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

Jo per month: 2 months, year, $5.02, in the » Outside the Atate, " for 6 months, or $9.00 | Ry’ carrier, city, fe per week J per year, ; ‘Let’s Think About Our Problems Political economy, or social economy—just as we ha mind to call it—is very simple. ; Political economy is nothing but business, ave And business is nothing but supplying one another's rt t When the druggist of a town wants food, he goes to the 7 be When the grocer wants medicine, he goes to the druggist. Or, enlarge the system to a national one and say that the people of the south want wheat, they go to the thwest for it; when the people of thé northwest we why they go to the south for it. ant e is a system of counters known as money and used Cilitate the bookkeeping of these transactions. A century ago, when this country was first settl one did their own shoemaking and blacksmithing. inally one man in a settlement evidenced mo ed, skill is neighbors as a shoemaker, or a blacksmith, and the ors found it good economy to allow this one to do th ting or blacksmithing while they pursued the gene eir ral rains. , enlarge the process until the country shoeshop a vast shoe factory, or until the country blacksm a vast metal trade industry, with stores, ith nilroads ss to facilitate the distribution, transportation and and the simple principle of business, 's wants, remains quite the same. DITORIALS — FEATURES Adventures in Recollection. oH, L DUNNO— THEY ALL SAY Y'AINT NO GOOD, supplying | science of political economy, or business, becomes | only when viewed in its extensions, specialties and ments, but it is very easily understood, and all its ram- are easily traced if the simple fundamental pr seen and borne clearly in mind. in- | our problems now are those in distribution; for our in production are solved—that is, in a major se’ vu t steam or gas engine, the dynamo and the automatic é the economics of the individual business that sup- BS OU! wants is pretty well understood thru its bookkeep- | in terms of simple arithmetic. occurs to us that the perfection of our distribution is going to require the same quality of brains and processes of cause and effect thinking that have m applied to the solution of our production problems. the problem of the high and increased cost of liv-| one for the factory cost finder and the expert accou nt- a plying to the inter-relation of business and the com- same simple process of accounting that are ap- the well ordered individual business. have been feeling about our problems, getting angry them, rather than thinking about them. That when we apply plain bookkeeping methods and hmeti in tracing every charge from its source to and who is giving without getting. County deputies found a whiskey cache in a house near Medina. Yes, indeed, there are who like the stuff, too. As to the Powers BY R. F. PAINE its he disarmament terms of the treaty reduce Germany to a third rate - cablegram. on a bit! There’s got to be a change in the basis we are all liai d h; ites i pport of the| rs and hypocrites in support of the of nations, that nation is to be the average of human prosperity, happiness and prog- hest. High rating of a nation can no longer be THE PROBLEM OF MEBBE BECUZ Tr DRINK A LITTLE AND DON'T LIKE T' WORK REGULAR — GUESS I AIN'T jy MuCcW GOOD, COME TO THINK OF IT | TELLS SUCH DANDY HT ITT READY T'DO Yv'A FAVOR — THE ONLY GROWN-UP T KNOW THAT TREATS A KID LIKE A HUMAN THE VILLAGE NE'ER-DO-WEEL ition that we will find just who is getting without} THE COURT-MARTIAL rs & BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) A deal of discussion is going on these | and generous. times about the Court-Martial. It is claimed on the one hand that the system is wrong, that it becomes the in- strument of tyranny rather than of justice, and that many of the sentences inflicted are cruel, inhuman and outrageous. On the other hand, military men seem to regard these charges as extreme, to con- sider the Court-Martial necessary to dis- highest in|cipline, and to characterize the sympathy ‘expressed for the victims as “a lot of maud- lin sentiment,” to use the language at- d upon that nation’s ability to butcher other | tributed to Maj. Stone. _ Before the war, Germany had the second greatest navy | standing army. She was taking | ves of all her young men to pro-| jitarism. She led the world in expenditure for war} largest, most ng! years out of the li Her outlay upon non-productives was unprece- ted and appalling. Moreover, that outlay was bound to_ ase, as a snowball enlarges when rolling down hill on ing snow. She was fated to arrive at a point, if, indeed, had not already arrived, when war would be cheaper disarmament terms of the treaty reduce (7?) to an industrial, commercial and agricultural ot @ and non-production. the league of nations really means internatio: , justice and permanent peace, according to their productivity, a surely not accord ir ability to waste in warfare. nal | the nations must|enemy force to surrender. In the doing of ing If so, who can honestly at the treaty opens the door to Germany's becoming the very first of the nations? i, ae) court decided the gas rate case yester- ‘ou don’t need three guesses to determine whether the rated go up or down. Welcome, 18th Engineers | their own request and because they are anxious to tk in “civies” as soon as possible, the 18th engineers, d by Col. Cavanaugh of Seattle, and containing a } number of Seattleites, were not given a formal wel- that welcome is nevertheless here. Seattle holds n spot for the plucky men, among the very first to ist in the great war. It knows their gameness. It of the onerous duties that had been imposed upon hey have been away from home for 23 months. No they were anxious to go to Camp Lewis as soon ible to be mustered out. @ feast, anyhow? le real feeling. And Seattle's’ real feeling of loyalty And what is a parade Only the outward manifestation of to men will have full opportunity to be demonstrated they come back to resume their unity. places in Governor Harrison of the Philippines says the nos are operating public utilities at a profit. _ Can't we persuade them to accept mandatory govern- ment of the United States? Men and nations are constitutionally incapable seeing the truth if it promises to cost them some- g or help an enemy. Street car men are about decided the name of one ttee of the city council should be Futilities. the What's the matter? Why this sharp di- vergence of opinion between two classes object? two words together that don’t fit, i. Court and Martial. e, of justice; “Martial,” the idea of discipline. A Court looks at the Individual, his rights, privileges and welfare; anything |Martial disregards the Individual, and has , strictly. Her enormous waste on non-productives is|its eye on the Machine and the desired re- All her undeniable energy, persistency, ingenuity | ciency must be turned to production, away from sults thereof. la commander is to win, he is to take this city, destroy that stronghold, or cause the this human lives are but pawns, “cannon | fodder.” We curse the Germans for their fright- property and the whole human equation, in their resolute purpose to attain their mi tary ends. They were logical and con tent. They carried the program of mili i its brilliant diabolical They were better warriors than their demo- cratic opponents, who were faulted by hu- manity and won by superior resources, All war is hell, simply because its aim and method are non-human. It substitutes the Will of a Monarch or State for the Wel- fare of the People. , r Every successful general has been called a butcher. They brought that charge against Grant and Sherman. They said are But the fact is that war is essentially in- human, anti-human. tories without paying the price of horror. The military mind sees this clearly. He out paying the devil his price. He is not in place to render his soldiers prosperous, comfortable and moral, he is there to gain and he uses only just enough humaneness to keep his fighters fit. cented on the last word. He regards it, as Colonel Ansell puts it, “as the right hand of the commanding officer, to aid him in the maintenance of discipline.” He is not considering the accused, nor how his life may be spoiled. He is looking at the Army, and how its efficiency may be upheld. And, from this viewpoint, he is consistent. That is what he is there for, to make a perfect machine, not to look after his boys. Outside of his official duties, the military man may be a kind and humane man, just ba of minds, equally sincere, viewing the same | The matter is simply this: You have got | “Court” carries with it the connotation | | went-mehore at the It is the very first principle of war that | | No Man's Land. fulness, their utter disregard of lives and | conclusion, | | tem on the Bosphorus Foch was reckless in his sacrifice of lives. | You cannot win vic- | wants to succeed, which he cannot do with- | |the set purpose, to overcome the enemy, | } To such a mind a Court-Martial is ac- In his office he is the cog in a huge wheel. So you see that the trouble lies with the very nature of an Army. It is essentially brute force. It is an instrument of Might, not of Right. And you see why a Martial Court can never satisfy both the Officer, who wants Discipline, and the Citizen, who wants Justice. Perhaps also you see why an Army is never popular in a Democracy, why our sol- | diers are anxious to get out of it as soon as the war is over, why Americans do not take to a military career, and why, if we | must have an Army at all, we want it to be 3 1602 on the 16th of May, Bartholomew Ge an English navigator in search of a suitable to establish a settlement, came to anchor off wh now Cape Cod. G id and four of his 20 col pe. They were the f men after the Norsemen to set foot upon t New England. On account of the profusion in the waters, the settlers amed the headland Cape Cod. They established their short-lived colony on an island in the mouth of Buzzards Bay, now known as The settlement was andoned inside of two months and the colonists returned to Eng land. On the 15th of May in 1775 the United States con gress passed a resolution to issue paper money On the 16th of May in 1820 Florence Nightingale was born, Miss Nightingale was an Englishwoman who went out to the Crimea during the war of 1854 to organize the hospital service. All England had been stirred by reports of the suffering of t) « wound- ed, There was an utter absence of sar and or ganization in the army hospital arrangements and ynditions were deplorable. Foliowing the report of the Royal Commission's inquiry, Mis Nightingale was sent out with a staff of 37 nurses, volun and professionals. They rived at Soutari on > to receive the wounded from the blunder—the famous “Charge of the Light Brigade,” Mies Nightingale organized the ent » hospital sy« The effect of her measure was seen within @ few months by a fall in the death rate from an average of 42 per cent to 2 per cent Enormous enthusiasm was aroused in England by Miss Nightingale's heroic labors and at the close of | the war the Englieh government ordered a manof war to bring her home and London prepared to give her a triumphant reception, but she returned quietly on a French liner and escaped to her country house. Miss Nightingale’s health was permanently affected by her workin the Crimea, but in the quiet life that she led afterward she followed with interest all im nents in nursing and army sanitation and {t is pod that she was officially consulted by the ment during the American civil war and the Franco-Prussian Si ted men libtiniianines seieeciitonindl Is THE OLD GARDENER SAYS ‘ Sparrows, robina, starlings and other birds often do much damage in th garden. Sometimes it is al. most impossible to get od crop.of peas because of the sparrows unless « protective measures are Tobacco dust sprinkled on the plants will!’ » them away, but the simplest plan in a may be bought by the bolt and used for » eral years, The same plan will protect the berries and currants from the robins The cherries from the and the starlings when the trees are small all kinds can be kept out of the seed beds by sticking the prunings from the rose bushes at intervals into the earth, especially if these prunings are full of thorns This plan will tend to keep cats from scratching in the beds, and cats are sometimes as great pests ag the amateur garden maker has to contend with used to hi | | AN ALWAYS \ oh | \ ‘you | give j court pro { }you always beg us children for some of ours on the | Thi with a out of him but the HOLD THaT Now ~~ DONT MOVE ~-. orname Many front of ur oe ZARD THEM TELA, ABOUT A FEL i Low WHE A DIVVEL WITH TH’ LADIES,” w HERE MUST BE £ ou, dear heart 8 of love! ardly give HAVE the ¢ Iam a me to brea © of mweethe that, I u and you ery bit of my I A letter from “I offered it in evi ago man. r divorce heart whore wif ag th nee WILL FIGHT FOR THE iT TO VOTE John Lamun, aged 96, « haw never voted, and says he AND YET SOME ™ SPRINGFIELD, If eborn American never will eee Dr. Crumbine of Kansaé does an Edmund Vance Cooke thusly A weak Had a He « And the mt he told Catalogued this M.D. as N. G. eee SHE KNEW An Evansville mother and her two children were visiting ber sister's home for the evening. The grown | niece, who was fond of the children, fed them candy. All at once she turned from the children to offer her young aunt some gum. The aunt amiled. “No, 1 don’t believe I care for any," she returned. Then Nola, the T-yearold cousin, spoke up: “Yee, you do, too, mother,” she piped. “You know sentimental M. D. T. B. way home from here every time we come.”—Indian- apolis News. WO a YOUNG BURMESE EAGER | FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT | steps are being taken for seif-govern- ment for Burma, the younger element is urging | that the people be given greater responsibility. Government officials reply that the whole people, not merely the young Burmese who have been ed. ueated, must be trained for a part in the gov- ernment and are counseling patience. — Though The Easter Uhes you mean to buy your wife won't please her half #0 much as @ brand new Easter gar- | den for her bead. | the public from expe | might find thin; On the Issue of Americanism There Can ‘Be No Compromise DISCRIMINATION While the discussion on Bolshew tigate which ARMY 1 wish more would iny called democratic army, t the opposite principles. all Oregon and Washing ist Div, all returned from were by had now, but one man was suspected of measles and we were quarantined for 14 days. Now feel like better f this pure bard luck, of our many other homes or o reprene n here Inf 21 We of would ere m ton boys of the 2 April officers accompanied regiment. If out of the army four our all gone well we ve been we rom re rracks while 5 " came in the same cars r heard of bare or a come immune to dines some of us were in ers were in two. on transports crowded like hogm, fficers occupied cushioned chairs, were kept like they wer unded or sick ed by the hospital te return to Returned prisoners were mixed with them and all of them drilled by officers who had never 4 powder and were treated \jke rookies. This er the war was over. I hate to ong mess lines there thru the mud and handout and stand for , » receive it. If they were of stew or coffee it was nearly always cold time we got it. We marched right by the mess when the tables were groaning with jam something unknown over there ceived their discharge more ft Jeather camps, where mer ms and ate in the casual ers just be and had bee ame etc I feel like fed in this Lewis to protect e while higher-ups much in their co free. We are anxious, God any others to get ned again in a real, honest livelihood. Before up to see the Rhine some of the prospects deeper than the “rind” and they & little tainted clear to the bone, Yours for a real democracy, PVT. JOHN F. CONRAD, 264th Inf. Det., Camp Lewis, Wash. PERSEVERANCE EDMUND VANCE COOKE Don't think thi others do—tha army. We are not, that I makeups, a Wiggine at twenty bad planned His future of “Back to the land.” “Surely!” said he, “just the thing! But first—a bit of a fling.” At thirty, restating his stand, He headed straight back to the land, But now—he dallied and tarried, Getting himeelf rightly married, At forty, still Wiggins’ demand Was “Let me back to the land!” But how could a fond father rob His children by quitting his job? At fifty, with savings in hand, “Now,” enid he, “back to the land!® O, but the land, newly-priced! Little his savings sufficed. Wiggins at sixty still fanned The promise of back to the land. “Last years are best. Don't mistake it, One effort more and I'll make it.” At seventy—hall its fruition! Wiggins achieves his ambition. Sunk in his six feet of sand, There he is—back to the land! (Copyright, N. E. A. 1 TET Ett | a a O cation Travel United States Railroad Administration Removes all Restrictions NE year ago, under the pressure of war necessities, the public was requested to refrain from all unnecessary travel, and under the stress of war conditions, the public was necessarily subjected to a great deal of inconvenience when it did have to travel. Now the war necessity is passed and it is the settled policy of the Railroad Administration to do everything reasonably within its power to facilitate passenger travel and to make it more attractive. In furtherance of this policy, the Railroad Administration is enter-' ing upon a moderate program of advertising, to remind the people of the extraordinary opportunities for sight-seeing and for pleasure-seek- ing which our country affords—the National Parks, the seashores, the lakes, the mountains, the woods, and the many places of historic interest. The vacation season is approaching, and the time is at hand to plan for a change of scene, for rest of the Railroad Administration to and recreation. It will be the effort aid in such planning and to make your travel arrangements convenient and satisfying. 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