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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13
CITY ELECTIONS
IN H0QUIAM
Municipal Campaign Is On in
Sister City-Officers and
Polling Places

HOQUIAM, Nov. 12.-With the cit,
elections but little NOR than three
weeks off, the various candidates are
becoming quite active and much in
terest is being manifested by then
and their friends. The general pub
Tic Is not apparently SO deeply con
cerned. The affairs of Hoquiam have
been fairly we'll conducted so tina,
i no real issues are as yet discernible.
At the meeting Of the city commits
sion Wednesday, the following polling
places and officers of election were
designated:
! First ward. first precinnct-Inspec
70, J. A. Fairbairn: Judges, Ed Art
baud, A. Ponischel; clerks. Nellie Ho
man and A. T. Franz. Second pre-
cinct-E. J. Smith. inspector; Mrs. F.
]. Helmuth and Anita Powers, judges.
There being less than 100 voters in
the precinct. no clerks were allowed.
Second ward. first precinct-F. J.
Moore. inspector; Chrissie 8. Brewer
and Leo Cournoyer. judges; Mae R.
/ Macdonald and Martha G.. Huke,
clerks. Second precincts. A. Hoag,
inspector; George Diffin and. Leroy
Hall. judges; Olga M. Craig and Anna
King. clerks.
Third ward, first precinct-J. A.
Acteson, inspector; J. R. McGlauflin
and Bertha L. Shaw, judges; Don E.
Rockwell and Mayme Avis, clerks.
Second precinct-C. M. Davis, inspec.
tor; Minnie Ehrhart and Florence N.
Dunkin. judges; Louise Hickin and R.
H. Burrows, clerks.
Fourth ward, first precinct-F. M.
Kellogg. inspector; w. H. Fox and
Eliza Crook, judges; Mathilda Hunter
and Carrie Taft, clerks. Second pre-
cinct-George Barlow, inspector; A.
D. Hicks and Louis J. Mason, judges;
Maud D. Hudson and Evelyn D. Lamb,
clerks
Fifth ward, first precinct-Darwin
Britain, inspector; Anna Young and
Earl Flanders, judges; Charity Nc
Cormick and Mabel E. Hamilton,
clerks. Second precinct-H. B. Fisher,
inspector; W. A. Medley and Margar.
ct Stewart, judges; Myrtle Jacka and
o. S. Morris, clerks.
Sixth ward, first precinct-F. L.
Stewart, inspector; c. w. Becker and
Mrs. Mabel Kellogg, judges; Archie
Sawyer and Alvina A. Scott. clerks.
Second precinct-L. H. Jones, inspec-
tor; w.. G. Fairbafrn and H. H. Hal.
bert, judges; leila E. Lawrence and
Bessie T.. Ogden, clerks.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13
DEDICATE HIGH SCHOOL
Hoquiam viii Dedicate Handsome
Handsome New High School
Building, Monday, Nov. 20

HOQUIAM, Nov. 12.-Arrange-
ments have been completed, except
for few details of the program, For
the dedication of the new HoQuiam
high school. The date has been set
for Monday evening, Nov. 90, and the
exercises will begin at o'clock. Con
gresham Albert Johnson will d#liv-
err the main address.
The new building, which with it's
furnishings has cost upwards of Sr25,-
coo, has been in use for several weeks
though the final touches had not
been completed and the furniture
was not all installed. The building
and furnishings were so far complet-
ed as to be available for use aind the
high school was moved in from the
Central building.
A few details of the program for
the dedication still remain to- be ar.
ranged, though most of the main
features have been decided upon
Congressman Johnson has been Sc
/ lected to make the principal address
| There will be a number of other ad
dresses and several musical numbers
The school will be opened at p
m. and between that hour and
o'clock, the opening of the exercises
the building will be open to inspec
ton, aud in the meantime an orches
ira Stationed in the auditorium vii
play.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13
DEBATE AT MONTESANO

MONTESANO, Nov. 1.-THE Olym-
pia and Montesano high school teams
will debate in Montesano tomorrow
night on the question: Resolved,
That all revenues for local purposes
in the state of Washington shall be
raised by tax levied on land values
only" Montesano has the affirmative
and Olympia the negative. The
judges are Principal Holmquist, Judge
J. M. Phillips and Frank Beam of
Aberdeen. The local team is James
R. Royce, Loren Jones and Joe
Cheney.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13

AT COSMOPOLIS
Crays Harbor c Commercial Co.
Suffers Loss of $4,000
by Fire in Big Shed

Fire. which broke out early We'd
nesday morning in the large lumber
shed OF the Grays Harbor CONNER
cial company at Cosmopolis, which
was filled with finished lumber, en-
tailed loss of about $4,000, covered
by insurance.
The blaze undoubtedly was of in
cendiary origin, four different fires
being set at about the same time.
Until o'clock Wednesday morning
practically the entire male popula-
ton Of Cosmopolis fought the fire.
Oily waste removed from the journal
boxes Of freight cars was placed
against lumber in the shed and ig-
nited.
The npst fire burned some lumber
standing on end. The heat released
the automatic sprinkling system and
1t was quickly extinguished. The
other lumber was lying natwise and
the Ares in this were 20 stubborn it
"s>c uOSOOCoAy " OCAu6O tA0 lAVOIAOA
Of the shed with water in extinguish-
ing them. Holes we're cut in the
roof to get streams to the blazes. it
being impossible to safely work in.
side. because of the smoke and
steam.
The identity Of the firebug is not
known, but the police are making
rigid investigation.
About $4,000 feet of finished lum-
Der was burned and thousands Of
feet damaged by water. The build.
ing also was badly damaged. The
management employed a number of
additional watchmen Wednesday
night and added many extra lights to
the lumber yards.
The act was undoubtedly that of
some person or persons with a crouch
at the company, as, in addition to fir
ing the storage shed, the vandals en-
tered the mill and, eluding the watch
man, cut and practically destroyed
belts valued at several hundred dol
lars.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13
FLAT HAT FAv0RlTE.

If the world continues to wear the
fat black velvet hat with its trimming
~ white velvet flowers there will not
be much ingenuity required In the mil
linery world: Mt least not for the pres
emit
Rarely has shape been advanced
that has met with such general approx.
al 1t has ousted the high. irregular
turban. although one sees few mar
row. boat shaped. high turbans In vel
vet. These have little or no trimming
In truth. few Of the hats are depend
ent upon gnrnitnre. Everything il IN
the shape and the guilty Of the velvet
or satin used
There are no felt hats and no soft
hats except the waterproof one Of
black or rolorpd oilskin.
A Compromise Promise.
Father-Will you promise never to
be such naughty boy again II I do
not punish you?
SOn-Yes. father. II you will promise
not TO 'punish me II I am.-WSanAD's
Home CompuniDn.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13

Mrs. Downs do you expect me
to buy things for you to eat II you
don't give me any money? Mr.. Bowps
And how do you expect the to earn
money for you II don't get anything
to eat?-New York Journal.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13

Modern Printing at moderate priceG
Aberdeen Printing Co.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-13
WHITE NOCTURNE SATIN.

Evening dress OF White nocturne sat.
in. with Il bouffant drarery about the
hips. from which falls tunic of cream
lace. Roses in the back. Lace corsage
matches the tunic.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
An Admirable Commission.

The relief OF thc whole country was so great that
The sudden appearance OF the head of the Brotherhood
OF Railway Conductors a "cmincnu sociologi,t'
merely furnished material ior puzzled comment on the
part Of the press Ii admirable commits
sion. 1t did a noteworthy work and its report Is
the history OF the relations of labor and
capital in this country. The strike by the way
brought ME into contact with than one man who
was afterward a valued friend and fellow worker On
the suggestion OF Carroll Wright | appointed as as
sistant recorders the commission Charles p NeiII
whom | aiterward made Labor Commissioner to stIc-
cced Wright himself. and Mr.. Edward \ Mosley
Wiikerbarrc the OF the strike and the man
in Wilkesbarre who helped me most was Father Cur
ran grew know and trust and believe in him,
and throughout my term i'll Office. and aterward. he
was not only my staunch friend. but ono of the men
by whose advice and counsel profed in matters
affecting the welfare OF the miners and their families.
] greatly relieved the result for more than
OF course, first and foremost. my con-
Germ to frightful calamity TO the United
States. In the next place | anxious TO the
great coal operators ard all Of the class of big prop
erticd men, of which they were members from the
dreadful punishment winch their own folly would have
brought on them If had not acted: and one of the
exasperating things that they were so nded that
from themselves and avert. only for their sakes
but the sake of the country, the excesses which
would have been ndulsed in at their expense if they
mad longer persisted in their conduct.
CPubIshed by special arrangement with the Out
look which Theodore Roosevelt is he contributing
editor. through the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
Copyright 1914. by the Macmillan Company. All
rights reserved including rights of translation The
next installment Will appear in next Sundays Herald)
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
The Defenders Of Injustice.

The principle to which especially strove to
give expression through these laws and through execu
tive action, that right is vauecss unless reduced
from the abstract to the concrete This sounds like
trusm. So far from being such, the effort practically
apply it almost revolutionary, and gave rise
the btterest denunciston OF by all the big lawyers,
and all the big newspaper editors who whether sin
cerely for hire, gave expression to the views of
the privileged classes Ever since the civil war very
many of the decisions of the courts, not regards
ordinary actions between man and man. but as
CARDS the application OF great governmental policies for
social and industrial justice had been in reality moth
ing but ingenious ustfcaons of the theory that these
policies high-sounding distractions. and
were not to be given practical effect.
The tendency of the courts had been, in the ma
jority of cases, jealousy their great power
in protecting those who least needed protection and
hardly to their power all in the of those
who most needed protection Our desire was to make
the Federal government efficient as an instrument for
protecting the rights of labor within its province and
therefore to and enforce judicial decisions
which would permit make this desire effective
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
(hlApIFRR & q
6s DMlPI AUTOBIOGRAPHY UT0pp|00 GRy n II

mitted the government to the right policy We pro-
yided for an investigation of women and child labor
in the United States. We incorporated the national
child labor committee.
Where We had most difficulty was with the rail-
way companies engaged in interstate business. We
passed act improving safety appliances railway
trains without much opposition, but had trou
bic with acts regulating the hours of labor of railway
employees and making those railways which were en-
gagged m interstate liable for injuries to
the death of their employees while duty. One i'm
portant step in connection with these latter laws
taken by Attorney General Moody when, behalf Of
the government he intervened in the case of
wronged employe. 1t is unjust that law which has
been declared public policy by the representatives of
the people should be submitted to the possibility OF
notification because the government leaves the
forcement of the private initiative of poor people
who have just suffered some crushing accident
1t should be the business of the government to
erforce laws of this kind and appear in court to
argue for their consutionalty and proper enforce
ment. Thanks to Moody, the government assumed
this position The first employers liability law affect
ing interstate railroads was declared unconstitutional
We got through another, which stood the of the
courts.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
Oscar Straus, Secretary Of Commerce and Labor,
While Col Roosevelt Was Putting Through
Some Important Measures.

a irst-class whom sflcrward put the Inter
state Commerce Commission. I added to the arbtra-
tion commission. my authority. sixth mem-
Der in the person of Bishop Spaldins a Catholic
bishop, OF Peoria ILL., OF the very best to be
found in the entire country The whom the
operators had expected appoint the sociolo-
sist Carroll Wright-who really eminent
SOcologiSt | put him q recorder of the commits
sion, and added him 4 seventh member as soon Is
the commission got fairly started In publishing the
list of the commissioners, when came to Clark, ap-
pointment | added as a sociologist-the Presidcn.
assuming that for the purposes OF such commission
the term sOcioogi>t a man who las thought
and studied deeply social questions and has prac-
ticaly applied his know ledge
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
The Eight-hour Law and Other Measures
for the Protection of Employees IN the
District of Columbia -Betterment Of
Conditions in Mines.

By the time / became President had grown to
feel with deep intensity of conviction that govern
mental agencies must find their justification largely in
the way in which they are used for the practical bet
terment of living and working conditions among the
of the people felt that the fight really for
the abolition of privilege and of the first stages
in the battle necessarily fight for the rights of
the workingman. For this ! felt most strongly
that all that the government could do in the interest
of labor should be- done. The Federal government
can rarely act with the drectness that the State gov
ernments act. 1t can however, do a good deal
. My purpose was to make the national government
itself model employer of labor, the effort being
to make the per diem employe just much as
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01

that ii had no power 10 protect the lives of the
engaged in transporting the goods Such judges freely
issued njunctons prevent the obstruction OF traffic
in the interest of the property owner, but declared
unconstitutional the action OF the government in seek
ing 10 safeguard the men, and the families of the men,
without whose labor the traffic could not take place
1t was instance of the, largely unconscious, way
in which the courts had been twisted into the exata
lion OF property rights human rights, and the
subordination OF the welfare of the Iaborer when
compared with the profit of the man for whom he
labored. BY what ] fear my conservative friends
garded frightfully aggressive missionary work.
which included some uncommonly plain speaking to
certain unjust and anti-socal judicial decisions.
succeeded in largely, but by altogether,
recting this view least SO far as the best and most
enlightened judges were concerned.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
Steward Of the People.

Very much the most important action took as
regards labor had nothing do with legislation and
represented executive action which was not required
by the Constitution 1t illustrated well anything
that did the theory which have called the Jackson
Lincoln theory of the Presidency; that is. that
sionay great national crises arise which call for i'm
mediate and vigorous executive action and that in
such it is the duty of the President upon
the theory that he is the steward of the people, and
that the proper attitude for him TO take is that he
bound to assume that he has the legal right to do
whatever the needs of the people demand unless the
Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
The Great Coal Strike.

Early in the spring OF 1902 a universal strike be-
gan in the anthracite regions. The miners and the
operators became deeply embittered and the strike
went on throughout the summer and the early fall
without any sign of reaching end and with almost
complete stoppage of mining In many cities especial
y in the East the heating apparatus is designed for
anthracite, that the btuminous coal is only very
partial substitute Moreover, in many regions, in
farmhouses, many OF the provisions for burning
coal and not wood In consequence, the coal famine
became national menace as the winter approached.
In big cities and many farming districts east of
the Mississippi the shortage of anthracite threatened
calamity In the populous industrial States, from Ohio
eastward it not merely calamity, but the direst
men, very sensitive to the rights of property
under normal conditions when faced by this crisis felt
quite rightly, that there must be some radical action.
The governor of Massachusetts, and the mayor of New
York both notified me, the cold weather came
that if the coal famine continued the misery through
out the Northeast and especially in the great cities
would become appalling, and the consequent public
disorder so great that frghtful consequences might
follow 1t is not too much say that the situation
which confronted Pcnnsy lvania, New York, and New
England and less degree the States oi the Middle
West in October, 1902, quite serious If they
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
"Silly, Almost Criminal Obstinacy."

Fortunately, this TING we were successful Yet
We the verge of failure because of sef-willed
obstnacy the part of the operators This obstinacy
utterly silly from their standpoint and we'll
nigh criminal from the standpoint OF the people at
large. The miners proposed that should name the
commission, and that if | put representative of
the employing class | should also put on a labor union
man. The operators positively declined to accept the
suggestion They insisted upon my naming a COM
mission OF only five and specified the qualihca-
tions these should have. carefully choosing these
qualifications so as to exclude those whom it had
leaked out | thinking OF appointing including ex-
President Cleveland They made the condition that
to appoint officer OF the Engineer Corps of
the army navy man with experience OF mining
man OF prominence eminent as socioIogist"
Federal judge OF the Eastern district of Pennsyl
vania, and mining engineer.
They positively refused TO have me appoint any
representative of labor, or to put extra man.
desrous of putting the extra because Nit
chel and the other leaders of the miners had urged
me appoint some high Catholic cccIesiastic. Most
of the miners Catholics and Mitchell and the
leaders very anxious peaceful acuuics-
by the miners any decision rendered and they
felt that their hands would be strengthened if such an
appointment made They also, quite properly.
insisted that there should be representative of labor
the commission, all of the others represented
the propertcd classes. The operators however abso-
utey refused to acquiesce in the appointment OF any
representative of labor and also announced that they
would refuse to accept sixth man on the commits
sion although they spoke much less decidedly OIL this
point The labor men left everything in my hands.
The final conferences with the representatives OF
the operators took place in my on the evening
ofOctober IS. Hour after hour by while endeav
ored make the operators through their representa-
tve that the country would tolerate their in
sisting upon such conditions; but in vain The two
representatives of the operators Robert Bacon
and George W. Perkins They were entirely reason
able But the operators themselves were entirely un-
reasonable. They had worked themselves into frame
of mind where they prepared sacrifice every
thing and civil war in the country rather than
back down and acquiesce in the appointment OF a rep
resentative OF labor. II looked as If deadlock we're
inevitable.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
Business Of Government Contemplated
from the Lawyers Point Of View"
and How 1t Was Corrected
Great Coal Strike Of 1902.

pointments long they made under the head
ings they had given. shall forget the mixture
OF relief and amusement felt when l thoroughly
srasped the fact that while they would heroicay sub
nit to anarchy rather than have Tweedledum, yet if
| would call it Tweedledee they would accept it. with
rapture; it gave me an illuminating glimpse into
OF the mighty brains of these captains of IN
dustry In order to carry the great and vital point
and secure agreement by both parties, all that
necessary for me do to commit technical and
nominal absurdity with solemn face. This gladly
did
! announced at that | accepted the terms laid
down. With this understanding | appointed the labor
man had all along had in wew MIR. E. (. Clark the
head Of the Brotherhood OF Railway Conductors call
ing him eminent sociologist"-a term which l
doubt whether he had previously heard. He was
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01

had been threatened by the invasion Of hostile army
Of overwhelming force
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
The Eight-hour Law.
TIlcTCc.

| found the cight-hour law mere farce. the de-
partmcnts rarely enforcing it with any degree of eff
cheney. This | remcdicd by executive action Unfor-
tunately thoroughly efficient government servants
often proved be the prime offenders so far as the
enforcement of the eght-hour law was concerned be-
their zeal get good work done for the gov-
crnmcnt they became harsh taskmasers and declined
to consider the needs of their fellow-employcs who
served under them.
The more | had studied the subject the more
strongly / had become convinced that an eigit-hour
day under the conditions of labor in the United States
all that could with wisdom and propriety be re-
quired either by the government or by private en-
ployers; that than this meant on the average a
decrease in the qualities that tell for good citizenship
/ finally solved the problem as far as government en-
ployes concerned. by calling in Charles P Neil
the head of the Labor Bureau and acting on his ad-
vice speedily made the eighthour law really efec-
tive Any who shirked his work, who dawdled
and ided received mercy; sacbness is even worse
than harshness for exactly in battle mercy to the
coward is cruelty TO the brave man. so in civil life
slackness toward the vicious and idle harshness to-
ward the honest and hard-working
The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
The Operators in Opposition.

The big coal operators had banded together, and
positively refused take any steps looking toward
an accommodation. They knew that the suffering
among the miners great; they were confident that
if order were kept and nothing further done by the
government they would win; and they refused to con-
slider that the public had any rights in the matter.
They were for the most part, of unquestiouably
good private life and they merely taking the ex-
treme ndvidualistic view of the rights of property
and the freedom of individual action upheld in the
laissez faire political economies. The mines were in
the State of Pennsylvania. There duty what
laid upon by the Constitution in the matter,
and had in theory power to act directly unless
the governor OF Pennsylvania the legislature. if it
in session, should notify that Pennsylvania
could not keep order, and request commander
inchie of the army of the United States intervene
and keep order. -
As long as | could avoid interfering did so; but
| directed the head of the Labor Bureau, Carroll
Wright, to make thorough investigation and lay the
facts fully before As September passed without
any sign of weakening either among the employers
the striking wortmen, the situation became so grave
that felt / would have to try to do something The
thing feasible to get both sides to agree to
commission of arbitration with promise to accept
its findings; the miners to go to work the
commission appointed, at the old of wages.
To this proposition the miners headed by John Nit
che agreed, stipulang only that should have power
the commission. The operators, however,
positively refused. They insisted that all that
necessary do for the State keep order using
the militia police force; although both they and
the miners asked to intervene under the interstate
commerce law each side requesting that | proceed
against the other and both requests being impossible