The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1918, Page 6

PAGE 6 {THE SEATTLE STAR] 1307 Seventh Ave, Near Union St. SCRIPTS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS Welenraph News Service of the t ———— Entered as Second-Class Matter May Seattle, Wash. under the Act of By mal th; } months, $1.18 $ , out of city, « F, $4.00, in the State of Washington, Outside Tronth, $4.80 for € months, or 88.00 per y Fablishea Daily by The star Put exchan, ed Vrenn Association 1899, atthe ress March # montha, $2.10; state, The per ty, B06 mo. per me School Board Again Seattle schoolboard members turned thumbs down on men teachers again Wednesday afternoon. Judge Win-| moved that the women be awarded “equal pay for equal rk.” But no one seconded the motion. How long will these smug directors be blind and deaf to rit of modern democracy? | t’s hard to answer. In the meantime thinkers in cities are not deaf and blind. 2 The Fresno Morning Republican prints the following} : } “Up in Seattle they are facing an interesting conflict of modern fem | and standpat masculinism. The teachers of the Seattle high schools @ for an increase of salary, The board granted the increase to Men teachers and refused it to the women, The women protested Mf the cost of living had gone up for the men ft had gone up equally The school board retorted t they were considering not the ‘of living, but supply and demand men teachers could get other ‘and the women couldn't. The women anawered that perhaps they $00, but that this was not the question. If the value of men's serv the needs of men's living bad inc od, wo had theirs, and they equal treatment. So the deadlock stands, members of the Seattle school board are very likely to find Gefeated, even in the tribunal to which they appeal-—-the law of @nd demand. For if there are other places calling for men, so are % for women, and especially for trained women i “But that is not the whole question. While women can quit teaching BF Of them will prefer not to do so, while some of the men will rather the opportunity. It is to keep even a sprinkling of men in the that men’s salaries have been kept up. But is it necessary to Re @xceptional efforts to keep them tn war time? Men are being dis by Women in many other oce tions, Why expect teaching, the feminized occupation of all, to be an exception? If an increase is just pie Just to all. And if equality of increases loses more men proportion than women, it is only what is happening everywhere. The schools the place where it will do least harm.” The great conflict seems to have developed three of gain—the species Me und GOTTen, the sort Ill-| and the kind Forgotten. For the first, Hindenburg, Ludendorff and the im-| crown prince mass their minions and build a slaugh- ge behind them so they cannot retreat from the ahead. | Then follows a grandstand play to appease the restive) populace. A few hundred yards are advanced, a price ‘lif crifice paid for each inch that exceeds in worth y rod of sod secured. | jut Bloody Bill offers thanks for the nation, for the itself finds naught to be thankful about, truth, each drive may well add to their apprehen- Tt weakens them and strengthens our determination ble Berlin upon their thick skulls. are quickeners of defeat. tten, plain-rotten gains are those that line of the profiteer. Uncle Sam at home must be a “gun-packer” to “get” H packer, leather slacker and their ilk. Money-filchers who rob those who give a son to face) or a daughter, who ’mid slaughter staunches| and eases pain—corporate thieves who victimize who place protecting bodies twixt them and the Hell, we, must crush without mercy, as would the horde were it to pass! 3 Forgotten, or overlooked gains are those which ke this horrible holocaust an inevitable victory for the cause and a perpetual blessing to all. is the purification by fire. It is the vestibule to #% Brotherhood of Man about which dreamers dream and prate. _ As steel is welded under intense heat and at pressure 80 will the unification of mankind be accomplished hate-fanned flame at the forge of war ‘neath the blows of Mars’ mighty sledge. us to the task with a will, steeled in the strength! ight, tempered by Justice, keeping always before us goal—FREEDOM, FOR ALL, FOREVER! hwab’s Messag: e | “These are not the days when we stop to ask what a $ politics or his religion may be. We only ask! ther he is a true American citizen.”—Charies M. Schwab speaks truly. This is not the time to harbor old prejudices. We fighting for liberality and broad-mindedness. If Mr. i b retained in his present capacity as head of the pad ency Fleet Corporation the same prejudices against sm as he held as a private individual as president of steel corporation, God help the country. Equally so, if unions refused to accept Schwab today in his govern- ital capacity, we would be in a sorry plight. Schwab is devoting himself to government interests . That is all we are concerned with. He is at the, d of a mighty work. Let us give him the same en- jusiastic support that he himself lends to the job. You Save You Serve Tn ordinary peaceful times our merchants were inclined) be a bit wasteful in the matter of deliveries, return of credits and multiplicity of sales people. This they to please their customers. It cost money. It wasted and labor. It increased the cost of living. But these are war days. The government insists that ing is a prime ingredient in good Americanism; that is pro-Germanism. We must save time, money, We must help others to save time, money and . Then there will be more time, more labor and more for war winning efforts. ag Every parcel carried home labor and ) Money. Every purchase returned store wastes time, labor and money. ag Time, money or labor lost decreases the nation’s war ‘efficiency. This is just as true whether you lose them ' or aid your merchant in wasting them. American waste here at home wastes American lives over there. ew Anthems for Old “It is ridiculous,” says the Berlin Lokal Anzeig 4 to give their noblest expression of patriotism to “God Save the King.’ A new national anthem is needed.”| It isn’t quite up to regular HUN Kultur either. We're ing for some German composer to get up a “The King Save Gott” that'll properly stir the HUN conception of the eternal fitness of things. get it up in a hurry, too. ‘Most any old national anthem is going to be plenty for Germany, before long. saves time, to the Banker Stephens, of Monroe, former state senator, and his son are under arrest as draft evaders. Evident- ly they weren't banking on Uncle Sam's sleuths. Judge Winsor is past 80, but at that he prefers to look thru his own eyes at school board meetings. Can you blame him? The arming of U.S. hospital ships is suggested. We suppose “HE SEATTLE STAR-—THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1918. While visiting at Toddy's bed, When he was sick one day, he sald “When I grow up, I'm going to be A doctor my own self, You'll see! e T bestest doctor ever wuz! And I #han't do like doctors does. If boys can't sleep, or have bad dreama, I'm going to give ‘em choolate creama Instead of medicine—and then I'll give ‘em choclate creams again “And in that little satchelcase That doctors bring from place to place, Instead of things the druggist makes I'm going to give raisin cakes Afd caraway cookies made with spice And tarts and everything that's nice, i be no goed a doctorman That fotk's call me all they can Not when they're sick, but every day, And I'll get pennies for my pay, And drive a great big auto, too, Just like the sure-‘nough doctors do And walk right up and ring the bell And nay ‘How do? I hope you're well, Hut if you ain't, perhaps you'll try This nice big piece of lemon ple “And If you get the fever’n-chills, I won't give little bott I'll give you pep and sampartily And icecream nody, with vanilly And if that kind don't make y I'll send the drug* man to tell The soda clerk to wend you quick (Because you're awful, AWFUL nick), HOW ABOUT JAPANESE-GERMAN ALLIANCE? Knisely Says the Answer Today Depends Upon the Future Attitude Taken by America By Burton Knisely (Copyright, 1918, Newspaper Enter- prise Aassoctation) TOKYO, July 18.—THere is one of the biew questions in the world today Will Japan eventually become Ger. many's ally? d war's biggent question, It Virtually af fects the entire) future of democ racy Such an ance would the biggest imag inable crisis in) both Americar and Pritish for eign — relations| and policies, Such an alli ance might per manently men ace all western Uberty with a GermanizedJapanized, | militarized Orient | Japan needs a friend | culating, exploiting frfend! She needs fa true, unselfish, fifty-fitty friend | Such « friend she MUST HAVE | If America doen pt or cannot ex.) tend acrows the Pacific the absolute |ly frank and open palm of honest |friendship, and if Japan cannot or | does not with like genuineness ac | cept that hand—then there is grave danger indeed, in the view of one| branch of Japanese thought, that the Japanese will feel themselves forcer, Japanese will feel themselves forced, sock the Teutonic ally dapan Not a Unit Ttather—not to seek, but merely to laccept the partnership Germany ‘ot a cal = i, -— AT WORLDS CROSSROADS YOUTHFUL NIPPON BIG BROTHER, BELOVED AMERICA— OK FEARED GERMANY? assured an even commercial oppor-|German commercial outlines. And tunity in Japan, as in Germany, a few men Me und GOTTen , All kinds of flavors he can fi From his whole You get the kin And then PLL (Copyright, 1918, N. BE Rookie-—-There’s a young lady wants to entertain a soldier from thie camp every Tuesday night, sir She says she will serve cake and hot chocolate, and will sing and ail that Shall I go? Sergeant reas? No, What's her ad eee Under the new tax scheme a tax in to be placed on gasoline and is to be paid by the wholesaler, And he fountain-equirt, you like the bast rink up all the rest! AD leagerty offers now, and will offer | Jurt an eagerly after the war unless woul | Germ ny im thoroly democratized. | It ts also true that one rection of | Jagamese opinion denies this would! lever be possible, | unit | Some men believe now, and more | | will believe when the world war in ended, that Japan is the pivot on which civilization’s future swings in | the coming generation Wi wh balance of power between | Orient and Oceident swing into the |ecamp of western liberaliam’? | Or will Japan, for the anke of her |own expansion and even ber exist. | | ence, regurd herself an forced to help | perpetuate in the future in the east . | what Germany has meant in the past A WORD FROM | ang still means in the present in the JOSH W wert-—namely, political and military WISH | reaction? Where ignor. Japan stands at the parting of the ance ts bliss, no-| Ways. She CAN choose forever now body feels th’ size She MUST choose forever SOON uy th’ big bill, is not # Japan She HAS chosen for the present the Al Amerion — democracy Wil she, will they, make that happy choice valid for the future? Or wil! | Japan have to change her course? Eyes Turned Eastward Horror of Socialism At one time Russia, after gorging | herself on Manchuria and Inner Mon olin, had reached out her hand to grab Korea and aim it as a dagger at Japan's heart. At least, Japan felt her national entity was endangered by this impending, vital thrust. Ans & revult, she fought the RussoJap Anese war Will Russia again be a threat to Japan? In either of the extremes of her ponsible development—ye In the golden mean of independent dem oeratic government which the United States expecta in Russia and la work ing to bring about there—no. But the one extreme of permanent Bolabevikiem Japan, a monarchy only sixty years away from feudal iam, where only a mmall percentage of the men have the vote, with the old customs #till in part surviving and with such a “holy horror” of fsocialinm that a Japanese Bolehevik would be watched by the police for ten years—the one extreme of per manent Holshevikiam Japan ts -not ready to assimilate. can control | So nome foreigners in the Far East think Japan is at heart pro-German, | and is eager to ally herself with Ger many. | Maybe so. But I hold rather to tho view that in Japan it is the fear, in stead of the wish, that is father to the thought of a German allience wherever tbat thought xists. Washington and Tokyo are 7,000 milen apart, on opposite mdes of the world. They see things differently Few well-informed men in Washing: | ton believe Germany will permanent ‘iy control Russia, Bat many well informed men In Tokyo believe it. Alliance Not Impossible ‘The Japanese believe this, and therefore perhaps would rather be friends than foes of a power pene trating thru Rinesia tnto China. But tho they may copy Germany I do not think they love her. I think they believe Germany, unless conciliated, would squeete Japan lke a lemon if she gained power in Russia. well remember how the German am: They | The other extreme of a Russia | bassador with insulting arrogance, dominated, whatever the apparent Openly threatened war unless Japan form and method of her government, | *Urrendered the fruits of her victory will pay it by raising the price to the retailer, who will raise the price to the consumer, who will thus be able to dodge it. No? All right, have your own way about it | (From the Berlin Deutsche Zeitung) The Germans are now becoming & coastal people. The sea has jong been the object of their ardent longing. The Haltic and the North sea must be developed into one gigantic port for the German fleet From this fleet basis outwards the longing of the German people for unchecked freedom on the seas French girls will be realized. The German peo- He—Why do you think that? ple cannot have too many coasta She—Hecause you've improved so This is a much more important coe point than even the posseasion of spooning, announces the curator of all the fleet bases in the world. the Cleveland Museum of Art, is in From Reval to the Flanders coast istic. Mebby eo. But it’s natural to Antwerp, aye, to Calais, the nm eee must constitute one great German lake. ‘The house “Well, to tell de truff, we's kin’ o’ short on help up here."—Ladies’ Home Journal. eee Foreign Rehearsals (to her returned fou've been making love soldier) to those She art K. TW. senda it Unele Sam's inaistent call for hogs, Properly an appeal to the farmer, Suggests to my non-bucolic mind signed. We have begun the work Fleeting visions of Swift and Ar of jt# construction; we shall bring mour, it to a successful conclusion, only Lo wilike the internal peace must ro There are some men so lazy they stored. won't work. They'll fight first LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PACKERS CAMOUFLAGE E The Star: ‘The report of the federal trade commission which recently told us of the war profits made by various concerns, sald the average pre-war profits of the Armour, Swift, Morris and Cudahy eat packing concerns was $19,000 000. for the three years, were $57,000,000; in 1915, 1916 and 1917 were $140,000,000. plan for the new German has been approved and |now $105, the been instead of $100, extra $5, which might paid in dividends has been added to the $100 I originally put in (we'll pretend there’s no water here, tho there actually ts in some of the packing concerns), Thin money representa profits—a benefit to the stockhoider—just as surely as if the money were paid in divi dends, despite the efforts of the packers to give a contrary impres- sion, since itor have or This great increase was not due to any great increase in volume of business, but rather to higher prices, and the profits increased two and a half times as much as the sales increased—these are official conclusions. These packing companies, the Wilson company (recently ac Editor The Star cused of cheating the United States was lied to by the agents of the Sun government in sales to army CAMPS) wet Reading club, of San Francisco, issued a statement on July 9 which 5 appeared in all the papers, trying to show that the report miarepr sented actual conditions, Yet this NOEL SARGENT, 1624 Fifth ave. W. Professor of Fconomica, St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn, with x Tam one who I read your piece in the paper 1, stating Sunset. The agent told me he was July the facts about the | } ‘The anwwer hangs on four factors: 1. The reformation of Germany, and the establishment of President by an unreformed Germany would be to Japan next door a menace which the world, Wiison’s democratic world program | against the effects, even at the other | \™! by complete, and not half-way, allied | ends of oceans of that evil, can well | success in the war. understand. And this is what Japan 2. The protection of Ruswla, some- | fears. jin the war with China. In this war the Japanene have now fighting | been loyal to their alliance with Eng nd. ‘They have not done more than the alllance calls for, But they were hardly in @ position to. I think they want this bond to hold in the future and to be loyal to it ot |bow, against German domination, | growing from economic into political | land military control. | | 3. The government of Japan by | those who look ahead instead of by | those who look backward—in order that she may deserve America’s con | fidence. 4, That confidence merited, then thorogoing cooperation between | America and Japan Just now America’s eyes are turned eastward, to the trenches of | | Burope, where her sons are fighting. | Ten years, five years, three years, \30 years after the world war ts eottled—if it in REALLY settled, as we feel it must be—Japan and the Orient will be America’s biggest foreign problem. To me that the world war tarues stay settied, and even to effect that sottiement, we Americans would do well to turn @ Hittle more atten tion toward Japan today, to weld more closely into the allied chain this vital link. To lock the barn door of allied diplomacy after Germany has stolen | the Japanese horse, would be short- xighted If you are an active American citizen who believes that high priv- ilege means more than enjoying free schools and raving about clean atreets, and If you will take a map. put your pencil point on the ts lands of Nippon and do a little thinking, the situation will quickly unfold itself to you Must Have Security The British tales of the Orient, Japan stands at the western edge of the Pacific and at the eastern edge of the continent of Asia. In these two things—that land and those waters—ahe is interested, pri- marily Which affects, future in likely tiny most? Well, Fritain's destiny—the Europe, or the Atlantic what Hes on ite other shor Two things Japan absolutely must Have, whatever the cost, however | they are obtained: the first—secur- ity against political and military ag from. Asia; the second—a even chance for Asta's ‘trade and the right of immigra- tion there. For these two things are life and independence for Japan. She might want more, tho she «ays | she does not. She might want, her self, political and military domina tion in Asia, and special trading ad vantages. Most European nations In an's place, would, Indeed, most uropean nations, without Japan's souities, have, But more means and which in the affect, her dew. which rules continent of ocean, and | creasion fair and Fow Can Control Above all, I think Japan realizes In form of government, in political | America is her natural ally. I think thought, In economic methods, in the Japan, despite American discrimina- worship of industrial efficiency and tion against Japan, admires and loves in military organization Japan {s| America more than she does any nearer Germany than she is to the | other power. western allies. She copied Germany’s| How shall the United States con- army plan. “You'd newer dream ut ewas ewashed!” | Japan, and continue to receive from Japan the loyalty due a good big | brother? There are many ways—but one & enough to mention now * | By either completely whippitg |Germany, or at least by fighting her to a standstill, to a point when, ery- ing quits, she is willing to subscribe at a peace conference to conditions which eliminate her as a menace in European Russia and in Asia From Tokyo it becomes plainer even than in Washington how vital necessary it is that the program enunciated by President Wilson ax America’s war aims be carried across the goal. For that program is a universs! |formula, Everywhere it dykes back the flood of war, which otherwise may always break thru some other weak spot in the levees of peace. It, and it alone, is a simple and hap- py solution of the relations of na- ona. If Germany should win—unthink- able to Americans—or if she should emerge unaltered, keeping her grip on Russia, a Japanese-German alli- ance would be by no means impos sible. vocational year, under the Smith-Hughes tional act. This is $651,873.72 last year's figures, Under the law, the different states are required to Guplicate the sum. The allotments include: Washington, $27,614.44; Oregon, $16,142.18 Idaho, $15,000 California, She has copied many tinue to be a worthy big brother to $58,021.64. Sweaters just like new sweaters HEY washed their themselves——right at home! With wonderful Lux suds! And they came out soft—flufty— not a bit shrunken—just like the day they were bought! 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