Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 221, Ed. 1 Monday, December 14, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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L. LANDGRAF
STATE UNIVERSITY
ECONOMIC SCHOOL
HELD AT COLEMAN
Coleman, Texas, Dee. 14.—A one
week's school in Home Economics,
under direction of University experts
daring which instruction was given in
food contents, sewing, home sanita-
tion, and so on, constitutes an inno-
vation in University Extension work
Which is attracting wide-attention and
interest over the State. It is just
another device for taking the Univer-
sity to the people.
The Coleman School Week, held re-
cently, was attended with many fea-
ture* of interest, and the general suc-
ceu of the initial venture in this
work, will undoubtedly contribute
awch to the further demand by other
communities for similar campaigns.
All problems discussed were dealt
with in a manner in keeping with
the special community conditions, in
order that their application might
procure the best results. The attend-
ance was exceedingly good, weather
conditions considered, there being an
average of sixty-five women in all
the daily classes. ,
The two general mass meetings,
held for the discussion of local con-
ditions and problems, were well at-
tended. The mayor addressed the
first assemblage, on "How to Make
Coleman a Better Place to Live In."
Other lectures were delivered on
"Plans for a Better City" and "Plans
for a Cleaner City." by a councilman
»nd the city health officer, respec-
tively.
A Jiteroopticon lecture on dairy in-
spection, given by the University in-
structors, was followed by a genera!
discussion. Various persons present
at the meeting took part in the dis-
cussion. and interesting data was se-
cured from several dairymen, who
also announced their intention of in-
corporating many of the suggested
feature* In their establishments.
The second meeting was presided
ever by a local doctor, and the sub-
ject for the evening was, "Better
Homes and Better Families." The
instructors in charge delivered an il-
lustrated lecture on "Better Homes
for Texas," and the chairman dis-
cussed the Better Babies Movement.
Open discussion from the floor as
to advisability of a Better Babies
Contest for Coleman, resulted in the
appointment of a committee of three
to draw up plana for a contest to be
held early in March.
The Division of Home Welfare of
the University offers to conduct these
schools or one week educational cam-
paigns, free of charge, under the di-
rection of competent instructors, in
any community guaranteeing a class
of twenty-five women. The purpose
| of these one week schools is the dis-
semination to all the people of the
State, of short courses in the work
presented to students in the Depart-
ment of Home Economics and Home
Welfare at the University.
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MBS. EDISON AGAINST SALOONS
| West Orange, N. J.—Mrs. Thos. A.
j Edison, wife of the inventor, is head-
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j ing a movement here to reduce the
I number of saloons and perhaps wipe
j them out altogether. Mrs. Edison,
j as president of the West Orange Im-
! provement League, will call a special
1 meeting of the board of directors
| soon to lay plans for fighting the
j liquor interests.
, For ten years, it is believed, West
j Orange has had more saloons in pro-
portion to its population than any
| other city in the State. There is one
! to everv three hundred inhabitants.
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DUTCH STEAMER ASHORE
The Bogor Stranded on Portuguese
Coast and Reported to Be a
Total Wreck
London. Dec. 14.—A Lloyd's dis-
patch from Oporto says that the
Dutch steamer Boger, from Amster-
dam for Buenos Aires, is ashore north
of Lexioes on the Portugcese coast
and is a total wreck. It is believed
that 25 lives were lost.
The Boger, which belonged to the
Rotterdamsche Lloyd line, was of
3621 tonnage and was built in Ham- j
burg.
Xo Meeting Tonight.
Owing to the extremely cold
weather, there will be no meeting
of the board of directors of the
Young Men's Business Association
tonight. The board is hard at work
gathering data for the proposed in-
terurban between here and independ>!
ence and William I'enn, and will no
doubt have an interesting array of
facts and figures to present to the
meeting of the citizens that is to be
held in the near future.
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING
The annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the First National Bank,
will be held at its banking house in
Rrenham, Texas, Tuesday, January
12, 191o, at 10 o'clock A. M. I
Adv. lino. <\ L. WILKINS, j
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CASTOR IA
Fcr Ioftata and Children.
Tli KM Ym Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
OLIDAY FARES
VERY LOW
TO POINTS IN '
Texa*, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Uuisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia.
Kentucky Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir-
ginia, and to Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Md., Kansas City and
St. Louis, Mo., Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trinidad, Colo.,
and Chicago, III.
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Washington, December 14.—Sec-
retary Wilson of the department of
labor, in his annual report, submit
ted today, expresses the convictloh
that had the owners of the mine
properties in the Calumet copper re-
gion and the Colorado coal fields
dealt with the strike situations In
their inception, "had they been on
the ground and personally in charge
there is reason to believe that no
strike would have occurred."
"Whatever may have been the re-
sponsibility of the workmen for the
strike and its incidents," said Sec-
retary Wilson, "the local manage-
ment can not be wholly acquitted;
and upon the elementary princi-
ple of agency, as sound in morals as
in law, ultimate responsibility rests
upon the owners."
Principally, Secretary Wilson's re-
port is devoted to a review of the
labor disputes the department has
successfully mediated during tne last
year and it declines at some length
the principles upon which the depart-
ment acts in such cases. Of the
mediation and concilliation work the
report says:
Most Important of Entire Program.
"Of all the functions of the de-
partment of labor which it is yet
possible to administer, this one may
be reasonably regarded as he most
important. Suggesting with refer-
ence to labor disputes a development
of diplomatic duties in the depart-
ment of labor analogous to those in
the department of state with refer-
ence to international disputes, it
points to a federal administrative
system for promoting and fostering
industrial peace; not a peace of the
Warsaw order, but one of mutual
benefit and good will.
"Primarily the department of la-
bor must conserve in industrial dis-
putes the interests of the wage earn-
ers of the United States. Such is its
duty under the law of its creation,
the first section of which charges it
with responsibility for their general
welfare, while the eighth makes this
responsibility specific as to labor dis-
putes. And those interests are ex-
ceptional in their magnitude. Not
only do wage earners constitute in
number more than a third of out
total population, but in financial re-
spects also their aggregate interests
are vast. It is doubtful if any vo-
cational interests represented in our
governmental system exceed in vol-
ume of public Importance those of
the wage earners of the United
States. /
Fairness in Settling Questions.
"But though the department oi
labor represents primarily the wa«e
earning interests in labor disputes,
its ideal is to make its representa-
tion similar in character to that of
the department of State, which,
while representing the interests of
this country in disputes between !i
and other countries, ^oes so with
fairness toward all countries. Ac-
cordingly the policy of the depart-
ment of labor, though it executes i!.-i
mediation and conciliation functioru
as the governmental representatU.
of wage earning interests, is to do
so without partisanship or prejudice,
but with fairness to every interest
concerned.
"It should be understood, there-
fore. that mediation does not mean
arbitration, compulsory or other-
wise. Nor is it in any other sense a
judicial function. The function isj
one of negotiation. Neither the sec-
retary nor commissioners of concili-'
ation whom he appoints are arbi-
trators. Though they may propose
arbitration when circumstances
seem to call for it, they do not them-]
selves act as arbitrators, and it i«f
contrary to the policy of the depart-)
ment of labor for them to do so.
"What the commissioners of con-
ciliation seek to do is to bring em-
ployer and employee together, so
that the ma ywork out their differ-
ences between themselves peacefully
and amicably, as business men with
legitimate differences to adjust.
When commissioners fall in that way
to get employee and employer to-
gether, mediation is resorted to. The
commissioners negotiate between
representatives of the employee and
representatives of the employer in
an effort to find some mutually sat-
isfactory basis of agreement. Fail-
ing also in that the commissioners
endeavor to get the conflicting par-
ties to agree to a basis of arbitration,
the award to decide nothing but the
points actually In dispute. Any of
those three courses is preferable to
a strike.
When Mediation Plan# Are Failures.
"When the department Is unabl*,
whether through commissioners of
conciliation or otherwise, to get the
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parties to meet and work out their
own problems, or to agree upon an
adjustment by way of mediatorial
negotiation, or to adopt arbitration
by arbitrators of their own choosing,
then there is nothing further the de-
partment can do than to give to the
pubic the information necessary to
enable it to pass a fair judgment tip-
:n the merits <rf the dispute.
"It will be seen, therefore, that
the qualifications of commissioners
of conciliation are not at all judicial,
and that criticisms of their having
or having had partisan affiliations
are based upon a misapprehension
of the duty the statute has imposed
upon them and upon this depart-
ment. It is not a reasonable objec-
tion to a commissioner of concilia-
lion that he belongs to a workers'
trganization, nor that he belongs to
an employers' organization. H,is
important qualifications are not ig-
norance of or indifference to the, in-
icrests of either party or both, but
the fact, fairness, and good feeling
In negotiations in addition to com-
petency with reference to technical
aspects of the matters in rdispute.
Those qualifications among persons
having no affiliations with either side
are too rare for the practical pur-
poses of mediation and concilia-
tion.
SELLING BAD MEAT NO CRIME
Kansas Supreme Court Holds Law
Applies Only to Living Animals
Topeka, Dec. 14.—A man in Kan-
sas can be sent to jail for selling or
buying diseased animals, but he can-
not be prosecuted for selling the meat
of diseased animals to humans, ex-
cept under the Food and Drugs Act.
This was the ruling of the Kansas
Supreme Court in the appeal of J.
E. Wiglcsworth from Wyandotte
County. Wiglesworth was charged
with selling meat from diseased ani-
mals for human consumption. He
was released in Wyandotte County
because the statute provided punish-
ment only for the sale of diseased an-
imals and not for the sale of the
meat. The state appealed to the su-
preme court and that court affirmed
the lower court today, holding that
the law applied only to living ani-
mals and not to the carcasses or to
the flesh. A prosecution can still be
brought under the Pure Pood and
Drugs Law for the sale of food unfit
for human consumption.
STATE INSURANCE AGITATED
Little Possibility That It Will Take
Definite Form within the Near
Future.
Austin, Texas, December 14.—Al-
though the possibilities of State in-
surance, either life or fire, becoming
possible in Texas, is slight. Neverthe-
i less there has been some agitation
along that line by insurance men of
the State.
Regulation and not control - has
been the policy pursued by this State
] with respect to public business of
vital importance and contentions
have been made that the State con-
! trol presents many socialistic fea-
j tures. State Fire Marshal Wallace
English bellies the plan entirely
j impracticable and beyond any pos-
sibility of becoming a factor in in-
1 surance matters In Texas for many-
years.
'NEW CANDIDATES AT TEMPLE
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Two Aspirants for City Attorneyship
Made Announcements
VICTIM OF PLAGUE HK FOUGHT
Denver, December 14.—Frank
Craig, 37 years old, philanthropist
and founder of the Craig Colony for
tuberculosis sufferers in Denver, died
of tuberculosis here at the colony,
for the welfare of which he gave up
his life. He came here from Coium-
bus, O., and founded the colony in
1907 and spent all his money to
maintain It. Hundreds of tubercu-
losis sufferers have been cared for
free at the colony.
• REAM VERMIFUGE. It not only
destroys worms, if there be any, but
it acts as a strengthening tonic in the
stomach and bowels. Price 26c per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.—Adv.
Toys bought before the war; no
raise in price. Get yours before the
stock is broken. O. Schawe & Son
—Adv. 211-tf.
American Consul. Made Appeal, j
London, December 14.—That the
famine in Belgium is no respector
of persons was vividly brought home
by a letter received today by the
American commission from Henry
W. Dlederich, the United States con-
sul general at Antwerp, who appeals
for food for his family, for his Con-
sular staff and for himself.
Temple, Texas, Dec. 14.—City pol-
itics has taken on added interest with
the announcements of John B. Dan-
iel for election as city attorney and
that of Nick P. Woodman, a candi-
date for the same office. Mr. Daniel
is serving his first term, which ex-
piree in April, 1916. The primary
of the white man's party to be held
in February of next year will decide
the contests. *'
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Engel-
ing, a fine girl. Mother and child
are doing well.
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"THE AZTEC TREASURE"—Eclair two-part
special. ■■yq
"JANE'S LOVERS"—Joker comedy.
TOMORROW- ,,
"THE TREY 0' HEARTS"—See it every Tuesday.
BOB LEONARD AND ELLA HALL IN "LITTLE SISTER"—Rex
drama.
"THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY"' p^ry Thursday.
SUNDAY—War pictures and a big feature every Sunday.
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Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 221, Ed. 1 Monday, December 14, 1914, newspaper, December 14, 1914; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth490053/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.