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C U R R JE N U - . ._ , — Tpfiß^J gpCo r ° N \ < ■ — ■■ ■■ — — ^ 9 -> F E / V r L> R -E . - — ~ -r ■ ' ................................ .. » ■ ** THE STÄYT0N MAIL PART TW O STAYTON . MARION COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1913. FOUR PAGES Im m igration Puzzles Uncle Sam Eastern Women S trike-Joined by Men Government Experts Must Study Out Best Answer to * Great Question— A Problem of Difficulties and Hard to Solve Labor Disturbances in New York'Brm* to Ligbt Conditions in the Working Lives at Thousands From tbs poverty-stricken hovels of Iron Idea-one. Hut moat o f them hnve Kusaia and bar kindred countries, from barely enough money to bring them tba plague ridden diatrirta of Houtksrn neroaa the water, aud they nre com Europe tba United Htataa ia claiming pelled to atop where the chip atopa. So annually bar toll of i|[noraat and tllit the greet citiea o f the Kaat are over arata linmigranta. Careful aa tba de- run with a foreign population. Young women and girla become the prey of l>artmant may bo to aafnguard tba wel fara of onr nation, watrbfu! for dan- white alave acouta if they hnve not al aroua characters o f tba Mark Hand ready been enannred by the foreign aud aimilar organizations, and con acout, while the men wander about in tinually resorting to deportation aa a eean-h of employment in thia land of protective maaaura, still the country la promiae. Falling to find it, they judge filling up with undeairaldaa, and there seeoia no wav to chock th* flow. The problem of immigration In relation to it» effect upon the future of our eoun try ia one that muat aoonar or later be roma an inane, for the facta aa revealed , by the latent atatintira arc ahirufing. A generation ago <>ur population waa ■ ncreaaing ateadily with an annual in flu í of immigrHiita from (lermany. Hcandiuavia and the I'nited Kingdom, attracted by the free land offara made by Unele Ham and the unbounded op- , port unities for betterment, Theae im -. migranta were o f the atonde, nober rlaaa, well eduonted aa a rule and bear j C a r r y Y o u r iug a very low percentage of Illiteracy.! BAÖ-0-AirE From one to four per cent reproaented : the numler o f llliteratea. while their M IS T E R ? thrift made them well to do within a few yearn. Now tit« altuation ia com i'lelely changed. Of the ¡5,000,000 for- j eigtiera who annually aeek our aboraa the great majority come from Kuasia, A net rio, Hungary and Italy. Poor, op ; pressed, with no chance for betterment,¡ they liatón to the airen voice of the tinaoriipulooa agent who ia wilting to j pay their fare acroaa the ocean, for the j eylla of their proeent existence atare ¡ them in the faee and they enn nee no chance for a worae fate. They haaten to eacape the known evila for the vague hojie of a brighter horir.nn. From 13 to 4H per cent of them are illiterate. Never having had anything in the old they have not learned how to! make their w-iy here,- Many of them ( are fit only for day labor. If theae i in mi grant a would aeatter i over the country and aettle in the rurnl' diatrirta the problem would bo lesa ¡ Worbing the whole country by their own nar row hori/.nn, and discontent, anarchy and crime become their portion. Tboee who lire fortunate enough to aecure em ployment aave lip their penniea and aend them back to a brother or friend that he may take advantage of the op |Mirtunitira in the new eonntry. Ho the population ia im-reaaing, not from the im-renae in birth rate among onr own people, but by a steady atreain of un deairahle foreignera. Nor ia illiteracy the A ly factor. A ! large majority of theae immigranta For several week» paat New York come from fever and plague ridden aec the tiona where overcrowding of popula baa lieen in upheaval herauae of % tion and inuttention to aanitation are »trike of 130,000 garment worker» atod a ronatant menace to health and life. | the concurrent strike of waiter* in ho These atrikea Many parte o f Kurope nre never abeo- tela and reataurauta. haie been moat obatinate and have eli lutely free from yellow fever; bubonic plague and kindred diaeaaea. The cited much »ympathy, both from other germa of the |ieetilenre nre carried ia uaioaa and from peraooa outa'de the in fluence of labor. The large number of the ragged clothing of the immigrant. women and girla involved is probably (Continued on page fo o t) in part responsible for thia, for the condition of many of these women is very close to the starvation line. The effects of hunger and cold have been noticeable in spite o f efforts to give re lief by the establishing of depots for the distribution o f clothing and money and the opening up of free lunch room». The strikers demand better pay and shorter hours, besides a general better ment of sanitary conditions in facto ries and restaurants where they are employed. Murh influence baa been brought to bear upon legislators and eitv officials looking toward the betterim#t o f con ditions in the trades affected by the garment worker»’ strike. Ex-President Roosevelt announced that the exeeu tive commit tee o f the Progressive party would -use its influence in the legislature to secure the creation of minimum wage boards in the garment trades. In speaking of the conditions among Workers in the garment factories, the head o f the International la d ie s ’ Gar ment Workers’ Union said, ‘ ‘ They are worse paid than the workers in any other occupation I know of. Girls on leaving school will be employed in the white goods factory at $1.50 a week. In six months they will get an advance of fifty eents a'w eek and in another six mouths another fifty eents a week. It is a year or two before they can earn a week and they seldom reach $8 a week.” Another leader says, ‘ ‘ In eases where the manufacturers charge the girls 33 rents a week each for elec tric power, the bosses make money ont o f it, for 12 eents a week would pay for it. In many eases ihey charge the girls 40 cents each week for thread, yet for Himself and Us and Not Others NO. SON, I VE J U S T P o u n d O U T THAT IM STf?ONCi EN0t»CH To C A C C Y IT MYSELF * ------------------ .------------- :— ------------ — eonntry, Wyk this thread is sewn into garments which become the property of the manufac i turer. Ia printing offices the printers might as well be compelled to pay for the ink.” The eituation was rendered more critical by tke strike of waiters, affect ing many o f tke hotels of the city. Cafes and restaurants have suffered heavily because of insnffieient help, ami some have threatened to engage ne groes unless the striking waiters re turn. Scenes of rioting in and about several eafes have been reported. The dining room force of the Y. M. C. A. joined the strikers and many o f the letter houses are affected. Scenes of rioting were enaeted on the streets, and special polue protection waa found necessary in many instances. One cane waa reported where 'he life of a pro prietor was tbreatem-d unless the de mands o f his employes were granted. In all the activities o f the restaurant strikers, Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the young organizer, has been a most persistent champion of her canse. In |One of her addresses she urged a new attack in order to bring the employers to terms. She declared that mneh of the food serve-1 in the restaurant’s was unfit and urged her com|>mnions to make public their knoweldge o f conditions in the kitchen. ‘ ‘ I want every waiter and every cook who knows anything about the adut teration o f food .” said Miss Flynn, “ about sending back food refused by one guest to another, about highly fla vored sauces to disguise unfit food, to come to headquarters to make affidavits as to the rotten conditions in the kitch ens to be sent to the board o f health and to the newspapers. I f guests knew one-half the things yon know they would not dare to go to one-half the hotels and restaurants in this city. We want to tell Mr. Capitalist what kind of a place his nice dinner comes ont of. A nice cup o f coffee coming out of most kitchens is like a nice lilty com ing up ont o f a mudhole. You may have to work here but they have to eat out there.” 1 D ivorce M ill M a y Slow U p ? East Worried Over Proposed Action by Nevada Legislature A wail of woo has gone up from the vises a change o f climate and suggests effete East over the sudden announce a high, dry altitude for about six ment that the state legislature of Ne months. Nevada offers the required rarefication of ozone, and furthermore vada may pass a law during its present there is a sanitarium at Reno known session extending the residence re as the divorce eolony, which has the quirement for divorcees from six most remarkable record o f cures ever Hundreds enter the sani months to a year. For without Reno beard of. aud its divorce colony the wealthy mis tarium o\ cry year and go away cured fits of the eonntry will be up against The longest treatment ever recorded it. If the legislature does pass the was just a little over six months, while odious law there will be a rush ia the the great majority go away completely heart healing business up to the time eared at six months and one week. the new measure goes into effect. The Wile submits to her physician’s After that wbatl Probably the cry, advice ami the treatment begina. Surrounded by others of similar nil “ On to M exico!” It is easy to imagine the effect of ment, with the sympathy o f kind such a measure on the wounded hearts friends and the gentle enre of colony of the rich. Suppose, for instance, the I specialists, her recovery is rapid. time for the new measure to go into ef Every day she can tell by her breath feet is .laitiiarv 1, 1914. Hands now ing thnt the gap in her henrt is clos worn threadbare will suddenly snap ami ing up. At the end of six mouths the the parties will hasten to the confines colony physician gives her n little plar o f the friendly state. Others not iter with instructions to wear it upon ready to snap will yield at once to the her henrt. It is the court’s decree ef scissors, while many rupture* un divorce. She suddenly finds that not dreamed o f will be suddenly effeetel a trace of the terrible wound remains and their principals carried away with and she goes hack to New York for an the popular stream of emigrants to other trial. Reno. And after that, “ On to Mex I f the Nevada legislature pnsses the ¡cot” bill the divorce bnsitiess is going to Nevada has long been the meeea of suffer. It is sad to think o f the effect wounded hearts. In fact, since South such a measure will have upon the Dakota increased the residence require wounded hearts of the aristocracy of ment for divorce Nevada hna done the country. Experimental matrimony, about all the heart mending business ono of the noblest institutions of our for the country. It has become in real nation, is sure to receive a setbnek that ity an art, and many hnve ndopted it we may never recover from. Further ns a spccinlt.v ami made it their pro more, Mexico may get some o f our fession. A pretty society belle decides wealthy citizens six months out of to try matrimony just for fun. After every \^ar. For with our sanitarium a couple o f months »lie decides thnt shut down we hav* no other high, dry she iloesn’t like It and the doctor Is climate thnt will do tho business. The called In to make an examination into climate o f Reno Rets upon the ruptured the condition of her heart. He finds blood vessels of tho henrt very much a small sliver in it and extracts it. But the same as a green persimmon does on the wound thus left widens every day, yonr lips. It puckers them all up so and after n twelve month has pnssed it you hardly know you have nny. The gapes wide open and the red blood United Htates government ought to oo/es and spurts until there is no love take a hand in it and stop the threat left in the poor heart. The doctor ad enod action on tho part o f Nevada. AFTER î.T H E The M arriage of Helen Gould Fighting W ith W ooden Bullets Baffled and Humilated, Beaten at His Game, the Turk Is Victim o f His Own Dishonesty The marriage of Miss Helen Gould, ; It is related that a war correajiond- clinging to the forlorn hope that some whose wealth is estimated at $40,000,- eat in the Balkans, while picking bis thing will yet intervene ,to save her 000, to F. .1. Shepard, whom- fortune | way among slain Turkish soldiers after from the ignominy that will result if is comparatively insignificant, is an a hard battle, came upon some cart she is force«! to give up Adrianople. Six hundred years ago Othman ap other illustration of the attitude of ridge rases am) was moved to give Miss Gould’s entire life toward money them a close examination. He found : peared out of the East and set up his and all that goes with it. Known that the case was of steel and the pow power. For three centuries thereafter throughuut the cuuntry for her ntimer der apparently of good quality, but the ( the Turks maintained their power mis philanthropic* and her interest in bullets were small pieces of painted through their daring and fearless sol Upon inquiry he found that diership. Then rame three centuries the affairs of those less favorably sit wood. oate-1 in life, irer selection o f a life these cartridges were furnished for of decay, and for the past hundred partner without means is not snrpris practice shooting and ha-1 evidently years the Turkish government has ing. With wealth iolfficienf to de tw-en nixed, through mistake or design, maintained ita existence through the sufferance of the powers and not be mand a place in society, she has pre with the regular army bullets. ferred to step into the places o f the In the light of late developments ia j cause of any merit nationally. The lowly, there to lend a hand personally the Balkans the incident may be taken countries that Turkey has conquered wherever her assistance could bring ns s.vmliolical o f the entire struggle of she ha* regarded only a* plunder, giv cheer or comfort to the needy. The Turkey for the maintenance o f her na ing no thought to their development list o f her philanthropies includes tional integrity. Forced into a war by aud less to their rights. They have many enterprises for the betterment her own acts of cruelty, with dissen been regarded only as a source of and uplift of her fellow-men. The Y. sions within her own ranks, without tribute and have been called upon M. <’. A., the rescue home, the tene the organization that should keep her j many times to furnish the means ment districts all have felt the infln army the feariess fighting machine it ! wherewith to fill the depleted coffers ence of her character as well as her once was, she has been fighting with ! o f the Sultan. Denied freedom of re money. She has been prominent in na wooden bullets while the enemy met ligion. freedom o f eduratieu, freedom tiona] affairs fur the betterment of her with the best weapons o f modern o f anything, these dependencies have her sex. and in everything undertaken warfare and a united purpose. Today. \ crouched in fear before the threats of has been an inspiration for the better. | beaten and humiliated. Turkey is still ! their master. With such a policy the Jump-Off-Joe, a Famous Landmark on the Oregon Coast Which Has Recently) Disappeared S T A G E — T H E * 'C L O I S T E R The beautiful story of the lowly Nnz- arene as brought out in Lew W allace’s great masterpiece, “ Ben Hur,” must have a splendid influence upon the player* who partieipate in its produc tion upon the stage. The plot o f the Louise Huff, who ha* been playing the part o f Tir/ah has refused to sign a eontraet for another season. She says she will retire to a cloister and spend the rest of her days in religions aeelusion. Born of Roman Catholic parentage and religious by nature, her part in the great play has served to im press more strongly tho beauties of tho unselfish life o f th* Master. Now she has decided that the lifelong desire for quiet religious life shall he grati fied at the close o f the present season. The Incident disproves the theory that the stage and all connected with it are bad. It proves that one ran mingle with the associations o f the stage and still retain self respect. It prove* that a good play Is not without ita influ ence for good. This famous rock occupies a unique place in Indian legend. It ia related that from its top Indian Joe hurled himself to death as a sacrifice for the life of hi* white sweetheart, Nita, upon whose head had descended tho wrath of the tribe for visitations of earthquakes and storms. The story goes that Nita. upon learning o f the sac rifice, hurled herself from the rock with Joe, thus fulfilling the prophecy that the two would meet in Paradise. The rock has been a landmark until a few months ago, when it is reported to have been destroyed in a severe storm that swept tho coast near Newjmrt. Ottoman has engendered the utmost bitterness and hatred. For a genera tion he ha* been molding the wooden bullets that would some day be used in defense of his national integrity. Within her own army the result is the same. Military service under the Hultan brought the worst o f abuses. Every Mussulman is required to serve seven years. But as no fcoord of births is kept, many escape service, while others are forced to enlist a second and third time. No one serves who can par. A picture of modern military life is given in ‘ ‘ la Revolution Turqne’ as follows: “ (Quartered in an isolated garrison of Europe, Arabia or Africa, the pri vate is left without pay, without clothes, without shoes, without bread. The ministers, the prefects and the o f ficers steal the appropriations, rob the commissary stores and even the ar senals. Half naked, hungry, smitten with fevers and syphilis, the unfortu nate soldier is forced to brigandage or revolt. In a Mohammedan district be goes hungry a long time before robbing the inhabitants. In a Christian dis trict each garrison is a pest for miles about.” The Turkish soldier is not less brave today than in the past. Time after time he has remained at the front when weakened from lack of food be cause the organization at headquarters did not send forward supplies. More- than one defeat chalked up against the Turk was brought about by this means. And here lies another canse for the decline of the Ottoman empire. Dissension within the ranks o f the government has served to thwart many plans. The young Turk against the old, education and freedom fighting to supplant the ancient traditions o f the race, patriotism against anarehy have disrupted the nation for decades. Tho policy o f the Sultan and his advisers has been molding the wooden bullets that are now so ineffective against their enemies. During all the years of treachery on the part of Turkish rulers there occa sionally rose up men o f sterling worth who looked to the future with eyes that saw the conditi6ns existing today. Of these Midhat Pnsba stands as the one pre-eminent example of wisdom and statesmanship. It was he who gave to the nation the constitution which time and again came to the aid of Turkey’s rulers when intervention by the pow ers threatened to set things right. But Turkey was not ready t o r the conatl- (Continued on page (onr)