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eNYRNA AND VICINITY
....t Items of General Interest Gath
DIV cred During the Week.
,oet received a lot of Lady Helen
nocoIate Covered Cherries at Steven
sns-adv'
The Groundhog's six weeks expired
c-ndav This old weather prophet
~. asleep at the switch this year.
Monday, March II, was st. Patrick S
nav Many amateur florists say this
:. The ideal time to plant sweet peas.
Gardens are being plOwed and put
n condition for the spring planting.
p.ss will be the first crop to be plant
a many gardners planting this week,
The Circle of Kings Daughters will
.,d their annual election at the home
,ftbe President, Mrs. Joseph Wright
thursday evening, March goth, al
40 o'clock.-Cor. Sec'y
stanley NJ. Arthurs, well-nOw1
wilmington artist, a native of Kenton
has been commissioned to go Il
France to plan for painting a picture
f the Delaware Pioneers, which whel
ompleted, will be hung in the Stat,
House.
At the Arnory parsonage on Febru
ar 9th, Clarence w. Sapp an
Bertha Pleasanton of West Dove
Hundred, were married by Rev. Tho'
Pardee. They will reside on farT
near CheswOld.
All livestock owners can have thei
animals vaccinated against anthra
free of charge, if they will apply fc
the service. The State Livestoc
Sanitary Board requests owners {
farm animals to notify the Office {
the board in Dover, or DR.. H. P. Eve
at Wilmington, if they so desire.
Postal service in the United Stat
|, s to be put back upon a pre-war bas
# efficiency, with probable immedia
Increase in service, and as a furth
step toward meeting the needs and t
clearly expressed wishes of the publ
the three-cent letter postage will
abandoned for return to the old tw
cent rate on July 1.
Smvrna Circ1lit will celebrate M
siOnary Anniversary next Sundt
with preaching by DR.. Charles A. H
The people of Friendship and Sew
son communities will take delight
giving DR.. Hill large congregatic
and thus show their appreciation
his kind services. Everyone is
vited to be present.
The Del-Mar-Va Nash Motors Co
pany, whose advertisement appears
another column invites you to att'
the big automobile show at Salisbu
Nd, this week, March 10Th, to q
and see their exhibit. This show
be held in the Armory and promi
to be an event of the Eastern Sh
and Delaware Peninsula as well.
Court convened on Wednesday
sentenced the four young men
were convicted of an assault
Florence Emory, aged Is years. E
one, William Rodney Fisher, b
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
SCATTERED NEWS AND COMMENT

men in Minnesota are having. Here
it is the motor corps bill; down there
it is the creation Of a commission in
which shall be vested executive, legis-
1ative and judicial powers.
AS in Minnesota the Arkansas labor
enemies have put claws in very good
bill which provides for the develop
ment OF agricultural and industrial
products and aids in the DEVELOPMENT
Of the natural resources Of the state.
These praise worthy objects cannot
conceal other provisions which en-
power the commission to interfere in
every labor strike.
The commission is to be the sole
judge Of what constitutes "riots" in
surrections and other violations of
law, and its power is to be unlimited.
The unionists show that a strike of
miners might be construed as inter-
fering with the development of the
natural resources of the state. The
commission has power to set aside all
rights and is responsible to know none
but the governor, who appoints them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
PRIVATE OWNED LAND
DIFFERS FROM R. RS

In memorandum submitted to
mittee favoring the operation of rail-
roads by employees, Glenn E. Plumb,
attorney for the railroad brother
hoods, draws a sharp distinction be-
tween lands held by railroads and
lands held by private parties. The
attorney was discussing government
ownership and quoted court decisions
to sustain his opposition to the claim
that railroad lands should be ap-
praised at the market value, regard
less of investment, and that the man
ner in which these lands were &C.
quired by the railroads must not be
considered.
s'Railroad property is property in
which the government or the public
has an interest,"" it is stated. 1T Is
acquired only for the public service
and not for private use. It is dedi-
Gated to the public service by the
fact of its acquisition and is held by
corporations whose charters expressly
limit the holding or acquisition. use
and ownersh = of the property so &C.
quired, to a holding, acquisition, use
and ownership for public service.
"All railroad charters permit the
acquisition of land only for railroad
purpose. whether it be acquired by
purchase, gift. grant or condemna-
ton. All railroads are public high
ways A railroad corporation is an
agent of the state for the operation
of a public highway. When it ac-
cepts a charter authorizing it to per-
form this function and acquired prop
erty, under such g. charter. it thereby
dedlcates that property as public
highway for the public service. It
retains in that property private in
terest granted to it by it's charter.
THAT private interest is merely the
right to hold title to the property.
subject to the public right of user:
to operate it in the interest Of the
public and to charge for it's service
such reasonable rate as will permit
it to earn a fair return upon the
money honestly and prudently ex-
pended. It has no right to sell the
property which it holds except SUBJ
ject to the public right of user. It
may not sell the property until it's
usefulness is. extinguished 1t may
not give it away; it cannot merchan-
disc its lands, its buildings or it's
equipment.
Property held by such a title can
not have market value because mar
ket value or exchange value implies
a freedom to purchase or sell in the
open market. Where this freedom
does not exist there can be no market
value.'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
BRITISH LABOR LEADER IN RUSSIA
ASKS IF BOLSHEVLSTS ARE PEOPLE

COL John Ward, NJ P member of the executive committee of
the General Federation of Trade Unions IN England close friend
w. A. Appleton, who tored America about year ago. some
things to say about Bo1shevin
COL Wad-Jack Ward his friends calf h-ha been serving
Russia the Osk front with the British Army He has
Bo1shevsm at close range. He has this to say:
the love Of Ah talk Of the glories of revo
ton! am in here Friend strikes down him he thinks his foe and
rich and down together in wee Of blood and dirt
against the wall and shooting them before breakfast
small petty difference Of opinion whether the railways
shod be national communal How the gods cry rage
that be mad. How of labor leaders
grasp the Bolsev creed blood and conone the or
committed by this mob of fanatica1 anacs cannot imagine
Rather heaven defend old country from sh caamy
At Ekaterinbefg, where the Gar prsoned MI. Ward
relates seeing the Cossacks work cleaning old WE'LL
occasional grand de mixed with the timber; then another
piece of flesh recognized grand Duchess then another
the foreman of nearby tonwok then few woekmen and work
women all murdered mulated jest to prove the love of nany
q" believe necessarily concludes this British leader,
ITO destroy the old bot those swine whom cali Boevks
boodhy cuhroats who murder for the love it,
Of their proclamations show"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
IS GERMAN REPUBLIC ii: IT,.
TO Be DEMOCRATIC?

Germany has formally entered the
list of "republics'' by the election of
the Socialist leader Ebert as president.
Just how democratic this new repub-
lie will prove to be must be left to
the future to determine, but at any
rate the program announced by the
government "reads WELL" It includes
equal rights for men and women
something that our own nation has
not yet accepted. though it exists in
individual states; improvement Of the
educational system, transcription
along democratic lines to establish a
peoples army''-thvugh why con-
scription in time of peace should be
necessary is not quite clear to the
American mind; rationing at maxi
mum prices of food and nee ssaries Of
life, care of the wounded and the
families of those killed during the
war, the specialization Of all industries
ripe for such treatment. particularly
the coal and iron mines. and consid-
cradle additions to income taxes.
In the realm of foreign affairs the
program declares for peace along
lines laid down by President Wilson
but refusing any peace Of violence;
for the repatriation of German pris-
Oners of war and for the establish
ment of league Of nations, with dis
armament and an obligatory court of
arbitration in that war may be impos-
sible in the future
It this ambitious "program" be car
ried out, Germany will have made a
fair beginning in her attempt toward
government by the people and for the
people. But the world may be ex-
cused if it is little skeptical until
there is something more substantial
than promises-for Germany was ever
prodigal with promises which she
never intended to fulfil.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
WILLIAM +. NIUkNIAN.

The Labor World makes this final
appeal to its readers to vote for WILL
lam F. Murnian. candidate for city
commissioner Endorsed by organized
labor at conference of duly elected
delegates from the several local
unions.
We present Mr.. Murnian to the
voters of Duluth, not alone as a rep
resentative Of labor, but as citizen
and man. He is typical Of the best
element in the labor movement. He
is painstaking and conservative. He
does not go off on tangents. It Is hid
habit to carefully weigh every Ques-
tion presented to him, and when he
makes a decision it is based wholly
on merit.
Mr.. Murnian has had wide and
varied experience. He began life
as a umberjack and followed the
woods in the forests of Maine, Michi-
gan and Minnesota for nearly twenty
years. He then became identified
with the electrical business and for
nearly quarter of century he has
been engaged in outside and inside
construction, working in every Sec
ton Of the city.
From the day that he entered the
electrical business Mr.. Murnian has
ben identified with organized labor.
He has been an officer in his local
union for seventeen years. He has
been president of the Federated
Trades assembly for five terms, and
vice president of the Minnesota
State Federation of Labor for four
years. During the war he served as
secretary of the Fourth district ex-
emption board and discharged the
duties of that office most c~editably.
Wherever he has been placed by his
employers, his fellow workmen or
the government he ha: made good.
1t is characteristic of the man to
make good. He is earnest, conscien-
tous and Woodworking. These quail
tiles always make for success.
In his old lumberjack days Mr..
Murnian was identified with the
Knights of Labor, and it was in that
organization he got his first insight
into the labor question and politics.
His long experience has richly
equipped him for public service. If
he is elected city commissioner next
Tuesday, as he should be, the people
will get the services of most able
and honest man.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
THAT BERNIE CONFERENCES.

Under the above caption the Brit
ish Citizen, official organ of the Ma
tional Democratic party, says edi-
torially:
1.-THE meeting which Mr.. Ramsay
Macdonald so earnestly desired with
his German friends" two years ago
duly came off last week at Berne;
but many things have happened be-
tween Stockholm in 1917 and Berne
in 1919. Mr.. Macdonald himself
is no longer member of parliament,
nor likely to be again; Mr.. Hender-
son, his pliable tool and puppet, is
also a private Individual once more,
The Germans could not help recognize
ing that these men no longer counted
in English politics, and were there
fore not worth wasting time on. Mr..
J. H. Thomas, it is true, was also
there, but Mr.. Thomas is not a paci-
fist, and does not like being deluded;
and he seems to have left as soon as
he decently could. It was a mistake
to go there at all; his presence was
needed in London last week, and he
would have been far better employed
in dealing with the troubles at home
than in hobnobbing with German So
cialists in Switzerland"
And to this scathing indictment
another leading Britisher, Mr.. H. M.
Hyndman, adds the following in
letter to the Morning Post:
cit seems to me that the promin-
ence given by the Press to the utter
ances of the Pacifists and Defeatists
who are supposed to represent Great
Britain at Berne is likely to mislead
foreigners as to the real influence
of these men at home. With the
exception of Mr.. J. H. Thomas, they
were completely beaten in working
class constituencies. They are now
trading upon the positions which
they held before the elections"
To us poor, benighted Americans,
confused by the babel of a thousand
pro-Germans, Teutonic Socialists
and the rest Of the un-American bag
gage, there looms this one big
thought: No decent, self-respecting
labor movement of any of the ma
tons which went the limit to defeat
German militarism had anything to
do with that Berne conference hoax.
So much we know, definitely. And
for loyal Americans that ought to
be enough. Let's remember it when
ever we hear of Berne again.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
FORCE IS NO REMEDY
FOR SOCIAL UNREST

Matthew VOL, president Of the IN
ternational Photo Engravers' union
and editor of the American Photo En-
graver, gives this advice to lawmakers:
Yes we may deport few hundred
or thousand foreign agitators from
our land. We may enact further re-
pressiye legislation and then recline
in the happy thought that all dis
turbers of the peace are forever re-
strained and disposed of. We may
even force the settlement of strikes
by the power of arms and the in
junctive writ of the courts. But that
will not quiet the unrest or assure
domestic tranquility. Indeed repres-
sion only begets a more turbulent and
a more dangerous manifestation of
unrest and ultimately leads to con-
dition where reason is swept aside by
passions of a violent temper. Rus
sian autocrats have tried that method
and Russia is reaping it's full reward
today. German rulers have also tried
the iron rule and Germany today is
paying the price.
Just as every evil act is bound to
reap it's deserving punishment sooner
or later and every virtuous act to re-
ceive its just reward, so a dilatory
and evasive congress will share the
consequences of it's failure to rise to
the demands of the present time.
IF we are to bridge this period of
readjustment safely and in an ORDER
ly and peaceful way, if we are to
continue enjoying domestic tranquil
ity and if our good people in the
United States congress hope to con-
tinue in their enjoyment of the COM
forts and emoluments of public office,
then stop playing politics and enact
the much needed legislation which
will put our people to work at health
full hours of toll, and at wages COM
mensurate with our American STAN
lard of living"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
VOTE TO BUY NOW.

Don't forget to vote on the street
railway ordinance next Tuesday when
voting for city commissioners. The
passage of the ordinance will be
mandate to the commissioners to
proceed to condemn the property of
the Duluth Street Railway company.
1T does not mean that we will buy
the plant. We first want to know
what it is worth and what it can be
had for. After we learn the price
the matter will again be submitted
DO the people and they can then say
Mhether or not they want to buy.
The city commissioners will be
guided by the result of next Tues
days election. If the ordinance fails
of passage it will put crimp in mu-
hicipal ownership for a number Of
years, perhaps forever. At every ses-
sion Of the legislature the traction
Interests see to it that bill is pre-
sented which if passed will take the
control Of street railways from the
cities and lodge it in the state under
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion. A bill of this kind may some
day become law.
The state railroad commission will
need som ething to do should the rail-
roads of the country become COM
pletely federalized and the states
lose their power Of regulation, which
now seems probable, and to keep
the commission in existence it's MEM
bers will urge that the street railway
companies be placed under their
control. They'll come mighty near
1t at this session of the legislature.
II the control of street railways once
passes from the cities to the state it
Will never come back again, and hopes
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
FIGURES ON NATIONAL DEBT.

According to the Economist" the
national debt Of Great Britain has
risen from f710,500,000 (about 3d.
50o,oo0,000) on August 1, 1914, to
f7,10,5oo,00o (about $3,5o0,00o,0 0O)
on August i, 1914 to ,491,400, 900
lover $4,000, 000,0oO) in February,
1919. This fact recalls once again the
famous dictum of Benjamin Franklin,
WARS are not paid for in war time;
the bill comes later"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29

board a hospital ship bound for
Blighty. When the slip began to
steam away his delight knew no
bounds. He hobbled up on deck and
gazed around at the sun1it Mediter-
ranean.
tits grand!" he cried. "Just look
at the sky and the sea! I want to
drink it all i'm
BILL" shouted a sailor nearby,
keep an eye on that bloke. The old
ship takes % feet of water before
she'll t!"-London Tit-Bits.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
Nj. O. REDUCES, RATES.

After becoming so accustomed dur
ing the past two years to repeated
raises in rates by all public utility
companies, it is almost a shock to
learn of reductions in rates. The
municipality owned and operated
electric light plant of Chicopee,
Mass, had such a successful year in
1918 that the charge for electricity
for street lights for the coming year
will be reduced from IA cents to
cents per kilowatt hour.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

Buy interest in oil farm, Cushing
District, Oklahoma oil field. No
stock-simply you own 500 square
feet of ground outright; lot owners
receive their proportion of 60 per
cent of every barrel taken from en-
tire oil farm. Price, $50; payable
81 down and 81 per month. 81 will
not break you, but might make you.
For particulars, Sapulpa Oil & Gas
Co., $40 Chemical building, St. Louis.
Mo.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
MUNICIPAL MOTOR KISSES

In a. report recently filed by Mayor
Fossett of Spokane. Wash, touch.
ing on the railway problem, the
mayor suggests that the city enter
the transportation business by buy
ing $50 motor buses. Mayor Fos-
EFT advises against purchase by the
city of Spokane Of it's street rail-
ways, because he believes that track
less motor vehicles are the coming
means of street TRANSPORTATION.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
HIS BUBBLE BURSTS.

The political henchmen of Governor
Burnquist who have been grooming
him for vice president got 4 severe Jolt
last week when the Minneapolis Trib-
une launched Senator Frank B. KEEL
logg for president. Minnesota can not
have both the presidency and vice
presidency, at least not for a while,
and the boom for Kellogg drives a wire
nail into Burnquist's fore wheel tire.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
FAMOUS ANSWER.

Speaking of autocrats-On Jan. IS,
1899, President Mckinley decided it
to be incompatible with. the public in
terest to comply with the request con-
tanned in Senator Hoar's resolution,
passed by the Senate, to supply the
Senate with the instructions given to
the American delegates to the Peace
Conference in Paris" This little mat
ter should be brought to the attention
Of Senator Lodge, who now represents
the state formerly represented by Sen
atOr Hoar.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
LABORITEs GAIN IN LONDON.

The 1aborites Jared much better in
the election Of members Of the Lon
don County Council than they did in
electing members of parliament. The
election was held March Z, and the
labor delegation was increased from
five to fifteen. Returns show that IS
municipal reformers, 40 progressive,
Is laborites and one independent were
elected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29

The dispatch from Warsaw saying
that the Poles are ready to fight is q
foolish waste of cable tolls. When the
necessity for fighting arises the Poles
are not voluntarily absent.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP SAVINGS.

Recent reports of the director gen.
eral of railroads shows that econo-
mics amounting to over $117, $4,000
have been effected in 1913 by reason
of unified operation under public
control. These economies. however.
are nothing compared to possible
savings under public ownership:
Lower rates of interest at which the
government con borrow money would
save $s00,00o.000 a year in interest
charges on the capital account.
And under complete public owner
ship. when the bonds We're all paid
off and retired, as they would be in
rs or 80 years. there would be no
interest charge at all. In other words
public ownership ultimately would
save the people over $3.50 100000 a
year on the present basis Of capital
ization.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29

There are some folks who were per-
fectly willing to 'help the President
win the war; but who are bound and
determined that they will do all in
their power to make it certain that
the war fails to settle anything except
the fate of the house of Hohenzollern.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29

Apparently the next job our jingo
friends have in contemplation is the
"cleaning up Of Mexico.' There has
not yet been war enough to 90 around.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29

1t took guns to end the tyranny
OF the autocrat; but with anarchy,
food will accomplish the objective.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
REACTION IN ARKANSAS.

Down in Arkansas the workers are
having the same sort of tussle with
the state legislature that thu union
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
WHO ARE THE REVOLUTIONlSTs.

Inere are 100000 children in the
varied industries of Massachusetts.
Many of them are working in d.
rect violation of the laws of the state.
Thousands are working at ma
chimes under conditions which are a
menace to lives and health.
Stockholders are insisting that
earnings be kept up and dividends
not reduced.
Mill agents are always hard put to
keep down wages and prevent reduc-
lions in hours.
Textile and other factory workers
have an endless struggle for living
above the existence lines.
Hunger and want are ever a mem
ace to the families that send these
children to the factories.
Poverty, and restitution is for
them always just around the corner.
Injustice, OPPRESSION, poverty,
want, and restitution breeds despair
that ripens into rebellion.
Who is furnishing fertile soil for
revolutionists' propaganda?
/, Who is brewing a hell's broth of
| jolshevism?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29
ORGANIZED LABOR A UNIT.

The voice of labor everywhere is
unanimous and insistent that the gov
eminent not only continue to operate
the railways, but to own them. AS
a result Of the referendum vote just
taken by the IA labor organizations
operating the railroads, and repre-
sentirg 100000 men. an almost
unanimous vote has been returned in
favor of government ownership. Here
are some of the results Of the poll
Machinists. for private control, 1926:
against, 130,935. Blacksmiths, for,
Is; against 26,710. Car men, for,
SO; against private control, 1892.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1919-03-29

Will the cotton. gin fall under the
condemnation of the National prohibi-
ton law7