The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1919, Page 6

month; 3 months a het In the tatde the state, | for 6 m $9.00 Hurley Sees the Light chairman of the United States shipping | in the years during which he was engaged in busi-| himself, was never rated especially as a liberal as| labor questions. He was generally considered as pnging to that class of conservative rage tech who} ted askance at labor union betterment movements, there is a new Hurley who has just come back | France. This Hurley, as head of Uncle Sam’s ship- ie machine, learned a great many things about labor that he did not know before. He learned a great | More when he went to Europe to study Lm problems. | more when President Wilson na him and} Gompers as the American members of the inter- commission on labor legislation. : comes back with words of warning and advice for} ness men. He also comes back a warm advocate e American seamen’s act which some of our greedy | > owners are once more attacking. | this man who has seen a new light: F "his is a time for alert appreciation of new conditions necessities. Men in responsbile places must be "to the new voices that may be h . They should) too long to outworn shibboleths. The matter is 3 heart of national prosperity in whatever phase you F view it. It is not saying too much to assert that the) of the labor situation in any nation you may) mee will determine that nation’s success in shipbuilding | 4 fine as well as in every other material de- ne of her life.” is equally as pointed in his references to the ques- seamen’s wages: , are no ate reasons why America should s from the very high standards of wages and condi- § of life she has adopted for her seamen. Here in) r there exists the idea that our seamen’s wages ‘imcomparably higher than in any other nation. The ght is widely propagated that these rates of pay it impossible for us to enter profitably into com-, with other great maritime nations, notably Eng-| “It is high time'that the public mind be disabused | misconception. | furley then shows that England, France and Holiand! ayi as much as we do and that Sweden pays) A the seamen of the world will never for the old and conditions of living. America the pace poms Oy mariners of other countries are r d to get conditions equally as good. this testimony, coming from such a source, should do, toward killing any move to tinker with and emascu-| Furuseth seamen’s act. It would be more than » anyhow, because President Wilson would be sure} any attempt to weaken the law. | was good political judgment, perhaps even| the penalties on the batch of pacifists con-| | N. Hurley, rt iat that the war appears to be over, not much good can eeping in jail misguided folks who carried their aversion to war to extreme. and ultra radicals, who dreamed of inter-/ ma ood in the middle of the world battlefield, who would have made brothers of the Huns before they | their butcher knives, do not deserve a cell. They Tio sense of values, they were a menace at the war's their influence was destructive to the nation’s at heart pgely an aching void. the other batch, who were gathered in under the ge act, deserve to serve their sentences. Hun sympathizers, many of them men of great who remained Prussian at heart, tho their citizen-| fortune were here. | men and women who plotted to overthrow this and to enthrone kaiserism. | spies and agents and workers of darkness, who} have wrecked the house of their host. | ie flat-headed, fat-bellied, porcine-jowled folk, who) x brations when the Lusitania was sunk, and who ‘this day are Hun at heart; these deserve the limit) law, and when their sentences expire they should| ed as undesirable aliens, and their fortunes con-| for the benefit of French and Belgian orphans. | they meant well, even tho their heads: i i | —| Discontent ‘Here’s a fairy tale for grown folks. Once upon a time a born to the king and queen of a powerful country. fairies came to the christening to bestow lity upon the little prince. | nally there came a fairy who wished to endow the| ruler with “discontent.” This made the king very ry and he had her banished from the palace. | _The young prince grew into manhood—a promising ler. ‘snd gaa ascension to the throne, his country began beh: _A search for the reason showed that the| _ cause lay in the absolute satisfaction of the young with present methods and ways of doing things. He reached out for improvements because things suited they were. he good fairy, banished from the palace by the father, with her the son’s greatest asset—discontent, D ti tion is the greatest trait one can possess d it is directed into constructive improvements. A will, ieee newng onl en ams so long as he is never iy pl life, i honorable means to better it. oe = ood ig oh Ee ntire! ¢ : The old-timers complain that the gove ti g the railroads, but that deficit’ of "fifty-four * * month will eventually put the shoe on the ‘oot. A headline says that Germany must yield Chinese = aoe pee, The only question now is whether Japan The Huna didn’t appoint Bernstorff as a delegate t peace conference, and we are beginning to believe that the Huns have acquired a leader with a fittte we. It is only fair to tell Germany that a t prortage is due to the fact that her = tal od 80 Mm bread upon the water. but she had already lost the commerce Germany atores is Baer spaomegc women p agthe rh ediad will lose the great industrial district of |Jand more numerous than any other class.” [Ftivver ‘Owner Passes 2 Gentlemen With Whiskers.—By Webster 4 1 \0on at wore L Bou swevics oven. ‘Were! fu Ber THEY'RE Just reine To DESTROY mE AWD my CLass! WHAT'S THs Counrey A Comirt Artyway ! Starshells JOSH WISE Th’ skinny pig is th’ last one killed. We are slow. But give us time And we may get A thing or two. Here we studied For a week To find out why Congress adjourned And left so much Unfinished business And it bas just come To us “No beer, no work.” eee One independent fieh company began business in New York one day last week and the next week the fish trust reduced the price of all kinds of fish, some as much as 10 cents 4 pound. Proving the high coet of fish was due to the war, cee Ex-Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, tx talking against the league of nations, If he isn't careful we'll reprint some things he wrote tn 1914 and "6. eee WHERE WERE HER STOCKINGS? Miss Mary McDonald wore a navy blue suit and carried pink shoes.—Biloomtington, Ill, Bulletin. oe Yes, and when there are no more bartenders, whoT! wear all the white vests? eee A prisoner tried to exeape from the Jefferson City, | Mo., penitentiary by hiding in a garbage can. He should have known he couldn't eacape that way, Folks watch the garbage cans too clonely these days, eee “When you get down to rock bottom,” says, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “you find the people on the A sen- ational statement, but there seems to be a «reat deal of truth in it, But the airplane is in its infancy. ee But, as the doughboy remarked, “Where there's so much smoke somebody must have an extra cigaret.” eee William Hohenzollern, says doesn't change his clothes so he was kaiser. Why should of dressing up when you have Tedaxr Beem BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE often as he did when he? What's the use no place to go? SAUSAGES (Text: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts) Oyen Oyenski was gentle and kind; In his commonplace way, he was even refined, So I need to explain why he made such a roar The night that the sausages spilled on the floor, Yes, he did. He flew up in « rampageous rage, Which no words of his wife could appease or assuage, And then, being ashamed, he let out a bit more, ‘The night that the sausages spilled on the floor, Had you met him just then for the first time, I'm sure You'd have called him a bully, a boob and a boor, And yet even you have been known to be sore For some trivial sausages #pilied on the floor. For Oyen that evening was hungry and cross; He had lost seven dollars and rowed with his bows. He was fed up on troubles on reaching his door, Without any sausages spilled on the floor, A collector stood guard on the cocoanut mat, The baby was bawling, the dog chased the cat, Yet he still bept the steam-pressure down and forbore, Til the moment the sausages spilled on the floor. “A nice time to get here!” his wife frowned. The coffee is poured, the potatoes are brown, The sausage is sizziing—" (I pause to deplore The impending catastrophe—Sausages! Floor! She paused with the sausages over his head, As she bit off some words which were better unsaid, When the hot platter clattered and then—yes, he swore, As the sausages splattered both him and the floor, . * . . Oh, Lord, in thy judgment of men and nations, We pray Thee consider the primal causations. All the dim, distant Past enters into the score, And not just the sausages spilled on the floor! (Tag: Kvery domostic bliss. has its blister) Wopyright, 1919, by N, B AQ King an Ameaterdam cable, | | to bulld an opera house that we get busy, because we | house so that we may have one as good as our neigh- | church building that will make that of the Episco- “Bit down! | To, f |diking of overflowed land, and in some in- jstances the clearing of eut-over land. land should be taken over by the govern- improved, and then the land sold to the actual user on the, amortization plan—a homestead at actual Long-time bonds should be used by {the government to be repaid out of the ON ADVICE To KING GEORGE Editor The Slar: In regard to “An Open Letter to King George,” written @ short Uime ago by Dr. Frank Crane, I wish to make a few remarks. In the first place, Dr. Crane, has made a mistake about King George speaking in the first person. It is not etiquette or royaity to do so They always speak In the plural number, and it is quite unneses sary for Dr. Crane to give King George any advice *o ma thousands of miles away in another country. ree has hit own personal advisors right at his etbe : Dr. Crane's satire, which rune thru the whole | “letter,” is entirely uncalled for and out of place, 1 am English, and am proud of it, and I am/ descended from the emperors of France on my father’s | aide. So T think I am pretty well conversant with | the customs on the other side of the pond.” A.M. ML RAISE BOYS RIGHT | While the ministers and good people of Seattle are | preaching about the care of girls—how they should be trained and guarded—why not preach a word about the raleing of our boys? If your boys are trained to rewpect the virtue of a girl and hold it higher than anything else taught, how to protect not only their own aisters but the other fellow’s sister from falling a victim to their passions, we would have fewer girls to go astray. i For there i# one thing very mure—there are not) many girls that chase-men and boys up for their favors and offer them their love and passion on a silver plate with a knife and fork to eat it with. ‘Train your boys better and don't let them think they can get away with any old thing, and you'll find we won't have to worry and think so much over keeping | our girls clean and pure. | One who knows apd one who has raised two of each. A MOTHER OF FOUR. | THE ONE STEADY CARLE Editor The Star: Thru the maze of theories and causes Incident to the tragic act of Ruth Garrison, we must look straight back past sex magnetism to the one cable that holds us steady thru storms—self- l | control petted and spoiled, the baby of the famity. the only explanation we need? Children may be resrained by force, but unless they are taught to WANT selfmastery and strive and suffer to gain it, later In life they fall before the big temptations just as this poor, undisciplined child has done. Under the influence of sex magnetism the strong est of us revert to primitive impulees, and lack of moral stability will lead naturally to a temporary eclipse of reason. How many lives must be lost, and how many ruined, before we realize the awful consequences of the lack of proper parental training? | PATRICE B, COREY, | Aberdeen, Wash. KEEPING UP WITH THE NEIGHBORS BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Keeping up with the neighbors ts the favorite! pastime of most of us, And there's a certain value in the incentives given to us by these progressive neigh- bora of ours. It's where the Smiths put up a better house than ours that we determine to hustle to beat our own best record, even tho we can’t beat that of the Smiths, It's, where the Episcopaleans erect a substantial stone chureh structure that the Baptists get together and appoint @ building committee. It's where the next town subscribes enough money She was In not this don't want this neighbor town to get ahead of us It would be an easy matter to p b a semen. & write an essay on the virtue of emulating—that's the word we'd use, perhaps—our progressive neighbors, Hut that isn't exactly the purpose of this article, It's all rjght to have @ desire to keep up with the} neighbors, but it may be all w to do just the things our neighbors are doing. Perhaps, instead of putting our money into a new bor’s, it may be best to put it tnto the education of our children, so that THEY'LL have a better house than Smith's, otherwise these children may be com- pelled to spend all their lives in an even poorer house than ours. Or, instead of trying to put up a fine granite paleans look cheap in comparison, it may be better to erect a comfortable parish house that will meet | the social and educational needs of the young people-— and the olde too. And, instead of trying to get ahead of the next town by building a bigger and better opera house than they put up, it might be wiser to build a substantial public library ‘Try to excel—that’s fine. But study your own needs, Don't be sidetracked by what your neighbors are doing. Champ Clark is planning to lead a fight on Wilson. Confidentially, we, too, are planning a fight, We pec to challenge the winner of the Dempsey-Willard On the Issue of Americanism There Be Mo Compromise The Best Preparedness By DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, | Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle, has had |some pretty sharp experiences with the gifted troublemakers. In a telegram he sent to the American Bankers’ association, at a recent meeting, he gave his views on what ought to be done to meet the menac- ing and grpwing problem of labor con- | ditions. After stating that in his opinion the alien | agitators ought to be deported and such organizations as the I. W. W. outlawed, he turned from this negative and defensive side of the issue and made a most positive jand constructive recommendation, He de- lclared that it is the opportunity and duty of the government “to encourage in every | manner possible public work of all kinds | in city, state and nation. This should in- clude bridges, railroads, power plants, etc., jand last, but not least, great governmental enterprises for the irrigation of arid land, by Frank Crane) | firmly convinced that in these United States | there should be in each state ae ‘where a man who is willing and al to work could find employment under decent living conditions.” This is good policy, sound sense, and poli- | ties with its eyes open, After all our quarrels pro and con over government ownership, there looms ap- parent before every seeing mind oe the success of democracy, after all, going to depend upon its power to co-operate, to unify itself and act as one organism, not as a mob. We did mighty well in war. Why not go on and do well likewise in peace? 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