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

_ The Watershed Victory SEATTLE 3907 Seventh Ave, Near U OF SCRIPeS NORTHWEST LEAGu Telearaph News Service o: as Second-Cians Matter ‘Wash. under the Act of re, city. Te per month; § montha montha, $3.78; in the mail, tw ‘State of Washington, Outside the atate, The eH for @ months, or §2.0¢ per year. ly carrier, ett Lally by The Sine Publishing Ge, hone Main 8 Private be nad soanceiton all departments STAR ® OF NWSParnr the U lat tattice at ° ‘Too Old to Work; Too Poor to Quit © ‘Tom Harrison is 91 years old. For 71 consecutive year "he has been an employe of the United States government a Washington, having served 50 weeks each year, six day each week. When Tom started work as clerk in the naval ‘Observatory, Uncle Sam (that’s us, the American people) him $8 a day. He did his work well, and gradually we kept adding to his wages, a little boosting of his pay “envelope every few years, until we were paying him all $35 a week. ; he But while we—his employers—were raising Tom's somebody was boosting the cost of living on him, this somebody was doing that faster and more thoroly m we were ehlarging the contents of his salary check. Tom never got farther than making both ends meet never got the proverbial “nest egg,” and never laid by th for the equally proverbial “rainy day As we remarked, Uncle Sam raised Tom's wages. and thody raised his cost of living. That wasn’t so bad, n Tom's standpoint—if both ends had kept on growing y didn’t. Uncle Sam not only quit raising Tom's wages, actually took him backward by slow demotion. Today is getting the same wages—$18 a week—which he as a raw beginner in 1848. And the cost of living right on soaring! After working 71 years for his—and our—government, np Harrison is getting a boy’s wage.s Of course, he’s old, old to have to work; too old of head and brain to have ‘te do a boy’s work. He ought to retire and live at ease, his flowers and books and memories. He ought to a few days of quiet, peaceful, toilless rest before he on. Why don’t you do that, Tom? “Well,” he replied, “I can’t. I haven't been able to save money on what the government paid me. I'd like to and loaf a while, but I can’t starve and I don’t want io go to the poorhouse, so I guess I'll keep right on show ae 7 i This legislation would provide rest and a few da d im the twilight hours of federal employes’ lives. Tt would pension government workers after long years of ly and faithful service. they deserve. nental work, for it would put more vim into those of years and would remove the aged and weakened nove them to pensioned life. No one supposes that poor old Tom Harrison can do his) ly work as efficiently and as quickly as a young man d. No man of his age could. That's why he ought not to work at 91. Either wages should be high enough the prime working years, so a worker can save for or there should be a pension system installed. ‘our congress long has been quibbling and side-step- this McKellar-Keating pension bill. And there are other government employes in the Tom Harrison We call attention to his case because he is the oldest vor pied women who work for the United States | ___ ‘The chorus reveals a multitude of shins that are old - enough to know better. ' @ Old tin cans. Twisted bits of old iron. Fragments of old chains. Just junk on the dumpground. An unsightly heap of rubbish? Blind! There is no absolute rubbish. Rubbish has come to mean to us something of no worth. Everything has worth and value. You must have eyes to see, eyes lighted by imagination. your eyes. ose bits of iron can be melted in the fire and molded p other forms. The tin in those battered, filthy old cans is recoverable the acid bath of the chemist and can be put to new uses. In the wartime junkpile iron scraps were salvaged and ‘turned into shrapnel. That shrapnel helped defeat the armies of tyranny! Never talk again of ‘worthless rubbish!” Remember the junk that served the cause of freedom! at my work desk every morning.” rceress is considering the McKellar-Keating pension) of} It would give them no more} It would increase the efficiency of gov-| { “ air )s\ WONDER IF HELL KNOW vr DIFF | | mfr’ IT PAS BEEN Tee | CAUSE OF MAN A NIGHT MARE | eae THE OUTGO OF THE INCOME \ (reve DAW NOTHIN "ROUT BY HAROLD ger of Newsy ARIS, March 6 had to meet The n peace mission ha ‘| peace trip have arisen from on There ha principles heen a disposit and then try to hee The American mi by standing howed its head DOPING OUT YOUR x" axis" SOME ink home: vWIRST—T D to t the allied peoples ¥ smcon That principles are Amer people expected t THIRD—Tt ples of nett at the lean mis ement but regarded the more th k be developed into something did the to 4 ever tin tion t exceptions ipl pture of the pro regard thi record for a confe » many nati 1 ting For Scraps Abroad point out that nference to date } Ponsimints on many juestions the ex hed the surface, sound at on 4 the broad pri plications view of the of them times to hedee, re ahead when it of maki delegates, th what bh about fairly beaming wever, They are » » that r YRT (T MEANS NOTHIN Some Binds! ptimiam, t and more thi they. are sur at % ught of gre | r Heaven from in, nd ¢ pole trewn wi » her But erief c Patriot dead who lay t But, ob! tho held in death's ¢ Moet covert sneer from the Oh, the Shame, the deadly sb Flash burning scor Piled Pelion higt Give Hell to the An he Oh. ton Judas who bet eat and groveled wit the Shame Oh, men and women, Tell your childre Sear their brows with brand re With the damned deed Senators! strike t stain from epine » her escutcheon from th ators, undo, un the Shame, ages to rec the ¢ A WORD FROM « JOSH WISE Some men begin at th’ top an’ work their way down. If that junk could serve the cause of war it can serve the its of peace as well. | + Old iron was recovered and used over and over again before the war. It will be so in the days to come. | s But there are other forgotten things that we've cast) away for years that are valuable. Open eyes, alight with imagination, will see them. Open your eyes! a} Nothing the house of representatives at Olympia has'| ‘done at this session is worthy of comparison with its de-| feat yesterday of Senator Taylor's watershed bill. 'o the surprise of many in the state, it was discovered VE John Drink r, an English writ er, has written a play in which Abra ham Lincoln is the central figure. | London papers say it is a mont inter-| esting pl tho we should have guessed that a man with that name would have written a dry one . | CORRESPO> eNT DECIDES) TO BIDE A WEE ‘There seems to be an element of unrest in the world, an outer of dissatisfaction among tt rant and the low and besti: while the best, the highest thought is looking forward to a term of the | grandest ideals, the greatest oppor- | tunities at all times, yet underlying | _ that the house has a conscience—at times. And its conscience was stirred yesterday. It voted | the contamination of Seattle's water system, despi 3 t Senator Taylor's handmaiden in the house, Representative falter Lunn. It voted against the measure despite the con-| less attitude of such representatives as Adamson of | omish and Locke of Grays Harbor, who, having been| assured the bill would not affect water systems in their| districts, sought to impose the bill on Seattle, nevertheless. | In passing, The Star believes the credit for the defea' the bill is due, to a large extent, to the unselfishness of | the medical profession in Seattle. Like a man, the physicians responded to the emergency. a purely selfish standpoint, the doctors had every- thing to gain if the health of the city were impaired by the Taylor bill. They had no pecuniary benefits to gain if the bill lost out. Yet they fought aggressively and loyally against the passage of the measure, it was a case of pure unselfishness and splendid ser- vice to the public. sesadzs: Tn the fight The Star put up against the wate rshed |" road bill, it was happy to know it had the these splendid men. PUREE Perhaps it is just as well that senators rave and | rant against the league. We needed a little comedy to | relieve the strain. : | In the new game of diplomacy, they won’t draw t kings or bluff with a club straight. i“ es John Barleycorn has lost his lace in the he has his moonshine still. place in the sun, but err ee © ae wie all is a grumble of dissatisfaction, a threat of disaster, an element of dis- content. All summed up, amounting to the sacne, hiding but the hideous head of anarchy and n. And wh can we do? Can we edu cate it out? Or can we crush it out? Or shall we sit supinely by while it} crushes and ruins our civilization? Which? We alone are impc and all we see to do is to bide our time Rock Mills Correspondent, Washing-| ton C. H., O., Register-Republican, — | ee | When Greek meets Greek, then | the tug ‘of war. When Bol-| shevik meets Bolshevik, a visit to |the bar At least local restaurant | owner has heard the war’ is over. | He has cut out the extra charge for | the potatoes cooked In hash. one of natural | kind of ice that has no effect | on prices when there is plenty of it, | ice will be higher next summer, | “After the war there'll be a great rush of curio coll ors to the battle. fields of France,” yemarked Senator | Lodge, “and in r@ time at all the! fields will be as bare of relics as some old farms in have visited “One day sald to a farmer near | Plymouth | “"T suppose you find a lot of Tn dian arrow heads and when you plow.’ “Well, we used to,’ he admitted. ‘but now we don't find anything but Massachusetts 1 | tomahawks | _Oh, the Shame, the Deadly Shame! « from from Was and mothe women for the slain in France men of Washington fot mon the deadly Shame! © dee that graceless act STARSHELLS golf balls.’ hum. keep him do myself.” animity that hw 1 they say the prog rined at the canes peotatic * more President W befor openin ference was inv ~ % | the am. Wilsonian Peace Desired by Europe Washingto: reb 4 Wilsonia bu has unde for lines a wie pe for Ar abt making Presid r thed the 5 me ath the down which aay n knew the we well that they peace along ny » haw laid papers, have nant grief rs It times is no #e< b were Americans were fed up” with the attitude | amer ington, wher no at of certain » ow? when t and enfor de. casion, » ques | twenty-one. ement “ were hame * moare ©. Every Germany back” with an awful blow that would lay France low, and stag:| ger the world | Retract Report Foch | Feared War Renewal Marshal Foch was quoted as see ing the 0.” but this quotation was later retracted by the paper that e it Foch is mighty rs on a strong & \to protect Frar {but as for being sudde Germans would su around and lick him, af pr and | | po “come on ton rayed his friend h the twenty-one, men: run. ney'd done 1 as the Washir the State's fair fame © in years to come, ly afrald the ho burning share. ; ing of arma and largely under his owr it was a litle too much One rumor was that an allied com a lot atratext CHELAN, direc had discovered mans frantically manufactur dreds of new submarines for newed war that was about to | An American paper published in Paris came out about that time with a lead story cut out by the censor all but a few lines. ‘That “unprinted” story 1 in Americ told) t that th foan propa I hope we'll never h anc *| Franc “Can't be 1 order to|ing the peace conference to another to be boas | city Washington Star | It may seem hard in America to “Proved safe by millions” PAINS MASTER “Out of Torment and Misery to Comfort” For Headache Neuralgia Toothache Achy Gums Earache Rheumatism Rehoboth Sunday Hor ald. downed that political (ciret I did," answered Senator Sor la that was floating around that there was talk of mov Lame Back Lumbago Joint Pains Sciatica Gout Neuritis Colds Grippe Influenzal Colds Stiff Neck Distress Pain! 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Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid Owned by Americans—Entirelv! ion has met this attitude, been | l was about? ved of their fleet amd submarines |> ‘ BECHTOL terprive Ax a oclation) ieanest problem during President Wilson's fir ion in some quarters to accep’ jge on their application whenever firm, and allowing these fact an word) inderstand been for 40 war menace, b of war fina caned, |« nd peac France work durir Heagreement will diay THIN, N Faced By Mission the American t t EPTERS TO THE EDITOR CORPORATION LAWS umn rate of interest to whiel used capital for wor rporations is entitled? sion componed of an equal nunber of federal office, t und «me of thee of Labor, 4 uld be to supervigg eee that in thelr ade | i winecures, waste ang ; t be eliminated, devise wage employes, have the | und direct the dinthbe net earnings, pro Pati, and labor, and bring ration between ¢m: and employes’? © The The general #pir ma it of db ading all clasne the A cor ond earr that mbers yor for better liv with ” ard to ¢ id ane firnt aught uw of the udited tion of the between capital a problen magnitude; ba uly read. tom, of nperative our econom n friendly co« ne between cay It J caper ntelligent and mu prevent tions just laws than supp fores JOUD It iw to prate of equality of uniformity of lege n gigantic to rey the law good and whe them by rights and priv at will trusty car an J, HELNEN, 179 Galer St . f manipulate slative, politi and « ere » and, un ym of the nd levy tribute on the the intelligent » fawn and look aw, corner SOLDIER COMPLAINS Editor The Star: I have Just been dixcharged from the service. When . to delve in myself and several pals were dim char we had no underwear, shoes y. There is no work. Will me An long as a ch mine » shop at a nd then sees the bulk | DOr money vninds ae tot ‘irendy [You tell me who is to blame for the’ f \ way we men have been treated, both and overseas? asked to wear olf ve been worn by oth turned out wil t ofr pay, and charity asked clothe and feed us? ‘This treatm ng anarchists of men. ymething should be done to pre the discontent among d like this, who would make! Americans if given half WHO HAS SHEN ng 6 ith no him than in this country Why are w clothes, that h Why other ubmit or r to ¥ social cond. vil libe a? our ism gets m 1, what What is th Nationalize ov industry? is panacea in theory has proved actice; where it be done wolu * ank the premines much was done| A SOLDIER ex, if # : SERVICE nd earning WRITES FROM SIBERIA © Editor The Star: While no@ France, I shared in the tobacco was contributed to rervice men The Star smoke fund. Needless we were happy to be han al packages of cigarets free, t smokes fromm home, a iberia, is sure a t is sure entitled to com All the boys here ed an equal amount and for then few days everybody was smoking own eigarets without sponging. I get The Star occasionally © here, being a Seattle man. LIEUT. W. VICTOR, A. ¥. F.. Siberia, nystem py cognized by our radicals, bebides fering, still lens guaranty, it we with the worst of y of the ra is a mean Jo justice to both capital and gratify us stoe the autoer! rac y 1y opinion, there ted law of and exist only conte Chief Justice Marsh: ws regulating rates of na, ett We have fed or examiners for na ional ba Why not enact similar nd regulations for all corpor Why not create by law a by We have interest on le laws ations? 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C, showed that | Dispensatory as being excel ned in weight 23and tonic and nervine and a pi pounds, respectively, through the|tion which has recently ac iministration of this organic Phos-| considerable reputation in the tes n patients claim they have| ment of neurasthenia. The trong and well for the of excellence, strength and purity 12 years. its substance yond questi r every Litro-Phosphate tablet iq 1 improvement nufactured in strict acco! * mn th Nervousness, sleep h the U. Pharmacopoeia Jessness and lack of energy, which | requirements. Bitro-Phosphate y always a therefore not @ patent medicine om disappear, ©* | should not be confused with an: heeks glow |the secret nostrums, so-called ot we les or widely advertised “cure-all » in weight also car- ¢ 8. of 3 ys Who,” says should be preseribed by { Fresh-Crisp-Satisfying This’ is exactly what you'll say "when ou taste your frst Snow | Flake Soda. That's what everybody says about them and that’s why they are con- tinuing to be so immensely popular. Don’t ask for crackers—say Snow Flakes. Your grocer can supply you. a ol