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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-18

Mrs. Jas. H. Sherard of Calhoun
Falls, was up yesterday to attend
the Richey-J ohnson wedding.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-18

Miss Maggie Link, who has been
at home sick with the Flu, for ten
days, is back at her place at Nc
Murray's.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-18

Anybody can be in style these
days by buying a bond and having
the Spanish malady.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-18

Conductor D. A. Rogers is out and
ready for work on the Seaboard, af-
ter a two weeks struggle with ''Flu." ="
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-18

Mr.. C. Lamar Richey, who is con,
Injected with the Local Board at Nc
Cormick, was in the city yesterday
Ito be present at the marriage of his
sister, Miss jamie Lou Richey to Mr.
Wilson Johnson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-18

Attorneys T. Frank Watkins anc
p. Pearman, of Anderson, were ir
The city yesterday to argue a case
before Judge Frank B. Gary. Mr.
Watkins is the new senator-elect
from Anderson County.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
WILSON THE LIBERAL,

Discussing the attacks upon Presi-
dent Wilson because he has ap-
pointed many liberals to office, The
Public, of New York, says:
ut is apparent that mendacity
and Misrepresentation will be used to
the limit in order to detach from
the presidents support every timid
| little business man and proerty own
er who can be reached with tales of
his surrender to those who would
tear down our most sacred institu-
tions. If the president were a man
who permitted himself to be i'm
pressed by the metropolitan news
papers, or if he were in the habit of
giving appointments to the innumer-
able delegations of leading citizens"
who in other times have sought the
ears of the man in the White House,
he undoubtedly would have been
| convinced long ere this that his lib
eral policy was losing him the sup
! port of the country and would have
to be sacrificed for the sake of unity
during the war. It must be only be-
cause he realizes how deceptive is
the volume of sound produced by
! these "vocal" elements Of the popu-
! lation, and because or a deep faith
! in the great silent majority of plain
| people, that he has the courage and
! the confidence to steer a straight
| course. The straighter that course,
! the more obvious and Outspoken it's
! liberal direction, the surer and
| stronger will be the popular re-
spouse when the president needs it
at congressional elections and in
other times of test. That he real
ICES this was shown in his letter to
the New Jersey Democrats. And in
his Baltimore speech was there not,
along with his ringing acceptance
of Germany's challenge, a plain hint
to our own imperialists who would
have 1.-The flag follow the trade" in
/ to Mexico and other odd corners of
the earth, that his face is set against
the practice as we'll as against any
single application of it? Nothing is
surer today than that the Wilson
administration is a liberal admins.
tration or it is nothing, and that the
president has deliberately chosen
that this should be 500
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
HUMBLE DUST" BRADY
By@REV. CHARLES STELZLE.

His real name is Patrick Brady.
The bows call him paddy" for short.
He calls himself Humble Dust" He
had gone clear down the line until
it seemed as though he had reached
the limit; but one day he awoke. we
need not discuss the question as to
how it happened, only to say that
somebody encouraged him to turn"
about-face and quit his cussedness.
Brady simply needed a push in the
right direction and a good word to
cheer him on. He is like a good
n,any of the rest of us in this re-
spect.
Brady has been on the right road
ever since, but he is kept there be-
cause he kept moving. He might
have waited in the belief that it was
up to somebody. else to see that he
made progress, but Paddy isn't built
that way. He got busy on he job
his own job-and this is what he
did: He started in to help the other
fellow, and there were a good many
to be helped. He didn't consider any
man beneath him. He himself had
been down so low that he needed to
reach upward to touch bottom.
Whenever there is man that
needs Paddy's help. Paddy is ready
to do his part. Whenever new or
ganization is started in town, IN
which he believes and which IS IN
reed of people to put their shoulders
to the wheel. Paddy is on the job
And through it all he is loyal
trade nnionist. He attends every
meeting of his organization. His
speeches are not long-draWn out al
fairs, hut he hits straight from the
shoulder when he does speak, and
vet it is always done in the same
spirit of good-fellowship which
prompts him in all of his dealings
with the men in the shop.
He has lots Of horse sense. He
doesn't hand out his wisdom in large
chunks. He is just a great big hu-
! man soul, familiar with the things
that the ordinary man is up against,
and in the simplest manner possible,
and without any pretense to superior
ity. he is "Humble Dust" Brady, al
ways on the job.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
MCGEE AND D!SLOYALTY.

That was serious Indictment
Judge MCGEE brought against the
people of Minnesota when he de-
clared that sedition was prevalent
throughout the state. His testimony
before the senate committee would
lead the nation to believe that the
people of German, Swedish and Finn
blood in Minnesota were all disloyal.
1t is one thing to make a state
ment and quite another to furnish
the proof. If there happens to be
one disloyal man Of foreign birth in
a community it does not necessarily
follow that all people of the same
blood are disloyal. The sale of Lib
erty bonds in Minnesota furnishes
ample proof that the people Of Min
nesota are 100 per cent American.
Every county in the state "Went over
the top" Counties inhabited by
Germans riyaled those populated by
Scandinavians in purchasing Liberty
bonds. In St. Louis county town.
ships inha bited by Germans, Scandi-
navians and Firms purchased Liberty
bonds literally.
Every other call of the nation is
being generously anc periodically
met by the people of this state.
There is no sedition.
Judge MCGEE of the Public Safety
commission and Governor Burn
quist are merely camouflaging the
issue. They are throwing dust in
the eyes of the people. They are
laboring under the belief that they
are the state and any opposition to
them is disloyalty to the nation. They
will find, however, when election
rolls around, that the people of Min
nesota are not only enthusiastically
supporting the cause of democracy
throughout the world, but they are
equally as much interested in pre-
serving it at home mad particularly
in the state of Minnesota.
The signs of the time indicate that
men like Judge MCGEE, a born auto
crat, parading in the cloak of de-
mocracy, will be relegated to that
political oblivion now so 1onesomely
occupied by the late car of Russia
and, to save their faces, Judge Nc
Gee and Governor Burnquist are
attempting through the public press
and otherwise to convey the idea that
criticism of their official acts is dis
loyalty to hte nation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04

possible estimated requirements,
Mines in the states of Iowa, Oklaho-
ma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, wy
oming, Montana and West Virginia
are working less than half time, and
in many mining towns large produc-
ing mines are actually shut down."
The United Mine Workers state
that This patriotic and solid organi-
cation of workers in the basic indus
try of the war stands ready to dig
from the earth all the coal that
could possibly be used for all the
needs of the nation. 1t is able and
eager to break all records in the pro-
duction and distribution of coal if
given the necessary facilities and the
right spirit Of cooperation"
If it is found impracticable, or I'M
possible, to coordinate the various
factors essential to the coal industry,
so that the people may be spared the
unpleasant experience of freezing
next winter, while there are unlim-
tied coal resources, then there is but
one panacea-Federal ownership
and operation of the coal mines.
Commenting on the present coal
outlook, The Milwaukee Leader
says:
In order to insure tranquility
within our own borders when the VIM
ter comes on, the administration should
at once take over the coal mines and
make them public property.
Nothing less than complete govern
ment ownership and control OF the
mines can bring relief. Even this, on
account of the war, may not bring ade-
quate relief, although under normal
circumstances it would do so. 1t is
altogether out of the question to hope
for adequate relief from mere regu-
1ation, or by putting the mines under
mere public control like the railroads.
Give us public ownership and OPP
Grafton Of this great industry, SO that
it can be operated as nearly for the
| benefit of the people as the war will
permit.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
THE MERRY: G0.R0UND
By ROGER w. BABSON.

In a town near where l live are
several factories which make shoes
for working people. Before the war
these shoes sold at from 81 to IS a
pair.
After the war was declared and the
allies began to buy leather for belts,
saddles, and other equipment, the
price of leather went up. The same
thing was true of leather as of cot
ton, wool, steel, etc. This made 1t
necessary for these shoe factories to
add so cents to the price of pair
of Shoes.
AS I say, these shoes are worn by
working people throughout New Eng
land, and when the price OF the shoes
went up with the, price of clothing,
food, etc. these working people had
to have higher wages. Therefore
wages were advanced to meet the
higher cost of living.
AS the wages in shoe factories in
creased with the wages elsewhere, the
shoe manufacturers had further to
increase the price of shoes another So
cents to take care of the advance in
| wages. Unless this had been done
the factory would have been shut
down. No manufacturer could con-
tinue to make shoes at a loss.
When shoes were advanced in price
second time, clothing, food, and
other things were advanced again by
their manufacturers for the same rea.
son. This, however, made it .neces.
sary for the working people to have
another advance in wages to meet
this second advance in prices. J. =
But this second advance in wages
made it necessary for the manufacture
ers to make still another advance in
prices. This they had done, and now
shoes are selling for almost double
what they did before the war: while
wages have advanced only about half
as much.
We can not blame, either manu-
facturers or wage earners. Both have
needed to do what they did; but
neither side has been better off after
getting more money: The: truth. is
that we all have been chasing one
another around a circle. We are all
on merry-go-round! :.
What is the solution? s-5 b..
The only solution aiss that We all.
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04

After upholding the Twin City
Rapid Transit company for several
months in it's stubborn refusal to ar
.bitrate its troubles with it's union
employees, during which time he
blocked the Federal government S
attempts to mediate, Governor Burn
quist has suddenly come forth as a
champion Of arbitration in all labor
disputes. It is plainly apparent that
the governor is playing politics and
that he realizes his former indefen-
sible position has alienated the
friendship Of union labor and now
he is trying to win back labor by his
eleventh hour conversion to the very
principles that he formerly opposed
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
COAL SHORTAGE IMMINENT.

After remembering conditions last
winter and considering those exist
ing at present one must admit indi-
cations point to a severe coal famine
in the United States next winter and
If existing policies continue in force,
nothing but a miracle will prevent
this.
Every one can recall the distress
and suffering last winter caused by
the shortage Of coal, with its at
tendant "heatless" days and sus-
pension of business-all of which
will fade into insignificance when
compared with what is in prospect
for next winter, unless something is
done Immediately to stimulate pro-
duction of coal and arrange for its
distribution to different sections.
That there is inefficiency con-
nected with the production of coal,
no one will deny. Whether the
fuel administration is at fault, the
railroad administration responsible
because of it's inability to provide
cars for transportation, or the coal
operators are to be censured is a
matter to be decided. This much
Is absolutely certain, however, that
the coal miners are blameless.
The latter, through their organi-
kation, the United Mine Workers OF
America, have made an appeal to
Fuel Administrator Garfield, and
should this be futile, they propose
to carry the protest to President
Wilson, the object being to effect a
change in existing conditions in the
coal industry.
The appeal points out that fright
now with every natural condition
favorable and when every possible
effort should be put forth to mine,
transport and store coal, the most
unsettled condition in the history of
the industry prevails. Coal produc-
'ien is far below ...e nations lowest
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
PR0F|TEERS AND SABOTAGE
(From Cincinnati Chronicle

(From Cincinnati Chronicle.)
With practically no dissenting opin-
ion. the entire labor press of the
United subscribes itself to the prin-
ciple that only severe punishment
will stop profiteering. The labor
press of the land has stood for edu-
eating the peoples who were well
coined to these hospitable shores.
They were asked to become citi-
Gems and then become members of
the great American trade-union
movement.
They were shown that the only way
to prosper and to assist their adopted
country to prosper was to demand
living wage and to send their child
rem to school. This they were back
ward in doing.
They felt, in the great majority of
cases, that they were here for a year,
two years, or at most a few years,
when they would take their hoard
ings aboard ship and return to the
land of their birth.
They were encouraged by the cap
tains of industry.
Those gentlement went beyond the
pale of the law Of the land to dis
courage citizenship; they threatened
and discharged millions of men who
would have been assimilated in our
American melting pot.
They were browbeaten by the use
of armed thugs; they were forbidden
to have anything to do with, the
American labor movement, and to-
day the men who stopped the assimi-
lation of those workers wonder why
there is bitterness and disloyalty.
The captains of industry are being
shown up as the arch-conspirators,
while the deluded immigrants try to
secure those citizenship papers which
the captains of industry told them
they did not need. Those same cap
tains of industry are made up in part
by some forty seven coal dealers and
operators who will be hailed into
court in May for profiteering; indict-
ments have been returned for VIOLA
ting the federal fuel and food meas
ure know as the Lever law. Nine
teen are charged with conspiracy"
and conviction carries a fine of $4,000
and imprisonment.
II any of those men are found
Su11Cy, H. 01IOu1u NC q SooC " ~ CO..
son. 1t should be a case Of a stone
wall and firing squad.
The people of the United States are
fighting enemies without the land,
and reasonable individuals within it's
confines should receive no more con-
sideration than the Hun murderers
in Europe.
American citizenship does not mean
that the loyal workers shall be plumb
cred that few may be enriched.
A nominal fine does not deter the in
human wretches who would take adj
vantage of the people when those
selfsame people are giving up their
sons to the supreme sacrifice; and
those selfsane people are backing
the Federal government with their
all.
The damnable profiteers have made
the I. W. WIS what they are; they
have fostered the breeding of anarch-
ism and sabotage, and the sooner the
Federal government permits rag
weed or thistles to grow over their
infinitestimal hearts the sooner will
this world war have been won.
Protection from these venOmous
reptiles means an enduring democ-:
racy.
The Prussian murderers ard f1enCs
are not alone; we have many of them
in the United States in the guise of
business men,"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
FATHER or PUNCTUATION.

Aldus Manutius, a Venetian printer,
is father of present day punctuation.
His system, introduced in the early
part of the fifteenth century, was
adopted by fellow craftsmen through
out Europe. It has been developed
during the centuries and is now used
in almost Identical form in all modern
languages. Aristophanes is said to
have been the first to devise sys-
tenn of punctuation, but it was soon
forgotten, and like fate met a Sec
ond attempt in the time Of Charles
the Great 81 =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04

employers and employes-should get
together''and outline a plan (1) to in
crease production without greater la
Dor; and 7(2) to distribute this pro-
-duction SO that those who really de-
serve the. goods will get them. ...E> y. 4.
i: This Il the great need Of the hour.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04

Judge MCGEE was very emphatic
in his charges of disloyalty, made be-
fore the senate military affairs COM
mittee, against the people of Mime
sofa, and yet the Ninth district, in
which this state is situated, is lead
ing all the districts of the country
in over-subscription of bonds of the
third Liberty loan.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04

Will some one page the senate
subcommittee which is supposed"
to be Investigating the truth OF
statements said to have been made
by Senator La Toilette in a speech
at st. Paul last fall.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
TAXI DRIVERS GAIN.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, May g.
Chauffenrs' union No. 543, affiliated
with the: Brotherhood Of Transfers
has secured agreements with the
principal taxi companies in this city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-05-04
DARING HEROISM.
HOW 1T IS DONE NOW

Levang's Lanesboro Weekly: Be-
fore the war-when an evil-minded
man or woman desired to harm some
one, it was done by slurs and insinu-
ations rejecting on the morality or
the person who was to be the goat.
Since the war-the harm is done
more quickly and more effectively by
insinuations rejecting on the per-
sons loyalty and patriotism.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-17
FORMER RULER OF RUSSIA
ESCAPES WITH FAMILY
FROM SIBERIA PRISON
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNH.)


has been nut off from time to time
by the bolsheviM since the elections
resulted unfavorably to the Lenne
government. Control of the assembly
IS in the social constitutionalists if
ccnevened, and will appeal for an in
ter ralled conference to discuss an
immediate democratic peace on the
BASIS of the statements of President
Wilson ant Premier Lloyd George
Military operations on the western
front are confined to the usual raid
and artillery duals, Eai of the Bren-
"a and on the lower Piave the Italians
f7ye repulsed Austro German al
tAmpts to recapture the position lost
on Monday.
British merchant shipping losses
slow a marked fdectease from the two
previous weeks. Submarines and mines
accounted for six VESSELS OF more than
GO0 tons and two of less than that
tonnage, the last week, as compared
with p ships, including rs of more
team l,G00 tons in the reports of both
Jan 9 and Jan . French losses in
cl leased from one in the previous week
- six, including five of more than
1000 tons during the week ending
r. nuarv 10
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-17

that the heat units are not materially
affected by the absorption process To
determine this an analysis Of the gas
VIII be made at the well to determine
the number Of heat units and another
analysis made of gas that has reached
Oklahoma City and gone through the
absorption plants along the line
Laymen who doubt the improvement
Of gas by its passage through the abb
sorption plants have suggested that
the operation of the plants be sus
pended for a stated period, say Of four
days, 50 that consumers themselves
may determine if there is any differ
ence in the product
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-17
SAYS THERE IS No
HEAT IN LOCAL GAS
Analysis Of Gas Now Being
Made; Tests Will Determine
If Gasoline Extration
Hurts 1t For Fuel

Angry woman over telephone wire
What is the matter with the gas;
taere is no heat in it, we get the
Gessure all right, but most of it is
the strong arm pressure in the way
o. big fat bill from the gas company
On the first of the month. But as
ia the so-called heat units, if there
IS such thing in gas, a separator
has been used on it in transit, for by
tie time it reaches this city there is
little else left but the air DO we
have to pay for air? If it were hot
a!r it wouldn't be so bad Thaegoy-
ernment ought to take over the gas
lines.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-17

Analysis Of gas in the field and aft
er It has passed through gasoline alb
sarption plants are being made by the
Oklahoma Natural Gas company to
determine the number Of British thar-
l.al units extracted by the process of
gasoline manufacture.
c r Burke, superintendent of gaso
l'ne production for the Oklahoma Ma
tIfal Gas company, has charge of the
analysis, the result of which will be
reported to the state corporation
commission. The gas hearing is to
be resumed by the commission tomor-
row. but the tests probably will not
nave been completed by that time.
Lavmen Doubt Theory.
1t is the contention Of gas experts
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-17
MID WINTER REUNION OF
RITE DRAWS TO CLOSE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED
elee and each carries heart and
II ind measure With the rendition ci
the degree, Miss Madsen sang "Ole
Sweetly Solemn Thought; Mrs HOlt6-
sthue and Mrs Mcintyre gave duct
Something Wen Understand" While
the Temple choir and pine organ added
10 attractive work.
VIM H Morgan directed the destee
Of Inspector lnquisitor" or thirty
first degree, The work was we'll
staged
The last, the thirty second Master
o. the Royal Secret" was in charge Of
1 Prof Edwin DeBarr of Norman ie'e
tie full regalia Of Masonry was en-
1 blazoned. The yedic chants by Bar
rcwman, were featured Illustrative
organ music was given and the tenn
pie choir sang, I Will Extoll Thee
The present class was exceptionally
responsive in all the chiyalric and
doctrinal degrees,
Tonight at nine o'clock at the TEN
le the usual ball will be given. after
which the members of the Rite viii
rftum home. All visitors express
themselves as highly pleased with t5i
entertainment accorded them.
Frances Nash, pianist, and Kemp
Stllngs, violinist appeared at the
Methodist church Wednesday after
noon with a soulful program of music
ard the A & NJ college band appeared
a. the same place at night Miss Nash
and her talented company gave an
evening performance at the Temple
Doris Jordan, reader, was at the
Methodist church Thursday afternoon
and received an ovation.
AT the Temple at o'clock sharp to-
night, John Hubbard will give read
.ngs and Prof Mcintyre will offel
pipe organ selections Following this
the Ritemen and their guests will ad-
jcurn to the dining hall where the
Davis orchestra will play for the
dance.
During the dinner last night, w
Alexander gave a talk on the thrift
stamp campaign.