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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
NOT RICH MANS WAR.

The war won't cost the poor man
cent. 1t may cost poor mems lives.
But more men will be killed in in
dustrys and by such diseases as tu-
perculosis, spread by unfavorable
conditions of life. The toll will be
upon land and upon capital. The
war will lower the price of land and
this will help industry. Labor has
more to win than any one else. Cap
ital hasn't chance to gain special
advantage. This is not a rich mans
war.-Clarence S. Darrow.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
ONLY n LOST ON SHIPS;
1917 WAS RECORD YEAR

WASHINGTON Jan. 3.-Only II
passengers lost out of more than $780,
100000 carried on American ships
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
the annual report Of the steamboat
inspection service shows.
The total of deaths on American
vessels, including those who went
down with torpedoed merchant craft,
was 592,. but suicides and accidental
drownings accounted for 21O Of these.
The years total was 6S4 less than that
OF the previous year. when 800 per-
sons were lost on the steamer Feast
lanl At Chica - III J. y, - =zz-t a. " " II
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
BREAD PRICE FIXED.

The voice of the people has been
heard. The campaign inaugurated
and conducted by The Labor World
for reduction in the price of bread
has yielded it's fruit We demanded
that the Duluth bakers should charge
no more than TX cents for 49,
ounce loaf of bread. This price had
been fixed by the Public Safety COM
mission and was agreed to by the
bakers of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The application of this order to Du-
luth had been left by the Public
Safety commission to it's Duluth
member, Mr.. A. c. Weiss.
Last week The Labor World
printed strong editorial demanding
that immediate steps be taken to fix
the bread price at Duluth, as nothing
had been done in the matter up to
the time. H. w. Zinsmaster of the
Zinsmaster-Smith Bread company,
keen, forward-looking and always
alert, lost no time in getting into
action after last weeks number of
The Labor World. He explained that
on account of the peculiar delivery
condition obtaining here and the high
cost Of distribution it would not be
profitable to sell a 16-ounce loaf of
bread for TX cents, but he figured
out a way for public relief by which a
two-pound loaf would be sold to the
public for Is cents.
The Labor World congratulates
Mr.. Zinsmaster upon his solution of
this vexed question, and for the
prompt action he took when his at
tcntion was properly called to the
matter. James Gray of the Crescent
bakery followed Mr.. Zinsmaster in
quick order. Other local bakeries,
it is said, are preparing to meet the
new weight.
1t is reported to The Labor World
that number Of retail grocers are
lOI uduulluS Lu0 uc" LWO-pOuuU lOdls
One of them declared yesterday that
there was no profit in it, and it would
not pay him to handle it. He pre-
ferred to stick to the old time weight
with the old time price, but there are
grocers in Duluth who will fill all
orders for the new two-pound loaf
at IS cents and they undoubtedly
will get the patronage of all peo-
pie who are seeking relief from high
food prices
Our hat is off to the Duluth bak-
ers. We did not get all we asked for.
We would have preferred a 16-ounce
loaf at ~ cents, but we have been
shown that it would be improbable
to bakers and grocers if they were
compelled to give the St. Paul weight
and price. They did the next best
thing. In the end the people are
the benefciaries. We have helped
them and we are satisfied. We trust
that the people will also be satisfied.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
DUTY OF WORKERS.

We assert that it is the duty, as
it is also the plain interest, Of all
working people to organize as such,
steps to effect the unity of the work.
ing classes as indispensable prelimin-
airy to any successful attempt to elm
mate the evils of which we so bitterly
and justly complain.-Samuel Com
pers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05

persons who think infrequently and
meyer deeply fail to see anything in
war except the killing and manning.
A smaller and more learned class
know that it has already exerted an
influence for good in our own ma
ton, though scarcely drop of Ameri-
can blood has been shed.
St. Louis has, never been famed for
it's consumption of ice water and So
called "soft drinks" yet it is reported
that for the first. time in it's history
her chief hospital has not a single
case of alcoholism. Similar condi-
tons prevailing in other cities of no
less jovial habit in the past indicate
plainly the strength of the great pro-
hibition movement that has been
sweeping over the country during the
last three years. Many things have
combined to give impetus to this tide
of reform. There was the necessity
for conserving our foodstuffs rather
than permit them to be wasted in
distilleries and breweries; there was
the determination on the part of the
directors Of the great railroads and
other corporations to employ no man
who drank, even moderately; there
were the "bone dry" advocates and,
above all, there was the approval of
the thinking classes.
If such early pioneers of temper
ance as Father Mathew, John B.
Cough or Neal Dow were to return to
a world that knew them as zealots
and lunatics and mischief makers, it
is not unlikely that they would be
crowned with the laurel wreaths with
which success is acclaimed
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05

BANISHING THE DRINK EVIL.
Minneapolis Weekly Mirrar: g.l-a-4
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
ATLANTA RAISES WAGES.

ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 3.-The city
council has raised WAGES SO a month
for municipal employees who receive
$125 a month or less. There are 1,444
employees of this class on the city
nay rolls. 4. .....- .t...5. .ss=... ..st>
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-01-05
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY
A CONFUSING SPECTACLE.

Chicago Daily News: ELEVEN COM
panies of Home Guards have been
called out by the state safety COM
mission of Minnesota for duty in Min
neapolis and st. Paul during a general
labor convention of all the trade
union members Of the Twin Cities
with the announced aim of unioniz-
ing the street car employees. One i'm
mediate effect of this action is to
withdraw from industry and produce
ton the hundreds of men who are
members of the Home Guards.
UNLESS developments Of excep-
tional gravity, such as riots and in
reference with traffic and industry,
are indicated as probabilities, the SAT-
ETY. commission of Minnesota has
taken an unwise step in making this
display of troops. In such a time as
the present, both reason and the spirit
Of accommodation should be in evil
dence, physical force being reserved
as last resort. Eleven companies of
troops keeping watch over a great in
dustrial community while a public
utility corporation and a trade union
dispute over the latter's right of or
ganization and while the state au-
thorities enforce peremptory order
that no street car company employe
shall wear a union button, makes a
confusing spectacle to nation war;
ring for democracy.
''The whole matter of Home Guard
policy must now be thoughtfully con-
sidered by men in authority. The
question is raised whether state
guards on strike duty shall be called
out more readily and employed more
vigorously than in peace times or
whether there shall be greater pa
thence and added tolerance in any ag-
gravated labor controversy while we
are at war. In ordinary peace times
armed troops displayed for the pre-
vention of disorder and violence are
looked upon by large number of
people as an indictment of democracy
In the present alarming international
situation it may be we'll argued that
such a step should be taken only to
avert disaster believed to be I'M
avoidable unless military force is en-
ployed"
~AAO AAAA u OO1G ~ O1IAMHs
Detroit Labor News: The poor are
to blame for their poverty, we are
told. Thus we are to understand that
the poor are to blame for low wages
and high prices, for the sweatshop
and the tenement, for all the evils Of
the system that makes the few mas
tiers and the many slaves.
But is this sound reasoning? True
it is that the innumerable poor, the
enslaved many, the vast army of
workers have the power of numbers
they had the intelligence to unitedly
use this power, to abolish all these
evils; and we think it wholesome to
frequently give them a 'dig in the
ribs to this effect-to impress them
with realization that to the extent
that they fail to use this power to
change conditions they are responsible
for the continuance of conditions
But that the poor are deliberately
responsible for their poverty, or that
they deliberately perpetuate it, is as
untenable as 1t is unthinkable. Ig-
norance is their great weakness, just
as it is the strength Of capitalism,
which has made them ignorant and
seeks to keep them so. =.
BANISHING THE DRINK EVIL.
2" MINNEAPOLIS Waakly aMirror: gll,onA
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
Proper Clothing Prevents
the Ever Obnoxious Colds

Few are aware Of the Importance OF
properly clothing our bodies to pre-
vent taking cold, states writer in
the Christian Herald. There are two
points always to be kept in mind
when thinking Of proper clothing.
First, all clothing must be porous, or
pervious, and the other is that the ex-
tre1nities should be kept warm.
If we recall the fact that when we
live proper lives the skin exudes as
much moisture In the "a hours as the
lungs do, and that the lungs and skin
eliminate as much moisture as the kid
news, we see how imperative 1t is that
we take proper care of the skin, so
that it may perform its natural func-
tons. The wearing Of impervious
garments prevents the escape of the
perspiration and tends to disease.
IF we decide to wear only porous
clothing, we must exclude furs for
our wardrobes; but this would upset
the fashions, which would never do.
And we wear furs around our necks,
lust the place where they should never
be worn, for the neck never suffers
from cold naturally. We constantly
neglect the extremities, allowing them
to become cold, while we wrap our
necks with the skins OF animals.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
The Glory of War.

The glory of war stands out when
you think of war, not as romance or
duty or sacrifice or idea, but as work.
Bill and Tommy and Jean and Hans
on the trenches may curse at the dip
lomats who have brought them into
the mess, grumble at the officers who
lead them into death traps, at the
commissariat that underfeeds them,
at the orderlies who come too late
with their stretchers and morphine
but that is precisely the same way In
which a man responds to his employer,
his foreman, and his grocer and butch
er, in peace time. Few Of us, in the
normal life, relish the particular job
set for us, but the job as whole is
something which will not adnit of
question. Suppose we do ask the men
In the trenches why they are fighting
and they cannot tell us why. What
then? They are fighting because for
the time being war is work.-From the
Atlantic.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
What Food boarding Is, in
the Opinion of Officials.

Buying more than usual amount OF
food at one time is considered food
boarding.
ANY person who has more than thirty
days supplies of food on hand, where
he has not been accustomed to buying
in such quantities, will be classed as
a food hoarder.
Goods canned by the housewife, dur
ing the summer, will not be taken into
account in determining whether any
person is food hoarder.
A normal amount Of food, bought in
the summer or fall for winter use, If
the buyer has been in the custom of
buying in that manner, will not be
classed as boarded food.
Buying winters supply of food this
wear. where it has not been done In
former years, will be classed as food
boarding, and the hoarder will be sub
ject to punishment and the goods to
seizure.
The penalty for boarding is a maxi
mum fine of $1,000 or two years i'm
prisonment, or both, in the discretion o.
the court.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
Efficient Arrangement OF
Kitchen Will Eliminate Many
Steps for Busy Housewives

"Woman's work is never done" is an
expression which could be banished
forever if efficiency were faithfully
practfced in the homes, according 10
Miss Margaret Haggart, professor OF
domestic science in the Kansas State
Agricultural college.
Poor arrangement of utensils in the
kitchen is an important cause OF
waste. Many women double the time
Of making cake because they do not
group the ingredients all on the table
at once. Instead, they cream the but
ter and sugar, then stop to get the
flour or run to the ice chest for a cup
of milk.
Only small kitchens can be really eff
ficient. The large kitchen found par
ticularly in the country, necessitates
hundreds of extra steps. If stove, sink
and tables are in the right relation to
each other, much energy can be saved.
In preparing meal one should not
have to retrace ones steps from sink
to table and back again.
To make pancakes for breakfast in
the efficient kitchen the housewife
takes the materials from the icebox,
turns step to the right where she
beats the ingredients on the surface of
the cabinet, one more step to the right
for the stove. With the last step to
the right she lays the cakes on the
serving table, and then carries them
tO fhn dininU rom
Washing dishes becomes an art when
labor-saving methods are used, points
out Miss Haggart. For a woman
five feet two inches tall, the proper
height for sink, work table or ironing
board is % inches.
The ideal arrangement of the sink
provides drain board on each side
of the sink. The drainer does away
with all wiping of dishes. The glass
must be wiped, of course, because hot
water cannot be poured on 1t. Hot
water gives to china a polish which
will be destroyed If wiped with a cloth.
Energy can be saved IL the woman
will sit down to work whenever pos
sible. When one stands there is a
strain to keep the body erect.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14

Wll0 > CO-OpSIdtAOu'
They use corn flour, which hereto
fore has been almost unknown in our
domestic bakeries, and it would seem
TO open the way for very large saw
ng of our wheat flour. 1t must be dis
jnctly understood first that there is
reat difference between corn flour
md corn meal. The corn flour in COM
position is practically the same as the
corn meal, but it contains little more
protein and starch, and a little less
moisture and fat, the shortage of fat
being due to the fact that the germ is
extracted before grinding. 1t must be
further understood that you cannot re-
place all of the wheat flour with corn
-four. as the corn contains no gluten,
which is the constituent in wheat flour
that makes it possible to obtain a
raised dough.
However, bread and rolls made with
20 per cent of corn flour have little or
no corn taste, and this is the percent
age. which has been found after long
experiments, to produce the best bread.
The same proportion can be used also
for griddle cakes, pastry and cakes.
To make bread as it is made in the
average household, where sponge is
set and no accurate measure of the
flour is made, the better plan is to mix
a quantity of the two fours, keep it
on hand and use the mixture instead of
wheat flour. For 20 per cent mix
ture, take one quart Of corn flour and
-four quarts of wheat flour, mix thor
nughly, preferably by putting through
b -four sitter three or four times. VI
course, larger quantities may be
mixed at one time, keeping the proper
proportion. In pastry even larger pro-
portions of the corn flour may be USED.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14

In making bread, pastry, etc., use this
mixture in exactly the same proper
tons and treat it exactly as you would
ordinary -four.
In nutritive value the difference be-
tween the mixed -four bread and the
Their food value is practically the
same, and If white corn flour is used
the bread has the same appearance as
the all-wheat bread.
This bread has decided advantage
for everyday consumption over most
of the war breads made of whole
wheat, oat flakes, bran, etc., by being
free of the roughage, and consequently
it is not irritating when used meal
after meal, and day after day, and
one would not be apt to tire of eating
it every day.
Corn flour can be obtained from
grocers, or they can get it for you. as
it is regularly on the market and is
being made by number of milling
companies and in cost should be cheap
er than wheat flour. 1t should be
ground as fine, or nearly as fine, as
the wheat flour which you are in the
habit of using.
This bread makes 20 per cent saw
ing of the wheat with no practical loss
in food value and without any of the
Objectionable features of the coarser
meals.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
The Silver Dollar.


Although the silver dollar is almost
daily increasing in intrinsic value, the
policy Of holding 1t In the vaults and
permitting it to be represented in cir
culation by a paper silver certificate
is to be continued. Throughout the
greater part Of the United States the
silver dollar is almost curiosity. Not
so in the Missouri valley, however,
where one is likely at any time to be
handed three or four in the breaking
Of So bill. Nobody has thus far ex-
planned why the silver dollar should
cling to circulation In this particular
quarter, but travellers from other Sec
tons as a rule are glad that it does
Christian Science Monitor.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
Life of a Baby Depends
On Care and Decent Home
Conditions Given Mother

Reports made by the federal chill
dren's bureau show that the chances
for life of a baby grow appallingly less
as the fathers earnings grow smaller.
Some of the figures quoted in the re-
port are pathetically eloquent. The
report is made upon studies of Infant
mortality among $4,000 babies in eight
American cities, typical industrial cit
les of the East and middle West.
Here are some of the statistics !:
One-fourth of all the fathers earned
less than $3.50 year. 1t was found
that in such families one baby in ev-
cry six died. Only about one-eighth
of the fathers earned $1,000 or more,
and it appeared that in this class only
one baby in sixteen died. 1t is as
serted that the rise of prices and the
DISCRIMINATION of social and indus
rial life on account of the war &C
centuate the Importance of this per-
sistent relation of income to infant
mortality.
The final deduction seems to be en-
bodied in these words: "TheSe studies
show that to provide mothers care
and decent home conditions, the ia
theirs must have adequate incomes.
In Manchester, N. H., nearly one
fourth of the mothers whose husbands
earned less than $3.50 a year were
gainfully employed; only about tenth
when the husbands wages were ST.
$50 or over. The babies of mothers
who went out to work died at more
than twice the rate of more fortunate
children. '-Rocheste Democrat and
Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14

sisters. III q woman is DOrue uOWh
by the weakness and sufferlngs of wom-
ankind, she should be helped by a
herbal tonic made with glycerln
which has had such uniform success
during the past half century. She
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suffering; healthy and rigorous, In
stead of worn-out and weak; bright
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wouldn't think 1t was the same wom-
an, and it's all due to the use of a
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What this medicine has done for
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do for you. If you're over-worked
and debilitated, it will build you up
if you're borne down with the chronic
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to your sex, it relieves and cures. 1t
regulates and promotes the proper
functions of womanhood. This old
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invigorates the system, purifies the
blood, improves digestion, and restores
health, flesh and strength. Consult the
specialist at DIR. Pierce's Invalids' Ho-
tel, Buffalo, N. Y, for free confidential
medical advice or for free book on
Women'S diSeaSeS.-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14

in plaits or folds or tucks or anything
that will take up material not abso-
lutely needed and they are from one
and half to two yards wide.
Aprons have always been interest
ing; they are of so many kinds and
proclaim so plainly that they are In
tended for real use in substantial ac-
tivities or are merely decorative and
trivial. But times have changed with
aprons, and now the most wear-resist-
ing and useful of them are required TO
look well, to possess style as well as
strength. Necessity and patriotism
have given the apron boost, and now
we have Service aprons" and "bunga-
low aprons" shapely and neat, worn
by women who are doing things for
themselves and others which others
used to do for them.
Some of the bungalow aprons made
of plain percale or chambray in all the
light colors, pink, lavender, tan,
maize, blue, green and rose, with col
lars and cuffs of lowered cretonnes,
ought to be rechristened, they are SO
gay and pretty. They deserve to be
called bungalow frockS at least-and
perhaps that is exactly what they are.
A service apron for everyday house
wear is shown in the picture, made of
plaid percale with plain white cuffs
and collars. 1t has long sleeves. Many
of the good-looking aprons for house
work are made of plain percale or
chambray, with plaid collars, pockets,
cuffs and belts. Usually the sleeves
are three-quarter length. They are
designed to be easily Numbered, and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14

The time has comet is here this
minute-to consider the tailored suit
for spring. It is IN agreeable duty
because the season has in store some
happy surprises for us in novel trim
ming ideas and in ingenious combina-
tons of cloth and silk. Designers have
been asked to conserve wool and have
responded in a way to reflect honor on
themselves by furnishing models that
use little cloth but are so cleverly de-
signed, with such attention to good
lines and so much originality in finish,
that we may give thanks for the neces-
sity which mothered such fine inven-
lions. Make up your mind to have a
sprightly suit for spring; because this
years suit has characteristics all its
own.
Among them are to be mentioned
the introduction of vests which are
made of silk, brocade, crepe, pique and
of plain fabrics handsomely embroid-
cred. Somewhere at the front-the
sides of the coat may barely meet, or
just fail to, they are held togeth-
er by one or two link buttons. In
other models fronts are cut away like
mans dress coat leaving an expanse
Of handsome waist coat to entice the
eye. White cloth collars and cuffs,
with collars heightened into revers are
another feature that add to the at
tractiveness. of spring suits and they
belong to an attractive class which
includes suits with collars, revers and
cuffs of figured or plain silk.
Narrow braid and small buttons APP
pear in coats not otherwise decorated,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-03-14
HAD USE FOR ROCK CANDY
In These Days of Sugar Shortage lite
Employment Was Quite
a Good Idea.

1t was heatless Monday. A little
girl entered a drug store and ap-
preached the prescription counter,
where she timidly asked if it would be
possible to buy some rock candy. He
told her they were not supposed to sell
candy, but she assured him that she
didn't want it for candy. SO he asked
the proprietor about it, and the pro-
prietor said yes, to sell 1t to her-that
her mother probably wanted 1t to
make cough strip of, and that it was
therefore a proper purchase.
SO the clerk wrapped up the rock
candy and the little girl paid for it.
And then the clerk said: us your
mother going to make some cough
sirup" And the little girl answered:
ooh, no. But you see we're out Of
sugar, and the grocery hasn't any, and
mamma wants the rock candy to sweet
en- her tea"
It's good idea at that.