The Northwest worker., January 13, 1916, Page 4, Image 4

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The Northwest Worker
■sitervd »> second-class matter
Mar.li I 1911. at tho pottoffloe »'
ev«»r«>tt. Washington, under tho «<•<!
of March 3, II I
IXl> PHONE 4787!
Published even Thursday by the
rr«»«t> Committee of the Socialist
p»rty of Snohomlsh County. 1612 Call
fornla St . Kverett. Wash. .v
Harvard Shipley, Ml'tor
H. W. WattS, Business Manner-
Yearly subscription, $1.00; Mx
months, s«c; three months, 2f>c; slnglo
ccptfw. he ___————
THIS IS MY DUTY
"To use what gifts 1 have as best 1 ,
may;
To help some weaker brothers
where I can;
To be as blameless at the close of
day
As when the duties of the day be
Ran;
To do without complaint what must
be done;
To grant my rival all that may be
just:
To win through kindness all that may
be won;
To fight with knightly valor when
I must."
By S. E. Kizer
1- % .
KILLING THAT DEFICIT
Well, we didn't do it.
But no one is disappointed.
We didn't expect a very generous
response.
So we're starting the New Year —
the presidential election year—with a
hold-over debt on our hands.
Only a few of our readers seemed
to carv as to whether two comrades
bear the burden or two hundred share
it.
"I^et Oeorge do it!"
The paper's owners should worry!
Wa are not unaware of the fact
that we have the good will and sym
pathy of hundreds of comrades who
really feel the responsibility of their
proportionate share of the up-keep
of our party press, but who are so
hard pressed for cash that they can
not spare even a quarter of a dollar
toward the deficit fund.
But we are also'fully conscious of
the deplorable fact that many of our
readers —many of them' party mem
bers—are simply too indifferent to
give a rap how the paper is kept in
the field, or at whose expense. They
should worry, so long as it cost them
little or nothing. But the movement
■will not make very much progress
when there is so little moral force
behind the party organization. The
earnestness and zeal of the individual
members determine the power and
significance of the Socialist party as
a whole. A trite statement, to be
sure. But what are we going to do
about it? The hard times do not al
together account for the lack of in
terest in the growth of that donation
fund. The owners of the Northwest
Worker could wipe out that deficit
in one week, without any very great
personal sacrifice to the county mem
bership. The reason it isn't done is
use of the- "Let George do it"
apathy that has fallen upon the indi
vidual units of the party. To have
to witness this absence of vitality and
enthusiasm in the movement is far
from encouraging. Jt does not augur
well for the year's campaign.
How would it do for each reader of
these lines to make it his or her busi
ness to speak to Socialists (and sym
pathizers) about this matter, and see
if some life and action can be stim
ulated? Concerted action along this
line for the coming week would result
in most gratifying and surprising re
turns. A successful campaign of this
1 would tend to arouse enthusiasm
and bopi wherever this paper is read.
Lei eacb reader of these lines discuss
this situation with every Socialist he
can reach during the next seven days,
ur^e others to do something to lower
this Indebtedness, and do his little
best himself, and note the result in
our next week's report. Down with
apathy! On to victory!
In the May number of the "Social
ist Review" (I. L. P. of Britain), the
i-ditor of (he "Review," in a discus
,-iun on "International Socialism and
the War," outlines the three positions
possible In war time for Socialists:
"The first and only sound internation
al position is to refuse to take up
arms whatever the alleged ground of
the war; the second (the one that
belligerent Socialists generally take
up, and is the least logical and the
most dangerous) is to fight only it
convinced that their government (or
country) is in the right; and the
third, is to f^ght if their 'country is
5n danger,' no matter whether their
government or country be in the right
or the wrong."
Furnished Room to Rent —Large,
well lighted and furnished in private
house. Address 2619 Wetmore Aye.
Executive Commit to Endorses Action
WHEREAS a free and tearless Socialist press la i vital necessity
to Ihe movement in this slate-, and tho ,„„,,, of the Socialist
WHKHKAS The Northwest Worker, tl 'ran o the BoclaHs
party otsnohoralsh County. ha.. suggested comrade, for tb offices
of State Secretary, and State Executive Committee,
liX IT■ RRSOI.VED, That the County Executive Committee of
Snohomlsh County hereby go on record as fully endorsing the North.
we* Worker on the tearless stand II ha. taken. Understanding thai
thl* has not i ."on the policy of the past and I. not to be the pollcj
o (l. .mure but knowing that a present emergency exist, when calls
for^unprecedented and outspoken action proving thai our county organ
la free from ring control, and holds for It. high Ideal only service to
i,. ,„•,•.:,«. a.km, v a whole, and the desire to further the.best Inter
eat and progress or the movement In the stale of Washington.
(Signed)
C P. MORRIBON,
CHARLES ROTH,
K. W. THOMPSON,
0 BERTHA ZIKTZ;
11. \v. WATTS,
' Snohomiah County Kx. Coin.
WHY THE NORTHWEST
WORKER
.». . 8..U1* A n » tll
Or. K. J. Hrown, the Seattle dentist
lawyer, has an article overy week in
The Seattle Times, Star and Pott-
Intelligencer chnrgtng this paper with
being part of a ring that has control
of the Socialist party in this state.
An article under the above heading
Hppeared rooently in the above-men
tioned papers and in answer to Dr.
■ .1. Hrown and for the information
of our readers, we give the following
as the ring that controls the party
and of which The Northwest Worker
is a part-
The Northwest Worker takes tms
opportunity to invite you one and
ALL to GET INTO THE RING.
NOTICE TO EMPLOYES
We understand that some of our
employes are buying meat from the
Crescent Meat Market of Everett.
We are running our own meat market
and we ask that ALL our employes
make their purchases from this mar
ket. If you DO NOT care to do that
WE DO NOT care to have you in our
employ, and if you continue to buy
from that market DO NOT be sur
prised at being dismissed without no
tice.
CROWN LUMBER CO.,
A. A. Scott, Mgr.
The above notice faces the slaves
employed by the Crown Lumber Co.,
of Mukilteo, Wash. The slaves' aver
age wage amounts to ?I.CO per day of
ten hours. All their supplies must
be bought from the company store.
Some of the slaves revolted, hence
the notice. Hurrah for America—the
land of the FREE.
NEED FOR VOCATIONAL
TRAINING
Of the Importance of vocational
training, particularly at this crisis in
international affairs. Dr. C. P. Stein
met;;, formerly president of the Na
tional Association of Corporation
Schools, says: "Vocational training is
the most important industrial prob
lem in this country. The supply of
arlisans with broad training from Eu
rope is now cut off and the training
of workmen in this country is of para
mount interest. The superiority of
America in the electrical industry
over all other countries is due largely
to educational development and to co
operation between manufacturing
companies and educational Institu
tions."
C. E. Ogrosky, Glove and Shoe Re
j pairing, 2001 Hewitt Avenue.
Let us Ik;]"1 that when they settle
the war and return to New York they
will be able to pass the mental tests
usually required at Ellis Island. Boa
ton Transcript.
There are more (ban 250,000 cor
porations in this country, according
to figures compiled by the Federal
Trade Commission, of which more
than 100,000 have no income what
ever. Those must be the good cor
porations.- New York Tribune.
Have you joined the Socialist Lo
ral in your neighborhood yet? Look
up the Socialist Party Directory for
information. If you do not find what
you want there, write us.
Barrett's Variety Store, of 2816 Col
by, puts an ad in the paper this week.
Remind them of it.
The Washington Post has courage
ously essayed a most difficult task. It
is trying to convince the public thai
a tax on automobile gasoline would
be "a tax on the poor."—Chicago Her
aid.
ALMS HOUSE PROSPERITY
What sort of prosperity Is It whlrh
nndi Industrious workers to the alum
house? That In what the rush of
war orders has done to ninny work
ers :il Bridgeport, Conn, and prob
ably has done (lie same to workers
elsewhere. And If. instead of war
orders, the prosperity had been due
to any other kind of orders, the re
sult would have beon the same
An Investigator of the Russell Sage
Foundation. writing in tlie New York
Survey of December 4th, tellH the
following story:
"Andrew TaTonli is a laborer at the
plant of the American Qraphaphone
Company in Bridgeport, Conn, He
earns $12 a week which, with careful
planning and without emergency de
mands, has just been sufficient to
meet the needs of himself, his wife
and three small children. The fam
ily has occupied modest quarters for
a rental of $9.t>o a month.
"One day recently a calamity hap
pened to Tarcali. His landlord notl
', fied him his rent would be raised to
$12. Two and a half dollars seems n
i modest sum. but to one on the sllp
| pery edce of poverty two dollars and
[a hnlf is as big as a mountain. It
looked so to Andrew Tarcali, for it
was not to be had.
"The next day Mrs. Tarcali set out
|to look for new lodgings. She looked
land looked. The town was filled up
No quarters the Tarcalis could afford
ito occupy were to be found. The
landlord ordered them to move, and
finally the sheriff turned Mrs. Tar
cali, the three small children and all
their goods and chattels into the
I street.
"The Tarcal's are not paupers. Mr.
Tarcali is nt work earn'ne; the pre
vailing rnfe of waees for unskilled
labor, Moreover, he is abe arr| will
ing to pay a rent which a few weeks
In fore would readily have secured
him a modest home. Yel Buch a homo
is not available.
"Tarcali's calamity was brought to
'the attention of the department of
charities, and its agents set out to
find (lie family a home. The Be arch
was !n vain. Xo home they could
afford to rent was to be had, and the
wife and (line children are now at
the city alaishouße, the father paying
toward their support and hoping in
ithe near future to find a home in
which in reunite his family."
This Is not. an Isolated case. "On
November 10th, nine families were
in th" almshouse," continues the writ
er, "having been ejected from their
home; because of Increased rents."
And the rent, problem is gelling so
threatening thai It is proposed to
use election booths and portable
school bonnes for tii" Increasing num
ber of evicti 'i
"The Tarcalis and their neighbors
are victims of the war," saya the Sur
vey writer. But there he is wrong.
The war lias enough to answer for.
it should not be made the ucapi
for evils Inhereni In th" capitalist sve
tern. The wagi a of the Tarcalis are
bi low the normal cost of living for
the \' ry simple reason thai n num
ber of unskilled laborers are to be
found In Bridgeport who are unable
to find employment even at $12 a
week. Andrew Tarcali dares noi de
mand more wages than the unem
ployed man Is willing to accept, since
the Graphaphone company w'll nat
urally buy its labor-power where it
can lie purchased at the lowest rale.
sio long as commodities are produced
by privately-owned factories for Pro
fit, instead of by collectlvely-ownod
factories for Use, the unemployed
problem w'll remain, and the jobless
man will continue to lower the stand
ard of living of his brother wage-
Blave.
When the papers tell the public of
Bridgeport's "prosperity." they mi an,
of course, prosperity for the owners
of the means whereby the workers
must live, even though this nv>ans the
almshouse for those whose labors cre
ate this "prosperity,"
Under Soeial'sm, useful labor will
bring prosperity to the Industrious,
and the almshouse only to those who
THE NORTHWEST WORKER
BOARD OF CONTROL
ENDORSES ACTION
OF EDITOR
\t the regular monthly meeting ol
the Board "i Managers, held tail
Tueidaj evening, the editor of The
Northwell Worker was called Upon to
mill' an explanation or his article In
the inline ol Deo, 80th, i;> i r,, giving
the paper's choice ol nominees for
utiite secretary ami state committee
men. Comrade Shipley's explanation
in Justification of hi» action showed
that Conditions existed which war
ranted this unusual Hland of the paper
anil his placing of an advisory llsl
of eligible nominees to The North
West Worker was, under the clrcum
Stances, approved by the Hoard.
PBTBR IIUSIIY,
Secretary.
SPECIAL DONATION FUND
Tho following comrades have glvnn
us a Blurt on tho Special Donation
Fund which in for tho purpose of
Wiping out tho deficit of $260:
Proletarla mil . » G.oo
Vnrlun Shaw, Woodenvllle 1.00
Sophus Uonnlovlo .-- 1.00
Comrade from Sllvana 1.00
B. L. Ktmbrel, Alaska .- 3.00
Marvin Stanford, California 1.00
Local Freoland 3.20
Ni'lh Hanson, Mutlock — 1.00
Ella K. Stone, Daring 1.00
E. D. Mltchel, L*ese — 4.00
Local Cashmere 3.00
Win. Dehnhoff, Snohomlsh 2.00
ii. Thorscn, Arlington 1.00
Thos. Jensen, Arlington 2.00
A. Anderson, R. 2, Everett $ 1.00
Anonymous 2.00
Frank Shepherd, Everett, 1.00
1., W. Matthews, East Everett-- 1.00
lv W. Womsloy, Everett .60
A Comrade -■•- 5.00
Total -- $38.50
; , I
"NO WATER IN THE MILK"
Olympla, Wn., Jan. 8, 191 C.
The Northwest Worker,
Everett, Wash.
Dear Comrades:
Once In a while I've been getting
hold of a copy of your paper. I've
become Interested because I've found
no water in the milk of The North
west Worker, and I believe it de
serves the support of every real So
cialist in the state. Have enclosed
stamps for a sub. Please send The
Worker to the address below. In
conclusion I went to say to the Ever
ett comrades not neglect to trade
with the advertisers in The Worker
and • boost their paper.
Fraternally yours,
GEO. H. SCHAAP,
Olympia, Wash.
A OOO^ CHANGE
About nine years ago, when the
writer was a student at Hedding col
lege, Ab'ngdon, one' of the students
(not the writer), was very uncere
moniously ridden around the college
campus on a rail for daring lo declare
his Socialistic convictions. Also, the
college lecture course contained a lec
ture, by one of the most rabid anti-
Socialists from South Carolina, that
the Lord ever let live (which lecture
by the way. made the writer a Social
ist) which all the students had to at
tend.
At the Debs meeting in Abingdon
last week President Agnew of Hed
(Vtig college presided and Introduced
the sneaker, and several of the in
structors of the college and schools
of the c'ty were present. All of which
goes to show that a good change has
come upon our educational and re
ligious Institutions, and Instead of
the blind prejudice and violent abuse
which Soe'al'pts had to contend with
'n the past, we are meeting with re-
Bped and courtesy, even from those
who do not atrrer. with us as to the
remedy which shou'd be applied to
th" present Intolerable industrial con
ditions. It Is Indeed a good change,
and it bodes better, happier times
Bh' ad for all humanity. -Qalesbury
Labor News.
can but will not work. Then there
will be neither idle rich nor indus
trious poor, and war "will bo not any
num. 'it nil "
Special Donation Fund!
Northwest Worker.
Dear Comrades. —Enclosed find $ , my donation
as a special effort to wipe out the deficit of The Northwest
Worker.
Name
Address
Mail to Northwest Worker, 1612 California St., Everett.
COMRADE MRS. LOCKWOOD
Who HpenkH In The Forum, Sunday
Afternoon, January 23
flet your tickets early. I'rlco of
admliiion, inc. Tloketi on sale at
office of Northwest Worker.
"To Ray the lecture was good would
not express It, it wan simply 'great.'
For an hour and a half Mrs. Lock
wood held the large and enthusiastic
audience in closest attention, and all
were lorry when she stopped." 10. C,
Qrant. Bee, Local Decora) la.
LOCKWOOD DATES
Sun. Jan. Hi, Portland, Ore.; Mon.
17, Vacoll; Tueß. 18, Kelso; Wed. 19,
Bandy Bend; Thurs, 20, Ethel; Fri.
lm, Mossy Rock; Sat. 22, Centralia;
sun. 23 (2 p.m.) Everett; Sun. 23 (8
p.m.) Seattle; .Mon. 24, Birmingham;
Tues, 26, Hryant; Wed. 26, Sedro
Woolley; Thurs. 27, Lyman; Fri. 28,
clipper; Sat. 29, Echo Valley; Sun.
30, Hellingham; Mon. 81, Lynden;
Tues. Feb. 1, Everson; Wed. 2, Su
mas; Thur. ::, Anti War; Fri. 4,
Pleasant Valley; Sat. 5, Cay View;
Sun. 6, Anaeorles; Mon. 7, Lopez.
BE OPTIMISTIC
How wonderful this old world is
To eyes that look for beauty!
How happy every life would be
If each would do his duty!
We all should laugh and all .should
sing,
And everyone be joyous,
I And only see the beautiful,
Nor let dull care annoy us.
No matter if were steeped in woe,
Or threatened with starvation;
We should not weep because of that,
But smile like nil tarnation.
We should not mind the vicious "iends
In human form that skin us,
But we should chortle with great glee
Because we've guts left in us.
We need not gloom tho lack of food
Denies us grub to fill 'em,
'• It is enough that no one took
Our loved ones out to kill 'em.
Tho crime and murder doth abound,
And war devasts great nations,
We tools should all lie rull of joy
In spite <if lack of rations.
Be OPTIMISTIC! Smile, you fool
What matters rags and hunger?
Let all your speech be soft and sweet,
Just like when you were younger.
Why should you notice jibes and jeers
From other fools, who, later,
Will find themselves as now you are,
With hopes no whit the greater.
—Simon, the Jester.
Some people claim thai Ford's
peace-program in doomed to failure.
int wiser ones expect to see the sales
doubled next year.—Boston Tran
script.
The Belgians continue to pay strik
ing tributes to their German rulers.
The total is now said Id be about
100,000,000. Chicago Herald.
Local Everett No. 1 moots every
Thursday evening In The Forum.
Bargreen's Golden Drip Coffee. Im
np.i = l Tps Co.. 1407 Hewitt Avenue.
See Our Windows
FOR PRE INVENTORY SPECIALS
THEY ARE FULL OF REAL LIVE BARGAINS
CURRAN HARDWARE CO.
Ind- 82 HEWITT AND BROADWAY S.S. 980
WHEN VISITING
LOS ANGELES
CALIFORNIA
STAY AT THE NEW FIREPROOF
HOTEL NORTHERN
420 West Second Street, near Hill and Broadway
200 Rooms —EUROPEAN —150 with Bath
Rates: $1.00 to $3.00; with Bath, $1.50 to $4.00
FREE AUTO BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS
BARRETT'S
REMOVAL SALE!
BARGAINS IN ALL LINES
We Don't Want to Move the Goods
Children's 75c Bonnets only 25c
Ladies' 75c Flannel Night Gowns only 69c
Children's Sweaters 75c
Men's Wool Hose 13c
China and Kltchenware Reduced
Feed and Groceries
Our Pride Flour $1.35 Shorts $1.10
It's Better Family $1.45 Wheat $1.90
3 Kellog Corn Flakes 25c oZf^ $140
3 Cans Corn or Tomatoes.. .25c Chop $I*4C
Pure Lard, ss. ....... .^^Oc p ro tein Poultry Mash $1.7F
Sugarcured Hams, per lb 17c Chicken Cabbage, 25 lbs 25c
Salt Pork, per lb 10c Mangelwurtzels, sack 85c
Bran 75c Carrots, sack 85c
50 LBS. VEGETABLES 65c
BEETS, CARROTS, BAGAS, PARSNIPS AND TURNIPS
—There's no excuse now. With a little economy you will soon be on
a cash basis —be abfc to "cut out" the old credit system—buy for
cash and owe no one. Then what you have in your pocket is yours.
—Think it over.
Farm Products Association
4 Phones: 998, 1248; S.S. 998, 997. J. A. POWERS, Mgr.
"The Store that Keeps the 'Crimp' in 'High Cost of Living' in Everett"
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHO
MISH.
Soren Bergeson, Plaintiff, vs. Unit
ed States Lumber Co., J. P. Lane and
all persons unknown, if any, having an
interest in the property, Defendants.
Notice and Summons
Till': STATE OP WASHINGTON,
Jo United States Lumber Co., J. F,
Lane and all persons unknown, if any,
having an interest in the property.
You are hereby notified that the
above named Plaintiff, the owner and
holder of Certificates of Delinquency
numbered respectively B. 2677, B.
2678, B. 2679, B. 2680, issued and dat
ed the 14th day of April, A.D. 1914,
by the County of Snohomish, State of
Washington, for the amount of $58.01
Fifty-eight and .01/100 Dollars, the
same being the amount then dv« and
delinquent for laxos for the years
15)11 and 1912 upon real property of
which you, the said Defendants, Unit
ed tates Lumber Co., J. F. Lane and
all persons unknown, if any, having
an interest in the property, are the
owners and reputed owners, situate
iv said county and more particularly
described as follows, to-wit: Lot Five
(5), Lot One (1), the Northwest Quar
ter of the Southeast Quarter (NW 1.,
of SEV4), and Lot Three (3), all in
Section Twelve (12), Twp. Thirty-two
(32) North, Range Nine (9) East W.
M., and upon which the above named
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
SUFFERING HUMANITY
I, Margaret B. Larson, being first
duly sworn upon oath depose and say: j
That for three years I have been very
sick with liver and kidney trouble and j
have doctored with the best doctors i
in Chicago, with the United Doctors j
of Minneapolis, with doctors in Eau
Claire, Wis., and some of the Everett
doctors. I finally went to Seattle and
was examined by leading professors,
one of whom told me that nothing j
could be done for me. I came home
discouraged and began to arrange my
affairs and find a home for my little
boy. After Dr. D. Feldman, of \>tYi:\ '
WORDS TO THE WISE
Men are running short —save the
kids!
Capitalism is no longer a system—
it's a bloody mess.
Socialism, therefore, Is not a mere
theory—it's a necessity.
Thnrwday, January 13, 1916.
Plaintiff has paid subsequent taxes
assessed against said property as fol
lows: Taxes for the year 1913, amount
ing to $15.56, paid July 28th, 19lf;
taxes for the year 1914 amounting to
j $19.78, paid June 25th, 1915, the
| amount of said Certificate of Delin
; quency, bearing interest at the rate
of Fifteen per cent. (15 per cent.)
per annum from its said date and all
of said several amounts so paid for
subsequent taxes as aforesaid, bear
| ing interest at the rate of fifteen per
I cent. (15 per cent.) per annum from
I the respective dates of payment there
jof as aforesaid; all of which is now
j due the above-named Plaintiff.
And you and each of you are here
by summoned to appear within sixty
idays after the date of the first pub
lication of this notice and summons
j exclusive of the date of such first
publication, to-wit: within sixty days
after the 6th day of January, A.D.
1916, exclusive of said day, and de
f Till the above entitled action in the
| Court aforesaid, or pay the amount
due as above set forth, together with
the costs. In case of your failure so
to do, judgment will be rendered fore
closing the lien of said Certificate of
Delinquency, taxes, penalty, interest
and costs, against the lands and
•premises hereinbefore mentioned and
lescribed.
SOREN BERGESON,
Plaintiff.
By PETER HUSBY.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
P. O. Address: Everett, Wash.
Lombard Aye., cams to Everett I de
termined to consult him. Commenced
taking his treatment! and now after
doctoring with him for three months
and a half I consider myself cured
and a perfectly well woman. I am
very grateful to Dr. D. Feldman, as
I feel that he saved my life.
Witness my hand at Everett, Wash.,
this Nov. 15, 1915.
MARGARET B. LARSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 15th day of Nov., 1915.
F. F. SWALE,
Notary Public.
In short, Socialism is not a dream,
though capitalism is a nightmare.
To do nothing to end it is to main
tain this regime of murder and rob
bery.
Help put The Northwest Worker on
its feet by wiping out that $260 de
ficit.