The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 6

a siete tem THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919. -EDITORIALS - On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise AS THE FLU PERIL NEARS -—-— Surgeon General Blue in an official bulletin just issued points out the probability Surgeon General Blue repeats what has been well known—that the new epi- _of a recurrence of the influenza epidemic this fall and winter thruout the United demic is not likely to be so severe as the epidemic of last fall. But an epidemic ' States. His statement recognizes that the nation is little, if any, better prepared to can be much lighter than it was last fall, and yet kill thousands, bringing death fight the epidemic now than it was last fall. by pestilence to every city and viliage in the United States. t) “It is not yet certain that the germ has been isolated, or discovered,” says Sur- Already reports of new cases have reached the United States health service. geon General Blue. “As a consequence there is no positive preventive.” Congressman Fess, who introduced the flu-research resolution in the house, con- It was to isolate the flu germ and discover a positive preventive that congress demns the apathy of congressmen, and urges citizens to write their representa- was asked to finance a scientific inquiry by appropriating a fund of $5,000,000. tives, demanding immediate action on the bill to appropriate $5,000,000. Con- Congressional appropriation for influenza research was recommended by the gressman Enterson vigorously seconds Fess in this. Both say that if some amount American Medical association, with a membership which includes physicians in is not appropriated to find a cure, congressmen may be confronted with ithe neces- every city and town in the United States. sity of appropriating a greater amount for relief of victims of flu. Now is the time The bill to provide it has been pigeon-holed, after being referred to committees to act. Let all who realize the danger of a renewed epidemic write their senators in the house and senate. Congress has incurred grave responsibilities by this delay. and representatives today urging immediate’ action by congress. tag : While the financing of research has been postponed, the season for recurrence of Washington’s senators are Miles Poindexter and Wesley L. Jo’.*s. Seattle’s rep- the influenza epidemic has drawn nearer, day by day, and now is close at hand. resentative is John F. Miller. They should be addressed in Washington, D. C. t an Alibi for dlord ir a poner to Know the Worst Has 7 ane rm oa & TOMORROW We'll Say So ” | J 189, on the 27th of September,| put” ax the man remarked to|is always blowing himself?—F. T. H. itor The Star: It does:a lot of good to swear at the) the army of Theodorte the Ostro- the telephone operator, “I'll fight it} Is the key to an apartment house (I have been a tenant), or, as it is called now, h, defeated the forces of Odoacer,/out on this line if it takes all sum ‘ round one or is it a flat key?— a j i — oO J ero’ mer.” ss | >. E. profiteer. The swearing done, a practical man of Italy, near Verona the The téhichowe’ socipagsl Guaslilil { examine thoroughly the situation, and analyze the of the present state of rents in Seattle. | have seen a great deal of construction in the past,| it paid to do so. For instance, in 1909, when the On the 27th of September, in 642. Caner LIVE UP TO HIS NAME) that I put in a party line. What Bigebert, king of the East Angles. Owing to a breakdown in the fac-/kind should I put in, republican or | wan anngesinated. Sigebert was sup tory, D. Peddier will not be ab! to | democratic?—-Mrsa. G. L. 8. posed to have founded Cambridge ‘eliver oleo this week —Advertive- n-Bape Sie ie H ted fi his ment in New Philadelphia (A) The dancing masters all over the were higher than today. That is a fact. | eatenben a Prosper palangdesad | 4 jcountry are going to try to drive yy very few people, comparatively speaking, are linterest in education and was the) eee lout jazs and shimmie. One might x . i : founder of numerous churehes,| Dear Editor: \say there is a reform on foot. » Why? Because it does not pay. For instance: I remember that grocery, the one} + #6 ir d like the University. The lot schools, and monasteries a lot in a fair_district like y- . 7 that sold potatoes at 5S cents 4 NO DOUBT LOST BY A WAITER ve all know it. It will cost $1,000.00 In 1731, on the 27th of September a ’ is cheap, we all know it. WL COBE...... WOU.00 | baie were tube, |Dushel and eggs at 22 cents a doz| Lost — Gray cloth pocketbook, { $-room house, concrete foundation, would have | - sind be taag wrens : — ie one ining that helpe me to re-'$3,000 in change. Gazette. Reward. : 500.00 from Newgate prison and put aboard | mem! js thal was out of 4|_ advertisement in Colorado Spri before the strike..........+esseereeereees 1,500 | a ship to be transported to Amer- job and couldn't borrow even 22 (Gol) Ganstta, gh Tey weg lea to colonize the country Later cepts, all my friends also being out ee in the century England changed the/|of jobs.—W. F. A \destination of her transported erim at tot C ef inain to Botany Bay and favored QUESTIONS WE CANNOT fj |America with shiploads of destitute) ANSWER Sleeping in open air. people Just discharged from the) Could a spitball hurler be called) Exercising. poor houses. la water pitcher?—J. 8. D. Being cheerful. 4 | On the 27th of September, in 1777, I have a beautiful mahogany bed! If ti jors insist upon us be YE the continental congress met at but no tick. If I were to hang aling Soke shall never use the Y Lancaster, Pa. The members of pendulum on it would I get a tick?|telephom’ again. | Health authorities say these are the best maneuvers in fighting fu: Eating three square meals a day. f, Uf Y& congress had retreated to Lancaster —W. FR. G | eee Mf, HG |trom Philadelphia, a distance of 65/ My husband is @ cornet player) But, as the electrician remarked, miles, when General Howe wasiand he makes good money but does! “I try to keep posted on the current about to enter Philadelphia not save a cent. Is it because he news.” house can be rented at $20 a month, or $240 a year,| 105, or 4.20%. j ? to build to get 4.20%, when first-class bonds | 6 and 614%? is Site that no one will care to build such house, | eas he can rent it for $28 a month, or 8% income. I say} yj ne because the worry and the fact of being a land- , ® super profiteer, without forgetting, our blue laws responsible for any immoral act on his property, ) l that is worth something ‘I do not take sides. I am simply stating FACTS. The} | reason of high rents, which are bound to go higher, | _ first: Taxes, which are already past limits, and which, a be 20% higher in 1920, and, second: High cost of | é Yours very truly, y bp oi } Products that Packers Sell Their Number Grossly Exaggerated The Federal Trade Commission has W's Note: On the surface, it looks like you have a | ppblished a list of some 640 articles said 4 ‘ *4 P i REPRE ag, to be sold by the packers. a in ot feast | Ms Ss a WHEN YOU'VE ASKED FOR A RAISE a y he : eid end sucha house ia not on the rental) ee a 7S LAA This list is ridiculously padded in ee wo.buld, snd such s house is n bt Saud dl ataera emacin order to scare people into the belief that for $20, so far as we can discover. _#f any one here present can show us a new three-room ® oases *. the packers are getting control of the End of I his Civi lizatio food supply of the nation. : ith a basement, on a $1,000 lot, in a good district, be had for $20 a month, we will pass on the news to the weary legion of house-hunters. : sides” and “beef cuts,” but also over 60 other items of beef products and by-products. it The Star has decried, and what house hunters been raging over, is the old, antique, out-of-repair Over 90 articles listed are not sold to the outside trade but are raw materials and supplies, such as that cost $2,500 10 years ago to build, and that | It is entirely possible that we are nearing for $40 a month up. the end of this civilization, and that before | the destruction of human insects; for it did brick, cement, etc., used by Swift & Company in carrying on its business. 4 new houses are not being rented. They are being|our grandchildren come of age our present | not need to reach the lungs, Aerial bombs | Glaring duplications appear, such as “sardines” is | cities may be heaps of ruins, all the ac-|had been perfected to rival, without pilots, __It is the shacks, the decrepit cottages, the tired, out-at- | cumulated structures of the last 20 centuries | the work of the airship. Armed with win and “canned sardines”; “‘butterine’ and “oleomar- ibow houses that once rented for $15 that now rent|of progress razed to the ground, most of | these dreadful inventions, guided by elec-| $40, that make the homeless savage. the population of the world exterminated, | tricity, could be sent for a hundred miles e@ agree Kay ones are 9 BS ue jand the remainder reduced to savagery. and made to drop and explode, and convert-| j as es are on the average rental property, | ivilizati ms is by- ing their machinery into shrapnel, drench do not excuse the hundred per cent boost in rentalg, | PO eee yl yp ss 8 | with poison gas, blast, or tear down any-| garine”; “dried sausages” and ‘‘drysausage,”’ etc. The list includes 37 kinds of sausage; 4 dif- ferent kinds or preparations of beef tongue, etc., etc. Simmered down, Swift & Company handles in addition to meats and meat by-products, only butter, they have always and still do comprise a minor) (17, as splendid and prosperous as we. | thing destructible at any determined point. | eggs, cheese, poultry, canned goods, lard substitutes, of the overhead. ‘ ; “Explosives more powerful than had ever} empolyer who adds 50 per cent to the price of his| Not one of them realized that their end been known were in “lr of frog Pal and to a very small extent, dried andsalt fish. And the proportion which we handle of the total supply because he has raised wages 50 per cent, does what | WS near, when it approached. The proud | 7 i+ the world war be renewed, and there | of any one of these is absurdly small. | gas mask could stop this contact spray for ro Romans, in the day of Augustus, pooh- n ] landlord does when he boosts rents because taxes nave! coded {he idea that Rome could fail; quite en be no doubt that new explosives, in| ed | “ Ms ot arger quantities than have ever been ‘The employer, like the landlord, loots the public with |#% the New Yorker today would dismiss a5}. \ched in projectiles, will fly by their increase, because his increased cost of labor really|4bsurd the prophecy that New York one | OO 4. with th rte ae ce to i only 40 per cent of his earnings, but when he in-|44Y will be a heap of smouldering brick ana ae a rok ti bt "i ape ae ‘ee his prices 50 per cent he gouges the public as tho |Tusted steel, inhabited only by spiders, | anap is’ A pre ted what od ba -_ ke 2 cost was 100 per cent of his overhead. snakes, lizards, and half-naked savages, | ages to do; London will bo anhihiiated trom} you make a good case. Figures are great little i Wear My oe Ke oon b dite poy ge: ats Berlin or Vienna, or New York and Phila- De ececaticiablieliaeee | blinded by partisanship, set themselves to | ee ee is cane ‘he camer of "~ Wilson spoke of “elements and chaos” that oppose the |Wreck the hope of the world and defeat | ultimately to launch destruction against l idea, and now we have Senator Kenyon speakin any concert of nations. America from Asia or the islands of eith Do ; : Of abuse and villification from the highest pears . Because some sort of compact of nations | ocean,” : aed Do you want to be fooled by such misleading § ee is the only possible way to stop war. | Besides, we had not yet begun Bacterial and ridiculous statements of the Trade Commission? When restraint is lifted, people follow their natural For what will the next war mean? Warfare, by which disease germs can be Do you want radical legislation based on such absurd _ bent. And it is an odd commentary on Boston culture It will be infinitely worse than the last. | scientifically spread among the enemy folk. that 2,000 natives shot craps on the street when the |We had just begun to learn how to destroy | The next war will make the ravage of _ police went on strike. when t'» war ended. The next war will | Belgium look like a rehearsal. begin where this “gi ie pie lt A League of Nations has an even chance Regardless of treaties, reservations and amendments, Chemical warfare had just begun. poi- | to end war for at least a generation. NO- Sam will retain the right to interpret the ysl son gas had been developed, as Herbert evidence? Let us send you a “Swift Dollar,” It will interest you. d [ BODY HAS PROPOSED ANY OTHER Address Swift and Company and vary the interpretation to meet the needs | Quick writes—‘a single drop of which on | WAY, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ml. of the moment. the skin of its victim would have been as To oppose it, therefore, is a crime against |surely fatal as a bullet thru the heart. No | humanity. } a a League advocates promise that people will not be . thrown into war without their consent. Abolition of |EARLY CLOSING BILL PRIMITIVE METHODS AMERICA draft laws wasn’t in our copy of the covenant. : BEFORE PARLIAMENT IN SHANTUNG MINES IN SOUTHERN ITALY i LONDON, Sept. 26--The early! SINANFU, Sept. 26.—Shant sEzz 26.~ ran - ‘son Street et sdagecg pocctors are charged with “preparing a | cosing vill apcnatien in pustaiaeet |coal fields are saat by mo as she SEZZO, Sept. 26.—Ono of the Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jack: S Uaak Will bring On the final orld wae ee E Y most prim-|most American spots in the world Jj. L. Yocum, Manager Wi ’t this one the final world ? f ats by Sir Kingsley Wood, empowers |\ive methods, Most wasteful of all|is this little town in the southern ‘asn’t v ru war ? local authorities to set up an early|is the method of “unwatering” a|Pontine marshes of Italy. The lost neil, to look after the in-|mine, Skins, which 50 h, | who ¢ pth e I 0 may attached ron rings to form|tion of only 1300, Eight hundred in Tampico was no hardship to the oil interests. Amer- nit by the bill. It provides for com-| buckets, One of the «kins lasta|persons have emigrated in recent ican users of gasoline have footed the bill. pulsory closing at 7 o'clock on four/about 10 days. They are raised and|years to America, Wighty’ of them : are ; miei. of Ay erie vere one lowered by hand and it requires|were American soldiers, and five . ink th , day, Hock o #, one |about seven men to operate o of | Sezz0 moth year mour 7 All this Lorna t a ” oath forty fire amendnsental hour later each night being allowed|the holats. Steam or electric prtied Aiwetioan eons killed tn net. . Surely somebody has been img on the jo tobacconists and confectioners ; and electric lights are taboo, offensives,