The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 2, 1919, Page 6

abiciit The Seatile Star Ry math, oat of city, S06 per month: 3 montha, : ha, $2 year, $6.00, in the | tha, or $9.00 | de per week Since men first learned to live by the toil of others, rather than by their own exertions, labor has been reckoned a commodity. It has been counted an expense of produc- tion along with land, machinery and raw material. The wage system divided the worker from his work. The first was recognized as human, The latter remained a commodity. | But this commodity could not be divested of human, attributes. It could be used only while connected with its owner. The owner of a dollar cares little whether it is invested in material to be used in sewers, swamps, sweatshops or banks. He need not accompany it at work. But the laborer must go with the labor he sells into the sewer, the mine, the factory or the office and remain while it is being used. The community has little interest in the age, health or sex of the owners of other commodities. The health and comfort of the owner and the well-being of society are not affected, except most indirectly, by the way such com modities are used. But a young child, a mother or a tuber- cular patient may have their lives wrecked or shortened, and society may be greatly injured, thru the sale of labor. Labor is the most perishable of commodities. Other commodities may be stored and gain in value. They can be put aside to await a market. But labor must be sold the moment it is produced. If a market is long lacking the owner perishes. Such great differences demand a new classification. The American Federation of Labor has long declared that labor should be taken out of the “commodity class.” This was legally done when the clause was placed in the Clayton anti-trust bill providing that for the purposes of that act “the labor of human beings shall not be con- sidered a commodity.” The phrase was but the tardy recognition of what la- borers will henceforth insist shall be a fact in all social relations. Labor must not be considered as apart from laborers. The human relation, not the property relation, must henceforth dominate in industry. Progress has long been measured by the degrees gained | toward this goal. That measure will be an even more im- perative standard of progress in the future. Best Start in Life | Way beck into the beginning of time you've had an- cestors. Thousands of persons now long dead and gone are your direct relatives—so direct that had they not lived and given children to the world YOU would not be here today. All of these forebears, with the possible exception of the three or four most recent ones, have done one thing and only one thing for you—they’ve made it possible for a to be alive today. Their blood is in your veins and) characteristics, the scientists say, influence your life.| as making life easier for you thru bequeathing! savings, they haven't done it. Ualess you are’ a very small group, not a single dollar of the money today was saved by any one farther back ancestral tree than your t-grandfather! saving, the accumulation of money have been its of mankind since Biblical days and long before. But it of the fortunes of today were made by men who lived died only yesterday, when time is reckoned by the in- numerable days man has been on the earth. Judging by the world’s experience, it is impossible for any man to so conserve Ris savings and hedge them about by law as to them intact for his children and his children’s chil- i It is not 4 Ege his fortune for long. But it is in the scheme of things that every man should give his children the best start possible in Tite. It to come—for history proves it is impossible to do this— but simply and solely to give our children the start in the - battle of life that they deserve. letc., etc. Let's go, fellas! The Coppers Mobilize | City Traction Chief Murphine has a smile that won't | come off—tlet us hope. He will need all the good nature which Nature gave him. For, being rather a hefty person, and being recently | loaded down with a hefty job, he will be stepping rather heftily upon the toes he'll have to step upon. F’rinstance, there are Seattle’s coppers. Already we hear they are being mobilized. For Murphine has ordered! the end of “dead heads” on street cars. { And yet, from time immemorial, the cops have been riding gel ust why policemen should have that privilege while ‘ other city employes have to dig up their nickels, has not, But that doesn’t matter. | Murphine has stepped on their number 12s, and they 4 are letting out a rather hefty yell. That’s only the beginning. i Murphine plans to prohibit the parking of autos on the principal downtown thorofares. And there’ll be an- other howl. i i ine Murphine is going ahead with his plans—still ks as if the traction system is going to have a mighty good chance for success, but not till sey Py Mie tess tread on. en oe Ambassador Delanney may have told Congre. u that the Japs were never sincerely ena bee when a diplomat tells the truth in a private conversa- og Be congressman should know better than to tell it on him. : Hindenburg tells us that the kaiser fled to Holland in order to “save Germany from further losses.” Also to save the loss of a skin very valuable to himself, i If the neighbor's chickens find our garden this time and try to dig themselves in, they will find it to be a war garden. The thing that, peeves senators is that the press speaks of the English view, the French view, and the Wilson view. The two chief obstacles in the way of the league are race prejudice and party politics. When the under dog in Russia became the 1 ? dog, he put the dog meat on the bill of fare. hie lk | is up to all of us to save—not for the purpose of amassing | y\:, a huge fortune to be as a memorial to our ashes for aeons | pop-vaive - | others, CHARIE GlSieG uP + SAcKS In THe HAMO OF THe ) OPPosI HOM 1 KMow tm Lickep BuT J Yer Rave You ANOTHER. BERRY Ary- way Tar er Rs IESE YY hd SOQ x WAGE WELL, CHARLIE SAO To PLAY HIS HAND AS LWERALLY AS 1 woud My own So ree }f EDITORIALS — FEATURE CHARLIE ASKS 20ME ON® “To PLAY HIS HAMO WHILE HE GETS A SANDWICH f ge 1 PLAYEO ~ ARTHUR ROCHE S HAN? For. Him OME MIGHT AND LooT ALL MId Wet rine 5. PooR OLO CHARLIE AND Suce A MICE Boy Tho +S LOOM AT CHARLIE > ev pression! Aer ir Ricw! we's Jusv seer SOME THING \ DI SAGRECABLE CHARLIE 7 HAMD HAPPENS To BE ACES Fuct ore OT Weteter Starshells THE MUMBLE BEE You've been run out of luck some time or other to get tangled up with this flat tire, the gaff monopolizer, | eh Jasper? Y'know, when a quartet or so of gents get wound for a chin wageing spree and one of ‘em takes the chatter by the ears? Oh yeh, he's the keeps a half-nol son on the yodel, and never lets the warble He's the main mumble bee. He nabs the buss coming and go ing. Usually his , angie on the lc ie about as bright as the stuff they fill drums Just a» soon as he sounds like he's run- He gives nobody else a chance to set off their | Letters to Editor wher I wish to add my ¢ Editor the St the many others about our boys being discharged and | returned to their homes. landed in France a year ago in February. Why has| ‘ators or the F he not been returned, as others have who left just | My husband enlisted with the 20th engineers and j before the armistice was signed? ciimmix who | Were not the men drafted and enlisted for duration | | of the war only? Why aren't our boys returned to us? Why? wet | out of his reach. | | ning low, and somebody else tries to nqueeze in a chirp, | lhe opens up with a fresh volley and cuts them short | like restaurant ple. “And ah-—oh yeh, I figure o- LUCKY TO SURVIVE SUCH DISEASES D. Wilson ts slowly recovering from a severe case lof influency and phnuemonia.Wellesley, Mars., Towns man. eee What has become of that old-fashioned thing they called the freedom of the seas? see | Yes, and when prohibition goes into effect who is going to eat all the bologna, blood pudding, ver pud ding, head-cheese and other delicacies of the saloons? eee A few uninformed folk are laboring under impression that the peace conference intends to take But this is an allowed to | the the ocean away from the Germans, erroneous idea, The Germans are to be use the ocean right along. ‘To bathe in ‘They are also going to be allowed to keep their canal boats. see ETHERGRAM FROM MARS SOLAR CANAL, April 2.—The interplanetary party of High Doctor of Degrees Martian X-111 is still sue pended in the air above Tacoma, orthwest section of the United States of the Western hemis. phere. No communications have been received from lthe occupants of the glazed cylinder, and fears are ex- pressed for the safety of the party efforts are |being made by the inhabitants of the h, either for or against the cylinder, according to observations. eee TACOMA WANTS AN AVIATOR TACOMA, April 2—The situation is becoming em- barrassing. With the interplanetary exploreaten party of High Doctor of Degrees Martian X-111, stuck in the earth's comparatively dense atmosphere above the |Stadium high school, the city finds itself unable, on |short notice, to secure enough aviators and airplanes }to bring the cylinder to earth Meanwhile it is feared that the distinguished Mar tians, who made a flight across space in three days, are becoming impatient. The Chamber of Commerce has resolved, however, not to send to Seattle for an airplane, if the party stick# in the air forever. MUSINGS OF JOE RARLE Obsolete saying No, 3; “Here's how | “Seven per cent” cider is becoming more and more popular, Instead of rushing the growler our now rush the cider derijohn. Wonder if the w.k. barfly will do the caterpillar act CORN land ome a soda water bug? There is a | increase in the emigration out of dry states into The only differen tween the United States after July 1 and the Sahara desert is that there are oases in the desert see The treasurer of Ossining, N. ¥., has just been elect jed to serve his 20th term, One good term deserves 19 eee But, as the man in the band remarked, “I am trom bone dry.” best citizens | | | | | . ANOTHER SOLDIER'S WIFE. by Youth Is Young He was not so far from eighty; She was seventy-odd and weighty, But a» his shrunk gums touched ber chee! I heard his youthful spirit epeak;— I greet you, love, that you are fair Trim as a withe and debonair, And poppy-crowned with perfumed hair Such is the vision you impart To the keen retina of my heart. Kyes are but eyes. The heart, more tender, Is memorted of all your splendor.” EDMUND VANCE COOKE He was thick of hand and feature; She was palvied creature Yet as she held him in her eye. I heard her crooning mother-cry Pirstling of my od and bone All of me and all my own, rs sons, you stand alone. tho your tender form my heart to keep it warm, As tho your wee, wet lips still pressed Their virgin kiss against my breast.” ancient O ancient mother! I defer To you and to that courtly sir So wondrous are the words you speak Whore truth is strong as tones are weak, There is a tear upon my cheek! Whether we pass in faith and trust, Whether we linger in the dust, I know not, but, to all finality, Our memories yield us immortality 1919, N. EB. A) (Copyright FOR MARRIED FOLK Once upon a time there lived a couple who, tho they had been happily married for 25 rs, never said a hard word nor a hasty word to each other! In all these years neither ever heard the other make @ single disparaging remark concerning the picking of lemons in the garden of love or marriage being a lottery with all the numbers blanks! Even when the household bills mounted to un expected heights, even when hubby forgot his over shoes and contracted both a cold and a. grouch, even when the children failed in school and the elstern went dry and the plumbing sprang a leak there were no h words, no upbraidings, nor anything of that id. Think of it—no rough speech when wifey refused to longer let hubby keep the moths out of the carpets by sprinkling cigar ashes on them; no rough speech when hubby stayed up late with a sick friend and came home with stray poker chips in his pockets—no rough words un- der any circumstances! Think of it and gasp With astonishment! Who was this couple? Well, married folks, you're all pretty wise—no doubt you've guessed it: This man and wife of whom we speak are both of them deaf and dumb! mplaint among | = || Americanism There Can On the Issue of Be No Compromise Ruts By DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, Ruts are grooves made in the road by vehicles gone before. | They are easy to get into and hard to get out of. | They are useful for plodding carts, dan- lgerous for fast drivers and fatal for bi- cycles or motorcycles | So they are both good and bad. A railroad track is nothing but two parallel steel ruts. The huge train can spin safely along at 50 miles an hour, simply beeause it has lost its liberty; it {sticks to the ruts, The river keeps in its rut, or channel; when it escapes it plays havoc. | The sun runs in its sky-rut; so do all the stars and so does the earth itself. The train is an organized, communal carrier; the bicycle is individual; hence ruts jare good for the safe movement of men Thus all institutions are in ruts. The keep one going in the direction it was first pushed. It is good for people who dislike thinking and dread responsibility. Colleges run in the ruts of past genera- jtions, Many of them have become prac- tically useless. Unable to change their jeourse, they have been shunted into obso- \lescence. | There are religiou jare merely running « cient grooves, reverently inefficient, ly respectable. | Politics is rutty. The public can always |more easily be induced to do what it has been in the habit of doing than to try tions which in masses, but bad for individual action. | advantage of an institution is that it will | by Frank Crane) At least they know the evils of the old; the evils of the new are ! anything new. ‘untried and fearsome, Nations run in ruts, They make war, | and go on getting ready for war, for only one reason: they always have. The task of inducing nations to disarm and appeal to law is enormous, because it implies per- suading nations to think. Sticking to one’s rut is the best cheap substitute for intelligence. Many an “able | business man” is no more than an old | moss-back who goes on doing what he al- has done. he poet, the prophet and the adven- turous youth are trying to get things out | of ruts. They are rightly called dangerous | citizens. For most people belong in ruts, j and when they get out they are unable to guide themselves. Reforming mankind is interesting. there is not much money in it. The ruttiest thing in the world is money. A money-man becomes great by his ability to refuse Great fortunes are built up only rarely by ability and enterprise and | brains; they come usually by declining to | budge. | Energetic folk occasionally make inroads {upon prosperity, but the nabobs of Wall | st. and the Bank of England are sitters; | money gravitates to them. | Freedom, individuality, independence, originality, bold ideas and high dreams put | in practice, are the luxuries of the poor. | They are for the walkers and bicyclists: if | you would be a leading citizen you must | ride on the train. But The League of Nations BY N. D, COCHRAN | | | NUMBER THREE thereby ipso facto be deemed to/| ute to the armed forces to be urged have committed an act of war to protect the covenants of the |A* Article XII, is a matter Of) against all other members of the | league. | dispute, it is bere given in full:| league, which hereby undertakes im-| “The high. contracting parties The high contrac parties | mediately to subject it to the sever: | agree, further, that they will mutu- jagree that arise be-| ance of all tr or financial rela- ally support on another in the tween them wh! adjust-| tions, the prohibition of all inter- financial and economic measures ed by the ary P « of diplo- | course between their nationals and which may be taken under this ar lmacy, they will, in ne xe, resort! the nationals of the covenant-brenk-| ticle in order to minimize the loss to war without previously submit © and the prevention of all/and inconvenience resulting from ting the questions and matters ip al, commercial or personal| the above measures, and that they volved, either to arbitration or to Intercourse between the nationals | will mutually support one another INQUIRY the Executive Coun- of the covenantbreaking state and|in resisting any special measures cil, and until three months after the/ the nationals of award by the arbitrators or a RIEC- OMMENDATION by the Executive Council, and that they will ndt even then resort to war as against a, | member of the league which com plies with the award of the arbi not any other state, | aimed at one of their number by the whether a member of the league or| covenant-breaking estate, and that It shall be the duty of the Bx-| they will afford passage thru their ecutive Council in such case RECOMMEND what effective and) high contracting parties who are co- | military or naval force the members| operating to protect the covenants of the league shall severally contri TO ‘territory to the forces of any of the ‘of the league.” 2COMMENDATION | Executive Council, In any case under this article the award of | the arbitrators 1 be made within onable ume, and the RECOM [Mt DATION of the Executive } Council shall be made within six months after the submission of the dispute.” 1 In Article XILI. members agree to) submit to arbitration any dispute or) difficulty “which THEY recognize | to be suitable for submission to arbi: | tration and which cannot be satis factorily nettled by diplomacy.” The} | Court of Arbitration “shall be the |court AGREED ON BY THE PAR-} | TLES or stipulated in any conven: / | tion existing between them.” The) parties agree to carry out in good faith any arbitration award. In the event of failure to carry out the award the Executive Council “shall PROPOSE what steps can best be} taken to give effect thereto.” Article XIV. says the Execu-| tive Council shall “FORMULATE | | PLANS” for a permanent court of| | international Justice, which “shall be | |competent to hear and determine any matter which THE PARTIES RECOGNIZE AS SUITABLE for submission to it for arbitration” un- der Article XITI, ' | In Article XV, members agree that lany dispute likely to lead to a rup- ture, which is not submitted to arbi: | tration, will be referred to the Exee- | lutive Council, If the Council does | not settle the dispute, it will publish & report setting forth the facts and the recommendations the Council think just and proper for settlement of the dispute If the members of the Council, other than the parties to the dis: pute, UNANIMOUSLY agree to the report, members agree not to go to war with any party that complies with the recommendation, In case of refusal the Council “shall propose measures necessary to give effect to the recommendations.” If the report ia not unanimous, it shall be the | duty of the majority, and privilege of the minority, to issue statements dicating what they believe to be facts. ‘The Council may refer the dispute lto the body of delegates, and shall do so at the request of either party to the dispute, If a case is so re- ferred, the provisions of this article and Article XII, relating to the} powers of the Execti:ve Couneil, shall apply to the body of delegates. 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