South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 306, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 November 1917 — Page 8
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WOMEN IN MEN'S JOBS. The general replacement of men by women in all kinds of industrial work formed one of the problems ihi-.-wf.-ed by th- American Public Health convention held rttcUly in W.'ishinsrton. The replacement is nec...sünry ana ineitahl in war tune, but it calls for quick and divisive action in Um regulation or U will run away with much of the past work done in f af euardlnff the health of women in industry. The replacement mut bo handled wisely and with d ie r'cnrd to the health and strength of the workers. Women have b n taking Jobs as f riciht-handler?. carriers in plass woi-k, as foundry workers, pushing scrap iron in wheelbarnws up an inclining plane, piling lumber in yards and in other forms of heavy muscular work. At the Fame time num are still employed in work rcuiirii.g llttl muscular strain. as shoe .salesmen, clerks and iloonvalkers. Organization if needed her. The fir.t replacement nf men by women should be In les.s strenuous physical work. Even in munition-; factories women workers hould be Kiven only the tasks calling for deftness and ii c urary. not for siieer physical strength. Th'n? have been no standards for use in determining th- weight which won. en should be allowed to handle. Une association of foundry' owners has adopted an arbitrary limit of 23 pounds. The department of labor of Pennsylvania decided temporarily on a limit of 15 pounds as the maximum weight for women workers to handle if the work involves continual lifting. Th whole problem of the great Influx of women into industrial work needs thoughtful attention and definite jrtion. It is a matter too important for the health of the coming generation, as w'ell as the present one. to letve to haphazard adjustment. Women seeking such -mpJoymnt and employers left short-handed bv the war are net the people to work out the solution to this problem. It calls for special industrial physicians, for definite factory legislation, for common s'ms and forethought. The peace time need for safeguarding health industry is increased and made more urgent by war onditioiis.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. The war has given such impetus to public control and . u m rship of many kinds that it arouses little surprise when -o important a body as the National Association of lUulro.td Commissioners prophesies complete public '..wner-'hip of our important publio utilities. The commissioners appear to think that it will soon be found adisaMu for the government to take over the railroads, leb pho.ae ami telegraph systems. Speaking in particular of the railroads, representing the one utility with which these experts are most familiar, they point out that earnings have not risen sutti:iently to provide necessary improvements, extensions and rolling stock; that under oür present system of regulation the roads will not be permitted to raise rates high enough to obtain the necessary capital from net faininu-s: that the fund- must there-fore come either Horn private investors or from the government. They e-an hardly be got from priv.-.te sources, the experts tr-ink. under present conditions. The only feasible way to get them, apparently, is in the form of government I o a n s. Tin.-! the situation narrows down to government ownrship. A- f.r i: eminent operation, we have practically that. a!read . It is but a step. then, to changing the corporation bonds and stock certificates into federal
recunties. and tiuancing the national transportation system by popular b'.ns. as w e are financing the war. The same pioc--. presumably, would be applied ir the telephone and. telegraph systems, and possibly the express companies. Tlie predicament of thtse industries is not s i serious as that of the railroads, but the federal a' sorption of one would probably lead to like tr"atnivnt of all It's an immense!) interesting possibility. And in the comment arou-ed by the prospect, it's worth noting that there is little of the rancor ami prejudice which form-i !y n.ark 1 government ownership discussions. The question is bmger at . identic. It's severely practical. What n.eri ask mew ;s not. 'Should the government take ,,vt r these industries?" b it, "Is it necessary to take them o er"''
SELECTIVE SERVICE NUMBERS. .Men registered for selective s rvicv now have an entin lv new st.itas, so tar as their order of summons is coruerned. A rc-'i-t: ai.t's serial number no longer tiiea.-.s much, except tli.it it st.ves to designate him instead of his name. There is no mor.- any assurance that men with low numbers will be called tirst. The only thing that will o.:nt from now on. in determining precedence, a man's natural ability to army service. Tlut depends if he's ph.vsica.ly ht purely on his economic status. Is lie needed at home, to take care of i pendents, or to do work necessary f r the war, or both? If he oin be spared from home and work, he'll be calb-d scon. If he ha a family really dependent cn his earning.;, he may nevr be called at all. It's th ir.gle men an i the married men whose waves can taXe care of them- io-s who arc likely o he examined and sent to the training ramps m the next batch of recruits. Kf giU rd men are divided into the class s. starting with those who (an mos . asily be spared for righting, running through various grades of needed-at-homencüs. ndintf with the phjsicallv ircanld. Every iun
Dr. Freyermuth Brings Un-American Carscnitc Attacks on Ackermann Into Qn and National War Trades Board Secretary Takes a Hand
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the democratic possibilities mentioned up to that time. He thought Olen A. Clark would tc a tetter man for the "dry" democrats to support than any . of those chances. Copp and hreyermuth applauded. Great! Clark had already been slated by the vice regents back of tde Carson campaign for the republican nominee. Carson is only as a substitute. The democratic party must rid itself of the vice gang, Messrs. Freyermuth add Copp allirmed. It was the slogan of the meeting. Affiliation with the republicans in the city campaign, was openly broached as a means of downing them. Rev. John M. Alexander, pastor of the First Chrisfan church, was present, a real democrat, and cautioned the men from his acquaintance with republican politics, not to lose their heads and jump from the frying pan into the fire, "following after strange gods," which in the light of the present seems to have been phophetic, indeed! Yes, "the democratic party must cast out the devils; snatch from them their power," was the cry of the meeting, and now the sequel: When Rudolph Ackermann put his feet down on the gang and to!d thm, (informing Col. Joe Sullivan's emissaries), that "there is no chsnce" for them to run his administration, thus literally doing what that meeting and Messrs. Freyermuth and Copp were clamoring for casting the devils out, why! Messrs. Copp and Freyermuth taggrd right along after them, climbed ?nto the very same bandwagon, are supporting the very same candidate, with Dr. Freyermuth especially, seeking to excuse himself by attacking Mr. A Hermann's Americanism. Dan Pyle didn't leave the party following the undesirable element to its new refuge. Charley Weidler didn't leave it. Sam. B. Pettengill didn't leave it. Glad to see them go and grateful to Rudolph Ackermann for handing them mssports, by flatly refusing to be dominated by them, they and all the other leaders at that dinner, are back of Mr. Ackermann and supporting him. He may net have grown wings by the act, but he didn't take on any such herns as Sullivan, Sapp, Barrett, ClifTord, and their chief. Fxit Copp! We must return to Dr. Frevermuth's thundering philippic. We will have to handle it with much polish, kind consideration, and finesse, of course else it will be "mud-slinging." It isn't "mud-slinging" on the part of the Carson aggregation to accuse Mr. Ackermann of un-Americanism; drag his patriotism in the dirt slander his loyalty, oh no! They wouldn't sling "mud!" They just sprinkle him with talc I'm powder. What they spit from their foul mouths is, as they would like the public to see it, as the frankincense and myrrh brought by the wise men of the east to bless the babe in the manger. When they dip their vitrolic pens in the molten sulphur of hell to paint the printed page with their vile out-roarious vaporings. or sickly insinuations against the nominee opposing them, it is, they would have you think, a John the Revelator telling his tale from the isle of Patmos. and "the spirit and the bride say come;" also "let him that is athirst, come!" However, Dr. Freyermuth says the democratic press has injected Mr. Ackermann 's Americanism into the campaign. It's untrue. The democratic press has printed the news about the republicans and their vice attachments seek;ng to question his Americanism and Dr. Freyermuth openly confirms that we were right. He says the democratic- spell-binders have injected Mr. Ackermann's Americanism into the campaign by asserting that his election would mean an indorsement of Pres't Wilson's administration. We also say "Bosh!" as to that talk injecting anybody's Americanism into the campaign. The republicans, however, will be mighty quick to construe it as a repudiation of Pres't Wilson's administration it Mr. Ackermann is not elected. From whence did Dr. Freyermuth receive that divine inspiration that so enables him to tell just how Pres't Wilson and the members of his cabinet w?.hiU vote for Dr. Carson, were they in South Bend? The doctor seems to have developed into a sort of Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, who, writing "In His Steps," answered for all of us right otT the bat, just "What would Jesus do?" The best that anybody can to do is to guess what Pres't Wilson and his cabinet members would do were they to vote in the local election, but being democrats they'd probably be democrats and not bob-tail republicans. We dare say that Harry A. Engman, jr., secretary of the national war trades board, home from Washington, and who took to the stump last night in defense of Mr. Ackermann because of, the slanderous attacks made upon his loyalty, is about as close to the president, and knows the trend of his mind, about as well as Dr. Freyermuth does. And the probability is that if Pres't Wilson and his cabinet were South Benders, with the right to vote here, they'd vote the democratic t'eket, and that too, without questioning the Americanism of Dr. Carson, or of anyone else connected with the campaign, so far as concerns their loyalty to the American flag. They'd vote for Mr. Ackermann first, because Dr. Carson and his supporters, haven't a thing on him except his nnme German in technique, arid the fact that he has a German ancestry, and Woodrow Wilson wouldn't stand tor a minute for such cheap claptrap entering into any municipal campaign if within his power to prevent it. But they say Mr. Ackermann is within volunteer age and didn't go to war. He is" the only man in South Bend, we suppose, who hasn't done that, bereficiaries too, of "single blessedness." It is really too bad that Mr. Ackermann didn't get out of the way of Dr. .Carson in his race for mayor or that there should be any resitince to the republicans having an opportunity to say. by winnicr this election, that Pres't Wilson's national administration had been repudiated locally! And then, again the "bloody shirt," as a reason why Dr. Carson should be elected! Dr." Freyermuth refers to the "only son" proposition. Who startel it? The republican organ giving it as a "reason why Dr. Carson's Americanism cannot be questioned;" just as though fqr that reason his opponent's Americanism could be. Of course, its "mud-slinging" to offer any rebuke to such an insinuation coming from the republicans. They're infallible. We' have no comment to make" on the beautiful picture drawn by Dr. Freyermuth of Clark Carson's enlistment, or of the father's sacrifices on account of his son going to war. So far we have kept away from Dr.Oirson's private and family affairs, save insofar as for instance his business and political careers have been necessary to discuss in order to discuss his fitness for office at nil, and we defy Dr. Freyermuth, or anyone else to put their finger on a single' instance that contravenes that statement. The case of the "only son" raises the question of the ethics of seekmg to make political capital out of such an instance, which is exactly what has berv done in Dr. Carson's case since the very opening of the campaign, and which Dr. Freyermuth revives adding his own griefs to inspire sympathy and give it emphasis with others. The un-Americanism in this campaign, dear doctor, isn't a matter of parentage, and it isn't a matter of disloyaltv to the tag on the mrt of anyboiy. but it is the contemptible attempt of the republicans to ultra-capitalize
thei. candidate's Americanism for political effect, using an "only son" en
listment as basic, and seeking to presume that the opposition candidate is disloyal, and a traitor, on that same account. There is room in America for both Dr. Carson and Mr. Ackermann as 1 ;,a! Americans. ..e suppose this last remark is "mud-slinging" too.
will soon be assigned to a class, and will tlien know whether eir not he Is subject to an early call. Among all the numbers assigned to a particular class the low numbers will be calleJ first. Inasmuch as an entire eins will called at about the same time, such precedence will not matter much.
In order to live lof.sr, marry' and Keep cheerful, Fays an Illinois woman aged 10 4 years. It is a dead fact that unmarried people rarely live 104 years; and some of them don't really live 10 4 days
THE MELTING POT
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Tin: Gi.oRE-TKOTrrn. The chimney corner's virtues have been pung in many ways, And grandma's rocking chair has had its formal meed of praise. The great old oaken bucket full of microbes, moss and slime Has been immortalized in its Imperishable rhyme: And every writer ever bred has spo :ted forth his pome Concerning the extreme delights of "that dear place called home." Tpnn this swiftly spinning- sphere I find no charming spot That holds me tight through thick and thin as well as cold and hot. Creation's panoramoscope rolls past my ship or train; Ten thousand perns of scenery invite me to remain; Hut ever on and on I go, forever gaily roam. With not a single natch of soil that I can label "home." Hut no! The world, the world is mine, my little native sphere! There's not a spot which you have got but I can hold it dear. I,et shadows swing to north or south, the trees le pine or palm. The god be Ihuldha, Allah. Christ, the seas be rough or calm Wherever stars shine, downward from their post in heaven's dome. My sorrow 's cease, my s ul'a at peace, my roving heart's at home. Arthur Brooks Daker.
LITTLE BOnillK'S PA. Ily ' William 1 Kirk.
Ta was shivering went he cairn hoam to dinner last nite, the mellun coli'. day are here. Pa sed. The rose of summer dies. Fa sed, &. Xater sohu among them withered trees, sed Pa. Other-wise, sed Ma, I suppoas everything is O. K. r suppose so, sed Pa, but the auturn strikes into my sunny nater, sed' Pa. like a bomb paying a visit to a trench. Vure mother offen toald me, sed Ma, that in the autumn you felt sad beekaus you had to go to skool, so I dare say that is how you cairn to dislike the fine fall wether. As foj me SL'littel Hobbie, sed Ma, we dote on this wether, doant we, Hobbie? I like the autumn wether, I toald Ma, beekaus it is in the autumn that the grate things happens, like president eleckshuns !: the worlds .seerecs, etc. & Thanksgiving turkey, I sed. Spoak like a man, Bobbie, sed Pa, I had almost forgot about ThanksKiving cummins in the fall. Out of the mouths of babes we git a ear full, sed Pa. But autumn in New York has one grate drawback, sed Pa, everybody knows it is autumn excep the landlord. The landlord beleeves in steem conservashun, sed Pa. While everybody is salving sumthintr for the nashun, sed Pa, the deer old landlord saves steern. I spoak to the landlord today, sed Ma. He was awful nice, he fed he wud have the flat fairly humming with steem eer long. You are a hardy man, sed Ma to Pa, who has passed thru Artick hardships, so a littel cold wether doesn't bother you, but Bobbie & I feel the coll keen, sed Ma. Not any keener than what I feel it, sed Pa, I intend to go rite oaver
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of autumn, lc sed, It reeminds me of the braiv old days wen I roamed thru the grate northwest in the autumn, talking care of camping parties, sed Pi, & locating white pine for them lumber kings. So you have offen toald me. sed Ma. Missus Sothern is dimming oaver tonite, she has Just rote a
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