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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06

He collects the dues as he can. When
he receives referendums from the
State office he watches his chance to
get the vote of the membership or
mails the referendums to them-con-
ducts sort of mail-order business, as
it were. He is thus the party repre-
sentative to attend to all matters con-
nected with the legal phases of filing
tickets, circulating petitions and 9th
erwise complying with the election
law
A special effort should be made to
enroll every known Socialist and Sc
cure his dues for the support of party
work. This can be done much more
easily when Socialists, in a community
where it is impossible to maintain an
active organization, know that they
will not be expected to attend meet
ings that amount to nothing.
The advantages Of this plan are the
following: First, we obtain dues from
all who claim to be Socialists where
they could not be prevailed on to enter
an organization that lacks initiative,
purpose and enthusiasm; second we
have a means of communication be-
tween this community and the State
office; third, we have some means for
political representation of the working
class; fourth, we have a basis on
which, at some future time, a strong
organization may be built
Our local movements, outside of
few centers, lack purpose and political
direction. have in mind one State
with which | am pretty well acquaint-
ed. 1t has some thirty-five locals;
only three hold regular meetings. The
largest two locals are torn by the
most trivial and foolish dissensions
and accomplish the minimum in a lit
tie propaganda work. The best and
most business-like organization is
little local in a pioneer colony off in
the woods. SO well has the work been
done here that virtually the entire
community is Socialist
States should have a definite party
program, such as Oklahoma has, and
perhaps | should add Connecticut. Re-
strictive election laws should be the
first point of attack. These laws re-
strain practically 90 per cent of the
white vote in the South, not to men
ton the negro vote. Every law is in
direct violation of the Constitution of
the United States and would be de
cIared unconstitutional if fought in the
Supreme Court, as in the Oklahoma
and Maryland cases. Campaigns
state, county and municipal-should
be made on local issues Immediately
working class interests.
We need business-like workers who
can go to different sections of the
country and do the work that is re-
quired, and training school at head
quarters for just such work would rap
idly produce practical results.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06
BATTLING IN CHICAGO

In Chicago, Socialist candidates for
aldermen have been nominated in all
of the 35 wards. The struggle centers,
however, in three wards, the ninth,
fifteenth and twenty-seventh. In the
ninth, which sent Seymour Stedman
to the state legislature in 1912, Chas.
V. Johnson, carpenter in the Pullman
car shops, is the Socialist candidate.
(Seidel Dates, Page 2, Column 81
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06

(Seidel Dates, Page 2, Column 81
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06

The Democratic Congressman who
are now opposing Wilson's prepared
ness and submarine-boat policy will be
running around the country soon tell
ing us voters it's our sacred duty to
uphold the Philadelphia
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06

Bargreen's Golden Drip Coffee. I'm
perial Tea Co., 1902 Hewitt Avenue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06

The Brement Tageblatt, in consider
ing the calamitous possibilities of a
war with the United States, says:
we should have to feed the Belgians."
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
TAKE NOTICE

That on Saturday, the 18th day of
January, A. D. 1916, at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon of that day, at Turner
& Blacks store, on South Main street,
we will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, one Indian Motorcycle,
claii ed by one Gottfried Reitzke, now
held by US for storage, repairs and
furnishing gasoline and other supplies
for said motorcycle, and for which we
claim a lien thereon under and by
written virtue of the provisions of
an Act of the Legislature of the State
Of New Jersey, entitled can act for
the Better Protection of Garage Keep
ers and Automobile Repairmen." APP
proved April IA, 1915. Terms cash.
Dated P~leasantville, N. j., January l,
1916. (Signed) TURNER & BLACK.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
is LONELIEST OF PUPILS
Missouri Youth Has School and Teach
er All to HimseIf-Sports
Are EscheWed.

C~hillicothe, Mo.-Livingstope county
has the smallest possible school in
the world-it has just one pupil. But
despite the small enrolment, it keeps
grinding steadily away, combining its
activities principally to the text books
and eschewing football and other
forms of athletics.
The school in question is in district
No. 2 in Medicine township and Miss
Mary Phillips is the teacher. The list
of m%atriculants has not been pub
lished. When the term began five
weeks ago, it was anticipated that a
number of children would enroll, but
only this one boy came, so the teacher
started in with the course.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
CHILD SMOTHERs IN COTTON
Little Oklahoma Girl Digs Hole in Pile
and Then Accidentally
Tumbles In.

Guthrie, Okla.-The nine-year-old
daughter of Paul Richey, a farmer liv-
ing neal Prague, thirty miles east of
here, was drowned" in a pile of cotton
in her fathers field.
When the little girl was missed, her
parents started out to search for her.
Her father finally saw her shoes on
top of the huge mound of cotton, and
closer examination disclosed her body
buried, head first, in the fluffy mass.
She evidently had dug a hole in the
pile and then accidentally fallen into
it, the loose cotton packing about her
and smothering her.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
AS ONE SUBSCRIBER
VIEWS THE NEWSPAPER.

The following letter was among
the mail received at The Pleasant
Vile Press office one day this week:
"Please send me a few copies of
your paper containing the obituary
of my aunt. Also publish the en-
closed clipping of the marriage of
my niece who lives in Pennsylvania.
And l wish you would mention in
your local column, if it does not cost
anything, that | have two bull calves
for sale. AS my subscription is out,
please stop my paper. Times are
too bad to waste money or newspa-
pers."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

President Wilson now admits that
the railroads are entitled to some of
the things they've been asking in the
way of legislation and administra-
ton. Yet Mr.. Bryan is still lauding
Wilson for driving the railroad repre-
sentatives away from the capital in
1918, when he denounced them as an
"insidious lobby" for trying to protect
their rights.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

While holding the record for gov
ernmental inefficiency and while add
ing daily to the deficit in the treas
ury, the Democratic majority in Con-
gress starts the new session with pro-
posals for a new administrative de-
partment and for larger appropria-
tions for those already mismanaged.
And now taxes are to be levied to pay
the bills.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
I CENT "A WORD

minimum charge-20c first insertion 10c
eaeh additional insertion.)
FOR SALE, RENT OR EXCHANGE.
Farm of four acres, good house,
barn and ou~tbuildin~s, Is minutes
walk from either car line. Apply
% w. Verona avenue. 81
WANTED.-To rent, farm a or more
acres, suitable for chickens. Ad-
dress q, Pleasantville Press Office.
18c
LOST-On Thursday, a friendship
bracelet with eight links, either at
the moving pictures or on South
Main street. Please return to Miss
Lottie Fairbrothers, So w. Park av-
enue, P~leasantville.
PRIZE MARVEL HEATER, No. 40, in
good condition, for sale; also an up
right heater. Lewis Carly, 6 Ad-
m n 19c
FOR RENT-10 acres ground, 8-room
house, all necessary outbuildings in
Guiding good barn and chicken hous-
es, all in good condition, can be oc-
cupied after first of year. Also for
sale, an open Spring Wagon, a Mar
ket Wagon and a farm wagon. Box
SO. Mckee City, N. J.
FOR SALE-White metal bed, S1O.5O
and springs, $6.75; both brand new.
Can be seen upon inquiry at Pleas
antville Press office.
FOR SALE The following brand
new mahogany dining-room furni-
ture: buffet, table, china closet. SER
wing table, arm chair, 5 straight
chairs, $185.50. Can be seer upon
application at Pleasantville Press
office.
$125 CASH buys attractive building
lot 65x125, corner New Road and
Richmond avenue, in the new "Mt. /
Pleasant" section of Pleasantville,
if sold at once. Apply Pleasant
vile Press office.
FOR SALE.-Farm OF 1UU acres. To-
Gated les New Gretna, Burlington
county, about 40 acres cleared, bal
ance woodland, some fruit, build
ings in fair condition; no encum-
%brances, would exchange for good
equities. Address E, Pleasantville
Press office.
FOR SALE-Hot water heater, 500
to 600 feet radiation. Apply A. P.
1eyOlj tlO -. MALL street. l
GOOD ORGAN FOR SALE.-Mrs. N.
Hewitt, ia N. New Road, Pleas
a~ntville.
MORTGAGES WANTED.-Address
S. w. Sparks, Counsellor-at-Law,
126 Market Street, Camden, N. j.,
or II Adams Ave-, Pleasantville.
MONEY TO LOAN on mortgages;
various amounts; placed promptly.
Campbell & Wootton, 10 N. Main
Street, Pleasantville, N. j.
F IT'S CEDAR POSTS you're looking
for, we have them, 3R to 25c each.
Also split oak wood by the load. |
R%ubberoid Roofing or anything you
need in the building line at reasona-
BILE prices. Lake & Bossler Co.
IEW AND SECOND HAND HAIR
NESS of all kinds constantly on
hand at low prices. August ].
Guenther, 16 S. Second St., Pleas
antville, N. J.
dME. LAMBERT, teacher of vocal
and instrumental music. All string
instruments. Her method of many
years study and experience is the
only thorough, correct system that
can be taught, for children and
adults. 1t will quickly bring out
and develop talent (if there is any
and teach them to love music. 1t
is said that music is the language
of heaven-and again-that those
who do not love music have no hui
man soul. Studio. 1903 Chestnut st.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

President Wilson still urges a ship
purchase bill, in spite of the Demo-
cratic platform promise that legisla-
ton for the upbuilding of the mer-
chant marine shall be without i'm
posing additional burdens upon the
people," Apparently that pledge was
merely a "scrap of paper" covered
with "molasses to catch flies and is
not to be regarded by a party that
'-ses a platform to get in on, rather
than to stand on. But the people will
not forget.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
THANKS, BROTHER COLLINS
From the Somers Point Record.

Many beautiful Christmas Editions
have come to US from our State con.
t~emporaries, and we are especially
pleased with the productions of oui
fellow publishers in Atlantic county
who outdid themselves in endeavor-
ing to produce attractive Christmas
numbers. Especially resplendant, in
a handsome cover, and plentifully
filled with advertising is our neighbor,
The Pleasantville Press.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
Now President Wilson wants men

Now President Wilson wants men
of successful business experience to
come in and help him get the admin
~istration out of the difficulties in
which it has drifted. But why
didn't he put into his cabinet the men
whose aid he desires? Why take
nearly three years to find out that
The advice of successful business men
is worth considering?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
MOTHER SUPERIOR
Says Vinol Creates Strength

Rosary Hill Home, Hawthorne, NY.
-'I have used Vinol for many run
down, weak or emaciated patients with
benefit. One young woman was so weak
and ill she could hardly creep to my door
for aid. l supplied Vinol to her literally
and in a month / hardly recognized her.
She was strong, her color charming and
her cheeks rounded out. MOTHER M.
ALPHoNsA LATHRoP, o. S. D.,
We guarantee inol to sharpen the ap-
petite, aid digestion, enrich the blood
and create strength.
Thomas F. Crawford, Druggist,
Pleasantville, N. ].
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
BIRTH OF A YEAR OF WHAT?

With the birth of the new year the
question will naturally arise, "What
will it bring u.s."
Will it be peace, or war? Will il
be plenty, OF want?
No human being can answer thai
question today, though some may
make a ludicrous bluff at doing so.
At no time in the life of the pres
ent generation has the birth of a new
year been fraught with so much I'M
certainty with regard to the world in
general and our own country in par
ticular.
We all hope and pray that the wal
may end and that the world may re-
turn to some semblance of sanity and
commercial stability. But there is
no certainty-only an intense longing
for something that is not.
We are pinning our faith to the
ability of our country to keep free
from foreign entanglements, but again
there is no certainty-only an abid-
ing faith that may be founded upon
the phantasies of our dreams.
We are looking and longing for the
day to come when men will cease to
butcher one another and return to the
more humanizing pursuits of a peace
full life. But u longing results only
in more looking and longing. There
is no peace.
We anticipate a year of great COM
mercial prosperity for the people Of
U own country, and it will be theirs
if no unforeseen combination of Incl
dents overturn the tranquility of the
nation. But in this, too, there is an
off, and the if is not of our making.
We are promised a year of unex-
ampled activity among the factories,
and in the fields, and in all of the
marts of trade, but much of it will
depend upon the actions of other ma
lions than ours. And we are today a
government and a people without
friends among other peoples of the
earth.
We have grown and expanded and
developed until we are the richest
of all the countries of the world, and
yet our great wealth is today an ac-
tual menace to our peace and securi-
ty of the future, for the nation that is
hungry for gold will not be choice in
its mode of attack when the time for
invasion comes.
But let US face the future with OPP
timism and with faith, with eyes open
to every essential fact, and with a
firm determination to persevere and
to conquer in the face of all obstacles.
Let us dare to be just and right in
all of our dealings with nations and
with individuals, and when sanity re-
turns to the world we will reap as we
have sown.
Let us put our own house in order
by placing the country in a state of
defense sufficient to insure US from
from without, and then let us
give the world to understand that we
are a just and righteous people, that
seek to do harm to no man or col
lection of men, and that we have no.
in our hearts but good will to-
ward all people.
The new year will bring US some
but what that something is to
be will depend greatly upon the course
we ourselves pursue.
Never in the history of our country
mas it been put more plainly and en-
phatically and squarely up to US.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

"Forward-looking men" were sum-
moned by Wilson, in his inaugural ad-
dress, to stand beside him. He par
ticularly wants that kind today. AT
any rate, he does not want any men
who will look backward to his mes
sage of a year ago and make invidi-
Gus comparisons regarding his atti-
tude on preparedness.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
BARGAINS IF BOUGHT AT ONCE.

Formerly Judge Blackman's 12-Room
2-story Residence, with 2 Barns,
l 60-100 acres of land, also 1R
acres of Wood Land across street by
City Hall. Both only $1,000.
Also 8 acres of good Farm Land, with
fruit trees. Only $500.
Also 46 acres of young timber land,
road running through wood; make
a fine farm. If sold at once, $500.
NJ. E. SANFORD,
P. o. Box II Port Republic, N. j.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

Henry Ford has an automobile fac
tory in Detroit. He has another
across the river in Canada. 1t is not
the river that prevents his selling his
"Made in America" machines in Can
ada-it is a high tariff wall. So the
Ford Company took its capital and
invested in a Canadian factory, CIV
ing employment to Canadian labor,
furnishing business for Canadian
merchants, placing money in Canadi-
an banks and paying taxes to the
Canadian government. Canada is
wise. SO will the American people
be wise when they reconstruct the
demolished tariff wall which will keep
European and Asiatic products out
of American markets and thus re-
build and protect American indus
tries.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
Terse, Tart, Timely
Short and Snappy Sayings to Interest
Old and Young

Short and Snappy Sayings to Interest
Old and Young
Happy New Yearl
n n n
And a prosperous year!
n n n
And even a peaceful one!
n n n
And we hope we get 'em all.
n n n
A prosperous year to us, too, b'gosh.
n n n
And now for another year of I'M
civilization.
Many a sickly smile hides a mighty
healthy jag.
% n n
Did you buy it at home this Christ
mas We did.
The mar who beats his wife should
have mated with a COW.
n u ~
Another presidential year and still
u hat is not in the ring.
n n n
There's a deal of good in this old
town, if it can only discover itself.
n n n
Nineteen sixteen is the year of po-
conventions and other bugs.
n n n
Just cork up your sarcasm, brother.
Ford didn't mean this Xmas anyway.
n n n
Not a doubt of the return of pros
perity now. Every turkey hit the
spot.
Saying the right thing at the right
is the right thing to say. And
that's right.
Never cast a sly smile at the girl
with red hair. Her blood may be as
red as her hair.
u u
And will General Villa go onto the
ecture platform, into vaudeville, or
star for the movies?
n n n
A movement is on foot to compel
lotel walters to battle daily. Another
brand of soup, of course.
n n n
The nan who gets licked has the
satisfaction of knowing he
lidn't kill the other fellow.
They say death evens up all scores,
it will require a whopping big
mantle to cover the sins of 1915.
u u u
Winter at it's worst has its good
points. 1t prevents many a neigh
'orhood row over the back fence.
n n n
Some men are so energetic they fail
n business today and start right in
omorrow to engineer another failure.
n n n
If congress will pass a law for pre-
,aredness against bill collectors We'll
-ote right and vote often or any 9TH
r old way.
u q n
Here's to America, land of free
Iom, where every man is a presiden-
ial possibility and darned few are
probabilities.
We editors often comment on the
cantiness of the modern woman's at
ire, but we seldom close our eyes as
he passes by.
A correspondent wants to know
whether a "cheap skate" is a man or
ust a human being. Neither one
ust cheap skates.
n n n
Sit tight, smile s~erenely, and let the
,ther fellow roar. When a fellow los
IS his head it's an evidence he hasn't
much head to lose.
X X X
If they continue drafting new men
nto the war the survivors may be
lnder the painful necessity of footing
own pension bills.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
.Anti-Girl Club Formed.

Kendallville, Ind.-Thirty-five young
bachelors of this city have organized
the "Anti-Girl" club. To be caught
taking a young to a theater,
dance or other social function, or
home from church, or even to make
a social call, will cost the member SIS.
The high cost of entertainment" is
given as the AUS for organizing.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

In his opening message to the pres
ent Congress, President Wilson said
not one word about economy-not one
word in condemnation of extrava-
gance. The Baltimore platform must
have turned over in the grave in which
its authors buried it.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

You doubtless enjoy reading the So.
'ial and local items in The Pleasant
lille Press. Bear in mind, when you
ave some one visiting you, to call or
rite or phone US the fact, so that
q may make this department more
i teresting.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

Put your shoulder to the wheel. Dc
your part in the upbuilding of Pleas
antville. Read The Pleasantville
Press. Study the ads. Patronize
home trade. When you help Pleas
antville merchants you help Pleas
antville. When you help Pleasant
vile you help yourself.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

"Pay as you go" is the policy ad-
vocated by President Wilson in his
message. But his preaching loses
much of its force in view of the Dem
ocratic practice of mourning a deficit
ever when only the normal expendi-
lures must be met.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

If interested in P~leasantville and
vicinity you cannot afford to be with
out The Pleasantville Press when you
can get it a whole year for only One
Dollar.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

Very appropriately, one Of the first
acts Of the new Democratic Congress
was the passage of an urgent defici-
ency appropriation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

No person interested in Pleasant
vile can afford to be without The
Pleasantville Press. Only One Dollar
a year.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

Do you get all the new of Pleas
antville and vicinity? If not you car
easily do so by subscribing to The
Pleasantville Press
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

But we can without detriment, or in
convenience, or expense at least re-
member that we are all neighbors, and
friends, and brothers, and so act one
to the other, to the end that a
harmony and happiness may be our
lot for the coming year.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

We can materially benefit Pleasant
vile and vicinity if we begin right
now to make it a year of production
and prosperity.
1t would be difficult to find one m
ong US who could not in some manner
increase the result of his labors dur
ing the coming year, and with each
of US ~persevering to this end the
years profits would mount high in the
financial column of local history.
While considering our own individ-
ual interests we might dwell also up
on those of the community in which
We dwell, for what is of value to all
of the people is of equal value to us.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01

AesH ~ ~ l. ~ vi L "
each other in this community, where
we should all be brothers and dwell
together in unity for the common
good of all.
And that is because there are en-
tirely too many hard and fast cliques
and sets, with each immersed in it's
own shell and never a peep at the
light of outer day.
We need a common ground for
meeting, where neighbor greets neigh
Dor and the stranger finds himself at
home and among friends.
If cooperation is good in commercial
affairs it would be of equal benefit in
private and social life. 1t would af-
ford us a more intimate knowledge of
humanity and a broader perspective
of life, and the resultant spirit of
good fellowship would be felt in a
thousand ways.
A year of getting together" would
stamp a wonderful imprint upon the
heart, the soul and the conscience of
this community.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-01-01
Looking A Year Ahead

We are face to face with the prob
lens of another year. 1t may bring
Us much or little, as we choose. The
question is, what do we choose? In
the parlance of the street, at is up
to u.s."