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

The Seattle Star it, out of city, S0e per month; 3 montha, ar} months, $2.75; year, $5.00, in the ite of Washington, Outside the state, Der month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 Year, By carrier, city, S00 per month WHILE CONGRESS Plu has reappeared. 1 on reports 12 new cases in a day. mmunities all over the country. : the alarming feature is that the medical : fh op as it was when infected sailors, landing a’ lu epidemic in America a year ago. it epi man-power, such appalling figures as a warning of the certain tiveness of future flu scourges, it is difficult to tand why congress has failed to pass the Harding -anti-flu bill. his bill would appropriate $5,000,000 to be spent by the States public health service, a government bureau, nti research to isolate the flu germ and get it million dollars means about five cents for every in the United States. riation proposed in the Harding-Fess joint bill ay t medium now available for mobilizing the fic world against flu. S Fess recently issued a warning that con- manifesting indifference to the anti-flu legislation its passage is doubtful unless the voters back d their representatives in Washington with letters. tuation has not changed. Write your congressmen. meantime, you can do two things to help prevent developing into another epidemic: personal caution. Keep your body well Sleep in the open air, Exercise. Keep your monious and cheerful. Bathe thoroly and fre- The flu germ develops rapidly in impure air Similar ing ly, it is the public duty of every citizen who yf any case resembling flu to report it immediately th t. is the public’s best existing means of pre- of the highly-contagious flu germ. It will ally in keeping flu under control. an official demand to know Japan's inten- hantung is a statement that we con- i ie and would like to have an- started his fight against profiteers, Attorney imer in a speech at Philade said that while J] government could not with the grafting in the states it could pass a model bill for the of Columbia which would afford an example to ; hill is now before congress, drawn practically as v bab be a disappointment to those who have in the efficacy of “regulation” and “commissions.” the bill wiggles around the constitution and ith college case by declaring that rental prop- become affected with a public interest due to arising out of the war, and a commission of set up which has the right to fix a “fair and rental for all property. to limit profits to 10% was rejected, on d that it might discourage building. bill is certain to accomplish this much. It will men three lovely jobs at $6,000 per year and every tenant with a law suit. However, there is and sensible feature to the bill—the tenant is free legal aid if the landlord appeals from a decision he rent commissioners. il is a step in the right direction in that it de- lly what we have all known so long—that rental is affected with a public interest. As to whether I stop profiteering—that’s the proof of the pudding / come. iy w tmou ao ty itor Nelson says we have the right to keep troops i Well, we have them there and are strony to get away with it. That is the old-fashioned d of right. Read sacl is in touch only with his immediate surround- His thoughts never go exploring. That’s why he white man’s mind is restless. It travels. Savage has only a spoken language. 8 white man can put his thoughts on paper ‘for other |: are civilized to the extent that your mind goes lon’t let your mind be penned in; don’t live in a petty of narrow interests, your newspaper to keep in touch with the big world, ‘ pach out for the messages of the masters of fiction and to laugh and to weep with your fellow creatures. Roan dream, seek and discover in the domain of iv vad intellect and your imagination exercise, air— Americanism is the theory that America should take o of the worid, or the theory that America should d to her own business and let the world go to pot. ‘ou can take your choice. We twit the English about loving a lord, and brag of icracy, but our own social leaders throw a duck vhen a titled chap appears in the offing. We have a League for Peace in our family. We raise e children with love instead of the rod. It works fine il one of them needs a licking. _ Any complaint about the way the two great political ties are balling things wp is an indictment of the ople who have little enough sense to stand for it. Villa objects to being called a bandit. But the word ‘Hun” has been overworked and he isn’t mean enough to be called a profiteer. i ee consolation about the present high levels of rents. Our doughboys proved that living out of doors healthier, anyway. In Cleveland it has resumed its death toll. FDITORIALS — | The city of iH outbreaks are occurring in rofession is as unprepared to fight t Halifax and Boston, start 2 | lemic killed 500,000 Americans. It cost the nation $3,250,000,000 in ineapacitation and medical treatment. nf | [ on the 3d of Octobs | * submitted to empire under Theodostus » the the Roman | On the 34 of October, | first convie! American colonies was recorded. Dr Benjamin Church, surgeon general of the American army of the Revo jlution, was suspected of giving in formation to the British. Church }waa with Washington's army, which was surrounding Boston, and the evidence brought out at the court martial proved that. he had been ir orrespondence with General Gage. ommander of the British forces. He was convicted on a charge of treason and sentenced to life im prisonment. The following year Chureh applied for permission to leave the country, He was permit ted to sail for the West Indies |The ship on which he sailed was lost in @ storm. In 1800, on the 24 of October |George Bancroft, the historian, was jborn at Worcester, Mass, Bancroft || began his “History of the United | | States” at the age of 30. The first |volume was published four years jater, In 1834. For nearly 50 years jhe devoted himself to the work of writing a full history of the United States. The twelfth and last vol ume was published in 1882, During this period Bancroft found time for important political service. He was secretary of the navy and minister to Great Britain and to Germany. f He died at Washington, D, C, on|| Jan, 17, 1991. ' & On the 34 of October, 1862, the battle of Corinth, Miss. n. : (Copyright, 19 On the Issue of Americanism There Can | The Story of His Life. HE'S A SORT OF COMBINATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, a NAPOLEON, BILL AND BRIGHT IN scnoor ? THOSE LUCKY KIDS IN PERSHING'’S HOME TOWN Team-Play } BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, It’s team-play that counts. | No matter how good a baseball player is, | ' he is of no use to the club, unless he is to his nine as an arm is to a body. He may be strong as Hercules, swift as Mercury and wise as Jove himself, but if he cannot co- operate with the rest of the boys he is a liability and not an asset. It’s team-play that makes a family happy, {a club comfortable, a lodge harmonious, a \church prosperous, a business concern suc cessful, a party victorious, a nation strong and a world civilized. Ten soldiers who act as one man can put to flight a disorderly mob of a thousand. It’s not the individual capacity, it’s the | linked capacity that makes a group efficient. The world is just waking up to the re- | alization of the yalue of team-play to democ- racy. Most apparently threatening organi- | zations are but first steps in team-play. The Trust is the effort of intelligent and practical business managers to get together. First they are learning team-play in minor companies; the next step will be easier, which is the getting together of the entire | business interests of the nation. | The first step in democracy is individual- | banner The by Frank Crane) tion, striving for efficiency, which is the supreme right of man. Once it was liberty or death; now it is team-play or impotence. Russia, in the first’ throes of democracy, is a helpless mob; America, in the mature togs of democracy, is making giant strides toward unity. Labor Union is a first step toward team-play; it preludes the grand union of labor, brains and capital which shall charac- terize the adult nation. Team-p individual for discipline, his ability to choose a social instead of a personal ideal. Team-play is the final epoch in the evolu- tion of man from the brute. Team-play is the triumph of intelligence, self-control and vision over ignorance, self- indulgence and blindness. Without team-play there is no profit to the manufacturer, workmen, no good government for a city, no suecess in the school. Each is wronged and limited where all exercise no team-play. Team-play means one starred and striped is based on the capacity of the no prosperity among ; no team-play means separate torn EaTures | Be | Be No Compromise —By McKee.! In the Meantime BY R. F, PAINE Premier Lloyd George tells the house of commons that Great Britain desires to know how far the United States is prepared to assume her share in guaranteeing the. protection of people under the Turkish yoke. Meanwhile Great Britain has occupied Turkish ter- ritory. In all the peace discussion there is nothing much more important than the question as to whether the United States shall plunge into the “protectorate” busin This business is merely a government's self- imposed task of caring for incompetents; the proc- esses of it have always been the same and the fin&l result always imperialism in the raw. An altruistic vision of “the white man’s burden,” miscellaneous brands of liquor, a particular brand of religion, entry of Big Business, and, finally, imperialism to back up the exploitation by Big Business! Such has been the process of lifting the question of self-determination from burdened peoples : While the United States is carefully considering this matter of adding to its “white man’s burden,” Lloyd George must be patient. He should consider that the United States has not been at war with Tur- key; that the proposition to run Turkish territory is wholly based on sympathy and that there is in America a whole lot more of sympathy for British territory called Ireland than for any part of the Turkish domain. Meanwhile, England seizes the Turkish territory. That's very English. It’s another gem in England’s really fine collection of protectorates, and there can- not be very much objection to it ins America. BUFFALO TY COBB THREE CHEERS FER BLACK gacewl nd The World’s Storehouse BY RICHARD SPILLANE No one can measure what a volume of business would America if it were possible to bring exchange between this country for ons to a basis that would permit the placing and c of orders ormal times. Even under the strained conditions) many lines of industry have far more contracts than they ¢am ed by the purchasers and, in their eagerness purchasers, despite exchange handicaps, are be {lluminating. A Norwegian concern appliance—a calculating The order was for 300 of ” price of the machine is §300, That one order meane” The order. cannot be filled for eight months. To get the goods in that time the Norwegian purchaser has placed $90,000 on deposit in | Philadelphia bank and the manufacturer, if he delivers the machines on time, is to get interest on the money from the date of acceptance ef the contract. ‘The manufacturer says foreien orders are so big that he believes he could not meet foreign and domestic wants if his production was 150 © The logical deduction from many | machines a day, At present it is less than 20. - so-called statements of fact is fully The same story comes from many other departments of 100 per cent. General expectation was that the great demand would be for raw terials. This demand is big but suppliers have been startled by urgency of demand for the thousands of minor products of manuf |They explain that in the five years of war the hations managed the principal necessities—food, clothing, fuel, steel, ete—to some the other things practic: were unobtainable. Now their anced and their need is accentuated as the details of b ry are being resumed. Everything from a pin to &@ . is wanted everywhere tn the world and America is the one storehouse which to draw. / ation may ther day for an o diate effect; and I saw members of | is supreme in this field. the family that bad all the symp- toms of a case of flu get all right Two of them were in bed. It might help some one. Respectfully, MRS. OTTO DINES, John #t. a BRING THIS AD ; Will repair any Amertean watch, no matter how vs Solving Our Labor Problems The National Catholic War Council has published a pamphlet on “Social Reconstruction: A General Review of the Problems and Survey of Remedies.” After reviewing many of the programs proposed by the British Labor Party and other organizations, the pamphlet proceeds to suggest reforms con- sidered desirable. The following extract is from this pamphlet: The importance of the project as an item ism, striving for liberty, which is the first | stripes and forty-eight shooting stars, scat- right of man. The last step is organiza- | tered and useless. We'll Say So Mr. Fred H. Baxter, greetings! For several days we have been submerged in a dilemma—whatever that is. Our wife insisted Saturday that we buy of blackberries to make whatever that is, But buying the blackberries, we discovered the recip alled for a} quantity of sugar—whatever that is. | We went to our grocer, He didn’t| have any. We went to another, but| he could only sell us two pounds at! a time. We have run ourselves| ragged between the grocer’s and} home, and home and the grocer’s, packing two poundg of sugar a trip. But now we discover you are bring ing to town several carloads of sugar. For the love of Mike, Fred, tell us| where you are going to bury it. We want to steal a sack or so—and next Christmas when the snow is on the meadows and the wintry wind doth howl, we'll invite you out to put your feet forninst our fireplace and fetch before you great jugs of beautiful blackberry and we will sit and sit and looketh upon the wine when it is red, and sing songs and talk politics thickly into stilly might until the] whole sheers brightsh and shiningsh | honesh we will, Fred, ol’ feller, if you'll only tell us where you plant] the sugar. one President Wilson had the folks cut- | | Editor’s Mail | E. B. GOSH ALL HEMLOCKS! My neighbor |, Editor The Star I was much te an eodentrié cuss interested in your paragraph He won't buy |“Roses Are Red, 80 Why Doesn't $10 hate, |Mayor Fitz.” etc. I can under- Or $15 shoes stand why Senator Hiram Johnson Or $12 ilk ehirts, doesn't come to Seattle, but I don't Or $5 ties. i why, when he writes anony- Or $1 socks, 18 letters, he should sign him Or 878 sults, John Daly, “Your Loyal Or $85 overcoats other.” He may camouflage his Or $10 underweear bat le _cainot conceal his And he doesn't say asoning. ‘ t Everybody knows that En; ny posse est bis meals wants to annex the United Stat aos tal toad to Canada, She ts having such an ol ged ogden easy time with her other posses- wiheet wa sions—Egypt, India and the rest ada te: wien |that the addition of a million R |square miles or so and a hundred Another he and lot million inhabitants would be a He owns three now. trifle, I suppose Japan would get My neighbor |the west half and England the east Is jand the two nations would «mile amlably at each other across the A Kent man has a hen that Jald| natural self-determining line of the 335 eggs in 365 days. Sunday and) Mississippl. Gompera, of course, as holidays mean little to that hen, [an Englishman, has been working * € <6 |to this end for the last 30 years. “For an oily none,” says the Chi-| I say: Let them come, They don't cago Tribune's beauty expert, “keep| know what they are up against & bottle of alcohol handy.” Which| Why, they would have to settle the naturally to the next ques-|#teel strike, the negro question, the tion, “How can I prevent my nose|league of nations dispute, Hard- from turning red?” |bolled Smith and a dozen other in- 96 soluble difficulties, We don’t seem sends It and an eccentric cuss, nds “The first problem in the process of reconstruction is the industrial re- placement of the discharged soldiers and sailors. The majority of these will un- doubtedly return to their previous occupa- tions. However, a very large number of them will either find their previous places closed to them, or will be eager to consider the possi- bility of more attractive employments. Placing Farm Workers The most important single meas- ure for meeting this situation that has yet been suggested is the placement of such men on farms. Several months ago Secretary Lane recommended to Congress that returning soldiers and sailors should be given the opportunity to work at good wages upon some part of the millions upon millions of acres of arid, swamp, and cut-over timber lands, in order to prepare them for cultivation. President Wilson in his annual address to Congress endorsed the proposal. As fast as this preliminary task has been performed, the men should be assisted by government loans to establish themselves as farmers, either as owners or as tenants having long- time leases. Farm Colony Plan It is essential that both the work of preparation and the subsequentset- tlement of the land should be effected by groups or colonies, not by men living inde- pendently of one another and in depressing iso- lation, (A plan of this sort is already in ope- ration in California, though not for soldiers.) of any social reform program is obvious. It would afford employment to thousands upon thousands, would greatly increase the number of farm owners and independent farmers, and would tend to lower the cost of living by increasing the amount of agricultural products. If it is to assume any considerable pro- portions it must be carried out by the govern- ments of the United States and of the several States. Should it be undertaken by these authorities and operated on a systematic and generous scale, it would easily ‘become one of the most beneficial reform measures that has ever been attempted. United States Employment Service The reinstatement of the soldiers and sailors in urban industries will no doubt be facilitated by the United States Employment Service. This agency has at- tained a fair degree of development and efficiency during the war. Unfortunately there is some danger that it will go out of existence or be greatly weakened at the end of the period of demobilization. It is the obvious duty of Congress to continue and strengthen this important institution, The problem of unemployment is with us always, Its solution requires the co-operation of many agencies, and the use of many methods; but the primary and indispensable instrument is a national system of labor exchanges, acting in harmony with State, municipal, and privateemployment bureaus.” ting circles for a long time after he sprung his “okey,” but their disturb. ance on that occasion was as noth- ing compared with the surge of be-|ing for somebody to dig his wilderment in Tacoma caused by his|on chairs reference to the “upas.” see Roc Henry Ashton Platteville Wednerday and eee MINOR “Oh, dear,” sighed the movie star, “I forgot something when I was downtown shopping!” “What was it?” inquired her sec retary. “IT meant to buy an automobile to match my new hat.”—Film Fun clothes inside H., “and I out,” 7 6 Re that as it may, tailor at st, New Amsterdam ave. York. railway st see It’s none of our business, but we Isugwest that some rent board or fair] 6:3 price bowrd have charge of the world series ticket sale 0 P.” doesn't he y. Why ‘way to Z? a eines over Belmont (Wis.) & “L have been trying to turn my postcards F, 'T have done a fair job. But how do I hide the patches?” Turn them inside out, too. Stitch is a 1 Will Be Open from} with very successful results That agent quits|just a go all the} to be able to do it ourselves. | truly, Yours fron JOHN HANCOCK is. look-| rt | pt HAS “ ” REMEDY | “iditor The Star: I am writing this to you thinking it might help |someone to avoid that terrible flu |Last winter I almost died with it |and when I was able to get up I |was afraid the other members of amily would take it. Thru ex nee I learned it was no ordi y sickness but a terrible plague tudied the matter ont to what to use to kill the germs as they were incubating and T tried the inhaling of a tiny bit of sulphur I used Httle, put it in the left the lid off a 1t seemed to take imme and 834 ition at very range and minutes, The Reconstruction Program is issued by Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council, 1312 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C. Copies will be supplied free on application. National Catholic War Council Administrative Committee *J PETER J, MULDOON, Chairman XS) Bishop of Rockford E{ +} JOSEPH F, GLASS aN y}; Bishop of Sult Lake City ae + JOSEPH SCHREMBS Bishop of Toledo * WILLIAM T. RUSSBLL Bishop of Charleston few §