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The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
II KILLED IN EXPLOSION.

Boston, Jan. 16.-Probably a dozer
persons were killed and 80 injured b,
the explosion OF huge tank Of mo.
lasses on the water front of Com
mercial street, near Keany square here
The only bodies identified have been
those OF fireman and two residents
Of tenements In the vicinity. A large
number Of the injured were taken to
The relief hospital. The tank was
owned By the Purity Distilllng COM
pany, ! subsidiary Of the United States
Ipdsstrial Alcohol company.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
Ia Toilette Exonerated.

Washington, Jan. 18.-By vote of
80 to p, the senate has adopted res
oluti0n recommended by majority Of
the privileges and elections commit
tee. Diminishing disloyalty charges
brought against Senator La Toilette
.of Wisconsin by the Minnesota public
safety commission because of his
speech on the war delivered before
the Nonpartisan league at ST. Paul,
MIMI, September 20. 1917.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
To Study Rider.

The exact form of a rider is to be
studied out by the general staff. The
committee will take up at once hear
ings on the regular appropriation bill
as drawn, which provides for 100000
men.
Secretary Baker would make no de-
claration in regard to universal mill
tary service suggestions, saying he
would submit no proposal of that ma
ture until the peace conference bad
finished its work. He said the gen.
eral staff had submitted several studies
which We're still on his desk. Later
Representative Sanford sought to OBJ
tain General MARGINS views on this
question.
General March said the army was
now organized under presidential Or
der, and the plan included in the staff
bill was practically that organization
A total strength of 100000 men is pro-
vided for, he said, to be organized
into 20 divisions grouped in five corps.
The total annual cost he fixed at ST.
1S5,000,000, based on return to a
base pay of SIS month for privates
and exclusive of $S6,OOO,00O carried
in the Notifications bill
Another condition which must be
remedied, the general said, was that
permanent commissions from
civil life to the grade of second lieu |
tenant.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
LABOR UNIONS URGE
FEDERAL CONTROL
LABOR LEGISLATION is RECON-
MENDED BY AMERICAN FED
GRAFTON OF LABOR
VOTE TO KEEP OUT POLITICS
Federal Legislation to Prevent Child
Labor and Equality in Pay for Men
and Women Workers Also
Is Urged

/ Washington, Jan. 16.-Federal own
| ership, operation or regulation of pub
lie and semi-public utilities was rec
commended to the committee of the
commission of reconstruction of the
American Federation of Labor after
its approval by the federation's exec
utive council.
Government ownership of all
wharves and docks, federal legislation
to prevent child labor, and equality in
pay for men and women workers also
were urged.
The committee opposed the forma-
ton of labor political party on the
ground that 1.-THE disastrous experience
of organizations of labor in America
with political parties of its own am
ply justifies the American Federation
of Labor's nonpartisan political pol
icy%
Other resolutions of the committee
were Legislation making interference
with the rights of employees to organ
ize or any attempt to interfere with
the legitimate activities of trade. I'M
ions a criminal offense.
The right of labor to fix it's hours Of
work.
Maximum working day of eight
hours, with overtime prohibited eX-
cept under extraordinary circum-
stances; weeks work limited to five
and one-half days.
Limit Women's Tasks.
Limitations of tasks of working
women to those which they are phys
ically capable of performing.
No limitation of the rights of public
employees to organize.
Provision for referendum on acts
of congress or state neld unconstitu-
tional by the supreme court.
Legislation for the state and federal
governments to own and operate water
power projects; the power to be fur
nished to the people at cost.
Legislation taxing all disable lands
above the acreage which is actually
cultivated by the owner, and giving aid
In the allotment of lands for home
building of the public domain.
Establishment of government expert
mental farm for stock raising instruc
ion and extension of the program for
arid or cutover lands and
If irrigation projects.
Legislation limiting and defining the
powers of corporations, and extensions
If federal control of corporations TO
of capital stock Increases
md mourning of bonded Indebtedness.
With provision that corporation books
re open to federal inspection.
Removal of all restrictions on Stree
peech," individuals and groups to be
,eld responsible for their utterances.
Extension of workmen's cOmpensa-
ion laws to provide more adequately
Or those incapacitated by Industrial
ccidents and disease, and state insur-
nee to supplement employers liability
lsurance.
Amendment to the immigration laws
} restrict immigration to The capacity
the United States TO "assimilate and
foreigners and to COM
Ietely restrict it for at least two years
fter the signing of the peace treaty
nd at any future time when an alb
primal degree of unemployment exists.
Increase In taxes on incomes. in
sritance and land values.
Representation of labor on school
,ards and recognition of the rights Of
achers to organize.
Cooperation of public employment
rav, nj mi H. t-3~
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WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Charles Pergler, commissioner of
the CzechO-S lovak republic, recently
annouced that the first food relief for
his country had left New York for
Trieste. The cargo consists of $500
tons of fats and 100 tons of condensed
milk. The shipment is being made
under the direction of the food admin
istration.
The famous royal northwest mount
ed police force of Canada, probably tbs
most widely known organization of its
kind in the world, which was virtually
disbanded during the war owing TO
heavy enlistment in the fighting force,
is not to disappear. An order-in-coun-
Gil has been issued increasing the force
| to an authorized strength of 200 men.
& 4
When the steamer ChaOuia struck
Il mine in the Straits of Messina, AGO
of the 800 passengers and crew on
board were lost. The steamer was on
its way from Piraeus to CONSTANT
nople and sank in four minutes after
striking mine. Many of the 230 sur
vivors were injured by the explosion
and were removed to hospitals in Mes
sina. The ChaOuia formerly was the
steamer Konigen Wilhelmina.
Il 4
Five thousand deaths, the depart
ment of sanitation fears, will be the
toll taken by influenza in Porto Rico.
More than 5000 deaths it is esti-
mated, have already occurred, and the |
Acting Commissioner. DIR, Font y Quill !
lot, believes that in spite of every |
effort that will We made, from 1,500 |
to 1000 more may be expected.
4 4
National league baseball players
will receive an unpleasant surprise
with their 1919 contracts as result
of the magnates' action in adopting
a clause for salary limit of not more
than $1,000 per month.
4 4
Twenty-seven returned soldiers are
to be made Seattle police officers when
they pass the civil service examination.
4 4
The senate has passed resolution
authorizing the payment of a pension
Of $4,000 u year and the extending of
mail ranking privileges to Mrs Theo-
dore Roosevelt. 1t now goes to the
house.
wireless dispatch from Lisbon an
1ounces the suppression of the insur-
lection in Portugal The loyal troops
nave captured the majority of the in
Statutes of dry states permitting
PERSONS TO import or personally bring
u limited amounts of intoxicants for
heir own use were In effect nullified
y the so-called Reed bone-dry" 0
mendment enacted by congress, the /
upreme court has ruled in an opinion
eversing the federal court for the [
outhern district q West Virginia.
4 4
According to plans Of the Mexican
ar department. the Mexican army, in s
320 will contain 100000 men. Re- G
ruiting has been stopped. Only ma a
We Mexicans will be admitted into n
lie military service. Soldiers of i'm b
AZURE years are being discharged and Il
her reforms calculated to increase 3
lie efficiency Of the troops are being s.
iopted. q
r,fx<N 1
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
LIFT RESTRICTIONS
ON IMPORTED METALS

Washington. JAN 15.-Import re-
strictions on iron ore, chrome ore and
cromite, manganese ore, copper ore
and concentrates, and monazite sand,
have been removed by the war trace
board. Licenses also will be issued
freely for the importation from Great
Britain of ferro manganese covering
shipments contracted for by AlIeri--
can consumers prior to April g. 1917.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
Question Authority Of Labor Board.

Question Authority Of Labor Board.
Washington, Jan. 16.--The authority
Of the national war labor board to en-
force its DEGREES now that host Lilies
have ceased has been challenged by
counsel for the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany. who had been asked to appear
to answer complaints that awards
made By the board during the war had
net been carried out.
I'VE don't feel now that this board
can 80 ON adjusting grievances be-
tween employees and arrangements Of
tn industrtal plants" said Guy Cur
risr. attofnsy for the company.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-24
POSTPONE ARMY
REORGANIZATION
DEFINITE ACTION is LEFT TO
NEXT SESSION OF
CONGRESS
CONTINUE EXISTING POLICY
Proposed Agreement Is Agreeable to
Secretary Baker - Legislative
Rider to Continue Policy
Is Suggested

Washington, Jan. 1S.-The house
| military committee has practically
reached an agreement in conference
| with Secretary Baker and General
March, chief of staff, TO postpone the
war department reorganization bill
until the next session of congress and
with it large part of the prospective
debate over the future military policy
of the country.
A suggestion by Chairman Dent that
legislative rider on the army appro-
priation bill continuing the existing
war organization of the department
and the regular army for another year,
measure. met with the approval of Mr..
Baker and apparently a majority of
the committee members.
Provides Voluntary Army.
The proposal grew out of a confer
ence at which Secretary Baker and the
chief of staff explained to the COM
mittee the reorganization measure
framed by the department, providing
for regular army of 100000 men to
be raised by voluntary enlistment on
a fiat three-year basis. The bill also
would have made permanent the abso-
Lutte control over all branches of the
army now exercised by the chief of
staff as a wartime necessity.
Chairman Dent said it would be i'm
possible to get such bill through
in the remaining six weeks.
Committee members agreed with him,
pointing out that the war department
bill on its face appeared to be mill
rary policy measure which abandoned
he theory of universal military obi
cation. Mr. Baker insisted this was
not the case. that no attempt to fix
he nations policy as to a peace-time
lrmy was involved, but agreed that the |
of continuing authority |
TO be the wisest course in |
iiew of uncertainties of the situation |
broad and lack of time for full discus
ion in congress.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
Bismarck Liked City's Noise.

Bismarck would have had little sym
pathy with the present crusade against
the sounding of motor horns when
most people are in bed, for he found
that noise enhanced the value Of q
nights rest.
In his old age he confided to an in
terviewer that he could "never SLEEP
in Berlin at night when it IS quiet
but as soon as the noise begins, about
four o'clock in the morning, I car
sleep a little and get my rest for the
day."
Pepys also found comfort in noe
turnal noises. 81 still remember" hi
records on September %, 1861, wher
staying Mt yelling, that of all the
nights that I ever slept in my life
never did pass a night with more cpl
curism for sleep; there being now ant
then a noise of people that walked me
and then it was very rainy night
and then I was a little weary, thai
what between waking and then sleep
ing again, one after another, I never
had so much content in all my life."
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26

Flahive, two lifelong friends Of the
bride, served the breakfast.
The bride has been a resident of Den
ison for the past two years, moving
here from Vail with her mother. She
was born and reared at Vail, where she
received her education. She is a young
lady of charming personality and has
q host of friends both here and at Vail
The groom is the oldest son of Mr.
and Mrs d. p. O'Brien. of Buck Grove
He made his home in Denison until five
years ago when he moved with his par
ents to a farm west of the city, Their
later to Buck Grove, which has beer
his home for the past two years. He
served in the army and for year was
in France, returning home in Septem
Der. Mr.. O'Brien is an upright and in
duStrOus young man and bound tC
make a success in life.
The happy couple departed on the
noon train for a wedding trip to Siou,
City and Omaha. Upon returning tt
DenisQh they will move to a farm two
miels from Buck Grove which the groom
has rented and where they will be al
home to their many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Brien We're the recip
tents of many useful and beautiful gifts
showing the esteem in which they are
held by their many friends.
Out Of town guests in attendance a
the wedding were Mr.. and Mrs. d. p
O'Brien, Buck Grove: Mr..and Mrs. H
J. Siegner and son, Vail, and Mr.. ant
Mrs. John Costello, Vail.
The Review joins win the many
friends Of this estimable couple in cX
tending hearty congratulations ant
wishes them many years of happineS!
and prosperity.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
CARVED BY MOTHER NATURE
REMARKABLE Seulptured Face Visible to
IT, Travellers In the Deserts Of
~ Southern Wyoming.

81 Coming across a stretch Of southern
Wyoming desert hills the rider con-
fronts a remarkable, hideous head,
booming up from the sandstone rocks.
He may be apt to think that he has
made q mistake and is in a Chinese
wilderness. the land where huge drag
6ns and grotesquely carved rock fig.
ures are found in the widest and
most unexpected places. This com.
bAratively soft Wyoming sandstone
contains layers and sections of a
harder dark stone, which accounts for
the heavy markings and the strange
Irregular shape into which the rock
has been cut and carved by the erosion
6 rains of winter and the wind
whipped storm Of the dry summers.
The eyes Of the dragon" are small
holes being eaten through the rock
~ the ceaseless sand blast, for the
monument is quite thin and sharp if
Viewed from the side. Doubtless with
continual sculpturing it will, before
many years, lose its singular express
Won, and as the holes are enlarged
MA heavier Gaping will fall over and
have nothing which resembles the
present picturesque head.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
Rough on the Wolves.

Before the war we used to see a
good many pictures Of whiskered
Rooshian gents razooing over the
snowclad plains in sledges drawn by
three snorting horses hitched abreast,
and hinging children to the ravening,
red-mouthed wolves that were pursu-
Ing EN-" musingly said Gap Johnson
Of Rumpus Ridge. "Last night, while
my children were pulling hair and
humping each others heads on the
hoor. and wife was slapping 'em right
and left and 4 was cussing 'em in a
gener'l way, and such as that, sorter
got to contemplating that if I was
tearing acr0st the prairie with my kids
In wagon and the wolves raging
around US, If I'd fling five or six of the
children out amongst the varmints
them wolves would sure get the sur
prise Of their lives. I reckon in about
tFo minutes the children would be
feeling right at home and the wolves
huRling for help."-Kansas City Star.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
ALMOST AS GOOD AS EYES
Mechanical Device Invented by Seat.
tie Man Truly Wonderful
Boon to the Blind.

When a Seattle young man OF
twenty-six met with an accident in
1916 which resulted in the loss Of his
eyesight, he Immediately set to work
to try to evolve mechanical device
which would be, as nearly as possible,
a substitute for eyes. After almost
two years of patient effort he has per-
fected an instrument which enables
him to get about without the use, of
a cane, and the device has POSSIBLE
tiles for use in navigation on land,
on the sea or in the air.
The invention, which is called q
direction indicator, is described by
Popular Mechanics magazine, as a
specially constructed compass, two
buzzers, right and left, and two dry
cell batteries, and is attached to the
belt by clips. The compass has an
adjustable cap, which is turned as de-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
the sINFULNEss OF MAN.

We are sitting out the sinfulness that
marred our olden creeds,
From the vineyards where we labor we
are thinning out the weeds.
We are building for the future to a
nobler, better plan:
For the world has caught the vision OF
the sinfulness of man.
We have put the past behind us, as the
go, sturdy pioneers
Saw within the tangled forest all the glory
Of the years;
So we face our trials calmly, for beyond
them we can see
The greater goals Of freedom and the
world that Is to be.
These are days Of self-denial; these are
times for sacrifice;
It Is freedom we are gaining and each
one must pay the price.
We are drawing close together with a
common end in view;
For the greater joys we dream Of we've
common task to do.
We are sitting out the sinfulness that
marred us in the past,
For the light of truth Is shining through
the clouds Of doubt at last;
We are building for the future to 6
larger. better plan,
For all eyes have caught the vision OF
the sinfulness Of man.
Charles Davis, Sing Sing, $780,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
SECTION 3-PAGE THREE

>er was served and about $50 people
VartOok OF the same. sa;&
Trains Nos. and 4 of the Sioux City
division Of the Milwaukee have been
taken off in order to conserve coal.
The Ute Independents basket ball
team PLAYED the American Legion Fri
day evening, the score being Sc to "
in favor of Manila. The Ute high school
played our boys and the score was "a
to l Sin favor Of Manila. LAX
Mr.. and Mrs. Shoupe, the former be-
'ng the new superintendent OF the ligh-
plant are now nicely located in the
Gleiscr residence. -
The opera house association are adj
vertisng grand ball for Thanksgiving
evening. Downs orchestra, OF Council
Bluffs, will furnish the music.
VIM. Theobald, who has been at Ro-
chester, Mimi. for a few weeks, re-
turned home Sunday. =. ~.
Leonard HoldsWorth, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Stickelberg, returned Sun
day after being overseas for several
months. ills friends were glad to see
him. r.- :.
The new teachers of the public school
entertained the old teachers Friday eve
ming in the domestic science room. A
six o'clock dinner was served and all
present spent a very pleasant evening.
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course supper served at small tables
Place cards with small turkeys were
used and during supper a guessing
game and music were enjoyed.
In the interest of home mission week
under the direction of Mrs. Carpenter
Mission superintendent of the Sunday
school, and her Missionary committee,
Mrs. Barber. Miss Name and Mrs. Mey'
ers, two interesting and instructive pro.
grams were given on Monday and Fri
day evenings. On Friday evening the
junior W. w. G. society, the Crusaders
and the Heralds gave playlets setting
forth the church's duty and privilege in
christian Americanization. On Monday
evening the senior w. w. G. society
delighted the audience with represen,
tation of the work being done by the
Worth While Girls" of the Baptist de-
nomination for Home missions. Both
programs were well rendered, well at
tended and generous offerings were re.
ceivcd for Home missions. The work
being done in these societies Of children
and young girls will surely tell for the
future of the kingdom of God
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26
MANILA ITEMS
\ !. X !. X !. X X < \ X !. X !

Grena6icr society of the Manila high
school held u program Wednesday at
ternOOn as follows:
Roll call
Ukelele Trio, elena Breckenridge, Har
~ Holmes and Georgia Disburg
Origin of Thanksgiving--Je Jesse Parker
Thanksgiving Clara Asmus
What Basket Ball Means to a High
School ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Frank Jackson
High School Paper, Muriel McDermott
Gertrude Mundt
Duet Angela and Madonna Doherty
Value of the High School Library
Bertha Pepper
Original Story ------ Erma Hayes
Thanksgiving Poem ----COlleen Bryant
Idea of u Well Spent Thanksgiving--
Alvcna BrenZel
Thanksgiving on a Farm Edwin Olson
Piano Solo ---------- Beulah Butfinton
Max Berkemeier, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. Fl. Berkemeier, returned home the
latter part of last week after being in
the navy for the past three years. His
friends were indeed glad to see him.
The ladies of the Guild society held
a baked sale Saturday afternoon at the
A. II. Collier electric shop.
Miss Florence Hannah entertained
the Luther league meeting at her home
Tuesday evening. A large crowd was
present and all spent q very pleasant
evening.
II. A. Ho!derman, who has been in
charge of the light plant. resigned last
week and will leave for California.
The supper and bazaar held at the
opera house Wednesday evening, by the
ladies of the Sacred Heart church, was
a grand success. A fine chicken sup
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26

! The P. E. O. society will meet Fri
day evening at o'clock at the home
of Mrs. F.. Gulick.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Silletto extend a
cordial invitation to their many Dcni-
son friends to call at the dormitory on
Sunday afternoon and meet their son,
John, Jr., and wife.
The usual bazaar of Trinity Guild
will be held on Saturday, December 9Th
at McKim hall. Various Christmas gifts
will be on sale and a large variety OF
practical gifts.
Mrs II. c. Mccarthy was happily sur
prised by number of her friends last
Thursday afternoon when the guests
brought with them the delicious supper
that was served after a most delightful
afternoon. Mrs. Mccarthy has been
confined to her home for some time be-
cause of injuries sustained some time
ago and on this occasion she seemed
more CHEEKY than usual.
Mrs. J. C. Robinson was hostess to
Coterie club and several guests on last
Friday afternoon. A pleasant afternoon
was devoted to a social time and handi-
work, followed by a delicious three
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-11-26

sired. A notch indicates north.
Two pins are suspended from the cap
or cover, and this is mounted over the
needle of the compass when it is set
If the wearer deviates from his SET
course, the compass needle comes in
contact with the pin on the opposite
side, closing circuit, and the buzz
ger on that side sounds warning.
The compass can be set for any di'
rection and can be changed when de-
sired. Plans to apply the device tc
boats and aircraft are being devel'
oped. In this case, instead Of sound
ing an alarm when the craft veereG
from it's course, the Indicator would
close a contact which would throw
over a rudder, thus automatically
steering the vessel in a straigh'
course.