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WOW) BROTHERS &
WESTLUND
Nineteenth and Broadway
Sunset 357 Ex. 118
EIDEM'S GROCERY
»7e» Lombard Thorn* Main 477
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EDW. ECKLUND
Fancy and Staple Groceries
Main 328 2707 Wet more
Charles L. Lindblad
Staple Mid Fancy Groceries,
Fruits, Flour, Us;- and Fred
Phone Main 465. Lowell, Wash.
C. M. STEELE
Grocery and Confectionery
Stock always fresh. Least possible
prices.
PACIFIC AND GRAND
SCANDIA BAKERY
BUTTER BREAD
Made in Everett's .Modern
Bread Shop
Call for Royal Bread
AT YOUR GROCERS
Made at
VIENNA BAKERY
B. F. Daniels
MODEL SAMPLE
SHOE CO.
For Men For Women
WE SAVE YOU DOLLARS
ON EVERY PAIR
UPSTAIRS
Next to Star Theatre
1806 Hewitt Aye., Everett
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PUR SHOES ARE BETTER
FISHER, the Shoeman
| Cor. Hewitt and Wetmore
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If you want to save money on good
Workingmen's Shoes
Go to FRANK'S PLACE
1118 Hewitt
AT YOUR SERVICE
RAPID AUTO
EXPRESS
Little Red Motor Truck
Stand at Corner Hoyt and Hewitt
Phone Main 314
Residence Phone, Blue 745
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EBERT TRANSFER
Let Us Do Your
TRANSFER WORK
Stand: Corner Hewitt & Colby
House Phone: Red 296
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Dye Worjks
LEADING CLEANERS
Phone Main 281
GEORGE W. LOUTTIT
LAWYER
Over First National Bank
Everett, Washington
HEATERS
PAGE & LAUGHTON
FURNITURE CO.
2804 Rucker Tel. Main 643R
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John F. Jerread
UNDERTAKER" and EMBALMER
Both Phones Main 230
EVERETT, WASHINGTON
GOLDFINCH BROS.
Paints, Glass, v
Wall Paper and Brushes
Both Phone*, Main 285
2112 Rucker Avenue
MINNEHAHA CLEANING
PARLOR
French Dry and Steam Clean
ing, Alterations, Repairing, Press
ing, Dyeing and Coats Relined.
2823 Oakes Everett, Wash.
CO-OPERATION
AND WAR
(Bj Ki< In 11! i uVSvldltig i
i '.< npiM atlon has tood th( iv
pi etne te t «'i Wat!
Professor (idle of Phi i writes, in
his 1917 preface to his book on
Consumers' Co-operation, that (ho
region of France which Buffered the
invasion of the first days of the
war is precisely that In which-.the
Co-operatives were the most numer
ous and the most prosperous. lie
states that the public authorities
obliged to provide for the feeding of
fTu" ' population, have been most
grateful to encounter, in this task
where they were so inexperienced,
the disinterested assistance of Con
sumers' Co-operatives, He describes
how the now Co-operative Federation
from the city of Paris the advances
and facilities necessary for oganiz
inir the sale of cold-storage foods;
how it has taken over the hundreds
of establishments of the Maison
Maggi, which was plundered in the
beginning of the war, for the sale
of milk; how it has obtained from
the military authorities the means,
by the use of some automobile ba
aars. of selling its commodities at
the front and of thus freeing the
soldiers from the exploitation of the
merchants; and how it has created
permanent work-shops, ami shared in
the work of refief. In the invaded
j and devasted regions the co-opera
tive stores have almost been uni
versally spared by the eneemy.
Professor Stein writes from (ier
many:
"Where would we in- In this war —
in this beseiged fortress which is
Germany —if we iliil not have the
Co-operatives ?"
The number of CO-operative stuns
have Increased very considerably in
Belgium, where, at Brussels, the cry
is: "Communal Stores for the Brus
sels Masses!"
Occasionally the refugees have or
ganized co-operatives among them
selves, as the Belgium refugees in
Holland in the camp of Cnasterland.
Senator la Fontaino predicts that
the speedy reorganization of Bel
gium will be due chiefly to the
splendid spirit of brotherhood among
Co-operators.
In England, where the Co-opera
tive Movement with its four million
members means so much to the
working-man, the societies are lay
ing aside money to help recon
struct, after the war, the co-opera
tives of their enemy.
And in Russia the rapidity of de
velopment of the Co-operative Move
, merit with its twelve million mem
bers has surpassed that of all other
countries. In no small measure it
credit for the immediate
Wccess of the Russian Revolution
and much of the ultimate success
depends upon it. The chief whole
sale societies of the world did a
trade in 1916 of nine million dollars,
an increase over 1915 of more than
two hundred million dollars.
Dr. James P. Warbasse, president
of the Co-operative League of Am
erica, states in the October issue of
the Co-operative Consumer the Lea
gue's monthly organ that "Many
governments have placed food regu
lations in the hands of the Co-op
erators. Everywhere they have es
tablished prices. They have been
the people who had the largest ex
perience in handling big problems of
food supply, and their freedom from
the profit-making psychology has
made them invaluable in the time of
need.
All experience abroad tells the
same story of Co-operation helping
make the world safe for industrial
democracy.
CONSUMERS WHY
NOT CO-OPERATE?
The whole system of profit-mak
ing, from top to bottom through
out the commercial system, is aim
ed at the. wages of the ultimate
consumer. It is aimed to exploit
the man who works with his hands
to sell, and the man who works with
hands to buy. Life is limited, health
undermined, spirits depressed, bles
sed opportunities lost and disastrous
deprivations Buffered because every
individual of a host of middlemen
exacts his toll of profit form the
very requirements of your animal
existence for food, for clothing, and
for shelter.
Has it ever come home to you
that you could do all this business
yourself, just by co-operating with
your fellows?
Why not HAVE YOUR OWN
STORES, where there is no incen
tive to adulterate, to misreresani
the ji'ooiLs, oi- to gi ye s l lurl measure
where the earnings come back to
you in dividends; and where policies
are inaugurated and supported that
i in Federation, Wholesales,
Workshops and Factories, Wheat
lands and Pastures, Dairies and
Laundries (as in several European
countries to-day) under one vast
voluntary democratic control in the
interests of the ultimate Consumer?
Consumers! Co-operation is the
direel sort of
Why should not the Solii
! abor, when it buj
s, i. ad toward the i
erative Commonwealth .
SCOTT I) PEBXY.
PROTECTION FOR
WORKING MOTHERS
ON WAR CONTRACTS
Protection for mothers employed
•Mi i ->\ci nmont w> i contrail Ii r*
ontnended b] the Committee on Wo
men in Indus) i > of ihe ' nunctl of
National Defen o "No womnn,"
i\ its bulletin on Indu trial 'ami
nil , just I lued, "shall be employed
during a period of two months pi
or two month lub equeni to child
birth."
Such a prohibition is already In
effect In four states in this country
hut no provision has yet lieen made
for the care and support of work
ing Mothers when thus deprived of
their wages.
All European countries thai have
this restricted period also have ma
ternity insurance, according to of
ficial reports, as a protection against
suffering, destitution, and impaired
Strength of both mother and child.
To afford full protection of mother
hood among families of industrial
workers in the United States, the
workmen's health insurance liill pre
pared by the American Association
for Labor Legislation in co-operation
with the American Medical Associa
tion provides for maternity bene
fits Including medical, nursing and
obstetrical care, as well as cash
payments.
Maternity insurance to accompany
the restricted working period for
mothers, it is being urged, is neces
sary in the United Stales as in the
allied countries, to safeguard ef
fectively the health and well being
of women 'workers now entering in
dustries in greatly increased num
bers.
ON SHOOTING
ONE'S DAUGHTER
Down on Staten Island, on Sunday,
there was enacted ■ little tragedy
that should make men think. A
man tried to kill his child, failed,
and killed himself. lie was no
maniac, just a victim of the eco
nomic system in which we live, a
system of "the devil take the hind
most." When sickness came upon
him, he was one of the hindmost.
So the devil took him.
His name was Thomas Newhort
and his daughter A^nes was ten
years old. He told her in the
early morning that if it wasn't
for leaving her alone in the world,
he would end it all. She was
frightened. So later, when she saw
him taking something gleaming from
his bureau drawer, she fled from
the room. He fired two shots after
her, but missed. He had decided
not to leave her alone in the world.
When she came back with a police
man, her father was dead.
The steers on the plain, the bees
in the hive, the ants in the hill, all
stand together. It is the wolves
in the pack who turn upon a fallen
comrade and rend him. Is modern
society much better than that?
Thomas Newhort had fallen victim
to rheumatism, which had compelled
him to give up his business. A
year ago he tried to commit suicide
by gas. He gave the last warning
of distress, but the aid did not come.
Surrounded by demonstrations of the
vast organized power of society, he
was left an unorganized individual
to fight alone at a time when his
earning power was gone. In the
blackness of despair, in the abyss
of want, he was told to struggle with
disease alone.
Think of the mighty power to
fight disease which we possess to
day! Shall that power be available
only for the wealthy classes? Baths
and scientific treatment would have
restored Thomas Newhort to health.
It would have given him his cour
age back, his earning power. Agnes
would have grown up in a home,
with a father to guide her. The
treatment which Thomas Newhort
needed should have been his and not
out of charity. It should have been
his as a rightful return for the
contributions which he, in his earn
ing days, made for a social insur
ance fund designed to care for just
such -things.
Not only Thomas Newhort has
failed. You and I and all who
ought to have been organized to
help him—we also have failed. The
social organization has failed.
Is it not time for us to drop this
selfish laissez-faire policy of "the
devil take the hindmost" and sub
stitute a policy of "all of us help
the hindmost"? If we have no lead
ership capable of rising to meet
these problems, the leadership we
have will be repudiated like so niiiny
leaders of the past.
The cruelty of this social order
turned Thomas Newhort'a love for
his daughter into attempted mur
der. Because he loved her, he
chose not to leave her alone in the
world he was voluntarily quitting.
If we are not careful, other natural
sentiments will be turned Into their
opposite* in men of Thomas N<
hort's class. Love of country, be
lief in leadership, trust In religion
will be turned into a fierce am
tive resentment against a system
which treats the worker like an
nge to be sucked dry and
thrown aside. Editorial in the New
York t i .-■ Mail."
.—,
Wai i fasi In inging famim
revolutionary change.
Subwrib*- for Th* ttt-oprrativc Sewn.
THL CO-OI'I'IUATJVK NKWS
DEVELOPMENTS
IN RUSSIA
John Reed, pi omim iI I l«x iall t
nuthor, wini i now In II in >
i ible tn the New Yoi I. < lull, wi Iti
of il\i' lidi In", iki revolul ion a fol
low i:
Thin is the revolution, the i] i
■ 11ui'i'li'. with the proletariat, the
«orktnm, ihe loldiei and ihe pea
anl lined up again i the i rgeoi lie,
Ls i I'l'liiimiy wai only the prelim
iniiiy revolution. At the pie lent
moment tin1 proletariat are triumph
ant
The rank and File of the Work
men's Soldiers' ami Peasants' Coun
cils are in control, with Lenine and
Trotsky leading. Their program > i
to uivil the land to the peasants, to
socialize natural resources ami In
dustry and for an armistice and
democratic peace conference, The
extraordinary and Immense power of
the Bolshevik! lies in the fad tlmt
the Kerensky government absolutely
Ignored the desires of the masse: as
expressed In tha Bolshevik! program
of peace, land and workers' control
of industry.
The entire Insurrection is a stir
ring spectacle of proletarian mass
organization, action, bravery and
generosity.
The many Stories being sent out
regarding Bolshevik! looting and
murdering are without foundation.
In fact, after being raptured and
released on the word of honor, many
'junkers' again look pail in treach
erous fighting.
All newspapers except the liolshe
viki ones retailed lies to excite the
population, and yet many of them
were not suppressed. The City
Duma is the center of absolute hos
tility to the Bolsheyiki, with no
Workingman a member of it.
No one is with the Bolshevik) ex
cept the proletariat, but that is
solidly for them. All the bour
geoisie and appendages are relent
lessly hostile.
The employes of all government
departments, state bank, telephone,
etc, are on strike, paralysing the
business of the government. They
refuse to work with the Bolsheviki
ministers. The new Bolsheviki plan
is to run the government by a series
of collegiums, instead of a ministry,
headed by a chairman. The col
legiums are called the. People's com
missars, who meet in a council of
People's commissars, with Lemine
as chairman.
The news from the front and from
all over the country shows that al
though some fighting is still going
on in various cities the masses are
pretty solid for the Bolsheviki, ex
cept in the Donez region, where Gen
eral Kaledine and the Cossacks
have proclaimed a military dictator
ship.
Warning to Wealthy Classes
One feature of the struggle be
tween the classes in Russia is given
in a Petrograd dispatch, declaring
that the Bolsheviki have issued a
warning to the "wealthy classes and
their servitors," who are accused of
inciting strikes in the state and mu
nicipal services. The warning says:
"You are playing with fire. You
will be the first to suffer from the
famine that is threatening the coun
try and the army. You will be de
prived of the right of receiving prod
ucts. All your stores will be re
quisitioned and your property con
fiscated."
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
Why Almighty? Because, in our
civilization, it is the medium through
which most of what we call the
good things of this life are obtained.
Our possession of plenty of dollars
thus means easy satisfaction of our
desire for these "good things."
The easiest way to get dollars
therefore becomes the easiest way to
get the physicial necessities and
comforts we crave; and it is the law
of our nature that we seek the line
of least resistance and greatest at
traction.
The easiest way to get dollars is
by means of rent, interest and profit.
The hardest way is by work—pro
ductive work. Is not this true?
And yet—all these things, obtain
able through the medium of the dol
lar, are the result of human work
upon natural resources.
This is why the moralist teaches
"the dignity of labor,"
But the "practical man" teaches
us to "make money" by the surest
"I usiness" methods. Which are:
enterprise* and investments that will
yield rent, interest and profit.
(Iround lent conies from land own
ership; interest from loaning money;
profit from marketing commodities.
As Henry (~ lid, "It is this
capacity of yielding rent which gives
value to land. Until its owner
ship will confer some advantage land
has n.it value."—W. E. Brokaw.
:
!. W. \\. ARE RELEASED
FROM IDAHO JAIL
ST. MARIES, i
and all members of the 1 W W.
ilist law of this
Red with the outcome of the
triui.
A STORY THAT INDICTS
CIVILIZATION
\ powei Ful "" el w hii ii radical
should read and >->■ f their conserva
t Ive fi lend to read. Is I 'avid Ora
ham Phillip i' po • humou i work,
i n Lenox, Her Kail and Ri
11 i not ji p| .i|iM|'.;iinl;i : lor y and
i .-ill the better for thai nee on
But it lays t>;i r l- all Dm evils and
hams of existing society. It shows
people as they are and though it
present no remedy, no thinking per
son who reads the story can lay it
down without Feeling that such
things should not be, and that, no
superficial remedy will suffice.
The heroine of the story is not a
pure unsullied saint. I'ar from it.
She is one who makes her life con
form, not to conventional ideas of
propriety, hut to conditions with
which she is compelled to deal.
Phillips makes (dear that under ex-
Isting social conditions there are peo
ple who, however desirous to he
good, cannot be so and live. "Susan
Lenox" could no more have regu
lated her life as convention requires
than one of Krnest Thompson-Ke
ton's wild animal characters could
have been reasonably represented as
a strict observer of the Golden Rule.
Although the novel has a happy end
injr, although not of the conventional
kind, it, is one that is only possible
with extraordinary characters who
happen to have B stroke of pood
fortune. It brings no comfort to
those who would like to feel that
"all's right, with the world."
The world lost much when an in
ane assasin put an end to Phillip's
life. His last work shows that he
had a vision of a better social state
and the power to make it clear to
others. "Susan Lenox" shows the
civilization that is. It may well
have been followed by other stories
showing a civilization that is pos
sible and how it may be attained.
l!ut after all. that is not necessary.
One who has been awakened by
Phillips' great story should be
urged to pursue the subject further,
not by reading entertaining fiction,
but by study of a serious work by
such writers as the author of "Pro
gress and Poverty."
BREAKING UP
THE HOME
According to a bulletin recently
issued by the Equitable Life Insur
ance Company, there are twenty-two
million men in the United States be
tween the ages of 18 and 44 years
of age, and of these, ten million are
bachelors. The years from 18 to
■11 represent the period in which
marriage normally occurs, and yet
nearly one-half of the American
men of age-group are not married.
We learn that these men are not
bachelors from choice, but that liv
ing is so expensive in this country,
and incomes so relatively low and
uncertain that "marriage has be
come a luxury whose sheer cost
causes many prudent men to hesi
tate."
The Chicago Herald, in comment
ing on this alarming situation, says:
"In order to assure their own pros
perity, the governments must con
spire to arrange economic affairs in
such a way that reasonable men and
women may marry without financial
fear."
Somebody is beginning to see that
they are starving the geese that lay
the golden eggs. Something is
breaking up the home, and doing a
thorough job of it, too; but some
how it is not what they have been
wont to accuse of that the sinister
crime.
"Breaking up the home"! . Ten
million American home that might
have been, but could not be, because
Capitalism has taken such a heavy
toll from the American Labor that
ten million American workingmen
of marriageable age have found
themselves unable to meet the ex
pense of maintaining homes!
Go into any of our large cities,
and walk up one street and down
another and you find needless miles
of houses bearing the sign" Rooms
for rent." This means two things.
It means that the occupants of those
houses are unable to live upon their
incomes, and must eke out their
meager earningi by sharing their
habitation with others. And far
more serious than this, it means
that millions and millions of Amer
ican men and women have no homes
at all, but must live, or exist, each
in a little room in a stranger's
house. The barrenness of such life
is known only to those who have
lived it; and yet, if present condi
tion.- continue the day is near at
: when this class will be in the
majority.
The Vinci ican h What is
happening to it? What can save it?
Who are its friends, and who its en-
Wherein lie the hope for
the future of family life and the
home? Vsk chbor, or your
lei And if he ki
oing about it,
Idaho
It is true that the disciples of law
ami order in Hutte, Montana, drag
ged a helpless cripple out into the ;
night ami murdered him in cold
blood, but what of it? The world i
moat be made safe for democracy! i
KAT AT
EVERETTS POPULAR CAFE
"THE MAIZE"
"The Best of Quality At the Lowest
Price Possible"
EVER TRY OUR
"MAIZE SPECIAL COMBINATION
LUNCH"
consisting of your choice of two different meat orders and a plenti
ful assortment of fresh vegetables? Try it. Don't pay Ur it, V
not fully satsified. It is the talk of the town. We serv« It
every day, 11 a. m. till 2 p. m. except Sundays and Holidays.
We run this place upon a Strictly Union Basis and materialized
the motto:
Eight Hours Work, Eight Hours Sleep,
Eight Hours Recreation
PASTIME AMUSEMENT
PARLORS -
26 POCKET BILLIARD TABLES
22 SOLO CARD TABLES
Cor. Wetmore & Hewitt Ayes., in Basement
DRIESSLEIN & BECKER
BACHELDER &CO m
BETTER CLOTHES
FOR MEN AND BOYS
THE WONDER MERCANTILE CO.
Up-to-Date Clothing Store
Established 18 Year.
1611 HEWITT AYE. S. YEO * BON, FKpar
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Returned.
Weight and Quality, Our Motto.
FAMILY ICE CREAM ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY
MEADQWMQQR DAIRY STORE, 1918 Hewitt
EVERETT MUSIC HOUSE
29M COLBY AYE. PUBLIC REST ROOM
UKULELES $4 to $15
W. A. WIE LAND
DANCING TEACHER
Tuesday and Thursday Evening from 7:30 to 9:30
afternoons 2:30 to 4:30
Lessons given in the Forum, 1612 California St.
Phones: Main 478, White 418
THE "CO-OP"
Is serving more customers and members than ever. It is
here to serve you. Share the benefits with us.
WE DELIVER
Take goods away and we allow a discount. We pay
dividends besides.
EVERETT CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY
2933 Broadway, Just South of City Hall. Phone Main 342
HALL FOR RENT
BANQUET ROOM AND WELL EQUIPPED KITCHEN
PIANO 225 CHAIRS LOW RATES
For full particulars call liul. Main 178
or apply at office, rear of building. I til - California
Take a Look
at our Suit and Overcoat material and you
will immediately place an order with us for a
Union Tailored Made Suit or Overcoat
DUNDEE WOOLEN MILLS
J. <;. IKS( H. Manager
1716 HEWITT AYE.
Thursday, Decembw 18, 1917
