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The Washington times., 1915-01-03
TWENTY-ONE MEN
ENOUGH!


preston was tentatively vcntured in
these columns, that inasmuch rs nine
men make up baseball team on the
field, there was doubtful economy
and questionable sport in maintain
ing twenty or thirty men on the
bench. It was suggested, with that
characteristic modesty which has
ever given the lie to cynical allega-
tions that the editorial intellect pre-
tends omniscience, that if the
stronger baseball teams would drop
about half the men off their pay
rolls, and let the weaker teams sign
and use some Of them, thus "evening
up" the chances Of the sport, it
would be better sport and more at.
tractive to the public; pennants
would be passed around the circuits
in more democratic fashion; and
the whole enterprise would look less
like hippodrome framed up with
purpose to give the winnings to the
"strong towns"
These views were received by the
sporting editors and baseball sharps
with prodigious disgust. Derision
and contumely were their retort.
Now comes Barney Dreyfuss,
president of the Pittsburgh National
League team, declaring that the
move in that league to cut down to
twenty-one men the number that any
club may carry, is going to improve
baseball both as sport and as an
investment. He notes that the Pitts
burgh team, commonly known, we
believe, as the Pirates, won three
successive pennants with fewer men
than this limit contemplates; and
he adds that in his opinion they
played better ball than has been the
rule since clubs were expanded to
something less than the numbers of
the European armies.
Mr.. Dreyfuss, who is widely pre-.
sumed to know quite a few things
about baseball, says that men play
better when they play. This seems
plausible. Workingmen work bet
ter when they work, too. Andrew
Carnegie has made himself sponsor
for the theory that vacations are de-
moralizing and nuisance; and if it
is not possible quite to agree with
him to the last implication of his
doctrine-especially when the. fishing
is good-yet there is ample room for
maintenance of the view that ball
player ought to be given a chance to
appear often enough, at least, to
keep stage fright in subjugation.
At risk of mourning yet more of
the displeasure Of the experts, we
venture to opine that there is an
other reason why limited and high
ly mobile baseball army is more ef-
fective. The average man in the
stand likes to feel that he "knows
the players" He doesn't go to the
game often enough to be able to
know them and breed in his imag-
ination feeling of intimacy, unless
he sees the same men pretty regu-
larly. Half the attraction of the
game is in knowing the gladiators
by their first names and in being
able 10 assume an air of easy famil,
iarity in the grandstand badinage.
| 1t is the easier to feel confident OF
these views, because of long es-
tablished conviction that the other
'Dreyfus was right. The name helps
The Washington times., 1915-01-03

pertinent were made lower than the
town had ever known before.
Would such an experience be
harmful to the self-respect or the
fiscal order Of this community?
The Washington times., 1915-01-03

In addition to the district in Flanders,
the most appreciable allied advances
have been made in Haut-Alsace. where
the French have extended their line
within n short distance Of Altldrcb and
lMuelhauscn. re she north of Thanh,
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
WILL NOT CAUSE WAR

The destruction of the Lusitania,
involving the death of over a hundred
Americans, affords no just grounds
for a declaration of war on Germany.
Americans who defiantly, or damfool-
ishly, take passage on ships flying
the British flag, bound for ports
within the war zone, thereby show
themselves unfit to survive. For our
selves, we should strenuously object
to taking up arms against Germany
because, forsooth, his Kaisership neg
lected to suspend hostilities while a
bunch of American tourists invaded
the field of hostilities.
The same principle is involved in
the Mexican situation. American ex-
ploiters of Mexican laborers, and
other parasites who invaded that un-
happy country with the gold that cor
rupts public officials, are inhabitants
of, or visitors to, that despoiled coun-
try on their own responsibility. And
they are not there for any good pur-
pose. Why should the working class
heads about these worthless? We are
quite willing, however, to see the edi-
tor of the Morning Tribune rush,
sword in hand, to their defence. We
suspect that he regards the pen as
safer if not mightier, than the sword.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
by u. p. MARSH

President state Federation of Labor.
BY Senator Palmer GO. B)-An act
defining picketing prohibiting the
same, and providing penalty for the
violation thereof. and declaring that
this act shall take effect immediately.
Re Il enacted by the legislature of
the State of Washington:
Whoever shall, for the purpose of
carrying on, calling attention to, or
advertising, directly or indirectly, any
controversy, disagreement or dispute
between any labor union or organlza-
ton, or member or members thereof
and any person engaged in any law
full business, or his employee, or for
the purpose of hindering or prevent
ing such person from conducting his
business in any lawful way, or EN-.
ploying or retaining In his employ
any person who may lawfully engage
In such business.
Stand or continuously move back
and forth, on the sidewalk, street,
public place or private property, or
within five hundred feet of, any place
In which any lawful business is con
Quoted by such other person, or home
or place of abode of such other per-
sons or his employee, or
Openly maintain, carry or transport
on any sidewalk, street, public place
or private property, any banner, sign,
transparency, writing or printing, or
Cause any person to do any of the
foregoing acts for any of the forego-
ing purposes
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
WHAT WOULD We DO2

A subscriber wants to know what
the Socialists would do II they sue
ceeded in gaining control of congress
We don't know what the Socialists
would do first. Some one has wisely
replied to this question: That would
depend upon what the capitalists had
done last
Local Republic would demonetize
gold and silver, and substitute non
transferable pay checks for actual
service rendered society, or the gov
eminent. In another column we pub
lish their second come back" on this
problem. Also we offer our readers
a short contribution from Theodore
Teepe on the money question" We
feel that it would be space well used
to publish short discussions, from our
readers, of the two contributions here
with published.
For ourselves, we shall have to be
content this week merely with calling
attention to the fact, which should
be given full consideration in this
connection, that gold and silver are
not valuable because they are used
the world over for money, but they
are used for money the world over
because they are valuable. No legis-
lative act can reduce very greatly the
value of gold. 1t is difficult to con-
eeive of circumstances under which
an ounce of gold will not be worth,
normally, about twenty bushels of
wheat, or the equivalent in other
products of labor. We mention this
merely to offset the belief Of some
comrades that the value of gold arises
almost wholly from its being used
as the lagal basis of exchange, or as
money. 1t is, on the contrary, used
as money because it has an intrinsic
value (crystallized social labor-power)
equivalent to some eighteen or twenty
bushels of wheat. We do not wish
to give rise to the impression that
we consider this economic fact in
compatible with the issuance by the
people of this country of pay checks
that could be used as a medium of
exchange.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
Shall be guilty of picketing.

Shall be guilty of picketing.
Any person who shall engage In
picketlng shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor.
The singular number when used In
this act shall include the plural, ana
the word person" shall include indi-
yiduale, firms, partnerships, associa-
tons and corporations.
An adjudication of invalidlty of any
part of this act shall not affect the
validity OF the act as whole or any
part thereof.
One of the Oldest weapons known
to trade unioniem Is the practice OF
picketing plants or business firms
where Industrial trouble exists.
Peaceful picketlng, acquainting their
fellow workmen or the general pub
lie with the fact that strike or lock
out is In progress is recognized every
where as lawful method of union
activity. The federal congress has
written into the national law, through
the terms of the Clayton antitrust
bill, a legalization Of picketing. Con
gress has declared that members of
labor union shall not be prohibited
from doing In time of industrial dis
pute that which they may lawfully do
should no dispute exist. The federal
statute recognizes the right of the
state to protect life and property
against violence or to punish for
actual contempt. but does not propose
to take away from an individual or
set of individuals the opportunity of
placing his side of the controversy
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
lUSHAHASS SINKING.

A week ago last Saturday the Gu
nard liner Lusitanla. veritable float.
ing city, sailed from New York with
over 1000 persons aboard. Six days
lator this magnificent example of
mans triumph over the forces of ma
ture. of his ciroumvention of natural
barriers TO travel by the art of the
engineer and mechanic, lay ut the
bottom of the sea off the coast of
Ireland Approximately 1900 men,
women and children went TO their
deaths with the giant vessel sent to
the bottom by two torpedoos, sent
tearing through her side by German
submarine,
"That Is contrary to the rules of
civilized warfare calculated man
by our side at the bulletin board
Impossible" we laoonically replied.
In answer to his induiring stare we
added: There is no such thing as
civilized warfare: any more than that
there could be Christianized hell"
For a moment the man stood silent
ly cudgeling his brain for an answer;
then he triumphantly hurled back this
reply: "But the attack on the Lusi-
tania is nothing short of savagery!'
Just So" we agreed, and then
added: and what is your boasted
civilization but savagery plus reading
and writing?"
This was too much for the gentle
man. but he appeared to invite fur
Their discussion, so we remarked fur
Their that our so-called Civilization"
was merely the old brute struggle for
existence in terms of rent, interest
and profits. instead of stone hatchets,
mammoth steaks, lions teeth or whale
blubber, women and dogs, Morally,
we have not taken a step in advance,
excepting in so far as morality" fla
cilitated bartering, or profit-monger-
ing
| But this statement is hardly fair.
1t is too inclusive. In declaring that
I'VE" have not taken step in ad-
vance, we should except the Social
lists, since they, at least are doing
all within their power to eliminate
from present-day society its brutal
strife and struggle, and to substitute
intelligent, civilized cooperation for
blind, stupid greed and hell-raising
competition in the means of life.
Most of the people drowned on the
Lusitania got what they voted for;
or, at least, what the daily counte-
nanced, or condoned. Nearly all of
them ridiculed or scornfully rejected
the peaceful, war-preventing proposals
of Socialists when presented for their
unbiased consideration. Verify, the
wages of stupidity, or wilfull ignor-
ance, is death. Capitalism is the most
colossal murder-machine the world
has ever known. They who uphold
capitalism, or who acquiesce in, its
continuance, who do nothing to over
throw it, must perish by it.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
Senate Bill No. 367 and What 1t MeanS

before the public in any peaceable
manner.
It remained for the state legisla-
ture, sealed bound and delivered to
the organized employers Of the state,
to pass the law appearing above. And
It remained for Gov Lister though
publicly stating that the law was too
drastic, to sign It. The governor has
done some splendid work in pulling
the teeth from other vicious legisla-
ton In the interests Of the State EN-
ployers' Association. 1t is a matter
Of profound regret to us that the gov
ernor did not turn thumbs down on
this piece of legislation
Now 1t is squarely up to us. We
can take our medicine, say we like
1t, see one of the strongest weapons
we have torn from our grasp, We
can do that-ahd If we did, we should
deserve any fate the Employers AS
sociation should try to deal out to us.
We can do the other thing. We
can referendum this bill. We can
go out with referendum petitions and
get enough signatures to prevent it
from becoming law unless the voters
should so decide in 1916.
We can't sit down and fold our
arms and expect to get by with this
measure.
If there Is anything this legislature
did which should arouse to action the
trade unionists of this state it is the
passage of s. b.. No. 1867 and it's ap-
prevail by the governor.
How many names will you secure
to referendum petition against it?
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
To the Workers

Shall you complain who feed the world
Who clothe the world
Who house the world,
Shall you complain who are the
world?
OF what the world may do?
AS from this hour
You use your power,
The world must follow you.
The world hangs on your right
hand,
Your strong right hand,
Your skilled right hand,
You hold the whole world in your
hand;
See to it that you do.
Or dark or bright,
Or wrong or right,
The world is made by you.
Then rise, as you never rose before,
Nor hoped before
Nor dared before,
And show, as was never shown before,
The POWER that lies in you.
Stand all as one,
See justice done,
Believe, and Dare, and Do
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

OF Seattle, who will speak at The
Forum, 1912 California ST., Sunday
Eve.
Comrade Rogers is recognized as
one of the foremost speakers in the
Socialist movement. He was one of
the editors of the Appeal to Reason
in it's palmiest days. He has new
lecture, "The Psychology of Slavery"
which is reported to be the most in
teresting lecture he has ever given
Comrade Rogers has studied hard to
make this lecture a success and is
giving this lecture for the benefit of
the Washington Socialist. We hope
to see you all there Sunday evening
Come along, bring a friend and when
the collection plate is passed around
don't forget that it is for the benefit
of your paper If you have nothing
to spare for the collection, come along
anyway.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

thing about vessels of this gigantic
size, and readily believe what is as
serted by officials of the company
So, despite positive statements from
the Imperial German embassy, warn
ing prospective voyagers of the i'm
minent peril Of sailing under the
British flag, and Notwithstanding the
warnings received by many individuals
by kilograms and letters telling them
by a German submarine, these bull
headed patriots CD set sail, belittling
the power of Germany to carry out it's
threats. The wages of stupidity is
death They're dead.
And just so we Socialists have been
warning the working class of the world
state. In Nov, 1916, the workers will
march to the polls, ticket in hand,
ready to give it up for another four
year voyage on the Sea of Competi-
ton, sailing under the flag of Capital
ism. We Socialists will again sound
a note of warning. It will go I'M
needed, excepting for "the usual
number of last-day cancellations"
The rest will hautily embark. The
wages of that stupidity will be death
The capitalist ship Of state will be tor
pedoed between 1916 and 1920. Moth
ing that we shall be able to say or
do will avert the catastrophe, The
mass of the populace is hopelessly
obdurate, Indifferent, uneducable.
They will pay for their stupidity with
their lives. And we who are alive,
alert, educable, right-minded, aspir-
ing, we shall be dragged into the hell
of foreign or domestic wars with the
stupid and unfit (to survive).
We hope that our diagnosis is in
correct, and that our prognosis will
turn out to be wrong but it is well
to look facts squarely in the face
Meanwhile, we must work harder than
ever, more determined to do our own
individual part toward changing the
blind, brutal forces of society into
channels leading automatically on
ward and upward toward freedom,
fraternity and more abundant life.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
Ebert HUBBARD DROWNED

Fra Elbertus" and his wife were
among those drowned on the Lusi-
tania. Posing as radicals" both of
these clever bourgeois literateurs
were too busy making money to give
any time to the study of Socialism.
They went in for something practic-
able" And they got it.
Not long ago we spent an evening
with the Sage of Aurora" and his
talented wife. Naturally, the subject
drifted to Socialism. We had expect
ed to find both of these celebrities
fairly well versed in the fundamentals
of Socialism, Notwithstanding the
fact that the subject was systematic
ally side-steppal in their writings.
This we attributed to their well
known thrift" What was our as
constituent upon finding the Fra still
in the beautiful dream" stage of ig-
norance, and "the Mrs" opposed to
dividing up" under present condi-
tons. "The same people would soon
have it all back again. You've got
to change human nature" etc, ad
nauseam.
Which all goes to show how much
elementary teaching yet remains to
be done. The world is full of people
credited with something above the
average intelligence, who are yet as
ignorant, or stupid, regarding even
the most simple facts of Socialism as
a couple of bear cubs.
We are aware of the fact that the
Hubbards would have steered clear of
the Socialist party even if they were
as well informed as it was their Tor
any ones) duty to be. They were
too fond of money-getting to waste
time" on anything so Improbable as
Socialism. Nevertheless, it would
seem that by now our aims and prin-
pies should be so well and so gen
orally understood that no persons of
prominence would dare to remain in
Grass ignorance concerning our move
ment.
The struggle of a steamship line
for profits led to the Titanic disaster.
The struggle Of ten nations for profits
(markets) led to the sinking of the
Lusitania. Such incidents but en-
phasize by their conspicuousness the
ordinary everyday routine murder
BUSINESS of the capitalist system.
They who vote for capitalism, or en-
dorse it, must expect to suffer the
consequences Of their folly, or indif-
ference.
Unheeded Warnings.
There is at least one man in New
York city who should be prosecuted
for murder in connection with the
torpedoing of the Lusitania. That
man is Chas. p Sumner, general
agent of the Cunard line. For the
sake of profits-or holding his job.
this savage gave positive assurance
to ticket purchasers that the Lusi-
tania would not sink even if pierced
by a torpedo, or several of them, for
that matter, the vessel being pro
yided with unusual watertight bulk.
heads" etc. Few persons know any
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
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The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

The fight for the public schools was
inspired by the trades union movement
and won with the aid Of the great mid
die clacs democracy OF America, which
understood well enough that reppub-
lican institutions could not survive
without popular education.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
YOUTH is NEEDFUl.

Without the high resolve of youth,
without constant accession of youth,
without recuperative power, no sus-
tanned forward movement is possible
in the world.-H. G. Wells.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
TOLL OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE

From the 1914 annual report of the
Highway Safety League we take the
following statistics showing the num-
Der of deaths, injuries and accidents
caused by motor vehicles in Massa-
chusetts:
1912 1918 1914 *1914
Total number
killed ...... 142 1888 229 %
Total number
injured .,.1,962 1923 4,O1O 447
Total number
accidents .2,441 5,O27 1851 61s
Total number
accidents in
daytime ..,1e82 s,7ss 5000 5O4
Total number
accidents af-
ter dark. 80. 500 1928 1852 ia
Total number
accidents on
country rds. 495 1896 1,942 140
Total number
accidents ON
city or town
streets ....1946 1881 6,O19 ATS
%Motorcycle deaths, etc.
There are two remedies for the
above increase in the number of auto
casualties The first is stricter en-
forcement of speed laws with re-
duction of the maximum legal We
locity, and the second is the making
of wider roadbeds. The figures
given for Massachusetts doubtless APP
ply, proportionately to Washington,
California and elsewhere in the United
States, and show an urgent necessity
for better safeguards for travel in
autos, now a common means of trans
portation everywhere.
oil rrgc
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP

The railroad employees on all the
government roads In Canada have
threatened a walk-out unless the gov
eminent keeps it's agreement with the
employees which to date they have
failed to do. The general manager
says that "the government would not
accede to the demands of the men and
that the Dominion railroads will be
run by the army if the strike is car
ried out"
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

The public schools have grown in
spite of clerical and economic opposi-
ton. The workers should control pub
lie schools and give the teachers an
opportunity to teach social democracy
and equality Of opportunity, which
would result in the smashing of any
system which opposes these.-Ex.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

If Mayor-elect Thompson really
does drive all the crooks out of Chi
cago it viii be pretty tough on the
rest of the country.-Indianapolis
News.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

Melang's Grocery and Jilgs Delica-
lessen, 1916 Hewitt.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13
SECRET OF BEST BEAUTY

The best beauty secret know of is
Don't worry. But if worry you must,
the next best is: Don't worry other
people with your Worries--Grace
Kimball
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

Change the readers in the public
schools and we will have a revolution
in the United States in 10 years.-EX.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-13

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