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Middletown transcript., 1915-09-25
WATER FOUNTAIN IS SIMPLE
Device Is Easily Made Out Of Empty
Baking Powder Can and Cover
TO a Lard Pail.

An empty baking powder can and
the cover to lard pail A nail hole
punched in the side of the can about
a quarter Of an inch from the top.
The can is filled with water and GOV.
cred with the cover Of the lard pail.
The combination is inverted and It
makes a fresh water fountain.
The water will be kept steadily in
the cover Of the can to the top of the
nail hole as long as there is any in
the pail. In this way fresh, clean
water is before the chickens all the
time.
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as long as this one is wide, on the
stern end. Fasten the rails to the
bottom of these boxes Gig 3) The
erOsspieces B and D, provide for the
mounting of the wheels. Nail one to
rails A at the bow end, and the other
90 1t will come under the center OF
the stern box. Crosspiece F forms
. fOot-bar.
The front iron axle must be at
tached to a pivotal wooden axle (E,
Figs. 4 and 81. This must have a
hole bored through the center of its
length for a Fs-inch carriage bolt.
Screw a pair Of screw-eyes into one
edge (G, Fig. 81. Fasten the iron
axle to the wooden axle with iron
staples. or with bent-over nails. Bore
. hole through the center of cross
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Pick Out Winter Layers.

The most profitable fixture that can
be placed In henhouse is the trap
nest. Where this is operated from
November to June 1, the early and
winter layers can be picked out, and
1t is that class which can be bred for
profit. But it is not alone sufficient
to select the good layers. You should
go a step farther. These hens should
be mated to cockerels bred from
heavy-laying hens. The male has a
wonderful influence on egg produc.
ton.
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The nWonder Tree"

California growers Of the wonder
eree,E the eucalyptus, which while
growing ten times as fast as hickory,
oak or mahogany, yields lumber hard
Or and better than these native trees.
met In convention in the Lumbermen s
Building or House of Hoo-Hoo at the
Panama-Pacffic International exposi-
tlOn.
Omcials and members of the Euca-
lyptus Hardwood Association of Cali
rhia-representing the cultivators of
about 25,OOO,0OO Of these trees, ook
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SOAhtOuAu HAS uOuo
more for me than
anything else, and /
had the best physi-
clan here. / was 80
weak and nervous
that / could not do
my work and suf-
fered with pains low
down in my right
side for a year or
more. l took Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vepe.
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Reason Enouuh.

Been on your vacation YETI"
mo. the people next door haven't
returned from theirs yet"
"Well. what in the world does that
have to do with it?"
"Oh. nothing much. only they bor-
rowed our trunk before they started
and sent for our golf sticks and ten
mis- rackets afterward."
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NORMAL GROWTH OF CHICKS
Fowl Reaches Nearly Full Size in Six
to Eight Months-Mistreatment
Causes Big Loss.

At the Washington State college
the weights of some normal chicks of
different breeds were taken at hatch
ing, and at three, four and five weeks
Of age. The weights by ounces were
as follows:
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Different Tlmea-

THE girls used to keep me waiting
when drove up in a buggy. notice
they never keep you waiting long when
you drive up in a motor carr" why
is that?" THE girls know how quick.
ly model gets out of date as well
as we do"
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the pair of cloth rings together, both
around the outer and inner edges,
leaving but small opening between
the outer edges. Fill the bag solid
with beans. through the opening, then
sew up the opening.
There should be three rings, SO each
player may have three tosses each
turn. The distance from which the
rings are tossed may be ten, fifteen
or twenty feet away from the target.
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Many unprofltabIe Hens.

There are entirely too many un.
profitable hens kept on the average
farm. Too many idlers are allowed to
occupy the room and eat feed belong
ing to the Industrious ones. Weed out
the drones; it is the only means of
success.
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this means of educating the public and
lumbermen in the value and hundred
or more of uses of the eucalyptus of
which there are 200 varieties. Some
10000 eucalyptus trees grew on the
exposition grounds.
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RestfuI Travel.

Been all over the country, eh?"
Everywhere the trains run"
81 guess you can sleep as well in a
Pullman berth as you can in your bed
at home"
Better. in fact. My wife snores."
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HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS
right bv A E4alll
a HOMEMADE PUsHMosILE.

In building a pushmobiIe. the
wheels are of first Importance.
Fig. 3 shows the body framework.
The side rails A should be by 2's or
by As. Cut them to whatever
length you wish. Upon these rails
are mounted two grocery boxes, q
long box on the bow end. and a box
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Hens for Rreed,nc

Many prefer two-year-old hens fol
breeders. At least have yearling hens
well developed If they are the breed
ers.
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Lob for the Don nava-

Not a particularly pleasant Job in
dog days. but any of the boys with
fine rake can keep the poultry yard
clean by giving 1t Just one hour
day twice a week. Isn't 1t worth the
effort?
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unele Ehen.

Some men, said Uncle Eben, as
good natured because dey don't know
what's goin' on an some is dat way
because dey's got too much sense to
take notice Of whut dey can't help"
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Not Yet.

Mrs. Talky-So the turkey trot is
out Of favor now.
Mr.. Bored--I wish the hen gabble
was, too!
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Ominous.

my sons bought an auto and he's
got a garage"
Good gracious! Who's the grudgo
against?"
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Most white men are against mob
violence If the victim is a white man.
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EarIY RIrda hal nemand

The early birds are the hens that
find a market willing to take them at a
good price.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-25

British naval and military forces in
Hongkong usually number 1000 men.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-25
FARMERS Wife
TOO ILLTO WORK
A Weak, Nervous Sufferer
Restored to Health by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound.

Kasota, MINI. -"I am glad TO say
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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INTERNATIONAL
SUNDNYSQIOOL
LESSON

BY o. f, SELLERS, Acting Director 2i
the Sunday School Course Of the Moody
Bible Institute.)
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-25
ontlmIstin rho,,uA.

Optimistic Thought.
EVIL report is easy to lift but difficult
to carry.
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LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 26
OBEDIENCE AND KINesHIP IRE.
VIEW.
LEssnN TEXT-Paalm y.

LESSON TEXT-Psalm Y.
GOLDEN TEXT-The king shall JOY in
thy strength, o Lord; and in thy saliva
ton how greatly shall he rejoice. Ps
H:1.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
THE LABOR PRESS

been the champion of the workers
the masses of our people; to speak
the right word at the right time for
those bowed by heavy burdens and
weary hearts-the victims of injustice,
heedlessness, greed and brutality;
those whose cause did not have pOpu
lar favor. Many of those who have
urgrudglngly given the toll of heart
and mind to the labor press have
found reward only in the conscious
ness of worthy work wOrthily done.
Many a weary hour goes into the pre-
paration of the lews columns and the
editorials of each issue. The diff!
cllties are discourasing, but the labor
editor knows thai every bit of truth,
however small or fragmentaly, that
he is able TO inject inlD the thought
material of the pu3lic is an entering
v edge to blast away prejudice and
MISREPRESENTATION Every effort helps
the ultimate purpose - the freedom
and the welfare of humanity.
The labor press has a great work
to perform It's business is to get be-
fore the people the real news of life
the truths about living and working,
The metropolitan press is largely a
commercial undertaking-for it living
and working are newspaper materials
for stories and appeal to popular in
terests. For the labor press the point
is to make truths about living and
working known to everybody These
truths have power to move men and
governments.
"The labor press must have support
and opportunity to accomplish its pur-
pose and everyone loyal to the cause
of labor should feel the duty devolV-
ing upon him to support it financially
and morally. From Report of Com
mittee at A. f. of l.. Convention.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
S MEMORY
HONORED IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO.-Organized labor Joined
with federal and state officials Labor
Day in paying honor to the memory
of John Peter Altgeld, former gov
ernor of Illinois, by unveiling a statute
of this champion of common rights.
"Altgeld was a friend of the COM
mon people and never feared to take
stand with them" Gov. Dunno said.
"Pre-eminently he had the courage of
his convictions He upheld the right
and denounced the wrong at all times,
under all circumstances. and in every
place.
He believed the conviction of the
anarchists was the result of the mOb's
demand, although the mob was clothed
in purple and fine linen. When he
was elected governor he had the cOur-
age to do what was a most unpopular
thing at that time-to pardon the an
archists then confined at Joliet In
so doing he gave his reasons, and the
doing startled the whole community.
His moral courage was again dis
played when President Cleveland,
without request from governor, legis-
lature or mayor, sent federal troops
into this city for the purpose of sup.
pressing riot. He protested, and pro
tested vigorously.
Devotion to public interest com
PEELED him to neglect his private bust
ness and during his term of office he
became seriously embarrassed finan
cially. But in spite of this, this mar
had the resolute honesty and iron-likt
integrity which made him refuse 6
bribe of half million dollars. | know
of no man who was more devoted tC
the cause of human liberty, whether
it was in his own land or in the lanC
of strangers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
MR.. GOMPERS' FORGETTERY
BY John M, Work

You have often heard someone say
that his forgettery is better than his
memory.
This is evidently the case with Mr..
Gompers. In his tveuty-nine page
malignant TRADE again5r the Socialist
Party in the America Federationist
for August, there is NOT q single CLEAN
of fairness or appreciation.
He forgets to say mat it was the
action of the lone Socialist congress
man that won the Lawrence strike.
He forgets to say mat it was the
action of the Socialist mayor that won
the electrical workers strike in Sche-
nectady.
He forgets to say that it was the
action of the Socialist mayor and ad-
ministration that won the garment
workers strike in Milwaukee
He forgets to say that it was the
action of the two Socialist aldermen
that won the street railway strike in
Chicago,
He forgets to mention any Of tn,
thousands of other actions performed
by the various Socialt-t city official.
in behalf of the workers.
He forgets to say THAT the Socialist.
have neglected their own propagand,
I
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
Organization Alone Can
Not Emancipate Workers
Political Action Necessary

his co-workers would have been run
in as disturbers of the peace. 1t was
only at the last session of congress
it was formally recognized that labor
is not commodity" to which anti
trust laws can properly be applied.
Strikes do not reach such questions
At the organization of this govern
ment political ideals were somewhat
changed. The old world industrial
system was imported intact. If the
burden it imposes had not been re-
sisted both there and here by laws
made possible by organization they
would long since have produced a con-
dition equivalent to serfdom.
Organization has done it's part. But
it alone is like a giant holding aloft
by main strength a load that threatens
to crush him. Legislation is psychic
intellectual-and permanent
The wreckage is hardly cleared
from the field of one industrial strus-
ole before another is impending. The
victories of strikes or boycotts do not
stay put" The congressional battle
which resulted in the declaration that
labor is not merchandise will not have
to be refought.
Relatively little interest is taken in
legislative work because it is not
spectacular 1t requires thinking. It
is easier to wear old clothes and eat
cheap cuts than to think.
WARREN.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
TEARS THAT WON'T COME

TILEDO, Ohio-Says the News-Bee
of this city;
eve just can't succeed in turning
on the tears and throwing a fit over
the fact that the glorious old Stars
and Stripes has disappeared from the
Pacific merchant marine because or
the sale of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company's vessels to an Atlantic con-
cern.
1T is true that Old Glory has been
hauled down, as TO the Pacific, but 1t
is also true that it was flying over
Chinese crews exclusively 1t may be
tough on those heathens but 1t isn't
our mission to do their yelling for
them"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
CANADIAN LABOR LAW
PUT TO SEVERE TEST

VANCOUVER, B. C.-The Industrial
disputes investigation act passed by
the Dominion government to prevent
and to adjust labor disputes, is being
severely tested in this city in the case
of the Electrical Workers union YER
sus the B. C. Electric Railway com
pany.
The law applies to public service
corporations, and provides that the
government shall together with each
of the parties of a dispute appoint
one member to a board of concilia-
ton and investigation. The law fur
ther provides that neither side shall
declare a strike or cause a lockout
during the reference of such dispute.
Under this law the electrical work
ers asked for the appointment of a
commission to investigate the railway
company's demand for a reduction Of
wages and working conditions. The
government appointed its representa-
tive and notified the company to take
similar action. This request was ig-
nored and the government appointed
member to represent the company.
During these proceedings several elec-
tircal workers were discharged and
the union began action against the
company in the Vancouver pollen
court on the ground that the dis
charge violated that section of the
law which prohibited acts amounting
to a lockout They further charged
the company with attempting to
weaken the union.
When the case came to trial the
judge dismissed the company and said
he could find no direct evidence Of a
lockout" The court refused to go
into the matter at length He said
AN investigation is pending,' and he
did not want to interfere "to too great
an extent in the intera, affairs Of
the compay'
The company now refuses to reCOg
nize the government-appoin board,
on the ground that the workers rep
resentative made complaint against it
in the police court This may result
in more litigation Will the company
is privileged to discharge active union
lists.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
ROCKEFELLER REDUCES
HOURS

NEW YORK-Mr. Rockefeller, phil
anthropist and benefactor, announces
a reduction of working hours from ten
TO eight in his refineries at Bayonne'
n. j.. and elsewhere.
The announcement says:
In accordance with the policies OF
this company to keep its wages and
working conditions equal to, or in ad-
vance Of the wages and working con
ditions of other men doing a similar
class of work, it has been decided to
adopt the eight-hour day. This change
will be made without loss to the
men"
This decision is received with much
Measure by Bayonne workers, VINO
now agree with trade unionists that
mo strike was ever lost"
The decision benefits Mr.. Rockefel'
Ter also, as it will weaken contrary
claims as to his company's policies at
Rayonne, made by the commission on
industrial relations, and it will checB
any agitation toward further inyestl
cations under which his oil refinery
workers labor.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17

Editor Labor Journal: In recent
issue you published letter from the
president of the State Federation of
Labor. The letter dealt with the value
of results obtained for union men by
organization, pure and simple, as COM
pared with results from legislative
work.
After an excellent summary of the
usual arguments pro and con the writ
er declares his personal choice in
favor of organization.
ORGANIZATION bears the same rela-
ton to legislative work that founda-
tions to a building bear to the super
structure. 1t is necessary as a pre-
liminary. But chiefly it should be
the foundation for temple made the
archive of beneficient laws.
A strike is for quick action. 1t is
form of violence that Injuries the in
nocent and its only justification is
that the community has not been in
telligent enough to avert it by laws
that secure an equitable distribution
of labor's products.
Strikes and boycotts are symptoms
of an unfair or unhealthy industrial
condition. Legislation should be the
diagnosis and cure.
1t is the slowly evolved legislation
of the last century that has made the
present organization of workmen pos
sible. One hundred years ago the
president of the state federation and
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
Lumber Barons Are Stupid
Says President J. c.. Brown

President J. G. Brown, of the Inter
national Union of Timberworkers took
occasion recently to tell the Seattle
public what's the matter with the lum-
Der industry of Washington. Not the
tariff but their own stupidity. he de-
clared, stood between them and pros
perity.
To quote the Union Record:
"On every hand we see evidences
of the monumental stupidity of the
lumbermen in running their own af-
fairs, as well as interfering with the
livelihood Of the thousands Of work
ers in the industry" said Brown.
"With few exceptions, the lumbermen
in this section have a chronic belly
ache They mistake their own preju-
dices for principle; their wishes for
legislation. Instead of attempting to
regulate the distribution and sale of
the product through the retailing of
it, they would attempt to curtail pro
duction,"
He declared that the retail price is
now so nigh in the East and Middle
West that substitutes are being en-
ployed by the consumers. But on the
other hand, he admitted that a gen
eral business depression is also re-
sponsible for the stagnation Of the
lumber industry AS instance of the
frightful condition prevailing in the
industry he cited the thousands of
unemployed; the capital go
ing to waste the mills lying idle
One mill within thirty miles Of Seat
tie lies rotting to the ground and
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
WHY LABOR SHOULD
ORGANIZE AND FIGHT

In his speech in the Panama-Pacific
Exposition grounds on Labor Day, F.
P. Walsh, Chairman of the Industrial
Commission, declared;
LIVE AND WORK
mo living man ever had a right to
the labor of another man. Always
deny it. Never admit it. No man
ever acquires the contractural right
to the labor of another. The only
human right is the right to live. 1t
has its correlative in the right to
work. Nature gave man the right and
opportunity to work when God gave
man the earth and the fullness there
Of.
'In an era of the greatest produc-
tivity the world has ever known, in a
land of freedom, education and lib
erty, in the face of the worlds great
est effort of organized labor, two
thirds of those engaged in toll in the
United States are below the absolute
poverty line.
Every ill in the industrial system
will find it's base in special privilege
given by the people. Privilege takes
away the common heritage and the
right to make our own living.
"The gist of the social question in
a nutshell is: Shall the productive
forces be managed by the producers
or left to the control of agents of the
credit system who have an eye to the
unearned increment?
'In closing let me leave this thought
with you: The year 1915 will show
the dawn of an industrial democracy
in which all men and women shall be
absolutely free"
Mr. Walsh is in a position to know
what he is talking about and the only
solution to the conditions he describes
is organization and more organization.
Organize industrially and organize pO-
litically in order to free labor from
it's age-long slavery. $1,000 people lis
tened to and applauded his speech in
the Court of the Universe on Labor
Day, but intelligent organized action
on the part of the workers alone can
solve the problem presented by Mr.,
Walsh
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17

There is no more effective way to
Control over mind-stuff material CON
stitutes control over the lives and
destinies of men and women. The
material which most largely enters
into the creation and shaping of pub
lie opinion is in the pages of the news
papers. The power that controls the
press of America determines to
large extent political, social and eco
nomic development A truth can make
or break a sentiment. A truth has
the power to move the heart of a man
to compassion or to fire his soul with
some great purpose. Yet the press has
the power of life and death over many
truths. That which is not known, for
all practical purposes, does not exist
Facts, causes, conditions that are un-
known to the public have no part in
determining public opinion and poll
cies. The element vitally important
for success is getting the facts about
their cause before their fellow work
ers and the public.
public opinion is formed almost en-
tirely by the press. Back of the press
is an invisible power of automatically
determining what Information shall be
published and what suppressed. That
power controls the great news-gather-
ing agencies 1t extends to the edi-
torial rooms. 1t is felt in publishing
houses. This invisible autocrat owes
its resources to business and property
interests, consequently either con
sciously or unconsciously it serves
those interests.
"To give publicity to the cause OF
those who toll there must be press
free from the domination of this throl-
ting control Such a press has beeh
steadily growing. The labor press has
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-17
NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE
WORLD OF LABOR
ROCKEFELLER PERSONALLY
RESPONSIBLE

A special report on the Colorado
strike by George p West disproves
the claim of John d. Rockefeller of
having no knowledge of events that
led up to that trouble 1t further
quotes evidence to show control in
Colorado by the mining cornorations
of state and local governments. Re
gardng Rockefeller it says
During all the seven tragic and BIZ
ter months that preceded Ludlow, MIR.
Rockefeller wrote letter after letter
in enthusiastic praise of men whose
acts during this period had precipi-
tated a reign of terror and bloOdshed
1t was only when the Ludlow massacre
filled the press of the nation with edi-
torial denunciatiol, when mourners in
black silently pa1aGed in front of his
New York office, when cartoons in the
conservative press pilloried him and
his father before an angry public,
that at last complacency gives way
to concern in his letters and kilograms
to Denver,
Mr.. Rockefellers responsibility has
a significance beyond even the sinis-
ter results of his policy in Colorado
The preyersion of and contempt for
government, the disregard of public
welfare, and the defiance of public
opinion during the Colorado strike
must be considered as only one mani
festation of the autocratic and anti
social spirit of a man whose enormous
wealth gives him infinite opportunity
to act in similar fashion in broader
fields Mr. Rockefeller writes to MIR
Bowers. You are fighting a good
fight, which is not only in the inter
ests of your own company, but of the
other companies of Colorado and Of
the business interests Of the entire
country"
And Mr.. Bowers. with whom Mr..
Rockefeller obviously is in full sym
pathy and agreement, writes letter aft
er letter pcturing the growth Of trade
unionsm as a national menace against
which the business men of the nation
must combine Nov for the cam
paigD of 1916" and bevond. is the slO-