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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-09
BEGAN WORK RIGHT
Presidents Wise Moves When
Nation Entered War.
Severance Of Relations With PaelAss
Element Was One, and Readiness
TO Listen to Those Who
Knew, Another.

Time will demonstrate that Mr..
Wilson is the greatest war president
the nation ever had"
That is the opinion expressed by Mr..
Gerard, soon after his return from Ber-
lin, where for four years he had been
the American ambassador to Germany.
If Mr.. Wilson becomes such presi.
dent, it will be largely due to the two
steps he took when he was forced to
call for declaration Of war against
the German government.
His first important step after that
event was to turn his back upon-to
positively sever relations-with the en-
tire pacifist element.
That step brought to him scandalous
abuse by these elements, their orators
and their press, but that was offset
many times over by the satisfaction
his course had given to the millions
who stand ready to manifest their will
ingness to make any sacrifice that
their country may demand. They keep
one object in view-the best interests.
These are the millions who are back
Ing the president-who are lined up.
solidly behind the government. These
are the millions who have said away
with party politics until the end of the
world war"
The other step exhibited equal sense
and patriotism. The president, know
Ing that the nation was to have large
part In the greatest war in which it
ever participated, realized how impor-
tant it was that he counsel with those
who could best aid him and the coun-
try.
Where, under the circumstances,
should he 60 but to those whose pro-
fession had fitted them for counsel
men who from early manhood had
studied military science and familiar
ased themselves with all of the details
of war, and who had been careful stu
dents Of the present gigantic struggle.
There Is where Mr.. Wilson went for
advice, to the best informed men of the
army and navy, and few rea; states
men whose Americanism always has
been above reproach, whose love Of
country and ability had given them
their foremost rank.
The assistance he sought was found.
Since then the nation has broken all
former records in preparing for war.
There has been energy, good judgment
and speed in every movement for prep
aration that has been made, and no
movement required has been lacking,
except when delayed legislative action
was in the way.
But for these two steps Mr.. Wilson
might have proved the poorest Of all
our war presidents. They were steps
that had to be made. The natiop may
well be glad that the president was
broad, wise and patriotic enough to
take them when he did, and to cut of
a retreat-Exchange.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-09
Cause for coneratuIat,on.

The United States is again demon.
strating to the world that 1t is Gods
country-a land flowing not only with
''milk and honey" but also producing
bounteously from its rich soil all the
articles Of food required to support its
own teeming millions and also to sup
ply literally to the people with whom
this country is allied in the fight for
Justice, democracy and humanity
against the inhuman assaults Of au-
tocracy and militarism.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-09

All Lovers Of Freedom In Line.
The presidents ringing phrase, TO
make the world safe for democracy"
has focused into one unquenchable
flame the aspirations. not Of nation
nor of a group Of nations, but Of man.
kind
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-09
WAY Of Daniels.

Secretary Daniels threatens to
"clean up" Newport unless the local
authorities attend to the Job. The sec
rotary seems determined to get him.
self disliked by all manner Of crookA
rBochester Herald.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-09
An Eye for Business.

Five-year-old Jimmy had new
brother and his problem was. What
will call him2" One day he decided
and said: "Oh! know. Call him
Jimmy, 90 when I'm called he can 60"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-08-09
A Sermon In Stone.

O'Brien (the marble cutter)-"What
q fool I was! If hadn't overcharged
Kelly's widow for his tombstone, she
would never have married me for my
money."-Town Topics.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22
Against Dyer
EDITOR THE TIMES

EDl1Ok The TIMES
Altho | am neither a follower
nor a sympathizer of Pastor Rus-
sells successor, | cannot agree
with you that DR.. Dyer did right
when he gave the lie to Judge
Rutherford.
Dyer conducted himself about
as any smart-alec would do who
has more brass than fairplay in
him.
If, as you indicate, these peo-
pie were in "a sympathetic frame
of mind then Dyer only defeated
his object in arousing the just in
dignation of those present by con-
Quoting himself in an ungentle-
manly and un-Christian way.
Such undemocratic conduct will
not make the world safe for de-
mocracy. If Rutherford broke
any laws the law is big enough to
handle him without any of Dyer's
help; If he did not, then Dyer is
just a common disturber of
religious meeting and ought to
have been squelched.
No, no, Mr.. Editor, in your zeal
for supporting the war do not
make the mistake of melting peo-
pie against other American peo-
Pile who happen to differ with
you-inciting them to disturbing
public peace and rights, such, like
Overs conduct is contemplate.
LEONARD S. RHODES.
Centralia, WASH, 1905 South
Power avenue.
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present conditions. / have drift
ed around from one job to another.
| have always made 1t a rule to
leave when they cut the pay down,
but have sometimes had to go back
after losing two or three months
time. That sort of thing is what
makes floaters and tramps. There
surely is some better way.
When the men in the mill got
up a petition to only work eight
hours, the manager invited them
to meet him next morning, and he
said the owner of the plant was a
rich man who had bought it at a
reduced price so he would have
something to keep him interested.
HE said he had watched a
certain man feeding planer,
and he fed as much the last hour
as he did the first hour. Now
what they call mill work today
used to be called joiners' work,
and was made with hand tools,
and after a man had worked
about seven years to learn the
trade and bought about 500
worth of tools he could make
about as much in a day as the
machine makes in minute, and
some of the people lived in houses
then same as they do now"
CHARLES RAWLINSON,
Spanaway.
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from the wives of the miners say
ing that when their husbands
went to work they never knew
whether or not they would ever
return, and that they lived in con-
slant anxiety.
"On June s, 160 men were burn
ed to death in fire in one mine.
This was the climax The men
stopped work. The workers knew
that they would never be safe as
long as the 'rustling card system
existed. For under that system
every man who complained of con-
ditiOns or reported dangers or en-
deavored to form an organization
was laid off for one reason or an
other, and it would be impossible
for him to obtain work again in
any mine in Montana or else
where. 1t is easy to see the great
necessity of abolishing the rus
Ting card system"
BY Mrs. Mckay:
ION June q of this year the
Industrial Workers Of the World
declared a strike in Bisbee, and
the ma jority of the workers of
the district responded.
ut was admitted by hundreds
of men that talked to personally
that the demands of the strikers
were very reasonable, and that
the men asked for nothing that
they were not entitled to.
During the two weeks that
elapsed between the calling of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22
BY Mabel Abbott
| have inside information about

! have inside information about
the American lake cantonment.
| got 1t from Jimmy; and II
Jimmy doesn't see Hurley-Mason't
big government job from the in
side, nobody does.
Jimmy is IL years old and
rather small for his age, which,
tho popularly supposed to be a
handicap in the business world, is
the reason why he and a few doz-
en- other boys like him are earn
ing mems wages at the canton
ment this summer.
He points Up"
To be explicit, Jimmy is a sewer
boy; one of the youngsters who
crawl thru the miles of main sewer
that are being laid to serve the
great camp, and point 1t up" on
tho inside.
Pointing up" simply means
filling the joints between the short
sections Of concrete pipe with NOR
tar and smoothing them SO no
roughness will cause Instructions
to accumulate when the sewer is
in use.
And as some of the main sewer
pipe is only 20 inches in diamae-
ter, 1t will be seen why Jimmy and
his fellow-workers are secure from
grown-up competition.
Pipe Yawns for Jimmy
found Jimmy yesterday, bright
eyed and important, at the bottom
of deey hole in a partially filled
trench.
To either side of him the end of
la section of pipe yawned like a
huge, black rathole.
Jimmy was in scuffed overalls,
and a brass Identification tag was
pinned on his battered hat. He
carried little pail of mortar, and
he seemed to be waiting for some
thing.
From one of the retholes issued
strange sounds. Jimmy indicated
1t with a jerk of his head.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22

Remedies, Rhine, Wash; Clar-
ence Summerville, 70S Market st.
Claims Allowed.
The following claims were al
lowed for exemption: Chas. l..
Larsen, ITO 9th ave.; Walter c..
Steel, 607 So. 10th; II. ID. Bur-
roughs, 612 So. Tacoma ave.; A..
H. Madison, 1112 So. 18th; Frank
w. Allen. 514 No. G.; Earl Potter,
416 No. M; John w. Fritz, 9191a
So. Yakima ave.; F. VIM. Backe-
burg, 94S So. Sheridan.
~ Certified.
In city district No. the names
of A men have ben certified for
service-21 from the first call
and 23 from the second call. The
quota for the district is 54, and
a third call will be necessary.
Those who claimed no exemr-
ton and were certified from this
district Wednesday were Charles
Huckaba. Archie Roy Lee, Louis
o. Schabel, George Stephenson.
John Charaba, Harry Riyfs, Har-
vey A. Galbraith, Aleck Rand,
Harry A. Crosby, Tony Marriazzo,
Joseph Steinberger, Walter l..
Livingston, George Rossou, Adam
Brake. John Rakusich, Frank
Douglas, Even Oliver, Walter G..
Eastman, Zerah c. Curtis, Hockey
G. Broneushis, Albert B. Carron,
r. e. Wilks, Wallis D. Gordon.
Exempted.
Seventeen were exempted on ac-
count of dependents. They were
Alfred s. Algiers, HOMER Mans
field, John e. Coertz, Albert Il.
Bauer, jr., Paul B. Paulsen, Ray
B. Streeter, Hubert N. Knoell, Ed
ward Kempe, Alfred II. Saunes,
Alfred H. Carlson, George Edwin
Krona. Oscar H. Hvamosal, Their
on Van Slyke, Fred r. White,
Michael Wayne, Paul c. Schroeder
and Harry l.. Highberg.
Ten aliens were exempted
Kumaichi Horike, Hoshio Mont
ger. Steve Duris, Tony Molovich,
Toryuki Kishushi, Kashiro Mizi-
mo. Torobei Yamada, Eng Tom,
Heitaro Kikida, Gerhard Jensen.
The names of a number of men
who did not report, some of whom
are serving already in the army
and navy, were turned over to the
U. S. marshal by the board in dis
trict 8.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22
Revolution
EDITOR THE TIMES

EDITOR The TIMES
That theological clash at the
S Stadium between DR.. Dyer and
Judge Rutherford affords the So
Geological student a rather amus-
ing glimpse of modern paradox.
Dyer, the defender of theolog-
zeal brand of evolution, and
Rutherford, the opponent of evolu-
ton Pastor Russellism), mix
words so feverishly that we are
still looking for the big idea.
Rutherford calmly revels in
revolution" from the unscien-
tific premise of prophecy" and
Dyer gets het up over the mere
mention of revolution" after he
has eXpatiated SO frequently on
what he understands as evolution.
1t would seem that a man who
talks so glibly of revolution would
have, at least, some insight into
evolution, social as well as or
ganic; and it would likewise seem
that another man who talks and
writes so fluently of evolution,
would at least have some per-
spective into the mysteries of rev.
olution.
II this is typical exhibition
of the muddled state of prevail
ing conceptions then we are in
deed fit subjects for the camphor
bottle with spray OF ammonia.
PROLETARJA BILL.
Dict. by CWG
Puyallup.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22
ROUNDING OUT
DRAFT QUOTA

The quotas of men certified in
the various city districts for the
new national army were being
rounded out Wednesday and prep
arations were being made for call
ing the men into service.
Formal notification blanks con-
tanning orders and instructions to
the men called we're received by
City Controller Shoemaker in city
district No. /.
Meanwhile the district appeal
board in the federal building sus-
pended the work of passing on
claims until Monday in order to get
In shape the flood of cases that
are to come before it.
400 to 500 q Day.
Lieut.. Gov. Hart predicted that
beginning Monday the board
would pass on between 400 and
500 cases a day.
from city and county districts
have been slow coming in until to-
day when they piled up all at
once. The work of sorting them,
filing them and preparing a cal
endar of cases on which the APP
peals boards can act will probably
consume the rest of the week.
In city district No. | 43 men
out of a quota of "A had been OBJ
tanned Wednesday, altho all Of
these had not yet been certified
to the appeals board.
In city district No. 2 total Of
So men had been certified against
q quota of 56.
30 Certified.
In the first call in this district
SO men passed the physical exapi-
nation. OF this total, 32 have
been certified for army service as
follows: ~ did not claim exemp-
ton, seven claimed exemption but
did not submit any proof in sup
port of their claim: 13 claims for
exemption we're denied; "a claims
have been allowed, and action on
three claims is still pending.
In the second call 45 men
passed the physical examination.
Twenty Of these did not claim any
exemption and were certified for
military service.
The five men certified for serv-
ice Tuesday night are: Grayson
Phil Murray, Git So. 18th; Lu-
Glen N. Jones, Y. NJ. C. A.; e. f.
Carlson. 722 So. L: James E.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22
$3.50 a Day for Jimmie, Age ~;
He Really Sees Inside of Camp

| I'm goin' in when they get
out" he said.
doubled up with difficulty, suf-
ficiently to look into the opening.
Far down the smooth black
bore, / saw two yellow sparks that
danced like fireflies, never still a
second.
Still farther, at an unguessable
distance. y my eyes grew used to
the d2-R css, | saw a tiny round
light of different color, light
that appeared and banished fitful-
ly, as If something were moving
between me and 1t.
And with the queer distinctness
of speaking tube, heard words,
mingled with a great sound of
scraping and scratching.
Jaw, y'aint dom 1t right! Here,
lemme-"
Jaw. ! am too! Whatsa matter
=" 'Looka here; here's a place
:" Say, mortals all gone!"
The scraping and scratching
grew louder. The yellow sparks
danced more violently; the tiny
round light far beyond was OBJ
scured as If by the thrashing arms
of an octopus.
$3.50 a Day
They're comm out" Jimmy
announced.
Were you scared the first time
you went in?" | inquired, straight
ening up to the glare OF daylight
again. And got a superior glance.
Nav! There amt nothin' to be
scared OF.
Sure it's dark, but we got cleo
trio lanterns, or candles.
81 get SO day; and il stay
till the first of September, | get
$3.50.
Sleds for Some
"I't goin' to stay till school
starts, / guess.
Nav, this pipe amt narrow.
In the real narrow ones we go on
little sleds, on wheels like roller
skates!"
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strike and the deportation, to my
own knowledge and observation
there we're no acts of violence
committed, and the law was abid-
ed by and obeyed to the very ut
most. The men all seemed pa
tent and cool and at all times
conducted themselves in a gen.
tlemanly manner.
ION the eleventh day of July,
the city park, that was built with
money contributed by the public
and dedicated to the use Of the
public, was closed to the strikers.
"On the following morning a
posse organized by the sheriff OF
Cochise county, and composed of
in the neighborhood of thousand
men, the majority of the business
men of the district and the
'Workmen's Loyalty league,
which comprised all the men that
remained loyal to the companies,
invaded the entire district, arm
ed with guns of all sizes and de-
scriptions. Some had clubs. Ev-
cry man who was known to be,
or who declared himself to be a
striker or strike sympathizer,
was taken peaceably or by
force, and marched down, at the
point of a gun, to Warren, where
they were informed at the ball
park, and a little later loaded in
box cars like cattle, and sent out
to Columbus, New Mexico.
Two lives were sacrificed. One
of the men killed was company
employe, and a member of the
sehriff's posse. The other man
who forfeited his life was peace
full, law-abiding citizen, of an ex-
cellent character and reputation.
He was not a member of the l..
w. W., but had come out on
strike, because he believed that
the demands the boys were maxi
ing were fair and reasonable.
ION visiting Columbus, N. NJ,
where the deported men were in
camp, a week later, | called on
one of the military officers in
charge and asked him II he would
give me some information that
was looking for. The information
that was seeking was to find out
definitely the correct and exact
number of married men, etc., and
he furnished me with the follow
ing:
Married men ........... 433
Men with children 800
Registered for draft .472
Paid up Liberty Bonds. ...... eos
Membership for Red Cross. SIC
Property owners 266
Naturalized citizens .468
us the American government,
that we have loved and upheld
since our birth, going to stand for
such lawlessness and deportation?
"Will Uncle Sam investigate this
matter and bring those RESPONSE
BILE for these detestable and
shameful acts to account?
"All these facts, upon inves-
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One Biography

EDITOR THE TINES.
A man came in to see me today.
He said he had been in this county
% years. He said:
Il don't know whether | should
be considered a failure or a sue
cess. / have worked whenever !
could.
II saved part of the money l
earned. / never had courage
enough to speculate or get mar
ried.
Il have seen other people buy
land and make money that way.
Others l know, have been paying
taxes on land for years and years,
and are today trying to sell it for
less than they gave for it.
Il had chum who took a
homestead. He married, and they
had seven children. To support
them he had to work out part of
the time; then he borrowed 500
SO he could plant some hops. In
trying to make it pay he worked
so hard he took sick and died.
His widow managed to save
the land by selling the timber and
parting with his life insurance
money, but altho her friends help
ed her she had to leave 1t and went
to town. The timber company
paid the taxes until they logged 1t
off, about five years ago; then the
widow found the taxes were over
$50 a year, so she sold it, and is
getting $102 a year interest In
stead of having to dig up for the
taxes. The farm Is still vacant be-
cause IL takes the new owner all
his time to earn the money to pay
taxes and interest on the mortgage
and take care of his family.
81 am getting 3 per cent on
what have saved, which amounts
to $3.50 a year. can't live on
that, and / don't like to eat up
the principal, but ! know / won't
be able to do the work have been
doing much longer, even IL we do
get the eight-hour day.
Il am working eight hours now
and feel lots better than / did. The
last two hours used to get me.
81 would like to settle down
here and make a home, but |
ant see my way to do II under
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22
CUARDSMEN'S CAMP
READY on TUESDAY

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming
seven regiments in all. Later two
regiments of artillery, three COM
panies of engineers and an addi-
tional regiment of infantry will
come.
simultaneously with the arrival
of Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett, COM
mander, for trip of inspection of
the camp, work began today on
the remount station, which will
be about two miles and a half
from the main camp.
Gen. Liggett will move his
headquarters and staff from San
Francisco to Camp Fremont Satur-
day. By that time Mai. Gen. Ar
thur Murray will have relieved
Gen. Liggett of command of the
western department of the army.
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Some Facts
EDITOR THE TIMES.

EDITOR THE TINES:
Believing that you would well
come first-hand information re-
garding the Butte, Mont, and
Bisbee, Ariz,, trouble, ! am mailing
you speech delivered by Miss
jeanette Rankin (congresswoman)
in congress.
Also an article by Mrs. Rosa
Mckay, state representative oil
Arizona.
Believing as l do, that the bis
money, grubbers dread publicity
more than anything else, l am ask
ing you to give the enclosed infor.
nation that publicity.
Also wish to commend you OF
your front page editorial, "Wh.
Doesn't Japan Fight?"
CHAS. MAXWELL,
Chehalis.
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The noises from the rathole had
been growing imminent, and
Jimmy's flow of information was
interrupted by a rattle, a cloud of
dust, and the appearance of Chi
nese puzzle of arms and legs that
expanded itself with Jack-in-the-
box suddenness into a boy, fol-
lowed a second later by another
boy, both with expressions of ex-
IRENE Importance on their faces,
and much gray dust in their
tousled hair.
Jimmy Goes In
Coin in, JIM" they inquired.
Yep, soon as | get a match.
Got a match on your"
And Jim folded his supple lit
tie body into letter ~" and
dived into the rathole carrying his
pail carefully.
Another boy followed dragging
a starch box full of mortar by a
rope.
| stopped and looked in again
Far down the bore already, the
yellow sparks of their lights were
dancing; the tiny round spot of
daylight 500 feet away was OBJ
scured by their bobbing heads and
active arms.
Down the tube came their
voices: Jaw, this is bum joint!
bet you the inspector'll-"
What you goin' to do with your
money, Jim?'
Say, let's"
There are nearly 10 miles of
the larger sizes of sewer pipe in
the cantonment system, and every
inch of it has been or is being or
will be crawled thru by Jimmy and
his associates. Down in the mar
row, black ratholes under the
filledin dirt and gravel they are
scraping and pushing along, like
little moles chattering as they go
thru the entrails of the great
camp-the boys who see the real
inside of things.
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Omitted Press Leased Wire,

CAMP FREMONT, MEMO
PARK, Cal, Aug. 22.-Camp Ere
mont will be ready to receive the
troops of the forty-first national
guard division next Tuesday, Cap
tain William Fleischacher, con-
structing quartermaster, an
nounced today.
Announcement that the states
of North and South Dakota will
send three regiments to this camp
more than had originally been
planned for means that $4,000
soldiers will be here when all
units are recruited up to war
strength.
The first troops to arrive will be
those from Oregon, Washington,