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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08
PLAN BIG OPENING

When Bridgeport opens the league
season here Friday Manager Krichell
will probably send Dug Smith on the
mound to oppose New Haven. The
southpaw has shown plenty of stuff
in his tryouts against Jersey City and
the Phillies. Lillipop will probably
get the assignment for the game in
New Haven on Thursday when
Bridgeport will help the Elm City
club take the cover off the season.
Manager Krichell' is not satisfied with
his pitching staff yet. He has guam
tity but not much quality. Smith and
LilIipop are about the only ones who
have displayed Eastern strength.
Every effort is being made to land a
couple of hur1ers.,
Meanwhile preparations for Fri
days opening are going on. In ad-
dition to the automobile parade be-
fore the game there will be a band
concert at Newfie1d park and singers
from four New York publishing
houses will MARBLE the newest selec-
lions. After that the Bridgeport
players will be ready to fox trot their
way.to victory.
Babe Ruth Is trying to stick the
boss for raise next season. He wor
his sixth straight game for the Red
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Results of Games Yesterday.
New York 9; Philadelphia A.
Boston /; Washington O,
Cleveland 4; Detroit 2.
The st. Louis-Chicago game was
ostponed on account of rain.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Results of Games Yesterday.
New York 2; Philadelphia 1.
Boston z; Brooklyn o.
Chicago 4; Pittsburg 1.
The Cincinnati-St. Louis game was
postponed on account of cold weather.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08
NO HIT CONTESTS

Because of the fact that four no
hit games have already been recorded
in the big leagues this season fans
are asking if the twirlers are gaining
more than their usual advantage over
the batters The pitching is at pres
ent so much more powerful than the
batting that the rooters don't like to
see the national pastime spoiled en-
tirely.
A writer in the New York Sun de-
clares the weather is to blame for
the light hitting. The pitchers got
from six weeks to two months OF
training and are better off than the
batters, who are always slow in
starting. Records Of past years
show that most of the no hit con-
tests have been pitched in April. May
September and October. In June
July and August, when the thermom-
eter is bowling along at a lively clip
the pitchers are 1ambasted more
free1y
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08
Standing of the Clubs.

Games To-Day.
Brooklyn in Boston.
Philadelphia in New York.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

Belmont park is the finest race trak
in America, and with its opening the
legitimate racing season in the east
is inaugurated. Although f1rebugs re-
Gently destroyed the splendid grand
stand at a great monetary loss, the
management is prepared to handle a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

FLOWER AND VEGETABIE
SEEDS
JOHN RECK q eoN
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

Babe Ruth is trying to stick the
boss for raise next season. He won
his sixth straight game for the Red
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

American League.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

Manager Pieper Of Hartford is try
ing Third Baseman Fletcher Low a.
a first baseman this season. Low Is
former Dartmouth player and a dan
gerous man at bat.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-08

This will be sad news to the free
lunch fans. Catcher Pickles Dilhoefel
has been sold by the Chicago Cubs te
Columbus, O., of the American asso,
citation.
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Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, Sc.
JURY IN TRACEY CASE

Mrs. Matte Farndran, wife of a
steam filter, 2511 Yesler way; Robert
Harris, rancher, Kent; Fred Cords,
ST., bricklayer, 4101 10th Ave. N. S.;
Mrs. Ravner, wife of master mariner,
5237 9th avenue; A. Peplan, farmer,
Sunnydale; Mrs. Clara Uhlman, wife
of harness maker, 2501 Sixth Ave. S.;
Alice Freeborn, 322 Goth Ave; F. NJ.
Christian, tent manufacturer, 1911
Eighth Ave; Sarah F. Brown, widow
of Geo. Brown, 2417 Eighth Ave. NJ;
James R. Williams, machinist, 1910
f. Alder; Sarah j. Thinner, 4436 Daw-
son ST.; T. G. Byrne, contractor, 210S
Fourth Ave. N.
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STEEL AND LUMBER TRUSTS HAVE
"GOTTEN A WOLF BY THE EARS"

in many cases they are charged a
fee of ten cents per month for mail
service. This service is supplied by
man who carries the company's
mail from the railroad station to the
camp, but the men foot the bill for
his services"
The Steel and Lumber Trusts de-
mand for the expenditure of large
yearly sum of money for state inter-
ference to "quell riots" and "put
down strikes" was resisted by over
whelming testimony against any need
of it or excuse for it.
Mayor Boylan of Virginia, M. A.
Murphy, the former mayor of that
town, Senator Jones, and a former
chief of police of Duluth, stated to
the legislative committee that in every
case where the companies had con-
spired to bring in outside interven-
tion, the local police authorities had
been entirely able to handle the situa-
ton themselves. Mayor Boylan told
how the companies themselves had
ended the strike of 1907 by acceding
to the demands of the workers, "be-
cause Governor johnson served notice
on them that he could send the mill
tia if necessary, but that the sold
iers would protect the strikers as we'll
as the mine owners"
The Steel Trust never wants that
sort of law and order which protects
the workers from it's armed guards
and bullies.
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to the business crimes his parishion-
ers are committing. And so these
brains, distorted by the necessity for
daily maintenance, fall infinitely be-
low their possibilities of usefulness.
What progress the world could
make if the human brain could be left
free to work in the direction of its
greatest talent! If the sixty per cent
of the worlds labor, now wasted,
could be made useful, ALL WOULD
BE FREE.
what wisdom would not be given
to the world if the brains now en-
gagged in formulating deceptions and
practicing frauds upon their fellow
men could be consecrated to truth and
the public welfarel
What ideal cities would be created
If the genius of architecture could be
free of the dollar mark
What progress toward education
if the schools could be dedicated to
the making of real men and womenl
What marvellous work in art and
literature if men were given time to
create masterpieces
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BLUE CROSS 800" CLUB

Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Ger
trude Tyler entertained the ladies of
the Blue Cross 900" Club (members
of the Label League) at her residence,
1916 Rainier avenue. Thirty-one
members of the club were present.
There were seven tables at $500, a
most excellent lunch was served and
the jolly leaguers spent a most en-
joyable evening.
Mrs. f. S. Johnson will entertain
the Blue Cross 900" Club at her
home, 2604 Wetmore avenue, next
Friday afternoon.
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STIMULATING FOOD
FOR DEEP THOUGHT

Mr.. John Brisben Walker, founder
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, in re-
cent article, brings a stinging indict-
ment against the inefficiency of our
modern civilization. Mr.. Walker says
in part:
Contemplate society guided by
science, philosophy and religion which
wastes more than sixty per cent of
the fruits of the endeavor of its men
and women:
"Think of the folly, which through
lack of scientimic organization, per-
raits, or rather compels, four hundred
and eighty millions of it's eight hun
dred millions of workers to spend
themselves upon labor that is abso-
lutely without value, so far as pro-
ducing anything to add to the COM
fort or happiness of mankind is con-
cerned
perhaps there never was a time
when it was easier to understand
the menace of our existing system.
Living amidst a smiling prosperity
today, tomorrow the world is thrown
into cataclysm of destruction and
horror. Everyone must now be con-
vinced that there can be no safety
for mankind under the system of
which militarism is necessary
phase.
ri. Therefore the first place in the
inventory of waste that goes toward
the total of sixty per cent will be
given to militarism; including the
men taken from useful labor, and set
at the making of arms, armor and
ammunition, the building of forts and
the endless ramifications of the bust
ness of war-making.
"2. In the next place we have only
to compute the hundreds of millions
spent upon the navies of the world
to realize that this money, expended
upon education, upon the building of
good roads, upon improved systems
of transportation, would of itself
bring an extraordinary prosperity.
But so strong is the hold of the sys-
TEN that, even while costly battle
ships by the dozen are being sent to
the bottom by torpedoes, our own
country orders the appropriation of
or IF
structions which even many naval
men regard as obsolete.
SO. Rising into even larger figures
than either of the above is the dupli-
cation of effort in the worlds work
stores, drug stores, liquor stores,
cigar stores upon every corner, are
but one of the more obvious phases
of this duplication.
"a. A very large item of the
worlds waste is the labor given to
the production of useless or badly
made goods. To deceive the public
into buying these, immense organiza-
tlons are maintained and expenses of
many kinds incurred; all to the end
that the public may be deceived and
induced to invest its money in the
wrong article.
"5. Loss through the ignorance of
individuals charged with the direct
ing of production, resulting in bad
methods and waste. This begins with
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-09
WHO is DOING 1T TO US?
THAT is THE QUESTION
(By Scott Nearing)


We complain, lament, protest,
against the high cost of living. Why ?
We are starving in the midst of
the greatest period of prosperity
that the United States has ever
known. Why?
Here is a suggestion.
Take it or leave it as you please.
1t is significant at any rate.
Prices have increased fastest in
the direction of the land. Size up the
facts as you will, this statement
seems to hold good.
Take the matter first as a prob
lem in production. The producer
must secure labor, capital and land.
Without these three elements no pro-
ductive operation can take place.
The cost of labor, according to the
figures published by the United States
Department of Labor, and by vari-
Gus state labor departments has risen
from 80 to 60 per cent during the
last twenty years. This does not
mean the cost of labor per unit of
product, but the cost of labor per
hour of labor. In many cases these
increased wages have been more than
offset by the increased efficiency of
the worker and the machinery.
The cost of capital has not varied
much during the past twenty years.
Economists are agreed that the inter
est rate is steadily rising, but slow
ly. 1t certainly has not increased
during that period more than 20 or
80 per cent.
Land, the third element in produc-
tion tells a very different story. The
figures show that the value of miner
al land, timber land, farm land and
city land has increased during the
last twenty years hundreds and in
some cases thousands of per cent.
Look at the matter from another
point of view. Take the wholesale
prices, compiled and issued by the
United States Department of Labor
Study the figures, showing the change
in prices from 1890 to 1915. The
prices of manufactured products
coming directly from land-mineral
products, timber products, farm crop
products, lead the list of price in
creases in almost every direction
Approach the problem in another
way by looking into the retail prices,
the figures published by the De-
partment of Labor.
In few cases the retail prices of
manufactured goods have annually
decreased. In other cases there has
been slight increase, but the great
raise in prices has occurred in the
case of those commodities which come
most directly from the land, name
ly farm products, and cereal crops.
Think the matter over. Study the
figures carefully. Examine the ques-
tion from the standpoint of the ele-
ments in production, of wholesale
prices, or of retail prices and you
will find that the chief increases in
living costs are coming from the di-
rection of the land.
Whoever is doing it to US, the land
lords are evidently getting the re-
sults"-a phrase which in these days
seems to signify the same thing as
yellow back" or double eagles"
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TRADES
COUNCIL
N E w S
Wednesday, March 7, 1917.


Council was called to order by Pres
ident Vingen. 1t was an unusually
large and interesting meeting.
Bro. Everett Johnson was seated
as delegate from the Machinists un-
ion in place of Bro. John Zeller.
Mrs. Clara Vingen, Mrs. Dora John
son and Mrs. Viola Francois were
seated as delegates from the Wom-
ans Card and Label League.
The Legislative Committee report
ed on the proposition to levy a poll
tax and suggested the following in
the way of retrenchment:
eve find that all the lumber and
shingle mills are outside the city lin
it's and pay no taxes for the running
of the city. They have the services
of the fire department, police depart
ment, schools, streets, water and light,
all of which benefits these companies
at the expense of the community.
eve find that the city has paid out
over $4,000 for the services of special
police during the past year.
eve consider that the police de-
partment is an expensive luxury to
the city now that the saloons are
closed.
I'VE therefore recommend that the
city commissioners take immediate
steps to extend the city boundary to
include all mills, warehouses, factor
les, ETC., that derive benefits from the
city in order that the said mills, etc.,
can be taxed to pay the running ex-
penses of the city.
eve further recommend that the
police department be reduced to at
least half its present force.
"Fraternally submitted,
"H. w. WATTS,
"W. F. GEARD,
"a. w. STANLEY"
The Cooks and Walters reported
that they had adopted a new wage
scale providing for an S-hour day on
and after May 1.
The Carpenters, Plumbers, Press
men and the Printers reported good
meetings.
The Electrical Workers reported a
good meeting and that they had drawn
up working agreement and present
ed it to the Puget Sound Telephone
Company.
The Machinists reported six initia-
tions, and that a new working agree
ment had been presented to the Great
Northern Railway, asking for an s.
hour day.
The Teamsters had a fair meeting
and initiated one new member.
The Label League reported the
election and installation of new Off
GERS, as follows:
President, Mrs. Gertrude Tyler;
Vice-President, Mrs. Clara Vingen;
Secretary, Mrs. Viola Francois;
Treasurer, Mrs. Julia Altman; Guard,
Mrs. Dora Johnson.
The Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen had a good meeting and
initiated one member.
The proposed amendment to the by
laws providing for assessing fine
of 25 cents against each delegate for
failure to be present at each meeting
of the council was defeated.
After an interesting discussion of
topics of general interest to organ
lied labor the council adjourned.
An interesting meeting is promised
for next Wednesday.
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Yours faithfully,
(Signed) w. BOURKE COCHRAN.

81 don't know whether Mooney is
guilty or not. We convicted him on
his past record" This extraordinary
statement was made by Juryman
John W. Miller, hardware dealer, the
day after he participated in the YER
dict sentencing Tom Mooney to the
death of felon. He made the state
ment to John LIGHTHOUSE, president of
San Francisco Millmen's Union No.
AZ.
But there was no evidence pro-
Continued on Page Three)
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LABOR DENOUNCES CONVICTION
OF MOONEY AS JUDICIAL CRIME

alton of Labor for immediate action
in behalf of the convicted men and
their co-defendants yet to be brought
to trial, and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be submitted to the var
ious labor councils on this coast for
their endorsement to be forwarded
to the officials of the American
Federation of Labor.
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The building Trades Council of
Alameda County and District Council
of Carpenters, as we'll as many other
unions, join in denouncing the Frame
UP which has become as clear as
daylight.
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Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, Sc.
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The following letter was written
to Mooney by the famous orator and
statesman, w. Bourke Cochran, who
defended him:
En- Route Overland Limited,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-26

Homestead" 1t is engraved at the
head of every sheet of notepaper
in the establishment.
You must think from this de-
scription that Edith Campbell is
something of an heiress. Now
that word to me has a kind of
aristocratic sound, and SO | prefer
to say In regard to the Campbells.
that they have simply coolies and
oddles of money. / hate the word
"oodles," but it Just fits Edith
Campbell. 1t describes her worldly
possessions to T. Her father. old
Dave Campbell, Is rolling up a
fortune that is attracting atten-
ton.
Alec tells me that IL 1t wasn't
for Mr.. Campbell, Fathers WOOL
en- business would not have en-
dured another twelve months. Mr.
Campbell has gone into the bust
ness heart and soul, and l don't
know whether to be glad or sorry
Father never had any use at all
for Mr.. Campbell. He used to call
him "scurvy." l remember the
word because as a child thought
1t a funny adjective to apply to q
man who had q perfectly flawless
complexion.
concluded i'm Our Next Issue.)
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''BOBBIE, GENERAL MANAGER
By Alice Higgins Prouy Copyright 1919 by Frederick
NEXT WEEK "BAT WING BOWLES" BY DANE COOLIDGE

the factory.
my. but you're late" said Ruth
Say, isn't 1t corking about Alec?
Just imagine-Edith Campbell!"
| became very busy fixing my
cuff-links, for l was ashamed of my
swollen eyes; but Ruth was sure
to see them.
II might have known you'd take
it like that" she broke out, tho
hadn't said aword; always acting
like thundercloud, and throwing
wet blankets at everything. I'm
simply wild about the whole thing
The Campbells are going to do this
tumble-down old ark all over, for
a wedding present, and AL says
her father is going to insist on
Edith's bringing her horses with
her."
as she going to live here?"
gasped.
"Of course she Is. Where else
And Alec says that you and | will
room, and divide our time be-
tween here and Toms. l tell you
what, I'm glad, for one, that we
won't have to live like pigs ang
more. Edith Campbell Is used to
piles of servents.
| don't know why Ruth's
words made me so terribly angry
| showed back my chair and left
the table quietly, hurried up the
stairs straight to my disheveled
room and locked the door tight
My mind was clear now all right:
| was no goose not to know per-
ment meant that Miss Lucy Vars
would be requested to hand in her
resignation as general manager
and, oh, too, Partner-of-Alec.
Now, suddenly, all was to end.
Ruth was delighted; Alec was
supremely happy; the twins, who
worship anything that means more
cash, would be transported with
joy. Everybody, in fact, would de-
light in a change in administra-
tion-everybody but the poor old
dethroned ruler, who was locked
in her desolate room trying to find
consolation in vigorously making
her bed.
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CHAPTER TX.
Exit General Manager,

Many months have passed since
DR.. Maynard went to Europe.
There have been two crops of
chestnuts for me to gather alone
in October since he sailed away
Edith has been in command of
my fathers house for go long now
that all the difficult adjustments
have b3en made, the mo ,hinery Is
running without an audible
squeak, and the house itself has
developed into plant as impos-
ing and prosperous as a modern
factory. AS l write today l am
sitting in my elaborate new bed
room, built on over the new porte
cochere-my old room was cut
up into two baths and a shower
and am surrounded with rose Gre
tonne hangings, lacy curtains, and
dellcately shaded electric. lights.
There's q new stable a quarter
of a mile back of the house: there
are lawns where the vegetable gar
den used to be; the old apple
orchard is now a sunken garden
with a pool in the center.
The name Edith has chosen to
give to all this grandeur IL 1.-THE
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many alone and I remained at
home to fight my battle. 1t was
a dull, gray morning that he
sailed, some three weeks after
that wakeful night of mine.
l was wondering II the incest,
cheerfullest steamer letter l could
write had reached him when sud
denly Mary, the general house
work girl, pushed open my door
and showed in long white box
that had come by express. l
it wonderingly and gasped
at the big mass of fresh red roses
that met my gaze.
There was a little limp card
that came with them. and its mes
sage of three little words brought
tears to my eyes.
The card said: For plucky
San Francisco"
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CHAPTER VIII.
"FOr PIucky San Eraucisc,


For three days and nights
wandered over the ruins of my
life, back and forth, helpless, al
most driven mad by the horror OF
1t; and then at last DIR. Maynard
came. l had not realized that he
had been out of town. had been
SO stunned by Alec's announce
ment that I had not missed him
l don't believe l quite appre-
ciated how much I wanted him
until I found myself bundled up
in Fathers old ulster, again be-
side him In his automobile, flash
ing through the cool night air, a
great wave Of relief ran over me
Now, go ahead" he said
heartily; "the whole story
please" and / knew that Alec had
broken his news to him.
WELL" I started in, "since
you've been gone, there's been a
dreadful earthquake around here. -
CDR. Maynard and / adore to talk
in SMILEY "My house has been
smashed up. and I'm a pitiful ref.
ugee. I am cold and hungry, and
without a home"
I've come with supplies, y
laughed DR.. Maynard, taking it up
delightfully."-.
II can't live with her. DR.. May
nard. l can't" | broke out, too
heart-sick to play with SMILES any
more.
Tell me all about it," said DR..
Maynard, and | related every sim
gle word of my whole pitiful
story, growing sorrier and sorrier
for myself as l went along, and
finally, at the end, breaking down
completely, repeating my old time
worn phrase. II can't live with
her. I can't, can't" covered
my face with both hands. There
were tears trickling down my
cheeks.
Without word of advice or
comfort, DR.. Maynard shut off the
power and brought the car to a
standstill by the side of the bleak
country road. He took hold of my
hands and gently drew them away
from my face down into my lap.
Then, in a low voice, with the
play and banter all gone out of it,
he said. Gould you live with me,
Lucy?"
ooh, yes," replied quickly
enough, fifty times easier!"
/ listened calmly as DR.. May
nard went on talking in his quiet,
unexcited manner. I don't re-
member that / felt a single sensa-
ton during the entire explanation
except at the end a kind of shock
as l thought to myself, $50 after
all it's going to be just DR.. May
nard!"
For when he had finally fin
ished, said evenly. with the moon
standing there like a clergyman
before us, and all the watching
stars like witnesses behind. Il