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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-09-07
What HAPPENED N OLYMPIA AND
STATE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

From The Washington standard for
Friday evening, September o. 1892.
Vol. xxxH. NO. ~.
A. H. Chambers was nominated for
state senator by reclamation at the
Thurston County Democratic conven-
ton last Saturday; D. E. Bailey and
c. c. Case were named for represent
atives; r. N. Allen for superior
Judge; Robert Graham for county
clerk; A. D. Glover for treasurer;
Alex Drysdale for auditor; J. p.
Moore for attorney; E. J. Estep for
assessor; G. s. Prince for sheriff; L.
r. Byrne for school superintendent,
and Theodore Young for surveyor.
The jute mill attachment to our
state penitentiary has SO far proved
to be success. The number Of sacks
made to date has been 10000.
James ]. Corbett defeated John L.
Sullivan in a prizefight at New Or
leans the other day.
| The steamer "City of Aberdeen" Is
now running regularly between Olym-
pia and Seattle.
A very creditable observance of
Labor Day occurred Monday under
the management of the several labor
organizations.
Mrs. Alice Houghton of Spokane,
as Washington's representative of the
board of lady managers of the
Worlds Fair, has Completed her can
vass of the vote for the state flower.
The result is victory for the rhodo-
dendron, which received 7,704 votes
against $40 for clover, 100 for gail
lardia, 227 for holly. "a for margue
! rite and "a for dogwood.
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FROM THE COMMANDER-IN.CH CHIEF.

+ To the Soldiers of the National Army: ::
You are undertaking a great duty. The =
heart of the whole country is with you ::
+ Everything that you do will be watched with =
+ the deepest interest and with the deepest ::
+ solicitude not only by those who are near =
+ and dear to you, but by the whole nation be- :
+ sides. For this great war drives us together, +
+ makes us all comrades and brothers. as all :
+ true Americans felt themselves to be when we +
= first made good our national independence. =
+ The eyes Of the world will be upon you, be- i
= cause you are in some special sense the sol :
+ diers of freedom. Let it be your pride, there =
+ fore, to show all men everywhere not only :
+ what good soldiers you are, but also what =
+ good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and :
= straight in everything, and pure and clean =
+ through and through. Let set for our =
+ selves standard so high that it will be :
glory to live up to it and then let us live up to
+ it and add new laurel to the crown of =
+ America. My affectionate confidence goes =
: with you in every battle and every test. God :
: keep and guide you.
= WOODROW WILSON. !
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-09-07
WATCH THE COUNTY BUDGET.

The county commissioners will begin consider
alton Monday of the budget for county expenses
next year, which will determine the amount of
local taxes you will have to pay. Consequently
now is the time to put in your "holler" for lower
taxes, if you are going to make any "holler," and
not next spring, for what the commissioners de-
eide now will settle it.
The probabilities are, furthermore, looking at it
from the constructive standpoint, that if you are
really in earnest about it and are through with
the age-old methods of log-rolling and the county
''pork barrel,' you give the commissioners
some wholesome and needed assistance in cutting
down that budget That is, you can tell them
frankly what expenditures they can cut off with
out 'holler" from you or somebody else
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-09-07

framed by III, majority of the members and if
You don like them YOU get out and il YOU don
abide by them You are elected.
That's the kind Of treatment that ought to he
melted out 70 ". II. Kaufman. This is the best
government on earth. the one most responsive to
the will OF the people" as William Jennings
Bryan says in the current issue of the Commoner
''but 1t is government of the people not of one
or Of few men,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-09-07
GIVE KAUFMAN WHAT'S COMING.

The revulsion of feeling which has swept the
city over the seditious features of the Labor Day
address delivered here last Monday must have
left its impress upon the union men Of the city,
must have shown them that the people of this
community, as we believe the people Of every COM
munity in these United States, are in no mood
ment, its war plans, policies and aims, such as
were then made
What connection they had with Labor Day
celebration, upon what pretense they were foisted
upon the local public we cannot understand, for
not an organized labor leader of the country from
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON. down to Charles Perry Taylor, secretary
Of the State Federation delivered himself Of such
utterances SO far as the various news agencies
have reported Rather was the burden of their
talks promotive Of the fullest support Of the gov
eminent, Mr.. Gompers enunciating these in his
Labor Day message when he urged union
everywhere: Maintain clear vision stand true
and loyal that before another Labor Day shall
come desirable, a permanent peace, shall have
been established, founded upon highest concepts,
justice, freedom and humanity" sentiment he
reiterated even more strongly in an address at
Erie, Pennsylvania, Labor Day, when he declared
that persons not ready and willing to do all in
their power to help the United States during the
war crisis are not entitled to the protection of the
republic.
The worst feature Of it all is, of course, that
through inactivity and inattention to arrange
ments on their part, union generally put
in the position of being sponsors for such TRADE
when only one or two are actually responsible.
Their duty the only recourse they have, to put
themselves right with the local public is to
pudate the reasonable features Of that address,
and it ism too late yet to do that though it should
have been done last Monday.
Mr. Kaufman's remarks anent the single tax
doctrine, of which he has long been a radical ex-
ponent, and his advocacy of high profits
tax need not be questioned now, for they aside
from the point; but his absolutely baseless
ton that ''munition manufacturers bunkoed this
country into the war; and his further seditious
declaration that Liberty Bonds are disgrace to
America" provoke the wrath Of any redblooded
American, demand reputation and denunciation,
and merit the scorn they provoked.
He is reported to have said after his address
that he expected to be arrested. Certainly he
ought to be- No man with such perverted ideas as
of the American republic, and that fact ought to
be impressed upon him Immediately For, after
all, being citizen Of this nation is just like join
ing lodge church or a club a labor union.
When you do that you agree to abide by certain
rules and regulations constitution and bylaws
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-09-07

The public should not be deceived by the
small mischief making minority of radical Social
lists among the unions, whose dsloya conduct is
creating discomfort among the rank and file''
labor leader in Seattle said the other day That
may all be true, but if the loyal majority of Amer
leans among the unions don't get busy pretty soon
and take charge of affairs, the American public is
going to be disguised with the whole union move
ment.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
NAVAL ORDERS.

Lieut. Junior grade) H. K. Lewis. detached WORKS
Midyale Steel Company; to navy yard Washington,
D. C.
MARINE CORPS ORDERS.
Col. T. c. Treadwell. detached Marine Corps TO
command marine larracks Port Royal, s. c.
First Lieut.. A A. Cunningham. to temporary
duty with Commission Navy Yards and Naval
Stations. Navy Department. Washington.
Second Lieut. Dewitt Peck, detached duty Hay
tisn Constabulary; to duty First Province Brigade.
Hsyu.
Second Lieut. n O. Bates. admitted Naval Hos
pital, New York n. Y.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
Celtic arrived at Guantanamo January GS; COIum
bia sailed for Pensacola. January &c; Dolphin
rived a. Washington. January g. Hancock sailed
for Monte Crist January 26; 0'Brien sailed to sea.
January 2 Nashville arrived at Vera Cruz, January
Is; Ontario sailed for Guantanamo, January . {;
Rowan arrived at Pensacola. January 8; San Diego
arrived at Tiburon, January 8; Sterett sailed for
Visksburg January 2s; Tallahassee sailed for Pen
sacola January d; Worden sailed for New London,
January a; Yankton sailed for Santiago. January S
The Cheyenne has been made temporary flagship
Of the coast torpedo force. Pacific Fleet.
The active feet has sailed from Port su Prince
for Guantanamo.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
Military Propaganda.

If there was any lingering doubt
that the forces of pacihsm and mill
tarism soon would reach a crisis in
their struggle to control the policy
of the administration, that doubt
ought now to be dispelled. One side
or the other must soon be quelled
unless the nation is to be tormented
with a superfluity of counsel which
will lead to distrust and then to
disaster.
Since the new preparedness pro-
gram was accepted by the President,
the militariSts have been expanding
their campaign until they now de-
mand full-fedged compulsory mill
tary training. The army is for it to
a man. 1t is openly engaged in pro-
paganda for the idea, which has won
some weighty support in Congress
and evoked a popular response from
the seaboard States.
The President has not been won
to the universal training program
and there is no indication that he will
be. There is excellent ground, on
the other hand, for believing he will
not be, his friends say. That he be-
lieves in a greater navy is evident.
That he thinks the United States
must contribute its due share of
naval power to the maintenance Of
that community of power" which he
spoke of in his Senate address, is a
logical deduction from the compre-
hensivc manner in which he has
adopted the formula of the League to
Enforce Peace.
He has swung the pacifsts to his
support, and to this extent they have
"the inner track" at the White House
at present. 1t so happens that the
champions of universal training are,
in the main, politically antagonistic
to him; to this extent, therefore, their
cause is prejudiced. But they are
always active, the European war is a
tremendous asset to them, and they
have powerful roots in the Demo-
cratic as we'll as the Republican
party. Should America be drawn
into the maelstrom of the war by the
Won Tirpitz extremists they would
have the whip hand.
1t is much too early to say what
the reaction of the American people
will be to the compulsory service
proselytism. Some authorities think
it Prussianism and the inspiration of
a military caste system; others think
it an essential embodiment of democ-
racy. In another twelve months the
seed will have borne fruit, and the
fight will be over.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28

pleading peace the mailed shoulder Of
eyer-aSgressive monarchy.
Watch the contortions Of the anointed
dynasties.
raise their astonsshed gaze from their
murdered fellows and see with eager hope
the new light majestic liberty has flashed
upon them-truiy a newborn light from
the heavens above7
Liberty enlightening the world.
Americas President inviting the world
This day commences a new epoch in the
history OF the United States.
Today President Wilson stands as the
grandest Illuminating figure on toe
worlds stage. w O. PURAAN.
Jan. q 1917. Ex-member of Congress-
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28

The Presidents speech calls for no
formal action by the Senate, for he mere
ly said personally to that body what he
had several days before written, without
its advice, to the governments of the
world. 1t calls, however, for the frank
est comment by the press and the pup
lie of the nation. to the end that the con-
hict between the ambition of its Presl-
dent and the aspiration of its people may
be well known and quickly to the whole
world. At the outset of the war Ameri-
cans balked at the bonds of a moral
neutrality, and surely they can be count
ed upon to be equally wary Of the bond
age of the "meddling'' neutrality to
which the President is now trying to
commit them. In the consideration of
this matter let us not confuse goodwill
with good sense--Boston Evening Tran
script
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
DEFENDS SUFFRAGE.
Morris GreenberE Answer, Critic of
Votes" Movement.

Editor The Washington Herald: I
could not resist answering the oues-
tiOnable letter OF last Sunday signed
Mary Bingham Smith"
After reading such letters. which
show nothing but bigoted views OF
faced creatures once pictured as the
''Suffragist" Undoubtedly those pic
lures are not given much attention by
people today, the reason being given
that everyone knows they are only
past illusions. 1t is likewise with the
questions that NJ B. s. asks. Those
same questions seem TO be all that is
pondered in their brains. and they
ought to have been buried long ago.
AS a man, I undoubtedly feel more
intimate with mans views toward pol
itics; also how women would value
politics. would like to impress on
the questioner that as the water flows
so do men and women-men toward
money and crookedness; women intel
lectually. Men are but fathers and
evidently will never understand the
true feelings Of mothers. Men are not
so picturesque as the past books make
them. Women, on the other hand, are
no longer blessed with the happy
homes Of the participating OF the
ma jority.
Homes and families are no more as
they were.
Therefore, it is nothing but justice
for women. as mothers OF those fam
lilies. to enact laws which would bene-
Mt them. Men will never find time 10
enact such laws; whereas. women will.
because OF their relative feelings tow
ard the benefits TO be derived from
that law.
will also ask the questioner 10
answer IL women are not seeking TO
fulfill natures duties in those respects?
NJ. B. s also asks why Democrats
call upon the suffragists for assist
ance. Why can she or others with
such mental delusions be qualified TO
I'LL a far more advanced position than
they are prepared for2
MORRIS GREENBERG.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
Raises Are Consistent.

The fact that the Federal govern
ment is not taking any revolutionary
step or one that is tinged with Social
ism in granting graded increases in
salary to the employees in the govern
ment service, is well evidenced by
the latest statistics made public by
Secretary of Labor Wilson show
ing the advancesgranted in the past
twelve months BY all trades and in
dustries of the country.
One million one hundred and eigh-
teen thousand nine hundred and sew
enty workers throughout the nation
benefit by additions to the pay en-
velope that average 5 and 10 per
cent over the salaries paid one year
ago.
One of the most significant things
in the report, however is the fact
that only 8 per cent of these en-
ployes are engaged in the manufac-
ture of munitions or supplies, which
show excessive profits through con-
ditions abroad, and which might
justifably be expected to give the
employe trihe more than his por-
ton of abnormal profits. Thirty-five
thousand three hundred of the round
million to profit are engaged in pur-
suits of this kind.
Added emphasis is given the gen.
eral prosperity of the country by the
fact that the majority of these in
creases were voluntary on the part OF
the employer or were procured by
mutual agreement between employ
er and employe. Only a minority
secured better wages through the me
dunn of walkout or strike.
In announcing that the District
employees would not be denied the in
creases given employees in the Fed
eral service, the subcommittee of the
Senate comedies the justice of their
claim. Their case is much the strong
er from the fact that an analysis
will show that the average wage OF
the District employees is less than
that paid by the United States Steel
Trust, large automobile factories,
and others who blazed the trail which
Congress probably may follow. They
are considerably less in average than
that paid Federal EMPLOYEES.
The estimated cost of the hori-
zontal increases of S and 10 per
cent, $4,000, 900, does not look
so enormous when it is compared
with the annual increase in the pay
roll of the Steel Trust, whose total
of increases reached 81 I-2 per cent
in twelve months and practically
amounts in dollars to what the gov
ernment will turn over to help several
hundred thousand of Federal and
District employees
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
The Herald's Open Forum,

When ! learned that my Advancement
was indefinite and no encouragement was
forthcoming. immediately cut my daily
average to 5000 words and later resigned
Ny resignation was an asset to me as
gained invaluable experience on the out
side which has fitted me for better pay
ing positions. This Is true of large
number Of cases.
Congressman Borland makes the err
roneous statement that the Federal clerks
In Washington have shorter hours. high
er pay, and more privileges than any
set of employees In the world. / presume
he was drawing his comparison from the
services he used to put In making Mis-
souri, corn-cob pipes The fact that
the government is really a loser by not
providing adequate compensation for its
competent clerks is borne out by the
following: A certain bureau has been
in a chaotic condition for some time
on account of losing some of Its best
clerks who accepted positions with In
dustrfal concerns at salaries ranging from
30 TO IS per cent more than the govern
ment paid them. This paticular bureau
has Offices throughout the Western
United States, and more than a dozen
of the clerks resisning from the various
offices of that bureau went with one firm.
Why don't the government make its po-
sluohs attractive enough 10 the capaDle
men in order that they will stick-the
men who have been trained at the ex-
pense Of the government? The answer is
made clearly manifest by just such ac-
tions as Congressman Borland in SIP
pressing sufficient remuneration for the
services rendered.
Another wonderful privilege in being a
government clerk has been illustrated by
the action of the Postmaster General in
letting out a number OF veteran employees
who had spent their entire lives with the
government. No provisions were made for
these superannuated clerks, and they were
cast out into want and despair. Had they
served In the army or navy six months
and received a scalp wound or had a toe
nail shot on they would have been COM
fortably cared for in an elaborate home
all the rest OF their days.
1t Is high time for these circumstances
to be taken in hand by rational Congress
men. and their actions should not be
heckled by any individual whose state
ments are unfcunded, and whose actions
prove stumbling block to those who
have the best interest of the government &
servants at heart-the servants who are
truly faithful to the weslthiest nation in
the world, and a nation OF which we are
all Justly proud. Respectfully.
GOVERNMENT CLERK.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
ARMY ORDERS.

FIrst Lieut. Alexander r. ColTiu will conduct
preliminary examination at Fort Smelling. Mimi.
February 5. Of applicants for appointment in the
Medical Corps
Leave for one month granted Capt. Charles
+. Bates
Resignation Of Capt. John j. Lilly accepted.
Resignation Of First Lieut.. JOSEPH De Garmo,
accepted.
Mai. William p. Jackson assigned to Twentieth
Infantry.
Maj. Jesse r. Harris relieved from temporary
duty with Field Hospital No S
Resignation Of First Lieut. Peyton c. Clements.
accepted.
Resignation Of First Lieut.. John F. Mcouillsn
accepted.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
PRESENTS PEACE PLAN.

Editor The Washington Herald: After
reading President Wilson'S speech OF
Monday on peace, and the comments on
It in the different papers, my mind was
called to an article clipped from a farm
magazine some weeks ago entitled
Peace on Earth" II comes IN very
nicely Just now. and is the best solu-
ton for permanent peace that has come
to my notice. Here II is:
Why not compulsory international
arbitration? II twenty or more nations
agree to arbitrate all questions that
might arise between them, why not have
the understanding that the first one that
refuses, and begins TO fight, will have &c
fight all the others? There would be
far less need OF preparedness on the
part of any one Of them. Small armies
and navies would then be police forces
to see that information agreements were
not broken. that the guilty nation was
soon brought to its senses.
Multitudes OF men live up TO con-
tracts, not because they want TO. but
because they know the penalty OF violht-
ing them Cthe same could be made TO
apply to nations) Abolish secret
diplomacy" 1t is the mother Of wars
let Justice be the International king.
W. NJ. HEPLER
The Washington herald., 1917-01-28
BACKS NOLAN BILL.
Calls Minimum Wage Law Los1caI
ISOLATION of Problem.

Editor The Washington Herald: II 10
either true or false that the highe cost Of
living 1ustiies the plea for higher sais-
r1es, and that this Is the ground on which
the plea is made. II the high cost OF
living is the ground on which the plea
Is made, then IL would be illogicaI-per-
haps dishonest-to consider in this con-
nection any other ground in Justification
Of the plea II is evident that there are
some who would not profit by an increase
of salaries made on this ground, namely.
those whose salaries are already such
as TO enable them TO meet the present
conditions. How would we decide what
salary enables the recipient to live under
existing conditions7 II an increase Of
IL per cent. for instance, would enable
the salary Of $3.50 10 meet the conditions,
then $3.50 plus S72 eQualing sS52 is the nee
essary amount This being true, the
man who is receiving already as much
as or more than this needs no increase
at all. II. on the other hand. this sum
be not sufncient, then an increase OF is
per cent is not enough In such case.
What increase then would be necessary
] should answer: The salary which, un-
DER normal conditions, was sufncient, In
creased in the same ratio as that IN
which the cost Of living has been IN
creased would be a necessary and sum
cient salary
OF the work or the man who does the
work; that is not the question. The
question relates to the ability Of the sal
ary to meet the conditions Neither the
work nor the man has any bearing on the
question. The purchasing power Of the
salary Ia in no way affected by the class
Of the work for which or the ability OF
the man by whom the salary Is drawn
II has been intimated that Congress is
unfair in practicing economy al the eI-
pense OF the poorer paid government en-
pioyes. Every pay is poorer pay as com
pared with another rate Of pay that lie
better. At what conclusion would Con-
gre5s finally arrive IL IL should carry out
this course Of reasoning! The salary
OF s., 900 would have TO be Increased
considering the question from an eco
nonic point Of view-because not to do so
would be to consider economy at his
expense rather than at the expense OF
him who receives s. 900.
II has been my purpose in these state
ments to show that the various plans
suggested are prompted by selfish mo-
tives. more or less. generally having self
very largely in view; and also to prove
by the "argumentum reductio ad absur-
d-,m" that the only logical plan that has
been suggested Is that which settles on
definite sum as the least that one can
! live on in reasonable comfort, namely.
that bill known as the Nolan bill"
LUDWELL L. JOHNSON.