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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-05-09
BLUE LAKE

Misses Freda and Ella Grams were called
home from St. Paul. where they were en-
ployed. by the serious illness Of their father,
F. w. Grams, on Saturday evening. Mr..
Grams died on Sunday. Ella returned Monday
but Freda will remain indefinitely with her
mother.
Mrs. Alden johnson was q Zimmerman vis-
itor on Saturday.
Grandma Westphal suffered severe relapse
on Wednesday and DR.. Vrooman Of st. Fran
els was called. Little improvements noted
in her condition.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-05-09
ZIMMERMAN

Chas. Wheaton was up from Elk River on
Thursday.
Little Ruth Mary Walker spent few days
last week with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. HURT.
Carrie Right came up from Minneapolis on
Wednesday evening to spend a few weeks with
the home folks.
Little Esther Magney was brought home last
Wednesday from a hospital in Minneapolis.
The Salvage Sales Co. of Minneapolis is
closing out the Forsberg stock of merchandise
this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ike Walker of Spencer Brook
were over the last of the week.
Mrs. Eugene Nicholson went to Elk River
on Saturday.
Miss Berglund of Sank Center is visiting at
the A. r. Berglund home.
The Zimmerman branch of the Red Cross
includes all of Livonia township, and all per-
sons who can, whether they belong or not,
are invited to come in and help sew on Tues
day and Saturday afternoons of each week.
There is an urgent demand for work as yet
unfinished, and everyone is asked to assist if
possible.
The home guards went to Big Lake for their
drill practice on Friday evening.
a. Joe Cohoes is taking his annual vacation this
month. E. H. Foley is acting as substitute on
the-route.
Mrs. M. Solberg went to Princeton on Fri
day evening.
The M. E. Ladies' Aid society meets with
Mrs. Eugene Nicholson on Friday afternoon,
May TO- Everybody invited to attend.
George Right and Miss Loretta Guptil autoed
to Annandale on Sunday. They were accom-
panied back by Joyce Guptil, who will visit
here for few days.
lrve Jennison of Minneapolis Sundayed with
relatives and friends here
M. X. Tiff was up from Elk River on Fri
day.
Miss Annie Right is employed at the Bian-
chett hotel.
Mrs. Myrtle Smith and daughter, Fern, were
down from Princeton on Saturday afternoon
Lawrence Anderson, who was taken critically
ill last Friday and was taken to the North
western hospital at Princeton, returned home
Monday.
Miss Mayme Robertson came up from Mime.
apolis on Monday evening and will remain
with her parents in Orrock for some time.
Don't forget the sociable in district Al on
Friday evening, May 10, for the benefit Of the
Red Cross.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt autoed to Princeton on
Sunday afternoon.
Ed Foley doesn't believe in gambling but a
friendly bet now and then appeals to him
Not long ago Ed made bet and thereby won q
hat, which was to be sent by express from
Minneapolis. Some of the employees at the
garage enjoy practical joke as well as Ed
and managed to get the box first After re.
moving the hat and substituting cap that
had done service in at least three baseball
seasons, they carefully re-wrapped the box
and succeeded in getting it onto the truck in
which Ed was delivering express. When he
came to the box he was SO excited that he
scarcely took time to cut the string, and wher
that cap came into view his face was q study
that would have delighted an artist. When
the hat was forthcoming it proved satisfactor,
in every way. so much SO that Ed overlooked
the joke.
The Social club was entertained at the A. R
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-05-09
Red Cross work.

Red Cross work. IS
house and barn on his farm near Knute Carl
sons. John Knutson is doing the carpenter
work.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-05-09

term of school in district Is. Santiago. last
Friday with picnic. On Sunday she was
given farewell reception at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. p George. at which q large crowd
was present.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
OUR LIVES AND OUR COr1NTRv

What shall we say of the man
calling himself an American that puts
his poor, little life in the scales for
a moment against the preservation
of liberty in the world? Where is
the true American that is not ready
to die for liberty? Everything that
made us free, everything that has
made us great, everything that has
made us proceed upon the path to
eventual perfect democracy, every
one of those things has been won by
sacrifice.-Charles Edward Russell.
Napoleon coveted the earth. His
personal ambition made Europe reek
with blood. His fate must be the
fate of those who make his bloody
career their admiration, and who
have followed in his footsteps.
France, through travail, came to
know and to embrace free govern
ment.-Secretary Daniels.
The pacifists left to strut
their uneasy hour and be forgotten.
President Wilson.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
HUMAN POWER FIRST


In urging the nation to become i'm
pressed with the Importance of ma
power and woman power as the frs
essential in this war, the Public Led
ger of Philadelphia says:
1.-THE government with all its com
missions and bureaus is not of clock
work. but of errant flesh and blood
and it functions only as efficiently a.
its constituent units made in the i'm
age of you and me. The plates of !;
battleshiD are not riveted by haprr
chance, nor are machine guns n1adt
and waited to the front niraculously
nor are sweaters knitted witholl
wool or needles. A cantonnlent mus
have sanitation as we'll as patriotism
and community singing. AS the wei
fare of enlisted men individually i:
conserved at. sea and ashore we shat
be puissant collectively and national
ly. All.the strength we can ASSEMBLE
must be put into the fight, but frs
of all that strength is the power no
of shells and high explosives, not @
airships and battleships, not of tank
and howitzers, not of REINFORCED con
crete and armor plate, but Of tn:
men who stand behind the work 0
their hands and the women who ar!
their helpmateS near or far"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
GONfPERS ON PEACE.

An immediate peace would simply
mean that the imperial militaristic
government of Germany has won the
war. She has conquered a part of
France; she is the conqueror and in
vader of Belgium and Serbia; she
has outraged as we'll as murdered in
nocent people, she has sent to an
untimely grave thousands of inno-
cent men, women and children with
out having the commonest attributes
of humanity. When the people of
Germany shall of their own volition
throw over Kaiserism, or when we
shall have utterly crushed Kaiserism,
then only will peace be possible
Samuel Gompers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12

similar low living standards to COM
pete with American laborers in the
trust-ridden and water soaked in
dustries of this country.
1t is characteristic of men like
Judge Gary to think of labor as they
do of iron and coal and lime stone,
to be purchased in the cheapest mar
ket. They can never get over the
idea that labor is commodity, and
the wages of labor are subject to the
moth-eaten and obsolete law of "sup-
ply and demand" When labor is
plentiful they are perfectly willing
to permit the wage scale to sink to
the lowest level. When labor is
scarce they seek to prevent the full
operation of their best supply and
demand" law and allow wages to rise
in the same ratio with prices, by in
sisting that Congress let down the
bars of immigration, and admit into
the country the rice eating hordes of
the populous Orient.
Before the war they were drawing
their labor supply from southeastern
Europe, where the standard of liv-
ing based on goulash or spaghetti, is
but one step higher than rice and
herbs. Austria, Turkey, Italy, Bull
vi
spare any men now for America
They are needed over there Only
ten immigrants from Croatia came
here in October last year where
thousands came before the war. AnG
it is for this reason that Judge Gary
has his eye on the Orient, the most
fertile field in all the world for the
| captalistic exploitation Of labor.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
1.-THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH,
BY Rev. Charles Sickle.

So long as single woman in AM
erica is not getting a square deal, the
church cannot be satisfied. If there
IS a child in the heart of Africa that
Is suffering unjustly, the church
must demand justice. in it's behalf.
The mission Of the church is world
wide, but do not let us forget that
it has a mission to the helpless VIC
tim who is close at hand.
Neither can we forget that the
mission of the church is in the in
terest of the whole manipulated,
mental, moral and spiritual. Some
how, it is driven home upon us that
men have bodies as well as souls.
We may theorize about this as we
please, but the workingman is ire
mendously concerned about how he
is going to care for himself and his
family in the here and now.
Therefore, we need to emphasize
the fact that the mission of the
church must be in the interest OF the
whole man today. We must be more
concerned about the people who are
living. in Chicago, in Pittsburgh, in
New York today, than about those
interesting people who lived four
: thousand years ago.
If we are convinced that it is
our duty to preach a social gospel,
it will be very much easier to get the
facts concerning the Chicagoites, for
instance, than it will be to secure
them with reference to the Amele-
kites, and the Chicagoites need our
preaching very much more because
the Amelekites have been q long
time dead
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
TO THE OVERSEE BOYS

The lads we send across the sea,
God keep them strong and pure!
Pure in their purpose and their
thoughts,
With strength all to endure
We send our soldier boys away,
To martial beat of drum,
And in the hush they leave behind,
Our fears, unbidden, come.
This is the cruel test of love-
To send the loved away
This is the humble sacrifice
Of those Of us who stay.
In camp, in trench, or battlefield,
Our hearts are with them STILL
Our conscious thoughts attend their
way,
Restrain them as we will
In the first glow of pride and power,
They felt their country's need,
And, grateful in their debt to her,
They must that summons heed.
All that the future holds in store,
OF JOY, of work, of life
Upon the altar have they laid,
And Joined the righteous strife.
And, as we wait for their return,
For love will have them back,
We need the strength we ask for
them,
Lest in our faith we slack
For, though the course of life is dark,
And all it's pathways strayed,
Yet in the end shall Right and Truth
Stand forth, still undismayed.
And these dear lads who cross the
seas,
In Freedoms name to fight,
In Life or Death triumphant,
Have heard the call Alright.
So speed our gallant boys along,
In all the pride Of youth,
For love of country and of right
America and Truth
G.. c.. J.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
GARY AND COOLIES.

Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the
board Of directors of the United
States Steel Corporation, at a dinner
given in Chicago one evening last
week, declared that the United
States should Immediately "draw
from the islands of the sea and from
Oriental countries enough men, in
Guiding soldiers and sailors, to meet
every emergency" He asked Chi
cago business men to use their in
fluence with Congress and insist upon
the amendment of our immigration
laws to permit the entry of Hotten-
tots, Hindus. Coolies and others of
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
WILSON'S BEST WORD,

President Wilson has said many
good things since the United States
entered the war, but nothing he has
said can compare with his message
to Congress Tuesday last in which he
specifically defined the war aims of
this country, and the terms upon
which we are willing to make peace.
Every one of the fourteen propo-
sails breathes the spirit of true demo-
crazy. The United States asks
nothing for herself. The president
is merely insisting that the world
shall be free so our own freedom will
be made secure. All the fraternity
and fellowship and Christianity the
world ever knew is wrapped up in
Mr.. Wilson's message. May God
preserve the hearts and strength of
our people to enable them to success
fully carry out our nations program.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
OPPOSE DRAFTED LABOR

Fair working conditions and trust
in the loyalty Of workers will pro-
duce better results than conscription
of labor, according to Vice President
Stevens of the federal shipping board,
before a senate Investigating commit
tee.
In reply to queries by Senator Sher-
man of Illinois, the federal official
made a clear distinction between
sailors at sea refusing to work and
employees in ship yard refusing to
work. Although refusal to work by
sailors at sea is as rare as a white
blackbird, Senator Sherman was as
sured that one case was mutiny and
versy; an exercise Of the free-born
right to refuse to work if a man
wants to-
"You think there is distinction ?"
asked Senator Sherman.
"Decidedly. The laws Of the sea
do not apply to work on land"
.'Then you would not favor, during
the period of the war, law to en-
force any kind Of coercion against
labor?"
mo; for the reason that the
American workman will produce
more under free conditions than he
will with bayonet at his back"
why shouldn't congress pass such
law for the workmen?" urged the
Illinois cave man.
1T would be unenforceable if YOU
did pass it," was the reply.
Mr.. Stevens said conditions in the
ship yards were improving His tes-
timony impressed the committee, be-
cause of his acquaintance with work.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
THRIFT AND WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS.

Our country is at war. This war
must be won. An essential thing
necessary to win it is money. This
money must be provided by the peo-
pie of the land. In order to provide
it and lend it to the government,
earning interest and being secure be-
!yond question Of doubt, we must save.
1t is easier to save in small
amounts than it is to save big sums.
TO enable everybody within the land
to save, a plan has been devised
whereby you can begin with twenty
five cents, one quarter of dollar.
You purchase a thrift stamp for
twenty-five cents, and paste it on a
thrift card. Such thrift card is fur
nished you when you buy your first
thrift stamp. 1t has spaces for six
teen stamps.
AS soon as your thrift card is filled,
you can acquire war savings stamp.
Then your money begins to earn in
terest at the rate of per cent COM
pounded quarterly. You can also OBJ
tain war saving stamps by outright
purchase for cash. The price of the
war stamps varies, depending on the
time when you acquire them. Dur
ing this month it is $412, after
January the price increases one cent
each month, during the year of 1918.
The difference between your thrift
card which represents 81, when all
spaces are filled, and the price of
war savings stamp you pay in cash.
That means if you acquire war saw
ings stamp this month you hand over
your thrift card and pay twelve
cents additional. In February you
will have to pay thirteen cents addi-
tional, and SO on, an increase of one
cent month. This difference and
earned and is paid back at maturity
The stamps mature January l, 1923,
when the government will pay SIS for
each of the war savings stamps
owned by you.
Everything is shaping up in a way
that indicates the vital need of sup
port by the people as well as the as
sem bling of troops. There must be
supplies, and supplies are bought
with money. We must help our as
sociate nations in the war as much
as we can. If they are weakened by
their necessities more of the fighting
will fall upon us. Let us all do our
full duty.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
G0OD READING
(From Milwaukee Daily News.)

Never in the history of the coun-
try was there greater need for men,
tai balance then there is this winter.
Nothing can give so we'll poised a
mind as good reading. And now, as
winter is closing down upon us for
it's usual stay, is the time of times to
make choice of a winters reading
that the mind may be STRENGTHENED,
the spirit Gained and the body held in
a control that expels all sense of
nerves" and WEAKNESS.
It is not we'll to let any one thing
have too strong a power over ones
mind. Just now there is a tendency
to take seriously all the details Of
war news and permit them to have a
depressing effect upon one. Not only
is the war news too contradictory, but
it is too nerve straining to be an ex-
elusive mental diet. Every one should
take counter irritant or a seditive
for the proper posing of the mind
; that the war news be understood as
nearly as can be in it's proper rela-
ton.
in summer there is not such need
of good reading course. because one
is more apt to get out of doors, to
enjoy the air and the evening, and
to exercise in various ways. In winter
the coy living room and the easy
! chair are more attractive usually.
BY selecting some pleasing line of
/ reading and ending the day with an
I hour or so of quiet mental entertain
ment, much benefit will result, for
it is rest to the mind and nerves
and soothes away the cares of day
leaving the mind receptive to good
! sleep, natures sweet restorer and re-
builder.
Reading for this purpose should
first be entertaining, interesting. II
should by a light yet strong power
: hold the reader and his attention. 1t
may then inform or merely please.
Busy men whose minds are kept
hard at it during the day show a
preference, frequently, for the lighter
i but good literature, western stories OF
! good character, or stories and works
| of travel into the little known parts
of the world. This because it re-
lieves the mind Of it's daily pressure
and gives it the same exercise that a
brisk walk gives the desk weary man
AS these winter days are closing in
it is we'll to try these supplements to
the days work, and get from them
the renewal of mental strength.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
ONWARD BOUND.

Milwaukee Leader: In debate
with Prof. Foster of the University
of Chicago the other day, Clarence
barrow said that the world is not
getting better and that there is no
law of progress, but only a law Of
change, and change is not progress.
Foster contended that faith in the
possibility of progress is indispens-
able to human life.
Darrows enthusiasm over the war
Loes not seem to have altered his
pessimistic view of life in general.
For many years he has been a dead
weight upon progress. Anyone who
conversed with hin. or heard him
speak or read his writings could not
help feeling that a dash of cold
water had been thrown on his ideals.
He is witty and brilliant, but his
cynicism is blasting. If the world
were made up of such men there
would indeed be no progress.
Men and women of ideals and en-
thusiasm are necessary in order to
insure progress in the world. 1t is
true that at the present time it looks
as if everything were going to the
dogs, but this is only temporary.
After this temporary lapse the up
ward progress of the race will con-
tinue And we shall be mistaken If
it does not continue with accelerated
speed.
The Darrows can discourage in
dividuals, blighting their lives and
making them useless to the race. But
not all of the pessimism and the
cynicism of the Darrows can perma-
nently arrest it's upward progress.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
DOCTORS AND QUACKS.

The regular doctors should let
we'll enough alone. They have all
the best of it under our law. If a
person is accused Of practicing medi-
cine without license, such person
may be arrested under the state law.
He may ask for and be given a trial
by jury and if he is a .scoundrel, and
is guilty of wrongfully imposing on
the sick, it is not difficult to get a
jury to convict him, as he should be
convicted.
But what the doctors want is to do
away with trial by jury. They, like
most professional men, have little
confidence in our jury system, the
bulwark of American liberty. They
seek the passage of an ordinance con-
tanning the same language as the
state law, so that it will be easier to
convict persons VIII m tn e ir
profession believes are encroaching
upon their sacred precincts.
If the ordinance pending before
the common council is passed it will
be unlawful to practice Christian
Science or Chiropractic in the city of
Duluth. OF course the doctors hold
that it is already unlawful to prac-
tice such, but public sentiment is
against convicting Scientists or Chiro-
practices, who give no drugs, and this
is the thing about the whole business
that the medical profession does not
like.
The commissioners will do we'll to
feel the public pulse before doing this
thing for the doctors
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-12
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
TOWARD GOVERNMENT OWNER
SHIP

The Mesaba Ore: Without any
flamboyant trimmings, President
Wilson took over the railroads of
the nation, and at least during the
term of the war they will be under
government management The presi-
dents object in the movement was
for the central control of an ele-
lnent the government must depend
upon to win the war, and no Ameri-
can will question his wisdom.
And it'll make no difference if
they do.
There are indications, pleasing too,
that among the first changes to be
made under the new order will be
an increase in the wages of all en-
ployes, with a corresponding cut in
the salaries Of the officials. Some
of the railway officials have re-
ceived as high as fifty thousand dol
lars a year, perhaps more, while
there is an army of from ten to
twenty-five thousand dollar year
men that are merely ornaments, and
not any too ornamental at that.
There is the hope that the rail-
roads will never be returned to pri-
vate ownership, but that the gov
eminent will acquire the property
and operate the roads for the bene-
fit of the whole people. The line
of democracy will likely be. continued
by the president to the coal, iron
and copper mines of the country
and the steel mills and factories.
That done, our national congress
would have considerable more time
to give to the people, and the "cor-
poration congressman" would soon
become a thing of the past