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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-09-25
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William Heurg Merten was born in
Coieshurg. 1owa. March :. lss5. Died
IN Guthrie. Oklanoma September 90
9ls Jr Merten was one oI nine
children. seven brothers and one SIS :
Ter Five of the brothers survive him.
lie was married - Miss Kate Sellsy.
in December. lSg>. To his union on
son. Edward r. and one daughter
Clara Alice was born In October
ls1s his wife died In January 1873
tg Mersen was married 10 Miss Mel
l.e J Ketchum who passed from this
earth May l3. 1917 To this union
three children wcIe born. Barney 4.
Howard b. and Robert " Howard B.
dlei November g. 1884.
E3ward 2 Buraey r and wife and
Esbt. w and wite ana his tao grand
children Robert and Nary Euinor
uere with him wh1n the end came
Mr.. Merten served his country tn
he Civil War eElistiug August "a
1854 and was honorably discharged
June l9, 1865.
Mr. Merten came 10 Guthrie. okla
homa al the opening In April iSss. He
has resided here since that time tie
las been actively identified with
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-09-25

Sarna mes cannot be traced farther
haek than the latter part Of the tenth
century.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-09-25

revolutions are also paved with
od intentions
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-09-25

The white poplar has been used as
a natural lightning rod.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-09-25

Eai al he CAFETERIA. ss sausned-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-09-25

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The Washington times., 1918-05-19

WHERE As The FleLD OF UeLy
SIEP- SISTERS WAS As BARRE.
As Sob,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
WAR SAVINGS

"War Savings Stamps mark an
epoch in our national life Secre-
tary of the Treasury McAdoo.
Many a successful business man
has said that the saving of his first
dollar was the most important sin
gle act of his life; that it marked
the beginning of habit and a
course Of conduct to which he at
tributed his success.
Something very analogous to this,
it is believed, is going to be the eff
feet on the American Nation of the
War Saving campaign. Not only were
millions of individual citizens going
to begin to save, but this habit of
economy and saving is going to be
a collective movement, movement
not of individuals alone but of the
Nation.
The habit of saving formed now
has deeper incentive than ordi-
nary. We are saving now not alone
Tor selfish reasons, we are saving
now from patriotism, saving not
alone for ourselves but for our coun-
try. The combination of patriotism
and thrift is, indeed, going to make
the War Savings campaign an epoch
in our national life. 1t is not
only going to be thing of tremen-
dous benefit to millions of citizens,
it is going to be thing of tremen-
dous advantage to the Nation as a
whole, and affect our whole nation
al life. 1t marks the beginning of
new era in American life, an era
of economy, good sense, and patriot
ism.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
u. s. PROTECTS
TAX DODGERS

Basil M. Manly, the Investigator
and publicity man for the Industrial
Relations Commission, now cores
pondent for the Newspaper Enter
prise Association is still after the
income tax dodgers. In a, CORES
pondence dated December %, he asks
the question.
as the United States to be the
only country with an income tax
in which tax dodgers are protected
by the secrecy of their tax returns.
And continuing, says:
Norway and Sweden have long
published an annual report showing
the amount of income of each tax
payer and it has worked wonders
not only in preventing tax lodging,
but in compelling the assessors to
treat all citizens without favoritism
or undue harshness.
Gwen Prussia publishes a list
which throws the light of publicity
on the declarations of her income
taxpayers. Prussia publishes not
only each individuals income, but
also the value of his capital. Nat
urally enough Frau Bertha Krupp,
$48 100000, leads all the rest.
"Now comes the attorney general
of Great Britain, urging that British
incomes also be published annually,
as the most effective method of stop
ping tax-dodging during the war
English papers compare the proposal
with the "Doomsday Book" of Will
liam the Conqueror, which put tax
slackers on the grid way in the
eleventh century.
The United States published in
come returns during the civil war;
but this policy died with the passing
of the war tax. Our present con-
gress has refused to stand for pub
licity. Thus the United States,
which originated the policy of let
ting the public know how far its
taxpayers were actually living up
to their duties, now lags far behind
in the march of the nations"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
"IABOR-TO-BLAME"
CRITICS SHOULD
READ REPORTS

The federal bureau of labor sta
tistics reports that union wages in
101 of the principal trades in As
leading cities of the United States
were 10 per cent higher in May,
1916, than in 1907. This report
has just been issued in Bulletin No.
PA.
The same department of the gov
eminent reported last October in its
Monthly Review:
Comparing prices the year before
the war with prices in August, 1917,
food as a whole advanced AZ per
cent. Flour advanced 1870 per cent,
or more than PA times the price in
August, 1913; cornmeal advanced 12O
per cent, or nearly as much as flour;
potatoes, 81 per cent; sugar, n per
cent; lard, ~ per cent; and pork
chops, 5S per cent"
Despite these figures, issued by
the government, there are editors
and other citizens who tell the
people that trade unions are re-
sponsible for present living costs.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
PUBLIC LABOR EXCHANGE SYSTEM
DEMANDED TO MEET OUR WAR NEEDS
Speakers Urge Prompt For Effective Mobilization of
Labor Supply to Meet the Demands of the
Present and Future

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. % - A
comprehensive system of public la
Dor exchanges, centering in the fed
eral government, as a pressing war
necessity, was urged at the after
noon session today of the American
Association for Labor Legislation,
meeting jointly with the American
Economic Association and the Am
erican Farm Management Associa-
ton at the University of Pennsyl-
vania Amphitheater.
Effective mobilization of the labor
supply to meet wars demands upon
factory and farm was urged by
Henry R. Seager, Secretary of the
United States Shipbuilding Labor
Adjustment Board, Professor M. B.
Hammond of Ohio State University,
and E. V. Wilcox of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
"Quite as important as mobilizing
the actual army is modifying the
industrial army needed for the pro-
duction of the food, munitions, aero
planes, and ships, we must have to
win the war;" declared Professor
Seager. "For the one we have re-
sorted to the draft; for the other we
must rely upon the appeal of wages
fairly adjusted to higher living costs,
Of decent and safe working condi-
tions, and of patriotism. To these
the hundreds of thousands of work
ers needed will respond, provided
machinery is created to connect them
with the war industries. This calls
for an efficient coordination of fed
eral, state, and municipal public en-
ployment bureaus"
Essential features of such plan,
according to Professor Seager, are
"the expansion Of the federal en-
ployment service under a director so
appointed as to be the official en-
ployment agent of our war indus
tries; hearty cooperation on the
part of the state and municipal en-
floyment bureaus with the federal
system unified and strengthened by
federal grant in aid of these bu-
reaus; and the establishment of in
terstate clearing houses to draw to-
gether wherever needed all of the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
THRIFT STAMPS

1t is pointed out by the Treasury
Department that Thrift Stamps are
not made redeemable in cash for the
reason that these stamps are simply
intended as a convenient method for
the small savers to accumulate
enough to purchase War Savings
Stamps, which bear interest and are
redeemable in cash.
In addition, to provide for redemp-
ton for these Thrift Stamps would
involve such an amount of detailed
accounting and labor and expense
as to impair the practicability of
their use. In fact, they would be
more trouble and expense to the
Government possibly than they are
worth.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
THIS MAN WOULD
CONSCRIPT WEALTH

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, Dec. Is. -
Consumption of wealth was favored
by Charles A. Hinch, in an address
before the Ohia State Bankers as
ISOLATION.
"The government would be right"
he said, ain conscripting every bit of
capital in this country necessary to
win the war. When the government
has the right to conscript young men
to the army, often requiring the
young man to give up his life, there
is no enc who can deny it's right
tc take the property necessary to
carry the war to a successful con-
custom"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04

Trunks, Ladies' Handbags, Leather
Goods and Repairing at Everett
Trunk Factory, 2s15 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04

And now, for the second time, we
wish the Kaiser scrappy New Year,
and no returns.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
abor resources of the country.


Through such system, and only
through such a SYSTEM" he said
"can it be determined whether we
have plenty of workers for the war
industries as is claimed by labor
leaders, or whether wholesale dilu-
ton of labor through the employ
ment of unskilled men or women
and of children, in place of skilled
craftsmen, as claimed by some en-
ployers, will be necessary"
How England grappled with the
problem of the distribution of labor
when war broke out and the "chief
means by which this problem has
found a solution" was discussed by
Professor Hammond. "When the war
is over and review of the means
by which victory was secured is
possible" he said in his address on
lessons from English war experience
in the employment of labor, 81 ven
ture to say that there is no piece
of pre-war administrative machinery
for which Great Britain will be more
grateful than for her system of
labor exchanges"
Although fortified with an effici-
ent employment service system at
the outset, England was nevertheless
confronted on every hand with prob
lens of labor mobilization similar
to those now disturbing the United
States, according to Professor Ham,
mond, including women's advent into
mems occupations" the entrance of
skilled workmen into the fighting
forces,-and the necessity of with
drawing them later to assist in the
output of munitions,-the mainten-
ance of protective standards in the
interest both of human conservation
and of maximum and sustained out
put, trade agreemtns between the
government and the labor unions, and
the encouragement of voluntary SER
vice on the part of the industrial
army rather than the adoption of
measures of compulsion.
at is obvious" concluded Profess
sor Hammond, in summarizing En-
glands war emergency measurers
for industrial strength, "that every
thing which tends to conserve our
industrial efficiency is as important
as means to the end-the winning
of the war-as that which promotes
military efficiency"
If farmers are to secure necessary
help in planting and harvesting
seasons to insure feeding the world"
according to Mr.. Wilcox, efforts
must be promptly directed toward
effective labor placement so that the
full man-power of the nation may be
available for both manufacturing and
agriculture.
Further appeal was made for a
nationwide employment service in
the discussion by Charles B. Barnes,
Director of the New York State
Bureau of Employment, Rex E. Will
lard of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, Morris L. Ernst,
Manager of the New York State
Clearing House for Employment Of
fees, and Frank App of the New
Jersey Agricultural College,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04

Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
loo Cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-01-04
War Prohibition

We believe that the best interest
of this nation and of our allies
would be served by the complete pro-
hibition of the manufacture and sale
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06
A USEFUL RAID.

That the U-boat raid along the Atlantic coast
meant help American
morale affirmed by the reports Of U-boat officers
brought shore by released captives.
The German admiralty doubtless knew that it's sub
marines would able to sink enough shipping
by such stroke TO make any material difference to
allies The losses hardly great volume
Of shipping using for purposes, and will
up by production
from the German bases for anything more than
sporadic occasional attacks those
meet better hereafter. These facts were probably
realized beforehand.
But what the German government did realize,
and incapable OF realizing, is that such
moves always fail of their effect in enemy countries
because Germanys enemies fools and towards.
The German people doubt vastly cheered
by the that their beloved U-boats have carried
the into American They will be per-
suaded for a little while the movement OF troops.
food and supplies England and France has been
stopped They viii hope end the war
peace in Paris London.
But know how it is here. The shot from
U-boat this side Of the galvanized our
whole nation into sthened resistance and greater
determination than ever war through all
costs For every ship sunk there will be pro-
duced by the added momentum given as For every
American life destroyed there will be a thousand more
Americans France against the great day reckoning
We might almost thank Germany for that raid
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06

walk. Even after persuading ourselves that mono
1.-the ship will float it is hard 10 believe that she
actually handled like ordinary craft. We know
the msgvings felt about the first iron
ships compared with the old wooden vessels But read
ing a thing a book paper isn't realizing it.
Evidence accumulates, however. that sailing Of
the new-fanged freighters isn't all like using side
walk for a raft going in overturned sky
scraper. Capt r. z. Connell. commander Of the good
ship the vessel in the world
after completing trial voyage in the Pacific. testihes
that just like any other vessel" The weather
was rough AMI the severe. but the big
shell like a veteran responding readily
her helm displaying OF the unwieldiness
that Of her expected
Il works with big ships. It works with little
Concrete tugs and boats have been built. and
found practicable Who tell where the develop
will stop We may yet bays lakes.
streams and canals filed with concrete yachts
boats and canoes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06
ONCE-OVERS
BLUSTER Is BLUFFS LITTLE
BROTHER.

Don't be a loud talking blusterer.
The blusterer is a weakling put
ting up a bluff.
You cannot make sensible people
believe that you are a man of great
force. accustomed 10 giving COM
manjs which are obeyed, simply by
adopting an arbitrary loud voiced
manner.
The man of real force. controlled
by his own strong mind. is not max
ing foolish statements, because he
weighs his words and actions.
Not so Mr.. Blusterer.
Whether he has anything back I'm
his mind which is worth while, .nat-
tiers not so much 10 him as the won
derful impression he thinks he
makes with his staggering ways.
Those bullying. tempestuous COM
mands which he hands out right and
left whenever he sees an oppor-
tunity are only intended 10 frighten
the one receiving them into meek
submission.
Usually they bring disaster TO the
bully.
If YOU want 10 do something worthy
of emulation or respect. get control
Of yourself. and then keep control.
or you can't hold the other fellow
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06
Other Editors Than Ours
THE WAY 1T LOOKS WHEN \ sANDIIEs BROKE
(The Hardware Age.)


Write a letter home?
Dead easy
Write your friends behind the lines?
Surest thing you know.
Write your sweetheart?
Couldn't possibly overlook il.
Write thank-you for cigarets and knitted things?
why course.
Write replies 10 girls write you letters that
make YOU love the lot?
It's a cinch.
Writing is a pleasant job. We all love to do it and
penmanship grows better week from practice
But
our nav is 81 a day Our insurance is IS 20 month
The movies. carfare and the conspre 10 keep
US broke. piece of cake dish Of ice top
of meal after mornings hard drill is too great a
temptation for the Samme. Chocolate chokes
fellow when he has to pass it up.
It's also tough proposition to forego chewing gum
on hot days
Swimming suits cost money and Uncle sam doesn't
furnish them. Bath houses so cents throw. and
you can't undress on the beach.
And don't get the idea that all our smokes come
from loving friends
You can buy many things on tick but there's a
ban on postage stamps Five letters Sunday? Yes.
lot OF average writing that many, but would
write Is If we had the stamps.
Soldiers ought to be granted the privilege of mailing
letters c. Q. D.
why don't we borrow the loose change until pay
day?
say it's a tough proposition TO squeeze blood out of
turnip. Our friends soldiers and when a COM
panys broke. its broke. fat dead, dismally
Any other expenses Yes. there's We took it on
gladly It's our Liberty bonds. We bought them the
instalment plan and making good payments cuts
into stamp money 10 beat the band.
All which supports contention that every let
ter 10 a soldier should begin:
Dear sammie: Enclosed please find one three-cent
stamp for reply"
Then If the reply isn't forthcoming promptly You
can give "Buddie" hail Columb ia don't ride his
carcass unless by your stamp YOU have earned the
right.
The boys can frank their letters from overseas but
it takes stamps from the environments here at home
Being broke IS too common sin TO be censored Ask
any soldier.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06
&GE& 49,: - zzizee4
JUNE 6, 1913.
READING, SPEAKING. THINKING ENGLISH.


New York city will have more German classes
in IT'S public schools while the lasts. Cleveland
has barred German absolutely from its grammar and
high schools. South Dakota decided that more
church services shall be conducted in the German
language no speaker or lecturer shall German in
any public address and school public private
shall employ means of instruction Iowa has
rules prohibition against the speaking
OF German by anybody trains, street other
places OF public assCmbage. over the telephone.
SO the movement rolls German kultur culture
whichever you choose call it, is being stamped out
in this country rapidly and completely. Some things
that good inevitably along with the bad. But
the public convinced that it is better to lose the
benefits keep the evils.
And the public right. We gain by the elimination
Of German because language is fundamental. II is
language with literature. history, traditions and
habits OF thought embalmed in it. which
than anything represents civilization and carries
it on. Language powerful than nation
alty Is a instinct which impeis people, in
their against German to insist the
universal use the language in which American
civilization Is EMBODIED
The who need to know German for special rea-
sons may easily enough ways hereafter.
AT present the big thing have the entire nation
learn to read speak and think in English.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06
The Strange Properties of Frozen Water
BY GARRETT p. SERVIsS.

purities mingled in the water. When
sea water does freeze nearly all the
salt (about four-ffths Of it,. is elm
mated and what remains is inclosed
in briny drops and layers between
the plates of ice formed from the
purified portions of the water. on
sea ice is not disable. but by long
continued freezing the salt is gradu-
ally forced out to the surface, where
is appears as a crystalline crust on
the ice.
Ice itself contracts when cooled
and expands on being heated. OF
course If the heating is continued
the ice melts. but before melting sets
Ia d certain rise of temperature may
take place in the ice. and then il
Obeys the common law of solid
bodies i'm that respect and slightly
expands it's bulk. Ice also evapor-
ates, i. G., turns to vapor without
first melting into water. Every ice
man knows how ice "steams'' in
cold water and a deep layer of snow.
without any melting or formation OF
water, may completely evaporate
away during a long spell of clear.
dry winter weather.
1t is interesting TO reflect that in
water we have a familiar and alum
danU substance which presents con-
tinually before our eyes the whole
gamut of changes through which
matter goes, from solid through
liquid TO gas or vapor, and then
back again. under the action Of al
terations of temperature that all fall
within what may be called the hui
man limit To see iron do the same
thing and TO be able 10 utilize iron
in the same three states in which
we know water. we should have TO
be able 10 live under temperatures
rising 10 $500 or 5000 degrees.
An inha bitant of the sun might
swallow molten iron and find il a
cooling draught. or inhale the blaz-
ing vapor of iron as a soothing
smoke. We cannot too soon or too
Thoroughly learn the lesson Of the
relatively Of all things
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06

4 seen in a magazine last night
where spring has gone and summer
is tripping alone with bare feet,
said the Manicure Lady That's a
good way for summer TO come, with
shoes twelve beans per pair"
Shoes is high for a fact, said
the Head Barber I'm wearing the
same old kicks L wore last year. i
amt strong enough 10 pay no twelve
beans for shoes"
Us girls feels il most" said the
Manicure Lady, being that a lady
has got 10 have trim feet If she
wants 10 belong in good society. II
gent looks all right nobody gives
his feet a tumble. But US girls
won't know what 10 do at all if the
shoes keep going up. And every
thing else has got a pretty fancy
price tag on il. too. The more
think Of it, George. the more / have
made up my mind 10 quit this shop
for the summer and go farming.
Goodness knows / amt no Maude
Muller. but / suppose / could learn
TO make a garden or SOW some of
them seeds or something"
You might as well be in the
country this summer as around this
shop" said the Head Barber The
gents are tending 10 their own nails.
them that's left here TO make a
showing, and maybe it's just as well.
I If l get that little shop in the coun-
try I'll say goodbye 10 Broadway
and Broadway won't never know
| the difference How times has
changed in this game,"
That's about all times has been
doing lately-changing," said the
Manicure Lady. Honest 10 good
ness. George, YOU don't know today
what tomorrow is going 20 spring
But twelve dollars for pair OF
shoes. Gee, that's fierce"