The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE 1207 Seventh Ave, Near Union OF SCHIPPS NORTHWEST LEAG| —_— ~ - Entered as Second-Class Matter May Seattle, Wank. under the Act of Congre: By mail, ont of cit Year, $6.00, tn t month, $4.60 for eemeeen 26.50 for | the Postoffice at reh 3, 187D, ® Railway Employes’ Chance ‘ For many years railway employes complained of the treatment they received at the hands of their employers. Wages were not high enough and working conditions were not what they should have been. Under private ownership and operation they were dissatisfied. te Now they are working for Uncle Sam. That's dif- ferent. They, a part of the government, are laboring under - the direction and contro! of the government. In other words, they are working for themselves. : Possibly, after the war, those who made huge profits will set up a hue and cry for the return of the roads to : private operation. On the other hand, there will be many who will insist that the government go a step farther and “become the owner as well as the operator of all American railway lines, every mile of trackage, every engine, freight and passenger coach. It will be a hard and bitter fight tween the two. Railroad workers have profited by government opera- tion. Their pay envelopes are fatter, and their working conditions better, considering the abnormal war times. They - stand to gain more in the future. And they stand a chance to lose most of what they have gained if the railroads are _ turned back to private operation. They have everything to and nothing to lose by the keeping of the railroads in Uncle Sam's hands. Therefore, it is to the railway employes’ interest to government opération a success. If it is not a success ' the rail barons will have a good argument to advance — peace-time government ownership. By success we not count only the dollars. Successful railroad opera- _ tion means also the pleasing of the people, those who ride in passenger coaches and those who ship or receive freight, F d those who in other ways come into contact with the The people will never consent to turn back the roads they — satisfied with the way our government has em. Railway employes can help to bring this satisfied feel- into the hearts of the people by what they do and it they refrain from doing. There is no doubt but that £ d workers are doing their work faithfully and well, if we merely measure actual labor performed. But are they me a bit farther and fostering this desire for a continu- ation of government operation? A. H. Smith, regional director of the eastern territory, forward with a complaint. He says many railroad oyes and subordinate officials are less polite than they under private management; that they harbor a dis- tion to slight the reasonable needs of the public. He ts for more courtesy. Just how near right Smith is we do not know. It may e that some railway employes, heavily burdened with extra ir work, have forgotten that the public still is paying the tht and buying the tickets. But these, we feel sure, not figured it out that the whole future of the rail- business in America lies in the hollow of their hands. can make govern They, more than all others, will benefit by continued | successful government operation. It is their big chance! ove that government operation of ra’ pays—in ollars We believe that most of them see their lance and are making the best of it. All should. Headlines declare Germany scared white. German, couldn't be “white” no matter how scared! 4 4 War experts advise us to “keep your eyes peeled for _master air drive by the allies on Berlin.” Maj. Gen. . S. Bransker, now in this country, says it will soon be tical and attempted. m We'll keep our eyes peeled, but such a drive would) ighter so many women and children that we’re bound to shudder at the prospects. However, the raid may be || War necessity and the bombers may hit the cellar which the kaiser and his six sons are hiding. But, if the bombers want to please us all thru, let ‘ bomb Essen and the Krupp works therein. Essen Asn’t nearly so distant as Berlin and we guarantee that, the Krupp works are put out of business, the effect upon _Morale will be all that could be desired. It is I ly intimated by the socialists of Germany that there’s lot of profiteering in the Krupp concern. Nothing is for a war profiteer than a bomb. It’s all right to “spread” thickest where profits are. The Glory of It There is no greater war news than the official an- _ Rouncement that in July Uncle Sam broke all world records “he launching 123 new ships of 631,944 deadweight tonnage. one month, the launchings were ater than fi whole year in the past. ee ee Just as soon as Uncle Sam strikes his gait, irec- Ag odeding is gait, in any direc. “Too late!” said the boss Hun, war taxes, but spread 'em er. when America declared “Lafayette, we are here,” said Pershi of + openly great French champion. € are going to brand Pershing’s truth upon the b: of the Huns, and, when Peace comes, we are poet raga Samaritan for all civilization. There's present and ture glory in our shipyards. ng, at the grave Cleveland is going to boost hone: i. tute. Sounds like it might BEE a good ideg on” “ues Pass Ford? You have seen the big, gaudy, luxurious cars speed as they approached the unassuming F yh es them flit by. But what was the ae ae Pome ‘one Ford, another is just ahead of them Looks like this is also going to be the case in Michigan year, so far as the senatorship is concerned. {t makes politicians wild. But politics, in some eases, like other * ee are changed by the war. And it appears now that ‘a e republicans and the democrats will find it difficult pass up Ford. _If the republicans should do so, what'll be the use? Ford will just be ahead of them in the other party. Epon have hp pad lightship. The kaiser has now bagger every sort of craft, save i pg oe gett ve a canoe and a blind Milan has made up a purse of $200,000 which goes to the Italian troops who won the battle of- iav Wonder where they're expected to . eg pe rg spend it—in Berlin? Help Seattle attain ite proper W. S. S. Thrift Stampe. tes f*graak vend “Back Beyond Berlin” sugge , Hun slogan. ys agested as appropriate Soon Right also will be Might on the West Front. t operation an all-around suc-| As soon as they pass| THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1918. Crossing the Pond’ With the Yanks By the Author of 4 | Z| | “Camp Comedies.” | | | | | | } The second million vanguard “crammed” all the way across. | a ” » TWO KINDS or “LOVE—BOTH GooD Annie came over this morning |looking very pale and worn. The boy has seemed to sap all her life she has never been very well since he was born. | “He is the apple of his father's eyes, Mins Margaret, and I hope I'm going to live long enough to set him right.” she said ; What do you | anked. | “¥ou see, he te so much |father that 1 know when he gets a | ttle older they will fight like Kil kenny cate.” | “Maybe not, Annie,” I said, trying | to comfort her. | “Why, don’t you know, Miss Mar guret, that while, as my old grand mother used to may, ‘Irish are some | times uncertin’. it is only some times; most of the time they are cer. tain, and one of the things they are certain about is an Irresistible desire | to play life like a gue, and play as tho their hope of eternity depended on the result of each trick which | they take from those they love beat | An Irishman fs either a fighter or a | diplomat. Tim is a fighter, and I am afraid the boy is ke him. | “I wish Tim only cared for him in the same way he cares for me. I sometimes think it does not do to love a child too much.” “What do you mean, Annie? IT am that Tim adores you?" ‘No, dear, it is the around. I adore him. Why, Minn Margaret, I just set out to marry | Tim Lafferty, and he had just about }as much chance as a mouse in a kit jten's paws after I had made my mind up to marry him. “Men, Miss Margaret, lereatures, the best of them, when |they try to outwit a woman, and they are to blame for making us so quick to take advantage of them | “You see, the only weapon we have is our wit, and we modern women have learned to use it in a way that \* » mean, Annie?” 1 TODAY’S MARKET REPORT VEGETABLES Nerte—Local, per sack Beans—Local, wax. 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But at that time Timotty Lat: | ferty had just aa much idea of get Ung married an did a cat of Mying “After we were married, you re member, Miss Margaret, I had a great deal of trouble, and there wus | a time when to keep my courage up! I had to whisper, ‘You chose this| job. Now ts it you that will lie down on it? And ao I stuck to it} and after the children came you! know Tim settled down into the| splendid man he ix. But sometimes | 1 wonder if I did right after all. Ev- ery man well as every woman should have at least one fling at the | kind of love that takes you off your fect. Tim never loved me in that/ way, and sometimes I worry for fear that it will get him when he ian't watching out. You know, Mian Mar garet, that Tim in #till young enough to see a pretty girl without glasses.” “Surely you don’t mean- “I mean nothing but exactly what I have said. Up to date, Tim Laf ferty hasn't the slightest idea that he does not love me as much as he is capable of loving any ene, but God help Annie Lafferty if she ts alive when he finds it out.” (To Be Continued) |A han Timothy eet Kerni me cen i | White Eeyptian Corn Cocoanut Meal im Oni | Geene—-Young live +, Ts. or over... 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Nokes, and I hope you will print it aK A “Somewhere in France” France"—the letter read, With a harsh, unfeeling round, Vague, indefinite, empty phrase; Where, then, might the boy be found’ Sadly 1 read it o'er and o'er Lest I'd minsed some word per chance, But searching more, Merely somewhere in France o'er can find no Somewhere tn France-—but 1 know the boy} He's a boy of the U. 8. A. And he sat on his grandpa’s knee and beard Of the war of anether day; And the light in his eye for the days gone by shine 06; wit when the troops ad shame will taint the name Of the Yankee boy in France. Somewhere in France the thousands cringed Under the tyrant’s tread, And hopeless eyes too nad to weep Saw fields all sown with dead But hark! the sound of @ distant cheer They gazed in a Joyous trance, Then kinmed their hands to the Stara and Stripes, “Old Glory” had come to France And it seemed that Washington, And Abraham Lincotn, too, Stood blessing the lads in khaki clad An they blessed the boys tn biue For the boys that go toward the ruthless foe No selfinh aima advance, But the flag unfurled shall bless the world, Thru the France. the spirit of boys somewhere in Somewhere in France—may it not be long | ‘Til we sing & new refrain; | And Belgium and France forever. more Re cleansed from the tyrant’s stain. And may the lad write home to “Dad” A letter that «hall begin. “Today we raised ‘Old Giory Somewhere in Berlin.” Not Quite Sure of Her Own Mind Dear Mins Grey: It is my turn now to come to you. Please help Dad, |me if you can I am a girl 19 years old, Just the! average girl who likes a good time and sweetheart days. I have a friend in the army who has been away xix months. When he left last Feb- ruary we were little more than friends; but I have been hearing from him two and thre: times every | week mince, and have grown to care for him #o much that 1 hay ined to marry him when he ¢ back Hut here's my trouble, There are other times I feel #o indifferent toward him I wonder if I like him at all, T feelings come always after L ha id a real good tme with “probably other girls’ mweet hearts in the service,” or after com paring my soldier with others 1 meet, or other girls’ friends, 1 would give ¢ ig I own if thene feelings could be « if I could feel perfectly sativ always loving him an 1 do ken erally thone times when I write him. But I can't check them and I've wondered and wondered if I do love him, or is it the “mere nent ment of writing” that makes me think I do? My girl friends tell me I surely do not love him or I'd be satisfied with him as he tm Sometime ago while in of these moods I wrote him and told him just a tiny bit of how I felt and wid T thought it best for us to dis continue writing before things went any farther; but, Mian Grey, he took it wo hard, and the minute I had mailed that le I was sorry I had ever written it when I heard from him in I was all eager to take back I had said and prom ised I would marry him in the bar. So there I square know wrong prom: | one wanting to-play but being #o fickle I don't my own mind. Am I doing to write him I do almost day and make him think I him so much when Invariably a few hours after that letter goes I wonder do I really? SHIRLEY Letter writing pomsesses a pe ecullar fascination for many ir rons, especially when a spondence is struck up between | a young man and young woman who are-both fond of writing. I think you are making a min take to your soldier friend because yuu fear to hurt his feelings, Honesty is the bent policy always, and the truth now will not hurt as much aa it might later on. Tell the young man that you are not quite sure of your own mind, and that you 1 that for his good ax well as | nurs you should become bet ter acquainted personally before contemplating such a serious | thing as marriage. Tell him | that you wish to remain his | friend, and continue to write ine | teresting, cheery letters to him, | am deceive He cannot but respect you more for your frankness. Says Woman, 40, | Can't Love Man, 60 Dear Miss Grey: Please tell all those worried, troubled girls that have made 4 misstep or two to for get all of it as quickly as possible and to keep thelr mouths shut No man of sense expects any wom an to be perfect in all things. No man would claim purity for fear of being laughed at as a fool, no mat ter how nice he had been. I am no cynic, but I am 68 years old and have lived a normal life, both mar ried and single, and have outgrown a lot of notions—like getting rich before marriage; being a perfect man; telling all I knew, and that age | did not make any difference if the! parties only loved each other. | | I know that a girl of 20 can marry | THE M The plastic ANCHOLY MUSE protoplasm, pulping with SUrred awim, us to emulate far-future fishes it not mad to think of him? Hils day is over All for him Now th the And many men under the #un. Time upon time, in tears and travail Did the protoplasm mourn for lack of a tall too, had his dreams and saw them turn to dust; For him the stars shone and nature was in accord. But all things end. plasm passed As all things must But sad and splendid it is to think of him In time grown dim Of how he contracted and expanded Loved and was loved in years remote and afar Where crude organic life was and now no things are. strenuous striving to over done are bu clover rere bees buzzing tr He 4nd the proto Pomer. Brown's Sad Predicament Lost —Saturday wult from deli atripped. Tre etteville * night, man's ry wagon, Brown ard if returned to 107 st—Raleigh (N.C one . bill to the waiter when paying my check of $1 the other ning,” writes BE. B. “Ha tu! four paper dollars and “I handed aman of 40 and be happy for a few years, perhaps, but when the woman is 49 and the man 60, then comes trouble for all, because no woman of | 40 can love a man of 60. J.B. necing my @ewlldered look he mld: Never mind. 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