Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 285, 13 September 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TJELEGRAM, SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Clast Mail Matter.

MEMIlEn OP THE ASSOCIATED TRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the um for republication of all news dtcpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Police and the City The rioting in Boston proves conclusively why cities are wise in not permitting their police depaartments to settle their grievances by the methods employed in that municipality. Society must be protected. The basis of the social order is self-preservation and the police department is charged with maintaining order. The police must be impartial in carrying out the high duty which has been assigned to the members of the department. He must be an example to citizens in his devotion to the principle of order. When he assumes his obligation as a guardian of the peace, he surrenders a certain amount of personal freedom. He cannot quit work when danger threatens. He cannot expose society to the attacks of the lawless who practice their nefarious work as soon as they feel that the police have ceased their watchful care. The looting in Boston illustrates that point. On the other hand, the city must treat fairly the men who give up this freedom. It must pay them adequate salaries and co-operate with them in their arduous work. No municipality can expect good police protection if its men are not paid salaries that are commensurate with the risk they assume, and are given assistance by the citizens. N News dispatches of the last few days have shown how police officers in the discharge of their duties have sacrificed their lives. There was an ilustration of the bravery of police officers at Indianapolis the other day. Two officers lost their lives in Richmond a few years ago in making arrest. The average police officer

wants to do what is right. He has a difficult position. An appreciative understanding of the difficulties of a police officer and a spirit of cooperation will go far toward a solution of the pn-oblem. A police officer must never forget that hie is a sworn officer of the community, charged with maintaining order at all hazards. Actions strch as characterized the procedure of the Bostan department will gain them little. The Indianapolis News has the following to say about the Boston incident: The strike of the Boston policemen is the best possible proof of the correctness of the attitude of the police commissioner who has refused to permit the men to join a union. Other cities should profit by the demonstration. Policemen are not employes of a municipality they are public officers, precisely as are mayors and members of municipal boards. Their duty is to the puhJie, and they can not refuse to perforin it without being guilty of something very like mutiny. This question might as well be fought out now. The correct principle must be established, if there is to be any safety in American cities. Peace officers can have.no allegiance except to th epublic, no masters except their superiors, who' are also servants of the public. A strike of policemen and firemen 'is as ridiculous and dangerous as a strike in the army would be. Yet no one would have thought that, with the removal of police restraint, there would be such an outbreak of violence and lawlessness as has occurred in Boston. This is the nearest approach to Bolshevism that we have had. Gangs of thieves and robbers have plundered at will, in

sulted women, destroyed property, and generally conducted themselves as savages. All the vile elements of society have been in control. It took a bayonet charge of the guardsmen to disperse gangs of gamblers. Dice games were openly carried on in the streets and on the Common. Many of the crimes were of a revolting nature. Unprotected women were brutally assaulted. The city is now under martial law, with the troops in control. There is much criticism of officials. The governor and the mayor are trying to shift the burden of responsibility from one to the other. Whoever is to blame, it is generally agreed that the authorities were slow to act, and, as a result, the mob got the upper hand. It would be foolish to think that the rioting was in the interest of the striking policemen it was rioting for loot, and for the love of rioting. The social order was simply turned upside down. Perhaps it is fair to say that such conditions could liardly have existed had the city government been what it should have been. '

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

Push Ahead Some men always delay because they believe conditions are not perfect. Temerity never won a success. If Marshal Foch had hesitated last July because conditions were not as perfect for an offensive as they reasonably might have been, the chances are that the Allies would have been defeated. Conditions then were far from ideal for the allied cause, but Marshal Foch was willing to try conclusions in the face of discouraging prospects. A start has to be made in every enterprise. If one waits until all conditions are ideally perfect, the prospect is that a start will never be made. Some enterprises that have been started under the most adverse conditions have developed into perfect achievements. Hardly a business man in Richmond who will not admit that he has made many mistakes. And y et by taking advantage of mistakes he has pusheed forward to success. If you want to get somewhere you will have to make a start. Take the boy who wants a college education. If he waits until some prosperous person advances him enough money for tuition, he probably will wait forever. If he boldly invests all he has saved to enter college, there is every liklihood that hewill be able to earn or borrow enough money to put him through college. The man who waits until he has saved enough money to buy a house, seldom acquires one. But the person who invests the little he has to make the first payment on 'a piece of property usually

pays off his indebtedness faster than he believed I

he could. Most persons stay in a groove because they fear to start something. The "go getters" are the successful men. Those who think superficially usually call them "lucky". They are not "lucky" but courageous and farsighted. All the progress that the world has made can be traced back to persons who had the nerve to do things. Columbus discovered America because he was bold enough to take a chance. Great business enterprises have been developed because their founders had courage and confidence in themselves. Thousands of men own homes because they did not fear incurring a debt to acquire title to property.

COLLINS II.

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Wilkle Collins In middle age.

- When Wilkle Collins met Charles Dickens, his future was shortly decided. The lives of the two were Intimately connected thereafter. Pickens was conducting: "Household Words," and for it Collins contributed, as he did for "All the Year Hound," also in charge of Dickens, a large number of tales. The close friendship and co-operation of Dickens not only found the direction for Collins to follow, but it seemed to lead him to the type of story on which rests his fame, that in which the skilful unwinding of an intricate and exciting: plot, and the construction of a thoroughly involved mystery baffles the reader in a maze of details and circumstances. He might lack humor, fail to appreciate the finer shades of character, but he certainly conceived some striking personalities; for his own type of story he was unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries. "The Woman in White" (I860) was his great success; "The Moonstone" (1868) was a close second in the opinion of a large and devoted following of readers.

THE WOMAN IN WHITE BY WILKIE COLLINS Condensation by Alice Fox Pitts, New Bedford, Mass.

EVERYBODY'S USING 'EM NOW Indianapolis Star. Maybe that reported increase of 275 per cent in the cost of raisins is due to the demand created by wartime prohibition.

WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS Anaconda Standard. If Senator Borah could see himself as others him, he wouldn't believe his own eyes.

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What Other Editors Say

THE PART OF PRODUCTION From the Philadelphia North American. THE origin of the propaganda for shorter and less exacting hours for work lies in the remote past. The advocates of democracy foresaw clearly that unless a majority of a nation could be emancipated from body-breaking and mind-wrecking toil, that nation would never be capable of self-government. Organized labor was quick to appreciate this idea, and has used it with telling effect in its effort to shorten tho hours of labor, for the avowed purpose of increasing at the same time the number of jobs. During the long period when there was a world surplus of good? and a world surplus of labor this policy was not unjustifiable. But clearly what might have been justified under such conditions is indefensible under the existing ones. For labor to use its strengthened position to force working hours below the point of health requirements is merely to promote vicious idleness, and to promote such Idleness at this time, when civilization needs more of the products of industry than ever before, is to commit a moral crime against civilization and to invite economic disaster. In their campaign for shorter working hours labor unions in the past have had the support of medical science and the aid of all right-thinking men and women. The reduction of hours to a just standard has been of immeasurable advantage to all organized society. But in their effort at this time to reduce the working day beyond the health limit fixed by the experience and medical science thoy are arraying labor as a class against all other elements of the body politic. No one who is looking for the remedy for the high cost of living can escape the conclusion that many factors enter into the problem. But no less can he escape the obvious fact that the one fundamental, permanent factor in any effective remedy is that of greatly increased production. i Decreasing production is one of the chief causes that

give to a legal dollar only a 50-cent purchasing power. Scarcity of goods makes profiteers of manufacturers, middlemen and retailers almost against their will. Even President Wilson, whose policy of unpreparedness and whose ill-considered dealings with organized labor created the vicious cycle of constantly ascending high prices, has now come to the conclusion that the only permanent solution of the high cost of living lies in increased production.

BRINGERS OF VICTORY From the New York Times. When they left for the other side, what we noted most in the American soldiers was the keen and earnest face of men who were called to meet a doubtful issue, as yet dimly and vaguely imagined, but who meant to meet it manfully. In England they noted the set look, too spoke of "the American face." In those of our men who returned there was still the earnest look. Even our own home boys in the parades here seldom relaxed it, except when a familiar voice called out from the throng or when flowers were hurled into the moving ranks. But the keenness, the look of a tense if vague resolve, had vanished. In its place was a settled calm, as of the soul that had found itself captain. There were widely different faces among them, the same rank of profiles sometimes showing boys from all the varied ways of life, from many nations; but the sum and total of what their faces said seemed this one thing. The vaguely imagined venture had become a definite reality, the great peril had been met and forver put down. Before the parade and after it the boys were just themselves gay or grouchy; responding in kind to a cordial world, or growling cheerfully about some trifling annoyance. But when they marched shoulder to shoulder, as they had marched in France, something came upon them that was scarcely of themselves at all, but rather of the crisis that had brought them togeher, of the spirit that had brought them through. That is the thing we must remember, for in all likelihood we have seen the last of it.

It was a close and sultry night early in August. And I. Walter Hartright, master of drawing, aged 28, was walking from Hampstead to London. In one moment every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop by a touch of a hand laid gently on my shoulder. There, in the middle of the highroad, stood a woman dressed from head to loot in white garments. She asked me the v, ay to London. I told her; and we parted. Ten minutes later a carriage passed me and a few yards beyond stopped a policeman. A man put his head from the window and asked: "Have you seen a woman pass this way a woman in white? She has escaped from my asylum." At a shake of the policeman's head, the carriage drove rapidly on.

The next day I was at Limmeridgej

uu:e, uumDenana, in the service of Frederick Fairlie. Esquire. 1 was there to instruct his two voung nieces in the art of painting. I found Marian Halcombe to be dark and ugly, but intelligent. Laura Fairlie, her half-sister, was light, pretty and dependent. They were devoted to each other, and before my engagement was up, I admired the one and loved the other. My feelings were the cause of my leaving Limrneridge House. Marian Halcombe brought me to a realization of my own heart. "You must leave," she said, "not because you are only a teacher of drawing, but because Laura Fairlie is engaged to be married." A few days before I left Cumberland, while walking alone in the evening, I was confronted by the same face which had first looked into mine on the London highroad by night. But I was startled less by its sudden reappearance than by my immediate recognition of an ominous likeness between this fugitive from thA asvlnm and rviir

fair pupil at Limrneridge House. Still i

si eater was my consternation when the woman admitted having come to the neighborhood for the sole purpose of thwarting the proposed marriage of Laura Fairlie. I left Limrneridge House, and soon after embarked on an expedition to Centra! America. The same year. Laura Fairlie became the bride of Sir Percival Clyde, Bart., and with her sister went to live at Blackwater Park, her husband's country estate. Count Fosco, an audacious and domineering Italian, and his wife were guests of the household. But all was not as harmonious as an FlniHiih Mini

party should be. Lady Clyde and her'

ever, felt a perceptible coolness rising between them and the two e-entle-

men. Coolness turned to suspicion and

iioon to tear. Then it was that Lady Glvde met the Woman in White. The mysterious person stole noiselessly up to her in the twilight one evening and whispered: "if you knew your husband's secret, he would be afraid of you. He would not dare use you as he has used me. I ought to have saved you before it was too late." But before the secret was told there were footsteps in the distance and the woman moved stealthily away. Sir Perciv-al learned of the brief interview, and was afraid of his wife. He demanded, begged, threatened her to tell him all she knew. What had been a battle of wits between the two sisters and the two men became a struggle of strategy, and the women lost the fight. Lady Glyde was decoyed into leaving Blackwater Park for Count Fosco's London home. Less than two weeks later a tombstone in Cumberland bore this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Laura, Lady Glyde." On my return from Centra! America the same year. I heard of the death, and immediately visited the grave. As I approached it. two women came towards me. One was. Marian Halcombe; the other was veiled, but when she raised the covering from her face, there, loking at me, was Laura, Lady Glyde. She wad pale, nervous, and depressed more perfect than ever in her resemblance to the Woman in White. Marian Halcombe told me what she knew. She had found her sister in an asylum, and in the grave at our feet was her mysterious double. Sir Percival's boldness and Count Fosco's

cleverness had succeeded in exchanging the destinies of the two women. The circumstances had netted these two gentlemen some 30,000 pounds, derived from the estate of Lady Glyde. The fortune was gone beyond recall, but Lady Glyde's true identity might yet be established in the face of such evidence as her death certificate and tombstone, and the incredulity of her friends and relatives. This I determined to do. Cast upon the world alone, the sisters readily agreed to allow me to take up their fight, and I determined that Laura should one day re-enter her father's estate recognizd by all. It was soon apparent that Sir Perclval and Count Fosco were the persons I must fight. I worked secretly but directly, for I had no funds with which to carry on a fight through the courts. The secret with which the Woman in White had threatened Sir Percival seemed to me to be the key to the whole situation. Through a series of inquiries, working always under the watch of spies, I found it opportune to look up the marriage registration of Sir Percival's parents. I found it in a little country church and it was forged. I was no sooner in possession of the knowledge of his illegitimate birth than Sir Percival. in furious desperation to destroy the evidence, entered the little church by night, set fire to the structure, and through the agency of his ow nstupidity, and an old-fashioned wooden lock, trapped himself into an awful death. Laura was free of her husband, but she remained an outcast a woman dead to her friends and relatives. I was still determined this should not be. My only hope of success lay in Count Fosco, who alone had the evidence which could establish her legal existence. But to acknowledge Lady Glyde's identity would be to admit his guilt to one of the greatest of crimes. My task looked difficult, but an unknown agency came to my aid. Count Fosco was a traitor to one of the world-wide Italian secret societies. The knowledge came to me by chance, but it served me in good stead. I went to his house one night and bartered my silence for the evidence of Laura's existence. Count Fosco, in a long exposition, gave the details of hi3 own and Sir Percival's cunning. Then he left England forever. To clear up the last shred of mystery surrounding the Woman in White, I sought out her childhood home. I pieced together her story from her old friends and relatives. Fate had made her the illegitimate half-sister of her counterpart and the chance possesso rof Sir Percival's secret. My labors ended, Marian Halcombe and her sister, who was now my wife, returned to the happy companionship of those days at Limrneridge House before Sir Percival's cunning had usurped the consummation of our love. On the death of Laura's uncle some months later, her son and mine became the heir of the estate and fortune of the house of Limrneridge. Copyright. 1D10. by the Post Publishing Company (The Boston Post). Copyright in the United Kingdom, the Dominions, its Colonies and dependencies, under the copyright act, by the Post Publishing Company, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved).

.."Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe, as condensed by John Kendrick Bangs, will be printed Monday.

SHIP GOLD TO U. S.

(By Associated Press) LONDON. Sept. 13. Gold valued at 850,000 which is half a shipment just received from South Africa, has been sold for shipment to America, the price, including the commission being ninety shillings four pence half penny per ounce. This is 15 per cent above the bank of England's ordinary buyjng rate.

REPORT REVOLT IN THRACE

PARIS. Sept. 13. A dispatch from Athens says that the Turks In western Thrace have revolted and have been joined by the" Greek remnants there.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK GAMES A game will show up a man quicker than anything that I know of. Before I engage a man In my business, I like to get him Into some sort of a game and see how he plays. I wouldn't mind whether he played his game expertly or not but I would be very watchful as to how he played his character. For a game is played with character. When I walk the golf field with a man, or spend an evening at chess or checkers with him, I have a pretty good idea as to whether I want him In my business or as my friend. For you see the best and worst of a man In a game. Will, control, temper, bigness, patience, ingenuity these are but a few of the things that sit right up in front when a man plays a game. One day, on entering the club house from a game of golf, I overheard this remark: "Next to winning the game myself is to lose to a delightful companion!" I looked up, because I wanted to Bee what such a man would look like. And I said in my mind that you could trust that man in anything, and he would be a friend thru thick and thin. A game shows a man's fibre. Games teach, too. They tell us of many mistakes which we make in our greatest game the game of life. But if we put Into this game the same infinite care, the same will and the same fun. that we put into the games we play for recreation, we are going to be glad that we played It and that we bad flelightfal companions, too.

ASKS CONGRESS TO POPULARIZE FISH TO LOWER H. C. L

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Dr. H. Frank Moore. Dr. H. Frank Moore, acting commissioner of fisheries, has asked congress, throuph Secretary Redneld, to appropriate $100,000 to carry on activities of the fisheries bureau in obtaining fish for sale to the public and to popularize fish as a food through extensive publicity. It is J pointed out that this would help ower the cost of living by providing a cheaper table commodity.

Young Peoples9 Union This space will be devoted to the advancement of Young People's Societies of this county, and will be devoted to letson helps, interesting news, and everything; pertaining to young people's work. SI otto For ChrUt aad The Cburefc.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today

The Dayton-Richmond conference of the English district of the joint session of the synod of Ohio was announced for the Trinity Lutheran church, Seventh and South A, September 21 and 22, with the Rev. Joseph Beck in charge. The calling of the docket in circuit court began. The Entre Nous club announced plans for a big festival and dance in the Coliseum to be held October 8.

Frank Gausepohl was named sanitary inspector, succeeding George Young, resigned.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

One New York man has been charged with nearly every crime in

the calendar, but there must be some good in him, as he has never been caught wearing a red necktie. There are heavier-than-alr machines and lighter-than-air machines, but every once in a while something happens to prove that all aviators are heavier than air. Sign at 177 Washington street, Brooklyn: "Kick, the Printer." "Is dentistry' going to the dogs?" asks Edward L. Klein. "See by the papers Dr. W. G. McMullen of Anderson. Ind., has had a gold crown put on one of his dog's teeth." Several young women are competing for the title of queen of Hog Island and yet they say there is no royalty in this country.

Carnegie died a poor man. He left only $30,000,000 a mere bagatelle In these times if one desires to eat. A Michigan woman was arrested because she wanted to kiss a railroad brakeman. As a penalty the court ought to make her do it.

The Forum

(AH articles for this column must not exceed 300 words. Contributors must sign their names, although the name will be withheld by the man

agement at the request of ta '

writer. Articles having no name attached will be thrown Into the waste basket.)

Editor Palladium: I see by your paper of September S

that Mr. Nimrod Johnson says that the gas rate must be raised by October 1, or the consumer wil have to use artificial gas. Wrill Mr. Johnson tell us poor consumers why this will be necessary. The consumer now pays 80 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, while the consumers of New Paris, O., also Newcastle, Ind.. pay only 50 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, with ten per cent, discount. I have lived in both of the above named towns and that is all I ever paid until I hit Richmond. Now, the gas for Richmond comes from the same field as it does to New Paris, and Newcastle also from the same main which crosses the country about fifteen miles north of here. The cost of transportation shouldn't be any greater for- Richmond than the other named towns. New Paris gets its gas from the main that feeds this city. The Richmond main branches off from the big main about one mile east of Holansburg, Ohio. It looks like with the thirty cents differences between the prices paid in the above named towns and here that the consumers should still get their gas for the same old price. Even then the local gas company should have surplus funds on hand. How much of the 57 cents difference betwen what the local gas company pays for gas and that which the con-

sumer pays does it cost to deliver to

the consumer? The Logan gas company could raise the price to the local company to 35 cents per 1,000 cubic feet and still the company would be geting 45 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, above what they pay, and the present price to the consumer would give a pretty fair margin. . Yours respectfully, ONLY A CONSUMER.

Motto For Christ and the Church. Topic "The Great Companion. How to live with Him." Text, Luke 24; 13-82. Hints For the Leader. In order to enjoy the companionship of Jesus we must walk His way, walk with Him, not He with us. we must stay out of the paths of selfish ambition and sin, paths which he will not tread. Christ came to earth that he might become the close companion of all men, just as he was the companion of His disciples when on earth. It Is perfectly easy to obtain Christ for a companion, one has only to invite Him in sincerity. Christ is our companion In every fight for right, always firm again hypocricy and wrong doing, now as In His earthly life. We must endeavor to keep clean, that Christ will ever help us. A man who reeks with tobacco and drink cannot be the companion of a person disgusted with such odors. If he values their companionship he must give up these habits. To enjoy the companionship of Christ we must give up our worldly and sinful habits and follow his way. Can we imagine a world without God, the desolation and hopelessness of it all. No comfort in sorrow, no hope in death, a world without honor, would we like to live in such ar world ? To think about the joy of living with Christ is the greatest Joy possible for

humanity. It means the climax of strength and wisdom and peace and' happiness. I need not ourney far This dearest Friend to see. Companionship is always mine; He makes his home with me. Maltbie D. Babcock A Suggested Program. 1 Several hymns in praise oft Christ. 2 Business; Information committee, 3 The leaders opening prayer. 4. The BiWe reading. 5 The leader's talk. 6 A hymn in praise of Christ, suns as a solo. 7 The black-board talk. S General participation. 9 Pastors five minutes. 10 Closing exercises and benedic tion. To Think About. How can we get into touch with Christ? How can we have Christ always in. thought? Why is life with Christ beautiful and worth while? What comfort is there In life without Christ? When is Christ with us? When do we need companionship with Christ most? Some Bible Hints. Jesus draws near to those that think end talk of Him. fV. 15.) The disciples told Jesus of their troubles and received help. All that is necessary for us is to express our troubles and He will help us. (V. 17.) Jesus is the teacher of all those willing to listen and study. (V. 27.) Christ abides with us more intimately when absent from our natural vision to lead and bless. ((V. 29.) Purposeful Prayers. Thank God (1) for His Son who made possible the Salvation of all men. (2) For the examples and teachings Christ gave us. (3) for Jesus because He is as near to us today as He was to Peter and the disciples. Ask God 1() to help us to rid ourselves of the things that would keep Christ out of our lives; (2) to break down the barriers that keeps Christ out of many lives; (3) to hasten the day all men will walk and talk with Christ. Next Topic ' Truthfulness"; Ephesians 4; 25. Kings 5; 20-27. The monthly congress meeting was held at the Whitewater Friends' Church, Monday night with a good attendance, but a poor representation of churches. A resolution was passed to hold a Christian Endeavor Expert class in October. Reverands Propst and Steegall will be in charge of the class. Twenty-six Endeavorers have signified their willingness and eager

ness to enlist in this work and they 1 represent but two churches. How j about the other churches, are you with !us? There is nothing in this course i that will conflict with the B. Y. P. I"..

Epworth League or Luther League, but it will give all a better understanding of Young People's work. The Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church, had their monthly meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. j'. T. Davis, of South 13th street, Tuesday evening. After the business meeting a social evening was enjoyed and

' light refreshments were served, i Eighteen members enrolled in The J Christian Endeavor Expert Class, that j is to be conducted by the Union. Again we say. Attention! The Oc- ! tober Rally at the Grace M. E. Church is going to be the biggest, best and most helpful Young People's Rally

ever held in Richmond.

Dinner Stories

j Joseph Cummings Chase, the por- , trait painter, told at a club the other i day the story of a Connecticut farmer I who never would admit that he didn't

know all about anything that might come up. He was never surprised. "Wa'al." would be his invariable comment upon some striking incident, personal or otherwise, "I expected it." Recently at a county fair he was invited upon the platform, and the ma-

; gician, after some manipulation, ex

tracted a rabbit from his flowing beard. "Ha! ha!" laughed his wife, when he returned to the audience. "Now you can't say you expected that." "Wa'ai no. That is. not exactly. Fur two days I been feelin' something going on in them whiskers of mine, but I couldn't quite make up my mind 'twas a rabbit." "Didn't you say you were something of a Bolshevist?" Yes. But I am cured. You see, I used to be one of those people who wanted to join every new society that came along."

Of the 451.425 workers Involved in the 1,428 strikes in Buenos Aires during the eleven years, 1907-1917. 11,947, or 2.6 per cent were children under sixteen.