The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1919, Page 6

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Zhe Seattle Star Dy mall ont of city, S06 per moath; § months, 150; 6 montha $2.55, year, $5.00, in the tate of Washington, Outside the state, Se per month, $4.50 for 6 montha, or $9.06 per year city, Mo per week. AN EDISON STORY BY DR, PRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane a " aks |Why Men Rush Out and Walk Around the Block. “The Telegraph Strike | es 2 ma YOU HAVENT PacKeD) ANYTHING FOR ME, /| HAVE YOu? weLL ALL L WANT To TAKE 135 Tens OLD STRAW HAT To Go PIs MING DON'T OPEN THAT TRUNK —JIT'S BRIM FULL OF MY SUMMER FROCKS PACKING —NOW DON'T DISTURB ANYTHING OR ITLL ALL HAVE TO BE DONE OVER AGAIN i With no light to date except that furnished dimly in tthe conflicting statements of company and union officials @ach side giving the other the lie direct, the great American public must grope to an understanding of the telegraphers’ strike, which, to say the least, threatens after a very real and definite fashion in certain sections of the country. But it is essential some sort of an understanding ‘on the part of the common, every-day citizen be arrived at! er or later the companies may begin to shout “Bol- shevik” at their heretofore hired help and then said citizen ‘ <= will want to know where he stands. | pon Facts are the telegraphers as a body are among this =aS ei Le country’s most poorly paid workers. Seventy dollars a 4 month is one of the largest prevalent wage scales mentioned » and objected to in the present controversy. Anybody in these times can figure out what that amounts to in the Way of food, clothing, rent and shoes for the baby. Also the telegraphers have been peculiarly unfortunate @aring the war in having their industry taken over and | Tun by a government official who doesn’t believe in the right to organize or collective bargaining by labor, so that in getting their case up for consideration they have been Waging an uphill battle all along the line. Thre fact that wit nor le! inven- tion,” Bayle, “in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book than in being the first author of that thonght. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application’of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.” Also Lowell: | socket an incandescent electric light bulb. “Find the cubie contents of this!” he said to the college graduate. ‘ To work out the problem by mathematical rote was about as difficult as squaring the circle, But the college student went at i boldly. Reams of paper were figured and disfigured by his energetic pencil during the next few days. Finally he brought ta | Mr. Edison the result of his calculations} “You're least 10 per cent out of the way,” said the inventor. The graduate, sublimely ? confident, disputed this. { “All right,” said Edison calmly. “Let find out.” The graduate took out his pencil, read for another siege at mathematics, but the inventor quietly picked up a small hammer! and knocked the tip off the blown end of, the bulb. Then he filled the bulb with] water, weighed it, and in about a minute had arrived absolutely at the result. I¢] “There is not le wrote T ‘Tis hin at All this is my ugh old the thought and oft expresved, ast who nays it best. apology for relating the following story, which I take from John Clinton Parker's little magazine, “Calabur,” he in turn having gotten it from an article by Charles M. Schwab in the American Magazine, Thomas A. Edison, who never the inside of a college as a student, once had in his laboratory a man fresh from one of our great universities, where he had been graduated at the head of his class. Soon DON'T TOUCH THOSE Surt -CAses —. THEY'RE FULL TO BURSTING THAT'S LITTLE HAROLD) TRUNK AND THERE ISN'T AN INCH OF ROOM LEFT InN (T saw now Postmaster General Burleson has passed the buck back | to the companies doesn’t do them any good. The merry | back and forth bartering of the great public service (’y ' 0rporations known as the Western Union and Postal, puts Mot one penny in the pocket of the man who pounds the alters his personal bread and butter problem not one this young bachelor of arts met much that upset his pet theories. But he would not readjust these theories. When things were done contrary to rules laid down in the books, he looked on with indulgence. One day Mr. Edison unscrewed from its ! showed that the complex mathematical cal- culations of the college man were at least 10 per cent out of the way. B Fortunately, the lesson went home, and afterward the student became an excellent! Nor tittle. practical electrician. f __ We are for the telegraphers in their demands. If the eeraph companies are foolish enough to continue to refuse arbitrate, then these men are justified in striking if ever lybody was—and d go with them! And you, Mr. Everyday Citizen, remember this: There no Bolshevism about it when a man getting $70 a month he can’t live on it and joins an organization to ask 4 More, even if he has to strike and put you to some WAT IN MY Personal inconvenience in the asking. The only thing in any PocKe T gos J “Way involved is just plain humanism—human need, human | : ; mig ap human right and human justice. : f Think You'd Enjoy a Little Paris Flat? Read Log of American Pair Over There }' beret Diatidiae Ns You CAN NOT. IT'LL SPOIL THE SHAPE res ms HAT — 1 CAN'T Do ANYTHING ABOUT IT oe en ee ee BY EDWARD M. THIERRY (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent) Thin story is for Mrs home who kick they'd had a cha. I CAN PUT THIS | meat rarety. Enoneh beef for two cost $4 cents, lam a chops 85 cen | stewing meat 6% cents, veal chops a 98 cents, mutton) chops $120 and veal cutlets $j Potatoes were 16 cents a pound. storeman wanted to put them in the wife's handbag. For two days” during the terre three weeks 4 une 14 Hourewife yman back about the 4 wish ae Fam The more we study the peace treaty, the more we owes Fea Naor F re seeded that it does almost as much to Germany @s $i would have done to us if she had won. ‘They've about sky-high ho- rates and world’s fair prices and they’ve probably said “Oh, if we had ne of those roft jobs on the peace mimion we'd take a fiat and econo- mize and ever thing™ read tel Fight—For Unity Every fair-minded, intelligent delegate to the Washing- State Federation of Labor convention in Bellingham week owes it not only to himself, but to the public, = Wife went j i woman t sf Coal Was Hard to Get house — sullen | two days in which nothing was bought to run the | expensive flat. ‘ ae fight not for one labor faction or another—but for) ps and unity within the ranks of organized labor in The State Federation of Labor represents too big a ‘™Movement—its influence for state progress has been too it—to allow itself to be torn asunder by factional bitter- ss, when its potential power is greater than ever before. ' __ “No compromise,” is the cry that is being heard from both the so-called radicals and the so-called conservatives us the time for the convention draws near. | They say it will be a fight to a finish. eS when the fight is ended, what? | fothing but more bitterness, discord and revolt, which- wins. Where are the far-seeing leaders with strength enough gather im the reins and guide the overflowing energies every union man—whether red or any other color—into road of unity and progress? The Star is hoping to see such leaders step out in| next week with a constructive, progressive fram on which all hands can meet. | Organized labor in the state today is wasting its power) im petty squabbles and futile arguments. | Undoubtedly there are readjustments that can be made it will satisfy all but the most pinheaded. If there are and methods of procedure of the state federation it are outworn, surely even the most conservative should willing to let them go by the board. If there are pet isms and visionary creeds which, in- into organized labor, are gaining nothing but ion, surely even the most radical should be willing! to keep them at home. They will do so, once the red glare of personal enmity, i CURTAIN CALLA FOR AUDIENCK Latest wrinkle in theatre curtains Peat way to Interest humana ts to get in hence the mirror curtain idea Hunch ts to keep the audience in terested = during the tntermis sions. O14 mod el theatre cur tains represent ing a gold-tram pleture of a « cioua shiny ball room, with ot read velvet drapes ready fall and emother the dancer, gents in #ilk socks and white wigs bewing to fan shuffling damsels, caused the audience to yawn after eyeful. The new mirror curtain will keep the dience busy during the intermiasion hunting ial reflections, and give them an idea what they look like from the left side of the footlights, Every: ty can be an actor ip the audience then. Trick mirror curtains would make Intermissions the best part of the show. Gents won't have any excuse to gO out between the acts after July 1, #0 the mirror urtain is making an opportune debut! # & mirror drop. em interested the first eee, é BY 0. B. JOYFUL ° Another college professor has gone and started an their | Agai 1381, Wat Tyler was killed at Black O ¢ June 15 heath. T English laborers who were protesting asa nomic conditions caured by the Hiack Deat imposition by the crown of heavy taxes tife all over England, and London was given the plunder and slaughter of the moba. Rich then a boy of 14, rode out on June 15 to confer with Tyler, who was the acknowledged lender of the to eurgenta Tyler became tneolentiy ler was a altercation which ensued. In 1520, on June 15, fented by Pope Iso X. for his church's practice of selling ir On June 15, 1 Renjamin Fr electricity by demonstrating hin theory that and electricity were ide Choosing a when menacing clouds showed that a thund: was imminent, Franklin rent up a kite o framework of tron wire, The cond was of hemp, a plece of silk at the hand end was attached an tron key When the storm broke ne stiffened, and sparks darted from the key attacks upon Julgences anklin discs witt and again and thus demonstrated his theory . on June 15, Arka tron In the Union On June 15, In 1844, the first patent for the pro cens of making rubber goods was granted to Charles Goodyear In 1849,0n June 16, the Oregon boundary treaty was rigned by Great Britain and the United States, lishing the longdieputed boundary line between Hritieh and American territories in the at parallel forty-nine. tab the leader of the insurrection of Riots were | menacing to the king, and one of Richard's followers kilied him in the Martin Lather wan exeommun and above the pilk Franklin drew the spark from the a8 was admitted Into Worth weet Here's the log theo? American ‘The Grocer Wanted to Pot housekeeping ship Votatoes in the Wife's Handbag. that started out ely fiat dwefing and gave up in despair y three weeks They found a “deor I room), a dining room, & furnished The, rent w nly* $80 a month! Americans succeed in finding cost from $100 to $140 & month! The furnished fiat @wefers here always have to furnish thelr own bedroom linen and table linen and Hiere’y the preliminary budget Just by way of prep aration to get into the fat 4 linen eheets at $19.58... 6 face towels at $1.97 at $1.1 ath towels at $ . forks and spc fiat.” Just a salon (ving 4room, dish towels TOtE ...areeencoennecccecrcemneeccaseccoss-$120.93 Furl costs more than $26 a tont t a time. The ng room grate golng, rest of the flat 1 of three weeks a Parisian took the place prac It cost to ran the apartment three $ 60.00 70.64 20.62 jas . ° . 6.40 | 2.40 8.60 ectric light laundry . Cleaning 6.00 | in bath and tiny kitchen Mont flate other | And ft was hard | shivering | Add to the $1823.86 that it took to rum the fiat three weeks the $120.92 preliminary expenses. That makes $204.78—the cost of this brief flyer in house | Ten row teat 3 f ELEMENTAL ¥ Dear, I dissolved my soul today, For I was sick of sound and sense, I loosed myself to sportive play Back with the elements, Mh ai Then, as you came adown the etreet, 4 1 threw myself where you should pasm 4 jj It was on me you set your feet; sf I was that patch of grass, Then, as I lay and laughed at you, Il saw you pat your perfumed hair, So I leaped up to bless it, too; I was that sunshine there ‘Then came the rain, and oh, my chance! All round your face, I kissed and kissed, You gave not one reproving glance; 1 was that driven mist. 1 whipped your ribbons round your watst, Your skirts around your silken knees; I folded you, as tho embraced; I was that tricksy breeze, Tomorrow, I again ehall be A plain, staid soul of human style, But you shall wonder, as you see The joyance of my smile! —EDMUND VANCE COOKR / (Copyright, 1919, by N. E. A.) ; other campaign against slang. I'll way he'll have a peach of @ time getting any- where with his campaign. BECAUSE (1) We've got al the slang we had before the war (2) More new siang was invented in camps and or ship (3) Everybody slang. can be swept away, and the delegates stand face to face) Treakage 48 representatives of 70,000 American men and women workers, uniting their strength in a just cause. | | | June 15, 1917, the Firet Liberty Loan flotation 10,000,000 in 3% per cent bonds wan closed Wan had been oversubseribed in six weeks from | the time of its iasua More than 4,000,000 people sub scribed. TIPS seece orese 0 | | ~ THE OLD GARDENER SAYS fi, That the late atoes should go into the ground at) {) That's an average of $61.29 a week! Just for Itving. | least four inches deep, otherwise the top soil gets tool ‘The breakage item of $1.20 was for breaking one | warm and dry for them, Experience has shown thatuig tohen glass and slightly cracking one plate! | the best crop of potatoes are cut lengthwise, so that Giv ss to the concierge and the fuel man was | each piece a bit of the seed end. Drop one the rent. Otherwise life would | pi in each hill and cover it with an inch of earth you apply any fertilizer, It is best for the ama living during those three weeks, | teur to use his fertilizer over rather than under the Once Mr. Husband and Mra, Wife had a man | seed, because less of it is wasted. It is a good plan his wife in to @ dinner. And once @ woman | to broadcast part of the fertilizer. The Potato roots — came to dinner | travel a long way and will be sure to find it even tho ns were from $1.60 to $1.90 a dozen! They had it is distributed between the rows. Total. ...s0+..00+ wore This is a free country, and that is one reason why food grown here costs more at home than it costs the French after paying freight across the Atlantic. The Good Old Game of Golf | About this time of the salubrious season a lot, of us) ";,,, men folks are taking our first whang at the good old gamé| me. of golluf. You know how it’s done and why it’s done. One| ! of your friends has been buzzing about the beauties of the ! ie into your unresponsive ear for lo, these many months. Eb le’s been telling you it’s great for the health and fine for the ruddy complexion and bully for the disposition and all ee sort of stuff. Mi finally weaken. goes 2 ext you purchase an assorted group of sticks with| jAn%! Def ® “canned Wille.” idee | where you tell the assembled pill-wallopers that you're! Yellows who wear stiff white collars are “harbor | your community A going to show ’em up. Grasping one of the heftiest clubs | s*ket».” ea “hustler*—full of “pep.” ly by the padded grip you take a squint at the globule,|. Colna are cated “tron men,” “sheckein” “washers. But—if every man in this country were Ike yon, Swing the club thru the atmosphere hither and yon Al-armor plates “Loty conua*’ clo’ bering” hoe Haenine ica civics and philanthropies would go couple of times, and then take a whale of a swat at the ball. | “mazuma” 54 hay ’ aires agi The dust arises and clings about you like a damp mist.| “Posey bait” Is the pet name for candy much thru m ow ia cene light 4 your hand, glancing down at it thru baa pe $0 "ake apa aie cell lan ge Precrielgtin t e clouds you see that you've busted it clean in twain! Fa that Con = ore fiat bee Right then and there you quit, cold, BUT—that’s the | aaae Broa porte Se ge dia ere Caan pet without culture any more way of the game—but, you see some asthmatic, concave-| a | And family lite ; anlgeey Sa hype ppockinig the sphereoid about eight miles be a THOSE WHO WANT TO REFORM TORAC | °'"" wae he is ’ over the hills and far away and you swear that you'll up| © "TENDS MAY FIND SOME KIND OF AN Wace ak ain and do likewise, that no hascbaert 14 going to ane you | - laa oe wert ppl tasprheiec ako aie aan tals * ‘ A i Mra. Perlisse Ann eller, of She lo, se¢ SP—-790 s00, by this time the showing-up process is OM tobacco daily. A litle clay pipe was har’ moet eon. | Sever" $d | stant Inde she had forgotten You knuckle to it and whang and puff and wallop learned everybody else's own pet “NOT ENOUGH TO. phil MERELY HUSTLE as ne ary as paying Just the other minute @ returned gob was | |have b eaten erable r ‘ There was no hix dd spilled more slang tn atx seconds than a college baa professor could analyze in a dozen years. “Jelly bean,” or “skirt,” or “Jane,” or “weezel,” or a — on BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Keligtous Topics for The Star This morning you jumped out of bed 15 minutes before breakfast, rushed to the train or the trolley 15 you began your breakfast and you've 1 ever since. | been a single minute daring the day ollected your thoughts or making tt x either jand or frien, ‘wax doll,” or “judy ‘old Indy.” steward suspected of holding eut “chow” at time is a “belly robber.” punk,” “axle ead is sugar ts greane.” and,” ralt ts * ees are “Eg g There eee wabmarine been rushing hasn't you qui busy er is “snake eye Salmon ts when you've been toc ting money some ’eddlers are “bumbonts.” The guy who spends too much time tn his ham. mock is a “bunk lizard.” know you other way You don't know your wife-—and your children don’t altho you're “working your head off” for| PRESBYTERIAN aM We “\\ Dr. James C. Reid will 3 preach at the morning and evening services. are kept alive and made strong not so but because some people are gly ht to them | thing @ just beginning to find it Morning—11 o’Clock UNIFYING THE CHURCH TO WIN THE WORLD “ideals” in business altho | out. And ideals don't than do strawberric than a check book privilege. Your need YOURS. economic niza but if the average citt increasingly perplexing thinking that the money he then we needs mor unlimited drawing more than they res in social an all to the no attention to the or may be good our country companion. sufficient are in a fair way of hay. these problems handled to our detriment by tikan — polittet and unscrupulous agitators—for they'll see to it that they get the backing they need to put thru thelr schemes while you're “hustling” on | your own job Fetter put @ little more “heart™ into it. Tt will make the whole Job better and bigger. And you'll enjoy it more as you go along instead of waiting until you “retire.” Which process would be to | finish you in short order y and |Sbout tobacco than most men ever learn. She pas fe perspire thru the hot weather to the dog days, ever hope-|*Y the other day, and some folk thought ful, ever anxious, and finally have the celestial joy of win-\gciy ips yearn ot wee ‘They. think aie ning a $5 silver cup after expending $182 for implements | tivea longer had she not smoked, pointing to the aad lessons, losing ten pounds in weight, completely ex-|many non-smokers who don’t live that long. pod your vocabulary and seeing your wife so seldom! ose Bhe seems like a stranger from your dim and distant past CAUGHT IN ACT m you chance to meet again. Golluf is a grand game.|, “! 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