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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
BREAD PRICESN
FRANCE SAME AS
BEFORE THE WAR
One and O1e-Fourth Pounds
to Be Daily Maximum
for Each Person.

PARIS, Sept. 20.-The housewife
of war-ridden France today is paying
practically the same price for bread
that she paid before the war. The
only difference is that today's bread
is Of whole wheat flour. 1t is darker
than the white loaf of pre-war days.
During the first two years of the
war there was no bread problem in
France. All necessary wheat was i'm
ported, but even then, in view of
transport difficulties, the government
was obliged to regulate baking.
AS the French are essentially a
bread-eating nation it was necessary
to keep prices as low as possible.
The government held it inadvisable
to tax wheat because the farmers
might grow other cereals Therefore,
it was decided to pay the farmers
then price they demanded for their
wheat-although the flour from this
grain was resold at former prices to
the bakers.
To cover the deficit tax will soon
be imposed on the agricultural popu-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
STAR PASTRY RECIPES.
Apple Gateau.

Three tablespoonful powdered
gelatin, one and a half pound apples,
three-fourths cupful sugar, half cup
full hot water, half cupful cold water
one lemon and few drops of red
coloring. Dissolve the gelatin in the
hot water. Slice the apples into a
saucepan, add the cold water, sugar.
grated rind and Juice of the lemon
Stew slowly and rub through a sieve
then add the dissolved gelatin and
into glass dish and set in a cool
custard or cream.
Cheese Cakes.
Sift cupful and half Of cottage
cheese: id one-third cupful of
sugar. four tablespoonfuls of cream,
one tablespoonful of melted butter,
the grated rind and juice of lemon
and three beaten. eggs. Beat until
smooth and light. Bake in small
fancy shaped tins, lined with pastry
until the mixture is set like custard.
Serve cold.
Royal Pudding.
Take one quart water, one-half
cupful sugar. one-half teaspoonful
salt, one pound dates; one cupful
English walnut meats. hutter size Of
walnut, one cupful coarse graham
flour. Boil water, sugar and salt;
then stir in the flour and boil ten
minutes. Add dates. nut meats, but
ter and boil a few minutes longer
Pour in loaf tin and when cold
slice. Serve with hard sauce or
whipped cream.
Jelly Roll.
Three eggs beaten separately, one
cupful sugar, one and one-half cup
fuls sifted flour. two level teaspoon
fuls baking powder, one-half cupful
warm water, flavor. Add baking
powder to flour and sift. Beat whites
of eggs stiff. fold in sugar. then add
beaten yolks, then flour lightly. Bake
in long pan in hot oven. When done
spread quickly with jelly and roll
carefully in a napkin. "
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
men FORCED TO
| BREAK STRIKE
Los Angeles Authorities Arrest
I'M Employed to Work in Sugar
Beet Fields.

SACRAMENTO. Cal, Sept. 90
The Los Angeles city officials and
Police court judges are alleged to
have been arresting all unemployed
men they could find and giving them
the alternative of taking the places Of
the striking sugar beet field workers,
Jail sentence or six months on the
rock pile. They asserted that that
action was taken with the tacit
knowledge of Governor Stephens and
the state council of defense. The
charge is emphatically denied by both
parties.
According to reports, several hun.
dred men already have been sent to
the beet fields Of southern California
when faced with the alternative OF
from one to six months on the rock
pile or becoming strikebreakers The
striking beet field workers refuse to
work under contract labor system
according to a report to the state
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

craving permission to go to the hos
pital. Often they are cursed for
"sha1nming," other times they arc
given permission to walk to the hos
pital-two miles off-and the same
distance back again.
Often they are unable to do tho
daily work allotted to them, and in
such cases as stated above they are
paid in proportion to the work they
have done. Not one cents grace is
allowed and the bosses word is their
bond. Often they work in the tropi-
cal rainfalls, which rise as high as
three inches in a storm, and being
compelled to give up, are paid only
for what they have cone.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
RAIL KEY OPERATORS
TO TAKE STRIKE VOTE

CHICAGO, Sept. 2o.-The general
committee of the Railway Telegraph
ers' union Of the Burlington road has
mailed to all members blank votes on
the question Of calling a general
strike to enforce their demands for
higher wages and better working
conditions.
The vote is expected to be conn
pleted in two weeks. About 1900 men
are affected.
The men,, who have been negotiat-
ing since May 80, ask a 20 per cent
increase in pay, extra pay for Sum
days and eight-hour day and two
weeks vacation annually.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
STRIKE OF RAILROAD
MECHANICS IS ENDED

BOSTON. Sept. 2O.-The strike
of more than $500 mechanics of
the Boston & Main railroad has
. been ended a. the result Of a con.
pany and the members Of the ex-
ecut1ve board Of the Massachusetts
committee on public safety. 1t
was agreed that the men would
accept an increase Of cents mn
hour and return 10 work. The
additional cents asked for will
be a subject for further examina-
ton by Henry b. EndicOtt, execu-
tive manager Of the public safety
committee, who will act AZ the Of
fetal and sole arbitrator. The de-
mand Of the strikers was a fiat
increase Of 6 cents an hour.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

council Of defense by Prof. r. l..
Adams, state farm labor agent, who
investigated the strike.
Several big sugar refineries," says
Prof. Adams, "in an endeavor to force
the men to go back to work, without
an increase of wages, have notified
all sugar beet growers that they will
refuse to buy their beets if any grant
an increase in wages. The striking
beet field workers demand So for a
1O-hour day."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

lation. This appears to be the only
solution.
In October bread cards will be in
troduced in France: They will allow
minimum daily allowance per capita
of a pound Of bread, with a maximum
of pound and -fifths.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
WANT 20 PER. CENT MORE.

NEW ORLEANS,> La, Sept. TO-
-Four hundred white and negro screw
men have asked for an advance of
20 per cent when the new contracts
are signed with stevedores and
steamship agents. The present con-
tract expires Sept. IS, as does also
the longshoremen. The latter have
also asked for 25 per cent advance.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
DANV|LLE STREET CAR
STRIKE IS SETTLED

DANV1LLE, ILL.,, Sept. 20.-The
street car strike which had tied up
traffic over the city lines since last
Friday was ended Monday night when
the company agreed to recognize the
union. Demand for an increase Of
~ cents an hour in wages will be
arbitrated,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22
= RAILROAD CLERKS OUT.

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 20.-A
strike of $500 members of tho
Of Railroad Clerks COM
pletely tied up freight on the Sea-
board Air Line railroad in this city,
Raleigh and Hamlet, N. c.; Cardel,
Ca; Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla
and time and a half for overtime.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

He who has the courage Of his con-
yictions and the manhood to fearlessly
express them regardless of whether it
may please or displease one or the
whole union is indeed fortunate and
credit to the whole labor movement
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

One good thing the H. C.. Of l.: has
done, we don't hear Of anyone being
rotten-egged. It would be too costly
q pastime: as the, dealers charge as
mAch FOR. rotten eggs as good ones.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-09-22

Don't forget that Organization In
creases wages and shortens the work
Ing day making work steadier.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Constitutional Changes Sug-
gested-Anti-S
Answered
CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES

To the Editor of the Evening Ledger.
Sr-Secretary Baker is quoted in the dis
patches as saying that, if the people of
the United States desire it, the price regu-
lation and other measures for the control
of business which have been originated dur
ing the war will be continued after the
termination of the conflict. have no doubt
the people will desire it if 1t is successfully
accomplished during the war.
1t has been our past experience that
things started during war have a way of
sticking in our Government after the ter
mnation of the purpose for which they
were originally devised. Our tariff started
during Jefferson's embargo and the War Of
1912, and was further boosted during the
Civil War. Our national banking law also
dates from the Civil War, and was first
devised to secure market for war bonds.
With the coming of peace will come the
problem of securing the fair and efficient
administration of all the vast new powers
of the national Government which we will
then have created How will our inelastic
Constitution, devised $50 years ago for a
small agricultural population, stand the
strain of the new governmental activities?
1t will be no easy task to make such
radical changes as price regulation and
supervision of business work even during
war, when there is a truce in partisanship.
How much more difficult 1t will be after
the war! The present harmony of legisla-
tive and executive departments cannot last
forever
It is a suggestion too ideal to be realiz-
able, but II we could secure constitutional
amendments introducing principles which
have been found workable in younger de-
mocracies than ours, it would vastly sim
plify our future task. The changes / would
suggest are:
First The election of the President and
Congress by proportional representation.
Second. The members of Congress and
the Senate should be allowed to sit for any
district that cares to elect them, so that
political overturn will not throw out of
office a statesman of merit and experience
who happened to live in district that de-
cided at any given election to change its
mind politically.
Third. Ministerial responsibility of the
Cabinet to the two houses in joint session.
Fourth. The abolition OF the presidential
veto, giving the President a term of eight
years with ineligjblity for reelection. This
would make the Cabinet the supreme power
in the Government, and the Cabinet would
be constantly responsible to Congress.
Fifth. Our representatives could also be
elected for four years, one-half being elected
each two years to keep them in constant
touch with the people. We could also
proyide that all ex-Presidents should be
members for life of the Senate and that
our universities should elect half dozen
Senators and about.a dozen members of the
House of Representatives This would per-
init the entrance into Congress of some
men in other walks Of life than the law.
WILLIAM G. BELL
Philadelphia, September 27.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. According to Minister Panaretoff, Bultarls
has virtually attained the end for wklth
she entered the war and has no interest
In the Kaiser's "Mlttel-EurOpa" plan Of
empire.
x Former Ambassador to Germany James W.
uerard has been mentioned In rumors ~
possible candidate for the Presidency, Al
thOugh he hes denied that he will run.
3. "A midinette Is q French shopgIrl, 40 called
because she goes out at noon for luncheon
a. Alexander Pope wrote 1.-THE Essay on Man"
D. Biting on granite" quoted by the Presided
OF the German Reichstag In references 70
President Wilson's alleged attempt 10
ALLEVIATE the Kaiser and the German pee-
ple' was first used by Won Buelow.
o. Dispatches from the British front mentlen
the presence of Welsh fighters In the latest
thrust. a.4l
Z. In Greek mythology PhiIomeIa and her sister
PrOcne suffered an outrage at the hands
OF the latter's husband, Tereus, and ln
revenge killed his child, Itys, and served
him as food TO Tereus. When he pursuet
them the gods changed Phil0mela Into
nightingale and PrOcne into swallew:
Hence the modern poetic application d
the names.
b. In the vernacular OF soIdiery q "suielss
club" Is machine-gun c0mpany, or the
unit that goes over the top" and seftfs
TO protect troops when they are retreatlnf.
D. GiacOmO PuccInI and Ruggiero Isoncavals
wrote scores for the story Of LA Do
lO' 'Gravnmen" means grievance; a memorial
from the Lower House OF ConyOeatlon =!
me lpper ON disorders or grievances o.
the Churchi the essence, or worst part,
OF an accusation.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
WHEN TOWN MEETINGS HAVE
TO BE HELD OUTDOORS

MORE than ten times the number of
AVA persons who assembled in town
meeting in the Academy of Music Thurs
day night stood outside and listened to
speeches made from autos. Had there
been in existence the great Convention
Hall that the city is to have the meeting
would have been even more successful
than it was. The town meeting is and
always has been a vital factor in Ameri-
can life. No doubt the proponents of
government by murder were glad there
was no such hall. In fact, we have no
town meeting hall precisely because we
have this sort of government, which
holds its power by dividing the city into
provincial wards and by holding back all
progress which aims at unifying the
people and giving them the feeling that
they own and partake in the management
of their own city.
The absence of town meeting hall
was symbolic of the reason why town
meeting had to be held.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29

But a rhymer steps into the breach
who has poetic word to say, and whose
own story is even more interesting. BY
grace of Bill O'Donnell, of the u. G.. l.,
we are permitted to present James Burke
who has been for forty.eight years in the
lighthouse service at Tompkinsville
Staten Island. He's a youngster OF
eighty-two.
In 1855, when he was tive lty he Joined
the British army. Then he served four
years in the United States Marine Corps,
and after the Civil War one year as a
recorder Qieutenant's rank in the navy.
In the department of civics he has not
been inactive-he is the father of thirteen
children. He was once n center in the
Fenian Brotherhood but that has moth.
ing to do with his poem, and here it Is:
NEVER TO CROSS THE RHINE
He loves his flag but does not brdg, the
soldier tried aud true;
But It's his right to throtO light on
aChdt he hopes to do.
And though he may not tdlb that tcdy,
his thoughts arc on his task
And oRStoers quicb hoiCeUer thick the
questions others oSk;
For tchdt are zee from DER the sea as
Sembled here IN France?
To fight the Huns tCith men and guns
tchen ordered to a. SGHce;
And as the sun, its ico"b begun, tUhen
risen for the day,
Sends heat aud light to baHiSh night and
chase its DistS dtcdU
We hope to front the battles brunt aud
make the BocheS run,
Or sink from sight as ntistS OF night sub
side before the sun;
We hope to tChdcL the hellhoundS back to
Gods dividin0 line,
Where Germany must neuer be dHo,Ued
TO cross the Rhine!
The faith and toorkS Of turbaned Turks,
their Allah and their creed,
Hare tostered crimes that, ere our times,
acre fruit of SdtdnS seed;
But neither Bel nor imps Of he'll fore
ShddotCed German 1Crdth,-
The tide Of blood that IN its flood SWccpS
euer In the path
o. PruSSidn hordes 1OhoSe oUerlords are
Kaiser WW Nnd GOtt;
But II god is at their nod, the dcuH
then is qchdt?
A demOnP Yes, but ne'ertheEeSS a real
god beside
deity 1chom bldSphemy can 1Uin to
sanction pride,
Whose naughty claims and Sordid aims
hare raised 1t to an art
TO murder, main, dnC put TO shame, aud
glory IN the part;
But God Is just and 1ciH 1ce trust be tCith
as at the line,
Where Germany must rcUer be allotced
to cross the Rhine,
JAMES BURKE,
Staten Island, SeptemI er 13.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
OPINIONS WORTH HAVING ARE
WORTH BACKING WITH MONEY

The failure Of a single issue OF GOV
| ernment bonds would be worse TOT Auhe.
lea than a disaster upon the held OF , pa
| tle.-Secretary McAd0o to the America"
| Bankers Association.
| TT WOULD be so great disaster tha'
patriotic men and women Will never
allow it TO happen. The real failure Vi
the second Liberty Loan campaign that
is the actual inability of the United
States to get $4,000 ,O00, 900, is OF course
inconcelvable. But 1t is possible TO get
the money and still have the campaign
be only partial success. 1t viii not oe
for the best unless as much OF the money
as possible comes from income ana aS
little as possible from investments.
In war everything in country Is
eventually put upon war basis out the
last thing that is adjusted to that basis
is financing, because the average mans
habit Of living up to his income is SO
deeply ingrained. ITO raise thirteen or
fourteen billions of dollars on or before
June 3d. 1918, by the sale of bonds IN
recurring installments, seems to some
people an impossible task" says Mr.. Nc
Adoo. 1t seems impossible to those per-
sons who hate to make the effort to
change habits, to get out Of ruts, to invest
some of their income in the Government
We have yet to experience the rather
frantic loan campaigns that take place
abroad, and it is to be hoped we never
shall. London, in such times, is plastered |
all over with huge signs-"Germany Is |
Watching Us" But Germany has |
stopped watching England, because there |
every one, even the poorest has reached |
that point of bitter determination which |
makes It certain the Government will get
every penny 1t needs. Germany is watch
Ing us now. She feels there is just a
chance that we are not bitterly deter
mined to carry on the war, month in |
month out, and we have got TO prove
to her that she is wrong. Americans
have strong opinions that they have been
telling to Germany; but an opinion that
is not worth backing up with real money
is not worth having.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29

chisng the men, but it is difficult to see
where it applies to the present question.
1t has not been shown in any of the
States where women have the suffrage that
1t causes the neglect of their mothery,
wifely or housewifely duties in the slightest
degree. Why should it?
About two minutes are required to vote,
although man may hang about a polling
place for half a day or more If he likes. If
woman cOnScentiously voted at every
election, municipal, State and Federal-in-
Guiding tho prmarieS-She might possibly
during the entire year consume as much
time in this unmotherly procedure as she
now devotes every week. at least, to a
shopping trip, movie show or some other
such highly parental occupation
If one had to pick the most ridiculous
among all the ridiculous antirsuffrage 'ar-
guments," so called this one would GER
tainly make hard task easier.
on the third point, it cannot be denied
that equal suffrage would undoubtedly
make altogether too many voters-for some
body. The question is, Who? In Phia-
that equal suffrage at the last election
would have created an electorate entirely
too numerous and too intelligent for the
comfort of Messrs. Smith, Ware and COM
pany. And what catastrophe that would
have been to the holy cause of man-con-
trolled democracy!
Get together in one vast assemblage, If
you can, all the thugs and thieves and
crooks in Philadelphia the gamblers, white
slavers, booze fighters and booze distribu-
tors-all the forces of evil, including those
who live and profit by special privileges. the
most undemocratic evil of all-and you'll
have one solid, unanimous, uproarious vote
against equal suffrage What's the reason?
WOLSTAN DIXEY.
Philadelphia, September 2S.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
THE BROKEN PLEDGE

We recommend the extension of the
franchise to the women of the country
by the States upon the same terms as to
unconditional Platform of the Demo-
cratic party 1916.
The Republican party. reafirming it's
faith In government of the people, by the
people for the people as a measure of
justice to one-half of the adult people
OF this country, favors the extension of
the suffrage to women, but recognizing
the right Of each State TO settle this dues-
tion for itself.-National Platform of the
Republican party, 1916.
AS THE Socialist party is also for suf-
"A frage, it might as we'll be made
unanimous. So, at least, visitor to
America, who believed everything he
read or was told, would imagine. He
would expect that suffrage would this fall
be extended to women in such great
States as Ohio and New York with hardly
a dissenting voice. Yet any schoolboy
would laugh at such innocence.
We are dangerously near the point in
this country where one can put no faith
in a party's pledged word. Many thou
sands of honest persons read the ma
tional platforms for guidance in casting
their votes. 1t is outrageous that they
should be so cynically deceived by the
candidates elected on these platforms.
And it is a very serious matter that
young people should grow up in an
atmosphere in which such light breaking
Of pledges is tolerated.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
"REMINISCENCES OF KITCHENER

The anonymous author of Memories
Discreet and Indiscreet" who describes
herself as "a Woman of No Importance"
has a chapter on Lord Kitchener, who was
her warm friend in which she says:
During Lord Kitchener's career his life
was several times in jeopardy. Lord Wolse-
ley saved him once. one of his staff an
other time; yet after his many escapes he
lost his life close to our own shores In
measure / was glad ne died when he did,
though not in the way fate decreed The
reason why | was glad was because there
were already some heavy, clouds hanging
over his head ready to burst and it would
have been painful to see him torn limb from
limb after so many years of useful work,
should have liked him to die in Egypt,
where he was happy and appreciated, and
l know that he would have liked II him
SELF for there his heart was enshrined 1
doubt If anybody ever thoroughly under
stood Lord Kitchener or IL he understood
himself. He has often been harshly judged
I have heard him called mean, yet his hos
pitality, both in India and Egypt, was
memorable. / have heard him called hard
and unsympathetic. Yet l doubt II any
man who is fond of and kind TO animals
can be hard, unsympathetic.
Kitchener was kind and gentle with his
horses, though not a great horseman, and
when in South Africa a pet bird was i'll
he thought il was moping for want of
mate and tried hard to find one for II,
though 1t was at time when he was over
whelmed with work. The day before his
last fateful journey, as he was walking into
his Office he called one of the two chauffeurs
he always held in readiness and said to
him, You are married, are you notr The
reply being in the affirmative, Lord
Kitchener continued, Then. will not take
you with me tomorrow, 1 will take Broome
instead So Broome and his car went with
their master-and will be seen no more
until the sea gives up her dead"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
THE FOES OF SUFFRAGE

To the Editor Of the EVeniiO Ledger:
Slr-The anti-suffrage "argument'-as
YOU call it-of /. p. Mackay In the EVENING
LEDGER is an excellent example Of the
plausible sophlstry which seems TO be the
only refuge left TO the archaic advocates
Of lop-sided democracy in this enlightened
era.
outside OF the drawback that its state
ments OF fact are incorrect and its conclu.
sions absurdly illogical, this is a very able
dissertation.
The gist of its somewhat confusing YER
biage seems TO rest upon three main state
ments, TO the effect. first, that women viii
not exercise the suffrage II given TO them;
second, that II would interfere with the
duties OF motherhood; third, that II would
make too many voters,
The fact Is that wherever women have
the sunraee Il u exerclrtd BY q larger per-
centage of women than of men. This might
BE- 4 pretty good argument ~ o'1Iron-