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You Are Invited
*l'o COME to this financial institution in the axme matter-
-1 of-fact way that you enter a store to secure mer-
chandise or service.
YOU WILL find a welcoming human interest -n whatever
matter invites attention whether it be depositing
money planning a loan or any other form of modern
K banking service.
YOUR banking business will receive courteous attention.
WE ARE here to co-operate with you.
A FRIENDLY call will also be welcome.
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We specialize in government and munici-
pal bonds.
Government department is equipped to
buy and sell all Liberty Loan and Victory
Loan issues.
Suite 525 Bedell Building.
TEXAS MISSIONARY
SAYS NAVAJOS ARE
FAR FROM EXTINCT
7 ormer San Angeloan Tells
of Life on Arizona
Reservation.
San Angelo. Tex. Sept. 9.—Kev. FL
D. Smith one of ten Presbyterian mia-
aioMriea among 35000 Indians on the
Navajo reservation in Arizona was in
San Angelo Sunday on his way to Ga-
nado Ariz^ from Eldorado. Mr. Smith
until two years ago was a missionary
worker in this section making his home
in this city.
Since taking up bis abode in tbe heart'
of the 16.000 square miles that com- j
prise the Navajo reservation Mr. Smith
has mastered the Indian tongue and he
and his co-workers have translated a
part of the bible into the natives' lan- ‘
guage. These books constitute tbe only
written works in the Navajo’s language.
The tribes around Ganado are indus-
trious says Mr. Smith although only
one-tenth of the population is civilized.
Sheep raising and the making of the fa-
mous blankets are the chief occupa-
tions. Dissension among the Indians
is infrequent although in recent years
a number of post traders have been kill-!
ed.
Indians in the United States are in-1
creasing rapidly and the race is not be-
coming extinct says Mr. Smith. In 1890
there were only 35000 red skins: today
they number 300000. Many of the Na-
vajos who fought the Germans have just
returned to their mountain homes in
Arizona.
TOURISTS LIKE ALASKA
—
Thousand' of Visitors Obey Slogan to
•‘See America First.”
Juneau. Alaska Aug. I.—(By Mail.)
—Never before in the history of Alaska
has tbe summer tourist rush to tbe
north! a nd been as great as it is this
year. Hundreds of ]>eople from tbe
•Ute? evidently are obeying the in-
^unctiou to “see America first” and
are atarting on Alaska.
All Alaska seaj>ortB rej>ort there are
scores of people here who on account
of the rush of excursionists are un-
able to get accommodations on steamers
back to tbe states. Steamship com pa-
tties find themselves unable to bandie
both tbe tourist traffic and tbe regular
summer business.
TO RAISE $3OOO
Yoakum C itizens Open Drive to Secure
Good Road Fund.
Yoakum. Tex.. Kent. At the In*t
regular meeting of the directors of the
Yoakum Commercial Club a mass meet-1
ing of the citizenship was called for the
purpose of arranging for tbe raising of
approximately Yoakum's i»art for
the building of a gon] road from Coke
Htreet to the cemeteries. The president
of the Yoakum Commercial Club ap-
pointed the following committee to make
a canvass of the city:
E. A. Palmer. E. C. Koerth. AV. L
Johnston Mrs. Grover Livingston and
Mrs. A. E. Cummisky.
I Fredericksburg Fair Opens Sept. 19.
i Frederkksburg. Tex. Kept. 9.—What
is predicted will be one of tbe best fairs
ever held Id Giles pie county will hgin
ttext week oj>cuii>g on Friday the 19th
and ending on the following Monday.
CTbis year being one of unusually fine
crops the fair will undoubtedly excel
efforts Plenty of attractions have
been assured and good music with other
pmiutemrnt- are Uiclqded in the pro-
gram.
Kokhak’s Is on Offensive.
Luadon. Sept 9 A I
load of the All-Russian government be-
gan a (punter offensive against the B<>l-
sbryiki on September 1 says an official
message from Omak the seat of tbe gov-
rrnment received today. J
TUESDAY.
MINE WORKERS OPEN
MEETING AT CLEVELAND
(Continued From Page One.)
1.W.W. and similar organizations and
declared against any compromises with
elements sJeking tn spread such doc-
trines in the United Mine Workers or-
ganization.
Asks Tariff on Mexican Oil.
He reported on damage actions
brought against the United Mine Work-
ers’ organization which are inspiring
efforts to secure from Congress an
amendment to the Clayton Anti-Trust
Act to prevent the possibility of such
suits against labor unions. He further
recommended an effort to secure tariff
legislation to cope with the problem of
Mexican fuel oil. which is entering into
serious competition with American coal
and on account of its cheapness huJ the
I case with which it may be delivered
at seaboard. Great Lakes and Mississ-
■ ippi River j»oints obtains a threat to
' prosjierity of those engaged in the coal
। industry. An imjKirt duty of at least
a dollar a barrel was desired to meet
this competition.
Opening with a reference to the war
; accomplishments of the miners who bad
patriotically met every demand for in-
creased production fo* war industries
and furnished 80000 men to the Amer-
ican armies. President Lewis passed to
tbe war time negotiations with tbe Unit-
ed States Fuel Administration and their
efforts to secure modification of the
Washington wago award which had
quickly proved inadequate to meet actual
। increases in tbe cost of living. These
< efforts bad been successful in the au-
-1 thracite field where increasesjyf from
I 25 to 40 per cent had been granted
but all efforts to secure corresponding
ameliorations from the bituminous scale
; had failed. Prod action in 1919 had
fallen off markedly he said the out-
j put during the first seven mouths bav-
-1 ing been 91.000000 tons less than in the
* same months of 1918. This reduction
I was accompanied by extensive non-em-
ployment for miners.
Touches on Cost of Living.
1 The "astonishing increase” in the cost
j of necessities of life felt by tbe miners
. with particular severity owing to their
• life iu isolated communities far from
centers of distribution necessiated im-
mediate action to enable mine workers
to meet it.
Tbe committee on policy already in
March had drawn up a series of recom-
mendations which he enumerated. In
do uay responsible for the failure of
the Senate to ratify tbe treaty of peace
and thus officially terminate the Wash-
ington wage agreement tbe United
Workers should no longer be coosidered
bound by that agreement. He there- 1
fore recommended that the convention ;
terminate the Washington agreement not
later than November 1.
Concerning nationalization of coal
I mines recommended by the same com-
mittee on policy Mr. Lewis said that
■ the international officials had been uu-
I able to have tbe desired draft of the
proposed legislation prepared iu time
for the convention. lie therefore placed
■ the entire matter before the delegates
I for thir consideration.
Miners Union Sued for $600000.
Fort Smith Ark.. Sept. 9.—Suit of
the Pennsylvania Mining Company of
Scranton Pa. against the Cuited
Mine Workers of America and 50 in-
dividual defendants local district and
national officers of tbe organization is
M*t for trial at the term of I nit*d States
district court convening here today. The
company Si}OO.<HHJ damag<*> alleg-
ing conspiracy on tbe part of the de-
fendants to prevent operation of its
j mine at Jamestown in Johnson County
I on an open shop basis.
14000 fjarkawanna Miners Out.
Scranton Pa.. Sept. 9. — Fourteen
thousand employes of the Delaware
J^ackawannu and Western Coal Com-
pany iu its mines within Lackawanna
County today obeyed the strike order
of their grievance committee in support
•of the company's miners at Archbald
who are protesting against the dis-
charge of those who refused to du emer-
gency work at laborer's wages.
Livestock Handling to Cost I^ess.
Washington D. C. Sept. 9.—Revision
of charges for livestock unloading ot
Chicago was forecast today in a tenta-
tive decision by an Interstate Commerce
Commission examiner who recommend-
| ed that they be reduced.
CONCESSIONS
OVER TREATY
801 UNLIKELY
Both Republicans and Dem-
ocrats Show Signs of
Giving Ground.
SIMMONS HEADS MOVE
Poindexter Says G. 0. P.
Program Is Based on
Lincoln Ideals.
Washington I). C. Sept. 9. —Marked
indications of a compromise in the Sen-
ate controversy over reservations to the
League of Nations covenant came yes-
terday from both Democratic and Re-
publican sources after Republican Lead-
er Lodge had announced that the treaty
would be reported to the Senate \\ ed-
nesday and probably taken up for con-
sideration next Monday.
Probably the most important develop-
ment was a statement to the B?iiat> by
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
prominent iu Democratic leadership
which declared “some concessions in the
way of reservations will have to be
made to secure its ratification.”
"Although "utterly” opposing some of
the Lodge reservations. Senator Sim-
mons said he was suggesting a compro-
mise on ‘conservative reservations of an
interpretative character.”
Republican senators continued efforts
to compose differences over a reserva-
tion on Article 10. or rhe league cove-
nant. Senators McCumber North Da-
kota ; Kellogg Minnesota and Lenroot.
Wisconsin were said to have drafted
substitute reservations which were dis-
cussed privately iu lengthy cloakroom
conferences.
Senator Poindexter Republican.
Washington in n two hours address
replied to statements of President Wil-
son in his speech-making trip. Sev-
eral Republican senators made arrange-
ments for speeches in western cities in
reply to the President while others pre-
parAi to reply soon to Mr. \\ ilson from
the Senate floor.
Poindexter Answers Wilson.
Referring to the President’s challenge
to league opponents to “put up or shut
up.” Senator Poindexter said the sub-
stitute for the league offered by its op-
ponents was the decalartion of inde-
pendence ami Lincoln’s government "by
au<l for the people*.”
In reply to the President’s declaration
that the league would end use of Amer-
ican soldiers abroad. Mr. Poindexter
called attention to the sending of Amer-
ican troons to Siberia and the reported
(dans to* send others to Silesia and
Armenia.
With interest centered in the reserva-
tion controversy considerable signifi-
cance was attached by senators to Sena-
tor Simmons’ formal statement although
he disclaimed privately that he spoke
for the President.
Republican leaders Pleased.
Republican leaders however hailed
Senator Simmons’ statement as a frank
concession that tbe treaty cannot be
ratified without reservations.
He said in part:
"After a thorough study of the situa-
tion the Senate. I am convinced that
some concessions in the way uf reserva-
tions will have to be made to secure its
ratification and so believing. I have re-
cently discussed with a number of my
colleagues the advisability* of reaching
some compromise between those who
are in favor of the treaty without reser-
vations and those who are in favor of/it
with conservative reservations of an in-
terpretative character.
“I am utterly opiM»sed however to
the reservations proposed by the Foreign
Relations Committee. Some of those
reservations would radically change the
scope and character of the instrument
emasculating some of the main provis-
ions of tbe league and which would
call for re-considcration by peace con-
ference.”
CURETON FILES SUIT
FOR OIL TERRITORY
VALUED AT $890090
State Claims Vendees on
Stephens County Tract
Were Forfeited.
Austin. Tex. Sent. 9.—Suit to re-
cover 160 acres of oil land situated in
Stephens County valued at S>.OOO.UOO.
was instituted today in the Fiftj-third
District Court by Attonoy General
Cureton on behalf of the State of Texa^
against tbe (iulf Production Company et
al. The state is also asking for $300-
damages.
It is alleged by the state in it* peti-
tion that the land in question belongs
to the public fr^e whool fund of the
state. The defendants acquired the land
through tin vendee »»f J. M. Kidd but
the state alleges that the vendees for-
feited their interest in the land by non-
payment of interest. It is claimed there
are four pnslucing wells do* on this
tract of land which is described in the
petition as the northeast one-fourth
of Re< tioiT 22 Bbs-k (> Texas Ac Pa
rific Railwax Company survey certifi-
cate 2M5 Stephens County Texas.
Tomason in Austin.
Austin Tex. Sept. 9. — R. E.
Thumascn of El Paso speaker <>f the
House in the Thirty-sixth Legislature
is lore on ’icrsoDal business and iuej-
dentally had a conference with the gov-
♦■rn»»r. Speaker Thomason has be<?n
strongly urged by J>is friend' including
n number of the members of the Legis-
lature to anDoiin'*e a> a candidate for
governor subject Io the Jul.x primari< ‘-
in 1910 but be made do official an-
Douncement.
Cotton Sec<l Market Gord.
Austin Tex. Kent. 9.—Report* on
the cotton seed market are commejjcing
to reach the Bureau of Markets of tbe
Department of Weights and Measure*
aud indicate that cotton seed is selling
for $65 to $7O p<r ton. Sam H. Dix»m.
the chief of this bureau declares that
this being tbe first seed it i> irnpusNibb'
•to say just at the present time what
will be the commanding price for this
product.
E SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
FINSON IS DRIVING
OVER SHIP BY TRUCK
ROUTE AS PRELIMINARY
Firestone Expert From Dal-
las Wil! Call on Mayors
of Various Towns.
To make preliminary Arrangements
tor tbe ship-by-truck driveaway aud
tour J. W. Piuson t bead ot the Dallas
office of tbe firestone Ship-by-Truck Bu-
reau and au expert truck mnu left
Tuesday morning at 7 :30 o’clock for a
trip over tbe proposed route. He was
accompanied by M. K. Miesjohu of the
• Nash Company a^moinber of the local
Truck Freighting Bureau and S. E.
Cornelius publicity agent of tbe Cham-
ber of Commerce. It is Mr. Piusou’s
intentions to call on the mayors of tbe
various towns aud villages through
which the truck caravan will pass and
to ask them to issue prorlninatious set-
ting aside the day on which the trucks
will visit their respective towns as a
public holiday. Mr. Pinson also will
ask tbe dealers in the various towns to
arrange for demonstrations and the
farmers especially will be asked to view
the various makes of truck* prticipat-
ing in the drive.
The driveaway as announced in the
special Bhip-by-truck s?ction of The
Light Sunday will take place on Mon-
day. September 22. The route was
published in the Ship-by-Truck section.
It was selected with a view to being
passable no matter what kind of weath-
er prevails and no delay is anticipated
in making tbe drive. The San Antonio
tru< k dealers are enthusiastic over tbe
project and are giving it every assist-
ance. Many expressions of commenda-
tion for the Ship-by-Truck section of
The Light were forthcoming. Mr. Pin-
son stated that a cony of this edition
had been mailed to every one of the
Firestone Ship-by-Truck Bureaus in
the country and also to the company
headquarters.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
TO DEFER SESSIONS
UNTIL SENATE ACTS
Peace Council Not Likely to
Meet in Washington Be-
fore November.
Wellington I). 0. Sept. 9.—lt is
now virtually certain that tbe first
meeting of tha League of Nations will
not be held in Washington in October
as originally planned.
Tbe exact date depends upon the ac-
tion of the United States Senate in
regard to ratification of the peace treaty
containing the covenant which creates
the league. Should tbe Senate ratify
the treaty in time to permit delegates
to arrive for a meeting in November it
probably will be held then but if the
discussion is much protracted the meet-
ing time is expected to go over until
the first of the new year some time in
January 192 U. Th>re probably could
be n<y meeting in December because of
circumstances which might make it iu-
couxenieut for some of the foreign dele-
; gates to come at that time.
. The first meeting of tiie League Coun-
■ cil however can be called any time
I after three of the principal |>oWers
1 have ratified the treaty. It is expected
to be held immediately after such ratifi-
I < ition. Unless the Senate has ratified
J the treaty by that time the United
• States would not be represented at the
1 meeting; which would be held in Paris
er in London. Germany already has
; ratified and France is expected by some
observers to ratify sometime during Sep-
j tember. Italy generally is expected to
; be next iu line and Japan is expected
1 to act during the next three months.
Great Britain has enacted legislation
liarryng the treaty into effect but has
i not formally ratified probably waiting
• until after the Canadian parliament
; now iu session has acted.
The situation as to ratification by
I lesser powers and the large numbers
’ of neutrals wl:o signed the treaty is
not clear in Washington. President
’ Wilson recently told senators of the for-
eign relations committee that he had
| no official information on that phase
of tbe subject.
When tbe council bolds its first mect-
i ing—whether in London or Faris the
I session is expected to be comparatively
! brief. Appointment of the Saar Valley
commission and the appointment of a
• high commissioner for Danzig are ex-
I pected to be tbe principal business
i Meeting of the assembly however
i which is the gathering of the whole
i league with delegates from all countries
and is to be held in tbe-United States
at the call of President Wilson is ex-
j |>ectcd to bring representatives from
! practically every nation in the world
j Perfecting a permahent organization will
lw the first business for the assembly
undoubtedly will meet without a defi-
i nite program.
After organization has been perfected.
t committees probably will bo named to
take up such questions as the founds-
tion of a permanent court of interna-
tional justice as provided in Article
j 14 of the treaty: disarmament manufac-
ture of munitions and kindred subject*
winch were left by the treaty itself to
' the league of Nations to work out.
The cF»mmi*sions to administer the man-
datoriob. as provided in the treaty also
■ probably will be named at' this ses-
। >ion.
Premiers Lloyd George and Clemen-
i erau both have projnised to attend the
first meeting if domestic conditions war-
jant their absence from home.
Hear Depot Case Tuesday.
Austin. Tex. Sept. 9. -The Texas
i Railroad Commi'sioii Ihi> given noth*? to
' the San AutuDio Ac Aransas Pass Rail
way Company that jt will take up and
consider on Tuesday. September 1(5. a
I petition filed with thr commission by
I the director general of railroads for au-
Ithority for the lemoval of the passenger
<l» pot at Kerrville from the old location
to the junction of Clay and Tchotipitau-
la- Street--
< anta in Davis Back on Job.
Austin Tex. Sept. 9.—Capt. Waxne
I Davis of Goliad has Iwen ap|M>inted by
. the governor to Iw district attorney of
the Twenty-fourth Judicial Distriet.
<'aptoin Davis resigned to enter the
larmv and when be was discharged. A.
f C. Hartman who had been npiminted to
* suercwl him. resigned in order that Cap-
tain Davis could return to his former
duties.
A litre Threat.
If the trouble continue* it v ill be nee-
»r>Hry f> r h-.om < <o- to march b<.!dlv into
Mexico and r<s‘l »h<- T.engue of Nation*
l< ov» nMnt to Ihe Mexicans—Huston Shue
HIVE TO TEJIH
OUT WIRING DE
N9N-UNIONMEN
Carpenters and Others at
Work on Building Give
Ultimatum.
OPEN SHOP MAY ACT
Electrical Contractor In-
volved Is Member of
Association.
A new angle in the fight union labor
is making to back up striking xdoctri-
cinns developed Tuesday morning when it
became necessary for the owner of a
building in course of construction to
have electrical work torn out that had
been nut in by non-union electricians be-
fore union carpenters and other crafts-
men employed on the job would con-
sent to resume operations. The union
men wrnt back to work after wires and
fixtures placed by non-union electricians
Monday had been removed by direction
of the owner of the building.
The firm having tbe contract for
electrical work on the structure em-
ploys non-union electricians and belongs
to the Open Shop Association. Elec-
tricians formerly employed in the shop
walked out .Tune 1 when a strike of
electrical workers was called.
Action of the building owner in hav-
iny non-union electrical work torn out
to satisfy demands of union era its drew
a protest from the contracting firm hut
ns far as could be ascertained no under-
standing had been reached on the situa-
tion early Tuesday afternoon.
To (’all On Owner.
It is understood that u committee
from the Open Shop Association will
call on th n owner of the building in the
course of the afternoon to ascertain
whether conditions are as have been
stated.
The job in question was one <»n which
union wortemen walked out. along with
the Central Trust Company and other
construction ns a protest against the
use of non-union electricians. At the
ti\c uui<»n craftmnen quit worit on tbe
Central Trust Company building Inst
week organized labor through a commit-
tee nf labor loaders announced its in-
tention of supporting the striking elec-
tricians in every possible way. The
refusal of union mon to work on the
same jobs with non-union elect riciana
is in accordance with this plan.
The Central Trust Company job is
still tied up as are several other con-
struction optwatioito in and around the
city. J. P. Havnos. who baa the con-
tract on tbe big bank building said Tues-
day morning that there wore no develop-
ments in the'situation. He has not yet
replaced the mcnlCho emit.
Join Oren Shop .Vmcir.tmx
A labor situation that is full oF pos-
i Abilities •came to light in the drscov-
’ ery that in the 00111x0 of the last two
I weeks a big majority of th* plumbing
contractors in .Kan Antonio have joined
the Open Shop Association while the
journeymen plumbers working for local
plumbing contractors are said to be one
hundred per rmt union.
Whether there will bo env develop-
ments from the opposite affiliations of
employers and employes in the plumb-
ing trade remains to be-scon. The wajo
contract under which plumbers are now
working expires at the end of October.
Under the present scale plumbers arc
drawing $8 per day.
OBITUARY
Joseph L. Genglcr.
Joseph L. Gengler 47 years old died
at his borne 24!) Argyle Aventie at
6:15 o'cloek Monday evening. He was
a native of Texas mid bad lived in this
city for the last three years coming
here from Galveston mid establishing u
chain of Key Kash grocery stores. Sur-
viving him are his widow one son
Maurice a daughter.-Audrey mid a
brother Charles A. all of Smi Antonio.
The fuuerul was held from the resilience
at V o'clock Monday morning after
which the body was taken by tbe Hagy
& McCollmu Undertaking Company to
Galveston for interment.
K Miss Elizabeth ('. Imyer.
Miss Elizabeth C. Layer 32 years old.
died at the home of her parents Mr.
and Mrs. Louis F. Layer. 262 Clinton
' Avenue at 7 o'clock Monday evening
i She was a native of Sen Antnio jmd
had resided here cont’.nioiisly since
I birth liesides her parents she is sur-
-1 vivid by three brothers lamis of Cali-
fornia Otto and Hruce of Smi Antonio
j nnd six sisters Mrs. 11. .1. McDonald
of Chicago. Mrs. Joe Slavin. Mr- Ilel-
! on Fisher. Mrs. E. M. Franks and Mrs.
I Peter Catalani. nil of San Antonio mid
Mrs. F. E. Hockett ot Fresno Cal.
I Tbe funeral will be held from the rcs-
. idi nee at 5 o'clock Tuesday afti i-msiii
followed by services nt St. Mary's
; Church with interment in the new St.
: Joseph's Cemetery.
Kuby Vaiazha t'amplong.
Kuby Viilaska Camjiloug. 4 y ars old.
died at 438 Main Avenue Monday
night at 11 :30 o'clock. She was a nn-
[ tive of the Philippine Islands mid bad
I lived in San Antonio for four months
j Surviving her is her mother Mrs. Tony
। Spinella. The funeral was hold at St.
.Mary's Church Tuesday afternoon at 1
i o'rloek with ihternient in the Mission
I Burial Park.
4 • —
POKTKK UmiNG.
. *' UDcr ai Director. Crockett 211.
< Adv.)
Hagy A Met Hum Liilertabers.
j Ambulance ami Lung Minot Service.
1 Corner Avenue < and ’-wan. Cr 104.
Appeal Ducket Clear.
Austin Tex. Sept. o.—The Comniis
■•ion of Aopeals will convene on S-pti ue
I lw*r 15 juwi about two weeka ImJof*’
1 'll** Supreme Court ojm-um the fall term
। The euminiMwioD before adjourning two
inouthN ago. virtually cleared it* docket
of ca-ex. There w ill be no MubiniKMjoni*
of new (*«Kea by the commiMHioo until
after the Supreme <’' urt meetM.
French to Ratify Sfwirtly.
Prrh Sept. 0.— According to the
Echo de Parin the Chamber of Deputies
will ratify the pence treaty September
10 and the Senate will take aimilnr ac-
tion Heptember 20.
Frank Bros. Shoes
A Steo Ahead
ti
Yes—ahead in quality service and
comfort. Everything that cou'd be de-
sired of a good pair of shoes.
The leathers put into them are the
best obtainable.. Skilled workmen as-
sure a perfect article one that gives an
unlimited amount of satisfactory wear. ;
There’s a large assortment of colors;
of shapes and styles; as well as a size to
fit every man.
The prices are really very moderate
just the reverse of what you have been
led to believe. Why we can shew you
an excellent shoe for $7 or $B. Come in
and look them over.
LIVING COST A WORLD
PROBLEM SAYS WILSON
(Continued From Page Opp.)
niore on thn other side of the water
than on this side.
One point I wish to make is that the
world is looking to America to sot the
standards with regard to the conditions
of labor or the relations between capital
and labor and it is looking to us be-
cause we have been more progressive
in those matters. We bare got to have
a constructive program with regard to
labor and a method by which we will
relieve the strain of what you can call
the cost of living.
I am nut dugmutic about this mat-
ter. I can’t presume that I know how
it should be done. I know the prin-
ciple upon which it should bo done. The
principle is that the interest of capital
and the interest of- labor are not dif-
ferent but are the .^ame.
You can’t any longer regard labor as
a commodity. You have got to regard
its as a moans of association and when
that is done the production of the world
is going to go forward by leaps and
bounds.
U. S. Provincial in Past.
Why it is that labor organizations
seriously limit the amount of work they
have in hand to do? it is because
they are driving hard bargains. They
don’t feel that they are your partners
at all. And so long as labor and capital
are antagonistic production is going
to be nt its minimum. Just as soon
as they are sympathetic and- co-opera-
tive it is going to abound nnd that will
be one of the means of bringing down
tbe cost of living.
America though we do not like to ad-
mit it has been very provincial in
regard to the world’s business. When
j we had to engage in banking transac-
lions outside of tbe United States we
[ generally did it through English banks
i or more often through German bankers
I and here all of a sudden we nre catied
upon to handle the bulk of internntion-
।al exchange. We have to learu it nnd
i we have to learu it fast.
We have got to have American in-
strumentalities in every' part rf th?
I world. If you want to trade you have
j to have somebody to trade with.
We hr.ve fot to play our part and
[ we have got to play it either as board
of directors or as outside spectators.
। We can play it inside or on the curb.
' and you know bow Inconvenient it is
to play it on the curb.
Everywhere I have been on this trip
i the majority of tbe committers that
Lave received me has consishtcd of Re-
publicans and nothing has pleased me
so much. If I wore a scheming |sditi-
(lnn. nnd anyone wished to present me
with the pence of tiie world as a cam-
i paign issue it would lie very welcome
but everybody knows that we arc all
Ane^icans. The Democrat nnd the Re-
publican underneath are of the *sain^
stuff. Labels rub off with the slight-
est effort.
President Wilson’s s|wcial train nr-
rived at the St. Paul Union Btation at
9 o’clock. The President was officially
v dconied t«> Minnesota by Governor J.
A. Burn<|uist and the Twin <‘itirs by
Mayors L. ('. H«sjgson of St. Paul nnd
J. E. My era of Mi tinea (Mills.
President and Mrs. Wilson received
an ovation when they stepped from the
j station n few minutes later. The
I streets around thr station were pntrolrd
! by Minnesota National Guardsmen. The
I preMidcntial waw immediatelj
(iriven to the state rnpitol where Presi
dent Wilosn will address n joint session
of thr state legislature nt 10 a. m.
At 3 o’clock he is to speak nt the
Minneapolis Armory nnd at 8 o'clock
at th'- St. Paul Auditorium leaving late
tonight for Bismarck N. D.
Two brief rest periods have been nr
innged for the President ip the spin* in I
suite nt a hotel here where tbe preu
IraaWta
far
dcntial party will bdve luncheon and
dinneitt in private.
PRO-GERMANS ACTIVE IN U. S.
President Declares They Have Started
Work in Last Two Weeks.
Sioux Falls S. D. Sept. 9.—Declar-
ing that pro-Ger in od ism again had lift-
ed its bead in this country. President
Wilson said in an address here last
night that "every clement of chaos” xyas
hoping there would be “no steadying
hand” placed on the world’s affairs.
"I want to tell you” The President
said "that witbin tbe last two weeks
t’je pro-German element in the United
States azain has lifted its head.”
This element he said saw u chance
by keeping their nation out of the
League of Nations to make jiossiblc
again wbat Germany had tried to do
in the great war. It was a clean-cut
usue Mr. Wilson declared between this
new order and the old German or-
der.
Turning Point in History^
In his address President Wilson
said: >
I 1 must admit that every time I face
I a great audience of my fellow country-
! men on this trip 1 am filled with a
• feeling of i>eculiar solemnity because
' I believe my fellow countrymen that
! wo have come to one of tbe turning
| points in the history of the world. And
; what I as an American covet for this
| great country is that on every great oc-
casion when mankind's fortunes are
hung in the balance that America may
have the distinction of leading tbe
way.
I ^vant to remind you my follow
countr>men that that war was not an
accident. That war didn’t just happen.
There was not some sudden cause which
brought on the conflagration. On the
contrary Germany had bc^n prepar-
ing for that war for generations. Ger-
many bad been preparing every resource
and perfecting every skill developing
every invention which Would enable
her to master the European world and
to dominate the rest of the world.
Everybody had been looking on. Every-
body’ had known. For example it was
known in every war office in Europe
and in the War Department in Wash
ington that the Germans not only had
a vast supply of great fifld guns but
that they had ammunition enough for
every one of those guns to exhaust t^e
gun. And vet we were living in «
! fool’s paradise. We thought Germany
meant wbat she said that she was
armed for defense and that she never
would use that great store of guns
against her fellow men. Why. my
friends it was foreordained the min-
jute Germany cenceived these purposes
that she should do the thing which Mie
'did in 1911.
Nine Months to Cool Off.
Now I have brought back from Eu-
rope with me my fellow citizens a
treaty in which Germany is disarmed
and in which nil the other nations of tbe
\.orld agree never to no to war. That
is all. I have done one or the other
of two things. Either I have submitted
the question in dispute to arbitration
in which case they will abide by the ver-
dict or submit to discussion by the
Lcagm? of Nations. They will allow six
months for discussion which will put all
the facts before the world nnd not un-
til three months after the cxpiiztioii of
i the six mouths will they go to war.
‘ There is a period of nine months cool-
i ing off and Germany didn't dare to cool
j off for nine hours.
If Germany h.td dreamed that nny
I thing like the greater part of the world
v.oiild combine against her she never
would have begun the war nnd she
didn’t dare let the opinions of man-
kind crystali^e against her. by the dis-
cussion of the purposes which she had
in mind.
You ran not have n new system wn-
less you supply a substitut” nn ndc-
qiinte substitute for the old. and I want
to say that when certain of our fellow
citizens take the position that we do not
want to go into it alone but want to
I trke care of ourselves. I scy that is the
• German position. Germany through
1 the mouth of her emperor through her
i writers and through every action said
SEPTEMBER 9 1919.
Kuppenheitner
Clothes
Stetson
Hats
"here we stand ready to take care of
ourselves. We will not enter intu any
combination. We are armed for wdf-
(irfense and we know that no nation can
compete with us.”
ITo-Germans Are Active.
That appears to be the American
program iu the eyes of some gentle-
men. nnd I waut to tell you that iu the
last two weeks the pro-Germanism ele-
ment has lifted its brad again. It says
"I see a chance for Germany and Amer-
ica to stay out aud take care of them-
selves.” We Americans will play the
same role ns the Germans under tbr
order that brought us through that
agony nnd bloody sweat. That agony
where the world seemed to be caught in
the throes of a eur.se that we did not
know whether civilization would survive
or m>t nnd do not believe too easily
that it is now safe. There were pas-
sions let loose on the field of the world
at war which have not grown quiet
and which will not for a long time. And
every element of disorder is hoping that
there will be no staying hand from tbe
Council of Nations to hold the order of
tile world steadily until we enn make
the final arrangements of justice and
peace.
I sometimes think when I wake up
in tbe night of the wakeful nights that
anxious fathers mothers and friend*
spent during the weary days of the
awful war nnd I hear the cry of moth-
ers of the children millions on the
other side “in Goda’s name give us se-
curity and pence.”
America can stay out. but I want you
to witness that the peace of the world
can not be established with the peace of
the individual nations. America is
necessary to the peace of the world;
tbe pence nnd good will of the world are
necessary to America lest you disan-
point the world center its suspicion
upon you make it feel that you are
filled with jealousy mid selfishness.
We are not thinking of money we
are thinking of redeeming the reputa-
tion of America rather tbau to have all
of the money in tbe world. I am not
ready to die for money und neither arc
you but you aud I are ready to die
for America. •
VILLA NEAR SUCCESS
Excelsior Says Outlaw Chief Captured
Part of Durango. 9
An official telegram from (Jenera)
Munuel Dleguez military commander
of ChihHiihua stating that Francisco
Villa and INK) followers were repulsed
on September 1 after capturing a por-
tion oi Durango appears in the Heptem-
ber 4 issue of Excelsior a paper repre-
senting the Mexican federal government
published in the City of Mexico.
According to the telegram. Villa ap-
proached Durango through the Cerra
(!• I Mercado and (Jerro de Remedios
mountains and the municipal cemeteries
capturing the suburbs and penetrating
the main part of the city. He way
driven off by Generals Amaro and Ha-
belo later attacking and blowing up a
military tin in which was bringing foxces
to General Hesario Castro to relieve
Durango. The attack on the train took
place near kilometer BGO between Tor-
reon und Durango.
The telegram stated that Villa killed
many citizens of Durango before re-
treating and describes his attack ms n
leigu of terror. No mention is made of
the extent of casualties on either side.
It whs stut(d that Governor Domingo
Arrieta is in the City of Mexico pre*
sumably to confer with Carranza as tn
iiKiisures to be taken against Villa.
Previous dispatcher said Villa lost
350 men and had been routed with the
loss of most of his equipment.
Former San Antonian Killed.
El Paso Tex. Sept. 9. —Robert Kra*
knuer. formerly of San Antonio was in-
stantly killed lute yesterday on bis
•.anch m ar Clint when n gun whs acci-
dentally disebarged. He bud just re-
turned from a dove hunt accompanied
by his wife. It has not been determined
which one of them was bolding the wea*
h । n f th” »'•••" < f the rC • ' '■•h
was witnewod by a young son of tha
.lead man nnd a nephew.
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