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. JUST PLAIN DUMB.
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Sheep arc dumb. It is ha- d to
understand just why anything
can be so dumb. An ewe does not
know its own lamb, has no ini
tiative, follows the flock, even to
jumping off a cliff. You could no
muie mi uuy u sneep man sproiu
wings and fly.
But what fine mutton chops
you can get from the poor sheep;
and without even protective in
stinct, what easy prey they arc
for the predatory animals.
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MAKING REVOLUTIONS
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William Green, president of
the American Federation of La
bel', in recent convention in
Vancouver, B. C., declared that
“revolutions in the past grew out
of hunger and the aristocracy
never learned.” He declared al
so that in the Declaration of
Independence should be incor
porated “the right to work” is a
fundamental principle of citizen
ship.
Unrest Developing, Says Green
“A tremendous feeling of so
cial unrest is developing every
where, Green said. “Men who
ore temperate in the use of
language are beginning to speak
in no uncertain terms.
“Standards of life and living
must be maintained on a high
level if our institutions are to
prevail. I must warn employers
and leaders of industry against
the life destroying wage cuts.
“In my opinion the time has
arrived when the representatives
of labor can take a most ad
vanced position.
“Thomas Jefferson wrote into
the life nf mu- nntinn the Rill nf
Rights, which guarantees to all
the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of hapiness. I think la
bor can well add the right to
work.
“Life, liberty and the pursuit
cf happiness means nothing
to the man who is out of work.
“Attacking the “inequitable
distribution of the earnings of
industry,” which permits the
building up of immense fortunes.
Green called for a division of
excess profits in the form of
wages.
“The wage standard must be
built up. The earnings of indus
try are most inequitably distri
buted. Instead of corporations
declaring 40 per cent dividend
to stockholders, they should di
vide the profits with the work
ers who have earned it.
Tax Move Threatened
“If they refuse to listen, theti
we will go to the sovereign peo
people through the ballots and
bring about a distribution of
these large fortunes back to tee
people through the power of
taxation.
“The great army of unemploy
ed stands as a menace to the ex
isting order. No urge is as pow- :
erful as the hunger instinct. It
cannot be controlled by social
laws. i
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“In the United States we arei
facing the third workless winter.
Savings were exhausted last
winter. |j
“Shall we make paupers out of ;
men, strong, willing, anxious,
“Men are afraid of banks.Men
are afraid of unemployment.
Men are afraid of wage-cutting.
Their buying power is paralyzed
—frozen. Men will not spend
money.
“One of the chief functions of
organized labor in the United
States and Canada is to main
tain at any cost the friendship
between the two nations and
show the world that it is possible
for two nations to maintain a;
perpetual peace.”
He declared that the conven- :
tion meets in the midst of inter
national distress to devise means
of relieving millions who sutler
“because of a dislocation of our
economic structure and laws,”
although “the Creator of the
universe has supplied us with
food in abundance.
employment rrogram
The following program was
idopted as summed up in the re
port of the Executive Council:
1— National conference of em
ployers and laborers to be called
by President Hoover to devise
means of dividing all available
work among all workers.
2— Immediate inauguration of
the five-day week and shorter
work day in all public and pri
vate industry.
3— Maintenance of the wage
structure and wage standard.
4— Work assurance, a guaran
tee to the employed that they
are secure in their positions.
5— Prohibition of child labor.
C—Stabilization of industry
with particular reference to in- i
dustries classified as seasonal.
7—Scientific stabilisation of
production to balance supply
and demand.”
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STEADY WORK IS BEST ;
From Ketchikan Chronicle !
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The commonwealth attorney
of Harlan county, Kentucky,1
where 30 men have been indict-i
ed for murder following disor-1
ders incident to unemployment
in the coal fields, complains that!
the jobless miner ought to “re-:
fuse to listen to radical agitators!
who are seeking to destroy gov-;
ernment and Christianity.”
This, of course is true enough..
Unfortunately, men who have no '
work and no money, and who see;
no prospect of getting either in
the near future, often have the
perversity to listen to radical'
agitators; and when they do, th«3
solemn wagging of official heads 1
doesn’t help matters much. j;
Steady jobs and good wages—
these, in the long run, are the ;
only effective counter-agents to *
radical propaganda. Get them :
and radicalism dissolves over- (
night. Fail to get them and you !
nre in trouble just as surely as
he Almighty created small. £
green and somewhat apples. 1
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SAYS THE DOCTOR h
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A doctor practiicing in an Alas t
ka town was ill and he diagnos- -
ed his case as appendicitis. He 1
took no medicine nor did he put f
himself under the care of anoth- ,?
or physician. When his case be-j =
came acute, he went to the
states, into a hospital and un
derwent an operation for the re-1
moval of the cause. He died on!
the table.
Which reminds us that doctor j
Chronicle offers some nice sug
gestions for Alaska fishermen.!
But as to removing the cause ot
their complaint—the fish traps
--- they do nothing. Talk is cheap.;
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STEPPING ON THE GAS
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National and state politics are
perking up these days evidencing
hvelier days to come.
Hitting the stomachs of 25
[governors or Democratic states
ithe Women’s National Demo
jcratic Club of Washington, D. C.
[plan a series of dinners which
[will give opportunity to the gu
i bematorial leaders to spout forth
all they might care to.
Governor Ritchie of Maryland,
sometimes mentioned as timber
for the Presidency, was the first
to start the ball rolling. Gov
ernor George White of Ohio is to
follow and April the 13th—per
haps because he is not supersti
tious—Governor Roosevelt will
spill his oratory.
Down, or Is it up among tho
Republicans, the leaders are
showing a tendency to use Cal
vin Coolidge’s recent article in
the Saturday Evening Post, in
which he has removed himself
f rom the political field while at
! the same time he indirectly sup
ports and urges support of “the
president in office.” Robert H.
Lucas, who made shch a mess of
trying to defeat Senator George
W. Norris, Republican of Nebras
ka, in a radio speech quoted that
part of Coolidg’e article which
.said nothing should be done to
break down the authority of the
; presidential office.”
Various Republican leaders
| have been taking optomistic re
| ports to Washington and they in
'turn are being cheered on by the
party leaders.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, Rep.,
went ro Washington and in his
conference with President Hoov
er he did not give Hoover much
[comfort as the situation in the
West from the eyes of progres
sive Republicans, are not so rosy.
Colonel Edward M. House, the
power behind the throne of the
Wilson administration in its hec
tic days following the war, was
in council with Governor Roose
velt cf New York. Senator Kel
lar of Tennessee announced his
support of the New Yorker. Sen
ator Harris of Georgia predicted
both the nomination and elec
tion of Roosevelt.
In the fiel dfor nomination are
Newton D. Baker of Ohio, Presi
dent Wilson’s Secretary of War;
Senator Reed of Missouri, Owen
D. Young, author of the Young
Plan in German financial and
international circles, William G
McAdoo, another Wilsonite and
Californian, bob up to keep the1
choice for Roosevelt from being
unanimous.
Third party possibilities, at
me lxawuiutu tsapitcu, are said to
have dwindled. Progressives, in
spite of their leanings towards a
liberal, feel that it would be
a hopeless, therefore useless,
battle to work up a third party.
Leaders of the Senate Republic
an progressives are almost un
irunuiy in uppoaitiwn to the ad
ministration yet refuse to sanc
tion such a movement.
They lean, however, to the
plan which will elect presidential
electors who are committed to
10 candidate. This idea is said
:o have been given root in 25
states—theide a being to force
'lection cf the president by the
:Touse of Representatives. Un
ler the election laws, a majority
>f the electoral votes are neces
sary to elect the president. If
uch a majority is not obtained
n the 1932 election, then the
:gth would be carried to the
louse. At present, as constitut
'd. the balance of power is in
he hands of the Progressive Re
publicans, with the party align
icnt virtually even. Such an
lection would give the West
reater power for in such an
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election, each state would have
but one vote, putting the smaller
l states on parity with the larger
I But according to politicians,
i this plan is hardly expected to
I work out.
IF WINTER COMES
By James R. Little
!
I often think today is all we
|have; in reality, life is but a
| shadow. Today is all anyone
has to make a past or future.
Tomorrow may never come to
us! Worry, doubt, struggles, dis
trust, fear and despair—these
are the long, low years that bow
the heart and turn the spirit
; back to dust. Whether we Sour
| doughs are 60 or 16 years of age,
there is in every human being’s
heart the lure of wild, virgin, si
ilent magic places and the love
I of adventure, affection for his
■ fellowman man, and wonder.
The undaunted challenge of
events; the unfailing childlike
appetite for what happens next
and the joy of living on some
tumbling, clattering stream. We
.Sourdoughs are as young as our
faith, as old as our hope; as
;young as our self-confidence; as
old as our fear; as young as our
hopes.
j Age to me is not a time of life,
it is a state of mind, dear
,friends! It is not a matter of
iripe cheeks, red lips and supple
knees; it is a temper of the will,
a quality of the imagination, a
vigor of the emotions. Nobody
it seems to me, grows old by
merely living a number of years.
People grow old only by desert
ing their ideals. Years, of course,
wrinkle the skin; but to give up
friends, love, affection, sympa
thy and enthusiasm in life
wrinkles your very soul! We are
old as our despair and tomorrow
i '<■ n expectation and only a sha-|
cow!
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i ACT THAT MADE ROMANTIC
ART .
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Sweden net long since, inter
red Matts, the man who stayed
\ isible 250 years after death. His
eerie story furnished themes for
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Germanic romanticists, literary
and musical. It is among Hoff
man’s “Weird Tales.” Ruckert
used it, yVrchirn Von Arnim com
posed a poem on it and Wagner
sketched a plan for a three-act
, opera based upon its elements of
sentiment and tragedy.
Matts a miner, insisted, against
the protests of his betrothed on
j going down the shaft cl a copper
| mine on the first day of the cail
ing of his marriage banns, to set
! a blast. His affianced never saw
!him again till fifty years later,
when his body, petrified and life
! like, features still youthful, was
brought before her. It had been
hardened, crystalized, by the vi
triolic water into which it had
fallen. It was like a tinted sta
tue of early Greece.
The episode had the melan
choly, the gloominess of mediev
al ballads. It cast a spell ovt
eight generations. The vivid
image that had been the plight -
ed lover was exhibited in Palur
Museum, and afterward n ■.
glass-covered casket in the near
by meeting house. Million:- h. v
viewed it. At last art out,: y
the mocd of liking such fanta
files and pseudo-horrors and cu
riosity exhausted itself. Ro;en
ly the body was laid forever to
rest in the village chur: hyard at
| Falun.
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vrcrilicn than a business.—1; os
well D. Hitchcock.
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