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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16
b. II. MARSH.

Some of us were scared to death at
the prospects of having to circulate
seven referendum petitions. l frankly
admit that was dubious myself.
had a vivid memory Of the herculean
size of the job in the initiative cam
paign last year. largely due to the
multiciplicity of measures. This cam
paign is therefore rather a surprise to
me. The people seem to be ready and
anxious to sign the whole prgram and
there is but little of that hesitancy
that marked the signs during the early
part of the campaign last year | at
Last year our initiative machinery
was brand new, so new it was stiff
and the people didn't hardly know how
to handle it. But the folks know
when legislature tries to slip some
thing over on them as raw as the bills
that are subject to referendum and
they are sore. 1t isn't hard to get
signers; the problem seems to be to
get the folks registered.
BY the way, have YOU taken out
a petition yet? It's a leadpipe cinch
you can get twenty names. Try it.
T. H. Harry Bolton, president of
the Central Labor Council and newly
elected city councilman, has resigned
as vice-president of the State FEEDER
alton from the Sixth district. Harry
has been a board member for six or
seven years, | forget which. There
isn't man on the board that hasn't
learned to trust and respect Harrys
Judgment. He has been a big brother
to all of us, always cool-headed, 'sot"
in his opinions on various questions
that came before US but displaying
such sound judgment that we always
listened with respect. Harry would
give me fits if he knew l was writing
this, but he don't know it and he can't
keep it from being printed (unless he
has bigger pull with labor editors
than l have.) It's due to you, Harry,
old man, and we know that though you
are no longer on the board with US,
you are the same old dependable fell
low who gave all there is in you to
the cause of labor whenever called up-
on to give.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16

Most of us could start brass
band II hot air were music.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16
EVERETT MILL MEN ADOPT COLORADO
TACTICS. TACOMA HAS UNION REVIVAL
REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN OPENS

commission as special police" until
the boys made the city authorities
back up. Then they built a stockade
around their plants, erected a bunk
house and grub tent. Then they put
a guard with shotgun patrolling the
railroad track running to the mills.
That wasn't protection enough so they
erected a powerful searchlight which
sweeps the bluff overlooking the
plants through the night All of
which gives you an idea Of what blood
thirsty pirates the shingle weavers are
and why all these precautions must be
taken in a city of thirty thousand, am
ply policed with twelve thousand able
bodied citizens subject to police duty
whenever called upon. 1t is to laugh.
Strikebreaking has grown to be pro-
fession with program as inhexible in
Michigan as in Washington. Same old
tactics, same old disregard for COM
mon prosperity, same old contempt
for law
In the meantime the weavers are
holding their own in good shape The
lockout has gone six weeks and no
body has thought Of rturning to work
They know they're up against hard
game the hardest battle they have
ever had to fight as an organization.
They are not undertaking the resource
of the opposition. They might even
get whipped in this fight-although
you can't make one of them believe
in such an outcome-but they would
be up and at it again as soon as i'm
proved industrial conditions gave
them an opportunity.
Keep your eye on Tacoma. In that
city, long dormant and apathetic as
far as the rank and file of the unions
went, there is a spirit sweeping that
may make you all look to our laurels
union mass meeting there recently.
There were five hundred union men
and women packing the hall to the
doors. 1t was a sympathetic intensely
interested crowd, a gathering through
which ran an electrical current which
you sensed the moment you entered
the room. 1t was a Labor Forward
mass meeting, planning how to make
Tacoma the best organized city on
the Pacific Coast. And they'll do it,
too if they hold on. And none of us
will be jealous. Well just put our
heads down, settle in the collar hard
er, and try to pull up even with Ia
coma. Go it, Tacoma.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16

LOUIS TIKAS.
PRIMO LARESE, age IS years.
RODERLO PEDROGONE, age 6
years.
CLORIVA PEDROGONE, age 4
years.
LUCY COSTA.
PEDELINA COSTA.
ONAFRIO COSTA, age 6 years.
CHARLES COSTA.
JAMES FYLER
FRANK RUBINO.
JOHN BARTOLOTI.
FRANK w. SNYDER, age II
years.
PATRIA VALDEZ.
EULALA VALDEZ, age 8 years.
MARY VALDEZ, age years.
ELVIRA VALDEZ, age 3 months
RUDOLPH VALDEZ, age 8 years
FRANK PETRUCCI, age 3 years
LUCY PETRUCCI, age years.
JOE PETRUCCI, age 4 years.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16

While the labor movement loses in
Harry's resignation, made necessary
because of other duties, it gains in the
successor l am appointing-Wm.
United Mine Workers. He is one of
the younger members of organized la
Dor in the state, but | am going to ven
ture the prediction that he is going to
step into that vacant place on the
board and fill it to the queen S taste.
Short is the last man to pick a quarrel
but don't run away with the idea that
he won't fight if he has to. He is a
two-fisted fighter for labors battles
and when he hits he hits straight and
hard. Short is serving his second term
as secretary of his district organiza-
tion and is a delegate to the Seattle
Labor Council. He understands the la
ance and will take up the work of the
Sixth district in the same conscien-
tious, able manner that Harry Bolton
performed it.
All the Everett shingle manufactur-
ers need is a consignment of machine
guns and they'll have all the proper
ties of a West Virginia and a Colorado
I. Everett is thoroughly policed plenty
able to protect her citizens and its
property from a few hundred irate
shingle weavers At the injunction
hearing every patrolman from the
chief of police down, swore that there
had been no vialence nor a disturb
ance, nothing that the police had not
been amply able to deal with One pa
trolman described the picket-line as
a wedding party alongside some
strikes he had seem But the timid
mill men who only want all the best
of it and a little edge on top of that
took following precautions against
mob violence" incident to their at
tempt to operate their mills with seal
labor.
First, they brought in two notorious
gun men and professional strikebreak
ers to guard their workmen. They
armed them, even procuring for one a
Evening star., 1915-08-01

she's Sam Hardings niece. Anyway, she's
staying over where do!" And with that
l started away.
But no sooner had reached Harding's
place than Curly Locks showed up, still
enough to shoot
"Whats the dope?" l asked.
Nothing" he countered easily. "Just
thought I'd sit awhile
Little while later Eunce came up the
walk. She let her eyes grow wide as they
met Curly Locks, and then-clever little
mink that she is-she circled the house
and entered the back way. l never saw
a man so crestfallen as Curly Locks was
at that minute, and to save my life l
couldn't resist the opportunity it offered.
al see how you stand there, all right,
all right" | said.
RUT, to bridge another gap of time, he
met her the next day by going direct to
the place and getting in strong with Sam
Harding. Old Sam, as l have explained,
was onto the frame-up, and with true
mountaineer sagacity he worked box of
fine cigars out of Curly Locks before he
ponied the introduction.
After that everything was chicken, and
we just lay back and prepared for the
big laugh that was coming pretty soon;
for, believe me, Eunice didn't lose any
tricks in having that big boob trailing her
on every and all occasions.
And she didn't overdo it-not speck
she didn't! She was too much of an artist
for that. When he wanted her to come
and see him pose for pictures he had to
call for her, and many's the time I've
waited from twenty minutes to half
hour for him to show up with Eunice on
his arm. And time counts in making
pictures principally because every day
isn't a good day, and up there in the
mountains you're liable to have couple
of showers any old time, and that breaks
things up considerably.
That was another reason why Eunice
had to work quickly, and couldn't afford
to let any tricks get away from her. The
Big Uns in the North would begin pretty
soon to ask for Baley-Burney's releases
and it was up to us to furnish them. Two
weeks was the limit I'd set for her. and
| saw by the way she was going that that
was ample time. She wasn't letting
trick get away.
Four days from the time they met
cut flowers began to come down from
Asheville via Hendersonville, and Curly
Locks had rented buggy by the week
from Hendersonville livery stable
And along about that time the moon was
full, and every night the mountain ranges
around We're silver-tinted, and they used
to stroll in the evening down to the little
river that sizzled over the rocks about a
quarter of mile from Sans place, and
there they'd sit and talk. Great work, l
tell you
And then, ten days from the time
Eunice stepped off the Carolina Special
in Hendersonville, Curly Locks came to
me and asked for day off. | sort of
reniged at that until he told me that he
planned to go into Hendersonville next
day with Eunice. Then | said yes; for
| knew that the Grand Slam was about
to be played.
NEXT morning bright and early they
started off, Eunice flushed and happy
looking over the victory she'd won, and |
Evening star., 1915-08-01
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for August l, 1915

III dITdlu was u DlU rough WltI ulIH,
Tommy, he always called me Tommy,
confound his nerve!-"but he wouldn't go
down when his cue camel Then he puts
on his sweater over the gym shirt he was
wearing and joins the bunch of girls under
the trees.
Believe me, kid, we were up against
it-and then some!
He was too much stuck on himself to
think that we had contempt for him,
and he'd proved that there were mighty
few ways we might approach him so it'd
make an impression.
AND then, a telegram came from head
quarters, brief and deliciously to the
point. 1t just said:
Eunice Bailey joins you Wednesday.
Carries full Instructions. Will play oppo-
site Burney. Meet her Hendersonville
eleven A. NJ. train.
And before | had finished reading the
telegram was doing hootch around the
grove. knew that my problem was
solved, had the plan and all,-and the
best part of it was that | knew the girl.
| knew Eunice was as sweet as they make
'em and that she was dead game sport
and corsummate actress. There never
was doubt in my mind that she'd enter
into the plan, and when wised the others
up to it they fairly howled with glee.
And the most important feature of the
plot was that Curly Locks wasn't to know
that Eunice was coming. We knew that
the news wouldn't get down there in the
theatrical journals for at least three or
four weeks, and by that time the work
would have been DONE and Curly Locks
would have become tractable-or he'd
have skipped out and the Big Uns couldn't
lay the blame on me. 1t was q ticklish
position for new director, believe me! Up
in the Northern studios the big fellows can
see for themselves how the land lies when
theselittle internal dissensions come along;
but the longest and best letter everwritten
would never have wised them up to the
truth of the thing down in Bats Cave.
To make a long story short, Eunice
stepped off the observation platform
of the south-bound Carolina Special at
eleven o'clock Wednesday morning, and,
take it from me, she made the natives
stare! | needn't describe Eunice: you re
all familiar with her. Her name is plastered
over every respectable moving-picture
theater front, and she's liked by women
as we'll as men. And an actress-Eunice
is there with the goods all right and then
some! Why, when she deserted the movies
for the legit one season we all had heart
failure, or pretty nearly that.
I'd fixed Curly Locks up for the day
all right, by putting Tom Sayers in charge
of a couple of mountaineer scenes which
were necessary and in which Curly Locks
was the whole cheese, and the bunch with
Lonny Haslett, had gone out toward
Sugar Loaf Mountain to spend the day.
And the first thing did with Eunice was
to cart her up to the Kentucky Home
Hotel with me, appropriate a corner of the
little music room, and begin my spiel.
SHE listened attentively, ,-as she always
does, bless her!-and before finished
my little plan her eyes were shining like
twin stars, that's the way her press agent
talks about her, and for once publicity
man is up against game he can't exag-
gerate, and could see that she was with
me heart, soul, and so forth-especially
and so forth.
Evening star., 1915-08-01


love to love-some mixup in loves, eh?
But that's Curly Locks from the word go.
All miXup in loves. | believe he'd
starve to death without it.
"He doesn't know thing about your
coming here, and I'll see to it that he
doesn't find out. There isn't the slightest
danger of any of the company spilling the
good news, principally because only those
can trust have been wised up to it, and sec
ondarily because they're as dead anxious
to take fall out of Curly Locks as am.
"Ive framed things with Sam Harding.
He's great old fellow, is Sam, and |
know | was safe in trusting him with the
whole business. Sam and his wife live
there on the mountain, and they're as
nice and respectable as can be. You're
to be their niece. Incidentally I'm going
to stay over there as long as you do-sort
of protector and all that, although of
course We'll have nothing whatever to do
tain girl with a one-year college veneer
and world of ambition. You'll go wild
over Curly Locks"
"But suppose he recognizes me?"
| laughed. "Never a chance. How in
the world would he ever associate the
simply dressed, very pretty niece"-she
bowed at that-"of Sam Harding with
Eunice Bailey, the most popular and ac-
complished screen artist in the world?
Never! 1t isn't like he suspected that you
We're coming: he doesn't. And remember
he's never seen you except in the pictures
and magazines; so you're safe as they
make en-
"And the finale will be"
"Make fool of him. You're clever,
and you're playing game. Make him
propose, and then plan an elopement.
Well be on the job when the elopement
is going to take place, and we'll let him
know who you are and give him the merry
ha-ha. No one will have any kick COM
ing, because if they have we'll say that
it was all Just harmless joke done in
the best of humors; but if we work the
cards right he'll be the most humbled
man you ever saw in your life. He's a
good actor; but when that revelation
comes he'll show his true feelings, and
after that We'll have him under our
thumbs. That's been my idea right along,
we want to laugh at him. A man like
him can be reached only in that way
by laughing and by letting him know what
you're laughing at. Are you on?'
Her eyes laughed straight into mine
Il wouldn't miss it for the world" she re-
piled smilingly, and knew that she meant
what she said. Some queen, Eunice is!
TWO days before her arrival I'd moved
from the imitation hotel where we
were staying to Sam Hardings two-story
frame house. 1t was neat and clean as
wax. The old man was war veteran.
That's prima facie evidence of decency
in the South.
Next morning we We're rehearsing the
opening scenes of "The Mountain Feud,"
a three-reeler when Eunice hove into
view. She was dolled out in blue skirt
and a MILDLY blouse. Her hair was hang
ing in two great long braids over her
shoulders, and she stood there at the edge
of the clearing with her big brown eyes
shining in wonder and looking about a
million times as pretty as she d ever looked
before in her life. Even though there
was plenty doing in that open space, Eu-
nice, hidden in the trees, had way of
Evening star., 1915-08-01

streaming down through the trees, and
giving us almost as much light as we have
in the daytime, commenced by telling
them what they all knew,-that Curly
Locks was impossible, but that we had
to put up with him on account of that
contract and the demand that there was
for him. And then ! got down to the
meat of the matter.
told 'em that it wasn't no use mincing
matters just simply had to take Curly
Locks down about seven pegs, and we had
to keep him down. And there wasn't way
to do it that could see. | asked sugges-
tions from the bunch, and Lonny Haslett,
as usual, got into the heart of the matter.
Before you get your think tanks in
action" says Lonny, "get yourself wise
to this dope. There amt but one way
to get this here Curly Locks, and that is
by laughing at him so he'll know you're
laughing at him. Which heretofore has
been the trouble with Mr.. Curly Locks.
We've given him the ha-ha time and time
again, and he hasn't realized that we've
been doing it. The thing for us to do is to
humble him, abash him, drag him in the
dust, and make him look so silly that he'll
never want to look the world in the face
again."
Then Lonny bowed and sat down.
@Ill tell you one thing that ought to be
done, growled Croxton Miller, our heavy
man. "Someone ought to poke his face in"
| looked Miller over pretty closely.
He'd always seemed to more than merely
dislike Curly Locks. How"
"Cinch! Work a fake picture with
fight. Make him put on the fight scene
with some husky, and let that husky lar
rup the tar out of him. Make 'em use
gloves, so his everlasting features won't
be hurt too much; but be sure that that
whole crowd of girls from Edneyville and
thereabouts are up here to take in the
show. Film the scene, and then maybe
when he gets too obstreperous in the fu-
ture we can flash it as local exhibition"
We gave him three cheers and tiger
on that.
"Who's to do the licking of him." |
asked
He smiled very grimly. "Me," he says
am there with the gloves. Used to be
considered most good enough for the pro-
fessional ranks
ANYWAY, just to show you what
= cinch job we had, pulled the stunt
off just two days later-and believe me
we had arranged things so that the Ed
neyville bunch was there, and we'd even
managed to see that some girls came out
from Hendersonville to take in the orgy
of humiliation for which Curly Locks was
scheduled.
I'd told Curly Locks that this was a
picture that had as it's big scene an open
air prize fight. | told him that I'd in
structed Miller to scrap hard, and that
he was to do the same, as the picture must
be realistic.
Remember that fight William Farnum
had in 'The Spoilers" l said. "Well,
make it harder'n that"
He just smiled. We got ready and
posed the picture. Lonny made his set-up
carefully, and then | gave 'em the word
This scene didn't need rehearsal.
Now l amt saying that Croxton Miller
was a liar when he said he could handle
the mitts; but what | am saying is that
he didn't show it, That Curly Locks was
IL freak. I'll bet he could finish Jess
rl ,e dat L. ;,Il
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-05-14
Barnun & Bailey
Circus Coming

The Barnum and Bailey Circus,
which comes to Cleveland on Friday
and Saturday, May % and 20, claim
to nresent this year "A Circus Of All
Nations, meaning one that is filed
with ali new features shown now for
the first time and presented by 480
world-famed artists who represent
every nation in the world. The entire
world has been secured by special
Barnum and Bailey agents SO that
practically all the arenic stars that are
really worth seeing take part
There's material enough in this
years circus to make dozen circuses
Of the old days. "A "big top" $50 feet
long, nearly 1900 employees, three
rings, four elevated platforms, acres
of aerial apparatus, the biggest stage
ever erected for a dramatic presenta-
ton, 11O cage menagerie, 75O horses,
forty elephants, a street parade three
miles long.
A wonderful prelude to this great
circus is the presentation Of the new
magnificent, spectacular pageant, LA
la Rookh" in which more than 1000
characters take part. adv.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-05-14
BURBANK

Mrs. Minnie Overs was in Wooster
Tuesday.
Misses velyria and Myrtle Cast and
Maud Repp were in Lodi Wednesday.
Hazel Schaad was in Akron Thurs
day.
Mrs. Boor spent Friday at the home
of her parents at Madisonburg.
Ona and Ira Kratzer Of Lodi, are
spending few days with friends in
town.
Miss Maud Repp spent Sunday and
Monday with friends near Medina.
Lulu Brown, who is working at the
hotel, spent Sunday at the home Of hel
parents, K. P. Brown and wife, west
of town.
VIM. Miller and wife, who have beer
spending the winter in Florida, have
returned to their home in Burbank.
Mrs. John Ditch was in Wooster
Monday.
Born, to Chas Hover and wife
Wednesday, May 5, a fine baby boy.
James Dennis of Ashland, spent Sat
urday and Sunday with friends il
town.
Melvin Overs and wife of Lodi
Spent Sunday with relatives in town
Robert Dennis, who has been spend
ing the winter in Florida, is at home
again.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-05-14
SPENCER

The annual baccalaureate sermon
will be held in the M. E. church Sun
day evening, May 16.
The Senior class of the Spencer
high school will give the play, "The
Hand Of the Law" rural drama in
three acts, in the town hall Saturday
evening, May Is. Admission, 15 cents
and rs cents.
Spencer high school base ball team
played with Homerville H. S. Friday
They returned home victorious having
defeated them II to Z.
Mrs. Bruce from Cincinnati is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Henry Auble
and her brother Mr.. L. A. Wood.
Several relations and friends par
took of a birthday dinner, Monday, a
Henry Aubles' held in honor Of Mrs
Auble's birthday. y
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-05-14
COPLEY

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Taylor on
May 6, a son, Clyde H.
Mr.. and Mrs. Auginbaugh left
Wednesddas;y; e: scc- their home near Ur-
bana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Uplinger Of Cuyaho-
ga Falls spent Sunday at the home Of
his cousin, David Hankey.
Levi Hollinger, a resident Of this
place rs years ago, died at his home
at Lawndale Sunday afternoon. The
funeral was held Wednesday after
noon.
Rev. Eyster and family are moving
| into Frank Osborn's house.
About 10 attended the alumni
banquet Saturday evening. The La
dies Aid society served the supper.
Owing to the absence of all Of tn
teachers, Supt. Tlickinger assumed tn
duty of presenting diplomas to tn
| class of 1915. Several former pupils
from distance spent Sunday in Cop
ley.
Harry Chalmers, harpist OF AK
ron, Mrs. Katherine Tuttle and Mis-
| Fouse of Akron will give concer
here Friday evening in the auditorium
| for the benefit of the school.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-05-14
IA MILLION HORSES

A million horses have been used up
during the war. That IS the estimate
placed upon the number Of animals
that have been killed in battle, died
from wounds, Or been slaughtered to
prevent them from falling into the
hands Of the enemy--for such is the
progress 81 7S :.ss-e that Il ia now GUS
tomary for an army to slay its live
stock to prevent its use by the enemy
about to capture the army.
A million horses that knew no bet
ter than 60 to war. Or, simple dumb
creatures led into the slaughter,
through no fault Of their own, anxious
only to please their masters, trusting
to him who pulled the rein rather
than to their own instincts. It is bad
enough for men who have reason, and
who are supposed to be guided by
reason, to have to die in battle. But
the angels from above, looking down
upon the troubled earth, can probably
view with greater calm the staying Of
man by man than upon the murder Of
these poor dumb creatures that have
borne the burdens for the human race
since the race emerged from the
jungle.