The Northwest worker., February 10, 1916, Page 4, Image 4

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The Northwest Worker |
■■.tared as second-class matter
March S. 1911, at the poetofflce at
Brwett, Washington, under tho act
at March *. 1879.
~~ INIV PUONK mz
Published every Thursday by the
Prt»*s Committee of the Socialist
Party of Snohomlsh County, 1612 Cali
fornia St., Kw«rett. Wash.
M*ynard Shipley, Kditor.
H. W. WatU, Business Manager.
"~T**rly subscription, $1.00; nix
months, 66c; three months, 26c; singly
eoi>to«. 6c. '
Inspiring
Example
We hear so much ignorant misuse
of the principle of "economic ilotivr
minism" within the ranks of (he So
clalist party, we cannot resist the
temptation to cite (he example of the
world's greatest pianist in resuming
his concert work as a means of re
lieving the- awful Batterings of his
countrymen in Poland. Two years
ago. Ignance .lan r.iderewski possess
ed a fortune of nearly $-.',000.000. To
day he is a poor man. apart from his
earning capacity as the world's fore
most virtuoso. He has given away
his entire fortune in the effort to off
set the ravages of war among his fel
low Poles. Now he is back on the
concert stage to earn more dollars to
give to the cause dearest to his great
soul. This inspiring example of de
votion to duty shows how utterly stu
pid is the uiuiiseriminating use of the
principle of "economic determinism"
as applied to individual cases. As ap
plied to the activities of a class, the
principle that people act in conform
ity with their economic interests, and
fashion their ethical and legal codes
in harmony therewith, is correct. Of
ten, too often, it applies truthfully to
individual instances. But the habit
indulged in by so many Socialists, of
ten with an air of superior wisdom, of
attributing the acts of comrades to
individual self-interest of the economic
determinism sort, without discrimina
tion, is most pernicious, unscientific,
and ridiculous, and only tends to con
fusion of thought on the part of non-
Sooialists. Our great movement is
full of Paderewskis. who, while they
have no millions to give to the Cause
so dear to them, give freely of all they
hay
Now's the Time
Last week we sent out an S. O. S.
wireless. The signal is still out.
And ifs no joke, at that.
This snowstorm has set us back at
least sis weeks, one way or another.
There is light ahead, reasonably good
prospects, a brighter outlook than we
have had since the industrial depres
sion set in; but we shall have to be
sustained by some extra assistance if
we are to keep the paper going in the
interum. Business being at a stand
still for several weeks, it will be next
to impossible to collect on outstand
ing accounts fast enough to meet our
weekly printing bill, which must be
paid in advance for each issue of our
papf-r. So wo make this plain state
ment of what we are up against.
So far, writing on Monday, we have
received aid only from three com
rades —a direct donation only from
one since the call went out. But it is
too early yet to have heard from com
rad<s at any distance from Everett.
We shall publish a report to include
Wednesday morning's mail. But we
are not over-sanguine. We realize
that our readers are themselves hard
i d for ready cash. So we are
not exactly begging, nor urging. We
are "just atellin' yuh."
In view of the crisis this paper is
now facing, we feel that it might be
more than "just as well' to let our
friends know that when they send a
dollar to this office it is not used to
poor advantage. The wages of the
business manager and the editor are
so small that they would not tend to
"a mad scramble" to keep the paper
a-going for merely selfish reasons of
a material nature. You comrades who
own the paper are paying your editor
a maximum salary of $20 a month,
and the same for your business man
ager. Every dollar received at this
office above this total salary account
of $40 a month goes into the paper.
There are no other paid workers on
the list. All other work is donated.
The printing bill is $36 a week, flat
rate, for 2000 copies. Local Everett
No. 1 provides us with a business of
fice and mailing room. The editor
pays the Local $10 a month for two
unfurnished rooms, one of which he
uses for an editorial "sanctum." The
Jxtcal furnishes fuel for the whole
outfit. In return, the paper advertises
the Local's meetings free of charge,
and furnishes it campaign Issues and
extra copies at cost of production. So
it Is B*en at a glance that The North-
Important!
ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ
CAHEFULLY
Ar.afn the question ol county auto
n.vmy Is In-fore the membership Ol
Washington and this time Ihe QUC
tlon/ll stated: •'Shall the duel ol the
autonomous ;*">i """ autonomous
counties be made the sanwT"
Ziomborship of the stall- is entitled
no a thorough understanding of the
proposed question. The nintler of
count) autonomy should i><- oonsld
or.nl solely and only upon Its merits
and not upon an) preeoneetved opin
ions and prejudice*, and as chairman
of the Snohomish County Kxoeutlvo
Committee lor the past three yearn I
haw- had ample opportunity to oh
sor\e the workings of county autono
my The Question as proposed Is un
fair. Kvery member will upon first
rending agriM-. skeptically, that the
dues of tin- autonomous ami non-
autonomous counties should bo made
the same, But it must be remem
bered that by the passage of this mo
tion the dues of tin1 autonomous coun
ties will not be reduced. The local's
duos will remain the sunn' in the au
tonomous counties but the revenue for
(carrying on the county work will be
abolished and the revenue of the state
office will be Increased. What pro
vision is made that this additional
revenue will be spent to the same ad
vantage that It is now spent In the up
building of the organization either in
the slate or the various counties af
fected?
The question does not consist sole
ly In making the dues of the autono
mous and non-autonomous equal but
virtually the abolishing of a definite
part of the organization, namely coun
ty autonomy in its present state. By
abolishing the dues revenue the auto
nomous counties must raise their rev
enues for carrying on the organization
in other ways. While admitting that
the present county autonomy should
and will be remedied as the member
ship grows enlightened as to what
county autonomy means, nevertheless
the present motion is destructive and
absolutely unfair for it proposes not
to build up and perfect the present
county organization, but to destroy it
entirely. County autonomy is in the
same relation to the state as state
autonomy is to the nation, both the
result ©f a realization that by effi
cient organization in every place the
movement advances. County autonomy
is not perfect, it is admitted, but in
spite of all its present defects it is a
vast improvement over the non-auto
nomous county organization. The
comrades are asked to vote upon the
proposed question intelligently. The
motion does not mean simply that
the dues from the autonomous and
non-autonomous counties be equaled
and the dues of the state office be
increased with no provision as to its
expenditure, but the motion as pro
i posed means the virtual abolition of
a constructive part of our organiza
tion.
Yours in revolt,
('. P. MORRISON.
SPECIAL DONATION FUND
Previously acknowledged $41.70
Olaf Moe, Everett 1.00
Clara A. Whltehouae, Index 1.00
H. L. Baker, Montana 1.00
Ulrich Seherrer, Granite Falls, 1.00
S. Anderson, Mukilteo 2.00
Total to date $47.70
west Worker furnishes no sinecures
for the "needy," and is published at.
lower cost, perhaps, than any paper,
of the same number of words per issue,
in the United States. This is one rea
son why this paper has continued in
ttie field, without resort to plate-mat
ter, or curtailment of reading matter,
while 90 per cent, of the Socialist
weeklies of three years ago are dead,
if not. forgotten.
IMPORTANT
Reducing what would naturally be
a two-column story to a few words
only, we wish to remind our readers
of the fact that a new movement is
being organized in this state tending
to disrupt the bona fide Socialist
party, headed by a group of "reform
era" and supported by the Herald
bunch of sjngle-taxers in Seattle.
They are lining up with the Orange
movement, or any-old-group, so long
as the sheckles can be gathered to the
"deserving." The Northwest Worker
is the only organ which can be de
pended upon to keep the real Social
ists informed, and the near-Socialists
in line with the National organization.
If this paper is allowed to die of inani
tion at this time, it means that the
bourgeois reformers will have the
whole state to themselves, bamboozel
ing (?) the unsuspecting and misedu
cating the gullible, to the detriment
of the revolutionary movement in this
state.
We are not "argufying," but, as
said before, "just a-tellln' yuh." A
word to the wise la sometimes help
ful.
How If s Done
Prossefi Wn , Jan, 81, 1919
Maynard Shipley,
Everett, w r b
I tear ('omradc .
Complying with the request made
by you, through Comrade Ulonska, r
am sending you an article on organl-
My work of organising ami lectur
I Ing keeps me busy. There are no
many places, lllie I'rosner, where Ihe
comrades are tleepj and 1 have to
make my own arrangements for hull,
]do the advertising, etc.. that it keeps
me very busy and 1 have very little
time to devote to writing articles,
Without exception I hi* excuse given
by the local Socialists for not anting
Ing is thai "It Is no use; you can't gel
people out, especially in (his kind of
weather." Bight times In lon 1 prove
to (hem thai (hey an- mistaken and
accomplish results similar (<> those ob
tained here last night, lowlt: I roI
Into town as eiirly an 1 could, secured
a hall (in this Instance the commer
cial club room) which cost 11.04 rent.
guaranteed by ii local comrade; got
the advertising mailer from the com
rade to whom It was sent, filled It
rat and distributed It, Went to the
high school just before the noon ail
journment and with the permission
of the superintendent announced my
lecture to Ihe students In tin- assem
bly room. During noon hour 1 went
to tin- grammar school, put up a win
dow card and attracted some of the
children's attention to it.
l'he result was, we got out forty
people, mostly non-Socialists, added
one member to the local organisation,
collected $4.05, sold $1,90 worth of
literature and left the local Socialists
chiding themselves for not having ar
ranged and advertised as requested.
It. is snowing here and all trains from
the West are delayed about ten hours,
which indicates you are having some
snow on the Sound.
With best wishes, I am,
Yours for the revolution,
EMHi HBRMAN.
IT'S UP TO US
"The Socialists unil sympathizers
with the movement in any locality can
make or break any Socialist paper.
Xo editor or business manager can
make or break it. The members and
friends can make it by using their
purchasing power to bring advertisers
into the paper and keep them there.
They can break it by NOT using this
power in the interest of their own
press.
JUST A WORD TO
EVERETT READERS
In this week's issue we are publish
ing an advertisers' guide. We want
you to take a look over it and see if
the merchants that you trade with
are advertisers.
If you want the paper kept in the
field you will have to see to it that
we get the support of the Everett
merchants. A little effort on your
pan will insure the publishing of the
paper.
The merchants advertising in this
paper deserve your support. If your
heart is in the movement you will
give i hem that, support. Every mer
chant can afford to advertise. If ho
cannot, then he should not get you
to help him make a meal ticket.
We average a loss of ten dollars a
week through lack of advertisers. Will
you help us make up that deficit by
asking the merchants to advertise or
to increase the size of their ad?
APPEAL SUB CARDS
We have a bunch of Appeal to Rea
son sub cards on band. Help us use
them up. Send in two bits and get
a 40-week Appeal sub.
tfenry Dubb Finds the Price of Glory Is Not Potatoes
THE NORTHWEST WORKER
YE PARTY COLYUM
WE ARE IN DISTRESS
Comrades and friends, pacifists and (
preparediata, nationalists and Inter
nationalists, revolutionists and reform*
lati, direct nctlonlsts and political ac
tionisls, and all others who are sons
at things as they be, to you wo ad
dross this appeal. We aro In dire!
distress. Regardless of the shades of
opinion, red, yellow, green, or pink,
that may Indicate to yourselves your
superiority over fellow revolutionists, '
we beseech you to give us aid and
counsel In this hour of need. Ah we '■
proceed, which we shall do without
further parley, our purpose In appeal- 1
ing to you will become plain.
Now and great Issues are now con
fronting our beloved organisation.'
The greatest of these Is preparedness.
We have read this so many times,
both In the Socialist press and the •
kept press, that we believe It. Like
the humble follower of truth we are,
we studiously examined opinions of
the master minds of the revolution
on preparedness. The master minds,;
we are pained to remark, have led us '
into a blind alley.
AN ANTIPREPAREDNESS-IST
We feverishly consumed whole
pages of the "Appeal" filled with Al
lan Benson's opinions In 12-polnt type,
against preparedness. We admiringly
contemplated Allan in his dormitory
overlooking the Hudson, penning his
mighty attack on the "Usurped Pow
er of the Courts," and we knew a man
capable of producing so great a docu
ment could not go wrong. Straight
way we became an enthusiastic anti
preparedness-ist.
Scarcely had we repainted Allan's
arguments—so as to give them the
appearance of originality— for our pub
lic address, when we were, dumb
founded to learn that our old-time
comrade, C. Edward Kussell, of New
York, had come out for preparedness.
This astonished us more than when
we received the nomination from Ev
erett for presidential elector.
Consequently we had to start again.
For days we wandered about in deep
study. We [had read C. Edward's
"Why I Am a Socialist," and had en
joyed it; we were carried away by
his captivating language in "These
Shifting Scenes"; we were impressed
by the intellectual brow in his pic
ture on the front cover of "Doing Us
Good and Plenty," and so we decided
to cast our lot with the preparedists.
No sooner had we arrived at this
conclusion than the monster, Doubt,
in the shape of a peculiar brand of
Internationalism by E. Untermann,
again thrust his ugly head in our tent.
We were about to be converted by
Ernest when our ideas were again
knocked out of kelter by Yo Editor,
who rose high on his editorial chair
SOCIALISM IS VLRY
SIMPLE PROPOSITION
Socialism, after all, v » relatively
simple, definite and clear proposition.
And ,\ct we have the amusing spec
tacle of philosophers, magaelne writ
ers, thinkers nnd critics attempting to
(I'll their renders nnd henrers what Ho
I'l.'lllSlll Is.
Socialism Is n principle offered as r
guide for political procedure In our
present social and economic conditions,
it is not ii set, unalterable program to
be forced upon society. And the prin
ciple Is this: Whenever In the develop
ment of economic conditions, such us
the railways, mines, manufactures, tel
egraph, express or the like, these Insti
tutions reach a point where their prl
vnie ownership enables the owner to
exploit (he people, then they fthould
be Socialised publicly owned nnd op
erated.
Tlie final purpOM of Socialism In to
eliminate from society all unearned In
comes, in order Hint, each member of
■octet? niii.v have for Ills own thnt
amount of wealth which is the result
of his own Individual effort it is ni>so
iiiiei.v necessary to eliminate racb un
earned Incomei. Th« tusk or Socialism,
therefore, in to trace nil these unearned
Incomei through nil the intricate nml
complex processes of our economic life
back l<> their sources, to discover the
methods by which they arise nnd the
means by which they mny be stopped.
Now, it. is pretty generally understood
| mill admitted thnt unearned Incomei
nrlse from one to another sort of mo
! nopoly privilege. Reduced to its inst
analysis, this rests upon some form of
private ownership or some form of
public utility, it is the purpose of
Socialism to discover every utility thnt
gives rise to mi unearned Income and
i when so discovered to apply to It the
principle of pub'lc ownership nnd thus,
I by the reduction of the cost of the gerv
: Ice to those? who use It and the Increase
! of wages to ll one who work upon It,
i gradually eliminate the unearned ln-
I comes.
1 and hurled defiance across seven
■tatM, laying down the. ultimatum
that he would "rather die than fight."
His sentiments, we observed, were
! gleefully endorsed by F. Bostrom, ex
! party boss. To him we listened by
the hour while lie unwound his daring
philosophy. Then we read in the N.
J Y. "Call" that Fred Warren, former
fighting editor of the "Appeal," be
! longed in the same camp.
WE GET COLD FEET
As we contemplated the die-but
won't-fight attitude our feet became
cold and clammy. The thought of
early martyrdom did not appeal to us.
We awoke one night in a cold sweat,
having dreamed that a tall gentleman
in a high hat with the bottoms of his
trousers tied under his shoes, pro
fusely decorated in red, white, and
blue, had strung us to a clothes line
by the heels for harboring seditious
thoughts. Notwithstanding this we
determined to apply for admission to
the anti-fight camp.
Serene and happy once more, we
set out to defy the nation when we
ran across Louie Boudin's views of
preparedness in the "New Review."
Louie compared the whole collection
of Socialist pre.paredists, pros, cons,
and antis, so far as intellect is con
cerned, to a row of mild green onions
in a garden, and declared that he had
the only solution. Thereupon we col
lapsed completely. But why harrow
the gen lie readers with more details.
Our mind is deranged. In our sad ab
erration we imagine ourself to be a
twittering bird on an endless desert
in the night, crying, "More light, O
Qawd, more light."
Yours for the
W. C. R.
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Rockefeller.
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Helen Rose Gibson in
THE RESCUE OF THE BRAKEMAN'S CHILDREN
(A railroad drama with a thrill)
THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (One-part drama)
THE PARSON'S BUTTON MATCHER (A very funny comedy)
HATS IS HATS (Some more comedy)
CARTOONS ON A YACHT
If You Have Sore Lips Don't Come—lt will Hurt
THIS IS A SURE PROGRAM FOR ENTERTAINMENT
Friday and Saturday
The HAVES
PRESENTS
HELEN HOLMES
IN
THE GIRL AND THE
GAME
A PRODUCTION OF GUARANTEED THRILLS!
The world has learned to expect great things of the dariug Helen
Holmes. Yet in "The Girl and the Game" this fearless film star has
eclipsed all previous achievements. Her great k>ap from a dizzy cliff
is but one of the thrilling climaxes of this marvelous production.
SUNDAY ONLY
The House of Revelation
Presenting JOHN LORENZ and ELIZABETH BURBRIDGE
In three acts
The Strangler's Gord
An episode in the mysteries of the Grand Hotel —Two acts
One-act comedy featuring MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY DREW
ADULTS, 10c. CHILDREN UNDER 12, 5c
Thurwhy February 10, 1916.