The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1919, Page 6

| | Beant gut of city. te. per ments : late of Washington. ¢ the state be per month, $+ for 6 months, or $9.00 | | per year, By carrier, city, 130 per week. | } Help Make Some Jobs x " | IN 1880 The most serious insular problem that faces the United | - today is unemployment, especially unemployment © Congress had the power to meet — this problem and aid have met it a year ago by providing in advance for inevitable condition following the war, But congress nothing—nothing visible to the unclothed eye. : Of the various plans, timidly and tentatively put for to meet this crisis, none has met with any success far as action is concerned. The only measure offered that is concrete and prac is the plan proposed by the department of the interior provide first, work for discharged soldiers on reclama ion and improvements of land and then to give them first se of the land and financial backing that will carr) across to succe. There are about ),000,000 acres of unappropriated of the public domain. It is true that most of the ‘good land has been grabbed by exploiters, but there is ough available by various means to provide good farms r returning soldiers. _ Congress adjourned without action on the Lane land “In this act of omission a great wrong was done to 6 soldiers and sailors of America. It can only be remedied pt action when congress convenes, — You want to help. You want to see this country on a of greater productiveness of foods and fibres, of # and other necessities of life. You want to meet of congestion and disemployment in the cities. ere is where you get i rite a few letters to senators and congressmen of state and urge them to get prompt action on the land bill. Do it now | The Oriental mind is a queer animal, and here we have China pretending that she can't understand why al should be the spoils of war simply because Japan Y lick Germany. ’ No Spring Fever Say, this isn’t the sort of a year to be lazing around, | , stretching yourself and all that sort of stuff) because it’s spring and you feel you should have sprirg fever. This is the premier pepperino) spring in the history of the world and all the wise are getting as busy as the proverbial buzz-buzz in This Year Our Second Childhood. ting time because they realize that it is going, G=——>— E mighty tall stepping to keep up with the procession years to come. much to be done and so many people doing world of ours simply hasn't got the attention to the old style spring fever) i giadsome welcome homes to be said. the heart-warming, effect of greeting ‘ou can be sure there’s solitary anxious, We hope we ar of the short and « fever? And, for that matter, can you imag-|redoubtabie colonel 's fiance wanting to lie around in a away the days for very many weeks) ,..- soldiers, a fitt . lature of this sta there's also another side to this spring fever |icok 'ike this lers who are not landing jobs as quickly not suffering from spring fever, and! silk hat to that. They're too busy look- to light. And, believe us, they're going and strong on, both their feet, and when y’ve lit they’re going to step forward at such a gait, wil banish the old fashioned spring fever from our} for years to come. ‘ | | Liberty The tanks are to have an important place in the ve, shouldn't, of o etime army of America. You may remem- | , peace , that Daniels abolished the navy tanks before the A young man's At any rate there will be no Hundatory control 8. of Evanston, MM, @ | also of Bvanaton. Lillie’s) mother quick Habit EDMUND VA NCE COOK | t: Theodore Hook was one of the most famous ever produced.) had a fatal habit. Whenever he went to bed, to sleep in a second, with his left arm his head. | Bight blocks av: | trieyele, with Lillie |hoeing it— Thru ¢t Merrily under} ' dum darry! ho, daddle dum, diddo! Habit is habit _ In raven or rabbit, now Sam’s wife is a widow. Dum diddo! A widow. Miss Helen Han: }to the plow. Dukelan has been 55 years, and at 7 ‘Maybe it never had happened, or never had come about; haps he had baffled his hapless fate, if the war hadn't broken out. Heigh ho, harry! Daddle dum darry, Ete. Any time you v Chicago. There th “lay down.” down,” the robbing is bein T. J. Donahue. a train after 55 yee he went to a mov 70-year life. habit is habit and fate is fate, and each is a chastening t , rod, nd both had predestined that Sam should die at the hands i of a firing squad. Heigh ho, harry! Daddle dum darry, ¥ Ete. 1 feel after carrying my O, habit is strong and habit is stern and it makes man’s a _ _ life a botch, Habit is habit and Sam was shot for sleeping upon his watch. Heigh ho, harry! Daddle dum darry, ho, daddle dum diddo! | teal Raven and rabbit | write my detiieniioee Are ruled by habit, | Like the sands ¢ An@ now Sam's wife is a widow. [Pu celine Ahem. sre Dum diddo! So the best we A widow. (Tag: This is worthy of Theodore Hook, without the re.) (Copyright, 1919, N. E. A.) does letter you N. K. Buck, along with the such use as you Very well, Here “One car goen eas me Kas thi ie turn of "Tis - Heigh you “Oh, yes; all so . We are waiting with bated breath. Aye, indeed, verity the P-T. arise to suggest that we change the name of our renowned Rainiers, who are battling so unt formly disastrously in the . P-1’'s solicitude to name Roosevelt evidences contrition of the heart for some ‘The Times scooped everybody loan quota for Seattle, lmaking it seven million dollars more than it should IN THE Cheertly Raising oats and wheat." If yon would live long, fiddle! Hold keeping them covered with their guns while If, fiddling and® condy trotting. has carried the We are When, oh when, will South, to the Roosevelts? . © pardoned if we ask also if the parka and mountains for aaiy words that were Mung at the in 1912, Now that they are talking of & memoria! to honor ing tablet to show what the legis te did for returned Yanks, would ~# Saturday with the A little matter like ‘ourse, be held against it eee SPRING— fancy turneth to thoughts of love, Now there's Kenneth 8wan, tico and a half years old, nd Miss Lillie Dove, one and a half, They eloped! asked the cop to call a policeman | “My little girt has run away!” ay they fownd the elopers. Kenneth | waa pedaling away for dear life on the latest model | hanging on behind. ee 18 . ‘They used to cradie wheat, but now the poct i “Hoe, hoe, hoe your row he summer hest do your bit stick to it, —Western club song. (Pause) son, of University Place, Nebraska \gid her garden plowing with the family cow hitched (Applause) eee fiddling every night 6 says he feels “young as a colt,” All due to the daily dowe of violin (On With the Dance) want something ne canning the ‘ guys order victims vey're up to * 1g done Rock Island, TL, conducting ars of active railroading. And then le show for the first time in his quit (Moview'll finally get one) ° train lengthens Billings, Salt mail there years, and nger n IT did the first first 1 of mail.” life, Lake now ening st, sends “gubmitted 2 Bast fi otation t may desire goes Wt, another goes west at flows; the wheel by the self not the make of the which way of the wea are would fal can do ix to make each gobs the cars that be our way thru. And endeavor to keep out of jail.” eee SOUNDING THE PROF. | “t think Professor Blink’s views are sound, don't | und." | times “get | surrender a vicious habit, George Washington | for the last | | to take a square look at this | for | By Webster! | An ACT. PROMBTTIG ‘he O16 oF Yowacco ie Aney Foray AT $9 A WEEK Editor The Star: The following peared in a paper of Thursday "Girl Ends Her Life With Story of Her Shattered Roman ‘The writer knew the girl and she was a fine girl Rut I don't believe it was the romance. It wan that BIG sum of $9 per week she had been receiving an! wage to keep t body alive it be done? Just put you wish “Will the man who pays a girl $9 per week her existence start his own daughter out in the world on that same wage, and let her keep herself?” “JUST AN ORPHAN.” | | headlines Gas After Writing} a poor Can this headline in one of your papers MOTORMAN PAYS Editor cops and Look at the working girls and fares, not? working men firemen paying their Why and don’§ get anywhere near ax much pay as a cop As for Myself, any time I am off shift and jazzing around m, my nickel goes in the box, and lots of the Beys feel the same way ‘The people own it now and it is up to every one {to get in-and make her pay, make her @ credit to our city, and our superintendent ’ A MOTORMAN Editor The Star | I think the republican call to rally to the support! of the Victory loan, as published over the name of} Will _H. Hays, chairman of the national republican committee, is highly unpatriotic and an outrage. It is an effort to introduce party politics Into the| supreme obligation of the nation to wubscribe for the| Victory loan, resting with equal weight upon all citi zens in proportion to their ability to subscribe JOHN C, WELCH. The Reformer BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Reformers—both professional and amateur—some- | bepause of the virtue of those whom have “saved” thru their campaign, or thrul personal solicitation. They count it as unto themselves when a man stops boozing, aults gambling, leads a white life, or gives up chewing tobacco. If they succeed in persuading somebody elxe to they samehow get the notion that it's to be credited to their own list df virtues—meanwhile letting their own shortcomings g0 on unhindered, It's the hardest thing reformers. ‘They aren't, as a rule, guilty of the things which they deplore in others, but they have their own little failings: The reason for this situation is that the average reformer ix the center of an admiring group which often turns his head, He becomes seif-centered—he {x ro strong an individualist—he imagines that he is different from other people, and that the same rules do not apply to him that he would apply to others, Ordinarily, he has the platform, and the people do} not dare challenge him and his teachings. He is| in the limelight so much that he rarely gots a chance} they know him won't tell him what he seems like. Perhaps the man who is too keenly sensitive of | own shortcomings wouldn't do for the reforming. Hie might make a good preacher, because sympathize with those who had failings to hk n reformer bt huaine he could similar But pound way of vice pd win We need that kind of a men—T suppose. into the But he misses a lot out of life because so few of the finer things have a chance with him—he goex at everything with a cleaver! 5 is different—-he's got to keep THE MELANCHOLY MUSi Tt is enough, Life ii it is enough! @ tough proposition, tough hen destroy the backyard garde n, hearts of humans hurt and harden, The seasons slowly Wax and wane; ‘ Hddie Pinkman comes again— No more! No more! It is enough, iAfe is both rough and tough, ~POMER, i¢| for merely Aspirin tablota, The name for! genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” proven safe package The Star: There is a lot of squealing about | lets with |eently a Brooklyn manufacturer was | big families to feed that a nickel looks pretty big to,/#ent to the penitentiary for flooding ‘ country with talcum powder tab- in the world to reform | ~ himself, and others who| = with the big guns at the old fortress | © He fits |= scheme of things to make the world better, | | B Why I Am a Bul — BY DK (Copyright, 1919 b Because, McKinley aid, whatever ; have arisen in the past we have suc- cessfully met them, We've made good so far, Records count for something Because no matter how unusual, unex- pected and dangerous our job, we have al- ways done it. Jecause we are in no more danger of ocialism, Bolshevism or any other Euro- pean Ism upsetting our people than we are in danger all of taking to eating Limburget se or drinking pulque. These Isms do et well on the American stomach. “We 1 deal safer from what we dislike than , from what we dread, Because all the population of this coun- try is engaged in business; business is not a side-show to royalty, society, sport or mil- itarism; hence we are much more likely to attend to it well. Because, while the war cost us a lot of money, we are able to stand it. suse, under prohibition, we are about to divert millions of dollars and workers from destructive to constructive activity. Because, while before the war we owed other nations five billion dollars, now they owe us ten billion, Because our gold reserve that of any nation on earth. Because (and in these figures I quote from a Wall st. paper), while the United” States has only 6 per cent of the world’s population and 7 per cent of the world’s land, yet we produce as follows: 0 per cent of the world’s supply of gold. per cent of the world’s supply of a rise 2 $e is larger than wheat. 40 per cent of the world’s supply of iron | and steel. | 40 per cent of the world’s supply of lead. | 40 per cent of the world’s supply of sil- | ver. | 50 RO 62 per cent of the world’s supply of zinc. per cent of the world’s supply of coal. 60 per cent of the world’s supply of uminum. 60 per a cent of the world’s supply of DON'T BUY ASPIRIN IN A “PILL” BOX Ask for ‘‘Bayer Tablets of Aspirin’ in a Bayer } | package—marked with ‘‘Bayer Cross.” You must say “Bayer.” Never ask ‘Tayer” o the Bayer” means you are getting the (orrylone Mt ache, matiem, lumbago, by millions of people. Don't buy Aspirin tablets in a pill Ineist on getting the Bayer with the safety “Bayer on both package and on tab- No other way! Beware of counterfeits! pain generally, Only re-jand bottles of 10 of salicylicacid. | discover during his expedition, lets, which he claimed to be Aspirin In the Bayer package are proper directions and the dose for headache, | “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” et ican made and owned, are sold in vest | pocket boxes of 12 tablets, which cost |the whole day's duties out of only a few cents, also in bottles of 24| Keep the system cleansed, the appe Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer | Dr. King’s New Life Pills, Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester On the Issue of || Americanism There Can Be No Compromise l on the U. S. A. "RANK CKANE y rank Crane) copper 60 per cotton, 66 per cent of the world’s supply of oil. 75 per cent of the world’s supply of corn. 85 per cent of the world’s supply of cent of the world’s supply of | automobiles. We also refine 80 per cent of the world’s copper and operate 40 per cent of the world’s railroads. And, finally, if we got two million sol- diers across the Atlantic and handed a knockout wallop to the best trained soldier: on earth in Argonne, we are not afraid of what I. W. W. mischief-makers in Seattle | and Bourbon mischief-makers in the sena' can do to us. Tomorrow April 17 in 1421 an inundation of the rivers of Holland 190,000 persons stroyed 72 villages 1492, on April 17, Ferdinand and Jeabella, the sovereigns of Spain, signed at Grenada their grant to Columbus constituting bim hereditary admiral and viceroy over all the islands and continents he should with the benefit of a tithe of the profits arising from the merchandise therefrom. 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