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Fair play., 1918-05-25
DOM ESTIC,

During the last three months it has
cost the government 100000, 900 more
to run the railroads than was spent
last year in the same period.
Congress has been asked to pass a
law which will make commercial br!b.
cry punishable. This includes various
forms OF commissions and gratuities,
President Wilson has written a sat.
tsfactory letter to the women engaged
In war work approving their zeal and
patriotism.
Six followers of the late Pastor Rus.
sell have been arrested in New York,
charged with conspiring to encouras e
disloyalty.
Five hundred pounds of whale meat
was placed on the market at Evans,
ton' H., and sold readily at 25c per
pound
a house committee has approved
that section of the presidential pro.
gram looking to a change in the leas.
ing OF oil lands.
Chicago school board has prohib,
lieu lhe use OF the school buildings
for other than patriotic or educational
purposes.
George Creel, administration pub
licity man, has gotten into a quarrel
with both branches Of congress for
his sins of omission and commission.
President Wilson's flock OF sheep
pastered on the White House lawn,
have been shorn, yielding an unus,
ually heavy clip OF wool
A New York banker Says capital
and labor are fighting the same bat,
Ties and must travel hand in hand.
The department. ot justice is seeking
TO secure a law applying the death
penalty to all forms OF spying.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
BREW BUSINESS
BIC TEREST
MORE MONEY INVESTED, GUT
WAGES ARE LOWER IN
THAT LINE.
SHOE INDUSTRY HEADS LIST
Foundries and Iron Works Come Next
to Shoes in Value Of Product and
Size of Pay Roll-Packing
Houses Next in Order.



While the brewers of the state have
more money invested in their plants
than any other single line of manu-
featuring. yet they do not employ the
greatest number of people or pay the
most wages, according to figures gath
cred by the Missouri bureau of labor
statistics, under the leadership OF
Commissioner William II. Lewis, for
the 1918 Red Book" the present
years report, now being compiled.
The manufacturers of boots and shoes
head the list in the amount of wages
paid and the number Of people en-
ployed Their yearly pay roll is s11,
S94, ,346
There are SO plants in the state
manufacturing boots and shoes and
they employ a total of 1867 people,
of which number Il, ,499 are males and
6,17S females. They have an invest
ment in their plants of S37.629 ,430.
The value of boots and shoes and
similar commodities made in Missouri
during the year under consideration
was $79,171,O7S.
There are 81 plants manufacturing
beer and products OF malt and they
have a total Investment of SG7,741 OPS
They employ 1917 people, of which
number 7,241 are men and 376 fe-
males, and their annual pay roll is
$6,427341.
The breweries of the state turned
out this year products which had n
total worth of $35,330,911, or about
S4,5OO,OOO less than half of the worth
Of the huge mountain of boots and
shoes produced that year by Mis-
souri's boot and shoe factories.
The foundries and machine shops
come next to the boot and shoe man
ufacturers in the number of workmen
employed. OF the former there are
3S7 plants, with a capital investment
of s19.7S4237. They employ a total
of 1881. and of this number but 172
are females. Their annual pay roll is
$9,3S3,5GS.
The huge packing houses of the
state turned out products worth $145,-
bo''''', blFdhllB All pItflOuS annual
records, and this makes it, for the
year, considering total worth alone
the leading industry of the state.
There are 4S packing house plants,
with a capital investment of $24,124,,
261 and a pay roll of $4O11,S79 per
year. They employ 5,9Si men and 435
women and girls.
The worth of the annual output of
several other manufacturing lines for
the same period was: Flour, feed,
etc, S50,593, ,551; tobacco and cigar
cites, $34,069,631; bakeries, $23 $780,
92O; lumber, timber, boxes, crates,
etc, s24, ,3O1 ,240; mems clothing. SAL,
5S3,S48.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
Governors Proclamation.


To the Paoul. O. Missouri:
have appealed TO you many times
in recent years and never in vain.
Your hearts must swell with JOY and
pride when you contemplate our glori-
Gus record in this war, a record
shared by all of our citizens, OF all
races and creeds.
Cur farmers are producing food in
abundance Our laboriug men are work
ing night and day to increase produc-
ton Our mothers have given thei-
brave sons. Our capital is invested in
Liberty bonds But / must appeal 10
you again This time it is to give,
give, and then double your gift for
the great and magnificent work OF the
Red Cross. Do not wait for a corr
mittce to solicit your subscription.
Make a voluntary offering. Missouri's
quota is 100000. Let us resolve to
be the first state to go over the top
and then double our quota.
The Red Cross movement is the
loftiest and most complete expression
of love, charity and mercy It's prime
purpose is to relieve suffering. 1t is
the Florence Nightingale of the pres
ent.day battlefield. Missouri now has
approximately 125 900 sons in the serv-
ice. If your boy should be sick,
wounded or suffering, the angel of
mercy, wearing Red Cross will sue
cor him. If you have been denied the
privilege of giving a son, then there
is double reason why you should give
of your means to minister to the
manned and wounded soldiers, the
helpless orphans, the broken-hearted
widows and mothers.
beg of the men, women and chill.
dren Of Missouri to give to this great
and righteous cause Let us once more
demonstrate to the boys at the front
that as they are offering their lives TO
protect our liberty we will give our
all, if necessary. to tighten their task.
Faithfully,
FREDERICK d. GARDNER,
Fair play., 1918-05-25
FOREIGN.

Uruguay, seeking to learn whether
or not she is at war with Germany, has
found that Germany considers her as
a friend but sinks her boats.
The kaiser's boastful speeches and
promise OF early victory are believed
to be for the purpose of preparing his
people for the shock of a new attack.
Prof. Dubard, French scientist,
has new theory as to the cause Of
cancer, and is meeting with mucn
success
The Prussian diet once more has re-
fused to accept the manhood suffrage
bill guaranteed by the kaiser.
Police have seized great quantities
Of arms and ammunition stored at va.
rious points in Belfast, Ireland.
An exploration of the highest peaks
OF Himalaya mountains, in Northern
India, is to be undertaken with dir.
ships.
Warning has been sent to all points
on the American line that absolutely
no food is to be wasted.
The dowager empress of Russia
Gears mother) is held by German
troops as a prisoner.
Italian nurses back from the Aus.
trian front declare that 1000 persons
die daily in Vienna from exhaustion.
The Danes have mined their coast
line from boundary TO boundary as
a protective measure
Bonar Law and Lloyd George make
the combined statement that there is
no change contemplated in the high
command in France.
The accession OF Holland TO Ger.
man demands is viewed with much
alarm by native merchants.
Roumania's war debt has reached a
total of $2,O0O,000,OOO and Germany is
to see that it is paid.
There is a great scarcity of small
dwellings in Germany, and the rent ia
SO high on large houses that mar.
riage is out Of the question for young
couples.
Austria is said to be seeking peace
with d sword in one hand and an olive
branch in ne other
Russians have accepted trade pact
with Ukraine. The terms on both
sides were dictated by Germany.
Germany has forbidden meetings Of
Socialists at which peace plans after
the war We're to be discussed.
The English navy successfully
blocked the Belgian port of Ostend,
with the loss OIL only one motor boat.
Great Britain has developed plan
whereby the allies will be in control
OF all natural resources. This for now
and after the war.
London reports that the Prince OF
Wales is to wed the daughter OF an
English duke.
A plot was discovered in Portugal
to upset the government and restore
the monarchy. Sixty.three persons
| are under arrest.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
GEN ERAL.

Odville Sexton, 70, allowed his hot
impulse to enter into a marriage en-
gagement with two Detroit young wom-
en-. They took his money and let the
old man slide
Mrs. Frances Burton Harrison, wife
of the governor of the Philippines, has
sought and obtained a divorce from
her husband, She gets the two chill.
dren and $500 a month.
Bread tickets may becmoe neces.
sary in some parts of this country,
owing to a continued reduction in the
amount of wheat allowed to millers.
Germany is holding two Russian
grand dukes as hostages, though no
reason Is assigned
Fair play., 1918-05-25
WILSON ASKS FOR
DAY Of PRAYER
MAY 30 SET APART FOR SUPPLI-
CATIONS FOR AN EARLY
VICTORY.
lMPLORE PROTECTION OF GOD
Day Already Halowed With Sacred
Memories Must Be Put 20 New
use-Fastng and De-
Mai Are Urged.
IMPLORE PROTECTION OF GOD

Washington, d. C.--National Me-
mortal Day Thursday May 30, is des-
ignated by President Wilson in a proc
lamation issued as day of public hui
initiation, prayer and fasting. The peo-
pie of the nation are asked to gather
that day in their places of worship
and pray for the victory of the Ameri-
can armies which will bring a peace
founded upon mercy, justice and good
will.
The proclamation, issued in response
TO a resolution by congress, follows:
BY the President of the United
States:
Proclamation.
Whereas, the Congress Of the United
States on the I'd OF April, last, passed
the following resolution Resolved by
the senate (the house of representa-
tives concurrIng) that, 1t being a duty
peculiarly incumbent in a time Of war
humbly and devoutly to acknowledge
our dependence on Almighty God and
to implore his aid and protection, the
president of the United States be and
l4t 10 I'ltDg lNopttAlOilg ltAhCottt "
commend a day Of public humiliation.
prayer and fasting, to be observed by
the people of the United States with
religious solemnity and the offering
of fervent supplications to Almighty
God for the safety and welfare of our
cause, his blessings on our arms, and
a speedy restoration of an honorable
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the earth,
And whereas, It has always been the
reyerent habit OF the people of tho
United States to turn in humble ap-
peal to Almighty God for his guidance
in the affairs OF their common life;
Now. therefore, l, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States OF
America, do hereby proclaim Thurs
day, the 30th day Of May, a day al
ready freighted with sacred and stimu-
lating memories, a day OF public hui
initiation, prayer and fasting and do
eXhort my fellow-citizens of all faiths
and creeds TO assemble on that day in
their several places of worship and
there, as well as in their homes, to
pray AlAlI6uIy HOu JHdL ne may IOr-
give our sins and shortcomings as a
people and purify our hearts to see
and love the truth. to accept and de-
fend all things that are Just and right,
and to purpose only those righteous
acts and judgments which are in con.
formity with his will; beseeching him
that he will give victory to our armies
as they fight for freedom, wisdom to
those who take counsel on our behalf
in these days Of dark struggle and
perpleXity, and steadfastness to our
people TO make sacrifice to the utmost
In support of what is just and true,
bringing us at last the peace in which
mems hearts can be at rest, because it,
is founded upon mercy, justice and
good will.
In witness whereof. have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done In the District Of Columbia
this 18th day Of May in the year OF
our Lord 1918, and OF the indepen6.
ence of the United States the 142d.
WOODROW WILSON.
BY the President,
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
RAIL WAGE INCREASE
1889, ,3ee EMPLOYEES WILL BENE-
FIT BY RATE BASED ON COST
OF LIVING.
AWAITS M'AD0O'S APPROVAL
Exhaustive Report of Commission Civ
en- to Director GeneraI-Protest
From Brotherhood Leaders
Scale of increases.

Washington, u. c., May 9.-Wage ad-
vanceS to ,930,309 railroad employees,
ranging from ! per cent to the highest
up to 43 per cent to the lowest paid
workers and aggrcgating S30OOO0,0OO,
are made public in an exhaustive re-
port by the railroad wage commission
to Director General McAdoo.
Mr.. McAdoo is expected to adopt
only part of the recommendations and
probably will make number of diff
ferent alignments In deciding what
wage increases shall be granted.
In general, the director general ad-
vocates higher pay for most classes Of
workmen to enable them to meet In
creased living costs, but he has been
represented as favoring propOrtlOnate-
ly larger Increases for some classes
than for others now making the same
pay. He also is strongly opposed to
granting wage increases which might
dlsarrange the general scheme Of pay
existing throughout other industries.
Leaders to Protest.
The leaders of the four principal
railway brotherhoods found on eN-
aninIng the report that they had
been recommended for less than half
the increases they had asked Of the
railroad arrangements before govern
ment control started and which they
repeated before the commission. Their
demands had been for an average OF
somewhat less than 40 per cent, and
increases for them average less than
20 per cent
Some union leaders who anticipated
that the commissions recommends
tions would not be for as great
amounts as they had asked already
have appealed to Director General Nc
AdoO to amend the proposed scale TO
give them higher pay, Others, how
ever, virtually have agreed TO accept
the report.
The wage advances. which range all
the way from 81 to S34 a month, are
increases above the amount of pay
each employee was receiving on De
cember 81, 1915. Employees who have
received advances since that date will
beneht now TO the extent OF the differ
ence between their present wage and
that fixed by the wage commission.
The net cost Of tho additional pay
to the railroads is estimated at $780,
100000 This is exclusive Of the esti,
mated deficit of SSOO,OOO,OOO In govern,
ment operation of the railroads this
year, rs a result OF which Director
General McAdoo contempates ad,
vancing passenger rates at least 2la
Fair play., 1918-05-25
MAY DELAY POSTAL CHANGES
Senator Watson Announces Purpose
to Ask for Postponement for
One Year.

Washington Notice was given in
the senate by Senator Watson Of In
diana that he will ask for a suspen-
sion Of the rules to introduce a bill
which will postpone for one year the
enforcement Of the provision in the
war revenue bill increasing the sec
ond-class postal rates which goes in
effect July l.
Newspaper publishers have declared
that the act Is unworkable and that
Its operation should be postponed un-
til congress can put the increase on a
scientific basis.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
NEGRO Welfare Commission.

The Missouri Negro Educational
and Industrial Commission, through
its chairman, n. c. Bruce Of Dalton,
Mo, has appealed to Commissioner
William II. Lewis. of the Missouri Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, to aid that
organization in securing statistical
facts and figures pertaining to the ne
gro population of the state, the OBJ
Ject being TO use all such information
to elevate the race. One intention is
TO persuade negroes to heed the call
and lure of the land and become farm.
ers, a pursuit which offers splendid
inducements and profits to the race,
and makes all following it more inde-
pendent than any other which is now
open to this portion of the states
population. Scattered over the state
are several hundred negro farmers,
either owning farms, or renting one,
or running one on the profit-sharing
plan for the owner, and all such are
making huge success of the venture,
and the majority are receiving encour-
agement and a helping hand from
merchants and commission men, buy
ers and shippers, and the bankers they
have business dealings with.
Chairman Bruce is anxious to place
competent representative in the
field in Missouri to gather informa-
ton from all negro farmers and from
others who are working as farm help,
and also other economical facts deal
ing with the prosperity and environ
ments of the rural negro of Missouri.
Widespread publicity will be given 20
all such statistical details to encour-
age negroes to become farmers. The
Bureau OF Labor Statistics funds are
not sufficient this year to undertake
this work. but it is suggested, il some
philanthropist will donate $500 to the
negro industrial commission for this
purpose the work can commence with
the assurance that the next leglsla.
ture Will be asked to appropriate
enough to complete the task In New
York where similar negro Industrial
commission exists, $4,000 has Just
been appropriated for this purpose
The Missouri commission which
was created as a negro welfare prop
osition by Governor Gardner, has al
ready, and without funds, save what
the members of the commission do
mated themselves, accomplished much
good. Hundreds of negroes have been
persuaded to clean up their premises,
plant thrift gardens, and look more
after the health of their families. Sani-
tary, health and thrift lectures are be-
ing gty"n in colored communities by
members Of the commission and edu-
Gated negroes, and this work is en-
tirely voluntary with each such volun.
teer meeting his own expenses.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
NEWS OF WEEK
Told Herewith in Tabloid
Form
Condensed Items of Interest
for Every Member OF
the Household
MlSCELLANE EOUS.

The defendants in the Prayer case
at Edwardsyille H., now seek to prove
that their victim was German spy.
Lew Trendler. .eecond-rate pugilist
of Philadelphia, has made and saved
$4,000 at that game in the last eight
months.
Mexican bandits crossed the border
near FL Paso and purloined 80 head Of
cattle Troops were sent after them
Count James Minotto, Swift's SON
in-law, has been interned as a danger
Gus alien enemy.
The Kentucky supreme court has
ruled that. while a spittoon is not
beautiful, it is essential, and must be
a part of every railway car.
Emperor Charles of Austria has
taken his court along with him on a
new trip to the Italian front.
Two men in uniform beat a chauf-
feur to death at Waco, Tex, and es-
capped with the car. They are thought
to be deserters
Horace Noakes, of Chicago, a rail-
way worker angcred by the news of
a coming baby, hit his wife over the
head with q crowbar in an attempt
to kill her.
Russia, believing because she is out
of the war, it must stop, has demand
ed that Germany and the allies forth,
with cease hostilities.
Daylight robbers held up and rob-
bed cigar store in St. Louis at $50
Monday morning, and escaped with
$3.50.
The British have rescued 1900
starving Armenians from the clutches
of the Turks near Port Said, and
are transporting them to safety
Gen, Sir Bryan Mahon has relin-
quished the command of the British
forces in Ireland
A new emergency ration has been
adopted by the navy consisting of
eight ounces of powdered cooked
wheat, five lean meat and one of
salt.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
PEPeONAL.

Billy Sunday has abandoned the
original plans he made concerning 60
ing to France.
Ira Van Allen, AZ, minister, gave
up his pulpit and became a MESSENGER.
thinking thus to better serve his
country
Nicholas Romanoff, once czar Of all
the Russians, is confined in a small
house at Tobolsk. Siberia, and no
longer receives the adulation that
marked his reign as an autocrat
Gen. F. B. Maurice, the British Of
ficer who caused a near cabinet crisis
in England, has been retired.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, suffragist,
announces that women should be
drafted for service on the same foot,
ing as men
Fair play., 1918-05-25
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

The supreme court has decided that
woman notary who marries must
continue to use her maiden name un-
til her commission expires.
Robert Smith, negro physician con.
victed OF numbering the wife of his
benefactor at Parsons. Kan, must go
to prison for life, says the Kansas
supreme court.
Drafted soldiers are beyond the
reach of courts when it comes to the
payment of alimony, according to New
York supreme court.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
Funds Wasted, Says Hackmann.

Nearly $1,000 was spent during 1915
and 1917 at Lincoln institute, the state
negro normal school here, for enter
tainment of members of the legisla-
ture and their wives with dinners, ci-
gars, brandies and taxicab rides, ac-
cording to the report of an audit of the
school made public by State Auditor
Hackmann.
The report referred to the expedi.
lures as unlawful and said that
Sl7746 was spent in this manner in
1915, while the dinner and banquet
bills climbed to S6GS4S in 1917.
The taXiCabs, which carried the
members TO the institute during the
two sessions, cost the state S7775, he
said. A detailed account of the items
for dinners said that $40 was spent
for grape juice in 1917. A small
amount of apricot brandy was listed
among the items.
Turkey, geese and chicken were
served at the dinners, according to the
report. The fowls cost the state, the
audit says, sS5.O5 in 1915 and $685. in
1917. All of the dinner bills were
charged to the domestic science ac-
count of the school on requisitions Of
the president, B, F, Allen, it is alleged
The accounts were approved by f.
Guy Chinn Of this city, secretary of
the board of regents, Hackmann as
serts.
The report stated 7, Speed Mosby,
n. C. Burch and Chinn had over
charged the state $50 for railroad
mileage.
Gov. Gardner said his 1a-yearuld
son, William X. Gardner, 'g;!l again
join some branch of the military sery-
ice when he finishes his work at the
state university in few days.
The governor said his son had not
determined what branch he would go
into, although he was anxious to serve
in the aviation section. He said he
had also considered the navy.
Young Gardner returned last Decem-
Der from France, where he drove an
ambulance for six months. He had a
series of thrilling experiences and sey-
eral narrow escapes.
Fair play., 1918-05-25

Many nervous as well as other dis
eases are caused by incorrect illumi-
nation. The eye is a subject Of prime
consideration in connection with our
health and happiness. Eye fatigue
spoilS the disposition; as that is one Of
the conditions given for inefficient
work, we find here again a reduction
in efficiency and a cause for more loss
of the vorkman's time. The first loss
was mechanical, the second is physi-
zeal; both, when reduced to a dollar
and-cents basis, show large percent
Fair play., 1918-05-25
LABOR.

Chicago tcamsters to the number
Of $500 are on strike, asking an in
crease of SO per week.
James Wilson. chairman of the U.
5 labor delegation, now in London,
declares that by and large the war
Will be won by the superiority of the
American workingman.
Car strike at Rochester, N. Y, end.
ed with victory for the men
Fair play., 1918-05-25
WAR BRFvITIEs

The kaiser has recalled the Baltic
fleet to Kiel fearing further daring
raids of the allies.
Frank Baylis of New Bedford. Mass,
has brought down nine enemy ma.
chimes on the western front.
Gen. Johnson Haysood in recent
speech declared: 1--WE shall stay hero
tEuropc) until the allies win, and
then 20 home empty-handed"
French soldiers in recent 15-min.
ute raid captured $50 Germans and
go machine guns.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
De- erydon state commIssIoner.

DR., Z. II. Bullock of Edna, state
land reclamation commissioner, re-l
signed TO accept the appointment asl
health commissioner OF Kansas City
Doc Brydon, secretary of the Demo-
tratic state committee, was appointed
by Gov Gardner to succeed Bullock.
Ths salary of land reclamation COM
missioner is s2.400 year.
Fair play., 1918-05-25

age over the cost Of the lighting that
would be required to eliminate them
As judgment is dependent upon per
ception, and perception upon the sight
then the laborer, to be efficient must
be able TO see fine details and small
objects Mt close range with sharpness
and distinction, to distinguish objects
mt distance with accuracy, and to
have clear perception of all objects in
the intermediate space.
Fair play., 1918-05-25
NEUROLOGICAL.

John Grass, 70, celebrated Indian
chief, is dead at his home in Mandan,
n. ID.
Mrs. Harry Selfridge. wife of Lon
don's biggest merchant, is dead MIR.
and Mrs. Selfridge are both Chicago
people.