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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
COST OF ONE BATTLESHIP
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN


By all means let us popularize the
navy. 1t is our navy; we have paid
for it, and it is for our people to do
what they please with it. For, after
ALL this is the peoples country" And
perhaps we could bring it nearer to
our hearts and thoughts if we should
paint on the white side of each ship
its cost in taxes, in the blood and
sweat of workingmen, in the anguish
of "The Man Lowest Down"
There is the good ship North Da-
kota, for example. Her cost is al
most exactly the years net savings of
the prosperous state for which she is
named There are the fine dread
naughts, which fear nothing while the
nation is in its senses, and in war
nothing but a torpedo boat or an aero
bomb.
1t would please the workingmen to
know that his wages for 10000 years
($52S per year on the average) would
purchase a ship of this kind, and that
the wages of 1000 of his fellows each
year would keep it trim and afloat.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
VOTED RIGHT LATER

That many members of the legisla-
ture which passed the acts to limit
the use of the initiative, referendum
and recall, by requiring signing of all
petitions at registration offices, after
ward signed referendum petitions
against these measures, is shown by
the canvass of the signatures, which
is still in progress under the juris-
diction of Secretary of State l. M.
Howell, with a crew of 104 checkers.
The count is expected to be finished
by July 9. 1t undoubtedly will show
that there are sufficient signatures to
refer all seven measures against which
petitions have been filed. The petit
tons against the acts Gripping the
initiative, referendum and recall and
the political conventions measures,
which We're vetoed by Governor Ernest
Lister, drew some $4,000 more sigma
lures of protest than any of the other
measures.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

An American and Scotsman were
walking in the Highlands, and the
Scot rpoduced a famous echo. When
the echo returned clearly after nearly
four minutes, the proud natice, turn
ing to the Yankee, exclaimed:
There, mon, We Gamma show any
thing like that in your country"
ooh, don't know said the Ameri.
can. 81 guess we can better that.
Why, in my camp in the Rockies, when
go to bed, just lean out of my win
dow and call out. Time to get up!
Wake up!' and eight hours afterwards
the echo comes back and wakes me.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

A medical practitioner on board an
ocean liner administered, rather free
ly, sea water among the patients who
were ILL., No matter what their all
ments were, dose of the briny fluid
was quickly handed to them, and they
were told to drink it up.
One morning the physician fell over
board which caused quite a consterna-
ton among the passengers. The cap
tain came on the scene and inquired
the cause.
"Oh, it's nothing, SIR" answered one
of the sailors; "only the doctor has
fallen into his own medicine chest"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
SINGLE TAX AND
COOPERATION
By THEODORE TEEPE

BY THEODORE TEEPE
The three great foundation stones
of the single takers creed are the
destruction of land and money mon
opoly and the development of coop
Grafton
The first point to keep in mind in
the study of cooperation is that
worker does not have to own any part
of machine to avoid being exploited
by it. Now a machine owner makes
a profit from the use of his machin-
cry equal to interest on the invest
ment. If the money monopoly is de-
stroyed, interest will disappear and
interest or profit for the use of the
machine will disappear with it. The
machine has no power of monopoly
need not care who owns the machin-
cry so long as land and money mon
opoly are destroyed
When it is impossible for anybody
to get wealth through land rent or
interest, all will have to give some
valuable service for living. It is
one of the basic laws of economics
that man attempts to produce wealth
with the least expenditure of effort
The operation of this law will urge
men to cooperate in the most econ
omical manner possible so that each
shall get maximum of wealth for
minimum of effort.
| Today most of our brainiest men are
spending most of their time getting
special privileges for themselves.
When special privileges are destroy
ed, self interest will drive these men
/ toward facilitating production and
eliminating waste, which will result
in good for all.
With special privilege destroyed,
there will be a hundred or a thousand
opportunities for every man With
numberless opportunities awaiting
]
work which suits and pays them best.
| Wasteful duplication of effort will be
held at a minimum because useless
duplication means a diminished re-
turn and this will turn men to some of
the numberless unused channels of
production. Today we have wasteful
competition and duplication because
there are fewer jobs than workers.
due to the monopoly of natural oppor-
! tunities.
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a
tank which had but one little air hole.
When the prisoners were thrown into
this tank they entered into a fiend-
! ishIy savage scramble to get to this
air hole. each man doing his best to
sustain his life Had the roof been
removed suddenly, there would have
been air enough for all and order
would have taken the place of the ter
rible competitive strife to sustain life
from the only means at hand.
Today the workers of the world are
in Black Hole of Calcutta They
are glad to pay the monopolists nearly
all they produce for the privilege of
breathing through a little air hole. 1t
is time we were boring few more
holes through the tank and in time
we should remove the whole roof.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

VERY gratifying said a young and
conceited novelist "A gentleman
writes me that he took a copy of my
last work to read during a railway
trip, and as Il result suddenly discov-
cred he had gone twenty miles beyond
his destination"
Dear met" commented the young
authors friend; sleeping in trains is
bad habit"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Il want you to publish these poems
in book FORM" said a seedy-looking
man to a publisher.
Publisher: "Ill look over them
but | cannot promise to bring them
out unless you have well-known
name"
Poet: That's all right My name
is known wherever the English Ian
guage is spoken"
'Ah, indeed! What is your name?''
John Smith"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Bill: Have you heard about the
Prince of Wales?"
Nell: mo. What of His Royal
Highness?"
Bill: well, he had a fall, and re.
manned unconscious for some hours. y
Nell; "Oh, poor Prince!"
Bill; "But am happy to say when
His Royal Highness came to himself
he was none the worse"
Nell: How did it happen?"
Bill. I'm this way mot officially
denied0 1t was very late on Monday
he fell-asleep in his bed!"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Mr.. Bryan's idea of an ultimatum
seems to be that it should be addrest
to the president of his own country.
New York Telegraph.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Thirteen days later the other Ne
braskan blew up.-New York Evening
Telegram.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

WE are neutral, but if the name of
Przemysl is to be changed again we
can not guarantee to hold the PRINT
ERS.-Wall Street Journal
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Patronlze YOUR advertisers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

can keep on doing until the war has
been won. They never hear the vague,
unveriiied reports circulated in Paris,
sometimes of tremendous and impos-
sible victories or sinister hints of dis
aster. They know what they have done
since March 9. when ordered to act
upon this part Of the Aisne. They talk
as a matter of course of another win
ter campaign. because they say it will
take another year to break the Ger
man power.
The principal occupations OF the sol
diers when off duty, instead of worry,
ing about the war, are eating ana
sleeping. The visitor hears more
hearty laughter ia ar hour a. the
front than in q week behind the lines.
Some prisoners are taken every day.
The party of which the correspondent
was a member came across one who
was being questioned by his c3p'ors.
He was a blue-eycd, blond, weak-look-
ing youth, who said he was twenty
one and a half years old, bu; who
looked not more than seventeen. He
had been in the trenches six months
and said he had not had enough 70
eat. The reason why was not quite
clear, but he told an officer he had
seen no food for two days. &c and
twenty-five others, installing the To-
cation of their post, had been capt
ured. The German was supplied by
his captors with a loaf of bread.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Arras Under Shell Fire
$50 Consecutive DAYS

Arras, France, Friday, July o Shells
have been dropping into Arras at in
tervals to-day, as they have been for
$50 days. Each twenty-four hours a
few more buildings crumple or burn,
although the Fire Department still IS
efficient in cxtinguishing flames.
One thousand civilians out of for
mer popula ion of $4,000 are still here.
There we're 1000 in December, when
The Associated Press correspondent
first visited the town. A few scores
of the inhabitants have been killed or
wounded, while the others have been
persuaded by the military authorities
to 90 away. None of those remaining
thinks Of sleeping anywhere except IN
a cellar The rest of their time they
spen- out of doors, when nc shells are
falling.
About half the outer walls Of the
beautiful City Hall still are standing
but there remains only one jagged cor
ner of the imposing belfry which once
adorned the great square Of Arras. A
citizen occupying a cellar on the other
side of the square counted the shells
which struck the belfry, and SAYS It
took $50 to shatter the beautiful bit OF
Spanish architecture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Err. Thomas Might Come Back,
Bot Submarines Won't Let Him
Former Broadway Financier Now IN England Ian
Return as Witness and Asks Supreme Couft 10
RECOGNIZE War Zone by Appointing commission

sible or highly dangerous -much more
so than even at present
Thomas adds that he is unwilling TO
leave his wife, child, mother ana
mother-in-law unprotected in England
in war time. The former bankers rel
erence to his family shows that child,
now almost a year old, was born TO his
second wife. Mrs Elizabeth Rebecca
Finley Thomas, daughter of Mrs. Henry
n Finley. of New York, who he mar
ried after his first wife, Mrs. Linda Lee
Thomas. obtained a divorce from hlm
in this city. He is living with them at
Rournemouth, having gone there from
France at the outbreak OF the war
Thomas suffered an attack OF pneu-
monia in France a year ago, and on the
advice of his physician he spent mos,
of his time in the warm climate OF
Southern France and Egypt.
E. R. and Orlando Thomas and
Charles NJ. Hamilton are being sued by
Edwin NJ. Post and Grove +. Warner.
stock brokers. Post is the assignee OF
a claim for $4,000 growing out Of a
pool in the stock OF the Keokuk & Des
Noines Railroad Company. Edward K.
Thomas has answered the suit against
him by saying he assumed liability for
two-thirds Of the debt. and paid Post
$50. 900, which was his full share Of the
obligation. The case is now before
Horace f. Deming as referee and the
testimony Of Thomas is needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12

Another American grievance aga'n''
German submarine warfare is that tne
undersea boats have prevented Edward
P Thomas, once we'll known as Ne"
York banker and now living IN Eng
land. from returning to this country
Edward r. Thomas, associated WIN
Orlando F. Thomas IN the oahA.
inc business prior TO the panic OF
ia667 and also with Charles W. Morse
and the Heinzes. figures in SUIT IN the
Supreme Court in when ms testlllioHy
is needed. But he is not coming mere IN
these perilous times Of submarines 70
Give this testimony. He has explained
The war situation to the court ana
asked that a commission be appointed
IN take mis- deposition in England.
Your petitioner desires the court 20
take judicial notice of the European
war" saws Thomas, "and that passen-
ger steamers 10 and from England nave
6een repeatedly torpedoed, with great
Los Of life; that a number or neutral
sbins have been torpedoed; that mines
are scattered around, making 1t very
dangerous. and that a situation exists
which may become serious at any time
"a regards the relations between the
limited States and Germany, and that
II he were 10 return TO this country at
this time il might well be that his re-
turn to England would be either impos-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
AMERICAN CASES
In BRITISH COURT
Shipments of Chicago Packers
TO NeutralS, Seized in Novem-
Der, To Be Reviewed.
[By Cable to The Tribune.l

London. July lin the prize court
tomorrow the cases will come up of
the cargoes Of products shipped by
Chicago packers to neutral countries
adjoining Germany aboard the steam
ships Kim, Bjornstjerne Biornson, Al
fred Noble and Fridland. These ships
and cargoes have been detained since
November. The British government al
leges that the cargoes are contraband
intended for ultimate consumption by
Germany. This allegation the packers
counsel will deny.
The value of these cargoes is ap-
proximately 100000 There are
other cases pending involving ship
ments on more than forty vessels.
The total value of all packers prod
ucts held by the government is ap-
proximately S15,OO0,OOO. It is expected
that the matter will ultimately reach
stage where the owners of the car
goes will seek American diplomatic
intervention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
FRENCH RETAIN
ALL EMINENCES
BELOW FLANDERS
Lille, Douai and Cambria
All Visible from Allies
Positions.
TRENCHES VISITED
BY NEWSPAPER MEN
Soldiers Confident That What
They Have Done They Can
Keep on Doing Indefinitely.

On the Heights Of Notre Dame de
Lorette, near Arras, France, July 10,
via Paris, July II, noon.-After bat
Ting 100 days for the hill country be-
tween Bethune and Arras. the French
forces are in possession Of all the emf
nences looking out upon the plain of
Flanders. Lille, Douai and Cambria
are all visible from here.
Every position along the broad ma
tional road between Arras and Bethune
has been won, except Souchcz, and last
night another quarter mile of trenches
in the Souchez web was torn away.
The attack was made under parachute
rocket lights, the French burning
blush white and the Germans green
ish white, covering the scene of the
desperate conflict with a CHASTITY glow
The most desperate fighting has been
along the short ten-mile front from
Arras to AK Noulette, which began on
March 9 with the taking of n few hun
dred yards of trenches on the water
shed of Notre Dame de Lorette, where
there are the ruins of an old Nero
vingian military road. Every day since
then some sections of the German
trenches have been taken, lost or re-
taken.
A correspondent of The Associated
Press to-day went through five or six
miles Of the trenches formerly held
by the Germans and reconstructed by
the French, who now have abandoned
them to move forward. Upward Of
100000 Germans have fallen or been
CAPTURED in these trenches, according
to the French official count, since the
second week of March. The French
losses. the correspondent was conf
dentially informed, while serious. have
been much smaller than those of the
Germans. There are thickets of little
crosses made Of twigs tied together
marking the graves between the
trenches. Some of these graves have
been torn up by the shell fire.
Almost every square yard Of this re-
gion is marked by miniature craters
caused by exploding shells. Spots
where shells penetrated the earth with
out exploding are indicated by signs
bearing the words, Live She'll
In the party which went over this
ground and into the firing trenches
within calling distance of the German
lines with The Associated Press cor
RESPONDENT were Owen Johnson, Ar
mold Bennett, Walter Hale. the artist,
and George H. Mair, of the British For
eign Office. As they approached the
lines one shell from four-inch gun
burst within twenty-five yards OF them,
while others exploded only thirty or
forty yards away. This incident
seemed to greatly amuse the soldiers
in the trenches. who laughed heartily
at the embarrassment of the civilians.
The visitors were invited by the SOL
diers into their shelters, which are dry
caves with narrow entrances and with
CLAW floors covered with mating or
sacking and family illuminated by the
light which filters in from the en-
trance or by bits of candle on the in
side. Men who had been on duty
throughout the night were sleeping in
these caves.
The men on the firing line express
the utmost confidence that what was
done yesterday or this morning they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Little Band Storms Peak,
Holds Off Germans 4 Days
Single Company of Provencas Beats Back Repeated
Assaults and Saves Key to Vosges Positions
for French Army.

At 9 o'clock the attack was begun with
artillery, Guick-hrers and rifles. but II
was insufficient to drive out the Ger
mans. who mad in the meantime estab-
lished we'll protected trenches, and,
with an excellent telephone system,
made any surprise movement impossi-
bic.
"The company's rations were now be-
coming very low. Delirious cries of the
wounded added TO the discontinue Of
the men. The following morning a Ger
man patrol tried TO take the position by
storm, and some of the men succeeded
even in mounting the parapet. These
were driven off by a quick-hrer, which
had been captured from the Germans.
On other advancing troops of the
enemy huge boulders, dug from the
hillside, were rolled down. and we sue
ceeded in dispensing the attack.
Another attack was prepared by Us
for that night, but the danger was
great on account of the narrowness Of
the position occupied by the company.
1.-THE captain OF the company was or
dered to light fires at the opposite ends
of his position, so that our artillery
could better regulate its fire, as there
was great danger of killing our own
men.
1.-THE artillery opened crushing fire
and the Germans began to retreat. As
they passed the company's position
their men were mown down by the ex-
actness of the fire of our troops, and
finally the brave company was deliv-
cred.
"The general in command OF the
army in the Vosges said, in compli-
menting the men for their bravery, the
company henccforth should be called
Company Sid Ibrahlm.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
BELIEVES GAS USE
PLANNED LONG AGO
Sir John French Says All Scien-
tifc Resources of Germany
Must Have Been at Work.

London, July 11.-Field Marshal Sir
John French, in review of the opera
tons of the British expeditionary
forces in April and May, makes caustic
reference to the use by the Germans Of
asphyxiating gas.
81 much regret" says General
French. chat during the period under
report the fighting has been character
lied on the enemy's side by cynical and
barbarous disregard of the well known
usages Of civilized war and by fragrant
disregard Of The Hague Convention.
"All the scientific resources OF Ger
many apparently have been brought
into play to produce gas OF so Viru-
lent and poisonous a nature that any
human being brought in contact with 1t
:. first paralyzed and then meets with
lingering and agonizing death.
"The brain power and thought when
evidently have been at work before TINS
unworthy method OF making wa.
reached the pitch Of efhclency "n!cl
has been demonstrated in its practice
nSo that the Germans must have
55na pb these designs for long time
,r oA5 a the Se'T deepest regret and some
sunrise that an army which mas
Hitherto claimed TO be the chief eX,
nonent of the chivalry Of war should
have stopped to employ such devices
against brave and gallant foes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
Citizens Appeal for Re-
moval of Explosive-Load-
ed Craft from Bay.
OFFICIALS SAY BLAST
WOULD WRECK FORTS
Report Stuff Is Comparatively
Safe, However, and Decline
to Take Action.

DESPITE the assurances of officers OF
the United States coast guard service
that there is little danger of the dyna-
mite-laden German steamer Magdeburg
being blown up, residents Of Gravesend
Bav are much worried over the posi-
bility that the Magdeburg or some Of
the other ships carrying cargoes Of oX-
plosives, which make Gravesend Bay
their anchoring place, may be blown up.
There are at times as many as four
or five vessels filled with dynamite and
other explosives anchored there. Ere
quently loose powder is being trans
ferred from lighters to one or more of
the ships destined for the belligerent
nations.
The Magdeburg, a 3,OoO-ton steam
shin, owned by the Hansa Steamship
Company, of Hamburg, Germany, has
been anchored in Gravesend Bay since
August 4. She left Philadelphia on
August with a cargo Of 300 tons Oh
dynamite consigned to a German ilrm.
When war was declared, Captain her
man Orgel, of the Magdeburg, 5as re-
called by wireless. The port autnorl-
ties refused to permit him to tie up at
any pier, owing to the dangerous cargo,
and ordered him to anchor IN the MD
die of Gravesend Bay.
As it is against the port regulations
10 handle loose powder on any docks
within the city limits, many vessels
have made use Of Gravesend Bay since
the beginning of the war to take aboard
large quantities of powder and other
bighlv explosive munitions of war. Be
sides the MagdeburG, there are now
Norwccian sailing vessel, loaded with
lumber. and a French steamship, load
ed with cartridges and powder, an
chored in the bay. Two British ships
carving cargoes of high explosives lett
Gravesend Bay for Europe last week.
Citizens living in the neighborhood,
who feared for the safety of their
homes and families, recently protested
10 the port authorities. The protest
vas turned over to Major General
Wood. commanding the Department OF
tho Fast. He ordered Lieutenant
lanes Hearn and a squad Of the coast
Guard service TO make an investlga-
tion. This disclosed the fact that the
dynamite aboard the Magdeburg was
carefully packed in boxes, wrapped IN
rubber sheeting, and that the danger
Of explosion had been reduced to
minimum.
While officers Of the coast guard ser,
vice deny that there is any. danger or
an explosion, they admit that snnould
one occur the effects would be dlsas-
trous within a radius of at east mile.
Serious damage, it was said, would be
done. not only to residences within
that radius, but also to the big guns
and defences of Forts Hamilton and
Wadsworth. which guard the entrance
to New York Harbor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-12
GERMAN PEACE
TALK PERSISTS
Socialist Party to Set Forth Its
Views in the Reichstag
After Congress.
Bv GORDON GORDON-SMITH.

Zurich, July lin spite Of official
discouragement, the discussion Of the
possibility of peace continues in Ger
many in ever increasing volume. The
Socialist party announces 10 Will hold a
three days party congress before the
meeting Of the Reichstag, on August
10. TO consider the whole political stu
alton. The chief subjects OF debate
will be the question OF the annexation
Of Belgium and the conditions of peace
which the party would consider just.
Speakers will be selected 20 set forth
the views of the party in the Reich
stag.
In an interview published in the
"Reichspost" Ivar Monschulcf. Vice
President Of the Sobranje. declared
Bulgaria would continue neutral He
said Bulgarian policy had nothing 70
do with sentimentalism. but was based
on concrete facts; that the Entente
powers were allies or friends OF Serbia
and Greece, bu were Bulgaria's worst
enemies. In addition, Russian defeats
in Galicia justified hopes Of victory for
the central powers.