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V _-___-____-_i_i-ii___H-i^i-_w»i-i.-^ The Labor Statesman Owned by the Vancouver. v» w—.__ . ^ V* A 1UI| .No. -M-EIGHT PAGES O-ed by the Vancouver, New Wester and District Trod , ~-^^J^^^^C^m ,1™ Trades ^ ^bor Council; "Appeal for 8-Hour Day Exemption The board appointed by the Legislature to administer the "Eight-hour Day Act" held sessions in Vancouver on Dec. 3 and 4. ...., xj. \^., uecem FARM THE FARMERS! IT PAYS fafa VaflCOUVer WASHINGTON. — Farming the farmers through M>» *•—'- (Another Social by South Van. Group rmiol __ j ^ '■ ^ 1 ....^,tji.vxv. — Farming thi farmers through the banks pays bet ter than working on the land. Stat istics by the department of agriculture show that capital invested in *" agriculture in mortgages and other ' a",a ' ' ' indebtedness was paying an average Anyone who attended the sitting rate of over «. ~ cennn'i921=22. must have been impressed with the yne feintn'""' --'•-- ' " •sad, penurious condition of the in- - dustries of B. C. According to the ,_ — ' . employers, if the act is enforced a "Even this meagre showing," says large number of them will go out of *he ^Pf' wa? "*ade only by va]u: business, others will be greatly crip- 'Jg the, labor of farm operators and •pled and some will have their profits the,r families at no more than the 'cut down to nothing. None of them current rate for common ]abor* .admitted that they could rearrange the workings of their plants and factories to conform to the Act, and : J many of them actually lied in, their • efforts to gain the sympathy of the I board. For instance, a representative of the ship builders stated that the lining of ships for grain is highly specialized work and can be performed mos. off'-" -■■" PROFITS ARE HIGH — V* j Hard-boiled Wall street is stagger- Lahot* CsildldlatCS I''' at tne I"'0'''3 °f the Delaware, I Lackawanna and Western Coal Company and the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Company. Although 1923 was far £roin a normal year, Lackawanna's profits were $5,600,000, and Le high's __?_*(__"___' r- . .wu t,»n; and can be per- ~ .formed most efficiently by working the men long hours. He stated fur- ' ther that if he is not exempt from ie intend- «■_ - __> vul< The Social and Dance held in tlie I.O.O.F. Hall, __)th and Main, was a complete success,' this evening being the best of its kind held in the community at any time. ..." The chairman for the evening was r.H.E. Rees. T_o «--— Councillors: J. G. Smith Geo. H. Hardy O..J. Mengrel Alex. McDonald Len Edge --■- J. Auton J. M. Bender School Trustees: RE. Rijtjby A. Claridge - Police Commissioner: W. Ford (Merchants Help P0Wers That Crush Them (By. Our New Westminster Correspondent.) The retail merchant is, politically' either a Conservative or a Liberal; „ ... »„j nine, not exempt from The chairman for the evening was the Act he intends to violate it, law Mr. H. E. Rees. The first item on the ' or no law. In this he probably took programme was an introductory bis cue from Mr. Patterson, the rep- speech by Councillor George Hardy. resentative nf «•» — " Community sinp-"«»' -'--■'-- Canada and the Egyptian Crisis _ ByJOHNROBUR OTTAWA ^ C0rre«^> „„,,. ,,, auu u*. eiuier.a Conservative or a Liberal; high's $2,500,000, These profits are rarely is he progressive ^enough to approximately one-third of Lacka- support Labor, wanna's capital stock and one-quar- 'He is sucn as a result of,the mister of Lehigh's capital stock. taken notion that to belong to either The incomes have been jealously the Conservative or Liberal party is guarded. Part of the campaign of of advantage to 'his economic posi- secrecy is to shout "high wages" de- tion. His 'Political convictions are marided by the men who risk their not the result of any deliberate pro- lives in coal mines. • cess °f reasoning. He never lifts ".■ ■ his nose from the grindstone of daily routine to question the soundness- and justification of his political creed, nor does he apply any of his business acumen to investigate theT ultimate aims of either of the old parties? He does not know the in- ,i,—_-i- - - .__..u«u uy rne mer lives in coal mines. Lahor Increases Vote in Civic Election J-MM is possibly disappoint- ^ . Hg doeg not^now the in ed in failing to elect any of its can- ;-.-■;-. , , , , ,. _, _ •■ ■_. ,.,-, . ,, . •■;. '-,. ,, dividual character of the men com- d.dates in the civic elections there . m imermost rf of the8e must be satisfaction in theincreased ; and u totM fenoran, „T „„*>, — k.. t.. rerthe previ- ii.. .*avi.iuii in the increase! vote made by Labor overThe previ ous election. Last year R. P. Pettipiece received 2,459 votes from the entire city, mmmmmmmmmsimmm . ^demnaUoTTomtd H?*? ™™°« a Z« f Within' a box bord*. .7 _0 I™ § gS " ^^ ^llolv- ^ « ^^ry organi- Long after the necessity of, or I - ,7*1 '" ■w Pmnts. This arr„nf m 7T *"easea tlie audience -J instance, ameatbd'iS^^™ lKmg nineant wh uugnt forth condemnation .from Ln_ ; ■ .and-als°- delivered a short Within'-*■ box .'iw^ it. ' crease in V ine- snph avo —_ •_ ■-.;■:; . present. Lose Ten Million Dollars (?) The gentleman who "presented the brief for the mill men drew a comparison between the industry in B.C. and the States of Washington, Idaho and Oree-on w- - : and Oregon. £_*_r_™--x: «££«£____3S night. y enj0yabIe a»d successful .. ..,w uwiiiis will be heh ...... uc saw Uie logs in the in the same place, I.O.O.F. Hall, 30tl States mentioned were better, had Aver and Main St., on Saturday, Dec. less knots, scaled more feet per log 20. Ladies will please bring the and grew more feet per acre. The cakes or sandwiches. Tea and eof- average log in B. C. produced.730 fee will be provided by the commit- ^eet of lumber, and in Puget Sound tee. Admission, free. Collection to > 1,100 feet. The government scalers'defray expenses. Commences at 8 "» B. C. were not so fair to the log- p.m. sharp. fas as the scalers in the States. The '",■',,, „. _ . . J a-- ,r ± "^'' DUt M men in the States had taken ~~ ^* ~T ~ *here » no doubt that a &*»* many away .5 per cent, of the export trade ^ork on'y eiffht »ours_ day. The Canadians are uneasy, A leading of B C and the B G men found gentleman who presented the ease Toronto newspaper has made the m- , it hard to do business 'through the for them stated Ms PJan* had been cident the text for a 0* that Can- banks. He had been to a convention shut down for three months, but he ada should run her. own show in Jin Tacoma and in discussing the busi- did not ma^e Jt -uite «lear how ho foroign affairs. | ness with mill men from the three c0UjW shut down for three months states mentioned, he h»W f««-J -* .Prominent officiali" AhnexatiT ^%tK~ ** VOte w^' .*»;• being consulted vote. ° C8med bya three tb one . -•» . --» era,,survive,^d sur ____ ...,.-,..... v,ve tenaciously amidst anomalous' new surrounding .!,„..__omalous , „_u»t-.oi tnoughts created during such era, survive, and sur-/ vive tenaciously amidst anomalous new surroundings, thereby handi- «• «e industry fa B.C. night. .-'r*«»_ .ana successful a™ "ad approved the Brit.Vn , « ^ , - "vive tenacioUslv «mM V SM*' -ieetperacrr^i^ii'- bring the opinion. No ^lut ™- - - ^manl, c_ Shib^S t0 ^ «" «*.id _,._ „_eu isept informed, but had not been asked to express an Aldermanic Contests: opinion. No communication had Ward 1-—T. H. Tracy, 829; E. W. been sent to Britain from Canada, it Dean, 539; F. L. Fellowes, 181. was stated, "although there is no Ward 2—H.'E. Almond, 1394; S. J, feeling of dissent from the British Birch, 461. policy." Prnh-M" -I-'- • ■ _.uui me rsrltisJ policy." Probably this last statement is an accurate representation of the government attitude; but there is no doubt that a great many Canadians »r_ «» Shiboleths. This is particularly true of the political mind_of the retail merchant, and the lower middle class in general. He still deludes himself that ■• the two old parties are* today the Ward 3-r-F. C. Gibbens, 877; R. P. same as they were in the days gone Pettipiece (Labor), 425. by. He does not see the change, nor Ward 4—John Bennett, 1162; F, A. does he nnt.Vo .----_• - Hoover fT«l>~» '"'"■ )' •- -_-u.ua ana in discussing thei hi»71 did hot W&rW'° - montns. but he pio^Titt'fonnd they^■^-^TmS ' —— - (r^r'^^^^Rbe"nedbythez*ho tet,cassoc,atio^da^ . _—_w .Ul, I ten billion feet. Jffef this statement is true, the total ''capitalization of the mill men of -•Washington, Idaho and Oregon has >been wiped out. I Workers Too Tired Among the many weird statements ide was one _* - ;" ». would be ruined '/.ten billion feet """ over Ida^ jpf this statement is tru.. «.„ .---Vlin/e^m-,6 manyJndustries claim- on th_P_ °r Partial "option and can factories. I„ an effoff.^ ooart;ugS7;hatember °f the t5mV£ 1 -■ Ki"W&SSF***and ^nW notcompete JS C^ Jt^__T^!_V*° w-to ^lf WMS®&^oW *-«chmeryover.Re',er-''-----^^ SOUTH ^-XT '"" » ■• worth watching. * U~H VANCOUVER LABOR * The next regular m_ .- iHL i> ,esuiar meeting of tho ■uth Vancouvp. n»_ ... tne Hoover (Labor), 602. Ward 5—J. A. Garbutt, 1336; G. O. Thom (Labor); 646. Ward 6—G. H. Worthington,-.fi3-; F. Knowles (Labor), 889. Ward 7—F. B>. Woodside, 866; W. J. Seribbins (Labor), 818;" A BIygh, 411 „.. occ uie cnange, nor does he notice, in fact, he tries by all means to ' ignore the growing strength and importance of the La-" b.or movement with its rapidly awakening consciousness and in-; creasing solidarity. A movement born not by oratorical or literary efforts, but originated and urged forward irresistibly by natural evolii- : tionary economic fmw-- .._—...uai -»- ward irresistibly by na Wards—F. P. Rogers, 1350; A. Mc- tionary economic forces. Innis, 708; L. Bubinowitz, 64, .The merchant's knowledge of the Parks Commissioners Labor movement comes from the W. Deptford (Labor) polled 4294 daily press and trade publications, tes as against 8143 and 3808 for controlled bv rt<«■''•■■ 3 ntho* n«_J-*'' ■ fm-j "* weiru statements •made was one by a mill own^S ^ect that he had closed dow S , -H for a period of several months nn - - - wmmmmflmmm a Another mill owner said it . ► Washington orOrtgon, although this ssme wan is at present paying car:T__i7r__;r," ***>"■»-"'-^pts climate, 'penters and millwrights from ?^^50 Jo Z - ™* i%S ?e6P,e « the to ?2.00ra day less than is paid in the Iv days>esslon than all the money 'state- mentioned. he eVer.8P«>t in publicity did to boost it W»I Roin Bnsines. (?) 'bUt ,n ^e onininn ,4> ._.. _. The majority of the men who nre l5„,f_ ./""" -"<5U'ar meeting of the sented the briefs for the emp.oy^ adian iTT Grou<* of -he C „ its rcsoinvoo i i _•! ■ • . .""".c, cne norticultnrnl tr-n *, .. *" The dance held under the auspices of the Hotel Vancouver Ath- . . .. , T —•""'cu^ letic Association was a huge success — »«"»«'oners Labor movement comes from the -There was a big turnout and most of *• P^tforf (Ubor) polled 4294 daily press and- trade publications, the dancers stayed for the,home ™tes as against 8143 and 3808 for controlled by the same powers who waltz. The committee arranged for the other candidates, are naturally antagonists to |he a good supply of coffee, cakes and „ School Trustee,... Labor movement «_ - sandwiches and added to the splendid Labor canxitdates A. V. Lofting, selections given by the orchestra 3420;-W. .J. Downfe, 3394; K. Skin- kept ,eyerybody_smiling. till 12-p.m. ner, 2077, as against from 4654 to The arrangements committee'were 6545 ior the Winning candidates. W. McNeil, E. R. Wellsman, A, Nor- — .„,.'■■.., ton. E. M«rf«~ t- ".-. Tli£ GULF HAS NQT YET BEEN BRIDGED— ^^^^--^-•ILAft-SArlf MS-DONALD1 ...The'-gulf be"tweeh rich and poor, the periodical breakdown of the modern industrial i_achine, causing .... _»,ci- ior tne employer! did mors. toJcnock B. G;, its climate, its resources and its people in the two H-vc* o«--:- -' Labor movements By supplying the merchant Avith colored and distorted facts, by suppressing" facts favorable to the Laboir movement, and pursuing in their press determinedly : and systematically a policy of hostility against Labor, they prejudice and j poison the mind of their readers. trouble to make himself acquainted , with tbfi view points, the aims, and aspirations of-Labor. .. If he were to acquire at least the ; ndamentnlo _•-" ..«• ..urn ousmess ('/) * The box makers will probably have to go out of business if compelled to Sr- ■ ' ■ .... ... fHuiHaiy aid to boost it, „,.. -«<=0 campaign will be but in the opinion of any reasonable launched as soon after as possible, person, all they succeeded in doing but an intensive campaign will be was to make themselves appear ridic- inaugurated commencing Jan, 6th. ulous.—D. Polling day is Jan. 17th. --•■ '"uusrrial i*,,,!.:.,. . . i —-.-■■»■<»*<unuor. wide-spread destitution the sh_T k _ - $& l° 8Cquire at least the economic mechanisni__S^SSE^^^S^ES___- be would |»*nere of monopon^spta^ land—can claim an e^. 7i y !• P"Worn and misleading the noli time that S^E^W '?_fe_«Mi_h_.-_- nart ,^' . ... j..,y. uiu parries are, -uinmunal wisdom and and wouI-*"sp--_iTy' Und his right cons<j»R__f-7adopt some scheme to al- P'ace in the political re-alignmen|, Ievi*8te the lot of the most'Tn.rd.iy The gigantic power of the finan- pressed classes, conclusively show cial capitalism is grinding the lower that society does not yet meet the middle class relentlessly .down. The requirement of human standards of struggle of the independent retailers use and value.—Ramsay MacDonald. (Continued oh page 8) 1, Mi Mt Pleasant JAMES HARKNESS Tea and Provision Merchant 2505 Main St " Phone Fair. 1269 SPECIALTIES Coffee, Cooked Ham, Cheese, Teas, Ayrshire Bacon and Butter City Electric Co. '.Electrical Contractor* and Supplies Repairs Day and Night Phone Fair. 4865 EWHT AVE. AND MAIN ST. MORAN DRUG STORES . Prescriptions , Courtesy and Efficiency . A— • — - THE LABOR STATESMAN T* Avo. & M.i„ c _T1» ^ «rn to hear mjr Fair. 3799 2° * Br»^»»- ?f the Eousseau tack in this way. It . '"» Fair. 1099 disturbed me becanao T vS,„„. it.- ___ Fair. 3799 Fair. 1099 Bell Plumbing & Heating Company ,105 Broadway East REPAIRS OUR SPECIALTY Fair. 2593 Res. Phone Bay. 109.X For Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Try ARTHUR WISMER Watchmaker, Jeweller and Optician .317 Main Street Phone Fair. .66 THE RACE FOR SAFETY By MICHAEL EGAN in the Socialist Review (The author Indicates the danger which confronts modern civilization and holds that the brotherhood of man is our only chance of salvation.) "Man," said Rousseau, "is born The true Socialist, I think, recog- free, and everywhere he is in chains." nises this fact. He admits quite This dictum of the great French frankly that' clasi rule (i.e., rule in thinker was hurled at: me by an the interests of a minority, whatever eager and well-meaning young So- thp outward form of government) cialist the other day in the course of has played a great part, perhaps an a discussion. It is as true to-day, I essential part, in the development of was told, hotly, as when it was first our race. Its .work is done. How- delivered. Surely I must see for ever, useful and beneficial it may myself, when I look around me, that have been in the past, today it con- the masses of men are still in chains. stitiitoa on ,v<~i—_•" And so on. Now, I am a Socialist myself (and a die-hard Socialist at that), and it caused me no -small amount of concern to hear my young friend go off December 12th, 1924 Machine, after all, is but the symbol j V'l^a C_ «1 ,' of our progress; its purpose, if it has VlOleUl bitlKt of "
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BEELTNT^— International agree* ments limiting the weight of filled sacks to. 150 lbs. are urged by the: International -Union—of Workers "in the food and drink trades. The union reports many cases of hernia and curvature of the spine among workers, due in part-to reduced vigor since living standards were forced down after the, war. In most countries the usual weight of filled sacks is almost 200 lbs. youthful; some are born old and others die young. This threadbare thought was agdin impressed upon me last Friday when I saw Floyd Dell's "The Rim of the World," presented, as one of three one-act plays, by the Vancouver Little Theatre. The well-known American radical and former editor of "The Masses"„'has woven a fantastic romance about this theme in which a Gypsy and a Princess per; sonify youth, while a king and his maid servant typify staid and colorless age. ' The part of the Gypsy afforded E. V. Young an opportunity to present this character with such* force and* vitality that would have done credit to Douglas Fairbanks. His work was outstanding in the evening's performance. Phyllis Brooke, as the princess, was not suited for the part, and someone delineating more nearly a young Gypsy girl would have remedied this weak, spot in the play; Alte'o' her._6_tume was neither Basque, Andalusian or Cas- tillian, but resembled a west end flapper's party ^dre^^^h^ojhjiajin, rite1 'plsjy wefe**' acceptable. W, W. Jacobs' gruesome curtain- raiser, /'The .Monkey's ..Pa,w," also g»ve-J^e,?*-yfS__'___*'Lillian -_-*- son, as the aged, parents of Herbert, their only son (who is killed as the result of the-'Ciaa* -pisoedson'the PERRY & DOLK Men's Tailors 18 Hastings West Room 33 *' _ Jry THE BETTER'OLE 915 Main Street * J. Turner, Prop, picks the best of ... tobacco. BE CONSISTENT William Tell CIGARS are the product of a ICO per cent ° UNION FACTORY GRANTHAM M_S5_3Jra P4/.TY PUNCH >-R_ CONCENTAAfEol FRUIT JUICES and CANE SUGAR f Phone for Sample T~F_... 1250 VANCOUVER, rc* KEEP fOUE RESISTANCE at par and you will not have coughs and- colds. If. your resistance is low you >t,~........ u<o.atbci& 411 a very creditable manner.. Frank Johnstone, as the son, did not convince hie of his youthfillness, and I think this part should have been allotted to a younger member. In the last scene, in.which the mother, after making a (Continued on'page 5) —■- throw them off. -As long as there, is nerve impingement the flow of vital force to the various organs will be interrupted. For 100 per cent, service)- see Mrs. Elsie Burge and E. L. Bun-ill. Chiropractors, 207 Lee'Bldg. IPnifhe I-iiir: 3-83~~ "^Advt. -Oft. ^n, December 12th-, 1924 THE LABOR STATESMAN (Continued from page 4) second wish by the monkey's paw, struggles to open the door to see the apparition of her dead son, and the father countermands it by wishing him at peace in his grave, the tenseness of this scene would have been enhanced had the father's speech indicated a depth of emotion instead of a'strident outburst. Tne curtain on this scene was too abrupt.. "Fancy; Free," by Stanley Houghton, while being well cast and direc- - ted, should never have been offered,' even as the entree to the evening's performance, for-it was stale and ■ insipid. Special mention should be made of the scenery and general staging of all three plays for this was excellent, especially in "The Kim of the World," where a fine restraint .was shown in the blending of colors. This was all the more commendable in -View of the fact that the scene would strongly tempt the novice -to the bizarre .in color effects. -V . '.■.-'. * ■ • * THE ENEMY OF YOUTH IS CAPITALISM. Daily it is.trying in a hundred different ways to pervert the generous progressive ideals of youth to its narrow and moribund conventions. From earliest infancy Hie minds of our children are filled with ghosts and hoggoblins to create fear and later are poisoned with the virus of. theological superstitions. At school the youth of the land is regarded as so much raw material to be fed into the maw "of an educational machine which turns out graduates in much the same manner that a -sausage machine makes sausages— all exactly uniform and. with only this difference, that instead of being stuffed with-stale meat our youth is crammed with mouldy ideas—dead languages and colorless literature; -J_______-_Mlte-'l«^^ ters and sword rattlers; economics that teach the sacredness of private property' rather than the conservation of human life. Capitalism has only the tawdry, the banal, and the mediocre to offer-youth. The young man or woman today who has ideals and wishes to work for- their realization, naturally seeks the Labor movement as a means of attaining them. "SCIENCE AND THE CHANGING ORDER 99 M&b*mn*s&^^ =---S>-_c;*N-Wt-_^scovered the Law Frank Van Hoven v omjng to Orpheum "The Mad Magician," Frank Van Hoven, is one of the main features on next week's bill of vaudeville which opens with a matinee on Thursday. Magic of the Van Hoven variety demonstrates the quickness of speech rather than of hand. He goes to endless pains .to prepare a trick and labors over his presentation until ,the proper pitch of expectancy i is reached, when an exceedingly humorous turn is taken creating an irresistible comedy angle. He met with his .first success in London, where they hailed him as a new njon-" arch of mirth, and made him sign a contract covering a .return engage- men before they let him sail for America. Max Fisher's Band, direct from a successful and extended engagement in Los Angeles, are on the bill They have the reputation of being the greatest syncopators in America. - The dainty English comedienne, JoSie Heather, has been engaged for another tour of the Orpheum Circuit and will he Jiere on this week's bill. She sings _ni>, dances, and is ably assisted by Jq'hn McLaughlin, a very likable youn'i singer and pianist., Filfed Clafk-J one of the list of the famous Booth family, will present bis successful- farce, "How What" assisted by a capable company. Mr. Clarke made his debut at the Strand Theatre in i-ondoa in 1885. "Say iS while dancing," presented by Loo .Xoclteti; and. Peas&^geJft^B^-*- z%m$mitiBuft -lever* sbtig and dance act, with Hubv Ward at the piano. ""Little Miss Melody,''' Jean Middl-z ton, presents a very nifty and clever violin..-set. Her gsreat love for music has made her an artist of the first ■mater. Don Valerio, Italy's foremost wire dancer, is on the bill. He is a wire dancer, hot a walker, which makes it more intricate. The usual attractive pictures and Orpheum Concert Orchestra completes the bill. SYNOPSIS NO. 4 (Concluded) Matter and Motion the Basis of the 7 ■ ■■ 'Universe //* After the speaker on Friday, Nov. 28, had concluded his remarks regarding the idealistic, or theological theory of creation on which that profession, and that of the spirit mediums in general, rest, the alternate proposition was taken up. As Dr. Curry stated the belief in spiritual beings, good and evil, g^eat aind small, has played a tremendous part inthe life of out race, and in many Cases these ideas seem to be ingrained into bur sub-conscious minds instinctively, just as our fear of sriakes, thunder and -"'^lit comes from our primitive, or '\ --human, progenators. •'■■",'■'. Yet, in spite of this, and of the mass and ruling -Tilass psychology, which makes it unsafe for teachers and scientists to declare in favor bf what -Ernest Haeckel terms "Materialistic Monoism," a recent referendum proves that a vast change has taken place in. man's mind -since those days when Bruno was burnt at the stake and Gallileo, to escape the same fate, was comp'elled ,to groVelaf the feet of priestcraft and read his infamous Recantation. This was proved when from. New York recently a questionnaire was submitted to several- hundred professors and scientists asking if they favored a dualistfc or materialistic viewpoint. Over seventy-five per cent, declared for the latter, arid over 80 per cent, of the psychologists, whose specialty it is to deal with mental phenomena, believed festations are but the product of brain, or molecular, activity,, and they would all have agreed with the implied answer to the late Professor John Tyndall's query: . "Divorced from matter, where is mind to be found?" Yet, men who should know better, today sometimes declare publicly, that Materialism is a "thing of the past," just as others tell us that the evolutionary theory and Darwinism' has long since been discarded by those competent to judge. "Truly do some men put their backs to the sun and mistake, their shadows for God." Yet, when we of today have the privilege of expressing "gross Ma'-; bsrialism" and of opposing theological views, even from the pulpit of the orthodox church, just after, the clergyman has requested _God to make the forum discussion a blessing to audiences, we know that the world Indeed moves. Even without faith in, eternal life for ourselves individually, we sometimes become joyous and optimistic regarding the future of the human family to which we belong- -.'■ Matter, Imponderable and : Ponderable The speaker then, with the aid bf fiS blackboard, analyzed the two great divisions of matter. The-first is the essential, yet the hypothetical, substance termed Ether, the medium through which magnetic and radiant energy travels; the substance which fills'infinite space, and is .the-vibrating medium of atoms and molecules. Then there are the ponderable forms of matter, known as gases, liquids ai I solids, and the spectroscope has shown us that our sun, and thousands of other suns and solar _ys_JWraF: contain "^_Tsan_fefeSen tary forms of matter as our world and -BT-bodies are composed of. Truly are we children of the Sun. The Law of "Substance The discovery of the "indestruct- ability of matter'" suggested by the Greek philosophers hundreds of years B., C, was demonstrated and given to the world by Lavoisier, a French man, in 1789. The law of, the "Conservation (or indestructability) of energy" was discovered by Robert Mayer in 1.842, and the inference is that which cannot be destroyed was never created. ; In the opinion of Clodd, Haeckel and other scientists, Ether is probably the iraw material out of which ponderable matter evolves.. Many interesting illustrations were shown on the screen, including the chemical elements, beginning with" aluminum and ending with zirconium, while the father of chemical science, including Dalton and Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, were shown. The speaker explained that not long ago the atom was said to be the ultimate division of matter, but experiments with radium apparently show us that atoms are made up of electrons. According to •• Clodd's "Story of Creation," an atom of radium contains 160,000 electrons, and yet a molecule of water, consisting of two atoms of hydrogen and one of water,. is less than one billionth of an inch in diameter. V Motion Divided into Forqe and Energy These are the two antagonistic powers, the positive and negative divisions of motiojft which keep the Universe in running order. Force is the attracting, or pulling, power, which tends to hold matter together, as expressed in "gravity, cohesion and chemical affinity," while energy is the repelling, or separating, power, known as "heat., electricity,' mechanical energy, etc," of Gravitation, showing that "every particle of matter attracts, every other particle of matter in proportion to its mass and in inverse proportion to the square of the distance which separates them. The earth pulls the sun, and the sun the earth; the earth pulls the moon and the moon's pull on the earth is evidenced in the ebb and flow of tides. The moon would fall to the earth and the earth would-return to the sun if the energy of their orbital motions were withdrawn. If force had "unrestricted7 sway, all the matter in the Universe would in time gravitate into a perfect sphere, in which no life or activity would be possible. "And .life itself," said the speaker, "is a fight from our first breath to our last kick." ' * i _. Motion and matter..-, are inseparable, eternal and limitless, even, as . .. - _ - - ■ time and Space are necessarily infinities. **,nergy Not Created Nor Destroyed The amount of force and energy are constant, but the form of energy may be changed. A mountain stream obeying the law of gravitation will turn a wheel, this with a dynamo will generate electrical energy. This may be changed to light or, heat, or a motor can again transform it back into mechanical power. But there is no creation nor destruction bf energy; and our patent officials todsy no longer heed the claims of the "perpetual motion cranK" asTReyTdid a generation ago. . • Where Can You Find Dead Matter? ■ Our ■ idealistic and theological friends talk of that gulf between "dead and living matter," which only Divinity can bridge. But today tide of matter from the tiniest atom to the great galaxies of suns and planets-are in constant'raotio* Soon we will see the crya tali Ration .jnf "dead" water formed into beautiful ferns and flowers on our windows. Is not this and the affinity between oxygen. and iron, the "loves and hates" of elements, just as mysterious and just as indicative of the de- Famous Singing Star at the Orpheum Mitzi is one of the few stage stars who does not believe that theatre audiences grow more sophisticated every season. The small singing star has now been on the stage in this country for nearly ten years, sice before she was sixteen. Her observation is that playgoers are like Peter Pan; and: she displays letters sent her in her new play, "The Magic Ring," coming to the Orpheum Theatre commencing Tues., Dec. 16 for two nights 'with a Wednesday matinee to prove it. One of the favorite questions put to Mitzi by naive admirers is: "How do you ever think up,your lines?" "They really believe," explains Mitzi, "that I have no real 'part,' but make up my own words as I go along." There is an implied couit pliment in all this. An actress' comedy must be very natural in order to deceive audiences into believing that she herself invents and kaghs. Mitzi admits that her performance does vary somewhat at each performance, for while she does follow the lines and situations, provided by the author, she often adds speeches and bits of stage "business" that come to her while she is playing. If these inventions please the audience, they are "usually tried out" by Mitzi again the next evening, and if their effect is as noticeable as when they were given impromptu, they have a good chance of remaining' in the play. The star is Wholly her own censor in this matter—or rather, according' to Mitzi herself,- it is the audience who decides. Like babies' faces, the star relates, audiences all look alike at first glance, but reveal their differences on acquaintance. Her last role, in "Lady Billy," Mitzi played 1231 times, yet her performance always varied. Even in her closing weeks, she relates that she found "three new laughs"—and to make the audience laugh is ,the goal of musical comedians. In "The Magic Ring" Mitzi has ample scope for original comedy, in the role of a young organ-grinded, who finds mj^c. m^.ajris^^ RAISE PAY OF CITY WORKERS MILWAUKEE. —A flat $5 a month raise for all of Milwaukee's 2,600 employees holding jobs under municipal ordinances has been voted by the common council. It adds $157,000 to the annual-budget. Vancouver Heights sire to live and evolve as is the budding of bacteria, or the manifestations of amoeba or jsllyfish? The subject this Friday will be "Astronomy." The vastness of 'Space, the "birth and death of worlds will be dealt, with,' and many marvellous illustrations will be seen on the screen.' . Following that will be our solar system. Then the Cooling of the earth bringing conditions which produced life. When, where and how did life appear will be the following subpect and here bi«J(logy begins^Af- ter that the evidences of evolution will be taken up. .- AH interested are invited to at-r tend. Every Friday evening, 319 Pender St., W.. Questions and discussion. , ' , Grandview Royal Drug Store HO. Commercial Dr. Cor. Kitchener better drugs '.-. _ better service E. SNOW LEE, MPS/London, Eng. Phone High. *». 1955 Commercial Dr.. at Fourth Ave, McKay's qRopsi: THE ESTHER BAKERY WE SHALL BE MAKING Xmas Cakes & Puddings ';. SOON-' For HEALTH, STRENGTH and BEAUTY Eat Our Brown Bread 3728 Hastings E. Phone: High. 13,0. E A. HILL GROCERIES, FRUITS, CURED MEATS, FLOUR AND FEED 3722 Hastings SL E. Phone High. 16.0 W. DICKINSON MEAT MARKET 3724 Hastings Street East - My Motto: ONE QUALITY ONLY—THE BEST Hey and Grain, Flour and Feed Poultry Supplies Phone High. 97S^' ■ Prompt Delivery Manitoba Hardware Shelf Hardware, Granite and , Tinware, McClary's Ranges, Bapco Paints and Electrical Goods. 1174-76 Commercial Dr. High. 978 Vancouver Heights Pharmacy and POST OFFICE Prescriptions, Drugs and KODAKS Hirst's Electric A good assortment of fixtures at very moderate prices. From $5.50. Bowls retinted to harmonize with associations. 4003 Hastings E. Phone Glen. 161L (Continued from page 1) —unwilling to co-operate among themselves—becomes every day more. <^^moK!Sk^ei^'&na^W\)elieWtgmMt' the spread and growth of the large powerfully financed chain and department stores. In the U. S. A. 60,000 chain stores have a turnover of three billion dollars annually, which is now double the turnover of all the individually owned establishments. Space and' the object of this article forbids going further into the study of the causes and effects of the economic pressure from above on the middle classes. :_; ■- Yet. the- retail merchant is ever anxious to work for the increase and furtherance of the political and economic domination of the very powers that crush him, and who will ljeyer benefit him not even to the extent of a nickel purchase at hi&- store, While his very existence as a retailer depends upon the patronage by,the workers. He uses his. earnings to subsidize every movement hostile to. Labor. The very money he earned from these Labor-customers is used as silver bullets against Labor, and he dees it openly and.flauntingly. .,'v Proportional with the increase in consciousness of Labor, goes hand in hand an appraisal of its surroundings and a scrutiny and measuring" of the forces arrayed against it, and Labor will know its friends. We are pleading for a more intelligent attitude from the merchant toward Labor. They should consider that in no distant future-the crush- i ing forces from above and the rising, tjde'.pf. Labor will find the retail merchant on the same level. ' The retail merchant's children grown up will not find the favorable opportunities their fathers enjoyed. He should not see the. single individual in thgjiabor movement,, bpfc-,: tecoghf__-the- Tirogressiveness and" justification ot the movement as such.. Neither should he forget that the wotd Labor comprises Labor _by hand:and brain, that it embraces in its-wider sense, all those that are functioning usefully in society. i • The only thing the unorganized ever accomplished was to prevent. the organized from making better headway; . '-"•• ,- •sssummssz THE LABOR STATESMAN HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS Seymour 31__ Always Open Empire Cafe and Grill Vancouver's Best Under Personal Management of HAROLD DE_d BOO KRAUSE Late 54th Batt. Late 72nd Batt. 7-Hastings St E Vancouver, &C, BROADWAY CAFE • Cafe de Luxe Phones: Sey. .3.6-1292-0 MS Hastings St. East, Vancouver Wm.Brevit. and ChaS. Sykes, Props. MARTMQm CAFE Where Satisfaction Counts IM_ Granville W_ H. MARSHALL Morris Lunch BOB MOORE, Prop. Quality Eats Reasonable Prices For Woj-kins Men and Women 630 DUNSMUIR STREET .... . <!?..'..Block Bast of Grahvil'le) "We Want Work" Cp_ Shocks Politicians : By W. FRANCIS, AHEAEN (Federated Press Correspondent) SYDNEY, Australia—Unemployed Starving men at Syd scene' by ".inya'dingjthjg, -wW_il«8Si«Jg{i^*r'p|fliam^t house and disturbing the tranquility of the politicians reclining on the padded seats of the legislative chamber. An anti- Labor government is in control, the only one in all the Australian states. Without any warning, two mea. stood up in the visitors gallery and shouted: "We want work!" The legislators looked shocked at this sudden reminder from the unemployed, then sent for the police to remove them. As the two men were being re- -moved another unemployed man rose and • shouted to the legislators: "There are kiddies starving in this .city tonight, and you are enjoying yourselves here!" He, too, was grabbed by the police and hurried outside. ,___ While he was; being. M«Br„two more iffi._-p.by__l___e a demonstration, and^yie placed-his lingers fan- wise to his nose. These two were also hustled away by policemen. At this -stage the speaker ordered the gallery cleared, and about 20 more were pushed out of the gallery by the police. Then the legislators, somewhat relieved, sank back into the well-padded seats of the legislative chamber, Orders Universal 44-Hour Week who NO MORE CANADIAN VISAS TO RUSSIA NEW YORK — Americans ".have been getting their visas for Russia fixed up through the Russian agent "in Montreal now slnd that- method of getting into Rus-ia blocked. Announcement. has ___n sent out by. A.- A. Yo_ilcov?Jih? .]E_b,- ,,.sian-.-M©ate_f5_g«_fc, "that no visas ,t^^r<^-\%^dit ■;to''^stt6'ha''irom the" 1' ttaiteoJ'. States in .the, future.; The f»_w: JRussian polisyj-is—helievetl-^tio1 f^mdr?rom America's refusal to jecognsze Russia. It will make more difficult the way;. of business men who visit Kussia-on trading"_iT_3i-ns, This will not stop trade with Russia, I however, but tends to confine it to offi-i-- channels. ,___.. Labor Is Mexican Base of Power WASHINGTON—While the world watches Mexico for signs of the promised revolt of the fragments of the old regime against Gen. Galles, diplomats and state department staff men in Washington do not believe any serious outbreak is possible. They know that Mexico has no civil organization of general character except the trade union movement, which is behind Calles. It has no military organization except the regular army, which may be counted overwhelmingly loyal to Obregon and Calles; "The military elements that hoped to check the growth of working class power did. their utmost last winter in the de la Huerta revolt, and they collapsed. The American oil operators in Mexico would welcome a military uprising as a means of reducing their taxes and increasing their political influence, is evident whenever their' Washington lobbyists" discuss Mexican affairs. Aristocrats and fascists in Mexico find it' difficult to obtain arms, but trade union- ists.are relied-upon as the first line of reserves. 'The arsenals are in the hands of labor officials. Many trade unions go through military drill with arms furnished from these arsenals. Labor government has carried legislation providing for it. The change should be an easy matter. Of the 211 industrial agreements governing all forms of work in the state, only T6 provide for more than the 44- hour week. Fully two-thirds of the workers already enjoy the 44-hour week. -^ The 44-hdur week in Queensland is not likely to cause any dislocation of industry. Queensland ,is in a sound position. Queensland with higher wages and shorter hours is more solvent than any of the other states. The productivity of the worker in Queensland is greater than where longer hours are observed. — PJii/osophy of Health ARE QUBT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS MANUFACTORIES OF MEDIOCRITY? The British Medical Journal is- bumptious, and a blow-hard to insinuate, as it does, that the possession of knowledge of preventive medicine, epidemiology, and statistics is an intellectual heritage of great value. It is'a heritage all right, but it is to guffaw when the learned men of the profession think that a head packed to overflowing with such knowledge makes a physician—a teacher ofTiealth. Indeed, this country has a large army of M. D.'s who have their mental trunks packed full of such learning. Yet they are only doctors—they are educated to doctor the sick; they cannot cure. That, however, is not a doctor's prerogative. A physician can educate the sick into a knowledge of how to live to get well, and then how to live to stay well. But when it comes to curing—Nature cures!.. The profession's immunization, about which it is blowing, will not prevent the building of a bad habit of either mind or body. Hence it can neither prevent nor cure disease. The utter failure of the profession to cure is so palpable that he who runs may read. Yet, as apparent as is this truth, the medical profession of this country is forging toward Washington, camouflaging all sorts of benevolences as subterfuges on the backs December 12th, 1924 Waltham Watch Girls Still on Strike By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Correspondent) NEW YORK—"We won't go back until we all go back and Walthnm Watch Co. recognizes the, union!" emphatically declare Bertha Fulton, Alma Sicotte, and Ruth Weatherby, striking watchworkers from Wal-' tham, Mass., who are telling labor unions about their fight for organization. It's a tough battle, the girls admit, especially against the group of bankers and brokers controlling not only Waltham but Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. and other textile mills as well as numerous enterprises all over the country. ; The machinist local-in Waltham is keeping up the picketing with the strikers. The Women's Trade Union league of 'N-Wv _*brk" is assistingj&&| :l_»ltha_i*^is''*8n*d*poV--n^l¥S'di4'_; for them in their canvassing of local union meetings for funds. ■~s~**" "7::la_^^Iv / • WIN STRIKE IN THREE HOURS BOSTON.—Milk wagon drivers settled their strike for the restoration of the $38 wage scale in three hours. '__-'..-_"t—--—- ---* : people — accept immunizations that do Aot immunize, preventions that do not prevent, medications that do not cure and cannot cure. Immunity is health—a clean mind and "a clean body, inside and out; and a food supply" the amount of which can be taken care of well by the digestive power, and leave enough enzymic potency to keep the omnipresent bacteria under subjection, means hefilthy-immunity. Tolerance may be built for all sorts of poisons; but building tolerance for poison, even for food- is not building health, efficiency or long life. Shocking the system with one. kind of irritation to antidote the effects of another does not conserve the nerve-energy of the organism shocked. Building one disease to offset another is not building health* And health is nature's immunity to disease. Health is not built out of vaccines, serums, drugs and surgery. People who have'been on a light diet for one week (fruit for breakfast, combination salad and toasted bread for supper) will be immune to any so-called "contagious or infectious diseases. Of course, fear must be avoided'; for fear is one of the most pronounced inhibitors of natural immunization. Fear, worry and anxiety put an end to the building of enzymes; and when this state is established, bacterial invasion takes place; and then.whatever happens to be the predisposition, or thfi_dv- sease-producing present in the environment, "will stamp its individuality on the subject.—J. -H. Tilden. MOLDERS STOP OPEN* iir.^7'''!'*''',:,siHbpV6uNDRiES SAN FJRAN^CO^A^lB^nwIrf- ers*-!tH_-Tobms in the Bay district. At-present it is confined to .taking men off open shop jobs, .0 having left in various iron foundries;; but the union's calling off of the men has resulted in violent opposition from the Industrial Association and such big plants as the Bethlehem and two other iron works. , .._: Hi-" .' ORPHEUM CAFE Highest quality of food properly prepared and neatly and courteously served in generous portions by experienced Union employees. ' " You will find our prices much lower than the average first- class cafe. >vr 7 ALWAYS OPEN 762 Granville Street Vancouver. B. C. Opposite Orpheum Theatre The Majority Vote —pfjhose who take their mid-day '_ nourishment down town is always £pr the GOOD EATS. Its platform of irreproachable food, smooth service and reasonable prices appeals overwhelmingly to the electors. Just off Granville Pender West fiOOD EATS »__ « * i 1 II ' ■ You Want BETTER BEER—Try. This— tBeerwithoutuPeer Hc TOPS and malt—the very best—brewed right! It's the way it's brewed that makes all the difference. The "Cascade" brewmaster had forty years' of high class beer making to his credit. Our plant equipment is second to none in the West. DRINK CASCADE—THE BETTER BEER-^-AND GET SATISFACTION VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British CoHimbia. MAINLAND CIGAR STORE THE PLACE FOR PIPES 310 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER -;;' RUSSIA CHEERS __ BRITISH LABORITES 'UM0SCOW—-The beautiful Moscow Hall of Columns rocked with cheers as the seven fraternal delegates of British Labor—-walked across the platform .-to. give-.greetings to the-(5th '^^iM^^n'-^SiigiesS ofBT_ib*or Unions. No other speakers received such treniendbus ovatioag. z. '-■■■ 3-3$Was ai'i in.ernati.sal* occasion, the first frateriiaT delegates, to be received from any of the large federations of labor'in , a meeting of' Russian unions. It is also, a bringing together of the two largest labor movements in the world, from the two countries which contain under their flags the greatest part of. the earth's surface. - SPEED UP-r-WORK LONGER TORONTO—A: wage cut as the. solution of unemployment in Canada is urged by some sections of employers. A manifesto by the Canadian.. Founders' and. .Metal,..Trades* "A-sg-T The. a_g«|_ffe_"''"-fates '; thai?'/this' would bring wages down_to„6JLper_ eentabo^e 1913; Hut this leav.s out of sight the fact that a dollar today will buy only two-thirds what it would before the "war. . •'** .'• ;'. " A similar suggestion is made editorially by one of the chief papers of Montreal. That publication calls the acceptance of lower wages "the workingman's opportunity"; _infc urges wo-kmeh to speed up and work longer hours. ,.-£_»*».« m ' ; mm |i jOecetnber 12th, 1924 THE LABOR STATESMAN ANNUITIES fl —~ ^j^DOOOt. on"**1 MATlO" •AHA***8**. rMroW4ATI-N vU-M-itr uities RNMElfT imt_ fw-ws" Oheftoad to Leisure- / To enjoy your later years in comfort, you should provide yourself with a certain and independent income, free from the hazards of speculation or even of minor fluctuations. The easiest and surest means of acquir- '„ ing such an income is to buy a Canadian Government Annuity. EASIEST—because on very easy tenuis you may bny a Government Annuity oi* any amount from $50 to $5,000 a year, commencing at any age you choose and lasting as long as life. There are plans of purchase undei which you may protect the Interests of your wife or dependents for a term of years certain. No medical examination is required. SUREST—because there is no safer investment than a Canadian Government Annuity. The Annuities system is maintained by the Government to encourage the people of Canada to provide for their old age. -Too owe it to yourself., toi take advantage of it. ~ These Annuities cannot be seized for debt, cannot be forfeited, and are free from Dominion Income Tax, For full particulars fill out and mall this Coupon. Mail This Coupon—No Postage Needed % \ 4 Department of Labour, Annuities Branch, Ottawa, Ont. >-"i Please send rae the "Handbook of Information" nnd Ml particulars as to cost of a Canadian Government Annuity. My age last birthday was years. Kill Name ...j,..^... (State whether Mr., Mrs., or Miss) , * Post Office Address ........... ••■«•».... The Cry for Justice, Victoria Road ^&LL~^i£ii- *^Fi_BariS-_*rte Vs Starts Campaign ,,- SAN FRANCISCO.—Before an audience that flooded the hall, the .Science League of America held it first public meeting in San Francisco. "The campaign to "keep evolution in /he schools and keep intolerance out" \started with a bang. /1 Luther Burbank, speaking in public for the first time since 1915, ,<roused the audience by his statement that one might as well oppose gravity "or the unreasonable speed of light .as combat evolution. "Useless waste and unnecessary parasitism take at i,ileast njne-tenths of the productive capacity of the United States," he ''remarked. David Starr Jordan spoke "on The Freedom of Knowledge, re- | 'ferring to Bill Bryan as "a'man who --. has never read a bound volume." Maynard Shipley, founder of, tlje 'League, brought down the house by saying": "We say to Mr. Bryan: Tou -hall not crucify mankind upon your .cross of bigotry; you shall not place \your crown; of ignorance upon the $row of childhood,'" _ ; iji The next activity of the" League Jwill be a lecture' by T. 3. 3. See, the {astronomer, Dec 2, on Evolution, '/'Celestial and T&rreatial . After the ;) jiolidays, Shipley will go to Los An- . geles, the anti-evolutioii stronghold, j and begin the campaign there against fanaticism and ignorance. Union Capmakers Get Job Guarantee 1ST PAUL; —Gash guarantees against unemployment are part of the new agreement signed by Local 10, United Cloth Hat & Cap Makers, with two St. Paul employers. If the firm of McKibbin, Driscoll and Dorsey gives employment to the union members 48 weeks in the year the firm's guarantee fund amounting to 5 per cent of the .total payroll will be returned by the union. If only 47 weeks employment has been given the union retains one fifth of the guarantee, to be distributed to those unemployed the full period. The union retains two fifths if employment reaches only 46 weeks; three-fifths if 45 weeks, four-fifths if 44 weeks and nothing is returned if only 43 weeks employment or less is. furnished.- The, agreement expires Nov. 11, 1926. The agreement with Gordon & Ferguson entails a cash payment of ?3,00. a /ear (3 per cent of the payroll) to the union by the firm as an employment insurance fund to be administered by the union and not to be returned to the firm. The agreement expires Oct. 22, 1926. Both agreements provide for a 44- hour week, with time and a half, for overtime. St. Paul capmakers are 100 per cent organized. ! - WISCONSIN OFFICIAL VOTE I L MADISON, Wis.—-Official figures of. the election in Wisconsin -give f-oolidge 311,614; Davis, 68,110; La- Ckollete,. _ 4S-,678;- -Foster, ~: 3,778*;. " Johns '(Socialist-Labor), 488; "WaJr_ lace (vGpSii-0^-_rflrEi__or singlo- (_ax), 270. The highest Socialist i__6__!?X-3tat-. offke^-th-rs-havirfg been no Socialist presidential ticket,! was 48 447 for Robert Hess for ' attorney-general. The high'eBt Workers party vote was 4,107 for S. Alaane' for governor. The highest Socialist Labor party vote was 10, 642, Bouman, for attorney-general. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE NEW Y4. RK—"The effort of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers to provide unemployment insurance is directly in line with the_respoijsibik ity_ 6f/ind'_sltyr^says President "Sid n_y__Ulma%t;onfmentiitg*wf-t_B Iri. surance programme being put through for New Yorlwnen!g_£lQt__ 'tngr^vork'efs'. '.'.-■ The average clpthihg worker's wage of $33.52 a week said Hillman using department of labor figures, is less than is needed for a minimum wage, therefore protection "against unemployment losses is especially imperative. French Enslave Hungarian Radical By W. FRANCIS AHERN ..(Federated Press Correspondent) ' SYDNEY, New. South Wales — The Labor Council of New South Wales in co-operation with the Australian Labor Party has called on M. Charlton, leader of the party, attending the annual session of the league of nations at Geneva, to interr cede with Premier Herriot for Istvair Sziber, a Hungarian radical, confined in the French penal settlement in New Caledonia, South Pacific Ocean. ; Sziber, a Hungarian journalist, in March, 1919, wrote an article c6n- demning the French occupation of Hungary. Three months later he was courtmartialled and sentenced to death. The- sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. There" were many" demonstrations against this barbarous treatment. He was taken from the Hungarian jails, first to Sofia, thence to Salonika, Greece. After two years he was deported from Salonika to New Caledonia, the French penal settlement ill the Pacific ocean, though not a French subject. Here he is at present, forced to work as a slave. In a letter from New Caledonia he says that if released he will again fight, for the triumph of the Third International. PLAYED OUT (From "Songs of the Dead End") By Patrick MacGill . (A young Irishman, called the ".N'avvy poet": born 1890. Prom the age of Imelvc to twenty a farm laborer, ditch-digger, and quurryman.) As a bullock falls in the crooked ruts, he fell when the day was o'er, The hunger gripping his stinted guts, his body shaken and sore. They pulled it out of the ditch in the dark, as a brute is pulled from its lair, The corpse of the navvy, stiff and- - stark, with the clay on its face and hair. ■ . ~ -r -.„->.-. ;'.■ 7j In Christian lands, with calloused hands, he labored for others' good, In workshop and mill, ditchway and driyy, earnest, eager, and rude; Unhappy and gaunt with worry and want, a food to the whims, of fate, Hashing it out and booted about at the will of the'goodly and great. To him was applied the scorpion lash, for him the gibe and the goad— The roughcast fool of our moral wash, the rugous wretch of the road. Willing to cr'awl for a pittance small to the swine in the-tinsel sty, Beggared and burst from the very first, he chooses the ditch to die— . . .' Go, pick the dead, from the sloughy bed, and hide him from mortal eye. He tramped through the colorless winter land, or swihed in the scorching heat, The dry skin hacked on his sapless hands or blistering on his feet; , .■HewHW3_o>K^-^na-TM_^^ known, where your houses of pleasure rise, - . , And hapless, hungry, and chilled to the bone, he builded the edifice. I In cheerless model* and filthy pub, his sinful hours were passed, Or footsore, weary, he begged his grub, in the sough of the hail- whipped blast, So some might riot in wealth and ease, with food and wine be crammed, He wrought like a mule, in muck to his knee?,, dirty, dissolute, damned. Arrogant, adipose, you sit in the homes he builded high; Dirty the ditch, in the depth of it he choos'es a spot to die, Foaming with nicotine-stained lips, - holding his aching breast, . Dropping down like a cow i_iat slips, , smitten with rinder-pest; Drivelling yet of the work and wet, swearing as sinners swear, Raving the rule of the gambling school, mixing it up with a prayer. Phone Fraser 236 Prompt Delivery Tecumseh Meat Market One Quality Only—The Best 5675 Victoria Rd. E. Savage, Prop. Phone Fraser 344 Window Glass Victoria Road Hardware Gasoline, Oils, Tires, Paints, Roo_n» 5.97 VICTORIA ROAD E. H. B-lsey . . proprietor XMAS GIFTS Cameras, White Ivory, Fountain Pens, Eversharpe Pencils, Community Plate, Toys', etc. -- Heyworth Drug Store Phone Fraser 694 THIRTY-FIFTH AND VICTORIA MONTREAL UNEMPLOYED MONTREAL—A demand'for immediate relief for the unemployed has been made on<the Montreal city council by the unemployment "committee bf the trades and labor council—-The. pfyfl^ropirerirlro^ immediate grairt of,?100-I_H>iby~tU-j< irvty; the setting aside of-half of the, proceeds from the liquor commission,. ___douWe?- or -increased 'amu&emerit tax, and a collection.in ail the city churches, and that the provincial and dominion governments contribute their share of the relief expense. So far the city has refused money for direct relief, though it has provided $600,000 for public works to provide employment. .'" .• Anti-Bathtub Crusade ~~ in Great Britain CHICAGO.—White heavily, gold- plated lavatories and black and white marble bathtubs are being expensively advertised in leisure class circles in America, the aristocracy of England is lending itself to an anti-bathtub campaign among the workers under alleged scientific auspices. American plutocrats may find themselves unable to decide between the Crane Co.'s Neumar lavatory with "broad top of Italian black marble, gold veined, resting on bronze supports finished like all other metal parts in heavy gold plate," aud«p the same corporation's ConijgiQje,-. Ja«atoi|yaWtlr'*a""'spa-i6us top" of imported fleur de...peche marble 52 by, 25 inches and handwrought cabinet supporting it, 18th century Italian design, finished in soft gray-greenr black, coral and gold,", with the Waste fixture in^hgavy gold plate. The English nobility, on the other hand, has made up it minds that bathrooms are unnecessary—at least" for the poorer strata of free Englishmen, . Lord Salisbury, officiating at the annual congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute of Great Britain,-of which he is president, gave voice to the anti-bathtub crusade in a speech . on working class homes. "I know that it is dangerous to say anything disrespectful about baths," he began with the canny courage of the British heretic, "I will therefore call attention ,to,„the practice of our forefathers of all classes who did not believe that jjaths were "essential and" r^enture the diffident suggestion He lived like a brute as the navvies live, and went as the cattle go, No one to sorrow and no one to shrive, for heaven ordained it so— He handed his check to the shadow in black, and went t& the misty lands, Never a mortal to Close his eyes or a woijnan to cross his hands. As a bullock falls in the rugged ruts He fell when the day was o'er, Hunger gripping his weasencel guts. But never to hunger more—- .1 They- _p4jlle4- it=tnit -ofTTlfe ~__tch in the.dark,. The chilling frost on its hair, The mole-skinned navvy stiff —-;-;--—sWk"'~r*"""~ From no particular-Tpcre. and. A "model. Is an English resort for wayfarers, maintained by charity. You want results from the union, don't you? Then by the eternal laws that underlie all human progress you inusj help..get .those .result-. _—- - - - that in this matter we ought not to be ahead of public opinion in the locality in which the house is situated." / By clean and undiluted democracy alone can thejyorld, be made safe for bathtubs* in the opinion of the British marquis, - When the British workers are ready for self-determination in bath- ropm equipment, Salisbury might recommend this from the Cran cat- alogue: "The Elegia lavatory, of pure white twice-fired vitreous china has a gracefully molded pedestal and top, the latter 32 by 25 inches; It has integral water-spout, with china handles and escutcheons, for supply valve and waste." ■ He might not ;k__w What the china .handles are for -.-but-by that .tme ha^may be equally J /A1 ignorant of,.what., nofaiMsrdx.i_SS_> £or. ■ .•Jtl^'---■'-'' *" :_ ■-■*".'' ' PUBLIC SERVICER „_„_.—-_-—*, "T'-^"
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