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The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
Girls Win

Bridgeport. Gonna. +. of L. Or
ganizers James E. Roach and Mrs.
Mary Scully, secured satisfactory
agreement with the Warner Brothers
of Bridgeport, whereby the eight-hour
day was secured, day workers to re-
ceive the same rate as they we're pre-
viously paid for ffty-hve hour week.
Minimum rates for beginners to be
$3.50 per week for a period of two
weeks; piece work prices advanced
II IL per cent; obnoxious features of
the old system of fines and demerits
abolished; union shop established, and
all future industrial adjustments to be
made with the shop committee.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
Texas Storm Not Bad

Houston, Tex.-secretary w. E.
Carroll Of the Houston Labor Coun-
Gil wires that the newspaper accounts
of the Texas storm are greatly ex-
aggerated. Employers are trying
to take advantage Of it to secure an
over supply Of laborers. There are
many unemployed mechanics and la
borers in Houston. Galveston, Port
Arthur, and Beaumont There is no
legitimate demand for additional out
side labor.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23

the laborer nor the capitalist, but both
of these, and all otherss, all the peo-
pie, not part.
81 went to this commission as a
lawyer, determined to bring out all the
facts, to present only the undisputed
facts, to the people so that they may
judge-and find the remedy.
Il am not doctrinaire, not a polit-
ical economist. have no panacea for
the ills. have no bottled justice
which many be taken at dose.
"The remedies proposed have been
Offered to congress for what they are
worth. No one could have a panacea
for industrial ills. The inquiry, in its
essence, involves the study of life it
self. You cannot card-index the hopes,
aspirations, happiness, miseries, laugh
ter and tears of the human family.
construed my job to be an assemb-
ling of the facts as they actually ex-
isted.
"The hope of right conditions is
through education. The circle of
knowledge is widening. The people
are learning to detect sham. They
are fooled less by those who exploit
them. More and more men with good
minds and ideals of justice are work
ing for the common good.
"The people-the jury-now have the
facts. They now observe how capital
is becoming more highly concentrat-
ed daily; how the natural resources
of the country, the heritage of all of
us, have been seized by few, and
are exploited to the hurt of the rest
of us. The people have growing
sense of their power to overthrow
this injustice over night if they but
will it so.
"When enough of us get the idea,
ii may be done between days"
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
SINGLE TAX REMEDY
For Evils Described in Walsh Report Detroit
VIII Experiment With Street Railway
FRANK P. WALSH

Although Frank P. Walsh did not
go into detailed explanation regard
ing his advocacy of industrial dem
ocracy he struck a clarion note that
will be taken up and sang in chorus
by the producing classes of this coun-
try until industries are owned and
controlled by the wealth creators.
There is no other way to destroy
poverty, unemployment and its conse-
quent degradation. Those who have
grown fat off the proceeds of others
toll always at last become imbued
with the idea that they have property
rights in the wealth producers them
selves.
The Earth belongs to the people of
the earth and if any small class are
allowed to claim and exert that claim
il will mean that some will grow fat
at the expense of those who build.
Public ownership of public utilities
is not far off andwith its Inauguration
will pass out many private employers
who are now responsible for strife
between themselves and their ON
ployees by the formers greed. Once
public ownership has succeeded pri-
vate ownership in railroad, electric
light and power, telegraph, and other
public service activities there will be
not a very long road ahead for the
ownership and control of any private
industry that becomes too greedy.
The great bulk of the private for
tunes has been in public license to ex-
plot natural rights for the sole profit
of those who exploit
An inheritance tax conhscating all
wealth over a reasonable maximum
has now been advocated by many
great minds as the only weapon dras-
tic enough to check the tendency of
the exercise of unrestrained individ-
ualism. This will only become neces-
sary as last resort and if it comes
at all it will be because the people
who have made more than just re-
ward have become mad in their ef-
forts to gain still more power.
The destruction of land monopoly
by the single-tax on land values
would obviate the necessity of clumsy
arbitrary restrictions on the growth
of fortunes because it would prevent
their accumulation. No man has
right to one hundred millions dollars
OF wealth and under any just system
it could never have been acquired In
order to accumulate this much money
and the power that goes with it the
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
SAYS HOPE Is EDUCATION

San Francisco was neither judge
nor juryman. A man who is en-
deavoring to develop the truth from
some witnesses some unwilling-is
not judicial officer. That is what
I mean when | say frequently that
judicial poise' has no place in my
field said Frank P. Walsh, ex-chair-
man of the commission on industrial
relations, to a representative of the
Evening Bulletin.
"The facts which were assembled by
the commission and by me as chair
man must stand forthemselves-
let this sink in-every fact presented
in the report is undisputed. Only
those were presented which were
agreed as truth by both the workers
and the employers" said the ex-feder-
al prober.
when I accepted the appointment
I conceived that the duty and the
task set before me was to obtain un-
disputed facts for all people. for the
man who has invested his millions and
for the man who has invested his
labor and his life. l saw thegreat
working, hoping. striving millions of
men and women, Gods creatures. in
every avenue of industry. The act
of congress which created the COM
mission declared that there was unrest
and bitterness in the land. There
were clashes between the men who
labored-and those who hired men.
There were hatred and outbursts of
passion, strikes, lockouts, injunctions,
gunner, militia and riots.
"The people asked why. For the
people paid. They paid in the cost of
the things they ate and wore. They
paid in taxes for the burden of gov
ernment-and the people meant not
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
Auto Thieves Captured

L. f. Ihrig and Andrew Anderson
Of this city we're arrested at Nampa
last night for taking joy ride in a
stolen car. The car belonged to Joa-
quin Solosobel and was taken from
the corner of Ninth and Main Streets
at about BIS p. m. The owner inn
mediately notified Motorcycle Officer
Chambers who at once in company
with Solosobel went to Nampa and
~ompreheneded the alleged thieves
and returned with them to Boise
where they were each placed under
$500 bond.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
Machinists' New Editor

Washington-Mr. Fred Hewitt, for
merly assistant secretary of the Inter-
national Association of Machinists,
has been elected under the referendum,
as editor of the Machinists' Journal
to succeed the late D. Douglas Viii
son. His opponent Thomas L. Viii
son, former vice president of the In
ternational Association.
The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-09-23
Discrimination Charged

Springfield, -Machinists en-
pIoyed by the National Equipment
company are on strike because Of
discrimination. The unionists de-
mand that the victinized workers be
reinstated and that an eight-hour day
and time and one-haif for overtime
be granted.
The state herald., 1915-11-19
THIS CHICKEN WELL DRESSED
Idaho biddy Has FulLDress Flannel
Coat and Seems to Be
Proud OF II.

The proudest chicken In Boise lives
on West State street
The bird has no medals for pedi.
gree. no certificates for being n cham
plon layer. no diplomas for good be-
hnvior. or unusual size. Yet without
any OF these attainments. this fowl Is
the observed OF all observers. Clti.
zens 70 blocks out OF their way TO see
the bird. which struts with pride be-
fore their view.
This fowl claims the dihrinction OF
being the only bird In Boise TO pos,
sess a swallow,tnil overcoat its own.
er takes personal interest In all her
hens, and II was with home concern
that she noticed during the summer
that one OF the late spring chickens
failed to develop any feathers on its
back
When the cool evenings came on
last fall the bird seemed TO feel the
cold. and It's owner made from an
old flannel shirt unique coat. mod.
eled after n full.dress coat. with no
front to speak OF. but plent. OF back
and tail. Sits wcr. arranged for the
birds wings. and the fowl seems to
others Ia the coop to be particularly
proud OF the costume
The state herald., 1915-11-19
SYNOPSIS.

A curious crowd of neighbors invade
the mysterious home of Judge Ostrander,
county judge and eccentric recluse, fol-
lowing a yelled woman who proves to be
the widow of a man tried before the Judge
and electrocuted for murder years before
Her daughter is engaged to the judges
son, from whom he is estranged, but the
murder Is between the lovers. She plane
70 clear her husbands memory and asks
the judges aid. Deborah Scoville reads
the newspaper clippings telling the story
9f the murder OF Algernon Etherldge by
yohn Scoville in Dark Hollow, twelve
years before. The Judge and Mrs. Sco-
vile meet at Spencer's Folly and she
snows him how. on the day of the mur-
ner, she saw the shadow of a man, whit
tling stick and wearing long peaked
cap. The Judge engages her and her
daughter Reuther to live with him In his
mysterious home. Deborah and her law
yer. Black, go to the police station and
see the stick used to murder Etheridge.
She discovers broken knife-blade point
embedded In it. Deborah and Reuther go
TO live with the judge. Deborah sees a
portrait OF Oliver. the Judges son, with n
black band painted across the eyes. That
night she finds, In divers room, n cap
with peak like the shadowed one, and
: knife with n broken blade-point. Anon
ymous letters and u talk with Miss
Weeks Increase her suspicious and fears
she finds that Oliver was In the ravine
on the murder hight.
The state herald., 1915-11-19
inexpensive erapery for Northern CLINE.

line foot. Below the sash on this
south wall from east to west are
strung galvanized telegraph wires to
support the grapevines one foot from
the glass. At the east end is door
three feet by six feet six inches, open
ing into the grapery. In the cut it is
shown In the west end for purposes OF
illustration. Steps lead down to the
floor, and on the north wall is fastened,
within the grapery. poultry wire. This
poultry wire serves the purpose OF
trellis for growing cucumbers or other
climbing fruit. The entire inside is
whitowashed. The floor is of earth
and in winter where 1t is not desired 20
put in n heating plant fresh manure is
piled on the floor TO generate heat. At
the bottom of this door is made ven
tilator with slide to regulate the ad-
mission of air.
The grapevines are planted In soil
outside the south wall, and the stems
trained into the grapery through the
apertures above mentioned and the
wires below the sash. In the house
the finest grapes, as Black Hamburg,
Thompson Seedless and other delicate
and high-priced grapes may be grown
in the North where 1t is impossible to
grow them outdoors. The writer re
peatedly tried to raise the Thompson
Seedless grape outdoors in the mild
winters OF southern Michigan without
success. The vines were wlnter.killed
each year and finally huccumbed en-
tirely. With a grapery such as de
scribed above they can be grown cas-
lily. This grapery is not an expensive
structure. as one may see by little
figuring. and in the winter, and when
cucumbers and other like fruits de
mand high price. they may be grown
against the north wall. Ampelopsis
quinauefolia, ivy and other vines
planted on the outside of the wall
make very attractive addition to the
vista OF the farm.
The state herald., 1915-11-19

The growing of the delicate grapes
of southern climes may be easily ac-
complished in an inexpensive grapery
made of concrete, as outlined in the ac-
companying plan. In some localities
the climate in the North is so severe
that gsape growing is out of the ques.
tion, and the hardest variety must be
buried in winter even to keep them
alive, and 1t is needless to suggest that
this is nuisance, as the vines must
be taken from the trellis in the fall
and replaced in the spring. 8ut the
finest grapes may be grown in house
as designed in this plan, writes Her
man Haupt, Jr., of Michigan in Rural
New Yorker. A greenhouse is made of
re enforced concrete. We make wall
inches thick. using poultry wire strung
from top to bottom of the wall, be-
tween the forms In which is shoveled
mixture of one Fart best cement, two
parts clean sand ito test the sand put
some in pail of water and stir it well
and If it is muddy do not use It, Clean
sand will settle to the bottom at once
and leave the water clear eight parts
OF gravel or brownstoDe. This will set
in a day or two and make firm wall,
but week or more should elapse be-
fore removing the forms. The south
side is made of hotbed sash secured to
rods of T-iron bolted to the concrete
walls. The bolts are set in the soft
concrete with the head sunk in the
wall and the screw out, to which the
rods are secured by the nut, and in the
interior walls bolts are set wherever
1t is desired to fasten wood or any
other structure.
The roof is made of REINFORCED con
crete laid fiat with series of galvan-
lied iron yentilators placed about
three feet aaprt. The south wall Is
four feet high. two feet being below
The surface. and three feet apart are
made apertures in the wall, connecting
with the outside. and below the ground
The state herald., 1915-11-19
No Profit In Irish suosr pe.,..

While sugar bccts can be success.
fully grown In ireland. writes Consul
Wesley Frost. from Queenstown. their
culture would probably not bc profit.
able. according To statement Just
issued by the head OF the department
Of agriculture and teohni ,ni inrtruo.
iion for ireland The tact has been
established that normal price for
sugar beetS will yield less per aero
than the normal prices for potatoes
or mangelu. As the sugar beet indus.
try would no, be successful under tho
ordinary conditions Of peace. the do
pnrtm.nt does not feel prepared to
take. directly or indirectly. any 70
sponsIblliiy for advising Irish farmers
20 grow beet root" II In added that
whatever may be the results Of Eng.
lands exclusion Of sugar. therefore. In
Scotland and England. II seems taf.
TO assume that sugar production viii
not BE- developed In ireland New
York Times
The state herald., 1915-11-19
PAYING FOWLS ARE
SOURCE OF DELIGHT
Money-Making Hens Live in
Houses Free From vermin and
Are Properly Cared For.

Paying birds are n delight to the
eye. You like to show them to your
friends and linger In the description
OF what they are and what they have
done for you. Paying birds never
make up n large part OF your flock.
whom you sell the cream OF your chick
ems every year.
Money-making nocks are made up
OF the best you raise. always letting
the second quality go TO the market.
This class OF birds. because they
pay. receive thought and attention
from you. You gladly take good care
OF them. You are willing to properly
mate them and feed them. You look
for fresh blood to improve your flock.
You can buy birds that should pay.
but II is another thing to have them
pay you after you own them.
The paying hen Is usually hatched
from paying strain. The paying
hen that comes out OF the flock OF
good.forno,hing birds is seldom mo-
and not worth looking for. II takes
time. II takes money. Il takes born
hen sense to produce flock OF pay,
Ing hens.
IL takes little neglect TO send this
nock back to the class Of non'payIng
hens. Paying birds live In houses free
from vcrmin and all are supplied with
pure air and water, They get food
that In needed To bring the profit TO
the proper point.
The state herald., 1915-11-19

was In that ravine connecting with
Dark Hollow. very near the time Of
the onslaught on Mr. Etheridge; and
he certainly hated the man and want
ed him out of the way. The whole
town knows that. with one exception.
You know that exception?"
Il think so." she acceded, taking
fresh grip upon her emotions.
THAT this was anything more than
coincidence has never been ques-
toned. He was not even summoned
as witness. With the judges high
reputation In mind do not think a
single person could have been found
in those days to suggest any possible
connection between this boy and
crime SO obviously premeditated. But
peoples minds change with time and
events, and Oliver Ostrander's name
uttered in this connection today would
not occasion the same shock to the
community as 1t would have done then
You understand me, Mrs. Scoville?"
you allude to the unexpected sep
aration between himself and father.
and not to any failure on his part to
sustain the reputation of his family?"
"Oh, he has made good position
for himself, and earned universal con.
sideration. But that doesn't weigh
against the prejudices OF people.
reused by such eccentricities as have
distinguished the conduct of these two
men,"
"Alas!" she murmured. frightened
to the soul for the first time. both by
his manner and his words.
you know and know" he went on
with grimness possibly suggested
by his subject. that no mere whim
lies back of such preposterous Sc
clusion as that of Judge Ostrander be-
hind his double fence. Sons do not
cut loose from fathers or fathers from
sons without good cause. You can
see. then. that the peculiarities OF
their mutual history form but a
poor foundation for any light refuta-
tion OF this scandal. should 1t reach
the public mind Judge Ostrander
knows this. and you know that he
knows this; hence your distress. Have
not read your mind, madam"
No one can read my mind any
more than they can read Judge Os-
trander's.' she avowed In last des.
perate attempt to preserve her secret
You may think you have done so.
but what assurance can you have OF
the fact?"
You are strong in their Defense"
said he. "and you will need to be II
the matter ever comes up The shad
ows from Dark Hollow reach far and
engulf all they fall upon"
The state herald., 1915-11-19
CATTLE SUFFERING
FROM RHEUMATISM
Suggestions Given for Treatment
by Expert Of Minnesota Az.
ricultural College.

rheumatism among cattle ha,
caused farmers TO appeal 10 tho Min
nohoth college OF agriculture for sur
gostlonn M to treatment About the
best the farmer can do for these
onHoa. says DR.. NJ. n Reynolds. chici
OF the veterinary division. ia to rub
the affected parts with stimulating
linimoniH or TO apply hot steam
pack, a suitable cloth. wooden pre-.
forrcd. should be saturated with ho,
water or mild i'rimont. This should
BIO wrapped arUtrd the affected ia'nl,
and, TO prevent cooling. should be- GOV
cred with dry cloth over which
should be nlaced n rubber cloth"
The state herald., 1915-11-19
SLING FOR FODDER
Is A convenience
Plan Outlined for the Perform
ance Of a Troublesome Task
on the Average Farm.

In hauling shocks OF corn, fodde.
and all, to the barn to shuck II on
rainy days. II is sometimes trouble
some to handle.
An open sling will help. In which
the boards are three fourths by four
inches. four feet long with three
quarter inch hole two inches from
each end for one-half inch rope.
The ropes in each sling are long
enough to enclose n shock OF fodder
To load tho shocks. the slings are
placed one by one on the wagon. the
boards lying crosswise. and the ropes
laid back and forward. When one
shock is loaded the ropes are brought
together and looped. then another
sling is loaded. as before, until siI
shocks are on the wagon.
The load is driven to the barn, the
hoy carrier hooked 10 the sling. and
the shock Is lifted at once to the
barn.
The corn as II Is shocked, 10 assert.
cd. and clean. well,shaped ears are
thrown into one crib. the "nubblnn'
are thrown into the bin next to tho
crushor and are ground for tho COWS.
the fodder is cut up ON the large cut.
ting box. The cutting box Ia run by
gasoline engine In the pump room
Tho fodder, nice. bright and sweet
Ia moirtcncd with hot water. a mir.
turc OF wheat bran. oilmcal. crushed
oats aud gluten feed: sufficient salt ia
added to season. The pile Is forked
over thoroughly and let lie over night.
or from morning TO night.
The pith OF the stalks that the COW,
do not eat is used for bedding. which
In one OF the best absorbcnta ". have.
The state herald., 1915-11-19
CHAPTER xi.
Changes.

"Reuther, sit up here close BY
mother and let me talk to you for a
little while"
Yes. mother: oh. yes. mother. Z"
Deborah felt the beloved head pressed
close to her shoulder and two soft
arms fall about her neck.
Are you very unhappy? is my
little one pining too much for the old
days7"
A closer pressure OF the head, a
more vehement clasp Of the encircling
arms. but no words.
They were sitting In the dark. with
Just the light OF the stars shining
through the upper panes OF the one
unshaded window. Deborah, there.
fore. had little to fear from her daugh.
ter's eye. only from the sensitiveness
OF her touch and the quickness OF her
ear. Alas. In this delicately organized
girl these were both attuned to the
incest discrimination. and before the
mother could speak Reuther had
started up. crying:
"Oh. how your heart bea,sl Some.
thing has happened. darling mother;
something which"
Hush. Reuther: 1t ia only this:
When | came TO Shelby II was with a
hope that might some day smooth
the way 10 your happiness, But 1t
was only n wild dream. Reuther: and
the hour has come for me to tell you
so What Joys are left us must come
In other ways: love unblessed must
be put aside resoluteiy and forever"
She felt the shudder pass through
the slender form which had thrown
itself again at her side: but when the
young girl spoke II was with unes
pected bravery and calm.
Il have long ago done that. mamma
I've had no hopes from the first. The
look with which Oliver accepted my
refusal TO 20 on with the ceremony
was one OF gratitude. mother. can
never forget that Relief struggled
with grief Would you have me cher.
inh any further Illusion after thatY"
Then you will not think me unkind
W '''h W htN NHdh 'NfFf
loving thought you give now TO oliver
is hurtful both TO yourself and to me
Don't indulge In them. my darling. Put
your heart into work or into music
aud your mother viii bless you. Won't
II help you TO know this. Reuther!
Your mother. who has had griefs. will
bless you"
Mother. motheri'
The next morning found Deborah
pale almost m pale as Routher
Knowing iis cause hcreif. she did not
invite the Judges Inquiries: and nno,h
er day passed. With the following
morning she fol, strong enough to
open the conversation which had now
become necessary for her peace OF
mind
She waited M the moment when,
her work all done. ahe was abou, 10
leave his presence pnuring IN she
caught his eye, which seemed little
ioath. she thought. To look her way.
rhc observed, with perhaps unncces
unry diatinctnoHAi
u hope everything IN to your mind.
Judge OHtrabder, should be very
sorry not to make you m comfortable
as In possible under the ,ircum
stances"
Reused a little suddenly. pefhap.
from thoughts quite disconnected with I
nose Of material comfort. br podd.d !
The state herald., 1915-11-19

with the abstraction of one who rec.
ognizes that some sort Of acknowledg.
ment Is expected from him; then. see
ing her still waiting. added politely:
81 am very well looked after, II that
is what you mean. Mrs. Scoville. Bella
could not do any better-if he ever
did as we'll"
Il am glad" she replied. thinking
with what humor this would have
struck her once. IL ask because.
having nothing on my mind but house.
keeping. desire to remedy anything
which is not In accordance with your
exact wishes"
His attention was caught and by the
very phrase she desired.
Nothing on your mind but house
keeping?" he repeated. 81 thought
you had something else of very par