The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star By, mail, out of city, 1.50; 6 monthe months, 00, in the the state, 8, or $9.00 week. 500 per month $2.75; 35 tate of Washington, | ald Tbe per month, $4.50 for 6 month per year. By carrier, city, le per There is general agreement among a large section of the prophets that the world is moving toward “industrial democracy.” Such widely differing guides as John D. Rockefeller, jr., The International Harvester Co., the trade Industrial Democracy Lloyd George have foreseen something of the nature of “industrial democracy.’ “on the roads to be travelled and no little on the nature All, however, somehow imply that the minds that _ Operate industry and that have made our machine civiliza- i ‘tion so marvelous must apply some of these methods, after Much modification, to government. It is not so much that political democracy must be moved: into industry as that industry, democratized, must move into government. Politics have grown apart from life. The politician person who knows how to get office but who does not w what to do when he gets it. The world’s problems are industrial. The making and handling of goods is more troublesome than making and _ The problem is to accomplish the change without de- atroying industry or democracy. result would be but an inversion of the domination of wnment by autocratic industry. Such rough handling s government, industry and democracy together. While we debate, the change seems to be growing all put us. British statesmen have already urged that in- dustrial units be given representation in parliament. ean political machine is sending out a multitude of lustrial organs. Everywhere the state is extending its ivity into industrial fields. The great industrial parlia- nt that sat recently in London went far to smooth the A similar gathering, composed of representatives of ployers and employes is urged for this country. _ A multitude of social engineers are thus making safe roads to “industrial democracy.” ¢ lan is building a broad bridge over the widest chasm. The usetts legislature leveled another obstacle when it) orized corporations to provide for the election of a cer- number of directors from and by non-stockholding em-| en Collective bargaining is a wide and crowded highway which millions are moving toward “industrial democ- yy.” Manifold schemes of joint management provide the ining that insures success. The powerful cooperatives hat are spreading over the earth are building the foun- tions of the new age. The greatest danger is from those who would destroy no y either by a “dictatorship of the proletariat” or maintenance of the industrial autocracy of ownership. Let us by all means refer all future wars to a vote J ople—and let those who vote for it do the work. Those of us who are fat and bald can remember a when girls of 14 were not conscious of their ankles. a ~ World’s Credit Foundation : The modern business world is built on credit, and most modern civilization is built on business. tested principles, is now a vast inverted pyramid with its on shifting sands. : . Gold payments, the accepted test of national credit sta- ity, have everywhere been suspended. The refusal of the Sank of England to redeem its promises in gold has always a sign that the last bulwark against universal bank- y.was cracking. That bank has paid out no gold for No nation is meeting its obligations. Billions of dollars money have flowed over the world with a flood has lifted the price level to demoralizing heights. All e are promises to pay gold. None of those promises are being met. Business relations are maintained on the ype that the payment is but deferred. But that hope has so long deferred that the business heart is very sick. Other billions, unimaginable ten years ago, have been ued as bonds. Those of Germany, Austria, Turkey and ia seems certainly lost. But the threads of the credit “web interlace closely all across the world. Tearing out such great sections strain and threaten its stability everywhere. " Moreover, most of these billions were borrowed to buy gs to destroy and be destroyed, and have done their work. e world went to the verge, if not over the verge of bank- Tuptcy to buy fuel for a frightful bonfire. The money is spent. The security is destroyed. ' Great financiers in every land now say the only way out lies through greater debts. Because Europe has destroyed much, more must be given it. Only by stretching the ‘in and torn web of credit over the whole world can it be re- built. It cannot be rebuilt upon the old material things. They are gone. It must be built upon faith in the power of peo- ples to govern themselves, produce wealth and keep their promises. Destroying that faith invites a universal smash. Tear- ing down the fabric of production means universal misery. To attempt to exploit that production for immediate per- sonal profit, runs the risk of killing the faith upon which production rests. A new age can grow from the old only if the soil is not destroyed. Social institutions are of long evolution. Breaks in the chain make necessary long new proc s of prepara- tion #3 To be concrete, it is a bad time to start profiteering and life. Reciprocally, because industry and production, as organ- ized today, rest on credit, it is a bad time to start a fr: that will smash credit. The world’s future hang that man and women will continue~to work and produce wealth. comfort to this generation. The reactionary and the revolutionist alike are rousing ie forces that might be easily managed and directed in other times, but that today can as easily wreck the best of what the past has gained, the present possesses, or the fu- ture promises. How unfortunate that a blockade couldn’t be lifted without lifting prices along with it. on little nation believes in self-determination for everybody cxcept its neighbors. Add to the problems of modern life: The high cost of Ddoozing: f War makes bedfellows no less strange than politics. Union, the national war labor board, the bolsheviki and! But there is wide disagreement) of the goal to be reached. | mforcing laws. It is the distribution of wealth, not of- : , that threatens revolution. | viets seizing political power would industrialize gov- | t, but destroy democracy, and probably industry. | The The British Whitley | Credit, hitherto built on broad foundations according to! If that faith fails, the rest will bring little hope or| THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNFSDAY, JULY 23, 1919. DIDN'T I TOLDT ANU 1 WAS DELICATE IN DER STUMMICIK? UND Now COMES IT HARD AGAIN IN DER STUMMICK! AT THAT, SOME IVORY BLOCKY LADY WILL ANSWER Wanted—I would like to get in touch with a middle aged woman, blocky made, with either black, auburn | or brown hair, who is lonesome and who would look | favorably upon an {industrious man, I want a woman of medium size who {# industriofs, who is not afraid to work a little, and who knows how to save money. Address Samuel J. Thompkins.—Advertisement in Spencer (Ia.) Reporter. eee “HICHIC" FLUIDS Some bird who hasn't ha much to do lately finds |that buttermilk contains 1 per cent alcohol, And if | the bone dry law comes thru | with thumbs | down, buttermilk will get the one way gate like all the other” hie-hic fluids. Wouldn't raise our eye brows a notch to learn that some rasbo Is busy an- alyzing chewing gum to find if there's a tilt packed away in | a etick. Or if a —— == “| heaping — brush- ful of toothpaste would unwind a mild jag. A lot lof exgin cookoos are gradually bleaching the bol |shevik complexion of their beeks to a lily white model thru buttermilk, but now it looks Mke they'll jbave to go thru life with 5050 pink beezers. Also, |buttermilk was always voted for as a recipe for old age. But the way they're going after things now, ail the citizens will be strong for dying young! see They're drinking hair tonic in Porto Rico. Any- way, there's about as much sense to drinking it as to putting it on the head. J.D, T. sends it: I pity the guy that works in a collar And doesn't dare make a bit of a holler; At sizzlers Mke this I merrily scoff, For when I'm at work my collar is off. eee An ad man advises “How To Fill Up Your Flats.” But none advertises How to fill out our slats. eee This may or may not be true. We find it in the United States consular reports sent out by the gov ernment: } More than 100,000 to 400,000 pounds of pig iron in- testines are exported from China annually, for use as sausage casings. oe A ratiroad company will be regarded as buncoing the public in a year or two if it calls its fast train “The Flyer.” cee But, as the waiter remarked. —~especially if he's in the habi “Youth must be served of tipping big.” o- A Johns Hopkins scientist says locusts are good to eat. We don't believe it. If they were any good the Chicago packers would have cornered the supply long ago. . . If this man Profestor Garner really can understand monkey talk, why not send him to the United States te and see if he can translate some of the things hears there? tolumbia University announces woman ¢ arn to trim trouble? Go to a milliner and you, too a course in which a hat. Why go much and she will trim the hat - . | ‘The Maine supreme court ginger an unlawful intoxicant to drink hair tonic e has declared Jamaica But it’s «till all right oe We don't save a great deal of daylight but when we do save any it is by not reading anything about what congress Intends to do with the more daylight bill . The more meat the packers have in storage the higher prices go. But this should be expected by everybody who knows anything about the business. For the more meat they have in storage the more trouble to look after it. . A Rahway (N, J.) socialist has sued the city for $5,000 because the fire department turned the hose on him while he was making a speech. We can't see where's he's entitled to damages, Water ought to do most of ‘em good BEST EXERCISE IN THE worRup FOR YOu, FRITZ! YOu'LL FEEL FINE SY AFTER FIFTY OR SIXTY YEARS OF Vifga T Tomorrow N the 24th of July, in 1471, Thomas a Kempis, a German monk, a mystic and ascetic writer, died in the Netherlands. He is believed to have been the author of the famous devotional book, “The Imita tion of Christ.” In 1667, on the 24th of July, Mary, Queen of Scots, who was then a prisoner in the Castle of Lochleven, signed the deed resigning her right to the Scottish crown in favor of her son, James VI On the 24th of July, in 1797, the British made an unsuccessful attack upon Santa Cruz, Teneriffe. It was during this engagement that Lord Nelson, who was fighting under Admiral Jarvis, iost his right arm. The year following, on August 1 and 2, Nelson de stroyed the French fleet at anchor in the harbongof Abukir during the engagement called the “Battle of the Nile." Two years later he was created admiral and raised to the peerage. In 1847, on the 24th of July, Brigham Young en tered the Great Sait Lake valley and founded Salt lake City. He was accompanied by a company of Mormons,snutmbering 143 men, two women and two children. Brigham Young was born at Whitingham, Vt. in 1801. He was by trade a carpenter and at the age of 30 was converted to Mormonism, The follow: ing year he joined the Mormons at Kirtland, Ohio, and was made an elder. Later he succeeded Smith as president of the church and led his followers to Utah. Two years after he had settled Salt Lake City, Young was appointed governor of Utah territory by President Fillmore. In 1852 he proclaimed the doc: trine of polygamy and was removed from the gov ernship by President Buchanan. He was indicted for polygamy but was not convicted. At the time of his death, in 1877, he had 17 wives. On the 24th of July, in 1918, the 42nd United States division, the Rainbow, relieved the 26th during the great drive against the Germans and fought its way thru the Forest de Fere, BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE 1 “T pusha da cart all da tima T can I sella da fruit and da ripe banan It notta da fun like da aut-mo-bile; It gotta no rubb’ on da bigga wheel, But I speet on da hand and I maka da start, And dees is da why dat I pusha da’ cart— No pus No cush!" 1, “Yes, T am the man whom you've often cursed; T send you a statement on every ‘first.’ Your teeth you grind and your brows you knit At the sight of my slogan of ‘Please remit! But the reason I sing you the old refrain Is because my experience makes it plain— No dun; No mon!" ut. “T pilly-pink-pink und I toodle-toot-toot On de fiageolet und de ‘fife und flute; I push und pull on de slide trombone, Und I ump, ump, ump, till de bass horn groan I blow de moosic vhatefer it iss Und de vhy vhat I do it ix# only diss— No blow; No dough!" IV. “I pursue the man with a dolar note; I fill his mind and I grab his throat; I make him believe in this growing town; I compel him to cough up a payment down; For my subdivision must be sold out That I be relieved of this growing doubt— No sale; No kale!" v Witheim and Ferdinand, Peter and Karl, Find the world in a terrible snarl, For they used to take in a regular bit Just because of the place they were wont to sit. But now they trouble and worry and fret, For alas! they find to their deep regret~ No thrones; No bones! (Copyright, 1919, N. B, A.) JAZZVILLE, Ta.— rmers in this vicinity were puzzled far some time over a bell ringing under the Hogsnoot bridge exactly at 9 o'clock every morning. ‘The mystery was explained when a prominent farmer happened to be crossing the bridge at that hour, and noticed a big schoolmaster fish ringing a ¢owbell. A minute later a school of bullheads swam up to the #pot. As the creek was quite low, he noticed an old arithmetic set against a rock, evidently tossed over by a future citizen on the last day of school, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise RELIGIOUS DISPUTE BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) tain officials of the Catholic Church have objected to the work of the Protestant Church in France, accusing them of pros- elyting. | The Protestant officials have denied the impeachment. The incident is characteristic of the moral loosening of Peace. During the war all the religious organiz. {tions worked together in a commendable rivalry of good deeds. Catholic, Protestant and Jew vied in helpfulness. We bystanders rejoiced and said that at least one good |product of the war was religious unity. It seems we were a bit previous. | They have commenced to bark at each jother again, : It is to be hoped that the high dignitaries jon both sides, they who speak for their respective institutions, will speedily see that it will be better to bear with any apparent ‘inequity than to fall to quarreling. | ‘This world has had its bellyful of re- |ligious disputes. welcomes any sect that |proposes to help along, to feed the poor, lassist the fallen, mend the broken-hearted, |heal the sick and comfort the distressed. | That is, when said sect does not go to jcontending with another sect. | God knows, there’s enough work in ruined 'France and Belgium, and the rest of the | earth, for all the humane enterprises extant and to come. Even benevolent Buddhists could find something to do. Human needs has no pre-empted terri- \tory. Human misery has no fenced lots. | Many of the older Churches found no juse, no excuse ecclesiastical, for the Sal- vation Army. Yet when the lads and lassies of that army uncovered human dere- licts that Methodists and Catholics had failed to reach, when it explored the hedges and by-ways of civilization and got at hu- man waste the Churches had not utilized, it made good, and most Churchmen, be it said to their credit, welcomed them. About the details and specifications of the dispute in France we have no curiosity. cereal So we urge to the Government. Try our rival’s product, too! Among all products there is invariably one that towers above the general mass. Among beverages the pinnacle product, we feel, is RAINIER SPECIAL. agree that this is 00. The clamorous appeal for your patronage made in behalf of the numerous meritorious rival cereal beverages may have caused you to lose sight of the nota- bly superior qualities of RAINIER SPECIAL. might impar- tially be determined. We urge that the offer- ing of any other manufacturer of cereal bever- age be purchased and tested side by side with RAINIER SPECIAL. Such a test should ban- ish all uncertainty of superiority and mark for once and all which product is best. In advocat- ing a test of this nature it would be manifestly unfair to point out a single one of the favorable The Rainier Products Company relieves retailers and consume: i of paying Revenue Taxes on Rainier Beverages by paying ALL a Our only concern is that there be no dig- pute at all. Let one side never accuse. side not answer if accused. An individual, in this rough and imperfect world, may find it difficult, not to say im- possible, at times, to obey the word of the Master and turn the other cheek. But surely a formal, dignified and deliberate Organiza- Let the other | tion that names itself after Christ, should exemplify His precepts of forbearance. Get together, priests, preachers, rabbis, We are all mightily interested in your Com- mon purpose, and we don’t care a rap about your differences. As Good Samaritans you may pass t! hat, and we'll all chip in. As Scribes and Pharisees, anxious about your jobs, titles, credits and fame, and the emoluments thereof—nothing doing. "WHAT DO YOU DO Be WITH YOUR PAST? BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before—I press on!” Now Paul—who wrote these stirring words—couldn't forget his past altogether, What he meant was that he would not be hindered by the past—that he would forget his mistakes and failures, and rise by “stepping on his dead self.” No man can make progress by completely forgetting »— | his past—it's what he does with it that determines whether he will slip back or press on. Every picture should have some kind of @ back- ground—so must every life. But the past is of value only as it is used to make today worth while. It must not make us slaves—in this sense we may eay with Paul, “forgetting those things which behind.” If evil is to attack you tomorrow, or sin, or sickness —or any other force that, might weaken you—the way to meet it is #0 to live today that you'll be strong for tomorrow’s battle. But always think in the terms of “today”—“sufficient unto the day are the evils thereof{—don't bother about the troubles of- tomorrow. They'll probably never come. You may or may not that the relative merits taxes thereon direct