The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1918, Page 6

yivee se —e, THE Bolshevism SEATTLE STAR 1007 Seventh Ave, Near Union St. WEST LEAGUN OF NF 4 PER oF scru now a Telegraph News & # Bntered as Seoond-c Matter May 8 1 Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress Mareh 3 From Injustice, Says Noted Wall St. Writer ATTI Results | = STAR—-MOND i} By mail, ont of city, © month; 3 months, $1 50:6 monsha, 92.7%) BY RICHARD SPILLANE | Teal Just s something far greater, | 1 0 ' o yutaite e sf " } 4 aun be soe m3 4 ae sat year iy carrier, eity, The tor of Commerce and Finance, and | It entory into every phase of “fe. The | | it weak or .@ Special Writer for The Star,| Way to justice is in making the world | — 7 Assigned to Humanize and Vitalize «@ better place In which to live > Pebliehed Daity LB My 4 the Topies of Economics and Re | A row of foul tenements is an tn construction dictment of a city’s Injustice to ite poor, Bad sanitary conditions are aa —~ | (Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper hh sent? Enterprine Association) My Dear Lady America Many persons fear America is to have a manifestation of We are wondering if it is quite safe for a mere man to the blind, de write you a few lines about a mighty delicate subject. structive Some of the staff say force which “Sure, go to it, she is the in Europe, most sensible, prettiest, most and particu lovable woman in the world.” larly in Rus Others just 1 “NO sia, is known not on your life Bolshe But we're going to try vism. it just the same, and the The term is subject is what you eat, and a coinage how it affects your waist from the that is, the size of it, and " word Bolshoy, your complexion, and how by RICMARD SPULANG Which means keh ed Bcd complexion ime More, the Greater, or the (if such a thing Is possible | Majority, and reducing your waist The term Mensheviki is measurement (if such a thing is desirable) you can also prove to the world a truth we have long known—that you are the best-hearted person on earth. . j |. There can be no such outbreak of There are a great many millions of people Lt ay te Bolahevism in America as there has Oy % t r " a of w which the! een In Burope, because there is no who have gone thru the very horrors of war |wuch basis or warrant for it a# there mere reading about made you cry. 3 ia in that continent, Their babies are dying because the babies have NO} Nowhere has man more opportunt cow or goat milk, and the poor mothers are too thin and |ty reward or freedom than in Amer ica hat there ta of the Bolsheviat weak to nurse them. ln ie oe : . ‘ <i] States is made » of ‘ Some of the countries—like Poland and Serbia and) roe elements. One in of that poe Northern Russia—have no babies under three or four years old, and you know why that is. coined from the word Men- she, which means lesser or maller. tion of our immigrant popula | that has brought with it all the bit » ee , | ternexs against society at large en So won't you please |gendered by centuries of oppression help Mr. sg; ec a or injustice abroad, and is in revolt haps you have sco Aj against any and every form of au great many times because he }thortty : The second is composed in m 2 part of born agitators and in part by eut off your chocolates and |. overdingruntied people who as other sugary things—by g0-|crine their discontent or failure to ing a little short on butter | the government rather than to their and cream and eggs and fats |ow" Incompetence or sloth. The third ‘ . .| element is made up of earnest per and new clothing and neW) ion. nome of whom are well todo shoes, so that Mr. Hoover! who are conscious of many things in can collect these things and | our “ieee a bee) Menger c «“ ” we lost faith in having m right eae pineres' |e except by & general upheaval Repression does not correct wrong. ¥ so well that the Belgians and |The cure is in REMOVING THE the French people think | CAUSe a he they're almost angels? A lot of foolish persons believe Please, Milady America, do this, will you? | that, with an equal or wider distribu. na ta) S.—Dear Lady: Germany’ll eat after all the others | tion of wealth, mnost of our ills would we let out their belts. That will happen just about the | 4appcar time when Germany will have eaten up this summer's har-|,,¥jne, tom" pot make hanninem vest, — was harvested less than, two months ago.—|tice. ‘The majority look wpon ft am a thing meted out in the law courts their own shadows on the street car deal. j Yet it seems a simple proposition. | ; And it seems that if the city can put the deal thru ‘Oh, Goody, Goody! i without placing the construction on the bonds that Council) 1... cer prayer meeting will be man Lane desires, it wil! be better off. kak ‘at the reaidence of Mrs. Goody Lane contends that the bonds, as at present written,|on 8 Lucas st-—lowa City (la) Cit mean that they are to be paid out of the net earnings '*" instead of being a first lien on the gross receipts, taking Precedence over costs of operation and maintenance. The East Ohio N. G jing folk owning coal question has not yet been decided by the su-| burn coal in them we — know omy court, tho the city has issued this form of utility| “Mat, Atvice \* sives folk who ows in several instances. -ganlgesioc eget ae The mayor and other councilmen are not convinced, A that Lane is right in his construction. However that may | Prices wil! continue be, suppose the supreme court decides it Lane’s way? |" "" ... The result would be that the city’s utility bonds would) An Amsterdam cable mays the eal Not be easy to market. This is the opinion privately ex-|ser i# free to go where be wishes pressed by many of the:councilmen. If that is their private ee aaah cahisin: opinion, it should also be their public opinion. If, under|"” “” “"? @ supreme court construction, the city won't be able) We're too careful of our language sell utility bonds written as they had been before, they | t@ make It any all have to be written in the future in the form that! 4:5 man or felt the halter draw yeh gamma now seeks to have the $15,000,000! with good opinion of his lawyer bonds wri reo How, would the city be the gainer, then, by havin: THE EMPTY JUG, the question decided by the supreme cut? | her comes & wail ought to be understood—and every councilman does Tom, ‘Pe ME understand—that the city will pay off those bonds in full| meee po ati h ne A ap no matter how they are written. The city cannot do other-| And made good the steal wise, even if a technicality would permit it to get from| There's no one I'm accusing. under the indebtedness. To protect its credit and to be | tre turned the trick arth moral obligations, the city could not renig on the and done it quick 5 | ‘This crafty gink so risky. This, after all, is the company’s real guarantee of | ®¥* {oF the life of me ment. The company, under the law, could not take back y wes ariel off that whiskey. its property if the city failed to pay. The utility bonds do! not Deevide for that, and the public utility law would | bo fay td be nO j As The Star said before, it does not make any differ- enie oe care (en ps cara ence whether the utility bonds recite “net earnings” or |Just up and took “gross receipts.” ‘That last quart for good measure the bonds turned over, the ¢ity’s Co, in advise furnaces to Chicago banker declares high for another year. 38 Fi Once the transaction is concluded and obligation would be the | phe chief he «wore game. It would have to pay—in full. Tea tae tale too toe The only question, then, is: Does the city want the| For he was mad as fury ear lines? ad He said “by ging This case I'll bring To be solved by thé grand jury.” That is the only question, and assuming from the four! . . 1, ass H to one vote of the people that the city does want the| | traction system, the shortest way to > : ation | What sets my goat of the deal would be the best,” °° ‘N® Consummation) is how iat hue coat “Many senators are strong in the belief that the surest| 22,20 interfere guarantee of a lasting peace for America lies in a strong mil- eee Gstance wae in speaking itary poli with universal training as the keystone.” This i policy was highly successful in Europe, where it has pre- | served peace for 47 years, with only one What camouflage 4 5 | Or other dodge little four years’\*" | RESTAURANT MEN! FRE conference rlmost ne # chap use—the slicker war, costing only about 8,000,000 lives, Leen te Beaty tie Sal Se = |} Then hit the trail j _ Luckily, the secret of that wireless telephone used by the| And with bim went that lMauor i Yanks was never discovered by the Huns, or S. O. S. Solf rt the chiet's gum shoes i] would have been inundating the whole American public with | Can't find that booze, mercy appeals every twenty minutes. The bet is safe it's a gonner, | — ee | And the guy got awa t | Complet I'd #a Hii So long a8 they confine their activites to German soil, we| On that I would stake my honor i { won't have much to complain of, even if the Spartacides be- ? a B. L. P all come homicides. V However rotten may be the German beer of which the|in scnsion ked as if the res correspondents complain, it can’t be as bad as Seattle near-|taurants would be deprived of that heer, old alibi as to the whereof 62 | nd wherefore of smaller portions a ? . Sign up ae Jat greater prices, namely, “on, ac Now that the war's over, the Spanish government shows|count of the wer Rice tear’ O98 an odd zeal for ousting German agents. Wonder if this has\oh ye patriotic hash slingers, Phere anything to-do with which side won? Mm another good excuse. Didn't pail Oe an notice Doc McBride telling _ Ag we all predicted, it is now evident the Huns will WERKE “aualnat catobing. Heche ¢ —elaim thruout future ages that they were never beaten. |iux? 3 er ud ‘ | then, she restaurant men be guilty (WSSIWSSIW. of overfezding the multitude? No, i WWSSIWSSIWSS} | sire; they're interested in public wate geamewmc est! STARSHELLS | proof of ntreets inicipal wrong “Vind roads visit Injustice upon, people in their igno. Inadequate Hh in wayn the rance glo not appre ate pth, lack of playgrounds, are un: | t hildren, The county the homes for the aged hoot st to the and indigent, are not evidences of harity so much as they are monu mente ¢ sething that is wrons that has brought so many persons to become public charges. The merchant who profiteers is an agent of Injustice, So in the employ: | er who 4 t pay a fair wage or| 4 rovide decent conditions for his em So in the strives to unde treet oar com that make Ita profit out of overcrowding | labor yes to any } its oare eee No one who ta sensible expects Uto- | arth, or looks for all persona The vicissitudes of life and the poor are always with us, but there will be leas need of charity and leas cause for discon tent, lees of Bolsheviem and leas of war when it is recognized that any- thing that is unjust to any part of the population bs of concern to the whole population as a matter of busl- | an pla on to prosper are many On one Wall atreet greatest group of giant office struc tures tn the world, the temples of finance and Industry. On the other, in @ maze of dirty streets, is a man | of old, decayed structures, many of them more than a century old, which are tenanted by inmnigrents from 23 ds. This foul spot is call foreign ta ed “Wall street's back yard Recently, Wall street men, as a business proposition, determined to buy a lot of these wretched tene ments and build model dwellings in place of them. They have satiafied themselves that there ia money In it They are doing it but as a matter of SOUND INVEST MENT. eee We nent our men to France to save the Institution of democracy We can put the capstone on thelr | work by Improving America, the cre ladle of democracy, by uprooting in | America, so far as powntble, what ts | wrong. abeviem, or by whatever name pr “et is known, is bred where there in wrong. | Erery one can help in stamping | out Bolsheviam by doing his part to ward making things right and by do ing what is he , Welfare—they are. And the portions will no doubt be even more micro. ° from now on. On account of of course see | Household Hints | Spots can be taken out of colored silks by washing of them In a solution ° a } Never throw away your husband's | humidor, Fill it with dry air and| une It to hold potatoes. If the air| is dry the potatoes will not sprout An“eantern chemical company is making perfumes of fruits and ber- ries as well as flowers, Raspberry ia the moat popular Lettuce that has wilted can be freahened by starching it and prens- | ing it with a hot tron. A Cleveland firm has put on the} market a window stove. It can be fastened to the outside of a window and used to cook onions. This pre vents the odor from going thra the house. CROSS, FEVERISH | CHILD IS BILIOUS | OR CONSTIPATDE: | |Look, Mother! If tongue is coated, give “California | Syrup of Figs” Every mother realizes, after giv- ing her children “California Syrup | of Figs,” that this Is their ideal laxative, because they love its | pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels without griping When cross, irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, st h sour, look At the tongue, mother! If conted, give @ teaspoonful of this harm }leas “fruit taxative,” and in a few hours all the - foul, constipated | waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bowel&, and you have a well, playful chi ain When ts little system is full of} cold, sore throat, has stomach- ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colle remember, a good “inside cleansing” |should always be the first treat- Millions mot? keep “Calt-| fornia ¢ f Figs” handy; they| know onful today “aves a ick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a bottle of “California! 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The nominating committee will make tts | in made up of all precincts from 186 to 212 inclusive | married or the section of the city bounded on the south by Yealer Way, on the wert by Broadway, on the north by) Madiwon street and on the east by Lake Washington SERVICE MAN ASKS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT editor Star I wish that in the camp to hear the exprem# fof joy were Jin The Star by Senator Ashuret of | Arizona | 1 wish that I could hire that world's greatest writer for ten snin utes. He would not be able to find a more serious or worthy subject, than the giving of three months pa and wartime clothing to each and every discharged man of the United | tates army, navy or marine corps. | ‘There are, undoubtedly, hundreds lof thousands of good U. 8. 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