The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1911, Page 4

Sometimes, in those depths in which he so often finds himself, the worker is driven to wonder if the age-long struggle] for industrial freedom isn’t vain after all, Doubtless many & weary miner of the Greensburg coal field, having f ought through} oe of the most stubbornly contested strikes on record, only to lose out at the last, is today questioning the good of it the sacrifice of money, of labor, of life even; the w alking barefoot in| the snow, the living in rotting tents; all the bitter privations of} that long fight among the Westmoreland hills ery from the depths, Labor Day is apt to seem am But theirs is the narrow m_ their shadow they can't see beyond the confines of their own little field, The broader view, the view that takes in all the sweep of the present and past of labor, is anythi Rather, it is in the highest degree inspiring hope, that amounts to a certainty, that labor will yet come ite own. Look back at the workers of other days not easily accessible, for the taskmasters have written colored it—are doing it yet in a measure—but if you dig deep enough you will find the stories you seek. You will find records of hopeless uprising of slaves in ancient times. You will find how valiantly Spartacus and his freedmen strove against the legions of Rome—in perhaps the most desperately contested labor war in history, You will read of the despairing “THE SEATTLE STAR tar Publias To such, who] wckery outlook. Fr valley of} g but discouraging For it carries a to Their history is and eda ts abroad have figured it out that Germany needs} laaettm apene somatey im her class in order to solidify the country and @rert public attention from socialism, 49 per cont of the votes recently | 10 be votes of social democrats. ing for war with Grea in needs war, and Is actually prepar sameness ‘as it is thought her great labor troubles have only begun, Ged something is desirable that will arouse national pride and patriot om. cut seems to be to make the common folks #0 busy at cv en throats that they'll turn thelr minds from the way theyre and oppressed by a monarchica! or moneyed class, Tt is no — to stave off revolution at home by letting the people bleed and ie for their country in an affair with foreigners, and both Germ P ‘end Great Britain are getting to # potut where most any sort of an in ternational war would be cheaper than peace Coaxing Angeles Chamber of Commerce, preparing to receive Tats ad fs of opinion that he “wil! not me to making & gpeech in which he will set forth some of is views on the political sit Betcher life! Bill's after another term, and you needn't be back ward, boys, about belleveing that he'll crow his loudest and scratch his pe, you couldn't coax Bil! into being “averse peech” with a barrel of sugar. Bill's out for that pur ‘and he won't confine himself to “some of his views,” either. That Chamber of Commerce can prepare to receive all that Candidate has in the way of spellbinding and wind, all right. TERPILLARS are frequently stopping trains in Canada by mak fing the rails slippery. ae, eee, exports to Uncle Sam $95,000,000 worth of stuff yearly tea and silk. o ») »% MME. TALLIEN, old-time beauty, took baths of strawberry juice preserve hor satiny skin. ee PNEUMATIC gun loaded on a car Is shooting cement into the rock sides of Culabra cut, Panama canal - el EE... CIANS say the world’s population in 1908 was 1,700,000, €8—proportion, 1,000 men to 990 women o oo o - . THEY even whitewashed the coal in the engine's tender, so that (lag George's train to Epsom races would look clean 2. 2 * WOULD you call “advanced” that Indianapolis church which is to pall off two boxing bouts for the benefit of its funds? o oo © INVENTIVE AGE says that cactus contains more heat units than eel or wood and gives off a fine illuminating gas. ee, ae WITH congress and parliament adjourned, we must rely on those Canadian electors to keep the political pot boiling for a spell. ¢. 67-8 BE SURE to pack that Winona speech tn your grip einging around the circle to reform the progressive stat ' é. -@). © REMEMBER what a yell there was over the high cost of living in 19097 Well the prices of 257 commodities went 4 per cent higher within @ year, and some of them are still rising. o 0 °o AVERAGE wages of al! employes in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Rhode Industries, is from $450 to $600 per year. ecie MYRTLE REED, authoress of “Lavender and Old Lace,” who ani eiéed at Chicago, said that married men are the greatest gold-brick artists on earth, and she had married the Raphae) of them all o o oO MRS. E. H. HARRIMAN has given $50,000 toward a hospital. It may be needed for some of the thousands of railroad clerks who have eon discharged because of “unsatisfactory earnings” of Mrs. Harri man's railroads. o © °o THERE will be an explosion of coal gas on Forbes baseball field, fe Pittsburg, on October 27, to show President Taft and a crowd how Feecue work in the mines is done. It may be a good show, but we'll the excitement won't be as great as when Hans Wagner busts a with a home run. ea Bul, before * The umpire scouts overlooked this indicator man. The following is @ simple of his work: ‘The Atlanta Deppens and the Birmingham Gold Dusts, negro base- ball teams, were playing a strenuous game in Atlanta, In one inning ‘Gold Dusts bad the bases full with no outs. An ebony-hued batter to the plate. The pitcher sent the sphere to the catcher. “One ball ied the negro umpire. Again the pitcher got busy. called the umpire ball pitched the man with the indicator shouted: Once more the sphere went across the plate Yo" out!” shouted the umpire. The batter was highly “Three balls! “Fo' balls! indignant. “What?” he yelled. “Me out? Whar yo’ git dat, niggah?”’ “Now, look a-hear, said the umpire, “yo’ gotta be out. Dey ain't no room fo’ you on de bases.”—Atlanta Journal. A negro known as “One-Eyed” Walling was, and probably Is now, a er in Virginia, His ideas of theology and human nature were very original, as the following anecdote may prove. A gentleman thus accosted the old preacher one Sunday: “Walling, | understand you believe every woman has seven devils. Now, how can you prove that, I'd like to know?” “Well, sah, did you eber read in de Bible how de seben debbles ‘were cast out ‘er Mary Magdalene?” “O, yes, I've heard of that; but what does that prove “Did you ebber hear of ‘em bein’ cast out of any odder woman, sah?” And the old man assumed a wise look. “No, I never aid.” “Well, den, sah, de odders hag sure got ‘em yit!” ONIFORGETIOGET ° iiformation tout the big school © a7 |feat before they began 1 lcome, but the trend of things makes it certain that this freedgm 4, in the cnag | revolt of the Jacquerie of France, and of its sanguinary” Oy All down through history, if you look carefully behind ii “official” annals, you will come upon these dreary taled| labor uprisings, of “strikes” that were foredoomed to utttr'de- Well, nowadays there are few strikes that are foredddimpd to failure, Indeed, most of them are successiul—speaking jn the narrow sense, for in the long run ALL strikes are sutedds- ful. Even Spartacus, dying valoriously with the remnants of as more the victor than the Roman who led the legions against him. But the average labor victory of today, unlike that of Spartacus, is conerete, the kind of victory that his army, w the nev some of them at least—will record as such, the kind that historians must take into account. And therein lies inspiration and hope, Standing shoulder to shoulder, the workers are waging war with the masters of Capital and Privilege on pretty even terms, And the true story of that war can't be suppressed or blotted from history, It is papers being printed in installments every day, Thus every recurring Labor Day shines brighter with the stire hope that some day there will be genaine industrial free dom for those who do the laborious work of the world. It won't come right away. It will hardly come with a rush when it does is on the march, and that it will eventually sweep the earth, OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE A RUN ALONG You KIDS, | WANT TO ENJOY MY NEW: ®20 FLY ROD. BENT PIN OR TWO WHERE YOy WONT SPOIL MY FISHING! NOT 80 MARVELOUS A FEAT. “I tell ye what It is, Silas,” sald Uncle Mose Peavey, as he and the letter carrier sat near the stove in the postoffice, discussing things tn general, “old Squire Dunkley’s a-bustin’ good shot with a rifle, Ye can talk ail ye please about these glass-ball shooters and your various |champeen shots down to the city, but there ain't many on ‘em can shoot in the same day with the squire, He kin bit a dollar throwed into the air at fifty yards nine times out o' ten.” “Yeu, I reckon be kin,” said Silas, pulling strenuously away at bis , and asphyxiating the rest of the gathering, “but what if he kin? After all, Mose, you know as well as I do that a dollar looks ten times bigger to Squire Dunkley than it does to most o' the rest on ua.” MOIST WHIST EROUS PARENT. “Rubber playing cards+great in vention.” “Majoria’s father is so stingy; even at her wedding he insisted that “What good are they?” everything be cheap.” “Bathers need lose no time from “T heard that he went so far as the whist table; can get a board|to find fault because the ceremony and play whist in the surf.” was performed at high noon An Oklahoma editor was much interested in a sctentific note he encountered in an Eastern paper to the effect that if the earth| were flattened the sea would be two miles deep over all the world. | The editor reprinted this note with the following comment “If any man is caught flattening the earth, shoot him on theliapot a whole lot of us in this state who can't swim.”—Suecess|Mag. azine. i cent of the telephone exchange girls quit everyyyear rry. Low wages probably drive many of them to desperatio THE REASON. | ALERT MIND. FIFTEEN per to m “Why did he send his daughter to Burope to study muste?” “So she wouldn't practice Pegsy—Yes, tomorrow's my birth- day, at; Reggy—-Weally! Pou_m’ shonol home, T guess.” you don't look it. ES EEE Live One Month the Life of a Working Girl, and You Will See Need for Organization, Says Woman Inspector Prominent Women in the Labor World Who Are Striving for Better Labor for BY HELEN M, TODD Ilinois State Factory Inspector. WISH that every aafe, comfortable and protected wo mai might be forced if onty for one month to live the life of a work- ing girl in @ great city, | would have her work the same hours, eat the same food, live exactly under the same con- ditions that wo working io restau She should know what ts meant to long for more food to put the strength she needed for work ato ber body; and not to dare buy it because she wasn't earning enough money to cat “all she wanted.” 1 would have her, after her work was done, dazed with weartness and shivering from fatigue and cold, stand in among ® mass of men on street car back platform, where ery rough push against her tired body, her swollen feet caused her anguish In her bare little dollar and a half & week bedroom, without the possi- | bitity of food or warmth, and worst of all, with no one to weleome her lor to speak to her, ahe would set the alarm clock for 6:30 the next morning, drag off her clothing with fingers almost too tired to obey her will, turning out the gas, grope her |way across the room to the small |tron bed and drawing the covers over jher, shed those tears of hopeless- jneas and fear, of weariness and lone liness, which only the helpless and “—~| the weak cam shed. More “than this, she should know what is meant when she has just managed to hold out to the closing hours of factory work, through what seemed to her an endless day of “speeding up,” noise and relentiess work, to have the word sent down from the office that a “big order has come in and all the kirls are to stay and work overtime tonight.” Then women will understand and feol what the organization of women means. You will not have to convinee their intellects that “alone they are lesa and to- gether they are strong,” for their hearts will teach them. DIDN'T SEEM FAIR. “It doesn’t seem fair and equit- able “What don't?” “You can get married anywhere in the Bast, but If you want a di- woe you've got to go to the Far West.” | A giant hippopotamus being brought from Hamburg on the steamer President Grant sneexed while on deck and Max Harvest, a |cook, was toppled overboard | Following is the first stanza of the song which has been chosen |as the battle song of the suffra- | gists Once more awakes the spirit of the just, And a world-wide flame is kindled from the dust Women for the right we know, For the duty that we owe, For all souls now here and coming, vote we must. But Kindling a world-wide flame from ‘dust is no easy job. the Women Who Toil. At top, from left to right—MI League; MRS. RAYMOND ROBIN McDOWELL, vice president Natio: MARY E. DRIER, president New York Women's Trade Union preside National Women's Trade Union tepgue; MISS MARY E. Women’s Trade Union League. At bottom—MISS ALICE Lineage editor women's trade union publication; MISS ROSE SCHNEIDERMANN, New York factory worker ‘ labor organizer; MISS ALICE NES TOR, official Women’s Trade Union League. A dragon fly can fly backwards | faster than a swallow can fly tother way. The time is near when the busy man leaves off gathering the dough to go to hunt the deer. Dough (doe)—deer. Did you get that? Then laugh, why don't you? The Shell Game. The month ie now with us, The month with an R, hen many an oyster Goes over the bi wi The latest fad—little pockets in women’s hats in which money or even a cigaret case may be car ried "Tis coming up the ateep of time, And this old world is growing brighter; We may not see its dawn sublime, Yet high hopes make the heart throb lighter. We may be sleeping in the ground When it awakes the world to wonder; But we ‘have felt it gathering round, And heard its voice in living thunder! The dolphin is the swiftest fish, vimming short distances at the rate of 26 miles an hour, Watermelons as big as flour bar. rels are grown in Diarbekir, Asiatic Turkey. And The pullets, we presume, are as ne as the prehistoric pachy- derm, Oh, A joosy melon underneath the bough, A tendah chicking, twice big as any cow; A raz ‘side me, for to slice the feed, e Diar place am Paradise enow! That A Harvard graduate, heir to WHY NOT ——<———<— SMILE AWHILE? clerk at $9 a week so a# to learn, Consular reports show that Amer : : jean chewing gum is replacing the betel nut as the favorite chaw Siamese men and women. John Jacob Astor has gone fish ing with hts fiancee, Miss Fores But he won't land any bigger cate’ than she has. Kermit Roosevelt has returned from’a hunting trip in Lower Calk fornia. Magazine editors, attem tion. The food experts of the agricuk tural department are trying to find out what's a Maraschino cherry. It's a trouble maker, that’s what It is. “eaTHER C058), HE SAID, STRUCK A MATCH AND CON— TINUED, T WAS JUST Like THIS, THE SUN SANK IN “THE SINK AND THE MOON HAD A BABY.” CAORUS"DID THE SKY ROCKE’ ‘ToP HIM ON THE Bean. The New York buckwheat crop is way below par and we may have to pour maple syrup on common, ordinary corn cakes this winter, And The maiden, out dining, will say? “I don’t want Any lobster or canvas-back . i ducks, jut if you have plenty of money, The Michigan bean crop is Vd tike r threatened with ruin because of the} A fragrant and hot ‘stack of drought. bucks. — ————— ee NOT GOING THAT WAY. “Miss Adkins, there is something I desire very much to ask you.” “Oh, Mr, Williston—I mean Fred—I'm sure I should be delighted te hear—that is, I mean, what is there that you can possibly wish to asit Would you be willing to go on a long Journey with me?” “A yery, very long journey, Fred?” “You, a very, very long journey. “Yes, I will go with you—of course—I—I suppose it ts the journey that a man and a woman take together only once in a lifetime?” “Well, as a rule, I suppose it wouldn't be taken more than once, You see, my mother and I are thinking of taking a trip to Japan, and she thought it would be nice if 1 could find some one who would be will ing to go as a sort of traveling companion and a maid to her‘in return for having her expenses paid.” “Oh! Well, you just tell your homely mother that when I wish to hire out I'll look for some other kind of a job.” Buy or Sell Real Estate, Business Chances. See $1,000,000, 1s working as a grocery | Classified Page, TS eae’ eT Pe) ee ee