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The Washington times., 1926-01-08
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
Helen Rowland

One Way to Torture a Wife
CUING for divorce on the old
~ camping grounds Cruelty"
an actress claims that her hus-
band told her she was getting
old and ugly'-and then sat up
reading. all night, so that she
couldn't get her beauty sleep.
If this be true. that man Ger.
tainly knew how to torture a
woman! Cruelty, in it's most in
genius and intensive form could
go no farther.
A man may break a woman 8
heart, break up the furniture,
break his wedding-vows, and
smash all the Commandments; but
until he skaters woman's ilIu-
sions about herself. he has not
utterly crushed her.
But. the man who wrecks
woman's vanity is almost humane
beside the man who wrecks her
BEAUTY SLEEP!
Where did men get this atavistic
habit of providing around the
place, all night, anyhow?
Apparently, the average man
can never go to sleep until he Is
convinced that his wife has
reached that stage of nervous ten
sion, where she won't be able to
close her eyes for the rest of the
OIL hn
drop right off into a state of
sweet symphonic slumber, that
will last until long after the alarm
clock has gone off.
Half OF the average Woma1's
life is spent in acting as a cur
few-and the other half in inn
personating an alarm clock! Hall
of her energy is wasted al wall
ing, "OH, WON'T you come to
bed, 6earr'-and the other half in
shouting, For heavens sake,
won't you GET UP"'
A man can think of more things
that he wants to read, eat, say, or
do, after 10 p. M, than in all the
rest of the day put together. He
may doze off in his armchair inn
mediately after dinner, ana re-
main In a state of coma all
through the sprightly "home eve
ming. But, by 10 o'clock, when
his wife's lids begin to droop and
he hears her winding the clock,
he is a perfect little Bright Eyes,
and as full of playfulness as
kitten.
Many q man who Is too tired
to eat q n1outhful," at dinner
time, develops fine, healthy ap-
petite around midnight, and either
demands hearty supper or goes
out and raids the ice-box.
No woman knows whether a
man Ialaerfts this night-proWling
instinct from some Of his pre-
historic ancestors lpr merIx &C
The Washington times., 1926-01-08
By Garrett P. Serviss,
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest

Noted Astronomer and writer On
Scientific Topics Of Popular
Interest
A STRONOMERS have adopted
"A a unit of absolute magni-
tude". 1t is defined as the mag
nitude of a star at a distance of
10 parsecs". A parsec. as have
before explained, is equal to about
100000 times the distance of the
earth from the sun. In round
teen triIlion miles, a trillion be-
ing in our American system of
enumeration million times
million which our British cousins
persist in calling a billion. This
is a great exaltation Of the billion
and saves the right little, tight
little island" from being crowded
with biIlionaires, a class Of human
beings who want plenty OF elbow
room. With us man can wear
that formidable title when he
accumulates the relatively small
sum of thousand millions, just
DIS he becomes a millionaire by
virtue of having a thousand thou
sands. It is important to keep
this difference of notation in mind,
for in English books a trillion is
always called a billion.
Now, parsecs are one hun
bred and ninety triIlion miles.
which is more than two million
times the suns distance from US.
It is also the standard distance
to which all stars are reduced for
the estimation of their relative
magnitudes. By calculation. based
on the known law of radiant en-
ergY which causes the light re-
ceived from star to vary
Inversely as the square of it's dis
lance. it is possible virtually to
bring up to the standard distance
all stars that are more remote
than~ ten parsecs, and to push
away to that distance all that
are. in reality, nearer than ten
parsecs.
Immense Revolution
Our own star, the sun, for in
stance, can be fundamentally
removed to a distance Of ten par
secs, j. e. to more than two mill
lion times its actual distance,
and then, in obedience to the
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inverse square law, it's light Is,
to the minds eye, diminished the
square of two million, or say, in
round numbers, four million-mil-
lion times. But even then 1t
would shine considerably brighter
than fifth magnitude star. But
bring up beside 1t on the stellar
platform of comparison some of
it's giant brothers, now cleaning,
as the tiniest telescope sparks in
the CLEAN of the infinite space
depths, and it's relative minute
ness would be pathetic, and pain
full for US. its dependents, to be-
hold.
1t IL curious to consider the
immense revolution that would
be made in the aspect of the heav-
ems II all the stars could stimuli
taneously be brought up or set
back, to the standard distance.
The true giants OF stellar space
are situated far outside that limit.
But there are many which to
our eyes appear the most brilliant,
that owe their apparent superior
ity to being well inside it. These
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HOW GREAT ARE THE STARS?

times in brightness IL brought Up
to the standard distance.
But, what : should we Say il
those mighty globular star clus-
tiers, composed OF giants many of
which are thousands of times
intrinsically brighter than the
sun, were placed at a distance of
only ten parsecs instead of their
actual distance of $4,000 parsecs
or more? They would be mag.
nified in brightness $4,000, 900
timesi
Then, indeed, though we should
have lost our sun swallowed up
in the unimaginable blaze of
stellar glory, yet we, too, might
be gamers through the ineffable
splendor and power of the radiant
energy bathing us on every side.
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: Bears" THE Three Little Pigs
etc. Then come Kiplings Just
SO Stories" Andersen's Fairy
Tales. THE Arabian Nights
''TangleWood Tales"
AS the concept of the real world
grows in the child's mind, the
world of fancy keeps step with
it, shedding glamour on stark real
ity, interpreting beauty, awaken
ing ideals OF courage and gal
lantry.
Soon the hunger wakens for adj
venture stories to take the place
of fairy tales. Will those adven-
ture stories make a child reckless,
curious and rebellious? OF course
they will! What's human
worth unless he Is reckless,
curious and rebeliious? And what
better way to direct that fiery
energy In him than by good adj
ture stories.
Give that restless boy of yours
''MelVille's Stories,'' "MobY Dick"
"Omoo," "Typee,'' Howard Pyle's
Book of Pirates. Stevenson's
immortal yarns. Give them to
your restless girl too. Girls need
adventure as much as boys. Do
not be afraid that such books
will awaken dangerous cravings
I'm children. Those cravings were
there already, q part Of their
human heritage. But such books
tie up action with pride and build
q standard Tor the cropping spirit.
Above All see that your 12-year.
old Girl has Louisa Alcott's books
and your I2syear old son The
Boy Scout Year Book Il An ounce
of good reading ST 2 viii save
ton pf Juvenile Court later on
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UIIE wooden wall alone should
il remain. unconquered. -Herod..
titus.
There is no such thing in mans
nature as a settled and full re-
solve, either for good or evil, ex'
cent at the very moment. of exc
cution.
Speech Is great, but silence is
greater.-Carlyle.
Joy. in Natures wide dominion.
Mightiest cause Of all is found;
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SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

And it's joy that moves the pin.
ion
When the wheel of time goes
round. Schiller.
Stone walls do not a prison
make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage.
-Lovelace
He who has injured thee was
either stronger or weaker. If
weaker. spare him; IL stronger,
spare thyEelf. Seneca
The Washington times., 1926-01-08
JUST 20 YEARS AGO
(ued From The Washington Times Files Ago TodGy
By WILLIAM MOORE

Smoke was discovered seeping
through the door of a room at
the National Hotel. The display
of lingerie was the talk of the
town for several days thereafter
Arteries frightened dangerously
when trolly company stockhold-
ers were informed of plan to
operate motor busses in Washing
ton. But their worry was need
quires 1t during his gay bachelor
days. But, it is the domestic
third degree" through which
nine out of ten wives are put.
every night, from the wedding
day to the grave.
r il the secret sorrow which
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All life Is vic.
lent and vulgar
to ,squeanish SEN
sibilities. All life
is full of conflict
We cannot elimi-
nate that conflict
nor the qualities
in ourselves which
react to it. But
we can be pre-
pared to go forth
IN a m erry,
friendly m 90 d.
And that is just
w h a t NJ o t h e r
G 90 s . prepares
the tiny child to
do.
S art with
Mother Goose,
then go on to
Beatrix Potter's
delightful animal
stories. Now the
stage is set for
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less. Washington didn't move
so fast in those days.
The weeks theatrical offerings.
Mrs. Leslie Carter. Lulu CHASER.
in Miss Dolly Dollars" Richard
Mansfield, Dan Mason, in Gay
New York" and the Hanlon
Brothers in the spectacular Fan
tasna.
has caused many a perfectly good
wife to spend a lot of time won
dering what a divorce would cost.
And it is the main cause of twin
beds. part-time marriages, rus
band.shooting, and all the travel
to Paris and Mexicoi
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LISTEN, WORLD:

MRS. MARION
IVA r TIC K E r
wants to know If
I think it's fright
to let children
read fairy tales
and wild adVen-
ture yarns?"
/ not only think
it's right, dear
lady, ! think it's
a crime not to let
a child read fairy
tales and wild adj
venture yarns.
Fairy tales and
adventure yarns
are more than an
a m u S e m e MT to
children. T h e Y
give the necessary
vitamines just as
spinach and beef
and eggs give
them to the body.
They a C t u a y
DOuriSh I he chiId'9
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01

CcOntinusd on Page SIX
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
COUNCIL HITS
BACK IN PICKET ROW

Designed as the first step II )
movement to punish the unfair State
Senate, the executive board Of TIE
Aberdeen Central Labor Council has
adopted resolution condemning The
action Of % Senators in refusing to
pass the bill that would have given
0rganizsd Labor the right to picket
during strikes.
This resolution win be submitted to
the Central council at its session this
week, and it is. expected that it win
be unanimously approved. One copy
of the resolution has been sent to
Oliver Mohhis, Grays Haf-
Dor solon, who voted against the
measure, and another to the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor.
The resolution sets forth that On
ganized Labor Of Washington was
dealt severe blow by the action Of
the Senate, and declares that retribu-
tion viii be sought. It further ex-
presses confidence in future moves
Of William M. Short, president of the
State Federation.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
SAFETY DEVICES LACK
CAUSES TWO INJURIES

Two employees Of the Wilson mill
suffered severe injuries last week,
injuries that might have BEEN avert
ed If proper safety devices had been
provided. One of the msn inferred
suffered broken back, and the con-
ditiOn is described by physicians as
being very critical.
According to reports, Adolph Pas
sur, suffered his injury when he fell
from the timber shoot while pulling
on heavy logs. He dropped distance
of 20 feet, landing on his back and
shoulders, causing his back to be
broken. Witnesses say he would not
have fallen if the mill officials had
needed the request Of men that a
guard rail be placed along the timber
shoot.
d. M. Reid, re-saw man, narrowly
escaped death when his clothing
caught in an unprotected sprocket at
the Wilson midi. Fellow workmen
freed him in time, but not before he
suffered severe bruises. This acci-
dent also could have been prevented
BY safety device on the sprocket.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
DAVIS URGES JOB
OFFICE FOR HOBOES

By International Labor News Service
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 81
In his report to Congress on the ac-
tivities of the United States Employ
ment service, Secretary of Labor
Davis says: "The report of the farm
labor division shows the usefulness of
such an agency as the United States
Employment Service in dealing with
transient labor. The farm labor prob
lem is only a part of the larger one
which needs solving-the problem of
providing employment between sea-
sons in seasonal occupations.
"Some people seem to deplore that
we have seasonal labor, and when it
moves about, sometimes undirected
or misdirected, from place TO place.
call such workers 'hobos.' It is un-
fortunate that this type of labor
should have to drift, for seasonable
labor is a necessity; in the very ma
ture of things, harvest time comes and
goes; but in the United States, with
its diversified crops and wide season
range, there is always . demand for
! ANAt2A ANANA4 " AlgAQ
This Is true, however, also IN GER
tain industries that are not affected
with the change in season. Some in
dustries are so overdeveloped that
six months production suffices for a
years supply. Instead of spreading
the six months work over a whole
year of three-day weeks, this labor
ought to be punched and then direct
ed to other industries, where similar
conditions prevail, for employment
during the remainder of the year.
"The establishment of seasonal en-
ployment offices would make possible
the furnishing of exact information
regarding the location of demand for
seasonal workmen and would obviate
many hardships encountered by seek
ers of part-year employment"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
ANSWER
TO MERGERS, SAYS
CATHOLIC SOCIETY

Cooperation is the only effective an
swer to the present wave of trust
making variously as combinations,
mergers and consultations, in the
opinion of the National Catholic Wei.
fare Conferences Department Of So
cial Action.
Pointing out the danger to con
sumers in the creation of giant mon
oplies dominating the market and fix
ing their own prices, the department
declares that these interests are SO
powerful that governmental agencies
themselves are used to further their
designs. When the federal admins
tration is either controlled by the
new trusts or overawed by the trem-
endous newspaper propaganda which
they exercise, the only relief lies in
consumers cooperation.
DIR. John A. Ryan, head of the de-
partment, quotes the Bishops Pro-
gram recommending "the consumers
cooperative movement as something
more important and more effective
than government regulation of prices"
"In the case of the baking mer-
ger" DR.. Ryan's statement continues,
"the sense of the Bishops Program
is that, apart from government ac-
ton, consumers could protect them
selves directly by the formation of
cooperative bakeries. This has al
ready been done successful in New
York City, in certain New England
cities and in northern Michigan.
Groups of consumers have joined to-
gether, put each little money into
a common fund and have built and
managed bakery from which theey
buy good bread at a fair price. In
return, they get interest on the money
they have invested and they have the
profits on their purchases to use as
they see fit"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
JUDGE WHO soaked
!. SROPMEN N STRIKE
FAGESIMPEACHNENT

By International Labor News Services
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.--IIlinois trade
unionists are shedding no tears over
the prospective impeachment in Com
gress Of Federal Judge George ".
English Of the eastern district Of
illinois,.
Jndsa EnzIIzh ssasd ssAe of The
most drastic and brutal 6E4ers from
his bench at East st. Louis. III, that
were put forth By any Federal judge
during the railroad shopmen's strike
five years ago. Judge English was
merciless to both the strikers and to
their sympathizers.
II is related that many merchants
at East st. Louis were threatened
with imprisonment By Judge English
because the merchants had refused
e supply foodstuffs and ether sup
plies to the strikebreakers.
Judge English'B autocratic disbar-
msnt Of Charles Karsh, an East St
Louis attorney, is recalled. Harsh had
previously made splendid record az
s member Of the Illinois Legislature
and was q former United States Dis
frict Attorney. Karsh had committed
the objectionable offense-in the eyel
Of Judge English-of demanding jury
trials for strikers cited on contempt
charges.
Judge English was charged, in re-
solution introduced by Representative
y. B. Boies (Rep., Iowa) withdrawing
been 'sguilty Of acts which, in con-
temptation Of the constitution consti-
fute high crimes and mismeanors re.
auiring the interpretation Of the CON
stitutional powers Of the House Oi
Representative"
It was charged in the House Of Re
presentatiYe Hawes (Deu., MOI 8
gsar ago that Judge English had de.
posted bankrupt funds in banks which
he was "a stockholdeF; that G. B
Thomas, referee in bankruptcy in his
court, had been permitted to practice
aa an attornav in bankruptcy cases
and that Judge English arbitrarily
had disbarred attorneys for using
violent language
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
DEMAND ENDS
VACATION OF WORKERS

Grays Harbor logging camps are
resuming operations after one of the
shortest holiday vacations in history,
giving evidence Of the current strong
demond for logs and timber products.
Two large companies, including the
Poison Logging company Of Hoquiam,
have started up, and several smaller
concerns also are working.
The Schafer Brothers Logging
company resumed work last Monday,
and the River Logging company
started yesterday. The Saginaw
camps on North River will. start next
week. Every camp in the county is
expected to be under way. by the
middle Of the month.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
MUSSOLINI'S FRIENDS
Want SENATEGAGGED

BOSTON, Dec. -Spealking be-
fore the Central Labor Union, former
United States Senator Walsh made
= smashing attack on Vice President
Dawes proposal to check senate de-
bate.
Senator Walsh said senator's are
ambassadors from their states;" that
they have the tight 70 talk just as
often as they see fit in defense Of
their states interests. and that this
has been the policy of ne senate from
It's inception.
The speaker declared that the
Dawes proposal would make the SEN
ate as powerless against wrong IS the
house Is. He said that the many able
men in the house are not permitted
to speak under the rules, but must
secure permission from committee
that has been developed under the
caucus system.
Senator Walsh agreed with An
drew Furuseth. president Of the In
tenational Seamen's union--who pre-
ceded him---that the Dawes plan is
the Third Estate-big business, which
is the present governing classic sub
ordinate the legislative branch Of GO
Yernment to the executive and the
judiciary. The trade unionist called
attention to the worldwide attack on
parliamentary forms Of government
by the Third Estate.
"The Third Estate has no further
use for the legislative branch said
President Furuseth. "It wants to
hold what it has, and favors dicta-
tor form Of government"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01
Bureau Of Labor Statistics Studies
Wages and Hours Of Two Industries

By international Labor News Service
& WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. BE-
The current issue Of the Monthly La
Dor Review contains summaries Of two
recent wage studies by the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics, United States De-
partment Of Labor, one on the wages
and hours Of labor in the pottery IN
dustry and the other on wages and
hours in foundries and machine shops.
The studies of the pottery industry
was made in the summer and early
fall of 1925. Data was obtained from
as potseries making semi-vitreous
ware in which there were 6,666 male
and 1857 female employees.
The average earnings of all male
employees in the semi-vitreous ware
potteries during a representative two
week period was $52.44, or $3.50 per
day, and of females $2664, or $2,99
per day. The average number Of
hours worked per day during the same
period was 81 for men and 7.8 for
women.
In the vitreous ware potteries the
average earnings Of males in two
weeks was $53.25 and. the daily earn
ings $5.25, while the corresponding
earnings Of females were $25.47 and
$2.55, the hours worked by males and
females combined averaging per
day.
The wages and hours study in foun-
dries and machine shops covered AIS
foundries and 511 machine shops in
different sections Of the country, the
number Of employees being 40,35S and
s6.Sla respectively. Comparing the
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01

While this agitation is in progress
Representatives from the Russian
government have banqueted with
American bankers and are now SOW
ing the seed Of their pernicious doc
trine in the capital of our nation.
The American Federation Of Labor
at its convention in Atlantaic City,
October 5-16, 1925, unanimously con-
demned in vigorous language the
communistic philosophy and the
whole dictatorship in Russia. Follow
ing Is the action Of that conventions:
"The American Federation of Labor
stands unequivocally for democracy,
for the right of people to rule them
selves and to control their own des-
tinies through political machinery of
their own making.
"The American Federation Of Labor
opposes with all Of the fervor of q
high idealism every kind of auto
cracy, bureaucracy or dictatorship,
whether brutal or benevolent.
i"The American Federation of Labor
is emphatically opposed to revolution
and to the teaching Of revolution by
violence wherever democracy exists
and where the people have the power
to modify or change their government
through the use of constitutional
means.
'sThe American Federation of Labor
denounces the whole communist
philosophy which is superimposed on
the Russian Soviet government both
asa philespph aas. structure of
so-called government.
1.-THE American Federation of
Labor opposes the whole communist
philosophy and dogma and the whole
dictatorship in that unhappy and op-
pressed country.
"The American Federation of Labor
declares it's hostility not merely in a
defensive manner but in vital aud
aggressive manner.
"The American Federation of Labor
urges the government of the United
States to maintain the position it has
taken in favor of non-recognition of
the soviet regime and we commend
our government for its courage, its
adherence to fundamental principles
Of democracy and its absolute refus-
al to be drawn into the barter and
sale for diplomatic advantage and
capitalistic exploitation.
"The American Federation of Labor
will not barter it's honor or its faith
in. democracy in that manner and 1t
will oppose with all its might any
governmental attempt in that direc-
tion.
THE American Federation of Labor
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-01-01

1925 averages with those reported in
similar tudy in 1928, slight reduc-
tion in working time accompanied by
an increase in hourly earnings is
shown for every occupation for which
separate figures are given except one.
This reduction in full-time weekly
hours is due not so much to a shor-
tening of the hours per day as to the
recent tendency toward eliminating
entirely work on Saturday. Average
full-time hours per week in machine
shops show decrease for practically
every occupation. Average hourly
earnings Of all employees in foundries
had increased from 55.8 cents in 1928
to 6O.S cents il 1926 and in machine
shops from 55.9 cents in 1923 to 6O.3
cents in 1925.
a summary Of a study of the acci-
dent experience Of nearly the entire
iron and steel industry completed by
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics in 1924
for the third five-year period shows
a steady downward trend fer practi-
eally every department of the indus
try in both accident frequency and Sc
verify rates.
Other special articles and studies in
this issue of the Review are an ae-
count of the retirement law for rail-
way employees in Brazil, and a state
ment showing the present status Of
labor banks giving the name and To-
cation and organizing or controlling
body together with the capital, snr-
plus, total deposits, and total e
sources of such banks throughout the
country.