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The mirror., 1916-11-09
Work, Work, Work!
j. T. Far;s, IN Reformatory Record

j. L. Fdr,s, an RefOTmdt0ry RECORD
When young man asked Abra-
ham Lincoln how to become a
lawyer, he was told to read and
study law books, and a list of
these were given him. But the
most characteristic and valuable
part of his advice was in seven
words: Work, work, work! is
the main thing" Lincoln had had
occasion to give this same advice
many years before when his STEP
brother. John Johnnois, pleaded
for a small loan, that he might
leave Illinois and failure behind
him and move to Missouri, in the
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a fatalist's acceptance of whatever
comes, and murmur piusly, This
is the will of Heaven, and my
head is bowed:" 1t never yet was
Heavens will that man should
make no effort for himself. The
world came finished" from the
magnificent design of the Creator,
leaving it to a man to find out ev-
cry one of the secrets hidden in
the earth; he was commanded not
to sit in the shade and speculate,
but to dig, and the honest word
Sweat was used, which polite
society has today discarded.
There is no remedy, for any
kind of megrims, superior to
work. 1t is impossible for any
mortal to be ''out of work. He
may not be provided with task
that pays him as much as he
thinks he deserves. But there is
work of some kind, somewhere,
anxious to meet him if he will go
out and look for it. Even the
idle rich need not despair of find
ing employment. Their manual
or mental labor has market
price. Their trouble has always
been that they have had too much
leisure to worry. They are always
falling apart or breaking out in
new place changing doctors,
changing climates, but unable to
escape themselves. They have in
vented so many troubles that do
not exist, and surrounded their
lives with perplexities and compli.
cations that have no life outside
their minds. A sentence to hard
labor, in a fixed place. would do
them a world of good. THE men,
ace of the years. would not loom
so formidably.
The poor man is fortunate in
the fact that he must work to live.
He must produce, not brood. The
problem of unemployment, in a
period of industrial depression, is
appalling. But mankind is big
ger than that problem. The world
is partially miserable, but on the
whole it thrives. 1t grows con-
tinually wiser and better and hap
pier by the combined efforts of all
of us who, in the living present,
keep on trying and refuse to give
up the fight.
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N A RECENT issue 0


the use of a barometer.
lMA The question was an
|V wered in an issue of a
- later date, but owing to
lack of space, was necessarily
brief. In this article the subject
will be more fully explained.
The barometer is an instrument
for measuring the pressure of the
atmosphere. and is of great service
to the mariner in affording a
knowledge of existing meteoro-
logical conditions and of the
probable changes therein. There
are two classes of barometers -mer-
curial and aneroid.
These classes will be dealt with
in the order named. The mer-
curial barometer was invented by
Torricelli in 1643, and indicates
the pressure of the atmosphere by
the height of a column of mercury.
If a glass tube of uniform inter-
nal diameter and somewhat more
than thirty inches in length, be
closed at one end and completely
filled with pure mercury, and then
placed, open end down, in a cup
of mercury (the open end having
been temporarily sealed to retain
the mercury during the process of
inverting), it will be found that
the mercury in the tube will fall
until the top of the column will be
about 80 inches above the level of
that which is in the cup, leaving in
the upper part of the tube a
vacuum. Since the weight of the
column of mercury thus left stand
ing in the tube is equal to the
pressure by which it is held in
position-namely, that of the at
mospheric ART follows that the
height of the column is subject to
variation, upon variation of at
mospheric pressure; hence. the
mercury falls as the atmospheric
pressure decreases, and rises as the
pressure increases. The mean
pressure of the atmosphere is
equal to nearly Is pounds to the
square inch; the mean height of
the barometer is about 80 inches.
In the practical construction of
the barometer the glass tube in
which is contained the mercury is
incased in a brass tube, the latter
terminating at the top in ring
which is used for suspension, and
at the bottom is a flange, to which
the several parts forming the cis-
tern are attached. The upper part
of the brass tube is partially cut
away to expose the mercurial COL
umn for observation; abreast this
opening is fitted a scale for meas
uring the height, and along the
scale travels a vernier for exact
reading. The motion of the ver-
nier is controlled by a rack and
pinion, the latter having a milled
head accessible to the observer, by
which the adjustment is made. In
the middle of the brass tube is
fixed a thermometer, the bulb of
which is covered from the outside
but open toward the mercury, and
which being nearly in contact with
the glass tube, indicates the tenn
perature of the mercury and not
that of the external air. The CEN
trail position OF the column Is
selected in order that the mean
temperature may be obtained. This
is a matter of Importance, as the
temperature of the mercurial
column must be taken into account
in every accurate application of its
reading.
Mercurial barometers are divid-
ed into two classes, according to
how they are to be used. They
are, Standards, for shore use, and
Sea-barometers, for use on ship
board.
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|
- next. Another mans life
finds itself at the dark end of a
blind alley, and no way out is ap-
parent. 1t is easy for the first
to preach and prescribe to the Sec
ond. 1t is bitterly hard to work
out ones own salvation with the
future involved in thick fog that
ioes not lift for patient waiting.
If there is one Of us who can see
a year-or a month-ahead, he is
the fortunate exception. We &C.
renely plan, and then comes the
deluge of the unexpected. The
figures carefully set down in our
account with life are besmeared by
Fate till we cannot decipher them.
or brutally erased. After long
and painful addition we must be-
gin again at the foot of the COL
umn. All our laboriously con-
structed timetables are revised
without notice. We pinned our
firm faith on the cooperation of
others, and they have departed up
on a battling tangent without ad.
vising us. Their altered scheme
ignores a promise made, on whose
terms we long had lived in hope.
They do not seem to care to know
whether we shall find mo thor
oughfare' blazoned across our
path. We are thrown back on the
old necessity of reliance on our
selves, when there is least help
forthcoming from that quarter.
1t always seems that the burdens
are imposed just when we are least
able to cope with them. 1t is the
man who is PROSTATE who is ham,
mered. 1t is the "down-and-out'
who finds an abysmal level, to
which unexpected trapdoors admit
him when he thinks he is as low as
he can go. why should this
have happened to me?" we ask.
why am / singled out for the
fails of punishment! Have l not
done my best to keep faith with
the children Of the light whom l
have known? Have l not been
consistent? l have refrained from
disappearing. even though my soul
was among the potsherds. l have
believed against belief, and hoped
when there was no hope. Am I. in
mid-career, to find that life might
just as we'll end here for me, for
all the good that l can do?"
1t would surprise US could we
know how many others share the
exact degree of the despondency
we feel, though it may never have
gone on spoken or written record.
None purchases exemption, none
hires substitute, for the contin.
ual battles of this life. The only
question is, what kind of fight
will you make or will you be a |
rank deserter? There must be
some good reason for putting US
here in out-places upon earth. We
assuredly are not particles eddy
ing about in blind uncertainty"
We did not lay the ground plan of
the universe ourselves, even if
each man is the architect of his |
own fortune. In leaving the uni
verse to God, are we leaving it to
Chance9
We cannot lift the veil that lies
over all that is to come. We can
only listen for a voice of guild.
ance when we have humbly asked
for it, and follow it a days Jour-
ney and pitch our moving tent till
the next sun rises. Beyond the
horizon even Ulysses or Columbus
cannot peer, despite the spiritual
exaltation that rebukes the whim-
pering lesser breed of mariners.
Is man then to fold his hands in
The mirror., 1916-11-09
In the Standard barometer tn,

as to enable an observer to read
the height of the mercurial column
to the nearest two-thousandth of
an inch, while in the Sea barometer
the reading cannot be made closer
than one-hundredth of an inch.
There is also difference in the
method used to obtain the true
height of the mercurial column in
the two instruments. 1t is evident
that as the mercury in the tube
rises, ON increase of atmospheric
pressure, the mercury in the cis-
tern must fall; and, conversely,
when the mercurial column fails,
the amount of mercury in the
cistern will be increased, and rise
of level occur.
AS the height of the mercurial
column is required above the exist.
ing level in the cistern, some
means must be adopted to obtain
the true height under varying
conditions.
In the Standard barometer the
mercury of the cistern is contained
in leather bag, against the bot
tom of which presses the point of
a vertical screw, the milled head
of the screw projecting from the
bottom of the instrument and thus
placing it under control of the OBJ
server. BY this means the sur
face of the mercury in the cistern
may be raised or lowered until it
exactly comedies with that level
which is chosen as the zero of the
scale, and which is indicated by an
ivory pointer in plain view.
In the Sea barometer there is no
provision for adjusting the level of
the cistern to a fixed point, but
compensation for the variable
level is made in the scale gradua-
tions, a division representing an
inch on the scale is a certain frac-
ton short of the true inch, proper
allowance being thus made for the
rise in level which occurs with
fall of the column, and for the
reverse condition.
Further modification is made in
the Sea barometer to adapt it to
the special use for which it is in
tended. The tube toward it's lower
end is much contracted to prevent
the oscillation of the mercurial
column, known as pumping"
which arises from the motion of
the ship; and Just below this point
is a trap to arrest any small bub-
bles of air finding their way up
ward. The instrument aboard
ship is suspended in a revolving
center ring. in gimbals, supported
on horizontal brass arm which is
screwed to the bulkhead; vertical
position is thus maintained by the
tube at all times.
The Aneroid barometer is an
instrument in which the pressure
of the air is measured by means of
the elasticity Of a plate of metal.
1t consists of a cylindrical brass
box, the metal in the sides being
very thin; the contained air having
been partially, though not COM
pletely. exhausted; the box is her.
metically sealed. When the pres
sure of the atmosphere increases,
the inclosed air is compressed, the
capacity of the box is diminished,
and the two fiat ends approach
each other; when the pressure of
the atmosphere decreases, the ends
recede from one another in conse-
quence of the expansion of the in.
closed air. By means of com.
bination of levers, this motion of
the boX-ends is communicated to
an index pointer which travels
over graduated dial plate, the
mechanical arrangement being
such that the motion of the ends of
the box is magnifed many times,
a very minute movement of the
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We Serenely Plan Though Deuge of the
Unexpected May be at Hand
o@C-@
Philadelphia Ledger

NE mans life seems to
march from strength to
strength, never in doubt,
never in fear, slipping
from the crest of one sue
cess to the crown of the
next. Another mans life
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02
H. N. SKINNER

This Everett firm name is best
known by the title of the optical
jeweler," as the concern combines
the fact that Mr.. Skinner is a gradu-
ate optician and an expert in the la
bors of watch making and engraving.
Headquarters are at 1921 Colby Ave
nue., where any one desiring anything
in the jewelry line or work of an OPP
teal character can secure the best
advantages by extending Mr. Skinner
their patronage.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02
Who Is The
WorkingCIass?
In Which We Offer to Enliuhten 2
Contemporary

Under the caption IAN Opportunity
For Brandeis," the Boston Traveller
runs under the date of January 81.
the following editorial:
1t Is the opinion of Uncle Dudley"
that besides his great legal ability.
Mr. Brandeis would bring to the SUI
preme court an intimate knowledge
OF the problems of the working classes
who form such a large percentage of
our population They have a right to
be represented in this important body
of men"
Very good Uncle Dudley very
good. And perhaps Mr. Brandeis, out
of his store Of knowledge, accumu-
lated by hard work since he was
young man, would be able to write
an opinion that would enlighten
Uncle Dudley" and the rest of us
concerning the exact boundary line
between the well known working
classes" and those who merely work.
We have been longing for that in
formation these many years
We do not intend to break a lance
for Mr.. Brandeise it's none of our
affair to mix into politics that con-
Germs only the capitalist parties, to
which Mr.. Brandeis belongs, as a be-
lever in the present economic sys-
TEN. But the implication of the Tray
eler editorial is a wrong one, gloss
ing over a serious economic error.
What Uncle Dudley meant by the
working classes" The should have
said working-class) is decidedly clear
to a Socalist-at least, what Uncle
Dudley should have meant.
Those who work for a living, who
do not own the tools which they must
use in order to get that living, and
without access to which they would
starve, are members of the working
class. They may be professors who
depend upon teaching-job (the use
of the social tool we call an educa.
tional institution, they may be tail
ors in shop, workers in ditch, but
so long as their work depends upon a
tool that is owned by another, they
are members of the working class.
And those who own that tool, and
extract profit from the workers mere
ly because of that ownership, are, in
solar as they thus profit without toll,
NOT members of the working class,
but of the exploiting class. In addi-
ton to thus profiting from mere own
ership, they may also perform work,
for which they are entitled to reward,
of course. But such people usually
get their views from the class that
gets ALL its income from mere own
ership and no productive labor, and
hence take sides against the workers
when an important issue arises
In the above fragmentary explana-
ton may lie the real answer to the
Travellers boundary line" question.
Exchange.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02
NICK GRAD

All Kinds of
JEWELRY AND SPORTING GOODS
All Kinds of Repairing
1908 Hewitt Ave. Everett Wash.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02

Local Vallejo of the Socialist party
now barely able to hold a charter,
once had two hundred members in
its ranks. Propaganda meetings were
frequently held, and were well at
tended. The city was blocked off by
districts, each district in charge of
a comrade who attended to the distri-
button Of literature and other organi-
cation work therein. The city was
nearly carried by our ticket.
Now all this organization is gone.
The movement, while by no means
killed, for the spirit of freedom can
not be killed, does not manifest itself
in active open organization and edu.
cational work.
The workers of Vallejo are afraid
to say the word "comrade." They
don't know what may result. And
woe be unto a worker in the employ
Of the government when it becomes
known that he is paying dues into
the Socialist party "a political or
ganization." For he who takes active
part in party activity or otherwise
violates the rulings and laws of the
Civil Service Commission is subject
to fine or imprisonment.
Let us nip Gag Rule in the bud
Write your congressman suggesting
an investigation of the civil service
commission, the situation at Mare Is
land in particular Talk to your fel
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02
THE GOOD MAN AND THE VOTERS

Sir E, Lation in the New York Call"
How often have we heard voters
speak of the good man?
AS one comrade has frequently
said: THE woods are full of Them
But in the political sense of the
term there is no such thing as a good
man. A man is as good as the prin-
ciple he expounds or the organiza-
ton he represents.
There was a good man in a Jersey
town, whom l remember, that walked
in society with a pious air and a set
of whiskers cut pork chop" fashion
as is the style among church deacons.
Many times he ran for political office
and the voters said he was a good
man. The newspapers said he was a
good man. His wife said he was a
good man. l thought he was a pretty
decent sort of guy, myself But he
was so saturated with political ma
chine rule that he had no thought
whatever for the working class or
what it represented. He didn't know
there was such an animal, and seemed
bored when told that it was this ami
NAL that placed him in office. And
yet, at that, he left behind him some
mighty good work-for the business
interests.
But so far as the working class was
concerned, this good man was of no
value to them.
Political, his name is legion
And in the newspaper world he has
some contemporaries.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02

we prepay parcel post charges Dry Goods to anv po+ IL
washington, Alaska, Oregon Idaho or Montana 49, "
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02
Oakland Socialists
Fight DeSpOtiSm
EMPLOYEES TREATED
AS NON CITIZENS
AT MARE ISLAND
DESPOTIC DEMOCRACY"

I MARVIN Sanford, Sec'y. Local Oak.
land Socialist Party)
Oakland Socialists are on the lob
in defense Of freedom Of expression
and political liberty. The co-opera.
ton of the Socialist and. labor forces
Of the nation Is asked for.
/ The resolutions which follow were
adopted by Local Oakland after an
+ investigation 10y "The World" the
local Socialist weekly. of conditions
obtaining at the Mare Island Navy
Yard, at Vallejo, A congressional in.
vestigation is suggested by the local
of the civil service commission in
general and the situation at Mare
Island in particular
RESOLUTION
Adopted by Local Oakland. Socialist
Party, Feb. IA. 1850
Whereas, Under a vicious and un.
warranted Interpretation of laws
aimed to penalize bribery and politi.
cal corruption, the u. s. Civil Service
! Commission has succeeded in enforc-
ing number of rules which practi.
cally deny every civil service emplove
under its jurisdiction the right to or.
ganize and use the political power
guaranteed to each individual under
the constitution of the United States;
and
Whereas, Under these rules as in.
terpreted and enforced it is made n
crime for a civil service employee to
serve as an officer or receive dues
in the Socialist party organization
from fellow employe; and
Whereas, The Socialist party is the
only worhng-class political party, and
dependent upon the dues of the wage
workers rather than upon the contri-
buttons of the rich, and the enforce
ment of said rules so operates that
Socialist in the employee of the gov
eminent cannot pay even those dues
required of every member of the or
ganization except under wholly I'M
reasonable restrictions; and
Whereas, The payment of these
dues can in no sane or reasonable
sense be held to constitute a bride:
and
Whereas, This has operated to ere
ate large body of government EN-.
ployes denied these rights and that
strength in organization which are
essential to their protection, and are
further the basis of our democratic
government, and the net result has
been to form in the said U. S. Civil
Service Commission despotism
which is as arbitrary and lacking IN
all justice or right as any institution
in autocratic Russia,
Local Oakland, Socialist party
therefore calls upon the Socialist and
Labor press of America to take up
the fight against these unjust rules
which mean virtual slavery to all en-
ployes under the civil service.
And be it further resolved, that the
secretary Of this organization be in
structed to forward copies of this
resolution to the National Executive
Committee of the Socialist party and
to Meyer London, Socialist party rep.
resentative in congress, together with
request for immediate action.
LOCAL OAKLAND.
Socialist Party
p. B. COWDRY, Chairman.
MARVIN CANE7Opn Doo Cot.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02

Chicago Socialists expect to elect
two more councilmen to office in the
spring Two are already in office
and an elaborate campaign is under
way.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02

low workers about the freedom" os
the government employee. Let him
know the truth. This is a fight that
is our fight Let all the publicity and
power possible be lent to it,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02

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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-03-02
PLEASURE AND ECONOMY

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pleasure is derived from riding ma
chine that takes no dust; that
climbs all hills-the economy Is in
the low up-keep and repairs. If you'll
recall the fact, you seldom see our
machines i'm the shop. There must
be a reason and we ask you to in
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