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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-01-24
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belten arbeiten II. Baaren au Iiefern.
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beiblogen iomobI nie i'm Sdmiebe.
uno 8aeenbanbperf.
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Spreaoers un6 Sarm.M aidinen On,
Sano ODER a,,f 9eftelIrng at giiniti.
gen geoinglingen unb at annebmba.,
rem Breiien ~eeIiefert.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-01-24

Die Sabl ser SeiratDsliaenien mel.
DIE I'M bergan9cncn SSobr in Wont.
gomcrp County m,seeitcllt ipltrben
mar MIR balb 70 eroB oIs pic In,
Sabr 1917.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-01-24

Cut Out and Save "cW
Colds Weaken Your Child
HOW TO PREVENT AND TREAT
Cds are caused y ---- .--,rc -,
Germs your ehd br.ths aaeush the air from COUGHING. sNIEz INC o% Id
SPLITTING of CARELESS PEOPLE, spreading into tho air germ {" t"H "'
innocent people must breathe.
HANDKERcHIEFs euryhg eerms-aIed about. Infants and ehGena are helpless
faces The public roller owe was innocent compared to the family poekst
handkerchief ---.,
KISSING AND HANDLING Of CHILDREN by FRIENDS, NEIeHsoRs an
WET FEET.
Exposure to traits
Sudden chages of temperature.
Lack of fresh air in you houses In winter
DON'T 10 NEAR THE BABY IF YOU HAVE A COLI.
DON'T KISS OF HANDLE " chill IF YoU HAVE A OIL
DON'T VISIT THE NEIaHBoRs AND GIVE THEIR FAMILY coLDsh %
have one.
DON'T LET GRANDMOTHER CARE FOR BABY II she has a cold
DON'T TAKE CHILDREN INTO CROWDED PLACES duing winter when whoop
ing cough, measles Group and sore threats are prevalent
It's the sWest way to give your child Diseases
HOW TO PREVENT.
Avo1b ' LIKE a" sMM1 FM ALL ALL f rS %EE with COLDS.
DON'T E PEOPLE KISS OF HANDLE YOUR CHILD.
Cole air isn't. fresh air-open you windows
Teach your children to blow their noses on toilet paper and burn It ~.
Teach chldrn to cough md sneeze into their andkGchifs
HOW TO TREAT.
To cure a simple cdd give a hot bath, and, thn in warm room, rub the body
with hot eamphOsed oil and place the child into bed that has been thoroughly
warmed. Then cover carefully.
Put alter en- the stove as mOst air help the ihammed min of noses and throat
For loose coupyc cough, heats kettle Of water on stove and allow steam to con-
santy moBten tho air Of ROOM,
II babys nose runs warm m vasenne md drop . fw drop Of tho warm liquid
vaSEne into the. nose evry three hours.
Don't upet baby by dosing with medicine
IF THE CHILD HAS FEvER-CALL A DOCTOR.
Compiled under direction Chndrens Bureau q. s Department Of Labor.
Missouri Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-09-04
NECRoES 10 RAISE s2a 600

liAU'hl va Wanted fur Religious
Hnd Agricultural school
In' The p.fuuec Hf furu,.ur 4 rr
Fi""s and agricultural school fur
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
GRAND OPERA

THE fddles are twanging, the kettledrums
banging
The gifted soprano is shooting top notes;
The solemn contrato, Maria Rialto,
Is urging the chorus to crack their white
throats:
The tenor and basso, compatriots of Tasso,
Are having a row with the fierce baritone.
They're making it willing and soon there'n
be killing
With boodthirsty snortsl from the Prussian
trombone
The maids are capricious, the mems TEN
pers vicious,
The costumes are quaint and the manners
are bad;
No visible copper, staidA silent and proper,
Keeps watch, and knives CLEAN in the belt
of each lad;
So trouble, bad trouble, arrives at the
double
And some one goes down with last ringing
shout.
That's one gone to glory. BIT please read
the story
Once in you will never guess what it's about
It's rather tax on the calm Anglo Saxon
To beat the Italians at this funny game;
With gestures erratic and movements rheu-
matte
The Aussies get through, but there's rarely
a flame;
But SWELL, and Belli, and Ovhatayell
Behave as they would in seaka -da -oyst;
Beneath that proud banner tie grand opera
manner
Is practiced all day round the cooks kitchen
hoist. Sydney Bulletin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
DEATH-TRAP CROSSINGS

NTEIGHBORHOOD ties are strong in
~ Philadelphia and by reason of them
the Carksboro tragedy takes on pecu-
liar poignancy. The disaster is a cruel
and shocking blow, which will leave
for many year its dark impress on the
particular community in Kensington
whence all the victims were drawn.
The inquest will set forth the con-
ventional succession of bitter "ifs" They
will not repair wrung hearts, but they will
be worth proclamation if they prompt
action against the venerable but still
potent perils Of grade crossings.
1t is a prevalent impression that the
abolition of such death traps in New Jer-
sey would be particularly costly and
would in this level region necessitate vir-
tually the reconstruction of most Of tie
railways. If viaducts or tunnels fur
nished the sole solution of the problem
the obligation would indeed assume for
midable proportions. But relaying the
surface lines is not the only remedy.
Much may be accomplished by the
right sort Of picketing at the danger
areas and by the use of safety gates so
designed as to be something more than
mere theoretical barriers. Continental
Europe is we'll supplied with grade
crossing safeguards which really do halt
the highway traffic when it should be
stopped.
The elaborate fencelike gates employed
in hill-less Flanders are unremittingly
tended. They protect the rashest indi-
viduals Almost as we'll as would bridge
over a cut or drive through an en-
bankment. The topography Of South
Jersey uoes not, therefore, render the
situation incapable of reform, save at
prodigious cost. If we cannot yet, in all
parts of the country, initiate England,
where level crossings are reduced to an
inconsiderable minimum, we can at least
follow the wise example set on so many
of the fiat stretches of land on the Cont
nent.
1t is vain repetition TO point to the
Clarksboro shambles simply as warn
ing" The inevitable "ifs' will some day
be brought again into tragic play unless
tangible reforms are adopted. Crossings
of the Clarksboro type, with no gates
whatever, are murderous archaisms.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
THEY WANT MORE WORK

TNHE request of certain workmen en-
! ployed by the Bethlehem Steel Co.
that they be permitted to work ten hours
a day instead of eight wins instant atten-
tion because it is so very unusual More
over, it is in striking contrast to the ac-
tion of tie miners, who want n thirty
hour week and are now working not
at all.
The trades union idea has always been
that the fewer hours men work the more
men will be employed. Whatever iustifi-
cation for the idea there has been in the
past, there is none today. The world
needs all the work possible from all men,
1t is because the world is being denied
in its hour Of need that public sentiment
is against the present miners strike.
Public sentiment is not particularly con-
cerned with the rights or wrongs of the
controversy. If the operators have cur
tailed production, as Mr.. Gompers alleges,
they deserve condemnation and punish
ment. But two wrongs don't make a
right; and it is impossible to give SYM
pathy to one of two brothers fighting on
the river bank while q third browns.
The workmen in the Bethlehem Steel
plant have their eyes on the man in the
river. They are going to pull him out
with the rope of production.
Theirs is an example all labor might
well follow. 1t will be time enough to
settle differences when the world is safe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

to be especially rich in gold and copper.
Five thousand Texans, Arizonans and
New Mexicans rushed in. The situation
recalled the breakneck settlement Of
Oklahoma.
There has been an impression that such
days had gone by and that once opulent
Uncle Sam had disgorged virtually all Of
his treasures.
He has not. Thousands of federally
owned acres are still promise-crammed.
There are veritable empires within this
republic still to be developed. The end
of such scenes as were enacted in Tono-
pah some years ago and in the hinterland
of Holbrook and Gallup the other day is
not yet
When they recur they are enough TO
make the most fulsome platform orator
register himself as II conservative.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

fTNHE man who wants good. clean con-
\ duct of the city's affairs, but who
fails to vote in the election today, is just
as completely Stacker as the army draft
dodger.
The man who is too indolent or too
disinterested to take the trouble Of cast
ing ballot and thinks to excuse himself
by remembering that he voted fright in
the primary election in September is in
exactly the same category.
The man who refuses to vote on the
ground that the fight is a struggle be-
tween factions cannot hope to escape the
same epithet.
They are all sackers, and their neigh
bors ought to tell them SO.
1t is not nearly so culpable for a man
to vote wrong as not to vote at all. He
may be a crouch, he may be laboging
under delusons. he may be just a plain
fool or he may have selfish, sordid in
terest in voting wrong. That is his privi-
lege.
But the man who does not vote at all
when he is able to do so is recreant to
that thing which we all talked about and
venerated in exalted language during the
war-democracy
Now, neighbors, look around and spot
the vote slacllers today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

sioners to pay a commission to brokers to
buy from the successful bidder the very
bonds which had been issued a few days
earlier. And, above ALL it would be in
the interest of economy.
If the Sinking Fund Commissioners
persist in their determination TO ignore
Director Gruenberg's pertinent commu-
nication it is likely that the director viii
address the same letter to the new COM
mission which will be in charge after the
Inauguration Of the new Mayor in jan
uary. The Mayor is an ex-ofiicio men,
Der of the commission.
Congressman Moore has announced
that he will enforce the provisions Of the
new charter in the spirit in which they
were written. He cannot keep this prom
ise and ignore the sections of that docu-
mcnt to which Director Gutenberg has
called attention. If he finds the other
two members Of the commission deter
mined to continue their old policy, and if
he has new Council in sympathy with
him, the new Mayor can find a way TO
get Sinking Fund Commission that will
respect the charter
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
At Sixth and Chestnut

A r SIXTH and Chestnut when the day
"A Grinds out its many duties.
And work forbids the mind to stray
In search of Natures beauties
Romance seems far enough away
From Sixth and Chestnut.
And yet upon n certain morn
When all the world was youthful,
A glorious band, hope forlorn,
Spake words courageous, truthful,
And straightway Liberty was born
At Sixth and Chestnut.
At Sixth and Chestnut there's no dearth
OF sweet romance. 'Tis coming
In guise of glory, grief or mirth
With news the wires are humming
From all four corners of the earth
To Sixth and Chestnut
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
SPEAKING OF JAYS

CTREETS are old. They were one of
~ the first Of human inventions. 1t is
odd to think that a lot of time and money
still must be expended in teaching people
how to cross them.
The fact is that men and women and
children who.trip off the curb in the mid
die of block for the journey to the oppo-
site side of the street cling to old ways.
{ They like to feel that life is as simple and
safe as it used to be. 1t isn't. All the
world is trying to make itself safe
against its own inventions. The jay
walker, so called, is just little behind
the procession.
By jay we may suppose, the propa
gandists of safe crossings mean one who
is unsophisticated and, so to speak green.
1t may be admitted that some of those
who risk their lives in the heavy traffic
are green if you are as willing to admit
that disagreeable minority of those who
drive motor vehicles are, let US say, yell
low. A few of them have abominable
manners.
Jaywalkers, after all, are dangerous
only to themselves. Jaydrivers are dam
gerous to others, and that is why there
are too many accidents at crossings as
well as midway in the blocks.
Of course, the jaywalker will reform
and cross sensibly under the protection
of the traffic policeman. Then let US
begin with the jaytalker-a much more
.regrettable phenomenon apparent in art,
politics, literature, science and public
affairs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
THE INExHAUSTIBLE PURSE

1T ISN'T easy to brag about the United
4 States. The inhibition is not the re-
suit Of modesty There are public speak
ers and individual citizens, too, who GER
tainly do their best to vaunt the merits
of Goods country" Among foreigners
our reputation for boasting is unenvia-
BILE.
And yet the difficulty of overstating
the natural and inexhaustible wealth of
this nation is truly formidable. The gov
eminent last Saturday opened to pros
pectors $4,000 acres of land in Arizona
fndisn reservations The region is said
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
HINTS FOR YELLOW JOURNALISTS

Ho,o TO Write an Editorial
First get your facts cofined and hearsed'
then bury and forget 'em.
Give the people what they want. Give
'em JAZZ.
Play up patriotism. When people Ell
thuse they forget to think.
Wave the starry flag. No one can guess
what is going on behind it.
Remember always that those who agree
with YOU are saints and those who disagree
with YOU are cutthroats, thieves and
WORSE.
And whenever you have anything to say
that is particularly commonplace and banal
PLAY 1T UP IN LARGE CAPS.
(Erdmple)
SPEED.
Speed is the most desirable thing III the
world. ,,,>,-,,
THE WORLD HATES A SLOW POKE.
The slow poke is usually counterfeiter
and a wife -beater. ,r,,
Better be a RABBIT than SLOIH.
Work fast, eat fast, live fast, speak fast
and be ever ready to say the thing that seems
TO he in what you call your mind.
Don't wait to have something to say be-
fore talking or writing. Such rule may
condemn you to silence or rob you OF the
lows of writer's cramp.
Say something Be something Have
pep!
ZIPPYl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
Entries in a Prayed Notebook

II strikes us as being very delightful that
the gentleman from whom we buy grapes in
the afternoon at Eighth and Spruce is the
same gentleman from whom we buy in the
evening an orange at Ninth and Chestnut.
Il is charming to realize that he moves north
with the same regularity that the sun moves
west and that at some point in their journey
tbav cross each others path. The two
wheeled vehicle on which he displays his
wares is topped with riot of color. There
is a mountain of bright red apples OF apple
rod. orange -colored oranges, pear colored
nears and grape colored grapes, and the
copper colored copper kettle that houses the
roasting peanuts sings songs through thin
whistle and, well, really, if we ever get
through the mail that cutters our desk, we
must perpetrate a little pastele on this
subject. We are sure it will be very well
worth while
We acknowledge with shame that we have
not vet answered a pressing invitation OF
the king of Siam to visit BangkOk-or is it
Manayunk?-to go fishing on the Tonle- Sap
Tor mayhap, the SchuylkilD. We admit
our remissness is all the more reprehensible
because his majesty on the last occasion we
were in Siam was pleased to express his
riotous appreciation of harmless little quip
Of ours when invited to a court function.
''Will I be required to wear my soup and
fish - we demanded, 'or will you take me
lust as Siam?' Oh, well, we japesters must
be merry once in a while.
Our wife is sometimes filled with fore
boding when she realizes that the time will
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
!. significant event in American history.
which is to be hoIored with a ter
centenary celebration next year, is the
landing of the Pilgrims.
2. Brand Whitlock, American ambassador
to Belgium, accompanied King Albert
back home.
3. Serendipity is the lift of finding valu-
able or agreeabl, things not sought
for. The word vas coined by Horace
Walpole in aluspn to the tale of the
''Three Princes If Serendip."
A. Shakespeare's vocabulary was about
$4,000 words.
5. This is about 1900 more than are used
in the King james Bible.
g. Daniel Defoe wrot 'Moll Flanders"
Z. DIR. Karl Muck is at present back in
Berlin.
s. Two works by Gntsve Flaubert ara
"Salammbo" and Madame Boyary."
0. A federal district cort in indianapolis
granted the injunction against the coal
strikers.
10. The colors Of the Dtnish flag are red
aud white.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

The president judge of the Municipal
Court advocates the establishment of poor
mans court. where justice may be dispensed,
like salvation, free. This is in line with
the suggestion recently made in n bulletin
issued by the Carnegie Foundation, and the
idea should not be permitted to languish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
FINISH THE JOB!

THERE is one way in which the voters
l. who nominated Mr.. Moore may yet
see most of their efforts and hopes
wasted. They can permit the capture of
the new Council by men who still aim to
tie the hands of the new Mayor, to frus-
trate his plans and to defeat the city's
hope for clean and modern government.
The job is only half done.
Finish it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Hats off to Mr.. Feehan! He had the
nerve to stand up for the United States
Government against the council of the Reds
that dominated the Pittsburgh meeting of
the Pennsylvania State Federation of La
Dor. And sooner or later the rank and file
will have the nerve to back him up
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Senator Jones urges the establishment
of new merchant marine corporation with
headquarters in Philadelphia. The senator
shows appreciation of the prophecy of Prof
Luigi luigi that this city is destined to be
the principal nort Of the country
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Robbing Peter to pay Paul becomes sim
pie arithmetic compared to the municipal
custom of causing Peter to draw on Peter
to pay Peter and then allowing Peter to
remain unpaid.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
RolsheYik arch

Fostering Bolshevik architecture" is
the way Philadelphia skyline was de-
scribed by a speaker at recent meeting
of the t Square Club. BY which we may
Judge taking into account the tempera
mentalism of the artist, that he considers
it not exactly as it should be.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Governor Sproul shows wisdom in up
parently ignoring the state wide strike
threat. But he'll doubtless be ready to cross
that bridge if it is ever reached.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
What Do You Kpo,u?
QUIZ

QUIZ
L. How many voyages did Columbus maka
to the New World?
2. What are incunabula?
3. When did soft coal mining become a
recognized industry in Pennsylvania?
4. What is the last book in the Old Testa
ment?
D. When did the Sepoy Rebellion break
out?
u. Name an article of food especially char
acteristic of Philadelphia?
z. What is ''Fidus Achaes"?
s. Define majority and plurality?
0. What are the colors of The flag of Swe-
den?
10. How did the Roman wite 40?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Gompers declares that capital plotted
strikes, and admits that "labor fell for 1t 4"
The suffering public is more interested in
some way of ending them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

The action of Bethlehem steel workmen
in demanding a ten,hour day instead of
eight shines like a good deed in naughty
world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

What the government is fighting is moi
labor unionism but radicalism. 1t is fight
between democracy and revolution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

1t has aforetime been noted, and recen
arrests may bear it out, that the incarcerate
Red loses color.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04
THE SAUCEPAN

come when the Nipper will have to exchange
his frilly little dresses for short pants. We
sometimes suspect that the foreboding is not
wholly unconnected with the fact that there
is more feminine joy in the planning of
skirts than in the cutting down of papa's
pants to make three complete suits for
weekdays, Sundays and holidays. The
Npper, by the way, said something un-
usually clever the other day, but, unfor-
tunately, we have forgotten what it was.
But no matter. 1t will come to us later.
A Weather Myth
The Sun had given jolly Earth much wine;
His nose was pointed west, a rosy red;
A drunken drowsness dulled every sense,
And the Stars were forced to light him to
his bed.
The gentle Moon came sailing slowly by,
Shedding all about a modest light;
She saw, and slipped behind a cloud, for
shame
At seeing Earth in such a sorry plight.
Next day old Earth felt pangs Of keen re-
morse;
His head was throbbing with an awful
pain;
The tears began to fill his aching eyes,
And men said, 1T is surely going to rain"
WALTER A. DYER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

The proposed new industrial conference
will be able to profit by the mistakes Of th
old one.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Friends of liberty everywhere nave
their eyes fixed on Massachusetts today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

Coal breakers ahead
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-04

WALTER A. DYER.
The world is fresh and sweet and clean
but you can't prove it at all musical shows
Musical shows slapstcked into shape
by series of undress rehearsals.
Don't be tightwad. When your wife
tells you that she just has to have some new
dresses, why, let 'er rip.
Get it? Enjoyment depends upon the
point of view. woman can have n ripping
time working over her old clothes.
Clothes may make the man, but with the
present high cost of living they are Just as
likely to break him.
In the face of winter and the coal strike
the coal" pile has a lean and the furnace a
hungry look.
Life grows a little sweeter with the
promise Of more sugar this week.
The high cost of living is not worrying
local thieves
The public has been the goat in every
strike ever pulled Off Realizing that it is
the goat it is now going to use it's horns.
The chldren's game of "Heavy heavy,
what hangs over?' is answered by the
weather sharp: Heavy underwear.
The motorist who strikes, kills and
speeds away may not be a plain brute, but
he assuredly has large streak of yellow
in him.
Todays election results will be as an
posite as the polls.
ABOUT A STICK
"About a stick" the printers say,
Will fill my space. Alackaday
No thought will come to give me ease !;
No quip, no quirk, no jape, no wheeze
| To brighten up my weary way.
No stick can make me grumble! Nay!
| Though Fate belabor me each day
There's naught to bring me to my knees
| About a stick
| A stick of type! Two inches! Pray
| What's there to hurt? OF matter gray
Just half spoonful, if you please;
Stir gently; set where fancies tease
! It's thus one driyels out lay
About a stick.
Y DEMosTHENEs McGINNIs.