The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star By mail, out of city, 50 2.80; 6 month: tate of Washington ( Se per month, $4.50 for By earrier, city, per year, im, 82.78: $6.00, months, im the ide the state, ontha, or $9.00 le per week Ps The Fruits of Bolshevism | a \ xe | Ie Less to Divide HE socialists of the world held a meeting at Berne, Switzerland, in February. evism. This meeting condemned | The decision resulted from the report of a special com- mittee, which had gathered information from Bolshevist sources. This information was digested and its meaning made clear. The report of Simeon Trunsky in the New| York Evening Post said: | “The Central Exeeutive committee on Nov, 5, 1918, declared the food! in Moscow was d largely to loafing and plundering by workers. | i unloading railroad cars, the average man per day accounted for only | ,200 pounds as against a normal half car per day “In the metal industry, according to the Journal of Trade and Industry, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise It’s a Comfort to Know the Worst Has Happened MARRIED? WELL, SLIGHTLY! I SUPPOSE YOU WERE FIGURING ON GETTING RICH AND HOOKING UP WITH HER YOURSELF SOME Day ? pp MAN'S. FANCY — Now DON'T commit _ SUICIDE IN HERE The Railway Investors’ League BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) What shall be done about the railroads? This is the question asked by the Railway Investors’ league in a pamphlet of date April 15, and no class has a better right to speak, The railway officials have presented their plan, The shippers, the users of the railways, have presented their plan. The wage-earners, the employees, the \laborers on railways have told what they | want. | being handled by an admi reason of this is be is tied up with the cause our gove tem of party polities, 2. That the railways be under control and regulation by the National Government,” which should guarantee to the owners a J fixed return on the amount of their investe ment. 3. That the relation between the goy- ernment and the railways should be co | operative and not antagonistic; the roads strative-judicial body at Washington and subsidiary region- 3 nment | ary boards, “somewhat along the lines of the Federal Reserve System.” | Whether this is the Way Out we “4 say until we hear from our great-gtan children. But certainly, in the meantim the vast army of.folks who have invest their saving in railway securities have a | right to be hefrd. the average of productivity has declined 75 per cent, and in the rubber Ghdustry the decline has been 50 per cent. Tornton factory, producing tex tiles, turned out last October, 1918, 58,000 yards against a monthly aver. ‘age in the year 1917 of 220,000 yards. For a whole group of factories, the was 550,000 yards, against a normal 2,000,000 yards, according to Journal of Economic Life, for last November. | b , ach “In the summer of 1918, according to the Journal of Trade and Indus. | j Also the national’ government, —— Ary, the wages of workers and officials were 105 per cent of value of | is stpreme above us all, has laid its han: | AZ upon the railways, using them, as it used 4 © telat hori group of factories the output was 70 per cent of in ~ f / afl our lives ahd property, for its own pur- " “The report of the Petrograd Soviet shows that the famous Putiloft poses, of defense and victory, against which . In a certain period, received 96,000,000 rubles from the state treas. | action, as an exigency of national necessity, | of which 66,000,000 rubles went into wages, and the value of the out: | no good citizen of course has any objection. But the war is over. The problem of | from this factory was 25,000,000 rubles. ‘ “The v: © hole equals one-half the contribu: : See eo trees int calte: Sus daakeh contin forming a permanent policy is before us. And in the determination of that pro- Of the treasury of the state. The financial condition is being met | thd government printing press with 200,000,000 rubles issued gaily Value of the ruble in the interior of Russia has declined 95 per cent.” gram no group of people have a better | right to be heard than those who actually | own the railways. M. C. Eroshkin, chairman of the committee of a party) These persons. are they who own the} To see a fiery red flag wav % #f Russian revolutionists for the city of Perm, gives these} figures: Under the czar and under Kerensky the Kishtym | : | cg = fiery fing waved PBietriet produced 1,800,000 pounds of copper per month at) | EFA | stocks and bonds of the railways, | So selena Reece ieee. Feee,000 for workers’ wages, cr 18 tents. 2) by Y , ja; And their name is legion. As Mr. James His mouth aflame, his clenched fists tossing! nd. For the six months ending June 30, 1918, under} Speyer, head of the banking house of Speyer fy é 5 pi F. Bolshevists the district produced 288,000 pounds at a| and Company, which for more than half a| It was a Sagman at a crossing. of $2,500,000. The cost per pound was about $8.50. | century has been identified with railroad | copper was sold at 45 cents per pound during both) | financing, says: } “There is wiique opportunity for settling ||the railroad “problem in a comprehensive | way while railroads are still in the hands of | ‘the government and before they are re-| urned to the owners. It would be a great | pity if this opportunity should be missed, | f use another may not occur for many a long year. ta Fe "There is a mistaken notion that the Rat tor keel! for hat ae railroads are owned by a few rich men. | é Pa ‘ Aa ree: There are over a million shareholders and It was a Harvard celebration. many millions of bondholders. It is time | that the owners of railroad securities, many | of moderate means, stand up and insist on | their rights. | i The bankers who finance railways, the economists who theorize about railways, and the politicians and legislators who make laws for railways have had their say. nn Quixote Comes Again BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Our hero was a modern gent, Who made no claims of long descent, But took an oath that every week He would put down bad Bolshevik! One day he gnashed his teeth and raved Another time, he spled the flag on The rear end of a moving wagon With righteous rage and loyal wrath, e swung and swatted, smote and smashed! “That fag! unloose it! ditch it! fire it!’ . . . . . He found the ordinances require it. Under Kerensky, the Nadeshdin Works in the Bodos-| mining district had nine dynamos working. A year late: September, 1918, the mines were closed. These | ts formerly luced 216,000 tons of iron per year. The Chel sk coal mines, under Kerensky, produced | 10,000 tons of coal per month. From January to May, i8, under the Bolshevists, the same mines produced 2,700 bag a “In other words, the decline in production | per cent. | THESE FIGURES MAKE IT EASY UNDER-} TAND aad RUSSIA IS HUNGRY AND NAKED AND) EEZING. | But now- advanced a blatant group, With uncouth cry and battlewhoop, With red flagg and unseemly manners. WHEN YOU LEARNED THAT LILLIAN RUSSELL WAS MARRIED (Crp, 1919, by Odea meen.) But now he spied the flag before A most suspicious ancient door. “A nest of Redst’« Inside he dashed! He swung and swatted, smoe and smashed! Alas! they led bim off to jail;— . . . . . This time it was an auction sale. The chap who is doing the most for Bolshevism in imerica is the one who cOmplaina that every effort to something for people who work is inspired by Bol- “It is not only fair toward these investors ut also necessary for the country that rail- but al for th try that rail road credit should be restored, otherwise no | Puimy the sa Con Sa bk ae Raitor ‘The’ Star: If you do any pruning, allow|MeW capital can be Stained. : | (By law competled) by Reds alone. me to say that I regret id not prune a recent The owners have a right to ask Con- | (Copyright, 1919, by N. E. A.) letter disparaging the acts of the president. There gress to pass real comprehensive legislation | no in the Vnited States for euch items. to settle the railroad problem permanently, | especially at thie time, I am not a member of just as*the currency question was settled either of the old parties and hence am free from Pete ; peing steeped in partianship. No man in the coun-/thra the Reserve Bank Act, viz: in a way | | try could have done bettér than President Wilson in| fair to all interests and for the benefit of | this cataciyemal crisis, and 1 am a reader of many the country as a whole.” i Ni vondeen Mending ene quince facraly weit Ma dewc|,* The organization Known as the -Railway | using sand to cover them. While the ful readers. Reading one paper merely will not do it | Investors’ League has been formed to as- | might not be able to push thru the hard soil, | Let these people read such papers as Literary Di it | esp | goat, Review of Reviews, International Coneitiations, certain the will of them that really own a pp ye erie age er of ae sun, | and editorials especially like those of Dr. Frankithe roads and to make this will felt in | Srten found a good plan to mix vw | Crane, and these notions will be crowded out of | legislation. with sand at planting time. You my even thinking oe, and for better things The idea that the president wanted to be the “whole thing” is|, 5Q far, this League has expressed itself pi gp Rage tg Res ie, Ng Pry 7. bes exceedingly narrow and prejudiced. in three demands: means. Then you will be less likely to 4 Wilton has appeared at this great war crisis and 1, That the railways be. returned t0 | seca too thickly, and less thinning will be | private ownership as soon as possible. The A WORD FROM al rigs wie man with a Albert J. Rhodes wife an’ six chil- : dren don’t need an Little more than two years ago, the Chamber of Com- alarm clock. rte ake cunt: ible place in popular | eee Altho, ni the causes of com-|_ “Sonia,” cigaret girl of Greenwich Village York rake artists’ and writers’ bangout, sings: q MYSELF T am an artist, Tt was not func- But ¢o not paint; in as satisfactory a manner as an A Gumeer, 100, should. et do not dance; decided change for the better. The) 7 tremendously nearer the public than it used to} old reserve is past. It is a democratic iza- » numbered in thousands now, is rep- blic. Its work has broadened— miraculous. Yet no It was work, tact, and more) tact of one man—Albert the Chamber of Commerce, which a large extent, these beneficial results. day, he was immersed in this work. The! took him Fag 4 from his one business for | ie labored on, at great personal understanding and good will! ly clashed. Rhodes brought to! Chamber of Commerce the democratic meth and | which he had inculcated as a member of the former Often in love nmercial Club. And it was thru Rhodes that the merger And more often out; the Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce 5 aoe | ie, opel ver ir T ais BMY & shteeed a@ sense, les was drai for this service, and* ching. somdthing goed to after a year’s service, he hoped to retire, he was) oer re more conscripted. The chamber and the city needed| JOB FOR A CRITIC he yielded. Now, after two years, he is retiring.| Speaking of poetry, which is defined asx spon has — Lf ay from the active leadership of the Sig vo ae ni geome and nobility | 9 le has given the chamber an im tus in Proportion to the nature 0 the poet and his | . Wi should carry it to continued favor with the public. He|s:t'mimita once cet ast enema in tute, the’ tira an enviable record for his successor to measure up| the Florence Upstairs Store bard? i tn Magica wairtidved ta Liverpool tn it he also leaves an easier road than that which he has : sass called the Liverpool Fimes, te sald fo have : to travel. Fide some job ie & poet to write noble verse under | lished r jthe pressure of the daily grind, tho. Time «was, n on May 2 tdward Montagu ret Earl of 4 ge TRY city at large owe Albert J.|when stimulants jazyed up the muse and’ we turned Pi ils hy divelon th peng pee with | jout some pretty creditable stuff, but now all that | the Dutch in Southwold Bay The earl’s ship,| Congressman Blanton of Texas rushes into print PRAISES PRESIDENT That, if you have very heavy, clayey soil, New will get best results when you plant small never sing; proven to be the man of the hour. Certain men who later on. could not put offensive partisanship behind them, who became meddlers and disturbers, have been elim | inated A. B. HOLLOWAY, Often Yet de not I love life, But do not live; YT am metely a human Seeking to find myself— Star ballad monger, goes in love love; Montesano, Wash To Keep the Face GLASSES A LUXURY || Fresh, Clear, Youthful | Editor The Star: Eyegiasse: nd spectacies with) gold or goldfilled framen are taxable to the extent! of 6 per cent.under the exciee tax provisions of the revenue bill | fresh, youthful, theres nov inw Ser 4 ‘ mercolize ; According to the present working of the iaw, the) fer than common merge worn: more unfortunate an individual {8 concetning his| out skin pacticles. Coameticn aim- vision, the more of @ luxury tax he has to pay. [ply add unwhole: nene to the To ‘ihustrate: A person with a élight defect of] somplenta Theta ae fidreatioed | fy ir vision, could get a pair of lenses in a lowarade,| as habit Its so easy to wet an sold filled frame for $2.50, % ry whereas a person with| ounce of the wax at the druggists, an error that required complicated grinding of the | SPPly at might Jike cold cregm ane | lenses, who wished them mounted in a frame that/no détention indoors, the old skin | would be of suéfielent purity of gold to prevent | coming off #o gradualy no one sus- | the ponsibility of an attack of gangrene on the|Pect* You're using anything, Whon pose or ears, where they rest, wauld have to pay nm a week of two the alluringly youthful, rpae-like underakin | is approximately $20, with a war tax of 5 per cent. Pomer, official one better. 2 More important than the cosmetic | care of the complexion is ite phyal- Mews) Mraner eal care, To keep the face clean, T am & poor fish, But do not swim: A fathead, too, Yet not so fat; All times a poet, Singing quite madly; I am @ blue moon Longing to bite somebody; fully in ¥iew—well, you won't want, lor need, a makeup complexion after that. It must be @pparent that this proces’ means complete riddance of cutaneous blemishes, like pimples, blotches and ~Advertisement ‘WORSE THAN DEADLY POISON GAS ney disease is no reapecter of It attacks young and old will:-heal your skin For years and years Resingl has been a favorite household remedy for eczema and other com- mon skin-troubles. It usnally stops the itching at once and quickly heals the eruption, Doctors prescribe it very widely. It algo makes an ex- cellent dressing for burns, wounds, chafings, and sore, irritated places generally. Tomorrow printed paper n pub: | tinuously for more than three centuries Resino! Sean. Resivol that could injure the tenderest Lt Resinol and skin. Itis even more effective mort cases the victim is of the approaching danger. - —. n, insomnia, lame back, jum- TWICE sciatica, Theamatiam, pain In the loins and lower abdomen, diffi- DAILY 2:30 MAIN 22 culty in urinating, all ave indica- n of trouble brewing tn your kid- eee Whether for poet, for pea jor sewergang foreman; borer, bookkeeper, aut, for city whether for shoe musician, motorman, worker or dentist-the price is too high! hall clerk clerk, la shipyard That's all neys. When such symptoms appeat you will almost certainly find quick re Haarlem Oi) son 100, 2he, 500 aah ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY Martin Beck Presents The MARION MORGAN DANCERS §) { i IN A DANCE DRAMA IN TIME OF ATTILA AND THE HUNS i ; ‘ y ” ‘ " , A New York state official who has been investi | ¥ gating the high cost of ezms, says it because the Conducted and directed by MARION MORGAN Tho: EDWIN GEORGE Comedy of Errors DAISY NELLIS AMERICAN PIANIST OF DISTINCTION jis beyond the reach of the average poet's purse. the Royal George, after having taken a conspicuous | in eh ee a ; tks | part in the action, was set on fire and blown up. | a 8 ete urn out fair verse, no 1 wi Jose personal friend of Oliver Ci id with the assertion that labor unionism is closely allied Well. Ih abe. ot the fagt thet Bie father. was’ with Bolshevism, and the newspaper that printed his name “Blatant” wasn’t so far wrong. distinguished himself at the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby. He wi lected to Cromwell's house of =~ | lords. After Cromwell's fall Sandwich allied himself| lief in GOLD MEDAL with the party that brought about the Capsules there is to it, the price is high. With thousands | of Pa 1, tt wae ald that his Sieh an Ane nie fepous Olt rempey, Hes store and thousands of quarts in Senttle, there ts no rea-| occasion was prompted rather by fear of the Eat IRE’ causing Go onot ort aie: why it shouldn't sell at onable “ 2 i ‘ ter rowegeed bo oa creo valet giaal . jonable figure. | that was sweeping over England than by desire to is imported direct from. the Successfully accomplished last night. Approximately 6,000] ‘he transatlantic flights revive the news that Co | John Quincy Adams to enlist m provisional meme ar | lest, aces In the world, and it may ded the concert given b John M C k th Nietia. weareak panies 4 7 army ©: | be had at almost every drug store, atten gi y eCormack, e noted | as’ en we in crossing the Atlantic, | 100,000 men fn case of an actual declaration of war| Your money promptly refunded if it tenor. Never before has such a vast throng been gathered | Columbus must have been awarded the contract by | or of an invasion by memy. A clash with | Goes Not relieve you. Be aure to get Burleson to carry the mail ! eemed imm he . LER aled Bhcbees: three diaden™ Under one roof for a musical event. | a neemed nt at the time; but, altho|In sealed packages, three on. ‘, poet om more would have attended had there been sy ayia Me ded hatching ay ie available room. Thomas Modre, the fan } , : mas Modre, the famous Irish To the credit of the Ladies’ Musical club and to itg|peovle are eating too many. We get ail turned round | on this H, C. L. stuff. Imst week we read that and manner of singing his own songs f ae we ft. mt ' » higher than $2.50. It could easily have asked -even| ‘put, as the man ads SUPREME Poe Cre ake BAU M E ‘yee and Fie the Aree, But. the Ladies’ |ing the clatern, “i omething that’ be of vaiue|}} GERMANS WANT EXCHANGE | ical club is one of those exceedingly worthy organiza-|f" * "ny day.” 4| er “SC inna E i whose purpose is chiefly to freiaute the juaieal bai nats ‘es any ees ba a. OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT A ANALGESIQUE i — taste - the community. Making money out of concerts| wat, Conn. bien sia ies tabceag te The Hh eclantitia ‘alata ath na ee f9) ‘ Be aie TE ey con tee ng [Seats oa ghee Se PENIS i i oe. aco, ex. has fought The Berlin Medical soctet c e| : Here’s health and continued good fortune to the Ladies’| © Tubbs 1s « laundryman in Pasadena, Cal, French Academy of Selence would receive beg onty } Musical And Laurence Coleman, of Seattle, does NOT deal | Jorit quickly relieves muscular strains of every kind Thos. Leeming & Go.,.N.¥. jbut they are #o well paid they can afford between | well. In spite of the fact that his father was a The Ladies’ Musical e Ladies’ Musical Club We'll form a conflumers’ combine and fight it, by | desert his fallen friend and place himself on. the laboratories in Holland, wher Play Ball—many a poet and composer, was born. He was the author of h tive secretary, Mrs. M. A. Gottstein, let it b i B y, . M. A. sai that . e said, eggs were selling at $8 a dozen in Berlin, and that club. inant: after they had publicly disavowed deeds of German | 7 in EMILE and JOHN NATHANE “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” The Agile Pair ‘With Bert Ford & Pauline Price BAILEY AND COWAN THE BANJOKER AND THE SONGSTER Pas Saas Some New York man predicts a cent loat of bread inside of a year. So Jong ax somebody Is pre dicting we, too, might as well predict. We predict @ Seent doughnut, |$16 and $20 a quart royalist, he allied himself with the pariiamentar: party, and in 1643 raised a regiment with which t ‘. Under the management of the Ladies’ Musical club,| Jove! We'll make ‘em sell it for lows! ight aide of the f q Duteh Slag . right #lde of the fer : velop the Dutch e greatest musical undertaking in Seattle’s history was Pie ia in 1708, on May 99, congress auttiorieed-Prasident | iste ete. dieat and health- ty @ many of the most famous Irish lyrics and ballads Nira wef iv» a pn F ¢ and was noted in his day for his charming voice as Deen ease er as pert enlagly favored because, despite the| the price was #0 high the people couldn't nat Shins y demand for seats, the club set the price of admission at! ed when he finished build military authority, The society voted down a motion | to make *uch a declaration, because it was sal Giving Italy a half million Slave and half as many ms guarantees her enough future trouble without French military men had been guilty inhuman acts toward German prisoners world will get along for awhile science, of equally So the allied without German