The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, May 24, 1916, Image 4
RAILWAY STRIKE '
WOULD INFLICT
STAGGERING LOSS
Would Cut Farmers' Prices, Stop Industry
And Face Cities With
Starvation
New York.?On one point related to
the demands of the unions of train
service employes for a heavy increase
in wages the sentiment of the general
public has been expressed in no uncertain
terms. That is on the question
of a strike. '
Declarations have come from every
quarter that an interruption of trans
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jjuiiuuuu win iiui ue luieiiiLuu uy mo
public, but will call fortb drastic action.
The enormous injury to the
couDtry ihat would result from a nation-wide
strike of train service employes
is discussed by a writer in
the March National Magazine, from
which the following extract is taken:
What such a strike would mean to
, the American people cannot be set
forth in mere facts and figures. It
can be dimly imagined by those who
realize what an intimate and vital
- part railway transportation plays in
every industrial activity of the country.
There is scarcely a person in any
part of the land who would not be
immediately affected if the millions
of busily turning wheels on our
nearly three hundred thousand miles
of railway were to stop for a single
day. If the tie-up continued for a
week, the blow to the industry of
the country would be greater than
that caused by any panic of recent
history. To the big cities of the count
rv q n H nortipiilorlw *a flio ni ilna a#
the eastern seaboard it would mean
a cutting off of the food supplies that
would place the inhabitants virtually
in a state of siege. In the case of
many food products these cities do
not carry- on hand a stock sufficient
to feed their people for more than a
week, and in the case of some, such
as milk and fresh vegetables, supplies
are replenished daily. The stoppage
of transportation, therefore, would
mean suffering and want to these city
dwellers, and if continued for long
would threaten many of them with
actual -starvation.
To the farmers of the country a
general railroad strike would be a
catastrophe, only less serious. Cut
off from his market, the farmer could
not move his produce, and the price
of grain and* other staples would be
quickly cut in two, which the market
value of more perishable articles
would disappear entirely. The great
industrial plants of the country would
soon be forced to close down following
the declaration of a strike because
they could not obtain supplies
needed for their operation, nor could
they ship their finished products to
market. Their plants would soon be
idle, and millions of men would be
thrown out of work. With the income
of practically every class of
citizens either seriously cut down or
suspended entirely, merchants would
transact little business, because there
would be few purchasers. In short,
the industrial activities of the whole
country would be virtually palsied
from the moment the railroads ceased
to operate.
^ TOLIYIN DEMAND -
' FOR SHORT TRAINS
MADE BY UNIONS
Might Just As Well Ask Country To
Return To Sailing Boats
And Ox Carts
Washington, D. C.?To the public
that pays every dollar of the railroad
bill taud forty-five cents of every dollar
paid for transportation is for
wages) the leaders of the four
brotherhoods of railway employees,
who are demanding increased pay,
say: "All the railroads have to do
to meet our demands for higher
wages is to shorten their trains, move
freight more rapidly, and escape the
penalty of overtime wages."
The fallacy of this statement, which
Is the last-ditch argument used in
support of the demand for increased
wages, is well shown in the following
editorial which appeared in the
Washington, D. C. Times of April 19,
under the heading "A Mad Freight
Train Idea:"
"Everybody in the ranks of the
general public will agree with the
railway managers that the campaign
which the railway workers are waging,
particularly in the west, for shorter
trains, while at the same time demanding
higher pay and fewer hours
of work, is of all possible claims the
most preposterous. Indeed, in econora3s
it is an ideal little short of mad.
"The railroads have spent hunIreds
of milions of dollars lowering
grades, eliminating sharp curves,
jallastlng roadbeds nnd putting in
i?avy rails, so that powerful locomotives,
larger cars, and longer trains
: ould be handled In one movement. .
f this object had not been achieved
ailway wages never could have been
wivancad to the point at which they
already have arrived and traffic rates
?^.?ver could have been held down
where they are today without the
/hole railroad system of the United
Hates being made a financial wreck.
"Any child can see that if, after
'he principal railroads of the coun'ry
have been reconstructed to haul
he heavier tonnage in mass, you cut
every freight train in half, the cost
of operation must be increased stupendously,
with two locomotives |
wnere one now does, with two engi- '
>eers where one now does with 1 wo ,
'lremen where one now does, with '
two conductors where one now does, ,
with virtually two whole train crews 1
where one now does, not to speak of
'he new equipment and the new terminal
facilities that would be needed, i
' This proposal is not essentially 1
different from urging that the world /
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u.vn ! .oil inn mcuiIlHIlipB or IO- 1
lay to the sail barks of centtirias 1
igo, from the railroads themselves '
10 the place coaches and ox carta of i
fhe paat. It is like suggesting that 1
'he farmer himself drive his wagon- 1
load of produce in small lots day af- J
ter day to the distant market of the /
city instead of loading it in bulk into
*raight cars anfl gfctppln* it ail at 1
?*? ft re'l." ;
Commence!
Pageland Graded an<
Thursday and Frld;
PAGELAND HIGH SCHC
MA
Salutatory?
Piano Solo?Cedar Brook V
Piano Solo?Gladys WaltzPiano
Solo?Four Leaf Cky
Piano Solo?Shower of Ros
Chorus?Mud Pies?
Piano Solo?Harvest MoonPiano
Solo? Evening Twili
Piano Solo?Roesenfee?
Trio?Yellow Jonquils?
Connie Quick, i
Piano Solo?Blue Eyed Vio
CANTATA?
Scene 1. Midnight in th
in search of the fairies. W
lows them.
Scene 2. Queen Mab an
tell of the capture of Dorotl
The spirit of Dawn appear
lease Dorothy.
CH^
Dorothy
Queen Mab .. .,
Herald
Arbutus
Innocence
Flowers
Will-o-the Wisps
Little Green Elves
Spirit of Dawn
PAGELAND HIGH SCI
MAY 2b,
THETUR
Act 1. Ttie fisherman's 1
of the wreck?A storm?En
Becky's opinon of him?Pe
cret between Clyde and Lil
Act 2. Frisky and Peppc
to Jonas Aldridh?The old
sorrows?Pepper goes for
tells Aunt Becky the conve
Clyde and St Morris?The i
Rube.
Act 3. One year later?
tells his story to Susie?Intc
to reform?Aunt Becky's
worth?Discovers Sue io b<
Proposal to Lillian?Happj
the Turn of the Tide."
CHi<
Jonas Aldrich Reuben C
Capl. Hugh St. Morris Austi
Col. Ellsworth Curtis
Herman Clyde John B
Bowie Knife Jack \
Sling Shot Rube Alg
Pepper Frank Edge
Aunt Rebecca Maude Sandei
Susie Aldrich Mauc
Lillian Lacy Connie
Frisky Ruby Qu
PAGKLAND HIGH St
M/
Invocatian
Chorus i Over the M<
Vacation Song
P-1..1-1
aaiu tutor v
History
Prophecy
Valedictory
Commencement Address Dr
Presentation of Diplomas M
Trustess
Awarding of Honors?
Chorus Crowning the
GRI
Grace Leona Blackwell, Wj
Virginia Rutledge.
Class colon
LIST OF DIST
Bessie Anderson, George
Blakeney, Roy Blakenev, Eliz
Cato, Burruss Cato, Eula Cas
Krances Crosswell, Beulah D;
worth, Frank Edge worth, Lov
Funderburk, Faye Funderburk
bathings, Byron Gulledge, O:
fngram, Linda Lee King, Mj
Mangum, Cecil Moore, U. F. i
Doris New, Atlev New, Ulah
Dgburn, Ruby Quick, Clvde f
Rutledge, Curlig Robertson,
Toylori Mary White.
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Program }
1 High School Wednesday* r
ay Nights* May 24, 25* 26
J
)OL, WEDNESDAY EVENING
Y 24, 1916.
v
Mary Quick, Roy Gathings
Valtz? Lillie Cato
Altha Graves <
ver? Bessie Lee Clark ^
es? Leo Sowell
Twenty Small Girls
? Elma Ingram t
ght? Frances Crosswell
Sallie Ingram
Stella Sowell, Frances Crosswell '
lets? Grace Blackwell
MIDSUMMER EVE <
e forest. Dorothv has strayed off
ill-o the-Wisps appear and she fold
her court. The elves enter and
hy. Dorothy is made a Princess,
s and demands that the Queen rei
lRACTERS
.. Lucile Funderburk
, .. .. Nell Funderburk
Bynum Moore
Evelyn Railings
Elizabeth Cato
i^ignt cjirts
.. ., Thirteen Girls
Six Children
Virginia Rutledge
IOOL, THURSDAY EVENING
1916, 8:30 P. M.
N OF THE TIDE
home. Jonas Aldrich reminiscenes
itrance of Bowe knife lack?Aunt
pper's story?Sun-sec gun?The selian?Pirates
rob the house.
?r fall out?Clyde shows his colors
i man takes to drinking to hide his
clams?Lillian soliloquy?Pepper
rsation he over-heard. Meeting of
combat?Death of Clyde, Jack and
-Pepper's dream?Capt. St. Morris
irruption by Jonas?His resolution
opinion of it?Arrival of Col.J?JJs^
; his daughter?Surprise of others?
r conclusion, with song?"Wait for
^RACTERS
luten A Fisherman of the Coast
in Brewer Com. of the "Tidal Wave"
Laney A wealthy ship owner
lakeney Captain of the Pirates
Vorth Taylor ]
er Black well ] rirates
iworth A colored individual
rs, The Fisherman's wife a quiet body
le Ogburn The Ocean Waif
Quick Clyde's deserted wife
ick With no one to love
3HOOL, FRIDAY EVENING
26, 1916
Rev. B. S. Funderburg
iadowSj High School Pupils
Primary and Intermediate Grades I
Netta Clark <
Ward Cato J
. . Grace Rlartwpll J
Virginia Rutledge
. E. W. Sikes, Pres. of Coker College
r. L. L. Parker, Chairman Board of
/
Seasons High School Pupils
\DUATEvS
ird Cato, Netta Mae Clark, Hattie
>: Green and White.
INGUISIIED PUPILS
Gulledge, Burruss Blakeney, John
abeth Cato, Lee Russell Cato, Ward
ton, Bessie Lee Clark, Eliza Clark,
iwkins, Grace Dawkins, Eva Edgeel
Edgeworth, Ralph Eubanks, Nell
, Etta Gathings, Nellie Gathings, Roy
sborne Graves, Sallie Ingram, Elma
ibrey King, Ben F. Laney, Muriel
Moore, Frank Marze, Octavia Mills,
Nirhnlsnn RpuKpn Hnion Pmelo?,
. ?v%?ayv*i V/mV f-/IUOIVJ
<ollings, Virginia Rutledge, N^pnie
J/pQ SoweUt Ste|)a jjpwell, Worth
? ' * | . . # *
Church Service Directory
. W. Elkins. M. E.:
Pageland, 1st Sunday at 8: p.
n. and 3rd Sunday 3:30 p. m,
Zion, 3rd and 4th Sundays at
.1 o'clock.
Antioch, 2nd Sunday at 11.
Nit. Croghan, 2nd Sunday at
1:30 p. m. and 4th at 8. p. m.
Zoar, 1st Sunday, at 11 o'clock.
Sunday school at all the above
:hurches at 10 o'clock.
EC W. Cato, Baptist:
m. m a. r**_ _ ?_ i i n . i
mi. risgan, ara daiuraay j. p.
xi. and Sunday at 11. Sunday
>chool at 10.
. Mt. Moriah, 1st Saturday at 3
E>. m. and Sunday at 11. Sunday
school at 10.
Bethel* 2nd Saturday at 3. p. m.
and Sunday at 11 o'clock. Sunday
school at 3 except on 2nd
Sunday.
B. S. Funderburg, Baptist:
Pageland, 2nd Sunday at 11
and 8, and the 4th at 8. Sunday
school at 10.
Dudley, 2nd Sunday at 4 and
the 4th at 11. Sunday school at
3 except on the 4th when it is
at 10.
Leon Funderburk, Baptist:
Liberty Hill. 2nd Saturday at 3
and Sunday at 11. Sunday
school at 3, except on the 2nd
Sunday at 10.
A. T. Crane, Presbyterian:
Pageland, 1st Sunday at 4 and
3rd at 8. Sunday school at 10.
Salem, 3rd Saturday night at
8 and Sunday at 11.
Beulah, 1st Sunday at 11 and
3rd at 4.
J. W. Quick, M. P: ~
Pageland, 3rd Sunday at 11 "
and 2nd at 3:30. Sunday school
at 10 except on the 2nd Sunday.
A Boy fell into a pond, and <
when a man who was passing t
pulled him out he said to the j
boy: "Well, son, how did you 1
come to fall into the lake?" t
"I didn't come to tall in at all," ?
redlied the boy with some heat,
*1 came to fish."
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Notice?Election of School Trustees
Notice is hereby given that all
districts wishing to elect trustees
o serve from July 1, 1916 lo
fune 30, 1918, should present pe:itions
in accordance with secion
1818 Civil Code of 1912, on
or before June 1, 1916.
R. A. Rouse,
Co. Supt. of Ed.
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Bids Open for School Building
Notice is hereby given that
bids will be received for the
erection of a two story frame
school building: at the town of
Angelus on May 27th. Bids will
be considered either for material
or work. The plans may be seen
either at the office of the County
Superintendent of Education or
at Mr. R. A. Knight's at Angelus.
R. A. Rouse,
County Supt. of Ed.
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