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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
WHERE THE BLAME LIES

One of the four great reasons as.
signed as the cause of unrest among
the people by the Industrial Relations
Commission is given as Denial of Jus
tice in the creation, in the adjudica-
ton and in the administration of the
law" Why not tell the truth about
this, the whole truth, and let the
blame lie where it belongs, for the
failure of justice to the workers?
THE WORKERS IN THE UNIT.
ED STATES HAVE THE POWER
TO TAKE PART in ALL THIS, BUT
THEY HAVE REFUSED, BECAUSE
THEY HAVE BEEN LED ASTRAY
BY BLIND LEADERS, EDUCATED
IN INSTITUTIONS DEDICATED TO
THE SERVICE OF THE MASTER
CLASS, AND IMPOSED OF UNI
FERSlTIES, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES
AND CHURCHES, AND LAST BUT
not LEAST TEE PUBLIC. PRESS.
Workers, attend to your own edu-
cation, demand more democracy in
the organizations in which you now
make the laws, have less blind con
fidence in rulers whether as labor
leaders or as capitalists, take your
own brawny hands, anoint it with self
respect, and be your own master On
ly in this way through education can
you obviate this one great cause OF
industrial unrest. Only by fitting
yourselves to take charge of the ad
ministration and the adjudication OF
the law, can you ever hope to abol
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

chains of more servile slavery upon
the workers. 1t is up to the scientific
Socialists to expose these frauds as
they have exposed boy scouts, the
civic federation, craft unionism, etc
This is the machine age. We want
to do and will do everything by ma
chinery that can be done with less
labor power than by hand. The So
cialists should not oppose any useful
education, but the interests of our
class should be our guide at all times
Things should come in their order
in such way as to benefit the work
ers who are the vast majority of hui
man society.
At the age of twenty-one males and
females of certain description are
entitled to vote and thus influence
society. If they have had an intelli-
gent education their influence will be
in the direction of an intelligent or
dering of life. This means Socialism.
Yours for THE EMANCIPATION.
S. r. EDDY, Director,
School Dist. No. 2, Clallam County,
Wash.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
EDUCATION-WHAT FOR

What is the purpose of education?
To develop individuals or to maintain
institutions? Germany would answer
unequivocally that the purpose Of edu-
cation is to rear citizens for the state.
Shall the United States make the
same answer? The ruling class in
the United States is determined that
this shall be the view point of our
educational system. If our children
can be graduated from our public
schools and universities saturated
with the individualistic and capitals.
tic point of view, the continued ex-
istence of the present system is as
sured. Despite the facts to the con
trary, the average high school gradu-
ate still >elieves that this is a world
of equal opportunity and that every
man gets what he deserves. When
he does come in contact with the bit
ter realities of life, the effect Of these
teachings is still with him and he at
tributes his failure to individualistic
causes, causes within himself, rather
than to the system which makes sue
cess in life for the many an impos
sibility.-Ex.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
SOCIALISTS OF EVERETT
NOMINATE CANDIDATE
FOR SCHOOL DIRECTOR

Rv unanimous vote of the Socialists
of Everett, Katherine H. Hodgins was
nominated as their candidate for
school director in the forthcoming
election. No one who appreciates her
superior qualifications for the position
to be filled by the voters of Everett,
Sat. Dec. 4, viii fail to go to the polls
and cast a ballot for Mrs. Hodgins,
to succeed atl Hustled on the Board
of education, as school director. The
nomination was not of her asking. It
was a call to duty, coming from an
organization which represents in all
things and at all times the higher in
teregts of all men and women VINO
serve society in some useful capacity.
If elected, as she deserves to be, Mrs.
Hodgins can be wholly depended upon
to perform the duties of her office
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

purpose of the American public school
system is to prepare for higher edu.
cation. A system which accomplisbes
only seven per cent of what it sets
out to accomplish is about SO per cent.
failure, isn't it?
Not more than one-third of the chill
dren who enter the public schools ev.
er finish even the elementary grades.
Not one-half of them finish the sixth
grade.
That is, one-half of all the children
who enter the public, schools leave
them before they have acquired an
equipment with which to read a news
paper intelligently.
1t is estimated that the loss of this
fifty per cent. of children from the
public schools in the middle of the
elementary course represents to the
nation loss in human resources of
$3.50, 100000.
What is the matter with our school
system?
In the first place, it is foreign
importation. 1t was originally meant
to supply education for a select few
of the population in country hay
ing totally different governmental, so.
cial and industrial conditions from
those of the United States. 1t is &C.
counted failure even in the country
from which it came. Our educational
system may be likened to an exotic
plant, and, to carry the smile further,
it is about as productive in the United
States as an Amazon rubber tree
transplanted to a New England home
stead.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
BY S. T. Eddy

In the first place, what excuse have
we for demanding the money of the
public or the individual to educate
our children? The answer can be but
one of two-either to build a better
and more intelligent citizenship or the
creation of a more efficient servant
class.
The latter alternative is so raw
that not even the capitalists them
selves would openly father it. This
leaves only the former to be consid-
cred
To build a more intelligent citizen
ship it is not only necessary that we
teach all that has been taught in the
common school and teach it better
but we must also teach economics and
social science as well. To do this
it is necessary to reduce these sci
ences to the vocabulary of the com.
mon school, This is the task of the
economist, the sociOlogist, and the
literary genius. When | say that we
must teach all that has been taught
in the common schools | do not mean
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
SALTER'S STATEMENT

| was defeated because | stood for
theories of economics and principles
of municipal government that the ma
jority of Everetts citizens were not
yet ready to accept.
This alone was not sufficient to in
sure my defeat. 1t was necessary for
my opponent and his supporters to
resort to every dirty trick known to
corrupt politics.
They went from house to house
circulating the most vicious and ma
licious falsehoods about me.
they appealed to religious intoler-
ances, ignorance, prejudice, and pa
triotism and proved that DR.. Johnson,
the eminent English scholar, was
right when he said that Patriotism
is the last refuge of scoundrel."
For days both men and women evil
IDENTIFY paid in cash or in promises,
carried on their nefarious campaign
of SANDER.
Not one word could they say de-
rogatory to my successful handling of
the public works department, my acts
as a member of the city council or my
private life.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
ULONSKA TO DEBATE
IN NORTH YAKIMA

Comrade Carl Ulonska is to debate
in the Congregational church in North
Yakima, Friday, Nov. 26, at 8 pm
The question to be debated is "Resolv.
ed that Socialism is the most desirable
economic order for the people of the
United States" Carl Ulonska, of Ev.
erett High School and secretary of the
Socialist party of Snohomish county
will take the affirmative and Dow
R. Cope, of the University of Wash
ington the negative. Admission Csc
Each ticket will entitle the holder to
a five weeks subscription to The
Northwest Worker.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
Public Schools a Failure

Inc American public school, as now
constituted, is failure.
The American public school was
never designed to meet American con.
ditions; it's basic idea, which is to
prepare students for college, is wrong.
Even if judged by accomplishments
upon this basic idea, the American
public school is ninety-three per cent.
a failure.
Public school education in this coun-
try is not practical for millions of
children who must be educated in the
public schools or not at all.
Fed on theory, taught by incompe-
tent teachers, millions of these chill.
dren are thrust from a schoolroom
atmosphere of theory and incompe-
tence into a world exceedingly prac.
tical; where competency is the first
qualification of success.
Result, millions of failures and
semi-failures in the individual cases
of these children; failure of the ma
tion as whole to make the most of
its resources, industrially CONNER
cially and agriculturaIly.
The public school system represents
an investment Of 1921, 695, 730, and
it costs the American people $446-
726,929 a year to maintain. One sin
gle item of waste, that of retardation
or pupils, costs the nation $157 $685.
602 annually more than one-third the
total maintenance charge.
Only seven per cent. of the children
who enter the public schools ever pass
through them. Those who do not
achieve the high school commence
ment platform are prepared for moth
ing in the world except, possibly, to
undergo more education.
P. P. ClaXton, United States Com
missioner of Education, from whose
annual report of 1912 most of the fig
pres in this article are taken, gives
the number of children entering the
public schools annually as about g.
O55,000 OF this number, only 5O2,577,
or 24.45 per cent. of those entering,
reach the high school, OF the num-
Der who reach high school only 155 .656
or 1888 per cent, get into the fourth
year. These 1855 who complete
the public school work are only seven
per cent. of those who begin it.
The actual, practical and working
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
WHAT THEY SAID

,Salter while a teacher in the pub.
lie schools removed from the walls
pictures of Washington and Lincoln
and put that of Debs in their places.
He refused to stand once upon a
time when an orchestra played the
Star Spangled Banner.
He called the Liberty Bell old Junk
and refused to 90 to see it when an
opportunity presented itself. He hired
only Socialists in connection with the
work of the public works department.
Made the men pay $5 to get job
and then made them join the Socialist
party to keep the job.
Was unable to support his family
Every day something new was invent.
ed, no tale was too absurd for their
disordered minds.
AS election day drew near my op-
ponents Saw how well their plan was
working and when their reward was
in sight their enthusiasm knew no
bounds. 4
Thousands Of snail national flags
were distributed among school chill
dren. Merrill supporters wore them
in their hats and on their coats.
On election day the opposition au-
tomobiles were decorated fore and aft
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
BIRMINGHAM SOCIALISTS
TO GIVE DRAMA

The Socialists of Local Birmingham
are to hold an educational drama en-
titled "a Pageant of Peace" on Sat
urday evening Nov. 9th. There are
to be seventy people in the cast. A
dance and supper will be given imme-
diately following the entertainment.
Tickets to the dance are 25c, ladies
free. Supper will be served in the
hall at Csc per plate. Don't forget the
date-Nov e. Don't forget the place,
Birmingham Hall, Birmingham. Ev-
erybody be there A good time is
guaranteed.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
RECORD BANK CLEARINGs

In the month of October, bank clear
lngs IN this country reached the high
est total ever known, being $40. O52.
zzz. The highest total for any pre-
vlous month was that for October
1912. $17.oo2,Ooo,OoO, SO that the total
clearings for this year surpass the
highest previous total by nearly Is
per cent.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

with American flags.
1t worked; they got away with the
goods; the people were again deceived
by the same old gang who have so
long dominated Everetts politics. The
Socialist campaign of education was
not able to stand up under that of the
Knights of Columbus, the Bolo Club,
occupants of houses of prostitution
and beneficiaries of the same, good
ly sprinkling of protestant preachers
and church members, together with
a host of job seekers.
When | was elected in August, 1914
had for my supporters those who
were responsible for the recall of Mr.
Thompson.
They wanted the city hall gang
cleaned out. During this election the
same recallers who were so anxious
for a cleanup year ago joined hands
with the bunch that | did clean out
of the public works department and
worked for my defeat
Am well pleased with the vote. Mr.
Merrill, my opponent, possessed all
the qualifications that appeal to the
average American voter. He is a
heavy taxpayer, a reformer and sup
posed to be opposed to corporate
greed
| When one considers that the So
cialists conducted their campaign
strictly according to party principles
and tactics, we have no cause for re-
grets.
We can only continue in our work
of education and organization.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

ish wage slavery, and establish upon
the ruins of this infamy, the hope of
the ages, Industrial Democracy. You
are the arbiter of your own destiny,
you have the power Use it. Politi,
cal action alone will never liberate
you, but it is a mighty weapon, suf-
ficiently powerful almost alone to
have held the workers for centuries
in tn ebonds of ignorance, and the in,
evitable result of ignorance, slavery.
Peoples College News.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
RE BOSTROM'S ARTICLE

We stated in last weeks issue that
we were going to publish an article
from Comrade Bostrom re Brown. But
we have had to postpone the publish
ing of this article because Local Ev-
erett has decided to go into the school
campaign and the article will take up
too much space for the campaign edi
tions. We will publish it in our issue
of Dec. 8.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
A REAL PATRIOTS PLEDGE
(From "War-What For?")

l refuse to kill your father 1 re-
fuse to Stay your mothers son. I re-
fuse to plunge a bayonet into the
breast of your sisters brother I
refuse to Stay your sweetheart's low
er. 1 refuse to murder your wife's
husband. 1 refuse to butcher your
little child's father. I refuse to wet
the earth with blood and blind kind
eyes with tears. l refuse to assassi-
nate you and then hide my stained
fists in the folds of any flag.
I refuse to be flattered into hell's
nightmare by a class of well-fed snobs,
crooks and towards, who despise our
class economically and betray our
class politically.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
For School Director Katherine H. Hodgm Nominee Of the Socialist Part
BMd?Mon
oo'
Why Socialists Lost in Everett

Editors Note:-Many of our read.
ers are unable to understand why
Comrade Salter was defeated in the
orally conceded that he had made
goot. The following statement from
Comrade Salter is a correct analysis
and Interpretation of the campaign
and its results:
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

Patriotism and the flag was all that
was left to fall back upon.
On the streets, through the daily
press and to the homes the following
with various combina
tions and variations, were carried with
relish and glee.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
RECEIVED ONLY $4,000 EACH

David Goldstein and Peter Collins
only received $4,000 from the knights
of Columbus last year-up to June 30,
1915-for their services as saviors of
society from the menace of Socialism
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

We have a suspicion thar a lot of
that recruiting that always follows a
Zeppelin attack is inspired by a de-
sire to get away from the perils of
life in London,-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
EVERETT DISTRIBUTION

Distribution of leaflets Sunday, Nov.
20. Let's show them we have started
the campaign for 1916. More distri-
butors wanted. Phone headquarters,
or leave name and address. Call for
bundle Saturday evening or Sunday
morning.
F. G. CROSBY,
City Organizer.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

Our own notion of a hard-luck story
is the top one of a London house.
Columbia State.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

Lieutenant Fay says he was edu-
Gated in a correspondence school.
This explains all.-New York Tele-
graph.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25
1t Takes Strength

IL takes great strength to train
To modern SERVICE your ancestral brain
TO lift the weight of the unnumbered wears
OF dead mems habits methods and ideas
10 hold that back with one hand and sunnort
With the other the weak steps of a new tbouobt
1t takes great strength to live your life
Up square with your accepted thought
And hold it there.
Resisting that inertia that drags back
FROM new attempts to the old habits track
It's so easy to slip back-to sink
so hard to live abreast of what you think
1t takes great strength to live where Won belong
When other people think that you are wrong
People you love, and who love you and whose
Approval is a pleasure you would choose
To bear this bravely and succeed at length
In living your belef-well IT TAKES STRENGTH
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-25

?. G. CROSBY,
City Organizer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-07-02
Common Humanity.

Olympian Joves do not ride on
clouds or sit on mountain tops in
these days laundering commands to
common mortals. Or If they do, busy
folk pay little attention to them. Owls
that simply sit and blink and look un-
utterably wise do not fool many peo-
pie.
He who never unbends to speak the
simple language of the home and the
fields, or hold occasional honest con-
verse with his fellows, may be truly
great and dignified parsonage. He
may indeed deserve and gain a wide
respect by sheer force of intellect, per-
haps, but we love to feel the quickening
power Of that divine spark we call
common humanity that links mind to
mind and heart to heart; that makes
us comrades in a common cause. That
is the thing really worth while. With
out it all Is cold storage" void Of
the spirit that stands for the sunlight,
for Gods good earth and the brother
hood of man.-Breeder's Gazette.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-07-02
WELL TO ABSTAIN FROM FOOD
Giving Stomach an Occasional Rest Is
Regarded as an Excellent
Idea.

Abstinence from food for short
period is a very excellent method Of
treatment for dyspepsia and kindred
digestive disturbances. A raging sick
headache disappears after giving the
stomach a rest-by emitting to eat
only one or two meals. 1t is common
knowledge that day or two of starv-
ing every two or three months ena-
bles one to do better work-more
mental and physical work can be ac-
complished without fatigue. 1t is ad-
visable, however, when on a hunger
strike to drink water. Copious liba-
tions of hot water-several quarts DUR
ing the waking hours-will contrib
ute to the feeling of well-being The
water may be taken e. tumblerful or
more every hour or two. Those per-
sons who eat at irregular hours and
partake of foods poorly cooked or
of such composition as to cause indi-
gestion will find the mild form Of
starving for "a hours or longer prac-
tice worthy Of trial, for the resulting
effects Of the experiment will be
gratifying. The rest (when one is on
hunger strike) given the digestive
apparatus strengthens it and thus aids
in conserving the health. A general
feeling Of rejuvenation invariably fol-
lows few days fasting.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-07-02
Habit Will Grow Upon You.

Conquer the habit of worrying if
you want to be happy in this world.
Worry will grow upon you, becoming
a little worse day after day until it
holds you in such an unrelenting grip
that you are veritable slave to it's
dictates. Shake off fear, fill your
mind with happy thoughts, look into
the future unafraid, and be thankful
for the blessings of the present.
No matter how bad your condition
you can always find something to be
thankful for. If you are poor you may
have health, blessing many Of the
rich would be willing to pay for dear
ly. If you are i'll you may at least
be happy in the tender ministrations
of friends and relatives around you.
Look at any condition for the good
there is in it, look for the best, do
your best, and you will have no cause
to worry.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-07-02
Vlctoria's v. C.'s.

In presenting the Victoria Cross to
soldiers actually "in the field" King
George may to some extent have been
Influenced by the original order, which
provides that under conditions stipu-
lated, the coveted decoration shall be
conferred ION the spot where the act
to be rewarded by the grant Of such
decoration has been performed" The
first presentation Of the Victoria Cross,
however, took place in Hyde Park in
June, 1857, when Queen Victoria with
her own hands pinned 1t on the coats
Of sixty-two Crimean heroes. 1t is re-
corded that the queen wore red and
white feather at the side of her round
hat, "a scarlet body made nearly like
a military tunic," and dark blue
skirt. She was on horseback, with
Prince Albert on her left, who made
profound obeisance to each wearer of
the V. G.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-07-02
TREES THAT WILL BE MISSED
Many Needed for Medicine Have Been
Cut Down and Are Not Being
RepIanted.
THE END

The woodlands ak has been clear
ing our forests so rapidly as to work
great injury to the farming interests
of the country and to the wealth Of
the nation The trees so necessary
to the retention of moisture for the
soil and a supply for the rivers have
been ruthlessly cut down. The trees
from which medicine are derived
are rapidly disappearing with the
rest. The wild cherry besides hav-
ing the ak as an enemy, has been
cut down by the tiny teeth Of insects.
It's bark contains hydrocyanic acid,
and is a popular tonic. The witch
hazel, known as remedy by the
Indians, is being destroyed. The
bark Of the slippery elm tree is won
derfully healing to wounds and in
Examinations. The butternut as a
mild cathartic, the white ash as an
astringent, the white pine and spruce
for the respiratory organs, the tama-
rack, the white willow and the birch
as tonics, and the other trees with
health-giving properties are rapidly
fading away.-The Christian Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-07-02
SWsWs&WVSY
= fNOrSIS.

The New York police are mystified by
y series of murders and other crimes.
The principal clue to the criminal is the
warning letter which is sent the victims.
signed with "clutching hand" The lat
est victim OF the mysterious assassin is
Taylor Dodge, the insurance president.
His daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Ken
nedy, the famous scientific detective, to
try to unravel the mystery. What Ken
nedy accomplishes Is told by his friend
Jameson, newspaper man. Enraged at
the determined effort which Elaine and
TO his crimes. the Clutching Hand, as
this strange criminal is known, resorts
to all sorts OF the most diabolical schemes
TO put them out of the way. Each chap
ter Of the story tells OF a new plot
against their lives and of the way the
great detective uses all his skill to save
this pretty girl and himself from death.