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Evening journal., 1918-02-01
Facts about Smileage Books:


i.-Smeage Books Books containing coupons emitting
soldier to admission entertainment held in Lbert The
Liberty ents in National Army Canonmeni' and
National Guard Camps in u. S. A.
2Meage Books issued by Military Commit s
under supervision of War Department
3Smeage Books containing 20 coupons 81 each Smeas
Books containing 100 $500 each. The prio
Of entertainments from FIVE twenty-five
4Smeage Books are for use Liberty National
Army Canonments and National Guard Camps only They do
not apply to naval training station OF other camps
5Smeage Books by local Smeage Committees every
where throug ghout the country
6-Ihere each book for of soldier and of
person sending book Smileage Books transferable
soldiers in Uniform They be used by Civilians only when
accompanied by a soldier.
7steen heaers have been built Chauauqus erected
complete schedule of entertainment arranged.
eSmleage Books needed for million Of soldiers Buy
yours today-send it at once to your soldier
Manufacturers and all employers urged send Smeage Book
month each of their boys the training camps
Evening journal., 1918-02-01

This advertisement contributed by one Of the patriotic mem
3ss OF the Rotary Club who having made generous purchase
Smeage every reader of this paper Delaware do
her share in this provide entertainment for our
in camps and cantonments
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
AN ARMY OF STENOGRAPHERS

Washington, D. c., January, 1913
There is today in the City of Wash
ington in active operation an army
whose exploits attract little notice, but
large "bit" toward winning the war
for America-an army of steno-
graphers and typists, twelve thou
sand strong, recruited from every
State in the Union. A majority of
these soldiers of the notebook and
typewriter are girls. Day in and
day out their nimble fingers faith
fully click out the tremendous volume
of correspondence and records re-
quired by great nation at war.
They wear no badge or uniform; their
work is all work and has no thrill
nor romance; but the United States
could not stay in the war month
without them.
The rapidly expanding departments
of the Government in Washington
employ stenographers and typists
with a greed that seems Unsuitable.
The United States Civil Service Com
mission estimates that there will be
twenty thousand Government en-
ployees of this class in Washington
at the end of this year. Owing to
the general demand the Commission
is finding it difficult task to meet
the calls of the department. Exam
nations are held every Tuesday in
$50 cities, and the Commission states
that an examination will be held in
any city at any time, day or night,
when there is prospect of assembling
a class of three or four competitors.
Eligibility may be obtained through
passing an examination in practical
tests in shorthand and typewriting.
1t is practicable to complete such an
examination in one hour. Represent
atives of the Civil Service Commission
at the post Offices in all cities are
furnishing definite information to
persons interested.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The big, powerful unions of today
are not the result of accident, the
mere turn of fortune. Rather are
they the result of patient, painstaking,
intelligent management. There is al
ways some good reason why one
union is able to weather the storm
encountered on the journey while
others collapse and die. The band of
union men who are willing to make
material sacrifices constantly in the
interest of the union will have a
strong union. And by sacrifices is
not meant striking indiscriminately
or making lot of noise, but rather
the willingness to bear up under
heavy assessments in order that
strikes, when necessary, may be
properly Imported and prosecuted to
a successful conclusion.
The Carpenter.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
Thrift Stamps
By John Bush.

To save is to have, and to have
saved what you had is good judg-
ment.
This is what we Americans are
doing when we buy thrift stamps.
We are using good judgment and are
making the wisest sort of an invest
ment, one that is absolutely secure
and paying 4 per cent, after you eX-
change your thrift stamps for war
savings certificates.
stamps for war savings certificates.
In buying thrift stamps we not
only help to bring the war to a
speedy conclusion, but we are devel-
oping the habit of thrift, which is
something the average American has
never been guilty of. 1t is upon the
treasury of the United States that
every demand in time of war is made,
because everything goes back to the
gold pile, and to be patriotic Amer
leans we should be willing to make
sacrifices to help replenish the source
of supply. Money is the first essen
tial Napoleon said "when war comes
to a nation the first thing needed is
money, after that is more money,
and if experience is teacher, guess
he knew.
We must keep our soldiers and
sailors armed and equipped with the
best that money can buy. We must
constantly provide them with neces-
>sary clothing and food, we must pay
their wages, we must as humane
and just nation support their de-
pendent families. They are risking
and giving their very lives for US,
therefore we must supply them with
a reasonable amount of life insurance.
We must take into consideration
that when the government reaches
out it's hand and takes the young
man who is earning $1,000 to $4,000
a year, "more or less, it not only
says, you must put your life in the
balance and give it if need be, but
it conscripts that mans income and
reduces his earning power to $4,000
year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
Harmony and
Cooperation
The Life of a Country

1t takes live men to make live
country. Dead men are only fit to
inhabit cemeteries. If they are
really dead, and dead all over, we
tenderly lay them away in the sleep
of the tomb. But if they are only
dead to all enterprise and spirit, out
side of the narrow limits of their own
selfshness, and yet persist in walk
ing around, moving their calloused
hearts and consciences where real
business is want to pulse and throb
with vigor, they are really like the
drone bee. They are in the way until
stung to death by the real workers
of the hive and dragged outside of
legitimate industry.
Twelve really live men are worth
more to a country than a thousand
such useless materials that lay
around like rubbish in a rushing
stream that is aching and foaming
to turn wheels of industry, in the
way of mills and factories. l find
that live men bless, while dead men
curse a country.
The Life of a Town
What makes a town? Is it the
wealth evidenced by fine homes and
business houses? They may attest
the stability and thrift of certain
people, but they offer no great in
ducement to commercial progress. Is
the spirit of law and order the cause?
This is q factor only. The sleepiest
hamlets that dot our map have this
spirit in rank abundance. Is it the
schools and churches? May their in
fluence ever increase, but they don't
make a towh-they only culture it.
Is it the geographical location, the
character of the surrounding country,
the shipping facilities or natural adj
vantages? No, none of these are
essential but only factors. Then what
is it that makes a town?
Cooperation
1t is the unity of the people, the
existence of a common hand which
causes business and social enemies
to put away all differences. No town
or country has ever yet made any
real progress on the way to sub
stantial success without the get-to-
gether spirit unanimously adopted.
History teaches us it has been the
means of rejuvenating towns and
countries that were yawning their way
into an endless sleep. 1t has in
fused new life-blood into both social
and commercial life, making thriving
cities, countries and organizations
out of paralytics. Natural advanta-
ges count for much but prosperity
can not be founded on shifting sands.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
3 THE HANDS OF LABOR

Hand of Labor, hand of might,
Be thou strong in things of right.
Master thou of crafts untold,
Driving them in heat and cold;
Working high and working low,
That the world may brighter grow,
Press, the loom, and traffic great,
Know the drive behind thy weight
Hand of labor, rude and fine,
Things of earth are mostly thine:
Mines Of gold and fields of wheat,
Harbors deep where pennants greet
Ships of war, canals and locks,
Roads of steel, and bridges, docks,
Strain thy sinews day and night,
Be thou strong in things of right.
Mills and shops in clang of roar,
Foundry fires and molten ore;
Sullen mines and heaving seas,
Lands Of rock and timber trees;
Cotton fields as white as snow,
FORCES black mid flames aglow,
Strain thy sinews day and night,
Be thou strong in things of right.
Hand of labor, great thou art;
Be thou fair, and bear thy part
Like big souls, sincere, intense;
Stoop not low to base offense,
Nor, in heat, forget that men,
Large and small, all kind and ken.
Have their place and must remain
Meath the sway of guiding brain.
-Lilburn H. Townsend.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
Divided or Undivided?

In my travels over our great Rep
ublic l find in social life, in business
and in organizations every COM
munity divided into workers and
shirkers, hopers and mopers. The
workers toll on cheerfully, daily con-
tributing to prosperity, full of hope
and plans for the future. The
shirkers hang back and contribute
nothing, criticise those who do and
use their influence against the up
building of all modern civilization.
Strange as it may seem, it is easier
to work than shirk, and certainly it
is better all concerned. 1t also gives
one clear conscience and the salts
faction of knowing he has been the
means of better people.
Then why shirk? Why not work ?
Why NOPE? Why not hope?
If you doubt my words, get into
an organization or go around the
square and converse with acquaint-
ances relative to war and see their
optimistic views. Then canvass all
business houses and see how many
are patronizing the advertising col
umns of our Labor Journal, which
represents the vital force of their
existence. Ask the reason why, and
the answer is, "too much expenses.
AS working man I'll say that such
men ought to refuse to pay rent for
the same reason.
Ask laborer his views relative to
capital and war and see what his
answer will be. Nine-tenths will say
that capital has every advantage in
our present war. Many of these
men only give vent to their own sell
fish ideas and do not weigh the other
fellows side of the question. For
your mental observation I'll give
you a few statistics to turn over and
see his side: In our civil war and
many others, the rich could hire
substitute. Can he now? Do you
see any favoritism shown except to
the poor man having dependents
Has the rich the same chance of ex-
cemption as the poor man? How
about the income tax? Is the poor
man hit in comparison to the rich
Rockefeller is said to have an in
come of $1O0,00O,000. year. If this
is correct his income tax would total
$66, ,790,180. To this would be added
the per cent excess profit, which
would mean $8,000,000 more. Really
John D. pays three-fourths of his
immense income for war purposes.
Henry Ford pays $3,5OO,OO0, Andrew
Carnegie $18,54O,0O0, and others of
the immensely rich in proportion.
Why can't we see the other fellows
troubles? Why can't we strike hands
with all alike and become as one in
this great hour, the darkest of all
dark ages?
j beg to- remain a worker for a
greater civilization.
JACK G.. CANTWELL.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
SEYMOUR'S SCISSOR COLUMN
What Seymour Sees and Scissors
LEGS


What do you see as you walk the
streets,
Shapeless, shapely, big, petite,
Now, alas, no longer treat?
LEGS.
Legs in black and legs in brown,
Legs disclosed thro' a Seymour gown,
Legs below where the skirt comes
down,
Legs of all kinds thick and thin,
Legs bowed out and legs bowed in,
Legs sometimes that make you grin,
LEGS.
Legs with curves that delight the eye.
Legs where the skirts are much too
high,
Legs you hurriedly hasten by,
LEGS.
Legs so lat they make you laugh,
Legs with a pitiful dwindling calf.
Legs too much disclosed by half,
LEGS.
Legs in soft silk smoothly clad,
Legs in cotton, but not half bad,
Legs like dear aunt Mary had,
LEGS.
All you see as you walk the street,
Seen till the landscape is replete,
Everywhere your eyes they meet,
LEGS.
Town Topics.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
Board of Control
Must be Regular
Board of Election


Inspector Heck finds that the board
of election in 1915 spent $4,550.88;
in 1916, $2,866.14 and in the part of
1917 covered by the report $391.72.
He advises that some township
bills paid by the board should be
recovered from Newark township.
He compliments the board on it's
thrift in not going to the expense
of opening all election booths for
mid year registration. He is also
gratifed to find that the board has
submitted the matter of printing ex-
penses to open bidding. He says
"this is the proper method to pur-
sue".
This city, he says, has 20 election
precincts and owns 10 movable
booths. These booths are kept on
! vacant lots at a rental price. In
some precincts rooms are rented for
registrating and taking votes and in
some public buildings are used. He
considerable sum of money invested
in the booths and they should be
taken good care of. Of the clerk of
the board, Mr.. George Hamilton, In
spector Heck says, "Mr. Hamilton
has been recently elected as clerk of
the board. No better qualified man
could have been selected for this po-
sition."
Board of Control
The inspector finds some irregular
tiles of technique He says that the
minutes of the meetings Of the board
are signed by the clerk and in
frequently by the president, the
mayor. To make the record clear
and regular they must be signed by
the presiding officer. He finds that
the board, also, is slack in transcribing
the reports of meetings. 1t must be
attended to at the time of the meeting.
He finds some records Of their minutes
are not complete in detail. All such
must be complete to comply with the
law. All data pertaining must be
neatly and clearly entered.
He recites in detail series of con-
tracts entered into for the building
of city improvements aggregating
many thousands Of dollars.
In the director Of safety trans
| e l.
finds bids received for the sale of
a ladder truck, hose wagon, an auto
patrol and motor chemical engine.
He quotes the law governing all such
purchases. He notes that the board,
on occasion, rejected bids and read
vertised. 1t is the duty when bids
are received to open them according
to law and having determined the
"lowest and best bid" Of the lot to
accept it. 1t is not for this board to
say that a bid is irregular, or that
it exceeds the engineers estimate.
That is the province of the head of
the department. That matter, he
says, has been determined blythe
courts. 1t is the wisdom of the law
to couple the two words "lowest"
and "best", to the end that the vendee
shall be amply protected. The
'lowest" bid in point of dollars and
cents is not of any necessity the
"best" 1t is very important as af-
factinC the tax naVerS
The record of all such matters
| should contain an accurate tabulation
of the data of each bid received. If
the lowest bid in dollars and cents
is not accepted the record is not
complete unless it shows why the
apparently lowest bid was not ac-
cepted.
The acts of the board of control
is between the narrow limits of
Sections 4402, 4403 and 4351 of the
General Code of Ohio laws.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25

There are 1926 locals of the Inter-
national United Mine Workers Union
an increase of 72 during last month
The membership is 405,025 in the
United States and 4,969 in Canada,
an increase during the month of
2O,242.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25
LABOR NOTES

A union of retail clerks has been
formed at Plymouth, Pa.
Pittsburg has female conductors on
trolley cars.
Fruit growers of California have
declared in favor of the importation
of Chinese "and other labor.
The Chicago, Indianapolis and
Louisville Railroad has signed an
agreement with the Boiler Makers
Union.
The greatest union label in the
world is the American flag. 1t symbol
ICES the union of all free men for
democracy.
Railroad Helpers and Laborers
Union, Thurmond, w. Va, gained an
8 hour day and so cents a day in
crease after forty-eight hour strike.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25

Remember the Label when sending
tobacco to boys at the front. 1t will
taste sweeter and the boys will en-
joy it better.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25

The steam filters and plumbers of
Chillicothe organized last week what
is known as mixed local, that is,
plumbers and steam filters all belong
to the one local. Their scale of wages
will be rs cents per hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-01-25

FOR SALE:-Buckwheat Flour, alb
sOlutely pure and guaranteed to please.
C. S. OSBURN & CO.,
ID East Church st. & 3O1 Indiana st.
Both Phones.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-12
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
DRUNK WITH VICTORY
Entire City "Ilit Up" Last Night,
Including Many OF
Inhabitants.
MAYOR PROCLA1NS HOLIDAY
Democratic Mingling of Rich and Poor
Alike, With Ono Desire In Conn
mon. to Show Their Joy Over End
ing of the War.

New York, Nov. lf.-~New, York
went over the top tonight It's six
million inhabitants, augmented by
countless access ions from all nearby
points. are making more noise than
any battle front ever dreamed of,
Every body and everything joined
forces to add to the din. They say
that coterie of deaf nutes, finding
their fast flying fingers but Intellectual
ly expressing their feelings, found
their voices and added to the gladdest
acclaim a people ever sent up.
The entire city is Tit up" Whether
the no-lightlng order was temporarily
lifted or not. no one appeared to know
and no one cared All who had
electric lights TO turn on promptly il
Illuminated. Those who had none IL
Illuminated the city by their mere pres
ence Every one is drunk with vic
tory no alcohol being required to bring
the volatile spirits of America to the
surface upon such an OCCASION
Houses everywhere are illuminated
Just like their OWL ers---but the own
ers are on the streets Never In the
rity's history has there been so dem
I tsefratfG TT1irEting Of all Glasses and
cnrtI1ions OF men, women and chill
dren. Everybody is a friend, Il BROTH
er---or sister~--of everybody else. There
! Is no such thing as a rich person or
poor person in New York tonight.
Every thought OF wealth. poverty po-
sition. standing. dignity has been
dropped like a fur coat in the tropics.
The people have just one desire, to
show in tho manner which comes most
readily to each individual their joy
over the successful termination of the
war
Mayor Hylaud had proclaimed a
holiday during the day. Nobody
cared. It was not that they failed in
any respect 10 the city's chief nagis-
trate. but they hadn't the slightest in
tention If doing anything but celebrate
until exhausted. Just how long the
celebration will last no one can fore
tell, for la tonight the orgy of joy
is increasing increase is possible,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-12
AVIATION CAMP BOYS
TO GIVE NICKEL DANCE

The boys Of the aviation camp. below
Fulton. will tonight celebrate the ces-
satton OF hostllities in citing style
when they open their large new dance
hall with nickel dance
The famous Jazz band. which has
entertained thousands of Richmonders
during the fourteen months the boys
have been in our city, will be on the
job with n lot of new pieces and an
extra large amount of pep" due to the
good news from Berlin.
1t viii be RENE rendered that the
aviation boys opened the dancing sea-
son Halloween night with an original
dance staged on forty platforms in
the open air. This time the dance will
be held in a spacious hall, which has
just been constructed for the aviation
camp under the direction of Lieutenant
Bell
The Jazz band has played at moro
than a hundred dances since the ar
rival In Richmond. and have always
drawn large crowds but they expect
10 break ali former records Wednesday
evening. The carnival spirit aroused
by the ne~*s of Gerrnany's surrender
demands lust the peppery music pro-
vided by the Jazz band and the popular
tty Of the aviation boys insures a large
and happy crowd.
Refreshments will be served and the
officers quarters Will be thrown open
Tor the use of the ladies' The wives
OF the officers stationed at the camp
VIII act as hostesses. Trucks will meet
AL street cars In Fulton beginning at
IS o'clock
There will be no admission charge
to the dance hall charge of FIVE
cents dance being made for the bene-
Mt of the athletic fund
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-12

Washington. Nov. 11.--Railroad tele-
graphers, who threatened to strike
next Thursday unless their complaints
for increased wages were promptly
needed by Director-General McAdoo
today were rebuked by that official In
a statement issued to the men, he drew
attention to the fact that the tele-
graphers are in the service of the gov
eminent and that never in the history
of the country have government en-.
pfoyes struck against their govern
ment Tho case Is under consideration
and viii be decided at the earliest pos
sible moment he said. and told the men
that they would make y grave mistake
II they abandoned their posts AZ pro-
posed,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-12
KEEP DOWN PRICES,
SAYS HERBERT HOOVER

Washington, Nov. 11.--There will
be no relaxing of efforts to keepadown
prices and protiteering on the part OF
the United States food administration
through the armistice. and until legal
peace is declared, Herbert Hoover de-
clared today.
Mr.. Hoover reviewed the food price
situation and admitted that we are in
a period of imitation and cannot avoid
the results. although the administra-
TONS efforts to curb prices within
reasonable bounds have resulted in
many penalties and the refunding OF
millions of dollars by those penalized
Looking to the future, Mr.. Hoover
said that it is difficult to anticipate
the immediate effect of the new con-
ditions upon prices.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-12
"a Psalm }

If the Lord had not been on our
side, now may we say; if the Lord
himself had not been on our side,
when men rose up against us;
They had swallowed us up quick,
when they were SO wrathfully dis
pleased at us.
Yea, the waters had drowned us,
and the stream had gone over our
soul; the deep waters of the proud
had gone over our soul.
But praised be the Lord, who
hath not given us over as a prey
unto them.
The Lord hath wrought a mighty
salvation for us. 49,
We got not this by our own
sword, neither was it our own arm
that saved us; but thy right hand,
and thine arm, and the light of thy
countenance, because thou hadst
favor unto us.
The Lord hath appeared for us;
the Lord hath covered our heads,
and made us to stand in the day Of
battle.
The Lord hath appeared for US;
the Lord hath overthrown our enc
mics, and dashed in pieces those
that rose up against us. ~~
Therefore not unto us, Q Lord,
not unto us; but unto thy name be
given the glory.
The Lord hath done great things
for us: the Lord hath done great
things for us, for which we rejoice.
Our help standeth in the name of
the Lord, who hath made heaven
and earth.
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
from this time forth for evermore-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-12
GREATEST DAY SINCE:
1776, SAYS DANIELS

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE signing
of the arm istiee makes this the great
est day for our country since the sign
ing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence." said Secretary Daniels today. in
a message TO every ship and station in
tho navy, For the world, there has
been no day so momentous for lib
ierty," the MESA ge continued. THE
test of war found the navy ready and
FIT. with every man on his toes. In
America and all other countries the
people have applauded naval initiative
and naval resoureefulness. With warm
appreciation for the perfect team
work and splendid cooperation.
tSigned) "J0SEPHUS DAM ELS