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She Seattle Star By, mail, out of city, 50 per month; 8 months, 1.50; @ months, $2.75; year, $5.00, in. the tate of Washington Outside the state, Tbe per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.06 per year. By carrier, city, 12¢ per week. What Are We Profited? pe ld, and lose his own soul?” Math, 16; 26. : The war is over. The red guns of the West front are hed. The cheering dies. The broken ranks of Ameri- ‘ soldiers are returning. And we have won! When we “went into this bloody business it was with the firm resolve democracy, our ideal, should come out victorious, a ing light for all the world. Now the specific ques- ion is, just what has American democracy gained in the ° ere is one thing we have indubitably gained. That, e right, by might, to continue to live in_a free country, | free institutions—if we want to. But that right inevitably and automatically go by the boards if we /not press it. It is a moral right. And today this coun- seems to be drifting toward moral bankruptcy. : Here is a summary of a few of the things that point way. BS Mar. soldiers are returning. Many are jobless. Many continue jobless, or accept work at inferior wages, war-profiteers have now turned after-the-war ofiteers. ‘Before and during the war the labor depart- nt at Washington had built up a great national free em-| nent service that would have been of inestimable to these men today. One of the first acts of the new ess was to so slice the appropriation of the labor de- it that the employment service had to be largely dis- d. The country knew what it would mean when the ce was made. But—was there a general protest? There, g not! | During the war we were told it was necessary to the tion of our free institutions that we forget about of them for a while. We said: “We must win at all ” So a law was passed, as a war measure, practically fulling the right of free speech and free thought. A Spy system was organized to enforce the law. Now | roup of reactionary legislators and lobbyists at Wash- n are seeking to have the espionage act and spy system | goes with it perpetuated into peace times. The country} c of these efforts. Is there any concerted protest?) ere is not! | During the war hundreds of sincere if misguided men @ women were imprisoned under the espionage act. Hun-| of fine lads in the military service, whose chief| were hot-headed youth, inexperience and irresponsi- | were given long sentences in military prisons for in-| tions of army rules. In the case of the civilians we “Yes, they should be shut up—during the war.” In the case of military prisoners we said: “Yes, they ld be made examples of—during the war.” | Now the war is over and hundreds of both classes } still in prison, with long years left to serve. Some are y reliably reported to be undergoing beatings even for| ious faith. The war department does not move. The} nt of justice does not move. Congress does not ~ But—is our public sense of justice shocked? It is isibly! nerican soldiers are still fighting in Russia, altho is no recognized “state of .war” existing between us|} yy Russian faction. A foreign-directed censorship even let us know why or against whom they or with what allies. All that we can gathér, nd channels, is that it is Japan and France most heavily interested, financially, in the Russlan All the censorship permits us to know is that in soldiers are “putting down revolutionists.” Cen- gives us half light, nay, no light at all, on the m that is still costing American lives. But—is there even for light? - There is not! __ These are only three or four cases in point. And yet show public conscience to be sleeping. They point ascendency of the Prussian idea, in spite of the fact the Prussian hosts are beaten. People think the Japanese a wonder because he can get a living from an acre of ground. An American d, also, if he could be satisfied with that sort of Direct Marketing Seattle has municipally owned market stalls which are ated to food producers only at the rate of 10 cents a day. theory, of course, is that consumers will be benefited} direct buying, and that overhead expenses for producers Ml be cut to a minimum. In fact, the curb and shed space i free, as the 10 cent charge is merely to cover expense cleaning up at night. The trouble is that the producers come in, occupy the ree space and then forget to cut prices accordingly. They More concerned in collecting the same prices charged their competitors who pay high rents than in cutting ces in gratitude for the public facilities they enjoy. Seattle housewives are getting tired of inflated costs, it’s why they are meeting in the Frederick & Nelson ditorium at 2:30 p. m. Thursday to hear reports on a marketing system of their own. We try to force our ideals on Europe without proper regard for the fact that the man who owns a 200-acre farm can afford to use better machinery than the fellow who gets his living from a garden patch. Reconstruct Them, Too ; The total amputations among American soldiers in the War was under 4,000; the total in American industrial plants EVERY YEAR is 26,000. During, and since the war much was said about “re= construction of broken bodies,” the teaching of new avoca- Yions to men so crippled that they could not return to their old jobs. This is fine! But let us also consider the wounded in industry, the legs and arms lost in feeding, clothing, housing, warming ‘the people of this country. Let us reconstruct those un- Tortunates, too. 3 While doing all we can for the 4,000, let us not forget ‘the annual 26,000 toll of arms or legs. There isn’t much danger that a young man will go wrong as long as he clings to the idea that his mother is the most wonderful creature in the world. A Grieve took the same chance, but Hawker gets most | of the glory because he was steering. And by this method does the world select its great men. thing about monkeys | The Turning Point in Your Career. “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole | |~ fest ‘e NEARBEER MOVIE V Prohibition fn the movies, layout goes drier than a scenarios that once flashed When the thoughts, movie scenes will then have to be dry as the Se nett “bathing’ girls, Prohibition will thina buneh of movie that once thick ened thru Corned John — Barley's help. Take the c of the movie wild west saloon and dance hall, where “TwoGun Gus" busts in and steers the too. lizard’s Nquor EVERYBODY “To TH’ SODA BAR “W' DRINKS ARE ON ME ! whole bar with a pair lead tossers for a garsle of varnish remover sheriff's purse. It'll have to be a soda fountain then “Two-Gun Gus" will pop In and order the gang up to the soda bar for a nut sundae or a hottie of nears beer! And near-beer may upset the scenario. make the supes so mad because they have to drink it, they'll knock the hardboiled bad man for a pile of corks, . The man who backed . Professor Garner's trip to Africa says he doesn't believe the professor talked with monkeys. Be that as it may, a man who can get backing for that kind of a trip must know some- eee Editor We'll Say So: ‘There is an old maid, about 45, living on our atreet who is not very nervous, nor is she easily scared, but I'l bet $10 she'd jump at a proposal.—A. Long Hiker. ore If all the fish stories fishermen tell were true there would be no food shortage cee YE EDITOR SWINGS HIS RIGHT One year and four days has passed since the time fixed by the gang to demolish and drive out of busi ness the Independent. ‘The paper is larger, better, and increases in circulation and business daily. Are reorganizing our help. Have got the best in the me chanical department of any paper in the state. There has been four new employes taken on, The adver tisers know the results they get by patronizing the Independent. The constant falsifications, misrepre sentations, innuendos and flings has not killed the paper, Read the Independent and get the news of the entire county, and not be confined to gush of the high-fluting city society, telling how Mrs, Jones held a reception, Mrs. Peter having an afternoon tea, Mrs. Slaks’ children having the mumps, or that Mr. Crank’s dog scratched up a garden and killed some city chickens. The news of the entire county and state and nation and world, the best system of tele graphic dispatches of the county.—-Fairmount (Minn.) Independent LONDON —“Pre war ilized soldiers,” reads store. demob- London civility; no girls, only a notice in a south IF YOU LIVED IN N WOULD HAVE TERESTED YOU NELSON, Man., Can.—This town was invaded by a band of Doukhobers, who declared they would camp in the city indefinitely unless three members of their colony, who were jailed some time ago for refusing to bury dead human bodies, were released ened that they would bring in the alance of the colony and “pull off” a nude parade in the city as a further protest against the action of the authorities Older residents who still remember the parade of the Doukhobers, when men, children walked naked thru the city, speedy release of the jailed Doukhobers. Doukhobers are a pacifist bunch. Their only pon of protest is to remove all their parade. NITOBA, THIS last protest women and advised the wea- eee PENAL FEES It was at the dentist's. Smith was the object the chair—a miserable, forlorn object he looked. ‘The operation was ended and the dentist was ostentatious ly cleaning his forceps The unlucky victim turned gipon his persecutor $5? You promised to charge me only $1." agreed the tooth tugger, cheerfully, “that was my contract price.” _ His manners and clothes are better, but under the skin man is much the same creature he was before he kearned to cook his food. 4 He: 2 “Well?” queried the tormented one “But you yelled so loud that you've three other dollar patients.” oe Sixth of July (1834) scared . On the was born, the republican party plots | crowd up to the | on the | Might | clothing and | HUSH —'T'S HUBERT! HE'S JUST REACHED THE AGE WHEN HE WANTS TO CLEAN UP. IN FACT FT THINK L KNOW THE VERY GIRL—|’ THE NEW ONE VP THE STREET WHOZAT RUNNING THE WATER? kil you TOOK YOUR, VOLUNTARY BATH THE REGULARS When we went to war with Germa almost abrupt about face in the man in uniform (t folks did an their attitudes toward regular), and encouraged | him much in the service of his country, which was worth something—but not all—for they were men that already believed in and loved their country well | enough to gerve it well, They have proved it by their | works.” Would it have been possible to have whipped | into shape in so short a time the wi humanity to service had it not be | small reservoir of trained men? That's a question easily decided. But now that they have nobly served the cause, ure they again to be turned aside, regarded as wolves in sheep's clothing’ and forgotten? | honor is given to the man who was forced to serve— probably unwillingly—but just ask him who trained him for the better service. Who were the men that turned the tide Chateau-Thierry? I ean imagine few that are left, nowadays, for hon- or's sake, faking a classification card ca It seems that line of discrimination has again been drawn agalast the regular soldier. Men of the na- tional army are being released by the thousands be they have fulfilled their contract with the gov ernment, but men of the regular army are being held long after their contract is fulfilled and offered the inducement of reenlisting’ without their travel pay. According to this inducement the little band of reg ulars have recently become undesirables, and there will surely be few ‘enlistments among these men be cause of such discriminations between him and the emergency man. This action, however, conflicts with the present policy of retaining him long after his | term of service has expired, and if the present con- | flicting policies continue a greater unrest than ever before will be manifested. An unrest which will solidarize the little reservoir of men who were and qaulified by the fires of services whose service | has also affected and influenced the greatest army that was ever mobilized in so short a time We have served our time; why not shoot square with us and live up to that part of the grand old constitution “Equal rights to all, spectal privileges to none"? You will gather trom this article that the writer is a seven-year man, which is true. T am a regular and glad to be in their class Yor they are men that have been of real service. But now what of their reward in fair play? Can't there be some thing done to bring about an adjustment of such an unfairness? WM. N. FREEMAN, Fort Ward. cause Tomorrow N July 10 in the year 138 peror of Rome, died. Adrian, on a visit to Britain which was then under Roman rule, built the great wall, 80 miles in length, which extended across Eng: land from Neweastle to Carlisle. In July 10 the old London Bridge was burned in a conflagration, during which 2,000 persons inhabiting that borough were burned to death On July 10 in 1559 Henri II. of France, died from @ wound received in a tournament. It was Henri who recovered Calais from the English and restored it to France, In 1584 on Publius Adrian, em- 1212 on July 10 William 1, Prince of Orange, was killed an assassin, supposed to have been employed by the king of Spain, He had freed the Netherlands from the Spanish and brought about a union of the Dutch provinces for which he is called | “fhe Father of the Dutch Republic.” In 1704, on July 10, the British took the fortress of Gibraltar from Spain On July 10 in 1821 the Spanish flag was furled at St. Augustine, I and the flag of the United States raised in its pla In 1890, on July 10, Wyoming was admitted into the Union, Under the state constitution equal suf frage was provided for women. Wyoming, therefore, was the first state in the Union to grant the fran chise to women, On July 10 in nominated for 1 the democratic an open candi for free silver was nominated by 1896 William Jennings Bryan was esident at the national convention of ty at Chicago. He had not been » for the, presidency, but his speech so impressed the convention that he POINTED PARAGRAPHS It matters not how smart a will bump up against smarter man is who is Some day he another just a little / | | ‘The tax collector's office believes the dog is about as extinct as the dodo, The Ananias habit of tying | the dog out in the backyard when the to the front door is what causes the of pup when taxes are paid assessor com wonderful lack All| On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise BOURGEOIS BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) I am Bourgeois. and can’t help it, Bourgeois. I thought but I discover that I do, I am Bourgeois. It is I that the rampant Bolshevik hates. | It is upon me that the Greenwich Village revolutionist looks with scorn. The Capitalist and the Aristoc rat snub ie. The Laborer regards me as his enemy, also gouges me. I give the Literary High Brow a large pain. . | When there is a strike, both sides strike |Me, not each other. The Grocer cheats me. I am responsible for all the faults and crimes of Government, for I elect the Law- makers, All who yearn to revolute and ‘find me in the road and curse me. Also the Reactionary, seeing I am cold toward the time-honored bunk of his glorious traditions, pauses to swat me. Poets look on me as hopeless, and Brick- jlayers are of the same opinion. | The trouble fis, viewed from |that I use a toothbrush, wear a clean collar, |live with my legal wife, work dor a living, jSave up a little money, keep most of the |Ten Commandments, and generally try to |mind my own business. Which is just plain, |disgustingly Common. | The trouble is, viewed side, ‘and our Best People, I don’t want to keep jup with the Joneses, it doesn’t interest me to be bowed to by Mrs. Gotrox, nor be in- |vited to the Duchess of Dingbat’s tea. When I get thru my day’s work I want to go home and tend the garden, eat with my family, play with the children, read upturn from’ the other Hopelessly, natura! born, | I didn’t belong to any Class, | one side, | 1 don’t care a hang about Sassiety | a book, and go to bed. I am sunk in the bog of decency. 1 don’t keep the two Great Commandments of the Emancipated, for I don’t hate my neighbor nor love my neighbor's wife. I am not of any Elect. I am not Misunderstood. Onsthe contrary, my neighbors have me sized up about right, and I’m getting about all I earn. I don’t believe the country is going to the dogs. I think the President is doing his durndest according to his lights. I believe most men are. honest and want to do the square thing, and most things will get well if you don’t pick ’em too much, I am full of the most Bourgeois opinions.” I believe Prohibition’s a good thing and that we'll all be glad of it in 10 years from now. I don’t see why a woman shouldn’t vote if she wants to. I think the men who are run- ning the Big Business of the country, and who came to their positions by National Selection, are doing it better than a lot of Walking Delegates of the Plumbers’ Union would do it. Also that a man is not neces- sarily a criminal because he’s rich, nor a nobody because he’s poor. - I am in the Bourgeois Class, along with Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, J. J. Hill, Ed Howe, Melville Stone, James Whitcomb Riley, Walt Mason, John Wanamaker, Will- iam Shakespeare, also tht typewriter and telephone girl, the clerk in the shoe store, the milkman, the doctor, lawyer, preacher, and saloonkeeper. I don’t belong to the Vere de Veres, and my ancestors probably came ovef steerage. Neither do I belong to the Proletariat, and Upton Sinclair, the United States Senate, Debs and Berger get on my nerves with their unending bellyaches. I guess I’m hopeless. I even go to church, oe a _ Dr. Stelzle Tells Why — | JESUS WENT INTO THE FISH BUSINESS | to BY THE REV. ¢ RLES STELZLE Staff Writer for The Star on Religious Topics. “L have no time to go into the soup business for the sake of the soup,” said a church official, in dis cussing furnishing soup to hungry men and women. Well, I'd like to remind this amiable official—who not only had all the soup he needed but about thing else that makes men contented so far as m) terial things go-—I'd like to remind him that Jesus went into the FISH business when he fed the five thousand who were hungry Nor did Jesus heal the sick that they ear him preach; he healed them because he sion on them and because they needed healing It shouldn't be much of a degradation for one who says he is following in the footsteps of Jesus to hand jout soup to hungry men, women and children because they're HUNGRY! | “Give ye them to eat!” to His disciples. It's a fortunate ficial did not express its real position on the question of caring for the hungry . The church has served the unfortunate in this | world conflict without thought as to whether those assisted were members of the church or whether they ever intended to become such ‘Their need was their passport into the hearts of the | representatives of the church who were in a position | to serve—and serve they did, to the uttermost st let the whole church be warned that in the new day that’s come, at such fearful sacrifice, that it must not fail to take into account the physical needs |of the people who are still fighting for economic freedom, was the command of Jesus might come | had | just | thing for the church that this of- athe Staite |, THE OLD GARDENER SAYS: Pro. BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE In Warsaw, I met a decided gro-Jew, (Copyright, 1919, N. BE. A.) In Paris I found a proGerman or two, i In Milwaukee, a bunch of pro-Drys. # And in Prussia, I found pro-Allies I found pro-Hungarians living in Prague, And I found vegetarians sometimes pro hog | In Constantinople I found a pro-Greek, And a Kurd who was strong pro-Armenian; On Riverside Drive I found pro-Bolshevik And in Belfast I found a» pro-Fenian In the Soviet goyernment, what did I see But a mild-mannered man who was pro-Bourgeousie! In Los Angeles County, I found a proJap, In Stratford, a staunch pro-Baconian, But all the world over, I harried the map And found just one pro-Burlesonian; And he was a chap of original kidney Whose first name was Albert and second name Sidney. It is about time to watch out for a second bi of currant worms, These pests often do much dam age at this season. All too often they are not dis- covered until the vines are stripped because as a rule they begin working at the bottom of the plants. Per- haps you sprayed your currants with arsenate of lead early in the season. It will be better to substitute hellebore now as this is a less dangerous poison. You may put it on in @ liquid form or dry, mixing it with three times its bulk of flour as a matter of economy, Make certain, tho, that the hellebore is fresh for it, soon loses its potency. of paying Revenue Taxes on Rainier to the Government. a ‘Nothing goes finer with a sandwich! To make a sandwich supremely tempting have a bottle of RAI- NIER SPECIAL with it. The fla- vor of this beverage sets food off just right. Thousands of homes now keep a case in the house con- stantly—for use with meals—and to serve guests. It’s economical— Rainler Products Company, Seattle, U. S. A, Manufacturer of Rainier Special, Rainier Beck, Malt Rainier, Rainier Cereal, The Rainier Products Company relieves retailers and consumers of the necessity Beverages by paying ALU taxes thereon direct