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Show 1 LKIfl FhEE PRESS. LKHLlTAH to the scene of war did not fly the American flag, that it carried no ana HEARD around the nXtional CAPITAL; Carter Field ) President Roosevelt Washington does not intend that the construction of the two new battleships to cost $50,000,000 each shall be etarted until he has exhausted every possibility for obtaining an international agreement to cease such construction. That is the real reason that there appears to be so much ground work to be gotten out of the way before construction can actually start. The truth is that the Navy department would be able to call for bids within hours after the Presitwenty-foudent gave its ollicials the green light. The Navy department always has plans for new battleships. It keeps r changing them as this or that factor develops as each new discovery is made. It has been a long time, so far as can be discovered since any really important change in the general lines of construction was made. The last two big ones were the changes designed to make the big ships less vulnerable to submarine and airplane attack. Strangely enough, the defense from airplane attack was not as important as might be thought. The chief idea is a very heavily armored deck, at some little distance below the "false" deck that the visitor on a battleship sees. But this armored deck was forced not so much by airplane bombs as by "plunging" fire. The real target shell of a fourteen or sixteen-incis not the side of the ship but its deck. This is because, when the shell strikes, it will be falling in a slow arc very close to the perpendicular. In fact, it hits almost precisely as would an airplane h American citizens, and was not insured by an American underwriter. He admits that copper, steel and manganese are in a definitely more warlike category than foodstuffs, but is not certain as to whether he would ban them. So that the advocates of an embargo against imports of any sort from any belligerent nation would seem to be a long ways out in front of the procession for the moment at least. STRIKES SET TO ;SW 1 MUSICimTaIIS 1 to Itritt Strikers Have Their Fun, but eReminder That Objective I Serious Bun- 'Sit-Dow- n' Is e Self-Diiplin- O EtO Syndicate m fter All. r Wj -- of ftt T pto Ireland? 6. What World war brought forth the 6hall not pass?" 7. In what famous child'. does "the Red Queen" gPP 8. What mythology tells w H halla? :',-.- ; 10. What is a bom.; 11. Who was Ca!ig 12. Who wrote t; "Peaae- - stories? Laws intended 1, 2. A t m ..ei S agau.iz. securities. Of Poor Japanese rice beer. A 1 p:pe .looacco , m emuivc la uiuvYii mtougn water 4. Secluded. 5. Belfast. 6. The attack on Verdun Sii7A - 7. "Alice Through the vvx Ira vV. -- ' . kl v' through the gates or hoist up to the may have started the was the miners of Hungary or Wales. strike. Maybe it been French factory workers. have Or again, it might But it took Americans to set it to "swing" music. America's new strike technique, as fostered by impressarios John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization and Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America, may be of grim purpose and persistent determination, but it is also light in spirit. M sit-do- Take a typical scene about a striking automobile body plant. Parked along the curbs and in the street outside the plant are scores of cars containing sympathizers with the workers or simply the idly curious. Have they come in the hope of seeing some excitement a riot, perhaps? No. They have come to listen to one of the nightly concerts played by the strikers' orchestra! And as the closing strains of "Pennies From Heaven" or "It's float out the windows of the plant, there is a chorus of honking applause from the audience. This is not an indication that the strikers are a bunch of loafers, bent on having a good time. It is actually one of the applications of "big business" methods to striking. If organized recreation makes happier industrial workers, so it makes strikers happier and more effective. Concerts are a part of an program of discipline and education which is a far cry from the conduct of strikes of the past. 30,-00- d shut-dow- n efficiently-administere- d Long Known In Mines. is It also a far cry from the earliest strikes, which are for the strikers do not actually sit down very much. They only remain inside the plant in which they worked, guarding the "sit-dow- mis-name- d, property against invasion by "scabs" until their demands are $100.-000,0- ps met. Perhaps John L. Lewis, long known in mine labor circles, adapted this idea from a practice of miners over many years past. A miner who was not being given enough timber to "shore" his place would squat and refuse to load any coal until the timber arrived. The superintendent usually lost no time in getting it to him. or The first stay-istrike to gain wide attention was that in the mines of Pecs, Hungary, in 1934. Miners down in the shafts refused to come up and even threatened to commit suicide en masse if their working conditions and pay were not improved. A year later the same idea was adopted by workers in colleries of Wales. The strike became so widely applied in France last year it produced a crisis which was re- lieved only when the government, in a great hurry, passed a new col-- i lective bargaining measure and sev eral other labor laws. Strikers "Protect" Property. In the United States it first received wide attent'on when employes of art and theater projects of the WPA "stayed-in- " but refused to work until their demands were met. Workers claim that when they strike inside a plant, they actually protect the property. But while they are there, the company cannot put anyone else on their jobs. Company ollicials claim this is trespassing and illegal. First net of the union hen a strike is called is to choose groups of pickets and captains, to n n n j sit-do- police the plant and grounds. It is of considerable advantage if the plant is located on the street, and not set far back from the gate, for the success of the strike depends upon the workers' control of all entrances and exits. The way must be kept open for despatches of food and other supplies to come in. If you can say an army marches on its stomach, you can say a modern strike sits down on its stomach. If a plant has windows which open to the street, supplies may be passed in without the necessity of entering through one of the gates. Women Are Chaperoned. Strike leaders realize that to keep the sympathy of the public they must remain orderly. Mobs with an axe to grind do not remain orderly for long unless their minds are occupied, unless there are means provided for expending the natural energy their bodies create. For that reason to every striker is assigned some duty. He may be given a certain area to keep clean, a certain "watch" to patrol or a "shift" on messenger duty. If there are women among the strikers they may be charged with information desks, with preparing food, mending clothing, or even running impromptu beauty parlors to keep up the appearance of their colleagues. Chaperonage is usually of the strictest order, and there have been cases in which the regular plant matrons stayed in with the strikers to administer this important job. The information clerks are often as not the liaison between the strikers and their families or friends outside. Wives often call at windows to see their husbands. Often ruses are employed in attempts to get the men out and home for a few hours; guards are told that Sam Jones' wife has had a baby, that Art Johnson's son is stricken with pneumonia. Pickets soon learn to investigate such claims thoroughly before giving a striker a pass-ou- t check. Strikers are not nearly so uncomfortable as might he imagined. In the automobile plants there are usually enough rear seat cuslvons at hand to provide plenty of soft beds, while floor coverings make good blankets. Wives Cook the Meals. Barrels, kegs and boxes serve for chairs and are fairly comfortable, at that. On steel tab'es the strikers play such games as checkers, monopoly and poker. Washers can serve as either checkers or chips; a checkerboard can easily be fashioned from a piece of cardboard, and where can vou find a fnw h,,n! dred men w thout a deck of cards among them? Food usually is cooked in a hnll near the plant. Fomc'.imes a chef from a restaurant in the town the work. The wives and sweethearts of the strikers do most of the actual cooking, and pnrk the many tubs and baskets which union messengers transport o!li-ci- WAII 1. Keep your head clear 2. Protect your throat 3. Help build up 6 AH ATM A GIIANDI (J FOR A COLD n By WILLIAM C. UTLEY -, Booth Tarkington. DON'T " strikers in Cleveland, while others in a Hint, Card games help to while away the time for and friends. Below: Workers protest disrelatives to out windows the shown greet are Mich., plant leaning strike. Inset: John L. Lewis, leader a missal from WPA theater project in New York City by calling of the Committee for Industrial Organization. n Look:- 8. The Norse. 9. For a system of education 10. A rich vein of ore. 11. A Roman emperor from 37 12. war-tim- p - vctui is be effective until that date. This almost forgotten so far as the United States is concerned factor was one of the causes of bitterness on the part of the French about the war debt. How could they pay us if we wouldn't take their tie-u- w,, 4. What Hom "nU a. wnat is tne capital hK- SACfl- nentlybeginning in January, 1920, e and that prohibition would tie-u- .. ..! ba-tl- Economists in the Department of Commerce, however, point out that a nation engaged in a really important war would not be able to produce any considerable amount of goods for export anyhow. It would be too busy producing supplies for its own fighting fortes. A huge percentage of its ordinary producing men would be called to the col ors, its working women, both from factory and farm, to plants produc ing supplies needed for the army and navy. Then there are other develop ments, aside from these obvious ones. For example, Italy did not have to strain very much, in a mili tary way, in her Ethiopian'war. But she was obliged to stop the export crops lemons. That is the reason the price of lemons in the United States was so much higher than last year. One of the few exceptions is wine. It may be recalled that the French had piled up an enormous amount of wine by the close of the World war. They thought they could sell huge quantities of it, at high prices, in the United States. In the excitement of war they had overlooked the fact that the United States was to try the prohibition experiment every one here thought perma- two-edge- fa Wj 1. What are "blue sky 2. What is sake? S. WTiat is a hookah' As Economists See It products? So, altogether, the idea of banning imports from a nation at war is likely to be more of a thumbing bomb. ecoThis gradually developed with the of the nose rather than a real threat. nomic No of big guns. increasing range matter what the velocity of a shell Worry Over Strike is, it falls as soon as it stops Win, lose or draw, the C. I. O. as war rising with the same speed with General Motors is giving though it were released from a considerable distress to those optiHence to ob- mists bombing plane. President Roosevelt's tain great range it is necessary to advisersamong who had counted on mag"elevate" the guns to an extraor- nificent increases in federal tax dinary angle. Thus when the shell revenues as a result of improved 0 strikes a target say at 20,000 to business conditions. been have must shell that yards It is working as a a terrific distance up in the air at sword, lopping off corporation earnthe top of the trajectory. ings, not only of the motor companies, but of every company that Change in Fighting sells things to everybody affected, old from the It is this change and also boosting the unemployment days of sea fighting which results in a battle line of ships now at- relief expenditures that the government will make. tempting to maintain a broadside Estimates of 200,000 men out of position to the enemy instead of be made by the representatives work, hos toward the headed directly ing motor companies here, are of the for tile ships. It is much easier long as very conservative. It regarded range gunners to hit a ship facing is not only the men actually workthem or steaming directly away nor even from them than it is a ship which ing in the motorin plants, factories those making employed seems to present a much bigger tar etc. The attempt glass, plate parts, on. broadside get by being In short, as the shell is falling by C. I. O. to cut off the supplies when it hits, it is much easier to hit of the automobile manufacturers is the length of a ship which runs hitting a number of other industries. For instance, it is hitting buildup to 1.000 feet than her width which is around 100 feet at the ing construction by cutting down the supply of plate glass, the chief widest part. But the whole point now is that object of which was to hamstring for several years there have been the motor makers. Henry Ford is to use laminatvery few important changes in fun- reported to be about so real is the damental construction of battle- ed window glass, As a matter of fact, few shortage of the glass normally used. ships. of hamstring, have been built anywhere since the This particular MoGeneral not hits only which course, arms conference Washington tors, at which it was aimed, but all concluded in the winter of 1922. as Aviation enthusiasts thought there the other auto manufacturers would never be any more. The ad- well. mirals still want a lot of the big Hits Revenue President Roosevelt infellows. So that actually, on a part of the clines to the side of the admirals loss to all these big corporations, in this controversy, but is still hopethe government is actually taking ful that some common sense agreement can be reached whichgWould more than half of the loss of profits considerably more than half, if save the American taxpayers in this particular instance, one reflects that before the diviand the taxpayers of Britain, Japan dends are paid out the government and Germany, not to mention some takes 15 per cent of the ret earnings other countries! which really cannot of the corporations. This 15 per afford new battleships, equal sums. cent loss of revenue will apply to all corporation losses of earnings Moreover, the President is definiteor whatnot. ly of the opinion that an armament due to strikes, But it is on the individual inrace does not make for peace. comes that the loss will be highest. War Boycott Due to the new tax on undistributed as eviProposal to boycott any country earnings, corporations, at war that is to refuse to buy its denced last month, are making evexports is the latest development ery effort to pay out all net earnamong what might be called the ings to stockholders. So that aft"Peace Is Worth Any Price" to er taking 15 per cent of the net ovoid the less flattering "Peace At loss due to the strikes, the government will then lose a big slice of Any Price" element in congress. Trade experts are inclined to re- tax revenue from the individual gard this addition to the plan of re- stockholders. Some of the percentfusing to sell war supplies as rather ages of course will be fairly low, academic, especially as there is by but nearly all security holders, no means any certainty that a ma- with few exceptions, pay income jority of congress yould vote to taxes, and every dollar lost through ban all war supplies. the strike will come out of the highrends est brackets that particular taxpayThe present language "arms, , ammunition and imple- er reaches. It will come off the top. When 200.000 well paid men for ments of war." "This doss not include steel, copper end manganese, most of them affected by this strike though every one admits these are were earning way above the averessential war supplies. It does not age wa;e paid labor throughout tne include colton, which should prob- country stop buying anything but ably come in the next category, and necessities, the earnings of a great docs not include foodstuffs. many corporations not affected diNor is there any certainty that rectly by the will be cut. they will be included. For example. Washington observers do not atSenator Bennett C. Clark of Mis- tempt to belittle the skimming of souri, one of the leading advocates the cream idea, for it works to the f a drastic neutrality law, would detriment of the Treasury in every put foodstuffs and cotton on a cash possible change of earnings. And und carry basis. That fc, any belthe Treasury was counting heavily ligerent could buy them, providing on improved business conditions to they were paid for Bt the port of boost taxpayers into higher bracket New York or any other American classes. BrU Syne.-WN- U Servlcs, port, that the ship carrying them A General YOUR ALKALINE RESERVE windows. 5 There is no liquor for anyone. DO ALL For, while there is no objection to THRE! the strikers' having a good time during their siege, the objective is too precious to risk what even one Doing Good lone striker might do if he were There never was a person rho "not himself". did anything worth doing that did Discipline in some plants apnot receive more than he gave.- The standards. proaches military are rigidly H. W. Beecher. rules, obeyed ; the few infractions are punished swiftly and severely. The old fraternity house method is used in You Never Know When the majority of cases; the is made to "assume the anthe Children Get a Cold gle" over a table or box, after How Serious It Will Be which his fellows vigorously apply Prevent carious complications d barrel staves upon the strategic common col'ds by using Denver Mud. LUDEN'S d, spot. The offense is seldom repeated. The orderly conduct of the strikers is aptly illustrated by one plant. Men Do Own Washin;s. A bugle call arouses the men from their slumbers at 7 a. m. Some take advantage of the shower baths provided in the plant; everybody washes well, behind the ears and all. Forty-fiv- e minutes later in the Wherever there is congestion bronchial irritation, spread on Ihij remedy and see quickly reliei will come. package always in your chest. AT tiwTime, CBti Eat or Sleep 10 W "The gas on my stomach was Even W I could not eat or sleep. imp friend A heart seemed to hurt. dose too I Bested Adlerika. The first Brouoht me relief. Now ?'., wish, sleep fine and never felt bew Mrs. Jas. Filler. Adlerika acts on BOTH upper wl lower bowels while ordinary "" act on the lower bowel only. clean" pives your system a thorouan mara ing, bringing out old, poisonous that you would not believe was system and that has been causing j" stomach, nervousness" Sains, sourfor months. Dr. H. L. Shoub, WNU and was strut.." a ' .'dot "I'V K 1021 ence Pilgn 1 v l'ie yor? discipline developed and main-tameIt is not hard to see that an :d:e mob banded constantly :. t out of d. vo-J- nu uy some act defeat its own ends ' Western Union! & I was 01 and had become thin to be gained if they will con- tinue ,0 be rersistently pat:ent. : Perhaps the lmnortnnro nf down strike aa a wearon of "abor Newp,-.- WEAK! THIN, ARE "Wlitn a result designed promote happier relations between vmpiojer and employe. And in the partes of the strikers there is plenty of propaganda suppled by the eaders to keep up enthusiasm the strike. Mixed in with for the swing" music and songs is an occasonal of a familiar ballad aparaphrase new lvrl minding the strikers of the advan-a-e- s of violence 4- -S W GIRLS a Uup0n w" Vorh, V tn addition to tnUUinal elrmiine, ""J? colon freatlr reduces 6fr(o and Give your bowels a REAL cleans' good how see with Adlerika and w feel. Just one spoonful relieves all At and constipation. Druggists. the strikers In the regular employes' meetings and "parties" when there is no strike on, the company seldom fails to include to propaganda vuPTl? 2St a tra can usually be rounded up from the rar:ks of hill-bill- STORES Memory Memory is the treasure-houof the mind wherein the monir ments thereof are kept and p served. Fuller. 1 , I Practical size, Family size, 50c company cafeteria the breakfast sent in by the women folks is served fruit, cereal, milk, coffee, rolls and doughnuts. For lunch there will be stew, dessert and coffee. At night meat, potatoes, vegetables, coffee and dessert. When they have finished breakfast, the men patrol their assignments. The plant is kept almost as clean as it is when there is no strike on. They do their own laundry in some cases; the conveyor es resemble back yards on wash day. borne of the men, of course, send their laundry home. Time is not allowed to drag. When the work is done the strikers may, if they wish, attend classes which are conducted under the auspices of the union officials. Here they may De instructed in public speak mg, economics, physical culture and, to be sure, labor problems. Propaganda With Entertainment. There are generally two im portant meetings every day. The strikers' executive committee meets and discusses the progress of the movement at noon; later on there is a general meeting at which an me strikers are advised as tc what is going on. After dinner at night there is in variably community entertainment, aum 1S mignt De tound in a boys tdinp. naaios provide music for community singing part of the time In addition, All DBUG how Keep mediant nali;. m,vhrr giving . inscription' Favon tonic. I used it off and on over of some months and I hail a K "v,' and was strons; enough to go lia'' tor,1jj, New sire, tab. 50 cts.. 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