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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
THE MAIN IDEA
BY Oscar Amerinoer


TO rid the body polite of the useless
parasite, and to relieve the WORKING
class Of the bloodsuckers and exploit
ers, is the main aim of the Socialist
movement
We have social production and CO.
operative labor in all our great indus
tries. Without the brains and the
muscles of the workers, all the wheels
would stop. The stakeholder, bond
holder, the silent partner and the
sleeping partner furnish the capital,
but we have learned that his functions
of providing the capital can be as
sumed very readily by society.
1t takes equipment to run the post
department, but it does not require
the capitalist, to take a rakeoff. 1t
takes equipment to run the school
system but no capitalist is needed
to make dividends out of our educa-
tional institutions 1t takes equip
ment to build roads and bridges. but
we have dispensed with the capitalist
who formerly collected the toll. Many
cities furnish water to their citizens,
others supply them with gas, electric
ity and transportation. A number of
European municipalities operate
banks, diaries, slaughter houses and
great many other industries. All
we have to do is to broaden and to
extend the system of municipal and
state ownership.
But municipal and state ownersnIp
Is not Socialism. State-owned railroads
and state monopolies even today are
used as means to exploit the work
ing people for the benefit of the cap.
1talist taxpayers. In order to give to
the masses the full benefit of social
ownership, it is necessary that the
state itself belong to the people. We
therefore demand that the class state
be transformed into government of
the people, by the people and for the
people. This can easily be accom-
plished through the extension of de-
mocracy.
Socialism, then, is the ownership
and control of the government by and
for the working people, by means of
universal suffrage, tie initiative, the
referendum and the recall.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
Federation Secretary Insists That
Workers Oppose Peace
at Any Price
STEEL TRUST SUSPECTED
"Allied interests" Said to Hide Wolf
Of Militarism Behind a
False Pretense

BLOOMINGTON, ILL, Sept. Sec
rotary Frank Morrison, of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, in Labor
Day speech here today Endorsed the
recent so-called staff report of the in
dustrial relations commission with its
findings on industrial and social con-
ditions.
That report" said he, States that
a condition exists in this country
which must, in our opinion, appear as
a menace to our country.
"a contented and efficient citizen
ship calls for minimum wage that
will support wage earners in genuine
comfort.
''In discussing militarism and pre-
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
A REAL SYSTEM
BY Walter Lanfersiek

The cry of the modern world is for
more system-system in production,
system in distribution.
The business man wants more sys-
tenn because it means more profits.
Even the farmer is beginning to use
system in rotation of crops, etc. Ali
but the workingman; he does not use
any system.
System" has meant to the worker
more work and less joy in his work;
less pay and more unemployment;
more heart-breaking drudgery, wearl-
ness, sickness and death.
And yet the worker is the one who
needs more and better system, strange
as it may seem.
Now, any system of society worthy
Of the name would find out just how
many pairs of shoes were needed, how
many suits of clothing were needed.
The factories would be put to work
producing, and when the job was fin
ished, the workers would take a vaca-
ton. There would be some system
and sense to that.
And your vacation would not be a
ceaseless, agonizing search for work.
Your work would be done, and it
would be your time for play. Today
all the play is enjoyed by your boss,
the man who uses system. He takes
vacation to Europe, or to the south
in winter and the north in summer.
while you sweat and toll.
WORKER MUST FIGHT FOR WHAT
HE NEEDS
A REAL SYSTEM of society would
be all-inclusive; in fact, unless it is.
1t is only a piece of a system.
By systemizing the world. we could
arrange our lives in the way to do
the most good to ourselves. Now we
are forced to live as others dictate.
If we could produce enough to satisfy
the legitimate needs of all BY each
one working four hours a day. whv
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
GERMAN SOCIALISTS ARE
ARRESTED FOR TREASON

L'Humanite of Paris publishes a
ing that five Socialists have been ar
rested in Berlin, among whom is
Watcher, former editor of The
STEWARDSHIP Tagewacht, the Stuttgart
Socialist daily. They are charged with
high treason for having distributed a
majority Of the Social-Democrati
party.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
RED DEMOCRACY
NECESSARY

The Socialist demand for a more
equitable and popular distribution of
economic goods can be realized by a
democracy only, by a government of
the people who do not tolerate the
rule of clique which, under the pre-
tence of intellectual superiority, seeks
to appropriate the lions share of the
social wealth.-Joseph Dietzgen, in
Philosophical Essays"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
The Small Farm Fallacy Exposed

factories without fences between to
keep them from fighting, why can
they not be as peaceful out in the
open? knowledge OF the science of
the industry and cultivated social fac
ulties (social science) of the persons
engaged in them are the essentials in
every calling. 1t is necessary that
the idea of every one for himself"
be abandoned on the small farm as
well as elsewhere and | do not see the
use of sidestepping ne issue.
Colleges are teaching farmers some
of the science of their business, but
the dean of the California University
Extension in Agriculture said the
greatest difficulty the teachers have
to cope with is the lack of co-opera-
ton among farmers. Farmers have
tried cooperation outside of their bust
ness and failed; but if they work their
brains right they need not fail when
y.
is the place to begin, or so it seems
to me.
What do | know about a small
farm? I was assistant "chore-boy" on
my fathers farm when l was a girl,
80 l know the barrenness and the H.
lusions of the small farm. Hope and
air castles are the furnishings that
make them endurable.
1t was while / was in land contest
with land grabbers in an effort to
secure small farm for myself that
the anti-capitalism propaganda hit my
desire for small farm-it died with
its boots on" AS the light was thrown
on the facts, many of which I knew,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
NEW INDUSTRIAL LAW
IS IN EFFECT
MAKES TOTAL OF TWENTY-SEvEN
STATES UNDER THIS PLAN

INGTON-Indiana has Joined
the states having workmen's compen-
sation laws in operation The new law,
hailed by some as the greatest achieve
ment of the 1915 legislature, went
into effect Sept. list.
Although nearly 500 employers have
taken advantage of the opportunity to
reject the law, members of the COM
mission pointed out that this is very
small portion of the approximately
100000 employers in Indiana.
Indiana was the 9th state to enact
such a law Since that time four
other states have Joined the list, max
ing 81 in all. Alaska also has such a
law.
Several of the larger traction sys-
TENS in the state have rejected the
law, preferring to take their chances
in the courts with damage suits. Those
rejecting the law con not plead as de-
tense that the employe was negligent,
that the injury was caused by the
negligence of a fellow employe, or
that the employe assumed the risk Of
the injury.
WHAT 1T PROVIDES
If an employee whose employer has
not rejected the law is injured after
today, the employer must furnish free
medical care and supplies for 30 days.
After ii days the injured man begins
to draw a sum equal to SIS per cent of
his wages.
If he is totally disabled his payment
will continue for 500 weeks. If he is
partially disabled the compensation is
at the rate of one-half the difference
between his earning capacity before
and after the injury.
This law is chiefly in the form of
bill favored by the manufacturers, but
with certain amendments for which
labor contended. Labor was unable to
force state insurance of employers
Information obtained from John A.
Lapp, director of the Indiana bureau
Of legislative information, discloses
that workmens compensation so far
obtains chiefly in the northern states.
AMBULANCE CHASING GOOD
There is strip across the country
where the ambulance chasing lawyer
and the courts are left to decide
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
INDUSTRIAL DAWN IS
PREDICTED BY WALSH

SAN FRANCISCO-Frank P. Walsh,
lations commission, in speaking at the
Labor Day celebration at the Panama
Exposition, predicted that this year
would show the dawn of industrial
democracy when all men and women
shall be absolutely free.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
NEW YORK UNIONS PICNIC

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Instead Of
parading today the Central Federatc
Union, the local organization of the
American Federation of Labor, cele-
brated Labor Day by picnic and an
anti-military demonstration.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09

1t Is understood that Mr.. Wilson is
getting considerable melancholy con-
ISOLATION from the reflection that wher-
ever the German vote goes In 1915 it
won't go to T. R.-Boston Transcript.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09

Cooperation is in all things the
law of life; competition is in all things
the law of death. "-Ruskin.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
the illusions vanished.

the illusions vanished.
Naturally, l judge others by myself,
so | think that when farmers under
stand the principles of the social ques-
tions their laundering for small farms
will beat it" as mine did.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09

Competition is division and strife;
Socialism is cooperation and peace.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09

entry; Kansas, 1924 acres; North
Dakota, 499,667 acres and South Da-
kota, 2,SSO,S2S acres surveyed and So
7S1 unsurveyed.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09
A Real Socialist

for the imperial navy.
Gaun Ont pamphi
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-09

ssing militarism and pre- 1t.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04

EDNA HAsELTiNE.
year at her castle. Chateau d'Cabrieves,
receiving two lessons a day.
Before returning to the United States
Miss Haseltine also studied in Paris
with D'Aubigne, the noted teacher Of
voice.
Truth and Love.
Truth makes love doubly sweet 70
mow.-Leigh Hunt.
Children CRY
FOR FLETCHER'S
GAS TO RIA
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
NO PHOTO NO DOPE

That progress has been made in
Banka, Netherlands indies, the past
year is attested by the fact that all
opium smokers are row registered by
the Government and photographed.
Any one desiring opium must produce
his photograph before he can be sup
piled. only registered smokers can
get any opium at all and the quantity
is gradually diminished. Public gamb'
ling in Banka is also abolished the
past year, though this means a great
loss of revenue,
In Medan, West Borneo, Palembans
and Java rigid crusade has been go
ing on against Japanese prostitution
Public sentiment is much in favor Of
the suppression of public gambling in
Medan. (Extract from letter by Rev.
w. e. Horley, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Morals, Malaysia
Methodist Conference.)
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
A STRATEGIC FIELD

The city Of Bello Horizonte, capital
Of iinas, in the empire state Of Bra
5il, is said to offer strategic field
for mission work. OF this very II
4eresling city ard its opportunities
Rev. j. w. Shepherd, recently said:
"I'here is already a population OF
10000 and the city is growing most
apidly. Railroads are entering from
he four sides. The road connecting
Victoria and the great state Of Matto.
crosse to the West is Almost complete.
Another road is being pushed through
from the South to the vast state Of
Bahia to the North. Already this road
is connected with the steam boat lines
Of the San Francisco River.
"The resources of the state of Min
rs (rninc3) are simply ineXhaustable.
The mineral wealth alone would make
it a rich state if there were no other
But the state is so vast that there
IRE also great stretches of agricultur
nj territory.
"The people of Minas are very re
served They are, as mountain popu-
lations are frequently found to be-
very Indifferent and difficult to ap
breach, but very loyal when their con
idence has once been gained
"In the city Of Bello Horizonte it
self, the work of evangelical missions
is already gaining considerable foot
hold. The BaDtists organized their
church here three years ago. The
Nethcdists ard Preshvterians had en-
tered at an earlier date. The Meth
odists now have splendid prorertie.'
for their church anu girls school.
"The Baptists' church is making
good progress. II has had to break
down prejudice during these first few
years, 1t had to overcome the diff
Guilty of an earliers attempt to enter
which proved unsuccessful.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
PHYSICIAN NEEDED

The American boai j of commission
RS for foreign missions need at once
fifteen surgeons and physicians for
work in mission fields. Nine are
wanted for china, four for Turkey, one
ror Africa and one for relief work iii
Serbia The call, recently sent out.
says: "The need is tremendous
he Board has the money and the 10
cation. For China, six men and three
women are wanted to join hospitals
already running which treat from ter
to thirty thousand patients. In -four
hospitals in Turkey physicians and
surgeons are wanted in association
with doctors already on the ground
rhe American hospitals have increas
I'd their influence enormously during
hese months of war and men on the
yround must be reinforced. In Dur
ban, Africa. a physician and surgeon
is urgently needed. "The board lays
down no sectarian test but does insist
IN earnest Christian conservation on
he part OF the physicians whom II
ends out"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
WHAT ONE TRACT
DID IN CHINA
"Most Useful and Influential Man
We Have in South China is o
Monk" says Missionary Wa.
Converted Through a Small tract
that Fell into His Hands.

An interesting story of what one
gospel tract did for man in Canton,
China, comes from Rev. ]. r. Saun.
ders, a well known missionary Of the
Southern Baptist Convention, in Tung
Shan, China. He says:
"One of the most useful medical men
we have in the Ha-ka field formerly
was a monk. While in this work,
colporter came to his monastery sell
ing Gospel tracts. One tract brought
the message to his heart, and he was
so much concerned that he began seek
ing diligently of that way. and in
the course of very short while he.
was led to know and love the Lord.
He studied for six years in the Sem
mary and Medical College. He pre-
pared himself well, and has been us
ed to turn many 10 righteousness,
and his life is now Oeing used of the
Lord to help many In every good
work.
China ought to be sowed with Cos
pei tracts, separate books of the Bi
BILE, and Scriptural portions. We
could do much to prepare the way
for messengers and make the people
ready for the Lords service. The OF
portunities for this kind of work elc
boundless, needing to be met speed
lily before the tender, waiting hearts
are occupied with the literature of the
enemies OF all righteousness.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
FIRST CORN SHOW
HELD IN BRAZIL
Presbyterian Missionary in Lavras
Helps to Organize and Direct
Big Exhibition.

In letter to Rev. John |. Arm.
strong. educational secretary for the
Southern Presbyterian church, Rev.
Benz. H. Hunnicutt, of Lavras, Minas,
Brazil, tells of successful national
corn show recently held which was
the first Of its kind ever held in that
country.
BY invitation Mr.. Hunnicutt' was
one Of the organizers and directors.
This show was held in Sac Paulo last
month and the exhibit of the school
here was considered very creditable
indeed. Had it's corn been in the COM
petition for the premiums it would
have received the larger share. While
this is not direct missionary work it
is of enough benefit to the country
at large to more than justify the out
lay of time and energy spent"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
EPISCOPAL

The Board of Regents of the Uni
versity of South Dakota recently con-
ferred the degree of Doctor of Letters
upon Miss Helen Peabody, head Of
All Saints School, Sioux Falls. For
thirty years che and her sister have
been helping to make history by
building character in the lives of the
church girls Of South Dakota-a ser
vice which is now graciously recog
nized by the highest educational in-
stitution of that state. Born and bred
in missionary surroundings, educated
In a missionary school and giving her
life continuously to missionary work,
In the honor accorded DR.. Peabody the
whole missionary enterprise Is distin-
guished and dignified.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
Misses Baskin and Chandler
Entertains

Misses Mildred Baskin and
Mary Lucille Chandler enter
Etained at the home of Miss Bas-
kin, on the evening of October
Itwenty-sixth, in honor of Miss
Margaret Creighton.
The evening was very pleas
|antly spent by the guests in
|dnacing, cards and a very anus
ling contest on 'matrimony".
Punch was served on entering
|by Miss Davenport and Mr..
ALLEN Dean, and at the close of
The evening a delicious salad
course was served.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
At Star Theatre
Friday, November 5th
HAsELTiNr OPERA COMPANY.

Miss Edna Haseltine. Il protegee of
Nine. Calve. who spent the greater
part of the past year at the castle of
the great prima donna in southern
France this season heads company
of five members. who present ''The
Gypsy Singers. a portrayal of thrill
ing Spanish gypsy life. introducing Sc,
lectionS from the grand operas Gar
men, Bohemian Girl, etc. The or
ganization is known as the HaSeItinp
Opera Company.
Miss EIaseltiue first met Nine. Calve
IN Kansas CITY IN 1912 Nine CaIvc
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04

for the gifts on the regular arportion
ment were $4,000 in excess of last
year; so that as matter of fact prac
tically 100000 over and above the
previous years record had come into
the treasury, which is now out Of
debt for the first time in eight years.
What a splendid cause for thanks
giving to God, and for confidence
that Ills Church will carry on the
work He has committed to her!
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
A Neglected Cold

is often followed by pneumonia.
Before it is too late take Laxa-
tive Quinidine Tablets. Gives
prompt relief in cases of Coughs.
Colds, La Grippe and Headache.
Price 25c. adv.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04

[ will be in Okolona Fri
day, November 18th. to
buy Army Mules, Is ID
to Is hands high, 5 to 10
Years old.
Bring Your mules in on
the above date if you
want to sell.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
An Anti-Enlistment League
League

New York, Nov. 3-An anti
hlistment league, pledging all
bale members over 18 years of
ge to refrain from enlisting for
ny international war in which
he United States may become
Involved, is forming at 81 Quin-
y Street, Brooklyn, N. Y, not
ar from the Navy Yard, where
undreds of United States Ma
ines are held in readiness to
cave at a momont's notice for
ny part of the world where
American interests are threaten
d.
And the Marines are all "het
p" over the matter, too. "Tel-
Ing it, to them has its draw
acks, for, as "Jonnies. the
pot" they form the first line of
ne national mobile defense, and
hey cannot get the viewpoint of
he peace-at-any-price propa-
(andists who have established
headquarters close by.
The United States Marine
& corps is up to maximum strength
his minuet and is ready to a
man f or anything that may
krise, said a grizzled old gun
Rery sergent when told the
Jews. Let 'em strike the home
enemy or the foreign kind ana
they'll always find the Marines
BGble to give an account of them
kelves. We sometimes need q
few men to fill our ranks, but
we've never had to call in the
Eind Of male bipeds who wanted
10 know who the enemy was go
M 60 be before they Unlisted.
Rhe United States Marine Corps
s no place for a milksop, molly
eoddie, or haif-hearted man. for
we're always in thick of some
Bhing or other, and we like to
ave ticklish job to do. Look
1T Haiti. No, sir, these anti-en-
5istment people do not reaIize
What they are doing. They do
bot realize that an adequate
army and navy is the surest pro-
section against War, and the
Stronger our armed forces are
the less likelihood there is of 2
|surprise attack by an unscrupu-
GUS enemy. The United States
Marine Corps (which is neither
he army or navy, has a scant
en thousand men with which to
bold the foe at bay in the early
ktages of an invasion. These
ten thousand are ready to a man
and a button, but instead of ten
i've should he fifty thousand
Strong, to insure against war and
As a means of protection against
hn unjust aggression. Perhaps
Il New York was bombarded by a
foreign fleet the headquarters OF.
The anti-enlistmunt league would.
remove from 81 Quincy Street,
Brooklyn to to the Navy Yard,
maybe, Stranger things than
that have happened"
oOS
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
EPISCOPAL BOARD OUT OF pEe1

On the 21st of September, the treas
urer of the Episcopal Board of Mis-
sions was able to declare the final
balance for the year ending the first
of the month On that date, 371.0o0
had been received of the 100000 ask
ed for the emergency fund. But the
balance showed that the real emergen-
cy had already been net, even though
the fund had not yet been completed,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04

The continent says: The terrific
world-crisis now fallen on the nations
challenges the churches as no other
situation in the history Of the past
four hundred years. Recession any
where now In any religious work
would verge on treason
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04

at that time heard great many young
women throughout this country. who
came to her recommended as possess
ing favorable voices. She selected just
ton on her return to Europe. One OF
these was Miss Haseltine, from among
some 300 applicants in the state Of
Missouri
Nine. Calve was greatly impressed
with Miss Haseltine's voice as being
particularly suited TO the role of Car
men.
Miss Haseltine subsequently went to
the home of Nine. Calve in France and
lived with her throughout the school
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04

The Methodist Church membership
in Liberia, Africa. increased last year
from 1888 to 10.7ss. Nearly two
thousand conversions we're reported
during the year.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1915-11-04
". B. Burnett
Phone Oko|Ona Hardware Co.
NO i i C

We Have Opened Up First Class
PLUMBING BUSINESS in Okolona
and are Prepared to Install Your
Plumbing in First Class Manner.
We Employ Skilled Mechanics Only.
All Work Guaranteed. We Are Here
to Stay. We Can Furnish and Install
any Plumbing Fixtures. You are in
need of. Repair Work Solicited.
Estimates furnished Free. Cali
Independent Phone No. I'll.
The Coconino sun., 1915-10-15
Reflected Glory

Smith-Who is that fellow who seems so awfully popular?
 Jones-Why, surely you must have heard of Lieutenant Dash, V. C., the man who shot ffty-nine Germans, saved the life of his colonel, and, in fact, has done all the most thrilling deeds imaginable?
 Smith (greatly impressed)-Good gracious! And you don't mean to say that that's really he?
 Jones-Oh, no. This is Jimson, who claims to have gone to the same school some years ago.