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7 " n a ... Today w tfWBH MlOISd . Statesmanship New Kind. The Woodrow Wilson Ideal. Labor and Capital Alike. A Lesson From China. fte Watam Wm WEATHER: Fair today, tomor row unsettled. Mod erate temperature. NATIONAL EDITION . , - -ooaiWfpi as tCk&fizvtr, u irscssa ;. ttiaild iLlCdUC rtiiiic By ABTHCIl BRISBANE. Woodrow Wilson has invented, in himself, a new American statesmanship. We had public men whom their adversaries call ed demagogues. They bubbled pver with sympathy for the work ingmen. The union was always right, the employer always wrong. We had other public men, and they were the big majority, whose sympathy was all for the corporations, the powerful em ployer. Their adversaries called them tools of the plutocrats. In their opinion, capital was always right and labor always wrong. . , - I'ubliihed every evenlns (Including Sundir) "VT I AlRTs ll 1 ll.Tli) I . Enured ma econd-cU matter at the pott WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1918. PRICE THREE CENTS j This Is the Chorus the Yankee Boys Sang as They Drove the Germans Out of the Mihiel Salient. (See Story Below) Now comes Woodrow Wilson: observe him at work. The Smith t & Wesson Revolver Company, big employer of labor, would not per mit unionism in its plant. Its workmen were compelled to agree not to join the union. The Presi dent says, "The Smith & Wesson Company has flaunted decisions of the Labor Board." The Gov ernment, by his order, takes over the plant, will work it. Any Smith & Wesson gentlemen be tween eighteen and forty-five that have been exempt from draft be cause they were doing Govern ment work will doubtless have a chance to use their revolvers in the trenches. Union mechanics of Bridgeport, making weapons for soldiers, went on strike, refusing to accept the war board decision. The Presi dent tells them bluntly, "You are the best paid of the whole body of workers affected, and least en titled to press a further increase of wages." The President cares no more for the dominating aris tocracy of union labor than for the, aristocracy of corporation finance. He tells the striking union men that if they do not go to work at once they will be kept out of all other Government work except em ployment in the trenches, which will be given them promptly, that they may learn at first hand the importance of the war. Within twenty-four hours Wood row Wilson shows the public that union labor and organized capital look exactly alike to him when they dont behave. This country seeded Just such a President and will need him for some time to come until the end of 1924, at least. He would not thank anybody for saying so. But if the people of this country understand the na tional interest they will kep t- Wa&hlngton during the reconstruc tion period after the,war and for another full Presidential term the man who shows himself able to deal with the great problems that will follow the war, based upon capitalistic greed, and labor dis content and difOculty. The Importance of keeping labor and capital balanced, working honestly and fairly, is well illus trated for the average man in Engineering and Contracting, pub lished in Chicago. These facts illustrated strikingly the results obtainable with capital and labor co-operating, as at present in the railroad system of the United States. Here W. G. McAdoo, Director of Railroads for the Government, adds more than three hundred millions per year to the pay of railroad workers by one single order. Even with this Increase of wages it costs about a half a cent to haul a ton of freight one mile on an American railroad. In China transportation depends entirely on human labor. Freight is actually hauled by Chinese coolies in wheel-barrows, or pulled by mules or donkeys In little carts. There is no high pay for labor over there. China Is the place where the miaerly employer should go when he dies. It is his ready made heaven. Fifteen cents a day is paid to the men that haul the freight with their muscles or drive the donkeys on the atrocious roads of China. And there it costs from 4 to 12 cents to haul a ton of freight one mile. It seems miraculous that hu man beings can haul freight, two thousand pounds of it, one mile for 4 cents. But even with the low cost of human labor in China, and with the adding of hundreds of mil lions of dollars to the annual pay of railroad men here, hauling freight in China is from eight to twentv-four times as expensive as it is in the United States. A good miner who gets out coal to make the steam drive the loco motive can earn in one day as much as forty Chinese workmen or even a hundred Chinese work men. The American fireman who feeds the coal into the locomotive furnace gets the pay of twenty-five Chinese laborers. The skilled man In the rolling mill making the rails on which the freight train travels earns as much as fifty Chlnesn coolies at least And the result of this combination of high paid workers, including the payment of dividends on watered railroad stock, is a freight rate averaging, about one-twentieth of the rate in China, where unskilled labor, divorced from intelligently ap plied capital and science does the hauling. What will be the prosperity of 4 J Ji.J. "Where do we g Copyright. 1817 by Leo Fell! Inc. BRITISH CLOSING IN ON 0. S. PROVES LENINE AND TROTSKY ARE BERUN AGENIS Lenine and Trotsky are German agents. Germany arranged and paid for the Bolshevik! revolution in Russia; Lenine and Trotsky betrayed Russia at Brest Litovsk, and double crossed the workmen of that nation. These facta are established be yond doubt In an amazing series of documents, or facsimiles, obtained by this Government through Edgar Sisson, special agent in Russia. I Tie. rftmTntnp nr P;'N" '""? mation made public a portion of Lie documents last night, with a sum mary, startling In its revelation of Intrigue and traitorous selling-out of a nation to Germany by its two erst while leaders. Ordered Sabotage Here. Rnond the alliance between the Bolshevik! leaders and the German general staff, there was shown a plot of 1914. where Germany ordered her wrecking crew to turn loose In the United States and Canada so as to hamper munitions shipments to the entente, Including Russia. Germany placed her agents In Rus sia at will. With the aid of the con spirators, & German-picked general "defended" Fetrograd. German agents were sent to spy on allied embassies. And. Germany ran the whole how. with Lenine and Trotsky reaping a golden harvest of propaganda funds for their betrayal of the trust of Rus sia's workingmen. The proors adduced by the com mittee confirm dispatches printed some months ago showing that this (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) L SENT TO FINLAND Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse has accepted the crown of Finland, according to a diplomatic dispatch re ceived here from Amsterdam AMSTERDAM. Sept. IS Germany has notified Finland that the Germans wil! not penetrate eastern Karelia if the entente troops evacuate th Mur man coa&i within a certain definite period, according to a dispatch from HeUingfors today. The purpose of thl. the German government said, was to "keep Fin land and Sweden from danger of war." It appears from the above dispatch that Germany has sent a virtual ulti matum to Finland, threatening to in vade a part of that country if the allies are not forced from the Mur man coast. TODAY this country when statesmen like Woodrow Wilson shall have made capital realize that dishonest ex ploitation is unnecessary and la bor realize that narrow-minded selfishness 'does not pay' There are in the United States wealth and prosperity enough for all, and ten times more, if only the ritizni' with brain and muscle, capital jind skill would combine to work .n harmony and divide jubtly. E N ULT1AT1 J ! go from here, boys, Y. WE GO FROM HEBE" WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN LORRAINE, Sept. 15. "Where Do We io From Here, BoyiT" sang the American troops as they went over the top, inaugurating the latest Yankee drive, with Metz as the objective. It was a rainy, moonless night that was selected for the opening of the offensive. Precisely at 1 o'clock a single flash of flame shot across the sky. Other flash es followed, merging Into a sheet of white fire on (he horizon. Star shells, signal rockets, and flares were thrown up by the Germans to reveal any activity of the American infantry. As the morning hours passed the Yankee artillery fire lessened somewhat, and at precisely 5 o'clock, the guns came to a dead silence as the Yanks hurried toward the German',lmes. Aa the Americans approached the enemy trenches, a barrage was sent out to cover their ad- KV.vance. With the German machine .runs barkfnir at them- the Vtnlr leaDed into the cnnr trench. singing all the time: "Where Do We Go From Here, Boys?" BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sepi 15 Machinists and tool-makers of Bridge port nave not halted their endeavors to obtain higher wages and classi fication or workers, but after a meet ing tomorrow afternoon, at which submission to the will of President Wilson will be urged by strike lead ers, an appeal to locil board of media tion and conciliation for a rehearing on the ground of error will be made. Through appeals it wijl be carried to the War Ijibor Board again. The machinists will follow to the letter and spirit the order of the President Business Agent Samuel Lavlt and members of the strikers' executive committee will recommend their compliance with the White House proclamation. It was officially announced today The alternative to striking as sug gested by President Wilson's com munication to the machinists and other striking workers of the city will be our move following the return of the machinists to their benches Tuesday morning. If things go accord ing to the program we have laid out," said Mr. Lavit. About 1,500 machinists and tool makers have left the city for other working fields. Numbered among those who have made their departure are but few who have secured draft exemptions on industrial grounds PRESIDENT'S BOLD STAND FORESTALLED GENERAL TIE-UP OF WAR WORK President Wilson's decisive action In the cases of the Bridgeport Muni tion strikers and the Smith & Wes on owners has probably had the ef fect of forestalling a general tie-up of vital war industries, it Is believed here. From various other industrial cen ters the Bridgeport and Springflel! caies had been closely watched by both capital and labor, and had the President refused to intervene in both cases, or had" he acted in only one, the strike in Bridgeport, according to reports reaching Washington, would have developed into a general strike all over the country on the part of the workers and into the employment of hold up methods among several manufacturing plants that have been hesitating over accepting decisions of the War Labor Board. 1,400W0RKERS"STRKE READING. Pa, Sept. 15 Fourteen hundred employes of the Carpenter Steel Company plant at this plare. en gaged entirely on war orders, yes terday went on strike for Increased wages and shorter hours. I . ri J. N - mm WHEREDO N STARTING DRIVE STRIKERS TO ASK FOR A REHEARING I p fr J , Wnertr do we go BE F BACK IN ZONE I AMERICAN FBOKT, Sept. 15. Capture of 15,000 prisoners, a mu of material, and more than 100 gnus In the St Hlhlel sal ine t is announced by General Pershing. "In the SL Mihiel salient we secured the desired results," the statement said. . "In twenty seven hoars we liberated WO njnare miles of territory,' taK- 15,000 prisoners, a nasi of ar terial, and OTer-100 gins." By HENRY G. "WALES. (International Hews Service Staff Correspondent) WITH THE AMERICAS ARMY ON THE UORRAIXE FRONT. 8ept 15. Staggered by the American drive launched between the Meuse and Moselle rivers Thursday morn ing, the Germans are making an other retreat on Uie vital part of the battlefront west of Metz, according to information secured by aerial observers. (The lighting in that zone Is ap proaching the field over which gigantic battles took place in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. There was savage fighting during that strncele In the region of Mars la Tour and Gravelotte. toward which the victorious French and Americans are now driving.) Roads Are Crowded. Air observers report that the high ways passing through Jarny, Mars la Tour, Chambley, and Etaln are crowded with motor trucks filled with troops. The tine of the new German retire- ment lies from ten to twenty-four miles southeast of Verdun, and is an ex tremely Important part of the western battle front. By advancing only a lt- tle farther In that area, the allies not only menace the German fortress of Metz. but threaten the whole southern flank of the German battlo line in France and Belgium. The new movement of the (Jerman troops rearward in highly significant because it is behind the prepared Itne to which the Germans moved back when they were hurled out of the St. Mlhicl salient. Furthermore it is be hind the fortlled line on which the Ger mans were expected to make their greatest resistance. Fires are seen burning In Chambley, twenty-four miles southeast of Verdun. Tho Germans are blowing up ammu nition dumps In the zone also If the Germans give up Chambley. It will mean an advance of eighteen miles for General Pershing's troops from St. Mihiel. the tip of the old German salient on the Meusc river. British air observers, who are winking with the Americans and French, report fiat en.my columns can be seen retreating In the dlrec- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) iT IN BANK BATTLE ARCADIA. Kas.. Sept. 15.--Two bank robbers were shot, one dying almost lnstantl and the other was said to be fatally wounded In a battle with citizens who surrounded the Home State Bank here yesterday when the bandits were discovered in the act of blowing the vault. The bandits used a large cylinder automobile which was found at the edge of the town rnoniA. HI. Sept. 15. The pay master nf the Groveland mine. In Tazewell county, near here, was held up and robbed of ?20,000 by bandits saiterda; YANKEES HURL I m OFMETZ TWO ROBBERS SHQ 3E from here?. k President Cables Pershing He Is Proud of Him and His Boys Sneaking as the commander-in-chief of the United States army as well as President of the United States, President Wilson has sent the thanks of the nation to General Pershing and his first army. The following message was sent from the White House to General Pershing at his headquarters in the St Mihiel salient: "Accept mjr warmest congratulations on the brilliant achievements of the army under your command. The boys have done what we expected or them, and done it in the way we most admire. "We are deeply proud of them and of their chief. Please convey to all con cerned our grateful and affectionate thanks." First Official graph of This picture shows views This is the very annoyinjr littfe vermin that the medical officers of the army and the entomologists of the United States Department of Agriculture have charged with transmitting many diseases among the fighting men in France, mainly among which is the trench fever. RUSSO-ARMENIANS BEAT TURKS IN RIOT BRADDOCK Pa. Sept 15 - Rus sian re-enforcements turned the tide this afternoon when a larse party of Turks were training the advantage in a pitched battle with Armenians In the streets here. The nht had Its inception in an erirumeni between the Turks and Armenians over the Turkish mas sacres abroad. One dead, three se riously wounded, and eight sllRhtly wounded were the casualties listed by the police. Many windows were uruiten uj it volver bullets. .eh. Tu.Va wor,, alnwlv nushin? the Armenians back when a large party or uussians, wjui uiu is,ui. rushed into the fight on the side of the Armenians. The allied forces drove the Turks back. A squad of Irish policemen arrested thlrtv-slx of the combatants after the Turks had been defeated. BOMBARD RHEIMSAGAIN PARIS, Sept J5 The fiermans are rontlnulne to bombard Rheims cathe dral The north tower threatens to fall After every German defeat the bom bardment of Rhelnis cathedral Is re newed. ITALIAN HERO IN FOE PRISON. Ancellno. the Italian sailor captured by the Austrians when a small Italian motor boat entered the harbor at Pola and sunk an Austrian dreadnought. Is In a Bohemian prison camp, according to a dirpatch to the Italian embassy. IS "Oh joyf Oh boy. U. S. Government Photo Mr. and Mrs. of Mr. and Mrs. "Cootie" magnified 27 and 24 times, respectively. K MAN III R The -cootie" has- come to tou. Chaperoned by entomologists of the Department of Agriculture, this en gaging1 little creature will remain Jn the city indefinitely. Living- quarters were found after ireat difficulty, ror no one seemed anxious to give the "beastle" a home. Finally a volunteer appeared in the person of a former Chicago city of ficial. This man. whose name Is being withheld for obvious reasons, offered to act as "host" to the little strangers. His offer was accepted, and he Is now co-operating in a very personal man ner with doctors who arc striving to nnd a way to rid the American sol dier of these pests that spread trench fever and other diseases. There are others' who also are serv ing In the capacity of "hosts" for cooties, but their hospitality is not taxed to as great a degree as obtains In the case of the Chicago patriot. He Is living with the pests on terms of the utmost familiarity, while his fel low sufferers wear their "cooties" con nned under the class top of a wrUt let. much like a wribt watch. Through the Klasi cover the "coo- (Contlnucd on Page -, Column 4 ) jfefejls Where do we go from I J, g L I I ( I J CAMBRAI Cootie JEFF DAVIS SHAFT RULED UNESSENTIAL HOPKIKSVILLE. Ky Sept. 15 Work on the Jefferson Davis me morial obelisk at Fairvlew, the blrth- i place of the President of the Con 1 federacy, has been ordered stopped - as "non-essentlal" by the United I States Government. The obelisk now lis 186H feet high and Is built of con I rrete. It is nlanned to make It 315 feet, next to Washington's monument, the tallest shaft in the world. Contributions from every part of the South have been pouring In for the cost of the big monument. The largest donor is Gen. George Little field, the Texas millionaire, who has been giving a dollar for every dollar subscribed. RIVET RECORD When Director General Charles M. Schwab and Admiral Bowles visited the Hog Island shipyards in Philadel phia yesterday they learned that the regular and school gangs on Friday broke all records In ship building. This was made known here in a telegram from Schwab. The gang. In an eight-hour working day, drove 103,242 rivets In fabricated ublp building. Tho highest previous re:ord was less than 100.000, It Is said. ALMOST DOUBLED J v'.il - m - hefe?" 7 1 E LINE L T LONDON, Sept. 15. Britlih forces have pu3l:ed slightly closer to Cam hrai by advancing beyond Havrtn court. Field Marshal Halg has an nounced. His statement said: "A hostile raid w.as succeagfuUy repulsed Saturday morning in ths Gouzeacourt' sector. In 'theBarrJn- conrt sector ou trooprJiaTe pushed 'forward and have established now1 posts In. the trench Unesneast an north of the village. f "Local .'flghthig has taken place oa both sides of -the La Bassee canal. Our troops'have made progress and have taken some .prisoners, "Hostile artillery has been active) with gas shells in the neighborhood of Neuve Chapelle. A raid attempt-; ed by the enemy .Friday night In this sector was driven off." GUNS ACIMON SAL0N1KI FRONT I'AItlS. Sept. 15. Reciprocal ar tillery activity between the Virdar and the Cerna bend, on the SalonlVI front. Is announced by the French war office. FRENCH THREATEN TO TURN FOE FLANK LONDON", Sept. 15. French forces yesterday attacked the Germans be fore the Hlndenburg line west and south of Laon. The assault was aimed at the forest of Coucv, the southern end of the wooded St. Gobain height, the western flank of the Cheroln-de-Dames. and enemy positions along the Aisne (All these strongholds form part of the outer defenses of Laon.) The attack started at 5 a. m. An advance of two miles on an eleven mile front resulted from the first smash, according to dispatches re ceived here. Eighteen hundred pris oners were reported taken early 'la the battle. Tkree Tumi Fall. llont des Singes. Allemaut. and Sancy fell to the French at the west ern portal of the Chemin-des-Dames. where the Germans are expected to make a stand if driven from tho Aisne. Advancing along the northern bank or the Aisne to flank the enemy posi tions on the stream, the French were reported in the western outskirts of Vailiy a few hours after the assault opened. (Vallly Is two miles from where the attack started Progress already made threatened to turn the flank of the Chemln-des- , Dames and endangers Laon. At the south end of the St. Oobain height, in the direction of the Forest of Coucy. the attack . was reported 1 making satisfactory progress. Hot FlgkHnft-. Field Marshal Halg announced hot fighting at several places on the Plo ardy front, where the Germans tried to regain Important positions seised by the British before the Htndenburs line. At Havrlncourt (before Cam bral). the enemy came on under a heavy barrage and got Into tho vil lage before being halted. Later the Germans were ejected. South of Gou zeaucourt the Germans made a flame attack, which wu also repulsed, with severe losses. By shoving their lines east of Jeancourt. the British bad mad a little more progress towar-I St Quentln. The Berlin war office's day rc;o:t IP MN ffi i HAVRINCOUR "fc