The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1919, Page 6

. out of city, S0c per month; 3 & months, a ¢ Washington month, $4.50 f Ry ‘carrier - Again We Say You Ne Never Can Tell | be One would imagine that the sale of army bacon to the _Dublic at less than cost was about as desirable a move as : be made. But did it work out that way? Was everybody happy, and did the incense of crisp, bacon, bought at fifty cents on the dollar, hover ttle homes like a guardian angel’ Not to any noticeable extent. Everybody is mad over this “bacon” thing. Those who bought, and those who didn’t, equal intensity. A number of folks imagined that Uncle Sam fed his dier lads Premium Breakfast Bacon; when they purchased paatt pork and side meat offered by the government they vered that their bargain wasn’t much of a bargain. © Indeed, this entire program of the sale of army food tuffs is a dubious one. Witness the following letter which print, in part: Héitor The Star: I am an ex-soldier of the A. EB. F. an@ know from ‘ about this socalled “corn willy” and salt hog, and I am sure other A. E. F. men will agree with me when I say that the stuff in the proposed sale is of the very poorest value in the world food, Unless one is half starved it is almost inedible France. although very short of foods and fats, refused the kind of the U. S. Quartermaster corps when it tried to sell thin stuff. ‘The most the French government would offer was $30,000,000 for what Uncle Sam $150,000,000. Unable to unload this on starving Hurope, | they are going to sell it to us at home at a “bargain.” Much was made of the embalmed beef scandal during the Spanish can war; well, if this stuff fed us in France was not embalmed have a mighty hazy notion of the art of embalming |The packers have admitted that a large percentage of the food | Was cooked out of this tinned beef, and that only the poorest . of beef was used. Salting and canning the bacon also we food. the war department also performed wonders, considering every they evidently made a mistake somewhere, and so have a huge of no-good grub on hand with no buyers. Let's admit the mix and not try to sell this stuff to the home pubiic | I hope the working class will be warned in advance and will not get ‘with this bully beef and salt hog, which they can ill afford to waste on, Sincerely yours. Name and former army position not for publication, but In the posses. of The Star. Now then, as we said before, you never can tell, 2 This lad knows what he is talking about. Those who have purchased this “bacon” and those who acquire the bully beef will also bear witness. The truth appears to be that the packers, as usual, d Uncle Sam inferior stuff, secured a top price for now that the war is over the deer peepul, or nobody, buy the surplus. Even with Uncle Sam doing his best, still we discover | one seldom gets something for nothing. can Mr. White of Armour & Company tells us that the no profit on beef and stores eggs for odation. Now here is altruism in all its pristine The Rental Gouge i.e | Madame; Due to the increased cost of operation in connection | ian! srerertins, we bee to Strive you that it han become nevesmnry | ge Ragtime ge Moodh utdlonfbaeerson beginning with and the endearing relations of with their tenante-- The rooms in question are two enough to walk around the bed, which had no clothes | year in rere year out, in fact, chickens here is in raised their rent three times in one year, because “the cost of operations makes it necessary.” Cost for op- they were before the war started in 1914, and their apartments of two small rooms $15 per month in 3 floors, six suites on each floor; approximately $270 per house is worth approximately $17,000 and five years and three | advanced rents would buy the place. He draws approximately | @ year from a $17,000 value house. ‘What do you think of that for rent profiteering? few facts reveal the true state of the administration of Seat business and anyone who does not believe it can Investigate all the Yent profiteers who are extorting the earnings of widows and Lovingly, ANGELINA BAKER Madam: _ Even as you and I. We eliminated the name of the firm in your esteemed because they are all alike, and why pick one site a hundred equally guilty? There are more people than there are flats or pale ts or houses. : roe have to live somewhere out of the dust and The ‘landlords, temporarily, have a monopoly on a neces- ty, and they are extracting all the traffic will bear. d of us do, given the chance. odd one in the hundred doubtless goes to Heaven,| “usually he first spends a few years at the county poor In short, and this is the meat of the nut and the of the cocoanut, as we see it, Seattle landlords are) as human as the rest of the commercial world, They are getting theirs while the getting is good, so long as the demand exceeds the supply, they will tinue to practice extortion. We know of no business man who sells for less than! has to. And no city ordinance, or public outery, will do much! remedy matters, we fear. Seattle needs more houses, more flats, more apart- , more hotels. _ And her need is already starting a building boom, for) one district there are 800 houses being built today. A gigantic new hotel was announced for immediate) ction, last week. And, in time, supply will catch up with demand, and erstwhile gouging landlords will become tamed, and! manly, and Christian in their dealings. Until that time the unfortunate tenants wil! either ie to pay outrageous charges, or rent a vacant lot in suburbs and raise a tent house. built tent house, at that. You might say that Japan got Shantung because Britain got her way about freedom of the seas and France yot her way about the Saar valley. The league was established on the ruins of the 14 points, with the hope that the league would establish the points later. are peeved | spoiled it] | I think the administration made a wonderful record during the war, and ; and $11 at] Which is exactly what ninety-nine out of every hun-, And there are a lot worse places to live in than a} THE SEATTLE STAR--MONDAY, By McKee. SEE THE WORLD Wht & YOU'RE YOUNG | THEY Sav rr's THAT'S MiGAT TOO — mE MmcHT PAVE BEEN mineD UPON IT ar THAT =I —|| SUCH U LAI BY 0. B. JOYFUL Henry Timothy Sutton, aged jot Knoxville, Tenn. has filed ry suit | sutton, aged 73. He claims ‘his wite! ie “too old” and that “I never liked her.” j | “es j | Iredell Wheeler admitted in court at Smithfield, N. C. that he had jtraded wives with another man,| jgiving half « pint of whisky and |25 cents to boot. A pretty eight Yanks husband French girl married) and every blooming Insists he'd be perfectly | jhappy if only the other seven would go out and get other wives) ‘for themselves . . TODAY'S WEATHER STORY Jack Frost, St. Paul, Minn, was lovercome by the heat while work ing bis potato | patch ‘Beale ra. Joweph Quebec is recetving congratulations arrival of her twenty-fifth child Mother and her twenty-fifth are doing nicely “Happy?” Mrs. Belair repeated after an interview, “I should say I am." Lucian Cernes, Woodland, Cal.,| who claims he is the father of 27/ |ehildren, 25 of whom are living, has| appealed to the probation officer with the statement that his wife has deserted him, and her where-| jabouts is unknown | ere Any little barefoot boy who has to wash his very ning can |sympathize with Rict Davie aged 4, who beat it the way from Wichita, Kan., to Ponca City Okina, because his mother insisted that he climb into the tub and bathe. | The “nothing below the knee” decree has been rescinded by the Rue de ia Paix fashion arbiters jand shadow stockings are again in |vogue in Paris, Isaued at the open ing of the racing season thie de eree failed to win observance of |the ultra fashionable, who after a |tentative flaunting of the hoseless |leg, decided against it on the ground |that their calves beeame sunburned jand dusty HIGHLAND PARK, N'T IS, FRANCE | Neighbors complained that | Yous og, an elderly farmer near Bighland Park, It, has been| going about his farm minus his clothes. He was arrested and ay lvotaned before Justice of the Peace ®, 8, Smith “Have you any reason | conduct?” Smith asked million of ‘em,.” replied Young “What are they “The 70,000,000 |pores of my body,” sald Young. } ee | SUCH 18 REDHEADED | Iv, Howard 8, Clemmer, |Wash., says there haw not jeonviction of a red-headed boy in| |Spokane juvenile court in the last] weven years | And he's started @ Red-Head club| with 215 members, all boys and all red-headed. Sergeant Alvin C. Yorke, bravest] jSUT TLL, Minar living { for your “leventy Lire | Spokane, | been a} some WORLD j Jw Tey THE EX" KAISER To SEE IF WE MAD |) ANY THING To do WITH THE WAR }|We Suppose This Is the Way an Escaped Lunatic Puts in His Da HOME, JAMES! THEY'RE ALL CRAZY GUT weiteme BACK TO SiLLy CENTRE! FRONT! Boy, TAME THE GOnne- “PROM SIN TO SALVATION WE'LL SAY SO BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE an egg this Staff Writer on Ragged Toples for There are steps in pas several from a life Gistinet of sin to a state of complete salva on, altho most of these pro ctsses may come almost simul taneously Ordinarily, however, a grows gradusily from one into the other after deliberate thought and action. First, there's conviction of sin ~—the removal of darkness thru the coming of a great light. Second, there's contrition for sin—sorrow for having offended God and wounded our bors Third, sln— jured, we may to those from taken anything unlawfully there's confession neigh: of to those whom we have in no matter to whom else confess, and restitution whom we have Fourth, there's conversion from sin—a right-about-face from our old course, and a walking in the ways of right coumnens Fifth, there's consolation of forgiven sin—it is no more to be mentioned unto us, it is “buried in the depths of the sea.” Sixth, there conciliation with God-—from whom we had wan- dered into the by-paths of # now taking our as sons of our Heavenly Seventh, there's consecration God's service will and work wherever He m send us Eighth—there’s the consu mation of the Christian which extends to the glories the Nf beyond. Here, then Conviction, sion, is the contrition, conversion. conciliation, summation consolatic consecration hero of the war has been made ber We mer, change brown, and an honorary have never but we'll bet all our that his hair isn't white, green or blue. seen Doc However— CHICAGO, UL—After of married life wtih husband, Mrs. six a in, rightful places ther to neeking to do His ay im iife— of summary confes on, red-headed, mem. Clem loowe black months red-haired Olga Celeste Murphy ix golng to resume her comparative ly restful occupation of training and exhibiting a troupe of leopards . oe (RMAN WOULD NCES TO LAND HIS ONE It feeds with both mouths, one A PICNIC TIP A foggy morning ts usually forerunner of & clear afternoon ee As readjusted and set to music| ‘Trade Commission: | by the Federal Jack Spratt could eat no fat, (Meat trust prices too high.) HAVE sives/that long since KENWOOD, Minn.—A_ two-head.| ed trout is thriving at the state hatchery here. The baby trout is| |now two Inches long and promise of attaining ripe old age the And his wife could eat no lean, (M-t- pete) And that's why the platter 20 cleap was One of the announces it per cent telegraph wil reduce rates That's just our luck had waited. A New York hotel |girls who can't go on a vacation |The tanning pertor for the benefit) My too. | Greetings: Mave you boycotted | Look at that merning? companies 20 We jsent & telegram last week and we! | Might have saved something if we it suppose you an has opened a tanning parlor for the benefit of | “Well, More marvellous than or Alaska, or of diamonds in history of petroleum in the during the last ten years. A been published entitled “Oil” ers McBeth, which contains the salient fe tures of this amazing history. the following facts: The first oil well in America in 1859, only sixty years ago. The tremendous years. The use of oil as a source due to the internal combustion engine, which | in one form or another. There is oil in rub- is the heart of the automobile, the airplane, leather, paint, varnish, cement, glue, the farm tractor, the motorboat, the sub- | resin, dyes, vaseline ointment, chewing gum, marine, and other varieties of the gas candy, and moving pictures. The chair on engine, which you sit, the telephone, the telegraph, Petroleum has built the world’s greatest | the newspaper, the typewriting machine, individual fortune—that of John D. Rocke- | the ink, the pen, the book, the contrivance feller. that carries you to your office—these are It has made hundreds of other fortunes, but a very few of the things that are de- and has probably made more people rich over night than any other one thing. been the great- est wealth producer in the world during the Petroleum has probably |last decide. | The United States supplies ‘two-thirds of the petroleum of the world. Forty-two per cent of this put comes from what is called nent field, embracing parts of the states of ‘Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana anything Arabian Nights Entertainment, more amaz- | sleet, th wealthiest people per capita of * ing than the discovery of gold in California ansion of the ness has taken place within the last ten « ry 1919, by Fra iB in the} The Osa Africa, is the United States | book has just by Reid Say- in 1918 from o ly $4,000 for ez These Indian of automot to see a blanke' a~ In it I note | car. Writing of o' was drilled Mr. “No mechani oil busi- | no power can | mechanical fri | Wherever ther is | tion or insulati e of power | vented without machine, the approximately More country’s out- the mid-conti- and Texas. 1 On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be ‘Yo Compromise any community in the world. The income Van Antwerp says: pendent upon petroleum or its derivatives. “The steamboat could not have been in- the electric light, the airplane, the sewing sar, the pneumatic tire, or the phonograph. important still, war could not have been won without it, for, as a British admiral has expressed it, ‘We floated to victory on a wave of oil’—Amer- ican oil at that!” ndians of Oklahoma are con- 4 il royalties was approximate- ach individual. are among the largest buy- viles. It is a common sight ted Indian riding in a $7,000 il in the Boston News Letter, ism can be run without it? ye maintained without it; no ction can exist without it. e is illumination or lubrica- on or propulsion, there is oil it, nor could the cotton gin, the Pullman printing press, the great European “BLOOD WILL TE sLL | EDMUND VANCE Judson steered me place showed me his stock shining face “Look at that Holstein! With the county record for and mili Look at her pointe! Look at her joints! wander she gets my care Music to tall COOKE sround his ‘hy Jud with a And fine an silk! butter No p'ticular and hide and hair.” “Your wife,” 1 said, “looks a little bit tagged, Or as if her spirits were somewhat sagned.” “You're right.” said Jud, “but you got to allow I got a mighty fine Holstein cow.” I got some registered pink where the skin shiner thrut m in pens as clean and cage for her pet can “And how,” 1 said. “Are Harry and Ned? they are constant chums And closer than fingers are with thumbs." no,” said he. “Since they're nearly grown, boys get along when I leave of boys i* an olf institution tn! ‘em alone this country—only it never went|Looks like I don’t have the time under that name. It was called a} to spare, woodshed. eee | Red tape has tied up |eges in the harbor at Genoa, Ita! and they're rotting. That town 5,000,000 |For registered Berkshires are quite ! some care.” “But I want to show you my ing here, geld |going to be a poor one for actors|Out of Gasfitter by Chandelier. }this fail | BLACK RASPBERRY, PLEASE |I pretty near take my meals in bisito Washington After the business session, the fol lowing program was given: Rend. ings, “Christianity Among the Heathens,” by Mra. Ellen Boyer; “Something to Give,” by Mrs. Wil-| What with | and all, his groomin’, trainin’ | stall.” | "Hi, Jud!" I cried, “Can it be denied That { am your oldest, staunchest | friend? lard Kurts; “Bring Ye All the Pies | Can't you quit this beast for a while Into the Storehouse.”—Bikhart, Ind., | | and spend | Truth A day, or @ week, with me?" Jud’s see | eyes | |Stared wide, as he spoke in shocked | “100 Rot Fo in the Street,” ES easvetne » ——T rays a Newark, (N. J, newspaper | “You're my oldest friend, just Uke] headline. It must have had a raisin blag he g 3 ies, But man! ‘this hows is a thoro - | A Lakewood man has begun (Copyright, 1919, N. B.A.) Ipickling his face and when he gets) “CoPyrent, 191 Wane a |it in condition he's going to let one lof those three-minute barbers shave | him | he H DONAHEY | The treasury department an |nounces that while it will continue ical G@mpany to sell Thrift Stamps, it will no longer carry-on a thrift campaign 4, y, show us one of those $15 silk 325 PIKE tae Your |SORRY, BUT WE'RE TOO BUSY |_ Thoughtful English — dilettante Eyeglass Problems great reader, budding writer, desir! 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