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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29
FARRELL'S FAT PAY ROLLS
OPEN TAXPAYERS OPTICS
Maintenance Division of Department Of Public
Works Shows an Increase Of Over Three
Thousand Dollars i'm Two Weeks.

was compelled to boss 80 laborers
and four teams.
J. D. Bergstrom pulled down $50
for half month and was required to
do his best to keep II laborers and
one team busy. How much cam
paigning was done by the bunch can
not be judged from the mere face of
the time sheets. .,e t...
c. DeRoche got his customary $50
for two weeks service for the liberal
old city and he. had Only six laborers
and three teams to keep busy.
John Holmes looked after the wei.
fare of eight laborers and two teams
in return for 60 for two weeks con-
finement to the city service.
Charles Olson, for two weeks as
foreman got $50 and was bothered
with looking after only nine laborers
and three teams. u.s.. ...
Nels Pearson either is so good a
foreman or has such pull that he
gets $62.50 for two weeks work. He
has John Lorix as assistant foreman,
at SIS for halt a month, eighteen Ia
borers and one team comprising their
force.
II. G.. Miller is another foreman
who draws down $62.50 for half a
month. F. Duninski, an engineer,
also got his $3.50. Twenty-three
! laborers aided and abetted their ef-
forts.
Fred Gittskowski, foreman, with
six laborers and two teams got $3.50
the same salary as was paid o. w.
Olson, another foreman. H. Bennett.
classified as an engineer, has $3.50
| to his credit, presumably for services
rendered. The records say nothing
as to his political affiliations or
skill. ,, --.>.
/ Charles Norman, assistant foreman
under Olson, kept % laborers and
five teams moving. On election day,
it is assumed, he will be expected to
move the entire bunch to the polls.
An interesting list Of employees and
half-monthly salaries Is as follows:
Carl Holstrom, mechanic. $3.50
Gus Pearson, mechanic -. $3.50
F. S.. SWeiger, skilled laborer $3.50
M. Bolan, laborer ....... $3.50
Pat O'Neill, Waterman ..... $500
J. Bennett, Waterman. 80. $500
J. A.. Palmer, laborer. ..,.. .$49.40
Fred DiSanto, skilled laborer $500
J.. H. Powers, painter. 80. $4,000
Walter Graleski, chauffeur. $50.32
Martin Miller, engineer. -. $4,000
George Bailey, chauffeur. $4,000
John McLain, chauffeur. $4,000
Morgan Sweeney, Waterman. $49.50
Where Frank Heidman was and
what he did during those two weeks,
the list furnished the great family
journal does not show. Perhaps he
was repairing his old automobile, for
the seasons run, in the city's repair
shops. 49,. 49,.
Time may tell, old voter. Time
NAV tell.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29
IRRESISTABLE TEMPTATION.

"Why, Mary, how thin you look.
thought you were going to Pasadena
for your health" exclaimed, Mrs.
Hardrocks as she met her anaemic
friend, Mrs. Splinter.
IT was," replied the thinnest
woman in the East End, "but Doc
tor Ripper has offered me such a
lovely bargain in operations-a ma
jor operation for one thousand dol
lars-and, of course, ! can't resist
his offer"
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29
BELLY ABOVE BRAINS.

A Duluth broker went into a res
taurant to dine with banker friend.
AS he sat down to the table, the
dealer in "good things" bought a
Rip-saw and then asked the dapper
banker if he would have one, too.
"No!" snapped the money-changer,
in great hauteur.
"Your capitalistic friend believes
in feedin' his belly before he does
his BRAIN" observed the Rip-saw
vendor to the broker.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29
A CONSCIENTIOUS COLONEL.

Colonel Jim Fisk, once a partner
of Jay Gould, also was native of
Battlesboro', vt. He always prided
himself on his truthfulness. He once
told an interviewer that he couldn't
think of telling a lie for q shilling,
but added that he might tell eight
for a dollar. "-Ex.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29

Despite the. fact that Walter
Marvin believes that Bergen
was elected by all the crooks in
st. Louis county dear old
brother Luke still warns his shins
by courthouse heat
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29

Pop, what is gossip"
"A gossip, my son, Is a person who
tells things before we have a chance
to tell them ourselYes."-Life.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-03-29
CL0QUEI LAWYERS HUSTLE CLIENTS

COL
Teacher Quoting From the
Brick for Contractor Wiley Seeks "Man Higher Up"-For-
Nightingale Brides Leave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

cause Mr.. Wilson Is supposed to be
unpopular, and, secondly, because Gem
eral Wood is the 'inheritor of the
Roosevelt Legend which, in the Sena-
tors judgment, represents the antith-
esls of all that Mr.. Wilson stands
for. We are positively assured that
General Wood is the rightful heir
with the strawberry mark on his right
arm and all the other signs of full
Identification And among the identi-
flying signs the Senator recalls that
the general was denied service over
seas, and is, therefore, eligible to the
Presidency as the victim of Jealous
politicians
General Wood has right to aspire
to the Presidency, but we do not think
his chances are helped by advocates
like Senator Moses. To be the inner
itor of a legend, to display q political
strawberry mark on the right arm, are
doubtful warrants for favorable action
by the Republican National Conven-
ton. And about the most hurtful pol
icy-hurtful to General Wood, we
mean-is to exploit him as Senator
Moses does, by implication, at least, as
a man with a grievance against the
present Administration.
1.-The New York World" picked the
same paragraph and drew a parallel
with General Mcclellan, as follows:
'1n 1864 the Democratic politicians
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
''Non Sum Qualis
Eram''

L"Offcers holding commissions in
the Special Reserve will be demobil-
lied; officers holding commissions in
the Territorial Force will be disem-
bodied" Army Order.]
7 WALKS about like other men,
I eats my utilities hearty,
[ takes q drink, aoell, moV and then,
Like any decent party.
IN fact my aOhole adherence is
To aoays of normal folks;
And get despite appearances
I'm, Just holLow hoar.
Now note the diference-Iue q pal
mo greater wit or nerue);
But I'm a Territorial,
While he's IN the Reserve.
But he (it cannot be disguised
That Justice must haze nodded)
Is decently den,obiliSed,
While I'm Just disembodied.
1t amt the sort of attitude
OF 1Uhich TO make q boast
You can't pretend it's ornfif,tde
To make man a ghost.
At duty's call, forsaking ease,
The patriots path I took
And all the Army leaves of mes
A d'sembodied spook'
--LUCIO: in The Manchester
Guardian.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
In a Canteen

They were seated in q cantecn,
Red Cross Number Nine,
There the homelike feeling
Led their thoughts far from tn,
Rhine.
Both were en- permission,
And we're tired with the chase
OF doing Paree in their three days
To see each wonder place.
They talked Of kings and castles,
OF boulevards and such;
But with their little homcbur1
Could they compare mot much.
Each showed some faded photos
Sent by loved ones DER the sea.
OF Ma. and Pa and sisters
And the service flag for me-"
W. F. GERMAN, $. s. u.
From Trench md Cump
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

with enthusiasm for him. Transferred
now to cosmopolitan Chicago, he
seems to be repeating there his ex-
periences in the Democratic South and
the pacifst Middle West, and his sturdy
Americanism is already producing the
inevitable reaction"
This was the paragraph the enc
mics of General Wood seized upon.
The Brooklyn Eagle" called it's
criticism General Wood and Some
Fool Friends" and said:
"1n examining the Senator's state
ment we do not find that he is for
tunate in his presentation Of the gen
erals case. There is no word Of
achievement in Cuba or the Philippines.
General Wood is available, first, be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Opposing

On the other hand, there were the
Democratic papers which Immediate
~ sought some flaw in the Wood
boom. AS "The Philadelphia Press"
remarked
democratic newspapers are betray-
ing a fear that General Leonard Wood
may become a real Presidential candi-
date by directing their popguns at him.
This will probably do something to
encourage General Woods friends"
Senator Moses said in his inter-
view:
Like Roosevelt, he has infectious
personality, which has baffled all the
plans of the Administration to pocket
him. Exiled to Charleston by the War
Department, he infected the South;
and nowhere has he more ardent adj
mirers than in that soldly Democratic
section. Sent to the pacifist plains of
Kansas as a safe burying place, he in
oculated that whole region with his
genius, and now the prairies are ablaze
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

to bartenderwhch the instance
"a of optimism discovered thus far during season-San
Francisco Bulletin
faooted rejected by army medical examiners has
the Boston Marathon Presently
obector defeating Jess Wilard-7oronto Mail end Empire
Burleson Who's Who
from somebody will name of
Burleson and somebody will ooh, him.
He's the fellow that tried to the
Florida Times Union.
Bolshevm has invaded Turkey thought
be inevitable What's hat?conamnaton of
Turks do you ask? Why of b0th.-Konsos City Journal
Ice taxable the
takes seat stands at the counterIndianapol Nus.
How 1t Works
The Russian system be government bourgeoe
by the soves for the soves-Chcago Post
Who Are His People?
The Sultan Of Turkey that he suffering
people, he by
Ledger.
Every One of Them
II a idot.'-German That's what
they all say-Topeha Capital
Springs Wca,crvane
Pretty hats will show which way the blows
Boston Globe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
. ENATOR GORGE II.
. MOSES, Of New Hampshire,
. has formally started the Re-

"a MOSES, of New Hampshire,
~ has formally started the Re-
publican band wagon on it's
way, announcing that New Hamp-
shire will go to the next Republican
National Convention with the pur-
pose of nominating General Wood to
be Republican candidate for Presi-
dent. Senator Moses thus crystal
lied widespread idea.
Newspaper opinion has been ex-
pressing itself rather extensively.
Thus we find Arthur Sears HenninQ
declaring in "The Chicago Trib-
une":
General Leonard Wood has become
the leading candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for President. With
in the last fortnight veritable wave
of Wood sentiment appears to have
swept the Republican states from coast
to coast
"The most significant feature of the
manifestations is the fact that Che
general is being Endorsed by conser-
vative as we'll as progressive Repub-
licans. His candidacy is being pro-
noted by no one faction. and the COM
ment most frequently heard is that
General Wood is the most available
candidate to unite both wings of the
party and restore the harmony without
which 1t went down to defeat in 1912
and 1916.
"Nor does the Wood candidacy ap-
pear to be the result of an organized
boom. Wood sentiment is not being
artIicially promoted by any group.
There is no Wood committee, no Wood
headquarters. The sentiment favor
ing his nomination seems to be the
spontaneous admiration for a strone
leader"
Robert T. Small indicated the
same thing when he said in "The
Philadelphia Public Ledger:
"The West is not to be permitted to
lay sole claim to Major General Leon
ard Wood as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for President in
1920. New Hampshire has come for
ward to assert prior right to the
general as her native son. and a pre-
diction is made that all of New Eng
land may fall in behind the Granite
State"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11

dlLE the luxury tax has
wv already become a reality,
its working scheme and
involved schedules con-
tlnue to mystify great majority of
citizens. One thing seems certain
soft drinks have been placed on the
luxury list, and as such will be
taxed.
What Of the professional prohi-
bitionist? He has long assured an
ofttimes cynical audience that
shift from hard to soft drinks would
be not only beneficial but economi
cal. Sarsaparilla, pop, cider, ice
cream cones, sodas and sundaes
were not only a corking substitute
for the Bronx, Martini, Clover Leaf,
etc, but they were dirt cheap. Yet
with tax of lone in ten" there will
be nothing remarkably inexpensive
for the soft drink drinker this sum-
mer, if he drinks, so to say, with
any enthusiasm.
Otherwise the tax has brought
forth such interesting queries as, Is
a corset luxury? etc.
We find this by a special writer
in "The New York Evening World":
What are corsets?
THE cosmic problem of the corset
has just been left on the doorstep of
Daniel G. Roper, Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue, in Washington, who
poor man-must decide if corsets are
or are not underwear. In the former
case, they are subject to the luxury
tax If they cost more than So, which
means that every we'll corseted woman
must pay the tax.
"Then, we'll made, correctly shaped
corsets are a luxury? l doubt if the
we'll dressed American woman will con-
cede that. Every dressmaker, every
fashion magazine, maintains that the
properly fitting corset is the founda-
ton of the successful costume. Per-
sonally, l should list corsets as
necessity, albeit painful, a hated
uecessity-save, perhaps, in Greenwich
Village"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Morality

Comparatively, "The New York
World'' believes that the $4,000 per-
sons who attended the baseball
games last Sunday "spent the time
innocently and, all things considered,
protitably. The measure of morality
Of Sunday baseball is furnished by
the estimate of the uses to which the
same amount of leisure time might
have been put by the same number
of idle persons"
"The Herald" would remind base
ball sponsors that they are more or
less on trial, saying: "Probably Sun
day baseball in the city has come to
stay. 1t depends largely on the man.
agement of the MISREPRESENTATION
it is conducted as clean sport should
be and without faint or rowdyism."
Semi-professional teams, which
feared that the advent of profession
al ball on Sunday would wreck at
tendance at their games, were vastly
pleased at the experiment of May 4.
oddly enough" declares "The
New York Sum
"the big professional games did not
affect the professional attendance,
for two of the semi-pro fields boosted
their record attendance. At Olympic
Field, only mile from the Polo
Grounds, the Lincoln Giants and the
Royal Giants played to crowd that
was so big one Of the huge fences was
broken down. The same was true at
Dexter Park, Brooklyn, only a mile
from Ebbetts Field, where the attend
ance broke all former records Big
crowds we're also reported from Dyck-
man Oval and the Catholic Protectory
Grounds, the only other two big closed
parks used by semi professionals. In
all, it is estimated that 100000 people
paid to see ball games within the citys
limits yesterday"
1t adds somewhat jubilantly:
"And year ago many predicted it
would take years and years for base
ball to recover from the effects of the
war."
General expansion in all sports is
one Of the reasons Sunday baseball
was made possible, "The New York
Tribune" thinks, remarking editori-
ally:
"The shift has come slowly. 1t has
come largely along with Sunday golf
and tennis and motoring and the rest
Of Sunday recreations. To some extent
it may have affected churchgoing. The
propelling cause, however, has not been
a weakening Of faith, but a new inter
est in outdoors and health, in sane
rest. Watching a baseball game is
not the most violent form of exercise
in the world, but it takes one outdoors,
and it is good American stuff. 1t will
undoubtedly revivify baseball and send
more boys and grown-ups to one-old-
cat than ever"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Sunday Baseball's
Here at Last!

portunity will be seized by presumable
thousands of patrons Of the great ma.
tional pastime. May will hereafter
in all probability, be marked in red or
the calendar of the fans and in blue or
that of the reformers who have for SC
long successfully prevented enjoyment
of the greatest cleanest and most ap.
pealing of all outdoor sports or recre-
atoms"
"The Journal" does not believe the
Sabbath in Ne.v York will be
wrecked by giving baseball trial
as it goes on to say:
"That the bulwarks of American lib
critics will be found intact on Monday
morning goes without saying. At least
il may be confidently predicted. There
was never the remotest reason why
judicious opportunities for wholesome
and healthful outdoor entertainment
should be withheld from the thousands
of persons who are fond of baseball
and who, deprived of a chance to in
dulge their fondness, undoubtedly in
many instances. resort to very much
less legitimate indulgence
"The step which has just been taken
by New York is step in the right
direction, for it is step in the direc-
ton of encouraging amusement which
Injuries none, which is beneficial to all
concerned and which is an admirable
foil for many other pursuits made pos
sible by the unwsely discriminating
law which penalized the beneficial and
permitted the reverse.
"The real and permanent trend of
legislation, rejecting popular opinion,
is toward the judicious regulation of
the enjoyment of the widest possible
personal liberty. The Punishment Of
booze and of deadly narcotics, the wise
censorship of entertainment generally,
the steady promotion of the interests
of the overwhelming maj ority-these
are not restrictions of personal liberty
save where the restriction makes for
the wide freedom of the whole people.
There is no reason to fear that base
ball game on Sunday will corrupt the
sophisticated citizenry of commun-
ity hitherto so carefully guarded from
demoralizing temptations"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
General Leonard Wood-t,Yo
characteristic snaps

of his own military future under an
opposing and unforgiving Administra-
ton, many men see personality that
they feel they know. AS the present
bearer of the Roosevelt tradition, this
man is identified, for millions, with
something both respected and famil-
lar. He has thus shown something
both of his merits of character and
of his public views.
THE incident Of his shelving by the
Administration has won him friends
in every county and every village.
These facts give warrant for much of
what Senator Moses said about the
quality of the Presidential sentimen
in Woods favor"
"The Portland Oregonian" said of
General Wood:
He is strong man, soldier with
ideas and the power both to express
them and to make them effective. He
has assumed an admirable pose under
the discriminatory and very unwise
action of the Administration in keeping
him at home. He has the favor of
both the progressives and the regulars
in the Republican party He would be
popular candidate, if nominated, and
good President if elected"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Jeremahs

Yet. as though TO confound these
ssfemiahs~-and possibly a few Cas-
'ahafa1"-~the Legislature Of New York
she tns Mayor Of the New World me-
'''p>hg have just combined 10 extract
'sfy large measure OF the indigo
sn'en has dyed the amusement laws Of
~ Empire State. They have made Il
ppsein's for baseball to be played
.ssa'iy In New York on Sunday, and
- nsrrox, for the frrt time, this o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
The Wood Boom

jority Of the men Of his political partv
or school. They must respect him.
like him, and agree with him.
not necessarily to the shouting point.
but to the point of earnestly wanting
him for President. This implies that
they must know OF him sufficiently to
be convinced Of his merits as we'll as
of his views, and must feel genuine
friendliness toward him.
sin the man who pushed the Platts-
burg military training idea at the cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
The Trend Of Sentiment

Senator Moses lined up New
Hampshire behind General Wood in
an interview in Washington given
after month passed in New Eng
land. There is more sentiment of
the kind that elects presidents sur
rounding General Wood than any
one who has been mentioned as
possible Republican nominee in
1920" said Senator Moses. "The only
question is whether the kind of SEN
timent which elects presidents can
be transmitted in General Woods
case into the kind of sentiment
which produces delegates and nomi-
mates presidents.
General Wood was born in Win
chester, N. H., and Senator Moses
notes:
"New Hampshire Republicans are
preparing to present this name of a
native son to the next national con-
vention, but New Hampshire alone can
not claim him. He entered the army
from Massachusetts, and the Bay
State may try to call him her citizen
and she may lay claim upon him. He
will 60 to the convention, like Grant
from Appomattox and its famous apple
tree, supported by nationwide circle
80 e.. l.
elected"
These remarks by the New Hamp-
shire Senator started the band
wagon on its way and it was quickly
welcomed in Republican circles. "The
New York Sun" and 1.-THE New York
Globe" give an excellent impression
of the way Republican thought re-
ceived Senator Moses's announce
ment. "The Globe" said:
"The crop of favorite sons who ought
to be President, now beginning to be
harvested, could have no more auspi-
cious first fruits than we are offered by
Senator Moses, who gives us the name
of General Leonard Wood.
"rhe whole nation honors Leonard
Wood for his obvious and unquestioned
personal Abilities; for his splendid
work, standing almost alone, on behalf
of preparedness-wo which un-
doubtedly was Of vast Importance in
the subsequent creation of our mill
tary machine, and because the major
ity of the voters are profoundly con-
WINGED that he was most unjustly
treated by the War Department., prob
ably with political motives, in not be-
ing allowed to go to France.
General Wood rose, in twelve years,
from assistant surgeon in the regular
army, with the rank of captain, to
Chief of Staff, the army's highest
post for a major general. His mill
tary experience in the Philippines and
his administrative work in Cuba both
gave proof that he possesses execu-
tive ability of high order. While he
was at times a storm centre in the
War Department, popular opinion has
usually sustained him. While Senator
Moses calls him the 'inheritor of the
Roosevelt tradition, he is far more
than that phrase would seem to imply:
he has personality and very definite
group of opinions of his own. With
strong, constructive platform which
recognizes the new social order which
the war mas brought about, General
Wood can make strong race His
entry into field as yet singularly
open is welcome"
A Sound Candidate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Yell, Are They?
M IHILE the luxury tax has
wv already become a reality,
its working scheme and

In assuming to contribute to the
debate that corsets are or are not a
luxury, "The Philadelphia Press"
takes occasion to remark:
"For some unknown reason Congress
overlooked corsets in enumerating the
many objects of toilet and apparel on
which 1T places 10 per cent tax.
There is a tax on underwear Does
this include corsets? Some merchants
think it does and clap on the tax, but
there is no doubt that, generally
speaking. corsets are not classed as
underwear. In sense everything is
underwear except the extreme outer
garments. Yet skirts, shirts, waists
and stockings are not considered un-
derwear in this law, as they are spe-
cifically mentioned in addition to I'M
derwear If corsets are taxed as I'M
derwear, mems suspenders would, we
suppose, come in the same category,
though not mentioned in the act. Per-
haps the Supreme Court will have to
determine these things. Certainly the
dealers who must collect these taxes
from their customers are left good
deal at sea-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
4 Sound Candidate
"The Sun" said:

"The Sun" said:
"A sound candidate must have be.
hind him, TO start with, the convic-
tions and sympathics OF solid ma