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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
Gen. Leonard Wood, In Ringing Speech, Makes
 Plea For Preparedness
Ranking Officer of American Army Given Enthusiastic Reception by Large and Representative Gathering-Man hood Suffrage Should Garry Duty of Manhood Service,
 He Declared, and the Person Who Votes Should
 Be Willing to Come to Defense of Country

but earnest speech, in which he re- counted the dangers in which America was standing due to her lack of prepar- ation for national defense. 'The army of the United States is decidedly anxious over the situation,'' declared Captain Kill borne. We realize fully the odds which would be against us in a struggle with any first class power, Automatically, the United States is stepping from one banana peel to another We are in grave danger of international complications every day. We hear much from the pa- cifieists about millions of volunteers springing to the colors overnight but any ono familiar with the history of nations knows how little value such a theory is in real conflict. After this war in Europe is over, America will have most of the gold in the world and the other fellows vii have all the debts The United States was never so strong in a military and naval way as she was at tho close of the civil war. The same will be true of some of the countries now engaged in the present struggle
 Capt. Gordon Johnston, member of the staff of General Wood, was intro- duced by MT. Rice as an old Birming- ham boy and he was given an ovation by the audience. He spoke princi- pally upon the military training camp to be held at Fort Oglethorpe during the spring. The camp for seniors be- gins April and continues until July 3, each division taking at least 30 days training. The camp for juniors begins June 5 and lasts for five weeks. All the details of the training were explained by Captain Johnston and he announced that Maj. Lucien Brown had agreed to take charge of the matter here and confer with Birmingham and Alabama men who desired to attend the camp.
 General Wood and the members of his staff arrived shortly before 9 o'clock last night over the Louisville and Nashville from Mobile. He was met at the station by Charles E. Rice, vice president of the Chamber of Com merce, and w. c. Radcliffe, general secretary, and the following officers of the Fifth United States volunteer infantry (Fifth Immunes) who served under him when he was in command of the department of Santiago during the Spanish-American war, who es- oorted him to the Tutwiler:
 Capt. William M Walker, Lieut.. Claude A. Allen, Lieut.. T. l.. Anglin, Lieut. Clyde W. Harkins, Lieut.. Byron T. DoZier.
 General Wood and the members of his staff leaves this morning over the Alabama Great Southern railroad for Chattanooga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
MORAL ATHLETIC CLUB FIVE EASY
 FOR METHODISTS

Birmingham college swamped the Moral Athletic club of Anniston last night on the locals court in one of the most one-sided affairs ever played in Birmingham, the final count being 62 to 6. The supremacy of the Metho- dists was ar no time disputed and the game was used as practice affair for the locals.
 Annistcn developed no opposition and had the regular five remained in the game the score would probably have Leen doubled. Manager Norton and G.llam played a great game for the Methodists, while Jebeles starred for the visitors. M
 Norton led the scorers with 13 field goals with Gillian second with eight. A large number of "subs' were tried out by the Methodists. Referee, Mack in; time of halves, 20 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
TO SEND DELEGATE
 TO PHILADELPHIA
Ad Club Will Discuss Plans at Regu- lar Weekly Luncheon to Be
 Held Today

The Birmingham Ad club will hold its weekly luncheon at the Hotel Hill man at 1 o'clock. The special feature will be submission of plans for raising fund to send a. member of the club to the national convention in Philadel- phia. The value of the trip is $100 and the man will be appointed delegate who suggests the most feasible way of rais- ing the necessary amount.
 A special effort will be made by the ad men to get Hugh Brennan to ad- dress them at the lunch. MT. Brennan represents the Industrial Association of the South, which meets here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
SHORT CONCERT TOUR
Mrs. Gussen and Miss Egerter in
 Joint Recital

Mrs. Edna Gockel- -Gussen, pianist, and Miss Eva Egerter, soprano, will appear in joint recital tomorrow night at Columbus. Miss, under the auspices of the music department of the In- dustrial Institute for Girls.
 On Thursday night they will appear at West Point, Miss, and later in the week at another Mississippi college town.
 Miss Egerter enjoys a high reputa- ton as vocal artist and is under con- tract with one of the best known mu- sical managers in the country. Mrs Gussen, recognized as pianist of bril- liant style and interpretative ability, was asked to Join the singer for a three weeks tour. Mrs. Gussen said yes terday that she might not be able to remain away from her studio work more than a week. but that would be determined in day or two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08

KEY. ALBERT SIDNEY JUHNSUN
 New pastor of South Highlands Presbyterian church, who will deliver address tonight.
 Dr. Albert Sidney Johnson, the new pastor of the South Highlands Presby- terian church, will address the Pres byterian Social union of the Birming- ham district tonight on the subject, 'The Family Altar"
 The meeting will be held at the First Presbyterian church, corner Twenty first street and Fourth avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
A GOOD NIGHT-CAP FOR CROUPY
 CHILDREN

A little forethough in the care of croupy children will greatly lessen their chances of attacks of croup. At bedtime. give each child teaspoonful of Foley s Honey and Tar. It cannot possibly harm them and has a wonderfully soothing. healing effect on the mucous lining of the throat It cuts the choking phlegm, stops tickling and nervous hacking, and allows quiet, restful sleep. The nightly dose of Foleys Honey and Tar keeps many homes free from croup, saves the children suffering, and spares the parents a needless croup scare. Keep it always on hand. Sold everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were issued at the clerks office of the pro- bate court yesterday:
 John Cindrick, Fairfield. and Miss Annie Gersha.
 John F. Nix, Nashville. and Miss Susie Julian Nickelson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
TODAY'S EVENTS

Ad club luncheon at Hotel TIillman at 1 o'clock.
 Mrs. w. c. Jarnagin will read play at Tutwiler at o'clocl-.under the auspices of the Drama league.
 Dr. Albert Sidney Johnston will make address at First Presbyterian church at o'clock
 At the Theatres Lyric-Vaudeville. Matinee at 2:30 D.. m; evening at S:15 and g.
 Jefferson-"The Chocolate Soldier Matinee at 2:3o p. m; evening at S:15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-08
GOLD MINES USELESS

billions of dollars of wealth, but it would be useless in case of a financial crisis in Wall street. In the same way, Amer ica might have millions of men and bil- lions of dollars worth of undeveloped re- sources, but they would all be practically useless in case we should have sudden need for them
 We are in need of large and highly efficient navy and an army capable of defending our country and it's posses sions. This would include garrisons for the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands Panama canal, Alaska and Porto Rico, at least 60,0O0. In addition there should be home army and an expedtionary force in addition to a large and adequate force of trained reserves. Our industries and our transportation facilities should be highly and efficiently organized, for, in case of war, these branches would be of as much importance as the army"
 General Wood then took up the question of the army training camp which is to be conducted at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, near Chattanooga, during the spring and summer. These camps, said General Wood, provide a training for 30 days, which embrace the same results that could be obtained from a three-year serv- ice in the militia. Nine hours each day during the month was put in working, but the men came out of the camp in bet ter physical, mental and moral condition than when they went in, he said. ARMY TRAINING CAMPS General Wood told of the highly satis- factory results which had attended the first camp at Plattsburg, N. Y., last summer, and he predicted equally as much success with the coming camp The duty which leading business and profes- sional men, as well as every other citi- ro1 fr, fol p< camp, or else make it possible for some- one else to attend. was stressed by the speaker. The training camp sent the
 men back better than ever before. and it | made them real Americans" concluded the speaker.
 KILBANE SPEAKS
 Captain Kilborne, member of the staff of General Wood was introduced
 by MT. Rice MT. Kilborne made brief
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

developed into custom and custom into
accepted law. Equity courts became an
important part OF the judicial machin-
cry of England. The chancellor became
a judge, who. without a jury. heard
cases for which there was no adequate
remedy at law and issued DEGREES direct
ing certain course be carried out.
These fundamental principles OF chan
Gerry, or equity, We're developed:
"u) II was to ne exercised for the
protection OF property rights only.
"t2l He who would seek its aid must
come with clean hands
"j3) There must be no adequate rem
edy at law.
go 1t must never be used to curtail
personal rights.
"(5l 1t must not be used to punish
crime.
Equity courts have been invoked In
times of Industrial disputes for the pur-
pose of securing from equity judges re-
straining orders or injunctions restrain,
ing workers from Collective action assur
ing that unity of purpose necessary to
make a strike effective; from saying
orally or publishing information or do
ing things necessary to induce employers
to agree to better terms and conditions
of work, and from profiting by aid and
counsel in carrying on industrial con-
tests.
More than twenty years ago federal
courts began to issue such restraining
orders and injunctions with great fire.
quency. Since equity courts have juris-
diction only over controversies involv.
ing property or property rights, the only
seeming justification for tho issuance Of
these restraining orders is the theory
that employers right to do business in
cludcs property right in the labor OF
employees necessary to carry on the bust
ness profitably.
"They assume that property and prop
erty rights are infinitely more impor-
tant than human beings or human rights,
and demand that these shall be subordi-
mated to profits and uninterrupted pro-
duction or transportation.
ut has no bearing upon this argument
to stigmatizc wage carners wrongfully
as lawless and doers of violence. When
workers violate law or commit crimes,
there is adequate remedy at law. No
Judge has n right to issue an injunction
forbidding commission crime in advance
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
No Room for Apostle of Despair
In the Trade Union Movement

is there any room in the trade union
movement for the apostle of depressing
effectl There surely is not, and the less
teaching OF this kind that We have the
better it is for labor" writes President
Van Bittner OF District No ., United
Mine Workers of America, in the Official
journal of that union.
There are few men and women in
the ranks of organized labor who seem
to thrive on preaching the gospel OF
despair. They never fail to tell you OF
the starvation OF working men, women
and children and the terrible wreck that
i wrought upon humanity by those in
control of the various forces of society.
These men and women see no good
in life. They do not hear the singing of
the birds they do not see the beautiful
sunshine and enjoy the days that are
made for humanity's sake.
Real Unionist an optimist.
The real trade unionist is confirmed
optimist, going about preaching the gos-
pei of hpe and as he goes thru life
throwing words of comfort here ana
spreading flowers along the pathway.
Far better, my friends. that We help
one lone struggling being here than 10
let him. to his fate and blame his as
wen Us our sNOTNcOlulil8s upon Aht - =
tenn of today.
And. why shuldn't the trade union
list feels happy1 There is no institution
in America that has and is doing as
much for downtrodden humanity as the
trade union movement of our country as
eNemplified by the American Federation
OF Labor.
Mankind Being Bettered.
Over 100000 men and women, yes,
coming toward the three million mark,
are doing everything they can, every
minute they live for the betterment of
mankind.
And the year 1916 has been a great
one for organized labor. This giant of
Drawn and muscle is fast becoming that
intellectual being that will break the
chains of the past and bring about the
enjoyment of the blessings of today thru
education and organization.
No ideal of the people is brought
forth that is not championed by the
trade union movement. No institution
is so class conscious as the trade unions
which 60 to make up the great Amer
lean labor movement.
Great Progress Made.
"On every side wages have been in
creased, hours shortened and some great
fundamental finally worked out.
And no organization affiliated with
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02


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Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
How Labor HWuncHOns Started

Writing in the American Federation
list, President Gompers traces the in
junction process from its beginning,
when it was developed for use in cases
not covered by law, until the present
time, when injunctions set aside consti-
tutional guarantees.
"Our legal theories and judicial insti
tutions were inherited from England
says President Gompers. In England,
in the early times, the only recourse for
losses OF damages to property OF prop
erty rights was thru legal procedure in
the civil courts to secure an award for
damages. But monetary awards were
not always full compensation for losses,
nor did they afford ample protection
against encroachments of feudal over
lords upon property or property rights
of their rctaincrs.
There developed the custom OF direct
appeal to the king or to a representa-
tive of the king, known as the chan
cellor, or the keeper of the kings con-
science"
THE matters involved in such contro-
vcrsies as were brought directly 10 the
king We're questions of equity rather
than of law.
THE chancellor, who heard both par
ties, would report to the king advising
that an order be issued that the offend
cr do what he ought TO do or refrain
from doing something that would work
injustice
"As time went on, these precedents
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

neither has an equity court the right
to try criminal cases.
"Injunctions have been issued that set
aside rights guaranteed workers and all
citizens of the states and the United
States both by statutory and eonstitu-
tional law. Restraining orders and tenn
pOrary iniunctions were drawn by law
yers in the pay of employers. presented
to equity Judges and often signed with
out even being read. pending. of course
future hearing, But between the time
when they We're issued and the future
hearing they constituted an order of the
court. violation of which could be pun
ished as contempt of court and penal
ized by fines or Imprisonment.
The Technology used in these edicts
was such as to create prejudice against
the purposes and activities of the work
ers by designating them by epithets that
carried with them the insinuation of
lawlessness and malicious purposes.
The use of the writ of injunction in
industrial disputes was so often in con-
travention of law and legal justice and
subsersive TO the regular institutions of
justice and government that it was fit
tingly designated as government by in
junction. 1t secured to employers i'm
munity and special privilege and denied
workers rights and opportunities. All OF
this was accomplished under guise of SUI
Perfieial legality in a manner that was
outwardly respectable and sanctioned by
institutions of justice.
Thus, like many another beneficient
institution. the writ OF injunction, which
was intended TO serve the best interests
of the people, became an instrument of
injustice and tyranny"
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

one of us that we have not yet full
filled the conscientious duty of Amer
lea in understanding each other, and,
thru comprehension of each other, under
standing and serving the world. America
did not come into existence to make one
more great nation in the family of ma
tions, to show its strength and to eS-
crcisc its mastery.
America opened her doors to every
body who wanted to be free and to have
the same opportunity that everybody
has had to make the most Of his fac
ulties and his opportunities, and Amer
lea will retain its greatness only so long
as it retains and seeks to realize those
ideals. No man ought to suffer injustice
in America, no man ought, in America,
to fail to see the dictates of humanity"
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

the American Federation of Labor has
enjoyed greater blessings than the United
Mine Workers of America.
At the New York joint conference an
advance OF wages, giving our people mil
liens OF dollars, was secured.
That great fundamental for which
men have bled and died for on the in.
dustrial field and for which they have
been driven back in defeat in the lepis-
lative halls of our country since the in
eeptln OF the coal mining industry, was
forever established on the entire North
American continent
This wonderful victory established at
the conference table without an indus
trial battle was surely one of the great.
est IN the annals of our organization. Yet
We did not stop in our onward march.
For more than fifty years the anthra.
cite miners have hoped and dreamed Of
the time when the eight-hour day would
be theirs. Il
EightHour Day Won.
In recent years two titanic industrial
struggles took place in this field. but the
miners were forced to stack their arms
Tor the time being and await that great
day. 1t finally came. When the great
metropolitan newspapers We're saving no
when the Apostles OF Despair everywhere
We're deriving the efforts OF those
We trusted with the destiny of the an
thracite miners. Yes, that day was
ushered in again at conference in New
York, where the operators. swayed by
the powerful argument and sound logic
OF the miners representatives, were
forced by intelligent reasoning to Weld
the eight-hour day.
No Room for Shirkers.
With all these marvellous achieve
ments OF our grand and glorious move-
ment, there can be no room in the or
ganization for the destroyer of conf
dence. No, my friends, the trade union
movement is made up of workers, not
shirkers, men and women with red blood
in their veins who do not cry in despair
over their failures of yesterday, but who
have. the courage to fight on for achieve
ment today and the victories OF tomor-
row.
At no time could you feel prouder OF
the fact that you are trade unioniS,
than today. This is the era of true un-
ionism. Let us go on and on teaching
the gospel of hope, strengthening our or.
ganization and making life better,
brighter and sweeter."
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

into a eomprchending contact with the
conditions OF labor
You have seen what has happened
in some Instances. You have seen men
who have sat in their offices in some
great city and directed the use of cap
ital presently realize that they did not
know how it was being used, and them
selves go TO the factory which their cap
ital operated, or the mines which were
worked by the use of their capital;
themselves don overalls and 60 into the
bowels of the earth or thru, it may be,
greasy processes of the factory. and
come out with an entirely different
range of comprehension as to what it
was all about and a signally increased
capacity to understand the point OF view
OF the man who was actually doing the
work. That Is the kind of thing which
| like to see done, and that is the kind
of thing We ought TO talk about on the
Fourth of July.
Easy to Say; Hard in Practice.
The Fourth OF July was a day. when
great union was formed, but il was
not a union of any one class or body of
persons, but that little nation of 5000
000 which swarmed 1t, II was a union
of all the people for common objects,
ana 10 man ls true American VINO does
not realize that all the objects of our
national life are common objects and
not separate objects. But it is easy to
say. my fellow citizens, and il is very
hard TO put it into practice.
"A great many men come to see me
and tell me n great many things, some
of which | believe. but il | were to lis.
ten with greater comprehension than |
have to everything they have to tell
me I would realize when the days work
was over that ! could not hold in my
single comprehension the infinitely va
ried. complex life of this great country
to which we belong. 1t takes n multi
tudc of minds to comprehend the United
States, and that is the reason that l
think building like this should be de-
voted TO the processes which pool our
understandings.
Americas Great Mission.
Every counsel that goes forth from
these offices should be n counsel of con
ference, of mutual comprehension, If
possible, of mutual accommodations be-
cause every one of us has some part in
the infinitely difficult task of driving
this nation as n team, not as n body of
contcsting elements.
Flag after flag went by in that pro-
ccssion just now; every one of these
flags ought to have suggested to every
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
STEADY JOB.

Can You tell me-" said the court, ad-
dressing Enrico Ufuzzi. under eNamina-
tion at Union Hill. y. j., as to his quail
ifications for citizenship, ''the difference
between the powers and prerogatives of
the king of England and those of the
president of the United States."
'Nezzir," spoke up Ufurzi promptly.
King, he got steady job,"-New York
Telegraph.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
HER IDEA OF IT

One day a teacher asked little girl
to spell then"
"T-h-e-n," answered the child.
Right" said the teacher. Now,
when TT is taken away what is leftS"
Please, mum, dirty cups and saucers,"
sadi the little girl.-Sacred Heart Re
view
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02

Labor must learn to depend upon its
own efforts.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-02
EMPLOY UNION LABOR
WITH YOUR OWN MONEY
Should Be Jealous of Fair Wages and Conditions
for Other Workers AS for Ourselves. and
Always Demand the Union Label
BY EARL R. HOAGE
Secretary Denver Union Label League No.

GREAT deal has been written and said this important subject
realize
chasing thing that directly under their control and
| be used with effect
beyond dispute
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-03-21
THE ACHES OF HoUsECLEANING

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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-03-21

Optimistic Thought.
II is no merit to give when lrov!-
sions are cheap.