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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13

Auditorium, Buffalo, New York, No vember 12.-The text of the Presidents speech today before the American Fed eration of Labor follows:
 'Mr. President, delegates of the Ameri-
 can Federation of labor and gentle
 men:
 T esteem it a great privilege and a real honor to be thus admitted to your public councils. When your executive committee paid me the compliment of inviting me here, I glady accepted the invitation because it seems to me that this, above all other times in our his tory, is the time for common counsel for the drawing, not only of the energies, but of the mind of the nation together. ! thought that it was a welcome oppor- sotunity for disclosing to you some of the 7 thoughts that have ben gathering in my mind during the last momentous months. { DUTY OF ALL TO FORGET I SELF-INTEREST IN CRISIS T am introduced to you as the Pres ident of the United States, and yet I would be pleased if you would put the thought of the office into the background and regard me as one of your fellow {. Cltl1eIiS, WHO mas come neTe LO Spedk, : not the words of authority. but the words of counsel, the words which men should . speak to one another, who wish to be -~frank in moment more critical per shaps than the history of the world has lever known. A moment when it Is every .sman's duty to forget himself. to forget his own interests. to fill himself with the nobility of a great national and world conception and act upon new = platform, elevated above the ordinary affairs of life, elevated to where men have views of the long destiny of man. kind.
 T think that in order to realize just what this moment of counsel is it is very desirable that we should remind ourselves just how this war came about and just what it is for. You can ex- plain most wars very simply, but the ex- planation of this is not so simple. It's roots run deep into all the obscure soils of history and in my view this Is the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
DISSATISFIED
 WITH PEACEFUL ADVANCE

we boast of the extraordinary pace of American advancement. We snow with pride the statistics or the increase of our industries and of the population of our cities. Well, those statistics did not match the recent statistics of Ger many. Her old cities took on youth, grew faster than any American cities ever grew; her old industries opened their eyes and saw a new world and went out for it's conquest, and yet the authorities of Germany were not satisfied. You nave one part of the answer to the question
 why she was not satisfied in her methods of competiticn. There is no important industry in Germany upon which the
 government has not laid it's hand to di- rect it and, when necessity arise, con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
PROCESSES OF ENERGY
 MUST NOT BE STOPPED

"Now. to stand together, means that nobody must interrupt the processes of our energy if the Interruption eah possibly be avoided without the aa.. solute invasion of freedom To put t concretely. that means this: Nobesy has right to stop the processes oF labor until all the methods of con ciliation and settlement have been ex 7 hausted; and might as well say riga here that I am not talking to you alone. You sometimes stop the courses of labor. but there are others who e@ the same and I believe that I an speaking of my own experience, not only of myself but the experience of others when I say you are more req sonable in 2 large number of cases than the ca apita1iSfs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
MUST NOT FIGHT MOBS
 SAVE THROUGH LAWS

T would be willing to set that up as the final test of an American. That is the meaning of democracy. I have been very much distressed, my fel- low citizens, by some of the things that have happened recently. The mob spirit is displaying itself here and there in this country. have sympathy with what some men are saying, but I have no sympathy with the men that take their punishment into their own hands, and I want to say to ev- cry man who does join such mob that do not recognize him as worthy of the free institutions of the United States. There are some organizations in this country whose object is an- archy, and the destruction of law; but would not meet their efforts by making myself a partner in destroying the law. I despise and hate their pur- poses as much as any man, but respect the ancient processes of justice. And so I want to utter my earnest protest against any manifes- tation of the spirit of laWlessness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
HEART OF WORLD IS
 OF TEUTONIC BLACK

Take the map and look at it. Ger
 many has absolute control of Austria Hungary practical control of the Bal
 kan states, control of Turkey; control of Asia Minor. I saw a map on which
 the whole thing was printed in appro-
 priate black the other day, and the black stretched all the way from Ham burg to Bagdad-the bulk of German power inserted into the heart of the world. If it can keep that she has
 kept all that her dreams contemplated when the war began. If she can keep that her power can disturb the world as long as she keeps it-always, pro- vided-for I feel bound to put this pro- visio in-always provided the present influences that control the German gov ernment continue to control if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
Judge Heflin Absent

Tn the absence of Judge H. P. lief lin, Judge c. w. Ferguson will take up the docket of criminal cases this morning The work would have regu- larly come before Judge Heflin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13

ting German armies into the heart of that country quicker than any other armies could be got there Look at the map Of Europe now. Germany, in thrusting upon us again and again the discus sion of peace, talks about what? Talks about Belgium; talks about northern France, talks about Alsace-Lorraine.
 Well, those are deeply interesting sub Jects to us and to them, but they are not talking about the heart of tho mat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
MUST SEE TO IT THAT
 LABOR IS KEPT FREE

While we are fighting for freedom. We must see among other t.lings that labor is free; and that means a num- Der of interesting things. It means not only that we must do what we have declared our purpose to do, see that the conditions of labor are not rendered be- yond more onerous by the waf-thar also we shall see to it that the instru- mentalitles by which the conditions Of labor are improved are not blocked or checked. That we must do. That has been the matter about which I have taken pleasure in conferring from time to time with your President, Mr. Com pers. And if I may be permitted to do so, want to express my admiration Of his patriotic courage, his large visior and his statesman-like sense of what is to be done. l like to lay my mind along side of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
PEOPLE WOULD WELCOME
 SPIRIT OF FREEDOM

T believe that the spirit of freedom can get into the hearts of the 9g-
 mans and find as fine a welcome there as 1t can find in any other hearts. But the spirit of freedom does not suit the . plans of Pan-Germans. Power cannot I De used with concentrated force against free peoples if it is used by free peo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13

last decisive issue between the old prin ciples of power and the new principle of freedom.
 GERMANY STARTED WAR
 AND REASON IS EXPLAINED
 "The war was started by Ger many. Her authorities deny that they started it. But I am willing to let the statement I have Just made await the verdict of history. And the thing that needs to be explained, is why Germany start cd the war. Remember what the position of Germany in the world was-an cnviable n position as any nation has ever occupied. The
 whole world stood at admiration of her wonderful intellectual and material achievements and all the intellectual men of the world went to school to her. As a university man I have been surrounded by men trained In Germany, men who had resorted to Germany because nowhere else could they get such thorough and searching training, particuiorly in the princlples oh science and the principles that underlie modern material achieve ments.
 Her men of science had made her in dustries perhaps the most competent III dustries in the world, and the label Mad in Germany was a guarantee ot Soo' workmanship, and of material. She na access to all the markets of the world and every other man who traded in thos markets feared Germany because Of ne effective and almost irresistible competi ton. She had a place in the sun. Wh' was not she satisfied?' What more ol' she want? There was nothing Tn tn world of peace that she did not alread,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
Williams on Trial

Judge W. E. Forts division of the criminal division of the circuit court was occupied all of yesterday and 1t appears that it will be kept busy all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13

of today with the case of Richard L. Williams. charged with an assault with intent 10 murder on C. C. Bates,
 Williams has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
PEOPLE SHOULD BE
 SELF-GOVERNING ALWAYS

why. gentlemen, look what 1t means lWe claim to be the greatest democratic people In the world, and democracy means, first of all that we can govern
 i ourselves. If our meil have not self control, then they are not capable of that great thing which we call demo- cratic government. A man who takes
 the law into his hanGs Is not the right
 | man to cooperate in any form of or de- velopment of law and institution. And some of the processes by which the struggle between capital and labor is carried on are processes that come very near to taking the law into your own hands. do not mean for a moment to compare them with what I have just been speaking of, but I want you to see that they are mere graduations of man. ifestations of the unwfllingness to CO., operate with the fundamental lesson of the whole system and we must learn not only to take common counsel but we must yield to and obey common counsel. Not all of the instrumentalities for this are at hand. I am hopeful that in the very near future new instrumentalities
 may be organized by which we can see to 1t that various things that are now going on shall not go OH. There are va rious processes of the dilution of labor and the unnecessary substitution of la- Dor and bidding in distant markets and
 unfairly upsetting the whole competition ; of labor which ought not to go on. I
 ! mean now on the part of the employees, and we must interject Into this some in.
 strumentality of cooperation by whick
 the fair thing will be done all around :. :. LEAVES WASHINGTON TO
 GET NEXT TO PEOPLE
 "And so, my fellow citizens, the req 1 son that I came away from Washington l is that I sometimes get lonely down there. There arc so many people in Washington who know things that are
 not so, and there are so few people in Washington who know anything about
 what the people of the United States are thinking about, I have .o come away to 1 get reminded of the rest of the country. have to come away to talk to men who are up against the real vning and say to them: I am with you, if you are with me- And the only test of being with me is not to think about me personally at all. but merely to think of me as the expression for the time being of the power and dignity and hope of the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
POWER OF THIS NATION
 MUST BE ALL-EXERTED

All of this is q preface to the confer ence that l referred to with regard. to what we are going to do. If we are true friends of freedom-our own or any body else s-we will see that the power of this country and the productivity of this country is raised to its abso- lute maximum and that absolutely no- body is allowed to stand in the way of 1t
 When say that nobody is allowed to stand in the way, don't mean that they saall be prevented by the power of the government. but by the power Of the American spirit. Our duty, if we are to do this great thing and show America to be what we believe her to be, the greatest hope and ener- gy of the world, then must we stand together night and day until the job is finished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13
STUPID PROTESTS DO NOT
 KNOW THE SITUATION

"AIay I not say that 1t is amaz- ing to me that any group of peo- pIe should be so jIl-informed as to suppose, as some groups in Russia apparently suppose, that any reforms planned in the inter- est of the people can live in the presence of a Germany powerful enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue or force. Any body of free men that compounds with the present German govern ment Is cOmpounding for it's own destruction. Hut that is not the whole of the story. Any man in America, or anywhere else, who suPposes that the free industry and enterprise of the world can continue if the Pan-German plan is achieved and German power fastened upon the world, is ns fatuOus as the dreamers of Rus- sia.
 "What I am opposed to is not the feeling of the pacifists, but their stupidity. My heart is with them, but my mind hns con- tempt for them. I want peace, but know how to get it and they do not.
 "YOu will notice that sent a Friend of mine, Colonel House, to Europe, who is as great q lover of peace as my man in the world, but I did not send him on a peace mission; sent him to take part in conference ns to how the war was to be won, and he knows nx I know that that is the way to get peace, if you want it for moro POWER OF THIS NATION
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-13

last decisive issue between the old prin-
 ciples of power and the new principles of freedom
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-26
GIRLS! BEAUTIFY
YOUR HAIR AND
STOP DANDRUFF
Hair Becomes Charming, Wavy
Lustrous. and Thick in
Few Moments
Every Bit of Dandruft DiSap-
pears and Hair Stops
Coming Out

For % cents you can save your hair.
In less than ten minutes you can dou-
BILE its beauty. Your hair becomes
light, wavy, fluffy. abundant and ap-
pears as soft, lustrous and charming
as a young girls after applying some
Danderine. Also try this-moisten a
cloth with little Danderine and care
fully draw it through your hair, tax.
ing one small strand at a time This
VIII cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or
excessive oil, and in just a few mo-
nfents yoh have doubled the beauty Of
y UT hair. A delightful surprise
awaits those whose hair has been neg
lected or is scraggy, faded, dry. brit
tie or thin Besides identifying the
hair, Danderine dissolves every parti-
Gle of dandruff; cleanses, purifies and
invigorates the scalp, forever stopping
itching and falling hair, but what will
please you most will be after a few
weeks use, when you see new hair ~
fine and downy at first-yeS-but real
ly new hair growing all over the scalp
If you care for pretty, soft hair, and
lots of it, surely get a 25-cent bottle
of Knowlton's DaIderin6 from any
drug store or toilet counter and just
try it.-Adv.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-26
TROOP Xxx PLANNED GARDEN
TWO WEEKS AGO

Meeting of Troop Xxx took place on
Friday, April 20, and was called to Or
der by Scoutmaster F. c. Soares at
us D. m. The roll was read and II
boys answered. also two officials.
There were also three prominent viz.
itors who attended the meeting. AT
the last meeting there was one visit.
or who spoke to the boys.
The first of the three visitors to
speak was Mr.. Westgate from the U.
s. experiment station, who spoke to
the boys about the altitude of NUM-
Der of the mountain peaks in and
around the city. He also told the boy S
what the best soil is composed of and
what the best fertilizer is.
The second of the three to speak
was Mr.. Crouch, man also like Mr.
Westgate, experienced in the theory
of plants and vegetables. In his early
days he attended one of the greatest
universities in the country. He was
studying engineering. He afterwards
devoted his time to tie study of as.
riculture. tie las been in the bust
ness now for 30 years. He has lived
InS III ~ :
The third of the three to speak was
Mr.. Roberts, a member of the EXecu-
tive committee He spoke on the good
citizenship requirements OF a person.
He began by his enjoyable and laugh
able 81 can't 10 it" and Il think |
can and Il thought | could. We
were kept busy all evening answer
ing the questions which they asked US.
All of these three men are interested
in the scout movement and will attend
our. meetings aga'n ii, the future. They
were thanked by the boys with three
"hip-hip-hCorah3" each.
Three of the boys have completed
their second-elass requirements and
will be sworn in as secendclass
scouts this coming Friday.
A scout of this troop has passed
the merit badge for Pathfinding. =
Sco1tmaster Soares announced at
the last meeting that We will begin
work on a garden plot 100 200 feet
on Piikoi street somewhere. This was
planned by the scoutmaster two weeks
ago, and not having the opportunity
of meeting and announcing the news
to the boys between Friday and two
weeks ago, he announced it at the last
meeting as previously said. Work on
the plot will begin Saturday next The
pay per hour will be high. We have
all the facts about soil and its tex
ture and know. how to cultivate almost
any kind of vegetable.
We all hope, that every boy will
help along in digging beds. etc, if
he possibly can.
The meeting was then adjourned
with the scouts repeating the honor
and oath and Law at S:45 p. IN.
HENRY SYLVIA,
Scribe
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-26

with less than 5000 inha bitants, and
2a4> troops we're in communities With
less than 5000 inhabitants. thus snow
ing that over one-third OF the uo)ps
now organized IN the United States
are IN communities OF less than I0ol
inhabitants
1T is this t'eil which offers the
greatest opportunity for the further
development OF scouting" said the
chief Scout executive, for, notwith-
standing the fact that boys in such
communities do cot have the same
benefits as the boys IN larger cities
with well organized councils under
the supervision OF Scout executives
end their assistants. the interpretation
given to scouting is highly creditable"
l. has been found that boys in such
communities compare fayOrabiy with
boys in our larger cities, where in
many cases because OF transfer, such
formerly rural SCauts have been called
upon TO take their tests before local
courts of honor. This demonstrates
tie absolute possibility OF successful
nationwide interpolation of scout.
ing simply through our literature and
speaks volumes for the benefit which
the Scout officials secure from out
Semimonthly bulletin Scouting"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-26
BOY SCOUT PRESIDENT URGES DRY
HAWAIIFOR SAKE ISLAND YOUTH
John Guild at Annual Meeting
Makes inspiring Statement
of Work Accomplished
(A6dress delivered az annual meeting
Of Boy Scout Councillors, Thurs -.
day Evening, April ~
By JOHN GUILD
Retiring President, BOY Scouts Of
Hawaii

Two words that are now echoing
the country over are those OF the Boy
Scouts motto, Pc Prepared" IN a
country at war, as ours is. these two
words are worth a whole dictionary OF
dilatory terms. Not the least item
in IifiRg 90 10 that motto for the
country at large is the training of our
boys in the Boy Scout movement. with
all that such training implies in know.
ledge, strength and efficiency. and our
Boy. Scouts here I'm Hawaii are not one
step behind their mainland brothers In
their following II that motto.
am delighted 20 see so many rep
resentative men OF our city with us
tonight, and | believe their presence
here means that the value of the scout
movement in Hawaii is being appreci-
ated. We who have been connected
with this work during the past few
years have known what was being
done but sometimes we have felt that
IL was not sufficiently known TO 9TH
ers outside CT our comparatively small
working group. The Boy Scout move
ment Is one which has wide useful.
ness In a community. and a place as
distinctively its own as the public
school, Sunday school, Y. NJ. c. A. or
any other institution for the upbuild-
ing OF citizenship and character. We
have felt that the time has come when
many mora men Of this city should
be interested in the movement, and
sboIld realize that here as elsewhere
Il is real asset to the community and
worthy OF the support OF the commu.
ntv -.-.. .r...
Prohibition 10 Needed @
Il would like to say right here, and
as publicly as possible, that, apart
from assistance in other ways, this
community could not help the Boy
Scouts in any better way than by get
ting behind the movement for abso-
Lutte prohibition IN this territory.
Think OF our 500 fire young lads on
whom We have been impressing the
need for keeping themselves in the
words Of the scout Law pllysjcaIlyj
strong, mentally awake and morally
straight" and let us do everything in
our power to remove the temptation
that the saloon and everything con.
nected with II puts before them just
as they are entering their early man.
hood
] will not attempt to review the
work which has been done during the
past yeaf,fas, COMMISSIONS Hayward
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-26

OF their war work has been in con-
nection with the hospital service in
England. Boy Scouts have met every
transport loaded with wounded SOL
diers which has locked at Southamp-
ton, and have lent every assistance in
their power to the wounded and the
nurses and doctors. They have met
the trains of wounded coming in at
the London stations, distributing warm
blankets, hot water. or anything else
that was urgently needed. They have
helped the men able to be about to
disembark from boat and train, and in
the helping of these shattered heroes
they have shown a spirit of gentleness
and resourcefulness far beyond any
expectation. In the hospitals they
have attended to the small wants of
the helpless wounded, bringing water
or food, writing letters, or reading to
the patients. They have assisted the
doctors in dressing wounds and have
proved their worth as aides all round
Perhaps not yet, perhaps never, will
our scouts be called on to render
such services as the scouts of England
have been giving for the past two
years, but ! know | can say with con-
fidence that if such time comes, we
are ready. We are ready, scouts and
scoutmasters alike, to serve our coun-
try in any capacity in which We may
be needed. The scouts oath requires
this, the scouts training teaches this,
and the scouts spirit hears no clearer
call, knows no graver duty, thap that
of offering the best that is in them to
the aid of the country which we love,
and under whose banner the cause OF
liberty and right must and shall be
1Dhold
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-26

will tell MS of that in his annual re.
port. The year, however, has been a
very successful one and as president
! desire at this time To express my ap.
pre- citation Of thu work that the com.
missioner and SEQ ltmasters have
done. Their help always readily Civ
en-, has been greatly appreciated, and
without them the movement could not
have reached It's present growth and
flourishing conGii.on. r.. .-.-
Tribute to lanes A. Wilder
As most OF you know, our special
field commissioner. Mr.. James Wilder,
left us last year to make a long stay
in the East. While there he has
earned great credit for himself and
the Boy Scouts of Hawaii by his splen-
did work in Boston, where he has been
occupying the .Fingree chair and lee
turing in reeraatonal leadership, or,
in other words, Boy Scouting. In