The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1919, Page 6

slat lan staan et an Ma SEATTLE, WASH., TUFSDAY, MAY 6, 1919. She Seattle Star tate of Washingt Outel The per month, $4.50 for € montha, or $9. per year, ly carrier, city, Le per week Overtime for Carmen The city council’s attitude on the carmen’s re- t for overtime pay at the rate of time and a half! n scarcely be called diplomatic. ] |The Turning Point in Your Career. r it \e It bordered close to the discourteous line yester- ie: ‘de v. SWIMMING || GRAMPER'S The carmen believe they have a grievance. The ON Boy! the council can do is to have this grievance SUNDAY ity lly considered instead of bringing them to the dis- GOSH! 1 ie sussion of a possible strike. : GUESS NEN BAN The carmen claim that everywhere in the U. S. WON'T ROB Bova yy are paid time and a half for overtime. It is true ANY MORE everywhere there is not any eight hour day, | ORCHARDS > th as in Seattle. Nor is it true that everywhere they paid as high a wage as here. | Since taking over the street carlines the city has jj ed their wages. Under present city ordinances, employes are aid the regular wage schedule for overtime, and not and a half. Members of the carmen’s union, | ever, contend that there are some departments get around this provision in some manner, and y time and a half. If this is true, and is done fith the council’s knowledge, there is no reason why carmen should not be paid at the same rate. The city must be a model employer. “It must not’ § an autocrat. The abrupt adjournment taken by council yesterday when the carmen presented ir case, showed exceedingly poor judgment. Secretary Baker is back from Europe. Soon Presi- | “dent Wilson will also return. It is quite possible that | 4 entire cabinet may hold a reunion in the United some time this year. The Gardener’s Best Friends ' Some few thoughtful folks are discovering that it is and much more pleasant to associate with a thrush, 'a robin, or a bluebird than it is to associate with a can Poison, or a three-quart jar of kerosene emulsion. | |. It is fashionable to have a backyard garden these days,| d@ gardeners who have fought bugs for a season or two} gin to think more of the birds that fight worms and bs and bugs from birth to death. 9 and whitewashes and poison bran mashes are sll enough, but if we had less ruthlessly slaughtered our allies we would not require so much squirting and and spraying and bug picking. A bird house in every f: tree would be a much bet- nia for the great American home than the shotgun the air gun, and the sling shot rampant. | __ Nature has rather a nice balance; she creates worms @ bugs, and then sends birds to feed upon them. Man makes the birds into a pot pie, and then feverishly the insect armies, trying nature’s balance. LIFE AMONG THE COPS OF KANSAS CITY IS SOMETHING LIKE. THIS— | KANSAS CITY, Mo~-A telephone ring at the 19th st. police station was answered by Jake Rabinowits, booking clerk. Mrs. Anna Cunningham, social worker | for the board of public welfare, at the other end of the telephone, gave Rabinowitz the name of a way- ward girl who had left her home recently, preferring to live in a hotel. “Please have the girl arrested," Mrs, Cunningham | added, “and hold her for her mother. The girl is | feeble minded.” Rabinowitz hung up the receiver. He glanced at the clock and raw his lunch period had arrived, After | writing this note to Lieut. James P. O'Rourke, his su- perior officer, Rabinowits went to his luncheon: j “Dear Loot: Send harness bull to Hotel— and pick up Mise—. She is evil minded, “JAKE.” eee MOVING MEN WOULD GO TO THE POORHOUSE IF ALL FAMILIES WERE LIKE THIS— DARKESVILLE, W. Va--Mr. and Mrs. Charles | aesthetic side of this, and the side as well, but just now we are considering it from ly business basis, and it is good gardening sense to e most of the birds to abide with you. Cigar es make good bird houses, so do tin cans and n tile, and antique plug hats, and old shoes. At least give the few birds that are left a chance to their and i | Butler celebrated their 50th wedding annigersary in all ii Tn wees spcceges to ie Stl the same house in which they began married life. | ry the alley ca’ —Dana Sleeth. [they have never moved ‘The other day we printed a story about a Western man suing his wife for divorce because she refused to talk to him, And now we record the fact that John Tubrick, of Buffalo, N. Y., i advertising for a | “nice young deaf mute lady” who wishes to marry. eee THIS'LI. MAKE OTHER GARDENERS ENVIOUS— | FONTANA, Pa—Mrs, Elsie Boyer is proud because the has raived a radish that weighs more than three | pounds and is 14 inches in circumference YOU SAID IT WHEN YOU SAID MOTHER LOVE | WAS SOMETHING MAN CANNOT UNDERSTAND— ELGIN, O—Mre, Elmer Niles, of Sheffield township, owns a hen which adopted five orphan rats, whose | mother had been killed in a trap. ‘The baby rodents | cuddle up to the biddy just like chicks might do, and the foster mother will not allow a person to touch | them. Mrs. Niles doesn’t know what to do about it eee IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY— It was possible to buy a dozen eggs for six centa, and beef sold at a cent and a half a pound. Twenty: | five cents would feed a family for a week. And usu | ally that was all that father earned, too eee A condor can exist without food for 49 days and an eagle can get along without a meal for 20 days. Civ- iized man eats three meals a day (if he has the price), but all other animals eat only when they're | hungry. 7 Anent George Stagg’s feat of leaping 2,000 feet from an aeroplane in a parachute, the rest of the jour- nalistic fraternity applaudingly hum the refrain: “Let George Do It.” Freedom From Fear The habit of saving will enable us to earn more. And in a way other than accumulating interest and honest opportunities always open to the man with cash. | A map with only a job between himself and the imme- bread and butter problem must stay right on that A man with even a small amount in saving can afford time to hunt a better job and can experiment with him- for enlarged opportunity and increased earnings. The thing most of us fear most is this bread and butter Saving will eliminate this fear. And even tho a man might not withdraw a dollar om his savings while seeking a better job, yet his ac- u tion gives him moral support, the courage to act ving his condition. ie courage of most of us can be measured to the ee that we are away from the immediate problem—the nea! = agg problem. en, free from the paralyzing influence of f ht all do better work and see enlarged opportunity in —— present jobs. Save by investing in Victory Bonds. "JAPANESE IN HAWAIL _The war department explains unjust sentences by |! MADE U. S. CITIZENS | sy itd et ae pt Bg: pe: Al and could be correct- | 1a 5S « er. at's wi the i invadi: Judge B is solvii "Belgium, fe Hmm aid abond taoading «| leet ue tee ened samen to cee te who served in the American army during the war and 400 more are awaiting naturalization. Hi th h Marshal Foch has been asked to tell the conference | the approval of Washington official, what to do in case the Huns refuse to sign. We can tell ’em. Encore the marines. The chap who held up a Seattle jewel t i broad daylight yesterday, exhibited GAONOKT Pie t open a restaurant soon. ee CUTTING THE Cc, OF L “Why do you quote this meat 3 cents an ounce?” “Sounds better than 48 cents a pound,” explained | We lthe butcher calmly. —Loulsville Courier-Journal. J If @ man ie right he doesn't have to get mad about it. The baby in the cradle evidently thinks this ts a pretty rocky old world, There are no shade trees and hammocks scattered along the road that leads to success, Shakespeare was evidently an admirer of the fair sex—his heroines are many and his heroes few. Authorities differ as to whether a poker room should be classed as an anteroom or a drawing room. The nearest approach to a ball-bearing watch is the sign where it is occasionally kept in storage. A woman can get a shiftless husband in about five minutes, but it sometimes takes a lifetime to get rid of him. Many a poor man has been arrested for forgery simply because he tried to make a name for himself, Some writers get a dollar per word—and some wrongdoers get more than that when they talk back to the judge, ‘ After Helgoland is stripped of its tificati _ there will be no further need of the fact i German newspapers tell us that the peace t. are a defeat for Wile He can stand it u the Huna can. ; The greatest enemy of Bolshevism is the fact destroying the capital does not increase the ee * Before adopting this mandatory plan, bett. i ‘and see whether England makes hers stick in Egypt allies have decided to feed the Russi: will stop fighting long enough to cat.” AND yOU TOOK YOUR STAND ON THE SIDE OF LAW AND ORDER accepted them as beln: | produced a man WHEN YOUR. GRANDFATHER, WAS ELECTED TOWN MARSHAL, CRITICISES OUR EDITORIAL . Editor The Star; I am writing to express my in your paper of April 29th, entitled, “May Be and May Te Not.” alluding to President Wilron’s 14 peace Now 44 we not all accept them? And did not our allles accept them? And did not our enemy accept and sign up to them? Do you think that President Wilson did not know the temper of the American people when the rity of the American people & mort wonderful instrument to stop the war and a solid foundation on which to base a lasting peace? I believe the majority of the American people still remain and will remain firm to accept them a a basis for peace And when you say that 90 per cent of the Amert can people do not understand his terms you are in- | sulting them. Of course we want peace, and we want It just as toon as we can get it and get-the right sort of peace, but It would be better to take plenty of time in get- ting this peace and get @ lasting peace, than to have another war in a few years; and that is just what will happen if we do not have the league of nations and the treaty based on principles of right and jus tice. A lasting world peace is not #0 easily and quickly obtained. It takes time and a world of pa tience and aleo a firm stand for the right. I would like to know how long since you id not under. stand President Wilson's 14 peace terms? Six months ago you understood them—a year ago you understood them—and now you say you don't understand them and never have, and go as far as to say that not two intelligent persons out of ten pretend to understand them. I do not think you keep in contact with the public very clone and you must have suddenly closed your eyes to thelr meaning yourself. Now be honest with yourself and the president and eay you do not under stand him and do not understand how this world ever that in all reality is a real man, a man able to stand his ground for right and justice —firm and unshaken—by the powers or influences of & nation or nations, This type of men is very rare. ‘There has not bean another man like him at the head of our nation since the days of Lincoln. In Lin- coln’s day the people did not understand him, but they understand him today, and the future generations will understand Woodrow Wilson and see him in the light of what he really te, A READER. WANTS DRUM CORPS Editor The Star: Since coming to Seattle T have noticed there are a number of drum corps, or that is, would-be drum corps, They are composed of older men and young men, Surely, in a city as large as Seattle there is enough talent to produce a first-class drum corps that could compete with others in this state and other states I have been a member of a number of the best drum corps in Tilinois; one, the Rockford Boys’ Club drum corps, is the best in Tilinois, T have also been in the U, 8. W. V. drum corps, and can get recom mendations from beth. My idea is to organize a drum corps that Seattle can be proud of, HARRY EB. ELLISON, 428 Blewett St. Editor The Star: Why is it the paper always has #0 much to sny about the M1st division and 1 never hear or read anything about the 89th division—and one might know the 91st surely didn't do it all, SOLDIER'S WIFE. GRANT ME NOT BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE O, grant me not too much success! For I am of that human race Which needs the lashings of distress Bre ever it will keep the pace ©, puff me not with petty pride; ©, grant me not too much success! Better for me that some deride Than all should glorify and bless, I ask for neither more nor less ‘Than just enough to feed my soul, O, grant me not too much success, Nor tempt me with the easy goal, Yen, gods of Fortune and of Fate, Ye who may ban ax well as bless, Now heed me, as I supplicate— ©, grant me not too much success! (Copyright, N. B. A,, 1919) IMMIGRATIO BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, | One of the most important matters con- |gress ought to take up at its next session jis Immigration. All Europe is in great economic straits. A | good deal of Europe is in chaos. Conditions |for the poorer people are and will be hor- jrible. America shines in their imagination jas the Land of Promise. Unless something jis done to prevent it, there will be a tre- |mendous surge of immigration labor to lthese shores in the near future, and our national life will be demoralized. | This would bring lower wages, unem- |ployment, upheavals, riots and a general condition favorable to the growth of crazy Bolshevism. It is a very simple task to obviate this if Congress will go about it with common | sense. Our present immigration laws are not lonly practically imperfect, but vicious in principle. The National Committee for Constructive Immigration Legislation is making some valuable suggestions looking toward the construction of legislation upon right lines. The following points are outstanding: 1. Prompt action is necessary. But must not be in passionate haste. ibe upon a basis of justice and guided by lintelligent policy. 2. All labor immigration (with a few necessary exceptions) should be suspended for two years. 8. After that only a certain percentage of each nation or race should be allowed to enter. 4. This percentage should be applied im- partially to all races. To favor Africans it I FPOMORROW, May 7, will be the anniversary of the i death of Socrates, the most famous of the ancient |Greek philosoph He was put to death by the Athenians on arge of athelam. In 1588 on May 7, Lord Burleigh, the chancellor of | Cambridge, isrued rumptuary laws to reform the ap pare! of the foppishly inclined students. excess of colored shirt bands and ruffs, exceeding one inch and a half (eave only for the sons of noblemen) be avoided presently, and that no scholar do wear any long locks of halr upon His head, but that he be poled after the manner of the graver scholars.” The dignation over the plece put in on the front page Of| tine administered for the offending locks was ret at six shillings eight pence—the barber's fee presumably not included. On May 7, 1792, the Columbia River in Oregon was discovered by Captain Gray of Boston while sailing along the coast in his ship, the Columbia. In 1830, on May 7, @ treaty was signed between the United States and Turkey securing to the United States the right of navigation of the Black Sea and | the trade of the Turkish Empire. In 1915, on May 7, the passenger liner, Lusitania, | bound from New York to Liverpool, was torpedoed by |a German submarine 15 miles off the coast of Ireland. |The ship wae struck at 245 p. m. and sank In less |than 20 minutes. On the first of May, the day the Lusitania salied from New York, the following warn- ing appeared in the New York morning papers print- ed under the heading of an advertisement: ‘Travelers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Ger- many and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the Hritish Isles; that in accordance with the formal notice given by the imperial German govern- |ment veksels flying the flag of Great Britain or her allies are Mable to destruction in those waters, and [that travelers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk. | Signed, Imperial German Embassy at Washington, April 1915," Adversity sometimes brings a man's good points jout by the roots. But a few people are able to recognize bear meat after it has been dressed. ball has resigned in favor of the baseball. They should be re-made at once. | It must | Tomorrow “That the | “Notice— | | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise by Frank Crane) and Turks and exclude Chinese and Japanese | is not only unjust but absurd, vicious and unnecessary. The end sought by the hu- miliating exclusion of Orientals can be bet~ | ter gained in a wiser way. With a per. centage basis, fewer Orientals would be ad- mitted than enter under existing laws, and unfair discrimination would be avoided, hip should be open to every one | 5, Citiz | who qualifi without regard to race, dards of citizenship should be 6. The stan raised, i» 4 7. A Commission should be created to supervise the whole matter and to make | exceptions where circumstances may re | quire. The law should be elastic, not rigid, |. 8. This Commission should give pare | ticular attention to the Distribution of im- migration labor. This is most vital. The | massing of foreign groups in certain sec- stions is dangerous to democratic institu- tions. 9. All laws discriminating against the | Chinese, or other special races, should be | repealed. They are disgraceful. The pur- | pose is good, the method is stupid. These items of policy are self-evident: | 1, Our country should be open to people | of every nation, with no preferences. 2. This influx, however, we should limit jand regulate to suit our economic condi- tions, but equitably to all, not differentially. | 8. We should so arrange as to get the. cream and not the dregs of foreign peoples —that is to say, those who bring to us | health, industrious habits and a desire to build up our nation and not to wreck it. Cannot Congress deal with this’ subject with Statesmanship, and not with Prejudice and Partisanship? ? CHURCHES ARE FACING | A SERIOUS SITUATION BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE 7 “I am AFRAID when the soldiers come back—got that they will NOT come to church, but that they, WILL come, and see us piffiing around at our little task#, and conclude that we weren't worth fighting for,” sald a keen observer who spent many months at the front and who knows men—and he’s one of the topnotch ministers in this country, too. Much has been said about our boys being just “reg- ular fellows"—that they aren't philosophers or theo logians—and it's true. They won't write pieces for the papers against the way things are going in the churches, and they won't appeaer before ministers’ meetings and make speeches about “the inefficiency of the churches” —they’l! just quietly quit going to chureh, that’s all. And some day we may awake and find that the best of the boys who came back have gone into other | kind of social or religious work, because they didn't seem to fit into the scheme of ‘things as they found it in the church. The churches are facing a more serious situation | than most of their leaders think, 4 For many years the churches of this country ga! in membership an average of three and six-tenths cent per year. During the first two years of the war they gained one and eight-tenths per cent per year.’ | But last year they gained only about seven-tenths one per cent The Methodists, the Episcopalians and the Chi (or Disciples) Chureh actually lost in membership. Other churches just barely held their own, those which did gain in membership hadn't much one encouraging feature about this While the churches have been steadily | ing in membership, they have learned that they can | do much more than they have ever done; there is @ © | greater intensity than ever before—at least in spirit. i They have seen the necessity of being a greater | power in human relationships—they have learned that the big thing aheaed is to make more real and vital | the spirit of Jesus, and to substitute the spirit of co | operation for that of competition. j 4 Burning kisses always result from sparks, 4 Sometimes an eye ts not as black as it is painted. If a man cultivate bad habits he is apt to cultivate earthly miseries Successful baking is as- sured when Crescent is used, because it raises first when moisture is added in the mixing bowl, and then again when heat is applied, The result of this double raise is deliciously light, wholesome, and easily di- gested breads, cakes and biscuits, i Crescent has been the e# tablished standard baking powder for a quarter of & century on the Pacific Coast. No better formula has been produced. The Crescent Cook Book is very helpful. Write the Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, for a copy. Grocers sell Crescent Baking Powder.