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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
CITY TO
GATHER
AT FEED

In order that the plans for the
reorganization of the Tacoma
Commercial club and Chamber of
Commerce may be made familiar
to as many as possible of those
who are expected to be interested
in the new body. the re-organiza-
ton committee OF the club has
arrangd for a citizens get-to-
gether" dinner at the club dining
room on Friday evening at $3.50
o'clock.
Invitations were issued last
evening to large plumber of the
business and professional men of
Tacoma whom the committee ex-
poets to be interested in the re-
organization program.
The plans for the proposed re-
organization will be worked out
by that evening and presented in
detail by H. Van r. Chase, the
efficiency expert of the city de-
veloping bureau, San Francisco,
who is in the city cooperating
with the reorganization commit
tee with a view of securing for
Tacoma the most modern and eff
ficient commercial body in the
country.
George c. Corbaly, secretary of
the Spokane chamber of COM
merce, will speak from experience
as to the effect of the re-organi-
cation in promoting the interests
of Spokane.
G. G. Colt, president of the
Portland chamber of commerce,
and Franklin T. Griffith, mana
ger for the Portland Light e
Power Co., will be other speak
err
A chart has been prepared for
the purpose of making a graphic
presentation of the form of or
ganization showing the relation
ship of the different elements in
1t. and the methods employed for
the coordination of the various
forces to be employed in further
ing the interests of the city
though the new organization.
Details OF the plan will be
fully worked out by the date of
the dinner and fully explained by
Mr.. Chase and others.
Guests are requested to attend
IN business dress. The invita-
ton is to all who may be inter-
ested In community organization
work and In promoting the well
fare Of Tacoma. At the dinner
no one will be asked to join the
organization or to pledge to 1t
any further support.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

Generally speaking, men and
women are of the same clay, same
ambitions, same courage, same
mental abilities. They are inter-
dependable. 1t is always the
angle of height that cramps, con-
torts or clarifies the thought hor-
izon."
Truly Conventional
With all those | interviewed,
conventionality seemed to be the
only drawback advanced to wom-
ans proposing; but hold -
doesn't Leap Year reverse the
usual status Of things and make
1t really, genuinely conventional
for women to do the asking.
Years and years ago back in
Scotland where Leap Year origin
ated there was an actual law to
the effect that when woman
proposed to a man on Leap Year
he must marry her or stand to
lose goodly share Of his estate.
Proof that he was betrothed was
his only defense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

WHERE THE WORKERS ARE
THE VIRTUAL OR ACTUAL
OWNERS.
PERHAPS 1T LIES IN THE
FACT THAT THE CO-OPERA-
TIVE WORKERS PUT OUT FIN
Err SHINGLES AND MORE PER
DAY THAN THEY EVER DID
AS MERE EMPLOYEES.
Perhaps it's because the mills
are operated at a lower rate OF
depreciation on machinery, a
more careful utilization of tim
Der.
And no doubt it is partly be-
cause the energies of a worker
elevated to a responsible share in
a company's production and prof
it's, have proved assure founda-
ton to substantial business.
Wages Rise Automatically.
at u.s. commented the Rev
Oscar McGill, who has been chief
factor in organizing these CO.
operative mills, "a significant
commentary on the industrial sit
uation when workers have been
able to do what employers
couldn't"
In Everett, WASH, so single
weavers who run a mill are earn
ing more than the former scale
of wages, ranging from $3.50 to
SIS, according to the Job. Be-
sides this, they pay rental of 6
cents a thound shingles cut and
10 cents for siding.
A 20-cent rise in the shingle
market recently added an extra
$3.50 a day to practically every
partner in these cooperative
plants, and II the market con.
tinues TO hold, many mills or
which the workers now have op-
lions will be converted into mu-
tuai concerns.
The men who are most active
in these plans are the workers
whose unions the lumbermen
smashed with cuts In wages were
resisted with strikes.
How Standing Improves.
Where they were once re-
garded as next to buns, they are
now the respected business men
of their community.
"All this merely shows whaN
the social application Of Chris
tianity can do for men," says the
logger preacher. who Is now a,
the head Of the selling agency OF
these cooperative single mills
though still retaining his forest
pastorate as an accredited mem.
Der OF his church
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
May SlOl
Trips On
Steamers

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Jan. 6.
LEGISLATION to prohibit Ameri.
cans travelling on vessels of bel.
ligerent nations loomd up as s
possibility today. Congress also
showed sentiment in favor OF
an embargo on munitions.
Administration leaders admit
ted the senate's Intervention IN
The international situation Is
causing uneasiness. They said
that yesterdays acrimonious dis
cussion indicates the American
feeling regarding submarine
slaughter and was therefore a
helpful feature.
President Wilson is DESTROYS OF
minimizing the congressional de-
bate and of preventing the intro
duction Of inflammatory resolu-
lions, fearing they might create
foreign bitterness.
Garrison Warns.
America must adopt volunteer
military training or face conscrip-
ton, Secretary Garrison warned
today at the opening of the pre-
paredness hearing before the
house committee.
He declared large standing
army is undesirable and utterly
futile, and termed reliance on the
militia unwarranted because OF
its unstable foundation.
The continental army plan he
declared the only feasible alter
native.
Garrison read a statement out
lining the administration army
program, including an increase in
the standing army of 100000 and
100000 volunteers, with an in
crease in munition supplies and
the strengthening of coast forti-
fications.
1.-THE present military force is
totally inadequate" he said.
THE chaos which a crisis pro-
duces makes 1t certain that sew
eral months would intervene after
the outbreak of war before any
volunteers are ready"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
Mill Workers Find It
Easy to Finance Co.
Operative Plants
WORKS LIKE CHARM
BY Jack Jungmeyer

ANACOHTES, WaSh., Jan. D.
The most amazing feature of the
cooperative shingle mill venture
now being conducted throughout
the state by the former employees
of these plants has been their
ability to borrow money without
security.
This is one of the many things
the wise men" said couldn't be
done. Economists always look
askance at faith.
have told how at Olympia the
single weavers started their CO.
operative scheme without a cent
having changed hands.
Today l want to tell about an
other mill here where former
employees, after the plant had
closed down, bought 1t on INSTALL
ments from the owner for $685.
900, WITHOUT A PENNY HAv-
ING BEEN PAID DOWN.
How Deals Are Made.
The worker-managers merely
pay the relinquishing owner at
the rate of 10 cents per thousand
for all shingles cut.
Over in Marysville, Wash,
where another single plan had
/ closed because of the owners in
ability to operate at a profit, the
weavers have paid $4,000 rent
for the present year, and in ad-
dition are purchasing 1t at a per-
centage of the cut basis.
These men had no security ex-
cept their proved integrity.
They were, however, able ia
borrow sufficient money from the
bank to purchase logs WHEN
THE OWNER WAS UNABLE TC
, BORROW THE MONEY.
Reasons Why.
This has proved a common oc.
currence in the spread of the
cooperative single mill wave
here.
PERHAPS THE REASON IS
THAT LABOR TROUBLES ARE
ELIMINATED IN THE MILLS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
N. Y. Is
EATING
HORSES

NEW YORK, Jan. 6-Ecce the
edible enquire! Or. to lapse from
Latin, Lo. the palatable pony
For horseflesh as legitimate food
for humans is at last officially
recognized in America!
And the amazing reduce
ton Of nearly S36,OO,OOO an
nually In the nations high
cost of living would be real
lied II all other communities
would follow the lead of New
York, whose board OF health
permits the sale Of horse
meat.
This figure is based on recent
horse census which shows that
the annual mortality in this
country is now 100000. Valuing
each horse at 500, We get the
above huge total of annual cash
wastage in American horseflesh.
And 1t must be remembered
that In part this mortality
Is due to the hard labor demand
ed of the animal. IL instead Of
carefully bred for his food value,
being worked to death he were
carefully bred for his food value,
at his death he would be an asset
instead of a loss.
The land required to feed
Americas 25,O00.00O horses, ex-
perts claim, would raise produce
to support 1875, 100000 humans.
Then why" ask the advo-
Gates Of horse meat, should this
land be developed raising animals
which are good only for hauling,
and are practically valueless at
death?
LET us turn transportation
over to the automobile, they
plead, "and raise horses for food.
Their flesh is healthful, nourish-
ing, and some consider 1t choicer
than beef or veal.'
To bear this out, DR.. Haven
Emerson, New York's commits
sioner of health, declares:
"There is no medical or
sanitary reason to prevent
equine flesh from becoming
a stple food. The relative
value of horse meat abroad
Is shown by the experience
of our veterinarian, DR.. Aack-
erman, who found that i'm
Brussels horse meat from
England was bringing high
err prices than Argentine
| beef!
Horse meat can now be OBJ
tanned by the thrifty in New York
as well as abroad, and hereafter,
instead of being sold for their
bones, old nags can be fattened
up and disposed Of as meat"
Commissioner Emerson indi-
Gated that since the HORSE
NEVER HAS SUFFERED FROM
TUBERCULOSIS AND TRANS
MITS NO MALIGNANT DISETSE,
HE OUGHT TO MAKE A SAFER
FOOD THAN BEEF OR HOGS.
The Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals is pleased
by the move, BELIEVING old horses
will now be better fed and cared
for.
1t remains to be seen whether
husbands will equally be pleased
when their thrifty wives begin to
serve them the horse d'oeuvres
pony purees, perchon porter.
houses, fiery steed steaks and
other equine delicacies now legal.
lied FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
AMERICA!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
(The End.)
KEEP WITH
THESE CARRS

The Times today is starting a
new cartoon series by Satterfield
which ought to appeal directly
to almost every one of us.
It's entitled, Speeding With
the Cars"
AS its name might indicate, 1t
will have to do with the automo-
bile. II will make a hit, we are
sure, with the readers who own
cars, those who do not but would
like to and those who do not and
do not expect to-soon.
No. / of the series is entitled
Turing the Old Man Into the
Trap" Take look at it, on
page 6. 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
PUT BLINDERS ON
PEACE PILGRIMS

a COPENHAGEN, Jan. e.-The
Ford peace party will leave here
Friday on a fast train for The
Hague, passing through Germany
on the way. The party will be
under martial law through the
country. The blinds will be
drawn when the train passes i'm
portant positions such as the
Kiel canal.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
BY Cynthia Grey.

Seriously now, should women
propose?
Is there any sensible reason
why woman, endowed with all the
qualities and attributes possess
ed by man, should sit back in the
corner and wait until some man,
(ten chances to one not the right
one) asks her to marry?
1t is upon woman's shoulders
that the burden of the race is car
ried; why. then should not she
have the right to choose the faith
er of her children? Much has
been written and said, for the
most part humorous, about wom-
ans proposing; but wonder how
many of us have considered 1t
from serious standpoint?
l decided to ask some of Taco
mas prominent people for their
views on the subject.
The Suffragist's View
Mrs. Emma Smith De Voc,
president of the National Council
vi w
"Yes, indeed | think a woman
should propose II she has to. AS
it happens, l didn't have to; but
most probably | would have IL
hubby hadn't asked me first.
1T Is merely a matter of Gus
tom. The same conventionality
that prevented women from be-
coming educated, from working
outside of the home, or from hav-
ing an equal say with man con-
corning the laws that govern her,
prevents her from playing fair in
the matrimonial game.
ITO me, there is no such thing
as mans work and woman's
work; ii is only a matter of lati-
tude and longitude Of custom"
Likes Old Way Best
When ! asked Mrs. James w.
Brokaw, president of Woman's
Clubhouse association, what she
thought about 1t, she replied that
she liked the old way best.
II believe" she said, that
women are as intelligent as men
and | am in favor of their doing
their share of the worlds work,
but / think also that there is a
thing of going too far.
mo, like the pretty old court
ship ways best and the thought
that 1t is manly for man to WOO
and womanly for a woman to be
wooed."
Mrs. John @. Mason expressed
her views as follows:
II see no reason why women
haven't as much right as men to
propose If they want to. 1t is
wholly a matter of conventional
ity.
Whether there is much truth
in it, / cannot say; but a preva-
lent idea seems to be that a man
doesn't want woman who is toe
easily won"
Certainly, Says DIR. Osborn
Most certainly women should
propose" said DR.. st. Clair Os-
burn, w. G. T. u. executive, "a
woman has just as much reason
to investigate the character OF
the man she marries, to demand
clean bill of health and morals
as man has to demand those
things of the woman he asks t.
be his wife.
( Then, too, the most skeptica
person must admit that marriag,
Is fully as much an economi,
matter as a thing Of sheer senti
ment."
Mayor Agrees
Thinking that perhaps men al
SO entertained ideas on this sub
iect, called up Mayor A. v. Faw
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
CAN'T RELIEVE
MISERY, HE QUITS

PORTLAND, Jan. 6. = Police
Judge Stevenson resigned his po-
sition yesterday because he could
not stand the misery ofthose who
appeared before him. The post
ton pays salary Of $4,000 d
year.
IF could do any good for the
people, would remain. but I
can't" said Judge Stevenson in
explaining his action.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
ANKROBBER?

Identified by photographs sent
out by the Everett police depart
ment, Fred Murray. an ex-con-
Wet, was arrested by Detectives
Milone and Geary last night, and
was taken to Everett today. MUIR
ray is suspected of being one OF
the men who tunneled beneath
the Riverside branch OF the Bank
Of Commerce of Everett, robbing
safety deposit vaults Of valua bIes
and money.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
BOyS!BOyS'!!
EARN MONEY AFTER
SCHOOL

EARN MONEY AFTER
SCHOOL
The Tacoma Times
needs a few live boys to
sell papers on downtown
corners. It's an easy and
sure way for a boy to
make spending money.
Some corners pay from
fifty cents to two dol
lars a dayi You will
make SO per cent profit
on every paper you SELL
Come down tomorrow
night. See the whole
saler At The Times off,
flee, 9Th and Commerce
Streets.
Circulation Department
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
RAPS SYSTEM OF
DIVORCE TRIALS

Prosecutor Remain has sug-
Gested that one day a week be
Get aside by the four SUPERIOR
court judges for trying default
divorce cases. The present sys-
tenn II Iaphazzard. he claims.
Default divorces should be set for
hearing not less than 30 days
zafter the complaint has been
filed, according 10 the Pierce
ronnty rules. As II is, some d.
yorces are granted on the same
lay the complaint is filed. ne
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

Every acknowledgements is
Obliged to hold his job on merit
alone. And this is but one detail
by which the single mems mills
have fortified themselves against
the pitfalls of other cooperative
ventures.
"The selling agency, supported
by a 1.-THE of l cent thousand
shingles cut in every mill, has
thus far readily disposed of all
the output. 1t Is also buying sup
plies for the mill workers FAM
lilies in wholesale lots, and has
cut the cost of living as well as
the cost of working materially"
McGill and the shingle work.
ers make no claim of Utopia for
their experiment. But 1t will be
something for other toilers to
watch carefully-this industrial
adventure of logger preacher
with a vision.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
IDENTIFY INDIAN
AS SLAYER OF MAN

Alex Parsons, an Indian await
ing trial at the county jail on an
assault charge, was identified
yesterday as a former convict
who was tried and sentenced for
killing another Indian several
years ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
PROPOSE TO TAX
ALL BACHELORS

ABERDEEN. Jan. 6.-To meet
the loss Of saloon licenses, Coun-
Gilman Empey proposes tax OF
$50 year on all bachelors over
rs years of age. The tax will
be In form Of city ordinance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
G. p. s. WILL MEET p
u. OF w. TOSSERS

The University of Washington
basketball team will meet the G..
p. 8. team on the Y. M. G. A.
floor Friday night. While tha
local collegers don't expect TO
beat the varsity men. they expect
to stay the mad rush and hold
the score down. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
HOUSE GETS
ACROSS OK.

LONDON, Jan. Cool. House
arrived in London today and
breakfasted with Ambassador
Page. He will remain here a
fortnight, when he will go to
France.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
STEEL CORP.
PAYING MORE

NEW YORK, Jan. IS. = The
United States Steel corporation
granted an increase in wages to
all of its employees. Common
laborers we're increased 10 per
cent, while the higher offices
we're increased accordingly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

Who can explain? A subscriber
writes in: IS. Kent Page, the
car ad man, has this to say in one
of Louis Beans street cars: II
the name the Indians gave 1t ID
not restored to Mt. Tacoma, 1t will
be Tacoma's fault What does
he mean?"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

ly, made quick but search
ing investigation of traffic
conditions here, and then as
silently departed.
They were Prince r. Lieven,
Col. Wade Golokhvastoff and w.
Berkoff. They came to Tacoma
to put more oil on the hinges of
Americas back door," although IL
is soon to become the front door.
Russia is anxious to see the
vast quantity of munitions and
supplies consigned to Vladivos-
tok, but now clogging the wharves
and railroad yards of Tacoma,
hurried on its way across the Pa
cific.
Practically all of Russia's war
supplies go through Tacoma and
Seattle. Therefore when the con-
gestion here became so acute that
dock space could not be found for
parts of the shipments, Russia
sent her three ENJOYS out to in
vestlgate.
That they will go to almost
any legitimate measures in get
ting munitions, machinery, cotton
and other supplies across the Pa
cific Ia certain. The three Rus
sian ENJOYS departed for Seattle
yesterday, where they are now
stopping at the Hotel Washing
ton. They absolutely refused TO
be interviewed both here and In
Seattle
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

II Rev. Dyer's typewriter
is the sort Of a mill we have
seen some preacher friends
using, we cannot understand
why anybody would steal IL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

We trust that the Rev. Trimble
will not get into any game with
that Three Fingered Jack" per-
son.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
Talk O. the Times /.

Good morning, are your
feet wet yet?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

Tis a dry town otherwise
though, isn't it?
Congressman Humphrey
simply cannot realize how
funny he appears to the rest
of the country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06
RUSSIAN
EN- yOYS
in CITY
Tacoma was quietly yisitet,

Tacoma was quietly visited
this week by threevery Inn
portant men.
These men, who represent
the imperial government Of
Russia, came unostentatious-
ly, made a quick but search
ing investigation of traffic
conditions here, and then as
silently dapartad
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-06

Thinking that perhaps men al
so entertained ideas on this sub
ject, ! called up Mayor A. v. Faw-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-11-08

CHAPTER IX-Tmber takes Whitaker
down 10 lis seaside bungalow and returns
70 town. Whitaker chases night Prov
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-11-08
CHAPTER XII.
OHshore.

"You ask me, think very excellent
quick cure"
Sum Fat tenderly adjusted the can.
vas brace, and then with infinite care
| inserted the foot in a high-cut canvas
tennis shoe.
He stood up, beaming with benevo-
lent interest. "You take it easy one
day or two-no walk much-just loaf
no go see pretty ladies'"
go way, you heathen-go clean
your teeth I" cried Whitaker indig-
nantly.
"-and l think be all well and
sound" concluded Sum Fat.
He waddled away, chuckling. Whit
aker got up, and with the aid of cane
made a number of tentative expert
mentsy in short-distance pedestrianism.
The results were highly satisfactory |;
he felt little or no pain. On the other
hand, he felt the advice to which he
had just listened was sound; it would
be unwise to attempt a neighborly call
within at least another twenty-four
hours.
He resumed his chair on the veranda
and sighed. 1t was late afternoon, and
he was lonely. He inclined to sulks.
The trouble with him was Che began
to realize) that he had lived too long
hermit. For six years he had been
practically isolated and cut off from
the better half of existence; femininity
had formed no factor in his cosmos.
But now, of a sudden, he had been
granted a flash of insight into the true
significance of companionship between
man and a woman who had some
thing in common aside from commu-
nifty in their generation. Not two hours
altogether of such intercourse had
been his. but it had been enough to in
fuse all his consciousness with vague
but irking discomfort.
He had dashed himself into a very re-
spectacle transport of resentful rage
when, CHANGING to lift his eyes from
their absorbed study of the planks
composing the veranda floor, he dis
covered a motor boat at the landing
stage. AT once a smile of childlike
displaced the scowl
The woman made the little vessel
fast and, turning, came swinging up
the gentle slope to the veranda, ease
and strength and joy of living inherent
in every flowing movement.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-11-08

lily. It's a bit of walk to the vil-
lage, but that will only help to quiet
him down. FIJI be back tomorrow ;
meanwhile. you'n be able to sleep
|soundly unless"
He checked, frowning thoughtfuliy.
"Unless whatT'
Ember jerked his head to indicate
the prisoner "Of course, this isn't by
any chance the fellow you mixed it up
with over on the beach-and so FORTH"
Nothing like him."
queer. l can't find any trace OF
him-the OTHER one-nor can l account
for him. He doesn't seem TO fit in any.
where. However" - his expression
lightened-"I daresay you were right;
he's probably only some idle, light
fingered prowler. I'd keep my eyes
open for him, but / don't really believe
you need worry much.
Within ten minutes he was off on his
lonely tramp through two miles of
woodland and as many more Of little
travelled country, at dead of night, with
a mailman in handouts for sole COM
pany.