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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
BOY SCOUTS SUBSIDIZED
BY COIN OF ROOKIE
TELLER AND CARNEGIE

"The Rockefeller Foundation is a
generous contributor to the Boy
Scouts of America Mr. Carnegie is
also very liberal with us. Lots of
other rich people do the same. We
get large contributions from all these
people. The only stipulation the con-
tributors make is, Don't say that we
are doing it,"
So said Col. Colin Livingston, pres
ident of the National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America at the first an
nual conference of the National Coun-
Gil of Girl Scouts. He says the an
nual expenses of the Boy Scout or
ganization amounts to 100000 and
the receipts in dues amount to $40,-
900. This leaves a deficit of $780,
600 and is contributed by the finan-
cial magnates of America.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
LIMITATION OF OFFSPRING
IN SPITE OF THE WAR

Our good friend DR.. c. V. Drysdale,
of London, the editor of The Malthu-
sian, informs us that in spite of the
war their propaganda in favor of the
limitation of offspring, and their prac-
teal work in teaching the poor how
to prevent undesirable conception is
going on as usual. The patriotic APP
peal to the women in all countries to
breed incontinently so as to prepare
cannon-food in future wars, is not
meeting with very cordial reception.
In fact we believe that when this
cursed war is over the women of the
world will have a good deal more to
say in vital matters affecting the ma
lions than they had before, and one
of the first things they will declare
will be that they have a right to say
how many children they are going to
have and when they are going
to have them. They will perceive
that too many children are not only
burden to the poor individual fam
lily, but also curse to the nation at
large, for an excessive population is
one of the fundamental indictments
to war and slaughter.-Critic and
Guide.
The laws of this country do not al
low this knowledge to be given out to
those that need it most. The Malthu-
sian league publish books on this sub
ject, but they are not allowed to be
sent through the mail nor sold in this
country, although there are some
copies to be had The only way to
get this information is to get acquaint-
ed with somebody that has the knowl-
edge.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
WHAT THE WAR
DEPARTMENT KNOWS

When an industrial disturbance
takes place anywhere there is often
an investigation by congress, or some
federal commission. Yet there is one
department OF the federal government
that seems to have quite accurate In
formation about general industrial
conditions and knows just what sort
of an inducement to offer to get
workers away from present Jobs. That
department is the department of war.
II knows that American workingmen
are paid so little that their condition
would be bettered on being given a
chance to earn enough to be able to
save $40 month.
That the war department knows
this to be fact, is proven by the cir
culars for free distribution in front OF
every recruiting office. beginning with
these words in big letters:
Young Man, How Much Do You
Earn7
Then the circular goes on to tell
that in the army the poorest paid sol
der "can save $40 every month and
bank with the government, receiving
four per cent interest on the deposit"
They can save this, it says, besides
getting board. lodging. clothing. doc
tors, medicines and things necessary
for physical development and athletic
training"
Such conditions can only be an in
ducement to men who are getting not
only less, but so much less that they
consider the difference to be sufficient
compensation for the liberty they
must surrender on joining the army
So, whatever the case may be with
other departments of the government,
the war department knows quite we'll
that average workers in the United
States are so wretchedly underpaid,
that the ridiculously low pay of sol
der actually exceeds what they get.
And the war department has never
appointed a commission to conduct
long investigation to find this out.
What one government department
knows the other departments can
learn. So no congressman or state
legislator has any excuse for the ig-
norance that speaks of American la
Dor as being well paid. And every
legislator is in duty bound to take
note of the fact that men employed
in providing wealth get less of 1t
than soldiers engaged in non-produc-
tive occupations.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
JACK WOOD WRITES
ON POWER OF PRESS
A COMRADELY APPRECIATION
WITH A MORAL.
Editor Northwest Socialist:

Editor Northwest Socialist
Dear Comrade: The plant OF John
Greenleaf Whittier, the grand old
Quaker poet, may well be resounded
today.
IT'S tocsln for the times, not OF
defamation of wouldbe domination as
to personalities, but clear clarion
call for justice from the pulpit and the
press.
In the report of the celebrated pro-
slavery meeting in Charlestown, s, c.,
on the 4th Of September, 1885, pub
lished In the Courier of that city, 1t is
stated "The clergy of all denomina-
tons attended in a body, lending their
sanction to the proceedings" (See
Whittier's poems-Hy Altemus Coy
Edition.)
And your Anti-War teachings strike
home! Good. The powers that be
finch from the truth
Ring out slowly dying cause
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life.
With sweeter manners, purer laws"
The lit of Tennyson Is beautiful"
Sweet" inspiring" divine" so they
say, but when the Socialist editor gets
down to bed rock as to war and wage
slavery the sweetness" of Tennyson
is forgotten and the Socialist editor
is dubbed anarchist!
No anarchist he, but the defender
of industrial organization and eco
nomic order-bread-lif the
fullest sense for all
1--WE should be always talking to
the workers; if we make them know
how they are robbed, and how to
put an end to that robbery, they will
do the job"
SUCH is YOUR AIM, AND YOUR
SUCCESS HURTS. Surely, the con-
verted, the Socialists, will hew
straight to the line, and more than
keep the Northwest Worker on its
| financial feet. Such will be the case,
never fear! Cheerily, you'll win out!
J So, hit out, and ponder not, nor halt
march,
"Give me above all other Liberties,
the Liberty to know, to utter, and to
, argue freely, according to conscience"
This you have striven and written
for. You must be upheld.
God give us men. A time like this
demands
Great hearts, strong minds, true faith
and willing hands;
Men and women the lust of office does
not kill,
Men whom the spoils of office cannot
buy,
Men who possess opinions and a will,
Men of honor men who will not lie"
Yours for the Revolution,
JACK WOOD.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
SOCIALISM DEFINED.

The first constituent element of
socialism may, therefore, be stated to
be a substitution of collective property
in the great material instruments of
production in the place of private
property to such an extent that pub
lie property shall dominate the world s
work. The second constituent element
is private property in income and pri-
vate property in those goods which
are used for the sake of enjoyment
and not for the acquisition of an in
come by rent or hire to others.
Modern socialism demands collec-
tive management of each industry,
and it demands that all the industries
should be associated together, in or,
der thereby to secure perfect system,
harmony, and unity of effort.
Finally, socialism means the dis
tribuption of income by some common
authority New International
Cyclopedia.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
INVENTION MAY HIT
POSTOFFICE MEN

A new letter distributing machine
which is being tested by the postoffice
department of the government may
revolutionize the handling of mail if
it is generally adopted. The machine
is the invention of William Barry,
Oswego, N. Y, who originated the
Barry canceling machine.
The new device, demonstrated In
New York only recently, is pro-
nounced marvel The case is oper-
ated like a typewriter. Letters are
placed first in a pile on top of the
machine. From this one of these is
caused to descend to a place where
the operator can read the address. He
strikes a key corresponding to its
destination, and the letter is made to
pass between the underside of the
belt and the upper side of the gates,
at a high velocity until it reaches the
box with the gate opened, into which
it drops.
The postoffice department has rec
ognized the advantage of the device
and has ordered two of them for test
ing purposes. Three hundred per
cent more work can be done than by
the old hand process. There is a
weighing scheme attached so that if
piece of mail is overweight it is
Immediately detected. The number
of pieces passing through the ma
chine are recorded. They are also
weighed in bulk before being run
through the case.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
PENALIZING TEACHERS OF
TRUTH

Professor Scott Nearing, of the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania, has been dis
missed. He taught too much truth to
his political economy classes to suit
the plutocratic trustees of the uni
yorsity. He had had several warnings
that his course was displeasing, but
continued nevertheless to try to give
his students as thorough an education
as they were led to believe they
would get when they entered the uni
versity.
He concealed nothing from them re-
garding existing conditions. He show
ed them the facts about child labor,
low wages and high cost of living. He
led them to study proposed remedies,
and emphasized the necessity of taxa
ton of land values as "the most press
ing of all reforms for the reduction of
monopoly power"
So the board of trustees became
very uneasy. On the board were such
representatives of the interests as Il.
T, Stotesbury, of ]. p, Morgan & Co.;
Randall Morgan, of the United Gas
Improvement Company; J. lowering
Jones. Corporation Attorney, and 9th
ers. Several times the board showed
disposition to discipline Professor
Nearing, but he refused to be silent.
So finally at the end of the term, on
June II, notice was sent to him
that his services at the university
were no longer required.
Now, what must be the effect of
this occurrence on other professors?
All of them may not see their way
clear to prefer dismissal to withhold
ing from students of any instruction
that they should have. For every pro-
fessor who deliberately risks dismis-
sal there must be many who feel that
they can not afford to do so. SO one
result of the Nearing incident must
be that some professors will not i'm
part to their classes all that these
classes have right to hear from
them. Since that is no recommends
ton to any institution of learning,
young persons in search of an educa-
ton would do well to avoid those col
leges where professors have been sub
jected to the discipline inflicted at
Pennsylvania on Scott Nearing The
trustees of the University of Penn.
sylvania have done little or no per-
sonal harm to Professor Nearing. But
they have done great harm to the uni
versity and its students. However,
the illustration it offers of the work
ing out of ''the class struggle" in our
educational institutions is some offset
to the injury done Dr. Nearing.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
THE VITAL FACTOR

By
spread of Socialism the weekly local
Socialist press very of things they this be
is daily WITH and apply our theory to them and not
something far Even the present world not val
able to us for purposes as the war for bread that goes
on every day at our doorstep.
Every newspaper knows that local and foreign
ona the determining factor circulation One good city
editor worth dollars and cents to the publishers of
fifty times much editorial writer who write arned
happenings may very provincial
attitude the the readers who inter
by efficient
the Socialist movement And it debatabe question whether
interest persons
provincial
Only press happenings
efficiently 1t be claimed that portion of the local Socialist
inefficient inefficient just proportion that the local
inefficient If the movement its support this
will always be found to be efficient And by support we
don just subscribing the local Socialist who fails
understand that the Socialist being published capital
system subject all the rules of the capitalist game and
outgo needs operation on his brain cells
The Socialists sympathzs with the local
y make break any Socialist weekly editor business
make break it. The members and friends make
per keep them there They can break by NOT using this
in the interest of their press.
exca What's buying our coth our food fuel got do
with the 1rrevoution? Everything that believe that
must people revolt
get them revolt is to them that in their
n on their backs And the only to convince them through
the printed and spoken word
While you trying them you to pay to
the capat system trying abolish you
get the lord to the without
lord print the paper without pay landlord his
premises without rent why needn't worry about having
advertising in your paper.
Another dreamer will tell Why helping business
people who enemies of Socialism when
this way Sureand whom helping you
from those who don't advertise paper? Every dollar
spend helps the and will until rid of the capitalist class
You make dollar that have with your enemy
spreading the knowledge Socialism you
count against the spreading of it. Which do you desire
Socialist who has enough vision his purchasing
to spread the doctrines that he claims believe
efficient Socialist not really Socialist at all He doc
nare and should take him seriously This work world
place for him and the he is translated
ment the better for it. And this whether
thing that Marx wrote forward and backward upside and downde
and solve the problem of what became the value bunch
bananas when it thrown overheard.
Let get wise and organize what have right
the future by increasing number
to help do the job And the best
efficient publicity and that weekly
Socialist
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
SHOULD USE SAME
MEANS OF WARFARE
ON CAPITALISM
By MRS. G. w. STEVENS

One of the terrible results of the
war is the increased birth rate of IL.
legitimate children in the warning ma
tions. The unsettled condition of
ordinary customs, the breaking of
home ties, and the constant excite
merit, all contribute to the overthrow
of normal standards.
The governments are advertising
for boy babies. and every inducement
Is offered to women to become breed
ing machines and furnish fodder for
cannon
The government offers to take care
of the children, nourish and educate
them, no matter II they are degener-
ate, vicious or illegitimate. The
mothers will be cared for both before
and after the child is born.
Girls are urged to become war
brides" and are rewarded by the gov
eminent for marrying some soldier
before he leaves for the front, whom,
in time of peace, the girl would never
think of marrying.
The situation, however, suggests
one powerful remedy that might be
applied by women to this war craze.
No one suffers so much from war as
women and therefore no one has more
right to attempt to stop 1t than wom-
en-. The governments have themselves
suggested n way in which women
may help to stop 1t, and that Is by de-
clarlna a birth strike In case OF a
country going to war.
If this movement were well consid-
cred and agitated by Socialist women
It would offer splendid method Of
showing how strong the sentiment is
against war in this country, and is
the only method l have heard advo-
Gated to stop the war craze.
Why not use the same method to
force the masters to find a solution
for the problem of unemployment and
poverty?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
SOME MERCIFUL
CONSIDERATIONS

Colorado has kept pace with Penn
sylvania in ousting Prof. James H.
Brewster from the state university.
Professor Brewster was a member of
the faculty of law in the university,
and the fact that he was also one of
the attorneys for the union miners be-
fore the congressional committee last
year, and made public expression of
his sympathies with them, is the sup
posed reason for his dismissal.
We say supposed, for certain rea-
sons. If these reasons did not exist
we should be inclined to come out
flatfooted with the assertion that he
was fired on this account But COM
mon prudence dictates caution.
For it comes to our notice at this
juncture that Chancellor Day, of SYRIA
cuse university, a firm advocate and
strenuous champion of capitalism, in
Eliminating on the discharge of Prof.
Scott Nearing from the University of
Pennsylvania suggests that there were
good reasons for such dismissals, but
that "merciful consideration for the
public" induces the trustees to keep
them from knowing all the facts"
both in the Nearing and in other
cases. And as Chancellor Day thus
only allows us to guess at the rea-
sons, we exercise the privilege and
make the guess that the discharges
are due to the heretical attitude of the
culprits toward capitalism and CAPT
talistic interests in general.
However, Chancellor Day himself
will never run any such risk. So far
as his position is concerned, there
will never be any occasion for show
ing 'merciful consideration to the pub
lie" on his account.
If he ever is induced to leave his
position in Syracuse university it
might be to take the superior posi-
ton of capitalistic nquisitor-general
to try professional heretics from other
universities-out of "merciful consid-
Grafton to the public" of course. 1t
will be remembered that the old time
nquisitors-general were rather strong
on mercy"
Chancellor Day would make an ex-
cellent twentieth century Torquemada
for the unholy inquisition established
by endangered exploitative interests.
His remarks on the Nearing case are
all that could be asked in proving his
special qualifications for the office
The IN. ~ Call.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08

A new bill that has been introduce
ed in the house of commons by Lloyd
George and which is likely to pass
will make strikes and lockouts lille
gal, provides for compulsory arbitra-
ton, gives the power to fine any
worker who SLOWS up" on the job
and creates a volunteer army of work
men who will be pledged to go wher-
ever they are wanted for the making
of munitions of war
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
A HINT TO LOCALS.
How to Advertise Hall Meetings.
FRANS BOSTROM.

A Canadian comrade makes a very
good suggestion relative to advertis'
ing Socialist speakers. 'In getting
out CARDS to advertise hall meet
ings," says this comrade lin Western
Clarion) their BACKS should al
ways be used to induce people to in
vestigate the philosophy and aims of
the Socialist movement. 1t is not
sufficient merely to announce that
so-andso is to speak in such-and-
such a hall on certain date.
To make the meeting a success, the
speakers ability as lecturer should
be described, or the Importance of
his subject amplified, or quotations
made from the utterances of famous
people showing the necessity of UNI
derstanding Socialism or few in
teresting facts and figures given that
will compel people to sit up and think.
Advertising that does not awaken in
people the desire to hear a certain
man or to find out what Socialists are
fighting for, is of little or no value.
Hence, in all dodgers, cards and
newspaper advertisements an attempt
should be made to ATTRACT people
to the hall, to get them reading aour
literature, to provoke them into dis
cussing our claims with their ac-
quaintances."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
WHAT rs SOCIALISM?

Socialism is conscious endeavor
to substitute organized cooperation
for existence in place of the present
anarchical competition for existence.
1t is an attempt to lay the foundation
of a real science of sociology, which
shall enable mankind, by thoroughly
understanding their past and present
to comprehend, and thus, within
limits, to control the movement and
development of their own society in
the near future.-H. M. Hyndman.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
BETTER BE CAREFUL.

The motion proposed by Local Ort-
ing, ito strike out of Art. 6, Section 1,
the sentence "He shall not be an EN-.
ploye of the state executive commit
tee after his election" Is a move to
deliberately invite disaster and before
any local undertakes to second 1t, the
following should be given careful con
sideration
|. We are not so woefully short of
| members, capable of making first
| rate executive committee members,
with the divine gift of oratory needs
to sacrifice his calling In order to
save the party.
2. 1t Is always possible that an
executive committeeman with oratori-
cal aspirations may overrate himself
and estimate his gift away above what
others do. However, it would not be
pleasant for the state secretary to tell
him that he Is not good enough, IL
such Is the case. In other words, the
executive committeeman could black
mail himself into job, using his vote
In the committee as n club.
| g. II this motion were to carry. we
would have an executive committee,
money into their own pockets in the
shape of wages No matter how well
such wages would be deserved, the
procedure would always lay the COM
mittee open to the charge of corrup-
ton and thus form basis for SANDER
and backbiting.
A, We are not, and are apparently
not for long time to come going to
be, in position to pay ANY wages
to anyone, except to the state secre-
tary, and take 1t for granted that the
motion Is not intended to make him
eligible to membership in the state
executive committee
s. There is nothing in the consti-
|
cutive committee from being routed
by the state office at a stipulated price
to be paid by the locals that accept
him as speaker or on the collection
basis.
6. The provision as it now reads
is the wisest one in the constitution
and If it were to be adopted nationally
in that form, we would have better
national executive committees than
we have had so far.
7. 1t is impossible to conceive of
anything to be gained by the change
proposed.
This last statement also holds good
in regard to the renewed attempt up
on the life of county autonomy, as
proposed in the motion by Local Ev-
erett No. / under the misleading head
ing: IMPROVED PLAN FOR
COUNTY AUTONOMY"
The state secretary informs us that
the former attempt to wipe out Home
Rule" was defeated by ONLY "a votes.
| When we consider the well known
phenomenon that every member who
doesn't know exactly how to vote, al
days votes Eyes" in order to dispose
| of quandary in the easiest manner,
then "a votes is quite number. Let
us not lose our patience and start
breaking up the furniture because
things don't come our way exactly as
fast as we could wish. When it is
time to retrench it will be proper to
begin at the top.
| FRANS BOSTROM.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
CHARGE rs DENIED
BUT THEY LIE

Denial of the charge that Professor
James H. Brewster, of the University
of Colorado law faculty, had been dis
missed on account of his sympathy
with the union coal miners in the re
cent Colorado coal strike, was made
by Regents Dudley and Ragan. They
said he was elected for one year only
and that his time had expired.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
TOO CONSIDERABLE

Mr.. Hogan-If there's anything OF
do lisloike it's superstition
Mrs. Hogan-Who's got it?
Mr., 'Brien, the conthrac-
tor. He owes me $13, and he's that
shuperstitious he won't pay me for
fear DILL hoy bad luck-Packsonville
Fla, Times Union.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08

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Be sure and go to the Smelter picnic
Sunday.
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