:;' -j -yr--s r- ;"va: ;viV:7;-:- ;v:r,:;::: ''..-. ..:.;.'.. - - ; I ,S j, , . 1 4 . .. ST I , v ST" . . --j,, k L - c a Css a . 1 j I Endors eii b y Org anized La bo r and Wake County Farmers ' UthotC VOL. II. RALEIGH, N.IC, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1919. I- 1 ii i i . . . I ii ii i i - - ' . r . .. ' .. - . 1 . ' V" - v'; -- ' i. ii i i i .. . .. - ! .' H"' i -,, . ! 1 i. ilun in I n I ,- . -. . ;- .?. ft ,:u . -:4.V05jl a. In Work or Play- ffiL&V.Oollt stand the test I This store is particularly dedicated to the- man who 5wants serviceable working clothes six days tothe week and when Sunday comes demands the best. , Choose from these Cioaiss witha Reputation ' Alco and Collegian Suits and Overcoats Carhart Overhalls Signal Shirts Packard Shoes McLeod& Watson Clothes of QualityOne Priee to All. Guess & Ward Succesors to Gattis & Ward. , Union Madc . . Sh ies Tbg-SFasofisLafl Models Now on Dis play. : : Wc Can Fit All Feet at Lowest Cost. - -:,'-r. :ry:-:::-:t: Come Around And let's get acquainted; Guess & Ward 113. EastTVIartin St. Raleigh, N." C. Wall Pap ering 1 202 is, Salisbury St. ; 'Jl; Phone 16SO DR. C D: BASS 203-204 MASONIC TEMPLE Phone 1487 iOPHoneJNfo1 : when you want anything in the Drug Line PROMP SERVICE. - NEXT TO BLAND HOTEL. ' S. T. VilllIAUS,, Druggist, PRESCRIPTIONS OR COURSE Get-the "habit.". r Have your meetings CONTENTMENT; IS STAGNATION - OP PROGRESS. New York, Jaii. 4. -At a recon struction- conference called to con Blder Industrial relations and kin dred subjects now prominently ' In the public mind, attended by repre sentatives of various large interests as well as men who are students of social and economic problems. Pres ident Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor, gave voice to the following - thoughts - upon the grave dangers confronting . the American people: "To get the men to respond to the call 1 to arms in defense of our . re public, and our institutions required much effort, but it was not difficult of accomplishment. To persuade our civilian population to do service be hind and for the men at the fighting front, was difficult, but not so diffi cult,! as are the problems before us today. -; -. "I am not one who v believes that the wisest and best condition of the people is what is generally under stood by contentment. Contentment, in my way of thinking; is stagnation. A healthy discontent is the awaken ing: jot. the- - aspiration ; for better things. It, is essential today that" the J people ! of our country shall be alert to all that is transpiring and all that is impeding. Thus far we have! lived our lives alone and work ed out our own destinies along the line of the policies we believed to be the best . for" us. , Today, after either wfcpninfr the war or helping to win the war,; wV are to have our representatives "around . a table where ;a treaty , of peace is to be formulated. : ' - ".The representatives of" no one government" can have the controlling voice. Optimist as I am, I never fail to look upon the other side of the shield. ' Hoping for - the best always, and striving as best I can to accomplish, the right, or to help accomplish the right, I know the game played y the opponents of right. The. democratic , legislation erected by the Congress of the United .States, hy the several States of our Union,by otir municipalities, granting greater freedom of thought and action pf a voluntary character, the understanding of what here we mean by. sovereignty of citizenship and lof the man "and of the -woman, a connection not . held by any other country on the ; face of the globe T.appealed,tathe American, people, without regard , to their station In life, to see to it, to supervise, to be vigilant, ' lest around the peace table there are purloined from us, right under our very noses, many of- the liberties and the freedom, of our people. ' - v r . . "The treaty made by the United States with any other country or eronp ' of 4 countries, that treaty be 'ng ratified by the Senate of the United States, becomes the supreme law pf the land, and any law upon the statute books that Is in conflict with: the terms of that treaty be comes inoperative and ineffective and nil. . We don't want to nave made In vain all the sacrifice of our boys; '- .We don't want to have that flesh of our flesh and blood of onr blood given, and all the treasure given, 'and all the sacrifice made, in vain"! and to ..have to make the fight all over again , for the American people in their homes . While our i boval were fighting and our men and women were working here to main tain freedom and democracy .aoroauj we ought to be alert now to see toJ! it that we are not going .to lose our liberty and democracy at home. "I am impressed' particularly with! the appeal to the conscience, to the judment, to the ideals, to the Americanism of our people for united action. You cannot get free doml vnor : practice ; freedom , I on empty stomachs. The hungry.Jmen mayj engage in a riot, may engage in arevoltr but their course is never of . a constructive , character. : Hun gry stomachs do 'hot make reasoning: brains. It, Is f necessary to maintain the standards if life of the American working people that they may have sound bodies, and the opportunity for reasonable thinking, with aspirations, of such a character they will build up the Institutions of this - republic-i Enlightened "discontent, -' the higher, and better aspirations of the masses of the people furnish 1 the greatest. Impetus to r progress and 'civilization. The ' discontent' of - hungry f people leads to nowhere ? except haos;;con- fusion and reacuon. 7 r . "i j "During the early f months of the war, f a phrase was applied to the industrial - conditions ..then ;.;ln,.r, the course of development. It was. this: "During this .period, don't rock, the boat. I want to apply that f same phrase to " the present: f situation. There are too many circumstances and. conditions of turbulent waves of an unruly sea'to' lattenlpt i to rock the boat now." " A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE. The New Year is at hand. -. It would be trite to say that new things lie' in wait.1 c " We have grown accustomed to new things. 1 - "i The war has been' a new thing' to America, to LaboT, o capital, to gov ernment to all of us, ' With the - war have ' come new things, " new methods, new ideals; .new inspirations. ; j t ; We have had unusual problem's to solve,; and we have employed -.unusual methods in solving them. " Labor perhaps -- more than any other single element In our society, has never hesitated in adopting these new methods in ad jugting--Itself 'to the changed ylewpolntrin putting its best 'foot forward. Only "Labor has Insisted upon 'knowing that what was found v necessary to do -would be toT the benefit' of all, and in furtherance pf tle common good. , I I The neyear may be '.considered as almost symbolic of the new time to come. Readjustment, reconstruc tion, face the entire i - world We have passed through fires of hell, and we have, come forth. with a new vis Ion, fired by a new zeal to deal forth Justice for all mankind, and to rid the .world forever - of the destructive forces" that would debase our moral ity and de8trov the best that Is in us. The organized workers of America did not need this cleansing fire, en tailing' such sacrifices . of: blood and wealth tabcT'sJmotIve1R'have al wavs been for the common weal. Its hopes have always been bound np In extricably with those of the great maiority of JLhe people. Its view point has always been! J'Hbw much good for1lowntnanyeope?',' : : i And So Labor r faces the new year calmlr and 'confidentlrr secuTe in the knowledge of having done its utter- ntost In the performance of a noblel psk:Tea4vf ttf-frlve' service ,for ! the 4 nnd of all our neoole and our Re nubUc: confident that good' will. Jus tice, freedom and democracy will prevail over the - whole -w --world.- American Federatlonlst. PRECEDENT DON'T APPELUi. London, England, Jan. 4. In a Bpeeclr-' In this clty ""President - Wil son announced that he does not con sider precedent as binding; t ?..:;. . ,: Preyions speakers had referred to the' President's jvisit here as a jprece-. dent breaker. To this the President replied. y ? s"Andt- afterjalU the breaking, of precedents,, though this . may sound strange doctrine in England, is the most sensib.& thing . to do. , The har ness .of precedent is sometimes " a very sad and harassing trammel. - j In another portion of, his speech the President indicated that he has a1 grasp, on the forces that urge men; out, of the beaten paths in their - ef forts to improve conditions. He said: f '7 Ty. rry ' j "I ami perfectly aware that I have in me all the insurgent elements of the human. race.:-;-1 .am f sometimes, by reason of long Scotch tradition, able to '.keep ! these ; instincts f In 1 re straint.", -, ... . r' i LABOR SURPLUS IN SIGHT. j Washington -i Jan. 4.- Within the next, few months, according, to" tho offlcialsof the United States employ-, ment -service-175,000 soldiers,-sail ors and marines will be seekine nm ioyment in Pennsylvania., . Despite haTapid rate with which-industry is working its way back to peace, pro duction, it Is felt that - there is cer tain to be a labor surplus in some sections, unless the r distribution is scientifically handled. , l- Representatives T of the v United States I, employment;! 'service - have been stationed in all demcbllation camps in this country to?- acquaint soldiers and sailors ;withv the facili ties established for assisting them to obtain." suitable! employment af. ter they leave camp. , ? : GET . WAGE INCREASE." 1 SUiUndBi. Mo.; Jan.? 4. Furniture Drivers'; Union' No"T51 opened its agreement in October to readjust its wage scale." "Negotiations were, she-; cessfully terminated i. and i the result follows: The . chauffeurs' : scala ;waa I nqreased Jxom , $ 2 1.50, tol 2 4 per week.-;- The drivers were increased from "$17.50' to $ 2 2 ."" The 'helpers yho had been getting -$16 now get $20.50 while the auto"truck drivers got an'lncrease-from$17 ith $21 per ,week. 3 ORGANIZE NEW UNION. :!OmahaZ:NebJah TheTcblor ed men employed in the different freight houses-- in ; the'clty; I formed Freight , Handler8".7bnd "Checkers Dnlon No. 16376, American. Federa tion of s Labor;-- -rv -.,: I KingrGroweHafi at the King-Crowell Drug Company Store;1 Pleasant and a "dandy t bt. Louis, Mo.y Jan. 4. Neotia .ions 'oetween represe,utativea ot';'Vj iorapmcai Union No. 8 .and : the .UDusners' : Association resulted iu au increase of & per cent, becoming elective January 1. - Jane new . scale provides a o a week for mgnt work ers wno iormerly received '$32. 4u, and $31.50 for day ien who for merly got $29.16. Tbe old schedule was under- a contract which-, expires in 1922. About 400 1 men are af i'etted. . - j- T-. ' An increase from. j$ 2 3 to $27.30 a .week 'has ' been offered to " jon printers' by the JBen Ianklin7 Club, an organization of bos Job. printers. The offer .has, been ta&en under ad visament..by a speciai committee of the job printers.-- r r i;" San" Francisco,' Jan.4. According to an v agreement ' letween' the Franklin- Printing Trade Association and Typographical Union No. 21 a raise : In wages' of $2 ' per "wefek' for job printers became effective Janu ary 1, making . the basic x wage $30 er week. , - ' QUICK RESULTS. '2 rl Sioux City, Iowa, Jan.. 4. The employes of the Philip" Bernard com pany, manufacturers of farmers' supplies, determined to; form a union, realizing that they would be better able to take care Of their interests by so doing. As soon as the man ager :of the "ifiirm" learned "that such action vhadr.beenltaken he posted a notice forbidding and' disapproving it, and called on all those who had participated to5 sever their4, member ship. That order" was resented ' and a strike followed. A u meeting ; of th e stockholders - was hurriedly call ed and the purpose of the union was made clear , to :them; They disap proved the action, of t)ie manager and the newunion wis recognized, but not before al! thef employes of the company: had-jolnedr. . Disputed points having been amicably adjust ed all returned to ' work. -.-.-,: LOOKING TO THE ' FUTURE. j Louisville, Ky., Jan. 4. The Ken tucky j Manufacturers ; Association has addresed a . circuh r letter to every- industrial concern, -in-' Ken tucky, asking them to .take a more active VarTin'. "the pdlltical affairs, particularly, during the primary, and state elections, next yrr, .decarJn mat mature ; consideration will is sure the placing Tod competent men in every office to be filled., The let ter, points out that it is a f undamen-tal-of good citizenship and -business to take a constructive interest Jnthe selection of candidates for political onvce. ; f jr. WANT f 1 INCREASE.:. I Augusta, Ga., Jan. 4. The union plumbers have presented - a demand to the master plumbers which calls for $6 ped day,, an increase of $1 over the oid: scale. t - FAVOR A 6-HOUR DAY. t Seattle, Wash., Jan 4.-0116-. Se attle metal trades council, represent ing "approaching". 18,000 workmen most .of who mare in , the shipyards, has adopted resolutions . favoring - six-hou day1 if necessary to " avoid unemployment during: the period of reconstruction. Metal ' trade work ers In other Pacific coast cities are asked to take similar action: In or der to assist In providing work dur ing the; ; reconstructton. period ; the country; is now passing through. " V OUT ON STRIKE. : " Tacoma, ?Wash. Jan. 4. All the city electricians, linemen and station workers are out on a general strike, demanding higher wages; The strlk ebs are asking that the new day rate be fixed at tr.20;-r i ENFORCE THEIR "RIGHTS. j St. Paul, Minn., Jan;,. 4.nv ployes of the White Enamel Company were , compelled rto , suspend - work t to enforce their right to Join 'a ' trade union; whlch they ' had - recently formed. r."rworierstederate; ' Temple, Texas, Jan. .--Representatives of the various railway i broth erhoods' met v' here v and ' effected a federation," and -elected a chairman. vice chairman i and secretary; .The following organizations were' repre sented: Brotherhoods of conductors, trainmen,o engineers firemen, tracks men' clerks. z machinists, : copper smiths,, boiler ? makers and telegraph drs. . It t is understood that . this Is part of - a 'nation-wide movement which has tor its object the bringing together5 of ' all- railway -employes' in one vast organization..- , -j ; store in"Raleighr,En by ' adrlnlirwhile you waitT - TO ENFORCE AGREEMENT.. San Francisco Jan.; 4.- The ( unloa bakersj have, served notice on tne Master Bakers' Association that they will ; strike to ! enforce an agreement entered into last April but its en forcement was suspended in i the in terest of wartime ; production. It calls for the entire abolition of night work, ' " " . : l SIR. DON'T AND MR. DO. Isn't it queer how many things' a little boy eight' years old can tnink of to do which he ought not to do? He seems' to pick out always .the things which mother as to ' say J"don'f; 'to, doesn't he? , . . . , Now Joe White was an ordinary little boy, just likel t other! little boys; ; and when he , played 'marbles in the , liouse . motner said "Don't, JoeJ because it scratched the walls; and when h piayed "coon shine" on tiie piano tor ten minutes , with two nugers mother, just had to say A v'ln ...... , 'I What's a -boy to -do, I wonder?" he thought .''B'lieve I'll pull Nellie Gray's , tall and see ' if she'll . say "don't.' Nellie - Gray . was a big grey cat. that sat in the sun all day and purred, jast as contented as could be. . ."Nellie : Gray, if , I - Just pulled 'your tail & teeny-weeny bit, would you say , 'don't? -t"., he whisp ered, And he tried it. . . , Nellie Gray still, purred. Joe White tried pulling a little harder, andr . - . Ouch!", he , cried, T runniig , to mother. ' "Muvyer, Nellie Gray said it, .top: She, said it hard.', ;He held up.a finger? down which " a little stream, of blood was trickling.' . r"Said. what, son?" mother asked, hunting , in, her work . basket , for a clean .white rag..., - . "Don't," Joe repUed "just like you said to me a while ago, only Nellie - -scratched ' when . she' said it. I wisht'l had sumpln to. do," he wailed. t - ... .Mother smiled understandingly at this; .'Dld yott think the- world was all 'don't sonny boy?". she asked. "I'll tell you what -let's do. Let's play ,'doV a while. Instead of .say ing 'don'tri vrlll sayrJoe, "do this; and instead ' of saying" 'I xlbn't want to you can just say I do want to. We'll have ; a ; 'do game ; rand any body who -says 'don't' will have to tell a' funny story as a fine. Would, you -like that?"' .-' ""Oil, kUUdf CHdr ii8$&X8- his; hands.'' "I just hate that 'word don't' mnvver." 7" '. .V .Mother let1 him sit down and 'Wind back on all the - thread that had come off the spools in - her work basket. 'All the time" he" hummed ar happy little tune, "Do, ;0 do, do."; Soon all the spools were wound up again, and he pushed the things about in -'.the; work basket. . He found a little white cord. On the other end - was -v- something f which' looked ' like lace, , and when he pull ed it came unravelled, leaving the cord -nice -and crinkly.. i He pulled and pulled. . At last mother looked down. Joe,":, she cried, . "don't." Then she laughed.. "Well, I did it first, didnt T? But. that is mother's crocheting. " Yon mustn't, pull It all out. ,' Suppose you run out into the garden and gather, some apples zor mother. - Then tonight we will have bur story ' 1 . ;'But mnwer," Joe objected, "I want the storv nWt: d0n.ti Want to Thenhe-clappedi hist hand j' over ' his mouth as mother's eyes twinkled. ;"We'll have to have' two stories; -won't wef (muwer?'! he asked, as he ent - toward : the ' kitch en "for' a basket. - That night at supper mother f and Joe . kept smiling at each other so, delightedly that finally daddy asked, what it was.- Mother: told hint, and daddy laughed. -j "Joe. yon. will have to be., mighty J careful, or poor mother wl)l. pte to tell stories all nlght,. laid" daddy. "Never mind; Joe has to tell one himself, tonight." r,rr . 'Daddv. -may I .have some more gravy?" Joe asked, holding out his plate- and looking9 at mother, think ing about his story. - f . -- "Dont tilt-your plate so7 son, daddy said sharply, Then he joined with mother and Joe in the laugh Joe saldi "I'll hold it straight next time, daddy. We Just must run Mr. Ddn't out of , this house. I. spisehlm, anyway' - - And so the" game went on . day by! day. For a long time: Joe and daddy; and mother, were kept busy thinking: up funny stories to ' tell. After a; while: however .-Mr. - Don't waaj driven away for 'good, and Mr. Da came I to take " his . place. . But moth-j er and daddy and Joe by that time had grown to' love their story-telling every night so much that they kept on .telling one apiece every night. Sarah Paris," in "Nashville Christian: Advocate.? ' r COOMPENSATION ACT VALID. ' Temple Tex.-,'4 Jan;' 4-The-'1 su preme court of; Texas ' upholds the validity of the workmen's -compensation act. in the . reversal , of judgt ments of the district court and , of the court of civil appeals in th case of "F. G. ' Vaughan et lal vs. Southwestern Surety Insurance Com pany, from Jefferson County..; - j. The .court held that the .compen sation to be, paid t for injury to an employe of a ' subscribing employer, sustained in the course of hisj em ployment and resulting in ; death, must be paid to thV legal henificiary according to law, as this suit was brought under the old law before it was" amended vby "the last .legisla ture ""'''i' " - J -- toM ! JUDICIAL AUTOCRAT.; New York,, an., 4. Ruling f that a jury4 award! ot $3,7 5 0 : was excessive for the - life -of' a 15-year-old !i "boy billed by a motor truck, the appel late, division - of . the; supreme h court ordered a new trial unless the lad's father agreed to accept ft payment of $2500 " , . - - I he decision' sustained the argu ment of the company's counsel that; since? the child never, had attended school and his father "never spent a cent ' on'" medical - men for him the verdict' was excessive. The father,' who is- a shoemaker, originally sued for. $20,000. ,t MINIMUM I WAGE $13.50. '"Victoria, British Columbia, Jah: 4 --As - the' result of aj hearing before the ' minimum wage board i the union laundry -workers were able to con vince its members that, it should fix the minimum wage for women "work ers" In that industry at hot less than $13.50' per week.-" ''After -hearing testimony as to the cost of living by representative from several' women representing different . organizations tne ooard aeternuned to set a wago or not less than 281 1-8 cents " per hour, nor less than $18.50 per week for: all females iunder cl 8 years' of age working in r laundries r Jn . the province.; .r . , , ' - t - ' . GREAT WEALTH 1NC?REAS!E. New:York;cJan.;4.-eThe following illuminating,: facts , are worthy of careful i4thought apd analizatlon TSegtfffilng.'Of thear,'fsmsl6ial!,t The- quotation; is from The Sun; and reads: , '. t r,v ; ,-v. , "Our national wealth, haa grown from probably less , than a billion at the beginning of the last century to seven billions in that' century's mid dle year and to nearly 190 billions at the beginning of . this war, ,and probably, according to . the estimate of Impartial, foreign authority, to 50 billions at .the , present ' time. Never' In' the' ' history of , civilized progress has there been a compara ble i example of . prosperous growth' self-produced and inflowing.1 -y ' UNIONS FEDERATE. Salt Lake, " Utah; j ' 4. The railroad shop' employes here-! have perfected, a federation including the following crafts: Boilermakers, ma chinists, blacksmiths, ,- electrical workers, sheet metal workers and carmen. MOTION .PLAYERS UNTIE. i Los Angeles, , Cal., Jan.. 4. Mo tion Pictdre . Players' ' Union No. 16377 has just' been organized here, being the first union of motion pic ture I players;, organized; in the coun try. -, It ... has a , charter ; from . the American Federation of Labor. . ADDED ANOTHER LINK; -Warrenville, - S. C.',' Jan. 4. The textile; workers .here have received a charter . from .the.. United Textile Workers for a. new organization to be known as Union No. 112 5, form ing another link in the chain of tex tile mills in the "Horse Creek Val ley..".. A hopeful view is taken of the prospects of organizing - .the entire valley, v. "This Is" the stadium." ! " ' ' "Fine! 7- Now 'take us through the curriculum. They say you good one -here.'- , , have Prayer is a great school.1 Nowhere else'ls truth as bright and shining Again and again at -we are on- onr. knees things become clear to r ns which had; been dark. . Statements of truth, solutions of problems .flash into, our minds as though a light .had been lighted from without. To many who have no 'gift of expression; prayer, alone' or- with -others,-, gives a power of utterance which startles them as much as it surprises others. Robert ESpeer. . ' ' - ' " THE OLD view from the streets Silver One may add to one's sterlinr T?1"' bTlt one never needs to replace it. ' it enduresL fhnmgh,; generations ordany use; Th$iV 'silver that delighU you passes'' on to your children and grand-V; j children,.. hallo wed .by senti-v 3 ment beyond moneUry . valuav - tion. , Merit of material goes hand In hand veith merit of art, fbrthe1 best'-woT of silver designers is put forth on sterling pat-h,; .e118- Tiie pestige of the Jolly f & .Wynne name adds muchv to ' the pleasure 'you have In your silver. ilt Is assurance of b weight, as well as standard standard nneness ' and the utmost value. i in ' JOLLY & WYNNE JEWELRY COJ A DHMOND . ior a : p cscht We Have aSelecV Stock , Come and Look it Over. . MPS. .The Union Trade will tie ' ' Appreciated.' v- I i Service Pins 15 Cents. A Mile From High Prices. S. W. EASON Attoniqr-at-Law ;!.-Office ; 404 Tucker Building W. C. HARRIS ; Attorney - at-Law ,Pictloelii aU ClCoatfc , Commercial Nttionkl Bank Building, .' r "? haleigh; ' " ; ' ."' 1 ' SULLIYANlj "Kinit of Shoemakers" I 15 Wesi tiar&ett St:1 ! MeijlL Ft jette, Wi!sia: BarberSHpp, ,VJ '' Service and Courtesy a Habit;"- - . A . .J' "! '- - " " " ' Miss PriceManicurist:' :c-.-i j : S -5 - Car Favtoeviue mun ttmi w w.. v-. i J(DL!L -;'. N''.J-- v- o. . ' I YARBOPiOUGH BARBERSHOP S. P. BRANCH Prop. Phoo17t. RELIABLE DRUG STORE, i i a The prettiest V