFF AND
FALLING HAIR
Scalp ltched. Dandruff Scaled Of.
Showed in Hair and Covered Coat
Collar. Used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Hair Stopped
Coming Out and Scalp Clean.

Byron, Ga.-"For six years or more
have been troubled with dandruf and falling
hair, MY scalp would itch 20 that somo
The Washington times., 1915-01-02
LOCAL MENTION.

F.F. " Lunch, 1908 Pa. Ave-, IS giving
patrons tickets Virginia Thea That's all
Phone Main aseo For Family Wash
rriccs The Tolnan Laundry.
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sity have forty-c,ght standards OF
law enforcement, to say nothing or
legislation, and one great obstacle In
the advance Of child labor reform
along both lines ~ the effect ~ ~
low styndard State in Its influence
uuOn St,rrn,tpdtnr StatCa
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25
He Denies The Charge

Just when we thought Gen
Gilchrist had walk-over for the
senate he commenced writing pc.
etry.-W auchula Advocate.
If Gen. Gilchrist expects to run
for the Senate or for anything else,
he would do well to shut off on
the kind of "poetry" he sent the
Arcadia Enterprise a few days
ago.-Tampa Tribune.
On being interviewed about this
matter, Gov. Gilchrist protests
that he has written no poetry.
The charge, he says, he can dis
pell for, at the fete Of Gasparell,
the scribes pronounced it doggerel.
But why shouldn't he write po-
etry? He admires beautiful wo-
men, the sight of one of whom
is likely to give any man poetic
fit. And these fits are apt to oc-
cur several times a day in Punta
Gorda.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25
Florida Producers Protected
(Stsfe Papers Please Copy

1t is a surprising fact that not
half of the fruit and vegetable
growers of Florida know anything
of the laws enacted and in force
for their protection. The laws
relating to fertilizers and feeding
stuffs were made for the specia
protection of our producers, anc
yet it appears that but few OF
them have even heard of these
laws.
The enforcement of the feed
fertilizer and pure food laws is
placed in the hands of the Commits
sioner of Agriculture at Tallahas.
see, who will, on application, mail
free to any Florida farmer copies
of the laws with the rules and
regulations that will enable the
farmer to avail himself of the pro
lection afforded him against
frauds in his food, fertilizer and
feeding stuffs.
Any farmer, for instance, who
may suspect the character of the
feed or fertilizer he is using, is
permitted to send a sample Of it
to the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, who will have it analysed by
the State Chemist and a report of
the analysis forwarded to the
sender of the sample, all free of
any charge whatsoever. But the
farmer must carefully comply
with the printed rules governing
the taking and sending of such
special samples. Copies of these
rules may be obtained free by
simply addressing a postal card
with a request to the Commission
err of Agriculture at Tallahassee.
In view of the existence of these
laws, there is no reason that any
producer should suffer from any
fraud in feed or fertilizer. 1t
should be remarked, however,
that the manufacturers of fertili-
zers, especially those doing much
business in Florida, have no inten-
ton or disposition to defraud our
producers; but, were any of them
tempted to swindle, they have
sense enough to know that, sooner
or later, it would be found out and
given publicity and their business
would be ruined.
Any palpable fraud discovered
in feed or fertilizers subjects the
manufacturers to heavy fine;
and the farmer who may have
been the victim of the fraud may
sue the manufacturers for twice
the cost of the stuff he bought of
them, If the manufacturers of
fraudulent goods reside outside of
Florida, their goods will be confs-
Gated and they will be debarred
from doing business in the state.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25
RANDOM RAPS
(Kanned) I"
#s#& " ~ %# see

Prof. Taft s advice not to marry
a scrub indicates that he is a sub
tie foe to matrimony.
One drawback about immigra
ton after the war is that we Il
either get crippled patriot or q
healthy undesirable.
Instead of demanding an apollo.
gy, why doesn't Minister Van
Dyke retaliate by giving the Kais.
er a volume of his poems?
Some men hitch their wagons
to star and then try to convince
the star that it would never have
succeeded had they not trailed a.
long.
Since a few highbrow Bostoni-
ans complain that base ball inter-
fercs with art, it requires no sew
enth son of a seventh son to see
art s finish.
The lady uplifter shocked at
the brutality of a prize fight
should have remembered before
hand that that was no place for
her mothers daughter.
Possibly one reason why Villa
assumed direction of the presi-
dency is that the office is so dis
credited and dangerous that no.
body else will have it.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25

We understand Clarence E.
Woods, of the Eustis Lake Region,
is about to break in the newspaper
game in DeSoto county. With
Rams Horn Brown, Pure Food
Jordan and Chesterfield Woods,
DeSoto will certainly have its
share of notables.-Wauchula Ad-
vocate.-Please add to the list
Gay George Goolsby.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25

This paper is emphatically in
favor of a state fair. The fair
should be held in the city offering
the greatest inducements, and at
present Jacksonville seems to be
the place for it. We would pre-
fer Tampa or Lakeland, but, as
Jacksonville is the only place bid
ding for it and is easily accessible
from all parts of the state, Jack
sonville should have the fair and,
if she succeeds in getting it, every
citizen and newspaper should
boost it.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25
Skyscrapers Menace and Steps Should Be
Taken to Limit Height
By F. W. WENTWORTH. Secretary National Fire Protection
Association

Ut IS SAID THAT THE UP DOWN THE ELEvA
| TORS ALMOST GREAT THE
HORIZONTAL TRAFFIC. YORK BEEN VERY
FORTUNATE NO MORE HoRRIFYINe COULD
AoINkBLE WHICH WOULD OCCUR YORK
CITY SHOULD EARTHQUAKE JUST
SHOCK TO WATER AND GAS MAINS and SNAP
TRIO LEADs-THE LIFE WOULD APPALLING.
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE MADE TIE SUBWAY A NECESSITY
a CONFEDERATION, SUCH A YORK
WOULD THE SAME DISASTROUS RESULTS AS
QUAKE AND CHOKE THE sUsWAYs BEGINNING
TO REALIZE THE MENACE AND STEPS TAKEN TO
LIMIT HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS. OTHER CITIES LIMITED
IN SPACE SET A LIMIT ON HEIGHT
HGS
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25
The Newspaper Situation

Inc stringent UuSllcSS Cohui-
tons which just exist through
out the country are having a tell
ing effect upon the press of the ma
ton. This is especially notice
able in the smaller towns and citi-
es. The New York Commerce and
Finance, one of the brightest and
best financial journals in the land,
has this to say on the subject:
"The newspaper situation has
come to stage where it must de-
mand serious attention. Failures
of country weeklies and small
dailies are more numerous
throughout the country than ever
before in the history of the trade.
Advertising is at an ebb. Costs
are far above the average for ev-
erything that enters into the max
ing of a publication. There is
little profit in circulation. In
the South the position is probably
worse than in the North, but ev-
en- in the North it is very bad.
"The whole sphere of advertis-
ing in America has been upset in
the last few years. The pure food
law has cost the newspapers and
magazines millions upon millions
of dollars.
Newspaper makers, by their
own folly, have made themselves
almost wholly dependent upon adj
vertising for their revenue. Adj
vertising is erratic, unstable and
uncertain as to volume. 1t re-
quires constant stimulation. 1t
does not grow naturally. But
for the creation Of new commodi-
ties or, rather, the putting up of
old commodities in new garb and
the attempt to develop a market
for them by advertising, the news
papers would have been forced
years ago to reform their business
ways.
"Uneeda Biscuit was worth mil
lions to the American newspapers.
The same is true of the multitude
of breakfast preparations with
which the country has been flood
ed within the last twenty years.
1t is said the advertising bills paid
by one breakfast food town of
Michigan would pay for the big
gest battleship ever built.
"The advent of the automobile
saved the situation for the news
papers and magazines for time,
but that branch of advertising is
declining. While it lasted it
surpassed anything in the history
OF newspaper making.
at is inevitable that the num-
Der of newspapers in the United |
States will be ruduced. The re-
duction this year may amount to
5 per cent. or even 10 per cent. |
The reduction in size will exceed
that percentage. Curtailment is
under way the nation over. For
some reason newspaper proprie-
tors are hesitant about doing the |
one thing that is right. That is
to increase the subscription price
of the paper TO figure where they |
get fair profit from circulation.
Until they do this they will never
be reasonably free from the in
fuence of the advertiser.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25

When the big banks get over
tehir assumed fright, which we
hope will be very soon, the pre-
vailing paralysis of business will
be relieved. There's no use OF
their making further effort to dis
credit the Wilson administration,
for the people are con to their
curves" There's more money in
the country than ever before in
it s history.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25


Important editorial changes
have recently been made in the
Arcadia newspapers, viz: r. I'll.
Glenn and Jack McGehee have
resigned from the Enterprise and
gone to Daytona to help Hugh
Sparkman make a success Of the
Morning Journal; and E. R.
Jones, late of Kentucky, has sue
ceeded S. A. Bride as manager of
the News. All these gentlemen
are fine, capable newspaper men,
and The Herald wishes them great
success, which it knows they will
achieve.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25

Walter j. Woodall, of The In
dustrial Index, Columbus, has be-
gun publication Of an attractive
monthly magazine devoted to the
interests of the live stock raisers
of this section of the United Stat
es. The publication is named
Southeast Live Stock )" and as it
gives especial attention to the in
dustry in Florida it ought to get
many subscribers in this state.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25

One per cent. of the contents of
the ocean would cover all the land
Arrears of the globe to a depth of
300 feet.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25

Jacksonville Metropolis = If
you call for Florida syrup every
time you use syrup in restaurant
or hotel, you will soon give an i'm
petus to a Florida industry that
will be bringing money back to
you in a little while.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-02-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
STATE PRESS COMMENT

West Palm Beach Sun Don t
leave it for the newspapers to do
all the boosting-do a little of it
Yourself.