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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-02-16
THE O. X. PROOF

AS we glance down the galley,
When the take of life is set,
And find it full of mistakes,
Full of sadness and regret,
Let US hope the Great Proofreader
Will overlook the trifling things,
And in marking up our errors
Will find that most are rings.
No man sets an o. K. proof;
In each there's something wrong.
Some seem weak and foolish
And others mean and strong.
A transposition here and there,
A stray or misplaced space;
A doublet or an out, perhaps,
Each on his proof can trace.
But let's have the correction clean;
Be careful and be wise;
And let's wipe every error out
And show a clean revise.
Just one man had an o. X. proof,
With the margin clear and bright.
They nailed him to wooden cross
The price of being right.
DICK WORK.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-02-16

the purchasing power of the workers.
Unfortunately whenever such assoc
lated activities reached any degree Of
success the power and influence of
these institutions many times were
perverted into instruments of oppres-
sion and suppression of the workers,
very often these cooperative energies
mercialism and to the suppression Of
feeling and desire to socialize indus
trial pursuits.
Let the past be as it may, our work
responded solely to spirit of COM
is to get thousands of women and men
enlisted in this great army under the
banner of the Woman's International
Union Label League.
1t is not urged that trade unions
should dispense with the weapons of
the boycott and the fair list. 1t is
urged that the Importance of the
trade union label activity cannot be
overlooked.
The union label unqestionably ex-
cells in that it inspires unity and fed
Grafton, stimulates education, emphas-
ICES skill and superior workmanship,
promotes trades and defies unscrupu-
lous competition, teaches the primal
obligation of labor to common cause,
while steadily winning it's way into
the hearts of the masses in that it
symbolishes human justice and human
freedom. 1t is for the attainment of
these lofty ideals, these humane ac-
complishments, that this emblem of
trade unionism has been adopted.
Mindful of the latent and potential
powers for good inherent in the trade
union movement let all unite in this
appeal and enlist in this noble cause
for the uplift of the worker. Let all
join in this march forward, onward
and upward under this great banner OF
fraternity and brotherhood, the en-
blem of humanity and the symbol of
the hopes and aspirations of the work
ers for better life and greater and
more humane civilization.
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POETRY"

E. d. X. in the Seattle Star an
nounces that he, himself, C. Allen
Dale, George M. Cohan, Thomas Law
son and Bernard Shaw have awarded
theatre tickets to a lady for perpetrat-
ing the following lin:
when Doc Mathews goes out for
spin
In his new little lizzie of tin,
The Doctors so tall,
And the car is so small
He can't get his legs and feet in"
But when he takes the pulpit to
spiel
He makes such a hard-knocking
deal
That the jewellers in sin
That the jewellers in sin
Are shocked by the din
feel.
Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, Sc.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-02-16

Don't kick if the Trades Council
does something you don't like; you are
a delegate. Attend and take hand
in the proceedings.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-02-16

Ben Osborne, Third Vice President
of the International Association of
Bridge, Structural and Ornamental
Iron Workers and Pile Drivers, was
a visitor in the city last Tuesday, tax
ing look over the field and getting
acquainted with his fellow workers.
Brother Osborne has his headquarters
in Portland.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-02-16
WOMEN SET FOOD PRICES

Waco, Tex, Jan. 6.-As a means
of checking the advancing prices of
foodstuffs, about $50 women have
joined a housewives league and have
fixed maximum price for poultry,
butter and eggs. These prices are 40
cents a pound for butter, 35 cents a
dozen for eggs and II cents a pound
for turkeys. The women are pledged
not to purchase these products when
prices are above the maximum. The
agreement is to continue in force for
one month, or until such time as prices
decline.
Trades unionists are hopeful the
women will extend their unity idea.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-02-16

There are some signs of restless
ness and mutterings of discomfort
among the 'happy" boarders at the
Hotel Beanjay." Perhaps Fred and
Neal had better send their boarders
to Seattle Saturday night for "recre-
alton" and amusement" That was
part of the program when the "Bean-
jay" was in course of construction.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-06-01

dees. Kut Ell Amara is on the edge
of ancient Ur. The Chaldeans are
still living there. Among the Chris
tan leaders hung by the Turks
when they took Bagdad were emf
nent men of the Chaldean Christian
Church, one of the historic Eastern
churches which has borne witness
to it's faith, despite all prosecutions,
in this famous region.
When Abraham went to Haran
he followed the Tigris River, just
as the Turks are doing. They have
the advantage Of hundred miles
Of the Bagdad railway, which has
been built northward from the city
the name Of which it bears, to old
Sanarra, the place famous relig-
iously as the tomb of the tenth
Imam, the mahdi whose return is
expected by Moslems. 1t was be-
cause Of the pilgrimages that this
section of the railroad was complet-
ed, without waiting for the rest.
The mosque which covers the tomb
of the tenth Imam is one Of the
most beautiful in the world, exter-
nally. No Christian has ever been
permitted to enter it's sacred pre-
cincts, and few Westerners have
seen it's walls.
The route Of Abraham, and of the
fleeing army, passes old Nineveh
across the river from which is the
city, Of Mosul, where the army is
likely to make a stand. This is
walled city and the capital Of a villa
yet. A battle beneath the ruined
walls Of Nineveh would be in con-
sonance with the character of this
war, which has so wonderfully link
ed the old and the new, the past
and the present, the East and the
West. All that is alive in Nineveh
today is little village over the re-
puted tomb of Jonah, and still bear
ing that prophets name.
Fighting by Rebecca's Well.
If defeated at Mosul, the Turks
and Germans will make their next
stand at another point of Scriptural
interest, Ras ell Ain, which is in
old Harrah, where Abraham dwelt
before going to on to Canaan; and
where he sent his steward to get
wife for Isaac. Here Rebecca's we'll
may still be seen. Does it not seem
like a journey into the realms Of
the remote lands of mystery to con-
template battle of modern troops
where Rebecca watered the sheep?
Here at Ras ell Ain great stores
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-06-01

eTuSdlc1u.
Observation-Disclosures OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Kaiser's Stake in Babylon.
Germany had more than scolar-
ly interest in Babylon. The ex-
penses Of the work, amounting, as
DR.. Kaldeway told me, to twenty
thousand dollars year, were met
by the German Government. The
Kaiser's personal interest in the
Babylon project is famous. Not
only was it a research work that
appealed to the imagination, but it
was also ''stake" in this wonder
full region to which the imperial
German ambitions were directed.
The members of Dr.. Kaldeway's
staff were all German officers, and
that their activities were not ex-
clusively archaeological has been
demonstrated by the early success
Of the Turco-Teutonic expedition.
They accomplished what the Brit
ish, long dominant in this region,
had believed impossible.
Now Babylon is practically sub
urb of Bagdad. It automatically
follows the fortunes of that metrop-
ellis of Mesopotanii:.. When the city
of the caliphs fell to General
Maude's forces, and the Turks were
chased from all their outlying posi-
lions, Babylon was one of the first
points to be cleared. Your unsenti-
mental British officer was not un-
mindful of the romance of captur-
ing the city which had fallen to-
Cyrus the Great and to Alexander
the Great, and which has had a
peculiar position in all the histories
Of antiquity. AS a German centre,
it was important that it should not
be left in the enemy's hands.
In the Footsteps of Abraham.
Bible students best understand
the dispatches from Mesopotamia,
for other persons, for the most
part, have only the haziest notions
as to the location of detailed points.
Interest in the present retreat of
the Turkish-G German forces is en-
HANGED by the fact that they are op-
Grating within strictly Bible lands,
and their course is almost Identical
with that followed by Abraham,
when he followed the voice that
called him out of Ur of the Chal-
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-06-01

The Romantic Background the Capture Bagdd the British
Follow Abrahams Route Beyond Babylon, Perhaps to the
Taking of jerusalem

eGat Taking of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The dispatches failed to mention
it, when reporting the capture Of
Bagdad, but not the least interest
ing item in the recent remarkable
news from Bible lands is the fact
that Babylon has fallen once more,
and this time to the troops of Great
Britain. Despite all the attention
that is being given to Bagdad- and
some of the recent articles are
amazingly inaccurate-that city of
the caliphs does not have anything
like the hold upon public attention
that old Babylon possesses. In his
tory, prophecy, imagery, song
and story, Babylon occupies uni
que position, and it's passing into
the control of the British is note
worthy.
Literally, the British have taken
Babylon. There are really two
Babylons. One is the Babylon of
today, and the other is the Baby
lon of the time of Nebuchadnezzar.
The former is the town of Hillah,
situated within the confines of old
Babylon, and famous for it's dates.
l have eaten dates in many parts of
Mesopotamia, but those of Hillah
are the best of all. The town is
small, with only a few hundred in
habitants, and it's buildings are all
of mud bricks, like the Babylon of
old.
Hard by are the ruins of Nebuch-
adnezzar's palace, and the houses of
the German psychologists who have
been at work excavating the ruins
for many years. Before the war
there were a dozen German schol-
ars living regularly at Babylon, to-
gether with the Arab workmen en-
camped outside the walls Of their
compound. The head of the COM
munity was the famous DR.. Kalde-
way, whose hospitality has been
extended to the few Americans who
have penetrated into that remote
corner of the world. Judging from
the guest book which DR.. Kaldeway
kept, l should say that there are
probably not a score of persons IN
all America who have pressed foot
on the very bricks of the floor OF
ACKNOWLEDGMENT throne room, as
the Germans have laid it bare.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
RED CROSS

Penns GrOve-Carney's Point Branch
Mrs. Irons and Mrs. Willis desire to
thank the ladies who so readily re-
sponded to their urgent call for assis-
lance to meet the demand for Special
Dressings recently made by the Army.
This work was carried out with
promptness, and the Branch was en-
abled to send the dressings as called
for.
The work rooms will be opened as
follows !:
Penns Grove, Main Street
Monday nights, 7.3O to 1000.
Tuesday, 900 A. M. to 1000 P. NJ,
Mrs. R. P. Willis in charge
Carney's Point-duPont Club,
Ziegler Tract
Tuesdays, 1.30 to 500 p. M.
Wednesday S, 8 P. M. to 1000 P. NJ,
1.30 to 500 P. M.
Thursdays, 1.30 to 500 P. M.
Saturdays for Children's Classes,
1.30 to 400 P. M.
The people of the village are very
urgently requested to assist with this
work. Moving picture slides will be
exhibited giving all changes in hours
as made. Knitting material may be
procured at the work rooms and this
work can be carried out at home.
For material or instructions call on
Miss Rena Leap, Penns Grove, and
Mrs. c. E. Wood, Carney's Point.
c. E. w.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
Mention SOGi0I Notes
The Whereabouts and Doings
of Good People You Know

Mrs. Tillie Smith has recovered from
her recent fall down stairs so is about
he house again.
Miss Lizzie Kidd has sold 5000
stamps for the benefit of the State
tuberculosis Hospital.
The wife of Frank w. Tussey, in
Camden, a native of Penns Grove, was
buried last Monday, 10th.
Mrs. Jerry H. Long and Mrs. Harry
L. Blohm and son Fletcher are spend
ing ten days at City Point, Va, as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kidd.
Mrs. Ida Taylor and niece, Frances
3atten, have returned after spending
some time in Atlantic City. Miss
Frances is much improved in health.
Mrs. Dorothy Shaffer, an aged
widow who lives alone a short distance
above Penns Grove, was stricken with
paralysis last Friday and found in a
jemi-conscious condition by neighbors
m Saturday. She is much better un-
.,er the r. Of her daughter, Mrs.
Keal.
Prof. William Moskowitz, the Penns
Grove dancing master, and his sister.
Hazel, have made an engagement with
the Grand Central Palace in New York
City to exemplify the modern dances
at a function to be given there on
Christmas eve. There is no doubt our
.ocal celebrities will acquit themselves
creditably in the big city and show
Them that Penns Grove is on the map.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
An Early Morning Fire

Fire went thru a defective fue on
Henry Blohm's cottage on the river
'front.' this Friday morning at TAO and
burned it completely down. The cot
ages on either side were also dam
lged by fire so as not to be inhabit-
able.
The burned cottage was occupied by
Samuel Carroll and family. Most of
heir household goods were consumed
while those in the others were carried
out. Being no fire plugs near water
was carried from the river and the
chemical engine did good service saw
ing adjoining buildings. Never forget
the fire laddies.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
RED CROSS LRIE
Larger Membership Wanted For
Christmas Good VIII

The national organization of the
Red Cross has designated the week
beginning December 18th for a special
Christmas drive for membership thru
out the United States. Salem
County's quota is $500, Penns Grove
and Upper Penns Neck 2,143. The
Penns Grove-CaTney Point commit
tees are:
Carney Point. c. Packard. Mrs.
A. B. Cooper, Frank OConhor, Mrs.
II. G. Irons, William S. Colfax, Jr.,
Mrs. P. S. Duffield.
Penns Grove-Mrs. Ralph P. Willis.
Orville Parker, D. Y. Summerill. Jr..
lrs. Howard Miller.
A public meeting to sir Up enthusi-
lsm vas held in Community Hall
thursday afternoon, when Z. Graham
~Prichard, of Montreal, formerly Lieut..
II the Princess Pat Regiment, the first
o go from Canada, gave his interest
ng experience in the trenches. He was
wounded in several places and is one
Of the three survivors.
Every person should give one dollar
to the Red Cross on this Christmas
drive.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
Explosion at New Castle

Shortly before 8 o'clock on Wednes-
day morning noises like the booming
of cannon were heard in Penns Grove.
1t was the terrific explosion of loaded
shells in the Bethlehem Steel Cos.
plant, a mile below New Castle. A
fire started in the shell loading house
where $4,000 shells were loaded with
t. n. T., n of the most powerful
explosives used in the war. The
building of frame was 1000x150 feet
burned like finder.
Theodore Jacobs, of Harrison, N. J..
chif of the plants guards, had his
head taken off by ashell. Several
others were lightly injured while run
ming away.
None of the operators were at work,
altho some we're in the house getting
ready.
In normal times 800 persons are en-
ployed at the works, but now only
about 1000 are employed there.
The $4,000 loaded shells had been
made for the United States govern
ment as samples while there were also
some stored there, loaded, from the
old Russian order. The untitled stock
was for general use, and probably
would have been filled for this govern
ment.
The acid used in the ingredient load
ing the shells is obtained from the du-
Pont works at Carney Point, while the
other ingredients come from the du-
Pont Co.'s plant at Barksdale, Wis.
At the time of the fire only one boat
was at the Bethlehem wharf, and thai
was a barge carrying acid, but it was
in no danger.
The cause of the fire is believed t.
! De the boiling over of the acid.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
The First Winter Blast

The first chilly wind and snow of
winter arrived last Saturday on a
northwest gale which pulled the tenn
perature down to Is. The snow fell
D the depth of two inches. Higher
~emperature and change of wind to
he northeast brought rain but the
Jtars were seen at night
Saturday night another snow squat
pulled the temperature to Is and did
not rise above 26 during the day, max
ing the coolest December 9th in Al
years. The temperature since has
been Monday and Tuesday mornings
II, Wednesday 20, Thursday 26, this
Friday IA. Thursday evening three in
ches of snow fell. Rain followed be-
lore midnight, but freezing tempera-
ture made an icy top to snow and
slush Friday morning.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
Christmas Parties Planned

The Y. NJ. c. A. at Carney Point is
planning Christmas good times for
everyone.
On Tuesday night, December 18th,
there will be a party at Community
Hall for all the girls employed 1t the
DUPONT Plants. Each girl may bring
her husband if she be married, and if
not, a man friend. It's to be a real
Christmas party with a real Santa
Claus; so let's all be sure to come. The
party begins at 8 p. NJ, and there will
be a whole evening of fun and good
time. Every dupont girl is invited
and we hope to see her there.
On Tuesday, the 21st, from 4 to 6
there vii be a children's party at Com
munity Hall. All the young girls and
children of the Village will be expect
ed and there will be plenty of fun and
a good time for all.
On Friday evening, the 21st, at s
o'clock, there will be a general Christ
mas entertainment and party at Com
munity Hall. Since the children have
their party in the afternoon, the even
ing is especially for grown-ups, both
men and women.
Several of the Carney Point women
are managing the entertainment and
they are devoting so much time and
thought to it that we can promise you
it will be well worth seeing. The en-
tertainment is to be the Christmas
story, which everyone loves, given in
a new way. There will be good Christ
mas music and a general good time
after the entertainment. All grown-ups
are invited, and if any should not
come, they'll be missing a mighty
good time.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
Riveryiew Fire Officers

At the annual election of the River
view Volunteer Fire Department on
Tuesday afternoon the following were
elected !:
President, John M. Welden; Vice
Presidents, Frank S. Harris and F. C.
McVaugh; Recording Secretary, G. C,
Scanlon; Treasurer, L. Seminar; Trus-
tee, John Black; Marshall, Frank ].
O'Connor; 1st Assistant, John G. Sui
Ivan; I'd Assistant, c. S. Macarthur;
Chief, H. A. Lyons; Assistants, 1st,
Harry Backer; I'd, A. Boone; Sd, L. E.
Diver; Chaplain, Rev. C. B. Dubell.
Trustees for the coming year are.
John Black, H. w. Brigham, John G.
Sullivan, Albert Boone, John Yardly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
County Court Next Week

The December term of Salem County
Court will begin on Tuesday in the
Court House in Salem. Several cases
+ on record for trial, some being
from Penns Grove.
The Grand Jurors are: Penns Grove,
David A. English, Fletcher w. Layton,
Mark c. Dolbow; Upper Penns Neck,
George H. Biddle, Elmer Shoemaker,
Elmer Curriden, John L. Carson.
Oldmans, Rev. C. w. Deibert.
Petit Jurors, Penns Grove, James
Workman; Oldmans, John Cook and
Samuel Black.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
Woman's Club

A most interesting meeting of the
Woman's Club was held on Tuesday
evening of last week.
Mrs. G. w. Cox, who represented
the Woman's Club at a meeting of the
Woman's Committee of the Council of
National Woman's Clubs in Camden
for the purpose of interesting the wo-
men of South Jersey along lines of
registration, gave an excellent report,
full of patriotism, pathos and humor.
February is the month in which the
women of New Jersey will register.
Mrs. Howard D. Miller gave a re-
port of the Miniature Federation held
in Woodbury. recently.
During the business meeting several
measures of civic Importance were up
and discussed.
After the business Mrs. Hanna Ash
craft read an excellent paper on "How
Housing Laws and Building Regula-
tons would benefit Penns Grove" A
discussion followed the paper in which
was stated several concrete cases of
when shacks with no chimney, only
pipe hole thru wall or roof had been
put up in residential sections, the re-
suit of which doubled and in some
cases trebled the insurance rate. The
economic as well as the ethical and
aesthetic side of the question was
brought out. 1t is earnestly hoped
that some building line will be defined
and some valuation specified in the
erection of all buildings, especially in
residential sections.
Mrs. Edward Townsend gave a
splendid talk on Developing Bust
ness Instincts in Children.n This
talk vas further supplemented by a
general discussion in which there was
brought to light many excellent ways
to stimulate and encourage children in
thrift.
The next meeting of the Club will
be held on Tuesday next. Mrs. G. w.
Cox, Chairman of Home and Human
ity Department, will have charge of
the program, which will be the Christ
mas program.
Miss Julia Wernig, of East Orange,
will be present and speak on the bene-
fit to the soldier of the Club House
maintained by women's organizations
at Camp Dix.
There will be an executive meeting
of the Club at 2.30. At 2.45 the Club
meeting will be called to order.
The Holiday Concert will be held in
st. PauPs Church on Friday evening,
December %. Miss Virginia Gill. Of
Camden, a delightful impersonator
reader, also a soloist of splendid abil-
ity, has been secured for the occasion.
The Club will divide the proceeds
between the Red Cross and Federation
Club House for soldiers at Camp Dix.
The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-14
The Riverside

The management has prepared an
interesting program of pictures for
next week, including the famous Bur-
ton Holmes Travalogue and the latest
war pictures.
Tomorrow Saturday night, Joe
Hortes is billed with his fine minstrel
show. He has just finished an en-
gagement with the Globe Theatre,
Philadelphia. The managementof the
Riverside is unceasing in its efforts to
keep its pictures and vaudeville right
up to the minute. "The Spy" and "Be-
ware of Strangers" are two pictures to
be shown next week that will be
worth seeing.