The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 6

i it PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Seventh Ave Near Union st. MEMSER OF SCRIPTS NORTHWRST LEAGUE OF Nw APRRS Pooling of Wires “Pool telegraph, telephone and cable systems under one executive | * says Theodore Vail, pres- ident of the American Telephone and Telegraph com- pany. “Put the United States in the center, not out on the edge, of a comprehensive world cable sys- tem,” Sure thing! That's a mighty good idea! But what head? With telegraphs, telephones and cables all pooled, whoever operates them is going to have & monopoly, and monopolies in such patent public * e utilities are bad business if they are in the wrong Sensational Figures bande, BY WM. HAMILTON OSBORNE We say: Let’s pool the telephone and telegraph Telegraph News Service of Ansoctat econd-Class Mal Wash. under t Postoffice at Mareh 3, 1878, ay 2, Act of Cony By mail, out of city, Bbc per montha, $1.50; 6 montha, $2.75; year, $5.00, in the State of ington, Outside the state, The tf month, $4.50 for @ months, or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, per week. Get this hard. This war has cost the United States lines and cables. Then let's pool the big government over $20,000,000,000, and over 50,000 lives. Only that num- wireless stations along with them. Then let’s put ber of lives have been lost to us in a year and a half of war.|] the mails into the pot. And when all that is done In one month and a half right here on American soil, the let's do away altogether with our old postoffice Spanish influenza epidemic took a fet of gen lives. on department and create a new cabinet job—that of one month and a half, disease at home—one disease—cos' secretary of communication. us ce times as many lives asa 7 1. a ye gl Ans Unkle Masi shold contitne to vin the whble Now, suppose—just suppose—tha he hed “ business! Uncle Sam is the only “executive head” mic Ss uy e A my. A © counted on to run such a great co-ordinatec Diet ae i eg Se, SoS eee: ae cue tem solely and simply in the interests of the Ameri- war has cost us. hey did fig it—they 10) as, GS" ean nation and the American people. fectively, but not so effectively as tho they had had millions There are some tive ites § a government upon millions of dollars to fight it with, and a hundred mil- such as ours, dealing with large units and actuated lion people at their backs, supporting them. only by thought of service, can do better than any a a bd ag , oe et tag ree individual. In the first place, the individual has stead 0} ere being a war be a ations, tha Pes not got the great capital or power for organization sum of money could have been handed to that Sen lhage a of the government. In the second place, his very tion, the Red Cross, to fight disease—to save lives. Sup existence demands that he show a profit on every bit eee paren wT vasaedaie eater } gent lg A a of business he does. Profit, not service, becomes the vention and cure of tubere auspices , first consideration. . Red Cross. Is there any doubt as to what would be the re- Great emergencies show what are the things the sult? Now, we are Ihe yo war—let hong pope rapt government can do best. The present war has been rate. parany are not ru fig ley mt Mh b hae ‘ep ‘i startling in this respect, We had not gone half dirt, and filth, and ignorance, and neglect, and disease, an: way toward getting our whole force into it before on Faged pee nag Sst Ge ees Thee be railroads broke down and Uncle Sam had to just one institution that has come out of this war that can pitied, tolaeratie _ eer came Suen i tele i em— Cross. The le know this, when they ‘te gfe ere : b png ho Oe et toe do aor vebline what it means. about. Xt was 8 oaee of our” abectatey hevi The Red Cross wants you to be a member, so you can Jet other people know about your belief in it, your support to its wonderful work. Join! | The war is over, or over. But has y ray " jf the emergency taught us i? The danger L Bi geo irosnghed oo meee rained mete po | is past! But the immedia iture holds much of pin ade pti Y 3 an ae Sst of justice | importance. In connection with this telephone-tele- qeluiions mex es trheted But ps0 an their Ph ter a ws ag Pgh ng scheme this is part ly true. . teserg~ 4 hag a Rages ? ere is just one angle: In the interests of comes, who'd like to be in their shoes today! |] sound international relations such as will have a di- What Co Won’t Do veet bearing on the prevention of other great wars, it is of first importance that an adequate cheap The sixty-sixth congress is destined to go down on the cable service be maintained between the United of American history as the “reconstruction congress.”|| States and South America, as well as between the The present one is the “war congress.” The one conven- United States and the Orient. If we are going to ing March 4 will enact all sorts of “reconstructicn” legis- go sanely and sensibly to work toward promoting lation, and will fail to enact much proposed “reconstruc- better international understanding, these cables and tion” legislation. other methods of communication must be maintained And among the latter, doubtless, will the the “recon- whether Wall st. sees big money in them or not. struction” program outlined by the National Voters’ league, Who else but Uncle Sam is fitted for that sort of which suggests: | an enterprise? A responsible executive budget system of handling appro- The existence of the postoffice department itself Briations and revenue measures. is ample precedent for our government operati Complete elimination of personal and local legislation, with a. . . perating “4 be -” these other agencies of communication (for that g to have the right kind of service whether the operating corapanies could give it to u profit or not. And our government ste; rot it for us. the work of congress confined strictly to matters public and na THE SEATTLE STAR-—TUESDAY, DECEMRER 17 " How to Treat the 7 Returned Yanks ———8 BY WANDA LYON Pretty American War-Worker Who Has Suggested a “Marry.a Yank” Club in Every Town { then Ike to dance is when they re » make up for mense assortment range A High Class Hoyt’s Coffee Real Cream SANDWICHES tional in scope. Abolition of pork and patronage as trading elements in leg islation. Curtailment of the franking and leave-to-print privileges, to do away with unfair and extravagant political abuses of these campaign devices. Elimination of all standing committees not essential to na- tional legislation. More democratic organization of committees, each electing {ts own chairman, and selecting and using only for the public pur- poses its own employes. No executive sessions for any committee of congress, except ing only foreign affairs during the period of war. Fullest publicity at every stage of the proceedings, and Every employe of both branches to be placed upon a public what they are really, supplements of our mail sys- tem that have grown up since the postoffice was established). Only let’s change it into a depart- ment of communication, the very name of which will include all means of conveying thought, writ- ten or spoken, inside or outside our borders. We are decidedly for the pooling of not only telephone and telegraph lines and but the mails and wireless li, But the pr should hole the strings in matters in which they are so vitally interested, just as they have always held the strings on their mails and highways. [5c 322 Pike, at Fourth ’ EVER ClosE 15 | pert and continuation of those vast, Mary Garden and Mra. Theodore invented is expected to get as much | i | payroll, thus eliminating the present questionable “clerk hire | fund,” which members of congress may pay out or pocket, as they please. | It isn’t at all probable that congress will even consider program of reconstruction, for that would reconstruct qatren. and congress would rather reconstruct anything | STARSHELLS an re | However, it is a mighty fine bunch of good advice to g—————_——~ congress! | | PULL DOWN THE SHADE ‘A WORD FROM | For Rent—lIarge front bay win American business men, in convention, declare that JOSH WISE dow room, ning almost private they want all the advantages of Uncle Sam's control of |bath—-Advertinement in Chicage the railways maintained and private ownership re-estab- Nobody worrles & jl) Tribune, lished. They fail to state how it can be accomplished. | about there bein’ |- phy no cushions on th’ | A statement by the treasury de “We | bandwagon. partment «ays ¢t collection of Jobs for a Million an fea teen as neue ta ‘ A ill be extremet fie Bay, it Uncle Sam has jobs for a million men at from $55 to OLD-FASHIONED ROSES moire oa tale a8 dietionit. iBase Bhs $90 a month, including board, room and clothes. Further-| Mis Gladys Th » will leave | ‘em as top wee more, he is opening employment offices at army cantonment | °C", ‘illase, the camps, where soldiers are being discharged, to recruit men 1")? Par" for these jobs. The work itself is with our merchant ma- her housework. rine, at present government owned and operated. a good he That's good busines! There is still plenty that the *%T ™™ patriet can do for his country. And in the doing of it, he” ""°"; . . ; : A : Porkey Corre ows that he is still working in his own interest as a citizen (Pa. Herald and that a bunch of would-be after-the-war profiteers aren't | We ds going to skin him alive. | ‘The Ger having Also, that’s the kind of thing that wil continue and in-| the!" mo* pile fo crease, if the politicians can only be made to understand— |" (M*,,00" A thru a little direct action on the part of all the people—that | sport, eatin there are certain matters that the government can attend to| Gey Pigg better than any profit-hungry individual or group of individ-| © © acer g Wlowenerracty rs uals, our new merchant marine being one of them. cgiely te oP eh ag pee ea | ‘ 3 | By the way, what has become of Aliases appear to be popular among revolutionary | a1) ‘the prophet jes that e to be leaders. Trotsky’s real name is Braunstein, and now we | carried out by the war? are told that Kurt Eisner used to be Kosmanowsky. tpl Why Isn’t It? 5 la aa | JOY KILLER nd that our Listen to England’s premier, Lloyd George: “Gigantic | armies must not be permitted in the future because they a 5 | * tempt nations to make war.” That's from a recent speech | igo as thin war has cause, but wal rete eee in London. must’ warn everybody against dan Free Examinations Then listen to First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Eric) s°* of influenza.—Hrom the procia . 9 Geddes: “It is inconceivable that the supremacy of the ation subd by the mayor of BEST $2.50 GLASSES ns, suspend r ly give thanks for the | nd from such awful British navy should be surrendered.” Tha speec 4s E apt y we rr ndered. That from a speech on Earth rom the same platform, on the same day. Speaking for ourself alone, we Now what we want to know is, if a big army is a/ “n't care how many times tne temptation to war, why isn’t a big navy? Certainly kil) yolung os _Hohenzoliern, who neither one will fit in with a League of Nations program| age eee designed to provide insurance against all future Wars,| RATTLING TE on land or sea. Our brave weary themselves to be With McAdoo too poor and Baruch too rich to hold tle against nearly ¢ 1116 WIRST AVE, down that treasury job, Glass must be betwizt and be- | TH War drama is now coming to| Near fenece St. Main 1550. tage: | a close,—From a speech in 1915 by cove | William Hohenzollern, at that time ena | katse: “Nature abhors a vacuum.” So do we, if it’s going | a a eae to be used, as announced, to preserve meats indefinitely. | ‘They're talking already about _ sanmapeeent i “war" gardens for next ar, We're Nobody seems to be shivering much, despite the | ‘inking of making one toda chilly relations between Chile and Peru, | ate hat? 4 er war, what? sae dl TAILORING CO. Herr Hohenzollern sent for his doctor. How about | Some matches that'll light, meb. teary Hoke |» oe Headquarters for wo of the sede Suits, Coats and » the jerma MY ror ey S"™"" 1 One-Piece Dresses Senator Sherman of Illinois ought to take thi FP ym teh 0 take something et when it finally Revolting news continues to come out SfGuaan The red flag was raised over ono | 425 Union Street of the kaiser's palaces, Auction? CAL CO. # 1918. 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