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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-26


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The Jewish outlook., 1908-07-24
East Side and the Late Panic
BY MAYER SHOENFELD.


one of my kind to put into print some
facts which l believe will be of inter-
est to the Charities and The Com
mons, especially to the Charity Or
ganiZation, students, settlement work
ers. neighborhood workers, school
workers, and all kinds of workers,
who are now interested in ascertain
ing the actual conditions on the East
Side, whether there is any special
suffering on the East Side caused by
the late financial panic.
Were it not for the belief that the
intellectual readers of the Charities
and The Commons will judge what |
have really got to say and not how
| say it. | would not go into the
trouble at all to write and break my
head how to frame this or that point,
and be obliged to continually tickle
Webster's for relief.
There is saying in Yiddish ASK
the patient, not the doctor, us to the
symptoms of the disease. We down
here on the East Side are continually
being investigated and even that
would harm little were it really
proper, accurate, and thorough in
vestigatiOn with the result of solving
this or that problem.
These Investigations are external
of the body East Side. The real sick
ness is internal and so deep into the
blood vessels that the wisacres, even
the graduates of the settlements have
not got within reach.
AS lifelong resident of the good
old East Side, | maintain that the
kitchens for the school children are
doing much more harm than good.
First. it makes of the child a beggar.
Second. it infuses into the mind of
the boy and girl sort of discomfort
against the whole system of society,
and when we are told that this thing
works fine in Germany and in France,
claim that there is the foundation
of discomfort and one of the causes
of ingrown socialism from childhood
on.
Whatever help there is for the
poor child. let that go through its
parents. 1t is enough that the father
and mother should feel that they are
compelled to take charity.
One more objection against this
novel charity and that is that it
causes a gradual lukewarmness and
Indifference on the part of these
youngsters towards their parents.
SO much for that.
AS to the questions. why should
there be, or is there any particular
reason for suffering on the East Side
than anywhere else, | most emphati-
cally maintain that there is, and fur
ther claim that the people of the
East Side are the very first ones to
suffer in the event of an industrial
or financial panic and that they are
the very last ones to get the benefit
of prosperity. Strange as this may
be, it is fact just the same, and l
disputed facts.
The bulk of residents on the East
Side or better say not less than sixty
per cent of the people living on the
East Side derive their source of in
come directly or indirectly from the
needle industries such as clothing,
cloaks, shirts. wrappers, underwear
trades. etc 1t is further demon
strated that at least two-thirds of
these products are sold outside of
New York City. 1t is sold by the
wholesale manufacturer, throughout
the country, principally in the man
ufacturing towns.
The Jewish outlook., 1908-07-24


ditions necessitate structures on the
one hand and lemency on the other.
Marriage and divorce, sweated indus
tries, housing and family life, Chris
tianity and other religions, Christian
Science, Agnosticism and Paganism,
the vocation and recruiting of candi-
dates for holy ORDERS, claims of the
non-Christian world. missions and
education. The clldrch's mission in
Christendom, the Anglican commun-
ion, essential and non-cssentials, and
secular education were among the
many and diverse subjects treated
and though we cannot agree with il
large number of the theories and
ideas advanced, stiI we can see many
points where our activities touch
We Jews can nevertheless learn con-
siderable from this Pan Anglican
Conference. and we should learn
much from it, 1t should act as ii
spur and an inspiration for us to COM
bat similar problems which affect us.
so that we may strive to set ourselves
right with ourselves. And the Lon
don Jewish world" aptly calls at
tention to this fact. AS far as Jewry
is concerned it see. nothing but dis
organization and pulling apart. no
national or even International con-
tact, no unification Of Jewdom in re-
ligious sense, nothing but "spirituai
diSScnsion and dccny:' all of which
is no doubt true. but not so bad but
that it might be worse. \ great deal
of this situation is no doubt impossi-
bic because of and due to prejudice
and misunderstanding which are
rife to an alarming degree, and no at
tempt is made to allay the disorder
and promote better feeling and mu-
tual cooperation. Our bright Anglo
Jewish contemporary suggests local
unity first and wisely too, and makes
an earnest plea to Anglo-Jcwry 1t
commcnds organization and co-opcra.
tion which are "thc keynote of an en-
lightened existence How much
unity is there bu, in name. and
Anglo .)ewry is far from being uni
fled. The camp of orthodoxy is al
most hopelessly divided among itself
and the several divisions are pitted
against one another. There is not even
II semblance of union. The united
synagog is but metropolitan and not
the wide institution as is our union
of American Hcbrew congregations.
Further, it is arbitrary and prevents
congregational autonomy. How then.
about the designation of the chieI
Rabbinate as the chief Rabbi of the
United Hebrew congregations of the
British Empire when there is no such
institution. Every attempt to reduce
to some order has so far proven abor-
tive. The laity do not trouble them
selves. and the ministers are for the
most part barterin@ for metropolitan
sinecures and have no time A body
similar to our w. 4. II. c. is needed
in England. giving +ull congregational
autonomy. free to choose its own rit-
ual and to manag: its own financial
affairs. We, in America. are more
favorably conditioned and organized
and are improving with time. We
recognize the needs and solve them as
is best. We cannot at once expect a
body representative of international
Jewry: the Pan-Anglican Conference
was not representative of universal
Christendom. We can, nevertheless,
work along lines conducive to this
end. MONTAGUE n. A. COHEN.
The Jewish outlook., 1908-07-24

wage Garner or farmer. when he re-
ceives his pay and starts to divide
his earnings for the necessities in life,
the wearing apparel is the last on
the bill of fare. First comes rent;
second, eatables, and the very last,
clothing. Therefore, we will readily
see how the whole of the needle in
dustries are dependent on the gen
eral condition of the country.
No matter how much | would like
to avoid to fall back on statistics in
order to cover my point of view |
am. nevertheless, in possession of
some facts, call them statistics if you
please.
to the homes of the East Side in
normal times is about thirty-fve mil
lion dollars, of which about twenty
five millions come from the needle
trades, about six millions from the
local trades and the rest from mis-
cellaneous, such as city, state, govern
ment salaries, etc. Nearly the total
amount of these thirty-five million
dollars remain on the East Side. 1t
-
1t goes to the grocer. butcher. land
lord, doctor, lawyer. shop keeper,
push cart man, etc. 1t is exchanged
several times over again from hand
to hand, nearly all in the neighbor-
hood, and finally reaches the East
Side banks into two departments. the
business man to the exchange and
the wage Garner to the savings de-
Partment. Now since the mass of
clothing workers are out Of work for
the last seven to eight months and
gradually took their savings out OF
the banks and lived on that as long
as it lasted. they simply await pa
tiently for better times throughout
the country before their branch of
trade will revive. In the meantime
the worker must borrow from the
butcher and grocer, is unable to pay
the rent, the small business man must
give things on credit. the landlord is
hesitating whether he should dis
possess Mr.. A. an old tenant
for non-payment of rent or take in
Mr.. B, who is also out of work
and knows not if he will be a better
rent payer than Mr. A..
The credit of the East Side bust
ness man and landlord is naturally
cut down in the bank because he is
unable to keep up his bank balance
and the whole East Side is in a sort
of a pessimistic mood, and when on
top of all that some ladies and gen
tlemen. no doubt well meaning and
charitably inclined, are opening soup
houses for the children, they are add
ing more scare into the neighborhood.
making things worse instead of bet
ter. and it looks as if the whole East
Side is Charities.
The Jewish outlook., 1908-07-24

"Thc Wandering jew" a play by
the Danish writer Herman Hujer-
man. has been translated into Eng
lish by G. Rubinowitz and published
in the Jewish Comment Baltimore.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The average weekly wage paid to
female laborers of all classes in Ger
many Is little over S1.5O each.
Scottish bakers in 1SSS only earned
from 90 to 2S shillings Il week. The
average wages now stand at from IS
to SO shilings week.
Bangor, Me, is said to have the only
moccasin sewers union in the country.
These workers make the various pat
terms of woodmen's and hunters moe
casins, shoe pacs," high and low cut,
and other patterns for utility; also
many fancy models of soft feathers for
indoor use.
The agricultural college at Tokyo
has been experimenting for some time
past with 'sasa." or bamboo grass. and
the possibilities of making paper pulp
FROM it. 1t is now reported that I'M
expected success has been met with.
which is very important for Japan,
considering the great abundance, all
over the empire of this bamboo grass
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10
TRAIN AND TRACK.

Nearly all railway stations in Ger.
many are equipped with restaurants,
and, rs a rule, the restaurant is the
only waiting room
1t is rare sight on German rail
ways, including the provincial branch
es. to see freight train that Goes not
have an oil tank with an American in
scription.
Both the Alton and Burlington have
restored their Old schedule on the west.
ern run by cutting time. They lost
business by lengthening the schedule
to Kansas City and Denver.
The Pennsylvania railroad noting
the increasing scarcity of all varieties
of lumber, has gone into the forestry
business on n large scale. Within n
short time it will have millions Of trees
under cultivation from which wood
may be obtained for railroad ties.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10
TALES OF CITIES.

The city of Boston lost $1,000 towels
at the public baths this year.
New York's new postmaster is giving
large portion of the residence section
OF that city an evening delivery Of
mail matter
The first census of Italian residents
OF New Haven, Conn, shows that the
city has about $1,000 residents of that
nationality Eighteen years ago there
were only 1000 Italians there. \ ninth
of all the taxpayers In the city are
Italians.
Twenty years ago Buenos AyreS W
collection Of mean buildings. W a
population Of some 10000 Tod : 1t
has a population Of million. with ten
miles Of docks, an electric street car
system, banking system and buildings,
public and private. equal to any city In
the world.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10
AID Columns Tell the Story.

A newspaper may boom the
a town through its editorial col
umns, but a critical investor looks
to the advertising columns for
substantial evidence of push and
life. To him they are the Their
mometers measuring the inten-
sity of public warmth. They
are the pulse which indicates
the healthy condition of the col
lective body of the people. They
tell him whether or not the com
is up 10 times in business
Henry Republican.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10

Fire of our presidents only were nm.
/ der fifty years old when inaugurated-
Pierce, Grant. Garfield Cleveland and
| Roosevelt
Josiah Morris of Warren county, Ky,
is sixty-one years old has never voted.
never joined church or 4 lodge, but
reads the newspapers and is well in
| formed
Senior Anibal Cruz Diaz, the newly
appointed minister from Chile to the
United States. has many friends in
Washington. where he was secretary
of the legation fourteen years ago.
David Rankin of Tarllio, Missouri's
most extensive farmer said the other
day that he had made $4,000 this year
that he knew of ana had not figured
in many ite-ns not yet settled up.
Henry j. Dyer, a retired undertaken
of Cleveland. prov ded in his will that
his grandchildren must not smoke.
chew or drink. He left 1880 year
for painting the ironwo.i, around his
tomb.
Milton Pratt. the oldest voter In
Great Darlington. is ninety years old
and is employed in the iron business
at Il furnace on Mount Riga He is
probably the oldest living man who
has refined iron.
In his ninety-third yc?r Judge
Charles Fields Si;s regularly in the
First district court of northern Worces-
ter. Mass. holding sometimes as many
as five sessions Il week in Athol and
Gardner He was seventy years old
when appointed to the bench
The Chicago Tribune asks this of the
secretary of the treasury. will the
excellent Mr.. Corteiyou please change
the cut Of his hair, assume different
expression of couu,cnance or sit mt
different angle before the camera and
thereby relieve the unvarying monot-
ony of his portraits|'
Herr Macmillan Harden. the Ger
man editor who has been figuring so
prominently in connection with expo
sures in upper German circles, has
been in journalism twenty years. He
at first wrote for various journals: but
not finding the freedom lie desired, he
established Il paper of his own, Die
Zukunft the Futurel. in 1892
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10
Riding Astride.

A young lady from Waco asks
the Harpoon the following ques-
ton: DO you think it proper
for woman to ride horseback
astride?" Certainly l do. When
God, Almighty made the horse,
He made him for the purpose OF
being ridden by men and women.
Had He intended that the man
should ride astride and the WON
en- should be huddled upon the
animals back like crippled
dodo, God would have made some
of the horses different or the
women different. am certainly
glad that He didn't make the
women different or shape them
so they naturally fit a side-sad-
die. The first side-saddle ever
made was manufactured to fit a
poor crippled queen, and her
ladies in waiting" In order to
be in style each got a side saddle
and crooked themselves into the
same unnatural and uncomforta-
bic shape. So far as the alleged
immodesty is concerned. that is
all rot. | have seen many girl
climb fence, and she never got
up and fell both feet over AT the
same time, but like sensible
person simply went over in the
orthodox manner. Get your di-
vided skirts. my dear. girl, and
ride your horse like a sensible
Texas woman and let the prudes
play the cripple dodo act to their
hearts content. When you ride
your horse astride you are not
only sensible, but you are much
safer than if you had your anat-
envy tangled arounda lot of sense.
less saddle horns and straps. fl
anyone don't like your style, ride
over them. --Kalamity Harpoon.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1908-01-10
Current Comment.

We commend Wall street panics for
the naughty manner in which they ig-
more the rest of the country.-Chicago
News.
Grating In the German reichstag Is
called "Americanism. But there was
grating IN Germany before America
was discovered.-Boston Transcript.
The bigger" the men in the crime
business the more essential ii Is that
they be run In and locked up. the same
as the smaller fry.-Chicago Tribune.
DR.. Schurman. who wants five year
university course. would undo the
work of the grammar school authori-
ties. who are constantly turning ont
younger and younger graduates.-Buf.
falo Express.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10
TREASURY DEFICIT
 OF 100000 Secretary Cortelyou's Annual Report Shows Falling Off in Customs Receipts of
 $46,0Oo,o00.
WANTS ELASTIC CURRENCY
Recent Emergency Measure Should Give Way to Permanent Reform 1910 Deficit Likely to Reach
 st4S, ,o0O, ,000.

Washington. Dec. s,--The annual re- port of Mir. Cortelyou, the secretary of tho treasury shows a reversal of con dItions for the fiscal year 190S as com pared with the fiscal year for 1907, For the latter year the receipts were $S4,- 236,5S6 in excess of the disbursements, For tho fiscal year 1908 the disburse- ments were S5s,070,2O1 in excess of the receipts. duo to business depression and Increased appropriations. Fortunately, the report says, the available cash bal ance at the beginning of the fiscal year was s272 ,o61,445.
 The treasury was called upon in the latter part of October, 1907, to render assistance in financial panic which started In New York city and which gradually extended over the entire country. Through treasury operations during this financial disturbance the amount of public deposits with the banks reached 3654S,321 on November 30, 1907, and on December 27, 1907, the maximum of s259,994,271 was attained. Withdrawals decreased the amount tc H49 GOO, 900 on June 90 last
 The aggregate of trust funds, con-
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10
THE ANTIS' LEAGUE
Stamford Ministers Send Out Letters for Meeting of Con
 necticut Clergymen,
TO ORGANIZE IN THIS CITY
League Win Be Officially Formed at |. NJ. C. A. on Afternoon of
 December i8.

Rev. pr. Ford c. Ottman, Rev pr. E, NJ. ripple and Judge Munger of Ansonia have Issued the call for the general meeting of ministers and laymen to br held in this city Decem- ber Is, for tho purpose of organizing a Connecticut branch of the Anti Saloon league, This committee was appointed at q conference represeNt ing seven towns. which was held in the Congregational church in Stam ford few weeks ago. Aside from this committee the active endorsers of the movement are: Rev, William ]. Long, D.D., Stamford; William r., Sessions, Bristol Rev, w. W. Bow dish, D,D, New Haven William Phil lips Hall, Greenwich; Rev. ]. r. Ad- ans, D.D., Stamford; Thomas Norton, Lakevllle Rev A. Fl. Goodenough, D. D.. Bristol; Judge " Munger, Anson- ia. Rev. E. M, Brown, D,D., Bridge port; Rev, Louis F. Berry Stamford.
 The committee has sent to every minister in the state circulars setting forth the objects and accomplish ments of the league and also the fol- lowing letter:
 Dear Brother; We write to inform you that at Stamford, on November 20, certain ministers and laymen from seven adjacent towns met in the First Congregational church to consider the aGyisabiity of organizing at once g State Anti-Saloon league in Connec- tlcut. General Superintendent Pur- Icy A. Baker had been requested to be present.
 "Dr. Baker stated fully the plans and methods of the league, An unanimous vote was taken, declaring State branch of the Anti-Saloon league be organized in Connecticut at once. The undersigned were appoint ed to make a call for delegates from every church in the state to initiate the league.
 Now, therefore, you are requested to be present yourself as pastor, with one representative layman from your church, at the Y. M. C. A. hall in New Haven, on Wednesday, December 16, at D. m, to Join In an antl-saoon convention, during which the league shall be formally launched,
 one or more of the national ofl- cers of the league will be present, to officially inaugurate the movement. The wonderful growth and efficiency of the Anti-Saloon league through out the whole country makes it in- dspensable that we have a strong auxiliary in our state, and you and your church will desire to be connect ed with 1t from it's genesis here"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10

Histng of gold coin and standard silver dollars held for the redemption of cor- tihcates and notes for which they were respectively pledged, Increased SS9,- l 100000 during tho year,
 The monetary stock for the year in- creased $283, 203 O0O The growth in gold was $l5l,74f,391 In silver Sl19l9S9o' national bank notes S94545,22L At the same time there was a decrease of SL- 006 000. At tho close of the fiscal year 1908 the money in circulation amounted to S3,08S Ol6, 4SS, or per capita of S34l2, The percentage of gold to circulation was S4595. There was an increase or S94, 545, ,227 in the volume of national bank notes during the fiscal year clos cd July last
 The amount of interest bearing debt on June 30, 1907, ls shown to have been $934, 9o2, 760 and on June 30, 1908, SS97- 503,99O
 The receipts from internal revenue taxes for the fiscal year 1908 were S25l,- I'll, 126, a net decrease from 1907 of S7,- e65, SAG The customs receipts for the same period amounted to $2S6 1l313O, a decrease for the year Of about S46, 000 0OO
 Easing his figures on the estimates of appropriations already submitted by the several executive departments, the secretary Is of the opinion that the ex- cess of expenditures over receipts for the fiscal year ending June 9O 1910, may reach st43 6,796,
 The secretary estimates the deficit for the present fiscal year as $l14,000,- O00
 On the subject of the revision of the tariff the secretary says the new ad- ministration Is pledged to a fair and reputable revision. The necessities of the government should be guide, at least in part, to the measure and char acter of the revision.
 Regarding currency reform the report says:
 The increase Tn our population, the development of industry, both national and international present problems which cannot be solved by a blind ad- herence to all the details of a system which, though in many ways well , adapted to our requirements and Of great service to our people, as 1t has been, was yet primarily the outgrowth of the exigencies of a time Of civil strife The changed conditions call for notifications of the existing system, or for the ultimate establishment, if it can De safeguarded SO as to keep 1t ouI of the domain of politics on the one hand and the control of great moneyed Interests on the other of a central in- stituton of issue and reserve.
 What Is essentially a question of finance is embodied in the proposition to establish postal savings banks II 1t Is decided to establish such a system the condition under which 1t is put In operation should be made to harmon ize fully with the general ilnancia operations of the government
 "The recent currency measure has served useful purpose and will b' available until the recommendations of the commission can De considered and acted upon But we have had un fortunate experiences in our past fin Iancia disturbances and though theli recurrence may at this time appear tc be thing of the distant future VI should not be satisfied with what is os sentially a temporary measure, how ever satisfactory 1t may be as such.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10
Mems Suspenders, 19c.

Lisle thread suspenders, kid ends, silk stitched button holes, nickel buckles, each pair in pretty gift box; 25c value. At 19c box.
 Holiday Neckwear, 25c to S1.0O.
 All the right colors, neat satin effects in figures and stripes, also French scarfs or flowing end ties of heavy silk. At 25c to $1.00 each.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10

lerrors and low water was presumably unknown.
 Then man came hewng nation out of the roughness of a great continent He cut the timber to build himself a home, which was proper; but, unwilling to use with moderation tho treasures
The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-10

reservoirs which held back the mois- lure from the heavens and permitted H to seep gradually into the stream and descend in a more or less steady fashion t1 the sea, the volume of water not varying greatly from season to season. Flood times, if there were any, had few