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Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
A County Wedding.

Miss Mamie Figgs and Mr.. Ennis
Baton were married at st. Margar.
cts rectory yesterday evening. The
ceremony was performed by the rec
tor, Rev. Alex. Calf. fhe youthful
bride was prettily gowned in white.
There were no attendants. The young
couple will make their home in
Browns Woods, overlooking Mill
Greek.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
County Boards Meet.

Because many of the county officials
attended the inaugurl ceremonies yes
terday, the weekly meetings of the
County Commissioners, and the Or
phans' Court, were held today, instead
of Tuesday which IS the regular week
ly meeting. Both bodies were in ses-
sion this morning and afternoon, but
there was very little business com
pared to the usual routine affairs of
the regular meetings.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
Tonirhl,s Sermon.

The mid-week sermon preached at
st. Anne's the Rev. Joseph P. Nc
Comas. D. D., rector, every Wednes-
day evening, will be preached to-
night by the Rev c. Ernest Smith,
rector of st. Thomas Parish, Wash
ington.
The public is invited.to these SER
vices.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
AQuery,
lCommunicatedl

Mr.. EDITOR Why is it, l should like
tc know. that a child who walks thre
miles from the country is not allow
ed to attend school because Of q ease
of measles with which she has nc (
come in contact, when a school teach
er is allowed to teach school who
hardly has three steps to walk and
there are two cases OF measles in the
house where she lives?
(Signed) A MOTHER.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
On The Sick List.

Mr.. Alvin Oaksmith, a well-known
and one of the most prominent citi-
zels of West Annapolis, is quite sick,
and confned TO his bed Mr.. Oak
smith recently had an attack of grip,
and it is said, ventured out too soon
the present attack being a relapse
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
Enjoying House Party

Mr.. and Mrs. John Lamb and daugh-
ter, Miss Bessie, and Mrs. Joseph,
are members of house party at Mrs.
Jestn's, Washington.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
AN EGYPTlAN STORY.
AT the Lyric Movies" Tonight.
Dante's Inferno.

One of the most spectacular stories
Of Egyptian life, magnificent pic
ture. When Soul Meets Soul" will
be shown a. The Lyric tonight. 1t is
an Esseney. Another, "a Vitograph,
The Angel of the Desert" and a
great romantic story, "The Hollow
free" and Lubin picture, "Home
Sweet Home, will complete the
program.
Mr.. Tr)wbridge will be at The
Lyric tonight to demonstrate the
new violophone, a great musical in
strument.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-05
A REAL FEATURE.

The Vengeance Of Dursnd" at che
Palace From 3 to 1880 .. u.
Today, from 8 to 10:30 p. m. at
The Palace will be shown one of the
best feature pictures yet given a
two-resl srbject that will hold youi
undivided attention throughout
"The Moving Picture World" the
best critic on photo plays, has the
following to say:
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
THE HIGH COST or LIVING
GOING UP, GOVERNMENT
FINDS.

Washington, d. c., Sept 15.-The
cost of living on June 10 was approx
imately 60 per cent higher than the
average between 1890 and 1900; more
than per cent higher than Il was a
year ago and nearly 10 per cent higher
than It was ,wo years ago.
Investigations of retail prices in
forty cities conducted by experts of
the bureau of labor show prices prac-
tically at the same level as last No
vember when the high records of the
last quarter century were reached.
Fourteen articles of food were in
vestigated, and compared with the av-
erage prices between 1890 and 1900.
Every one except sugar show ed ma
terial advance; bacon, which led in
the soaring+ went up 1885 per cent.
Other articles which showed re-
markabe advances were:
Porkchops, 141 per cent; round
steak, 1925; smoked ham, 81; hens,
76.S; sirloin steak, 75,2; rib roasts,
rs; lard 66.5; cornmeal, SIS; pota-
toes, 44.4; butter, Alb; eggs, 40S;
milk, 3S.4; and flour, Csc. During
the same period, sugar showed a de-
cline of per cent
During the last year prices of eleven
of fifteen articles investigated went
skyward.
Bacon advanced 1872 per cent;
smoked ham, Ill; pork chops, 1874;
hens, 11.S; eggs, III; round steak,
1O.1; sirloin, 9.S; lard, To; rib roasts,
6.S; butter, S. and milk, Al.
The other four declined as follows:
Potatoes, 31.9; sugar, 1872; wheat
flour, IT.; cornmeal, 3.
Among cities where prices were in
vestigated were Denver, Los Angeles,
Omaha, Portland, Salt Lake City, San
Francisco and Seattle.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
MARX ON CHILD LABOR.

Do you charge us with wanting to
stop the exploitation of children by
their parents? To this crime we plead
guilty.
But, you will say, we destroy the
most hallowed of relations, when we
replace home education by social.
And your education? Is not that also
social, and determined by the social
conditions under which you educate,
by the intervention, direct or indirect,
of society by means of schools, ETC.. ?
The Communists have not invented
the Intervention of society in educa-
ton; they do but seek to alter the
character of that Intervention, and to
rescue education from the influence Of
the ruling class.
The bourgeoise clap-trap about the
family and education, about the hal
lowed correlation of parent and child,
become all the more disgusting, the
more, by the action of Modern Indus
try, all family ties among the proletar-
ians are torn asunder, and their child
rem transformed into simple articles
of commerce and instruments of labor.
Manifesto.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
CHILD LABOR IN WASHING.
TON.
Olson Files Ninety Charges Against
Cannery Men.

Bellingham - Following investiga-
tions made by State Labor Commits
sioner e. w. Olson and Mrs. Theresa
Mcmahon, representing the Industrial
Welfare commission of the state, in
formation was filed in the superior
court in Bellingham in ninety separate
cases against salmon cannery owners
for violation OF the child labor law by
employing children under IA years Of
age without permits from the Juvenile
court.
Every cannery in the country ex-
cept the Carlisle Packing company and
the Lummi Bay company is represent
ed in the wholesale filing of charges
The fine on conviction may be $40 or
maximum of $500, which makes it
possible for the total in fines to reach
$4,000
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
THEORY HITS FACT.
CAPITALISTS HAVE NO REMEDY
British Blue Book Shows General
Rise in Prices.

From the Detroit Free Press.
The British government has issued
blue book giving the report OF the
Board of Trade on the cost of living IN
Great Britain, and the publication
comes at an opportune moment for
our own country. We are at tnnclimax
of the campaign to transform our
fiscal system to approach that under
which the conditions arose that are
shown by the blue book, and the CHIEF
argument for the transformation has
been the certain effects it will have
in checking and reversing the rising
trend of prices.
The blue book shows that in Great
Britain the upward movement in prices
has been steady and persistent. Rents
have been influenced variously accord
ing to locality, but food, clothing and
other articles of domestic use have ad-
vanced sharply. Potatoes show the
greatest increase in price, it appears,
all the way from As to 81 per cent,
according to the city selected, but
bacon has gone up 80 per cent, coal
22.5 per cent, eggs and pork 10 to
20 per cent, butter, milk and beef 10
per cent and other articles in varying
proportions The general average rise
in cost of living, including rents, ag-
gregate for the whole country about
10 per cent
This is for period of seven years,
from October, 1905, to October OF last
year Going back to 1896, when the
present tendency began, it is much
more marked, but the disclosure OF
the official statistics that is of i'm
portance just now is that THE SAME
INFLUENCES WHICH HAVE
BROUGHT ABOUT A GREATER
COST OF LIVING IN THE UNITED
STATES HAVE OPERATED ALSO
IN FREE TRADE BRITAIN.
Once more the frail bark OF theory
has piled up on the rocks of hard facts.
1t is unfortunate for the Democratic
program that the discovery should be
made just now that abandoning pro
lection is not a specific for the cost
of living i'll, but in the long run the
truth never hurts any one. If tariff
reduction will not reduce prices in the
face of worldwide advance, the
American people were sure to discover
the fact sooner or later anyway and
premature revelation of its existence
merely forestalls the inevitable.
But, since the cost of living is not
going to be affected materially by
changing to the English basis what
are we to gain by the process? What
other theory is indicated by the Brit
/ ish experience?
If free trade after half a century
hasn't corrected these very evils In
England. how can we be told we must
have free trade here to correct them
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
PRINCESS THEATRE

Colby at Hewitt
Now changing program daily. Show
ing the big two and three-reel feature
of the Universal and EX-
Supply corporations, which
control no less than thirty companies
in America and Europe.
TOMORROW
THE BRIDE FROM THE SEA
Victor Two-Reel Marine Drama
THE DOCTORS STORY
Drama
THE BATTLE OF BULL CON
Comedy
SATURDAY
THE GREAT CIRCUS CATASTRO-
Great Northern Three-Reel Drama
SUNDAY
THE WALL OF MONEY
Two-Reel Drama
Dealing with the Labor Question
COMING
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
October 80
IVANHOE"
Sir Walter Scott's Famous Novel in
Three Reels with King Baggot and
Leah Baird.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
PROVIDED TT DOESN IT.

Figures relative to the increased
prices of foodstuffs shows that during
the past summer they have reached
an enormously high level. Bacon adj
yanced over 12S per cent in ten years
pork chops III, cornmeal 81, smoked
ham "a, round steak 102, potatoes Al,
eggs 40, milk 38, and flour 2S per
cent. The effects of these increases
are known to practically every one.
The full extent of them can plainly
be seen from the official statement
from Washington. Accompanying the
story is the news that Argentina and
Australia are now exporting large
quantities of beef and it is believed the
aggregate for the year will be 10000
600 pounds.
The New York Worlds report says:
THAT these importations will in time
aid materially in reducing the cost of
living is a certainty provided OF
course, the Beef Trust does not get
control of the foreign imports as well
as the domestic supply
Doubtlessly. if the Beef Trust is
made aware Of the fact that the cost
of living may be materially reduced
it win consent not to get control of
the imported meats. That is plain
from the fact that it already has built
plants and steamships TO handle the
imports of heef.-The Call n. y.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
SPEAK TO YOUR NEIGHBOR
ABOUT 1T.

While you're talking over this vital
question of building up a strong So
cialist press in Washington, without
which any pretence of effecti7e or
ganization is but a farce, just speak
to your neighbor about subscribing to
the Commonwealth Any man of in
telligence will take at least six
months trial subscription for so cents.
Just try it and see how easy it is to
get them.
Build up your own press!
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
Have Wages Really Risen?
A Few Helpful Statistics
CAPITALIST PRESS TRIES TO
DECEIVE WORKERS BY
JUGGLING FIGURES.

The asinlne demi-monde OF the CAPT
talist press never let an opportunity to
slip by to misrepresent the condition
OF the working people. II is difficult
to believe that they do not know bet
ter But 1t is possible. Like their
other sisters in the red-light district,
their little minds are SO filled with
solcitous thought of their own per
sonal charms and attractiveness that
they have not sufficient mental energy
left to consider the merits of any
proposition.
The department of labor at Wash
ington recently issued one of its
periodical bulletins, and here is the
way the danes of the neither world
gush over it:
LABOR'S SCALE GOES UP
AND WORKING HOURS DOWN.
Washington, Sept. 12.-There was a
steady increase in the scale of wages
paid to labor in this country in the
past six years and this was accom-
plished in the face of a steady reduc-
ton in the working hours of labor
Statistics published today by the de-
partment of labor indicate that labor
now is receiving more remuneration
for fewer hours of labor. The figures
are on comparisons of union wage
scale agreements, trade union reports
and working compacts in central
cities through the United States from
1907 to 1912
The bakers appear to have carried
off the cake in the distribution of good
things, for their wages were increased
twenty-five per cent in the six years,
while their working day was shortened
nearly one-fifth.
Stone cutters and newspaper COM
positors are the lowest in the scale in
the matter of reduced hours.
The facts are, as everyone that
wants to know can know, that the
real wages, the purchasing power of
the pay envelope, has been and is
constantly declining, not only in this
country, but all over the world, and
that the intensity of work has at the
same time been and is constantly in
creasing.
The figures of the United States
census and of the labor bureau show
that during the twenty years covered
the so-called wages paid in the indus
tries advanced 1874 per cent, and in
railroad employment 20.4 per cent on
an average.
The price of necessaries during the
same census period increased Ais per
cent. So that the necessaries that
$1.00 would buy at the beginning Of
the period cost $141 at the end of the
period. For this the worker in the
manufacturing industries got $1,l5
and those in railroading got $1.2O.
This spells an actual reduction in the
pay the worker receives of ia per
cent in the manufacturing industries,
and 1916 per cent for railroad workers.
The reduction in the hours of labor,
so-called, is likewise a delusion and a
snare. The speeding up of the work
has offset manifold, the shortening of
time. The work is much more wear
ing on the worker, so much so that
there is no more chance for an old
man. Only young men are desired.
They alone can stand the strain, and
as they get old they are thrown out
on the human scrap heap, and must
exc out a pauper's living as best they
can.-Buffalo Socialist.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
A SIGNIFICANT FACT.
About Forty Per Cent of Socialist
Party Members Were Converted
by Periodicals.

Statistics compiled by the national
secretary of the Socialist party re-
vealed the fact that whereas but seven
per cent of the membership of the So
cialist party were gained by hall meet
ings and open-air speeches, thirty-nine
per cent trace their conversion to So
cialism to the reading of Socialist
periodicals. This is more than twice
the number reached by any other
agency.
Draw the moral for yourselves!
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
CHEER UP!

Potatoes Contain Too Much Starch,
Anyhow.
Leading crop experts in Chicago an
nounced that the potato crop this year
in the United States will be 100000
900 short of last year. Prices for
Minnesota and Ohio potatoes in Chi
cago markets advanced today from s
to 10 cents per bushel
The potato shortage in England has
caused prices to advance in Manches-
ter to $50 ton, against $3.50 at the
same time last year.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS

Notice is hereby given that the regu-
lar quarterly meeting of the stock
holders of the Commonwealth Pub
fishing company viii be held at 1912
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25

Better work than over; prices
not changed. Now In the time TO
visit MYERS STUDIO and please
yourself and your friends. Ground
floor Studio. 14ti Hewitt Avenue
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25

God grants liberty only to those who
live it. and are always ready TO guard
and defend it-Daniel Webster
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25
Pioneer Alpine Dairy

Fresh Milk and Cream Delivered 70 an
Parts Of the City
ina 4O8Z Sunsst 1855
1908 Lombard Ave.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-09-25

There is no law but has In it hole
for him who can find HERMAN
Proverb.
The Washington times., 1913-04-01
You Can Be Your
Own Beauty Doctor
CLEARING THE COMPLEXION FOR SPRING.
By Andre Dupont.

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The Washington times., 1913-04-01
MR.. MORGAN'S LIFE AND WORK.

The financial history of the world wnen it is writ
ten will give a truer estimate of Mr.. Morgan thas
the present near view allows
Whether Morgan did great good great harm
to his time in the matter of industrial combination
will then be settled The fact that the Government
has set out undo his work in part would indicate
that it lacked the approval of the people as whole
But of his vast work in bringing order of chaos
at time another in the railway world and in
trying crises there can be no doubt. Mr. Morgan
possessed a certain financial clairvoyance which
enabled him in the dark days following the panic
of 1898 to be of inestmable service in Strengthening
out the railway map of the country and building the
wonderful transportation systems so necessary to
the worlds work. Others played part and large
part in this task but the brun of it fell the house
of Morgan and the brunt of the work of the house
of Morgan fell upon Morgan himself.
We might have gone along without the Steel
trust and the Harvester combination and the Inter-
national Mercantile Marine and a number of other
Morgan industrial consultations We could not
have gone along we'll had Mr.. Morgan not directed
his genius to the solution of the grave railway prob
lens which called at for financial and construc-
tive ability of the highest order in the decade from
1890 to 1900. Nor could we have gone along SO
The Washington times., 1913-04-01

well had not this profound intelligence directed its
energies toward rightng the money and banking and
credit situation in times of panic and distress.
The investigations of tine Pujo committee show
very clearly the grip which Morgan had upon the
banking industry of the country. Whether centra-
zation of sucn power in the hands of one man was
best there is for very grave doubt But mas
much as this power was lodged in the hands of one
man, the nation and the world we'll were fortunate
in havin so colossal financial intellect as Morgan's
as the directing influence.
1t is not possible that the activities of lifetime
of Morgan should be productive wholly of good.
No single figure in modern commercial life ever at
tempted tenth O. what Morgan attempted, and it
were too much to expect tnat everything he did
should prove of aotng benefit to his time But TAX
ing his work whole and vast work it was, il
will be many day and many generation before
the memory of Morgan and Morgan influence are
erased from the &C mmercial industrial and financial
activities of this nation. colossal figure in his day.
he will remain colossal figure for years to come.
The Washington times., 1913-04-01
AMBASSADOR TO ST. JAMES.

President Wilson's appointment of Mr.. Walter Fl.
Page to our foremost diplomatic post ambassador
to the Court of ST. James, is so out of the usual track
it may seem strange to public, to which he is not
generally known and undoubtedly it will be astonish-
ing to the English public, to which he is not known
at all
II is to be presumed, however, that President Will
son is well acquainted with the personality and ca
pacity Of Mr. Page he would scarcely nave given to
him the highest American diplomatic prize. And be-
cause the new ambassador, who has our best wishes,
is not widely celebrated figure in American life and
affairs is no reason he will not by his service in Lon
don, make himself we'll known to the world at large
and distinguished in diplomatic circles.
The Washington times., 1913-04-01
THE BOY SCOUTS TAG DAY.

Saturday, April 5, has been settled upon as Tag
Day for the Boy Scouts of Washington On that
date the man too much in hurry on ordinary days
to think of sending dollar to the organization is
going to be directly approached and asked to con-
tribute to good cause by buying tag. Washing
ten should be peculiarly appreciative of the benefits
of this boys institution. 1t has seen numerous dem-
onstrations of the result of the training which it
gives. The support of boys and their interests should
be generous and unanimous. You are going to have
YOUR opportunity to contribute Saturday and don't
fail to do your duty. BUY A TAG
The Washington times., 1913-04-01
MARCH CIRCULATION.
DAILY
THE PRESIDENTS OPEN DOOR.

President Wilson in an e-naugural statement
announced that he would maintain an open door pol
icy at the White House. There was sly joke in the
Presidents prophecy. He apparently meant that the
door would open to those office seekers who came
to argue their own causes. Yesterday he gave a
practical demonstration of the facility with which the
hinges on this portal worked when he summarily dis
missed the first of the self-boomers who has dared to
disobey the office rules
The Washington times., 1913-04-01
Cause for Alarm.

\ old farmer drove into a small
~ town the other day and stopped
n at the country store. A phono-
graph had just been installed
and the farmer decided to have a few
cents worth of music. The clerk hand
ed him the ear tubes, placed them n
proper position and imediately started
the machine.
The farmer instantly dropped the tube:
and rushed TO the door. crying:
Great snaks, Hold on a mint, viii
ye? There's a gol burned brass band
a-a-comin' an there amt nobody a.
holdin' my horse''-Bliff.
The Washington times., 1913-04-01
Such a Shock.

IRsT MESSENGER BoY-I had
n to take pretty tough wire up
n TO that Kildey girl OIL de ave dis
mornin'. Railway smash an a
lot Of her folks badly hurt. She made
me stay fer de reply while she read 1t.
Second Messenger Boy-Did she faint?
Nope"
Scream
Nope"
What did she say"
She said What do you know about
thatp cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington times., 1913-04-01

SHOWING UP THE so-CALLED GREAT
NORTHWEST.
From the North East. Pa. Sum-
Kesiins. Wash. March q. 1915.
Cushman Brothers
North East, Pa,
Dear Sirs:-I thought I would drop YOU a
rev lines and let you Fasteners know what
KIND OF country the Great Northwest" is
Will tell YOU plainly. II 10 a mighty hne
place TO keep away from. You can hear a LOT
and read lot about this country and lhs
fortunes made here out OF fruit but / want
TO tell you that is all Booster Hot Air rot
ten up by the real estate men, and BY the
way. they are the only ones making a for
tune. They have got every thing cut up In
nve and ten acre tracts ana expect people to
make living on them.
There isn't level acre OF land out here
only In the Spokane valley and that is dry
gravel land and won't raise weeds without
water and II you irrigate II for hve or six
years, then you have a good grade Of washed
concrete gravel for 50 feet deep
Another thing the "Boosters'' shout about
is the markets here but TO tell the truth
there 10 no market at all. All the potato
and apples have to be shipped East OF the
Rockies and then the freight eats them up.
Well I think l will have to close for this
time Thanking you for sending the Sun 90
regular.
remain, yours truly,
W. b. EHMkE