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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-23
Illinois Food Administrator
Tells What Retailers
Should Charge
SETS PRICES ON
THREE PRODUCTS
Most of City's Grocers
Agree To Put His Scale
Into Effect
IRv Associated Prssa.l

Chicago, Oct. 23.-For the first
time in the history of the United
States, a government representative
has fixed the fair" price Of certain
foodstuffs. Harry A. Wheeler, food
administrator Of Illinois, today an
nounced prices for sugar, potatoes
and -four. Grocers for the most part
have agreed to put the prices into ef-
feet. They are somewhat lower than
recent prices in Chicago-about
cents in the retail price OF sugar.
Mr., Wheeler's list gives the price
which the retailer should pay the
middleman, and the price which the
customer should pay over the coun-
ter. Other prices for staples will be
announced as fast as possible. To-
days list follows:
Retailer Customer
Flour, well
known ad-
vertised mill
brands run
ming four
bags to the
barrel, per
Dag .SE soV9&'5z VS.5o4os 10
One-e eighth
barrel -four
in cotton
bag, per
bag .. 1.4241.4S 1s4S91. 90
Five pounds
-four cotton
bag :. .s1@ .a2 .as@ 81
Potatoes, No.
] Wisconsin,
Minnesota e.
Dakota, per
100 VT. .... 1850 z.5O .43q .46
Per peck =. (l5 lbs.)
Sugar best ."-..
granulated,
per 100 VT. 1850 7.7s .O7N @.sh
. Per 10.
Sugar, west
ern cane
granulated
in bulk, per
100 VT. 1850 7.7s .07R0 .OSh
A lb.
With the first plunge taken, prices
regarded as fair viii be published
dail'r hereafter. They are not COM
pulsory. but 1t Is the idea Of Mr..
Wheeler that unfair" dealers win
be forced into line by publicity.
About twenty other staples remain
to be listed. Canned goods. 1t was
reported. are being considered and
the price list for condensed milk may
be announced tomorrow.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-23

farv Of the North Dakota chapter Of
che Order of Eastern Star, announc-
a. the investment OF $1,000 of the
ehapter's funds in the second .Liber-
fI Loan. This amount viii be credit
Cd to the state at large.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-23

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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-23

Full Associated Press
Leased Wire Service
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-11-08
APPRECIATES WORK
Of THE STATE PRESS

The Publicity Committee, having
in charge the work of getting the
Second Liberty Loan before the Ore
gon public. make the following COM
ments on the work done by the State
/ press:
Publicity for the second Liberty
Loan campaign in Oregon seems to
| have been the maximum conceivable,
especially considering the delay in
getting it started. The press of Ore
gon, both city and country, almost
without exception, devoted columns
and pages of space to the Liberty
Loan. Several newspapers devoted
as high os four pages in one issue to
Liberty Loan matter prepared by Mr..
Orton Goodwin, publicity manager.
To the Oregon press is due more
than to any other one factor the sue
cess obtained by the Liberty Loan
campaign in Oregon The volume Of
press clippings is beyond anything
the WrlteT ever UeHelu.
So far as headquarters is concerned
the credit for actual publicity work
is due to Mr.. Orton E. Goodwin. This
committee was fortunate in being
able to secure his services. Your
Vice Chairman has had country
wide experience in handling publicity
work but never in all his experience
has he seen anyone with the burning
genius for conceiving and executing
| resultful newspaper publicity as dis
played by Mr.. Goodwin in this cam
paign. He wore himself to the point
of exhaustion by night work-some-
times being at his typewriter until
three o'clock in the morning and
again at eight ready for another ar
duous day and night. He was bur
dened with many details which
should and could have been executed
by clerical help, were such available.
During the last two weeks OF the
campaign Mr.. Goodwin had sole
charge of the publicity, as the Vice
Chairman of your committee found it
necessary to abandon practically all
publicity activities and devote his en-
tire time to the statistical compila-
tion of country returns and tele-
graphic hammering Of the different
counties and communities. This your
Vice Chairman did in the name of the
Publicity Committee, although it was
properly the work of the Distribution
Committee. The field was being en-
tirely neglected so without authority
or permission your Vice Chairman
concentrated his energies along these
lines. The result Of this work done
in the name of the Publicity Com
mittee can be estimated at from three
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-11-08
HOOVER's CON TO GET YOU.

The darned old Hoover pledge has
come to our house to stay;
To frown our breakfast bacon down,
and take our steak away;
1t cans our morning wafiles, and our
sausage, too, it seems,
And dilates on the succulence of corn,
and spuds, and beans.
So skimp the sugar in your cake, and
leave the butter out,
Or Hoover's goin to get you If you
Don't
Watch
Out!
Oh, gone now are the good old days
of hot cakes thickly spread;
And meatless, wheatless, hopeless
days are reigning in their stead;
And gone the days Of fat rib roasts,
and two-inch T-bone steaks,
And doughnuts plump and golden
brown, the kind that mother
makes.
And when it comes to pie and cake,
just learn to cut it out,
Or Hoovers goin' to get you If you
Don't
Watch
Out!
So spread your buckwheats sparingly,
and peal your taters thin;
And tighten up your belt notch and
don't forget to grin.
And If, sometimes, your whole soul
yearns for shortcake high and
wide,
And biscuits drenched with honey,
and chicken, butter fried,
Remember then that Kaiser Bill is
short on sauerkraut,
And Hoover's goin to get him If Well
Help
Out!
-Mable /. Clapp in Ladies Home
Journal.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-11-08

Mrs. Mike Szepanek has received
her commission as postmaster at the
new office of Szepanek, west of But
ter creek. AS soon as the supplies
are recei ed and the office open, pro-
visions will be made for carrying the
mail. A pouch will probably be TAX
en- to Butter creek by the present ru-
raj carrier, and from there by a Sze-
panek carrier.--Echo News.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-11-08

to seven millions in excess returns
from country districts where cam
paign efforts either had not been un-
dertaken as recently as last Wednes-
day or had been suspended as early
as Thursday.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-11-08

M. H. Allen, State Deputy Labor
Commissioner and Factory Inspector,
whose home is at Pendleton, was In
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
BY JAMES BRANDON

You always tell partisan by in which he
about advocating and his other
viewpoint than his claim be somewhat exception
this rule and speaking and writing
find what the other side thinks wen indeed found
engaged in that and excellent pastne.
recently had
labor and have heard from them while
there ideas behind them perhaps
of champion labor have
physical forth production
This includes all skill foethought
planning directing and of all
all aboers broad good
that
When ordinary citizen thinks of
unid labor digging trench front of his
his aristocrat soul rebels anything like fellowship with such
The words of Burns describing the wight him
so abject and vile however these good
limited this kind of labor includes useful activity from
the lowest the highest
That people supported
industry the those who
harder They
those who simple allow themselves be
exploited There kind of between different
kinds labor feeling between welpad and poorly paid
workers and the others between the socaled gene
overalls hands while working and
those who do.
which different revolutions destroy
which present world will probably There
deal of this snobbery clerks school
working smaller
days than irst-class mechanic receives
these good people that their interest the
abors their lack of fellowship with labor their
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
JOHN R. LAWSON, MINER AND MAN
IMPRESSIONS OF EDITOR DANA SLEETH OF THE
LOS ANGELES RECORD, WHO WAS A
RECENT VISITOR IN DENVER

While a visitor in Denver last
month, Dana Sleeth, editor of the Los
Angeles Daily Record, met and talked
with John r. Lawson. The editor then
wrote his impressions of Lawson,
which appeared a few days ago in
the Record, as follows:
| have met a man.
Before the law he is, or was, a
murderer; also he is a labor leader.
lie is John r. Lawson, probably the
most widely advertised leader in the
realm of labor, Lawson, the big miner
who led the fight two years and more
ago against the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company.
Lawson never harmed a man, wom-
an or child. Quiet, cool headed, low
able and sagacious, he was one of the
leaders that really led:
A Judge, oh most Just judge-who
was formerly an employe of the Rookie
feller interests, prepared the "evi-
dence against Lawson on murder
charge, the evidence being that he was
an advisor of the strikers, and thereby
party to the butchery that followed
when hired thugs fired on women and
children, and when, incidentally, few
guards" were killed.
Lawson was held in Jail incom-
municado. He vanished into the NAV
of legal anarchy.
But the NAV finally spewed him
forth, after the supreme court had
taken the case from the honorable
Judge; new trial was granted, he
was released, and when the new states
attorney took office this case, and the
others of the same sort, were dis
missed.
Now, you would think man who
had suffered as Lawson has; who
knows the cruel might of victorious
greed, who has felt the iron, would be
a "red," wild-eyed and rampant.
But, instead, this soft-speaking
Scotsman told me: 81 don't believe
there will be another strike in this
state like the ones we have suffered
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
Workmen's Compensation LalD a Failure

little be said favor of the Colorado compensation
the statute books and the is being
From time The
which have shown how injured workers
have been forced to
such compensation as to make premium to mann
AT the last session
legislature all propositions amend the law were pigeon
The law drawn in favor of the employer and against
the ernploye.
suggestions have been made by those who know the
law for bettemen State
Dunke of Denver that at the next
of will
those that of the British
government permit injured employee the family
enpoye bring the for damages where
employers negligence providing safeguards
and rules for protection of workers
Colorado law there such redress and
when favorable awards rendered by the
oftmes take the matter
the either reduced
minimum
Certainly these days when the workers stranng every
there should be adequate
Perhaps the Dunee will this relief
safeguards which neglected
them under the operation of the
Colorado compensation law.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
The Second Liberty Loan Bond Campaign

organized going their duty in sub
scrbng Liberty Bonds Denver
quota by many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
being offered the American people issue
of three billion Liberty Loan
denominations such terms that
every patriotic opportunity assist the
the United
The loans will be repaid of per
world good better because the
currency No other
ent convertby cash.
unquestioned availability collateral security for loans in any bank
in the United States.
is going whirlvvnd campaign to raise its
quota the second Liberty Loan Beginning Monday October IS
continuing and individual workers will
upon every city, inviting subscription this loan
These bonds bear interest from all taxes and
be secured in amounts of $50 and upward
Secretary Franklin Lane delivered address
Denver Thursday night in which he paicu
lary the Importance of citizen doing his or her
boys sending France in order that
this and other democratic nations survive he drew VVd
picture devastated Europe Said he;
This costing not less than $lGOqO9G day but h is b the
Rave been ms fied three war began the
sta Of Europe have passed % over @ tRGn @ @ a4 in D for % Years. to
million men,th the North and South
sgn @ SG Gg % MAR % @ that Germany was to be the
be i'm time for Let % not dsuS % oGt ] Or don Gsrfy 3
@ & @ I @ until % ss sse f% R s s @ h that light @ @hz
that With the he world against @ them they eSnnS b % made the attack upon u.s. not
s5f
bS bs the ~ people % @ shall iii ve one
for the 5 of I wG I But @ Germany @ u 1hf nct aHe @ h
a7 $s the world
@ S e and R s pH b f efais
those believe that made % to serve rye the government and
drafted % me G eu % sy 5 hf the son % h the
sH 70 GsT Ss fsp H. sSS s
e 1 iSeafy bsSs sad become partner
Uncle s% s sS foo
Pe d ves es ans ans stake this
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06

from. | believe both sides know bet
ter now, and that the corporation in
terests and the workers can meet on
common ground with mutual advan-
tage.
Some of tho Rockefeller agents
here are broad minded. the worst of
the old crowd have been thrown ont of
power; we will have a revolution or
an evolution in this country, and ] be-
lieve education and mutual under
standing will enable us to avoid the
former"
There you get the delicate distinc-
tion between n labor leader and labor
looter; the looter pulls" strike to
show his power, regardless of whether
it is the best way out for the men or
not.
The morning talked with him he
had just returned from a few days in
the mines, as miner to earn money
to support his family.
at may sound funny" he said. "but
like TO mine coal. i find n man gets
mighty soft, and for few days every
thing in me was soft but my heart:
but a man needs hard work; If he is
going to represent labor and speak for
it he must feel with it."
The nation is going to hear lot
from Lawson these next few years.
He is one of the new labor leaders in
the nation that is n worker himself:
that is without taint; that has always
been square with himself and his men:
whose word is taken at par by the
worst labor hater in the state and who
prefers anything to fight, and, once
in fight, prefers anything to re-
treat.
A Lawson in charge of labor's cause
in California would do more for the
worker; aye and for the honest en-
ployer, the fair boss; than all the
petty, political parasites, the soft
handed, crafty, guerrilla bushwhack-
ers that ever crawled under the la
Dor tent.
John II. Lawson. man, gentleman,
and born leader of honest men!
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
TAILORS GET MORE
tcontInued From Page on.)


after several propositions proposed by
the bosses and rejected by the COM
mittee from our union, the employers
decided that they had better sign up
with the union, and so they did.
eve also find it necessary to call
the attention of the readers of The
Denver Labor Bulletin, that we had
already had three large firms of the
city. and number of small firms
signed up with the union, previous to
the conference of Wednesday evening,
October 3. the three larger firms being
Marx Tailoring company: Apple Zizca
and Sam Weinthrot. However, the
state industrial commission will have
a right to claim some credit in the set.
tlement of this case. The only thing
is that they had to practice Moham-
med's theory, that when the noun
tains do not come to you, you go to
the mountains. Also the commission
ers came to US when we did not go to
them.
"However, the tailors rejoice over
their victory, and they are glad to
tell the public that they can go in any
house in the city and order suit of
clothes and be sure that they have it
made by honest labor. With the ex-
ception of Nichol the Tailor and John
Bond, practically all the city is signed
up with the union"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06

view to having permanent and high
grade housing for workers in all in
dustrial cities, the average cost of the
houses will be increased. Whitaker
believes that the government can get
better results, in the long run, by
counting the cost of good housing as
one of the elements in securing steady
and first-class service on the part of
its industrial employees.
Permanent Award Expected.
After much confusion, due to the
attempt of Chairman Hurley of the
shipping board to settle the demands
of the Pacific coast shipyard workers
without the help of the industrial ad-
justment board created by the signed
agreement of all parties, the adjust
ment board once more is handling
these issues. In place of Edward F.
Carey of Chicago, the employers rep
resentative on the board, who resigned,
there has been appointed L. A. Cool
idge of Boston, former treasurer of
the United Shoe Machinery company.
The board hopes to settle the Seattle
and Portland shipyard disputes, and to
give satisfactory permanent award
on the San Francisco wage scale.
Of course no award is going to be
either permanent or satisfactory. The
best this board can do is to satisfy
majority of the men in each yard that
they will do better to stay at work
under the scale proposed by the board
than to go on strike.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
JURY ACQUITs FRANK OMAN.
Oregon "Cattleman" Was Charged
With Perjury in Mooney Trial.

Frank C. Oxman, Durkee, Ore, cat
tleman, acquitted last Friday of a
charge of attempted subornation of
perjury in the trial of Thomas J..
Mooney, appeared later before Supe-
rior Judge Franklin Griffin to answer
to a charge of perjury in connection
with the same case. The hearing was
continued.
The warrant charging perjury
against Oxman was sworn to by Mrs.
Belle Hammerberg, sister of Mrs.
Rena Mooney, wife of Thomas Mooney.
The warrant set forth that Oxman tes-
titled falsely when he declared he saw
the Moneys at the scene of bomb
explosion here July %, 1916.
Thomas Mooney is under sentence of
death as an outcome of the explosion.
An appeal is pending.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
MECHANICAL SKILL
Continued From Page Onel

Continued From Page One)
the Mexican revolution. In the strug-
giles of the coal miners in Colorado and
the metal miners in Arizona he has
not been wasted.
Build Homes for Workers.
A conference on the housing of
workers in the industrial centers where
the rapid growth of war industries
has led to overcrowding of houses and
the use of tents, barns and sheds as
sleeping quarters, was held in the
offices of the American Federation of
Labor, on Tuesday night. This meet
ing was called at the suggestion of the
chairman of the housing subcommittee
of the committee on labor welfare
of the council of national defense. Its
net result was the making of a re-
quest of the house and senate con-
ferees on the deficiency appropriation
bill, that 100000 be provided for
the building of homes for the workers
now unable to rent them.
This plan was suggested by Charles
E. Whitaker, editor of the journal of
the American Institute of Architects.
Whitaker presented complete plan
for meeting the immediate shortage of
10000 houses at the industrial centers
east of Chicago.
Definite Plan Outlined.
He proposed that the government
either finance the house building
schemes which war contractors might
undertake for the neighborhood of
their own plants, or provide funds for
groups of persons waiting to build
houses for themselves-after the fash
ion of the farm loan law-or that the
government should itself buy land and
build houses, which it would admins
ter on it's own account. This last plan
is the one which England has adopted,
after several years of experiments.
The s100,000,000 will build about
10000 dwellings,. But it is probable
that if United States housing ad-
ministration is created by congress,
and if the government shall decide to
go into the building business with
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
STRIKE is SETTLED.

The strike of eighty transfer men at
Alamosa, which has been imperiling
shipments of fruit on the Denver g.
Rio Grande railroad from the Western
Slope because of delays in transfer of
shipments, was settled this week thru
the joint efforts of the state public
utilities commission and the state in
dustrial commission. The state offi-
cials were insistent that the fruit ship,
ments should not be endangered and
brought about an agreement whereby
the railroad put the men back to work
Immediately.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
MAURY GETS PLACE WITH GIG.

William F. Maury of Cortez, county
attorney of Montezuma county, has
been appointed chief of the claim de-
partment of the state industrial COM
mission, to fill the vacancy created by
the recent resignation of Charles
O'Connell, it was announced by Gov
ernor j. c. Gunter. Mr.. Maury will
assume his new duties tomorrow. Mr..
O'Connell resigned to enter the en-
ploy of a private insurance company.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
TO TEACH ENGLISH TO ALIENS.

In announcing the third "America
First" compaign, the federal bureau
of education states that approximately
100000 foreign-born whites residing
in the United States do not speak Eng
lish. Only small number of these
have attended evening school. Con-
certed effort will be made to induce
these immigrants to learn English and
acquire knowledge of the govern
ment, institutions and ideals of the
United States.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
DENVER BUILDING INCREASES.

Denver is one of fifteen leading
cities in the United States that show
an increase in building operations dur
ing the first six months of 1917 over
the corresponding period last year,
according to figures compiled by the
National Real Estate journal. Out of
thirty leading cities, fifteen showed an
increase in building activities while
the other fifteen showed decrease.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06

Edith-Dicky, dear, your office is in
State street, isn't it?
Dicky-Yes, why?
Edith-That's what told papa He
made such funny mistake about you
yesterday. He said he'd been looking
you up in Bradstreet.-Boston Tran
script.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06

politics, business, etc, as well as
closed shop in labor, or back up and
put an end to such disgrace as now
exists on the Pacific coast and which
is doing more for the kaiser than his
troops are doing for him on the west
front.
"Yours truly,
"HERBERT GEORGE,
"Pres. Employers Assn.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
let GEORGE DO IT
Continued from Page One,

"""'""e" 'FoW '"ge o"eJ
job the end is not far away. Three
million unionists seek to boss 100000
900 who cannot get permit from
Gompers to work. Mark the predic-
tion-the people won't stand it and
the government will have to recognize
the CLOSED shop principle in religion,
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
IF HE DID.

Shopper-Do you keep stationary?
Floorwaker-No, madam; If I did
I'd lose my iob.=Puck.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06

There are various cures for the trea-
son habit and most of them are fatal.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-06
LIBERTY IS IN HEARTS OF PEOPLE

Some say Liberty something written in law books.
Some Liberty unless all laws always obeyed
Some that the people, rising in indignation
stop treacherous activities Liberty is dead.
Some every agent the kaiser allowed
say all he o say Liberty is dead.
Clarence puts this way: Liberty is not
thing written in books; Liberty is IN THE HEARTS OF
THE PEOPLE"
think Darrow is right.
That is why America will always be free country
is why the American people will not tolerate
treacherous activities in their midst.
LIBERTY IN AMERICA is SAFE AS LONG AS 1T is
THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLEi