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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
WATERWoRKs pEFEArEp.

Fremont, March 1.-THE proposition
to install a system of waterworks in
the town Of Fremont was beaten at the
special election by vote Of so to 81.
The vote on the waterworks and bond
propositions follows:
For issuing bonds men 81, against
70; for issuing bonds = women 5,
against Z. Total against 23.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
FRIENDS GREET BUTLER.

Muscatine, March II. AT the noon
day luncheon in the gold room of the
Hotel Muscatine more than 100 mer
crowded the festive board and extend
ed hearty welcome to Ellis Parker
R,,tlAr- noted humorist.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
SELL CONDEMNED SCHOOL

Jefferson. March II. The proposi-
ton to sell the condemned high school
building carried at the recent election
The proceeds of the sale will be used
toward building new building.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

The question of war prevention is
always deserving of solemn attention.
but just now it is Of prime importance
to work out plan whereby we can
feel assured that we will not come out
second best in case we fail to avert
war
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
TO SELL PERcHEoNS.

Cedar Falls. March IL Many big
corporations will have agents hers
Monday when forty head of registered
Percherons are to be sold at auction.
at the Cedar Valley fair ground pa
vilion. The sale is said to be the big.
gest registered sale of draft horses in
Iowa this year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

Don't fail to register tonight. Your
name must be on the poll books if you
want to exercise your right and do
your duty as citizen at the coming
election
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
SUES HUBBYs FOLKS.

Logan, March II. The case of Deal
vs.. Deal, a $4,000 alienation action
brought by Mrs. Deal against her moth
er-in.law and father.in-law, for alleged
alternating of her husbands affections.
was withdrawn without prejudice at
the close of arguments OF the attor-
neys.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

Men of national repute tell us that
the age of efficiency is here. Ottum-
wa voters should demand efficiency
and decency In their public officials
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

John Wanamaker is authority for
the statement that no boy ever be-
came great as a man If he failed in his
youth to learn to save money.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

The fact that there is one republi.
can on the administrations tariff board
is probably what gives occasion for
terming the body "nonpartisan tariff
commission"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

Wouldn't it be good Joke on the ex-
car of Russia if the new government
should send him to Siberia?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
HOSPITAL COMPLETED.

Atlantic March II. -Atlantic's new
$4,000 hospital is completed and oc-
cupied 1t is modern in every way, one
Of the best in the state.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

The fellow who steals time that be
longs to his employer is robbing him
self of his success.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

Victor Hugo asserted that people d.
not lack strength so much as will.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

The present Is the point where we
stand and watch the future dissolve
into the past.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

1t is the self made man who never
forgets his Maker.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
DINNER STORIES

Old Davy Skinner, fisherman on
the Cape Cod coast, noted for unfail-
ing self.poise and economy of words.
in the least excited, nor did he ever
waste a word.
One summer day he was rowing
along in his boat when dory con-
tanning five or six young summer
people was capsized near him. Nat
urally there was screams and wild
confusion in the midst of which Davy
rowed over to the scene of the disas-
ter and said placidly to the young
people who were clinging to the boat,
screaming for help.
Hadn't you better git in "
The well-to.do manufacturer who
made a hobby of archaeological re-
search was travelling in Palestine
when news reached him of an addi-
ton to his family. The manufacturer
sacrificed archaeological to parental
joys. Providing himself with some
water from the Jordon to carry home
for the christening, he at once set out
for Kentucky.
On the morning appointed for the
baptismal ceremony he arrived at the
church ahead of the rest of the family
in order to hand over the precious
water to the preacher. He pulled the
flask from his pocket the minister helo
up warning hand.
Not now, not now" he said softly
Maybe after church is out"
\ H,,J
necessity of administering a sound
thrashing to lis son. After he had
completed his labors he said sternly
to his suffering. victim:
Now. tell me why punished you"
That's it, sobbed Sammy. you
nearly pound the life out of me, and
now you don't even know why you
did it,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20

Car Nick has become car nix.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-03-20
Euening Story
MARTHA'S MENU.

BY Dorothy Douglas.
{ Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
l.. :. Newspaper Syndicate. :. 49,.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK.

Chicago.-Under the above caption
the Union Leader, official magazine of
organized street car men of this city,
says:
Notwithstanding the suggestion and
advice of the national council of de-
fense that existing standards in rela-
ton to labor should be maintained, the
labor crushers in industry have ALREADY
their plants bv the substitution of wom-
ell workers for men at reduced rates
of pay. Employers who follow this pol
icy should be branded as traitors.
"While the declaration of state OF
war has had little effect upon the sup
ply of men for jobs so far. press re
ports state that number of manutac-
turers are displacing men with women
at less wage than was paid the men.
Equal pay for equal work for
women who take the places of men in
industry is the trade union SLOGAN.
Women who are forced into industry
because their husbands, fathers, sons
and brothers have been called to the
front to protect the liberties of our ma
ton are not only sharing the burdens
of war, but must support those who are
left behind The employer who would
take advantage of war crisis to ex-
plot the labor of women should be
pronounced not only unpatriotic, but a
traitor.
"Whenever it becomes necessary to
stitute women for men in the industrial
field. the women should receive the
same wage as the men. There should
be no variation from this rule. Placing
low-paid women in competition with
men in any line of industry will DESTROY
present standards and work an injury
to all
"The sex of the worker must not de
termine the pay. Where women are do
ing the same work as men they should
receive the same wages
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
THE ENQUIRER
Tells Why Puchta Failed To Get a
RenOminatiOn-He Was Too Pro-
German To Take Chance With.

James w. Faulkner political expert
OF he Enquirer, speaking of Mayor
Puchta and his failure to get a re-nomi-
nation, says:
From the low ground around Gin
cinnati comes the report of the refusal
OF Mayor George Puchta, the business
mans Mayor, to make a stand for a
second term. He's had all he wants, he
says, and now desires to give some at
tention to his busines. That is all very
well, and has been said before by other
worthy men. There are reasons. though.
Tor believing that the pending conflict
with Germany had something to do
with his decision 1t had in Cleveland,
in the case Of Hon. Peter Witt the
well-known street-car salesman, who
wanted to run against Mayor Harry l..
Davis. The Democratic leaders, headed
by Secretary of War Newton ID. Baker,
didn't want to face patriotic splurge
from the Republicans because of GER
tain things Peter had said and done. By
the same token it looks as if the Re-
publican leaders in Cincinnati were in
the same uncom Portable box. At the
present writing Witt is making war
medicine, and has had a piece printed
to the effect that he doesn't know
whether he is for the organization's
candidate, Hon. Bill Stnchcomb, or the
rebel, County Clerk Edmund Haserodt,
or for either of them If this old pill
lar of righteousness had charge of
things up that-a-way, as Secretary Bak-
er has, it would invite Mr. Witt to pack
his valise and start out from under the
old roof-tree just as soon as he could
get his legs to working. Then it would
be discovered precisely what Peter
wants, Old stuff, that 1t isn't likely,
though, that Puchta will horse around.
They train em differently in Cincinnati,
never for minute taking off the halter
or leaving them loose in the paddock" !"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
RAILROAD EFFICIENCY
DON'T BENEFIT PUBLIC

Bismarck, n. Din \ letter IN an
eastern fnanc;,, ,aner St.,o Tax Cou,
ppl
missioner rackard shatters the theory
OF railroad managers and their support
ers that the public and labor have been
tbe colo ba,o6.;-;o - :, &c
ie' ea'eu eii-
oiehoy
The editor stated that "in 10 years
the average freight train load has in
creased 81 per cent without anv in
and the public has received the entire
advantage of the gain in the efficiency
of operation"
Commissioner Packard disagrees with
this statement and writes the editor:
"The increase in the profit per train
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
ROCKEFELLER CONCERN
BREAKS UNION PLEDGE

Starkville, Col-United Mine Work.
ers at this place and at Sopris are pro-
testing against the anti-union policy of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
(Rockefeller's concern), which has dis
charged trade union officials, because of
their activity in favor of organized la
Dor, and against the Rockefeller "un-
ion, which has proven a fraud and a
snare. In resolutions forwarded to all
unions in mining camps controlled by
the Rockefeller Company, the unonists
declare that this discrimination must
cease or the c. F. & l. will be called
upon to take such action as will put an
end to intimidation of superintendents
and their subordinates who would pre-
vent miners organizing bona fide trade
union in place of the Rockefeller "un-
ion" that is owned, dominated and
financed from the company's headquar-
ters.
In their resolutions the miners say
"We are loath to stop the production
OF coal at time when it may interfere
with the welfare of our country. but we
have reached the limit of federation in
this uncalled-for and unjust discrimina-
ton by this company, through its petty
pit bosses and superintendents.
THE company has made public state
ments that it has no objection to their
employees belonging to labor union,
but these statements have been proven
false and hypocritical because of the
continued discrimination against men
who take an active part in the affairs of
the United Mine Workers of America"
The resolutions declare that if it is
necessary to call strike to secure JUS
tice other union miners employed by
this company will be asked to join the
movement.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
"CAN'T-STRIKE" LAW REJECTED
by VERMONT.

Montpelier, Vt.-The state senate. bv
unanimous vote, refused to concur in
House Bill No. Az which would pro-
hibit any strike until GO days after the
state public service commission publish
ed its report on the grievance. The act
did not limit the time in which the com
mission should report, but provided that
1t shall be unlawful for union ito or
der, procure, assist in procuring or for
two or more of its members to congre-
gate to procure any strike or suspension
OF work because of such controversy
until go days after the publication of
the report of the public service com
mission provided for in Section 3 of
this act"
Section 3 provided that where an en-
plover and employees can not settle their
differences, either of the parties may
present the matter to the commission
(which shall forthwith, on due notice
hold q nublic investigation into the
merits of the controversy and make a
report of its findings of fact. including
its findings as to the cause of the con-
troversy, together with recommends
ton for q settlement, according to the
merits and substantial justice of the
case, which shall be forthwith pub
lished"
The proposed plan made no reference
to the employment of strikebreakers
during this investigation. but if work
ers struck they would be imprisoned
for not more than three wears or fined
not more than $500 nor less than $500
or both
This is the third time in the past six
years EMPLOYERS have failed to secure
this legislation, which was especiallr
urged bv employers in the granite and
quarry industries.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
SAFETY IN INRUSTRY URGED AS
WAR PLAN.

Harrisburg, Pa.-"Safety in industry
has become = war measure" said Com
missioner of Labor and Industry Jack
son in statement urging the imperative
need for this state waging the most Wig
orous and intensive campaign for indus
trial safety ever conducted.
"The conservation of man power is
an economic problem of first impor-
tance" he declared. with the newt
able expansion and readjustments that
must follow Americas entrance into the
war, human wastage must receive the
same careful consideration from the in
dustrial captains that it receives from
the military leaders, if the country a
large is intelligently to undertake the
task of cutting its sacrifice to the mini
num-
During the past year two and one
half regiments of the industrial army
of the state were annillilated. Since
January /, 1917, 75O workers have been
killed in this state. That is an average
of $50 month. The total number of
workers killed or injured. either serious
" or slightly, since the first of the year
is 64,32s. OF this number thousands of
the injured were incapacitated for fur
ther effective service.
"In the main, the causes of industrial
accidents are:
"Carelessness, speeding up, the new
man hazard, unguarded danger points
failure to keen in constant service safe
guards provided, lack of Americaniza
ton.
Speed in industry, a direct result of
great demand for production, must be
conducted under the most rigorous and
constant VIGILANCE both by employers
and employees"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
TUBERCULOSIS MOST DEADLY.

ashington.-Statistics gathered by
life insurance company and published
in tabular form in Bulletin No. 207 by
the federal bureau of labor statistics,
shows that during the years 1911, 1912,
and 1913, tuberculosis was responsible
for the largest number of deaths (35
per cent? among clerks and Office work
ers. Printers are next with 34.1 per
cent; gas and steam filters, 316 per
cent longshoremen, 29.2 per cent team
sters and chauffeurs, 2s.2 per cent; bar
tenders, 26 per cent machinists, 25 per
cent; cigar makers and tobacco work
ers, "a Il per cent; textile workers, %
per cent; iron molders, painters and
paper hangers, 21,9 per cent masonS
and bricklayers, 10 per cent; bakers,
1873 per cent; laborers, 1874 per cent;
blacksmiths, IA per cent
Accidental violence was responsible
for the largest number (423) per cent?
OF deaths among railroad enginemen and
trainmen railroad track and yard work
ers, POS per cent, and coal miners,
20.4 per cent,
Respiratory diseases are prominent
where the worker is exposed to colds,
drafts and dampness, as masons and
bricklayers, or to violent changes OF
temperature, as among teamsters and
chauffeurs. Where work is heavy, as
with iron molders, organic diseases of
the heart prevail. Suicide is frequent
where depressing influences are present,
as among bakers and cigar makers, and
typhoid fever is high when questionable
water supplies are used, as among en-
ginemen, trainmen, farmers, iron mold
ers and laborers.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
British and Canadian Social
Conditions Described Bv
Labor Enjoys to America a

Washington.-Firs hand information
of presentday social conditions in Eng
land and Canada was impaired to near
ly 200 unionists, sympathizers and en-
ployers, members of the committee on
labor of the advisory commission, coun-
Gil of national defense, at meeting
called by President Gompers, in the A.
F. of L. building, last Monday, to hear
the story from English and Canadian
trade unionists. These workers were
sent to America by their respective gov
ernments on invitation of President
Gompers.
British conditions were explained by
Charles w. Bowerman, member of par
Lament and secretary of the British
Trades Union Congress, and James H.
Thomas, member of parliament and gen.
eral secretary of the National Union of
Railwaymen of Great Britain and Ire
land. Canadian conditions were treated
by ]. c. Waters president of the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada and Gid
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
WOMEN'S WAGE LAWS IN SIGHT

New York,-Minimum wage laws for
women and minors is coming, and
manufacturers may as well accept the
inevitable instead of clinging to the old
freedom OF contract" theory.
This is the opinion of the general
counsel of the National Association of
Manufacturers, at its annual conven-
ton in this city
1--WE may expect that within a few
years." it is stated, nearly all of the
states of the union will have enacted
minimum wage laws similar to those
already in existence. The historic prin-
ciple of the freedom of contract is ma
terially limited by this new method of
legislative wage standards. The prin-
ciple urged by the proponents of mini
mum wage, namely, that minors and
women, because of physical characters
tics, are in theory wards of the state
and require and deserve the protection
of the state, is now established judicial
doctrine"
The report maintained that the mini
mum wage meant new standards of
wage determinations" and ''the lessening
of the right of property" Continuing,
the report put several questions concern
ing the possible effect of the minimum
wage on the cost of living the tariff
and foreign trade, and concluded thus /:
"These and other intricate questions
must be inteligently faced by all en-
ployers of minors and women in this
country"
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26

Rock Island, Ill-A two weeks strike
of carpenters in this city, Moline and
Davenport has been settled. The men
have secured rate of 62H cents an
hour for an eight-hour day The for
mer wage was SO cents.
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1917-05-26
WILL ARBITRATE DISPUTES.

St Louis. Mo.-The Carpenters Dis
trict Council of this city and the Master
Builders Association have signed two
year agreement with arbitration provi-
sions. Until July of this year the
wage rate shall be 65 cents an hour and
20 cents thereafter. Foremen's rates are
an additional 10 cents an hour.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
WEST BRATTLEB0RO

NJ tI,rr,. c1ar1- - Nro-..l.,..,,.
" t. .,,.. = NJ IL. ~ D..
Der.
Mis-. 1-;,.i,, Irnn,o, ho,. ,,s,,,,o5 hon,
Studies in tbc snboo1 of+ar bo;na I'M
,g;+l .,,,eogln.
Harold Crosier. who lives at Walter
BaftIptt's. +. ONT again after bayin,
been in with mumps
R;~b,ra prio,, = .onfort,ll,. - IN.
Melrose hospital, following slight
operation several days ago.
Miss Minnie stowe VIVA had haru
visitfno her win relatives returned
,.aste,.Ia, 80 her bar,. i, ly.,,.arl,.
AIass
IT,. p.,t.. .:...,. -,
Us '''''''',S' mo - ''''Nif ~
1 III ms nome ana "'''F '"e care "l d
professional nurse remains a'oat Ia
SAINT
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
The Block System.

He was travelling on branch rail
road in the South. After series of
sjddcn bumps and unexpected stops he
became uneasy.
Look here" he said to the porter
lis this train safe
1T sure am said the porter.
"WrlI. nave they q block system or
this road
Block system. sah2 We nab IL
greatest block system in de world. Tel
miles back, we were blocked bv loat
Of hay. six miles back We were blocked
by a mule, Just now we were blocked
by COW and reckon when we ger
farther souf we II be blocked BIZ an ALI
gator. Block system, boss Well, /!
should smile. New York Globe.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
BROOKLINE.

There wa. good attendance AT the
pound party in the Baptist vestry Friday
evening.
Mr. and Mr.. +. /. Bush visited then
daughter, Mrs. d. L. Perry, i'll Spring
field recently
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hakcy and baby
Of Grafton are at her fathers, T. i
Stevens. this week
The women'~ missionary society me;
with Mrs :. r. Meek al the par,onag,
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs f. II Wellington anC
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
MITCHELL SECURES POSITION
ClaWson- Hamilton Principal
Returns 10 Rutland
Former

Frank +. Mitchell of Lawrence
Mass, formerly principal Of the CLAW
son Hamilton commercial college in
bfattlehoro, was elected Monday even
ING for the second time principal OF
the commercial department of tho Rut
land high school At a special Meeting
lot the board Of education.
MIR. Mitchell : salary is to be ~l..1et
a year. He succeeds +. y, Gerrish. who
has resigned to take position Al Troy
\. y. in a private school.
lie was head Of the commercial de-
Paftment Of the Rutland Business col
Iege for two years and was for foui
years connected with the commercial
department Of the Rutland publ,
schools.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
A Long Salute.

Oncer-Hcv there, Didu t I tell you
for the salute that YOU We're to count
three between the raising and drop
ping OF the hand
Bilbao - If You please, sir, this
bloke 5 onlr got as tac a> two - he
stutters- sydney Bulletin
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
BIRTHS.

In Jamaica, MAY Is, son to Mr.
ma Mrs. Albert Magoon.
In Jamaica. May Is, daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wright.
In Mortified, Mass. May 49, son
to Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23

daughter. Alice. spent Sunday at ".
" Whitncy'9 in Town9hcnd
1t is reported that the Ranney farm
has been sold to Mr. Webb OF Brdttle-
boro. who will move here about June /.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23

y nickel 5 all right to have, Of course
But il : dimes m wanting today;
For nickel is only nickel,
But a dime is a photoplay.
California Pelican.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23

took place in Montague Bay state
lodge OF Masons of that town having
charge Of the services at the grave.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
MARRIAGES.

Ia Northdeld, Mass, May -, by Rev.
\. \. Thompson, Charles Field and Mis-
Nellie Bailey.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-23
Between Two Cigars

there may be no difference in
price or appearance. But
when you come to smoke
them there viii be a big diff
ference in flavor, smooth
ness and aroma. Take our
cigars for instance. No 9th
ers Of the same price can
compare with them and a
trial will prove it.