The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 21, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star Ry mail out of $1.50; € mor _ | ss 3 city, 80c per month; 3 months, t $ y 3 Btate of Wash Tbe per month, $4 By carrier, per year ity . The Industrial Congress J An industrial congress is to be called soon after Presi-| Ment Wilson returns. At least there is a well-matured plan for such a congress. The idea is good. There are several good purpose ‘which would be forwarded by such a congress. It is the plan to get together the real leaders in the two realms of capital and labor. Not the office boys, but Mthe real people. Young Rockefeller, Charlie Schwab, Frank Wanderlip, J. P. Morgan and their friends on the one side; is ‘and on the other Gompers, Frank Walsh and Fitzpatrick © with some churchmen and liberal publicists, not forgetting ‘the women. os In joint assemblage these people would try to arrive = ‘at some common understanding as to What should be the length of a working day? What is a fair minimum wage? What are the rights of labor in the matter of or- ganizin ? : What machinery can be devised to adjust disputes be- employer and employed? If an industrial convention could formulate answers © to the above questions, they would be doing much to “make it is country a better place to live in,” as the old Liberty Loan posters used to say. Answers of some kind must found. Russia did not find the answer, and now she @roping. Germany and her co-belligerents are groping, ® with the rattle of the machine gun as an orchestral niment. war labor board is passing. That was a useful tion while it lasted; but it has no business to out- the war. What we need now is a peace labor board The war labor board was a power because it wielded double weapons of commandeering on the one hand and work-or-fight order on the other. Also it happened to enlightened and judged righteously between the Sand his man. But with the war over, there can be ne sonfiscation nor enforced work. What is the answer? And now President Wilson has come to the conclu- boss ther | sion that the telegraphs and telephones should be re- = turned to the private owners; he ought also to know the chief reason why—Burleson. The most important problem confronting the American ople, and one second to none which has come to us for ution in all the ye. of our national existence, is— The league of nations. And 96 senators will have to give the formal, legal, titutional answer. Two-thirds of the membership will to vote “Aye” to enroll this country in the league of . One member more than one-third of the mem- hip, may keep us out of the league. In theory the senate is supposed to represent the Merican people. Senators are supposed (theoretically) to the will and wishes of the people. Sometimes they do. es they misinterpret the will of the people. Some- they don’t give a tinker’s dam about the will of the nr But in answering the league of nations problems they UST give heed to the will of the people, for this is the momentous national and international problem which come to the senate for solution in years and years. is is a problem close to the hearts of the people. It il affect the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” of man, woman and child in this country, and of suc- generations. This, then, is the people’s problem. The answer should theirs. There should be an opportunity for every American er to register HIS or HER league of nations answer. _ were rival candidates for coroner. The other day, Maj. | Corson returned from war duties—and now he is chief ; deputy coroner. A fine appointment, Coroner Tiffin. The Girl Who Beat Burleson Only one person in these United States has thus far it over on Postmaster A. S. Burleson. She is, Julia O’Connor, president of the telephone oper- ators in New England, where she led the girls in a vic- eg strike. : iss O’Connor is in Seattle now—and it is a pleasure, ‘indeed, to doff hats in her honor. P Miss O’Connor brought Burleson to time; brought the ‘Burcrat of autocrats in these United States to realize, jfor the first time, that his policy of “rule or ruin” is not impregnable. Burleson has never had a setback trampled right and left upon postoffice e » clerks, denied government employes the the Re to bargain collectively. - ut he tackled one job too much when he sought to ‘stifle the independence of telephone operators cider 4 fighter of such virility and vigor as Julia O'Connor. Then for the first time, did the democratic war horses let. out before. ae ‘of the leading democ ploring President W of the party.” Miss O’Connor’s success in New Mean the complete undoing of Burleson. Success to her and to all telephone for decent working «onditions, ilson to dismiss Burleson “for the good England may Let’s hope so. operators fighting There were many who felt like cele brating the president's ‘wine and beer” recommendation yesterday, but the dry squad had all the stuff to celebrate with. Lloyd George started back h Italian and Jugo-Slav You can’t tell us. ome the day before the question came wy for decision. That man has a brain like a whale, It may be that statesmen are allowed to their speeches thru the mails because so feu are worth the cost of a postage stamp. frank of them It was easy to settle the Shantung pr ” P le § ng problem, be- cause Italy had already shown us what Japan might do if forced to come clean. 4 The average man who believes that he is his aoers keeper, understands the word keeper to mean 088. : In these prosperous times almost any man can make money, but he can’t make it buy anything worth men- In 1916, Dr. C. C. Tiffin and Dr, Willis H. Corson | He has| mployes, telegraph} right to organize, | an awful cry of pain, and then, for the first time, we heard} politicians in New England im-| | yet c— | Greetings: Did yeu feel like a litth Bevo after the president's message? No? Neither did we. see WHAT KIND OF A BUN? And we notice, too, that right aft Wilson tr to put @ on th ban, the American aviat om the NC4 decided Lis BON | eee | Yes, officer, we're ready for a ruthgarrison apart ment. Anyone who would spring one like the above ant safe to be at larce. oe. Still, the siren of the Rainier Co. tn Fri made considerable of a racket when the wet portion of the president's cable became known. The toot went on w toot of its own, from all we hear see | It's a wise Seattleite who knows who ts the mayor of his town these days. We notice only yesterday, by our worthy contemporary he Seattle Star that Acting Mayor Lane was out of town for some rea son, and so, during absence o Mayor Manso Councilman Ha © acting mayor. Do you follow? Very good, eee NO TREAT IN TREATY chirp peace treaty handed bale of chin work. It hold: it stretches n longer when you recall how the Hun mumbie # thick with mar uthon words Their delegates will run shy of stutters and wear les in thet specs before they're half thru it Memortzing some hundred thousand syllables or rules to five », is another way of spanking one's. self before ng the defeat medicine, Alno |proving that the pen point is just as sharp aa the bayonet. Some scrap of paper! see WHEN YOU'RE DRY IN JULY REMEMBER: iodorus us that Osiris introduced made grain into Egypt as early Siculus informs ‘om malted GREAT EXCITEMENT IN BOSTON I pinned a medal on her, Then along comes This parrot went and laid four eggs, also parrot eaKe Its owner claimed the $500 prize offered for the best laying parrot. The trouble iy in the courts at }the pi nt moment he tea party ton once pulled off is now play- | ing nec fiddle from the Back Bay to the Com- |mons. “Lizzie” and “Haco” are in the saddle, with “Lizzie” two eggs behind 8 Did you know that in the Jaw of a shark there's jenough fine grade oll to keep your watch wheels spinning for the next 10,000 years? see Al Right says he bas noticed a man will yell him self hoarse applauding a two-base hit but he won't | pay much attention to who gets all banged-up | tigh h of highwaymen #8 a 06 ing a bur Motto hanging in the office of a hotel In Viroqua, Wie There Is No Place Like Home. “The next time the Germans attack us,” says Foch |‘‘they will make no mistake Then they will not |be Germans. see SPORTS “A revival of bull fighting 4 in some of the Mexican states “Cock fighting has come into a new lease on life in Porto Rico and Cuba.” Planned by residents along the border,” Toledo, O., i going to celebrate Independence Day with @ heavyweight championship prizefight, | EDITORIA || We Suppose This Is Way a Soda Clerk Does | | AS TO ENGLAND Editor Star: A letter appeared in your daily isrue of May 8th, signed A leader 1 enjoy reading clean letter, irrespective of what aide it stands up for but not @ mud slinger. It was cowardly tO begin with, also erroneous and | unjust. The writer tells us England waa 2s guilty of the war aa Germany. Well, that isn't news. That was German propaganda threo years ago As to the dirty lord rule, the writer refers to, the lords can go hang for mo (they will fade away thru time), but I believe the working people of Britain ar as free today as the workers bere. England is no more selfish than her neighbors. They are all out for themselves to a certain extent. The writer also states President Wilson is the on! n at the peace table. He may be, but why w American citizens to go over to Ireland and participate in a Sinn Fein parade? der what Seattle people would think if British sub jects came from England and took part in a rebel movement here. There would 80 talking. i © the British flag and I'm not Eng . at that), but I waen't raised to bear such ani mouity to any other country such as thie writer evi dently bas. Let us this spit-fire citizen There was no camou flage as to the writer's hate for England, but {t was noticeable he reverted to it when it came to signing be variety his name. I wonder why? MRS. SMART. eee RINEHART AND SHAKESPEARE Editor The Star: It may be of interest to the read ers of “K," now running in The Star, to note a simi | lar expression of Shakespeare in Macbeth to that made | | Boston, Maes., is all aflurry over a couple of par: | rots, ‘Lizzie’ and “Haco,” by name. “Lizzie’ laid | two eggs. They were parrot exes, of course, It was the first time in 18 years “Lizzie” had done that. use of by the author of K Mra. Rinehart “Carlotta gave the 5 ock medicines, Then she sat down at the table near the door, with the tray ir front of her. ‘There are certain thoughts that at first functions of the brain; after a long ume the spinal cord takes them up converts them into acts almost automatically. Perhaps because for the last month she had the thing #0 often in her mind its actual performance was almost without conscious thought Carlotta took a bottle from her medicine cupboard and, writing a new label for it, pasted it over the ol @ exchanged it for one of the same size tray.” on the medict Shakespeare “Macheth * My thought, whose murder yet t# but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, and nothing ts But what is not.” Aba PA’S “EXAMPLE BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE. I think report-cards are a fake. I hate ‘em, amuse I got to take ‘Em home and then pa gives me fits d says I'm weakenin’ in the wits. lesh of my flesh,” says pa, “my own, Own son, and bone of my own bone! Yet ydu can't do arithmetic, By : he says, “it makes me sick!" Well “here's an example phat an easy sample.” So pa, paper thru And d wrong side to, eee he upside down read the And says, “That ithmetic; Ha, ha!” he says, “that's Just a trick.” So then I showed it in the book And pa says, “Why the man's a crook That wrote such trash. It's just a sham A trick, I tell you. It'e—O, ham! There ain't no sense to it. You go And tell your blamed old teacher 0.” And I says, “May I tell her, too, It's an example you can't d And pa says, ow, you quit your sass And Then study hard: ma says, in your class!" funny tone, a, the boy's your own, in “There's no doubt, Just as you said, ‘bone of your bone! 1919) (Copyright, N. BE. A, BRITISH FIGHTER MIGHT COME TO RUSS THRONE | LONDON.—Should Russia «wing back from Thee shevism to monarchy, a soldier in the British army is next eligible to sit upon the throne. ‘That is pro- suming reports that the entire Russian royal family and grand dukes have been killed, The prince in i» Demetrius, a nephew of the former czar, 0 | | j I just won-| hope Uncle Sam hasn't many of | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Take It While ¥ou Con Use It BY Dh, FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Cranep No, no! Take it! You don’t understand. | my days with calmness until the end. Why do you suspect me? Believe me, But you—oh! you—vibrant—tense with believe that I want you to find your greatest | what pot ialities! happine And believe—ah! far more You dawdle upon the treasury doorstep, vital !—believe that I know, better than you, | Within, behind that door—riches beyond the what happiness means, and the path | measure of fancy—here! 1 offer you thé thereto! Key. ; Thus spoke the Old Man to the Young| ‘Take it. For it is now you need it, Man, hi. on, who in love had he begot- t and in iong care had he tended. And that thing he offered him, and pressed upon him, yet which the younger Tomorrow shrank from taking, was Wisdom. For the Youth wanted I ure, and the fulfillment of his Ambition, and the pur- suit of his own Dream, and tho he loved und prized his fath still feared he that Age could not realize Youth, and that some- how this Wisdom that was thrust at him might estop and maim Joy. So the Old Man continued and said: No, son, I am not jealous of Pleasure, neither aloof from it, but desire it for you more than anything in heaven or earth. Only 1 see now that to which at your age I was blinded, that thru Wisdom alone comes the intensest Pleasure; and, instead of obviating Joy, Wisdom promotes, makes possible Joy, and permanent. What irks me is not the Fun you have, but the Fun you miss. You lack so, Your Joy is too small and faulty. It is poor when it might be rich; cheap when it might be regal; in brief spurts and spots, when it might be one long giad stretch. I do not offer you my gift that you may be happy after a while, and that you may acrifice your Youth to make Old Age serene; but that you may get more out your Youth it lasts; that you while may understand how to drink deep, deep the cup of Pleasure now, dr your vetr » all 1 the This Wisdom I offer you would be to you nagic medicine, that makes the heart sing, heaven part pulses mush and w live song's Lacking Wisdom, you stumble, as one and sea bear relterance running “the dark. Already you have vany bruises. You have many hours in loubt and fevers. Why, every hour of every day might be like a strong blast of music, if you but knew the art of living. Pleasure? Your Pleasure now is a thing of tatters, ill covering against the shrewd frosts of folly. Take Wisdom, and by it find The joy that lke a garment wraps you round And laps you over and under With raiment of great t And rapture of great sound. Of what use is my Wisdom to me? My Youth is gone! Come, you take it for your youth's sake. Take it, oh, take it! To make your food taste richer, your drink sweeter, your love livelier and larger, your sleep sounder, your dreams giadder. Take it now! Of what advantage is the knowledge of weapons after one has lost his arms, the art of painting after one’s eyes are out, or music to the deaf? Wisdom to me is a sort of superfluity, for all the use I can make of it is to smooth N 1424 on the twenty-second of May James 1 Scotland was crowned king 18 years after cession to the throne, during which time+he h en held in captivity On the twenty-seec in 1471 Henry VI. of England died in th He was sup been murdered, but the facts surroun@ a mystery econd of May Charlotte Gene ion, med to have ¢ his death remain In 181 the twent vie vuien Augusta Andr Timotbee du Beaumong ay 1 died in Paris at the age of elghty-two. She was a French diplomatist and politician of some note, but is remembered chiefl cause she concealed the fact of her nex for many years dame d’Eon was vered to be a woman when on an embassy t land in 17 twenty second of May England as the on wh . King Jdmea 1. w perately out of pocket n to the Earl of Sa appy inspiration of payment of one » funds for the crown 1611, memorable ig baronets were rone and was it is supposed that the king ting two hum thousand pounds Upon an objection the king that the majority of nobles might object such @ step Salisbury is said to have replied: “Tush, Sire, you want money. It will you 00d and the honor will do the gentry very little harm.” Cage was taken that the new batch of baronets should be men with incomes exceeding one thousand pounds @ year. In 1859 on the twenty-second of May, Ferdinand I, of the Two Sicilies died after a reign that was char- acterized by inordinate crue From Ferdinand’s habit of mbarding unfortified cities for little or mo reason he was given the name of King Bomba by the Italians Victor Hugo, the famous French author, died on the nd of May in 1886. the twenty-second of May, Ferdinand Tf twen was the ¢ War. Three confederate Vir- ginians, scorning the surrender of their comrades, d@ fled a of 500 federals at Floyd Court House, Va, The t troops did not fire upon the men, but pum sued them for six miles to take them alive. At last the Confederates halted in a graveyard to fire a volley. The Federal troops returned the fire, three hundred muskets being discharged at the last soldiers of the Confederacy ey The Old Gardener Say: hat the avera, amateur gardener objects to the | labor required to train tomato plants on stakes and to keep them pinched back according to the advice of experts. As a matter of fact, about as good results are obtained by allowing the plants to grow freely, @ but to train them over two wires or lath trellises | about four feet high and meeting at the top lke @ tent. The trellises should be about four feet apart the bot and the plants set close to them. 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