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Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28
JAPAN FRIENDLY
TO UNITED STATES
Judge Gary Gives Results of
His Observations During
Trip to the Orient.
CHINA NEEDS RAILROADS

St. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 27--The lead
ing men Of Japan are anxious for per-
manent, peaceable and friendly rela-
tons with the United States, Ebert
H. Gary, president of the American
Iron and Steel institute, declared here
today in an address at the semi-an-
nual meeting of the organization. Mr..
Gary's talk was given in response to
a request from the institutes directors
that he discuss his summer trip to the
orient, where he visited the Philip
pines, China and Japan.
For some time there have been
suggestions" he said, "in pubic and
in private in the United States, and in
Japan as well, that fer numerous
reasons, not necessary to recall, there
was a possibility, if not likelihood, OF
actual hostility between fhe two
countries. Whenever either govern
ment has decided to provide an addi-
tional warship someone in the other
country has been prompt in charging
that this meant preparation for war
between these two nations.
People Do Not Want War.
II said repeatedly on my own re-
sponsibility, making no claim except
that ! believed that / could accu-
rately represent public sentiment, that
large majority of the people of
the United States did not desire, but
would deplore and stubbornly oppose
war with Japan, except in self-de-
Tense, and that they were of the opin-
ion there is not now, and never will
be, any cause for serious trouble or
disagreement; that there need be no
conflict Of opinion which could not
be finally and satisfactorily settled by
mutual negotiation and consideration.
also expressed the belief that our
governmental administration is, and
would be, inclined toward this most
desirable exercise of authority. To
all this am sure this large company
OF representative business men will
heartily subscribe. would repeat
and emphasize the sentiments thus
expressed.
JAPANESE Are Friendly.
"And now, gentlemen, | am here to
say to you in words just as emphatic
and In a belief no less absolute, that
the leading and controlling men of
Japan are equally anxious to have a
continuance permanently Of the
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28
Apples, Damaged by Snow.

Stella, Neb., Oct. 27.-(Special.) D
The effect Of the recent snow on APP
pies Is now apparent. 1t is found that
the apples that were on the trees were
quite badly damaged, but those in
piles were not injured.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28

business men which can be cultivated
without injury or objection on the
part of other nations and with decided
benefit to"China itself. | could wish
that in some respects the conditions
in the United States which now ex-
list resulting, l think, from political
agitation might be modified"
1t would be grave mistake, the
speaker declared, for the United
States to give up the Philippines.
Discussing business conditions, Mr..
Gary urged exercise of caution and
preparedness for any "unfavorable
changes He said he believed if the
present ""unprotective tariff laws re-
manned unchanged there would be
competition from foreign sources
after the war which would adverse
ly and perhaps disastrously affect
American industry and American la
bor."
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28

We are sole selling agents
for Belongs Guaranteed
Silks and Satins. Why pay
more for ordinary silks?
Haskell's Black Silks-the
exclusive sale in Omaha.
New numbers have just been
unpacked.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28
Women's Underwear
Heavier Weights

Fine Ribbed Cotton Vests,
low neck, no sleeves, me-
dunn weight, Soc.
Ribbed Cotton Union Suits,
low neck, no sleeves, knee
or ankle length, 75c.
Wool Union Suits, low neck,
no sleeves, ankle length,
$f.25; extra sizes, $1.50.
Every style and quality
and weight Of underwear for
women-fairly priced.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-28

Saturday this attractive
offering of velour de laine
coats, lined throughout. Col
ors, black, blue and brown.
Our complete showing of
coats includes every fashion
able style of the season.
Prices as high as $115.
All alterations are made
without extra charge.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
: GEORGE w. ALLEN
Republican Candidate for Justice Supreme Court
He is entitled your support his Cool Record Judge
ELECTION tuesday,, NOVEMBER

York Times, in commenting upon the
probable attitude of the railroads toward
the eight hour law. comedies this fact:
Between now and January !, when
the eight hour day law takes effect, the
railroad men of the country will give a
great deal of thought to their new prob
lem Officers in charge of operation will
not depend entirely on the outcome of
the work of the railroads legal depart
ments. They viii consider the possibil-
ity that the eight-hour law will stand
and will consider how it can be met.
New incentive is given by this law to
eliminate all waste time, for the crew
which can complete its run of 100 miles
or less within the eight hours would not
get any more under the new rule than
the old. Possibly there are many runs
which are taking more than eight hours
now which railroad ingenuity-and it is
very great-con contrive to complete
within that time. Possibly there are
ways of coming much nearer to giving
the members OF the railroad unions an
eight-hour day than they think possible
or want"
A valuable and authentic contribution
to the eight-hour day discussion is the
announcement that the United States
navy department announced on Septem-
Der Is that the superdreadnaught battle
ship Arizona was completed on schedule
time and that notwithstanding the
eight-hour workday prevails in the gov
ernment shipyards and that nine hours
generally prevails in private shipyards,
the cost of construction of the Arizona
was 81 900, 600 less than the lowest bid
of the privately owned shipyards.
This fact of significance with refer
ence to both humanitarian welfare and
economic progress--the eight-hour work
day, now universally approved. would
never have been established without the
organized labor movement. 1t was the
labor movement that advocated and
fought for eight hours when the princi
pie was considered neither reputable nor
honest. It was the labor movement that
bore the brunt of struggle and suffered
starved, sacrificed and fought that the
shorter workday might exist.
1t is the labor movement that is back
of every new advance for eight hours or
for aught else, and it is the labor move
ment that alone can maintain the prog
ress already achieved.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
Patrons of Street Cars Should
Not Be CroWded by Automobiles
General Manager Hid Urges City Council Shou Some
Concern for OOsr 10000 Citizens of Denuer Who
Do Not OtDn Machines but Ride Street Cars

General Manager Hid of the Tram
way has written the city council urging
that the section in the new traffic or
dinance relating to vehicles standing
where street cars stop be made to con-
form with the needs OF the 100000 daily
users OF Denver street cars. In its pres
ent form the proposed ordinance would
keep stopping space in the contested dis
trict clear foG only twenty-five feet from
the property or building line. The length
of the Tramway cars is such that for
the safety and convenience of the two
hundred thousand patrons the clear space
alongside stopping points should be sew
enty-five feet from the building line.
Less than that would force the bulk of
Denver's population to continue fighting
their way thru entanglements of auto.
mobiles in order to go from the side
walks to the entrance OF street cars.
The letter to the council reads:
In your consideration of the pending
traffic ordinance, l respectfully urge in
behalf of the 100000 daily users of Den
ver's street cars that you give careful
thought to their rights, needs and con.
venience. The present crowded condi.
tion of a number of our streets in the
congested district makes it extremely
difficult and often hazardous for the
people to get to the street cars.
"Since most Tramway lines during the
morning and evtning and some lines
thruout the day operate motor cars with
trailers, it is but reasonable and right
for the safety and convenience of the
vast majority of our people, who are the
ones that use the street cars, that a
clear space of not less than seventy
five feet from the property line at street
corners, along such streets within the
congested district as have street car
tracks and where street car stops shall
be made, should be kept clear of vehiclse.
excepting only that vehicles should be
permitted to discharge or take on loads.
"This space is required by reason of
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07

the TACT that motor and trailer meas
ure approximately one hundred feet over
all; that the front end OF the motor car
i'll the case of near side stop and the
rear end of the trailer car in the case
of far side stop may not extend over
the cross walk but must line up with
the property line when stopping. Fur
thermore, our cars are nominally cen
ter entrances, but as a matter of fact
the entrances are some six feet back OF
center so that in case of near side stop,
the trailer entrance will be eighty feet
plus the space occupied by the fender
back from the property line, while in
far side stop the motor car entrance will
be some seventy feet from the property
line.
Denver street car patrons are entitled
to as rapid transit as facilities will per-
nit and every individual second which
may be added to each or most of the
thousands of stops which are made dur
ing the day cannot help but slow up the
service materially and such must follow
inevitably where intending passengers
must virtually fight their way or climb
thru an ENHANCEMENT of automobiles at
the street corner.
"From the standpoint of property and
business houses such a regulation as
hereby urged must be decidedly helpful.
at must not be forgotten that refer
endum vote of Tramway patrons result
ed in an overwhelming majority in favor
of far side stop as against near side
stop. so that if now You decide to make
the change from far side to near side at
least compensating rights and conven-
fences should be given the street car
riders.
"Of .Denver's population, between 5000
and 5000 own automobiles while the bal
ance, in excess of 100000. use the street
cars. and in your consideration of the
pending legislation due weight should be
given to these proportions of our popu-
lation."
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07

In the speeches of Candidate Hughes
he has emphatically declared himself as
committed to the rule of reason where
labor questions are involved. In ap
preaching this declaration he severely
criticised President Wilson for the posi-
tion taken in behalf of the eight -hou
day on the transportation lines of the
country, and asserted that there was a
great necessity for a reign OF reason i'll
this country" Pursuing his theme he
said: Labor least OF all can afford to
surrender the rules of reason
After delivering these expressions he
lauded himself "as friend of labor"
and concluded: 81 desire to say that the
most vital interest that labor has in
this country is in the settlement OF
controversies according to reason"
The record of Justice of the Supreme
Court Hughes flatly and unequivocally
contradicts the statements of Candidate
Hughes.
When the United States supreme court
rendered its decision in the Standard
Oil case, involving tn: judicial interpre-
tation of the Sherman antitrust law the
"rule of reason" was read into the Sher-
man antitrust law and the Standard
Oil company judicially escaped the PEN
alties provided for violations of that law
Corporation and vested interests wer,
shielded from harm by the judicial inter
probation, or rather judicial amendment
to the antitrust law.
In 1914 the United States supreme
court delivered its final decision in the
Danbury Hatters' case, and Candidate
Hughes was then Justice Hughes and
participated and concurred in the de-
cision rendered. Justice Hughes did not
then apply his "rule of reason" to labor,
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
STONE CUTTERS WIN A RAISE.
Three Hundred Union Men Benefited by
New Agreement.

As the result of compromise agree
ment reached between the wage com
mittee of Journeymen Stone Cutters I'm
ion of North America and the members
of the Natural and Artificial Stone
Manufacturers association the strike of
the 300 union stone cutters for increased
wages and other betterments, has been
called off.
The new agreement between the union
and the employers gives the men in the
shops 621h cents an hour for 44-hour
week and Go cents an hour for work
on buildings. The men were getting
5GH cents an hour in the shops and
were seeking 65 cents an hour in the
shops and 20 cents an hour for work on
buildings. The strike involved all shops
in Boston and within the 50-mile iuris.
diction of this city controlled by the
union.
Beats them all La Belle SC cigar;
union made in Denver.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
'' Rule or Reason''
Makes Some Difference When Application
= Is Made to Labor
By GRANT HAMILTON

as had formerly been applied by the
same court when the Standard Oil com
pany was involved, and offer a dissent
ing opinion based on the former action
of the court.
On the contrary, Justice Hughes re-
fused in the Danbury Hatters' case to
apply the rule of reason" and con-
Cured in the decision which stripped the
wage earning hatters to the number OF
over one hundred of their homes and
their savings, the accumulations OF their
entire lives, and left them penniless and
in want, simply because these men were
organized and had exercised their natural
and normal rights to maintain decent
standard of living, and in doing so were
engaged in an industrial dispute with
the ID. Z. Doewe company.
Neither can Candidate Hughes escape
responsibility by the assertion that he
did not write the decision, for Justice
Harlan, some years ago stated, during
the course of an address:
"Thus. YOU will observe, not only is
the utmost care taken to make the opin-
ion express the views of the court, but
the final Judgment rests, in every case
decided upon the examination by each
member of the court of the record and
briefs. Let me say that, during my en-
tire service in the supreme court, have
not known single instance in which
the court has determined a case merely
upon the report of one or more justices
as to what was contained in the record
and as to what questions were properly
presented by it."
Therefore Candidate Hughes cannot
evade full responsibility for his attitude
as expressed in the Danbury Hatters'
decision.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07

The discussion and prominence recent
ly given the eighthour workday prin-
ciple has given the world the benefit of
many experiences that might otherwise
have never been made public. Among
many convincing statements setting forth
the economic advantages of the shorter
worBday is the following by Arthur L.
Sardy:
"From 1901 to 1905 / was Pacific
Coast manager of the Armour Fertilizer
works. owner and operated by Armour
and Company of Chicago.
"When / took charge the laborers in
the plant worked ten hours daily for
$l75. l raised this to So, shortened the
time TO nine hours, then to eight hours
without increasing the cost per ton.
Furthermore, while my men were all
Nexicans of small stature the cost of
labor per ton in the California plant
was no higher than in the southern
plants where stalwart negroes worked
ten hours for Sl.25, and where the latest
machinery was used, while our mixing
was done with hand shovels and screens
This experience proves that increasing
wages and shortening the hours OF labor
do not necessarily increase the cost per
unit of work accomplished"
We reprint the statement of the Ford
Motor company upon "The Advantages
Of the Eight-Hour Workday Over the
Nine and Ten" 1t is as follows:
ga certain group of men working nine
hours under the old system assembled
$50 radiators. The same group working
eight hours under the new plan assem-
bled l,300 radiators. A group of men
working nine hours under the old plan
turned out 3S tenders. Under the new,
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
Economy of the 8-Hour Law
By SAMUEL GOMPERS

working eight hours, the same men
turned out so tenders. A group of G5
men working nine hours under the old
system turned out 800 gas tanks. Un-
der the new, working eight hours, the GO
men turned out 200. Hours were re-
duced. wages increased and the cost went
down.
In addition it may not be uninterest-
ing to recall statement which Mr..
Henry Ford made in Detroit, August 81,
1916, in conference with Judge Henry
Neil, father &C the mothers pension sys'
TEN. Mr.. Ford said that if he had con
troll of the railroads he would cut the
freight rates to one-third the present
rate, double the pay of the railroad
workers, and make more profits for the
stockholders than are earned at present.
What happened in the Armour plant
and the Ford company has been dupli-
Gated in many others. Whatever cle-
ment in the processes of production is
expensive or demands particular consid
Grafton becomes the pivotal factor with
reference to which other factors are ad-
iusted. When the workers force consid-
Grafton for the indispensable human
labor power. then the worllday, mechan-
ical and material equipment, sanitary
provisions and arrangements are all
made to conserve human life
When the workers have made human
labor more costly than machinery, then
the latest and best machines, the best
mana cement of materials will be pro-
vided in order TO secure the best results
from the lesser hours of human labor.
Managerial skill can accomplish much
but il is never invoked until workers
present and force demands, The New
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07

Mr.. Mulnix is certified public ac-
countant and well qualified to hold the
position which he now occupies as audi
tor and for the office to which he as
pires. The office of State Treasurer will
not be new one for Mr.. Mulnix, as he
held that office in 1895 and 1896 with
credit to himself and the state. Mr..
Mulnix's watchword is Efficiency and
Courtesy" demanding at all times of
those under him that they extend the
utmost courtesy to all having business
with the state.
Mr.. Mulnix has been resident OF
Colorado for the past thirty-eight years.
He has grown up with the state and has
ever been a student of state affairs; he
knows its needs, he knows conditions; no
one questions his integrity or ability.
He is well and favorably known In
every part of the state and will be elect
ed on November to fill the office of
State Treasurer.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
FEWER WARRANTS IN DENVER
Elimination of Saloons Given as Cause
for the Decrease.

The police court records for Septem-
Der show there were 81 vagrunts tried
in the municipal tribunal during the
thirty days as compared with 263 ar
raigned during the same period of n
year ago while the saloons were open.
There We're 81 disturbance cases tried
last month, as compared with 70 a year
ago. The new system OF the police in
prosecuting all persons arrested for
drunkenness resulted in 25l being hailed
before the police judge last month, as
compared with only % in September,
1915.
A year ago only the worst offenders
were prosecuted for drunkenness.
Police Court Clerk Knight collected n
total of S3,474 in fines for this Septem-
ber, as against 81 1850 collected in that
month a year ago. The increased revc-
nue. is attributable to tho enforcement
of the city ordinance prohibiting boot
Logging.
Twenty-one offenders were fined to-
tai of s2,l00 for ''peddling" liquor. and
about GO per cent OF these paid the fines,
ranging from 500 to $50 each.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07

Try a Principe de Lees cigar for an
after dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07
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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-06-15

ready to give assistance and informa-
tion, he permeated the press section
and earned the blessings of the news
paper boys as he has done before on
like occasions.
Downtown in the hotels music
played large part in the efforts of the
various clans of boosters. Nearly
every headquarters had its band or
orchestra and the Burtonites brought
big gIee club from Columbus, Ohio.
Sherman also had a large band Of
singers, and Marching Through
Georgia" became his official song.
The Fairbanks men, naturally. adopted
"On the Banks of the Wabash" and
it's strains could be heard far into the
night.
One individual appeared carrying on
his chest a small organ on which an
other played popular airs, and as they
proceeded through the crowds they
soon collected a string of snake dan
GERS.
Citizens Were HospitabIe.
The citizens of Chicago tried hard
to uphold the reputation of the city
as the convention city of the country
and to make up for the rough deal
handed out by the weather man. There
were numerous fetes of one kind or an.
other planned for the pleasure of both
man and woman visitors, and though
the continuous rain caused the aban.
donment of some of these. most of
them were highly successful. Notable
among the entertainers was the Ham
ilton club, which kept virtual open
house throughout the week, with free
refreshments and the services Of IA
nous singers and vaudeville artists.
On Wednesday night the Hamiltonians
invited all visiting newspaper men to
partake of their hospitality, and the
same night the Press club gave mid
night dinner and entertainment for
the correspondents.
The Progressives even more than
the Republicans INDUCED in social
pleasures, partly because there were
good many women among their dele
gates. And the women's party conven-
ton and gatherings of suffragists all
contributed to the society aspect Of
the week.
Before the convention opened there
was the greatest demand for tickets
ever known on like occasion. The
prices scared until $500 for a set
looked cheap and often was refused.
The opening day was so lacking in
popular interest that the price began
rapidly to drop and tickets for the
Thursday session could be had for
$3.50 each. Then things Ivened up,
and on the expectation that candi!
date would be nominated Friday the
price of the pasteboards jumped up
again. The shameful flooding of the
hall with green tickets by the local
politicians rather discouraged those
who had paid out considerable sums
for genuine admission cards, but on
Saturday morning the trade was brisk
and the prices good.
1t did not take long for the people
to find out that there were livelier
scenes in the Auditorium than in the
Coliseum, the early days of the con-
vention, and the demand for Moose
tickets was large.