The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 25, 1912, Page 4

THE SE 2 RR TTLE STAR | 406. 1 OF NEWEPA PRS news service of the Lulted class mation $3.8; year ENE Kachange Male 9400, “Civilization” Is our boasted civilization really eivilized? Are we really i > making any progress except the progress of dollars ‘ In spite of optimism, we are sometimes stunned by a sud- den revelation of brute barbarism in the mid enment, of cruelty, greed and oppression in this bo: of freedom and opportunity. Such a shock is dealt by her startling report in the columns of this newsp. conditions under which wretched toilers live and v canning factories that supply t She has seen, heard and f were learned years before by O'REILLY, the famous Virile poem: The carth was not made for its people; that cry has been hounded down as a social crime; The meaning of life is to barter and buy; and the strongest and shrewdest are masters of time. : ‘ God made the millions to serve the few, and their questions of right are vain conceits; To have one sweet home that must reek in the darkened streets. "Tis Civilization, so they say, and it cannot be changed for the weakness of men, Take care! Take care! ’Tis a desperate way to goad the wolf to the end of his den. Take heed of your Civilization, ye, on your pyramids built of quivering hearts; There are stages, like Paris, in 93, where the commonest men play most terrible parts. Your statutes may crush, but sense of natural right; It may slowly move, but the People’s will, like the ocean o'er Holland, is always in sight. “It is not our fault!” say the rich ones. No, ‘tis the fault of a system old and strong But men are the makers of systems; so if we own the wrong. It will come in in storm if it be denied Irish-American : i and which he put into words of bitter irony and truth in this st of our enlight- asted land fARY BOYLE O'REILLY | aper of the work in the he nation with food. elt the same bitter facts that her father, JOHN BOYLE patriot and poet, is safe and true, ten garreti they cannot kill the patient the cure will come ¢ if the Man Right lead; it will sweep ‘The law to bring justice is always decreed, and on every hand are the warnings cried. Take heed of your Progress! Its feet have trod on the souls it slew with its own pollutions; Submission is good; but the order of God may flame the torch of the revolutions! Beware with your Classes! night is a fearful teacher When it reaches the but a sword for a judge Men are men, and a cry in the hearts of the masses, then they need and preacher. Take heed, for your Juggernaut pushes hard: God holds the doom that its day complet It will dawn like a fire when the track is barred by a barri- cade in the city streets. A Man and His Son Every boy is going to ha whom he can tell his secrets ambitions, which he would not breathe to others. ve a confidant, some one to and whisper his hopes and This friend, this confidant, should be his father. Any man would be horrified at the suggestion that he would ruin his boy by neglect. mess would result in the undoing of his own son . that his absorption in busi- But, it is the easiest thing in the world to forfeit a boy's confidence. It will only take a little little indifference, a little unki: and unreasonableness to shut tween him and his boy. One of the bitterest things in a man's life has ben the discovery, after he has made his money, that he has lost his hold upon his boy, and he would give a large part of his for- tune to recover his loss. It is a most unfortunate thing for a boy to look upon from him. | | DIZZY FOOT-ATIONS —— fh 2 *|| ORBEBINGS AT LHW one founded in 1613. The three/time to offer specials in these lines—and you're the snubbing, a little scolding, ale Defining the Kaiser. * CTnte To ACEP Feo are older than Harvard. . eee yx 1 nd criticism, a little nagging Rue —_ im geography —- FALLING ~~ WERE PROBAGLY MND- LACKING OR PR Re Begs PR OER Read the following money-saving itemis: off forever any intimacy be-|~ ieson when the teacher uaid. «| | WC7/MS OF ACRVE-SPHSHS, BUT SEEMED TO railway system, just finishing @ doa ee * “Now we come to Germany, # ‘JO, FRC) ~ tour of this country, says our rood qualit # that important country ruled # | & Y TER wey MiGs. —— ears are an abomination. extra eipta: su the ® by the kaiser. Johnale, what ® y should have let him ride in a > # is a kaiser?” is . & smoking car first. ithe Pea pattern, * “Please, ma‘am,” yawned & — OHOWS : * Johnnie, stream of hot ® Swiee chocolate factories pro- Table S 1 |* water springing up and dis- & duced goods valued at $12,000,000 tame Sere his father as a task-master instead of a companion, to dread |* turbing the earth.” * last year, and exported two-thirds fea Spoons, | doz, $4 meeting him because he always expects criticism or scolding bibwiheewdeontanan Butter Spreaders, 1 Some fathers constantly nag. find fault, and never think of praising their sons or expressing any appreciation of their work, even when they do it well. Yet there is nothing so encouraging to a boy, especially if he finds it hard to do what is right, as real appreciation of his effort. tonic to youth. Boys thrive on them think more of their mothers This is a That is why most of than their fathers— praise. because their mothers are more considerate, more apprecia- _ tive, more affectionate, and do not hesitate to praise them when they do weil. The confidential relation between a father and his son is one of the most precious things in life. It costs something to keep it, take chances of forfeiting it. One should never but it is worth everything to the father and to the boy. Observations * YOUNG woman wants $75,- 000 heart balm from Fred ss for missing a date in the “little church around the corner.” Fred has broken quite a bunch of hearts this/is likely to be perpetuated in year, not to mention numerous purses. Can it be possible you've forgotten that famous muff in the championship series? OVER 500 attended Pro- ere league meeting Satur- y. The local Buil Moose is a pretty healthy corpse, eh? YES, indeed, the Japanese are accepting Occidental civil- ization pretty rapidly. Slant- hi girl defies her papa for e sake of sweetheart in most approved style of the six best sellers. TURKEY’S yell for inter- vention sounds like an invita- tion for the powers to come over and take the cholera, LADIES’ TAILORS’ ASSO- CIATION also decrees cut- away coats. What you going to carry in your pockets, girls? A. JONES, Kansas says he's been many times as the wrong Jones th he’s going to change his name to “Ozkzy.” Why not “Zones”? City, arrested so ONCE more, do your Christ- mas shopping early. WE always did think that straphanger ordinance too good to be true. “HOW did California ge history with such classics as “How old is Anne?” IF Quigley wins his recount suit, it will cinch his conten- tion that he’s the fellow who put “fish” in King county ef- ficiency. SHOWING ‘Seattle's ad- vancing supremacy over Frisco, the Queen City of the Northwest was able to stand three earth tremors yesterday and feel none the worse for it. ANOTHER tribute to Seat- tle police. That girl had to wake the police judge at 3 a. m., not the police, Please note same. London has over 1700 charitable institutions which distribute $4 600,000 a year. The government's “conscience fund” was opened in 1811, The first Thanksgiving day was celebrated by the Pilgrims at Ply- mouth In 1621. The United States employes 304 consuls and 299 consular agents. Investigators find that “Indian summer” is not a term of ancient origin and that the Indians never recognized it as weather any dif ferent from any other. White men coined it about 150 years ago, own erasers was |~~Satire. THE STAR--MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, WHY BOY WORKER IN CANNING” FACTORY SAID, ‘THERE IS NO te tek te ttt te te te tote tn tthe * * * A LETTER FROM A LITTLE CANNERY WORKER pacity by prematy Four children ot iven of 7, 17 of ] jten hours on’ @ eh Mas Here is a letter from little 1% under 11 toh on Dominick Perry, nine years bables of 6 14 hea ——e e old, written to Mine O'Reilly in Keepe Say Sila ‘ o cr to one of hers, It . Fie Schenctindy mages are weer Metaelegni S one poet TURKey shows how Dominick lont his e. FA nied, bse for making speech in Little Falls THANKSGIVING TURKEY & So’ ini ’ rs lal oy grote peas pe | wbich wax flied wit miWet pay & fine of 969 or apend G8 CHEAP —- 40F took an interest in him. |& baby, unwashed aug) days in jall, Of course, there A POUND. yg aga |exposure, screamed this much to be sald: If ® man ’ 1 daren't leave ceived your letter and was gind to hear from you. There is man from the cannery ny that want to read my ¢ i don't know why, | was stoped stringing beans because I was to small | earsed $1.50 |fear of the rats,” i: at home ton mother hy | Frances Littles Teg bled as she lncged ee vox fe to the | cher, one tujorea " going t remata in Little Palla, it no worse being in jail than out, The largest natural bridge in the world Is near the mouth of the San 1 in a dirty tag, It ts 308 feet high Wheeler's ‘olorado and bought three school books. posed « done 1g; eet ee The boys and girly | know fastest string inseg By The women fn Pittsburg, Kas, don’t know how io write « let of 12 a or 1%, whose the swollen wriste nal claws, sometines earned § day If it wasn't for those might make a Mving” e day a6 we nize of them nae Crowched around bean s | haif hid them, two children of6 an |three of 7 bent ‘ann and baby faces beans. About then bee: i boys and girls were works young faces shrewd, a stupid from the strain, ¢j rs whose punch carde wore ies jers of fate, wee tollers m on any payroll, little working number ceals both age and their slender fingers Severe efforts for a | Earns 4 Cents a By ter. I started work at 7 o'clock and stoped at 6 afternoons. 1 am going to school now, No more to way 1 will close, from a friend DOMINICK PERRY,’ burned their hats fn a celebration of suffraget victories, Before ex pressing any opinion on that one should know what kind of hats they had been wearing. SPP Sete eee eee eee eee eet eee SSSSSESSS ESSE SEES SESE EE EEE The Uroguay government has Rh provided for the inatruetion in telegraphy of all women in goverty ment positions and has instreeted officials to employ won for cler ieal work and minor positions wher. ever possible. BY MARY BOYLE O'REILLY Bpecial Investigator for The Star I have told you of the women of the canneries-—thelr long hours pitiful and bard working and living conditions—but what of the children? Tommy Cee aged 15, testifies he worked “during peas” on a big shifter in one of the biggest factories in Northweet New York 108 hours in a week—an average of about 18 hours a day. His mother adds that on Saturday he started at 7 in the morning and worked through tll o'clock Bunday morning. Tn 1900 there were 49 steamships sailing from New York with full cargoes of grain, In 1911 there was not one. bd Vincent Astor has reached 21 and come formally into posseasion of $65,000,000, It ts hardly possible tc comprehend what so large an amount means when it fs In dollars. Dominick Perry, aged 9, worked all day for 20 cents, onder 18 and for girls and wor , 5 e 6 On August 26 Jack ; ~ Tommy “got tired and quit.”| between June 15 and October 16, 7 wrlgen ogg ager oenty Bing There were five boys working with |the principal canning season [year-old boy, eames ie i 1d numbers, 1,080,000,000 hin. of them has vanished Known by Numbers ane onie ~ Mantkee, a oe sites c One s sent to the reform|, Moreover, workers in nearly all | pald an apprentices 4 bac schoo! them, whose pious | factories are nameless—t num-|Jacky’s sister, aged i But what could he do with that mother urged him after a week of [bers on time cards, of whom no | Worked 10 hours # day a killing toll to get up and go to|Tecord Is kept, and, therefore, labor) The cansers blame ony Sent church, answered wearily law cases and law suits for injury | ® ; the harassed a ‘- 2 " re h to prove, and canners do | thelr own starvation j it Relmont and Anne There Ain't No God’ “ : & ‘ sinene pry making apeeches ‘Go onw-—there ain't no God!” as they please. SUll, conditions were att Ts not who is to to New York working girls, advi Children of 10 years and loss |*° bad, at a fam ot the onnnces 9 b com sheds are " f stopped usin dre ir | factor 7 ing them not to give useless Christ often work all day and into the iy ming children in their Natied to 008. night in many of the cun factories — that I visited In mas presents. The movement against sitk suspenders, decorated slippers and punk cigars grows stronger every year. August often nine out of ten|shed were two Hy an official ruling which State|*hed workers are children, mostly | to the effect that childray Labor Commir*!oner John Williams | #!tls. In one big shed I saw 15 little e not welcome characterizes a» “vicious,” made in| Wage workers; half the shed wa 905 torney General yer, | crowded with child helpers be:ween er ee ore Pian hor rl¢ and 12, working silenuy, with Ia-|frowsled little heads from: sidering age limitations “in vaca-|0r-loosened Iimbs—free to work | bent soberly over the ton time” if the children work in|%Rlimited hours, EARNING FROM | ping sheds “unconnected with the fac |? TO 20 CENTS A DAY | And while the tory,” without machinery. Some of| 1@ cannery town after cannery | that they do not wanted the “sheds” are about six inches |town in this rich section of New | oppose remedial distant from the factory and many| York state mere bab have for|them from the sheds. of the sheds bave machinery in-|2@8re depleted their energies and| Tomorrow — “FREE” stalled contrary to law. mortgaged thelr future earning ca-'AT THE CANNERIES. Mayer has since been promoted to the federal bench by President Taft A law effective October 1, 1912. signed by Governor Dix, removes all) hours of labor imitations for boys Germany's is the world's greatest TABLE ‘i i dr A Good Combination home Beneath Roy Bunn and Oscar Lemon spent Sunday on Sugartree Ridge.— Hillaboro (O.) Dispatch Mindirected energy— Xylophone playing. Reading Elbert Hubbard. Feeding « workingman |ing to & cooking expert The report of the government hospital for the insane shows there “Our town mar-| “es crazy bachelors than hal, Hickory! crasy married mon in this country Biudgeon, informs | ve,” but they're bachelors. wa he's never yit - | Trying to make a collar stay to- arrested a home| rie best trained sheop dogs in| gether in front fess hobo that) ii. country are owned by the unt Trying to Write with a postoffice didn't have news il versity of Wyoming They are | pen. paper ctippin’s| sid to be the equal of any in Scot Pounding on the pipes fm an showin’ he's walk- “4 iw tow apartment house for heat. York to Ban Fran- Sie [cisco fer a side | accord canal company. its railway traffic is wo heavy that canals are neces British warships burning off can FOR A SUITABLE : . mee itake on fuel while traveling at a CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL |*ary to care for growing com: bet of $50,000." | sneed of 19 knots, The tank aup-| FOR RENT—Furnished or wn-| merce. ply ship ie towed and the oil furnished, communicating rooms see 3 pomped through a flexible metal’ Advertisement in Washington, D. The French government has an/ Will look incomplete without an attractive bit of st to show it off, or, perhaps, there is a dish or two tom Latin-America has some olf ed-| Or preparation must be made for those guests, and tt veational institutions, Lima and) oid carving set, certainly there should be a new Ome; Mexico City have universities; : 4 Me founded in 1551, and Argentina has| tate, the China and Glassware buyer thought it ano income of §20,000,000 a year the forest of Compeigne. We know why Jobn D. Rocke-| hose. — feller ts interested in Mexiean rub ber. It's because be can make his to launder bis paper Wealiduosanasivsitaushaieetlomeummpbmanaiind, ENTERED AUOSIC-PLNCE "1TH MPRO BONED FLOOR-BOT Tay —OMSCOVERED MALE AND FEMALE EARTH OLBOS AUING NOUD MORE CLUTCH vests, See hetheeee $4.00. Butter Knife Shell, per set, $12 Punch Ladle, $24 The well-kno tern, triple-plate 4 priced at a big Re-Block Your Hats We can re-block your velvet, eatin or felt Into the Intert style. MILLINERY Little Surprises. “Hello! Ie that the Please shut off the beat! roasting up here!” “A few words more, my friends, and | am done. I thank you.” “We have other brands of tobac-| co, sir, bat they're not ax good aa) the kt ~ 7 sitiaks Ee come to the conclu wave PES, Table Spoons, 1 ion that it's wrong to bet on foot-| ER LADIES’ e 2.85. s ball ga eatin hee coe oa Gare Tea Spoons, 1 doz., $2.85. | Dessert Spoons, $25.00 TO $22.50 Soup Spoons, 1 doz., $5.75. | $5.25. Ladies™ Tailored Suit Shop. 388-240 Tesi Kachn: idx. won from you yesterday.” “No, maw, [ don’t want any more e.”"-—-Chieago Tribune. The Obstacie. Joy Rider (tatking on the tele phone)—la there anything to pre vent you from getting a car around here promptly? Garage—Yes, sir—your last bill. x . 50-piece Dinner Set in the popular Ranson for six; moderately priced at $12.35. ALBERT HANSEN Established 1883, Precious Stones, Fine Jewelry, Sterling Silver Corner First Cherry SEATTLE S0-piece semi-porcelain Dinner Set in the Forget-Me-Not Spray pattern. Special $4,80. Cut Glass Special CUT GLASS WATER SET, SPECIAL # sists of a half-gallon, tankard style Pitcher and six’ attractively cut in the Sunburst pattern, oe The Editor’s Mail Editor The Star: Seattle ar|to proposed plans, should they vote bottom. very fortunate in having a number/to have it done. The officials were of brave, wise officials, who are very careful to explain and show Propose a scheme for the mat: rial welfare of the masses, and, no unselfishly working and fighting |all points and deta’ Practical) , meri +08 “Er py e opr 2 for the benefit and welfare of their|every person came away enthusias you are immediately trast iF CUT- 11L-INCH CELERY DISH, SPECIAL $22 fellow citizens, the city of Seattle|tic, boosters for dam site No. 2,/a host of progressive Saneieden: Star cutting. and her future. nd, remembering that, as the wise| who would, by twist! id jug: In August of last year 16 coach | man built his house on solid reck,| cling, tear it to preg Ag Jug: 7 hin eae ae ‘ PECTAI loads of taxpayers went up to Cedar|so should thelr eity bulld her dam | conflict with vested lstansoan D a N T | STS 8-INCH CUT GLASS DEEP BOW, << lake to Inspect the dam site, power|on the most solid foundation, so plant, and, in fact, the whole power-| that, although.the wind and rain of generating scheme that was then private interests might howl and in operation, The city officials had| rage, they couldn't move the stone arranged for that excursion, so that/dam on the rock foundation, nor those interested might know how| raise the people's lighting and pow- their money was to be expended onier rates, based likewise on rock FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR OR ICHY SCALP—25c ““DANDERINE” SAVE YOUR HAIR! DANDERINE DESTROYS DANDRUFF AND STOPS FALLING HAIR AT ONCE—GROWS HAIR, WE PROVE IT, They Eoow’ well “eaey iptareate Heavy, beautifully finished bow! in Sunburst brogress is accelerated by general material prosperity. Still, they would check civilization or turn it back to lord serf, master and slave, if they could do it, R, B. CRIs. Second Av. and University St. Opposite Stone-Fisher Co. Carving Set Speci Three-piece stag handle Carving Set, with ferrule and tips; high quality cutlery. Special, WE STAND BACK OF OUR WoRK FOR 12 YEARS PAINLESS DENTAL WORK cuT RATE PRICES Other Dentists’ Obio Cut Rate Prices. Kasy Payments. Prices, 15 Set of Ti S08 Set pet bores SS 10 Set of Teeth = pn ints ca $5 $8 Solid Gold or Porcelain Crown . $5 Gold or Porcelain Wor, D3, $4 Solid Gold fillings, $1 Up Siver Filings, 50c Up 12-YEAR WRITTEN GUARANTEED GIVEN ON ALL WORK. Editor The St I read the let. ters from “A Boy's Mother” and By Car Man,” and 1 think they are right in every respect. 1 don't think that we necessarily need heated cars in this climate, but there ought to be windows in the back as well a be front of the cars, # long as our doctors must de- pend on us for their livings Pes their automobiles, taney will surely PA bake nag hg LP talk for their own good. An old eee ree ae ree Loe physician told me that nine softness and 1s fluffy and lustrous|too oily, don't heaitat Mhot all ciel er ety ten are the start fou Make aie Pamittae, Weaken contki: Skeet of all si¢kness, and it is the truth, scihing Mb RAED NE ee Mink TEOling Wk ct hid ee A Coming home the other night nothing else Sounter; Apeah 6 file wn. tive from town, my baby canght cold Just one application of Knowl-jand ten minutes after you will ast pp peal sn Ny a gaenraga’, ich Waneities SEP Gputse hel thts See the te tee, draught in the rear of the car, T el aga ag alr ong Mi pin consider this the result of inhuman mediately dissolves every particle sincerely believe, regard eet nce on the part of ‘the of dandruff: you cannot have nice,| of everything else advertined @atj treet car company. heavy, healthy hair if you bavelif you destre soft, lustrous, bedpti.{. There 18 absolutely no teed for dandruff. ‘This destructive scurt| ful hair and lots of {t—no dandpitt "Ns being allowed on the cars, robs the hair of its lustre, its|—-no itching scalp and no re han red ee ee strength and its very life, and if| falling hair—you must use Kngwi-[fo! 'e Years, and so T don't see nol overcome {ft produces a fever-|ton’s Danderine. If eventual i Valle tho coat from the bab idoem 408 Mahing OC (ab gual Feiss nea nk ee 4 while they are on street cars. the hair roots famish, loowen gud} will truly amaze you, ee Roasters Special This is the well-kiown Reed, self-basting turquoige-blue seldom sold at @ Comes in four ly priced for TI at $2.00, $2. If you care for heavy hair, that;die; then the hair falls out enamelware ; sizes. Very spec $2.50 and $2.70. Usetul itis the home—sene- ible, lasting things—you can spend as little as 26¢ or on up as high as you want to — and wet good things. Pike St. and Sth Ave,, Right in the Heart of 4