The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1919, Page 6

The Seattle Stat ar 8 ® weer seit THE SEATTLE STAR~THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919. EDITORIALS — FEATURES wait t A be that the + t ary, in atand, All of wt man an alt . f D ar 14 Lew entire wt Comoe “ “x False nt gar w gen be don M t we Y 1 long ago to pe dentist “BARE that th begin to Finally chore you don autom The doct ved A FIREMAN You are absolutely right. i Public servants, from the governor down, are notorious- Ty underpaid } Last year the skilled shipyard workers averaged a thigher wage by several hundred dollars than did the gover- Mors of three-fourths of the states. ¥ : Nebraska pays its governor the sum of $2,500 a year, which about keeps him in clothes and his car in tires and School teachers average less than do janitors College professors would get more money if they joined ‘the meat cutters’ union. i And so on down the line. ‘ Meantime, taxes go up and up, and bond issues increase by millions, and the municipal, county, state and national debt of the world is heaped up until the children of our ildren will groan at their granddad’s burdens. What's the answer? The Bolsheviki say the answer is to have no jobs no monef. 5 Which, providing you eat regularly, may be a good Only, large numbers of the Bolshies appear to be wer. Ravin There is talk that Britain would like to cede us her West Indies as part payment of her war debt. We al- veady have too many subject’ peoples for the good of our conscience. i Wilson Writes Letter to Girl The Star recently printed a story about the meaneSt It told how the orphans’ court of Philadelphia ap-| inted Frank B. Ellis guardian of Edith Bender, a girl ow 9 years old, whose leg was cut off by a street car and ho received $5,000 from the company for her injuries. was the guardian not only of this child but various | children. Chas. W. Glaser, who was bondsman for, swore falsely that he owned certain property. Ellis) with the $5,000 of the crippled child and $15,000 of orphans for whom he was guardian. Then it was discovered Glaser’s bond was worthless and, on a charge of jury, he was sent to prison. | The little crippled girl was left penniless and now is a) bject of charity. ; President Wilson learned of the facts. He learned also” it Ellis was in France as a Y. M. C. A. worker. He d also that Ellis had posed as a hero and put out, @ reports of valiant work he had done, | The president has ordered the arrest of Ellis and his! turn to Philadelphia to stand trial for robbing the erip- d child. Meanwhile he wrote a note of cheer to little; her The allies have ordered the Rumanian army to cease its advance on Budapest. Rumania is one of the email countries having self-determination. Sincerity and Horse Sense . A Salvation Army lassie told us that when she was sent to Europe the only orders given her were, “Be sincere | use horse sense.” Is } Two qualities that will carry you thru anything, any time and anywhere. : We admire sincérity even in those with whom we differ most. We take our hats off to the people who believe abso- ely in the things they are doing. And, no quality is! 0 quickly discovered as insincerity. . Horse sense is little more than letting the other fellow hold the reins while you do the work. He's happy because} he thinks he’s running things and you're happy because you are getting the thing done. In other words,-horse sense is not worrying about the credit for any accomplishment. It is looking only for ‘ice crea That Crack-Brained Millionaire From the City. (ir HAIN'T baGcs, WHY HIGH PRICES? BY DK. FRANK CRANE 19, by Frank Crane) (Copyright, 1 Why is everything so high? ! Why does everybody who has anything to sell, either goods or services, tack on a little or a great deal to the price, in ex- cess of what they charged some time ago? All sorts of reasons have been alleged. Distinguished experts have brought out laborious and entirely unintelligible ex planations dealing with economic laws. Some say it is shortage. of labor, others that it is scarcity of materials, while still | others say it is all a matter of transporta- | tion, The Bolshevik accuses the trusts, capi- talists, and profiteers. Nice old gentlemen with side whiskers and settled incomes say it is all due to unrest among the laborers. About the Facts there can be no dispute. Beef is higher, butter is higher, milk is higher, cheese is higher, and the cow is certainly jumping over the moon. Vegetables Are higher, ice {s higher, meals in restaurants are higher, hired girls are higher, ice is higher, and the dish runs away with the spoon. War taxes are added to movie tickets, m sodas, and automobiles, The income tax man hews right and left. And States add to the Nation's taxes. There is one explanation of all this which I have not seen brought forward. Because it is too plain. It is the Obvious we all overlook. It is this: WE ARE PAYING FOR WASTED IN THE WAR. War is waste. It is a grand carnival of destruction. Big guns boomed night and day for sev- eral years, and every shot cost from $500 | to $2,500, That much value was annihilated. WHAT WE wowavs | | we poste | ( 43 consramce ek ae a. TOWN SHIP, T INTEND TO RUN AROUND TURNED ‘em cmath MASE HONEST-To- GARE FOOTED (wea IN | An’ PERWIDED GOODNESS een HIS YACHT ‘4 DUST, squiDGin’ * ag ae w~ BETWEEN my roes! ‘Y GOLLY, THIS 1S HE BOUGHT THe TO Live THERE ALONG WITH THREE ORNERY BUT THE ACIGHBORS “WANT To KNOW." OLD HIGGING PLACE AND STARTED Three million men quit producing in the Inited States and went to consuming and destroying. It was all ve grand and noble, but the point is they ceased ad- dition to the goods of the world and went to work at subtraction. Millions in Europe did the same. Farms were trampled down, horses and oxen killed, factories gutted, steel that was intended for spades and building girders was used for shells, the only end of which was a big noise. Milliogs upon millions of dollars’ worth of ships and goods were sent to the bottom of the sea, Somebody has to pay for all that. Who? . Answer: You and me, We're paying for it now. At last all the statesmen, legisla- tors, kings, generals, and officials, pass the buck, until finally it gets to THE MAN WHO WORKS, to you and me, who have to foot the bills, “Jones, he pays the freight.” So, folks, it’is not Capital, nor Labor, nor Trusts, nor Governments, nor By McKee. | deep Eco-} nomic Laws, nor Tweedledee, nor Tweedle-| dum, that is the nigger in the woodpile. It’s the fact that whenever there is a big Fire somebody has to stand the loss, and war is} ¢* | an enormous conflagration. It is that whenever you take away any portion of the world’s supplies, somebody must make it up. We are paying for it now, and will be paying for it for the next 20 years. The name of War, glorious, time-honored, | splendid, bannered, bloody, stupid, senseless, and fascinating—the real name of War is— WASTE! And High Prices are the penalty, DE DS JAPANESE of trade | The several shi in the vicinity of Pike | (| i" ite Diet Jap is hitting the business m ; r Editor The Star: Being a wage ow, don't you thi that we/man here pretty hard. Every logge: We shudder to think how this country would be -oniggpcdionee at tig you Nave a sufficient line of “menaces"|and railroad worker thet co eee, . hide worker myse now ask yo orker that comes to wrought up about the down-trodden in Mexico if they pe of executive heads of|town comes to the ‘ y wherein how consists all this Jap to trade. In were a few thousand miles further away. dno Japanese that you|Tuniclpal xovernment who fia-|a few years they will be controiling RE NS grantly ramp on constitutional) the entire coast m to have become so suddenly rights that falunt Akai dn aa : | rights that a yet vital to the in The working man thinks th . f ; excited over 1 these last fe s that th ; This sale of surplus stocks of food by the govern- |Gx'tee over turin Fis ce in be, ttitutions of our present civiliza:| business man has himself to blame = ment would be a lot more popular if we could have it \nait of the worker, or “big bUSL\tothing of the dete tte say |for the present condition and na charged and bluff bill collectors for a few months. ness"? Some years ago, when they| municipal body politic, without rine | mays ayaa na were being brought over by the/ing in the “intelligent, industrious| SEATTLE A DUMPING GROUND : a “ * vourands oO Ke ne Maces OF and capable Japanese who are ” - Senator Borah says the profiteer will be as safe the working of thix country peed “ord A a baron os a Editor Star: I heartily commend , x antidote so far, in this next four years as the last four. He will be, if enough expecially the West and the North-|joeatity, to the high cost of jiving {2 Stand you have taken on the senators feel that way. weat—not a vo other than thatiasy far as the workingman js con.|J@Panese men in our midst, Two ‘it jf hes Senin san Wee: taleed TA eraedt J.C, BROWNE, lor three weeks ago I wanted to pur| he least protes (Registered Voter.) There are many and devious ways to dodge the | 1 do not hear any of those work) P.O x 1051 ns mouth organ. 1 went into income tax, but no one has yet invented u u ay to dodge |*** protesting now ag e of he ues enk * Bis outgo faz. ithe Japanese that are cow, BUSINESS MAN TO BLAME _ In eae ) one I was introduced to took not during the sympathetic! joajtor g organs in Germany or Japan. ay |atrike here that the Japanese were) Dlltor Star: Who had the Jupan:|1 could not get one manufactured in 4 ‘ Tce welt His. waxes ese brought over here just a few| England or America. ‘There Establishing a federal wage board may not help |*icker® with the workers in their © faye eile keltele on ini teaate et eee ay . s ‘ : ! Imild protest for betterment of tiv-| Years a eople were praising the | S#le oF at brane matters any, but it will give us somebody to blame for \ing conditions—to the very last lttle brown man ther Two or three years ago T went to our troubles. |ditch, ‘The street car men were the! Aw jong aw the Japanose wtayec the local war veterans’ excursion to| = - first to bi ranks, nd there is! gy 1 1 . 1'1n | Vancouver, B.C. I was asked by a ne ng clans he was all right >, . not single Jap working in that) put ax soon uy he enters busines veteran in ttle to bring back a Rain falls on Just and unjust alike, but ‘pears as |vranch of industry. 1 know—and| what» heat eth hor sual i anion Jack. I tried every how too much of what's needed on farms falls on city jyou ought to know—that the men/ him here and we'll have to keep hit Lang . that ki spud: thd but picnics. |who pave the streets and do other! here ailed to get one. Finally T went to jous Jobs, could no! inl 7 Japanese store anc ———— Ag Ee } sa Ke i I've been down to Jap town and| bought for a hy tore and : jean lor the da ©.|for 12 blocks I couldn't wee a whit . Now that John Roekefeller's stomach is in good | Three four! then Work tne | child. ‘The whites stopping tn the|puyn dup goods i il Hey we 2 1 seta r , nouKe where nese — workingmen | roomin, uses In this we Sib Mister er =" supporting the eating order ayain he; too, will notice the upward trend ting shelter ure run by Japanese. lair rant saintie gity, it section ure | Japanese. capitalist ] or | mast middle age would be a |. of the market basket. And they certainly could not afford] tine place for ,a recruiting sergeant|) .% 228 aren't hurting us now pei nae to ent at Chauncey Wright's, Bird'ul to Kern awa foun | but if allowed to remain the effect Russian Bolshevist government is too busy print. | eaters sa Then, you admit) The whites that stay in this xe¢ bag pag ve pale Lert ae Py ey. ded 4 jthat the Japanese are “intelligent,| tion do all thelr business with , (OE tie city n overcrowded Japan ing money to give any backing to the ruble. lindustrious and capable”—what more , ii then non ne ix making a dumping ground of Se- . * ‘ could be asked of any people? § atthe Ww SDEROS Motors do their knocking going up hill. Men do 1 9 le f pos 2 ot dh re th vr ‘i Pcs hance ene Lasts ote Be ie h i dors no! ne unbe f Com-| them he Japanese banks do a big] Tome theirs going down, merce advocate that “competition Ls| business with these whites, |man's tite” te the happiest day in a!) ON a Tl RR Ra ES ST sbeay RESO ‘seassiaeeiieiidilttttebienaeee Seas TOMORROW | m, || On the Issue of = Americanism Zhere Can a) Be No Compromise If { WE'LL SA = TS C Y SO apo Yeast ¢ ' Arwumptio: I eve r a commemorating the taking up [( ae Ad Ce nd soul, if celebrated Au fell several thousand dolla churehe pa wan raised to 10 cent In 1769, on August rT en ¢ eceipts dropped meas Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio, tr . folks spend their The company should raire the f boat catior around crowded te $i Ter hak lat Aulibih’ 40) the tro fen, and the eit usins tore en er ween the Unite the comforts of the avenue mar Cong n wasting « lot Of ong ass oval ta for the tumbled down "Bourders| daylight on the bill to save Gaye Sea, wan ended by the r gy oie bitration which met at rh ‘ Suburbaniter hardly ca a 7S oe Gifficultin beguA in 1886 when the | Sunda not t WE DON'T KNOW ANY Canadian seal hunters intercepted Park for a day's restful re ABOLT THEIR RELATE the scals in their annual migration |and half wa they meet the cit R. an Doren and family to their breeding grounds on the| fam flivvering out to the du «4 Saturday evening trom Pribyiof Ielands, Alaska, The Amer-|ner# of « rural pienie ground waukee, They will spend a W ai mel huntes eudeeee we O J Blink who is married, here iting relatives and then Mtucuspiien: af thd: banle Abd ‘alec |W he wasn't, and John Jink*,|to Minocqua, where they have r thebatined’ the extieution of tnelet hi 7 friends proposing to| de their three weeks’ vacatiol thea them Antigo (Wis) Journal Q " tration to settic| Mother will scold hb Willie a ,*e [ . ided upon and|4a ‘ 4 Mr xt-de Ge urned 4 wtyli rt was to be timate Willie juite t w ut 7 de begin wi The urt de-| child ought to be, ar the United Btatex | de f >a natic but Mont c ia 1 FEEL LIKE A RED PE apaits the killing of |" a divorce proceeding as a wed tN TOBASCO SAUCE fit mile of the ding ceremor extablished « clowed wen-| All the world loves a lover, but = the months of Muy,|!#ughs behind his k te apa We encourage imony and In 1914 f August 1 the Pan-|then turn the newly weds over to ama anal wa forma opened to|the mercies of landior¢ the the world. The canal had been nine| grocer and other high cost of living in building. The total cost, of Robin Hoods tructior exclusive of fortifica We pick 4 shoveler because he ‘auears 4 pee w to el but we chooxe ments to the Reput of Panama man because he can shake was approximately 900,000. The |t well first passage after the formal open preach learning to our young ing of the canul was made by the und then pay a mall steamship Ancon, com led by pitcher ten times the salary of a Captain Sukefirth, ¢ yethals, |College professor til fall. It takes that much longer goverr of the was of iin E 3 “honesty is for the tree species to tan. Scien- board. The passage from Crintobal |t t pe you can get| tits are tossing away a lot of good to Balboa was accomplished in nine |away with thought and time on other subjects, hours We yell heads off because when they're strapbanging right -— milk is 15 a quart, and yet/next to a popular problem. Whi bis Sui Heat * romoter who sells/do folke willingly nominate th GOD DOESN’T ASK pee ee ee cee ee ta 1 7 2 paper aren't watiefie jetting the US TO PUZZLE OUR We make it hardest for those xia along up in the sky, but invilp WAY THRU LIFE || She need food most to get it 87diit Gown on their necks, shoulders * a ¢ a eee he plate of the’, .4 urms. Then ouch everything J “5 a that comes in listening distance BY REV. CHARLES STELZ . teh io Pear eon ie They'll sentence themselves to a IdpJ Perhaps it's a bit fanciful, pounder when we carry him in|f sun paint punishment, lay low tig but it's at least interesting to [the passenger car. Via freight it's/¢?J0Y the broil agony, then st study the meaning of the ten Gifferent themselves in sun focus again names given in the fifth chap. When @ fellow refuses to agree|t? get smeared up in an enlai ter of Genesis—from Adam to | with us, he’s stubborn, but when he/freckle. After all, which side of Noah does, he has no mind of his own bars are the monkeys gn? The names are those which | But such is life, and no doubt - 7a stand out during what ts known that i* one of the reasons why life) The treasury department has if @ ax the antediluvian period in |i* such sued a bulletin saying that a mag Bible history—that is, the per 2 can accumulate $68,620.89 by saving od before the flood. NOW WILL BAD AXE BE GOOD! $1 a week for 100 years, and draw It is maid by some Bible ‘stu BAD AXE, Mich.—The city coun. | ing interest. This may or may not dents that the definiti of ‘cil ban decided that there shall be be true. But we shall feel more there ten ex outline the ec no more Sunday night shows at the like believing it if the treasury 467 plete history of mankind from | movies here partment will point the name of the tion of man to his final | 1° fF |the man who did it ; redemption Shall we not now protect the) It would be just the luck of 9 No doubt those who have jherees whe protected us? average man to run the amount given us these definitions have Wearing his Croix de Guerre and|to $68,620.89 and then dle, i stretched a word here and there |bearing papers to show that he had ee to make the span of life per [killed five Germans singlehanded| “The Ammonia Class,” says The fect, but here are the names jand been cited three times for! Biossburg (Pa.) Herald, “held their and the definitions: jbravery, Henry Williams appeared| monthly meeting at Island Park. It First, the names: 1, Adam; |before Magistrate Frothingham, of|was voted to extend a vote af Seth; 3, Enos; 4, Cainan; 5, |New York, with a plea for some|thanks to Mr. John Vasseline. Hot Mubalaleel, 6, Jared; 7, Enoch; [sort of legal protection from his dog rolls made a delightful supper | & Methuselah; 9, Lamech; 10. wife Hattie by all.” 4 Noah “She throwed me out of the Hee ae 4 Now the meaning of the |house and down the "ex Jack Dempsey may be all that name 1, man in God's tm | plained the former warrior.” |the sport eds say he is but he is age substituted; 3, man in | William first wanted,a warrant/not to be classed with Victor | misery; 4, Iamenting; 5, the charging his wife with something Ritchie, who, says the New Yo blessed God; 6, will come down serious, like felonious assault. When) Mail, is “a very clever perforn 7, teaching; §, his death will [that was refused he pleaded for a| having defeated seven of his bring; 9, to the weary; 10, rest. | writ that would command Mrs. Wil- | six opponents.” God hasn't put His most pre |iiams: to let him alone. That also! see q cious truths into the form of |being refused, he left the court de| New York's mayor has turned = puzzles, which ofily the imagi- | jected |down an offer of a $300,000 hospital native can “understand.” He - by the Rockefeller Foundation. He | has made the way of life so As Squire Harpington .so aptly|made a great mistake. The only | plain the simplest of us can un- |remarks, “All the battles of life are| way ever to get hold of John’s © derstand the way the signs that point |not. fought mid beating di 'booming ie are sold fresh packages. Ask Don’t ask Just the thing! These dainty, eri delicately salted Snow Flakes. 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