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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08

been called eannonading coclzroach.
The American Mercury lives By be-
ing cynical. contemptuous, hard boil
ed, sneering, above everything in the
world, critical of everything--just
deyilishly high-hrow and advanced
and all that. Why the hell should
the American Mercury print decent
description Of q typical American
labor leader? Why the hell should
there be any fairness or decency Of
spirit in such triple-plated piece of
godawful intellectual mechanism as
that? You tell 'em, Aristotle; you've
seen 'em come and 60.
Meanwhile the labor movement
possessing its hundreds of fine able
men, its scores and scores Of scholars,
its students of economics and poll
tics and Of industrial processes, its
authorities in almost every field Of
huma inactivity, goes sereneIy on its
way making things to be enjoyed by
all, even by those superior persons
of the Mercury school.
Persons like Mr.. Cain and the edi-
tors of the American Mercury are
carrying a tremendous responsibility
sitting in judgment, as they do, on
all the world. If only they could
be persuaded not to try so hard to
scab on Gods job they would be hap
pier and the rest Of the world would
be spared much imperfection of judg-
ment and many silly and absurd YER
diets.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08

81 believe that the one thing for
the American farmers to do is to or
ganize on proper cooperative plans
undre real organization, to the end
that all products of the farm shall
be marketed in an orderly manner"
Representative Morrow of New
Mexico, in speaking on the needs of
the farmer.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08
The Cher7v
Tree

Where with our Little Hatchet
we tell the truth about many
things, sometimes profoundly,
sometimes flippantIy.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08

The American Mercury prints, in
, series of American portraits" a
| sketch of "The Labor Leader" writ
ten by one James M. CAM.
The American Mercury is devoted
to the cynicisms of life, which means
that it sheds forth in its pages the
cleyerly prepared and seasoned husks
Of human experience from which all
glamor and sweetness. and elemental
goodness have been stripped.
1t is read mostly by those who are
satiated by multiplicity of expert
ences, for whom there are no more
thrills, not even literary thrills. Mr..
Cain does, for this magazine of clever
ness and sophistication, a piece Of
dirty work par excellence.
The '1abor leader" portrayed here
grows out of background of "sus-
picion, credulity, secrecy, hog meat,
cabbage, fat :" He becomes, as
he climbs in the scale of jobs, in
creasingly furtive, he leers at women,
gets big automobile, is seldom in his
office, is suspicious, gratis more OF
less and is in general an everlast-
ing low brow gutter product. To
quote from Cain:
$50, as a result Of such situations,
the American labor leader begins to
emerge as a type. He is a youngish,
big, powerful man, with thick red neck
and suit wrinkled at elbow and knee
by bullying muscles; man with wary,
cat-like physical poise; man with
head shaped a little like a prize
fighters. He presides at local meet
nigs, pounds his gavel, and announces
that it has been. moved and seconded.
He lays the charge of dirty liar and
proves it. He goes through strike
or two, and finds out that a strike
has its compensations." So it goes.
If he "is an exceptionally good slug
ger and even ordinarily crafty" he
gets promoted to- better jobs.
The chief piece of furniture in a
union office, we read, is "a great
black safe" but the "lady en-
ployes" though Suggesting the laun-
dry and shirt factory" are pretty, for
'your labor leader has sporty taste
in women" And again, so it goes.
There are more insinuations of crafti-
ness, bludgeoning and graft. Enough.
The American Mercury published
this crude, cynical libel; it would not
and will not print counter-picture
because it doesn't indulge in contro-
versy. That is merely another way
of shooting unarmed men and wo-
men from behind a carefully con
structed breastworks. 1t is one Of
the cheap and cowardly sports well
known to the world of literature"
That being the case, there is but
one sane thing to do about such dis.
torted writings, but one light in whicE
to view such caricatures. Let US moi
waste too much effort doing what Ia,
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08

That being the case, there is but
one sane thing to do about such dis
torted writings, but one light in which
to view such caricatures. Let US not
waste too much effort doing what has
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08
Sense Of Congress

Industry is never justified in thriv-
ing on children. The employment of
children under unfair and improper
conditions is nothing short of an eco
nomic waste, social crime, and po-
litical menace. The greatest nation
in the future will be the nation that
puts its children first. "-Representa-
tive Rathbone of Illinois, in defend
ing the Child Labor Amendment.
"When the people Of the world re-
alize how they have suffered by the
perverted patriotism, ambition, and
folly of their own leaders they will
perfect the means OF preventing a
recurrence Of such disasters .(wars).
In the meantime America should lead
the way in generosity, in justice, and
in honor. America is entitled to take
its place as the moral and spiritual
leader of mankind and make sure of
it's high destiny. Senator Owen of
Oklahoma, in discussing enemy pri-
vate property.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-08

ed States win have hard job to re.
flute.
Evening star., 1925-11-21
BABSON WARNS OF DANGEROUS
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
"Don't Be Stampeded Into Booms,'' Says Economist
Consult Bankers or Apply Rigid Special Tests
90 Salesmen--Magic Thrill in Word ''Land''

ing that business is Is per cent above
normal? The advertising and selling
organizations of these fake promoters
are far more complete today than they
have ever been before.
The investment burglar has today
many more tools than he has ever
had. For instance. it Is much easier
to get financial paper to praise his
project; then there are compa nies
which make a speciality of selling lists.
known as sucker lists" while other
companies prepare for such promoters
clrcularizing material and even at
tend to the mailing. Sales organiza-
tions are now in existence which spe-
ciallze on fake promotions. They have
letter-heads looking exactly like bank
Ing letter-heads. engraved with cable
address and bra anChes listed in various
cities.
Statesmen usually start in with the
old story telling how $500 invested
40 years ago in a certain gas mantle
stock would have amounted to $500
600 today: that AT one time It would
have been possible to have invested
500 in typeSetting machine which
would have amounted to S125 900 in
seven years. The very fact that these
Salesmen get a commission of % per
cent or more on the stock or the land
which they sell shows the danger that
turks in their propositions
When one realizes that a reputable
Evening star., 1925-11-21
Real Estate Promotions Popular

Every generation seems to have
some one popular group of invest
m"nts. Daring the boom Of tho early
e0S gold mines We're the popular thing.
During those wears much gold was
taken from tho ground. hut I heiicvc.
hcurativelv speaking. more gold was
PIT into the ground than was ever
taken out III that period. In the boom
times 1A05-19o6 oil stocks were the
popular Investment for ministers. doc
tors and school teachers. Millions of
dollars were lost in fake oil invest
ments at hat time
Today land seems 70 he the popular
form of speculation for this group of
peopio. This speculation includes
mortgage bonds" secured by mere
equities in buildings of various kinds.
stocks in companies owning apart
ment houses. etc, and the highly
speculative land subdivisions which
often appear on paper only.
There was something entranCing
~ Years ago. to the word gold
mines" although since then it has en-.
tir"ly lost its charm. Twenty Years
aS" oil wells" sounded like million
dollars. while today tho word land
carries the same magic thrill In
some ways it is much better to luv :.
piece Of land than an interest in 4 gold
n}inc or an oil well. but in other wavS
ii j. not so good. Taxes ard interest
mount up very fast.
Many people who arc huving stock
N real estate compa nies or lots on
Haper subdivisions will lose their all
through the accumulation of interee
and taxes.
It is all right to buy Il lot OF land to
build upon. either in the North. South
or West. Moreover. | always advise
the purchase of the land adjoining
that which you readers are now oc-
cupying. However. when it comes to
buying land just for speculation.
which one has never seen and which
one has no idea of occupying, this is a
great mistake
Vastly more money will he lost dur
Ing the present land boom than was
ever lost in gold mine or oil stock
ho"ms. and there arc land buonS to
day in nearly every section cf the
country.
It * estimated that during normal
times fake promoters yet away with
~ 600 ,h00.e6o per year. II this is
true in normal years. how much more
VIII 1t be true in the period in which
w are today. the EahS ~ chart SHOW
Evening star., 1925-11-21

bond house makes usually only about
l per cent on municipal bonds. and
only from per cent to per cent on
corporation bonds and preferred stock
1t should be at once evident that there
is something radically wrong with an
investment that is being sold on a
% per cent commission basis.
Considering the training which
these statesmen have and the splendid
booklets and fine Endorsements and
other securities offered. it is difficult
Tor the average man to distinguish
between the good and the bad. There
Evening star., 1925-11-21

of some broker you can write the
New York Stock Exchange, which
has opened a special department 10
give such information. Personally, /
advise consulting with them or other
people. instead of attempting to make
your own conclusions.
Investing is an art in itself and
there is no more reason why man
should make an investment without
taking advice from some one com
petent to give it than that he should
decide 10 have his appendix out with
out consulting his physician.
Evening star., 1925-11-21
BY ROGER W. BABSON.

special Dispatch to The Star
WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass. No.
vcnber eli am much exercised
over the tendency developing toward
inc floating of unSound securities.
Such a time seems TO come around
about once a generation: that IL to
gay, each generation learns only by
experience and has to get stuck once.
The last time that these fake pro.
motors had a harvest was along 1905
aud 1906. Then came the panic in
1907 and the depression in 1908 which
cleaned house. We are now entering
q period especially favorable for fake
promoters.
The unScrupulous promoter does
not usually prey upon the rich or
even the Well-to-do. The experienced
investor knows the difference between
Investments. speculations and fake
promotions. He now and then buys
bonds which are forced through re-
orCa aniZatiun: he often loses as well
as makes on SpeCulationS: but he sci.
dom gets taken in by fake promo
tionS. The people who lose money
through such promotions are min
listers. doctors. school teachers and
clerks. Up to the present time very
rev artisans and wage workers have
been caught in the promoters net.
Now. however. that maChin.Sts.
electricians. plastcrers. brickl@v ve' ;
and carpenters are getting such good
wages. il Is probable that they also
will y" caught this time-that x
say. the nets which are now heinG
spread will get 4 large number of
wage workers
Evening star., 1925-11-21

fore. my advice to readers is that you
go to your banker and ask his opin
ion. OF course, the promoter will say
that the banker is prejudiced and he
will advise against the proposition
fearing money will be drawn from
his bank 10 buy the stock or land
Such criticism is very wrong and
unjust.
If, however. you believe your local
banker would not tell YOU the truth,
then write the chamber of Commerce
or the First National Bank of the
city in which the company is oDerat-
Evening star., 1925-11-21

ing. Surely this banker or Cha amber
of Commerce should be glad to recon-
mend it if worthy because he then
might ultimately get your money if
you purchase the stock or lot of land.
IT. however, you do not care to
go TO this trouble. then YOU should
write the Better Business Bureau,
$50 Broadway, New York city. or the
Investment Bankers Bureau of New
York city. These are honorable peo-
pie. who will give impartial advice
and make no charge.
IF YOU wish 10 inquire the standing
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
MEN GROWING HANDSOME,
SAYS ENlLISH SURGEON

LONDON, in. 2.-The condi-
tons Of modtn civilization are
changing merit faces and making
them generally more handsome, &C.
cording to Sir.Arthur Keith, con-
seryator Of tn Museum of the
Royal College d Surgeons.
He says a diminished use of the
Jaws Is causin changes in the
nony frameworkpf the human face.
race.
Walter StoneAm, who complies
the Photographic record of the ma
tons most fanpus men for the
national Photographic gallery, de-
clares that in Eneral mems faces
are becoming n$rower and more
refined.
Men use their hws less in chew
ing England's inous old roast
beer, ne says, yen if they use
tnem more in pnVersation than
their reputedly takturn ancestors.
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
CONG. zIHLMN TO MEET
DISTRICT school SOCIETY

Congressman Tlederick n. Zihl-
man, OF Maryland will discuss the
District public s6oOl problem at
Inc monthly meeting of the Dis
trfct of ColumbiI Public School
Association at o'clock Wednes-
day night in the bard room Of the
District building. The public is
invited.
Congressman zillman, ranking
Republican member Of the House
District committee, Is author Of a
resolution now peAding in the
House providing for "a survey and
report on the local HhOol needs
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
Church Gives Ball

A charity ball for the benefit of
st. Augustine's Church will be
given at Odd Fellows Hall, 1906 NJ
street northwest. at o'clock to-
night: Dance music by Happy"
walkers society orchestra viii be
q 1eaturA
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
CITIZENS TO DIstUss
PERMANENT SCHOOL

Manor Park Citizens, Association
Wi meet Wednesday evening at
$40 Third street northwest. Miss
u, f. Cogovan, teacher ii charge of
the Manor Park portable school,
VIII be a guest.
Further plans will be made for OBJ
taihing q permanent scloolhouse.
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
Officers to Be installed

Installation OF officers sof the
Sergeant Jasper Post, American
Legion, will take place at 1 meet
tnE1st Sis O'Clock Thursday night
a the City Club.
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
Hard Boiled.

We see by the papers that a
subcommittee Of the House Dis
trict Committee has planned to
go on a junket through Wash
ington in order to learn some
thing about the territory they're
governing. This, we understand,
is in accordance with a sugges-
ton recently made in the Alibi
Column.
The immediate objective Of this
particular junket was to find
out whether the Capitals streets
need repairing or not, but, owing
TO the impassibility Of the
roads, the trip has been post
poned until the highways are in
proper condition, when the COM
mittee will consider the ques-
ton Of putting them in disable
shane
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
With The -
Abb Artists.
A Cross Section of the
Daily Grind in Judge
Schuldt's Court
Read EN- and Weep.
By DONALD AfacDOUGAL
By DONALD AfacDOUGAL
There's A Reason.

There's A Reason.
Ernest N. Smith, general man.
ager of the. A A. A. says that
there is no reason why Wash
ington should lag behind other
large cities in making provision
for the removal of snow from
the streets. /" Why, are there
other cities that must have their
budgets butchered by Congress
before they can buy a snow
shovel, too, Ernie?
The Washington times., 1925-01-05
Wool and Cotton
Union Suits, S1.98

Women's Wool and Cotton
Union Suits, Medium weight
with Rayon stripe, silk faced.
Low neck and sleeveless, and
knee length. Sizes SO to "A.
The Washington times., 1925-01-05

Wool and cotton quality Womens English Rib Sport Stock
ings Colors TAM nude black heather Sizes
ROxal-Bargain Basement
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

Attackers recently raided the office of U. s. Commissioner Thornton of Nome and hauled away during the night 60 gal Ions of whiskey stored as evil ednce. The officers followed the tracks of the horses and sleigh to an old dairy barn a mile down the coast and found the entire amount stored in the basement. There are no. clues as to the identity of the offenders except the size of the horses hoofs. An invest igation is now under way.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28
handle the tailings.

handle the tailings.
 The sale of the mining prop critics of the Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining Company under foreclosure proceedings held lat Juneau recently, resulted their purchase by the Alaska Gold Mines Company for $20O, 1000, the highest bid offered. The properties included 86 lodeclaims, 6 placer claims, the townsites of Thane and Perseverance, tllc mill sites at 5oth places and the water rights and power develop ments. The original develop
 ment cost of the property was $16,500,000. The mortgage foreclosed represented an in- Idebtedness of $6,700,000. The foreclosure sale was necessary to clear the title for the sale of Thane townsite and mill site and the water and power dew elopment properties to eastern nitrate interests.
 Late regulations issued by Secretary of Commerce Hoov- CT establishing a closed season for herring and providing otk- CT inhibitions on the herring industry ae declared by Alaska fishermen to be of such drastic and i'll advised character as to mean the practical wiping out of the industry.
 Under the new regulations there is established a closed season beginning January l. 1925 for a period of eight and a half months each year. The open season is to be from June
 1st. to September 15, both dates, inclusive.
 Experienced fishermen and packers declare that the order covers practically all of the one period of the year when the herring are poor and really unfit for food, it being the season immediately following the spawning period.
 Instructions have been receiv- ed by R. A. Darling, special agent of the Juneau branch of the Bureau of Investigation, to open an office at Anchorage, according to an announcement recently made by MT. Darling. For the past year the only oL- flee maintained in Alaska b. the Bureau has been at Jun eau.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28
BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
 PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
 PRESS OF. ALASKA

Mickey Duggan was killed a short time ago by falling down a shaft at Poorman, in the Ruby district. Death was in- stantaneous. Duggan had been employed by Denny Coyle for about two weeks at the tin0e of the accident.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

gate Sutherland to take the entrance examination for the
 United States Naval Academy | at Annapolis.
 A coroner's jury at Juneau found recently that the human skeleton found some time ago lon the Glass Peninsula by hunters was that of John Dug an, a fisherman, who had been missing for more than a year. The jury determined that he came to his death from natural causes.
 John o. Perry, who was cash fer in the Valdez cable office for several years after the first cable to Valdez was laid, and later connected with the Ketch- ikan cable office, dropped dead in Seattle recently. He recently retired from the Sig nal Corps after 30 years of army service and was living on a ranch near Seattle.
 Jerry G. Calvin recently re- turned to Wrangell from a trip to New York, where he went to finance milling plant for his silver-lead mine, short dis tance beyond the head of Vir- ginia. He was successful and states that a 30-ton mill and tram line have been ordered. MT. Calvin expects to be ship ping concentrates before the middle of the summer.
 The recent telegraphic report that President Coolidge had reserved a strip of five miles wide along the line of the Alaska Railroad, appears to have been an error. Later au- thentic reports are to the ef- feet that what the President really did was to revoke in part, executive orders of 1916 and 1917, reserving lands along the right of way of the railroad.
 The report of the first years operations by the Chichagoff Development Co.,, of the Chich- agoff mine, will show excel lent progress and very satisfact ory results, according to Gen. eral Manager George T. Jask- son. The company recently completed the erection of a cy- anide plant at the mine to
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

snlp company ana widely
 known in that section, has
 been transferred to the Seattle
 office of the company.
 Gold production in the Fair
 banks district, as handled by
 the First National Bank of that
 city, amounted to $784,182.74
 during the fiscal year ended
 December 5, 1924, or $231,275.
 66 greatelAthan for the same
 period of f925s D. w. Flannigan, q prohibit
 ion, and revenue officer, was recently arrested at Fairbanks for alleged assault on the per- son of Peter Kendall, resi-
 dent of that city. Flannigan
 was released on his own recog- nizance to appear in the spring. Later, the United States attorney at Fairbanks, received an order from At torney General Stone to dis miss the case. It is alleged that Flannigan entered and search led the cabin of Kendall with out a st starch warrant or other authority cf law, aud t1at his assault rpon Kendall was oc- casioned by the protest of Kendall to the action of the officer. The action of the At torney General not meeting with the approval of the peo- pie of Fairbanks, Flannigan, it is alleged, was recently brought before the municipal court at Fairbanks, and was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and be i'm prisioned for 20 days.
 Some wonderful samples of rose quartz with free gold have been taken from near Gold Pan Creek in the Cassiar where the placer gold discov- cry was made in September, according to a cablegram re- gently received at Wrangell from J. Frank Callbreath of Telegraph Creek. The mes sage stated that weather con ditions are most favorable. Dease Lake has been frozen solid since December first. There is six inches of snow at Dease Lake and eighteen at Telegraph Creek. Splendid ice is on the Stikine. The weather lis clear and cold throughout the Cassiar.
 M. Suzuki, the Japanese youth who shot and killed Mar garet Andrianoff and wound ed her mother in clam can nery at Petersburg last July, was found guilty on a charge of first degree murder in the district court at Juneau rec ently. The jury's verdict read:
 guilty of murder in the first degree without capital punish ment." Suzuki was sentenced +o i'm foy lifo bv
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

Joseph Sale-55. sourdough miner, of the Nome section, was recently found dead in his cabin, fully dressed for work, with no signs of sick ness. He was last seen alive December 22 and it is known he was alive, on Christmas. He was found December 30.
 Two oil permits for the Chig- nix district were recently is. sued from the Anchorage Land Office.
 A joint application has also been received at the office for an oil permit in the Iliamna district.
 Word was received in Fair banks a few days ago that
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

Collector of Customs J. c. Mcbride is under the care of a physician at Berkeley, Cali fornia, a sufferer from rheum- atism and neuritis.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

Jacob Britt, son of MT. and Mrs. William Britt of Juneau, has been nominated by Dele
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

agent for the Pacific Steam ship Company and widely known in that section, has been transferred to the Seattle office of the company.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

gate Sutherland to take the entrance examination for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Hyder weekly herald., 1925-01-28

Word was received in Fair banks a few days ago that