The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald., January 13, 1916, Image 2

About The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917

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Published Thursdays at Boise, Idaho
Subscriptiou $1.00 per year
Si* months, 60c
John Aunts, Editor and Manager.
Entered as second class matter at Hoi«e,
Idaho, August 7, 1013, under act of con
gress if March 3, 1879.
Business office Cor. 9th and Main.
Phone 348.
A STRANGE CASE
Herman Regan, a 17-year old boy
appeared in the juvenile court one day
this week and requested to be sent to
the State Reform school at St. An
thony. He told a pitiful story of how
his father had taken him out of school
in Kansas to hold down a homestead
and then had left the State for Idaho
when it came time to prove it. The
family reached Boise several weeks
ago and immediately applied to the
Associated Charities for assistance,
which was extended to them. Last
week the probation officers ordered
the children sent to school and Her
man was very anxious to go, but
claims his father asserted they would
'move on before he would permit him
to go to school. The boy then chose
to g,o to the Reform school.
He is a husky lad and asserts his
willingness to work and his earnest
desire to learn a trade and quit the
itinerant life which his father has ad
opted. It would seem that the case is
one which.should appeal to some one
who could give the boy a home and
that he should be released from the
Reformatory and given an oppor
tunity to earn the schooling which he
apparently desires so much.
There is a lesson for tile Charity
board also in the situation. It is stat
ed the family has two teams of horses
and simply settled themselves down
on the Charity association without
any purpose of becoming self-support
ing citizens of Boise, but solely to re
main as long as possible as objects of
charity and then move on to greener
fields.
It would appear that they
should have been given only such tem
porary assistance as mijjht rdlieve
actual want and then made to hustle,
as it is evident they are determined to
live upon charity.
TRUTHFUL WORDS—CARLYLE
"Many a man thinks it is good
ness that keeps him from crime, when
it i sonly his full stomach. On half al
lowance he would be as ugly and as
knavish as anybody. Don't mistake !
potatoes for principles.—Thomas Car- i
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There never came from the lips of .
man more truthful words than the
above from Thomas Carlyle, it is an i
easy matter for a man in a comfort- j
able home and a well-filled larder, to '
respect the law and merit by his acts
and conduct, the title of a law-abiding
citizen. mie man who is supplied with !
the necessities of life and at times en
joys some of the luxuries, is but little
tempted to become a law-breaker. But
the man who feels the pinch of hunger
and the insolent sneer that is usually
accorded the victim of peverty, is al
ways treading the dangerous road that
leads to a prison cell.
Every student of social questions
is realizing more forcibly than ever,
that POVERTY BREEDS CRIME.
The young lady surrounded by the
comforts of life and shielded by the
affection qf loved ones, is deserving
of no vast amount of credit, because
she retains upon her brow pure and
unsullied, the priceless crown of wo
manhood. But the woman who has
met the storms of life's battles, who
felt want clutching at her vitals and
remained unsullied, is a heorine whose
womanhood, is worthy of the most
glowing tributes that can be plucked
from the flowers of rhetoric.
Criminals are the product of wrong
economic conditions, and when the
time comes that the earth will be
blessed with a humane civilization,
man will become what he was intend
ed to be "the noblest work of God."
THE FARMER'S WIFE SPEAKS
The department of agriculture at
Washington has been doing much to
improve the farms. Now it has dis
covered prehaps the most important
thing to do. Somebody in Washing
ton remembered that of all the
perts on rural life, one alone had never
d>een consulted about its problems.?
Bp they addressed to the farmers's
letter on the question of agri
production, -asking what
^Äniote it most, etc
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REASONS WHY
Floating around in the labor press
we find twenty-one reasons in tabloid
form as to why every worker should
join a union and take pleasure in pre
senting them in these columns:
1. Because it tends to raise wages.
This is proven by all sorts of evi
dence.
2. Because it prevents a reduction
in wages: reductions rarely come to
well organized labor.
3. Because it aids in getting short
er hours. Ask the union men who
are working eight hours; they can
prove it. They can show a union
card also.
4. Because in union there is
strength. This is as true of wage
earners as of states.
5. Because it makes labor re
spected. Power wins respect from
employers as front all men.
6. Because it gives men self-re
liance.
7. Because it develops fraternity.
Craftsmen are all too jealous of and
suspicious of one another even at
best.
8. Because it is a good investment.
No other investment gives back so
large a return for expenditure of time
and money.
an dmoney.
9. Because it makes thinkers. Men
need to rub intellects together in mat
ters of common concern.
10. Because it enlarges acquain
tance. The world is too restricted
for wage earners.
11. Because it teaches co-opera
tion. When laborers co-operate they
will own the earth.
12. Because it curbs selfishness;
the grab-all is toned down by the
fear of the opinions of his fellows.
13. Because it makes the job a
better place to work. The bully fore
man can't bully the union card.
14. Because it helps the family;
more money comforts, and a better
opportunity to improve your social
conditions.
15. Because it helps the state. Un
organized and discontented labor is
the parent of the mob. The trade
unions stand as a rock between the
government and anarchy.
Because it is universal. The
trade union is coexistent with civil
ization.
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Because it pays you benefits
when you are on strike for better
conditions, or to prevent unfair con
ditions being imposed upon you.
Because it pays you sick bene
fits when sick or disabled.
Because it pays death benefits
of $100 and upwards.
Because it stands for cottcil
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j iation of all differences between cm
ployer and employe.
■ ... Because a union man's card is
j treated with respect and considera
. tion hy all unionmen, and the hearer
of a card is never without friends,
i and can always get assistance if in
j needy circumstances,
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WAY THEY DO IN THE WEST
To the women of the Pacific coast,
! the country may always look for
ideas in civic work. Tacoma, Wash
new
ington, is going to have a wonlan's
Rttilding. It is to he a commnuity
center for the various activities in
which the women's organizations are
engaged. And its relation to these
will he much the same as is that of
the Chamber of Commerce to Ta
coma's commercial interests,
sociation incorporated under the state
laws has been formed to finance the
undertaking. They are raising funds
by a unique method, selling bricks of
silver polish. Tt was estimated that
every housewife in
needs stiver polish, and her patron
age for this particular brand is solicit
ed on the ground that for every brick
of it she buys, she puts a brick into
the woman's building.
An as
the city
"The Immeasurably better rendi
tions of the beginning of this century
over those at the beginning of the last
are attributed directly to the influence
of labor organizations." says Rev.
James S. Myers in the Topeka, Kan..
Capital.
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The question is frequently asked:
"Why do girls disappear?" The
agers of mills, factories and
shops that work the
long hours at starvation
answer the question.
man
sweat
young women
wages can
"We might he grateful,"
exchange , "to the man who invented
civilization if he had not spoiled it all
by inventing work."
says an
Somebody fractured his imagination
when he manufactured that paradoxi
cal phrase "civilized warfare."
As a rule the words of wisdom
the unspoken ones, says a contem
porary.
are
No man who was ever really in
terested in his work was a complete
failure.
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"THE SENATOR"
Coming to the Majestic Theatre on
Friday and Saturday as the next re
lease on the Equitable Program, re
veals Charles J. Ross as the star in
the screen presentation of the part in.
which Win. H. Crane won fame on
the legitimate stage. Sydney Rosen
feld's drama has afforded a wonder
ful opportunity for beautiful filming,
and it has been taken full advantage
of in this great series of pictures.
With three men interested in a pretty
girl who is the center of political and
social intrigue, with an ambitious and
unscrupulous schemer in an attempt
to wreck two lives for his own gratifi
cation, with a man of sterling integ
rity, keen wit and steadfast purpose,
and other characters of minor import,
material is provided which has been
welded into one of the most remark
able picturizations of its kind ever
presented to lovers of the silent
drama. A gripping, appeal is made to
the eye as well as the heart all through
the great series of pictures. Another
interesting feature of this picture is
the excellent views of the National
Capital Congress Library, Treasury
building. White House and a great
many other land marks. The Vattde
yille fo rthese dates is Casad and
Casad in Musical Novelty and Marie
Laurent.—The girl wit hthe golden
voice.
"THE FAMILY STAIN"
From Gaboriau's story "The Widow
Lerogue," William Fox has taken his
first mystery theme for the screen, and
given it a cast of untisally competent
players, and settings of the excellence
one has come to expect from Fox.
Of course with Gaboriau the origin
al creator of the plot, one is guaran
teed genuine mystery, if only the ad
aptation is made skillfully. This Will
S. Davis has done, in addition to di
recting the production.
Rarely has Fox been happier in the
choice of his players for a given pic
ture.
Frederick Perry, as the father
who arranges an exchange of infants,
which turns out in the end not to have
been an exchange, but nevertheless
the basis for a murder, gives his abili
ties full play in a role that is neces
sarily circumscribed by reason of the
plot. He is to an appreciable extent
overshadowed by Einer Linden,
whom we have not previously seen in
photoplays. Linden, we believe, will
be heard from as an actor with an
unusual capabality in tragic parts.
Other members of the cast were evi
dently selected with care, for they arc
entirely adequate—in fact, far above
the average found in detective plays
—Walter Miller,
Carey Lee, Dixie Compton, Helen
Tiffany, Frank Evans, Edith Hallor,
Maynte Kelso, Louis Hendricks, Carl
Gerard.
Stephen Gatton,
The action moves swiftly, in spite
of a rather complicated plot. The di
rector, with an eye for realism, has
provided, among other things, one of
the most successful rain storms ever
screened. Or to put it more accurate
ly, the director took a natural rain
storm and made it one of the most
telling features of his picture. Another
piece of work for which we commend
the director particularly in his staging
of the "third degree" scenes. Not only
are they carried through without ex
aggeration, but their value is also
heightened by lighting effects that are
splendidly worked.
No extended sketch of the plot is
necessary here. It will keep any au
dience. guessing, and thoroughly ab
sorbed. The Family Stain will be
shown at the Majestic, Monday and
Tuesday in conjunction with two vau
deville numbers. Wagner and Brtthn.
Fancy Roller Skaters and Silver and
Gray in Singing. Talking and Danc
ing.
THE TRUE LOVER
(Augustianian)
Of all the love affairs in the world
none can surpass the true love of a
big boy for his mother. Tt is a pure
love and noble, honorable in the high
est degree to both. I do not mean
merely a love which makes a boy gal
lant and courteous to his mother, say
ing to everybody plainly that he is
fairly in love with her. Next to love
of a husband nothing so crowns
^n's life with honor as this second
love, this devotion of son to her. And
I never yet knew a boy to "turn out"
bad who began hy falling in love with
a good mother. Any man may fall in
love with a fresh-faced girl, and the
man. who is gallant with the girl, may
cruelly neglect the worn and
wife. But the boy who is a lover to
jiis mother in her middle age. is a true
knight who will love his wife as much
in the sear-leaved autumn as he did
in the daisy springtime.
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A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
(Robert G. Ingersoll)
I see a world where thrones have
crumbled and where kings are dust.
•The aristocracy of idleness have
ished from the earth.
I see a world without a slave. Man
at last is free. Nature's forces have
by science been enslaved, Lighting and
light, wind and wave, frost and flame
and all the secret, subtile powers of
earth and air are the tireless toilers
of the humai^ race.
I see a world at peace, adorned with
every form of human art, with music's
myriad voices thrilled, while lips
rich with words of truth—a world in
which no exile sighs,
moans; a world on which the gibbet's
shadow does not fall; a world where
labor reaps its full reward; where
work and worth go hand in hand;
where the poor girl in trying to win
bread with the needle—the needle that
has been called the "asp for the breast
of the poor"—is not driven to the des
perate choice of crime or death, of
suicide or shame.
I see a world without a beggar's out
stretched palm; the miser's heartless,
stony stare; the livid lips of lies; the
cruel eyes of scorn.
And over all, in the great dome,
shines the eternal star of human hope.
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inclusive via
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Union Pacific System—
Limit, January 20th.
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