The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 6

Let the railroads and the coal mines be taken over government and operated on government ac- int. Let the production and distribution of coal and t be conducted thru a pool in the hands of a gov- mt agency, and let the’ transportation agencies indling coal, both rail and water, be similarly pooled d operated on government account. This is the rec- nendation of the federal trade commission to meet alarming condition which has resulted thruout the u — the utter collapse of the railroads. commission is right. No half-way measures Meet this situation. Congress and private agencies : been fiddling with this situation long enough. inly last month congress passed a car shortage bill, and 2 last. The car shortage commission has not even! Railroads and Coal Mines Must Be Run by U. 8S. been organized and nobod: know when it will begin to Many weeks ago the make them efficient. Var together and accepted appo' Willard at their head as a cc railroads were going to be these gentlemen as individ Nothing has happenec car shortage, coal famine, cars and a hopeless tangle. |that anything would happen. number of cars which are short is greater this month | five men, or their declaration movement of neces: undertook to co-ordinate the railroads of the nation and and the big job was going to be done voluntarily. y commodities, does not do the!selves, and such a provision was duly inserted in STAR—THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1917. PAGE ¢ PARA ARPRAPAL PLP PLL LLLP ALP L LPL bill. (See debate between Senator Newlands and Sen- (7 ator Reed of Missouri in the Record of June 15.) Under an arrangement providing for the cost plus a reasonable profit there would be no occasion for the clash of private owners, nor for contracts for the division of spoils. This arrangement would mean the operation of America’s transportation system in the in- terest of efficiency, in the interest of the on-going of the nation’s industries and in the interest of reasonable freight rates for those necessities on which the con- sumer must always pay the freight. : Let congress devote 20 minutes of its valuable |time to reading the federal trade commission’s report land then as much time as is necessary to cast their val- uable votes in favor of this plan. Here is a path of obvious patriotic duty. ly in Washington seems to be organized. council of national defense job. The traffic man and the train dispatcher were still at work. Individual railroad corporations were still seeking to pile up revenues. ‘The self-interest equa- tion, like the law of gravity, is sure to operate. Some outside force, and this alone, can pull to- gether the railroads of the United States and make them work for the common good, Elimination of pri- vate interest and excessive profit getting is the only way in which present difficulties can be overcome. When the senate tackled the Newlands bill for priority of freight movement, the first thing they en- jcountered was a lobby of railroad presidents, inform- ing them that nothing could happen until the railroads were permitted to form agreements as to the division of the spoils, to-wit, the freight returns among them- ious railroad presidents got intment with President Dan mmuimittee to do this job. The patriotic—and undoubtedly uals are thoroly patriotic— {—nothing but inefficiency, treight congestion, empty It was not to be expected rhe meeting together of that they favor the [THE SEATTLE STAR Near Unies St. Bateredt at Seattle, Wash ‘MeSll, out of city, 2c per month up to ¢ mos; # mos $1.90) yea dl By carrier, Te a month. Star Publishing Co, Mhose Main 600. Mrivate ret i" ate. Postoftic Datty by C eke roe party siness as Usual--Can’t Be “Business as usual?” Impossible. | Tt isn’t in the cards. War is now the nation’s business be until kaiserism is licked. And war isn't USUAL. It's TUSUAL. So business will be unusual. But that doesn't business will be dull. There's no reason for pessimism n will boom. You can’t spend ten billions a year for shoes, munitions, machinery, material, food and sup without an unusual circulation of money. That means UNUSUAL business. ‘That's the thing business men «must get in their he Sve got to readjust business. There will be plenty of » Business will expand. The demand for labor will nu: War will diminish the supply. Railroads will We to be organized to do more business than ever. Waste ‘be cut out everywhere. Non-essentials will have to give t to essentials, luxuries to necessities. F Let every manufacturer understand that the de- for necessities will be unusually large, and the demand ies unusually small. Also that the NATION’S new ‘war—is more important to the nation’s life than TDUAL’S old business. Jf his business doesn’t fit let him change HIS business cond—After all, this is a defensive war on our part fail our business will go to smash. If need be, Uncle ill conscript all private wealth. Whoever aims to use to enrich himself is a menace to the nation’s exist d hence to his own wealth. Safety first-that means | NATION'S safety first. “The individual's will follow p the NATION'S business is successful the JNDI- UAL’S can't be. And the nation’s business is WAR xd hogs, coal hogs, railroad hogs, material hogs, sup- industrial, commercial and financial hogs—ALL @ menace to the successful prosecution of the na- jines There must be co-operation, not competition ess must have a common purpose. Wages must/ the cost of living come down. ft D or We must conserve inhood, womanhood and childhood of the nation. No} e' No exploitation. No hoggish selfishness. All| and each for all. That means business as UN- and democracy triumphant. “THO Great Britain hadn't trouble enoug por to enfranchise her suffragets.—Rainier Valley Citizen. SONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH would be the same ae capital I ‘to some of our “piutes."—Kansas City Star. jh with her war, it ie RUSSIA, when the army gets ready, the munitions workers on strike, and when the munitions men are working the army a holiday. GREAT BRITAIN will be finished in two months, according to be admiral. This is a genrous extension. The time was up 91. RANKIN is one representative who can make more than speech—Charleston Post. STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF The andinavian American Bank At the Close of Business, June 20, 1917. RESOURCES Discounts... .$ 8,182,955.76 490,774.42 69,383.71 Loans and Real EF wee Furniture and Fixtures... Warrants, Stocks and Bonds Credit granted under Do- mestic and Foreign Ac ceptances yy Customers’ Liability un der Letters of Credit. . Cash and Exchange 2,283,779.89 250,000.00 61,425.00 |} 2,377 862.07 $13,716,180.85 LIABILITIES Capital . 0. .cccccvessos $ 500,000.00 | Surplus shee se 500,000.00 Undivided Profits .. 33,303.39 Guaranteed Letters of Ss gesedistvien Credit bees 61,425.00 4 American Bank. Domestic, Foreign Ac- on” ceptances and other Liabilities ........ 350,000.00 Demand De posits Time and Savings “i Deposits .. 7,013,082.44 12,271,452.46 $13,716,180.85 ] Deposits, June 20, 1917... .. .$12,271,452.46 | Deposits, May 1, 1917...... 12,005,672.19 GAIN IN FIFTY DAYS.....$ 265,780.27 Use Our Ballard B: inch If More Convenient. | ment you offer expression from you,” he said; la whole week: | punishment, |implacable man can inflict on one! Let Him Pass! HALT ? WHAT'S: THE | Letters to the Editor TAXING WAR PROFITS be true to at pees ee Editor The Star: Your editorial |try and oath o! joo ani od in Friday's paper on war taxes in | far of the people has overcome ev.|remarkably good, but it is evident | them. you do not know congress, or Wil-| We elect legislatures—state and son or cabinet, or the power that | natior and other officials— has been behind them since that| mayors and presidents—and pay | ED. R's. COLYUM TO KEEP THE WORLD FROM Herr Ortmann (please note, erybody, that we give him two n’e on It) says in an oo visas most amazing, unprecedented, dis*|them handsomely, on their prom- that he will ac-|"*trous, autocratic, traitorous and |ises to do thus and so; and they cept The Star's foolish flop on canal tolls. It has |sell us out—get swelled heads and aa ————— advice to obey| een reasonably clear to me ever dishonest hearts after being in the law, but that he won't accept #ince 1914 that our government | power a few days or weeks, and The Stare advice to keep his| ¥## steadily forcing America back /turn right around and play the mouth shut. |to the methods of correction that | erar—do as they please. The Des ee our ancestors used, viz., vigilance | Moines (Ia.) Register says that the plan of Otto Kahn, New York banker, is simply unanswerable. It would pay war expenses as we go, without increasing anyone’s taxes, cr diminishing their ordinary in- come. He would have the govern- ment determine what the average usual income was of all who would profit from the war, and then tax them whatever they made in ex- cess. According to Kahn's figures that would give abundance of money and wrong no one, present J. 8. KING. Don't let your hopes soar on the |Committees and a rope. Congress news that there is no soap in Ger-|!% and has been since the etvil many. The Turks put up a pretty |W", very much like the English fair fight and there never was any house of lords, which Dickens tn soap in that country one of his books so wittily de ANSWERED B soy) jchief end and aim is how not to In it proper to say, “I thrun a} do it.” They know perfectly well that, t# you say, the rich will be getting | joff very easy if they only con- tribute their surplus money profits, |as against the services and lives jof common folks; but they will not | or future. | berries to remove their feathers easily A celluloid collar will not tarp yellow if given an occasional coat By wringing his hands. } é QUESTIONS MR. E. D. K. CAN-| NOT ANSWER brick at a cat and missed it"?—| If an author strings out a story, |f shellac, == | George Hood. will the reader lose the thread of pow? ‘K FOR ANY. OF | No, it is not. It is better to say, gk H. D, Sag ae ss THEM IN matt 20. "I thrun a brick at a cat and hit| Does a sausage maker have to ir. J.C. Patten hae’ > Joints on the Pacific coast and in it begin work when a boy to learn | Joints on fhe ox the business from the ground-up? —T. M. M. | What kind of perfume does the! government put on a one scent| Driftwood camp, Modern Wood- stamp?—Mary G. |men of America, held a Would Walter Johnson make a/ meeting at the Swedish club Wed- good mail carrier? The papers | nesday evening, which was ettend- say he has a fast delivery —-R. T. | ed by 200 members of the camp and | their friends. : BULLBROS, | ust Printers Which do people like the better, | Urairies or hills?—-Miss Rose Buddy. | It ts probable that most persons prefer prairies, At any rate, they jrun down hills. Why do we say that a fence runs from one point to another |when, as a matter of fact, it does jnot run nor even move?—D. W. D HINTS A fence does move. Didn't you} A clotheshorse should be curried ever notice itn gate? jat least once a week. ~- | Always use linen thread to darn How can a man make a notse | the garden hose. ike a bell A Pour boilin; DO. KS HOUSEHOLD “TANE (Continued From Our Last issue } from the narrow path. CHAPTER X St. John Rivers But such tranquillity was not to last home with me from my school—t still continued my labors as before, tho now they were charitable in- stead of for a remuneration—St | etx | John informed me that tn weeks’ time he would leave for In-| dia and become a missionary But this announcement was not startling as his request-——nay, command, rather—that I accom- pany him as his wife. “God and gature intended you for a missionary’s wife,” he con- tinued. “You are formed for labor, not for love. A missionary's wife you must—shall be. I claim you not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereign's service.” “I am not fit for it; I have no vocation,” I said. He argued for an hour. .At the end of that time ‘I scorn your idea of love,” 1 could not help say. ing; “I scorn the counterfeit senti yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.” He looked at me fixedly “I scarcely expected to hear that Ss think I have done nothing to de- serve scorn.” 1 was touched by his gentle tone. |jigion called-—Angels beckoned—| Where, or whence, forever impos. ing the New York Central really wonderful. The stability of Forgive me the words, St.| tite rolled together like a scroll,|#ible to know! And it was a Lines he locomotive, the working of the John; but tt is your own fault. |The room was full of visi known, loved, well-remembered | . the ¥ 5 I |You introduced a topic on which| “Cond you decide now?" asked |voice—that of Edward Fairfax | ; NN engine—I was quite surprised. It jour natures are at variance; the |the missionary. The inquiry was|Rochester; and it spoke in pain | But a railroad, however perfect ) was really splendid. I cannotsay too very name of love is an apple of discord between us—if the reality were required what should we do? How should we feel My dear consin, abandon your scheme of -forget it said he; “but I shall urge you no further at present. To: morrow, I leave for Cambridge. 1 shall be absent do not forget that if you reject it, it 1s not me you deny, but God.” the next day, as he had said he would. He deferred his departure and during that time he wade me feel what severe a conscientious yet vho has offended him. Without one upbraiding word, he contrived impress me momently with the conviction that | was put beyond the pale of his favor. The night before he left home, for the reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation. “He that overcometh shall in- rit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son, But,” 4 slowly, distinctly read, “the fearful, the unbelieving, shall have their part in the lake which burn eth with fire and brimstone, which le the second death.” Henceforward, | knew what fate John feared for me. In the prayer following the chap- ter, all his energy gathered. He supplicated strength for the weak hearted; a return even at the elev- enth hour for those whom the temp- tations of the world were luring St BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE seo One afternoon while walking | a fortnight—take | | that time to consider my offer; and | He did not leave for Cambridge | to} NEXT NOVEL | Crusoe” By Daniel DeFoe EYRE” put in gentle tones; he surrounded | Earnestness is ever deeply sol-jme with his arm, almost as if hi | j¢mn; as I listened to that prayer, I/loved me (I say almost—I knew was touched by it, and at last awed. | the difference—for I had felt what The prayer over, we took leave |it was to be loved; but, like him. of him; he was to go early in the/I bad now put love out of the oorning. Diana and Mary, having |question, and thought only of | Kissed him, left the room—in com-| duty) |pliance, I think, with a whispered hint from him. I tendered my hand and wished him a pleasant Journey. “Show me, show me the path!” I entreated of Heaven, I was ex ¢ cited more than I had ever been; Thank you, Jane. As I said, I) and whether what followed was the shall return from Cambridge in aleffect of excitement, the reader | oaeeianet that apace, then, is yet) shall judge left you for reflection, If I lie tened to human pride, I should say ciate wa ate ee no more to you of marriage with) J 06 91) of moonlight. jme; but I Naten to my duty, : keop steadily in view my first alm|P°8t fast and thick; “The New York Central track is really perfect” The one the room My heart 1 heard its Master. God give you strength tol: thru, My senses rose expectant; Assistant Professor of Raitways, choose that better part which shall not be taken from you!” | He laid his hand on my head as|‘!vered on my bones he uttered the last words. All men| | “What have you heard? What of talent, whether they be men of |40 ¥ou see?’ asked St. John. 1 saw ing or not, provided only they |nothing; but I heard a voice some. sincere—have their sublime mo-| Vhere cry— Liege University, Belgium. eye and ear waited, while the Mesh Professor Carlier was re- cently in this country making an official study of @ «x4, trip on the New York Central ments, when they subdue and rule | “Jane! Jane! Jane!" nothing : : \ made in a splendid new electric I felt veneration for St. John—ven-| "ore. é American railways as a ND nee of 2,000 hore power. eration *o strong that {te impetus| “Oh, God! what is it?" 1 gasped. model for Belgium \) leaqeqer? ; ; thrust me at once to the point I), 1 might have said, “Where is 4 . } I have visited many railroad shops in it?” for it did not seem in the room —nor in the house—nor itn the garden; it did not come out of the air—-nor from under the earth—nor from overhead, I had heard it had so long shunned, My refusals were forgotten—my fears overcome. The impoasible—| jie, my marriage with St. John—) | was fast becoming the possible. Re- England and have seen many elec- trifications. I found the working of the New York Central electrification In an interview in the New York Times he made the statements reproduced herewith concern- and woe, wildly, eertly, urgently “ram coming!” I cried. “Wait to-day, will be inadequate to S much for the motion, in a word, 1 for me! Oh, I will come!” I flew perform its functions to-mor- did not feel any disturbance which te the door, and looked {nto the i : passage; ft was dark. I ran out | tow without constant heavy would indicate a fault in the track or expenditures of new capital. | into the garden; it was void. “Where are you?" I exclaimed The hills beyond Marsh Glen | sent the answer faintly back— “Where are you?” I listened. The wind sighed low in the firs; all was moorland ioneliness and midnight hush. 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