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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-13

ocean every morning m company with
the great multitude, VINO seek It's re-
freshing and tonic influences. The
war has also affected both rates,
whereas these were formerly % cents
per dip they are now one hundred
per cent more, and at some bath houses
even higher than that. But this extra
percentage has no effect in diminish
ing the number Of bathers.
We have heard Of some suggestions
about possible German U-boat raid
on this resort. However, so lar
preserves the even tenor Of its way,
disergarding any runners OF this kind
perhaps because submarine chaser
was seen speeding along off shore the
other day as a guarantee Of safety On
the part of the Unired States Navy
But we must defer further news iron!
this popular resort for another letter
as we know how valuable is the space
for more important rcws in the Ole
Gazette.
Among Alexandrian- We nave had
the pleasure of meeting here are Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Smoo., Mr. and Mrs
William B. Smoot and Messrs. Gard
ner Boothe, William Moore, Oh
Wise & Co. insurance agency.
Among friends of the clergy Their
are the Rev. w. NJ. Dame, D. d., and
G NJ. Murray, of Baltimore, Nd, and
the Revs. Messrs. Stroup, Of Reidsville
N. c., and daughter, of Washington
N. C. ;also the Rev. James Mlnnege-
rode, D. D., of Louisville, Ky.
Atlantic City always has great at
fractions for the clergy of all denoml'
nations.
s. A. w.
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in a sadly dissheveled state.

in a sadly dissheveled state.
The military writer of the Berlin
2eitung am Mittag, in preparing the
German public for further retreat,
says:
eff to avoid further fighting we are
withdrawing to new positions thereby
allowing the enemy to attack with
great losses, we are serving our aims
letter than by sacrificing our best
men in an obstinate struggle for
rieces Of ground. The decisive move
ment has not yet come. Therefore
eli the recent fighting and that to
come must be regarded only as mile
stones on the road to the final goal"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-13
4 CLEVER PARODY

A subscriber has asked The Gazette
to pu.hlish the name of this clever
parody Of "The Crew of the Nancy
Brig" We hope that some one will
be able to give the desired informa-
ton:
Twas IN a town they call Detroit,
In the stale Of Michigan,
I sav on Tho rocks. with a propertv
box.
A pIcon,v +boa-,;ro1 ,..r
His starbosrd heal W. uu,fo worn off
~ ,,.-o,,,. nd col ,.--s -
~ 100 .:
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hair

IltilI
and pulled down a brunette cuff,
And there on the rocks, by the prop
erty box
He told this story tough:
at was in the year of 81
When a party of six and ME,
Went out on the road with a piece
that's knowed
AS a musical comedy.
! write the play-it knocked 'em cold,
It made them shrek ana roar,
But we struck reef and came to grief
On the west of the Michigan shore.
Each night it showed, or rained OR
blowed,
And if the weather was clear
They said, cts sad your house is bad,
But wait till you come next year"
We skirmished around for 2 month or
two,
Trying to change or luck,
With nothing to taste but bill-boa.:
paste
And a yellow canvas duck.
Then we struck the town of Kankakee,
All travel-stained and sore,
When our star got mad and shook us
bad
For a Job in a drygoods store.
And then our leading heavy man
In formed us with frown,
Ee was going away that very day
With a circus then in town.
Then the pert soubrette and juvenile
man
Engaged IS cook and waiter,
Ard are doing we'll in small hotel
Near the Kankakea theater.
hen only the comedian and me were
left
For to leave he hadn't the heart,
Each laugh was drop OF blood to
him,
And he loved that corredy pa
That night we played tc i1ghs good
house
Eight dollars and a half)-
When to my ill-luci IN my part l
stuck
And l queered the comedians laugh.
He fell down dead with 4 broken heart
And the coroner, old snd sage,
Said his brain had cracked from
bad attack
OF the center of the stage.
And | played that piece all by myself
For a week in kaaAakee,
And with this box, over rail and rocks,
I've travelled to where | be.
And | never say an actors good,
And I always damn play,
] sit and croak and Il single joke
] have, which is to say:
! am a star and a manager bold,
4 heavy and a juvenile man,
A comedy pet and pert soubsette
And boss of the boX-sheet plan.
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received cigarettes from battalion Of
English. Words like "dummkopf' ana
"schweinhund" were employed, with
r.orhetic explosives; and the general
sense of what the Wisconsin men said
to their German cousins was as fol-
lows: 'You da5h-blanked jackasscs
and idiots, we and our fathers left
YOUR old Fatheriand and went four
thousand miles to live IN a better
place. Now we have to come all the
y7ay back, four thousand miles again
vet. to slaughter you, because you
haven't got any more sense than to
believe and obey that old pig-dog of Il
Kaiser. Wen send your Kaiser and
lrinces to sheol, where they can't do
any more harm; and rs for you, dun
dcrheads, you ought to be hanged for
making us all this trouble Of coming
over here to teach you some sense
with our bayonets!"
The citizens once called German
Americans will worf: out their own
salvation if we do not make it too
hard for them. What man can SHOW
enthusiasm for anything, when he IS
threatened with punishment if he IS
rot enthusiastic? Loyalty is feel
Ing: it is not 4 spoken word. You
cannot possibly produce Il beautiful
feeling in any man hy threatening
him or prosecuting him. Let US not
threaten at all, and lec US prosecute.
only when we have evidence. Is it
certain evidence that man is loyal If
he, have 4 son in the American army?
No. There were Rebels in '63 who had
sons in the Northern armies. Is j.
certain evidence that 4 man is dis
loyal if re have a son IN The German
army? No. There were loyal Union
men in Ga who had so2s fighting for
the Sou4h. So it may be now. There
ere American citidons who have rela-
t:ves in TIE German army and other
relatives in the American army. Herr
md there is an American citizen who
has one son in the American army and
another son in the German army. Let
us 90 gently with fenow citizen who
finds himself in such position. 1t is
q hard enough one, without the addi-
ticnal burden of his neighbors' suspi-
CONS. If his conduct ne loyal, then in
heavens name let Us believe him loyal.
The finest answer Germany has had
from any source is the loyalty Of the
Observation-Disclosures" to America; and
tm,t was the answer CS all most gall
ing to Germany. Let us rot punish
them row, when their boys are dy-
irg in the American causc-let us
rot punish them for SINS TINT arc not
thcirs Let US not patrioteer at their
exrcrsc. Let US not patrioteer at all.
The W.T. is TOO serious for patr!otec--
ing.
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yield, and yield completely.

ga compromise with Satan, who is
the captain general OF the hosts they
are going forth to meet, would not
only be a treason each of them, but
a treason to the God Of love and JUS
tlce, whose soldiers they are"
1t is generally believed that a
streak of insanity runs through the
Kaiser, and that Nietzsche aided ma
terially in its evolution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-13
THE WESTERN BATTLE FRONT.

The third battle Of the Somme is
slowing down, with glorious victory
for the allies even if they do not adj
vance another foot.
1t is suggested by contemporary,
that the position Of the armies at this
time, taken in connection with the
state of affairs in Russia, Turkey,
Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary, is as
encouraging to the allies as it ought
to be discouraging to the enemy. The
allies, in fair and square battle at
the point where Germany was admit
tediy most heavily armed and ar.nor-
cd, have beaten the Huns back, re-
llieved the danger to Amiens and
Compiegne, silcnced the long range
guns firing upon Paris, recovered
valuable tactical terrain, captured the
equivalent of four German divisions
and over 500 guns, and have so de-
ranged the enemy communications
and supply systems that a withdrawal
along the whole line is probable.
Thus there has been driven home
to Germany, from the all highest to
the all lowest, the bitter knowledge
that their wonderful fighting machine
has met its superior. The signifi-
canoe of that fact cannot he lost upon
the minds Of those who have placed
their whole trust aud staked the c%-
istencc of empires on guns and the
brutal use of force. Without superb
Gritty of brute force, Germany is at
the mercy Of her enemies. The quol-
ity OF that mercy will be strained
because Of Germany's appalling
crimes against humanity.
The situation that surrounds Ho-
henzollern, the would be lord Of the
Garth is grave. He is in the grip Of
destiny and death. His days may
seem long to those who shuddcr at
the though Of such slayer Of human
iey being at large, but in reality his
days are few.
The German hosts are engaged in a
retreat that is disaster However
the situation may be summed up by
the experts, however it may be an
a!y&ed by the wiseacras, great and
small, the truth stands out that Ger
ranv has received the most serious
blow that has been struck her since
The war began. The best her armies
can hope for is to escape complete de-
feat. They have lost their initiative,
their driving force. their confidence
in themselves. And from week to
week ard month to month they must
grow weaker in numbers and spirit,
while The Allies steadily grow Ii,"ong-
or in both. BY the 2lst of Stp. they
viii probably he back ut the point
from which they started-perhaps
much farichr back. But most assured
Is they vii! never go forward in
France again.
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One thousand tons of American
sugar, headed for Germany three
years ago, was held up in France and
has lust been bought to make choco-
late bars for American soldiers. A
nice little piece of sugar which will
not coat Germany's bitter pill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-13
Special Meeting.

The regular meeting OF the Royal
Arcarum will be held at the Pythian
Temple go Cameron street, this
evening, at s o'clock.
J. E. Alexander, Secretary.
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WANTED.

NANTED-Boy about IS years of age
to learn clothing business. Excel
lent opportunity for bright boy. Ap-
ply The .. G. r. Shop, 42S-430 King
street 19O-2t
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FOR SALE AND RENT.

FOR RENT-Twelra-r house, fur
nished for roonling house o.
boarding: immediate possession.
Address P. 0. Box No. 184, Alex
andria, Va.
1911,
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FOR SALE-Remington typewriter,
No. 10; almost new. Apply Sd floor,
SIS King street. 191-1t
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sD-:rgs and mattresses, never beer
used. Address furnishings" Ca
zette Office, Cor appointment.
1876
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The third battle Of the Somme is
slowing down, with a glorious victory
for the allies even if they do not ad-
vance another foot.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
BILLETS FROM BILLY

A little doubt day by day will wear
the strongest heart away.
Buy a thrift stamp. Every one you
purchase shortens just that much the
rule of the kaiser.
None but skulking, coWardW and
barbarous nation will resort to SUBJ
marine warfare.
Autocracy and democracy can not
live in the same atmosphere; one
STILES the other.
: Can the kaiser,
Brine the Teut, .
Salt the Prussian
And pickle the Brute.
q. -.
If the Allies win this war and sue
coed in crushing the Prussian mill
tary machine there will be no need Of
a universal military training law in
any country, but If the, prussians
should win, every nation in the
world will find it necessary to keep
armed to the teeth all Of the time.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
The LlLT'0F A LAUGH

I've toiled with men the world has
blessed,
AS I've toiled with men who failed i;
I've toiled with men who strove with
zest,
And I've toiled with men who
walled.
And this is the tale my soul would tell
AS it drifts DER the harbor bar
The sound of sigh doesn't carry we'll
But the Tilt Of a laugh rings far.
Oh, the men who were near the grum-
b1er's side,
They heard not, the word that he
said; ..-' '1'
But the sound Of a song rang far and
wide, ~. H..
And they listened to that instead.
Its tones were as sweet as the tales
they tell =
OF the rise Of the, Christmas star.
The sound of q sigh doesn't carry well
But the Tilt of q laugh rings far.
II you would be heard at all, my lad
Keep a laugh in your heart and
1.als throat; If $s55s -. .i...\- d. .'..,.
For those who are deaf to accents sad
4 Are alert to the cheerful note.
Keep hold Of the cord of daughters
bell, .*y, y. <..2., ..Es'
Keep aloof from the means tina,
The sound Of u nigh doesn't carry wei
But the Tilt Of "a laugh rings far. n
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
ONE KIND OF PRoFI1EERING

When congress voted to tax excess
war profits, it overlooked some very
heavy gains Of that kind right under
it's nose. The Washington correspond
ent of the Christian Science Monitor
tells in the issue of JAM. 2 of what
the war is bringing to the landlords of
that city. In the past two months,
says the correspondent, rents have in
creased more than 100 per cent. The
war has made necessary so many
thousands of new employees that the
city is overcrowded and it is next to
impossible to lease a house.
Landlords insist on month-to month
contracts with power to Increase rents
on 80 days notice. How this power is
used is illustrated In case of one
house in the suburbs where inside
of month the rent was increased
from $25 to SIS, and the tenant, being
unable to pay, was dispossessed.
At the same time Immense stretches
of land within the city are vacant. If
these were properly built upon, the
/ house famine would be ended. But the
owners prefer to ask enormous prices
and until some one pays them the lots
remain unused.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
plays Both Ways From Middle!
(From the Mesaba Ore. }

The State; Public Safety commits
sion Las issued an order prohibiting
the shipment OF Intoxicating liquors
into dry territory dry either by coun-
ty option, local option or Indian
treaty, and in a memorandum &C
companying the order the commits
sion states that it is the intention to
make the territory dry in fact as
we'll as in name
That's good
But why stop there?
If the commission has the power
and evidently it has, to stop the
transportation into dry territory, why
hasn't it power to prohibit it to all
the territory within the state?
We believe it has.
And we further believe that if the
fort to restrict the spread of booze it
would close every saloon in the state
and prohibit the transportation of
liquor within the confines of the
commonwealth.
To drive the booze out of Mime
sofa would be the most economic
movement the commission could
possibly make, and the commission
should know that.
Everybody else knows it.
Recently the commission was petit
toned, at great length, by the WO-
mems Christian Temperance Union to
close the saloons in the state, and the
commission has answered that that
is a matter that must. be handled by
the federal government.
Why the federal government?
l. The Safety commission and Gov
ernor Burnquist recently intimated
that the very best thing the federal
government could do, in connection
with the Twin CITY street car trouble
was. to mind it's own business-"we
will handle this thing in our own
way and we don't want any outside
interference
Very good. Then why call in the
government to take care of matter
that is not nearly SO urgent as the
strike was?
There must be an answer.
1t looks very much as though the
recent order against the importation
of booze into dry territory was fol
the purpose of catching the temper.
ance vote, and that the refusal te
heed the Women's Christian Temper.
ance Union petition was a sop to the
booze interests mailing them coming
! and going.
And Burnquist expects to get away
with it.
The saloon is the very acme of woe.
full and disgraceful waste, and YET
the Safety commission countenances
it while issuing orders to the rest Of
! us to "save the waste and win the
war"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
SUPPORT THE AUTO SHOW.

Here is an appeal to every Duluth
workingman to get behind the Red
Cross next week. Every dollar
taken in at the Auto Show goes to
the Red Cross. 1t is not a fifty
fifty proposition. The Red Cross
gets it all, and in return for the
cost of admission the people will be
given their moneys worth,-and
then some.
There will be different enter
tainment every evening. On Tues
day the Musicians union will be rep
resented by the largest orchestra
ever playing in Duluth at one time
w. e. McEwen, publisher of The
Labor World, will be the speaker on
that evening, and workingmen are
assured that he will have something
to say that will be of vital interest
to them
Father Iciek, Mayor Magney, Vic.
tor Power and w. A. McGonagle are
among the speakers who will enter.
tain the visitors during the week
The musical programs will be above
the average, and the exhibits prom,
Use to excel any previously shown by
the Duluth Auto Dealers associa
ton.
1t will be great week for Duluth
The show is given FOR the benefit O.
great organization, and for thu
support of the greatest cause OF
earth. Don't be a Stacker. ATTEND
the Auto Show, and show your pa
triotism. It is "doing your bit" TO-
your country.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
ALIENS ON OUR SHIPS.

Some one down in Washington has
been painting a dark and gloomy
picture of the character of men who
20 to man our merchant marine. 1t
is said that a large number of the
men are aliens and can not be relied
upon to support this country during
the great. crisis through which we are
passing.
This is no time to squeal. Andrew
Furuseth, president of the Seamen's
union, has been telling the people for
more than 20 years that irksome and
enslaving conditions on American
ships had long ago driven red
blooded Americans from the seas.
The shipping trust and other marine
corporations have done nothing but
encourage the employment of Japs,
Chinese and other Orientals as sea-
men. Not until the passage of the
much abused Seamen's act, was there
any attempt in this country from the
time Of the Civil War to call back to
the sea the able, courageous and in
telligent men who were driven from
their loved vocation by the greed of
the shipping interests.
Now we are being put to the test,
and the former exploiters of the sea,
to escape the wrath of the nation,
are attempting to fasten the blame
on the Seamen's union. But the peo-
pie long ago were put wise to the
truth. They know whom to censure,
if censure must be given, and they
know too that the shipping interests
Of the country have fallen down in
this war as the railroads have done
1t is because of these facts the
government at Washington has such
a mighty task to perform, and be-
hind it is the labor movement OF
America whose leaders are working
night and day to assist in clearing
up the entangled transportation sit
uation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
THE HOME GUARD

Minnesota Home Guard companies
at International Falls and Bemidji
were relieved from active duty in
connection with the threatened
strike Of the lumberjacks in the
northern part of the state by an
order issued by Adj Gen. w. f.
Rbinow. The companies were mo-
bilized at home stations a week ago
when it was reported that agitators
were planning to call strike. No
disturbance occurred, however.
The foregoing news dispatch ap-
peared in the daily papers recently
and caused no small amount of con.
lecture.
When the Home Guard companies
were organized many were suspi.
cious as to what service they would
render, believing that they were in.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
SHOULD PUT AN END TO BRUTAL
EXPLOITATION.

Charges that men and women en-
ployed by the Chicago packers are
overworked, underpaid, cursed by
foremen and driven like cattle to in
crease the output of the plants were
made last Wednesday by John Kikus-
ski, organizer for the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, in testifying before
Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler in
the stockyards wage arbitrations.
The witness described the home con-
dition of the workers as extremely
pitiful in many instances and said
there was much suffering during the
cold weather this winter from lack
of food, fuel and wearing apparel
for the children.
The witness said that in many
families the husband and wife are
compelled to work to support their
children.
In addition to this brutal exploita-
ton of its employees, the big packers
are responsible for the high prices
of meats and, through the manipu-
lation of the hides market, for the
enormous increases in footwear
prices.
These captains of industry are un-
fit to control an industry 50 vital ia
the people of this country. There is
only one way to remedy such condi.
tions-and that is government own.
ership Of the meat packing industry
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-16
LABOR REGULATION BY COMMISSION

The change to the industrial COM
mission method Of administering labor
law is among the most important and
widely discussed changes in labor leg
islation in recent years. This change,
according to the American Labor Leg
islation Review, Is somewhat analo-
gous to developments in the field of
public health legislation and still more
closely akin to the trend in the regula-
ton of public utilities. The earliest
railroad rate laws, for example, at
tempted to prescribe the exact charges
to be made by every carrier for all
classes of transportation between all
points. But it was soon found that
this was not task for which the legis-
lature had the necessary technical
knowledge and that confusion and
unfairness resulted. Accordingly leg
islatures now go no further than to
lay down the general principle that
rates must be flair and reasonable"
and leave their exacts determination
to a board or commission Similarly,
it has been found that in the crowded
days of legislative session it is we'll
nigh impossible for legislators who
dAS largely WltIOuL luuuSLi1dl expert
ence to enact scientific laws dealing
with the technical matters of protect
i've labor legislation. In several pro-
gressive industrial states, therefore,
the legislature has created an indus
trial commission to adapt and apply
the principles Of the statute law to the
concrete conditions arising in diverse
and rapidly changing productive pro-
cesses. In their work industrial COM
missions have tended to stress the act
i've cooperation of the groups af-
fected. In code making they have
hammered out rules with the help of
employers, employees. and experts, who
have practical first-hand knowledge of
the subject considered. These rules
go into effect with the advantages of
practically and the consent of repre-
sentative members of the groups con-
cerned. The factory inspector, by edu-
cational work, explanation, and sug-
gestion, may thus become not so much
a detective whose interference is re-
sented but positive cooperating
fOrce-Ex.