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FLU COST 45O,OOO LIVES

NEW YORK-Statistics compiled by life insurance company in this city show that the recent influenza
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ABOR left unrestricted and unre- strained will produce and fix its own reward.

strained will produce and fix it's
 own reward.
 Labor should have it's reward. When labor fails to receive it's just reward, confscation has happened.
 When man is deprived of his prop erty without due process of law, the law says that is confiscation and will not be allowed. As labor is the work ingman's property, and in most cases all the property that he has, the only commodity which he has to sell-it must therefore follow that it is. as much the duty of the government to prevent the confiscation of labor it is to prevent the confscation of any other kind of property, asserts the Washington Star. The man who takes more than a reasonable profit on the
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PsvcholooicaIIy Tested.

Psychological tests are being used by the United States employment serv- ice in New York to aid in determining the work for which applicants are best fitted.
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permits himself to be suspended, a1- ways ready to extend friendly hand or act to any brother that may be in distress. You can find him in a union shop because he Is a union man at heart. And today the great labor movement is carried on by the union men and not by the so-called members of a union.
 The union man criticizes when crit fcism is justified and fights for what he thinks is right. The so-called mem Der of union kicks at all things, but never fights for anything-Eleyato Constructor.
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The company agreed that there would be no discrimination.
 The strike involved several thous- and electrical workers and telephone operators, affiliated with the Brother hood of Electrical Workers, and ex- tended through the Pacific coast states.
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ARE PATRIOTS ALL
Trade Unionists Have Proved Worthy of High Position
 They Occupy.

When the comparatively few trade unionists of our various communities
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PASSED ALL TESTS
Organized Workers of America Properly Proud of Labor
 Organizations.

Labor day, 1919, brings to the work CTS of America the right to cheer and
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given The Red Cross took down the
data she was able to supply them.
even to see him the day he graduated
from the training camp and was or
dered over. 49,
That was months before, and asbit-
ter repentance grew in her heart be-
cause OF it. She had been selfish.
narrow minded and vain. The words
she had uttered that day he had en-
listed burned and scared like blue
flame now.
But morning banished all the tears,
just because there was work, to be
done, and Janet. dainty from the
feather in her little trig hat to her
neatly polished shoes. went to the
plant to take her place among its
many other workers. 1t was her last
trip this day, for orders awaited her to
report in Washington.
A word of thanks to her captain for
recommending her as most capable, a
hastily packed travelling bag, host
of imagination-and Janet was on
her way to the great center from
which radiated so many executive
spokes of the worlds war. 1t was
glorious! But the old feeling returned
to quell her enjoyment every now and
then on the train trip going down.
Mrs. Cummings Sergeant Mum
sey read day later from her slip to
the lieutenant sitting at the huge oak
desk to his right. And Janet had tim
idly acknowledged the title and
mounted the stairway to the next floor
with him.
are you not?" he asked, and Janet
said she had not been told. Eyes,
continued Sergeant Munsey, the. new
major arrived yesterday. 1 guess
you'll like him all right, with his
flashy smile and good humor always
So much as we have seen of him l
don't wonder he was SO popular with
his men,
But they had reached the doorway
of the majors office and Sergeant
Munsey stopped.
A somewhat faint yet emotional
Janet wheeled the next moment and
sat heavily in the chair the major
offered. The shoulders had looked
familiar, and, yes. the head.
But it was preposterous. And yet
Thank you, sergeant" Major Cum
mings said quietly. 81 will swear the
little lady in, you need not wait"
Swear me in?" Janet said a bit
breathlessly as she turned her wide
eyes, radiant but tear-dimmed with
happiness on her husband, Jerry.
"Why, yes-a mere custom of the
service, Mrs. Cummings" he said
haughtily. but" and there was a
note of the Jerry who used to be. but
If you wish" he smiled this time, ''rll
swear you in-for life"
And as Gerald expressed it a few
weeks later when the armistfce was
signed and they both got their honor
able discharges, it was the first time
he had ever kissed a stenographer the
very first time he had ever taken one
out to lunch the same day.
(Copyright, 1919 BY the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.}
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"Out to Lulnch."

We often wonder if people do any
thing else these days than eat.
We have been trying to get GER
tain man on the phone for three
months, and nine times he has been
"in conference" and twenty-seven
timas "out to lunch"
He has been "out to lunch" at 10
o'clock in the morning and 8 o'clock
in the afternoon, being man, we take
it, with a ninety horsepower appetite.
Finally, we evolved a beautiful plan.
1t so happened that we knew the jani-
tor of the building in which this hardy
trencherman has his office. We de-
cided to find out at once whether this
man was putting one over on us. We
would ask friend janitor.
. Bubbling over with excitement. we
called the switchboard in the building
at 3 O'Clock one afternoon and asked
for the janitor.
Z Sorry" said the girl, "but the jani-
tor is out to lunch"
One astute observer remarks that no
matter what happens in Paris, it will
be a hard job to do away with secret
diplomacy in bone-dry Washington as
long as the foreign embassies remain
wet.
That Hungarian olshevik uprising
may fail to make a long run, on ac-
count of the poor stage manageme
by the Germans.
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MY HUSBAND AND l
BY JANE PHELPS

Yet he is in such big things for a man
as young as he is. You must know
that by what he has accomplished
since we have been married. 1 don't
believe there's another man his age in
all New York who has made his
money. not inherited it, that has done
as well. You see if one inherits money
nothing, just few hundred dollars he
had saved"
Eyes. he has done wonders. But he
was always very bright. His mother
was a very clever woman. He in
herits many of her traits" pride of
family in her voice.
I tried to change the subject by
talking of the different places OF in
terest we passed. but something
seemed to have aroused aunt's sus-
picion that everything was not quite
all right for she returned again to the
subject of Neil's business, and asked
me many questions, some of which
could not answer, others which did
not care to-
Have you visited NeiPs new Of
flee? He was telling me he had late
ly taken more commodious one ?"
she questioned.
Yes, have been there once 1 do
not go often. there is no reason why
1 should" I replied. blushing to think
of what had occurred because of my
visit
81 should like to stop and see it. if
you have time"
Certainly. We can stop off, then
walk up the Avenue to the theater.
We shall have plenty of time" We
were going to matinee.
When we reached the office the
blonde stenographer was so frankly
surprised to see us that she amused
me immensely. I told her she could
go right on with her work, that we
had no wish to interrupt her, and that
we would look around by ourselves.
She had risen as IL to accompany us
when I said to aunt that we would go
into Neil's private office. Fortunate
ly he. had not locked the door when
he left.
This is sumptuous!" Aunt ex-
claimed, seating herself in one of the
large leather chairs. while l took the
swivel one at the desk. 1 had caught
a glimpse of an envelope addressed in
bold but fashionable chirography. Per-
haps l might happen on to something
1 wanted to know.
Yes, Neil has very good taste" re-
piled, quietly drawing the envelope
toward me as I spoke of the fine view
from the windows.
(Tomorrow-Bab appropriates a
letter she sees upon Neil's office desk.)
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kills them-whereas beauty and hap
piness and success and all good and
great things scamper for first place on
the Sunny Side.
There is always Sunny Side. Some
times we get TO going SO far on the
other side that our eyes lose track of
the fact that just across the street
there is a happier crowd living on the
Sunny Side.
and work on the Bunny Side. And it's
more inviting over there.
The thrills OF life live longest on the
Sunny Side. Hope grows fastest and
health becomes greatest on the Sunny
Side
There Is always room on the Sunny
Side The Great Somebody always sees
that as the crowd Increases there, the
space is widened- It's like the fact
that there is always room at the top.
Somehow or other everybody on the
Sunny Side wants everybody else over
there with them, too.
Why not the Sunny Side?
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THE NEW LEVEL OF PRICES.

"A new level of prices has been es-
tablished, from which there can be no
material recession until inventive gem
ius succeeds in correspondingly in
creasing labor's productive capacity by
mechanical means" declares J. Og-
den Armour. and adds: THE manu-
facturer who now quotes the lowest
possible price consistent with the high
cost of labor, and guarantees this to
be so, doing his buying freely on the
same basis, ranks as our highest type
of patriotic citizen"
The greatest danger to our economic
structure today, Mr.. Armour holds,
arises from the failure of many to rec
ognize a new and higher level of
prices, based on permanently increased
cost of labor, and high taxation. Those
who postpone building or buying in
the hope of materially lower prices,
are specializing in the future misfor-
tune of the nation. For falling prices,
when reaching the point where profit
is eliminated, mean panic. depression,
unemployment. and other troubles.
In the final analysis rs per cent or
more of the cost of most commodities
consists of labor, and reductions in the
market price of commodities are,
therefore, inevitably reflected in the
compensation of labor. Nothing in the
labor situation warrants any one in
expecting materially lower cost of
commodities in general, and building
in particular. Wages will not be less
for several fundamental reasons, Mr.
Armour points out among which are:
The practical stoppage of immigra-
ton since 1914, depriving America of
the several million workers who
would normally have come to our
shores.
The retention by the nations mill
tary and naval establishments of near
ly 2.000,00 workers, which may con-
tinue for an indefinite period.
The creation of new industries, such
as shipbuilding, and manufacture of
chemicals and dyes, requiring hun
dreds Of thousands of workers.
The urgent demand for building
and construction of every class, due
to their having been forcibly held
back for several years.
The shortage of the worlds food
supply.
The proportionately higher levels of
commodity prices existing practically
all over Europe
On the one hand. then, we are fac
ing serious shortage of labor as soon
as we approach normal Industrial ac-
| tivity, and on the other hand there is
| confronting us a tremendous, unsatis-
fled demand for many necessities
which 1t was difficult or impossible to
obtain during the war.
Normally under such conditions we
could have expected a flood of low
priced goods from the old world,
while now we find that prices in Eu-
rope have risen proportionatsly much
higher than in America. and the de-
mand for commodities and labor, to
make up for the wastage Of war, is
leyen more keenly felt there than here.
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. who has charge of selling govern
ment war material and other surplus cup
A. The purchasing. storage and traffic
division q purchasing. storage and traffic.
Of the selling of all army. materials -hich
are no longer needed. Sales and auctions
turnout the country. For details concern
ing sales write to the director of sales,
Munitions building. Washington. d. G.
Q. Where is the 322nd Field Signal nat
TALON z When is Il coming bcmei.B ~,
attached to the Bird army In Germany with
headquarters p Coblenz, Army Post office
a27. This unit has not yet been assigned
Q. How may ! subscribe to The Con.
grrssional Record I'D. F.
A. Subscriptions for the Record may he
sent TO the superintendent of documents,
government printing office Washington.
p; G. The price is 81 so per month or
purchased Mt three cents for copies Of TWEEN
ty-four or less pages. one cent extra for
every T nIn PAGES ages a ansrdnnr I,a,,rs
the United states combative service during
the war?-B. y. L.
Americans fought in the recent war and
proved themselves excellent soldiers ana
sailors; in fart the record of the Indian
is one OF which the interior department..
the agency administering the Indian
bureau. Is very proud.
O. Before the present war. what was the
greatest famine ever known &c. C.
A. The greatest number Of deaths Known
to have resulted from famine occurred in
India In 1906. when the loss was pI1ccf
at 40 900. A famine occurred in ireland
in 1s47. with deaths numbering i,0eo0O0
(Any reader Of The State Journal who
wants the facts any subject can secure
nrompt service by writing The ToDeka
StHte Journal fnforsnntios Rureau. Fred
eric J. Harkin. director. Washington. ". c.
state your question briefly and enclose 4
threr-cent stamp for return postage. All
inquiries are confidential. the replies beinR
sent direct to each Individually
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NO ROOM FOR HATE.

NO ROOM FOR HATE.
We have room for the man with an honest
dream,
With his heart on fire and his eyes agleam
We have room for the man with a purpose
true,
Who comes to our shores to start life anew,
But we haven't an inch of space for him
Who comes to plot against life and limb.
We have room for the man who will learn
our ways,
Who will stand by our Flag in its troubled
days;
We have room for the man who VIII till the
soil,
Who will give his hands to a fail days
toll,
But we haven't an inch of space TO snare
For the breeder of hatred and black
despair.
We have room for the man who will neigh
who will keep his hands and his. conscience
We have room for the man who'll respect
And pledge himself to our countryls cause.
But We haven't an inch of land TO give
To the alien breed that Will alien live.
Against the vicious We bar the gate.
This is no breeding ground for hate,
This Is the land of the brave and free
And such. we pray IL shall always be,
We have room for men who will leve our
flag.
Copyright 1913 by Edgar A. Guest
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DUTY NEAR AT HAND.


Under the terms of the Monroe Doc
trine, if the United States were called
upon to protect Mexico from a foreign
foe. she would do it without hesitation,
just as she did half century ago.
Why then should not the United States
protect the Mexicans from them
selves?
The allies are asking us to become
the mandatory for Armenia. We have
work of that sort much nearer home,
which should be done, and doubtless
European nations would be glad to
have us take the matter in hand.
We hear great deal nowadays of
solicitude for humanity. Hundreds of
millions of dollars are spent to feed
the oppressed people of Europe; our
soldiers are fighting to prevent an eIe-
ment in Russia from continuing its
career of destruction. But thru it all
we remain blind to the fact that just
across our borders in Mexico are over
100000 people who have been the
prey Of constituencies bandits for over
q huT dred years, with but brief pc
RODS CT relief Everything points to
an indefinite continuation of that state
of affairs, yet not word do we hear
of move on our part to end it.
Little has been heard from there for
the past two or three years. not be-
cause the government has become
more stable or more widely accepted
by the population, but because of the
overshadowing importance of the war
in Europe. Now almost every day
brings stories of continued upheavals
in Mexico. 1t is said that the Car
rama government is lettering to its
fall, and that Villa is gaining strength
for a renewal of his attacks on some OF
the principal cities of northern Mex
leo. 1t is evident that the coming
years are to see but continuation OF
the guerilla warfare that, since the abb
dication of Diaz, has brought the
country to the political, economic and
social degradation that now prevails
Those who rule temporarily in Mex
ico. and those who seek their over
throw, are all actuated by the same
motives and hesitate at nothing calcu-
lated to accomplish their ends. Pos
session of the seat of government fol-
purposes of loot is the ambition of ev.
cry leader. To forward its cause each
party in turn has sought to curry IA
vor with the United States. First il
was Huerta. Then came Villa. Mex
Carranza got the upper hand and con.
troll of the capital city, and we has
tened to recognize his government ant
send him an ambassador.
Now Villa is gaining prominence
once more. and making serious efforts
to ingratiate himself with our official.
at Washington, while increasing hi.
control in Mexico and threatening Car.
rama.
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The American Federation of Labor
convention, in session at Atlantic City,
has taken up the matter of resump-
ton of the building program projected
by the government. Plans have been
made and appropriations voted for
scores of federal buildings thruout the
country and not a move is being made
toward their erection. The govern
ment is urging everybody else to build
but is doing nothing along that line it
self. 1t is presumed that these build
ings are needed or they would not
have been provided for. If Uncle Sam
desire to start a building boom he
should set an example.
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shortest route of all is via the throne
of God. One may directly ana power
fully affect the course of events in
Asia and Africa by way of the prayer
closet. The lowliest and most seques-
tered Christian may thru prayer play a
statesman's role in the remaking of
the world. More than it needs editor
ials or speeches or commissions or ex-
perts, this present mass of human So
ciety needs the Divine help that may
be- insured by sincere prayer.
The Secret Tryst.
Two characteristics of the prayer
that counts are set forth in the days
the widow who kept on asking until
she received. There is an importantly
that God will not deny. All persisting
prayer prevails. in Gods own way.
When a man is really in love with a
woman, he will not be denied tho she
say him ray thru long years. There
flash across my memory the stories of
friends, now happily married, who re-
fused 40 accept repulse at the hands of
the women they loved. God prizes that
kind of wooer for his favor. He asks
patience and continuance in prayer as
proof of faith that will not be de-
MED. Any boon from on high is worth
waiting long years to receive. True
prayer keeps on praying until it knows
itself answered.
Inc otner incident In the lesson pic
lures two men at prayer; one q
Pharisee, correct in posture and
phrase, publicly displaying his devo-
tions; the other, a despised taxgath-
erer off in corner scarcely daring to
lift his eyes, and murmuring only,
God be merciful to me a sinner!" One
prayed to be seen of men, and therein
had his reward; the other prayed to be
heard of God and God heard him.
Prayer is not a pose nor a parade.
1t is not an affair for the public eye;
but. rather for the hidden ear of God.
Prayer is a secret tryst with a loving
Father. No man may know the souls
supplication: that is a personal mys-
terry. sacred beyond all revealing.
Barren indeed is the life which does
not have its unsearched spaces where
it holds rendezvous with God. Out of
that holy seclusion springs strength
for all public life and endeavor.
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1 was late for suppir agen tonite,
making the 3rd time in succession.
wawking in the dining room and set
ting down in my place trying to look
late. pop saying. Well well. well. heers
our Benny. I was beginning to think
we mite never see him agen.
Being sourcastic and ma sed, was
beginning to give him up for lost my
self, but I'm naturally optimistick, and
then of corse it izzent the ferst time
that he has bin away for CRATE
length of time.
Meening last mite and the mite be-
fore and also being sourcastic, and my
sister Gladdis sed, He duzzent seem
to of changed mulch, he looks about
the same as the last time 1 saw him.
Meaning me and being the most
sourcastic of all, and sed, Well G.. no
wonder I'm late. gosh, dident 1 help a
poor soldier home because he wasent
hardly able to wawk.
Mother, sed pop. we owe the boy
an apology. we have bin induldging
our so called sents of humer at his
Expense wen we should of bin prais-
ing him for doing a kindly acktion
and helping a wounded hero.
1t sertenly was patriotic of him
did you help the poor fello far. Benny ?
sed ma.
About blocks. sed. and Gladdis
sed, Well I surely must hand 1t to
enybody Tor stopping to be patriotic
wounded, Benny, did he have a
krutch?
1 dident say he was wounded. I sed.
The n1ischiff you dident-dident you
say he could hardly wawk? sed pop.
Neither he couldert, he was drunk.
I sed.
Eat your .soop, sed pop.
Witch did
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
NEIL's AUNT BECOMES INQUIsI-
. TIVE.
CHAPTER LXXXIX.

CHAPTER LXXXIX.
1 could see that Neil was terribly
put out, altho he made no reply when
Frederick said he would have to
count him OUT I also noticed that
Mrs. Carter had heard the remark,
and had glanced sharply at Neil as
if to probe the meaning of what she
did not understand.
1 tried to talk naturally, and Fred
erick Immediately followed my lead.
Then Neil pulled himself together,
and the remainder of the luncheon
passed off pleasantly. Aunt and ]
left as soon as we finished, leaving
the two men smoking. 1 had pro-
posed going SO that they might talk
business if they wished. l wanted
Frederick to believe in Neil, could
MT help but wish he would go in with
Neil on some of his deals. l was sure
it would be a help to my husband in
every way if only he could be asso-
ciated with man so bluntly honor
able in every way as was Kendall
Frederick.
what did Mr.. Frederick mean
when he said that he wouldn't go in
with those men Neil mentioned
What kind of men are they?"
II do not know them, aunt, I never
have met either one of them" I was
glad to be able to say so honestly.
But surely Nell talks of his affairs
to you. You must know If his asso-
ciates are all right
Mcneil talks very little of his
business affairs at home. He says the
office is the place for business, not
the home"
I'm a sense he is right, yet often a
woman's intuition is a help to a man.
rather liked that Mr.. Frederick,
what do you know of him?"
"Oh, we have known him a long
time! He is always just as you saw
him today. A plain blunt man, but
straightforward and honest He is
very wealthy. and I can't help wish
ing he would become interested with
Neil. He is older and would be a
good influence" 1 added. knowing
aunt would wonder why I was so
anxious.
"But-you speak, Bah. as if Neil
needed some good influence. You
aren't worried over anything in con-
nection with him are you?"
mo aunt-that is not particularly.