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The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-05
Editorial Gleanines.

TO A "PLoWING match" out in Illinois,
month or SO ago. 5000 came; and the farm
ers-men who own big prairie farms-bucked
down to the task of blowing half-acre of land
just as well as they could. Such contests would
be well worth while here in the South. One of
our greatest needs is more knowledge of how to
do the fundamental work OF farming and truer
appreciation of what it is worth to do it we'll We
are altogether too tolerant Of spshod work; and
until the farmer himself learns how to do farm
work, and do 1t we'll, it is sheer folly for him to
expect good work of the "triiing negroes" he en-
ploys.
Replying to the old cry that the parcels post
would be socialistic. the Atlanta Constitution apply
says:
'If the principle of parcels post is So
c1alistic, then the Government is already COM
mtted to 1t, none the less. For long time
the patron OF the mails has been able to avail
himself OF a limited parcels post service in
this country, but it is senselessy limited and
arbitrarily unjust contrasted with interna-
tonal parcels post facilities You can not
mail for delivery in this country package
weighing more than four pounds. You can
NAL IN THIS country for foreign delivery
package weighing eleven pounds If you
wanted to send eleven pounds in this country
M
ply with the law, it would even then cost
your -FOUR cents pound more than to send
~ 10 the outposts OF Germany or Austria
II an eleven-pound maximum parcels post at
Twelve cents pound is good for other coun-
tries and between the United States and 9TH
er countries, it is good for our own Nation"
Inis Will be my first Christmas away from
nome" writes Editor Poe in a note just received,
and II any readers of The Progressive Farmer
ana Gazette wish to play Santa Claus for me in
THIS rar-away continent by sending me postal
caro- or note, 1t goes without saying that shall be
very glad indeed to hear from them, entirely re-
CARELESS OF whether know them personally or
not. Undoubtedly many readers will wish to
send Just such greetings to Mr.. Poe, and in order
10 reach him in time, any letters or postals of
this sort should be mailed at once-before No
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-05
A Thought for the Week.

NHE PERSON who lives on the labor o, 9TH
ers, not giving himself In return to tho hest
or MS ability. Is really a consumer OF hui
ii@m ire ana therefore no better than a cannibal
Gilbert Hubbard
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-05

hustler, came to the STAFF OF
The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette November /. Mr.. Mar
tin will be Advertising Man
ager of the Starkville edition
and travelling representative
in this territory. He Is a ma
tive OF Arkansas, having been
born at Little Rock, where his
ancestors started the Arkan-
sas Gazette in 1919, so that
he comes by his newspaper as
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-05
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE.
Our New Advertising Man.

AIR. J. A. MARTIN, Memphis Tenn, who has
III during the last several years been employ
ed on the weekly News-Scimitar and its
successor, the Southern Farm Advocate, as adj
vertising solicitor editor and general all-round
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-05

TEN WEEKS TRIAL ONLY TEN CENTS.
To only Progressive and Gazette
VIII b sent weeks trial for copy
Tell yoar friends who but do not read it.
The wageworker., 1910-12-30
SHROPE IS FIFTY-FIVE.
Easton Unicnist Passes the Half
Century Mark.

Marquis DeLafayette Shrope,
editor of the Easton, (Pa.,) Labor
Journal, celebrated his fifty-fifth
anniversary on December 10. The
Wageworker acknowledges the
receipt of a handsome souvenir
of the occasion, the same being a
replica of the Marquis smiling
phiz and some verses that sound
really like poetry
Here's hoping that Marquis
DeLafayette Shrope will live at
least another half-century. His
like is all too scarce. He radiates
good nature and sheds trouble
like a duck sheds water. A quar-
ter of a century ago he "pirated"
along the Missouri river and set
type alongside some of the old
''swifts" of those days. Now he
has long since settled down and
is making money so fast he has
to hire a cashier to add up the
days receipts. All this is, of
course, cheering to the Marquis
and pleasant news to his friends
Here's our hand, old boy May
you send 'em for many long
year to come, and may we be
here all the time to receive 'em.
The wageworker., 1910-12-30

taries. superintendents and eN-
perts were all joined with the
underpaid women and girls, and
the result was a fine average
wage. Just like this: General
Manager Holdrege of the Bur
lington receives a wage of s1s,-
900 a year. The section hand re-
ceives a wage of $3.50 a year. The
average wage of the two is So
1s5 year. That's a mighty
good average. The trouble is
that the section hand misses the
average by SS,Ss5 year. But
the average, mind you, is $9,1s5
The factory inspector who
made the report is now up against
an investigation into his official
actions, and the pretty little re-
port that he cooked up in order to
land a fat contract for his son
has been made to look silly in
the glare of publicity.
The wageworker., 1910-12-30
ANOTHER POST SCHEME.
Battle Creek Food Foundryman
Caught Once More.

Some months ago Charles w.
Post, purveyor of predigested
preparations for pallid people
printed glowing report from a
Michigan factory inspector,
showing according to the in
spector's figures that Post paid
the highest average wages of any
similar institution in the state,
etc, etc, ad lib and ad nauseuml.
1t made fine showing for Post
and his products.
1t has all been Explained. The
factory inspector who made the
report has son, and that son is
in the electrical appliance bust
ness. Post needed a report boil
stering up his claims. The fac
tory inspectors son needed a nice
contract for installing electrical
appliances. Post gave the son a
fat little contract. The son s
father gave Post nice little
boost.
Wasn't it just too lovely? Now
it is disclosed that the factory in
spector arrived at his average
wage by including everybody
connected with the factory except
its officers. Managers, secre-
The wageworker., 1910-12-30
complaints were filed about ten
years ago and the witnesses have
disappeared.
STARTLING STATISTICS.
Awful Toll E<acted by Greed
From Amer, can Mother
hood.

According to Census Director
Durand's announcement, Fall
River. Mass. lcs the heaviest
death rate of any city in the
United States deaths
per one Thousand inhabitants. as
against fifteen deaths per one
thousand for the country as a
whole This unusually large
death rate is du>. the director
claims. to an abnormal mortality
among Fall River children, caused
by the factory system. Greater
number of women are employed
during long hours every day,
with the result that the children
of the tired mothers are handi-
capped, many more of them dy-
ing than would be the case under
different conditions"
1t is hardly necessary to add
anything to this statistical argu-
rnent against the evils. of capital
ism.
The first dutv-the supreme
duty-of government is the de-
velopment of manhood and wo-
manhood.
The Citizen takes no delight in
exposing the evils of capitalism.
1t much prefers commentator to
oensure. But the public must be
made to see the horror, the awful
ness. of a system that not only
degrades manhood and woman
hood. but shortens and destroys
life itself.
There is but one remedy, and
that is constructive
democracy-which would utilize
government and industry and
everything protective and pro-
ductive for the good of all the
people.-Los Angeles Citizen. >
The wageworker., 1910-12-30
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.

The Typographical Union will
meet Sunday afternoon at 2
O'Clock, it being the first meeting
of the new year and on the first
day of the year. A large attend
ance is desired merely to set a
precedent for the remainder of
the year One important item of
business is the selection of the
locals director upon the Labor
Temple Association board.
The wageworker., 1910-12-30
BRIEF LABOR BITS.
Small Chunks of News Succinctly
Presented.

laide. Australia. are on strike for
IS. per day.
The Knights of Labor held
convention in ashington. D. c.,
recently. at which thirty-four del
egates were present.
The strike of the taNioab ohauf-
feurS in New York ended on De-
cember 5. The men voted to ac-
cept the proposal submitted by
the taNicab companies.
The recent convention of the
Building Trades Department of
the American Federation of La
Dor suspended the Steam Filters
and Carpenters unions.
The BARRIERS Union of San
Francisco has inaugurated an ag-
itation for the adoption of the
Kansas law for the regulation of
sanitary conditions in. barber
shops of California.
Fined $4,000 for violating the
Sherman Antitrust Act. the I'm
perial Glass company has issued
a statement that it would reduce
the wages of its employees pro-
portionately.
Fifty thousand garment work
ers and their sympathizers
marched in Chicago on Decem-
Der in the largest strike demon
stration made in that city. since
the teamsters and freight hand
lers' strike five years ago.
The Ministers Union of Sacra-
mento, Cal. is arranging an in
terchange of speakers between
the churches and the labor organ
izations. believing that mutual
advantage, instruction and gain
will be the result.
Oregon. by referendum vote.
has adopted the most radical
Employers Liability law in the
country. 1t practically abol-
ishes the "fellow-servant," as
sumed risk" and ''contributory
negligence" rules of the court.
Men and boys employed in Los
Angeles. Cal, by the Western
Union Telegraph and the Ameri-
can District Telegraph companies
as strike-breakers, quit work on
December s when their wages
were cut from S5 day to cents
message.
A oommissary system on a
large scale has been organized
by the Chicago Federation of La
Dor, working in cooperation with
the Women's Trade Union
League. for the relief of the needy
among the striking garment
workers.
James A. Schofield, formerly
business agent of District Is of
the International Association of
Machinists in New York City, is
suing the international officials
for $4,000 damages. The cause
of the action arises from alleged
slanderous remarks made by one
of the vice presidents.
Several cases involving a viola
ton of the Alien Contract Labor
laws were dismissed in the Fed
eral courts at San Francisco on
Doce,nhar e on tho Ground tL,t
The wageworker., 1910-12-30

Capital Auxiliary No. IL to
Lincoln Typographical Union
No. 2O9 meets every second and
fourth Wednesdays at the
Labor Temple.
MRS. FRED w. NICKEL,
5000 U st. Secy-Treas.
The wageworker., 1910-12-30

The different mortar trades un-
ions in Washington will hereaf-
ter work in close harmony with
the State Federation of Labor, al
though not actually connected
with it. A. special legislative
committee will be kept at Olym-
pia to work for industrial bills
along with representative of the
State Federation of Labor.
Three daily papers in Streator,
Ill, were completely tied up in
consequence of the demands OF
the typographical artists. All the
allied trades went out.
The wageworker., 1910-12-30
MONEY LOANED

On household goods, pianos. hos-
ses, etc. long or short time, No
charge for papers No interest
In advance. No publicity or IL
papers, We guarantee better
ter ms than others make. Money
paid immediately. COLUMBIA
LOAN co. 127 South 18th.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
BUSY SESSION
rs IN PROSPECT

Members of the city council are
looking forward to strenuous time to-
morrow night when the regular SEES
sion is to be held. The calendar has
been well filled with questions of i'm
portance during the past two weeks,
embracing everything from protests
against the opening of First street to
a petition to change the name of Gar
den street to University street. The
question of securing rock from the
Milton quarry may come up for action
tomorrow evening, as we'll as the ques-
ton of maintaining in regular service
the chamical apparatus to be replaced
by the new fire auto The street COM
mittee will report favorably upon many
improvements that have been petitioned
for, and will hear protests from prop
erty owners in assessment districts.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
Trains Running
On Both Roads

Local trains of the Northern Pa
cific company are running almost on
schedule today, no inconvenience be-
cause of wash having been ex-
perienced. The only interruption of
traffic was on the main lines, near
Mesa, where a small wash out occur
ed. Trains are now being operated be-
tween Kennewick and Spokane over
the line of the S. p. & S. and it is
said the main line of the Northern
Pacific will be open tonight.
No trains north We're operated by
the O. R. & n. company today al
though the Pendleton line is reported
in good condition. The Portland train
will leave on time tonight, and it is
thought by local railroad men that
further damage by high water is i'm
probable, unless an unusual rain fol-
lows the thaW.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
HUGHES PASSED
BY FIRE BOYS

Albert Hughes, the SeagrayeS eX-
fire station this week, instructing the
fire laddies in the manipulation OF
the machine, is receiving his first real
touch of life as fire fighter Until
the regular firemen are confident that
they can handle the auto, Hughes Will
be on duty, answering all alarms re-
ceived In order that he might be
able to roll out of bed and be at his
post of duty in time for action with
other members of the company, if the
alarm be received at night, Hughes
has been given a course or practice
in tumbling from the downy feather,
sliding down the pole and starting the
engine of the combination.
The laddies expected to have some
exceptional sport at the expsense of
the expert the other night when
Hughes was given his first try-out,
but he turned the tables when two of
the regulars who accompanied him in
the practice were bested in the op-
Grafton. -
According to the timers, it took
Hughes just nine seconds to tumble
out of bed, don his garments and
reach the seat of the auto. He was
first down the pole, the regulars hav-
ing failed to show up until the expert
had started his engines. The boys are
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
PERSONAL

j. T. Anderson of Prescott, spent
the weeks end in the city on business
C. r. Weiss of Prescott, was in the
city yesterday.
c. B. Kegley of Palouse, is in the
city today on business.
c. G. Olson is over from Athena, at
tending business
HI. Simpson was in town from Athe
ma, attending business.
H. Simpson was in town yesterday
from Prescott.
w. Goodman of Burbank is in the
| city today.
Robert R. Becl1ham. was over again
/ from Pendleton yesterday.
Gus Booras of Spokane, is a business
visitor in the city today
r. NJ. Logan of Dayton, is in the
city today.
| 7. Sloan of Athena, is in town on
business
V. c. Willaby of Athena, spent Sun
| day visiting in the city.
D. T. Stone was over from Athena
Yesterday on business.
A. NJ Cummings of Alfalfa, is in the
city today.
w. A. Younger spent Sunday in the
city from Dayton.
H D. Eldridge and wife of Dixie are
in the city today.
Miss Rose Davenport spent Sunday
| with relatives in Dixie.
Miss Juanlta Carmichael teacher in
the county schools at Dixie, returned
home this morning from two days
visit in the city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
Mace Is Two Towns.

Mace, according to w Crowley, OF
that city who is now stopping at the
Palace hotel, is city of 500 souls and
is the point of operation for the Fed
eral Mining company. The city is di-
vided into two towns, Upper and Low
er Mace and according to Mr. Crow
ley's description it must have been
lower Mace that is the scene of the
catastrophe. Crowley says that
the mines are known as the Standard
and that all the employees, about 800
in al are mostly single and live in
Hotel Standard He said: 1.-The boys
would all be asleep at the time the
slide occurred and they would be all
to Mr. Crowley Gem is a little town on
the same side OF the river about a mile
below the destroyed hamlet. He fur
Their stated that Mace was the scene
of a enowslide several years ago when
four men lost their lives. Mr.. Crowley
also said the canyon was very narrow
and if all the snCw on the towering
mountains came in the slide, the city
would be buried mile under the mass.
Crowley has no relatives in the city
and has not been there himself since
last Christmas. He reported the snow
very deep. The citizens of, Mace have
always feared disastrous snow slide.
II have some very dear friends in that
little town though" said the fortunate
tourist, land it grieves me very much
that such a catastrophe should befalf
the place"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
COSTS MONEY
TO RUN BY TAFT
tinued From Page One)

continued rage OHe)
er loses an opportunity tc create new
offices. During the first session OF
the sixtieth congress there were Great
ed 1852 new offices, and the raise OF
salaries, together with the pay of the
new officers, amounted to $21,1S3,-
i25O. During the second session of the
sixtieth congress there were created
3,S77 new offices, and salaries Wert
again raised, totaling an additional ex-
pense of $780,, 0395O.
In the last eight years $70,00O,0OO
of increase in expense was due to the
addition of 99,225 federal office hold
ers. The present standing army of the
United States numbers only $4,000
men, The increase in office holders
partially explains why the per capita
expense is more than $12 annually in
stead of IS, as in 1900
The growing trend of our govern
ment toward mlitarism is also fac
tor in increased expenditures. Just a
few years ago the annual appropria
ton for the navy was less than s25.-
O00, 900; last year it had grown to the
enormous sum of $13G,935,1 1919. In 1891
we appropriated for the maintenance
of the army $242O6,410; last year the
amount was SOL, 197, 40. The worst
of it is the army and navy appropria :
tions are not parcelled out to the sec
lions where most needed, from an i'm
martial military standpoint. Millions
go to navy yards that first-class bat
tleships can not enter, such as Senator
Perkins Mare Island navy yard and
Senator Hales Portsmouth navy yard.
No first class battleship has even been
ahIe to reach Mare Island, and experts
saw that in time of war it will be use
less owing to the shallow approach
es. But Perkins is an ally OF Aldrlctl,
and he declares he will have more nil
lions spent on Mare Island each year
The Portsmouth navy yard, although In
Newhampshire, is one the main line.
Hale has filled the yard with his con-
stituents. Portsmouth is also a oad
harbor for big, modern ships, but Haze
met that. problem by resisting the
building of battleships bigger than H.
600 tons displacement. Thus he he'd
back naval progress for years
The president does not share In the
establishment of a new record TOT eH-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
CORPORATION LAW
TO TAKE EFFECT

Secretary a. c. Moore, of the Com
mercial club, this morning received
telegram from w. C.. Cabell, of New
York city, stating that he had just re-
turned from a ten days stay in the ma
tional capital, and had exhausted all
efforts to postpone the operation of the
federal corporation tax law, which rs
now before the supreme court. The
Walla Walla Commercial club, through
representatives in Washington, had
urged the postponement of the opera
ton of the law until the supreme
court had rendered a decision, but the
wire received today indicates that this
delay cannot be secured.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
The College Sono.

To hear ones own Glee club sing
the dearly beloved song of his Alma
Mater must need send thrill of love
and devotion through the heart, es-
pecially after having grown "old and
rusty on college life. The w. S.
c. club, following the manner of the
Eastern club are singing this year,
their we'll known, but ever popular
college song, THE Crimson and the
Gray" After hearing such num-
Der, one feels his Very soul thrill anew
with longing for the old times of col
lege life, and the joys and care-free
dom of those days. This spirit pre-
walls throughout in the programs OF
the Washington State College Glee
They will appear in Walla Walla I'M
der the auspices of the Whitman col
lege Glee club in the Keylor Grand, OF
Friday, March 4.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
FIRE AUTO
MADE GOOD



Walla ETalIa streets. and Wnen unac-
companied by regular fireman, is
handicapped to a great extent as was
the case this morning
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning a
still alarm from box ia at Clinton and
Alder streets was turned in, ana
Hughes made the run in a little less
than three minutes His work in get
ting out of the bathtub this morning
and starting the auto has brought him
some high compliments from the regu-
lars. who say they will yet make q
thoroughbred fire Fighter out of the lit
tie Englishman.
Further tests are to be made TINS
week. in order that the machine may
have a fair try-out; long distance runs
are the only means of determining just
what the new apparatus is capable OF,
and boxes in the suburbs may be
pulled in the next two or three days
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
Fighting Against
Sunday Offerings

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-The Brook
Ign Excise league, which has done eff
fective work in obtaining evidence
against saloonkeepers in Brooklyn and
which is contemplating a national or
ganization, held their annual meeting
clergymen in the country, are trying
to get law enforced which will make
the police and city magistrates held
responsible by the mayor for failure
to make arrests where Sunday viola
tions occur in saloons.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-28
New Repair Shop.

d. Aef rancls, who has been in the
employ of WI H. Meyer for the past -
years mas opened bicycle repairing
establishment at 30 East Alder straat
and VIII attend ii all orders promptly
ana In Workmanlike manner. Mr.
LeFrancis will carry in stock a com
pieee ine OF new machines and sun
dries, and having had years of exper-
renee Is In a position to guarantee
first-class work and satisfaction with
all orders