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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
MUNICIPAL PLANT
MAKES Big GAINS
UNDER SOCIALIST
Light and Water Plant in Pratt,
Kansas, Earns Big Profit
for the City

PRATT, Kansas.-A record Of eff
cheney in the management Of this
city's public utilities has been made
by G. H, Christopher, utility commits
5ioner, in his first eight months of
service. Christopher, who is MEM
Der of the Socialist party, was elected
eight months ago for a three-year
term, this city being under commits
sion rule.
When Christopher took office the
city light and water plants were
$1,000 in debt. The light plant had
435 users and was earning $3.50 a
month. The water plant had about
600 users and was earning about $500
a month.
Gets More Customers
The first month under the new
management the earnings of the light
plant were raised to 81 ,480 and Of the
water plant to $1,000. Now the light
plant is earning about $4,000 a month
and the water plant about $1,000.
There are about LOO users of light
and about 1000 users of water. The
Indebtedness of $1,000 has been paid
out Of earnings and nearly $4,000
spent in rebuilding and additions TO
the plants.
Rates for services have been re-
duced while wages of employees have
been raised The water rate was re-
duced to II cents for 1000 gallons
from the old rate of 25 cents. Elec-
trio current rate was reduced from Is
cents a kilowatt hour to cents, with
10 per cent rebate from each rate
for prompt payment. The people are
saving $4,000 month on the reduced
rates while the plants are clearing
about 81 500 a month.
Raise Workers Pay
Men working on the city streets
were getting $3.50 a day and teams
SO day. Christopher raised them to
81 and $3.50. Next spring he plans
to make the wages $3.50 and 81, re-
spectively. When he took office the
city had no parks. One has since been
donated and is known as the Fannie
Zerger playground for children. Petit
tions are now out for the purchase of
another park which it is expected will
be bought before next spring.
Christopher has been resident
here for eight years and has been for
the people all that time. He began
the move for municipal light and
water plant but no one would help
him circulate the petitions for calling
an election to vote the bonds. He Sc
cured the signatures unassisted, then
fought the hostile city administration
until action was taken.
Fights Business Men
Then he fought the business inter-
ests in the election and carried the
bond issue by rs votes. Injunctions
were served and the fight in the
courts lasted two years. Christopher
made this fight. He also since his
election as commissioner went out and
got signatures to defeat a plan back
ed by the other two commissioners
who proposed to spend $25O,OOO on
street paving which would prevent
improvements more beneficial to the
poor and for which there is much
greater need.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
UNION MEMS
AID ENJOINED
Judge Sends Two to Jail for
Signing Meeting Notice
In Newspaper

CHICAGO.-Attorneys for the IL
linois State Federation of Labor have
notified that body that the Jail SEN
tence of two strikers by Circuit Court
Judge Smith on injunction proceed
ings constitutes an encroachment on
the liberties of organized labor and
is "a menace that threatens the very
life of the trade-union movement of
Illinois"
The injunction was issued against
employees of the Illinois Maleable Iron
company. Two officers of the union
signed an article published in a news
paper calling attention to the strike
and urging all strikers to attend the
next mass meeting.
Judge Smith fined the unionists and
sentenced them to Jail for violating
his injunction. He ruled that this was
not in violation of free press and free
speech guarantees contained in the
United States and Illinois constitu-
tions.
The federation's attorneys say:
"The danger of this decision is ap-
parent upon only casual analysis of
the matter involved. 1t will be noted
that this publication is addressed to
the strikers of the Illinois Malleable
Iron company. 1t is method by
which a notice of meeting is publish
ed. If this decision is to hold as a
precedent, it means that men can be
cited and punished for contempt for
violating an injunction for words used
even in addressing meetings of union
workingmen in their own halls and
where every man in the body is a de-
PENDANT to the bill of complaint upon
which the writ of injunction is issued
at means that, no matter how cour-
teous the language used, no matter
now careful a speaker may be, no
matter what his purpose in the use of
speech may be, yet, if as a result Of
his remarks, whether used to persu-
ade men engaged in a strike or to per
suade men to join a union to advance
the cause of organized labor land the
very life of organized labor depends
upon the success and ability of mem
bers of organized labor to persuade
others to JOHN, if the employer can
point out such language and show
that it is a hindrance to his interests,
under the broad and sweeping provis-
ions OF the injunction, the man max
ing use Of the language may be sub
jected to a heavy fine and deprived of
his liberty.
"Organized labor may we'll ask if
that be true. Are the constitutional
provisions meant to guarantee the lib
erty Of all the citizens of the United
States and of this state, or are they
meant to give additional liberty to q
favored minority class, and deprive
the poor man, the working man, the
union man, Of rights heretofore never
seriously questioned or douhted3@
Try the Bayside Barber Shop for q
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
$500 PAID OUT
FOR PINKERTONS

The sheriffs office presented an
other bill for payment last week which
amounted to $500 for services sup
piled by the Pinkerton Detective AS
ISOLATION.
An inquiry at the county commits
soners office as to what services the
dectives rendered the county, failed to
bring any other reply than that they
ordered the payment of the bill and
that only the Sheriff knew what the
detectives were used for.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
POLICE OF LEIPSIC BAR BIG
SOCIALIST PEACE GATHERING

AMSTERDAM.-The police prohib-
tied great Socialist meeting schedul-
ed in favor of peace at Leipsic, accord
ing to dispatches here today.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
TEST NEW MACHINE GUN:
SPRAYS LEAD LIKE HOSE

VALLEJO5Cal.-A centrifugal. na-
chine gun, said to throw 5000 projec-
tiles minute at an initial velocity of
1000 feet a second, was tested by
naval authorities here. The gun is
operated by electricity. 1t was oper-
ated unde1 the direction of E. N. Rice
Of San Francisco, the inventor.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Leather Goods, Trunks and Repair
ing at Everett Trunk Factory, 2815
Rockefeller.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Bargreen's Golden Drip Coffee. I'm
perial Tea Co. 1407 Hewitt Avenue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Try the Bayside Barber Shop for q
clean shave. Address 1907 Hewitt.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-31
DISLOYAL AMERICANS WARNED BY
GERARD.

Former ambassador Gerard went to Chi
cago in response to an invitation to deliver an
address before the chamber of m of
that city, but owing to illness he was prevented
from speaking. Chicago has been in the lime
light since the var began on account of the dis
loyal position taken by Mayor Thompson of that
CITY and Mr.. Gerard did not mince words when
he gave out an interview expressing his opinion
of that class who fail to back up the government
in its fight to win this war. Mr.. Gerard said:
"The last time / came to Chicago I wanted to speak
on universal military service. But now there is a more
urgent call. Knowing the, psychology of the Germans and
the way they think, l thought that l should make the ad-
dress. The Germans cannot but believe that the Ger
man-Americans here will rise against US in their favor.
'"As tie lawyers say, the time for repentance Gas
gone by. A man must either now be an American or a
traitor. There is nothing more disgraceful in the dirty
political history of the country than the act, IN CT Office
holders who are now seeking votes by attaching their
Government.
"a vigorous prosecution of the war means an early
peace.
'The Germans said they would stand no foolishness
from us after the war. Ask the Poles here how they
liked to live under German rule.
The former Ambassador declared that every utter
ance against the Government and the Governments plan
for winning the war would only cost that much more in
lives, money and time.
Its a blame sight better for our boys to be fight
ing the Germans in France now than in Chicago later
he said. "The quickest way for America to win this war
is for everybody to get together and let Germany know
that we are in this war to win"
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-31
THE PRESIDENT ANSWERS THE POPE.

President Wilson on Tuesday issued his re-
ply to Pope Benedict in which he declined for
this country to discuss peace terms. His reply
was Independent of the other allies and is the
first to be made to the Pope's peace proposals.
The President still maintains his position
that no peace can be made with the present
rulers Of the German empire whose ambitions
to rule the world brought on the war. He re-
~lterates his former Statement that we are not
making war on the German people, but that we
stand with the allies in the great fight that is
being waged by democracy against autocracy.
The President says: "The object of this war
is to deliver the free peoples of the world from
the menace and actual power of a vast military
establishment controlled by an irresponsible
government which, having secretly planned to
dominate the world, proceeded to carry the
plan out without regard either to the sacred OBJ
legations of treaties and long established prin-
.ciples of international action and honor"
The two great men of the world have lock-
ed horns, Wilson and William Of Germany,
with four ffths of the world backing the pres
ident. The one declares that autocracy shall
no longer menace the peace of the world, the
other will hold out as long as he can get a man
to fight for him for his supposed divine right to
unusual sovereignty. Which will win? The
of democracy everywhere, even within the very
country from which the German emperor hopes
to direct his autocratic power.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-31
HARRISON FOR SENATOR

Hon. Pat Harrison, congressman from the
seventh district, in a speech at Philadelphia,
Neshoba county, announced his candidacy for
the senate to succeed Senatog Vardaman, whose
term expires March 4th, 1919.
Mr.. Harrison is now serving his fourth
term in congress-, and while yet a very young
man, being SO years old, he has won distinction
as a debater and is recognized as one of the
leaders of the democrats in the house. Fifteen
years ago he was a country school teacher.
Securing license to practice law, he soon be-
came the district attorney Of his district and
was elected to congress to succeed Judge Eaton
Bowers, who refused to stand for reelection.
Mr.. Harrison has been a loyal supporter of the
administration in all remedial legislation and
will make his canvass on the issues of the day.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-31
THE FIRST DISTRICT IN THE WAR.

The First Congressional District of Missis-
sippi is well represented in the great war, fur
nishing a number of officers of high rank, won
after years of faithful service. We regret that
we are unable to get today a complete roster of
the young men who have been appointed from
this district to West Point, but it is our purpose
to secure a list of both the war and naval ca
diets that have gone from this district and are
now in the service.
Tupelo, Aberdeen and Columbus, are now
represented in the army. We recall first, Col.
Herbert O.. Williams, who has recently been
recalled from the Hawaiian Islands. where he
was the Inspector general Of that district. Col.
Williams is now at Chicago.
Next is Lieutenant Col. Peyton, of Column
bus, who has been promoted for meritorious
service until he attained his present grade.
Tupelo furnishes the next in the person of
Major Levi Brown, who has just received his
promotion from the rank of captain to that of
major. He served in the Mexico expedition
and is a seasoned soldier. Major Brown has
just been appointed on the staff Of Major-Gen-
eral Wood.
The next comes from Aberdeen in the per
son Of Major L. D. Boothe, who also received
his commission last week as major and is now
at Charleston, S.. c., where he is chief ordinance
officer.
Colonies Williams and Peyton and Major
Brown were appointed by Congressman j. NJ.
ALLEN; Major Boothe by Congressman Gambler.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-31
NEW EXEMPTION RULING.

PROVOST arshal General Crowder has is
sued a bulletin to local draft exemption boards
giving new rules applying to drafted men, as
outlined by President Wilson. Under the new
ruling where it is shown that the family of the
drafted man is wholly dependent upon the hus-
band for support he should be exempted. This
rule has been followed pretty generally by To-
cal boards, but it is now evident that in some
instances it has been disregarded by the boards
and men sent to serve in the army where their
families would be left without the necessary
means Of support. The new ruling will necces-
sarily result in a closer review Of appeals by
the boards, who will be called on to weed out
those men who have families dependent upon
their labor for support and who have been GER
tilted by the local draft boards.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-31

Governor Bilbo has announced that he
will enter the race for congress from his dis
trict next year to succeed Pat Harrison who will
make the race for the senate The governor
says that he will enter the race with no cam
bination with any other candidate but will
make the fight on his own merits.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-04
SCHOOL GARDENING

The school garden movement was
not promoted SO much for what few
potatoes and beans the youngsters
could raise on their little plots. 1t
was more to train the children in in
dustrious habits. and to interest them
in processes of nature But vege-
tables are regarded with wholesome
respect now. The National Educa.
tional Association plans to push
school gardens harder this summer,
as resource in food production.
Teachers are to secure permission
to use vacant lots and back yards If
the schools everywhere would pro-
mote this movement, an increase
could be made in the food supply.
Spectators who are contriving to
beat the last dollar out of the poor
man would reflect on all these little
stocks stored away in a million eel
lars.
The school gardens will be planted
with boisterous enthusiasm. 1t al
ways gives a youngster a thrill to dc
something like his father He will
feel like grown man while he is
digging his burrows and dropping in
his seeds There will come a day
when the weeds have grown very
tall. The teacher is rusticating al
rural retreats. A boys will is the
winds will. and vacation days are
full OF pressing engagements. The
swimming hole has to be visited sew
eral times a day, and there are nc
end of birds nests to be inspected
and back yard ball games to BIZ
4 played. Then there is the inappro
pirate fact that the garden was mo-
laid out in the shade. If this vita
consideration had not been overlook
/ ed, it would have been much NOR,
practical for Tommy to weed his plot
Still the children's gardens hav.
really raised a substantial amount o
produce. Children are happier 4
they have some regular tasks. Blu
their gardens will amount to a grea
deal more il some competent person
! is given the job of regularly super
vising them. Father can well afforl
to pay something for real vegetables
I Gainesville Sun.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-04
KING GEORGE A
MODEL LANDLORD
(By Associated Press. }

London, April liking George ac-
cording to DR.. c. w. Saleeby, the
famous eugenist, is the one model
landlord in the country. mo one
has observed the distinction between
what | call respectively housing and
homing." he writes, except the King
South London. Elsewhere all hous-
ing schemes are for the childless. If
you have baby. out you go as II
YOU had committed nuisance
Everywhere we penalize, punish,
prohibit the parenthood upon which
the future of our Empire depends.
Only the King has set an example to
be commended to all other landlords,
in the provision of homing instead
of merely housing, and in the adop-
ton of an ingenious device for NOV
ing the partition between adjacent
houses. according 10 the growth or
decline of contiguous families. To
set such an example is to practice
the precept implicit in His Majesty's
own word to the Convocation of
York, "The foundations of national
glory are laid in the homes of the
people. For the rest our landlords
are conniving at our imperial ruin.
DIR. Saleeby is pleading for the
adoption by government of a policy
that will encourage worthy parent
hood. The need for IL, he declares
to be most urgent owing to the vast
age OF the war, and the steadily de
clining birthrate. In 1916 1t was
PIG per thousand the lowest on rec
ord.
I'VE must. he says. make parent
hood possible for self-respecting and
provident people. / roundly assert
that while worthy parenthood is oul
greatest imperial need, the whole
force and trend of our policy is tc
penalize it. Recent budgets have
been simply brutal in this respect
the relief for parenthood being Lit
tie better than the calculated insult
which lawyers call 'comtemptuoui
damages
THE National Council of Publi'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-04
ering Has Developed
His Estate Into One Of
Worlds ShOwplaces

hut il is real home, such as any
man of normal mind might covert
The home of William Jennings Bry.
an is another beautiful place. Sure
ly the great commoner lives in great
ease when he is in his Miami home
And in and about Miami there are
scores of other beautiful homes
city their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
With 100 millionaires making the
city their winter hime, is it any
wonder that find homes are to be
seen on every side?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-04

Morals. which promoted the Birth
Rate Commission is now preparing
a petition to the Chancellor OF the
Exchequer. A. Bonar Law, which is,
in eect. a plea for parenthood. In
this petition many measures of finan-
cial relief for worthy parenthood are
suggested together with provision
for education of children, especially
the promising. The housing of the
people is described as crying scan
dali. Mr.. Bonar Law and the gov
eminent will be asked to act forth.
with for the encouragement of the
worthy parenthood upon which the
future of our Empire depends"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-04

Sanford.-One hundred cars of eel
cry were shipped from this point last
week. The prices averaged $3.50 per
crate T. o. b. Sanford.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-04-04

hing of his visit to Miami and
bering estate, Editor Worthing-
the Tampa Times says:
bre are 100 acres in his estate,
next to none other than our
nc:ld William Jennings Bryan,
home, Villa Serena, looks like
<money of itself though not to
impaired to the modest little
= cottage.
Deering has been at work
years on his place and it is
Ter two-thirds done. When he
down to spend the winter his
was unfinished. Not over so
rooms were suitable for cocu-
but, tho: .sL cramrcd for room.
De tie best of it and has man
b worry along until he can do
3 ere 100 acres in tie estate
OF both sidac of the main
n along which he has erected
wall of coQ;i;na rock. The
be is by a gate which must
bst him $4,000 or $4,000. His
a jungle and he has purpose
it sc, though with asphalt
roads cut through il in all di-
= Occasionally in this he has
c..i circles cut cut of the jun
which there are various plant
ID one there are many varie-
cactus. for instance, more than
saw in one place and more
supposed there were, too. Th
~ is lit by unique standards.
ere cut out of solid cocquina
out one foot square, perhaps
pt high and with a piece cut
the top for the light, leaving
q cap of the natural rock. 1t
Ne easy to mold such a stan
q of cement but much hard
d it out of one piece of rock
are. Still. down in one cor
the estate, Mr.. Deering has
rock cutting establishment,
mot make his own standards :?
place there is a magnificent
of royal palms leading down
boathouse. The palms were
Re full grown. Some job to
ut a 60 foot royal palm Ell :?
It house is a mere trifle.
Dtories. of coquina rock and
eco, it is a beauty. Cost?
knows. Easily 100000 |
Say. Over on another part
rounds is a chicken house
10 hen housekeeping is not
"a of a millionaire. 1t cost
or $4,000 l am not sure, and
I'D with a tiled roof said to
ZEN imported from Havana,
covered once upon a time,
zee of a viceroy.
king about him one day Mr..
or some supercritical guest
mat there was no hill on the
ting oversight" murmured
1ionaire. Let there be a
- will be one. Built Of rein
concrete, it will tower per-
= ~ feet into the air and will
II q fine view of the bay and
Nrounds of the adjacent mil
| forgot to ask 1t IL had
fic elevator and was to be
8ted but doubtless such con-
will not he overlooked.
rate it will be a fine little
with waterfalls on it,
wing. and scenery to be
q its heights.
oeeing the Deering estate ]
eciate what moved the an.
ptian kings who woke up in
ing and said Run out and
Eyramid." The biggest
vas no bigger job. I'll bet
Dee ng este G.
out by the hen house
m assemblage of Cupids
bes or Venii, and statues OF
Of ancient historical and
eal personages. They stand
ke a congregation Of gods
be set up and worshipped
not stucco or plaster oil
the real thing. dug out OF
feek and Roman ruins and
hatever the conscience oil
fer and the purse OF the
hid permit. Sooner oil
will be placed.
the while Miami is great
"a x-f
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-24
VOLCANO RUN man
WINS IN 4 WALK
Walter Scott Shows Heels to
Edward Payson Weston
Crowd Yesterday

Walter Scott, the long geared run
ner of the Pan-Pacific relay team
captured the honors in the Kalakau7
avenue walk yesterday afternoon
when he finished yards ahead Of his
nearest competitor. -
The race was staged bykSam Kaha
lawei and proved to be success. Th"
walkers started from Keeaumoku and
King streets and ambled to Heine's
Tavern. Scott took the lead early in
the race and held it throughout. Peter
Neves was second, his. time being
1856. Scott had made the distance In
16.41. The other walkers finished in
the following order: Joe Stickney,
1895; Frank Fisher, 1921; Peter
Wright. 1885; David Kahalawei, 30: %
and Sam Kahalawei, 20:10.
There was q large crowd at the fin.
tsh ard the Royal Hawaiian band
played while the walkers were COM.
ing down the course. Scott has been
in training for the Volcano Run ard
should he. run as fast as ne walked
yesterday, should surprise Madame
Pele and Father Neptune. W. T. Raw.
Inns acted as walking Judge in a salts
factory manner. s."