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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
Ever Salivated by
Calonlel? Horrible!
Calomei is quicksilver and acts
like dynamite on
your liver.

Calomel loses you day! You knew
what calomel is. It's mercury; quick
silver. Calomel is dangerous. 1,
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
cramping and sickening you. Ca1omel
attacks the bones and should never be
put into your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need dose of dangerous
calomel just remember that your drug
gist sells for 50 cents large bottle OF
Dodson's Liver Tone, which is entirely
vegetable and pleasant to take and is
a perfect substitute for calomel. 1t is
guaranteed to start the liver without
stirring you up inside, and can not
salivate.
Don't take calomel! 1t makes YOU
sick the next day; it loses you days
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ems you right up and you feel great.
Give it to the children because it is
perfectly harmless and doesn't grip.
(Adv.)
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19

Cold fains winds, and dampnesS
bring out the rheumatic aches. An
application of Sloan's Liniment brings
quick relief. Norubbing. 1t penetrates.
Generous sizeA hottlea 2Sc. Soc 81 90.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
South Main Street

Stephen J. Baker, Pastor.
Sunday School at $50 A. NJ
Morning Worship at II A. M. y
Lords Supper and reception of new
members first Lords day morning in
month,
sunbe.m Band ~ P. M,
Junior Baptist Young People al
$50 P. M.
Senior B. Y. P. U. at $50 P. M.
Evening Worship at 7:30 P. M
Wcman's Missionary Society, frs
and third Mondays at 8 p. M.
Woman's Circles, second and fourth
Mondays as announced.
Mid-week Prayer Meeting at 7:3(
P. M.
Bible School and Teachers Study
Class Friday, 7:30 P. M.
A hearty welcome to all, and a
straight gospel for all.
A hearty welcome to all: red
blooded men specially invited.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
IDEkLISM REAL
BASIS OF WAR
ON GERMANY
Says Or. McElroy, Educational
Director of National Sc
curity League. .

BY DR.. ROBERT M. MeELR0Y.
Educational Director Of the National
Security League.
Why does America fight Germany
Our Ideals are threatened with de-
struction, end we must fight to main
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
2(ks{s'&S'g
Imminent
KILL W
LULL ON AMERICAN FRONT

BY international News Service. }
(By Bert Ford)
With American Army in France,
April 18.-Heavy spring rains have
brought comparative lull along the
American sector except for violent
artillery. The aerial activity is limit
ed. The American enthusiasm is
growing daily. The first request of
the American wounded is ito return
to the front.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
WHAT THE VICTORY OR DEFEAT
OF GERMANY MEANS TO
EVERY AMERICAN.

Contributed by PRINCE and PRIN.
CESS PIERRE TROUBETZKOY to
the National Security Leagues cam
paign of Patriotism Through Educa-
tion).
What the German government means
by a "place in the sun" is the extermi-
nation of the peoples whose soil II
covets so that Germans may replace
those that have been exterminated.
The systematic destruction Of civil
ians in Belgium, northern France, Po-
land, Serbia, and the actual enslave-
ment Of the survivors proves 1.-THE
frequently boasted German "policy of
blood and iron" and the flynn Of
Hate" which has become q national
hymn, proclaims 1t.
From the rudimental condition Of
ancient barbarism, a spiritual develop
ment was possible; from the accom-
plished inhumanity Of Prussianlsm, a
more rigid inhumanity only 10 possible.
A German victory would mean the
blight Of what we call civilization and
the elimination Of what we believe d.
vine In man. What we believe In.
what we cherish. what We are. would
be annihilated by the essence Of Prus-
sianism: our world would be DESTROYED
by Prussic acid.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH

Third Sunday after Easter.
Sunday School, 10 A. M.
Morning prayer and sermon, HOO
o'clock.
Subject: "Ittai the Gittite."
Evening Prayer and sermon, 7:45
o'clock. Subject: Walking in the
Old Paths"
J.. w. BLEKER.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19

tain them. We
are fighting for
t h e fundamental
t h o u & h IS, the
d r e a m s, t b .
Ideals. the aspira-
tons, which to-
day are seething
In the vast poly
glot community
which we call the
United States OF
America. TnaC Is
what we are fight
ing for, we Amer
leans, whether of
English blood, OF
French or Italian
or r a 8 8 I a n OF
Cnanioh hlnnd
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
ME.:,vZr...

Mann In the ''Neue Rundschau'' Mo-
vembcr. 1914.
- 'TDas Kulturideal uAder der Krieg''
pp. n-1S. S1-S3. 81. los. $50.
Works OF Frederick II Berlin Ed.
Speech from the throne. Aprii II.
Is47.
Proclamation Of the Army Of the
East. 1914.
The KAieeF's speech to the Chinese
ExpsditionAxy force, July 81, 1909.
General Won DER Colts, 'aTen Iron
CemmandmSnts Of the German soldiers"
Orderu Of the Day. Aug. 80, 1914.
Johann Wsnger. Peronne. March 70.
Walter BlOem In the ''KolniscA Zeit.
ung." Feb. 10 ipik
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-04-19
Uncle Eben's View Of life.

Life said Uncle Eben, sis like a
trip In a fiivver. II you misses de
right way, the harder you travel de
worse you gifts lost."-Washington
Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

Here is a version of the tailored suit
that Is distinctly new and in excellent
style. 1t cOnserves wool to the last
inch in the coat in order that the
skirt may be INDUCED in an unaccus-
toned bit of drapery at the back. In
nearly all the new spring suits it is
the skirt that has not an inch of cloth
to spare, for the regulation skirt is
as plain as the experienced tailor
knows how to make it. The coat is
made interesting with the remainder
Of the goods from the allowed yardage
which must not exceed four and a half
yards of 54-inch goods.
Small checks in which blue and
black, brown and black, or green and
black, are the predominating color
combinations, are featured this spring
made up with a plain fabric of the
color in colored check, and the colors
are dark, but vivid. There are quiet.
er checks. like that in the picture, in
taupe and gray and an occasional black
and white.
The small, ftted-in coat in the suit
pictured has no peplum at the sides
and front, only the side bodies and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

out Of the question for the "fapper"
who must wait until more years thar
seventeen have passed by her before
she may have whatever she wills. 1T
is forbidden is written on much trim
med millinery for her.
But those who make the needs Of
the young girl their special care, have
provided lovely, simply trimmed hats
for her; e~mbodying the charm Of
little girlhood in them. No one
else can wear hats just like them.
Three models, made for the girl be-
tween twelve and seventeen are pic
tured in the group above, two of them
for all-round veal and one for dress
up times. The hat at the upper left
is of Italian milan with the crown In
the natural color of the straw and the
brim in blue. Several colOrs in the
brim with natural color in the crown
make a choice of combinations possi-
Bile in this hat. 1t is trimmed with
a wide band of mOire ribbon fastened
ct the front with a painted ornament
Of wood. The ribbon extends from the
right front of the shape to the middle
of the back, about the left side. 1t is
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

turned down at the back falling in q
single sash end to the waistline.
At the right a snappy, picturesque
shape is of Italian milan all in the nat
ural color of the braid. 1t rolls up at
the left side. A band of blue velvet
ribbon is attached to the upturn and
brought around the hat to the back.
Here it is arranged in a fiat bow
against the crown with two short
streamers falling from it half way to
the waistline. An ornament painted
in the same bright blue as the ribbon
is posed against the crow at the right.
No flapper will be able to look upon
the hat pictured at the center of the
group without growing enthusiastic.
1t is a light pink hair braid having a
wide brim faced with g~eorgette crepe
and three rows of narrow lingerie lace
in frills' about the brlm. 1t has q long
sash of wide pink satin ribbon and the
sweetest of small garden roses, full
blown, sets in its leaves, against the
sash at the front. Almost any iappler
will blossom into a vision Of loneliness
in It
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

containing the mask is hanging at the chest in the
'alert position" DeXterity of motion must be de-
veloped.
Series of trenches with dugouts have been con-
structed at each cantonment.
A gas attack is arranged. The class is placed
in the trenches, each man is given a definite assign
ment, sentries are posted, the alarms are made
ready and the dugouts occupied. Without warn
ing clouds of smoke and chlorine are liberated by
the instructors. Masks are hurriedly put on,
alarms sounded, sleeping men, in dugouts aroused
and the curtains lowered. The attack ceases, the
trenches are cleared, the air tested, and permits
sion to remove masks is given. Suddenly a sec
ond and more concentrated cloud comes over and
the performance is repeated.
Sometimes the class is taken on a hike, prefer
ably at night. Suddenly a report is heard and a
Misunderstanding smoke cloud arises 10 or 20 feet
away and drifts towards the column. Woe to the
man who does not get his mask on at once. The
instructor has thrown a paper gas bomb, that may
emit a vile and nauseating gas, or one that will
sting the eyes more than the concentrated juice
of q thousand onions.
Gas warfare is new. The methods of gas and
shell and cloud attack are being changed almost
daily. New conditions can only be met by thorough
training and rigid discipline.
The overseas section of the gas-defense service
consists of about Is officers and a number of en-
France. Masks with WORKOUT canisters will be
sent to this country to be detached from the tube
and new ~canisters put on. This section will also
be equipped with sewing machines and other ap-
planes to do general repair work on the mask.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13
BABY MIsTooK SNAKE FOR TOY.

Mrs. Richard d. Corder placed her little
daughter Mildren in her go-cart in the front
yard of their home, near Lawrenceburg Junction,
her.
She saw a large blacksnake crawl into the
cart and nestle on baby's ~pinafore. Darling its
head here and there the blacksnake intently
watched the baby.
Probably the infant thought a new toy had
come and put out its chubby hand to grasp the
snake, which eluded the child.
Terror nearly p~aralyzed Mrs. CordeF. She could
not move, but she uttered a Shrek.
Mrs. Charles w. Corder, her sister-in-law, who
was calling on her, ran to her, and she pointed
to the baby cart. Mrs. Charles w. Corder rushed
out, seized the snake by the tail and flung it yards
away, and the baby began crying for its pretty
new toy.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

center of the back are extended into a
short peplum. Three narrow tucks are
stitched in at the waistline, across the
back, where they make themselves
very useful. They help fit the coat to
the figure, and make the required sup
port for the belt. This fastens at
each side of the back with three hand
some bone buttons of gray with bor-
der of white set in a rim of black. The
belt is wide and plain and extends
about the figure without wrinkles. The
long collar is Of whi$ wash satin.
The skirt is smooth across the front
with two plaits at each side. The
back is cut long enough to allow it to
be caught up in two places.
There r a good many of these
short coats, In a variety of designs, be-
sides eton jackets, that make it easy
to use a short allowance of material.
Many suits are lavishly braid-trimmed,
with the braid applied in many par
allel rows TO plain coats and skirts.
Some checked suits are bound with
braid but checks take the place of
decorations and are at their best when
simply treated.
The revival Of trimmings has trans
formed the showrooms and windows Of
millinery establishments into a millin.
cry paradise filed with beautiful flow
ers and fruits, ribbons and braids ard
all sorts of alluring fabrics. Much of
this splendor of joyous millinery is
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13
CAUSE N E

Flatbush-My next door neighbor was taken
sick last night.
Bensonhurst-Too bad.
yes, we telephoned for the doctor, but he
couldn't come"
"How is he todayT'
"Oh, he's worse, The doctor came today r'-
Yonkers Statesman.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13
LESS DANGER IN WAR.

In this war fourteen out of fifteen men come
through safe and sound, not more than one man
in thirty is killed, and only one in 500 loses an
arm or leg. In the Civil war the per cent was
much higher. In fact, the soldier in this war
stands no greater chance of being killed or in
jured than a man engaged in a hazardous occu-
patton.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13
DIFFICULTY ECONOMY.

1--WE got a good way for you to save money
"Well?"
whenever you see a real bargain advertised"
Eyes, my dear. I'm to buy it"
"No, you are to restrain from buying II no mat
ter how cheap the article may be If IL is some
thing you don't need"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

A mother hands her daughter a lot
of advice she ought to have followed
herself, but didn't.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-13

LESSON

(By REV. +. b. FITZWATBR, d. D.
Teacher of English Bible in the
Moody Bible Institute of ChIcago.)
Copyright. 1918. Western Newspaper Union.l
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
How We Enrolled IAN Aftermath

keep a goldfish, had we been out of
town in the last four years. and if so
how long, where and what for? Were
we registered in the last military CEN
sus and what was our own occupation?
To this last we answered Journalist.
and, as this seemed too misleading.
changed it to writer" This. it was
agreed unanimously by the fat man. the
occupation at ala bitter truth we had
long suspected, but had never expected
to hear verified.
The climax of the occasion came when
Evelyn, who is young, pretty and every
thing that IS graceful and charm
ing, gave her business as "engineer."
Visions of locomotives and roundhouses
must have danced through the heads of
the officials, for the curly-headed man
dropped his pencil with low moan, and
we rushed blindly into the camouhaged
booths where we found nothing but a
pencil chained by the waist to the wall
With this we scratched a cross beneath
the slogan of our choice, emerged, gave
it to watcher" who dropped it in the
box for us, started past the policeman,
who seized us politely by the arm and
dohcu Are you married
NO" we admitted regretfully, and
the officer turned to the man at the desk:
"Didn't you ask any of these ladies if
they we're married?"
Married." repeated the curly-head-
ed one in the dull tone of one who hears
but understands not.
Yes" shouted the policeman, shaken
at last from his official calm. Married,
HUSBANDSw
:. NO." replied the other joyously, de-
lighted at hearing familiar word. 81
no ask. | don't carew
Business of policeman calling back
all ladies' present to ask if they were
married and: if so, if they had mar
rled enemy aliens. None of them had.
apparently, so we were permitted to
go IN peace. We staggered into the
street.
"Well," said Evelyn as we turned the
corner toward home, IF that is the way
men run politics, don't wonder thev
hate to have us see them doing itv'
+. S.-The moral of this is. read The
Tribune, achere places of registration
were printed the day of the enrolment.
THE EDITOR.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

days meant twelve or more hours on the iob
That is not all of the story Long hours
are bad, and the women conductors have long
hours irregular hours are also bad, and these
women have irregular hours, too 1t is diff
cult to plan ones life systematically; it is al
most impossible to have a normal social life
when one is liable to begin work at o'clock
on one morning, at 8 the next, at 745 the
next, and end just as irregularly. large
proportion of the women on our car lines have
beginning and ending hours just as irregular
as those mentioned
Long hours, irregular hours and, finally.
night hours! 1t would seem as if our "con-
ductorettes' received combination of all the
possible bad features of working day.
TO turn from the subject of hours to the
subject, introduced above of provisions at
the car barns for these women workers. On
the whole, the Manhattan barns are fairlv we'll
provided for in this respect, although no su
perlatlve praise is accorded even them by the
government investigator. His summary of
conditions here is: "In general it may be said
that the (women's) rooms were adequate in
size and were kept clean, though some were
not particularly inviting, and none may be
said to satisfy approved standards of comfort
and convenience"
In Brooklyn, however, even this much NAV
not be said. Some of the conditions existing
there are inexcusable. Indeed, the situation
on the whole is bad enough to warrant this
comment from the investigator:
"Whatever the demand may be for women
in the street railway industry, it cannot be
sufficient to justify their employment under
the circumstances set forth'
There is one bright side to the situation.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

proper thing after supper is to go to movie,
and that's what I do'
It's so much cooler on the night run," said
another conductorette 'In the summer when
the asphalt is baking in the sun at noon it
looks to me as though any one would rather
work at night with the cool breeze blowing
in your face as though you were on Coney
Island ferry" This was No. 1858, young
woman with yellow hair. "rd rather thou
sand times work ten hours in the open air
than sweat for eight in hot shop
Mildred Warren said she liked the night
run better because she had less trouble with
the passengers. "In the daytime" she said.
''you get people rushing to business and peo-
pie rushing to lunch and people rushing for
the ferry, and they always in a hurry
and as cross two sticks. But in the evening
there is only the theatre rush, and that isn't
bit bad, because everybody is out for good
time and acting as pleasant as pie"
No. 2644 gave her opinion of the genus
man before and after dark "There's moth
ing in this talk about it's being dangerous for
US to work at night" she said 'Nobody paws
any attention to us. The men are all pretty
harmless. The worst l ever ran up against
at night was sport who jumped aboard
swinging cane. He was digging down in his
clothes for about ten minutes and then he
came out with four pennies and dropped them
in the coin box. I had to come across with
the extra penny myself
"Another was man with a woman. all
doled up in evening clothes. He drops five
cents in the box and strolls in the car as easv
as you please, with the lady following.
"'Hey, mister, come backn l said. eYou
owe me nickel
Oh, pawdon me- says his highness. 4 for
got my wife was with me-
"Can you beat it?"
The youngest conductorette put in the last
word. Its silly bill; I'm glad it didn't
pass. Thank heaven we have the VOTE
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02

although even this has its dark lining The
women are getting the same pay as the men.
MS IS source of pride to the companies
themselves, who mention it emphatically II
IS true tnat women, men, are paid 27 cents
an nour II they are first-year conductors on
the surface lines; 26 cents an hour if they
are nrst-year subway conductors EMPLOYED by
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit; "a cents an hour
II they are frst-year subway guards for the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit.
On the other hand, the highest increase in
any of these positions since 1914 has been to
the extent of 26 per cent In that same time
the cost of living has advanced in New York
City Al per cent.
The dark lining, therefore, is obvious. The
government investigator expresses it in this
way:
Women are being paid the same wages as
men in the industry. Wages have not actually
been lowered by the introduction of women
INTO the employment, but quite probably wages
have been prevented from rising
Is the situation hopeless? Not at all. The
Womens Trade Union League introduced at
the last session of the Legislature labor bill.
which proposed to limit the streetcar woman's
week to forty-eight hours, between
a. M and 10 p. m. Should such bill as
this eventually be passed the women in this
industry would be protected, as are women in
other industries, by the state law Overwork
ing would be a thing of the past and while
wages would possibly be lowered for a time.
eventually they would readjust themselves
upon a sounder basis This law should receive
the support of every working woman and of
every industrial organization.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02


::$'': s::;:: :.'::: 4: :s :;'': s:, ':';; :s;;
LL!kA.171-I 9--I when she fumbes too long
over the change or fails TO open the doors
quickly. and then it frowns or scolds, and
soon forgets. But there are facts about her
which the Federal Department of Labor
makes it point to remember, to investigate
and, if possible, to remedy
New York State has decreed that in nearly
all employments where women are engaged
the working week shall be fty-four-hour
one The great majority of people approve
that legislation. Here and there, of course,
one fnds man like the we'll known New York
never hurt any one. l have never seen a
woman sick run down from working too
hard" But. fortunately, he is rare
But the "conductorette" has no legislation to
protect her. Perhaps the best way to describe
the conditions under which she does her work
is to quote from the report of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics the schedule of two girls whom
we will call Alice and Sadie
Alice averages an actual working day of
about ten hours for seven days a week, of
course, although when her waiting time is in
cluded the average rises TO eleven hours One
Saturday, Cor instance, Alice worked from
02 till 10 in the afternoon, and then from
34 in the evening until l :O3 the next morn
ing. This very day is an example of the way
waiting time" lengthens the working day
Alice actually worked that day only nine and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-02
THE NEW CITIZENS POINT OF VIEW


malt hours, but from the time she first ar
rived at work until the time she finally left
twelvehour interval elapsed
To be sure, Alice had free period of about
two hours and half during the early part of
the evening. Could this not be turned to good
account, for amusement, or perhaps shopping?
Alice would probably reply: "Well, after
have changed from my uniform to my street
clothes and allowed time to change back again
there isn't much more than two hours left. l
could go to movie then, if there were any
nice ones near the car barn, but it isn't a very
nice neighborhood. There isn't time to go
home, as live quite distance away. Most
of the stores are closed then, so I can't do
shopping, either"
What about working or reading in the car
barn itself?
The answer to this question might very we'll
be this sentence from the Investigators de-
scripton of one Of the barns on the Brooklyn
surface lines:
One OF the barns where women
were employed had waiting room located on
the ground floor, so close to the surface and
elevated tracks that rest was almost impos-
sible'
Not all barns can be described in this way,
of course, but they are far from ideal places
in which to spend ones spare time.
Sadie arrived at work Sunday at s :32
in the afternoon and worked until 7:13 that
evening Off duty until 1926, began work
again at that time and kept on till 1:16 the
next morning. Free for few minutes; began
work again at 1 :28 a. m. and worked till 5 AS
the next morning. Next day began again
about the same time.
Such day as this is an actual working