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( ( v RXAL, SALEM, OREGON, niE DAILY CAPITAL JOUSATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1916. J 2jU)lJ 51 II - Copjrtght, Th Frank A. Munsey Co. ' By G. P. WILSON lT r nsTilsrnTsui laTiliiii i i i ii n "" ii im I m TiiiTiililiiriiii i tins sum iliTTiiii -ffiTS Empire Carnival Company JL had at lust closed for the evening. The barkers had harked their last bark, the tired per formers hud made their last bow, and the Ferris wheel had made Its last aciueakliitf revolution. As I walked down the street, lined on each side .ivllh weather-beaten, mysterious 1'ioklns; tents, the silence so deeply contrasted with the noisy clamor of a pleasure-seeking mob of the mo ment before, that It caused a weird t cling to creep over me. As I passed th'i Klectrlo Palace, the lady who Hung sentimental songs while tho moving-picture operator threw highly colored pictures on the screen was Just coming out of the tent. I had, lint her the night before while sh,e wii Interviewing the manager, so I remarked, catching step with her: ' "Well, I guess you are glad work Is over for tonight." ' "It's all the same to me," she an swered, with a tired smile. "I take everything as It comes. Let's see, you're the one reporter this burg supports, I believe?" j i "I'm the one," I admitted. "Let's Kn and get something to ent, and maybe I'll write you up In tomor row's paper." (l "I was born hungry," she laughed; 'but say, don't hand me that write np gag. You reporters wouldn't write JlA a charge if you worked In a de-partment-store.' j(. took her to the best restaurant ,11)9 town afforded, and, after we had finished our sandwiches and beer, njie said: "It you're not tn too big hurry p write up that Interview, rU tell you a little story that might PH think tliy Interview can wait,'" llOlt t thought jn4 be t eOuld,' etf.,9JSkiS3C? Smart are like graphophones. When we once get wound up, we have to do a little talking before we run down. I'm wound up, so don't be surprised at anything I spring on you. "I haven't been In the show' busi ness all my life. I was raised down In Kentucky, on the Ohio river; and, say, It's queer about the way rivers fool you. You stand on the dirty, muddy bank of one of them and see how , green and pretty and. fresh everything looks on the other side, and then, after you've gone to all the trouble of getting over to the good looking Bide, you find It just a little bit worse than the side you left. I had a little experience like that In real life, so am wise to all the de tails. "When I was a kid at home, I was the whole show. Used to give them the Charles K. Harris before I could talk plnln: and, say, I sure was the pride of the village. As I grew older I added recitations to my repertoire, and used to reclte'Curfew' and n lot of rot like that, I got in the church choir, and whenever the white ribbon sisters gave a medal contest. It wasn't coni. leto If my name wasn't on the program. Honest, I've got enough medals stored away some where to mnltQ the March King ashamed of his collection. But, say, Just as I was paddling my canoe along smooth and nice I struck a shag and ripped the whole bottom out of It. I got stage-struck. That's the answer; and, say, did my friends help It along? Well, I guess yesl New York was reaching out Its hand for me the Great White Way wasn't complete, it needed something to brighten up the stars; and, say, the jvay the handed it to ine, and the flreams I had, I was sure the kid to do tho brightening. , '. Sfcf'Jf ny. f their Jabber had coma to life, I'd be warbling to the golden lids across the pond. Instead of sing ing these tear-starters In pardners with a bum piano and blue-arid-green slides. But that pipe-dream didn't last. I woke up and when I did I wag on the road singing to the slides at twelve per. Kind of rough awakening, maybe, but I had enough sand In my craw not to go back whipped. I learned a good les son, too. Found out that when it came to being a star, I had about as much chance as a hand-me-down has with a tailor-made. "Old man Dally he's the gray haired old boy that takes tickets at the Palace put me wise to this kind of work, Just when I was waking up from that star trance, and I'm sewing the old man's buttons on for him yet, Just to show him that he planted his bean in the light hill. I couldn't star, and had sense enough to be wise to that fact; but when It comes to singing sentimental songs I don't take off my hat to any birdie that comes singing around my tree. But what I wanted to tell you about was a little missionary work I pulled off. "We wore booked for a little burg In Massachusetts, and wo landed there enrly on? Sunday morning. It was 0110 of those, dark, dismal, rainy days that make you feel about like a whipped dog looks and there ain't nothing on earth that's got as sor rowful r. look as a disappointed dog. iftie hotel wo were stopping at wasn't any Waldorf, and looked about as cheerful as the pen docs to a fellow that has been sent up for a second term. By the time we got settled down I had the blues so bad I was ready to turn In and cry all day, "That's one difference between a man and a woman. If I'd been a man, I wouldn't have been satisfied until I'd lifted the Ud and got jagged, but, being a woman, T believed In liquidating in a different way. I've always heard that it is darkest Just before dawn; but, say, I've waited a long time for daylight on Beveral oc casions. The old rule proved true this time, though, for the sun cam out about 10 o'clock: and my chum, " Maggie Johnson, got to feeling so good she asked me to go to church with her, Mag's a toe-dancer, and we'd been rooming together ever since we've been with the show. "The room assignor told us there was a church Just around the corner, and It didn't take us long to find It. We got good seats down front, and, .Judging from the house they had, they didn't have to hang out the standing-room jonly sign very often. The preacher was a good-looking fellow, and was one of the few I've seen that didn't wear celluloid. When the preacher turned us loose, I lost Mag In the shuffle, and when I spot ted her again she was standing in the vestibule, talking to a nice-looking fellow. "After Maga had Introduced us I found that they had come from the same town, and used to go to school together when they were kids. He bad a friend with him that had been standing around waiting to be taken Into the family circle; and, say, to look at him from the back row, he was sure a prize winner. He was made up to perfection, and looked Just like a fashion-plate. But when you put the glasses on him and brought him up close, he was nothing but a disappointment. Mag's friend Introduced him to us; and, say, I'll bet, you couldn't guess his title in a thousand years Claude LeRoy Smith! "I guess when his folks named him they tried to put a silver handle on a pewter spoon, They walked to the hotel with us, and on the way I found out that Claude LeRoy had an automobile, and that the greatest ambition of his life was to be on good terms with theatrical people. "When I first met him It was my Intention to give him the busy signal If he tried to make a date; but that auto overbalanced my common sense, and I made a date for us to all go out that afternoon. You see, I always hud wanted to ride in one of those high-priced man-killers, and the closest to It I'd ever come was roller skates; so I just couldn't turn dow ', the chance. "Mag had been pumping her friend about the Smith family, and had a line on Claude LeRoy's pa that would have made a Plnkerton or a Dun's Agency sit up and observe. He had run in a cold deck on the common people and got to be mayor of the burg, and nobody had had nerve enough to call his hand since. The mayor's Job didn't pay much, but old man Smith was a good politician, and managed to make both ends meet with considerable left over out of the Job. "Well, we went out that afternoon; and, say, It's certainly grand to lean back on the leather and Just float along. We were billed to stay in LeRoy's town a week, and we sura made him separate himself from some of his father's coin. Now, don't think for one brief second that I'm in the habit of taking up with little shrimps like LeRoy, because I'm not fruit from that kind of a tree. He was too green to be picked, but I thought If I didn't do it and lay him down easy some one would come along, and when she dropped him the fall would be so great that he'd get bruised. And, believe me, when fruit like LeRoy gets bruised, It's never any good any more. y "LeRoy sure thought he was In love with me. He wanted to leave with the show, and asked me to see the manager about getting him a job. He'd made about as much of a hit with a show as a ham sandwich In a bird-cage. He would write poetry to me; and, say, it ought to be a pen itentiary offense for a man In love tn write poetry. I would find little poems on my dresser when I got in at night, and they would run something like this: Whene'er my soul wanders o'er the earth Or o'er the see, or o'er the torf, It's ai full of lovo as It can be, . Anil nil tbli love la but for tnea. "Things like that would make any body loony. We were all having as good a time as possible with a would be like LeRoy tagging along, and he was having the time of his life. In his own mind he was about the baddest, foxiest, all-round sport that ever bought a cold bottle and a hot bird only in our case at was sand wiches and beer. "About this time one of, LeRoy's mama's dearest friends told her that ber little pet was straying from the straight and .narrow path and was eating grass in one of Satan's pas tures. She threw a fit, of course, and LeRoy didn't show up that night. The next morning, as I was passing old Smith's banks, one of the clerks came out and told me that Mr. Smith would like to see me inside. I thought about refusing for a minute, but hesitated and then went in. Believe me, whenever any ,one In dulges in hesitation they always get a package handed to them. I wasn't In the habit of being received by bank ' presidents, in their private offices, so felt about like a blind man in a faro game. Didn't know what was to be handed me. "Old man Smith was standing in the middle of the room, with his hands In his pants pockets, showing a full moon of white vest with a gold log-chain running across It. He looked me over carefully, from my marcelled wave to my FrencH heels, and then cut loose. " 'Young lady,' he said, 1 under stand that during the past two or three days you have been trying to steal my son's affections from a fond father and a loving mother. In fact, you have him worked up to such a pitch that he Intends to run away with your accursed show In order to be near you. I presume that your object, In trying to mislead my boy Is to get a chance at my pocketbook; but, let me tell you before I go any farther, that you will never get one cent.' "I had stood, for about much talk as possible without laughing, so In terrupted: 'Aw, forget It, colonel, iYou're shooting more steam than your boiler-capacity calls for. I'm no chtld-stealer. When I start to robbing cradles, I'll come around and take a whirl at LeRoy. Now, about that dirty money of yours, colonel, I couldn't take any of your hard- earned tin because you haven't got any. You ought to travel with a side-show as a tattooed man. You've got graft written all over you so plain that a blind man could tell It without feeling.' "The old boy swells up like a dried apple in a rain-storm. " 'Young lady,' he bellowed, 'I don't" allow any one to talk to me like thatt " 'I don't expect you do, as a gen eral rule,' I retorted; 'but it's the ex ceptlons that prove the rules. I'm going to put you wise to a thing ot two about LeRoy, and then I'll van-, ish; but not before. From the dope) I've picked up' since I've been in this) burg, you're the one best bet. Yon crook your finger and everybody hops. If you say boo, they all run oft and hide. You got this town right under your hands, and you ain't the mats to lift that hand. But, listen! You're a pretty good Marathon run ner, but you've about gone your llm It. You're floating high, but your gas is going to give out; and when it does, who's going to take hold and keep this town where you've got it now? Believe me, LeRoy :ouldn't do It. He hasn't been brought up right for that kind of work. Do you believe that if he pulled a string any of your aldermen would Jump? If you do, you had better forget it. You've overlooked your one best bet; and. take It from me, colonel, If you ever want LeRoy to fill your shoeB, you had better begin waking him up and try to transform him Into a live one. "Oh, I told it to the old man pretty; straight, and when I got through he) just stood still, looking out of the) window for a long time. 'You are right,' he said finally; 'shake!' "After that, we got as thick as s beef-stew, and before I left he asked me out to the house to dinner." - "Did you ever hear any more of LeRoy?" I asked, as she didn't offer any further information. "Not a scratch," she answered; "but I'll bet even money he's showing tho old man things about grafting. If he's been able to keep out of Jail.' American Seaman Goes Back to Work -Free Man "The American sea inn u is going hack to the sea. lie in going hack tit wages fifty per cent higher titan they were up to a your ago. And he is going back u free until." Those arc the chief reason given by Andrew Fuiuscth, president of the In ternational Sciiiricn 's I'uion of Ameri ca, nnii for twenty years a fighter for the seamen's bill, which is now a law. why he is an anient supporter of President Wilson ami is giving nil the time n ml energy ho cuii to the Presi dent's election. "The conl iiiuminc of the Wilson ad ministration is ncecstiry to tin' best in terests of nil wage earners of Ameri ca," Hitiil Mr. Furuseth in an interview given in Washington to Dante Hiirton of the committee on industrial rela tions. "It is essential to the interests f American seamen and tlio upbuilding of the American merchant murine. 1 would regard Nil. Wilson's defeat in this election uml particularly by those who are now opposing him as a calamity to the industrial and commercial wel fare of America. A tlio Child Labor bill of the President has freed the little children from servitude, so the Seamen' law, also approved and pushed through by Hie president, litis freed the Ameri cans who f down to tho sea in the hhipa. " Audrew r'lintselh is himself an nlile sonmiin who looks line nu old viking. His face is weather worn from wtornm Kt sea aud from twenty years of legis lative hardships in Washington. The pent-up gules within him. fairly blew the words from him lis lie said to the interviewer: Has eBttered Conditions, "J.css than one year of the opera tion of (lie Seaman ' Act has raised t lie wages of American sen men to a stand ard of iroin jfA't to $55 per month. AI all principal ports on the Atlantic mid Pacific tlio foreign vessels are paying the siiine wages lis the American vessels. I know of n recent ciimo where the crew of a foreign ship, having nn average mto of wages of 20 n month, went to the captain anil demnnded their huff pay, as they were entitled to under this law. The captain said, "All right, but will you miitf" And knowing that they would he iiumodintoly raised their wages to the then prevailing American standard of ,I5 per mouth, 'liiglit. along with Hint, Amerienn ness anil be reorganized. "Specifically," Mr. Fimisetli was asked, "what lias the Seamen's Act tone for American seamen and America". shipping, and how has it done itf" What Law Has Done. "Specifically it lias niuue ships safe for passengers and crew by its pro vision that 75 per cent of all the crew shall be able to understand the langua ge (it the ship s on leers, lor orders in emergencies such us storms, collisions, and fires, as well us for orders in ordi nary times. It lias brought greater safety through provisions for life boats and Letter ship construction. "Spoeil'icully, it has given the sea man the same right to quit his job that other workers have, and it mis protect ed him in that right by providing him in any port of cull with the right to demand money he has earned, it Inn raised wages by improving the stand ard of seanien. It has equalized the wages on Amerienn tiuil foreign vessels, because in order 1o keep their own aennieu in Amerienn ports foreign ship owners have had to give their sailors as attractive wages a nil conditions as our own vessels. The law applies to all ships, foreign ns well as American, that touch .'.mcrirnn ports. .specifically, the bid lias driven (he u.. snips are going nncK on tne tng.i Asiatic from Hie sen and restoring the seas with Amerienn cargoes, the ships mnsterv of the sen to the wiiite race." manned by American sailors. This All of this was roared in one of the month the first of the vessels of the Furusetli gales, nnd then in a calm, or reorganized Pacific .Mail steamship going along under a smooth breeze, .Sea- " ". ior i.ie wrienr, lo op- man i'liruselli said: pose this bill, the falsehood was told I Was a Serf Before and believed by many persons, that the j "The Amerienn seamen was' a serf un snips or t nit company had been driven : til this hill was passed and approved bv front Hie lw,i!ij 1... tl.:u A. .. A... i. , . . ..... 1 . . ' ".' vniiieii b .ici. i resident Wilson on Alarcli 4, 1H15. in I nil h was that the Pacific Mail ' Following nu old decree of the Rour steamslup company was forbidden to use ; bans of France in the seventeenth cen- y.,u.,i,a can.il oecnuse it was owned by ; turn. American sailors could not get anv III. ,N,,,ltli.ir I'... ..';.. I . ... " miuouii company wages until nun ior nun reason ii sail to quit nnsi they returned to the port The Household Remedy for the ailments from which almost everyone sometimes surTers-aick headache, constipation, disturbed sleep, muddy complexion, lassitude, backache, depression and other results of a disordered digestive system is They have achieved the distinction of being the most wide y used medicine in the world, because millions of people have found them dependable, speedy and sure in their action on stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Compounded from woetable products, Beechsm's Pills are free from harmful minerals and dangerous drugs. They do not promote the physicing habit-do not irritate the bowels. Should betaken by every JET u r of tl,e ,"mily 'i tne "I8' sin ' "Iness-to mild and effective that they are good for the aged, and for the ills of childhood, are Safe for Children a P'T8''00 Special Value to Woman with Every Boa. Sold by druggUU throughout the world. In box, 10c, 25c , from which thev sailed. Thev were in j uncontrolled competition with the lias.- oar anil v iiinese and .Malay labor of the Orient. The ships' officers would speak one language and the ships' crews another. Vessels were unsafe be; cause of the growth of mar ine insurance made the owners careless whether the vessels and cargoes were lost or not. In passenger ships ulone 31,:iu() lives were lost in the period from IS50 to ll'U. How tho loss was growing was shown by the fact thnt in the five veara from ISliO to lSti4. 1,018 lives were lost, mid in the five years from ilHO to ll14, 5,415 lives of passengers and crews were lost. Men to sail the sens were "crimped" and shanghaied. All na tions were agreed in an international fugitive slave law for seamen and by treaties were bound to hunt down, and imprison or return to his ship any sail or who had deserted from the most ter rible conditions. "When the 1.1th amendment to the Fulled Suites constitution was adopted the American sen men thought it applied to them ns well as lo negroes and to all others who had been in a 'previous con rlitiou of servitude.' Hut in 1S!5, in the case of Kobcrtson vs. IlaUlwiu, the su preme court uf the I'uited States held that the 13th amendment did not apply to seamen, and that congress, under the commerce clause of the constitution, had the power to pass laws for the specific performance of contract, if they were contracts to work on vehicles as sea- Then He Began His Fight. That date, 1SII5, was the beginning of Andrew Furuseth's long fight for fre dom for American seamen aud justice to all American wage earners. Hecalling the dato nnd the fight blew up n gust ot storm in t lie r nrifsetli mind, nnd he snouted like the whipping of wind: "Of course the result was that the American refused to go to sen and that everybody ns he learned to understand it shunned the sen. The Asiatics, will ing to be slaves and to work for little or nut lung, became the sailors for America and for tlio world. I'ntil the war broke out there were more than 100,000 Hindus' mid coolies ns crews of American, British, Ueriunn nnd Nor wegian vessels. Tho supremacy of the sen was passing into the hands of the yellow race and out of the coutrhl of the sturdy white race. The merchant sailors,- on whom the navies of the world depend, were no longer whites but As- ntics. . "Well," the gust of storm nnssed and Able Seainau Furuseth ngain was carried along bv a gentler breeze, "Well the result of this new instice nnd new freedom of Wood row W ilson s will lie, first, the most important economic one that there will be an equalization ot the wage cost of operating vessels regardless of nationality, from ports of the I'uited States. Wages out of Boston, rew ork, I'liilnilelplun, Baltimore, Newport News, San Francisco. Port land, Ore., and the Tuget Sound ports are now the same to all vessels and are the American wage rate, $4." to t55 for able senmeti and firemen. The Furuseth fight results is as inevitable as the first, that a sufficient increase in the wage rates of F.uropenn nud Asiatic vessels will have to come to the Tinted Stntes, thus establishing practical equalization of wages of seamen nil over the world A Matter of Safety, "The safety provision that nt least 75 per cent of the crews of the vessels must understand the language of their officers will necessarily bring about a sweeping reduction iu' the number of Asiatics employed nnd will further com pel the vessels of different nationalities to depend on their own citizens or sub ject to man their owu merchant ves sels. Th,is is a further effect will train tho men needed for the different nn- nous navies, anil maintain the sea power of the white race." "As to life saving." vMr. Furuseth continued, "the new law means a great improvement of conditions on all na tions' vessels as they existed before the loss of life 1 have spoken of before was loss or tne iitnnie. The increasing partly due to the lack of life saving rppliances but the most. Important fact or wns the gradual deterioration of STENOGRAPHERS Why Not Us Colombia QUALITY Carbons Made in Oregon -. -100 Copies Guaranteed from Each Sheet OolgtabU Cuban Pa?er Uff. Oo, 3rd t Broadway, Portland, Ore. skill among sen men. The Titanic, for example, had life saving appliances for about 1,200 persons; she collided with the iceberg in perfectly Bmooth water; remained afloat for about two hoursj inter me collision, aim yer oaiy aoouc S00 (tersons were saved out of the 1,200 who could and would hnve been saved if the vessel had been properly man ned." Going back to his reason for the sup port of President Wilson Mr. Furuseth spoke with enthusiusm of the presi dent's standing like a solid breakwater against the pounding of selfish interests nnd the mass o'f uniiiforninl ignorance seeking to prevent the enactment, or to have it repealed or made worthless by amendment 6r non en forcemeat. Just what great power the president had to resist and did resist without wavering, Mr. Furuseth indicat ed. Opposition Came From England. "The real power behind the ship own ers' opposition," lie said, "was nn or ganization with headquarters in Eng land, members of its executive board in most maritime countries, and agents in all. Its title wns the International Shipping Corporation, Ltd., and in mari time laws in any country, it such charge was deemed inimical to the interests of ship owners, and to make the fullest use of laws of the different countries for control of all those who labored for ships or shipping in any way whntsn ever. " During the congressional discussions on the seamen's bill this organization opposed its enactment through diplo ui n lie channels bv protest sent to our state department from different Euro pean nations. W hen the law was final ly enacted great shipping and business firms in Europe who have close affilia tions with shipping and business firms in the I'uited States caused their part ners and business friends in the I'uited Stntes to attack this law through cham bers of commerce and boards of trade throughout the country. It was final ly taken up by the National Chamber of Commerce, and the protest adopted by the National Chamber of Commerce is the identical protest that wns for warded through diplomatic channels, transmitted to congress, there consider ed and overruled. Wilson the Seaman's Friend. "While this agitation was at its height the Eastland disaster occurerd. Ainoag ship owners there were many who claimed that this disaster occurred ns the result of the passage of the so called seamen's act. When, however, it wns ascertained that the law was not vet in force, and that the very owners of the Eastland had protested against the seamen's art because it would nt I least to some degree limit the number of passengers permitted to be carried, the agitation carried on through the press was so discounted by the people as a whole that it graduallv lost its force." Andrew Furuseth, able seaman and international president of the Seamen's I'nion of America, speaks for all the sailors of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and of the Great Lakes. He is an able "landsman." too. honored in all the Inbor movements for having done most tn strike the Inst slavery from the Am erican workers. CARNEGIE, EIGHTY, IS NOT ILL, HE SAYS, ONLY HE IS 'TIRED" V Uf t"iJ : I vn .'evtA-''-....'..v.-i a,-- - i. 1 l 4 fJHDZEW CAKNEGIE E&g Keports from Bar Harbor. Me., where' ed fcnnviiv . v:. , . . .. ' vi .... amin ui Ilia HlieUU Andrew Carnegie is snendinir some inn . h -il.i - ,i... , -. . . . ,. " .... .minc'i iu on: M IllUUIOUlie, time, say that he is looking feeble. Af- and he ,. n,,i i...i,iv ..l. i ir ter cruising in his yacht, the Surf, for am not sick, i onl'v eel tired," he two weeks Mr. Carnegie and his par- told qucstioniig riends. Mr CarneEie ty arrived at Bar Harbor. Mr. Car- celebrated his eightieth birthda on ... n .... . ,,,,.,,,111, in suiiiiig .ov. 2.1. IhC a irom tne lauiu-n to tue pier, lie lean- made f compelling picture is rom a very recent ibotngruiih. 'I stand for President Wilson and' pray for Ins election and shall do all I : different precious stones, six metal can to procure it." he says, "because tree, and plants. :I5 animals, 39 his defeat would mean the coming back six fishes. 11 reptiles 'M insect to power of those who would again con-'other smaller creatures'. " Biblical mention is made of nineteen Is, 104 birds, s and demn free seamen to servitude and deir I rndatioa and drive them again from the seas." OFFER WELSH $18,000. 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