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The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
PAINTING BARRED OUT OF
SCHOOLS.
Dallman's "Am l My Brothers.
Keeper" in Dispute.

New York.-Carl Beck, director of the
Labor forum, which holds Sunday night
meetings in the Washington Irving High
School, presented yesterday to the Com
mittec on Buildings of the Board of Edu-
cation an alternative proposition to that
made in his recent letter to the board
wherein he asked that the return of Dali
mans painting Am My Brothers
Keeper" to the board, be reconsidered
and the Labor forum be allowed to dis
play it where the people might see it. The
alternative is that the forum be allowed
to have the painting in the school audito-
rum on Sunday night, so that citizens
may study and benefit by it, and that dur
ing the week it be draped and hidden
from the sight of the girls for whose
education it is not deemed proper" The
committee voted that the picture be re-
turned at once to education headquarters.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
DEFENDS CHILD LABOR.

Neutrality-suspicious. the Senate Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce, which
is considering the Heating Owen child
labor bill, President Smythe of the South
Carolina Textile Manufacturers Asso-
citation declared that children in his
State prefer working in cotton mills to
attending public schools.
Scott Roberts, treasurer OF the Ade-
laide mills, Admission, Ala, pleaded that
Congress should not legislate children
"out OF their chosen life work by pass
ing this law. He said that at the ages
Of II and l6, children would best learn
what he termed the art of working in
cotton mills.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
Advanced 3 Cents a Ton.

That pick mine run coal be advanced
cents ton in the thin-vein district of
Western Pennsylvania; that in Eastern
rdam-Bergholz district in Ohio, the
pick mine-run rate be the same as in
the thn-vein district of Western Pensyl-
vania in the other districts of Ohio the
pick mine-run rate be advanced 3 cents
a ton unless otherwise agreed to in joint
any of the subdstricts or scale districts
within the State, and that the pick min
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
WHY HIGH WAGES ARE ASKED

New York-Fnancial reports from
the following institutions during the past
week is the best reason for the present
insistent demand of workers for higher
wages;
New York Air Brake Company-Divi-
dends increased from 6 per cent to s
per cent. Last year the company's sur
plus was $4,000 over its dividends of
100000.
General Motors Company-For six
months ending January 81, the profits
amounted to $13,OOO,0OO, or 75H per cent
on the common stock. In the corre-
spending half year of 1915 the net in
come was $6,446,534
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
HUGE PROFITS IN LOCOMOTIVES

Philadelpha.-ln its report for the
year ending December -. 1915, the Bald
win locomotive works shows net earn
ings OF S3,5l0,3S3, against 1891, 1j4 dur
ing the preceding year
The production OF the year amounted
to $19,339,934 OF locomotives and the
other usual products of the work. and to
$2,743, ,077 OF other work resulting from
the war
The Baldwin concern styles itself an
open shop" which means that trade
unionist jeopardizes his position if he
openly advocates organization by the
workers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
SAFETY FIRST SHOW OPENS.

Washington.-A safety first exhibi-
ton has been opened in the United
States national museum. 1t is the first
exhibition OF its kind ever held by the
government and shows what the various
government departments and other or
ganizations are doing in the way of the
safety first movement by rendering less
dangerous many industries making travel
on land and by sea less hazardous and
in general instructing the public in the
essentials Of the movement.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
WAGE INCREASES FOR TUGMEN

Toledo. O.-Wages OF organized tug
men employed by the Great Lakes Tow
ing Company have been increased s5
month An increase OF 1925 month
in the winter schedule has also been
secured.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11

Worcester. Mass-1he new wage rate
OF Iron Molders' Union No. has been
accepted without dispute by employers
Hereafter these workers will receive
day minimum of $3.50. instead OF 1925.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-03-11
IRON MOLDERS ADVANCE.

Cincinnati.-Of Officers of Iron Molders'
Union No. report that they have Sc
cured signed agreement for a nine
hour day and minimum wage OF 81.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

70 speak of The Birth of a Nation" under the head of moving pictures. is akin to listing the writings of Bertha
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

Someone has suggested that "The Birth of Nation" should be remem- bered among the Seven Wonders of the World,' let us say the "eighth.' At any rate, we agree that all the Seven Wonders of the World" were big things; and MT. Griffith has done a big thing in the production ofEthis masterpiece; big in size, big in theme, big in purpose.
 It is the picture of an epoch with all of it's phases done and over with; i; most of the people connected with it are dead and in their graves but it's brilliant, thrilling, appealing scenes make a kaleidoscope of historical data, which has all the charm of beauty and all the distinct appeal of realism. r It is a chronicle of human passion; Of suffering and defeat and of recon struction, out of which a noble people "a nation-was born.
 It is more than picture; it is pie ture gallery; it is human motion electrified: it is the triumph of genius.
 Never will there be a day when I shall forget the wild. eerie ride of that white capped KuKlux Klan; that battle field of red blood and fore; that Wag- merriam trumpet call of the Valkyries as the thousand and one shrouded knights. riding to vengeance, skirted the canvas and flashed their death like faces valiant in determination and flaming in ardor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
LILLIAN c1su THE HERON OF THE BIRTH OF NATION"

tie group of refugees covering ill the ruins of a home. A shift of the camera and we were looking past them into a great, valley with an army fighting it's way through.
 !, ;"One moment we saw Abraham Lin coin breeding over his emancipation proclamation; another. and he was were iii the crowded theatre watching the assassin making his way to and from his awful deed.
 ''The leagues of film uncoiled and poured forth beauty of scene, and face and expression, beauty of fabric and attitude and notion
 "'The Birth of a Nation is choral symphony of light. light in all it's magic; the sun flashing through bit tai beauty to it's pattern; or quivering in a pair of eyes, or a snow drift of bridal veil, or on moonlit brook or a mountain side. Superb horses were shown plunging and rearing or gal loping with heart quickening glory of speed down road and lane and through flying waters. Now came the thrill of a charge, or of a plunging steed caught back on it's launches in TOT of a bestial mob, the hurrah of a rescue, streets filled with panic and with carnival Life is motion and here was the beautiful moving monu- ment of notion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Spiral Skating

FrOln OuunS. H 4@F { The spiral need not be skated on the same edge by both skaters. The gentle man can skate on the outside edge back ward and the lady on the outside edge forward or vice versa.
 We suggest the following: Gentleman on right backward outside edge, lady on left forward outside edge, either keeping the lady's left hand with his right, or holding her around the waist in dancing position.s +e-
 All the elementary figures can be com bined in many ways. Spirals need not be skated in the original form; they can also be done with changes of edges and threes as in Diagram 2.
 After having completed the spiral to the point where the speed is nearly fin ished the waltz is pretty continuation.
 There are many waltzes. The position of the partners in the waltz is the same as the one taken by a couple on the ballroom floor. It is skated to music and the waltz which is most commonly danced and contains the easiest steps Is called the ''one back waltz The old-fashioned name for the step is 'sthe Dutch Roll" This is an ordinary forward three skated on the outside edge on the right foot shortly after the turn, the left foot is put down and the skater continues on the left backward outside edge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

1 Here is pathos; here is abject misery; dirt which these, brave southerners were almost forced to eat, but which they refused--and meant it. Embellished by such historical char acters as Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth. General Lee and General Grant-made realistic by the grandeur of mass and the minuteness of detail, you simply sit at your window in wrapt rolls by.
 Rupert Hughes has said of The Birth of a, Nation in his graphic "re- view of it the first time he wit messed it.:
 When great achievement of hu- man genius is put before us, we can become partners in it in a way by ap- plauding it with something of the en- thusiasm that went into it's making. It is that sort of collaboration that I am impelled to attempt in what follows.
 "When | saw The Birth of Nation the first time I was so overwhelmed by the inmensity of it that I said:
 "It makes the most spectacular pro- duction of drama look like the work of village amateurs. It reduces to child ishness the biggest things the theatre can do
 For here were hundreds of scenes in tors in place of score; armies in landscape instead of squads of supers jostling on a platform among canvas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

screens. Here was the evolution of a flict of statesmen, a civil war, a racial problem rising gradually to a puzzle yet unsolved. Here were social pie lures without number, short stories, adventures. romances, tragedies. farces, domestic comedies. Here was a whole art gallery of scenery, of hu- manity, of still life and life in wild- est career. Here were portraits of things, of furniture, of streets, homes wildernesses pictures of conventions cabinets, senates. mobs, armies; pie lures of family life, of festivals and funerals, bathrooms and battlefields, hospitals and flower gardens, hypoc- risy and passion, ecstasy and pathos pride and humiliation rapture and Jealousy, Irritation and anguish. devo ! ton and treachery, selfsacrifice and tyranny. Here were the southerners in their wealth, with their luxury at home, their wind-swept cotton fields, here was the ballroom with the seethe of dancers, here were the soldiers rid ing away to war and the soldiers trudging home defeated with poverty ahead of them and new and ghastly difficulties arising on every hand.
 Here was the epic of a proud, brave people beaten into the dust and refus- ing to stay there.
 The pictures shifted with unend- ing variety from huge canvasses to exquisite miniatures. Now it was a lit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Coal for 540O Years
'om London Tit Bits.

IOlll. lsOIuOn Ill-DIlS. z
 The Royal Commission On Coal Sup pIies,D says Engineering, reported in 1905 that the contents of the proved coal fields of the United Kingdom were 100.- 0OO 0,0O0 tons, and of the still un- proved coalfields 40, ,000 0O0 0000 tonst.
 Taking the latter at 25,000, 100000 tons, then, at the present rate of consumption, we have stiu 800 years supply, .@e i
 ''The calculation, however turns en- tirely on the assumption that our pres ent rate of consumption will not be in creased. Forty years ago our coal pro- duction was 132O00, 900 tons, of which l4,- 5Oo.O00 tons were exported. In 1905 it was 23OO0O. eco tons. and in, 1911 it was 272 GOO, GOO tons. or more than twice what it was Tn 1875. If this rate of increase is maintained the estimate of 300 years will dwindle to two figures before the present century has expired.
 There is, however, great deal of coal in the world outside of these islands, and already there is known to be in ex- isterce 7397.553 million tons. equal to the world s requirements for 5400 years at the present rate of consumption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

mans out; for he was heir to the throne which he would occupy in due course AS soon as 1t was agreed to take this monarch with them, runs the narrative in Blackwood he was sent on shore to collect a staff of guides, spies, and
 pilots from the natives who knew the country. The result of his efforts added another 20 to our overgrowing comple- ment
 It is mentioned too. that a special in- ducement to the Cameroop natives, whom it was desired to tempt to friendliness, was the offer of timed tripe which formed part of the stores. It appealed specially to the native palate. An anus ing incident occurred when an officer in charge of an armed boat was proceed ing up creek to act as guardship off a small town, at that time occupied by our troops His orders were to insure the friendliness of the tribe which inhabited the entrance to the creek and to prevent
 any news of the operations getting through to the Germans further up. With this object in view, he invited
 the chief of the tribe on board and re-
 galed him witN the delicacy referred to. It's effect was the establishment of such mutual god will that he insisted on pre- senting his host with seven wives, an offer which, for diplomatic reasons, was accepted. ?. f9 str
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

could never grow less; it i, ona of the few things that I could sit before the canvas and see, night after night, and each time find in it something new, something diff | ferent, something novel.
 l Always when I think of "The Birth Of a Nation,'' especially when I write about it, does my mind revert to the genius MT David Wark Griffith--who made it rcssible, and with a magnarimous sweep of my humble pen I acc.rd Mir Griffith every honor that is due him for the pro- duction.
 He has done in The Birth of a Ma ton" a work of dramatic art: he is indubitably one of the great men of the world today; he is an authority on the beat of the human heart; he feels to an atom what retards and what accelerates the rhythm of that suscep- tible organ; moreover, he is a mas ter of the means by which it's con fractions and dilations in the theatre are accomplished; he calculates with the uncanny intelligence of a genius the cryptic relation of the eye to the right ventricle; he knows color and sound and motion to their ultimate de- tail, and he has had the foresight and the vision to assemble them in a vast spectacle which is the peer of any historical pageant that has ever been produced
 MT Griffith. himself the son of a Confederate brigadier, explicably sees the Lost Cause,' so dear and so near to the heat of every true southerner, as hallowed one, With its followers suffering bravely and manfully the ig- noble injustice and cruelty which are the prime attributes of their antag- onists in the play.
 Every gamut of human emotion is run in the great picturization the eager, florid, tawdry, tricky things that were resorted to against the southern people; the sinister apotheosis of unreconstruction as the enemy would have heaped upon a valiant people, is all picture6-vividly. luridly, graphi- cally. The heart of the play is the home of the Camerons--in South Carolina-to- ward the end of the picture after the fearful ordeal they've passed through here is pathos; here is abject misery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
king George as a Stoker

oSOA 6S "S e' oSSAASA
 From Tit-Bits.
 It was the cruiser H. M. $. Cumberland which contributed not a little to our success in the Cameroons, and the story of its operations in that part of the world, told in Blackwoods Magazine. makes thrilling reading. There is also . lighter side to the story.
 One amusing episode was the employ ment of 30 natives-kroomen, as they are called in that part of the world who were engaged to trim coal in the bunkers. These men, to quote Black woods, had to be borne on the ships books for pay purposes. Some had no names, and other were blessed with patronymics which baffled the account ant staff: hence they were made to select ttallies' for. entries in the ships ledger. Undoubtedly they were assisted by the sailors in their choice, which accounts for the appearance in our books or such distinguished personages as King George,
 Aoyd-George, Jack Friday, etc TO see King George receive IS as reward for a weeks labor was the source of undisguised mrth of both officers and men,"
 Of great assistance was a native en tered on the books as King Bell" It appears that at the outbreak or the War the native King of the Cameroons was imprisoned by the Germans for his fail- ure to comply with some order issued which affected his property By some means he managed to communicate With the English authorities at Lagos, asking for help, for which offence he was hanged. With characteristic thorough ness. the Germans also hanged all the Kings male relatives they could lay hands on. King Bell was uncle to the King who was hanged, and the Cumoer- land found him only too wilhng to Jolh tha Enelish and help in driving the Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Brazilian Snake Farm

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 One of the queerest farms in the world is the snake farm at Butantan, in the state of Sac Paulo. Brazil. where thou sands Of poisonous snakes of all va rieties are kept in captivity. Thousands o. tubes of serum distributed from this institution every year. and much has been done to reduce the high nor tality rate resulting from snake bites.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

moving pictures. IS akln to
 z&a4J listing the writings of Bertha
 NJ. Clay as literature; creme de menthe, as stimulant merchant who deals in oils, as an art connoisseur or Corse Payton as an actor.
 Any of these is just as absurd.
 To attempt a criticism" of this mar vicious spectacle would be as foolish and footless as to convince golf and auction" enthusiasts of the mistake they are mak- ing in life.
 ''The Birth of Nation" like street pa rades, automobile shows. and your wifes gowns, may be ''reviewed' in the casual sense, and commented upon, but never .'criticized'
 At an ordinary every day show which you see on the boards, ior instance, the critic who entertains a biased though transcendental preference for ladies of the blonde cult may personally deplore the presence of an overbaiancng supply of brunette belles in the current offering and dlate and relate his objections in a ''criticism' world without end: but when he is called upon to criticize such a work of art as "The Birth of Nation his pen drops listless, inert. almost silent, before the gorgeous panorama, which tells in the most beautiful scenario, the most marvellous scenic effect, of the strug- gle and eventual triumph of people whose bravery and heroisln made history, g period of history which is without peer in point of interest, sympathy and splendor in the worlds annals.
 ''The third and last call'' has been sounded. for ''The Birth of a ITaton.'
 If you haven't seen it, you've got one more chance coming to you, and if you don't take advantage of it, you} be sorry just once, and that will be all the rest of your life.
 I've seen The Birth of Nation" three times, and I've written three stories about it; I'm going to see it a fourth time. and this my fourth story precedes that happy event.
 The story could never grow old to me; the spectacle could never grow less lu- minous; the interest eenterirg about it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

'oThe Birth of a Nation" is silent drama, as it should be; silent as those who enacted it in the black days of the long ago; it is meet that such things should be silent; they are too poignant for mere words!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Thousands following
x Wisconsin Woman Testifies.

Milwaukee, Wis. -" Before taking Lydia B. Pink hams Vegetable Compound was physical wreck I me no good A friend told me about Lydia p. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, so decided to give it fair trial and it gave relief from bearing down pains also used the Sanative Wash and it has done me a great deal of good and am not troubled with weak Milwaukee, Wis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Maryland Woman TI,estifIes. I,

Cambridge, Md wish all women who suffer from. female troubles would take Lydia E.. Pinkhams Veee- table Compound and be convinced of it's worth as have been At one time was great sufferer and my hus- band bought me bottle of Lydia R. Pinkhah' Vege- after my second child was born, it overcame female weakness after everything else had fa~d know how Lydia E. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound has helped me, and know it will help others Mrs. JAMES A BEIDEL, 107 Maryland Avenue, Cambridge, Md
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Ohio Woman Testifies.

Lina OhiO.-"I I was all broken down in health from 9 displacement One of my lady friends came to see me and she advised me to commence taking Lydia E Pinkham.s Vegetable Compound and to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. began taking your reme- woman after three doctors said never would stand up straight again. I have recommended Lydia E Pink surely has proved godsend to suffering women ''- Mrs. JENNIE MOVER, 342 E. North St., Lima, Ohio
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05

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Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-12-01
UNITY AND LATHDM

Mrs. Willis Leagon is very low,
suffering intensely all the time,
only when lulled by medicine. It is
thought her limb will have to be
amputated. Her hip bone has al
ready cut through the skin.
Mrs. Almus Stoker is very low
and grave doubts are entertained
as to her recovery.
Mr.. Billie Smith is confined to
his room and suffering intensely
with a badly scalded foot.
Willie Robertson and Bernice
Winstead happened to the misfor-
tune of losing a iattened hog
apiece. Mr.. Willie, Todd is losing
quite a lot of his hogs.
Minor Tucker has lumber on
the ground to build his new house.
Lumbie Brundige is improving
his house by recovering the old
building and adding a new front
porch.
Will Robertson has been trou-
bled for the past week with car
bucle on his cheek. Silver Bell.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-12-01
MT. ARIE ITEMS

Uncle. Jack Crabtree has sold
his house and lot in Christmas
vile to Mr.. 7. B. Alden.
Cattle in and around here are
dying with blackleg and a number
Of people are vaccinating against
the dreaded disease.
There are a number Of new
buildings being erected through
here. Mr.. Ed Stout's stock barn,
Mr.. S. P. Hills garage, Mr.. ]. @.
Burns stock barn and Mr.. Jim
Ross dwelling.
There is some talk Of trying to
get a public road down the Obion
river on the levy that will be made
when the river is dredged, begin
ming at the L. & N. railroad and
intersecting with the Bradford and
Greenfield public road.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1916-12-01
SIDONIA AND LIMBS

Mr.. Gilbert Morgan has tOrnl
down his dwelling and is rebuild
ing it on the public road, north
OF where it stood.
Bro. Emmerson Moore, ct Okla
homa, is here visiting relatives.
Miss Don Brooks gave birth
day party last Saturday night. A
large crowd was present and re-
ports a nice time. Miss Don re-
ceived several nice presents.
Mr.. Luther Marlar and family
left here last week for Arkansas
to make that their future home.
Mr.. Albert Hawkins is appoint
ed to conduct the prayer-meeting
at Hopewell next Sunday night.
Mr.. j. W. Morgan has been
suffering with rheumatism the
last few days.-A Farmers Wife.