The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1915, Page 4

Member of the Scripps Nerthweet League of Newspapers Published Dally by The Star Publiehing Oa Phone Main 6400 TREND TOWARD DIVISION HE standpat world will work up a good deal of horror over the industrial relations commission recommendation that congre’s provide that it shall be unlawful for more than $1,000,000 to*be in- herited from the estate of an American and that all roperty in excess of that amount shall go to the federal government. It is a suggestion of economic atavism, as it were. In the early days of man, the fellow lucky enough to kill a mammoth, or whatever was “big beef” in those times, was probably permitted to fill himself to his limit, but he surely was not permit- ted to say that nobody else should eat. Early man, however low-browed he may have been, was sure- ly strong for the community interest, else he would not have survived and progressed. What sense in decrying this Walsh report as atavism, socialism, barbarism? Oppression, injustice, domination by greed are natural steps backward toward the original type of man and of conditions, Enlightenment failing to roduce genuine progress, the return to force is inevitable. Strike riots and other bloody “industrial dis- turbances” are attempts at division by brute force. Walsh’s proposition is an attempt at division by force of law. STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1915. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR rest of the world go hungry? This is the matter as condensed to its*crux, ‘ ‘ It is Rockefeller’s fault if due consideration is not given as to how he got it or what part the human family played in letting him get it. Starv- ing people are swayed by hunger, not by logic. The answer to equity playing favorites is the masses demanding cold-blooded division in propor- tion to the number of empty stomachs and freezing bodies. Our income tax is, in many instances, merely a fine imposed upon legitimate success and, in all instances, the inheritance tax is compulsion of the dead—to divide. Arbitrary division! If you say this is atavism, return to barbarism, put your finger on those who have driven men, in their hunger and nakedness, to the recourses of barbarism! W* THINK we see choice times for ex-King Cotton, The allies are going to declare cot- ton contraband but agree to stand behind the mar- ket and keep prices at a profitable figure. All the American producer will have to do will be to load a.ship with cotton and sail her out into the wide, wide world. ENGLAND AND France are expected to issue a proclamation shortly, declaring cotton to be contraband PAGE 4, FAIR TO ALL C' IL. GOETHALS, governor of the Panama canal zone, has again shown his rgal bigness in recommending that civilian employes on the canal who have served continuously for three years be given a cash bonus by congress, inasmuch as such rewards have been.voted to army officers and engineers on the canal work. We believe, with Gov. Goethals, that the large bonus voted to the army offieers, merely for doing their duty faithfully, is unwarranted, but inasmuch as it has been done, there is no good reason why the real ditch diggers who stuck it out should not receive the same recognition. Merely from a dol- lars and cents standpoint, it is fast becoming ap- parent that the sum of money necessary to do so is but a trifle compared to the value of the work their faithful service wrought. THE NICE POINT NGLAND has placed large orders for shells with Switzerland. Germany has done the same thing. Neither country alleges violation of Switzer- land’s neutrality thereby. Germany has an open door to Switzerland; so has England, which makes all the difference in the world. Get the point? NOW THAT the mobilization camp at Texas City has been completely destroyed by the storm, Uncle Sam By mall, out of etty, one your, 61.50) 6 ie per month up to @ ‘ety, 260 = month. Wash., postotfice as WHAT THE SHOW-DOWN SHOWED ID you notice the fizzle of that bluff made by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co? P It didn’t haul down the American flag and go into foreign registry because of the seamen’s law. : It sold out, for $7,000,000, to an Atlantic’ steamship company that will have to comply with that same law. Every time a bluff is called on one of Uncle Sam’s new progressive laws, there has to be a show-down, and Uncle takes the nice red, white and blue chips. EVEN MADE MONEY EDERAL reserve system shows up with a neat sum as profits for the first seven months. It’s perfectly shocking—to bankers who shrieked that Woodrow Wilson had headed finances straight toward ruin. SUNSHINE A Bout Sharon, Pa., blast furnaces which have long been idle will be placed in operation this month. The war has increased the demand for pig iron to unprecedented proportions. Another ray of sunshine thru the war clouds, FRENCH AIRCRAFT, the papers report, are at- tacking Saarlouis eh? is provided with an excellent excuse for sending those If it’s our Louie, news do travel fast, troops to the Mexican border. Cave-man Rockefeller has got more ‘“mam- moth” than he can possibly use. Why should the of war, which rather reminds us of the way Japan declared war on Russia in 1904, By Allman ( SHE WOULD FIND The 4 LOVe-LETTER FIRST AND WOULD REFUSE ‘To 1 SEW ON THE BUTTONS! b | : ° [Outbursts of Everett True] A Married Man's Troubles — — OW TOM, | LEARNED THE REASON] | our piggm’ |] SVE SENED SOME BUTTONS ON HIS CoAT Beweve iT OR NOT, THOSE ARE ) The REAL FACTS OF THE CASE ] : WELL, TRUE, IT Was Boy! i'd OFFER You MOKE, BUT You SwoReE OFF Two WEEKS AGO —— WHY MRS, MEADE 1S SUEING HER AND DISCOVERED A LOVE-LETTER IN “THE HUSBAND POR A DIVORCE T FROM UP SCANDAL SOME OTHER, WOMAN AGAIN Hun 2 “THAT WoULD NEVER. HAPPEN, TELL YOU | lo if THIS (™ OuT OF TINTS Ne EXPRESSION ROS ; - DOES NOT ', yy — PME 4 ak , | NFER é AN iN NEW ORLEANS TURY were GALLEGOS Stella and Gertie | Ow TO GET A SWEETWARTAN, GERT, | JUST BOUGHT A GOOD BOOK ? \ THOUGHT YOU OUGHTA HAVE ITs ENTITLED ~"HOW TO ———== oe FUNNY, STELLA. 1uusr] 4T_YOU A GO BooK Yoo. acid A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING FROM VAUDEVILLE To es Ps (Society Buds) - H. M. LIES | |The Short Butler (hearing the! | “ia be pgp ‘ rae Tidias Exons * ee ic BLAME THE ECHO | In more than one Instance the | out, Another ‘verse runs: ladies. f aeenencmnntiteata. F Every . “Why,” replied the editor, itty 3 excuse me, | = . Tourist (at cafe in Alps)— \srocer cut off credit. The prospective buyers only nib-|“That ts the sting of failure, Syrah gpd excited. 1 ae... BASILY DONE i “you sent it in yourself.” Waiter, you have put me down for CONTINUED Editors and reporters walked to| bled. One man said he'd be back in| | To know that It can be done, ‘One of the Buds to Short Butler — tls prayed ey shang te vie nar ng nag gen the ion two bottles of wine and I've only FROM PAGE 1 work in the morning and walked | n et eed the money. He never| But that somebody else must finish omen nfigs aig ‘or, “but why you pui had one, j home at night because there weren't | returned. The work we have begun.” “as! seems I have seen you some ghar gy replied, in the column headed ‘Public |“ Walter—Very sorry, sir; I'm new| jany nickels for car fare. ‘ Sie <a staff amused Itself ead Short Butler—It's quite possible P a di . improvements ? here and I can’t get used to the! | The odd thing about itis that the in these last days by composing} I dropped into the Sun office 'ye often been eee echo from the distant mountains. | su Q ITS ivi poems and submitting them to the} this morning. Several : Te Geimarcsion, I'll tell you! ECONOMICAL THE N U FOR lao “aetetere: aie bona editor. The society editress sadly |Jooking gentlemen were there, look- doys how to make a hit with th ‘The canny Scotchman ts ever THE SECOND TIME |ctrestetiosana's ypere, offered this: ing the plant over with appratsing ‘s | famous for his thrift. lan Mac- jcireulation ani usiness office men “Only despair Itself can teach us did not complain. “Stick!” they said, and their hus- bands stuck, ladies. They love riddles. Here's) “a new one: Why is a man playing) at 4 o'clock in the morning The word that can help despair. Only the man who has touched the bottom eae a f HE'LL GET DOWN SOPP & CO. Dougal, about to leave on a | Wines cad aor’ | The Inexperienced: He says he journey, proved no exception to | | Finney Avenue can hardly restrain himself from the rule. To his wife he sald: St. Louis, Mo. | |falling down and worshiping her. | NhAt Wie tet ae de unning ex: penses had been paid. Buffalo? | ‘ | The Rejected: ‘Tell him not to 5 The Butlers—Why? PO ates Ppyes Sages yee vo ae 4 get nervous; she'll throw him down Printers Get $5 a Week Pilar poner gg i Star | Knows that the bottom Is there.”| The editor was going on a Chauffeur—Well, one stays up) giasses whi he? . lookin’ ms ~* | soon enough.——Puck. Some weeks they got nothing. |Pooitca the dutl .e *| A possible buyer was heard of.|trip. They were all saying ate and the other lays up stats, | fiensen when hes no’ lookin’ | eee |The high water of pPosperity was |Combined (he duties of business | He lived in San Francisco, Clark,/bye, and laughing. That 78 ysis ice ea | SEC ND reached when the married men re- nine — nr] oe pressroom foreman, was dele-/ how game they are. SHE MIGHT | | ceived $12 a ween and the single pe gated to go to San Francisco and ‘Has anybody got a i PRESENCE OF MIND | oO men $10, Lately the printers have No Salaries; Stock Instead eee him, driver?” asked Pete Cook, the tele Frank E. Roberts was the man- aging editor; Edgar Wheeler was the city editor; Henry Burmester was telegraph editor; Harry Clark was press room foreman; — Lou Miller was foreman of the stereo- toyping room. Andy Ericcson, a stereotyper, and A. R, Clegg, a lynotype operator, were, with McCormick and Roberts, the board of directors, Try as they would, they couldn't He wired back that the wouldn't buy the Sun, That was the end. The society| editress laid on the editor's desk a poem entitled, “The Message of the Sun.” There are a number of verses. am sorry I can’t print them all. The “message” begins: | “Somebody else will do It; Try It and put It thru, Somebody else will make a go Of the thing we tried to do.” man Klein (to partner)—Quick, Eck- stein, a man fell trou’ de coal hole! Eckstein—Clap de cover on, Ikey, while I run fer de cop! If we don’t arrest him fer stealin' coal he'll sue us for damages! . | eee | graph operator, s Somebody found him one. He went over to his table and ticked three dots, a dash, a dot {a dash, on an instrument that bas been dead two weeks. Then he be gan taking out the screws W! |held his instruments to the table. He was sounding “30.” If youd worked around newspaper shops a8 }long as { have, you would know what “30" means. It means Tbe End. The THOUGHTS been receiving 50 cents a day, laverage pay was $5 a week. * ; They knew it was a losing fight. | Have built a lasting and /ryey could have quit. Any one or |profitable savings account for|two of the printers, for instance, or many a man. A hole in the | pressmen, or stereotypers, could ground or a green and gold|av “pulled their slips” from the da 8 id b certificate for worthless shares tape. “eubhina” oe ps Bgl jin some over-promoted com-| pers. pany is poor consolation for| That would have meant $12 a those whose capital has been|¢ek, real money; more than they| “ pay salaries, So the men took stock saved dollar by dollar. conld hope to get on the Sun. ia: the pater." The less money thay But ff they did that, the Sun] t, the more stock they bought. Interest 4 Per Cent would cease to shine. For who |" This couldn't ft | wants to work for a newspaper that | wi, money nibbled, inventoried the | TRUST.CO. can't pay wages? lylunt, hesitated, ‘These nibbles gave OF SEATTLE Y'SEE, THE GENT Came To THE HOTEL. THIS PLACE TAS CHANGE! HANDS - UHDER NEW | | MANAGEMENT,” says +/ TAG CLERK, A SUGGESTION A woman got on a crowded street (car with an infant in her arms, The child screamed for ten minutes, much to the annoyance of the rest of the passengers. “Oh, dear!” finally exclaimed the mother, nervously, “what shall I do with this child?” A crusty old bachelor seated across from her got up. “Shall I open the window for you, madam?” he asked. . * IN LANG'S CLASS In a small town in New York state, a public official resigned and sem a cow of his resigna- tion to the editor of the local daily. A day later he flung himself into the editorial sanc tum, flourishing a copy of the sheet wildly, “What does this mean?” he UITTING SALE H AVENUE —r Cut the Cost of Living! — A plate of hot biscui uffins, a trod, Meee bebed por tg? loaf of bees or nut-bread, rescues any meal from the commonplace, and more expensive things are never missed. With K C, the double acting baking wder, good results are doubly certain. e's economy too, in the cost of K C, megers ditors Wal Bettere Walk to Wark /the Sun men renewed hope. A young So they stuck. “ In more than one {nstance the tn- }seeibind dubbed & nibble “a shot in a stallment man came and took the Lose Telegraph Service, plano away, U In mone than cue .,, Under the stimulus of these landlord sald: ‘shots in the arm,” the Sun men got out the paper from day to day.| # Each day they feared would be the last. Two weeks ago they lost their telegraph service, They re-printed | SEATTLE MAN TO BE SOUTH SEA TRADER ‘i'r ces fro tents tae editions of rival papers, and “got! Capt. W. J, McDonnell, one of the| by.” most adventurous seadogs of the; A week ago the Janitor quit. Bust-| Pacific Coast, is fitting up a}ness Manager McCormick and Edi-| schooner here in which he tntends|tor Roberts came to work half an| to sail into the South seas to trade| hour early and swept out. The re- for sandalwood, copra, mother of| porters and composing room men pearl and beche de mer with New|found them out, and the entire Hebrides cannibals, Pforce took to coming early to sweep WELL, DE GUEST Says: “S'FUNHY- | SEE THE OLD PROPRIETOR ROUND HERE STILL “SURE, SAYS THE CLERK," BUT HE GOT MARRIED” instance the He—And so you think women “Pay “td have strength of mind. Do you be-| tind sb Hleve, like Caesar, woman has! strength of mind enough to refuse, the crown? | She—I think so—of course, she) might try it on to see how it looks.) Safety Razor Blades of all kinds ' SPINNING’S 1415 FOUR’ | Beasy ” Capital and Surplus $815,000 JAMES D, HOGE, President N. B, SOLNER, “4 Vice Preside and Trust Officer HOGE BUILDING tn the Heart of the Financial District