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t J,1PI'WSy,Jb!? "" W-WW GREEK BOY SCOUTS IN BICYCLE BRIGADE HOW i -""dfiST" 'J ' :- O-Q. BIG WAR HAS AFFECTED PLANTS IN AMERICA St Louis. Zinc miners in South west Missouri paid on sliding scale determined by mine output and price of ore, now getting on average of $5 or more a day, where before war they made $3 to $3.50. Wages at Western Cartridge Co., Alton,- HI., increased $1 a day since war. Buffalo, N. Y. Errickson itffg. Co. now working 500 men. Before war it had 75. Wages 10 per cent ad vanced. Makes- magnetos and for merly had to competeVith German concerns. Providence, R. I. Several big plants idle before war now working three shifts night and day. No ad vance in wages. Indianapolis. Many factories run ning night and day. No advance in wages. Bridgeport, Conn. Between 20, 000 and 25,000 wprkmen in and ju-ouud city received increase o 20 per cent in wages as result of war orders. Norfolk, Va. E. I. Dupont de Ne mours & Co. paying big bonuses for carpenters and skilled mechanics to work on new powder plant at Hope well, Va. Bricklayers getting $7.60 a day. Chicago. Employes of Aetna Ex plosives Co., Gary, Ind., already re ceived bonuses on war orders amounting to 40 per cent increase in wages. Promised more if war con tinues. Working in three eight-hour shifts. FISHERMEN, ATTENTION . I know an amateur fisherman who is always bragging about his catches. That is his "sole" pleasure. He's a little "shrimp" of a man and hasnt much "mussel." I knew his yards were all "cod" and I called him off his "perch" he began to "flounder." He swallowed the "bait" when I told him not to "carp." I have not' had a "line" from him since. Artie, mmmmmtmmmmmmmmmm