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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
SOME OF THE INNS OF COURT
Gray's Produced Fewer Great Lawyers
but Can Guido Rivals in Assocla-
ton With influential Men.

Gray's inn where the prime minister
and the heads of the air service take
a snack together in the evening. comes
down to us through the GrayS OF Will
ton, whose home or inn it ancipntly
was, from the bishop and canons of st.
Paul's cathedral. The inn itself, bear
ing the family name, formed part Of
the Hundred of OSsulstOne. and the
whole was Included in a yet larger
property, states Il writer in the London
Chronicle. How st. Paul's itself be-
came possessed of the estate is not
clear, but it is believed that 1t was at
one time the personal property of one
Of the canons, who. 1T was enacted.
might give and sell their lands with
out leave.
-Gray's inn has produced fewer great
lawyers than some of the other inns
of court, but It can Guido it's rivals in
association with men who have vitality
influenced the life of the nation
Thomas Cromwell, for instance who
suppressed the monasteries; Lord
Burghley. chief counselor of Queen
Elizabeth, and George Monck, duke OF
Albemarle. who practically restored the
monarchy But the inns chief glory.
of course. is with the Bacons, Nicholas
and his far greater son, Francis, whose
mark remains till this day on the inn
gardens. -
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
Dogs Guaranteed in Nine Counties.

Dogs Guaranteed in Nine Counties.
An odrer of the Wisconsin board of
agriculture, Endorsed by the state board
of health and council of defense, has
placed a quarantine on dogs in nine
counties.
The counties of Racine, Kenosha,
Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, JEFF
ferson, Walworth, Dane and Washing
ton are included in the quarantined
district All dogs in this area must
be either confined or muzzled within
ten days after the publication of this
order or they will be impounded or de-
stroyed by the police or health author
tiles.
Although the quarantine period is an
nounced as 12O days, it may be length
ened as the authorities see fit, and
more territory may be included later.
During the period of quarantine, no
dog may be transported within the
.uuarantined district except with the
written permission of the state veter-
marian.
This drastic step was thought to be
necessary with the approach of warm
weather, in view of the loss Of human
life, and the loss of thousands of dollars
worth of livestock in the country be-
cause of the bites Of dogs suffering
from this disease.
Rabies is communicable, and in the
summer of 1917 spread to the proper
tons of an epidemic in Milwaukee and
in surrounding districts. In August,
many persons were bitten by dogs. ano
it is thought that the period of quaran.
tine, announced now to extend only
through July, will be heightened at the
time of its expiration. s,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05

THE opening of the New York Barge
Canal this spring, after twelve years
of construction work, is an event that
will be of national import, says Stan
ley w. Todd in the April Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. It's particular value
to the nation at this juncture is that it
opens up new water route from the
Great Lakes, across the central part of
the state, to the Hudson river, and
thence to the Atlantic seaboard. In
other words, it links up the middle
West, Great Lakes, Canada and the ST.
Lawrence river, with the unexcelled
shipping facilities on our Atlantic coast
1t will permit the movement of barge,
or fleet of smaller barges, carrying
nearly 5000 tons of freight. 1t can
help move foodstuffs from points as re-;
mote as Duluth, Mimi, and carry mu.
nitions and ordnance from the manu-
featuring centers on the Great Lakes
and in the middle West, direct to the
Atlantic fleet and waiting vessels.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
From Our Soldier Boys.
S. l. F., Feb. l, 1918.

-. l. l. GU. L, AOAo'
Dear Mother: Your letter Of Jan.
9th also magazines came today. Your
letter of Dec. 22nd arrived few days
ago. A box from the Edgerton Red
Cross came today also-a very nice lit
tie box
The winter here has been more than
usually severe, the French say, but to
us railroad men who have been accus-
toned to winter weather of northern
u. S. A., it's really joke. The last
three weeks have been like spring. So
nice that it was comfortable in 0. d.
shirt sleeves at times. There is no
snow and the grass is green III low
places. The winter grain is green on
the fields. If the weather gets no
worse than we have had, we will get
through the winter very well. We have
the mud but we are so used to it that
it doesn't worry us bit any more.
Everything is going very we'll with US
with the exception Of having lost an
other man by the name Of Carl Hanson
from the Santa Fe Ry., Co. A. He
was killed accidentally through too
much curiosity as to the mechanism OF
the timer on an uneXploded German
she'll While attempting to dissemble
the timer it exploded, killing him al
most instantly. We had all had warn
ing not to touch anything in the shell
or bomb line that we might find. He,
evidently, didn't heed the warning.
The papers lately had much to say
about peace moves and our "Stove
Pipe Committee" has worked overtime
on the subject 1t looks now though
that it's all blown over for the present
and the stage is being set for the final
act in the great struggle. According
to this mornings paper, Wilson sees
the end in 1918. We can say that we
sincerely hope his eyesight is good. 1t
seems shame the thing cannot be set
tied without the loss of thousands OF
American lives The papers speak of
an expected big German offensive in
the spring. | don't think it will be on
this sector but wherever it comes, |
believe the allies will be fully prepared
to meet it.
Love to all,
ROB BENTLEY.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05

THE third liberty loan, to open April
9Th, will be for $4,000. 900, 600 and all
oversubscriptions at four and one
quarter per cent interest. The total
amount of bonds authorized by con-
gressawas $4,000, 600, 900, only three of
which are to be sold at this time, fix
ing the interest rate at Al per cent.
Bonds of the first loan, bearing three
and one-half per cent interest, and of
the second loan at four per cent, may
be converted into the new bonds, but
bonds of the third loan will not be con-
vertible into any future issue. This
announcement was made by Secretary
McAdoo. In connection with the loan,
the secretary plans to establish sink
ing fund with which to purchase back
any bonds of the third loan thrown up
on the market, in order to aid in keep
ing the price. up to par. The maturity
Of the bonds is yet to be determined,
but it was officially stated that they
would be long termed, probably be-
tween 20 and 30 years. Other features
which will be settled as soon as con-
9ress passes the necessary authorizing
legislation are the length of the cam
paign and the terms of payment on the
hnpdc
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05

Scientific American: Our govern
ment today is the biggest employer of
labor in the United States. In normal
times Uncle Sam employs approximate
ly 400, 900 hands in all kinds Of civilian
positions Since the outbreak of the
war this number has increased to $780,
900. The Brooklyn navy yard alone
has added 5000 men to the 5000 en-
ployed there before the war. With the
completion of an ordnance base IN
France another 5000 men will be
added to the civilian payroll of the
government, and the day is not far
when more than 700, 900 men will be in
the direct employment of the United
States outside the millions of the army
and navy. AS comparison it may be
mentioned that the United States Steel
Corporation employs 100000 men and
the Pennsylvania Railroad $50, 900. The
Significance of these figures only ap-
pears when they are compared with
the average number of men employed
in an American factory, which is only
%.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
The Work of the Treasury.

The ordinary actual disbursements Of
the United States Treasury, which in
clude all war expenses, from the 1st of
July, 1917, to March 16, 1918, when the
Treasury statement was issued, amount
to 81, 233, 261, 600.
The ordinary actual disbursements
for the corresponding period OF the fis-
cal year of 1919 were 1888, 069, 900.
These figures show that the war has
added practically three and half bill
lion to the expenses of the government
for the time between the two dates
named, eight and half months. This
means an expenditure for war purposes
for Americas part In the war of about
$500, 000, 600 month or over $l3, 0OO, 900
a day.
The above figures, however, do not
include the So, 261, $50, 900 loaned to our
Allies in the period dealt with. These
are good and secure investments which
will ultimately be repaid the United
States The total loans to our Allies
to date aggregate practically SIS, 600,
600, 900. Nor is the 500, 600, 600 used to
purchase Farm Loan Bonds included,
another investment rather than an ex-
pense.
The total disbursements of the Treas
ury from July l to March Is were
81, 274, SIS, 900. This sum includes the
ordinary actual disbursements which
comprise the usual civil expenses OF
the government and the cost of the war
as above set out, the amount loaned to
our Allies, and bonds, notes and GER
.cates of indebtedness retired. Most
of this last item is made up of pay
ments of the short-term interim certif-
icates issued last fall.
The total receipts of the government
in the period named were ST., on, 257,
600, against total receipts for the cor.
responding period of the fiscal year Of
1917 of $540, 217, 900.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET
(Contsnaed. From Pags ~

1t is great pity that they cannot pull
deal of trouble and loss. At the begin
ming of the season number of the
packers protestingly received badly
sorted crops rather than have trouble
with the growers, but as they had to
put on the brakes later in the season
anyhow they could have done so in the
beginning of the delivery season if
they could have had some concerted
action.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
Our Neiqhbors.

Charles Lamb was one day criticiz.
ing neighbor rather severely when
his listener interposed with a protest
that the judgment was mistaken, and
that the critic did not really know the
man. "But I don't want to know
him." said Lamb. II might get to like
him." That is what might happen
in a good many cases when we stand
off and condemn. The faults are not
the only qualities our neighbor pos
sesses. We might get to like him II
we took the trouble to get acquainted.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
Relax If You Would Sleep.

The philosopher Hegel finished his
principal work on the eve of the battle
of Jena, amidst the thunder Of can
non. Noise, instead of interfering with
conscious thinking, produces an in
centive to thought. If you keep too
vigorous an attention on your ideas,
after you compose yourself for sleep
If YOU maintain an emotional element
or any feelings with them, you will lie
awake or have only fitful sleep.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
Musk a Chinese Monopoly.

Musk is one product of world COM
merce in which China practically en-
joys a monopoly-not large one, to
be sure, since the annual output is at
best only some 100000 gold, but the
product itself is worth many times it's
weight in silver, and for that matter,
gold as well. in these days of high ex-
change, says the Far Eastern Review,
Chungking.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
THE question of Wisconsin's loyalty

THE question of Wisconsin's loyalty
was settled beyond dispute in the vote
cast for u. S. senator on Tuesday last.
The combined vote of Lenroot and
Davies candidates on the loyalty issue
was four to one for Berger the social
list. The returns indicate that Lenroot
is safely elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Husting. Wis
consin has been redeemed and the
country at large will we trust accept
the verdict as final.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
The JayMaIker.

What Of the jaywalker? He crosses
the street diagonally. The motorman
leans and shouts. The cop fourishes
his club. His whistle shrills. The au-
tos foot. Unknown to the jaywalker
the crossing calls 20 him. In the hos
pita1 nurses prepare bandages; and at
home dog howls for his MASTER
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05

A good robe was lost Tuesday even
ing between Edgerton and Cooksvllle.
Finder leave at this Office and receive
reward.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05
Men Wanted.

Building laborers wanted on the new
addition to the condensery at Slough
ton. Apply to
1872 Dairy Products Co.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05

"A rubber tired surrey in good
condition will be sold cheap If taken at
once. = Charles Banker, three miles
north of Edgerton. 1872
Leave orders for Service Flag with
Mrs. Girard, e03 Washington st. 18w3
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-04-05

For SALE Three registered Short
Horn bulls j. M. Sweeney. 20t2
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01

The union label transforms the
women and children of the working
class into towers of strength. With
out it they are often elements of
weakness in the struggle for bread
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01
MESSAGE FROM
SAMUEL GOMPERS

"The old order is changing. War
has speeded up the change 50 that
into a few months have been crowd
ed milestones that ordinarily it
would have required decades to
reach. Employers have understood
the change. They know that their
power over lives of men is dwin-
ding. They know that under the
new order opportunities and prop
erty are being used for the common
welfare of all
"The change has been brought
about by the power of tools in the
hands of workers who know the
indispensable character of their
work. Tools are forging, link by
link, cables of safety reaching out
from American freedom to all ports
of the world where free men may
seek their interests.
Certain employers are grasping
ing after their vanishing autocracy
They seek to destroy labor by plac-
ing upon it the responsibility fol
any failure in the war programme
They would make the tools of labor
fashion chains to shackle the work
ers to jobs. They would conscript
free labor.
"The rank and file of America
workers know the value of freedom
They war against an autocracy that
has reared its head to menance
world freedom. Some workers may
make mistakes-who is infallible
the employer? But the remedy
for those mistakes is intelligent eff
fort to point out the better way
and to instill into the minds anC
consciences of the rank and file OF
labor that our Government owes
justice to all.
GAS | know the power and the
conscience of labor from the depths
of my heart, | hope nothing will be
done to hamper the constructive
work of the organized effort of free
workers who have been rendering
indispensable work and who will
stand faithful until victory comes
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01
PATRIOTISM WOULD BE STIMULATED
FSHIP PROFITEERS WERE JAILED
Story of Criminal Profeering That Will Fill Every Patriotic
American With Disgust and Resentment.

The above heading is taken from
remarks of Senator Vardaman of
Mississippi, when addressing the SEN
ate on the Hog Island shipyard in
vestigation. The Journal has waited
patiently to find out who is to
blame for the recent strike in eastern
shipyards and, as suspected when
the first news of the strike came, it
is found that the shameless prof.
teers are responsible for the strike,
just as the same class of loud-mouth-
ed pay-triots are responsible for lum-
Der shortage and other handicaps
on the government in the Pacific
Northwest. The Northwest Lum-
bermen's Association could not do
much worse if it were operating
from offices in Berlin instead of
Seattle.
But we are wandering from our
subject "The hogs from Hog
Island"
The story, as clipped from the
American Federation of Labor's
Weekly Newsletter, follows:
'If ship building labor were indif-
ferent in these times it would be the
logical result of policy of flag
waving patriots who have robbed the
government through ship deals" de-
clared United States Senator Var
daman, in denouncing scandalous
conditions at Hog Island, near Phil
adelphia.
IF labor lags," said the law MAX
er, "and if wilfully done, it is high
ly reprehensible. But ! am inclined
to think that the conduct which man
TESTS feeling of Indifference to re-
suits on the part of the laboring
man is due very largely TO the graft
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01
SCHARRENBERG
CONSCRIPTED

81 have been concripted by the
Government" is the way Paul Schar-
renberg announced that he had been
appointed on the Federal Commission
of Cancellation.
Scharrenberg left for Washington
on Wednesday, (Feb. g. to take
up his new duties. During his alb
sence from the city, Daniel Murphy,
president of the California State
Federation of Labor. will look after
the office of the secretary of the
State Federation.
Scharrenberg does not know wheth
err he will have to make Washington
his permanent residence or not and
will not know until he has conferred
with Secretary of Labor William B.
Wilson. In the event that Schar-
renberg will have to remain per-
manently in Washington, his place
will have to be filled as secretary
of the California State Federation
of Labor, as a member of the State
Housing and immigration Commits
sion and the City Planning Commits
sion of San Francisco, and as edi-
tor of the Coast Seamen's Journal"
San Francisco Clarion
Thus is the Pacific Coast Labor
movement deprived of another one
Of its ablest and wisest leaders.
Secretary of Labor Wilson surely
knows how to select good men. He
has taken Marsh, Hughes and Schar-
renberg. Who'll be next to be
called to the counsels of the ma
lion?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01

ing, the mercenary, the criminal
profiteering on the part of capital,
the possessors of which vie with
each other in their lip service to the
government. While these patriots for
pelf are standing in the limelight
of publicity, proclaiming to do and
to die if need be for the flag, they
are receiving enormous profits from
agencies which they themselves had
put into operation and which are
concealed from public view.
81 have no sympathy with the
proposition to conscript labor. If
the ingenuity displayed in the mat
ter of devising ways and means to
get money out of the public treasury
which has been shown by some of
these plutocratic patriots of the Hog
Island enterprise was displayed in
the matter of building ships, we
would have had an entire fleet con-
structed by this time"
Senator Vardaman remarked that
Patriotism would be stimulated if
ship profiteers were jailed"
The matter referred to by Sena-
tor Vardaman is the result of an
investigation into the affairs of the
American international Ship Build
ing Corporation, which undertook the
Hog Island shipbuilding contract with
the understanding that the govern
ment was to furnish the money and
the corporation was to receive prof
its approximating 100000 for pos
sessing the know how" of ship yards
and ship construction.
The American international Cor
poration, of which the American In
ternational Ship Building Corpora
tion is a subsidiary, is differed by
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01
THE COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS
OF AMERICA ORGANIZING UNION
They Named April 2Sth Organization Day. and Will
Get What Is Right From the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph Companies Strike, and Strike For It

who deals with industrial unrest
from the standpoint of fundamentals
and touches upon the point of work
ers being prevented from organizing
for mutual betterment and protec-
ton.
almost insuperable obstacles
arise, however, when labor disputes
occur under circumstances in which
employers permit organization by
their workmen only on pain of dis
mlssal. Whether so designed or not,
the tendency of this policy is to pre-
vent organization of labor; and in
asmuch in such cases workmen have
no responsible business representa-
tive, only one party to controversies
can be conveniently or satisfactorily
heard In such cases, also, the work
ers, being prevented by the en-
ployers from organizing on bust
ness basis, tend to fall away from
the pacifying influences of construc-
tive responsible labor organizations
and to come under that of revolu-
tionary groups. AS most labor law
lessness is traceable to this cause,
esponsibility for it cannot be wholly
diverted from the policy-hardly pat
riotic in the time of war-of arbi-
trarily obstructing organization of
the conservative as distinguished
from the revolutionary type"
The telegraphers have announced
their determination to work from
now until April 2Sth with all their
strength to build up their organiza-
ton. They are ceaseless in their
propaganda with the mons" and
they have way peculiar to their
craft of knowing who is and who is
not.
The Commercial Telegraphers IN
ion is an international and they point
with considerable pride to the fact
that it is from the union members
of Canada that the signal corps has
drawn its strength. Sixty-one union
members have left the Winnipeg of
flee to join the colors and fight for
freedom. In the United States there
are hundreds of union telegraphers
who have enlisted but they may not
make known the fact they are union
men. They say they are willing to
fight for political democracy and
freedom but that they realize the
futility of the struggle for them if
they are to continue in industrial
slavery. One veteran put it this
way:
"Why shout for freedom and lib
erty and democracy unless you are
willing to fight for these ideals at
home as well as abroad. The indus
trial tyrants of the Western Union
and Postal are worse enemies of
American institutions than even the
Hohenzollerns Isn't it time we made
this plain to every telegrapher and
urged them to apply the remedy Z?
We think it is and here is where we
start a fight for our industrial free
dom"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01
WILSON WANTS
DIGNIFIED 18th

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Cele-
brate the 4th of July this year, by
all means, but do it in "dignified
FORM" and do not waste money on
it. This is the message from the
White House to the American peo-
pie, transmitted through Representa-
tive Albert Johnson. Here is the
presidents letter:
"In reply to your letter of Feb
ruary 20, l would say that / should
be very sorry to see Fourth of July
celebrations omitted this year of all
years, but at the same time | think
they should take the simplest and
most dignified form and that it
would be in the public interest, as
we'll as in eminently good taste, to
make them as inexpensive as posi-
Bile.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
Films developed, 10c roll; prints
from &c up. Julien Studio.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-03-01

When the other chap doesn't get
the drift of your joke he's bone
head, but when you can't catch the
point of his, the story is punk one
anyhow.-Erie (Pa.) Dispatch.