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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
Takes a Guide To Get In Camp.

When a new selectman enters Camp
Gordon he enters with a guard not on
account of the fact that the officials
are afraid he will not report, but they
are scared that he will get lost.
The camp is so large that some Of
the men who have been here since
work was started on it have not yet
completely familiarized themselves
with it.
Camp Gordon is about two and a
half miles long by two miles wide. 1t
is partly located in a village, corn
field, cotton field and in the woods
There is also peach orchard of about
a hundred of the famous Georgia Ell
berta peach trees on the reservation
The parade ground is quarter of a
mile wide by two miles long. 1t is To-
Gated on knoll, from the top of which
one can see Stone Mountain off in the
distance about 10 miles away.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
MA EHE~ ARFN Watson E. Coleman, WAIST
D "a &hN VI est references. Best resuii
Almost Human.

A few days after the arrival Of a
family of kittens at a neighbours, little
four-year-old Isabel was invited to pay
them a visit. Delighted with what she
had seen, she returned in ecstasies to
her mother.
"Oh, mamma" she rapturously ex-
claimed, "they have the dearest little
pussy cats next door! But do you
know that their papa has gone away
on a long holiday and left their mann
ma alone to take care of them? Isn't
it a shame? "-Sioux City Tribune.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
RYE HAS NO CONTROL
RuTLEDeE SMITH QUOTES FROM
RULINGS or WAR DEPART
MENT ON EXEMPTIONS.
District Boards Have Exclusive Con.
troll Of Exemptions and Only Call on
Governor Of State To Interpret Law
If They Disagree.

Nashville From inquiries received
at state headquarters said Rutledge
smith, chairman of state council of de.
iense, IAN erroneous impression has
been gained to the effect that the gov.
ernor could direct the local and dis.
trlct boards as to their decisions.
Nothing could be further from the
truth, and to the end that the public
may fully understand that the local
ana district boards have exclusive
jurisdiction over registrants and the
facts in each case, quote i'll detail a
telegram from the war department
which shows conclusiyely that there is
no power in administrative authority
to interfere with the decisions of the
local boards.
THE only thing that the governor
can do is where the boards may be in
doubt as to the law, the governor may
construe the law, but he cannot make
any statement whatever in regard to
facts. Here is the ruling OF the war
department:
+" 1t would be practical impossible
ity for anS central administrative au-
thority to attempt to scan the decision
of local boards in the millions of cases
that are before them. Furthermore,
the law and regulations place the mat
ter, of discharge and exemption, in all
cases, except those based on engage,
ment in industry and agriculture in
Re jurisdiction of local and district
boards. There is no power in admin.
istrative authority to interfere with
these decisions in particular cases. To
so interfere would be subversive of the
letter and spirit of the selective serv-
Zcc law and the regulations of the pres
ident prescribed Hereunder If local
boards have made mistakes in individ-
ual cases resulting in hardships, there
Is an appeal to the district board Also
both local and district boards may re-
open cases in which they are in error
up to the time the claimant IS actually
ordered into military service. If the
local or district board is in doubt rs
to a particular case it may apply to
the governor of the state for informa-
ton concerning, the meaning of the
law and if the governor cannot answer
the question from information at hand,
he will request instructions from
Washington.
An individual who believes that a
local or district board has enormously
interpreted the law may call the at
tention of the governor of his state to
the case. Where it is clear that the
decision of the board is in error, the
governor may inform the board of the
law and request it to reopen case"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Germany has looted the st. Quen.
tin banks, but it's not to be won.
dered pt When man has gone out
on drunken debauch and committed
Fevery known crime, no one would ex.
pect him to refrain from doing Lit.
tile footing IL he got chance.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

A Prussian deputy says the Ger
mans are being cheated out of their
victories because the enemy is always
getting new allies. The simplicity of
this explanation is equalled only by
its humor.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Recent coinage of such expressive
american terms as "gutter oratory"
and poison press" shows that Ameri-
can sentiment is slowly but surely be.
1ng aroused to the necessity of proper.
ly classifying and subsequently deal
Anr with the nations enemies at home.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

The pro-German American Weekly
tells us that Germany does not yet
recognize a state of war with the
United States. And there are still
some men who do not admit the world
is round.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Economy hysteria may have to run
its brief course before the proverbial
common sense of the American people
discovers that business as usual is
quite compatible with the proper con-
duct of war.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Optimists jubilating because the crop
prospects are better than last year are
being counter-attacked by pessimists
who point with alarm to the fact that
they are not as great as the year be-
fore.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

According to Popular Science Month
ly chemists are experimenting with
spinach as q material of which to make
paper. This will be much better use
for these greens" than to serve them
as human food.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

We try to get inspiration out Of
things which can never inspire. We
need the infinite. We try to satisfy
ourselves by heaplng up the tinite.--
Susan e. Blow.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

There are good many men who are
going in strong for motoring at pres
ent who would be a great deal wiser
to go in little more seriously for some
groceries and coal.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

The German line seems impregna-
BILE and the forces of the allies ire
sistible; so there's nothing to do but
wait for Uncle Sam to come with q
crowbar.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
EatahlIshea Red cross Area.

Chattanooga is being made a mob
ilization center by physicians and
health experts from the government
bureau at Washington preparatory to
the establishment of Red Cross can.
torment area for the protection Of SOL
diers at Fort Oglethorpe-
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Automobile speedings and accidents
are attracting more than usual atten-
ton. The country needs to keep its
population intact as far MS possible In
this present demand upon II.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
Meeting Of State Educators.

At called meeting of the state
board of education the Tennessee vocs-
tional board, an agency for co-opera-
tion with the federal government in
vocational education. was Organized.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Some day the Russian army is going
to be ashamed Of itself. The sooner
that day comes the better for the world
and for Russia.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Another German radio station has
been discovered on an island off the
Mexican coast. Perhaps the next one
will be discovered in Carranzas whisk-
ters.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
The government is going to put the
exemption claimants through another
sitter Of little finer texture.

1t wouldn't do any good to send the
pacifsts to the farms. They would
spend all their time arguing with the
potato bugs.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

This country has not yet fully walked
up to the fact that it is at war--and
the enemy is doing everything posi-
BILE to keep 1t asleep.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Every government that has not yet
been insulted or injured by Germany
should send in its application at once,
before 1t is too late.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Turkey is said to be angry with the
United States We should be ashamed
of ourselves if we hadn't incurred Tur-
keys displeasure.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

The Russian soldiers are now call
Ing their officers by their first names.
But that can't be much Of a relief.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Perhaps the poet is justified in
speaking of the rolling of the seasons,
but this year the seasons appear to
have q fiat wheel.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Gov. Rye is preparing proclama-
ton in the interest Of the library fund
to furnish books to the soldiers in camp
and will urge the people of the state
to give all possible aid to the move
ment.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

A new definition of the Stacker is
now in order. He is the young man
whom Uncle Sam picks up by the slack
of his trousers.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

wright's Indian Vegetable P;ils contain
nothing but vegetable ingredients, which act
gently tonic and purgative by stimu-
lation and not BY irritation. Adv.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

At pinch the leaky rowboat can be
made to supply the fatal propensitles
of the trick canoe.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

The United States will have q part
in the making of peace that will be
yasting.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

There are varieties of the middleman
which on close inspection look like the
hold-0p man.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

A number of people are spelling con-
scientious objector in the simpuhed
form of coward.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Russians should know that Germany
can lick any army that stops to talk
socialism.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
There are various cures for the trea-
son habit and most of them are fatal.

Just at present Old King Coal is a
sorry old soul and a worried old soul
Is he.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

With 100000 voted for airplanes
we shall now proceed to make our
money fly.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

When a wise man falls In love he
gives his brain a vacation.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Fortunately, most Of the summer
''dont's" are more practical than the
old standby "don't worry"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

America does not like war, but when
it has to have one it likes to show that
1t can afford the best.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Plans for sending delegation of rs
American Socialists and labor leaders
to Russia were formulated at confer
ence of members of the American Al
lance for Labor and Democracy, in
which Samuel Gompers, J. Phelps
Stokes, John Spargo and many Rus,
sian Socialists from the East side in
New York participated. The alliance
in statement, said Russia is receiv-
ing much misinformation through poi
soned propaganda from America.
Because the United States Supreme
court has recently held that the work
mems compensation law does not apply
to employees under maritime contract,
water front and shipping employers
and employees at San Francisco are
attempting to evolve their own COM
pensation system.
Union machinists of Bridgeport,
Conn, in mass meeting which was
addressed by w. H. Johnston, interna-
tional president, approved by large
majority the proposition for general
strike to obtain q minimum wage
scale,
The British Trades Union congress
voted not to send delegates to the So
cialist congress at Stockholm and
placed itself on record by Il vote of
2.894000 to $1,000 as being opposed to
the conference.
Demands upon congress for legisla-
ton drafting all aliens except enemy
aliens has been made by the Iron City
Central Trades council and the Inter
national Molders' union.
Thirty-fve local unions in Frisco
have secured for their members wage
increases Of from to Is per cent since
the first Of the year, in order to meet
the high cost of living
A bonus of 81 week to the male en-
ployes and 80 cents to the female en-
ployees Of the tramways department
has been granted by the Glasgow
(Scotland) city council.
The Kansas Retailers association
has lost its fight against the nine-hour
day for women, which has been estab-
lished by the State Industrial Welfare
commission.
Seven thousand laborers who have
been on strike in Winnipeg, Canada,
for the last six months have returned
to work at minimum wage of 80 cents
per hour.
Vancouver, B. c., single manufac-
turers have decIaed to oppose the de-
hands of the single weavers for an
eight-hour day with ten hours pay.
Efforts are being made In China to
revive the ancient Chinese art of porce-
lain manufacture, which has fallen
seriously behind in recent years.
A large piano manufacturing firm in
the United States maintains q school
in craftsmanship for women In which
they are trained to sell pianos.
Ninety per cent Of women employed
in Moscow, Russia, are In the spinning
industries.
Organized labor at Richmond, Ind,
was instrumental in establishing a city
market.
Unit fed Mine Workers have a mera-
bershib of almost 100000 In 1923 local
unions.
An Ieight-hour ordinance has been
passed by city councils at Idaho Falls,
Idaho.i
Motion picture operators at Angus
ia, Gal. are 100 per cent organized.
Eight unions have been organized at
Bismarck. N. p, since January i.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06
LABOR GAINS IN
FACE OF ATTACKS
Protective Standards Upheld
Against Attempts to Suspend
Them During War.
PROGRESS IN LEGISLATION
Women's Hours Reduced In Eight
States, Workmen's Compensation
Laws Enacted in Five-NeWs
of Workers World.

Protective standards for labor have
been successfully upheld against at
tempts to suspend them during the
war and substantial gains have been
made in new legislation to safeguard
still further the nations Industrial
army, according to the summary of la
Dor laws enacted in 1917 by Al states
and In congress, issued by the Ameri-
can Association for Labor Legisla-
ton.
Upon the entrance Of the United
States into the great world war, legal
protection for the workers was
threatened by an ill-advised rush for
results" said the secretary Of the as
ISOLATION. DR.. John B. Andrews, but
the nationwide campaign in which
leading civic and labor organizations
Joined forces to maintain existing
standards in the interest both of max
imum production and of human con-
servation has resulted in notable sue
cess. Efforts to set aside labor's hard
won standards on the mistaken plea of
war necessity have been almost COM
pletely checked. The years grist of
labor legislation shows progress, and
indicates that protective laws for
labor are regarded by legislators not
as a matter of sentiment, but Of
sound economics.
"Women's hours have been reduced
in eight states, mems hours in mines
in two. One additional state enacted
minimum wage legislation, making
II in all, and two more have set
investigating commissions to work on
the problem. Five new states EN-
acted workmen's compensation laws.
In eight states official commissions
are studying universal health insur-
ance, the next big step in American
labor legislation"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-06

Contrary Troubles.
"This is hard luckp'
what is?"
"Only soft drinks"
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-17
BE WISE AND STAY NORTH

The wage-earner of any kind who leaves Alaska to seek work outside makes the mistake of his life The
 truth of this does not apply to any particular brand of worker It is just as true of the newspaper reporter clerk mucker bookkeeper, miner, engineer or anyone else.
 You see, Alaska is fortunately remote from the hungry crowd When you have job outside you always have the feeling that three hundred and fifty others, or whereabouts are looking for it and feeling not the least brokenhearted by the prospect of your possible early demise You know that if the boss put an advertisement in newspaper for to fill your place he would ind It necessary to employ corps of policemen to keep the crowds of applicants from bursting in the door ot the of fee You never have the feeling of independence engend cred the thought that you wanted. You know you are not indispensable in the slightest sense and the result is that you have to work your head off or quit
 There is another important advantage for the wage eaner in Alaska: He quit any time if he finds It l perave and go out into the hills and not be arrested as hobo Socially the workngman of Alaska is butterfly of fashion compared his confrere in socaed clvza ton High wages are the first institution imaginable and they cannot be too high be objectionable to the man re- ceivng them but who would choose hghwaged job that
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-17
THE CASE AGAINST GERARD

Having established the case against Bernstorf, and received his confession that he not only aided the war plot but considered 1t justified 1t IS good SpOrtSmanShp to now consider the case of Germany against Gerard.
 In the last issue of Viereck's weekly formerly The American Weekly and before that the Fatherland the most proGeman paper in America this is set forth in most pronounced terms, tOwit:
 Count Reventlow lays the betrayal of Sir Roger Easement and the overthrow of the Irish revolt at the door of the American embassy at Berlin declaring the un- controlled letter and cable service of the embassy to Wash ington also being an uncontrolled method of communca ton to France and Engand in other words he charges the American ambassador with being spy for England. To cinch the charge he says:
 American Ambassador Gerard and his personnel de- livered the honorable Irishman to the hangman"
 It is charged by Colonel Emerson, American war cor respondent that: Fst-Certan blank passports disap- peared from the American embassy in Berlin, early in the war and reappeared later in the hands of English spies Second-That the American ambassador tried to persuade Emerson to send secret information to the en- bassv from the front in prearranged code ThirdThat when he Emerson refused Gerard tried to deprive him of his passport by tckery and finally accused Emerson veteran of the Spansh-American with not being an American citizen.
 It is also charged that Gerard deliberately turned over to the French one Oscar Pflug an American ot German parentage who was attached to the American embassy m Berlin, m mlnOr caDaclIN, TOT engaging III CoeIoo ton with the German officer in charge of the ambassador ia train thereby putting Pfug in danger of death for slight indiScretOn
 It is further charged that early in the war Gerard wrote private letter New York, grossly insulting the German government, which the recipients showed and used to strengthen the anti-Geman feeling in metrop tan circles.
 This apparently completes the ease.
 So far as known the ambassador formerly New York City politician well acquainted with Tammany Hall and it's envrons he stood pat and vOuchsafed no reply
 Should all these charges be true the imperial Ger man government overlooked card when it did not hand Mir Gerard his passports time back It will be re- membered that the United States did not hesitate to hand passports to Captain BoyEd and Captain von Papen for encouraging bomb conspilacies and financing Mexican revots nor did it hesitate to bid farewell to the Austrian ambassador for interfering with American business by nstgang strikes and even put Consul General Bopp and associates in jail for schemng to nce whoeSae murder and arson
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-17

human nature could stand only for week before choOs ing job with little less wages that he ~ld hold in definitely?
 Alaska is the poor mans paradise, is indeed, any new and remote country No one heard women cry ing for bread in Alaska, man worth his salt up here that couldn't get out and live if there never job on earth For instance in the cities outside thousands are looking for the price to buy fish; in AL aska you couldn't catch fish and offer it to friend with out embarrassing him or her In this fortunate territory
 woman would not want to pluck the feathers off grouse to cook it. but outside there many and many poor or woman who would gladly skin whale to get piece of its liver-( Juneau Dispatch)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-25

The other bottles were Gold Top, put
out by the Gold Top Distributing COM
pany. OF Central City. where the Black
Hills Brewing company is located.
The analysis OF these bottles show
ed that one contained about one-half
OF l per cent of alcohol while the
other contained 3.41 per cent, making
IT practically gold nugget beer. which
Is the beer made by the Black Hills
brewing company. These beverages
are being furnished to blind-pigs in
the state by the brewing companies
with the full knowledge that they are
sold In violation of the law and Mr..
Holsaple urged that, II the breweries
VIII not obey our present laws, they
ran hardly be expected to obey any
future laws that may be enacted for
their regulation.
Mr.. Schilichting OF Dcadwood. re-
piled that they never had promised to
obey the present laws. but that If new
laws were enacted and they prom
lsed to obey them they certainly
would keep their word.
Mr. Holsaple also called attention
to conversation which occurred in
the private room Of the brewers in
Pierre hotel a couple OF weeks ago
when there were present some OF
these same brewers together with a
prominent attorney Of Sioux Falls. a
verbatim report of which converse
ton he seemed to nave. Mr.. Hol-
pie said:
In this private conversation these
brewers stated that II they could only
succeed IN putting It over on the leg
stature and getting the legislature to
extend to them the privilege OF max
ing a beverage with a low percentage
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-25
ENGINE IS DERA|LED
WHEN II HITS ROCK

Train No. 1. which Ieft here over
the Chesapeake and Ohio at $50
o'clock Friday night, struck heavy
boulder yesterday morning at Elmo
W Va. derailing the engine, mall car
and combination baggage and smoker
Engineer Frustal, of Huntington "
Va. sustained q scalp wound and was
slightly scslded. but his Injuries are
not regarded as serioua No passen-
gers were hurt
Tho boulder is believed 70 nave
rolled from the mountainside FrtTay
night during the severe electrical
storm In West Virginia The tracks
were cleared for traffic at noon yes
terday.