The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1919, Page 7

— [whlch are now being sought at the to [table of the hape to lay them be thelr many a ts WASHINGTON, May 1%. President Wilson's message congress follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: 1 deeply regret my inability to be | TAnseme have present ai the opening of the T hesitate extraordinary session of com | any Bress. It still seems to be my | regard to domestic legis " duty to take part the coum [absent from the United tes and sels of the peace conference and (out of daily touch with intimate contribute what 1 can to the | sources of information and counsel solution of the innumerable | I am conscious that I need, after so Questions of whose settlement | lone thas had to address itself; for | to seek the advice of those who have they are questions which affect | remained in constant with the peace of the whole world | domestic problems, and and from thom, therefore, the | Known them close at hand from day United States cannot stand | to day; and I trust that it will very “apart. soon be possible for me to do x0. T deemed it my duty to call con} But agpeke are ee + hago ven Kress cause | Pressing for consideration to eh wt ange agpligeliranenig eas I feel that T may, and, indeed, must ERO provisions which must be mads|*Ve® Now direct your attention, if the support of the government. | MY In general terms In speaking of them, I shall, I dare say, be doing Urges Appropriations little more than speak your Many of the appropriations which thoughts. I hope that I shall speak absolutely necessary for the your own judgment, at least. Atenance of the government and i abour fulfillment of its varied ob't Queation of for the fiscal year 1919-1920) The question which stands at the ot yet been made; the end | front of all others in every country the present fiscal year is at| midst the present great awakening feand; and acting upon these appro- | !* the question of labour; and I can speak of it with ax great ad priation: be udent scan no longer be prudent:| vantage while engrossed in the con sideration of Interests which affect Giald. tmeed! ; all countries alike ax T could at home Immediately call your atten | 14 amidst the interests which nat Hon to this critical need. It is vray most affect my thought be iy Recesaary for me to UKE Cotse they are the interesta Of Our * Sd receive y promp | own people. . By the question of labour I do not Ph = ball take the were ot _ mean the queation of efficient Indu y ing you on my return on the | cra) production, the question of how Subjects which have most engrossed labour ts to be obtained and made ef | eur attention and the attention of} gective in the t process of sus | the world during these last anxious | taining populations and winning § Months, since the armistice of last! success amidst commercial and in “Movember was signed, the interna | qustrial rivalries. conferenc 1 sha you 1 oon as ar hed been rea to venture any of recommendation with while contact who have own + , therefore, that I I mean that much greater and ore vital question, how are the men and women who do the daily la bour of the world to obtain progres Aieeuss | sive improvement in the condition of judgment | their labour, to be made happier and they &re/ to be served better by the communt complete‘ ties and the industries which thelr Berar mas which must form) op AD text message—P 1 noon yout | subject matter of the present of peace and of our ns | action in the immediate fu agreements labour sustains and advances. How | | . #2COND AT UNIVERSITY ©HONE MAIN 7100 The Special Pr:ce Basement An Unusual Suii Offering F.PCe. Wednesday : 80 Fine Serge Suits Each $15.00 se ie ee an absence from Washington, | ! are they to be given their right ad-| perity everywhere; that there ts in alent individuals, vantages as citizens and human be ings We cannot go any further in r present direction, We have already gone too far, We cannot live our right life as a nation or achieve our proper success as an antagonistic instead of being partners; if they are to continue to distrust one another and con- trive how they can get the bet ter of one another Or, what perhaps amo same thing, calculate by and deg of manage to extort, on the one hand work enough to make the ent profitable, on the other justi fair tr t enough to make life tolerable, That bad road has turned out a blind alley. It is no thorofare to real prosperity, We must find another, leading in another direction, and to a very different destination It must lead not merely to accommo dation, but also to a genuine co-op eration and partnership based upon community of interest and articipation in control, There is now, in fact, a real com munity of interest between capital and labour, but it has never been made evident In action, It can be made operative and manifest only in & new organization of industry. The genius of our business men and the sound practical sense of our workers can certainly work #uch a partner ship out when once they realize ex actly what it is that they seek and aincerely adopt a common purpose with regard to it NOON—PAGE ONE—Third Add Wil Labour legislation lies, of course, chiefly with the states; but the new spirit, and method of organization which must be effected are not to be brought about by legisiation so much as by the common counsel and voluntary co-operation of capitalists, managers and workmen. Legislation can go only @ very lit tle way in commanding what shall be done. try is a matter*of corporate and in dividual initiative and of practical business arrangement. Those really desire a new relationship be tween capital and labour‘can readily find a way to bring it about; and per haps federal legislation can hold more than state legislation could. | Democratiae Industry | The object of all reform in this | essential matter must be the genuine democratization of industry, based upon a full recognition of the right of those who work, in whatever rank, to participate in some organic | way in every decision which direct }ty affects their welfare, or the part | they are to play in industry, Some | positive legisiation is practicable, | ‘The congress has already shown the way to one reformn which should | be world wide, by extablishing the eight-hour day as the standard day |in every field of labour over which it _— exercise control. It hag sought to find the way to prevent child labour, and will, I hope and believe, Presently find it. It haa served the nts to the what form they coercion ean who whole country by leading the WAY tay the excess profite tax and the; ushenitatingly in developing the means of preserv- ing and safeguarding life and health in dangerous industries. It can now help in the difficult | tno grievous burden on the taa-|*uccessful | task of giving a new form and spirit to industrial organization by co- ordinating the several agencies of | conciliation and adjustment whieh have been brought into existence by the difficulties and mistaken policies of the present management of in- jdustry and by setting up and de- veloping new federal agencies of ad. | vice and information, which may serve as a clearing house for the lbest experiments and the best | thought on this great matter, upon | which every thinking man must be aware that the future development | ] | of soclety directly depends. Starting Tomorrow and Continuing the Balance of the Week Our Annual May Sale of Toilet Articles Also Featuring the Sale of $3,351.50 Worth of Superior Quality ‘ White Ivory —A special purchase of high quality Ivory at a on so reasonable that we offer you selections of undreds of fancy ivory articles at prices much lower than goods: of this quality are usually sold for. —The quality is equal in every way to French Ivory. “There are many beautiful pieces inlaid with hair-line of blue and black which gives the various pieces a touch of individuality. : : —This is an opportunity seldom excelled in point of value and the prices, we are convinced, will move this special purchase very rapidly. 24 medium size Bonnet Mirrors, reg- EACH ularly priced at $8.00........ | } | if $4.00 EACH $3.00 —4 medium size Hand Mirrors, regular- ly priced at $7.50 ...... —28 Hair Brushes, ul _-29 Brush and Comb Trays, regular $5. —26 Clocks—American movements—regula values «- oe 12 Jewel Boxes, regular $5.50 values . —14 Clothes Brushes, regular $5.00 values. —30 Powder Boxes, regular $3.50 values. 10 Hair Receivers, regular $3.50 value —4 Pin Cushions and Jewel Combinations, lar $3.50 values ‘ —26 medium size Brus! Jar $2.76 values ...++ —26 Candle Holdets and values nd Shades, regular —#6 Picture Frames, cabinet size, regular —81 Hat Brushes, regular $3.00 values. —18 Dressing Combs &nd Holders, regular values seers —66 Buffers with Trays, re —14 Cream Jars, regular $1.50 values . —150 Pin Trays, r alues ... —24 Bonnet Brushes, regular $2.50 value! 41 Perfume Bottles and Holders, regular $2.50 —60 Cuticle Knives, regular $1.00 —16 Button Hooks, regular $1.00 —94 Nail Files, regular $1.00 ‘ —250 Shoe Horns, regular $1.50 —104 Salve Jars, regular $1.00 .... ]| corporations and Agencies of international counsel and suggestion are ,.csently to be created in connection with the | teague of nations in this very field: it is national action, and the policy of individuals, societies within jeach nation that must bring about the actual reforms. | ‘The members of the committee on labour in the two houses will hardly | need suggestions from me aa to | what meang they shall seek to make the federal government the agent of the whole nation in pointing out and, if need be, guiding the process of reorganization and reform. | Must Help Soldiers T am sure that it is not necessary | |for me to remind you that there is one immediate and very practical |question of labour that we should | meet in the most liberal spirit. We} | must see to it that our returning sol- | |diers are aasisted in every practical | | way to find the places for which they a fitted in the daily work of the! but enlightened «can be done by developing and maintaining, upon an adequate scale, | the admirable organization created by | the department of labour for placing |men at work, and it can also be done, in at least one very great field, by Jereating new opportunities for tndi- vidual enterprise, | ‘The secretary of the interior has pointed out the way by which return- ling soldiers may be helped to find| land take up land in the hitherto un-| developed regions of the country which the federal government has already prepared or can readily pre- [pare for cultivation, and also on lmany of the cut-over neglected areas which lie within the limits of |the older states; and I once more ltake the Nberty of recommending very urgently that his plans shall | |receive the immediate and substan- tial support of the congress, | Big Opportunities Waiting | Peculiar and very stimulating con ditions await our commerce and in. | dustrial enterprise in the immediate future. Unusual opportunities will | presently present t selves to our! | merchants and producers in foreign | |markets and large fields for prof-| itable investment will be open to| Jour free capital. But it is not only | | of that that I am thinking; it Is not) chiefly of that that I am thinking. | | Many great industries prostrated by |the war wait to be rehabilitated in |many parts of the world where what will be lacking ix not brains or willing hands or organizing ca- | pacity or experienced skill, but ma chinery and raw material and cap ital I believe that our business men, our merchants, our manufacturers }and our capitalists will have the | vision to see that prosperity in one| part of the world ministers to pros- ‘The organization of indus | THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1919. | Text of President Wilson’s Message true ( thr and that }tries that have t the a solidarity of inter world of enterprine dealings with the coun need of our products will teach tb to us more than ever friends» Necessities we seek in the money deem whone right way to our wo merchant ships, have in some quarters been fe destructive rivals, may prove ful rivals, rather, and common serv ants very much needed and very welcome Our great shipyards, new and old, will be opened to the use of the workd so that they will prove immensely serviceable to every maritine people in restoring, much more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible; the tonnage wantonly destroyed in the war, T have only to sug are many points at fuectlitate American enterprise in for eign trade by leginlation and make it easy for American mer chants to go where they will be wel com friends rather than dr antagonists. America has & great and honorable service to per form in bringing the commercial and industrial undertakings of the world back to their old scope and swing Again and putting a solid structure of credit under them, All our legie lation should be friendly to such plans and purposes And credit and enterprise alike will be uickened by timely and helpful legislation with regard to taxation, I hope that the congress will find it posible to undertake an early reconsideration of federal taxes in order to make our nymtem of tax ation more simple affd easy of ad and taxes them " burdensome an they can be made and yet suffice to sup: port the government and meet all its obligations The figures to which those obligations have risen are very great indeed, but they are not sO great as to make it difficult for the nation to meet them, and meet them, perhaps, in a single genera tion by taxes which will neither crush nor discournge. These are not no great aa they seem, not #0 great an the immense sums we have had to borrow, added to the immense numa we have had to raise by taxa- ton would seem to indicate; Tor a very large proportion of t mums were raised in order that they might be loaned to the governménts with which we are amociated in the war and thone loans will, of course, con stitute assets, not liabilities, and will not have to be taken care of by our taxpayers. | Suggests Taw Plan | The main thing we shall have to loare for im that our taxation shail | |romt as lightly as possible on the pro- ductive resources of the country, thag its rates shall be stable and that it shall be constant in ite revenue lytelding power, We have found the |main source from which it must be | drawn. | I take it for granted that ite main | stays will henceforth be the income whieh t that there which we can opportune istration, the jentate tax. All these can be #0 ad-| justed to yield constant and ade« quate returns and yet not constitute | payer. | A revision of the income tax has | already been provided for by the act of 1918, but IT think you will find that further changes can be made to advantage both in the rates of the tax and in the method of its collec |tion. ‘The excess profite tax need | not long be maintained at the rates | which were necessary while Their collection is difficult and expennive Those which are levied upon ar the Md at retail are largely evad ed by the readjuatm of retail prices, On the other I should nawuMe that it tw ¢ tain a considerable and the. favt will presently makes it the more necessary that the field should be carefully rees ablished in order that equiva sources of revenue may be found Which it will be legitimate, and not burdensome, to upon, But you have at hand in the treasury de partment many experts who can ad vite you upon the matters mucd, bet t than I ean, I can only suggest the lines of a permanent and work able system and the placing of the taxen where they will least hamper the life of the people. f Indirect taxen Hquors no long nue by taxa draw No Imports Change There is, fortunately for undertaking in the immed future any « eral revision of our wystem of import duties. No Danger of Competition No serious danger of foreign com petition now threatens A: lean in dustries, Our country ha from the war leas disturbed a weakened than any of the European | countries which are our competitors | in manufacture, ‘Their industtrial | establishments have been subjected to greater strain than ours, their | labour forced to a more serious dim | organization, and this is clearly not | the time to seek an organized ad vantage. The work of mere recon: struction will, I am afraid, tax the | ty and the resources of their for years to come. So far from there being any danger Or need of accentuated foreign com petition, it in likely that the condi tions of the next few years will! tly facilitate the marketing of American manufactures abroad. Least of all should we depart from the policy adopted in the tariff act | of 1913, permitting the free entry | United States of the raw | s needed to supplement and | no occasion jenrich our own abundant supplies. Nevertheless, there are parts of our tariff system which need prompt | attention, The experiences of the war have made it plain that in some | cases too great reliance on foreign | supply is dangerous, and that in de- | termining certain parts of our tariff | policy, domestic considerations must | be borne in mind which are political as well as economic. Among the industries to which | special gonsideration should be! given, is that of the manufacture of | dyestuffs and related chemicals, | Our complete dependence upon Ger man supplies before the war made | the Interruption of trade a cause of | exceptional economic disturbance. | ‘The close relation between the man: | utacture of dyestuffs, on the one} hand, and of explosives and pol» onous gases on the other, moreover, han given the industry an excep tonal significance and value. Altho the United States will gladly and in in the program of international Qisarmament, it wiil, nevertheleas, be a policy of obvious prudence to make certain of the maintenance of many strong and wellequipped chemical plan ‘The German chemical in- dustry, with which we will be brought into competition, was, and may well be again, a thoroly knit monopoly, capable of exercising a competition of a peculiarly insidious and dangerous kind. Measure of Protection The United States should, more- the | enormous expenses of the war had | over, have the means of properly to be borne, but it should be made| protecting itself whenever our trade the basin of & permanent system. | ig discriminated against by foreign which will reach undue profits with nations in order that we may be out discouraging the enterprise and | vssured of that equality of treat-| Se ee ee ment which we hope to accord and The tax on inheritance ought M0), promote the world over. Our bere bs eb segme nba i eee. tariff laws, as they now stand, pro-| ve Pi lc ccm Piya its “i vide no weapon of retaliation in en, but it y ought to tral states, bat it certainly ought t0| "2% other” governments should enact cal ayatem of the federal government |/¢ki#lation unequal in its bearing on meds jour products as compared with the Abolish Minor Taxes | products of other countries. ; ho we are as far asx posstble Many of the minor taxes provide from iad cht pre for in the revenue legislation of, 1917 | y : and 1918, tho no doubt made necee-|°OUrs* of retaliation, we must frank Oo: Nights, CK JAZ 4 Mall and Gui aw White in , A HAREM” With «a Large Chorus Pe THEATRE PLAYERS clent justification under the easier |the Tange of possibility and that it these, T hope you will agree, are the |*tely, been exhaustively investigated They are unequal in the ineldence| A recent report of that commis |menta necessary for the assurance AMUSEMENTS rer equa and equitable treatment, Twie MOORE Westy, occasions and the past measures “ the same that have been suggested Bernard; Nora Kelly; |iff question receive the early at Orpheum Vaudeville Will you not permit me, turning posed amendment to the constitu ithe house of representatives at the justice and of public advantage is | |with fo the legislatures of the sev: suffrage is looked for; in the United | Nights (Sunday), 260; Mate, (except J/and the immense advantage of it} 7:15 and 0:15, who saw the need for it, and urged |beforehand with the common con Jamong the first to act in a great | The telegraph and telephone lines Continuous Daily, 1 to 11 |trative confusion—-so soon, that is, in “The Amateur Adventuress” || public and to the owners them: the pressing neceasition at |! face the fact that hostile legisia- Circumetances of peace and wan {may have to be met by counter leg excises upon various manufactures (DY the United States tariff commis on different industries and on difter-| Sion has shown very clearly that we The attention of the congress has which are now recommended by the AN AMERICAN ACE Aerial } hy previous administrations, I rec Straws; Kinograms. |tention of the congress.\ : =| PANTAGES [from these matters, to speak once 1 |tion which would extend the suf. Inst sexsion of congress? It seems |for the immediate adoption of that Jeral states. Thruout all the world States longer, I belleve, than any- Mondays), 260; Ladien’ Mate. (except | to the national life, has been urged | ogg sy Yom! the policy of it when it required| Wi vietion, and I, for one, covet for our | reform, | will, of course, be returned to their Feature Vhotoplay; Metro Star s the change can be made with vacnueibun selves, Tha railroads will be hand- the war-time, can hardly find sug. {on by other nations ts not beyond how happily be got rid of. Among|!lation. This subject has, fortun- and the taxes upon retail sales, | "0" lack and ought to have the instru: | been called to this matter on past Diero; Elecochel Sianiecss Jem tariff commission are substantially pce Poe Miata, 10.25-50c ||°™™en4 that this phase of the tar- For Woman Suffrage vit s |more and very earnestly of the pro: frage to women and which passed {to me that every consideration of | amendment and its submission forth: |this long-delayed extension of the where else, The necessity for it, | Sundays), 180. + $90; Nights, | and debated by women and men steadfast courage to be so much| Jcountry the distinction of being To Return Railroads a sr PALACE HIP ovr «0 soon as the retransfer jean be effected without adminis: | EMMY WEHLEN J ex: possinic inconvenience to the (CONT'D ON PAGB NINE) | FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE Glove Silk Undergarments Worthy of the Most Sumptuous Trousseau Fuest they win favor by their handsome appearance, and then these silk undergarments endear themselves to discriminating women on account of their practical qualities—especially on a journey are t appreciated, for they are so easily and quickly cleansed. 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