The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star i}, out of city, S0c per month; 3 months, ah yO montha $2155 year, $5.00. In the te of Washington, Out the state, The per month, $4.50 for 6 ™ m oF $9.00 per year. By carrier, elty, per month. Making Food Cost More One of the prime factors in the high cost of living is the) high cost of food. And one of the prime factors in the high) / of food (to the consumer) is the high cost of produc- that food. And one of the prime factors in the high cost of producing food is the high’ cost of land. | Production ‘cost is the sum expended for farm labor, fer-| , seed, machinery depreciation, and interest on invest-| t. Included in the latter is the interest charge on the! ’s value, | | When farm land is $100 the acre, the consumer must prices which will net the land owner say about $6 charge an acre. When the value of that same land to $500 the consumer must pay an increased price will cover an interest charge of $30 per acre. | ; Price boosting’ of farm lands never was as ardently in- d in as within the past two or three years. Land spec- (and farmers themselves are thick among them) fat turning over land, sending one farm thru several ifferent hands in a year, each re-sale increasing the land yi and making it necessary to charge more for food pro- ed on the inflated value land. ¢ ' ' Out of the millions of examples here is one in Iowa, the on farm land boom state at present: "Carroll county—J. E. Griffith sold his farm two years to G. L. Miller for $190 an acre. Miller sold the same to J. C. Barry for $210 an acre. Barry sold it to L. C. n for $225 the acre. Klein sold it for $235 an acre, and n it was sold to Max Neppel for $270 an acre; to George nfeld for $315 an acre. It is waiting for someone who vill offer $350. ‘In Boone county 400 farms have been sold since the be- of this year. In one day $1,000,000 worth of Cass| farm lands changed hands. rs in farm lands are getting richer every minute. rs are wealthier—ON PAPER—in that they have valued more highly but which will not produce any ty pay more for what they eat. culation in land would be stopped, single taxers be-| by the forfeiting to the government of the “unearned | nt,” or what speculators call “profit.” Take the fit out of land panition and you write the death war- of that form of speculation, single taxers insist. It is the adding of the land speculafor’s profit to the sctual or food-producing value of the farm, which results im 4 cost of food production higher than it should be. You an’t grow cheap food on land the value of which has been abled or tr@bled by speculation. The Chinese must understand that we could more | ily accept their argument in the case if they hada as large as Japan’s. Shakespeare pictured the school boy as anything but thusiast. He went to school betause he had to. . Soe ergeoneell gel coe agg abe pond e. it generation. It was a rg before the idea of shaping boys and girls to fit a was abandoned, and the system constructed to fit hy, h -minded boys and girls. Morar Youngster actually looks forward to school in. Many will work at lathe and forge in manual train- | Girls will sew and cook. of today are real training grounds for the men of tomorrow; not mere places of captivity, youth is stuffed with Latin grammar and is ny~ gh true th&t/the great body of teachers does re joyous expectation the resumption of work. haven’t threatened to strike, but: a demand has, profession is entrusted with a larger’ responsibility? cannot expect-the spirit of service and the ideal of crifice to constitute the only attraction for those who their lives to the guidance of tomorrow's Americans. is it money alone that teachers need. Parents who the whole task of educating their children onto the all over the country that they be bettér paid. j 's shoulders wrong teacher and children. } and mothers can deaden tMe benefits of school | indifference; they can obstruct by fussy interference or can promote the efforts by co-operation in the home. Our own opinion is that the law of supply and de- mand will work a little smoother after-a few profiteers are garbed in stripes. * Willing Victims Find Robbers The American spirit apparently finds it difficult to differ-| tiate between being a good fellow, and being a good thing; tween being easy going and an easy mark, is to say, that one reason prices are so high is e bead ee public persists in paying the price with- it complaint. And in buying things it doesn’t need. And at exorbitant prices. The cheaper cuts of méats do not move any faster, when | better cuts double in price. girls are shod in the latest style in shoes, whether $5 or $15 the pair. : traveling lic demands the best the finest hotels have whether the: price be $3 a day or $30. | The cafes and cabarets and grills and similar resorts are | thronged as ever, and the cheaper restaurants, where | the serving of food is the main business, do not gain in Mhicbedy that bod i ly, that is “anybody,” quits joy ridi vh ires | are boosted om per eat q joy ing when tires er gasoline 15 cents or 50 cents a gallon tl country roads are as crowded on Sunday. eo The only institution not patronized in a period of inflated is the savings bank, and the higher the tax is, the dense the crowd becomes around the counter, 'o other nation does this, No other nation can afford to do it. is to be doubted if even this nation can afford to do it. | aii Chyhy all this talk about the right of Congress to de- osmpar under Article X? These articles were sup- abolish war. aha | Shantung )fara informs us that the restitution of of Ching@is on the attitude of China. The atti- be cringing and submissive, as usual. The president world steady, I are more de ap erate 8 us that America alone holds pvidence has quit the job, mat- an the world realizes, ~ { TOMORROW |Oliver Cromwell, protector of Eng lot his most famous victories—the jed in England. FEE, Fl, FO FUM! wHeRE's THAT DINGED PROF ITEER? (¢ Yestenvat THE Day Berto at) my pa's. \ TH’ GREATEST (Copyright, 1919, by Donsit McKee) THE CHALLENGE . BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1419 by Krank Crane) When a big human problem gets onthe |and. hate and slaver. : stage it is pretty sure to be presented about; One wonders why a Human Being, or ag the average man understands it. , |maybe two or three of them, coyld noz Playwrights write plays, and managers|have walked in and said: “Cease, friends, produce them, to’make money, and to make a bit from tearing your shirt. You're all money they must suit the people. | human creatures. Whether you're rich or In Eugene Walter's “The Challenge,” one | poor is an accident. In a few years the of the season's new productions, we have | worms will be eating you both. Why spend the Labor-Bolshevik-Socialist problem set) your energies in ancient hates? Y. lon forth for our amusement and edification. |a problem to settle. Sit down a ind the The question is presented in strictly con-| board, talk it over, and settle it, like sane ventional form, as the theatre is even more men.” conventional than the church. We see the) Mr. Walter has constructed a very inter- Rich dressed a# per usual in silk hats and esting play. It is so because its characters head waiters’ uniforms, and uttering the act about as stubbornly, crazily, and muddle- customary disgust at the laborites because |headedly as we off the stage. As a work they are dirty, disloyal, cruel and ignorant; of «et I do not criticise it. also we have the typical Bolshevik, ranting) But as propaganda it is useless. There at the wealthy because they are thieves |is nothing in it but a picture of the endless, and tyrants and all other things bad. |futile and insane obsession of Class. Each side is given its innings. The fierce} There is an American way out of this labor Socialist makes his long speeches, and the muddle. And that way is simply to begin haughty and aristocratic Holbrook Blinn re-| with the fundamental postulate that we are plies with remarks fully as extended. They get nowhere. Naturally. Because they conceive of the issue in: its traditional form of one Class pitted against anothet Class. In such a quarrel there is no possibility of happy conelusion. So long as folks con- ceive of themselves as counters in a Class, instead of being just People, they can do nothing else to the end of time but fight’ bottom want to do the fair thing. Second, that in a Democracy we can get what we want. All we have to do is to get | votes enough. Force and violence, necessary perhaps under Czarism; is ridiculous under Nae where you can get what you will. Why smash down the door when it's unlocked ? When Liberty Makes Us Free a ag § jous Topics for Richard 1, surnamed _ Coeur de} The Star : | Leon, was crowned at Westminster | “Brethren, yo have been called | unto liberty; only use not liberty 1568,| .for an occasion to the flesh, | “but by love serve one another For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even In this Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.” You can trust any man with all the liberty in the world if he'll base his actions on love toward his neighbor. You may give him the key to your city and to your home— he'll honor the confide’ have placed in him, and he him. self wit become a better man because you trusted him, The front pages of daily news papers flare out stories of strikes and lockouts and echo unrest of ev fort. We have undoubt ntered upon a@ new era in lationship of man to man And in this new situation “de. mocracy” is the keyword that men are conjuring with, But to most of them it simply meang “more and more"—for nelven, af with great pomp and ceremony. On the 34 of September, in land, died on the anniversary of two battle of Durban and the battle of Worcester. In 2752, on the 34 of September, the new style of calendar was adopt-| Eleven days were} blotted out, the third day of Septem-| ber being accounted the 1th, In 1777, on the 34 of September,| the British under General Howe, marched upon Philadelphia and the American army retreated across the| them. But true democracy actually Means @, restriction of liberty for as democracy increases, the greater the number of people there are whose interests must be considered and conserved Getting along with the ple Let's go eat at Bol uptown, 1414 3d Ave.; downtown, 913 2d Ave. Brandywine. * quite simple when there ASK FOR and GET In 178%, on the 2d of September, Spot on the throne who ste antgsen 4 sha | 7 a ¥ legislated what should a treaty was signed at Versailles be Horlick Ss ” Privileges of all the peo The Original | tween Great Britain and the United| 1 | ple~—while bis o: : States, ending the American Revo-| tad fe his own were unlim. . But when the people them. lution. On Oct, 19, 1761, when the| Malted Milk H selves rule—and every. British army under Cornwallis sur-| rendered to General Washington at| SOF Pern one of ts thinks’ ek s that we're ———_——— rine} J08t 88. GO08'Gn Anyone cng yone else, if Yorktown, actual hostilities had| ceased, | not a The following spring the British auestion or een Wberty rn went Richard Oswald as an emissary | comes. very complicated. to Paris to confer with our minister How shall we ‘meet. th to France, Benjamin «Franklin, and which must inevitably ov" with the French mifisters on the out of the democratic.’ question of pe terms. For a government? ig whole year the otiatfons dragged on and it was not until the spring of 1783 thaf the preliminary agree ment was made, On April 19 the| cessation of hostilities was formally proclaimed but it was npt until nearly two years after the York- town surrender that the three gov- ernments came to a definite agree-| ment upon peace terms |] focal for far and The treaty was signed by David! : Hartley for Great Britain and by| John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay fur the United States The treaty between England and France regarding the American rey- olution was embodied later in @ sep-| arate document, peo. when Glasses Carefully Fitted D Ti” gomecne by Skilled arhas Caiivie Optometrist the for “demo: ia Priced more democracy. It certainly easonable, grow form of think its was onge said that cure nd isn't less democracy, But to make this new demoo. racy “safe,” it's going to re quire something more than mere democracy—it means that we've got to introduce more of the element of love, and the aportie Paul put it into “one "when he wrote the Gala- tans: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” The world’s wisdom will nev- er evolve a simpler and more easily workable plan than this. We fit genuine Kryptok Glasses, the invisible bi- Froken lens duplicated, WEGNER OPTICAL CO. DR. KR. WH. WEGNER, Mer, Registered Optometriat 227 UNE Retween 2m jall Human Beings, and that we all at the On the Issue of mericanism Jhere Can Be No Compromise “HIT THE GRADE!” Greeting» namite Safe!’ ing A headline says, “Dy-| BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Now, that's reassur-|Tye automobile burbles on the level Its xpark-plugs fire in order and it Its clutch bites in, tte shaft rotates It has been brought to our atten-| ang } it's on the way, and | tion that some of our superior judges | yet no « cite etmtiah Wits tae |are among the best home brewers in |the city. Which proves them far superior, albeit stingy cee | ANSWERS TO CORRESPOND. | ENTS Rev. Mark A, Matthews, Keteemed Sir; It iw with regret |that we must decline your kind in vitation to lunch with you Wednes day to hear your explanation of: the| cause of depravity among the Fiji«. We have a previous appointment | during the noon hour with Bishop | Keator, | © behave; 1 the wheels, ver heelst rie ite gearn con 6 ite ry motor made Until he points the car up bill and makes it “hit the grade.” Now life runs on the level, for the most part, se we emile we loaf along while But when we ‘hit the rut and rock, the clay-pit on the hill, We buckle down and harden all the muscles of our will, For a man {s like a motor and hie merit is dispiay, When he has to show what's in him, by the way “hits the grade.” Ae “on high,” or maybe “idle” for @ | 4 Well, bo EV. COOKS aah Some of us mage the grade on high, some slipped back Into low; And rine time we've had an easy road all summer long, But now hill’s ahead; we've got to “go it strong!” Bo « to show the stuff, of which our minds are made; | The are done and now we've got to “hit the grade!” Of course Seattle's a dry town.| Why, the idea, there were only three | Uncle Ichabod says that when he went to school the other pages of “drunks” listed on the po-|might beat’ him five days in the week, but he was the best Saturddy lice court trial sheet Tuesday echoler to tite clans. ee _ . |TO BE READ PERSONALLY BY D¢wrpapers something abodt a JUDGE ALLEN |“cafe.” Will somebody tell me what Judge Clay Allen, |a’ cafe in thene days? In the olden Dear Sir: Where are the bottles | times it was a “piace” and a “store.” | buried? ited im and girls, we hit one grade a little while Minn Fifi Fusser, Dear Fifi Most certainly we will meet you at the postoffice during the nobn hour Wednesday. Oh, you Fifi! cee = oe A bill «has been presented to the fot be A RECENTLY DISCOVERED [Prussian cabinet to give Williams Wanted. | RACE Hohenzollern 170,000,000 marks to, $1.00forlarge | Green colored girl wishes position;| reimburse him for his “forced abdi vet ae jseneral housework. 116 E. 100th st.jcation.” He has yeceived more than aa ik ae vAdvertinement in New York (N.|that already—biack ones ¥.) World } burns, wounds size, geta as directed i ° quickly stops itching, also } eee Yow TO CUT H.C. L. | Editor We'll Bay So: Mary had 4 little houre. | A man can save @ grén The rent was forty dollars; |mioney if he iscareful. For instance, She doubled it and how he laugh*|1 used to buy two hats a year at! . Whene'er the tenant hoillers! $3 apiece. Ten years ago I bought} ee |the hat I now wear. I took off the| Blghteen New York theatres have rinbon and sweatband, sewed the Recommends Jo-To to His Friends for been closed by the strike. One/rinbon on the inside of the hat and Mr. A. E. Rest, of 2610 Center st., might say the theatre outlook there) ine sweatband on the outside, and is dark. |then turned the hat inside out.! | cee put I raise all my| Baker, Oregon, has this to say of | EFFICIENCY own vegetabley in window boxes. |Jo-to for Stomach Trouble: Some time today water will begin) When buying Meat 1 always select! Your medicine has done me more flowing into the new city reservoie| pieces with soft bones in them so|good than anything I have ever, | land this city will hereafter have almy husband can eat them. This! found, and I have recommended it to |water pressure equal to none in| prevents waste. One of my neigh-| many of my friends and will’continue this section of the state,—Martinez| bora has lots of milkweed in the/|to do so. :? (Cal) Standard. |back yard and this makes us inde) JO-TO is sold in Seattle by the eh Miled pendent of the milk dealer in the|five Bartell Drug Stores and at Now and then we read in thelsummer—Mre. W. W. C. Swift's Pharmacies. see WHAT MARY HAD | t deal of | Behold a new hat! This winter 1 One of the most exciting things|am going to turn® my shoes inside! In profesional baseball is to seelout—c. H. bow many home runs Babe Ruth can be prevented from making. | Editor We'll Say I live in @ fla Do You Know Your Own Business ? If you own shares ina business do you want a Government employe to tell your executives how to run your business? If you are a loyal employe, do you want a political appointee to have the power to injure your concern by hamper- ing its operations or by interfering with its efficiency? Perhaps you have noticed the effect of Government control on the railroads, telegraph, and telephone. Bills have been introduced to license and regulate the packing industry— perhaps your btssiness will be next. You would probably dislike to have this happen to your business even more than you would dislike to have your daily supply of meat interfered with. President, Swift & Company, U. S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson Street J. L. Yocum, Manager