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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-12-31

Miss Estelle Jones, who has been i'll
with fever, has entirely recovered,
much to the pleasure of her friends.
Hubert H. Smith leaves Sunday for
Macon, to be with some Atlanta friends
there for day, and will return to the
city Monday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-12-31

"Ouida' reads your life from the
cradle to the grave. Opera House
Monday 21-1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-12-31

Miss Elizabeth Forehand, who has
been visiting Mrs. ]. H. Cheney at
Ellayille, returned to her home in
Montezuma Saturday.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
A LONELY TARIFF ISSUE.

It has proved disconcerting to Republicans to learn
that President Wilson proposes, far it - humanity
possible to do to take the tariff out of politics. It is
the old horse issue which has done valiant service in
putting the Republican party back into power New prob
lens arise, emergencies out, but Republicans
cannot forsake their first allegiance Truer than mother
the tender regard Of the Old Guard the
cradle tariff issue.
But President Wilson promises to appoint tariff
commission Of men who will get the faosprobaby for
the first time enough facts have been obtained to
formulate real tariff schedules The commission
of broad nonparsan in the ruest of
the word. The Republicans cannot promise more than
that without promising the pot Of gold at the end of the
rainbow Instead they begin to insist protectionist
commission.
Moreover the President is not unalteraby welded to
the schedules Of the Underwood tariff. He has made it
known that he expects to see upheavals and radical
changes in conditions of business after war; These
emergencies to be met by prompt tariff action.
Add the little item of prosperity unparalleled under
the Wilson regime and the Old Guard is in still
dilemma. Scant wonder that Republicans are hard
pressed for Not the country but the party
at stake.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
GROWING OLD

A little more tired at. the close Of
day;
A little less anxious to have our way;
A little less ready to scold and blame:
And So we are nearing the journeys
end,
Where time and eternity meet and
blend.
A little less care for bonds and gold;
A little more zest in the days of old;
A broader view and a saner mind,
And a little more love for all man.
kind;
A little more careful of what we say:
And so we are faring a-down the way.
A little more love for the friends Of
youth;
A little less zeal for established truth;
A little more charity in our views.
A little less thirst for the daily news;
And so W. are folding our tents away
And passing in silence at close Of day.
A little more leisure to sit and dream
A little more real the things unseen;
A little nearer to those ahead,
With visions Of those long loved and
dead;
And so we are going where all must
go,
To the place the living may never
know.
A little more laughter, a little more
tears,
And we shall have told our increasing
years;
The book is closed and the prayers
are said,
And we are a part Of the countless
dead.
Thrice happy then, if some soul can
say:
II live because he has passed my
way
Springfield Republican.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
HERE'S A GOOD ONE.

Business Agent Flaherty of the Ma
chinist's union drives Ford machine
in his meanderings about in the
course of his duties.
One Sunday a short time ago he
took couple Of friends out for a spin
through the country and met with
mfshap at a point far removed from
any urban center where the necessary
repairs could be made.
It was 10 miles to the nearest VIII
1age and Flaherty was trying to think
of some scheme whereby he could get
his car in there when a farmer came
along accompanied by a large New
Foundlandland dog. The stranger
offered to use his dog to pull the ma
hine in for SO. Flaherty readily
agreed and tired og was hitched to
the car and proceeded on his journey
to the village.
Flaherty's troubles, however, were
only beginning, for when he reached
the little burg the sheriff arrested him
and demanded $40 bail for his ap-
peoranec in court on Monday morn
ing.
But" protested Flanerty, "why
are, you arresting me? What charge
have you against me?"
'You are charged with the offence
of tying tin can to dogs TAIL
And Flaherty put up the SO and
forfeited his bail.-San Francisco
Labor Clarion.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
1850, 900 WoRKMEN
ANNUALLY INJURED

President Arthur Williams, of the
American Museum of Safety, issued g.
statement, during the past week based
on statistics, compiled by the museum
showing the number Of workmen
killed and injured annually in Ameri-
can industries, which is creating con-
siderable Of a furore.
'"The United States" said Williams,
lis continually waging bloody war
within it's own borders-a war in
which the casualties amount to $4,000
lives each year and in which the total
number Of wounded annually is
100000"
It sounds more like the returns
from the battlefield of Europe, but in
reality, it is the number of workers
killed and injured every year in our
American industries. In a sense, 1t is
not unlike g. great struggle in which
men are constantly attacking massive
steel machinery, vast destructive
forces harnessed by science and huge
grinding wheels speeded to the ut
most.
It is appalling when we stop to
consider $4,000 wiped out every year
Ill LA4AO0 VI pCdCCs l. 1lA0 "Ou1u SOI6tA.
tute an entire division Of the army, or,
in other words, the whole National
Guard Of New York state, with every
unit recruited, to war strength. In
two years it would then equal all of
the Union soldiers killed in battle
during the Civil War, which was
67,066.
"The total number of workmen in
jured annually, 100000, is still more
appalling, for this number of cripples,
if left whole and sound, would consti-
tute force sufficient to render the
United States free from invasion from
any nation in the world. If the ad-
vocates of preparedness would turn
their thoughts to the problem Of SAT-
ETY., and help us find ways and means
of protecting the lives and limbs of
the men we would have to fall back
on in time OF war to replenish our
armies and to make our guns and
ammunition, they would be rendering
the nation a great service"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
LEARNING A TRADE.

Young and young women may underestimate
the value of learning trade and this
of men go through life without enough mechanical
training to drive nail straight The primary object in
learning trade is to insure living. Trades not
the same they were before the highly specialized
labor of today but becoming master of line of
makes one in measure independent.
Men advance faster in any business when they know
all OF Its details Considerable may be learned in
flee from close association with those who do know
as rule the who has learned the mechanical part
Of business makes the best In the sales de-
partment The for this is plain. He every
part Of the article he is offering to SELL He meet
all arguments as to capacity and results obtained by
chimes under given conditions He knows the practical
part we'll the theoretical part Water supposed
in theory to rise thirty-tow feet under atmospheric
pressure but the practical pump and we'll knows
that this will not hold out in practice because Of the
mpossibility to produce perfect vacuum and because
of friction etc.
There few contractors who not practical men
in some building trade With rules and tables work can
be laid out but the practical man knows how to fgure
on the things that liable to happen. He knows the
things that do happen and he knows that things con-
structed by man, and things that in nature
not absolutely fawless he is trained to make
owances for defects which the theoretical man is not so
apt to guard against.
1t is satisfaction to in the OF his
life to be able to his hands and probably nothing has
so impressed this fact the automobile Owners and
drivers frequently find 1t to make adjustments
when far from repair shop Learning trade ordi1ar-
lily acquants one with knowledge of how to the
hands effectively and finds that at
time this is valuable acquisition
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
MEXICAN LABOR MEN
Loyal, TO CARRANZA

Colonel Edmund f. Martinez, spec
ial delegate Of the Mexican Fedora
ton of Labor now in the United
States, has issued an appeal to the
workers Of this country to refuse to
be swept Oft their feet by the jingois-
tic interventionists.
"Our working people of Mexico wish
to protest against the untruths pub
lished in this country by the press Of
the rich," says Colonel Martinez.
tended to make it appear that the
Mexican people are not united in their
fight for freedom against the real enc
mics Of labor. We desire the Ameri-
can people to know that 1000 hon.
est Mexican workingmen, organized,
are and will be united in the support
Of our beloved first chief, Mr.. Ven
ustfano Carranza, and our undivided
support is given him, as he has proven
to be man Of extraordinary patriot
ism and honesty.
1.-THE very fact that he has refused
to sell the great Mexican interests into
the hands Of Wall street, and the fact
that he has accepted no loan that
would deliver our country into the
hands of the money sharks, has
awakened the great masses of Mexico
to realize the fact that the right kind
Of man has appeared in Mexico to lead
it's people to an honest prosperity. The
paid press simply tells an untruth
when it says the Mexican people hate
the Americans.
mo good, honest American is hated
In Mexico, and if some have been
killed by bandits, we could not blame
the country, as we could not blame
the United States for the lynchings Of
Mexicans in the past in the southern
part of the same United States. The
American troops have found out that
it is as hard to catch bandit Villa
in Mexico as it was to catch the James
and Younger brothers in the United
States"
Colonel Martinez says Generals
Aguilar, Obregon, Gonzales and others
are real friends of labor and have
made great personal sacrifices for the
poor poems. and hence are cordially
hated by the privileged few.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
THE INFANT PHILOSOPHER.

Mother" began little Miss Sixan-
darff, ''why didn't you speak to Mrs
Jones when she passed?"
1--WE don't speak to the Jones FAM
lily, my dear"
did you fall out bein' friends"
"Well, yes; but don't talk about it"
II often fall out Of friends with
Kitty Jones, but we always fall in
again when she gets a nickel, or ii
get one. Havin' nickels makes
friends, don't they mother?"
'Yes-yes."
"Then mothers ought always to be
friends cause they've always got
nickels"
run along and play"
when mothers fall out of bein'
friends don't they ever fall in
again."
Sometimes" >,
"oh, L see, but it takes longer
likes"
After long pause, in which the
child seemed to be looking across the
centuries rather than across the
street, she added: '''That must be
why mothers don't laugh as much as
little xfrlst hey don forget as
Iauick. z y.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
INDEED, HE WAS A
A WISE OLD INDIAN

An Oklahoma editor tells Of an old
Indian to come to his office to SUBJ
scribe for the paper. The editor took
the money, then the Indian wanted a
receipt. The editor tried to talk him
out Of it but Mr.. Indian insisted on
getting the receipt. After making it
out the editor wanted to know why he
was so insistent about wanting a re-
ceipt. The Indian said: me die
sometime. Go to big gate and st.
Peter ask If I am good Indian. I say
yes. He say did you pay editor for
paper? I say yes. He say where is
receipt? no have it have to run
all over hell to find you and get re-
ceipt."- Austin Herald.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
WHAT LABOR EXPECTS FROM COURTS

AS society and industry are organized today the in
divdual is helpless. The problems which affect the
several groups in society only be worked out
through collective effort and labor has the right
expect that the industrial problems being worked
out, no right privilege will be allowed to any
group which is not fully granted to the others.
Labor believes that the courts should set aside
antiQuated impractical and unjust much Of the
law based judicial presidents when the conception
of the relationship between employers and workmen Diff
fered from what 1t is at present
We have passed the time of and slave; the
implication contained in the term master and servant"
as applied years is repungent to present
ception of the workers. rights free and citizens
The industrial condition today, which forces the
workmen to depend upon the and controllers
of tools and capital for labor and differs much
from the former conditions which existed, steam
railways contrast with the period when overland trans
portation by stagecoach and turnpike Instead of
depending upon precedents handed down at period
when conditions far different than present. labor
expects of the American courts that they shall first of all
make study of the actual conditions affecting labor
today and have the to establish pre-
cedents by their present decisions which will aim towards
establishing equality of rights privileges and opportuni
ties under conditions which affect the workers today
If the workers who compose the great mass Of our
people to make progress they must out their
salvation largely through their initiative. They
must abandon the individual effort wholly made
quate, and instead their efforts collectively If
they to have adequate voice in regulating the
terms and conditions under which their labor is to be
performed they must do this through collective action;
they must establish democracy in the industries SO that
government in the shop, like in the nation
shall be through and by the of governed
Three great struggles have taken place among man
Kind to establish those conditions Of liberty which would
make men truly free. Religious liberty and political
liberty have been firmly established in the progressive
and civilized nations of the EARTH Industrial liberty
~ che
large portion Of the wageearners and is unfortunate
that many OF the efforts to establish
necessary degree of industrial liberty have
trated through judicial decisions which seemingly have
for their foundation the belief that what desired
to accomplish In freeing itself interference with
or an injury to some property right of capital Indus
trial democracy or industrial liberty, call by any
term We wish the condition where the workmen's
rights will be as sacredly protected the rights Of capt.
tai or property is coming. It is at hand Labor has
the right to expect that courts will rather than
retard the growth and the application of the true prnc
pies OF democracy in the industries.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
FATHER.

Used to wonder just why father
Never had much time to play.
Used to wonder why he'd rather
Work each minute Of the day.
Used to wonder why he never
Loafed along the road an shirked;
Can't recall time whenever
Father played while others worked.
Father didn't dress in fashion,
Sort of hated clothing new,
Style with him was not a passion,
He had other things in view.
Boys are blind to much that's going
On about 'em day by day,
And I had no way of knowing
What became of fathers pay.
All knew was when 7 needed
Shoes got 'em on the spot;
Everything for which pleaded
Somehow, father always got.
Wondered season after season,
Why he never took rest,
And that I might be the reason
Then never even guessed.
Father set store on knowledge,
If he'd lived to have his way
He'd have sent me off to college
And the bills been glad to pay.
That know was his ambition,
Now and than he used to say
He'd have done his earthly mission
On my graduation day.
Saw his cheeks were getting paler,
Didn't understand just why,
Saw his body growing Trailer,
Then at last I saw him die.
Rest had come! His tasks were ended,
Calm W., written on his brow;
Fathers life was big and splendid,
And I understand it now.
-Egar A. Guest.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
ALTGELD's ADVICE
TO THE YOUNG MEN

The late John P. Altgeld, jurist,
statesman, publicist, humanitarian,
gave expression to many beautiful
thoughts, but few more beautiful than
this:
LET me say to the young men:
The age is weary of the polite and
weak camp followers, weary of SER
Witty, weary of cringing necks and
is calling for courage for strong
character, calling for men of high
purpose, calling for men who have
convictions of their own and who.
convictions of their men whomfwy
convictions Of their own and who
have the courage to act for them.
"Young men, life is before you.
Two voices are calling you-one COM
ing from the swamps of selfshness
and force, whose success means
death; and the other from the hill
tops Of justice and progress, where
even failure brings glory. Two lights
are seen in your horizen-one is the
fast fading marsh fight of power, and
the other human brotherhood.
Two ways lie open for you-one
leading to an ever lower and lower
plane, where are heard the cries of
dispair and the curse Of the poor,
where manhood shrivels and possess
sion rots down the possessor; and the
other leading off to the highlands of
the morning, where are heard the
glad shouts Of humanity, and where
honest effort is awarded with i'm
mortality"
STRUGGLE AND TRIUMPH.
Civilization. owes it's greatest tri-
umphs to the struggles Of men and
women to free themselves from the
bonds Of circumstance.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
MOTHERS.

Mothers are the queerest things!
Member when John went away,
All but mother cried and cried
When they said goodbye that day.
She just talked and seemed to be
Not the slightest bit upset
Was the only one who smiled!
Others eyes were streaming wet.
But when John came back again
On a furlough, safe and sound.
With medal for his deeds,
And without single wound,
While the rest Of us hurrahed,
Laughed and joked and danced
about,
Mother kissed him, then she cried
Cried and cried like all get out!
Edwin L. Sabin.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
1T MUST BE REAL.

From the evidence Of the past few months we should
be justified in believing that the coming presidential
campaign to be organized the basis of drawing
to the Republican standard all those who for
oppose President Wilson. These would include alike
those who charge him with negligence in not calling
Germany to final account those who insist that
he himself is provoking rupture and who would pass
the protection of American life, beside all those
who when the line is not kept clear between
Washington and Wall street. In other words the issue
to be Anythng to beat Wilson, and it planned
to avoid, has far been avoided very carefully
saying what the opposition thought the President ought
to have done what it would do.
1t is that the issue will be very largely "Any-
thing to beat Wilson," but it will not be wholly fought
in cowardce and silence The leaders, if not the Bosses
among Republicans seeing to this AS an instance
the Philadelphia LEDGER Intensely partisan and
sentative Republican paper, out and calls
count those who have merely condemned the President
without expression of what they think ought have
been done. It says:
"The President has kept the country at peace, and
yet has constantly and firmly maintained the obliga
lions of international law amid Could any,
one else have done more? Could the President have
maintained the obligations of International law and the
rights of Americans vigorously, unless he had
volved the country in war? Ex-senator Burtons notion
that Republican president could have ayerted all
controversy with both Germany Great Britain is too
childish to discuss We refer to it again merely
how ridiculous and interruptions the attacks on the
President are. Root, Beck, Choate and Burton, who
have denounced the President very careful not to
specify what he ought to have DONE"
This from Republican paper means that the think
ing man is taking account of the thinking voter
who will not vote for those who merely against
everything And President Butler, prominent in the
councils of the Republican party in 1872 expressed the
same idea when he said in party speech:
1T is our duty to appeal to the future with con-
structive American policy"
The wailngs of Burton and Harding about the tar
ff will continue. Mr. Roosevelt continue to be as
indefinite he is about the precise time when he
decided that protest ought have been made against
the violation Of Belgium. But other men, with the
thought of America in their heart will see with in
creasng clearness that is unrighteous and dsloya
to appeal against the administration of Mr. Wilson
unless there is something set up before the country
as an honest alternative to his policy
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
"A NEW POWER IN WATER.

The claim of Louis Enricht of Farmingsdae T. T. that
he has discovered fuel made principally of water for
internal combustion engines has the test of
fun rdicule and has reached the scientific
stage The experiments have been witnessed by a num-
DER or persons and not is ready show that the
demonstration is not exactly claimed or that the new
fuel will not furnish the power.
During these experiments it is said the witnesses
convinced themselves that there hidden of
supplying fuel to the engine pitcher of water was
pumped from we'll into which the inventor dumned tho
pale green contents Of vial. The mixture was
put INTO the empty fuel tank of the car the carburator
ADJUSTED and the engine started Another witness re-
ports that ne is thoroughly satisfied that the car was
propelled by the compound and water mixture
The inventor claims that the power is obtained from
the hydrogen liberated from the water Chemists saw
tnat II Is impossible to manufacture economical fuel
III any sucn way So much is being done chemically and
SO many recent Inventions have startled the world that
tnere IS no surprise at The manufac
tre OF fertilizer from the remarkable and aqrcu,
tursts nave found that certain plants the SOIL
The claim of the discoverer of the cheap fuel ;e
equaed only by the efforts Of achemsts to transform
oase metals into gold However, the discoverer Of the
new fuel has more to base his claims on than the ancients
had because of the has been made in this
direction. ~
The story exciting great deal of interest and wh,,e
Is mystery it will not be long before 1t will be found
"netner Is humbug whether it has scientific vaue
wafer Is the cheapest thing In and before steam
was discovered wise may have ridiculed the idea
1nat steam power could ever be generated from it.
mere Is no easy way. Freedom and rights come as
result OF organization and struggle. They can be main
famed only through organization eternal vigilance and
above all else, preparedness for Defense =
Inc economic organization is the fundamental power
1t IS that which declares demands secures their achieve
ment and maintains standards BE deceived into put
ing all trust IN other agencies The unions the thing
It Villa carried any life insurance and the benefciar
res tried to collect he would be quickly found IL alive
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06

When the human kind are taught that they must
work out their own salvation" instead of depending
upon others to save them. shall have stronger race
Of men ma women. G. s ". s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
THEY PROVED ONE THING,

Two BARRIERS in Erie, Pa, had a
quarrel over the merits Of a safety
razor. -, r - s..$s ..5 1. @:5Ss t 5s
81 They proved one thing that a set
Of human teeth cnn bite g human ear
on, s3
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06

are seldom able to decide where to
begin.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-06
RIGHT MATERIAL OF MIGHT.

Might does not make right. Might
without right makes nothing that can
endure.
Right-weak, humble, despised,
but persistent as the sunbeam-is the
material Of which real might is made.