The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1919, Page 6

EDITORIAL— Down With the Censorship While judicial tyrants are resting from their la- bors of smothering a free press, military autocracy Steps in to carry on the job. ‘ x Gary, Indiana, according to United Press dis- patches, Major General Leonard Wood has clapped on the censorship. Dispatches regarding raids and arrests made under direction of the military authori- ties must be submitted to some colonel, or other un- derling of Wood's. The Wood process of nullifying the United States’ constitution looks simple. First, you get a strike gone under martial law. Then you apply the cen- sorship to snuff out the rights of a free press. Then you do as you blamed please without fear of exposure should you suspend or squelch all the constitutional ‘ood says he claps the military censorship on in meen instance to prevent radical agitators in‘ r parts of the country from learning of steps oy i the government to curb their activities. is is laughable, but any old excuse is better than Of course, any newspaper man can walk out Wood’s little court-martialed-censored zone and tch whatever news he has. wn with military censorship! Rents Profiteering landlords and a shortage of houses are not _ Conditions unique to Seattle. They are not confined to any or any state or even the United States. They are world- problems. Authorities in the building trades place our national shortage of houses at 1,000,000. They say it will be five before building operations catch up with the demand. ' This condition, which renders rent profiteering easy, must not be allowed to drift. Remedies exist. _ England has tackled her housing shortage rough-shod. She will build 250,000 homes in three years by extending ystem is becoming common in Europe. Our nearest approach to it is the United States Housing ition. It provided homes for the families of 21,983 workers at an average cost of $5,067 a family. continuance of a government housing corporation into time is on the program of the American Federation of or. The A. F. of L. recommends that government funds advanced to home-builders in the form of long-time, low- loans. The financing would be extended to non- fit co-operative housing and joint tenancy associations. he only method so far devised that seems to cope even a faint measure with the rent problem is raising the land- yds’ tax rates in proportion to rent increases. This policy has been put into effect in New York City, vents have increased an average of 21 per cent in| years. Striking at profiteering landlords, New York boosted its real estate assessments $200,000,000, York still further recovers fits by stern but just assessments under the state income le commend this attitude to income tax collectors gen- » Increased income from rentals can easily be com- d and the government take its share of the increased dlords’ earnings that have been created by the activity of people themselves. Professional Politician Rules _ | Next year promises to be a banner year for the profes- sional politician class. This is so because of the multiplicity ‘of new problems and the absence of any clearly defined party | i It may be, however, that the next few months will this state of affairs. Some distinct line of cleavage iy present itself. he real issue may be the continuity of individualistic business enterprise as against either an extension of state socialism or experiments in the direction of “democratiza- tion” of business management. A candidate may be brought forward as the champion of individual initiative and the well tried American methods of production. Not suit the few Tories who would hark back to the days of labor crushing, but they will not be in the running anyhow. _ The professional politician class just now is in the saddle. It always is when there are many candidates, tickets or is- sues. The professional politician exists because of the fact! that the average voter is not an expert. It takes an expert ' to even maintain interest in the complicated game of Amer- jean politics as it is usually played. | Cutting Their Own Throats In defiance of the International Typographical union, the compositors of New York city are striking in support of| the striking pressmen. The I. T. U. denounces the strike and “outlaws” the pressmen. The great miners’ national union has recently “outlawed” several local organizations| for breaking contracts. “United, we stand; divided, we fall,” applies in the Superlative to unions of workingmen. The industrial ceme tery is full of the graves of labor organizations that had mo governing national command or refused to obey such a command. The numbers in a crowd finally count little as against complete organizations, system and concentrated| jority. “When local unions refuse to dbey the centralized authority h they themselves have created, they play right into ae handso f all persons who are hostile to labor unionism. ey discredit unionism before all neutrals and provide the it way for the breaking up of unionism by its enemy, Tt is the old proposition of hanging together or hanging ‘separately. According to Senator Fall, Italy will not dare give up Fiume because that would start a revolution. Does this new reign of justice promise nothing more than gov- ernment action to tickle the mobs? The Book of Svein tian. will be expounded in a series of lectures by PAUL W. koOD In the Swedish Tabernacle Pike and Bellevue Sunday Afternoons .t Three o’Clock ‘These Lectures will be in ENGLISH, the first lecture will be given Sunday, October 12, “Revelation lias a Message for Our Time. We Need Its Message.” This book can be understood. Bring your Bible. Claim the blessing promised in Rev. 1:3. “THE TIME IS AT HAND!” landlords’ exorbitant} |sensions Such a man would} EVERETT TRUE —By CONDO Nour COUSIN, FROM (KOKOMO tb COmMe ON DOWN AND Ler me in! NO’ ir you visit HERE “Ou'vVS Gor TO SHOW UP (IN THE DAWTIME #! @o TOA HOTEL AND STAY TIC MORNING {ft | Red Top Boots BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE The proudest moment of my life Wa not when I had won my wife, and lovers might suppose; y hour the most complete m they shod my childish fevt In red top boots with copper toes, It was @ fashion of that day, Long since forgot and passed away, Though in my memory still it glows, And every boy at bedtime knelt And voiced the prayer, which most he felt For red top boots with copper toes. Well, life has brought my modest share Of et le sw th some to spare; I've sipped . I've kissed ite rose. But never was there deeper pleasure Than on that day they took my measure For red top boots with copper toes. I've never won & cross nor crown, Nor worn @ doctor's honor gown, Nor star and garter on my hose, But none the less I have been feted, | And very grandly decorated | With red top boots with copper toes. dictionary has conferred | © proper meaning of that word, wh now, there memories dis For “bootiens * all other joy Compared to b fuat a boy With red top boots and copper toes. h, lore ©, Father Time, can you not fill One moment with that golden thrill, Or change these hours for some of those? O, waft me to that ¢ And I'll not kick at With red top boots and copper toest (Copyright, 1919. NM. Bm A) much more satisfying tf you cut the heads when only partly grown Don't pull up the roots, and allow some of the outside leaves to re| main, The new growth which will} pw the come on the stalks will be found all the France were arr were seized. 12th of October, tn 1307 Knights Templars in d and their PO") more than you need for the table the chickens will be grateful for the| In 1649, on the 12th of October. | surplus. It is a little different with| the massacre of Wexford occurred /tne cabbages to be stored for win-| under Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell. 'ter, Let them stay until they are in pursuance of his ferocious policy |raily grown. in Ireland, attacked Wexford and excellent for salads, and if you have| ~ THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919. WE'LL SAY SO MLACK THE SLEUTH Chapter 1 Shamlock, th twirled the end n meditatively forefingers while he sipped his mmall black The later The onfe crowd Ing thinner,* Someone touched Shamlock lightly the shoulde it was a w nerved mentally a it, two of her. enowned detective, his Charlie Chap. night was late and growing was thin and . Shamlock ob he turned calmly But he did not mention his dis she in unison a!” warned Shamlock, “I am Re quick, What Is it?” both of her deel d. All three wht them into the in a wheelbarrow tred canes of them cafe unobserve Now they ar deduct,” said the detective ta tremor of pride in bis own ness, “that you speak of liquor did you guess it? *A not tmusual condition fotka who eat in Seattle cafes **Had the touch not b Shamlock would have the wife's with in But he knew it could not be for when she mado hard hit (To Be Continued) ee 4 touch he was usually Mightn’t the lady who lynched the purp be said to have worn a hang dog expression? but it Is nevertheless true that the dog hung until he couldn't get his air, Dale One of the things that makes foot ball wuch a « ball, ite un You never can tell whether er will break his collarbone or hin jeg wame tn, an in bane rtainty oe HOW'S THE Cow? Mrs, Elizabeth Hall came near ex periencing a very ident the other night. In coming up Cen ter «treet near her home, she fell over @ cow th con the aidewalk. If wy hadn't been good. natured, and other numerous “ifs” hadn't stood favorably in the way Mrs, Hall might have been seriously burt.—Meaa (Ariz) Tribune. . nevere A woman whe Rrvo! ison, wouldn't . a the ch roblem for the material generally my. She in giving in New York an exhibition of her work, her Stellar exhibit being a coat made of Old wilk stockings lined with old kid gloves. It is an easy matter for the poor to save old silk stockings and kid gloves. Blut what does she ad vine ‘em to do with their old seal skin coats? . Beeb bas gone up a cent a pound. whoiewmle. This has been made neceanary by the English railway strike, . York. At least some luck for the married men. eee growing cats » bie back yard gar. don. It might be worse. Suppose he were growing hash or bread pudding. eee However, Berry Bros. are fruit and produce dealers in Norwalk, O. And William Graves works for the Norwalk Vault Co, And Ida Virginia Reel Uves in when it fell massacred the inhabi-|— tants | On the 12th of October, tn 1710, Jonathan Trumbull was born at Leb anon, Conn, Trumbull was the orig jinal “Brother Jonathan,” the soubri quet which at one time was widely used to personify the United | He was a close friend of Washingto: and the general depended greatly Jupon his advice. In political and jmilitary matters, Washington would loften appeal to Trumbull, whom he 4 Brother Jonathan. The name ame popular with Washington's officers and finally grew to be used thruout the country to personify a typleal American. Trumbull tn his REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEED In the evening he will discuss the subject, THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ESCAPE The time of evening service changed to 7:30, Musical Programs of Unusual Merit. A Welcome for You. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring } distinguished career was clergyman. er, merchant and go tlout. He rnor of died in 1785 in the J}town where he was born, In 1844, on the 12th of October |Ge ree Cable, the Southern author noted for his Creole stories, was born On the 12th of October, Helene Mod in 1844 djeska, the Polish actress was born | In 1879, on the 12th of October, General Robert E. Lee, the famous Southern genoral, died, Hin last “Lat the tent be struck." In 1 on the 12th of October, | Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England, was buried in Westminster | Abbey. | words wer xt. = - al || The Old Gardener Says 1G ao | If you want cabbage at its best! |don't wait until the heads are fully formed, You will find the flavor | catch | DR. J.D. O. POWERS OF THE PEOPLES CHURCH, COLONIAL HALL, FOURTH, BETWEEN PIKE AND PINE, WILL SPEAK SUNDAY, 8:00 P. M. DO THE DEAD DIE? ANSWER OF SCIENCE 3:00 P. M. PRISONERS IN THE DUNGEON OF HUMDRUM. AN HOUR OF JOY AND INSPIRATION. COMMUNITY SING LED BY PROF. T. H. J. RYAN AND MISS ORR. An extremely weatihy woman has/ Milliners threaten to strike In New| An Auburn man reports he ts/ VI-E-T-R- STARTING First, we should know what Labor Union- | Democracy dies with thumb« and/ism is, and then, what Democracy is. we don’t know yet what Labor in process of making. And, first Unionism is. Iti has not yet found itself, | It may take the turn of Class dominance, las the Soviet system in Ru for all the unbalanced soreheads who crave tence. And it may eventuate as an open, frank We are in distress,” whispered and honest union of wage earners to influ- the square deal and to expose all ¢ ence Government to give ploit and rob him. With the last, sympathy. With the first two, good Americans want nothing to do. And what is Democracy? It is that system of gove Wonderful!’ expressed she. “How | Which the majority of the people get what they want. All you your desires in a Democracy, the majority. The wa you to do this. That is, there speech, free pres In the Edtior’s OH! OH! OUCH! Editor The Star: Three cheers and @ hurrah! Chief Warren has at last found something that the Keattle police can handle. They're going to nab glaring headlights They can't get the speeders, the reckless drivers, the corner cutters the rushers past joading and un loading street cars, the passers of other cars at street intersections, but they can get the glaring head- Philadelphia. But, the butcher remarked moe men don't care about their hes, but I dress to kill.” i. B. wends tt: My neighbor In a lucky cuss. He is one f thone fellows That can't help Stumbling onto He ten't what You will call A wise guy— Not at all hep To what is going on In the big world Of downtown. good things He bought a house and lot And last week He sold out and cleaned up $2,000. Talk about luck! My neighbor Is a lucky cuss. oe Be that as it may, Mr. Void Null lives in Centralia, Mo. And Minor Key lives in Thomas ton, Conn. The price of moving has been In- creased. If you know of anybody moving, let us know, | friend who haa been looking for a house or flat since last March. SUNDAY FOR THE WEEK THE NEW g THE SMART REVUE DE LUXE. BOTH OPULENT SPECTACLES And the Porisian Ballet QUE —Nights 0c to $1.50. MARCUS SHO ia. It may degenerate into a cave of Adullam crank power but lack compe- all fair minded men are in have to do, in order to obtain ought to be always open for , free assemblage. | But—and here’s the rub—when you fail to convince the majority, and undertake by violence or any kind of force to make th people submit to a minority, then and there We have a/ The Labor Union and Democracy BY Dit. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) You have an Autocracy, | whether the boss of it is called William the Kaiser or Fitzpatrick the Horseshoer. The door is open for the Labor Unions tog get whatever they can. If they walk through that door, that is, if they seek their ends by the orderly processes of our republic, pledged to carry out ay them nay. 4 1 this proce nd say “To hell with polities’; if they « in too great a hurry to wait for orderly reform, and threaten to ruin the business of the country, to intimidate th who want to work, to rail at the officers of the law who strive to do their duty in keeping the peace; if they flout the Government ich the ma- jority of the citizens have chosen, calling it apitalistic, tyrannous and unjust, and pro- pose to have their way by the familiar Ger man method of frightfulness, then they have committed suicide; for when the people of the United States find this out they will have none of them. 4 Hence, to Labor Unions seeking to i prove Democracy through the established forms of government, welcome! Go to it! Sut, as for Labor Unions impatient, lust- ing for power, a minority trying to force the majority by fear and destruction, if thus | they propose to Usher in the Millennium, we can only , in Gilbertian phrase, 1 ded Usher. to Russia! It and elect legislator their ideas, no m But if they di and viciou can ic Laborer a chemes to ex- rmment under is to convince should be free if you please, Mail WASTE BASKET! rove down Second ave. today aw not less than a dozen cars ‘ practically blocking lights, traffic police Again three cheers for the tment of the Seattle artment! member the stink that y weeks back Jinances, no parking longer than th no parking sets during #p ALL IN THE Do y was new 1 there ¥ e is a hummer! For tain streets foi ninutes, ete, Are there no in § available for | positions? oie fled on certain hours, ete.? TENANT. METROPOLITANS Week Commencing Sunday, October 19 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday THE THEATRE GUILD, INC. Presents “The Great Melodrama of the Passions” By St. John G. Ervine JOHN ‘FERGUSON| Five Months on Broadway, New York Universally Acclaimed by the Critics as the Greatest Play of the Age The Once-in-a-Generation Hit! ! ! A Drama That Is Real, Rings True and Is Human © “Seat Sale Opens Next Thursday Mat., 25¢, 50c, 75e, $1.00, $1.50 Eve., . $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 as War Tax Special Bargain Matinee Ww WITH MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY With MIKE SACKS and the Famous MARCUS PEACHES A COMPANY OF HALF A HUNDRED PRESENTING SUPERB SCE THE GATES OF ARABY THE ARTIST’S DREAM TWENTYFIVE MUSICAL NUMBERS SSING SPLENDOR Featuring the Oriental Diver- tissement “Danse D'Eve” WITH THE FAMOUS FRENCH BE MLLE. YVONNE VALLAL ;.°; Roland LERINA 1 by Mons Zermain WILL POSITIVELY BE PRESENTED IN THEIR ENTIRETY z Wednesday and Saturday Matinees—50e¢ and $1.00 SEEMINGLY <A NEVER ENDING “ “VISTA OF FAIR WOMEN BEDECKED > WITH THE MASTERPIECES OF THE.MODISTE’S ART MAKING IN FACT AND WITHOUT QUESTIOA EN OF ALL BEAUTY. SHOWS Plus War Tax Owing to length of the performance curtain will rise promptly at 8:15 p.m. Matinee curtain rises at 2:15. A