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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-05

ried as they joined their shifts for the
days work.
One direct result of the violence was
seen in the immediate departure of
several suspected pro-Germans from
this community which has been a hot
bed of anti-Germanism.
Professed Loyalty
Collinsville, H., april 5.-Robert 2.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-05

the president today with Chairman
Hurley of tho shipping board, in an
effort tt get Immediate shipments of
steel plates to the great Hog Island
shipyard, partly idle because Of lack
of steel.
Senator Thompson, Kansas, is to dis
euss with the president a plan for tax
ing over the eountry's packing plants
during the war.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-05
Are Active
In Railroad Work

Portland, Or, April 5.-Women came
into their own today on the Union Pa
cifie lines of the northwest.
This railroad, formerly known as the
O. w. r. and ~, announced the erea-
tion cf a new department-the Bureau
of Women S Activities. Miss Avis Lob
dell is head of the department. she
formerly was travelling passenger
agent Of the o. W K. and N, and was
one of the first women passenger
agents in the United States.
j. D. Farrell, in announcing the wo.
men s department. said too little had
been done to advance the interests OF
employed women.
1.-THE day when women can be dls-
eliminated against merely because OF
sex has passed" he said. " She is en-
tcring. upon great work industrialiy'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-05
PRO GERMAN
lCoat,aued fs9u. page one)

his loyalty.
No arrests were made today Chief
of Police Staten, who cut the body
down an hour after the tragedy, pro-
fessed to know nothing of the mob s
'cmpossiltion Miners here were unflur-
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ness in responding to the usual external
stimnle. That is to say, nervous or
mental WEAKNESS affects the acuteness Of
sight, dulls the hearing and blunts the
sense Of touch.
Accordingly, the victim of this eondi-
ton does not comprehend normally, and
he does not act with his accustomed speed.
Working at a machine, he falls out Of
pace with its mechanical rhythm, and be-
fore he realizes it be makes move that
invites disaster.
Again, the numbing effect of fatigue
makes the worker less observant of the
niceties demanded by his task. Projec-
tiles, guns and other ordnance products,
requiring exquisite precision, are then
treated indiferently, and if not detected
in time may lead to extremely serious con-
sequences at some critical period on the
battle front.
The British have prescribed different
lengths of working day depending upon
whether the work in hand is heavy or
light. Their Investigators found that for
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and the general practice Of discouraging
overtime have served to ward of fatigue.
But it is weN known how intensely pa
triotic has been the spirit of these French
women workers. They toll hard when at
their tasks, but as soon as they stop they
stop altogether and don't let the thought
of their work weigh on them. "They are
fond Of company, and they gather to-
gether at tkeir dinner and rest periods
and sing and jest and enjoy themselves,
going back to their work fresh and in
vigorated."
Now it is evident why the United
States Shipping Board generally encour-
ages half day Saturday, sends speakers
around to address the men from time to
time and just why so many Of the plants
have bands that play to the toilers during
the noon hour and to lend added pleasure
10 their ball games and other amusements.
Industrial fatigue is pretty surely evi-
denced by the frequency of accidents,
especially those resulting from careless
ness, inattention. Fatigue induces slow
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sary motions, provision Of adjustable
seata proper and adequate ventilation
and sanitary provisions, alienation OF
day and night work, adjustment Of hours
of work to suit the particular occupation
and the individual worker, regular holiday
periods, avoidance Of overtime, omission
of Sunday work and attention to the SAM
tary conditions outside the factory"
The problem to-day is to attain the
greatest output of the necessities Of war
and to secure these while maintaining the
working powers of the toilers. 1t IS
known, of course, that an executive order
has specifically suspended the eight hour
law on certain Government contracts, but
even so the object is to limit as far as
possible the working week to sustained
effort of sixty hours, for beyond this the
employer trenches upon the reserve pow
ers of his people and invites state OF
fatigue that predisposes to illness and to
exhaustion. Furthermore, there are the
other prospects of spoiled product, re-
duced output and high rate Of accidents.
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men engaged in strenuous tasks the maxi
mum hours Of actual work yielding the
most effective results were ffty-six or less
per week; for men engaged in moderately
heavy labor about sixty per week, while
for men and youths engaged in light
labor, such as tending semi automatic ma
chimes, axty-four hours a week should be
the maximum. For women sixty hours
week for moderately heavy work should
net be exceeded.
The committee ON industrial fatigue of
the Council of National Defence has re-
Gently reported: "Given adequate equip
ment, adequate administration Of the
plant and a proper spirit among the en-
ployees, fatigue is the greatest single OBJ
stacle to a maximum output"
In regard TO the means of preventing
this brake upon production the committee
says: "Ways of reducing fatigue include
the introduction of recess periods, ad-
justment of the speed of operation to
suit the average worker, the application
of incentive systems, omission of unneces-
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the head of the firm severely. "You ex-
erted yourself more than usual on the
alleys. At breakfast this morning you
were so drowsy from want of sleep that
you dozed over your morning paper"
$50 l did,, admitted Mr.. Petty, I'M
Comfortably. g -
q know it was at breakfast, because
there is egg and coffee on the paper"
frowned the head of the firm. "And
while you were asleep your little sixyear-
old son climbed into your lap"
yves, he did," gasped Mr.. Petty.
But"
"How do l know?" interrupted the
head of the firm. Il know because your
collar is written over in a child's scrawl
1t is done in the peculiar shade of lead
that you had in your gold lead pencil,
which is usually in your left band vest
pocket. 1t is not there now. l hope
that the boy has not lost IL"
Mr.. Petty felt for his lead pencil.
1T is gone" gasped Mr.. Petty.
you were late to work this morning.
went on the head of the firm, coldly.
Il do not have TO be told so. because you
bought an evening edition of the paper at
the subway station and it is an edition
that does not come out until late hour
I am very particular about the hours of
work observed here
As the head of the firm was finally dis
appearing into his private Office Mr.. Petty
wiped the perspiration from his brow and
remarked to the assistant
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ished and forwarded to Princeton, where
they are placed in the library of the uni
versity, available for daily use.
Each one of these volumes is a royal
quarto of 400 pages, plainly but substan-
TALLY bound in buckram, each volume rep
resenting a cost of production approx
mating 500 and each page representing
an amount of skilled labor only to be
understood by those who have undertaken
the keeping of newspaper scraps on a
large scale.
These pages are Is by is inches in size,
neatly bordered with thin red lines. The
paper is of superior quality, costing with
the printed borders more than $lS ream,
a ream making five volumes.
Each page has four full columns Of
clippings, the selection and placing Of
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Gift of Benjamin
Strong Forms Com
plete n spaper
Record and 127 Vol
umes Already Have
Been Finished

TINE most recent acquisition Of the
i library of Princeton University is
a set Of scrapbooks. 1t is incomplete,
being still in the making, and cannot in
the nature of things be finished until after
the end of the war. When complete it
will be monumental.
1t is the gift of Benjamin Strong, gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank of
this CITY and chairman of the Liberty
Loan Committee.
AT the beginning of the war Gov.
Strong conceived the purpose of compil-
ing the work, though he failed at first to
realize its, magnitude. The design is that
it shall be newspaper history of the war,
as complete as it is possible TO make it,
from the outbreak, July-August, 1914, to
the end.
The original plan was in order to as
sure the completeness of the work to pre-
serve all matter pertaining to the war that
should appear in The Sun, the Times,
the Evening Post and the Evening Mad.
Afterward the EUening Mail was dropped
from the list for reasons that need no ex-
PLANTATION.
THE Sun, Times and Evening Post,
however, remain sufficient sources to in
sure the perfection and entirety, of the
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work. When it is considered that every
thing pertaining t9 the subject that ap-
pears in these three papers is preserved
in these scrapbooks the magnitude of the
job can be appreciated. Not only the
war dispatches, but all cognate matter
editorial comment, local news, even stock
quotations when they are directly affected
by war news-is kept.
1t is small wonder that the work soon
outgrew the ability to cope with it of the
staff of amateur workers whom Gov.
Strong first engaged, so that after time
he placed it in the hands Of Charles s.
Hemstreet, under whose supervision it is
now going on. The details are enormous,
but they are of the kind to which his staff
are accustomed, and it goes smoothly.
Up to date 127 volumes have been fin
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Eve were all against giving him a
watch for his birthday because he is al
ways watching the time, but We made
great mistake to give him the detective
stories instead
1t was before the city was dimped
The theatre crowds were seurrying
across Times Square. The thread sign
and the kittens had commenced their eve
ming romp. The groups Of men, women
and children who gazsd aloft awaiting the
message to be unravelled by the thou
sands of glittering electric lights could
be easily spotted for their newness to
the big city and the wonders of the
Rialto
Out of the jumple Of honking auto
mobiles, soldiers, surface ears and traffic
policemen passersby came upon swarthy
person who had taken position which
kept him on the inner fringe Of the crowd
close up by wall. He kept a constant
watch at a certain sign. His gaze, unlike
that of the country cousin crowd, gave
evidence of sheer disgust and failure TO be
thrilled by the novelty of the show.
In one hand he held large sheet of
white paper. With a heavy pencil he
inscribed certain marks upon it, but only
after long directed gaze. For almost
two hours he kept writing and watching
the signs.
Was he a plasarist out to steal adver-
Using copy for electric signs in Brooklyn
No. He was one Of the many men en-
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which requires the work of dozen oper-
atives First, the newspapers as they are
received go to the readers, who mark each
item that is to be preserved. Then they
60 to the cutters and the clippings TO the
sorters and finally to the pastors. Paste
is bought in fifty pound tins, ten tins at
time.
Each sheet when it is filled is laid aside
for at least half day to dry partially be-
fore it is put with considerable number
of similar sheets, nearly finished, in
press, where it remains for three weeks
before the inset is considered properly
fixed
1t is then finished and goes TO the
binder, who gets the sheets 200 at time
and turns out the completed volumes at
the rate of about one week.
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Oats sprinkled on the asphalt pavement
by horse which had tossed its nosebag
too high in a vain effort to get large
mouthful attracted pigeon from neigh
boring roof.
Down few the pigeon to the yellow field
of oats and picked at the grains in bliss
full ignorance Of an approaching eat that
came up from a neighboring cellarway
Just as the cat was cautiously crossing
the gutter the pigeon, which was still
busily devouring oats, wheeled unex-
pectedly. Promptly the eat sat down on
its launches and endeavored to look ex-
tremely innocent. Meanwhile, the pigeon
continued to pick at the oats. Seemingly
the pigeon had no fear of the eat and took
no alarm even when the cat steathily
moved nearer by another length.
Suddenly a passing truck drove be
tween the pigeon and the eat. 1t sent
the pigeon back to the roof and the cat
back TO the cellar.
Spectators smiled in their disappoint-
ment, for war in any form has a distinct
public appeal and they would no doubt
have enjoyed seeing the eat spring at the
pigeon.
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Interesting Bits of Life in the Great City

4 MONG fine myriad automobiles flow
n ing smoothly along Riverside Drive
was one that particularly caught the eye,
this being a hmousine with trailer.
The trailer consisted of a pair Of wheels
of about the height of the rear wheels Of
a wagon and having between them, resting
on the axle, platform measuring maybe
eight by four feet, at the front end Of
which projected a tongue that was at
tached to the motor ear. -
As this outfit sped past there was
observed on the trailer trunk, while the
rest of the load piled on it appeared to
he household belongings. 1t looked as
if the owner of the limousine was taking
right with him equipment for bungalow
somewhere or maybe for camp in the
woods.
Mr.. Petty hurried into the Office an
hour later than usual and was relieved
TO find that his employer was late also.
pretty goodr' laughed Mr.. Petty TO
his assistant. HE will never know that |
was late"
When the head of the firm came in he
scrutinized Mr.. Petty long and closely,
then leaned casually against the desk.
Your session st the bowling alley was
prolonged last night" he began.
"How do Won know asked Mr.. Petty
opening his eyes very wide.
Il infer it from your stiff manner OF
handling the ledger this morning. replied
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ployed to go out each evening and see that
all the letters, corset stays, threaded
spools and kittens forepaws. are kept
brilliantly lighted for the amusement Of
the 100000 who pass him nightly without
even giving him one word of thanks.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
|F U-BOAT BASE IS SMASHED
Three Hundred Miles Further,
Mostly Under Sea.
(By j w 4. Mason J

New York, April 24.--If the daring
British naval adventures off Ostend
and Beemrugge have sealed those
harbors against the passage of sub,
marines, a heavy decline in the sink.
ing of merchantmen by the U-boats
will be the immediate result.
The only other ports the German
submarines can use for their bases
IL Ostend and Zeebrugge have been
bottled up are those off the German
coast.
Between Belgium and Germany the
Dutch coast intervenes which makes
| il necessary for the submarines to
travel three hundred miles north of
the Belgium harbors before they
reach friendly waters.
The distance from Ostend to the
Irish coast is only six hundred miles
and it is within this area where most
of the submarine attacks are made.
But the additional three hundred
miles which the U-boats will be
forced to travel with their piratical
crafts would be seriously disturbed.
At the same time the nervous strain
which is known to be an important
reason for the decreasing efficiency
of submarines now, would be much
increased.
In the increased three hundred
miles they would be forced to travel
through the heavy patroled North
Sea. necessitating continued oper,
alton under the surface of the high
destruetiveness and morale.
The enforced addition of one-third
to the journeying of the U-boats
would make them that much more
liable to attacks by the new depth
bomb.
If therefore the Belgium bases are
blocked there is certain to be an i'm.
portant rise in the curve showing the
destructiveness of the undersea
crafts.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
EIGHT IOWA men QUALIFIED
viii Get Appointments as Second
Lieutenants In Officers Training
Camp at Fort oglethorpe.

Washington. April 24--Eight Iowans
were among the names of hundreds
of men who qualified for appointments
as Second Lieutenants in the Third
officers course at he training camp
at Fort Oglethrope Georgia, it was an,
nounced today. They will be taken
and listed as eligible officers and will
be put in command at such times as
suitable vacancies occur.
Among the names are the following
Iowans: Edwin L. Acres of DEBORAH
Infantry; Charles Anderson, Des
Moines. Infantry; William r. Arthur
davenport, Infantry; Robert Twin
ming, Cedar Rapids, Infantry; Glen c
Sprinsteen. Melbourne, Infantry; Ern
est r. Elshry, Earlham. Infantry; V
r. Ewing, Des Moines. Infantry; anC
Schurley Levelle of Baskerville, ii
the Field Artillery.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
HINDU PLOTTERS
ARE FOUND GUILTY
CONSPIRACY IN AMERICA AGAINST
ENGLAND IN INDIA.
TWENTY-AINE men INVOLVED
One Defendant Was Discharged and
TWO Others assaa IN the Court
Room Tragedy OF Yesterday
Not Mentioned.

San Francisco, April 24.-Twenty-
nine men charged with conspiracy on
American soil to start revolt against
British rule in India were found guilty
by jury in the Federal court here to-
day.
Only one OF the thirty defendants
on trial was acquitted. He was John
f. Grain, ship builder at Long Beach,
California 81
Among those convicted were Franz
Boop former German consul in San
Francisco and practically the entire
consulate staff ST. .
Two defendants killed in the shoot
ing affair at the court room yesterday
afternoon were not mentioned in the
verdict
Verdict Resumed This Morning.
The verdict, returned at one O'Clock
this morning after the jury had DELHI
Grated since Cos last night marked
the end of five month trial which
has cost the government approxim-
ately one-half million dollars.
The trial began November 20, and
has continued for one hundred and
| fifty-five days.
Judge Van Fleet fixed the bail of
each convicted defendant at $4,000.
The Court Room Tragedy.
Ram Chandra, Hindu publicist and
reyolutionist, was hot dead in the
United States District court during
the trial late yesterday afternoon, by
/ Ram Singh, former employee and
fellow defendant. While Singh still
pulled the trigger of his automatic
pistol he was shot dead in turn by
United States Marshal James b. Hol-
ohan, who fired from across the court
room and over the heads of lawyers
at their tables.
Belief that Ram Chandra had di
verified to his own use proceeds from
property which Ram Singh had
turned over to be used for aiding
revolutionary measures is said by
federal officials to have prompted the
shooting.
To Be Sentenced April 80.
The convicted men will be sentenced
April 80, Judge Van Vleet announced
this afternoon.
The attorneys for practically all the
defendants prepared appeals and de-
mands for new trials today.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
Desperate Efforts Are Being Put Forth
By The Huns In An Apparent
Attempt To Take Ameins
At Any Cost
In The Wake
OF The War

Following an intensive artillery
bombardment covering practically
the entire British front Won Hind.
enburg today apparently has re-
sumed his Western front offensive
with a drive against Amiens.
Field Marshal Haig in his official
report said that STRONG infantry
attacks were progressing in the
Albert sectors and between the
Somme and the Avre rivers.
The Somme and the Amiens are
slightly less than ten miles apart
where the battle front crossed
them. The Somme flows directly
westward through Amiens while
the AVre flows northwestardly
and converges with the larger
river less than two miles east Of
Amiens.
Between these two rivers the
Germans in their last drive pro-
crossed to within nine miles OF
Amiens. A resumption of the
drive against this important stra-
setic point has been forecasted
by the allies artillery officials.
At the same time Won Hinden-
burg is thrusting westward from
Albert. which is about six miles
north of the Somme. A heavy
artiIIering in this same sector
last night was broken up by rifle
and machine gun firing, Haig
reported.
On the Flanders front the Brit.
ish commander said there was
heavy hostile Smelling" between
Givenchy and Robecq on a front
Of about eight miles around the
southwestern edge of the deep
German salient.
Enemy concentration of infant
ny near Melville in the center Of
the Flanders wedge were broken
up by British artillery.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
AMERICANS LOSING IDENTITY
Sammies Are Being Brigaded With
the French and English in the
Big Operations.

Washington. April 24.-Forty.three
American casualties listed by the war
department today showed six killed in
action, three dead of wounds, eleven
of disease. ten severely wounded and
thirteen slightly wounded.
Americans Losing Identity.
The nation today was stirred at
word from England that some of the
Americans are now brigaded with the
allies on one of the bitterest sectors
of the western front lines.
The process OF brigading the Amer
leans is being hurried. Daily the wal
department received reports of shifts
of the Sammies and these changes
are being carefully tabulated.
Soop most Of these probably will
be lost as to identity as they will be
swallowed up by the French and Brit
ish machines.
Difference Of Opinion.
The changes abroad serve to EN-
phasize strongly the statement thai
General Pershing has complained o.
as to other generals being assigned
by the war department contrary Il
their own recommendation
This is the first clash OF opinion
between the Department and the Com
manding General, and marks de
parture from the General acceptanc,
of principles that Pershing could hav,
anything he asked for at the sam
time he asked for 1t.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
KENYON MAY COME.
Invited To Speak In oskaIoosa On
Liberty Day.

washington, D. c., April 24.-Sena.
tor Kenyon has been invited by the
Maryland state council of national
defense to address the big patriotic
meeting to be held at Easton. Md,
May l3. An invitation also has been
received from James A. Dewitt, OF os-
kaloosa, asking the junior Iowa sena'
tor to speak at the liberty day cere'
monies in Oskaloosa. If arrange
ments can be made. Senator Kenyon
will try to stop at Oskaloosa en- route
to Washington from his liberty loan
, speaking campaign on the Pacific
coast.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
HUGE BUSINESS INCREASE.
!. 3. Maytag Tells Of Big Gains
Through Advertising

Des Moines, April PA sales in,
crease of 900 per cent from 100000
to $3,OoO.OO0 annually, is the story Of
two and one-half years advertising as
told by L. 3. Maytag of Newton, Ia,
one of the largest manufacturers OF
washing machines in the country, MI
Maytag was the guest of the Des
Moines Advertising club at the Cham
her of Commerce, and said the success
of his business was due wholly 10 ad
yertising, since the increase had come
about after he began advertising.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
HELD FOR CONSPIRACY.
Mathson and Price Bound over On a
Fake Horse Race.

Council Bluffs, April pa. j.
Mathson. alias ]. H. McAweeney, and
John Price are charged with conspir-
acy in an attempt to fleece H. c,
Thiessen Of Keystone, Iowa. out of
ten thousand dollars on an alleged
fake horse race. and were bound over
to the grand jury today. Their bonds
We're placed at five thousand dollars
each.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-04-25
WILLIAM FULLER sUccuMBs
Ex.coneressman Passes to His Reward
at Washington, D. c.

Cedar Rapids. April 23.LA telegram
from West Union announced the death
at Washington, d. c., early today OF
William Fuller Of West Union Fuller
represented the fourth district in con-
gress from 1884 to 1887, and was an
assistant attorney general of the Unit
ed States from 1900 10 1907. He was
on visit to Washington with his VIE
when stricken.