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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
ABERDEEN EAGLES
STAGE FESTIVAL
old Age Pension Fund Started by
the Fraternal Order Of Eagles

0h December CTS. the Eagles club
Of the Aberdeen Aerie No. "a. is going
to stage an indoor festival and frolic
II the Eagles hall. in Aberdeen. -Four
high class vaudeville acts have been
engaged to perform every night. There
win be dancing. fun. comedy and
mfrth galore.
The FraternaI Order Of Eagles are
organising old age pension clubs all
over the United States. The mem.
bers og these committees need not
be members OF the Eagles lodge. Many
proEnlnant men are taking 10 J, n 3
part In this campaign. The Hon,
William J. Brennon OF Pittsburg, Pa,
and Hon. NJ. o. Burns of Hamilton,
Ohio, have drafted the bill to be pre-
sented in most all Of the state legis-
Iative bodies this fall and spring. II
viii also come up in the national body
for consideration at the next session.
The Aberdeen lodge, realizing that
it takes money for literature and for
speakers, are staging this indoor frolic
for this fund. Ali entertainment win
be clean and OF the highest nature.
Booklets and pamphlets will be dis
tributed to the homes; speakers win
be engaged to speak at free public
mass meetings: ministers viii be re-
auested to preach a sermon on this
subject and members of the state leg
islative bodies win be asked to at
tend the mass meetings. Any one
desiring any Of these booklets or lit
erature shall have the same by call
ing up Fred Travis, secretary, Aber-
deem aerie No. "a, at Phone 554, Alb
erdeen.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
LARGE GATHERING
AT DILL BANQUET


SEATTLE, Nov. LSenator-elect
G. c. Din, last Thursday night, at q
great public banquet, rendered him by
admirers and supporters, in the crys-
tai Pool, thrilled his hearers with the
greatest speech yet delivered by min.
over a thousand were seated at the
banquet tables, at the dollar plate
banquet, in a great outpouring of sup
porters and admirers which was nom
partisan, in the main, and which was
made up OF progressive republicans,
1aborites, democrats, and people Of all
shades Of progressive politi es
taught.
Mayor Brown opened the speaking
in brief and snappy address OF well
come in which be declared that the is
sue now was not Of party candidate
versus another party candidate, but
that of progressiyeism versus reac-
tionaryism, or the people versus the
special interests, regardless of party
affillation. He declared that the vic
tory won In the last election was only
the forerunner of a general cleanup
in 1924 a dozen or more speakers
were introduced, including the Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, who was given the
seat Of honor Of Senator-elect Dill's
right. as public token Of the fact
that labor had won the campaign.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES

Il cost about four million dollars to
elect the new congress this year, has
ed on reports of campaign expenses
filed with the clerk Of the house. Il
is eGtimated the candidates for the
Senate spent $4,000 average for each
And members Of the House an aver
age of $4,000.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24

Published in the Interest of
An Those Who Work, and
Adhering TO the Policy Of
the American Federation Of
Labor. Labor omnia Vincit.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24

oilltial Organ = ths kheE.
6eea Central labor Council
HeauIam Trades aud Labor
Council and the darlington
State Federation of Labor
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
hEwRERRN REsInNs

Newberry resigns his seat in the
Senate. Well he saved the senator's
elected by labor and it's friends the
trouble to oust him.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
VOTERS
ASK FOR RESULTS;
TIRED Of DEBATES
d sENAToR cAPPER

The American voter Is getting har-
der to please. Every election proves
1t. The good old days when you
could satisfy him with 3 string Of
beads or a tin whistle are gone. Now
adays he is not contented with some
thing approximatIng substantial achie-
vement, he must have ali the things
which it seems to him obviously
should be done. accomplished.
The present administration was
elected two years ago by record
vote as the country's deliverer from
Red Sea Of troubles. Il has with
difficulty crossed over to receive on
the opposite bank !. note to enthusi-
astic reception f7f4a the delivered in
arec0lG cssY~e vote. It is true there
are swan and quieksands stiIl to
be encoah.e "a, but t Is something to
be alive, something to be able to see
the fiFmer land not SO far ahead.
In the present election. the out
standing fact IS the Republican party
lost the labor vote and was only saved
from political disaster BY the farmer
vote. Moved by what Congress had
done, and BY the promise Of 4 com.
plete agricultural program later, the
farmers very generally supported the
party in power.
Following Two Years
To overcome labor's detection Il
going to take time. Meantime unless
Congress and the administration can.
within the next two years. put through
the constructive program putting as
riculture on a permanently sound ba-
Sc, they must be prepared to meet
with further and more serious e
verses.
Aside from this pronouncemenf reg.
istered at the ballet box, the verdict
naturally reflects the prevailing dis.
content with the retarded and unsat.
factory recovery from the war. With
the prolonged and critical slump inl
farp prices whiie nla q aci szsa olIs.
have remained at prices cI0se 70 war
levels; with the burden Of heavy tax.
alton. with excessive high rail rates.
and with strikes.
In debt and tax reduction, the rec
ord Of achievement at Washington Is
particularly good. But no administfa.
tion and no Congress could have ac-
complished n IS months what was ex-
Dected Of this administration and this
Congress-. The administration still
has a working majority in the Senate
though barely that in the House.
Significant Of the widespread dis
satisfaction Of the public with the
railroad situation and the pablic's
helpless position in relation to rates,
is the defeat Of almost every Senate
member Of the Interstate Commerce
Committee who assisted in drafting
the Cummlns -Esch transportation act
This also, was one Of the big factors
(Continued on Page six)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
STATE Federation
ASKS COMMISSION
TO ENFORCE LAWS
SAD FederatIon euIletIn.l


SEATTLE, Nov %. - Some time
telegram, requested the interstate
commerce commission to see to It that
unsafe equipment operating out of the
Everett yards was properly inspected
and inspection and safety rules en-
forced. A favorable reply was receiv-
ed, stating that inspectors were being
ordered to go to Everett at the earli-
est opportunity. Shortly afterwards
wreck occurred. north of Everett.
on the Great Northern road, in which
three lives were lost The Federation
again put the matter up to the inter-
state commerce commission, by let
ter, which read in part as follows:
We are sure you will agree that
the government must share its re-
sponsibility If any avoidable accident
occurs, such as this one, that could
have been avoided had the inspection
and safety rules promulgated for the
protection of the travelling public beon
properly enforced.
Interests of Public
The government has from time to
time, recently, taken the position that
the interests of the public were para
mount to every other interest that
may relate to transportation, and 1t
seems to US that inasmuch as the gov
ernment has used its powers to try
and force labor employed on the roads
to accept wages and conditions not
otherwise acceptable to them, that the
powers of the government might now
be well used in the interests of all
concerned, to compel the Great North
ern Northern Pacific and other roads
operating out of Everett to fully COM
ply with the inspection and safety
rules laid down; and that II the pres
ent non-union, inefficient and incom-
petent workmen now employed by
them are incapable of maintaining the
equipment in a safe condition, and
that the lives of the public are being }
sacrificed as a result as has noN- 6s.,s-
fore IDLY proven, that the powers of
the government might we'll be- tm-
ployed to influence those roads to set
tie with their old employees, and
through such a settlement restore the
equipment through their efficient and
competent help again to a safe condl-
tion that will guarantee to the travel
ing public the protection our govern
ment is supposed to afford"
The letter also asks the go 5ern-
ment to either take steps to effe i
settlement of the strike or, failing in
that, to see to 1t that the inspec ion
and safety rules are rigidly enfoi cod.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24
PLAY SANTA CLAUS
TO Miners EIDDIES
BY. VIM. IA. SHORT,
President washington state Fedora

A4N4t " i-a4tA0a1
The spirit Of Christmas is begin
ming to spread its kindly Influence
throughout the land and onr thoughts
Eare naturally turned to thoss who
may be denied its pleasures. and this
brings forcibly to mind the hundreds
OF miners children IN the striking
coal camps Of King and Pierce coun-
ties who have been for some time,
throughout circumstances over which
neither they nor the miners rgan-
ization had any control, compelled 10
sabsist on an allowance OF dlllar
week relief for adults and so cents
a week for chiiSren.
Il win be a cold and unhappy Christ.
mas for many hundreds Of these chill
dren unless the heart Of the Trades
Union movement Of Washington can
be opened ana their needs provided
for at the festive season.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1922-11-24

Large delegations Of laborites were
among those present. including dele
cations from the building trades coun-
ell. the culinary workers, central labor
= - = -.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
Things to Think On.

To the Church Members OF Brentwood: As
we have had some very. plain but true
preaching here in Brentwood recently | would
like at this time to give you a few words
to think on. | will ask you to get your BIZ
bles and turn with me to Hosea, xiv chap
ter, and read the entire chapter; it is short,
only contains nine verses.
Let us see what Israel means; turn to
Genesis 1928 and we will see that it means
one who through prayer prevails with God.
This is what we church members should
be-true soldiers of Cod; but are we? Does
not the first verse Of Hosea IA describe
the church today? If so let lis return unto the
Lord at once.
Now turn with me to Hosea xiii and 9th
verse and see what we find there: 20 Israel
thou hast destroyed myself, but in me (God)
is thine help"
May I ask how we have destroyed our
selves? Is it not in going out after the
praises and plaudits OF the world than do
serving God, and being found working for
Him? Can we go to the modern swimming
pool and there carry Christ? And [ might
also mention the modern dance and card
table Do we find Christ at these places? |
say we do not, but we can find many So
called Christians there. If we His (Christ'D
how can we expect others to be led to
Christ through our daily lives? This is writ
ten at random, but | hope that it will put
some one who chances to read it to think
ing on their ways and that you will live a
| more ConseCrated Christian life in the fll-
ture. | will close by giving a list of few
verses from Gods word that | would like
for you to search out and read AS you read
| remember what Israel means: Gods sol
diers.' Hosea 81; Hosea 4th chapter also
! Revelations 22nd chapter.
Brentwood, Ga. R I. CHILDS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
Government Ownership.

Although the time may be far distant when
government ownership of railroads shall be
established in this country a great many care
fu1 students of economies believe it to be an
inevitable development. 1t is well known that
railway employees OF practically all classes
greatly desire such an arrangement OF
transportation. Economists are divided on the
issue, among them being statesmen and in
dividua1 leaders, the war time government
operations Of the roads having failed to
alarm those who have chung to the theory
of government ownership. They still believe
despite Mr.. McAdoo's famous "scrambllng OF
the lines" that method OF government
ownership could be maintained on safe
basis
The News would confess that it believes
that it ought to be possible to establish gov
ernment ownership OF any utility and to con
duct service for the people that would be
meritorious honest and reasonable as to
cost: but it would not say that it expects
any such Utopian establishment. Whether
government administration i'll present day
civilization is too far from perfection Tor that
kind OF an arrangement to be realized now
or whether that goal ever will be approached
much more closely, is a question we cannon
answer and will not attempt. Suffice it to say
that some very prudent thinkers are III v1o-
lent disagreement that proper government
control Of transportation would be set up to
the satisfaction of the people and the pro-
tectiorf Of their pocketbooks. For the pres
ent there are such strong memories OF gov
eminent red tape, OF grating by officials
trusted and honored, OF the perils that come
from lack of competition, OF indifference that
results in a service that is measured by rule
OF thumb that approval OF government own
ership is not at all acceptable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
Some Of Tom Watson's Famous Sayings

The man who strives merely to run with
the biggest crowd is at best, a sorry Crea-
ture. The man who strives to be right and
to do right is, after all the only citizen who
can rest under the infinite comfort Of an ap
proving conscience.-From an editorial in
1905.
No man holds his life for himself, hut holds
its splendid gifts as a trustee-a trustee who
must come to an account some day with
the Most High-From editorial
There is glory in defending the right, no
matter how goes the tide of success. There
IS inspiration in working for the plain peo
pie, when they cheer you on as they are
cheering.-From an editorial.
Let no man be ashamed of being in the
minority. Let him be ashamed, only, OF be
ing in the wrong-From a speech delivered
in 1904 during his campaign as Populist can
dldate for president
One motive should be supreme Let there
be no republicans, no populists, no demo
Gratis, but simply southern men who stand
together for the common rights OF our ma
tive land.-From speech before the cotton
convention in New Orleans in 1905.
To the ordinary the rough block OF
marble, just from the quarry is block of
marble, and it is nothing more In his hands
1t would never be anything more. But the
sculptor, looking upon the same rude block,
sees "an angel within the stone and delft
ly with his chisel he works and works until
III the stone and the world possesses an
Apollo, Greek slave, a Nenus-"a thing Of
beauty and a JOY forever So there can new
er be good government, wise government
just laws, happy conditions until some
statesman conceives the idea and works with
all his soul and heart and mind to bring
forth into actual existence that which he has
conceived.-From an editorial.
My heart may be dirt long before the
good times return-yet nothing but a voice
from on High could make waver in the
belief that the southern ideals will come
again. They must, or the last OF the great
republics is doomed.-Excerpt from a dis
cussion of the country's history in his book,
Socialists and Socialism.
Figs are not gathered from thistles, nor
are happy results to be obtained from I'M
just laws.-Editoria1 in n. Y. World, 1906
Another one OF the funny things of this
war-bug is to hear a Jewish tenor singing
an Irish love song, to a marching air.-Topic
in the "SentineI' in 1917
No banner flies from any pinnacle which
marks the high-tde OF human achievement
until after countless thousands have spent
their strength and their lives to plant it
there-Editorial comment in Jeffersonian,
1917.
Truth is not the Jack-o- Lantern moving
III zig-zag course leading the traveller at
night into the bag. Truth is steady beacon
light that bazes across the stormy waters,
whose radiance the mariner steers and es-
capes the reefs where the ships go down.
Campaign speech in New York, 1904.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
ODES TO ORDER.

Its middling hard to earn your ration like
Edgar Guest and Walter Mason by versify-
ing all creation. For be they sad or be they
gay they needs must write rhyme day,
must catch the Muses. streaming hair and
drag her screaming from her lair and thus
syndicaters fire them for hing down on gents
that hire them You know yourself how mad
it makes you, Just after gentle Morpheus
takes you, when friend wife nudges you and
wakes you TO kick poor pussy out OF doors
or do some other household chores. Just
fancy you were Edgar Guest and thus in
soft tones were addressed My dear, | hate
to break your rest. but you must rise and
rack your dome, for YOU forgot your daily
pome" 0 there are times both now and then
when rude rhymes roll right off my pen. /
sit me down and in jiffy I have some vers,
es fresh and spiffy But other times I sit and
weep and feign would sell my Tyre cheap. My
trains OF thought ali miss the junction.; my
bald old bean is off its function.
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
Character VS.. Ancestry.

It does no harm for one to know VINO
ones ancestors were. but it is not crime
Il one is in ignorance regarding them. Ot
course every individual has as many ances-
tors as every other individual, but the differ
ence NAV lie in knowing about them and
about what they did or failed to do. That
serves TO impress the aristocrat with teel-
ing of exclusiveness, which is better under
stood bv the phrase, holier than thou. Yet
tbe olebian. so called, who may like corn
beef and cabbage and be not ashamed OF IT.,
NAV be inside and outside a more acceptable
nerson to any society that searches before
it welcomes.
In divorce case agitating eastern society
circles one of the complaints Of man against
his wife is that she did not know who
her father was. II that were all it might be
marked off in democratic America where
some very famous and splendid persons have
been without that knowledge regarding their
own origin 1t is no crime for one to be in
ignorance about ones father or ones moth
err although it may be considered mistor-
tune Inversely it might also be blessing
Character is what counts, whether one
knows ones ancestors or does not. Even
an aristocrat, who boasts OF blue blood,
might learn the moral truth OF individuals
own worth for transcending all else that
could lie in the past
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
SOMETHING IS WRONG.

Cincinnati Enquirer: Highly instructive is
the intelligence from New York announcing
the unloading at the dock of a cargo OF
100000 bricks purchased in Holland Tor use
in this country. The purchaser was one OF
the large industrial insurance companies
which has set out to construct number OF
large tenement dwellings, with rentals low
enough to accommodate the purses OF the
working population in which interest the
building is going forward. Explanation is
made by the officers of the company that
the bricks can be imported for less money
than they can be purchased in New York, and
so long as the market price is pegged the
importations will continue. From this the de
duction is fairly drawn that the effort made
by the New York general assembly last
Year to decentralize the brick industry is not
a complete success. Results speak for them
selves. Also it very likely explains the I'M
usual effort made at Washington before the
tariff committees to place what seemed to
be an extraordinarily high duty upon bricks.
1t is proper to presume that the material
men Soresaw that these importations might
cnsue and endeavored to forestall them. Al
together il is a striking commentary upon
conditions that American contractors should
GO 5000 miles across sea-water to buy Dutch
brick with which to build homes for the
poor in the metropolis Something wrong
somewhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
About Ice.

A New York bank that has been looking
up the figures OF ice production estimates
that the peoples ice bill in the United States
averages approximately $1000,000 per day
An interesting and perhaps romantic story
could be written about ice Though ice is
natural product in many other lands 1t IS
particularly an American institution-that is
to say the use of ice for refrigeration and
in the making of iced drinks is an American
institution. The use of ice now has spread
to all countries There was time, begin
ming about 1905 and continuing Tor perhaps
100 wears, when the United States exported
ice to sem-tropica1 and tropical countries,
but TODAY. instead of sending the ice, 1t sends
machinery to produce ice. Formerly all ice
was natural product but in the closing
wears of the civil war its production by arti-
fetal means was begun in New Orleans.
Now according to the census OF I9zO, there
are ice factories in every state III the union
except New Hampshire and Nermont-more
than $500 OF them all told. As the produc-
ton OF artificial ice increases the use OF nat
ural ice decreases. The southern states no
longer use natural ice, and even III northern
states where the natural product IS to be
had for the harvesting more artificial than
natural ice is being used. The United States
is now exporting ice making machinery to
all parts Of the world, the value OF such eX-
portations in the year 1921 aggregating So
}91 900.
Like many other articles now OF daily use
ice long acc ceased to be luxury and be
came necessity-at least in the United
States. Every American home even the
hunblest, has its ice box along with the batf
tub and onen plumbing. No American wo-
nan-few 6 them, at any rate-would con
sent to keep house without ice. Hotels, res
taurants, drug stores, groceries, meat markets
creameries, packing houses, cold storage
plants florists. hospitals, dairies-what woulc
they do without ice and refrigeration To live
without ice and the daily visits OF the icemar
is inconceivabe. We not only make use o.
ice and refrigeration in the heated months
Of summer. but all the year round.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-10
Peanut Prices Poor.

The farmer who has raised peanuts
feels that he is entitled TO a better price
for them than there seems to be imme-
date prospect Of buyers being able to
pay. Considerable uncertainty about
market conditions exists. but the hope
is expressed that there will be a livelier
demand ard consequent better prices IN
the near future-Albany Herald.
For the past several years farmers have
been very much dissatisfied with the price
paid for peanuts, with the result that produc-
ton has been greatly reduced. One extensive
farmer was heard to say the other day that
he never intends to grow another speanut
Tor commercial use. The peanut was one OF
the money crops decided on in the scheme
OF diversihcation when the boil weeyil made
its appearance but the farmers Of southwest
Georgia have found cotton more profitable
even under weevil conditions than peanuts
at the prices that have been paid the past sew
oral years