The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1918, Page 6

) PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY, DE 6, 1918. SEATTLE STAR 1907 Seventh Ave. Near Union St. NORTHWEST LEAGUM OF Telearaph News Service of the United Press Association : « Postoffice at 3 1n7e, Rwsrarnns 3, 1899, at the r the Act of Congress Mareh per month: 3 montha $1.50; 6 months, $2.78; he State of Washington Outside the stata The per month, $4.50 for 6 mm onths, or $9.00 per year, By carrier, eity, er week x Chiat a RGA ai abe St Peblished Daily by The wT Ce. Phene Main 600, Private exchange conaecting all departments You Our Rip Van Winkle Congress So far as congress is concerned, it seems as tho the war might as well not have been fought. Congress has learned nothing, and forgotten nothing. It is playing the same old game in the same old way. : ; Before the war, the expenses, and therefore the income, of the government were about a billion dollars a year, When we went into the war, congress, under pressure, four billion dollars in 1918, Last ssed a law to raise May, with the rapid increase of expenditures, there was a demand for a new revenue law to raise eight billion dollars in 1919. 4 Congress has been working on it, then, for six months, And its work was made easier by the armistice, which re- sulted in a general agreement that the new law should raise not eight billion, but six billion dollars. | What is the result? : | The bill which passed the house of representatives was for eight billion, and the senate committee in revising it downward is therefore making a new bill which will have to go back to the house and be passed there. The new bill is not yet ready for even the senate to act on. _And to make things worse, the senate democrats are deliberately inviting trouble by sticking in a provision intended to tie the hands of the new and republican congress, which comes in next March. : | The treasury officials seem to have given up all hope of any law being passed within*the next two or three months. If no law is passed, we will proceed under the law of 1917, which was to raise only four billion dollars. e “Eddie” Richenbacher, they say, can pick his job in the auto, aviation or movie fields, when he gets back. It pays to be a hero, eh? Mystery Beckons Mystery tempts to ruin, fascinates to disaster, to luxury, lures to love and lucre! Mystery surrounding Kidd's alleged hidden treasure perpetuated his memory as a pirate when the man was really a character to whose name stigma was to agdegree | unjustly attached. The unknown beckoned Columbus. : The mystery of the Hereafter has influenced many to) a deep study of subjects theological. Oftimes it liberates new thoughts, frequently it fetters minds. Mystery enervates, it creates suspense; suspense ex-| hausts, agitates, churns the mind. } But the mystery of what may result from experimen-} tation and combination urges chemist and inventor to per-| sist; keeps hope burning, calls forth energy and resource- fulness, pitches aspiration and ingenuity to the key that produces new notes of discovery. Mystery suggests possibilities and possibilities suggest action. leads Lieut. Hogland traveled,a mile a minute with the airplane mail to Seattle. Would you call that a case of where “time flies”? The Point of a Bent Pin | Remember, don’t you, the usually decorous teacher who one day seated himself abruptly on the point of a bent pin? How that tiny thing did irritate him, didn’t it? He was grouchy for several days after, you may recall. It’s the little things which are, to most of us, the biggest annoyances. The simple loss of a single small button is sufficient to send some men into hot or cold rages, according to their mer- curial or phlegmatic temperaments. In such a state they often make their wjves regret the loss of spinsterhood. | Little things, however, make up the sum of content, of | industry, of joy and grief and life. They are not to be treated with contempt. They are too important. Look out for the little things. Avoid occasioning pin-thrusts. That’s the way to add to the total of pleasure in the world. “Have I any friends?” asks Fred Hohenzollern. Well, there's his hounddog, Putzel. : Airplane Mail The airplane mail service is an assured fact. If it ap- Peared premature when The Star first suggested it several weeks ago, at least by this time there has been enough demonstration of its practicability to convince the most skeptical. In New York, San Francisco, and elsewhere, where mail Service is wanted, booster committees for this purpose are busily at work. Transcontinental mail service is bound to come—and soon. Shall Seattle be on this map, or should San Fran- cisco alone be the Pacific coast terminal? Here is work for the city officials, the labor forces, the chamber, and all civic bodies. We need a well organized booster committee. Bryan used to urge the silver money standard. And now Wilson has it all fixed up for Glass currency. Fred Hohenzollern Whimpers “But have I friends left?” The question is asked by Frederick William Hohenzol- lern, some time crown prince The question itself indicates a dawning comprehension of es pons before the world. or four years this eldest offspring of William the Devil has been spitting in the face ae civilization, He has done nothing to win friends, everything to make enemies whose undying hatred will pursue him all his lays. He sent his fellow-countrymen to death in hordes at Verdun while he caroused in safety in a stolen French chateau far out of bullet-range. He ordered these men to death callously to cause death and terror among the French. The list of his offenses is long, too long to repeat. He may ask: “Have I any friends left?” Only 16 more shopping days left. The Election Tomorrow ._ Tomorrow Seattleites will vote for school directors and King county will vote for a port commissioner. A Happily, the school election contest has developed two fairly good candidates for the one-year term, Mrs. W. P. Harper and Walter Santmyer. Both are pledged to “the equal pay for equal service” principle. Henry R. King, a Jocal business man, is unopposed for the three-year term. |, , For the port election, Dr. Walter T. Christensen is the choice of progressive ci ns of this community. His record $ unassailable, both in private and public affe He has of the fallen German empire. | FOUR ACES Not a King in Sight! WILSON Om mee Four aces! That's the winning hand. the prize of peace for all the world. The hand of democracy, world-wide, and all-embracing. Four of a kind, unbeatable, unapproachable. Better than kings. And, you will notice, there’s not a joker in the hand, Just men, human, honest, democratic men of the people, men in whdse arteries and veins flows the red blood of manhood. That's the hand which will win at the peace table, and will clinch forever the victory democracy won on the battlefields of Europe. Of course there will be kings; always have been in every deal, you know. But kings count for little when four aces are present. And, four aces are present. They'll be at the conference. Three premiers and one president. Sure, King George of England will be there, and King Emmanuel of Italy and the brave King Albert of Belgium. But the real powers in the conference, and before and after it is held, will be four untitled, uncrowned men, three premiers and a president. They'll be: WILSON OF THE UNITED STATES. LLOYD GEORGE OF BRITAIN. CLEMENCEAU OF FRANCE. ORLANDO OF ITALY. Never in any pence conference have four men as big of mind and pu gathered around the table. And never in an all-European peace conference have kings and emperors played as small a part as they will now. The four aces will win. The kings will have no show, and déserve none. Also there are in the dis- card, two kaisers, a Bulgarian czar and a Moslem — and the joker of autocracy has been torn into its. The hand which wins STARSHELLS | A worD Fross! OSH, IT'LL BE EASY TO GET 40SH WISE “ oygerog With McAdoo off the job, and If noise wuz Glass money in circulation, it'll be ell tht some job to keep a fellow from break- needed, no ing his bills, band would have bg ies F a leader. REFUSE TO WARM UP From the way those Fremonters | Scores of cities are telegraphing to |! at hiv candidacy, you'd think their senators and representatives to | *™*berk was joeberg. j pred ge Hy aa irl gy Roe 4 A man has sued the Detroit United may seem, not one city haa asked | R!'ways for 20 cents. And we'll for the mot interesting and impor: | {inky ‘ne, company spends more tant relics of the war-—the ex-kaixer, gr in fighting him than tn trying the ex-crown prince, Von Hindy and ‘° ‘Prove the service, — PRINCIPALLY YELLOW, WE'LL BET Farmers are asking $1 a dozen for y eae, say the newspaper market| Loxt—Yellow and brown shepherd pages. But no doubt the price wil] Jom by name of Kizer. Please notify fall when the farmers hear that the 1205 Tenth ave—Antigo (Wis) Jour. ber hidden awa forest there was a sharp revulsion of feel ing against Napoleon poleon before afterward and asked only to tear that reason exile that aa ing, creature ! force. By Newell vernber of 1819, Na 1 wae a heart broken ext rocks of St, Helena; in Novem of 1918 the kaiser tn in a lodge of a Duteh eri ing or After the lona of Wa had cheered Na cursed bim Frenchmen who Waterloo a chanee him limb from limb, For it was the sentence of ed his lite today is the revul nat the kaiser ities he had Hints who sharper many low” spirit Question en Lips of All Now, everywicre, men are ask "What is to be done with this whone existence has been a curse to his own land, and a curse to Belgium and | Editor's Mail INEFFICIENT INSPECTORS Editor The Star Can you tell me why the efty of Seattle does not have its electrical inapectors go over all the work in the aity? 1 understand that. their electrical in spectors just cover the downtown district and that the building men, who know nothing of wiring work, take care of the outlying dis tricta. I have heard a great many contractors say that they can put! anything over on the building in spectors, and I found it so, when I wired my “ Knowing the ord © regulating wiring, d ho ” worked at the trade a good many years, | know that my house would not pass inspection if an elec trical man looked it over I have too many lights on @ circuit, used d material on hand, not standard, greater ete, Stull it was O. Kd. Why bother ith having it inspected when t anything will go? It is plain to be seen why now most any Jimmy can wire his house and get away with it In our neighborhood a public building was erected, and I know the wiring was all wrong according the ordinance regulating wiring, but the work was 0. K.'d by @ building man, Why should taxpayers help pay salaries to men who know nothing of wiring, electricity, ete, and sim ply go thru a form of putting their K. on work? NED. LOTS OF GRAFT Editor The Star: 1 read so much of the rent hogs, but I don't see why they are worse than any other hogs. I have owned four places in Beattie | for the Inst four years, and with taxes and cost of repairs up 40 per cont, I never realized 3 per cent on| ff any of them. | Here are your real hogs, your mer. | chants. A friend of mine bought) overalls in Everett for $2.40 that he paid $12.75 for here, where they are! made, Shotgun shells I buy at Stan wood for a dollar, the name make here coste $1.60. A broom here ts $1.50, and I can buy them fn Colorado for $1. Coal here costs you nearly $10 & ton, mined not over 60 miles! away, and you can buy it for the same price all over the Southwest, and It in hauled a thousand miles. I am a Seattle man. but I am ashamed to way that in a recent trip acroms the country I found Seattle was known more for its graft than its shipyards. STAR READER. WOULD CORKS Editor The Star . SLACKERS I do not mee why | they should send any of the boys at| Hf Camp Lewis to Russia Why not! corral all the patriotic ex«hipyard patriots, who quit the yards after the signing of the armistice—slackers | who hid under the ships while the| boys were “over there.” The draft boards and shipyard em- ployment departments can furish the names and addrenses of every one of these slackers, who furnifhed the greater part of the demonstration during the peace celebration—cele. | brating, not peace, but thelr release from shipyard slavery and bondage. J, CURRAN, WANT WOMEN POLICE The women's committee of the state counell of defense has asked the police commission of Wilming. ton, Del, to appoint women to the armiatice terms have been signed, | Pa! eee THAT ACCOUNTS FOR DELAY Seattle postoffice didn't know Hog land was flying over from Sacramen to on @ mail trip. Mebbe they were to get the information by mail or Western Union—or long-distance tel ephone. ‘ cee ONLY A FEW CAN COOK BOTH KINDS Wanted—First-class cook; will pay good wages; one that can cook frogs legs, male or female, Apply at Mar quette cafe.—Advertisement in De troit (Mich.) News. cee Somebody somewhere thinks that |‘Wount” Hohenzollern will try to sturt another war. Where? eee Tt wonldn’t surprise us a bit if sorkebody started a report that Jim Our boys are being led by se eco tg to fight red-blooded men of good nes |courage. They are all ham- ANSWERED BY MR. C. GREY | mered out in the fire and What tw the difference between a |b o1q me phrenologist and the superintendent ;H0lding back the barbarous of a factory?—A. Long Day. Hun from our door—saying The phrenologist works the heads lat “uy, and the superintendent heads the tO the Kaiser, “You shall not | works, | pass!” Can you tell me why a man who|iM these days of trial, over- works in basement under a side-|seas or here at home, should walk is like the soldi Tes?—Ollie Vol, Uor# Of *® &l lhave good, red blood—the red Because he is under many flags. |blood of courage. Many What is the difference between a | #l@ discouraged, have weak clock and a grocery bill?—I. Wilnot.|nerves, thin blood and feel One runs down and the other runs 7 i up. despondent, weak, almost ill. This is the time to put iron in the blood, color in the jcheeks, strength to the heart and nerves. Every able-| bodied man or woman should} |have about five million red- | Tam building a yacht, but do not know what to name it. Can you sug went & good name?—K Call your yacht Cornet, will stand many a good blow. 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Your blood) tingles with renewed vigor. | n’s Exile, and Kaiser’s, Dwight Hillis { to} | ey ne oompryre eps TELEPHONE OPERATORS Kiverywhere, on the «tr n the pre to be done with the neking What in halner During the interval before the and the archecriminal, hia cabinet and war etaff tried for complicity ‘Telephone operating offers many asdvanteres to in the foulest murders that women whe arc serking employment at a good Mes over stained the earth, men are epportanities fer advancement. nalary turning with strange interest to the events an to the exile of Having ‘lost all, Napoleon abdicat Good P: ed in favor of his son, and then ay had to consent when his son was A good salary from the start put aside. Fleeing to the coast of Regular und frequent increasen, rranc he surrendered himeelf to ei Capt. Maitland of the Bellerophon Permanent Position Thoughts of Suicide found him of a prisoner of Work ia steady and permanent. Many opportunities for advancerreat, Interesting Work The Vritish ministry ty and pronounced a decree Pa exile to Bt. Helena a war. When the dethroned autocrat realized what the sentence meant he became utterly desperate and Pleasant, clean, fancinating. Ansociates carefully selected. Pleasant Surroundings Light and well ventilated offices, Comfortable jonch and recreation rooma Special Advantages Annual veeation with pay. @ick Benefits, Death Benefita, Pensions, without cost. iplated muleide When the Hritieh officer searched his trunks for papers took charge of his money and de manded his sword, Napoleon's grief and anger were profound. When the shores of France began to dim behind his ship the prisoner to the stern, and tak «© gazed fixedly at the several hours Napoleon while no one concealed made his wo ing @ teles land, For mained motionless, dared disturb his agony After the outlines of the land had faded from wight, “he turned his ghastly face, concealing it as best Geod Character and Good Health are required. Young women between the ages of If and 26 are ; referred. expe a not necessary. Our employment office is located First 1118 Fourth Ave., between Spring and from $20 A. M. to 630 P.M. We invite he could, and clutched at the arm of Bertrand, who supported him office and meet the Schoo! Principal, whe back to hie cabin. It was his last with you An ap polmtment may be made by calling Elliott 12006, e Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company 1115 FOURTH AVENUR view of Franc Days of Anguish he manifested tm measurable grief. When the annt versary of Waterloo returned he gave the day over to anguish, while he exclaimed, “Ob, if it could only be done over again’ He hated Wellington because the latter had “sent me to die on this rock.” Each morning he exclaimed, “How long the nights are” In his conversations he spoke of himself in the third person, ax one long since dead, The walis of his house were thin, the rooma «mal! and during the middle of the day when the sun was hot, it was an In St. Helena FREE DOCTOR oven; the rats infested 2he cellar and the attic: few flowers bioomed. Boon the prisoner became a con Ge te the firmed invalid . In his journal he wrote these MIGHT DRUG OB. words; “How fallen am I! Once 169 Washingten St. TAILORING CO, my activity was boundless; my | and 1111 First Ave | And/the Dector will give you @ careful examination mind never slumbered; 1 sometimes dictated to four or five secretaries Headquarters for but then I was Napoleon, Now I and prescribe you 9 fin sothing FREE. Suits, Coats and These events may forecast the Si sions Wk stedcisiote cand Gio ed: One-Piece Dresses coming career of the German kaise ter than take advantage of this offer. er, The kaiser has lost his para | We gave Fy " you money and give the dise. He i» an outcast, and an/ poo gemshic treatment exile. | Low Meat Prices vs. High Cattle Prices If the farmer cannot get enough for his live stock, he raises leas, and the packer gets less raw material. If the consumer has to pay too much for his meat, he eats less of it, and the packer finds his market decreased. _ The packer wants the producer to get enough to make live-stock raising profitable, and he wants the price of meat so low that everyone will eat it. But all he can do, and what he would have to do in any case to stay in business, is to keep down the cost df pro- cessing the farmer's stock nto meat so that the consumer pays for the meat and by-products only a little more than the farmer gets for his animals. For example, last year Swift & Company paid for its cattle about 90 per cent of what it got for meat and by-products (such as hides, tallow, oils, etc.) If cattle from the farm were turned miraculousty into meat in the hands of retailers (without going through the expense of dressing, shipping and ), the farmer would get only about 1% cents per pound more for his cattle, or consumers would pay only about 21% cents per pound less for their beef! Ont of this cent or two per pound, Swift & Compan Pays for the Operation of extensive plants, pays freight on meats, cperume ealthenes branch houses, and in most cases, delivers to ‘Jan Fly Mwy ts to only a : promt goes to build more plants, to give better service, and to increase the company's usefulness to the Swift & Company, U.S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson St. J. L. Yocum, Manager Send him 10ce for trial pkg.