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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
That Single Tax euoaboo

Editor Little persists, in the Ray
mond Review, that the plank in the
Democratic state platform favoring an
amendment to the constitution that
will enable the people to enact a
revenue system that will be in har-
mony with changed economic condi-
tions," is a dark design of the single
takers. In the last issue of the Re-
view, he says:
This question was thorough
ly discussed among the delegates
in the Hobbies and on the floor
of the convention and we have
failed to find q single Democrat
who claimed to know anything
of the matter whatever that did
not admit that this plank was
endorsed, supported and promot-
ed by the single tax element
among the King county Democra-
cy. In fact it was openly charged
that this plank was virtual sur
render to the single tax theor-
lists and is so considered by al
most every Democrat from whom
We have been able to obtain an
expression on the subject.
The editor of the Review has un-
questionably been misinformed con-
corning this plank. There was alb
solutely no discussion Of it on the
floor of the convention and but very
little in the committee. That 1t con-
templates the adoption Of the theory
OF Henry George remained for the
Review to discover.
The platform simply favors giving
the people a chance to change ante
quated laws, as suggested time and
again by the State Tax Commission,
in such manner as they see fit. The
Herald does not believe that a ma
jority of the people of this state de-
sire the single tax, nor that such a
measure would receive serious con-
sideration, but we know the tax laws
need revision and are content to sub
NIT the manner of such revision to
the voters. 1t will require more than
three years to amend the constitu-
ton, during which time the matter
will be fully discussed.
Editor Little's distrust of the peo-
pie surprises his old friends on Grays
Harbor, where he is recollected as
being the most vociferous populist
and advocate of the pee-pulls rule
twenty years ago.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
A Trade Wind Straw.

One hundred travelling men, gather
ed for the regular summer meeting
Of the employers of Endicott, Johnson
& Co., at Rochester the other day,
reported that the increase in the ship
ment of shoes from their factory for
the first six months of 1914 amounted
to 100000 over the corresponding
period of last year. The travelling
statesmen reported the outlook bright
for the largest fall business in the
history of the firm.
This is not the report OF any re.
dictionary Congressman at Washing
ton. 1t is the report of the statesmen
who travel through the country, visit
the merchants, keep track of the
stocks and know to dot just what
business conditions are. The Opt.
mism of these statesmen is founded on
hard business facts. The calamity
shouter is going to be mighty lone
some this fall.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
Americas ImpregnabIe Position.

The United States need not even be
temporarily disturbed by the upset
ting OF all commercial and financial
resources of this nation are SO great
that every demand of trade and in
dustry can be met without producing
any strain whatever. Naturally there
will be some tension in financial cir
cles, pending the adjustment of re.
lations with foreign bankers, but it
in no manner affects general business
or banking interests in the United
States.
According to the treasury state
ment Of July 20, the United States had
$786,598,522 in gold coin and $236,352,-
BAT in gold bullion, nearly half bill
lion in silver dollars in what is termed
it's currency trust funds, besides $780,
100000 in gold coin and bullion in
the reserve fund. Cash assets were
then put at $2S7 ,3O6,359, with a grand
total of assets amounting to about
$1,950,000,0 200.
Congress has passed, with hardly a
dissenting vote, bill making avail.
able Immediately the unlimited mill
ions of currency in the United States
treasury and that may be authorized
under the provisions of the Aldrich-
Vreeland act. The Senate first passed
a bill authorizing the issue of $780,
100000. The House promptly removed
the limit and the Senate concurred.
This gives the Secretary of the Treas
ury authority to issue whatever vol
ume of money may be needed by the
business interests of the nation.
Seattle and Tacoma banks have de-
clined offers of aid from the Federal
government, the banks having suf-
ficient resources to meet all demands.
Similar conditions prevail throughout
the country, except in some of the
great grain-growing states where
funds are needed for the moving of
the crops. These funds are available
in practically unlimited quantities.
In short, the entire resources and
credit of the American nation are
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
Compulsory Eioht-Hour Day Would
Work Great Injury.

1t has been proposed that next No.
vember the voters adopt as law an
eight-hour day for all industries in
this state. The proposed law, an in.
itiative measure, provides that 1T
shall be unlawful for any corporation
or person to permit any employee to
work more than eight hours during
any day OF "a hours, or more than
4S hours during any week Of seven
days.
This measure, if enacted, will in.
jure the present systems Of manufac-
turing, farming and domestic service.
1t may produce results that would
prove ruinous to the industries of
Washington. 1t will work mischief
throughout the whole range of So
ciety. 1t will bear most hardly up
on the very classes in whose interest
it is supposed to be-the wage-earn-
ers.
The earning power of every en-
ploye affected would be reduced a
fifth. The employer could not afford
to pay and would not pay the same
wage for an eight-hour day as for one
OF greater length. He has to compete
against communities outside of Wash
ington, where the eight-hour day is
not observed, and against competitors
who enjoy the greater capacities for
production that the longer ray brings.
He would find himself obliged, as a
matter of sedf preservation and Of
continuance in business, to cut the
wages of his employees to point that
would enable him to compete on equal
terms with outside rivals.
The producers Of this state already
suffer under the drawbacks Of dis
lance from great markets, high rates
of taxation, high interest on borrowed
capital and relatively high wages. The
adoption Of the proposed law would
add still another handicap to their
present disadvantages. 1t might
prove the last ounce of dead weight
to stop the wheels of progress.
The impracticability Of the eight
hour day in such industries as nurs-
ing, household service and farming is
obvious. Nursing is an all-day and all
night job. The proposed law would
render it necessary to have three
nurses to care for each sick person,
and this expense would be prohibitive.
The farmers business, especially at
harvesting time, demands frequently
16 hours of labor. Where is he to get
and how is he to pay the extra help
that an eight-hour day would necessi-
tate?-Spokane Spokesman-Review. -.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
Atlantic Can Be Cross
ed by Airship In
Less Than a
Day
4++++4**
Bp Dr. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. Inventor
of the Telephone and Expermcnter In Aviation

# HE distance from Newfoundland Ireland
sand miles, This that if you go hundred miles
hour you will the Atlantic twenty hours than day
We have flying machines that greater than
ready have machines that could engines
keep going for twenty hours Of these exceptional machines
but the ordinary machines of today make fifty miles
NOW. FLYING MACHINE FLIES HIGHER UP.
BECAUSE THE RARER OFFERS
TON. WHILE THE PROPELLER GIVES
SAME POWER WHATEVER ELEVATION INTO THE
RARER AIR THE PROPELLER SPINS AROUND
MACHINE AR-AND
HAVE MACHINES THAT HAVE GONE TWICE
FLY MUCH FASTER THAN FIFTY MILES HOUR
ELEVATION OF NILES THERE
GENERAL DIRECTION EUROPE A
LociTv ANYWHERE TWENTY.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
There Isn't Any Danger
In America of Intelh-
gent Women Going
Mad Over Box
ing Matches
Bp Dr.. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. President
National Suffrage Association

CROWD WOMEN A FIGHT IN THE ARENA Is NOT
n A NEW SPECTACLE. IT SOUNDS LIKE ANCIENT
HISTORY AND DOES NOT POINT TO DETERIORATION
IDEALS HELD ev WOMEN. As US INFER IT IS
MERELY THAT SOME ENcLisHMEN TIRED
FORM SOCIAL INTERCOURSE A FORMAL KIND AND
HAVE SUBSTITUTED NEW EXCITEMENT. WOMEN WHOSE INTER
EsTs ARE PURELY SOCIAL HAVE
~ ENOUGH IT is NOT THAT THEY ARE HEARTLEss
BUT SIMPLY rHouoHTLEss AND UNoccuPiED.
believe that Of the strongest arguments suffrage
its educational value Here in America NO DANGER
OF HAVING OUR INTELLIGENT WOMEN GO MAD OVER
BOXING MATCHES because they their
too much occupied with other things and suffrage the things
We claim no superiority to the Engishwoman.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

ready to guard industry, commerce
and the interests of the people against
any temporary crisis that may arise as
a result Of the war in Europe. More
than ever before the power Of the
government Of the United States is
being exercised in the interests of all
the American people.-Tacoma Trib-
une.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
Studied Insult,

II WISH" said the waiter who hal
been serving the man with the grim
face and the pert looking girl, II could
think Of some way to get even with
that fellow. He complained about ev.
erything | put on the table and grow.
ed about every move l made"
"What did his bill amount TOT"
"A dollar and ninety cents"
"And how much money did he hand
you?"
"a two dollar bill"
ITS easy. Have it in two nickels
when you return his change. "-Chice-
go Herald.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
ARE IN GERMANY.

Mrs. Roscoe Conrad and her sister
Miss Mabel McClymont, We're to have
been In Germany, on their tour of
Europe. on July 81, and their rela-
tivea and friends are uneasy as to
their situation since war was declared.
Congressman Johnson is trying to To-
cate them through the state depart
mont.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

ONCE MR.. ROOSEVELT ADDRESSED TO HIS ccUNTRYWoMEN :
CELEBRATED ADMoNiToN ACCUSING
HOOD AND SPEAKING WITH ALL THE PATAos OF PROPHET
ISRAEL
At THE IMPETUOUs sCOLD WHY SHOULD MOTHER
HER FUNCTION BEAUTIFUL oReN
IMPAIR
The misfortune the Woman is that she has idc"
HER SOLE OBJECT IN LIFE Is TO LEAVE: HER RIVALS;
BEHIND. If woman has necklace of of pearls M
wants strings II another big jewels bigger
If hundred thousand dollars
buys for hundred and fifty thousand doas If
stockings embroidered her teeth
crusted with them
THOSE THOUGHTS THOSE THE IDEAS THAT OCCUR
A0oRATioN
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
leuend Of a Lake,

Avernus is the lake in the neigh.
borhood of Naples where the waters
are so unwhoesome that birds never
fly near its banks. In ancient times 1t
was thought to be the entrance to
hades and where Ulysses descended to
the lower regions.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
BRAvlNG AERIAL ICINESS.
Easier For the eailoonist Than For tn
Man In an Aeropiane.

Easier For the ealloonist Than For the
Man In an AeropIane.
am often asked why the uerOplane.
which has reached Mt its very highest
little over $1,000 feet. brings hack Its
aviator even from a much lower point.
often almost exhausted with cold.
when the ba lloonist 6oatinG for hours
at height Of over four miles II not
overcome by low temperature and
hardly inconvenienced. The answer II
simple. The aviator rusheA upward
from the earth. cutting bis way In
ascending spirals ever against the
wind Of his own swift 6ight and the
roaring blast Of his propeller.
He IL the epitome Of action. He IL
mans supreme defiance Of natures
precedents. The nervous strain II
something fearful as the machine
claws up the side Of nothingness to-
ward a mark In the heavens. invisible
yet all compelling. the mark another
man has set-the altitude record. Out
of sight Of the waiting crowds. no
longer even dot in the sky. he may
meet opposing air currents. binding
cloud banks that muffle him so that he
cannot see the tips OF his own wings
He may be forced to buck against ad
verse conditions so that he keeps cir
cling round and round with the baro-
graph dashed to the side Of the ma.
chine scarcely moving. and then he
thinks about the last mans mark and
sets his teeth--and sets the mark high
or in the heavens.
He NAV come back so stiff with cold
that h" '.annot stir from the seat. but
good deal ~ II will he due to the in
tense nervous strain. for no one so au-
daciously affronts Cravitation and gets
away with II entirely unscathed. Mean
while the hallooniSt has been waited
to the SKIES" II not ION flOwery beds
Of ease" at least on an mir mattress.
with a gas bag going M In dOcile
agreement with laws governing the
expansion Of gas The carhnrrtnr
freezes Mt lower temperature t"'n
the balloonist's water bottles. because
vaporizing liquid In itself produces
cold
But I have had water hotties freeze
in a balloon often enough. and the
temperature has been around zero. The
ballast freezes. and. instead OF sending
It over the side from the scoop In n
fine cloud. yom have to break mp the
stony mass with II hnmmer lest chunk
fall on somebody's head below. One
day when we were shiverinG In the
thickest OF ulstcrs and drinking hot
sOup with relish we could nave
looked over the edge Of ,he basket ana
seen the farmers in Iowa having sun
strokes in the hnyticlds that IS. II we
had recognized either snnstrOkes or
farmers. for ut that height man
who Is always hiding under his hat
looks like a period on this page. -Au-
gustus Post In American Magazine.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

to the individual. showing the best ag
ricultural exhibit grown in Grea
Northern territory or along subsidiary
lines in Washington.
Every farmer is urged to enter the
contest and help make this fair q
huge success.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

Louis w. Hill, president Of the
Great Northern Railway, has signal
ized his interest in the Washington
State Fair, to be held at North Yak
ina, Wash. Sept. II to 26, inclu-
sive, by offering a handsome sill
yer cup as a special prize to be given
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
All That American Asks of Wife Is That
She Be Beautiful and Elegant
Bp Dr.. MAX NORDAU

r HE American woman has no culture because the
American man has none and demands none
from his mate. ALL THAT HE ASKS OF
HER is THAT SHE BE BEAUTIFUL AND
ELEGANT. She must be admired in order that he
may be envied She must be one of the acknowl-
edged queens Of the smart set. He wishes to read
her every time he opens the society pages of
newspaper. For this he is willing to pay full value
and much more
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

ward came upon many OF these same
notes in his work. amplitied and adapt
ed-From Sketch Of Frank Norris by
His Brother, Charles Norris.
Faultfnding should begin with one
self j4} ft+
thing.
A NEAR neighbOr" is sometimes
very ''clOse" neighbor.
Screens III ti.e windows prevent
crane on the doors.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

Send the twice-a-week Herald tc
your inQuiring Eastern friends.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07
PUBLISHERS NOTICE

Subscribers served BY city CARRIER
failing to receive the Herald on Tues.
day and Friday BY s o'clock p. m.
will confer . favor on the publisher
BY calling the City Messenger Co.,
Phone q, who will deliver . copy
Immediately. 4
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

The Herald is the oldest paper Grays Harbor and has
larger circulation than other Cheha county Adver
ng contracts based this claim Of circulation and all
money due executed under this will be
feted if the statement be not absolutely
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-08-07

I remember that Frank kept black
notebook in his inside coat pocket. In
which he set down Il heterogeneous
collection of notes of his own Observa-
iioils-u well turned sentence. ii good
anne the possible title of Il book. One
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
PROBLEM OF GETTING OUT
 LUMBER FOR SLUICING

The problem of getting out lum- Der for sluicing the coming season is now confronting some of those who plan to work on the pay creeks in the heart of the Chisana. Recent arrivals report some of the men in the camp are whipsawing lumber. They have peeled their mackinaws and have gotten down to the drag in good. old Klondike fashion.
 It is understood the whipsawed lumber brings IS to 20 cents foot or $180 to $2O0 a thousand in the camp. This is not considered ex- cessive considering the cost of ma teriiaI laid down in the camp un- der present conditions.
 Some who will operate on Bon anza in the canyon this spring are considering the likelihood of be- ing washed out by freshets. It is understood that prior to the fif- teenth of June a heavy flood of wa ter goes down Little Eldorado and Bonanza to Johnson, and it is fear ed it will carry everything before it.
 Heavy rains in summer, it is fear ed, also may cause floods of water to rush down the canyons, and pos sibly take cut sluice boxes, and fill workings with tailings. But the boys on the richground are willing to take chances, and will prepare as best they can against the contingen- cies. Most of the places in the Be- nanza canyon are narrow, wide enough for only one CT two sluice boxes to be set up parallel and leave room for the men to work. It was early in May when the James party found the gold on Bonanza last year, and the snow then was not all off the ground. Sluicing is expected to begin in June.
 It is understood some of the pros pectors sinking on OBrien creek are down so far they are thawing no longer with with wood fires, but are using hot rocks.-Dawson News.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
]. p. ROGERS
 HAS RESIGNED

J. P. Rogers, superintendent of the Spokane, Portland 6 Seattle Railway, has resigned, effective March l. MT. Rogers has been with the Hill interests for years and has made his headquarters at Vancouver, Wash. His Jurisdiction has covered the main line of the North Bank from Vancouver tc Spo- kane and also the Oregon Trunk from Fallbridge to Bend. His sue cessor will be selected In few days. Portland Telegram.
 In the early days of the W. P. & Y. Route J. P. Rogers was well known figure in Skagway and South ern Yukon. He was for years sup erintendent of the w. r. 6 Y. Route and was one of the most popular railroad men that was ever in the north. He severed his connection with the w. P. & Y. R. company in 1905, and for several months thereafter was manager for J. H. Conrad in his mining operations in the Bennett Lake and Little Windy Arm country. After leaving here he went to Vancouver, Wash, where he has since been identified with the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
FOR ENLARGING
 OF STATUARY

San Francisco, Feb. 2S-The pointing machine, a mechanism for the enlargement of statuary from models, is being used for the first time in the art department of a great exposition at the Panama Pacific International Exposition stu dios. The machine was invented by Robert Paine, who, as assistant to August St. Gaudens at the time of the Chicago Worlds Fair, con ceiYed the idea that the laborious work of preparing colossal sculptur- al figures could be done more quick ly by mechanical means. The ma chine allows the completion of work, which before consumed a year or more, in one month.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
PERSONAL

The following people are regis tered at the Golden North hotel: Wm. Ferguson and J. McKenna, Ju- neau; M. B. Robinson, Miss Strand, Anton Strand, P. W. Christensen, C.. Hansen, Miss F. W. Williams, Mrs. G. w. Williams and children, Seat tie; George Gagnon, Quebec; H. Smith, Ccrdoya; Dave A. Rohde and H. D. Morgan.
 R. M. Becker, who has been vis- iting in Seattle for the past three months, returned to Skagway sun day morning on the Spokane.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
NARROW TREAD CYCLE CARS
 ORDERED FOR NOME, ALASKA

Auburn, Ind, Feb. 2S-Alaska, the Yukon and other British Colum- bia points where the narrow 36 inch wide dog and sledge trails predominate offer a new field for the light weight, narrow tread, air cooled cycle car. An Indiana firm reports the sale of ten of these cars. for immediate shipment to Nome, Alaska, in the Arctic Circle. In addition to tue regular equip ment these ten cycle cars will have spiked rear wheels and runners in front for winter use. This Alaskan order shows that the field of the cycle car and it's possibilities know no geographical limit.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
INTERNATIONAL
 BOWLING SERIES

Tomorrow night at S o'clock at the Elks club will commeuce the Tn ternational bowling series between teams of Juneau, Treadwell, Skag- way, Whitehorse and Dawson, the scores of each team being reported by telegraph after every. game.
 After tomorrow night there will be a game every Friday and Tues day nights until the whole of the series of Is games has been play ed.
 The Elks club of Skagway, one of the contesting teams, has just finished trying out its members to determine those whC are to represen them, which resulted in the follow ing being chosen: A. c, Blanchard, ". A. Peterson, W. C.. Blanchard, o. Selmer and E. Barry
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
TIE FIRENEN'S
 BENEFIT BALL

The Annual benefit ball of the Skagway volunteer Firs Department came off as per announcement at the Elks hall on Saturday night and was an unqualified success in every particular.
 When the grand march, the first number on the program, was call ed at 9:3O the hall and reception room were filled almost to their capacity with dancers while the gallery seats were almost all occu- pied by those who were in attend ance merely as onloOkers.
 As the program was lengthy one, consisting of 21 numbers, be- sides four special selections rend- cred by the Skagway brass band, things were kept moving pretty live ly bv the floor committee until 1I:3O o'clock, when supper was an uouuced.
 The supper was a pass-around and consisted of several kinds of sandwiches, varieties of delicious cake too numerous to mention and coffee. all in superabundant Quan- titles. and to which every one did ample justice.
 Shortly after F o'clock dancing was resumed and kept up until nearly three.
 Notes.
 The refreshment booth, presided over by Williams Simes, who deftly served out ice cold lemon ade and punch from cavities cut in two huge blocks of ice, was uni que conception and was frequently patronized by the dancers during the whole of the entertainment;
 That the booth was designed es- pecially for the occasion by c. o. Walker and was work of art, de- serving of special mention.
 In the earlier part Of the even ing there were seldom less than 50 couples of dancers upon the floor during the rendering Of each num- Der.
 The decoration committee was de- serving of much praise for it's artis- tic work.
 And the dance committee certain Iy knew what the Skagway people liked when it got up the program;
 And the floor committee was as- siduous in seeing that every one who desired to dance had a part uer;
 And say, that bunch of fire lad dies who looked after the wants of the people at supper time, were certainly all to the good, and nev- CT overlooked a sin0le individual in the hall, or in the reception room,
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-23
WASHINGTON'S
 BIRTHDAY

Yesterday, Sunday Feb. 22d, was the anniversary of Washington's birthday and legal holiday thru out the United States. Inasmuch as it came on Sunday the obserY- ance of it was transferred to today, the 23d, in consequence of which the postoffice and other federal of fees have been closed for the great CT part of the day.