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WAGES AND HEALTH
Good wanes generally mean good
health, according to Arthur E.
Holder, member of the Federal
Hoard for Vocatioal Education. The
higher the wage the better would be
the health of the employe and the
greater his output, he told the
American Public Health Association
recently in an address in which he
advocated on eight-hour day and
increased wages.
Mr. Holder, reports an Associated
Press Correspondent, writing from
Chicago, proposed that the federal
health agencies be concentrated
into one department with a secre
tary at its head and that the secre
tary should be a member of the
President’s cabinet.
Panics, said Mr. Holder, were
brought about more by inequitable
distribution of wealth than by any
other cause. He quoted statistics
to show that in 1850 the wage
earner obtained 23 *4 cents of every
dollar’s worth of value he created,
but that in 1910 he got only I6M
cents.
"Formerly,” he added, “when the
laborer got 23 cents in wages for
each dollar of his product, panics
occurred about once in twenty
years, as witness 1837, 1857, 1877.
Since real wages shrunk to IG
cents on the dollar, panics roll
around more frequently as the
record shows—1884, 1894, 1907,
1914.
“Nothing influences our individ
ual health more than severe changes
in our economic life. During busy
periods workers are literally rusheil
to death. During panicky periods
the workers and employers spend
a large part of their energy fretting
their lives away.
“Since the union cigarmakers
adopted the eight-hour day in 1886,
from twelve to fifteen years have
been added to the average life of
the cigarmakers,” he added. Similar
experiences have been recorded by
other organized wage earners. The
workers realize that health is their
capital. To keep health or improve
health means increased power to
produce."
The following provisions were in
cluded in the labor program for
health and safety which Holder ad
vocated :
“Continued agitation for a short
er work day to a maximum of eight
hours for all manual toilers; de
mand for a higher minimum wage
for all labor; release from work al
least one full day in seven; elimina
tion of the sweat-shep system; en
forcement of rigid child labor laws
abolition of n'| ht work by women
and minors; equal pay for equal
work regardless of sex."
JOB FOR THE NAVY
War time increase of the nava'
personnel from 56,00 to nearly 500,
000 to man 1,800 vessels instead ol
176, is described in the annual re
port of Rear Admiral Leigh C
Palmer, chief of the Bureau ol
Navigation, made public recently.
Every one of the ships in commis
sion, from battleships to cargo car
riers, Admiral Palmer says has
"complete complements of officers
r.nd men with excess personnel to
provide> for training new drafts.
The navy also provided armed guard
and radio crews for merchant ves
sels i:>. tra .-.sAtlantic service
The great task now, in the opinion
of Admiral Palmer, who recently
was relieved from the bureau to
take command of a battleship, will
be in furnishing 220,000 officers
and men for the Shipping Board's
merchant fleet, estimated to com
prise 1,024 vessels, by December,
1910. To acocmplish this the per
manent training facilities have been
expanded so as to accommodate
110,000 men at once. These include
the Great Lakes station, with a
capacity of 45,000; Newport and
Hampton Roads, 25,000 each; and
Pelham Bay, N. Y., 15,000; Hund
reds of ships are used as floating
schools, each being assigned a cer
tain number of men to be taught
the rudiments of seamanship, and
14 institutions are conducting regu
lar courses in the training of
officers.
“Notwithstanding the enormous
expansion of the personnel”, the re
port says, “the various units of the
navy have reached a higher state
I of battle efficiency than ever be
fore.”
Enlistment statistics show that
every state in the union contributed
to the growth of the navy, such
states as Montana and Nevada each j
sending more than 1,500 men..
There were 2,203 desertions during
(he year, but the percentage of de
sertions dropped from 1.43 to .03.
J Admiral Palmer reports that
I roughly, 412,000 of the 435,000
, men in the navy are native born,
and 15,000 are naturalized citizens.
| New York alone furnished 32 per
.cent of the native born.
OLD STAMPEDER I
! HELPS WIN WAR!
!
! SEATTLE.—Could Ezra Meeker,
: the pioneer who has driven his ox
!
: team hack to the national capital
lover the old Oregon trail, have
j slipped some of his 87 years from
i his stooped shoulders, he would have
| been a private at least in the great!
I American army. This being im-;
i possible, however, he harked back j
l to the days when men lived by the
j toil of their hands, and raised a'
i war garden on an acre and a third
1 of ground east of Lake Washington.'
Only recently, the veteran walked :
I into the Red Cross rooms and laid j
down $257.80, representing the sum '
! he had realized from his toil.
I “It was a duty, and therefore
i a pleasure,” he said simply. “And
II do not think anyone should take
I credit for doing what he considers
a duty.”
“Private” Meeker disdained the
modern tractor, and even the horse
for cultivating his ground. He waged
war on the weeds with a hoe. Eight
tons of fertilizer donated by a pack
ing firm enriched the ground. A
citizen paid for the cost of bringing
water to the land for irrigation.
Two Red Cross women marked the
produce. At one end of the garden
appeared this sign:
“This garden is dedicated to the
Defenders of Liberty.”
It was “Private” Meeker’s answer
to the Hun.
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; CORDOVA.—Winter sports in
j Alaska do not always consist of
mushes over the snow trail behind
| a team of huskies or malamutes.
| E. E. Griffin, an electrician em
ployed by the Alaskan Engineering
i commission, has started a new sport.
Equipping a motor sled with an air
1 plane engine and propellor, Griffin
1 made fourteen miles in 28 minutes
over the open country.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF WAR OFFICE
(Continued from Pane 1)
greater transportation difficulties of
the Aemrican project
Recapitulating the total American
casualties, 236,108 men as already
announced, Mr. Baker said the
deaths due to battle alone were
36,000 and that half of the wounded
reported “probably suffered slight
injury.” He adds that Federal bat
tle fatalities in the Civil War total
led 110,000; Japan lost 59,000 men
in the Russo-Japanese war; and Ger
many lost 28,600 in the Franco
Prussian war.
Speaking of the selective service
Mr. Baker makes this observation,
without discussing the question of
universal military training, soon to
arise:
At that time (when his preced
ing annual report was issued) there
was ample evidence that the select
ive draft was a swift, effective
and just means of securing the mili
tary strength necessary for the con
duct of a great war. The expe
rience of the past year has strongly
re-enforced that conviction.”
Discussing the extensive engineer
ing undertakings in France, the
need for which has ended with the
signing of the armistice, Mr. Baker
gives this hint at the policy the1
government is pursuing.
“Steps have been taken to reduce;
orders and cancel contracts for such i
items as will not be needed in J
France. In this connection, how
ever, care is being taken to assure1
ourselves that we are not depriving j
France of materia! which she soj
urgently needs to replace that worn |
out during her terrific self-denials j
of the past four years. We can not |
refuse to render all the assistance!
possible in the reconstruction of'
that heroic nation.”
Under the heading (of “Fighting!
equipment for the army,” Mr. Baker I
gives a summary of what was ac-1
■omplished in providing ordnance j
for the army. When the armistice i
ivas signed 30,881 complete units j
lad been contracted for. On Nov
?mberl, 10,634 had been delivered, |
divided as follow’s: Trench 5,000; j
light (field guns) 3,850; medium,]
1,070; heavy, 695; railway, 19. The'
contracts were divided as follows :j
Trench 11,700; light, 10,113; me- j
lium, 5,385; heavy, 3,472; railway]
As to rifles, Mr. Baker shows that
2,137,025 of the modified Knfields
had been accepted prior to Novem
ber 1. Browning machine pun pro
duction is given as follows: Light,
47,019; heavy, 39,540. The follow
ing cablegram is quoted to show
the performance of the Browning
puns in action:
“Experience of Seventy-Ninth
Division in offensive operations,
September 25 to October 21. Brown
inp machine puns. Thirteen ma
chine-pun companies enpaped, weath
er conditions continuous rain and
mud. . . There was not one in
stance where the puns failed to
operate due to muddy and wet belts.
On the whole it may be said that
the performance of the Browninp
machine pun and automatic rifle in
active operation has been so satis
factory as to create an insistent
demand for these weapons from ma
chine-pun units and from division
commanders.”
Mr. Baker pives much space to
the aircraft problem, includinp the
production fipures published from
time to time in the past. He shows
that 3,189 Dehaviland, and 101
Handley-Pape machines were pro
duced in this country and 1,900
planes had been shipped to France
before the armistice was signed
On the other side, 2,676 planes of
service types had been provided for
the American squadrons by the
French government. On Sept. 30,
General Pershing had 32 air squad
rons at the front, the first of them
to be equipped with American
planes having reached the battle
areas in July.
Air serivee casualties, the report
says, have been higher than in the
artillery and infantry and reports
to October 24 showed 128 battle
fatalities and 224 by accident over
seas. A total of 262 men had lost
their lives in this service while
in training in the United States.
The general health of the army
has been surprisingly good, the re
port shows; the death rate for all
forces, at home and abroad, up to
August 30 having been at the rate
of 5.9 per 1,000 per year, or little
more than the civilian rate for men
of the same age group. It com
pares with a rate of 65 per 1,000
per year during the Civil War, and
! 26 during the Spanish Wad. Pnu
i monia caused 56 per cent of the
I deaths.
i
There were 316,000 cases of in
fluenza among the troops in the
United States during the late sum
mer and fall and of the 20,500
deaths between September 1-1 and
November 8, 19,800 are ascribed
to the epidemic.
Discussing the embarkation serv
ice, Mr. Baker says that in 19
months a total of 2,075,834 men
and 5,153,000 tons of cargo were
shipped overseas, the great bulk
of these movements having been
handled after January 1 of this
year. When hostilities ceased, the
service was engaging 3,000,000 dead
weight tons of American shipping
and 800,000 more tons had been
allocated its use, with a half million
tons additional per month being
delivered.
In closing his report, Mr Baker
speaks this word for the men who
fought the war at home:
“I desire again to express regret
for its (the report’s) insufficien
cies, I am conscious of how far it
falls short in the matter of just
recognition of the accomplishments
of my associates, of exhibiting in
adequate measure the heroic achieve
ments of our soldiers abroad, or of
our soldiers and civilians at home,
who have worked together to make
this demonstration of America’s
purpose and efficiency successful.
‘‘Perhaps a special word ought to
be said in recognition of those who
from civil life have come at the
country’s call to places of exacting
toil and have been denied the oppor
tunity to participate abroad in the
heroic adventure, but have, never
theless, worked on, sometimes in
uniform and sometimes without
even that badge of distinction.
Theirs has been in an unusual de
gree the call to self-sacrifice, but
they have been none the less sol-;
diers and have contributed in no i
small way to whatever success has
attended our arms.”
MISTAKES
When a lawyer makes a mistake
he has a chance to try the case all
over again
When a carpenter makes a mis
take it means an “extra.”
When an electrician makes a mis
take he blames it on “induction”, be
cause nobody knows what that is.
When a doctor makes a mistake
he buries it.
When a judge makes a mistake it
becomes a law of the land.
When a preacher makes a mis
take nobody knows the difference.
When a plumber makes a mistake
he charges twice for it.
But when a home-builder makes
a mistake he usually has to live with
|it for the rest of his life.
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HAS WAR RECORD
BRAINERD, Minn—Jimmy Light- i
body, who won many a long dis-j
tanee race for the University of!
Chicago, and who later tried to ]
make an athlete of the German
crown prince, was on the job in i
France when the Germans capitu
lated, serving as a lieutenant with
the American forces.
Mrs. Katherine Lightbody, of
Chicago, mother of the noted ath
lete, who has been visiting with
friends at Gilbert Lake, near here,
received a letter from her son writ
ten late in October. He related his
experiences at the front and assured
her that “the war would end soon.”!
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Lightbody is married and has two |
children. When war was declared,;
he arranged his business affairs as:
quickly as possible and entered the
officers training camp at Fort Sheri
dan. After he won his commission,
he was sent to Camp Grant, where
he instructed soldiers in German.
After Lightbody graduated from
the University of Chicago, he took
up post-graduate work at the Uni-j
versity of Berlin. His athletic i
prowess attracted the attention of •
the Imperial family, and Lightbody j
had the crown prince and other sons
of the kaiser in his athletic classes.
To blow soap bubbles at once,
one within the other, is the purpose
of a recently patented pipe.
The assessed valuation of An
chorage real and personal property
for the year 1918 is $1,805,260.
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LOST—A Grey Husky Dog, about
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