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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15

MY ROWS AWRN.
The hours | spent in sweater art
Are as string of purls-I sigh
To count them over every one apart,
My rows awry, NV rows awry.
Each hour | purl. each purl take care
To drop no stitch lest | be stung:
] count yea count unto the end-and there
a sleeve is hung. a sleeve is hung!
o memories that bless and burn,
q ravelieg out at bitter loss,
] drop purl. yet strive at last to learn
To knit across, sweet art.
To knit across
Christian Register.
x x 4
Cards have been received in Topeka
that are of special interest to the col
leSe crowd from Mr.. George Bowman
Markle of Montrose. Colo. announcing
Alvernie, to Mr.. Walter Emerson
Carkhuff of Olathe. Colo. The mar
riage took place Monday evening, jan
uary II, at o'clock at the home of
Mr., and Mrs. Frank Anderson of Xiv
er~ide, Montrose. Colo.
Mr.. Carkhuff was formerly a Wash
burn college student. having been
graduated in the class of 1907 He
was member of the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity. He went from Topeka to
Montrose. where he and his brother,
Mr.. Herman Carkhuff. have a fruit
ranch.
At home after February Is at Ola
b the. Colo.
A circle of Topeka people will be
Interested in d wedding which is to
take place in Kansas City SOON Miss
Margaret Perry, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Is. Perry. will be married
to Mr.. Warner Albert Cory at $50
O'Clock Saturday evening at the Perry
home.
Miss Perry has been a frequent Wis
itor in Topeka, and as honor guest at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOW

THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who is supposed to be the most cor
daily disliked person in her set But
she is as sweet as double distilled hon
ey when she wants to be, and that is
usually when she wants to find out
something about her neighbors, so
they say A man and his young son
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15
SELL THRIFT STAMPS
Santo Fe VIII Serve Government Al
Every Ticket Office.

The Santa Fee railroad has accepted
an invitation from the government to
participate in the sale of war saving
stamps. The stamps will be placed on
sale at every ticket office, and the
company will call attention of its
patrons to the fact that they can be
purchased from agents z. L. Cope
land. secretary and treasurer, will
have charge of the sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15

Five Burn to Death in Home.
Marion, O., Jan. 15.-Five persons
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the home of Chris Houck, near
Espyville, this county, early today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15
SANTA FE NOTES

10y Frances Jones. - t3rattau street
Telephone between a" 10 n. ui.. 3iiiu:
other aoUrs. '4I51 H.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
SHORTER DAY GETS RESULTS

Spokane, Wash.-According to sta
tistics gathered by J. C. H. Reynolds
secretary of the Timber Products
Manufacturers, which includes in the
membership of the organization the
largest operators in the industry here,
the lumber mills and camps of the
Spokane country are showing in
creased efficiency under the shorter
working day for laborers.
"The eight-hour day became eff
fective in the Spokane country JAN
uary l, this year," states Secretary
Reynolds. Figures compiled by op-
orators show that the per-hOur pro-
duction per man has increased 13 per
cent. on the eight-hour basis in COM
parison with the per-hour production
per individual under the old 10-hour
working day.
"The general output of the indus
try is about 9.41 per cent. less than
the output under the 1O-hour day.
The mills are operating with about
IS per cent. of the help that is needed
in the industry, but we are better
fixed in a labor way than we were a
year ago, and conditions in this re-
spect are improving"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
GAVE TWO AMBULANCES

Brooklyn, N.Y.-Secretary of Labor
Wilson accepted for the government
in Brooklyn two ambulances, the gift
of District No. Is of the International
Association of Machinists. But the
1000 persons who gathered for the
ceremony in the Labor Lyceum, were
disappointed by not seeing the am
balances.
Mrs. Grace c. Klueg, president of
the Ladies' Auxiliary of local No. So,
which raised the money, handed Mr..
Wilson the contracts under which the
ambulances were built. She told him
the machines were shipped abroad
June 2, and are now in active service
on the western front. The $4,000
needed for the enterprise was raised
so quickly by the machinists of New
York that the ambulances could not
wait for the formal ceremony.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
BIGGEST PROBLEM

Washington.-The task of mobil-
izing millions of workmen through
out the nation and placing each man
where he will be most effective in the
war machine is a far bigger under
taking than the war departments job
of raising an army of 100000, Felix
Frankfurter, assistant to the secre-
tary of labor, told heads Of the United
States employment service in a con-
ference here.
He told the employment service of
ficials that the success of the army
in France will be measured only by
their success in keeping the factories
at home running with the needed
number of workmen. He urged each
man present to extend the arm of the
service into every corner Of his state
or district.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19

ured under big headlines spread clear
across the front page, while news of
vital significance is tucked away un-
der a small head in an obscure section
of an inner page. Thus a newspaper
can lie in it's makeup just as truly
as it can lie in its contents.
This form Of lying is much more
deadly than might appear at first
sight. The newspaper reader is the
least discriminating Of all readers
Everybody reads the newspapers;
very few read them with care. Thus,
through his laxity, the newspapers
are enabled to impose their views
upon the public mind to a most alarm
ing degree. Without being aware of
it, men and women come to think as
their newspaper is written. They
are prejudiced for or against a pro-
position by the manner in which it is
written up in the news columns even
though they pass up the editorial
page, which most readers do.
The newspapers are the greatest
power in the world today for good or
evil. AS at present conducted, they
are a power for evil They are mould
ing public opinion in the interest Of
wealth as against the common good
They are acting thus because they
are part and parcel of that powerful
minority, commonly called "the CAPT
talist class" Until quite recently
this class has had no opposition in
society. 1t had the field to itself. 1t
ruled everywhere. 1t directed labor
1t made wages, hours and all the con-
ditions of toll. The newspaper has
been the greatest weapon in main
tanning tha unjust power.
Now labor has set out to liberate
itself from the grasp Of this greedy
minority, and it finds itself face to
face with the problem of the press;
and there seems to be but one solu-
tion--a labor press. Labor will never
regain its lost power while the venal
newspapers of the country have un-
divided control of the means for the
transmission of news.
Labor is just awakening to the
power of the press. A newspaper is
as important as the labor union it
self. The labor movement cannot
succeed without labor papers.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
TO UNITE LABOR OF NATIONS

London.-A conference of delegates
representing 2,5OO,OOO British trade
unionists, held in the house of COM
mons, adopted a resolution providing
for the establishment of an interna-
tional trades union bureau to secure
closer relationship between British,
American, colonial, allied and neutral
workers, with a view to formulating
a trades union policy during and after
the war. The bureau also will con-
slider the advisability of appointing
labor ambassadors to the respective
countries as agents of international
trade unionism. The movement is
the outcome of the recent visit here
of American labor delegates.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Lady Dock WallOpers

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Sixteen women in
overalls are wrestling daily with 1872
pound bags of coffee and hundred
weights of sugar, working side by
side with muscular men long used to
this hard job. They are the new lady
stevedores hired by the New York
Dock company.
There would be 10 of these female
dock wallopers were it not for the
fact that three of the number en-
gagged were fired on account Of their
cussing.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
IMPORTANCE OF LABOR PRESS
Labor Must Awake and Assert Its RghtsA Newspaper
Important the Labor Union Itself-The Labor
Movement Cannot Fully Succeed Without the Labor
Paper--Immense Sums Paid Subsidized Press for Sup
pressing and Garbling the Truth

Thirty-fve years ago, at banquet
in New York City, John Swinton,
then managing editor of the New
York Sun, astounded the assembly by
announcing that he was receiving
$4,000 a year for suppressing the
truth. John Swinton was one of
those rare specimens of manhood who
having awakened to the dishonesty of
his craft, possessed the courage to
expose it to the gaze Of the world.
Startling as the announcement was,
it didn't make much of stir in the
world outside Of the labor movement.
The newspapers suppressed the news
of Swinton's expose, not considering
it news that was eft to print" and
kept the even tenor Of their way,
suppressing the truth whenever the
truth interfered with business, for
the motto Of every newspaper is:
Business first; truth whenever it
doesn't hurt"
The newspapers knew how to
"camoufage" long before the word
was imported from France, and with
such slogans as "All the news all the
time" "All the news that's fit to
print" ETC., they have succeeded in
hoodwinking the great mass of the
people while serving as the plant
tools of the Wall Stree highbinders.
John Swinton did not reform the
Sun. He didn't try to. He knew he
couldn't. Nobody could. Such a
procedure was absolutely unthinkable
to anyone that knew the newspaper
game. To reform a newspaper and
make it an honest exponent of the
truth would be a job to compare with
the taking of the foundation from
under a house Reform newspaper
and it will fall to the ground.
A newspaper is a business enter
prise, and as such tells the truth
when the truth pays, and with equal
facility lies when it pays to lie. News
paper lying takes different forms.
There is the lie of the total suppress
sion of news, or of mutilating it and
perverting it to suit the sordid ends
of big business. Then there is the lie
of playing up certain news at the eX
pense of other news. News of no
essential value to the public is feat
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY DRIVE

Harrisburg, Pa. = An industrial
safety urlve has begun by the Penn
sylvania labor safety committee to
reduce the loss in life, man-power
and money of carrying on the indus
tries of this state. During the year
1917 approximately 5000 persons
were killed in Pennsylvania through
industrial accidents while at work.
In an effort to cut down the num-
ber of accidents, so per cent of which
the statistics show are avoidable, the
state department of labor and indus
try is to wage a campaign of educa-
ton among the workmen, through
their organizations.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
STREET CAR MEN ORGANIZE

Atlanta, Ga. = After a long and
bitter struggle continuing for over
two years the street car men of this
city have finally been able to complete
an organization of several hundred
men, employed by the Georgia Rail-
way and Power company. What
further action the company will take
in the matter is to be determined.
Because of the large number of en-
ployes who have joined the union, it
is expected that there will not be any
further determined opposition by the
company.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
so Cents A Day Increase

Stockton, Cal.-After several con-
ferences between the employing
printers and members of Typograph-
ical union of San Joaquin county an
agreement was reached whereby an
increase of so cents a day was agreed
upon. The scale fixes the same rate
for both job and newspaper printers.
The new rate is: $3.50 for day work
and Sc for night work.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Horse ShOers Strike

Newark, N.J.-Horse Shoers' union
No. % has declared a strike because
the master horse shoers refused to
increase wages $1.25 per day, pay 81
an hour for overtime and grant half
holiday on Saturday. They had pre-
viously been receiving 1915 and $4,
but now want $3.50.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
SO A Day Rate Fixed

Waco, Tex.-At the state. conven-
ton of the Bricklayers' union it was
revealed that all but four of the
unions of the state had established a
wage scale of So per day. The con-
vention set the scale at So throughout
the entire state, the same to become
effective the first Monday in Sept.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
NAMES WOMAN EXECUTIVE

Washington. - Establishment of a
woman's division in the department
of labor, as authorized by congress,
to develop policies and methods for a
more effective use of women's SER
vices in war industries is announced
by Secretary Wilson.
Miss Mary VanKleek, who has been
chief of the woman's division of the
ordnance bureau, has been named
chief of the new division, and will
have as an assistant Miss Mary An
derson, who has been supervisor of
the women's division of the industrial
section.
Miss Anderson is the first woman
in an executive department drawn
from the ranks of trade unionism,
being a shoe workers union official.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Appointed to Good Job

Boston.-John F. Stevens, president
of the central labor union, has been
appointed as one of the trustees of
the Boston Elevated railroad system
at a salary of $4,000 per year.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Boys Form A Union

Charleston, w. Va.-The newsboys
Of the city got together to the number
Of 60 and formed a union and have
sent an application to the A. F. of L..
for a charter.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Increase 20 Cents An Hour

Peoria, Ill.-Members of the Ma
chinists' union have been advanced in
pay 20 cents per hour, bringing their
average pay up to 80 cents. In 1912
their pay was 331s cents per hour.
The union now has a membership of
1920.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Secured More Wages

Salt Lake City, Utah. - After a
strike of several weeks the metal
workers have secured a substantial
advance in wages. The new rate will
be $5 per day until September 1, when
it advances to $500. On October l
it will again advance to $3.50.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Strike Partially Won

Wheeling, w. Va.-The strike of
Stogie Makers union No. sol and
Girl Shippers union No. 14,847 has
been partially won. Under the agree
ment the stogie makers get an in
crease of So per thousand and the
girls about one cent pound for strip
ping.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
BARRIERS Get An Advance

Tampa, Fla.-In order to avoid a
threatened strike, the boss BARRIERS
acceded to the demands of the Bar
bers' union for an increase in wages.
The new wage guarantees $22 per
week and 60 per cent on all over $32.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
New Street Car Union

Oakland, Cal-Division No. 818 of
the Street Car Mems union has been
formed here and is reported to be 100
per cent Of the men employed on the
Key system. No opposition is antic-
ipated.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Growing Union

Tampa, Fla. - The new union of
carpenters and caulkers recently
formed here is fast becoming one of
the largest in the city. 1t already has
an enrolment of over three hundred
and is still growing.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Increases Secured

Champaign, III. - The plumbers
have been granted an increase of 81
per day, as the result of strike
which was continued for two months.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Negroes Form Union

Atlanta, Ga. A Federal Labor
union of colored men has been COM
pleted and application for a charter
has been forwarded to the A. M. of L..
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Boiler Makers Organize

Wilmington, N. CA union of
boiler makers and iron ship builders
and helpers was completed here and
is said to include in its membership
every man of that craft in the city.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Secured Better Paw

Seattle, Wash. - A minimum of
$3.50 a day went into effect for mem
bers of the furniture fnishers' aux
iliary of the Painters union, July /.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
THE ANSWER

AN English militant crusader stroll
led into a barn where a young man
was milking a COW. With a snort,
she asked, GLOW is it that you are not
at the front, young MANI"
Because, ma'am," answered the
mixer, "there amt no milk at that
end. Atlanta Journal.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
New Bakers Union

Middletown, Conn.-Bakers' union
No. PIG as been formed in this city
and gives promise of doing good work
for it's members in the near future.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Carmen Form Union

Tampa, Fla. - A lodge of the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen has
been completed at Port Tampa and
will be known as the Orange Belt
lodge.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Union Fire Fighters

st. Joseph. Mo.-Ninety-nine men
employed by the city fire department
formed Fire Fighters union No. n
with a charter from the International
association.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
Getting More Paw

Kansas City, Mo.-Cigar Makers
union No. 102 are working under a
new agreement with the manufact-
urers, a new bill of prices having
gone into effect July 1, whereby the
price per thousand will be from 81
to SO higher.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
LABOR'S PROGRESS
Advances Made and Better Conditions
Secured All Over the Country
Painters Are Organized

Manteca, Cal.-Painters and Deco
rators' union No. 451 has been organ
lied here.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
soc and 81 Added

Stockton, Cal.-All the union laun-
dry workers have been advanced SOC
and 81 per week, dating from July /.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19

One special duty we owe ourselves
is, to see that the union liable is on
everything we buy with our wages,
earned under a union wage scale.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19
WAGE INCREASES
Gains in Wages Made by Organized
Labor Throughout the Nation
Bartenders Get S5 Rate

Oakland, Cal. - The Bartenders'
union has just put into effect daily
rate of SIS.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19

When in doubt about what to do
for the country buy a thrift stamp.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-07-19

GREEN, The Dry Cleaner and Halter
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-25
- This paper has enlisted
with the government in the
cause Of America for the
period of the war -.....

It is amusing to note the stand the
Bismarci: Tribune took in the Wishek
sedition case. You had to look all
through the paper to find anything
about it and when you did ind it
there was not much to it. 1t is
some different than the way they
handle the Brinton case. OF course
Brinton is not SO influential in the
financial world, and besides that he
was quite interested in the Non-Par-
tisan League. We are not in favor
of the League, but we like to see
people accused of sedition given plen-
ty of publicity whether they have a
barrel of money or none 1T all. We
would like to have known more of
the Wishek cs%c, but it seems that
the Capital City paper did not care
about giving it's readers all of the
news or else they had mighty green
reporter handling an important case.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-25

Grafton of our people in unitedly sup
porting every war activity" Then
1T U..ers:
That no person or persons, public
speakers in this state, or newspapers
or other publicity organs shall in any
manner state, circulate or cause to be
published, or to be stated, statements
or charges against any person or
class Of persons in this state that
they ara disloyal, pro- German or un-
patriotic, unless the charge is based
upon actual specific acts found by a
proper tribunal. &
"And it is further ordered that all
persons or organizations in this state
shall promptly report to this coun-
Gil all acts, utterances or statements
or any of our people or any persons
within this state which may be char
acterized as disloyal, or which may
aid or attend to aid the enemy in the
prosecution of this war, and to re-
port to this council also all state
ments or utterancns of any person of
the state or anv ORGANIZATION, that
Violates this order herewith promul-
rated"
We don't like this order and we
don't believe it would hold in court
as we do not know of any whip the
said Council holds over the newspa-
pers of this State, and furthermore
we do not believe that the order is y
fair one to the people of the State.
If everyone in this state would carry
themselves the way they should,
there would be no hollering about
disloyalty or pro-Germanism. If
there are people in this State or any
other State of the Union that are no,
one hundred per cent Americans they
must be disloyal for citizen of this
country can not be loyal and at the
same time play this fifty-fftv rot
that some are getting by with.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-25

A short time ago the State Coun-
Gil of Defense called before them E.
A. Tostevin, president of the Mandan
Publishing Co., following his state
ment to the effect that Frazier's 49,
900 majority represented the pro-
German vote in North Dakota. AZ
ter an all dav conference with Mr..
Tostevin in witch the Council wanted
him to retra-. his statement, the
meeting ended where it started.
What we want to know ic this: Why
did not the Council of Defense call the
editor of the kenmare Journal be-
fore them and insist on him retractiny
his statement to the fact that John
Steen was nominated by the pro-
Germans of North Dakota? The only
reason we can see for them not doiny.
this is the fact that the Kenmar.
Journal is one of the Townley's sacred
organs that was shouting pro-hun
AS wind-up the Tostevin case was
dropped. and the Council of Defense
then came OFT with an order as fol-
lows:
at has been brought to the atten-
ton of the council that many per-
sons, several organizations, and some
newspapers in this state have made
utterances and statements by speech
publication and otherwise, which by
their terms serve to insinuate and in
fer that certain classes of our people
are pro-German and disloyal, all OF
which serves to create or invite dis.
sension and discord among our PEG.
ple." l-'~NHVl
The Council then holds up North
Dakota's record for loyalty in support.
ing every activity of the federal gov.
eminent. End finds that at is vitality
essential that no acts or uttarances
hv our neorle should be permitted OF
tolerated, which serve unjustly 10
rha-oe any Of our neople with acts
Of disloyalty or which serve 10 hinde,
and impair the efficiency and coop
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-25

Rosenthal Sacred Heart Church. Mis-
sion attended from Linton every second
and fourth Sunday: high mass and SER
mon at 10 .. m.
REV. FIR. sA1LER.