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LX GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
MONDAY, APRIL 3; 191.
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FABRICS
"YOUR WASHABLE FABRICS ARE SO DIFFERENT FROM THOSE GENER
ALLY SHOWN," IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TOLD OFTEN THE PAST. FEW
DAYS.
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jDainty Ntew Tissues and Zephyrs, priced 25 yard
New Galateasin the popular, Middy Stripes 20 yard
' ': New Devpushire Cloth in Checks and Stripes",
New Splash Voiles, all shades, special 19 yard
" : New Printed Batistes and Lace Voilesvery desirable ; ,. -
for Summer dresses :..U 24 up
New Satine Stripe Voiles in Dark Colors,
WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON THE BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT AND
.PRICES PUT THEM WITHIN THE REACH OF EVERY POCKETBOOK.
THE'
Hill's Store
AT THE MOVIES
AT THE ARCADE
Coming to the Arcade theatre, Mon
day and Tuesday, as a Pallas picture
offering on Vtie Paramount program
ir. "The Call of the Cumfaerlands,"
from the popular ;book of that name
by Charles Neville Buck. It tells an
elaborate detail of pictorial and dra
matic effect the story of the feudal
activities of two factions in Ken
tucky, involving stirring events of
traditional import, which find their
end in the slaying of 'human beings.
Spectacular in this regard and re
markably beautiful in natural scenic
equipment, the production stands out
as one of exceptional merit.
"The Call of the Cumberlands" af
fords Dustin Farnum, the idol .if
photoplay fans, opportunity again to
score. Mr. Farnuin appears as the
star of the production ' in the role of
SHEKRY THEATER
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Here Is a letter we got from C. J.
Kerr, I ranch manager at " Portland,
Ore.:
"We cmi not be too forceful in oar
praise 'of DAMAGE GOODS, and it
has struck responsive note among all
classes f'-cm the highest, to the low
est here. The writer has personally
observed that the population from low
ly Burnside Street to fashionable Port
land Heights have attended the exh;
bitifMis of this film. .
"Wo have noted too that very promi
nent profession and business men
'slip in' for a matinee, to determine,
we presume, whether or not it is fitf or
their wives and daughters to Bee and
we find that they uo bring their wives
and daughters to see the picture."
inis world-ramous drama pictures
t Let us examine it.' We must use a few
I statistics. -
An intensive study was made of tne
1 monthly earnings of 28,446 engineers
employed on the western roads. This
1 study showed that 14.13 per cent of
. these engineers earned more than $200
. a month. Of course this would run
tn thousands when the entire country
! is taken into consideration but what of
it? Why shouldn't a grown man. high
ly trained, come up through the ranks,
handling a magniticlent freight engine,
handling a magnificent, complicated
modern freight engine, receive $200 or
more a month for his labor, for ten
hours a day of hard, exacting, respon
sible labor? And what of the nearly
70 per cent of the same group of en
gineers who earned less than $175 a
month and of the 60 per cent who
earned less than $150 and of the 28
per cent that earned or rather received
less than $125.
Out of these 28,446 engineers only
14 in every thousand received as high
j $260; only four in every thousand
earned as high as $275; and only one
as much as $300. Less than one in
each 2,000 received $325 or more.
The comparison between the engin
eer and the holder of the stock certifi-'
the terrible consequences of vice and
Samson South, in Ihis youth destined ! physical ruin that follows abuse of the cate is sienifieant. It brinirs im a noint
to be the leader of the clan of the moral law, 1 1 would like to discuss. There is a dif-
'Souths and in later years their chief- - A stirring plea for a pure life be-1 ference. The stockholder doesn't work
tain who leads them to a victory that . f i.rc marriage in order to make impos-; for his dividends he merely sits back
relegates hatred and insures safety of siblo the transmission of hereditary j and owns them. The engine
I mini 10 lumre generations. woik ten nours a day on tne rauroad
in Reven electrifying acts, beautiful for his wages.
life.
Our Want Ads bring results.
scenes, impressive climaxes.
THE TRUTH ABOUT
RAILROAD WAGES
' By
WM. LEAVITT STODDARD
' (In Reason's Magazine for April.)
(Continued from Saturday.)
Whenthe western railroad men
were arbitrating their demands for
higher wages last year, they asked
or a ten hour day for engineers and
firemen who were engaged in the
(witching service. They also demanded
That was a poor argument, Mr. Press
: Agent. I wouldn't. use it again. And a
( bout the (bank president; he, too, is one
of those people who either own or elBB
do a trifling clerical job for others who
, do own for a living. He doesnt work
. ten hours a day for his living, on the
railroad. Much of his salary he doesn't
, deserve, and lastly, why shouldn't an
engineer get more money than a bank
;er? In order to make the request of the
! men appear to be unreasonably extra
vagant, the railroads point to the fact
that the railroad payroll "now ap
proaches $1,500,000,000 a year for the
great army of nearly 1,800,000 men.
i Out of every dollar received now by
. the railroads for carrying freight and
passengers the employees get 45 cents
" and so on.
These are enormous sums. But
ever, is between the highest and the
lowest November in six yean. A
comparison of November, 1916, with
the average November of the Dreced.
ing five years shows an increase of
46.H per cent.
Total operating revenues amount'
ed to $296,274,613, an increase over
1914 of $64,510,387. Operating ex
penses were $183,092,447, on increase
of $16,984,949. Net operating re
venue amounted to $115,182,166. an
increase of $48,625,388. Taxes amount.
ed to $12,133,251, an increase of $9&i,
878. ThiB left net operating income,
available for rentals, interest on
bonds, appropriations f of . improve
ments and new construction, and divi
dends. Operating revenues per mile
averaged $1,303, an increase of 27
per cent; operating expenses averged
$800, an increase of 9 per cent; net
operating revenue per mile averaged
$503, an increase of 72 per cent; while
net operating income per mile was
$450, an increase of 84.9 iper , cent.
Taxes per mile increased 7.8 per cent.
Railways operating 228,886 miles of
line are covered by this summary, or
about ninety per cent of the eteam
railway mileage in the United States.''
What all this means is very simple.
The railroad" are prospering, They
are making lots of money. Their
revenues are increasing. The labor
power of the four hundred thousand
men, applied to the vast , system of
machinery and mechanisms that per
forms the transportation function for
the United States, is piling up money
for those who own this system. There
is no real doubt about this. The rail
roads say it themselves in their own
statistical compilations and if you
will read the financial page of the
twspapersv yoa ttM find Uie same
news confirmed and repeated almost
every day. In spite of all the "ad
verse legislation" of which the roads
complain, in spite of the very mild
regulation of. the Interstate Commerce
Commission, "and in spite of the ter
rific sums paid out to labor, sums
which it must hurt the looters of the
railroads to see slipping through their
fingers, in spite of all this, the rail
roads are making money. And for
this reason, among others, the four
hundred thousand believe that the
time has come to demand an eight-
hour day. If they can not secure it
when tne roads are prospering, how
can they when times are hard ? Al
ways strike when the iron is hot;
never wait till it cools.
(To be Continued.)
Reasons Differ
Mrs. Grundy! ''Why do you look
gonad, Edie?"
Edie (tearfully) Mary is going
to marry Fred."
"The worthless young prodigal! No
wonaer you are sad."
"Oh, it is not that I wanted to mar.
ry him myself." : ,
DID YOU EVER
Get 5 Interest on Your
Debts?
WE PAY THAT AMOUNT TO OUR CUSTOMERS,
EVERY 30 DAYS. 4
"' ARE YOU AMONG THEM IF NOT WHY NOT?
BETTER MAKE APPLICATION TODAY..
SUMMONS
In the Circuit Court of the State of
. Oregon For Union County t t,;
"punitive overtime," that is to say a
ivte for overtime so high that the rail
roads will rearrange their schedules.so
as to avoid paying overtime. The men
want to receive and thev will receive i these are enormous
tne same pay for eight hours as they ' transportation is an enormous husi
now recr've for ten or twelve or more ness, and if you divide the total num
hours of labor. In this sense the men ber of men who get those dollars; in
will cat hichei waowa. nnrl tkn Til ! At hpr iworrls. If vnn Hivifta 31.Knn.nftn.-
extra pay "time and a 'half" it is road's bill for wages, calculated on an HxK) by 1,800,000 you get $833, which
uuim-wr era time at worn, uo nour's oasis, will ibe increased. The would seem to be the average wage
this point the brief for men has these railroads do not or will not clearlv un. 1 paid to the railroad employee. I do not
very reasonable remarks to contribute dertsand the position of the men on know if this is so but they are the
bTJ J,re3e"' "cuBsion: tnls polnt .lney thlnk a&t what tney j ngurea glven out by the railroads and
Contention of railroads that engin- are after is more wages, and they published in the New York Bun. I
eers and firemen in the switching point to the few particularly strong thought the average wages of these
eorvice cannot profitably be relieved men who work overtime in order to 1 so-called 'aristocrats of labor' would
from duty at the expiration of ten add to their wages. "If the companies be somewhere up in the neighborhood
hours is in keeping with the opposi. desire to test the sincerity of the men" i of a thousand or fifteen hundred dol
tion of employers to any amelioration declared the heads of the brotherhoods liars, but it seems not. The average is
of conditions under which employees in a signed statement, "let them iprove lower than the standard of livisg set
labor; and, should their contention bo their belief in what they say and estab- by the best experts for the typical
well founded in some instances, no bet- lish the eight hour day so that the I family of three or four human beings,
ter evidence could be presented than men do not have to work a minute ov- What if the employees get 45 cents
that the rates and overtime rate re- ertime. The shorter workday is the on-1 out of every dollar of receipts? Could
quested nre not excessive, for an em- i ly proposition on which the men are j the railroads get the dollar if they did
ployment so ardous and exacting. It i voting." not buy the labor first? and could the
is not conceded that engineers .and It is the universal habit of employ. ' labor be bought cheaper? "The em
firemen in switching service ennnot ers to pick out the few prise employ-1 ployees share has risen from 40 per
be relieved from (luty at the end of ces to demonstrate what all employees cent to 45 per cent in t3 last few
ten hours and contentions to the con- might do. At Lawrence, Massachusetts,! years," declare he carriers. WelJ,
trary are prompted by pecuniary int- the mill owners pointed to the accu-.' why shouldn't it? Without this labor
erests. If the exigencies of railroad mulated savings of the men to shrj there would no 'profits to share,
business demand that the railroads be , that they were rich and did not need I Side beside with tho carefully
privileged to retain a lien upon the a wage increase. In the Homestead : cultivated impressions given, cut by
time that is required by the employee strike of 1892 the mill owners asserted the roads for tho purpose of loading
for rest and recreation, then the em. ', that under the piece-work system then ! public opinion to the conclusion that
ploye should be compensated at a high-; in praitice a certain gang leader had ! the roads will go to wrack and perdi-e:-
rate, not only because he is rcquir-' earned $16 in a single day. Under the tion if the eight-hour day and extra
ed to sacrifice rest and recreation, but same system, of course, the great maj. I pay for extra work is granted, the
is rompeneu to lorcgo tne pleasures oi 0rity earned a bare living but the $16 , truth is gradually becoming apparent
home comfort and associations with ' man stood out ns a possibility for ev-! to the blindest thr.t the roads are
my" . . I eryone. So today the railroads are dc-j very, very prosperous. Take what
j .... .... ...... HH .jviiuiMK uir wi'min oi tnv men. vne " -ijuj ciu ui xiuuwuy economics,
higher than rates for the usual hours! press-agent story Is so good that it! the railroads' own statistical office
snouia De inserted in tne joice column ! in TTasnington, says aoout it. x quote
Mere it is: iiDerany oecause tms point is highly
Thousands of engineers, it is stat. I important Remember that this quo
ed earn upward of $2,000 a year, and ! tation is from the railroads'' person
monthly checks of $200 to $250 are i ally maintained bureau: the figures
common on roads whose stockholders and the. language are the railroads'
have forgotten what a dividend check . own language):
looks like. Many of the engineers, the ! "Net operating income of the Tail
railroads assert, are paid more than ways of the United States for No
ban It presidents in the smaller eomun-! vember inntased $207 per mile, or
iriee through which they run." ' M.9 per cent, ns compared with No
Tots statement is wortti cxMiUclug. vember, 1914. This comparison, how-
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of employment is a well established
practice in all leading industries ex.
t ept by railroads, to employees in con
ducting tranportation. To shop employ
ees of railroads time-nd-a-half is
rjiid for overtime, which Is a recogni
tion by the railroads of the correctness
of the principle." .
The. men want ah eight hour day.
They want rail.-Mds to pay time-evnd.
-half for extra time beyond the eight
hour limit, They want what 1; called
Howard P. Campbell, Ida L. Gillis,
Ada M. Sharp and Ora A. Wall
ace, Plaintiffs.
v
Providence M. Cunrey, Clementine Cur-
rey, Mary uurrey, Elizabeth Jane
Ashley, Ann Eliza McCain, Mafthew
W. Mitchell, Carrie H.HarveyA. M.
Harvey, Francis M. Smith, Joseph
W. Smith, Alonzo C. Mitchell.
Olive Mitchell, Harry L. Mitchell,
Belle Mitchell and Frank W. Mitch
ell, Winifred H. Mitchell, Ida 'Ben
son, S. G. 'Benson, George H. Cur
rey, Edith Currey, Fred B. Currey,
Carrie Carrey, Jennie Carrey,
Thomas H.. Currey, and all unknown
heirs of John H. Currey, deceased,
' and all o ther persons or parties
unknown claiming any right, title,
estate, lien or interest in the real
estate described in the complaint,
Defendants.
To Elizabeth Jnne Ashley, Ann Eliza
McCain, Mathew W. Mitchell, Carrie
M. Harvey, A- M. Harvey, Francis
M. Smith, Joseph W. Smith, Alonzo
C. Mitchell, Olive Mitchell, Harry L.
Mitehell, Belle MStdhell, Frank W.
Mitchell, Winifred H. Mitchell, Ida
Benson, S. G. Benson, Thomas H.
Currey, and all unknown heirs of
said John H. Currey, deceased, and
all other persons or parties unknown,
claiming any right, title estate, lien
or interest in the oreal estate describ
ed in the complaint in the above en
titled suit, defendants: ..,
You and each, of you ore hereby
notified to be and appear in the above
entitled-court and answer the com
plaint therein filed against you in
the above-entitled cause within six
weeks from the first publication of
this summons, and defendants and
each thereof will take notice that if
you fail so to appear end answtsr
within said time, the plaintiffs will,
for want thereof, apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the com
plaint in said cause, to-wit: for a
decree theren that plaintiffs ore the
owners m fee of the following de
scribed land in Union County, State
of Oregon, to-wit: North malf of
'Southeast uarter1 of Southeast
Quarter of Section Sixteen in Town
ship Three South of Range Thirty
eight. East of Willamette Meridian,
and that their title thereto be quiet
ed against all the above-named de
fendants and all unknown heirs of
John H. Currey, deceased, and all
other persons or parties unknown
claiming any right, title, estate lien or
interest in the real estate described I
in the complain in said cause.
. This summons in published by
order of the Hon. Circuit Court of
the State of Oregon for the County of
Union of date tne Zlst day of March,
1910, directing - publication tiiereof
once each week for stx consecutive
weeks m the La Grande Evening Ob
server, a, newspaper published at La
Grande, Oregon, and the first publi
cation of this summons is on the 27th
day of March, A. D., 1916. f
J. D SLATER,
Attorney for Plaintiffs.
Pally Mar. 27 Apr- . 10, 17, 24 May
May 1.8.
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