The Mighty Atoms.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 7

The Mighty Atoms.

Frances E. devoted work for temperance endeared her to the

humanitarians of the whole world. Her life was a sngularly unselfish one, and she joined to self - sacrifice great and outstanding gifts in. earnestness and exposition. xind in the end she came to see that something besides

temperance was essential. What she came to see we quote on page 14, and we hope it will be widely read and pondered. It is an extract wnich may be passed on with advantage —passed on to temperance workers particularly. Our portrait is ■ >m an old newspaper. * * *

What will be an historic case has been commenced "in Germany, the heirs of the Prussian .Field Marshal Yon Muich suing the Kaiser for £41,000,000 being the value of estates conferred on him by Frederick the Great.

W- T. Stead is boosting our "gracious" and '.'noble" king because he is like W. T. Stead. "Because the King believes in Mr. Stead" and "believes very much as Mr. Stead does" are given as "reasons" for belief in His iViarveilous Majesty, whose predecessors each in turn were, like George, heralded as "Our Greatest King." They are each "greatest"—until the next. Stead believes in the King in much the same way as he believes in God—because like Stead. This par will be dubbed "disloyal" and "blasphemous," but Stead's amazing braggadocio is approvingly paraded by "Lyt- Times. ■J4- *■ *

Walter Thomas Mills will return to Melbourne to conduct a six months' campaign, after he has toured N.Z. Mβ asiied for 500 voluntary workers and per week to be found for the campaign. News is to hand that workera anU cash are ready. Alt'. Wilson, a Leading Socialist of Victoria, is Prof. Mills' secretary for the big work. * * *

Fred Cooke writes: In his address in tbo Socialist Hall, Christchurch, P. H. Hxckey put the case for Industrialism co well that one of our recently elected City Councillors Lα a short, speech urged the Federation to have a deputation visit the various unions connected wit , " the Trades Coiincils and teach them what Industrial Unionism meant to all workers.

Tom Mann has an article on "Affairs Abroad." i° "''Social Democrat," in

which he says he is all the time advocating Industrial Unionism, the principles of which are gaining ground in all the unions. Tom congratulates Scott Benuett on the vigor and directness of his notes and articles, and adds: "New Zealand ought to 'gee up , pretty rapidly and make history smartly. At last there is hope for N.Z-, hitherto held up as a model community."

God must dearly love the fools, otherwise ho would not have made so many of them.—Fra Elhertus. • #■ * *

Mrs. Agnes Hardie, ■wife of David Hardie, a younger brother of Keir Hardie, was re-elected to the Glasgow Education Board, polling 23,165 votes. Mrs. Annie Turner, another Socialist, although unsuccessful, polled over 15,000 votes.

Frank Freeman has "made good" organising th-e Dunedin branch N-Z. S.P., and has been re-engaged. The Wellington branch at its last business meeting, decided to offer Comrade Freeman the position vacated by Comrade Hogg as organiser for Wellington district.

Jack London, writes to an Australian friend that after an exciting experience among the Insurrectos, h© is back on his eiicalyptus plantation, Sonoma, California. The novelist of the "Wild , hopes to be in Easy Street in ten years as a result of the cultivation of the gum-tree.

Edward Tregear spoke for the Socialists at the Gaiety Theatre on a Sunday evening while in Melbourne. He will visit Brisbane and then return to Maoriland.

Wright, a Boston millionaire, left £14,000 for the oare of his favourite horse and dogs, and £5000 among his household servants, which shows in what esteem the workers are held even by the charitably inclined. Dogs first.

Mr. Robert Smillie, Larkhall, the president of the Scots Miners' Federation, was recently entertained in the Town Hall, Hamilton, and presented with a testimonial consisting of a handsome bookcase and complete set of Scott's and Dickens's works, Mrs. Smillie at the same time receiving a gold watch and chain. He was congratulated upon the help he so readily gave his fellow men. Mr. in reply, said the recent election was his seventh Parliamentary defeat, but he was not discouraged. He would still devote his life to helping his own class. Mr. Smillie is a well-known figure at the Miners , Conferences in London, and throughout the provinces, and has visited many places abroad in the interests of the pit workers. Comrade W. H. Smillie, of Wellington branch of the New Zealand Socialist Party, is a son of the President of the Scots Miners' Federation.