Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-04-21
THE MELTING POT.
Mill strikers who started furious
riot at Lawrence, Mass, carried the red
From Leslie's.

| Mill strikers who started furiOu.
riot at Lawrence, Mass, carried the rel
| flag.
| A bolshevist says that the ideal state
would be reached when nobody, except
perhaps the leaders, could read OF
write.
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Eaton of New
York says: Thirty years ago we were
ruled by money bags /; today we are
ruled by wind bags
Recently the 20 public schools of Den
yer, Colo, in which there are 1900 pu
pills, were closed by strike of station
airy engineers.
Students of the University Of Penn
sylvania have organized a secret society
to suppress radical tendencies among
Undergraduates.
Secretary of War Baker says mo
child born in civilized nation in the
next 100 years will escape paying con.
siderable. portion of the debt this wal
has brought about
After four years of government con-
troll, the English railways are in a
.'semi -paralyzed financial condition. .
and the government is losing 81, 25O, GOO
a day in operating them.
A woman who is at the head of a
home for children at Marietta, Ga, was
convicted recently of cruelty whipping a
girl and rubbing salt and pepper into
the wounds caused by the whipping.
A woman, who for the first time in
the history of the state was presiding
over the lower house Of the Washington
Legislature, Insisted on being addressed
las .Mr. Speaker instead of Madame
Speaker"
Saloonkeepers will be consulted as to
the value of w0rkingmen's clubs. or
coffee houses, which prominent pinis-
tiers in New York are planning as sub
stitute for saloons when prohibition
goes into effect. Ii
About one-tenth Of the population OF
the United States is composed Of un-
naturalized aliens. OF the 1880, 600
aliens in this country, comparatively
few have any knowledge or interest in
American institutions.
The labor unions of western Canada
have voted to sever affiliations with the
American Federation of Labor and to
follow the I. w. w. plan of organizing
working men. The new organization
will be called the Zone Big Union" ].
In the first five months Of. government
operation, the American Telephone and
Telegraph company suffered a deficit OF
"a, 100000. The company heretofore al
ways had fat SURPRISES. A ~ per cent
increase Of rates is necessary to wipe
out the deficit.
Emile Coffin, who attempted to as
sassinate Premier Clemeneeau, is de-
scribed as primitive, vain, cOnceited and
believing himself omniscient. He could
earn 81 francs day, hut finding society
not organized to suit him, he desired to
destroy everything.
During a discussion in the German
national assembly Of the attempt by
various states to prevent religious in
struction in schools, Hellman, majority
socialist, said: 1.-THE church, like all
social institutions, is subject to steady
changes and will eventually disappear"
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew says:
Taxes affect everybody. Taxes raise
prices, rents, food and clothing prices,
and everything. And until taxes are
reduced there can be no reduction OF
high prices of living or return to that
comfortable living that made America
the paradise it was"
DR.. Stephen Smith, a noted New York
physician, aged SO, Is still In active
practice, hale and vigorous, although
for sixty years he was in i'll health.
He says: Live, keep alert, keep occu-
pied, keep in touch, read the news ana
seek contact with men and women who
are active, and your health in ninety
cases out of one hundred will take care
of itself"
-v.AL.AL.
]. c. Burns went to Ottumwa Sat
urday evening to attend the Latimer
Bros. convention which is IN session
there this week.
VIAL. al.
Mrs. G. d. HELEN of Dies Moines
arrived in the city today for a short
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