The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1918, Page 6

SEATTLE STAR MEN DO Near Union St. Ys NORTHWEST HAGUE OF NEwsrar By Burton Knisely ed Press A tion ong = r rf Written Exclusively for The Star fered as Second-Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice @ . aya ec ber Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, L879 Copyright, 1918, Newspaper Enter ie mal - prise Assooiati Out of city, 406 per month pntha, $1.18; 6 0 : : ai 4.00, in the State of Washingt Outside the » er || TOKYO, July 11.—Americans live 80 for & months, or $9.00 per te O|]in the “horseless age Dally by The Star jm GOO, 8 jo the Japanese n exchange cone Hut in a far different sense : Veotw 3 " i” ns dl of the America is three eras aly — - manpower age. w P Amerion enjoys fruits also of the horse age, the steam age and the engine Don’t forget—Saturday—at 7:30—at Woodland \ park. The tobacco fund automobile drive comes to an end then. You're invited to the bandstand. stil largely in of man. x Japan ts living 7 the age | power, | This is the bi keat distinction to- day between the two countries, in ANSE. an economic or In 2 dustrial sense, “Five meat packers, Armour, Swift, Morris, Wilson) IN JAPAN ALMOST AL 1 Cudahy and their subsidiary and affiliated companies THE HORSES ARE MEN, @ monopolistic control of the meat industry and are qt wets See, ear : for like domination in other products. Their). .000\n‘the United States. ‘The of inipulations of the market embrace every device that) gciat tigures for 1916 were in excess ul to them, without ard to law. * ° ° Shoe and Meat Bills ‘The report of the federal trade commission to the U. 8. | on profiteering was unanimous. No member found for a minority report. i Concerning the meat packers, that unanimous report : ' . How-| of 21,000,000 F delicate a definition is framed for ‘profiteering’ these) in Jann. there | are prt Leg have preyed upon the people unconscionably. qreeneh ta the Sant ithe gears, Anh | The report shows that the aggregate average pre-War the population of Japan approaches 1912, 1918 and 1914) of Armour, Swift, Morris 20,000.000—a good margin more than hy was $19,000,000. The war started in August, roe teat population of the United . In 1915 these four earned $17,000,000 excess profits hues ub Meio te 99 fen a‘ pre-war period; in 1916, $36,000,000 excess and in) One horse in Japan for every 36 8,000,000 excess over the pre-war period. ce : is, they earned $140,000,000 profit in three war } from’ 1915 to 1917, and of this $121,000,000 repre} HEADACHE | eee. War profit ee s profit is) Nose and Eyes Are Often re or ee OS ee ne Real Seat of Trouble higher prices, rather than to increased volume of } by weight. ware other words they took advantage of the war to! What a te commonest cause the people who eat their products. of a headache - . ome folks may have wondered why they have had RB Py such outrageous prices for shoes, when there has different causes More leather than ever before. Overstatigue, | not _ Well, the meat packers are the biggest factor in con- | of the leather market. sleeping in a And the federal trade com- stuffy room, over. reports to the U. S. senate that net profits in 1915 eating or eating much higher than in 1914, and that in 1916 net something that “were in several instances two, three, four or ‘aerees with the stomach, some % r rag slight eye defect, an infection or a five times as large as in 1915. Congestion of the nasal passages Dne striking instance is cited of a company whose net caused by cold. Any of these rose from $644,390.90 in 1914 to $3,576,544.27. |things and many others may bring Jan. 17, 1917, a check for $915,787 was mailed to °% # Deadache en Armour as a dividend of 53 per cent on his PRs ec hae pgp ce Bn in the Eastern Leather Co., the selling branch of|jnourh, too. it In more often. the leather business. lvery alight defects in th than ‘also develops that Swift & Co. control six leather and | the more marked disorders which companies. give rise to headaches. . ee You might suppose that one's a rt of the federal trade commission may help .y., ought to be very far wrong rstand what happened to your meat and shoe) before they would cause a severe d who made it happen. pain “in the head,” and yet it ts ltrue that a very alight deviation Olga Petrova, who arrives in town today, sold $257,- | om “he, Pornal wi ee cea ‘ar Stamps in 10 days, according to veracious press | chen Golly! That's almost as much as Charlie Chap- | Teachers, bookkeepers, milliners, in the same length of time. jdreasmakers, typesetters and all |who use their eyes constantly, are apt to suffer from eyestrain head- aches, Aches in the head may also arise : n, Russia, Mooney ‘om Mooney, under sentence of death in San Francisco, som a great variety of chronic rorid figure. He is perhaps better known in Russia disorders within the nose Iteclf and many of the cities in the United States. To the “ise within the bony air cavities itic mind of the Slav, the Mooney case is typical of |“ ‘"° "Kul which open Into the old regime of the czar, when men were arbitrarily seized ‘phese nasal headaches, as they , thrown into oe given a farcical hearing, convicted, are commonty called, are eurprie- @ away with. ingly common. Everyone wi a ey was convicted on doubtful testimony—testi-|Periwent headache for proven, after the trial, to have tainted with| ocxed a possible source of trouble . Because this proof had not come forth. during but came later, the courts of California held that) gael ae the injustice done Mooney; they could |,” ‘even give him a new trial. _ Can you wonder that lovers of Liberty and Democracy, askance upon the Mooney case, especially when the lal judge himself, feeling the doubts of Mooney’s guilt,| tommends a new trial, but is helpless himself to grant it?| | From the very beginning of our relations with New! ia, more than a year ago, the United States found the! y barrier erected against it in Russian liberal circles. | was this vaunted American freedom and justice?” ca’s representatives were asked. “Look at your Mooney case,” the Russians would ss n you can do is to give him a new trial, hove the cloud of suspicion that he is being cial interests.” who has not USE OF TOBACCO F. kn “Will the use of cause hardening of the ar- Not necemarily, if used in mod- ration only. HE KEEPS DEPOSIT Editor The Star: What do you think of an apartment house man ger that dees business in this way? I called him up one day, inquiring and | tor an apartment. I was told there railroaded | would be one vacant in t five 80 I paid a deposit 0. The apartment was still occupied, and he is why President Wilson has become so Vitally| Sound not have lost any money in erested in the Mooney case. Convinced himself, by) iiving the depoait buck. but the day Teport of the U. S. labor commission, that an in-|after giving this amount I returned ce had been done Mooney, he has thrown himself into) *?¢ kindly asked for it, but was told breach. So far he has failed to achieve results. | ness, and he would net think of stv owl be that until the Mooney case is settled, Amer-|ing any of it back ence in Russia will be delayed? I had @ good reasan for not taking the apartm . for my wife received a telegram of sickness from another If the apartment was vacant i he was losing money, nd our jrent had started, it would have been a different thing, but I call this high. Baby. tanks are helping big tanks beat the Huns, d that isn’t all—baby Yanks here at home are saving ft Stamps and food for the big Yanks “over there.” way robbery es} | Hoping this certain square fellow When the first American soldiers, taken captive by the|” @HPYARD WORKER mans, arrived at the German prison camp at Tuchel, in| wv issia, they found 360 10-pound packages of food| |. NO HOPE waiting them. No, indeed, the Huns didn’t send that ood H wise crcan, Ser hain abc aes American Red Cross did. That's how they are spending| ” Passer» of abla iy you ir money, the dollars you give to Red Cross, and that’s| next week they will spend other dollars you may give. Beggar a sick a job Too late! She'll be to go to work herself by | Transcript. able then Col. Geo. Harvey complains because all we're doing to win the war is “just fighting.” Ever hear of winning a war without that? sic Semper Tyrannis | _ The Limelight on the European Stage at the Theatre of far is proving mighty uncomfortable for Germany. She| fallen down in every role. The Opening Night of her r “Dove Play” soon to the produced, will see the Curtain Defeat rung down before the first “notes” of the “Peace ture” reach us! We are quitting the retail busine Men's Furnishings, Hata and Sho cluded In the atock are a lot of First ave, store, Everything muat be 3 Men's Buits to $45 values i They don’t seem to realize it, but one of the things | _ we're fighting for is freedom, for German people, for- : Tever, which they'll never get if their kaiser wins, | 5 values well for $1% for Working Shirts, gray , Looks much like General Depression had assumed command of the Austrian forces. Me Among the few who are sore at the Federal Trade | Commission is old Hy Cost O’Living. | Fur WOULD fly if the Federal Trade Commission ever got after the rent profiteer! ir Columbia's the gem of the ocean. German U-boat's |} + the germ of the ocean. ft BELOW THE BARG 222 Occid Waste prevents haste in winning the war. Editor's Mail) | co: sme: no; that was not the way he did buat. | MUST SELL Everything Must Go—Wholesale and Retail WE OYFER THE WHOLE STOCK AT %5¢ ON THE DOLLAR SAVE MONEY—BUY NOW These Prices Will Move the Goods SALE BEGINS $20 A. M. DAILY AND CONTINUES UNTE Kverything Must Be Sold Kegardiens of Price. Corner, at Main 6t-—Don't Miss the Place, STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918. PAGE6 WORK O be It Costs Less to Feed Men Than Animals—That’s Why. Wages on Farms Boosted to 50 Cents a Day. One horse in the Unit: | about every four in Inhabitants! od States for habitants! No wonder the work which horses do in Ame « is done in Japan by men And that Is not the whole story, by any means. In the av ‘erage | Amerioan city the horse seema al | mont extinct, Gasoline vehicles have | replaced him Americans are buying gasoline commercial vehicles at the rate of about 80,000 a year, There ust be half a million motor com. | vehicles In service in the United States The Japanese army has some mo- tor trucks, Outside of that, they are no few a8 not to be worth mention. Indeed, the gasoline-propelled com mereial vehicle is usually called an army truck in Japan Farm Tractors Unknown And still another point ‘The farm tractor is common in in American farm yards, They are practioally unheard of in Japan, That in what the horseless age means in Japan Outside of the railroads, It Is prac- tleally a steamless and gasoline en gincless age as well, It And this ) has gone « long way on the path of economic and industrial development, she has still quite » distance to travel before she will be on a plane comparable with Ameri. can advancement Imagine the streets of your home city entirely stripped of motor trucks, practically stripped of horses, with only a few pleasure au ONE STEP Irving Cobb tells of the first time volunteers we over the top. HORS EANDM ! | The Japanese are their own beasts of burden because it costs lex | American felds, the gasoline engine | tm feed a man than a draft animal, Even when animals are used, the @river Invariably walks to spare his precious helper. | tomoblles! Picture men a ing almost all the haulin, and boys do: £, of people and goods, up to wood and coal, tel ephone poles and iron castings. That ix a picture of Japan today—even Tokyo. But even in this respect Japan country of marvelous progress, has advanced Perry days, there were no whee All goods were carr n backs, Then came the wh fcle pulled by men. Now there wheeled ve hicles pulled nes, with the driver walking, Next will ride in the wagon FORWARD Instantly taneously every man of the command took one step forward. Aye, and t# there one in France Who would set aside Nay! hia chance? how eager they advance One Step Forward! One step forward That the spirit ‘That the mark and that the merit Whieh Americana tn hertt One Step Forward! Let ue lay the words to heart, We In the fighting lines who may not take a part ; ati) start One Step Forward! We've a record, too, to make Yor our own and otherw sake; All united, let us take One Step Forward! One step forward, al ye men. Here and now, as there and then. So again, and yet again! One Step TUL the pirate-fings Forward! are furied And thelr cohorts backward hurled Then advances all the world One Step Forward! (Copyright, 1918. : the driver And gradu usked for to go “1 only want 45 men,” sald the major, “and no one need consider it incumbent upon himself to go, for thi extra duty, but any | who want to go may advance one step forward.” and simul. ESSAY ON PANTS Pants are made for men and not Women are made for for pants, When a man pants for a woman and a wom an pants for a man, that makes a pair of pants. Pants are like mo lanes the are thinner in hot weather and thicker in cold weather. ‘There hae been much discussion as to whether panta i« singular or plural, Seema to us that when men wear pants it Is plural, and when they don't wear pants it is singular. If you want to make the pants last, make the coat first—-Ladies’ Home Journal | men and not gas | CONFIDENCE | “Do think | faat in the army?” “I'm sure of it,” replied her hus ban you Josh is learning ou know he never stood at the head of his classes “I'm not stood anywhere, I'm thinking about the way he always kept goin’ in a football game STYLE CHANGED f daughter isn't much help to you “t won't do a thing about the house. The time was when she used to sweep the floor with her skirts occasionally, but now I don’t (get even that much “uasistance from | her.” OUT We have placed our entire le at absolute sinughter pric In- med ple brought over from our nold at lean than coat. Men's Work and Dress sh ] valuen to well at Hhoes to $8 values at Bhoes to $5 values at , take your plek for .. Felt Hats to $3 for ‘ lot, take your choice all kinds, choles BOL AIN STORE ental Ave. | | thinking about how he rm Socnnssecioateeed tate LATEST MOTHER SERIES mm GOOSE Master Join Horner, aged 4, stead of mt the family bie, this being necessary because Mrs. Horner's parents dining ta- and three sisters and four brothers were | kuests at the dinner and crowded the table so greatly that there was no room for little Master John, who ts dohn. | known in the neighborhood as Jack, was | quite content to sit alone rt the table while dining heartily on turkey, mashed potatoes, celery and rye bread, this limited menu being served beeanse ners are enlisted in Mr. Hoove of food conservers. army when dessert was rea the Hor. at hed little dack left the table and sat down | and began to eat his pie, « small mince affa mother had baked for in a corner of the dining room Christmas ir that his him alone, While eating It, Jack inserted his right thumb in the pie | a plum. Well, well,” said I | “Who ever heard of » Christmas pie?” “That was intended and pulled ite Jack, plum in a as a sur. | prise,” said Mrs, Horner. dack looked at the bey am I" Mr. Horner was so plum seri- ously and cried, “What a bully delighted with the cleverness of his boy's comment that he took a photo- corner and gazing at He intends to send a the plum. picture to former President Roosevelt—if the film turns out all right—and | | | graph of the Iad sitti | | | will also tell | | | | Ing in the | | | him about little derstands how to use Mr. Rooxe- | | | | dack’s remark, as it shows he un- | | i velt's favorite adjective correctly, | | { oe ane staan THE TAILOR'S F; A young lady sat on the plazza of | Arende Dida. —2 AULT |her pretty home one afternoon, busi |ly employed in plying her needle: a j coat of her husband's was in her lap The husband presently appeared Looking up, she said fully. less way ydur taflor put to him, fret “It's too bad, Robert, the care. this button jon. This i# the fifth time I've had to sew it on for you.”—Ladies’ Home Journal HIS SUGGESTION “No,” sald the positive never tie myself down t “Perhaps,” he replied, ly, “if L organize a will consider our offi airl, “I will 0 one nan,” sarcastioal an the demand for man-power in mines and an the motor ve ally elsewhere—in and on ships» roads are improved hicle wil e into 4 In Japan today, however, men are still cheaper than horses. The mar ket value of a human being Is rela tively low, It costs lens to feed men. In Japan, a population over half that of the United States Ives in an area about equal to that of the single state of California, which supports 3,000,000 people. More important, Japan, like California, is mountain ous, and not a much greater percent the WITH GOOD REASON “The Lord knows how the fellow made his fortune } Ah! No wonder he "0 worrted! MUSCLES FELT LIKE THEY WERE TIED IN KNOT, HE DECLARES That Is Exactly the Way Tindall Says His Rheu- matism Acted. | “tet nei ln » ist ta Ine in my fe ull © six weeks ago, but I have ree more bene always looks fit from the three t I have just finished than from ail the other medicines ve taken put to gether,” raid George KR. Tindall, of 6002 18th av 1 Seattle, th other ¢. Mr. Ty in employ at the Bkinner & Eddy shipyards. Yor several * he contin ued, “I suffered te y from muscu lar rheumatiam and kidney trouble The muscles of my right arm would draw up at the elbow, and feel like they were tied in a knot. I had no appetite and the little I forced down didn’t do me much, if any, good. My } kidneys worried me night and day, I had an awful misery up and down my spine, and my back right over my kidneys would hurt so bad that If I stooped over it would almost kill me to straighten up again. 1 couldn't reat well at night, and many «a time I would wake up at mifinight, and never sleep another wink the balance of the night, then my bhck would start hurting #o bad that I could hardly get up out of! bed. “I guene I have taken mont every kind of medicine sold without get }tng a bit of relief. and I was in Mighty bad shape when I decided to | nee if Tanlac would help me. Well }I can honestly say that I haven't | had an ache or a pain aince sh ; after I #tarted on Tanlac 1 sleep Uke a log at night, and my wife tells j me that I'm liable to eat us both out of house and home if I keep on with | the appetite Tanlac has given me. I way feel so well that and hearty in every I have told the boys do u shipyard how has done for experience wi! ing others who may have troubles j ke I had.” } | ‘Tanlac ts sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under the personal di-| | rection of a special Tanlac represent | ative. —Advertisement | Will Teach You the Shortest Way to a Good Position BE, N, Forman NORTHWESTERN BUSINESS | COLLEGE And Northwestern Shorthand Report! School Olv Service Advanced Grammar NIGHT SCHOOL Mondny, Wednesda TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street [ACHINE IN JAPAN Tractors Are Unknown ae of the land iw le plenty,” and why J: n has a “horse Only 16,000,000 acres, or about 15 |} age” of a uni re, which per cent of the area of Japan, are ieans are hardly fitted to under- now under cultivation. About 600, | stand 00,000 acres are under cultivation in Obviously, true democracy and the United States sovial equality have a In Japan, ¢ sore of tilled ground path when millions of men are for eve ur inhabitants! horses. In the United & on, more There bs the jinrikisha point of fi q improved farm land view—the point of view of the ever tant | man who rides in a vehicle an It in not to be wondered at that Japan, with less than one twentieth of America’s of cultivated ground per capita, has no valuable crop-producing apace to give up to growing food Milk and Beef Scarce It in beef in the national diet. In Japan there ar 222,000 swine th are 50,000,000 sheep 000 wwine Facts | fea came ke these explain to be called “t HOGE BUILDING Home of this Bank jo not figure very largely 00 wheep and In the United States other man is pulling. panning | Japan. amount Jinrikisha Passing | just as in Kansan, Hut the jinrikisha point of view is with the jinrikisha age in ‘Things Uke street cars are level fo rsee—or other domestic an ern, democratizers, Where there were imals, 40,000 to 60,000 Jinrikishas in Tokyo In the United States there are 20 years ago, there are not one-tenth more than 61,000,000 cattle—a cow that number now, There are few for every one and one-half inhabi- rikisha men in the emailer towns— tants. In Japan there are 1,387,000 in some places none. | cattle-—a cow for every 40 people, There is a shortage of farm labor, Farmers who | used to pay hired workers 20 cents 4 mt strange that milk and | day, now fail to get needed labor in | busy seasons for 60 cents a day. ‘The factories are calling—calling all over power ts being absorbed. and 64,000, ple were farmers how Amer-| ix now placed at he land of | fifths. Our Supreme Duty Is in keeping our af- fairs, our health and our minds vigorous and wholesome. This is necessary in order to win the good fight for democracy and freedom. Start an ac- count with the Union Savings & Trust Com- will give you confidence and strength for the pres- it pany — ent and future. Interest paid on Savings Accounts. and owned by the Bank. In t UNION SAVINGS & TRUST COMPANY OF SEATTLE HOGE BUILDING he Heart of the Financial Dis Co-operate with this menace from yo The Governmen: fresh air in dust comes in. With the O-Cedar Polish Mop you collect this dust. At the same time you polish your floors you Then there is the work you save. No more getting down on your hands and knees. No mor to dust the high places. banishes this hard banishes the dust me it does both at the same time Your floors and work will fairly gliste: every atom of dust be removed. Ask for the new Battleship Model. Your satisfaction guaranteed or / your money / refunded. its fight against germ-laden dust. Banish the home but when keep the windows open in summer the Acall dealers. / Channell Chemical Company CHICAGO - TORONTO - LONDON The Dust Menace the Government in ur home. t advocates plenty of you 1 beautify them. ¢ climbing on chairs work as it nace—and wood- nand will /, / the world, Japan's labor Only a few years ago fourfifths of Japan's peo Their percentage jens than three owe | | i