The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1919, Page 6

TUESDAY, —., EDITORIALS - _ FEATURES | %, On the Issue of so | Americanism There Can Pa WF Be No’ a ad By McKee. The Turning Point in Your Career. Vicious Cycle Continues Tre pp proces snp keeps ever cost of livin ig goes wages t ) It is exactly It is only right as President Wilson de- employes. n no other means are at hand to com- HANGIN’ Aftound | isidered in the light of the pres 50-cent dol- i ased city wages are small e nough, Police- ire to get a minimum of $1 45 and 7 =f UN vi maximum ! ‘ about $75 to $85 a saoith, if we figure the dollar. at its pre-war worth. I'M (GONNA thus decreed are not excessive. vA GOTHERED 00 more than the - The t taxpayers ee have to meet e total aggregates oe vious ci ity The pes ws will gosta it out in wares f living will. the vicious cy And the cos unless tbe pr ceeds in ghee tinue upward and upward. ~ Democratize Our Food Supply Autocrats who rule without publicity are getting vu whole world mistrust combine may fyjllss apnea) A BLACKSMITH, A BRAKEWM Skye know that great size makes : cannot but doubt in direct proportion We wonder if it is consistent with democrac inds of food firms may as we see prices by Donald McKee) competitors. to have almost a thousand single small group. TI i missioned to feed the world—for a smail profit world is having doubts. The food barons, over-much. be divinely com- | TOMORROW || I 415, on the 13 Henry V, of Eneglan like all their and power that one grows eruing. Their congressional representatives are overly anxious to prevent investigation or regulation. Food inspection was once fought with the same argu- Publicity revealed and inspection removed almost unbelievable filth, in plants operated by these s Perhaps another investigation would discover great heaps of profits concealed in hidden corners of ledgers sei ar@ those who declare small profits financial statements. have already glimpsed such things. ‘At any rate democracy would like to see what is there. ° It certainly is as much a part of democracy to manage our |, food supply as our postage s i in the same way. When profits and power are vested in an insolent autocracy and the people are pressed for food, the material is ready for a social explosion. high cost of living are found here. aptly suited to rouse public anger and disorder. The first step in meeting the democratize the control of the food supply. not done mote : rt mt TO win Not all the causes of the | meing But here 1s a cause | nua! food problem Senator Poindexter makes attacks 4 ’re really getting to believe candidate for president. | How He Has Changed! He served other nice exet 1 bat for Willie shaver and he An ex-soldier is writing this editorial. France long enough to return with two gold stripes and he| was almost as long training in the United States. This is his first day back on the job, after his ion.’ /hi he lived a worriless, doned sort of life, as the regular soldier would. took care of him in every respect. once in a while, foor was visiting “Pa isn't snoring surrendered by But he did, life and worried existence- diately go out and look for some distraction. think of the job he’d have to buck, and conditions and even people at home. think of hi and at the though return to civil he’d imme- f the changed times “WHAT BOUN YOUR HORIZON? Sometimes they are a bit rough on been foregone. for him at home a soon enough people waiting into his old job, his old absent on only a two weeks’ vai The world and people and things on it, have not changed in all the time he wa Fut when he Foolish Questions to a person j a my-how-ignorant which is, perhaps, one oj GARDENER the foolish question i to tolerance, the question | importance to the per- ———— The Church’s Best —— BY DK. FRANK ORANE humaneness, is what it does to help along.) ‘The cities have ne en a tithe ofp There is not much feeling nor discussion attention to the t problem they shed in the United States today between the hz fe Catholics and the Protestant Sut history de I reform, What 4 i full of the most rancorou dispu on Ww 4 need en ouragement that issue ypportunity to occupy idle time with ¢ Nothing can conceal the fact, however, and healthy amusement . that every church is a rival of every other With an enviz record of wartime church in the field of humanity And the cial service work, the ghts of Colum point I wish to bring out here is that the have come back to tackle the question superiority of any one organization to an-| taking care of the bo In this they ghg other will be ¢ mined in the end not by e the encouragement of every one, argument, nor by money, nor by fF Boys under 21 ars of age will be nor by any other than one thing alor to use the facilities of the recreation eg) which is Service ters, consisting of hs, gymnasi th this in mind, I am glad to call a rooms for gam or ¢ eS or study, ri tention to the great work which the Knight ard parlo loungir rooms, it of Columbus, an Sry: nization of the Catholic | rooms, etc. "| Church, is undertaking I vork is to The general progran ncludes establish community center id get hold aid bureau with representatives in the il of boys under 21 years of age in order to courts to aid the first offender and work 1y witn the citizén with a case too small for thy a t them in rigt Thousands of b« living. have been arraigned f juvenile delinquencies. ‘o commit ajusual attorney can make use of the Knigty| boy to an institution does not reform him. legal representative, On the contrary, it oftentimes makes him n su work the Catholie a criminal because of his as ion with boys of natural criminal insti " The great cities are not the best places) of h to bring up boys, particularly ifjor Pagan. ghts of Columbus may be» have the urtiest good wid whether Catholic, Protea ry one, in whi In the Editor’s Mail SAYS JAPS ARE SLICK c © were in their f tT now: payir j " f nr me a broad smile and a low bow king story af e-|t wise enough lake all asked for just a little mete « the progres at Japane kind abu do an nd of w and I paid it. Some of the n nade, an woking at n any old way, for t & had told himethat I wag¢ i ity plain | Of what e to the n the | aire. ow t the 4 « ¢ | 20 tt ¢ on When we rented on Pine t tand they are sling |¢ the same way that it has ght our groceries fromi@ with the: emart re f people |'m the last ur years man. He sold out to a Jap 2 . ig e t « r t he Japs h | neighbor door were a n r ther t - « has . sarap eg < cal farmers about 10 rooms-~is ' & Krocer teas the | ™ for their produce, and in ri and soon their washed! white f is a f t : 3 aes (SO aiy flying from every win hs cea ola : nev 1 »d con- | When we moved up there we = he Ja our vegetables, fruit and from the whites in the Pine st ket. Now the whites have disappeared and we must from the Japs or do withost: t he has, if you To make things worse, you wont, he/of one of the largest renting : will ta back, with a smile and/cies in the city has raised reaches Bench] PUI » care,” while the white/on us and placed a wood nt to fight at d next door; the pavil r wh the rooming houses trolled by the Japs, and if one has| "AF : front is littered with coal A ot ‘ on ‘ tle are now |ang their delivery trucks mnhitinie Pr nditions | ine to ap market 1 | fore our windows all day 4 which they are run. The |®"4 Controlled by white people, for | course, we want to movellal theat you fine as long People. They are not going| can't find a neighborhood 4 come thru with the money this market for their | there are no Japs or Chiness: he asks for y nave fo skin the her fel- I asked a member of a been {fn his house for some t ¥ thix market is | business chance office the and he raises your rent 60 ss or depends entirely|to show me a house which a week, and you ask him why, he| | Aysgp oh A Jap will not advertised. What was his an't erstand English, so | shel ean Astsiael ety oda , I have no time. I have dal me thra of got out. The nexi| sible: let us hope that the white | the Japanése for all hous as wise. Used. I must attend to them! fellow that gets the same room iM pay the same rent that A A CONSUMER FROM | Maybe I can spare you & : n for « certain THE PUBLIC MARKET. | utes next week. Good day” t th ther pays mor: ree My wife in the corner " » it THEY RAISE RENTS the other day when a pot brought to bear| &ditor The Star: Please permit me | dressed white woman came! mntil a city ordinance was passed |to say w words about the Jap-|asked for credit. The Jap last winter regulating the heat ir anese invasion of the Pa No, we sell for cash; the room house I have been accused of favoring the | credit to anyone.” He sa Before th as done, 1 know of | Japanese because I have an office | lady cases where workir anese hotel. Nothing could} Now, T have told the rain all day at the ship y be more unjust When I rented heré the truth is what some home t four years ago, and for two years | don't like to hear. The tit t, had|after that, this hotel was run by/a fire is when it starts, If to dry their clothes. 1] white men. It changed hands about|to a vote I will vote to never heard of ex s bad |every six morths, My first landlord| whole bunch back where as that in n he rooming | was an Irishman; the » nd a Ger- | from. But it will take house run by the white race, T man, the next an Australian and the/my vote to do it. It will Japs are only living their own life,|last a Jap) Every time it changed |more than the vote of all § only ng what you and I hands the rent was sed till I am'do it DR. T. J. P 1d rooms, in t and worse than tha LO CSL RLS BOE r to do unto him to make a “ SE ATION 65 and of course s tickled the fathers, we'll bet. editor of the taken not to damage hee ' left town for cradle is now hoofing it to the club ensible than having a you had an en ground under he editor wrote description of It Was 4 mighty A government by the people is one in which erent most glowing men spend most of their time explaining somethi the people. ichildrea, and A HOWLING Every grocer everywhere | Sells Kellogg’s everyday