The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star Mail, ut of city, 4 & months 4 @ of: Washington ie per mon per year. Hy ce Out ‘EDITORIALS = 3 ~ FEATURES \| How Helpless a Man of Average Intelligence Feels While Work- Food—Present and Future | utton grind and g arian millet One hundred years ago a London dude Hugh Paddington had a World's first. white flour so that tablecloth. The fad spread common—and a new food fare. Thirty-three for 786 raracter to the family table. Talk that over at dinner tonight. Consider how food has changed in the last century generations from now, when ou vat-grar @own to their evening meal, will they eat d Hung his bread would match tt art ma am re was added to that, “s od at t potat were con klin sco years before pig Ben Frar to a potato dinne 4 y French history who introducé mentier a A wm dehildren foods now u 1919 table and r memory. a Ice unknown 1 103, years ago, when Sambo Jackson, New York pas Ey expert, made the first dish of it by accident. Grandma, a you remember when tomatoes were sd “love ap- sed to cause cancer and rarely appeared except e sitting-room antel ? historic man lived on ly he added to his menu. What of the future—man’ Will he carry his lunch in a pill box? “Eat the green pill last—it’s dessert”? the German scientists who, to keep the Huns starving during the war, tried eve food substitute sawdust to drugs that stop hunger pangs. These experts decided that artificial or even d food is a failure. cream flesh, fish, fowl and fruit. from now? Will wifey food a century concen- Employment Agencies One of the biggest improvements the war brought was total revolution of the employment agency system © Until recently an employment agency was a place in the rib steak district, or liver and onion section, where un th figures sprawled against posts and watched ferret-eyed men chalk cute little signs like this on huge street ds “Wanted—Six swampers, prefer Australiens, $2 a day afd KR. R. fare.” “#Wanted—Second cook, lumber camp, $19 th.” ‘anted—20 railroad workers, $1 board $5 a week, ferred.” And so on. An employment agency was a place where human cattle Sold into bondage to slave drivers; where the failures d with a temporary meal ticket. But now that Uncle Samuel. has taken charge different. The federal employment bureau in Chicago recently d an executive in a $15,000 job. ‘In Seattle and elsewhere bureaus report that they have d returning soldiers in positions paying from $200 a to twice that. dy some.of the big employers ¥e sending their @ds to these bureaus, and the demand is bringing the sup- ¥ so that skilled workers of the highest type are being Italians pre of thing: The employment agency idea always was a good one. A clearing house, where the worker could find the job ! best suited for, and where the employer could select person precisely qualified for his task. Many men stumble thru life burdened with a job they ite, because they never had a chance to sell their services ba big market. if the workers of the nation are listed and ble to the employers of the country both classes: will New Spirit of Service : We saw waning in an old exchange the other day that us feel pleasantly warm to our mental toes. That faith-renewed-in-humanity radiance that occasion- we feel when unexpectedly we chance on a token of man’s e decency. Tt was a “display” advertisement of a leading merchant. | This “ad” contained nothing but Lincoln’s Gettysburg and this foreword from the merchant: “TO THE, YOUNG MEN OF THE CITY: A “On this day, the anniversary of the birth of * ein, f can perform for you no higher servi “the beioved president's Gettysburg address: fread it again—earnestly, thoughtfully —from This sort of a thing is big. When a business man for a day dedicates hi amemorate and to keep alive the spirit of Li ing something indeed. The war introduced the patriotic note into store mg, and now it seems that some leaders are going ther and promote good citizenship without thoug it. Abrabam Lin » print her ask you to its first word to business to neoln he i adver- Business men and firms generally are this new spirit of service, and the contribution of the na- 's business men in paid patriotic publicity during the war worthy much more attention and praise than it received Business need not be selfish to be successful. biggest businesses of the nation today are the least pasping. If Germany had won there would have been a Yeague of nations, and almost everything except taz- pwcying would have been we rboten, 2 Now that peace has come, the professional liar Germany mobilized to keep the people enthusiastic, can | go back to selling automobiles The only reat diffe rence between the Russian # ation and the’ Mexican situation, that the R situation has more press agents. is ‘ We have an uneasy feeling that the senators who are so solicitous. of the Monroe doctrine are even more ' solicitous of the limelight. A go The Jugo-Slav ponders over that 1915 treaty. of ere: and wonders if the conference will give Italy her pound of flesh. _ Captain Coli is planning an ae rroplune flight across Cuts Atlantic, and those who think it can’t be done had gp oeter not let Coliseum. The reason peace doesn’t seem as glorious as war ia because nations are never willing to spend as much “money on it. syitgny be wel ta 14, peapects our ‘idealism, but thinke it adjust the present velore adduatinig the to go}! feeling the throb) st Some of ing Out His Income nw! tH oro. ) MAN'S MAK IEF ) HT HIS IMCOMme VAY RETOUR! G 54 Bu aL ISLATURES CRITICISED eeard to the mning the athe Lamping bill and éara open since N are min jority of the « are ashamed of the treatment ac te legi ¥y one who haw ember J1, 1918, ens of this rded the both state for failure to kept his ey owe that a stat re and ewe be drafted from their the d put to hundre upa tions, where the earning ¢ wa thei We omething Then emisear fund or that r the epu ould not want for ary sufficient to suntey unde tried to « moder ing A wage weale one old. et congress to change t but poc ahe ke scale renigned time th tha we di leep into ou ment nd anything, ev buy it fe we suddenly dinc wove they didn’t ver that our Hog Ist bbled eon squandered in some YMCA the boys come fund, or go home w arely eir cart DEMAND that the gov something » show our gratitude and appreciat to the charitable We want to expres tial way, our obtigatfon to these 1 cidedly bunked ¢ ur firet 4 4 substantial reward m » hi nd every 5 and rela nk that the good old t ‘ have done. Instead of that We us, t ernment de for boys aseiat, a substa y have been di provi home to th ngress and in our other kind of and then passing eve think « when it comes to haggling a a distr e rank and file or LW. Weis s the Elks said. think, the delay of our suitably nk do and unre We w wide 9 pe r cent of the people ly and these the continual n the blatant pread of unrest und thelr ite. to be ply and billions Ko these more to with ap box ant this want boy We have appreciated boy slackers. and there ix rican people to feel ers and cheap skates when they are returned soldier, who has counted finds he is about $66 short of Id like to get to. While the 1 placed before the state sena vatic of eight men out of every te subject b ough p d to give than receive just er e left in the Ame approached it certainly that M expresses the ‘ou speak to FARMER THE BIBLE ON DEATH PENALTY T The rend «xe from the Bible at OF pital punishment, did not stat ed to have said on the Cain had murdered his slayeth Cain, e Star: re ntleman mp who in support all that God is ‘or Abel shall instance, God said, taken 15th w given able (see brother wer vengeance Genesi«, 4th chapt this/is the first sed to be unchang 6th “For Lam the Lord would cor le that the first God would be the correct one, especially where in the I by one of the which stat Thou shalt de can we deduce that thi inasmuch He is suppo Now, 1 by and as Malachi, rd chapter verse, change not”) one law by ¥ given supported else dment erent not » Ke applies kill,” to the individual and not to the state It is surprising that there the house sufficiently posted on the Bible to reply reverend gentleman Respectfully, D, CARLOS McALLIS 506 Chickering was no one on the floor of |to th ak, Hall "HIN PASSING Negro soldier (to Corp, Sam Jo ing the border and Vera Cruz | “Sam, what am dem ribbons fo'?” |. Corp, Johnson: “Well, sah, Ah, don't jew |#ho’, but dey telis me dat dix un fo’ gittin A STR won, who is wear campaign ribbons): know fo! into Mex , ico an’ dis un fo’ gittin’ out" By Webster. Tax Return. eo-°o Bin Sk An~-A. B ! A Ba A - Blierre k ~Ant Starshells A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Th’ full uv fine plants th't bush leagues is never blossom. PORK THE BRAINY DAY Where is the money naving a rainy day? M In thy Weil nk pinks I want savings bank you must: let me s new wat JEWEL AND SETTING Th in the Smugiey bo ‘ Mother had been to visit her son and bis fe, and had found things a bit ateained between therm Can't asked fath und down the room in his agitation afraid not,” said mother, sadly ed that the girl her won had ch » be the wrong one after all sid take no advice on the matter But when he first married her he ¢ jewel ather seid mother th a couldn't afford the re was trouble hey agree? angrily, marching up rm but not at all ad turnt that the boy out seeing sed her his went on ¢ w sniff kind of distinguished vi own the chairman of fraid he was wth of our town leh can all justi that?" Did the eption com. | Inted in the | one re-| a bit dinaps but hy take mittee trial ¢ mark in What w “He said we had the finest golf Hinks in “Cold-Blooded Business Propositions Don’t Get Across With Workers” REV. CHARI STELZLE work in fac sometimes work between the even states ries becom men moxt cares the t in baths and rest rooms and lunching facilities because he has earnest desire to make things comfortable for his employes, even tho he talks in public about it being merely a “cold-blooded business proposition.” He usually says this be e he doesn't want to warm-heart which, he thinks, is equiv oft-headed I don't believe that most bosses “cold-blooded” thinking and.planning for those who work and the sooner the boskes can convince their of this fact, questic boss and the here's no doubt that tn a8 puts an regarded as alent to being are in their for them employe of the Is If ever gone by | of the running |} But regarding “welfare The it fe in mos men aren't taken in on the “gre it has the ap e that the something for the men.” And the men nt it Sometimes they put their resentment into real blooded” and tell the their hey'll attend to work a Which may contain measure of truth But it's certain that they won't spend enough | of their wages to make tings more comfortable for themselves and their’fellows in the shop | The boss will be compelled to do most of this sort, of thing himself. But he should do it in co-operation with the men—not over their heads and without con sulting with them He's got to sell his welfare scheme to his men just as he sells his products to his customers And let him eutrout all this dope about it being a! “cold-blooded business proposition,” If it js, his men| will soon consign it to a p Where it will at least eet a warming up the nearer we'll get to a solution business was “cold-blooded,” that ha And the man who ling in the shadows system will soon find himself out of the day old work t cases ix nd floor.” boss is trying AKON because the Usually “do cold I raise welfare” language bows that if he wages, their own sometimes som Teeth and It took a long while for theologians to see | mankind could never be accomplished by “plucking brands from the burning’; we must put out the fire. withdrawal and iso- that the salvation of Not by segregation, jation can we cure the world. into it and clean it up You cannot like life. into a You cannot field a good city without making Sangamon good, and you cannot model county until a model state, unless the whole county mon Hlinoi et right tory except you do as much world, Nature does not live unto himself by yourself; your infect you. You Fifth ave. jtary, for ty jnot respect social barriers. You carry this please. | You cannot “protect” }tries, and cut off 'hope to keep the high grade of j condition You 3 propose cannot live can law > brothers. to be brothers, but what your fancy. brothers whethe and if you refuse, you to keep the nature You've you and build wretched Should the lead a satisfactory individual unless you help your you and I)linois United States is set right, and you cannot make the United States a prosperous and enlightened terri- that You cannot be healthy neighbor's unless you make the yhoid germs and American immigration, American people up to a living conditions, while living | are horrible in Mexico and China. Maybe y aoes want to out, On the Issue of || Americanism There Can Be Mo Compromise Claws of Brotherhood By DE. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Grane) . come war or pestilence or some other man leveler and teach you a lesson. © We did not want to get tangled up} European politics, and we imagined we keep out, thanks to 3,000 miles of wi 3y a twist of the wrist Destiny plunged” in, and we can never extricate ow We must save Armenia if we would Kansas. There can be no permanent and justice in Pennsylvania until they peace and justice in Russia, Poland | Turkey. f The labor leaders are beginning to that American labor cannot have its until labor everywhere has its rights. We must go life as an neighbors make Spring- make. Sanga- have made ynot be for any man disease will sanitarily on slums sani- smallpox do s far as you indus- and thus And a Chinese coolie, a Mexican p or a Liberian Kroo has just as much the whole | © live decently and have the advantages | education as the steel-mill hand has in G: | Indiana. Microbes know no distinction. ther D calmly from beggar to prince. And i know no fences. Justice, truth and righteousness are to cover the whole earth, or they will aa cover any piece of it. This Universal Brotherhood business not a Sunday school sissy idealism. I Bolshevik. It has teeth and claws, If you think you can keep your litt family, or nation, or race, in fatness health, while anywhere on earth is a ily or nation cursed by ignorance or de voured by fever, you are living in a foo ‘ou don’t want paradise, and you shall be destroyed. not care Nature, Destiny, is like the French got to be lutionist, who, it was said, presented be or not, to your head and exclaimed, “Sois walls eye frere ou je vous tue!”—' “Be my brother along will I'll kill you.” Abolished? Yes, Says Capt. Walle Star by N m 1 pmanding War Veterans. n expert instructing salut camps ne with the things required in addressing an officer Necessity officer appr Midressing person Walking to left and one pace in rear of officer “lt in a insult we must observ to insure obedi Waller says. I am not in atic’ army as for rising when tn hes. officer in third to say that hese practices © to orders,” favor of a ‘demo the ter but there must be n is generak certain prac abolished,” says KE THIS CIVILIAN LIFE ‘Take the requirement of the ual for non-commissioned gffi 1 privates of infantry baat d man in addressing an cor should ‘address him in the ird person and should never say He should say: ‘Did the cap desire to speak with Sergt It's stilted and unneces IN m or ou tain Smit ar woukl not tolerate from the head of a bust oration. ‘The only one reason tolerating 1 in the army, and that is to the enlisted man to respect ook up to his officer and to in him the haoit of obedi in battle he would obey such waders ini I confe have never melled powder 4 do ret know what men in) battle do, but I do know the American fighting man and 1 consider it an insult to him to say must adopt these prac: tices to insure that he will obey or in battle My duties for almost the Rev. M. A. Matthews will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled, GOD ORDAINED STEWARDSHIP In the evening he will discuss the subject, PLAYING WITH FIRE Come to the stirring SONG SERVICE at 7:15 p. m. Unexcelled programs of Special Music. You are cordially invited to our services. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH venth and Spring we dura: WSO URNIOEEN i Wien vou think of advertising, || | think of The Stare Li} - a) tion of the war were to instruct re-|where disobedience to the Only @ reerult knows the | prearranged orders meant death vhich we dwell upon mili-/all, and led them into eng " rincipally upon | during seven months of front y lectures are given.| work. ‘That experience has importance at-|vinced me that to make qu hed to military courtesy by our) succesful soldiers out of cb staff officers it ix imperative to adhere strictly @ NEVER COULD BELIEVE a system that quickly impresses THINGS HE TAUGHT recruit with the necessity for Despite all the times 1 said com. | %NIzing vested authority., tary things abeut military, “It is true that in ihe t ¢ courtesy, I could never come to be the courtesies are supposed to_ lieve them myself. dispensed with. But that is due “TL have seen these practices from | the fact that enemy observers two viewpoints, that of a soldier in| in this way pick out and snipe & the training camp and of an officer, officer. But usually the man and L can only say that I despise ders tbe courtesy before he them, that I do not believe they are bers. 1 have seen runners, co necessary and that | would be glad from units engaged in batt! to see them abolished in our army.” who have been thru a living 4 Commander Levi, expressing dis-| gesture their salute before agreement with Waller, says: stagger against a wall and feel i have taken men on patrol into | the upper left hand pocket for blackness of No Man's Land,| message they carry.” Starting Today MARTIN JOHNSON’S “CANNIBALS OF THE SOUTH SEAS” 1—Nakedness Without Vulgarity. 2—Photographed at the Risk of Life. 38—The Cruclest, Wildest Savages on Earth. 4—The Human in His Raw State, Management of THEATRE J08, DANZ