The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 4

er ee ci eer re eres Some Free Advice to the Seattle Electric Company Chairmaa Reynolds of the state public service commission, surprised at the situation revealed by expert analysis of the Seattle jitney bus business, has sent a report to the governor urging that some- thing be done. One item in the Reynolds report is interesting. The commission’s engineers find the traction com- pany is losing $2,448.65 a day in revenues since the jitney bus entered into competition with the street cars. That means the jitney bus is taking money away from the Seattle Electric at the rate’of $893,- 757.25 a year. Nearly a million! Subtract a million a year from the net profits of the company, and the amount left with which to pay dividends to the stockholders back in Boston is going to bring loud and dissatisfied squeals from these latter folk. Is it any wonder the traction company is go- ing to have our lawmakers, down at Olympia, try to do something about the matter. BUT— Why doesn’t this high and mighty corporation, which was so coldly aloof and so splendidly arro- gant a brief month ago, ment on its patrons? try a little haman treat- Why not, instead of spending time and money trying to bully a legislature into passing laws to put the jitney bus out of business, give back to the public, for instance, the privilege of buying tickets six for a quarter on the cars? Why not grant universal transfers on tickets as well as cash fares? Why not relieve the » traphanger problem by giving an adequate rush hour service? It’s going to cost more, certainly, Mr. Street Car Magnate. But you're million a year the way thi Come down off your people of Seattle right. them. Then—maybe—you million back. getting trimmed for a ings stand now. high horse. Treat the Be on the square with "ll get some of that ‘DO YOU KNOW, MR. WORKINGMAN, WHY YOU HAVE TROUBLE FINDING A JOB? LABOR FOLK MUST ORGANIZE TO MARKET THEIR PRODUCT, ORUNCLE SAM MUST MARKET IT FOR THEM, SAYS UNCLE SAMUEL'S JOB DOCTOR (The following is the continua tion of Mr. McGregor's enlightening Mnterview with Dr. William M. Let Wergon, labor expert of the United States industrial relations commis sion and iriternational expert on the unemployment problem.) We cannot solve the problem we, face today by sitting back and say- ing: “Unionism ts the remedy.” | The first step is the establish: ment of r exchanges by cities, counties, states and the nation. | The commission is giving all ite energies in this direction to finding the most effcient reguiaton of a na- tional labor bureau. BY DON McGREGOR CHICAGO, Jan, 25.-—-“What are the people of the United States go- ing to do to put an end to such @ heartless, man-destroying system?” ° ° ‘The first most important step is the organization of the labor mar. ket. “AT A GLANCE behind the has never HE SEATTLE STAR’ il ‘Telegraph News Service of the Entered at Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Class Matter. mail, out of city, 6c per month up to 6 mos: § mos, $1.80; year $8.35 By carrter, city 3$¢ a month. Co. Phone Matn 8400. at Private Looks as if they are hanging on for $2 wheat—not the farmers, for 75 per cent of such have already marketed | wheat, but the fellows who have bought the little farm-: wheat and the big, rich farmers who can afford to hold wheat. Great Britain's food supply is said to be down to a 0-day WHY NOT? basis, and when that government enters the market wheat} will be worn as necklaces and watch charms, figuratively | ng. | ‘And $2 wheat is among the possibilities! South America| "has a crop somewhat short, and she has her transportation | difficulties. | Russia, producing much more wheat than any other! country, has her war and transportation difficulties peculiar to herself. | Australia has a crop considerably below the normal.| Canada has a fine crop, but also her transportation difficulties. | What will the American farmer do if wheat goes to $27) He'll do what he does when potatoes, for instance, go to) $i per Lushel—he'll go mad about wheat. and you'll see wheat! _ growing in fence corners that have always grown elder brush and stone piles. | And wheat will not then bring $2, just as when every| farm is packed with potatoes that might bring $1, the price is} found to be 20 cents. | But, this time, wheat is a reliable. It may not stay at $2, but the Swiss, Greek, Italian, Dutch and French governments, now buying American wheat, have got to continue buying it for a long time after the close of the war, whenever that comes. All the indications are that the American farmer is going to get a very good profit on his wheat for two or three years| to come, at least | What does $2 wheat mean to the American consumer?! It means more bread, cake and pie made at home Then there’s corn. Corn is the one grain on which we} heat even mighty Russia. We eat too much meat and too lit- tle corn, . We feed corn nourishment into pigs and then eat it in the} form of pork at a tremendously increased price. The pig is] @ converter. We pay a big price for the conversion, We simply pay a big price for corn’s nutritive elements dignified by the titles harfl, bacon and spare ribs The same is tue as to the honest bean, at which we laugh. We love luxuries and are ignorant When food staples take on the character of luxuries, we've got to turn to substitutes that are as good for our physi- eal needs, if we have them We've got to squelch our horror of bread that is not pure white, for instance acc, — Kitchen in cleaniiness, comfort and courtesy for the lenst money. Transient, 600 te 61; Privy: weekly, $2.60 te 06 * i] asked Dr. Leserson, after he had facturers peddied their goods fr shown me how tnevitable were the door to door results of the irregularity of in dustry “That,” he sald, “is what the to dustrial relations commission has been working on for months, The first most important step toward the dying of conditions in the organization of the labor market “Labor ie centuries behind the times. The workman is a merchant as well as a worker, He must sel! his labor in the open market. And he never hae learned how to do so. “Long . merchants and ma: Now every busines ing its product Labor, dustry as @ whole, The wor door to de to the employer weil Suppose a manufacturer 100,000 tons of ple tron, he advertised for them in the want mns of the newspy DIANA DILLPICKLES “OH, A POSTCARD FROM MR. FROST. z UG MIM, 4n0, BESS ME, LOOK WHERS HE Nat PLACED WE Stamp Yes, Just as € thovenr— ‘LEFT CORNER, TOP: I-Love-You'. DEAR ME, )7'3 4 DeciaraTions oN THE DARUNG Sty} FELLOWS” f “AHEM ——(TITT6R* TITTSR ) — I RsceiveD YouR Posrcarn, MR. FROST—— THE owe WITH THE STAMP PLaceDn So opD.y Gan’? “ON, 1 3e6— STAMP ON WRONG. ICC HAVE TO FiRe THAT BOOB OFFice Soy OF MING Yer!" with the exception of a percentage too small to affect in peddles an takes his labor from r and tries to peddie it “Just imagine the same methods being used in present-day business wanted Suppose Then suppose every house in the in the world, except labor, has its country which handled pig tron sent highly organized sales force for set! him 100,000 tons and he picked out the 100,000 tons that most suited him, and told the other pig tron merchants to take thelr shipments back ‘Ridiculous, fan't t? Yet that ts exactly what Rappens when an em ployer wants help and advertises for it.” “Isn't that a atrong argument for unionism?” 1 asked “Of course, it is,” he replied agents of labor unions re * forces of “The the ‘eanized labor, But we cannot solve the problem we face today by sitting back and saying Unionism ts the remedy,’ “Unioniem undoubtedly would give the worker the protection he needs. “But we must face the fact that the majority of labor is not organ ‘zed, that in this country less than one-fourth of it is, and that, partly because employers have shown themselves strong enough to pre vent the organization of labor in many lines, ‘and partly because large numbers are | Hormwell, the society leader, who | light-colored | | IHave Cut 1T CERTAIN : 13 A MISERAME DAY ovT#De! ‘MOST A Reliable Actress | He—And here comes that Mrs. has gone on the stage. j She—Oh, I do want to see her act, dreadfully | He—She always doea—N. 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He had prob- ably been carrying a fountain pen.” N. Y. World immiune “I didn't know you motor car.” I don't. | “Then why are you wearing av-| tomobile goggles and a duster?” ‘To keep motorists and other | speed maniacs from running over) me. They think I'm one of them.” ee Cruel “He gave Edith two pounds of) real honey for Christmas and called | her his Baby Bumble Bee,” nd then what?” ihe stung hin SAGE TEA TURNS GRAY HAIR DARK It's Grandmother's recipe to bring color, luster and thickness to halr when faded, streaked or gray owned a That beautiful, even shade of dark, glossy hair can only be had by brewing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur, Your hair {1s your charm, It makes or mars the face. When it fades, turns gray, streaked and looks dry, wispy and scraggy, just an application or two of Sage and Sulphur enhances {ts appear- ance a hundredfold Don't bother to prepare the tonic; you can get from any drug store a 50-cent bottle of “Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound,” ready to use, This can always be depended upon to bring back the tural color, thickness and luster of your hair and remove dandruff, stop scalp itching and falling hair, Everybody uses “Wyeth’s” Sage and Sulphur because ft darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You! simply dampen & sponge or soft brush with ft and draw this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair has disappeared, and aft beautifully dark and appears too ignorant to realize the benefit organization would be to them there seers no immediate prospect of a percentage of labor great enough to be decisive becoming or. ganized “Since unionism cannot at pres jent do for labor what labor so badly | Heeds done for it, the masses of th workers are now turning to the gov ernment for help. That's what brought about the appointment of jthe industrial relations commis sion.” | “Your argument is,” I said, “that jit is up to the government to or: ganize the labor market, so labor |may be protected and so the public j will not be forced to suffer the con- [sequences of large bodies of men being thrown out of employment and on the hands of soctety aid Dr. Leiserson. “Your end is the im of labor exchang 'y cities, counties, states and the nation. Briefly, the details @f the plan which the commission is working on | | | are as follows The creation of an employment bureau in connection with the fed eral unite municipal, tate labor exchanges in the coun nd which will regulate all pri- employment agencies. The bureau to be in charge of a director appointed by the president He and every other employe of the bureau will be under civil service rules. The civil service examina tions will not be mere matters of rote. The director of the bureau will be assisted by a council of ten representatives of employers and ten representatives of labor. The council will be appointed by the president, and, with the aid of the civil service board, will conduct ora! examinations of all applicants for positions in the bureau. Thus only the successful applicants will be men who have satisfied both or- ganized labor and organized em- |ployers of their fitness for the work.” i (To be continued.) “When You're Well, Keep Well” Another article in The Star’s health campaign being conducted with co-operation of American Medical Association WHY DO WE Why do We wear glasses’? To jeee better, of course. Is that all? By no means. Glasses were first | used to help de- fective sight. Up to about a feneration ago | they were used for that and that only, Then it was discovered, and little by Httle the knowledge is spreading, that there are many whose eyesight is not at all im-/ paired, who can see perhaps 26 per) cent to 50 per cent better than nor-/ mal, and yet who are suffering from eyestrain in some of its myriad | forms. It was found that, by wearing suitable glasses, the eyestrain could be relieved and headache, dyspepsia, irritability, nervous fa- tigue and other lke symptoms could be cured when due to that cause, or even when due partly to that and partly to other causes, The majority of such eyes are far-sighted, They are too short, so that objects are not focused on the | retina as they must be to see dis-| tinetly. Now there és a muscle and nerve in the eye, called the ciliary muscle and nerve, which is for the purpose of changing the focus of the eye as needed. With the aid of these, far-| sightedness is corrected. | This is why such eyes see so well, But it is also the reason why | they cause so much trouble. | Every minute the eyes are open they are compelled to make this adjustment, because we are not sat-| Isfied to see indistinctly when we! can, by an automatic adjustment, | see perfectly. | This is exacting work and a/ great strain on the nervous sys- tem. 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