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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-13

as to apply the theory is but little
understood by the general pubic.
Most of us are naturally conservative.
We are not disposed to COuntelancc
: change in the existing order, Ul9
necessity for which is net clearly ap-
parent from our own Individual view
point. I know this has been my own
inclination. Prior to my connection
with compensation administrator.
while l knew but little about it, l was
not particularly enthusiastic over pro
posed increases in liberality Of bene-
fits to workmen. | did not under
stand the pressing need for sunl
changes.
"Now, after four years of daily
contact with the work, a revolution
of viewpoint has been forced upCa
me. Hour after hour, and day after
day, for four years l have read a
continual tale of tragedy a tale Of
manned and broken and mutilated
| human beings, who are a sacrifice to
! the pressure of our modern indus
trial conditions, no less than the fall
en- soldier on the battle field is q
sacrifice to Mars, the god of war. FOl
all of this time, | have been where
could look out upon a never. ending
procession of widows and fatherles'
children, cut eff by the death or dis
ability of the bread winner, from ev
cry opportunity to enjoy even TIT
most simple necessities of life; de
MED, in many cases, the opporutnit,
for a common school education an
forced back, under modern industrial
pressure, to a position Of sacrificing
; all else in order to help support them
selves and other members of a desti
tute and helpless family
HAS CAUSED
DELAY
81 believe that it is the lack of ger
i eral understanding of compensate
and the natural conservatism {
those who could remedy the cond
ton that has so long delayed tn
matter of melting out simple justiC
| through the provision Of benefits
| the compensation act that are SUI
ficiently large to accomplish the pu
/ pose contemplated by the theory
the act. AS a state, we have lOT
been dilato1y in this respect.
/ "The theory of compensation WI
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-13
Jerome Locke Gives Splendid Address

eilicosis. or miners consumption.
eeFron 1916 to- 1919 Daniel Har-
rin0ton. an expert in the employ OF
+ba TT 6. Bureau Of Mines, assisted
bv DR. LAMA of the United States
n17blic health service, made q study
Of the matter Of silicosls IN BuCOe'
It now appears that only very
small part of the information Cnese
experts gathered was ever puDllshed'
The accident board attempted TO Cd
tain all of the information that was
gathered from the United States Du-
Teau of mines, but was not successful
GOVERNMENT
am the data that was published,
however. is a tabulatiOn technical
paper No. 26O, 1921, U. S. bureau OF
mines) showing that physical exam
nation was made Of 1900 miners VINO
Voluntarily presented themselves 1ol
ench examination. Forty-two pei
cent of these were affected with the
disease. Half Of this number Their
had the disease in advanced stages
The same published report also SHOWS
that the death rate from tuDercuiosl
among Butte miners is Is qme
! higher than it is among the har'
rock miners in the state OF Michigan
"a workman who dies as a resul
) Of lead poisoning In a smelter IS JUS
! as dead as though he had accidental
: " fallen into pot of mdulten STAG
h The family Of a miner who dies as
9 result of silicosis contracted In on
. of the Butte mines is just as depend
ent as though his death had been Gu
e to a fall of ground. In both case
4 the hazard to which these workme
are exposed is quite as much ha'
! ard Of the industry as is accident
o injury or accidental death. Il Il
+ mining industry is to be held a
countable for the death of a man wi
is is crushed by a runaway cage, it mus
# by every rule of reason, be ne
IT equally accountable for the death
n the mans partner who dies as T
~ suit of silicosis contracted in t
We same mine"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-13

A COMPENSATION law hearing was
hold at the Placer Grill in Helena
Monda evening, by the House and
Senate committees on Capital ana ana
1abor The hearing was adjourned
until Wednesday evening after listen
inc to remarks from several laO 45
REPRESENTATIVES and Mr.. Jerome, ~
Locke. Chairman Of the Industrial Ac-
cident Board.
Mn. L.ocke's speech was regarded as
one of the most Informative ever de7
Iivered before such a committee ana
was the hit Of the evening, we puohsIh
# herewith, so as to give our read
ers am opportunity to see how huge
corporations treat the men who pro
duce their wealth.:
"The theory Of compensation anc
the method of its administration Sc
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-13

horn IN Germany nearly so years ago
dI1rino the time of Bismark, and the
first act became effective due to the
DreeSare that he exerted Tor It's enact
ment. BismaTk accepted the low
universal theory that industry is re
sponsible for the toll of injuries and
fatalities left in its wake and he
sought to apply the theory on the
basis that half the economic loss pc
borne by the industry and the oCnef
! half by the workman. Such theory
still prevails, except that there is an
/ increasing tendency TO hold that the
industry should carry something more
than half the load. More able men
think that the entire load should be
carried by the responsible industry.
"From Germany compensation
spread to France, Austria, England
and the Scandinavian countries. 1t Is
now effective in almost every civil
lized country in the world. In the
United States, the first compensation
law was enacted about Is years ago
Forty-two OF cur states and terri
tories and all the provinces Of Canada
now have such acts.
TEN YEARS
: OLD
'In Montana, the compensation &C
: was enacted by the Legislature i
1915. | am advised that our &C
was prepared by the late Colonel W
: B. Rogers, for years one of Mon
tana's distinguished corporation cour
sci as well as a distinguished mem
Der of the state senate. believ
that the machinery for administratio
provided in the Montana act by Co
onel Rogers is as good, if not better
than the machinery provided in an
other compensation act in the Unite
States. At least, the Montana bear
seems to have had less trouble
handling the law than almost any {
the other Al boards and commission
Largely, l presume, because til
new legislation was more or less e.
perimntal, the benefits provided b
the act were not very liberal. tt
first law provided a maximum benef
Of $1,000 a week. This was raise
in 1919 to $3.50 per week. In Il
meantime, the purchasing power Of
dollar is now only 60 per cent Z
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-13
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS
Continued from last week

Continued from last week.
Frandsen & Borley, supplies,
co. poor ...-.----.-----.---.---.----- 1000
Waller, Ida, October widows
pension -----------------.--------- 35.OO
Barry, Martha, October widows
salary -..--..............-................ 1900
Wilson, Lena, Oct. widows
pension ------..-----..-.----.--- $500
Homt Grocery, supplies, co.
poor ....-......--.......-......-....-..... 1900
Antelope Mere. Co., supplies,
co. poor .....-................-..-........ 1900
Ingwalson Co., supplies, coun-
ty poor ...-....--....--.......,-..--...... 1900
Ingwalson Co., supplies, coun-
ty poor ..--.--...-....--...-....-......--. 1878
Ingwalson Co., supplies, ooun-
ty yoor observation-disclosures 1887
Ingwalson Co., supplies, co.
poor ..---...-............--.....-....-.... 21.O2
Brabec, Mrs Mary, October wild
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-02-13
CAPITAL WILL FIGHT COMPENSATION BILL

Chairman; If the Industrial Accident Board of Montana Gives
Cr@pho Description of Conditions Under Which Miners
Ia3or and Whose Early Death Can Be Traced Back TO
Their Occupations.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
ONE MILE WOULD
SOLVE PROBLEM
CONTINUED from first page)

CONTINUED from first page)
to exterminate the codling moth, then
our state colleges will test it out and
claim the glory. In the meantime we
will lose enough money each year to
build a hundred miles of paved high
way, or pay each year the cost of
educating all the school children Of
the state. Possibly if things continue
to go from bad to worse, the greatest
industry for which our state is noted
will disappear, all for the lack of a
little foresight in fighting our great
est enemy, the codling moth.
My biggest tree is at the corner
of my house, where we cannot do a
good job of spraying. A picker
worked all afternoon on the one tree
and it is not finished yet. do not
know how many apples were on the
tree, but l do know that, like many
Of these other big trees, I am not
going to tell how many boxes of APP
pies l packed from this tree after I
sorted out all the worms. The thing
we growers should be fighting on is
how to get rid Of the codling moth,
and, growers, submit it to you, will
we ask our state for aid or will we
have to put up the money ourselves :?
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22

day out. we have seen one vast wheat
field. some of it in shocks, some
threshed and any amount of it not
cut and showing too bad to be doing
much in the way of caring for it.
We have come thru Fargo. N. D.
and Moorehead, MINI. The farming
scenes are about all there is to re-
port on but they are fine. Now at
S:45 pm. in the depot at Minneapolis
or st. Paul. / can not tell which, and
going up two flights of stairs to the
ticket office. Try to take notes of
things that transpire. / just give up
in dispair and write down. Things
are coming too thick and fast to
make note of them. Sign my name,
shut up my book and put it in my
pocket.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
Songs of EarfhlUors,as

Earthworms sing loudly enough to
be heard IL yards away, and their song
frequently falls into syncopated
rhythm, startlingly reminiscent Of jazz,
reports zoologist of Freiburg. In pub
fishing his observations the investiga-
tor compares a worms voice with the
percussion of tiny hammer on very
thin membrane. He intends pursuing
his investigations further to learn the
situation of the worms vocal organ.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
Romans Freed Slaues

The negro slaves of ancient Rome
were gradually freed. The closing Of
the Roman conquest and the introduce
ton of Christianity modified many of
the regulations concerning slaves. JUS
tinian was largely instrumental in miti-
eating their position and making it
easier for them to obtain freedom.
Slavery therefore. although practfced
by the Teuton conquerors Of Rome, was
gradually replaced in medieval Europe
by feudal vasselage.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
Albiin0

The term Albino was originally ap-
piled by the Portuguese to those ne
grOes who were notified with white
spots; but 1t is now applied to any
who are born with red eyes and white
hair. 1t is from the Latin word, albus,
white. Albion, one of the names Of
England, is derived from the same
word; and it is said to have been
given to the southern part of the is
land by julius Caesar in allusion to
the white cliffs skirting the south
eastern coast where he landed on the
occasion of his first invasion in the
year 30 B. G.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22

1915; Gladys Vickers 92.5; Helen
Barns 92.5; Virginia Gascoigne 92.5.
Sophomore Richard Tullar 96.25;
Joe Siegfried 96.25; Mildred Doan
95; Fay Bishop 95; Silver Mcguire,
1915; Karl Reese 1915.
Juniors-Bonnie Brown 97.5; Elsa
Brogunier 1925; Lawrence Scott
92.5; Ivel Terril 90; Esther Moulton
90.
SeniorsArdice Sheppard 95; Hell
en- Moulton 92.5; Kenneth Serier 92.5;
John Soth 92.5; Ethel McReynolds
91.25; Nita Miller 91.25.
Those on the honor roll in the 9th
grade are: Katherine Mounsey SO;
Bonnie Hitler 95.5; Margaret Witt
95; James Kratzer 81; Margaret
Moulton 81.
The honor roll in the high school
building: Miss Cameron, teacher, 9th
B. William Sherk, John Vibber, John
Hubert, Marjorie Minert, Lillian Jes-
sett.
Miss Grittman, teacher, 9Th B. Eu-
nice Foraker, Dorothy Duffy, James
Mounsey, Forrest Allison, Kathleen
Hubert.
Miss Misner, teacher, 9TH B. Rob-
ert Lane, John Huntington, Don Duff
fly, Lyle Brown, Ruth Gatchell.
Olga Heggem, teacher, 7th B. Lynn
Brown, Jeanette Peter, Lois Brue,
Pauline Day, Johanna Christensen.
E. M. Howe, teacher, 9Th A. Doro-
thy Hogan, Ruth Hyatt.
Sixth A. Edna Kemple, Ruth Kim
pei, Althea Douglas.
Sixth B. Elsie Gleason, Ruby
Harrsch, Catherine Hawkins, Ruth
GilIeland, Emily Gascoigne.
c. H. MILAN, 7th grade. Helen
kaufman, Coral Campbell, Bertha
Scott, Edith Aylward, Genevieve
Quigley.
Washington building honor roll:
First b: Betty Milan, James
Green, Monzell Slower, John Buchan-
an, William Klienknecht, Allen Stru-
theirs, Bonnie Combelic, Alice Tracy,
Mello Koelker, Gwendolyn Halliday,
Raymond Broughton, Marie Quasi.
Second b: Lorraine Giles, Grace
Dickinson, Phoebe Sherk, Jack Sway
re, Verne Foraker, Beresford Wat
kins, Lowell Higley, Sheridan Fyfe.
Second A: Vivian Peter, Genevieve
Tracy, Ailene Paden.
Third B: John Tweet, Lester
Brown, George Kramer, Raymond
Fry. Florence Evanson.
Third A: Resale Watkins, George
Stradford, Edward Schultz, Orvef Ter
rill, John Mounsey, Aaron Foraker.
Fourth B: Alice Altrogge, Luella
Rathbun, Johnny Dickinson, Fred
Evanson, Rosalie Whitney, Pauline
Strive, Frank Mueller, Alger Peti-
jean, Edna Erie Ferrill.
Fourth A: Muriel Culley, Albert
Schuster, John Scott.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
Sap Has High Pressure

The pressure of outtiowing sap In
wounded trees at this time of year
may be as high as $50 pounds
square inch. equal to the steam pres
sure in an ordinary locomotive. This
has been discovered by special instru-
ments placed In tree trunks by DR.. d.
T. MacDOugal, director Of the Car
negie Institutes department of boz
tanical research. Doctor MacDOugal
also told the society that trees with
dead roots trunk and leaves still con-
tinue to experience an ascent Of sap
in spring. demonstrating that this
seemingly vital process is purely me-
chanical.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
Famous Historian,

Herodotus was the Oldest historian
of Greece, and the Father of His
tory" He was born at Halicarnassus
in Caria. between 400 and 4SO B. @. !;
travelled over Asia Minor, Egypt and
Syria as far as Babylon, and in his
old age recorded with due fidelity the
fruits of his observations and inquiries,
the main object of his work being to
relate the successive stages Of the
strife between the free civilization Of
Greece and the despotic barbarism Of
Persia for the sovereignty Of the
world
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
Thursday. October %, lssk

airs Of a western lady m;vos
Southern hospitality. o with
In looking over the valley frou ;,
University tower, the w;nd;ns a The
among the hills, the green ana river river
foliage of the timber, the gro. Yellow
peted knobs. My wife thot e ~ car-
scenes SC le Were along the Columbia rivs
parks. For the last "a hours ; !.
been raining. The roads are rars ass
except on the highways. This ;s ora
eled but not so thoroly as tba saw s,
from Hover to Yakima or anv 90 iV ~
Washington roads that / have = tr que
eled. / am a little bit pressed e.
time as everyone wants to tall
there will be more later. ~
JOHN E. COCHRAN, of Hover
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22

Oct. Is, 1925.
Knoxville is thriving, busting
city of 10000 souls. Now if you look
up the census you may find a smaller
number recorded, but the cause is
this, they have not enumerated the
negroes. ...a
We were met at the station by
Miss Esther Crawford of Prosser,
Washington, a graduate of W.S.C.
She has a position as a research
worker in the University at Knox
vile. Miss Crawford conducted us
over the city to the University and
showed us the sights, putting on the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
HONOR ROLL

The reports for the first six weeks
Of school were issued last week. The
Junior class ranked first in scholar
ship, the honor student being Bonnie
Brown with an average grade of 971s.
The honor roll for the High school
and grades follows:
Freshman-John Brooks 1915; AL
ia Sandberg 1915; Esther Dickinson
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22

My last was from Billings, Mon
tana and when we awolae this morn
ing at Mandon, N. OAK, it was snow
ing and has kept it up all day. We
have passed through level country,
seen some nice villages, no large
places. Yesterday was saw mining
and stoclraising, today, the third
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22
LETTERS

j. E. Cochran, of Hover writes
of his impressions received on a
trip to his "old home town"
after an absence Of forty years.
Knoxville, Tenn, 10-12-25
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-10-22

October sth. We arrived at Knox
vile Just eighty hours from the time
we left Kennewick. More later.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-28
DR.. D. ROGERS
NEW DEPUTY
CORONER
Expert in Gunshot Wounds 10
Named by District
Commissioners

The District Commissioners yes
terday appointed Doctor Joseph D.
Rogers as deputy coroner. His ap'
pointment follows the passage oil
bill by Congress providing an ad
ditional deputy coroner.
Doctor Rogers, president of the
Accident and Receiving Hospital in
Stanton Park northeast, served In
the coroners office during the war.
He is native Of Virginia and
graduate of Georgetown Medical
School. He has been in practice
since 1902.
AS an expert on gun shot wounds
Doctor Rogers has besn called as a
witness in many murder trials, the
mos. recent being the trial of E.
Evard Kepner, accused Of killing his
wife, in Frederick, Md, two years
ago. Doctor Rogers testimony was
that 1t would have been impossible
for Kepner to have fired the snot
which killed the woman, holding 10
the suicide theory. Kepner was &C
Quilted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-28
FIVE MAJOR
ASSURES!
WILL BE
CALLED
Hydro Electric, Welfare, Traf-
tic. School, and MIX Bills
Agreed Upon

The most important program
for any District day during the
Sixty-eighth Congress is being
planned Tor February 8.
At q meeting Of the House Dis
trict Committee today It WAS
agreed to call up inorder 3 bill
providing regulations for the sale
Of milk in the District, bill
providing welfare code, and 3
bill establishing d hydro electric
plant nc Great Falls.
FavOrs Milk Bill.
1t was indicated that the trakftc
bill. now under consideration 81 4
joint Senate ana House COMMITTEES.
win be completed BY Monday and
added to the program. The five
year school building program also
viii Be given place.
The District Committee today
fayorabiy reported to the House
the welfare and milk bills.
The welfare bill. which has been
under consideration BY B joint come
mittee, was reported after the com.
mittee had made several minor
amendments for the purpose Of
clarifying the measure.
The COMMITTEES adopted m amend
ment which would permit the neW
hOard u determine the number u
asnflIoyes IL required. An amend
naent also was inserted giving tie
District Commissions power "a
remove member of the welfare
board for cause.
The mix bill, already passed BY
the Senate, provides for irnprovs-
lmeIlt on the standarClization a1ld In
spection Of ali milk and cream sold
in the District. The health offl-sr
! is given broad powers to maks rules
and regulations for safeguarding the
milk supply. Sale Of milk from
herds to which the tubercuIiu rest
Is not applied annually Il Pre-
fibited.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-28
CRASH
INJURIES
DRIVER
Alexandria Vehicle coIIides
With sedan-Both Cars
Wrecked-7 Others Hurt

An Alexandria bus loaded with
passengers on their way to work
here today, was. thrown into .
ditch by q collision with another
auto at the junction Of Columbia
pike and Mount Vernon avenue,
Virginia. A girl in the bus faint
ed from the shock, and the driver
of the other car was severely cut
about the face.
The bus, No. Of the Alexandria
washington line, coming toward
Washington. colIided with a small
sedan driven by J. d. Davis, of Alex.
andria, who was going east Both
cars were smashed ana thrown into
the deep ditch along the Columbia
pike, coming to rest at precarious
angles.
Beatrice Ives, eighteen, of Del
Ray, Va, tainted when the two
cars came together. She was re-
vived by Policeman e. Hall, or the
police school. who was riding In the
bus. Davis, who was cut by flying
glass, was brought to Emergency
Hospital here by the same police.
man. After treatment. he was re.
leased.
Seven Persons Hurt.
Seven persons were injured in
local traffic yesterday and last night.
One Of them was left lying in the
street by q hit-and-run driver.
Robert Doonis, colored, employed
at the John Dixon Home, Fourteenth
and Emerson streets northwest, was
knocked down and left lying in the
street by an automobile which lit
MIN in front OF his pace of employ
mert. He was injured about the
chest and legs.
Hollan d. Parker, eighty-four,
1880 California street northwest.
was knocked down by an automo.
bile while crossing Fourteenth and
U streets northwest. He was treat.
ed at Garfield Hospital for q scalp
wound and later taken home. It fs
not believed serious.
Elmer Greer. 1923 Eleventh street
northeast, riding a bicycle on
Eleventh street, between D and &:
streets, was knocked from his
wheel by an automobile, which hit
and demolished his vehicle. Greer
was not badly hurt.
Myrtle r. Beck, GOT Twenty.
seventh street northwest, was
Knocked down while crossing Con-
necticut avenue and @ streets
northwest. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital for bruises.
Miss Anna j. Berry, 1911 N
street northwest, was injured when
hit by an automobile in front Of
her home. She was taken to her
home, but later removed to Emery.
ency Hospital and treated for a pos.
sible fracture of the left leg.