The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Star By mai), out of city, S06 per month: 2m: $1.50; 6 nthe $2 00, Btate of Wa The per mor per year 1 onthe, year, $5.00, in. th hington, Out kb Eo ITORIALS — FEATURES The Private He was discharged still in khaki. just a private from | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise prone in Recollection. but service There were six of us in the smoking compartment, but the private was doing all the talking. asked questions. ‘ The private talked on every subject. tive views about the mismanagement of “the way his pay had failed to come, > for weeks he had no sugar. ' Nations. He had some very | @igners who had come to Wanted to rebuild all the institutions that they did this pri- We liked him and we listened to him because he had and because he did He had an opinion on most every subject vate. three service stripes and a wound strine have positive opinions. ee He felt that he was entitled to be hes been in part We listened and He had very posi the and about the He talked about the League of positive opinions America to make their home and about ct that war about for- found here. | | d because he had ponsible for the result of the war; and out ‘of that responsibility he had made up his mind that it was to him to assume a large share of responsibility for the re. Perhaps that is the best thing are coming back from service. They feel their responsibility about the 1,000,000 men As a rule we Americans have been too content to drift have paid too little attention to the responsibilities of citizenship. If we had an opinion it nion. ‘a careless way during the last few hours before we v The men coming back from service have because They take themselve: seriously was If we voted at all it was on some impression formed aemew a careless oted. view- they are ntitled to. And thereby I believe that they will be a force will cause us to do our business of government more ly and prevent some of the blundering and the floun- me around that has rather characterized our govern tt in the past. GORDON C. CORBALEY The prices of shoes are not justified, according to Or the > the federal trade commission. pric of han beef, baking powder, stove polish, or,anything else. The Auto Wall Street perked up its ears and rejoiced greatly n news came of the return of the railroads and the tele- aph lines to private ownership. - “Well, that ends that dream,” said Wall Street, and mediately the industrial stocks took strength on the But these eariy visions of profits appear to have beer ‘or no sooner do these great businesses start on their ur« journ y back to private ownership, ence of these properties. ‘And, when the long-smouldering fires of os a te doing | to x for better service, and lower rates, new restriction, and ad- been blanketed, if blanketed they are will be a public uprising for will be state legislation, and exactions that have been held up by the war wnmental ownership. We see no primrose path ahead for the railroads of country. ae We do know that the public is somewhat weary of the fen service it has been receiving, and of the in rates it has had to pay. Maybe the thing will be settled by there being no rail-) ae d business to bother about. The hampered service of the railroads these last two Tr has so greatly increased the tonnage of auto truck roads building program is so greatly being ed, that local freight for railroads may soon become the good Mere memory. Already most of the farm produce and supplies for the sar ant Soe ~ than labor troubles of | magnitude threaten not only all profits, but the very STRIKING Shipyard men threatened it yeut men threaten It today. A M the time there eee hard guy ythin Neked he maw and aled hin pa He slugeed Til he made But he got the kaye From old H.C. L. prodigious Mary had a littl went Into @ garage it drank “gas” made it at the goat And it wilt You Gank its funny rome The ro was whol ace and br ome rich ms in many big districts is almost exclusively handled them in bunche truck lines, and every day sees the expansion of this, ce, and the lessening of the necessity for the freight |, fe Our transportation system is being revolutionized, and » e era. trend is all away from the steam road, and tbward the ile, efficient and economical truck line, operating past farmer’s door on a hard boulevard. burglars and yeggmen. igh cost of living has even hit the Seattle city ‘irat thing you know, we'll have a strike of gh aa u can stcards K kno shore the has a farm on es his name from paints it on again Oct. 1 eee Burlgson has issued an order between the U. §&. a Germany to whom there were such a if we wished it deli ope T should like n we'd mi d before 192 1 Germany Anybody * Burleson who thinks 1 Ww am soln agree wit the fool who expects Burlesor ne Serving the Public As fast as H.C. OL Our pay is raised to meet * Poor Tom Lee said, “The whole world is crazy.’ Somebod the hears about And H.C, 1 ex Up The whole world said, “Poor Tom Lee is crazy | vue Then Tom added, “But, counfound it, they outnumber 3 ” Pennsylvania refusex to let the et Harry Imagine giving up a man with me have aw a state ” When the whole world says there is something wrong 4 with your ways of doing things or your methods, it is time to do some THINKING. The world doesn’t make its mind up in Bome Cle and folk ta of the high pri one might say count ho a minute, |**!ves, ouble ¢ 7 bill Months or years are needed for impressions to crystallize. Pe . That is the reason why large manufacturers thruout | the country endeavor to keep their fingers on the pulse of) ATOKA, Okla—sheriff Akin, in overalls und a full | _ the public wants so closely. Very often they find people wanting other than what |‘ ened 6 imagined they would want. But they couldn’t keep up their business if they con- jaw the firet evidence of a reasonable hope that the tinued to put out things that weren't desired, change their sails and get what folks ask for. Next Monday:” don, in The Star. “Hearta of Three,” by Jack Lon- BUT WHAT DID THEY beard, looked so much like the boot other officers arrested and That row at Fiume be will inte ee so they’ just |indemnity may be dodged | | The best thing you can do for ye cut out the worry about its future The New Port Commissioner } | This year Is the 200th anniversary William S. Lincoln, the newly appointed port commis He has been auditor it began business that position he has shown himself efficient and thoro. course, his new duties are somewhat of a different nature. | Whether Mr. Lincoln is.as capable an executive and admin-| istrative officer as he is an auditor, the future will tell. He enters the | university sioner, knows the business of the port. for the port district almost since the meantime, let us all wish him success. port work with the good a Wouldn't it be a good idea for the league to pro- vide civilized rules for the warfare between Capital and Labor? Our idea of a brave man is one who has the sand to face Senator Fall and praise a Mexican, ll of the community. | of the first publication of Robinson Crusoe, And which i* a reminder that ite author, Daniel Defoe, was one of the | most interesting characters in all lit Of | rary history His r name was Daniel Foe. | Me the son of & prosperous In| London butcher who gave his son a ucation was In his early Defoe successful business man, first a mer broker and later he became first manufacturer of roofing ltile in England—previous to that |time all such tiles were imported | from Holland, While still in business lie beeame |interested in social and political questions, he wrote certain pamph lets on these subjects which had a) years was a | chant | the Seattlo’s baret ware A new tell me stories ut #oct |more pep in your own present task THE DAY THEY INDUCED You T TAKE A SPORTING CHANCE WITH THAT LOOSE TOOTH MAYBE NOBUDDY'LL COME — GEE, I Hope NOBUDDY COMES! IF NOBVUODY COMLS By THE TIME T COUNT TEN, I'LL CALL IT | | Lia Donald McKee) | i | (Copyright, 1919, b Tomorrow the Viti The I 1540 Henry took pi th rday, # ¥ the Great and under Lord How Armada " ip wae met 1829 on the Sth of August king's ma of the aine and defeated by fleet nee Atte stinks ard af ath of the firat locomotive was run in America over the tracks of the Delaware nd Stourbr and age Lio civil dale On the engineer fth of was adopted by the house of represe war with Mexico the proposal wih» .m our that » to pu r. While » cong ar line amendme i wrows to the purchase should be probit » unle Sth of rd Itan priest and patriot ) carried great bi therly ¢, there | eloquen joined profit way to kill ie oa preach untl wax granted at able men if you | Daniel Weeson wa ent mail Seattle man of the city box June 1 * THE Lt The month of when you can confidence You more likely have become hi pleasure fashioned fia the daint Try Mrs. Perr real novelties ning mail service ere is nobody in » write, but if letter today « to resign Anybody thing in a in a Perha him naible i” -_ BRIGHAM, in Brigham Y county clerk's About 1 in cou mit to of time Heer ate like of New York Pennsylvania ae nter a c and tole ed on ae » the a shoe | to marry To sa of footing Tribune FIND? SUCH A MIST George H by mistake | throat out by ‘Tribune Gur for has leggers he # rehed him, aght rpreted in Berlin | Somebody | It for valagn ha var and put a country is to little | Roosevelt and a Hudeon Canal sped to the United Stator ran it on The rain were President h@ was taken by the 1854 on the h loading metailic OLD GARDENER SAYS: transplant fall because then the being ONE office Optimintic To each of the ontract go put their reflect the optimism of his visitors president, It with him * would vote I him for the same reason Railroad, was one of four ‘The engine, called the bullt in England Horatio A ite trial trip from of hard timber w Hones made August in 146 ¢ mot provine During de Potk be have territory thie bill was pending David Wiimot from Pennsylvania, introduced a that as a fondamental condition and involuntary vitude 1 in the acquired terr August in 18469 Ugo Barat was hot by the IM8 and ¢ Austr the patent nd centre Horace avery ner a noted Austr on account of his ntinued te ne Garibaldi tr Sth of Augtst cartridge two for the fire gur Washington Smith and ESR nr Auguet is the only time in the year Oriental poppies ‘with full succeed in spring, but you are soft, fleshy hen those * nts have no ob- the gardener’s only the old do not realize white kinds if you want some may d. In August 1 and woody the moved around have @r at own Orientals and wer pink and White your garden WOULD VENTURE Is MARRIED ung TO GUESS, marriage license deputy tr conducted « reception y young persons called u the terday him, issued a per to the teat words, gave them a Mr. Young did not Salt Lake (Utah) couples he joy rance—in other range to: say AKE WOULD PASS UNNOTICED IN MAINE n, who sold gasoline to Dan burned job in Seabury Dan's the drug CW. Va) alcohol, which nearly relieved of his Amev.—Parkereburg started a boom for Franklin an dD interesting ax the democrat. A lot of repub. for him thinking he was The lot of democrats would wote ag would be lore et Daniel Defoe wide sale on the streets of London Some of these contained alleged libelous statements against certain nobles of hin time against the king and impriso caused the 4 and its failur i jons he af bts by the pr and even treason Defoe was arrested d and enforced absence net of his business but without lega rwards paid all his duct of his pen Defoe was one of the first writers on a subject that might todas clasged as the literature of business His writings on merchandizing are very voluminous, all interesting « much of it is standard today » was one of firat business # to advise merchants to carry tocks, charge small individ ual profits and depend upon the vol ume or a large number of transac tions for final return on thelr efforts, | Defoe founded the London Review in 1718 and to the upbuilding of its circulation he applied what would be very modern methods even in this day He interviewed one Jack Sheppard, | |@ notorious highwayman of the tifne and who had been condemned to be hanged. He wrote and publithed the |life of Sheppard in the Review, and when the highwayman was on the seaffold and was usked by the man what had to say by arrangement with Defoe, he dram jeally brought forth a copy of. th paper, held it up to the view of th great ghrong that had gathered to witness the execution and said: ‘Here is what I have to say!" he Defoe died in 1731 broken in spirit and reduced in fortune, very largely he misdoing of u son, THE RAILROADS BY DK (Coy 1919 ubject of more congre importance than the no decision of There ir awaiting the ¢ disposal of the Railroad The Railway business is the biggest busi in the country. It is a part of every man’s busine It is essentially public by nature. For civilization is mainly a matter of transportation Any suggestion factory solution of the problem i “Upon the proper operation of the Rail roads,” Senator Albert B. Cummins, “depends not alone the comfort and con venience of the people, but their hole in dustrial and commercial existence Just now. the problem before congre i what to do with the enormous railway prop erties which the Government took over dur- ing the war One tion of ment Owners? the railw Neither n out a tually it mut come to some form of Go ment Ownership, for the simple reason that th too big, too pubiic, and too powerful trusted to ar group not to the whole ne looking toward t welcome says bach opinion insists or Another, on handing to their original owner clear es case ah business is to be directly responsible But not ady for that we still cling to the idea that ernment must be run by Political Parties. Partisan hip, which still dominates statesmen, is no more nor less than organized graft. long as wmakers are elected by parties we cannot afford to turn the railroads over to them people we are , because FRANK CRANE vould be a mistak k to the origin that controlled them. Some of thes group honest and competen Sut many them have been dishones reckless, selfish, and incompetent. The On the oth hand, it to give the railroads be group have been of Protective Association ac which i Investor vocates a third “A National System of railroads, divoree from Wall Street, operate regions, pi vately owned, and me i jointly by I vestors, Shippers, Employees, Farmers, a the Public.” This Association propose formed, manage from the above Cla shall purchase a controlling lway stocks. It shall then operate t roads, giving to stockholders about five q ix per cent,and devoting the balance the profits to improving the property. least, this is the gist of its proposal. This plan would seem to avoid most the evils of the other schemes. The ro. would be considered as the property of t whole country, and their improvement a efficiency would be the chief end of t management. The interests of the worke would be safeguarded, also the welfare th hippers. The investors would be mal And the whole matter, while op ated for the Common Good, would be enough removed from direct Governma Ownership to secure immunity from Gray Wolves of Partisanship. plan, by t a compa’ ctors chos¢ This compat share of t be In the Editor’s Mail QUESTION THE JAPANESE nited h nese D pee who Japs think m America produ the if here ough N starve half of the te f the United st The Do get, or all th we, the people wh: angels. t WANT to be ‘displ Do Misplaced by children begging at know ofa for a fore thelr heads? It should thould take thought! b view upon it arid ¥ it in to the, by Japanese There absolutely would solve t tever the ellaw. Th ther As enough come and Americans. The AMERICANS that the M Reab hink the wn on thore Seat the Japs Americar themselves man or ar ring frate * crowd out but remembe differer and Oday and still not be mise om Japan alone ear of her Inbe not own nced? he we they are want our back 4 to le Japanere there plac should come here rerious No one gone intd. Let every carelen ers with na © wid wenve to lowed here against REA live on to weapo ground comy aimp for N she has is level can do. If and AMERICANISM flats day fe vegetables and try Would the real estate { the other nest-feat nity the J enterpr where reing tle who at raine this ax they do or starve reasons are clear a very ike to see under his all the other on of fact, it is an in the years if thin these few #h want Americans will t ece w, REMEMBER this Japanese rest are any not angels certainly for, most’ people who think this race | to thik it out AMERICAN stop doing anything in this country e question WITHOUT} sor organizations use This plan would take the objection out of her hands.| all of us who have a spark of} within BUSINESS WITH | dat left be so crawling and stingy ax to patronize these Japanese a frightful injustice. slight soul who sneaks} American HIS} cannot stand up and do business in| in order that HE might dinge his the open with AMERICANS the depth somela man is @n enemy to his coun! Let Japan prepare her own try for her -down-trodden and out citizens Amerig AMERICA for MERICAN pila of living. BELQNG to AMERIC, here Not JAPANESE, or Hindus, or thing|nese. And whose business is sight Have we not a PERFECT RIG the to our—this disposition of the ter? What do we care if Ji refuses to harbor a few Americ Dr. Crane @ays “our prejudice because the Japanese are #0 inj trious and well behaved,” ete, that means thht Americans ou! his class must grovel at “ farming” the same as the Japa do or be put out of business. that Americans must behave! give up thelr country to Japag Perhaps some of their Korean havior would suit the Dr. and the real estate man, the same enacted out in America! A. B. HOLLOWAY, Montesano, Wi ming on this economic Japanese have prepared to@the What into Japanese | 4 will ket hap: | now to admit be about an altto mic plan thaa he has « RIGHT It ar Asiatics to We There trou mat be an f the yet ready of them produced THAT have thie kind of that Japan us RE HEARTS OF THREE, not a has a sing pinch of The We MUST avoid it t* « man! brOther, who Such Here Comes . the Grocery Man with Snow Flakes Thousands of children are happier and healthier because they can have all the Snow Flakes they need ‘tween meals. And what better than these crisp, salty crackers? Your grocer has them. Great Saucrying, Don't Ask for Crackeras-nay Snow Flakea Pacific Coast Biscuit Co,