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J. T. Yoder
JOHNSTOWN
Sells the Champion Cream Saver
self-centering bowl, a bell speed-indicator
that insures operation at the preper speed,
and many other important improvements?
The NEW De Laval embodies the greatest
improvements in cream separalor cons
ID you know that while other manufacturers are raising their
prices to meet the soaring cost of materials, The De Laval
Separator Company is putting out at no increase im price a
bigger ol better cream separator then ever before—a separator with a
drop in and see
one of these new machines, We know you will
! be inte d in the new gelf-centering bowl,
struction in the last 30
The NEW De Laval has greater capacity.
The NEW D@& Laval skims
The NEW De Laval is even simpler in
construction.
The NEW De Laval is even more sanitary.
improvements
And you get all these
without one cent inerease in
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The wwatning signal” y
that insures operation
at proper speed. mace
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The first time
you come to town
the new
dises, the t 20,
proved auton A oiling
tures that are found only in the NEW
De Laval.
You can buy a De Laval from us on such
itself while
But even if you are not
in and look the
It will be worth your while,
terms that
ready to buy yet, come
hine over.
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years.
even closer.
the price.
Cross-section of New Bowl
y
it will pay for
ng it.
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WHAT'S SO AND WHAT ISN'T
. Copyrighted by JOHN M. WORK.
No, Socialism is not against the
hiome. infamous slavery? :
Capitalism is against the home. | Another menace to the home and
Socialism does not attack the fam- | | family under capitalism is the fact
ily. #® iE | that immense numbers of our young
Capitalism attacks the family. {men dare mot marry, on account of’
‘Witnesg the white slave traffic. | the uncertainty of being able to earn
Thousands upon thousands of girls a living.
. | deliberately lured into ‘lives of; /The last censug shows that there
| shame. Lured into lives of shame are over (eight million unmarried
hecause capitalism creates an imper- {men in the United States. A normal
ative demand for prostitutes. The | man does not remain unmarried of
English language does mot. contain his own free will.
words sufficiently vivid to deseribe| This condition of things puts a
their sufferings. ‘The families from | premium on prostititilon.
which they come are ruined. And | Jt is altogether due to capitalism.
little ones have to be sold into this
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the families of which they might |
have become a part are prevented. |
In the city of New York alone |
and prostitutes. And the other cit:
ies and towns in the land have them
Of
course it is obvious that there must
be more loose men than loose wo-
men, flor otherwise the loose women
cenid not make a living, There are
a few girls who seem to be shorn
bad and whose environment is such
that ‘they cannot overcome the fin-
fruence of heredity. But the vast
majority of girls who become pros-
stitutes are forced into it by circum-
breeders of prostikution. And all
these are due to capitalism. Further-
nore, the industries in this country
are paying puch miiserable wages
to their female employes that for
many of them it is impossible on so
small a sum to pay for board and
lodging and keep their persona] ap-
pearance up to the standard which
their employerg require and which
their own impulses dictate. ;
When a girl finds that her paltry
three or four dollars a week will
not pay her living expenses, and ac-
cepts the offer of a man to replenish
her purse on the usual condition,
she is not deliberately a fallen wo-
man.
She is the helpless victim of a vie-
“ous and heartless social system.
Socialism will throw its protecting
shield around her and ft will say to
the pimps and seducers, “Hands off,
and give the American girl an op-
portunity to develop into pure and |$
noble womanhood!”
Thess”
creasing. It is all diue to capitalism.
Capitalism must be abolished.
Socialism will give every working
‘woman her full earnings. It will
.give every working woman short
hours of labor. - It will wipe out the
wretched tenements. And it will
give every woman who desires to
‘work an opportunity to do so.
When this is done, the brothel
will. cease to receive recruits. Even
many of its then occupants will wel-
come the opportunity to get back
into respectable life.
Thus Socialism will remove one of |
family.
In the factories of the United
States vast numbers of married Wor
there because the wages their hus- |
support their families. In many cas- |
job at all,
instead.
If these women had short Bours]
their strength, and they had no!
household duties in addition,
would not be an interference with |
family life.
can exist in her
home and family.
It is altogether due to capitalism.
And Socialism will] entirely cure
that evil.
Another menace to the home and
family under capitalism is the fact
that there are vast numbers of
children working in the mills, stores
and mines, many of whom ought to
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be in the kindergarten and all of
whom ought to be in school. Their
labor is ofien necessary umder capi-
lism the blighting of the i
|tle children is the most fiendish.
| It makes one’s blood boil to think | Another menace to the home and |
{of it. family under capitalism fs the fact
| Socialism will put an end to it. that both the husband and the wife!
Sodlalism will take the :children |are constatnly overworked.
mem out of the mills, n stores “and For the husband, this makes the
stories and put them in school. home too often a mere place {0 eat
of d ex nt home
is no‘other way. " The nam- .
ber of prostitutes is constanlily fin |}
bands receive are not sufficient to |misfits there
es the husband is not ablé to find a | tion
{this | ish divorce.
Socialism will make it financially
(easy for every man ito eam a living.
Another menace to the home and
there are approximately fifty thous: family under capitalism is the eco-
| nomic dependence of woman. Woman
lis the slave of man because man
supportg her.
I lay it down as an indisputable
proposition that no woman can have
genuine self-respect unless she earns
her own living. .
It is so difficult for a woman to
make an: honest living for herself
today that, although it is not a very
polite thing to say, it I's nevertheless
a fact that there ig a constant com-
petition among many of the women
stances. Tenement houses, seasons |to win the marriageable men. for
of unemployment, long hours of la-|husbands.
bor, montony of life—all these are Many a woman is practically
forced by conditions ‘to marry the
first man she has a chance to marry,
whether she loves him or not, /be-
cause she may never have another
opportunity. Marriage without love
is better than a brothel, at least fin
the eyes of the public. Of course,
there are some women ‘who marry
for money when they are not forced
to do so. The daughters of the cap-
italistg are ip the habit of marrying
for money Bcc it brings them
social position, There are also some
men who marry for money. They as
a rule are ‘not forced to do so, but
merely do it because they are thrifty.
But the woman whe marries for a
home is forced. to do, so by economic
necessity.
"This fact is the cause
domestic happiness.
it is the ats ot most of the di-
vorees.
of untold
ages are o capitalism.
‘Short-sighted persons want to deny
divorces except for adultery. But
when married people do not love
each other lit is prostitution for
them to live together as man and
wifet—legallized prostitution, to be
sure, but prostitution just the same.
Not that personal blame attaches to
such victims of circumstances. These
short-sighted persons want to com-
pel these unfortunate married coup-
les to live: together in prostitution.
Short-sighted persons also say that
the worst menaces to the home and | While divorce may be necessary, the
divorced persons should mot be per-
But the home and family have mitted to marry again.
still other enemies under capitalism. [the
To forbid
remarriage of divorced persons
|is simply to drive them into illicit
relations. Tha is what these short-
men are working. They are working | | sighted persons would do.
So long as there are matrimonial
should be divorcees,
with ag little publicity and humilia-
as possible, and the divorced
but does the housework | persons should be permiitted to re-
| marry as freely as anyone else.
The moral ‘welfare of society de-
of labor, if their tasks were sulited to | mands this.
But Socialism will practically ahol-
It willl do it, not by
{denying divorces, but by creating
conditions wherein matrimonial mis-
But when a wife and mother has |fits will be few and far between.
to work at hard labor in a factory | When a man and woman nmarry for
from eight to fourteen hours gq day, {love alone, and are not pinched, nar-
no family life worthy of the name | rowed: and
home. |
It is practically an abolition of | ried on in the home, and by the re-
irritated afterward by
| poverty, by primitive industry car-
lation of master and slave toward
each other, the chances are that they
will live happily together all their
lives and never think of wanting a
divorce.
Sceialism will give woman the
prison where she is doomed to per-
petual slavery and drudgery.
“Beyond the altar lies the wash-
tub.”
A bright young woman who could
easily perform all the ldbor that
ought to be required of anyone,
| without injury to mind or body,
leaving her ample time for higher
development and for civie duties, be-
comes a household drudge, warping
her mind, deforming her body, and
bringing the wrinkles of old age
prematurely to her face. Frequently
she not only does the family wash-
ing, but has to wash for well-to-do
families while her husband walks the
streets in search of a job. She has
to bend over a cook stove day im and
day out, year in and year out. Little
wonder if she becomes irritable and
marrow-minded. What ‘else ‘conld
you expeét’ under such circumsian-
ces? It is. g marvel that she does
not become narrower 'than she realy
does.
This condition of things is wholly
due to capitalism.
Socialism will remedy this evil.
Another menace to the home and
family under capitalism is the pov-
erty _of the masses of the people,
which compels them to skimp them-
selves constantly land dp without
practically all of the emnobling and
refining thimgs of life which would
make the home a real home instead
of a pitiful caricature of a home.
This poverty due entirely to
capitalism.
Socialism will remove this evil.
In short, capitalism (is the arch
enemy of the home and family.
Capitalism is making a farce and
a travesty.
Capitalism is making family life
impossible for millions of the people
and. a wretched fafilure for most of
is
the 1est.
Socialism will remove all of these
menaces to the home and family.
We can therefore confidently ex-
pect Socialism to result in a wonder-
ful elevation and purification of the
home and family.
PROFESSOR BEARD'S PROTEST
As a protest against ‘tyranny in our
universities, Professor Charles A.
Beard, one of the country’s greatest
educators and historians, has re-
sighed from the faculty of Columbia
University. The iramediate cause of
this important decision was the dis-
‘|missal of Professors Cattel and Dang
becausef they had expressed: fideas
thai did not happen to he acceptable
tothe Board of Trustees, composed
of capitalist reactionaries.
Professor Beard himself is a strong
supporter of the war. He states
ctearly that he does not agree with
the instructors who were discharged,
but he maintains that they had a
right to their opinion. He makes a
point that a teacher should be judged
ag a teacher, and nlot as a heretic
because he happens’ to have ideas
that do not jibe with those in con-
trol. Too long, he declares, have
our teachers lived in dread of losing
their jobs. Too long have they been
forced to curb their opinions because
they know %hat the men in power
wer conservative.
The Columbia incident is nothing
more than one of a series, Univer-
sities and coilieges throughout {this
country have been swinging the axe
quite recklessly since the Board of
Penusylvania University succeeded in
forcing Dr. Scott Nearing to resign
because of his radicalism.
The capitalists have
power to ‘withhold
will make or
tions of learning.
blame. They merely wish to proiect
their own interests. The people are
to klame. The people have permit-
ted the capitalist class to get a
it in their
the money that
They are not to
ucation, with the
young men and
miseducated and
result that our
women are
masses,
liberality.
ment,
power to earn a good living for her-
self.
marry for love alone.
She is now an economlic salve.
She will then ibe economically free
Of all the villainiies due to capita- | emancipation of women,
lives of lit-| stands for the complete
talism to the support of the famil- Of course, Socialism stands for |
ies to which they belong. equal suffrage. But it stands for
The tale of their sufferings is a|much more than that. It not only
harrowing one. stands for the complete political
but it also |
emancipation of woman.
sleey
Then she will be in a position to
economic |
break the best Unstitu-
strangle-hold on all mediumg of ed-
being
forced to believe
that it is ethically right for a small
group to direct the activities of the
The institutions of learning
should be made to rely on the public
treasury rather than the individual's
Colleges and universities
should be controlled by the govern-
Congress will debate the woman |paigns and only two of them had
suffrage amendment on January 10. | been suceessful. Since 1910 there
Thig marks one more stage of pro- | have been fifteen State campaigns
gress iin the long struggle which the | and still only. a fourth of the States
women of the nation have waged in lof the Unffon have granted the wo-
Congress for a recognition by the men the ful} right of citizenship. In
nation of their rights as citizens of [the meantime Ontario and all the
the United States, a struggle which | | western provinces of Canada have
began while the 14th amendment extended equal suffrage to their wo-
was pending in 1866. |men, and even in Great Britain,
14th | Where suffrage reform has always
amendment, which déclares that “All | been extremely slow, a marked re-
persons born or naturalized in the | | vulsion of publie sentiment in favor
United Statds and. spbject to the | Of equal suffrage has been brought
jurisdiction thereof as citizens,” and | | about by the splendid: services and
follows with the prohibition that | Patriotic devotion of the women of
No State shall make or enforce any | the Empire during the war, and the
hh which shall abridge the privil-|Peformr ig evidently on the eve of
eges or immunities of the citizens of | {complete success.
the United States,” seems on its face There has never been any justifi-
to guarantee to women as well as | cation for denying women the right
men the fundamental right of a share | to vote. In no respect are women
in the Government. But doubt was inferior to men except in mere mus-
cast upon thig natural construction cular strength. But for this reason
hy the second section of the amend- | Women have ‘been, in the dark ages
ment, which undertakes to penalize Of civilization, finferior to men in
‘the denial of ‘the right og suffrage to | fighting capacity and in those dark
MALE citizens and seems thereby | Deriods of human intelligence: when
to base the right of suffrage upon fighting capacity was the test of soc-
sex; and this adverse construction ial and political superiority, of course
received the sanction of the Supreme Women toek finferior positions. But
Court of the United States in 1875. that day is over.
In 1878 the suffrage amendment now Every man knows from his boy-
pending was introduced by Senator (hood experience with girls in school
Sargent. of California, and it has that they are not intellectually man’s
been presenteyl to every Congress | tnferiors, He knows that his mother
since then wiith one exception. Dur- is as intelligent as his father and
ing this period of almost forty years that his sisters are as intelligent as
there have been several favorable he. . The only reason in the world
and nine adverse committee reports, which compels men to vote against
only three of which resulted in a | giving women the ballot is the nat-
serious contest in either branch. In urgl unwillingness TO GIVE UP A
1887 the resolution was rejected in SPECIAL PRIVILEGE.
the Senate by a vote of 16 ayes and | Women already vote in twelve
34 noes. In 1914 it received in the
[States comprising one-half the terri-
Senate 34 ayes and 34 noes, failing | ory of the United States. Therefore
of passage for lack of the necessary | (hey vote for President and Congress
two-thirds majority. In the House
| ;
‘im more than half the territory of
in 1915 it was rejected by a vote of |
174 ayes and 204 noes.
» The first seciion of thes
the mation. It is absurd that they
| ghould be denied the right in the rest
After the defeat of the resolution of the country. Very little is gained
in the Senate in 1887 the suffragists | in: a grudging, halting concession of
for many years configed their efforts a clear right. Congress ought to
to campaign for equal suffrage in the | submit the woman suffrage. amend-
different States, for a long time with { ment in gy, liberal, whole hearted way’
little or no result. Up to 1910 there | which would receive the approval of |
had been "twenty such State cam- ithe nation.—N. Y. American. :
Washington, Dec. 27.—Statistlical | about $100,6006,800 each. There are
tableg prepared by the income tax 14 who reported having an income of
diivision of the internal revenue bur- from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000; 34
eau, which became available yester-| why enjoyed incomes ranging from
day and will be published as an ap-| $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.
pendix to the report of Damiel C.| If all persons who in the various
Roper, commissioner of internal rev- classes made by tke income-tax.law
enue, show that in the last income |received incomes ranging from $150,
taxing year, 1916, the number of 000 and up to the highest class are
Americans possessing a million or |to be described as multi-méillionaires,
more had increased 7,925 over the |we have in the United States 3,783 of
previlous yesr. The income tax re-| which is almost exactly the
turns for the year ending with De- | strength of a regiment of infantry
cember, 1915, showed a grand total! under the new United ‘States army
of 14,771 millionaires. The returns | orzanization.
for the year 1916, made public to- | The total on income tax for the.
day, show that there are 22,696 | | Twenty- third Pennsylvania district
Americans with a million. It is pos- | (Pittsburgh) (s $5,671,454, the sec-
sible that they are rather under than | ond largest in the state, the totals
over the actual number. for other districts of Pennsylvania
am
i £4,
The class of people having $2,- being: First, or Philadelphia, $9.-
000,000 or more is not so easily esti-| 526,674.70; ninth; $616,483.76;
mated. There are 10 persons in the | twelfth, $1,276,500.96.
The aggregate collected from the
| Pittsburgh district from individual
| income, corporatiion income, muni-
come, they each possess $125,000,- tion- and miseellaneous taxes, was
000. There are mine persons who $36,109,312.01, leading all in the
were taxed last year for an income of | State, as against other districts, as
$4,000,000 to $5,000,000. These may] Eiaws! First, $33.211,208.23; ninth
be regarded as having fortunes of! 507,048.88; ¢welfth;, $8,595,288.
country who have an annual fincome |
of over $5,000,000. Reckoned on
the rule of a 4 per cent rate of in-
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