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One Of the most curious Pie.
nomena Of modern industrialisrn il
that Of overproduction. It is hard
for the average person to con.
ceive of a superabundance Of food
clothing, and other articles at the
same time that thousands are
starving, freezing, and existing
only in the midst Of the most
shameful conditions.
Yet such is the structure of the
present social organization that
while warehouses and storage
plants are filled to OVERLOOKING
with every sort of commodity
men and women and children, HUI
man beings if you please, in every
city and village. in our land are
suffering for want Of daily susten-
ance. There is a famine at the
same time there is plenty.
The explanation of this paradox
ought to be simple for the man
who thinks-honestly. Could this
phenomenon Of. overproduction
exist, for instance, if the wage
Garner, the individual who pro-
duces wealth received in return
for bis labor a fair proportion of
that which he produced!
The real fault lies in the fact
that the workingman is unable to
buy back, on account of made
quate remuneration, all that is
created by him, and consequently
each day surplus is accumulated
to be stored away while men
starve.
Such, moreover, must forever
continue to be the case until work.
ingmen, conscious of their econ
omic power, unite to make it
otherwise.-The Observer, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
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JUST THE POSITION OF
TRADE UNI0N1sM

"There are colossal fortunes,
and there are depths Of poverty.
There are those who know not
what to do with their wealth,
and those who have to cry out
for a mere pittance to keep body
and soul together There is
serious need of reform, but it must
come through legitimate channels,
not by principles which are **sub-
versive to personal integrity, do
mestic integrity and national in
tegrity.'
miriam ~.Acr@Nv
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woman. People become more and
more burdened with the accum-
ulations Of knowledge and with
the weighing responsibilities Of
life, but they should still spare
time to laugh.-Ex.
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FATHER GASSON.

Mayor Cullum s communication
to the city council relative to GER
tain revelations made in the Min
ME Goodman trial has the right
ring, and it is hoped the council
will do it's full duty in the pre-
misses, now that the facts are
clearly before it,.
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FAIRGROUNDS.

People everywhere are begin
ming to realize that public play
grounds for the children are the
best investment a city can make.
One hundred and ninety-five
American cities have under way
the establishment Of Fairgrounds
for children during the year. As
many more are contemplating
taking up the matter as soon as
they get to it,
1t is hopeful outlook. It
shows what can be accomplished
in this country with a little agi7
tation. A few years ago when a
city or two look up the matter
of Fairgrounds, comparatively
few people considered the matter
seriously. 1t was considered a
sort of impracticable fad. Today
no serious-minded person doubts
the wisdom Of establishing play
grounds, and the only trouble any
city has in establishing them is
raising the money. They no longer
have to oppose a hostile public
opinion.
People are finding that children
must be provided for; that it is
not just to anybody to bring chill
dren into the world, with never
a spot Of ground they can call
their own. They are not wanted
IN the house; they are too noisy.
They cannot be tolerated at the
office; they are in the way. They
must not be allowed to play upon
the lawns; they destroy the grass.
Besides, everybody hasn't a lawn.
If they play on the streets, they
are run over by vehicles-and
that costs money. So there is
nothing left to be done but to
purchase lots and establish pub.
lie Fairgrounds, where the chill.
dren of the neighborhood may
find youthful sport that is as ne.
cessary to a well-developed child
as food and air.
So, we, are getting around to
| the point where we are establish.
ing these needs for the children
to the point where we begin tc
realize our responsibilities to the
offspring. In fact, we are getting
to that point Of enlightenment
where we are understanding that
every child in the city belongs tc
every person in the city, in the
meaning that every child is goine
to have an effect and an Influence
upon the whole community. It i.
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UNFAIR EMPLOYER.

UNFAIR EMPLOYER.
The unfair employer-the man
to whom no obligation is sacred
and who is ever on the alert to
to take advantage Of his business
rival and his employees curse
and a detriment to any commun-
ity.
If all employers were fair and
would act on the square, there
would be few strikes or lockouts.
Well paid workmen are the real
backbone of community, and it
is the amount Of money in circu-
lation paid out as wages that
gauges the prosperity Of a town
or city.
The tactics of the dishonest en-
ployer not only work to the de-
triment of the wage Garner, but
disarrange business and help to
bring on and perpetuate hard
times. If employers would get
together, meet the representatives
Of the union and agree to pay a
mutually satisfactory rate Of
wages, instead of trying to cut
one another's Threats, there would
be no need for any Of them to
gain dishonest advantage by re-
ducing wages.
The living wage is the basis Of
prosperity. 1t is the unfair and
INSCRIPTIONS employer who
causes trouble, and is a curse to
any community.
The old barons of the Middle
Ages used in general the thumb
screw to extort property; we mo-
derns use, in preference, hunger
or domestic affliction; but the
fact of extortion remains precise
ly the same.
Whether we force the man g
property from him by pinching
his stomach or pinching his fin
gers, makes some difference an
atomically; morally, none what
ever; we use the form Of torture
of some sort in order to make
him give up his property; we use,
indeed, the man own anxieties,
instead Of the rack; and his i'm
mediate peril of starvation, in
stead Of the pistol at his head !;
but otherwise we differ from
Front de Boeuf, or Dick Turpin,
merely in being less dexterous,
more cowardly and more cruel.
More cruel, I say, because the
fierce baron and the redoubted
highwaymen are reported to have
robbed, at least by preference,
only the rich; we steal habitually
from the poor. -
We buy our liveries and gild
our prayer books with the pill
fered pence, and thus ingeniously
dispose given quantity Of theft,
so that it may produce the larg-
est possible measure of delicately
distributed suffering.-John Rus
kin.
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"The determining principle in
fixing the standard of life should
be the discovery Of the minimum
needed to maintain full effici-
ency.'
Ill fortune never crushed the
man whom good fortune deceived
not-Johnson
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MAYOR CULLUM'S ADDRESS

MAYOR CULLUM' 5 ADDRESS.
We have read with much in
terest, and a pardonable degree Of
pride in it's rhetorical excellence,
his Honor Mayor Cullum S address
before the 6 o clock club of Supe-
rior.
He paid some will merited COM
pliments to the personnel of the
aldermen and administrative en-
ploves of both cities, and argued
in substance that certain infirm-
tiles of our present system were
due to our having a municipal
government by a board of alder
men instead Of a government by
board of commissioners.
We ourself, are but a mere
student of the commission form
of city government, and his hon.
or's arguments in support there
of we have considered with great
care.
With his usual methodical man.
ner he enumerates the objections
to the present system seriatum.
The first Of his objections re-
fers to a case Of alleged "1ogroll.
ing" between certain Duluth AID
ermen, whereby London Road in
the First ward got a much needed
resurfacing, and the Eighth ward
had a number of it's dangerous
bridges fortified and strength
ened.
Is there a fallacy lurking here
that has eluded his honor We
think there is. There is certainly
no moral turpltude involved in
agreeing to assist another, in con-
sideration Of receiving assistance
from him, when the objects sought
to be attained by both men are
honorable and praiseworthv, as
was the fact in the instance refer
red to by the mayor. Combinations
are censurable only when their
purpose is to accomplish disrepu-
table ends, and a. board of COM
mlssloners is no more proof
against such possibility than
is a board Of aldermen. Its the
character Of the men and not their
names of office that counts.
His second objection to the pre-
sent system is, that council men
are frequently recruited from the
workers, such as blacksmiths. ci-
garmakers, carpenters, etc.. and
that their position in the council
increases their prestige as trades
men. Perhaps this is so, and per-
haps it is not. Our own observa-
ton has been that it is not. We
have known more trades men to
ruin their business by going in
to politics. than we ever knew
were benefited by it.
But if the statement were true,
it applies with no greater force
to cigar makers or carpenters
than it does to dentists, lawyers,
bankers etc.
We have not overlooked the in
situation in the mayors address
that trades people as aldermen
are susceptible to improper influ-
ences. If the mayor meant just
that, it is unfortunate for his
statement that the history and ex-
. perience of every American city
and Legislative body in the land
flatly contradicts it.
F. We are quite reluctant to be-
], lieve that the mayor is advocat-
ing commission plan of govern
1nent just to keep working men
from holding legislative and ad-
n1inistrative offices. and turning
over all such positions to repres.
entatives of the big interests, al
though that is the clear inference
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10 KNOW something about it.
Yours Respectfully,
P. J. M.
Answer: We are not we'll in
formed with regard to the order
about which you inquire. The fol-
lowing are it's declaration of prin-
ciples:
"This brotherhood is founded
upon the splendid principles. pur-
ity, aid and progress and is de-
signed to bind civilized mankind
close together with bonds of fra
ternal love, and to teach great
truths, which have for their pur-
poses the elevation Of society.
The aims and purposes of the
Loyal Order of Moose are to in
spire lofty sentiments relative to
humanity's welfare.
Religious and political rights
are fully recognized by the teach
ings of the order, but questions
and references of a political or
sectarian nature find no place
within it's sacred precincts, and
are forbidden within it's portals.
"He that loveth his brother
abideth in the light, but, he that
hateth his brother abideth in deep
darkness
DR.. John D. O 'Brien of st. Paul
is one of it's past supreme officers.
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NEAR SCIENTIST.

Answer: We are not Informed
as to the matter about which you
inquire, but will quote from a
New York paper on the subject,
and the article may give you the
information you desire.
For the first time the official
head of the Christian Science
church has decided to give volun-
tary help to it's practitioners when
prosecuted by public Officers.
Aroused by the action Of the
Medical society of the county Of
New York, which has charged two
prominent *'Scientists'' with lille
gal practice of medicine, the
Christian Science board of direc-
tors Of Boston have retained Sam
uel Untermeyer Of this city to de-
fend their practice of healing.'
Heretofore; it is said, the church
has given only unofficial advice
and assistance to it's members.
k The two practitioners against
whom cases are pending in the
New York courts are Willis Yer
non Cole and Wentworth Byron
Winslow, both of whom are re-
gistered in the Christian Science
Sentinel as qualified practitioners
Mrs. Frances Benzecry, an agent
of the Medical society, is the COM
planning witness in both eases.
The case. against Cole is await
ing trial in the court Of central
sessions. Winslow's is to be
heard in the efferson market po-
Ice court on April %.
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The Minnesota. legislature
could have granted no greater IA
vor to the despoilers of their con-
stituencies than to have defeated
the initiative and referendum.
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If every union man should con-
stitute himself an organizer and
should give one evening of each
week to organization, if he should
single out one non-union neigh
Dor or acquaintance and persist
in an effort to organize that man,
what a short time it would take
to unionize all the workers of our
country! And if all were organ
lied how much less difficult it
would be to secure higher wages.
shorter hours and better condi-
tions Of life and labor John
Mitchell.
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A man joins a labor union and
strikes for it and fights for it if
need be, for the very reason that
the union is the surest guarantee
that he will secure work, and,
best Of all, living wages. The
most industrious, the. most loyal,
the most competent workmen are
to be found in the labor unions
for the reason that the union Of
fers them the protection and in
centive to work and get ahead
that can not be found in going it
alone on their own accord.
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~ Duluth. Mimi, April 49,. 1911.5
TO the Editor Labor n lorld 90, 81
.= What do you know about the IS.
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Trouble makes you acquainted
with a number Of poole who are.
really worth while. 81
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called Loyal Order of Moose?" 7
have been urged to join it, but want
to know something about it.
Yours Respectfully,
P. J. M
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Our Question Box

column % appertatn in 4 more or le1, a..
re- TO the good and welfare Of our read.
ors questions strictly sectarian in nature
consigned to tho waste basket or reformed -
sne oueeuoner. - = due sense Il propriety
Duluth, Minn.. April II. 1911.
Editor Labor World:
Does the Christian Science church,
as an organization aid or defend it's
healing practitioners when prosecut-
ed for alleged practice of medicine ?
Or, is each practitioner expected to
bear the expense of his or her own
defense?
NEAR SCIENTIST
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am pleased to recommend
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best thing know of and safest rem
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Trjhes Accentahla.

Briggs-I have made a will leaving
my brain to the hospital and just got
an acknowledgment from the authori-
ties. Lofty-Were they well pleased?
briggs-They wrote that every little
helps.-American Family Journal.
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~NAAONE>
STRUGGLING TO KEEP AFLoAr

STRUGGLING TO KEEP AFLoAT.
generous. impulsive man with an alb
normal sense of honor. He had FIVE
sons and one daughter. In such cases
the daughter is the virtual sovereign
Of the family. Anita lie Grand ruled
first her father and then every one that
her father ruled. She was in every
respect chip of the old block. So
tender hearted was she that she found
herself in perpetual state Of char
table bankruptcy.
The time came when this defect. II
it may be called a defect. In Miss lie
Grand's character was bound to show
itself in her choice Of a husband. When
she was sixteen it was said of her
that she would soon make some young
man very happy or very miserable.
When she was seventeen she was max
ing several young men both happy
and miserable. When she was eight
cen every gentleman bachelor was her
sutton. and at nineteen she was in
extricably involved with half a dozen
applicants for her hand.
won't you try to love met" one of
these suit0rs would plead.
"Yes; Ill try"
He went away happy, and another
took his place.
III you don't love me my life will be
wrecked"
"Oh. don't talk like that. I'll do the
best | can"
IF you won't be mine." said third,
Il shall SO home and bullet will end
ALL"
lob. dear! Give me time to think
about it."
Since every one Of these suitors went
away magnifying his chances and each
came eventually to look upon himself
as the favored one. 1t was not long
before Miss lie Grand was in a state
of encouragement to each one Of
these young men. Indeed. she saw her
self on the brink of a state of betroth-
al bankruptcy similar to those chart
table crises over which her father had
often tided her. But unfortunately for
her the kind man could not save her
from multiplicity Of suitors True.
since she went to him for succor in all
her necessities. she laid this betrothal
muddle before him. The colonel took
the matter under advisement. Anita
gave him list OF the young men who
claimed that she had encouraged them,
though there was really NO more en-
above named responses to their plead.
ings. The list embraced the most de.
sirable parts among the neighboring
plantations.
what" said Colonel lie Grand to
himself. Albert, the son of my old
friend Wharton! My little girl could
not do better. II she Is pledged to
him she must keep her word. His
father is the soul of honor. and my
daughter must be scrupulously honor
able with his son. Young Fitz-War-
rem. the sole heir to one Of the finest
plantations in the south: Rutledce!
Winterton. All fine fellows. Every
man an honorable gentleman. But
here's one I'm not so certain about.
Dick Abercrombie. Too much gun
powder in him. He's fought two duels.
True. by one Of them he got rid Of
fellow who was trying to ruin his
younger brother BY gambling. would
not mind him II 1t weren't that he will
surely get himself killed in some fash.
lon and leave my little girl a widow.
They call him Mad Dick Abercrombie.
and he's well named. No. he won't
do at all. Still. be must be treated
hon0rably."
The e0loners next move was to call
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Ladies' Society to b. of l.. F. & E.
Glacier Lodge. No. $50. Meets in
Masonic hall. first and third Sat
urday afternoons in each month
Mrs. Carrie Green. President; Mrs
Annie Picket. secretary.
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A Hard Bird.

Customer-What sort Of chicken do
you call this? Waiter-That, sir. is, l
believe, Plymouth Rock. Customer
All! I'm glad it has some historic in.
terest. I thought it was just an ordi-
nary cobblestone.
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Amatrirnonial'
Tangle
And the Remarkable
Manner In Which II
Was Unraveled
BY ALLAN G. LAMOND
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.
BY ALLAN G. LAMOND
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1911.

In the olden times when there were
but three classes in the southern
states. the planter. the poor white and
the negro, the planter was a sort Of
patriarchal governor and his family
were his deputies. Each plantation
was a small community. and when the
patriarch was kindly man the word
slavery was in some respects a mis-
homer. There was often among these
planter families q n0blesse oblige that
IL wholesome feature in any people.
While the young men and women Of
this class In the main regarded their
obligations seriously, they were prone
to impulse and often to recklessness.
All had their ideas of honor and chiv.
airy and a certain independence in
practicing them.
Colonel lie Grand Of Mississippi
called colonel by courtesy-was one Of
these community governors and by
virtue of the system prevailing at the
time in the south a small mona rch.
He was beloved by his subjects for q
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Air Movements,

The movement of air is variously
designated. according to its velocity.
as a zephyr. breeze. wind, gale or hur-
ricane. A dense or thick fog. accord
ing to the weather bureau. obscures
objects at a distance of 1000 feet.
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b. Of II. T.

Meets in Masonic hall, first and
third Thursdays in each month.
Chauncey Bryant, President, H. H.
Armstrong, Secretary; Earl Warren,
Treasurer. Meeting at 1880 p. m.
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r.. N. of A.

Friendship Camp. Meets In Mason
1c hall, first and third Wednesday
nights each month. Mrs. Bertha
Dodds. Oracle: Ella F. Thompson
Recorder.
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G. /. A. to b. of Il. T.

Summit Of the Rockies Lodge, NO.
267. Meets in Masonic hall first and
third Wednesday afternoons in each
month. Mrs. c. H. VanDyke. Presi-
dent: Mrs. r. L. LaByer, secretary.
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b. of L. e.

Van Cleve Lodge, No. 4S9. Meets
in Masonic hall. Second and fourth
Sundays. at 2 p. m. in each
month. H. T. Mayfield. Chief Engi-
neer; R. s. Eberly, Secretary.
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b. of Il. r. and n.

saltwater Lodge. No. 482. Meets
In Matthews hall first and third
Saturday afternoons In each month
at 2 p. m. Clifford Hove, President;
L. e. Clark. Secretary; o. o. Slet-
ten, Legislative Representative.
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Loyal Order Of Moose.

Loyal Order Of Moose.
Whitefish Lodge, No. e42, meets
In Masonic hall on second and fourt
Friday evening of each month. B.
F. Graves. dictator; B. E. Gibson
secretary.
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Catholic Altar Society
Meets first Thursday afternoon in
each month at the church. at 3 p
m. Mrs Sol. Picket, President; Mrs.
Carl Walters. secretary.
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M. w. A.

NJ. w. A.
Whitefish Lodge, No. II, 141. Meet
In Masonic hall, Second and fourth
Thursday nights in each month. VIM
Ferguson, Council; ]. p. Wilde,
clerk.
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Tho Whitefish

Tho Whitefish Club.
Meets first and third Thursdays o
each month In club rooms in old
bank building. Chas H. Jennings,
Prosdent: H. G. Anderson, secretary
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A. F. and A. NJ.

A. F. and A. NJ.
Whitefish Lodge, No. GA. Meets
second, fourth and fifth Tuesday
nights, in Masonic hall. J. C. Little,
w. NJ: E. L. Geddes. secretary.
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O. e. S.

O. T.. s..
Vista Chapter, No. A. Meets in
Masonic hall, first and third Monday
nights each month. Mrs. Percy f..
Dodds, w. M; Mrs. Geo. Page.
secretary.
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X. Of r.
Lakeside No. ~. Meets ever,
Thursday night in Matthews hall
c. v. Coe, c. c.; George H. Blume
K. of r. and s.
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WOman's Civic Club.
Meets first and third Fridays in
the Whitefish Club rooms at p
m. Mrs. H. A. Shoaf. President;
Miss Edna knight, Secretary.