The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 1, 1919, Page 6

sy 9. THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 191 The Seattle Star mail, out of city, 50° per month; 2 months, Bk Pincatha, 82.105 year, 88.00, in the s of Washingte Dutdide the state, per month, $4.5 months, or $9.00 per year, By carré ¥, We per month | “EDITORIALS = FEATURES (HAVE WE BEEN FOOLED? WE CAN SOON TELL 3 From Washington it is announced that American business will lose $10,000,- 000 a day because of the closing of the British markets thru the railroadstrike. "As Americans we might be supposed to be rising early and weeping large frequent globules of home-made, salty tears because of this loss to our rother manufacturers and exporters,our brother packers and slaughtere brother millers and leather merchants. But probably the tide of woe will discovered to have several ebbs and back eddies in it before it drowns much here at home. A ; eens As a matter of fact we, the average ultimate consumer, have a distinct im- ion that we will get some of this $10,000,000 that the exporters say they re about to lose. ‘ Ve have been informed that it was because of the demand of foreign nations ‘our foodstuffs, our leather, our wheat and our cotton and wool that we to pay such top lofty prices for the necessities of life. resumably some of this blockaded ten million dollars th a day of material foods and supplies will be thrown domestic ‘market and the American consumer can buy on 2 business basis instead of a gambling basis. have been forced to bid against a hungry world that Fogo arom prices, so it secured what it wanted. is 4 [ WE’LL SAY SO If the gas-pipe men don't getcha, the gas company must, Not to men | tion the telephone company “8 to have been the chief reason for the high} ces of everything from pork to rubbers, from dress goods But there's a little cheery guy who jruns an express wagon, He haute your household goods from there to foreign demand is thus abruptly shortened we here, and he hax an entirely new and have cheaper prices, if there be any reason, justice | wniave stunt to get the grav in business any more. Tl cost you $12," mys the goods shut off the British market are cotton, j cheery little guy, “Just gimme the rong the bill-of-lading.” veo, pork and pork products, sugar, gasoline, leather,| And you sive it to him, trustingly “vee, salmon, steel, condensed milk, wheat, flour, ROOM cis, “ax ‘tho tant: ber io ental trees ‘ P , the truck into your back yard (no he ‘American public will do well to watch and see if these! doesn't carry it into the house, of os begin to decline. course, not for #0 littl money)}—as we will know that the old law of supply and syn, “Winco crm there in ome, box still sticking around the premises. missing. = “Yet, it's on the billof-lading, all ces in these commodities do not drop, we will T#Nt all right.” he chirps. “But you we are paying double prices because the great /pinicy thes days thats whe of the country are exploiting the consumer, and Now, if he were running the rail is . d tind the “" ‘ “the final cause, and that we have been exploited, |) 15 him to do it and it. will be and in addition, been fooled by lying excuses. more or leay trouble, to be sure, but the only way to bring about a drop in living is for folks to drop the use of Th | he'll do it-—for a couple of dollars. cost 0; “tof is is @ fine sounding theory, but to * a But do you pay him the couple? Yep And then, you suspect, he goes a couple of blocks down the streets \buye a cigar, eats lunch, [with the box, drops it into your back yard and departs—a cheery little guy Show Them All Up! | ao ; | If you have any complaint of tele 1 the war- | Drone service to make, either make Does it make you mad? It do would mean dropping just about every- jana ar@ind tie corner, gets. the box we from the garage where he had left it up h prices lit in person or write, Whatever y you that becomes very po ol in this after-the-war/do, don't try to telephone your Walsh (Mass.) urges publicity of income tax | §ovbles. American people may know just “who's who” the mad, merry of muleting the . | pancakes go further,” writes Mra. & . ly as a war measure, but as|J. J. “I cook ‘em on one side and » The Star has urged|“* to =” ie tax returns. This for a number of icin Déelie suffice here. | For the benefit of his patients, Dr by Walsh. We want to know |A. Hardaway announces that he will see “I have found a good way to make next week or 10 days News ~Minot (N. DS does not represent, butter, tickets, or near-beer that WE) profit that SOMEBODY gets on these things.) d is that publicity of returns would be the n the government could invent against tax figure manipulation or plain mis-statement of “means let them be shown up, the profiteers and d only the war-profiteers and the ‘icity of returns should be made part) of the preamble of every income, and inheritance | ak it congress can be coaxed into passing, now and) 4 woman walked down Broadway % jin New York, wearing trousers, and | pet a soul paid the slighest atten A German acientist has invented a gas that will kill a bedbug in two minutes. This looks as tho Ger many was doing something to square herself with the world “Shall 3 per cent of the United States rule 97 per cent?” Elihu Root is quoted as saying. No doubt the 2 to, ; tion to her. So many women in this g business men of Topeka, Kan., held a meet- | country wear the trousers that ded newspapers had no right to print stories —_ “vere’* no novelty about it ther alleged or proven profiteering. Here is one i bs answer to William Allen White's famous query: |" “® Ca Get Pleture of Him, ‘8 the matter with Kansas?” The thieves took everything else he had in the room. Mr, Ferris bor . rowed a Pp pants rom the; ce | | nommemmnS ent out to a Enforce It All the Time [lpeens, at Secure & Dlr 96 shoes socks, et Hampton (la.) Chronicle. labor federal taxes, nor cost of raw|roads ——. But, anyway, he will be the Riacubins factor, but instead plain, ugly #4 te fo right back tothe station| returna| one dollar out of the three, | 2>*ent from his office during the | printer omitted the words “continue | it’s a Comfort to Know the Worst Has Happened. By McKee. ty “<1 l HAVE THE uTmMOoSsT CONFIDENCE IN MR, MesiImMP'S TUDGMENT AND INTEGRITY! WEe'LE CALA LATER AND TAKE CHARGE OF THE REMAINS { | } G WHEN YOU'VE BEEN SELECTED To ACT AS JUDGE AT A BABY SHOW (Copyright, “19 CHINA BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, | 1919, by Frank Crane) of the women and children employed are From a little pamphlet published by a| Be mgt. > children under years of age. Missionary Society, I pick the following facts: Cornflakes have been introduced into China has the largest population of any | China; the first Chinese to eat cornflakes country in the world, one-fourth of all the | with chop-sticks is entitled to the blue world’s people, ribbon. : i : Shall we be able to introduce Western} Moving pictures are popular in China, civilization into China? There is a proverb | particularly those of the slap-stick kind. lthat “China is the sea that salts everything | China has one of the world’s best postal that flows into it.” systems. Rates are cheaper and deliveries Chi h bye 1 de all a ee ee thaw! more frequent in Canton than in New York. | ase Soro a : i werd pair sineehti Half of the world’s cigarets are smoked in i Tien Jenen tates, yet is still importing | China, After the expulsion of opium, Chinese farmers get the largest yield per | acre of any farmers in the world. | | In some sections a large portion of the |tillable area is covered with the unmovable were distributed thruout,the empire. The Chinese have practiced inoculation against smallpox since the 11th century. The Chinese invented printing before the West. Shanghai today publishes 73 news- papers. | graves of ancestors. In one year China exported 68,160 tons of | peanuts. Wages in China are low. reelers in Shanghai get from jcents a day for 11 hours’ work. silk- 4 il Women 8 to Not one woman in a thousand can read write. A Chinese child has only one chance in Steel workers in Hanyang, common a hundred of being able to go to school. borers, get three dollars a month. | Sixty million children are waiting for | In 120 of China’s silk mills, 35 per cent | schools, or la- In the Editor’s Ma z ee |OBJECTS TO “SANITARY FILL} «ame point many a time but not}the war, and two weeks of said i. ; : : : What has i the cetasn.| notice that differ-| half so well as you have done it.|month we had no light at all. We few weeks ago the police engaged in a drive against ‘oned clerk whe as honest enough | py “ he alth J. CLARI 2, Lyon Bldg. bought lamps, We are sick of ft Jaw violators and speeders. Several hundred auto po Pee seme out and ask, “What ¢ taking Pigeon re am putting In tleetric Hight i j 2s sewer j | OO YOU for? ecurrence of aA uf ma na holds you up with a were arrested and the police judge slapped on he se Teena) tbdiitor ThecMbae: «Tad rebt tol em isa eredit'to the hold-up. s. A few motorists served terms in the city jail. Even) ‘The year 1919 will go down In bis 4 that he| pay for something a pers PAUL ( NI Sheriff's office became wrought up, and entered the ‘°'y “ one In which, in spite of high tod Just] nt att-Ay ‘gua./Bill was doubi Monedsas img Bite . New motorcycles were provided for county officers. (0 44 ; ig ag. Pos orth of the|the past month what It has! If you would be happy, let the oth auto drivers were startled at the sudden display of | dncandcy. | Tf, My Spr | Daan “stig iting or sinceler fellow do the worrying on the part of the officers. A club of careful a nck aie ak. was organized and a “safety-first’ week in-|, is bad enough to take ted, during which several were badly hurt and way. Something ought slightly injured in auto smashups. Boi cL a Seattle has had its little flurry of enforcing the '” Wis yeaa a A cach thle Soe laws and the drive has stopped. ak ies Eg OR t,they use dirt instead of A the speeder owns the boulevards, dashes around the going to be a Pe ined . and rocks of ' . “a prs, swurries past the street car that is discharging | sed in the netural gaw + ae : taking on passengers. It’s all lovely and will be lovely, .., PN |, MAKE IT SAFE FOR “ARTIS Start Saving Before wet weathe itil some one is killed by the speed hog. The driver) es eveesbos be arrested and fined a few dollars, and the public the war. The wet ith will be appeased by the arrest of a few autoists. > we me hy wait until a speed hog kills a baby that has stray nto\the road? Why delay law enforcement until q speed- & driver crashes thru a crowd of people alighting from stra car? Why not enforce the law sanely, but fear- 2 the time? Fireproot Modern ROOMS Our rooms are ali outside, with plenty of light and air. ner etameg saee } You an beat this clothing game if you have the nerve. © Overalls yre still within reach of the average man’s purse. \ Call now and get located for the winter, lew Food, but— Many year’ 2%voquoi - made from dried roo swamp in the United Rooms, single or en suite, at very reasonable rates. Waldorf Hotel Main 2567 Indians made use of a flour pf cat-tails that grows in nearly every Now food experts have dis- nutritious bread and pudding can so it may prove another means} pg—that is, if special interests to restrain us from eating |! | ered that palatable Seventh and Pike made from this fl yeducing the cost of get out an in) ‘gnything but wheat flow At last everybody is obep thought for the morrow. 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