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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-25

Statement by the
 Manufacturers
 Association
 Our Position m Opposition to The Closed Shop Has Already Been Printed.
 We Are Now Asked for c Statement on tue Attitude Of The Manufacturers' Association On the 4-HOur Week.
 The real the A hour week. but the preserva of sound principles for the settlement of differences
 At the instance of the Government the manufacturers, unless other methods already existed installed the ployes plan which provides reasonable machinery for the adjustment of differences The management and ployes these factories have been working under cond tons which involve of that pan This associa insists that these methods of adjustment be used rather than the arbitrary calling of strikes the attitude apparently being strike first and negotiate after We will emphaica y such methods in order the public against the vicious and waseul practice of strikes No group of workers will be permitted profit by ture strikes.
 The question of the A hour week such question calls for sudden Our definitely and po itvely believes that under economic conditions its adoption would in the long be extremely detrimental the employees meaning does tremendous loss i'll produc the of production and increase the of living reduction of four hours week in the United States with it's forty million loss of twenty million days work each week. and loss the employees in wages of millions of dollars week. The of living will be reduced by reducing he number of hours work
 *,
 If this question hour week be presented, should be through thorough and friendly discussion be- the employees committee elected by the employees and the management of the ndvd ua1 plant Until this has been honestly and fairly taken and proved that adjust this be ached there is justification for the interruption of industry with its attendant loss and suerng We stand firmly behind the proposition that there shall been tried and failed
 Bridgeport avoid the strike habit. What they stop needless and costly interference
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
PEOPLE and Events

Washington could furnish enough swivel
chairs for the peace conference without missing
the number.
A lawsuit over horses kick delivered in
1907 is going the rounds of Indiana courts, and
promises to rival the celebrated Iowa calf case
Luckily the horse got his kick in first
14-pound sweet later graced the festive
board of Champ Clark around New Years.
Sweetness long-drawn-out. Wonder if any of
it will keep until delegate time in 1920?
Lucas Godc. &c. and his wife, Mary. "a years
old, of Chicago, passed away within few hours
of each other and were buried together as the
old year dropped to the rear. Together they
travelled 1fe's highway for IS years. Death did
not divide them
Old Doc Tanner. 81, the famous faster, is no
more Gone with the waning hours of the old
year. Thirty odd years ago the doc. pulled off
his record fast of 40 days, although the neces-
saries were readable without an extension
ladder A like stunt nowadays might command
as much publicity, with the added advantage of
saving treble the money
Down New York way the authorities think
they have theater ticket scalpers driven into
hot corner A new ordinance requires license
fee of $3.50 year and limits the scalping price
to 50 cents ticket AS further safeguard the
regular price OF admission must be printed on
the face of the ticket. Transients in the big
town now will have some chance OF seeing a
show without forkng over Liberty bond
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
T1no Rz.<~m
Ann Tongue VIII Serve No,v

Away back in the dark days of last February
there was printed an Associated Press dispatch
from Berlin that would make strange reading
if it were to come across the water now. 1t
was to the effect that the members of the
Deutcher Sprachverein, or German Language
association, had adopted a resolution earnestly
advising the chancellor to decree that when the
time came to- establish terms of peace all the
negotiations should be conducted in the German
language Only in that tongue were the rep
resentatives of the vanouished nations to be
allowed to say what little they would have to
say when their fate was decided.
That proposal was highly CHARACTERISTIC: and
there is no reason for supposing that if the
Germans had won they would have seen moth
ing unreasonable in adopting it, though to have
done so might have had its practical inconveni-
ences, even for the victors.
But February is long ago. Much more than
II months have passed since then-it is whole
era that has elapsed and now the Germans are
thinking not of how to emphasize triumph
but of how to escape from few of the con-
sequences of utter defeat. They would accept
mercy, no matter in what language it might be
expressed. They are asking for it. too, in all
the languages they know-and. to give them due
credit thew know. and know we'll, not few.
Yet their linguistic abilities did not save them
from misunderstanding all their neighbors, near
and remote. Their learning was snare, as
learning often is when its possessors make
wrong use of it-New York Times.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
Europe's Hunger Map"

The statement made by Herbert Hoover at
Paris on food conditions in Europe gives the
situation most serious aspect. More than
l25,000,0O0 people face starvation, and must be
relieved for at least six months Most of these
have no means wherewith to buy food, so it
must be given without charge or sold on credit
Cooperation between the existing governments
of Europe, with aid from the United States, will
relieve this situation as far as possible, but
many must inevitably perish because Of the
lack Of transport Huge quantities of food sup
plies are now piled up at Adriatic ports await
ing arrangements for distribution, these being
delayed by shortage Of transportation and lack
of means for giving out the relief Here is the
saddest picture of all the war, because the suf-
fering mostly falls on the innocent and help
less. America must assume the big job not
only Of providing the food, but sustaining the
credit that must be extended the new nations
and those that are destitute. Europe's hunger
map is Of more importance than any political
map in the world right now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
SaQnposts OF PROGRESS

Membership in SweGen's trade
unions last year totaled 1S6,146.
Three bridges have been built
across the Suez canal at kantara,
thus linking Egypt and Palestine by
railroad and road.
An English city is experimenting
with electric street cars as travelling
kitchens, on which meals are cooked
enroute and sold to the public.
Boot soles made from compressed
scraps of leather are said to be
waterproof and elastic. They can
also be made at little cost and are
more comfortable than rubber.
A Swiss company has spent a
large amount for road Improvement
and equipment and plans TO carry
passengers over some routes in the
Alps in electric automobiles.
No industry in the United States
has shown a more wonderful growth
during the war than that of chemi-
Gals. The expectation of chemicals
from the United States in the year
which ends with this month will
show a total of approximately s175.-
100000, against s27po0,o0o in the
year Immediately preceding the war
China's first pencil factory was
officially opened on June 26, 1918,
when the China Pencil company
threw open its new plant for in
spection. This company is an An
glo- Chinese enterprise, organized
and promoted by a few English and
Chinese business pen, and hopes to
obtain a large share of the pencil
trade in the Far East hitherto con-
trolled by the Germans and Aus
TRANS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
Publications. and Facts.

President Wilson and King Victor Emman-
uel exchanged fluctuations at the Quirinal in
way that bodies good for the continuance Of re-
lations between the nations on an amcabe
basis But remember that for the moment
Italy presents the most acute phase Of the conf
ing peace conference. That country entered
the war on the terms OF a convention ratified
at London in 1915, under which certain pledges
were made by Russia, England and France that
will be now redeemed only with extreme diff
Guilty These refer to Italia Irredenta. AT the
time, before the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Austrian
empire, il looked feasible to favorably regard
the Italian claims on the Adriatic. A new e1e-
ment was injected when France first, and later
other belligerents, including the United States,
recognized the national aspirations of the Jugo-
Slavs. These proposed union that will in
clude Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Dama-
tia, with some disposition yet to be made of
Albania. Italy has made claim for large por
ton of Dalmatia, under the secret agreement
made with its allies. Against this the Jugo-
Slavs vehemently protest and feeling of Bit
terness has come about that will not be easily
turned to harmony. As we have given some
thing of promise to the one side, and are
bound by friendly ties to the other, our position
at the great conference is not going to be so
easy as might appear from the exchange Of
compliments between the leaders
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
Out of the Ordinary

The only democrat elected in Full
ton county, Illinois, this year was
Corp. Roy Tanner of Canton, a SOL
der who lost leg in battle
w. Naismith of the Esparto dis
trict, near Woodland. Cal, has
hauled to town with tractor load
of 225 sacks of almonds, for which
he will get $3.50.
An elderly man at Freeport. Me-,
Is expert at patchwork and has
made an all-silk quilt, in the sun
rise pattern, for which he has been
offered $500, but he is holding 1t for
rise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Bremen Of
Evansville, Ind, who have just spent
two years making a 35,000-mile au-
tomobile tour of the United States,
visited every state capital and every
army cantonment in states that have
cantonments and met Evansville SOL
diers in almost every one.
Frank Teeter, a farmer of Enfield
Center, N, Y, is displaying cab
bage stalk Of the Danish bal variety
on which have grown 10 heads of
cabbage. The central and larger
head is surrounded and as firm as
the central head. The whole thing
weighs two ounces less than IL
pounds.
According to Prof W. C. Kendall
of the United States Fish commits
sion, who has compiled list Of the
fishes of Maine, both salt and fresh
water varieties, fishermen who ap-
peared to know what they were
talking about and seemed worthy of
credence have reported 40 different
kinds of fish in the waters of the
state
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
CENTER SHOTS

Washington Post: The trouble
with the balance of power is that it
is so constantly getting out of bal
ance.
Washington Post: When the kings
come to Washington and say II raise
my glass" what will be in them
the glasses?
st. Louis Globe Democrat: This
world is a rich one. 1t has fur
nished 100000, 100000 worth Of
wealth to blow up and dissipate in
four years war.
Washington Post: Herb Hoover
told two German food robbers in
Belgium to go to h with his COM
pliments, and they promptly re-
turned to Germany.
Minneapolis Tribune: Colonel
House is now reported to have orig
mated the phrase, freedom Of the
seas" Oh, is that SO? Then maybe
he can tell what it means.
Minneapolis Tribune: Max Harden
wants to come to America to plead
the cause Of Germany. That's it;
somehow we have come to be regard
ed in Germany as a friend. How
could that have happened?
Kansas City Times: Gertrude
Atherton says diplomacy Is still Sc
cret. Mrs. Atherton has evidently
called the roll of delegates to the
impending peace conference and,
like the rest Of us, found no women
in it. I'm
Baltimore American: Now Berrs-
torff pleads innocence of guilt in act
or intent for the war The proud
slogan of Deutschland uber allies
has changed to the general whine
from the kaiser down of didn't
do it!
Philadelphia Ledger: General
Pershing's rules for the government
of that part of the Rhineland occu-
pied by the American army are strict,
but not too severe. 1t would be
highly disastrous from every point Of
view to allow the people to get the
impression that they were not really
conquered.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
HERE AND THERE

Glasgow was the first city to intro
duce women drivers and guards on
its street railway system.
Wages of building trade workers
in Germany have doubled since the
period preceding the war.
A surgical tourniquet has been
patented that is made of rubber tub
ing that can be inflated by an air
pump to tighten it.
Iceland counts farming as one of
her leading industries. She excels
in sheep-raising and in dairying.
Iceland exports about $270,000 worth
of butter in a year.
A Bath, Me-, man had a COW to
sell, but could get no better offer
than SIS. So he chopped the COW
up and, collectively, she then
amounted to $3.50.
Nearly 10000 women registered
with the Bridgeport Comm office Of
the employment service recently, as
the result Of lively advertising cam
paign to enlist women for Industrial
employment.
The countries of the world in
which earthquakes are most frequent
are Italy, Japan, Greece, South
America (the Pacific COAST, Java,
Sicily and Asia Minor. The lands
most free from the commissions are
Africa, Australia, Russia, Siberia,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
WHERE Is THE LTMITl

Congressman Green's criticism of the pro-
gram looking to indefinite retention of Amer
lean forces in Europe for police duty brings up
in this direction. When we entered the war it
was with an understanding that we would see
it to an end. After we got in conditions
changed somewhat, especially when we encour-
aged the German people to overthrow their gov
eminent in favor OF more democratic form.
Did we then assume anything OF an obligatory
duty to stand by until the new government was
on its feet? And how far are we bound to as
sist in the setting up of stable governments for
the new nations that are coming out of the
chaos into which European geography and pol
itcs have been merged? Can we retire before
the Slovakan republic Poland, Russia and the
other countries are on their way to prosperity
with social and political institutions on stable
basis?
These questions must have an answer. Mr.
Wilson said at Manchester that we have no con-
Germ in European politics as SUCH To this all
will agree, and for that reason it would seem
that we are not obligated to maintain order in
and in sentimental sense desirable, that we
police Germany and other places needing over
sight until the people are ready to behave them
selves and 60 it alone in managing their own
affairs. We would thus relieve the established
governments of Europe of duty that is both
costly and distasteful.
Our philanthropic impulse may not carry
US that far. The young men who will be held
in the army service in Europe are needed at
home; the preservation of order over there i'm
plies some sort of responsibility for the future
as we'll as the present, and we are not ready to
assume over the affairs of any European coun-
try such guardianship as we hold over Cuba.
Our experimental plunge into Europe's dis
putes shows a steadily widening vista, and it
may be we'll to determine just how far we are
going in that direction
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
Around the Cities

Sioux City's packeries last year
paid out S1S2,500,000 for live stock.
The aggregate business Of the stock
yards increased s62,5oo,ooO over
1917.
Chicago plans to make the Wash
burn school, where young men and
women have been trained to become
skilled machinists for war produc-
ton, a permanent industrial prepar-
atory institution.
Boston is considering plans for a
memorial to it's heroes of the world
war. The plan most favored pro-
vides for a white marble arch with
span Of so feet, to be erected at
the intersection of two streets near
the Common.
st, Louis and Kansas City street
railway companies last spring were
tickled by an extra cent fare grant
ed by the state commission. The
Scent fare came easy and whetted
appetite. Both companies are now
hustling for Scent fares.
Chicago patrons of the postoffice
last year made a new high record
of money turned in for stamps and
things, the total rising to $32,677,-
600, exclusive of money orders
which amounted tos 1878, 040, 900.
netting s152,591 in fees.
Kansas City lost its fight in the
state supreme court against scent
fares. The most interesting point
in the adverse decision is that city
may grant the use of it's streets for
traction purposes, but may not reg
ulate the charge for such use.
Philadelphia let's go a roar against
the plan of the police authorities to
impose tax on automobile owners
for the trouble Of recovering stolen
cars. Some quizzical Quakers want
to know what police are for, any
how, If not to chase thieves and re-
cover stolen property.
The Commercial club of Toledo
traces with painful exactitude the
progressive rise of the cost of gov
eminent in that city. In a circular
from the clubs publicity bureau a
10-column table shows that revenues
Of the city in 1906 averaged 1874
per capita and in 1919 they will
amount to $20.63. The club init
mates the speed exceeds the bounds
of safety
A colony of wealthy cottagers
near Oyster Bay, L. l., propose to
secede from the town and flock by
themselves municipality. The burg
mapped by the colonel is all right
as towns go, but the Oyster Bay tax
gatherers exercise reach and a
touch that is painful in regularity.
AS consequence the plutes will try
out the Wilsonian policy Of self-de-
termination,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
Selling Utility Service

American public utilities with few excep-
tons have been fairly we'll organized to produce
service, but are amazingly unprepared to sell it..
Controlled almost wholly by hnancers, lawyers
and engineers, the American utility group, rep
resenting approximately $l0000000000 of in
vested capital has tried to do business without
advertising. It has left the public it serves
ignorant of the value, cost and fair price of
what it has to sell.
It has permitted its political. assailants to do
80 per cent of its advertising. The daily papers
with singular want of self-interest instead Of
teaching the utilities how to advertise usefully
and intelligently, have lent their columns freely
to the adverse and destructive advertising given
the utilities by theorists who never put nickel
into the public service and knew nothing of it,
and BY shrewd political freebooters who used
this means of retaining public office.
VAS result the public in most American cit
ses glaturaily fair and just when it knows the
- appears to believe that Scent carfare-.
Sensatory when bread sold at 5 cents loaf
butter at 80 cents pounds still compen-
Nv with bread at 10 cents and butter at rs
ii 1T is not yet too late to apply modern mer-
oA ndising methods to the public utility BUSH
wi Il II is socially desirable that this be done
sth1fAt the business area subjected to wasteful.
whYaionary, incompetent political mismanage-
tackN be not enlarged. 1t can be done only if
tlSe ssSswcrs of the utilities will without loss OF
hut nslace merchants in charge of their proper
Is 1bItith instructions to inform the public thor
one MI through liberal and persistent advertis-
ii Athe nature, scope, value. cost and fair
II Pvf. Stheir services.-Frank Putnam in Public
y65fenisA
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
Nebraska a Manufacturing State.

Considering Nebraska as an exclusively ag-
ricultura state is due to the fact that stress is
placed on the crop output, because that is the
states chief source Of wealth However, the
report of the state labor bureau will give a
pleasant surprise to many who are not familiar
with the facts. Detailed reports are given for
the year 1917 covering ,44o manufacturing es-
tablishments, in which were employed 29,S42
hands, to whom were paid wages amounting to
$23,664, 64072, an average weekly wage of $l7.82.
Capital invested is returned at $84,6l9, 764S8;
value of stock used, $3.50, 1876 l4494, and value
of product $54l, 4o5,1S47s The report also sets
out that 81 per cent of the output of the states
factories was consumed within the state. While
the figures for 1918 are not given, they will
probably sustain the showing made for the pre-
ceding year, although the incident of the war
disturbed conditions to some extent.
The report of the compensation bureau
shows that for ten months of 1918, from JAM
uary to October 81, cases of industrial acct
dent, in which effect OF the injury continued for
more than one week, were 2,l26, for which $780,
o6748 was paid in compensation, an average of
s42.3l per case For injuries lasting less than
one week 1927 cases were reported and $l4,-
3l15s was paid for hospital or medical atten-
ton, the average per case being $3.50. A total
of 1884 days of work were lost on account OF
accident.
These figures indicate that Nebraska has a
considerable manufacturing intesest, and that
the people of the state are patriotic in the mat
ter of buying homemade goods ..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
The Day We Celebrate.

Maj. Gen. Frank Mcintyre, u. S.
A., chief assistant to General March,
chief of staff, born at Montgomery,
Ala, 81 years ago.
Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, U.
S. A., who commanded the Eight
ieth division Of the national army
in France, born in New York, So
years ago.
Rudolf Eucken, writer and philo-
sopher winner of the Nobel prize
for literature in 1908, born in Ost-
friesland, 70 years ago.
Asbury F. Lever, representative
in congress of the seventh South
Carolina district, born at Spring
field, S. c., a. years ago.
Rev. Olympia Brown, pioneer re-
former and equal suffrage advocate,
born at Prairie Ronde, Mich, "a
years ago.
William Bennett Munro, profess
sor of municipal government in
Harvard university, born in Ontario,
AZ years ago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05
This Day in History.

l757-Damien's attempt on the
life of Louis XIV of France.
1S0o-Lord Nelson's body lay in
state at Greenwich hospital.
l85S-Johann Joseph Radetzky, a
famous field marshal in the Austrian
service, died at Milan. Borf in b.
hernia in 1866.
,1872-Overland mail first travelled
through the Mont Gents tunnel
. 188l-International Sanitary con-
ference met in Washington, D. c.
l890-British government de-
manded the immediate recall of the
Portuguese forces from the British
sphere in Africa.
1S96-Cecil Rhodes resigned the
premiership of Cape Colony.
19l5-United States settled its
own protest on detention of cargoes
by the British by certifying ship
ments.
1ol6-Austrians admitted partial
withdrawal from Czernowitz.
l9l7-Russian offensive spread to
sector between Baltic coast and
Tiga- Mitan road.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-05

Among the entries are Frank
Dingley, Jack Prince, Senator
Morgan, Tom Eek, Charlie Ash
niger, and Mile. Armando.
Charles Tanning, George Garfield
and Charles NJ. Rosters are at Hot
Springs.
The Third Congregational church
has issued call to Rev. DR.. w. A.
Thain of Galesburg, Ill.
THE Omaha Watchman" died with
the old year and in the future "the
Omaha Mercury" will take its place.
Jack Crooks says he won't play
ball any more. He's in the mail SER
vice and declares he'll stay there,
Harry Morford has decided to
join the regular army.
This Day in History.