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The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
LOOKS OVER STATE
HIGHWAY WORK

A. L. Kahl, Office engineer in
the state highway engineers Of
flee, has returned to Boise from
a two weeks trip through the
northern part of the state. At
Coeur d'Alene, Lewiston and
Grangeville he visited the road
camps and inspected the work
which the state is doing on the
roads.
Lewiston, he states, is the
scene of the most expensive road
work in the state, a stretch of ten
miles costing 100000. This is
due to the grade which it is neces-
sary to establish in climbing the
hills leading out of the Lewiston
valley. The road climbs 1000
feet in seven miles, and was for
merly almost impassable for au-
tOmObiles. It is on the north
and south state highway and leads
from Lewiston north to Spokane,
so that its construction is one of
Importance. A steam shovel is
employed in making the cuts. It
was started at the bottom of the
hill and is cutting its way up.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05

and to report within SIX or nine
months.
The measure was not entirely
satisfactory To the senate but it
was the general feeling that il
was the only one that could be
passed i'm time to prevent the
strike, which would have cost the
country millions of dollars.
With the two parties to the
controversy i'm a deadlock and
neither willing to surrender con-
tested points the eight hour law
was the only possible way of
aVerting strike and the action
of President Wilson in urging
IFS passage will be commended
and approved by the general pub
lie.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
Much Interest
In School Election
TWO FULL TICKETS IN THE FIELD
Names Of Several Others Are Being Urged. Ii
teFeSt Good FOR Schools

The annual school election Oc-
ours tomorrow, Tuesday. The
election will be held at the fire
station west of the court house
and the polls will be open from
1 p. m. to p. m. There are
two members of the board to be
elected in the place Of o. E.
HALEY and E. M. Davis, whose
terms expire.
Considerable interest in the
matter has been manifested in
the past few days and there has
been a good deal of discussion
in regard to candidates. The
names of a number of persons
have been mentioned in connec-
ton with the Offices to be filed
and this discussion has seeming
ly crystalized into two tickets.
A. P. Bunt and Mrs. c.. H. Greg
cry being the names on one and
f.. M. Davis and Frank Trummel
composing the other. The two
latter were the first in the field
but the other ticket also has its
friends who are working hard for
it.
In addition to these two tickets
there are several others who
have been mentioned for these
vacant positions. Among them
are w. V. Caswell, Roy John
son, e. A. holland and G. w. Jar
min, any one of whom would
make a good member of the
board.
The interest which is being
manifested in the election speaks
we'll for the community. 1t
shows that the people are in
terested in the schools and the
manner in which they are being
conducted. This interest, il
continued after the election, can
not help but result in good as
nothing tends more to the bene-
at of any school than a lively in
terest in it by the patrons and a
hearty cooperation between the
patrons, the school board and the
! teachers.
One trouble which the teach
ers have had to contend with iT
the past has been a lack Of CO.
Operation between the patron:
and the schools. The patrons
have been prone TO criticize
without taking enough interes
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
Another Reduction
In State Taxes
$I25,OOO.OO LESS FOR THIS YEAR
The General Tax Levy Is The Lowest For Years
Railroads Get Five Per Cent Reduction

not made by the sheriff's office,
and the large number of burg
laries and holdups during the
same tima with only one arrest,
is a record that speaks for it.
self.
In a personal communication
to the Gazette Mr.. Leaf tries to
disprOve the charge of ineflicien-
icy by calling attention to those
persons who have plead guilty to
the charge of bOotlegging, try
ing to draw the inference that he
had been active in enforcing the
liquor law.
With the large amount of boot
Logging being carried on here
Iall of the time it is not to be
wondered that the sheriff's force
sometimes blunders into a man
with the goods on him so there
is no possibility Of escaping a
conviction but it is difficult to
see how there could be much
more bootlegging than there is
at present unless the open sale
of liquor was permitted.
Neither has Mr.. Leaf disproved
the charges Of extravaganza in
conducting the office. The six
thousand dollars for a little over
year which it has cost the tax
payers TO maintain the sheriff $
Office during Mr.. Leafs incum-
bencey has done the county prac-
tically no good, so far as the
Suppression of crime is concerned.
This is a democratic year
President Wilson is certain to be
reelected and the democratic
ticket will be successful in this
county unless the party delib-
erately throws away its chances
by nominating men unworthy of
the confidence and support of
the people. The democratic
Iaity can not afford to throw
away ltS brilliant prospects by
nominating a man of Leafs rec
ord, thereby endorsing that rec
ord.
We do not believe the demo-
cratic voters of this county are
willing to be placed in that posi-
ticn, but because ther aIc only q
few contests on the democratic
ticket some Of them may ALLOW
themselves to be persuaded tC
vote a republican ticket at tho
primaries in order to assist some
republican friend to secure q
nomination. Vote your OWL
ticket at the primaries tomorrow
and assisting in nominating mer
whom you can support at the
general election.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
DEMOCRATS, VOTE
YOUR OWN TICKET

Fhis is our last opportunity to
appeal to the democratic voters
OF the county to turn out to
the primariess and vote against
the nomination of C. w. Leaf for
sheriff.
From his own admissions he
is not flt person to hold that
once. He has admitted openly
that he has been collecting 75c
per day from the county for the
board OF each prisoner in the
county jail while only paying 20
cents per meal and in many cases
only giving them two meals a
day.
Neither mas he disproved the
charge Of ineflciency in the con-
duct of the ONCE. Four muir
ders committed in the past ten
month, only one arrest made
in connection with them, and that
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
BOX FACTORY
CHANGES HANDS

E. l.. Clark has bought the en-
tire property of the Modern Box
Factory company in this city and
new corporation is being or
ganized to take it over. The
name Of the new corporation is
the st. Maries Modern Box Fac
tory company. The capital
stock is twenty-five thousand
dollars, all paid in, and the
shares are practically all owned
by E. L. Clark.
The board Of directors of the
new company will be E. L. Clark,
Fulton Cook and Charles R,
Schultz and Mr.. Clark will be
president and general manager
of the coAhpany.
A great many improvements
have been made to the plant since
Mr.. Clark took it over. The
buildings have been enlarged
new machinery has been in
stalled and a dock is being bull
along the entire water front
With the necessary capital e
conduct it, the factory, unde
its present management, will
soon become one of the princi
pal industrial units Of the city
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
MAY REGISTER
AT PRIMARIES

The fact that a voter is not
registered for the coming pri-
mary election does not disfran-
chise him. for provision is made
IN the election laws by which he
may register on primary election
day before any Judge of election
in the precinct in which he votes.
This is an important fact that
electors desiring TO participate
I'M the primaries should remem-
ber. IL is also not mandatory
for voter to cast second
choice vote, the law leaving that
issue optional with him.
Regarding registration on ell
ection day which applies TO both
the primary and general election
the law says:
ANY elector may be registered
i'm the county i'm which he resides
ON the day of election, before any
judge of election i'm the precinct
in which he is qualified to vote, in
the same manner as before one
ol ihe glstratlOn officers
but such applicant must be iden-
tilted and vouched for by some
freeholder i'm such precinct who
shall take and subscribe an oath
i'm substantially the following
form:
"State of Idaho, county of.-ss.
81 the undersigned. being first
duly sworn on oath, depose and
says: that 1 am a freeholder and
registered voter of - precinct
county of --, state of Idaho:
that l am personally acquainted
with (Here insert the name of
applicanD that ne possesses the
qualifications prescribed i'm sec
tion 357 of the revised codes Of
Idaho, and acts amendatOry
thereof.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
Objections Raised
To Vacating Street
WILL ASK COUNCIL TO RECONSIDER
Vacation Was Mace At Request Of Railroad Com
paEy. Private Owners Did Not Know

AT the last meeting of the city
council an ordinance was passed
vacating the south fifty feet of
Spokane avenue for a distance of
several blocks. The action was
taken at the request of the Mil
waukee railroad company for the
purpose of allowing the company
To extend its yards and build adj
ditioual side tracks.
The avenue runs along the
north side of the company's right
of way and parallel to it and was
originally eighty feet wide. The
vacating of the south fifty feet
of it leaves the avenue only
thirty feet wide. The lots ON
the opposite side of the street
from the railroad are all owned
by private individuals, many of
whom are non-residents. who
purchased the property at the
time the lots i'm the Government
.Townsite were offered for sale
by the United states. These
property owners are now putting
i'm vigorous protest against the
IVacaling of that portion of the
street and are asking the coun-
ell to rescind its action.
The action of the council was
taken i'm the usual manner. A
notice of the application was
published i'm the official city
paper and copies of it were post
ed and no protests were filed
within the time required by law
and the ordinance was passed
unanimously under suspension
of the rules.
The property owners both non
residents and residents are now
claiming that they knew nothing
lof the action of the council or
that any such action was con-
templated on notice given. At
least three of the principal resi-
dent property owners ON this
street claim to have been out Of
the city during the time the ac-
tion was pending.
The property owners claim
that by vacating fifty feet of the
street only am alley is left i'm
front of their lots not wide
enough for a team to turn around
and that this and the building
of side tracks in front of and so
close to their property will COM
pletely destroy its value. They
state that neither the city nor
the property owners received
any compensation for the prop
erty and object to Che railroad re-
ceiving il as a present. They
state that they intend TO appear
before the council at the meeting
Wednesday evening and ask that
the ordinance vacating the street
be repealed.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05

to visit the school and familiar
ize themselves with the work
being done and the results be-
ing accomplished. If the in
terest now being manifested is
continued throughout the year
and is shown by the patrons
making frequent visits to the
schools the results will be shown
in the schools being placed in a
still higher plane.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
WILL EXHIBIT AT
INTERSTATE FAIR

The Farmers Union local has
prepared am exhibit for the Spo-
kane Interstate Fair which opens
today. The exhibit comprises
everything grown i'm this vicinity
available at this time and con-
sists of fruit, vegetables, timothy
and clover grasses and grains.
The exhibits were sent TO
Spokane yeterday and were in
charge of Mr.. and Mrs. j. II.
Watson. Mrs. p. b. Shafer and
j. W. Cyphers, who left on the
noon boat and will remain to
look after the exhibit. Geo.
Patterson and Mrs. IT. Saxon will
go TO Spokane later in the week
to assist them.
The ladies' are especially in
terested i'm some very fine cx-
hibits of fancy work which are
part of the Union exhibit, also i'm
some canned fruit put up by the
ladies of the Union. The Union
has been very courteously treat
ed by the fair management and
has been assigned ample space
i'm which TO arrange the exhibits
in order go show them TO the best
advantage.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05

uo SldLe UOdI0 Ol 6QudllLd-
ton has definitely fixed the gen.
eral and special tax levies for
1916 as follows: General levy
to meet state expenses, 1865, 900;
general interest and sinking fund
$4,000; public building fund
and endowment fund, $4,000.
These levies represent a total
reduction from the levies of 1915
OF Si25,OO0. The 1915 gener-
al levy was 100000. AS the
1916 levy just made by the board
is but S565,0OO there is a reduc-
tion in this levy alone of Si35,-
600 TO meet state expenses. The
general interest and sinking fund
levy in 1915 was $4,000 and
this year the board raised it S5,-
600. The 1915 public building
and endowment fund levy was
$4,000 and this year the board
increased it $4,000 making the
total levy $4,000. The mill
levy is still to be worked out by
the state auditors department.
The auditors department is
now busily engaged in working
out the mill levy after which the
apportionment by counties will
be made showing the division Of
the equalization as between them
and establishing the valuations
OF electric transmission lines,
common carriers, private car
lines. public utilities; the re-
ductions or increases for the
various other classihcations Of
property, Of timber, agricultural
dry and waste lands and of stock.
The state board OF equaliza-
ton stands ADJOURNED sine die.
1t completed its work in a short
er period this year than it has for
some years passed. While it is
generally conceded that some
classes of property are valued
too high and some are too low,
members Of the board believe
that they equalized between them
as fairly as was possible under
the circumstances
The general tax levy is the
lowest for years. Some doubt
was expressed by members as to
whether the state expenses could
be met within the general levy as
made but others believe that they
can and easily.
In order, it is explained that
railroads may be placed on the
same basis Of valuation as farm
lands and city property or 60
per cent, in northern Idaho, the
board agreed on five per cent re-
ductions for the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads.
The Great Northern valuation
last year was S5,349,O3O, the
Northern Pacific Si2,23O,28O and
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul, S7,295,O34 for that portion
OF their systems in the state OF
Idaho.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05
RAILROAD STRIKE
CALLED OFF

The nationwide railroad strike
which was called TO take place at
seven O'Clock Monday morning
was called off at late hour Sat
urday night. This result was
accomplished by the passage of
the eight hour day bill by con-
gress.
The bill passed The house by a
large majority, only 56, and
those republicans. voting against
it. The opposition i'm the sem
ate was stronger and 10 passed
That body by practically a strict
party vote, only one republican,
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin.
voting for it. The measure was
signed by President WilsQtr7 at
seven O'Clock Sunday mo&ng on
his return to WashingtonHs
The bill provides ihat eight
hours shall be considered~a days
work for men employed i'm in
terstate commerce with the ex-
ception of those on lines less
than one hundred miles long. 1t
also provides for a commission
tc investigate the wage question.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-09-05

Geo. e. Crum of Lewiston, one
OF the four candidates for the
republican nomination for gov
ernor, was in the city Saturday.
He is very enthusiastic over his
chances and feels sure that he
will receive the nomination. He
has made at borough canvass of
the entire state, visiting some of
the sections more than once, and
says there is a strong feeling
even in the southern part of the
state that the north is entitled
to the governor and he has been
given strong assurances of sup
port from thai section.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-15

1 ruthless and pitiless but as purpose ful as the machine that does these things That machine achieved it's position only by reason of it's fit ness for the work; all unnecessary parts were eliminated; not an extra crank, a superflous eccentric, an unnecessary pinion or cog is tolerat- ed. No superfiuous and unneces- sary motions under the most search ing test of the mechanical devisers who constructed it are tolerated. It has work to do and that work it is constructed to do in the briefest time possible with efficiency.
 And they have been subjected to the same fearful test. No stock was taken of their human desire their human needs. Their little hopes, their little ambitions, their ay-dreams of love and fear and joy are eliminated as useless and dangerous and unnecessary adjuncts of the efficient steel worker.
 We'll and good: so have they drilled and disciplined him that he insists upon serving upon them the same iron drill and discipline that the machine serves upon his mind and body. The class that is useless and needless and wasteful, must dis cover some justification before him The necessity of production for profits, under the remorseless ethi- cal theory of modern industry which is mechanical, must prove itself. If steel is needed as social necessity why should profit in the production of sccia: necessity be also need II? l If set of humanity requires what labor makes, why should some en- joy who do not labor? What use are the leisured classes and their systems of imposition upon society? Their schemes to maintain parasit- ism and the elaborate machinery that they have built up for its main tenance-wherein is the utility that can alone justify the existence of such?
 Inevitably, steadily as fate itself
 man, the creature of environment ir turn also is the creator of his enviror ment. A God only creates like Coda machine is essentially utili utilitarian in its concept of creation
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-15

The British Columbia Federation ist says that the workers have no- thing to gain from illiteracy. That's true and that's self-evident. But ability to read and write is of very little benefit if it only enables per son to sign his name or read without understanding. Reading and writing are vitally necessary but as a means to an end. They arc not the end in themselves, and as between worker who is clear cut in his views on the class strug gle and understands his position in the economic field as one who is exploited, although he may not be able to read and write, he is immen- seiy educationally in advance of his fellow worker who cen read and write in different languages; can quote authors by the score and yet does not understand his economic position and the truth of the slo- gan that "an injury to one worker is an injury to all".
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-15

lup. Tn the inevitable disorganiza- tion that follows the irregulariIy Perfection was too much to be ex- pected; sometimes the machine under the gruelling process Of al tomatic speeding up, the. unhealthy work required of an exceedingly de- licate living adjustment &o un- wholesome surroundings Breaks down, and has to be replaced. These things are inevitable; but the same gigantic system of production goes on with the automatic insistency Of a collosal Frankenstein, that docile is an object of intense admiration as Ia human achievement, but other wise a terror to those who hayc chained a living entity in an ulti- mately impossible condition ot ex- istence.
 For all this time, these industrial machines are living beings. They appear dumb, driven thoughtless cattle, fit subjects of contempt to the thoughtlcss. But all the time they are thinking thoughts; slow thoughts, immeasurable thoughts. human thoughts; dynamic, revolting, dangerous. Their masters have taken care that as far as possible no stimulation shall be given their minds. Labor organizers arc barred. They are carefully watched and even spicd upon lest any such en- ter into the careful industrial orga- nization that seems to shout with every whir of machinery the dull lesson of labor body end soul for profits.
 The managers are shrewd men and judicious. They believe they have taken careful reckoning of their course. The labor they employ l is as free from insubordination as the elemental slave.
 But just as the Sage Foundation report intimates by slow degree they are pushing upward steadily, ins > vitably as fate itself, so also would it be well to heed that as they rise they are taking with them the re- suits of their machine environment: the cold blooded inevitability of the logic of cause and effect. the ir- restible judgment of necessity as the only justification for conditions; the elimination of the unnecessary, the
 wasteful, the unproductive; these are the mental attributes with which the experience of the ma chine-man is filled. He is made a machine; he is adjusted to his en'
 vironment as such; his mentality is
 ordered as such; and he judge;
 everything in his experience as he
 would judge the machine. Utility ir
 society, its necessity to human needs
 is the only thing that will justify the existence of men and conditions
 of men. It's as ruthless and as pitt
 less as the steel that is bored and bent and rolled and shaped; as
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-15

No one expects consistency from any of the partizans of the various nations in this war. Thus there is nothing surprising in denouncing the Americanism which subscribes for the Allies loan, and advertising the German loan, urging subscrip- tion thereto as good Amer.canism The trouble is in both cases they have identified AmericaniSm, witl or without hyphen, with capital ism.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-15

Youngstown with it's strike has served to direct attention to con- ditions which prevail generally in the United States steel industry. Wages paid are not high but they arc paid to European workes who never earned near that amout be- fore.
 The Russell Sage Foundations re- port on the steel industry says of tho employees:
 Mentally they rank low. Educa- fion or training they have none. But morally they can hardly be cal led undesirable. They prove sub miSsive, dependable, willing work. CTS who never dream of questioning the desirability or dignity of the task assigned them, and who are rendered oblivious to danger by their ignorance.
 |.
 ITO the English speaking people these men with unpronounceable names are just Hunkies-dull driv- en brutes, so utterly beneath con- tempt that competition with them is out of the question. Wherever the natives or northern European workers find conditions too hard or wages too low, the Hunkic3 apply eagerly for work. Everywhere they have been keept at the bottom so fal. The worst jobs and only these arc , for them :. .. . .. But steadily they are pushing upward--steadily, inevitably as fate itself''.
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 ''It has been figured out that for every hundred workers employed in the steel industry sixty make less than two. dollars day of twelve hours and only two make as high as five dollars"
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 ''The main thing asked of the worker is speed. Or may be one ought to say speed without waste. TO the achievement of this every thing is adapted but above all the wage schedules. The fundamental idea is to get more out of man by paying him less. It's fundamental rule is that if the man drives the machine, he is paid by the piece. If the machine drives him, he is paid by time. A trick constantly resorted to is to urge the workers into exceeding their previous capa- city for the purpose of earning more", and thon to ad, pt the wage rate to the new record in order that they may work still harder to re- tain their old earnings. This has proved one of the most effective means of increasing the output.
 Thus are conditions in the steel industry. It would be hard to ima- zine more explosive material in the industrial situation. Treated with