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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
SMALL EMPLOYERS NOT EN-
EMPT.

Philadclphia-S Small storckccpcrs. who
have believed they could cvadc the
workmcn'S compensation law because Of
the $500 exemption law, are doomed to
disappointment.
These storckccpers have asked
What can our helpers do if they are
injured? What if they do get Judgment,
how can they collect? We haven't got
$500"
Their employees, the Compensation
Board points out, are not as helpless as
they imagine The damages collected
under the workmcns compensation law
are collected as wages, and the $500 cx-
cmptlon law docs not apply to claim
for wages. The employees Of these small
employers, if injured can get an award
from the Workmcns Compensation
Board, and can sell out their employers
To collect the full amount regardless Of
the $500 exemption law.
The Compensation Board has issued
circulars To these Slorckccpcrs explain
ing that the State Insurance Board will
carry their risks for So a year This is
the minimum premium and will take
care OF all accident claims.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
MILK WAGON DRIVERS WIN.

ST. Louis, Mo.-Milk Wagon Drivers
Union, No. Cos affiliated to the Brother
hood of TcamStcrs, has unionizcd the
St Louis Dairy Company, after nearly
three years of controversy. The union
lists have been conducting a quite mis-
sionary campaign among the non-union
drivers, and then called strike. The
response was SO general that the COM
pany settled after seventeen hours, and
signed a union agreement for improved
working conditions and wage increases
for ninety drivers that range from So to
- a week.
This clearcut victory was quickly fol
lowed by the Union Dairy Company
the largest in the city-Signing a union
agreement after thirty months fight
hcSe two successes mean membership
increase of three hundred. Other dairy
concerns are negotiating with the milk
wagon drivers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
WANT "DETECTIVES" Tabled.

Detroit, Mich.-The local Federation
of Labor is urging the City Council to
license private detective agencies. Sec
retary X. l.. Reeves of the Federation S
Legislative Committee made this state
ment to the Council Committee that is
considering the proposal:
"The greater part of the work of these
agencies is the watching of men who are
not criminals. They do class of work
that requires a disreputable class of peo-
pie. They are irresponsible and should
be made responsible to some one. The
result is friction because of this class Of
men. They bring in Chicago, Phladel-
phia and other gunner. The Prosecuting
Attorney has already stated that the de-
struction of property in Youngstown was
due to private detectives, and he has de-
clared that they did the first shooting.
Large agencies rent out men for a
certain price to the corporations-men
who will use guns, if necessary These
agencies get a rakeoff between the
amount the employer pays for the serv-
ice and what the man gets. Where they
employ thousands day, as some agen-
cies do they get on the basis of 81 a
day, and in this way obtain thousands
of dollars
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
SMOKE
SONADA
"QuaH y Only"
M. IBOLD
CIGARS
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
REPLY TO MANAGERS

Cleveland.-The four railroad broth
erhoods have made their first official
statement iii answer to the publicity Civ
Ell out by the railroads for the purpose
of winning public opinion.
In answer to the managers claim that
the men are not sincere in their demand
for shorter workday, but are only de-
sirous Of securing wage increases, the
brotherhood officials reply:
IF the companies desire to test the
sincerity of the men, let them prove their
belief in what they say and establish
the eght-hour day so that the men do
not have 10 make minute of overtime
The shorter workday is the only PROPOSE
ton on which the men are voting"
The managers claim that roads in the
hands of receivers have not cut wages.
The employees now answer that this fact
should not be placed to the credit of the
companies themselves but rather to the
courts that have denied the right of the
railway companies to reduce wages on
railroads in the hands of receivers.
In answer to the claim that an eight
hour day is impossible, it is shown that
there are seven roads in the southeast
ern and one in the western territory that
pay overtime on an 11-miles per hour
basis. Six roads in the southeastern and
two in the western territory pay over
time on 12-miles per hour basis. Eight
in the southeastern and five in the west
ern territory, pay overtime on 12H-
miles per hour speed basis,
There is only one road in the United
States. of which we have knowledge"
says the railroaders, that works more
than the 1O-hour workday, namely, the
Monongahela."
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
OLYMPIC.

1t is safe to say that no character on
the American stage has been so defiled
as that of the Jew, and, strange as it
may seem, this dehlement was in all
cases in the hands Of the Jcwish-Amcr-
ican boys themselves. The real Jew, in
whatever walk Of life, does possess a
remarkable fund of humor, more than
is generally accredited to him, but the
rldiculing of a race has never, nor will
it be, popular with the lberty-loving
American people. Harry koler, the Jew
comedian engaged by Jacobs and Jermon
for their city Sports" which appears
next week at the Olympic Theater. is
himself the son of rabbi. Mr. Koler
possesses all the humorous talents which
lie latent in so many of his race In
essaying the character of a Hebrew, Mr.
koler, by virtue of his years of observa-
ton among the people OF his race, is
able TO bring out all the humor and
comedy Of the Hebrew without causing
any oifcnsc to the most fasiidious.
Added attractions are: Tuesday night,
plantation and battle royal; Wednesday
night, chorus girl waltz contest; Thurs
day night, sparring contests; Friday
night, a real amateur show; Saturday
night, the big country store.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
WAGES FIRST CONSIDERATION.

olcdo, Ohio, - The Evening Blade
editor expresses this opinion on welfare
work:
"Wcliarc work has its place-an I'M
portant place if only it breeds in en-
ploycs an interest in their employees
but the employer who attempts to use
welfare work as substitute for living
wages, throws his money away. Sooner
or later, hc has a strike on his hands
and he is lucky if il is not more of a
reign of terror than walkout. The
Youngstown outbreak rcinforccS the les
sons of the Calumet strike
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
ENIrltIlSS.

Clean. clever, classy comedy prcdomi-
mates on the program that is offered as
the attraction at the Empress Thcatcr
next week There is plenty of snap and
ginger in every act, with the humorous
element well set off with plenty Of
melody Of the right, popular sort. The
whole program is abundantly supplied
with briliance and applaudablc variety.
"Dr. Joys Santarium" is to be the
principal act 1t is mixture OF fast
frolicsomc, farcical fun. in which six
comedians demonstrate the laughing
possibilities of musical travcsty. 1t is an
elaborately staged hodge-podgc Of real
merit, with hilarity and melody equally
in evidence Moreover. it is something
new III vaudeville \ doctor. a nurse
and four "dippy' patients are introduced
in hospital ward-and the things that
happen, fast and furious, make the act
a scream from start to finish
There are several other acts on the bill
that are certain 10 score big hits with
Empress audiences. The Novelty Four,
a quartette OF ''cracy, comical college
kids are a genuine revelation in their
chosen field. Then there is that notable
trio, the Russell Brothers and Mealy.
funmakcrs and air bounders. in typical
'haysced makeup" Still another unusual
act is that Of Bill Pruitt, who has earned
the title OF the Cowboy Caruso" on
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
WORK AND PLAY NECESSARY

Tiffin, O.-"Every human being de
mands a certain amount of work and a
certain amount of play said Mrs. Barr,
in an address to churchmen in this city.
"No man can labor all the time and be
happy, neither can he be at leisure all
the time and be happy. No nation, no
community, no class of people can keep
up without the higher standard of labor,
and where labor is put on the lower
standard, the more misery, the more
suffering and criminalty there exists"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
THEY MUST KNOW HIM-DAUGH.
ERTN NOT FAVORED.

Mt. Gilcad, Ohio-A motion to in
dorsc the candidacy Of Harry M. Daugh-
crty for United States Senator, present
ed at the suggestion of Chairman Frank
Shaw, OF the Morrow County Rcpubl-
can Central Committee at a meeting of
that body here today was withdrawn
when it was found it could not be car
ricd. The committee indorsed the can
didacy Of T. +. Burton for President
and the administration of Governor +.
b. Willis.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
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merit and because of his marvellous
voice and the manner in which he sings
popular ballads. And Pruitt is real
cowboy, too-not the Buffalo, n. Y.
kind but fresh (always fresh, anyway
from the plains Of Arizona.
Then there are Boninger and Lester,
musical experts; Maybelle Brayton and
Hal Davis, in Will M. Cressys hilarious
comedy playlet, "One Christmas Eve" !;
and two reels of comedy photo film.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
ATTACKS COMPENSATION ACT.

Philadclphia.-The first attack in this
city on the new Workmen's Compensa-
ton act was made by Frank Sokousky,
who was injured in local plant, and
who now claims the right to sue for
damages under the old laws, because, he
asserts, he had not accepted the pro-
visions and terms of the new act, either
expressly or implicdly." Through coun-
sci he claims that the new law violates
the Constitutions of Pennsylvania and
OF the United States.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
UNIONS RECOGNIZED.

Titfin, Ohio.-Each local union and
the Central Labor Union were invited
to send delegates to meeting of citi-
zcns called to discuss changes in the city
government This is the first time in the
history of Tiffin that the trade union
organizations were recognized in civic
movement, and the organized workers
are using the incident to show the value
of continued agitation.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
ADJUSTMENTS
LYRIC.

The only musical production to have
two runs on Broadway will be brought
to the Lyric next week-"Town Topics. -
This play comes fresh from the Cen
tury Iheater and direct from the New
York Winter Garden, and is known as
the 100000 musical comedy spectacle.
1t boasts an unusual cast, headed by
Trixie Friganza and Bert Leslie. and
including Cross and Josephine, Lew
Hearn and Bonita, Lillian Herlein,
Marie Lavarre, Carbrey Brothers, Mabel
Elaine, John Johnston, Jimmy Fox and
the famous Creole Band.
1t is written in twenty elaborate
scenes ; the first, a dancing pavilion; the
second, theater lobby; the third, behind
the scenes OF theater; the fourth, a
black and silver corridor; the fifth. a
prairie; the sixth, Newport transformed
to the Sunny South the seventh. trans
formation to cotton plantation; the
eighth, warships on the Hudson; the
ninth, launching the Ship Of Peace, in
which we find our own Henry Ford; the
tenth, in the subway; the eleventh, out
side the Polo grounds, New York: the
twelfth, interior Of the Polo grounds :;
thirteenth, black and white corridor !;
fourteenth, exterior Of a fashion shop :
fifteenth, Madame Parottc's Emporium
OF Chic, and the remaining five are de
voted to the hotel danSants. a fashion
corridor and high-class restaurant.
Aside from the scenic establishment,
special attention has been devoted to the
gowns, the music and big dance en-
scmbcs.
Town Topics" is quite the most pre-
tcntious musical extravaganza yet to
leave New York. The dancing and mu-
scal numbers were staged by Allen
Foster, the music is by Harold Orlob,
while the book and lyrics are by Harry
b. Smith, Thomas Gray and Robert b.
smith. The entire production was
staged under the direction OF Bcnrimo,
and is whirlwind of action and all the
ingredients OF the true spectacle. com
bined with catchy music, fun and
laughter.
There is one scene alone in "Town
Topics TO be seen here carly in March
that cost in costumes alone over $50 600.
and was regarded as the most beautiful
scenes, IRON sartoral viewpoint, ever
presented on any stage. This scene was
known as the Fashion Shop, and in it
thirty girls garbcd in the latest modes
of fashionable modictcs, walked across
the stage while the prima donna sang.
1riXic Frganza, the leading come
dicnne in Town Topics" shortly to be
seen in this city. is always doing novel
things on the stage and in this pro-
duction she not only dresses as an Indian
suifragctte, but in the baseball scene al
the Polo grounds she is captain of the
female Giants, and runs around the en-
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
SHIP YARD RAISES WAGES.

Philadclphia.-Thc Cramps, ship build
crS, have voluntarily raised wages 10
per cent. About 1000 employees are af-
fccted.
With this announcement, comes an
other one-that the \. +. of l.. metal
trades department will inauguratc a
campaign for eight hours in the ship
yards along the Atlantic coast, and that
the first meeting will be held in this city
tonight.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
METAL WORKERS. RAISE WAGES

ST. Louis, Mo.-As a result Of long
continued negotiations between the
Metal Trades Council and the Robinson
Fire Apparatus Manufacturing Com
pany, wage increases of from three to
seven cents an hour and improved shop
conditions have been secured for ma
chinsts, blacksmiths, sheet metal work
crs and metal polshcrs The agreement
is Tor one year.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-02-19
His Lost Cash.

Experience is a good asset" "I'd
much prefer the bank roll | exchanged
for mine" e."--Boston Transcript.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
Good Roads.

The question of good roads has assumed
an entirely different aspect in the minds
OF the public within recent years. There
was time, not long ago either, when the
urbanite or ruralite who contributed tinan-
cially toward the furtherance of the propa-
ganda was wont to regard his contribution
as sort of donation toward public charity
His neighbors had given, therefore he felt
he must fall in line or be considered stingy;
and he sent in his contribution with a men
tai But what's the use?'' reservation.
This is true no longer, and in many coun-
ties of Georgia citizens of given communi-
ties are supplementing the work of the
road gang with work by their own labOrers
and teams and often with money. 1t has
been dawning on the minds of citizens, in
town and country, that the money and
labor spent on a first-class highway is a
genuine investment of the highest and san
est type-One that pays tangible dividends
from the first day of its completion and util-
ization The city fellow" who spins along
a well constructed and properly graded high
way in his automobile knows it; the ''coun-
tryman who hauls ten or a dozen bales of
cotton on one wagon drawn by two mules
knows it as well.
And with this knowledge has practically
disappeared all opposition to good roads. In
its place is the firm conviction that we have
not enough good roads; that we need more
and that the sooner we get them the bet
ter off our communities and We as individ-
uals will be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
Americas Richest Women.

More than $1,000,0OO,OOO of wealth is
actually in the hands of American women, if
the best statistics are trustworthy, and for
ty-fve of them alone direct, manage and
hold the purse strings of more than S22O,-
900, 900. Nearly every state in the United
States has it's rich women, known locally,
and yet utterly unknown to the newspaper
readers of the country. Statistics show that
their combined holdings go well over the
81 900, 900 900 mark, and that the potent
element of the situation is that the riches
carry with them influence over the big bus
mess of the nation. The mails are over
flowing with letters to the great women of
the money world. Many of them are from
professional beggars, but vast majority are
earnest appeals for help.
Chief among the women who hold the
reins upon money is Mrs. Mary Hartman.
1t took Edward H. Hartman less than 100
Words-99 to be eXact-to transfer his en-
tire estate to his wife without the slightest
restriction as to what she should do with
it or how she should do it. There have been
many cases of inheritance where no such
free hand was given and they have not been
included in this schedule. For instance,
Mrs. John Jacob AstOr inherited a large
estate saddled with the condition that she
should not take another husband and still
enjoy the full fruits of the AStor fortune.
In marked contrast with this situation the
Hartman will placed the widow in actual
control of 600 miles of railroad, gave
her a dominating voice in the management
of 0 900 miles more and made her the chief
influence in the handling of $4,000 miles of
sea routes
Mrs. Sage was also given the custody of
her millions without a string. The will gave
her, without let or hindrance, the millions
that had been locked up in Wall street. 1t
did not require any seal of law or any gra-
cous act of man to make Mrs. Hetty Green
the mistress of her destiny. She inherited
81 goo, 900 from her father, the late Edward
Robinson, and an aunt added $4,000, 600
later But Mrs Green made the bulk of
her estate herself. She took her nest egg
and went into the marts of money. There
she became a daily worker, and no man
ever kept with more care or added with more
zeal than she both kept her estate and add
ed to it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
Sherif's Sale.

Georgia, Terrell County.-Wu u
sold at the court house door in III
county on the first Tuesday in AnrI
1916, within the legal hours of ssla
to the highest bidder for cash, a ons
fourth (1-4) undivided Interest n
east half of lot of land No. ten I161
in the Third district of Terrell conn
ty, Georgia, containing 100 acraSl
more or less, and one five roorI
dwelling house located thereon Sai5
dwelling house being north Of nj
Dawson and Sasser public road. SiS
property being levied on as the pronl
erty of w. K. Pace to satisfy and eys.
cution issued on the 22nd day of De
cember, 1915, from the City Cour
of Dawson, in said county. in fayo
of Shields-Geise Lumber Co. agaips
w. K. Pace. Tenant in possession
notified. This the LIST day of Marc
1916. J. z. TURNER, Sheriff
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
Needed: a Market.

Isn't there some man with brains sum
Gent TO devise plan for marketing the
products Of our farmers? The farmers are
surfeited with advice to raise this and that
crop. and it is a fact that when they do so
a few wagon loads glut the market. and if
there is any demand at all the prices are
improbable.
Isn't there some one man with initiative
enough to take the lead in this important
matter? Unquestionably it will require
brains ingenuity and determination of
high order
Now. lets root him out and start him
to thinking and moving and doing. And
then let's back him.
Besides furnishing the farmer market
and helping the town and enhancing the gen
eraI prosperity there is another and an i'm
portant matter to be considered. We are
paying out too much money to those who in
fest the road from the farmer to the retailer
and the ultimate consumer. It's time for a
new system. a new regime.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
Belgium Mystery Paper.


One of the most remarkable newspapers
that ever has been published is the famous
Libre Belgque. published regularly in Bel
GUM.
Where it is printed, how it gathers it's
news, and how it is distributed is a mystery
that has baffled and enraged the German au-
thorities in Belgium since the beginning OF
the war.
The newspaper is extremely Outspoken,
printing German defeats in big type, giving
account of German crueltes, jeering at Ger
man boasts, and in every way saying the
nastest possible things about the Huns"
in Brussels and other Belgium towns.
Not only that, but every morning the
German governor, Won Kissing, receives
free copy of the paper though no one has
yet been able to find out how it reaches him.
The general is so mad about it that he
has increased the reward for the discovery
of the editor or the printing press of Bel
gums newspaper from $4,000 to $4,000.
Libre Belgique is not only circulated
throughout Belgium, but it regularly arrives
in France 1t is the law in France, as here,
that the name and place where paper is
printed must appear on it, Libre Belgique
says that it is printed in a cellar on wheels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
HOW 1T FEELS TO DIE.
Not Unpleasant, But Resuscitation Process Is
Very Painful.

How does it feel to be dead? How does
it feel to be electrocuted?
The uncertainty of spirit reports from the
great beyond has never fully satisfied us,
but here is a man in Cleveland Ohio who
was so badly shocked by a live wire that for
an hour he was, to all intents and purposes,
as dead as a door nail.
This man, Henry TOMS by name, declares
the dying was not painful but the coming
back was. TOMS stepped on a live wire and
ordinary efforts to revive him failed. His
heart had stopped beating, and respiration
had ceased for an hour before a pulmotor
was applied. Here's what he said about dy-
ing when he recovered consciousness:
dying was quick and without pain. Com
ing back to life was slow and painful. When
stepped on the wire it was like jolt in
the back of my head. 1t seemed as if mil
lions of needles and pins were shot through
me. Then suddenly everything was blank
when l was coming back to life l could
hear before could see. There was a sound
like rushing water and heavy wind.
THE sounds swished back and forth for
what seemed ages, and l couldn't drive
them away. Then came the realization of
pain. Again that pricking as of millions
of needles in my flesh. I was hot my left
foot seemed on fire. I knew nothing but
pain, and then gradually I could see.
Doctors regard the case as unusual.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-03-22
Do 1t Like a Man.

1t is seldom that The News loses a sub
scriber, but occasionally some fellow set
ties what he owes the paper by having it
discontinued. If you stop your local paper
do so like a man. We will wish each other
nothing but good will if we part square. 1t
is much more manly to spend cent for a
card to let us know than to let the paper
come until you owe dollar or so, and then
rely on distance to avoid payment. We
don't want you to have copy you do not
care for. A card and a minute keep you
and the paper friendss But don't neglect
the balance due. We must print the paper
every week, and pay the bills whether any
cash comes in or not 1t costs us just the
same, fair weather or foul: that's one of the
unpleasant conditions of publshing-like
farming The past two seasons have been a
strain on patience and purse