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

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By, mail, out of city, 50 per 1.50; 6 monthe, $2.78 tate of Washing’ Tho per month, $4 per year, ly carrier, n. for ‘ eity, The True Life of Trade ae Monopoly hasn't the trade advantaged that it has been Supposed to have. | Business organizations with a monopoly of their prod. | ucts frequently go to sleep, and there is beginning to be a} revival of the old adage about competition being the life of trade. ‘ | For instante, there is an Ohio corporation that has t at least a million dollars in buying out rivals and erwise suppressing competition in the production of a certain store specialty, until it now maintains about al 90 per cent monopoly. mai fl It has been almost openly stated by those within this organization that it would make more money if it main- tained only a 60 per cent monopoly, | The reason given is in the fact that their sales- | men have a tendency to fix their standard of living at say $50 or $75 per week and that they will not work after they have sold enough to equal in com- missions their living standards, There are no rival salesmen waiting around the corner after their prospects, so hat the salesmen make just enough | calls and sales to equal their weekly quota, knowing that| - other prospects are safe until the following week. eG, As a result this concern has been forced to give prizes _ and premiums—create artificial competitions within Itselt—| _in order to get their salesmen to put forth selling effort) _ beyond a certain point. | The head of this concern with a 90 per cent monopoly once held a convention of salesmen at his factory, to which he invited the wives of the salesmen, and he openly ex-| to the wives just why the husbands did not being more money. * ‘ A Cleveland concern has a basic patent on a device used} railroad and mill yards for lifting metal on and off) It allows its principal competitors to also make and sell) _ this device without royalties. . The theory is that the burden will be divided in the matter of selling and advertising expense for a wider use| _ of the device. The fact that monopoly is not all that it is supposed to be may explain in part why Standard Oil has made more _ Money than previous to its unscrambling. Bi At least an: artificial competition has been created} en ¢ ie within the ———. Departm and district managers have been made to contest with each other and have therefore put forth greater effort for increased production and sales, In their rivalry for a showing ‘they have actually ited business. None of us are doing so much but what we might do And sometimes the incentive to do more 1s compe- more. ete true life of trade. ; fe Heinie asserts that he shouldn't be blamed for a war that was caused by the “entire European system.” The European system, bad as it was, didn’t contain any gen- | eral plan for sinking without trace. i Power to Resist Germs Life insurance reports indicate that more persons die of | to su that pneumonia germs were) into the lungs with the air we breathe, but certain! authorities now say that they are taken in with the we eat and work their way into the lungs thru the But, be all this as it may, it has been pretty well proven the microscope that we are all the while coming in con- et with all sorts of disease germs thru touch, breathing, ting, and drinking; that it is not how many nor the kind take in, but rather our power to resist them. And og Lad of resistance depends upon the state of is just like two men taking two drinks of whisky may remain sober while the other becomes drunk. It is simply he power, one over the other, to resist the lc poison. 3 This power of resistance may be constitutional, temper- “amental or due to the state of health at the time the drinks were taken. While we are from time to time visited with epidemics | ‘in the way of diseases, yet it is a well known fact that the| Majority of persons are not affected by them. e The germ of the disease epidemics is all the while flying ‘about and it is simply the power of resistance of those not affected over those who are affected. While this does not mean that sanitary laws nor the Jaws of personal health should be neglected, yet the state of mind has a good deal to do with the power to resist disease. The fear of disease lowers the power to resist disease. _At the time of these epidemics we all read and hear | their symptoms until we imagine we have the disease—our ’ powers of resistance are lowered to a point of succumbing. _It is a well known fact that when medical students first begin reading books on physical diagnosis, they imagine they have all diseases described in them. An English humorist once said that medical book he had every disease in t ward oe seer Sa knee, continued fear or belief in a disease will no doubt finally affect the body thru the mind and to a lowered power of resistance, just as most of us have noticed that a sudden fright or fit of anger will, for a time, have a very after reading a he calendar, in- | 48 THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1919. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise xican Gra The Me VILLISTA OR A CARRANZISTA, Itt. HAVE TO INSISTA THAT you pesisTa! coving ZA tow MY GOODNESS! ISN'T IT FIERCE? Starting May 1 a tax pomade will be smeared on feminine beauty accesories. While gents are making _ the rounds of gin garages lay im stock of bun beverages before the July drought, women wit the drug stores to stock up on com plexion cosmet ‘tes before May Day, when tax ribbons are wound around the beauty coun: tere. The young damsols will be keep up with the faxed upkeep of beauty by making their admiring ewains pay for it. Taxed beauty can be met with more movies, dances and bon bone on the beaux part. And then again, there's @ good point to the tax. Maybe it will fix things so we'll be able t# see & greater part of the wrens’ real faces, minus the powderrouge masks. eee BY 0. B. JOYFUL MY, THIS WILL BE A NOISY WORLD IF WEAR AMPLIFIERS WE Francisco, with an amplifier idea which may or may not be fine stuff, depending on how you look at it Says Tom “A man's voice can be made as loud as the can non’s roar; it can be heard two or 20 miles, The ticking of a watch can be amplified until it sounds like breakers on an ocean cliff. “It's no trick at all to magnify sound 6,000,000 times, or indefinitely. All that is needed is to con nect a number of vacuum valves in muttiple with a wireless receiving set, and the thing is done. “At the first receiving contact a voice will be normal, seven times; thereafter it squares itrelf—seven times 49 for the next and #0 on.” He's talking about the volume of sound; not power of transmission | Can you imagine what life would be if everybody talked thru one of those vacuum valves? Little Willie never could alibi himself out of a scolding by saying he didn’t hear mother call him to go and run to the store for loaf of bread, quick, for supper Life would be a weary grind for Willie—always within hearing distance of mother’s magnified voice A say, listen to this 1 cannoneding thru the wife's amplifier when Friend Husband drifts in after the poker party will leave no neighbor in ¢ofibt about what's being #aid to him. Only the deaf in the farthest away suburbs won't hear her And—h o r ro r # !—how'll the movie be like if the pert who insists upon whispering during the most important flashes does his whispering thru an amplifier? However a fellow if you have the amplifier and he hasn't Many a debate is won by the louder argument But—how'll it feet when the boss uses his ampli fier to tell you right in front of the whole force what he thinks of getting down late every morning? your manifest effect upon the body thru the digestive functions. _ The league plan may fail. No human’ instrument is perfect. But if it does fail we shall be in no worse plight than we are now. At the worst we can go back to the gentle practice of organized slaughter. Germany claims that 800,000 civilians died because of the blockade. Surely not for lack of food. Prisoners held by Germany proved that it is possible to live with- out food, In her counter proposals, Germany agrees to disarm all her battleships. Where did she get the idea that she had any “battleships?” If senators cannot agree concerning the effect of a League of Nations, why not permit mere citizens to de- _ cide the matter? This consortium the nations have planned is an _ agreement to lend to China collectively in order to keep one another from stealing from China individually. And—if your best girl uses the amplifier to let you know that her answer is NO! Tom Lambert adds, by way of proof: “In the stadium at Golden Gate park the ticking of a watch was made audible all over the grandstand. while an athletic meet was in progress Alto this “A wireless station recently received a telephonic message from Burope, and thru its amplifier startled duck hunters in the marshes eight miles away,” * We have read carefully our private copy of the treaty and after serious reflection and study of the terms we have’ unanimously decided that Germany Lost The War . Republican congressmon in Washington who pro claimed they would repeal the luxury tax, now say they are for it; As a matter of fact, the only per. |sons we know who are against the luxury tax are | those who can't vote on the question . . Chancelior Day has started to rave against the league of nations, Tell it-to Professor Garner, chan- eellor, rT DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU'RE A the | It'll be some fpleasant time arguing with | BUT ne) Cut in one vacuum vale and it is raised | seven to 49 for the next vacuum valve and 49 times | | | months more than 3 years of age. | native tongue fluently at 10 months, and at the age | French and Duteh. | 0 e Here comes Tom Lambert, wireless engineer of San | 0D leaders, ace nce BooTn Tomorrow N June 27, 1649, Sir Edmond Andros, royal gov ernor of New England, wah impeached by the colonial house of deputies at Hoston, Andros was the first high government official in America to be impeached, and was sent to England for trial In 1709, on June 27, the battle of Pultowa was fought in Russia. The conflict between the Swoder under Charles XII. and the Russians under Peter the Great lasted for two hours. It ended in @ com plete defeat of the Swedes and marked the fall of Swedish domination and the beginning of the rise of Russian power. On June 27, 1724, a party of Mohawk Indians at tacked the hover of John Hanson, a Quaker, in Dover, N. called,. killed and scalped the two smallest children and carried off the other three children, their mother and the nurse. Even under this terrible provoca tion, the Quakers from the Dover abandon their principles and give fight. They not only refused to pursue the Indians, but could not be pereuaded to join in any plans for defense. In 1725, on June 27, Christian Henry Helnecken, « boy prodigy of Germany, died, when he was several Ho epoke his of 3 was able to converse with facility in Latin It is alno related of this unusual ebild that he had read the Pentateuch and the Old and New Testament before he was 2 yeare oid. 1844, Joseph and Hiram Smith, Mor. On June 27, age, 1 BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE This Socrates—-too free of speech! Mayhap he thinks we cannot reach A man as known and loved as he. Well, then, the poison! Se! let be! Hie mind is dead, his corpse is rotten; So let him lie and be forgotten! Who I thin Radical, whose views So etire the rabble of the Jews? One Jesus, eh? Well! crucify Him and His doctrines! so! they die! Now, no more talk that men are brothers. And prattle “as you would that oehers.” This Galileo! fool of fools, Who doubts the doctrines of the schools And flouts ux by some devil's trick The torture for the heretic! his glib Mes we disprove; The earth is fixed. It does not move So! all This Lincoln of ungainly shape, This niggeriover, oaf and ape, Who sets slaves free! Does he not know One leaden pellet lays him low? So! he fs fallen and his name Is blotted from the liets of fame! And still—men seek to set the chain And padiock on the human brain And still—men hold that blood and fire May bar mankind for its desire. And still~our jords of high dominion Would murder thought and jati opinion! ” - - a || USING THE SCRIPTURE TO : SMITE PERSONAL ENEMIES BY THE a * REV, CHARLES STEL/ Of all the pletietie—but thoroughly eu people who arouse our “righteous indignation,” which means that we're devilish mad—there are none who make us madder than those who use the word of God to express the feeling of the devil that's in them They sometimes take a slap at Brother Jones by quoting Scripture in the prayer meeting which isn't at all intended to get to the ears of the Almighty God, but rather to smite the heart of Jones, They will give utterances to Old Testament male dictions which should stir up anybody excepting those hardened sinners who are quite indifferent to notes of warning of any kind These are the folks whose chief delight in life would be to become the “lord high executioner” for the Almighty—but not being called upon to consign their personal enemics to hell—in @ literal fashion they do the next best thing by promising these en emies the curses and condemnations of the Bible Now the Lord doesn't want any man to perish He wants men to be saved from everything that's | degrading and bad. Therefore, He isn't looking for executioners—He wants thore who will lift loads and carry sorrows and wipe away tears, and there's an abundance of Scripture for the use of the “saviours,” The French Mohawks, as they were) colony refused to} were arsaninated in the jail at Carth*! Suppose You Find Out About Bolshevism? BY Dit. FRANK CRANE | (Copyright, 1919, by rank Crane staat sisaststiasiiataisisemanniminnane ceased to be a| It has be- Bolshevism has almost political term in this country. jcome an epithet, | Almost anybody who does anything we don’t like is a Bolshevik. We are solemnly assured that Prohibitionists are Bolsheviki, ‘also Socialists, Labor Unions, adyocates of Government Ownership, Burglars, Senators and the Other Fellows generally. Now I shall not state here what Bolshev lism is. I have already stated it. I will do better. 1 will tell you how you can find out fall anybody knows ahout it. | ‘If you want to read what those who favor Bolshevism shave to say, consult 1. 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