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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-29
UNIONS PROTECT
WAGES DURING
DEPRESSIONS

Toronto, Ontario, July 29.-The In
dustrial Banner makes this case in
favor Of the bona fide trade union
movement:
Never in any other period of bust
ness depression has the American la
Dor movement made such favorable
showing as during the last two years,
when unemployment has been so much
in evidence.
I'm past depressions, as rule, the
American Federation of Labor always
suffered serious decline in member
ship, and as a rule reductions in
wages were Of frequent occurrence.
During the last business stringency
however, the A. F. of L. boldly pro-
nounced that it would strenuously re-
sist every attempt in this direction on
the part Of employers who might mani
fest disposition to take advantage Of
existing adverse circumstances.
"The result was that the wage rates
of the different big international or
CARNATIONS was hardly interfered with
at all, and during the present strenu-
GUS times a still more remarkable
showing has been made.
mot only have the international I'M
ions protected their wage scales, work
ing hours and conditions, but major
ity Of them have increased in mem
bership, have even secured higher
wages, shorter hours and improved
working conditions, not in few iso-
lated instances, but in hundreds Of
cases scattered over both the United
States and Canada.
"These organizations have even
grown during this last season Of de-
preston, have increased the amount Of
their surplus funds as well as aug
menting their membership.
"This all goes to show that the
trade unions that are built on solid
Foundation to encounter stormy as well
as fair weather have. during the past
few years, fully demonstrated their
ability to protect their membership.
1.-THE trades union movement is
above all an evolutionary movement,
one that learns by experience and has
gained strength and stability through
the mistakes Of the past that have
pointed out the rocks and shoals to be
avoided.
with the return Of prosperity the
international movement will be In a
position to take advantage Of its larg-
er opportunity and there is no doubt
whatever but that heir future growth
will altogether surpass all previous
records"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-29
CAN'T RUN THEIR
OWN BUSINESS

Topeka, Kans., July 29.-Hereafter
telegraph companies must ask the
state public utilities commission for
permission before they can discontinue
Offices In localities that furnish little
business. The supreme court has mp
held the commissions order to this
eject. The companies, however. win
continue to tell the public they have
.the right to run their own business
wenever workers ask for batter een'
aisloaa o. lReEeaaaa vsgps
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-29
STRIKERS ARBITRATE.

Chicago. July 29.-The painters dis
trict council has appointed commit
tee to arrange for arbitration with
their employers. Several thousand of
these workers have been on strike
since last April. The electrical work
ers have also declared in favor Of ar
bitrating a strike which involves
about 500 workers. =
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-07-29

new trial and condemned Lawson to
prison for life.
"If any further evidence was neces-
sary to convince the public of the
unfairness of Judge Hillyer in tlC
Lawson case, this would seem to furn-
ish it."
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-12

She is a syndicalist and is strong for
the idea that the wives of working
men should know how to reduce the
birth rate in their individual house
holds.
THE woman whose job is to raise
children to be sold in, the modern
child labor market is forbidden to
know how she can improve her home
by having less children" says the
Flynn circular. But the wife of a
millionaire who made his money out
of child labor generally has no chill
dren or at most only one or two"
Other subjects and dates are: April
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-12

when he says: Politics is or never
will be mentioned inside the Catho-
lie church, and anyone who will make
such statementin my estimation is
surely a menace to this country, for
such statement has no foundation,
and to make it plain and short, it is
a rotten lie" 1 must take issue. Such
is the theology of the Catholic church
that the above statement can pass
muster and appear in print with the
sanction of the church, and yet all
who know of the papacy are alive to
the fact that it seethes and boils in
politics.
The word politics is never men
toned at Catholic religious services,
as neither are political affairs dis
cussed, but there are varied ways the
parishioners can be reached with the
expediency of doing so and so. No
parish priest in civilized countries is
permitted to tell his followers what
to do in secular affairs, say some cleo
ton, without instructions from his
his superior, the bishop. Occasionally
such happens, but it never happens
twice to the same priest. l think it
barely possible that Mr.. Brennan's
rotten lie" may partake of a differ
ent hue by this time, and if he will
seek the truth as assiduously as he
flies to the defense of blind faith he
will be amply repaid.
Youth breeds rashness, but age
and time temper ones feelings and
aid the judgment, and so have hope
for Mr.. Brennan, as he modestly con-
fesses to 81 years of age.-F. J. Ra-
gan, 54o4 Prairie aV.
CITY EMPLOYEES TO GET RAISE
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-12
THIS INTERESTING WOMAN TO
GIVE SOME LECTURES

did you ever stop to notice
"That little families live in big
houses?
"And big families live in little
houses?"
This is the heading of circular on
series of lectures in Chicago by
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Her first one
is in Hold Carriers Hall. Harrison and
Green sts.. April 16.
She will talk about Small Fam
lies Miss Flynn is organizing for
the Industrial Workers of the World
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-12

CITY EMPLOYEES TO GET RAISE
At special meeting of the coun-
Gil this afternoon Aid. ]. A. Richert
of the finance committee will ask
that $398,550 be appropriated.
Of this amount $153,931 will be
used for wage increases for union
labor. The rest goes for the pur-
chase of electric lights and current.
The Canary Islands are indignant
over Germany actions. Canaries are
singing out of tune
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
THE BIG PROBLEM

n NOTWITHSTANDING local option,
nj compensation and other pro-
posed legislation are looming
large in the Legislature just now,
there is confronting the appropriations
committees of the two houses of the
General Assembly one of the greatest
problems in years.
Owing to business conditions the
estimated revenues are short of what
they were two years ago. The ex-
penses of the State government have
Increased and through enactment OF
compensation will be still further aug
mented. There are demands for in
creased grants for highway depart
ment and for education, for charities
and for the care of the dependents.
Few revenue raisers that would give
immediate relief has been suggested.
In fact, it is doubted if some of those
proposed would give much help be-
fore 1917. The appropriations COM
mittees are trying to make Father
PENIS suit for the next year out of
an income that has declined. 1t is a
problem that means hard work and the
result should be accepted. We can not
have all we want.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
DANGEROUS DEBILITY

Debility may result from a number
of causes-worry, after effects of acute
illness, lack of nourishment due to dis
ordered digestion. or anything that
makes the blood thin, thereby prevent
ing it from carrying health and nour-
ishment to the tissues of the body.
The symptoms of debility vary, but
weakness is always present, often q
tendency to fatigue easily, ringing in
the ears, black spots passing before
the eyes, weak back, dizziness, wake
fulness caused by inability to stop
thinking, and unrefreshing sleep.
Debility is dangerous because 1t
weakens the bodys defense against
disease. For instance, debilitated peo-
pie take cold easily and winter is al
ways a trying time for them. When
one cold follows another the system
surely needs building up.
The treatment O. such rundown
conditions with DR.. Williams Pink
pills is based on sound medical prin-
ciples and common sense. These pills
build up the blood so that it nourfshes
every part of the body, nerves as we'll
as muscles, and brings vigor strength
and health.
Mention this paper and we will mail
YOU the booklet, Building Up the
Blood" Address: DR.. williams Medi-
cine Co.. Schenectady, n. Y. Your
own druggist sells DR.. williams Pink
lls.-Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
MONDAY EVENING. APRIL 8
WHERE THE SHOE PINCHEs

~ NE of the many interesting Incl
dents of the great campaign be-
~ ing waged in Pennsylvania for
the enactment of q local option
law is the way people opposed to the
Williams bill are protesting against the
methods reported as employed to Sc
cure votes for the bill. There are
walls going up that patronage is being
used that Legislators are being given
''orders" to line up, that their visits
home are being made unpleasant by
committees of citizens ringing their
doorbells, calling them up on the tele-
phone and meeting them on the streets
to tell them to vote with the Governor
and that they are being deluged with
letters demanding that they stand for
local option.
When one considers the oppressive
measures used by the liquor interests
in years gone by to defeat local option,
the arrogance of some of the lobby
lists and the scorn heaped upon men
who voted against their wishes, such
plants are absurd.
Things are different now and the
shoe pnches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
IETTERSTOTHE:ED!TOR
THE FEDERAL BIRD LAW
he Editor of fLe Tcleprdbh:

tn the Editor of the Telegraph:
saturday, March 81 issue of the
Telegraph contained an article entitled,
wild Duck May Be Hunted" in which
DR.. Kalbfus, secretary of the State
Game Commission, quotes Pennsyl-
vania's laws on the open season FOR
hunting wild ducks. geese, etc., under
fowl mp to ADri. 10.
In the same issue we find an article
entitled, "PollacK Decision Not Feared,
written by the president of the National
Game Conservation Association, in
which he states the Federal law is in
force throughout the United States eN-
cept the district over which Federal
her, of Arkansas. preside. these Judges
having decided the Weeks Mclean
Migratory Fi-d Law unconstitutional.
In the Arkansas case Judge Trleber
held that the sovereign rights of mi
SratorY birds were in the States where
in they happened to be, from which de-
cision the supporters of the law, as 1t
Supreme Court, contending that migra-
tory birds are commerce.
In order that the gunners of this vi
cinity may know the exact status of
tire migratory bird law in Pennsyl-
vania, / enclose you a copy of a let
ter from J. Il. Mercer, of the Bureau
of Biological Survey, Washington, d. C.
Mr.. S. II. Garland,
Dear sir: I have your letter of
pings as to the status of the Migratory
Bird Law in Pennsylvania. 1t is OF
full force and effect. 1t is the purpose
of the department with energy and
vigilance to secure all possible informa- :
tion of violations that occur in Penn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
OUR VAST TERRITORY

~ NE gets some idea of the size
of the United States through
~ the announcement that there
has been completed within the
past few days a canal in Oregon 929
miles in length which few people in
the East knew anything about. This
is gigantic enterprise and one that
any nation might boast about, yet its
snception and progress have excited
nothing more than a passing one-line
head in the newspapers.
The extent of this improvement may
be judged when it is known that the
watershed of the Columbia river and
its tributaries embraces an area of ap-
proximately 250,000 square miles in
the United States and an additional
$4,000 in British Columbia, making a
territory larger than the German EN-
pire and larger than the entire New
sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia combined. The soil, resources
and climatic conditions of this terri
tory are of such nature as to stamp
1t among the worlds greatest produc-
tive regions, which ultimately, when
fully developed, will be able to sup
port, proportionately, the largest
population of any similar section of
the globe.
The opening of the Columbia river
and its tributaries, which will be given
emphasis by the dedication of the
Dalles-Celilo canal, marks an impor-
tant step in the transportation and in
dustrial welfare of the region to be
served. The United States Govern
ment, listening to the pleas of fore
seeing men of the Pacific, has invested,
Through rivers and harbors appropria-
tions covering a period of over twenty
years, large sums of money for the i'm
provement of this waterway, both at
its entrance and along it's reaches.
People of the Columbia valley will
make the week of May 3-8, 1915, the
occasion of their expression of appre-
citation offthe generosity of the gen.
eral government.
AS has often been pointed out wa
ferways are creators of prosperity.
The improvement of the river Main,
in Germany--a stream only $40
miles long and draining an area of
only 1900 square miles-brought
about wonderful increase in trade,
Industry, population and wealth to a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
You Can't Brush Or
Wash Gut Dandruff

The only sure way to get rid of
dandruff is to dissolve it, then you de-
stroy it entirely. To do this, get
about four ounces of ordinary liquid
arvon; apply it at night when retiring:
use enough to moisten the scalp and
rub it in gently with the finger tips.
Do this tonight, and by morning
most if not all of your dandruff will be
gone, and three or four more applica-
tions will completely dissolve and en-
tirely destroy, every single sign and
trace of it, no matter how much dand-
ruff you may have.
You will find, too, that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop at
once, and your hair will be fluffy, lus-
trous, glossy. silky an soft, and look
and feel hundred times better.
You can get liquid arvon at any
drug store. Tt is inexpensive and never
fails to do the Observation-Disclosures
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
PARCEL POST AND THE FARM

FARMERS and city people who
~ have been doubtful as to the ad-
/ vantages of the parcel post as a
means of limiting the activities of
the much-abused middleman might
read with profit of the success of this
department of the postal service in
Philadelphia and elsewhere. Accord
ing to a report of the department just
made, green grocers and even butchers
in the country towns and in some cases
the farmers themselves, through the
organization of cooperative selling
agencies, are collecting the farm pro-
duce of their locality and marketing
it lin the cities by mail order. Often
the individual farmers list of mail
order customers grows so rapidly that
his supply is quickly exhausted, COM
pelling him to suspend the service.
Country selling agencies, whether CO.
operative or privately managed, take
the output of many farms, standardize
price and quality, assuring steady
supply and a reliable system of eX-
change.
In nearly all the cities where lists of
farmers have been circulated, merely
names and an enumeration of articles
offered for sale have been included.
In several of the cities, however, prices
were added.
In Philadelphia, Postmaster John ID.
Thornton not only circulariZed the
rural districts, but addressed a con
sumer's application blank" to $4,000
Philadelphia householders. In this
way large list of city people who
expressed a desire to try the parcel
post as a means of marketing was
obtained.
The names of about $50 registered
producers were then distributed among
the city consumers who had shown
their interest. In short time the
number of parcels of farm produce
passing through the Philadelphia Of
flee increased about eighty day.
Expansion of direct exchange was
hampered at Philadelphia, Mr.. Thorn
ton reports, because the farmers often
named prices higher than those charg-
ed in the city markets. In many cases
the midwinter farmers quotations for
eggs ranged from SO to 20 cents a
dozen, plus postage. Nevertheless, the
Philadelphia postmaster points out
that the farmers who fixed reasonable
prices upon their products found that
postal exchange was both workable
and profitable.
Evidently. there is much room for
development along this line in the fer
tile and productive Central Pennsyl-
vania field. Live farmers and poultry
men would do well to investigate
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
MONDAY EVENING,

territory in which towns and cities
had been established for nearly 2,000
years. The Columbia drains an area
of 260,000 square miles. the settle
ment of which has scarcely been be-
gun. In this vast territory are re-
sources of forests and fields. of mines
and water powers sufficient to form the
physical basis of an empire.
The completion of this canal. which
carries the cheapest form of transpor-
tation into the heart of such a terri
tory, is like the opening of door to
unlimited possibilities. The one re-
gret that the completion of this great
enterprise arouses is that similar wa
terways in Pennsylvania were permit
ted to be forever blotted from the map
by the encroachments of railroads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
DO YOU KNOW:
That Harrisburg billing machines
are used by quartcrmasters of
British troops?
The Dancing Craze

"The dancing craze is abso-
lutely over" said the blase Man
About Town in the early fall and
winter.
Mark my words. it's bubble
of popularity has been priclSed."
And we waited for the predic-
tion to come true.
And It never did! For IL dane
ing is on the wane, 1t isn't
noticeable.
Which means that shoes con-
tinue to be ole or the most i'm
portant items of the costume to-
day. particularly since the short
skirt has come in
The advertising columns of the
Telegraph which catalog the
styles of the times, are showing
daily announcements of import
antant shoe displays. 1t will be
well worth your while to follow
these announcements with care.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
SCANDAL

BY William +. Kirk
ITS awful the way that folks talk
about folks"
Said Mrs. Mehitabel Spud;
Its hard enough going to carry our
yokes
Without gittin' covered with mud
L know Sally Jenkins has got a bad
name
And think that her brothers hound
l know that Jake Lee stole some chick
ems from me-
But why should l tell it around?
ITS true that the Langdons don't pay
up their bills,
And can't get no credit no more;
I know that insurance helped Emily
Mills
The time she set fire to her store
There's lots of mean stories that
spring out of jokes
When people can't keep their mouths
tight;
It's awful the way some folks talk
about folks.
And 1t makes me so mad 1 could
fight"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05

~ LIHU ROOT, speaking before thu
Union League of Philadelphi;
A not long since, addressed hi
hearers on a high plane O.
thought when he said:
What happens to-day or to-mor-
row is of little consequences, Inc
tendencies of a nation are all tnat
count If we permit by cowardlce
or timidity, by cringing before OF
fetal power-if we permit great
body of a bureaucracy to establish
itself in control over the affairs or
our daily lives. the most yitaI po5
session of a free people VIII be de
stroyt !; that is, the lndepenuehce
of indi, dual character. ] grieve 10
see business halting, to see men out
of work, to see honest people de-
prived of their income, to see tne
pains of contracting expenditure IN
the household. to see the unem
pioyed on the street; but ali Oh Shat
is nothing compared with the DAN
ger that the people OIL tnS ,nt ontteo to
power; all that is nothing COM
pared with the danger that we lose
all independence of individual ehar
acter which has been bullt up
through all the thousands of years
of growth of Anglo-Saxon freedom.
II we maintain that. nothing can
prevail against US III we eror lose IT.
1t is too high and too great Tor poll
tics. I would not venture to treat
it as a political question, Tor II
goes to the very basis OF the future
of our beloved country
Few contemporary political observ-
ers. with the exception of eX-Presi-
dent Taft, are capable of voicing their
observations so strongly or to phrase
them so we'll. But ex-senator Roots
conclusions vary little from those of
the man in the street when reduced to
terms of everyday language. 1t is a
common thought that we. are over
lawed. Any day you may hear one
man say to another, at would be
good thing for the country If Con-
gress would not meet again for twenty
years" Our people are sick OF regu-
lations for every form of public and
private enterprise. They are disgust
ed with the thought of governmental
of their every act.
When woodrow Wilson was elected
it was with the promise of simplified
government. There was much pre-elec-
ton prating of "Jeffersonian simplic-
ity" and new freedom" but the pres
ent administrators one lcharacteris-
tic has been interference with indi-
vidual initiative and activity.
Ex-senator Roots warning that the
mere election of a Republican presi-
dent and u Republican Congress next
year will mean little unless there is to
be a change of methods at Washing
ton is timely. But let him not fear.
The one thing that the Republican ma
tional platform in 1916 will pledge
will be a return to sanity in govern
ment and an expression of faith in
the good old Anglo-Saxon belief in
the ability of the people to govern
themselves, instead of having their
lives regulated in accordance with the
views of a parcel of bureau chiefs and
political hirelings. One OF the prime
attributes of the American is that he
knows when he has had enough, and
this in one of the times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05

Commissions; he has only quoted State
law over which the Federal law will
take precedence. For one to take a
gun out at the present time to kill
any migratory fowl would subject him
to double fine; first under the Federal
ers License Law. The latter specifical-
ly states that the license and tag must
be stamped with the year for which
they are issued. Up to the present
time the Game Department has not
issued hunters licenses for 1915, and
to hunt without this license would be
sure to subject one to a fine at the
hands of any justice he might be taken
before.
Very truly,
S. IL. GARLAND,
President, Hunters and Anglers Pro-
tective Association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Thomas f. O'Donnell. president
of the new trolley line that connects
Phoenixville with some adjoining
towns, made a speech from the first
car that entered the borough.
David j. Smythe, special deputy
attorney general in the moving picture
matter, was formerly director of
safety in Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-05
THE BILL.
IN HARRI sBURc FLY
YEARS AGO TODAY

[From the Telegraph of April 5. 1861
Governor Issues Proclamation
Andrew G.. Curtin. Governor of this
State, issued q proclamation to-day
asking the people to meet Sunday in
the churches and give thanks for the
recent victories of the Union troops in
the South.