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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23

A British scientist is the inventor oe q
motion picture camera which can be car.
RED in the hand and which is operated by
compressed air as long as a button is
pressed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23

Spain las enough coal in unexpected
mines to serve the nation for two cen
turies, and a government commission will
try to develop deposits and check an an
nuai importation Of 2,500,o00 tons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23

Mrs Emma Stanclift of Bernardston
IS ut George Lynde 5.
Joseph Worden and Esther Grout Of
Gill are visiting friends in town.
Wilbur Burnett has gone to Brattlc-
boro, where he has Il position
Carleton CLARK, formerly Of this
place, is n guest at w. \. Dennison 5.
T. w. Miner is in i'll health and has
been confined 80 the house several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Frost quietly oh
served the 5Gth anniversary of their
marriage JUne %.
Mrs Anna Page and Mr. Chapman
went 10 Conway. Mass, Monday. re
turning the same day.
Mrs. Ellen Lee and p, Harsigan Of
Greenfield were guests Of Mrs. Lee and
Mrs. Williams Sunday.
Services viii be held in the clurc.,
Sunday at ?. IN, weather permit
ting, by Rev. 7. ". Owens.
Miss blanche Miner is spending \
week or more with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. w Miner.
Mrs. Ncttie Smcdley Of Worcester,
Mass, IS visiting her sister, Mrs A. 8.
Gallup, aad her niece, Mrs Herbert
White.
A. L. Baker, road commissioner, and
several men and teams have repaired
the roads in this locality. The men
boarded at George Pond S.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23

Excursion to PlattsDurg June p. Sec
ad on page 5.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23

william Kilhart is working with the
telephone linemen.
George Aumann of New York city
has returned to this town.
George Wheeler has been appointed
saaler of weights and measures.
Miss Flora Boorn has returned home,
after week spent in Chester, VT.
Mrs Henry C. Holland is visiting
briefly in South Chelmsford, Mass.
Charles Terrill of Wilmington, Vt,
visited in town this week Wednesday.
Mrs. Garfield of Brattleboro has
been guest of her son, Harold Gar
field.
Hans Lady is at home from Frank
lin, where he has been attending
school.
Mrs, b. A. Spencer and children
have gone to Greenfield to visit
friends.
The Atlantic & Pacific Tea company
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23
Big Hay Crop Expected.

1t is not noticeable that the growing
crops have suffered tC any great extent
by the copious rainfall of late. although
they are all considerably backward for
this time of year. The hay crop prom
Uses to be by far the most abundant in
recent years and is now greatly in need
of sunshine to ripen it. The feed in the
pastures is about the best ever known.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
LABOR BRIEFS.

The Westinghouse strike at Pitts
burgh, which was called on April %
and which forced into idleness 10000
persons, has been declared off.
Freight clerks of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad have
received an advance Of ga per cent
In wages.
Fourteen hundred track workers on
the Boston and Maine railroad recent
ly went on strike for 20 cents day
advance.
The supreme court of Massachusetts
has declared unconstitutional a state
law which provided that judges could
not issue injunctions In labor disputes.
The Burlington railroad has an
nounced an increase of per cent to
every employee of the system not
working under the union scale Of
wages and who is now drawing less
than $124 month.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
THE MINIMUM WAGE.
Should Be Sufficient TO Maintain q
Family and Provide For Future.


Family and Provide For Future.
Rock bottom wages and work condi-
tions, below which industry must not
fall in this country if 1t is to conform
to the standard that civilized society
has come to set for itself are laid
down In a report on industrial condi-
tions in New York now ready for pub
Hcation. This report Is one Of a series
known as the Springfield Survey" In
gathering the data the investigators
visited factories and mercantile estab-
hshments and called upon many work
ers In their homes. Information was
secured from labor organizations, the
Springfield Qll) Commercial associa-
ton and various official documents.
The facts were gathered and the report
written by Louise G. Odencrantz, COM
mittee on women's work, and Zenas L.
Potter, department of surveys and ex-
hibits, Russell Sage foundation. The
full report offers various suggestions to
employers and state legislators scaling
considerably higher than the gauge set
for measuring conditions in Springfield
workers who give their full work
ing time to an industry" says the re-
port, should receive as a very mini
mum a wage which win provide the
necessartes Of life. If the business
cannot provide this there is serious
question whether it has a right to exist
Men with families dependent upon
them should receive enough for the
support not only of themselves, but Of
a normal family. Otherwise family life
will be undermined
Either the 'necessaries of life should
include enough to allow workers to
carry insurance and save something
for old age or else industry should
provide directly for the care of in
capacitated workmen and for the de-
pendents OF workmen who are killed
at work, by payment made by the
employer-the cost to be distributed
over society by some form of insurance
or by some other method
"Irregularity of employment should
be minimized, and when workers lose
their positions adequate facilities
should exist to help them find new
work.
Under fourteen children not be en-
ployed. Until they are sixteen years
Of age 1t is of first Importance that
they develop normally and receive
training for the work of later life. Any
occupation, therefore, is Objectionable
which interferes with such develop
ment or training.
Eight hours for a days work is the
standard which is now widely accept
ed. Hours Of labor should not be so
long as to injure health or to deny
workers opportunity for self improve
ment, the development Of home life and
an intelligent interest in public affairs
Women and children should not be
employed at night.
Every worker should have one day
OF rest in seven.
Working conditions should be made
as wholesome and safe as possible
Fire hazard should be minimized ma
chinery guarded, sanitary conditions
maintained, Industrial diseases pre-
vented and good light and ventilation
provided
"The bargaining power in settling
the terms of the work agreement
should be as evenly balanced as pos
sible between the employer and the
employee"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
MIXED 1T WITH MYSTERY.
But the Secret Of Portland Cement Was
Solved by a Busybody.

Solved by a Busybody.
Portland cement may be defined as a
product made by burning limestone and
clay, which have been mixed SO as to
form certain composition, and grind
ing the resulting "clinker" TO powder.
In the early days much mystery sur
rounded the manufacture of Portland
cement when 1t was first discovered by
a bricklayer of Leeds, England He
found that by mixing water with
compound OF Thames chalk and Med
way mud he could compound an artiti-
eial water cement aud determined that
no one should discover his secret.
When employed in manufacturing his
raw mixture he is said to have attired
himself In a long black gown and the
pointed hat of the mystic and to have
recited mysterious lncantations during
his operations.
But q curious onlooker who deter
mined to ascertain his ingredients and
methods had a sample analyzed by
chemist, whose result showed 90 per
cent phosphate of lime. Thinking that
he had solved the secret, he began to
calcine all the bones he could gather up
in the village, much TO the discomfort
and objections of his neighbors, who
finally induced him to desist, Follow
ing, however, the old system of cut
and-try, he finally solved the problem
and eventually produced a cement
equal to that OF the original COM
FOUNDER, and the great industry began
to thrive at once.
In this country the Portland cement
industry had its beginnings In the Le-
high valley In Pennsylvania, chiefly in
Lehigh and Northampton counties,
where John w Eckert, a chemist, dis
covered that there occurred lime
stone composed of approximately the
correct ingredients necessary for the
manufacture of Portland cement
Smithsonian Institution Bulletin.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS.
Trade Union a Profitable Investment
For Machinists.

Trade unionism pays greater divi-
dends than any stock ever listed In
Wall street was the point made by Ar
thur L. Holder, member of Machinists'
lodge No. III Of Washington and legls-
lative representative of the American
Federation of Labor in an address to
machinists The speaker showed that
in 1901 the rate for first class machin-
lists In the navy yard was S304 a day.
In 1915 this was increased to $424, or
gain Of 40 per cent. Deducting an
nual dues of $12, the increase per year
is 1868, or a yield Of 8,o25 per cent on a
$12 Investment.
Second, third and fourth class navy
yard machinists have made proportion
ate gains, as have special rate, tool
makers and machintsts employed in
the bureau Of engraving and printing
The law governing wage increases
OF these workers provides that wages
shall be "the prevailing rates" This
necessitates constant agitation and
vigilance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
More Pay For Copper Men.

Two thousand or more employees of
the Baltimore Copper Smelling and
Rolling company have received an in
crease In pay as the result of a re-
adjustment of the wage scale at the
Canton plant the advance becoming
effective at once. This is the second
advance for the men In the last four
months. This move on the part OF the
company also follows the announce
ment about three weeks ago that the
working day at the Canton plant had
been reduced from ten hours to eight
hours. The Baltimore Copper Smelt-
ing and Rolling company is controlled
by the Guggenhelm interests and is one
of the largest plants OF its kind in the
United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
KNOWS HIS FRIENDS,
The Nonunion Man Asks Aid Of the
Unionist When Trouble Comes.


Unionist When Trouble Comes.
'"The nonunion man knows his
friends" says the Painter and Deco
rator in discussing the strike Of un-
organized hatters In the Stetson plant.
when he is IN trouble he always
turns to union men for help He re-
alizes that his fellow nonunionist Is as
impotent as himself and that his en-
ployer's friendship ceases whenever
he dares to assert his right to q voice
in determining the conditions under
which his work shall be done. a thou
sand men and women employed by the
hat manufacturer, Stetson, are on
strike. They petitioned, interviwed
and protested in the hope Of securing
relief from innumerable petty tyran-
MES and exactions that made life mis-
erable but only to meet rebuff. They
could either supinely submit or use the
weapon Of organized labor. They chose
to strike
In their time OF need they have ap-
pealed to the hatters' union, although
they have been one of the greatest
hindrances to It's progress. Like good
union men, the hatters have taken up
the fight and request union men every
where to assist these misguided un-
fortunates in their belated demand for
decent working conditions and some
measure OF industrial independence"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
THE WORKERS. WAGE.
Satisfactory When Il Enables a Man
to Support His Family Deoently.


to Support His Family Deoently.
In reply to query by a Washington
%. O. newspaper what is q satisfac-
tory wager ~ Z. of L. Secretary
Frank Morrison said:
"a satisfactory wage is something
more than weapon TO keep the wolf
from the door; compensation which n
man can disburse himself and make
both ends meet without his rich en-
ployers social settlement workers com
ing to him and attempting to teach him
how to keep body and soul together on
what he receives Social settlement
work is all right in its place But it
has no more place in the life OF the
working man than in the life of any
other man.
Organized labor says to the capital
list: Keep your social workers. Give
US an eight hour day and a satisfac-
tory wage, and your social workers
will not be necessary. Give us proper
wages, and we viii conduct our homes
and our lives in such Il way that we
will not have TO be instructed as to
how much we shall spend for rent
food, clothing, doctors, amusements,
magazines and penny newspapers
mo man wants to be dictated TO as
to what he shall spend his money for,
the quantity and quality of what he
shall buy or when he shall buy 1t, what
he shall read or where he shall go"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
OLD TIME SUNDAY LAWS.
Rigid Rules For Harvard Students Two
Centuries AGO,


In 1.-THE Story of Harvard Mr.. Ar
thur Stanwood Pier gives an account
of the strict regulations formerly set
down for the guidance of the Harvard
undergraduates by the president and
the fellows of the corporation. The
old laws, intended to enforce upon the
undergraduates more religious and
studious life, would be considered re-
pressive and tyrannical today
"AlI the scholars shall at sunset in
the evening preceding the Lords day
retire to their chambers and not un-
necessarily leave them, and all disor
der on said evening shall be punished
as violations of the Sabbath are.
And whosoever shall profane said day
the Sabbath-by unnecessary bust
ness or visiting, walking in the com
mons or In the streets or fields, in the
town of Cambridge. or by any sort of
diversion before sunset, or that in the
evening Of the Lords day Shall behave
himself disorderly or In any way un-
becoming the season, shall be fined not
exceeding 10 shillings.
"That students may furnish them
selves with useful learning, they shall
keep in their respective chambers and
diligently follow their studies, except
half an hour at breakfast. at dinner
for from Il to 2 and after evening
prayers till after 9 of the clock. To
that end the tutors shall frequently
visit their chambers after o'clock In
the evening and at other studying
times, TO quicken them to their busi-
ness
1t does not seem that under such a
system Of vigilance and visitation the
students could fall into very dissolute
ways. But a few years later George
Whiteheld the famous evangelist who
so stirred up New England, visited
Harvard college and expressed his dis
pleasure at the dissipated habits of
the young men He declared condi-
tions at Oxford were no worse, a
charge so damaging that 1t greatly dis.
turbed and incensed the college au-
thorities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
a Bull In the Pulpit.

II am requested to say" said the
young dominic, who was acting as a
substitute, that there will be no meet
ing of the Ladies' Sewing guild this
week as usual, owing to the fact that
all the ladies Of the guild viii be out Of
town. Should any others wish to take
up the work they may do So"
Then he paused. but 1t was too late.
Richmond Times Dispatch.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
Carpenters Get Raise.

William L. Hutchinson, president Of
the international Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners, has announced to
the 1890 m~mbers of the union in New
York city WAC have been on strike for
some time that the employers had
granted an increase ia wages of from
So day to $5.25 day to go into eff
feet on July l next and a further ad-
vance Of 25 cents to go into effect on
Sept l.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
Potters, WAGE Dispute Settled.

Representatives Of the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters and
the labor committee of the United
States Potters' association in recent
session at East Liverpool, o., have
reached a tentative agreement which
will eliminate danger of a general clos
ing down of potterles owing to the de
mands of unskilled laborers for higher
wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
A Recipe For Success.

'If / were obliged to pack lot of
advice into q few words" says Con-
gresham Edward j. King OF Illinois In
the American Magazine, for the bene-
fit of poor boys would tell chem to de-
eide as early In life as possible what
they intend to do. There Is nothing so
helpful to a tired traveller as destina-
ton. This thing of not knowing where
you're going, but being merely on your
way, is delusion and folly"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
ALWAYS Present.

II suppose you don't believe in luck"
suggested the sympathetic friend to
the chronic loser.
"Oh, yes: ] do" responded that un-
fortunate. 1T. is the quality which en-
ables other players to overcome my
skill. Richmond Times Dispatch
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
Bonus For Sugar Workers,

General Manager Maxwell Of the Gu
anica and Fortuna sugar centrals, San
Juan, Porto Rico, announced that their
boards Of directors had granted a 10
per cent bonus to all the employees,
numbering approximately 10000, be-
cause of unusual sugar profits due to
the war
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
Q @~~ Q . . 30 . . . . .
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.

@ One group does the work and (
@ starves, the other with property Z
@ has the leisure. This is privilege. Z
@ plutocracy. 1t exists in Milwau- Z
@ kee and In every Industrial CEN I
Q ter in the United States. Those (
Q who work arc penalized because (
@ they work; those who own are (
@ rewarded because they control 4
@ the resources and the means of (
@ production. (
@ Private ownership pats It in Z
@ the power of the owner to pay (
@ dying wages and charge monop- (
@ oily prices 1t enables the owner (
Q to say to the worker, You toll (
@ and work and earn bread, and (
@ III eat it. Professor Scott Near (
@ ing.
@ 4
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09

In the twelfth century Denmark was
the mightiest state in northern Europe.
and the Baltic had become Il Danish
Mediterranean. This supremacy was
short lived, though, and the country
never again regained the power and
prestige which she had won and lost
at the point of the sword -Argonaut
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
Wanted 70 Demonstrate.

"This man says you kicked him, "
said the judge.
II did, your honor"
"Could you tell us how hard you
kicked him?"
II could show you, your honor
Yonkers Statesman.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09

It is happiness to be nobly descend
ed; 1t is not less to have SO much mer-
1t that nobody inquiries whether we
are 50 or not.--La Bruyere.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
CIothina Strike In Chicago

The Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Of America In a recent biennial con-
vention at Rochester, N. Y, declared a
strike In Chicago. affecting 25,000 work.
erS
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-09
OPPOSES AMERICAN IDEALS.

Workingmen Recognize the Need of
Adequate Defensive Armaments, but
Want Voice In Methods to Be Pur-
sued-West Point Should Be Open to
Any Man Who Shows Ability.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-08-15
CONVICT
WOUNDED
NYE COUNTY MURDERER DYING
FROM WOUNDS INFLICTED
BY GUARD

CARSON CITY, August 15.--Victor
Barron, who is serving a life term
at the prison, was shot and fatally
wounded at $3.50 o'clock this morning
in making an attempt to escape.
With two others he was confined in
the bull pen in the southeast corner
of the yard and, without giving evil
dence of his intention, climbed the
stone wall and attempted to get over
the wire fence 40 feet above. The
guards fired several warning shots.
but on the prisoner failing to desist
a shot was sent through his body
from the right side He fell from
the wall to the shed below and
thence to ground
Barron is still living, but the prison
doctor says he cannot survive.
Barron killed two Mexican section
men near Bonnie Glare and about
two months ago killed one prison
guard and manned another in at
tempting to escape.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-08-15
tBy Associated Pres.J

tBy Associated PressJ
WASHINGTON, August 15.-Orders
for the remaining modified units of
the guardsmen to proceed to the
border were suspended by the War
department today. No official ex-
PLANTATION was made, but it is known
that the delicacy of the railway strike
settlement of the differences.
Suspension of the order which
would have moved 25.00O men to the
border should not be taken as an in
dication that the presidents negotia-
tions with the brotherhoods and rail
road managers have taken an un-
favorable turn, but as measure OF
caution. 1t was considered highly
undesirable to have the remaining
guardsmen moved to the border while
there is possibility of a railroad
strike.
A telegram from Funston published
by the War department disclosed tha
Gen. Funston recommended the sus
pension order.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-08-15
Chinese AN WAR
MAY PROVE SERIOUS


TOXIC August 15Chnese troops morning attacked the
Japanese garrison Chengchat and Chao
yangfu have killed Japanese soldiers and killed
officer According official advices Chengohiatm
japanese barracks besieged by Chinese soldiers
Reinorcements being beeagured garrison
from the Japanese forces stationed Kayuan Sungha
fighting resulted from the of Japanese merchant
WASHINGTON, August 15-The attack on the Japanese
garrison at Chengohat Mongolia reported Toxic
disturbs officials here the possible of difficulties
between the powers The fact that Japanese
rushed to the leads the belief that Japan
the vigorous handling of disputes within her jurisdiction
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-08-15
1ObIL|ZED GUARDS WAITING ON
Dense LINES DEFENCE BROKEN BY RUSSIA
AS ARMY WADES ARMP|TS DEEP IN RIVER

The French captured the German trenches front of 300
yards long and 100 deep north of Chapel Saint Fine at the nee
ton of the Feuy Vaux road the right bank of the Meuse
the Vern On the Somme front French artillery active
Nearly all the remaining trenches northwest Of Pozes the
Somme front wherein the Germans gained footing Sunday have
been retaken.
The Austrians suffered further at the hands of the
Italians Carso plateau of Gorz along the sozo 'front.'
where entertainments both
Pograd continuation of the Turkish offensive of the
Persia nrone but that retreat of the Turks
forced the southwest bank of Lake Van through the fire of the
Russian otila the lake The Turkish office the
Persian frontier that of Turks
and that Armenia north of Bl the Turks have made further
advance.