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'AUGUST 20, 190
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In Iho Old Days
Once -more we've talked the old days
o'er
With craftsmen of the case;
Once more we've seen the old-time
smile
Upon each comrade's face.
We've told the tales of bygone days,
Of fortunes high and low,
And sung about the Pirates bold
Once more in old St. Joe.
We've told again the old-time tales
Of blind-end, rod and beam;
We've gone again along the trails
Once passed by hand or steam.
We've talked of Busby, Dunbar, Lee,
And all tho Pirate crew
Whose faults were always manifest
Though hearts were ever true..
Once more we've sung the old, old
"Hail"-
To tell "the gang's all here."
Once more we've heard the good old
v vows
The printerman holds dear.
And once again we've gathered faith
yThat holds us staunch and true
To all the principles laid down'
.-By good ojd I. T. U.
And when the last take's off the hook,
- Tho last form, locked and down;
The last dupe cut and pasted up
And smoothed the . foreman's
frown
When all is done, God grant the gang
1 Across the stream may rido
And get a' sit close by tho throne
VUpon the regular side.
St. Joseph, Mo., August 14 The
Architect's annual joust along with
his old-time comrades of the stick
and rule is Just ended and a stren
uous week it haB been, too. There
are several annual events in the life
of the Architect which he looks for
ward to with pleasure, and not the
least of them is the annual reunion
which takes place when the conven
tion of the International Typographi
cal Union of North America meets.
This year the fifty-fifth annual con
vention of the 1 T. U. was held in
St. Joseph, and Mr. and Mrs. Archi
tect were there.
Right here we want to propound
a query, and we'll wait with patience
a satisfactory answer: Why is it
that a little bit of a woman, weigh
ing less than 100 pounds, can out
walk, out-run, out-eat and out-last a
big slab-sided fellow who rather
prides himself upon his ability to
keep going? Here's the end of tho
week, and it finds the Architect all
In, but the little woman is singing
merrily- as she packs the grips, and
ehe is actually sorry that the conven
tion didn't last another week.
here, but he isn't printing any more.
He is content to loiter around and
lot the breezes blow through his gray
side-whiskers while he tells of the
days when the "Missouri River Pi
rates" flourished and 'Gene Field
made copy for them.
Of course we've had to listen to
tho same-old chestnuts about 'Gene
Field, and Major Edwards and Dr.
Mumford, and Major Blttinger, and
all the rest of the old editorial push
that once flourished in this old river
town Here's one on Major Edwards
that may be new to even some of the
old-timers in St, Joe:
Tho Major, who now and then for
got where his Plimsoll line was lo
cated, once conceived a scheme
whereby he could overcome his habit.
He explained his scheme to a friend
which was to get a five-gallon keg of
rye, and .every time he took a drink
out of it to put into tho keg an equal
amount of water. A week or so
later the friend met Major Edwards
and asked:
"How is the cure coming along,
Major?"
"It would have been a puffeck suc
cess, sah," replied the Major, "if it
had not been fo' one thing, sah."
"And what was that, Major?"
"About th' third or fourth day,
sah, my stomach revolted at the dilu
tion of its regular stimulant, sah,
and I was compelled to discontinue
the treatment, sah."
not a chariblo institution in tho
generally accepted sense of that
term. It is a homo In ovory sense.
And tho printers who maintain it
are proud and happy at tho privllogo
of paying their good money for that
end. Tho homo has ono of tho finest
libraries In America, and tho grounds
are acknowledged tp bo tho finest
that surround my institution. Tho
Typographical Union has established
a pension system which ensures a
peaceful old ago to Its members. It
Is now preparing to establish an In
surance department. It pays a death
benefit, pays sick and strike benefits,
is supplanting tho striko by arbitra
tion and is otherwise moving rapid
ly forward along Industrial linos. It
supports a technical trado school
whore ambitious young men may per
fect themselves In tho art. It com
pels equal pay for equal work re
gardless of the sex of tho worker;
it has established tho olght hour day,
and it is constantly seeking to find
employment for more men and wom
en. In 1908 tho average annual wage
of Its 47,000 members was upwards
of ?870, and thero is not another
trade in the world that can equal
that record. Wisely managed, its
rank and file made up of loyal, patri
otic and earnest men and women,
conservative without being old-fogy,
tho International Typographical
Union of North America is looked
upon as being an organization that
does things for tho workers.
BEFORE DECIDING
WHERE TO ATTEND SCHOOL
Bond fur Catalog of
VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY, ja
(Accredited)
Ono of tho lJrctt Universities and Training
Hcliooli In tho UnlW Htnloi.
25 DopartmenU Excellent Equipments
And here is one on 'Gene Field
that is old, but it is still good:
Field was constantly besieged by
people who wanted him to "just read
a little something of his own" at
church entertainments, etc. Ampng
others was a member of the old
Tenth Street Christian church, who
was insistent and persistent. Ono
day, when he had asked Field to read
something at a forthcoming church
social, Field replied:
"I'm mighty busy, but if you'll
nrrflflfo If an T ran alln 4r of Vin
back door and take my place on tho I friends about it.
platform at 9 o'clock without any
announcement, I'll read something
for you."
The friend agreed and made ar
rangements accordingly. Tho church
was crowded to tho doors and all
were eager to hear the rising young
poet. Promptly at 9 o'clock Field
entered the back door, mounted the
pulpit, opened the Bible and in a
solemn voice and without a smile,
read the twenty-third Psalm. At the
close he bowed slightly, turned upon
his heel and walked out. It took
the big audience ten minutes to rea
lize that it had been made the victim
of another one of 'Gene Field's jokes.
Now you may get some idea of why
tho Architect is proud of his member
ship in tho organization. It has
been upwards of seventeen years
since he worked actively at tho
trade, but ho has always kept up his
active membership because ho loves
to foregather with the gang and
"chew tho rag" or "hold sessions."
. iumuuuuu una auout ub many i
faults as tho average run of hitman-1
ity, but if there is a bigger-hearted,
joiner, more friendly lot of me
chanics in tho whole world than tho
printers, wo'd like to make their ac
quaintance. The Architect can have
more fun in one week of a printers'
convention than ho can have in
month with any other set of me.
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BRAIN LEAKS
One of the first men the Architect
met when he drifted into St. Joe
the first of the week was Ben Hill,
foreman of the Gazette. The sight
Vf him fairly shook twenty-seven
years from the Architect's shoulders,
for it was just twenty-seven years
ago that a scared young country
printer timidly fronted a case on the
old Gazette and started to set a take
The Architect has "been a member
of tho Typographical Union for close
upon thirty years, and he is as proud
of his active card as a kid is of his
first boots. Perhaps you want to
know why. Well, tho Architect be
lieves that the Typographical Union
Is the model trades union of the
world. It has taken the lead in every
advance along industrial lines. It
maintains a home for Its aged and
Keeping sweet is ono of the best
methods of keeping cool.
. The hardest part of a summer va
cation is getting over It.
If It was a man who set tho pres
ent fashion of doing up women's hair
we earnestly hope he will take the
Jag cure before ho tries it again.
If the wag of a dog's tail could
be discounted at tho bank for what
it is worth we know a baby that
would be richer than Rockefeller.
We would like to have a million
dollars, but we've got several pos
sessions that we would not part with
for twice that amount of money.
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rloesn't look a day older now than
he did that day more than a quarter
of a century ago. He must have
found a fountain of youth hidden
away somewhere amidst the hills
that surround- old Joe Town. Peter
Nugent, whbwas foreman of the
Herald in those old days, Is still
valued at a million dollars, it is
taking the lead in fighting that dread
ful foe of tho worker, tuberculosis,
and the government has paid it the
highest compliment of modeling Its
tuberculosis hospitals after the hos
pital maintained by the organization
at Colorado Springs. The home is
pms
"Oh, dear!" sighed her husband's
wife. "I can't find a pin anywhere.
I wonder where all tho pins go to,
anyway."
"That's a difficult question to an
swer," replied his wife's husband,
"because they are always pointed in
ono direction and headed another."
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