Pemoreaic Wald
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
m—
INK SLINGS.
—If you can’t fight you can buy a
Liberty Bond.
— Centre county must do its share
in subscribing for Liberty Bonds.
—Do you think all the ladies who
are knitting knit for patriotism? Nit.
__All the soft corn in Centre county
isn’t out in the farmer’s fields, either.
—If you haven't yet realized that
we are at war the new tax bill will
doubtless clear you up in that matter.
— The war is certainly expensive
but “Uncle Sam is rich” and the glory
of the victory will be great and endur-
ing.
— The new tax bill that has just
passed Congress is thousands of words
long, but boiled down it merely says
from them that hath shall be taken.
—So far as reports thus far made
are concerned there has been an ap-
parent increase of two hundred per
cent. in the yield of potatoes in Cen-
tre county.
Of course there are some good
citizens who will not be able to buy
a Liberty Bond even of the smallest
denomination, but every citizen who
can should do so.
— The ouly aim Germany had in
starting the war was conquest and it
is impolite to ask questions on the
subject now that all her expectations
are disappearing. *
— The real newspaper of Centre
county is the “Watchman.” Tell your
friends what you honestly think of it
so they will know what they are miss-
ing, if they are not regular readers.
__Don’t lose sight of the fact that
Woodrow Wilson was chosen Presi-
dent as a Democrat. Being a really
great man, however, he recognizes no
party divisions when our country 1s 1n
peril.
Surely Philadelphia will have to
send someone to the electric chair for
the wilfull murder of one of her po-
licemen, but will it be the degenerate
murderer or the mentally responsible
man who commissioned him to do the
job.
— Think of the parents in Centre
county who have given their sons to
their country and think how little you
are being asked to do when the gov-
ernment merely asks you to buy one
of its Liberty Bonds on which it will
pay you four per cent. interest.
— Gettysburg hotels have had to
close their bars because they are all
located within half a mile of the army
cantonment there. Army mobilization
camps are great business producers,
but there will be lots of tipplers in
Gettysburg who won’t be able to see
any advantage in that without their"
“eye opener.”
__At least every farmer in Centre
county should resolve to set aside
twenty-five bushels of wheat with
which to buy one government bond.
Many of them are able to buy more
and should do so. Not alone because
it is the best investment they can
make, but because the soil is theirs
and, in the last analysis, that is what
we are fighting to protect.
__The French people are living on
less than one ounce of sugar per per-
son per diem while we are consuming
more than four ounces. They have so
little because we are using too much.
Let us cut out part of the candy, all
the icing on cakes and a few other
non-essentials and be as good to our
Allies as we would want them to be to
us, were conditions reversed.
Mr. Herbert Hoover has urged
every farmer in Pennsylvania to raise
three more pigs this year than he nor-
mally would raise. Fats are running
low all over the world and pigs are the
quickest mediums through which the
stock can be replenished, but Mr. Hoo-
ver failed to reveal the legerdemain
by which we farmers are to get the
three more pigs. Pigs is pigs, but,
unlike Topsy, they ain’t “jist growed.”
It is quite evident that Germany
isn’t figuring much on losing the war
else she wouldn't be so persistent in
driving the English mind into a per-
manently antagonistic attitude by her
repeated air raids over London. Mur-
dering women and children, without
gaining any strategical advantages, 18
only making the English more deter-
mined to fight on and setting her
mind against any leniency when the
settlement day finally comes.
—The first of the “Watchman’s”
camp letters from the boys of Troop
L appears in this issue and from its
interesting character we feel warrant-
ed in predicting that Corp. Keller will
make this feature as attractive as
Corp. Cohen did while the boys . were
on the border. The “Watchman” sure-
ly has been fortunate in securing cor-
respondents who write in a style
that is of interest both to the relatives
back home and those who have no ties
of blood with the boys in camp.
— Editor John Short, of the Clear-
field Republican, is a nominee for the
office of burgess of that town We are
informed that it was a case of honors
thrust upon him. It must have been
for John is such a natural born fight-
er that had anyone had the temerity
to have mentioned the matter to him
before it was pulled off he would just
naturally have started out to lick him-
self. We trust that his opponent will
withdraw from the race, not only to
save himself the discomfort of the de-
feat he surely is in for, but to make
the way as rosy as possible to the
thorny job that our friend Short has
consented to hold down for four years
in Clearfield.
ema
VOL. 62.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 5, 1917.
NO. 39.
Perfidious Democrats Blamable.
|
The election day outrage in the
Fifth ward of Philadelphia is a most
disgraceful episode of that corrupt
and contented city but the Democrats
of Pennsylvania are not entirely free |
from the blame that attaches to it. |
During the recent session of the Leg- i
islature measures were introduced
which would have made such atroci-
ties impossible. But they were defeat-
ed because every Democratic member
of the House of Representatives who
could be controlled by the so-called
Democratic organization of the State
voted against them. Whether this
was the result of stupidity or venali-
ty is left to conjecture. But in either
event, as the “Watchman” stated at
the time, it was a crime against the
Democratic party.
When Mayor Smith was nominated
by the corrupt contractors the an-
nouncement was almost openly made
that his election would begin an era
of political brigandage unparalleled
in the history of the country. It was
the inauguration of a government of
the contractors, for the contractors
and by the contractors. The people of
Philadelphia ratified this vicious bar-
gain at the polls. But subsequently a
small minority of the electorate dis-
cerned the menace which hung over
the community and prepared legisla-
tion that promised to prevent part of
the evil. If the Democratic Represen-
tatives in the Legislature had voted
solidly for these measures they would
have been enacted into law. Possibly
under the whip of Vare Brumbaugh
would have vetoed the bills, but the
Democratic party would have been ab-
solved from blame.
In view of these facts the Demo-
cratic members of the Legislature
who voted against this beneficent leg-
islation were not only recreant to
their party obligations but they have
saddled upon the Democratic party of
the State a share of the odium for the
crimes perpetrated in the Fifth ward
of Philadelphia on primary election
day. Part of the blood of the murder-
ed policeman is upon their hands and
nothing they can do or say will excul-
pate them. They are secure against
arrest, no doubt, but they are morally
as guilty as the New York hired gun-
man who fired the fatal shot. The
Democrats who elected them to the
office they betrayed should see that
they do not get another chance to be-
tray.
— Bulgaria will be allowed to quit
the war when she has paid a fair
share of the indemnities. King Fer-
dinand went into the war as a money-
making enterprise and has a right to
pay part of the losses.
First Duty of Citizens.
The working men of the country are
entitled to every advantage in wages
and working conditions they can get
from their employers. They have not
always had what they deserved in this
respect. Employers are sometimes
grasping and frequently unjust in dis-
tributing the joint fruits of capital
and labor. Since the beginning of the
world war this fact has been driven
into the consciousness of thoughtful
men too often. Considerable advanc-
es have been made in wages but not
in proportion to the increased cost of
living or the enhanced value of the
products of labor. Profits have soar-
ed far beyond the increase in wages
and that is not fair to working men.
But this is no time to strike either
for wages or changed conditions. Be-
cause employers are unpatriotic is no
reason why laborers should indulge in
the same vice. An official report from
Great Britain states that the subma-
rine piracy is destroying shipping
much more rapidly than the capacity
of the allies to supply substitutes. If
the war continues long enough and
this ratio in the shipping industry is
not changed, Germany will win and
the American people will be reduced
to serfdom subject to a brutal auto-
crat. Working men of America ought
not to promote such a condition. They
should bend every energy and make
every necessary sacrifice to prevent it.
The men who have enlisted in the
army or navy or those who have been
selected for military service are not
striking against wages or working
conditions though they are taking on
greater hazards than those who man
the industrial plants. They are offer-
ing their lives for the preservation of
democracy without complaint while
working men are only asked to con-
tribute time and muscle. The man in
the factory or mine or mill may be
performing a service to the country
fully equal in importance to that of
the man in the trenches. But to meas-
ure up to the patriotism of the man
in the trenches those in industrial life
must perform their part.
——1In estimating the advantages
of the war the fact that the I. W. W..
is being fully exposed is an important
item.
—Tt is only fair now that the peo-
ple of Philadelphia should “go the
Philadelphia’s Increasing Shame.
As the sinister events associated
with the Philadelphia primary elec-
tion murder reveal themselves public
interest in the subject becomes less
surprising. Government by fraud
and violence has so long been the rule
in that city that nobody expected ser-
ious protest against any crime. But
| when it is practically shown that the |
high officials of the municipal govern-
ment have conspired and agreed to
murder in order to elect one set of |
candidates and defeat another, the’
hazard of life and property becomes !
too great to endure.
idents of the city of corruption and
contentment. Anxiety has taken the
place of indifferences for a brief per-
iod at least.
The millionaire tariff beneficiaries
and the rough-neck denizens of the
underworld have so long pulled to-
gether to promote their mutual inter-
ests, in Philadelphia, that indignation
because of a brutal murder was more
surprising than the crime. At mid-
night of election day in 1910, these
two elements of the community joined
in parade over what seemed to be a
Republican victory and raised their
voices in unison in the beautiful bal-
lad: “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here!”
As in 1910 the vast majority of the
party was made by fraud in which
both elements participated, one as the
giver and the other as the receiver of
the boodle fund. But happily there
were no murders committed. The op-
position wasn’t formidable enough to
require extreme measures.
Philadelphia has been “sewing to
the wind” for many years and is now
“reaping the whirlwind.” The Dis-
trict Attorney has more reason to fear
the operation of the police department
than the activities of the burglars, the
forgers and the thieves. There is
greater menace to the peace and or-
der of the community in the city hall
than in the city dives. A criminal
record gets greater consideration in
official life than a christian character.
And this is because of the long con-
tinued and intimate relationship be-
tween the millionaires and the mur-
derers. Of course decent people out-
side of the city sympathize with those
who are decent within, but they seem
so negligible in number as to be hard-
ly worthwhile.
— Representative Hefflin may
have been indiscreet in his statement
of suspicions against colleagues but
he may easily justify such an expres-
sion from some one not amenable to
the absurd rules of the House.
LaFollette and His Traitorous Gang.
That Senator LaFollette is render-
ing greater service to the German
Kaiser than any German Field Mar-
shal on the firing line must be obvious
to any thoughtful man. Every day or
two some German high in authority
issues a statement that the part of the
United States in the war will be neg-
ligible. Among the latest expressions
along this line is that of Admiral von
Tirpitz, the other day, that our army
in Europe is a phantom. Every such
statement heartens the German pub-
lic. For six months the courage of the
German troops and the hope of the
German people have been based upon
such statements. They add to the
strength of the army and to the deter-
mination of the people.
The only substantial ground for
such statements lies in the delay of"
Congress in voting essential legisla-
tion for maintaining and equipping a
vast army abroad. So long as the
Representatives of the American peo-
ple in Congress and other stations of
authority, persist in opposition to
such legislation the German people
can be fooled into the absurd belief
that the people of the United States
are not sincerely in favor of the pros-
ecution of the war. That it is a false
impression is as certain as that it is
harmful. But Senators LaFollette,
Gore and Gronna are doing their best
to establish sueh an impression. They
are thus aiding and abetting the ene-
mies of the country.
On other occasions Senators have
been expelled from Congress for less
offences than these men have frequent-
ly committed in the last six months.
But we doubt the wisdom of adopting
that course in relation to them. The
better way would be to “sit” on them
good and hard. Half a dozen traitors
have no right to hold up legislation
that is favored by ninety per cent. of
Congress and a greater ratio of the
people. Senatorial courtesy is all
right where it is deserved, but traitors
deserve neither courtesy nor consid-
eration and LaFollette and Gore are
of that type. In future their opposi-
tion should be ridden down and their
persons run over. Nothing is gained
by indulging them.
— The recent cut in the price of
flour affords some justification for the
creation of the office of food control-
ler. But the fuel controller has not
accomplished much in the matter of
limit” against Mayor Smith.
decreasing the price of coal.
Hence there is
some excitement among the smug res- |
Save Wherever You Can on Sugar.
| Our government has received a re-
| quest from the French government
| that we allow them to export from
| the United States one hundred thous-
‘and tons of sugar during the next
| month and probably more at a later
. period.
Our own situdtion is that we have
just sufficient sugar to maintain our
normal consumption until the first of
January, when the new West Indian
| crop becomes available to all.
Our consumption is at the rate of
‘ninety pounds per person per year, a
"little under four ounces per day per
. person.
The French people are on a ration
! of sugar equal to only twenty one
pounds per annum per person or at the
| rate of less than one single ounce per
| day per person, a little more than the
weight of a silver dollar each day.
The English and Italian rations are
also not over one ounce per day.
The French people will be entirely
without sugar for over two months if
we refuse to part with enough from
our stocks to keep them supplied with
even this small allowance as it is not
available from any other quarter.
Sugar even to a greater amount
than the French ration is a human ne-
cessity.
If our people will reduce by one-
third their purchases and consump-
tion of candy and of sugar for other
uses than preserving fruit, which we
do not wish to interfere with, we can
save the French situation.
In the interest of the French peo-
ple and of the loyalty we owe them to
divide our food in the maintenance of
our common cause, I ask the Ameri-
can people to do this.
It is unthinkable that we refuse
their request.
' The matter is one of considerable
seriousness and we hope you will do
all you can locally to secure this end.
HERBERT HOOVER.
Dr. Michaelis is mistaken when
he says Germany’s war aims are se-
cret. What he really means is that
they are criminal and no man may be
compelled to incriminate himself.
The Revenue Bill Passed.
The revenue bill which a few trait-
ors in Congress have been holding
up for a long time has passed finally
and will be approved by the President,
in all probability, today. It provides
revenues in addition to the ordinary
levies amounting to $2,535,000,000 and
will send a thrill of confidence
throughout the country which will be
worth more than it costs. Singularly
enough there was no opposition to the
conference report in the Senate when
the vote was taken on Tuesday. La-
Follette and Gore sat silent in their
seats. Their services to the German
Kaiser ended with the viva voce vote.
Other obstructionists spoke against
the report but nobody voted in the
negative.
The passage of this bill puts the
United States into the war on a basis
becoming the wealth and strength of
the American people. It will provide
for an army of two millions, a navy
equal to the greatest, an equipment in
war materials superior to any other
power in the world, and an assurance
for the future which means ultimate
if not speedy triumph. Our army
abroad will be better paid, better fed,
better equipped and better supplied
than any other force in the history of
the world and its achievements will
be greater. We have not gone into
given the world assurance that we are
in right and will accomplish the pur-
poses for which the step was taken.
lions of people in this country who are
not able to bear them without sacri-
fice. But they will be borne cheerful-
ly because the sacrifices are for a
righteous purpose. Real patriotism
is expensive but unselfish and every
time there is a pinch it will be endur-
ed for the reason that it is making the
world safer for democracy and guar-
anteeing immunity from greater bur-
dens and more costly sacrifices. If
the bill had been passed four months
ago the war might have been ended a
year sooner. But on the wise princi-
ple of “better late than never,” its
passage at this late day becomes a
just cause for rejoicing on both sides
of the Atlantic.
— Official announcement was
made at Harrisburg last Friday of the
appointment of J. Linn Harris as bond
clerk in the State Treasurer’s office.
— This has been peach week in
Bellefonte, three car loads having been
disposed of since Monday morning,
the war blindly and being in we have
The war burdens will be felt by mil- |
“The Last Dollar, the Last Man.”
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A despatch from Paris quotes Pres-
ident Wilson as having given to an en-
voy of the French Republic the fol-
lowing earnest assurance:
“To the last man, to the last dollar,
the whole force of the United States
is at your service.”
When a nation goes to war, it is not
impelled to subordinate all other con-
siderations to the urgency of success,
to bend all its energies to that
achievement and fairly estimate the
strength of the foe and the degree and
kind of effort required, but it is also
necessary to seek, by every means, to
impress upon that foe an appreciation
of the formidable character of its war
power and the resoluteness of its pur-
pose. That is why vast war appropri-
ations have been made by our Con-
gress with hardly any debate, enor-
mous loans authorized, the war plans
outlined upon a gigantic scale, al-
though with due regard for the neces-
sary secrecy of strategy.
That is why the President ordinari-
ly so modest and conservative in his
manner of speaking thus gives to
France this assurance of our deter-
mination to devote the whole force of
the United States, even to “the last
dollar, the last man,” to the winning
of the war which would be the great-
est service to France as well as to our-
selves. That should always be the
spirit and that is one of the many
good reasons why the war spirit
should never be awakened save, as in
this war, by the stern necessity of re-
sistance to unbearable offense.
But though our money flows like
water through the war mill and our
men are summoned by the million, we
have serene faith that it will all be
over long before we can be called upon
for “the last dollar and the last man.”
Hope for the Coal Consumer.
From the Altoona Times,
According to coal administrator
Garfield, the householder need not
worry about his coal supply for the
coming winter. Mr. Garfield is hav-
ing an estimate made of the amount
that will be needed by small consum-
ers throughout the country, and he
says he will see to it that retailers re-
ceive that amount, to be sold at gov-
ernment prices, even if he has to com-
mandeer it.
Furthermore, Mr. Garfield advises
the consumer not to be in a hurry to
putin his supply, but to wit until
after October 1, when the price ‘to be
fixed by the government will be an-
nounced. And the retailer will have
to abide by that price, no matter if he
has stocked up on coal during the last
few months at a higher figure than
Mr. Garfield’s board decides upon.
Mr. Garfield’s statement should be
reassuring to those who have antici-
pated paying all sorts of fantastic
prices for their fuel supply. How-
ever, it may be assumed that some of
the retailers will not view with com-
placency the fading of their visions of
big profits, but will resort to subter-
fuge to evade the coal administrator’s
edict. Mr. Garfiela will have the pow-
er, though, to enforce obedience from
these dealers, and he must see to it
that they live up to the letter of the
law. There is no reason why there
should be any suffering from lack of
coal, and the public is in no humor to
tolerate it. It is becoming weary of
talk about keeping prices of necessi-
ties down at the same time it is dig-
ging deeper into its purse to meet the
rising! costs.
Outlook is Not Glowing.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Admiral von Tirpitz and his new
party may be as enthusiastic as ever,
but they can hardly expect to be taken
seriously by the mass of the German
people who realize that U-boat per-
formance is falling far short of its
promise, while German land forces
continue steadily to lose ground be-
fore the allies of the western front.
Things are not greatly better for the
Teutonic powers in the east, the Rus-
sians having pulled themselves to-
gether somewhat and the Italians
making progress in the Isonzo and
Balkan sectors. All in all, the Ger-
man outlook-is anything but glowing
and it will take something more stim-
ulating than von Tirpitz oratory to re-
vive the drooping spirits of the people
for whom their appeal is intended.
Re
One of Fashion’s Burdens.
From the Dalton Citizen.
The only trouble we are having with
our swagger stick is that when we
have a cigar in one hand and the stick
in the other we find ourselves trying
to smoke the stick quite as much as
we do the cigar.
will Have to Come to It.
From the New York Evening Post.
Maximilian Harden told the truth
when he said in Berlin that Germany
could have peace if she would under-
take to evacuate Belgium and pay for
the damage done to that outraged
country. The Hohenzollern dynasty
and the military caste, fighting for
their existence, are not yet willing to
concede this, and are boggling over
the step necessary to end the war. In
time, they will have to come to it.
Butler Rises in His Wrath.
From the New York Evening Sun.
Ellis Parker Butler threatens if the
women of Flushing don’t get out their
needles pretty soon to start a men’s
Red Cross sewing society. If that
isn’t courage, where will you find it?
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Squeezed between cars, Cornelius M.
Campbell, aged twenty-five, a ¢-iver in the
Ebervale mines of the G. B. Ma: le compa-
ny, died at Hazleton State hos® "1.
—Complaints against the Ac Express
company rates and servic “ambria
county have been made by °° . ison Ice
Cream company of Porta; re the
Public Service Commission.
—Lawrence county int ’ aise
$100,000 to be used in the 3e oars
for the dependents of soldier and sailors
from that county. The campaign was
opened last week and will be continued un-
til every penny of the $100,000 is secured.
—The honors of appointments to West
Point dealt out by Congressman Charles
H. Rowland, have been bestowed upon two
DuBois boys, Edward Sullivan, son of Dr.
and Mrs. J. C. Sullivan, and Lynn Brady,
son of Mrs. Sarah G. Brady. The appoint-
ments, of course, are subject to a rigid ex-
amination.
—The Middleburg Spinning company
was granted a charter by the Common-
wealth last week. The concern is capital-
ized at $75,000, and is headed by William
F. Pritchard. The new industry will be
one of the most substantial in all Snyder
county and will mean a big boom for the
thriving town of Middleburg.
—Mahanoy and Hazleton divisien offi-
cials of the Lehigh Valley railroad an-
nounced that women hired to work on the
section and track gangs of the local lines
cannot swing the pick and wield the shov-
el satisfactorily, and that most of them
taken on_ hereafter will be employed as
“gate ladies,” as they are officially styled,
and as car cleaners.
—For permanent injuries, a broken spine
and paralysis, Miss Grace, Stone was
awarded $8,700, and her father, Oscar
Stone, was awarded $1,300 in a settlement
of a suit against the Keystone State Nor-
mal School at Kutztown, last Friday. Miss
Stone, a Nockamixon, Bucks county stu-
dent at the school, was caught in an ele-
vator more than two years ago.
—Fifteen cases of infantile paralysis
have been discovered in Fayette county, ac-
cording to announcement by Dr. O. R. Alt-
man, county representative of the State
Health Department. There are two cases
in Uniontown and four in Leckrone. The
others are scattered throughout the coun-
ty. The Uniontown board of education
met Thursday to decide on the question of
closing the schools.
—Mrs. Abigail E. Geissinger, who built
the $600,000 George F. Geissinger Memorial
hospital at Danville, has endowed it for
$1,000,000 Announcement to this effect was
made on Tuesday. She has named a
Scranton Trust company as trustee. Last
week Mrs. Geissinger asked the board of
trustees, all prominent Danville men, to re-
sign saying she had other plans. Mrs.
Geissinger is more than 90 years old.
—Placing a thirty-two calibre revolver
to his breast, John L. Girton, a well-known
resident of West Berwick, fired a shot
which ended his life Saturday afternoon.
Despondencey over the death of his wife
which occurred about eight months ago, is
believed to have prompted the rash act.
For the past several days his actions
showed that his mind was unbalanced and
he constantly talked of his wife and of
supposed enemies.
—The curb market established at Hazle-
ton by the committee of Public Safety was
dealt a serious blow Friday when commis-
sion men met the farmers on the road to
town, bought up their produce in carload
lots and are alleged to have threatened to
boycott those who refused to sell to them.
The committee of Public Safety has asked
for legal advice on its right to prosecute
the men back of the move, which reduced
the attendance of farmers at the market to
eight.
—Tuesday, October 9th, has been pro-
claimed by Governor Brumbaugh as “Fire
Prevention Day” in Pennsylvania, and the
people of the State are urged on that day
to clean up and remove from premises all
rubbish, trash and waste. The Governor
also suggests that special efforts be made
to see that properties are in good condi-
tion and that heating apparatus and chim-
neys are put into proper shape, while the
protection on all buildings of a public and
semi-public character be inspected.
__The main State highways will be kept
clear of snow this winter in order to facil-
itate motor traffic, according to Highway
Commissioner O'Neil. He is planning “fly-
ing squadrons” of skilled road workers to
be held where they can quickly mobilize
for work at any point. Western States are
sending trains of motor vehicles through
this State as a result of the railroad con-
gestion and it is to facilitate their move-
ment that the winter work will be under-
taken.
__Charles H. Bird, of Addison, on Wed-
nesday of last week had 7,000 pounds of
wool delivered at Meyersdale for which he
paid the growers 69 cents a pound. This
represented the greater part of the clip in
territory immediately tributary to Meyers-
dale, including Elklick and Summit town-
ships, Somerset Co. Mr. Bird, it is under-
stood, represented Cumberland buyers.
The price, 69 cents a pound, is about three
times as much as wool sold for several
years past. As the price is not expected
to come -down for some years to come, it
can readily be seen that farmers will find
sheep-raising more profitable in the future
than in the past.
— Whether there is a plot to do damage
at industrial plants or railway lines, be-
hind the theft of 75 pounds of dynamite,
two kegs of powder, with a quantity of
fuses and caps, at the stone quarry, near
Duncansville, Sunday night, is giving the
authorities a knotty problem. An em-
ployee of the quarry discovered the loss of
the explosives Tuesday morning. The
limestone operations are near the New
Portage branch tracks of the Pennsy, Ex-
plosives are frequently stolen from quar-
ries but this is the first occasion in sever-
al years that so large an amount was ap-
propriated in that action, and is arousing
the fear and suspicions of the authorities.
—Angered because their rate of pay was
lower than that of their male predecessors,
who left their jobs to go to war, women
employees of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, engaged in the Pittsburgh yards in
wiping engines, struck for higher pay.
James G. Souse, of the Boilermakers’ Un-
ion, has organized the women into the
Women’s Railway Shop Employees Local
and the organization is now taking an ac-
tive part in the Jones & Laughlin steel
strike. The company made overtures to
the women to return to work, announcing
that a new system of pay will increase
their daily stipend, but they have refused
to return. The new basis of pay is on the
amount of work done and the women de-
clare it unfair.