The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919. ~ She Seattle Star | =a On the Issue of Pee RT F FATURE | Americanism There Can | — - Be No Comprom Se per month, $4.50 for & months, or $9.00 ise per year, By carrier, city, b0e per month eg " “Vicious Circles” and High Prices | SPIRALYSIS re | BY DR. FRANK CRANE Trank Crane) | | | | " Ever since Aesop's wolf blamed, killed and ate the! NO, SONNY,.. DON?T n stream lamb for muddying the water, on thru the Wee BELIEVE!! CAN ACCEPT le 5 . when cut-purses and pickpockets escaped by crying | BiB our APPLICATION Ba thay 2 ven H. F. J. Porter, an “industrial engineer,” | "‘Bhe way is—to GET TOGETHER. op thief,” the tactics of the guilty seeking to get away YOUR. STEED, CARRIES, tiga Mate _— ot Ee ‘7 m\ | |whatever that is, has put forth, in a recent Capital, Promotion, Management, and changed but little. rae p TOO MANY HORSE- ORL . rN BLACK BEAUTY® \interview, a new word, at least new to me | plain Labor must some day meet around Tt is the same today. Whenever attention is called to) (7% POWER. I'D-BE 4 R&R. SUMP'N and the stenographer, and whoever fur- | a common table as partners and co-laborers, relation of monopoly profits to prices, trust spokesmen 4 AFRAID OF A ~ . nishes us with a new word enlarges our | fix a reasonable profit, assign to “each his rapidly and loudly of the “vicious circle’ of wages and NACCIDENT! ; |thought sweep, so to speak. It is: | fair share of the work, and of the reward, They explain that the wicked union raises wages. : +” Spiralysis. keep the books open and the cards all on n prices must go up to pay the wages. Then the unions Z 1H, r 5 — It means, going around in a spiral man- | the table, and recognize their unity ot another raise, which again makes higher prices, and so 4Y Rea wweer|} iner. A man trying to escape from his | interest. ’ cirele runs its vicious round. According to this ex- ® ; y % BuT r Dow't|| shadow, which keeps right up with him, Strikes and Lockouts, violence and an- tion there is no escape from the “vicious circle” so 4 yg NEED A no matter how: fast he runs, (2) a dog | tagonism, are not so wicked as they are as labor demands, and is able to get, higher b bayag 3 rm) WAIA4 jchasing his tail, which invariably has a | stupid. fore, the story always ends, “Down with the unions! $ a | velocity equal to its owner, and (3) a They are Waste. 2 rd B. It was this sort of reasoning that led mén to believe} Y a ! squirrel racing in a revolving cage, are The only way to help Labor is thru Pro the oy moves round the earth or that the sky is a i out Ba) |examples. : duction, Strikes are anti-production. ’ dome of blue in which the stars are stuck. Indeed, | i sien Z \N | The “analogous” of this, as the colored | The only sensibl@ Labor Union is a union is not as much semblance of truth as lies behind these phere! Air = = preacher would say, is the effort of people |in the shop, on the job, a union WITH errors. i | } ¢ awnt ae : to eseape the evil of High Prices by Rais- | capital, to produce, and not against capital, Old books on logic warn against the fallacy of reason- 2 er 7 - ing Wages. For if your upkeep costs you | to destroy. hs “Post hoc, ergo, propter hoc,’ which means After) sie | é |$3 a day and your wage is $3, it does not We had to work for a League of Nations therefore on account of this,” and point out that) f ‘Go E |helf any to have your salary raised to $12 if | when national egotisms got us into disaster; e two things happen in succession it does not follow! F H | your upkeep rises to $12. | now we need a League of Industries, before the first causes the second. But no one thought it) 5 4 is J | This is one of those nose-on-your-face |Class Egotisms produce their inevitable to warn against the form of reasoning which said, WH I \facts that voluminous argufiers overlook. ruination, ore this, therefore on account of it.” | j | To go on raising the wage of workers, | Mr. Porter says these words, which are - Logicians thonght so blatantly foolish an error needed | , 1 ¥ |while the cost of living of these workers | worth a dollar apiece: warning. Yet this is the way much of the high price | |mmounts in the same proportion, is exactly “The place for labor to organize is on oning runs. It is the assumed error of the “vicious L 4, | 4 £ A like the dog chasing his tail. the job, not off. It should organize to do talk. Very many investigations by all sorts of Ly i /j Z = When the Company advances the wages | things, not simply to keep things from being have found that prices always rise before wages.| Vf i 1 | f, jof its men 10 per cent, and passes the buck | done. It must organize to run industry, not fact is undisputed. It is often ignored. iy { y ‘ ; right on by raising the price of their product | merely to keep some other interest from Wages and prices do not move in a circle, but, under} f Y . 10 per cent, and the men have to buy those | running it. It must organize in the shop, spur of infl&ted currency, in an upward racing spiral, | } products in order to live, they get nowhere | where it can actually accomplish things, far in the lead. There is no question of which) but right back to the point from which they | rather than on the picket line, where it the wage egg or the price hen. Until some one) , / / started. jcan only swear at them. One type of labor an tance of stationary Prices ‘set in motion by! Wo | What, then, is the way out? | organization, the type that contents itself age demands, the “vicious circle” talk is pointless, at ay <! f " . There is only one way. We can adopt | with striking for higher wages, means per- | There is something much more like a “vicious circle” | ber |that way now, or first break a few heads | manent industrial war. The other type of d with quite another field of prices. But this field | 4 gm? , and burn a few factories; in éther words, | organization, organization to control and a 5 ng Pig the nea ied teed poles! : : : ie can use the pom have or wait to | perfect the industrial processes, means in- on within. Inside this monopol) | . = z ave some sense knoc into us. ‘a liberal lift by every hand that touches it. | : bi | - — sihetaanneties areas In trade and manufacture, ogg i gan 4 one} ss or a : te | cer or trader is raw material for the next. If cur- . 3 ; NG = ENE- | og y causes a rise in the price <f an article the momen-| MIES OF SOUL-LIFE | jHere Are Pacific Fleet Commanders r adds his twenty, thirty or one hundred Ret (Copyright, 1919, by Donald McKee) »— atte tectecssinwannlis* it to the new price, including the increase. e By The Rev, Charles Stelzle ler does the same. Each increased price is a} ey | “Fight the ood ‘fight of . w base upon which to figure profits. In the long chain | | faith.” wrote battiescarred Paul nodern machine production, price, by such increases, [ WE'LL SAY SO | | TOMORROW t zouns, Tienothy sia Waahiieaae be doubled and trebled before it reaches that universal } Pine agg rept ged Brg the Ultimate Consumer. ANSWERED BY MR C. GREY | the 23rd Of August, in 1305,) Permite ite enemies to overrule ‘j se of high prices. But it is } he 3 ’ . coon BE” _ This is not the fone am e igh p Dei ee a en Wallace, the famous Mfottish| "vy sgure hardness as & good Renda ot ag i f trade it | Wednesday evening and am pussled patriot, was executed. He led Scot-) soldier,” wrote Paul to Timothy : monopoly touches the stream of trade it) out the kind of dress I should tish clans againat the English wuc-| a few years later up the flow and draws off wealth without returning wear wnat do you sumgest? Fishing eather thon deleting | | ——— | (Copyright, 1419, by ¥ e - cessfully for many years, but finally uivalent. The first thing to do is to tear out these | saute stiies san Sathana ko Cine is the sont coouphtion of a That will hard, Wear a lawn dress. BY 0. B. JOYFUL j true soldier. Some men's or I be , for they are deeply entrenched — ° we 7 as | In 1819, on the 23rd of August,| ganizations in the church have defended. ee Please tell me what to do to|, Dave Windsor ts coming over (0 otiver Hazard Perry died of yeliow| dug their graves with their this alone solve the problem. But it will help, | ,.come successful in welling reai|"*? ™% landed the other day inttever at Port of Spain, Trinidad,| teeth. They have been more lear the way to solutions. estate-—E. Sells Holmes. + rey ome and rig teen va Weat Indies. Perry was born in| concerned about banquets than jeas' “vici ircle” stage of | Talk lots pores ogee ne 785 at South Kingston, R. I. He! they have about battles. at least get out of the “vicious ¢ once over, will step across the lin@/sntered the United States navy and, Instead of being inspired by bed sep r ttadle Prince|at the age of 27, ranked as com-| Mazzini’a call, “Come and suf- in my garden but it is so tough, on mander during the War of 1812.) fer.” they have been fooled by HT can't eat it. T gave some to a} Dave # 25 years old, and carries! 4+ that time he was in command| the swan song, “Come and eat.” N Bids | neighbor but he broke . lof a amall fleet of gunboats, His If we are to win in the fight oO | What can I do with it?—A. unmarried, but likes the signal victory on Lake Erie over a| against our enemies we (gardener vo onsen beg i giles British force, greatly superior to| know who they are. Here are * | ve Say ie YOUN MAN | hig own in men and guns, has given| some of them: the other day various men gathered to| Tt cam be used in patehing auto) wii ne King of Great Britain, Philadelphia : mobile tires or hose. | ™ihis name u distinguished place in| WFirst, the devil. “We wrestle a large stock of lumber which the government h: Peror of the British empire, and/the history of our country. © © © against the wulere of the ‘ ‘ have as much power a» any ae A < tised for sale. The auctioneer described the propert What kind of; tron 46 builders) sistint oftice manager when the| OM the 23rd Of August, in 1890,| darkness of the world, against not already done so cursorily | uve tn erecting an apartment house? Rage the U. & 8. Baltimore sailed from| spiritual wickedness in high 4 those apr whohad y part, - [Dove fo on the Job.) [New Tork fer Sweden, carrying. the Pigces* Be cg 32.—Admiral Shoemaker fs commander of Division 2, d the stuff. - | . . al " i . the jeship juadron No. 1, the Pacifi: ject, " Then there was a call for bids. One man spoke up. The| *™! '°" |near the bottom in a male beauty |>°dY of Captain John Ericsson to/ cond, the world. The world @ Pacific fleet, now on its way th , his native land. Kgylcsson was a| haa its alma and ambitions, ite | the canal to western waters. Capt. Cfusley is commander of the Rhode’ Honeer mildly protested at the figure the man mentioned) wo ought to be the leader of "ROW: DUE he haw & nice collection oo ik inventor, who had immi| ideals and plans, and often they | Island, which isin the First Division, i r} of names, Edward, Albert, Christian 4 , after another address or plea, a somewhat higher bid|a street car striket—A. M. M George, Andrew, Patrick, Davia |#t®ted to New York. His greatest! are quite contrary to the pur- ie H ; “ Inited G > it + cause for whi made.; The auctioneer tried in every way possible to] 4 conductor | Windse,..3ile 006. minahe ten, uged] vorvine €© the Oniled Bintan wis: the)’ doese of COE Tee we ouiieet, | gesboats "en Getioeake teben | oils Whee mee tes, SLE ir the audience but with little success. At last the govern-| , Keith Side Ges: Mis Sone ae to be Wettin, but the war made | ronitor a new type of warship de-| to its customs. The principles emies of the soullife of the tn- .| mits this. So ‘that the battle tative got up, looked the assemblage over |askeq me for a dime. What was Lata man, Mame Mppopwiat I lsigned by him during the civil! of religion must dominate the dividual or the nation. is already more than half won, idly and said: “Gentlemen. It’s no go. This sale is de-|ne doing in a whist game?— (hen oes war and offered to the federal gov.| world if it is to be saved from It's the life of prayer that ye a t the good fight of tn! ” wl at the bidd he and|H. P. M. . | 4 ernment. The plans were accepted| dettruction—not a cold, narrow gives the Christian soldier faith.” 4 = , By yp poe migcret se Playing @ Joan hand. ta play. bakebeth Tried it aad AY land the Monitor was built In New| sympathetic brotherhood. strength: A . York early in 1862, She was de-| Third, ourselves. And here's “And Satan flees whenever he | SHERIFF CAN’T GET | The highest bid made for the lumber was a little less} questions MR oc. Grey |ft S™Mmer, when American sol est carry the most powerfull our hardest battleground. It's tees the weakest saint upon his ‘one-third of what one of the foremost lumber men in CANNOT ANSWER See nin arnkiand were, trving tol cans ever mgunted on a warship| comparatively easy to conquer | knees.” | _ MEN FOR $4.50 A DAY e city confessed was its actual value. I am a very tenderhearted young |Syery time at bat. and muffed every |UP t that period others, but it's the enemy with. A good knowledge of weapons | MARYSVILLE, Aug. 22—There P 1 lady and do not like to cause any " 2 age nt headee in who gives us most trouble. is essential. The Christian's [is a job which pays $4.50 a da: | There is no reason to doubt there was an agreement ; ball thrown to him, That's what| In 1893, on the 23rd of August, a] ‘ | y ween the men who attended the auction as to the bids | tine = 1h go 3 tre|BAPPens to a fellow when his fam |New ruling of the United States We've put him there, and in- weapons are found in the word jand board looking for the right ‘ . trenched him, and made ex of God. And this means that man. Applicants should pes be et H i " fr "i te decreed that when a state { appear lat were to be made. There is no reason to doubt they |a pinch?—Jennle J ne oak det seetioatinnad vals aputaiute had the opportunity to| Cuses for him. “He that ruleth he must study the Bible system- |foge Sheriff C. J. McCoy of- this in agreemnt as to how the lumber or the profits were| Where is a good art schoo! to SN ia elect & United Staten senator and| Dimeelf is grenter than he that atically and inteWigently leity, who has been requested by > be divided. jsend my son Frank? I wish him RAW! RAH! AMY! failed to do #0, an appointment by| ‘#keth & city.” He must learn to obey his |Durst Brothers, hop growers of In various parts of the United States the same story in|'°,Decome 8m artist, as he hae 8] tre, Amy D. Winship, 90 years |th® Kovernor was vold. In 1893 the How are you going to fight commander. Every true soldier |Wheatland, to engage a night great deal of talent. He works in these enemies? Not with “car- knows the necessity of obedi (watchman for their plant. The i 1 ‘ \ latures of Wyoming Monta: | on to something or other the government has left over|, drug store and you just ought|/0!4, of Los Angeles, Cal, has been aeons ae nine i eeener| nal” Weapons. Steel armor and ence. There must never be any |eheriff says it is like hunting the the war might be told. Agents of the government say |to see him draw a» glass of soda ditten by the college bug in severe Ooo aitorences, adjourned their} DM& RUNS won't help you much question as to His authority |proverblal need! in the hay stack tis shameful the way cliques endeavor to take advantage | ¥ater-—Mrs. G. fashion. And late in life, too ‘After’ che hed reached 90. the cn1tet without electing senators,| "this battle The fighter for faith may be |to get a good, strong man to work : government. In y es auctions are called off, | Why is it that when a che! $008 | cod. the. Ghiversity: et Wa Step The governors of these states ap Fight the good fight of sure of vict@ry. There cannot |for $4.50 a day in times of H. C. many cas up the water goes down faster?— ‘ ‘. Fy ‘ A } int f = faith” Paul reminded Timothy. be the least dou that the the case in Philadelphia, but the dealers only smile.|~ x. + graduating, and going on to the Pointed men to coord re ae : ~ know that sooner or later there will be another auction! 1: the butcher cuts the price of University of Southern California, \') . i | whi he te ate refused to admit them. This the same goods and they will get them ultimately at their |ham, could It be called a pork chop where she took an armful of ro gel ri no matter how low it is. ER. H. n|Roing to drink doeper at the font{the fenate during the session begin Which is the more profitable, a ‘ 1893 a hullabaloo has been made over the same sort of |automobiie or a baggage truck gar-|° arming in New Orleans, aad tion having been discovered in the occupied area @1 |den?—C PR Bi Ale Gai iL i : 7 z when our government sought to dispose of some/ | CROSSING COP property. Our army officers put men in the crowd|M#. GREY'S HOUSEHOLD HINTS {0 ® tet come policeman, and) THE ‘ / evidence to expose the gang. The Germans|, Never throw away an old sik lon gee the moving pictures |” ol e t es ae held up to contempt. pat, Tine % wen adbetos Ags ue cee . | BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE re ity were held up to contempt. ne a Oak trey : wit Ge te ; . here in America when Americans do the same thing} netore coing away trom home on nist | you make of ext: ‘The Year Changes Ite Job \ Every true mother realizes the fact that her baby's health de- government they are brought neither’ tq) your summer vacation, varnish each) “gan FRANCISCO, Cal | Why Shouldn't We?) \ Pelee Marcy tests very vitality of her chil of justice nor the bar of public opinion by the OVs| cake of soap that you have on|ticemen refused to accept the exica then Boreas snorts his bitter blast her own physical condition. How important it is, therefore, na, m1 Py de blood corpuscle shivers . to guard against any derangement of the female organs, which Pam) ‘This will prevent the s0aP/s26 given with their monthly pay| An every hokey ames D, induce general weakness, nervousness, constant fatigue and utter ‘ from decaying and will keep out the! unt informed all coy . When blow and blizzard follow fast 4 7 ~ *- _| moths. a pers’ wagen| "ee sot out flee ana hills and inability to properly care fon her child. Please remember, that ‘A hath “to” watt ast tonger t¢|"** been voond a | tere Lydia B. Pinkham wetable Compound has brought health and 4% T. taken het tn thi pane aad given as! is teaden-< oh Wikiaiala 6. | When every twig is rigid } strength to thousands of such mothers. That Jimpson eed! ea jairing’ three or four times a year.| says {t is all right for young cou.| , When every breath fails frigid, | . Mitohell, Ind. Lydia KE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped me | AM enameled roof is the latest! fing to hug and kiss in the cr,| And even the noonday pales and eo much during the ti g wes looking forward to the coming of my little iba |i Pat W tuck smoother than| >, i an sin the city| aiaakan 400 anionens one that I am recemmetsling it to other expectant mothers, Before taking : research to put one over yas ibitjon has’ ..:6 cr wood, and the water runs|>* etien se Oh! then I fain would spend the day ‘ live, bat after ping shies bottles of Lydia E, Pinkbam's Vegetable Com: fought up some strange substitutes. ey say that oft it more’ rapidly. We'll say White Paws ts |In pitching corn. and hoeing hay, \ pound T was ensiraly relieved of neuralgia, I had gained in strength and ickleb pie, properly aged—. Or three raisins dropped} A New England architect has! Kitten, some! Or following the reaper on its way! was able topo eround and de ell my hoasewark. My baby when months | ogg? ‘ | : WY old weighed 19 pounds and I feel better than I have for s long time. I r . Or hair tonic diluted with—. d fr oe, bra pr 04 in aia HOLYOKE, Col.—White Paws, alo, earths equator slips her w: Y never had any medicine do me so much good.””—Mrs. Paant Monrman, _ But among the very earliest jags accomplished in this P and the! kitten, saved the life of H. G, Mills,| When earth's eaus oe ae ONE \ Mitchell, Ind f attle at the bottom. He believes +p . 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It was served, tra- POSTAGE jand found himaelf within. a#triking Pic a bs | \\ Ad AJ 9 \\) tion says, at the wedding of Pocahontas. Song, laughter| Miss Pearl Cosner, for severni/“istance of @ giant rattlesnake) Wii! Cory vein is scorching, | la in am S \ fd loud conversation were among the symptoms to be|%(M* one of the teachers in the| Sim aint om gael je \ x dT Deadwood high, 1s now @ business| The kitten ieaped from the car| And even the simmering wea's a| Weed Tea. woman of Minneapolis, She i in|®4 #ank its teeth into the rattler's ired from Jimpeon sg piace - jell ins sy “ i th ith vi ch. Science says that atropine and hyocsyamine are the Ste: se eb sane ie fees! Maybe you have heard more or|And track down Arctic bears across | principles contained in the leaves and seeds of Jim : aeP hue, the snow! , ‘adnit P| band Wari quite often, as wellas Mra,|/@%* About tho kick, the kick that , ca ee & : e~\ the medical books admit that these drugs produce) rank Bower and’ daughter Hva,|%%* buried July 1. But you haven't|(T#: This i @ tip to employment \ Ay AX4 of laughter” and “frontal headache,” “But that isn’t all|sne sends love and regarda to her|R®4%d About the famous will 1 he igs bi at they produce. Deadwood friends who care for) Ki of Dallas, Tex, have you? (Copyright, 1919, N, 3 ” either.—Deadwood, 8, D,, Pioneer. en, wil I. Kick came home e 4 “Coma, exhaustion and aera hah on the progean. ee one evening and kicked about the|rehewed. Will I. Kick kicked his | | It has been seriously - ¥ at Jimpson tea be re- ideal Wig sghiick Ge tho. tt supper, and Mark Kick kicked him| wife and the little Kicks until the. as a social beterage. ut as a drink it would seem to ome of the oldfash-jout of the Kick home, and he|coppera came and carried the kick: | with wood aleohol— foned man who used to tak bought himself some cider with a <ick to jail and, besides, it tastes something! ramiy out tor a. w. Sunday after-|kick in it, and returned to the a Hai as kick about that ‘ : Kick home where the kicking was!man,” remarked the Judge, Sheeran Edaeiieamnemam eames ete ee — weet : “ rg areca.