The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1918. ween CLIMBING TO THE PEAK OF OUR HOPES Labor Day Reflections, by the Editor of The Star This is the Day. The Hour. The Age. We are climbing to the peak of our hopes, our dreams, and our goal lies but a little way ahead of us. Human eyes have never seen the world as we shall see it when once we scale the summit. Human feet have never trodden that high. Human justice has never been so widely flowing as it will be when we come to this goal of ours. Human liberty has never touched as many souls as it will. Human love has never been as deep nor as broad. This peak lies but a little way ahead of us. Beyond it stretches the endless valley of peace, honor, freedom, and all that makes this globe a worth- while place on which to be born, to live, and to die. But first we must scale the peak. No height upon the mountain's side is high enough. Nothing that lies beyond is ours until we have attained the peak. That peak is victory. It is decisive, final, everlasting defeat of the Huns. It+is to be achieved in battle over there and in over here. We all must cilmb, every last man, woman and child of us. Those, brave soldiers of ours—our best and finest Dboys—cannot do all our climbing. They cannot pull 8 up to this peak of human ambition if we hold back. * They are fighting over there in such a heii of ghell as man has never known. They go courageously, gloriously to heroic death. They come out of battle torn, crippled, blinded, shattered of body, ‘stronger of soul. A million and a half are there. Other millions will go to strengthen the arm which is driving to its lair the Beast of Berlin. And still more millions will “go,” even as they stay here at home. They will go in spirit, in effort, in work. Without these the peak of victory, and all which that contains, would recede, further and further from us. They must climb together—the soldier over there and the worker here. One cannot lag behind. Both have the same goal to attain. Both will suffer in the same agony of defeat if we do not reach the peak. And they ARE climbing together. Workman and soldier—ONE FIGHTING FORCE, incomparable, undefeatable, irresistible! That is the secret of America’s success. That is why the United States has been able to come so rap- idly and so overwhelmingly to the front when the sword of the Hun flashed threateningly near the throat of democracy. That is why the “feeble, little American army” has grown and is continuing to grow so alarmingly strong that the despots of Potsdam quake in their boots and would give of their stolen loot to ward off the blow that is falling and cannot be turned aside. Americans are working as well as they are fight- ing. American labor having sent a part of itself over there to fight, is working harder, longer, more effi- ciently to make up the difference. It is doing better; it is increasing its load. AR BRIDE And because we are all in the war together— worker and soldier—and in it to our last dollar, our last drop of blood, our last ounce of energy WE WILL WIN! We are nearing the peak. We will arrive, soldier and worker together. Then, indeed this will be our DAY—the day of victory with honor and glory. Let us all try a bit harder to do a bit more that we may not falter in the great adventure upon which this nation has set out—to establish freeddm, for all, forever, upon the proud summit of decisive victory, from which our eyes may behold the pleasing valley of permanent peace. The worker is fighting the Hun in mine and mill, factory and field, shop and office, in railroad yard and freight shed. He is climbing to the peak of vic- tory as he stands before the roaring red flame of the blast furnace; as he pours flowing metal into cannon mold; as he digs in the darkened pen far underground for the coal the industry of war must have;; as he ploys land, harvests crops, saws lumber, drives trucks, cuts cloth, gins cotton, fires engines, rivets ships, fills shells, as he does anything which brings American soldiers over there nearer the retreating trail of Hun footprints, Yes, in truth, he fights who toils. He’s every inch a soldier, is the American workingman—AND THAT INCLUDES THE WORKING WOMAN! He fights with machine, lathe, plow handles, with whatever implement of war in his hands, and he fights as courageously if that is a pneumatic rivet driver as if it were a machine gun. The fruit of his labor is as important. It is as large a factor in bringing us to the peak of victory. He is a soldier—is the worker. He has earned the right to stand hand in hand with the man in uniform, the man with a gun, and say: ¢ “We will win!” They will win. We will win. The indomitable spirit which has woven itself into our hearts and souls can- not be beaten. It cannot be stilled. It MUST ascend to the summit of human hopes. And that is the vic- tory éve are striving for. When this is done, as done it must be, the vet- erans of this war will number within their ranks mechanic, laborer, miner, farmer, engineer, fireman, puddler, riveter, steel worker—EVERY WORKER who helped to win. They are earning that place now. Their brothers in uniforms will be the first to give the veterans of war industries a place of honor side by side with them who fought with guns. No one better than the soldier in the trench, the sailor on the battleship, knows how futile would be their effort, how hopeless their struggle, how sure their defeat if that strong and valiant arm of American labor were not back of them—working, striving, sustaining. It is true: The soldier in the trenches little fears the enemy as long as he knows his people back home are standing by him heart and soul. And‘we ARE standing by him! Every true and loyal worker in all these states is with him, for he is our boy—an American boy—and we will win WITH him. + oCrsthin. Grew justice too great to bear is load- | the existing price; but they ha: ries and fruits going could be made into jell: H } The Rankest Sort | | Of Rank Injustice | 2 Dear Mina Grey: Some yeara back A Red Cross nurse who de- my husband was bowmd to get a di serves a high place on Honor's Meg ogy eae Sincied one won. He had absolutely no groun: Roll, t# Mary A. Brownell, Who) 6. which to procure one; but think |has just returned to this country | ing to satisfy him I told him that if from “over there.” he wished to swear to a falsehood Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n As the small boys closed in and marched proudly behind the rookies, Dr. Certeis turned to me. TENTH CHAPTER gently unfolds the riddie, and we come to realize that it is all a part of the great scheme of the universe. You have been the victim of such injustice and I know that any words would futile in trying to extend Matter May the Act of et 4 month; 3 months, $1.50; 6 mon ‘tate ‘ashingtos. Outside the stata sete tors sfertate ._By carrier, oii the Postoffice at aa Second-Class 1899, at = | $2.78; per . “Mra. Lorimer, would you like to —— ~ — run down to the station and see 1 AGREE TO SEND TOMMY | them off? » We Ask Indemnity ‘cave man was too ignorant to think it up, and| beat out his rival’s brains with stone or club. Tartars got an inkling of it, when they ‘captives for hours of agony that death alone | heathen Chinese came within touch of it, when broke their prisoners’ limbs, joint by joint and pulled tongues. : in all their wars with barbarians of all “encountered savage, fond * torture and ingenious , did not resort to it. in i for kultured Germany of the 20th century se the destruction of the eyesight of men as a of winning in war. Thru the centuries of study, vel ieere, devel ns ses of great Germans who ustry; arts and science, the focus this idea from ap og from the shame, ty Germany ma recover. 'e want you to Fead Newland’s story about Roland near Baltimore, where the government is ” our blind ition, bain by ~_ "re to offer a ical suggestion. oe —. babe’s beloved face; to be in world. P ena i to see nothing; to be in between life and th ! of these blind soldier boys of our—OF OURS!— Newland, has been so mentally readjusted that he ly sits down and pens a letter to his mother, in ly characters, aps, but legible. May God alone be *t mother when she reads it. siould see them at football, following the course by hearing. You should see how they carry on Kids while doing it,” says Newland. No! We to see that while there’s a living Hun who has contributed to progress in burns upon this damned horror and - to esterday, to the bright ball ent t 1 th nishment that’s in the strong arm of! he “aon't want to stand on the side lines and) ca. We American boys, blinded by Huns, follow the ball by “The government is going to “reconstruct” these blind so far as possible. tt is going to teach them vocations ) make them independent, so far as possible. It is finally to turn them out into the world to get along, as tT NOT ENOUGH! It is not enough for our blind- boys. It is not enough for the cowardly brutes who d them. ‘When we come to sit at the peace table, we should de- nd at least $10,000 indemnity for the benefit of every rican victim of this hellish war practice of Germany. now isn’t too early to notify the ungodly Hun auto- ts that such is our intention. If a successful retreat of a dozen miles stirs German military critics to such admiration, what will be their raptures when the army gets to Berlin?—Springfield Republican. es, Why Not? ' A radical New York person is hot under the collar it men wearing collars under which to get hot. He claims that, in dog days, only dogs should wear b— relieved. | ‘° and uplift, thru the list of} SIX PAIRS OF SOCKS— | 1 looked around for Chrys, his y | “near-fiancee,” but remembered that ~—~@ithis was her morning at the Red Croan headquarters. “Of course I would,” I exclaimed, jumping into his roadster aa I spoke “So long,” said Certeis to Jimmie. “Flying schools interest me. Give Everybody wants an hour or two an hour or two of your time before you go back.” of Jimmic’s furlough. If he accepts impaled | all the invitations people give him for what he calls “feeds,” Jim in going be a mighty sick kid before he reporta at camp again Hamilton Certeis raced for the station, and so we saw the boys come in. The girlie of the Khaki Klub had just handed out cigareta and fruit to & lot of artillery mon going thru from the West. The Khaki Klub ts per mitted to get wires in code, telling w' midnight, they go to meet all troop trains. hen soldiers pass thru, and, noon or ‘They are as proud aa movie | Since the beginning of the war | Miss Tirownell has been in service | with the Hed Cros, going over to England with the first Ked Cros ship. In almost four years of ser-| vice she has seen the war and the world, has traveled all the seas and seen every form of misery and sufferigg On the battlefields of France, Ru mania, Serbia, Russia, Misa Brown- ell nursed the wounded and com- forted the dying. Her Inbors car- | ried her within range of enemy/| and say that I deserted him, I would not fight the case, Up to that time he had always been truthful as far as I knew and I felt that when the time came to| face the judge, he would weaken— | but he did not. So his attorney, who * a shyster, procured the divorce for him, altho that faker knew that 1 was begging my husband to come back to me and not to perjure him: nelf. Right after the divorce he came to me, took me jn his arma and was as loving as ever, and I thought it detectives to be trusted with what looks like a real military secret. They | shells and brought her into con-| would not be long at longest until he Just happened to be at the station as our recruits filed in, and they had |tact with disease of most deadly | would come back. Six years have it as a national or tribal method] loads of cigarets to pass as souvenirs. Tommy was in the very middie of to be dreadfully alone. Maybe he hasn't any relatives to weep over ff the crowd; nevertheless he seemed him. | type. The last 10 months Miss Brown-| hen gave to stricken Russia, where Certeis kept aloof from the jam, as if he were just a shade too elegant Red Cross nuraes were few and to mingle with the run of common folks. education that makes him so exclusive. his attitude seems nice to me—and again, it doen't. From the place he had found for ue on some steps I could see lonely Russians Tommy, and I called out impulsively “Oh, Tommy! heavy woolen things we knit, helmet, too!” adopt every unattached and lonesome THE MELANCHOLY MUSE After all is said and done, Eating, too, is a delusion and sad; | Meals move onward, one by one, Garnished with pleasure, with sor- row clad. Well I know there shall be an end| of eating, ‘The object of life itself defeating; ‘We shall all cease to eat, all of us, all— 16 Our vanished food shall come back never, Our jaws shall not wag on forever, Yet shall we fail the dinner call. Fair food that filla and fattens us, Shall we not sorrow as we eat? We know the ending shall be thus, We can no longer chew our meat. Yea, in that hour, with trembling teeth, ’ And eyes no more with greed alight, Shall we behold the shams beneath, And hesitate before we bite; And with the rapid days converging, Toward the time of futile food, We surely shall not need much urg- ing, To fill and fatten, tho we brood. The heaviness of hanging fate —POMER. eee General Gorgas reporta that the health, of the men in the army ts much better than it was in civil life. ‘Warns us to eat before it 1s too late. || Maybe it’s his scientific sanitary Whatever the reason, sometimes Have you got plenty of socks?” It seems that women think of “socks” nowadays as nothing but those “No, ma'am,” Tommy called back, “not « single part “Then I'll send you six pairs,” I promised, “and m sweater, and & 4), ned Cross teadde ef. service, And secing that the thermometer In our town stood at 104 degrees Fahrenheit that day, the crowd simply shrieked with joy. to ald in enlisting all good friends and true democrats together. fo we were “Anybody else need socks?” called out Lucy Searle, who was one of | the canteen girls. Promptly 20 handa went up and within five minutes 20 girls in the crowd had promised to fill the order. It took loads of courage for me to get Tommy's attention in that crowded depot, but the result surely proved a good little deed for victory. Once a woman hae a husband overseas, it seems as if she just has to soldier boy she comes across, Our idea of a soft job in to be the captain of a German battleship, Society News Mrs. Leon Trotsky of Moscow is spending the summer tn Stockholm. Mr. Trotsky, who left Moscow for Cronatadt recently for the benefit of his health, is expected to join her soon, vee August Is the month in which women have to do the most think- ing. They have to decide whether to buy furs or furniture. oe We hear that Secretary McAdoo has found a way to tax the Standard Oil profits. If he collects, we predict that three or four Standard Oi! law yers aro fired, eee Women hotel clerks are being tried in many cities and are reported to be &@ success. 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