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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
Importance Of Agents

After the careful merchant has
satisfied himself as to the standing
OF the companies. he should next
consider the knowledge and charnc-
ter of the agent To whom no In.
trusts his business. Iii the eyes OF
the company this man Is the nler-
chants friend and Representatives,
and is expected to make all insur-
ance dealings satisfactory, and to
see that all policies are correctly
written. This is as it should be,
for the majority of insurers know
little about the business Of insur-
ance. hence they select someone In
whom they have confidence and
rely upon him: and this confidence
should be upheld.
The agents who have their names
signed to the accompanying adver-
tisement are all business men of
the highest order and will take good
care of any business that is entrust-
ed TO them.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
LAST BIG DRIVE
FOR BOYS TODAY
Y. M. C. A. Campaigners Will
Make Final Effort to
Get Quota.
COUNTY DOES "BIT
Rural Towns Exceed Limits
in Raising Money for
Army Fund.

The last charge of the Y. NJ. c. A.
campaigners toward the $4,000 goal set
for Missoul;t county will begin at sun
M this morning. 1t will he desperate.
too. for unless the objective is gained
by nightfall the campaign will have
been Il failure. The books close to-
night, and the county committee hopes
to have more than the required amount
written there.
Yesterday no reports were turned IN,
though the campaign was carried ON
through churches everywhere in the
! county SUNDAYS results Will be ac-
counted for in todaN's reports,
| : The spirit shown during the eight
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19

day campaign has been rernar1tAbio.' :
said City Chairman George Weisel last
night. no one to whom the movement
was explained refused to help. The
minute the people understood that ev-
cry penny subscribed was to be used
In giving comforts and recrcations to
the men in training camps and over
there the response was generous"
The smaller towns, OF the county
were especially generous. Frenchtown
St. Tgnatius, Roman. Tabor-all these
exceeded their quotas.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
Boy Finds Rolls Of Money;
Sells 5000 for 4 Gents

Syracuse, y. T., Nov. 1S.-1.ittle
Emmett Green, 6 years old, found $o,01O
in three rolls and before he had re-
ported his find to his parents he sold
two. one containing $1,000 and the
other 5000 for . cents 4 roll. The
purchases were made by a man. who
the boy said he found sitting on a
bench in the park. He has given to
the police a good description Of the
man. The money belonged to Mrs.
Mary F,isaro and her brother, the
safings Of four years. ,s-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
America Still Confident.

Washington, Nov. 1S.-Confidence
that negotiations looking to the eX-
change Of American steel for Japa-
ncse tonnage will be concluded sue
ccssfully was expressed by officials
here tonight, despite lapans apparent
refusal to sell her ships at the prices
offered The question of price, it was
said, is the only point that remains TO
/ be cleared up.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
Okari Totori Will Form
New Finnish Government

London, Nov 1S.--Okari Totori, the
Social Democratic leader in Finland,
and former Finnish premier, Is OK
pected to form Il new Finnish govern
ment on Monday, according to a Hap
amanda dispatch transmitted by the
Exchange correspondent ut Copen-
hagen. The diet will proclaim Finland
an independent republic on that day,
the dispatch adds.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
His Statement duplicates
Himself in Hindu Revolt

Chicago. Nov. 1S.--Joseph ". Moth,
arrested here with documents showing
his connection with the German secret
service. today was said to have made
Il statement to the government Off
Gals which will result in his being
taken before the grand jury and ques-
toned concerning the Hindu revolt
plot and principals in which will go 10
trial in San Francisco tomorrow.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
Insurance
FROM THE
Standpoint
OF THE
| Merchant

Insurance indemnify IS
the result of a contract,
whereby for a stipulated
consideration, called pre-
MUM, one party under
takes to indemnify the
other against loss by GER
tain risks. That is to say |
a merchant insures his
house or his merchandise
against loss by fire. Keep
ing money in your sock is
good as far as it goes, but
a reliable bank is much
safer, and more convent
ent; the same considera-
ton should be given to
other valuable property. 1t
is better to place your faith
in some good old-line fire
company than to trust en-
tirelv to a Waterman.
Faith and trust are very good in
their way, but ms man proposes
aud God disposcs," the merehah'
must use the most reliable indem-
nifyiug clements placed at his dts
posal il he wishes to be compcnsai-
cd for losses by fire or casualties.
! Upnc. IL is Of the utmost impor-
| tancc to merchants that they pc
| furnished with the most reliable m
! demnlty, otherwise commerce cail-
| not be carried on safely 10 any
| great extent.
This being the case what class
Of protection should the merchant
| place his faith III, Experience
| teaches that for indemnity against
losses from fire the reliable Old
line stock insurance companies are
the most satisfactory They are the
old world wide indsmnltyinS COM
| panIcs, and the source to whom the
merchant mus, look for reimburse
| mcnt from fire lusScS.
re the insurance companies are
To rehabiiitate the merchant after
the eonfiaeration, they must be al
lowed tn grow To proper proper
| tlons, and should be permitted &c
charge adequate rates To enanif
them to meet their losses. Tn,
careful buyer Of indemnity. cspe'
cially fire indemnity, should als'
carefully acrutiniZe the sworn state
ments Of the companies AS made u
the insurance department Of thu
state; particularly as to their loss
paying power. which consists, as al
merchants should know, of but cap
ital and surplus.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19
GENERAL MAUOE SICK.

London NOV is Major General
Frederick s Maudc. commanding the
British forces III Mesopotamia. accord
INC to the Daily Mail. is sick.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-19

\ man with a single idea is Il crank
That's why 50 many men are cranks
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
SOCIALISTS ENCOURAGED

Tremendous drifts to Hillquit have
thoroughly alarmed the old-party
politicians. Wherever two or three
politicians of either of the old par
ties talk together, there the $50
cialist menace" to old-party rule is
the chief topic of conversation. When
ever capitalist newspaper appears
on the streets there is at least one
story dealing with the new political
phenomenon of an approaching So
cialist victory in New York city.
The capitalist politicians and the
capitalist press have been shocked
into realization that their grip
upon the greatest city of the Western
world is about to be broken.
"Hillquit will have to be beaten
in the count" is the word that is be-
ginning to be sent down the line.
Heretofore the rival political ma
chimes have been too busy trying to
count each other out to pay much
attention to Socialist nominees for
mayor.
But, in the words of a capitalist
politician, ''it's different this year;
the man who wins will have to beat
Hillquit, unless Hillquit is the next
mayor"
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
MUST KEEP AT 1T

There are many things that we
must refer to from time to time in
order to bring home to the minds
of our readers the conditions that
certain functions to perform and
these functions should be performed
even though we get weary of re-
peating them and sometimes on the
verge of allowing things to go to the
dogs.
There never yet was paper print
ed that satisfied all the people and
probably there never will be so we
must keep what we have and try
and get along with it. The siren
Gus work of getting out this paper
can easily be seen when one refers
back to a few years ago when three
persons were employed to do the
work that one is doing now on a
larger paper. Times have changed,
hence the change of conditions. Dol
lars are not so plentiful among the
workers although they work just as
hard. Competition among the bust
ness element is keener because dol
lars are scarcer and many a little
merchant is facing bankruptcy. He
no doubt voted for it and perhaps
will never have intelligence enough
to do otherwise. He likes the
competitive system because it offers
that place AT THE TOP yet to which
very few ever reach. They neve
reach it because there is only room
for few at the top. These bust
ness men are competing for your
dollars. Are you willing to hand
over your dollars without trying to
persuade them to spend little on
an advertisement in this paper? If
enough Of you act simultaneously
they will get busy We must have
more finances to keep the paper 60
ing, but we do not want you to hand
the money to US when it can be OBJ
tanned from the merchants with a
little effort on your part. Place one
of our advertising slips in every
BUSINESS house in the city. That is
all we ask you to do. 1t is little
enough for the cause for which you
and / are fighting. Every nickle
you spend with others than adver-
tisers is money being used to. per-
petuate the capitalist system. We
must keep at it. Will you do your
part?
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
COAST LABOR
MEN INDORSE
LA TOILETTE
California =. Il. of l.. Expresses
Confidence in His
Integrity

SACRAMENTO, Cal, - without
discussion and without dissenting
vote, delegates to the California
State Federation of Labor conven-
ton adopted n resolution indorsing
Senator La Toilette, asking for him
the right to express the views "of
an intelligent minority" and ex-
pressing confidence in his integ-
rity and loyalty cas- true Ameri-
can citizen"
The resolution, offered by Daniel
f. Tattanham of the San Francisco
BARRIERS union, reads
Whereas recent articles in the
press note the condemnation and
even the intended impeachment of
United States Senator Robert M.
La Toilette of Wisconsin in the
United States Senate, on account
of his minority stand on certain is
sues of our present war; and
"Whereas the great body of the
American labor movement yields to
none in it's loyalty and fealty to
our nation in this, her hour of
need; and
"Whereas the long years of ex
perience and deep friendship be-
tween Senator La Toilette and or
ganized labor, in whose cause no
truer friend has labored, directs the
California State Federation of La
Dor in its 18th annual convention
in regular session assembled, in the
city of Sacramento, in speaking a
message of calmness and tolerance
to all citizens of our land during
this great war crisis; therefore be
it
Resolved, that we ask for Rob
ert M. LaFollette the greatest right
of all democracy, right to be
heard, a right to express the views
of an intelligent minority, for on
this rock is founded all liberty;
Resolved, that we convey to SEN
ator La Toilette our confidence in
his integrity and loyalty as true
American citizen, even though he
differs with the great majority of
labor and our people on some sub
jects of war"
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
JUDGE BLACK
BRAYSLIkE
A DEMOCRAT

In last Sundays Tribune, Judge
w. w. Black, father of Snohomish
County's kid" Prosecuting Attorney
gets quite sassy in write-up in
which he urges everyone to buy
Liberty Bonds. He says if you don't
buy them "Then you are no Pa
triot. You are low-down, measly,
hypocritical Stacker"
That certainly sounds like the
braying of an ass,
If people have to be cussed and
threatened into buying these bonds
there must be some good reason for
the backwardness of the people, and
if our "stay at home patriots" would
investigate thoroughly they would
discover that these "slackers" have
learned enough about things in gem
eral to have absolutely nothing to do
nth the wild schemes of neither
politicians nor plutocrats.
Hrndl eds of thousands of workers
in this country have been compelled
TO buy these bonds in order to hold
their jobs. The choice of buying
Liberty Bonds or getting fired has
been put up to employees by many a
boss in this country. In other
words the Liberty Bond buyer was
somebody's SLAVE but the buying
of the Liberty Bond did not free
the man from slavery. 1t only
gave the master a greater hold on
the SLAVE
Webster's defines a slave as Gone
whose person or services are under
the control of another as owner or
master" So Br. Black wants the
workers to buy Liberty Bonds in
order to make the slave system more
secure. But Mr.. Black has some
real estate to sell. Yes. He's one
of those real estate sharks Fur
Their on in his vaporings he says:
II will sell all or any of my real
| SoCoCC az my iOWCoC CdoIl PIlCc dIlO
TAKE LIBERTY BONDS IN PAY
MENT." (The Capitals are our)
So you see Mr.. Black is parasite
He sells land that was taken away
from the Indians and held by white
men to exploit white men. See what
a useful person Mr.. Black is. He
lays around in his office waiting
for some slave, who wants to buy q
piece of land in order to break away
from wage slavery, comes in and
then sells this poor slave a piece OF
land that 10 chances out of one he
will never actually own. And the
land was here long before Mr.. Black
and the rest of his ilk.
Yes indeed, Mr.. Black ought te
talk about hypocrits.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
WAR TAXES

The United States is headed for
bankruptcy. With the new war
taxes that will be imposed upon the
American people next month will
come more misery, more crime and
more lunacy than the American con-
tinent has ever seen. Hundreds of
businesses Will go bankrupt for it
will be an utter impossibility for the
workers wages to cover the many
increased prices that will be thrust
upon them.
The taxes upon commodities and
amusements will be thrust ultimately
upon the consumer and they will in
turn demand more wages, thus
strikes will become more numerous
and misery more prevalent.
by means if Liberty Bonds will be
paid back-providing these debts are
not repudiated-through the sweat
and blood of the workers. All wealth
is produced by the working class
and if the government promises to
pay back certain sum to certain
people, that money can only be
raised through the production of com
modities. There never has been
and never will be dollar made ex-
cept by the sweat and blood of the
workers, so the workers can size up
the situation and make up their
minds that thy will have to pay the
billions of dollars that are now being
spent in senselesS war.
1t would seem to be quite enough
that men must fight each other to
death in times of war, without be-
ing also called upon to engage in
perpetual and deadly competition
during times of peace. But that is
what will happen. For many years,
after the war is over, the workers
will have to grind out wealth in or
der to pay for the debts accumulated
by a government that is supposedly
aiming at making the world safe
for Democracy" Yes, the toilers
will HAVE to sweat, will HAVE to
compete with one another for jobs,
will HAVE to eat cheap food and
wear shoddy clothes after this war
-UNLESS-they rise up in their
might on election day and sweep
out of office every Tom, Dick and
Harry who upholds the present sys-
TEN of wage slavery and Institutes
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
EVERETT COOP ELECTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

At the first quarterly meeting of
the Everett Cooperative Society,
held in the Forum last Wednesday
all of the temporary board of dir
ectors were reelected with the ex-
ception of three. Of these R. j.
Olinger had left the city. ]. H.
Davis declined nomination and J..
Boiler was defeated by a narrow
margin. The new directors are:
John Westberg, M. l.. STADIUM and
John Erland.
The board of directors are as fol-
lows:
II. w. Watts, President
w. j. Fortson, Vice-P President.
Directors: Mrs. Tillie Roeder, John
Westberg, Alvin Patterson, Thos.
Walker, Mrs. G. Schulz, John Pet
terson, John Erland, A. E. Holm
berg and M. L. STADIUM.
The Board of Directors meet every
second and forth Wednesday at the
store. The secretary, treasurer, shop
committee, educational committee
and finance committee are elected
by the board.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
THE WOMAN AND HOG

The relative value of woman and
hog was illustrated in Wisconsin
recently. A woman wrote to the
governor that she had large fam
lily to support and was suffering
with tuberculosis and desired state
aid. About the same time letter
was received from a man who de-
sired aid for a bog which showed
symptoms of cholera. The governor
sent word to the woman that no APP
preparation had been made for tu-
berculosis victims, and at the same
time a man was hurriedly dispatch
ed with a supply of cholera serum
to the rescue of the hog. This in
cident tells its own story without
further comment.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
AUSTRIAN AND
GERMAN NAVY
IN MUTINY

AMSTERDAM,--A mutiny among
German sailors at the Belgian port
of Ostend who refused to go on
board submarines is reported by the
"Belgisch Gagblad." The newspaper
says an officer was thrown into the
sea and thirty mutineers were re-
moved in handouts to Bruges.
WASHINGTON Mutiny has
broken out in the Austrian navy as
well as in the German. In addition,
clashes of serious nature have
occurred between German and Aus
TRAN officers and sailors at the
naval base at Pola. SO high was the
feeling between the Austrian sailors
and the German submarine crews
at Pola that the Austrian command
moved the Germans to another base
in the southern Adriatic.
This information contained in
official dispatches from Rome,
which included the further veri-
fled statement that as result of
the Pola incident a serious contro-
versy had arisen between the Aus
trian and German high commands,
made profound impression on ma
val authorities here. Especially was
this so when the Austrian troubles
were considered in relation to the
Wilhelmshaven mutiny in the Ger
man navy and more serious mutiny
among German sailors who refused
to go out in submarines.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
MY COUNTRY

(By Robert Whitaker)
My country Is the world; count
No son of man may foe,
Whether the warm life-currents
mount
And mantle brows like snow
Or red or yellow, brown or black,
The face that into mine looks back.
My native land is Mother Earth,
And all men are my kin,
Whether of rude or gentle birth,
However stepped in sin;
Or rich, or poor, or great, or small,
] count them brothers, one and all
My birthplace is no spot apart,
| claim no town nor State;
Love hath no shrine in every heart,
And wheresoe'r men mate
To do the right and say the truth,
Love evermore renews her youth.
My flag is the star-spangled sky,
Woven without seam,
Where dawn and sunset colors lie,
Fair as an angels dream;
The flag that still, unstained, untorn,
Floats over all Of mortal born.
NV Darty is all Humankind
My platform brotherhood;
| count all men of honest mind
Who work for human good,
And for The hope that CLEANS afar,
My comrades in this holy war.
My heroes are the great and good
OF every age and cline,
Too often Knocked, misunderstood,
And murdered in their time
But spite of ignorance and hate
Known and exalted soon or late.
My country is the world; ] scorn
No lesser love than mine,
But calmly wait that happy morn
When all shall own this sign,
And love of country as of clan,
Shall yield to worldwide love of
man.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
BJJTCHERIES IN
PEACE AND WAR

Last Monday the papers published
a story of the butchery, by German
cruisers, of the crews of the mer-
chantmen in the North Sea. 1t also
tells the story of two women wav-
ing white flags who were shot down
by the German Cruisers. Whether
the story be true or not and we
haven't the least doubt about it's
truthfulness, because all men are
fiends when they get that military
spirit into their system, we want
to refer back to an incident that
happened in New York, II years
ago.
1t was June 80, 1900, when the
pier of the North German Lloyd
Steamship company at Hoboken, N.
Y, caught on fire and it was but a
few minutes before the flames COM
municated to four ships. The flames
seemed to spread Immediately to the
cargo on the decks and nj the holds
and in a few minutes all the ships
were wrapped in flames, each bear
ing scores of shrieking and frantic
human beings. Many of these took
chance by jumping into the water
and here the story of brutality starts.
The moment the fire started tugs
raced to the scene in order to get
salvage money. Thousands of dol
lars were in sight for the Tug boat
companies. AS they approached the
burning ships the men in the water
made frantic efforts to get aboard.
and it is here where the story of
mans inhumanity to man." is again
told. The crews ON the tug boats
beat back the drowning men from
the boats. In one instance an axe
was used to loosen the human holds
upon the tugs and they sank back
into the water minus their hands.
The story of the crimes perpetrated
that day by human beings upon hui
man beings, brings. to mind the old
saying that lives are cheaper than
property. The salvage of the burn
ing ships We're of more value than
human lives. Human beings would
be in the way of the fire fighting
crews. And human beings all the
world over, we care not what ma
tionality, color or creed they might
happen to be, at times become muir
derous brutes and during war time
the blood lust is uppermost in
mans mind.
We have told the story of Ludlow,
Homestead, Lawrence, Everett and
Bisbee and all of these point to one
cause and one solution. The cause
is the private ownership of the mills,
mines factories, ships, etc, and the
solution is the collective ownership
of these means of wealth production.
Once this is brought about lives
will be of more value than property.
wars will end for all time and the
human race will be one family.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
GOLD BAR TO HAVE
A COOPERATIVE

A Cooperative Society is being or
gained at Gold Bar, Wash, by the
farmers and workers. 1t is the
intention of this Society to supply
the Gold Bar and Startup districts
with the necessities of life on the
Rochdale plan.
A meeting will be held next Sun
day, October %, at 2 p. m. in the
Farmers Union Hall. Some of the
Everett Co-operators will be in at
tendance to talk the matter up.
Twenty members are already paid
up.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25
STATEMENT OF
THE OWNERSHIP

Management, etc., required by the
act of Congress of August "a, 1912,
of The Cooperative News published
weekly at Everett, Washington for
October l, 1917.
Publishers-Henry w. Watts, Ev-
erett, Wash.
Editor-None.
Managing Editor Henry w.
Watts, Everett, Wash.
Business Manager-None.
Owners-Henry w. Watts, Everett
Wash.
Bondholders, mortgages, security
holders-None.
HENRY w. WATTS.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 10th day of October, 1917.
GEORGE w. LOUTITT.
My commission expires April 10,
1919.
When through with the paper pass
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25

Owing to the over production of
cabbage this year, food conserva-
tionists are urging the eating of
more sauerkraut by Americans. The
questions is, would that be pa
triotic?
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25

Your HONOR" said the prospec-
tive juror, 81 can not conscientiously
serve in this case. l have a fixed
opinion. One look at the face of
the defendant, here, is enough to
convine me of his guilt"
"Hush," whispered the Judge.
"That is the states attorney"
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-10-25

"Of all the agencies which are at
work to elevate those who labor
with their hands, there is none so
promising as the present Co-opera-
tive movement. John Stuart Mill.