The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 6

a THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919. per month; 2 months, es the \|If a Cargo of Soft Drinks Should Come Into Boston Harbor About Aside from the question of prohibition, and without to the merits of the national constitutional amend- the decision of the supreme court of the state of § lashington Saturday was a great victory for direct rule. The supreme court of this state has not always been quick to uphold the people's right of referendum. But it is on record in a most extreme case. ‘ The federal constitution declares that amendments need ratifications of the legislatures. It does not mention Feferendum rights of the people. Yet the state supreme court the view that the rs F _ te 3 , DOWN WITH NO TAKATION THE HIGH COST wiTHouT EXTRA h- OF EGG MALTeD R sYRUP “vipat MILK ation vote of the legislature [ is the enactment of a law—and therefore the referendum F A few years ago, the right of referendum of the voters municipalities on franchise matters was denied by the me supreme court (tho not the same personnel of judges). was then held that altho the legis in city councils to pass on franchise matt not include the referendum rights by the people. Just how the supreme court could reason one way a years ago and differently now, we, as laymen, cannot | However, since it is the latest edict of the court that always regarded as supreme authority, let us take Sat- mday’s decision for granted as upholding, as far as can popular government, We may also be pardoned if it the hope that in the future the court may place a ter check upon those legislatures which, fearing the e’s referendum, slap on emergency clauses at will, her or not there is a real emergency. - The Basis of Civilization The income and leisure of the people determine a Hion’s civilization. Burying this fact in phrases, denounc- ng it as materialistic, narrow and selfish does not alter it. fe may sing of the blessings of poverty, the joy of love ‘a cottage, the discipline of economy and application, but we have offered homage to education, culture, con- nent and the whole pantheon of virtues of the simple we find these gods all have feet in the clay of common It is still true that the worst enemy of the poor is erty. High Sail and ample leisure remain the foundation any social ideal and most of the private virtues, and will ne to be so until labor becomes leisure and work con- @ play—something less fantastic than the words to convey. Along with low wages and long hours come drunken- ‘and crime, high death-rate and stupifying ignorance, | : ncome and| and social disorder. Life lengthens with i : re ns with hours of well employed leisure. The cigar- ’ union doubled its members’ lives in 20 years by} wages and shortening hours. ae infant death-rates give a ghastly obverse to this pic- re. The children’s bureau of the federal government found it where the family income averaged less than $450 an- wally, 168 of every 1,000 babies born die in the first year. he income is between $450 and $549 only 135 perish in ; ciprelve months. When the income reaches $1,250, 5 a decent wage, only 65 die. “living wage” is not a figure of speech. The differ- e between it and a “dying wage” is written in the mor- tables. ‘Low wages cause and aggravate sickness. Sickness } to poverty. So the vicious, deadly circle draws in upon wages are the greatest enemy of illiteracy. It is one that they lift the burden of labor from the child id send it to school. Night schools for adults fail every- here to reach the low paid long time workers—who are illiterate. An eight-hour day and a living wage send men to night schools than all the floods of posters, ts and preaching devoted to urging attendance upon orked and underpaid illiterates. Housing, education, healthful amusement, “general cul- of all kinds rest on the same hard material basis. In world’s civilization those nations lead whose people the largest income and the greatest leisure for ome most powerful agency to this end, and therefore to furtherance of civilization, is not propaganda, procla- ‘ions, mobs, riots, nor revolutions, but the union move- Farms and Their Cost Tt would appear that the time has passed when a mer could get into the producing class with a net capital nine children and $200. ° A returned soldier, who started out with $1,500 and gala ambition, has been telling us a few of his “I only wanted to farm a small rented place, so I out to buy a heavy young horse. ‘After dickering around for ten days I found what I ited; a great big fine mare, with colt by her side, and a special concession the patriotic son of a gun would il her to me for $275, cash.” The would-be farmer will find a few cheap horses these but they are dear at any price; a young, sound, heavy e costs more than a team, wagon and harness did a years ago. “Then I started out to acquire a cow. I thought 1 ht have to go as high as $90 for a five-gallon tested imal. I found nothing I would have for less than $125, d a really good cow was priced at $50 more; and plenty buyers, too.” No wonder milk is 15 cents a quart! “Then I thought maybe I would like a few pigs,” the -be tiller told us; “and I found that an ordinary brood , bred, was worth about what I had figured on paying a cow, and that five weeks’-old pigs, of no special pedi- were going at $8 each. _ “And a common sheep costs around $25, and they wanted $3 for a setting hen, and from $1.50 up for a set- ting of eggs. “A walking plow that was $5 is $14, a harrow cost as ch as a mowing machine did, a mowing machine as much | @ binder, and a binder as much, almost, as a threshing |™ ine once did. - “After figuring it all out I decided to go back to my|\™ d job. My little old $1,500 wouldn’t let me sit in this | wm game long enough to buy more than th hite chi ged ree white chips And there goes another potential producer back to the nks of worried consumers. News of Hawker’s safety furnishes a thrill all its Just now who cares whether he made that trip the ocean or not? The world is glad he’s alive. ure had vested the | that | IT WON'T HURT IF T GRAB OFF A CASE OF NUT SUNDAES FOR MYSELF GREETINGS: Did the . ‘They called on the Duthie banquet at the Wash Ington hotel Saturday night . dry squad visit you yet? ee And they tasted the punch. eee Ana they pinched @ cha . punch oe And then discovered ¢ . Was without any kick? eee So, out! if you have any soda pop tn the house, look That dry squad has SOME taster! eee Dr. D. T. MacDougall, noted botanist, has vented a dandragraph, which is fastened to the trunk of a tree for the purpose of recording its dally varia tions in size during the growing season. And Al Right ts experimenting with a dendragraph which may be tied to a radish to tell when its big enough to eat. eee OH, YOU LADY BARBER! A Chicago lady barber stuck her scissors half way thru John Kitterman’s wrist. “Honest, doctor, I'm glad she wasn't shaving me when I hugged her,” he sald. | eee SUCHISLIFE IN YONKERS YONKERS, N. Y—Ben Anthony appeared before City Judge Gowdy to see if something couldn't be done to prevent girls from wearing buckles on their hats Anthony said every night when he returns home from work the street car is crowded with young women and that nearly every one of them wear bright buckles on their hats, “Reflections from the buckles strike me tn the eres,” he said, “and as a reault my eyes are now #0 sore and inflamed that I have to wear biue gomzles “Why don't you look down?” asked the judge, “Some wear bright buckles on their slippers, Anthony complained. |. “Well, then, look out the window,” judge. suggested the eee “Hosiery easily write the plays tastes, declared Rabbi buyers” or “petticoat now purchasers” might catering to Broadway Stephen 8S. Wise, in a scorching criticiem of undress on the New York stage in what he called “lingerte drama.” And here are a few of the Broadway plays “Good Morning, Judge,” “Listen Lester,” “Come Along” on “A Little Journey” “Up in Mabet's Room,” where we'll have “Tea for 3” with “The | Woman in Room 13,” for, “Take It From Me” aia Is a Good Fellow.” “Come on Charley” in “The Crowded Hour,” “It Happens to Everybody” “Some Time,” so “Toot | Sweet,” “Tumble in” and “Please Get Married” | for “I Love You.” “Pretty Soft,” eh? eee BUT THE RACE S00N afraid that your said the preacher ENDS son is a follower of who was calling on “I am | Bacchus,” old Gotrox, “A follower! exclaimed olf Gotrox. “Why, he |ecaught up with that guy Bacchus and passed him lyears ago.”—Milwaukee Sentinel, | cee Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like jail | Carrol county, Til, thought it was punishing a | Mexican hobo by sending him to jail and fining him the cost for some little Infraction of the law. He was the only guest in the jail, and got to like it *o well that when his term was ended he refused |to pay the costs and now they can't release him jfrom the jail. Law says he must stay until he pays the costs of the trial, and he won't pay because he he ever was in. THE OLD GARDE R SAYS tickling the earth with the hoe certainly makes it laugh with the harvest. In other words, cultivation {s a most important factor In growing good vegetables. This is not merely because the weeds are kept in subjugation, but also because the stirring of the soll prevents the escape of moisture. It {8 particularly important to cultivate immediately after a hard rain, or at least as soon as the ground Is dry endugh. The rain packs down the earth and rapid evaporation results. When you use a culti- vator you keep the water in the ground where the plants can use it. Once a week is none too often to go thru the garden with the wheel hoe, aud twice a week is better, in} says it’s the best and cheapest boarding house | —~By McKee ; are made women’s coats and suits, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise PASSING THE BUCK BY DK. FRA NK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) ory the other day where ; | I visited a fac There are some thousand workpeople em 1 ployed, and they have no labor troubles. | happy. POSSIBLE OUTCOME OF THE FEELING AGAINST THE 2-CENT TAX ON SOFT DRINKS Cappy, 1908, by Cee Geter Tomorrow N the 27th of May, in 1541, Margaret Countess of Balisbury was beheaded in the Tower of Lon- don at the age of 70. She was the mother of Card inal Pole and the last of the royal line of Pianta weneta. In 1564, on the celebrated Protestant reformer, real name was Jean Cauvin, | Picardy, France, tn 1509. est spirits in the Reformation movement that swept | thru France and Switzerland in the 16th century | Infant damnation was one of bis strongest tenets “ven infants,” he says, “tho they have not yet | brought forth the fruits of their iniquity, have the weed shut up in them . Nay, their whole nature is a seed of sin. Therefore, it cannct but be hateful and abominable to God.” On the 27th of May, in 1600, the famous massacre, called the Matins of Moco, occurred. Prince De metrius and all of his Polish adherents were slain at 6 o'clock In the morning. In 1610, on the 27th of May, Francis Raviliac, the fanatic who assassinated Henry of Navarre, was executed by being drawn and quartered by horses. In 1703, on th was founded by Peter the Great. On the 27th of May, 1794, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the financier, was born on Staten Island, now @ part | of New York City. He was the fon of a poor Duteh farmer. He began bis business career at the age of 16 by ferrying farm produce and passengers from Staten Island to New York. Cornelius, com monly called “Commodore,” was the founder of the Present great fortune of the family. He dled New York in 1877. His wealth was then estimated at $100,000,000. 27th of May, John Calvin, the died. Calvin, whore was born at Noyon, HOW TO KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE eee “7 -- * BY THE REV. CHARI STELZLE The most dangerous time in @ man's career {s when the sun has just paswed the midday of his ‘life—and this time may come anywhere between 30 and 60 It's the time when he gets careless about the way he eats and dresses, and when, because of this, | his growing children begin to lose their respect for him. It's the time when he stops reading books and Poetry, and when music no longer interests him, | and he becomes commonpl in his thinking and speaking. Hoe fetls that h getting old—and that | he can't help it, and o he drifts into a “what's the use” attitude toward new things. It's the time of questioning. ‘Things that he al ways accepted suddenly lose thelr foundation and he staggers about, trying to find something to stand on Creeds and customs are no longer accepted just be- cause others believe in them, It's the time of disappointment. x The plans and and not much seems real and permanent. His ideals have not been realized, and usually he blames others —rarely himself, in and when the spirit of confidence and co-operation are pushed out. Selfishness—which in youth ts due to thoughtlessness—now becomes systematic and chronic. When the sun burns at mid-day that has no root which withers what makes a man's spirit dry up. It's because during his younger days he failed t strike deep down into the roots of life, so that Ia he might draw things which are eternal and true ‘Love never faileth,” said the whether there be prophecies, th | there be tongues, they shall cease | eknowledge, it shall vanish away “And now abideth faith, hope, but the greatest of these is love," And love here means the desire for others’ good #0 that fundamentally the way to keep young and strong is to work in a@ wholesouled fashion to en rich others’ lives it's away the and plant eacred writer shall fail; + whether “But whether there be love, these three; ‘ IT COST MONEY OU WANT TO “KEEP HIM COMPANY” WANTED—PARTY TO GO TO HONOLULU WrTtt me, must have $1,000 cash. Have my own patent sold everywhere here in Middle West. Now want to sell Japan, China, ete. Don't answer this ad if you think you're doing me a favor. 1 simply want company and someone to help me, and it will cost you that much if you care to go. Advertisement in Los Angeles, Cal, Times, four | 27th of May, the city of Petrograd) in| Purposes and dreams of youth have been smashed,| It's the time when bitterness and cynicism creep | that's Strikes may come and strikes may go all around this plant, but these workers and keep at work. Neither do they have lockouts. An interesting phenomenon. explanation is simple. The boss simply “passed the buck.” That means he put the whole qu of labor, its hiring and firing, its grie’ its conditions, its hours and its wages, up to"the laborers themselves. He did not solve the labor question. He turned it over to the laboring people. Confronted with the shrieking disputes, the clashing theories and the hot hates of Capital and Labor, he sa “Why should I | worry? Let George do it | George is doing it. And everybody is And the In this plant the workers have an indus- | trial democracy. elect their own House of Repre which handles all | employment issues. It receives and adjusts | complaints. It regulates working hours, | hears and adjudicates quarrels and fixes | wages. | Of course, this cannot be done. possible. Still, it is done, and any one can go there and see it, where it has been working smoothly some years. It shows how Democracy beats any Theory. For Democracy means letting people run their own affairs—that’s all. It does not mean “helping” people, nor “doing them good” nor any such thing. | But don’t the workers make impossible demands? Answer: They never have. And why should they? They know their | jobs depend on the prosperity of the con- | cern; would they cripple it? The only way they can be wronged is to wrong themselves. | The whole rotten, vicious “Class” feeling jis absent in this factory. | They're all human beings. If anything | does not suit them, they get together and talk it over. | It is im- | business | in | laborer Is not this the Way Out of the induse trial embroglio? j Let every concern put its own house in order! Let every house sweep before its own doorstep! Why should there be a “Class” of em- ployers and capitalists, and a “Class” of They are all sons of women. They all were helpless babies once and soon will be indistinguishable dust. In the interim why suppose their flesh is different, or their souls, or their happiness? “I am not a philanthropist,” said the head of this house. “I am not even religious. I am not particularly charitable. Only I believe this way is the best and easiest for doing business, and profits everybody most.” While your country, you other capitalists and employers, has been “making the world safe for democracy,” did it ever occur to | you that Democracy would make your busi- ness safe for you? How can you do it? It’s easy. Just “pass the buck.” . Pointed Paragraph: A preferred creditor is one who never troubles you, People who are intoxicated with music must be alr tight. Unpaid bills are sometimes the source of a poet's best efforts All the world’s a stage—and the ocean is used in the tank drama A record is a fragile thing. without breaking it The average young man finds it easier to get @ wife than the furniture. The man who makes proverbs the sole rule of his You can't lower one | life never has to take anthfat. There can be no objection to a girl trying to peer into the future, but she should never look forward. Some people seem to know everything except the fact that they @on't know how much they don't know, Probably nothing hurts a man's vanity more than the discovery that some one has worked a bad nickel on him A word to the wise may be sufficient, but the policeman often has to use a club on the otherwi If wilence is golden, garrulity must be copper. When a man knows he is a fool he knows more than some people give him credit for. 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