The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 282, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 191fi
TTTK STTAWVF.F PATT.Y TTFHATI)
TTTWC
I
K
'
your
Grand-
Dad
smoke
them?
SAY OLD TOP!
(lave you watched one of our
demonstrators prove by actual
burning tests the purity of
"Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Dont miss it
a&k
JDcudL,
fie knou^r.
SWEET
APORAL
REMOVAL AOT1CE.
Or. Van Halteren, osteopath, has
offices in Estes Building, N. Broad-
way. Night and day phone 26.
3-lmo
\o
o
"No!—
I Said
Calumet!
"I want what I ask for-
I know what it would
mean to go home without
it. Mother won't take
chances — she's sure of
Calumet — sure of light,
wholesome, tasty bak-
ings — of positive, uni-
form results—of purity
and economy. You try
CALUMET
Baking Powder
— lay aside your
favorite brand once
and you'll never go
back to it. Calu-
met is the world's
best Baking Pow-
der—it's moder-
ate in price.'
eceived Highest
Awards
New Co ti Jlotk
Frii—Sit Slip
in found Cot
X
The most reliable trans-
fer and storage company
in town is the
New State
Transfer
In its new location at
106 W. Main Street
R. F. McFarling
Phone 900
(Paid Advertising)
AKIUTKail 8-liOlK ULJ2ST10X.
The rending* Controversy Between
tiie Kuihvays una Their Train Ser-
vice Employees.
I Cheapand bigcan Baking Powdersdo not
sa ve you money. Calumet does—it's Pure
and far superior to sour milk and soda.
The great labor organizations rep-
resented in this audience are an at-
testation of the uond of brotherhood.
I realize that you are but the logar-
ithm of a mighty power, i see back of
you five hundred thousand men unit-
ed in sympathy, in interest, in pur-
pose. You are strong; you are for-
midable; you are to be reckoned with.
You are bonded together for defence
and offence, and for mutual benefit.
You are prepared to resist injustice,
oppression or tyranny on the part of
those with whom you deal. You are
prepared to enforce your demands up-
on them for what you regard as ust
conditions. You yourselves could
easily become tyrannical, and. except
for the lu-timate equlibrium which
usually results from the conflict of
opposing interests, all power would
end in tyranny. They must needs be
strong who would cope with you. So
long as you keep within the law—
within the rules of the game—few
could withstand your united action,
excepting only the power of public
opinion; and that power, I tell you
frankly, could crush you out of ex-
istence. For public opinicn is the ex-
pression of the public conscience
which, however weak in the id'ividual
—as 1 have intimated—is overwhelm-
ing in the aggregate. If that power
is with you, in any of >our contests,
you are almost shre to win; if that
power is against you, you are almost
sure to lose.
Wow I have said what I have said
because I see by our newspapers that
the four greatest unions ajnong rail-
road labor—the ronductors, trainmen,
eningeers and firemen—represented
by some of those here present, are
preparing to make a demand nation-
wide in scope, for an eight-hour day
and pay and a half for overtime, and
that this demand upon the railroads
of the country is to be an ultimatum,
all overtures to arbitrate to be re-
spectfully declined. 1 hope that the
newspapers have been, misinformed
and 1 judge from a recent statement
of your officers that they have been.
'But if the newspapers correctly
stated the terms of your proposed ul-
tifhatum, then I say to you in all
solemnity that big as you are; power-
ful as you are; determined as you
are; your cause is lost in the very
statement of it. And I say this with
no possible disparagement of the
merits or pustlce of your demands.
Whether you snouiu strike or not is
up to you. Hut If you couple with it
the declaration that the claims of the
railroad companies are not even
pusticeuble and that all offers to that
end will be rejected by you; then i
tell you that you must arbitrate or
take the consequences. And what are
the consequences which you woulu
thus challenge?
It is fallacious and irrational to
say that to tie up traffic on all the
railroads of the country is no concern
of the public, but is only a means of
settling a little tiff between the rail-
roads and their employees, and con-
cerns only the immedate parties to
the struggle. You know better and so
does the public. Every railroad is a
post and military road of the govern-
ment itself is but the executive of the
public will. If its employees mako
demands upon a railroad which are
refused for reasons good bad or in-
different, is it possible that the public
is to pause in its innumerable acti-
vities to wait with folded hands the
outcome of the contest? The public
may clamor that your demands are
reasonable and ought to be granted,
but is there any power in the govern-
ment to compel the companies to
grant them? Or the public may clam-
or that your demands are unreason-
able and that you ought to go back to
work, but is there any power in the
government to compel you to do so?
Perhaps not. but it would be hard to
convince a sovereign nation of its
impotency in such case. It would
either enact laws to compel arbitra-
tion, if it could do so within its con-
stitutional powers, or it would itself
take over the wonership and opera-
tion of the railroads, as it la already
being urged to do by thousands upon
thousands of socialists and others.
That, you say. would be as much the
fault of the railroads as the employ-
ees. Not if the railroads stood ready
to arbitrate and the employee* re-
fused. But without weighing relative
responsibility for the outcome, who
would be the most injured by govern-
ment ownership? Not the stockhold-
ers. for they would be paid in full to.
their property and perhaps would
elcome the chance to crawl from
under. Our great free country would,
1 think, be hurt past remedy, for it
would perver the very end and func-
tion of free government; but that it>
i Individual opinion.
The employees of .the railroads as
a class would be Injured most of all.
for they would become mere cogs Ic
the ponderous and Impersonal ma-
chinery of government. Their wage?
would be prescribed by law-, and oui
government, however extravagant in
some things, is not extravagant when
It comes to wages. The employees
could accePt these wages or seek oth-
er employment even their chance to
arbitrate the question would be gone
forever. For the government only ar-
bitrates with governments—it arbi-
trates to save war; witli all others it
is as arbitrary as any other sovereign.
Would they strike to compel the gov-
ernment and congress to submit to
their demands? That has been tried.
ILet me read you an Associated Press
dispatch which 1 recently cut from
one of our dally papers:
"Parkersburg, West Virvinia. Jan-
uary 20th.—'Twenty-four employees
of the Fairmont Post office indicted
for conspiracy to delay the mails in
connection with a strike which they
precipitated last November appeared
in the United States district court
here today and entered pleas
"The former assistant postmaster
and Sylvester Clayton, clerk, were
each fined $250. and the others were
fined in amounts ranging irpm *100
"The charges against William I4 ish
er who committed suicide at his home
in' Fairmont yesterday, were witn-
Just a little conspiracy to delay
mails! No snggcetlontha-t property
was destroyed or anybody disgigured
—rather a mild strike some wouli
call it. but there were many court
fines: and one striker committed
suicide.
I know that you are opposed to gov-
ernment ownership of railroads as
you are to compulsory arbitration
1 know it. tor I have read articles in
| coming to It. Why. I know of a btg
! plant employing several thousand
men who. thirty-five years aSo. were
on the eve of striking when the nian-
l agement of the plant had a plain talk
with them and adopted the very tac-
tics 1 have just outlined, with the
result that the strike was called off
and there has never since been the
symptom of a strike, it pays, gen-
tlemen, to be fair and open.
There is another general principle
that holds good all down the line.
However conflicting the interests of
employer and employee may be re-
garded as between themselves, their
interests otherwise are identical as
against the rest of the world. Years
ago I said to the president of a big
corporation that a business enter-
prise which did not make enough,
;ifter thorough trial, to pay its labor
t'air wages for a fair day's work, and
1 its stockholders a fair return on the
investment, had no excuse for exist-
ing, and that the public should and
i must furnish the means, through the
company's rates for services, to ac-
j complish these objects or be deprived
entirely of such services. In other
I words, a corporation's duties in or-
The public
your union journals, splendidly writ
ten, declaring that it would be th
worst calamity that could befall you.
Then for your own sakes, for >
country's sake-for tod's sake don t
challenge an impasse that would al
most compel it! •
IBut say you, we have tried arbitra-
tion repeatedly with the result that
we seldom obtain what we have asked
for or all to which we believed our-
selves entitled—arbitration is simply
a. compromise between conflicting in-
terests That is profoundly true.
Peace is a compromise between con-
flicting interests. Civilized society is
•i com promise between conflicting
interests: that is why it is civilized
Every law suit is a compromise be-
tween conflicting interests-it is the
substitute for the old wager of bat-tle.
it is the triumph of reason over pas-
sion and brute strength. Do you ex-
pect society to go backwards? It musi
be that 110 man is excepted from tne
operation of its laws. So 1 repeat that
if issue is joined between the rail
roads and their employees both must
be willing to arbitrate.
will demand it.
I assume, of course, that in draft-
ing the articles of arbitration the
parties to the controversy will bee to
it that evry precaution is taken to in-
sure a fa'ir honest and intelligent
consideration of all the questions in
volved. 1 emphasize the word in-
telligent" because it is perhaps easier
to obtain an honest consideration
Uian an intelligent consideration of
such question, and the fairness of the
result must depend upon both hon-
esty and intelligence in tbe arbitra-
tors. It may be assumed that the ar-
bitrators chosen by the <^pan efl
will be expert railroad men from t ie
companies' standpoint, and that tne
arbitrators chosen by the employe'
will be expert railroad men trom the
employees standpoint; but the urn-
Dire-; or arbitrators chosen to reprt
senT the public, should be ral roa
men from every standpoint, and if the
selection of such umpires Is left to a
governmental official .. , „
such fitness for the Job should be a
prime consideration. Disregard of
this may render the findings either
unintelligible or unsatisfactory to
parties in interest. anoh
As 1 have stated, the public as such
-people in the mass-love fair plW;
They want labor to receive a fair
divvv They believe that the employ
ee7m business should share the
IToZ of .ha. busines and as much
the traffic will stand. If an em
'/lover's business has expanded an
become unusually uJcratWe ^lr «
gard him as niggardly and uiTair i
he does not share «s prosperity wW
those who helped create it. He ought
voluntarily, they say to. ™ f '
In such case, and if he does not, a
his employees strike in order to co -
n«l him public opinion is on tneir
tide Moreover, the employer s own
sense of Justice-latent and subcon-
scious though it may be is at
with lite greed. He vaguely feels tha
he is wrong. He wants the respect
nr the world. Moral forces, intangi
hie but real, conspire against him.
And so he succumbs because he can
not stand the combined Pressure.
On the other hand, if a man s busi
ness is on the brlnV of failure. and Ms
enftloyees take advantage of some
crisis in his affairs to demand shorter
hou£ or higher wag*.
■n vield it only to postpone bank
ruptcy. and these facts become.pub-
lie is there any doubt of what
public sentiment would be?
All of which demonstrates the tre-
mendous importance of publicity;
am disposed to think that publicity
would be the cure of many of our
polltWil and economic ills, tor it
would beget understanding and tin-
rterstandlng besets confidence where-
n,fT(nv begets suspicion and dis-
trust. Take, for example, the manu-
facturer who goes to the bank to bor-
Alive With
the National Spirit
That lively,quick-action, hit-
the-mark-every-time taste of
"Bull" Durham has made it
the Smoke of the Service from
Maine to the Philippines.
There's crisp, brisk snap to a ! Jer of importance and moral sanction
fresh-rolled "Bull" Durham 1U 9mp,05,e~; WCOnd'
cigarette that just suits men of
spunk and spirit.
GENUINE
bull
Durham
SMOKING TOBACCO
A "roll your own" "Bull"
Durham cigarette has dis-
tinctiveness — character—per-
sonality. It gives you that
wonderful mellow-sweet flavor
and unique aroma which are
not found in any other tobacco.
Learn to "roll your own"
with "Bull" Durham — a few-
trials will do it—andtyou'll get
far more enjoyment out of
smoking. • ,
Ask for FREE
package of 44papers"
with each 5£ sack.
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY
row money to put into his business.
The bank wants to know. Before it
will lend a cent it insists upon know-
ing everything about his business. It
ends an expert accountant to exam-
ine the books. It sends an efficiency
expert to go over his plant. It acts
upon precise information. But sup-
pose that manufacturer simply tells
his workmen that he is in hard lines
and must reduce their wages; they
do not believe him. They think it is
a ruse. But are they permitted to go
over his books? And yet for an em-
ployer. in an established business, to
lower wages is in fclfect to borrow
from his employees. Instead of get-
ting the money from his own bank,
he takes It from their savings bank
They are entitled to know and he
treats them unfairly if he fails to
enlighten them. Suppose that, in-
stead of keeping them in the dark,
he should say to them: "Boys, things
are going bad with me. As much as
I hate to do it, I have just got to cut
wages or shut up shop. I don't want'
you to take my word for it—I want
you to see my books. Of course. I
can't afford to publish my books to
the trade and I am sure you would
not wish me to; but select a com-
mittee of three to five in whom you
have confidence, let them employ any
accountant they please—I'll pay the
freight—and learn for yourselves that
what I say Is unhappily too true."
There would be understanding—
there would be friendship—there
would be co-operation, and some day
co-operation is going to be our watch-
word—already labor and capital are
its stockholders, and lastly to the
public. The Public, with big "P."
may cavil as much as it pleases with
this order of accountability, but it is
fundamentally true. The patronizing
public must pay wages, up-Ice op prof-
its of every business if the business
is to continue. Of course, what con-
stitutes a fair day's wage or a fair
day's work depends somewhat upon
the circumstances of each particular
case. There is obviously a limit to
l)obh. In the absence of express leg-
islation I should say that an equil-
ibrium—perhaps always an unstable
equilibrium—can only be achieved
through negotiations between the
parties concerned. But it follows
that whatever power of coercion in
lieres in the aggregation and organi-
zation of capital must be permitted
to aggregated and organized labor. If
organized capital has the right
discharge, organized labor has the
right to quit.
And it follows, specifically, that the
welfare of every man who works for
a railroad is bound up in the wel-
fare of the road. He should work
for its success as he would work for
his own success—honestly, whole-
heartedly, enthusisatically. * * *
But to come back to the subject of
your proposed demand; are you sure
that the time Is propitious for mak-
ing an denforclng It? Are railroad
finances on the mend? Can all the
roads affected afford to give you
what you ask? ** *
if you think that the railroads
j have had their share of "war pros-
I perity" without sharing it with you
then make your demand and accom-
pany it with an offer of arbitration
rather than a threat to strike or a
refusal to arbitrate. It would show
your confidence and good faith and
would give a prima facie validity to
your claim, while the opposite atti
tude makes your claim dubious t(
begin with. Don't you see that? It
seems to me that you should clial
lenge arbitration—not reject it. Force
the railroads to it!
But whatever you do. "hold your
heads!" You are the brainest repr
sentatives of the labor world. You
are men of character and of high
repute. Trackman, shopman, station
agent, train dispatcher, conductor
trainman and engineer—you are all
responsible for human life and the
very obligations of your calling must
make you conservative and prudent
You are Americans. You are patriots
Our free institutions—our Democracy
—our experiment in self-government
will topple and* fall if citizens like
you should set the example of dis-
regard of civil or moral law.—-Ex-
tract from an address by Henry D.
Rstabrook. of the New York Bar, In
Chicago recently.
MOTHERS, DO THIS-
When the Children Cough, Rub
Musterole on Throats
and Chests
No telling how so the symptoms
(nay develop into croup, or worse. And
(hen's wlie-i you're glad you have a jar
of MUSTEKOLF. at hand to give
prompt, sure relief It does not blister.
As first aid and a certain remedy
there's nothing like MUSTEROLE.
Thousands of mothers know it. You
should keep a jar in the house.
It is the remedy for adults, too. Re-
lieves Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Tonsil-
jtis, Croup, Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neural-
gia, Hcadache, Congestion, Pleurisy,
heumaiism, Lumhago, Pains and Aches
of Hack or Joints, Sprains, Sore Mus-
cles, Chilblains, Frosted Feet and Colds
of the Chest (it often prevents Pneu-
fnonia).
At your druggist's, in 25c and'50c jars,
and a special large hospital size for $2 50.
Be sure you get the genuine MUS-
TF.ROI.E. Refuse imitations—get what
you ask for. The Musterole Company,
Cleveland, Ohio.
SPECIAL TRAINS
To
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Account
U. C. V.
REUNION
May 16-17-18
Via.
"The Official Route"
Rock Island Lines io Memphis-Frisco lines lo Birmingham
Gen. D. M. Ilailey, Commander-in-Chief, has an-
nounced the following schedule for the special train:
Round
Trip Fare
I... .$23.90
Sunday, May 14 Lv. Shawnee 11:10 am li
Lv. Wewoka 12:10 pm R. I.
Ilold'ville 12:33 pin R. I...
Calvin 1:00 pm R. 1...
McAlester 2:20 pm R. 1.
McAlester 2:50 pm R. I...
Hooneville 7:20 pm R. I.
Booneville 7:45 pm R. I.
Little R'k. 12:22 am R. I.
Memphis 6:00 am R. I.
Lv. Memphis 8:00 am Frisco
Ar. I'ir.'ham 3:30 pm Frisco
rnsist of
22.85
22.50
22.00
20.
i.)
SAYS WE BECOME CRANKS
ON HOT WATER DRINKING
Hopes Every Man and Woman Adopts
Splendid Morning Habit.
Why la man and woman, half the
time, feeling nervous, despondent,
worried; some days headachy, dull
and unstrung; some days really In-
capacitated by Illness.
If we all would practice Inside-
bathing, what a gratifying change
would take place, instead of thous-
ands of half-sick, anaemic-looking
souls with pasty, muddy complexions
we should see crowds or liappy,
healthy, rosy-cheeked people every-
where. The reason Is thai the human
system does not rid Itself each day of
all the waste which it accumulates
under our present mode of living. For
every ounce of food and drink taken
into the system nearly an ounce of
waste material must be carried out,
else It ferments and forms ptomaine-
like poisons which are absorbed into
the blood.
Just as necessary as it Is to clean
the ashes from the furnace each day,
before the fire will ourn bright and
hot, so we must each morning clear
the inside organs of the previous day's
accumulation of indigestible waste and
body toxins. Men and women, whether
sick or well, are advised to drink each
morning, before breakfast, a glass of
real hot water with a teaspoonful of
limestone phosphate in it. as a harm-
less means of washing out of the
stomach, liver, kidneys «na bowels the
indigestible material, waste, soilr bile
and toxins; thus cleansing, sweeten-
ing and purifying the entire alimen-
tary canal before putting more food
into the stomach.
" " " Ar.
" " Lv.
" " Ar..
« <« Lv
Mond'vMnv 15 Lv.
" " Ar.
EQUIPMENT—Train will consist of latest up-to-date
equipment, Chair Oars, day coaches, as well as both
Standard and tourist sleeping cars. Special cars will
leave Ardmore on schedule shown above connecting with
special at Haileyville.
TICKETS—Tickets will he on sale at all slations in Ok-
lahoma, May 13, 14, 15, l(i, with return limit May 25th,
but with privilege of extension to June 14th by depositing
with Special Agent at Birmingham on or before May
25th and upon payment of fifty cents. Very low round
trip fares will be available from Birmingham to points
in the Southeastern states.
For sleeping car accommodations and detailed infor-
mation see nearest Rock Island agent or write the under-
signed. •
C. B. SLOAT; Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt.
Rock Island Lines, Little Rock, Ark.
FAY THOMPSON, Div. Pas. Afft.
Rock Island Lines, Oklahoma City.
J. F. EMERICH, Trav. Pass. Agt.
Rock Island Lines, Oklahoma City.
HAVE COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS
Be Better Looking—Take
Olive Tablets
Beginning on next Thursday night 1
the regular class lesson which closes ,
at 9 o'clock, after which we will have ;
a regular class practice and assembly
dance, members of all classes joining
and the class members are allowed to
invite and bring their friends, that
they will recommend and stand spon-. _ K j
sor for. - *
1 If your flkin Is y<>llow—romplexion
Cards Will be issued to each class pallid—tongue coated — appetite poor—
nvamHo.1. ,..,i . you have a bad taste In your mouth—a
member and to their friends and no i.izy, no-good feeling—you .should tak«*
one will be admitted unless they have Olive Tablets.
. , .... . Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets—a sub-
a card. A small charge will be made .stitute for calomel—were prepared by
at the door for the class i*raotice and ,)r- Edwards after 37 years of study,
to defray the expense of music. wli!i t \ ^ *
... ,, . Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are a pure-
liadles loc, gentlemen 2oc. It support- \y vegetable compound mixed with olive
ed these class practice and assembly oil. You will know them by their olive
danees will be conducted each Moil- T0/' . . ..
■ r«M . , a ..... . I If you want a clear, pink skin, bright
day, Thursday and Saturday nights I eyes, ti• pimples, a feeling < f buoyancy'
from 9 to 11 o'clock, however, this | like c hildhood days, you must get at the
will not interfere with ^rttag a new Edwar(]a, OUve TabIclg aft on th„
class on oach Monday and 1 nursday, ijver an(j bowels like calomel—-yet have no
be sure you get a card, and be sure | dangerous after effects.
vou brini£ It or vou will not be ad- -They start tlio bile and overcome con-
you unn„ t OI )OU win noi « I stlpatton. That's why millions or boxes
nutted to Kuttericks Class I raclite ] are i annually at 1 Oc and 25c per box.
and Assembly Dance at Chrisney All druggists. *
H i| 7-tf. Take one or two nightly and note tha
pleasing results. %
^t ' The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, O.
BE SI ltE ¥01 «KT A ( A111),
AM) BE SI IIK Y0C lUllMi IT.
Seventy Hnve Enrolled In tbe Class.
Another class starts Monday night
at 8 P- m. This is a continuous school
of dancing, a new class starts every
Monday and Thursday at 8 P. m.. you
are taught the one-step, itwoJstep,
tox-Hrofc and woillte lor i$14>0, and
guaranteed to dance, it is not a dif-
ficult matter to learn to dance, you I
will learn quicker than you think.
Before deciding on* a place
(or your
Household
Goods Storage
Take a look at our Storage
Rooms at 126-1 30 S. Union
St. Special room for pianos
Vans for moving
Small wagons for baggage
RED BALL
TRANSFER
PHONE 777
Mammoth Barber
Shop
||FOB|
Turkish Baths, Ladies'
Shampooing and
Massageing.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 282, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1916, newspaper, May 8, 1916; Shawnee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc92494/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.