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TO ALL WOMEN
WHO ARE ILL
This Woman Recommends
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound-Her
Personal Experience.

Mclean, Neb.-"I want to recon-.
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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Go slowly and grow up in the bust.
ness.
The hen never did half as much to
the keeper as the keeper has done to
the hen.
Healthy chicks are the only kind
that make the most out of life and
show the result Of their keeping.
When chicks are lacking in thrift and
vig0r it is generally more the fault of
their keeper than it is theirs.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-08-17

compound to q III
women who suffer
from any functional
disturbance, as it
has done me more
good than all the
Doctors medicine.
Since taking it I
have q fine healthy
baby girl and have
gained in health and
strength. My hus-
band and / both
praise your med
~ -
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Germany limits clothing purchases
! hY Civilians.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-08-17

Britain's war debt is $27, 636, O0O, OO9
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When Baby = Teething
the Stomach and Bowel troubles. Perfectly harm.
less See directions on the bottle.
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uRR0vfb UKlFoRrt INTERNATIONAL, .
SUNl4XSQlOCL
LESSON

Ry Rev. P. B. FITZWATER. D. d.
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute Of Chicag0.)
Copyright, 1918. by Western Newspaper Cnion0
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
The Importance of Education
Recognized by Organized Labor
The American Federation of Labor Offers Timely
Suggestions and Urges that Federation of
Teachers be Encouraged

other nature that may be peculiarly
effective at the time, are not cloaks
under which official superiors may
attempt to secure retaliation for a
self-respecting lack of subseryiency
on the part of teachers under them.
5. Through the committee on
State organization, the President and
Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor have been in
structed to aid in securing immediate
increases in teachers salaries. Your
Committee on Education heartily con-
ours and urges on all affiliated bodies
active cooperation. One of the most
fragrant injustices and most danger
Gus weaknesses in our national life
is the continued neglect of these valu-
able public servants.
6. Your committee is alarmed by
the lack of democracy in the conduct
of our schools. Our American school
system is administered automatically,
the teachers actually on the job in the
class rooms having negligible voice
in the determination and carrying
out of policies. Self-governing school
and district councils of teachers
should be established for the purpose
of utilizing the experience and initia-
tive of the teaching body in the con-
duct of the schools and the recon-
mendations of such councils should
be made a matter of official record.
When consideration is given the
effective part played by the Prussian
school system in the development of
the habit of instructive, unthinking
obedience on the part of the masses
of the people, the vital Importance to
American institutions of breaking
away from Prusian methods in our
school system is driven home.
Z. Your committee believes that
the most effective guarantee of de-
mocracy in our schools is the affilia-
tion of the teachers of the country
with the great democratic force of
organized labor. This committee
joins with the Committee on Organi-
tion in urging that the American
Federation of Labor and all affiliated
bodies give every support to the
American Federation of Teachers in
the work of organizing the teachers.
8. Finally the committee asks
that the Executive Council be in
structed to send copies of this report
to all affiliated bodies with the re-
quest that Educational Committees be
created.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
The Buffalo Convention having the
subject of industrial education and
vocational training under considera-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
MILES OF CRIPPLED CARS.

Observation-Disclosures of crippled
freight cars, accumulated through
the winter because of gross neglect
of railroads in making repairs, occupy
miles of tracks in eastern rail centers
and are largely responsible for car
shortage and traffic congestion, ac-
cording to a report made by Charles
c. McChord, interstate commerce COM
missioner, to Director General of
Railroads McAdoo.
These reports, based on first-hand
Investigations by corps of trained
inspectors, cover the six weeks period
since the government assumed op-
GRAFTON of the railroads, and indi-
cate that one of the most critical ills
of rail transportation under private
management was the side-tracking of
cars needing repairs.
The cars could have been repaired
quickly during the winter if the rail-
roads had made proper preparations
for covered repair tracks, according
to railroad administration officials.
Of the many empty cars congested
in the Philadelphia yards of the
Pennsylvania railroads, 2,4OO are coal
cars, inspectors reported, and at no
time within the last month have
ethre been less than 1,500 empty coal
cars there awaiting movement, while
coal mine operations were demanding
more.
In testimony before the railroad
wage commission, representatives of
railroad employees recently charged
that the railroads encouraged lax ad-
ministration to discredit the Adam
son law and government control of
railroads.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01

Governments can take back 80 or 90
per cent of the profits of corporations
and 40 to 60 per cent of the larger in
dividual incomes, and yet the heavens
do not fall. Still larger sums are
undoubtedly destined to be raised in
this way before the end of the war
And can we doubt that large part
of the sums now expended for war
purposes will later go for the public
welfare? Vast outlays for public
health and public education aimed at
increasing the physical and psyche
logical efficiency of the individual
citizen will pay for themselves over
and over again in the course of time
They are the foundation of a policy
that aims at the maximum national
efficiency. The only reason we have
not expended billions annually for
such purposes was the resistance of
the well-to-do taxpayers. We have
now found that they can pay several
times che amount needed without any
fatal economic dislocation.
Fourth Government ownership
and operation of leading industries
does not represent panacea to the
well-grounded labor unionist, nor
even to the Socialist. 1t depends on
who controls the Government. But
now, in proportion as Governments
economic functions are being operated
by and for the people, Government
ownership means nothing less than
industrial democracy.
Perhaps we shall not have full
Government ownership of mines, oil
wells, ships and railways, nor social
expenditure of income and profit taxes
until after the war. But already the
war has brought US to the very verge
of these great changes, and the dem
ocracy may be relied on to do the
rest. No Russian OF other revolu-
tion was needed to show US the way.
And none will be needed if the great
transformation continues as it has
begun-with the steady weakening of
plutocracy, the steady strengthening
of democracy, and the incredibly
rapid governmental assumption of in
dustrial functions and of scientifically
organized benevolence.
If there were any important op-
posing forces they would be quickly
overthrown by revolutions, if ne
cessary. But labor and democracy
are apparently in the saddle and the
opposing forces are-nowhere
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01

tion, urged that in view of the enact
ment of the Smith-Hughes bill as an
educational measure of outstanding
importance, affiliated bodies are urged
to see that their respective states
qualify for participation in the avail
ability of funds for the above pur-
poses. 1t is urged that safeguards
should be provided to adequately
guarantee that the federal funds
shall benefit genuinely democratic
education and not be diverted to per-
vert industrial education to the pur-
poses of exploitation. The cOnven-
tion declared the chief safeguard to
be equal representation of organized
labor and employers on all boards,
state and local, which control the ex-
penditures of such funds.
We urge increased facilities in
public normal schools for men and
women in the trades who desire to
prepare themselves for teaching in
dustrial and vocational subjects. The
convention made the following decla-
ration:
Vocational and pre-vocational train
ing whenever given shall be for edu
cational purposes only, and under no
circumstances shall it be commercial
lied through the manufacture of pro-
ducts for sale.
We insist that in all courses of
study and particularly in industrial
and vocational courses, the privileges
and obligations of intelligent citizen
ship must be taught more vigorously
and effectively than has been done in
the traditional civics.
And we further insist that at least
in all vocational and industrial
courses, an unemasculated industrial
history must be taught, which will
include an accurate account of the
organization of the workers, and Of
the results thereof, and will also in
clude summary of all legislation,
both State and Federal, affecting the
industries taught.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
THE PROGRAM OF THE BRITISH
LABOR PARTY.

In the American scheme of politics
there is no counterpart of the British
Labor party, which is a powerful
factor in England and which COM
mands the attention of the govern
ment in power.
The British party has it's eye on
the future and it is no great predic
ton to say here that in the dawn of
the new social order overseas that
organization will be very powerful,
if not dominating the House of Com
mons. And remember, when the
soldiers come back from the trenches
most of them may be in this party
and they will demand a new deal.
In its program recently announced
the party gave the "four pillars that
we propose to erect, resting upon the
common foundations of the demo
cratic control of society in all it's
activities" thus
"(a)-The universal enforcement
of the national minimum.
"(b)-The democratic control Of
national industry.
"(c)-The revolution in national
finance; and
"(O-The surplus wealth for the
common good"
Conception of the national mini
mum is to be worked out. To pre-
pare for the possibility of any un-
employment during rehabilitation or
the first years of peace it is urged
that the government attend to re-
housing, new roads, light railways,
afforestation, land reclamation, de-
velopment of harbor facilities and en-
largement of technical schools.
Other parts of the program call
for:
If unemployment threatens, to raise
the school-leaving age to 16.
To shorten the hours of labor to
not more than 48 hours a week.
Suspension of the military service
act when war ends.
No return of railways to companies
after the war, but continued govern
ment ownership.
Nationalized mines and coal of
standard quality for rich and poor
alike.
National health insurance, but this
cannot be had until the government
takes over profit-making companies.
To allow localities to prohibit the
sale of liquor, and where liquor is
sold to provide for adequate regula-
tion.
Income tax reforms.
Common ownership of the nations
land as suitable opportunities occur.
To many of us this program may
seem little advanced, but we must
remember that in woking out pro-
blems of reconstruction England is
ahead of us.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01

Principles declared by American
Federation of Labor at its recent
convention in Buffalo:
/. We believe that the national
crisis requires increased emphasis on
the value of our schools and should
lead to a coordinate genuinely ma
tional and democratic system of edu-
cation. Child labor and school atten-
dance provisions should not be sus-
pended. Conditions also IN higher
education are not reassuring. Those
on the point of graduation, the country
may perhaps use now. But it is re-
ported that in some colleges eighty
per cent of the students have been
permitted to enlist. This enthusiasm
is admirable but in many lines of
work an additional two years Of
training would double or treble
students value to the nation, even
from a purely military point of view.
May we not hope that this short
sighted waste of human ability will
be checked?
Against this misguided diversion of
our boys and girls and young men
and women from the schools and col
leges to the industrial and military
field, President Wilson, Secretary of
War Baker, and Commissioner Of
Education ClaXton have vigorously
protested. But in many sections a
headstrong public opinion has over
ridden their protests and appeals.
Your, committee asks the convention
to endorse and do everything in its
power to drive home into the public
consciousness this principle:
Educated manhood and woman
hood is the nations greatest asset in
both peace and war. And we must
not sacrifice, even to an emergency,
the increased national efficiency
which can be attained only through
organized educational training.
z. This convention urgently calls
upon international and Local Unions,
State and Central Bodies, to work
actively for adequate representation
of organized labor on all Boards of
Education.
3. The free text book system
should be extended to such states as
have not adopted it.
A. Teachers should be secured
tenure of positions during efficiency.
There should be no dismissals with
out full and fair hearing. And in
this connection, it is timely to insist
that while actual disloyalty to our
country can not be tolerated in our
public schools or anywhere else, the
public must carefully assure itself
that charges of disloyalty, OF of any
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
"MUST-WORK" BILL PASSED.

Trenton, n. 1.-The state assembly
has passed a compulsory work law
applicable during the war period to
all able-bodied men between the ages
of 18 and so. To evade this law men
must be engaged in some useful and
recognized business, profession, occu-
patton or employment. The governor
is given wide powers OF define neces-
sary employments and heavy penal
ties may be inflicted for violation of
the act.
Maryland and West Virginia have
passed legislation along similar lines.
In the latter state the act has been
used by the coal operators to break
miners stikes.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
Shipbuilding Trust
Being Investigated
Officials Are Accused of Rankest
Mismanagement In Building
Boats for Government.

Washington, D. C.--If the ship
building labor were Indifferent in
these times it would be the logical
result of a policy of fag-waving
patriots who have robbed the govern
ment through ship dealers, declared
United States Senator Vardaman, in
denouncing scandalous conditions at
Hog Island, near Philadelphia.
"If labor lags," said the law maker,
"and if wilfully done, it is highly rep
rehensible. But | am inclined to think
that the conduct which manifests a
feeling of Indifference to results on
the part of the laboring man is due
very largely to the grating, the mer-
cenary, the criminal profiteering on
the part of capital, the possessors of
which vie with each other in their lip
service to the government. While
these patriots for self are standing
in the limelight of publicity, pro-
claiming to do and to die if need by
for the flag, they are receiving enor-
NOUS profits from agencies which
they themselves had put into opera
tion and which are concealed from
public view.
"I have no sympathy with the prop
osition to conscript labor. If the in
genuity displayed in the matter of
devising ways and means to get
money out yof the public treasury
which has been shown by some of
these plutocratic patriots of the Hog
island enterprise was displayed in the
matter of building ships, we would
have had an entire fleet constructed
by this time"
The speaker insisted that if some
of these profiteers were jailed it
would stimulate patriotism.
The matter referred to by Senator
Vardaman is the result of an inves-
tigation into the affairs of the Ameri-
can international ship building cor
poration, which undertook the Hog
island ship building contract with the
understanding that, the government
was to furnish the money and the
corporation was to receive profits ap-
proximating $6,OOO,OOO for possessing
the "know how" Of ship yard and ship
construction.
The American international corpor-
alton, of which the American interna-
tional ship building corporation is a
subsidiary, is differed by C. A. Stone,
of Stone & Webster, president, and
Frank A. Vanderlip, New York
banker, chairman of the board of di-
rectors. 1t is shown that these men
know nothing of ship building, no
more than do these other men of the
board of directors; j. Ogden Armour,
meat packer; William E. Cory, steel
magnate; Theodore N. Vail, telephone
margnate, and Otto H. Kahn and
James A. Stillman, bankers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01

THE SERVICE FLAG.

Dear little flag in the window there,
Hung with tear and woman's prayer;
Child of Old Glory, born with star
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are!
Blue is your star in it's field of white,
Dipped in the red that was born of fight;
Born of the blood that forbears shed
To raise your mother, The Flag oerhead
And now you've in this frenzied day,
To speak from a window to speak and say:
II am the voice Of soldier
Gone to be gone till the victorys
81 am the flag of The Service, sir;
The flag of his mother speak for her
Who stands by my window and waits and fears,
But hides from the others her unwept tears.
II the flag of the wives who wait
For the safe return of martial mate,
A mate gone forth where the god thrives
TO from sacrifice other mems wives.
81 the flag of the sweethearts true;
The often unthought of-the sisters, too
/ am the flag of a mothers
And won't come down till the victory's wont"
Dear little flag in the window there,
Hung with tear and woman's prayer;
Child of Old Glory, born with star
Oh what a wonderful flag you are!
William Herschell, in the indianapolis News.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
Union Labor and
The Daily Press
While Waxing Fat Upon the Proceeds
of Labor, Big Dailies are
Usually AntagOnistic.
(BV John Bush)
(By John Bush)

Who can read in the daily papers
the editorials and other articles which
express their attitude towards the
efforts of the laboring men to i'm
prove their conditions without re-
calling the story of Balaam? In
Numbers XXII:28 we read: 'The
Lord opened the mouth of the ass,
and she said unto Balaam, What have
l done unto thee that thou hast
smitten me these three times?"
Was has labor ever done to the
daily press that it should antagonize
it's principles and devote so much
space in an effort to belittle it and
retard it's progress? 1t is an old
proverb, "The hog never looks up to
him who threshes down the acorns";
so it is with the daily press, which
while waxing fat upon the acorns
shaken down from the tree of in
dustry upon which the laboring man
is working, are ever ready to smite
the hand which feeds them. This is
a fact, and the press cannot deny it.
The papers of today depend upon
their advertising to maintain their
business, and the amount of adver-
tising they receive depends upon the
business the merchants do, and they
in turn, are depending upon the pur-
chasing power of the working people,
which is regulated by their ability to
secure higher wages, and the higher
the wages the greater is the strength
Of the labor organization. with which
they are affiliated, consequently, the
press depends upon organized labor
for its very existence. It is a true
and wise proverb, "If you would en-
joy the fruit pluck not the flower"
Therefore, if the press wishes to
reap harvest of good fruit why try
to destroy the tree of labor when in
bloom?
1t seems strange that every time
laboring men strike or threaten to
strike in order to obtain wages which
will enable them to live, the daily
papers are filled with articles de-
nouncing them and accusing them of
being disloyal and traitors to their
country, yet when they receive an in
crease in wages it means more to
the merchants of a city and to the
press in the way of increased bu-
siness than they could explain in
detail in a single issue of their paper.
Since the United States has entered
into the great world-war the daily
press has said every unkind thing
about labor that is possible, yet if
labor had not fought for increases in
wages to meet the cost of living which
is soaring higher and higher each
day, what would become of the mer-
chant and the press?
The daily press is a mighty power,
backed by unlimited capital, but turn
again to your bible and read First
Corinthians X:12: "Let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed, lest
he fall" Though the daily press has
tried to intimidate and suppress the
labor movement we are still triumph
antly advancing toward our coveted
goal, for our cause is just, and right
and justice will and must prevail
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
LABOR'S GREAT PART IN THE
WAR.
By William English Walling in Ma
chinists Monthly Journal.

1t is possible that labor is paying
more for the war proportionately
than any other class. High prices,
due to the world war, however, and
not to our own entry into it, which
may be regarded as an indirect war
tax, fall most heavily on labor. But
war taxes and high prices are tenn
porary and labor's gains are per-
manent.
First-Labor has been given
larger share in government. Every
democratic nation has given the trade
unions a position in Cabinets, Parlia-
ments, and all other governing bodies
that can never be taken away. In
nation after nation it has has become
a recognized fact that no Govern
ment can exist without the support of
organized labor.
Second - Labor's insuperable pro-
blem has been the high cost of living.
Everywhere prices have steadily gone
up faster than the cost of living. 1t
was like a treadmill. With every rise
in money wages the laborer was
worse off! But now all governments
are wrestling, with more or less sue
cess, against the high cost of living.
The problem is still difficult. But
it can be dealt with, and no dem
ocratic Government will ever again
dare to leave the cost of necessities
to "the law of supply and demand" ;"
Third-It has been found that
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
OPPOSE STOCKHOLDERS PAY.

Washington-In opposing the gov
ernment's plan to pay railroad stock
holders dividend that will equal the
average dividend for the last three
years, United Steates Senator Johnson
of California drew this parallel:
Where is the man who would
have suggested that we pay the men
we are to send to the trenches sum
equal to the average of their last
three years earnings? He would
have been laughed to scorn on this
floor"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01
WILL NOT CONSCRIPT.

Ottawa, Ontario-The government.
announces that it will not conscript
farm labor under the military service
act.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-03-01

Officials of the Switchmen's Union
of North America report the forma-
tion of locals at Cut Bank, Mont;
Leavenworth, Wash, and Enid, Okla.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-10
NEW CALOMEL IS
MOST DELIGHTFUL
NOT THE SLIGHTEST NAUSEA,
GRIPPING OR DANGER-NEW VA
RIETY CALLED CALOTABS.

Every doctor regards calomel as the
best and by far the most useful of all
medicines Now that its unpleasant
and dangerous qualities have been en-
tirely removed, the new calomel,
known as "Calotabs' is destined to be-
come the most popular Its effects are
delightful One Calotab at bedtime,
with a swallow of water-that's all.
No nausea, no gripping nor unpleasant
ness. You wake up in the morning,
feeling fine, your liver cleansed your
system purified and with hearty APP
kind of weather No restrictions of
habit or diet.
Calotabs are sold only in original,
sealed packages, price thirty-five cents.
Your druggist recommends and guar
antees Calotabs. Money back if you
are not delighted. adv