The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1913, Page 4

MEMBER OF (TH SCRIPPS NORTHWEST HUN OF NEWSPAPERS, Telegraph News Assoctation. Bervice of the United Press Batered at tne Seattle, Wash, a@ second class matter, Published by The Star Publishing Company every cvening except Sunday of our farms. The department of agriculture, under the James Wilson administration, has always pursued the old spread-cagle policy of brag and bluster, and the standpat policy of shouting that things are in beautiful shape, and therefore why not stand pat? And now comes th kins of Mlinois ducing anything suppose. About the only farm products which. have increased with And as to cotton, great agricultural expert, Dr, Hop- and shows that our farms haven't been pro- at like the output that we have been led to in the past decade are potatoes and cotton while the crop has increased 11.7 per cent, the acreage has increased 32 per cent. So the not as it used to be in pounds per acre ite The department of agriculture has dealt in roseate “esti- mates” which have helped beat the price down—good crop estimates being always “bear” estimates. But when the census bureau counted up the actual bushels, pounds, and tons, these “estimates” always fell short. The department “estimates” always shouted “unprece- dented prosperity for the farmers!" But the census shows actual amounts. The department showed an increase in corn in the southern states from 1899 to 1909. BUT THE CENSUS SHOWED A DECREASE OF 7 PER CENT! The department exaggeration of Virginia corn for 1909 gwas 24 per cent; for North Carolina corn, 43 per cent; for Georgia corn, 55 per cent; for Florida corn, 19 per cent; for South Carolina corn, 77 per cent; for Alabama corn, 42 per cent; for Louisiana corn, 97 per cent; for Mississippi corn, 43 per cent; for Arkansas corn, 34 per cent; for West Virginia Gorn, 61 per cent; for Tennessee corn, 16 per cent; for Ken- tucky: corn, 24 per cent, and for Texas corn, 62 per cent—all @8 compared with the census returns. This might be excusable on some ground or other, But the hornblowing policy of the department has been notorious all along the line. The truth is that the census reveals the fact that while uf population has increased in a decade 21 per cent, the farmed lands have also increased in acreage by 15.4 per cent BUT WITH ALL THIS INCREASE IN FARMED LANDS THE CENSUS SHOWS AN INCREASE OF ONLY 1,7 PER CENT IN THE TOTAL CEREAL CROPS. So that the James Wilson admimistration went out of Office with the acres over which it presided showing an Factual decrease in their yields. This may not be the fault of the administration—but it is its fault that the facts were “@oncealed. It is a very important fact that our farm yields "are decreasing per acre, and per capita of our population, It g ts a situation for the new administration of the depart- » ment of agriculture to face. And it throws some light on the “imereasing cost of living. Especially does it justify the Wood- few Wilson administration in throwing down the tariff bars t the admission of foodstuffs. cotton crop is as good cern THE MEASURE OF A MAN Gov. Foss of Massachusetts has a strike in two of his largest milis. ve hundred workers ask 20 per cent increase. A feature of the i e of more than local interest was the going out of 30 young women are not connected with any union, The story of these women te full instruction. They work at winding armatures for dynamos, motors and dlowers. is hard work. In Newark, N. J., In a unionized plant producing sim- articles, this work is done by men, and thelr pay is $22 a week. In Foss plant the maximum pay of the girls for identical work fs given $6 a week. When a Saturday haif-holiday was recently established, wages of these girls was cut 40 cents. Naturally the girls struck. Foss is a multi-millionaire and a warm frie ‘feal campaign times. le isn't stingy, either—when !t comes to Foss. There have been ‘eampaigns in Massachusetts when the money Foss spent might have “made the Atlantic tide turn green with envy. But he “couldn't afford” to raise the pay of these girl armature Winders. And, though a candidate for the democratic nomination for dent at the Baltimore convention, he offered as an excuse for his fefusal to consider a raise the fact that the tariff agitation had made _ the suggestion absurd. Six-dollar-a-week girls doing $22-a-week men's work that an already rich man may splurge fn politics is not a nice spectacie, seen from a distance. It {s, however, so common, so muc! matter of course, in Massachusetts, that it doesn’t seem to interfere with his vote-getting We wonder what the country at large will think of it. of labor around polit: The superficially sympathetic man flings a coin to the beggar; the more deeply sympathetic man bulids an almshouse for him, so that he need no longer beg; but perhaps the most radically sympa- thetic of ail is the man who arranges that the beggar shal! not be born.—Havelock Ellis. My, how that lone bull moose In the senate, Miles Poindexter, ag- ', Bravates the reactionary press in this state, which has consigned bim "to several kinds of oblivion. He now bobs up, hale and hearty, with ' more infiuence with President Wilson that all the Chamber of Com merce and Ballinger members of congress and Guggenheim representa- _ tives put together. Three weeks more and vacation will be here—for our nine judges, Hooray! City dads and newspaper men wit! play ball on Municipal day. No, the rules don’t permit the councilmen to use the mayor's auto to get around bases. It’s a big day for Seattie—June 17—port election. stebeg mats Tous cane isesived in Wen iehowarss AN Sane is ea Se y This is the favorite recipe of a famous cook, copied word fer word from her book of recipes. You will note that she specifies the brand of lard— Swift’s Silver-Leaf Lard ‘You will find it rellable and good for all cooking, Use it and have tasty pastry, A WAIT MADAL, Tu pres) WALK. DOWN WITH ———|You, | START To WRK THIS MORNING } | Be Careful, Girls. } ea Me stood far out upon the limb And she, fair girl, stood under Ho tossed the cherries down to her. She ate away like thunder, Later. - Some pits she swallowed. That is why Of an appendix she is shy. eee What's In Names? Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Muck and) family motored over from Cen-| tralia yesterday and were the guests of Mr, and Mrs. ©. A. Har | mony, the latter being manager of the water works, Mra, Muck ta the mother of Mra Harmeny.—-Olym- pla Recorder ee Give not away to woe and grief, And, though the sky looks cark and grey, Surrender not unto despatr. The Tillkums may win today oee Roosevelt was not deceived by the | steel trust in the Tennessee Coal & |Iron deal, testified former Judge |Gary the other day. A lot of people | feel the same way about it. | eee Constant Reader — Halistones come in two sines; one size as large as hens’ eggs, the other as large a9 biekory ute. é Sylvan Tragedy. wore a pair of white duck pants Unto the piente in the wood. He «at down on the wet, damp grass When {t came time to tackle! food | That night for home he made a| rush Inside a bunch of underbrush eee Editor Most Anything | AN this talk about cruelty in swatting the fly ts the most ridicu- Hous piffie Lever heard, It ts pos! |tively absurd. Talk about the cru elty (7) begetting cruelty, exciting & desire for blood, ete., ete, is ailly | Ki the fy, I say, Let it suffer. Kit! tt any way possible, pain or jno pain, Are we becoming a na tion of mollycoddies, that we should shed tears over a fly? Bunk, I say, bunk!—C, D, F. ! swore that I had conquered The mokutain’’ mighty spell, The mr aid the Peckey " I 0 to dwell, ta mm rt no longer G Ka this,” said I, “is well.” | entered in the city Where millions dream,and moil, To bear my share of battle, | To take my meed of totl, To storm the heights of glory And gain 4 goodly spoll, | I felt the city's glamor, Its mirth and misery d*clean forgot the mountains Where life ran clear and free, ‘Til, through my open window, The west wind called to me. It whispered of the gorges, The peaks as white as foam, tralls along the ledges Where I was wont to roam gh S | Datly Recorder. The west wind came and called me: And I am going home! i sd JOSH WISE SAYS: “Old Man Vetch has deemon- strated that he kin live six moaths on skim milk an’ cornmeal. So kin a hog, but you kit git some thin’ fer a hog at the end of that time.” eee Elihu Root has decided not to run for United States senator in the next election, which will be a direct one. If we had as poor a show as Elihg tn a popular elec tion we woulda’t run, either, Tom Marshall, the vice president, says the women no longer turn and look at him on the street. This can be used as an argument by the men who malin n that women have no ne af humor. 1, we don't know that the women should be blamed for not turning-—If they get a good look at }bim earlier. eee Friends Give Birth. Friends tn the olty of Mr. and | | } | | Next Case. Your Honor, | was in a daze From drink, unt allow.” All right.” replied His Honor, “you Will be In ten days now.” What Has Become of the Old: Fashioned Man Who Used to Walk? Mr. Zerbe of Windmill st. has ught a new auto, He says he will sell his driver now, Sh good one, Clayton Cline bas bought a new horse and bucsy Meno Voliwellor ts the owner of Mrs. Edward Fitageraid have re-|® pew motorcycle celved word of the birth to them of a son at Oakville ALBERT HANSEN Jeweler and Siiversmith Is Now Located At His New Store A Place to Eat Cabaret Vaudeville, § p. m to lam Table @hote Dinner, with pint of wine, Angeles Cafe 1422.24.26 Firet Avenue Our 25c Regular Dinner —A Our Special 50c Chicken Dinner Served from 11 a Are Unexcell Oye Dungen jeaks a Choy FRE®—LATEST MOTION PICTURES—FREE Vocal and Instrumental Concert Afternoons ane Evenings m. to 8p. my in Sqattle Crabs, Fish, Prof. Nape’s Maw-llan Orchestra —OF AMERICAN CAFE Fourth and Pike. Ernest Glanett!, Proprietor Cabaret Vaudeville 8 p. m. to 1 a. m, AMATEUR _ NIGHT EVERY FRIDAY CASH PRIZES. Contestants apply to B. K. Maitiand, Director, Thursday, 2p. m. 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Portland, Or. | When Huntington Wilson re- moved his tea things and ash re |celvers from the state department, the adminstration felt a sharp sting in the nelghboorhood of Its demo leratic wrist | Woodrow Wilson pfeferred to write out his Chinese polley with indelible ink--instead of employing the blurring and fading kind that had been in use. Huntington, ditto, [thefeupon took his Oolong and his cigarets elsewhere, after saying, \"Na ty Naugh: Naughty Just like that, thr times, In & clear, piercing ©. Scratching the place where the blow fell vigorously the. president called loudly for a doctor. And Galloping in from the west lke the sheriff in the moving pieture show came John EB, Onxborne. He is the only regularly Heensed physician ever summoned by the put its foreign ke the frac- ner a head of a nation policy in splints and m tured parts knit toge practical working basis, Cheyenne, Cody, Laramie and the Jackson Hole country would never attract aj | IN EDITOR’S MAIL ues for Right of Women to Vote oy | editor The Star: In your issue of May 14, 1913, there was 4 letter by Earnest Hederick, which I would answer through your col umns Do you not think that most wom en bave as much brain and can use it as well as the man who goes to the polls in such a condition he |does not know one name from an jother, or the man who can neither read nor write, but must make his mark? Surely you belleve your |mother possessed as much intelll lwence as he? Or do you believe the man of the type The Star ex-| powed trading his wife, pound for pound, to be above all women in intelligence? | When you marry you will want \a worman who will have brain jenough to teach your children the right way to live, but she must not |have quite enough brain to vote and make better conditions for them when they leave the home | nest. the follies of a few? I admit that |by weariug the clothes they do, but | they do it to please equally empty {headed men who stand around and |make remarks such as, “Oh, you Ikid!" and “Swell shape, that,” ete. Stull those men know better how to vote than the women who try to | please them MRS, A. K Winlock, Wash. Friends Defend Wife Editor The Star: We, the under- signed, wish to make a statement in regard tw Mra. Bertha Felton. In reading your paper of a few | days ago, we saw thi John Osborne, New Assistant to Secretary of | State Bryan, Started Out Behind Soda Fountain; Called Out of West to Help Run the Government Do you condemn all women for| g- women make fooln of themaeiver| % B. Peiton | Mra. Felton was a neighbor and| | well acquainted with all of us for] many years, and highly respected | by us all She was a good housekeeper, her) children were always neat; she was) a good, honest, faithful woman, loved her home and family, and} @id not care for gadding. MKS. V. M. DAVIES. | MRS. H. N. PHIPPS. MRS. KENSTRU MRS, MRS MRS MRS. MRS .¥ WILL IAMS. T. FORREST ing That Mother s’ Cellar In reply to Con-| Reader, when Chrint said: "The Sabbath was made for man, jnot man for the Sabbath,” I would jsuppose that settled for all ttme | that it is all right to do any good, }kind act on Sunday B.W.F. | ! ; Calls on Fellow Men Editor The Star: I have before |me the pictured face of a mother- young; and yet the pitifal droop of her mouth and the strained eyes | |tell of bitter suffering. Alongside | is @ baby's face—her baby—sweet, |innocent; a creature to love and cherish. But the hardness of men’s hearts decrees that they must be separated. It's just another news: | paper story; one of the many| through which The Star brings to | [public notice the injustice in our | |land. Some say, “Oh, the poor are jalways present!” Yes, but must in- justice always be present? Must those who are strong and prosper- ous seek only to add to their strength and their prosperity? Will | the love of humanity never touch their hearts to mercy? As a man, a man who has sinned and suffer. | ed, I pray my fellows to waken from the blighting of self seeking, |to cease from being thoughtless of lthe poor, the down-and-outers, and lto rise up in the might of good/ men, honest men, human men, and | give the under dog a chance. All men have good and noble souls, |more or less submerged in the Jatress of this life, and it’s high time these souls were discovered and | exercised. My own experience of] hard times here in Seattle has/ |taught me that such stories as this, \by Mary Boyle O'Reilly, are only too true. B. OC. B. | 2156 Sixth at. W |MISTAKES RIVETING MACHINE FOR BIRD CHICO, June 9.—Thinking that a jcompressed air riveting machiige) | working on the steel superstructure of a building five blocks from his |home was a yellowhammer digging | \holes fn his roof, Jim Fields, special police officer of this city, armed himself with a gun and spent an |hour trying to locate the bigd. The! |nolse proceeded but the bitd was |not tn sight. After an exhaustive | search, a neighbor told him what} the trouble was and Fields threaten. | ed revenge on the steel workers for | giving hir@ so much discomfort and making him the josh center of the alte for a tow daya, Main 9400. Private exchange cow Decting with all departenen PHON RATES By mall, datiy, one month tm advance, ihe; six mon. 3.28. By enrriee, [person as tho tratr grounds for an assistant secretary of state, de spite the fact that there is some- thing high and mighty about them ne Ww The appointment of Onbe as made with revard eternal f more natural, in social custom” no ed, than that Mr choose as his first m |whd was rated as the best mixer behind a soda fountain Wentport, N. Y., ever had? Osborne was borne in Westport. Ho learned the trade of the drug clerk there and studied medicine, Medicine didn’t prosper very | much in Wyoming during the early |days. 80 young Osborne turned |his attention to sheep ratnir |}Then he got into politics. Af |serving @ term as a men |territorial legislature due until he was el |the state was the United § senate in 1899 : and was at of the demo- JOHN leratic natio mittee. AN U A cA oe A ow ELE A SiS Dae o> mma pn Z a oo yom sunictan In the Cycione Cellar—How many miles an hour Ie she blowing, wiiue? Man Clinging to Tree—1 dunno! Clock me when | let go. “The Etonomy Store” — Second Ave. Bet. Spring and Seneca HALF-WOOL ART SQUARES And Other Floor Coverings and Draperies on the Fourth Fleer. Always take the front elevator to reach this splendid depart- ment, where you will find good assortments, courteous service, low prices and good merchandise. These Art Squares we are telling you about today are woven in one piece and reversible— easy to handle and clean. 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