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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-21

AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES '"p"'
New York nj Detroit
Philadelphia nj Chicago.
Washington nj II. Louis.
Boston mt Cleveland.
RESULTS OF GAMES YESTERDAY.
New Works.: Detroit, 6.
Cleveland. =; Boston. :.
Chicago. 4: philadelphia. 3.
81. Louis. 2; Washington, o.
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING.
Vt IpC W. T.. PC.
n,. 20 OK :os New York AZ 81 500
Phjla SO 80 500 Boston. 43 40 'ov"
Chicago AZ 50 SEA WashtOn 20 90 .StI
.in'."i,d a. "a XII II Iouis 90 60 Ell
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-21

Harry Groh. Of Rochester. reported "
McGraw at the Polo Grounds. yesterdal'
Groh was purchased recently by the New
York club for $1,000 He practised WIN
the team for ten or fifteen minMes I'VE.
fore the game. and drew round stter
round of applause from the spectators i"'
his snappy work at short Held.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-21
Baseball Fiebf
in Three Leagues

NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMES Io-pa''
II. Louis, 3: New York. D.
Cincinnati ut BROOKLYN. ,,,.
Chicago nj Phiiadeiphia'
RESULTS OF GAMES bEsih"'
Louis. 3: New York ..
Cincinnati. 4; brooklyn y.
Chicago. 4: philadelphia, 3;
Fittsburg. q: Boston, 3.
Pittsburg. q: Boston, D.
NArIoSAL LEAGUE STANDING.
urpCl W. PC.
phi. 40 80 6la Pittsburg. - 3. .o4s
Chicago. 30 81 o. inc,"na' 90 ~ q-o
New York 40 ~ .oSs tir"ohi!" 90 90 q, oas
st. Louis ~ ~ .SSo b"s'"" ''' =" Wv
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-30
KING CORN GOING SOUTH
How An Army OF Men Boy Farmers Are Changing
The Crops Of a Nati0><
, By FRANKG. CARPENTER

Mary's my wife, and a mighty good
wife she is, too. She leaned beside
me over the fence and we talked to
the agricultural man who was out
it, and the man begged. He was a
powerful nice man, and SO to obligs
the two l said l would do 1t.
Il put out that corn. He made me
take my old mule team and the heav-
lest ploW and throw up the ground
to depth Of ten inches Then he
made me harrow it. l never heard
in the fall. and the next spring we
ploWed deep and narrowed and har-
rowed again. l got the best seed I
could find and cultivated the corn as
he said.
AT the same time I concluded there
might be som ething in it, and that il
one acre was good, forty acres was
better. SO l took a field of forty
acres away off behind some woods on
another part of my farm, and culti-
waited it just the same way My acre
near the road. which the man watched
ond told me just how to handle, grew
so that everybody stopped to look
at it, and to make long story short,
we husked sixty bushels Of shelled
corn from that acre. When the corn
was ripe the agricultural gent asked
me whether 1 thought he had made
I had other corn on the place that
was worth looking at. I then took him
through the woods to my other forty
acres, which was just as fine as that
on the road. You'd ought to seen him
look. Well, I pot 1000 bushels off OF
that forty acres, and l now do all
my farming that way
What a COlOred Man Did.
My next human document comes
from colored man He writes from
Mississippi to the head Of the farmers
cooperative demonstration work i'll
the South. After years Of poverty
and despair, he has started raising
cotton under Government supervision.
The spelling Of the letter Is as it Is
written. The penmanship l cannot
reproduce:
"A. D, 7, Is, 10.
Sir:
II rite you few lines in the CARDS
Of farming agricu1tur. I do sey that
your advice has Ben FOlard, and your
Girec ksion have Ben Bald, an | find
that am successful in Life. Sey, Mr.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-30

Knapp. | do know that there is =,
men YOU an as fair as you.
that keen eye ov yOurSe that Watch.
ever crook in farming, that can tell
ever men whichever way to Gro TO be
successful in Life. On last yer | fOlerd
your advice, an allso on yer Befor last
On 1908 made IA Balls of cotton.
and in 1909 II Balls, I starth with
one mule an now l own 8 head ov the
great worthless Thanks to you for
your advice a Long that Line, an Great
success in your occupation to 'ou.
'Sey Mr.. Knapp l am a culered man.
Live near GraySpOrt. Mississippi Corn
a plenty, also make a plenty Of Sweet
Potatoes. But i read your advice
a Bout them Will close. Yourse
(Signed, 'WM WASHINGTON"
King Cotton DcthPOned.
The above bits Of evidence are mere
straws to show how the wind blows.
Uncle Sam has mighty stack OF
them in his Department Of Agricul-
ture and his mail is loaded with
similar letters each day. He is teach
ing the South how to raise cotton and
corn and Is creating revolution
which has already added hundreds
Of millions to our National wealth. He
has now something like 10000 men
and almost an equal number or boys
who are raising corn under Govern
ment direction, and the result Is the
a
Until within the last decade cotton
was the money king of the South. It
was the cash crop and It paid all the
bills. The farmers imported the feed
for their stock, and the corn lands OF
the North furnished the hog and the
hominy. Then the boil weevil came
in and with its snout-like nose be-
gan to eat into King Cotton, even
as the worms ate into King Herod
the Great, and King Cotton seemed
like to give up the ghost. Uncle Sam,
patriarch, saw the wrinkles Of ruin
springing up on the faces of his multi
tudinous children throughout the
South, and he sent his legions Of an
gels in the form of the agricultural
scientists TO fight down the Weevil.
and planned the raising Of crops which
should add to or take the place of the
cotton. The chief crop was corn. and
as a result the people of the South
have sprung from being the poorest to
potentially the richest Of Uncle Sam s
Children The growth has oean al
most all accomplished in the space Of
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-30

>our or five years and II means hun
>, Is OF millions OF dollars.
Million Dollar crop.
corn crop Of the South during
Is, was one-third of that OF the
whole country. 1t was nearly 1000
millions OF bushels. and at tho low
price OF 80 cents a buShel it Mas
worth so0O,00000o. 1t exceeded by
many millions the output or the gold
mines of all the world for that ycLr.
and not counting the value of the
fodder was more than half the value
OF the cotton. including both lint and
seed. The increase Of the corn crop
OF nine Southern States over that or
1903 was more than 15S.0O0 900 bush
els, Or a value Of nearly $4,000, 900
and this increase IS 45 per cent Of the
total increase in corn for the whole
United States during that year. These
States were Virginia. North Carolina.
South Carolina Georgia, Alabama.
MISSISSIPPI Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas. The total crop. as I have said.
was almost 100000, 900 bushels
One billion buShelsl At a Whois
the figures stagger the mind. but load
the corn upon two-horse wagons at
ton to the load and let each team take
| a space of forty feet on the roadway
and the train Of teams would reach
almost eight times around the globe
at the equator, the first wagon be-
| ing nearly 100000 miles distant by tho
time the last wagon Was loaded.
Does It not look az though corn
might become king Of the Southf
Two Hundred Thousand Farmers at
School.
! But the work is just at It's begin
!. ming. II was originated and organ
tied by the late Or. Knapp only about
| five years ago. But there are already
| 100000 farms scattered over the
Southern States on which experm ents
are being made by boys and men as
to the new ways or corn culture, and
each Of these is a school for the COM
munity where 1t lies. The Govern
ment has go travelling agents. who
supervise the work, and each Of these
has a large number OF demonstrators
or teachers who visit the farmers every
week or SO and instruct them just how
to go about raising the crop. Where
posi- bIe they have these experim entail
plantations set out close to the roads
so that the people can see the re-
suits as they go by the way to
Continued on Page Six
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-30

.,.u rorn Drive Out Cotton-The
!" ION last Year Worth $500, 100000
What One Billion Bushels Means
-R;p Money in Southern Lands
tiobty Thousand Boy Corn Ralsers
and What They Are DOing-HOW
one Hundred Boys Averaged 1873
PusheIs Per Acre-The Story or
an economic Revolution Engineered
NV Uncle sam, Patriarch.
1C5Dyright 1911, by Frank G. Car
penter.)
WASHINGTON, D. c.
"Three years ago [ was bankrupt.
had borrowed all the money I could
on NV farm and my credit was SO
had at the stores that they would
not trust me for plug Of tobacco
could not pay nay
had decided to give up the farm Tor
+ha debt and go back to renting. Then
on, Of Uncle Sans demonstrators got
me 10 plant corn and cotton, and to
work if after the plans of the Agricul-
t1rai Department. l thought him
fool. but / was desperate and I fol-
lowed his rules. The result has been
that the merchants are now chasing
me- for my custom. I have paid on
nv mortgages and I have money in
TIL nank.
The man who spoke thus lives in
Alabama
4 Voice From Georgia.
4 had always laughed at book
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-30


farmers It is a Georgia man who
IS speaking. Il was bred and baWn
like Brer Rabbit in a brier patch.
was brought up in the cotton fields
and corn fields, and I thought | kne"
all about my land and what it would
raise 1 didn't want no White-shirted
man from Washington coming round
10 tell me how to manage my farm.
was raising from 100 to 200 pounds
OF cotton to the acre, and when my
crop of corn was over fifteen bushels
thought [ did we'll. Then one or
tnese demonstrators of the Agrl.ul-
tufal Department came along, and
asked me to set out an acre and Gull
uNate it his way. He told me I could
double my crop. and that I might
ralse forty, fifty, sixty, and, even
elShty bushels Of corn on the same
ground where l had been raising
'"elFe or fifteen I laughed at him,
and told him he did not know what
ne VAS talking about. This land
eesiio |. IS just naturally poor, and
a. Won raise corn anyhow. l ain't
so!ng to waste my time for nothing
we'll at that Mary came out.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-30

our or five years and II means hum
>, is Of millions OF dollars
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
WORK AND WAGES" COMING TO
ACME.

Manager Brosche, of the Acme theater,
has secured play for next weeks at
traction which will, without single
doubt, prove of intense interest to every
person who tolls. In "Work and
Wages" is shown the workings of a
large manufacturing concern, the dis
satisfaction of the men with the wages
they receive, the utter indifference of
the new manager, who knows practical
ly nothing of the intricate workings OF
the plant and has great lack of ability
in dealing with men, the refusal to grant
living wage to the workers, the strike
and then the final triumph of the strik-
ers through the intervention of the
beautiful daughter of the proprietor in
their behalf. Scenic Artist Horne is al
ready busy on the new scenery, and in
addition to the interest carried by the
plot of the play, the management guar,
antees that the scenic productions will
be among the finest every shown il
stock in Everett. Great care has been
taken by Stage Director Dave Williams
in casting the play, each one of the
capable Acme entertainers being cast in
the role most suited to his temperament
and experience.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02

in the eastern states but are new to the
west SO far as known. As carried out
they combine entertainment with val
liable instruction on union labeled pro-
ducts in general. If this feature is defin-
itely decided on by the Trades Council
it will undoubtedly be turned over to
the Label League to work out and con-
duct.
A committee of three ladies was ap.
pointed to endeavor to have union
brooms placed on sale in this city. At
the present time not union made
broom is on sale and merchants claim
they cannot be obtained. This commi-
ttee will locate union factory if pos
sible and try to put the wholesalers
directly in touch with the factory.
Interest in the work of the League
is showing noticeable increase and new
members are constantly coming in. An
appeal is especially made to the wives
of working men to join and attend the
meeting. One woman is worth several
men in the Label League as its field of
usefulness is particularly hers. Every
woman is vitally interested in the things
that directly concern the home and no.
thing has deeper significance to the
well being of the home than the union
label. Come out, ladies', and learn about
the work this League is doing
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
NOTED LECTURER TO APPEAR IN
EVERETT.

1t is pretty generally admitted that
about the worst ever and that a whole
chain of evils arise out of our unequal
methods of deriving revenue. The Henry
George theory of taxation has of late
years been the subject of much study
and large percentage of people are
about ready to admit the soundness of
the Single Tax system. We are often
accused as a nation of being thoughtless
and of a mercurial temperament but the
opposite is really true. The great mass
of the people are ultra conservative, es-
pecially so when any proposed funda-
mental change in our government is
under consideration. We do not as q
nation jump at conclusions, whatever
may be said to the contrary, and We are
not going to adopt single tax until We
are sure it is the right thing.
No one who is interested in govern
ment by the people should fail to read
iIu SJuuN dll hliClllS ODIdil
able upon the subject of taxation fol
taxation is closely connected with gov
ernment. We ought to hear every good
speaker upon governmental questions
A study of government inevitably leads
one to study of our economic and indus
trial system.
Friday, June 9th, at p. m. in the
auditorium of the First Baptist church.
Charles Frederick Adams is to lecture
under the auspices of the Mems Brother
hood Mr.. Adams travels under the di-
rection of Henry George lecture bureau
and is said to be one of the best speak
ers appearing on the lecture platform in
America. His subject on this night will
be "How shall Labor and Capital be
United?" 1t will be well worth your
while to attend.
The price of admission will be twenty
five cents and tickets may be obtained
at the Labor Temple reading room.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
WILL FIGHT EIGHT-HoUR LAW.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May S1.-The
eight hour law for women went into eff
feet in California May %. Frank Mil
Ter, proprietor of the Glenwood Hotel of
Riverside has been arrested for violat
ing the law and he declares he will have
the backing of the Hotel Mems Associa-
tion in fighting the measure. The hotels
and laundries, the most merciless ex-
ploiters of female labor in California, are
the only ones who have made the slight
est objection since the passage of the
law. The Potter Hotel at Santa Bar
bara cut the wages of Mattresses from
$50 to $25 . month the day the COVER
nor signed the bill The day the law
went into effect a further cut to SIS
was made, The proprietor announced
the money would 90 into a fund to be
used to fight the Eight Hour Law in the
courts 1t is believed the law will stand
the test even in the capitalistie courts
of Southern California.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02

Structural Iron Workers union and haC
drawn benefits during the strike. Hi'
name appears on the books of the unior
only as a strike beneficiary.
]. NJ. Parks was arrested at the same
time Connors was taken to Jail. Both
the Otis morning papers had pictures
and diagrams ready and the arrest was
pulled off with great ostentation. a
great spread was made of the story and
flaring headlines for two days told OF
the arrest of two bad dynamiters and a
woman was mixed in the case.
Now it develops that Parks was a
stool pigeon for some obscure amateur
detective and that Connors is the man
who was so unjustly held several months
ago. The old rigamarole about confes-
sions and identifications was gone
through with. Connors was again most
numerically sweated and told that
Parks had confessed and implicated him.
Announcement was made that Connors
had confessed and names of prominent
labor men were handled with the reck-
lessness characteristic of the capitalist
dailies. Parks was told that Connors
had confessed and involved him. Then
the truth about Parks business came
to light.
County Detective Sam Browne engi-
neered the whole frame-up and he and
Assistant District Attorney Ray Hor-
ton are accused of having given the third
degree to one Maple, witness who was
supposed to be loaded with information
concerning the case. The affair has gone
long way towards discrediting the en-
tire persecution of strikers on dynamite
charges.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02

Washington, May S1.-The Massa'
chuettes legislature has passed law
giving unions the legal right to fine
their members in conformity with the
rules thereof, and the governor has at
tached his signature. The act provides
that mo fine or notice of intention tc
impose fine by any union or any Other
association, incorporated or unincorpor
ated, or by any authorized representa-
tive thereof, upon any member thereof
according to the rules thereof, to which
such member has agreed to conform
shall be held to be unlawful or coerciv'
as to such member or as to any othel
person, provided that such fine is rea
sonable in amount and is for purpos'
which is legal"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
OHIO PASSES SOME
LABOR LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON, May 31.-The Ohio
legislature has recessed until May 81.
but so far in the session the following
laws have been passed:
Requiring reports to state shop ms
pector of fatal or totally disabling ac-
cidents to factory operatives.
Requiring guarding of elevators and
shafts against accidents.
Increasing penalties for failure to
guard dangerous machinery after being
condemned by the state factory ms
pector.
Giving city and state inspectors CO.
equal powers in notifying building con-
tractors of failure to place safety coun'
terfloors in structures.
Making it an offense to counterfeit
the union label or to use the name or
seal of labor union without authority.
Limiting hours of working women to
10 hours a day and 54 hours a week,
except in mercantile establishments and
hotels and household servants.
Workmen's compensation act, Great
ing state board of awards to make
awards to Injured workmen and the de-
pendent heirs of workmen killed by ac-
cidents in industries, from state in
surance fund, to which the employer,
if he elects to accept the law and reg
ularly employs more than five persons,
shall contribute 80 per cent and the
employees 10 per cent of the assessments
and the awards to be classified by sched-
ule. Employers refusing to accept the
law are denied the defenses of contribu'
tory negligence, fellow servant and as
sumed risk in suits for damages.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
Boosting
the Label
WOMEN'S UNION LABEL LEAGUE IS
BECOMING AN ACTIVE FACTOR IN
UNION CIRCLES.

A short business session of the League
was held Monday evening.
Nine new members were initiated and
several applications received
A telegram was read from Mrs. Rose
B. Moore, relative to the proposed organ
ization work. Much to the disappoint
ment of the League, Mrs. More has been
compelled to postpone the time of her
coming to Everett. The strike of the
laundry workers in Spokane is at a
critical stage and much of the response.
bility of that struggle rests on Mrs.
Moore's shoulders. Mrs. Moore is doing
splendid work among the girl strikers
and it is greatly due to her untiring eff.
forts that the girls are holding together
in the splendid manner they are. She
expresses her willingness to come to Ev-
erett at later date
A committee had been appointed by
the Central Body to make preliminary
arrangements in connection with the
League for the campaign under the
direction of Mrs. Moore and the League
voted to refer the matter back to the
Trades Council.
Editor Marsh of the Journal told the
League something of the suggested plans
for the coming Labor Day celebration.
The unique feature of Labor Day as at
present contemplated will be union
label fair to be held in the evening
These fairs are being held quite frequent
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
WILL ELECT FULL
SOCIALIST TICKET

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 31.-So-
eialists of this city, joined by all the
trade unions held mass convention
last Sunday and nominated full ticket
for the municipal election next fall. 1t
was the largest gathering of the sort
ever held in California. Job Hartman
was nominated for mayor and strong
ticket supporting him was selected.
The solid labor vote of Los Angeles
has been sufficient to elect on many oc-
casions in the past but the unions and
Socialists have never before combined
Thousands have recently joined the So
cialist party and declared for political
action. The Socialists have won Their
way by showing that the interests OF al
laborers are identical-both on the &C.
onomic and industrial and political field
The ticket Is gaining in strength every
dav and chances for election are deemed
to be excellent.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
Trade Union Briefs.

About 10000 union machinists are on
strike I'm New York city for the eight
hour day.
The reason the toiler does not ac-
uuire riches is because he works him
self instead of working others.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is preparing to withstand a long strike
siege by the shopmen of the PittsburG
division.
o. NJ. Hilton, formerly of Denver
now of Pomona. Cal, will be one OF
the attorneys to defend John ]. and
James b. Mcnamara, arrested In con
nection with the Los Angeles Times
and other dynamiting outrages.
Unless Judge Walter Bordwell. pre-
siding Judge Of the supreme court ol
Los Angeles county. determines other
wise the trials of the three ironwork
ers under arrest for dynamiting will
be held before him 1t was in Judge
Bordwelrs department that the tndict
ments were returned.
j. A. Franklin. international presi
dent of the Boiiermakers and Iron
Ship Builders Of America, says tha
nm assessment of to cents viii b
levied upon each OF the 3,000.O00 mem
bers of the American Federation O
Labor to aid J. j. Mcnamara, secre
tary treasurer of the Structural Stee
Workers.
Wheels sold on instsiimsnts ct Arthu
Baily's Gun, Bicycle and Sporting Good
Store, 1910 Hewitt avenue.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-06-02
A PERTINENT ARGUMENT.

Washington, May B1.-Congressman
John G. McHenry of Pennsylvania deliv-
cred speech in the house few days
ago on the farmers free list, one por-
tion of which is full of interest and
deity put:
"We have drifted away from our or
iginal moorings, and listening to the Sc
ductive plea of the dollar We have for
gotten the interests of the man. The
wage Garner, from the standpoint of
production, is in the same class as the
farmer, but, unlike the farmer, he has
not the help of the soil, the sun and
rain, nor has he additional capital. He
is dependent alone upon his own ply
steal and mental energies which God has
given him. He can do certain number
of days work in his life and no more.
"There is no loss so great as the loss
to labor of days work 1t is the capi-
tai account of the workman. He can
not replace it. Nobody can. Nature
has allotted him given number of days.
He cannot sell them twice. He cannot
issue new stock and increase his capital
like the manufacturer and corporation.
In times of prosperity protection gives
him the little end of the increased profit.
In times of depression he must bear the
big end of the loss, for he must bear a
double loss-the loss of his earnings and
the loss of portion of his capital in
every idle day, which he cannot re-
place."