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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

the necessity for leaning upon the
philanthropic and benevolent members
of society; he wants TO be allowed TO
do things for himself instead of having
others do them for him. The trade
unionist who has at heart the best
interest of the workers. therefore. hes
itates TO relinquish to any other agency
whatever the right to regulate those
things which have to do with his ex-
istcnce as n worker, because whoever
governs his working conditions also
very largely controls his entire life
He wants to be free, and the word
freedom to him has some real signi-
ticance. 1t really means something be-
cause he has had experience of one
kind or another with having his lib
critics restricted and fully appreciates
just what government by others means
to him.
However. the advocates of the so
cialization of everything are per-
sistent lot and tho their policies are
turned down time after time. they bob
up serenely every now and then and
insist as vchemently as ever upon the
majority giving their pet hobbies an
opportunity to operate. Tho persist
ence in an individual is an admirable
characteristic. it furnishes no reason
to anyone for yielding to wrong poll
cies. and il is to the credit of the la
Dor movement that it rarely allows it.
self to be piloted out of its true course
by ardent advocates of Utopian
dreams. The burnt child breads the
fire. and the fingers of the labor move
mcnt in its early history very often
received blistering. 1t is, therefore,
cautious and must be shown before
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
BUSINESS AGENTS WHO MAKE GOOD
By THE REV. CHARLES STELzLE.

When troubles come in the labor
world they are usually charged up TO
the business ageut-"the walking del
egate," as he is called. But when
everything is moving finely all the
credit is given TO the good sense of
the workingmen n"-and the bosses.
The business agent is the "scape-
goat" of the labor movement. People
do not call him that, of course, but,
nevertheless, as in the days of the
wanderings of the Israelites in the
Wilderness all the sins of others are
heaped upon him and he is sent out
to square himself as best he can.
But the business agent is no fool.
Ii he were. he wouldn't be on the job
long. But there are a good many peo-
pie who are all the time trying to
have him make a fool of himself. For
example, there is the man without
conscience who tries to bribe him
either before or during a strike. Now
n big roll of bills must look mighty
tempting to a fellow who never in all
his life saw so much money at one
time. 1t is a fine thing that very
few business agents give way to the
temptation-altho it is commonly sup
posed that every business agent is
crook
Then there is that class of men
which is trying to make a fool of the
business agent by thinking that he
should always be good fellow" He
is expected to set them up" for the
boys and he is counted cheap skate if
he doesn't. Meanwhile-it is quite
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

forgotten that he has a family of his
own to support and that he usually
gets no more in the form of salary
than the average trade union member
in the same craft is receiving. Why
should the business agent be looked
upon as sort of an easy mark. simply
because his salary is paid by other
trade unionists.
If the business agent is doing half
of what the members of the union ex-
pect of him, he is doing twice as much
as he ought, when it comes to a ques-
ton of earning his salary. Not every
business agent earns his salary. Some
of them are costly even tho the union
paid them no salary at all. But if
two weeks in the year-for, of course,
in a quiet, business-like way, keeping
the men at work rather than constant
ly calling them out on strike instead
of using his brain power to settle the
difficulty without resort to warfare
if he's doing this, he is a pretty
good sort of man to keep on the job.
When the time comes to call a strike
and there will come such occasions
he will be in a much better position
to win because he has not exhausted
his power to call the men out, weaken
ing his forces thru petty strife-just
because it was the easiest way out.
1t doesn't require much brain power
to command men to quit their jobs.
Anybody can issue a strike order pro-
viding that he has the authority. 1t
requires a whole lot more in the way
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

of genuine ability to keep men on their
jobs and still have them receive all
that a strike could possibly win for
them.
If war is hell, then strikes are "pur-
gatory." But if men must strike, let's
at least give them decent arguments
for doing so and then stand by them
until they win out. And if they lose.
let's stand by the right kind of a bus
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

One might imagine that the way
coal is advancing that people were
eating it.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

One advantage in plowing up your
lawn and using the ground to grow
potatoes will be that you won't have
to NOW the lawn.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

In our national preparedness is
again seen the electric energy of the
American people.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

Food conservation is one of the first
articles in the creed of preparedness.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

But wouldn't war tax on sugar be
regarded as an infringement on the
groceryman's copyright.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

When he gets all het up. Uncle Sam
has rude way of stepping on hecklers.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

At any rate, the loss of his crown
will enable Nicholas Romanoff to trav-
el around as a private citizen and see
something of the world.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04

iness agent, for he's done the best he
knew how. If he never makes mis-
takes, he is more than Humankind
that kind of an individual wouldn't
make good business agent, any way.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-04
FOR THOSE WHO FAIL.

"All honor to him who shall win the
prize"
The world has cried for thousand
years,
But to him who tries, and who fails
and dies
/ give great honor and glory and
tears,
Give glory and honor and pitiful tears
To all who fail in their deeds sub
lime,
Their ghosts are many in the van of
years,
They were born with time in ad-
vance of time.
Oh. great is the hero who wins a
name,
But greater many and many time,
Some pale-faced fellow who dies in
shame,
And lets God finish the thought
sublime.
And great is the man with sword
undrawn,
And good is the man who refrains
from wine;
But the man who fails and yet still
.-' fights on,
Lo! He is the twin-born brother of
mine.
Joaquin Miller.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22

to send the children seed potatoes for
twenty-four hills free, made possible
by the generosity of a New York man
Of national prominence.
Adults, meaning everybody over
eighteen, receive the button and circu-
lars of instruction and provide their
own seed potatoes. The crops, natural
", will belong to the r~aisers, the bene-
fit to the country at large being that
the food supply is increased. 1t is con-
1dently expected that the stimulus of
Wooderaft potato clubs will result In
the production of an additional 1,OO0,-
900 bushels of spuds to feed the sol
dters and the rest of us next winter.
Competition for prizes is open only
to the Juniors-that is, those under
eighteen. A beautiful silk American
flag and q Woodcraft League potato
club pennant will be given to the boy
or girl who raises the best crop from
twenty-four hills. The winners name
will be engraved on a brass plate on
the staff.
A silk flag and pennant with name
engraved on plate will be given to the
boy or girl who raises the largest po-
tato.
Second and third prizes will be an
nounced later, and many other prizes
are contemplated.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
Recreation, Fun. Patriotism.

The Woodcraft League Is not alone
In proposing to utilize boys and girls
In potato raising. Since Mr.. Seton an
nounced the slogan, '@The Hoe Behind
the Flag" be has been grati1ed that
a large number of other organizations
have taken up and are pushing the
idea of potato patriotism" Indeed,
the state of New York thinks 80 ia
yorably of the plan that 1t Is proposed
to enlist 100000 schoolboys to till the
farms of the state that more men may
be free to enlist. But SO far as an
nouneed none Of these agencies have
constructive plans for the boys and
girls beyond having them till the po-
tatoes after they are planted. Here
Is where Mr.. Seton believes the Wood
craft potato clubs will excel, for 1t Is
aimed to give the boys and girls recre-
alton and FUN while they are doing
their bits"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
--
Copyright by Ernest Thompson Seton.

potatoes can be provided. Mrs. Philip
Lewisohn of 923 Fifth avenue, New
York city and West End, N. j., is lead
ing In the movement and has enlisted
Mrs. James Willett Cunningham, also
of West End; Mrs. #. T. Frelinghuy-
sen of Elberon, Mrs. 8. R. Guggenheim
of Elberon, Mrs. Rudolph Erbsloh of
Rumson Road, Mrs. Jefferson Selig-
man of Long Branch, Mrs. Hamilton
Fish Cane of Red Bank and a long list
of others. Postmaster Thomas Patten
of New York city offered his estate at
Seabright to the Monmouth county
Woodcraft potato clubs, and Mrs.
James Seligman Of West End offered
to finance the planting.
Mrs. Lewiston has had committee
meetings In New York city and a mass
meeting at Long Branch to promote
potato planting, and If they have their
way the county will be the banner
county not alone Of New Jersey, but
of the Union.
Governors of most of the eastern
and several western states have ac-
cepted places on the honorary council
Of the Woodcraft potato clubs, and
several have asked their agricultural
forces to cooperate with the Wood
craft movement. Several of the large
railway systems have agreed to foster
the clubs along their lines. When this
article was written there had not been
time to hear from the entire country
since the plan was promulgated, but
from every section whence mails have
arrived there is but one note, and that
Of commentator for Mr.. Seton's move
ment.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
ADVANCE STYLES.
Tips About What to Order
and Wear This Summer.
A fashion EXPERT writes:

A fashion expert writes:
"Of course you are always interested
in the new things not only for the
pleasure such knowledge affords, but
because having a good, broad, general
knowledge of fashions past, present
and future makes us better shoppers
and enables US to be better dressed for
less money than If we have no real un-
Outstanding of fashions and purchase
promiscuously without reason, except
that q certain garment or accessory
tickles our fancy at the moment.
"As summer advances look for more
short sleeves, three-quarter and elbow
in length, especially on dresses and
fancy Saouses.
Long skirts are On their way,
though frankly I feel it will be autumn
before we see skirts to any extent
longer than are now worn. And I be-
lieve then the longer skirt will not be.
popular fer the street clothes that bust
ness iand professional women wear.
Separate coats, it is said, viii be cut
without any ripple-that is, they will
haye closer fitting, straight sections.
YBodices darted and fitted to wear
outside the skirt have lately been In
Produced by one OF the French design
fers, but here again Is a fashion that
has been slightly In evidence for a
long while. You shouldn't worry about
being forced to wear them If you don't
want to. One never has to wear what
one really dislikes In order to be In
fashion these days. There are always
more than one and frequently many
designs from which to make a choice.
"Midseason should bring silk suits
with perky little bolero jackets, many
of them having seven-eighths or three
quarter sleeves, and nothing could be
cooler or more attractive for warm
weather wear than suits of this char
acter.
French designers are sponsoring hats
trimmed p~rofusely with flowers-a
welcome change this after our long ac-
ceptance Of severely trimmed OF I'M
trimmed millinery.
Evening capes are In line now and
come at a most opportune time, for
If one ever needs III easily slipped on
wrap 1t Is in the summer"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
Be a Potato Patriot!

Fill out the blank, become a men,
Der Of the Woodcraft League Potato
clubs and urge every m of your
friends to join in this plan Of saving
our country from want. Get your
schoolmates, class members, club men,
bers and next door neighbors to join
with you.
You understandable first and only
qualification for membership In the
Potato clubs is that a member must
plant and raise at least tw~enty-four
hills Of potatoes and make use of the
crop, preferably giving the proceeds Of
the first twenty-four hills to ONE war
fund.
Raising potatoes is real service to the
nation.
LET'S HOE OUR WAY TO VICTORY.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
OLD O BIRTHDAY

Another year of age Is on the banner of
the free,
The starry flag that proudly floats on land
and on the sea.
But touch of time has dimmed no star
within that azure field,
And still its white and crimson stripes in
glory stand revealed.
Though Haunted high amid the storms
when wind and oceans roar,
Though carried through the shot and shell
of battle on the shore,
IT'S just as bright as when 1t passed
through It's baptismal fires
In days of old when borne by Revolution
airy sires.
Yea. brighter is that glorious flag and
prouder Is Its swell.
For 1t Is famed around the world wher-
ever men may dwell.
From polar Ice to tropic isle in triumph 1t
has gone.
And from it's stars all those oppressed
a " inspiration drawn.
Amid the mighty nations flags 1t holds
an honored place.
For on its folds has never been the shadow
of disgrace.
And we'll tits known where'er hat flag
upon Its mission goes
Thai 1t Is true to all its friends, a terror
TO all foes.
Long may it wave and long its stars and
stripes In glory shine.
For where 1t floats there men e'er find a
patriotic shrine.
It stands for strength and sympathy, 1t
stands for ruth and right,
And where 1t goes the eyes OF men see
Freedoms sacred light.
Theodore H. Boice in Pittsburgh Chron-
icle-Telegraph.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22

thkt I'd be at home alone wrestling
wtfb&the homework and the babies;
al$0ilt meant less than half the ball
salary. However, l kept my mouth
shtit;3and when the Philadelphia a
agensent suddenly and unexpectedly re-
le4sed Mr.. Sunday In March OF that
yeRr and he became religious work d.
rector of the central branch Y. NJ. G. A.
lntChicago I had not a word to say
against the change. / think wives
ought to know and understand the de-
tails of their husbands business and
be able to give advice when advice Is
needed, but / think a woman ought to
be mighty careful about urging her
husband to do anything against the
Lords will. A good many wives by
their extravaganza force their hus-
bands to make money their chief goal
and interest in life. It's a mistake. A
wife ought to be a helpmate and an In
spiration to a man, not a goad to make
money for her to spend"
MA Sunday is of that type of
Womanhood that backs its men folk to
lie EMU, De LudL euu DlJteI Vi SWecty
works like a horse when needed,
cheers, admires, advises, defends. The
ldea of having any interests on earth
separate from her husbands has never
entered her head.
Nobody can imagine what her whirl-
wind husband would do without her.
They are rarely separated for an hour.
She has not only stood back of him in
every campaign, but shoulder to Shout
Ter beside him. Nobody in all his vast
audiences is ever more appreciative of
his telling points than the plain, pleas
ant faced woman with the snappy
brown eyes who always sits behind
him on the platform. And when he has
hurled his last imaginary ball out
over his audience, shrilled his final de-
aunciation and from very exhaustion
stopped with an abrupt Good nightr'
hat Is curiously reminiscent Ito unre-
generate sinners who just will patron
re v%audeyille) of Harry LADDERS
Guide nicht"-then he turns YEARLY
to her and mutters h~oarsely, "Let's
beat it, maj" And they beat 1t.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
Don't FRAGILE Baby.

There are cross babies and happy
babies, placid babies and v be-
bies, ugly babies and smiling babies.
rhe only difference between a baby
with a mean disposition and the grown
up person with a mean disposition is
that the baby usually has a for
his meanness which may be remedied.
Although a o baby is not always a
sick baby, something is certainly
wrong if a baby cries much of the
time. Now and then there may be a
baby that is eros because it does not
receive too much attention. Nothing
makes a baby more peevish than to be
trotted around all day for the amuse-
ment of the family and part of the
night for his own amusement. A baby
Tires very easily and, like his toldor rel
Rtives, he is usually cross when he is
tired.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
MRS. BILLY SUNDAY
Helpmate of the MostActive EVAN
geIist Alive.
JUST AS FAMOUS AS BILLY.

After Experiences All Over the United
States Mrs. Sunday Thinks That Love
of Display Is the Greatest Sin of
American Women.
81 think the chief vice of American
women is their love of display, putting
on style to keep up with the other wo-
man, buying clothes and furniture that
they oughtn't to afford, entertaining
more than they can afford, striving,
striving, striving. And there's no real
satisfaction In it." say Mrs. Sunday.
Mrs. Sunday was born neal Chicago,
but grew up In the city itself, where
her father was a successful milk and
ice cream dealer.
81 was a Christian before l met Mr..
Sunday" she explains, "and an enthu-
siastic member of the young peoples
society in the church, but / was not
what l should now call a spiritual girl.
No, indeed, l wasn't anxious for Mr..
Sunday to give up his ball playing and
go into Christian work. / didn't dare
advise him to go against Gods will,
for when in the spring of 1901 he put
1t up to the Lord to get his release
from the Philadelphia team, with whom
he had signed up for three years, /
wouldn't have cared If the release
hadn't come. / had two babies by
that time, and l knew what quitting
ball and going into the Y. NJ. G. A.
meant-it meant that he'd be gone
every day and every evening, too, and
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22

80 ~
Chief Black Wolf of the Sewanoy
tribe by adoption-knew that some
thing must be done to provide for per-
severance In the task to hold the child
interest to the end or until the stimulus
of coming harvest time has gripped.
So the program is addressed more to
the adults ewho shall lead the boy and
girl groups than to the boys and girls
who compose them.
The proverb runs, "An work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy and
makes Jill a duh girl, for that matter.
But you remember the boy back home
who always was able to call in a group
Of his playmates to clean up any dis
agreeable task by making them think
it a privilege he was granting. The
youthful psychologist turned work into
play. Teamwork put the actual work
out of the way before the boys tired
Of the game and there was a reaction
to sure enough play. 1t took England
a long time when war came to learn
what to do with the boys and how to
make them cheerful, healthy workers.
Before the lesson was learned thou
sands were shaving in munition works
and other factories, wasting strength
and health. We of America must
learn to profit by the lesson.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
A Modern Battle Cry.

Well rally round the hoe, boys, and
join the ranks Of toll, shouting the bat
tie cry of Feed emf Well train the
crops to grow, boys. as tillers of the
soil, shouting the battle cry of "Fee6
'emi' Where there is work to do
boys, weIl gather on the spot, shout
ing the battle cry of Feed 'em!" TC
duty We'll be true, boys, and till the
vacant lot. shouting the battle cry OF
"Feed 'em!" Nature, kind mater, viii
aid in our need. Down with the later
up with the weed! So Wen rally round
the hoe. boys, and train the crops to
grow, shouting the battle cry of "Feed
'emr'-Boston Post.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
Boiled Raisin Cake.

Let one and one-half cupfuls seeded
raisins simmer in water to cover for
twenty minutes. Cream three-quarters
cupful sugar, one-quarter cupful but
ter and I egg beaten light, n and
one-half cupfuls flour, one-half cupful
raisin water, one teaspooHful each
soda, cinnamon and nutmeg sifted
with the -four. Add the r~aisins, well
dredged with -four. Bake in a moder-
ate oven forty-1ve minutes. This cake
has a flavor all its own.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
WASTE DESCRIBED AS
GREAT AMERICAN THIEF
Another Nation Our Size Could
Exist Six Years on Our
Waste In Ten.

By HAPSBURG LIEBE of the V~igilantes.
1t was away back five years In the
dusty past, when l vas a perfectly
good filter of big log saws instead OF
a writer of Indifferent power, that ]
had my first real introduction to this
Brobdignagian. I had just left the
sawmill, in company with the sawyer.
when / noticed an ordinarily but neat
~ dressed old man picking up kindline
that had fallen from a passing wagon.
We soon overlook him. l was sorry
for him.
"Old man. said 1, 'ff you'll come
around to the mill tomorrow I'll give
you all the kindling you can carry off,
He laughed rather amusedly. 'Son,
he replied, I'm just picking this up tic
keep 1t from going to waste. Waste is
the great American thief"
We passed him by. The sawyer
nudged me and whispered: That's e2o
So-and.so. He's worth a hundred thou
sand, and he's not accounted a stingy
man."
Il EOt 4C ACceOAAs a V iAC
out very thoroughly-so very thorough
ly, In fact, that | I'm able to tell you
which is apt to surprise you, that an.
other nation the size of ours could have
lived six years on that which we have
wasted during the last ten years. And
which is of even greater Importance
both this and the other nation would
have been a better and stronger and
more efficient nation because of It
Get that! Waste is beyond any doubt
the great American thief, just as thai
philosophic old man told me.
1t is in our eating that we are most
immoderate, most Incorporate, most
wasteful. We are, In the main, q ma
ton of meat eaters and boilers and
~overeaters. We think that VIZ save
time when we bolt our food, but we
don't; we lose time. because by so do.
ing we impair health and shorten life
to an extent that would be alarming to
us If we could only realize 1t. The
eating of much meat may be all right
for a digger of bitches, but it certainly
Is unwise for those who expect to dc
any amount of clear thinking. Over.
eating is good for nobody, for SO many
reasons that / cannot attempt to sci
them down here. Let me break the
news to you that Germany, as a ma.
ton, can put it all over us when II
comes to efficient eating. And Ger.
many's efficient eating is one of the
greatest factors in the success with
which she has fought and Is still fight
ing the best forces of the civilized
world.
If you are a meat eater ~tryeutt1ne
out at least half your meats and sub.
shutting fruits and cereals and prop.
erly cooked eggs. 1t will surprise you
when you note how much your brain
and skin has cleared.
If you are a bolter try taking at least
half an hour for each meal, try leav-
ing business behind for the time being
try thinking of light and pleasant
things while you are eating-and note
the difference.
If you are an overeater cut out o
third of your usual meal and see how
much sluggishness of body and mind
you'll be able to throw off.
If you are a combination of all three
it's a wonder you are alive!
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-06-22
viii Arouse eoylsh enthusiasm.

Boyish enthusiasm will respond quick
~ to the call for patriotic service.
"For the Flag" viii attract them in
masses, but about the time the sun
shines bright on the farm, whether 1t
be a 20 by 20 back yard or a multiple
of acres, the enthusiasm will CONCEAL
Tor melt and evaporate), and in proper
ton as the backs get hot the feet will
get cold, and the flag and patriotism
will suffer a slump. So Mr.. Seton,
who has been working for and with
boys for more than a generation and
knows the boys mind quite as well as
he does that of the Indian-for he Is