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Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28

ON BIGlEVEL SET
FOR OCTOBER 8
News Items From Big Level
Community; School
Notes

We are making preparations
and looking forward to one of
the best community fairs ever,
here Tu uesday October s. An ex-
cellent program will be- render
cd and some good speakers are
expected also. The Government
is requesting good exhibits and
nothing speaks better for land
owners than to make good exhib-
it's at these community fairs.
Because Of our hustling farmers
and productive soil we are sure
of the best we have ever had.
Judges will be here to select
from these exhibits for the
state fair at Jackson. Hence
i. selections will be carried from
Jackson.
The Home Consolidated School
is progressing nicely with an
enrolment of near 180 and more
entering each week.
Prof. Bass was a pleasant
caller Monday. he made an in
teresting talk in chapel.
Miss Quarles called by Tues.
day.
The girls are expecting to be
playing Volley Ball soon, while
the boys are looking forward to
many interesting games of Bas-
Ket Ball when the new ball
comes.
Miss Walker is proving her
efficiency as music teacher.
for we are boasting of the big
gest music class this year, we
have ever had.
Prof. Arlington, is making
preparations to put in Manual
Training soon. He expects the
boys and girls to make porch
swings, wood boxes. mrgazine
stands. library tables and many
other conveniences for the
home.
Prof. Stanley, wife and little
daughter, visited on the Level
Saturday and Sunday.
Most of our people attended
the Association at Ebenezer
Sunday. They reported a big
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28
GERMANS DRIVEN
BACK FIVE MILES;
5000 PRISONERS
Turks Being Driven Out Of
Holy Land; Made
Other Gains

The war news from the Allies
has been optimistic every day
this week. Gains have been made
each day with grand drive yes
terday of five miles in which five
thousand German prisoners
were taken.
In Palestine, in and around the
historical town of Nazareth, the
British have routed the Turks,
and it is claimed the Holy Land
will soon be in the hand of the
allied nations.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28

crowd, excellent sermons, and a
delicious dinner.
Rev. T. J. Blass, formerly a
teacher at Big Level, now at
Newton, was present at the B.
Y. P. U. Sunday night.
The Woman Christian Tenn
perance Union, met at tue
Teachers Home Saturday after
noon. Some new members we're
received and discussions were
made along the lines Of Red
Cross and war work. 1t will
meet again Saturday afternoon
at four o'clock. The Red Cross
will meet also and talks will be
made on the Fourth Liberty
Loan, which is on the 29th. A
good attendance is expected, all
are cordially invited to attend.
Miss Hervey Lee Oliver is chair
man of the Womans Liberty
Loan Committee on Big Level.
Next Sunday has been set
apart as GO to Sunday School"
Sunday by the Southern Bap-
lists. Big Level never falls
behind, so we know that this
request of the Sunday School
Board will be carried out here
by an excellent attendance at
Sunday School Sunday A. M. at
II o'clock.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28
Teachers Here Saturday

AS Director of War Savings
Stamps in Schools, Prof. J. g.
Ritchie, has called a meeting of
all the school teachers in the
county to be held here next Sat
urday, Oct. 5th for the purpose
of discussing plans by which the
subscription to war savings
stamps will be carried out sue,
cessfully.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28

are coming to him thick and fast,
and the mothers in this county
who have boys in France are
anxious to hear him talk, think
ing probaiy, he can tell them
something of their boy who is
over there" doing his bit to
aid in making the word safe fer
democracy,
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28

The body of Private Otto
Seiweck, of Decatur. ILL.,, was
found in the swimming pool at
at Camp Shelby yesterday. No
sign of foul play was found on
the BODY.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28

soon come W d SUCCESSFUL CIOSS
in favor of the allied nations, is
the belief of Sergeant Thomas
r. Cunningham, son Of Mrs. G.
G.. Cunningham, living five miles
south of Wiggins, who has just
returned from tire firing lines in
France and is spending a fifteen
day furlough with relatives and
friends in this county.
Sergeant Cunningham arrived
here Monday from Built, N. c.,
where he had been sent imme-
diately after reaching this cOun-
! try for treatment in the .. S.
General Hospit No. 10, AS a
result Of months of exposure to
the cold climate in that part Of
France where he had been sta
TONED, it was necessary for him
to return to this country and
receive treatment.
Tom" as the Sergeant is
known to many throughout the
county, tells an interesting story
of the many experiences he has
had since leaving this country.
He was among the first troops to
reach France, arriving there
June 18th of last year, and on
way across, although conveyed
over by submarine chasers and
torpedo boats, the trip was not
witout it's sen sations. The boat
on which Cunningham was on
was attacked on eight different
occasions and he says that every
one Of the eight submarines
were sunk by the patrol that
was escOrting them over.
On reaching France, the Ser
geant says, the people of that
country seemed to go wild at the
sight Of our boys, and as the
boat was going into the harbor
where they alighted, the women,
bows and girls covered the deck
OF the ship with flowers and
candy before they were able to
land.
"'ris a great and beautiful
country" says the Sergeant,
but the people say that the
beauty of years ago is hardly
recognized now since France has
experienced the herrOrs Of war
and seen the wreck and ruin of
her villages. Towns and vii
lagos for miles and miles have
been vacated and after the in
habitants had fled the German
soldiers had come along and de-
strOyed everything that was
possible to destroy. The whole
country is covered with shell
holes and the people are now
slowly making their way back to
their homes to find nothing but
wreck and ruin"
Sergeant Cunningham was in
the trenches in the Les Lorraine
region from October Goth to Nov
EN- ber Goth of last year and it
was at this time that he was
made sergeant over a platoon of
twenty men.
During the cold winter days"
said the Sergeant, while I was
in these trenches, going night
and day, sleeping and eating
when | wCud have the chance
and that was not too often-I
contracted a bad cold and for
days I was in serious condition.
But before | was removed to the
/ hos pitfalls back of the lines, was
treated fine. The Salvation
Army and the Red Cross work
ers are right in the trenches
with the men, serving them oc-
casionally with hot coffee, tea OF
cocoa and doing every thing tc
help make things pleasant for
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-09-28
Sergt. Cunningham,
From Batttlefie1ds Of
France, els Story

the boys. III tell you, those
two organizations are the sreat- |
est there is in the world and the
folks here at home have no idea
what a great help they are to the
boys.
Cunningham said that on one
occasion he had been exposed to
to the intense cold so ltn1g that
he became practically frozen and
as the result of this he was then
sent back Of the lines to the hos
pital.
But I wouldn't take anything
in the world for the experiences
| [ have had" the Sergeant con
tinued. Although there we're
times when things were looking
pretty rocky but | cannot say
that [ have experienced anything
| Ike what the boys are going
Through now. At the time | was
lin the trenches the American
soldiers had just begun to arrive
| but now the boys from this
country are in practically every
part OF France. Everywhere
you go there are the boys from
the States and the people treat
them royalty"
Can you say that you have
accounted for any of the enemy"
Sergeant Cunningham wa s
asked.
"Well. you see, was directing
=. the gun-fire from my platoon, e"
the Sergeant answered, land al
though I did none Of the firing
Of the guns, [ can safely say
that we got ours. ,"
When questioned as to what
the German prisoners had to say
of their predicament, the Ser
geant stated that it was q hard
matter to get the opportunity to
talk with them, but on one oc-
casion, he said, when he was as
sisting q party in bringing a
number of prisoners behind the
lines, he was told by them that
the German people did not know
that American soldiers were in
France and that they did not be-
Iieve it possible for our boys to
cross the ocean with safety.
And it is a fact" he continued,
that the prisoners who are
being captured daily say that
they are glad to be taken, and
lots of them give up in order to
be relieved of fighting. But be-
lieve me-" the Sergeant said,
our boys 60 through the enemy
like wild fire and there's no
chance of stopping them unless
they run out Of ammunition or are
riddled with bullet holes; they re
game the whole way through.
And as to the newspaper re
ports, l fird that they give ac-
curate accounts of the happen
ings over there" he went on.
You see, we would receive
papers when in France while the
fighting was going on and we
would read the reports in the
papers of things that we saw and
heard ourselves.
How about the results of the
war;" Sergeant Cunningham was
asked.
"Well, if the Germans don't
begin to place women and girls
in the trenches soon, they're
blown up There are no middle
! aged men at ali in the army on
) the German side and all you can
see are small boys and old men.
Oh, they're sure thinned out, :"
) said the Sergeant, as he made
his way throuh crowd of cur
+ ious on-lookers and interested
} listeners.
Il Sergeant Cunningham is tne
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
MEYER LONDON ADVISES
THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE
TO BACK THE PRESIDENT

Socialist member of Congress.
Meyer London, of New York, ad-
dressed the convention of the Work
mems Circle May 8, and made a
profound impression upon the dele
gates by his plea for national unity.
He discussed the most vital sub
ject of the times, war and peace.
"A strong and brutal power"
London stated, "organzed for the
last fifty years, is now threatening
the world. This power has crush
ed Belgium and Servia and has split
up and dishonored Russia, which only
recently freed itself from the yoke
of its own tyrants through bloody
struggle, and which finds Itself now
in the poisoned clutches of Prussian
militarism.
France, England and our own
country, the freest countries in the
world, which have granted us Jews
complete liberty, recognition and the
possibility to live, are now also
threatened by the danger Of the
same Internal lust of the Kaiser for
world domination.
"As Socialists, we should be
among the first ones to support our
country in the fight for the idealistic
peace program proposed by Presi-
dent Wilson, a peace program that
was adopted by all liberty loving
people of the world.
"a year ago when sent a cable
20 Russia warning against separate
peace with Germany, my district on
The East Side considered nv action
as one of treason to Socialism. Now.
however, everybody realizes what
the separate peace led to.
Il hope that next convention of
the Workmen's Circle will find the
world at peace, based on the princi
pies formulated by President Will
son.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
INITIATIVE MEET
AT LAKE STEVENS

Last Monday evening a party of
initiative boosters visited Lake Stew
ms, where they were received with
hat hospitality for which that viii
age is noted. They were given
he use CT the theatre and large
audience gathered to listen to ad-
lresses by Bros. f. A. Francois
md Wilbert Pilon on Initiative Pc
itions Nos. 81, 32 and 33. These
'cntlemen found their audience in
sympathy with the progressive meas
res proposed by organized labor,
he farmers organizations and the
Direct Legislation League and many
iigned the petitions.
Bro. Pilon spoke good words for
he Daily Union Record, receiving
nuch encouragement from his hear
rs.
Nr. Totten, an accomplished mu-
'iciGn, favored the audience with
al selections of piano music.
The Everett visitors were: E. A.
francois, Wilbert Pilon, Mrs. Viola
1ancois. MIS-. Nora Frye, Mrs. Ger
rude Tyler and Mrs. Totten.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
TOM MOONEY IS
SENTENCED TO
DEATH AGAIN

Thomas J. Mooney convicted of
murder through an explosion on
July %, 1916, Preparedness Day, in
San Fracnisco, when ten persons
were killed and forty others injured,
was on Tuesday sentenced to death
the second time by Judge Franklin
Griffin, before whom he was tried.
The order made by Judge Frank
lin Griffin was that Mooney be re-
moved to San Quentin prison within
10 days and there hanged in not
less than GO or more than 80 days
from June 2S.
Mooney teleeraphed to Samuel
Gompers at Washington asking him
to again urge President Wilson to
"use all powers at his command tc
the end that the authorities of Cal
ifornia comply with the recommended
tion made by his mediation commits
sion"
Notwithstanding it has been clear
w proven that Mooney was convict
d on the testimony of perjurers.
Frank Oxman Mrs. Edeau and other
equally bad characters, Mooney must
die.
Because no errors were found in
the court procedure in the trial of
Mooney by California's supreme trib-
unal that body of august jurists,
knowing the President of the United
States many prominent officials and
thousands of good citizens, even the
judge before whom Mooney was
tried, doubted his guilt or the fair
ness of his trial-because of illegal
regularity" Mooney must die.
When the state of California shall
have put this man to death, whether
he be innocent or guilty, she will
have committed shameful illegal
murder" and stamped with a brand
of infamy the men responsible for
it. @i1E@
1t is hard to imagine an intelli-
gent, impartial person who has read
the history of this case who be-
lieves Tom Mooney received fair
trial, to which he would have been
entitled if guilty. But. then, no
errors" were found by the supreme
court when that body reviewed the
case, but if Mooney be hanged that
court will some time realize that it
has made a great error of judg-
ment.
And Fickert! Well, the brand of
Cain would be a badge of honor
compared with that which will be
stamped upon that fellow.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
WAR LABOR BOARDS
RULES OF PROCEDURE

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The Ma
tional War Labor Board has perfected
rules for taking up industrial dis
putes.
The board invites the cooperation
of the trade union movement by its
announcement that:
"The national board may appoint
permanent local committees in any
city or district to act in cases there
in arising. In the selection of such
local committees, recommendation
will be received by the national
board from associations of employ
ers and from the central labor body
of the city or district and other
properly interested groups"
Summed up, the rules provide:
Two members of the board-one
an employer and one an employe-
to act for the board in local con-
troversies. This subcommittee is
to be known as a section"
Appointment of local permanent
committees.
The full board shall act only where
its "section" or the local committee
fail to adjust a difficulty. Then
the full board will sit as a board
of arbitration, decide the controversy
and make an award.
The board will hear appeals in the
following cases:
Where the principles established
by President Wilson, in his procla-
nation of April 8, have been vio-
lated.
Where an award has not been put
into effect or where employees have
refused to accept such award.
To determine questions of juris-
diction as between government
boards.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31

The war is furnishing greedy and
hypocritical employers with oppor-
tunites to satisfy their craving for
gain that were little contemplated
by the most far-sighted among them
year ago. Women workers are
being exploited in most unmerciful
fashion, under the pretense of pa
triotism, and strange as it may
seem, these hypocrites are actually
able to convince more honest and
we'll intentioned persons that there
is some merit in their contentious
and that the substitution of women
for men in many lines of industry
is really in the interest of the ma
tion and at sacrifice to them
selves.
These crafty parasites point to
the fact that women have replaced
men in the industrial world in Eng
land and some of the continental
countries in Europe, because of
shortage of men owing to the war,
and that because such course was
found to be necessary over there, the
anne course is advisable here. Even
# this argument contained the truth,
and it does not, in every instance
where such substitutions have been
made in this country, the employer
has failed to follow the rule estab-
ished in England, which provides
hat the women shall receive the
same pay as the men whose places
hey took.
But let US analyze the situation
nd see how we'll the contention OF
necessity will stand the test of logic
In England conscription was not re-
sorted to until late in the war, and
many employers put women to work
in the places of men to make the
men available for military service
In this country the draft law became
Effective at once, mailing such
course here absolutely unnecessary
because the men were available in
unlimited numbers at call. In Eng
land, one in every seven of popula-
ion is in the military service, which
very naturally made it necessary to
call upon women to take the places
vacated by men. But In the United
States at the present time there is
but one in each hundred and fifty of
population in the military service, so
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
PRESIDENT WILSON
EMPOWERED TO PUT
u. S. ON WAR BASIS

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Presi-
dent Wilson has signed the Overman
bill which places undreamed-of-pow-
ers in the hands of the chief exec
utive.
The law will remain in force until
TX months after the war. 1t per-
nits the president to consolidate or
coordinate any executive or admin
istrative commission, bureau, office
1r agency of the government. He
nay transfer duties and functions of
my of these officials and take
money appropriated to one depart
Eent and place it at the disposal of
any branch of the government.
Admirers of King Precedent and
Nd General Red Tape shudder at
his e-man-powcr, unequalled in
lmerican history and which over
hrows former notions of our sys-
eem of government.
The men who want to win the war
II the shortest possible time, reply
that the Overman law will make
'uick action possible, because it CEN
rallies authority and that this legis-
alton is no more radical than the
Governments attitude toward organ
ICED labor, the conscription law, food
control law, communicating the rail
roads or building houses for ship and
munitions workers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
LIBELS AGAINST LABOR
INJURE WESTERN CITY

TACOMA, Wash, May 25.-Many
business men in this city, and every
anti-union influence, have remained
silent during the past several months
while trade unionists in Tacoma and
other sections of the Northwest
were advertised throughout the
country as wild-eyed revolutionists
and hostile to the program of max
mum speed for ship production.
1t is now discovered that the gov
ernment has accepted these state
ments and will not award contracts
for concrete ships to the Pacific
Northwest.
This makes different situation.
1t was proper to slander organized
abOr, and question its patriotism,
but when the government assumed,
in the absence of contrary testimony
by influential citizens to support the
denials of labor that the libelers
were telling the truth, the situation
called for action.
At a meeting of the executive
board of the Tacoma Commercial
Club and Chamber of Commerce.
Chairman Hurley of the United
States Shipping Board was asked to
reconsider his decision "in order
that it may be proven to you that
your decision was based on incor-
rect information"
at is the duty of this organiza-
tion," says these business men, "to
keep in close touch with the indus
trial connections of this city, and
from the first-hand knowledge which
we possess, this board emphatically
assures you that labor conditions on
all government work are, and have
been, extremely harmonious, and that
the men have at all times co-operat-
ed in every way to turn out gov
ernment work, both in the building
of ships and the construction of the
cantonment at Camp Lewis"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
PARASITES LAME EXCUSE FOR
EMPLOYING WOMEN WORKERS
the Last Refuge of ScOundre Wrote Dr.
Samuel Johnson and We Have Enough of Them

that before the same necessity that
exists in England could obtain here
we must have an army in excess of
twenty million men. These are abso-
lutte facts, yet the patriots for prof
it have the brazen effrontery to tell
the people that they are replacing
men with women because of the needs
of the nation.
Recently we were astonished in
reading the transactions of the Com
monwealth Club on "War Service"
to find that a large employer of la
Dor in one of our commercial enter
prises pretended that his establish
ment had substituted elevator girls
for elevator boys out of spirit Of
patriotism, and said that, of course,
he had been criticized for so doing,
but he was big enough and patriotic
enough to stand all the criticism that
came to him because of his loyalty
o his country. Now it so hap
'ICIlSd tItcb dI Ollt VI Jil0 regular
sessions of the San Francisco Labor
Council a communication from the
Elevator Operators union had been
read complaining against the very
establishment the Commonwealth
Club speaker represented because of
he fact that women had been en-
nloyed to replace members of the
lnion at salaries of $50 per month
below the scale the men had been
eceiving. This fact points uner-
ingIy to the patriotic fervor of this
particular employer. He employees
about twenty elevator operators,
saving about $50 per month on each
"a pretty good price for his "loy-
tlty" to his country.
There is, in truth, no need what
-ver for the replacing of men with
women in the industries of this coun-
iry, and the employer who does it
5 simply trying to deceive the real
'atriots who have the country's well
are at heart in the interest of his
own pocketbook. He is one of the
most despicable of properly detisted
profiteers, unfit to associate with de-
cent men and necessarily a contamin-
ating influence even among rogues.
DR.. Samuel johnson told the truth
when he said: Patriotism is the last
refuge of a scoundrel. Labor Clar-
ion.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
NORWAY-PACIFIC
CONSTRUCTION
& DRYDOCK CO.

The city of Everett is to be con-
graduated upon securing the great
steel shipyard- with the above title.
The Journal has been optimistic
from the inception of this new en-
terprise and pleased to announce
that preliminary work has COM
menced on the plant. We are also
pleased to inform organized labor
hat this shipyard will be conducted
on the "closed shop" method. The
Journal also congratulates President
Thomle and his magnificent organ
izing efforts.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-31
EVERETT LOSES
A GOOD CITIZEN

On the 9Th of June, next Wednes-
day, Bro. John B. Moncur honored
member of the Plumbers Union,
will leave Everett for the east to be
gone about two years. His wife
accompanies him. Bro. Moncur goes
to Arcola, Ills, where he will re-
side as executor of his fathers es-
tate. In the departure of John b.
Moncur Everett loses an earnest
worker for organized labor and a
citizen of courage and sterling worth.