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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-11-03
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DIETRICH NEWS NOTES

q o o o o Q . o Q . Q Q . .
ID. Dean and Dr. Dill were Dietrich
visitors Monday.
Merrill Baiiingcr from Nevada is
here visiting relatives
II. c. Haoa spent The Weekend at
American Fails.
Health Crusade work IS being START
ed Ia the school Wednesday
Miss Banlnser ana Miss Arnoao
were shoshone visitors saturday
Mr.. Ralph Norris and father went 70
Twin Falls on a business trip the last
OF the week
The season seems to be calling forth
some epooky stories in some Of the
class rooms.
Mr.. and Mrs $ r. Krkqr were the
dinner guests OF Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Murphy. sunday
r. E. Fletcher had fast crew in
his potato field this year They picked
five acres in two days.
Mrs. c. O. cundeTsen and daughter,
Lea. took einner with Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank schelhing, Sunday.
Carol and Rupert Borden, Mary
crist. Bernard Towne and Carl Cum
derson were shoshone visitors satur-
day
Mrs. j. w. Patterson and children
left Sunday morning on No 90 for
Nampa where they expect to make
their home
Ira Jewett has sold all his cows
and pigs so he can spend his time
IN the remains Of Ford instead Of
doing chores.
The wagon drivers reports show
much Improvement in attendance this
week. Jean Morrow is the only child
reported absent
Mr.. and Mrs. E. s. crist and daugh-
ter Mary. and Mrs. j. w Patterson
and children We're the dinner guests of
Mr., and Mrs. A. w Bate, Wednesday
Mr. e. S crist and daughter Mary,
ana Mr.. w T. Patterson and daugh
ter. Grace, attended the democratic
meeting in shoshone Thursday even
ing
The state School Inspector, Frank
T. Howard, Prof, Of Educational Sub
jects in the Albion state Normal and
County superintendent. Mrs Leah NJ.
Burnside visited the school last week.
Mr.. Gunderson has been digging
potatoes the last week. Because of
some bad luck with his digger, he has
stopped digging his own for the pres
ent and is helping Mr. Brotzman pick
his. He win then use the digger ON
his own potatoes.
The dance given Saturday night at
Dietrich was great success. The
han was nicely decorated with jack
% laterns and crepe paper hangngs
which were suitable TO the occasion.
The refreshments which consisted of
cider and doughnuts were served by
the young girls In charge OF the dance.
The state School Inspector, Howard
visited the Dietrich school Thursday
He spoke to the high school during
assembly, on the Opportunities OF
small Schools" He said that pupils
attending a small school We're FORUM
ate because they could have more in
dividual attention Of the teachers;
they had 70 learn their lessons more
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-11-03

tborouehly and could have privileges
that are restricted in larger schools
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1922-11-03

The school teachers of the Lower
Darrah school house Will give dance
and serve refreshments on Saturday
night. The proceeds win be used for
the benefit of the school.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

guarded in all matters pertaining to health, steady employment and good working conditions.
 Men and women fit for American citizenship, the working hours or whose lives must be spent in stores and factories, in mines and on farms and railroads must and will demand just solutions of such problems as are presented by these statements Of principle It is to the advantage of us employers to lead in finding these solutions It is to the advantage of the consumer and of society that we shall do so. If the elimination of out grown ideas and the fighting of old wrongs is left to labor alone, wage conflicts and strikes will continue on an increasing scale. The strike is their principal weapon. If they are forced to fight for their rights they must and will use it.
 The Basic Remedy for Strikes.
 Important for the establishment o1 good industrial relations as are the three matters of which 1 have spoken, there is in my judgment a fourth req son of a still more fundamental na- ture-namely, that business shall more and more become profession and be carried on in a spirit of serv- ice to the community.
 The motive with which the employ CT directs his business and with last analysis determine whether there will be industrial war or industrial peace.
 A Code of Business Ethics.
 Asked recently by the editor of The Annals to prepare an article on "A Simple Code of Business Tthics" as one of a series of studies on the ethics of the several business and pro- fessional groups, I ventured to base it on these two brief formulas:
 I. That business, in order to have the right to succeed, must be of real service to the community;
 2. That real service in business consists in making or selling mer- chandise of reliable quality for the lowest practically possible price, provided that merchandise is made and sold under just conditions
 Philanthropy becomes a sin and an offense, when it uses for charity the earnings of industry that should be used for justice to employees and the public.
 The First Lein on Large Profits.
 The first legitimate use of large profits, and the main use, is to reduce prices. These lower prices will, in turn, cause increased demand, in creased production and increased total profit, at which point prices can agani be reduced. It IS worse than useless to merely increase production. Prices must at the same time be reduced enough to bring in the greatly in to obsorb this greater output Elm deavor to obtain mass production through lowering wages to a degree
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

to provide happy, healthy, contented and loyal employees.
 If their wages are adequate to pro- vide the necessities of life for their families and allow also for recreation and provision for illness and old age, they are increasingly freed from worry and are thereby made more efficient employees. If their wages en- able them to buy freely, the value of the American market is maintained, to the profit alike of the manufacturer, the farmer and of the workman who makes and the merchant who sells the product of the factory, mine and the farm. Best of all, it will remove one of the most fertile causes of strikes.
 An important part of the responsi- bihty for the adequacy of wages must be assumed by us employers. We are sometimes little schooled in theories of social welfare, have little imagina ton outside of our own immediate field of business management and are prone to think of our duties in terms of money, success or failure to the exclusion of terms of human welfare. It is most often members of our own employer class, also, who turn real $ the case we cannot easily justify our selves in taknig position of irrespon- sibility in the premises, The respon- sibility for reducing the excessive costs of retail distribution belongs to me and to my fellow-retail merchants. We employers should fight all exces- sive capitalization whose fixed charges help to turn into counterfeit the oth- erwlse adequate wages we pay our employees Our men of finance should see that the English law is adopted and enforced that requires a state ment to be made to every purchaser of stock showing the promoters pro- fit and the real assets and liabilities of the company It is up to us to help provide credit unions or other safe and democratic means of saving and investing earnings.
 Certain Agreed Upon Goals.
 I do not have time at my disposal in which to discuss at length social program. I may be indulged, how ever, in pointing out certain as yet partially achieved goals which con census of informed opinion, both among employers and employees, rec ognizes as practical and just. This moderate program, if achieved, would go far to do away with strikes. The right of employees to voice in determining the conditions under which they shall work and to stable and living wage have already been dealt with Other goals that are now generally recognized as right and just, include
 CD The right of employees to unite for purposes of collective bargaining; Co A gradual and reasonable re- duction in hours of labor;
 (3) Compensation for industrial ac- cidents as just charge on industry; (4) The right of labor to be safe
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Boston Department Store Owner and International Chamber Director Plays Bossism and Declares Present Wage Is Barely Above Serfdom.

By International Labor News Service.
 New York, May I2-Workers strike primarily because they do not like to be bossed and they dislike to be bossed "because experience has shown that no man Is wise enough to have autocratic power over another man." So said Edward A. Filene, di- rector of the International Chamber of Commerce and Boston department store owner, addressing the Econ onic Club of New York.
 Men strike" said MT. Filene, "be- cause they are injured by real mis- takes or because they believe them selves to be injured by the terms ot their employment. In such strikes they are often unsuccessful and the grievances remain. For these req sons they sometimes dwell upon the objectionable features of their em- ployment until they become tense and bitter There grows up Tn conse- uuence a distrust or hate of the whole present system Irresponsible leaders who voice and trade on this discon- tent easily get following. There IS also a reaction towards socialism or communism which are presented as panaceas for the ills that are com plained of.
 "I am forced to the conclusion that as men are constituted at present SOC ialism and communism are not Practi- cal remedies.
 q am just as firmly convinced that the present wage system is not in fallible or final, but is only step on the road from serfdom and slav- cry to improved forms of just and effective cooperation that the ex- perience and wisdom of men will evolve from generation to genera tion."
 Extracts from Mir Filene's address follow:
 Four Fundamental Principles.
 My study of industrial relations has convinced me of four things:
 I. That in a political democracy such as ours the autocratic control of industry by employers is fruit full breeder of strikes and is in the long run impractical;
 ?. That we often pay counterfeit wages when we intend to pay real wages, thus causing discontent, con f1ict and strikes;
 3. That the present so-called cap
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

to those who have spent their lives trying to understand the complex questions of a newspaper"
 Lord Northcliffe then mentions some of the millionaires connected with London newspapers, such as the Messrs. Cadbury, the chocolate mill lionaires, of the Daily News and the Star; Lord Burnham of the Daily Telegraph, i for whom he has some pleasant words; Sir Howard Hutton of the Hutton publications; Lord Beaverbrook of the Daily Express; the Messrs. Retry of the Daily Gra- phic; Lord Cowdray of the Westmin- ster Gazette, and so on.
 "As to the Daily Chronicle" he says, ''it is political organ sup ported by millionaires, and million aires who support political organs should not be, and in this case are not, mean to work-people."
 Lord Northcliffe's contention is that all these papers can afford to pay the present scale of wages.
 There is no case" he concludes, for reduction in the wages of our daily printers, and as regards what are called the Northcliffe journals there will be none"
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
NORTHCLIFFE DENOUNCES WAGE CUTTING PUBLISHERS AND LEAVES ASSOCIATION IN
 INDIGNATION WHEN THEY INSIST ON IT

cidentally Lord Northcliffe mentions the fact that the London Morning Post had headed the correspondence between the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and the Associated News papers, Lord Northcliffe and his colleagues" Although there was nothing about his colleagues, but merely the same list of newspapers belonging to the Newspaper Proprie- tors Association that appeared else where Lord Northcliffe proceeds:
 "A representative of one of the col leagues referred to came to see me to remonstrate. He said: "The wages are preposterous. Some of these men have motorcycels and sidecars; more than one of them drives motor car
 "Why shouldn't they?' I replied Our men are at least as skilled as American and other foreign workers. If American printers are able to own Fords, why shouldn't ours? British newspapers are just as prosperous as at any time in their history. My con- tention,' 1 continued, is that if we wish to retain the best skilled labor we have in this country we must pay 1t properly There are, 1 regret to say, more tndl1 SHOuSH SklIlSu DIitlSI mechanics in the United States. never visit an American newspaper office without being introduced to half .dozen of them, and none of them comes back.
 The representative of the other pa per pointed out that one of the rep resentatives of the Northcliffe papers had joined with the others in the movement for reduced wages.
 q said,' Lord Northcliffe writes, "that he--the mysterious MT. Fish re- ferred tonight have troubled to send me a wireless before he took a step involving the welfare and home comforts of hundreds of families. He is young, and he has not travelled much as yet"
 Therefore, Lord Northclihe ex- plains, he IS breaking with the News paper Proprietors' Association
 "I have only few votes in 1t and can be swamped at any time by the rest of my colleagues" he says. "I do not propose that they should in terfere with my affairs, and equally I have no desire to be mixed up with theirs"
 Again he writes:
 We journalists have no objection whatever to capitalists owning news papers and thus creating employment; but I object to being member of combination in which capitalists, ig norant of Fleet street, dictate terms
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
AITOCRACY OF EMPL PLOYERS BREEDS STRIKES, WHILE COUNTERFEIT WAGE
 ASSISTS, ECONOMIC CLUB IS TOLD

italistic system has accumulated and is still using, outgrown ideas and GUS toms that are needlessly offensive to our employees, and that 1t needs to be brought up to date;
 4 That the basic remedy for the evils of industralism and hence for strikes lies in making business pro- fession-that is, in realizing, i'll act as we'll as in thought, that business has no right to make profit except as 1t serves the community.
 It all comes to this, that autocratiC control whether by employer or em ploye, is bad-the one almost as ob- 1ectiCnable as the other; and that men are striking today as protest against autocratic control by capital, and as the most effective way of expressing their demand for an adequate voice i'll the conditions under which they work. They are vitally interested. They will continue to strike until provision Is made for giving them adequate representation ln boards ot directors or in those shop commit tees by whatever name they may be called, in which employers and en- both the business and the legitimate OI lllC "Ao put their lives into it and get their livelihood from it. This is largely recognized by employers now and the growth of these joint committees has for some years been marked.
 Counterfeit wages is term that l have nvented-whether good or bad you must judge-to characterize this inadequate wage that comes about from some of the many causes that reduce the purchasing power of money. Counterfeit wages are any wages however large they may be in dollars that will not buy the necessi- ties of life and enough luxureis to make working for necessities a de- sirable thing and also to enable the recipient to make modest but ade- quate provision for sickness and old age. Counterfeit money has no value. Counterfeit wages have too little value when measured against the purposes which wages must serve. It is not question of how much a man receives but of what he can buy for what he gets. Wages may double, but if prices are more than double then wages are counterfeit to the ex- tent that prices have outrun the in- creased wages.
 The return for paying genuine wages rather than counterfeit more than makes up to the employer and to society for the extra money ex- penditure. The genuine wage tends
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Resolutions of 
WHEREAS

WHEREAS Labor's strongest asset is its Purchasing Power. combined with q general application of Cooperative Prin- ciples and
 WHEREAS this is the most important movement ever promoted in our city by Labor to officially advance the spirit of reciprocity and
 WHEREAS the firms here represented are on record as having manifested their desire for cooperation with the working classes:
 THEREFORE, although it is not in- ferred that this list covers all firms flair" to Labor, the concerns herein represented have shown their desire to cooperate with our membership and it is agreed that we will be guided by Consistency an our Principle and give them our hearty patron age and support in accordance with the established policy of our organization.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Jail for Six Girls
 Tried } Years Ago;
 Four Now Mothers
Illinois Court Upholds Sentences of Young Tickets in Chicago
 Strike.

Chicago, May I2.-Three years ago six young women violated an anti picketing injunction granted the American Cigar company during a strike. This week the appellate divis- ion decided they must serve their sentences of from 30 to Go days for contempt of court
 But since the original sentence was given, things have changed. All the girls are married and four of them have children. Consequently, babies ranging from seven weeks to 90 months in age will probably accom- pany their mothers to jail
 Lawyers admitted there was no precedent for freeing the women, and Judge Sullivan said that although he might reverse the verdict if he could, the only recourse was to a governors pardon.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
A Directory of Our
 FRIENDS

In pursuance of the movement which has for its purpose the urging of all work ing people to give their combined support to reputable concerns that have uniformly shown friendly attitude toward the cause of Labor, there will here be found a directory of enterprises which we feel can be conscientiously endorsed and which are. therefore, justly entitled to our good will and united cooperation.
 It does not necessarily follow that con- cerns which are not here represented are unfriendly, nevertheless those listed on this page have demonstrated their friendliness in various ways and should have our sup port.
 Cooperation is always two-way matter and it is our duty to cooperate with those who cooperate with us. Consult this directory carefully before making any pur- chaseS.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
FUNERAL FLOWERS
FURNISHINGS

Besse-Richey Co.,, zzS-7s2 Chapel St. Brandt, G, w., & Co.,, 487-4o1 State
 St.
 Johnson, J., & Sons, "The Live
 Store" 85-8o Church St. Pagers, 6-8 Congress Ave.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
Great English Publisher Attacks ''Millionaires" Who Seek to Coerce Their Help, Declaring They Are Driving England's Best to America.

Rather than cut the wages of the printers and other employees on his large string of newspapers, Lord North cliffe, perhaps the most prom inent publisher in England, abruptly severed his association with the News paper Proprietors' Association and dec clared emphatically that come what might there will be no reductions on the papers he is interested in. He went further and in a signed state ment published in his London Daily Mail he takes red hot slam at the publishers association under a head ing entitled Newspapers and Million aires"
 He begins by remarking that the wage situation in London daily news that in other industries.
 "The London daily newspapers" he writes, "are controlled by a number of very rich people who are merely competing with each other and not with foreigners, as are our coal own CTS, shipbuilders and engineers. Good wages of printers of daily newspa- pers do not mean a loss of trade to Great Britain; but low wages mean the disappearance of skilled British printers to the United States, where, I regret to say, l have met hundreds of them"
 Lord Northcliffffe says that what happened was that while he was abroad there arose a movement, of which he was not informed, for the reduction of printers wages in Lon don newspaper offices. On his return he made inquiries with the result that he let 1t be known that there would be no wage reduction on the papers whith which he was concerned. 1n-
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

that lessens the number of possible consumers of their product. Employees are wrong when they try to get high CT real wages or more work through limiting output. Both will find 1t far more profitable in the long run to join hands in efforts to furnish reliable and essential merchandise to the pub lie at prices lower than ti has been sold before. In this way they will greatly increase the number of con sumers and increase the demand for workmen. They will at the same time increase wages, and the purchas- ing power of those wages.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

Many receive advice but few seem to profit by 1t, or there would be a better demand for union labeled goods
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

The promises of good resulting from purchasing only union labeled goods are always fulfilled
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12

Later in the week the governor pardoned the women.
The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
FURNITURE

Adaskin- -Bowditch Furniture Co.,, 68
 Orange St. Boston Furniture Co.,, 821 and 823
 Grand Ave. Bullard's, o1-o7 Orange St. Chamberlain Co.,, The, 46-5o Orange
 and 87-oI Grown St. Hall, ". B., 4s8 to 47o State, near
 Elm St. Kelly, P. J., Furniture Co.,, 1o8 Crown Royal Furniture Co.,, $50 Grand Ave. Stein. S.. 5z Broadway.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-05-20

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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-05-20
EDISON PROPOSES
SPECIAL. BANKS FOR
AMERICAN FARMER
FAMOUS INVENTOR SUGGESTS
LONG TERM CREDIT AS MEANS
OF AIDING AGRICULTURE -.
WOULD BASE LOANS ON CROP
VALUE.

Washington, May -0.-proposod rs
Thomas A. Edison, a new plan ton
extension of long term credits 90 TAR
mcr5 was taken under reconsideration
today 10y "a committee OF the Senate
agricultural bloc,
The Edison plan, as outlined 10y
Senator Cappcr, Kansas, chairman
OF the bloc, and members of a spcuia.
committee considering farm credits
contemplates issuance OF @ series OF
farm currency through central
federal farm bank,
The currency would be loaned "a
farmers for one year ropayublo 40
the rate %. ! per cent "a month"; with
lien on fifty per cent of farmers
crops as security. Mr. Edison pro-
posed twenty or tWeu}-'lFeEaar
average on prices OF agricultural pro.
ducts as the loan basis.
He told the committee he had been
studying farm credits az the request
of Henry Ford. Some members of
the committee said the suggestions
were worthy Of study, Wl'Ie oiho''
called tucm lmpracticable.
No interest would be charged
farmers for money loaned them un.
der Mr. Edisou's plan, but the hor
rowers would he required 10 pay the
overhead for @ chain OF poured CON
crete government warehouses ln
which crops upon which loans We're
made would be stored.
\ brief submitted by Mr. Edison
TO Senator tappcr outlining his plan
contained the following tn"nclng
proposals:
Upon receipt Of any commodity
and after proper weighing. @ pre'lm-
mary receipt for the same Is 10 De-
given. i is then to be manipulated
or graded ana three sets of sealed
samples taken, one being given To
the owner and two being kept by the
government
"The government thereupon VIII
issue a receipt in duplicate Tor the