The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star eo per month; 3 months, 60; & months $: } year, $5.00, im the tate of Washington. Out The per month, $4.50 for 6 m By ‘carrier, city, 600 By, matt, out of city, 1 Words Are So Easy _ How easy it is for the other fellow to solve our troubles. _ Have you a family of seven, a rent bill that keeps you , and no chance to own a home of your own? > Listen how easily all that may be changed; we quote from a typical editorial, by a typical “helpful” editor: _ “We are protesting and growling about rents, paying $80 to $60 a month for a roof tree for the family, with miles of untenanted lands all around us where a d months’ savings of rent in the city would put up a ie ‘ortable shack and make a home all our own, beyond s of landlords. People seem to be as helpless How interesting! 4 Start right out, Mr. Worker, and gather you a bit of ‘this untenanted land. Of course, it will have to be beyond the city limits, if - It is to be reasonable if price. Beyond the city limits you can get it for $1,000 an acre, 80. As for water, you can dig your own well, of course. As for sewage, why, a septic tank doesn’t cost more than 00 for a small family. y As for getting in to your work in the city— Go and buy an automobile, of course. The children must get to school, and there is no school; ‘ , employ a private tutor, my dear fella. : 0 simple, you see, if only you are a millionaire working- The fact is that the worker has to live near his work. has to live in the city. Unless he is the exceptional, cannot choose his home environment, he must stick to his job. He has no auto, no aeroplane, no idle to invest in acreage and sewage systems. ch month he manages to pay the gas bill, and the ter bill, and the grocery bill. He deals in small sums. just gets by, and he has no surplus for investment, can he escape the thraldom of the landlord. professional man or business man can own his little try home, can afford his cow and chickens and garden fruit trees. He can show up at the office about 9:30 quits at 5:30, or earlier. ndent. often he lives more cheaply than does the laborer, is forced to pay high rents, purchase all his food and uel in small quantities at top prices, and who pays more or carfare than he would for gasoline and oil. : d the one man has capital for the initial investment, he saves on his living expense thru this investment. t is interest on his outlay. ‘The other has nothing but a weekly, or monthly, pay heck; and it barely covers the various iniquities today d under the —— head High Cost of Living. is a wonderful thing when the adviser knows the affairs of the advisee to make intelligent Ad not. a hard commentary on our government by the that it had the courage to draft men for war to limit the profits that may be taken in - Sparrows, Rabbits, Japanese In the library of the department of agriculture there is : ttle book which gives the date on which the original of English sparrows were turned loose in Brooklyn, Y. The book also gives the dates when they were fht to other cities, as far west as Dallas, Texas. over a few score pair were ever brought over at all,' most of the city flocks in America today are descended | one or two pair, because sparrows do not usually fly city to city. They came over in the early fifties. ti has a similar story to tell about the jack- bit, as every school child knows. America may soon have another such story to tell— the Japanese. 1918 there were 4,219 Japenese babies born in Cali- In 1906, there were only 134. Placer county, California, in 1918, the Japanese births twice the white. In Los Angeles county the Japanese rate has increased 3,000 per cent per year as the it of the importation of Japanese “picture brides.” In California schools the Japanese outnumber the white| 10 to 1. Japanese birth rate seems to be five times that of | whites. It has been figured that if the Dillingham bill, now pend- in the senate, were enacted into law, and the Japanese “allotment” of immigrants per year were adopted, the lapanese birth rate would bring the Japanese population the United States by 1923 to 318,600, by 1933 to 542,000, y_ 1943 to 875,000. To carry the thing out to its logical conclusion, in 160 irs the Japanese population here would be 216,000,000, d the white race would long since have been supplanted. How can we hope to discourage the taking of exces- Ba ests until the courts define the word “ex- cessive President Wilson will be Seattle’s guest on the 13th. Score another point for Puget Sound. With our climate, even the 13th loses caste. Whether Judge Allen is guilty or not, those five bot- tles of Scotch have left a Brown taste, anyhow, consider- ing the nature of the prosecution. Section 4 of the food act, making it unlawful to charge unréasonable prices for necessities, comes very near to making the grocery business a crime, Labor says it will make an effort to have the Plumb plan written into the platform of one of the political parties. Isn't there some more merciful way to kill it? “Thinking without language” is one of Wilson's favorite phrases. Language without thinking is more popular in congress. One never knows whether Labor or Capital will win eerie! battle, but he knows that the consumer Be. For once in history, all Americans are agreed con- cerning an important matter. They are agreed that the other ystonw is responsible for high prices, Let us at least wait wntil after the next census to labor's suggestion of a firing squad for profiteers, He has his own car and is} | Editor’s Mail | “COME ALONG"s | | The Phe Editor the | following lines space in your paper. Star use give | When I was a child, seventy years | ago, America had few songs. But I remember two that were very pop One ts, “Come Along,” and As have “Come Along” in print, I beg leave to insert it here to show bow our sentiments have changed in seventy years “Come Along” Come along, delay | Come fr every nation and come | from every way Welcome now is every nation, Every trade and occupation; There's & general invitation of the world '# banner is unfurled varm j wlar the other, “Yankee Doodle. } very few of this generation ever seen ome along. Make no While none will do us For Un Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm. I remember this as being the most popular song of that day. It wa sung in the home, in the harvest fields and in the public schools, It was set to stirring music and when started everybody would join In, It has long been forgotte 4 if any should start it on a street corner y it would be received in silence or with bisves. Did our forefathers mean they sang in the forgotten past or was it simply a joke? This song has been repudiated and probably to be..If #0, are the Monroe doctrine and the Declaration of Independence also to be repudiated? Probably one hundred years after this the league of nations will be regarded as a joke. Just one word more, Mr. B. has asked what I should say if a Jap |should go to my house and ask th |hand of my daughter. I should say, “You can have her, if you can take her. Step right in.” When my big son got thru with that Jap there would be nothing left but a grease spot. I have no daugh- ter here. T. J. PIER JAPS OWN HAWAII Editor The Star: I much interested and |the attitude which The ing e Japanese yp m. it in a p m which the American people should begin to solve imme- diately, and I sincerely agree with Mr. Freeman that ALL Japanese should be deported as well as pre- vented from coming to our shores in the future. The greater part of my life I have lived on the Hawilan islands, where I have had an opportunity to observe the ways of these people. At one time my father was an en gineer In a sugar factory on the te Jand of Hawaii and received $125 per month. The mill was owned by white people, but was later bought by Jap- anese, who employed a Japanese en- | sineer to take my father's place, and this Jap worked for $40 a month, in | stead of $125. Coffee plantations in Hawaii are controlied by Japanese, as wel) an the merchandise stores. A whole Japanese family will work from sun- rise til] sundown on these planta tions, the mother working with the jbaby strapped onto her back. It is |eenerally ‘known that all laboring work is done by Japanese, They work from 10 to 16 hours a day for a dollar. On, such small wages they jsupport their large families, eating mostly fish and rice, and are able to save money besides. If a cow happens to die along the |aide of the road, the Japa in the neighborhood skin the cow and take the meat to their homes to eat. am very aned with ar ie tak |controlied mostly by Japs. The | majority of the fishermen are Japa |nese, who sell directly to the Japa nese in the public markets. Hotels, restaurants, laundries, all kinds of stores, dye works, garages jand department stores are owned by Japanese White men in charge of garages axk $5 an hour rental for large ma. | chines and less for smaller ones. | Japanese in charge of garages ask $4.50 for large cars, always charging 50 cents less an hour on all cars than | the white men, So consequently they draw the most customers, | We often hear tourists mention | the hot climate, which does not agree jwith the white men, But let me tell you, it is not the hot climate which | | prevents a man from earning a good | living, but it is, the hot cofditions |caused by the Japanese. No white | man can live like a Jap lives. Such a pity it is that the “Para- dise of the Pacific" is so largely peo: pled by these yellow folks, People who cannot become naturalized cit! zens, earning their living and mak ing good under the “Stara and Stripes,” while true Americans are forced to look elsewhere for their ne cessities of life. I hope to see the when all Japanese will be deporte from the islands, as well as the Coast A CITIZEN. PHILIPPINES AHEAD OF US? Editor The Star: Altho I am not often in favor of the reforms which you advocate in your paper, I must write and say that I absolutely agree with you on the Jap question. Were the Japs Americanized and assim- flated, it would be a different prop: sition altogether. America for Americans and those who will come Americans! The government of the Philippine islands has, I understand, placed a jban on Japs, and is deporting those already there. ‘They are ahead of us Keep up your antiJap campaign to @ successful termination! Write |letters to all our state congressmen and see how they stand J. PATRIB, ( Registered Dentists @ you this offer: his prices, methods rnon Dr. J. Brown’s New Office ORPHEUM BUILDING ‘Third and Madison, what | In Honolulu the public market {#/ WE'LL SAY SO Greetings; Of course nobody has slipped you a Canadian dime? SOCIAL, NOTE | Mr R erry, prominent. brick layer and capitalist, motored to Ta Sunday in bis new elght-cyl inder As “Stub” Hooker is just one rent day was saying, it after another We have tried to be a good little }luxury tax absorber, BUT NOW WE BALK. We've just heard that epsom jaalts are Hated as a luxury, Now that ed into a ne estar, sup pose it won't be long until he be gins taking milk baths on the Hoge butlding roof garden and writing articles for the spapers on how to keep der ful Jimmie Hoge has de we “Ever hear the one about the po lite apartment house janitor J. J. G. And then after pause, “Neither did I." see When told that if they didn't look ut President Wilson might appoint Lodge and send him to negotiate jwith the Germans, Senator Knox re plied: “Well, could go further and fare worne.” Yes, but think how much further he'd have to go. jibes a short he A Green Lake woman has served notice on the family that she in tends to strike on September 1 for a 10-hour day and 6% days a week see After all, do you wonder that the packer, the shoe man, the tallor, |the milk man and the rest take a shot at the well known American |citizen when they stop a moment jand think of the thousands who paid $60 aplece for tickets to the Willard | Dempsey fight? THESE ARE THE HAPPY DAYS | Surely the good old times are com ing back. There isn't any doubt of it as far as the editor ts concerned On Wednesday morning our good old friend, a subscriber, too, none Jother than Ed Witt, brought us in enough new potatoes to last the edi torial chief and family*until the 1920 jerop, and just for good measure fetched along a good supply of brand new 1919 carrots, including a Uberal supply of green peas. If every sub scriber emulated this splendid exare plo we'd start a wholesale fruit house |instanter. Thanks, Ed, for the ap |preciated gift. For once in three | yearn we've went to bed with a full stomach and a grievance towards no man.—Boyceville (Wis) Prensa, From dust again to dust, | Forever fate of men; Our streets, from dust to mud; | And mud to dust again. | eee [Profiteers are birds of a feather, | HIh times of stress they stick @®/ gether. | | eee | The hoboes are talking of strik-| ing. But come what may, no self. reapecting hobo will walk |the freight trains are running | | eee | The president of the ational Shoe Retailers Association rays shoes will be sold next winter at present . . AN ADVERTISEMENT THAT WE PRINT FREE Being saved from my sins, Provt dence requests me to publish the things I have taken from unknown parties, years ago. This wan aj} twoyearold horse, one hammer and an ice box. Behold, your sins will find you out. C, B. Hughes, 1402 Bragdon (Col) StarJournal e- Speaking of automobiles, CHARGE . Stanley | Buick liver in Lorain and Iona Gole}do not qualify for business to becom the is ville, a telephone operator in Ridge | 0. é } ing in | struck but taking their parte what we're driving at | eee | And then again, this might have |something to do with the high price ; of shoes. It's from the advertise. | ment, in a trade paper, of a dealer | in women's shoes “The holiday will be a happier one if you have enough shoes and the! right ones. “A pair of sturdy boots or oxfords for tramping. “Smart patent leather pumps for | the afternoon at the club. | “Delicate suede ties to harmonize with your gowns. “Tennis or golf perfectly fitted for the courts or links. : “Dancing slippers of kid or satin in the evening shades of your cos tuimes. “And don't forget the high kid shoes for cool days and general util: | ity.” York managers are appear- the plays in which if you get | | shoes | BE THAT HE DOUBLE LIFE was granted to go beneath the bridge. When the officers went to look for him he was dead, his body hanging from a crossbeam. Emerson then went to Des Moines, where he stayed with friends.—Sioux City (la.) Jour nal IT MAY LED A} Emersor permission | lthe Wollaston club, a, ys The Old Gardener ST If you want to make sure of good ia BI peonies next year, don’t overlook the necessity of oplying water generously to the plants now. Many seem to think that because ing season is over it is| ry to g@ any water} xt spring. This ts altogeth-| mistake, because it is right} now that the plants are forming their next year’s shoots, as could be learned by examining the roots. | These shoots contain flower buds which will develop next season, and| the stronger the growth now, the| better will be the bloom. It’ also pays to fertilize the peony plants at this se using meal or ma nure The novice is often surprised to see the improvement in| |hix flowers which follows a little jextva attention of this kind, people the bl not until n er a water bone ‘On the Sesue of Americanism There Can Be No Comprom The Turning Point in Your Career. || 9. | WELL-— [ DUNNO'S L CAN DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT IT. HOw D'YE FIGGE ON SUPPORTIN' THE GAL? MERCY— what A suPPRIGE ! How THE CHILDREN bo GRow uP UM GETTIN S12 A WweeK BOOK-KEEPIN' IN THE TANNERY, AND ME AND ‘LIZABETH CALCULATE THAT TWO CAN LIVE CHEAPER, 'N ONE MOVE SEE Uy; R 1 SEEN ‘Em SPOONIN’ IN THE CARDEN LAST NIGHT > ‘’ =< = : « ‘ WHEN You DECIDED To Po oms{ “ASK THE OLD FOLKS” “7? __ (Copyright, 1919, by Donald meKee.) WHAT TO DO Just to add to the gaiety of passing on to the gentle reader a letter I received the other day Williams. There's no dog-gone vagueness nor gen- eralities about what he has to right down to brass tacks what to do, It’s simple. and socilism. “Democracy or sacilisem will at the same time as perpetual “Remodeling the class sistim is the salu- tion of our social problem. “Put every man in the under faughty. superendendant positions fifty and alow the men over servants of the rich. “As the men under faughty producers tax their employers actors hour for their work and ten cents an hour Not taking the actors’ part) for any machine that does a mans work and ten cents an hour for a horses work or any machine that takes a horse's “The goverment should pay every wom- after the birth | st child and three dollars a week for every aditional child untill they are an twelve dollars a week of her fi past the age of sixteen.” I might comment upon this letter, but All great thinzs are simple, out—i¢/ altho alas! all simple things are not great. | I reproduce the letter with fidelity, as i\the whole thing, the style, the orthography and all, enter into its perfection. “IT have red,” he writes, “ prices: What's the matter? Scared?/and other experts in reference to democracy Mak clerical and Advertisement in Pueblo open to men above faughty, and the presi- jdents and officals of corperations to be over BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919,by Frank Crane) nations, I am | will not paint the lily. Mister Williams represents a large class of our fellow citizens who Know What To |Do. This class is not only large but | loud. It is not true that we are in the midst of perplexing problems, and that no one knows the way out. Williams knows. Al- | most any man you meet fh the street knows. We all know what Wilson ought to do and to have done, what Congress ought to | do, what Society and the Church and the School ought to do, what our Neighbors ought to do. I have some opinions myself that are a little bit of all right. The Socialist, the Single Taxer, the Bol- shevik, the Banker, the Preacher, the Livery Stable Hand, Senator Borah, William Ran- dolph Hearst, the Christian Scientists, the A. P. A., the Sinn Feiners, Henry Ford, Bre’r Lenine, George Bernard Shaw and our old friends Vox Populi and Constant Reader, along with me and Williams, all know what to do. Ask us. And you don’t even have to ask us. Just stand still a minute and we'll tell you. But— _ The little band of Sons of Martha, con- sisting of Carpenters, Bricklayers, Engi- neers, Policemen, Mayors, Aldermen, School | Pupils, Mothers, Business Men and Wood- row Wilson—THEY¥ have to do it, even when they don’t know how, and they do it mostly by making mistakes. Isn’t it queer that when a man is actually up against a job he has to do he quits talking about how it ought to be done? from Mister say. He gets and tells us| ‘your articles be discovered emotion. laboring class sales and | profesions | faughty who are the onley ten cents an | place. Now It’s Prohibition of Golf BY RICHARD SPILLANE ! In Massachusetts on the links of near Quincy, a state police officer stopped all mem. bers who were playing golf on Sun day In Philadelphia, after the courts had refused to grant an injunction straining boys from playing ball and b and girls from playing tennis and croquet in Fairmount park on Sunday the Sabbath Ob: servance society announced it would | ik for the arrest of men who play- | ed golf at the various clubs on Sun day | The action of the Philadelphia so: clety was due to the ch made | that it was active in checking the play of the poor, but blind to or afvaid of interfering with the Sun | pastimes of the rich. | To the masses golf is little, but| to tens of thousands of men it is} something of at Baseball may be national game, | but ite deve are mild in their| devotion compared with the adher ence of golfers to golf. | Tho earnest golfer never lets busi: | ness or anything else interfere with his golf. Nothing in the world is so important as golf, To restrict it, | as the Sabbatarians propose, is little} short of taking from him that which | the constitution grants—life, Uberty | and the pursuit of happiness. To the golfer the pursuit of the golf ball over nine or 18 holes ts h Jally if his score something to brag about Of late golfer has had more troubles than should be crowd: | ed into the life of a agen consequence. | golfer, The 19th hole has been | costs. plugged up, or nearty so. the finest w was done Some of of the day formerly thereabouts. Then the war came It took many players from the greens, raised the added much to the troubles of maintaining grounds and club houses, But those with fortitude This new danger, however, is too much, Sunday is the day of days in the world of golf, Without Sun day play the Sabbath will be barren to the man who golfs. Too Much Appetite ™ badger as too little When the skin is sallow or yellow, the eyes dull, the head aches or sleep broken and unrefreshing, the back aches, or there is a pain under the right shoulder blade—it is an indication that the body is being poi- soned by poorly digested and imperfectly elim- inated food-waste. It is a wise thing totake Beecham’s Pills to relieve these symptoms by helping to remove the causes Sold by dragsists throughout tie world, Ia boxes, 13c., 25. ills were borne AA ff i abe aria ise 4th of September in 1688, obrt Dudley, Karl of Leicester, Dud & celebrated coupe A t the court of tler and Queen Elizabeth the Duke politician He d and attempt upon the death of umberland wag was sentenced high treason, but wae ited } Lady h throne cdward VI beheaded Jane after and Dudley to death was a son of © , became the chief favorite of ial Elizabeth after her accession throne and intrigued uUnsue to obtain the consent blew to the court to higg K the queen. He was ambitious crupulous and repute Jed to It had jpeee covk popular belief that Dudley |murdered his young wife, Amy Robe | art, to clear the way for his map |riage to the queer | In 1830 he 4th of September, jthe Sultan of Turkey released all the inmates of his seraglio from thelr perpetual imprisonment with. jin the precincts of his palace, On the 4th of September, in 1883, the first electric lighting plant was jbuilt for commercial uses. Thomas Edison installed the dynamo in a pote at 227 Pearl st, New York ity ) 1886, on the 4th of September, { Geronimo was captured by Jeneral M: For a year Geron- imo, at the head of a band of |Apaches, had waged a fierce war against the settlers of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. His defeat was finally accomplished by a force of United States cavalry under Gen eral Miles on a | “THIS NIGHT THY | SOUL SHALL BE RE- QUIRED OF THEE!” BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE Staff Writer on Religious Topics for The Star “That man’s a millionaire!” Well—what of it? Some day a man’s going to be ashamed to have this said about him. Not that he may not have made his million by the fairest rules of business—but the rules of business of today will be decidedly out of date in the near future. No one sees this more clearly than the millionaires them selves. They see the handwriting of the new democracy on the wall. We'll look back In @ very © few years and wonder why we — ever permitted systems and scales which seem most reason able and fair today. Then we'll learn the force of What the Great Teacher said: “A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” This was said in connection with the parable of the “rich fool” who was so prosperous that he planned to build bigger barns, store his wealth and say to his soul: “Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” But God said: “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be re- quired of thee.” And then whose were the things he so carefully and self- ishly provided? “A man’s life consisteth ne} in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Leisure, food, drink and mer riment are good in themselves, but money does not always pur chase them—sometimes wealth crowds them out. Rich men rarely enjoy any of them. But to make these things the sole end of one's life—to have life consist of them—is as un- natural as not to enjoy any of them, It isn't the abundance of any- thing that makes it enjoyable anyway It is easy to have too much leisure—you may become @ loafer. It is easy to eat too much food—you may become a glut ton and a dyspeptic. It is easy to drink intemper- ately—you may become a drunk- ard It is easy to go to extremes in merriment—you may become a nuisance to others and dis grace to y f. No—it isn’t the amount you have, but what you do with what you've got that determines whether it's a good or bad thing for you. aD American vateh, matter how $2 madly a ced, for.. 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