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The Washington herald., 1915-05-23

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! ceves a pension and free medical at
Should he be killed his widow is pen
| stoned throughout her widowhood, oil
his orphans are pensioned until they are
| 16 years old. In the event of losing his
against "inculpable worklessness
| through the winter months. At 20, he
begins to draw his old age pension. But
however young he may be. if he has an
pacity to one-third of his normal wage
| and has paid his dues for 200 weeks al.
together, he is pensioned for life.
The cost of this network of insurance
from employers and employees. with only
comparatively slight subsidy from the
state. The payments are collected by
means of stamps. which are for sale at
German laborer of the highest grade
is insured against unemployment, acct
dent. sickness. invalidism and old age
| met young woman from America.
norance of the law She had taken an
apartment In Munich and had called in
a woman to do her weeks washing.
Soon she was waited upon by an official
erwoman was in the hospital. where she
was about to undergo serious surgical
operation, and that the bills of the hos
pital and the surgeon would be sent to
IL
that housekeeper to see that her employee
had her insurance card properly stamped.
This the innocent American had failed
to do. and since she had been the first
to employ the negligent washerwoman
in that particular week. the hospital
charges were assessed on her. In other
words! II the employer does not assure
himself that the insurance is paid, he
must look out for his uninsured employe
through any period of invalidism
Nor may the employer discharge nor
the employe quit without due notice to
the other. A domestic servant. for in
stance, must have two weeks notice
from her mistress. and in the course of
that fortnight she Is entitled to three
afternoons out each week for the pur-
pose OF finding new place.
The several insurance funds having
grown to large proportions the surplus
IL invested In many ways for the benefit
Of the workpeople. In some instances, II
is employed in providing better housing
for them at moderate rentals and to
lending money directly for the purpose
Of enabling them to buy or build houses
for themselves.
Fighting Unemployment,
The empire. the states and the cities
all are working together to solve the
problems Of the laboring population and
the most strenuous efforts are making
ment. For the idleness OF an army Of
unemployed is more costly to any nation
that tolcrates II than the id1eness OF a
great standing army. and II II the means
of greater waste than all the fires that
report Of P the Sriti 81 Sosa ., trad.
gives Germany the credit Of having re-
duced to the minimum the waste OF nm.
employment. In 1903. for example. the
report showed the Percentage OF unem-
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and technical schools are ready at hand.
and when the product Is finished thu
graduate is led from the schoolroom to
the employment bureau.
Since every one I'm the KaiSer's own
family must learn trade he means that
about every member of the great Ger
man family shall have the same start.
William II, you know, is vain of his craft
of bookbinding: the crown prince is Il
turner: another son is a blacksmith and
another a brass worker, while Princess
cooking.
Emigration Stopped.
The policy which Bismarck introduced
and the Kaiser has developed. has sue
ceeded in one of its two avowed objects.
Emigration has stopped. The great
stream of outpouring Germans is all but
dried up. From being one of the prin-
cipal migrating nations thirty-fve and
forty years ago, Germany now probably
makes a smaller per capita contribution
than any other country to the flood which
continues to pour out OF Europe.
Only 5000 or 10000 persons. I believe.
leave the empire In a year. and more
than 100000 immigrants enter 1t yearly.
Indeed the government has deemed II
necessary to take precautions against
Italians AuStrians and Russians permR
nently settling in the country I'm large
numbers. and only the pick of the people
who drift over the border are permitted
to stay beyond a season.
I.
however. has been defeated and Knocked.
Instead OF state socialism killing the So
cfalist party. the experiment has worked
out in exactly the other way. The more
socialism the more socialists. Even while
the iron chancellor was falling socialists
and enthroning socialism. the socialist
vote just about doubled itself.
The Crowned Socialist.
When William II came to power he
discarded the futile anti-socialist laws
and boldly took his chances with the So
cialists in free competition. FoN the
Emperor and the various states of Ger
many are virtually in race with the
reds. The Kaiser and his vassal kings
are striving to give the empire a gov
eminent So liberal in its paternaljsm. so
honest and efficient in its admihistra-
ton that the German voters will not be
tempted to turn them out and put the
socialists in their places.
But they have to keep moving in order
to stay at the head of the procession
When the Kaiser started, the socialist
vote was At, 900 but he has seen ID rap
idly mount to 4.250.000 In total vote of
L. 100000. and the Social Democratic
party become at the ballot box the
strongest of the several parties which
ments.
1t In a rivalry between monarchical
socialism and democratic socialism. the
Germans as a whole standing on a So
cialistic platform. large and growing
minority would have the people run the
err than risk 1t in the control of the So
cial Democrats. are well satisfied to leave
II in the skillful hands Of the crowned
socialist who sits on the throne of the
Hohenzollerns.
(copyd.ht. 1915, hy James Mcran.)
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ZW tine az S7Sa1HT

| the masses sunk in dumb serfagc
They did not awake until the nineteenth
| century had come, bringing in the era OF
| industrialism.
Now in this new era. the relations OF
employer and employe took on a more
| immediate importance than the relations
between sovereigns and subjects. The
Germans. therefore, turned for their sal
walton to economics and socialism rather
than to politics and parties. to bread and
butter rather than to constitutions. There
is no Magma Charta. no Declaration OF
! Independence, no Declaration of the
Rights of Man in the literature of Ger
man agitation. Therein lies the remark
able difference between the German and
other points of view.
A German has said that while French
men We're proclaiming their rights. the
Prussians were learning their duties.
The Enslishmen. the Frenchmen, the
American is suspicious and jealous of
his government. For long he cherished
the theory that the citizen is governed
best who is governed least. 1t is still
his ideal to make the state his servant.
The German. on the other hand. was
not out and about when the eighteenth
century had its quarrel with kings. He
confidngly looks up to the state, there
fore. as his strong protector. as the shield
of the poor from the power of wealth.
as the mediator between the worker and
the mighty CAPTAINS of industry. This
is the role that the Kaiser has played
since he put on the crown in 1SSS.
When Bismarck prescribed blood and
iron. those drastic doses were intended
only for foreign consumption. The chan
cellor was not stupid enough TO admins
ter them to the body polite of his coun-
try. to attempt to allay with bullets the
rising discomfort of the German people.
On the contrary when. in threatening
numbers. they began to vote the social
list ticket he himself quickly became a
socialist.
When Bismarck Turned Socialist.
1t is true, he put through laws sternly
depressing socialistic agitation and pun
ishng socialistic agitators. But even
while he laid an iron hand on the party,
he picked its pockets and stole many of
it's principles. As he frankly owned. he
determined ito bride the working
classes or Ito win them over to regard
for their sake and interested in their
welfare" When socialists were being
hunted down, herded In jails and were
fleeing the country to escape his ven-
Geance, he stood w in the Reichstag in
1854 and boldly proclaimed the doctrine
of "the right to work. There never
was a more fragrant instance of stealing
the other fellows thunder.
Socialism was not the only cloud that
lowered upon the new empire. far
more emphatic and menacing protest
against the condition of life in Germany
was registered by the emigrants who
were leaving their native land by the
time of the German union the population
was only Il, 600. COO. or es,000000 less than
today, the country was being drained
by an ever-sw cling stream of emigra-
ton, which carried away from the
shores Of the fatheriand.' mostly to the
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ployed labor to have been 2S.1 in Massa-
chusetts and New York combined; 1896
in Denmark: 9.5 in France; SO in Bel
GUM. and only % in Germany. In 1909,
the percentage in New York and Massa-
chusettS fell to 14.9 while in Denmark
1t rose to 1882. fell to 81 in France, to "a
in Belgium and stood at rs in Germany.
There are some 500 free employment
agencies or labor exchanges in Germany
and often they are free social clubs as
well. The Berlin Labor Exchange is a
most impressive structure. 1t has a
labor bourse like stock exchange.
where supply and demand are brought
, face to face. There the offers of jobs
and wages are called out as il they were
bids on board of trade: there the work.
ers may meet and fraternize at games;
there they may have meals served them
cheaply. and free workrooms are pro-
vided for unemployed cobblers and tall
they may by repairing the shoes and
clothes Of their brethren.
a man registered as an applicant at
one of those employment bureaus re-
him from arrest for vagrancy. but aids
him to admission in the homes and hos
pices which have been established for
the shelter of the honest seekers for
shirkers f.om the workers. the sheep
from the goats in the fold of the idle.
When Germany entered upon her so
cial policies the land swarmed with mobs
2o0. GO in number. among whom begging
and pillaSing We're common. 1t is very
different now. when the real job hunter
carries papers which clearly distinguish
him from the mendicant and the yegg-
man. The latter. with no credentials ex-
cept those they may have been able to
steal, are likely to find themselves grub
bling in the sterile field of some labor
colony. the last refuge. the last chance
this side of prison bars. For the duly
credentiated tramp, on the other hand,
relief stations. employment agencies, the
the mails and half-fare rides on the
trains in some regions. all are his, to
the end that, however far asunder they
may be, the man and the job shall be
brought together.
The Boy and the job.
The schools are an important part of
the Kaiser's machine Illiteracy In Ger
many has been reduced in seventy-flve
years from 40 per cent to the seemingly
immeasurable and irreducible minimum
of 1-10oth of 1 per cent.
The state has not been content merely
to reduce illiteracy. but 1t has stri,1,n
also to reduce the yearly output of I'M
skilled labor. Doctors and sociologists
20 through the schools. examining and
Classifying the pupils. pointing thu I'M
appropriate trades and diverting the
youth with weak lungs or hearts or eyes
from occupations dangerous to those
organs.
After a boy or a girl Is charted. phys
ically, he Is diagnosed mentally and tenn
and his parents are called in conference.
Between than all they agree Just how
to teach the young idea to shoot Glasses
in craftsmanship. continuation schools
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United States. as many as 10000 per-
| sons year.
That exodus of the empires workers
and defenders well might have alarmed
| Bismarck more than the ballots cast by
| socialists. He pointed out that it was
not due to over-population. since. as he
had discovered. the flow was smallest
| from the more crowded parts of Ger
many. and he declared that cit is the
| destruction of hope i'm a man that drives
him to emigration"
In that grave national crisis. the chan
cellor won the old Kaiser William J. to
the support of plan to stop both social
ism and emigration and. in 1881, Germany
took the lead in a most daring and eX-
traordinary experiment in social and in
dustrial legislation. The new policy was
| inaugurated with an insurance for in
valid workmen and pensions for the SUI
perannuated. as well as with laws for
improving the conditions Of labor gen.
orally
An Army in Overalls.
When, after few years, the pre-: Olt
Kaiser came to the throne, i he brought
to this project the enthusiasm of youth
he was yet only 20-and in the course
OF his reign he has reared on the foun-
dations laid by Bismarck and his grand
father most elaborate system of inn
perial and monarchical socialism Under
this system. the great army in overalls
Is enrolled beneath the care and protec-
ton of the government just as much as
the army in spiked helmets. Everybody
and man. every girl and woman in that
industrial army is mustered in, receives
his oroher papers-or labor book"-and
becomes a part of the Kaiser's big ma
chine.
The German military governor of Bel
GUM expressed his amazement at the
lack Of laws in that country regulating
the conditions of work and he said that
he found the Belgians knew little about
the subject. Almost any other nation of
Europe or any State Of the American
Union might excite the same surprise in
German observer.
Germany begins with the child in
school. where it aids him to choose and
learn a trade and finally guides him to
job. II worker Is injured. or sick,
he receives an allowance to tide him
over his misfortune, and hospitals and
convalescent homes are opened to him.
II he loses his Job. his municipality
cities. he draws insurance in times Of
unemployment. If. although employed.
he needs to borrow. the municipality will
lend him money. II he wishes legal or
any other kind of advice. 1t will counsel
him. If he wishes to move. 1t will d.
rect him to new home. II he wishes to
build. 1t will advance him the money re-
pute with his employer, the courts VIII
quickly decide between them and with
out cost And when, at last. he Is too
old to labor, he is retired on pension.
~ Nation Insured.
Virtually every contingency. every
chance In the life of a worker Is pro-
vided against With certain exceptions
all wase-earners are insured against
money for more than six months. II the
disability shouId last that long In case
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Virtually every contingency. every
chance In the life Of a worker Is pro-
vided against With certain exceptions.
all wage-earners are insured against
sickness and entitled to draw benefit
money for more than six months. II the
disability should last that long. In case
of injury by accident. tho worker re-
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Mr. MORAN today tells how the Kaiser drills the
rreat industrial army of Germany thoroughly
as he drills the military fcrCns Of his empire, per
trays him as the socialist cnthroncd, and FONTS
out German efficiency in Ieacc as the secret OF
Gerrnany's efficiency in
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
TESTED AND PROVEN
There is a Heap of Solace in Being Able to Depend Upon We'll
 Earned Reputation.

For months Alaskan readers have seen the constant expression of praise for Doan's Kidney Pills, and read about the good work theJ have done. What other remedy ev- CT produced such convincing proof of merit?
 Anthony Miller, 4316 S. Puget Sound Ave, Tacoma, Wash, says; T had lameness across my kidneys and headaches and dizzy spells. l suffered from a constant backache when on my feet. I tried eyerythin but got nothing that would remove u trouble, until Doan's Kidney Pill were recommended to me. They quickly strengthened my back and removed the lameness. I was soon able to sleep well at night and got up in the morning feeling refresh ed, iustead of being more tired when I went l., bed"
 Price soc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mir. Miller had. FoSter-Milburn Co.,, Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
EDITORIAL P A c E
Sudden End.

"Whar's Red Face?" asked Four Fin ger Hogan in the hotel bar at Tin Can ''I haven't seen Red Face around for some time"
 A general hugh went up Then Shotgun Simpson shook his head and said:
 "Poor Red Face He got loaded the other night. rode into Cemetery Gnlrh. stuck his head in the window of the Crimson Arms hotel and yelled, 'FireF
 "EveryhOdy did" Exchange
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
EXPOSED!

After exposure, when you feel a cold coming on, take "PURoLA Honey and Tar Cough syrup. DonL wait until 1t has developed into oronchitis or pneumonia. Does not contain opiates of any Iind. Keep bottle in the house for emersen- cies. Your druggist will refund your money If not satisfied. Price 25c and soc Specify "PURoLA' Sold by Keller Bres. Drug Go.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
Munps May Sa Serrous.

That mumpS iS a disease far foo serious to be laughed at or iuked about Is proved hy the fact that | rauSeS an average of iOO dcathS year in Eng land It k more ScriuuS in adGlls than in children. HS jt often 9TeCtS other glands than those that produce the saliva.-New York World
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
Much Kissing on New Years.

It was the custom on New Years day for all the citizens. after they had 'alh.i upon each uth,u during the day io "iSit the Snvrrmnr in the evening nlru and women together. where il was 'hr custom uf the worthy Peter rn h,->tnw upon each of the wives and m1iGrr~ hearty smack. thus setting a lash rn that was no doubt carefully followed by the rest of the ILpn. Try iug'S "KuirkerbOcEcr' History of New York"
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
HoW's This7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F. J. CHENEY 6 CO. Toledo. O.. We, the undersigned, have known K. J. Cheney for the last l5 years. and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry cut any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE.,
 Toledo, O. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES

Though worn eNceeulnSS lu'e>'" pare by long usage the old saying, No two people car. agree fully up cu any given question" is as ap- plicanle at the present time as it was n the day on which it was coinsd. A gooi illustration of this IS to be seen in the comments made by tue Juneau Empire and the Ju- uelu Dispatch :n their write-ups Of the organization of the second ter ritorial legislature, which convened in Juneau on last Monday. Their sizing up of the situation politically is as widely at variance as it Is possible 10 imagine.
 The Daily Empire of March lSt. SAYS.
 As the senate and house stand organized the adherents or James WicEersham, Alaska's delegate to congress, are in con ,rol of the organization.
 And the Daily Dispatch Of March 2d, says.
 The second session of the AL aska territorial legislature com pletely divorced politics from is deliberations by organization on purely non-partisan lines.
 Although is is plainly evident from an article in the Daily En- pire of March 2d that the editor Of that paoar is sorely disappointed ove" th. result ot the elections in the senate and house. 1t may ai- % be said, much to his credit, that ne philosophically accepts things as they are and is willing to prove lis allegiance 10 Alaska by eXtead- ing ail the help tha, he can in iurthevauce Cf the interests of the rvrritory. The article in question says in part:
 No matter what individual members of the legislature or others mgiht think of the ne tDods and results oi the con test over the organizattCm 0. tue second legislature of Alas- ha territory. none should nurse g crouch. The principal thing l., that the legislature is organ ,- rrs, gF tention to the work that mHst he done for Alaska.
 It is agreed that President Sutherland and Speaker Col !ius are men of high charactc.' and capacity. No one will claim that they will not be fair and etticien; and honest in the discharge of thei. duties, and those are the things that are important to all of us.
 The Empire believes that the second legislature is capable Of doing good work for Alaska, sud that it will do ir. It be- lieves that the members will t&ke into account the general welfare of all sections of the territory, and act in all things with the gooG Of the whole of the great Northern Empire in mind at all times.
 The only way 10 do this Is to forget the factional and sec :ional matters that usually ac- company a distribution of the lOaveS and fishes.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
JUST A COLD"

You may call 1t just a little cold" yet 1t Is so easy for a light cold to develop into q serious one. Ask your druggist for a box of "PUR0LA" Laxative Cold Tablets and break up the cold at once. Do 1t today. Price 25c. Specify "PUR- OLAF Sold by Keller Bros. Drug Co.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
RSciprccity.

Loving Bride Will van promise mo that shall rri-u in our hume: pntin" Bridegroom Yes. if y"u vii nromiS' ne that yuu will no' storm Baltimore Amcri'an
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
Pra-kirsl AdMIce

Mr Weekly Our neighbours Sop is always thrl$Eiug my hoy. What shall do ahort it? I.awyer-Tcach him how to fight Ten dollars. plPHSe.-- Boston Transcript
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05
To Cure d Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE PROMO QtttN1NE tablets. Stop the Cough and Headache and work off the Cold. Druggists refund money fit fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 2s cents.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-05

Regular 25c size Nyall's or Rose cold cream at 20c at Keller Bros. Drug Co. 2-26-6t.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-30
Lowering the Death
Rate Of Children
- Makes Large
~ Families Un-
Amerc Fress
Association necessary ~4
By VIRGINIA c. GDERSLEEVE, Phi D. Dean Of Barnard College
necessary

THE chief why has been strenuous thrusng itself
toward the front of the that for the last fifty years
because of rapid social changes
great reservoir of unused feminine
To briefly this
feminine Fifty the house industrial
ganaon which supplied enough work absorb all its feminine
b directing and abong bearing and for children edu
eating girls who had other mode of training this home
apprenticeship
THIS LABOR HAS BEEN DONE AWAY WITH BY THE
REMOVAL OF WORK FROM THE HOME TO THE FACTORY.
releasing the
the death birth There
high birth to keep population sufficiently In large
families days children did infancy Who
that has known the tragedy of of these brief lives
that changing conditions have least partially done with the fear
full drain woman's vitality of bearing and losing children?
BETTER 1T THAT THEY SHOULD PERFORM
PERPETUArNe RACE rhRouuN A
LOWER BIRTH RATE AND DEVOTION
REDUCTION INpAKr moa
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-30
WEYBRIpGE.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Newton and Miss
Grace Elliot motored to Canaan, N. H.,
Saturday, where they visited Mir.
Newton's sister, Mrs. Kenyon, for several
days.
Mrs. F. A. Breitonbock and little sons,
Cornelius and Cyrel, of New York are
at Mrs. l.. o. Thompson's for a few
weeks.
Our local talent here went to North
Ferrisburg Tuesday night, where they
gave their cantata.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Dewey were at G
D. Grants in Lincoln Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Warner of Alburg,
n. Y, were at A. w. Sturtevant's Sun.
day.
R. D. Langdon and Mrs. NJ. j. Landon
of New Haven, Mrs. James Thompson
aud Mrs. Harriet Dexter of Troy, n. Y.
were at w. W. Kingsland's Thursday.