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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-02-06
Paiamas Assigned


An allotment of $50 suits of pa
jamas has been assigned to the Gov
ington chapter by division headquar-
ters. This is but small part of
the obligation of 10000 garments as
sumed by the division office to be
completed by the end of February.
The Covington chapter and every
branch in the county is asked to put
on a big sewing campaign this month
and complete its allotment in the
given time.
These 10000 garments must be
shipped before the winter is over,
or the good they are intended to do
will be greatly decreased. The war
is over, but suffering is not. Fifty
workers engaged in an intensive sew
ing campaign for four weeks may
meet the emergency; whereas, ten
workers for 20 weeks will not. We
have never failed in an obligation.
Will we fail in this?
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-02-06
pleasant Grove Raptist Church

Rev. 7. Riley Davis will preach at
Pleasant Grove Baptist chuch next
Sunday night at z o'clock. Let us
have a good congregation.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20

workmen against foreign labor, but to
protect the government itself against
the vicious propa ganda that would
substitute bolshevism for the most
beneficient rule the world has ever
known.
But hardly had we been brought
to realization Of this alien menace
and while steps are being taken to
free the country from the danger, we
find that the international labor coun-
Gil in Paris, an adjunct Of the presi-
dents league of nations, is preparing
provision to be emodied In that
world embracing pact under which
alien laborers will be guaranteed the
same rights and protection accorded
to citizens in all the countries sub
scribng to the league. Thus under
this scheme based upon International
brotherhood the bolshevist propa-
gandist will be welcome to our shores.
and the seeds Of discord and disloyalty
sown in defiance of state and national
laws.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
AT PIE COUNTER.
Baltimore SUM

Idealistic and weepy Jeanette
Rankin, who was too proud to fight,
Is not too proud to beg a fat job from
her former republican associates.
There is house clerkship that pays
$4,000, and she has signifed her readi-
ness to accept 1t.
If she had as must genius, as she
has nerve" the boundless continent
might be hers She claims the place
as a defeated republican candidate,
as one of the lame ducks" whom
parties are accustomed to feed in the
public barnyard. She ran for the re-
publican senatorial nomination in
the Montana primaries and was de-
feated. Then she repudiated the pri-
maries and ran as an Independent
candidate for the senate. causing the
defeat of the regular republican nom
inee Now she comes to Washington
and asks to be rewarded for her
treachery
Miss Rankin has made dismal
failure of her job as a politician. We
wonder, IL she tried very hard, If she
couldn't make greater success of the
job of being woman.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
COLONEL HOUSE SITS IN SU-
PREME COUNCIL.

When President Wilson found il
necessary to return home. it would
naturally have been supposed that
Secretary of State Lansing would oc-
cupy his seat in the supreme peace
council during his absence. The Of
fetal position of Mr. Lansing places
him in the same rank with Lloyd
George, Clemenceau and Orlando and
he was certainly entitled to be desig-
mated as the representative of the
president during the latter's absence.
AS matter of propriety, the president
OF course should have remained in
Washington and sent Secretary Lans-
ing at the head of delegation of
representative Americans to represent
this country in the peace negotiations.
But having ignored all precedent as
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
SUBMARINES NEEDED TO DE.
FEND COAST LINE.

From administration controlled
cables, we have it that President Will
son has expressed himself as favor
ing the destruction of all submarines
and the framing of an agreement
among all nations making it binding
not to build any more, Beautiful No
doubt the president is sincere in his
IDEAL to have this monster of the sea
done away with buff the United
States should comply with such an
order-destroy all her submarines and
enter pact not to build any others.
we are quite sure she would abide by
that agreement. But there are other
nations, which need not be mention
ed who would not live up to such
terms. The picture, with such a con-
dition existing of future wars is easy
to visualize. The United States
would have great deal to lose by
such a situation. With her great
shore lines open to the prey of enemy
submarines, our national existence
might depend upon this kind of de-
Tense. OF course 1t would be fine and
beautiful, if suddenly the whole world
would become imbued with spirit of
sweet altruism and everybody would
trust everybody, but we have slight
that there are some nations
who will not listen to such a PROPOSE
tion
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20

Bolshevism will continue to threaten
and disturb this country so long as
the authorities permit Max Eastman
and his kind to preach anarchy and
disloyalty without even a protest. Spo-
kane does much talking about stamp
ing out the nest of /. w. WIS which
has long been located in that city, but
the authorities have never advanced
much beyond mere talk. The disloyal
propaganda goes on, and when Max
Eastman spoke in that city the other
day, he was received enthusiastically
and heard by a large assemblage of
his bolshevist compatriots, undisturb-
ed by the police who were in attend
ance.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20

companies are all that will be paid at
can afford to pay and meet the heavy
costs of operation. The companies do
not need to operate at this time, for
there is no present demand for copper
anywhere, and vast store of copper
has been accumulated, sufficient to
meet all probable demands for months
to come. The mining companies
would therefore lose nothing by re-
manning closed for a time. But they
are willing to continue operation ii
the miners are willing to work at the
wages offered, which are in excess of
the sliding scale agreement.
The mining companies can not be
forced to advance wages at this time.
The strike engineered by the l. w. w.
agitators is absolutely futile so far as
securing any better wages is concern
ed. Mining companies which have
sufficient copper on hand to meet all
demands for many months are not to
be appalled, by the threat of strike.
The tactics used by the l. w. WIS
are not helping to clear the situation,
but have a tendency to make matters
worse instead of better. Rioting, vio-
lence, the blowing up of houses, the
stopping of street cars, the turning
back Of men on the way to the mines,
such tactics never won a strike and
they will not win this one.
The conservative miners of the
camp should decide this most import
ant matter for themselves and not let
wild-eyed agitators decide it for them.
The mines are still open for work.
The wages are better than were ever
paid previous to the war. Is it not
far better to accept living wages than
to be out Of work? The miners should
think for themselves and not let agi-
tators think for them.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
HEALTH ALMANAC.
Valuable Publication Issued Free by
the Government,

the government.
One of the almanacs of the 18th
century bore the following title:
"Pronostycacyon of Mayster JOIN
Thybault medycyner and astronomer
of the Emperyall Majestic, of the
year Of Our Lorde God MCCCCGGXIJ
compromising the iii parties Of this
yere, and of the influence of the none
of peas and warre and of the syke-
nesses of this yere, with the constella-
cions Of them that be under the vii
planettes, and the revolucions OF
kunges and princes, and of the eclipses
and comets"
We are still prognosticating on the
subjects of peas and ware, and the
revolucions of Kynges and princes, -
but the United States public health
service in its Health Almanac for
1919 is not content with chronicling
our various ills, but breaches proven
ton of the "syknesses of this yere. y
In addition to the monthly calendar
Of health hints and notable events,
this almanac discusses such topics as
the following:
Control and prevention of infectious
diseases, as pneumonia, common colds,
tuberculosis, infantile paralysis, ty-
phoid fever. smallpox, trachoma, hook
worm disease, and venereal diseases.
Disposal of human excreta.
Importance Of clean drinking water.
Care of the teeth.
Care Of milk in the home.
What the U. S. public health service
is doing to protect the health of the
people of the United States.
Copies of the 1919 almanac may be
obtained free upon application to the
U. s. public health bureau, No. 3 B
street, S. F., Washington, D. c.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
MISSOURI WANTS ZINC TARIFF.

Engineering and Mining JournaD
Representative Dyer, of Missouri
has urged the lower house at Wash
ington to act favorably on the follow
ing resolutions. adopted by the house
of representatives of Missouri:
Whereas the zinc mining industry
of southwest Missouri is the greatest
metal mining industry in the entire
state; and
Whereas that industry is now Grip
pied to the extent of the closing down
Of 95 per cent of all the mines in said
district, said closing down of the
mines being occasioned by the vast
importations of zinc ore into the
United States from foreign countries,
amounting in the last four years end
ing June 80, 1918, to $4,000 tons, be-
ing approximately three times the
normal pre-war production of the en-
tire Joplin district, including Kansas,
oklahoma, and Missouri; and
Whereas there are now approxim-
ately $4,000 tons of zinc ore on the
docks in Australia awaiting shipment;
and
Whereas Mexico has a potential
power of production of at least $780,
600 tons annually, which must find it's
market in the United States; and
Whereas zinc ore concentrates
have also been imported into the
United States in the last three or four
years from Is different countries, rep
resenting every continent and grand
division of the world; Now, therefore,
be it
Resolved by the house of repre-
sentatives of the state of Missouri,
that we believe it to be the patriotic
duty of the legislature of the state of
Missouri to memorabilia the congress
of the United States by special resell
ution, asking that there be at once
incorporated into the pending revenue
bill provision providing for a pro-
tective tariff of &c per pound on the
metallic contents of zinc ore, in order
to keep out further importations Of
zinc ore, and allow the zinc mining
industry of the United States to live
and be again built up to its normal
condition.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
ALIEN LABOR AND THE LEAGUE
OF NATIONS.

idaho has law that forbids the
employment of aliens within the
state. The law was passed several
years ago as a means of protecting
American wage earners from the COM
petition of those who had no love for
our country and who came here for
no other purpose than to secure its
benefits without assuming the respon-
sbllities of citizenship, and having ac-
cumulated what would be a fortune
in the old country; return to native
land to enjoy it. Not much atten-
ton was given to the enforcement of
this law, for alien labor has never
been a menace to the working classes
in Idaho except in a few isolated cases.
But the war has thrown q new light
on the alien labor question showing
it to be menace to our government
III MANNER not contemplated Wy the
law. Most of these aliens not only
refused to enter the military service,
but proved to be in active sympathy
with our enemies and were busily
engaged in prot German propaganda.
And this was true of many foreigners
who had taken out their first papers,
than fight for the country to which
they had voluntarily proffered their
allegiance. Under these circumstances
the enforcement Of the alien labor law
has become an absolute necessity. not
merely as a protection to American
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20

And now the fuel administration
takes the credit for winning the war.
Gasoline Won the War" Doesn't go
well with the story of a young artill-
cry lieutenant who fought for two
months on the Verdun front This
fighter says that their battery could
not even get motorcycle and they
were supposed to rate motor truck
and several other kinds of gasoline
propelled vehicles. If the battery had
been placed in position making it
necessary to retreat the gun would
have been lost for lack of motor pow
err to haul it back. Where did all this
gasoline go that won the war;"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
According to William

According to William Jennings
Bryan, federal control Of the railroads
doesn't work because there are still
some railroad men connected with it..
We suppose that the theater will at
tain it's highest state of efficiency
Just as soon as all the actors are re-
moved and that the churches will
reach the pinnacle of success in re-
moving evil from the world when the
preachers have all been taken away.
Better stick to grape juice and woman
suffrage, William!
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20

After long period of seclusion fol-
lowing his defeat for the senate by
Boise Penrose, Clifford Pinchot has
suddenly restored his press bureau to
&C tive service. He would save the ma
ton from the disaster that would fol
low placing Senator Penrose at the
head of the senate finance committee
AS between Pinchot and Penrose, the
people of Pennsylvania showed very
c )nclusively which they preferred and
their attitude very fairly reflects the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
MINING soTUATIoN At BUTTE.
(Anaconda Standard)

The miners of Butte should look
facts in the face and consider the sit
uation as it really is, not as it is mis-
represented by the agitators and dis
turbers. This is not time for ex-
element or passion or hard feeling.
There should be calm consideration of
the present situation and the pros
poets for the immediate future.
The wages offered by the mining
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
SAFE AND FEDERAL FUNDS FOR
IDAHO ROADS.

The meeting of the good roads as
ISOLATION in this city to confer with
officers of the Yellow stone trail calls
attention to the elaborate plans of
read construction and Improvements
in Idaho during the coming three years,
the Importance of which comparative
ly few people realize. During that
period there will be in round figures
$6,O00,000 available to Idaho from the
federal government for the construc-
ton of good roads, provided this state
puts up a corresponding amount. This
il in addition to allotments amounting
to 100000 for the present year. This
means that the state of Idaho must
appropriate around 100000 for the
coming two years. The exact amount
for the present year is $l,7OO,O00, but
the federal allotments will be increas-
ed so per cent after this year and in
order to secure the government aid,
the state must increase its allotment
in the same ratio. AS the state has
reached the legal limit of bonded in
debtedness, there is only one way open
to provide this good roads fund, and
that is by direct taxation. The usual
arguments in opposition to increased
taxes have no weight in this case, and
i. Is not likely that any opposition
will be heard to the proposal, The
tax will not prove burdensome to any
extent, and when the vast benefit to
the state that will come through the
expenditure of this large amount in
the construction of good roads is con-
sidered, the tax itself is mere trifle
by comparison. The road building
program includes practically every
county IN the state, so tilat the benefits
from the roads will be quite as gen
orally distributed as the tax itself.
But in any event. the proposition that
is now up to the people of the state
simply means that the federal govern
ment is ready to render liberal aid
to road construction in Idaho, but in
order to get it the state must come
through with an equal amount
In addition to the great benefit to
be derived by the state through a
system of good roads, the expenditure
Of this large sum is most desirable
ut this time of industrial depression
when the question OF providing labor
for returning soldiers, as well as for
thousands of other wage earners, Is a
problem daily becoming more press
ing for solution. Under these circum-
stances there can be no doubt that
the people will cordially support the
good roads plan and cheerfully pay
the tax necessary for its success,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20

well as public sentiment in attending
the peace conference in person, the
president should have at least recog-
ni2ed his own secretary of state by
designating him to occupy the place
OF honor which he has vacated for a
few days.
But the president is apparently not
disposed to share the glory of shap-
ing the work Of this world conference
with his associates, with the exception
of that mysterious gentlemen from
Texas. to whom Colonel Harvey's
Weekly refers as Colonel Edward
Makepeace House, our whispering
super ambassador, now gravey en-
gagged in Paris with his brother in law
and son-in law, in fixing ethical
boundaries of cannlbal islands" This
parsonage, whose hypnotic influence
that of Rasputin with the car, with
out official designation, unknown to
his countrymen except as the demo-
cratic boss of the state of Texas and
the largest contributor to the Wilson
campaign fund. was selected by the
president to occupy his chair in the
supreme peace council of nations.
This evident design to make the In
| fluence of Colonel House felt in the
peace conference will be viewed with
delight in Germany, even if it is view
ed with distrust and even disgust in
his own country. How the Germans
feel toward Colonel House was re-
vealed few weeks ago when report
crossed the Rhine that the colonel
was dead. The news greatly affected
Count Won Bernstorff, former German
ambassador to the United States, who
was sojourning at Geneva, and who
paid the following touching tribute to
the supposed deceased colonel as pub
lished in the Berlin Tageblatt:
mo more honest pacifist ever
existedy' said Count Won Bern
storff. HE was just the man to
fight for Wilson'S peace program.
He hated war because he consid-
cred it contrary to human ideals.
He considered the war profiteers
most despicable lot. and never
| bought any munition stocks.
He told me repeatedly he had
just as theoretically protested in
London against the British block
AIDE as the U-boat war, and
couldn't believe either method
would lead to a decision. The re-
suit would be nameless hatred,
neutralizing all efforts for peace.
i, as German, must admit that
House was quite correct in much
he said in this respect
The war psychosis spoiled
many honest peoples judgment,
but | can't believe that House
looked at the peace problem from
a different point of view previous
ly He was too matter of fact,
too passionless. We may, there
fore, assume that he stood for
peace, justice and an international
league till the last moment.
THE supreme cause of concilia-
ton among nations loses in House
its stanchest champion. | deeply
deplore that I did not see this
dear friend once more, and that
he did not live to see the perfec-
ton of his grand IDEAS"
At this critical period in his career,
Colonel House no doubt finds it
rather embarrassing to be forced to
read his own obituary.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-02-20
Object Lesson for Our Army
Capt. Geo. Steunenberg, U. S. Al


captain steunenberg is an Idaho man.
writing this sarcastic production
directed military system several years ago. Captain
Steunenberg subjected to repmand by the war de-
parunen and the present relations
States with Germany would be an act OF justice to
Captain steunenberg the
him distinguished service
medal unsteady
Oh harky e soders From the
that Turkeys fighting trained by Ger
allies handed and alone
With simple faith in Allah and dehed Won Rhone
they say battle broke
tutored vanished in a wfrl of smoke;
unsuled and their all forgot
they the dim horizon in hasy Turkey trot!
A Monenegrin major gave the flying foe a glance.
rolled cigarette and scratched match his pants
And saying to gunners few jolts-
enheyve been trained by Won
der Gotz"
colonel of Bugarians
yelled Come heartes Looks as we had their goat!
Just follow Uncle Fuller to yon battles merry whirl
While show em how to do They've been reading Grie-
penkel!"
Away for consantinople the OF sped,
only
Quoth he Servian otis evident
That been studying the books of Won Motkee
Said painting Turkish corpora-from teaching
formation, but hi for speed"
sprnted night morning till their lungs fit to burst
But they the sxday Maraonthy reached the city first!
A tale that points a moral Most anyone can see
tells shall them
lift hats Won der Goz the who trained the
Turks
while trembles deadly
o peace s u
For powers will leave alone
While highbrows Leavenwoth studying Won
Rhone!
And while the eagle above the Balkan
us fitting change the uniform;
things
a cleaning helmet with
And down at Leavenworh let Dutch professors rule;
build a model brewery-an the school
marble bust of GoltZ resplendent the hall,
photographs Bill
And he who promotion subsst a solid
cheese
notify the colonels-sound the warning
That they've sing Die
Then fatherland-lets follow lei
all take the when
Our MOTTO Made in Germany" triumphant fear