The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star Oc onth; 3 montha, ln > out of city, & ber months § mont te of Washington, Outside the # ‘Se per month 0 for 6 months, or $9.00 r. By carrier, city, 600 per month. Underpaid—and Still on Job rr has is to cuss public officials. ever police is a flat-footed cop; a fireman is a lad who ite g week: councilmen are no good; the street de- nt is inefficient; the parks are not kept up and @ civic clerks are not on the job. tt these times, if never before, city employes are giving than they get paid for. of them are working for lower wages than they get outside. here has the rising cost of living bit deeper into the check than it has into these salaries of city employes, have not at all been raised in proportion to the boost cost, of living, nor to meet the raise in salaries and in private business. ae t amount more money is available for mu- hc abagally and yet it costs double to perform any H pared to pre-war prices. hate to eavance ant and salaries, because, they stay advanced, no matter how hard the times, low living costs drop. | the business world wages go up and drop back ac- oe ion Chace to the supply of labor and the cost of living, but) civil service roll a salary stays put, and once it remains boosted. : : cannot raise wages in proportion to increase in expenses. No city can compete, these times, with enterprise in bidding for skilled workers. best that can be done js to increase wages to the t where the funds give out, and then to decrease the ber of workers, slow up on municipal betterments until increase and leave some leeway. jinly any city that, to meet temporary expenses, money by bonds, or otherwise, is in a bad way. best, the municipal employes will not get what supposed to earn. of them will give more than value received. . , our firemen, our engineering corps, the a rs and the office men; heads of departments and the higher officials are, for once in their lives, the city something for nothing. : ; w long good men, faithful workers, efficient officials ‘Officers can be held for less than they are worth is hile we will do well to lay aside our good old in habit of cussing all public employes, and give a appreciation where it is due. * mm, a sneaky name and a reputation for needless } and sinuous, not as large as a house rat, but mee of him is vicious. He will lay low a flock of _ mostly for the fun of it, sucking a little blood corpses of his victims. in his foolishly fearless. Some- of a trap when a weasel who would oppose femi- luce the general pressure of of so-called luxuries really are necessi- to live in a world shorn of things ful, graceful and amusing. an ermine scarf about a slender white throat is a the weasel is one of the few wasters of the wild; spendthrift of the lives of birds and lesser the ermine becomes civilization’s token of idle ranc of a bit of finery whose purchase tht feed a family for a year. A Little Suggestion ight carloads of surplus army foods are en route ity zone supply officer in Seattle to be sold to e at reduced rates. the food will be bought by various communities nd Idaho in bulk lots to be sold to the le thru institutions such as the public market or city stores, the bigger part of the food will be dis- to the consumers thru the postoffice. over a week, Seattle mail men have been taking for the food and the results are not satisfactory. ‘statement of the average housewife is: m skeptical. I bought some army bacon once. This T want to see what I get.” d it not be a good idea for the deputy zone supply secure a downtown store window to display to ‘Sam’s groceries? Then Mrs. A. H. could at least that she was buying and she'd spend her money more Mr. Wilson refused to tell how the American voted on Japan's proposal for a racial equality , and refused in the interest of “international good anding,” everybody knows how they voted. “Secre tary Baker “guesses” that an army of 576,000 d be too large. Perhaps we should have a Secre- of sored in the cabinet to look after these im- may be that separation of the military and the 7 would tee tor be breeiet Mer Baker oug we can 8 au 88 efficiency for ‘of a little more results. f ‘ | Wilson says that Article X will leave to each nation o0 plete freedom of choice as to the application of ce.” Germany had that under the old system... __ And another first class argument for peace is the fact we must keep troops alae the Rhine for 15 years doubt China has moments when she wonders just phat se kad in mind when we asked her to enter the most popular indoor sport the average American | time? They can’t go even to the/sands of miles apart—no need to THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919. ‘Features On the Same of Americanism Zhere Can Be No Compromise |Explanation of the 1 Lee ql Greetings: profit-tears? Are you shedding oe Anyway, the war did some good It gave a lot of officials, ordinarily tied up in Washington, a chance to tour the country, Whose expenses, [by the way, are being investigated by a lot of other officials touring the country, Who#e expenses, by the way, ete, ete, ad lib, ad infin. eee Our friend at the next desk ts the Proud father of a boy who Is be ginning to take a lively Interest In magazine pictures, All our friend has to do these evenings ts hold the young man on his lap and listen to this sort of thing: “See bow- wow. © See choochoo. See honk- honk. See baddybaddy mans. See ‘nother honk-henk. Whoo, whoo! No, do wanna go bed. See more choo-choo.” Meanwhile that in the next apartment “the boys” are gathered around the fee tive board enjoying penny-ante. eee Major Martha Irwin of the Salva- tion Army is back from France with a record of having made 800,- 000 doughnuts. We nominate her for general, ee Paterson, N. J., silk workers are striking. Buy your silk shirts at once, fellows. There may be « shortage next spring. see THIS EXPLAINS WHY THE TOWN 18 CALLED OSHKOSH Charles Wark, a young man of youthful appearance, slight in build compared with the woman and gray as to hair, was at the piano, understands perfectly how best to accompany the prima donna. He knows what volume is required, what shading is desirable, how much of it, and he follows every motion of the singer to detect her next requirement in the matter of Plano support. He not only knows these, things, but he does them. That is why he ts such an excel lent accompanist. He wore evening clothes. The piano was finished in black, one of the low concert type of instrument, with a little outward turn, on the top of which the singer rested an arm occasionally—Osh- kosh (Wis.) Northwestern. eee The railroads named by Glenn FE. Plumb as having been in a $450,- 000,000 plunderfest are controlled by the Morgan, Rockefeller and Gould Interests. Surely these three names stand for such a high type of pa triotism that nobody will believe it could be possible. Oh, you do, do you? Well, it wouldn't sur- prise us. Hohum. eee President Wilson reviewed a ma rine brigade the other day, the first returned soldiers to be reviewed by him. You certainly have to take your hat off to the marines’ stage manager, The prince of Wales, Eastern paper, says an lendid swim. and is very fond A wonderful young mer and dancer, of animals.” man. Isn't he fond of the movies and Jama? eee What has become of the old-fash- foned girl who wore cotton stock- ings and didn’t show them? eee THE RIGHT ONE MAY BE KNOTTY WANTED—Work of some kind in a shop; @ cripple with artificial left one, with good habits — Advertisement in Worcester (Mass.) Telegram, e-° How do you suppose the striking actors in New York put in the realizing | He} BIG BILL PEPP CAME ALONG AND IN 5S MINUTE ULL OO s ORGANIZED AN EXCURSION TO AN “OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE” HE KNOWS OF ONLY SO MILES Away. OVERFLOW MEETING TO-MORROW (Copyright, 1919, By Donald McKee.) FORE le, BY 0. B. JOYFUL None of our onearm auto drivers have a warm pot in their hearts for Justice of the Peace Werremey- er, of Clayton, Mo, Nor for Con stable Schoenblen and Deputy Con- jstable Roth, both of Clayton, too. | All of them are rooting for Ed | Francis, who is @ onearm driver and, take it from the young lady jin the case, “a good one.” It looks much like it was going to be a showdown on the propo jaition that onearm driving ts reck less driving, The case has all the ear marks jof becoming one of thone celebrated jeases such as Dumas used to write about, for if the defendant loses it puts the finishing touch on jautomobile courting and will make jautoing with one’s best girl just jabout as exhilarating as it used to |be when one went buggy riding and |had to keep both hands on the | reins, Ed and his best girl were motor jing along Clayton-ward when Ed was pinched and fined for “reckless driving.” “Only one hand on the steering | wheel,” the constable testified, “oth- \er was around the young lady.” | “The other arm?” amiled the young man. “Sure, I don't mind telling you; it was on the back of the |seat, and I guess if she didn't ca \it was no skin off the constabie's | nowe. However, the constable seemed to jthink It was “skin off his nose,” jand, as we remarked, pinched Ed, nicking his pocketbook to the tune of $7.60. The case goes to a higher jcourt, not because Ed thought so much of $7.60, but because he wants to have it legally established by a |higher court that onearm driving |goes with the law if the young |lady doesn’t object. | eee And in Chicago, in the summer of 1878, some smart Aleck city cops arrested a young man, who with his best girl, drove down State st. | He had one hand on the reins and |the other about the girl, so “she couldn't fall out going round the corner,” he explained to the judge. But the judge said, “Disorderly con- duct, $1 and costs.” That young man, too, protested at the way cops and judges were ruining the buggy-tiding industry for young folks, but before he got the case settled his way everybody had sold his buggy to buy tires for his automobile. . oe And along about 19: or there abouts, some fresh a traffic of- ficer will pinch a joy-riding couple because the young man is guiding his airplane with one hand and hug- ging the girl with the other arm. But before he gets the case firm- ly decided in favor of the onearm aviators, young men will begin tak- ing their best girls out in some newer method of transportation, and the whole program will have to get started again. Which reminds us that an Eng- ish prophet has this hunch: All vehicles, excepting only those used in transporting freight, will be junked, No more passenger traffic on railroads, no need for passenger airplanes, automobiles or buggies, Indeed, the travel of human beings practically will cease, Everybody | will stay at home and no shoe leath- er_will_be worn out, It'll be this way: Humans will be equipped with individual wireless telephones, so they can talk with each other thou- down to New York, over to N Aug. 31, in 1290, Edward I. by Proclamation exiled the whole race of Jews from England upon penalty of death In 1591, on Aug. 31, Sir Richard | Grenville, in command of the Brit ish ship Revenge, was attacked near the Azores Islands by a fleet of 15 Spanish ships. For 1% hours Sir Richard's crew fought man to man on board of the ship and only sur- rendered when all but 20 of the British were killed. On the Mist of August in 1688 John Bunyan, the famous author of “Pilgrim's Progress,” died. From being a dissolute young man, Bun- yan grew to be @ preacher of the utmost rectitude and propriety. In 1841, of the Sist of August, Edward Janeway, the eminent phys iclan and pathologist, was born. On the Sist of August, in 1842, Mary Putnam Jacobi, the physician and author, was born. Dr. Jacobi was the first woman admitted to the Ecole de Medicine in Paria. In 1864, on the Siet of August, General George B. McClellan was nominated for president by the dem. cratic national convention at Chi cago. The election took place dur ing the civil war. McClellan had a large following in the North who were opposed to President Lincoln, and were sympathetic toward the Southern states... The convention adopted a platform declaring that the war was a failure and demand. ing the immediate cessation of hos- tilities, On the Sst of August, tn 1886, he great earthquake at Charleston, 8. C., destroyed $5,000,000 of prop. erty. Many lives were lost and the shock was felt thruout 20 states. 8 | The Old Gardener Says | | —e There was a certain prejudice in some quarters last year against the pretty biuve annual called corn flow er in some states and bachelor but- ton in others, because it was said to be the favorite flower of the kaiser, This is one of the best of garden blooms, its shade of blue being almost identical with that of a baby's eyes. All too often the flowers pass long before the season is over, You can keep them in bloom by clipping six inches from the tops of the plants with a pair of heavy shears now. New growth will soon come up and yield a fine second crop of blossoms. London or Manila to visit or tran sact business. Humans will be equipped with a wireless Jens outfit (prophet doesn’t say how or when) which will en- able them to see clear round the world, See a typhoon in the South Sea, a gorilla in central Africa, or a bolshevist in Petrograd, just as easily as one sees the plate on the table at dinner—no need to race around the globe to see this thing or that person, Humans will, by a method now unknown, shift ocean streams 80 that northern countries will be warmed by southern currents and the tropics will be cooled by Arctic waters. Climate the same the world over-—no need to go to Palm Beach in winter, and North in summer, Maybe they'll be able to get a whiff of the ocean into Kansas in Au gust by leading it up the and Missouri Tiverst, gimme That will be the life, oh boy! ee BRING THIS AD Will repair any American watoh, no matter how vadly damaged, for, . $2 Good Until’ Aug. 20 We Pay Cash for Diamonds and Liberty Bonds bere ip JEWELRY CO, ut trond Ave. The cheap dividual. of Common Nouns. dog, actor. as John, Fido, Warfield. hating and trusting Classes, jclothes, fitted by a tailor. Only the rich can afford the rich-mnided think of Classes. some bad and some good. man, they’re all deceivers; say all reformers are fakes; Cheap Thinking is Lump Thinking. Intelligent Thinking is discriminative. mind understands the intelligent person understands the In- Most education is simply the manufacture The old definition in the grammar was, “A Common Noun is the name of any one of a C On the contrary “A Proper Noun is the name of a person or thing”’—not a Class, Knowing only Classes, believing in, loving, is on the same grade as handling hand-me-down ready- made colthing. Knowing individual things and persons is like dealing in made-to-order ‘The Cheap Mind, for instance, hates all Germans, not seeing that there are Ger- | mans and Germans, that they are Folks, Whenever I hear an Irishman say he hates all English, I put him down as cheap; or a Protestant say he hates all Catholics; or a white man say he despises “niggers” or Japanese; or a man say all women are | bad; or a woman say you can’t trust any man say all politicians are grafters; or a policernan say no crook can ever go straight; BY Dh. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919,by Frank Crane) a Class; The that they are discriminate. lass,” as man, | they are not who would go tailors. Things, Only not | cal blinds us so The secret or a Bourbon or a business this one, said WHY RAISE PLUMBING SUPPLIES? Editor The Star While the “probera” are at it, will they probe the recent raise in price of plumbing supplies? Or will they seize some eggs and butter and call it off? Why not make the “king” of plumbing sup- plies show the reason why 30-gallon standard range boilers were raised from $8.15 to $11.00 each at the | local jobbers? Why not “probe” and |find out that one big corporation lia fixing prices for all the little jcorporations to follow? ‘The above was written for the pur- pone of showing another branch of profiteering which should be investi- gated, and I know, that you and your pen can and will do a great | deal towards cleaning up conditions as they are today. Bollers are only made back Bast. Wages of the makers of boilers have not gone up a cent, but the price went up 33 per cent. Why not make each vendor show why he raised his price, and keep on going up Ull you find the man responsible? A PLUMBER. NO PLACE FOR RACE WAR Comrades; There is a «mall prairie fire along this coast, set by a lot of boys, and a fel shallow-minded grownups are spreading it for politi- cal excitement and greed (for what there ts in it. A few civil war veterans should spank the boys and sive a ewift kick to the political shysters who help spread it. There ia no danger without a strong wind from across the sea, Eternal vigilance is the price of Uberty, It is a question of Jap hash house, cabbage and greed. The white men wants the the yellow man is making. ‘The question of a color line in the United States was settled in 1860-65. Tt was settled midst cannon roar and gush of human blood. The echo was the sobs and wall of widows, the hunger cry of children, the silent agony of mothers, millions of happy homes ruined, cruel sufferings of the innocent and aged, Tho red stream of blood covered up with livid hue the line of color, sectional strife, states’ rights, special rights to white men and emblazoned on our flag equal rights to all men without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of servitude. The blood of Lincoln sealed the bond and the Grand Army of the Republic is a living witness today of that pact. By a High Private, Rear Rank, of the Grand Army of the Republic. H. 8S. BACK, Veterans’ Home, Retsil, Wash. COST OF MILK Editor The Star It was with a great deal of amusement I read @m article in your paper which was presumably an interview with Harry H. Stuart, secretary of the Carnation Milk Co. in which it was stated that “milk Is to stay at high price’ and the reason ts that “this effort to bring d6wn My- ing costs will never be reached— that the end will not be what the consumer dreams of. The reason is this—they won't go far enough with the campaign.” I will agree with that "they won't go with the campaign. One of the first things the fed- eral department should investigate is milk—both fresh and condensed —as it is one of the greatest ne- cessities we consume, Mr. Stuart apparently lays the blame for tho present high price of milk on the farmer, who receives $3.15 a hundred pounds for his Product, which Is at the rate of about 6 1-3 cents a quart, or 3 1-6 cents a pint or pound. What. the public would like to know is why they are compelled to pay around 15 cents for a quart of fresh milk that cost only 6 2-3 cents and the same sum for a pint can of Car nation condensed milk from which most of tho butter fat has been ex- tracted, It looks to a man up a tree as ff the people are being stung by the condenseries and wholesalers of milk to a greater extent than on most any other commodity of consumption, and the federal authorities would do weil to begin their Investigations in this locality with milk, Xours for the babies, wy ».. JOB BORDEN, 2 coin Mr. far Stuart enough substitutes for thinking. lazy or too incompetent to ex@mine and It all depends There are German people just as honest, | humane and high-minded, and just as dis- gusted with the war-lords, as any American, There are Englishmen just as anxious for freedom and justice in Ireland as any son of Erin. There are honest politicians, crooks judgment, of common sense, is the power to understand exceptions. All generalizations are false, including — Cheap Thinking Is Class Thinking or a bourgeois say all Labor Unionites are vicious and selfish; or a radical say all bankers, brokers and capitalists are thieves, 7 trouble a with these statements ig 4 not Thinking, they are cheap — The author is too He g hand-picked. Everything depends, 8 his ideas in crates, | \ straight if they had a chance, plenty of virtuous women and utterly loyal men, also most Laborers want to be fair and most Capitalists want to do the square thing, if they knew how. In fact, Hate grows in Class soil, | Classes we hate, not men. Ps It’s Very few In- dividuals are entirely unlovely when you © get to know them. 7 There's a rotten spot in Patriotism, when it goes beyond a certain point. rotten spot in loyalty to Church or Politi- Party or any Organization, when it There is a that we cannot make intelli- gent exceptions. of clear thinking, of sound — -§ somebody. NEGRO ON JAP QUESTION Editor The Star: I am @ constant | reader of your paper and an Amer- lean citizen. I note with interest your articles concerning the Japan- | ese question, An analysis of the letters relating thereto, both pro and con, reveal | the fact only too well known to some, that there is too much need | leas prejudice stUl rampant in the | “white” American. | suppose tho that I should not be | expected to have anything to say in @ question over whose country this shall be, whether the “white man's country” or the Jap’s. It has al- ready been said that this land right- ly belonged to the Indian, but that |on account of the expansion of a | more enlightened civilization rightful title passed into the hands of the in- vaders after the time of Columbus. If that be so, then why should we (or rather the “white man”) raise such a hue and cry over the incom- ing of many of the Japanese? In the Japanese, altho I recognize not yet any particular friendship for me or mine (racially), yet I have never heard of any [mob of Japanese lynching any American citizen. I have never known of them voluntar- fly “jim-crowing” or segregating any one on account of color, nor have I known of. them to labor to the end that any group of people should be discriminated or dis- franchised or in any lawful way be Trestrained from the pursuit of life, Uberty and advancement. I need only to mention the con- ditiong, the unfair laws, the unwar- ranted prejudice of the greater part of the United States, and especially the South, directed against the Americans of dark complexion as a comparison, Ideas, and subsequently thoughts and actions, are the resultants of comparisons carried to logical con- clusions. By this the careful reader may not guess, but really know, the Being of African descent myself, I} In the Editor’s Mail | my yellow brother, not on account of | economic or political reasons, but for | the fact that being of a race also | under the burden of prejudice, I can | more easily feel for him, though the Japanese have me bested in one way, | at least, that altho he is not | and would be dispensed with, yet his | Portion is never as vile as Jed to a certain variety jcent native Americans ith, that \ica's centers of “civilization.” CARTER 8, HAUSBER BOWLING, © 710 Lane St. A SERIOUS CHARGE Editor The Star: Am in in the Jap question and think would be of benefit to the public jook into the affair carried on | Yersity was packed, The main f |tor for the success of the pageant, as @ community affair, was the com- munity cooperation. The girls’ division of the War |Camp Community Service wishes to thank you most heartily for your kind and generous cooperation. Very sincerely yours, IVAH E, DEERING, R. G. opinion of one who sympathizes with Community Organizer for Girls, I can tell Bobs it the heel f It discredits the maker | You know bright Jrellow Yu S3 why? Tell 1& parodies anything‘God ever grew, Ip bids all comfort /and ‘grace adiev, It sids the chiropodist's revenve, like a stilt sery, with a tilt ‘yo It sebs her ,Sntire physique askew; And yet ib/ persists bhe sdasons through, yA SO why fe a heel .of’ a woman's shoe? . PETS | know the rain frges tthe heel o =e —_—— [ can sile you the sum of two! and two, 1 know the age of the Wandering clew, 1 knew which mushroom ie sake to chew, gevlash from oni Irish stew. I can figure the kick in a modern brew, 1] know what's what and [know Who's who ; 1 am wise to many things’, old and new, a wornen's shoe? | | 2 and wearer Ke , ee ow » from pedkock blue, And the cot- bird's call From shee love's 00+ ho rhe” the, rarm, flere She lod ehd: etl Hanae wie ae ball fom! he vbtard ce. f yo can even tell gsictine from-glve, why, Oive me bot one clue! woman's shoe ?