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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-03-05
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IN OFFERING Yar Savings Stamps and Thrift
Stamps to the public, the United States Government
presents to every man, woman and child an oppor-
tunity for profitable, simple and secure investment.
War Savings Stamps are "Baby Bonds" Back of
them the entire resources of the Government and
people of the United States. They enable you to
invest your surplus sa0ngs in Government Securities
paying equivalent to 40 compounded quarterly,
You need not begin with large amount. You
can buy y. S. Government Thrift Stamps at 25c
each When you buy your first Thrift Stamp, you
will be given a Thrift Gard. Each Thrift Card has
spaces for 10 stamps. When you have filled Thrift
Gard it may be exchanged for $500, War Savings
Stamp at any Postofice, Bank or other authorized
agency by adding Is cents cash fexchanged prior to
March lst, 1918, and 1c additional each month
thereafter Thus $500 War Savings Stamp will
have cost you Sab Gf purchased before March
1st. 1879 On January lst, 1928 the United States
Government will pay you $5.OOfor each War Savings
Stamp you own Under the law no person may hold
such stamps in excess of $1,000 maturity value).
: If you prefer you may buy the $500 War Saw
ings Stamps outright When you buy your first
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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Hirino and Firing.

The essence of our industrial policy
with respect to labor has been con-
tinuous turnover. In every industry,
though not in every individual estab-
lishment, our employers have followed
a policy of hiring and firing. If a man
did not happen to make good ut q par
ticular task, he was discharged and
someone else hired, instead Of being
transferred to some other task better
adapted to his qualities. Foremen
have considered the power Of dis
charge as their one unfailing method
of discipline. Discharge has been in
industry what spanking used to be in
the home and the schoolhOuSe. In
each case it has been the means Ivy
which those too lazy to think Of better
ways of proceeding have dealt with
the weak in their power. The contln-
ual change of jobs has prevented the
worker from ever learning any JOB
well, and has destroyed all interest
In his work.-Don d. Lescohier, in At
lantic.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Shorter WORKING Day.

The announcement that leading
eastern department store is to observe
a shorter working day for the period
of the war reflects a broad conception
of duty and will have far-reaching
effect upon the commercial habits OF
the entire community. BY making the
day for employee and shoppers begin
at 10 a. m. and end at 80, instead Of
the present hours-S:30 and 5--two
important things are accomplished.
There will be an obvious saving of coal,
for the new business hours are dis
tinctly daylight hours, even in mid
winter. and little or no artificial light
ing will be required.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
W PLAN TO
Il train YOUTHS
viii Be Given Special Prepare
ton for Industrial Work
and Army Service.
% REPLACE DRAFTED MEN
scheme Has Been Evolved as a Means
OF Dealing With the Growing Short
4 age of Labor-Boys VIII Be Organ
4 lied as Units in Each Community
million youths to do industri,

Al million youths to do industrial
Nofk, take military training in prepa-
IAtion for later army service, and at
NE same time attend special technical
Il vocational schools, is planned by
- government as a means of dealing
khe growing shortage Of labor
b1s sSsFgy seis.
sscNooling.
The corps will be developed through
extension of the United States boys
working reserve, which already has
enrolled 100000 youth between the
ages Of sixteen and twenty-one, en-
gagged mainly this summer in farm
work. Many of these boys will go
back to school this fall, but a large
proportion, together with Others to be
enrolled, will be directed into indus
trial work to fill vacancies left by men
now being drafted for the army.
These boys are to be organized as
units in each community, serving
under an adult training officer, taking
courses or study in night schools or
by some other systematic program, liv-
ing either at home or in camps, and
wearing the uniform of the reserve
corps, which will be Of gray cloth, with
roll collar jacket.
Another feature Of the program for
drawing on the great reservoir Of
youth involves the postponing of the
opening date of school courses to about
October Is for the boys now at work
on farms. This will apply only to
those boys and not to all pupils.
Without this plan for an industrial
army Of youths, hundreds of thousands
of boys would quit school this fall and
winter, according to W. p. Hall, direc-
tor of the boys working reserve, to
take big-paying jobs.
If the draft age minimum is reduced
to nineteen, as is proposed by Secre-
tary Baker, youth above that age
would cease to be eligible to member
ship in the working reserve.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
HIGHWAYS REGULATIONS OUT
Approval of U. S. Council Is Required
/ for Building New
! Roads.

\ Washington. Aug. 2S. The United
VI tzt Is hfelssrsss rrsssfe
Its regulations, effective September 10.
governing highway and street work
during the period Of the war. Fed
eral approval is required for practical
ly all highway construction.
J "No manufacturer" the councils an
,nouncement says, "will furnish any
road building material until the pro-
ject has been approved by the United
States highway council"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Improving Compensation Acts.

The federal department of labor has
come to the conclusion that virtually
all of the state compensation acts now
in force need enlarging and liberaliz-
ing before they can be regarded as
furnishing adequate protection to the
whole body of wage earners. This,
they declare, has been q general tend
ency Of recent amendments. In no
case has a compensation system once
introduced been repealed. But in a
number of instances inferior acts have
been superseded by better ones and In
all cases where the courts have held
particular acts unconstitutional the
states affected have proceeded to
enact new laws that would meet the
necessary legal tests and, If no other
way offered, state constitutions have
been amended.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Labor Organizer Dead.

Frank L. Rist, labor organizer and
editor, died at the Good Samaritan
hospital, Cincinnati, after an opera
ton performed a week ago for APP
pendicitis. He had been Ill three
years.
For more than a score of years
Rist had been editor of union labor
publication, the Editor and Chronicle.
AS representative of the American
Federation of Labor he directed the
organization of several labor units in
Hamilton county and was frequently
called upon by Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, to aid in organizing unions
in other parts of the. country. He was
fifty-eight and unmarried.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
ALL PRICES HIGH IN PRAGUE
Bohemians Pay $s.4o Pound for Pork
and So for Butter--soap
Disappears.

Paris, Aug. 28,-very high prices
for all necessary articles Of food and
clothing are being paid by the resi-
dents of Prague, Bohemia, according to
4 repatriated French governess, who
has arrived at Evian-les-Bains on the
French frontier She says the follow
ing prices obtain in Prague: Pork
$3.50 a pound; fats and butter, S8 a
pound; chocolate 81 a pound; coffee,
$12 pound; cocoa and tea, SIG; eggs
40 cents each; mans suit, $40; q
ward of cloth, $50; a spool of cotton
So; pair of shoes, $50.
Soap has disappeared and cheese
cannot be obtained.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Teachers Are Lowest Paid.

There are 1920 teachers in the pub
lie schools of New York who receive
less than 81 200 year. A comparison
shows the department of education at
the head of the list of city departments
having more than 1000 employees who
receive less than $1,000 yearly. The
street cleaning department follows
next, with 5,316, and the police de-
partment next, with 1,454 employees
receiving less than 500 month for
their services. About one-third of the
teaching staff has not yet attained the
81 Zoo figure. This does not include
the large number on the clerical stan
Of the board Of education receiving
less than $1,000.
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Somme. German resistance again was
stubborn. However, it is beginning to
look as though the enemy was fighting
rear guard actions with the hope of
holding up the British until he can
move his material to the rear.
Thirty Hun Divisions Fighting.
Elements of nearly thirty German di-
visions, many of which have been badly
hit and crippled, are striving to hold
off the British. There are signs Of
even greater confusion behind the Ger
man lines. Companies of various regi-
ments have been thrown in almost any
place. The strength of large NUM-
Der of these companies has been whit
tied down until they hardly contain
,25 men.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Many win Need New Employment

In Great Britain it Is estimated that
approximately 100000 people will!
find themselves in need of employ
ment as soon as the war work, for sol
der and laborer, is over. If the war
tests this nation as 1t has tested Great
Britain, certainly as large proper
ton of our population will be thrown
out of the employment in which they
have been intensely engaged.
In Great Britain 1T Is understood that
a situation of unemployment touch
ing the very life of the nation cannot
be permitted to develop before any
measures Of meeting, 1t are considered.
1t will be too late to deal with non
employment if the nation waits until
the condition exists.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
HINDE:NBURC LINE
IS CRACKED BY
Cen. HAIt;5'S MEN
British Penetrate Defenses East
of HenineI ard Advance
Astride River SCarpe.
.BAPAUhE CLEAR or THE FOE
Take Two Thousand Huns While
French Tighten Grip on Roye and
Capture LOO German Sol
diers Near ST. Mard.

With the British Army in France
Aug. %. The Hindenburg line has
been: penetrated BY British eIsss N i, 4
las als .ss. sss n
Marshal Haig are advancing astrl9e
the River Scarpe and are pushing for
ward to the south of Bapaume. Else
where along the British front their
progress also continues.
There has been heavy fighting at
Longueval and on the adjacent ground
where the Germans launched heavy
counter-attack with fresh forces
brought up especially for the purpose
from Sedan.
French Troops Advance.
Paris, Aug. 2S.-French troops, ad
vanced in the region of st. Mard,
southwest of Roye, after having re-
pulsed a number of enemy counter-at-
tacks in that sector, according to the
official statement issued at the war
office. They have captured LOO pris-
| oners, including two battalion coinman-
| TIERS, Ullp StdteIleIlt says. "a
| East Of Bagneaux, north of the
Aisne, the French have advanced Their
| line about three-quarters of a mile, the
| statement says. German counter-at-
tacks were repulsed in this region.
In their advance in the region OF
Monchy lie Preux Monday British
| troops captured more than 1000 pris-
oners, the newspapers here say.
No Germans in Bapaume.
No Germans remain in Bapaume
says the correspondent of lie Matin
| on the British front He adds that
patrols have penetrated the ruins
which mark the former enemy ad
vanced concentration center.
The newspapers do not believe thnt
| the Germans will be able to hold out
| in Roye much longer, Notwithstanding
the enormous sacrifices they have mad
| n attempts to hold that town.
Take $1,000 Huns in Five Days.
London, Aug. 2S.-British forces ar;
established in the northern outskirt
| of Bapaume, according to the ofiicla
statement issued Mt the war Office.
They are making progress towarf
| the village of Beugnatre, two and q
half miles northeast of BapauThe, &C
cording to the official statement is
sued at the war office today There
Is hard fighting around Croisilles
further north the statement says.
Since last Wednesday the British
have taken 21,000 prisoners.
They have pushed through the tow
| Of Montauban, three miles north Of th'
Somme and capturing the wood nea'
that place. have reached Longueval.
Australian forces have made sub
stantial progress toward Bompierrc
south of the Somme and east of Su
zanne, north of the river, the statemen
adds.
Enemy Covering Retreat.
With the British Army in France
| Aug. 2S.-The extension of the Britisl
line north of the Scarpe has brough
| the attackers to within striking dis
| lance of good part Of the Hindenburi
line, back of which is open country
with the terrain Gnd roads in excellen
condition for the movement of tank
and horses.
The British made steady progress
| especially on the new section of tn
| front. around Banauma and astrido Al
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
K. ROOSEVELT WINS CROSS
Britain Rewards Former Presidents
Son for Services in the Mesopo-
tamia Campaign.

London, Aug. 2S.-The award to
Temporarily and honorary Capt. Ker-
nit Roosevelt" son Of Colonel koose-
Welt of the military cross for services
In Mesopotamia was announced in the
official Gazette Until he Joined the
American forces in France Captain
Roosevelt was attached to the British
army in Mesopotamia on special duty.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Convict Labor in New Jersey.

The state-use system in New Jersey
is replacing the old plan of contract
ing for the labor of convicts, according
to the annual report of the state labor
commission. Under this plan the COM
mission supervises all work performed
by inmates of New Jersey penal insti'
tutions, and allots the work to be done
By the convicts, which Is for the state
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
Accidents on the Rails.

Last year 100000 persons were in
iured and 10000 were killed on this
country's railroads. Estimates of the
railway administration are to the eff
feet that this number viii be reduced
20 per cent this year by reason of the
establishment of 1000 safety commit
tees.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
pron Pronananda on Aaram.

Berne, Aug. 2S.-Italian airplanes re-
Gently dropped propaganda manifestos
on Agram, capital Of Slavonia and Gro
attn, aceerding@to Austrian adxiees re-
eeived here today.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

Lieut.. George H. Pendleton, Omitted
States infantry, was cited in Belgian
army orders for gallantry and was
decorated with the Belgian war cross
by King Albert. Lieutenant Pendle-
ton is the son of Judge Francis X. Pen
dleton Of the New York supreme
court and the great-grandson of Fran
els Scott Key, author Of the "Star-
Spangled Banner" He was sent with
two other officers and 20 men to get
information about the enemy. They
encountered a German patrol and in
the struggle which followed Lieutenant
Pendleton was wounded, but the de-
sired information was obtained. The
colonel of the Belgian regiment was
so pleased that the young American
lieutenant was made an honorary
member of the Regiment DIES Guides, a
crack unit.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
FRENCH ADVANCE
Mile IN ASSAULT
Troops Cross the AiIette in Boats
to Fall on Enemy's
Rear.
pRUssIAN GUARD DEFEATED
Gen. Won Boehm's Hun Troops Resist
Desperately, but Their Counter
Attacks Are Forced Back
French Cross Marsh.

Rome, Aug. 28.--War to the death,
conquer or perish together" the news
paper Epocha claims to have learned,
is the decision announced by the kaiser
following his recent conference with
Emperor Charles. The Epocha asserts
that the kaiser declared that no con-
cessions will be made to the enemy,
and that war on land and sea will be
intensified.
Washington, Aug. 2S.-Americans
have gained "some ground west OF
Fismes and brought back prisoners"
General Pershing reported to the war
department. The communique fol
lows: During the course Of local
engagement west Of Fismes the Ameri-
can troops gained some ground and
brought back prisoners. In Alsace
raid was repulsed with loss to the en-
envy"
Iris, Aug. 2S.-General MangiF's
Tenth French army has renewed It's
drive against the German line north
of Scissors. They advanced their line
| for distance of 1900 meters (about
| one mile) in the vicinity Of BagneuX,
which lies directly north Of scissors.
German counter-attacks west OF Cha
vigny (between Scissors and Bagneux)
we're beaten off, the French taking pris-
| oners.
| French troops have crossed the ALI
cite In boats near the Disc, opening
| 1.-THE way for an attack on the rear of
l INC RHen - 81 ssaels Mos keaslls
tional News Serge s-sfrIS z
| Foes Resist Desperately.
With the American Army on the
Aisne- vesle Front, Aug. 2S.--The fa-
nous Prussian guard is being used by
Gen. Won Boehm in desperate counter
attacks against the forces of General
IMangin at the entrance of the Coucy
forest, northeast of Scissors. This
fact has become known through the
capture of prisoners in the repulse of
the German onslaughts.
The enemy is making every effort
TO check the advance Of General Man
gins army in the vicinity of the
Coucy forest, where the Huns are IN
danger of being outfianked and forced
to make hasty retreat.
Charge Through Marshes.
With the French Army in France,
| Aug. 2s.-Charging through water
waist deep in the marshes of the
Avre and in the face Of CALLING ma
lchine gun fire, troops of the Third
French army have captured Fresnoy
| and st. Mard, two Of the strongest de-
| lenses Of Roye and have invested that
city from three sides, the north, south
land west.
| The French under General Debeney
drove forward from both the north
land the south, captured 600 prison
ers, many machine guns and O large
Iuuantity Of ammunition.
| AT Fresnoy, two and one-half miles
north of Roye, the Germans had re-
stored the old defenses of 1914
strongly guarded by barbed-wire en-
tanglements, concrete machine gun
NESTS and blockhouses. From 1T the
| Germans had launched counter at
tacks in their efforts to check the ad'
vance Of the French.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
u. 3. Envoy to Britain MAY Quit.

London, Aug. 2S.-Walter Hines
Page the American ambassador to
Great Britain, is about to resign on ac-
count Of i'll health. according to an an
nouncement made here.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31
French LIVING Cost Mounts.

From the first quarter of 1911 to the
second quarter of 1918 the cost of
living in France rose progressively
1872 per cent This is based on IL
main commodities investigated by M.
Colliard. minister Of labor.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-08-31

wen, guess nave written enough,
hut I lust got started and had to take
it out on somebody so it might as wen
be you. Well, when you have heard
men and animals, horses and mules,
cry like have, you'll be bloodthirsty
"The German Hymn of Hate Is a
love song compared to the one we can
sing.
write when you get chance, and L
hope when write again I'll be able TO
do so In a more peaceful frame OF
mind" --.5-
The Washington herald., 1918-08-16
READY FOR Big
MD. MEETING
New York Horsemen Ship
/ ping Entries to Half-Mile
+ Track. Officials Named.

Maryland will see a return of rae
ing next Thursday with the opening
Of the three-day race meeting and
agriculturaf exhibit of the Southern
Maryland Agricultural Fair Associa-
tion at the Upper Marlboro track.
The thoroughbreds have been idle
in this section since June. with the
closing OF the meeting at Prospect
Park, and many of the owners, as
well as patrons OF the turf will well
come the, opening. This will prac-
tically mark the .opening of the fall
season in this. State and from that
time until the last Of November,
when the season closes at the Bowie
course. There will be a continuous
racing session.
No better racing is seen anywhere
in the country than that which has
been furnished annually at the Upper
Marlboro course. While the track is
a half-mile one, many thoroughbreds
campaigned at Bowie. Pimlico, Lau-
rel and Harve de Grace are raced
and win brackets, over the Southern
Maryland course. Owners with ex-
celient racing material in their barns
are eager to race them at Upper
Marlboro, owing to the liberal purse
hung up by the racing association.
There will be plenty Of horses on
hand for the meeting. Nearly a
hundred are now at the track. while
fully that many will be shipped down
from Timonium and the Gentleman's
Driving Park within the next few
days. In addition to these several
carloads are now en- route to the
course from New York.
The oficials for the meeting will
be practically the same as in for
mer years, only a few changes being
necessary. They are: Stewards and
judges-C. Carter Hall. J. NJ. Ander-
son and William H. Holmead. Start
er-G. Thaddeus Miller. Racing sec
retary-Wash Norvall. Clerk OF the
scales-Harry Price. Paddock Judge
C. Ernest Hall. Patrol judge-w.
w. Lyle. General manager-william
Brooks.
The Washington herald., 1918-08-16
MOOSE MCCORMICK IS
VISITOR AT BATTLE

Capt. Harry Moose" Mccormick
who. several seasons ago. pastimed at
the Florida stadium and afterwards
acted as a pinch hitter for the New
York Giants, was a. press box specta-
tor during yesterdays battle with the
Tigers. e., '.-. .. :.
Capt. Mccormick, who has recently
returned from France where he saw
service in the front line trenches,
speaking Of the attitude our .Sammies
in reference to baseball over there,
says: y.
Every little hamlet of France and
Belgium will know the national game
by heart before this great war is
over, as the game is played every
where in mo Mans Land when the
boys have a chance. to disregard the
Huns. To Clark Grifith, with his bat
and ball fund and other war ac-
tivities, goes the credit for fostering
the American national pastine on
this foreign SOIL
The Washington herald., 1918-08-16
TITLE TENNIS ON
TAP THIS EVENING

The Departmental Tennis League
oficials have gotten together and
made a change in the plans for play
ing elimination matches to decide
what local team will represent Wash
ington in he inercity championship
against Baltimore on the Dumbarton
courts on September I.
The original plan was for Interior
and Treasury, which are tied for
first place in the clerks circuit. to
meet next Monday to decide which
Of these two would represent that
league in the battle for local honors,
but at the eleventh hour the date
was changed to this afternoon. This
match will be played at $50 o'clock
on the Princeton course and instead
OF being composed Of six singles and
three doubles will be under the regu-
lar Departmental League rules-five
doubles
The winner of this match, how
ever, will meet the Princeton team
on the latter's courts next wednes-
day and this will call for the regu-
lar program which has always been
used in he intercity meetings, 1. e.:
six singles and three doubles. Dunn
barton, winner Of the Washington
Tennis Association trophy. will take
on the winner of this latter match.