The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 9

= ~ el OE Se a TF HILSON URGES PRIVATE CONTROL OF RAILWAYS 3 “ Shaved Prom Page One * Kt be sadly marred t at Of justic practical serv <1, the women nm the mov te in the xystematic econo which our people have vol assisted to supply the suf oples of the world and the upon every front with food thing clive that we had that we the common cause, details of such a story ean fully written, but we carry , = hearts, and thank God bi in say that we are the is ss Triumph Comes such naw we are sure of the great for which every sacrifice Bede It has come, come in its . and with the pride and of theke day# of achieve us, we turn to again—a peace the violence of irre monarchs and ambitious coteries, and make ready for ‘onier, for new foundations of and fair dealing. about to give order and tion to thie peace, not only rf the work! N suffer us to serve them. It onal justice that we seek, safety merely be thoughts have dwelt of late upen Asia, upon the as sthe acts of peace and accom that wait to be performed own doors. we are adjusting our rela ~ of capital importance that clear away all grounds of ing with our immedi : and give proof of the ip we really feel? ~ Asks Colombia Treaty that the members of the will permit me to speak once =p the unratified troaty of ip and adjustment with the action upon that vital mat [ that they will feel, with that the stage of affairs is now for such action as will be not Just but generous, and in the Ref the pew age upon which we happily entered. the problem of our re fe peace is a problem of eco- and industrial readjustment. n is less serious for us $2 may turn out to be for the which have suffered the dis a ts and the losses of war than we. a and led. They knew business, are quick and in purpose and self-reliant strings we might seek them in would speedily be- Bp their own way. Od legislative servants is to the process of change here, nd elsewhere as we may. heard much counsel as to Jans that should be formed and conducted to a happy tion, but from no quarter seen any general scheme of iruction” emerge which I we could force our spirited Wp accept with due pliancy and Memporary War Agencies the war lasted we set up ‘agencies by which to direct of the country in the it was necessary for, them , by which to make sure of gindant supply of the materials it, by which to check undertak pthat could for the time being 4 4 with and stimulate @ that were most serviceable in Wal, by which to restrain trade ‘the available shipping and sys financial transactions, both and private, so that there be no unnecessary conflict or ‘tatesion—by which, in short, to put {harness to draw the common load ‘Mid make of us one team in the ac nt of a great task. moment we knew the to have been signed, we "Sek the harness off. Materials upon which the Premment had kept its hand for! there should not be enough for 4 that supplied the ar- have been released and put the general market again Industrial plants, whore output and machinery have over for the uses of the have been set free to re- y the uses to which they were the war. ‘ROt been possible to remove OF 0 quickly the control in and of shipping, be-| World has still ta be fed W sranaries and the ships are to send supplies to our is and to bring them back ‘4 the disturbed conditions on Side of the water permit; the restraints are being re 8 Much as poxsible, and more as the weeks Ko by Thoro Information ip before have there been agen M existence | this country knew #0 much of the field of » Of labor and of industry as Par industrial board, the war rd, the labor department, y sdietn stration and the fuel ration have known since labors becarme thoroly system y have net been iso ; they have been direct by Pen who represented the per Ment depres ts of the govern baw 8nd #0 have been the : UMified And ec, erefore nee the armistice Ms aseured iwi, pone 4 subminsion of the enem a ie enemy) to Krlowledge of these bodies at I of the business men of FY, NF to offer their intelli . but for the other peo- | as well, so far as| the Far East, very little; pwith the rest of the work!, ts/ of Colombia. 1 very earn:| ‘urge upon them an early and ful at every readjustment. inetd to bopelessiy tangled because | 4 pay no attention to them | we can do as their execu: | men and self-reliant labor-| MW alien enemies, make the most | Y Material energy of the country | gent mediation at every point and in every matter where it was desired Peace Moves Quickly Tt ts surprising pow fast the Process of return to a peace footi has moved in the three weeks #ince the fiehting stopped. It promises to outrun any inquity that may be In stituted and any aid that nay be of fered It will not be easy to direct any better than it will direct itself. The American business man is of quick initiative Work for Soldiers ‘The ordinary normal procenses of private initiative will not, how ever, provide immediate employment for all of the men of our returrning armies. Those who are of trained ca pacity, those who are skilled work men, those who have acquired fami! jarity with established businesses. those who are ready and willing to fo to the farma, all those whose apt! tude are known or will be sought out by employers will find no difficulty in finding places and employment But there will be others who will be at a loss where to gain a liv hood unless pains are taken to| guide them in the way of work There will be a large ffoating resi due of labor which should not be left wholly to shift for itself Urges Public Works It seems to me important that} the development of public works of every sort should be promptly re-| sumed in order that opportunities should be created for unskilled la ber, and that plans should be made {for such developments of our un used lands and our natural re sources as we have hitherto lacked | stimulation to undertake I particularly direct your atten tion to the very practical which the secretary of the Inter! has developed in his annual report and before your committee for the reclamation of arid, swamp and cut over lands which might, if the states were willing and able to co- Operate, redeem some 300,000,000 acres of land for cultivation Te Reclaim Arid Lands ‘There are sald to be 15 at present arid, for whose reclama. tion water is available, if pr conserved. There are about 230 000,000 acres from which the forests jbave been cut, but which havel years, The never been cleared for the plow and} which He waste and desolate. These} [Me scattered all over the Union and | as our domestic affairs are | there are nearly $0,000,000 acres of | land that le under swamps or sub. ject to periodical overflow or too | wet for anything but grazing which it is perfectly feasible to drain and Protect and redeem. The congress can at once direct [thousands of the returning soldiers | |to the reclamation of arid lands, moreover, do not Walt|wnich it has already j will but enlarge their plans and appropriations which It has en- the department of "ke interior, It is possible in dealing |with our unused land to effect a jereat rural and agricultural de- velopment which will afford the best sort of opportunity to men| who want to help themsctves. I have spoken of the controt| which must yet for a while, per- haps for a long while, be exercised | over shipping because of the pri-| ority of service to which our forces overseas are entitled and which should also be accorded the ship-/ ments which are to save recently Uberated peoples from starvation jand many devastated regions from | permanent ruin. Belgiam's Problem | May I not say a special word | jabout the needs of Belgium and) |northern France? No sum of money paid by way of indemnity will serve of themselves to save them from hopeless disadvantage for years to come, Something more must be done than merely find the money. If they had money and raw materials {n abundance tomor- row, they could not resume their place in the industry of the world the very important place they held , by whieh to gain for the|before the flame of war swept ing departments of the Kov-|across them. @ certain control © r the| of essential articy ma-|to the ground. Much of their ma Many of their factories are razea chinery is destroyed or has been taken away. Their people are seattered and many of their best workmen are dead. Their markets will be taken by others, if they are not in some special way as- sisted to rebuild their factories and replace their lost instruments of manufacture. They should” not be left to the victesitudes of the sharp competition for matertal and for industrial facilities which ts now set in. - I hope, therefore, that the con gress will not be unwilling, if it should become necessary, to grant to some such agency as the war trade board, the right to establish priorities of export and supply for the benefit of those people whom | we have been #0 happy to aswist in saving from the German terror, and whom we must not now thought leasly leave to shift for themselves in a pitiless competitive market. Lift Business Taxes For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic business read justments, nothing is more import ant than the immediate determiria tion of the taxes that are to be levied for 1918, 1919 and 1920. As much of the burden of the taxation must be lifted from business as sound methods of financing will per mit, and those who conduct the greatest industries of the country must be told, as exactly as possible, what obligations to the government they will be expected to meet. It will be of serious consequences to the country to delay removing all uncertaintieg in this matter a single day longer than the right processes of debate justify. It 1s idle to talk of successful and confident business reconstruction before these uncertain ties are resolved. If the war ha have been necessary to raise $4,000, 00,000 by taxation payable in the year 1919; but the war has ended, and I agree with the secretary of the treasury that it will be safe to re duce the amount to $6,000,000,000. An immediate rapid decline in the ex pensos of the government is not to be looked for. Contracts made for war | supplies will, indeed, be rapidly can celed and liquidated, but their liqui dation will make heavy drains on the treasury for the months Just al of us, the other a eesary, A considerable proportion of those forces must renain in Murepe during the jod of ocoupat and those which are brought home will be transported and demobilized at b The interest on our war debt must of course, be paid, and proviston made for the retirement of the obli Kationsof the government which r resent it, But these demands will, of course, fall much below what a con | tinuation of cnilitary op would have entailed, and six billions should suffice to supply a sound f t tary of the treasury in recommend ing that the $2,000,000,000 needed in T | conditions, cleart | Pensable to the ecc |mow and sweep all interrogation | marks away. | 000,000 or gram which was undert 20,000,000 acres of land in the Weat| 2 taken, if it} ‘The full equipment of the raitw | will never itch continued, it would THE SEATTLE STAR A Many Troops to Remain The maintenn J p of the our forces on ‘Tw atl PAVY expense for months to come ations dation for the financial opera ne of the year Tax on War Profits | I entirely concur with the secre lition to the $4,000,000,000 provided by existing law be obtained from the profits which have accrued and shall rue from war contracts and dis tinctly war business, but that th taxes be confined to the war profits rulng in 1918, or in 1919, from eas originating in war con urge your acceptance of this rec nendation that provision be made now, not subsequently, that the taxes to be paid in 1920 should be reduced on six to four bil ions, Any ar rangement lean definite than these | would add elefnenta of doubt and con | fusion to the erttical period of Indus |trial readjustment thru which the try must now tmmediately pass and which no true friend ef the na wontial business inte to be responsible for prolonging. mt can atin arly determined charted, are indis ie revival and rapid in pment which may confidently be expected if we act To Keep Up Navy Program | I take it for granted that the con | green will carry t the naval pro n before | we entered the war. The secretary Jot the navy has submitted to your erly| committee for suthorization, that | Part of the program which covers the building plans of the next three plans have been pre pared along the lines and in accord: | ance with the policy which the con reas established, not under excep: | tional ¢ tions of the war, but of| adhering to a definite method of de velopment forthe navy. I earpestly | recommend the uninterrupted pur sult of that policy. It would clearly be unsafe for us to attempt to adjust our program to a future world pol-| ley as yet undetermined. | No Opinion on Roads The question which causes me the Kreatest concern is the question of the policy to be adopted towards the| railroads, 1 frankly torn to you for) counsel upon it. I have no confident | judgment of my own. I do not 4 |how any thoughtful man can have, who knows anything of the com-| plexity of the problem. It is a prob: | lem which must be studied, studied | immediately and studied without t oF prejudice, Nothing can be gained | by becoming partisans of any par-| ticular plan of settlement It was necessary that the admin istration of the great railways should | be taken over by the government #0] long as the war lasted. It would hage been impossible so long as the! wat lasted. It would have @een im possible to establish and carry thru| under a single direction the nece rary priorities of shipment. It would| have been impossible otherwise tol combine maximum production at the| factories and mines and farms with the maximum possible car supply to! take the products to the porta and| markets; impossible to rpute troop shipments and freight shipments with regard to the advantage or dis advantage of the roads employed impoasible to subordinate, when nec essary, all questions of convenience to the public necessity; impoantb to give the necessary financial su port to the roads from the treasury, | But all these neceasities have} been served and the question 1s what Is best for the raflroads and the public in the future | excepth al on he of admints- | trath were not needed to convince ua that the roads were not equal to the Immense tasks of transpor tation Imposed upon them by the rapid and continuous development | of the industries of the country. | We knew that already, And wel knew that they were unequal to it partly because their full co-| operation was rendered impossible | by law and their competition made obligatory, so that it possible to assign to them several ly the traffic which could best be carried by their respective lines in the interests of national economy as been im Peace Treaty by Spring | We may hope, I believe, for the formal conclusion of the war by treaty by the time spring has come The 21 months to which the pres ent control of the railways is limit ed after formal proclamation of the| pence shall have been made will] run at the farthest, I take it for) granted, only to January of 1921.| ys| which the federal administration | planned could not be completed | (Continued on Page Ten) CAN'T FIND DANDRUFF | Every bit of dandruff disappears | after one or two applications of Danderine rubbed well into the} scalp with the finger tipa. Get al small bottle of Danderine at any| drug store for a few cents and w your hair, After several applications you can’t find a particle of dandruff or any falling hair, and the scalp —— = et REGISTERED DENTISTS Out of the high rent district, per- sonal service and moderate advertin- ing enable me to make you thin offer: per cont with careful, painless methods and personal atten. thon. Dr. J. Brown’s New Office ORPHEUOM BU ‘Third and M MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918. Gift Suggestion Bureau— Fourth Floor Entire Suit Stock Greatly Reduced Women's and Misses’ Suits at $35.00 Formerly $39.75 to $49.75 Suits at $55.00 75.00 to $125.00 Suits at $45.00 Formerly $55.00 to Tailored or Fur-Trimmed Exceptional charm and surpassing value is represented in every model in the selection, including those of the very exclusive sort. The Values speak for themselves. illustrated is indicative of the high desirability. Materials: The model Silvertone French Serge Broadcloth Gabardine A Little Square Bib with three small pearl but- tons in each corner, makes this blouse appealingly ‘“dif- A beaded design, conventional, trims the front, and two large tucks fall from each shoulder. of the sleeve drops from just above the cuff in a point. The fullness flesh or white, $9.95. Distinctive Ribbons $1.25 yard « for the woman who ap- preciates their possi- meshes and A Suggestion for Gift Chenille Dots — always chiffon neck band; in fine hexa rose and pansy, Persian ple and taupe; $1.7 : and stripes, as well as Allover Pattern of silk | those of delicate tones ‘on mesh is very be navy and beaver | work need; 6 to § inches wide. —MacDeugalt-Southws * —MacDeugall-Southwick Gray Woolnap Blankets at $4.95 Cotton blankets given a light, springy woolnap by a special process. wool. Medium weight with pink or blue bor- Ample size—64x76 inches. White Cotton Blankets, $5.85 Heavy quality with soft fleece — durable White, with pink | or blue borders or plaids. | Sizes 66x80 inches | Wool Mixed Plaid | Blankets, $10.90 Fine cotton warp with all-wool filling Blankets, inches size. and white plaids. ‘ay Linen Shop, Just Down the Stairs, UE AND PIKE STREET Sale of Men’s Shirts For Tomorrow in the : Semi-Annual Men’s Furnishings Sale Your selection of an impressive gift for a man who is inclined toward distinctive dressing will be happily placed in the choice of these Shirts. They are beautiful, manly, the kind men buy for themselves—at SAVINGS The Shirts at $2.35 3 for $6.75 Regular $3.00 Quality Seventeen patterns in fine wov- en madras shirting—noted for its excellent wearing quality. Bright, sparkling patterns and neat staple ones of unusual attractiveness. Made by two of the most reliable and best men’s shirt manufacturers in America. Shirts for the | “Very Particular” at $3.50—Three for $10.00 $4.00 and $5.00 Values Every mark of taste, workmanship and handsome ‘patterns of the most distinctive type are found in these shirts. We can tell you what they are, but you must see | the beauty of the colors, the combinations of colors, feel the excellence of cloths to realize their value. Russian Cords Silk and Cotton Mixtures Silk Fiber and Cotton Mixtures Four Complete Lines with Collars to Match Colors—Blues, Grays, Browns, Helio, Black, Pink, Tan in mized and stripes. Sizes 14 to 1714. Exceptional Assortments of Silk, Corduroy and Blanket Robes for Misses, Women, Girls, Boys and Babies Gifts of comfort, cheer and beauty that become an integral part of the recipient's daily life. A “home robe’ will be a most welcome gift at the foot of any Christmas tree, and a favorite one for the “home folk days. Women's Oriental Robes | Another Is a Veritable Flower Garden Typically Oriental with flowing sleeves and em- | Large white flowers on broidered obi, as well as setin | & rose ground—or color sleeve coat styles, enriched with | Combinations in light blue, delft blue, gray or lavender. good looking; $4.95. various floral designs. All ex- quisite colorings, including vari ous tints and shades of rose; | $15.00 and $18.00. Sleeves Fall to the Knees | a : on a crepe de chine model, | The Feminine Fancy balls finishing the long | for Lace point effect. Delicately shirred Either pink or at the waist. is appeased in a crepe de | blue; $12.95 chine model with deep shadow lace frills at wrist and *y neck. Ribbon, shirring and | Bathrobes draping complete it. Maize, lav- Little sister will ender and rose colors; $7.96. claim with glee if she be remembered in such a delight Blanket Robes in ful manner. A flannelette kimono with flowers | atte Many Patterns blooming in their natural tints, | Sizes 6 to 10. ‘or desi; 3.95 A large, square lapel an cenery front with wide — silk edges, the idea carried out in | trimming the pockets, sleeves | With narrow sash, satin stening, mark a | banded sleeves, warm robe at $9.95. Colors, | and cuffs, for.Miss 6 to 14, at and front f blue, rose, pink and gray. $5.95 Mailing and Express Gray Linen Shop [eeDougallcouthwick $8.95 and $10.00 Values. Silk crepe and satin-striped broadcloths —in bold stripes and light patterns. Won and appearance. Sizes Silk Shirts at $8.95 Heavy pure silk Shirts, free from load- Rich, bold stripe or soft shades; in 26 patterns. The tailoring is unusually good—fact of the matter is, they’re very unusual in every manner— material, patterns and colors, Sizes 14 to 17. Sleeves 33, 34, 35 and 36-inch lengths. 25¢ charged for sleeve altering. ing or sizing. ; f ,” of which there are so many these Beacon Flannel In mixtures of pink or blue and white, for Miss Cozy Robes Robes_ with satin trimmings and cord sash at $2.95. Blanket Robes in red, Copen’ and gray, Fiderdown Robes fig- ured with animals in pink or blue; $1.95. Boys’ Indian Robes that would suit any boy, in deep blue, brown, rose or Oxford; $2.45 and $2.95, ac- cording to age. Juniors’ and Girls’ Sizes 3 to 12 Robes Like Dad’s Tailored, finished, trim- med and cut with the pre- cision and care of dad's robea. Of heavy rebing in colors: Ox ford, navy and brown; $5.00 to Velvet Corduroy —MacDougall-Southwick, Third Floor,