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Pa ire Two DENTISTS DR. ELVERA WESTBERG DR. VICTOR WESTBERG 20," 9 American Hank Illd« PHONE MAIN 814R J C. PETERSEN SHOE REPAIRING 2921 WETMORE AVK. EDW. ECKLUND Fancy and Staple Groceries Main 328 2707 Wctmorc PFor Your Not Suit, Try R. HULTMAN Tailor to Men and Worn** 2926 Colby Phone Main 709 SCANDIA BAKERY BUTTER BREAD • Made in Everett's Modern Bread Shop Call for Royal Bread AT YOUR GROCERS Made at VIENNA BAKERY B. F. D««i«W OUR SHOES ARE BETTER FISHER, the Shoeman Cor. Hewitt and Wet more If you want to save money on food 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 GOLDFINCH BROS. Paints, Glass, Wall Paper and Brushes Both Phones, Main 285 2112 Racket Avenue M& AMERICAN v^^.^' Dye Works LEADING CLEANERS Phone Main 281 ; GEORGE W. LOUTTIT LAWYER ' Over First National Bank Everett, Washington WHEN riNG FURNITURE do not fail to see our splendid assortment of New and Used Furniture, Ranges, Rugs and Linoleum. We Clean Carpet* ROBERT LAI GHTON Successor to Page & Laughton Phone Main 041! R 2802-4 RUCKER AYE. RKCONSTRIKTION (By Ghns. Hiram Chapman) The lesson we "iii.iii to learn from thi war is that the social system out of which it naturally grew is a failure and insi lu reconstructed from » foundation to roof-tree. Many reconstructive Btepfi have been taken by the United States (covernment as war measures. We should unita to preserve them ai peace measures, Hut this will be difficult. Re actionaries Insist that the day pence ii made ever) gain thai! be sacrificed. The wagori of state must slump back into the ruts where it used to wobble. "Things will go on after the war just as they did before, because whatever you may hope and believe, you can't change human nature. The old ways are the wife ways. It l- God's will to send wars to pur ify and exalt us. It is His will that the privileged few should allow in superfluity and the many starve. So it has always been and so it always will be. Cease murmuring against Hi de crees and begin to prepare for the next war." Patch up the rag ged garments on the idols. Draff the old fetishes out of the bloody mire and paint them over. Stick glass bulls in th.- eye-sockets of the ■ dead Gods. Rouge the faces of the prostitutes, smother their stench with perfumes and hut? th«>m apain to your bosom. The pood God pave them to us. Bad as they are, He could do no better. We should clin^ to them rever ently and thankfully. So runs the song. Don't blame polities for the war. Don't blame Big Business, nor secret diplo macy, nor the venal press, nor the parasitic churches. Don't blame anything nor anybody. The war happened because God willed it so. And since nobody can tell how soon God in His finite mercy may will another war, we must dedi cate mind and body to prepared ness. According to this view, time is a tread-mill where generation after generation toils and sweats, Retting nowhere. The blood and misery of the war profit nothing. From this fit of madness we shall sink into a fit of idiotic apathy to be followed in God's good time by another fit of madness. To me this prospect is intolerable. Frpm the psychological chaos where we write, we might retrieve a recon structed world if we could but break the spell which the social system has woven about us. It is the spell of a hypnotic discipline which stupifies the intelligence, paralyzes the will and enslaves the body. It fills the mind with fables in childhood and forever seals it against truth. It chains our faith to politicians, lawyers and preachers, though they have led us to ruin 11 thousand times and can never lead us anywhere else. It eclipses hope and blasts the joy of living. The old .social system given the good of the world to the idlers and its misery to the workers and the workers unit, though they outnumber the idlers a million to one, They might tear down the old system today and build ■ bet ter one ii they would. Only cow ardice arid Inertia prevent. The gory specter of capitalistic mor ality warns 'hem to forbear lay ing impious hands on the walls of their prison house. < iod 01 the devil or Mr. Rockefeller would be grieved should they break heir hypnotic chain So they tremble and submit. The money king and ieh the politician! and law wax fat on the war-ma ■octal machine, it hai been good to then, it ha fed them well, lulled thi ' ■ ■ <■• mv Ie on THE CO-OPfcfcATIVE NEWS downy 1 1<•<! , and petted and in dulged them. For i hem all is for the l"'';i in ilnl l'<" i of worlds. Dining the war they will loot the people. After the war they will solidly invest their plunder, fortify I heii ' industrial ami political power anil nettle down to enjoy (In m ..cl\i' while they drill the workers for another war. Such lire their plant All they ask is to be let alone. Still thin clamor change llnsli this agitation ovor social problems] Swallow the anodyne of faith and cm a to think, \i l though! i ■ difficult. The i hool, Induct] y. political the church have Babotod our braim until they creak and groan when we ii v tn win k them. The poll ticiani and preachen ihoutingand dancing around their fetiche* be wilder us. "The frying pan ii hot," they hHi ii-k, "tint it is nothing to the Are y<>u will jump into if you take one stt-p toward Industrial anil ■octal freedom.* 1 How dreadful it would be if ftm made ■ <muil experiment and it tailed, So the chosen ones sing to us. Hut theil song ha* H i harm ince tin- world Ihoj love and praise exploded in an immense and ghastly failure. A _SOCial system which carpets the earth with bonea and bleeding flesh, which rots the bodies of its young men by the million in futile graves, shutter* the ears of its God with the shrieks or murdered babes and ravished women and promises nothing f>>r the future but a repetition of the past, |.m aches in vain against experi ments. We must try something . 1 <■ Of K<> mad with de-pair. (To be continued) PROFITEERS IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON, ]). C. There in a bit of legislation that doesn't look rijrht. It'i< number is H. K. sT.Y'i. It is an amendment to the spy bill making it a criminal offense for anybody to do or nay any thing which the government may construe as "intentionally obstruct ing the sale by the United State.* Of bonds or other securities of the United States." Secretary Me Adoo .sponsors this amendment. The effect of this, if not the in tent, will be to discourage further public agitation for an honest war revenue act. Anybody like Amos Pinchot, for example who gets up and argues that the rich ought to do their share in financing the war, that we ought to resort to increased ion on war profits instead of additional bond issues, can be Iced under this amendment as obstructing the Third Liberty Loan If Congreai pmei the! proposed act, t )u- Department of Justice could iii'lit t Pinchoi and try to shut him up thai way. They probably would'ni neceed iii shut ing him up because he has both the courage and the money with which to Fight, l>ut it"- disturbing to Hunk what might happen to the moi c ol : kdicali wfc tempi i" agitate fi>i ;i decent war revenue ad In the ("»<■<• of one of McAdOO'R vi ruli-tit ••:i ri; i•: 11; ■ns for more bonds. >l |{ 111 - I I IKS Irvin quhart, Klma, Wn 6 Ellen A. Denker, Bryant, Wn..... 6 Bert Goddard, Plummer, 1da.... 2 K. I) Northrup, Ellicottvjlle New York 2 K. I). Mitchell, l.ccsr, Wn 1 William flowiird Tuft— A foa gilized remnant of the neopHocene UKt-', dujf up and put mi exhibition by that eminent aavnnt and pale ontologist, i heat ied yon Room< veldt. Bargr—n't Golden Drip Coffee, Imperial Tea <»., 1107 Hewitt Aye. ■ Trade on Rockefeller and Save Money We Open at i) and Close at 6 P. M., Saturday Included New Dress Skirts on Sale .$.5.50 Now Dress Skirts; sale price $2.95 $4.50 New Plaid Skirts; sale price .' $3.49 |6.50 New Stripe Skirts; sale price $5.00 $7.00 Black Taffeta Skirts; sale price $5.00 $6.50 Black and Navy Poplin Skirts; sale price $5.00 •7.60 Poplin Skirts, all colors; sale price $6.00 $10.00 New Plaid Skirts; sale price $8.95 New Spring Dresses —One hundred New Dresses of fine French Serge; also plain colors and stripe Taffetas; all colors to choose from ; all marked at less for quick selling. Sale Prices $12.50, $14.75, $18.50 and $22.00 DOLSON & SMITH WE PAY NO RENT, SO CAN SELL FOR LESS LINCOLN WAS RIGHT "Inasmuch as moat good things ! are produced by labor, it follows ' that all such good things ought; to belong to those whose labor has produced them. Hut it has happened in all ages of the world j that some have labored and others, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not con tinue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor as nearly as possible is a worthy object of any good government." —Abraham Lincoln. There will be no "lazy men who won't work" under Socialism. Under capitalism, hundreds of thousands of social parasites live on the arduous labor of those who do work. They work the workers.— Exchange. The reason the brunt, of the burden of abolishing capitalism and introducing Socialism is plac ed upon the shoulders of the work ing class is because it is to the proximate interest of the working , class to do so. , FREE FREE A copy of the Vest Pocket edition of the report* of the INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISION will he given to every person sending in one or two sub scriptions, a- long as the supply lasts. And ■ copy of THE COLONEL AND HIS FRIENDS to every person sending in three or more subscriptions. » M Cent* per Year; 25 Weeks for Me .__ THE CO-OPERATIVE NEWS / 1612 CALIFORNIA STREET, Everett. Wash. Find enclosed $ for which send the paper to the follow ink; addresses: Name Box or Street No. City ; Selection h 11. A. ENGELBRECHT CO. PAINTS, OILS. (MASS Fir Doors, Sash and Mouldings All Kinds of Building Material 2007 Hewitt Avenue Both Phones 73 Thursday, February 28, 1918 RENEW YOUR - * .SI BS( KII'TION It if important that you re- , new your subscription prompt ly. Don't wait until the sub scription has expired. In re mitting write the word "Re newal" on the subscription card. I /- ATTENTION COMRADES! Honest Information; general de scription; correct location num bers; 2.300.000 acres O. & C. (no* S. F. R.) Grant Lands; Title Re verted back to U. S. Govt.. will open for settlement and sale at $2.50 per acre as classified. Fee*. $1.00. Louis H. Berßold, Ro<*eburjj. Ore. (Editor's Note)— This Is a re liable proposition, ; and you will receive value. for your money.,;'._,. Use Clausens FAVORITE COF FEE 35c lb.. 3 lbs. for $1.00. None better—M. H. Clausen, 2313 Rock efeller.' Phone. Black 581. John F. Jerread UNDERTAKER and EMRALMER Both* Phones Main 230 EVERETT. WASHINGTON