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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-07

Sixty young people members OF the
Young Peoples society of South Park
Presbyterian church. dressed iu hara
times costumes OF great variety and
STYLE. gathered 81 the church last
evening Tor the monthly business and
social session After season of gene
eraI sociabtiry the president. Miss
Mary Willis called the meeting 81 ON
der and the business Of the month was
transacted and @ short devotional SER
vice conducted. AN informal program
was carried out. Miss Florence Long
and Bessie lehman singing The old
Oakeu Bucket Agnes AlEta rHu.te8
Little Orphan annie. and while Miss
Hazel Spauldlug played q march the
entire company passed I'm review. Irwin
Fuluer and Marie Huber receiving
favors for the most original costumes
Games were PLAYED and refreshments
of coffee and douEhuuts were served.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-07
SIMPLE NOME REMEDIES.

For Group IN Children-H ready
at hand q mixture OF powdered alum
and sugar-two parts sugar TO one
eft the alum. Give a little Of this aDout
the size Of q navy beam as quickly as
possible when the cough comes on and
son will find quick relief.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
COULDN'T SEE THE SIMILARITY.
Michigan Mayor Marooned Between Law
yers and Organizers.

Mayor Lloyd of Menominee, Mich,
draws a sharp distinction between a
person employing lawyer residing. in
another city and body of unionists
asking an organizer from another city
TO assist them.
At a meeting of the common council
Mayor Lloyd insisted that these organ
izers should be driven from the city be-
cause Menominee workers, who are now
on strike, can receive sufficient advice
from the professional and business in
terests located here. In reply to a
query, the mayor replied that he had
employed attorneys from outside the
city.
"That is just what the workers have
DONE" answered the councilman. "They
want the advice of men who have made
a study of labor conditions and therefore
have sent for these organizers"
When council adjourned Mayor Lloyd
had failed to see any similarity between
the two positions.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
The Open Forum
Denver's Vocational School.
Denver, Colo, July 30, 1915.

Denver, Colo, July ~, 1915.
Editor Labor Bulletin:
Did you know that there is right here
in Denver the very best vocational train
ing school in the whole country? And
did you know that this vocational school
is under the direction OF the city public
schools? OF course you know it-and
SO do the editors of all the daily papers
in the city know it. But there wasn't
line in any of them about the grad
uating exercises of that school, held last
Thursday. And this was the fourth an
nual event of that kind, too, and the
school is more than an experiment. It
is living, vital fact, and has already
made its impress on the economic well
fare Of vocational workers.
The school is equipped with the very
best and most up-to-date appliances for
training the young boys in the work
they are to do in the future. just now
three different trades are followed up
printing, carpentry and plumbing. These
trades all lend themselves to similar
rudimentary instruction, which can be
easily given by class method. Competent
journeymen are employed in each of
these branches to give the boys mechan-
cal instruction, and how well these have
performed their duties can only be seen
by an inspection OF the finished product
turned out by the youth.
| have attended every one of the four
graduating days OF this vocational school
and have watched with interest and
pride the result of the undertaking. l
am great believer in the educational
value of the trades, hence can commend
most highly the work that our school
board is doing in this direction. There
is something about the training OF the
hand and the eye that succeeds all other
undertakings in making good citizens
out of our boys and girls. No single
academic course can approach it, either
seminary or collegiate.
l may say in passing, that Mr.. Grant
Hamilton of the A. f. of L., member
of Denver Typographical Union No. 40,
made the principal address on the occa-
sion referred to, and was ignored by all
the newspapers. And he made a mighty
good speech, too. Yours fraternally,
OTTO +. THUM.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
SENATORS DELAY
ALIEN LABOR BILL
Will Be Made First Business
of Next Session
Democratic Caucus Decides to Put
Thru Child Labor Bill at Once
at Request Of President

Democratic senators, in caucus Mon
day night, voted to postpone action on
the immigration bill until the next ses-
sion OF Congress and pledge the ma
jority to vote down any attempt to at
tach the immigration measure to the
child labor bill as a rider. This latter
plan had been threateend by senators op-
posd to the child labor bill
The binding resolution, the first of
that nature proposed by Democratic
caucus for several years, was put thru
by party leaders to whip into line a
group of Southern senators who had an
nounced they would support an effort to
saddle the child labor bill, which they
oppose, with an immigration rider, in
cluding the literacy test section, in the
hope that President Wilson then would
veto it.
The seven senators who voted against
the resolution pledging defeat of the i'm
and Underwood, Alabama; Martin and
Swanson, Virginia; Simmons and Over
man, North Carolina, and Beckham, Ken
lucky.
1t stipulates that any amendment in
Producing a subject not germane to child
labor legislation shall be tabled. Sem
ator Overman declined to vote on the
binding resolution.
In voting to postpone action on immi-
grafton until next session, resolution
was adopted providing that if efforts
failed to get an advance agreement this
session on a date to take up the bill it
should become the first business to be
considered at the opening of the session
in December and should be kept before
the senate unless disposed OF.
The question of considering immigra-
ton before adjournment was briefly de-
bated in the senate earlier in the day,
and a motion by Senator Poindexter Re
publican, to take up the measure imme-
diately was voted down, 35 to II, all
Democrats opposing it.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
AUTHORS LEAGUE VOTING
UPON A. F. L. AFFILIATI0N
THIS ACTION is RECOMMENDED BY
A SUB COMMITTEE.
Writers Are Now at Mercy of Dishonest
Producers, and Organization on Un-
ion Labor Lines Is Necessary.

The question of whether or not the
Authors League is to affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor is now be-
ing decided by a referendum vote of the
leagues membership.
1t will be recalled that a sub-commit-
tee OF the Authors League, on May 2s
last, reported to special meeting of the
council that "such a union was not only
feasible, but highly desirable from the
standpoint of interest OF the league"
A circular sent out to the members
makes it clear that affiliation will not
in any way limit or interfere with the
freedom of speech, even to the extent of
criticising the American Federation of
Labor and labor conditions, and that the
Federation could not in any way inter
fere with the leagues affairs.
1t is claimed that the authors are prao
tically at the mercy of irresponsible and
dishonest producers, and that piracy is
rampant and redress uncertain.
1t has been charged that plays and
novels of Hall Caine, j. NJ. Barrie and
Sir Gilbert Parker have been stolen for
screen productions, and thus far redress
has been denied, and that some managers
have paid authors $500 for their share in
picture rights which they have secretly
disposed of for $4,000 or more.
Thompson buchanan is chairman OF tn
committee of authors which investigated
the problem of affiliation, and reported
favorably upon it.
Among the seventy-two committee
members are found such well known
names as these: Gertrude Atherton,
Josephine Daskam Bacon, Rex Beach,
Ellis Parker Butler, Robert w. Cham
bers, Reginald De Koven, Mary =. Will
kins Freeman, DR.. Woods Hutchison,
Wallace Irwin, George Barr McCutcheon,
Harold McGrath, Edwin Markham, Har-
vey O'Higgins, Mary Roberts Rinehart,
f. II. Sothern, the Princess Troubetzkoy
William Allen White, Jesse Lynch Will
Jams and Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
STEEL TRUST MAKES HIGH RECORD
Widely Heralded Wage Increase Casts
Feeble Shadow Beside Big Profits.

The 5 and 10 per cent wage increases
of United States Steel Corporation, SO
widely heralded recently, casts a feeble
shadow beside what is termed the most
brilliant quarter in the financial history
of this concern. In the three months
ended June 30 its net income, after all
operating expenses and repairs have been
accounted for, was SSl 1926, ,04s, compared
with S6O,7l3,624 in the preceding quarter,
and 27,95O,O55 in the June quarter last
year.
The astonishing business of the cor
poration this year is best shown thru
comparisons. Net income was SS,OO0,0 900
greater in the quarter than in the whole
of the 1904 year. Each month brought
larger return than any quarter IL,
1914 and 1904, while, in addition, June's
earnings were larger than in any quar-
ter in 1908. The half years balance for
the common stock exceeded the annual
balance in every other year since the
corporation was formed, the closest be
ing 1907, when 1876 per cent was earned.
The six months ended June 80 brought
in net return OF Sl4l ,S39,672, more
than three times as much as the CORE
spending period of 1915.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
Justice John H. Clarke

One good result of the nomination
for the presidency of Justice Hughes was
the opportunity given President Wilson
to replace tory judge with a progress
sive. The opportunity was not allowed
to slip. Judge John II. Clarke, who was
appointed, is genuine Democrat in
spite of the fact that he was a railroad
attorney in private practice. Tho the
appointment of Frank p. Walsh or
similarly aggressive radical would have
been preferable, Clarke's appointment is
satisfactory. AS an active associate of
Tom L. johnson in his nine years war,
he was necessarily imbued with much of
Johnson's spirit, altho not equal to him
in economic understanding. AS Judge of
the federal court in Cleveland he has
shown that Johnson's confidence in him
was not misplaced. The exchange of
Hughes for Clarke may be recorded as
gain of one member of the Supreme
Court for progress and loss to plutoc-
racy.-The Public.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
At the Theaters
"Too Many Cooks" at Denham.

Frank Craevn, who gained information
al celebrity as a comedian of remarkable
originality thru his assumption in New
York and London, OF the role OF Jimmy
Gilley in Bought and Paid For" now
makes his debut as author OF comedy
which he calls "Too Many Cooks" The
play will be seen at the Denham theater
next week.
As may readily be supposed, the piece
is founded upon the old adage, too many
cooks spoil the broth" In this instance
the superfluous culinary experts cast
their malign influence over the martial
and real estate ambitions OF a young man
who has listened, not wisely, but too
well, to the siren song, Build Your Own
Home in the Country"
The carpenters, masons, decorators,
and heaven knows who, "but in" upon
the work, and by the time the youthful
builder complete his task and is re-
united to the girl of his heart twho has
been lost in the shuffle), he is much
wiser than he was, and in a thankful
frame of mind at being left in peace
with his bride to enjoy all the comforts
of dearly bought home.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
ANIMALS AS A SYMBOL OF PARTY

To the elephant, the donkey and the
bull moose now must be added the
camel. the symbol from the animal world
of the Prohibition party, just as the
other creatures mentioned are of the
older parties prominent in the politics
of the United States. Where a symbol
of this kind is formally decided upon it
should be easier to chronicle the history
of its use and its meaning than when it
is the informal product of some individ-
ual's aptness in hitting off the peculiar
tiles and characteristics of a political
group. Mr.. Roosevelt, it is claimed, or
iginated the bull moose appellation for
the party that he was to lead for a Pc
riod. Thomas Mast, in 1870, in a car
toon in Harper's Weekly, first depicted
the Democratic party as a donkey. In
1874 he first introduced the elephant as
the symbol of the Republican party.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
CLEVELAND LABOR SEEKS
BIG FUND FOR TEMPLE
ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY
BY CENTRAL BODY.
More Than SIS, 900 Raised at Outset and
Plan to Lay Cornerstone of
Building on Labor Day.

Organized labor at Cleveland Ohio,
has launched a campaign to raise Sl25,0OU
to build labor temple. Over 200
has already been donated and the work
of construction has already started.
They hope to be able to lay the corner
stone on Labor day, and have the build
ing open for business on Jan. l.
The building Will be four stories high,
covering a space l00xl3O feet, built of
concrete with terra Gotta front.
On the main floor there will be three
large storerooms, which will bring in a
good income; nine halls for meetings, one
with a capacity for seating l 400 people.
Offices will be provided for business
agents and officers of the various local
unions.
large storehouse will be provided
for the purpose of storing tools belong
ing to the various trades unions. Mem
bers leaving the city can store their tools
at the temple, or any time that they
are out of employment at their own
trade, wishing to take up some other
work. Men in large cities living in flats
have no place to store their chests, so
this feature will be a great good to the
members. There will also be shower
baths, bowling alleys and card rooms.
The campaign has been started with
the object in view of opening the build
ing with all bills paid in full.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05

Tell 'em you saw 1t in The Bulletin.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
RAILROAD ORDERED TOOBEY
STATUTE FOR FULL CREW
PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION RULES
FOR SAFETY.
Cafe Conductors Are Not Trainmen Un-
der Provisions Of Law, and Roads
Must Employ More.

Dining and cafe car conductors cannot
be considered as traiHmen under the pro-
visions of the Pennsylvania full crew"
law, according to an opinion handed
down by Chairman Ainey, deciding in
favor of the brothcrhoods a complaint
lodged with the Public Service Commits
sion against the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, the Philadelphia and Read
ing and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
companies.
The railroads are ordered to increase
the number of trainmen to six, in com
pliance with the act, in addition to the
dining car attendants.
This opinion followed the important
baggage car and mail car decisions re-
Gently, in which it was decided that all
baggage cars even on thru trains must
have a baggagemau and that mail cars
on the rear of trains must have plat
forms as wide as the law provides, and
two others of lesser Importance.
These cases had been before the com
mission for months and had been vigor-
ously contested by both sides.
In all, six complaints were sustained
and four dismissed in the opinions
handed down at this time.
Commissioner Ryan decides that the
movement of cars between yards OF the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie is a switching
movement, and, therefore, does not come
under the act, and the effort to make
this full crew" violation is dismissed.
Yard crews may be employed and may
be paid on a different basis. 1t is said
the decision in this case will prevent the
filing of a large number OF other similar
complaints from various parts of the
state.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
New Soloist at Lakeside.

Miss Phyllis Anderson, a Denver girl
with a wonderful voice, whose friends
predict for her great future on the
concert stage, will be heard as soloist
with Roy's band at Lakeside Saturday
and Sunday.
Miss Anderson voice is a coloratura
soprano of extraordinary clarity and
sweetness. But her range is the more
remarkable, as she reaches G above high
c with ease. Musical critics declare that
within ten years time she will prove an
other Tetrazzini.
She is % years old and is employed as
supervisor at the York exchange Of the
telephone company. She has a host of
friends who will welcome her appearance
with the band at Lakeside, and who pre-
dict that her engagement there will prove
one OF the surprising treats of the sum
mer season for lovers of music
Only four more children's day pro-
grams will be given this season. An
aquatic carnival, with motor boat races
as feature, is scheduled for Saturday,
August ~.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
The Boy That Was

When the hair about the temples starts
to show the signs OF gray,
And fellow realizes that he's wander
ing far away
From the pleasures of his boyhood and
his youth and never more
Will know the joy of laughter as he did
in days of yore
Oh, it's then he starts to thinking of n
stubby little lad
With a face as brown as berries and a
soul supremely glad.
When a gray haired dreamer wanders
down the lanes of memory
And forgets the living present for the
time of used to-be;"
He takes off his shoes and stockings, and
he throws his coat away,
And he's free from all restrictions, save
the rules OF manly play.
He may be in tattered garments, but
bareheaded in the sun
He forgets his proud successes and the
riches he has won.
Oh, there's not man that liveth but
would give his all to be
The stubby little fellow that in dream.
land he can see,
And the splendors that surround him and
the joys about him spread
Only seem to rise to taunt him with the
boyhood that has fled.
When the hair about his temples starts
to show Times silver stain,
Then the richest mans that's living
yearns to be boy again.
Houston Post.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
HAD ENOUGH OF oN-UNIoNIsTs

A, AbeL, connected with large firm
of painting contractors in Sioux City,
has abandoned the non-union shop theory
and announces that his next business
venture will be conducted along union
lines. He has tired of the twenty
months strike of the Painters Union,
which has made it impossible to secure
comeptent workers.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-08-05
THE WARD AUCTION co.
1889 Glenarm st,

We retail all of our new furniture,
rugs, carpets, linoleum, stoves, dishes,
etc, at prices others ask for second hand.
We specialize in roll and flat top desks,
filing devices and swivel chairs. Terms
if desired. Auction sale daily at 2 p. m
c. T. Ward, president and manager.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-13
LABELED

Proud Mother of FTeshman-My
son, why do all the young men wear
soft shirts?
Freshman (hesitating) - Why,
mother, I>really am not sure, but l
think it's to distinguish them from
the assistant professors.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-13

new york-by goIly have to laff
evry time they put some thing over
on a lawyer, & this is about this best
COAX i ever herd tell on 1 Of them
he was very smart lawyer that
was defending a case in which a man
was sooing a raleroad for cutting his
leg off & a boy was on the witness
stand, and he says, what do you
know about the case & the lad tells
him he saw the acksident happen
o, you did, did you, the lawyer
snaps back at him, and tell what you
was doing there
i was just standing there doing
nothing, the lad ansers him -
just as thought, a idel loafer
hanging around street corners, the
lawyer said, thinking he wood put the
kid in bad, and what does your father
do
he amt doing much but sitting
around rite now, the lad replyd.
i thought so, the lawyer said, like
father like son, & so he is just big
loafer who don't do amy thing but
sit around sticking his nose into
other peepels bizzness is he
i don't know as to that, the boy
said, looking over at the jury, but
maybe you had better ask him
where does he live, the lawyer said
he lives at home with US, but that's
him, that red-headed man in the
front row of the jury
bet you Good have bought that
lawyer with a counterfeit plugged
nickel.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-13
THE INSULT

THE INSULT
"How much is thin plums?"
"Ten cents a peck"
t''Shure, pwhat do yez think am,
buTrd?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-03
w. T. Johnson
Percy v. Hill
G.. s. HichbOrni
w. M. Sanborn

Maine State Sea Food Protection Assoc
citation. Mr. Davis evidently doesn't
take much stock in the governments
suggestion that the best way to attack
the dog Is with our teeth for prorni-
nent on the sheet are these legends:
"A Man Eating Shark Pest!" "Dsvours
Sea Carbon" "Devours Men, Women,
Children, Dead Sailors, Congressman,
Senators and Legislators" 'The Fish
ermens Foe, the Farmers Friend and
the Consumers Casket!" These are fol-
lowed with the query. DO you want to
eat them?" and we herewith and mere
by answer No, we don't.
We would rather take bite out OF
! the sea serpent, the rhvnydodrinkus or
the hipposiippacus. We are asin the
dogfish, and cannot favor anything that
looks like benevolent assimilationF or
! him. Put him on the grass-pulverize
him and feed him to the potato and the
cabbage but spare him from the diet OF
the bipes humanus. Extract from him
whatever Of the oleaginous he may
possess and let him return to mother
earth. Gastronomically he is an I'M
possibility.
II he eats "Congressmen and Sena-
tors" as the circular says. let them re-
! turn the favor If they will. You can
lead us to the dogfish. but you can't
make us eat him, and that settles 1t.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-03
State House Chat

Mrs. Harriet Henderson Of Farming
ton, State agent for the protection Of
children. was caller Saturday morn
ing at the Office of the Charities and
Corrections Commission.
F. j. McArdle of Bangor reported
Saturday for duty as chief of rates
and schedules at the office of the
Public Utilities Commission.
Chief Forester Wenegar Of the Cam
adam Pacific Railway, whose head
quarters are in Montreal, was a caller
saturday on State Forestry Commits
sioner F. e. Mace in relation to pro-
lection from fires along the right Of
way IN this State of that railroad.
The Canadian Pacific works in hearty
cooperation with the Maine forestry
authorities in guarding against this
great enemy of our wild lands.
Merton James Of Augusta has been
appointed assistant to Warden VIM.
Mcdonald, who is in charge at the
Belgrade hatchery. and began his du-
ties on Saturday, April 1.
One of the Young lady clerks in the
state House, who recently found p
dead mouse in her desk, is also trying
Tor bounty, although she is making
friend do the real work. The case as
1t now stands is to prove that the wild
thing was legally killed. in open time.
suspicion has been aroused that the
creature was illegally shared by the
girls in her department and the friend
Is doubtful Of collecting. Other friends
nave suggested that it be donated to
the State Museum.