The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1919, Page 6

THE STRIKE! READERS OF THE ___ STAR DISCUSS THE WALKOUT "7807 Seventh Ave. Nemr Union St. i OF SCRIPTS NORTHWEST LEAGUE oF NEWsrarnns DOUBTER WRITES Editor Star; So much ts sald on the side of the striking shipbuild ere that I would like to offer a fow urks on the ot aide, prefacing them by saying that T am elderly have always been poor and exceed hard worked, no I cannot by of the imagination be » speaking from the capital side, But it seems to me that bt) Marconi, inventor of practical wireless, announces that to jook at more than hin own pide 2 2 ut." ; i » on! of the question | he has received strange signals that did not originate on of ‘he question. the earth. use a metaphor te & Nikola Tesla believes they may be messages from Mars, |¢ven if like all metaphors, it cannot la ie y y nt x exactly apply in all detatle Those glowing specks of light off in the distant night—) It seems to me the great indus é - = * appara i 7 trial activities of this country, be they inhabited? Surely the astral lanterns, many Of Re eon oe ee pon vig a thousand times as large as the World, are not re-|stoaming along under fair headway i ve ve bs of light|in tairt oth te For the . overned. Are the stars inhabited? im 2 momths $1.5 Curate "che carrie Se, Phone Main 00 Private departments. Wail out of city, bbe per mont ia, the State of W Bonne’ ee"tor e moncts. or Daily by The Star Pebtiating euchange comeccting were, etty, ingly of ships, let me plain my ideas, full speed put on, but in the opposite : ‘ ab tion from the The soundest affirmative argument is that nature is course in peace We got up tremen efficient. and that stars without folks would be fous heedway. ‘Then farne the nud: mely inefficient, useless. . ae ceasary to etop and reverse the Twenty-one years after Gugliemo Marconi in 1895 in-jengines. There is every neconalty the practical wireless, America talked thru the air for us to get up full speed ahead Japan. A wireless flash from Paris reaches W ashing-| neal. | But bs ig 4 does ase in less than one-fiftieth of a second. Is there a limit). yas, headway asain, after com bilities of such a power? _ [ing to @ standstill on reversing x claims that as far back as 1889 he began receiv-|There is every reason to gather) 2 it ig | #peed ahead as quickly as possibie, z messages from some planet—probably Mars, tho it ie deo eT oar ‘an eee r closer than 35,000,000 miles from the earth. lathes a Gb veate of enacake Ve If Mars is inhabited and endeavoring to signal us, how] fore specd can be gathered to carry A ° i es yj us safely away from them. It seems could we decipher their message? | Martian moaeages TUnY | sehety oper from Eom. Fo pee “be stranger than Chinese. Marconi suggests that communi (0)... ‘should work together to cs be carried on by mathematics, the only medium of! aid in getting on headway. Yet the | on that is undeviating thruout the universe. If we strikers a uiberataty drawing the “ ss i a tres from under the boilers at the to Mars, “two;” then later, and finally the |‘ critical pertod, and allowing it, “four,” we may arrive at a common code. i lthe whip to drift farther In‘ towards Uncanny that the far-off stars may be inhabited and danger } i is an uncanny medium—j} !t seems to me, with millions of eabyt to signal us. Put. there is men coming back and wanting cALy. ote work; with federal, state and munic What is electricity? - , it fn a eegeyernments at their wits’ end “Electricity,” jares Edison, “is not a power; it is ajto meet the problem of unemploy od for ler power.” m peg with more ane ogling oe “When we know the secret of electricity, we will know |) Mil peace Industrie ivho were secret of lif So claims Charles Proteus Steinmetz. | aiready employed, not only assured Lord Kelvin linked it with the Great Beyond: “Electric-|themscives against absolute want ity occupies the twilight zone between the spiritual and the m |. God is the Great Electrician; we are born, ery, Ls age | mis awa sew It seems to have been demonstrated that the king si gets along better when it doesn't try to cover much territory. but helping by keeping all industries moving, to furnish employment for , others who must get back to work. | live, play, work, toil, enjoy, suffer, love, die, as Hejare anything but wise to lay down | there be a supernatural force in our world—one | err et — pve veg pot pve nable, that cannot be measured or weighed OF iow down the general industrial ait tood—it is the electric current and, in its highest) vation and prevent many others ification, the Hertzian Waves discovered by Heinrich | obtaining employment they might otherwise hav®. in 1887. : It appears as if, until industry from the stars! Yhe man nine-| ots in full swing again, and «hile of whose waking life is devoted to filling his dinner | * many are unemployed, that there ‘ A i . i will be a tendency for wages to fol may be skeptical, but the scientists—Marconi, Tesla, | *" the usual law governing supply God. | ve in it as they believe in . jae Jand demand, and fall, rather than What are the strange signals that “break in” on the/rise: tat it is one of the cases men? Where do they originate? Mars? When will “bere tt seer — _ yp ond ‘ A i of . . crisis, to consider “half a loaf bet become coherent, if ever, and what will they have to) (ry (0 (Oven oie ieee tee. | prove, to be thankful for work at! resent wages. | We have been proud of the im! mense growth of the Pacific coast in population, industries, wealth, ship: ping. ete. I cannot but feel that the B strikers are deliberately killing the | g00ne that laid the golden egg: that unless the strike ts very quickly set. | n Wonders of Age Sed ton oh cones cod feat on — " both sides, we shall have much less In the olden times there were seven wonders of the| reason eg gre ager ret Mae neh 9 haps you remember them, perhaps not. But) coast wit be pretty thoroly killed, ve you ever stopped and given thought to the seven Won-|in a business way, for many years ld of this age as they appear to a service star mother |‘ come The shipyards, once clos od is still “over there”? led. may ni reopened. It cor boy is s' yt : , | tainly must cost more to build ships such a mother, the first wonder is—because she’s | here than nearer the source of sup and happy and just a little biased—that the Huns) ply of much of the material enter hold out for three months after her boy got|'"* into them. and those concerned d may decide, if labor is no more anx e. lious to cooperate t t second wonder is—because she knows her boy) showing inhastar "thare to faye fits the best of everything that the world can give him|dom in making further efforts here =that President Wilson has so far failed to say anything| Ff er 1 his speeches about her son having been personally deco-| PROTESTS STRIKB by Gen. Pershing for brawery. ° Editor The Star: I am a shipyard the third wonder—because she’s modest arid &)\aborer, and voted against the) yo prog she — a4 so Soeeune te as to be the strike because I aid not think the ravest and handsomest boy in the world, =| 1" Would Krant the-increase, An | Wonder No. 4 is—because she’s just a trifle inclined |e ycete woud. te ee — to think that her boy is still a baby—whether or not he) vance their prices, and we would be ; ht colds “over there” because of damp feet. |no better off if we got the raise. Dol Wonder No. 5—because she’s a trifle jealous of the . ral 4 boy alia whether or not he'll pick a French * for a wife. | Wonder No. 6 is—because she just naturally wants to)! ase her son when he comes home—whether or not he'd one of her berry pies he used to like so much. nd Wonder No. 7—the greatest and most pressing % x of all is the big-hearted, loving, tremulous, longing,| ‘rnere’s no trick about feeding po d mother-wonder—she wonders how soon her boy will iayine nens rules which a ebi Feed a Hen é And She'll Feed You Table Scraps Into Regs Converting { { ‘There are some simple The main thing is to feed egg-laying hens food which will produce eggs. Table scraps, your own and neigh | bors, if you can get them, furnish an |ideal ration for hens, A little grain as the grain may can learn When secret treaties are no longer in vogue, Colonel | House will seem a waste of raw material. should be scattered in the scfAtching shed te to Olympia [be scattered in the. ecttching she Are you in favor of giving the service men of this! ercive. Night meals should be served some ready cash when they are discharged from in plenty, and in cold weather should placed so it can be-Quickly eaten. | Are you in favor of giving it to them without sub- » Wen aaa aah if Drink ne them to a third degree, to questionnaires, to quiz-| fountains, whieh keep the water f of all kinds? Are you in favor of giving it to them ° ‘ter and unfrozen, may be m @ matter of right—as compensation for services, rather | poe ee ee ana | in as charity, or as a loan? don't let food stand in the yard over ; If you are, write to your senators and representatives | "sht. Take out what they | at Olympia to pass the Lamping bill. That bill provides, “°%® UP early, and should it VERY Washington service man shall be paid $10 a) tor yi 2h ag fel aa a Month for every. month he served during the war. Mixed chicken feed may be pur The Lamping bill is the most humane measure that) Ch##e4, and this will round out the the legislature will have to pass upon, so far as service [72% Wich olherwine would go into Men are concerned. It is the one measure that does not coaster ts w oreo gees anything from the soldiers’ or sailors’ self-respect. n't produce eggs. Three-fourths Write them a letter, if you possibly can. If not, clip the on ess ie water; therefore, plenty petition printed elsewhere in this paper. +o The Lamping bill needs your direct encouragement,| they a1 else it will die in the legi etin will jot lay in winter unlesa | are fed gr food, Cabbag ature. leaves and leftovers of lettuce, | ¢ fine. Oats or wheat ited and fed to the en shoots are from inche Oaty ar soaking day then placing 1 about an inch thick on several » of wet paper. In week's | will begin to shoot out aves, By starting a tray of few days, you will have during the cold The Hun can find some consolation in the fact that the peace terms will be installment terms. may be «pr hens when the ¢ to three 1 in one long a basement by in water Pt proute John Barleycorn would have preferred peace with them ina out victory. r A merciful Providence has provided us with the in- ability to worry about the other fellow’s troubles. jwreen le wre food | weather ; In warme |may be fed may be let ward ¢ thelr greens xt lesson will tell how to — all And yet an acute attack.of bolshevitia is more de- sirable than a chronic case of kultur. weather lawn clippings In spring and fall hens out for an hour ¢ will fi Those who criticised Wilson for going across should wait to see whether he put it across. ening, and Yank over-sea-ers are Hun overseers. |hands we |lare amount to what we can buy. THE STRIKE We cannot eat the dollars. In the yard where IT was employed the company had on its payroll, hun dreds ators, thieves, 1. W. W and boys. These fellows were not content with idling merely, but omimitting depredations, and stealing everything they could from honeat workmen These all drawing pay that F swell the cost of ships, 7 pany officials knew it. The f men knew it, Yet these men we kept on the payroll, One Ume, watehman broke up a “crap” between bunch of th men ina secluded corner in the shipyard the gang “beat him up.” The wateh: | man was discharged. Then there was an incident where there War @ large quantity of lumber and other material systematically dentro; presumably to make business outside firms, and all added to the coat of the ship The writer has worked more than! @ year in the shipyards, and is stat ing facts an he sees them, Now, in the face of this, the shipyard firms kept calling in more idiers and boys | up to the Ume of the wtrike, These facts do not rest easy on the mind of the honest worker, He thinks if the company can afford to pay ‘bume for idling, they ean afford to pay the industrious worker 4 ji(tie more: for actual and hard work / strike however m for hi, r right prices for the necessities of life, and a clean sweep of the para sites from the yards, In this case, we would be backed by the public in a just cause, and bound to win, The statement of Charles Pies cor roborates the fact, that if loafers and waste of material are eliminated from the yards, ships can be built at reduced ¢ . and real workers be paid higher wages. The rympathetic strike will get nowhere cause trouble for the the innocent. These troubles do not worry the shipyard firme, It inf asked by many why the unions take in strangers with no credentials as to character or ability anewer is, that the shipyard companies have been calling for anybody and every body, and if the unions had barred | out many, a cry would have arisen | that the shipbuilding program was being held up. Most of the workers feel ax I do about the strike, but a word of caution to a radical means a row at once We must have lower higher pay, but we mu: in the right way buy a8 much o n years ago. 1 have the prove it i we should not pay, but for prices or go about it , $4.64 will! would ten | statiatios to HER NERVOUS HEADACHES HAVE Iowa Woman Tells How She Enriched Her Blood and Sent Food to Starved Nerves Worry and overwork combined, | cause a heavy drain on the nervous syatem, resulting in a waste of ts sue that must built up if the body is to be kept free from serious rvous a Bo-called “high strung” people, those who are work ing on their “nerve,” can continue the pace only if their blood is red and healthy, for the nerves receive their nourishment through the blood. If the blood i» rich in qual: | ity the nerves are rebuilt as quickly as they are exhausted, but if the blood is thin and anemic the sys tem’s reserve ix drawn on so heavily | that @ nervous breakd: form of nervous disorder is almost inevitable | Nervoun disorders generally yield to treatment which results in build ing up the blood. Nervous head aches often disappear when the im poverished blood is enriched. An ex ample of the succenstul use of the tonic treatment for the relief of | nervous headaches is thus described by Mra. J. H. Morgan of Correction. | ville, Lowa, who says Some years ago I was in ribly nervous and rundown tion and suffered greatly from ous headaches, My head seemed tho it would burst, and I had fre. | quent dizzy speli«, I was in despair | of getting well until I read about Dr Williams’ Pink Pills and began tak They just suited my case | and since then I have used them as @ family medicine More I suffered untold agony with pain and numbness in my hands and arms up to the shoul ders, My hands were so swe the muscles so sore hardly, dress myself could fot close my left hand ing the day if I Kept moving pain did not seem to bad, but lways numb. I aga used Dr, Williams’ Pink Pills found them good for this trouble also, aw they enti relieved me The pills have done for me than anything else recom mend them heartily Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills un equaled for the treatment of even the most severe nervous disorders. such as neuralgia, partial par nd St. Vitus’ dé As a tonte for the blood and nerves, they everywhere with the greatest suc ¢ building up wasted bodies and bringing the Klow of health to pale | and sallow cheeks Your own drugg with Dr. Willi Pink Pills or you | can order direct from the Dr. Wil. | liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N Y¥., at 60 cents per box $2.50. Write for a free nervous disorder wn or some a ter condi ry recently the more andl are eis are used t can supply you ix boxe TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street | terenta, > THE REMEDY aditor Any who haw The Star sane man the of Seattle and the Unit annociated with working ed States, even for a comparatively short that time, cannot fail to realize these working people have any Just grievances ‘n with thelr service in the industrial affairs of the country It in alwo a fact, well borr recent affairs, that they ¢ ou relief from these co Ul after they have exert dous effort and forced the public grudgingly give a small part of jus tle It also evident, even the present moment, that litte or no permanent relief, in the form of leg islation can be expected from either our legislature congress, unless pressure is immediately brought bear in t ir behalf The present Seattle atrike al ready a wuccens; for it has torn the connection t by rditions or Shall There Be a “League of Nations? U. S. Senators (This is the sixth in a series of debate ] J are conducting, exclusively thru the columns of The Star, Debate Question in The Star}, s which the leading United States senators on the subject of the igue of Nations”—at the same time as the subject is being discussed by the states- men of all the world represented at the peace conference in Paris.) BY MORRIS SHEPPARD, Dem. un: | a tremen: | (Copyright, 1919, by The Newsp mask from off the face of certain in-| exponed to the shipyard workers where to look nearer to the source of their troubles, and hay ren dered possible the placing before the people informat that otherwise would have been passed without no- Uce, or aibly even with ridicule. I there to make a direct Appeal to the citizens of Beattle, in the interests of fair play, justice and humanity, 1 npectally peal to the religious organi the pulpite of our weigh the situation carefully, remember the admonition of the Master, and give ur a litt real, practical Christianity, in t form of tolerance, seeking the truth and the epirit of the Christ in the form of pelf-sacrifice and the love of fellow To our business men, I desire to state: You and I know something of the inside workings of present conditions, as also of the that it Is largely thru the “profiteering nerally practiced in this city and that has caused a wage of $4.16 per day to no longer be a “liv ing wage.” To you I appeal to re uce your profits, in rents and other ne of man ry SARs sb BhELBO | SHEPPARD NEXT DEBATE: & calami bound to follow. fellow commence at bome be responsible you are the one who is respon other fellow wi ing thru the not have and rem be wage wage 1 would also call the attention of my readers to the fact, well borne! them; and * <\. DURHA je for yours costs of livin demanding long before will AGAINST BY HARRY S, NEW, Rep. United States Senator from (Copyright, 1919, by The Newspaper Enterprise Association) In my judgment no provision for a so-called league of nations to be considered at the peace conference now on in Paris should be A uport the consideration of the confer- « until after peace terms have been definitely decided upon I take it that everybody is in favor’ of an alliance that would the future peace of the world, b many of us are skeptical, to put it mildly, of the possibility of the per- fection of any such plan, When the Present peace conference has agreed upon the terms on which the world conflict is to be ended, whieh iw theoretically still in progress, it may devote such time aa may necessary to determine wheth@r or not a Jeagne of peace may be formed, but this, in my judgment, should fol- low and be independent of the delib- erations of the congress concerning the terms of | between the nations lately arrayed against each other. For, Senator Porter J. McCumber, Republican, of North Dakota. Against, Senater Sterling, Republican, of South Dakota. FOR United States Senator from Texas per Enterprise Association.) with for nat in of league of ty ring the peace of the world sympathy Wileon the of 1 am enident « the idea fully and in peace the ne 1 feel that I can safely support the kind of which President the other American del At present I am unable velop in my own mind what the form of the league should be, and am leaving this to the delegates confer ring at Paris My attitude toward the problem of free neas and the disposition of the German fleet is the same as toward the idea of a league of nations. 1 feel that all these problems can mafe ly entrusted to our delegates in France with object h otherwise will be Don't wait for the to commence; but let t other for his own whi out by history and all of the acts of [influence those who, thrd man, that That behind any|™ent, unfortunate conditions, great movement, which actuates the tig Lp on , people, there is some element of | be less able to learn oF , truth and justice, This fact holds|the truth; or possibly be true, whether we like oc do not lke/| {nto errur on account of the name whieh it has chosen, and | bility to see the real truth in w the@fact holds true whether we | matter. agree with the thought not You may have been blessed Neither can you down a right, or many talents, while you may the truth, by means of persecution. | der these others blessed with Recognizing this fact, would it not fe ergo that your own # be well for our people to lay aside | Places upon you an added their Bad B ideas and seek bility to seek the truth and these truths and learg to profit by | Mgbt. 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