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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER l, 1924
BY FRANK MORRISON, SECRETARY OF THE A F. OF l.

Labor Day assumes a deep
er significance with each sue
ceeding year. More thought
is given to vital things; to the
value of the power to create ;
to develop life itself.
The organized labor move
ment is the expression of this
ideal. 1t is spokesman for the
wage workers. It is respon-
sible for this day, now uni
versally acclaimed.
The past year has been one
of progress for labor. This
advance has not been con-
fined to material improve
ments.. Our most substantial
gain is a widening public
opinion favorable to the
workers cause.
The great religious move
ments are a unit in defense of
union theory. In increasing
numbers churchmen, appre-
ciate the trade union
ideal that the worker must
have free expression in his
employment, not only for in
dustrial reasons, but that he
may carry this independence
into other activities. This
harmonizes with the historic
Christian ideal of the worth
of the individual, as against
the pagan ideal that the
worker is but a voiceless cog
in the machinery of state.
What is popularity known as
"Garyism in industry" is
recognition of the pagan
ideal that would substitute
democracy for an autocracy
that grinds every ideal and
hope out of the workers
lives. Against the pagan
ideal, organized workers
throw every power they pos
sess. No issue is more i'm
portant than this. 1t is the
groundwork of progress. De-
mocracy is impossible if wage
workers in a country pledged
to democracy are denied the
thing that makes democracy
possible.
The Federal Child Labor
Amendment that has
been submitted to the states
by congress is another proof
of the value of public opinion
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
LABOR has ElDORED CLIFFORD
SHORT REVIEW OF HIS RECORD AND PLATFORM

Edward Clifford has been resident
of Washington since 1905 and has
successfully engaged in the cream
cry business at Port Orchard and in
farm settlement in Kitsap, King and
neighboring counties. He was born
in Texas in 1878. He volunteered in
the Spanish-American war, serving
in Cuba and the Philippines. He is
married, has family of four chill
dren, and resides at Olympia, in
Thurston county.
Although he has never before been
a candidate for elective Office, Mr..
Clifford has always taken an active
part in public affairs. In 1912 be was
a Roosevelt republican. He was the
organizer and first president of the
Anti-Japanese League Of Washing
ton, and is a past president of the
United Veterans Club of the state.
He led the veteran movement for a
bonus plank in the state republican
platform in 1920, and was foremost in
causing 2 special session of the leg
islature to be called to pass the law.
Director Labor and Industries
Director Of Department Of Labor
director of labor and industries. He
reorganized and systematized the
work of the department, and although
handling a greatly increased volume
of work, cut the number of employees
from 1876 to 13O, and reduced the
administrative expenses nearly a
quarter of million dollars per two
year period.
Convinced that the awards provid-
ed in the Workmen's Compensation
law were inadequate, he wrote and
personally conducted the fight for
the amendment passed by the last
session of the legislature, increasing
the compensation to injured work
men and to the widows, orphans and
dependents of men killed in industries
by amounts varying from 20 to $50
per cent.
It is worthy of remark that these
increases have been made concur
rently with a reduction IN premiums,
applying to go per cent Of the classes
of industries and amounting to sew
eral of the more hazardous employ
ments to nearly one-third of the
fromer premiums. These reductions
are due to more efficient collection
methods, to better accident prevent
tion, and to more attentive medical
care.
A new code Of safety standards,
acknowledged TO be the best in the
United States, has been adopted and
courses Of instruction in accident
prevention initiated.
Changes Of method in the claim
division have resulted in greater
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

that organized labor has de-
veloped. The amendment is
doubly significant because it
is the first social addition to
the nations organic law.
This Labor Day marks a
wider acceptance of Labor's
non-partisan political theory.
Thoughtful citizens in every
walk of life are agreed on the
viciousness of political parti-
sanship that is so we'll sum-
married. by the Father of our
country.
The coming campaign will
witness a greater non-parti-
san political activity by labor
and sympathizers. The wage
workers will urge their pro-
gram of national and state
remedial legislation more Wig
orously than ever. Success
is assured as labor, for the
first time, enters the cam
paign without divisions on
the practicability of nom
partisan methods. For the
first time Labor's energies
will not be spent in discus
sions of this issue.
The workers have a great
er faith in themselves, and in
their cause. Through expe-
rience and a knowledge of the
past, they have learned.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29
CLIFFORD PEOPLES CHOICE IS
ATTESTED BY VARIED SUPPORT

Edward Clifford has the hearty support of organized la
Dor of this state The Washington State Federation of La
Dor in its convention last June endorsed him unanimously
and practically every Central Labor Council and local union
has done likewise In addition to abors strength Mr. Cliff
ford supported by the United Veterans Club of Washing
ton War Veterans leaders among farm
railroad business men, employers and and
in all walks of life Clifford and good government
synonymous In adjoining columns readers will find his
platform and record Look it carefully 1t will refute
many falsehoods circulated about him.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

promptness in the investigation of
claims and payments of awards.
Taxes
The demands for the expenditure
of public moneys are so many and
insistent from all sections, that the
hope of the people for a reduction in
taxes must be through close scrut-
my of proposed appropriations, and
strict economy of administration.
Effective curtailment of appropria-
tions can be secured through the
adoption in all public offices of a
practical budget system. Economy
of administration can be had through
insistence upon the adoption of bust
ness methods in all public offices on a
par with those employed in private
enterprises.
New sources of tax revenue will
lessen the tax burden. Thousands of
acres of logged-of lands fit for re-
forestation or agriculture and unre-
claimed arid, swamp and Overhowed
lands are now free from all taxation.
Vast amounts of tax revenues will
be produced when these logged-off
lands are cleared or reforested and
these arid, swamp and overfowed
areas reclaimed by irrigation, drain
age and diking.
Agriculture
The unsatisfactory condition of the
farming and fruit growing sections
is due largely to lack of diversified
tion and equalization of production
and of an effective plan of market
ing.
To help overcome the disadvantages
of a surplus of production one year
as against shortage another, and
to enable farm products to be mar
keted, not at a higher price to the
consumer, but at q greater return to
the grower, the state department Of
agriculture should:
1. Urge a wider and more intelli-
gent diversifcation Of farm products
through closer relation between the
state department of agriculture and
the State College, which directs the
work of the county agriculturists.
2. Encourage the formation of CO.
operative marketing associations,
headed by men of proved business
ability to establish a more uniform
and effective system Of distributing
and marketing crops.
Clearing Logged-Off Lands. No
adequate progress can be expected in
the clearing, cultivation and settle
ment of logged-off lands without state
financial aid. This subject should
receive the careful study of the next
administration with a view to recon-
Continued on Page Eighty
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Birdseye view of Aberdeen
cooking down from st. JOseph's
Hospital. Insert, looking down
Heron street from roof of
Hotel MOrck.
Courtesy Aberdeen World)
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Continued on Page Eisht)
The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION AT
PHOENIX ON APRIL e

Pursuant to the call issued by the
republican national committee dated
at Washington, d. c., December IL,
1923, and by virtue Of instructions is
sued by the executive committee of
the republican state committee of the
state Of Arizona at meeting held in
Phoenix, Arizona, March %, 1924, a
republican state convention is hereby
called in the state of Arizona to meet
at Phoenix, Arizona, at 10 o'clock A.
NJ, on Monday, the 18th day of April,
1924, for the purpose of electing nine
delegates at large and nine alter
nates-at-large to the republican nat
ional convention to be held at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on the 10th day of June,
1924, and for the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before said convention.
State state convention shall con-
sist Of one delegate from each coun-
ty in the state of Arizona for each
two hundred votes and major fraction
thereof cast by such county for the
republican nominee for governor of
the state of Arizona at the general
election held in 1922, such apportion-
ment being as follows:
The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04
Votes for Convention
Totals ........3O599

Delegates to said state convention
shall be legal and qualified electors
of their respective counties and
members of the republican party, to
be named at meetings of the republi-
can county committees of the respec-
tive counties, notice of which shall be
mailed to each precinct committee
man of such county and published in
some newspaper or newspapers of
general circulation in such county,
stating the object of the meeting.
The credentials of each delegate ss-
lected must be forwarded to the sec
retary of the republican state COM
mittee, addressed to P O. Box 452,
Phoenix, Arizona, not later than April
18th, 1924, said credentials to show
the full name and address of each
delegate.
Proxies of delegates will be recog-
nized only when held by members of
the republican party and legal and
qualified voters of the county from
which said delegates giving such
proxy are elected. Such proxies must
be executed before a notary nublic
The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE FAVORS
CITIZENS TRAINING CAMP

President Coolidge through the
Citizens Military Training Camps as
sociation has invited all young Amer
leans who can do so to attend G..
M. T. camp this summer.
In a letter to DIR. George F. James
of Chicago, president of the Military
training camps association, the presi-
dent said:
81 am deeply interested in the
success of the G. M. T. camps which
are promoting health among the
young men of the nation, together
with witness for general civic obliga-
tions. The military training camps
association has been an effective
agency in promoting the work of the
summer camps. | wish, through your
organization, to invite the young men
of the nation to take advantage this
year of the opportunity afforded
them"
President Coolidge's two sons, John
and Calvin, Jr., have made application
for the citizens military training
camp to be held at Camp Devens,
Massachusetts,.
The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04

or some other officer authorized to
administer oaths, or when duly wit
messed by two witnesses. Where more
than one proxy is given by any one
delegate the proxy bearing the latest
date shall be recognized.
Notice of the call for the state con-
vention shall be published by the
secretary of the republican state. COM
mittee in some newspaper or news
papers of general circulation in the
state not less than Is days prior to
the date of such state convention,
and copy of the said call shall be
mailed to the chairman and secretary
of each of the republican county COM
mittees of the several counties of the
state.
Dated at Phoenix, Arizona, this
22nd day of March, 1924.
ROY N. DAVIDSON,
Sec. Republican State Committee.
The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04
W0MAN'S STATEMENT
WILL HELP FLAGSTAFF

81 hated cooking because all / ate
turned sour and formed gas. l drank
hot water and olive oil by the gallon.
Nothing helped me until / used Ad-
lerika." Most medicines act only on
lower bowel, but Adlerika acts on
BOTH upper and lower bowel and re-
moves all gas and poisons. Excellent
for obstinate constipation. Helps any
case gas on the stomach in TEN min
utes.-By all leading druggists
5 cow.
The Coconino sun., 1924-04-04

While our new secretary of navy is
writing a story for children he will
find his government job is no child's
play.
Evening star., 1924-08-03

exterminating their most destructive
namesakes. 1t is a tremendous as
signment, this attempt of organized
visible pirates.
Nemas dwell in most curious habi-
tatS. One species lives in the vermi-
form appendix of man. Another has
headquarters, in the adult stage in
the seeds of wheat. The homing
grounds of another variety are the
felt mats which Germans use for
their beer mugs. On the feet OF birds
, and insects nema infections are car
ried to the loftiest tree tops. Even
the tap of well managed cities may
have it's nema swimmers.
The average nema is a candidate
for perpetual motion honors. In
water alone, these small, slender or
ganisms whip themselves about by
contortions of their entire bodies and
seem to keep working all the while
without getting anywhere. The nema
needs the friction of vegetation, de-
bris or soil particles in order to ac-
complish it's normal locomotion.
Nemas are comparatively colorless
and practically transparent. They use
specialized organs of destruction with
which they either gnaw, bite, pune
ture, suck or dig. Many nemas have
three jaws which act radially as do
those of a lathe chuck. Others use
stings or spears to make incisions
and wounds. Special organs called
amphids, doubtless special sense or
gans, have been reported by various
scientists and suggested to be the
ears, organs of smell or taste or even
the breathing organs, or organs of
orientation which the nemas use as
! their pilots.
The range of size in the nema fam
lily is more remarkable than that of
other animal organisms. The length
of the smallest mouse, the smallest
mammal. is only a fraction of an inch,
while there is a fossil, the largest
| quadruped. about 100 feet long. To
make this difference in dimensions
comparable to that which exists be-
tween the largest and the smallest
nemas, the fossil would have to be
good fraction of mile long. Nemas
are of great economic importance,
but the world has been late in recog-
nizing this fact because the nemas
are so small and the technique of
their examinations SO difficult.
x X x
THE gall nema is probably the most
= destructive single pest known to
agriculture. Like a sneak thief it
works in its hidden security, attack
| ing the roots of plants, causing in
| furious knots or swe1lingc to develop.
1t is particularly destructive of young
seedlings which cannot resist its
ravages. 1t works in a land belt
which 'girdles" the globe from the
latitude of Washington to a corre-
spending to southern latitude
a pair of adult gall nemaS will
Evening star., 1924-08-03

different nemas are recorded as in
Testing the human body. Domesti-
Gated animals are equally plagued.
Wheat. the sugar beat, coffee, cocoa
nut palms and scores of other crops
are frequently decimated or even
ruined through diseases caused by
microscopic nemas.
rs the study of nematology inter-
esting?"
I'm the contemplation of these
organisms. have seen statesmen
forget their social problems, judges
their law, mathematicians their
quantities, artists their art and phi
lanthropists their schemes"
Just to give you some idea of the
great abundance of nemas, if all the
matter in the universe except the
nemas were obliterated, our world
would still be dimly recognizable, and
if, as disembodied spirits, we could
then investigate it, we would find it's
mountains. hills, wales. rivers and
lakes represented bya film of nemas.
The location of towns would be visi
BILE, since for every massing of hui
man beings there would be a corre-
spending massing of certain nemas
We must therefore conceive of
nemas and their eggs a. almost omni-
present, as being carried by the wind
by flying birds and running animals; ;
as floating from place to place in
nearly all the waters of the earth :
and as shipped from point to point
fhrnnxrhnnf n ri in
vehicles of traffic.
THE dreaded hookworm is a nema
and is the cause of one of the
most extensive philanthropic efforts
ever undertaken. The Rockefeller
Foundation is now working in nearly
every section of the world where this
disease prevails to control it's
ravages.
Several years ago one of the zool-
ogists of the United States Depart
| ment of Agriculture. DR.. NJ. c. Hall.
in the course of experimentation with
hookworm in dogs, discovered in car
bon tetrachloride an efficient remedy
for the disease. 1t is now being
sands of patients having been al
ready successfully treated.
Trichina, costing civilized nations
very many thousands Of dollars
yearly for the inspection of pork, is
nema. Nemas are suspected, with
good reason, of being carriers of GER
tain forms of cancer. 1t is estimated
! that some $4,000 nema species infest
the 40,0o0-odd species of vertebrates.
The science of nematology. under
the tireless researches of such in
veStigators as DR.. Cobb, is constantly
disclosing new nemas. Fortunately
not all these species are destructive; !;
some of them are beneficial to man
and his crops. One special problem
of the future Nill be to mobilize
eneficial nemas to the enterprise of
Evening star., 1924-08-03

| sought after by the world, and re-
moved her from comparative isolation
to place among commercial nations.
| The preSent-day development Of
Persian resources and the modern
ization of that country, which Ameri-
| cans have undertaken. mark real rev.
olution. for Persia is one of the oldest
! empires in existence. about which
| much valuable information is supplied
| by the NATIONAL Geographic Society,
for which Vice Consul Imbrie was
taking pictures when he met his un-
| timely death.
Persia was a kingdom for o5 CEN
turies-ever since Cyrus the Great
| about $50 Be, conquered Media and
united that country to his under the
name of Persia. 1t has had many
great heroes and many glorious cpl
sodes in Its long history. Recall
Aerxes, Alexander the Great and
| rulers like Darius, Shapur and Shah
Abbas. 1t has produced the great
teacher Zoroaster, and such world
famous poets as Firdawsi Omar
khayyam, Saadi and HafZ.
Again and again the empire has
been a prey to anarchy. Again and
again conquering hosts have swept
through the country, Alexander the
Great having many a successor. The
most destructive conqueror was Cen
ghis Khan, with his hordes of savage
Mongols-a leader who boasted that
he had slain 100000 of his fellow
creatures.
hA tar 80 $1a rfrx-
plateau, rising 1000 to 5000 feet, and
crossed by frequent chains of noun
tains, while lofty mountain barriers
bound it on the north and south.
In the whole of Persia, besides the
very few miles of railroad, there are
only four mud roads. with "a total
length of less than 500 miles. There
is only one navigable river, the ka-
run, that flows into the head of the
Persian Gulf, and on this sea the So
called ports are merely open road
steads, at which cargo cannot be
landed in stormy weather.
The merchandise of Persia has for
centuries on centuries been carried
on the backs of cameIs. mules and
donkeys, which amazes us as a slow
The travellers. of whom there are al
ways numbers, especially at this sea
son of the year, usually rid" through
the country, following 'r'. ks
made by the passage Of cai-,ans our
ing the centuries.
x * X x
THE true Persian is of Arian stock.
the National Geographic Society
archives show, and has the same
words as ourselves for father (pidar),
mother (madar), brother (bradar) and
daughter (dukhtar). The lconstruc-
tion of his language is like that of
English. He is handsome, well
built man, with regular features and
fine black eyes, his complexion being
no darker than that of an Italian.
In manner he is most courteous; he
is quick, alert, fond of conversation
and discussion and has been called
1.-The Frenchman of the East" There
has been considerable admixture of
Arab blood in the Persian Gulf region
and of Turanian blood in the north and
northwest along the Turkish frontier.
Persia has been a, Moha MN eda n
country from the time of it's conquest
by the Arabs in SAL, though some
5000 Zoroastrians. or old fire wor-
shippers, still remain in the land. The
earliest Protestant missionary work
in Persia was done by the Moravians,
who entered the field in 1747 to evan
gelize the fire worshipers. The fact
Evening star., 1924-08-03

that SO many remain to this day Is
/ been terribly prosecuted, notwith.
/ standing that this was once the es.
| tablished religion Of the land.
| The Staying of Vice Consul Imbrie
| by religious fanatics, who cried out
| that he was a member OF the Bahais
| against which the demonstration was
! being made. and the earlier riots OF
the Shia Mohammedans on the streets
of kirmanshah, Kun and other Per-
| sian towns, because they believed
| their priests had been exiled from the
sacred Shrines of Mesopotamia. calls
attention to the fact that among this
sect Of the followers Of the prophet
some of the most peculiar religious
customs exist.
Instead of making the pilgrimage
to Mecca, which is the lifelong ambi-
tion of every Sunni Mohammedan, the
Shiites pour from Persia, their great
est stronghold. through Bagdad to
kerbela and mystic Nedjef, in Meso-
potamia.
Just beyond the walls of the last
named city perhaps more human bod
les lie buried than in any other spot
on earth. The bodies of thousands
Of the faithful who have been so un-
fortunate as to die away from the
sacred city are cured-salted and
dried-and brought by caravan for
interment in the holy ground about
the city.
Meshed is the great shrine city of
Persia. It's holiest city, to be sure
is Kerbela, beyond the bounds of
Persia, southwest of Babylon. Here
are the graves of the martyred sons
of ALL Mohammed's son-in-law, and
the fourth of the caliphs as the Sunni
Moha mme dams count the succession
but the Shah Mohammedans of Per-
sia repudiate Abu Bekr, Omar and
Othman and hold by the rights of All
and his line alone
The way to this holy ground is
long and difficult, and sometimes it
takes almost an entire year to make
the round trip. The desert is hot and
monotonous, and the salt-incrusted
earth crackles under the feet of the
cameIs as they walk along. 1t takes
two days to make the co miles be-
tween Kerbela and Nedjef, and some
times the odor of the badly cured
uouilS renders the atmosphere nau-
seating. The dry desert air, how
ever, is the only salvation of Nedjef
against disease, which this practice
would inevitably cause.
A burial site within view of the
great Mosque of Nedjef is always at
a premium, and thousands of tombs
Of varying sizes and shapes nestle
within it's shadow. :
When one of the faithful was asked
by a traveller how many were sleep
ing in the earth about the city, he
answered simply:
Allah knows all their Names
4 =
4 LII the modern conveniences of
Near Eastern life are provided
for these pilgrims. The merchants of
the world, the Jews. mostly from
Bagdad have established a stage
mosque. there lives a colony of wom-
en- who become the temporary wives
of the visitors. SO that they may set
up their establishments along hap
Observation-Disclosures d-settled-d down" lines
A priest performs the ceremony ac-
cording to an authorized provision.
Temporary marriage is also practiced
to a considerable extent in Persia itself
The pilgrim always dyes his beard
red in the sacred city, and is hence
forth called by his friends by the