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The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
ITALIANS TAKE PEAKS IN ALPS.
Diaz' Men Hurl Enemy from Mountain
and Capture 800 Prisoners.

and Capture 800 Prisoners.
Rome, July 1.-Attacking the Aus
tro-Hungarians' lines on the Asiago
plateau. the Italians have taken Monte
di Valbella, captured 500 prisoners and
have held it against repeated counter
attacks.
The Italian attack was not limited
to Monte di Valbella. On the left bank
of the Brenta they captured the height
of Sasso Rosso. just north Of the vii
lage of Valstagna.
Attacking the Germans suddenly on
two widely separated sectors, French
and British troops have improved their
positions greatly and captured 1.4OO
prisoners.
The British repulsed an enemy as
sault near Merris, near where the Ger
mans were driven back east Of Nieppe
forest on Friday. The British official
statement mentions. heavy German ar.
tillery fire before Amiens, near Albert,
north of the Scarpe. near Arras and In
the region of Festubert, northwest of
Lens.
There is a report that Alexis Roman
off, son of the former Russian emper.
or. is alive, notwithstanding dispatch
es telling of his recent death.
British casualties during the month
of June totaled 41,147. This compares
with total casualties reported during
May Of 166,S02.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05

health. I believe the Compound will
cure any female trouble. "-Mrl ALICE
HELLER, Christopher, Ill.
Nervousness is often . symptom Of
weakness or some functional derange-
ment, which may be overcome by this
famous S;usI root and %h herb remedy, lydia
thousands Of women have found BY
experience.
If complications exist, write Lydia e.
Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for
suggestions in regard to your ailment-
The result Of its long experience u
at your service.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
Hard Boiled Sergeant.

At regular Saturday morning in
Spection n private was not wearing
his belt.
First Sergeant-Have you u belt?
Private-NO. sir.
First Sergeant-You report to the
quartermaster sergeant for a new one,
and don't forget to tell him to charge
you for the one you lost. I'll stop this
careleSsness
Private-All right. top, but I loaned
you the belt about two months ago.
Corp. S. c. Samuels. Battery C. One
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Artillery,
in Judge.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
Only Small Sizes Left.

These shoes are too small for me-"
BEST l can do" replied the shoe
clerk.
''HOw'S that?'
ION account of the war"
"What has the war to do with the
size of shOes?"
"A whole lot. You know, they're
sending shoes to the boys over there
in large numbers"
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
Death Toll May Reach Fifty.

Sioux City, Iowa, July 1.-Burrowing
deep under tons Of wreckage. firemen
and volunteers removed thirty more
bodies from the wreckage Of the Ruff
building, which collapsed Saturday aft
ernoon. and announced that the toll Of
the disaster may reach fifty.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
PADDED EXPENSES CHARGED,
Fraud and Greed Laid to Basic indu,
tries in Probe Of Profiteerina.

Washington.-Profit on a tre-
mendous scale in practically all the
basic commodities of life was reported
to the Senate by the federal trade COM
mission as the result of an exhaustive
investigation. "Inordinate greed and
bare-faced fraud" as well as war
pressure for heavy production" the
commission reported as the causes,
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05

netVOo10e041 100
was in . run down
condition. Two Of
our best doctors
failed to do me any
good. I heard %
much about what
Lydia Pinkham's
Vege table Com
pound had done for
others, I tried it
and was cured. /
am no longer ner-
vous, am regular.
and In nvrollope
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
Cuticura 10 So SOOTHING

cutieura 10 So Soothing
To itching. burning skins. It not only
soothes but heals. Battle with Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water, dry gently
and apply Cut!cura Ointment. For
free samples address, 'Cuticura, Dept.
K, Boston," At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment IS and 5O.-Ady.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
Patriotic.

Patience-And so they are married
Patrice-Oh, yes.
And where are they spending their
honeymoon"
Hes spending his in the trenches.
and she's spending hers in her war
warden"
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05

Some people are down on their
neighbOrs because they are unable to
come up with them.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05

Be happy. Use Red Gross Bag Blue:
much better than liquid blue: Delights
the laundress. All Rrosers. Adv.
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
now THIS
NERVOUS WOMAN
GOT WELL
Told BY Herself. Her Sin.
eesity Should Con-
vince Others.

Christopher, Il-"For four yeafs I
suffered from irregularities, weakness,
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
Wilson Gets $3.50. ooo,o 900 Naval Bill

Washington. = Congress completed
the $1.61o,oO0,0o0 naval appropriation
bill and sent it to the President for his
signature. -' 70
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
All in the Express

All in the Expression.
"Gibbes in fight? Why, thought
he was pacitist."
Yes; only he calls it II pass-a-fist."
The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-07-05
BY RALPH e. cRoPLEY.
In New York Tribune.

we have had another rec
ord of German barbarity In the tor
pedoing of the hospital ship Rewn.
made dramatic because the missile
of destruction struck her where the
red cross Of mercy was painted on
her side. as IL 1t We're buI:'s-eye
for just such murderous shots. was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

of the 'imponderables" in opposing the
international conference. It concludes
it's editorial thus.
"As the past policy Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor in it's class struggle has
plainly showed, its leaders are lacking in
political vision and in constructive political
conviction. If they are not interested in
the use of political weapons and if they are
harsh and unconciliatory in their manner,
their behavior is caused by inability to
understand and to share the political and
social idealism of their French and British
brethren"
"The New York Evening Post" had
this to say:
"Some of the factors which are likely to
count in favor Of the British Labor party
in the event of a general election are
weighty. The programme Of peace and re-
construction promulgated last December is
not only one of the most remarkable docu-
ments which the war has produced, but its
formulation has given the party leader
ship in ideas and ideals which no other Eng
lish party has yet exhibited. The insistence
of the party upon its right to discuss terms
of peace, whether the government thought
such discussion opportune or not, has done
much to keep to the front the contention
that the aim Of the war is peace, not ma
tional advantage"
<"The New York World" commenting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

profiteers And the war profteer is now
on the grill.
Back in December President Wilson
stated that "while we have eliminated
profiteering in certain branches of indus
try it still runs impudently rampant in
Others" In his annual address he urged
the enactment of price-fixing law that
would make profteering impossible. But
the more vigorous note, struck in his
speech few weeks since on the ques-
ton Of taxation, has served to set afoot
a course Of definite action. "The profit
eering that cannot be got at by the re-
straints of conscience and love of coun-
try" declared Mr.. Wilson, "can be got
at by taxation. There Is such profteer-
ing now and the information with re-
gard to it is available and indisputable. :"
1t was Senator Borah who stepped for
ward and urged legislation to end this
evil which Mr.. Wilson had called "im-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
What the Telegrubhevs Haze
Stirred Ub

thing that can prevent it "then the gov
eminent cannot be- too prompt in inter-
vening." and the same thing was said
by "The Grand Forks Herald"
Not few newspapers express the view
that strike would bring nearer govern
ment ownership or at least control of the
telegraph lines; but not many papers ex-
plicitly favor such an outcome On the
contrary, the tendency is to favor leav-
ing the telegraph business in private
hands as long as the public interests are
satisfactorily served.
"The New York Times" rejects owner
ship, bat favors regulation:
Government ownership is not the rem
edy for refusal by either side to submit
to the award of the War Labor Board A
better alternative would be for Congress
to take jurisdiction of the matter and regu-
late the working of unions of publ>s utility
employees as now it regulates the working
OF public utility. corporations"
It is suspected in some quarters chat
both employer and employees are playing
their cards to bring about government
ownership or control. The Tribune said
on that point:
"There is suspicion that both the tclee-
raphers and the companies are willing
that the government should solve the diff
Guilty by taking the lines under control"
That some sentiment exists at Wash
ington in favor of government action is
evidenced by the fact that a bill has
been introduced in the House for taking
over the telegraph companies by the gov
eminent on the same basis as the rail-
ways.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
put 1t Is Easy to
- Vituperate

Proiteer, contends "The Outlook
"is a derogatory term applied to one who
successfully attempts to take advantage Of
his country's necessity to make money for
himself 1t is right and just that as thus
understood it should be q term of reproach
The man who is profiteer must be in these
days either grossly ignorant or scoundrelly
By this time there can remain only a very
small number of people who are ignorant
of the acute necessity under which this
country is laboring; and there are never
many scoundrels. The proflteers, there
fore, must constitute an extremely small,
an almost negligible, minority of the people.
There is, however, considerable and
far from negligible number of people who
are making profits as IA consequence Of
the war. To call most Of these people prof
iteers is demoralizing misuse of Ian
guage. They are making profits because
they are producing things or rendering SER
vice of special value at this time, and they
are receiving the monetary returns that
are inevitable at time when such goods
and such service in demand"
But, having got pretty clearly in mind
what is meant by profiteering and what
essentially constitutes profiteer, one is
free to concentrate upon the proved Of
fender. "The 'profiteers' who enrich
themelves inordinately at the expense of
the American people these days are not
the true friends Of their country" de-
clares "The Scranton Republican,"
"They deserve to be exposed"
Yes, deserve it richly, for, in the
words of "Capper's Weekly" sthe profit
eering to which the people are being
subjected and are SO helpless to pre-
vent ID the blackest phase Of our part
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

wide area should not, in the words Of
"The Oklahoman," "deter this govern
ment from aggressively undertaking tho
task of seining the sharks" AS for pun
ishment, this paper, voicing a pretty
common sentiment, urges that 'the peni-
Tertiary should await the profiteer and
the way thereto should not be obstructed
by legalistic quibbling."
The Tribune, writing particularly Of
the form of protteering which insists
upon disregarding of the food regula-
tions, suggests ga dishonor list" And
upon it should be written, as a permanent
record, the names of all who are convicted
during the war of proiteering and wilful
Stacking"
Thus would they taste the full bitter
ness of moral indignation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

country. Militant labor American
ism is the triumph of Mr.. Gompers's re-
markable career"
Recently "The London Morning Post"
stated that it isn't only the magnitude
of the American war effort which is "be-
You'd challenge" For there is also "the
earnestness of it--a fact even more en-
scouraging." And the paper adds:
"To that earnestness no more convincing
testimony could have been given then the
bearing of the American labor mission,
which has just returned to this country
after paying visit to France. Indefatiga-
BILE efforts have been made to induce the
representatives of American labor to asso-
ciate themselves with the movement for an
international conference, in which the
enemy shall have part. To the bitter dis
appointment of most all of those who
have sought to array labor in opposition to
the war, those persuasions have been in
vain. They see that "a world peace
is to be obtained only by fighting and de-
feating the real enemy to such peace and
not by parleying with him in the gate.
America, indeed, has got into her stride"
''The New Republic" prints a highly
interesting letter from Professor Arthur
o. Lovejoy, of Johns Hopkins University,
who accompanied the labor mission to
Europe. While censuring the ''tone and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

upon Mr.. Wilson's messages to the con-
vention, and noting that 'tto organized
labor in the present situation, he insists,
the interests of the United States must
always be first" goes on to say:
"Here and there hostile and disloyal IN
fuences have sought to mislead and corrupt
certain elements Of American labor by
spreading false doctrines and by other sim
lister methods. Against them President
Gompers has given warning hardly less
forcibly than President Wilson. Whatever
causes interruption of industry weakens the
United States at the critical period of its
existence. Whoever stirs up class dissen-
sions or incites labor troubles needlesslv is
unfriendly to the American people and the
cause to which they are irrevocably COM
mitted."
Government ownership, once held to be
such bug-bear, appears to have grown
quite popular. The Tribune's CORE
spondent, in his report from st. Paul,
reclared that:
"organized labor considers itself an organic
part of the government of the United
States. 1t feels free to summon the govern
ment to take its part in industrial disputes.
1t feels 1t has the ear Of the White House.
and it will confidently threaten the re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
WHO Is a
w Prohteer?

But now one returns to the question
of liability. Who is profiteer and who
is not? The question is not exactly
simple one to answer. Recently The
Tribune wrote:
"Let US stone the profteer to death.
That will be just and good. He has no
defence in morals. Comet Let us be at
it. Each of US will take a stone and go
forth into the highways and dispatch the
wretch, whoever he is, wherever he may be
found.
"But, 10! what do we see?
every one of us has stone. The rich
man has one for the greengrocer, who
has one for the middleman, who has one
for the truck gardener, who has one for
his hired man, and all the way down
to the newsboy at Brooklyn Bridge, who
has one for the apple woman
"Then are we all profiteers?
"In one sense, yes; in another sense, no.
"There is lot of Misunderstanding in
this matter; also much misrepresenta-
ton, some of it in ignorance, more of it
in malice"
And "The Baltimore Sum-" which goes
firmly on record with the assurance that
"the indignation expressed by Senator
Borah is abundantly justified" and that
ga great many swine are roofing for
themselves under cover Of the flag, while
pretending to be roofing for Uncle SAM"
is quick to point out that
"there is another end-and an end which,
in the aggregate, is the bigger-that 1t Is
extremely difficult, if not impossible, for
the government to control or supervise.
And that is the end represented by the
masses of the American people, by the In
dividual units which make up our popula-
ton. It is all very we'll to be indignant
with the big fellow who is profiteering. But
are you profteering or parioteering, Mr..
Small Man? Don't try to get rid of your
own responsibility by putting the, blame
wholly on others.
"You may not be capitalistic profiteer,
! landlord profteer, q wsr-contractor profit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
What The Call"
w Has to Say

1t is interesting to note the reaction Of
"The New York CALL" the Socialist
organ:
'While the working class Of Europe is
slowly cropping its way to unity Of views
and action, the organized workers of thk
country still remain under the Leadership
of men who can only echo the dull slogans
of reactionary press. Mr.. Gompers and
his associates selected Minnesota as the
place for the annual meeting of the A. F.
OF L. this year. state where litsle freedom
Of thinking, freedom Of press and speech
remain. Through the junker press he pro-
claims that Socialism is German and part
of the German propaganda At the same
time Secretary Morrison reports nearly
1000 strikes within seven months, involv-
ing over 100000 workers. Every striker
has been charged with being pro German
by the same press that carries Mr.. Com
pers's attacks on Socialists which always
provoked an indignant whine from that
gentleman. Yet those strikes indicate that
the mass of the organized workers are
restless, that they are thinking, that they
do not intend to be made the goat in an
era Of profiteering"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

Of the war" But this paper adds that
"a reckoning is coming. Public condem-
nation, if all else failed, would force a
reckoning. And so it may be confidently
stated that the days of the profiteer
are numbered"
Cover in England" declares "The
Cleveland Plain Dealer" "they are trail
ing the profteer. They call him the war
vampire, and say very unpleasant things
about him." In fact, as "The Dayton
Journal points out, call nations have
their profiteers. None of them has sue
ceeded in eradicating the pest. Ger
many alone, our hated enemy, seems to
have found the right and proper way to
deal with them" But the fact that the
profteer has his habitation over a very
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
ME danger Of a national strike Of
telegraph operators, which has
l. been a disturbing and threaten

TT ME danger Of a national strike Of
q telegraph operators, which has
n been disturbing and threaten
ing factor for some time, has
caused the press of the country good
deal Of concern. 1t is recognized that
blame attaches to both sides to the con-
troversy, but the majority of the news
papers regard the Western Union as
chiefly to blame inasmuch as it refuses
to recognize the right of its men to Or
ganize themselves into union, besides
paying them too low salaries. "The
Western Union," as "The Portland Ore
gonian" expressed it, "is welded to the
old-fashioned notion that its affairs are
its own, and it will make its own rules,
hire and fire it's men as it pleases, and
render an accounting neither to state
nor to Federal government"
"The New York World" censured both
sides:
con the part Of employers there is OBJ
stinacy not only, but provocation. On the
part of employees there is disposition to
force the lighting, regardless of patriotic
considerations"
The supreme Importance of preventing
the strike has been generally recognized.
This feeling was put by The Tribune
thus:
IA strike of telegraphers, even for one
day, cannot be permitted to take place. If
necessary to prevent it, the government
would hardly hesitate to seize the tele-
graph lines"
"No strike should be permitted" wrote
"The Virginian-Pilot" Norfolk, Va.);
if government Intervention be the only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
MERE is local story, writes "The
Cleveland Plain Dealer" to the

MERE is local story, writes 1.-THE
Cleveland Plain Dealer" to the
Il effect that two men in a street.
car were discoursing upon the great
struggle, when one Of them said: "The
war has been godsend to my plant"
and the other, chuckling, replied: eff it
lasts two years longer I'll be on Easy
Street" Whereupon, as the story runs,
woman stood up and smote both men
grievously with her umbrella, exclaiming
as she did so: eff that's what the war
means to you, this is what your remarks
mean to mev'
There seems to be no real consensus
OF opinion as to how one would define
the practice of profteering in the large
sense; but for the moment it is suffi-
Gent to note that in the opinion Of the
woman passenger with the umbrella the
TWO men whose conversation she ever
heard were profteers. They were war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

to pay part of his profits to keep his Gus
toner going, is the right way to get through
the war"
"The Springfield Republican" finds
profteering defined precisely enough by
Senator Borah, who said the profiteer
was "the man who is taking advantage
Of his country's condition, of it's perilous
situation, to gather extraordinary prof
it's and to increase enormously and I'M
justly and unfairly his individual and
private gain"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
\ merican Labor Delegates
~ Are the Shrewder


While Professor Lovejoy admits that
Henderson and his associates are "try-
ing to keep the wage earners faithful
to the war" by means of this conference
project, he concludes that "the political
psychology underlying the methods Of
the American labor delegates is the
shrewder and the sounder of the two.
Not only does talk of conference divert
che minds of many from the business in
hand, but it also is interpreted by many
as favorable to the programme Of peace
by negotiation"
"The New Republic" itself reaches
different conclusion, holding that the
American mission showed lack of po-
litical insight and proper evaluation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
s. \ m | Pro6teering or
~ Am | Patrioteering2"

"The Baltimore Sun" would like every
man and woman, every child, even, who
is old enough to realize what the world
is confronting, to ask himself this ques-
ton daily:
"Am proftcering or am patrioteering?
Am I subordinating my own pleasure, my
own luxury, my own indulgence. my own
vanity, my own selfish qualification to the
supreme object Of winning the war, or am
I putting myself Ueber Alles?"
The Importance Of being quite clear
in the matter Of definition Is felt by
other writers. Thus "The Hartford
Courant," which sees the FUNDAMENTAL
Interpretation of the term based upon
conception of honesty, then declares:
IAN honest deal by which the govern
ment gets what it needs and the maker gets
paid we'll for furnishing 1t. and then has