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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY
LAW ACT OF JUSTICE
It Should Not be Cheaper to Kill Men
and Pay for Them. Than to
Provide Safeguards

dents, it not infrequently happens that
an ounce of prevention costs more than
a pound Of cure.
But what the working men desire
and demand is, not so much compen-
sation for injury as prevention of in
jury. The working man who, through
no fault of his own, is killed or maim-
ed or permanently disabled in an in
dustry, should receive from that in
dustry either directly or through his
heirs suitable compensation, wheth-
er the injury is due to the negligence
of the employer or not. 1t is inhu
man to permit disabled workmen to
starve; it is inhuman to permit wild
ows and orphans of men who have died
in the performance of their duty, to be
left without suitable provisions for
their future maintenance.
The working man.. however, de-
mands even more strenuously and
justly that all possible measures be
taken to prevent accidents. 1t is well
to receive a thousand dollars for the
loss of an eye or leg, but it is bet
ter by far for the man, as well as for
society, that the eye and the leg be
not lost.
The commission or permission of
preventable accidents should be con-
sidered public crime, an injury not
only to the warking man, but to So
ciety at large. The factor of the laws
of our State, which at the present
time are frequently inadequate and
sometimes remain a dead letter upon
our statute books, should be greatly
extended and should be enforced with
the utmost rigor, and when men are
killed or manned or injured in mine
or factory, through a violation of the
plain letter Of the law, as frequent
ly happens in the Lead Belt, the en-
ployer should not only suffer in pc
cuniary damages, but should be liable
to prosecution for a penal offense.
No country, however powerful OF
formidable, can be considered truly
great which does not hold important
the life and happiness of it's citizens
even if they be the humblest of un
trained working men or the least Of
the little children in the factories, and
we hope and believe that the day is
not far distant when there will be
men in charge of the mines of this
district who will care more for the
lives of their employees than they dc
for dollars.
A WORKER.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25

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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
Editor Pennington Times

Editor Pennington Times:-
About thirty years ago the trade
unionists of Great Britain, especially
the coal miners and railroad employ
es. despairing of the enactment and
rigid enforcement of laws safeguard
ing the working man, determined to
remedy the employers liability law
and mulct the companies in damages
for injuries to their workmen.
After much agitation, they secured,
in 1880, the passage of an employers
liability law, making the employer in
certain industries responsible for in
iuries to workmen when the accident
was due to the negligence Of super
intendents, managers, foremen, or
through obedience to improper rules
or orders. Within two years, how
ever, the decisions of the courts rem
dered the law nugatory by allowing
the employer to contract out" By
these decisions it was held that If a
workman received notice that he must
forego his rights under the law and
accept instead a claim to a benefit
club established by the employer Ito
which the workman himself was oblig-
ed to contribute largely he was held
to have entered into a valid contract
to surrender his rights.
In 1897, however, the act was wide
ly extended and compelled employers
to compensate their workmen for all
injuries suffered in the course of their
employment, whether caused by neg
ligence or not. And similar laws have
been enacted in a number of our
States, but this legislation, while ben
eficial to the employee, has not been
successful in comprising its original
object.
1t is unfortunately true of modern
industry that in the majority of cases
it is cheaper to kill men and pay fol
them than to go to the expense Of
making suitable provision for pre-.
venting accidents.
1t is useless for the working mer
of this Lead Belt to shut their eye!
to the fact that the employers will pa!
occasional damages for employees wht
are killed or injured if compelled tc
do so by law, rather than take the
expensive precautions necessary fol
preventing the accident. The employ.
er can and does insure himself against
accidents to his workmen, and thus
finds it cheaper, if less humane, to kill
than to save. In the matter of acct
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
STE. GENEvIEvE MEN
FOUNDING A SPLENDID
HERD OF pUREBRED SHEEP


Our attention has recently been
called to the enterprising spirit of
two brothers who are starting a pure
bred stock farm over in Ste. Gene
We've county. The men referred to
are the Seibert Brothers, Of Dandy,
Mo. They have purchased several
registered Oxford Ewes and will build
up large herd of these splendid NUT
ton sheep as rapidly as possible. They
are also buying foundation stock for
a pure-bred herd Of Duroc Jersey
hogs.
The special feature that we desire
to call attention to in this article, is
the class of stock that they are buy
ing to start these herds. 1t takes a
man with a large degree of foresight
to have the courage necessary to pay
the money required to secure the very
best.
1t is interesting to look into tht
history of the stock from these farms
where the Seibert Brothers have pur
chased their ewes.
The stock came from McKerrov
farms, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, whert
Oxford sheep have been brod for 81
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
A WORKER.

yearIC Seibert Brothers have five
daughters of Cowley U. S. A. LIST, who
was grand champion at the Iowa,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois
State Fairs. Later grand champion
at the American Royal; and finally
won the grand championship at the
International Live Stock show at Chi
cago. The following will show the
tremendous successes of the McKer-
row farms in the show ring with their
sheep:
Worlds Fair, Chicago, 1898, ten
prizes; Madison Square Garden, New
York, 1896, Is prizes; Omaha Expo
sition, 1898, "A prizes; Buffalo Elk
position, 1898, 26 prizes; The Inter-
! national at Chicago, 1900 to 1918
274 prizes; Worlds Fair, st. Louis
1904, 70 prizes; Seattle, 1909, so priz.
es; State Fairs in three years, 27s
prizes.
We believe any one who starts Out
in the live stock business in this man.
ner is a great benefactor to his com
munity, and we hope and trust thai
many of the people in our own county
will, like these men, see vision of thu
splendid future for pure-bred liv'
stock of any kind.
Dess
| Our notion of figure of speech il
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
A TESTIMONIAL

Judge Parry, in a recent article on
"Rufus Choate, Advocate says on
occasion Choate would meet with his
Sam Weller. Defending a prisoner for
theft of money from ship, witness
was called who had turned states
evidence and whose testimony went
to prove that Choate's client had in
stigated the theft.
"Well," asked Choate, "what did he
say? Tell US how and what he spoke
to you"
"Why," said the Witness" he told
us there was a man in Boston named
Choate and he'd get US off if they
caught us with the money in our
boots. "'-Tit-Bits.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
INCOME TAX LIMIT
NOT TO BE CHANGED

Washington, D. c., Feb. 19.-The
proposal to amend the income tax
law so as to include smaller incomes
is virtually certain to be abandoned
in favor of an increased rate on those
already taxed, it was declared to-
night by Democratic House leaders.
Sentiment against lowering the ex-
emption limit in order to provide adj
ditional revenue for the preparedness
program crystalized it was said, in
the Democratic caucus Thursday night
when House Leader Kitchin declared
against changing the present mini
mum of $4,000. Since then protes-
tants against all reduction plans have
become more outspoken daily.
Leaders declared tonight that vir-
tually the entire preparedness reve-
nue. burden would be met with income
taxes. Tentative bills looking to
raising $1O0,OOO,O00 solely by an in
creased income tax rate are being
discussed and will be offered soon in
committee.
One of the Democratic leaders who
viii be active in framing the admins
traticn bill said tonight he would sug-
gest doubling the present 1-cent rate
on incomes below $4,000 and possibly
make the tax on incomes above that
amount as high as per cent He
also might suggest lowering the min
mum income subject to the l per cent
rate to $4,000, he said.
! Married men, according to this plan,
would be given the advantage Of an
additional $1,000 exemption as in the
/ present law.
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
Like Federal Banks
Otto H. Hahn Says Govern
Ement Should Handle
Railroads

Railroads
In an interesting article in the Feb
ruary number of the Worlds Work"
on "The Government and the Rail-
roads," Otto H. Kahn, one Of The heads
of the big banking house of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., expresses some striking
and original views. Mr.. Kahn takes
the stand that government regulation
of the transportation lines is prefer
able to government ownership, but
declares the present system faulty.
He holds one national authority
should have sole charge of regulating
rates and other matters affecting in
terstate lines, and that neither State
Legislatures nor Commissions should
have any jurisdiction over such car
riers, excepting the exercise of cer-
tain administrative, police or public
welfare powers within well defined
limits. The Interstate Commerce
Commission as at present constitut-
ed is swamped with more work than
any seven men can possibly perform.
Mr.. Kahn enunciates the idea that
the national functions and character
of railroads are analogous to those
of national banks and that they
should be handled in the same man
ner. "The formula and principle of
the banking and currency legislation,
viz, strong, effective and controll-
ing central federal board in Washing
ton, relieved from detail work and
from certain essentially conflicting
| functions (which should be conferred
upon separate body), with regional
boards according to geographic group
ings might prove exactly suited to
railroad legislation. The same body
which determines earnings by fixing
rates should be charged with the re-
sponsibility of hearing and determin-
ing wage disputes between railroads
and their employees, or, if that be not
practicable, then at least with the du-
ty of giving full weight and consid-
Grafton to all factors that go to en-
nance the cost Of operating railroads
such as Legislative enactments like the
Full Crew Law, increased taxation
advance in wages, etc"
The fnancier also makes the point
that it should be the successful bus.
mess man, and not the failure, whose
advice should be sought in govern
ment matters. Yet there is 10 coun
try where the views of representa-
tives of business are so little heedet
and so frequently rebuffed where leg
islation affecting economic, industrial
and financial matters is framed. HI
says: "Let us have no patience will
the presumption that men who, most
ly from small beginnings, have Tough
their way to the top after having pass
ed through the hard and searching
test and discipline of business, are t.
be ignored or distrusted in the shap
ing of the industrial and economi'
policies of the country, because o.
alleged incapacity or unwillingness Il
take broad and patriotic view of ma,
tional questions directly or indirect
ly affecting their own interests. Lei
us lend no countenance to the pre-
sumption that patriotism, virtue, ant
knowledge reside primarily with those
who have been, unsuccessful, those
who have no practical experience o.
business, nor yet, be it said with al
respect, with those who are politi
clans or officeholders."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25
Eating Smoke

"On the level, boss, there amt asy-
lums enough in the world to hold all |
the nuts we saw. Every last one OF
EN- was eating smoke"
This is a free translation from the
Spanish of the report made to the
well known Admiral c. Columbus by
crowd of sailor boys he'd sent over
to look at Cuba. They hadn't found
and Northwest passage, but they had
discovered tobacco. The voyage was
big success.
1t was a classy pipe they saw-a
Y4shape affair, which the natives
called "Tabaco." The victim put the
two points up his nostrils, then stuck
the end over wad of burning weed
and took draw. The records do not
state whether this was done volun-
tarily or as penalty. Our own In
dams did better. They had real nif-
| ty pipes.
One of the best things the Spanish
did was to take home samples OF ev-
erything they found, and as tobacco
wasn't nailed down, they carried away
some of it, too Jean Nicott, the
French Ambassador to Portugal, got
hold of bunch and made so much
fuss about it that people got the idea
that he'd invented it. Nicotine"
See?
But it was the English who started
smoking in Europe. Our old friend,
Ralph Lane, First Governor of Vir-
ginia, and Sir Francis Drake took
some tobacco over with them. Sir
Walter Raleigh was the man you had
to see in those days if you wanted
anything done, so they gave it to him.
He ordered an outfit of silver pipes
and put tobacco across.
They say he "took pipe of tobac-
co before he went to- the scaffolde."
He made big hit. "Divine tobacco"
was what Spencer wrote about it.
Sir William Byrde later called tobac-
co "that most bewitching vegetable
Europe ate up the new fashion and
it spread like the grip, but it didn't
get by without real hard fight and
an anti-smoking crusade was no "col-
lege-sissy" affair in those days. They
didn't spend their time talking about
, it and writing letters to the papers
They used the knout, put men in Jail
fired them out of church and executed
few. But it was no use.
A cigar deserves better start
. but some our highbrows claim it got
its name from our little friend, tht
: katydid, "Cigaro" was the Spanish
: name and the learned ones twist this
/ into coming from "cicada", because
: it's built somewhat along the lineI
/ of that little pet. Then came thu
e snuff craze. Every fellow who hopet
1 10 ReI Hlto Ihc oOClCby SOAuhhiS ANS
: ged box around with him and sniff
t ed up handful from time to time.
: And Americans did it'll So far al
! anyone knows, they've been smoking
D over here since the year l. The In
dams thought SO much of it that the!
C put up the "No Fighting" sign OF
the place in South Dakota where thu
) red pipestone came from. Anybod!
: could go there and load up on pipes
: without being scalped when his bacl
{ was turned. That was part of thu
: tobacco free masonry that today let
| poor unfortunate man who has t.
9 work for living stop real mil
e. lionaire on the street and ask for /;
match.
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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25

Villa has taken the grin out of grin
go, but the go is still in its we'll
known 1916 form.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25

Anyone expecting to find the Col
onel unprepared will discover that ne
never runs out of gauntlets
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25

What has become of the old-fash-
toned lad who wanted to run away
out West and kill Indians?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25

This would be a happy world if we
could only believe everything we say.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-02-25

Our notion Of figure of speech
Hoke Smith.
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
NORTH DAKOTA IN LEAD

For some time it has been known
that North Dakota led all the other
agricultural states in the matter of
the five principal grains for the year
1915, but it remains for the Nebraska
state board Of agriculture to go q
step further and make a recapitali-
Zation of all the agricultural produc-
ton Including livestock.
For instance, the total value OF
all products of the farm give North
Dakota 1920 7 900, while the near
est along with only $310,691,OOO
Nebraska is next and then comes
Iowa, Kansas, Minesonta, Illinois,
Wisconsin,, Indiana, Missouri and
Texas.
In the matter of grain crops this
report gives 1912 for every man, wo-
man and child in North Dakota, or
over 81 a day for each inhabitant.
The leading crops are valued at
$191, 153, 900, thus showing that with
less than half Of the plowable land
under cultivation the state has much
to be proud of.
The livestock statistics show up ex-
ceedingly we'll, when it is taken into
consideration that North Dakota has
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
ANTELOPE

Miss Pauline Lacher of Richardton
spent a few days of last week with
friends here.
All who did not attend the dance
at Richardton Easter Monday missed
a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Redetzke entertained
eighteen of their Hebron friends the
first of the week. The afternoon
was spent in playing cards and music
and in the evening a dainty lunch was
served.
Matt Meissner and Elsie Funk of
Hebron spent Sunday at the Fisher
farm.
Helen Newbauer went to Hebron
Tuesday to have some dental work
done.
The Antelope school closed last
Wednesday. A program was given
and was enjoyed by all who were
present.
Joe Lautz and family left for their
new home four miles north of Taylor
last week.
Frank Fisher, Matt Meissner and
Misses Elsie Funk, Pauline Lache1
and Margaret Fisher took in the
movies at Richardton Sunday.
The Antelope baseball team did
some practicing Sunday. Look out
Richardton and Hebron.
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06

Dickinson OtOr, Car Go,

Furnished room for rent. Inquire
at Press ofice.-adv. 4-22-H
For Sale-Three hundred and fifty
ives in lamb to Shropshire bucks,
start May 18th, $3.50 per head. A.
Cooling, Gladstone, N. D. 4-22-3p
International Harvester Company's
new 8x16 MoguI tractor is now on ex-
hibition in this city at Roy Buffers
office in the st. Charles block. Be
SURF to call and see it. Price $675.
adv. 3-18-tf
For Sale-My 14-room house, also
the six-room house south on the
corner, both located on the new
postoffice site. Must be moved by
July list, 1916.-C. H. Wiley, Dickin-
son. 1926
Ashes and rubbish hauled away
and yards cleaned. Work done by
the hour or job at reasonable prices.
Phone 366.-Dickinson Ice & Trans
fer Co. 3-25-tf
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
For Sale By
JOE TUTILMAN & co.
Dickinson, N. D.

Miss Pauline Lacher of Richard
ton came up Tuesday evening for a
visit with her sister at the H. c.
Erding home. She returned home on
Wednesday morning.
The McCalleys put on a first class
entertainment last Tuesday evening
under the auspices of the T. B. &
B. C. Both the readings and music
delighted a large sized audience.
Miss Goldie Jensen returned to her
home at Oakdale after spending sew
eral days visiting here at the Jesper-
son and Schroeder homes. She was
on her way home from Valley City,
where she attended school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steiner from south of
Richardton wer up to consult a
doctor last Monday. A minor opera
ton was performed on Mrs. Steiner.
She was able to return to her home
in the afternoon.
Herman Leutz and J. F. Christen
returned from Minnesota on Sunday
morning with two car loads of cattle.
Mr.. Leutz kept one carload for his
farm south Of town and the other
carload was to be sold to the farm
erS.
Miss Mayme Pollanch of Milwaukee
came up from the Muggli home at
Richardson for a days visit with her
sister, Mrs. J. P. Weyrens. She re-
turned in the evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Muggli, who came up for
the McCalley entertainment.
On Sunday afternoon Clemence
Wecker entertained the primary
pupils with a party, the occasion be-
ing his sixth birthday. The young
folks enjoyed themselves immensely.
Billy Leutz entertained the same class
on Tuesday, it being his seventh
birthday. The tots all proclaim both
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06

Illinois has wrested from Iowa the
honor position of premier corn-pro-
ducing state, North Dakota took
Kansas place as first wheat-produc-
ing state, Minnesota took from New
York the first place as potato-produc-
ing state, Pennsylvania recaptured
her place as first buckwheat-produc-
ing state which was taken from her
by New York in 1914, and North Da-
kota took from. California the banner
for first barley-producing state, &C.
cording to results of crop production
last season..
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06

only been doing extensive farming
for approximately five years. At the
rate farmers are going into diversi-
fled farming in this state, in five
years more North Dakota will give
a mighty good account of herself in
this particular.
In the old cattle days much ado was
made over the fact that 1000 car
loads of cattle were shipped off the
ranches of the state a year, while in
1914 over $4,000 carloads were
shipped out of the state.
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
SNOW

Mrs. Geo. Schermerhorn visited
with Mrs. Gresz Wednesday after
noon.
While endeavoring to start the
gasoline engine Saturday, Frank
Gresz had his hand badly bruised.
He was taken to Belfield to consult
a doctor.
Miss Oleda Mack and John Eckern
called at Schermerhorn's on Sunday.
Mrs. Redy called on Mrs. Mike
Heinz last week.
Mrs. Schmerhorn and Mrs. Pendle-
ton visited our school on Monday.
Our genial "Buster" and H. Han
son were breaking bronks on Mon
day.
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06

deer, Halliday, Dunn Center, Dodge,
Werner and Golden Valley. Thirty
nine games have been scheduled to
run from May 18th to July 23rd.
Special train service has been ar
ranged each Sunday with the North
ern Pacific.
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
TAYLOR

The T. B. & B. C. will meet with
Mrs. Henry Hecht on Thursday, May
18th. <
Mrs. Lena Schmidt, of the Schmidt
hotel, was sick for a few days this
week. - ." -
Little Johnny Sinkula has been sick
with rheumatism for some time but
is on the road to recovery again.
Verne Baker of Dickinson and
Lewis Baker of Emerson were bust
ness visitors in Taylor last Wednes-
day.
The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
MANDAN WOULD BE PUT
IN CENTRAL TIME ZONE

The Mandan merchants, profession
al men, bankers and citizens in gener-
al almost unanimously favor putting
the city on central time instead of
mountain time. Bismarck citizens
only six miles east, have an hour
more of daylight than the Mandan
people, it is claimed. However, as
one-sixth of the Mandan citizens are
connected with the Northern Pacific
division offices, the train crews or big
repair shops, the railroad company
has the say. A mammoth petition of
the citizens will be presented to the
Northern Pacific officials.