The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1919. Ry mail of city, boc » Smontha, | | MI} tho onths, | $2.78 5.00, in the | | | State Washington de the atate, | The per month, $4.50 for ¢ months, or $9.00 | | | per year. Hy carrier, city, 120 por week. | The New Price Level The stage is set for full production, universal employ ment—prosperity. What’s the delay in the performance? There is need for all products and plenty with which to purchase—more than three times the gold reserve of 1914, under the old banking system. Professor Irving Fisher, Yale university, answers this question in an address delivered at a conference of gov- ernors and mayors held recently in Washington. He says that it is in the failure of the manufacturer and business man generally to buy, and in the hopes that material and labor will come down. “To talk reverently of the 1913-14 price * Fisher says, “is to speak in the dead language today ’ “The man of today is not the man who waits he con- tinues, “but the one who finds the new prices facts and 2 That there is too much of a speculative tendency in all of us in awaiting the lowering of prices, that prices are| not going to drop, that we are on a new price level is 4 Professor Fisher's opinion, and that of other price expressed in other bulletins sent out by the government We are doing business with an number counters, and while wages and material prices yet the selling price is or will be in proportion. 4 It is entirely a matter of scale in transaction; the results, the profits are the same. As for instance, building a house from plans drawn one-eighth of an inch per foot, or one-quarter of an inch per foot; the drawings on the latter scale are twice as large, but the proportions of the building, the results, are z the same. With food prices as they are, and due to European demands, wages will not come down. It is not desirable that wages should ever be reduced; for this at once means the curtailment of the purchasing ,spower of the people—one of the large and original sources | of prosperity. There can be no natural lowering of material prices without a reduction of labor prices; for the large value of material by reason labor Aeeesne—e of money Profe: <perts increased ol are high, You HAVE THE WRONG MUM BER. ‘ThHrs 15 BLAH even raw is of bestowed upon it It is this speculative tendency in all of us for prices to drop below normal production cost—bargains. But man cannot live by bargains alone. The way to start the performance of prosperity and continue the performance is for all of us, the manufacturer, | the merchant, the farmer, the householder to buy what | we need NOW, and all we need NOW. very waiting This may mean a loss in a few incidental items, but | Tomorrow by purchasing now, this loss will be restored in profits of} prosperity many fold, HPP iictecm ‘latte, Oh the eventng of Apri 14 _We may as well wait for,the prices of 1896 as the | Lines Wwith dee family, attended a benefit pe pre-war prices of 1913-1914. cla). Ug a f . Pe ei \third act, John Wilkes I ~ [presidential box and discharged a . jent’s head, shouting as he did Sic sempe empted to hold Hooth, but the assassir ew him ° off, lenped from the box to the stage, 14 feet below The world is getting better everywhere except here, |nd «*eaved where we are. ° | wan borne to a It is getting better here, only we don't notice it—we're ccs gg aa gt too close to see it. yee eet, ee Go back to the little town with which you were fa-; deisietareh eee: enlieneihc: Sei implicated assaesinate miliar say 15 years ago—most any town. It has a new tapestry brick station, the streets are | trial of the oo well paved, “no spitting” signs are conspicuously displayed, |*"’ ‘""* of tenced to 1 imprisonm was discovered bubbler fountains on the public square, there is a new) sna snot after hy a doeacienent public library, several good buildings have been erected | ot cavair had been hunting him along the main street, nearly all the old store fronts have} On April 15, in 1861, President Lincoln issued the 4 been replaced with a broad expanse of plate glass and in/first call for lunteers to put down the all the show windows are well-arranged and well-lighted |"*¥*'" °* nite displays of goods, indicating that the town’s people are buy-|," 1°*8. ‘ pa yc epg tne are begat ing more and better of all the useful things of life. Sethe enre at tuaten ta tha taiet paleles: Ok ike Yet ask any native who hasn’t been out of town within Hawaii. After 12 years Molokai, during w 15 years and he will tell you that it is getting worse—much |time be materially im 4 condition of worse. epe ole x foc - os n succumbed to pr ‘ The improvements in this town have come so gradually “"y,) juts. os Ap the pedeahip @henla: onacor that the inhabitants have not noticed them. the largest trans-Atlantic And this is about the way with the world in general, |‘ New "ak pe a eee, wane ire ve ae ~ ns ‘ pico lpurg and sank several hu niles off the coast 0 foe alligerg peg iad sg improve ourselves’ and our) evroundiand. One thousand and ninety-five lives Usually man first improves the food that he eats, yaaa , then his clothing, then the furnishing of his house, and} then the house. | With a better house he demands paved streets, water| works, sewer system, electric lights. | The merchant is quick to seé that there is a demand for better goods and carries a better stock of goods. The exhibition of this better stock has an educational effect in creating a desire and raising the purchasing standard of the whole community. With a better individual life, the spirit finally extends to better administration of their public affairs, and on down to the fundamentals of community economics. | We may not be quite to this last state yet, but we are! | liners, bound from Liverpool BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE A-Runnin’ ’Round the Block has So I say that youth has wisdom, age only knowledge. Yexterday, I spied before me Prexy of the College Saw his broad and cushioned shoulders, saw his ; on our way. | fringe of Yak s The world is getting better. |Something in me somersaulted and the years turned back; It cannot be conceived that our present attempt at civilization will be a failure; for transportation, communi- cation and extension of intelligence thru the printing press i are giving the world the facility by which the people of E> one part can observe and profit by the failure and suc- ry cesses of another part and make example for improvement each to their own part. Grabbed his neck with thumb and fingers, gave his lugs a shock, Yelling, “Hi! old Paleolith! block.” T'll race you Half a century agd, often we had started, Heel to heel, and “One-two-three!” and straight away we darted, He ran west and I ran leather, Leaped a at we s south and both devoid of The conference has issued an official note charging the press with printing false statements about what has been done. If the press has accused the conference of doing anything, the accusation is false, like Mercurles with flitting feet ned to be the first to turn the halfway corner! A Telephone Subscriber’s Notion of Perfect Bliss. LISTENING To BURLESOM USE THE PHONE cPcthcntett Sh at ev Ce ee el | History in New York ‘round the | | fingers on | the work of eyes! | | mi —-—_ aste who should bear the scorn, who should Q Baron Makino says that Japan is not too proud to play the scorner fight, but is too proud to accept a place of admitted in- |\How the br ee Ral 30 Serene! Hew the eet) feriority. We hope he is Makino threats. star As heaving the final turn, we both were i , ; oy homeward-he The Berlin government has denied Bavaria's request |anda “Come on, Jim a “Come on, Tim! “Home to be represented at the peace conference, and Bavaria’s stretch now! “Make a dash?" next move is to turn Bolshevik by protest. And oh, the puffing, panting Joy of winning “by a eel i lash!" The allies could have saved a lot of trouble if they |Then “I'd a beat you, but I stubbed my toe against | had made an agreement about where they were going | cooa “ot”, ' } before they started. 9 | Gooa old ancient alibi! when racing ‘round the If we ever become fully civilized, we may outgrow |'rhen perhaps we raced again and then went in to the idea that it isn’t fashionable unless it is uncomfort- Wappey, able, : Kdged to cat a horse and saddle, stirrup, bit and crupper. Went to bed and slept like dead; might have been The task that is delaying the work of the peace dele- gates is that of living up to former professions of piety. dissected! Rose next morning feeling like # being resurrected. 80 years old and| A PRETTY GOOD UNDERSTANDING | When the marines reached the conaulate they forelbi it is reported, and assassinated the consul, whore are understood to be serious—New York (N. ¥.) 2 World. cee FINGERS FOR EYES Wouldn't. it be strange if you had to learn every, thing thru your fingers? They afe teaching classes On the Issue of | Americanism There | Be No Compromise FEATURES ; By Webster. | Septic Patriotism FRANK CRANE 1919, Yrank Crane) —_—$$_$—$— —$$ —<———_ ran ee. By DR swe 5 (Cor \ There's a good deal of talk going on these | portance than to have the stronges t ; times that recall tron Dr. Johnson’s feeling and co-operation with the i definition of patriotism as “the last refuge | empire. As our soldier fought sid side with theirs, so now we ought to together in the tremendous task of tructing the world. Yet there is a @ of a scoundrel,” And Old Ed Howe’ paragraph the other day $ Monthly had a pungent “Don’t be sensible about war; be patriotic.” making group who rest not night All the finest, highest, best things in in their effort to sow dissension ilfe are subject to the most disgusting per- America and Great Britain. . ee versions Love is “the greatest thing in Anything that calls itself patriotism, the world,” yet its mask is often worn by functions in jealousy, hate, suspicion lust Religion is stition. The gentleman i and the bully thinks him There's nothing nobler than intelligent patriotism. And there’s nothing cheaper, narrower or more dangerous than a good deal of the bunk that calls itself patriotism. Purity is contorted into prudery. avicatured by degrading super- ped by the sissy, a hero. slander toward another nation is septie; ii, The nations of the world are now @ ‘9 to get together. There is nothing in and co-operation inconsistent with the patriotism. In fact, no patriotism is ine unless it loves humanity more. 3eware of the septic patriotism a cheap and ignorant appeal to It was crazy patriotism that got Ger- | egotism, seeks to prevent this counts many into this war. The Turks thought national co-operation. they were patriotic, and so did the Aus- The United States is not a bully trians. gentleman. Patriotism, as these people conceived it, The Man Who Gets led them to batter Rheims cathedral, devas- tate Louvain, massacre Armenians and 2 Greeks, enslave Belgian men and outrage There First Belgian women, sink the Lusitania, and BY THE REV. CHARL 8 STELZ! send their dirty spies thruout the world. The difference between @ rut Ss om From which we are justified in concluding | shout six fect. bul most by might 12% . bee ‘er $ re ne buried as to fall into @ rut that patriotism unchecked, and unmixed It isn't a question of the depth of the with justice, humaneness, chivalry and we originally fell, because, having © common sense, is an unmitigated curse, | into tt. every make simply cute truly “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” or pein And right here in America is a brand ,,.)") ny of patriotism as vicious as anything made the ma in Germany. cin It just as much septic patriotism to, 7>#* gp oo ® ae » | We're active, but we ne ove. Thi cry “America first, last and all the time, mh ; . ove ee ee not progress re in @ country, right or wrong,” as it is jto sing, “Deutschland Uber Alles.” | It is septic patriotism which seeks to stir jup hate here against foreign nations. There are not a few who are doing their w rut—and we're fast making th It’s much easier to sink down into comi things than to fight to get over the top of Mort of look fe rute—roads alr best to cause bad blood between us and Japan, and stirring up hate toward Mexico. pars, iy mischief r > are infinitely more ake tetas eda a y mus the e I. W. W. They call en ho. biax 7 { nselve: ‘red-blooded Americans,” but‘ iret they could do nothing so beneffcial to their country to take themselves out of it. | Just now no one thing is of more im- | : enzollern is to be brand Maybe w criminal by his wrist, am Hi the peace conference. as i Starshells CHINA ADOPTS AIR CHATTER (China to Have Wireless —News Hem) l a Keeps « via e Am r k ad. hop ht aft " Alle same Altt ‘ are ¢ “yy timers mystery game, the aven't followed pha ' AQ santtes tardin oO twist a word in Chin picks off instrument has Surely you've heard that old joke abou he wife] (some, not all) wearing the husband's trousers.) Figuratively speaking, of course. Well, Mrs. Le M. Wilson, of Atlanta venture with Elmer Z he insists on wearing her asks that her matrimoni » be terminated because wets Bernard Brietbort, of Bt married Mra Sadie Goodman, They sta family of 17 11 contributed by the bridegroom and six by from that, nothing about | hat Bernard is m, N.Y ff with a Be Sure to Get Aside unusual marriage except Dia blushing bride ix of blind children in the American Museum of Natural They and it's all finger work mountains, valleys and oceans with their relief maps. When an Aretic explorer lectured, he brought sledge dogs and all the children petted the dogs and rizzied their fingers thru the crinkly, clisply halr, What a life—making fingers do feel | j the | | Wrapped to insure its perfect con- dition in all climates and seasons. Sealed tight — kept right. The Perfect gum in the perfect package, which mock; Wonder could we the block? eee “My husband and I are the best of friends,” Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, speaking of Doug best of friends must sometimes be divorced said | The} Meanwhile, as my laughter Prexy there staring Meanwhile, as my glaring. | “Well, sir; well, sir, I must say, sir! to be haled and} halted | Like a lunatic Are you a weysered, stood smile subsided, Prexy's face was! insulted, like a thug assaulted r, @ shock-troop leader with your em!" Surely, even in you, sir, this is infra dignitatem, Aye, sir, while I still recall our juvenile relations, | Surely, slr, you must conceive the difference in our| stations. cares what a A COLLEC Up and None poet does, but I, sir, head There you have it only knowledge, Youth has wisdom. Age has