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The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01
DICKSON COUNTS
MINIMUM QUOTA
Funds Tor United War Work
Campaign Purposes Fix
ed at 81. 500. --Organ-
4 izations 1T Work.

Dickson countys minimum quo
sa la .hs Uaitrd War Wost Cam
paign. November III 10 IL. vas
placed Al 81 500 BY ,hs Middle
Tennessee divisional conference, In
ssssion a, Nashville last Thursday
The total quota for Tennessee ID
3i.626, 900. aud the Mi Idle Tennss.
see counties are expected to 81
osss the tap xitl "A minimum .ol
1876, ,0j0 Of thia anoun..
Davidson eonntys quota oi
$2S5 lt0 is tbs lats1s. oi any coun-
ty In Middle Tennessee. While Van
Buren eounty's quota Of VI UO 10
the lowest. Dsv,dsnn'A population
10 l4g,tTs while Van Bnrra's is
given at 27st
3 DR., John l.. Weber delivered the
psincipsl address Mt the divisional
conference. held ia the State Capi.
tol. and detailed the purpose ot
this first united welfare effort by 4
combustion of the seven big or.
gani,ations~-Y. M. &. A Y. W. {.
A.. Jewish Welfare Board. Saliva.
tion Army: American Library Asso.
citation, Natiaslal catho1ici Win
Council; and the War Camp Com.
munity Service. embracing every
creed and denomination In a big,
hrukf effort To ssfys the American
hgh.ine men.
Enlhusiasm and harmony rel IN.
Cd at the Middle Tennessee conier.
enoe when the patriotic spirit oi
She united drive was demonstrated
In n series OF conferences through.
out the day
Intense organization will now be
pushed in.this county with the en-.
listing oi syssy man. woman and
chilli Ia tha great movsmsnt 20
help the nations soldier's and ssil.
ora.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01
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Chairmea Eiscaed For Ihe
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The Easakag ysaf.

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can He'd Csces ~ tolsosiaa oillcaes
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cAaiman. Mn. n. Il ()ssecty; -.
rvtary. Mis4 Edith nAdss: nte1sar
sr. d. q. Rchetsan, ~ Ceanis
Ire Chsismea wNss sleessd = tal.
lows:
M%Ma~S&Ass ssA Esssasios#~
Mrs, 4. G usWpNr.
finance III A, rssiaA.
Momans Woss--Alrs. 4 NJ.
l.@athers.
Janics Msmasrhip-fsct. ". Il
tsmvlee.
Conservation - Rsy. n. 4. Ood.
fuhlicisy--H. L. (angshy,
Educasion--Mss. J. 4. Oann.
Nassins commissAs-- lin, W. a,
Meadow.
Can,esu a@rvicw-Mrs. W. As
Msadow.
Motor Ccrps--Aiss Asais Nal
GSsosy.
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The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

All Boy Scouts ara called upnn
by the iovernment 10 aid 10 coilec-
ting nut shslls lss making charcoal
used In gas mssks. Rrins To the
postotEce 10 quantities large o.
small,
Troop | 10 called to meet Thurs
day evening a 7 O'Clock
Herman A, Gof.
SsontmAsiSf.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

An urssn! call ior nut shells has
bean sent out. including cherry pit.
prane stones, and everything al
that nassfrt.' 10 produces charcoal fof
gas masks. Save every handful
and deposit In 10 hox u. postoiliee.
DO not Tail because you hare but 4
small quantity. Help The tsov~ru.
rnsns 10 save the soldiers, Bring
what you have II only a'listle. Rs.
member the box is a, lhe postol-
ice.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

Services Tor November 3rd. ars
expected, and Z toll attendance Ia
urged Sabbath School hour S:45
and Young Peoples meeting $50
y. m. No other services.
A. "a. Paul, tbs Sabbath School
will meet at 10 4. nj. The pastor
uiif preach Ill i. - m. and Y IT, III.
Let oil bring 1 lunch and stay Tor
all the mcstings.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

LOST Between Charlotte and
Dsckson a bundle oi russ. Finder
wilI please return 10 Rev Z. y.
Wilson. Dickson. and receive libef-
al reward.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

FARM FOR .SAI.E-AQ acre
farm 4 aud oue.half miles north of
Burns known as the W. N. Hall
isrm, See II, h. riwell, Burns.
lis \
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

sTRAYED--1iret steers. weight
about 500 pounds each. MARRIED.
with either round tags with the let.
ter w." Of tiat tags with II. Il
Miller, Sylvia. Tenn.'' Also ons
dark, red heiies. split In each oar.
Rewards Tor any Information ~ ID
their whereabouts, - u Miller.
K6dfs I Sylvia. Tam. 1'''' ''e''''''sE ]
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1918-11-01

FOR SAt.E~--- Rs~fdenes a
Church street See or wri,e |. h
Wilson. Cumberland Furnaces.
The Parrot" fore entet,a,nmna.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
FAy0RS FLAT PROFITS
TAX OF 80 PER CENT

The Ways and Means committee
of the lower house of congress is now
onsiderinS revenue legislation. Sec
rotary MacAdoo favors a flat war
profits tax of 80 per cent. In tel
egram to Chairman Kitchin he says:
1T is my strong conviction that
the taxation of genuine war profits is
the only way to reach real war prof
iteering, and it is at the same time
a thoroughly justifia bic measure upon
economic grounds as we'll as a. certain
and indispensable producer of a large
part of the required revenue.
THE patriotic producers of Amer
lea should be content if one-fifth of
their war profits are secured to them
especially when we reflect that the
men who are fighting and dying in
France to save the liberties of those
who stay at home and who make it
possible for them to continue in bust
ness are limited by act of congress to
Sa96 per year for their services and
have to give their blood in the bar
gain"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
uNClESAM after
FISH MONOPOLY
Over Score Of Men Indicted on
Conspiracy Charge in City
Of Boston.

BOSTON. Sept. 5.-Over a score
Of men prominent in the fish indus
try and banking circles have beer
indicted by the Suffolk county grand
jury on charges Of conspiracy and
of attempting to create a monopoly
in the fish business. These men fig
ured in the formation and opera
ton Of the Bay State Fishing com
pany, an 100000 corporation.
1t is shown that the property Of
the old Bay State Fishing company
was acquired for $4,000 by a pro-
moter, who then organized an ss,-
100000 corporation out of the same
property. For his services the pro-
meter received 100000 worth OF
stock of the new company, whose
profits last year were s1,oo7,0eo.
After dividends were paid there re-
manned $950,000 on the promoters
$a:0QQ,0ee worth Of common stock
Later the promoter organized the
Atlantic Coast Fisheries COMPANY
with a capital of s12,0O0,OO0 to oper-
ate south Of the New England coast
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
Wire men GIVEN
WAGE INCREASE
Postmaster General buflesoN
Approves Concession; Facts
About 'union.'

WASHINGTO Sept. 5.-Pest-
master General Burleson has ap-
proved 10 per cent wage increase
for employees of the Western Unien
Telegraph company with the under
standing it applies to all these
workers.
The Wesern Unions "unien" was
formed in this city recently when
16 telegraphers, supposed to repre-
sent $4,000 employees, adopted a
constitution. Following this action
a meeting was called in this city to
organize a local. Chicago is classed
as a loyal city, but these employees
failed to live up to the reputation
the company wished on them, as
only out of 1850 employees at
tended. The same percentage pre-
vailed in other cities, and in New
York the union elected a janitor
as it's first president.
President Carlton then announced
his wage increase for the loyal
lists" This means that Western
Union has dropped the big stick
and will apply the sugar and mo-
lasses system in the hope> that the
bona fide trade union movement
will be chlorofermed rather than
hludgeOned.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
INSURANCE HEAD FIGHTS
NATIONS WAR MEASURES
Discovery Of Secret Letter Discloses Corporations
Fear Government Will Take Over All Risk
MISUNDERSTANDING u. S. Is Prllssian-Iike.

steamships not to renew fire insur
ance on their properties or cargoes.
Assumption of liability under rail-
way mortgages protected by insur-
ance.
"Hostile attitude of capital issues
committee toward new private cap
ital in insurance.
reau of war risk insurance to include
industrial workers for all classes of
Insurance.
Bureau of farm risk insurance
bill.
Upwards of $25,o00,000 of fire
and marine insurance premiums
have already been withdrawn from
private insurers and assumed by the
government, meaning loss to the
companies of insurance on railways,
ships, cargoes, wheat in terminal ele-
:ance on telegraph and telephone
properties taken over by the gov
eminent may be expected, and the
end is not yet"
This secret stab at war measures
states that 100000 persons are en-
gagged in the insurance business
Far from being an argument for
the continuance of the wasteful
door-to-door solicitation of insur-
ance, this is a plain reason why the
business should be combined under
the government, that thousands of
the employees may be set free to en-
gage in more productive labor, sup
plying materials for carrying on the
war.
Certain officials in Washington
have placed the stamp of their ap-
prevail on social insurance" this cor
poration president whines. and he
up the menace with political lead
ers, editors. heads of commercial,
{ civic, farm, labor or similar organi-
cations, claiming their aid for pro-
tecting private business, and to Sc
cure the best men, for congress.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The in
surance monopoly has turned on
President Wilson. A secret docu-
ment sent out by the president of a
Wisconsin risk company to it's agents
reveals this. In this warning to
agents the corporation head refers to
administration mills as "Socialistic
measures which smack Of Prussian-
ISM He then proceeds to point
them out, saying:
"The business of insurance is at
stake. Many of us do not yet realize
it, and others have just awakened to
at work at Washington to secure
governmental control Of all branches
of the business. Socialistic measures
which smack of Prussianism have, AS
YOU are aware, been introduced In
congress, which are serious men,
ace to the existence of that great
necessity to Americas future-pri-
vate insurance. Does not the fol-
lowing list Of these activities justify
this conclusion:
Governmental war risk insurance
for shipping.
Cans measure, prepared by How
ard Cans, attorney for the treasury
department, providing insurance for
(Which fortunately did not reach
congress.
Proposed law to rehabilitate "a
enemy-owned companies as Ameri-
can companies. (Will not these COM
panies be sold to the United States
as permitted by the BILL and thus
form substantial nucleus for a
fleet of goyernment-control fire
insurance companies?)
decision not to cover merchant
ships now being launched
Introduction of ibll to create a
Liberty Insurance league, authorizins
$300,000,000 insurance company, to
carry insurance Of whatever nature
"Order to railroads and railroad
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
LANDLORDS HOG
IT; men PROTEST
Seattle Land Owners QisCrinin.
ate Against Shipyard En-
pIoyes on Rents.

SEATTLE, Sept. 5.-The metal
trades council has protested against
the prefiteering policy of Seattle
landlords, who are charged with ;;'pre-
venting the developing of shipbuilding
in this city,
The unionists show that local yards
have turned out approximately 26h
per cent of all the ships built for the
federal shipping board and that rent
profiteering is keening the record
down.
"Evidence collected shows that ship
yard workers brought into the city
have been Disseminated against and
have been charged even more than
other workers for similar quarters
the increases in many cases brought
to our attention exceeding 100 per
cent in a few months, on the false as
sumption that ship yard workers are
! receiving high nay for their work,
which, based on the purchasing pewer
of their wages, is not true"
The unionists ask the government
to establish a rental agency of it's own
and put the numerous real estate
agents in occupations that are useful
in winning the war.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
OUT OF TOUCH WITH
WORLDS Sentiment

How do the National Security
league and it's powerful spokesman,
former President Roosevelt, square
themselves in their fight to destroy
everything German in America ex-
cept the damnable system that is
directly responsible for the worlds
greatest war?
Can any advocate of universal mill
tary training tell why America
should adopt the system now? Ger
tainly not to win the war, for whether
we adopt it now or not, we are COM
PEELED TO finish the present struggle
under the selective system. On the
other hand it's adoption now in the
present crisis would have decided
mark of insincerity which no think
ing person can overlook. Why adopt
Prussianism or our own volition? If
the policy eof might should happen
to come out victorious in this strug-
gle, which humanity forbid; there
is always time to adopt it in self
defense
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07

helps the country or the Red Cross
or the Y. M. c. A. organizations. 1t
means buy or give until it helps you
and gives you a clearer understand
ing of your responsibility.
Buy until it helps" you by broad
ening your vision of the war and the
struggle to save civilization.
Buy Liberty bonds not out OF the
surplus which you can spare with
out feeling.
Buy not merely because the pur-
chase of Liberty bonds is strengthen
ing the nations power to fight.
But buy because your soul needs
the quickening influence of a wider
conception of liberty and> humanity
and civilization. And the more
freely you buy the greater will be
the ennobling of your soul. You
will be helping yourself, and in that
way you will at the same time be
helping the nation and civilization.
1t is no act of charity to buy Lib
erty bonds. 1t is merely contribut-
ing a moiety out of your ability,
great or small as it may be, for the
purchase of the engines to stop the
confagration which, having swept
over much of the world, is sweeping
directly toward your house and yon
must save your house by your own
work, or else recreantly throw upon
your neighbors the responsibility of
saving you, while you stand off and
shirk your duty.
Buying Liberty bonds is to save
your wife, your mother, your daugh-
ter, from the last degradation which
women can suffer, as in Belgium and
France, and to save your property
and your nation from destruction.
Then buy Liberty bonds until it
helps you to know the meaning of
the war, and until down in your soul
there comes the real awakening of
how millions and millions of men
have died, and other millions must
make the supreme sacrifice upon the
i cross which stretches over a thou
! sand battlefelds, as they offer their
lives for your salvation and the SAL
! walton of, your wife and your chill
dren, and the salvation of your lib
erty, of your country, and of civiliza
| ton itself from damnation under
| German rule and ruin.
Buy Liberty bonds, therefore, and
buy them until it helps you individ-
ually to understand the whole war
issue, because where your treasure
| is, there will your heart be-" and
| when you have bought Liberty bonds
to the extent that your purchase will
help the government, will help every
soldier on the battlefield, will help
all civilization, and tosthe extent that
you fail to do your share In this
work you are recreant to your duty
| to your country, to humanity, and
to God himself.
Buy Liberty bonds!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
"BUY UNTIL 1T HELPS"

"Buy until it hurts" "Give until
It hurts" are two expressions often
used, the one referring to the pur-
chase of Liberty bonds and the other
to contributions to the Red Cross or
the Y. NJ. c. A. or kindred work.
Both are fundamentally false in
meaning. They should be sent to
the scrap heap of rubbish and sup
planted by Buy until it helps" and
'.Eiye until it helps."-.
i. Do not for one moment vainglor' j.,
4 ouslv think that, this means until it
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
LABOR DAY, 1918.

Force, says Germany, shall decide
the destinies of the world.
Force, them" says President Will
son. "Force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust"
Labor re-echoed the sentiments of
our President in the gala "Win-the-
War-for-Freedom' celebration held
on Labor Day.
Labor will use 100 per cent power
to further the great cause of demo-
cracy. 1t will apply the same force
to every working day; the same
force to stamp out the Hun propa-
ganda; it will use it's utmost power
to make each working hour one of
making the kaiser beg for peace.
The drive of the allies to make
the boche hunt his hole is on and
when the finale is rung down, Labor
will be one of the vital factors that
will bring about the defeat of the
Hun. Until then Labor must con-
centrate it's all on combating Hun
propaganda, furthering the buying of
Liberty bonds, Thrift Stamps and
War Savings Stamps.
Labor is no less the fighter than
our boys in the trenches, nor less a
hero though he never sight the en-
envy himself. Rather is he labor,
the bulwark of our fighting forces on
land and on sea. With it's strength
and power of force, he makes vic
tory certain.
Labor is a vital factor in this vic
tory, and with all it's, might and
force, as exemplified by the spirit of
Labor Day, 1918, will do it's utmost
to show the boche what force really
| is; not the force of the campaign of
German frightfulness, but the force
asked for by our President, to make
the world safe for democracy.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
SHIP Yard Rates Low
IN SPITE Of HIGH WAGES

OLYMPIA, WASH, Sept. 5.-The
claim of wonderful wages paid ship
yard employees has been given a set
back by figures published by Labor
Commissioner Hoff, who shows that
for the first six MONTHS Of this year
ship yard workers in this state were
paid total of s12,31s,2le for 2,2ee,-
727 work days. =
This is an average of little more
than $500 for six months, or $1,016
for year, as the average wage Of
ship yard employees in Oregon. These
figures are less than the @4-a-day
minimum rate for common LABOR that
the national war labor heard has de-
olared for. g. - =. -us
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
ENTHUSIASM
BY BILL STINGER.

What makes man nation win
Enthusiasm.
What is a power and always has been
Enthusiasm.
What makes fellow go on with the fight
When all his friends say his chances are slight
What keeps his spirit all CHEEKY and bright
Enthusiasm.
What makes Edison work night and day
Enthusiasm.
What makes him stand like light by the way
Enthusiasm.
What made the soul of the pioneer great
What paved the way for our splendor of state
What turns aside the sharp arrows of Fate
Enthusiasm.
What will win out cover there' in France
Enthusiasm.
What conquers every hard circumstance
Enthusiasm.
What do the Kaisers and junkers most fear
That may be inspired in great measure here
What will cost the enemy dear
Enthusiasm
What are they trying to kill in our land
Enthusiasm
What will smoke out the pro-German band
Enthusiasm
What will make us united and strong
What will nerve arms against wrong
What will give us the yictors song
ENTHUSIASM.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
81 NEW UNIONS.

CINCINNATI, Sent. 5.-The Rail-
way Clerk, official organ of the Broth
erhood of Railway Clerks, says that
81 new lodges were organized during
the month of July. In addition to the
original charter list most Of these
lodges have forwarded supplementary
lists which materially increase their
numerical strength. ~. -. .
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
TO ENFORCE LABOR LAWS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The war
labor policies board has prepared con-
tracts for government use which re-
quire the observance of state labor
laws, with especial reference to child
labor, convict labor and factory stat
utes.
The board has appointed DR.. A. c..
Summers, commissioner of agricul-
ture, commerce and industries, to
make effective this decision.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
VICTORY IN 1919.

ciared in Washington that if the
plans of the war department are
carried out and our forces are put
into the battle line in France on
schedule it will be possible to end the
war in victory next year.
This is hopeful. 1t is the first
definite statement of that kind made
by any American authority. The
world will rejoice as never before
when Prussian autocracy finally goes
down for good. What a day that
will be!
Nobody wants to see the war con-
tinued for a single day longer tnan
to see it continued up to the last
minute demanded by necessity. Stop
not second short of final and COM
plete victory!
If the United States can roll up
such a gigantic force that the war
can be brought to a winning finish by
the fall Of next year, every Ameri-
can will feel like doing not only all
he can, but, impossible as it may
sound he will feel like doing twice
as much as he can-and he will, too.
1t is clear that the harder we try,
the bigger our effort, the more furi-
Gus our onslaught, the sooner we
shall overwhelm German autocracy.
And the fact is that the American
people have been going along at top
speed with just that idea in mind.
This war has captured the magma
ton of every American and for
very simple reason. 1t fits in with
the American idea of what is right.
1t is so clearly and indisputably right
that we have plunged into it with
fire and energy that never could
have been commanded by any cause
about which there was the least
shadow of doubt This war is 100
per cent right and so we have gone
into it 100 per cent.
Now comes General March, firing
our enthusiasm to a still greater de-
gree by telling us that we can put
over the final knockout in just one
more year if we can travel the space
the war department has mapped out.
The American people will rise up
as one person in a pledge to travel
that pace. Well carry out the pro-
gram. Soldiers, guns, transport,
food, clothes, machines r.
ICA WILL DELIVER THE GOODS!
But we cannot let it stand at that,
General March says IT IS POSSIBLE
to win the war in 1919. We're go
ing to go ahead with all possible
speed to make that possibility a
surety. But we want to say this to
Washington: We know this is a
POSSIBILITY. We know we may
not win in 1919. We: are fired by
the brilliant picture of victory next
year and we are going to throw every
ounce of our energy into our work
to bring that victory through on
schedule time. But we make this
added pledge: If victory does not
come in 1919 We will so on at the
same speed UNTIL WE DO WIN, no
matter when it is.
We, the people of America, the
men and women who keep the
wheels running, are not light heart
eddy in this war There is nothing
shallow about our devotion or our
conviction. We have got this thing
clear through our souls. Don't be
afraid about our part. Well de-
oliver the goods--well stick. Every
thing we care about is at stake. So
whether in 1919 or later, 1T MUST
iBE VICTORY! Victory, in 1919 il
POSSIBLE, BUT VICTORY IN THE
END, NO MATTER WHEN!
r
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
The. Norwegian government ia

The. Norwegian government Is
showing a keen interest in DEVELOP
ing the natural resources of the ma
ton. The United States consular re-
ports state that arrangements al
ready have been made for the pur-
chase of several power plants. What
Norway can do, America can, Why
waltz
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-09-07
THE LYCEUM PLAYERS
Open Sunday Matinee in
"Good Gracious Annabelle"
NO PRIVATE CONTRACTS,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Director
General Of Railroads MeAdee has or
dered that no agreement between rail-
read officials and railroad employees
shall be made unless it conforms Wit h
general orders Nos. Is and 20 and
with other orders hereafter issued.