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NATION’S WORKERS HAVE
CONFIDENCE IN WILSON
President Tells Delegation of the American
Federation of Labor That His Principal Ambi
tion is to Wipe Out All Lines of Division and
Class Feeling
Washington— President Wilson told
a delegation from the American Fed
eration of I>abor late today that all
class feeling in America should be
wiped out by the establishment of Jus
tice “with a heart In it.” He declared
that no one who fails to work for this
end is qualified to call himself a true
American.
The delegation comprised the mem
bership of the federation's annual con
vention which has been meeting in
Baltimore. The delegates came to
Washington on special cars and
marched to the White House headed
by a hand to congratulate the president
on his re-election. Samuel Oompers,
president of the federation, acting as
their spokesman, declared laboring
people had come to recognize that Mr.
Wilson stands for Justice, freedom and
righteousness. “We have taken Joy in
Upholding your hands In your great
Work.” said Mr. Oompers.
“I need not say that.’ coming to me
as you do ou such an errand, 1 am very
deeply grffViflea and very greatly
cheered,” said the president In reply.
“It would he Impossible for me offhand
to say Just what thoughts are stirred
In me by what Mr. Oompers has said
to me ss your spokesman. What • I
have tried to do is to get rid of any
class division in this country not only,
hut of ahy class consciousness arid
feeling The worst thing that could
happen to America would be that she
should be divided into groups and
camps in which there were men and
women who thought that they were
at odds with one another, that the
spirit of America was not expressed
except In them, and that possibilities
of antagonism were the only things
that we had to look forward to.
Unity of Bpirit.
“As Mr. Oompers said, achievement
Is a comparatively small matter, hut
U. S. IS STUDYING
DEPommieii of
BELGIAN WORKERS
Berlin, Thursday, Nov. 16.—Via Lon
don, Nov. 18.) I'oportaUoni « if worl.
m«»n from Belgium da vs boon madt' the
iubjf*ct of <artful ntudy by Jostph (\
Grow, charge rt'affnlra of the Unilfni
Hutfl* embassy herjp.
Mr draw has been collecting Infor
mation from various sources and un
officially with tin- higher German offi
cial* to get nm tor ini in shape for a con
ference which he hope* noon to have
with the Imperial chancellor.
The Hubject In an extremely delicate
one diplomatically and it require*
adept handling wince not the United
Htnten but Spain la entrusted formally
with the protection «»f HHgian Inter
?M But the prominent part taken by
the United S:aw-s in th»* question of
Belliian relief will, it la believed, lead
he German government to show an
;nlerstam!lng for the Interest the
'•merlcan government la displaying in
this question.
For Transfer to Germany.
The chief criticism of the German
lan ueetni to lie not against the geu
•*al idea of providing work, but with
«. rutin aspect* of the enforcement of
» general scheme, notably the appar
ntlv unsystematic manner of select
ami .iHsemlding the men for traus
r. r to German
Mr Grew probably will aee the itn
c t! chancellor within the next few
The German government, according
to authoritative statements, will not
*mtote to give the Washington gov
ernmont the fleshed information re
rgrdtng the Belgian workmen. The
< erinan foreign office mulerstamla
at the Amei#'sn step wsa evoked by
' grlnus report* circulating ahroad re
; rding German action In Belgium, and
by a desire to have authentic informs
• lon ret? anting the measures to he
taken in case such report* should
threaten to interfere with the execu
tion of Belgian rails! work t|d tha col
lect ion of fund* In the I'm ted Stales.
S Yhis reccoiw 1 * sTurr acovc^x'Z
= s=J Fz~ri TO TUO CAftACS Hfc WILL fIWtJH J
r -"T- it fee-OiNC out rnex« •«.
! the spirit In which things are done la
I of the essence of the w hole thing, and
; what I am atriving for. and what I
hope you are striving for, is to blot
| out all the llnea of division in America
and create a unity of spirit and of
i purpose founded upon this, the con
| sclouaness that we ore all men and
| women of the same sort, and that if w«
J do not understand each other, we are
i not true Americans If we cannot en
! ter into each other’s essential welfare,
j then we have not yet qualified as rep*
I reaentatlves of the American spirit.
“Nothing alarms America so much
as rifts, divisions, the drifting apart of
elements among her people, and the
thing we ought all to strive for Is to
close up- every rift, and the only way
to do It, ho far as I can see, is to es
tablish Justice not only, hut Justice
with a heart In It, Justice with a pulse
In it, Justice with sympathy In It.
Growing in America.
Justice can he cold and forbidding
or It can he warm and welcome, and
the latter Is the only kind of Justice
that Americans ought to desire, bdo
not believe I am deceiving myself when
I say that I think this spirit is grow
ing in America. I pray Ood It may
j continue to grow, and nil I have to say
! is to exhort everyone whom my voice
i leaches here or else*’he re to come into
this common movement of humanity.”
In addressing Mr. Wilson Mr. Oom
pers h»ld the delegates had decided
without any pre-arrangement to come
and congratulate the president.
"We hope that your next four years
In the White House,” he continued,
will he filled with the meat of achieve
ment for the good of humanity.”
After the speeches all the delegates
shook hands with the president.
"Lookout for ray hoys,” said “Moth
■ • ha gi eet< d M i Wilson
3 KILLED AS TRAIN
BACKS INTO AUTO
Fitzgerald.—When Bn Ocllla South
ern Iruln hacked Into the au'omoblle
In which they were riding. three mcm
hera Of a party of five were Instantly
killed and two others Inured hore Sat
urday nfternoon. The (loud are Will
.1 Royal, Jr., driver of the onr; Miss
Mirndo Itnval. his sister, and a Miss
Taylor, a teacher si Ami rose.
The Injured are Miss McOough, who
sustained ii double fracture of one leu,
and the Rev ('buries Pritchett, who
»■« severely bruised hut not danger
ously hurt.
The party was rlrttng out Central
avenue when the train, barking down
from the depot, crashed into the ear.
drugging It for several yards along
the tracks.
cigablkers at
TAMPA REFUSE IT
Ts mpi, Fls.—Tha committee repre
senting the cigar manufacturers Sat
in day offered tha striking elf armakers,
who arc asking for u rai** t»f $3 par
thousand on each size, what they are
asking, provided they would base their
demands upon the prices being paid to
the worker* In Key West and Jack
sonville. The offer was referred to
m ms** meeting of the striker* Sat
urday afternoon and voted down.
The manufacturer* claim Tampa
wage* are higher than those in any
city where the clear Havana cigar* are
made. The strikers Admit this to be
true.
JOSEPH WILSON DEAD.
Johnstown, Pse— Joseph Wilson, aged
v»3, a brother of William B. Wilson,
secretary' of labor, was killed today
while placing pillars in a mine at St.
Benedict, near here, when a big rock
fell on him.
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STARTING NOW ON
PLANS FOR 1918
NAVYJPROGRAM
Washington. —Navy department of
ficial are preparing to use at the Phil
adelphia, Norfolk and Bremerton yards
the 16,000,000 provided by congress, for
the equipment of navy yards for ship
construction. The Philadelphia yard
will sret the hulk of the appropriation.
Awards for fourteen destroyers were
announced Saturday but the contracts
for four battleships and two destroy
ers still are pending in the depart
ment In addition to the four scout
cruisers' and twenty-nine submarines
for which bids have been received.
Bids for the four battle cruisers will
be opened December fith, and when
all of these have been placed a de
cision will be made as to improve
ments at each of the three designated
yards
Officials now believe the entire
building progrnm for next year will be
placed with private builders Eight
of the destroyers awarded Saturday
will be built by the Fore River Ship
building Company and six by the
Union Iron Works, San Francisco.
William Cramp & Sons of Philadel
phia were the next lowest bidders and
will get the remaining two If they
agree to the form of contract Insisted
upon by the department. Otherwise
the vessels will be built in government
yards There Is no thought that the
department will attempt the construc
tion of battlo cruisers except as a last
resort. t
With the prospect that congress will
authorise three more battleships and
one battle cruiser before March 4th,
however, department officials believe
the navy yards may have to help out
with construction work on the 1918
program. In addition to the capital
ships, Secretary Daniels, it is under
stood. will recommend the construc
tion of fifteen submarines, ten destroy
ers and several auxiliaries in the 1918
program.
Chairman Padgett of the house na
val committee Saturday announced
that his committee would begin hear
ings Monday in preparation for fram
ing the navy hill for the coming ses
sion. He said the department's esti
mates for the bill would approximate
$375,000,000.
PELLAGRA REPORT
IB MADE PUBLIC
New York.—Pellagra, from which
more than 100,000 persona in thl*
country arc said to be suffering, can
be controlled uncording to a report by
a commission of the post-graduate
medical school and hospital of this
city made public Saturday.
The commission also announced it*
conclusion that the disease is Infec
tious and 1* not cau*ed by an un
balanced or Inadequate diet. They
found the disease spreads through lack
of proper sewage facilities and that
the most effective means of combat
ting It Is by the Installation of effi
cient sewage systems.
These finding* are the result of an
extensive investigation which tlve
commission has conducted in Spar
tanburg county. South Carolina.
The commission admitted that it had
not discovered the cause of the dis
ease, but reported it had disproved
the theories that pellagra was due to
the bite of the black fly, that it was
caused by the presence of certain min
erals in drinking water, or by eating
too much corn.
To test Its theory, a sewage system
was built In Spartan mills described by
the commission ‘as the worst pellagra
foci In South Carolina.”
The result was, *ald the report, that
only one person living In the sewered
district contracted the disease In the
lust twelve months. "From the worst
typ of pellagra focus the district ha*
been changed to a community in which
the disease no longer spreads,” the re
port declared.
BTOGIEMAKERS STRIKE.
Wheeling, W. Vs.—A strike of sto
giemakers was called here Saturday
after local manufacturers had refused
to grant an increase in wages of $l
per thousand to rollers and a half cent
a pound •to strippers Nearly 1.250
persons employed in forty-five facto
ries quit work. The strike was sanc
tioned sometime ago by a referendum
vote.
Where British Troops Smash German Lines
Held “Impregnable” For Two Years
g $ WILD
This map shows the old and new lines of the British and French along the
Somme; and, In the upper part of the map (where arrow points) the territory
gained by the British in their sudden drive along the Ancre. They took the
district Including the towns of St. Pierre Dlvlon and Beaumont-Hamel, extend
ing their gains further north than Serre. The heavy black line is the present
allied front; the dotted line shows the front before the Somme and Ancre drives.
Exploding Shell Strips French Captain
of His Trousers and $l6O.
(By Mary Boyle O’Reilly.)
London. —" Even a soldier who es
capes pays the price,” observed a
,French captain of artillery in Lon
don on furlough, with five golden rays
across his sleeve.
"I was sent out to a German obser
vation post from which we might lo
cate several batterjes of eight-inch
guns. The position, captured two days
before, could only be reached by
crawling from shell hole to shell hole.
It consisted of a small tree built about
with scaffolding, from which the Ger
mans had enjoyed a ‘safe view of the
old French lines.
“Climbing the scaffolding, I had a
good look at the enemy. My arrival
was greeted by a salvo of shells. Big
splinters smashed the frail platform
BRYAN TALKS AT
W.C.T.U. SESSION
Indianapolis, Ind.—William J. Bry
an, former secretary of state, at a con
ference with delegates to the conven
tion of the National Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union here late to
day, advised the women to do" every
thing possible to stimulate rivalry be
tween the democratic and republican
parties in the cause of prohibition.”
"The democrats have got to take the
dry side." he said, “and the republi
cans will be forced to it.” He reit
erated his former statements that he
intended to work for a constitutional
prohibition amendment. Speaking of
the recent election, he declared the
democrats had won in a way to relieve
them from responsibility to the liquor
interests. Mr. Bryan advised the wo
men to write to their senators and
congressmen in favor of prohibition.
The present fashions in women’s
dress were condemned by kfes. Lu
renda B. Smith, of Ottawa, Kan. She
said:
"Cry aloud against the Immodest
dress of women and girls. The time
is here that one cannot tell by the
dress of women the pure woman from
the courtesan, so flagrantly immodest
has the fashion of dress become.”
FREE POLAND
on which I stood, so that I tied myself
by my belt to the swaying tree. Only
a direct hit could bring me down.
"Two minutes later an eight-inch
shell exploded directly beneath me. As
I was in the heart of the explosion,
no shrapnel touched me. But the dis
placement of air was so tremendous
that I came to stripped of breeches,
vest, tunic—bare as a worm.
“My uniform had vanished Into thin
air—and in my lost pockets were $l6O
- 5,000,000 Frenchmen fight for
one cent a day, $l6O seems a lot of
money. Fulling myself together I took
a greatcoat from a dead comrade, and
so crawled back to the post.
"But, while life lasts, I will never
cease to reflect on all the pleasures I
might have bought with that $160.”
i CONTEST FOR
MINNESOTA VOTE
St. Paul, Minn. —Democratic leaders
in Minnesota were inclined Saturday
night to accept without contest the
verdict of Secretary of State Sehmahl,
announced Saturday, that Charles E.
iluphes is officially the winner of Min
nesota's twelve electoral votes. State
ment made by the lenders Saturday
night was that a oontest in the state
is improbable, unless the republicans
insist on a recount In California.
Hughes’ plurality as officially an
nounced was 396, the smallest plural
ity a republican candidate for
dent ever was given In this state.
WRINKLES NOT IN STYLE.
In a shop recently a well-known ac
tress. who is noted for her perennial
youth, asked for a traveling bag of alli
gator skin. The shopkeeper, who had
none of that particular sort, brought out
instead some of smooth leather.
“And you tell me this ts alligator
skin'.’” objected the actress. Why. where
are all Its wrinkles?”
"Ah. madam.” replied the wily dealer,
who knew his customer, "wrinkles are out
of vogue. The correct alligator bag ts
made from the skin of an alligator that
has been massaged.”
A prude is sometimes a woman who
noses around for something to get
shocked at.
THINK VILLA ORDERED
ALL FOREIGNERS KILLED
Probably Six Americans Were in Parral When
Refugees, Now Arriving, Left the District.
German Consul Has Grave Fears For Their
Safety
Juarez, Mexico. —Max Weber, the
German consul In charge of German
diplomatic affairs in northern Mexico,
announced here today he had received
reports from both Chinese and Mexican
refugees arriving here from Jiminez
that Villa had ordered all of the for
eigners in Parral and the Parral dis
trict killed. These refugees, he said,
had come from Jiminez after talking
with their countrymen who had arriv
ed there from Parral.
“The reported conditions in Parral
as being much worse than we know,'
Consul Weber said. "I have received
the report of the killing of Edgar Kock
and Theodore Hoemuller from these
refugees but I am Inclined to doubt the
report of Kock's death, as I think he
is in hiding near Santa Rosalia. I
have grave fears for the safety of the
foreigners In the Parral district.”
Think Ail Killed.
El Paso, Texas. —From a Chinese re
fugee from Parral, United States gov
ernment agents here today received a
report that all of the foreigners re
maining In Parral, exclusive of the five
known to have left for Culican and
thought to have arrived there, had
been killed by the Villa bandits.
United States government represen
tatives here also have received prac
tically the same report from a Chinese
refugee who arrived in Juarez Thurs
day night. These reports agree that
Villa and his bandits, after occupying
the mining town, ordered the foreign
y. S. TO AID CITIES SOLVE PROBLEM
OF “THE BABY THAT HAS NO NAME"
(By F. M. Kerby.)
Washington, D. C. —Uncle Sam is now
ready to help cities solve the age-old
problem of the Baby That Has No Name
by furnishing any and every city in the
country a carefully prepared schedule,
the use of which is record keeping will
aid In securing that uniformity of records
which is essential to any study of the
question.
The problem of the illegitimate child
has stared civilization in the face for
ages. Nobody has known much about
it. Nobody knows how many fatherless
babies there are, nobody knows how
much society has to pay for the problem
of illegitimacy.
"The trouble about securing informa
tion about Illegitimate children," said
Miss Helen L. Sumner, assistant chief of
the children’s bureau in charge of the
work, “is that inquirers usually try to
find out TOO MUCH; that is. more than
it is practicable to secure accurately in
any inquiry of this character.
"The schedule we have prepared and
which we will furnish to any city au
thorities is designed to secure the in-
SIMPLER STYLES, EXPENSE
LESS IN WOMEN’S CLOTHES
Chicago. —Ultra fashionable clothing
for women promises to be less expen
sive than the leading styles a year
ago, in spite of increased costs of ma
terials, members of the National Cloak,
Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Asso
ciation said Saturday at the close of
their annual convention and fashion
show. The styles will be simpler and
the cost of manufacture will be less,
they said.
The simple tailored suit, the straight
line suit and the sport suit will be the
models In suits, and the cloaks will be
the motorcoat, the sport coat, and the
top coat, knee length.
HER SECRET.
For many years she had borne her se
cret, never for one whole day escaping
Its terrifying Influence. Day by day she
had developed into a coward, a creature
always afraid, as though one stray word
would condemn her.
There were those associated with her
youth who knew her secret, and she was
afraid of them as though they carried
pistols. She avoided her family, except
to see them privately when no strangers
were around, none of those who made up
her present life.
She avoided visits to her old home town
for fear of some chance mention of it.
In that old home town were people who
knew! Some times one of these of
fenders died, and she experienced relief;
there was one less to tell to betray her.
Time that generally lssens the acute
torture of things, only added to hers.
Every time anyone looked scrutinizlngly
at her she experienced a little tremor of
fear that they had discovered or heard.
She took to lying about herself and her
life to lead people astray—off the track.
She denied her presence at certain places
at certain times, even denied her ac
quaintance with certain persons more or
less Intimately associated with her. Her
father knew them, or her brother, but
not she.
At last she fell 111, and it was not the
illness that caused her the terrible fever
ish anxiety. It was the fear that if she
died her secret would leak out. Even
the papers might get hold of it It
would be printed broadcast and then—
She grew pale—she writhed In the
agony not of death but of fear.
Her secret was her age.—Judge.
THEIR SPELLING MATCH.
After attending a minstrel show one
evening. Mr Topping thought he'd try
some of the jokes on hts wife at break
fast next morning.
"My dear," he began, with a grin,'”can
you spell money with four letters?"
"I cannot,” replied the lady, coldly.
"Ah. that’s good"’ laughed hubby. "A
woman never can see a catch as quickly
as a man can Weil, the way to spell
It Is o-a-s-h. Doesn’t that spell money?"
Mrs T. failed to smile, so Topping
started on another.
"Wait a minute." said his wife: "I’ve
got one. Spell Topping with flve let
ters."
Of course. Topping couldn’t.
"Ah." laughed the lady, "that’s good!
A man never can see a catch so quickly
ns a woman can. Well, suppose you try
l-d-l-o-t? Isn’t that Topping?"
Go ahead when you think you're
right, but don't expect the crowd to
follow you.
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ers killed, looted the stores, arrested
many of the natives and held them for
ransom, and committed other depre
dations.
The Chinese refugee who arrived
last night said at leasttwenty Chinese
had been killed in Parral and that fif
teen Arabs, Hebrews and Syrians had
been put to death. He did not know
the number of the other foreigners
killed although he said another Chi
nese who fled from Parral had told him
in Jiminez that "all the foreigners had
been put to death."
Probably Six.
Of the foreigners believed to have
been in Parral when Villa entered,
American Mining Company officials
here say there were at least five and
probably six Americans. Five Ameri
cans who left two days before the town
was evacuated reached Culiacan ac
cording to a message received by the
Alvarado Mining & Milling Company
here.
There remained in Parral, according
to the minig men, the following Amer
icans: Jacob Meyers, E. W. Palmef*
William Scott (who was at first er
roneously reported to be a son of Gen.
Hugh L. Scott), Henry Schafer, R. P.
Cowell and Dr. Thomas Flannagan.
However, the officials of the Alvar
ado Mining Company think it is pos
sible that Flannagan made the trip to
Culiacan with the party in charge of
Deslie Webb, who left on November
2nd.
formation which it is possible to secure
and which is necessary for an intelli
gent study of the problem ”
The children's. bureau has been for
more than a year engaged in a detailed
study of the problem of illegitimacy In
one of the big American cities. The
data have been collected from the rec
ords of institutions and organizations
which deal with illegitimate children,
and when the results of the study are
(tabulated, many new and interesting
facts about the relation of illegitimacy to
other problems, such as dependency, and
mental defectiveness, are expected.
"Our aim in making the study,” said
Miss Sumner, “has been, first, to find
out how many of the children who ara
cared for by the organizations and insti
tutions of the city in question are illegiti
mate.
"Have you gone to the mothers them
selves to get this information," 'I asked.
“Not at all,” said Miss Sumner. “We
have made no attempt to interview' in
dividual mothers, and we will not pub
lish any information which will betray
in any way the identity of any individual
mother or child.”
MORGAN PARTNER
AT HIE HOUSE
Washington —Henry P. Davison, a
partner of J. P. Morgan, held a 45-
minute conference with President Wil
son at the White House tonight. Tha
engagement was made at Mr. Davis
on’s request. Afterwards he respond
ed to all questions by saying: “I have
nothing whatever to say about my
visit to Washington.”
Mr. Davison’s call at the White
House was linked in some quarters
with a report that the Morgan inter
ests had helped form the national in
dustrial conference board with the
purpose of organizing employers to
fight the eight-hour day. Davison
told friends that the story was an
“absolute fabrication." To newspaper
men he said he did not wish to make
a former denial because his house
never commented on newspaper re
ports. He refused to say whether he
denied the report to President Wilson
and White House officials were equal
ly silent.
Mr. Davison is understood to have
informed the president, among other
things, of industrial and financial con
ditions observed during a recent visit
to Europe. His request for an inter
view was made yesterday.
WEAVER HAS IN
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Washington —Representative Dore
mus, chairman of the democratic con
gressional committee, was notified
Saturday that the Buncombe county.
North Carolina, canvassing board had
certified the election of Zebulon Weav
er, democrat, over J. J. Britt, repub
lican, in the tenth congressional dis
trict by a majority of ten votes. Al
though a court proceeding Is pending,
Representatitve Doremus regards the
contest as settled. This change, if
sustained, alters the congressional list
which now stands: Republicans 216;
democrats 213; six others.
POSTAL SAVINGS INCREASE.
Washington —Deposits in postal sav
ings hanks continue to show record
breaking gains. The Increase for Oc
tober was $4,700,000. or twice that for
October. 1915. In the four months
since July Ist. the deposits have In
creased more than $17,000,000, almost
as much as for the entire year ended
June 30, 1916.
MRS. MirCHEITSiAD.
Paris.—Mrs. John H Mitchell, wid
ow of the late United States senator
from Oregon, Is dead here. She wat
the mother of the Duchess de Is
Rochefoucauld.