The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1918, Page 10

i NS JOE SMITH URGES PURCHASE BY CITY OF TRACTION LINE Value of System to Increase With Good Service to Be Given by the Municipality Faitor’s Note—Joe Smith has been one of the foremost advo cates of public ownership in this state for the past 20 years, In 1911, he made a sensational race for councitman on the platform of “kick ing the Seattle Electric Co, out of p Altho he missed the elec tion by margin, his campaign served to diminish traction company influence in city affairs from then on, Joe Smith ts widely known as a journalist and publisher BY JOE SMITH The war in Europe is on its last lap. y It will be fought out now by men already in office and with the machinery already in motion, — The problem before the people of Seattle, of America, of the world, is the problem of reconstruction. The votes we cast next Tuesday will have little or no effect on the conduct of the war. But they will de- termine the direction of our efforts at reconstruction. The supreme problem of reconstruction work is the task of maintaining or advancing existing wage, labor and living standards during the coming period of indus- trial readjustment. Whether we as a people shall set ourselves to the task of maintaining this standard de- pends on whom we elect to office and the policies we, by our votes, promulgate. It is Sasentiat thas the people of Seattle vote to pur- chase the street car lines for two reasons: First, it will be a long step towards increasing industrial efficiency in Seattle and the maintenance of our present industrial supremacy. Second, it will be a notice to all the world that this progressive community has determined, once for all, that public service shall no longer be exploited for private profit. i : f I have little patience with the discussion of costs, earnings, expenses, percentages and amortization. 1 feel convinced that, as a going concern, in the hands of rivate owners, the system is not worth two-thirds of ifteen million dollars. But as a great service-giving utility in the’ hands of our own municipality it has a value which cannot be definitely calculated in dollars. My own observation convinces me that the time will soon come, if it has not already come, when fixed steel tracks in the center of the public streets are an obstruction to traffic and an unmitigated nuisance no longer to be endured. : But what of that? When the time comes that we decide that the street car tracks must be torn up, if we do not own them ourselves, we will be stopped from abolishing them by the judicial interference of fossil- ized courts, responding to the selfish greed of our cor- poration exploiters. re fit punishment for its many crimes I have heretofore favored driving the street railway company into bankruptcy and ng it into oblivion. We are fhow in a position where, but for the immediate crying need of service, we could probably do this. But the rising sun of a new day dawning over a war-weary world brings new vision and a new sense of the people’s power. If the street car company is willing to give us its tangible wealth, which is real y, I, for one, am willing to give them their millions in scraps of paper, signed by the mayor and bearing the seal of the city. E: With the car lines in municipal possession we can then proceed to improve the service and increase the efficiency of our city, and the bonds at best will pass into the hands of a few idle parasites who will be graciously allowed by our general government to sur- jrender a third of the interest in taxes to help in paying for the cost of the war. Let the thieves of the past nurse their paper titles to the loot of the past, but let us, the people of the present, take possession of the tools of privilege and draw the fangs of the wolves of exploitation. In the problem of reconstruction the one great task is to maintain existing wage, labor and living standards during the approaching period of industrial readjustment. To do this we must retain or acquire all the public utilities, local and national, heretofore noto- riously operated for the sole purpose of corporate ex- *ploitation. The general public must become a vast employer of labor and thus maintain a dominating posi- tion in the labor market. It must set standards for labor higher even than those now advocated by the conventional union leaders, and conditions of employ- ment under which the efficiency of labor and the — of production will make those standards pos- sible. For our immediate local solution of the industrial problem we must continue to build ships, ships and yet more ships. But when the war is ended our shipbuild- ing industry automatically enters into competition with that of every other shipbuilding community in the world. Japan and Germany, as well as San Francisco and Hog Island, will be competing with us for effi- ciency and economy. Our steel must be transported 2,000 miles by rail. The only offsetting natural advan- tage in our favor is climate. All other handicaps against us, and there are many, must be overcome by superior industrial and social organization, by the polit- ical development of conditions which will render our workers the most efficient. At present a Seattle shipworker labors eight hours in the yards and three hours to get home and back. We are demanding of them eleven hours’ effort to get eight hours’ inefficient production. An efficient street passenger transportation system would save two hodtrs of this effort and increase the efficiency of the eight- aaron by 25 per cent. uch street car service is probably not immedi possible. But it is the ideal which fi Bg romeo Seattle, and we cannot even struggle successfully to- wards that ideal so long as the street cars are in the hands of owners whose one selfish and greedy purpose is private profit. a narrow U. S. Leads the World in Shipbuilding The United States now 1 Since August, 1917, we hi tonnage than was before anywhere Pacific const in shipbutiding more seagoing aunched in a similar period shipyards have delivered about half of all the new tonnage. Seattle workers share generously in the $10,500,000 weekly pay roll of American shipyards. The First National Bank offers shipbuilders its services in all financial matters. First National Bank at James St. shed 1882 DEPAMTMENT OPEN SATURDAY EVENING @ TO 6 O'CLOCK is the world » launched Ploneer Bid, * \ ) \ x _ “NOW LET'S TALK IT OVER” a SarreRnit/o- GERMANS TRY WAR WORK DEPENDS TO UNDERMINE YANK MORALE | (Special to The Star by N. E. A.) | PARIS, Nov. 1A dally newspa per, printed in English, for cireula tion by hook or crook back of the American lines German peace propaganda. Up to the middle {his paper even printed baseball scores from the Staten! | It was called the Ardennes Her laid, camouflaged to make it appear |copy, however, bore a rubber«tamp | message: “For the benefit of our American brethren.” Thousands of copies of the paper | increased on existing lines in order that | were sent over the American lines every day when the wind was blow ing In that direction. They came tied to balloons made of yellow, olled paper, similar to the Fourth of | July balloons back home. The paper contained photographs, often showing American prisoners surrounded with comforts, It gave remarkably accurate lista, headed, |“We have buried with honors the | following—" or “We have taken the |following prisoners" and the lists not only gave names but also home addronses in the United States. The propaganda daily wna no crude affair. The English waa per fect. The editorial attitude was not | Ditter, as it invariably ie against the | British. Rather, an | Britian. Thousands of copies of the paper | gathered by American soldiers were |qcornfully burned by them. Sinking Is Cause of $700,000 Suit TACOMA, Nov. 1.—Sult was filed Thursday In federal court for $700. 000 from the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, | owners of the steamer Mexico Maru, which rammed the Northwestern Fisheries company's sailing vennel, the A. J. Fuller, in Elliott bay Wed nesday, sending her to the bottom in ten minutes. The value of the A. J. Fuller is placed at $250,000. while the cargo is valued at $450,000 YAKLOK IS LAUNCHED | The 9,400-ton steel freighter Yak }lok was launched by the Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding Co. Thurs. |day, no ceremonies attending the event because of influenza regula tions, The Yaklok is the second product of “Seattle's infant steei yard.” DR. J. BR, DINYON Free Examinations BEST $2.50 GLAsses on Earth We are ong of the few optical stores in the Northwest that really grind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in | SEATTLE, ON FIRST AVE. | Examination by graduate op- | tometrist Glasses not prescribed |unless absolutely necesuary, 'BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AVE, | Near feneea St. Phone Main 1550, Was a part of the of September | attempt was | made to make the Americans be | lieve they were the “goats” of the| | ON CITY CAR DEAL) That purchase of the street car nyntem by the city is the only way of getting the extensions and increased nervice necessary to enable Seattle war industries to turn out their work as they shoul statement iswued by the executive co iw wet forth in a ommittee of the Industrial Association of the South End, following a meeting to consider the subject held Thurs day afterr ISSUER SIGNE The statement, signed by Shorett, secretary, in as follows | “The purpose of the Industrial promote the development of South End industries. Robert R. Fox D STATEMENT president, and John B Association of the Bouth End is to For months the anso elation has been striving to bring about the extensions of street car ines | to be a regular publication in the re- | 4nd the increased car service necessary to carry workers to and from the | gion held by the Germans. Bach | great industrial planta along the East, West and Duwamish waterways, | |engaged in vital war work ! “In order for these plants to produce as they should tn this great | world crisia, it in omential that street car lines be extended and service | prompuly and In numbers sufficient on all abifts, “Insufficient street car transpor: to effictent operation under which tabored. We have striven to remo | Uttle success under existing conditi ‘The purchase of the car deal manager of the public market. His “Water, light and transportation }are absolute necessities for the | growth of the city of Seattle. Good transportation is a vital thing bty holds the same relation to a city as does the circulation of the blood to the human body, The city of 10,000 population to nearly 400,000 The present franchise of the trac | ton company expires in 16 years. “Today, the industrial develop. ment of Seattle is seriously handi lcapped because of poor transporta tion, The United States government has to run steam trains in order to get men to the shipyards. Ten thousand more men are being ad vertined for the shipyards. Suppore 10,000 more men applied for work tomorrow morning; how would they get to and from the shipyards, with the present tion? “The government of the United | States has said publicty, thru its representatives, Schwab and Piez, | that if better transportation is not | furnished, further contracts for ships would not be given to Seattle. It is up to the men and women of 840 DRAFT MEN "CALLED TO WAR Seattle draft boards are called up- on to supply 840 men for Camp Lew- }is in two November draft calla, ac cording to word received from the provost marshal general's depart ment, at Washington, D. C, State calls for November will number 4,026 men. The first call from the elty will be for 110 men, to entrain November 19 to 24. The second call of 730 men will leave for camp between Novem ber 20 and 24. First call—Board 1, 4; 2, 4; 3, 0; 4, 7, 16; 8, 10; 9, 10; li—Poard 1 65; 6, 100: st yet appor: ate, will be the first ptember 12 registrants. ymard No, 10 has ca the men for medical ex ay Albert Andreson, Piedmont; n, Charles Perey De Parezanin, Otto William Brun: . Harry § Rew, Henry Thomas Porch, Mike Lukie, Lawrence Clem: ent Burk, Charles Adams. Martin Sheer, Frank Axel Ei Henry Rain, Alvin Robert John Ben as, Mike Odack Launeelot Hase, Ross tutcheon, James new Ivory Tyner, fusthoff, Prank But | wica, 4 Wilson, Frank Linka | Wesley William Lloyd, Ed Pearsall, Fritz Loptedt, John Lewis Hoffman, John Logan Kennedy, Keller Philip Erwin, William Hopson, Weimar from th Local followin, n n, .» Frank , Wallers Seattle has grown in 16 years from | means of transporta-| workers may reach plants) to operate the plants at full capacity | MANY SHIPBUILDING FIRMS tation has been the greatest handicap the war industries of Seattle } ve the handicap, but have met with ions, In the light of our experience we believe that the only way of getting relief Je for the city to buy the | street car mystem as proposed, and we therefore urge the people of Seattle | to vote for the car line purchase next Tuesday.” MARKET MAN FOR IT is also advocated by FP statement follows | Seattle to get busy and take over the car lines. The city will give the people rervice on the cars go ir work, and for desire to deplorable are forced to stan jing . | marke | with alleviated It in necessary, from the standpoint |of good health, not to crowd the work in order to live, and the trac tion company has been unable or has refused to furnish transporta on. “Tuesday's vote will decide whether our industrial enterprises will have to be curtailed because of the fact that men cannot get to and from their daily toil ‘The city will run the car lines and give service at cost. Nothing an be asked. Division ‘A in the longest haul line in the city, is operated city now at six tickets for a quarter, |and the car line is paying all inter lest, operating and depreciation ex | pense and atill leaving a net bal ance each month of from $1,500 to | 83.000," “BLOOD!” SHOUT | (Special to The Star by N. EB. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 1 Reds urge deeds of blood not less terrible than those of the F Sledge, Thomas Joseph Gallagher; C. 8. Lovejoy, Bremerton; Alfred Haber revolution, In a recent the Krasnaya Gazeta an headed “Blood for Blood,” reads “We will turn our hearts into steel, which wo will temper in the fire of suffering and the blood of fighters for freedom. We will m our hearts cruel, hard and {mu able, so that no merey will enter them, and so that they will not ijquiver at the sight of a sea of} enemy blood. We will let loose the floodga of that sea. Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill |our enemies in scores of hundreds.” | Emil Hansen, Dan Adams, Ben land, Alvin John Spohn, Walter Nel: | We Richard Frank n, James ughman, Jack Joseph Mid | die rd Stevens, John James | Wilson, Charles Ludwick Sotminen, George Rogers, Ira O, Anderson and | Philip Thomas SOUND MEN CHASE NS _Col. 8. EB. Allen, comm: r of the {North Pacific Coast artillery district, announces that six registrants of |tillerymen trained in the Puget jsound district are demonstrating their marksmanship on the retreat | ing Germans in France ar land: “ American potash production in the | first six months of 1918 aggregated | 25,000 tons, r | To the women who| say that); xtreet cars, and yet people have to, RUSSIAN REDS | | gin PARIS, Germ The Bon Marché Will Be Closed All Day At the request of the Mayor and Dr. McBride, Seattle merchants will close their places of business all day Satur- day to help to check the influenza. They are glad to do this-glad to render every aid to the city authori- ties in the present emergency. DO YOUR SATURDAY SHOPPING BY TELEPHONE ELLIOTT 4100 The Bon Marche’s efficient telephone service will be main- tained from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. as usual. It is not unpatriotic to have goods delivered or sent C. O. 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