It'sNowTimeto Purchase Your 1917 Calendars We have recently accept ed the agency in this sec tion, of one of the largest Calendar Companies, in the country. If you desireJ:o inspect our samples at this office or let us know and our representative will see you at your business place A Beautiful Line at Moderate Prices. The "PATRIOT" Publishing Co. 15 N. Carpenter Way SPECIAL FAVORS TO TENNESSEE OANNERS j Amendment to Child Labor Law, Passed This Year. WEED FOR A FEDERAL LAW, An effort made in New York lasi j winter to grant canneries special fa vors by permitting them to work tbeii operatives longer hours was strongly condemned by the press throughout the country, and the attempt failed. But no attention was paid to Tennessee when she did the same thing at about the same time. In fact, the National Child Labor Committee regards the Tennessee amendment as far more se rious than the New York one would j have been since the change in the New York law would not have affected any children under sixteen, while the Ten nessee amendment permits children un der fourteen to work in canneries and for unlimited hours per day. "It is strange how many states fail to realize that children are more valuable than fruits and vegetables," said Owen R. Lovejoy, general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, in commenting on Tennessee's action. "The idea is so common that canning goods is more important than protect ing children that we find not only Ten nessee, but Delaware, Maryland, In diana, Maine and Virginia, making spe cial exemptions to their child labor laws for the benefit of canneries, while Mississippi does not regulate them at all. Ido not know why the idea should prevail that employment in canneries cannot possibly be harmful to children when the conditions there are usually worse than in factories. ! "We feel that the only successful ! way to meet the cannery situation is through the federal law which will be introduced in the next congress and which, if passed, would prohibit the j shipment outside the state of canned : goods which children under fourteen I had helped to manufacture or on which | they had worked more than eight hours a day. A letter came to us the other ; day from a woman who wished to | know what variety of canned goods she | could buy and feel sure that uo chil dren had worked on it. We could not tell her. but we did tell her that if she would help us in passing a federal law she could buy any kind of canned goods with safety." MESSENGER SERVICE A "CRIME FACTORY." So Lewis W. Hine Tells Child Labor Conference. "Crime factory" is the term which an investigator for the National Child Labor Committee made use of in de scribing the evils of the messengei I service at the Eleventh Annual Con j ference on Child Labor. This man, i Lew r is W. Hine, believes that there is ' not a messenger boy of any experience j who does not know more about the | underworld than the average citizen, j because one very common phase of messenger work is the serving of pros ! titutes by carrying messages, running | errands and procuring dope. Investi gations of the night messenger service during the past five years in cities rep resenting every section of the country Photo by National Child Labor Committee. THE PRODUCT OF THE "CRIME FACTORY." have failed to reveal a single night messenger whose work had not brought bim into personal contact with vice. The chances of promotion in the messenger service were summed up by one boy as follows: "Nothing to it un less you are the right kind of guy You can get to be a check boy or a file clerk after being in the service a yeai or two if you stick to it, but ordinarily nobody wants to stick. * * * There is nothing to do when we're not on calls. You can go into the office and sit down and loaf, or you can go outside and stand up and loaf. In our office the manager never cared what became of you as long as you were within calling distance." The attitude of other employers to ward the boy who has worked as a messenger was brought out last wintei by Miss Anne Davis of Chicago at a hearing on the proposed Illinois child labor law, which included a twenty one year limit for night messengers. "Employers tell me, ' said Miss Davis, "they always specify that a boy shall not have worked as a messenger wher hey employ him." WOULD BE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT Photo by American Pres6 Association. SENATOR J. W. WEEKS. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE_WAR The announcement that Montenegro has asked the central powers for a separate peace was made by Count Tisza, Hungarian premier, before the Hungarian narliament. Trenches in the Oslavia sector on the Italian front, which had been taken by the Austrians recently, were evacuated by their Austrian occu pants, owing to the concentrated fire of the Italian artillery, it was an nounced b.' Austrian army head quarters in the official statement re ceived from Vienna. It is officially announced that the French submarine Foucault, attacheu to the Italian fleet, torpedoed and sank In the Adriatic sea an Austrian scou' cruiser of the Novara type. The German government has trans mitted to Great Britain, through the American embassy, a note which de clared that as a result of Great Brii ain's not fulfilling Germany's demand for an explanation of the circum stances surrounding the sinking of a German submarine by the British patrol boat Baralong, Germany wil; adopt suitable measures of reprisal. Reports from Constantinople sa> Turkish troops have entered the ao called new Persian capital, Kerman shah, and were heartily greeted b> the population of the town, which was decorated with bunting. France has declined "for militar> reasons' to permit shipments of cor densed milk by charitable organiza tions in the United States to Germarn and Austria-Hungary for use of the babies cf those countries. Berlin newspapers, according to the Overseas News agency, express tb° belief that the landing of allied troor at Phaleron, five miles southwest of Athens, is considered as supplying proof that the entente powers intend using extreme means to force the hand of Greece. Turkish forces occupying positions on both banks of the river Tigris, twenty-five miles south of Kut-el- Amara, m Mesopotamia, are retreat ing, according to an announcement made by the British official press bu reau. According to reports received by the Vatican Emperor William underwent an operation last Thursday. Althourh the operation is described as having been successful, it is said that a wc'i must elapse before his majesty may be pronounced out of danger. The Servian cabinet ministers, in eluding Premier Patitch, arrived at Brindisi on their way to Rome. The Austrians have proclaimed a state of siege at Cettinje and have ar rested a number of citizens on SUP picion. They have searched the houses of the town and have requisi tioned foodstuffs and disarmed the in habitants. A new offensive along a front of al most 100 miles has been undertaken in the Caucasus by reinforced Rus sian columns, according to an official statement issued at the Turkish wai office. JOINT MINERS' CONFERENCE Operators and Union Men Will Meet at Mobile Feb. 1. A joint conference of operator and union miners from the centra) competitive bituminous coal districts will be held in Mobile, Ala., beginning Feb. 1, to endeavor to arrange a wag. scale for the four districts interested. All the bituminous coal operators in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania will be represented in the wage conference. The reason given for taking the con ference to the southern city was to get away from the influence of miners and operators that might prevail if the meeting were held in one of the states composing the ceatral competi tive districts. Oklahoma Town Fire-Swept. A thousand persons are homeless, due to the almost entire destruction of Wirt, in the Healdton (Okla.) oil field, from a flre that itarted in the Oil Exchange cafe. BANDITS KILL TWO MORE AMERICANS Men Shot Last Week Had Been Guaranteed Sate Conduct SENATE WILL GET RECORD Albert Simmons and Victor Hamittorv Prospectors, Killed by Viltistas Near Torreon on Account of Citizenship. Albert Simmons of Los Angeles and Victor Hamilton of Chicago were mur dered at Pedrieena, Mexico, by Villa bandits, according to a dispatch from Juarez. The report of the killing of the two Americans comes through the Carranza military officials at Juarez. They de clared that Simmons and Hamilton had been killed by bandits under the leadership of the Arreta brothers. The men were mining prospectors. The Carranza officials said that so far as they have been able to learn, the two Americans were killed with out a chance to get out of the country and that the murders were committed simply because the men were Ameri cans and citizens of the United States, which is supporting the Car ranza government. Pedrieena, the place where the Americans were killed, is sixty miles west of Torreon. Facts accumulated at the state de partment in Washington concerning the circumstance of the massacre ot the seventeen Americans and Canadian near Santa Ysabel, by tho Villista bandits completely disprove the original statements from the de partment and the White House tend ing to show that the Americans went into the bandit-infested district re gardless of warnings. These facts, summed up in a lengthy report from Collector of Custom# Cobb at El Paso, and a brief dispatch from United States Consul Edwards at Juarez, show: 1. That Consul Edwards, acting on what he declares to have been in structions from Washington, applied for and obtained from the Carranza authorities assurances of protection for the properties of the Cusi Mining company near Santa Ysabel, to which the Americans were proceeding when slain. 2. That C. R. Watson, manager of the company, who was among those slain, obtained from the Mexican im migration authorities at Juarez a gen eral passport covering all members of the party and from the Carranza gov- ernor of the state of Chihuahua-a per sonal passport for himself. 3. That the Carranza authorities at Chihuahua assured Watson that it was perfectly safe for him to resume operations at the mines as they had sent a garrison of 1,000 soldiers to guard the properties at Cusi. Secretary Lansing has about com pleted the collection of the data which he will send to the senate in response to the resolution of Senator Fall of New Mexico calling on the state de partment for a full report on all facta relating to the Mexican situation prior and subsequent to the recogni tion of Carranza by the American government. MARKET QUOTATIONS * Pittsburgh, Jan. Li Butter —Prints, 36c; tuba, @36c. Eggs—Fresh, 37938 c. Cattle —Choice, 68.6098.75; prime, 68.2598-50; good, 67.7598.15; ttdy butchers, $7.60(g>8; fair, 66.76@7.25; common, 65.5096.50; choice heifers, 66.80@7; common to fair heifers, 64.50 @6; common to good fat bulls, 64(97; common to good fat cows, 63@6.69; fresh cows and springers, 640 9 35. Veals, 64(911.50. Sheep ana Lambs—Prime wethers, 68@8.25; good mixed, 67.40@7.85; fair mixed, 66.5097.25; culls and common, 64©5; heavy ewes, 66<97; lambs, 67# 11; veal cal7es, 611911-50; heavy and thin calves, 66 9 8.50. Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mixed, mediums and heavy Yorkers, 67.45(9 7.55; light Yorkers, 67(97.26; pigs, 66.75(96.90; roughs, 66(96.50; stags, 65 <95.60. Cleveland, Jan. Cattle —Choice fat steers, 67.50(98; good to choice butcher steers, 67# 7.50; fair to good butcher steers, 66# 7; good to choice heifers, 6697; good to choice bulls, 66 <9 7; good to choice cows, 65.25(96; fair to good cows, 64 @5; common cows, 6393.75. Calves —Good to choice calves, 610.50910.65; fair to good, 69910.76; heavy and common, 66 99. Sheep and J^ambs —Good to choice lambs, 610.50910.60; fair to good, 60 910.25; good to choice wethers, 67# 7.60; good to choice ewes, 66.50@7; mixed ewes and wethers, 66.7597.25; bncks, 6595.50; culls and common, 64.5096. Hogs Yorkers, mediums, 67.50; mixed, 67.20; pigs, 66.75; roughs, 6.60; stags, 65.25. Chicago, Jan. * -> Hogs—Bulk, 66.8597.20; light, 66.65 @7.15; mixed, 66.8597.30; heavy, 66.8597.30; roughs, 66.8597; pigs, 65.5096.50. Cattle —Native beef steers, 66.50# 9.80; western steers, 66.60@8.30; coirs and heifers, 63.3098.50; calves, 67.25 910.75. Sheerp—Wethers, 67@7.7f; lambs, 68.25910.70. Wheat —May, 61-25%. Corn — May, 79% c. Oats —May, 79% c.
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