The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1917, Page 6

' Picture a big ocean-going steamer’s lifeboat bobbing in stormy seas, manned by a miscellaneous assort- of men. © The waves fill the bottom of the boat and threaten ; Swamp it, if not bailed out. And there is vital need of the help of every man at the oars Tt is inconceivable that a man who worked with his would say to a man of means; “I won't bail. And ft row. This is not my affair, This is your boat. a rich fellows get together and save it. The wage-earner wouldn't give voice to any such nse unless he wanted to commit suicide. He would all in that boat were in the same dire danger, and Salvation could come only thru common effort—the um labor at pumps and oars by all on board What is true of the lifeboat on the stormy seas is of America in this world-war. has sometimes been said by vicious marplots, more to Germany than to our country, that this is a th man’s war and, therefore, of no concern to the wage- There never was a more despicable and danger- Pts Y 1 lying statement. is is not a war of any class of Americans, but af l Americans to preserve American independence and democracy safe for the world. democracy means more to the wage-earner than j capitalist. Democracy throws open to the work- n the door of opportunity closed to him by autocracy | Much is said at times of labor conditions in Germany the war. It is true provision was made by law there were few unemployed men in the empire tre. there were old-age pensions. But the idea in laws was to preserve the workers so they would ble for cannon-fodder. laws were framed primarily for the benefit of J90T Seventh Ave. Near Union s¢? ® OF SCRIVYS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEW ‘Telegraph News Service of the United Press Assectation at Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter Out of city, 365 per month up to & mos “@ mom. $1.90; year $2.60 By carrier, city, 30¢ a month. Dally vy The Star rublishing exchasar connect thinking. @m thinking hard. | the man that has done all of the hard work of the world the ages. | am the man that has fought all the wars of the tam the "ell who has made every beautiful and useful thing never ‘thought much; I have just worked. now I am thinking. mad chaos of the world has driven me to thought. is something new in the world. I think, it means that a new force is loosed upon the world the society that is in the world. been abused and burdened thru long ages. I Bave accepted my burden as something that had to be because Sometimes | accepted it because supe@stition made me afraid ; sometimes I accepted it because | was taught {t was wrong to protest—always I accepted it blindly, without thinking. I tell you, I am thinking. iy I am fighting a great war; I am doing everything that fhust im fighting that war. And I feed the world while I fight. wee that this war is a creat flame in which everything in the is going to be tested. What t will remain; what is im-| oy intolerable will go. | It is going to be so largely because I am thinking I have never thought while other wars were fought Because I am thinking today, great governments are bowing to will. I will see that they bow when this war ends. ‘Will see that the leash is never flung across my naked back [have found out that I am the foundation upon which all that is f and useful and necessary {s built world cannot be anything without me. fs a great discovery. It will place its mark on everything to come. I shall not forget what I have learned; and I shall keep on am going to see that the world is made safe and happy for all ; 1 am going to see that the tyrant is forever forbidden a place men; 1 am going to see that iberty is made lasting and com- $ _ Labor, am thinking. An Inspiring Sight Bix hundred tanned and stalwart bows, garbed in sailor white, with machine-like precision in what used to be the university course! Line upon line of marching youths, and, on a grassy knoll beside field, a bend blaring forth the soul-stirring national anthem! Line upon line of marching youths, upstanding, intelligent—the flower of our Northwest citizenry—-with the sun striking fire gun and bayonet! A grimly businesslike place it is, this naval militia training ata- which Commander Miller Freeman has brought into existence at University of Washington. And a place the sight of which will make you glad that you're an he _ Visiting days have been announced by Commander Freeman, now the three weeks’ vacation period of detention and intensive train- have passed. OUT TO THE UNIVERSITY AND LOOK AT THESE BOYS Welcome Decision It is a glad message that the thousands of Seattle shipbuilders| given to their city on this Labor day, fn their decision to post-| their threatened strike until their differences with the govern concerning wages can be settled one way or the other at Wash- Inasmuch as their employers, before the shipping board took over yards, had conceded the justice of their contentions—and inas- as one of the largest yards in the city is already paying the| depressing poverty and of wages, hours and w It was low. The Germans had earner very much to hi was also very likely to | the state and of the employing class. ‘There was no great gress. He may sit in the cabinet, as does that ex-miner, With a steady drain of apd to ¢ ay, ee few slums. But the general level William B, Wilson, He may be president of the United wages in this country wou Oat k < tn eee si, orking conditions was not high States would drop sbi eae MU ers i. bat w % ould ‘ ve But even leaving politics aside, see what American competing nation for world-trade, but we wor d hay a system that bound the wage- democracy means to the wage-earner, It means the great difficulty in selling right in our ¢ isgy aid yd gro s class, The son of a blacksmith established principle of the eight-hour day, It means a -g00ds conspicuously A hier ithe nT at Fa use with re x¢ a blacksmith, It was rare that scale of wages higher than is known on the continent. It usual tariff wall would be of no ¢ y 1 y : sayy 4 means a standard of living astounding to the German or many holding a mortgage on our financial resources, sh the textile worker became proprietor of a great knitting mill sibly win a seat as a member of the reichstag, but, so 4 . It means that the American wage-earner dwells in heed u orke adhe y wialisr ight pos: : j t mo obvious Je - Ree Worete, CTU aA Bering’ to SOCINNeT | BIR GE f better houses, with more modern conveniences and equip The story is plain, the n vious. We Amert- kil Jered, he had to receive ped with better furniture than the German workman ever cans are all in the same boat. In this world r tsi an ee ee eee ee oe mee wre dreamed of. It means his amusements are wider and or fall together. Whatever affects the prosperity, the in- an extraordinarily heavy poll to win over some member of the more favored castes But the worker could not hope to be an officer in the Si: AR—MONDAY, SEPT. 3, 1917. PAGE 6 - the Frenchman or the Englishman ome Thoughts on First Labor Day on Which America Finds Itself in World War more varied. It means he can afford his children that the German workman considers beyond to lodge a protest we would be forced to would be abl to do things for depenc the well-being of the United States as a whole fects us as individual . n be confined tosone COLYUM | ———e sm (Continued From Our Last issue) | not take kindly to a revivalietic) ded an emphatic “yes,” and pushed | half walked, half pushed her to ed moderation in| Lily a little t, and Was intolerant of casting frightene es and torturous shoulder meanwhile, in a pan fear that the 4 on her and carry her off|gregation understood. her TRAVELING I'm on my way to Somewhere; Or travel slow or fast, Or grave or gay along the way, Once more had the gold-lettered I'll reach The Place at Laat. The journey’s end ts hidden Beyond my peering eyes; I may not know as on | go How near or far {t Hes. @ But ever something whispers That Somewhere ia the goal mance, a deep secret love affatr of Of all the dreams whose beauty Lily's Firat Peery had to forgive seems The savor of my soul. And, oh, the trail ts bordered With wonders and delight, And beauty smiles along the By dusk ane dawn and night! pe Sd gpa I'm on the way to Somewhera, } staira, a low, sibilant breath nificantly as he eaw Lavo Or travel slow or fast, Or work or play along the way, Peggy. one arm holding the baby. and send an affirmat nod in| “Almost—but lost!” lalertly. Did he know? Was he ‘A sense of humor fs a splendid Tl reach The Place at last! and the hand of the other imperm answer to Peey's ¢ y ques. One person wan not solemn—|ready to snatch Lily as she went thing for a husband to have.” pela | tively beckoning him toward her and tioning eyes, Hie xt deepened Pegey'’s husband. He was grin-| by? | (Continued Tomorrow) TOO, TOO MUCH him into * broadly. With hands in pock gees. Tho lenient, I Gould be dumb door, Trowbridge went up the the seat, so an to leave her and To mercy'’s prayer, From one who sticks a wad of gum | ‘the nursery “Please go tn, id.’ sho urged to ait here.” tle by Uttle, was Inside my chair. ee It demand CHAPTER XXI Tt was a year later e” prophe pleas for its salvation. It wanted ~voleed, energetic expounder } trufsms, one that asant agreement d the and sent them cheerful and bapp) | diary lain in disuse, Once more jhad Perky and I@ly stitched and exclaimed over soft baby garmenta |Once more a roseleaf bundle nestled in Peggy's arma And tn the days before he came |—for once more Raby was a boy > kak tho they Gt bot this bind | Coburn! why! And Biddj.|there now, wafting to say ‘God bless | Peggy had stumbled upon a ro ka waa not of song, it clutched them, and they | Well Updown was there! And Al)/ You, children.’ Lily wants you The pres acher WAS knew 4 favorite—big, beaming, by {t, framat@®, with a roueln © that swung the hy na#that « of tri ar@ °realow Lily for not telling ber long before © |of her love for Davem Dave who was a “hand” of Ed's and a leading lepie for peace in the Duggan bare night the|"Almost persuaded"—harvest is | hearts almost stopped beating as Then something that she | house where the Trowbridge farm cnarel was crowded. On'y on the past! they counted the steps that led overheard Ed say made her fly to miles, |help lived. Then— third seat from r was thero| “Almost persuaded”—doom comes|riiy opposite the where her | the secret book. space for the tide nd)... at last father set his feet partly in the) “For it belongs,” she wrote, “te It came from the top of the! their guest. Trowbr * { Almost” cannot avafl; alse, wal; but, contrary to his | cause Ed told Daddy that his ‘sense Pegey's husband looked up to see way into a crowded « | at oppost away from the closed living-room ay Peggy tried to hu |nteps and followed his wife into Liiy rest the alsie par “What's all this mystery about?" |“ ny and I w he asked. “I forgot the magagines| “1 gee you do,” “When {a a man old?" tnquires| for Sam Ichy—they’re on the sit'|~Aang 1 want to see that you keep aisle. We|tingroom table, And I'm in 8 that card, whatever {t is, up your! mournful the revered Dayton News. gave up when we had to quit eat- hurry, honey. I've lost 20 minutes sieeve. I'll guard coming back Peggy plumped down, Gn any| the “lost” ear, sent a despairing glance across to| “The ine the things that Didn't Agree With Us. e eee “Americans Wounded on Better than being shot tn the back, anyhow. eee “Skiras to be still shorter |narrower."—Fushion threat. eee All we've ot to say ts that this| Trowbridge’s eyes narrowed. {s going to be a great winter opticians and oculista eee When {it comes to steak and sich Ike, you may have noticed, it much of pied forghe average to carry fils own parcel eee Even Carranze is b than a lot of soc: these days. 4 Amer see Just as the aw control, announcement fe that the ot Haw United All transactions held stri confidential. If not conven to call, write or phone apd residence. 1003-4 L. C. SMITH BUILD Phone Elliott 4662. Notice to Members Timberworkers Meeting place of Seattle cal, No. 45, has been chan days of the month, at Third ave. Cooks’ and Rs ante’ hall. Seattle District hi Maynard Bldg., corner First Washington. Firat Clans Ban Francisco .$18.00 $14.00 Los Angeles...$20.00 $21.50 n Diew: $2200 scale—indice:ons are that the government will grant them the for which they have asked. 100 Cherry 64. = home HLL having better me horitios are Ket- est old beast in the whole world!” ting 57 varieties of rioters under is way to the $10 to $100 Furniture, Pianos, House- hold Goods, Storage Receipts, Live Stock, Etc. representative will call at your Sanders & Company International Union of | 'f !t @* some ot tu the second and fourth Satur quarters are now located at 2 REDUCED RATES TO that “some mischtet was afoot” was wanted to learn the meaning of the | confirme d by Pegey’s dismay at hix|excited voices outside, Peggy's | CALIFORNIA announcement husband moved carefully, so as to “You don't have to go to bring|allow egress, but with his bulk in largo gate rybody miles around at-|tween the parted knees, edged by Dasnengern Yur yf big meeting, and looked for-| Lily, and had hold of the hymn-bool ity Ticket Office. ward to it eagerly and planned! before her husband recovered his for it ks ahead, and was lost balance in a peculiarly excited and inter-| The organist, looking back| THE McCORMICK LINE, °*t®¢ state during its progress, Not| anxiously from sbove the little or alsl self.” | broke, BY “You shouldn't have forgotten thing but a religious mood, und! Lily's the magazines,” laughed hin wife. get them now. | nave, ‘* down there, and Dave.” ies eaahnd “Lily? Dave?™” he repeated.) West | Poggy nodded her Rend affirma-|\c,. tively, eyeing him with the furtive and gare of a child caught In a naught iness and not knowing just what the outcome was to be. Thro sermon end prayer and hymns Peggy kept up a constant fustliade of entreaties to Lily, 0¢ casional words of which | bis straining ¢ars’ “Lioonse } | preacher's all ready”=—"Y + for| “Umm. So that's why Lily) poner Ras vba > times her visits when I'm away op, ! 7 b ~~ Perky Her band’s ¥ « this thing gone | | came in a stern w You wa | eh, mave’s got the license ready,| w+ to the vestibule opp B| waiting, and has bad ft for a month. | ft to "he Soetipule wich n't They're to be married when wo—| if vou éon't. I'll pick MAN) when he can coax her up to the carry ‘We’ was better, I guess. Dave y Updown. It don't A farm-hand’s no match y Updown. Bid Updown ¢ meanest, akinflintiest, unlit feans There sne bac aide Come,” commanded her hits band. “If Lily and Dave want to marry, @at's nothing to me. But my wife «h (ve Biddiwell Up-} into @arr et her fat ried Peggy, her gaze no longer fur lefiant: "Dave's A he will be lovely ly loves him. @ind|Gown's da made ayer wher Mn it off. welt,| ihe to. Ur " your wife doing it Hy have frequent | P&5t KRY, eyes ablaze. It s dealings db Pegsy Patton, Lily's girl frier * meet.a hand of mine secretly | 494 I'm driving her to the man she loves and who loves her, If I don't drive her to Dave tonight, her father will drive her to Al Rein in my house; I don't see what © thinking of, to abet this un-| hand bu ant stant ghe anid quietly,| tomorrow. Jim Conner has kept ft “That means that you're going t about Dave's licenke: but ahead to marry that poor, back ons ta Jim's utfien to boneless Lily to a man that'd be a| ™° and he'll publ He stands in as you do. Poor heap better off without her and| 6n0u that he® father'll never let innide | 42 the door—nor Lily either, if she Al has a roof to cover, j head, anyhow. And wh etly | marries Dave Coburn.” ee tent “T guess Lily and Dave could en's name, could Dave our irvive that blow,” ald Peggy.|!f he t one? Be And I give notice now, Ed, that) Pessy. Come! No us Y We're going h pped wildix nt] nusband's hEhds | to pick her up aud| | I'm going to marry her to Dave if|®") I can, Mr. Updown forced Lily’s| | mother, before she died, to exact al the promise from Lily that she'd never marry without her father’s con sent.” reach ING she flung ‘And you're trying to get Lily to « ur k her word—her solemn vow!"|that was empty—the old Martin | A promise under compulsion And it’s all furnished, with isn't good in the ayes of the law,|t our nice thin se of a rigyt.| And what I couldn't find there 1 ful due. These are your own|bought—and charged to you. And words; #0 you needn't be so honor-| Annie's there now, Petting a wed. Lo able, all at once. You spent three|ding supper. And I'm going inside hours convincing me of this, when|again—I a Tam! Stop I had promised Daddy not to let| put those strong army | If you | son me, I'l} aged you kiss me if he would let me go jek till I raise every one in the 717% | driving that day.” jchurch—and — ktck—andy bite wint Her hueband smiled, his tongue| will! ad- | in his cheek Her voice came out shrilly at} 207 J jthe « ely shrill, The] CHAPTER XXII hapel door against which Trow and 4 evening, after watching | bridge stood, guarding it from Peg face for a while, her bh y quick han¢ shook now from | nged bis mind about going the pressure of hands on the in to “big meeting His suspicion! side, hands whose curious owner Third, |™M6 home, darling,” who assured him |tervening hetwoen the opening and $10.00 Quickly. “Lily's coming back with| Peggy, his feet planted widely $1450 | me.” apart the better to fill the gap. A si6se swith us,” he corrected |quick duck, and Peggy went be | | | | | 69996096 because of impassioned preaching.| gan, sent a signal to Mrs, Trow ¢ a4ee | The community's temperament did| bridge, apd Mrs, Trowbridge nod Uttle solemn; 1c i of the tune caught in their throats, bination, Lily’ Updown and Dave they and were a little ashamed , ver coming under its apell—a spell |too. Their spines, still vi ‘w as the bymn rolled on “Almost” Sad, sad * and e returned dryly, |!ng girl at her aide nearer to the | ter palaied feet clung to the floor. thur DeMuth, pigeon fancier, is de And no voice was quite so} 4 none quavered so, and and sobbed and sighed out ~ai ot @OCCCOSOC AAR IERCO® \f ° fe) o Alleyesonthe black- units calories. This table e 6 ——$——<——-—----—=——ew’ \| Knowing it was now or never sang, their faces grew | ¥a8 a favorite occasion for this cer- | that bitter wall— back braced against the the atsle? Big Ea! And he was Mystery How Ring wall, ched Peggy plucky Iittie cuss!”| Peggy gazed at her husband and neck of one of the birds. none of which was lost on! chuckled Trowbridge in his throat.| Lily's father, towering over poor) He cannot remove it from over “What the dickens) “Tf {it’s left to her, there'll be a is she up to? he wondered. En-| wedding here tonight, all right.” “Dave Coburn, you mean?” 1 v4 ariag , Dav y igehtenment came during the *erv-| Daye, watching with eyes now . ALesson in Foed Values army or the navy or the kaiser's cabinet. These posts 2 re a advance is not ended. Slowlygbut surely as segment of the people yt Germany administers - Gart were reserved for the ruling caste, the young nobles, the the public becomes educated, the laws protecting and safe to capit by the same token delivered to labor ss ad members of the Junker class, the pets of Prussian guarding @he wage earner become broader, more liberal, cannot be separated. They are dependent upon eae of tf bony more sympathetic | other for their well-being Y i § nia Under the German scheme of things it was for the 3ut all these blessings are now in danger. They can | It is up to all of us, therefore, to make this Labor ; workers to obey their masters—-MASTERS BORN TO be preserved only by an American victory in this world- | Day a solemn day of dedication. It is up to all of us to fie THE POSITION OF MASTERS war. A_ peace, ‘with Germany victorious and dictating resolve to devote the best and the most of our labors te : m Now, however hard some purse-proud snobs may try terms, would mean an end to many things we iff America the common cause } 5 a for it, there is no caste system in America, In the great have taken for granted If our country wants us as soldiers, we should be pre- ry republic the prizes generally @peaking are for those who Even if the United States did not sink to the level pared to go into the trenches. If she wants us as farmers, ate have the talents to gather them of a dependent nation, with Germany as its suzerain, we should be ready to go into the fields If she wants us The wage-earner is a wage-earner only until he ad victory for the kaiser would nevertheless be fatal, Prus as workers, we should be ared bei see that sed mills F hom vances into wider spheres of opportunity. There is no sian war lords would impose upon this country a stag go full blast, that the built and the railroads 4 oe bar across his path gering war indems This would mean that every are run and the coal and ir ned ‘ eo Many of the millionaires of today are the sons of wage-earner would have to give up a large proportion of | Each of us has the opt ty to be a worker in the . the wage-irners of day before yesterday his wages in war taxes and kaiser taxes common cause of liberty and If we fail, if we ror And in many instances they are the grandfathers of The crushing weight of this impost would fall upon falter, If we prove recreant to our tru and our heritage, fT antv the wage-earners of day after tomorrow ® | all industry. Employer and employed alike would totter | our children and our children’s Ceildren may live under pres In our democracy the son of the wage-earner may be under the burden. The morale and spirit of enterprise the bondage of Prussian autocracy and milit and 1908. the officer of our army or our navy. He may go to con and buoyant American hustle would be gone may curse us and our cowardice. ft | hopeful, now despondent, began to| thing more, That Ba should do thie a 9 v7; 99 epee think this, too, He moved out in jcruel thing! ee rv cD *, Ee D. K. S. "Next Novel the alsle on the note of the “lo th Al and her dear 5 i Cart es aches Persuasive e Lily staggered sidewise toward|preserve amicable business rele 7] é Moss Mystery him, propelled by a heavy on-| tions with miserly Bid Updown! BY MARAVENE THOMPSON = 4 CAROLYNOWELLS |< \jaunching of Peggy's shoulder.| “Ooh! Ooh!” 5 he 1 Newspaper Service — , | ick, Peggy?” “£4, how could you?” she moan | Dave gripped Lily's limp arm snd | ithout looking up. “O-oh! nearer to the alsie,| Ward the altar, The minister le’ glances pen her |the pulpit and came quickly to the | Twas sdémething of a strain,” he of foot of the altar staps. |whispered, chuckling. “But 1 rong arme” would] It was a moment before the con-| couldn't stand by and see all that ‘Then it be | energy and ingenuity of yours go te not at the | to Waste, pet. I put Bid next to the big meeting | best land bargain he's had for ten years, and told him about Dave's new job as foreman, and the pros pective farm—on easy terma Bid's purpose was accom-|came singul |fact of « thing of the sob |emony—but over the amazing com- Bid would stop tpe cere-|to stand up with her, and I'm book- and make short wotk of it, /¢4 for best man. Come, we'll send ting | this - ing off with a flourish. ret Peggy didn't write in the “about ihe marriage of her were being dominated Jer the hypnosis of the mus took on a delicious quivering. Their fs but to fail! Jcustom, he was very wide awake |of humor saved the day for Dave jand was looking about him very and Lil And—who was that striding up his twinkling ¢ye8| whispering to Bid! And now Bid! | -. * ’, } shoulder, that, lit-|" Lily gave a etified ery, and bung, Got on Pigeon’s Neck forcing the shrink ja dead weight, against her lover. STELLA, Mont, Sept 3—An. Half swooning, she awaited the ploring the love of bis birds for touch of her father’s hand that jewelry. He lost a valuable ring | would take her forever away from while attending the pigeons, | Da Big Ed was at hisside. Would) Recently, while out among his he discharge Dave for this? birds, he saw his ring around the as did Peggy's in| Lily, then her forehead dropped | the bird's head and is mystified as weakly against the back of the seat to how it got around the pigeon's ahead. She did not want to see any-! neck. Doctor Atwater’s Table of Food Values Calories per lb 295 115 135 RO5 976 200 049 vn 1 19% OVSTER,CGRAGEERS 1.910 SONA CRACKERS 2 R75 GRAHAM ‘CRACK ERR)” 1996 Ny. Atwater myers «ef Food ce) Now, attention, Please! Science calls these heat board! Know whataCal- shows the actual©value of * orie means? Well, see if various staple foods. we can explain. © Observe the high food value of Crackers or Biscuits. Swastika Biscuits are good Biseuits—a million mothers call them the best. OuP bodies are just machines. Lie all other machines they require a certain amount of fuel to keep going. Food is the fuel our bodies require. It’s the source of our energy for : ¥ play or work. 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