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"SURE BETS"

THE FIRST TIME.

"When did you first become acquainted with your husband?"

"The first time I asked him for money after we were married."

HELPLESS.

A negro who had an injured head entered a doctor's office.

"Hello, Sam! Got cut again, I see." "Yes, sah! I done got carved up with a razor, Doc!"

"Why don't you keep out of bad company?" said the physician, after he had dressed the wound.

"'Deed I'd like to, Doc, but I ain't got 'nuff money to git a divorce."

SURE THING.

"Will you sail with me upon the sea of life?" asked the sentimental swain as they watched the yachts swimming along on the surface of the

ocean.

"Certainly," she replied. "That is if you have a raft of money."

HER EYES OPEN.

Parson Jackson: "Does yo' take dis man foh' better or wuss?"

The Bride: "Ah'll take him jest as he am. If he gets any better, I'se afraid he'll die, and if he gets any wuss, I'll kill him mah-self."

AN UNREASONABLE QUESTION.

The employer of a Polish girl who has learned quickly to speak English tells of her attempted mastery of the telephone. After its use was explained to her, she was eager to answer every call. A ring came and she jumped to the phone.

"Hello!" came from the receiver. "Hello!" answered the girl, flushed with pride at being able to give the proper answer.

"Who is this?" continued the voice. "I don't know," exclaimed the maid. "I can't see you."

SOLUTION SIMPLE.

A lady in the center seat of the parlor-car heard the request of a fellow passenger directly opposite, asking the porter to open the window, and, scenting a draft, she immediately drew a cloak about her.

"Porter, if that window is opened," she snapped, testily, "I shall freeze to death-"

"And if the window is kept closed," returned the other passenger, "I shall surely suffocate."

The poor porter stood absolutely puzzled between the two fires.

"Say, boss," he finally said to a commercial traveler near by, "what would you do?"

"Do?" echoed the traveler. "Why, man, that is a very simple matter. Open the window and freeze one lady. Then close it and suffocate the other."

HAD A "BARGAIN MOTHER." The arrival of twins to her mother was told to Ethel, the ten-year-old daughter.

"Oh, dear," said the little girl, "mamma has been getting bargains again."

AN ILLUSIVE STAIRWAY.

An old German was on the witness stand the other day and a lawyer was cross-examining him as to the position of the door, window, and so forth in a house where a crime had been committed.

"And now, sir," queried the lawyer, "kindly describe to the court just how the stairs run in that house."

The old man looked dazed and scratched his head for a few minutes. "How the stairs run?" he repeated.

"Yes, if you please, how the stairs run," said the lawyer.

"Vell," ventured the witness slowly, "ven I am oopstairs they run down, and ven I am downstairs they run oop."

NON-UNION FORCES

BROKEN BY HATTERS. Danbury, Conn.-Eight hat companies have withdrawn from the Hat Manufacturers' Association, and this organization has received its hardest blow in its long series of combats with the United Hatters of North America.

The strike started last June when the hatters refused to change their system of setting prices after they had altered their constitution in conformity with an agreement between their representatives and hat manufacturers.

The latest demand was made on these workers almost immediately following the end of the long fight against the Loewe Company, but the hatters again arranged their battle line and refused the request.

Every attempt was made to induce the strikers to withdraw from the trade union movement and at one of

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The finger A on fig. 1, extending downward from the door, as the door is opened it revolves wedge-cam B giving motion to A and B. Fig. 2, lever D is fulcrumed in bracket C, thereby giving it a reverse motion carrying plunger E and pad F in the direction of range-stop D in Fig. 1, moving the point out to allow the lug or cam B to pass under it and the door to be opened. G in fig. 2 carries end of rod H, which is connected to crank I, secured on end of shaft J, the other end carrying crank K, which gives lifting motion to rod L, engages in slotted disc M, thereby locking the controller until the door is closed.

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CORRESPONDENCE

NEW YORK.

To the Editor:

The Flag and the Socialists. "There is no excuse for, nor justification of, the action of the Boston mob that recently broke up a parade of Socialists, burned their banners, and destroyed the furniture of their meeting place." These words, taken from a journal of unquestioned loy alty, were read by the writer with emotions so conflicting as to be anything but pleasant. When I had first read the newspaper reports of the affair, I had impulsively said, "Good for Boston! I wish they had thrown them (the Socialists), into the bay! and yet here was my favorite paper claiming that there was no excuse nor justification for the action of the "mob," basing its remarks upon the fact that the Socialist had a municipal permit to parade the streets and to hold a meeting on the Commons.

No doubt the official who issued the permit was and is far more capable of judging the merits of the case than anybody else can be who is not a resident of Boston, nevertheless there are fundamental reasons why we instinctively sympathize with the "mob," under the circumstances.

Our country is at war and we are sensitive to criticism of any kind, particularly when our critics are foreigners and aliens. The Socialists have always exhibited a spirit of defiance toward the government under which they are living and breeding too confoundedly fast for comfort. Their banners, we are told, bore inscriptions insulting to the flag and to the government; that their demonstration was, in its tendency, a display of disloyalty to state and federal authority. In the fundamental requirements of good citizenship they are rotten, al

though great sticklers for the technical rights they so brazenly claim as theirs. In this display they were wrong in principle but right in action; the "mob" was right in principle, but wrong in action, nevertheless, this "mob" was composed of patriots who may be trusted at the present time.

All this may be true in a legal sense but our hearts are not half satisfied. Many a sedate and thoughtful conservative is seriously asking himself whether we are not altogether too liberal in our notions of free speech and personal liberty; whether this phase of our government's ideal is worth all that we are paying for it now or may be obliged to pay for it in the future. Is freedom to have no limitations? Is liberty of speech and a clamoring tongue synonymous? Because I am permitted to parade on street and common may I insult and attack any one I meet? Is there no rule of order expressed in a debate? Is one in an open forum destitute of all obligation to behave like a gentleman? Judging by the way the Socialists talk it would seem so. I do not know because I did not see them, but judging by similar parades here in New York, it is safe to say that fully ninety per cent. of those intending to join in that parade in Boston were foreigners and aliens. These contemptous and ignorant parasites came to America to better their conditions. To put money in their purses and then return to their own land. They have taken no steps to become citizens. They have no purpose to contribute anything to the country's welfare. Taught to hate governments of all kinds they hate the government that invites and shelters them. They lose no opportunity to insult and slander the American flag. Then when some real men get angry and drive them like a lot of rats into their holes,

they begin to howl about the invasion of their right of free speech! This kind of free speech is not free speech at all, but a miserable make-believe of the real thing.

It is time that the Socialists; the I Won't Works and other wavers of the red flag brigade were made to understand that America is tired of them and is determined not to stand their nonsense any longer. They must either put up, or shut up: either become citizens within a reasonable length of time or return to the land they came from; either to stop insulting the Old Flag, or forego its protection. We have other uses for Old Glory these war days than to use it to protect a traitor, or as a cover beneath which a rattlesnake may cower and hide; to fret and swelter in his dirty skin until another opportunity presents itself for him to crawl forth and hiss again.

Local No. 1. WM. HAVENSTRITE.

To the Editor:

BOSTON.

When is Man at His Best? Physically man is at his best, most competent and strongest, from 25 to 40. On the other hand, when is man at his best, as a business man, a farmer, a mechanic, or in any of the mercantile or financial activities; in many of the professions, as law or medicine, engineering, education, etc., in executive or judicial capacity?

All this class of man's activities requires maturity as well as full adult growth, and maturity comes only with experience; not only with growth mentally, intellectually, spiritually or morally, but with the actual trying out of things.

We grow stronger with the doing and experience teaches us that we do not reach anywhere near the meridian of our possibilities until after we pass 40. Hence we find that man's greatest success comes to him between 40 and 65. To be sure much has been achieved before man is 40 and very much of equal importance has been done after he is 65.

The greatest years are the middle years, the quarter of a century in the normal man's life. Our great executives, jurists, statesmen, educators, engineers, architects, building tradesmen, editors, orators, surgeons and business men have largely done their greatest work in those years.

Washington did his stupendous tasks from 43 years of age to 65.

Lincoln did his greatest work from 50 to 60.

Jefferson did his greatest work between 40 and 60.

Stuart painted most of his great portraits after he was 40.

Dickens, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, and St. Gaudens rendered their finest service to the world between 40 and 60. Napoleon made his wonderful hundred days' campaign at 46, and I believe had he been 56, Waterloo would now have an entirely different meaning, and the civilization of Europe would be more strongly Latin and less Teutonic and Slavic.

Whether man is at his best at 50, 60 or 70, depends almost entirely upon the way he lives. It has been said "Old men for counsel and young men for war," I would change this, I believe time has changed it, Old men for counsel and middle-aged men for the big things, but young men for subalterns and soldiers.

I believe overwhelming proof can be brought, volumes of it, to prove that the best years of a man's life are from 40 to 65. Excesses are not intelligent. We are going to be intelligent in the future and 55 years will be the prime of life.

I will now close with the following well-chosen words:

The man who wins is the man who works,

Who neither labor nor trouble shirks,

Who uses his hands, his head, his eyes:

The man who wins is the man who tries,

Be he 40 or 50 or 65.

Local No. 4. M. S. O'BRIEN, JR.

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take the efforts of the Central Labor comes necessary right off the reel to Union Legislative Committee during the last session of the State Legislature. This committee was interested in the folowing bills:

Compensation act; general amendment including the sixty-six and twothird per cent. basis of computing compensation.

Mother's Pension bill.
Firemen's Two-Platoon bill.
State Constabulary bill.

Hackett amendment to Women's bill affecting hotel and restaurant employes.

consult a lawyer and have him put it in the proper phraseology. Not having any out-and-out labor representative it becomes necessary to mingle with your Legislators. Finally you land one who is willing to present the bill. Now if you have had a hand in the selection of the Speaker of the House, he may refer your bill to a good commttee. Then it becomes necessary to keep in touch with the chairman of the committee, so that when the subcommittee is appointed you will know when and where the meeting for dis

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