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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22

Youngston Sheet & Tube Company, are
controlled by the United States Steel
Corporation, their wage policy is deter
mined by that body. He declares that
there is excellent reason to believe that
the Youngstown riots were directly re-
sponsible for the action of Gilbert H.
Gary in announcing, Immediately after,
a 10 per cent. increase for the 100000
employees of the steel corporation.
Judge Gary, he claims, advised the
Youngstown companies, at the beginn-
ing of the strike, to resist an advance in
wages, but realizing the danger of a
general upheaval, he himself acted
promptly to avert a strike.
Mr.. West claims that in the % saloons
of East Youngstown, the steel workers
found the only escape from hideous real
ity. The men, with their families, live
in squalid crowded rooms, and the
streets, alleys and yards are indescrib-
ably filthy. The city administration is
controlled by the saloon interests, and
there is not church in the town.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
COMMITTEE REJECTS INCOME
TAX PLAN

A Washington report claims that De-
mocratic members of the House ways
and means committee, have turned down
Secretary McAdoo's recommendation for
the extension of the income tax to per-
sons of small means. The committee,
however, insists upon a material in
crease in the tax now levied on larger
incomes.
President Wilson, in his recent mes
sage to congress, recommended tax on
bank checks, automobile horse power,
gasoline and pig iron as a means Of
raising additional revenue, but the com
mittee repudiates this and informs Sec
rotary McAdoo that the desired revenue
can be gained from an increased tax on
whisky, beer, wines and tobacco.
The individual income tax nets the
government approximately $4O,OO0,OO0
annually. The proposed whisky tax
would net about $25,0OO,OOO, the to-
bacco tax another $25, 100000, and the
beer tax at least $3O,OOO,OOO annually.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
DISASTROUS FLOODS IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Three persons dead, and property loss
of about ST 100000, is reported as the re-
suit of storms and floods in Southern Cal
ifornia. The city of Los Angeles has been
almost completely cut off from the outside
world. Many people were rendered home
less.
The doWnpour, which at times was vir-
tually a cloud-burst, was accompanied by
intermittent gales. Hundreds of derricks
in the great Taft oil fields were blown down.
threatening to start fires and explosions
Railroads were crippled by numerous wash
outs, and telephone and telegraph lines were
demoralized. Trains filled with tourists
we're held up by the rising water, with little
prospect Of reaching their destination for
days.
The damage in the Pomona district alone
was estimated at $5O0,00O, largely in des-
troyed citrus fruits. Fashionable Long
Beach was reported flooded, and wealthy
cottagers were rescued by police in skiffs.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
MRS. PANKHURST HELD AT
ELLIS ISLAND

Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, the British
suffrage leader, who landed at New York
on January IS, in the interests of the Serb
ian relief movement, was detained at the
Ellis Island emigrant station, because of the
fact that she had served a sentence in a
British prison.
She vigorously protested, but the officials
explained that she was subject to the federal
statute barring aliens guilty of ''crime of
moral turpitude." She was released, how
ever, upon the papers in her case reaching
President Wilson being OPP
posed to her exclusion
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
ROCKFORD MAYOR SAYS WOMEN
ARE HOPE OF "DRY" CHICAGO

In a speech delivered in Chicago, at
the Hotel La Sale, last week, Mayor w.
w. Bennett, of Rockford, Illinois, de-
clared that women were the hope of
dry Chicago.
Rockford is dry because the wo-
mems vote gave Us a 5000 majority"
he said. "You will get Chicago cleaned
up in the same way. I believe the wo-
men of Chicago will make Chicago the
greatest and cleanest city in America.
eve people down state hold out our
hands to the people of Chicago to beg
you to vote your city dry, and then help
us make dry state, and finally dry
nation"
The meeting is said to have been the
most enthusiastic ever held since the in
auguration of the movement to make
Chicago dry. Mayor Bennett declared
that Rockford does not have an empty
storeroom or dwelling house under the
dry administration.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
FIRE WIPES OUT WRIT, OKLA
HOMA

A fire broke out in the city of Writ,
Oklahoma, on January Is, destroying
Ii business houses. The buildings were
of cheap construction, but housed large
stocks of merchandise.
Another fire broke out two days later,
practically destroying the business and
residence sections of the town, and leav-
ing 1000 persons homeless. AS re-
suit of the two fires, citizens of the city
requested Governor R. L. Williams to
send state militia to take charge of the
situation, recommending the immediate
declaration of martial law.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
COUNTY NEWS
MRS. DURAND WINS OUT AT
SPRINGFIELD
LIBERTYv1LLE TOWNSHIP ONLY TERRITORY
In STATE UNDER QUARANTINE

Mrs. Scott Durand, whose prize herd of
Guernsey cattle were slaughtered recently,
at the Crab Tree Farm went to Springfield
this week, seeking pay for the loss of her
cattle, and change in the laws to encour
age dairymen and livestock farmers to breed
and raise high grade stock According to
Springfield reports her visit was big SUR
prise. Her tact won the day She appeared
before the agricultural committee of the
House and Senate, not in the attitude of
warrior, but contritely asking for her rights.
She had heart to heart talk with the mem
bers, then she went to the senate and 1obbied
among the state senators.
When state and federal inspectors ap
praised her herd, subsequent to the slaugh-
ter, at $211 each, Mrs. Durand Indignantly
refused the offer. She demands the full
amount allowed by law, which is $3.50
head. This makes a difference of about
S2,275. The senate appropriations COM
mittee acted favorably on the request Of
MIS-. Du1d1lQ lOI d lllOlC dQCOldlC
One is bound to admire the plucky fight
which this woman has made, and, doubtless,
every farmer in Lake County is pleased over
the result.
Libertyville township, in Lake County, is
now said to be the only territory in the state
still under quarantine and this has been
changed from closed to a restricted area.
It is hoped that an order releasing shipments
of live stock for trading, will be issued with
in a few weeks.
State Veterinarian George w. Dunphy, OF
Michigan, in an open letter to Secretary of
Agriculture Houston, has this week blamed
the spread of the foot and mouth disease on
the incompetency of federal officials. He
declares that wrong diagnosis Of sus-
pected case near Niles, in that state, caused
the farmers to lose hundreds of thousands
of dollars The letter is approved by Gov
ernor Ferris
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
WORK ON NEW TANNERY
DELAYED BY COLD WEATHER

1t is expected that the hide building, the
first building to be erected at the new site
Of the Wilder Tanning Company, Wauke-
gan, will be ready for occupancy very soon,
The work has been delayed because Of the
intensely cold weather, which rendered the
laying of brick out of the question. The
main six-story structure has not yet been
started. It is said that the foundation will
be put down to a depth of Is feet in the
ground. Special machinery is required for
the work
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
RAILWAY SWITCHMEN AND
MUST READ AND WRITE
ENGLISH

An order has been issued by the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway, that hereafter
all men employed as switchmen, or guards
at crossings must be able to read and speak
the English language. The heads of the
company feel that there are moments when
the ability to do this is Of the highest i'm
portance.
This is in line with the safety first" cam
paign recently installed by the order to DO
away with flags at crossings, and replace
them with signal bearing the word Stop.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
TRAIN PLUNGES DOWN
EMBANKMENT IN IOWA

An Illinois Central passenger train left
the rails at a point between GAIA and Prim-
CHAR, Iowa, on January II, plunging down a
twenty foot embankment into a creek.
Every car left the track and all turned over,
with the exception of the last car of the
train, which was pullman Thirty-three
passengers and trainmen were injured some
of them perhaps fatally.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
INCREASE IN PRODUCTION
OF AMERICAN DYE STUFFS

According to Dr. Thomas H. Norton, the
governments dye stuff expert, II months
OF the European war has seen the dyeing
industry of America increase fvefold This
country now produces half of the colors it
normally uses. It is hoped that by 1917 the
great bulk of artificial dyes consumed in
this country, will be made by American fac
tories, from homegrown raw material.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
EDITOR DIES FROM FALL ON ICY
SIDEWALK

Charles Dryer, editor of the Woman's
World, of Chicago, and we'll known in the
field of journals for women, slipped and fell
on an icy sidewalk, in that city; one day last
week, and died a few minutes afterward
Death was due to fracture Of the skull
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
FORD DELEGATES DENIED PER-
MISSION TO RECROSS GERMANY

Germany has refused to permit mem
bers of the Ford permanent peace board
to return through her territory, to
Copenhagen, for the reason that the
state department, at Washington, has
again refused to extend the American
passports to include Germany.
The members of the board had select
ed Stockholm for it's regular meeting
place, but now say they will remain at
The Hague indefinitely, if necessary.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
LABOR BLAMES STEEL CORPORA
TON FOR YOUNGSTOWN RIOTS

In report by George P. West, Of the
American Federation Of Labor, the
United States Steel Corporation is given
a large share of blame for the recent
riots at East Youngstown, Ohio. Mr..
West claims that the strike was the ma
tural outgrowth against an economic
and industrial regime so oppressive and
brutalizing as to overshadow the i'm
mediate provocation, and render it COM
paratively insignificant"
He charges that while neither the Re
public Iron & Steel Company, nor the
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
MEN NEEDED TO HARVEST ICE

A call for hundreds of men has been made
to gather the ice harvest of Lake County.
Owing to the fact that, almost every avail
able man in the county is already employed,
ice men are finding it difficult to procure
laborers. Ice on the small lakes is from Il
to 10 inches in thickness
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22

flooded section, carcasses of cattle can
be seen floating. At one place the
bodies of twelve persons were washed
ashore
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
NEW YORK TO HAVE WOMEN
STREET INSPECTORS

New York will now have five women
street inspectors This is the first time that
women have been appointed to this position
The salary is $1,000 year
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
40 MILES TO TAKE BATH

TRAVEL 40 MILES TO TAKE BATH
The citizens of Oatman, Arizona, have to
travel 40 miles to take bath-either that,
or pay 20 cents gallon for water. The
local water supply has to be teamed from
Needles, California, forty miles distant.
The reason for all this is that Oatman is
experiencing mining boom, which is max
ing the town grow at the rate of 100 persons
day One enterprising citizen realizes
$4,000 a month from tent in which he
has installed cots, which he rents at ST 90
each night.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22

COTTAGE PRAYER MEETINGS
FOR WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY, JANUARY "a, 1916.
ALL MEETINGS BEGIN PROMPTLY AT F.
HEARTILY WELCOME
Bring your and Gospel Hymn Book to
lowing places notice.
WATCH THEOCRAT.
Leaders: Places of Meetings.
TUESDAY, January 49, 1916
Mr. F. B. Mears, 1929 Hermon Ave-
Hammer,
ELDER ERNEST HARDWOOD,
Deacon W. 2111 Ezekiel
DEACON W. O. RUBY and c. R. CLoUGH,
w. o. Ruby 2204 Giead Ave
Mr. C. N. Richards, 31st Ave.
DEACON w. e. sCHMALFUss
Mr. Joseph Baughman 27Os Eshcol Ave
Deacon M Moulton 311O Ezekiel Ave.
Mr. c. L. Hendricks, 1902 Elisha Ave
Mr. James Nichols, 2e1s Elizabeth Ave-
DEACON s. G. FARRAR,
A. Smons, 1904 Elizabeth Ave.
THURSDAY, January 27, 1916
ELDER ROBBINS,
A. Milwaukee road north of 33rd Street.
DEACON G. MCQUEEN,
Mr. Eliason Hebron Ave.
DEACON e. FOSTER
Mr. Dean, Ave-.
DEACON GEORGE w. WEDEKIND,
Mrs. Mary scharf,
~ Mr. James Neave
ELDER MOOT,
A. Gellinger 5000 Elm Ave.
FRIDAY, January
ELDER FRANK ROBINSON,
Bethel 10Th st. Elizabeth Ave.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
TONS OF BUTTER SHIPPED TO
RUSSIA

It is stated that special train of twenty
five cars, loaded with butter, was rushed to
New York from Chicago last week, in order
that it might be included in shipment of
food supplies to Russia. The amount of
this shipment is claimed to have exceeded
all records for single consignment This
is believed to be the first American made
butter ever shipped to Russia.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
LITERATURE CASES
Zion Senior Restoration Host

The following report of Literature distributed City
Chicago Lords 18TH
Division No deacon Theodore Becker Director.
Deacon Theodore Company
Lincoln A. Hill in charge of Company No. g
Number of Calls made. 1851
Number of Leaves of Healing sold
Number of Leaves of Healing given
Number of Zion Messages and Special Announcements
Total 4143
Day January 18TH very day.
workers bravey Forward regardless of the weather and dis
rbuted the Zion Literature with them they
richly blessed their May Gods richest blessing be
scattering Glorious
Salvation Healing Holy Living
the faithful
children n
Senior
Organization
of the Devils work.
Masters Service
ERNEST E. HARDWOOD
Elder in Charge of the
Zion Restoration Host.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-01-22
KENOSHA MEETINGS

KENOSHA MEETINGS
The principal meeting
Zion of the Kenosha
penter Hall at 1890 A
DEACON S.. G will Service
The Cottage meeting announced at the Lords Day
Morning Service.
ALL HEARTILY WELCOMED
SALVATION HEALING HOLY LIVING
LITERATURE
For sale by Elder Robinson
and Soc They
Zion Literature.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-03
IS CHILD CROSS,
FEVER|SH, SICK
Look, Mother! If tongue is
coated, give "CaIifornia
Syrup of FiuS."

Children love this fruit laxative"
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach, liver and bowels so nicely
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result is
they become tightly clogged with
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
sours, then your little one becomes
cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad,
system full of cold, has sore throat,
stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen,
Mother! See if tongue is coated, then
give a teaspoonful of California
Syrup of Figs" and in few hours all
the constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out Of the sys-
tenn, and you have well child again.
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly
harmless; children love it, and it new
er fails to act on the stomach, liver
and bowels. -
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
Of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-03
American Vessels Patrol Danger
~ Zone in Atlantic.
Lesson of the Titanic Is Not Forgot
ten Despite Submarine Disasters
Scout Ships Send Wireless
Warnings Daily.

Washington.-Horrors have null
tiplied since the Titanic, plying west
ward on her maiden voyage, struck
pan ice" off the Grand Banks of New
Foundland and sank in four hours.
The Lusitania, the Arabic, the Ancona,
and other ships by the score have
paid the toll of accident and war,
until, now, there are added to the
lives lost upon the Titanic thousands
more, including hundreds of Ameri-
cans, who have persisted recently in
the North Atlantic.
The Titanic carried down $500
souls, the Lusitania 1,100. In death
cost ice holds the record over war.
over fire, over collision, and over hur-
ricane. Just as the war in measure
forced development of methods of pro-
tecting the commercial shipping of the
Atlantic from submarines, the Titanic
disaster forced the development OF
methods OF protecting these main ar
teries of world-trade and travel from
ice.
Ice patrol in the North Atlantic is
one of the principal duties of tie
United States coast guard as reorgan-
tied, expanded, and transformed into
q military service under the present
administration. It is a task which
was formally assigned to the United
States by the International Maritime
Conference at London soon after the
Titanic disaster.
The duty of providing the patrol
devolves solely upon the United
States, though the expense is pro-
rated among the nations using the
North Atlantic in the proportion of
passenger travel by nationalities. The
cost for the fiscal year 1914 amounted
to $685. 99, of which France, Germany,
and the United States are obligated to
pay Is per cent, or $12,S69.8S each;
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-03
REAL DOGS OF WAR

"The French were delighted with the
dogs, and l was entertained by all the
big people in Paris, while the Comte
Leon Tinseau, one of the greatest lit
terateurs in France and a member of
the Legion of Honor, wrote long ar
ticle about them for the paper, the
Flambeau.
Kenneth Mart, Mr.. Allan's compan-
ion, stayed in France to join an Ameri-
can ambulance.
Asked how many races he won with
his wonderful dogs, Mr.. Allan said that
he won three firsts, three seconds and
two thirds of the big races, but that
in the others his teams were always
Gin the money"
Asked how much money was bet
and won and lost in these races, he
declined to go into any estimates, but
stated that in 1909, when the race was
over he had won $4,000 and two sill
yer cups His friends upon that occa-
sion gave him a gold watch, suitably
inscribed, which he still wears.
The approximate value of the pack
of dogs that went to France may be
estimated from the fact that 500
apiece was offered for those that came
from Alaska.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-03

rule, pan ice, or low lying, heavy, thick
sheets, and the first of the large ice
bergs. From March Is until June 10
the bergs, the pan ice, and GROWERS, :
(small bergs,) threaten the transatlan-
tic steamship lines.
Two stanch cutters are assigned by
the coast guard to ice patrol duty from
February to July. Each cutter patrols
the ice regions for continuous period
of fifteen days. The cutters make
their base at Halifax, N. S., and 1t is
a three-day run from Halifax to the
tail of the Grand Banks, or the south
eastern fringe of the huge shoal in
the ocean which lies off Cape Race,
where their work begins.
The ship lanes from Boston and
New York to all European ports pass
just below the tail of the Grand Banks
and, upon the eastward voyage, turn
abruptly to the northeast just little
southeast of the tail of the Grand
Banks. 1t is for a distance OF ap-
proximately a hundred miles on either
side of the point of this turn that the
chief danger lies.
Arrived in the danger zone, the pa
troll boat searches for the large bergs,
icefields, and GROWERS, finds their po-
sition and rate of drift, and notifies
all approaching steamships of these
facts in detail. At six o'clock every
evening the ocean, so to speak, is
hushed for the United States ice warn
ings; that is, the use of the air for
wireless is reserved by common con-
sent to the ice scouts for half an hour.
Messages are dispatched to all vessels
plying these seas giving the exact To-
cation of the southernmost ice and of
every dangerous berg, pan, or grow
Ter sighted.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-03
Scotty Allan Took 1903 From
Alaska to France.
Gives Interesting Description OF Trip
to War Trenches With His "Hus-
kies"-Says French Soldiers
Like Them.

Montreal. - "Scotty" Allan, the
worlds champion driver of Eskimo
racing dogs, whose thrilling exploits
in the famous 400-mile winter races
over the frozen wilds of Alaska have
been a feature of life in the Northland
for years, arrived in Montreal from
France and is on his way to California,
where his family are spending the win
ter. two of his daughters being in COL
lege at Berkeley.
"Scotty" has capped all his former
exploits by conveying to the hiring line
400 of his famous malamutes from
Alaska and Labrador without losing a
dog. ~. ~t ..,
Although / won't be there this
spring" he said, land although have
taken some of the best racing dogs in
Alaska to the fighting front in France,
the dog races in Alaska will go on just
the same, for there are more dogs
where these that took across the At
lantic came from.
IF went back home to Nome now
l would have to take chance on get
ting a dog team to take me about thir-
teen hundred miles.
Mr.. Allan is in the hardware bust
ness in Nome.
Il sold only q of my own dogs to
the French government" he said, land
bought the remainder, making hun
dred and eight dogs in all, from the
Eskimos.
These were loaded on special cars
and guarded by soldiers all the way
till we came to Quebec. Here our
pack was increased to four hundred
and forty by a consignment of other
Eskimo dogs from the Lake st. John
region and from Clark City, Labrador,
till we sailed on the steamer POmera-
MAN with four hundred and forty of
them.
ION the way from Nome to Quebec
1 fed the Alaskan dogs on salmon,
their natural food, but afterward we
cooked food for all of them and had
four and a half tons of dog biscuits
made up specially for them to keep
them from getting hungry on their
way across.
"Sleighs and harness were brought
from Alaska for the los dogs, but the
equipment for the other 800 was all
made in Quebec before the expedition
started.
: Il had five men with me in addition
to Kenneth Mart to take care of them,
and although the weather was bad at
times, when the waves rolled over the
deck and broke some Of the kennels.
we did not lose a single one.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-03

Great Britain, 80 per cent, or $685.
1876, and Austria-Hungary, Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Neither
lands, Norway, Russia, and Sweden,
from 2 to per cent each. This years
annual report of the coast guard shows
that little Belgium, though almost an
initiated as nation, has paid her
per cent toll of $3,431.97 for 1914;
Germany has not yet paid the Is per
cent due from her for 1914.
Icebergs which menace shipping
break or "calve" off the mother glacier
chiefly in the summer preceding their
appearance in the northern lane of
transatlantic steamships. In the fall,
when the northwest gales begin to
blow, the Labrador and East Green
land currents, which flow south from
the east and west coasts of Green
land, become strong. AT st. Johns,
N. F., in November the inhabitants
Judge the weather and predict the
amount of ice to be expected the fol-
lowing season. If it is bitter fall
and winter, with numerous and heavy
blows from the north and northwest,
the wind will add strength and speed
to the flow of the Labrador and East
Greenland currents, and carry ice
south in great bulk and volume.
The first, or "slob," ice usually ap-
pears off st. Johns in January. This
consists of loose, broken ice, and is
not dangerous. Heavy sheets of field
ice reach the vicinity of st. Johns in
early March, and the Grand Banks
about March Is. This includes, as a