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Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-23
CHEAP NITRATE
WILL INCREASE DELLA
WARE CROPS
Government Purchase Saves
Farmers Money

Now that the Government has
inaugurated it's plan of selling 100,
900 tons of nitrate of soda direct
to farmers, at price far below all
expectation, this state is assured
that her crops need not be reduced
because of a shortage in one of the
most important fertilizer elements.
Fortunately for Delaware the State
lies both close to shipping port
which will make for low freight
rates; and it has also a County
Agent in each County to help farm
ers become acquainted with the de-
tails of securing their goods. These
details, together with the names of
local committees have already been
announced in the various counties
through the press.
With a price delivered of less
than $50 per ton the questions each
farmer has to consider on his farm
are what crops, what amounts, and
at what time to apply the nitrate.
In the first place it is to be remem-
bered that nitrate is Is percent
actual nitrogen, highly concentrate
ed, and very soluble. Therefore it
should be used with care, in rea-
sonable quantities and usually on
a growing crop. For the grain or
general farmer nitrate will prob
ably be most generally used and
applied with the greatest profit on
wheat and hay, as spring top
dressing. At present prices of hay
crops nitrate can probably be most
profitably applied on such at the
rate of 1875 to ITS pounds per acre,
just as it is making a good start
in the spring. This will prove of
greatest profit where a good stand
OF grass obtains, make up largely
of timothy or other grasses. Where
there are mixed seedlings of clover
and timothy acid phosphate should
be applied with the nitrate at the
rate of SO to 100 pounds per acre.
Nitrate does not benefit clover and
should not be used in stand of
pure clover or very much of it in
mixture made up largely of clover.
Results at the College Farm con-
Quoted by Department of Agron-
omy show that nitrate alone ap-
piled at the rate of $50 pounds per
acre on seeding of mixed clover
and timothy has increased the
yield from 1000 to 1000 pounds per
acre, depending on the stand and
the season. With the application
costing about Sc per acre or less
it is easily observed that the use
of nitrate has been very profitable,
under above conditions. Demon
STATIONS throughout the state on a
number of farms back up these ex-
periments also.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-23

The picture will make its :,
performance at the Opera II !,
on Monday, January 18th Il
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-23

Whether it is for complete plumb
ing work for a new house or 4
small repair job, any service We
perform large or small receives
the same careful attention and skill
full handling. We have the exper-
fence, the knowledge and the facil-
tiles to do any job right, at the
right figures. Get our estimates.
w. D. DEAN NEWARK, DEL
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-23
Use In Wheat AS Top Dressing

With wheat late seeded all over
the state and in a very backward
condition generally, nitrate will
probably find it's greatest use
among the general farmers on this
crop. Many will be inclined to
hold back until it can be determin-
ed whether the wheat will pay to
leave or whether it will have to be
ploWed up for cultivated crop.
Nitrate as top dressing for
wheat in April, applied at the rate
of 100 to 1875 pounds has increased
the yield on the College Farm from
to IL bushels per acre. Similar
results have been received in other
parts of the state through the work
of the Department of Agronomy.
Nitrate will not pay so we'll on land
in a high state of productivity, or
where large amounts of fertilizer
were applied at the time of seed
ing carrying large percentage of
ammonia. Neither is it's use re-
commended where the wheat has
had manure applied at the time of
seeding or later as a top dressing.
With wheat at $500 per bushel for
the coming year, provided it is not
severely winter killed, there is
probably nothing now that the
farmer can do that will bring him
any more profit with a normal sea-
son, than use nitrate of soda.
Use On Strawberries And Truck
Crops
Nitrate has been used for some
time by truckers and strawberry
growers and with considerable
profit. It is usually applied down
the rows of Strawberries at the
rate of so to 100 pounds per acre,
about 60 days before time of ripen-
ing of berries. On general truck
crops nitrate should be applied
broadcast at the rate of 100 pounds
per acre, where the plants are one
to two inches high. AS general
thing nitrate should be used very
little and that with considerable
care on tomatoes for canning, if
a profit is to be obtained from such
applications. In these particular
conditions it will pay farmers to
take up such cases with their
County Agent.
Use In The Orchard
The Horticultural Department
of Delaware College has conducted
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-23
$25 Suits
NEW STYLES

Fine All-Worsteds and Unfin-
ished Cloths in Neat Mixtures;
Mems Models and Staple
Styles - Regular and Stout
Sizes.
Young Mems Models.
Belters, Double-Breasted and
Young Mems Specials
$40, S25 and $50
Lot of New Styles Just From
the Tailors, Made Up to Fill in
Staple Overcoats, SIS to $40.
that will cost you much more
next season and will pay You
to Buy Now.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-01-23

~ are SHOWN TWO OF the seasons pleasing oun men and
n VINO stay young Ask to see Poole" Budd" models
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
EMIL HERMAN

Whereas, Local Everett No. /,
has been in close contact with
the work of Emil Herman as
State Secretary of the Socialist
Party for the past two years,
and is in a position to observe his
work,
Therefore Be Ii Resolved By
Local Everett No. i, That we
commend him for his marked eff
ficiency, his courtesy, his enthus-
iasm in carrying on the work of
the state office and his zeal for
the cause of Socialism.
A. f. HOLMBERG, Chairman.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
DECEIVING LABOR

SAN FRANCISCO-"Four- Min
ute men" speaking at the various
theaters are urging men TO go TO
work in the ship-yards, claiming
that there is great need of them.
As a matter of fact there are
hundreds of men standing in line
at the ship-yard employment Of
fees, without any opportunity.
Some workers have even offered
big sums for a chance to go to
work.
II would seem that the crowds
of unemployed are not big enough
to suit the capitalists. Most like
ly they are trying to beat down
wages.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

We would hail with delight a
new republic in Spain, provided
Alfonso is NOT made President.
That there liz republic brewing
Is very probable; but il is rather
improbable that the republicans
will take the old king for their
new head. The statement should
be. taken with salt.
In this connection il should be
remembered that Louis Napoleon
was elected President of France
in 1919 and that in a short time
he executed his famous coup
d'etSt and re-established the En-
pire. which he held together until
the establishment of the Paris
Commune in 1871. ..Aristocrats
are not to be trusted with govern
ing power in a republic.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
WEALTH is
CONCENTRATING

WASHINGTON. d. C.-In 1914
there were just 1900 persons in
the United States with incomes of
$4,000, but in 1916 there were
l7,OS5 or, in round figures, two
and a third times as many. While
the number Of ordinary millien-
aires doubled, the number of
these multi-millionaires more than
trebled, increasing from TIA in
1914 to $50 in 1916.
These figures" says Basil
Manly "show where the increased
cost of living is going"
What are you doing about it?
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
THIS IS IMPORTANT
Kirkpatrick Meeting

Comrades and friends in Airing
ton, SnOhomish. Edmonds, Monroe,
Marysville, Langley, Freeland and
other towns near by: viii you
help to organize automobile or
boat parties from your part of
the county? And if so, WILL
YOU BEGIN AT ONCE?
Then within week, will you
drop lnie on a post card to the
Cooperative News and tell us
about how many we may expect
from your town?
Don't forget the date, Sunday,
March 10th, 2 p m.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
WEAKNESS

NEW YORK-W Weakness is a
crime, says Bernard Macfadden
in Physical Culture.
II is a crime against yourself.
II II crime against all with
whom you come in contact. And
weakness in one sex is just as
culpable as it is in the other.
II weakness is crime ii is
one for which society is re-
spOnsible to greater degree
than the individual. Henry George
has said: Poverty is a crime.
! do not mean that it is a crime
TO be poor. Murder is a crime
but it is not a crime to be muir
dered: and man who is IN pow
erty | look upon not as a Grim
inal himself so much as the VIC
tim of crime for which others,
as well, perhaps, as himself. are
responsible.
Physical weakness is always a
close attendant upon poverty.
Poverty is inevitably bred by
slums and congested industrial
conditions, where capitalistic ex-
ploitation has reached its most
efficient development. And Cap
italism cannot develop any fur
ther without creating greater
degree of poverty. and, incidental
ly, greater degree of physical
weakness. 1t is insane to say tina,
a person is himself or herself re-
sponsible because individuals can
rise above their environment. II
may be possible for a few ex-
ceptional individuals TO rise
above their environment" but for
the masses of humanity there is
absolutely no escape from mate
rial conditions-eXcepting by and
through concerted mass action.
We should strive to remove
physical weakness, as Mcfadden
advocates. Yes-by removing the
course. BY doing away with pow
Observation-Disclosures capitalist
system of production and distri-
button.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

NEWS
WOMEN SLAVES

MOBILE, Ala.--The Commits
sioners of Escanaba County are
leasing women prisoners TO con-
tractors for the small sum of Is
cents per day. The contractors
furnish board and accommoda-
tons for them. III treatment is
VIGOROUSLY the lot of the women
who are farmed out to these con-
tractors.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
ORGANIZERS JAILED

SEATTLE-Joe Carpenter, 81,
Robert Dayton, 10. and Elwell
Addington, were arrested yester-
day at the Snoqualmie Lumber
Company, near Snoqualmie Falls
by a deputy sheriff in the employ
Of the company. He turned the
criminals" over to North Bend
authorities from whence they
were taken to Seattle. They we're
organizing the logging crew in
the |. W. w, and as this is a
disreputable act, according to the
lumber trust, they viii probably
be held in jail until released at
the within Of their masters. All
are American citizens, and they
have been turned over to the
federal authorities.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
COOP PROGRESSING

GOLD BAR, Wash.-The Co
operative Union at Gold Bar is
doing a fair amount of business
Mr.. Geo. Schapper is a splendid
business manager, which speaks
success for the Union. ~
Next week will be eed-order
week, Some members have already
placed their seed orders with the
manager.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

AND OTHERS

The lumber trust has deliberate
ly delayed the production Of spruce
and other lumber production neces-
sary for war purposes, and has
raised it's prices for lumber prod
ucts in many cases TO nearly ten
times what they were before the
war, and in order to cover it's
foul footsteps it raises the cry of
"sedition" against the I. w. w.
The copper trust has made a
profit of more than thirty mil
lions Of dollars since the United
States entered the war, and has
held out for price Of 231z cents
pound for copper which their
own cost sheets show to have been
produced at an expenditure of from
8 TO II cents, and the government
inquiry commission of President
Wilson shows that the copper mag
mates have seriously interefered
with the workings of the draft
law and have hindered the pro-
duction of copper needed for war
purposes, yet the kept press of the
copper and lumber trusts in Sc
attic and elsewhere has damned
the |. w W. for the very things
of which the employing class Is
guilty.
On top of this, these patriots"
have deliberately created the i'm
preston that the federal indict-
ment against workers necessarily
mans that the accused are guilty
without the production of a parti-
Gle Of evidence, and that these
workers should thereupon be de-
MED every civil right guaranteed
to other members of society.
The men who are in jail await
ing trial are undergoing treatment
worse than that given to Russia's
condemned prisoners in the dark
est days of Carbon. One mem
Der has been driven insance in
Cook County Jail in Chicago. Men
and women are on the verge OF
isanity in our local jails and de-
tention stations according to let
ters Struggled to friends on the
outside-smuggled in free Amer
ica-smuggled in a land where the
constitution guarantees a speedy
trial by jury-smuggled by per-
sons arrested without warrant,
charged with no specific offense
and to be deemed innocent under
the law because not yet tried by
any jury nor givn any semblance
of legal hearig.
In the face of these facts we
doubt the patriotism of the lum-
Der and copper trusts; doubt the
patriotism of the capitalist press;
we doubt the patriotism of the
paid servitors of the industrial
plunderbund. We doubt also the
pretensions of law and order COM
ing from those who violate every
law and who have encouraged and
still are secretly and openly en-
couraging such lawless mobs as
the one which recently wrecked
the Pigott printing plant.-Indus-
trial Workers.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
SIGNERS COME EASY

GIG HARBOR, Wash.-I can
vassed Gig Harbor precinct yes
terday and today for the eight
hour petition. Out Of 80 solicited
! got 70 signatures. viii get
about % more Four years ago
! got three signatures. Some one
explain; ! can't.
The population is made up Of
Scandinavian ranchers, Austrian
fishermen and American scissor
bills, about equal parts Of each.
Go to it fellows. It's a cinch.
J. &. MCKEE.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

Poverty has always been ugly
and it is ugly now.
Poverty has always been cruel
and it is cruel now.
Poverty has always been Deadly
and it is deadly now.
Poverty has always been a dis
aster-and it is disaster now.
George r. Kirkpatrick.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
THE EIGHT-HOUR
INITIATIVE

The petitions for Initiative
Measure No. 80. for the establish
ment of the eight hour day, has
been sent out by the State Secre-
tary of the Socialist Party. The
active cooperation of all Socialists
is urged in securing the necessary
signatures to put it on the ballot
at the general election in Novem-
her. The signatures of at least
37,760 legal voters is required; and
these must be secured and certi-
fled by July LIST, 1918. The text
of the proposed law Is as fol-
lows:
BE 1t Enacted BY the People of
State of Washington
Section /. IL shall be unlawful
for any person, persons, corpora
ton, company or joint stock asso-
citation to cause, require. or permit
any male or female employee in
his, her or its employ to work
more than eight hours during any
day of twenty-four hours, nor more
than forty-eight hours during any
week Of seven days, except that
in agricultural labor an additional
two hours per day may be allow
ed for work which is unavoidably
and necessarily incidental to farm
management.
PROVIDED HOWEVER, That in
case of extraordinary emergency,
such as danger to life or property,
Or where such eight hour limit
would unavoidably and necessarily
prevent other workers in the same
mine, mill, factory or other in
dustrial unit from working the
full eight hour day the hours for
work may be further extended. but
in such cases the rate of pay for
time employed in excess of eight
hours of each calendar day shall
be one and one-half the rate of
pay allowed for the same amount
Of time during eight hours ser
vice.
Sec 2. If for any reason any
Of the provisions of this Act
shall be adjudged unconstitutional
or invalid it shall not affect the
validity Of the act as a whole or
any other part thereof.
Sec. 3. Any employer. overseer,
superintendent or other agent of
any such employer, who shall VIC
late any Of the provisions Of this
Act, shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined for each offense in a sum
not less than ten dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars for each
day during which such violation
continues.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
PREDICTS REPUBLIC FOR
SPAIN

NEW YORK-Will Irwin, who
has just returned from Europe,
predicts that there will be re-
public in Spain soon, as the re-
suit Of revolution and that King
Alfonso will be the first presi-
dent.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

The wOrking-class must refuse
10 be any longer cheated with
cheap limitations Of life. The work.
ing-class must invite themselves
upstairs to life, to life abundant.
George r. Kirkpatrick
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

Wages will not command abund-
ant life above the dead-line.
The Present is petty with, eve
humbly request"
The Future will be magnificent
with, eve demand"
George r. Kirkpatrick
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28
PUBLIC SCHOOLS

CONCORD, N. H.-New Hamp-
shire's superintendent of public
instruction, Ernest l.. Butterfield,
has refused to line up the public
school system of the state in the
big Red Cross membership drive
that II planned all over the coun-
try, on the ground that the public
schools should be kept free from
collections and membership drives
in organizations that are not gov
ernmental and that are outside
school control
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

Our boys should not leave home
without sitting for a photo at
MEYERS STUDIO.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

Throughout the balance of the
nation. however. the schools are
used for collection purposes and
to recruit members for organiza-
tIons that are not governmental.
1t does not seem to make any diff
ference that the schools exist for
totally different purpose - in
theory-namely, TO prepare chill
dren for the struggle of life.
Nevertheless, in practice. the
schools are used by the ruling
classes for any and every pur-
pose that will bolster up their
position in society as exploiters
and parasites.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1918-02-28

We do not deserve any more
than We are willing to help get
for the whole working class.
George X. Kirkpatrick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-13
SAYS 10 HOG ISLAND
KEELS AWAIT STEEL
Second One Laid and Freight
Tie-Up Delays Others,
Baldwin Asserts
BU q StnN CorrcsnondcnL


The second keel for fabricated ships
at the Hog Island shpyards has been
laid and keels for ten moro could be
laid at once If the steel was on hand
George X Baldwin. senior vice presl.
dent Of the American International Cor
poration and the chief executive for the
company at Hog Island, stated here
today.
Mr. Baldwin. who has taken charge
Of the presentation of the corporations
side Of the Hog Island situation to the
Senate Commerce Committee, was on
hand today to present Dudley II. Ken
redy, In charge Of all labor at the yard.
to the committee for examination. After
an hours frutless effort to gather y
quorum, the Senate committee adjourned
until tomorrow .morning at 10 o'clock.
when It is expected that Mr.. Kennedy
will be put on the stand.
The committee members indicate that
they have already heard more than they
wanted to about the shipbuilding pro-
gram. especially with reference To the
Log Island shipyard and have lost IN
tercst in the matter. 1t mas been IN
creasingly difficult for the past three
weeks To- get a quorum of the committee
10 attend the hearings and today only
senators Nelson and Jones appeared
only two or three Senators have heard
the testimony at the last three or four
hearing
Mr.. Baldwin said the failure OF the
fabricated steel to arrive at Hog Island,
which has Interrupted building, is due
chiefly to railroad congestion After the
fabrication of the steel parts and their
shipment in a continual stream to the
ward have been once fairly begun, there
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-13
"DRY" RULE WOULD
BOOST HOTEL PRICES

s4 David B. Provan. vice president and
managing director of the Adelpha Ho-
Tel, this afternoon made public seven
things that in his opinion would result
should prohibition be adopted In the
Z State OF Pennsylvania. They are as
Follows
& Prohibition means tina. wines or
fllquors will not be served with or
s1without food.
Prohibition means that food prices
.t4will be raised in all hotel restaurants.
= Prohibition means that hotel room
kprates must be advanced.
sls Prohibition means the loss to the
National Government of about 81 .O00.-
100000 per annum IN taxes, which will
s<have to be made up from some other
Prohibition 'means the throwing out
I Fof employment of thousands of people
n who have made the hotel business
q their, iifes work.
ia Prohibition means that you Will be
S,,denied your personal liberty.
Ell Prohibition, as provided for in the
proposed amendment to the Federal
i Constitution. would destroy, without
compensation. hundreds Of millions of
dollars worth of property legally ac-
3iquired and legally held for the conduct
tof a business which the Government
itself legalized, and from which the
j Government, which is the people, now
gtitakes partnership profit Of approxi-
!. .mately $1,000, 100000 annually Not
81 could have been made had the Govern
{ ment not first given its authorization
I and encouragement to the liquor traf-
< fic by law.
Can any honest citizen support such
m un-American proposal?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-13
DENY COAL JOBBERS
WILL BE LICENSED
Garfield Officials Say There Is No
Intention of Allowing Then
10 Cents a Ton

Washington. March !3.-The United
States fuel administration has no pres
ent intention of licensing the coal JOB
bcrs and allowing them to take com
mission of fifteen cents "A ton on all coal
they handle, it was said at the ad-
ministration offices today by officials
who denied the assertion made In
New York paper yesterday that such
action was to be taken.
Some time ago the fuel adminIstra-
tion issued an order preventing the coal
iobbcrs from getting their prontS from
the dealers, who would have TO pass II
along to the public. Their only means
of obtaining commissions would then
he to obtain them from the operators.
and as the price the operators can charse
is fixed by the commission the jobbers
DrofitS would of necessity come from
the pockets of the operators.
A number of jobbers from PennsNl-
vana, Maryland and West Virginia
came to Washington few days ago ana
after talking the matter over with the
Senators from their states, held con
ference with Doctor Garfield to urge the
adoption of some licensing system Tor
iobbers and the making of an arrange.
ment for them to obtain percentage or
profit. .
The fuel administrator showed no
sympathy for their plan at the time and
has shown none since. II has peen lhtl-
mated at times that in the original Or
der affecting the jobbcrs the fuel admin
istration aimed to put them out Of busi-
ness. in the belief that they were un-
necessary to the conduct of the coal
business and increased the price TO the
consumer,