The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star 3 months, Thy mati, out of city, S00 montha 3.7 im the per month 1.80; ¢ 2.78; year, $6.00. tate of W Outside the 1] Tee per Loe $4.50 for 6 mortha, of $9.00 per year. My carrier, clty, Lic per week Wilson's Message _ _ President Wilson’s message to congress will be read today with general satisfaction. It is a common sense document. Wilson is right in his position on war- | ||Sort of Warms You All Up Inside. etd * prohibition. He is right on labor. He is} r t on woman suffrage. To say the least, he is 90 per cent right on each proposition advanced. f Anyhow, President Wilson's speech isn’t as long as the peace treaty. Their Work Important ae A word of warning may be in order to the new re- ee ca P must preserved. ‘The federal be singled out as an object of atta¢k. Indeed, it is | Whatever in our government machinery | trade commission is one of the things | is good. Also this is one of the institutions which ell known that certain reactionary and powerful interests | ( already determined to try to secure the abolition or of the federal trade commission. The federal trade commission is today the one effective umment agency dealing with the evils of a competitive) n of industry. For many years it was supposed that! “the evils of competition could be checked by indictments ww criminal laws, with trials and threats of imprison- "ments and fines. It was found that this was all an error. could not be done. Business men who play the game ae to ordinary business rules are not criminals in he eyes of the average jury, and good lawyers have found, ve to make the old laws null and void. A different ethod had to be found to correct these evils. Any republican or democratic congressman who ries an amendment or a bill to cut down the appropriations to run the federal trade commission, or to curb ' modify the federal trade commission's activities, may be al privilege and corrupt interests. d at once for what he is—a representative of spe-|| CHIVALRY STILL EXISTS, EVEN IN A STREET CAR q Welcome home, 77th! entertainment. 4 Mastering the Elements—When? ‘When shall men master the elements? The ocean, and cloud triumph over him still. On the planet he circumhavigated, measured and estimated in its rela- to the cosmos, he is not safe. the Norseland Vikings braved barked on the adventure- ‘wood vessels of fantastic design. And the € them up. The wind upset their galleys. were at the mercy of the storm-cloud. conditions. changed? Comparatively, we are But the simple elemental things wax scorn yet re- to be overcome. The Vikings still press forward, time thru the air. In fogs, rains, squalls, with an above and the angry, curling, white-capped ocean flow, they mark the new adventure-trail. And still the elements triumph. Lieut. Harry Hawker’s achine is forced to descend, and to last accounts, he is lissing. The NC-3 is forced down and battered. The men daring and unafraid—but the wind, the wave and cloud —t! are still to be overcome. _ When shall man master the elements? | ‘Assuredly, not for a long time. - He is still more or less at the mercy of the caprices of wind and wave. When his hour of victory does come, f ever, it will be thru the fearlessness of such men as cer, Read and Towers, who, whether in oared galleys sagged Mi thru he darkness s nigh and the wrath pf wi ie rest of us are content to remain at safety and comfort. — We hope you liked Seattle's ne ad The Chinese foreign minister complains that the ' Kiao Chau decision was made without regard for justice. He must learn that justice consists in stepping on a _ nation that can’t help itself. Two more children fell victims yesterday to traffic litions in Seattle. Scarcely a day passes without a tality of this kind. F ee neon is demanded. ‘arren’s recommendation to send violators of speed ordinance and others who drive reckleasly to instead of imposing a fine upon them, is good. e colar eres og the city council, and rs of the Automobile club, to draw b ns, are also commendable. ee A few jail sentences will have a sal Ee aPhere have been; lutary effect upon , in the past, similar wa ess with resultant loss of life and bodily ajarion: pe ally pa by a aroused public sentiment, lemanded and secure: rastic acti ins er tee ie lon against the on fiends must pay the penalty—instead of inno- Just when we were ready to believe the who le world pda yy, vgs it develops that one Vadeenon can speak a few sentences and make a whole le 4 Meccan to vane vole people mad The peace conference handles the future wit masterly skill. The only problem it can’t Randia: is the present. iia tie ‘ Europe's “age-old problem” ig simply a large edi- tion of the truth that two families cone jet Glong in the same house. It would be much easier to settle all boundar: motions if all the nations felt as pious as they did October. : When abstract justice and national aspirati lock horns, it is time to order a coffin for beteiet It is easy to be an idealist if u wide ocean sepa- rates you from the seat of troub WHAT ABOUT RAILROADS? Editor The Star: Noting your kindness in devoting front-page space to the soldier boy for airing grievances, and your frequent statements that you are devoted to the best interests of the people, I appreciate thie opportunity for “stating some overlooked by the press, A great many newspapers seem to be devoting siderable space to the fact that there is o federal operation of the railroads, and 1 the prominence of the headlines and the manner wordiM® that some people who hold great influence with the news trusts are bringing pressure to bear jon the prees with the idea of moulding public opinion jagainst government ownership. ‘The writer has worked, in different capacities, upon | more ratiroads that can be counted upon the fingers | and toes of any normal man, and I have always found |them the «ame where dividends were concerned, When earnings fall off, and @ividends threaten to fall below | the stipulated figure on the flooded stock, the custom | has always been to meet the deficit by laying off enough labor to balance the sheet. It matters not to | their callous conscience how necessary thix labor may be to the safety or efficiency of the operation of the | road. Where two men were previously employed, one jof them is pulled off and the other man speeded up |and overworked, doing the work that it was previous. ly recognized required two men, A gang of eight track men will be reduced to two. The general man- ager merely states the figure to which the superin. tendent must reduce his labor expense, and the super- intendent shuts his eyes to all other considerations ex cept one, he reduces the force, Regardiens of the defi cit, Uncle Sam has not done this, and all employes that it has been my lot to meet agree that Uncle Sam is by far the best employer, and men are not speed ed up and overcrowded with duties until their nervous system is wrecked. From my knowledge of condi tions that have prevajied before, and the present con- ditions, I predict that if the roads were turned back to the Wall street crowd tomorrow, within one week they would lay off at least calculation 200,000 men estimating the annual earnings of these employes as averaging $900, we get a total of $180,000,000 Uncle Sam is not losing this money; he is merely tak ing it from one pocket’and putting it in anotHer. These men circulate this money manufacturer and fa rf, and if unemployed would moan just this much as a total léss to Uncle Sam, as there is no other employment for them, and our na tional income would suffer just this much total loss, | Nobody suffers loss because Uncle Sam taxes lux lury to make up this deficit. Luxury is just the aame as steam which eacapes thru the pop-off valve. It is over-production which must be absorbed. It cannot be expended upon the neceasaries of life, such as food, clothing, fuel or education, and none of the possexeors think of turning this excess wealth into charity or the public treasury, so I think the pop-off valve should ! be wet so that it will exhaust into the public treas- ury. In my connection with various railroads, it was always easy to estimate just how each individual line was meeting dividends and expenses. When the track men were cut off to a point far below safety, arid every overtime slip brought a howl of protest from the superintendent, you could judge that the shoe pinched a pet corn, If the engineer was given a feather to apply valve oil, the fireman a teaspoon to shovel coal, the station agent notified to borrow some gunny sacks and save waste paper, and to save indelible pencil stubs, and boil down for ink. When every requisition for material or supplies is reduced exactly one-half, you can figure dividends in peril If the railroads are returned to Wall street, I pre- dict the biggest labor strike in history, followed by a panic which will cause the overthrow of the manner in which our present form of government is applied. It will endanger, if not completely overthrow, our present form of government. Railroad labor is strong for Uncle Sam, and this labor knows it has no friends in Wall street. We don't deny that there are today a lot of waste. ful orders and regulations in effect that bear all the earmarks of coming from a higher-up in Wall street. All transcontinental stuff from Puget sound points in routed via the Great Northern, which has the poorest rolling stock, poorest terminals and the most expen- sive grades over the mountains. Other lines better equipped, and part of them trified, are compelled to turn their freight over to the Great Northern, Why? Ie it a scheme to cause Uncle Sam a deficit? Or ia it a scheme to claim a need of bigger terminals and an electrified line over the Great Northern, Jdie box cars are lying on every aiding; merchants are waiting ten days for freight that they previously received in 24 hours. Why? Big shippers are haul ing their freight 70 miles by truck and paying a high- ler than rail rate, because of the manner of bunching t ously hauled by rail. The officials know it. The | newspapers know it. The answer is displayed from every newspaper, in big advertisements by the banks, All the explanations I have seen in the papers sound. ed lame to me, Some of the policies being carried out are at the between merchant, | | create w big Motor truck lines are hauling the freight + —By McKee UM EE Llediddd ca TAKE MY SEAT, MADAM. I SEE BY THE GOLD STAR | ON YOUR SLEEVE THAT ff YOU'VE LOST A SON IN THE WAR! Greetings, have you been run over by an auto yet? eee Fat fellows like Tom Murphine, D. BE Dugdale, William Howard Taft and EB. H. Guie are unanimous in the decision not to make any fights across the Adantic for the present. And skiony chaps like Doc Matthews, and the feb who plays the viola (or whatever you call it) at Coliseum? ‘wen, have called the thing off for the eee giggled after the verdict was reached the pen—well, we eee Fremont ts to have a carnival May 24, and strange to say, we haven't yet been apprised what part Dan Landon will play. eee Whiskers win! The speaker of the house and the senate majority leader both have thelr faces adorned with shrubbery. It's all right about Sen. Ladge’s whiskers. But when you know that the fella Bod living, occa a goune a » as BM Me the barber, says. eee MILK BOTTLES It used to be the case when folks were hard up for something to wonder about to pick on the old problem of “what becomes of all the pins?” Now they've got a new one to wonder over, What becomes of all the milk bottles? Govern: ment statistics show that the average) = omilk bottle only vis. its the back door 17 times before its gener: al health breaks - down. Only 17 clanks in @ milk bottle’ and it's done for. Bither lost, atrayed or broken. Hundreds of milk bottles are aimed at feline prima donfas every night. Thou sands of ‘em are doing duty as receptacies for oll etc., In the home garagen, and in : eta. in th paint cans in the ing down back stairs and staggering off window sills. Millions of ‘em .have fatal results carom-| On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) It is Ideas that rule the world. It was an Idea probably that made: this globe in the first place, and when it ceases to express an Idea it will be scrapped. | Whether there be a God or not, let theologians dispute. But there can be no doubt that there is an Idea of God, and jthat it is supreme in men’s minds. Ideas raised empires, and laid them low. | It was an Idea that caused the French Revolution, that made the upheaval in Rus- sia, that is terrorizing Hungary and Ger- many, that overturned the Dynasty in China, that brought constitutional govern- ment in Japan, that keeps Ireland in fer- ment, that originated the American Revolu- tion. It was an Idea that incited the Great | War, it was an Idea that stopped it. | The League of Nations is but an Idea, Ideas cause crimes, and punish them. | Ideas make sins, and their forgiveness. Some Ideas creep like snakes, and others fly as eagles. Some are dominant, rampant, and com- pelling; others are enervating, sporific. There are Ideas of all color—such is our \fancy——-so that we call discouragement blue, |despair black, jealousy green, envy yellow, |hope rosy, and chastity white. An Idea may live long dormant in the soul, subtly permeating our being, coloring our moods, bending our purpose, making of us a hero or a scoundrel. Or it may strike us suddenly, as a sharp- shooter's bullet. We are the plaything of Ideas, their marionettes. They pull the strings, we || AVIATION “WEATHER” | | IS NEWSPAPER FEATURE | We LONDON.—The London Times now devotes a quar- ter of a column daily to “Aviation Weather” and “Flying Prospects Today,” giving extensive data on wind velocity and direction and sky currents for the entire United Kingdom to a height of 15,000 feet. we a ; * |" "THE OLD GARDENER SAYS ” mores That New Zealand spinach made a great many new friends last summer and will add to the list this sea fon. It is a vegetable which ought to be found in the garden of everybody who is fond of greens. Not only dies it thrive in hot weather when ordinary spinach will not grow, but it keeps on throwing out new leaves an fast as those first formed are removed. One short row will be enough for the avetage fam- fy because of this self-perpetuating quality. Last summer not a few amateurs made the mistake of planting several long rows, with the result that they had more New Zealand spinach than they could eat, can or give away. Be sure to plant a little, but do not give it the space which belongs to other crops. Some men drop all thelr money trying to pick up more. It's a poor gunboat that can’t shoot the rapids. Eternal vigilance may create a demand for spec tacles. Too many young men empty their sand boxes on the first garde. Truth i# mighty, but, fortunately, a lot of it can be suppressed. Pugiliatically speaking, the tongue is mightier than the glove. | | wellknown English novelist, | Cross association was founded. | Austria and Russia. dance, They burn souls as fire, rot them as sepsis, energize them as electricity, asphyx- iate them as gas, feed them as bread, in- toxicate them as wine, stupefy them as opium, As they enter us they produce madness, mirth, beastliness, piety, honor, peace. An Idea draws upward the corners of 4 the mouth, or dries the lips, or brings moisture to the eyes, or flushes the cheek with blood, or makes the hair stand up “like quills upon the fretful porcupine.” An Idea can turn the stomach, wat the mouth, twitch the fingers, set the he: pounding, shorten the breath, paralyze = tongue. ii You can kill bodies, imprison and torture them. Ideas you cannot master, no walls can confine nor fetters bind them; laugh at the prohibitions of law and authority. They are of two kinds, the True and the False. The True live forever, storms cannot uproot them, neither is any ax made that can cut them down. They grow on until the Golden Age. The false are deciduous, they live their little day and fall, and their evil fruit with | them, and decay, and manure the rootg of Truth. And yet I heard one say the other day: “T cannot accomplish anything. I am a failure. For I have nothing but Ideas.” P Nothing but Ideas! say he has nothing in his hand but the” Sun, and nothing in his mind but the Will of Almighty God! Tomorrow’ On the 2ist of May in 1804 the first interment took place in Pere Lachaise, the famous cemetery of Paris, which was planned and laid out by order of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1849 on the 2ist of May, Maria Edgeworth, died. in 1881 the American Mise Clara who was the organizer of the movement, was itsfirst president at a meeting held in Washi Miss Barton was born at Oxford, Mass, on 25, 1821. She was the daughter of an army ea At an early age she became interested in During the Civil War she did heroic work the sick and wounded soldiers and at the of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 she went | France, where she worked with the Int Red Cross. Upon her return to America she incessantly to induce the government to adopt articles of the International Red Cross. ‘The international committee of the Red Cross been formed at a convention in Geneva in i Fourteen governments were represented at the ference. France was the first to adopt the She was followed by Italy, Great Britain, It was not until 1882 that 4 United States government took official action | then it was largely due to the force and pu Miss Barton. The United States was the 32nd nation to . 18 years after France. Miss es great credit to James G. Blaine, tary of state under President Garfield, for about the adoption of the Red Cress treaty United States, a "a On the 2ist of May fn 1902 the United States and public administration officers retired from turning over the government of the island to | On ‘the 2ist of May ' When you buck blindly against the reient- less hand of Fate and constantly fall to over- come obstacles because worry, trials and care are sapping your vitality and keep you from the full enjoyment of home, social and busi- news life—take Nuxated Iron and watch its strength-giving, up-building effect—it will in- crease the strength and endurance of weak, nervous run-down folks In two weeks’ time in many instances. “Thousands are held back in life for want of he blood rmerly phy ‘or Dept.) atchester county hospita ing on the relation of stron; feal endurance to the attal Anyhow, after July 1 there'll be a surplus of glass to} ™ make up for the amount lost in milk bottles. eee “Nobody at weddings ever gives the bridegroom said Al Right, she usually does that himeelf. ee Mag Goreme bone Lynchburg, Va., can start at either end of his name and get to th ‘ pgp, he game*thing. Try telephone No. is 111, and his | , . Poxtoffice box With him, its the same coming or going. eee A. M. Pancake of Huntington, W. Va., says he n't eaten any since he was married to the pres ent Mrs. Pancake. She won't make ‘em. " iy 33. verge of waatefulness, Claims are being paid with lav. ish hand, and I will venture to say that investigation Will disclose claims being paid that should not be paid. If Wall Street had the power to put @ man in cha , of the lines who has been in their service for years, and at an advanced salary to what Uncle Sam is now paying him, why would he not be instructed to still continue to serve their interests, Why not put the leader of some in charge as director general and ne Eee win sreais balance in favor of Uncle Sam in short We know that you would lone your advertising should you advocate to the interests of the people as tite, We know That Wall street controls the banks of New York. We know that the New York banks control the. Seattle banks. We know that most every business man {n Seattle owes money to, or receives concessions from the banks. We know that if one of these banks sug: gest to a busines man that he ‘withdraw his advertin ing from you, that he will do #0, We know that the people furnish the money for the upkeep of this ays. tem, by depositing It in the banks, If our government was for the people, and by the people, we would be able to deposit our money in our local postoffice, and chegk it out Just the same as we now allow « few banks in New York to collect our money when we de- posit it in any bank. Give us this kind of @ banking system, and Wall street will not want the railroads any longer, ss ECKES EXTEN, Everett, Wash. Also, he lives at 616 Courtst, and his|h the biggest part of |‘ force means weak wer, and like the race forme beaten by a nose, many n or woman falls just short of winning be- © they don’t back up ng plenty of tron in That irritable twitch the blood. Py that fit of despondenc; fearful feeling . ze a ee ais nature gives to ; fetieke olka when. the, blood is clamoring for strength giving iron—n iron to restore the health by enriching the blood and creating thousands of new red blood ells % tn my opinion the greatest curse to the health and strength of Amer- {can people today is the alarming de~ ficiency of iron in their blood. 1 lintle: coloring matter life sustaining of Without oxygen en iron there is no str and endurance to or withstand severe strains of sufficient iron in the blood has any a man's nerves and ut- bed him of that virile force ina which are So necessary 4s and power in every walk Iron, and sta to mu ife. oF Mhoretore, 1 strongly advise thore who feel the need of a strength and Blood builder to get a physician's preseription for organic iron—Nu: ated Iron—or If you don’t want to fo. to this trouble, then purchase only Nuxated Iron’ in its origin ackagen, and see that this particu ar name (Nuxated Iron) appears on the package. If you have other iron products and failed to get. results, remember that such Preparations are an entirely dif lent thing from Nuxated Ire by mm nected and such Btates Bei Nominee Charles A, -Towne, [pew kare, of congress, dge Atkin- of Chicago, cines, mine exception should rule, every hosp! . whieh n used and strongly indorsed ny physicians formerly con with well known hospitals, former United Kreatly ception to my ommending ft." in, Ju son, of the United States court of ‘Are Weak Nerves and Lack of Physical Strength Holding You Back in Life You Must Have Plenty of Iron in Your Blood Energy to Win, Says Physician q claims at Washington, and others.” In regard to the valug of N ormer Health Commiss' ‘ icago William Ro Kerr sade As health commissioner of the city 1 was importuned many times to recommend different medi. 1 waters, ete, yet have I gone on record as favor- ing any particular remedy. the case of Nuxated Iron T feel an r be made to the From my own experience with it, I feel that it is such a valuable remedy that it ought to be used in ure on 2 ang prescribed indorsement life Dr. Schuyler C, Jaques, tormerly y surgeon of Bt. tal, New York city, said: @ never before given out any newly elected Cuban government, i if You Want the Power a medical information for publ 8 I ordinarily do not believe But in the case of Nuxated Iro I would be remiss in my duty Ree mention it, I have taken It and given it to my patients most surprising results. And @ who wish quickly to increases strength, power and endu: a find it a most remarkable derfully effective remedy.” No matter what other iron remedies you ew out success—if you are not mf or well, you owe it to yo Make the following test: long you can evork or how gan walk without becomi Next take two five Nuxa se | ated Never test your Strong how much you have gain ated Tron will increase the sire power and endurance of dell ous, ‘rundown people he Weeks’ time, in many instances, Manufacturers’ Note: Nuxatt {8 prescribed and recommended | and which is now bell - by over 3,000,000 poople annually, ret remedy, but one which i known to druggists everywhere, Unlike the older inorganic iron product® tt . 1 whall fect Soe tT made an ex. Re ng Tule in rec= But in by this country, and shall antee successful and entirely tory results to every purchaser bee np your money. It ts in this city by Owl Drug Co, we Co, Switt's Pharmacy o or th bat 7 alg ’ It is as if one should : of "eX e°a ch at et ce x ee BS)