The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1919, Page 6

Near Union s¢ eR OF SCRIPPS NoRTUWEST LEAGt or Nhwsrarers News Service of the United f Recond-Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress Maree a. ON snthe, $3.75 © per ite he, $1.50; 6 9 yutaide the Hy carrier, eity, ¢ Washingt state or $9.00 per year, Private ing Co Phone Main 00, exchange conn departments Yoiw Unemployment? Why? ? vHE SEATTLE STAR—-WEDNESDAY, JAN, 29 Coming Home With the Yanks! , 1919, » ait) Shall There Be a “League” “| of Nations? U. S. Senators Deb ate Question i in The Star Editor” rs OPPOSED TO COUNCH (This is the second in a of debate ators ul re mad exclusively thee columrs of “The ae 0 th ibject of the “League of Nation "at the same time the subject is being disc ed by the statet men of all the world represented at the peace conference in Paris.) FOR AGAINST , Frank Morrison, secretary American I< atiot BY JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS Dem. BY WILLIAM E. BORAH, Rep. » Of Labor, predicts: “We are to have bread iaited ; fil eas go » @very industrial center by May 1 ‘ . Why should there be an unemployed problem n¢ 1 A there any lack of work to be done? rt ate cone “ag Never did the world so need worker For fot kern | Ls pbb : es ~ $0,000,000 men have been busy destroying wealth nd - ' : esis! ) Workers. More than 10,000,000 men have been ed or ? believe - lessly crippled. Famine rouses to revolution over " He , “ @reat sections of the civilized world. Whole peoples face t Winter almost without cover for their bodice Millions are ; : mi in desperate need of Itering roofs od are t he Sorely needed ci ies, machin and manu : factured goods have | oyed and mu replaced ef All too few necessaries and almost n ies were : a iced during the war. The need overwhelming in in GI =F nny ne direction. , 1 ; tha on i i hen labor is most needed, an unemployment problem ua ant 4 lactone Why? ; ‘ The first answer is as s as superficial. There r ; t ta ) are unemployed because people cannot buy what they can aT me \ a ce. te m 4 os Another step brings us close to tl olution. People’ vos ont ja are too small a share « product. In spite Bigh was billions of do to non-pro To auto victim: “Well, If-you'd » joined up with me and went to he cannot be extravagant to coi war, as IT wanted you to, you wouldn't « got hurt tt . Producers tack capacity to buy. Nen-producers —_ wee = ve 1 capacity to consume. c Unemployment for the head of a family takes about suhainanatiee nia : consumers out of the market. This adds to the idle ~~ TOD AS: : 2 ‘ ‘ ; a tas snowball grows to an avalache. Shall such an avalanche 1 i ‘ pe ‘arry civilization into the abyss of B vism? t to a t ‘ f non possumus ca we can check the snow i prevent the ‘ - - ' t end t not In a few weeks it may - r a : incre to pur the fi We must pa urplus &y Mi ntat . f Government must employ | ¢ works 7 1 iy ent wa OW'S DEBATERS: FOR, Senator Kellogg, Rep. of Minnesota; AGAINST, Senator Reed, schools, public buildin »ady Dem, of Missouri. q Korasesd eee “ Rroks ned, must be started at once ee Even this is but a makeshift. Wages must remain high and be raised higt and binge es : ; i URGE APPROPRIATION f still further shortened. The market that wou id be f He age aaa : nes tors We L. Jones ane ited at home by paying to wage earners one-half of the soe tis Gueat a a . vr ; . " ps Poind we Bfits now piling up in the hands of a few, would be many sid B . dae veaby eat | 4 from the Char : greater than that furnished by our export, trac 1 r ya . . 1 Con = And keeping business running, would really be better xnowied as for the non-producers. They will receive nothing if indus- 2 t OFFICERS ALSO SUPPER ; spin 000 ame ty stops for an indust panic; they lose all, if they allow 1 th a t : i By rm alnte ers to go as far as Bolshevism. iy ¥ os irecees $1 nanenit ie: Met Vest and Duwaes There is no socialism in th It is EMERGENCY-ISM ’ % a ” ae over, we think that Americans have too much common o " Pr a id S h Ca to let conditions go to the pass that they have reached Pd toe K Y caren Cl ee auses Indigestion! ag ror a — ‘ - tee Rm poress : Instant _—s Why Worry Representative Robert Grass is a statesman. Else he Tate le Or Uying. Tate mix with the gaug.” r t be in Olympia, would he? | Being a statesman, he is opposed to wasting the peo- © ple’s money. So he says. All statesmen do. Of course, when Bob Grass votes for certain he is not voting to waste the people’s m no. He admits that. It’s only when the other fe something that it’s a “was When Grass votes money to be expended, he is voting for great public fits. Always. Oh, yes. He'll admit that, too. He votes for these “public benefits” quite often. But n the proposition of visiting the Seattle port came up, decided that he was going to save the people’s money -and the legislators’ time. True, the trip would be made turday, when the legislators knock off work (but get anyhow). It didn’t matter to Grass. Also, it didn’t matter that the people’s money n't be spent for the trip. The Chamber of hi ag at is iz up the expenses because the chamber has learned it the port warehouses and docks helped to make Seattle tec foreign trade port on the coast. The chamber ently has scrapped its old grievances against publicly- d projects, at least when they prove so successful as port has proved e But Bob Grass is still peeved. He's peeved because the nd Bob Bridges, the man behind the port proposi- made good. And he’s so darned peeved about it that doesn’t want anybody to see the greatest port system in the country. ar tae tae i \ WORD FROM JOSH WISE Chickens th't go home ¢' roost don’t don't need a guide ' git there. Oh, very well. The port got along without him and ept in os his kind before. It will manage to survive this blow, too. of t Five” ja cit aliowedicts balagich rico 1 4 were $ In may, ont 10,"" 8a Too Many Cooks sae ve fans €)anave ice that ; non Yet From the mass meeting and reunions and confabs that) “*"! the Mish pricy r wo ow an old Ia Ae @re being called to save the country, we s 1ise t ere + ee ; Must be a lot of folks who should have a job. ¥ . at A flood of handy advisers have arisen to shoulder all » Our reconstruction hods for us, and dance right up the lad- pp hap Fe : + der of national progress to the millennium. nF To ¢ : Or so they say. att ms . nd a t sh y r We haven't any especial program. 0 ru 5 3 . him of tha ile force, We're too busy getting out a newspaper, and minding tibia rae and ‘let it remain jg thcalty beg baie our own business. Two? y : nd) powe a every atk ot Which And we have a quiet sort of a hunch that what about coaned Fe ‘One whé s hervous ana Kind of man Nine-tenths of these willing talkers require more than any- © To Relieve C hal are you? thing else is eight or nine or ten hours’ work a day at 3 De pon asized the th F) gomething’ useful. ° H eafness and Head : ' ane making kr There will be, at the best, enough conversation over yt 2 ote Noi ° fined j mill our national problem } : ‘ y, 1 The big thing right now for all of us is to get right \ a : I down to the job of doing the nation’s work : ' Which We have the simple little chore of feeding n ost of the! ' a |at ada t h TAILORING CO. tion f ' kind of woman world this year; and supplying most of the for foreign production, and the farm machinery de for tated Europe, and of making a start at catching up A esstenih ‘ Glay our neglected public improvement ; never bite the (arget, Personally we have discovered that when we work six days a week at our job we don’t worry much ¢ id gg world’s salvation. eS eee re v We will heed with more respect these legions of itiner-| | no ¢ i fant reconstructionists when we observe one in ten of them|!! e) that has done his honest bit in the world’s work in the . b last six months. Apparently we didn’t cage all the national i a parrots, sold a farm for $20,000 years ago. Someone, must have thought it A farmer of Cleopatra, Mo., siz times what it cost him 25 judging by the name of the place, was a beauty! Questions Mr. ©. Grey Cs Lucky for the Germans, the allie munitions the armistice, shambles by now. 8 took most of their under or Berlin would be a : Among notable steps for the promotion of Bolshe- vism are the steps contemplated in the senate against it. instant t relief! Just the mor t Diapepsin ach distress Misery ends! Costs so little at drug stores. Makes stomachs feel fine! “ spSET? Pape’s Diapepsin ‘Is Your Blood Starving for Want of Iron? Modern Methods of Cooking and Living Have Made an Alarming Increase im Iron Deficiency in Blood of American Men and Women WILL PUT ON YOUR FE rd] ; four-sided bowling pir CAUSE BACKACHE Why Nuxated Iron so Quickly Builds Up Weak, Nervous, f found & hair in the hone Run-Down Folks —Over 3,000,000 People Annually supper last D u mupT Rub pain, soreness and stiff- Taking It in Th Country Alone to Increase Their m M.G.G ness right. out with old Strength, Power, Energy and Endurance. Jacobs Liniment” n? If you were t are you? Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street HOME OF THE BEST GLASSES $2.5 ON EARTH EXAMINATION FREE! EYESTRAIN HE, ADACHES - The REMEDY w PROPER GLA is to be fitted Established MARCUM OPTICAL CO. 917 FIRST AVENUB—Noear Madison [tithes been sald and written om matter how much or what you eat, aud all other druggists