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0nly The Evening Post
" Is Skeptical

VI all American newspapers only one
looks with suspicion upon these revela-
tions Of the Committee on Public In
formation. After a careful analysis Of
the first series of documents released
by the Creel bureau, "The New York
Evening Post" points out certain dis
crepances in dates and occasional con-
f1icting assertions which lead that news
paper to comment:
"The general tone of the documents IS a
strain upon credulity. The orders and in
structions and demands and responses have
the directness of thieves kitchen; it is
not the way in which government conspira
cies are couched. Mr.. Creel owes it TO the
country to do his best to find out whether
we really face to face with the most
extraordinary cabal in history or whether
Mr.. Sisson is the victim of a gigantic hoax
"Mr. Creel is confronted by simple and
immediate duty. He should supply the
newspapers with facsimile reproductions of
the documents that Mr.. Sisson brought with
him from Europe and which, in the Eng
lish translation, have been given to the
press We do no. ask for this because we
think the material as given out by the
Committee on Public Information does not
correctly represent the originals, but be-
cause we believe that the documents them
selves are far from being above suspicion,
and should therefore in their exact form
be subjected to as wide a scrutiny as pos
sible. In the material as printed yesterday
and to-day there is plenty of ground for
doubt. 1t may be that the publication Of
the Russian or German facsimies will sup
ply other evidence. The plain fact is that
some of the most important charges and
documents brought forward by Mr. Sisson
we're published in Paris months ago and
have, on the whole, been discredited Mr..
Sisson remarks Of Document 2. printed in
the Petit Parisien,' that sthe Petrograd
Bolshcvist papers proclaimed it a false
hood He does not tell US what new rea-
sons there are for believing in the anthem
ITCHY of Document ? in view of the very
solid arguments that we're made against it"
''The New York World" dslikes "The
Evening Posts" incredulity and is
panied that ''there are Americans who
question the genuineness" of the docu-
ments. To this "The Evening Post" re-
plies:
Americans can freely raise questions be-
the Sisson documents are not neces-
sary to prove what we all know: that the
Bolsheviki have brought Russia and the
revolution to the verge Of ruin The 6ocu-
ments are not necessary to Justify our
present policy in Russia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court 1t would prohibit the employment
in factories, mills, canneries and manufac-
turing establishments Of all children under
fourteen years of age; in mines and quar-
ries of children under sixteen, and of chill
dren between fourteen and sixteen in fac
tories for more than eight hours a day or
at night. The prohibition would be under
the war power of Congress for the duration
of the war and six months thereafter.
The Heating bill is in the nature of an
emergency measure-drawn to meet very
real emergency.
The Importance of immediate action by
the Federal government is further shown
by reports that have been coming in from
all parts of the country during the last few
months concerning the increase in the num-
Der of children granted work permits. 1t is
evident that in practically every state of
the Union more children are working than
ever before. In Massachusetts the number
of working children between fourteen and
sixteen years has more than doubled since
1914. At least $4,000 children have been
taken from the schools and nut 60 work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22
n@ Judas lsca0t and Benedict Arnold Out of Business

bauchery and which found its profit in the
treason to which they were seduced? The
stink which Germany had made itself in
the nostris of civilization has actually
been Intensified. although that seemed i'm
possible, by the additional proof which the
present publication affords, of its illimit
able corruption. unconscionable duplicity
and ignomin ous greed.
"And only last week Vice Chancellor Won
Payer gave notice that the peace treaties
which had been signed with the Ukraine,
Russia and Rumania would not be sub
mitfed for approval or alteration to the
Entente Powers. 1t would be to laugh were
the issues less grave or the situation less
serious, but for all the iniquities the Ger
man government has committed the day
of retribution is approaching. Let it be
sure of that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

DTect0f General Cnlted States EN-
plOyment Service
ME United States Employment Ser
vice Of the Department of Labor is
the division of the Federal govern
ment charged with the vital re-
sponsiblity of keeping the war plants Of
the nation supplied with labor
This responsibility it holds by virtue Of
resolution adopted last June by the War
Labor Policies Board, representing all
branches of the government engaged IN
war production. Cali recruiting of indus
trial labor for public or private work con-
nected with the war" this resolution said
IN part. Shall be conducted through DR. in
connection with methods authorized by the
United States Employment Service"
AT the present time a grave shortage of
men IN essential industries is threatening
the war production of the United States. In
the field of unskilled labor alone this short
age is now upward of one million men.
The only way in which this shortage can
be filled is by wholesale transfers of men
from non-war to war production. If war
work is to be carried the production Of
luxuries and non-essentias demanded By the
American consumer for his selfish comfort
must cease. There are not enough men for
luxury and war production both
The United States Employment Service
is bending every effort to keep war indus
tries supplied with men. A quota OF un
skilled labor has been assigned to every
state, the totals for all the states eouallinr
the unskilled war labor shortage so far re-
ported.
There is every indication that this svs-
tenn will provide the necessary men. pro-
vided employers and workers alike lend
their whole hearted cooperation In the
fortnight ended August "a over AZ 600
skilled laborers from twenty-one states
were recruited and moved to vital war
projects by the United States Employment
Service. In no state was a single man
taken at the expense of other war indus
tries, farming, mining or transportation.
The United States Employment Service ia
already placing thousands daily in war
work That is the purpose of its nation
wide organization; its GOO branch Offices
us recruiting agents in almost every county
and township in the land. What has been
accomplished so far. however is only an
index to the problems ahead. The wbo,s-
hearted cooperation of every American
with the United States Employment Service
IN carrying out this task is essential IL n.
danger Of curtailed war production at thi.
OF all times, is to be averted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

to make them effective, we can hope to es.
cape the conditions that have confronted
England and other European countries 1t
can no longer be asserted that child labor
in Alabama does not affect the rest of the
country. A boy in Alabama is quite as
much future citizen of the United States
as a boy of Illinois or California, and the
effect of his exploitation and consequently
lowered health impairs the vigor of the
whole nation 1t is when his case is multi
piled by thousands that we appreciate his
Importance.
Since the draft bill has passed Con-
gress boys of eighteen will henceforth be
subject to military service This fact does
not make it any more important than be-
fore that young boys should be freed from
early employment and given chance for
proper physical development and education,
but it gives point to the necessity for their
protection and education. Children who
have spent the years from fourteen to six
teen working in q cotton mill for eleven
hours daily will be neither as intelligent
nor as strong as those who have spent the
time in school and in healthful recreation
These are few of the reasons that have
Ieu TO the INTRODUCTION or the Heating bill
in Congress.
The War Labor Policies Board has ex
Guided child labor from all government
work, ruling that in future contracts made
by the Federal government "the contractor
shall not directly or indirectly employ in
the performance of this contract any minor
under the age of fourteen years, or permit
any minor between the age of fourteen and
sixteen to work more than eight hours in
any one day, more than six days in any one
week, or before a. M or after D. m"
The Heating bill, if passed, will supple
ment this clause. forbidding child labor un-
der the above standards not only in gov
eminent work, but in all factory work, and
in mines and quarries throughout the coun-
try. Its enforcement will also be in the
hands of the Child Labor Division. It re-
establishes the standards of the first Fed
eral law by direct prohibition by Congress.
There is no doubt of the authority of Con-
gress to do this under the war power 1t
will establish a minimum standard for all
the states, "for the purpose Of conserving
the man power Of the nation and thereby
more effectually providing for the national
security and defence"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22
We Had Evidence
w Long Ago

How Trotzky took orders from his
masters in Berlin and why such a mass
of evidence has finally come to light
is explained by "The Boston Tran
script
Long ago we had evidence that the
keichsbank had paid the expenses of Lenine
and Trotzky when they went to Russia
and had practically set up their rule there.
Now We know that Berlin paid the ex-
penses Of the Red Guard, paying its pr-
Yates IS to IS day, when other Russian
soldiers had as many cents, perhaps, and
mat as late as February last the Ger
man military administration sent sharp
ana direct written order to Trotzky to tell
" why he still permitted Socialistic litera-
lure to 60 to German soldcrs-upon which
ofder Irotzky wrote the words, Il ask to
discuss it. !. T. This means that Trotzky
mad really given his promise to the Ger
mans not to circulate radical literature
among the Germans, and that he held him
sell liable to censure by the German mill
AIRY administration, virtually as its en-
ploye
Inc data supplied by Mr.. Sisson are con-
susive, in fact, as to the collision between
oefhh and Bolshevk Russia. 1t may be
asked why either Berlin or the Bolshevik
Fe'"''1ed so much evidence Of their rotten
e'"'pact to remain on file. The explanation
'"e anconquerablc documentary habit of
we uermans and the confidence of the Boil
'e''ni IN the cover which they thought
s"eS mad provided for themselves. But the
0''ayai of their secrets proves that Rus
' ana even Bolshevik Moscow and Petro-
ei"o are full Of men and women who are
N'eu OF Bolshevism and willing to turn
against it."
>, Inc Macon Daily Telegraph" in a
~'''usslon which attempts to weigh all
we elements involved, recalls that
:, ". ~. Socialism at least had
, a''i'sm behind it and men suffered and
'eu and worked for it who were impelled
'"eer love of their fellowmen and the
:, Earning to a beautiful ideal that even
0usn 1t Is all impossible is not without
40 appeal even sc. 1t is more than Russia,
81, 'han Ukraine, more than Finland or
49,. "'''eu world these men have sought to
'or thirty pieces of silver, but it is
,"e nope and the goal of white mankind
ei IN their native continent they have
'u out. And there will be a good many
~ "ussia' and among the radical groups
a., america, who will believe them and
t sS'.ls what they have done on tho basis
mat to fight the devil one must h.v. A..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22
NJ arat and Robespierre Pure
IVA Spirits in Comparison

The New York Tribune" writes of
"thc Bolshevst lepers":
1--WE have said that it was Aattery to
compare the Russian Tcrrorists of to-day
with the bloody handed Terrorists of the
French Revolution. Marat and Robespierrc
remain pure spirits beside Lenine and
Trotzky. The two former were patriots,
though paranoiacs and criminals. Leninc
and Trotzky are intellectual and moral de-
generates.
Germany knows how to pick her own.
The Bolshevist posturers had faint Of
depravity which made them akin to their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

In Maine the number of employed children
between fourteen and sixteen will be twice
or three times that of last year, it is csti-
mated. In Missouri more permits were is
sued in one week in June, 1918, than during
the entire month of June, 1917. In Mary
land, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New York,
Wisconsin and other states the closing of
the schools brought rush of young appli-
cants for work permits. This enormous in
crease is very generally attributed to war
conditions-the high cost of living and high
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

venile delinquency has increased 1t is said
that in Germany it has grown $50 per cent
Those who acquainted with the situa-
ton abroad feel that no effort should be
spared to prevent like condition in Amer
lea.
II we make every effort to keep the
schools open and the children in school, if
we set ourselves against the premature en-
ployment of all children in whatever state
they may live, if We take constructive child
welfare measures while there is still time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

wages, combined undoubtedly with praise
worthy, though ill-advised desire of many
children to be doing mans work and help
ing out in these critical times
In England the large increase in child
employment, coupled with the closing of
schools, the absence of parents from home
and the lack of opportunity for healthy
recreation, led to an increase of over one
third in the number of children brought be-
fore the courts. In all the other warning
countries from which we have reports ill.,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

his approval. 1t is
being actively sup
ported by the Ma
tional Child Labor
Committee and the
American Fedora
ton of Labor, and
there is every hope
that Congress will
pass it in the pres
cnt session. The is
sue is one of burn
ing Importance.
This bill embodies
exactly the stand
ards Of the Fed
eral child labor
Law, no1~%1- IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22
BY Ruth McIntire
National Child Labor Commute

National Child Labor Committee
"HE question of child labor is up
again. 1t was introduced in the
IN House of Representatives on Au-
gust Is. Edward Heating, father
of the first Federal child labor law, stands
sponsor for the bill which has been present
ed to President Wilson, and which met with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22

they overthrow Kerensky, and paid to them
still through the German Imperial Bank"
"The Baltimore Sun" comes to
similar conclusion:
Benedict Arnold attempted to bctray
only his country. Leninc has betrayed his
country, his class and the international
cause which he protested. The only name
that his is fit to be compared with is that
Of Judas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-22
Supplying the War
Plants With
Labor
By J. B. Densmore

Director General United States En-
plOyment Service
ME United States Employment Ser
vice of the Department of Labor is
the division of the Federal govern
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-08-23
DAM TrE COTTONWOOD
AND RAiG-TEs RIVER
CONTINUED FROM raeE oSE

distance q. practically two miies'
there could be ilngoanaed ee'~eeu
forty and nMy mllson SALONS q
sa,er. sns a water famine u Gn'hF'e
would probably never be heard o.
szain Most al are agred ias' the
water supply mas, be- obtained By =
diversion a The walter ol ihe Cox
,onxood riYeT sll storing Of same
reservoir or basin 10 NEE lnsi
.ueh snersencis, a. ~e are no" sA-
.~i.nc,ng. aud l0t only the present
.hortaee os wetsr shoah o. kept I'D
n.na but n the construction OF sd-
ai,ioasl water wo-ks. growth N ihe
Cstv,s population should ne an'sci-
...sed ana a sufficient supply ~
waller secured 70 justify more ho-
.-.i Ne 81 tue same upon lawns. gar
dens and shade ,rees. a. Vel a.
reduction IN the rate per thousand
These suggestions are based on ne
utilization q he resent channel on
,h. cotfonuood. which travels dis
,auee Of over Two miles through West
Cufhr.e. 10 get about lrsa ieet on its
~av 10 ihe Cimafron. - follows The
rrer enters the City on sixth street
m University Avenue and the \. 4
r RaiTloaa right Of ~as. about
midway north All south oi block -
a. rans xcss ssvsr blocks "a between
Th,rteenth and Fourteenth streets.
then runs north ,.ghi blocks 10 Clese-
and avenue. thea south four and one
hslf blocks 10 eiini on Eishih street
between springer aud Perkins as-
enues. then turns easi tao blocks
back 10 SIKH street. ~sere t turns
north On Us Way 10 the CimaTrUn
river Thus the .yeT runs over TO
rifles 10 forming iAe West Guthrie ei-
box. and return 10 within less ihan
th-ee blocks o. phere 81 enters The
cliy On sixth str~t
II a1y event whatever proposition
j. finALs submitted u should - based
upon the nn5inEs q. c0mpeient and
sisinte-ssfed engineer. and the tsc's
snd figures - ~ fhe feasibility of I
ziyen 10 he people before hand SCI
they may snfeliigsntiy vote.
N Y Hs~E
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Washington Profteers Gouging
Poor War Workers, Reports .Shao

Washington. Ars. :. -Lo, The poor
asr worker-in ais city Having been
rsised IN secoraznce with the well
established custom Of three meals 4
dsy. h. enters ;he national capital as
4 happy person. resolved 10 do MS
bil Tor the government But. alas. he
discovers in short order that the
greater part Of his money received
Tor his BIT goes 'nto The tills OF the
restaurants OF the town
Conditions here have been brought
"a The attention OF fhe government
many times yet the profil.ering orgy
continues u remained for the wait
ers and Mattresses OF the ;o~n.
though. 10 spill he beans" Many
r s'suranis and hotel Keepers. they
say. make a. much as 500 per cent on
their food Here Is an example OF
how they do II:
A 20 or 50 ce. watermelon is cut
= 10 twelve pieces each OF which sells
10 customers for - cents. This makes
$ from s0-ceat investment. Al
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-08-23
WILL HAVE ARMY GREATER
THAN GERMANY OR FRANCE

Jasi how the United States vii
raise an army of s.eep.soo men and
hoN Il IS 10 be composed L. told IN
round figares in the following table
United States National Army a.
organized under the selec'ise
drsf isw q Nay =. 1917. and
composed OF the men between the
ages % twenty -ose and fhirty-one
and such men as viii have reached
the az Of snfy-one within the
lTlAfA -----. .-----. ---- ---st-i,'F"f
Regular army of The United States
and tn national guard recruited
by volunteer enlistment down to
the date Of cessation Of volunteer
Ing ..-.-..-...... sssoo
Lnlief States Navy $1,000. .soo. go
: Marine corps --....-- 0se9
additions % the foregoing force to
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-08-23
THREE KILLED when
THnEsHER ExplOOEs

Nsskogce. Alg ---Three persons
-ere kiEei and three seriously =
j1ret uh-u ~ loIler q a threshin-
engine exploded II dusk last niskt on
Re farm q Noe' Willis. three niles
scuthvest q PegFs. an iniard to~n
r. Cherokee cozzsy.
NOEL WILLIS. Garner.
snail dsuChfsr of willis
ROBERT WADE. workman 4
seTiousir inizpd. II : York. n
" Hsrdnes and lake Osb0rne
Details - the accident we're not
csnrainef IN the mesger sdvices
svsiisb;e
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FOUR CLASSES
HELD NON. ESSENTIAL
CONTINUED From raGE ONE,


completion Of . number Of important
~ar projects for sae arms and navy s-
icing delayed. il was stated q. ihs
conference. The field agents decided
hst the only VA N which the need
d lsborers could be secured wss q
AXE them from nOn-essensiag indus :
try
The time has come FOR the entire
na&iou TO realize that business as
ssaal is no iongs- possible" Nathan
a. Smith. assistant director OF the en-
oymeni seryics told The conference
Il Ne are to end The war quickly the
oducsion Of Injuries and nOa-ss-
aiials in this country must come 20
sn end Il Is question o. ending
The var quickly " having It dragged
sn Indefinitely.
Manufacturers must give uP the
ration oi needless goods. workers
ast he willing . chanSc from non
.cntial 10 war PRODUCTION even a. q
h rdship 10 themselves; The public a.
ze mus, stop huyins luSuries. and
rcby make The problem % curtaii-
il- non essentials easier
Indication Of aow the rOn-e sen q
Is may b. coahed out was given
~ when the community labor
ID ot the District oI Columbia ar
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-08-23

! canielope Is pnr based Tor Is cents
but halt OF q IS sold for s. cents.
in-eeni pie /. cgt MO six pieces. ami
each sells tor 10 CENTS Another fav-
orite little get-ite-coin stunt IL 10
charge ~ cents f,r moderate dish
o. ice cream. and another Is to bring
in a Few lonesome and wrinkied
= ench fried potatoes. for which
charge OF 30 cent, IS usually made
-Profiteering, Perish the thought
Is the indignant reply Of the Wash
inSton resisursnter
The truth OF he matter l. b.
shown by comparison The food al
minisiratlon ope ates cafeteris for
IFS staff and other government EN-
ployes in tn ncisaborhood on a non
profit basis. BIT Il its prices were
doubled they would stili be moderate
a. compared vih the restaurant
charges
Six hundred persons eat at the
cafeteria each dsy. sufficient proof Of
iis popularity.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-08-23
/" Who Will Win
This BattIel""

Your kidneys are the fl,srs Of The
body. II they become inactive and fail
" eliminate the waste matter, they are
apt 70 throv the whole mechanism
Of the body out Of order. thus toric
poisons can Accumulate in the system
ard BE- as deadly zs snake venom
Besides causing the minor ailments
Of rheumatism. sciztics. iunbaxo and
bscksche. neglect Of the Kidneys e apt
10 develop into more serious disesses.
such a. diabetes Or stone IN the bladder.
Rid the body Of TOXIC poisons
the bladder and kidneys and cure tt's
tsingz Of rheumzfisn with Azure
and yoa win the bzrsle Of life.
anuric vz frst discovered By Dr..
rierce. ard has beneffsd tho7ssbd. of
Sufferers zs vel ~ sppesssd and siin1'-
nzied the rzvSzes Of the more SERIOUS
kidnev disezse.. Nor proc1ysbie ior
90 cert. st .nv good drug sore. or
sen1 Dr. Y NJ Pierce. Buffalo, ~ Y.
10 ceufs for trial psckaxs-
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senator Watsporth ot Ne~ Nork
offered an amena.nenf extending the
sraft 10 the nsvy. while Senator Cum
INNS ~ io~a. offered groyn'ons 40
,ostpone csl.iag loa-hs and older
men. also IS ua3str the worS or
rsht- pan Seaaior France q Mary
lana sponsored IN amendment 80
hihitiug ~ Military service abroad fer
yoaths ar1er q bat providing sor
,he.r draff Tor military o. o'her train
ns
A vigorous sp--ch in behalf 0i The
hai vas made b. senator Reed q
Missouri. 40 urvet an army ot -te.-
80 Americans Ia Russia al oace and
predicted this eruntry ultimately
aus, furnish s1aa 80 or -.s'o.essl and
antereo the Severe hsFdshiQs q .
iorg var
Oppose Calling Boys g g
Revr,ssn NATIVE Anthony o, Kansas
suggested THAR an he controversy
o,Tr specifying ci-sses 70 D. called in
osdsr is nseiess to l.f called In order
i useless a. the Nar department. (
3 chose. coali can one one class after
another fsw minutes apart
Arguments aEsnsf calliaE BOYS a
= and u rers ~aie hy Rerreser's-
lives yields Kent4ckv. Neeker. Mis-
soari and Others Representative Mad
len % Itin1is s1Eesfed thai it ~As
nore imro-ian, 20 ar ~ War ihan
- qulbhis over uho should - first