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The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
Former Washinstonian Dies.

John Randolph, formerly employed
in this city in the Court OF Claims,
died Saturday in Lewisburg, Pa.
Mr.. Randolph has lived in Washirg-
ton since 1864
For a number OF years Mr.. Ran
fHir'' waS elder Of the New York Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church. He is sur
N.N>t by one daughter. who is a resi-
dent OF Lewisburg.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
WIFE FILES COUNTER SUIT.

Mrs. Irene ". Murdock yesterday
hled an answer to the divorce suit
brought against her by Joseph Z.
Murdock, in which she denied the
charges made against her and brought
a counter suit for absolute divorce.
Mrs. Murdock admits in her answer
that she left her husband. but MAIN
tains that she was forced to do SO
on account Of his iii treatment. She
asks for custody Of their child.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
DOCTORS ELECT OFFICERS.

At a recent meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Association of
Drugless Physicians the following
officers were elected: President,
DR.. d. r DuComb: first vice pres
ident. Prof. II. N. ID. Parker; second
vice president, DIR. F. Thomas
Evans; secretary. DR.. c. Richard
Smith. and. treasurer. DR.. NJ. G.
Skinner.
The association Is planning to
give a series OF public lectures on
the efficacy and growth Of drug
less treatment.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
ACCEPT RESIGNATION
OF OCCOQUAN HEAD

The District Commissioners yester-
day formally accepted the resignation
of William H. Whitaker, as superin-
tendent of the District workhouse at
Occoquan, and the reformatory at
Lorton, Va.
Mr.. Whitaker transformed the oc-
coquan property from a wilderness
tract to self-supporting penal farm.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
GIVES FOOD SAVING TALK.

Mrs. william Wolff Smith, who has
been engaged in war kitchen work in
Washington for some time, made a
food conservation address yesterday
afternoon before the Peabody Parent
Teachers Association. held at the
school
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

District Of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia
Generally fair and slightly colder today; tomor-
row fair moderate west winds.
cyclonic depression of considerable intensity
has developed in the last twenty-four hours and
moved to the St Lawrence Valley. 1t has been
attended by quite general rains and a very ma
terial increase in temperature. In general.
pressure Is below 30 inches. except in the ex-
trene southern portion Of Florida and on the
Pacific Coast.
The above-named depression will move east
ward over the Canadian maritime provinces
today, attended by snow or rain in Northern
New England. Elsewhere in the Washington
forecast district the weather to-day and tomorrow
will be fair, with unimportant temperature
changes
Moderate rains and warm weather in the Ohio
Valley watershed in the last twenty-four hours
has started the ice in some Of the northern
tributaries Some movement Of the ice in the
big gorge below Cincinnati is reported. The
river at Cincinnati crested today at SIS feet, or
Ills feet above food stage. Further movement
Of the ice. especially in the small streams. is
probable.
Storm warnings are displayed on the Atlantic
coast from Norfolk to Passport.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES.
Midnight. IS; a. m. q; a. m, 40; 6 a. m,
4s; 8 a: m. a; 10 a. m. a; Il noon. S.; ?
D m. GO; p. m. 81; 6 p. m, S.; p. m, 81
10 r. m. 60. Highest. g.; lowest. 40.
Relative humidity-s a. m, 65; p. m. g;
p. m, s.. Rainfall q p. m. to p. M, o.
Hours Of sunshine. so; per cent Of possible
sunshinez5.
Departures-Accmulatedd deficiency Of temper
aturc since January ], 1918, 3l3: deficiency Of
Temperature since February !. 1918. 3. Accu-
lEulsted deficiency Of precipitation since January
], 1918, o.A; deficiency Of precipitation since
February /. 1916. 1.B
Temperature same date last year-HiEhest. Isi
lowest, Z.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13
OTHER TEMPERATURES.

TIDE TABLES.
tCcnIpiled BY the United States Coast and
Geodatic Suryeyl
Tolay--Low tide 3:A a. m. and los , m.
high tide, s:S5 a. m and sS5 p. m.
Autoznobils lamps must be lighted By sl2
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13

Send Floral Valentines.
GUIDES beautiful homegrown flow
ers are most appropriate, 1914 + st.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13

offIeiaI weather Repert-F.ir and Colder.
The Washington herald., 1918-02-13

81
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
URGE SEAMEN'S LAW.
IN MARITIME EUROPE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Acting
under Instructions of the executive
board Of the International Seamen' s
union. Andrew Furuseth, president of
that organization, has secured pass
ports from the United States and will
tour the maritime countries of Eu-
rope in the interest of the seamen's
law, to secure the cooperation of
seamen in England, France, Holland,
Norway, Sweden and Denmark in ex-
tending this legislation to these coun-
tries, and to advise with these sea-
men on the reconstruction period.
Seamen of the United States are
awake to an International hostility
to the LaFollette seamen's act. This
law makes it possible for a seameS
who has shipped from foreign
port, to quit his job when he reaches
| and American port. Formerly he was
| arrested bv American authorities, on
complaint of the foreign owner, and
thrown back on the ship. Because
of the seamen's act the foreign vessel
| owner knows he cannot hold his
seamen as they will quit and force
him to re-employ them at the prevail
| ing rates at the American port. The
effect of this legislation is to raise
the standard for seamen throughout
the world, and because it has langu.
age clase. applicable to all ships. ex.
cept Oriental, the employment OF
| Oriental and other non-English
speaking races is made difficult.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
BACKING THE PRESIDENT
maybe

Pm 90 per cent. for my country
And 100 per cent. for myself;
don't like at all
Being placed on the wall
Or used to embellish q shelf.
And though I would have done
things much betetr,
And he's made horrible mess,
With an "if'' and a 'tbut'' and a
''maybe''
I'm back of the Presidential
guess.
And while am shouting for ac-
confess am not very strong
For the things that go right,
But I'll sit up all right
just to gloat over things that go
wrong.
I lamented i'm sackclOth and ashes
When things seemed to head for
the bad,
But in spite of my fears
And my crocodile tears
I'd been tickled to death If they
had.
I yelled that the Brownings were
failures
And emitted a lot of hot air,
But they peppered the Huns
With those same Browning
guns
So there wasn't much 'capital''
there.
The ships and the men and the air.
planes,
I've howled about each through
my hat;
Then the blamed things made
good
Who'd have thought that they
could?
And threw down my prophecy flat.
He may suit Lloyd George and
Clemenceau
And the whole allied army, you
see,
But the bump in the chute
And the rift in the lutte
Is the fact that he doesn't suit ME.
I'm the author of that criticism
That they call ''constructive," I
VOW,
Like the mongrel that yaps
And worries and snaps
| At the horse that is pulling the
pillow.
And though this announcement is
tardy
And gives me internal distress,
With an ''if'' and a ''but'' and a
''maybe''
I'm back of the President-I
guess.-Frank D. Swaney, in
New York World.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
TAKE INSURANCE FROM
PRIVATE PROFIT MAKERS
CONTINUED From Page ~

who breaks his leg can get compen-
sation. A fellow workman who con-
tracts tuberculosis from the fumes
gets nothing.
The health insurance bill that will
be presented to the legislature by or
ganized labor is now being drafted
by Representative T. J. McGrath. 1t
probably will provide for the organi-
zation Of health in~ france associa-
tons by districts or communities,
with supervision of these associations
by state authorities.
With organized farmers in the leg
islature, elected by the Nonpartisan
league, ready to help organized labor
to enact laws for the benefit of the
people Of the state, the labor men of
Minnesota realize that they have a
better chance of securing justice than
ever before. The labor men appear
to be equally willing to cooperate
with the farmer legislators to help
In passing their measures.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP
Movement For OWNERSHIP Of
Te|egraphs, Telephones and
Railroads Sweeping World.

Two-thirds of the worlds railways,
nine-tenths Of its telephones and
practically all Of it's telegraph wires
are now under public ownership or
control, according to statistics recently
compiled by Harry Ladder and pub
lished as a bulletin by the Public
Ownership League of America.
The rapid advance of public owner
contrast to the above only one-third
of the railways. one-fourth of the
telephones and two-thirds of the tele-
graph wires under such control but
four years ago.
The entire bulletin Of 80 pages is
devoted to a survey of the various
forms Of public ownership throughout
the world. The whole has been sup
ported and reinforced by statistics re-
Gently compiled by o P. Austin of
the National City bank Of New York.
The figures are astonishing to those
who are not familiar with the rapid
progress along these lines.
Gain in U. S.
Much of the recent change in these
matters, Mr.. Austin says, is due to
action taken by the United States for,
prior to the present war. this was the
one country which had, not estab-
lished the public ownership of these
public utilities. The governments Of
Europe in 1914 ALREADY owned or
controlled 50 per cent of the railway
lines, IS per cent Of the telephones,
and 100 per cent of the telegraphs.
Practically every country controlled
at least part of it,, railroads. and
nearly all of them the bulk of their
telephones, and there was no excep-
telegraph.
Asia and Africa.
In Asia sc per cent of the railroads,
80 per cent Of the telephones and all
the telegraph lines were state con-
trolled. In Africa so per cent of the
| railways, 80 per cent of the telephones
and all Of the telegraph system were
| under government direction. In Aus
| tralia, and New Zealand, private in
! terests had only per cent of the
railways, while all the telephone and
telegraph lines were state controlled.
In striking contrast was the situa-
ton in North and South America, for
| the latter continent shared with us
| in the north a stubborn resistance to
! encroachments Of the government in
| these directions. War not only radi-
cally changed these conditions in the
| United States, but swept practically
| all of what remained of privately con-
trolled lines in Europe into the hands
| of the several governments.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

Complaints and Suggestions
Always Receive Prompt, Cour.
teousi, Attention. Telephones.
Melrose $50 (note change)3
Lincoln IS,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
HELPING SOLVE
NEGRO PROBLEM
Director Returns From Southern
Trip in Interest Of Better
Conditions.

DR.. George E. Haynes, director of
negro economics of the department of
labor, has just completed a trip
through the southern states where he
has been aiding in the organization of
committees to promote closer Coop
GRAFTON between the races and to slim
ulate among the negroes in particular
spirit of cooperation that will show
the value of their daily work to the
nation.
Negro workers advisory committees
have been organized in a number of
states, and in some places the organ
ization has proceeded as far as city
and county units. White men and ne
groes serve together on these COM
mittees, and splendid results in meet
ing local problems of labor shortage
have already been obtained.
Among the meetings held those at
Ocala and Lakeland, Fla, were largely
attended by white residents of those
places. It was necessary to hold some
of the meetings in the open air, be-
cause Of the spread of Influenza, and
these were attended by many white
persons who came in automobiles.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
DEVELOPS new
TRAINING plan
Jersey City Finds Method Of
Preparing Workers for Ma
chine Production Quickly.

Jersey City has devised not only one
of the best practical means Of solving
the present man-power problem in
factories, but Of giving boys the most
comprehensive training possible in
machine operation.
! The Board Of Education of that city,
in cooperation with leading manufac-
turers, has developed a method of
| training that will enable boys within
a comparatively short time to operate
one special type of machine we'll
enough to produce goods for consump-
ton, and also to obtain further train
| ing that will eventually make them
all-around machinists.
Boys Is years of age and older will
! be admitted to the training schools.
If not enough boys are available,
women will be trained for machine OPP
! Grafton.
The State Board of Education and
the Federal Board Of Vocational Edu-
! cation are cooperating in the project,
which effectively extends the work of
! the Training and Dilution Service Of
! the Department Of Labor. This serv-
! ice is charged with the training of the
large number of unskilled workers
| who must be utilized at once in ma
chine production.
Two Forms.
The Jersey City plan provides for
two forms Of training-frst in the
| school and second in the shop. The
| school training will aim to teach the
operation of one particular machine
in the shortest possible time. Boys
| in training will be taught, for example,
drawing and blueprint readings:
| simple freehand sketches from OBJ
jects; decimal and common fractions
and shop mathematics; surface
speeds, proper speeds and feeds\ for
cutting metals, threadcutting, simple
and compound gearing, taper-turning,
taper attachment, and use Of callipers
| and micrometers.
| This preliminary training will be
supplemented by continuation train
ing Of an intensive character in the
shop, with one-haf day each week in
the school. Boys will be paid while
J learning, and after the second month
will get the usual pay of machinists'
| helpers.
Boys OF 16 years and older who have
an agreement with some factory CO.
operating in the plan, whereby they
are to be employed as soon as they
have completed the period Of prelimi-
nary training, may be admitted to the
courses. The schools have the right
to discharge boys who do not show
promise Of becoming efficient opera
tors, and are expected to exercise it.
BoyD Sign Contracts.
Boys are asked to sign contracts to
remain from four to six months in
the employ Of tho manufacturer
| through whose aid they obtain train
ing.
Continuation work will include
trade mathematics, business English
and citizenship, trade drawing and
shop work and shop problems for the
hrst year. The second years. work
VIII substitute applied science for
business English. The continuation
work will last two years, and as soon
al the present emergency has ended
the boys will be shifted in the shops
from one machine to another, In or
der that they may gain q thorough
familiarity with the various kinds Of
machine work. .z;-s--A Il -. ).
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
ELECTRICIANS ADVANCE.

WASHINGTON, Dec 12.-The ma
tional war labor board has ruled in
the case of electricians employed on
Duluth and Superior ore docks that
the daily wage for a 10-hour day on
Oct. / last shall be the rate for an
eight-hour day.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

SHAWNEE, Ohio, Dec. 12.-work-
ers engaged in the clay mining in
dustry have raised wages from 46 to
so cents an hour. Rates now range
from IS to So a day. These workers
are affiliated with the United Brick
and Clay Workers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14

EAST PEORIA, ILL.,, Dec. 12.-Local
No. 255 of the United Brick and Clay
Workers has secured the eight-hour
day and increased wages. The mini
mum for day workers is As cents an
hour and 60 cents for kiln firemen.
Piece workers are also advanced.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
PAPER WORKERS GAIN.

APPLETON, Wis, Dec. 12.-Ein-
ployes of the Kimberly Clark Paper
company are organizing and the COM
pany announces a ''voluntary' wage
increase
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
DEFEAT HEALTH INSURANCE,

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.-At
the last election the plan to establish
health insurance in this state was re-
jected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-12-14
Tuesday, Dec. 10th, 1918.

Tuesday, Dec. 10th, 1918.
A disabled west-bound Nor.
gan Park car was delayed at
Twenty-fourth avenue east II
minutes from 1928 a. m.
An east-bound car off the
track at Twenty-f1rst avenue
west delayed all east-bound cars
passing that point between $50
and 1915 a. m.
Gates out of order caused an
east-bound West Duluth car to
be 10 minutes late at Third ave-
nue. west, where it was due al
.8:08 a. m.
A disabled west-bound car at
First avenue east delayed west
bound cars passing that point
10 to Is minutes from 1927
a. m.
A disabled east-bound West
Duluth car was IS minutes late
at Third avenue west, where it
was due at 4:45 p. m.
A disabled east-bound East
Fourth street car was ~ min
utes late on arriving at Third
avenue west, where it was due
at sos p. m:
A disabled east-bound West
Duluth car was IL minutes late
on arriving at Third avenue
west, where it was due at 5:51
p. m.
The gates out Of order caused
Lester Park car to be "a min
utes late at Third avenue west,
where it was due at $3.50 p. m.
A disabled car caused an east
bound Hunters Park car to be
20 minutes late at Third avenue
west, where it was due at 6:10
p. m.
A disabled east-bound Duluth
Superior car at Twenty-sixth
avenue west caused a 10-minute
gap on that line from 4:12 to
$50 p. m.
A disabled Woodland car,
east-bound, was rs minutes late
on arriving at Third avenue,
where it was due at 9:18 p. m.
Open draw at the Interstate
bridge delayed the Duluth-Su-
perior cars:
7 minutes from 12:48 to 1885 pm
8 minutes from 1928 to 1891 .. m
10 minutes from 1928 to 4:38.p.m
o minutes from '11:29 to 1889 .. m
Many cars were late in pull
ing out and twelve cars were
omitted entirely from the
schedule on account Of car
shortage due to the large NUM-
Der OF: cars disabled during the
previous day. ,~~
All cars we're more or less de-
layed during the day by weather
and rail conditions. $
Complaints and Suggestions
Always Receive Prompt, Cour-
teous,, Attention. Telephones,
Melrose $50 (note change)3
Lincoln IS, "
~ :. >. ..s....>.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

Great Britain has 10000 motor lorries
 behind the battle lines. and all the other allies have them i'll the same pro
 portion. MT, A. C. Bedford. chairman
 of the. national petroleum war service committee, told producers and refiners at Tulsa, Okla, how the war service committee looked ahead and planned
 for the new and additional uses Of oik the war would bring. It took Into ac-
 count the increase of the navy and
 the upbuilding of merchant marine, many of whose ships would be oil
 burners, the airplane fleet, and a vast increase in motor trucks and bent ev-
 cry effort to stimulate production.
 Oil was not put under government control but the men who run the in-
 dustry were put on their honor and let
 alone to work out the problem as a
 national and patriotic service. The re suit has been that prices have been
 down and production and refining. in creased. Chairman Bedford of the na~ tional war service committee and Mrs M L. Requa, head of the oil division of the fuel administrations have CO., operated throughout the war, and uni- ted with all the producers to kesp
 down the retail price of the refined product. If this method had been fol- lowed in the cases of coal, copper and wheat instead of fixing prices arbitra- rily. how much better off the country would be now and how much better 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
THEDA BARA AT THE < ALCAZAR 4 DAYS IN
 UNDER THE YOKE"
Story of Hot-Blooded RO- nance of the Philippines During Early Days of
 American Occupation

Theda Bara, in her newest picture, Under the Yoke" opens at the Alcazar Monday for a four-day run.
 The picture is a typical Bara produc- tions offering opportunities for this popu- lar star. as the story abounds with tense situations from beginning to end
 The story is a hot olooded romance Of the Philippines during the early days of American occupation. The story reveals ish heiress when she sees the life of her sweetheart, an American army officer in peril.
 The picture tells an absorbing story, hundreds of persons were used to re- enact some of the stirring war scenes that took place in and about Manila dur ing the early days of American occupa- tion, and the most painstaking study was necessary to duplicate the tropical set ting in which years ago American fight ing men carried the flag of the United States into the far Pacific, and reg- ment of heavy artillery was used in producing the picture. Not since her production of Carmen" has there beer seen on the screen picture to com pare with Under the Yoke"
 In addition, there will be two extra pictures on the bill, one The Allies Official War Pictures, showing the fighting along the western front. and the other, clever Lyons Moran com edy, entitled "A Fish Out of Water The Alcazar orchestra has been en- larged making it one of the best in the south, and a special programme will be offered in support of the pictures this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
BIC MOVIE BILL
 AT LOEW'S BDOU
 FOR THIS WEEK
Bonnie Annie Laurie" and Boston Blackies' Little Pal" Will Be the Fea-
 ture Films

The movie programme at Loew's for next week will be one of the best that has been offered in Birmingham The first half of the week, Monday, Tues day and Wednesday, Peggy Hyland. petite English star, will be seen in "Bon- nie Annie Laurie" patriotic film that has made a great hit on it's first release, loew's Bijou offering it as a feature flint of excellence. The story is full of thrills, and there are intense moments in it. but love is so closely woven into every scene that it makes great, strong play with a splendid flavor.
 This is a tale of Red Cross nurse whc is loyal and patriotic to the last ditch, and through this loyalty and love for her country, she is compelled to send back to the trenches her soldier lover. She kept her promise true.
 On Thursday, Friday and Saturday one of the most thrilling crook pictures ever seen in the city will be at Loew's, en- titled "Boston Blackie's Little Pal" in which Bert LyteI is the star. This is the story of gentleman crook whose confederate is his sweetheart, whom he has planted in the home of a rich fam ily, with the idea of annexing the famous family jewels. He has never been cap- tured by the police. The story goes through with deep interest and there is that final satisfaction to movie fans in the fact that Blackie saves the mans wife from deceiving him, and he is thanked by the rich man for what he has done and in the new-found friend he made in the rich mans son, he makes a new resolve that makes a man out of him.
 The usual comics and current news events will continue to please the audi erce and make the programme more in- terestiIi., especially when the films re- leased bS the United States government are shown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

would be for these industries when the war is over