The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1915, Page 4

Threatened by the loss of employment, many laundry girls have been compelled, at the dictation of their employers, to sign a petition to the legis- lature to change the eight-hour-a-day law for women to a 48-hour-a-week law. ; They signed against their will, against their better judgment, against what they believed would be for their economic good; against what they knew would be for their welfare from a health standpoint. And yet the laundry men will brazenly ap- pear before the lawmakers of the state and hypo- critically declare that “the girls would rather do GLARR-GALURDAY, JANUARY 20, bolo, buen 4 away with the eight-hour law.” They did that in the 1911 legislature when the eight-hour law was passed. Yes, these same laundrymen were there, and they had the effrontery to bring to Olympia two or three girls to speak against the eight-hour law. Then, as now, the girls had to obey their masters or lose their jobs. And do you know what it is to lose one’s job at this time of the year and under the present economie depression? To most of these girls it would mean hunger and starvation. The modern Simon Legrees are not quite so crude in their methods as the old slave driver, but they ate equally effective. Simon used the whip and applied corporal punishment. ° The unscrupulous laundryman doesn’t use a whip to make the girls obey him in matters which are distinctly their own buginess. He uses the blue envelope, instead. He gives notices of dis- charge. There is no need to discuss the merits of the eight-hour law as against the 48-hour-a-week sub- stitute. It is the unprincipled and un-American methods employed by the laundrymen that must Modern Simon Legrees Bulldoze Seattle Girl Employes SEATTLE STAR OF NEWSrArEns OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAG Telegraph News Service of the U { Seattle, Wa: |, Out of city, 35c per month up to ¢ m By carrier, city Ste a mo ee Another “Mad Dog” Taylor Bill ay structed for himself this week a fine climax of narrow- Minded legislative asininity. $ystem. Fortunately enough of his less reactionary and saner folleagues have heard from home already to make it unlikely oe a serious attempt along this line will be made. 5 Next he proposed to take from Seattle what small meas- 4 of home rule the city ever enjoyed in the regulation of its own public utilities. a Now he fathers a preposterous bill designed to turn the “a ynsely important and valuable Port of Seattle properties m a lump over to King county's discredited commissioners! He deliberately would wrest the management of this did enterprise from a board which has governed wisely, handied its business affairs economically and efficiently, d turn it over to Lafe Hamilton, Krist Knudsen and Mike an! With the stench of the Upper auto case, the potter's field the wretched county hospital record and the ex- nt financial history of this ring in mind, people must that Taylor has just about gone the limit in mad dog, I drafting. | j Him; He’s Tied EYOR the sixth time, President Wilson, a few days ago, b turned back a delegation of representative women who pached him in the cause of equal suffrage. : “I am tied,” he says, “to the conviction which I have had ) all my life, that changes of this sort ought to be brought ‘ State by state.” It is difficult to see how a man like Woodrow Wilson be worked around to a conviction that an issue like po- freedom, an issue between God and man, not between/ cota and Florida, or New York and Arizona, should be to communities Why was not the freedom of the negro left to the states? Why not leave the tariff question to the states? Why not leave matters of transportation rates to the 2 WHY NOT CONDEMN ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOR EMANCIPATION DECLARATION BECAUSE OU CAROLINA DIDN'T LIKE IT? The answer is that the good of all, the good of the} On, is paramount ‘to the desires of any state, or combina- of states. Lincoln's belief that this nation cannot endure slave and half free holds as strongly today as it did 50 $ ago. 4 , | And how must we rank a big, brainy man who, at 57) ifs of age, finds himself “tied” by a conviction he’s had all is life? ‘@ The cemeteries w the names of many a great man who Was so “tied” by his conviction of states’ rights that he failed| come within a mile of his great opportunities and great) ibilities. Jur Patriotic Fight for Copper Scoundrels) Sy OUST as we thought Copper is the main cause of the difficulty between| r OWARD TAYLOR, King county senator, has con-! . tnd First he introduced a bill to abolish the mothers’ pension Phe United States and England over shipments % Copper, stained with blood and corruption in America,| ould take on more blood stains; would embroil the United tes im the great world war; would send thousands and tens| Gf thousands of young Americans to their death, patriotically ting England and other countries for the sake of copper’s | itty dollars | * Read England's conceding and conciliatory note to our Qovernment. You will see that the whole trouble would be seat in a jiffy but for the copper which the copper kings of| @alumet and Butte and Arizona send across the Atlantic un-| Ger false bills of lading and sneaked into bales of cotton } = Thus are again introduced to your attention, good reader, | patriots who have shot up and starved and finally enslaved | Hhe whole Calumet copper country of Michigan; the lovers of try who bribed even the greatest of Montana—who| ibed and dynamited and thieved ana smashed union labor | Up to their old tricks again! | Forging and sneaking; throwing honest sea commerce on| its beam ends and endangering the whole country | « Will we let the copper scoundrels get us into a quarrel With anybody? | The} compe: or want. | | | THE COST of living in these times is a complicated affair. 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Whatever merits the 48-hour-a-week propo- sition has, the laundrymen should present them before the lawmakers in an open and above-board manner, not by bulldozing their girls into signing petitions they don’t want to sign. The very fact that a great number of laundry- men are fot fighting a fair fight casts suspicion as to the merits’ of the bill itself, and lends sup- port to the argument of the girls that the plan {s to make them work 12 to 14 hours a day in the early part of the week and to lay them off at the make every good citizen lose patience. end of the week without pay. “When You're Well, Keep Well” Another article in The Star’s health campaign being conducted with co-operation of American Medical Association HOW TO WEAR GLASSES slightly forward. There snowld not In order to get the intended optl-| be a space betwe the lower edge cal effect, the eyes, when looking |of the lenses and the cheeks wide straight . ahead enough to admit a larger finger should look tip. squarely through It gives a bad appearance and is the optical cer bad optically, as ts any excesuive ters of the tipping in any direction. After or slightly carefully selecting the best lenses the ce . enpe the effect can be spoiled and the clally if the pa \J well selected lenses made to act tient Is tall an¢ a |like an entirely different and bad looks down morc ly selected pair simply by tipping than up them so that the wearer does not But if one eye looks through its look through them squarely, lens above and the gther more or obliquely. (Tess below the center, as is the case If the patient goes to the trouble when the glasses are tipped one up and expense of securing a correct and the other down, the result may | prescription for glasses, it is folly be to cause eyestr: to have the lenses mounted so that So may tre € fect is as if a different pair the lenses are farther apart or|had been ordered. nearer together than the eyes are.| With very weak lenses this effect If the lenses are weak, the last fault|of looking obliquely through the does not often cause perceptible | glasses is slight, but iner es and trouble, but is better avoided, becomes very important with strong. Sometimes a little departure fron jer lenses. The fact that one can | this rule is allowable in the inter. | see better through them when they est of a better appearance, but only | are tilted, as may sometimes be true j with the consent of the oculist does not by any means prove that Sometimes a little departure from |the effect is a good one, for, as but dered to relieve some muscular | stated above, the wise oculist, in | strain. As a rule the lenses should | selecting glasses for a patient, does be as near the eyes as possible.|not choose in all cases the lenses | There are ral good reasons for) with which the patient fees the |this. The optical effect is better; | best, but, rather, those with which |the wearer is less likely to lookihe can uso his eyes with least around the glasses; he notices the | strain jrims less; as the glasses project, It is because toric lenses dimin ‘less they are less likely to be ish the bad effect of looking oblique [knocked off identally; the ap-|ly through a lens that they are so arance is better—so much so that! much better in many cases, espe it often pays to have the lashes |cially for bifocals jelipped a Mttle when they are so} long that they touch the lenses when these are mounted as near as | they ought to be. Health and dirt are enemies. Per sonal cleanliness does not always mean health, but there is seldom One of the common mistakes ts perfect health or comfort where tilting the lenses too far back at/there is dirt. Soap and water a the top. as necessary to health as fresh air They should be vertical or tipped] and good food. ASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Op-; eration in the senate and has been position to the renomina-| halted by Senators La Follette and | tion of Woodrow Wilson in| Cummins, who fought the Hall con- | 1916 has not assumed serious pro-! firmation before. | portions. Champ Clark still cher-| Hall entered the commission un- ishes an ambition and a grudge.) der suspicion as to his ability to |O’Gorman voices disgruntiement | see the interest of the shipper and jover patronage. Reed of Missourl| consumer as against that of the and Hitehcock of Nebraska are| corporation. His first vote was continuing their personal feuds against the granting of the five per Most of the democratic leaders, | cent increase in freight rates to the however, feel that Wilson is still | railroads, but later, when the roads their one best bet and are too well| renewed their petition on the |satisfied with being in power to| ground that the war had impover- risk a division in their ranks by|ished them and that they needed attempting to discredit Wilson in|/the money, Hall was one of the favor of some candidate more three to reverse his previous vote amenable to their political desires. | and vote in favor of the railroads, CR nes It is claimed by those opposing him in the senate that he and the other commissioners voted con- Wilson in favor of some candidate | (1% bs a as they have the pow- like Champ Clark would have aj ©" legally only to determine the jmiraculous effect in the resurrec Proeegesco of rates and not to |tion of the progressive party pbs subsidies to hard-up rail | The spectacle of a between | 1 |Champ Clark and Boles Penrose, | > say, Would be too tempting for pro- || gressives of all political denomina- |) _ fe De oe: jtions, and the skeleton organiza-| py, ¢ tion of the progressive party would Pea bit of dandruft disappears soon take on much flesh and great | ne or two applications of | Success by the reactionary dem joerats In their efforts to sidetrack a Can't Find Dandruff | vitality. 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