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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-30

This is the reverse side of the
Prince Albert tidy red tin. Read
this Patented Process" message
to-you and realize what it means
in making Prince Albert SO much 3,
to your liking. -
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

to life. I'd be warbllng to the golden
lids across the pond, instead of sing
ing these tear-starters in pardners
with a bum piano and blue-and-
green slides. But that pipe-dream
didn't last. I woke up-and when
1 did I was on the road singing to
the slides at twelve per. Kind of
rough awakening, maybe, but had
enough sand in my craw not to go
back whipped. learned good les
son, too. Found out that when 1t
came to being a star. had about
as much chance as a hand-me- down
has with tailor-made.
"Old man Daily-he's the gray
haired old boy that takes tickets at
the Palace-put me wise to this kind
Of work, just when / was waking
up from that star trance. and I'm
sewing the old mans buttons on for
him yet, just to show him that he
planted his bean in the right hill.
I couldn't star. and had sense enough
to be wise to that fact; but when
II comes to singing sentimental
songs / don't take off my hat to any
birdie that comes singing around my
tree. But what wanted to tell you
about was a little missionary work
1 pulled off.
"We were booked for a little burg
in Massa chusetts and We landed there
early one Sunday morning. 1t was
one of those. dark, dismal, rainy days
that make you feel about like
a whipped dog looks-and there amt
nothing on earth that's got as sor-
rowful p look as a disappointed dog.
The hotel we were stopping at wasn't
any Waldorf, and looked about as
cheerful as the pen does to a fellow
that has been sent up for a second
term. BY the time we got settled
down I had the blues so bad l was
ready to turn in and cry all day.
That's one difference between a
man and a woman. II I'd been a
man, wouldn't have been satisfied
until I'd lifted the lid and got jagged,
but, being a woman, believed in
liquidating in different way. I've
always heard that 1t is darkest Just
before dawn; but, say, I've waited a
long time for daylight on several oc-
casions. The old rule proved true
this time. though. for the sun came
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

out about 10 O'clock and my chum.
Maggie Johnson. got to feeling so
good she asked me to go to church
with her Mag's a toe-dancer, and
we'd been rooming together ever
since we've been with the show.
"The room assignor told us there
was a church just around the corner
and 1t didn't take us long to find it.
We got good seats down front, and,
Judging from the house they had,
they didn't have to hang out the
standing-roomsonly sign very often.
The preacher was a goodlooking
fellow, and was one Of the few I've
seen that didn't wear celluloid. When
the preacher turned us loose, 1 lost
Mag In the shuttle. and when I spot
ted her again she was standing in
the vestibule. talking to nice-look-
Ing fellow,
after Mag. had introduced US ]
found that they had come from the
same town and used to go to school
together when they were kids. He
had friend with him that had been
standing around waiting to be taken
into the family circle; and, say, to
look at him from the back row. he
was sure a prize winner. He was
made up to perfection, and looked
1ust like fashion plate. But when
you put the glasses on him and
brought him up close, he was nothing
but a disappointment. Mag's friend
introduced him to US; and. say, I'll
bet. you couldn't guess his title in
thousand years-Claude Leroy Smith!
II guess when his folks named him
they tried to put silver handle
on a pewter spoon. They walked to
the hotel with US. and on the way
found out that Claude Leroy had
an automobile, and that the greatest
ambition OF his life was to be on
good terms with theatrical people.
when l first met him 1t was my
intention to give him the busy signal
IL he tried to make a date; but that
auto overbalanced my common sense,
and 1 made a date for US to all go
out that afternoon. You see. I always
had wanted to ride In one of those
high-prlced man-killers, and the
closest to 1t I'd ever come was roller
skates; SO just couldn't turn dow
the chance.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09
Then He Began His Fight.

men,"
Then He Began His Fight.
That date, 1895, was the beginning of
Andrew FuruSeth 5 long fight for free.
dom for American seamen and justice to
all American wage earners. Recalling
the date and the fight blew up gust
OF storm in the Furtfseth mind, and he
shouted like the whipping of wind;
"Of course the result was that the
American refused to so to sea and that
everybody as he learned to understand
it Stunned the sea. The Asiatcs, will
| ing to be slaves and to work for little
or nothing, became the sailors for
America and for the world. Until the
war broke out there were more than
100000 Hindus and coolies as crews OF
American, British, German and Nor.
wegian vessels The supremacy of the
sea was passing into the hands of the
yellow race and out of the control of
the sturdy white race. The merchant
sailors; on whom the navies of the world
depend. were no longer whites but AS.
iatics.
"Well," the gust of storm passed
and Able Seaman Furuseth again was
carried along by gentler breeze.
"Well the result of this new justice and
new freedom of Woodrow Wilson s will
be, first, the most important economic
one-that there will be an equalization
of the wage cost of operating vessels,
regardless of nationality, from ports of
the United States. Wages out of Boston,
New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Newport News, San Francisco, Port.
land, Ore, and the Puget Sound ports
are now the same to all vessels and are
the American wage rate, $40 to $55 for
able seamen and firemcn. The Furuseth
fight results is as inevitable as the first,
that u sufficient increase in the wage
rates of European and Asiatic vessels
will have to come to the United States,
thus establishing practical equalization
of wages of seamen all over the world
Matter of Safety.
"The safety provision that at least
10 per cent of the crews of the vessels
must understand the language of their
Officers will necessarily bring about n
sweeping reduction in the number of
Asiaties employed and will further com.
pei the vessels of different nationalities
to depend on their own citizens or sub.
ieets to man their own merchant yes
sells. This is further effect will train
the men needed for the different ma.
tions' navies and maintain the sea
power of the white race"
" AS to life saving" AR. Furuseth |
continued, "the new law means a great |
Improvement of conditions on all ma. |
tions' vessels as they existed before the
loss of life have spoken OF before was
loss Of the Titanic. The increasing
partly due to the lack Of life saving
appliances but the most important fact.
or was the gradual deterioration of
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

Mag had been pumping her friend
about the Smith family. and had a
line on Claude LeRoy's pa that would
have made a Pinkerton or Dun's
Agency sit up and observe. He had
run in a cold deck on the common
burg, and nobody had had nerve
enough to call his hand since. The
mayors job didn't pay much, but old
man Smith was good politician,
and managed to make both ends
meet with considerable left over out
OF the job.
well, we went out that afternoon;
and, say, it's certainly grand to lean
back on the leather and just float
along. We were billed to stay in
LeRoy's town a week. and we sure
made him separate himself from
some of his fathers coin. Now, don't
think for one brief second that I'm
in the habit Of taking UP with little
shrimps like Leroy. because I'm not
fruit from that kind of tree. He
was too green to be picked, but I
thought II I didn't do II and lay
him down easy some one would come
along. and when she dropped him the
fall would be so great that he'd get
bruised. And. believe me. when fruit
like Leroy gets bruised, it's never
any good any more. =
Leroy sure thought he was In
love with me. He wanted to leave
with the show. and asked me to sec
the manager about getting him job.
He'd made about as much Of hit
with a show as ham sandwich In a
bird-cage. He would write poetry to
me; and, say, 1t ought to be a PEN
itentiary offense for a man in love
to write poetry. I would find little
poems on my dresser when I got
In at night. and they would run
something like this:
whene'er my soul wanders DER the earth
Or DER the sea. or DER the turf
It's as full OF love us It can be, -
And all this love is but for thee.
Things like that would make any,
body loony. We were all having as
good a time as possible with would
be like Leroy tagging along, and
he was having the time of his life.
In his own mind he was about the
baddest. foxiest. all-round sport that
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09
American Seaman Goes
Back to Work---Free Man

"The American seaman is going back
to the sea. He is going back at wages
fifty per cent higher than they were up
to year ago. And he is going back
u free man.
Those are the chief reasons given by
Andrew Furuseth. president OF the In,
ternational Seamcn's Union of Ameri-
ca, and for twenty years fighter for
the seamen = bill, which is now Il law,
why he is an ardent supporter of
President Wilson and is giving all the
time and energy he can to the Presi.
dent s election.
"The continuance Of the Wilson ad.
ministration is necessary to the best in.
terests of all wage earners of Ameri.
ca, said Mr.. Furuseth in an interview
given in Washington to Dante Barton
of the committee on industrial rela.
tions. 'lt is essential to the interests
of American seamon and the upbuilding
of the American merchant marine. /
would regard Mt. Wilson's defeat in
this election aud particularly by those
who are now opposing him as u calamity
to the industrial and commercial wei.
fare of America. As the Child Labor
bill of the President has freed the little
children from servitude, so the Seamen's
law, also approved and pushed through
by the president, has freed the Ameri-
cana who 90 down to the sea in the
ships"
Andrew Furuseth is himself an able
seaman who looks ike an old viking.
His face is weather worn from storms
ut eea aud from twenty years Of lepis.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

ever bought cold bottle and hot
bird-only in our case it was sand
wiches and beer.
about this time one Of LeRoy's
mama's dearest friends told her that
her little pet was straying from the
straight and narrow path and was
eating grass in one of Satan's pas
lures. She threw a fit, of course, and
Leroy didn't show UP that night.
The next morning, as I was passing
old Smiths banks, one of the clerks
would like to see me inside.
thought about refusing for minute,
but hesitated and then went in.
Believe me, whenever any sone in
dulges in hesitation they always get
a package handed to them. l wasn't
In the habit of being received by bank
presidents in their private offices, so
felt about like a blind man in faro
game. Didn't know what was to be
handed me.
"Old man Smith was standing In
the middle OF the room, with his
hands In his pants pockets. showing
a full moon Of white vest with gold
log-chain running across It. He
looked me over carefully, from my
marceled wave to my French heels,
and then cut loose
"'Young lady he said, I under
stand that during the past two or
three days you have been trying to
steal my sons affections from a fond
father and loving mother. In fact,
you have him worked up to such
pitch that he intends to run away
with your accursed show in order to
be near you. l presume that your
object. in trying to mislead my boy
is to get a chance at my pocketbook:
but. let me tell you before l go any
farther. that you will never get one
cent
II had stood for about much talk
as possible without laughing, so in
terrupted: Aw, forget 1t, colonel.
Hou're shooting more steam than
your boiler-capacity calls for. I'm
no child-stealer. When I start to
robblng cradles, I'll come around and
take whirl at Leroy. Now, about
that dirty money of yours, colonel,
couldn't take any of your hard
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

lativc hardships in Washington. The
pentup gales within him, fairly blew
the words from him rs he said to the
interviewer;
Has eBttered Conditions.
"Less than one year of the opera
ton of the Seaman : Act has raised the
wages of American seamen to stand
ard Of from $45 to $55 per month. At
All principal ports ON the Atlantic and
Pacific the foreign vessels are paying
the same wages as the American vessels.
| know of u recent ease where the crew
of u foreign ship, having an average
rate of wages of $50 month, went to
the captain and demanded their half
pay, as they were entitled to under this
law. The captain said. CAN right, but
will you quitG' And knowing that
they would he Immediately raised their
wages to the then prevailing American
standard of S45 per month.
" Right along with that, American
owned ships are going back ON the higA
seas with American eargoes. the ships
manned by American sailors. This
month the first of the vessels of the
reorgani2ed Pacific Mail steamship
company sails for the Orient, To op.
pose this bill, the falschood was told
and believed by many persons, that the
ships of that company had been driven
from the Pacific by this eamen's S Act.
The truth was that the Pacific Mail
steamship company was forbidden to use
Panama canal because it was owned by
the southern Pacific railroad company
aud for that reason it had to quit bust.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

are like graphophones. When we
once get wound up, we have to do
little talking before we run down.
I'm wound up, so don't be surprised
at anything spring on you.
Il haven't been in the show busi-
ness all my life. was raised down
in Kentucky, on the Ohio river; and,
say. It's queer about the way rivers
fool you. You stand on the dirty,
muddy bank OF one OF them and see
how green and pretty and fresh
everything looks on the other side.
and then, after you've gone to all
the trouble of getting over to the good
looking side. you find 1t just little
bit worse than the side you left I
had a little experience like that In
real life. so am wise to all the de-
tails.
when was kid at home, I was
the whole show Used to give them
the Charles X. Harris before I could
talk plain; and, say, sure was the
pride OF the village. As l grew older
added recitatlons to my repertoire.
and used to recite Curfew' and
lot of rot like that. l got in the
church choir, and whenever the white
ribbon sisters gave medal contest,
1t wasn't complete II my name wasn't
on the program. Honest, I've got
enough medals stored away some-
where to make the March King
ashamed of his collection. But, say,
Just as l was padding my canoe
along smooth and nice l struck q
snag and ripped the whole bottom
out OF 1t. / got stage-struck. That's
the answer; and, say, did my friends
help 1t along? Well, / guess yes!
New York was reaching out its hand
for me-the Great White Way wasn't
complete, 1t needed something to
brighten UP the stars; and, say, the
way they handed it to me, and the
dreams I had, was sure the kid to
do the Frightening. 4.
'sA'If any OF their jabber had come
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

earned tin because you haven't got
any. You ought to travel with a
side-show as a tattooed man. You've
got graft written all over you so
plain that a blind man could tell It
without feeling
"The old boy swells up like dried
apple In a rain-storm.
"'Young lady he beloved. I don's
allow any one to talk to ms like that!'
"T don't expect you do, as a gem
eral rule I retorted; but it's the ex-
ceptlons that prove the rules. rm
going to put you wise to thing on
two about Leroy, and then I'll vans
ish; but not before. From the dop4
I've picked up since I've been In this
burg, you're the one best bet. YOu
crook your finger and everybody hops.
II you say boo, they all run off and
hide. You got this town right under
your hands, and you amt the man
to lift that hand. But, llstenE
You're a pretty good Marathon run
ner, but you've about gone your line
It. You're floating high, but your
gas is going to give out. and when
1t does who's going to take mold and
keep this town where you've got IL
now? Believe me, Leroy couldn't do
It, He hasn't been brought up right
for that kind OF work. Do you believe
that il he pulled string any of your
aldermen would jump: If you do.
you had better forget 1t. You've
overlooked your one best bet; and.
take it from me, colonel, if you ever
want Leroy to fill your shoes, you
had better begin waking him up and
try to transform him into live one
"Oh, told 1t to the old man pretty
straight, and when I got through he
just stood still, looking out Of the
window for a long time. You are
right he said finally; shake!
After that, we got as thick as a
beef-stew, and before left he asked
me out to the house to dinner"
did you ever hear any more OF
Leroy" 1 asked, as she didn't offer
any further information.
mot a scratch" she answered.:
'but I'll bet even money he's showing
the old man things about grating.
If he's been able to keep out of jail"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

D->HE Empire Carnival Company
had at last closed for the
evening. The barkers had
barked their last bark. the tired per-
formers had made their last bow, and
the Ferris wheel had made its last
squeal1lng revolution. As | walked
down the street, lined on each side
with weather-beaten. mysterious
looking tents, the silence so deeply
contrasted with the noisy clamor OF
q pleasure-seeklng mob of the mo-
ment before, that 1t caused a weird
feeling to creep over me. As l passed
the Electric Palace. the lady who
sang sentimental songs while the
moving picture operator threw highly
eolored pictures on the screen was
Just coming out OF the tent | had
met her the night before while she
was interviewing the manager. so
remarked, catching step with her:
"Well, I guess you are glad work is
over for tonight"
swered, with a tired smile. II take
everything as It comes. Let's see,
you're the one reporter this burg
supports. I believer"
I'm the one" admitted. Lets
go and get something to eat, and
maybe I'll write you up In tomor-
rows paper"
Il was born hungry" she laughed;
s'but say, don't han6 me that write
mp gag. You reporters wouldn't write
ub a charge II you worked In a de-
partment-store."
lEt took her TO the best restaurant
The town afforded, and, after we had
finished our sandwiches and beer,
bhe said; 'If you're not in too big
a hurry to write up that interview.
Ey tell you a little story that might
Interest you..asSsESssst}ss4S q.
lks4 think the Interview can waits
answered. SSssssl ? a,sEs sasss.aSssssis4sg,
~ ANo6. I thought may be Il could,'t
EAs went Oh As,GYou see. ys asmea
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09

ness and be recognized.
Specifically" Mr.. Furuseth was
asked, "what has the Seamens Act
Gone for American seamen and AmericaI
shipping, and how has it done it?"
What Law Has Done.
Specifically it has made ships safe
for passengers and crew by its pro
vision that 10 per cent of all the crew
shall be able to understand the langua-
ge of the ships officers, for orders IN
emergencies such as storms, collisions,
and fires, as well as for orders in ordi.
nary times. 1t has brought greater
safety through provisions for life boats
and better ship construction.
"Specifically, it has given the sea.
man the same right to quit his job that
other workers have, and it mas protect
ed him in that right by providing him
in any port of call with the right to
demand money he has earned. 1t has
raised wages by improving the stand.
ard of seamen. 1t has equalized the
wages ON American and foreign vessels,
because in order TO keep their own
scamen in American ports foreign ship
owners have had to give their sailors
as attractive wages and conditions as
our own vessels The law applies to all
ships, foreign as well as American that
touch american ports.
Specifically, the bill has driven the
Asiatic from the sea and restoring the
mastery Of the sea TO the white race. {"
All of this was roared in one of the
Furuseth gales, and then in calm, or
going along under smooth breeze, Sea.
man Furuseth said:
Was Serf Before.
"Thc American seamen was scrf un-
til this bill was passed and approved by
President Wilson on March 4, 1915.
Following an old decree of the Bour.
bons of France in the seventeenth cen.
turn, American sailors could not get any
wages until they returned to the port
from which they sailed. They were in
competition with the las.
car aud Chinese and Malay labor of the
Orient. The ships officers would
speak one language and the ships ;
crews another. Vessels were unsafe be.
cause of the growth of marine insurance
made the owners careless whether the
vessels and cargoes were lost or not.
ln passenger ships alone 3l,300 lives
were lost in the period from 1850 to
lel4. How the loss was growing was
shown by the fact that in the five years
from 1860 to 1864, LOIS lives were lost,
and in the five years from 1910 to 1914,
o,ii5 lives of passengers and crews
were lost. Men to sail the seas were
'crimped" and shanghaied. All ma.
tions were agreed in an international
fugitive slave law for seamen and by !
treaties were bound TO hunt down, and
mprison or return to his ship any sail
Or who had deserted from the most ter
rible conditions.
"When the 18th amendment to the
United States constitution was adopted |
he American seamen thought it applied |
to them aswell as 10 negroes and to all |
,thers who had been in previous con
iition of servitude. But in 1895, in the
,ase Of Robertson VS.. Baldwin, the su.
preme court of the United States held |
hat the 18th amendment did not apply !
10 scamea aud that congress, under the
commerce clause of the constitution, had |
he power to pass laws for the specific |
performance Of contracts. if they were
contracts to work ON vehicles as sea. '
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-09
OFFER WELSH $4,000.

New Orleans, La, Sept. s.-Local
fight promoters have wired Champion
Freddie Welsh at New York and John
ny Dundee at Kansas City an offer of
$4,000 for twenty round bout to be
held here January /.