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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10

archal-looking men with kindly faces
and sad, discouraged eyes who spoke
no English, whose memories of Rus
STA were darkened by tragedy, injus-
tice and oppression and whose bright
visions of America had been SHAT
tered by the realization that the high
est wages they might expect to re-
ceive for the support Of their families
did not exceed five or six dollars
week." So declared the strike leader,
indicating the elderly men by COM
prehensive gesture.
Strikers Addressed In Yiddish.
The speeches at the mass meeting
were nearly all in Yiddish. The
union secretary, Miss Jennie Persi-
ley, sat by me and invited me to &C
company her to the Brooklyn head
quarters at Liederkranz hall on Man
haitian avenue near Meserole street
that afternoon. I accepted the invita-.
ton. Miss Persiley could speak Eng
lish. She could explain everything
to me and she would know what par
ticular girls of those present were
sufficiently active union workers to
w:lrant their pictures appearing in
print She selected three girls and
We five went to lunch together.
In the afternoon at Liederkranz
hall the stories had heard from
these girls were supported by the
strike leaders. According to their
statement, the conditions existing In
the knitting mills were impossible
They informed me that they frequent
ly have to work we'll over fifty hours
q week, that in many instances the
shops are cleaned only once week
and then 1t is done by the workers
themselves after closing hours on
Saturday, that each girl is then ex-
pected to clean the machine at which
she works and to remove the grease
and lint which has accumulated all
about It.
The minimum wage. they said, was
81 and the maximum 30 and $11 a
week; the usual working hours were
from 1880 a m. to IL noon and from
1890 p. M to 600 p. M, which al
1OWcu Uut Hall al AOuI III luHCH. III
summer the closing hour on Satur-
day is O'clock and at other seasons
5 p. m.
The demands made were for a
working period of so hours week
a Is per cent increase in wages for
all those earning less than $40 a
week, Is per cent increase for
those whose earning capacity Is from
SO to SIS a week, and for those
earning more than that. 10 per cent
increase, proper sanitary conditions
in; the shops. the employ ment of no
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
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DOOM OF STEAM L0C0MoTI0N
Cost Of Electrical Operation Practi'
ealiy About Five-Eiohths Of That
., Of Former Power.

The pioneers in the substitution OF
electric motive power for steam upon
the railroads merely hoped that the
costs of operation would be smaller
than they were under the old system
But they did not know that they would
be. They had no experience to draw
upon. They were compelled by the
circumstances to make the venture.
It is only within recent months that
they could say that the venture had
paid.
Now, under tests of varied charac-
ter, it has been demonstrated that the
cost of electric operation is practically
about five.eighths that of doing the
same work with steam locomotives,
says the Toledo Blade. The electric
locomotive has proved to have de-
cided advantages in being able to use
Its entire weight for tractive effort,
in making a greater mileage per year
than the steam locomotive and In
needing fewer repairs.
The saving is sufficient to warrant
every railroad in the country undertak-
ing the labor of identification. 1t is
sufficient to warrant the public looking
forward to a day very near at hand
when the smoke and CRIME making
locomotive will be part of the past.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
now MMM
World BRIGHT

A good old world this world would be
II every man somewhere ahead
Had prospects that the rest could sea
1t wouldn't matter what we said
Or how we lived or what we thought
Or how we acted. wrong or right.
II We were billed to win lot
Or kept folks thinking that we might
The seedy man who beats his way
Is held in wide esteem II there
Are rich ones who may die some day.
First having named him as their hoir.
The world is cruel only to
The ones for whom no hope remains.
Its corn is not for people who
Are ranged in line for future gains
The world would be lovely place
And all the people would be kind
And glad to meet US face to face,
And If we'd faults they'd never mind
If we could only fix it 20.
BY lying or some other way,
That they would think we stood a show
To strike it rich somehow some day.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
Key With Improved Knob.

round plate screwed into the top OF
the knob. BY loosening a screw in
the plate, the finger clip can be set
at any angle to suit the operator and
then held by tightening the screw.
The main body of the knob is of rub
Der.
The claim of the inventor and pat
entee, H. c. Dauphinas, Fargo, N. D.,
is that the use of the clip takes away
the physical strain due to sending
with q key having nat knob.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
TO MoDERNlzE OLD FIXTURES
Antiquated, but Costly Apparatus, Too
Beautiful to Be Thrown Away
Can Be Renewed.

In thousands of homes there are In
use old, Anticipated electric fixtures
much too costly and beautiful to dis.
card. The only Objectionable feature
of most of these old fixtures 10 that
the lamps are held at an angle. Elk.
perience has shown that the distribu.
ton of light is greatly improved II
lamps are installed in a vertical po'
sition. Therefore all modern fixtures
are provided with vertical outlets,
says the Popular Electricity. BY the
use of what is called the angle cap
socket the old angle fixtures may be
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
4 Word 20 Mr.. Blue.

Here's a little sermon. Mr.. Blue. for you:
Walk around your trouble: take another
view.
Why insist on looking only at the place
That Is dark and cherries If you turn
your face
There may be before you fruitful fields
and fair
Pink with fragrant blossoms reckoning
you there.
Why sit sadly drinking from the bitter
cup
When you may as freely take another
up?
Why persist in gazing at the cherries
scene
Thanking earth has nothing but the drear
and mean,
When, by merely turning, you may gladly
gaze
On thousand glories meriting you3
praise?
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
On IHE|
PICKET
| Inc {: J,
By Women
Writer IN ni4e
Girl knifters
Strike

AYEW XO1h.-COI tuAIly'AOuA aOAA@
have been striker. For thirty
four hours i have struck for
higher wages, shorter hours, proper
sanitary conditions, the recognition
of the United Knitters' union and
the adjustment of child labor, writes
Marie Coolidge Rask in the New
York Sunday World.
Al result have suffered In mind
and body Just what any other girl or.
woman suffers or Is liable to suffer
who strikes for the same or similar
reasons. l have suffered hardships
in order to learn truth, just as those
who were with me have long suffered
for what they declare to be princi-
pie.
Stories OF the hardships endured by
women strikers at the hands of po-
licemen and others employed by fac
tory owners to oppose them have
been many. Hardly day passes In
which some new case is not brought
Il to light in the local police courts.
AZ rule the sufferer can speak lit
tie English. In consequence the re-
cital Of her experience is brief. Its
full details seldom reach even the
newspaper Offices. If they do they
are overshacowed by the countless
larger events which are constantly
occurring in city where the popula.
ton Is so tremendous as In Greater
New York.
The only way to lift the veil 90
that the public might learn whether
or not the stories were born Of hys-
terra and vivid Imagination was to
voluntarily place ones self in posi-
ton to experience exactly what these
girls have said they experienced.
Therefore ! became striker.
This recital of my experiences Is
not intended as q defense of the girls
nor an attack upon the police. It is
designed as purely impersonal. un-
biased, unprejudiced account Of what
actually happened to me personally
and what was seen and done in my
presence and hearing.
Arousina the Pickets.
When I entered the union head
quarters at New Majestic hall. No.
LOG Forsythe street, Manhattan,
was welcomed by the committee
chairman and told to wait for some
girls to come who could speak Eng
lish. noticed several rows Of chairs
facing the walls. Upon one of these
lay a youth of perhaps seventeen
years, asleep, with his coat for pill
low. Others in the room had appar-
emily just arisen from similar uncom-
Portable couches. The chairman was
busy giving instructions to several
groups of young men and women. all
OF whom looked tired and sleepy. As
l seated myself he went over to the
soundly sleeping youth and shook
him vigorously.
Come, wake up: time to go on
duty" he remarked!
The curly.haired. brown-eyed strip
ling sighed heavily, yawned, then
promptly went fast asleep again. For
q few moments the chairman con-
tinued to give directions to the 9th
ers, then turned to the boy again.
Here, you." he exclaimed, don't
be lazy. You fellows slept here last
night so as to be sure to be on time
this morning. Now when I call you
you don't want to get up"
The sleepy picket sat up and lcok-
ed about belligerently. Gee! but
I'm tired" he exclaimed. Then he
rose stifiiy, stretched himself, ran his
hands several times through his
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
ocean Entry Into New Pork.

Army engineers have reported that
the deepening and widening of Am.
brose channel leading into New York
harbor is finished, except for a few
minor details, and no further appro.
priations for construction will be
needed. This great artificial channel
is seven miles long, 1000 feet wide
and 40 feet deep at mean low tide
At night it is SO brilliantly lighted by
buoys that the largest ocean steam
ers can enter with psSfect safety Tn'
work was begun IN 1891.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
Still Innocent.

Senator, what was the nearest you
ever came to being bribed?" asked the
girl who always blurts everything
right out.
1T was the time I voted for the
postal box bill and received seven
thousand shares of stock in the CON
Germ that was to make the boxes when
the bill gave 1t monopoly on the
business"
Il should think that was . clear
case against you"
mo. The measure didn't go through
and the stock never amounted 20 any"
thing"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10

1y Their Deeds Ye May Know Them
"Who lives in that magnificent
house with the big white pillars?
mr.. Sniggsley, the manufacturer OF
the celebrated Sniggsley self-insertlnS
and self-fastening collar button"
And wonder what poor excuse for
a man it is who can give his family
nothing better for home than that
mean little place down there at the
corner of the alley?"
That's the residence Of the genius
who invented the celebrated Sniggs-
ley self-inserting and self-fastening
collar button"
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
Small Electric Motor.

Small Electric Motor.
The smallest commercial motor
weighs less than two pounds. 1t is
used where q little power ia required.
suA a for dental drills. etc
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10

II.
The world is growing brighter % they
say,
And that's a thing I'm glad to know:
II prices were not rising day by day,
The world would be made bright mue4
Easter, though.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
Electricity for HEATING.

Some railways use electric power
for heating trains. Part of them use
the current directly in the heaters, as
they do in trolley cars in some cities.
Others use an electric boiler.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
IlEtfRtfQl(I,
51;331l0TET6z

California has a traekless trolley.
Fourteen submarine cables now con
meet America with European points.
One American telephone company
has 14.61O,O0O miles of wire in use.
Fifty species of fish possess organs
capable of imparting electric shocks
The island of Java is equipped with
a complete automatic telephone sys'
tenn.
Zamboanga will be the first munich
pality to own an electric light plant
in the Philippines.
Electric heaters have been specially
designed in England for stateroomi
and saloons on shipboard.
The annual electric dry battery
production of the United States has
passed the $10,0OO,O00 mark.
A storage battery fed electric lamp
forms a part of a new plummet tor
use at night or in dark places.
One of the newer fly traps containa
an electric fan to draw within 1t flieH
attracted near it by suitable bait.
A wireless telephone record OF 47s
miles, lasting half an hour, recently
was established in Germany and Aus
tria.
A trolley car ambulance has been
built in Philadelphia for use in 2
Brazilian city for carrying patients
to and from outlying hospitals.
The contents of a can explode when
a fuse becomes overheated and give
an audible fire alarm In recente
patented device along that Aes
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
SAFETY LOCK FOR Telephone
Device Prevents Persons Using Instru-
ment Who Are Not In Posses
sion Of Proper Key.

A locking device, designed to pre-
vent the use of the telephone by per-
sons not having key, is here shown.
One of the hinged members fitted to
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
Improvement ON KEY KNOB
Physical Strain on Operator 10 Taken
Away by Use Of Clip, Invented
by North Dakota Man.

An improvement in the telegraph
key knob is here presented. A finger
clip" is rigidly attached to small.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10

the supporting column terminates in
q hook which engages with the receiv-
eI' hook and, when locked in place,
prevents all use of the telephone.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
Old Fixtures Modernized.

made to hold the lamp in a vertical
position with a marked increase in
lighting efficiency.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
MERE OPINION.

The boy who is paid to be good
never earns the money.
It frequently happens that man
who pays as he goes doesn't 60 ver3
far.
Many a great Jnan has considered
himseH failure because h. couldn't
dance.
Nothing is more pathetic than TO-
tai abstainer wko is compelled to 60
through life with . red nose.
There is no evidence to Indicate
that God when he made the world lin,
tied himself to An eight-hour day.
A woman always seems to be able
70 get a great deal of satisfaction out
Of boasting that her husband fell in
love with her at first sight, even II
ae has grown cool on further ac-
uuaintance.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10

The boy who is paid to be good
never earns the money.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20
OLYMPIA AND PORTLAND.

Olympia is rs miles nearer tidewa-
ter for Portland than is Port Town
send. The business men of the latter
city, in spite of what would seem to
be a mighty handicap, are enlisting
the support of Portland merchants and
manufacturers in the completion of the
Port Townsend Southern by the argu-
ment that Port Townsend would offer
the Oregon metropolis an exporting
point to Alaska where its goods would
not be Disseminated against as they
are now in Seattle
With handicap in it's favor of a
l5-mile haul over an undeveloped coun
try. why should not Olympia make a
bid for this Alaska export trade OF
| Portland?
The idea may sound visionary but
If it is reasonable to Port Townsend
should it not be more reasonable tc
Olympia? Isn't it worth looking into
! anyhow?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20
LAUGHED TIL He DIED

TAYLORSBURG, Ohio.-Abe Skin
ner, the village pessimist, laughed
himself to death from reading BIFF.
the National Magazine of Fun which
is making greater strides than any
other magazine before the American
public today. 1t is a magazine that
will keep the whole family in a good
humor. The staff of Biff! contains ar
lists, caricaturist, and writers who
rank among the best in the country.
1t is highly illustrated and printed in
colors. 1t will keep the whole family
cheerful the year round. You can af-
ford to spend Sl.00 year to do this.
Send this clipping and FIFTY CENTS
today to the Publishers of Biff, Day
ton, Ohio, for one years subscription.
The regular price is $1.00 and we are
making this SPECIAL OFFER to get
acquainted. GA
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20

who lives in Seattle and the other by a
man who lives in Portland In the uI-
innate consummation of this Utopia
neither the man who lives in Seattle
nor the man who lives in Portland will
have to pay taxes on his vacant lots in
Olympia, any more than the mayor
says you will.
But just wait minute-who is pay
ing that mans taxes? He is not buy
ing any water or any light. Aren't
you paying them out of the excessive
price you are paying for your water
and light? In other words, if the mu.
nicipal water plant should happen to
show profit, should not YOU who use
he water get the benefit of it, and no;
he man who lives in Seattle or Port
land?
One of the mayors pet arguments is
this one about paying your taxes. Now
| that you think it over in this light
how does it strike you--you who will
have to pay the other mans taxes j.!
the mayors scheme works out?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20
JUST SUPPOSIN,=

Just for the sake of an argument
let us say, for instance, that you, Mr..
Voter and Taxpayer, own little nome
in this city. Then let us suppose, also
for the sake of argument, that this
S150,000 bond issue for a municipal
water works is authorized. Then let
us keep right on supposing and imac-
inc for minute that it made enough
profit to build municipal light plant
and then let us suppose still further
that both plants made enough profit to
pay all your taxes.
Then let us suppose-we might just
as well keep it up, for this supposition
is more likely than any of the others
that on both sides Of your home there
are vacant lots, one owned by man
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20
METAL OUTPUT GROWS
Washington's Production of Geld. silver
and Copper In 1912 Is $I,l2O.214.

The value of the mine production OF
gold, silver, copper, and lead in Wash
ington in 1912, according to c. N. Ger
ry of the United States geological sur
vey, was $1,12O,214, compared with ST.
.O56,O17 in 1911 and $96S,249 in 1910.
The increase was due principally to
the marketing of copper ore from Ste.
vens county.
The gold production was valued at
$3.50, 1854, nearly the same as was given
in the preliminary press bulletin in
January, or $166,713 less than the out
put of 1911. The decrease was due to
the fact that less ore was shipped from
Republic, where material was stored
awaiting the completion of two new
cyanide mills.
The silver output increased from
243,7S1 fine ounces in 1911 to 413,53S
fine ounces in 1912, an increase of over
SO per cent, largely from the Chewe-
lah district in Stevens county. Ore
from this district also increased the
copper output from 31S,2O7 pounds in
1911 to 1,OS6,O1O pounds in 1912. Bet
ter prices were received for both cop,
per and silver.
There was decrease of 721, 1S7
pounds in lead output, making the to-
tai 127,3S7 pounds in 1912, and. no
zinc ore was marketed.
The total ore sold or treated aggre'
gated 94,9S1 tons in 1912, an increase
of 1856 tons. In 1911 most of the ore
was shipped directly to shelters, but
in 1912 gold and silver mills treated
21,312 tons, concentration mills 1850
tons, and the remainder, or 65,9S9 tons
was shipped to various shelters. OF
the productive mines, "a were deer
and II were placers. The Republic dis
trict, in Ferry county, had an output
of gold and silver valued at $8S6,971
and from the Chewelah district, ir
Stevens county, ore was shipped val
ued at $3O0,474.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20
REGULATING RAILROAD RATES.

We may be violating all the tenets
Democracy holds sacred when we de-
clare that the solution of the railroad
rate problem lies in federal rather
than state control, but whether it is
good Democracy or not, that is the So
luton nevertheless. We cannot have
Al different varieties of rates and have
prosperous constructive railroads at
the same time, yet that is exactly
what we will have if the latest SUI
preme court decision in the Mime
sofa rate case is carried to it's proper
conclusion.
Uniformity of action and uniformity
of control tend to the greatest efficien-
cy. According to newspaper reports
this latest decision gives to states the
authority to regulate within their re-
spective borders the rates to be charg-
traffic. In other words. shipment OF
goods will be subject to as many diff
ferent rates as the number of states it
crosses. Uniformity is lost
1t is easy to see what effect such
a situation undoubtedly will have on
the railroad business. The remedy is
likewise as clear: an act of Congress
delegating to the interstate commerce
commission authority to fix and con-
troll rates on all interstate business
from the point of shipment to the des-
tination, leaving to the individual
states control Of that business which
arises and ends solely within their re-
spectiye boundaries.
Congress most certainly should pass
an act of that kind and even if the
Democracy of so or rs years ago plac-
ed the state above the nation. the Dem
ocrats of today should adjust their po-
litical outlook to the conditions of to-
day, If they have not already done so
in this respect, and delegate to the ma
tion the control of national business,
awarding to the states the business
that is the states.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-06-20
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
ABOLISH THE LEGiSLtTI RE.

What means the most radical change
in our state governments since the Tn
ion was formed and what at the same
time would be the greatest forward |
step any state has taken during that
same period is epitomized in the reso-
luton adopted by a vote of approx
mately eight to one at the recent con-
vention of the Washington State
Grange in which is proposed the aboli-
ton of the state senate and house and
the substitution therefor of commits
sion composed OF three representa-
tives from each congressional district
to meet every other month.
1t is a step that will be taken sooner
or later, but its very radical nature
dooms it TO procrastination and post
ponemelt, we fear, before its final
adoption. The full plan proposes the
commissioners be elected for terms OF
two, four and six years at the first
election, all the terms of those chosen
at subsequent elections to be for six
years. 1t means the handling of the
states business on the same basis any
large business is managed, the relegat-
ing forever to the rear of the cheap,
petty pusillanimity of the farce of our
state legislatures, and the placing in
the legislative branch of our govern
ment men who know little some
thing, at least, about that which they
are presumed to do. 1t means compe-
tition for place and such competition
will elevate the plane of our legisla-
tive body.
The present system is beautiful in
theory but absurdly silly and futile in
practice, so far as any good to the
state is concerned. Its inutility is
demonstrated every two years-some-
times oftener-in every state in the
Union; nowhere is its superiority
shown. 1t is theory of the past and
belongs there and not in this present
day. when our modern conditions de-
mand modern ways of meeting them
The Washington State Grange can
be assured of the hearty, earnest and
constant support of THE WASHINGTON
STANDARD in any campaign it may in
stitute for the establishment of this
much-needed reform in our state gov
eminent.