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LrULI FAIR F.-4AWK, FEARLESS PRäCE TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR. Vol. 63 Jaspeb, Indiana, Friday, AUGUST 27, 1920. No. 14. Art Expression in Your Back. I By. Doraldina, the Peerless HLwaian Dancer, The Gospel of Labor

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By HENRY VAN DYKE, D. D. But I think the King of that country ccmes out from His tireless host. And walks in this world of the weary, as If He loved it

the most; And here in the dusty confusion, with eyes that are heavy and dim, He meets again the laboring men who are looking rnd longing for Him.

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A f.rn-.cr faith thn that our fathers knew.

A doop relir::on which alone rejoices In worship of the Infinitely True, Net huilt on r-te or porient, but a finer A.r.(J purrr reverence for a Lord diviner. There shall come from out of the noise of strife and proaninj A hronucr ar ? -ster brotherhood, A deep equality . ni;n, postponing All selfish fr"' - - to the general good. There shall ct. .: : a ti. ic when each shall to another Be as Christ would i.r.ve him brother unto brother. There shall come a time when knowledge wide extended, Seeks each man's pleasure in the general health, And all shall hold irrevocably blended The individual and the commonwealth; Wh en man and woman in an equal, union Shall merge, and raarriage.be a true communion.

There shall come a time when brotherhood shows stronger Than the narrow bounds which now distract the world; When the cannons roar and trumpets blare no longer, And the ironclad rusts, and battle flas are furled; When the bars of creed and speech and race, which sever, Shall be fused in one humanity forever.

To Each Pilan Has Been Allotted Certain Work to Be Required of Him 4 Columlnis Ik1 hi way from door to door in a sirnniro land, loadin his littlo son forlornly by the hand. Thomas A. IMison was tlu proy of Mil collectors who closed his footsteps like hungry wolves. TluTo are countless other men known and unknown to history who suffered nameless persecutions, even suffering death Itself because they could not he dissuaded from doln? the work that they believed It was theirs

to do. Work was their religion. It was the rulinir passion of their lives. "And. after all. work Is th jrreat adventure' as Tran!; Lane said not Ions r.jro In one of his public speeches. U'ork should be every man's re-:iv-M. Hod himself has said that It U the trinkt way to pray. It is only the devil who loves to find our hands Idle. Now, It is true also that It It not piven to all men to make maple liddies, to prasp beauteous ceramics from the oven or to discover new worlds, nut. It Is also true that every man can find work for his hands to do. It may be very humide work, Indeed : It may be work that anyone can do; but no matter what It Is. we can make It prent. We can make it holy, even. Wo can consecrate our work by the soul that we put Into It It seems to us that God's irost pra-

riot: dispensation to ir.m Is that he

continuously creates a sufilclent r.um

Imt of thorn to do the common task. If we wore all f us bent on making

fiddle or ceramics, paintlmr picture mid weaving son? there would 1.

no one left to how the wtn.ri ami draw the water. In other word, tf we wore all "art Ms." who would cook the ineaN und Tlien N im diirnity to eipial the dij nlty of lahr. liememher that. Am' retiieniher. too. that there Is no laNo that lae-.s dipnity. r.o mat.ter Mm sample or liow common or how humble Its tasks may be.

Labor Organization in America Can Be Traced to Movement in 1803

Organizations amonp American laborers bepao in -ISO.;, when the shir

carpenters and calkers (if New York and I.oston organized. The tailor of New York funned a union the same year, and ISO." also witnessed the first industrial strike in America, when the New York sailors refused to work. I'efore that, however, there had Men labor disturbances nmonp the bakers of New York and the boot and shoe makers of Philadelphia. It was during the sailors' strike of lSu:t. the Massachusetts shipbuilders' strike of 1S17, and the Albany printers' strike of lS-'O, that the terms "rat," and "scab" were first used. From local unions, the organization of labor propressed until in ISoO the first international labor union, that of the print(rs, was launched. The first "martyrs to trade unionIsm" were thrown into jail at Tolpuddle, Dorsetshire, Knp., 77 years apo. They were James and Georpe Lovelace, Thomas Stanfield, James Uryne. The first three men were Wesleyan preachers, who worked as farm laborers on week days ami preached the pospel on Sundays. Their imprisonment was due to their attempt to form a union of farm laborers to protest against a proposed reduction In wapes from seven shill inps to six shillings less than ?1.."0 n week. The landlords were all-powerful In Dorsetshire, and the 'con splrators" were arrested, stripped shorn of their hair and cast into jail and eventually sentenced to seven years Imprisonment. Thv first demand of labor unions for an etpht-hour day was made at a convention bold in Baltimore, Au post 21, 1JM. This congress also marked the liri?t attempt to organize a national federation of the variout ratio unions, national and Interna tienal, then existing in the United States and Canada. One hundred delegates were present, representing

about CO organizations. The demand for the eight-hour ! was but an incident In the sessions of the congress, but nt succeeding gatherings it ns-

sumed great Importance and became the leading plank of organized labor's platform. The second convention was held in Chicago in 1SG7. The National Labor union, after meetings in P.oston, Philadelphia and Columbus,

went out of existence in 1S74, but at an international congress hold at Rochester In that year the movement was revived under other names. Several organization? divided the allegiance of organized labor, but in 1SS1 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States ami Canada was launched, and out of this has grown the powerful American Federation of Labor.

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He cancels the curse of Eden, and brings them a blessing instead; Blessed are they that labor, for Jesus partakes of their bread. He puts His hand to their burdens, He enters their homes at night; Who doss his best shall have a guest, the Master of life and light.

And courage will come with His presence and patience returns at His touch. And manifold sins be forgiven to those who love Him much; And the cries of envy and anger will change to the songs of cheer, For the toiling age will forget its rage when the Prince of Peace draws near. This is the Gospel of Labor ring it, ye bells of the kirk The Lord of Love came down from above, .to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-cursed soilHeaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of earth 13 toil.

IMMENSE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT ARE LAID UPON AMERICAN LABOR

"Labor day never had a profounder significance than attaches to it in the

LABOR'S HOLIDAY.

In 1834 the Knights of Labor held a parade in New York on the first Monday In September and a resolution adopted mads it thereafter Labor day. Colorado led in making it a state holiday on March 15. 1837, and now only two or three states have net followed. In Pennrlvr.nia in 1803 the first Sa.tur-'?.-y v v " s appointed, but cn June C3, iC37, Governor Hastings signed the bill failing in line with the -First Men day."

It's ahout t:::e for the pr!itiMTs to stir up a swat-the moMpiito eampai'gn lest the public eoiuimie in its reoive to swat the profiteer.

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Last Winter I was in Spain,

and I: had occasion to admire ar.d

take pride in the beautiful backt

of my ycunp; country women

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thin nor . : the muscles not

heavy; t irnlciently 'firm, thc

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other timv s to approve thesmooth

symmetrical strong yet slender

backs of the French women who

of all women of the world, kno.v

best how vo take care of them selves.

The backs of ti e German

women no motive save patriotism

could cause any one to admire

Their backs are too broa:', too

heavy, too marked in their re

semblance to the work ho-se, English women are vsry deficient as to beauty of the back It must be admitted the the Eng Hsh women ;ack style. Now, style tluj.t illusive quality as eiisirab!e as it indescribable, does not dfepond upos clothes Its source is the carriage If wok.ah to use a common phrase, "carries herself well she has style. If she "carries herself bad.y" she sl.vay pives impression of being badly dressed- The indx of carriage is the attitude

of the back Whatever we may

say. and willingly we saj it by way of ciedit, of the English

woman's heal, by coloring, her

fine uir ci breeding, her dignitj her good circulation, her' poise, it cannot be claimed for her that

she is a good dresser- We can

trace the bad style back through a lackadaisical carnage to bad bad posture Wa now come io the woman

who is most like the Frencn

woman, and. yet mises somewhat

of her charm because she lacks

her vivacity ' he American wo man- She is a bit too facdish.

In proof of her faddishnees she

adpts numerous strange and un

lovely postures, the ugliest of which is the hideous but passing

'debutante slouch." The pre.

iposterous atfJtude of fashion un

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SWM::- reis, fcut at the IV : bottom of nil dif-

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tess-i- i world cannot no rccon structcd r'K$0&P$t' without work, and

''s that the work cannot bo done V- : 1 Wltliout workers, j ( Perhaps those

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- Thomas Alva crs' and 'laborEdison. ers, never stood nearer together. It is predicted by more than one of recent commentators that grades of productive work will never again be so widely separated ns they have been in the past. The war doubtless has dono much to prove the essential dignity of all labor of nil real work. And one of the often astonishing features of the labor situation Is the Inliuence now proved to have been exerted by women in industry. That Inliuence may frequently have been exaggerated so sensational a departure was bound to result in exaggerative predictions but the fact remains that labor justice no longer has a sexdividing line as it once had. Woman is no longer solely the figure that waits at home for the fruits of man labor. She herself Is In the fray, and her presence creates issues which will

not only In many cases complicate labor problems but will ndd to them something which very shrewd men In

sist will work to the advantage of la

, Thomas A. Edison Is not tho only man with a vision who has recently spoken In cheerful prophecy concerning labor In America. Mr. Edison has been railed a conservative. Other men of ino.-o radical view are not less confident of advance, and Labor day. this year acquires a high significance as an occasion for confident, constructive, rallying cries. What tho coming yenr may bring forth as to tho vexed mat-. ter of '"Industrial 'democracy" no ono may now surely foretell, but even tho most reticent or reactionary of observers have seemed ready to bellevo that extraordinary changes may occur. Instances of broadly conceived experiments are already giving occasion for eager speculation. But aside from the vital and farreaching question of organization or co-operation, the answers to which nro n6t without presumption .to be predicted, tho outstanding fact of Uio hour is the world's growing recognition of labor's relationship to all that Is Implied by Uie significant word Reconstruction. Readjustment might be a word of equal significance. It has been said again and again In varying ways that labor, must reconstruct tho world, and In that reconstruction, because the United States must play so Important a part, American labor must assume immense responsibilities.

DAY REPRESENTS AMERICAN LABOR, NOT ALONE THE ORGANIZED PART

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Without discrediting In the least that which has been accomplished by organized labor.

it may be well on Labor dav to call the attention of all people to the fact that organizations do not embrace the majority. This Is . as true of business ;as It is of labor, more so, In fact, for the ruins of many financial structures bear witness to the fuilure from claim

ing too much. In considering Labor day it should be remembered that this is a laboring nation. It is because we are a working people that we are proqorous. and as long as the laboring Instinct prevails to the exclusion of Indolence, just so

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long will substantial results appear. There Is no danger that the American people will lapso from tho condition of mind, which, la this respect, is to be noted today. Tho laboring element being predominant In this country, this clement is privileged, whenever It so desires, to form organizations for the promotion of conditions and for mutual bargaining. What we call labor unions or brotherhoods have prospered. They rightly take to themselves a share of credit for obtaining higher wages, shorter hours and more healthful surroundings. The gains thus made havo not been limited to tho principal?, but through necessity have been shared with the rrcat mass of laboring people. This suggests something which, perhaps, we are Inclined to forget. Labor day represents American labor, not Just organized labor. It typifies the millions of men and women who, whatever their calling, are helping to produce.

The world doesn't remind

much of an oppressed tenant be aue ed the resemblance of the ''debu

it moves, n reminds us of one he-.tanceSiouch" to the 44Bowery

cat;e it keeps on moving.

hunch" she would have been

shocked into straightening her Europe ought to euro herself of the jr)jrie. habit of listening to every bumptious " . Y::nke that p.:ses a confidential National suffrage is now a matagent of the American p-ople. ter of a fact lad bf it. hut

boy' lock those pintoioona in the w hen one coders the number safe and dont you dare le: any people In America who live without trt n u w.w;i.,s It Is hanlly fair t Maine la--ff ma,, woman 00 earth haV bor alone for lack of production. llltui.

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