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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-12
WIRE HEADS
CLAIM VICTORY
IN KEY STRIKE
Western Union Officials Declare
Demonstration Practically !
at an End
$4,000 MEN ARE IDLE
Labor Leaders Expect to Induce
Electrical Workers to
Join Them

Atlantic City, N. j., June 12.-
Moral support, of the strike called
for June 16 by the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, which includes the bulk of the
telephone workers throughout the
country today was voted by the
American Federation of Labor.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-12
NORTH OAK = ! OTAEl BOY
KILLED | : j lin ACTION

Washington. June IL. - The
. army casualty list today includes
the names Of five privates killed
in action. Thor include Einar
Jensen Of Fl1xtoN N. d.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-12
ATTEMPTS FAIL

Winnipeg, June r. .TAH. E. Barker,
chairman Of tfe Railway Brotherhood
mediation board in formally announc-
ing today that attempts to conciliate
strike controversies have completely
failed, admitted that the brotherhood
executives are facing strong pressure
from railroad employees to permit
Winnipeg locals to vote on the ques-
Investigation ofNthe serious phases
of the labor upheaval was in progress
here today with federal officials in
charge. Conferences were held in the
office of Mayor Gray and parliament.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-12

Chicago, June 12.-In the face Of
statements by the officials Of the COM
mercial telegraph companies that the
strike had failed, S. J. Konnenkamp Of
the photographers union announced that
assurance had been given that the broll-
er operators would join the strike.
The announcement followed long dis.
tance telephone conversations with
union representatives in New York and
Atlantic City, wnere the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor is in, session. Just
when the New York operators would
join was not stated, sss 4 tE #
Despite claims that the strike had
failed, the outlook Isl more favorable
it is said. To-day there are fully, 49,
600 telegraph operators on strike thru,
out the country. The best results arc
being had in the south and southwest
and the west.'
"On Monday the electrical workers
will join the strike, adding a total OF
more than 100000 to the striking
forces - @
CLAIM VICTORY
Both sides concerned in the country
wide strike of members of the Com
mercial Telegraphers' union Of Amer
lea today expressed satisfaction over
the first days results. Officials Of the
Western union and Postal telegraph
said the strike, which is only "A hours
E,old, was virtually at an end, while
President Konencamp of the associa.
tDn said between 10000 and 1900
telegraphers had quite work yesterday
and that 'BefOre the day was over sew
|eral thousand more would walk out. 4 &
Reports FROM the country generally
showed that the postal had lost more
men than the Western union although
| officials of the company said there was
only slight delay in handling messages.
lUnion Officials in this city sattf 900 hafl
struck, although officers of the coIu-
panies declared the number much less.
rrIn San Francisco officials Of the tele-
graph companies declared their 'busi-'
ness practically Unaffected by the
,-,a.. ,Iw HI. 49, ~ no
REFUSE TO HANDLE BUSINESS I,
st. Louis, June 12.-An order direct
ing members Of the Order Of Railroad
Telegraphers to discontinue handling
business Of the Western union and
Postal Telegraph companies after 6 a.
M. Saturday, June II, was issued here
today by Il. J. Manion, president Of the
Railroad Telegraphers. The order af-
fects $4,000 railroad operators and ap-
proximately 10000 railroad telegraph
offices, according to officials. y
ALL LOVELY SAYS w. u. T. co.
New York, June 12.-General Of
fices of the Western Union reported
today that traffic was running
smoothly on it's line. No figures were
available to indicate whether the num-
ber Of men who had quit work had in
creased over yesterday.
ATTEMPTS FAIL
Winnipeg, June r.. II. E. Barker
chairman Of the Railway Brotherhood
mediation board in formally announc-
ing today that attempts to conciliate
strike controversies have completely
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-12
FEW FACTS ABOUT NORTH !.
DAKOTA

Speaking before the association to-
day, Pres. j. E. Phelan, president Of
the First National bank Of Bowmah,
offered "A Few Facts About North Da-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
ok AHOMA'S SHAME.

The mob spirit manifested at Ardmore,
Okla. when Senator Reed, of Missouri, at
tempted to deliver an address at that place
in opposition to the pending peace treaty, is
a disgrace to civilized community. The
News does not agree with Senator Reed con-
corning the treaty. But when two sides of
a great issue before the American people
cannot be heard without resort to such
methods as those used by the Ardmore
crowd it is time for the American people
to take a new measure of national intelll-
gence. Those who disagreed with the senator
did not have to hear him. If they became
members of the audience they assumed the
responsibility of conducting themselves de-
Gently. The Ardmore gang did not do that.
If the opposition cannot patiently hear the
arguments of those who oppose the treaty 1t
indicates that they fear their merits and seek
to prevent by physical force that which they
cannot answer with brains.
Senator Reed is not hurt or disgraced by
the treatment he received, but the people of
Ardmore are. Alexander Hamilton, attempt
ing to speak in the streets of New 1Ork in
advocacy of the Jay treaty in the admins
tration of Washington, met a similar fate.
The men who constituted the mob are I'M
known. The memory of Hamilton is pre-
served in national history. The gang who
hooted the senator into silence have
added nothing to the intelligence of
the country Their conduct has not en-
lightened the people on the issues before the
senate They have only proven their own low
order of mentality.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
A NATIONAL DEFICIT.

CONGRESSMAN Good, who is chairman of
the appropriations committee of the house,
asserts that the government faces a deficit
this year of S3,5OO,OOO 1000. The American
people have been so long accustomed to
speaking of national appropriations and col
lections in terms of billions that the indi-
Gated deficit does not scare anyone But
when it is recalled that the total eXpendI-
lures of the government for the current
fiscal year will approximately reach S1O,-
S31, 100000 the comparative magnitude of
the deficit is understood.
The cause of the deficit is simple. The ex-
penditures of the government are greater
than the income it derives from taxes of all
sorts. Some of the expenditures are made
under former legislation. Among these is
money appropriated to the states to build
roads. Harbors and docks are developed by
appropriations which cover periods of years.
About S7,345, $4,000 of the years expendi-
lures go to current expenses of the govern
ment. The difference between that amount
and the total expenditures of $10,831, 000,-
600 must be used to meet appropriations
made in the past. The income of the govern
ment is just about sufficient to meet the
current expenditures.
There is no way to reduce the expenses
and so avoid the deficit except to reduce the
appropriations. The people are carrying a
heavy tax burden already. To increase that
burden by imposing sufficient taxes to meet
the deficit is not to be considered There is
not a department of the government which
shows the least inclination to adopt policy
of economy. Appropriations of millions are
asked for as though they were but pin money
in the pockets Of millionaires
The huge taxes will not vanish in year.
They are the burden war imposes on peace.
The debts, whether current as result of the
war machinery or the future as the payment
of interest and principal on bonds for loans,
must be paid from revenues arising from
taxation. Business has been restrained by
charges against profits, which, but for them,
would be available for expansion. To put
an additional burden on enterprise would
be to sap its vitality and destroy its ex-
pansive power.
Public sentiment ought to rally behind the
efforts OF lew congressman VINO desire TO
keep the purse strings of the nation in hand
so that not a dollar will be expended except
for imperative needs of the government. Ev-
cry agency of government called into exist
ence by war should be dissolved Those which
cannot be entirely demobilized should be
reduced to the lowest point of expense pos
sible. No new agencies should be increased
I
quired for the betterment of governmental
Pork barrel legislation
should be- made SO odious by hostile public
sentiment that no congressman would dare
urge it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
PRICES GOING UP.

Statistics compiled by the United States
department OF labor for the month of Aug
ust show that the retail price of food in
this country increased 1 per cent. in that
month over the price of the preceding
month This was the month following the
launching of the governments campaign for
lower prices, when there should have been
a decline
The figures include twenty-one articles.
Some prices reached in August are the high
est on record. The advance of l per cent.
is the general result. Some articles declin-
ed while others advanced, but in striking
the mean average it is found to be highest
for the whole group.
The figures and their analysis prove that
the price fluctuations are partly artificial
The government may not find and remove
the cause, but when the prices of raw ma
terials and finished products from such ma
terials follow opposite lines of change it is
evident that the law of supply and demand
does not operate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
The Rustics of Yesterday.

What has become of the country folks,
The farmers we used to see
Who came to town on Saturday morn
And hitched to a friendly tree?
Hitched to a rack in the public square,
Hitched to lamp post or anywhere,
With never a sign that said mot there"
In the days that used to be.
What has become of the country folks
Who used to smell so good;
Their clothes perfumed with odors sweet
Of birch and hickory wood?
They smelled of the smoke of burning brush,
Had pie for breakfast and cream for mush
Had grain to spare for the grateful thrush,
Which sang like it understood.
What has become of the country folks
Who traded at Cheap Johns store?
They came to town by the wagon load
And fingered about the door.
Took tea and coffee for eggs and wood,
Ate cheese and crackers and called 1t good,
Then talked of the affairs in the neghbor-
hood
And friends who would come no more.
What has become of the country folks?
Oh, it's all quite plain to see,
They've all been changed to city folks
Yes, even as you and me-
Old Dobbin's gone from the hitchrack bar.
Once wearying miles now are miles not far,
And they smell Of the smoke of motor car,
The rustics that used to be.
VIM. Herschell in Indianapolis News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
WINTER AHEAD.

It's comng-another winter. All the
signs point to it, or rather great variety
newspapers, as much as any other one thing
newspapers, as much as any other nature
outside the realm of nature, suggest to US
the passing and the coming of seasons. The
advertising spaces are often studies in which
garments or fuels or what not are blended
with natural aspects. Thus are our minds
made ready in g measure for what is in
store Most of the laws of nature work
slowly and methodically. A thunder storm
is, of course, an exception to this rule. 1t
is like display of violent temper. But a
season is a canto in the great poem of the
year, and comes in an orderly and majestic
way.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
WHIPS WEEVIL WITH CATTLE.

In one Georgia county the boil weevil is
being fought with cows, and is being done
successfully, too. A few days ago promi-
nent citizen of Turner county informed the
editor of The News that he was on his way
to market to buy two car loads of cattle to
be used in destroying the boil weevils on
his farm. His plan is to feed the pests to the
COWS. He turns the cattle into his cotton
fields, and in cleaning the stalks of all green
foliage they also eat the boil weevils, which
is a more effective way of getting rid of
them than by destroying the stalks. This
gentleman also considers it the cheapest
way. In fact, he said it not only rids his
farm of the pests, but that there IS actual
profit in the work of destroying them, as
the cattle are fattened on the ''pickings" IN
his fields, and are then sold for more than
was paid for them At the same time they
also enrich his SOIL
The boil weevil will never hurt farmer
like this Turner county man. He is practl-
cal, thoughtful and resourceful, and Will
succeed where others fail. His example IS
a good one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
Why Women Dress So.
From the New York World.

From Boston, famed and ancient home
of east winds and theories, comes the lady
who informs a gathering of noted women
physicians from many lands that women
dress for men," Not, DR.. Edith Hale Swift
explains, as 'sex lure" but as a class ap-
peal. Man has dispensed with silks and laces
in his own attire; his wife is his "shop win
dow" She "shows off his success"
Since financial success is the fate of few,
this theory fails to explain the many women
who dress as each wind of fashion blows
who just now, for instance, are mincing
along on shoes with crippingly high heels
and complaining that they can find no 9TH
er, when they commonly have not tried. But
do not blame the men Poor, ignorant crea-
lures, what do they know about it?
A lawyer advising woman plaintiff who
is to appear before jury of men will tell
her, if mourning is uncalled for, to wear
dark blue, cut plainly, with white thingum-
bobs at neck and wrist, but not too much.
That is as definite as he can be. DR.. Swift
seems to shift her own theory when she says,
eve wear flimsy materials because it is to
the interest of the merchant to sell us some
thing perishable."
In the fateful decision why women dress
so-whether because wives are shop windows
or women easy marks for fimsy goods-man
in the mass must somehow be at fault,
though the ignorance and woeful taste of
man the individual is scornfully and no doubt
Justly derided.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
CHICKENS COME HOME.

The North, which only recently was want
to preach the evils of lynch law to the South
and hold up its hands in holy horror when
ever a brute was summarily dealt with for
violating the person of an innocent white
woman, is now resorting to mob rule to
far greater extent than was ever known in
this section. Scarcely a day passes that the
papers do not report the lynching of ne
gro in some section of the North and the
hunting in other sections of fugitive blacks
by mobs and armed posses. Another no
ticeable fact is that the brutality and saw
agery of the northern mob far surpasses any
ever known in the South, and also that the
number who participate in affairs of this
kind in the North usually run into the hum
dreds and thousands, while in the South only
a few men are ever involved in lynching
The accusing finger can no longer be
pointed at the South by pious frauds of
the north for that section is showing spir-
it of lawlessness and mob rule never dream
ed of in the South. 1t has taken all the lau-
rels-if laurels there be-in such devilish
work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
Why Prices Are High.
From the Knoxville journal.

With the men wearing silk shirts and get
ting tired of working, with women forgetting
cooking and the family demanding the SER
vices of chauffeur, with everybody study
ing how they can pass the buck to everybody
else-why shouldn't a fellow have to have
more money to keep up the PAGES? A young
man, or the older one, who works four days
in the week, then off two days, to spend
what he has made, will probably complain
the longest and the loudest of hard times
and the high cost of living. He spends much
of his time spending what he has earned and
has received. He puts none of his earnings
in the bank, carries it in his pocket, gets rid
of it, fearful that it might burn holes in his
pockets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

We have no families in the United States
whose members hold official positions by
right of birth. Our form of government is
different But true Americans always hon
or the man, no matter in what walk Of life
he may be found, who sees his duty and does
it fearlessly and honestly. King Albert is
truly democratic There is no snobbery
about his manner, nor has there ever been.
He exacts no worship from his people He
has lived simple clean life, and is proba-
bly, thoroughly enjoying contact with the
American people and their democracy on
his visit to this country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
Let the Sunshine In.
From the Cedar Rapids Republican.

From the Cedar Rapids Republican
We beg of you all to make the most of
this fall weather There is health and
strength in it, Get all of it you can into
your, systems, into your blood and into your
thoughts. 1t will do you good, and when
YOU have been so saturated you Will be able
to do your fellow men and your communl-
ties and even your country more good
We are in need of more men and women
of health, not merely of body, but of mind,
especially of mind. The world war and 9TH
err things have slightly deranged the mental
machinery of a great many, both of men and
women but the men worst of all. They are
thinking wildly, loosely, eXtravagantly and
they are no longer able to apply themselves
to the ordinary things of this life, which
must still continue to make up the chief ac-
tivites of the world. Everyone is figuring on
a short cut across lots, so far as work is
concerned. and over the houses, so far as
riches are concerned. The average man
thinks he has the worst of it and he envles
his neighbor, or the man far away. It's an
old affection; the burden was laid on Adam
and Eve when they were told that they must
live in the sweat of their faces.
But get out into the sunshine; let 1t soak
and saturate you and renew YOU 1t IS the
balm of Gilead and it is what Ponce de Leon
sought for in vain. When you have been
baptized in the autumn suns you will feel
q great deal better through all of the WIN
ter. We cannot advise you too strongly to
90 hunting-where there is nothing to hunt
and fishing and nutting and gathering
plums if there are any left IN the wild
woods, or Just to loaf and to invite YOUR
sould to the feasts of better things which
God and nature have spread over the land.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

When men drawing $50 day in wages
go on a strike with men who are drawing
$3.50 there is chance for study by psychol-
ogists or lunacy commissions with chances
that it is the latter whose services would be
required Many of the skilled steel work
ers who are on strike were drawing from
$50 to $50 day. They won't get much
sympathy from people whose minds are still
their own.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

What the world needs is less singing of
the glory of war and conquest and million
aires made overnight and more zest for
the old-fashioned delights of autumn days
in the woods, of evenings at home about the
fire, of pancakes and molasses and home
made sausage, and of comforts enjoyed by
those who are close to the SOIL The great
trouble with the world today is that too many
of its people are too far from the soil, chas-
ing shadows and neglectiRg the substance,
going at a great rate of speed but getting
nowhere
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

The larger towns and cities of Georgia
think they are crowded for residences. Pos
sibly they are, but they are not the only
ones. You cannot find town of any pre-
tention in Georgia that is not suffering the
same way. Every village, town and hamlet
is short in residence properties. These condi-
tions considered, the coming census ought to
show a large increase of population over
that of 1910.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Now is the time of year when the gen.
tlemanly agent with something good" to
sell visits US One of the remarkable things
in life is that stocks which are claimed to
be fortune makers for their owners have
to be forced on people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

The steel strike is the opening gun in the
struggle for power between labor and CAPT
tai There should be no mistake upon that
point Labor is not striking for higher
wages, shorter hours or better living condi-
lions. It is striking to obtain the virtual
and actual control of industry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Alexander Berkman says conditions in the
Georgia federal penitentiary are unspeak-
able We don't believe they are, but we hope
he passes his opinion of it along to his broth
ers and sisters in the "cause." Perhaps that
will make them little more careful about
breaking in.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

A six-hour day is fine thing, but only if
one can afford it. It's a certainty that this
or any other nation is not going to produce
enough to keep things running on day of
that length. Neither is an individual going
to make a success by loafing three times
as much as he works.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

If present storage tendencies continue
nobody will ever get fresh food any more.
Well always be putting this seasons output
in storage and eating last years. Which may
be all right when you once get used to the
stale flavor. 1t certainly is fine for the food
speculatOrs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

The fury of the governments attack on
the high cost of living seems to have spent
itself with no appreciate results save to
take SIS hundred off the price of the
southern farmers hogs without perceptibly
lowering the price of pork chops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Judging from the number of divorces
granted the number of men women don't
want is on the increase.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Mr. Hoover's determination to keep out
of politics is a wise one. The millers' vote
is not large enough to elect anybody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Romance may be waiting just around the
corner for many young women, but it is Of
ten armed with club.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

A dozen years ago the appearance of an
automobile in a small town created as much
interest as an airplane does now.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Georgia sugar cane, one of the delights
of early autumn, is on the market.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Nowadays a man considers himself in luck
if he gets through the day without discov-
ering that something has gone up in price
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

At recent wedding the bride was Miss
Jane Helper and the bridegroom was Mr..
Nathan Lord. The groom, however, was
very angry when he saw an announcement
of their wedding in the paper headed this
way: "Lord-Helper."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

No longer does the aroma of cloves on the
breath prove the place at which the breather
last stopped.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

It's all right to call an industrial confer
ence, but forty-fve men are not going to
settle the grievances, as it were, of no.
100000 people-pot this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

A man whose wife threatened to murder
him by sprinkling insect powder on him
thought she was getting off something witty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
BITS OF BYPLAY.

A duel was lately fought in Texas by
Alexander Shott and John S. Mott. Mott
was shot and Shott was not. In this case it
was better to be Shot than Mott
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14

Good things go as easily as bad things