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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
DON'T LOSE ANOTHER HAIR
Treat Your Scalp With cuticura and
Prevent Hair Falling. Trial Free.

For dandruff, itching. burning scalp,
the cause of dry, thin and falling hair,
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are most
effective. Touch spots of dandruff and
itching with Cuticura Ointment. Then
shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot
water. No treatment more successful
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-AdY.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
New Uniform for cuba'e NAVY.

The general stan of the Cuban navy
has appointed committee to study
designs for new uniform for the Off
GERS and enlisted men of the navy. The
present uniform, which is almost ex-
actly like that used by the United
States, is said to be too expensive for
Cuba. New equipment will also be
sought by the committee for the Gu.
ban naval cadets.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add OF. Bay Rum, q
small box of Barbo Compound, and a OF. of
glycerine. Apply to the hair twice a week
until 1t becomes the desired shade. Any drug
gist can put this up or you can mix It at
home at very little cost. It will gradually
darken streaked, faded gray hair, and re-
moves dandruff. 1t is excellent for falling
hair and will make harsh hair soft and glossy.
It will not color the scalp, is not sticky OF
greasy. and does not rub otf.-Ady.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Claims Greatest OIL Land Control.

E. ]. Doheny, president of the Mex
lean Petroleum company. has an
nounced that the new $3.50, 100000
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans
port company will control the largest
oil territory in the world under a sin
gle ownership.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Girls Expect Too Much
From Husbands
By A. c. BERNARD. washington, D. c.

that he too has his expensive tastes and the
together it spells prohibition far marriage
The modern tendency educate daughters expect
their husbands they from their parents the time marriage
explains the aoness of good who ought marry really
wants to- Without ercng the ambition every girl higher
and many graceful
greatest and best accomplishment should be the the ability
willingness perfect dinner Now, girls up
say that when you marry won't be bod drudge That what
fills the divorce courts
Marry with the idea that it fffty division Of Fepon-
sibity.
Let the young find in the kitchen making toohome dishes
while rather than always the parlor dressed your
expensive gown
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Affected hv nWar Business. y

The population of Bridgeport, Conn,
is estimated to have increased during
the present year by about $4,000
growing from $4,000 to 10000. Twen-
ty thousand persons are said to be en-
ployed in Bridgeport by one concern,
in three shifts of eight hours each.
This phenomenal activity is the result
of war business"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

Provide your Riddles with
light but warm sweaters to
wear to school under their
coats. If the schoolrooms
are too cold, they can wear
their little sweaters in class.
But the windows in a school
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Too Familiar.

Mother, may go out with Harvey
on his bobsled?"
Eyes, Eddie, but please, dear do not
be so familiar. Remember, do not say
bobsled. Say Robert sled, like good
little boy"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

1t is interesting to ana
lyze the influence of char
acter on clothes, clothes be-
ing a rather sure indication
Of the type of the individ-
ual. Of course we readily
make up our minds that the
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
COVETED RV Ar

but possessed by few-a beautiful
head of hair, If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store It to it's former beauty and lus-
ter by using LA Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price S1.O0.--Ady.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

Many people realize the
need of a universal lam
guage. The inability of one
race 10 understand another
places a barrier between
them that can only be sur
mounted by considerable
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Large New Industry Projected.

Some capitalists of the United
States are projecting a hog ranch and
packing house of 10000 acres of land
in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba, about
sixty miles from Havana.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Cat. Eh2

Bell is very proud of her pedi-
greet"
"Humph! Were her ancestors Nal,
tese or Angoras ?"-Puck.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

The reason given by most
bachelors for being single is
81 can't afford a wife,"
Now that does not mean
that he blames the feminine
sex with all the trouble,
necessarily. It may also
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the
original little liver pills put up 40 year
ago. They regulate liver and bowels.--AdV
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
likely Not.

Nodd-Thank heavens! My wife
doesn't know where | was last night,
Todd DO you2-Life
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

Escaped unshorn.
Il hear that you've been playing the
stock market. Have any luck?"
"Greatl Came out exactly even"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
THIS is THE AGE OF YOUTH.

You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by
using la Creole" Hair Dressing. ADV.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24

The orange tree is the only one
which bears fruit and blossoms at the
same time.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Important 20 Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-02-24
Banel

did that war stock you bought go
upg"
mot exactly. It blew up"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
BRINGING THE TENEMENTS TO TERMS

that would paint for you quite picture
of war. You would find that for the last
two years from Galicia, Russia and Rus
sian Poland, from refugees clustered in
villages, towns and the slums of cities,
there have been coming letters by the
hundred thousand to friends and rela-
tives over here. Frenzied appeals for
money, aid You would find that all the
giving uptown has been as nothing COM
pared to the sacrifices that have been
made by these people in the tenements.
And the war goes on and the letters
still come. Some believe that the war
in Europe was brought on by an effort
to do on a much larger scale what the
cloak manufacturers hope to do here
crush democracy, stop discussing things,
decide everything by an appeal to brute
force-and so bring the free peoples
of Europe to terms. And, if that be
true, the powers abroad will be aided
by this effort Of the cloak manufact-
urers here. For in tenement rooms
many letters have been written in the
last few days: 1--WE cannot help you any
more" This is what these letters say.
And some of them are hard to write.
Judging by the faces of the men and
women, boys and girls, who scowl and
breathe hard as they puzzle out how
they are going to break the news. Some
of those refugees over there are so old
and sick and weary-and some so young,
only babes in arms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

ments, tall rookeries, vast human hives.
And the signs of the pressure are back
in there. TO see it you must go indoors
CHARITY. REVISING THE MAXIM,
NOW BEGINS IN BELGIUM.
Go first into any little shop where the
people come to buy their food. And here
at once you will find a change. For the
shopkeeper will bewail his luck. He has
had to begin giving credit again. The
same old story. He had to give so much
credit before. Before this year there
had been in the garment trades three
bad seasons, one after the other, when
work was scarce and times were hard.
Then came the war-and chaos here and
hardly any work for months. In the
meantime scores of small savings banks
scattered all through the lower East
Side had closed their doors in the panic,
and millions of hard earned savings were
lost to these people just at the moment
when they needed money most. On top
of that came the Belgian appeal, drain
ing from generous people uptown most
of the money that in other years would
have come down here to the tenementS.
SO the shopkeeper had to give credit,
and this had gone on and on so long that
hundreds of little shopkeepers had
failed. This one will tell you how he just
succeeded in scraping through. He stu
has customers, he says, who have not
yet paid up what they owe him from the
past. But they were coming so close to
it now; this year has been so much bet
ter. And every one had been so gay. All
were just getting on their feet. And now
to be knocked down again Now, again
will come women customers haggling
over every cent, buying only the cheap
est stuff; children clinging to their
mothers skirts and pointing to things
they had before-but now she is buying
on credit and can fill only the barest
needs.
THERE is GLOOM AT THE BANK,
BUT JOY AT THE PAWN
BROKERS.
Go into small banks. You will find
gloomy bankers. The small savings ac-
counts are fast being drawn out. But If
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

TO escape the Austrian army. He was
not sick of democracy-he had come
here to find it, together with a chance
to work and to make decent living. And
when he had found foothold here he
was to have sent for his family. He
had worked of late with desperate haste,
for his family in Galicia, in one of the
worst war blackened zones, had kept
writing him to send for them soon. They
could not last much longer. He had
about half the money needed Then had
come the lockout. The next night ne
had stuffed the cracks in the window
with old socks and shirts. And after
that he had turned on the gas.
There will be other suicides, and other
kinds Of violence, too. For this sort of
thing means bitterness, ugly passions
and hot blood It is not dull as democ-
racy is, nor is it patient, nor open-mind-
ed. And so things may happen on the
streets. And there will be death in other
forms, through this pressure the cloak
manufacturers bring-death by disease,
starvation, strain. There are many peo-
pie alive to-day, men and women and
children, too, who will die within the
year to come as result of this effort to
bring the tenement people to terms.
But the signs of all this do not appear.
EXTERNALLY, THE GHETTO is
THE SAME, LOCKOUT OR
NO LOCKOUT.
Watch the same street a few weeks
hence and you will find it much the
same You will find humanity seething
on. The pedlers will shout as hoarsely.
The same small girls will be dancing
gravely around the hurdy-gurdy. The
same small boys will be leaping through
the campfire. And mothers will scream
to their children, "Hey, you! key
Come up to bedw And key will laugh
and dart off as before. And the life of
the street will go on, and by day and by
night in the ghetto you will find few APP
parent changes. Rutgers Square will be
crowded with idle men, standing in al
most motionless throngs or sitting in
long lines on the benches, and in other
squares and on corners you will come
upon crowds of all sizes and groups of
men talking, arguing, joking, and many
quarrelling holly You will find halls
packed with people listening to speakers,
and on the ghetto streets at night you
will find many times the usual number
of orators shouting from wagons. And
around them will be larger crowds and
more attentive, scowling eyes, as men
and women listen to talk of revolution.
sweeping changes that shall bring to the
world Cat least so shouts the orator. a
system of things where the cloak max
ers shall have lost all hope of becoming
little Yankee industrial cars.
But even the sights and sounds like
these will give you no feeling of death or
disease or of any human misery-in
short. of none Of the pressure by which
the cloak manufacturers hope to bring
their people to terms. But this street,
for all its flaring lights, is dark and
deep and narrow, almost like noun
tain gorge. On either side are tene-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

hrSt IL soon gained neadWdy. lho
death rate stopped rising, it turned and
declined. Then the war in Europe be-
gan and poverty came to the ghetto
here. And the Health Department rec
ords show that in the two years just
gone by there has been no more prog
ress made There is TO be no progress
now-but the very opposite, in fact-if
only the lockout is long enough and
there is enough force in this pressure
which the cloak manufacturers hope to
bring.
There are so many signs of this press
ure if only you. know where to look.
Stand on any street in the ghetto be-
tween 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning
and watch the children go to school.
They are boisterous crew. How they
chatter and laugh and chase each other
and fight and call each other names
and shrek shrilly down the street!
Surely there is no pressure here. Even
in the classroom you can find no signs
at first 1t is only by talking to teachers
and school doctors and nurses and prin-
cipals that you learn of the many small
boys and girls who come to school in
time like this so poorly fed, so nearly
starved, that by the middle of the
morning they sit at their desks with
vacant eyes. They can take in nothing
that is said. What sheer waste to spend
millions of dollars each year on these
urchins who sit like idiots here. What
need of schooling if they are to go to
sweatshops soon, where the old sweated
conditions of labor are to return and
mould their lives-as they will if the
pressure is hard enough and the cloak
manufacturers succeed in what they
have set out to do.
THE STREET, THE PU BLIC
SCHOOL-THEN THE SWEAT
SHOP.
For. although the cloak manufact-
urers would doubtless deny Indignantly
that they have any intention of bring
ing back such conditions of toll, and
would declare to you feelingly that once
this troublesome business of unions and
democracy is swept out of their offices
they will be kind and benevolent, wise
still the power of the dollar is strong.
And though you may feel that for the
moment they mean what they are tell
ing you with such deep conviction in
their eyes about all the many advan-
tages of despotism in industry to every
man and women employed, you VIII
probably conclude that in the long run
if they had their way the terms to
which these employers of labor would
bring the men, women and children
downtown would month by month and
year by year. as the influence OF profits
works, mean longer hours, heavier toll,
lower pay and dirtier shops, would mean
more poverty, more disease, more Bit
terness and anarchy through the whole
industry they rule-would mean chill
dren badly born and reared, would mean
starved and stunted race--which is
rather dangerous in these days when
preparedness" is in the air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
THREE RICKETY FLIGHTS TO
THE THIRD FLOOR AND
TRAGEDY.

SO the pressure of this lockout will
reach long arms across the sea-
If you would see it palmer go with
visiting nurse or with doctor on his
rounds. | remember one hot summers
night with a young doctor friend of
mine entering rear tenement ROOM
As we went up the rickety flight of
stairs we felt the sour, pungent odor
which some call the poverty smell"
On the third landing he knocked on 2
door. 1t was opened by thin young
.Jewess with worn eyes and tousled hair
We went into a sitting room. certainly
not over twelve feet square. Here were
two kitchen chairs, stove. three beds
in the corners and another in an alcove.
In this room lived man and his wife
and five children, the oldest boy Of
eleven. The man had worked in
sweatshop, and either there or in this
place he had contracted consumption.
His eyes we're tight shut, and with his
thin. waXen features drawn he lay on
the bed and gasped for air. whats
the matter?" asked. "T. b. said the
doctor. "You needn't whisper" said
the wife. "He can't hear you anyhow.
He's dying-that's what he's doing.
There followed a long discussion be-
tween the doctor and the wife. He
wanted to take the man away to hos
pital for consumptives. She refused.
The man was to die at home. But the
children" the doctor argues, they are
breathing this air. Every one of them
is likely to take T. B. from their father
He went on and tried to explain, but the
overweight woman burst into tears.
T. B. is the plague of the tenements.
1t is the prince of diseases here. Its
allies are darkness, filth, poor food, long
hours, low pay, poverty. 1t knows well
how to bring people to terms, and for
decades it had its own sweet way. Its
victims. in this city alone, went into the
hundreds of thousands. Ten years ago
a crusade began, and although slow at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Author of "The Harbor."

YOU would see cheerier sight go in and
look at pawnbroker's face. He is doing
a splendid business now. In his shop, II
YOU have a curious eye, you will find the
most amazing things-old rings and
brooches, family heirlooms, plates, cups
and saucers, prayer shawls-family
treasures brought out of their holes.
And the pawnbroker will own them all
if only the lockout continues long-lt
the pressure the cloak manufacturers
bring is only as hard as they hope 1t
will be.
Or 90 into lawyers office. And If he
has the name of being smart in dealing
with landlords you will find signs of the
pressure here. You will learn not only of
families about to be put out of their
homes. but of 5hopkeepers, too, who are
in the same plight. Here's one who runs
a music store, scowling, tired woman,
q widow with three children. Nobody
comes to buy music or gramaphone rec
ords. now" she says. "And so I'm
busted / got to sell out! Lose all /
got! Unless you can fix it up for me
with the owner for the rent. If he'll
leave me stay maybe | hold out. don't
know. | don't know She keeps shak-
ing her head excitedly.
"A LITTLE PLACE ON LONG
ISLAND"-AN EAST SIDE DREAM.
Next to her comes quiet man who Is
not at all excited He is tailor, he eX-
plains. a cutter who in good times had
earned as high as $50 or $50 week.
He has been in America for something
over eighteen years. He has never LETT
the city except for Coney Island. He
has worked hard He has married, and
although they have had five children ne
has saved money, very slowly. And at
last. a year ago, they began to buy
place on Long Island. They have paid
fourteen instruments. There are eleven
more to pay. Now he is two months IN
arrears and the real estate companys
agent has been coming often. Is there
any way to- save all that-those four
teen instruments already paid? If there
is no way, and the lockout goes on, then
the eighteen years will end in a blank
You see. he says. in Austria his wife had
lived in a small quiet town with green
hills all around it.
Or follow a postman on his rounds
and as he drops letters at tenement
doors. if this man had eyes that see in
side he could tell you stories of letters
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

York are tired of democracy.
II They are weary of the protocol
and the Mayors Council of Cancellation.
They are sick of sitting down with rep
resentatives of their employees and of
tbe outside public and trying by discus
sion TO adjust their differences. And so
NOW they have resorted to force. They
are through with the union. They have
locked out their employes-most of them
married men with families - and by
bringing pressure upon these two hun
dred thousand men, women and children
they hope to bring their people to terms
What kind Of pressure will it be? What
will II mean to the tenements? What
viii take place in tenement rooms IN the
weeks that lie ahead?
The other night / stood on corner
down upon the lower East Side and
watched the life about me on the uproar-
;ous tenement street The night was
warm and humid, and through the mar
row thoroughfare there poured a swarm
ING mass of life. People passed by the
thousands. Heavy odors filled the air
The pushcarts with their torches cast
dancing lights and shadows on heaps of
wares of every kind. The pedlers
shouted hoarsely. The crowds kept
sweeping by me and their voice was
cultural roar. Small boys and girls WITH
wells Of glee kept darling about on every
hand. Babies screamed unheeded. Close
by me on the corner a tense young jew
dark faced and thin, was shouting from
wagon that all men and women must
be free and own the factories and mills.
A mob Of small boys clustered around
campfire they had made on the street
we're leaping wildly through the flames
Ike Indians in the movies. Mothers
leaned out Of windows and screamed
for children 10 come up TO bed, but no
child seemed TO hear them. Here around
a hurdy-gurdy danced a group of little
girls. \ small cafe from a basement
threw up smells Of meat and onions and
cigarettes. The noise increased, grew
ieafening. Humanity seethed on every
,ide. But this was only an average
street upon an average evening.
What changes will the lockout
BRING wondered, as stood there.
GALICIA IS A LONG WAY FROM
THE EAST SIDE, BUT VERY
CLOSE TO HOME.
Il viii bring death. Of that be sure.
For all big strikes bring death in some
form. To begin with, death by violence.
have already heard of one instance
here. In small back room in the ghet-
to young Jewish tailor lay dead on the
floor. The boy had come from Galicia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

Go into small banks. You will find
gloomy bankers. The small savings &C
counts are fast being drawn out. But if
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
SOCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The O. Z. S. Sewing circle will meet
in the Masonic temple tomorrow after
noon with Mrs Oloff Atkinson, Mrs.
William Schillinger and Mrs. Agnes
Schillinger-Co as the hostesses. The
ladies will bring their own work for
the day
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Eagles
drill team will entertain at dancing
party Wednesday evening at the
Eagles hall. Bleuer's orchestra will
give the dance program.
The Augustana Endowment Fund
society will meet Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs. Fred Titterington, SIC
Twenty-second street. DR.. Otis will
speak on Modern Medicine and Surg
cry"
The Ready-to-He circle of Kings
Daughters will meet tomorrow after
noon with Mrs. T. H. Haege, 1914
Twenty-ninth-a street as the
hostess
The Stitch and Chatter club will be
entertained Feb. 10 at a birthday party
by Mrs Allen Taylor in South Rock
Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
DRyS confer At
SUNDAY MEETING
Decision is Reached to Wage Anti.
Saloon Fight in South Moline
Township.

At a meeting held yesterday in the
Congregational church of East Mo-
line, decision was reached to wage a
campaign to Danish saloons from
South Moline township. Rev. C. T.
Cady presided in the absence Of Rev.
Malcolm Miller.
Petitions were placed in circulation
at once and these, asking that the
question Of local option be on the bal
lots for vote at the township election
Tuesday, April a, will be filed We'd
nesday of this week. A committee of
three-A. D. Taft, Mrs. Charles Soren-
son and William Clark-was named
to complete the canvass for signatures
to the petitions, and Clark Corbin Of
Silyis volunteered to aid in the work
His offer was accepted and the work
OF getting the required 104 signers is
now in progress.
Clarence S. Trevor has been named
manager of the local option campaign
in Moline.