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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
WEARING MANS PANTS
UNSEXES LOVELY WOMAN
A Minnesota Editor Watches Women Wash Win
doWs In Railway Roundhouse and Then
Draws Very UnfavOrable Conclusions.

Some months ago, quite a bit of
publicity was given to the fact
that women had taken places in
the Duluth railroad yards as car
cleaners. 1t is possible that, later,
gentle woman entered other de-
partments in the railroad termin-
ais. Eventually, some of the or
ganized sons of toll claimed that
the women were not paid men s
wages for doing mems work.
Out at Deerwood, Minnesota, a
sassy chap named Barnes is pub
fishing a journal called The Med
dler. In a recent issue, he took
up this subject Of women doing
mems work. In one article, in
part, he said:
GAS soon as war was declared
against Germany by this country,
the managing ends Of corporations
were Immediately attacked by
"war' hysteria. ," Women were
employed to do certain kinds of
work about roundhouses, taking
the place of men. This interested
me and I spent considerable time
at railway divisions-not one, but
several, on two Of the main trunk
lines crossing the United States.
cat one division where they
employed several women as hos
tiers, on June II, 1917, I saw four
young women, dressed in high bib
overalls, armed with water,
sponge, brush and a cud of gum as
large as a hickory nut, set about
to wash the windows Of the round
house.
"The operation on the lower
outside half of one window was
performed by four females, as
mentioned, in just twenty min
utes. That means so minutes to
each window. There were about
100 windows in the roundhouse.
Now, gentle reader, figure out for
yourself what that faxed, foolish,
false economy cost the railroad
company. One hundred windows,
so minutes each, by four women,
at 20 cents an hour per woman,
makes how much? Makes you
,stagger, don't it? Do your own
figuring. You would not take my
figures for it.
"During the time those win
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
HOMESTEAD LAW
CHANGED.

If you wish to avoid contest
of cancellation of a homestead
entry made since June 6, 1912,
you. must offer the government
final proof within five years from
date of filing. Until recently,
seven years have been allowed in
which to perfect title.
To secure government home
stead you now must show three
years actual residence and at
least one-sixteenth of the land
entered must be under cultivation
at the beginning Of the second
year. Not less than one-eighth
must be under cultivation with
the beginning Of the third year
of entry.
If, through sickness or other
adverse conditions it proves i'm
possible to make the showing re-
quired by Uncle Samuel, the land
office has power to make reduc-
tons as to acreage required to be
under Improvement.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

dows were being washed by four
women each, from six to ten men
were peering at them through
other windows, from time to
time, and still other men joshed
them, all Of which cost time of
the workers and money of the
company.
See how much cleaner the
women keep their faces than the
men did, said the foreman to me.
"Just then, one of the girls
Strengthened up and, drawing in
her breath, released a cramped
corset stay which, 1 presume, was
a relief to the stay if not to the
woman. Still another woman
stopped to smooth her hair
and to smooth the wrinkles
out of the skirt which she had dis
graced by crawling into pair Of
overalls.
Can you respect those.
women?' | asked several men
whom [ knew would make fair
answers to my question.
"'No, I cannot say that I can, y
each replied.
Those girls were not from the
best homes of the city. Their;
fathers were not doctors, mer-'
chants, preachers or men doing
that same kind of work. Such.
men never would stand for a
daughter being put in such po-
sition.
81 do not cast reflections on tie
character Of any of those women.
But women, aside from the widow
driven to it, possibly, have no self
respect, otherwise they never
would draw on a pair of mans
overalls.
EDO male nurses or other men
doing what may be considered
woman's work, put on female un-
derwear, a chemise, low-necked
dresses, kimonas or other apparel
merely because they are doing
work that a woman properly can
do?
"Man's wearing apparel on
woman unseXes her. It takes her
out Of woman's class. It puts her
on a plane where she does not be-
long, ..t
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

also have declared in the past that
Chief McKinnon resents the grab
bing Of any crooks in Superior by
outsiders, especially if he is not
first consulted in the matter.
Mayor Konkel denies that any
streets in the city are dangerous
for women after nightfall. He ex-
presses the flat opinion that Su-
perior is as safe and orderly with
saloons as Duluth is without them.
Jail and workhouse records
hardly support the mayors posi-
ton, neither do statements of
prominent local people.
A short time ago, Prof. King
was reported in the Superior Tele-
gram as making the following
statement, viz:
''All hope of being able to main
tain night school at the Matt
Carpenter building this year has
been abandoned. Not only have a
large number of the Polish people,
who made up the enrolment last
year, left to fight for their native
land, but the conditions which pre-
vail on the streets in that section
of the city are such as to practice
ally bar any activities we might
propose.
eve are unable to find teach
ers or pupils, who are willing to
risk going on the streets at night.
The women teachers asked to in
struct in that school absolutely
refused to venture coming to the
school without male escort and
in very few cases the escort could
be provided. The teachers are not
the only ones, who were afraid
to 60 to thesschool, even the resi-
dents of that part Of the city were
kept from gaining the privileges
Of free education due to the condi-
ton of the city.
"For two weeks we tried hard
to form the classes, but found it
utterly impossible to maintain a
school with the few people who
attended. The number of women
present these first two weeks was
very small, when heretofore the
percentage Of women students had
been a large one. This school in
the past has always been. one OF
good standing and it is with re-
greet that we find we cannot posi-
bly, maintain it this year..
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
THE SLUMP IN ZINC.

Before buying a stock in a
zinc mine, the investor will do
well to fully inform himself why
that stock has dropped from a
very high point to q compare
lively low and attractive one.
Several friends of the Rip-saw
have expressed favor as to GER
tain zinc mining stocks that have
sold high, paid big dividends and
now sell at much lower prices.
Zinc is about as sudden and
slippery In it's movements as oil.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
ELECTRICAL STEEL
INCREASING.

It is estimated that the electric
steel output Of the United States
is now at the rate Of 100000 tons
a year and, by January l. 1918,
with the prospective furnaces al
ready contracted for construction,
it will reach 100000 tons. The
Pacific Coast is considered all ideal
place for electrical production of
steel and ferro-alloys as water
power conditions out there are
more nearly, similar to those Of
Norway and Sweden than in any
other part of the United States.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
AN AMPLE GOLD SUPPLY
IS IMPERATIVE.

Gold is the backbone of the fl
nancial system of the world. If
that backbone suffers from hyper
trophy-decrease in output and
quantity-it is bound to have an
effect on business. Doctors dis
agree as to probable results. Many
believe that gold production has
passed it's zenith as to world pro-
dGction, at least for some years.
In proof of that, they point to the
fact that $488, $4,000 was pro-
duced in 1915 and only $478,625,-
900 in 1916, a falling off of about
$10,000,000. The worlds produc-
ton Of gold by decades since 1860
is as follows, viz:
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

New discoveries of heavily pro-
ducing gold fields are not being
made. The heaviest gold produc-
ton is in South Africa. That field
probably has passed the apex of
production. India is veritable
sink for the absorption Of gold,
thereby withdrawing it from cir
culation and active use.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

NJ. W. Sells, Randolph, Iowa,
exhibited three-yer-old Poland
China boar at the National Swine
Show in South Omaha that
weighed 1120 pounds.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
HER COURSE INCOMPLETE.

I know a girl
Who is a Phi. D.
She thinks she knows all about man.
For she has studied him
From standpoints
Anthropological,
chronological,
Psychological,
Physiological, and
Philosophical.
In reality she has not even
Matriculated IN the course.
She has never said:
"Stop it! You're missing my
hair"
Life.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS


for their milk. Duluth s consum.
ers pay anywhere from IL to Is
cents a quart and the milk 5 not
rich enough to sicken their stom-
achs, either.
West Duluthans are wondering
why the coal barons compel them
to buy hard coal in half-ton lots,
if not satisfied with soft coal,
while uptown people get any rea-
sonable quantity Of hard coal as
may be desired.
Scion Pittenger has broken
away from the Big Interests and
set up a law shop of his own in
the First National Bank building.
Now he can speak and shout for
the people without let or him
drance.
"There were no saloons dur
ing the days Of Noah," sagely
says Mayor Konkel Of Superior.
The public will be surprised to
learn that the old Father, in Israel
remembers that far back.
Burning edible vegetables in
the city incinerator is not the big
fault of Michigan street. The
food monopoly enjoyed by the
combination on that classic street
Is the dangerous condition and
the burning shame.
Even at the cost Of being con-
sidered historical, the people
should send men to the next leg
islature who will pass laws per-
hitting this dear old city to con-
duct both a municipal coal dock
and a municipal milk dept.
The Herald got down on the
wrong side of the fence in the
fight of the people against Food
Hogs. That fat page Of market
basket advertising every Friday
night is no small compensation,
however. One can afford to sit
up with a corpse.if a rich legacy
already has been received.
Drinking cold water and going
without bacon, as the result OF the
prohibitive pork prices, is caus-
ing many a commoner to suffer
from the rusting Of his insides.
Even our departments Of the in
terror need greasing now and
then.
A county official who never
has shown any gift for denying
self and office in the expenditure
of public funds, recently refused
to chip in to give a decent send
off to a courthouse janitor who
had died after a long illness. In
less than six months, that same
thrifty chap will be asking the
voters to donate their support to
qno pu!J II!M gu sdeqIed 'm!!q
cally, if not physically.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
SUPERIOR CITIZENS PLAN A CHANGE IN
H.. FORM OF CITY GOVERNMENT.

Petitions out for Special Election to Authorize
Ward System with Ten Aldermen-All Glasses
Are Behind the Movement and Mayor KOnkel
is Defiant-John BarleycOm Becomes SO
Boisterous in One Section of the City that Night
Schools are Abandoned.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

also have declared in the past that
Chief McKinnon resents the grab
bing Of any crooks in Superior by
outsiders, especially if he is not
first consulted in the matter.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
FOR SALE

Mix Made Dairy Feed. Seratcl
Feed, Hog Feed (Tankage), Horse
and Mule Feed, Mixed Feed.
L. l. MARTIN & SON.
117T ~on -
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
TO DEMONSTRATE
CATTLE OF w. VA

For the purpose tol demonstrating
t. tho stockmen Of the country that
Cattle produced On grass in West Viz
einta compare fagorabS with thc
uunfcd alock o. the West a ear
oaa Of fine cattle shipped from the
Gore farm near ttarksbure was on
exhibition at The international Live
STOCK Exhibition Al Chicaeo this
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

Sold in Martin burg w Va. and
Suodgrass 4 e. Shepherd, A. NJ
commended he worlds best corn
remedy by w 5 Harper & Co. NJ A.
GilboTt
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11
The West Virginia cattl

week. The West Virginia cattle
were excellent specimens and all
were fattened on grass. They ara
Herctords and Durhams. ranging in
5eos rom three to four years and
thcr average weight was $50 lbs.
whom obey were loaded into the car.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

Journal Want business getters
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-12-11

All Star1
Why WE FIGHT.

1851 az 800 1873
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04
SUNDAY PICTURES AND THE CODE.

The motion picture interests of New York
| state have raised fund with which to carry
the question of Sunday closing to the highest
court Mayor Mitchell Of New York City en-
dorses their action, approves Of the Sunday ex-
hbition of Clean instructive pictures and
would favor, if needful legislation to that end.
There are ways of observing Sunday more
ideal and improving than attendance on pic
ture shows But the attainable best rather
than the theoretical best must often be the goal
of effort. Since the advent Of the motion pic
ture industry that apparently, has been the
view entertained by executives Of cities III the
state of Iowa and there is no disposition on the
part of officials to enforce section 5O4O Of the
code, which prohibits any labor except that OF
necessity or charity IF enforced, not the least
Inconvenience to the public would comprehend
the stopping of streetcars on Sunday, the closing
of drugstores and probably twenty-four- hour
shutdown of restaurants.
i Civilization advances a step at time, and
all that is worth having in this world has come
to us by slow degrees. The question as it pre-
sents itself to earnest people sincerely deslrous
of conserving the best interests of society, is
whether Sunday pictures are not taking the
place of less desirable recreations and amuse-
ments9 Are they not giving the people a form
of entertainment more instructive and less OBJ
jectionable than any other equally as attrac-
tive to the masses and within their reach? In
the belief that this is SO very many persons
who do not themselves attend motion picture
entertainments on Sunday do not feel justified
in criticizing people who do.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04
RAILROAD LEGISLATION.
Responsibility for further railroad

Responsibility for further railroad legisla-
tion is directly up to President Wilson. He
put through part of his original program on
the plea of economic necessity and public
safety. He has since said in an address to con-
gress that the same urgency still applies. The
president maintains his sway over the con-
gress; any failure in the direction of railroad
legislation will be his failure.
President Wilson apparently feels this bur
den His recent visit to the capitol, when he
conferred with Senator Newlands of the COM
mittee on interstate commerce, makes the coun-
try feel that railroad legislation is still upper
most among domestic affairs, and that the Will
son program. chiefly a means for avoiding rail
road strikes, will be pushed to early action.
The two measures now before congress, a
bill for compulsory investigation of railroad
controversies and bill giving the president au-
thority over RAILROADS and telegraphs in time of
"military necessity" are now being considered
by the senate interstate commerce committee.
The bills, or substitutes, probably will be re-
ported within few days.
Both measures have the opposition of the
trainmen and Of organized labor, because of
the fear of compulsory arbitration" Sena-
tor Newlands, author of the investigation bill.
is careful to make the distinction between in
vestigation and arbitration, but it is we'll
involving perhaps weeks or months of hear
ings, would quiet any industrial situation and
tend to have the same effect as compulsory ar
bitration The difference would be only tech
nical. But the public, the chief sufferer in
railroad strike objection, thus far. to
preventing railroad strikes by that means.
1t has become grave question whether the
railroad employees should be left free to starve
the country. They are engaged in public
service. Public service is supposed to carry
obligations. Bitterness against this measure
would be less pronounced if the case were in
PRODUCED a simple matter Of life and death
prosperity or ruin
Justice is pretty generally established in the
United States. Can the railroad men feel that
If they deserve better wages or better hours
justice will be long denied them7 Can thew
not feel that If the government placed itself in
the position of sponsor, by enforcing an investi-
CATION of disputes, justice would be done as a
matter OF course? Labor has Jared too well at
the hands of the government to show this dark
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
AND STOP CATARRH
TellsHow To Open ClogEed Nos
trils and End Head Colds.

i 4 4
You feel fine In few moments.
Your cold in head or catarrh will be
gone. Tour ciogEed nostriis will open
The air. passages of your head will
clear and you can breathe freely
No more dullness, headache: nc
hawking, snudling. mucous dis.
charges or dryness: no struggling foi
breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want a
small bottle OF Ely's Cream Balm.
Apply a little of this fragrant, anti.
septic cream in your nostrils. let II
penetrate through every air passage
Of the head; soothc and heal the
swollen, infiamed mucous membrane,
and relief comes instantly.
It is Just what every cold and
catarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay
stuffed-up and miserable.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04

Is that It will lead to other things. II
We learn to be economical in this one
thing it Is to be taken for granted that
we shall become economical in other
things.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The prog.
ressive party In New York failed at
the late election to poll the number OF
votes necessary to retain official rec
'ognition. 1t Is progressing backward
with such speed that, with a roar like
an avalanche, 1t will soon pass the
starting point.
Sac Sun: Someone sent the editor
OF the Rolfe Arrow an article on birth
control, suggesting that it would be
a good subject for him to discuss edit
orally in his newspaper. His reply is
that Rolfe does not need any birth con-
troll advice; 1t has the matter down pa
now and soon they will be unable to
organize football squad in the Rolfe
high school. AS to legislation on the
matter. the Rolfe man suggests that
there should be law prescribing the
minimum number Of children which a.
family should support; In case they
had none Of their own, requiring them
TO adopt one or more homeless chill
dren. There is heap of good sense
mixed with his Righteousness.
Des Moines Tribune: A. Julia Shep-
ard, prosperous farmer of Derry.
n. H.. complains that he can't find
wife in his home town because of his
middle name. Maybe he could made
a hit with girl whose middle name is
Billie
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

State Of Iowa, Lee county-ss.
In the district court OF said county.
At Keokuk.
s. g. Younkin, plaintiff. versus
Lizzie Thon. Julius Mackson, Hersch-
el q. Treuthart, Ida Hinman. ct al,
defendants.
To the above named defendants:
You are, hereby notified that a pc
tition is now on file in the clerks
Office OF the district court aforesaid
at Keokuk in behalf OF the above
named plaintiff, against you and
claiming Judgment against the de.
PENDANT, Lizzie Thon, for $i,S25.21
due on her certain promissory note
dated April 30. 1909. to J. d. Van
Pappelendam for $1.50O.0O; and for
decree foreclosing a mortgage given
to secure said note, both said note and
mortgage being signed by the said
Lizzie Thon and. Herman Thon. and
said mortgage being upon the east
half (1s) OF the southeast-quarter
.N) Of southwest quarter tA) OF
southeast quarter (A) OF section
twenty-five Q2). and the west half
(k) of the east half (h) of the south.
west quarter (A) OF the southeast
quarter 90 Of section twenty-five
(ZZ), ana the SOuJn TOUR (4J acres VI
the west halt (1z) Of the northeast
quarter ~ of the northwest quar-.
ter (A) OF the.northeast quarter (Al
Of section twenty-seven (27). also the
east half (1z) Of one ID acre lying
next to and north OF four ~ acres
last above described. All IN township
sixty-five (65) range five go ". I'M
Lee county. Iowa. And forever bari
ring. foreclosing. and cutting off any
right title or interest in and to said
property OF each and all OF the above
named defendants, and establishing
said mortgage on first lien upon
said property; and praying for al
special execution for the sale of said
property for the satisfaction of said
debt: and for interest and costs OIL
suit including attorneys fee.
And unless you appear thereto and
defend before noon Of the second day
OF the next regular January, 1871
term, OF said court, to- be begun and
holden at Keokuk on the 18th day oil
JANUARY. A. d. 1917, default will be
entered against you and Judgment
rendered thereon as prayed for in said
petition.
HoLL1NGswoRTH & BLOOD.
Attorneys for Plaintiff
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04
suspicion Of what should be simple govern

suspicion of what should be simple govern
ment function.
The attitude of the railroad managers is not
clear, Had they succeeded in reaching work
ing agreement with their employees In the re-
cent conference, they might have been salts It's
fed to bump along with the Adamson elgnt-
hour" act and do their best to choke any fur
Their regulatory legislation They are hardly
likely now that the chance Of agreement IS
gone to oppose measures looking to the regu-
lation of railroad employment.
Rumors that railroad strike is still pos
sible should spur congress. The rumors OF I'M
mediate trouble sound untrue, but the posi-
biity is not destroyed-yet. Remembering
the grim fear that gripped the country IN those
DAYS of the threatened strike last summer, the
public expects solid protection this time The
railroad legislation cannot be postponed with
out defrauding and endangering the whole
people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-04

Enjoy life! Keep clean inside with
Cascarets. Take one or two at night
and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver
and bowel cleansing you ever expert
enced. Wake up feeling grand. Your
head will be clear, your tongue clean.
breath right, ste mach sweet and your
liver and thirty feet Of bowels active.
Get a box at any drug store and
straighten Up. Stop the headaches.
bilious spells, bad colds and bad days
Brighten up. Cheer up, Clean up!
Mothers should give whole Casca-
ret to children when, cross, bilious,
feverish or II tongue is coated-they
are acknowledgements grippe or sicken.