The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 6

She Seattle Star Mail, out of city, S00 per month: 3 months. & months 00, ne te of Washin n ry Te per month, $4.60 for & per year, By carrier, city, 3, A i | On the Issue of | Americanism There Can “There is a good deal of difference between hoarding Money and saving money. Hoarding money is merely laying it up. sion and serv no useful purpose either uai or t society. © Saving money is buying the securities of useful enter- or depositing it in savings banks where the money Be eaned for constructive purposes, France, thru the expressions of its high commissioners of finance, is just awakening to the fact that there has heen too much hoarding rather than saving among its people, and that this is particularly true in the rural dis- 8. While this spirit has stood the country well in periods of stress, yet it has retarded its industrial and transportation development between times. The French people are intensely patriotic, and when the ment made the call for money to pay the indemnity Germany in 1871, gold came into Paris by the car and ‘train load—all the result of tin can and stocking hoarding in the rural district | )This was also true at periods during the late war. ’The tendency toward hoarding is one of the after-mani s of intense poverty which rural France endured the revolution. France today, even in the cities, there is very little of household and commercial bills by check, which a tendency to keep cash out of banks, the collective of which might be used as a credit for constructive It becomes an to the in- ; . When cash is deposited in a bank either as a checking savings account it can, within certain legal reserve, be out into commerce and industry in the way of loans one form or another. is in turn paid out for pay rolls, and after a very brief riod of outside circulation it finds its way back into the ting system again to repeat the process. ‘The issuing of checks by the householder to the trades- or from one business house to another, permits of a ; liquid form in the currency system than by the use ¢ eash; for an exchange of checks is an exchange of drafts | individual credits in bank. This briefly is the banking or money circulating system this country. _is the means by which we have so quickly developed a country and in such a large way. Frenchmen who visit this country for the first time . over the fact that ‘we have done so much in such relatively short period of time. + It is all in the fact that our banks have educated us to rather than hoard money, and it has been accom- ished by advertising. + The first bank advertising in this country was on the rt of rural banks, and was done for the purpose of get- money out of hoarding and into banks for safety, con- in paying accounts and building up and assembling credit sums for large enterprise. loarding is to no purpose. @ Saving promotes production and serves a useful purpose. | | | Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield has dis- covered the way to reduce the cost of living is to wear shoes of sharkskin and cat fish. Well, it surely could be no worse to wear shoes of sharkskin than it is to be skinned by sharks selling shoes of calfskin. Rent Profiteering The landlord who gouges is the super-profiteer. He 't be escaped. MERELY ASKING LIGHT Pre: paper men traveling points he desires people, nant provisions, If he to inform the people, included, those points very clearly. old newspaper man, of dation with that, as follows, without such stand: Point No, autocratic power international control, What autoers it the Kingdom of Italy, Rumania, and other monarchies ? of No, 2—“The substitution of publicity, discussion and arbitration using the boycott rather than arms.” sident Wilson has handed to news- with to place before the and in which he epitomizes cove- really newspaper men he will fail unles over 40 standing, I would respectfully ask eluci the elucidation, 95 per cent of the people will be almost as stupid as myself in failure to under- 1—“The destruction of as an instrument of admitting self-governing nations to the league.” ic power is meant? or Belgium, or BY R. F. PAINE India, Egypt, Ireland, churia and elsewhere? LIBERATE WHOM? “The liberation of oppressed Korea, Man him 10 No. 5 peoples, What peoples? Ireland, Egypt, India, our Philippines, the 30,000,000 Shan- tung Chinese and other peoples who have self-determined that they are oppressed ? ‘ And how will the league covenant liberate? By moral suasion? By force of arms or boycott starvation? No. 6—“The discontinuance of annex- ation and the substitution of trustee- ship with responsibility to the opinion of mankind.” What sort of trusteeship will work, in the Balkans, for instance, unsup- ported by force? Does it not take a unanimous vote of the league council to decide what people is fit subje¢t for trusteeship? Or, is it a matter of vol untary receivership? Or, is the coun- cil’s action in such matters to be me paphlie “ desires he explains As a stupid years’ suspicion about only Is the Balkan for war, If the boycott of a whole nation is justifiable, is not also such a boycott as that of the Danbury Hatters’ union, secret treaties? Are those be- wherein our government took the very homes of the unionists as punishment? No, 3—“Placing the peace of the world under constant international oversight in recognition of the principle that the peace of the world is the legitimate immediate interest of every state,” WHAT DOES “OVERSIGHT” MEAN? If this “oversight” is to prevent war, must it not be backed by armed force to compel peace on people who have self-determined that they will fight? If “oversight” does not mean preparation for duress, does it mean peace thru “public sentiment,” “national con- science,” or “moral obligation”? If the latter is to finally determine the matter of war or peace, why a league covenant at all? If there is any strong hope in national conscience, morality and such, why a British-French-American side- treaty? No. 4—“Disarmament.” Is it not a fact that, since the league was formally presented, the great na- tions, those most conspicuous in fram ing the league, are making or consider- ing tremendous increases in preparation for wars? Isn't Great Britain spending hun- dreds of millions to become master of the air, as well as mistress of the geas? Hasn't she got to have more navy strength for protection of her vast acquisitions of new territory? Is Japan disarming? If not, will we? Can Great Britain or Japan reduce their standing armies, with incipient rebel- lions of almost monthly occurrence in tween England, France, Italy and Japan, which came into the light at the peace table, meant? If so, cannot the nega- tive vote of any one of these nations in the league council defeat invalida- tion? If future secret treaties are meant, what is the process of invali- dating a secret treaty that is secret? No, 8—“The protection of peoples.” y what means other than force? By public opinion? Who can guarantee what will be public opinion one month hence? PLENTY WORK AT HOME “No. 9—“High standards of labor under international sanctum.” We've seen the American merchant marine wiped off the seas by cheap Oriental labor. What grounds are there for hoping Japan, for instance, will raise her seamen's and longshoremen’s wages to our standard? Could she not defeat any sort of labor standardiza- tion by her vote in the league? No. 10.—“The international co-ordi- nation of human reform and regula- tion.” Why go across the great seas for a job of human reform and regulation when we've got it right in our own front yard? Why reach for the mote in the foreign eyes when we've got so many beams in our own that we can’t see the end of our own affairs? Why strive for distinction as the great inter- national reformer and regulator, when we've got our regular army shooting up our police, a general policy of con- scienceless profiteering and a pig-pack- ing autocracy that skins us on every- thing from bacon to shoe-leather? | Be No Compromise We'll Say So and dry the beef and live on it “ad bee MMe 4 eference Grueger ha sll winter, In the following spring *# not uring his Kirch — Manitowoc ( ness around th Greetings! ¥ tract any statement by me made ir made for And th won't be ¢ A doctor's mistakes don't live charac:| | soe ‘him eee t Virginia county has just nished ¢ ng the deepest gas well in the w The lower the well, the higher the gas eee ‘The world is full of slackers, rays former President Mellen of the New Haven. Especially in the coal . . c os business. Awful bad he bones ache ar that AW But that ever b on Sa nothing Roys all and fee} WE ALWAYS SUPPOSED IT was . One alibi is about as good as an SOFT BOILED EGGS AND nother queer ther wants to raise DOUGHNUTS Bob Allen is a grass widower. His wife and baby have left him. We knew all along they ought to, and thought they would. Serves him right. They have gone for week's visit in the southern part of the state, and if you find him cranky forgive him, for it is the result of a craw full of cold pan cake, the natufal diet of a man unning bachelor’s hall—Janesville (ia.) Banner eee Prices of meats and other food- stuffs. says J. Ogden Armour, will drop soon. Og. never made a mis- take when predicting they'd go up. Let's seo if he hits It as well this COTE. 4 disabled on pay Pay day nificance when a man It is the ¢ h the cashier |* Caruso is back after a long ab: w Caruso, don't you? known high nence. You He's one toned of gentlemen “ee HOW TO BEAT H.C. L. editor Both myself an ved H. C, Le by se and buying ,! ou would be surprised » how much this reduces our set——L. J. 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It does away 4 " pena which is very often res for the lack of perfect barmony in the home.” Mrs. S. A. FRIEDLANDER, 840 Elmore St., Akron, Ohio, If you need a medicine of this kind you may depend upon Ludia E. Lydia E.Pinkham’s } Vegetable Compounds LYDIA _E. PINKHAM ——— (GESESL IL OSESCRE RU DEMOCRACY AND ALTRUISM BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) There is a deal of bunk about Altruism. The employes of a department store are | When a man approaches me with a | instructed to use Courtesy, not because the | scheme, and says he doesn’t want to maxe | proprietor is a nice man, but because he has the getting is good. any money, but is just working forthe good | sense, and knows that Courtesy pays, and * But ways are being found to curtail this form of | of his fellow men, I suspect he is a rascal, | that Discourtesy drives away customers. iteering. In New York, a municipal rent committee, | and 7 75 per cent of the time my suspicions The banks advocate thrift, not because ing in co-operation with the courts, has come to the|are well founded. they wish “to do good” and are managed by felief of exploited tenants. When complaint is made of} This world is organized on a pay-as-you- | peneyolent, kind ‘gentlemen, bat din arden excessive rental charges, this committee investigates and | go b: If you have anything to offer that | t, get more deposits, w hich is far ‘d pees ; fixes a fair rate based on valuation of the property. is of value, men ought to pay you for it, and | 4 hotter ph beennet 1 66. tone ig athe If the landlord refuses to accept this rate, he is helples ‘S, usually are willing. belief that thrift pays, and sniihie tae ha because eviction proceedings are blocked and action brought} The most altruistic thing in the world, | negs Pree not that it an ie leasant natal against the landlord on the ground that he endangers life | really, is an honest business. A fair and | quty ° i wat aprgate tanks by driving a family into the street. |square grocer does more good in the world | 7, tis aide ‘ The law is stretched, of course. But no judge has been!|than a free luneh counter. vy ort a dosnedn ah fag ng the cause of right- found ready to give a profiteer the best of it. : ¢ g people things for nothing is, most wer ic _ yeh ane ae that can show n Atlanta, Chicago and other cities, a plan which is per-|of the time, wicked. of hy on sh ee tee aan and that; by the fectly legal and sound i being perfected. Doling out charity, giving to the poor, | “™ of averages, it pays. There will be a re-assessment of apartment houses, bas-|bread lines, free soup kitchens, almsgiving All this, of course, does not mean that we ing their value for taxation on the income from rental. and the like, are by-products of unjust priv- | @re to do no kind deed without getting ilege, predatory wealth, autocracy and clas= Hing 4H oe ap seene the discovery that} Pressed for a definite statement as to when Japan | nonsense. } ee i a en fe . os oe ; ane ee te will restore Shantung to China, Takashi Hara, Japanese | Democracy aims to establish justice. It | )*PP mroeee ROTO , premier, said it depends largely on the attitude of China. | does not ask the rich to be kind to the poor, Good literature is now in every Or, in other words, on how Japan may see fit to interpret |»ut to treat the poor honestly. azines more splendid than our that attitude. In Kingdom Come there will be no Charity | dreamed of not because (meaning almsgiving). There*will be Jus- | kindhearted, but because somebody found | ps) | tice. | out it is profitable. Talking-machines and aay Democracy is intelligent selfishness, | ple pianos bring good music to the lonely whole lot better than stupid un- | ranch and far-off settlement, because it pay The inventor, the engineer, the business organizer, the intelligent politician, the skill- ful workman, and all who do good honest work, all who create and organize, and show us how to live together without fighting, masses than | these are the real Altruists, and not the people who Talk about it, es, home, fathers somebody was| Descendants of Solomon Safety First” is not placarded by a rail- road or factory because the boss loves the help, but because by it the boss gets better | jhelp. It saves him money, Steam and electricity have done more to improve the condition of the the reformers. Solomon in his best d of wisdom got off nothing better than this, by Cleveland’s spe grand jury that’s investigating old Mr. High Cost O'L iving: ' “The food prices in the main restaurants Principal hotels are so high as to stand in the way of their xOLIt; ior room guests or city potential patrons go to other | where the scale is lower—all except those who tak« pride in displaying their ability to pay high prices.” 1 iki cee. types not oy to eatables but also to. every-| Ss h I ing else that the people purchase. When the people re-| i fuse to stand the gougery, when pride in tocueth aod in bandas wh Life - display of ability to pay high is put down, you'll find old| Hi Cost headed for a grave in the cemetery alongside J. Barleycorn’ 's. “Pride goeth before a fall” must have been written by some philosopher who had a fall in prices in mind. been of the four “James in| snapper 4 ao | Skirting ht| tured it and The it wh ered uly whe to Frederick stance "And the day after 1 first) Mosely ran across one that weighed | all of 60 pounds, It, too, gave battle, | and 18 shots were fired into it before |miral who says, “ it turned up its toes. hen that “But the biggest of all found so far | eagle.” Taub found a 25-pound|was met on the road along the on the railroad tracks | high Valley the river and soon upon it, and the turtle of his Andrew Squires cam cap. » the hootlegKe officers to the r ing to drag dale, but the greater than d next morning farther from | that Henry | °° d been when it turtle next fully day Robert Frederick 10 pounds heavier, but ht and was overpog The Spanish government is encouraging bull fights n two other mon came | to soothe social unrest, which is not the first time this oan team “ ia - noble animal has been similarly ¢ eurployed. Senet ley en seeing Americ | “Charging all the traffic will bear” finally leads to laying the “last straw on the camel's back.” © with the American ad. It was a fine old hatched the American ast week they unearthed a nest of the largest reptiles ever seen in eastern Pennsylvania, TSE BE