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SEATTLE STAR 1207 Seventh Ave, Near Union St. “SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE oF ™ Second-Clasa Matter M Beattic, Wasb. under the Act t of city, 5S0 per month; $ months $1 0, in the State of Washington, Outsl 0 for @ months, or $9.00 per year. jay 8, ~~ of Congress — 278: be per ae month: oe ntate, By carrier, oity, ( One Second Choice “Unless we have a navy that can lick any other navy ‘in the world, we may as well have none.”—Josephus Daniels. And that’s the gist of the whole ance of power pro n that Wilson is fighting. Wilson ys: “Let's not any expensive, trouble breeding armaments at all; have an internationalized police force, a just and equal | of Nations, instead.” That’s his first proposition. | _. But Daniels sums up the second one, failing acceptance | the first. Navies, like other armaments, are largely a matter of py and time. Now that this war is over, there will to be a breathing spell before another one can break Folks are tired of fighting; they will demand it. And breathing spell will give everybody all the time they Sag When it comes to money, tho, here are some figures, bed from Commerce and Finance, that are illuminating: Estimated Present Per National Wealth National Debt cent . . « -$250,000,000,000 = $18,000,000,000 7.2 90,000,000,000 — 26,675,000,000 40.7 80,000,000,000 35,500,000,000 44.4 65,000,000,000 26,000,000,000 = 40,0 40,000,000,000 — 25,400,000,000 63.5 28,000,000,000 1,300,000,000 1.6 Ries o's. 25,000,000,000 = 11,000,000,000 44.0 Hungary 25,000,000,000 — 22,000,000,000 88.0 Now, if we can afford to have far and away the greatest ry in the world, and if Daniels is right when he says a . d rate navy is no better than none at all, just what do make of it? What will British, French and other dele to the peace conference make of it? is the vital ques- Seems to us there will at least be some tal! consider- ig of these figures indulged in. | Wasted Hour You might have— § a ciently spent it in reading an efficiency book on how ently spend that wasted hour. ee } | Efficiently spent it in planning how to efficiently put ito practice the efficiency plans you read in the efficiency se d States a Efficiently spent it in efficiently carrying out the plans had efficiently thought out after reading the efficiency Efficiently spent it in efficiently recording the success) Ooops thy efficiently carried out after reading the ney book. Efficiently spent it in telling inefficient friends how you ntly read, planned and executed the projects unfolded u in the efficiency book. ; | Efficiently spent it in urging inefficient friends to effi-| itly stop, look and get busy in an effort to efficiently fol- in the path you efficiently trod after efficiently reading ‘y book. : Efficiently spent it in efficiently hiring a public hall and efficiently telling the inefficient public how your in-| nt friends effectually turned against you when you in- that they efficiently turn aside from their inefficient ods and efficiently follow vou in your efficient plans for ntly spending heretofore wasted hours, as efficiently d to you thru your perusal of the efficiency book. | But no doubt you will— ~ Continue to keep your friends and waste precious hours es B Ti are those who will insist an egg’s an egg. Grocers continue steadfast in the belief that eggs are h, Near Fresh, Almost Fresh, and Siorage. | ie trymen say eggs are fertile or infertile. chemist says: is a combination of lecithin, phosphorized fat, olipins, phosphatids, conalbumen, ovamucin, ovamu- ovovitelein, ovalbumins, glycin, alanin, valin, leucin, phenylalanin, aspartic, acid, glutanic acid, serin, try- cysrin, histidin, arginin, lysin, trytophan, calcium, z jum, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, chlorine sul-| ir, iron haematogen. and other similarly well known in- _ Now, that isn’t an indictment of the egg. Rather is it! of recommendation. You can see at a glance that! egg is a commendable article of food. It ends forever argument against the egg’s appearance on the bill of| Tn fact, all egg problems are thus neatly pushed into| on, excepting one alone. That one is, how to get the egg? , O. P. Camouflage Secret diplomacy, star chamber sessions, and steam! rule have been the bulwarks for evil legislation for| And even now, following a war against autoeracy, a ority of the state republican executive committeemen | not ready to adjust themselves to the spirit of the day. ' Progressive members of the committee tried hard, at Friday, to convince the standpatters that the peo- expect republicanism to keep pace with the times. A motion put by J. Y. C. Kellogg to form a mediation nmittee that would work for a “solid republican front” | favor of wide open diplomacy at all committee meetings | the state legislature, failed to pass. | "Instead, a camouflage motion, presented by. W. M.! ‘h of Seattle was adopted. It provides that commit- should “give opportunity for open hearings.” The joker as Kellogg pointed out, that after the “open hearings” | committee can slam the door and work in the same! Secret way, with the people locked out and nobody | to see how committeemeA vote. Earlier in the! Whitney had declared that the “wide open door” policy “not practical.” : Some day these republicans are going to realize that gutoeracy is “not practical.” Some of the world’s best advocates of the “closed door idea” have already their lesson. | he Northern Bank Payments ‘ A year has passed since the depositors of the defunct | orthern bank received their first payment of 20 per cent} of the amount they had credited to them. 7 It took nearly a year to get that. And now a year ~ has gone—without any additional payments, | The bank examiner, or receiver, has his various techni-| ¢al reasons. But the feeling cannot be dis sipated that the} longer sad payments are withheld the less the depositors| get. The least they are entitled to is a clear, comprehensive | Statement of the affairs of the bank. This they have never ok ten. Yet it is inconceivable that any private business could! tun as the bank examiner has run the Northern bank) affaira Pi polenetitemiineaiieatatnient sees 0.1, anumarummemmenemtmmmeadie [ Coming Home With the Yanks! ee i « A sad case of the bird who learned too much French, and when be got back he didn't know enough Eng lish to order a good square meal A Telephone Call The world allps into a drab attire What was it somebody said? Somebody's voice blurred over the wire And told me you were dead. You, whom I knew from the olden day Of our busy boyhood’s dawn, You have slipped aside from the common way And you—old friend—are gone. Are gone, gone, gone! We shall not meet Or answer the hailing jest? I shall not find you in room nor street Among all the million reat? How can it be that my blood runs red And my world, in drab, whirrs on? What does it mean when they dub you “Dead?” Where is the place called “Gone?” What wan that message that I meant to send And the visit I did not pay? What is the good of it all, old friend, When tomorrow turns yerterday? Now, aa I sit with my “buts” and And wander and maunder on, God! how I hope that you share regrets And are not just gone—just gone! (Copyright, 1919, N. BE. A.) | Editor's Mail GOVERNMENT NEGLIGENT Editor The Star: Private John G Cariello, 36ist infantry, A. E. F. was reported killed in action Sep. tember 27, 1918. 5 “yete,* | STARSHELLS A WORD From JOSH WISE Men gen'rally “think it over” On November 5 Mra. J. G. Cariello received a letter from her husband dated Sept. 26 and above the address waa written “Died in action September 28, 1918 Mail Orderly, 122 Reg., F. +" Mra Cariello wired immediately thru tho Red Cross, and in several @ays re ceived an assurance that the matter would be investigated ax soon before. politicians say y would form a Several they wish Germ government like this German | this source, | coffee, possible. Nothing further was heard from so Mra. Cariello wired the adjutant general. In five day she received a postal card, contain ing the infortnation that her hus band was reported present for duty abroad, and that no mishap of any kind had occurred. This was vember 15. No more mall waa re ceived from Private Cariclio by either | his mother or wife, and both were til of worry. After repeated efforta, Mrs. Cariello secured word from Washington January 3, verifying his death, Is this proper tion for the government to give its fighters and their loved ones? MRS. J. G. CARIELLO. URGES MARRIAGE LAWS Editor The Star: A few words to the preachers who insist on meddling with the cnarriage laws, Judge Ron ald is right. Make marriage more difficult, When a couple wishes to marry, make them take a course of study that will prepare them for the new relationship, the same as an alien who wishes to become a citizen. Let the doctors formulate a course in sex hygiene and see that the appli-| cants understand it. After both have passed a physical exacnination, let the woman pass an examination in domestic aclence, so that she can at least make a bed, boll potatoes, fry bacon and make a drinkable cup of and t the male app! pass a financial examination, he were asking a bank for a loan, #0 that if the standard of living 18 #0 much a year, he is able to conform to it, or is well on the way. There is no znore reason why peo- ple should be allowed to enter the ranks of reproducers unprepared than to send untrained men into bat tie, Marriage is a civil contract that has for its main object the reproduc tion of the species. After these re quirements have been met, let the church surround marti with all the tomfoolery that {# agreeable to the contracting parties. The churches have had control of the marriage laws for 2,000 years or more—suppose we give science chance! DR. Q. W. KLINE. considera: | nt! a’ country’s | They must have heard about the United States senate. Possibly you noticed that Rdward M. Flesh was picked by Hoover for the job of feeding Burope c RIS THE KEADERS There will be no issue of the Cour Jer Christmas, so as to give all an opportunity to fully enjoy the spirit of the day.—Jacksonviile, IL, Cour ler, | A MERRY S FOR “Somebody only correspondent—in talking ing Bill Hohenzollern,” writes F. “If he goes back on the th would he be a reseated Bill? maybe a war of res Dr. Tanner, who excited the whole United e@ in 1880 by 40 days, is dead, Fasting for 40 days is not much of a stunt these days, but it was some stunt to resiat the appetite in 1880, when egsgn were 12 cents a dozen and steak and but ter 15 or 16 cents a pound fasting “I noticed on > the old-fashioned watchman who whist! Year blow off at 11:30 p, m.," cards H. T. M.. post The suffs at Washington keep the home fires burning. | TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street \ See ee | after instead uy! for | {man in a of THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1919. " FUNDAMENTALS This is 1919. The war was won last year. it; it is over and done with, This year has problems of its own, tasks just as complicated and difficult and fundamental as the lick- ing of the Hohenzollerns and all they stood for. They are the establishment of a just peace for the world, and the creation of a new peace basis for the United States industrially, socially, and economically. There is no time now for looking backward. * . * . To begin with, the peace. The president is in Europe today on that important mission, What he is striving for is a new kind of international agre ment that will be an absolute guarantee against future misunderstandings—and great wars. A just and equal League of Nations—equal according to the num- bers and importance of the civilized peoples of the earth as such—is his plan. Whether just that kind of a league will be feasible or not, what he has set out to do, and has a vary fair chance of accom- plishing, is to definitely avoid the mistakes of the past—the writing of old-fashioned, secret, grab-what- you-can, war breeding treaties. And to do away with conditions brought about by that kind of treaties is, above all else, what our soldiers have fought and died for. It is the duty of every American, right now, to actively support the president. Politicians, in congress and out, who are doing their best to embarrass him at this critigal time, are no less traitors than were those others—and some of them the same-—who tried to embarrass him and his administration in the carry- ing out of war preparations. Then, our own readjustment. In facing this there is one fact clearer than all others: WE CANNOT BE SATISFIED WITH A MERE RETURN TO PRE- WAR CONDITION The war was fought for prog- ress; there must be progress at home as well as abroad, There is but one direction American progress can take. This nation is committed—‘“a war for democ- racy.” That is an empty phrase unless there is actual progress in our own democracy. We are all citizens. We can all share in it. And we can all work for it. There are traitors here, too. There are would-be after-the-war profiteers, just as there were war profiteers. There are price raisers and the wage reducers. There are the corruptionists. There are the tax shifters and dodgers. There are the labor crushers. And there are the Bolsheviki on both sides of the fence--the fanatical Bolsheviki of the down-and- outers with their mistaken faith, and the cool, caleu- lating, a thousand times more dangerous Bolshevikj of Special Interests, who are plugging for indust?ial and commercial anarchy and cut-throat competition for what they can get out of it.: Let's make it bot for all of these traitors, without fear or fgvor.” They are a menace to every one of the rest of us. Here is a list of some of the things that ean be, accomplished, not in a mere “readjustment” program, but in a “re-creation” of the country we live in— things we must accomplish if this war is to have been worth while: 1—A full re-establishment of the right of free speech and free press—the right of honest criticism. 2—Better pay, better living and working and playing conditions for the great mass of the people. These things will mean better citizenship to hundreds of thousands. S—A fairer system of taxation to support great public projects. Direct and simple tares based on ability to pay, not on ability to evade or shift the bur- den. This will mean, largely, graduated income taxes with publicity of returns. 4—Increased government activity in building, controlling, operating, or operating in part, such pat- ent public utilities as our railroads, canals, shipping and other transportation systems; telegraph, cable, and other communication system; coal mines, oil- fields, and the like. 5—The creation of a real high court of labor, of unquestionable fairness, and with power to settle in- dustrial disputes. This will mean the permanent estab¥ishment of an institution like the war labor. board—a peace labor board—only with its authority and responsibility clearly fized by law. 6—The continuance of our high court of com- merce—the federal trade commission—and the broad- ening of its scope and power. 7—Positive action by the federal government in the housing of workers, to do away with the rent profiteer and unsanitary, depressing and degrading living conditions in factory and industrial districts. . . . > Forget All of these fundamental items that will go to make up a new and better America, and a new and better world, are things upon which the thought and expression of the common, every day citizen will have great bearing. What they spell is a better and a fairer chance to live, and enjoy living, for our returned soldiers, for those who couldn't go, and for the chil- dren and grandchildren of each and every one of us. IF LOOKING FOR AN EASY JOB, DON’T BE PREACHER ES en | BY THE REV, CHARLES STELZLE The daily life of the quarter of a million preachers in this country is one of the most highly satisfactory proofs of the value and influence of religion For, take it from one who knows, it’s harder to be a “Christian” preacher than it is to be a “Christian” anything else. Most people imagine that the preacher should be the most moral, the most unselfish, the most spiritually- minded man in the community. Usually, ho is. he is normally a better man, nor because he isn’t as severely tempted and tried as other people are. acher'# life. It's a real joy for him to create | religious ideas and principles of living and put them into form for the edification of his congregation, | ‘ It's when the preacher steps down from the ef pulpit that the devil gets in his cunning work STELZLE | And 1 needn't discuss what these activities are. Every preacher knows them ‘There is an enormous reaction from the exhilaration of preaching which makes the preacher peculiarly susceptible to temptation, And the warmer-hearted and more humanly-responsive he is, the harder it ix for the preacher to hold his own, At such a time he is apt to do and say | the most undignified things, | Furthermore, the preacher is tried by the pettiness of small-minded | people, by the bickering of quarrelsome folk, by the patronage of some of those who pay his salary, and by all the little things that are found in| every other man’s life | ut he makes his fight against them all in the power received from what he himself teaches his people—the power of God and re “T wouldn't take your job’ for ten thousand dollars a al tain preacher's congregation, disgusted because of some. | body's petty action toward the preacher. | “And I wouldn't take YOURS for ten thousand,” replied the preacher, | with a «mile, For he had won the fight—the fight that every man must| make some time in his life against smallness and pettiness in his own life | and thinking. | _ Spread of heart failure thruout British plained by the fact that Wilson addressed t “Sir,” instead of “Your Majestw les is ex- € king as “||don't own @ pair, so I just borrowed Fut it's due to the fact that he gets | more out of religion than anybody else; not because | | Comments, Views, Thoughts, Smiles and Throbs Gleaned Here and There “BY HEBA~ ? ) { ) “Women should from the place have won thru the Bo #a Mina Mary NOT withdraw industry they "Shal? Women Give | Up War-Won Jobs ; »% Afrector of the Wom Service of the Department of Labor at Washington “There seems to have arisen a widespread belief that it is the duty of women war workers to uy 1 follows largely from the fear of unemp between men and women “But the solution of this problem of unemployment doen not lie in the withdrawal of women workers, They t |need and the same right to The remedy following “1, The united efforts of all workers to obtain higher standards of hours and pay, | “2, The much wider use of collective bargaining by both men and orkers q he establishment of agencies to adjust labor difficulties in which employer and employe will share full responsibility. “4, ‘The extension of the national system of labor exchanges, to lessen the fear of, unemployment. F “5S. Legislation for the eight-hour day for women and representation (of women in administering labor laws.” |. Women workers, says Mins Van Kleeck, demand not only the eight. hour day, but they want to be paid on the basis of their occupation, ang | not of their sex. Alno, they demand proper working conditions and a hand in managing the shops and factories where women are employed. Kleeckya Industry= “ Van rioti their work,” at ds vyment and work as men (women |" Hiram Charles Gill—The Man vel, and yet, he the composit Death equalizes all differencem: ate; imosities, like the Harpies, halt af the grave Hi Gill, in many reg spects, was both a unique and com 49 ponite personality; he had no paral @ majority personality of Seattle at his Ume-—both good and bad. That is largely why his public career was) marked with so many irreconcilable difficulties The evil influences that too much beset all American municipal pol tics led him into many mistakes and errors, but with all bis faults, Hf Gill was & good old scout meant to do much better than he did. His singular misfortune in selecting derelicts for official subordinates further disgrace than might have otherwise been in his public service, His was one of those rugged, untutored, and unrefined natures that usually sin more against the form of good manners than the essence, I recall with amusement an incident Illustrative of this point. When the! Shriners held their convention here in 1916, Hi appeared at their 4 ball rather late and somewhat fussed up. I made some remark to him about how unusually fine he looked in a dress suit. “Yes,” said he, “f™ rented these monkey clothes for this occasion, and I feel like a monkey in them.” “Well,” I naid, “you don’t look #0’ bad; but wh |gloves in your hand? Put them on.” | “Well, you see,” said he, “L couldn't rent white kid gloves, and I | these from Mrs. Gill, and of! chow, he never seemed to fit 4 y do you carry your§ |courge can't get into them.” And so, » jinto some better elements of life In his private life he was ever a devoted husband, father, and friend. pally, in politics, and business, he was implacable and largely! I; and often invited the bitterness of opposition rather than the respect of it. But his aims were not altogether ignoble. he has gone, let us rather cast the mantie of charity than obloquy over |his memory, Standing at his grave, let us bid him a Vale, pax vobiscum, R. W. McCLELLAND, Rewived: That when our tongues turn white, breath feverish, stomach sour and bowels consti- pated, that our mothers give us Cascarets, the nice candy cathartic, and not nasty castor oil, mineral oil, calomel or pills. Cascarets ‘‘work’’ without griping and never hurt us kids. Cost only 10 cents. TO MOTHERS! Learn to give harmless Cascarets to your cross, sick, bilious, constipated pets and save coaxing, worry and money. Children love this candy cathartic. Nothing else | Cleanses the little liver and bowels so effectively. Each 10 cent box of Cascarets contains directions for dosage for children aged one vear old and upwards. REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest and strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of the mouth; you can bite corn off the cob; guaran- teed 15 years. EXAMINATION FREE $15.00 Set of Teeth. .... $10.00 $8.00 Bridgewor! $2.00 Amalgam Filling ‘ainiess Extracting ¢ impression taken in the ion and advice free. Work, We Sti the patronage is recommended our iving good satisfaction. Ask our ave tested our work. When coming to our office, be sure ‘ht place. Bring th's ad with you. Open Sundays From 0 to 12 for Working People OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS 907 UNIVERSITY ST. 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