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Show THE. WiVr-.'OR Washington Aug 27. President Wilson never put Into any note to Germany Ger-many urn n more thought. or more conscientious and painstaking labor than Samuel Qompsrs, president of the American K Icrnilon of Labor. Is putting into his Labor Day message to America's workers. Normally 8am can talk or write labor la-bor mess-mes with his eyes i"hut. But tlx old lorms and the old appeals Somehow don't fill the Will today .Nobody .No-body recognizes that more fully than Qompers. So Instead ot attempting Co prepare his Lator Day message in his nfiiie at federatleh headQuarters, Where he would )e subjeel to Inter-niptlohs; Inter-niptlohs; intrusions and oonfllctlng suggestions, he hns packed his grip, bought an i tra box ot cigars und disappeared. dis-appeared. lie will stay in hiding for a full week at least, and when be emerges hopes to bring back with him a message mes-sage that v.ill nlvc America, both In end out of organized labor, a new un- demanding of the aims, aspirations and program of the A. F. of L. From the secretary of the American! Protective. Tariff league cornea an er.- vclop containing a HardlnK-Coolldge button with tne device In ted letter-Ing. letter-Ing. "Smile " V a. 1 hav- no doubt j I bat when AtiUu, son of Mondzukh.! v.aa storming through Thesaaly at thej head of his horrJea, Rome could have produced some aaa who would have "uSTgested a button to bo worn by the 0 bout-to-be-ravaged inha hlia nts painted paint-ed prettily In red letters; "Smile " A new link uniting north and south la the now ocean at- amshtp serv ice Just Inaugurated between Richmond, V&., and New York. Didn't know Richmond was accessible accessi-ble to ocean-going steamers, did you? Neither did moat folUn. But that she IS la attested by the fact that the 3000-! ton steamer ljike PYanOSSi sailing front New York Aug 14. docked at Richmond Aug. 17. A Slater vessel, the Lake SteVllnp. is to he placed on the same route, and weekly sailings will he made between tea York and the Virginia Capital. Thv eatubliahment of this all-water route from the center of the Old Do-1 minion to the nation's metropolis will enable the products of the south t move to market more directly and i cheaply than ever hefor. It uleo mark a new strp in the co-l 'ordination ot our inland waterways with our ocean ahlpplnsi. BSfStofDre (hipping on the James river has been restricted to truffle moving between ; Richmond and Newport News or Norfolk Nor-folk Now. however, it Is to move directly di-rectly to aea In the aame bottoma In which It was loaded at Richmond Ann Mlrhmond aguin has viMons o' a ' dev elopment that will put her. commercially, where she waa In the I eld davs of her giandeur. before thej 1 Civil ar. |