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

bat The Seattle my tar «t The per month, $450 per year. iy carrier, clty . Paying the War Debt The astronomical figures of America’s war debt swing far beyond the orbit of pre-war financiering. Its payment, together with the vast expenditures demanded the process of readjustment to the higher civilization the war in | z has made possible, will test even the stupendous resources ) Fritz do it.” ft ‘eS of this nation. All the formerly warring nations are worrying over ‘the same problem. Some thought they were going to “let But Fritz threatens to go into Bolshevik bankruptcy, with less assets for the creditors than might have been expected. It is becoming evident that for nations, as for indi- ' yidual citizens, there is no royal road to riches. Economy and increased production must furnish the needed funds But the funds are so great that, like the debt, they must “touch new industrial orbits. We have been a prodigal nation, robbing our soil and | flinging every form of human and natural resource reck Tessly away. We must now begin to save on a similar stu- pendous scale. Little pinch-penny savings will not meet the emergency. j In 1910, at a time of comparative prosperity, the cen- ‘gus found more than 3,000,000 workers who had been idle & considerable portion of the current year. In 1907 a Variety of authorities estimated the army of the unemployed ; around 5,000,000. It is seldom much less than 1,000,000. cities reporting directly to the United States employ- nt service found over 700,000 unwilling idle in the nth of March. This is an army 20 times as large as one time upon the Panama canal bor, their product would go fa t on the great public debt. Our farmers, with younger soil and better tools, raise than half the bushels per acre of the standard crops it are produced in England, Italy or France. Raising this three-fourths the European yield would soon wipe out debt. If the dairy cows of the nation averaged as great product added D income. A former secretary of agriculture estimated that it as much to rove crops from the farm to the con- was to raise them. War marketing investigations con- or increase this figure; while Hoover has recently d that so long, slow and wasteful is the marketing that half the product is lost upon the way. Yet when the Panama canal was being built it was ind that the average cost of transportation, marketing waste of bringing products from the United States the employes of the canal was but 10 per cent of the : Reducing the cost ionately on domestic give a surplus enough to pay the debt The list of these almost ‘cosmic wastes that cumber present industrial system, exhaust our energies and our wastes of sion for vast economies. removal or war that made possible the colossal efforts that brought a economy in industry on a scale as as the operations of the war and the size of the debt the only alternative to crushing taxation and possible was ever employed Engaged in needed toward paying the in- It was the tem- The Savage Era 4 Maiden aunts, and poets and bachelor philosophers fre- quently sing of the golden years of cherubic childhood. School teachers and mothers have their enthusiasm the angelic nature of speculative childhood tempered) The truth is that childhood, specially boy childhood, is} far from being a thornless plant in the garden of love. ‘the aspect of a stinging nettle than of the tender crocus. It more occasionally has the odor of the skunk cab-),,..; than the perfume of the violet. - Babies frequently—doubtless your own, dear madam—| sider bim for membership utterly dear. Babies up to the fourth year, that are healthy and i born, have an appealing cuddlesomeness, and a naivete would be wonderful if it could only last. But from six to sixteen the least said the better. aa passes thru his savage era then, just as the) “The boy has the germ of all good things in him, but| are having a tough time breaking the crust. So, he frequently displays more of the Adamic traits wan ‘'\The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime. | } | | as those of many large, carefully selected herds, | income would furnish another important source/ l mernstinte VOICE Se THOME CELLAR WtTO & Tame OP Arerewewe . Our VENTRILO WHC FES untae Paemny ENA ES You ® FOOL ALL Your Pererigs. AL so ART ov VERT TEALOQUISM AMO Bay Roce OF JOKED By MAM 1OCTS. (| , if Es bad 4 YOCPRG My iol WEARS NS b \/ / ho Nl WHEM YOu DECIDED To BECOME A VENTRILOQUIST (Copyright, 1919, by MT. Wetutet) Starshells I the experts say the wireless telephone will might be almost endlessly extended. | always be a luxury and a novelty and will never take duplication of effort, of strikes and industrial the place of the experts, we believe wireless telegraph. It was the who said Bell's telephone would never work, and Russell Sage, when asked to back tt reduction of some of these during the |.aig “1 have no time for toys.” A Viadivostok dinpatch says the czar's unharmed. How d'ye suppose it dodged the butcher? ore William Hobhenzollern is anxious We don’t know why he doesn't go holding him. horse ts to leave Holland. The Dutch aren't Bean Drops Cough Drops ee o. . The The “Hooray! Press Headline. Hooray! eaye he always the was opposed to Expeciafly tn . the last four months U-boat war But, as somebody remarked, “What's the consti tutton among doctors?” FOREMOST AMERICANS William J. Bryan—the man who made running for the presidency a fad | John D. Rockefeller |truth. of the old saying. the man Money who disproved the talks” and “Come The tender little seedling more frequently takes on) easy, co easy day that and the arked the other es with a tramp. bas decided to con y're making a great | mistake Admit that fellow and they'll ail be working for him within a month * . Jack Jobnson says his fight with Jess Willard was a fake We don't know whether the fight was | fake or not, but we were always sure Johnaoh was. | | ee Hlihu Root i» attorney for the New York brewers. | Anyhow, it shows the brewers are not broke J. Oden giadly Society Armour exchange Pp of Vagabonds h Chicago as the lineman remarked, “The future looks lamp.” Rut. bright to tn electric he does those that should set apart beings, “a little! OLE BREAKS IN EVEN IN “MENU” LITERATURE than the angels.” _ Boyhood is barbaric in its indifference to suffering, callousness, its selfishness. a oy is going thru its evolution, pushing thru age- to development, and its ethical plane is a sharp Parents who understand this, and who keep ir patience and hope unsullied thru these growing years, ill not only keep the snow off their thatch, but they will obably save an odd boy or two from utter revolt against! i social custom. One month's recruiting has won but 5,000 men for America’s 500,000 peace army, which is proof that —_— has small chance of getting a hold on Amer- Our idea of zero in patriotism is the kind that yelled itself hoarse when the boys were going thru the Beets, and now yells as loudly when asked to foot the bill. The fact that France considers it necessary to guard Hun peace delegates from the public, indicates a dark future for German traveling salesmen. You have doubtless noticed that the standing of mations in this new league depends largely on their batting average in the big war. Daily it becomes more and more evident that Sen- ator Poinderter is Miles and Miles away from ‘the League of Nations. The Kiel canal is to be left under German control; that is, all of it except the bottom, the shore line and the liquid content. British are using alcohol in motor fuel; a tip for America after July 1. lyou do The best ventilated restaurant in Chicago,” Mayor Ole Hanson, of Seattle The above heads the menu of the North American restaurant in Chicago, advertising tribute to the na tional significance of the city's chief executive, who passed thru there last summer, and is presumed to have made the remark after viewing a $30,000 ventil- ating plant. The menu was mailed to the mayor's attic offices by F. 8. Hoy, of the L. C. Smith | ‘Typewriter company nays { of St. Louis, Mo ided he would mi within died the othe | But girls, don't crowd, dames says he's already picked the girl. | | James Baney's aunt eft him | $90,000 in her will, prov 90 days after her death, She Every time you hear of an elderly man marrying, | don't you jump right at the conclusion that some | “sweet young thing” has roped him? And mostly, | you're making a good guess, But William H. Van Nordall, 74 years old, of Arling: |ton, N. ¥., married Mrs, Ann Bogardus, 72 years old. |'This wae the fourth marriage of each of them eee | “But, my dear," said the |plained about the food the jin “You know during these terrible tim solutely nv that we make great sac “Of course; but what I object to is ing hers in the form of rnt offering . wife, after he had com brought ab new cook had it is HEARD IN THE ROW BEHIND “Why did Maud go out; didn't she like the film? “Yes, but a sea storm is coming on and Maud's an awful poor sailor."—Boston Transcript cee AS NATURE PROVIDES Will you love me a8 much in December as in June ? More darling There's one Cassell’e Saturday Journal eee She He cembor more day in De Frank ‘rautloff, Atchison, Kas, left a widower | |15 years ago, brought up his family of nine children | without the aid of a woman. He did all their mend ing as well as the housework and cooking, in addition | to having successfully managed the’ farm, Tomorrow will be the anniversary who was born Tomorrow, April the 16th of the birth of William 1864 at Stratfordor 1 1633 an establish a land. provisions, ete, were left to According to the journal by man died on April 16, 1634. At death all but one man were disabled the journal until the Jast day of April, recording th sufferings and the deaths of bis comrades. cumbed before the arrival of his countrymen in the late #pring In 1681, on the 16th of April Jersey was offered for sale for $25,000. It was rep resented in a letter, proposing the land for sale, as a country almost as large as England, belonging to the late George Carteret.” April 16 is the anniversary den, the last battle fought on English loden Charles Edward, the young pretender, wan de feated by the Dake of Cumberland, and with his defeat on the 16th of April, in 1746, the hopes of the Jacobites periahed forever In 1811, on the 16th of April, a plantation at Port Royal, Jamaica, sank suddenly into the earth. The house and about 20 acreg of « land disappeared *© that only the ridge of the bh could be seen. On the 16th of April, in 1862, slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia by an act of congress Shakespeare in A by the Dutch to const of Greer with clothing the experiment them the first the time of his He continued ir of the battle of Cullo At Cul BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE The Edmund Vance Cooke of the navy let loose this touching song, entitled, “Sailor's Moan”: One thought alone fills up my head Now that the Hunnish beast is dead. With war and service full I'm fed, Sick of the sailor's life I've led, I wanna get out! I've been a gob of low degree With thirty bucks as salaree Lived fourteen months on the P. G But now it’s over, here's my plea, 1 wanna get out! > I've painted woodwork, scrubbed the deck Till I've become a first-class wreck; Gave out for small stores half my check, And now it'« over, and by heck, 1 wanna get out! How to Fight the Devil BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE When you hear of a man or woman-long known for their integrity and honor—suddenly losing grip on themselves, you'll probably find that for some time they've failed to take a reasonable amount of recre- | ation There's nothing that makes one lose his perspec tive and balance quite so quickly as the lack of healthy exercise and real fun. Most of the plous people in wholesome amusement ing “the devil” in solitude out in the open who never have a have a fegrful time whereas, if they nong healthy-minded pec devil” would fi ) When “no man pursueth Furthermore, his satanic majesty can't stand the glow of tingling blood and a dash of cold water, It's when you're tired out and ur mind and heart haven't the power of resistance that, he gets in his fine work It's when you're depressed because that temptation ts hardest to overcome One may carry fun and frolic to extremes—as one may do with any other good thing—but there's more danger in living and working volitary and alone, than there is in contact with live, healthy-minded, strong hearted people. fight him “the of ,overwork SOMETIMES LOVE COMES AND GOKS JUST LIKE THIS— Wooed, won and wedded in a single night, Mrs Fruce Higginbotham, Detroit, Mich. sued for divorce less than two weeks after the wooing, winning and wedding. He suc the province of New) hare} On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Children’s Rights deal about woman’ id the rights of the negro, and the of the laborer, and the right and conditions of men, but we have never yet made the decisive move we should make toward giving their proper and natural born rights to the most important class of people in the country. That class is the children The children rights are They have right that i nature, and by every consideration of hu- manity and sound sense, and that the right to be educated, to be properly trained before they ent into the struggle for existence. We are never going to settle the child question right until we have a federal law that provides that every child born in the United States shall be properly trained until he reaches maturity Child labor laws point in the right diree- tion, but they only point. They are dawd- fiddling with an issue that de- mands decisive and pr pt action It may be good to pass a law that no child under the of 16 shall be employed over eight hours a day, but it is like pass- ing a law that no man shall kick his wife in the face more than twice a week. Children have no business whatever in the economic struggle. There are plenty of husky men and women to attend to that, Instead of limiting the hours of child labor, trying to ameliorate it, it should absolutely f ribiled Children are entirely helpless in the mat- ter. Th never asked to come into the a great right rights all sort of very their imple. one due by are out ling and or be SAYS JAPANESE | INVASION REAL Phelan Congratulates West on Peace Treaty Outcome AN FRANCI United Press) —t tor Phelan, in « statement to the United Press today, congratulated the West because the Japanese had [been defeated in Paris in their at ‘tempt to win recognition of Japanese equality with the white race. In a statement ixeued Saturday night, after a false report had been circulated to the effect that the Japa nese amendment had been adopts the league of nations, Phel deciar ed it meant the Japanese would be granted “free immigration, naturali zation,’ the franchise ownership and intermarriage, wh in the privilege of the white. race in j the United States.” | “If racial equality means what T | state, I am absolutely confident the | United States senate will not ratify it," the statement issued Saturday naid, | Today's ataterment follows “Tho first report from Paris indi cated that the Japanese demand for the same privileges enjoyed by the | white race in the United States had been granted. This wag later contra dicted, I understand that the Japa nese have an appeal to the plenary council, but there ts no likelihood of the action already taken being recon sidered |, “This is a matter of congratulation | to the people of the West. The Japa | nese invasion is a real thing, and their propagandists, working thru the Japanese Associauion of America, are extremely active 0, Apri ted States Sena elective | PARIS—Charles Sarngue, ex-may- jor of Auxere, and France's oldest | poilu,” has been demobilized. He " 80 yoars of age, and enlisted as a private in 1914, being later promot jed to leutenant Write for Cook Book : fe BY DK FRANK Of Four hours of sleep lost throagh that painful itching wearisome hours next day—tired out—anfit for work. Resinol Ointment just before retiring. The results will All itching and pain usually disappears like magic. Keep the affected part weil chenmmed with Resins! sale at ali druggists. For free samples wvite Resimol, THEDouGH we ANP nk Crane) when we is to least we do have them into the world equip them properly for life. yee thi i not & question to be decided by the family. [t is entirely too important to the state to be left to ignorant and brutal parent a The senate of the United States the other) day passed a law imposing a tax on thé products of child labor, with the object of ] limiting child labor by taking away its profits. This amounts to slapping a burglary on the wrist. We were very much alarm when the Hun threatened to overrun 4 world, and we sent two million men @ France, and spent billions of dollars, te avert the danger. It is a far deeper more dangerous menace that confronts us in allowing children to grow up withe proper schooling. Nine-tenths of the economic, social an other public problems would dissolve the entire population of children had thei rights, if they were all properly schooled The United States supreme court s01 time ago held the child labor law uncon stitutional. It seemed to interfere with thy rights of the states. If this is true, th the constitution ought to be changed. Wh I am in favor of woman's rights, I ha never got very excited over i om seem to get along pretty well as it altho there is no excuse for not giving th their full citizenship. But with children is different. It is stupid, wicked and ou! rageous that any child in this democ should be forced into the struggle for sul sistence. and the brought world, can esinol | will stop that itch apply ‘you. Toni by day. : RG rere Crescent Baking Powder, Crescent Mifg. Co., Seattle, Wash. Sold by4irecore