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The election contest which resulted in unseat- ing Tom Swale of Everett, progressive, and seating J. M. Hogan as representative of the 48th district in the legislature, ought to present special sig- nificance in King county. How did the house dispose of the contest? Not STAR—TUESDAY, by argument of counsel; not by theorizing; not by oratory and legal quibbling; not by taking testi- mony of dozens of witnesses as to what the bal- lot boxes would probably show if opened. No, the house went right at the ballots and counted them. That done, there could be no further dispute, and Swale, the loser in the recount, has JAN 26, 1915. PAGE 4 not a word of cri Another Illustration of Common Sense vs. Too Much Law cism as to the result. In King county there was fully as much reason for opening the ballot boxes in the recount con- test for the seats held by County Commissioners Knudsen and Carrigan. Instead, there was three weeks’ time consumed on legal quibbling without settling in the public mind any more definitely than * ds employes Exper Predicts Blacklist of Union Labor in las’ pa Here befove as to which set of commissioners really re- ceived the most votes. ° The Hogan-Swale contest, as disposed of the legislature, and the McKenzie-Christensen-Car- rigan-Knudsen contest, as disposed of by the ju- diciary, furnished one more illustration of the dif- ference between common sense and to6 much law. {The following is a continuation; ment agencies will gather and Both are making mistakes 1 time when the representatives of ting working people !ing vocations.” |trouble ahead for the bic if, ed up to this in nd they then SSO Mr. McGregor's enlightening in- distribute information and even when they oppose government labor or of employers cannot get |seeking employment, and it will be The plan sounds very good,” 1/ either one or ‘hin other does get full | put their trength behind few with Dr, William M. Leiser-| guide minors in choosing work regulation it on the floor and fight against) given power to prohibit the dix /aaid. “Hut won't there be oppos ntrol of it Foversment 4 and did thei expert on the unemployment aa » ¢ tendencies in that direction, Sta tribution of faise or misleading In- | tion? tan't it t that, while neith Also, | believe that, from thelr) best t niake em so efficient the m for the United States Com it will not try te establish Labor bureaus must be kept county ond elty bureaus will bave |fermetion on priate . ene bod er does so openly, bo ganized /own standpoints, both organized | would displace the agencies of the Mission on Industrial Relations and federal agencies throughout the impartial in time of strike imilar counclis esd nt jose distributing false Ine) jabor and organized employers are sr ate organized employers are | ¢ enplo er set : SHaternational authority on labor country, It will merely endeavor The bureau will make every pos. |fermation. opposed to government making mistakes in opposing gov Organized labor should realize Bs to unite them. BY DON M'GREGOR ible effort to bring the workers +i¢ will furnish statistics on un I believe that is #0," s 4 what ae waa ‘ad t t vo i. o oT ut “eae CHICAGO, Jan. 26. The and the work topethes = the ve employment to all authorities desir. | Leiserson The trout is that) oy a as es ae 9 nh me nt ‘ ( he - wf brining Wy ” ounce 0 P atters 8st application of the labor force Of ing to undertake public improve-| both open-shop employ and the | * Nation: . ange is not driving s em AT A GLANCE Soot te eeterer tee lor meneral pallay. It wit keoe che [the country may be sepired ments for the purpose of regularis|unions want to control the labor | 7Tdes, the Moeiinee or toe al rns oe te te ee labor exchanges from becoming b It will gather and distribute Infor. ing employment. And it will try to| market them e seems Fee ot TORS OF SA lyin Abby Re tO -Cpety é ee arra Senora) couite ergot ve seansintia. tee there never will be mation regarding employers seek-\guide minors into the most promis-ito me that there {* bound to be|! 2nd Detroit, the organized | employers’ agen: in which or fs iy ant whi which will regulate employ. _ a ee bal ee Sev a BN. = , op employer who have|gauized labor will be blacklisted Lc eiaididlaianasin ipped the unions most thorough | “On the other hand, the {tr I ed strong employment | ers should realize that the & open-shop employers don't offices and go ahead with their pri know how they did it vate, blacklisting agencies i HER VIOLINIST BEAU “Every so often | hear of For if there be one thing the some new clan of open-shop em- | people of the United States never ployers getting together, form wil) stand for, if they have to use Entered at Seattle, Wash. Ristoffice as Second ro a ing an ociation and opening ‘an ax to get rid of it, that is the , ney srg ear $3.26 “N@3, MAMA, AND HO HAS employment agencies blacklist, whether legal or not a on ee. He congo og Magnan al man dea |S Your BROUGUT HIT VIOLIN, 30 Wwe “Only the other day the state “How it strikes?” I asked > BEAL FROM WIL HAVE Some ' of Washington abolished all em What will a government office do THE HIPPoDROME BEWITCHING MUSIC | | ployment agencies. hen an employer whose men are ORCHESTRA IN 4) It had hardly done so when ike comes to ft for h THE PARLOR, ne the Washington Employers’ as “Be thoroughly impartial,” said * : } sociation announced it would | Dr. Leiserson. “Post the employ- rre’s a Book Notice Diana | establish a chain of free em- er's call for men; post notice of the \ loym: n i ion th TYLES of lawyers’ briefs are changir andeis’ brief haber apenas: Sener pedo yd age the tate 00 sete cae in the United States supreme court sapporting the “And you may be sure that (wish to make about the strike; see falidity of the Oregon minimum wage law consists of 398 nted pages nts of law and citing legal precedents (it is a misnomer to call it a brief) iting the history of the movement for a legal minimum wage the conditions which prove the necessity for such legisla- Only seven pages are devoted to discussing The of is devoted to rest the pre New Zealand was the pioneer, enacting the first mint m-wage law in 1894. Great Britain’s first law was enacted! 1909. In this country Massachusetts led the way in 1912 1913 Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin passed such laws Brandeis book or brief is a storehouse of informa- fon the subject. A copy should be in every public library ile Brandeis’ name appears first, his co-author is a woman, phine Goldmark of the National Consumers’ league. And guess is that she did the bulk of the work in collecting arranging the great mass of information which it contains. | _ We once knew three coloréd men who were sentenced to! months on the stone pile for stealing a baby’s food and x craps for it. But they never speculated in wheat) | | people were starving. | in France at Soissons. Going back to our news- of Sept. 16 we find they were then fighting at Sois- Yet Berlin and Paris officially report progress every) ay! After reading Jack London's story of his life we wonder) it the government don't plaster him all over with internal nu The Food Dvi~k for all Ages—Others are imitations How Much Heat From the Fuel You Use Goes Out the Chimney? A Big Percentage of Most Fuels Is Lost in This Way OST of this loss is overcome when Coke is used. Coke is the pure carbon that remains after the smoke, soot, * gas and tar have been removed, making it possible to be burned with all drafts checked; this reduces the loss through the chimney a minimum. to There is no slate in Coke; every particle of it can be consumed, leaving only a fine powdery ash and the percentage of this is very small. Remember to burn Coke the —a big volume of fire under little draft, right way and you will find a saving on your fuel bill is the result. Seattle Lighting Company Phoné; Main 6767 WHY, HE'S PLAYING ALREADY! AND Yo Divinecy {* 5 SERCNADE DOMG OTHER SWOdNING WWweeTerR, FAaR—* “13 Iv Te SHUBERT BLT, NO —— IT" MELODY, FAR in cleanliness, comfort the least money, Transient” too te i Weekly, $2.60 to 04. ‘ Pen IMT ry MY | from J inflamed n CASCARETS FOR. COSTIVE BOWELS, HEADACHE, COLDS Get a 10-cent box now urn the rascals out—th ache bdillousness, Indiges sick, sour stomach and bad turn them out tonight them out ith Cascarets. Millions of m a Cascaret now and then and neve know the misery caused by a laz liver, clogged or stomach Don't put in another day of di tress. Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach; remove the sour, ing food: take the excess bil noes and carry out all the con atter and poison Then you will feel your liver stipated n the bowels great A Casearet while waste 1 tonight straightens morning. They work sleep, A 10-cent box drug store means a clear head, sw stomach and cle healthy liver and bowel action fo months. Children love © arets because they never gripe or en. How to Get Rid of a Bad Cough syrup. Start taking supply cost of on ‘ pared tn ninutes ma with Pinex is Pinex and Sugar Syrup prep: mn takes right hold of a coug) almost inate the dry, hoarse or tight a y that ts really re heala the t relief. mbranes ainful cough, n the throat thus ending th Nent for c p and win Keeps perfectly children lke tt fal and highly con compound of genuine Nor way pine ext rich In guaiacol — Awhich In so to the mem bran tlon or re The Mis Wayne, Ing cold: and keer and women take an upset II operators of lo « with Federal Judge Neterer leaves for New York to hold two months’ ses { WHY HAIR FALLS OUT Dandruff causes a feverixh irrita tion of the scalp, the hal ‘oot 4 amstek an ane ts 1 the hair | #04 the constant deposit of dust | comes out fast. To stop falling hair and irritant substances {s certain at once az scalp of store, pour a little in your h and and After a few 0 the 8c 1) dandruff disappe tops coming out AYBANY PAINLESS” mNdQ0G00eaS For a limited time we will do work at the following prices: A good set of Teeth for.... $4.00 $4.00 2-K Gold Crown 22-K. Bridgework, per tooth Pats dip dt aed Ba cay $4.00 Gold Fillings $1.00 up |] Amalgam Fillings .50¢ | All work guaranteed for |] 15 years. None but skilled experience employed by us All Work Done Painlessly Examinations Free Office hours from 8:30 a. m to 8 p.m, Sunday 9 a. m. to 12:30 ALBANY |DENTISTS ABs Over People’s Bank Th cei Gecand Ave, and: Pike St It} January 11th 191 Albany Gentleme i @ to say a few rd to the ren Of teeth that yo I have given many a trial, both elnewhore hat its up words tn re urkably good set 1 made for me other dentiats in Seattle and but none of them could fit me. You have given me the best watisfaction of them all If anyone wishes to # regard t Above statemen Yours truly them to me. A. F. PINKEL 615 Union at Seattle, Wash. | rs Ad- __ the blacklist will be in full | force in these offices as soon | as they are established. | “The unions of Germany waken-| to it that all this information is given to each applicant; then keep | its hands off.” (To Be Continued.) Another article in The Star's health ean coed being conducted with co-operation ot | American Medical A: sociation The mouth is, justly speaking, ficulty in the passage of air through the gateway of the digestive tract) the nose to make it take thegeasier and is not a prop | way through the mouth. er passage for air We may safely conclude that gach any more than ts jis the case if, regularly, in the the nose for the | mornings, upon waking, we find entrance of food. |that our lips are parched, tongue Indeed, It may |coated and throat feels dry and |be said that it | sticky. would be hardly “\\ Disease of the nose, not of an ob- less physiological structive character, may give rise to to practice eating through-the nose | rave disorders of the general sys- than to indudge regularly in the|tem, no less than obstructive habit of breathing only through the | lesions mouth When the inspired air is deprived | of the benefit of the nasal func tions, it reaches the lungs in such an unfit condition that the process of oxygenation of the blood is very imperfectly performed Sparing the rod may spoil some children, but, according to the head of the New York Juvenile associa- | tion, sparing the tooth brush spoils about 90 per cent of the bad boys | who come to his association for at- tention. . punts for anemi “T he bad boy,” says the Juvenil general malnutrition, from whi is snnaniy anenilc, end hh breathers are er »- 7 uth breathers are universally Ob-|the anemia is caused by defective served to suffer. | teeth.” The whole respiratory tract be-| e low the nose suffers in consequ of mouth breathing. The air, Gam Barnia, 16, breaks leg june tempting to get the moisture and | '& off jitney bus. warmth required, works havoc upon the membrane of the throat, causing to give rise to chronic inflammation not only of the pharynx and tonsils, SKIN DISEASES of the larynx, windpi and bronchial tubes, A Baltimore doctor suggests this Thes parts become naturally simple, but reliable and inexpensive much less it and are fre quently the subject of colds, and it cannot be denied that the lungs in such a case are more likely to hom treatment for people suffering with eczema, ringworm, rashes and similar itching, burning skin trou- become a prey to tuberculosi bles Many people do not realize the in-| At any reliable druggist’s get a sufi f their nasal passages | Jar of resinol ointment and a cake for the ordinary demands of the! of resinol soap, These will not cost respiratory act a bit more than seventy-five cents a slight narrowing should| With the and warm be | on as a serious hand!-| water bathe affected parts thor- cap; for when it is conside h one breathes, day in and day out, » rate of 26,000 times in 24 we must realize that the sum of the accumulated loss, however slight, will soon mount up to a oughly, un crusts and th very gently they are from skin is softened. 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