Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 March 1917 — Page 4
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STRIKE POSTPONED.
||.The nation today will voice a-sense relief over the truce which has been JjBcIared In the railroad situation, tothlng else' but an overwhelming public sentiment prevented the sus5?fe^ii5feension of traffic aad the paralysis of #|fe^he country's business. v
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Equally as general will be the hope
ssl^jjthat the trouble has been permanently W-si'sfaverted. past few days have been fraught events which augured a grim de^^^mrminatlon on both sides. Railway #|^M^hops and terminals have been stocked ^^i'jriwith food supplies. Men in depart^l^eijts aside from the employes in the &fj|brotherhoods ^have been told to hold nemselves in readiness for the operaion of trains and the other activities the railroads, and there have been i^a^wumors of such forces being armed and %^sA»therwise prepared for such eventual!:#£^S§ies as labor troubles incur. -5 Against the optimism of the rail«Si%f#oads, either real or assumed, Is the ""^llef that but a small per cent of the employes -would follow the strike leadelr^ out, have been the statements of :f^he\ brotherhood leaders that their. fitneinbenhip was unanimous in its determination to force the issue at this t^ime with the employers. |&sThe public's share has been a sense dread over the enormous harm that i uld come from such a conflict. The
Jfktion's business has weathered such ^pa^HWlgiaa before, but ftiese have Never In the history of the
Suited States has such a strike been witnessed as was contemplated up to
sSaturday
afternoon.
Jlic sympathy with either side has teen qualified ln a very large degree by sense ^f horror that any two elebnts could so jeopardise national ingtrial, commercial, economic and, nyh&p national military, Interests by existing differences no matter how iportaatt..
Whether the men strike Monday or rhether they continue at work under ofali^Da* plan of mediation, this conviction
Jold|i remain: there must be some legisniaking|011? there must be some federal acpicture® "Will assume the settlement directed®uah issues, and thus prevent such i complet intolerable* condition as the one I which the nation has lived dur-
Botb® past week. MargfctjThe time "When itrike methods as a mean* of adjudicating railroad wages in tbcto conntry will expire some day. the mdlitoM who President Wilson ft# smnmoBedlnto this emergency can &J? iprtte its flnla Monday they will have laid claim to the eternal gratitude of
'ike race.
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HOW TO HELP.
The Red Cross Is making Its first direct appeal to Terre Haute. The Jdoal Chapter has taken headquarters dn Ohio street, where memberships are ^boing Mooted and laymen are being i I^stroetod In the work. ^If -war oomes we shall see a great
Upgush of desire to help In the work
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of caring for the Avounded and relieving the victims of the incidental cruelties of the campaign. There will be a demand for action, and—if things go as they have gone in the past—men and women, moved by the highest and finest motives, will .form a "variety of organizations in which self-sacrifice and .zeal will endeavor to achieve results possible only to twined skill, with a result of the slow transmission of supplies and the wasteful consumption in administrative epepense of a large part of what is given.
In order to head off this otherwise inevitable, state of things, the National Bed Cross has mobilized its forces, and has undertaken to direct a campaign for members. This organization administers its funds at an expense of 3 per cent 97 cents of every dollar you give will go to the needy ones for whom you give it and It will go by the quickest routes.
Don't form special organizations it can only be done at the expense of the very cause you would serve. Work for the Red Cross!
THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
The accumulating reports that the German people outside of the militaristic crowd in Berlin are resenting•the plots, counter-plots and conspiracies against the United States, which have been condoned and even encouraged by Herr Zimmermann as foreign leader, .leads to the thought'that there might be some demonstration on the part of the people who are in this frame of mind.
Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg hias but recently given expression to the oft-repeated view that after the war Germany will have a more popular government.
It may be taken as true that the drift of German opinion is strongly in that direction, but one wonders what the military caste thinks of it. The world was assured over and over agai.i that Germany's big military establishment and strongly centralized government were necessary because the German empire was surrounded on all sides with possible foes, whose presence made war an eventual certainty.
The war came, and German success clinched the argument in favor of tTie form of government which made those successes possible. But the clinch does not seem to have held.
Perhaps the German people aJje arriving at the conclusion that \yhile their government was a good government with which to make war, it was also a government that brought war.
CUPID ON THE LINE.
Mr. Kisshng in speal&ng of the troubles of the telephone companies made, the point that the marriage rate is so high among telephone operators that a public utility commission a few days ago recognized this element of training new girls as oiie of the-legiti-mate over-head charges in the telephone business.
A New York telephone executive charged in a public inquiry that Cupid is responsible for Hoboken's trouble on the wire. The switchboard training is so effective in developing those qualities prized in wives—averred this manager—that marriage is constantly depleting the company's force of skilled operators.
The condition described was altogether dismal if heard only from the corporation's position. Young women are constantly being hired. Within five months 80 per cent of them have married. Patience immutable, the velvety tones which are of the standardized equipment of the exchanges, the imperturbable serenity and the capacity to do deftly and intelligently, these are the human traits cultivated by the switchboard girls with such success that their progress from wires to wifehood is press-agented as being notoriously rapid.
So far as the company is concerned the situation is quite without hope. The
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How I Earned My First Dollar
Andrew* M. Powers, Harrison township trustee, earned his first dollar boosting the agricultural record 6f the expansive grain fields, of Iowa. Mr. Powers began his career planting corn in the old fashioned manner of dropping it by hand and liad a good tijn^ spending half of the dollar which was the first fruit of his labor. "I earned my first dollar," said Mr. Powers, "when I was nine years of age. We lived on a farm about seven miles from Davenport, Iowa, which was then a city otabout 35,000. I was born and raised out there on the beloved grain prairies. When I was? nine the rarm manager naturally thought it was about time his son got a start in agriculture and I was set to dropping corn. It was the old laratch the mark' with the old fashioned niarker. The field was marked and I sat on the cross beam of the planter and when- we came to the mark. I jerked the handle and dropped the corn, "What d:d I do with the first dollar? Well, gave fifty cents to my mother and with, the remaining half a cartwheel I hotfooted it to town and bought everything sight, mostly cracker-' jack, all-day suckers, peanuts and ice cream. "When I was fourtefen, I left the farm and went fo the city for good. My first job was bellboy in the St. James hotel iri Davenport and I have been in the
manager appeared to feel incompetent to challenge thfe attracion of wedding bells. His corporation could not afford to hire disagreeable young women. As long as marriage was so popular an institution Hoboken riiust'be- satisfied with the service of novices/ Great nature barred the road. .Where
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the man to protest? The corporation's accusers we e vanquished. Against marriage,- against young women too alluring as wives to continue as telephone operators, no indictment could be sustained. An unexpected idyl of industry wop the day.
SELLING AUTOMOBILES.
Automobile advertising in the Tribune has increased three hundred per cent withm the last year. Today automobile advertising id' one of th§ most attracive,, one of the most highly developed and one of the most interesting departments of such newspapers as reach the automobile buying class.
No business has forged ahead with such rapid strides,, no business has so effectively seized upon the power of printers' ink and adopted it for Its very, own motive .force.
Just a few days ago.oneof th,e largest typewriting concerns in the United' States announced a change in its marketing system. Costly and elaborate offices which dotted the country and which were manned bjr high-class and expensive sales forces were abandoned by the issuanceof a single order, and this great industrial concern changed its selling plan over night.
Hereafter the merits of this typewriter, which is one of the standard office articles, will be presented to- the public through the medium of the printed page and the city and town newspaper in such localities as offer sufficiently important markets will sell this machine as they sell Innumerable other things to meet the human need.
This great business change is not a haphazard conclusion. It comes as the result of 'expertly keyed tests in which the power of the community newspaper "was pitted against the skill, enterprise and energies of a corps of high class salesmen, and printer's ink won out.
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The lesson should be patent to every business man, or nearly every business man, as there are few* lines of endeavor to which the wonderful impelling power of advertising is not adaptable. It merely reflects a wider understanding of advertising.
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the newspaper
"ad" can make the market for typewriters, it can make the market for automobiles it can make the market for other things from pins to threshing machines, and, as the-experience of the typewriter concern shows, at a. tremendously reduced cost. The course of the typewriter manufacturer is a revolution in selling methods as applied to that product. The next few years will mark an era In which this plan will advance .by bounds.
As remarked at the outset, the automobile business is the best example just now of this intensive selling force.*
Now we are told that the Teutons are secretly preparing for a great drive on Calais. Possibly we may hear a little later that the French and British are secretly. preparing for a great counter movement.
'A Mississippi man confesses on his deathbed a murder for which an innocent man was hanged twenty-five years ago. In this instance, does a deathbed confession clean the slate?
We are told that the scarcity of dyes may interfere with the art of tinting Easter eggs. But perhaps there never will be an Easter when plain eggs are likely to be bettei* appreciated.
A man should talk to his wife a little each day, says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. But will Ella agree, for the women, that the wife will listen, if he does?
Two Baltimore men have been shot by hunters who mistook them for
AXDY M. POWJERS.
hotel bu&ittesg ever since until "I became township trustee. I came to Terre Haute nineteen -years ago and was employed at the Terre Haute house for seventeen years or until I was elected to my present position which I-ara now holding for the t}iird year."
muskrats. Now you know how to recognize a Baltimore man.
The prices .of canned food are being raised, but that needn't worry anybody much. There are things that taste better than canned foods.
An Ohio judge sentenced an offender to obey his ^ife
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This is not a promising rule for professors or tcacliers, w ho may find it necessary to combat vagaries in the minds of pupils. Under Neptune many strange fallacies find acceptance, especially in the minds of the young.
The day is not a lucky one for new plays or first appearances of actors and singers.
Mars presages a war excitement that will merely increase public anxiety for a brief time.
Foreign visitors of distinguished rank Will be numerous in the next few weeks and a tragedy with urifortunate international complications, is predicted.
Construction on railways and highways may be impeded during this rule of the stars, but much activity is foreshadowed for all parts of the' United States.
Women are warned that tlv.y may arouse national resentment by a mistake in policy connected with war relief work. Next month brings a Sinister sign.
Fame' for a soothsayer who will prophesy concerning songs' great ev^it in the United States is foretold.
Rjfce riots in the west are indicated and these may assume a serious aspedt. Persons whose birthdate it is Should not quarrel or go to law in the coming year. Speculation will be unfortunate.
Children born on this day may be inclined to be careless and extravagant. These boys and girls born on the cusp of Pist:es and Aires usually have complex, natures difficult to deal with:
No Alibi.
"We should all !*ave footprints in the sands of time," quoted the parlor philosopher. "They wpuld only show that some of us hstve been going backward," objected the mere man."—Chicago Herald.
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"Maine is drier than ever," says a telegraph dispatch. That isn't saying so very much, is it?
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"The Stan Incline, But Dv Mot Compel." -opyright, 1816, by the Mcdure
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Monday, March 19, 1917.
This is read as a most unfortunate day, sinee Jupiter and Neptune are in strongly malefic aspect, while Mercury, Venus and Mars are slightly adverse.
Commercial enterprises of all sorts are subject to an unlucky sway, making for heavy losses, through fraud as vyell as- bad business conditions.
Bankers and brokers have a leading making for caution in all transactions, especially those that concern manufacturing and exporting to South^America.
Agitation relating to modern education is likely to occupy much space in Die public prints in the next lew weeks.
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TEN YEAES AGO TODAY. Front the Trttoqiie File*.
March 18, 1907.
Deputy Sheriff Frank- Burk handed in his resignation to become effective April 1st. ..
Martin: Wofthman was elected president of the -Indiana State Normal school Y. M. C. A.
Articles of incorporation were ffed by the Issaguina Land and Lumber company. The incorporators were: W. C. Ball,J G. W. SI •Tims, /Charles Fox, George J. Nattkemper, D. E. Reagan. E. P. Fairbanks, John E. Sulger, John Ii. Connelly, David Engle, George L. Rood, S. F. Ball and H. J. Baker.
SURE FAILURE.
"In this land of opportunity it is difficult to fail," s§id Judge E. HGary of steel fame in a Y. M. C. A. address in New.YoFk. "The failure in America Is apt to bear a marked resemblance to old Pete Hoskins. "Pete's wife, after having lit the Are, fried the pork chops and made the coffee, called him, one winter morning at 6 o'clock. Pete, in the warm bed clothes, gave a great yawn and said: 'Is it rainin' "'No, Peter.' 'Is it snowin' 'No.' 'Is it blowrh'?' 'No, Peter.' "Is it hailin' 'No.' "Pete, with another ya\vn. drew the bed-clothing tighter round him. "'Then I don't think I'll go to work this mornin',' he' said, "I'm feelin' poorly.'"
Sunday School Lesson For March 18
BY REV. W. H. HAIiBERSTADT.
"A Temperance Lesson." Lesson Text: John .8:12. 31-37, 56-58. Golfien Text. If therefore the Son shall lr.ake you free, ye shall be free indeed.—John 8:36.
Early in the morning- Jesus comes to the temple where the people congregate to hear him. He is now famous for his many wonderful works were known by friend and foe,. Some ca as is always so to be helped: others And fault and hinder.
Jesus declares himself to bp "The Liyht of the World," to this the Pharisees object, because .He., as they say, His record is not true but it was true. It is Ouite wise to be sure of our own standing, before we undertake tc "stone" another.
It is just as wise to make sure, a thing is wrong or,right before we pass .iudun ent.
The• J.'vvs declared they were already Tree, and needed none of His help, but how mistaken. And how often we hear men say 'I atii free to Co as I like.' I can drink or let it alone, but in almost every nstance they do npt let it alone.
They nsarly all need help to let it! alone, and that is why we want prohibition: a crear many men v.-ou-d let it alone if they just had the help prohibition would bring them.
Of course some wil! always do wrona:. no nplp you mav offer will le acceptcd. But Jesus will, if we will accept Jrilim, save us uuto a glorious lilnrt. KBV. Vk. H. HAIiBERSTADT.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.— In the reorganization of the committees of the senate nothing occurred that was not expected by any one with an intellegent understanding of the situation here. The renaming of Senator William J. Stone as chairman of the committee, on foreign relations -over the protest of fhany newspapers of the country was a foregone conclusion. As time goes by and, the historian comes to analyze in cold blood the motives and actions q$ public men during these days of propaganda and hysteria it is a safe bet that •, ^Stone will not be painted half so black as some of the papers have made him.
There is severe criticisms here of his jurtion in giving publicity to the intentions of the navy in connection with tjie submarines, *but even this criticism is not predicated on the supposition that he deliberately violated the proprieties. It came about in the course of a running debate and. the assumption is that he acted on the impulse of the moment. There is scarcely any criticism in American circles because he offered an amendment to the effect that the United States should not convoy or arm munition ships carrying arms and ammunition to a belligerent government. He had a perfect right to do that "very thing and if he felt that it .was necessary to incorporate that amendment in the armed neutrality bill to prevent war he performed a patriotic duty in offering the amendment.
In yiew of the fact that in debate no one, absolutely no one, suggested that this government should arm or convoy munition ships makes the case of Stone all the stronger. y
The portion of the press that tias been outrageously bitter against Stone i« the pro-English, anti-American portion thai has been lambasting the president for three years because he did not plunge this country into war as an ally of England. The real motive behind the press campaign against I Stone has been a desire to eliminate from the chairmanship of the foreign relations corhmittce any man who is opposed»to permitting any belligerent power to nse the United States to further a foreign interest in the war.
Cat Out of the Bag.
This was made quite clear in the columns of the notoripus pro-"English pi-ess of Washington and -especially in the Washington Times, munition-fac-tory, steel-trust sheet. This paper lamented the fact that the situation on the foreign relations committee i6 so unfortunate. It commented on the fact that in the event .of Stone's removal the Successor by seniority would be Senator Hitchcodk of Nebraska. Now if this paper and the ofher paper® were remotely honest no objection would be found with Hitchcock because he lead the fight against the Stone amendment and in favor of the armed-neutrality till.
Why then .the. objection to Hitch
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cock? Listen to this, gentle reader— you who claim to have intellectual honesty—they object to Hitchcock beV cause he-was eduoated in Germany and because he has favored an embargo on arms and ammunition to any country .now at war across ,,th§ sea. Thus appears quite plain that the campaign against Stone was not predicated on his action on the armed neutrality bill but upon his unfaltering opposition to having the United States become a partisan in the disgraceful and horH-f ble slaughter across the sea. In other words because he is not pro-English. They admit with much applause .that, he was pro-American on the .armed neutrality biJl—and they 'insist tha£ Stone was a traitor because he opposed Hitchcock on s that bill. But 'iity oppose Hitchcock for chairman also* because he cannot be counted upon to take orders from Lloyd George and King George. These papers, and especially the Washington Times, go fur" ther in making their position plajn. They suggest that the democratic steering committee might have gone down. the list of democratic 'membfcrri of the foreigfl relations committee suni selected John Sharpe Williafns—explaining that Williams is anti-German and pro-Englisli, nothing being said about America in the matter at all.
Of course' the democratic steering committee took all this into consideration. To have succumbed to the clamor of a prostitute press would have only encouraged Sir Gilbert Parker to import here a few more ot Lord North cliff e's. Journalists to instruct u?, whose, fathers have foiaght and died in battling against the arrogant presumption of England in the true meaning of Americanism. It would also have served another purpose of this subsidized press—it would have •reduced the democratic party in the senate to pitiable impotency—and this press is just as bitter against income taxes,, federal reserve systems, as against everything anti-English.
Some'thing to Remember. Another reason that Stone was not displaced was the fact that he has made a great chairman of the foreign relations committee. No one has denied that except .the English tools that could not use him. He has supported the president on every proposition, has been a power for peace—and that too is very offensive. The democratic caucus is of the opinion that nine people out of ten in this country- are in favor of the preservation of peace if at all possible, and that Stone is pretty thoroughly representative on that score.
All th'is is du^ the people who want to keep the record straight, The for^ eign press of the country has taken ad-r vantage of a critical international situation to play domestic politics.
And? now what of the morrow? It is the opinion of most public men here that'we shall be engaged in the war in the comparatively-near future.
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