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Star Seattle $5. THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919. *DITORIALS — FEATURES How Living Costs May Be Cut | ——— The federal government can cut the high cost of living. , Tt can be done at one blow—by forcing a reduction in | the price of bread. 3 The money with which to do it is already in the hands of the government grain corporation. Here is how the subsidy would work out: e Flour mills would continue to pay farmers the basic Price of $2.26 a bushel guaranteed by the government. The grain corporation would refund to the millers a get amount—say, $1 a bushel—making payment from the $1,000,000,000 fund that was provided by congress for guaranteeing the price of wheat. Wheat would thus cost the miller only $1.25 a bushel and flour would come from the mill at a price correspond ingly low. Cheaper flour would result in cheaper bread. The grain corporation, by an extension of its licensing system, would set the new price at which the miller must sell flour. It would also set the price at which the baker must sell bread. In order that the public reap full advantage of the subsidy, prices charged by miller, flour retailer, baker and bread'seller must be reduced in exact proportion to the cut in wheat price at the mills. The machinery for handling all this is for the most , already in existence in the auditing and checking-up of the government's licensing system. 4 A bread subsidy along these lines has been urged by _ Statesmen, business men, labor leaders and economists. "There is no question about its success. Great Britain it during the war and kept the bread price down the equivalent of 5 cents a loaf. When bread prices tumble as the result of the proposed dy, other food prices also would fall, for bread prices e general food prices just as steel prices determine it) rices. A billion-doliar bread subsidy is the billion-dollar club ‘¢ can smash general food prices. y are not above contempt. They are only human clay, all, made in the same mold as legislators, mayors, go ors, presidents, laborers, business men, manufacturers. They are human—not divine. There are good judges among bad ones will never be able to coerce respect where y deserve only contempt. The jailing of Editor Edward T. Leech, of the Memphis on a “contempt of court” charge, because he decried ten politics in Memphis, will not make Chancellor Peres oy sega or respected. The law may grant a Tennessee judge the right to rail- Leech of any other editor to jail whenever the whim seize him. court may go thru the farce of trying editor for contempt. And it is nothing but a farce, for editor is convicted from the start, being given no right jo a j trial. The law may permit any judge who merely 3 editor. But the law which permits this cannot give that dge the respect which he pretends to have been hurt. The the contempt in which they should be, and ARE, For, by what process of reasoning shall it be said that 9 judee is immune from criticism? ere was one, William llern, who claimed a partnership with “Gott.” But he now knows there is no such thing as “divine rights.” won't be long before American judges in this land of the _ffee, shall learn it, too. Indicting the System Investigation by congress of charges of brutality og inge soldiers in prison camps in France finally begins flirt with facts of vital importance. Sergt. Clarance Ball, who admits he aoemely “beat up” 50 or 100 soldiers at é Totorious Camp jo. 2, says he did so under orders of Lieut, “Hard his su ,officers and, besides other lieutenants and general, a major general and two to are And there the buck-passing rests, to date. “But before they get thru with it these military gentle- system known as “military justice.” And when that system is indicted, tried before the Court of Public Opinion and once and for all cast into the discard, there will be some hope for a real permanent and popular American military establishment—not before. | Let Them Prove Their Love | Republican and democratic congressional partisans are busy yelping at each other about one of the reports of the committee investigating the conduct of the war. Republicans, commenting on foodstuffs in possession of the government, allege it was the policy of the administration “to withhold the foodstuffs from the domestic market and to protect the interests from which these products had been purchased.” The democrats bitterly deny this. thermore, they deny that they were trying to protect the interests. All right! All right! Quit your squabbling! The coun- try is going to give you a chance to prove your love of the people. The Kenyon bill, to curb the big meat packers, who want to make themselves food kings of America, will pre- sent a clear-cut issue. All of the congressional patriots will have a chance to £o “po They will have to be either for or against e bill. Hughes would not have American troops employed under Article X, without the consent of congress. But suppose the war department desires to invade Russia again in the future. One reason why we are a peaceful nation is because the average American doesn’t know or care anything about international politics. Men will still be paying tazes for it long after th have forgotten the hates engendered in batthe. ese fay Judges should command the respect of the people. But) them, and bad ones. And| which permits this, and the courts which permit it, only | Smith. Smith in turn passes the buck to| men will, we predict, wind up with an unanswerable indict- | ment of the whole undemocratic, tyrannical and brutalizing | TWREE CHEERS FoR THE MORRIDLE 4 EXAMPLE SN GITCHER “TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROOM” weRe— rery 5 Ai Hey, BEN! WHATCHA THINK e gh a vy ARE ~ GRown uP? | Greetings: jthe street car superintendent? } re How'd you like to be | Stil, Tom Murphine tent exactly growing thin. eee ‘There'll be $100,000 wubserited to} lentertain the Pacific Fleet when ft [hite town. One hundred thousand bucks for joy stuff—and the town; drier than Logan Billingsley ever/ |dreamed it would be. | } eee | But no matter, no matter, There's lots of fun left even If we are shy) cs it he has been criticised in a newspaper, to convict |or joy juice. Charley Davin, chief! ince, worth $18060. | Elk, is going to help the celebration along. | And Charite has been growing a ew mustache lately one Sign in Piqua, O: , | (ach ctithiiaaasinenenisinmeesttebinmmniedinasiinaend RESTAURANT for Ladies and Gentlemen | || and Business Men and Women hes | | a | | oe | . | Be that as it may, J. T. Cherry) | works for B. F. Berry tn Standard, Ii), and Chase & Ketchum are un-| \dertakers in Los Angeles. | | ee | A Now York fustice has decided that John Armstrong Chaloner 1s/ sane and may stay in New York) | without fear of being placed in a} hospital. If he stays there, we'll say the justice made 9 mistake, see | A. 0. sends it. We don't know! whether it's his own or not: | | I've enough, you bet, | Of the farmerette; | | ‘They only pose, | ] Showing their hoes, | And the weeds are growing yet.| eee | But, as the trackwalker remarked, | "Biest be the t an!" Editor’s Mail AMEND CITY CHARTER | Editor The Star: Seattle has over| 4,000 employes, They are now |bound to live within the city limits, | Amend the charter to enable the| city’s workers to live outside the lolty if they want to do no. Such ja policy would lessen the cost of |living. Many city employes would buy small home tracts and raise) |much of their own living and often |a surplus for others. Such a policy| |would change many consumers into| |producers, It would prove of incal-| jeulable benefit to family life and} | children. } | Modern transit and hours of la-| bor have done away with any rea | son causing workers of any sort to| Fur-|ive in @ city or near their oceu-| herited from his father, the late rail-| | pation | Good roads, mostly paid for by |taxes raised on city property run} jinto the country. Along these roads| let city workers dwell, Plenty of people will be left, like moths too often, to live in the city If desirable the city lmits could be extended or zones established. | |The old objection that employes of |the city must live in the city in| order to pay taxes is selfish and| provincial, Many do not pay taxes in money. But they would be more. likely to pay taxes if they owned their home in the country Spread out in the city, Use the! country. Encourage home owning.| Such a policy by Seattle would be| even better than selling fish and canned goods at retail. In this connection it may be said the city of Bloemfontein, in South Africa, “sells to ita citizens who want homes of their own land at| cost price and advances capital for) building at 6 per cent interest re payable in monthly installments,” AUSTIN BE, GRIFFITHS, was | The Turning Point in Your Career. LiKE THIS HERE CRITTER! STEP & — a WHEN YOY SIGNED THE COME ON, FRIENDS! HBRE'S A CHE-1LD oF YEARS-S WHO 1s NEVER TO BECOME A RUM-~ SOAKED SLAVE To THE DEMON E-MANCIPATE “OURSELVES! —By McKee. al HN TNH WUE wry, . TEN-DER RESOLVED ——— <i ANG E ~ (| PORE, HOPELESS) 'GHT UP AND nan i Au PLEDGE AFTER THE TEMPERANCE LECTURE AT THE OPERA HOUSE Balke An Ulinole woman complained| after 20 yours of married life, that | the only present she ever got from | her husband was a washtub, while an English countess, in an action| for Givorece, mentioned among other | complaints, that her lord’ had only | presented her with one pearl neck | } All of which Indicates that {t/ were better to marry an Illinois) | woman than an English countess. But— Hefore you make your chotce— The MMnois man never gave a! Washtub, or any other present, to || any other woman, while the Englieh | lord is aceused of having presented | || @ $90,000 rope of pearls to another Seemingly making it certain! | that a woman would rather be the only one getting a washtub than to be one of two getting pearl necklaces from her old man . . As you may have noticed, the Daylight Savings law gets many o nick while one is on his vacation. eee Tom Duff believes the onty rea-| son Five wasn’t extravagant in dress that there was only one man in| the world then, and she had him, tee In one Chicago ward a half million empty tin cans were found decorating vacant lots, Leading one to the opinion that many an| expert Chicago cook is merely a good can opener, . The biggest job of grandmother ing is being done by Mrs. Margaret Turner of Beaumont, Tex., who has| ten living children, 47 grandchildren, 53 greatgrandchildren and one great-great grandchild. | One hundred and one “grands” all in one family! e- LIFE SHOULD BE SUCH; Little Tommy Dooling didn’t get much schooling because his pa was #0 poor he had to go to work when ho wan young, but he climbed up to be the president of the railroad or gold mine or something like that. (A Willle MacSoo private tutor b always had a se his pa was #0 rich and his pants pockets were crowded with loose change, and he| ended up in the poorhouse or some place like that. | BUT MORE IT 18 LIKE William Mac has accepted the presidency of the railroad he tn. way magnate.—News item, | (AND) | Tom Dooling has got another job} shoveling cinders at the round- house.—By word of mouth down in the “yards.” In these days of expensive hostery calves are a Mability rather than an fnaset, even on the most revealing of bathing beaches, but like unto all other rules there ts an exception Mins Mame Morg f Kansas had the exceptional She didn’t take hers to a beach. She took ‘em to a goo: ire, and then to a feedlot, and the other day she took ‘em to Kansas City and from the veal-butchering beef barons she took a $75 profit, and back home| #hé took the blue ribbon In the local cal club . Once there wos a man who haa! everything he wanted from his| cradle to his grave, and when he cagne to die he was firmly convinced that life wan a dull book, with never an exelting spot, and never an in: teresting plot. “WHAT TO LEAVE | OUT OF YOUR LIFE | BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Subjects for The Star, * You've seen the bold sort of stuff that some artiste call “tm- premsionistic art’ — it consiste mostly of the elimination of de tail #o that the strong charac teristics stand out. But to be « good “impression ist” an artiet must have been a g00d “realist"—that is, he must know the whole game of the artist, wo that he can tell what to eliminate, Most people who try to be particularly clever are like many artists of the impression- latic school—they know only the superficial facts of life-and by making bold stabs at thinge— mostly tn an attempt to ridicule those who take life seriously, they try to get away with It. The fact ts, life consists prin- cipally of detail, It's the day by day routine that you and I pass thru that constitutes our Nvee—there are mighty few big, bold dashes in it for us. The “impressionistic” ite leaves much to be desired. You can't live your life in big chunka, You've got to fill in the gaps. Unless you do—well, there'll be gaps to be filled in, that's all, And it's bard to find enough material to do. the filling after you've gone along a consider able distanoa And yet—there’s always some thing to be “left out.” But the knowledge to do this comes only after long or painful exper. fence In the school of life—tt can’t be done flippantly nor with a disregard for the fundamen Wo en | THE OLD GARDENER | | SAYS: | | MAREE eee. Except tm the colder parts of the country, there is still time to plant a | turnips, This is a good vegetable! to put tn where earlier crops have been taken off. The turnip been a favorite garden vegets for centuries, Indeed, the ola Ro mans are eald to have raised tur nips which welghed 40 pounds apiece. And there was a time when bread was made of boiled turnips with the moisture squeered out and an equal quantity of flour kneaded in. When you plant the turnip seed make the ground firm well over it using the foot or a board, If the sofl is very dry, wet down the furrows before you put in the seed. Of course, you will grow only the common turnips, as it is too Inte to put in rutabagas. The crack of a rifle startles the average woman less than the crack of a dish in the hands of the hired girl, (pee || On the Issue of | = || Americanism Jhere Can || | Be No Compromise | MOLOCH BY DR FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane} ——————— When the Allies impose upon the defeated | editorial, “are realizing as never before th Central Powers the penalty of disbanding | danger of thinking in terms of armies a their army, giving up their warships, and | fleets. discontinuing the manufacture of cannon,| “All peoples are raising their voice they are not punishing them, they are con- | against the Moloch upon whose burniy ferring upon them an inestimable benefit. | arms sovereigns and statesmen have be sacrificing the first-born of the race. “Statesmen must heed the universal for disarmament—or in ignoring it take q consequences of their admission that | great war has been fought in vain.” No gladder thing can befall a nation than to get rid of Preparedness, which means an onerous burden of money tax and blood tax, and, still better, to get rid of the Pro- fessional Soldier and his point of view. Militarism is an unmitigated curse. It is the trump of human stupidity in statecraft. And unless the Allies shall themselves disarm, as the United States is now rapidly doing, their Victory will cost them more than the Enemy paid for defeat. The Krupp works in Germany and the Skodia works in Austria were the things that made the recent assault upon the world’s liberties possible. Tomorrow In 1642 the 9th of August, the first com ment at Harvard College took place. The colleg been propored in 1636 by the General Court of } e 9th of August in 1637, John Dr, yden, the 7 chusetts, Cambridge, which was th called Ne Above all things, the manufacture of the | was selected as the site, Two yenrs later a beq munitions of war should be absolutely pro- $3,700 was left by the Rev. John Harvard hibited to private persons or firms, and |< steal gee ore MF ee eee ae “7 ; ‘ building. is library of 320 hooks was given to should be carried on, if at all, only by the | J oicieus for the college library, John Harvard State. If we shall accomplish universal disarma- ment, we shall have made the longest stride | forward in human progress. Without that we shall not have progressed at all. As the League of Nations is the Heart of the Treaty, so Disarmament is the life-blood in that Heart. The time will probably never come when jmen shall cease to fight, to shoot, and to kill, to vie and contend, but there is a vast | "ii? Grrat Britain a ine writteh difference between the citizenry of a nation | mencea a threeday bombariment of Stonington. being over Prepared to defend their country, | Americans were wounded and the British lost jand the traditional Preparedness which im- | tn Killed sink wounded 0 oa |plies keeping up huge standing armies, vast | csitteh. tho dumedhase eieaul te Dep ef |fleets of battleships and enormous cannon | g4 the United States. On the same day the Bri \factories, each nation striving to outstrip | snip Northumberland, ander command of Cockb# he others. sailed from Torbay bearing Napoleon to his final gyre of Nations at least furnishes | *t 8t Helena. the machinery for disarmament. No other ischeme ever did that. : The steam of that machinery, the motive | power which can make it go, is the Spirit jemee: Mankind that realizes and abhors | “Why co” a. = “Last night he bean saying sweet things to m: All peoples,” says a recent newspaper French."—Yonkers Statesman. on the 26th of September in with his desire the erection mediately wtaPted 1638 and in accor of the building was In December of the same yq the first clash was entered. The graduating class 1642 sisted of nine men. On the 9th of August tn 1778 General Natha Greene crossed with his army from Tiverton to north end of Rhode Island. On the same day Howe's fleet arrived off Newport in quest of French fleet under Count d’Estaing. On the 9th of August in 1909 President Jeffe: received official information of the non-ratificaq of the British treaty and suspended all interco TOOT SWEET Patience—What's the matter with you and Patrice——Weil, I had @ suspicion he wasn’t truc me all the time he was in France with bis regim and now I'm quite eure of it. Speed—and the ‘price of Meat Ferty-cight hours after cattle are purchased by Swift & Company they are hanging up as meat; within two weeks the fresh meat has been sold. This speed means money in the pocket of the one who raises the live stock and of the one who eats the meat. It means a rapid “turnover” of capital and investment—making possible the trans- action of daily business on a narrower margin of profit. Speed permits Swift & Company to do “a successful business on a profit of a frac- tion of a cent per pound. Such speed, with its rapid turnover and smaller profits would be impossible without the efficient organization and wide scope of Swift & Company, theresults . of fifty years’ experience in handling meat. Do you believe that government inter- ference with the complicated and efficient machinery of the packing industry can be of any benefit? Experience with government regulation of railroads and telephone and telegraph might. suggest an answer. Swift & Company, U.S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson St. J. L. Yocum, Manager THIS SHOWS: ‘WHAT BECOMES OF TWE AVERAGE DOLLAR RECEIVED BY UVE ANIMAL 12.96 CENTS FoR LABOR EXPENSES AND PREIGNT 04 CENTS REMAINS

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