In the death of Sister Sargent the cause of fraternity in general but more particularly in its operation in the railroad labor world has lost one of its most earnest and effective devotees. But her splendid achievements in this great field of human uplift will remain after her as a magnificent monument to the zeal which characterized her devotion to that cause.

She sleeps peacefully in beautiful West Laurel Hill Cemetery near Philadelphia, Pa., beside her beloved husband, Brother Frank P. Sargent, that broad-minded, fearless and magnanimous champion of the right as God gave him to see the right, whose able leadership and staunch and unflinching fidelity safely guided our Brotherhood through one of the most trying periods in its history.

Enshrined in the love and reverence of those they have so well served the memory of Brother and Sister Sargent will be perpetuated in the history of the railroad labor movement as two of its most prominent and able pioneer leaders.

To their beloved daughter, Mabel, to Sister Sargent's other sorrowing relatives and to the Ladies Society, the Magazine tenders its sincere condolence and heartfelt sympathy.

Big Union Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Sunday and Monday, November 24th and 25th.

A Big Union Meeting will be held at Toronto, Ontario, on Sunday and Monday, November 24th and 25th.

The sessions of Sunday, Sunday evening and Monday afternoon will be devoted entirely to the initiation of candidates, and it is anticipated that a class of 150 will be initiated. Monday night, November 25th, there will be a joint meeting under the auspices of all lodges located in the city of Toronto. Subjects of great importance to our members, both engineers and firemen, will be discussed at this meeting.

Arrangements have been made so that all applicants for membership in each Toronto lodge will have been examined and ready for initiation at the Sunday

meetings.

All brothers who can possibly do so are urged to attend this Union Meeting. Grand Lodge officers will be in attendance, as will also Special Organizer Jas. A. McBride, who is now organizing nonunion firemen in Canada.

More Regarding “Mediator” and "Square Deal Club."

From a circular issued to the membership of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen by W. G. Lee, President of that organization, under date of September 18th, we quote the following:

Don't Be Misled.

articles regarding The Mediator, published I hope all our members have read the in the April and September numbers of The Trainman. I believe absolutely in the privilege and right of every member to exercise his own judgment in matters pertaining to his welfare and that of his organization, but I feel it my duty to caution our members against the movement now being promoted, in the form of The Mediator, Square Deal Club, etc., by J. K. Turner. of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Turner's propaganda is merely a subterfuge.

Turner's plan is to induce members to act as representatives of his to report conditions at their terminal. One of our members representing The Mediator was asked what the conditions were that he was expected to report, and he replied, cattle guards, littered yards, etc. In addition, these representatives are to obtain subscribers for The Mediator and preach its doctrines to the men. For this service the representative receives a certain compensation. The employes are to derive their benefits from The Mediator plan by having their wage matters and grievances settled by "mediation" by representatives selected from among the Mediators. instead of through the channels provided by the railroad brotherhoods. In other words, Mr. Turner's plan is to set up on various flimsy pretexts a Mediators' organization to take the place of the railroad brotherhoods. course he doesn't say so in so many words-it would be most unwise to make such an open declaration at this timebut that's the purpose, just the same. The very least that the ultimate accomplishment of such a plan would do would be to divide these organizations. and nothing would please the railroad Lodges and members companies more. are justified in viewing with suspicion those of our craft found talking or working in favor of The Mediator.

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There can be no doubt but J. K. Turner feels a deep interest ($) in railroad employes. For several years he has been closely associated in a way with certain operating officers through his detective agency, but railroad employes generally will prefer to continue to handle their own affairs in the usual way rather than favor placing them in, the hands of Mr. Turner, his Mediator or Square Deal Club.

One of Mr. Turner's agents (a member of this organization, by the way), re

cently made the statement that Turner "had requested Lee, Garretson and Stone to investigate The Mediator, but they had not done so." Nothing of the kind has come from Turner, and he doesn't want it. Such an investigation, if made, would cover a period of more than seventeen years.

It takes money to print a publication like The Mediator and to pay "repre

sentatives" for furnishing reports regarding cattle guards, etc. The railroad companies would only be too glad to see accomplished just what The Mediator is trying to accomplish. The old system of spying and creating dissension among employes has become too familiar. The employes can not be fooled by the old tricks forever, so something new is necessary. DON'T BE MISLED.

The plea of Brother Fred Barr of the Board of Directors, in behalf of our consumptive brothers, appearing elsewhere in this issue, presents some weighty arguments in support of the adoption of a plan to give material aid to our members who become victims of that dread malady.

Consumption in its early stages and even in its more advanced stages is not necessarily an incurable disease. In fact, we have personally known of several such cases having been cured. Medical reports are to the effect that a large proportion of persons who have been attacked by this disease and who have faithfully complied with the requirements of the most modern treatment have entirely recovered.

Consumption is caused by a germ known to medical science as bacillus tuberculosis. This germ enters the lungs through the process of breathing. Persons afflicted with consumption cough up phlegm and expectorate-spit out-and this sputum dries and the germs in it mix with the dust in the street and other places and are blown about in the air. There are other ways in which the germs find ingress to the body, but inhalation or breathing is the most prolific medium of infection.

Anybody and everybody is likely to breathe in these germs and when the constitution is weakened-run down through overwork, lack of nourishment, dissipation or from any other cause-the white blood corpuscles-the fighting germs of the blood-provided by nature to combat dis

ease germs and known as the leucocytes or phagocytes, become enfeebled and are unable to put up a good fight. They are unable to cope with and destroy the consumption germs when they start to circulate in the blood. Because of this lowered power of resistance the consumption germs become established and multiply by what is known as the process of fission, partition or karyokinesis by which each germ divides in equal parts, dividing again ad infinitum, displacing as they increase and wasting and disintegrating and rotting out the lung tissue or the tissue of whatever part of the body in which they have become implanted. The most modern treatment prescribed for tuberculosis is plenty of fresh air day and night, plenty of sunshine, plenty of plain nourishing food, light entertaining exercise, and during treatment plenty of rest, which means freedom from all labor of body and mind.

Under this treatment the patient becomes "nourished" and the blood corpuscles known as "the soldiers of the blood" become strong and energetic in combating the consumption germs and nature's process in fighting the disease As a conseis generally invigorated. quence, the seat of the trouble becomes incapsulated with a hard gristly substance and the germs thus enclosed gradually die or become inactive from want of tissue in which to grow and on which to feed. At the same time the refreshed and invigorated blood corpuscles (blood soldiers) capture and destroy the germs that have wandered from the main base of the disease's activity. Thus is con

sumption overcome and thus it can as a rule be successfully fought if treated in time.

Medicine in the treatment of consumption is absolutely useless, and one of the worst blots on our present civilization is the heinous practice to which advertising doctors and other quacks resort in endeavoring to convince poor unfortunate consumptives that they have a medicine that will cure them and who through this base misrepresentation will take from them their last dollar in exchange for worthless and injurious decoctions and leave them hopelessly to die -the ravages of the disease being often greatly augmented by the deprivations due to their financially impoverished condition.

Of all the dishonest practices of which unprincipled persons are capable, there is none more diabolical than this.

Any doctor who advertises medicine as a cure for consumption knows that he is advertising a barefaced lie, and the man who under such a pretense will inspire these poor sufferers with false hope through which to rob them is more despicable than the burglar or highwayman, and a far greater menace to society, and the same can be truthfully said of newspapers that sell advertising space to these ghouls and thus aid and abet them in conducting their ghastly traffic.

As we have said, an abundance of pure fresh air day and night, sunshine, nourishing food, light exercise and freedom from physical or mental strain is the treatment required for the cure of consumption. This treatment, however, cannot to be taken up effectively by a consumptive who is compelled to continue to work for the support of himself or his family.

Hence, as Brother Barr truly says, the best-the most effective--aid that can be given an unfortunate brother who becomes a victim of consumption is that which will permit of his taking the right treatment, which necessarily includes his release from the obligation and responsibility of bread-winning while being treated.

The adoption of a properly safeguarded plan whereby the Order could thus aid our members who fall victims to consumption would prove a great blessing not only to the brothers thus afflicted but to the Brotherhood as an organization. Nor that alone, but it would be another

demonstration of the firm purpose of our Order to leave nothing undone in its power to accomplish in the work of carrying out in all its phases our glorious mission of "Protection," for by the adoption of such a plan not only would

the afflicted brother be restored to health and to his earning capacity, but his loved ones would be spared the heart rending grief incident to his death.

The Typographical Union has made special provision for its members who fall victims to consumption. At its home -The Union Printers' Home-for the care of aged, infirm and sick members at Colorado Springs, Col., it has provided all of the necessary requirements, such as open air tents, etc., etc., together with the best of medical attention and scientific treatment for the purpose of handling consumption cases, and as a result it has to its credit a glorious record of lives saved and men restored to their loved ones and their chosen field of useful effort-men who but for this organized system of giving them aid at the right time would now be in their graves.

Brother Barr's suggestion for financing a plan for the relief of our consumptive members, viz., monthly contributions from the membership at large, is in keeping with the plan under which the Typographical Union has for some years operated with such success. The entire cost the of maintaining Union Printers' Home, including the department for the treatment of consumptives, is defrayed by a tax or assessment of fifteen cents per member per month.

Big Union Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday and Sunday, November 16th and 17th.

A Big Union Meeting will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday and Sunday, November 16th and 17th.

The sessions of Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon will be devoted to the initiation of candidates, and it is expected that a large class of candidates will be initiated.

Sunday evening, November 17th, there will be a Joint Union Meeting under the auspices of Lodges 269, 441 and 570, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lodges 424 at Covington and 764 at Ludlow, Ky. Subjects of great importance to our members, both engineers and firemen, will be discussed at this meeting.

Arrangements have been made so that all applicants for membership in each lodge will have been examined and ready for initiation at the Saturday meetings. All brothers who can arrange to be present are urged to attend this Union Meeting. Grand Lodge officers will be present, and Special Organizer John F. McDevitt, who is at present assigned to the Baltimore and Ohio Ry., will assist the lodges in initiating candidates.

Sparks.

All brothers should co-operate in the fullest with the Organizing Department with a view to gathering into our ranks every man eligible to membership in our Brotherhood.

Read elsewhere in this issue announcement of the Cincinnati Big Union Meeting.

The General Secretary and Treasurer, in his department in this issue, gives full and explicit instructions as to the pro

cedure to be followed in the nomination and election of officers and boards of subordinate lodges. As the constitution provides that such nominations shall be made at the first regular meeting in the present month (November), and that the election shall be held at the first regular meeting in December, our members should read carefully the General Secretary and Treasurer's instructions and become thoroughly conversant with all requirements so as to avoid any mistake or complication that might otherwise arise.

The Toronto Big Union Meeting will be held on the 24th and 25th of this month (November).

Keep your address correct by dropping the Magazine office a postal card notifying us of any change you may have made therein. Otherwise you may miss the issue of the Magazine containing just the article you have been looking for.

Brother G. J. Schatzlein, member of Lodge 532, has a $15.00 set of International Correspondence School books, of which he will dispose at a very reasonable figure. The subjects included are "Locomotive Boilers," "Valve Gears," "Breakdowns," "Compound Locomotives," "Train Rules," "New York Air Brake,"