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The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17
Outside Influences
 May Be Back of Strike
Na1y Would Be Crippled By Demor- alizing Transportation FaciH-
 ties of the Country.

called off should war be declared the strike tie-up would have resulted iD such a congestion of freight in the termtnals and on 1the sidings thas weeks and probably months would be required 10 get this congestion cleaned up before the railroads would be in normal condition again This would mean that the movement of troops would be seriously interfered with and the movement of commissary sup plies and ammunitions so seriously in. terrupted as to give our enemies Il tremendous advantage.
 "A day or two ago an officer of our navy said. A tie-up of the rail roads for even two days would be a serious blow to the national welfare at this critical time We must keep the fleet fully coaled and equipped with other supplies
 Moreover VIC are using construc- ton work in the navy and two days tie-up of transportation of the ma terials urgently needed might mean q two months delay fin the emergency work we have undertaken
 When we are on the verge of de- cision respecting the legality of the Adamson law and when we stand face to face with the probability Of war which will tax all our energy it seems to nfe that in speaking of the plans ol the brotherhood leaders to tie up the Transportation industry of the country the people are justified in using stronger term than i'll advised !"
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reported to have said, "the hcrren haus regards as its own special pre- rogatiye It wants the people to be commandeered into war and out of it and that things afterward should remain as they were That is impos- sihle. The people demand peace at the soonest possible moment
 I've are no longer serfs whom the king can buy and sell or order us t1 bleed and die at the word of com. mand We are. a nation that has reached political manhood"
 Amid intermttant cheers Herr I.cin- ert hinted at a time coming when the whole nation would arise and sweep "junkerism off the earth
 Adolf Hoffman, of the sociaLstic workmen's union, in supporting the desire for peace is reported to have ridiculed the idea of a complete Ger man victory, saying:
 When we attain this there will be no German soldier left alive" The German nation" Herr Hoff- mann added, lis bleeding for the sins of those in power II Is high time treferring to the herrenhausl for an operation to remove this ap- pendix of the body polite. Abso lutlsm has hurlcd Germany into the horrors Of this war and tn ned the whole world against us This feudal- istic system of government must go"
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17
GREAT REJOICING AMONG
 THE EAST SIDE JEWS

New York, March 16.-On New Works east side, where the liberal party of Russia is regarded as the champion of the Russian Jew this was day of frenzied rejoicing as evi- deneed by the actions of thousands of inhabitants of the east side.
 When the Jewish papers spread the news of the revolution excited crowds gathered at street corners and cheered speakers who told of "a new era in Russia for the Jews Groups of men and women sang the Marsellaise and everywhere in the crowd men could be seen shaking hands and women kissing each other
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17

he would be in New York tomorrow if he did not get there tonight
 The president is confident that there will be no strike However. r already is considering what may be done if his appeal to the patriotism of the men involved is futile. Legal officers of the government are study ing the problem to determine what measures will be lawful, moi only in an effort to keep food supplies and the mails moving, but to deal with an even more serious situation, if the country should be drawn into war. minor attention, however. as officials are satisfied that if war came the los- alty of all the railroad men could b. depended upon
 The action of the president came with dramatic suddenness late this at ternoon The Council of National n- lense, including in its memb bershp several cabinet members, had held meeting at the war department and deciding that with the United States apparently on the verge of war, a strike would be a national disaster proposed the sending of mediators
 Against the advice of his physician the president just recovered from the cold which has kept him in bed for nearly two weeks, summoned q cabi. net meeting and in short, decisive session approved the course
 The president then sent his mes. sage to the representatives of the rail. reads and of the four brotherhoods.
 Formal word that they had been
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Socialists Ridicu1e Idea
 Complete German Victory
Declare When That is Attained There Will Be No German
 Soldiers AHDe

The Hague, March 16.--The debate in the Prussan diet on "Wednesday af- ter the address by the imperial chan. eellor, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollw was remarkable for it's sla ashng at tacks on "mnkerism" by both soeiai ist factions
 Herr lseinert, a social democrat, ac- cording to the Berlin Vorwaerts of Thursday, denounced the upper cham Der Of the diet, which he said regard ed the government as the mere care taker of their own selfish interesto and where nothing counted but shame less profiteering Declaring that the reorganization of that body as sus- gested by the national liberals was useless. he added:
 We must abolish the herrenhau' which is a millstone around the neck of any progressive development in Prussia"
 neputy Leinert also upbraided Count Yorck. who had attacked the socialist leader. Carl Legien. because, the reports add. after the break be tween Germany and the United States the latter had promised the American Federation of Labor that he would bring the influence of the German workmen's uniops to bear up on the government
 Such influence" Herr Leinert is
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selected to carry on mediatory nego- tiations was contained in a mes, sage sent by Secretary Baker as chair man of the National Defense Council 10 Secretaries Lane and Wilson anu Mir. Willard and Mir. Gompers.
 Prior to taking up the question with the national defense council the presi. dent had been informed that the lead CTS of the employers and employees were waiting in New York to see whether he would take action. ana had also been told of reports that at least some of the brotherhood mem. bers were not ready to abide by last years strike vote.
 In the formal communication the government did not seek to lay blame for the pre- sent situation either on the railroad officials or on the brother hoods. It is known, however, that the president believes from his int.- mate knowledge of the situation gained while trying to mediate last year that there is no good reason why a compromise is not possible.
 Both at the meeting of the Council of National Defense and at the cabinet meeting afterward the situation from military and economic standpoint was canyassed. With freight traffic just partially recovered from a period of unprecedented congestion and with food prices constantly rising, a tie up of transportation facilities for only a few days would result in terrible suffering
 All government officials believe that ultimately through one agency or an other the railroads will have to ac- cept the eieht-hour day They believe that the commission headed by Major General Goethals. appointed by the president under the Adamson act. !s fair and will settle equitably differ ences over the application of the eight hour day. While there have been no formal expressions on the subject. the calling of the strike without waiting Tor the supreme court to hand down its decision on the constitutlonalty of the law has been generally con demned.
 Attorney General Gregory and other law officers, including those in the office of the judge advocate general of the army. were busy seeking au- thority for the president to take dras- tic steps if mediation and appeals fail to prevent a strike.
 So far as any attempt by strikers to interfere physically with the op- eration e. railroads is concerned, in the cele brated Debs case the United State5 supreme court in most sweep ing terms and unanimously declared the federal government has widest powers to prevent physical obstruc- ti0ns. at least to interstate commerce and sportation of the mails.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17

Washington. Mach lG--President Wilson today called unon railroad managers and chiefs of the employees brotherhoods as patriotic men to re- open the questions at issue between them and prevent a general interrup. ton Of railway traffic lin this time of national peril"
 The presidents message an appeal for adjust ment of differences and a solemn protest against strike was sent after he and the cabinet had ap- proved proposal Of the council of national defense that if send a com mittce to New York to undertake mediation between the railroads and their employees. At the same time three of the committee. Secretaries Lane and Wilson, and Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad started for New York 10 seek immediate conferences with repre- sentative of both sides
 Samuel Compers. president of the American Federation Of Labor. is the fourth member Until tonight i; was understood at the White House that he had gone to New York with the committee. but it developed that h. had been ont of the city for two days and that Secretary Lane, entrusted with arrangements for the commit ices trip, probably had not been able to reach him. Officials at the fedora tion's headquarters would not say where Mir Gompers wa, but eN- plained that he had been keeping in touch with brotherhood leaders from q point near New York. It was thought
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MEMBERS 0f NEW MINISTRY HAVE ASSUMED POSTS
The Banks, All the Commercial and Financial Houses and Some of the Factories Already Have Responded 10 the Governments Appeal and Opened Their Doors

Petroerad, via London, March 1G.-- Ruas-a today appeared to be in a fair way toward solving the greatest prob
 lem with which, perhaps. any nation was ever confronted. Order is grow Ing with incredible rapidity out of the chaos of the the last week and the new government gathering up the broken threads of national and mu- nicipal life. is strivng to set the or ganiaztion of the country ill motion so that the conduct of the war will sui
 fer as little as possible from the revo- lutiOn
 The members of the new ministry already have assumed their posts and the government buildings, empty and deserted for four days, are again open for official business. The banks, all the commercial and financial houses and some of the factories already have responded to the new governments appeal, opened their doors and express a willingness to do everything in their power to effect as quick a recovery as possible from the paralysis of the last week. The soldier-policemen are guarding the streets in place Of the old gendarmes.
 Hundreds of messages have been re. .II . |, claring the allegiance of important cities and fortress es to the new re. gime. Moscow, Wharkov. Tsaritsyn and Nolga have formally acknow- ledged the new government and so far as is known, not single section of, the country still stands out for tho old order of things Supported by unanimous vote, the present govern. ment is in reality a government of the people.
 According to the latest information
 the executive committee of the duma
 and the committees of soldiers and
 workinsmen's deputies have reached full agreement or at least have de-
 cided temporarily to waive all minor differences until the meeting of the constitutional assembly, which will dea eide just what form the new gov ernment of Russia will take. Meanwhile, ii is reported that the government of the country will rest for three months in the hands of a 1 committee ot twelve and it is stated that the monarchy for the time being will he abolished.
 Paul N, Milukoff one of the leaders of the new government, in outlining
 its aims to the Associated Press. said "We assume control of the govern
 ment in order 10 bring victory to the Russian arms
 ''lt was a crime for the former gov ernment to behave il such q way as to bring the country to the brink of disaster, endangering most seriously the issue of war The growing danger was the real cause which strongly in1
 fluenced the people toward dissatis- faction. finally expressed itself such an outbreak of popular indigna- tion that it brought triumph in such
 short time and in so bloodless
 manner and perhaps in no other revo lution in history.
 "The reason for the decisive sue
 cess was the complete lack of con l fidence in the former power Not one element has risen to defend the
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17
PEARL NECKLACE STOLEN.

los Angeles, Cal, March 16.--P0lice were asked today to aid in the re- coyery of a pearl necklace valued Et reported as stolen from Mrs Frank Sulliyan-Smith of New York.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17

Presidents Message, An Appeal for Adjustment of Differences and a Solemn Protest Against a Strike, Was Sent After He and the Cabinet Had Approved Proposal of the Council of National Defense
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17

Chief Executive Appeals to the Patriotism of Railroad Managers and Brother hood Chiefs "in This Time of National Peril.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-17
A FOR RENT AID WILL RENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered An ad in the Sentiuel-Record is almost sure to bring you customer.
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Forecast for Arkansas - Saturday fair Sunday fair, warmer.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
USE cHoPsTIcks IN JAPAN
Old Custom Prevails Among Poorer
Glasses, While the Rich Have Eu-
ropean Knives and Forks.

The use Of chopsticks is general in
Japan, except among the richer classes,
who have adopted European knives and
forks, and, to some extent, the Euro
pean cuisine, London Tit-Bits says.
Small bowls of china or lacquered
wood are the usual table equipment.
After the various solid portions of the
food have been lifted to the mouth.
with chopsticks the liquor remaining
Is slipped from the bowl. In the case
Of rice, which would be tedious to pick
up grain by grain, the bowl Is often
raised to the mouth and the rice SHOW
eled or pushed in with the chopsticks,
It is also customary to pour q little
tea into the rice bowl after 1t has been
nearly emptied, and in this way the
few remaining grains Of rice are
washed down as the tea is drunk.
At public places the chopsticks at
each meal must be new; this is indi-
Gated by the fact that the chopsticks
are made from one piece of wood and
are left Joined together, as were
matches at one time. These new chop
sticks are incased In thin paper en-
velope, sealed at the end, and bearing
japanese characters advertising either
the hotel or some firm that has fur
nished them free to the proprietor for
the sake Of the publicity thus gained.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
Insects Carry Disease.

Our knowledge Of the connection Of
Insects with disease is a very modern
acquisition. In his presidential ad-
dress to the Washington Academy Of
Sciences, DR.. L. o. Howard noted that
standard medical works Of score Of
years ago made no mention Of the sub
ject, but recent literature records 228
different disease germs as known 10
have been carried by insects to man or
animals, 81 organisms as known to be
parasitic in insects but not known to
be transmitted, and 2S2 species Of in
sects as discovered causes or carriers
of diseases Of man or animals. The
transportation by wind Of the body
louise, the carrier Of typhus fever, is
among late discoveries to which many
writer's have given attention. Tick
paralysis is another novel subject, the
disease occurring In Australia, Africa
and North America, and 13 cases have
been reported by single Oregon physi-
clan. Progressive paralysis of motor
but not sensory nerves follows the at
tnchment Of the tick. The disease is
not infectious, and 1t has not been de-
cided whether 1t is due to a specific
organism or to nerve shock. Infantile
paralysis Is believed to be one of the
diseases not carried by insects.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
WEAPONS OF THE TEACHERS
Evil Methods inspiring Fear In Hearts
Of Children Not Conducive
to Best Results.

Power to produce fear II . poor
weapon. The teacher who uses 1t II
not doing his best work.
Snakes are feared by reason Of their
sting. So are lions and tigers for rea-
son Of their power to produce harm.
Fear Is the weapon Of an enemy.
We do not fear our friends, nor can
we fear anything that we love.
Evil is just absence Of good; for 1t
cannot exist where good Is. And
evil chooses fear for its weapon.
Neither evil nor fear Should exist in
the schoolroom, says an exchange.
Good is always stronger than evil;
love always stronger than fear. Why
should teachers employ evil methods
and inspire fear In the hearts of chill
dren when springs Of love are bub-
bling up on every side3
There are smiles, and kind words,
and kind thoughts, and deeds Of kind
ness and-but the list is too great to
complete. These inspire love, and as
weapons are much more efficient than
is fear.
And then there Is faithi When
good loses its trust in its ability to
overcome, fear disarms and evil con-
Quers.
An animal will not attack man
who has absolutely no fear Of it.
That is the secret Of the lontamer's
power. Evil cannot defeat man who
is strong In good, and therefore he has
no cause to fear evil.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
Building Concrete ships.

Concrete ships will displace the
woOden-walled Norwegian barque, II
is reported, the first Norwegian con-
crete ship having been launched at
the POrsgrund Cement Works, In the
presence Of the prime minister. NJ.
Knudsen. The ship is built on an en-.
tirely new system, with the bottom
upwards, in which extraordinary posi-.
tion the launching took place on a
sort Of underlying sledge, which glided
out with the ship. When the water
was reached the hull became detached
from the sledge and gradually sank
up to certain point, then subsequent,
ly slowly righted itself. The ship,
which Is Of 200 tons burden, was built
in three weeks, but the next will only
require about half that time as the
original frame will be used for each
subsequent ship OF the same size. The
casting Of the ship. when the frame Is
completed will this time take only two
days. 1t Is intended to start the whole
sale building Of iron and concrete
ships Of 200, 500 and 1000 tons. A
1,000-ton ship will be completed in SIX
weeks.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
TRUE LOVE OF SLOW GROWTH
But, Having FIowered, There Is No
Test Which II Cannot Pass With
Triumph.

True, lasting love Is a little slower
in starting than is false love. 1t is a
little more dignified; little more
truthful and pure from the start. 1t
is less disturbed by jealousy and
trifling differences. 1t is more sturdy,
though less famboyant. It is less
easily disturbed by frosts of misun-
derstandings and other disturbances.
So much for the beginning Of love.
The second test of love is time
observation-disclosures. The passing fas-
cination shows itself in this test-it
cannot pass it; 1t cannot last.
Only true love lasts, and that lasts
because 1t reaches down to the bed
rock Of mutual esteem, and is Of dura-
BILE material; of mutual interests and
sympathy 1t is compounded.
When love has passed its second test
-time-it is usually able to pass its
third test, which is altruism, or ser
vice.
At some time or other in life, love
always asks: What will you give for
love1 And he that loveth truly an.
swers: l will give my time, my per-
sonality, my position, my wealth-all
will Iegive for love.
But he that does not love deeply,
says: would keep love, but do not
wish to give up too much for it.
Foolish fellow. His love fails in its
test. He loses his love because he will
not pay the price Of keeping 1t.
The final test of love is its influ-
ence. True love makes one better.
The wrong sort Of love is degrading,
not uplifting. He does not love truly
who is not finer, stronger personality
because of love.
Real love is the sun of ones life
1t brightens, gladdens, uplifts and
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
New Metal Discovered.

A new metal has been discovered in
the Nelson mining district Of British
Columbia by Andrew G. French, and II
has been named Canadium. 1t Is allied
to the platinum group and occurs pure
In the form Of grain and short crystal-
line rods, and also an alloy, and assays
give three ounces or less to the ton.
Canadium has brilliant luster, and,
like gold and silver and platinum, does
not oxidize when exposed to the airt II
ls softer than platinum and its melting
point Is great deal lower. The ply
steal and chemical properties Of the
metal are to be studied at the chemical
laboratory Of the University Of Glas.
gov.
Canadium Is the FIRST new metal to
be discovered In anything more than
lnfinitesimal quantities since 1885.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
WHERE GRAMMAR CAME FROM
Darbareus Macedonian, Who Made
Himself Owner Of All Egypt, Held
HesponsIbIs for Invention.

The world reached its highest known
stage Of Intelligence before grammar
was even invented, much less studied,
Ernest G. Moore writes in the Yale Re-
view. I have had some curiosity
to find out where and how SO great q
blight upon young life first came into
being, and why 1t ever became a school
study, and l find that the Greeks knew
1t not; that their triumphant litera-
ture and their matchless oratory came
to flower before grammar was dreamed
of; that 1t was not In any sense one
of the great arts which they wrought
out and with which they armed the
human race; that after Greece had
declined, barbarous Macedonian made
himself owner Of all Egypt, and in or
der to surround himself with the most
spectacular form of ostentation Of
which his vain mind could conceive,
he set to collecting not only all the
rare and precious objects and books
and manuscripts there were in the
world, but he capped it all by MAX
ing a collection Of the living men of
the world who had any reputation any
where for knowing and thinking.
Taking them from their homes where
they had some relation to the daily
necessities of human beings, and had
really been Of some use, he shut them
up for life in one Of his palaces at
Alexandria, which the folks were in
the habit Of calling "the hencOop Of
the muses." and out Of sheer despera-
ton, since they could do nothing bet
ter to amuse themselves, they counted
the words in the books which real men
had written, and prepared tables Of
the forms and endings which the users
Of words employed. The lifeless dregs
of books which their distilling left we
now call grammar, and study instead
Of books and even speech itself. In
their lowest depth of Indifference to
the moving, pulsing life of man, not
even the Alexandrians sank so low as
that.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
Nsxs Metal In uaa.

Thermostatic metal, new material
Is adapted for such uses as recording
temperature changes and giving auto
matte temperature control. II IL made
Of strips Of two strong, non-corrosivs
metals. Of widely different expansion
on heating. These are welded togeth.
er. and any change Of temperature
causes the compound strip to bend.
When a piece four inches long i've.
sixteenth inch wide and one-tenth
Inch thick was raised 100 degrees
Fahrenheit. a force Of "A ounces was
necessary to overcome the bending
tendency and keep the strip straight.
Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
Rights Of Man.

The superstitlous awe, the enslaving
reverence, that formerly surrounded
aniuence, is passing away In all coun-
tries. and leaving the possessor Of
property to the convulsion Of acci-
dents. When wealth and splendor. in
stead Of fascinating the multitude, ex-
cite emotions Of disgust; when, instead
Of drawing forth admiration, II IL be-
held ~ an insult upon wretchedness |;
when the ostentatious appearance II
makes serves to call the right of It In
question, the case Of property becomes
critical, and 1t 10 only IN q system Of
justice that the possessor can contem-
plate sscurity.-Thomas Paine.