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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
LEGISLATURE REPORT
SCORES CONDUCT Of
STATE PfN|ltNTIAR!
CONDITIONS THERE DECLARED
TO BE A DISGRACE TO THE
STATE.
LAsHES GIVEN 10 CONVICTs
Thirty-Four Per Cent of the Prison
ers Are Afflicted With TubercuIo-
sis-State Guilty of Numbering Its
Own Prisoners.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 49,
Asserting that the state of Tennes
see has been found guilty of murder
ing the inmates of the state prison
and pointing out conditions to sub
stantiate the statement, the legisla
tive committee appointed to investi
gate conditions at the state prison
made its report Thursday, disclosing
some startling facts and making some
important recommendations to the
state.
The committee, composed of j. j
Murray, chairman; w. G. Davis, sec
rotary J. A. Clement, DR.. F. H. Dunk
lin and Dr. j. E. Mathis, acting upon
a joint resolution of the senate call
ing for an investigation of the tuber
culosis situation at the main prison,
began its investigations on Jan. 49,
which were continued until recently
Cooperating with the committee
were members of the state board of
health, and DR.. Lucius P. Brown, OF
the food and drugs department.
The results of the probe into the
prison conditions were set out at
length in the complete report of the
committee, read to the senate Thurs
day afternoon. The report caused
somewhat Of a sensation on account
of the startling state of affairs re-
ported, and the strong language used
by the committee in reviewing its
findings and making it's recommends.
lions for the many Improvements
needed.
"The present hospital at the state
prison is disgrace to the state and
a hive and breeding incubator of ey-
cry germ known to modern science.
"A record of the corporal punish
ment of all inmates for short work,
bad work and other offenses is shown
in the record of the number of lashes
administered to each prisoner. A to-
tai of 1882 lashes administered
while whipping the state prisoners
is shown for the period covered by
the investigation. The records show
the whipping of women, cripples, and
many prisoners with tuberculosis.
THE conditions we found have
served to arouse in us a deep sense
of condemnation of a state so power
full for having exercised it's power so
carelessly in the treatment of those
whom society has imprisoned for its
protection.
The state of Tennessee has been
guilty Of numbering those whom soci-
ETY. has imprisoned for its protection,
and the state has been guilty of the
most merciless neglect of those who
were friendless, penniless beings,
who in many instances placed their
lives at the mercy of the tribunals
of the commonwealth.
1--WE found AIT cases of tuberculo-
sis among the 1918 prisoners in the
state prison, showing that more than
thirty-four per cent of the inmates Of
the prison are infected.
I'VE recommend the adjustment
of corporal punishment, the inaugu-
ration of the honor system, the build
ing of suitable hospital, the remov-
al Of the insane prisoners from among
the others, arrangements for more
air, light, exercise and improved san.
itary conditions, and better food for
the prisoners"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
ADDITIONS ARE
MADE TO CHURCH
PRES6YTERlAkS HAVE MADE A
NUMBER or NEEDED I'M
PRoVEMENTs.

Special contributions recently
made provided for the First Presby-
terian church a new communion SER
vice, the new mission building, and
completed the funds for the pur-
chase Of new piano for the Sun lay
school
A handsome piano box has been in
stalled and will be used by the Sun
day school for the first time on this
SABBATH.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
OPINION IN MAURY
CASE HANDED DOWN
Special to The Herald

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 13-In
the supreme court this morning an
opinion was handed down by Judge
Buchanan in the case of Mrs Jennie
Mcdonald VS. the Southern Insurance
Co. The case was reversed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
WHY so MANY FEEL TIRED.

WHY SO MANY FEEL TIRED.
Spring fever" usually is the result
Of sluggish bowels and torpid liver.
After months indoors, you are not
likely to feel vigorous and sprightly.
Foley Cathartic Tablets are worth
their weight in gold" for that over
full feeling. biliousness, gas on the
stomach. bad breath. indigestion or
constipation. Their action is quick.
comfortable and COMPENSATION
nausea or gripping Stout people say
they are a blessing --WOLDRIDGB
CO. (Advt.)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
Get Rid of Lingering Colds, Coughs
and La Grippe.

dHu I'd OTTppE.
Spring finds many afflicted with
lingering, hacking coughs that weak
en- the system. Slush and wet cause
more colds than zero weather. Group.
bronchitis, and pneumonia are pre-
valent. Every family should have a
safe and reliable cough medicine
ready for use. Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound contains no harmful
ingredients. 1t eases cough. checks
cold and relieves infiamed and con-
gested membranes. It clears the air
passages and soothes Inflammation.
WOLDRlDGE co. (Adyt)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
CULLEOKA STORM
TWO YEARS Aga.
SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF NM.
DISASTROUS CYCLONE or ""
THAT SECTION,
saturdays Daily !

This is the second anniverp..-
the> disastrous CulleOka cyclone n
4 o'clock two years ago TODAY N.Y.
property was destroyed and ss,s,'
lives lost in the county as the ,ss'
of the wind storm. The wind va. y
companied by one of the most ia,
downpours of ain ever known -
section, all oMrhe creeks being :
of banks as the result.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
SLIGHT DAMAGE TO
EVERETT HOME

The fire department was called out
about 8 O'Clock Thursday afternoon
by an alarm turned in from the home
of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Everett on
West Sixth street The big truck
made record run, and with the aid
OF the chemical extinguishers, pat
out the blaze before it had gotten a
start. The damage to the roof was
very small.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-03-19
WHITE MAN WITH BLACK LIVER

The Liver is blood purifier. It
was thought at one time it was the
seat Of the poisons. The trouble
with most people is that their Liver
becomes black because Of impurities
in the blood due to bad physical
states, causing Biliousnes, Headache,
Dizziness and Constipation. DR..
Kings New Life Pills will clean up
the Liver, and give you new life.
25c. at your Druggist -(Advt.) 3
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
WHAT WAR TAUGHT

ut was war which led to the dis
covery that it was easier to
get wealth by appropriating the pro-
ducts of others than by production
Of wealth at home. Appropriation
paid better and became more honor
able than production. Appropriation
became the work Of the soldier. pro-
duction the work of the slave.
The victorious tribes appropriated by
war both the lands and the people of
the conquered tribes, and in so doing
developed the strong military man
who in turn used the military power,
created and formerly used in order
to enrich his tribe, now to enrich him
self instead. At last private
ownership of both land and slaves is
the further fruit of ar"-Pages 1888
The Struggle for Existence, by Wal
ter Thomas Mills, Am.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
HERE'S THE RECORD

Industrial accidents in the state of
Washington during the last year caus,
ed a time-loss of 1859 work years.
Although this figure is tremendous,
it represents a marked decrease from
the accident results of the previous
year, which caused aggregate time
losses of 1912 work years. During
the last year there were less acct
dents and the percentage of fatal &C
cidents was less
During the first year under the in
dustrial insurance act, accidents at
tributed to lack of safeguarding com
prised ga per cent. of the total num-
Der. During the last year such acct
dents comprised only 1.3 per cent. of
the total number. The industrial in
surance commission gives Labor Com
missioner e. w. Olson and his corps
of factory inspectors credit for this
reduction
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
MIR. CAN'T AND MIR, CAN

Oh, Mr.. Can't from Mr.. Can
Is very different sort of man,
For Mr.. Can he always tries;
And Mr.. Can't he always cries,
Now, Mr. Can gets many a blow
But he gets the best in the end, you
know.
While Mr.. Can't gets nothing at all,
For he's down too low to suffer fall,
Oh, Mr.. Can gets up with a grin,
And he says, fTm bound in the end
to win"
But MIR. Can't is a pitiful sight,
For he's whipped before he's begun to-
fight
And he says it puzzles him quite a lot
Why some men win and some can not.
Oh, poor Mr.. Can't! He never knew
The secret I'm going to whisper to
you
That you can win if you only try,
And you certainly can't if you only
cry,
And that is the reason why Mr.. Can
From Mr.. Can't is different man.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
Capitalist System
Deteriorating Race
By Working Women
ROSS DECLARES STRAIN OF
FEMALES WILL HAVE DIS
ASTROUS RESULT ON THE
WORLD - DEMOCRACY IS
WANING.

With the pressure the employing
class Is exerting on them, women
work under gradual process of
starvation" that is "going to deterior-
ate the race" according to Prof. E..
A. Ross, head of the sociology depart
ment, University of Wisconsin.
He declared the people must change
their ideas of personal liberty unless
there is a change in the autocratic
character Of American industry.
Ross arraigned the capitalist sys-
tenn that controls American industry,
with it's insecurity Of employment,
starvation" wages Of women work
ers, and deplored the waning of de-
mocracy, born of the American spirit
of the frontier.
BIG PENSION SYSTEM
Great expansion of the pension sys-
TEN, in the interest of the workers,
was predicted by Ross. He traced
it's rapid growth from 1898, when he
first heard of teachers pension.
The free land of the frontier was
responsible for the American spirit
of democracy and personal liberty, ac-
cording to Ross. He said the western
states did not obtain this spirit from
the early settled eastern states.
Democracy was born in the West
and moved East" he said. And the
same statement may be made of Re-
publicanism, Organism and National
ism.
"But with the passing of free land,
at least one fountain of democracy
was shut off. Now there is no from
tier and no west. And so a half-mil-
lion Americans have moved to north
western Canada during the last 10
years. In the days of the frontier the
social lines were less tightly drawn
than at present"
WOMEN ARE HELPLESS
Ross declared women workers are
absolutely unable to protect them
selves in face of the pressure the en-
ployers are forcing upon them. He
said there are 100000 women in the
business field, ranging in age from
Is to 25.
women will not fight back at en-
ployers like men," said Ross. st is
difficult to organize women workers.
This is chiefly due to the fact that
they do not expect to remain at work.
Four-fifths of women workers marry
and five-fifths expect to-
CAS- a result a gradual process of
starvation of women workers is go
ing on and they are receiving IS per
week when they should be getting at
least SO. The Massachusetts commits
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04

thousands Of families will be shelter.
ed in cold houses this winter because
coal is too dear or because The wage
Garner is unemployed.
In the cotton mills today one girl
or boy can tend from five to 20 looms.
whereas formerly one man or WON.
an could only handle one loom. Think
what a great amount of cloth can he
produced under these circumstances
and yet at the same time remember
how many times a year you would
have liked to buy yourself a suit of
clothes or the wife a new dress and
the kids new outfit and then picture
to yourself the number of willing men
and women who would have been only
too pleased to avail themselves of the
opportunity Of tending these machines
but were denied because too much
had been produced already.
The storekeeper is never troubled
about getting the goods-he is always
troubled with selling the goods. No
matter where you go you will find
plenty Of goods for sale and at the
same time you will find thousands,
aye millions, in need of those very
goods but unable to purchase them.
What a beautiful system. And the
system is upheld by the very ones
who are in the greatest poverty. The
Socialists are ridiculed by the very
people who will benefit most by the
collective ownership of the means of
wealth production.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
WILL ENFORCE DICK LAW
by Bruce Rogers

It appears that the democratic ad
forcement OF the notorious Dick mill.
tary law and it is high time that
those who delude themselves with the
belief that we will never have com
pulsory and despotic military service
In America should come out of It.
War is really but n manifestation
Of competition in its ultimate forms.
1t is what you might call the last
word of competition, and It Is certain.
ly the very last principle capitalism
proposes to part with, and war will
not end until the workers simply re-
fuse to fight.
There is every encouragement to
believe that such propaganda IL &C.
lively pursued will succeed abundant
ly Young men are now laughing at
the recruiting advertisements with
all their false Establishments and one
no longer hears the old patriotic ref
erence to "our soldier boys" and "our
boys in blue"
Left to their free and voluntary &C
ton the workers are showing that
they will no longer support military
programs by enlisting, no matter
what their exigences are under the
vicissitudes of industry, but what the
cowed and beaten workers Will do
under the coercion of the infamous
Dick military law Is another matter
and is consideration that should
move us to much greater educational
activity against war.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
SOON BE EQUAL TO MEN
BY Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Women are now merely potential
beings. The world has witnessed one
period when women were vastly SUI
perior to men. That was when men
hunted and fished and women spun,
wove, titled the fields, made the bread
and nursed the babies and kept things
moving alone pretty smoothly by in
dustry and their ability to produce.
Then came the time when Man be-
came dominant Nobody knows just
exactly how it came about or exactly
when or whose fault it was, mans or
woman's, but one fact soon made it
self apparent and that is that Man
liked it so well, this being looked up
to as superior creature, that he
has done and is still doing everything
within his power to prevent any
change by which women shall come
into their own right of sex equality.
This is the period which is now up
on us, the period of mans dominance,
and it Is against this that women
have begun in this century to strug-
gle. The third period which we are
to face is to be the glorious period
when there will be no question Of
superiority or inferiority, but when
men and women shall meet on an
equal plane.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
PRICE OF LIBERTY
Geo. D. Heron

1t is only when the working class
understands that by it's own solidar-
ity, by its universal cooperation for
it's own emancipation, it becomes
physically resistless and spiritually
omnipotent-it is only then that the
cooperative dawn will break. The
working class of all nations must sup
port and enforce the working class of
each nation. The working class of
the world must be the right arm of
every worker. So long as there rec
mains a single spot upon the earth
where a master can have hireling,
so long as from single man is with
held the equivalent Of the whole pro
duct of his labor, just so long will
liberty be impossible for any man,
for any part of the world.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
WAR AND COST OF LIVING

Statistics compiled by the state
board of control indicate that in the
last year the European war indirectly
cost the state $4,000, in increased
prices paid for commodities, princi-
pally food. Prices were found most
sharply advanced soon after the dec
laration of hostilities, when the Sep
TENDER, 1914, semi-annual purchases
were made. Prices were reduced
somewhat when March, 1915, supplies
were purchased, and had declined ap-
proximately to normal when purchases
were made in September, 1915, for
the current six months period
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
One Cause of Social Unrest

Tho machine dlsplaces labor but la
Dor does not benefit by the dIsplace
ment. One hundred men in a mod
ern sawmlll can produce as much as
300 formerly did. Plenty of timber
and easy to make into lumber-yet
how many workers own their own
homes?
Machinery in the loading and un
loading OF ships has displaced hun
dreds OF men. For every bottle max
ing machine installed in this country
6o men have been displaced. The
modern flour mill displaced 70 per
cent, Of the labor formerly used. Have
the workers displaced been benefited
by the change? Not that you can
notice.
A machine is in operation that takes
In sheets of tin at one end and turns
out 10000 tin cans daily at the other
How many men do you imagine have
been displaced by this machine?
One hundred machine tenders can
turn out as many boots and shoes as
boo men formerly did by hand. There
are plenty of boots and shoes on the
market-if there were not there would
still be plenty of unemployed to tend
the machines, yet we find that the
average man finds 1t continual strain
to supply his family with shoes
One hundred and sixty miners can
now do the work that it formerly
took 500 to do. There Is plenty oil
coal in the bowels of the earth. vel
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
KNOCKS OUT ALIEN LAW

WASHINGTON, Nov. Upon COM
plant OF cook in a Bisbee restau-
rant the supreme court has annulled
as unconstitutional the Arizona alien
labor law, enacted year ago by the
initiative process.
The statute required employers of
over five persons to employ not less
than 80 per cent. qualified electors or
citizens Of the United States.
The court held that the rights of
aliens as guaranteed under the four
teenth amendment were violated by
the alien labor statute.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
STUNG BY GARFIEN
THE JEWELER

Quite number of Everett residents
were stung by Garfien who has been
auctioneering jewelry, leather goods
and musical instruments during the
past two weeks. Every once in a
while somebody of this type runs in
to town and unloads a lot of stuff on
unsuspecting buyers and yet these
same people will be ready to buy from
the next trickster that comes along
while the man who is in legitimate
business in town looks in vain for
customers. When will you learn to
avoid these auctioneering pirates?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
What ABOUT THIS 7

Persons receiving this issue of The
Northwest Worker who have not sub
scribed are asked to read it carefully
and consider the matter of becoming
subscribers. The help of every So
cialist Is needed. Post yourself and
thus post others with whom you talk.
Hand your paper on for others to
read. A little information each week,
such as The Northwest Worker con-
tains, will keep you thinking and de-
veloping. You cannot afford to re-.
main ignorant of the matters SUD-
pressed by other papers.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
Dick Military Law
WHAT 1T MEANS

A beautiful example of capitalist
class legislation, which Is disgrace
to any people calling themselves civil
lied was enacted into law by the
United States Congress on January
Il, 1908. 1t is found on page 227,
Vol. 10, Sec of tho United States
statutes. The act is entitled. "An act
to promote the efficiency of the mill
tia and for other purposes"
This bill was introduced by Sen
ator Dick of Ohio, who Is said to have
negotiated the purchase of seat for
was a member of the legislature of
the state of Ohio. This law was sign
ed and approved by Thee. Roosevelt,
and he ought to be ashamed of Il.
Notice the title of this act, AN act to
promote the efficiency of the militia
and for other purposes" The last
four words (and for other purposes)
constitute n fragrant, malicious and
vicious betrayal OF confidence of the
American workingman when we look
at this law from working class
standpoint. On the other hand, It
should prove to every workingman in
America that the capitalist class are
conscious of their class interests The
proviso in section of this law ex-
empts certain persons from the law,
and you will notice that the persons
exempted are either capitalists or the
lackeys of capitalists. The exemption
clause reads as follows: provided,
That nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to require or compel any men,
Der of any well-recognized religious
sect or organization at present or
ganized and existing whose creed for
bids its members to participate in war
Of any form, and whose religious con-
victions are against war or participa-
ton therein in accordance with the
creed Of said religious organization,
armed or volunteer force under the
jurisdiction and authority of the Unit
ed States" (32 Stat L. 775)
Every American Wage-SIave a Soldier
Section l reads as follows: Sec.
II. (Militia-composition-n guard
reserve militia) That the militia shall
consist of every able-bodied male citi-
zen of the respective states, territor-
les, and the District Of Columbia, and
every able-bodied male of foreign
birth who has declared his intention
to become a citizen, who is more than
eighteen and less than forty-five years
Of age, and shall be divided into two
classes-the organized militia, to be
known as the National Guard of the
state, territory, or District of Column
bia, or by such other designations as
may be given them by the laws of the
respective states or territories, and
the remainder to be known as the
Reserve Militia" (32 Stat. L. 775.)
So, you see, Mr.. American Work
ingman, that under the law you are a
United States soldier, unless you be-
long to some well-recognized religious
sect or organization, and thus it comes
about, that men who belong to a we'll
organized religious sect or organiza-
ton should be deprived of the ex-
IRENE pleasure and glory of being
shot at, while workingmen have this
glory thrust upon them. The idea of
benevolent assimilation originated in
| Ohio.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04

This is the machine age. BY the
aid of machinery we can produce a
thousand times more per worker than
when the work was done by hand.
Yet we find millions starving in the
midst of plenty
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
FUN is ON!
Nobody Home" Everybody
Taking in the Carnival

When this
ThereII Of and
LIVE
the attraction
that
of time this
week! Loosen into
a s-atthe
8
yourself bring
n
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
BAD FOR RACE

"The pressure upon women work
ers is going to deteriorate the race.
The conditions under which women
work are uniting them for mother
hood"
Ross attacked the insecurity of en-
ployment in industry. "The worker
is given no protection and no assur-
ance of a safe investment of any
money he is able to save" he said. "a
new foreman can fire man, if he
dislikes the color of his eyes"
Prof. Ross was discharged from
Stanford University California, some
years ago, for telling the truth in
his class rooms.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04
NATIONAL GUARD FAVORS
PLAN
WILL SUPPORT DEFENSE PRO-
GRAM OF ADMINISTRATION

WASHINGTON. - The support OF
the national guardsmen for the ad-
ministration's defense plans, includ-
ing a continental army, was virtually
assured at the concluding conference
Of Secretary Garrison and the execu-
tive committee Of the national guard
association held recently.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-11-04

sion that set the minimum wage for
women workers in that state at $8.71
per week, found that up to that time
only in 10 women was receiving that
much money.