The Progressive Herald from Lawrence, Kansas • 2

THE PROGRESSIVE HERALD "Will You Sign This? Memorial To The President And Congress Of The United States On Unemployment. Issued every Friday by the lltrnif Publishing CV.jiitip, 13 K. Mb btreei, Lawrrnce, fti.D CONVEYANCER Legal Papers Executed. Shoe Repairing All work warranted to give satisfactory service. Hand sewed soles a specialty.

A. E. KOONS 930 Mass. St. 1 1 To the Honorable The Presi-; honorable body that this matter Entered as SooonU Cla-is Maitor .1 iiiy tcut aiVj The Congress of the be iven precedent over every ir K-0 OnULUDLd.eb.

other possible measure, and that action along the following Gentlemen: An unprecedent ed and appalling condition con- or similar lines be taken at the Lawrence PantatopJum, Phones 50G Ten Years at 12 W. Warren st. A GOOD PLACE TO BUY Yo Tin-wate, Granite-ware, Aluminum, Cutlery and all kinds of Shelf Hardware and Tools. atisfactbn guarantead or oney refunded. GJREiN HARDWARE STORE Bell 632 629 Mass.

The subscription price of The Vio-eressive Herald is 00 cents per year fronts the working people of i earliest possible moment Not BEST because it's BIGGEST, but biggest BECAUSE IT'S BEST or ten cents lor a ten week's trial sub- this nation. ecrtpthia. Unemployment, always seri- ous, has this year become acute The publication of a sifted article arj alarmingr. Not less than 3, does not mean Indorsement by I lie lloruld cf opinions exp rs- Progressiva sed therein. The columns of this puper will be at al! times for discussion of mailers SURE EDGE CUTLERY.

Pocket Knives, Razors, Carvers, Butcher Knives, Shears, Safety Razors. KENNEDY ERNST. 82G MASS. St. Phones 311.

000,000 and possibly 5,00:.000 people are unemployed at the present time. This sination is rapidly assuming the proportions of an immense social tragedy. Every great city in the land is overrun with the unemployd. Local authorities are either unwilling or unable to cope with the situation. Added to the personal loss pertaining to jrood government, labor news, Welfare propaganda and items of The LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK Uf'rlCEKS J.

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Oku. X. Ijkd. W. KVn.NK AsshTAN'J' (XSHILIi UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY general interest as lar as space perrcns 11.

Wells, Managin-i Editor A E. Wells, a.l.c'omrr.unicauons to piiipHr or.err.bei's of at 9L4 'lass CASH GROCERY. and suffering ot those who can- not find work is the immense social loss which cannot be less First: That a Comprehensive) system of federal, state and! municipal free employment agencies, be established. Such a aystem was outlined by congressman Murdock of Kansas, in his bill introduced in congress, April 29, 1914. Either this measure, or some similar measure, should be adopted at once.

Second: That every possible line of public works now owned and operated by the government be at once extended, and nsw ones opened so as to give work to tne unemployed. The government should build more roads, push the work on its reclamation, irrigation and rearresting projects, open more mines, and inaugurate public enterprises and icds-tries. Third: That provision be made for loans by the United States government to tha various states and municipalities, at a rate of interest sufficient only to cover the cost of handling the money, in order to enable such states and municipalities to develop public works of their own and thus employ their proportion of the unem 844 KASi. ST. Under.

Sold EGTK PEOKES 009 The Store That Is Neve 4 cans corn 25 25c oranges 17c doz.n 4 cans peas 23 I Lemons 15c dozen 4 cans tomatoes 25 Jonathan apples 35c peck 4'cans sweet potatoes 25 Cranberries 7e quat 6 pints beans 25 2 lbs pure lard 5 3 lbs Lima beans 25 3 iDS Compound 25 10 bars D. C. soap 25 3 lbs Compound 25 9 bars Lenox soap 25 Waueta Cocoa 25c 1 lb jar 8 bars Pearl White Silver Prunes 15c lb. soap 25 3 lbs dried peaches 25 7 bars Ben Hur soap 25 30 jar apple butter 20 NOTE THESE PRICES Main Springs $1.00 Cleaning Watches $1.00 Jewels $1.00 Crystals. Hunting $.20 Crystals.

Open Face $.25 Work Guaranteed One Year R. L. iCIRBY JEWELER AND OPTICIAN 1027 Mass. St. The Spot Cash Grocery than $1,000,000,000 a year, from failure to keep these millions at productive labor.

Homes are imperilled. Women and children are left to inevitable destruction and want, while millions of men and women, baffled by the incorrigible conditions, lose hope, Courage. Thousands sink into the ranks of the dependant, defective and delinquent classes, that are an ever-increasing burden and menace to our ciivlization. All these combine to make fhe problem of the unemployed of supreme importance, (and one that calls for immediate and constructive action on the part of the President and Congress of these United States. In our conviction no greater problem confronts your honora-bie body than (his; no duty quite so imperative and important, while at the same time time no greater opportunity to render notable and praisworthy social and civic service awaits you.

And to the end that relief may be found for these millions ot the unemployed, we earnestly urge upon the members of your ADVERTISING RATES 2 ceiiis u-r line tin jiages 2. and 1, cents per line on 1st pajre. 10 cents piT inch fur display ads. 2,3 and 1 15 cents per inch fr display ads. on pa (re.

ANNOUNCEMENT. I Hereby announce myself as candidate for election to the office of mayor of the city of Lawrence, subject to the actio of the March Primary. C. W. Carmen.

I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the oface of mayor of awrence, subject to the action of the March primaries. L. H. Menger. Mayor W.

J. Francisco desires to announce that he would like to continue in the office of mayor for a full term. The st year has hardly been sufficient Rips time to formulate a policy and he wishes the voters to grant him at least one term as mayor He appeals to the voters in the March primary for endorsement. Henry Bowmen is a candidate for the nomination for mayor subject to the city primary, March 9th. A VERY SENSIBLE IDEA ployed, i "Fourth: That Congress pre-come law, we should have lost ceed at once to develop, and far more than we have gained, put in operation, a national! The Troutman bill would system of unemployment in- cinch the offices in the hands of surance, by which the work- the majority party.

Even the ers of the nation rnav be pr- Democrats would suffer for in Au-. J. Pierson Cigar Manf. Established March 17, 1902 years making brands of of neutrality is difficult for a nation, too. The Herald does! not doubt that our nation is ob-' serving rules of neutrality as carefully as possible, both sides to the unpleasantness across the water charge, us favorite-1 ism, and their partizans on American sril repeat thej charge.

hnatlv counties they are a decid tecf tjcted iron. yeasty idleness. Fifth: And, finally, that a sufficient appropriations be made, out of any available funds, to into operation at-r once these measures. Most respectfull submitted. ed minority and Democrats would refuse to put up the filing fee in such counties.

And for that reason it is incomprehensible that a Democratic senate should pass the bill. With the Progressives absorbed by the Republican party, Democrats would not care to pay $25 to $50 to get their Black Seal Robert Hudson Fierson's Success Pierson's Hand Made Try One Today 5c. Can the results of the Euro-: pean war justify the Cost? Millions of men will be put out of comissiou as industrial Billions of the product of labor measured by the medium of cartoon work as any in the at a time when thot impossible names on the state tieket exchange, will be destroyed. profession. Readers of News-1 and to an extent not yet achiev- The result of this legislation A hopeless burden of indebted- will be the supprehsion of mm ness will have been created.

Press of St. Joe, Missouri, arejed but we're anticipating al-familiar with Hanny's work and most anything along that line. ority parties or rebellion. We shall favor rebellion. Mr.

C. R. Harrington, route 3, Lawrence, has the Herald's attention to the fact that What results can be commen- surate with this cost. Is a "place in the sun" worth so! Both Bulwer and Verne navigated the air in an impossible they can, all, testify to his power in telling the story of about January a shenft Cum-1 current events by picture, injway out tne modern air ship, Let the Herald office do your much? Is there profit enough in! mings was driving over the! a single cartoon Hanny tells 1 aspires to all of the stunts of work The kind you want I the humbling of Germany to! County summoning jurors for more about political issues and. romantic prophecy and the time you want it.

offset this awful destruction? I the February term of court at tells it better than our best done many, considerable expense to the editorial writers could do in a A few months ago a romancer County and Mr. Harrington 1 column. fought an imaginary war with How is it possible that the lea-1 ders of men can have been 0 desperately wicked that they It is a well balanced person whn nin nrecprve nhsnlllte netl- suggests a law to proviae that! If you enjoy cartoons good England and conquered -tt, ttriifmll 'Artl tialitv with reference to the 1 the telephone be used for no-' cartoons you would enjoy with submarines. The con- Is civilization an iridescent: ninty-six of Hanny's best which; quest was effected by starva- ropeaa 100 "1ULU lu dream? nee 0 1 1 110s no we re uorn tion appeared in Nevvs-rress 1914 xuvutuini: 1 1 1 i il it 11 I tl 11 in any ot the countries involved were destroved hv snhinarinps THE Iawrance Pantatorium Tailors, Cleaners, Dyers and Hatters, What value has assurance that food supplies sent to non-j combatants in Germany will not be used by the army? The 1 i. 1 and have been neatly bound in a book entitled "The Passing Show." This interesting book may be had by sending to News Press $2, the regular subscription price for this great daily.

and England's food suppy was in the war, and the American cut oil. It seemed very improb- i born can scarcely help showihg able that submarines could i a preference among behgerants. operate so extensively andAtaPeace conference in Chi-effertivplv. but 'cago the other day pro-Geeman 12 west Stb. St.

-I Lawrence, Kansas. Both Phones 403. more tne non-comoaiants get from foreign lands the more England submarine ventures sn far nro- speakers denounced ridiculed the United States and fully can the army daaw on the supplies now on hand. The j- mise a frightful cost to England in the destruction of provision pleaded for Germany. Before tices cf all kinds and thereby save the taxpayers a good deal of expense- Mr.

Harrington believes that the present method of serving notice is out of date in this age of telephones and improved mail service. Mr. Harrington is undoubtedly right undy fortunately, one of our legislators has had a "hunch" from some progressive man, for a bill has been introduced in the legislature to legalize notice by phone. The bill iay not become law this session of the legislature but the sheriff will lose this perquisite before long, The spirit of progress demands that use of the telephone shall be extended in the interest of economic THE NOVELIST A TRUE PROPHET Subscribe for the Herald, the public welfare paper of Lawrence. 50c per year.

they got thru, they hissed sec- shins. The vision nf the rn assurance comes easy. Strange that any should be fooled by it. mancer may have been that of jretary-of-state Bryan. The role a seer.

Have prophets always been romancers? Certainly romancers have been strangely endowed with prophecy. We don't recall who it was that forcastedthe system of lighting and heating with gas but some novelist had imaginary cities thus heated and lighted 'A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE' PUBLIC OFFICE FOR SALE Senate bill No. 48, introduced by Senator Troutman of To peka has passed the Kansas senate and it is now being consideredby the house. It is quite remarkable that a bill which would1 take from the people the right! to seek their candidates for' office and make office a thing to DO YOU LIKE I decades before the thing was i actually done. In his time, the romancer got credit for ingenuity in working out his impos sible plot but mechanical in- Why Not While you are torn up with house cleaning, make the improvements you have long contemplated and put in lights you have long wanted? This will be a good time to have the wiring done and get the matter off your mind.

"A stitch in time saves nine" is a good motto and "taking time by the forelock" is good policy. Take time by the forelock and save nine stitches by making the improvements when a little more "clutter" will scarcely be noticed. Order your fixtures early. vention followed and proved be bought by him who desires that he was no mean prophet, i could receive a majority in The romantic prophecies of one bouse of the legislature. Lytton Bulwer beat the airship What malign influences have' by forty years, The tremen-1 work to secure this re-i Cruikshank woo fame as -a cartoonist and showed the power which cartoons may have for propaganda purposes.

Nast followed Cruikshank as a master of the art of making cartoons a very elfective instrument in political campaigns. Since the death of Nast many cartoonists have appeared who have done excellent work. At the present time Ilanny is furnishing the press with as good suit? What kind of men are we sending to our senate that they can be worked on in this way? In securing the primary 1 dous development in applied electricity is far short yet of his romantic prophecy but we are prepared for the marvelous development foreshadowed in his "The Coming Jules Vernes subnavigated the sea Lawrence Railway Light Company we extended the power of the people in their government. Were Troutman's bill to be-.