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| Committees.sthat the advantage is all
with Emery.
Defend Child Exploitation.
This representative of the National
Association Of Manufacturers brazenly
defended the exploitation of the little
children on financial grounds, where
as the pamphlet circulated by you IN
dertakes to disguise this purpose by
hypocritical expressions of solicitude
and sentiment, couched in the familiar
cant phrases with which the Pecksnif-
fan uplifter vainly endeaYors to gloss
over the hideous facts found in the
economic and industrial field.
The purpose is apparent, through
out, to still further stimulate child la
Dor, and, at the same time, to throw.
about it mantle of responsibility.
More children are to be diverted into
industry at a tender age, if the hopes
of the National Association of Manu-.
facturers, as here set forth, are realiz-
ed, and they are to be made more
skillfu1, in order that the wages of
their fathers can be still further de
pressed, and boy and girl set against
father and mother in the killing strug-
gle for bread. !.
Thus, the pamphlet reports a. en-
ployer as saying, on visit to an IN
dustrial school conducted uuder the
dual system of control.
Why, ! pay ten dollars a day for
the kind of work that. fifteen year old
boy is doing"
Supplementing its defense of :ne
dual system of control, by which r.
dustrial education is to- be. administer
ed by a separate board and class diVi-
sions thus emphasized. the pamphlet
says:
Glass Divisions.
Business men must. largely deter
mine the character Of these schools.
If they are to be worth while. -
But, above all, direct your parti-
cular attention to the authors falsifi-
cation of the facts regarding child la
Dor, making it appear that children
enter factories for other reasons than
the true one-that they are driven
there by the payment Of their fathers
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grossest and most shameful forms O.
exploitation.
At the very time. when you were
engaged in spreading the propaganda
Of this organization, it's official legis
lative representative, the notorius j
A. Emery, was appearing before com
mittees of Congress in opposition to
the Heating child labor bill, and he
there stated that, in attempting to
block legislation to keep children un-
der fourteen out of southern cotton
mills, he was acting for the Board OF
Directors of the Association whose
literature you are distributing.
A report on the Industrial. education
Of our children, published by such an
organization, would, to those familiar
with its records, carry as much weight
and no more than report of the
moral welfare of American girls if
issued by q notorious band Of pro
curers.
3 Deceive Thousands.
Yet, by lending the Government
stamp and approval to this document,
you have placed it in the hands Of
thousands of men and women who
may be deceived by this. misuse OF
Government authority, and whose
views ON the greatest educational is
sue Of the time may thus be- uncon-
sciously perverted.
Without giving the pamphlet an IN
stant's consideration, it should have
been enough for you that it was pub
lished by the National Association OF
Manufacturers, an organization that
has earned the contempt of the Ameri-
can people.
But. on reading your pamphlet. !
find, in comparing it with Emery's
statements before the Congressional
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OF wages too low to keep their am
lies alive.
Says this report circulated bv vou
under the stamp of the Unitel State
government.
Children do not leave school a
fourteen simply because they are four
teen, nor because the law allows, blu
because the yare adolescent. At adO
escense the will and the creative ia
ulties assert themselves. Says Gar
lyle, All true wor kis sacred. In al
true work, be it but true hand labor
there's something divine. In the i'm
pulse of the adolescent child to go tt
work at fourteen there is, after all, I
reaching for the divine. In the child's
hunger for the world Of work and o.
real things is a tiny reflection of that
Infinite Spirit which in seven days
made the world"
High Tide of Dishonesty.
] submit to you that this constitutes
the high water mark Of dishonest and
contemplate hypocrisy.
Written by a wealthy manufacturer
and publishe dby an association Of
men whose sons and daughters remain
in school and college for eight years
after they reach the age of fourteen
and, even then, seldom engage in pro-
ductive toll, it is plain Justification
of the facts, regarding a system that
uses hunger, to force the children OF
ne poor into mines and factories Just 4
at the time when they should be best
able to receive instruction that would
fit them for the appreciation and e,r
joyment of the finer things of life,
with the sacrilegious suggestion that
God has abandoned the little ones,
and is on the side of the men who are
crushing out their lives in mine aud
factory.
Continuing his argument, the au.
thor. of this pamphlet, which you have
so widely circulated, says:
Let us remember, too, that subst4n.
TALLY all the working people a. the
world have quit school at this early
age, and are likely to as far ahead as
we can see"
Unfair in Distribution.
If your government bureau made a
practice of sending broadcast all pub,
LEGATIONS on the subject of sindu trial
OuuCdI1OH, SOIA0ss pdll1dtIOu might Dc
found for your conduct. But / faund
that you have not distributed the re.
port of the government commission
which investigated this subject. Nor
have you circulated the declaration Of
the American Federation Of La bor,
representing two million organized
workers of this country, adopted at
the annual convention in San Fran
cisco, in November last, and which
said:
In approving Industrial education.
equal attention should be given TO the
general education studies and require
ments of the shcool children The
convention believes the latter of
greater importance to the future vel
fare of the workers than the forrIer
instruction. Industrial education shall
include the teaching Of the science
undertaking the various industries and
industrial disputes, being taBght heir
historic, economic and social hear
ings
The committee on Industrial Rela-
tons demands of you quick repudia-
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ton of the pamphlet which you have
distributed, and an assurance that
any additional literature on this sub
/ ject, or any other, connected with the
education of the American youth,
which the National Association of
Manufacturers may issue, shall not be
given the stamp of the United States
Bureau of Education, by yourself or
any other public official, nor distribut-
ed under government frank.
Unless this reuqest is complied
with, the opponents of child labor
everywhere will be asked to petition
the President to remove you from Of
flee, and formal request will be made
of Congress to institute an investiga-
ton of the means by which this pro
stitution Of the Bureau of Education
was accomplished.
Yours truly,
FRANK p. WALSH,
(Signed) Chairman.
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8HOU!.Rs

of the Labor Centre Association, Jas
O'Connell, president of the Metal
Trades Department of the A. F. of l.
and member of the Committee on In
dustrial Relations, said:
James O'ConneIl.
There is neither energy, inclina'
ton nor opportunity for the man OF
woman who works ten or twelve hours
per day. The worker only becomes a
work machine. The darkness under
which he ereeps to and from his work
hides his misery and poverty from
the world and often from himself;
daylight and chance to see stir up
discomfort necessary to arouse ac-
ton"
Austin 3. Garretson.
''The demand for an efght-hour day"
declared Austin B. Garretson, Presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad
/ Conductors, and member of the Com
nittee on Industrial Relations, SIS not
only officially but biologically and So
cially well-founded, and, in connection
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with the movement of trains, is the
basic element fthe widely heralded
motto, Safety First
Out of the long work day and out
of low wages and unemployment and
the degrading conditions of life that
follow long hours Of exacting and ex-
hausting work spring such undisci-
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plined riots of misery as the recent
one of Youngstown, Ohio.
In it's demand for the eight-hour
work day, the organized American la
Dor movement is laying the essential
foundation to enduring, economic JUS
tice and to the best citizenship for
the republic.
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TELEPHONE

It is proposed to submit to the telephone users Of
Wheeling and adjoining towns in West Virginia plan to
combine the systems Of the Central District Telephone
Company and the Consolidated Telephone Company Of
West Virginia.
The advantages Of one telephone system in commu
nifty subject regulation by proper author
ty has been proved by the experience Of many cities and
communities where the establishment of single system
has suppnted the annoyance and inconvenience of two
systems.
This plan has already been submitted to the subscrb
ers in number of cities and in West Virginia and
at each place it has been almost universally approved
the plan is endorsed by the subscribers of both
panies at Wheeling and the adjacent towns the work of
consolidating the two systems will begin at the earliest
possible date and be carried forward with the utmost dis
patch.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-03-02
SUBSCRIBERS


It will require great amount Of work and the expen
diture Of large Of money, as Wheeling new fire
proof building will be erected and new or additional cen
trail Office equipment will be installed in all the towns at
fected.
All useless duplicate plant will be removed which will
greatly improve the appearance of the streets and alleys
Each telephone party line will have single ring
so that subscriber will not hear the ring Of the other
subscriber party line
Representatives Of the two companies will call on sub
scbers and will be equipped to give them all the desired
information as to rates. service etc. under the proposed
plan.
When the two systems shall have been united Wheel
ing and the adjacent towns will have telephone system
thoroughly modern in every detail and the public has our
Of the most dependable and efficient service
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/ Cross again by the nine o'clock that
night, and was back aboard the Kaiser
Fritz on Friday morning full of his
friends in Rome who didn't exist!
The notebook was put away with
every symptom of relief.
81 suppose you can prove what you
say?" said Blanche in voice as dull
as her unseeing eyes.
"'I have men to swear to him-tick.
et-collectors. conductors, walters on
the restaurant-car-all up and down
the line. went over the same
ground on the same trains, so that
was simple. l can also produce the
barber who claims to have taken of
his beard in Paris, where he put in
hours Thursday morning"
Blanche looked up suddenly, not at
Toye, but past him toward an over
laden side-table against the wall. It
was there that Cazalet's photograph
had stood among many others; until
this morning she had never missed it,
for she seemed hardly to have been
in her room all the week; but she had
been wondering who had removed it,
whether Cazalet himself (who had
spoken of doing so, she now knew
why), or Martha (whom she would not
question about IT'D in a fit of ungov-
ernable disapproval And now there
was the photograph back in it's place,
leather frame and ALL
81 know what you did" said
Blanche. You took that photograph
with you-the one on that table-and
had him identified by it,"
'It was the night / came down to
bid you good-by," he confessed, "and
didn't have time to wait. l didn't
come down for the photo. | never
thought Of 1t till l saw it there.
came down to kind of warn you. Miss
Blanche!"
Against him?" she said, as If there
was only one man left in the world.
"Yes-I guess I'd already warned
Cazalet that was starting on his
tracks"
And then Blanche just said. Poor
old-Sweep!" as one talking to her.
self. And Toye seized upon the words
as she had seized on nothing from
him.
Have you only pity for the fellow?"
he cried; for she was gazing at the
bearded photograph without reyul-
sion.
"of course" she answered. hardly
attending.
Even though he killed this man
even though he came across Europe to
kill him?"
@You don't think it was deliberate
yourself, even If he did do it."
"But can you doubt that he did?"
cried Toye, quick to ignore the point
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as that" SAID Blanche Il must see
him first"
See Cazalet7"
Toye had come to his feet. not sin-
ply in the horror ard indignation
which had gradually taken possession
of him, but under the stress Of sons
new and sudden resolve.
"Of course" said Blanche; "of
course | must see him as soon as
possible"
you shall never speak to that man
again. as long as ever you live" said
Toye, with the utmost emphasis and
deliberation.
who's going to prevent me?"
Il am. by laying an information
against him this minute, unless you
promise never to see or to speak to
Cazalet again." !.
Blanche felt cold and sick, but the
bit of downright bullying did her good.
Il didn't know you were black
mailer. Mr.. Toye!"
''You know I'm not; but mean to
save you from Cazalet, blackmail or
white"
ITO save me from mere old friend
= nothing more - nothing - all our
lives!"
Il believe that" he said, searching
her with his smoldering eyes. "You
couldn't tell a lie, 1 guess, not If you
tried! But you would do something;
it's just man being next door to hell
that would bring a Gods angel"
His voice shook.
She was as quick to soften on her
side.
Don't talk nonsense, please" she
begged, forcing a smile through her
distress. 'Will you promise to do
nothing if-if. l promise?"
Not to go near him?"
NO"
Nor to see him here?"
mo"
Nor anywhere else?"
mo. l give you my word"
"If you break it, l break mine that
Is it a deal that way?"
yes! Yes! l promised"
Then so do l. by God" said Hi.
ton Toye.
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GIANTS IN OLDEN DAYS
Roger connor Was One Of Great
est Batsmen in His Day.
"orator" o'Rourks Also Played on
New York Team-Eaeh Managed
Team IN Little conneetIeut
Valley Circuit.

At the age Of fifty-two, Roger Con.
nor, the famous oldtime first baseman
Of the New York Giants, made three
base hits In four times at bat In q
game between Springfield and Meri-
den Of the Connecticut Valley league
and one of them was q three-bagger.
The famous swatsman Of National
league fame was one Of the greatest
batsmen in his day and generation.
For IL seasons he batted well over
the 300 mark and his smashes were
OF the sensational order.
James (Orator) O,Rourke was the
big noise In the same league, holding
the Office Of secretary of the league,
also manager and catcher for the
Bridgeport club, and Jeems had been
playing ball for 80 seasons previous
to this. Orator" O'Rourke was a
professional ball player when Roger
Connor was raw, raw recruit. These
two grand players were on the New
York Giants for many years and twas
through men Of their ilk that the name
Giants was affixed to the Gotham or
ganization, for they were giants in
more ways than one.
After many years these vets met
again on the diamond green and both
well over the half century mark. In
the season of 1903 each managed
team in the little league known as the
Connecticut Valley circuit. Roger was
still playing his old position at first
base and the "Orator" was still catch
ing the curves of hurlers who hadn't
seen the light of day when he was
grabbing the benders Of Mickey"
Welsh and Tim Keefe. But, on the
other hand, Messrs. O'Rourke and Con-
nor didn't have much trouble in solv-
ing the curves Of the modern-day hurl-
er. Every time their teams met, the
two old boys would have batting tilt
In one game O,Rourke made five hits,
while Roger made but two, but, as
rule, Connor had the shade on the law
yer and beat him out In the seasons
average.
That same season James O'Rourke
had his son playing third base for him,
a circumstance hardly ever chronicled
in baseball history. The competition
between these two for batting honors
was fierce, but O'Rourke, Sr., had it
all over the child. James O'Rourke
played ball many seasons after that
year.
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Dave AItIzer.

association, the inference, of course
being that the team, for the most part
was made up of veteran players. Now
Dave Altizer is the only member OF
the Cantillon clan that cannot deny
the soldier title. Aside from Dare
devil Dave, who has just renewed his
contract with the Millers as utility
man for the coming season. the team,
almost without exception, will be
made up of young players.
Altizer, however, is not only a vet
eran Of the diamond, but Of the Span
ish.American war as well, so 1t may
readily be seen that he is the only
.'old soldier" to remain. He is one of
the smartest players in baseball and
Is still able to render valuable assist.
ance to his team.
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mend your Compound to other ladies'. -
-Mra MARY RmGwAY, Durand, Wis
A Massachusetts Woman Writes
Blackstone, Mass. "My troubles
were from my age, and I felt awfuIly
sick for three years. had hot flashes
often and frequently suffered from
pains. I took Lydia E. Pfnkham'S
Vegetable Compound and now ann well. =,
Mrs. PIERRE CoURNoxER, Box 2S9,
Blackstone, Mass.
@Such warning symptoms as sense OF
guffocation, hot flashes, headaches, back
aches, dread Of impending evil, tinidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
lsrities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness, should beheeded
by middle-aged women. Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through this crisis.
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she had made, yet none the less sin
cerely convinced upon the other. Il
guess you wouldn't If you'd heard
some of the things he said to me on
the steamer; and he's made good on
every syllable since he landed. Why,
it explains every single thing he's
done and left undone. He'll strain
every nerve to have Scruton ably de-
Tended, but ne won't see the man he's
defending; says himself that he can't
face him!"
''Yes. He said so to me-" said
Blanche, nodding in confirmation.
"To your"
II didn't understand him"
But you've been seeing him all this
while?,.'
Every day" said Blanche, her soft
eyes filing suddenly. We've had
we've had the time of our nyes!"
"My God!" said Toye. "The time of
your life with a man who's got another
mans blood on his hands-and that
makes no difference to you The
time Of your life with the man who
knew where to lay hands on the
weapon he'd done it with, who went as
far as that to save the innocent, but
no farther!"
He would; he will still, if it's still
necessary. You don't know him, Mr..
Toye; you haven't known him all your
life"
'sAnd all this makes no difference to
good and gentle woman-one Of the
gentlest and the best God ever made p
''If you mean me. won't 60 as far
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TAD JONES FOOTBALL COACH
He Is Formally Chosen by Special
Committee for Period Of Three
Years-sweeney ls Adviser.

Official announcement has been
made by special committee from the
Yale Athletic association of the unan-
imous selection of T. A. Jones as head
coach of the Yale football team for
the next three years. Jones was grad
uated from the Sheffield Scientific
school in 1908. He was varsity quar-
ter back for three years and in his
senior year was captalIaeof the base
bah team. For the last few years he
has successfully coached the elevens
of Phi1lips-Exeter academy.
Michael Sweeney, now at the Hill
school in Pennsylvania, was chosen
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CHAPTER XIII.
Faith unfaithfuI.


TITS all perfectly true,' said GAIA.
let calmly. Those were my move
ments while was on the ship, except
for the five hours and a bit that was
away from Charing Cross. I can't
dispute detail of all the rest. But
they'll have to I'LL In those five hours
unless they want another case to col
lapse like the one against Scruton!"
Old Savage had wriggled like a ven
cradle worm, in the experienced tai
ons Of the Bobby's Bugbear; but then
Mr.. Drinkwater and his discoveries
had come still worse out of a hotter
encounter with the truculent attorney:
and Cazalet had described the whole
thing as only he could describe a
given episode, down to the ultimate
dismissal of the charge against Scru-
ton, with gusto the more cynical for
the deliberately low pitch of his voice.
It was in the little lodging-house sit.
ting room at Nell Gwynne's Cottages;
he stood with his back to the crack
ling fire that he had just lighted him
SELF as it were, already at bay; for
the folding doors were in front of his
nose, and his eyes roYed necessarily
from the landing door on one side to
the curtained easement on the other
Yet sometimes he paused to gaze at
the friend who had come to warn him
Of his danger; and there was nothing
cynical or grim about him then.
Blanche had broken her word for
perhaps the first time in her life; but
1t had never before been extorted from
her by duress, and it would be affec-
tation to credit her with much COM
Function on the point. Her one great
qualm lay in the possibility of Toye's
turning up at any moment; but this
she had obviated to some extent by
coming straight to the cottages when
he left her-presumably to look for
Cazalet in London, since she had been
careful not to mention his change
of address. Cazalet, to her relief, but
also little to her hurt, she had found
at his lodgings in the neighborhood,
full of the news he had not managed
W COA1u4uu4ScbC " uC4s .DuC IL was AO
time for taking anything but his peril
to heart. And that they had been dis
cussing, almost as man to man, If |
rather as innocent man to innocent |
man; for even now, or perhaps now |
in his presence least of all, Blanche
could not bring herself to believe her
old friend guilty of violent crime,
however unprecedented, for which
another had been allowed to suffer, for
however short time.
(TO BE CONTINUED1
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)
"Rao-Time.D

Rag-time music, being in no wise
serious" is the reverse of depressing.
THE African jingles of the present
day create an emotional atmosphere
Of restlessness and excitement which
is typically American. and which is
opposed to health only so far as our
national restlessness and lack OF poise
tend to make US people whose ma
tional disease is nervous exhaustion. :"
Roughly speaking, lively music.
such as rag-time. is likely to rouse de-
pressed persons from their melan-
choly: sad and pathetic music will
soothe the excitable and hypernerv.
Gus.
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Bats Wei on Cleveland List.

If Chick Gandil, donning a Cleve
land uniform, could hit as well In the
Cleveland ball park half the season
as he has done in his visits there
with Washington, he might put the
Indians in the running. Figures show
that Gandirs batting average in Cleve-
land has been 1886, while last year,
in spite OF his slump. he batted 1852
on the Cleveland lot.
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composers and performers IN English
prisons. But harmony was split.
Brodsky (of Manchester and Russia)
was caught in Germany. Richter re-
nounced his English honors, Kreisler
went to fight for Austria, and Lamond
was shut up at Ruhleben. Harmony
was disturbed. In England the war
threatened for a moment to Danish
the music made In Germany. But
sanity prevailed. Wagner could not be
banished The Royal Philharmonic re-
fused to abolish the bust Of Beetho-
ven from its place before the orches-