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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-01-02

tillery at the front Somewhere in
France"
ooh. brought in a captive" was his
careless reply. "Ran into the skulker,
marched him into camp and left him in
the guard house. Any letters?"
"Nary a letter. They say the mail
packs here are four days overdue, but
they're rushing holiday stuff to the
camps"
Dale Webster sighed and his face
grew wistful. "Tve been expecting one
letter particularly. You're my friend
Roy?"
"After your carrying me on your
back half dead across the worst part
OF No Mans Land, with the Boches
plugging away for keeps, guess sou
"And you remember Winnie Trask?''
GAS a memory sweet and fragrant
as q field of daisies! J"
"Well, one night in dugout just
couldn't help but write her way back
home there what ought to have said
to her before we left. Three months,
and no word. I fancy l was too pre-
SSumptuous. If I knew that Winnie was
caring for me, thinking of me, at home,
I'd never get lonesome. I'd fight double
to get this mix-up over and back to
her-bless her!''
"Don't lose hope" encouraged Roy
BARLEY. Zone of the fellows just got
q letter written by his sweetheart last
September. 1t has been chasing him
all over the frontier. About your pris-
'oner-make you any trouble?'
"Not bit Of it," declared Dale in a
spirited way. 'The bear"
''The bear!" repeated Roy in won
,derment.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that nv
catch was BEAR" spoke Dale. 81
came across him curled up in a pit, a
performing bear, strayed from some
mountebank master in one Of the bom.
barded villages. Soon as he saw me
he acted frightened and humble. and
when I patted him uttered a iclly
growl, turned a somersault and stood
on his head"
''You don't mean itv
"Come, I'll show you"
Dale led the way to the guardhouse.
Outside Of 1t was gathered a noisy
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-01-02
THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR.

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are YEARLY sigh
ing:
Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly, and speak low, =
For the Old Year lies a-dying.
Old Year, you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with US so steadily,
Old Year, you shall not die.
His face Is growing sharp and thin,
Alack! our friend is gone.
Close up his eyes; tie up his chin;
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standeth there alone,
And waiteth at the door,
There's a new foot on the floor, my
friend,
And new face at the door, my friend,
A new face at the door,
Alfred Tennyson.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-01-02
ANEW YEAR
SERMON
By
REV. JAMES M. GRAY, DID.

II A ND now, Lord, what wait
~ I fOr?"-Psalm 1877.
~ Another twelvemonth has
- almost oono and wo ora
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-01-02
New Years at
the Front
BY
Saidee Estelle Balcom
ETI, what have yOI

ELL, what have you
done for your country
today?"
1t was the eve of
the new year and Dale
Webster, hailed by a
companion S oldi e r,
threw his knapsack
within their tent just
behind the heavy ar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
Best Cure for Bolshevism.

1.-THE biggest single piece of insur-
country can think about just now is
a nationwide organization for bring |
ing 100 per cent of the jobs available
into connection with the men who
need them for their daily bread and |
butter.
This connection is not made eff
fciently or even fairly when work |
ers have to go to the so-called fee
agencies Jobs need workers as much
as workers need jobs. No citizen |
should have to buy a chance to work |
Besides, too many times the super
intendents or foremen who hire men
through these agencies get part of
the fee themselves-and therefore,
find means to fire one worker in order
to have a share in his successors fee. |
1t is both unfair to the worker and
II is highly dangerous for the whole |
country to put the matter back on the
old basis where fifty men wait out
side factory gate for every five jobs |
Last winter; with sixty or seventy |
negroes and foreigners, 1 did my
share of shivering while we all kept
our eyes on the spot where a labor
foreman was to appear in order to
pick not more than three Of four of |
US AS we watched the gate. nobody |
said a word-it was too serious
matter; besides. each Of US was COM
peting with the other. But after the
three or four had been picked, you
should have heard the curses.
This Is hell of note! I have
walked this whole Cd city and
stopped at every place and there amt
no work a-tall, What the hell Is a
fellow going to do?" Then would fol-
low long discussions as to who was to
blame, the democrats or the repub-
licans, and / have heard good long ar
guments placing il on both. / have
also been in the national employment
offices where skilled and mi-skilled
jobs were offered me in large numbers
and where men by the scores were be-
ing sent out to Tabor" jobs-leaSing
still other scores to wait their turn. /
remember one fellow who after stand
ing in line for hours. stepped out for
five minutes and then came back to
find that he had Just missed being
taken on. / shall never forget the
anguish of his curse
Just what changes or what new or
ganization is required to make IL per-
manently possible for a man to know
how to find what jobs there are. is nor
Tor me TO say. But I am perfectly sure
that the country will make a tragic
mistake to abandon the present ma
chlnery before 1t is able to set I'D
something better in it's place.
There are few things which would
please the bolshevist organizers more
at this particular moment. In the
next meeting following the abandon
,heh' " the Jop-HHulnS service, i can
hear the chairman mention the action
and add, Now. comrades, let me have
at once those blanks we sent Won FOR
the names of every worker in this
city now out of job so that we can
put our literature into his hands at
once before he finds place"
Yours very truly,
"P- S.7Inasmuch as l am confipu-
ing my studies. which would be inter
fered with by the publication Of INV
name. may ask you to consider IL and
my connections confidential?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
WEDDING GIFTS TO YoRKs.
Gold Watch for Sergeant and Bar
Pin to HERDS Bride.

SAVANNAH Ga. June THE Sa-
vannah members of the Association
for Education Of Georgia Mountain
GERS today sent a handsome gold
watch and chain to Sergt. Alvin c.
York. the Tennessee hero OF the war.
their wedding presents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
IN LABORER'S GU|SE
TO GET THEIR VIEW
Employer, Who Works in
Plants, Urges Employment
!. Service Be Continued.
WRITES TO CONGRESSMAN

A large employer of labor, who for
the past several months has been
working as a laborer in industrial
plants in various parts of the country
in order to get at first hand the sentl-
ment of the nations workers, yeSter-
day sent to prominent members OF
Congress letter in which he urged
the continuance of the United States
Employment Service in the emergency
and declared that the biggest single
niece of insurance against bolshevism
that this country can think about just
now is a nationwide organization for
bringing 100 per cent of the jobs
available in connection VIII. The men
who need them for their daily bread
and butte"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
Idleness Their Weapon.

The writer. who asked that his name
be kept secret in order that he may
be able to continue in his incogn1to
studies. and who is vice president OF a
large industrial establishment. stated
that he had heard radical agitators in
their meetings urge that new mem
bers be enrolled before these men
now out of work can get jobs and so
close their minds to our gospel
The difference between American
ism and bolshevism, he said, lis the
difference between having job and
not having one"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
Letter to Congressman.

Following the text of the letter
which was sent to Chairman Good and
Warren. of the House and Senate ap-
propriations committees. and to Chair
preparations committees, and to chair
men Smith and Kenyon of the House
and Senate labor committees:
My Dear Sir:
LAS the result of my experiences of
the past few months, l find myself
greatly interested in the question of
the future of the United States En-
ployment Service as now being con-
sidered by you and your committee.
II am an employer of labor. In
order to get to the viewpoint of the
country's workers, I have been work
ing as laborer under an alias in
several plants and factories. My OBJ
servations to date seem to me peril
nent to the question now before you.
In word they are these: The differ
ence between Americanism and boil
shevism is the difference between hav-
ing job and not having one. To an
extent which no one can conceive who
has not h :mSelf walked the streets
for work, the axle on which the whole
world turns for the working man is
the job. AS long as he can enjoy his
three meals day and think of his
own and his family's future with some
certainty, he is a self-respecting citi-
zen, and all this stuff about unrest is
of less interest to him than to his
employer. But Wnen ne Is out OF a
job,-then the axle of his world is
busted; its jagged slivers enter and
cut his self-respect and his very soul
to pieces
ITO be strong of mind and body.
willing to work and work hard, to
walk and walk and ask and entreat
and find no work nowheres, to hear
the curses of those who are less hope
full than you because they've walked
longer. andto see your purse making
a thinner and, thinner wall between
you and hoarse and hollow hested
bumland-that is enough to try the
most reasonable mans faith in his
country and it's institutions-all of
them.
This fact is well known to the rad
fcal agitators. In their meetings,
have heard them urge redoubled eff
forts to enroll new members before
these men -out of work get jobs and
SO close their minds to our gospel
las you, of course. know. thousands
of employers are devising methods for
Improving working conditions in
their plants. many of them instituting
shop committees, profit sharing, etc.
These are all good things. But they
are the frosting on the cake. The
whole thing starts with the job. That
is what holds the whole thing to-
gether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23

concerning the providing of suitable state memorial commemorating the services of Alabamas men who served the nation in the war. Undoubtedly, this is a project which should have the support of our citizenship and l have no doubt that they will count it priv ilege to contribute to the fund which is to be raised.
 "If l may be permitted a suggestion, l would say that it seems to me that this fund should be made peculiarly q popular fund and that the plan from the outset should contemplate the so- lciting of individual subscriptions n amounts which practically every enc can meet. There will thus be given an opportunity to every citizen of the state to express his feeling of appreciation and obligation to the men who aetual- ly fought our battles for us. regardless of the accident of his financial sitution. Otherwise, there are thousands who would be delighted to give what they can afford. but who will be deterrCd through the mistaken feeling that the small amounts they can really afford do not worthily express their senti- ments.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23
Over w. I. Phelts & Co.'s Wire

New Orleans, May 22.-The strong est cotton market of the season de- veloped in the face of general expecta- ton of prolonged action. Sellers of the last couple of sessions covered Tn confusion opening higher the advance did not stop until it amounted to 112 to 1S4 points. July going to 30.16c aid all months touching new high records. Spots were marked up 50 points to 5o.SSc for middling on sales of about 4000 bales all told.
 The very strong Liverpool and the adnormally cold weather in the belt were responsible for the higher open- ing and the advance was kept going by predictions of low percentage in the first condition report of the season. due about the frs: Of June, by reports from the interior of continued good spot demand and last, but not leas-. the report that some of the largest cottcn mills ir this country had sold their output up to October and had withdrawn sil offerings of finished goods
 The first condition period of this season ends Sunday and the outlook is for report far below that of year ago when it was S2.3 per cent of the rormal and also well below the ie- year average for May 25. which is 7s. This means taht the first tentative crop estimates on condition and acreage will be small The reaction failed to att tain any headway this morning and the belief is growing that mills control tho long end of the contract market. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23
POPULARIZE FUND FOR MEMORIAL ID ALABAMA SOLDIERS Give Every Citizen Chance to Subscribe, Suggests
 John l.. Raul of
 Birmingham

John L. Kaul, Birmingham lumber man. believes Alabama should raise the fund of $500, 900 for the state memorial by popular subscriptions in order that every person in the state may feel that he had a part in the state movement for the commemoration of the services of the states representatives in the war
 Mir Raul made this suggestion In a letter to the Alabama memorial com mission, which was made public today with the statement of w. s. Stallings. state campaign director, that the com mission had this idea in mind all the time. We will welcome all kinds of subscriptions" he said, and that per son who is able to donate only a small amount will have as much interest in the state memorial as the corporation or individual who is able to give 8 great amount
 Tn order that it may be shown that the state proposes to make the cam paign a popular one I may say thG. l50.000 buttons have been ordered by the commission, one being given to every person who enters a subscrip- ton to the memorial fund regardless of the amount he gives
 MIR. KAUL'S SUGGESTION
 Mr kauls letter suggesting the pop ular campaign follows: q have read with great interest what has been said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23

No 1877 Eleventh avenue, who is stone
 mason by trade, and has a wide acquaint-
 ance in this city, being well known in
 local labor circles. He said:
 For. several years I have been trou-
 bled with malaria and bilious attacks
 and my stomach was in such weak con
 dition that 1 could not retain the light
 set kind of food; I had bad rheumatic
 pains all through my body and could not sleep at night. I had headaches, dizzy spells and felt all played out. was all ways eonstipated and got so weak that II had to give up my work which paved me 8 day. I was under treatment and tried all kinds of medicine. but noth- ing did me the least good, and as last resort l started to take Plant Juice, which l have now taken for three weeks with wonderful results. l have no more pains or aches, sleep fine and able to
 return to my work. I am glad to give this plain statement of the facts in my ease ,, in the hope that it will be ofSbeneht to others"
 Plant Juice is sold in Birmingham al Norton's drug store, corner of Fourth avenue and Twentieth street.-Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23
SUITS FILED

Seven suits aggregating $76,50O, were filed in the circuit court yesterday: The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company filed suit against Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads and operating the Alabama Great Southern railroad, for $1500 for the loss of two mules alleged to have been run over and killed at the Eighteenth street crossing in Bessemer.
 Mrs. Gertrude Burton filed suit against the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company for 5000 for personal in juries
 Suit was flied by Rufus Bascom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23

citement and general buying in our
 market, which. lifted prices 70 points
 above yesterdays closing figures soon
 after the opening, which was about 5o
 points up.
 The map shows generally fair but
 temperatures of 50 or below as far
 south as lower Mississippi Alabama
 and Georgia, which is bad for cotton
 and will lead to further reports of
 lateness and sickly stands. Another
 rain formation is over west Texas ana
 may come on the belt in the next tw" days.
 A feature of the market today was
 tie narrowing of the difference be-
 tween July and October, partly due to the fact that July is now even with
 spot quotations, then also to the con
 sideration of the delay with the peace u eaty against bullsh developments in crop prospects.
 London quots consols 1s off at 56 12 Comparisons of mill takings tomorrow promise unfavorable. The markets ex- pect bullish monthly reports by states from the Journal of Commerce in the next few days
 While export demand is hampered by low exchange rates, there is steady demand from home mills and spots are firm. Augusta, Ga. paid 29.50e for 5017 bales
 With comparatively slight. reactions the market continued the advance into lhe afternoon session, standing at one time 110 to 130 points higher than the close Wednesday. Liquidating orders were absorbed in such manner as to inspire increased confidence in those who believe in still higher prices. After ranging within limit of 90 points on July, 105 on October and 103 on Decem Der, the market close dvery steady in tone at net advance of SS points on July, 109 points on October, 110 on De cember and 1f5 points up on January Spots were advanced 50 points; mid ding, 30.3Sc; sales 4446 bales. Interior spot markets are strong, with a good demand; prices are 50 to 100 points higher, with good business done. Total sales at Liverpool were 1 900 ba1es.-Jno. F. Clark & Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23
R. D. Burgers Letter

New Orleans, May 22-Responding to better cables than due, a larger de- mand for spots at Liverpool, sales of
 15,000 bales at an advance of Id points.
 or on basis of 3S30 for middling, and
 the fact that agents in the New York dry goods market yesterday, in an eff
 fort to stem the tide of rising prices
 found it necessary to withdraw goods
 from sales, the market experienced an
 other sensational advance this morn
 ing.
 Jobbers in New York are reported to
 have done very large business for ex-
 port, as well as for domestic use, one
 house alone having sold 100 900 pieces
 for shipment abroad, and retail dis
 tributors report sales to be 30 to 40
 per cent on the excess of this time last
 year in the west and south.
 Spinners are in a prosperous condi
 tion, being offered more business than
 they can care for at the present, and
 as their stocks are light they are buy
 ing more freely of spots in the south for their future requirements. Returns will compare with S23 last year, which was highest, with the ex- ception of year 1911. since 1906, 695 year before last 77.5 in 1916 and 1O- year average of 79.2
 There are indications of American mills entering into competition with foreign buyers of spots in the south large sales in Atlantic markets today at higher prices.-H. and B. Beer Chicago, May 22-Cash corn steady and good demand Trading was large ly in later months, which had a range of 2Rc and closed unchanged to a loss of 3sc. Movement of week to date shows decrease of 279,000 in receipts and loss of 114,000 in shipments. Senti- ment is mixed, but sellers are weary of the decline.
 Oats stronger on belated new crop outlook and the improved demand for the present supplies. The receipts for the week to date is 44,000 less than last week, with an increase in ship ments of 23S,o0O bushels, which sug- gests decrease in visible and strength ening ot buying power on declinds. Provisions lower on selling induced l by break in hogs, large receipts and slow cash demand. Further offers to resell meats at Seaboard were reported, l Commission houses were the best sell- l CTS. Hog receipts 49,000, against 35, . 000. Western run, 24000 against 100,- | co week ago.-Curtis Clement & Co
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'S Letter

New York, May 23.-Cables this morning were sharply higher than due, and this led to another rapid ad- vance in our market. with July cross
 ing BOG in spite of rather free selling from the south at that figure. Liver pool reported an active trade for Man chester and the excitement in the goods market continues. No attention is paid to anything which is not con sidered to be bullish, and this is like ly to continue to be the case while the present enthusiasm lasts. The ex- change market is still demoralized ano the remaining unfavorable feature 1T the weather is the persistent low tenn perature in the west and central belts Considering the date, this latter factol will soon disappear. We do not see a the moment what will check the mar ket, but the history of bull markets il the past IS months above BOG is not in cpiring.-H. B. Hubbard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23

Don DuA Aspirin taplers in d piil pox- Insist on getting the Bayer package with the safety "Bayer Cross on both pack age and on tablets. No other way.
 You must say "Bayer." Never ask for merely Aspirin tablets. The name Bay err means you are getting the genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin proven safe bv millions of people.
 Beware of counterfeits Only recently a Brooklyn manufacturer was sent to he penitentiary for flooding the country with talcum powder tablets. which he claimed to be Aspirin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23

against the Steel Cities Chemical com pany for $1o,o0o for alleged personal in juries.
 T. w Bailey filed suit against the Maryland Casualty company for $25,0O( for personal injuries.
 Clyde Marcrum pro ami Z. c. Mar crum, filed suit against the Indian Re- fining company for $50,0O0 for personal injuries as the alleged result of an auto- mobile accident.
 Suit was filed by Z c. Marcrum against the Indian Refining company for s5o00 for personal injuries received by his minor son, Clyde Marcrum. when hit by one of the defendant companys trucks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-23
Over Private Wires
Shannon & Co.'S Letter

New York, May 22.-Cotton buying has been fast and furious today for both accounts, stimulated by poor crop advices and reports of increasing ac- tivity in goods markets at rapidly ad- vancing prices. Offerings have been comparatively light and the net re- suit has been very sharp upturn with limited reactions. Private reports re- gardng the crop are that fields in many instances are getting rather bad- ly in the grass and the weather is too cool and wet. Two or three weeks of fair warm weather are badly needed right now to clean the crop and lay 1t by in even fairly good condition.
 Condition reports will make their az pearance presently and may bring on larger offerings if they are more fla vorable than expected but whether bullish or bearish they have little real meaning al this time of year. Tie test of the crop comes in July and Au- gust and this crop is not starting in a way to give it ability to resist trying weather successfully.
 The market today is less active and shows the hesitation which has been grow ing more apparent of late. Even as- suming that the difficulties to the peace settlement, which have been more prominent in the past few days amount to nothing and the whole thing goes through as scheduled, We have now come to the point where actual industrial revival on q peace footing is the chief factor in the mar ket. There are some encouraging signs that this development is taking place we'll but in the main it seems to be that some of the recent messages, speeches and talk regarding the pay menu of higher wages, tend to retar q the readjustment of the business of the country to a basis where the output can be sold and that we may como therefore to a number of months ahead when new business will come in slowly, and the outlook be not particularly encouraging. If so the marke has had a very substantial advance and can well afford to wait the assurance of sood trade before attempting a higher range Sales, 235 200-Post & FlaSg.