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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-06
MITCHELL WILL
DIRECT CUBS
New Manager viii Engineer
Play From Field This
Coming Season.

CHICAGO. Dec. g. Fred
Mitchell manager Of the Chicago
Stub or the National league. who is
slated % become president. succeed
ing Charles H. Weeghman, not only
will direct the playing next season.
II baseball IS resumed but also viii
be IN complete executive charge Of
The club
NfitchelFs election 10 the presi-
dency. IL IS authoritatfvely an
nounced. will take place shortly be-
fore the annual meeting Of the Na-
tiona1 league. in NeW r FORK, on
dec. 10. Pres't Weeghmau was
forced 70 reIinquish the executive
reins because his growing business
demanded fuU attention. He viii
retain his financial interest in the
club. however.
Since assuming charge of the
club two years ago Mitchell has
shown himself TO be -gccessful
manager lie came srom Boston.
where ne was scout. general utility
man and coach for George STALL
ings. manager OF the Boston Ma
tionaIs. He aided Stallngs in build
ing championship club and proved
ken deld general and an able
executive.
mo man IN present day baseball
can get more out Of his men than
Mitchell" his admirers say AS "a
leader. not driver. of men he had
been successful lie has always
taker his players into confidence.
Tie IS the essence Of fight on "a base
BAH heId. and no angle Of the sport
is unknown 20 him. Having been
player himself Mitchell knows
how 20 get along with players.
Mitchell is highly popular in
Chicago. his victory I'm the National
league peuuaut race last year MAX
ing him solid" with the fans Loss
OF star players To- the military
service Killed his chances TO make
more favorable showing i'm the
worlds series with Boston Grover
Cleveland Alexander. who had been
regarded as the backbone of the
pitching staff. was among the first
players TO be called into the army
Plans already are being shaped
for the resumption Of baseball
Mitchell viii have the same team
which finished the 1919 season,
with the possible exception Of
Catcher Bill KiHlfer who may not
got his discharge from the army be-
fore the start of the 1919 campaign.
Pitcher Alexander. who is over
seas. may De returned home before
spring
Since the close OF the baseball
seasor the new "boss" of the Cubs
has been acting as "a shipping clerk
and bundle hoy" in the Chicago
headquarters of the Red Cross. II
was MitchelTs job 90 wrap bundles
going overseas TO make Christina
merry for the men OF the American
expeditiOuarv forces. Those i'm
charge or the Red Cross declared
him 10 be most able bundle boy"
II couldn't sit around and do
nothing when there was work like
this 20 be done was NitchelTs ex-
planatiou of his job.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-06

Forty five crvshers are in opera
tion In jennings county. Indiana. 20
crush local deposits OF limestone
which will be scattered over the
acid soil fields the~e 90 increase crop
They were started as o.
result Of the work of the county as
licultural agent &. A. Richards
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-06
PROTEST RAN - ~.

GARY. Ind. Dec. 6-Theater
managers in this city are framins
protests agaiust The extension of tine
ban on public gatherings and some
have threatened TO open their places
regardless OF the ban iu order To-
curry "a test case 20 court. The influ-
enza situation here continues critical
and the local board OF health has
eNtended the ban as O. precautionary
measure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22

banks had long lines of customers in front of their windows yesterday from opening to closing time and were tired lot at the end of the day. They paid out several hundred thousand dollars in the three hours banks were open for bus mess
 Merchants report the heaviest Christ mas business they have ever had. Shop pers complained that the stocKs were badly picked over and depleted and many of them went away without making pur- chases because they could not ger what they wanted. Every line of business Shared in the general prosperity that mas come to Birmingham.
 Something of the enormous increase
 in business here may be gleaned from the great increase In bank clearinss yesterday and last week compared whn corresponding period of 1917. The clear ances reported yesterday were s, 4o2 tSo,o and for the week ended yesterday SlS, ioo,- 511.92, compared with s4,75s ,2S0.S for the corresponding week of last year, an lh- crease of about 400 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22

Well, George, what can do Ioi your"
 T wants shirt, tie and some sox.
 "All right, George, how about this?'' and the clerk displayed a shirt re- ,tailing for $l.50
 T wants silk shirt. Tse got money and I don't want nothing cheap" replied George after a casual glance at the shirt spread before him on the coun- ter
 The customer, negro laborer who could not write his own name, produced a roll of bills, with a s5 wrapper, that would have made the winner of juicy jackpot turn green with envy. He got what he wanted-a silk shirt, silk sox, silk tie, and pair of gloyes-cost si5.
 This incident occurred in one of Bir- mingham's mems furnishing stores 9 day or so ago. It Is typical of many others that have fairly knocked the pins from under the clerks in local stores during recent weeks. When telling of the incident yesterday the clerk said he had quit showing cheap goods to negro lab- orers unless they called for them.
 The negro referred to- after paying for his articles, informed the clerk that he was getting S day for eight hours work and as he had just collected his wages for two weeks he was going to outfit himself and make a killing in society.
 T used to get 75 cents day for le hours york; he explained to the clerk, and I couldn't buy fine clothes; Just wore what the white folks threw away. Now Ise got plenty of money and I'm going to dress up as good as anybody.
 The crowded stores, the expensive pur-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22

pretty high, they really don't expect much in return, so they smile grate- fully for even small handful of cop per money
 OPEN SEASON FOR CHESTNUTS
 The past year seems to have been open season for war jokes. 1t must have been pretty fine for the para graphers and humorists. for they could put uniforms on all their old favor ites and serve them up again. Old files of civil war publications have doubtless yielded many more. Probably you have heard these two. They ap peared in The Mess" (well named! yes?) daily bulletin of the official issued in our division. Here they are
 The Alabama contingent was using the names of Alabama towns for coun tersigns On this particular night a sentry challenged an officer. He re- piled: "A friend with the countersign.' Now the sentry should have said: "Ad- vance and give the counter sign" but he did not. He cooked his gun The officer, hearing it. nervously ex- claimed: Aren't you going to advance me- Advance, hellH' answered the sentry, If you don't say Birming- ham" I'm going to shoot
 few nights later this same con- tingent of Alabamians was using the name of a French town Armandyillers, as the countersign. A soldier approach ing was promptly challenged, and an- swered: "A friend with the counter sign" This sentry knew his duty. He called l.: Advance and give the counter sign" The soldier approached and, sheepishly scratching his head. said : "Darned ef I aint forgot it!" 50 hev
 IT. said the sentry Pass. friend
 T am awfully behind on news news of all kinds, personal commer- cfal, political, social and war news. haven't seen an Alabama or American newspaper lated later than June and for the past few months have not aver aged seeing one of the Paris handbuls once a week. Occasionally someone comes down from some headquarters brings along an old one We know that tremendous things must be happen ing. but beyond the official communiques and an occasional fourth handed report we know but little of the political events which are rending Europe asunder But we do know this, that there has been nothing but good news and better news for some weeks, so we can afford to wait until the war is over for details.H
 He then makes the usual plea of all the staff to write to him and "teIl the others to write,' because, he says, they are interested in anything, "and don't hesitate to use your typewriter" he says, because you will write more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
Plenty Of Money, Depleted Stocks, Show Christmas
 Prosperity Of District
Many Thousands of Dollars Distributed By Various Cor porations in Bonuses, Building and Loan Asso- citations, Christmas Savings Clubs and
 County School Board
By W. J. BoLEs

. chases the thousands of people the streets, and the hard-worked clerks all | testify that this is the best pre-C Christi
 mas season, in business way, that Bir- mingham has ever had Every home ward bound person carries from one to
 dozen packages, the merchants still ad- l herring to a great extent, to the delivery rules put into effect at the request of the I council of defense during the summer. | In the last 10 days corporations and other employers in the Birmingham dis I trict have paid out in wages between
 100000 and s5,o00,00o, probably half ot which has found it's way into the stores of the city. Their depleted stocks and | tired out clerks speak for the volume oI I trade coming their way.
 | The 10000 coal miners in the dis l trict, the 15,O00 or 20.000 workers at the furnaces and steel mills at Ensley, Fair i field, North Birmingham and the city,
 and other thousands employed at the ma 1 chine shops and foundries and other 1n l dustrial plants in Birmingham and vicin- l ity received their semi-monthly pay dur I ing the past week.
 l Yesterday the school teachers in the | city and county received about $llo0oo, l their salaries for December; the Christ mas savings clubs distributed over $1lo, : l 900 and the Building and Loan associa- l tions paid out dividends amounting to l about s5Q.000.
 l A number of the corporations gave their l employees bonuses, averaging about 10 per i cent of their salaries for the year; the | federal reserve branch bank gave each of it's employees extra sums ranging from | l5 to 20 per cent of the years salary. l In all it is estimated that over S4,000,O0c 1 was paid out for labor during the past week. The bulk of this has been or will l be, spent within the next two days al I the Birmingham stores.
 ] The paying tellers at the Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
Championship Game
 Between High School
 Teams Is Postponed
High School Classes Will Be Played at Redwood Next Tuesday Aft ernoOn-Ball Teams Confi-
 dent of Victory

Much disappointment was expressed yesterday by the football enthusiastic. of the county, especially among the high school students, at the enforced postponement on account of inclemen weather of the game scheduled betweer Ensley and Bessemer for the higf school championship. Both teams hat been in training for the game ana were eager for the fray, and the sup porters of each team were persistent 1T claiming victory for their favorites
 When it was found to be practically impossible to play the game yesterday at Redwood, owing to weather condi- tions, the managers of the teams got together and declded to piay the gamt next Tuesday at Redwood, the game te commence at 2:30 o'clock. A large crowe is expected and indications point to 3 hotly contested game
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22

Lieut.. Leon C. Bradley, Company B, t57th infantry, former city editor of The Age Herald, writing from France under date of November 5 to Dolly Dalrymple" of The aAge-Herald staff, was in happy humor even though the armistice was still practically a week off After various pleasantries to Dolly and others in the office he says:
 Not long ago I read something in the Paris edition of an American news paper which amused me very much. It was an appeal from woman in the United States pleading with the men over here not to marry and bring home French wives.
 While expressing high admiration for the French girls, she declared that it wouldn't be fair to the girls back home for the soldiers to marry over here' I don't know where she got the information which evidently caused her so much mental anguish. haven heard of any uplift committee being over here to investigate the question of matrimony. She had evidently been reading too much war fiction written by people who think they have been over there every time they go as far east as Coney, Island. Unless there is a marked increase in Franco American marriages during the interval between an armistice and the authorization of our troops for home, MT. Schwab won't have to work overtime building ships to take the brides back to America. ]. LOT OF RED TAPE
 Even if an American over here wanted to marry and had the girl, the war would probably be over and he would be back home long before he could comply with all the legal re- quirements necessary before marriage. The average soldier doesn't walk around with birth certificates, mar riage certificates of his parents and a few other ancestors, citizenship papers, passports and other such documents. legally authenticated, in his pockets. Neither would he be likely to wait long enough to get the permission of the prefect of police to have the required number of publications in a newspaper of his intention to marry certain mademoiselle to have it posted on the hotel de vile Getty hall) bulletin board, read in the churches and probably 'hollered around the village by the town crier for few weeks.
 T am not accurately posted on all the other details necessary, but would not b> surprised if it didn't also take an act of Congress or something of the sort. I imagine that 8 fellow who was really in a hurry to get married would save time by waiting until he got back home and looking up a girl there. if there are any single ones left csomething I sometimes doubt after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
Elks to Give Reception
 and Dance at Their Home

Plans have been completed for re- ception and dance to be given by Bir- mingham Lodge Not 7s, Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Elks, on Tuesday night, December 26. at the Elks nome on Height avenue and Nineteenth street The spacIous home and ball. room will be decorated in Elks' and holiday colors and an eight-pieee orr chestra will furnish the music
 The dance will be strictly an invita- ton anar ant Is gwen lJr the Eil5s and their friends. The invitations are in the hanas Of the .nmittee and will be issued at once. The committee in charge of the entertainment is conn posed of Horace Afford, chairman; A. S. Winch and Abe Gordon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
Too Fat?

A guaranteed weight reduction method; safe. pleasant. Brings slender ness, better health and happiness. Get a small box of oil korein at the drus
 gists. Follow directions. You are ai- lowed to eat sweets. etc; no starvation or strenuous exercising. Your life be- comes worth living with clearer mInd, improved figure, buoyant step, cheerfui- ness and optimism. Get thin and stay so-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
New York's Bit

New York. December 2t.-A total of
 s5,039,101 for the relief of Jewish war sufferers was collected in New York in the two weeks campaign which closed tonight: The quota was $5,000,- n0n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
Larceny Charged

Catherine Genestia, 432 Twentieth street, south, was arrested yesterday charged with two cases of grand lar ceny. It is alleged that the woman stole two costly dresses from N. Koney, a peddler
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-22
Lieut.. Leon c. Bradley Unboson1s Himself On
 Matrin1ony in France
Explains That He Enters Upon the Discussion of American Husbands and French Wives" in Purely "Detached' Attitude Tells Why Boys in France Will Make
 Ideal Husbands

seeing an American society column or getting letters from the U. S. Al PURELY DETACHED DISCUSSION
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
FORD's PROFIT SHARING.

AS a result of the ten months operation of the Ford profit-sharing plan employees have purchased on contract homes valued at $5,00O,- 900, for which they have made apy- ments aggregating $1,500,000. have taken out life insurance to the amount os about $3,000,000 and have saved on, an average of $48.65 per month each. which rather dis counts the pessimistic theory of an- ti-Socialists that when we have de- cent working hours and wages we will spend our time and money in the saloon. but they'll continue to preach it just the same. And the fool workingman will continue to believe it.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
NOTICE.

Pursuant to an order of Court entered on the 11th day of Decem- bcr, 1917, notice is hereby given that a Generad Term of the District Court, Second Division, Territory of Alaska, will be held in the Court House, in Nome, in said Division and Territory of Alaska. commence ing at the hour of eleven o'clock A. M. on Saturday, January 12, 1918, and to continue thereafter ac- cording to further orders of the Court.
 Given under my hand and with the Courts seal affixed this 11th day of December, 1917. (SEAL)
 THOS. McGANN. Clerk, >District Court, Sccord Divi-
 son, Territory of Alaska.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
EFFICIENCY.

Workers oppose scientific man. agement or efficiency because they must bear the burden of it's defects and yet receive none of its benefits Objection cannot be urged against efficiency itself, but only against it's use to enrich employers. Workers want real efficiency.
 We may well inquire why a given task should be completed in less time than Ys now required when al ready the workers are in enforced idleness for about four months in each year on the average. Effici- ency is harmful to the workers and to society in general so long as it does not stop the waste of poten- tial human energy during this term of involuntary unemployment.
 Duplication of effort exists in every branch of industry; useless petty officials are added daily to the officialdom of city, county. state and nation ;men who have attained skill are forced to do unskilled la bor; only one man in ten thousand is doing the work for which he is fitted and in which he takes a plea sure; and millions of hours of la bor power are lost thru the unem- ployed Amid all this, without a thought as to it's absurdity, the cor respondenca school graduate stands with his split-sccond watch in hand, peering down the collar of sweat ing laborer to see that an infinite simla fraction of second may be added to the credit of the employ CTS ledger!
 Men do not willingly do useless work Experiments have shown that the average man would quit the job rather than to dig holes and fill holes and fill them up agian even when the rate of pay was comparatively high. Any lack of efficiency is due to society being organized upon an inefficient basis.
 Workers want real efficiency. No real efficiency can be had short of industrial liberty. When the work CTS are free to voluntarily CO., operate in the production of useful things we will have the kind of ef- ficiency that IS really worth while.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
SOCIALISM WILL NOT ALTER
 HUMAN NATURE.

Socialism is a beautiful theory, but it can never be applied-it won't work because it is against human nature" After, every other objection to Socialism has been met then it is that some semi-idiot takes the floor and launches the above. The postoffice and our pub school suystem illustrates, as far as it is possible under capitalism, how industry will be conducted under a Socialism administration, and there is no record of any antagonism be- tween human nature and these pub licly owned institutions. Uncle Sam carries our mail at cost of the service and selsl stamps to Farmer Jones at the same price he sells them to John D. Rockefeller. and, and. as far as known, human na- ture has so far stood the strain very well. And there is the Panama canal, one of the biggest feats of industry the world has ever known, and the government got away with the job without making the slight est change in human nature.
 Suppose the southern cotton farmer could put his cotton in a public owned warehouse and then take his warehouse receipt and go to a postotfice bank and borrow money on it at three per cent, does anyone doubt for a moment that the cotton farmer would welcome the opportunity and take advantage of it without stopping to change his human nature or his shirt?
 Socialism would abolish poverty by giving every man the opportun- ity of supplying the needs of others. What is there about that against human nature?
 Socialism would have men make things because they were wanted and not because other men wanted to make a profit in the making. Surely this would net be against human nature. Socialism will pre- vail and it will work" not in spite of human nature or through any change in human nature, but be- cause it is in harmony with human nature to be happy and live in world of peace and plenty. It is the present system which is against human nature, not Socialism.
 A human nature that can cause a Ludlow massacre and teach Sunday school class at the same
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
BREAKING DOWN.

Why not frankly face the fact that private ownership of railroads is breaking down here as it long ago broke down in most of the other leading nations? That it's breakdown is unavoidable because of the irrepresible conflict between private and public interests in transportation? And that it would be wiser to act On this fact toward a permanent solution than to patch the old system for a delay which can at longest be but brief. and which may increase the ultimate cost of the foreseen inevitable government purchase
 Not in private ownership lies the remedy for the nature of private ownerhip of a monopoly service is to rob the many for the few-take away the chance to do this and at once the man incentive for private ownership ceases.
 Why wait Why not take the railways over now? If the people must gay the bills, why should't they have the benefits as we'll?
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
THE DOLLAR AGAIN.

The dollar, as we know it, is a fraud-be sure of that. An hon est dollar would not be made pay able "to bearer" An honest dollar would be a certificate of services performed for society by 9 particu- lar person. Then the possession of a dollar wuld be an exact measure of the right of the holder to de- mand goods and services Of others. If a man had $100, we should know that he had performed services of 100 times the value of those per formed by one who had only one dollar. If a man had nothing, we should know that he had done no thing, or else had already been paid for all he had done. Now, man may perform most valuable ser vices-he may help make the food to keep the race from starving- and still have so few dollars that he seems entitled almost to every thing.
 l trust I have somewhat satisfied the desire of my correspondent that l should "write something about the dollar" Not for his benefit, but possible of some others, I will add a few observations on my own ac- count, the first of which follows:
 Don't get excited about the dol lar!
 It is dishonest, it is true. It ought not, in its present form, to exist, it is true. But the dishonest dollar is only q bad cog in bad wheel, and it is the wheel, rather than the cog that is crushing hu- manity.
 What is the bad wheel? The bad wheel is the system that enables a few men to own all the things that the rest of us must use and then compels us to fight to get back enough of the things we have made to keep us alive We Socialists call pthat the capitalist system, because
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03
capitalists own the natural re.

capitalists own the natural re- sources and all the great industries of the earth and charge the rest of the warld for using these things. The capitalists profit, which is talk en from the amount produced by labor, is the charge that the capi- talist makes for the use of the ma chinery, or the coal, lumber or iron.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-03

The e:ght-hour movement in the United States began in 1868, says a historian. And it could have been ended successfully in 1868 if the voters hadn't wanted some thing right away"