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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09

On Thursday evening. February II
(the eve of Lincoln's birthday the
Womans Relief Corps will give a
bean supper at the Grand Army hall in
the court house from $50 until $50
o'clock. Beginning promptly at s
o'clock the Grand Army will give an
entertainment consisting of old songs,
recitations and instrumental music in
which they will be assisted by some of
the best talent in the city. A promi-
nent feature will be the old time mel
odies Of Stephen C. Foster. Members
Of the WOman's Relief Corps and
their immediate families and men,
bers of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie and their immediate families are
invited to both supper and entertain
ment. No admission will be asked.
Taxicabs may be ordered for 9:45
o'clock
A little daughter has arrived at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Worst
On North A street. Mrs. Werst was
formerly Miss Edith kofski, daught er
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. kofski Their
many friends extend congratulations.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09
>4ALsE STANDARD OF CULTURE

~ FALSE STANDARD OF CULTURE
has gained ground in this century
which looks upon the bearing and
rearing OF children as something
coarse and vulgar and to be avoided
but the advent of Eugenics means
much for the motherhood OF the race.
Happy is the wife who. though weak
and ailing, depends upon Lydia f.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to re-
store her to health, and when head
aches and backaches are a thing OF
the past brave sons and fair daugh-
tiers rise up and call her blessed
Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09
STOP THE CHILD'S COLDS
THEY OFTEN RESULT SERiOUSL

THEY OF RESULT SERIOUSLY
Colds, Group and Whooping Cough
are children's ailments which need
immediate attention. The after-ef-
fects are often most serious. Don't
take the risk-you don't have to. DR..
Kings New Discovery checks the
Cold, soothes the Cough, allays the In
flammation, kills the Germs and al
lows Nature to do her healing work.
SOC at your Druggist. Buy bottle
today.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09

Italys merchant marine consists of
5,532 ships.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09

Miss Hazel Wise Of South of Green's
fork was the guest Of her aunt. Mrs.
Eugene Splitter at her home on North
Sixth street during the past week.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09

The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of Grace M. E. church has chang
ed it's meeting day and will meet We'd
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
e. o. Evan, Al South Eighth street.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-09

The card party which was to have
been given this evening at the Moose
hall has been postponed until Tuesday
evening of next week.
The executive board OF the Fedora
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

prieties are cultivated, where lapses
from them bring punishment and
where rewards are dependent upon
their observation.
"Back Of the delinquent girl lies the
very opposite of all the social ma
chinery which has developed the con-
trolled, gentle, good weman. Her in
heritance, in the main comes from
generations of shiftlessness, of indul-
gence, of unrestrained emotions. By
her inheritance she is condemned to
grow up in a society of the same
character, one where practically
everybody is but half developed, men
tally and morally What chance has
a girl in such environment What
would l have been if I had been in
her placer is the only fair question
to ask yourself when considering the
case of the delinquent girl.
"Slowly, very slowly, we have come
to recognize the futility of the work.
house, of fines and prison, of con-
tempt and ostracism. Still more
slowly are we coming to see the utter
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22
How the Honor System Works---Some of the Returns
From the Methods Employed at the Minnesota
Home School for Girls at Sank Centre.

curtains fiuttering in the afternoon
sunlight, and the merry voices of
girls at work or play furnishing a
perfect accompaniment to the sights
and scents of a perfect June after
non; up the sweep of driveway to
the administration building where
one is welcomed by the gracious
gentlewoman whose broad vision,
sympathy and understanding has
evolved the plan under which more
than 200 girls are cared for each
year.
Mrs. Fannie French Morse, super
intendent of the Home School for
Girls, came to Minnesota five years
ago, when the state officials decided
to move the girls school from Red
Wing. For ten years head of the Mas
sachussetts training school for girls,
Mrs. Morse heard the cal of the new
country, and her New England blood
responded to the vision of opportu-
nifty in a new field Back of Mrs.
Morse has been a board, the members
of which had been wise enough to
recognize the caliber Of the woman
they had secured to head the school,
and that has given her absolute free
dom in working out her plans. This
is one of the reasons that the school
at Sank Centre is not a "show
school," all plans revolve around the
problem of giving the greatest help
in the shortest time to the girls who
must return to face the world as in
dependent economic factors.
The New Viewpoint on The
Delinquent Grip
eve are what we are" is the opin-
ion of this woman, who deals with
hundreds of girls each year, because
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

injustice of these measures in dealing
with the delinquent girl or woman,
and that there are in all of US the
same possibilities for good or e vii.
What we are depends on what, in us,
has been given an opportunity to de-
velepe."
This is the plan, the working mo-
tive, back of the method one sees in
operation at the Home School. Ad-
ministered on the cottage plan, divis-
ion in groups is made according to
the girls previous experience. On adj
mission to the school the new girl is
turned over to the nurse at the hospi-
tai Here she receives thorough med
ical examination, the time of her en-
trance to cottage life being based on
her physical condition. She is bathed,
given CLEAN clothing when necessary,
her teeth and hair examined, records
of her physical status made, etc.
When her condition is such that she
can join one of the cottage groups she
is placed in the cottage where the
surrounding and home life best fits
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22
BY MAY STANLEY

~ OTTAGES of a type which
might be meant for the sum-
~ mer home of man of wealth
opd Ioicuro broad canoDuS
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

Several weeks ago the Duluth News
Tribune sent Mrs. May Stanley Finch,
a special writer to Sank Centre for
the purpose Of securing a story on
the Home School for Girls. Mrs.
Finch spent several days at the school,
entering heartily into the manner of
living, observing closely the system in
vogue. No other writer visiting the
school has given as careful attention
to detail as the News-Tribune repre-
sentative, and her story correctly rep
resents conditions existing at the
Home School. The Herald is under
obligation to the News-Tribune for
the courtesy of supplying the cuts
used and we gladly republish the
story herewith:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22
her needs. Here begins her life of
systematic work and study.
Creating a Desire for Work
Is One Problem.

Everybody, of course, is required
to work. Indeed everything about the
place, with the exception of the hard
est physical work on the farm, is done
by the girls under the supervision of
their teachers.
Now, to the unframed, shiftless girl,
this systematic occupation sometimes
looks like the worst punishment. To
lead her from this viewpoint to
genuine pleasure in the task given
her, and from there to an ambition
to master some one thing we'll that
when she goes out she can support
herself-this is the aim of the Home
School.
At each cottage there is the "house
mother" She arranges, subject to
the approval of Mrs. Morse, the plan
of life which the girls at her cottage
shall follow. There is no set 'institu-
ton" plan. Getting-up time varies,
just as it does in any group of we'll
kept private homes. A group at one
cottage may breakfast at o'clock,
while at another cottage it may be
found more convenient to make the
breakfast hour 7:30. The homework
goes along on certain well-defined
rules and the girl learns the leasure
Of systematized work. One begins
life at the cottage as hall girl, with
care Of the halls and stairways; then
she is promoted to care of the officers
rooms-as the house mother and
teacher are called; follows work as
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22
Where the Hayward Girl Is Taught Self Control,
Idealism and Impulses Toward Good Living
The Woman Back of the Plan.

ing for from 20 to rs hungry people
three times day and the kitchen is
no place for a girl who must be dis
ciplined or who has not learned the
thrill of facing big duties and per-
forming them we'll or whom it is
necessary to fine. Fine? Certainly.
But, perhaps, you don't know the
financial system in operation at thu
Home School. -
Finances Figure in Dement'S
and Rewards
If girl wants pretty clothes, candy
music lessons, it is absolutely "up to
her." She can earn them and pay for
them out of her own money-or she
can get in debt, and struggle along
with all kinds of financial burdens. 1t
is toy money, of course, that is used,
but it is honored by the house mother
at it's face value.
l saw a girl going through the hs..--
at one cottage with an arm fail OF
crisp, freshly pressed dresses. 81
made so cents pressing dresses,
mother" she announced cheerfully
as she passed the house mother. An
other girl with a pencil and paper wa
computing carefully how much money
she would have if she washed blan-
kets for a number of the girls in hel
cottage at rs cents apiece. You see
you can, if you don't like laundry
work, hire some one to do your worl
in that line. Then, perhaps, You arr
expert with the needle. Very Eod
you contract for a specific sum
make a dress for the girl who isn't =
good seamstress. If one has been dis
obedient and broken rules fines are
paid in proportion to the offense, SC
that sulking in ones room isn't gooc
business at the rate of 50-cent e
day fine. A businesslike-lookins
ledger is kept by the house mother:
and in it are entered rewards and-
dement's, so that each girl may learn
at the end of the day or the week, a.
she wishes, her financial standing. :
Arithmetic in Terms of Ones
Daily Life.
One of the surprising achievement .
at the Home School is the system G.,
education. Dramatically opposed
the idea of putting everyone into a.
educational hopper and letting the,f
emerge at the other end with the
same assortment of knowledge, the
Home Schol plan Of education take
into consideration the girl, her ou'
look on life and the work which I
will do in after years. -
To arouse and maintain the
est Of these girls the work must ~
attached to their lives, run along thek
line of things they know and to which
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

we have, or have not, had the chance
to be greatly different. Back of the
sheltered girl or woman lie years of
self-control, of idealism, of impulses
toward good living. Her eyes opened
on a world where the law and pro-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

waitress and laundress, then-mind
you, net until the other work is thor
oughly mastered, is one promoted to
work in the kitchen. You see the
kitchen is the post of honor. One
faces a grave responsibility in cook
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

~ OTTAGES of a type which
might be meant for the sum-
~ mer home of man of wealth
and leisure, broad campus
where the sweep of green gives one
a soothing sense of space and free
dom, well cultivated farm fields and,
beyond, a glimpse of encircling green
trees with a blue lake in the distance
it doesn't sound at all like estate
institution" does it? Well it doesn't
look like the popular conception OF
one, either.
The change which has taken place
in recent years with regard to the
kind of care, housing and instruc-
ton to be given wards of the state
has come so rapidly that it has left
most of us miles behind the process
sion. We are prone to think in
terms of years ago, when the estate
institution" meant a prison atmos-
phere, regulation hours, uniform,
whitewashed walls, and, frequently,
barred windows. So that the Mime
sofa Home School for Girls, situated
at Sank Centre, is revelation for
those who have not kept abreast with
the thought of the times regarding
the care of people, who for a variety
of reasons, require special restric-
tions, special teaching and special
guidance.
Some First Impressions of the
Home School
To visit the home is to experience
a variety of sensations-with aston
ishment uppermost until one grasps
the motive which permeates the
whole. The school is situated in the
midst of it's farm lands, 100 acres,
lying about a mile from the town it
self. The drive to the school takes
one through the farm, past broad
fields of grain and vegetables, young
fruit trees, and dairy barn and herd
that are among the finest in the state;
then by several cottages, with white
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-27
A TRI-STATE PAPER SUGGESTED

The suggestions printed in this
issue of the w. S. relative to the pub
location Of first-class Socialist paper
under the joint ownership of the So
cialists of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho, are well worth our most serious
consideration. None of these states
will alone pay for the publication of
even a weekly paper, if those who do
the work receiye a living wage for
their services. ALL of them need a
paper in which matters of special in
terest to their own state and locality
can be discussed with the assurance
that the paper would be read by the
people the articles or news is intended
to reach. This cannot be accomplish
ed by any paper now published, at
least UNDER PRESENT CONDI-
TIONS. The comrades of these three
states MUST DECIDE ON SOME
ONE PAPER as their official organ,
so that their news and views will be
found by any subscriber to that paper
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-27

scribed to the paper would automati-
cally become partner in the owner
ship and management of the paper.
Our Snohomish comrades would un-
doubtedly sanction some such an ar
rangement. The Snohomish county
comrades, who now own and control
the paper, have no other object in
view than the advancement of the
Socialist movement as whole Spe-
cial campaign work here could be
done by special editions of the paper,
just as they could also be published,
on occasion, for any county, or coun-
ties, of Idaho or Oregon. A special
eight-page edition, with four pages of
special local campaign matter, could
be utilized when necessary ALL
TIL ; COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED
WITH SATISFACTION TO ALL CON
CERNED, AND WITH GREAT
ECONOMY. THERE WOULD BE
NO BURDEN ON ANY OF US.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-27

A four-page paper of the present
size of the Washington Socialist can
carry all the important matter re-
CURED by any or all of these states,
especially if some of the advertising
matter is omitted, and this would nat
urally follow.
During local election campaign, an
extra amount of space could be given
the comrades making the fight, LO-
CAL Everett advertising matter be-
ing omitted and reading matter put in
the place for the ou,side subscribers
By leaving the publication of such
paper in Everett, under it's present
management, NO RISKS WOULD BE
INCURRED. All that would be re-
CURED to effect the desired change
would be the Oregon and Idaho news
notes, ETC., and the new subscribers.
II the Washington Socialist were
officially endorsed by the Oregon and
Idaho state executive committees
each local whose membership sub
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-27
LIVING COST IN STATE
GOES UP, FIGURES SHOW

OLYMPIA. MAY 1.-THE direct of.
feet of the European war ON the price
of food stuffs and the necessities of
life in this country is shown In u
table compiled by Il. w. Olson, state
labor commissioner, and chairman of
the public welfare commission, which
shows that there has been an increase
in the average cost of supplies for u
family of five In the city of Seattle
for period of one year of $24,20
The figures arc as follows: Cost of
necessities for family of five April,
1914. $41S.a6: same cost April, 1915,
44S,72.
The table gathered from varied
sources of information throughout the
state by Commissioner Olson is re-
garded as the most authentic report
on the cost of living to be obtained In
the Northwest. II Is secured by In
terviewing and securing the current
prices from as many as dozen merch-
ants in each city or section covered
in the report.
For the report of Tacoma the re-
port shows there has been an increase
corresponding to that in Seattle. the
figures show the cost of living in
Tacoma for 1915 being $434.22, while
for 1914 family could live on S431.57.
In Spokane the cost has increased in
the following manner: 1915, $444.92;
1914, s42403.
Aside from covering these three
main cities of the state, the report
gives the average prices from the
southwestern. northwestern and east
ern sections of the state, showing that
il is most economical for families to
live in the northwestern section. The
different sections compare as follows:
Southwestern. 1915, s424S9; 1914,
s405.93; northwestern section, 1915,
s41S.19; 1914. s416.S2; eastern. 1916
s442.06: 1914, $42S.94.
The report covers the cost OF about
sixty of the main articles of food and
fuel, giving their prices in sufficient
bulk to last what is considered an
average family, or a family of five,
for twelve months. Commissioner Oh
sons report shows there has been the
largest increase in flour and sugar
prices. For these articles the report
shows the cost to be as follows: 1914
260 pounds of granulated cane sugar,
S13; 1915, same quality, 1890; 1914,
fourteen sacks flour, S1S.O8; 1915,
same quality, $3.50. One of the fea-
lures of the report is the showing in
butter, this commodity having been
reduced from s25 per eighty pounds
Creamery butter), in 1914 to $22.52
for the same amount in 1915.
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-27
PR0LETARIA BILL
ANSWERS BOSTROM

In commenting on the answers
to the four queries, given by
Comrade Bostrom in the May Goth
issue of the Washington So
cialist, can fully agree with
is entirely satisfactory In that we can
utilize governmental protection just
as well and far better than the CAPT.
talists. II administered class-con.
sciously by our own economic class
we can be free to develop OUR organ
ism in industry for the future handl.
ing of our labor power which we own,
whether employed or not, and with
out which the wheels will not turn.
just as the capitalists were free to de-
velop the industrial organisms they
now own as free owners.
cannot conceive of socialism
wherein the workers are not organized
to handle themselves where they
work. Anything else would be moth
ing short of bureaucracy.
Any organized function must con,
tinue to develop and be used or it will
waste away, become dead or useless.
Therefore the organized function of
the workers, as owners of labor
power, will have to develop through
use If it can ever function in any dem
ocratic sense under socialism.
Concerning the answers to the three
remaining questions, l am still in
doubt. to speak mildly In effect, the
three replies sum themselves into one
reply which is that "a union on the in
dustrial field is truce between enc
mics, for all workers are competitors
ii. e. enemies) for jobs which all can
not get, and therefore such organiza-
ton is not revolutionary"
We are told then, in short, that the
workers organized effort to control
their labor power is not revolutionary
because the workers are In competi-
ton with each other for jobs that all
cannot get That means that we
should organize to vote, be revolution
airy about once every year or two and
never mind about organizing to handle
ourselves for everyday purposes after
The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-05-27
COMRADE WEIGH
HITS NAIL ON HEAD
WANTS A TRI-sTATE DAILY

In communication to a member Of
the w. s. staff of volunteer workers,
Comrade G. w. WEIGH of Lakeyiew.
Oregon, said number of good things.
from among which we take the liberty
to quote the following:
1T seems terribly strange that the
Henry Dubbs will not get their eyes
open, sometime. If the working class
would only spend as much money on
their own press as they do on the cap
ItaIist press, we could have a strong
press Of our own, but they seem de-
termined not to do So | see no relief
so long as they remain Indifferent. OBJ
preston and persecution must become
much greater before they will learn
anything.
81 am Of the same opinion as you re-
garding state-owned paper. There
is nothing but failure for such an I'M
dertaking. And that is not the worst
of it. When paper fails it's like
throwing cold water on the movement.
The Socialists become discouraged
and lose their faith in the movement
and their fighting spirit, also. They
say, and well say, If we cannot keep
our paper alive, what's the use of try
ing to do anything and spending our
money for something the people won't
have The party is better off without
a paper than to start one and fail.
believe that IL the states of WASHING
ton, Oregon and Idaho could get to-
gether and start a paper in conjunc-
ton, it might succeed. OF course it
would be absolutely necessary for all
to work in harmony and it should be
a RED paper. This coast is certain
ly good field for such a paper and
the time seems ripe for such an un-
dertakiIg. These three states ought
to be able to support good daily. /
believe the executive or state commit
tees of each state ought to hold joint
meeting and see what could be done
along this line. They might formulate
some kind of plans and ask the mem
bership for contributions or pledged
amounts and see how much could be
raised before entering upon the pro-
ject. would not be in favor of start
ing publication until enough had
been raised to insure its success. Let
each state committee canvas their re-
spective states and then decision
could be reached. l believe good
daily would succeed better than a
weekly. A weekly paper does not get
the social message to the people often
enough to hypnotic them like the
daily capitalist papers do. The mes
sage must be hammered into the
Dubbs every day in order that they do
not forget. The daily paper ought to
give the general news, besides. The
public will not support paper nova
days unless they get the general news.
A paper that does not give general
news is too much like eating pork
and beans three times day and three
hundred and sixty-five days in the
year. The public, and even the party
members will not support paper long
unless they get all the news"
The w. S. would be glad to publish
expressions of opinion from other Ore
gon comrades. Also let us hear from
Idaho.