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V-f:--V; ."'V; .'Vjf- -. - .v. ' VOL. XI ELIZABETH GITY NiCI 28,1919 ir. 1 .. . ... .r . mra - - - ' . - - i 1 ... . m i - . : . i i Hot Stuph" Out for SMITH NOT SURE WHEN THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS SHbum HE'LL GET BACK HOME But He Is Sure The Soldiers A" Sore On" Republicans, Democrats And m-4 ,.?;f!;-j5;.? J. I Ji ; '-9 . J ' The Y. M: C. A. - THE TEXTILE INTERESTS THINK THEY'RE HONEST But Their Conduct Belies Their Fair Pretensions They Are Ruthlessly Opposed to Any Effec tive Child Labor Legislation f -1 1. .? By W. O. SAUNDERS Are the textile manufacturers of North Carolina honestly in favor of child labor legislation? They say they are. But the evi dence is against them. Having introduced the Connor-Saunders child labor bill in the House of Representatives recently I have been given an opportunity to see how the cotton mill men of the "state behave when it is suggested that North Carolina get in line with Federal legislation on the child labor question. Last summer the textile manufact urers of the state held a big convention in the city of Asheville and put them selves on record in favor of effective child labor legislation. They appeared to be very sincere and some were fool ish enough to believe that they had seen a great light. Some -were foolish enough to believe that the manufact urers themselves would have, a child labor bill introduced in the General Assembly which convened on Jan. 8. In meantime the Congress of the United States, which has been trying to work out a lawyer proof national child labor law for several years, tacked a rider on the new Revenue act which it is believed will withstand all attacks in the Supreme Court, the final resort of all vested interests. ' The new Federal act imposes a tax of 10 per centum on the aoCrued profits of all industries employing children under 14 years of age or employing children under 16 years of age more than eight hours in any one day or more than 48 hours in any one week. Special machinery for the enforcement of the act. including rigid inspection ;Qf fac tories employing' children, is -placed In, the Department of - the Secretary of Labor. CLEVER PROPAGANDA This act of Congress, now a law, was about to become a law when the pres- i ent General Assembly of North Caro lina convened. But the North Carolina manufacturers did not come to the General Assembly with a child labor law. Instead, they had placed on the desk of every member of the General Assembly a bulky and handsomely il lustrated special edition of the Char lotte tX. C.) Observer which told in beautifully worded articles and illustra tions of the welfare work being under taken by the cotton mill men of the state in behalf of children. An altru istic mortal having read that special cotton mill welfare edition of the Char lotte Observer would have declared that Hie cotton mill men would be the first to favor u just and humane law in behalf of the children of the state. But days rolled on and rolled by and there came no other suggestion of child labor legislation from the manu facturing interests. And then Mitchell L. Shipman, Commissioner of Labor and Printing, asked the members of the General Assembly to consider this sub ject of child labor at this session. He offered a bill which he believed answer ed the demands of the times. His bill created a commission composed of the Secretary of the State Board of Health, the Suae Superintendent of Public In stnviion and the Commissioner of Labor una Printing; his bill provided ft 14 year age limit for children working in mills, factories, shops, etc., etc., :,nl an eight hour day and a 48 hour week for children under 16 years of age. The bill copied other particulars of the i ' Hi.il child labor law and provided n inspection by the state department of labor which would be acceptable to ';: IV. Ural government. THE CLOVEN HOOF -. J-'id any cotton mill man indorse the Shipman bill? No, not one. But al most before the ink was dry on the shipman bill, Edgar Love, Representa tive from Lincoln county and chairman f the House Committee on Manufact ures and Labor, introduced a bill to abolish the office of Commissioner of I-ahoi- and Printing. Love is a cotton mi:! manufacturer. His ObviOUSly mal- i' io.is. venomous and brutal attack upon Commissioner Shipman seems to be the I'-ut 01 tne textile industry generally. Jf course, the textile men deny this; of course they say that Love made a blunder; of course they say that Love does not represent their attitude. But the fact remains that they have stood solidly against Commissioner Shipman "iid not one has by. word or act indicat ed that Love was wrong in intent. They reiy condemn Love for having' thrown the fat in the fire. The more "stute manufacturers would have abolished Shipman in some other way. There are no charges of misconduct in oilice against Shipman; it is not even suggested that he is inefficient. The 'n!y thing against Shipman is that he busied himself . to get the State of N'onh Carolina to deal honestly with its children and with the Federal gov ernment at a time when the cotton mill a thought they had lulled the state to sleep on the subject of child labor Kislation. HOW I GOT INTO IT 't was then that I approached Com missioner Shipman and told him that ifsi if he would give me his bill I would in troduce it in the House and give it my best effort, handicapped tho I was by lack of legislative experience. About the same time Senator Henry G. Connor volunteered to introduce the same bill in the Senate. The hostility of the Chairman of the Horse Committee on Manufactures and Labor having shown its face, I request ed the Speaker of the House to refer the Shipman bill to Judiciary Committee No. 2. This he did. Before the com mittee could act on my bill. Represent ative Neal, of McDowell county, an other textile manufacturer, introduced a child labor bill and had it referred to the committee on Manufactures, Chair man Love. The Neal bill was a sorry makeshift for child labor legislation. It recognized no eight hour day, no in spection, no record of child , workers and it took the enforcement of child labor legislation out of the hands of the Commissioner of Labor and Print ing, putting the Governor in the Com missioner's place. Governor Bickett immediately protested; he didn't want to be made a policeman, even tho the Neal bill provided no law worth en forcing. . - A RAW DEAL The House now found Itself in the predicament of having two child labor bills under consideration by two differ ent committees, one committee mani festly hostile to the cause and unable to act without bias. I approached the Speaker of the House and asked him if any way could be arranged to get the two bills before one committee. The Speaker suggested that, with the con sent of all parties, both bills could be referred to the Committee on educa tion. I accepted this suggestion and laid the proposition before H&presenti ative Neal. Mr. Neal said he would consent to this. Oh, he acted just love ly about it ! . But behind Ms 'lovely con duct wasthe spirit of oneEdgarJove; whieh -h&--netning,to do with -brotherly love. Acting in good faith, I withdrew my bill from the Judiciary Committee and had it referred to the Committe on Ed ucation. What did Neal do? I'll tell you. He prepared a substitute for his original bill. He was going to send his bill before the Committee on Educa tion. He knew the educational preju- dices of this committee. He took his old hag of a child labor bill, gave her a wig of compulsory education and a set of false teeth called the Commissioner of Public Welfare. He scented her with perfumes of fragrant educational and public welfare pretensions and sent her into the Committee on Education to flirt with and seduce that body. But it wasn't enough for Representative Neal to have played this unfair game He did not keep his promise to with draw his child labor bill from the Com mittee on Manufacturers and refer it to the Committee on Education for con sideration. Before referring his sub stitute to the Committee on Education he had the Committee on Manufactur es recommend the child labor features of his substitute bill. Is it any wonder that when the child labor question got to the Committee on Education, that committee was at a loss how to function? It wasn't child labor to be considered at all, but a hastily constructed and utterly inadequate compulsory education law. In a limited time it was almost impossible to get the issue straight before the committee. Under pressure from law yers from cotton mill counties in the state Senate, perhaps misled too by a powerful lobby of manufacturers which had been working at the capital for days, a majority of the committee, tired and worn out with other matters, recommended the Neal substitute. It looked good to them. It is not the first time men were fooled by good looks only to discover in nine days that they had gotten something wrong into their blood. BALLING THINGS UP The manufacturers in their frenzied, thoughtless efforts to block the passage of a real child labor law in this session f the General Assembly have ruthlessly embarrassed the Department of Char- itioa nnrl -PuMir' Welfare and the Tf- partment of Education. The Neal child Labor Bill has hopelessly mixed compulsory education with hild labor, to the embarrassment of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Supt. Brooks has some ideas of his own about state-wide compulsory edu cation and one of his ideas is that it ought not to be confused with the child labor question. By tacking even a good compulsory education act onto a child labor bill, the state misses the point entirely. The compulsory education act is for the whole state and is not prim arily concerned with a certain group of children in the state. Dr. Brooks and all true friends of education are con vinced that compulsory education in North Carolina will be given a serious setback and the Department of Educa tion involved in endless difficulties with the mill people if compulsory education is not divorced from child labor legis lation and given a dignified stand on its merits. At the same time the Department of Charities and Public "Welfare feels it is to be badly handicapped if it is ident ified in anyway with the enforcement of til u mm ji-l - " : .m. a ; if HON. H. S. (HOT STUPH) WARD V HON. HALLET S. WARD, familiarly known thruout the Fifs Congressional District as "Hot Stuph" Ward is a candidate for congress, opposing Congress man John Humphrey Small. There are two reasons why Mr, Ward opposes Mr. Small. The first is, he wants Mr. Small's job; the second is, he think now is the time to get it. Mr. Ward is a great admirer of Hn. Clarence R. Pugh, the late Republican nominee for Mr. Pugh battered Mr. Small some in can finish the job; spite of the fact that stimulants after July 1. Whether Mr. Ward will have as much Confidence after July 1 as he has now is some question. The above 'cartoon ef Mr. Small's distinguished opponent was made by Ernest. Williamson,'; the inventor of the submarine moving picture. Mr. Williamson is- now somewhere at the; bottom of the Carribean Sea taking pictures of fossils for the Smithsonian Institute. Thjs explanation is made to save Mr. Ward the trouble of :coming. to Elizabeth City to look for him. . '. ' MR. MUNrfEN WILL QUIT THE, Register of Deeds of Pasquotank County Will Be Just Register of Deeds Register of Deeds J. "W. Munden has accepted Representative Saunders' pro position and will cease to be a Justice of the Peace after March 1, 1919. And now Mr. Munden says he is going to hold certain office hours and no one can get a marriage license from him after 6 o'clock P. M. on any week day and not at all on Sunday. Heretofore Mr. Munden has carried a supply of marriage licenses in his home and sat up nights waiting for the Virginia runaways who came this Gretna Green to wed. Mr. Munden would issue a marriage license at 11:59 P. M. and perform the marriage ceremony for the licensees at 12:01 A. M., taking his chance on getting a substantial fee from the bridegroom. Now he can go to bed along with the rest of Elizabeth City folk. It will be recalled by readers of this newspaper that it was agreed that the salary of the Register of Deeds of Pas quotank should be fixed at $2,400 per annum, in view of the increased work of the office and the fact that the Reg ister of Deeds has to have expert office help for which he has to pay out of his own salary. Representative Saund ers refused, to raise his salary except upon condition that he give up the posi tion of Justice of the Peace. LOST: A FOX TERRIER PUPPY WITH BROWN EARS AND A BROWN SPOT ON TOP OF HEAD. REWARD FOR RETURN. J. W. SELIG. child labor legislation. Superintendent Beasley's task is to deal with the de linquent and abnormal children of the state and the duties of his office are clearly defined. He has stated posi tively that he does not want the ma chinery of any child labor legislation placed in his office. Friends of Superintendent Beasley believe that sinister motives lie behind the manufacturers' scheme to put the burden of enforcing child labor legis lation upon the Superintendent of Pub lic Welfare. This is an appointive of fice, and not an elective office as is the office of Commissioner of Labor and Printing. There are those who believe that the manufacturers have an idea that they can somehow get control of the State Board of Charities and oust any man who becomes offensive to them. Superintendent Beasley is to flay the most efficient man in welfare work . in North Carolina. He has a better grasp of North Carolina's social problems than any other man. It would be a calamity to the state and to the social welfare to put him in a po sition where he might offend the cotton manufacturers and bring their wrath down upon his head. No one who has followed the cotton manufacturers of North Carolina, in their efforts to keep their strangle hold upon the child work ers of the state, doubts that the manu facturers would endeavor to destroy Beasley if he enforced Child Labor legislation, just as they have signified their intention of destroying Shipman who dared to propose Child Labor leg islation. The textile - manufacturers of North Carolina are not honest on the child labor question. They merely think they are. . .., V f. i r. - :vv ::''.s;.'.;- Congress in this district and he thinks the last campaigrt. Mr Ward thinks he there will be a greet national dearth of WAR BABffiSLTtiMH ECTISEIDADS This Newspaper Wants Their Pictures For Publication; If You Have One Send It In ',- How many War Babies that havr never seen their fathers are to be found in Elizabeth City and northeastern North Carolina? This newspaper would like to locate all such War Babies and print their pictures. Every mother of . War Baby born while the father is overseas is invited to send a picture 1 the baby to this newspaper. Give the father's name and company and regi ment number and any other facts thai may be interesting. The picture will be returned uninjured. Write baby's name and the name of its parents on the back of the picture. THE INDE PENDENT is sure there are lots of War Babies in northeastern North Carolina, born after their fathers were called to the colors. Let's put their dear pic tures in the paper. They will appre ciate looking at the clipping from the paper years hence. ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON GETS LIGHT FINE An attack on a man's life is not a very costly thing in Elizabeth City. his has been demonstrated many times but the most recent farce towards deal ing justly with a criminal was when one Elliott Baum was fined $50.00 in the Recorder's cout for slashing D. D. Smith, a United States sailor now stat ioned at the TJ. S. Hospital. Baum's attack on Smith was nothing more than a criminal assault with a deadly weap on, a razor being the weapon in this case, and it is a travesty on justice to think that the defendant should get by vith such a light fine. The case was tried before Recorder Spence Saturday morning. E F. Aydlett representeed Baum. Immediately after he had been fined, an appeal was noted but those well informed say that this is merely a "stall" to get a chance to raise the fine thereby keeping out of jail. Of course Baum is under bond but the bond is considerably reduced from the 10,000 originally set making it quite easy to get a signer or two for same. I wonder what the penalty would have been if the defendant had been an ignorant negro? A CORRECTION In his article dealing wtih the at- titude of the manufacturers toward the child labor question, printed elsewhere in this newspaper, W. O. Saunders says he "laid the proposi- tion before Representative Neal," etc. Air. Saunders shold have said he "was assured that it had been agreed to by the manufactur- ers and that Mr. Neal himself had given Governor Bickett to under- stand that this course met with his approval." This explanation- is made because Mr.Neal contends that Mr. Saunders had no understand- ing with him personally regarding the matter referring the child labor bills to the House Committee on Education. The point is immater- ial and Mr. Saunders is willing to let Mr. Neal have his way about it. jsfHstafe . I yy ' - ' ' 1 " v" aMsMseMaMsWlsalMsMMIIsisaViassf 'jawslMsniisaiBWf'ilsMi " J "jjnKir; icks-. Real human interest stuff is "con tained in a letter from First Lieut. Herbert H. Smith, formerly shop fore man of ' THE INDEPENDENT, - now with . the American Expeditionary For ces; His letter is dated at PoincOn les Lorrey d' Ore, France, January 22, 1918. Smith says: - Dear Folks: f- .Suow is-several inches deep and: still coming down. " "Bids i are good for It to be ; a. few feet deep before it quits. A Frenchman told me that he remembers seeing a snow over here that took him to his belt, and he is a tall guy. So-1 guess we'll be snowed in .and have , to remain here 'till August or September. At one time, there was an over amount of hot-air. more commonly called 'bull,' floating around -here -that We were on our way home, but the scene has changed,' and the "buH" is that we will be . here for 4 or 5 months yet (ain't that Hell.) And I guess we ' wilL No need to worry, only gives one a wrinkle and disarranges his digestion!: This little berg,, PdSncdin Is, a small town not on the map1) but it; is about iOTilos. 6 'iKteiO f wine, women, ets.,1 are 'plentiful-1 also the soldiers! (that makes it bad.) The average American soldier is yet to learn that these Francs are money, and we spend them (when we have 'em) as tho they grew in the back yard. (I might mention that the lucky guy usu ally spends his own pay, and the pay of several others.) A fellow "in our Company had his Local Board to pull a few wires and strings (political, of course) and the said Board had him discharged and he left us last week for God's country. Lucky Dog, I say! And say, speaking about politics, I think that the Demo crats and the Republicans have lost .some over a million-voters, and the So cialists (and anarchists) have gained bopt that many you should hear these fellows, from any Company or Division. There are two things that he will sure ly "cuss," the Democratic Party and the Y. M. C. A. And if you feel like (fighting, just say one good word for either one of these organizations, and right away you are in a fight! What was that big Frenchman's name? Poltaire, or somethink like that, anyway, he had himself a regular palace up near Wassy and the folks say he kept a bunch of "good -lookers" there while his wife stayed in Paris Oh, he was a regular old bird! One time I said stop the paper now I say please don't. because we are lia ble to here 'till August. I haven't had a paper or any mail since Novem ber 16, but maybe it will come along after awhile. You see while I was in the hospital my mail was sent to A. E F. Headquarters P. O. and it hasn't come back yet. I have learned three more -French words, now that makes four I know! ha! Pretty soon at that rate I'll be speaking "boocoo" French just like a native son! How are Stanley and Everett coming along with their girls? It's about time they were "doing that which all foolish men do" and start a little war all their own, ha! But in the long run I guess it's a better life, 'cause if a fellow is married he doesn't run around so much; and then, too. he has some one always on hand to fight with him. (ha.) My love and regards to you all. Sincerely, SMITH. P. S. A guy just came in with some more "bull." Says we leave nere ior somewhere" the 15th of February. AN UNUSUAL SERVICE The country is full of good eye specialists and there are hundreds of good eye glass man ufacturers, but it is worth some thing to Elizabeth City and vi cinity to know that both can be found in this town. Dr. Katna way is not only a reputable and skillful optometrist, but he grinds and fits glasses on his premises. This unusual service is seldom found except in mucn larger cities. DR. I D. HATHAWAY OPTOMETRIST Over McCabe & Grice Elizabeth City, N. C. Should Get Endorsement' Applies 1 he Monroe Doctrine to The : r Whole World 1 i HOG; CHOLERA WORK BE HANDLED FROM KELFORD Addition'- of Several New Counties "'to Northeastern Carolina Territory.,, , T Takes Control From This City ' In August, 916, the Federal Depart ment of Agriculture, co-operating with the State Department, undertook to bring the disease of hog cholera more nearly under control in the " six north eastern counties of North Carolina,' and established headquarters at Elizabeth City the plans for the work were to organize the farmers jof each township J into a hog growers' protective organi zation, ana eacn organization to select one of their members to be the local serum administrator, he to. proceed , to Raleigh, where he received especial training at the hands of the state au thorities, and after which his training would be continued in the field by the Federal inspector,. Dr. F. D. Owen This man1 was then capable of doing the work " of innoculating and immunizing the swine for his neighborhood. This work has been highly success ful, and resulted in the reduction of the hog cholera losses to a minimum, and has so proven to the fanners of the district ; that hog raising can be ren dered safe that very few farmers have not improved the character of their stock, and now, northeastern Carolina probably has a, better class of swine than any other section of the state. The results of the work were so pleas ing that the Federal Department of Ag riculture granted to Dr. Owen several assistants and the same plan of trork is now being , conducted , in "three other districts; m addition; the; State Depart ment hasemploye'd -two Veterinarians and turned . them: over, to Driu Owen,. to workin a district beinfinished within pne year, or at the most, 18 months, but when this country entered the world war it was found evpedient to continue the work from the Elizabeth City head quarters, but several otner counties were added to the original territory. Now, therefore, this section has been sc :well organized that it has been decided to transfer the headquarters of the work to a point more central for the other counties on the South side of the Sound, and the other counties in the district further west, such as North ampton, Bertie and Hertford counties where the work has been handicapped because of the difficulty of rail and road transportation from Elizabeth City. The new headquarters will be located at Kelford, Bertie county, which is nearly the geographical center of the newer field, and will be under the supervision of Dr. T. L. Glenn, a grad uate of the Alabama School, of Veter inary Medicine, at Auburn, Ala., and who has until very recently, been in the veterinary corps of the Army. Altho the headquarters of the work is being removed from Elizabeth City: and the six northeastern counties, this section will still continue to receive the assistance of the Federal Department of Agriculture, thro the office of Dr. F. D. Owen, at Raleigh, and the office of Dr. Glenn at Kelford, as well as being protected and the swine raisers being able to secure the services of compet ent serum administrators in their own townships, and if the name of the near est serum administrator is not known, such information will be supplied upon pplication to either of the above named men. The work of these serum admin strators will be supervised by Dr. Glenn and careful checking of their work done, to see that no one is permitted to do innoculation work unless he is thor oughly competent. LEGISLATURE SENDS A DELEGATION DOWN HERE Committee of Senate And House Inves tigated The Claims of The State Normal Last Saturday A special joint committee of the House and Senate of the N. C. General Assembfy visited Elizabeth City Satur day for the purpose of ascertaining the needs of the State Normal State School and reporting thereon to the Appropria tions Committees of the General Assem bly. The committee was composed or sen ator Titus G. Currin, of Granville coun ty: Senator James F. Shinn, of Stanley county; Representatives W. F. Morgan, It T- of Perquimans; J. u. cities, oi jsuii combe and Oscar Maguire of Surry. The committee landed in Elizabeth City on a wet Saturday and. Elizabeth City always looks its wo: rst on a wet wpII nleased i Daiurut,vuu. ' 1Z with the town ana tne wlu prevent them from getting an exact line on the needs of the State Normal. In fact the weather was in favor of the I school because it enabled the committee to see just how badly the school build- Ings needed new roofs. The committee seemed to think that the State Normal heededeverythingithadaskedfor.es- pecially sewerage, water and laundry facilities. . - From This Country. It There has been much opposi-: tion raised to the recently creat-- d:Lfjigue of Nations Jbyv a few c smalf-visionecl politicians in Con gress. 'Sfenators Poindpxter and : . Borah in speeches made before the Senate claim that the United ' States would, surrejader its sov ereignty in accepting the points laid down by the League for : adoption. I wonder if the same senators think that all of theCI other thirteen nations approving this lejigue are willing' to stake their sovereingty by thW signing ' of a mere official document. - -' . . ". .. . ..- . . x .' : These same senators say that this : V league, of nations would' absolutely u abrogate the. Monroe Doctrine while I say that instead of the Monroe Doctrine being "Amercia for America" it would be "Civilization for Civilization." ,Jt would be oneof the strongest linksin a doctrine to uphold world-:wide peace; it would have been the instrument to '; save the millions of lives-, so recently ' sacrificed on 'teiooy battlefields of Europe. Allowing the peoples of -the various localities 'of Europe, especially in Ger many 'and Russia, to choose their, .way of living; allowing them to set up gov ernment of their own;': all of this would ' amount to naught if these new and ; smaller nations could not have some ' guarantee that they were hot. to .bej the - contention of another-, titanic - struggle ; " between the jealous nations of Etrrbpe. V ' This proposedXague. of V 'NaUoibtiO'iH fere to them- the only guarantees which ? ' fills them With-, horte and lVimlmu4K'jf;-:!''3.V .... .-r.ryt SJ-T.V.''vi - K '! deir-what? the' objecting .sexia.tor8;'c4uid p oLeitohiesfeew nations' betterl than ' ;' ! 1 1 ,tbjs? sfsffce1 avpxeventa- rf-sr- J ; tive pr future wars? -1 wonder if these same senators believe in the old axiom that might is right? I hardly see how they can after witnessing the awful downfall of the mightiest military mac hine in the history of the world. I am sure that the people of this country will acclaim the League of Na tions with as much fervor as do our allies abroad. The scathing attacks made upon it by a few "short-visioned statesmen", as ex-president Taft speaks of them, will not caiyy much weight with it as it is merely a case of the Re publican party trying to discountenance the workings of the Democratic party, political trick which has been in vogue since Cornwallis surrendered in-;York town. If by adopting this League we are just one inch toward an universal everlasting peace then I say we should adopt it and stand by it for.it is peace we want and so long as it is an honor able peace guaranteed us let us all ac claim "Give us The League of Nations." TO PUBLICLY WELCOME SOLDIERS AND SAILORS r There are few communities that have not staged Victory Celebrations of one kind and another, in recognition of the services rendered the country by the men who have now returned home from the army camps, or from across the sea. This matter was brought to the at tention of the members of the Cham ber of Commerce at the last monthly, meeting, and it was unanimously agreed that Elizabeth City should pub licly welcome the soldier and sailor boys of this community who have re turned home. It was felt that our citi zens would welcome an opportunity to show their appreciation of the services rendered the nation by such men, and their sacrifices for the principles which are the very warp and woof of our na tional life. And the conviction was expressed that these men in our midst should not only be given a public testimonial of esteem and appreciation, but that their names should be preserved In imperish able characters, and a bronze tablet erected to tell the story of their loyal ty to coming generations. The suggestion was also made that Elizabeth City should have an incorpor ated Historical Society, to carefully preserve the flags, posters, records, etc., connected with the great war through which our people have passed so glor iously and so triumphantly. If we of today are interested, as we surely are, in the relics and mememtos of past rises in the history of mankind's strug gle for a larger and better life, will not the men and women of tomorrow, our children and our children's children, be equally interested and inspired by memorials of the titanic war for the dearest and most sacred rIghts of hu mmiy' Both of the above mentioned matters were referred to a special committee which will present definite suggestions later - It was elt by the meeting that . important enough tJ to receive most careful consideration before acting, es.-u i. mi . il 111? ! f.Vi f 1.1 . iT'- m "; i 1 ' -F 5 I ifr i l I'll - Xx .1 I li '!' li .11 I? ! s: lit ! 1 if I'i. (A a V; it " r. i -1.