The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1919, Page 6

as Second-Ciass Matter May 8, 18 ‘Wash, under the Act of Cons COLORED GENT THE WOODPILE The question still remains: What is there so urgent about a road thru the) river watershed that ANY legislator would be} Willing to risk the health of 400,000 hat is the real reason behind ‘ople? og enator Taylor’s m1? __ To argue that it is an absolutely necessary road is ucuious. | Who is going to benefit by the road? That’s the _It is idle to say that the strenuous fight for the d, put forth by Senator Taylor and house politi- ; was inspired solely by an unselfish attempt D serve a sparsely settled district with a short-cut. There is another reason—which these men are ping to themselves. : here is a colored gent in the woodpile—and some} he’ll appear on the scene. Some ri we’ll know why such tremendous efforts being put forth in behalf of a dubious bill, to say least. The legislature has been sufficiently warned. On its head be the blame if this dastardly attempt befoul the water of Seattle is successful. - But it will not be successful as long as the people f this city and state have any opportunity to prevent And prevent it they will—somehow. final Americans Our Allies Now) _ Inall the history of conquered races there has never been thing to compare with the record of the American Indians great war. A thousand enlisted in the navy and 6,500 entered the y. Indians now hold a $50 Liberty bond for every man, in and child of their race. p It is only six years since the Indians raised the American for the first time—when 82 chiefs representing 11 tribes on Washington's birthday and opened ground for the n memorial in the harbor of New York. i ' How thoroly the axe was buried and the red race joined in the melting pot, is reflected in the war record of an r, Chief Strongheart, who has folded his blankets returned to the Yakima reservation in Washington. theart toured the country, spoke in many recruiting ves and loan campaigns. He visited 216 military posts id camps and entertained the doughboys with Indian is a far cry from the battle of the Little Big Horn | the capture of Osceola of the Everglades. Columbus 427 years ago was the first of the white race see a red man. War, liquor and disease have thinned) ranks but they are far from extinct. A quarter million exist—from a sixth to half of their numbers when was discovered. The white man’s campaign was bitter. The grandson Villiam Penn offered a bounty of $134 for every Indian That they finally joined us in the last great war is dramatic—and significant of our more kindly policy ter years. _ To the science of warfare the American Indian brought tt contribution. He originated camouflage—painting to blend into the scenery and binding branches to to hide them among the trees. The Indian, living to see world peace, may e been the first man to wage war. Experts of the Unit- States geological survey believe that the first man ap- pared around Lake Superior in the world’s dim dawn. He t forth the mound-builders, from whose stock sprang in Se north of \ Other scientists think they came from China, thru Si- crossing into Alaska. “Hank” Hill and other old-time ty Mountain scouts and trappers claim there is a trail to leading from the city of Mexico thru El Paso, Boze- Mont., and on via Saskatchewan. Consider the romance of the red man—Custer’s massa- he buffalo herds—and at last his share in lighting the ermanent pipe of peace. To the new world being born at Versailles the American lian’s share in the great war brings a message—that hatreds can be erased; that peoples oppressed and_| ed in past centuries will, under a policy changed to} forget their bitterness and antagonism and Sioux, Apaches, Ojibways and others of the 58-language . Mexico. dly an ally in the cause of mankind. A statesman is a man who can take a natipnal con- ception of righteousness and slap its face until it yells for more colonies. When you persuade him to adopt the savings-bank habit, and build himself a home, you spoil a good Bol- _ shevist. The peace conference could make a little better headway if it knew the exact number of secret treaties outstanding. Whatever the peace terms may be, the Hun may swallow them cheerfully or have them rammed down with a bayonet. Hun economists who are estimating Germany's commercial status will do well to class good will as a lability. A good national neighbor, like a good personal neighbor, is one that attends to his own business. Ebert goes on the job with the comforting assur- ance that he can’t make things worse than they are. We have developed the national habit of worrying about what may happen,in case something élse happens. Italy and Japan stand firmly by the noble principle that the laborer is worthy of his hire. Bringing the boys home too soon is tempting the Hun to call for a return engagement. The thing China can’t understand is why she should have to pay the bill because Germany got licked. Belief in the right of self-determination is one ex- planation of our divorce evil. Woodrow Wilson, commuter, ¢> * &, = Mower HAD To TAKE HER TIGHT SaRT OFF Berore swe Comp CATCH Wutie! war You Come HERE To Me Nov’ RE “TAKING ADVANTAGE WUE To CWE Hine 1S SPEdG— STARSHELLS A WORD FROM 40SH WISE readin’ fool Some maketh man, eee Ogden Armour sends word to a) convention in Omana that he would rather be a tramp than what he ta.) Anybody objecting to Mr. Armour | being a tramp will signify the same by raising his right hand, Go ahead, Ogden. eee THIS WORLD 18 FULL TROUBLE Our wife fs in bed sick, and T am nearly down, but if the paper is! sorry, all are used to it now. Not) knowing how to set type, when/| Mayon left for a better job; no one | but a printer man can understand what a hard time I've had, yet many a man would have quit. What sur prised us most waa! that when we denounced unlawful acts of public officials; the men who were the best kickers, and loudest bawlers, were the first to refuse us any support. Tt reminds us of taking up for a wife (once) when her husband was quirting her! and In a jiffy she was helping him to Uck me!—HHunting, Pa, Courier, or, It has always been a puzzle to us why Colonel Lillian Russell, who has | advised the use of many different | kinds of lotions, never boomed one | containing soap. | eee | Charles P. Triller is second vice president of the Society of American | and could easily have bad more had | Kent, Singers. e8e The Oakland, Cal, Rotary club| has a committee to visit the sick and said committee is composed of | an undertaker, the president of a casket company and the manager of crematory. “Eventually. Why | not now?” cee | Down East the bakers are talking | about Geont bread. We hear talk| in this neighborhood now and then | @ 199% ovr throbbi about Scent bread. But not from the bakers, It's the old folk with long memories who talk about it eee APPROPRIATE 18 THE WORD Just an the rain began falling the happy couple, led by the minister, marched into the presence of the a»- sembled guests, to the strains of the wedding march, played by Mra, Par- sons on the guitar, and as the pas- tor spoke the beautiful and impres sive ceremony that united their two lives in one, the heavens opened and poured down a flood of Diessing gn this union of homemaking, and af forded an appropriate setting to abundantly launch their canoe on the beautiful river of life—Oberlin, Kans., Herald, eee * One of Nat Goodwin's widows has sued to break hie will Thin quite upsets the report that Nat left only $6,000. eee Other famous leagues: Federal league. National Security league, eee And then besides, there was “Half @ league, half a league, half a league onward.” three half leagues making @ league and a half. eee Buy a Fow Hundred Pounds for Us Next Week Yorkville mill foremen who every week send a man to the country to buy up produce for them got a fine reduction in prices yesterday, for they paid only 4 cents a pound for good country butter and the same price for absolutely fresh eggs. They got all they wanted at these prices they put in their order.—AVheeling (W. Va.) News. eee G, R. H. calls our attention: Reed Deeds lives tn Cuyahoga Falls. He is not the Summit county recorder. H. M. Woolf sells pianos in Hel- ena. Right across the street is a mil linery store owned by Mixes Pearl Baer, And P. L. Savage deals tn thoro- bred dogs in Gilman, Mont. +—— ata heart Efve up a “part Of life to give my life its” start And so7¥ as long, as life endures, Your heart is mine a “as_mine is yours, ‘Your tender breast was heaven blest To lull my little ‘caresyto rest, So let me fold you now and keep ov harbored till the last long sleep. a of Mor hands which served,nor ever swerved Trom Service more then I/deserved Now that they tremble in their clasp Shall feel my fi a eel my ye stronger aor ovr loving ‘eyes of Grrlle Qvice Leoked ever on me tender-wise,, So, all the love.which ] have known Be mirrored in them from my own, Ren | Editor's Mail WAGE SCALE SUGGESTION Editor The Star: The disnatistac on leading up to the strike, and which made the general strike poxible, was due to the fact, not only that the cost of living ts @xcemsive, but that the low-waged worker was continually p jattempting to readjust his standard | Of living on acoownt of the upward jtrend of prices. Is a wage adjust- | ment possible that will eliminate this factor in the new scale soon to be made with the shipyard workers, whether the strike is won or lost? Let us assume that a basic wage of $4 « day is agreed upon from | whith to figure the wage at a given time for unskilled shipyard workers, | the wage not to fall below this fig: jure during the life of the contrac jut to fluctuate above it, as nei | as possible with the cost of livin determined by comparing two cost units, each made up of all retail prices that enter into the economy of the home, the one unit at the time the $4 wage was established in {the shipyard (this antedating the Macy award), and the other at the | ume the computation in to be made, ‘The following figures are not nec jemmarily accurate, but are merely for the purpose of illustration. The unit reprosenting prices at the tme the $4 wage was ontablished would be tdetermined about as follows: j Lbs. Cost Lard (given a proportion Flour 6 Ibs. used where 1 | ef lard ts used). o- | Bread . | Butter | Beet | Pork . | Potatoes clothing, recrea- on, medicines, ete.. Ada each column, and, for con venience, I would divide the total proportion column into the total focomt. The rewult is a unit, showing | thé average cont at the time indicat jed. A unit representing the cost of living at the present time would be similarly determined. From these would be figured the per cent of in. crease in the cost of Hving for the intervening period. The Increase, added to the basic wage of $4, would determine the present wage. It would doubtless show up at least 60 per cent, and fix the wage for un- skilled help at $6. A quarterly re- adjustment would run wages ap- proximately neck and neck with ad- vancing prices, and when necessary to reduce wages, it being assumed that prices would be proportionally decreasing, they would automatical- ly reduce themselves, without the | friction that this invariably entails, especially as there would then be practically no change in, or read- Justment of the standard of living. There would be difficulties in es tablishing this method, and results would be only approximate, for the unit must be figured for large sec: ons, or the entire country, but I can see no valid reasons why prices from certain retail institutions at Rev. M. A. -Matthews will preach a sermon Sunday morning * entitled, THE NEW NOTE In the evening he will discuss the subject, Don’t Miss the Stirring Song Service at 7:15. Fine Special Music. A Welcome for All. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring ion American Dope Fiends; “| Another Million Secret Drug Userg HEALTH OFFICER WARNS AGAINST NARCOTIC PERIL BY E. ©. RODGERS (N. "E. AL Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, March 1 “Th n be an increase In the drug habit as soon as prohibition goes into effect. An the number of ‘drunlo' grows smaller, the number of ‘coke fiends’ will get larger.” That is the “dry wave” warning straight from Dr. Royal 8. Copeland, health commissioner of America’s largest city, which houses more “happy dust” users than any other city in the United States. “Cocaine in its effect is the next thing to alcohol,” Dr. Copeland ex- plained; “and naturally t must grow as soon as the country is made dry. come a menace in this country.” Dr. Copeland ts not alone in his fears. Investigations of the congres- sional committee headed by Fepre- sentative Nainey, of Mlinols, disclosed the fact that drug habits were in- creasing in territory already “dry,” habit | The narcotic evil will be-| Drug users admitted charge of ¥ being suppl ‘The United States internal revenue |for drugs they had ever heard rervice estimates there are 200,000) But they insist that many ot users of narcotics in New York City| DCU) STORES MAKE LAR alone; that there are @ million known | prescRIPTIONS given by doe! ldrug addicts in t United States, and they assert that MANY and probably a» many n TORS MAKE A SPECIALTY drug users. Demand in “dry | CATERING TO DRUG USERS, jally of the South, for narcotic |ing narcotic prescriptions at from patent medicines, has increased tre- | to $2. |mendously within the last year or| Dr. Chartes A. Rosewater, of Ni | two. ark, N. J., has been investigating “The evil can be controlled only by narcotic evil in other cities, registration of the ‘fends,’” asserts | “The habit is increasing,” he | Dr. Copeland them cards| sald. “There are at lenst 1 | bearing their finger prints and thelr) 600 persons in the United |photographs, Kstablish an agency to) who are addicted to narcotic which they would have to come to| drugs, and make use of either with their prescriptions to get their! cocaine or opium and its éeriva- o¢. In this manner their doses| thes.’ gradually reduced until they! Dr. Rosewater asserts “people witl » cured of the habit.” {out number use all manner of | Internal revenue officers raided’ jurious preparations con! one New York drug store and took optum and cocaine, as for exam |with them in taxicabs 64,800 PRE-|paregoric, which may, under the SCRIPTIONS FOR MORPHINE Harrison law, contain two graing of |AND HEROIN. ‘This was Cohen's! opium to the ounce. pharmacy, 16 Amsterdam ave. It “One physician in a Southern @ty with “dope” at the sanitarium ive prescribed 25,000 morphine and that thousands of drafted men | represented that store's armual crop | were dismissed from military camps of “dope” prescriptions, and cost) after it was learned that they were drug fiends $150,000, The raiders drug addicts, |found about $10,000 worth of “dope” ‘The new revenue bill increases the |in the store. efficiency of the Harrison narcotic! These prescriptions had been fur- law, providing for the registration of |nished dope fiends by physicians, manufacturers and dealers in pro-| three of whom were arrested, Cohen's in six months’ practice. he dena tion of cocoa leaves, from which caine is extracted, has increased. prietary medicines containing com-| pounds of narcotic drugs. | pharmacy was described by revenue agents as the greatest retail market The President Insisted on Stopping Train at Culpeper It is related that on one of his | swings thru the country, the presi dent had done so much handshaking shipyard) chat his right hand and arn were /at him a minute, and then exclaim: Grayson ordered the swollen. Dr. handshaking cut out. “We're coming up thru the South | ched 10 | now,” said the admiral, “and many | were at the high tide of their last will turn out to seo you, but we won't stop the train. We'll just have {t run thru towns at about four | miles an hour, so that you can greet | the folks as you pass by.” | That was all right until the train) conductor heard of it. “Can't be done, Mr. President,” said that func tionary, “This train has got to stop in at least two places to allow the engine to take on water.” “Very well,” said the president, “I don't care where else you stop, but one of the places must be Culpeper.” | ‘That little town in Virginia hap-) pens to be the place where Grayson | was born. “I am deeply grateful, Mr. President. id Grayson, “All my boy life it my dream and acn- bition to pass thru Culpeper on a special train, and have it stop there 80 the folks could see me, And let me tell you something. You will get @ reception in Culpeper that will make the others you have received pale into insignificance.” The next morning about 8, a cold and rf&iny day, the train stopped in| Culpeper. The president and Gray. son came out to see the admiral’s promised multitude, There was just one lone, unshaven depot loafer, who happened to have been a schoolmate of Grayson. “Hello, Gray; how be you?’ he said/ grasping the admiral’s hand. He then proceeded to launch into a flood of gossip about the town people. er properly located centers should not be fixed upon as the standard; and the units formulated from their dally or weekly quotationa, not from those of a single day, but the entire quarter preceding that for which the figures are to be used. If 50 per cont of any savings re- sulting from efficient labor were al. lowed the employes (figured from the labof cost of bullding ships of equal size and tonnage), this would make for contentment and in centive. I do not see why the above scheme could not be made applicable to pri- vate as well as to government con- tracts in the shipbuilding industry A lubrication to the friction of wage adjustment would probably go far to compensate for the wage uncertain. ty that would then be added to the fluctuating cost of materials in the cost estimate of the ship. A labor estimate could moreover be Inserted in the contract for building the ship, based on the average time and wage of employes in building a ship*of equal size and tonnage, with a po tential charge or credit for any variations in cost due to the variable wage scale. OPPOSES CHANGE PARK NAME Editor The Star; Permit us to plead that Ravenna and Woodland parks be forever perpetuated in the farfamed names so long identified with Seattle history, There are nower parks and will be others, so why this hasty, hysterical anolomy? Will Seattle never rise above the childish, screaming antics of certain dominating politiclans—and cause our protests to rise to high heavens? ‘The renaming of those Parke Roosevelt would be very offensive to many thinking people, old and new residents, Especially to those of us who have not the sweet-souled for: giveness of our beloved president. to- ward the THREAT of Roosevelt, “to organize an ARMY OF CRITICS against the administration,” when lrefused tho self-seeking demand that |1m head an army in Europe. We have had several futile exam. ples in pulling established institu: tions and organizations literally up |py the roots for transplanting, thus losing all the history and identity and influence of their usefulness. ‘The North End Progressive club-of- fers one example. MINNIE B. FRAZIER, ‘OFFICIALS IN CHINA ARE TAKING TO AUTOS (Special to The Star by N. B. A.) SKIN, March 1.—A five-passen- closed automobile in North China will usually be seen carrying )18 persons. Reason: Tho closed cars are much favored officials who believe it adds to their distinction to be invisible, Furthermore, each car bearing perhaps three officials also Lbears two drivers and eight soldiers, | FOX HUNTER SPENDS NIGHT IN DEEP WHEATON, Mo., March 1-—P ing into a well 20 feet in depth, ®) remaining there for many When Grayson could get a word in| was the experience of John edgewise, he said: “Bill, this is the) near Powell, president of the United States.” __ | Whle bunting foxes Bill grabbed Wilson's hand, stared | Miles south of this place. = @ Switzer and several others Granby came over for an all fox chase. Switzer selected abandoned field near an old hut t wait for the chase. About he heard the dogs coming his way, and as he started to meet them e ‘Good Lord, and I've been wast- ing Ume talking to you.” last summer, when the Huns success, when they made marvelous advances every day thru the sorely | stepped into the old well. ee! pressed British and French, when| Fortunately the well was Gry, there seemed no end to the gray | Switzer was badly bruised tides of shock troops, Lord Reading | dazed. He spent the night tn come over to the White House with | attempt to climb the sides a special plea from Premier Lioyd | prison. George, His message was that un-| As morning dawned, Switzer lens America could send over at least | mined to make his last effort to f 100,000 troops a month, all was Jost.| himself. Catching with both ‘The president listened very intently | on the sides of the well, he ¢ while Reading made a careful ex-| a few inches at a time. He planation of the situation. Then he |cautiously, as his strength said, with a quiet air of finality: ly failed him. Finally “I'l do my damndest.” reached the top and by “And,” Lord Reading is quoted as/|sthall bush he pulled himself saying, “never in my life did I cable| the hole of torture. He was f with so much joy any message as I did that sentence of four words.” Stop! consider your health. You are” slipping. eres. through work, w: or neglect, your powers have neds and catarrh, that dread destroyer of healthy bas for waredae"In pout to {2° reguintes, the digestion, purifies the blood, revives the centers, builds up the p tre! vigor, puts the mucous membranes in a condition and tones up the whale For coughs and colds PE-RU-NA is 1. Its value has been Reaath etter anvattac Don't be foolish. Don't negiect Don't ourself run down. o old pep, the Joy of living. 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